skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people have no class.

Remember this?

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/12/nation/na-clinton12

"The GAO concluded that ''damage, theft, vandalism, and pranks did occur in the White House during the 2001 presidential transition.'' The report stated that some incidents, such as removing keyboard keys, placing glue on desk drawers and leaving obscene voicemail messages ''clearly were intentional,'' and intentional damage would constitute a criminal act under federal law. No prosecutions are planned, though."
I suppose I should have said that I have heard no credible claims that they were falsified. Most of the denials I've heard were of the "I don't recognize that" variety, which literally means nothing.
Rust has great potential to be a better tool for C and C++'s niches, and we're all rooting for it, but for those tasks where a type-safe GC'd pure functional language can be used, well, they still should be.
Fascinating indeed! That never occurred to me before. I bet there's a sci-fi novel that explores it.
NYT is a media outlet that requires additional personal scrutiny, espescially with regards to any active U.S. government talking points.

I'm not the biggest Chomsky fan, but I feel a lot of his opinion about NYT [0] are probably right on.

[0]: http://www.salon.com/2015/05/25/noam_chomsky_the_new_york_ti...
Think about it differently.

The hard problems are going to be increasingly easier and easier to solve because they themselves consists of simpler problems. What technology is really good at is to share it's findings across the entire network. What one learn every other entity now have access to.

The mistake in dismissing the thinking is in believing that complex problems are irreducible complex, they are not. They are simply the layer of ever more simple problems.

Thats how we came to create the complexity and the problems that arose from it.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." goes for attacks, too.

Why spend weeks/months searching for 0-days and hoping they will remain viable when you can spin up a fake login page and a bit.ly, find the people to target and send the targeted emails in a couple of days, max?
I agree with this point of view and it makes a lot of sense to me. If the price is high for something, that is indicative of a shortage. I fail to see how this can be in any ways controversial.

On the other hand, I can't not notice that most readers on HN are very well paid SW engineers that profit from this shortage, quite handsomely sometimes. So it's understanding that posts like this will not be received on HN, it's the public's bias showing.

On the other hand, I'm an Eastern European dev that is, while well paid for my location, still 1/5 as I would be in other locations so I'm incentivized to come and compete with other high paid professionals, so maybe this post is MY bias showing.
Unless I'm mistaken GWB didn't have to deal with a foreign government interfering with our elections.

Besides, this sort of thing will only be relevant a few times in the President's career and the odds are pretty good that if it were to happen it would happen in their "lame duck" phase. So what?
Or just to cover up their own wrongdoings?
Well, it was apparently convincing enough for the former DNC chair to lose her job, and for the subsequent DNC chair to be fired from her position at CNN. If you choose to ignore what happened, then that's your own perogative.
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I’ve been concerned about predatory freemium games for a while. They seem to extract immensely more value from customers while providing little in return other than quick dopamine fixes.

What can we - specifically engineers without the power to make beneficial changes in distribution channels like the App Store - do to curb this?
Twitter wants to make tweets editable but it's complicated
Trying to understand the context of the email.

From: Eryn Sepp <eryn.sepp@gmail.com> To:
john.podesta@gmail.com

Though CAP is still having issues with my email and computer, yours is good to go.=20
jpodesta
p@ssw0rd

It looks like it was a temporary password assigned by the sys admin (or tech savvy friend).

Also, It is not clear how this was hacked since it seems a gmail to gmail communication.
Interesting, I haven't spoken to anyone from a bigger company who's given me this feedback before. Usually if they decline to be interviewed, it's because they're not comfortable sharing their revenue. I've had a lot more success getting interviews for people in this category for my upcoming podcast, where I don't require revenue to be shared. Hopefully their interviews will help make it clear that the Indie Hackers label isn't only for side projects.

(The tagline on the homepage does say "profitable businesses and side projects, after all.)

By the way, I'm not sure what company you're from, but if you're interested in appearing, feel free to get in touch :D
It would have made zero difference, the MSM was dedicated 24/7 to attack Trump on every little detail, remember the locker room talk which was released 3 weeks before the election day? was that a chance do you think? remember the tens of women who came and claimed Trump raped or harassed them within the last 2 weeks before the election? could have any candidate recover from it? and yet Trump won fair and square. The media really showed disdain to the low income people and the DNC were totally confident that changing demographics of america is sufficient to win them any presidential election and simply the struggling people in central america are nothing to them.
> "but I worry that people who just read titles are getting the wrong impression."

I think that's exactly what NYT is trying to do, after blasting Trump for the whole year, they need to at least make it look like he won illegally.
> I am well aware that primarily the developing world are doing better, that is true but it is also trivial. The real question is what we do with those in the developed world.

