skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just having that conversation required getting a mutual NDA in place, since the conversation involves revealing your capabilities (even if not your sources). And that's assuming you're even aware of all the NDAs your company has signed with other companies, which isn't always the case.

Interesting. Eight years ago I worked as a buyer for the aggregator with the largest criminal database and I don't remember having to sign an NDA during those sorts of talks. It's possible I've forgotten, but I think it was more a matter of people wanting to know our coverage as much as we wanted to know theirs.

As an aside, the value of those talks wasn't usually in acquiring the data, except maybe in the short term. We always preferred to go directly to the source. The value was simply in learning that the data from a specific source was even available. In a few instances, that got pretty frustrating, since I knew that the seller of the data was scraping a given court's website against that court's wishes (and the TOS on the website), with all associated problems with accuracy and ethics that entails.
Can you elaborate on the "using Firefox headlessly" ?

I recently had to deal with WebRTC on a headless machine and managed to hack up something with some Python scripting and GStreamer. I didn't know it was possible to run Firefox headlessly and now you got me wondering whether that would have been preferable to my stitched up solution.
No, it's not.

The encryption is not broken, it's bypassed. The data go to an unintended third party, even when the encryption is legit, rendering the encryption useless.

So the word "bypass" is correct.
I think it's vitally important, at least in this forum where tech knowledge is fairly high to avoid saying that "Russia hacked the election" without any sort of qualifier. Because the implication is that they hacked voter booths or somehow changed votes.

In reality they allegedly hacked computers of people related to a single party and brought to light the illicit activities that party was doing.

tl;dr Saying Russia hacked the election is the same as saying that some kid hacked the FBI when all he did was deface their website. It implies a level of sophistication that did not happen.
Behind a paywall, perfect.

Yet when I searched the article from Google and went to the same page there was no paywall. And the url is the same. That's weird.
This doesn't seem all that different from the various scripts inside RPGMaker or, for that matter, the scripting language that I remember from the custom map makers in Starcraft and Warcraft 3.
I am not skeptical about this concept in particular, but about the lack of practical confirmation for the results of their tools.

This is perceived (at a later stage & by the public opinion) when many in the government itself publicly question the trustworthiness of the information given.

When you're blacked out by an immense quantity of basically useless infos, you're spending money and resources in an ineffective manner.

Is all this enough to target what has to be targeted, so that you have a real balance between your effort and your results?

I don't think so, a quick look to their budget is enough for me to disagree.
If you haven't seen it, season 2 of The Wire is mostly concerned with this. Although the show is fictional so I can't vouch for its accuracy on this, but it goes into a good deal of detail.
Not inhalers, but here is an interesting article on epipens https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-d...

Europe has 8 different competing companies that make epipens, but the US only has only approved 2. And the second one has to be specifically prescribed or you get the more expensive name brand. And the company that makes it apparently gives bribes to generic manufacturers to keep them from competing. And spends lots lobbying congress to let them keep doing this.
Not only does FF Mobile support uBlock, I find it to be an excellent day-to-day mobile browser in its own right actually. Compatibility and performance gap vs mobile Chrome is much smaller than on the desktop for the sites I visit (or is even non-existent).
> Come on. Do you really think I come into the office on weekends just for fun?

There is a difference between working hard and working smart. Working smart means to fix today's problems that all your users are complaining. People want to use Firefox everyday but cannot. The solution to today's Firefox performance problems is not Servo or Rust. It's basically engineers putting in time to fix it in the _current_ code base.

To be more constructive: Why don't you do a "Ask HN" about what stops them from using Firefox every day and you will have the answer. In fact, just reply to this comment and I will do this for you (It just seemed for me to do this as an "outsider").

On a personal anecode: I don't use firefox everyday for "fun" either despite having so many performance issues. I believe in Mozilla's original vision and it's sadly now like a "religion" for me - I use it despite the pain it causes me.
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Well, the Play store can seemingly update my system apps with no prompting. So I would guess that it's possible even on Cyanogenmod.
Of course, you have the freedom to make this choice. However

> just because they may, at some nebulous point in the future, be used against me in some nebulous way. If and when that happens, we can fight it then.

sounds very much like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Signal doesn't even need defending here.

The article claims that the CIA has compromised the Android device itself. They are intercepting communications before/after it's decrypted on the device.

Signal can help make sure you're transmitting information encrypted over the wire, but it can't really help you if your device is compromised.
I think Naples is a very exciting development, because:

- 1S/2S is obviously where the pie is. Few servers are 4S.

- 8 DDR4 channels per socket is twice the memory bandwidth of 2011, and still more than LGA-36712312whateverthenumberwas

- First x86 server platform with SHA1/2 acceleration

- 128 PCIe lanes in a 1S system is unprecedented

All in all Naples seems like a very interesting platform for throughput-intensive applications. Overall it seems that Sun with it's Niagara-approach (massive number of threads, lots of I/O on-chip) was just a few years too early (and likely a few thousands / system to expensive ;)
Where did you hear these rumors? I could see a WebAssembly target for MSVC in the near future (say hello to Office in the browser) but the CoreCLR needs GC so it's currently out of the question.
Curious why are you still using a 3-year old version on your personal computer?
It's not just the poachers, it's also the customers. Allowing a precious animal to get killed just to get some worthless, not even effective powder, in a futile attempt to enhance their malehood.

