skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sort of proof are you looking for?

If you're looking for firewall logs or hard drives with definitive proof that malware on certain machines was linking back to particular servers then you're out of luck. However Crowdstrike, the firm that the DNC used to investigate the intrusion, published a report that shows some of the code used and other IOCs from the attack [0].

A security firm like Crowdstrike would have lots of familiarity with these APT groups from previous investigations, so when they identify these groups they have evidence (i.e. they found specific malware or tools that are known to have been used in previous attacks, connections to or from known bad domains, IP addresses etc.) that links the attacks to these groups.

This, however, doesn't prove that APT 28 and 29 are Russian, but if you search for information about these groups, their Tools Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), who they have targeted etc. you can draw your own conclusions.

Note, this was long before the election and before there was politics surrounding the attribution. However this data is only about the intrusion into the DNC's network, and not necessarily linked to the release of personal emails of Podesta & co.

[0] https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
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When you export fonts, convert them to vector (it's a checkbox in the export). That way you never have to worry about font rendering.
Any suggestions for finding free/non-pirated vector images online?
I read OP's comment as ".... via HTTP!!!"
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How is Affinity Designer, do you run it on Windows?
No, I am not talking about stolen property. But a one-time payment of 40€ is close enough to free for me to give it a try. That's why I said basically the same price category, not "the same price".
How does loyalty even work? Let's you'r a valuable developer, but your performance dropped significantly for 6-12 months because you got a baby. The company should stick with you not because of loyalty, but because it's good business - they know you will bounce back once you start getting enough sleep.

Another example - you were a valuable developer, but got a crippling, chronic disease which makes it harder to concentrate. There is no hope of your productivity ever going back to "reasonable" levels. What is loyalty in this case? Should they still pay you for the years even though you can't contribute?
Interesting. I wonder who else is capable of making a bot of this complexity? Like the article said, it's probably not Google. They already have AlphaGo and wouldn't try to hide it under a new account.

Maybe this is a message to Google and other people training up AI programs using Go that another player is in the AI game.
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I end up using images.google.com with the query:

<keyword> ext:svg

This usually finds me good options, many from wikimedia etc, which are under a open license.

Many times, if you only can find free and open images, but in raster format, use something like vector magic to convert them to SVG.. VM usually does an excellent job with basic handholding.
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"courageously" ? I'd personally use "boldly" as I really cannot see what courage has to do with this.
Maybe it's time for Perri-Air (from Spaceballs) to become reality?
All this talk about Theresa May winning concessions... how is she going to do that exactly? The UK have no bargaining chips.
> Apple has ALWAYS sold overpriced hardware

No, a lot of Apple hardware was/is competitively priced when they launch, they just never lower the price so you have to be smart about the purchase.
Macbook Pros compared to similar quality Thinkpads/Elite Books/Dell Latitude/Precision have never been really overpriced for what they offer, it's different for the latest generation though.
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PDF import is really useful if you want to avoid hand writing on forms and save an editable copy of what you've typed.
I often see this comparison, it is hardly "empirical data"

Leaving a product review is a completely different social activity than commenting on a Video, videos that are often political, religious or other personally controversial topic

Comparing YT comments to Amazon Product reviews holds no value at all.

It is telling that you dismiss actual research for your own anecdotal and flawed observations to accept the idea that Real name Policies are a good thing
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It is possible to know. In the UK it's easier to know than in other countries, private companies still have to disclose share ownership and file public accounts (which you can download from companies house).

It's just that this information is often not provided or explained. Why companies think it's ok to say "you'll get X shares" when X is a meaningless number without more information, is beyond me.
.... and also in a disproportionate number of rich economies. Benelux+Scandinavia?
I don't know why you are downvoted for your opinion, but totally agree that Inkscape is pretty low quality and buggy as well. On the Mac specifically the experience is so 1990s and un-macOS (yeah I know, it's an X app)

I used it for a while for generating SVG files, ended up writing a script that would optimize the crappy files it generated and reduce them 10 to 20 times in some cases. Oh and then there are these odd floating point drifts (coordinate 10 becomes 10.035 etc.). Seems like one of those pieces of software that would be very difficult or impossible to fix.
Why should it be disabled by default? I don't see a reason why any database system would run without auth. At installation they can always use a local user account if no password is provided.
Interesting that there's not even a mention of D-Wave here.
I'm running it on windows, only had one quick try yet. Looks promising, but didn't do any serious work with it yet.
My thoughts, too. But before claiming this I at least wanted to encourage a second look. I also ensured this was the only time he connected, so there is no plausable way he is backing up the data.
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Inkscape is amazing. So is Gimp, Blender and many other. All amazing software. I have just one thing that I wonder, why do they all seem to be lacking in the UI department? They all have UIs that look and feel way more clunky than even the cheaper proprietary alternatives. Not complaining, I like them anyway but maybe a more user friendly UI would open up this amazing tool to a broader audience?
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How is their remote/work from home policy? How are the offices? Are they massive refurbished warehouses where hundreds of people constantly distract each other?
Most of Russian generation is natural gas, with notable hydro and nuclear.