As someone who came from the developing world and still have a lot of family there, I find these statements pretty offensive.
Thanks for the link.

ROC analysis is mostly useful for actual signal detection paradigms, like radar for which it was invented. It's generally not terribly useful as a statistical test, as tests like Kolmogorov-Smirnoff have much more power while remaining non parametric. And other descriptive statistics are usually more interpretable than ROC.
ha ha, brilliant!
It's kind of a non-sequitur to compare a great software developer or vulnerability researcher to Spetznaz.

A guy in Spetznaz has a high market value to private military companies. Companies like Blackwater/XE and Triple Canopy hire ex-special forces operators to perform private security and military advisor services.
Consider that other people hold different axioms. For many of us, it's not that one is valued above the other, it's that one facilitates the other.

When much of your survival comes from the land, having sufficient (or more) land is a major factor in preventing your kids from dying, and in doing much better than "not dying". Food comes from land. Shelter (wood, brick, rocks) comes from land. Heat (wood, straw, dung) comes from land. Growing up, half my family's food came from our backyard, and most of our heat could have (easier to get firewood delivered, but the fallback was there).

You may look at a city and praise the wonders of modern upscale living. I look at a city and see a million people dead in a week if the water/gas/electricity gets shut off. You may look at a rural community and see sub-optimal living conditions. I look at a rural community and see a culture that will continue on thru major EMP/Y2K/etc technological disasters.

It's not that I think available land is more important than my kids not dying, it's that I think available land is a major component to ensuring my kids don't die.
Stop working for predators?
Taking action in response to foreign aggression is "sabotaging the next guy" now?
I don't see where you disagree with the OP. You say the same thing.

> But the point remains that the high price of a commodity is a reflection of scarcity, not the other way around.

I really fail to see the difference between OP and your point. Can you please elaborate?
> If C is like playing with knives and C++ is juggling chainsaws, Rust is like parkour suspended from strings&wearing protective gear.

I hereby declare this week "Creative new similes + metaphors for programming languages week."
I think terms like "growth hacking" and "financial engineering" led the way on these things.

Also don't get me wrong, I am sure people are deliberately framing events according to their own biases, but it is hardly a surprise in post-truth world, isn't it?
That was not the intention. Care to elaborate why?
Well if that was a hint, The Architect was practically screaming about multiple levels of The Matrix, but it was lost in his (intentionally?) verbose dialogue with Neo.
I am disappointed that as a nation our intelligence and security agencies keep trying to undercut good security practices by asking for backdoor spying exceptions on it's own citizens, and when 'security' is breached for people in the ruling class - only then is action taken, but only then as a big flag-waving saber-rattling distraction instead of any sort of fundamental addressing of the flaws in national security strategy.
You could make the same in two weeks.
Well there's this and the UN Israel resolution, both of which are things Trump would have been unlikely to do. Then there's the raft of executive orders..
OpenAI isn't trying to create AGI. They are trying to create "Safe AI" (an impossible oxymoron IMO) and democratize the tools that so far we think might lead to AGI so that AGI is not all in one entity's hands and is safe. Demis is the only one so far that I have seen actually say they want to create AGI - which I why I gave a hat tip to Alphabet in my original post.

Numenta, OpenCog et al... all of their founders want to create AGI, but they aren't evangelical - they are focused on creating companies which can move progress forward on NAI. Which by the way makes perfect sense, that's exactly what I do because it's impossible to fund AGI for it's own sake. In fact I NEVER talk to investors about how our goal is in the AGI space. For a million different reasons.

Seems like it's a space where you can pitch yourself as "AGI", but you have to get your revenue from solving real-world machine learning problems.

In fact it's worse. If you pitch yourself as AGI you'll get 99% of investors to walk away immediately.

No what I am saying we are not hearing is this:

"The purpose of humanity is to build an Artificial General Intelligence, it's the thing that we should all dedicate our lives to because it's the offspring of humanity and the most important thing any of us will ever contribute to."

Nobody is out there beating that drum yet, and it's a shame.
(big ol' [citation needed] on that, by the way.)

You won't get one because it's bullshit. My front loader using cold water with modern detergents gets my clothes clean just fine. Covered in mud from a trail run? Clean. Working at the dog shelter, dog poops his kennel, walks in it, jumps on me when I walk in? Dog shit on pants: gone. Blood on the sheets from that "tragic accident"? Lily white after one wash (I wish the same could be said for my soul).

Does it get clothes as clean as back in the "good old days" of phosphates, hot water, and top-loaders? Damned if I know, that was twenty years ago and my memory's not that good. And neither is the memory of the author when it comes to such subtle things as how clean your clothes were two decades ago.
What do you mean? Pretty much all console games are like that. And Nintendo has a huge offering of good kid-friendly games on 3DS/Wii/WiiU.
Of course, Iraq and WMD do little to build confidence.

Not that I don't believe you -- motive and opportunity for Russia are crystal clear here, and given that the results of the election are not going to be overturned, I see little gain for the current administration to lie about this.
Does that take into account that they are in Romania?
Great read. Congrats on the bump - here's hoping you catch another wave :)
> Question is, how long will they wait before announcing that 35 American diplomats have 72 hours to leave Russia?

I've read somewhere that it will happen on Dec 30.
I've often wondered what it must be like for a 10-year-old these days. Especially lower income ones who go to schools where rich kids have smart phones and you're stuck with some low-level bar phone or, the more obvious situation: no phone at all.

Must be hell.
Ever since the election, the media has been trying to confuse people about Russia's "hacking", and keep using the phrase "hacked the election", so frequently and rigorously that it's obviously deliberate.

And it worked: 50% of Democrats believe Russia hacked the election results (that's right, the results themselves, not just the DNC) according to the latest YouGov poll.

The media is no longer proving itself worthy of the respect it has.
That was not the goal of the report. It also doesn't support Vanilla being better than Chocolate.
I'm operating on the assumption that some day soon there will be a market for personal services.

I know it sounds crazy now but people also thought no regular person would ever need a personal computer. IMO the next computing revolution is in personal appliances with OS (but black box, plug-n-play to regular foks) that serve up usable voice recognition and other SaaS stacks that replace the "free" data black holes currently in use.
What system can do that?
This is my issue with it. I know I can pull this off without getting caught, hell half the people here can, why can't a Russian super hacker team?
So keep the accusations private until you can present the evidence together with the accusations. Otherwise, it is you massaging the public opinion and the report won't matter anyway.
It won't. It has been tried many times, and failed with spectacularly deadly results (upwards of 100,000,000 dead in the 20th century from such governance).

Punishing productivity doesn't work.
A human has the capacity to give reasoning, right or wrong, which a solution can be built off of. No AI can do that.
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At a modest $200/hr, that's 85 hours. It definitely can be hard to line up that much work month after month, but I've had a few months in a row where I achieved that level of consulting revenue.

The key is to keep raising your rates.
It is interesting to compare this to congested public wifi (congested internet connection behind the wifi). Or Comcast in some (many?) cases for that matter... Congestion is worse these days but when things go well bandwidth and latency are much better. UDP is also a "if there is any congestion drop this first" flag (first attempt retry via a tcp connection that is kept open but normally not used might be an interesting tactic to try these days).

With bittorent and browsers opening a zillion connections at once, a single connection can be easily swamped. For those of us using a VPN past the ISP, that means everything, but a game with a single connection is likely just as vulnerable. These days (if not using a server) having clients each send their data and what they received from everyone else to all other clients might be more likely to work.
> The media is no longer proving itself worthy of the respect it has.

They've been at this forever. It's just that the truth is leaking through alternative and social media so a lot more people aren't as fooled anymore.
is it though?

we have been spying and counterspying on russia for decades. this is literally not news at all.

the real news is the distraction campaign drummed up by HRC & Co to cover up their shady dealings during the democratic campaign.
You might want to introduce them to SCRATCH, which is very simple and accessible. They will quickly outgrow it, but that's the point. One word of warning--SCRATCH objects are not concurrent even though they are presented as such; everything is evaluated in a fixed order.
This is why even NYT lost is reputation and credibility. It can't help itself not take the Democrats' side.

Calling it "election hacking" could very well fit into some definitions of "fake news". Will Facebook ban this article now?

This is a good example of why "banning fake news" is a terrible idea, because we don't know whose definition of "fake news" will be implemented. It's also very difficult to pinpoint exactly what fake news is or what is the "optimum percentage" of falseness in an article before it deserves a ban...and so on and so forth.
Exactly, it could just as easily be China making it look like Russia did it...
Do the child mortality rates include abortion?
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LinkedIn only offer an agree and a not now option. It's really irritating. I'm literally never going to enable that.
Why would americans bother with such big diplomatic presence in Russia to begin with?
All fair points. Although IMO saying "the vast majority of software products never pay back the flat cost of development" is unfair. Remember, these are "side" projects usually being built as a personal scratch-your-own-itch, learning exercise, or hobby. An exact opportunity cost equation doesn't always work.

Different people are motivated by different things I suppose.
Some interesting articles on 1996 Boris Eltsin election, where Americans claimed their role in his win:

1 - http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-09/news/mn-22423_1_boris...