Anyway, this is fixable. Planes and ships are not.
2BTC for such felony does not sound a great deal to me
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First of all I love this app <3

But it has a few problems in terms of usability the major one that would be nice to get addressed at some point is GTK. Getting inkscape to run on macos for instance, requires X11 which creates a really bad integration with MacOs itself. The solution is Qt, probably this is one of those initial decisions that Inkscape devs regret everyday.

Gradients is another example about bad usability, try by yourself to add a new step to the gradient without smashing your keyboard/mouse. Turns out the solution is googling it which gives a solution for that, however you will eventually forget about that since it's non-sense (then repeating the same cycle again).
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You can't use Black-Scholes on private company options.
Like in C, you are not supposed to pass out-of-bounds indexes to the [] operator. If anyone does so, it's a bug. Rust converts it to a panic, which safely terminates the thread/program, instead of C's undefined behavior.

You can also catch this panic at the thread boundary, so other threads in your program can keep running, unless the program was compiled to call abort() on panic.
Took the following from https://medium.com/positiveslope/dont-get-trampled-the-puzzl...

"Another interesting idea to reduce complexity for employees came from Brian Neider at Lead Edge Capital, who suggested a single question for employees to ask management: “Can you please let me know how much money I’d make from my options if the company were to sell or IPO for $100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, etc?” Of course, the answers will inevitably have some disclaimers and dependencies, but the answers will expose the potential impact of terms from late-stage financings."
It's sad.

It really is, thanks for bringing this up. I don't know if it's just me but most of the work I do (reading/programming/pcd design) just seems to work best fullscreen on 4:3 or similar ratios. When LCDs weren't mainstream yet you could rather easily get monitors with nice and comfortable (imo) 4:3 resolutions up to 1600x1200. Then came LCDs and the trend shortly continued (though initially at lower resolutions IIRC). Then out of nowhere (?1) came the HD trend and it became a struggle to find non-wide monitors and/or monitors with at least some vertical resolution to work with (seriously what was I supposed to do with 1024 pixels vertically?). Saddest thing is that when the average laptop/pc screen user isn't watching movies he/she is probably browsing a website. Which is the exact opposite of the screen ratio: high and small. And everywhere around the world scroll mouses were being scrolled more..

(1) I really don't know where this came from. Just pushed by the movie industrie? Seems far fetched. Screen producers? They were fine with creating 4:3 LCDs for a while so can't really be that either. Or one of the reasons is maybe that because laptops became more and more popula and due to the keyboard it it makes no sense having a non-wide screen on them?
what makes air travel painful is all those security processess involved.

You might think in something that could make security procedures easier for instance a kind of id chip for people a kind of bag or container that prevent carrying bomb guns and so on.
Yes, I also had to create some SVG files during a project for a client and used Inkscape on Windows for that. Then hand-edited all of them, because I wanted to get rid of all the crap before importing them.

I basically just bought Affinity Designer as a knee-jerk reaction because I disliked Inkscape so much.
> It's not hard at all to MitM HTTP, detect if shellcode is being transmitted, then add your own instructions to it.

Is there any evidence of this ever happening, anywhere?
>> "New York is taking the lion's share of formerly British bankers' business"

I thought the entire point of moving was to benefit from EU passporting - so moving from London to NY, even post-Brexit, would not help with that.
>>those that love them have already made up their mind and won't look at contradicting evidence.

Like you are doing here...

>>TechCrunch switched over from Disqus to Facebook comments,

I stopped commenting, Did the level of comments drop as well because I do not have today, nor will I ever have a Facebook account, any site that uses Facebook as a comment system does not want nor will get my feedback or participation
> Many international banks have similar numbers of staff in Paris as in London.