2- http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,9848...
Not if it would give any humint sources away and they may have kicked out people to allow a source to step into their shoes - as the UK did to put there man in as the Resident in London
That's a known bug: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32670

This bug was posted on April 1st, being a bit more ha-ha-only-serious than the emoji-based error handling one that the core team put on. AFAIK, it's the only WONTFIX safety bug in Rust's issue tracker.
And these people want to write laws on encryption...
I agree. Similar reports have transformed the majority of my Facebook friends from interns to lawyers and judges in a matter of minutes.
What action has Obama done that can be seen as "sabotaging the next guy"?
You don't need to read Chomsky to have seen the numerous and obvious slanted articles and puff pieces that the NY Times has published over the years. The fact that all these media outlets even explicitly endorse candidates is crazy and the antithesis of ethical journalism.
I work at a tech heavy SaaS company, but in reality, we're really a sales company. I have recognized this, and have excelled because of it.
A friend has 15. She's in better health than most everyone I know.
You, not others. Im happy your business is profitable. Bit others dont have the same options. We just play the hand we were given. :)
well I suppose their phones will work really well from now on wink
> The mujahideen was created when the US convinced Egypt to release their criminals (murders, rapists, some political prisoners) and let them gain freedom by fighting a war in Afghanistan.

That is a theory I have never come across before. Can you point me to the book or article that you got that idea from?
Here you go[0]... That's not "50% believe." 35% thinking "Probably true" sounds to me like they believe it's possible. A nearly equal percent think it's "Probably not true" (32%)

[0] http://hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/rh.jpg
TL;DR: "If you are thinking of moving to San Francisco, I think you should do it. If you don’t want to live in San Francisco, then feel free to not move here."

Well, that's profound.
Hey, at least our presidents leave office.
The report itself seems to claim it provides attribution. Am I misunderstanding?

> Previous JARs have not attributed malicious cyber activity to specific countries or threat actors. However, public attribution of these activities to RIS is supported by technical indicators from the U.S. Intelligence Community, DHS, FBI, the private sector, and other entities. This determination expands upon the Joint Statement released October 7, 2016, from the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security.
Small correction regarding facilities.

>In addition, the State Department announced the closing of two “recreational facilities” — one in New York, another in Maryland
Politicians stand to gain government expansion when they scare the population.

So it's not nearly as low of a bar as you think. It's like you're claiming we must trust pharmaceutical representatives from competing companies when they both agree that we all need more pills.
How about Whatsapp? (especially since it apparently keeps all whatsapp contacts in "unknown" state if you deny the permission on android)
Maybe they should say "socially engineered" the election.
Misuse of the word "hacking" has been a plague for a while now. Setting your alarm clock is now a "life hack". Not stuffing your face is a "health/wellness hack". Balancing your checkbook is a "personal finance hack".

In this case I don't blame the media entirely because the word has been used like this for years. Is it really any surprise that altering the outcomes of an election is now "election hacking"?
> The Sony hack had more evidence than this...

Where? The FBI handled the investigation and didn't cite its sources.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-s...

> "While the need to protect sensitive sources and methods precludes us from sharing all of this information, our conclusion is based, in part, on the following"
Ubuntu is arguably the most widely used Desktop Linux distro, and likewise has become very popular on the server. In this case they felt that they had a better handle on the UI needs for the graphics system in place, and in fairness they probably do. In fairness, Canonical is free to do wtf they want... there are places where they've gone with the larger linux community and other upstream things (like SystemD).

I really don't fault them too much for their decision, especially depending on how much, or not their input was considered regarding Wayland... I'm also not sure when each respective project was started.

I do find a few quirks around Ubuntu... my HTPC box is about the only Ubuntu UI I work with, the rest are VM images running a server version. The intel audio (via hdmi) often doesn't come back after sleep/suspend, there are other issues there (i3-5010U nuc), but for the most part, I appreciate the Unity ui. That said, I don't do much beyond launch Kodi or Chrome and the terminal to fix problems after updates more often than I'd like.

Also, sometimes you need a dissenting opinion in order to make something better. As much as I've disliked some of the delays from MS wrt browser enhancements, a lot of the time what comes out after is arguably better than what came before... although I do still feel that MS should have just adopted SQLite for web-sql like everyone else.

It really does depend. In the end, canonical is dedicating developer resources to make something better, and is a much smaller company with far fewer resources than Intel.
If you're going to put words in his mouth, you should make them much stronger words. It's not a valid argument either way, but it'll seem more dramatic. (He didn't say either of your quotes...)