Wrong. With the exception of the French banks Natixis, BNP Parbias and Societe Generale...Investment banks have far greater staff in London vs Paris.
MySQL is the same with bind-address. If someone chooses to expose a db/store to the world, it would be nice if there was some automatic auth enabled. This isn't Mongo-specific, Elasticsearch is the same way.
It's mostly because good UX testing costs a ton of money and these projects are mostly created by pure developers and not designers.
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> The paper divides economies into three buckets: market-based, bank-based and underdeveloped. It does this by looking at economic factors. It then looks at what other factors, Y, are similar between countries in each bucket. This doesn't work going backwards.

I know it doesn't because the paper is linking certain properties it observes without proving the causation, and then tries mention them as if they're relevant while in reality there's no relevance shown.

(For example, an alternative plausible explanation could be a relation between corruption and wealth.)

> By analogy, suppose I have circles, squares and triangles in blue, green and orange. It is meaningful to group by shape. It may also be meaningful to observe that 90% of the triangles are blue. It does not follow that a random blue shape is a triangle.

Imagine shapes and colours can change, and there's no proof the change is related to the shapes or colours. Imagine the conclusion for the 'blue' is 'beautiful'. Does it then matter to mention that the blue ones happen to be 'beautiful' and 'mostly triangles'? Is it a relevant conclusion that the 'non-beautiful' are 'mostly not triangles' or 'that they are not beautiful because they're mostly not triangles'? The latter is what your quote implied, and its merely suggestive. You have no proof.

Because correlation is not causation. So why does the paper mention it? If you're not willing to prove the missing point, why do you quote it?
Shouldn't it be possible to trace the transactions to the point where they were used to pay goods or exchange them for real money?
Google requires phone or text verification on new accounts. I'm not sure about Facebook, but they do require an email address, and that has to come from somewhere. Eventually, you will require verification via phone or text, and that's when it gets harder to prevent these services from linking back to you. I'm not sure what it takes to create a burner phone number not linked to you these days.

None of that really matters if you just want to maintain an anonymous persona aside from your real identity. However, you're still only a subpoena away from the government tracking you down. I haven't even given it that much thought, but it seems really hard to cover your tracks these days.

A few months ago, worrying about such things seemed kind of silly to me. Now, I think I understand the need better.
So what's stopping them from offering a 1080p version with the bigger battery, assuming they don't already?
If you are a web developer how do you test for safari outside of OSX ?
better question: why were developers on Mac OS X to begin with?
Honestly I think even Windows is a better os from a developer point of view.
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> The problems are with the "taxe professionelle" which is not based on revenues and the taxes on labour.

The "Taxe professionnelle" was abandoned in 2010/2011.
I find that the latest Adobe Illustrator does a pretty decent job with SVG's but of course Adobe stuff is a matter of taste (and is overpriced too).
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I wouldn't call it a bastion of security but MySQL typically installs with a root user with no password. So how do they not have the same level of exposed data? By default only local connections are allowed. If Mongo had the same pattern then this whole calamity could have been avoided whilst still allowing the ease of setting up on local environments.
Here's an an example search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikimedia.org+ext:svg+-...
Having worked in a code base like this (prior to migration to C++11), I'd agree that they're not necessarily a "nightmare", but they lead to code that's so verbose that it tends to really obscure the actual logic of a piece of code. (Especially anything more complicated than a simple array, e.g. associative maps or multi-dimensional arrays, and iteration constructs can be hellish.)
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I personally just ignore safari altogether.
It's a "zero point something percent" of the clients in my works.
Blender's UI is pretty good, much better than it used to be. It takes some getting used to, but once you learn the keyboard shortcuts, it's pretty quick to navigate.

That said, Andrew Price's improved UI mock-up did look pretty amazing, and I'd love to see something like that.
Besides the point about oppressive governments, everything else seems to be old news - it's not that this generation invented stalking and swatting along with bloated JS frameworks. Nor is it new that anonymity on-line can be a matter of "personal security" for someone; this is pretty much as old as public Internet, with obvious parallels to any older medium of communication.

It's not that pseudonyms are a new thing either.
Yes, it is:

https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/

Uses XQuartz, the platform's X11 emulation.
Are there any large non-DoD projects written in Ada that are still used?
I dearly, dearly wish that the Resident Advisor system would be adopted for more shows. RA only cater for a particular subset of music genres, but the way the ticketing system works with regards to combating touts is awesome.

If you decide to not go to a show you bought tickets for, you can relinquish them and they goes back into the stack to be re-sold. Once the standard stock of tickets is exhausted, your tickets get put back into the pool of available tickets. If someone buys them, you get your money back minus the service fee. Whenever I've put tickets back in the pool this has happened, often within minutes of them being re-listed.

Yes you can probably get more £ for your tickets by hawking them on gumtree or craigslist, but thanks to countless horrible transactions with ticket touts I'm always more than happy to use this system, as I know I'm getting a fair amount of my money back, and I know that whoever buys my tickets is getting a fair price too.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=25747
If shipping by air only cost 2x more than by train, then using air cargo is a no brainer.
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I believe it's the combination of a UNIX-like system and the "It just works" / batteries included mentality. Also the amount of popular commercial applications available for OS X, as compared to Linux.
A separate connection was used to create the random note. There could have been an earlier connection from another IP that did the data dump that didn't make it into the log.
Out of curiosity, how is the content generated? Do you write it all yourself, or are there other contributors?

I've always thought that betterexplained was a great resource, and was wondering whether there was any way I could contribute.
No, thats why things like BTC Tumblers/ Laundering exist.
Use Browserstack (or one of the alternatives). The situation is exactly the same as every other browser you don't have direct access to, whether it's IE10 on Windows 7, Android Browser on a Galaxy S4, or a Windows phone, etc.
No one said they are.

This article makes the assertion with pure zero facts to back it up.
Or unless you include your time in the total cost of ownership, at which point an efficiently designed UI becomes crucial.
It also never felt right on Mac. This XQuartz stuff etc. it felt slow in comparison to Linux. Recently I switched to Affinity Designer on a special offer. It also supports very good PDF importing/editing (like Inkscape).
0.2BTC. But you have to multiply that by the number of open MongoDB installations. Tens of thousands at least. So, 20000*0.2BTC = 4000BTC if everyone pays. That's 4mil USD if everybody pays (not everybody will since many of the installations are personal or just tests running on amazon or other clouds). Still, a lot of money for little risk. BTC is pretty safe if you know what to do.
This is a very creative approach for to charge monies first and give discount on application usages..
As a fellow developer i say:
Development on Windows is really REALLY painful. Any *nix is so much better. I chose OSX because it's "okay linux distro" ;) not real linux but close enough on practice
As a linux dev, I find regression testing my code on macs a royal pain in the ass. There are virtual machines but they're flaky.

brew also causes all manner of issues. It's not the best designed package manager in the first place and it also suffers by dint of not being the default mode of installing software on a mac.
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Changing the UI so it's actually better is generally a non-trivial task.
I wonder about treating home address as such a secret. If someone wants to kill/kidnap me, they could always find me at my workplace or on a conference or sth. So what else are people going to do with my home address? Send me a postcard?

In the good ol' days, we had this thing called "a phonebook", which was basically a big printed book of alphabetically sorted mappings of surname to phone number and home address...
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They didn't release new 0.92 packages for Mac and apparently don't plan to.
But you can use some of the considerations that BS theory talks about.

People don't use BS theory for any other options either.
You still think in C limits of possibilities. Rust could just return Option as a result for [x] syntax.
250 litres sounds like a lot - what does the breakdown look like?
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Which I seldom see in enterprise projects, specially in companies whose business is unrelated to software development and IT is nothing else than a cost center.

Anything that is optional gets pushed aside.
You could try Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net/index.html).

Windows only though.
If C++ is "(nearly) a superset of C" why is the C++ standard twice the size of C standard? Of course if we take that 0.505.. ≈ 1, then it is indeed a (nearly) superset.
The article only mentions Google and FB as "winners", but what about Amazon? For products sold on Amazon, PPC ("Amazon Sponsored Products") are very effective and therefore make a lot of sense.

It would be interesting to know what proportion of total advertising spending this represents.
1. It's very very hard to find out what's intuitive, yet powerful to use. Unlike implementing some algorithms, creating a good UI requires feedback from users.

2. It takes a lot of time and you frequently have to start over once you find out that what you thought works well, doesn't work well for others.

3. From anecdotical experience, I'd say that user interface design isn't what open source developers are interested in. It's a distraction from what they actually want to work on.

Personally, I find Inkscapes UI okay to use. Blender and Gimp, on the other hand, are a horrible, unintuitive mess. Whenever I need to do some image manipulation, I try to get by with Irfan View and Inkscape (even for raster graphics) as much as possible, just to avoid having to mess around with Gimp.
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- Why should it be disabled by default?
I don't agree it should, but understand why it is disabled by default: for easy and quick start of development on the local machine.
I am giggling right now imagining someone trying to pronounce that the German way. :)
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