Evil me sometimes fantasizes about real-life shadowbanning such people. When you catch them, mark them with an RFID or indelible paint. Now that you can recognize them, give their votes in elections the weight of zero. Skip them when hiring for important positions. Let them live their merry life in peace, but completely remove them from "adult affairs". You don't have to tell them. I reserve the same treatment for racists and homophobes by the way.

Of course you can't and shouldn't do that. On a serious note, it boggles the mind how much harm is done by ignorant and superstitious people even today...
Objective proof is usually not considered "propaganda". We used to call it "investigative journalism".
Share data (encrypt/decrypt) securely taking advantage of ssh and GitHub
There are even images here: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_13205694.html
I use jekyll NOT because it's simple (Actually it's 100 times more complex to use than a simple wordpress or medium) but because:

1. I can keep track changes with git
2. I can host them on Github pages for FREE
3. I own the content
4. More flexible

In fact I've been really annoyed with all the boilerplate code and extensions I need to deal with in order to have a "usable" workflow set up, I almost thought about moving back to free blog services like medium, tumblr, wordpress, etc. but the only reasons I can't are the ones I mentioned above.
I am nearly convinced by The Grugq's summary:

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/the-russian-way-of-cyberwar-edb...

"Alternating Competing Hypothesis"
ZTE to pay up to $1.2B in US Iran-sanctions settlement
Not yet. :)

(Been thinking about a language more Object Oriented than Smalltalk for a few years on and off, but not yet.)

Because time. :(
> Makes the conspiracy theories regarding journalist Michael Hastings' death in 2013 seem more plausible.

I never thought they seemed implausible.
Maybe they do something with the referrer?
You can also just prefix the command with a backslash. "\time" will run the version in the path.
>If you believe that poison is food, or that bus impacts are healthy

That's more about being crazy than about having false beliefs in the casual (and not "narrow and mysterious") sense of the word belief.
Internally: yes. But if all you need is the C-APIs provided by the NDK you don't need to deal with JNI (or Java). Unfortunately the NDK doesn't provide much.
That's a strawman.

Yes, most patients likely retained their access to the drug. The issue is more that we all wind up paying higher premiums so Shkreli can line his pockets with inflated proceeds and no alternatives.
Ah...so this works:

fn main() {
let mut x = false;
println!("{}", x);
if {x=true;x} {
println!("{}", x);
}
}

But stands out as pretty obvious. Not something you might easily sneak into a codebase.
> Germany always knew operations were conducted there but now must react to this overt news.

Snowden outed Frankfurt (and Berlin) years ago. [0] There's no more interest in meaningful consequences now as it was back then.

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-...
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And relevant to the market: why Freenode netsplits are more of a joke than a problem.
Yawn, owning the endpoints to break encryption is nothing new and is as old as encryption. NYT is such clickbait these days.
This has already happened. I suspect the average medieval peasant didn't have a particularly sophisticated world view, or much understanding of cause and effect at all.

But objective reality-based reasoning is a skill that has to be taught, learned, practiced, and promoted. And even then a lot of people won't be particularly good at it.

When you add the fact that there are obvious political and financial advantages to lying to the public then it becomes very fragile indeed.

I suspect the only practical answer is to reinvent society's reward functions - e.g. by making the intellectual/political/media equivalent of poisoning the well as much of a criminal offence as dumping a dead body inside a school water tank.
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haha thank you. at least some people can spot this.
Google penalizes paywalls in Search Results. To get around this, if you have a referral header from Google companies often won't show the paywall for that article.

This works for many, if not most, online publications.
I dunno, I still think that my rationality has no limits.

^_^
Yeah. That's not so accurate.

Top 10 pharma companies, 5/10 are US (2 UK, 2 Swiss, 1 French).

4 of the top 6 for profit margins (from 43%(!) to 19%) are US (Merck is the only outlier, 9th, at 10%).

4 of the top 5 for Sales and Marketing Spend (both on raw dollars and as a percentage of revenue) are US.

3 of the bottom 5 for R&D spend (as a percentage of revenue) are US.

I think I see a little fat that can be trimmed in the name of our so-called subsidization...

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/world/europe/in-taking-cr...

"When Russia seized Crimea in March, it acquired not just the Crimean landmass but also a maritime zone more than three times its size with the rights to underwater resources potentially worth trillions of dollars."
Very cool that their "Mobile Center" SDK has React Native support. [0]

This looks very feature competitive with the "AWS Mobile Hub", even going beyond it with its CI app build integration with GitHub and device simulators!

Also, although they announced Amazon Pinpoint in December, there is still no support for it in their "beta" React Native Mobile SDK [0] (Which has had no commits in 5 months)

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile-center/sdk/getting-s...

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-react-native
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Then Uber disregarded the California Public Utilities Commission law designed purely for safety that does not promote the Taxi industry. It was actually made for the likes of Uber and Lyft to allow them to operate while providing the public with trust that the vehicles are safe, passengers with accessibility needs had access and to thwart racial discrimination.

Lyft had no issues with complying, but Uber did.

http://www.recode.net/2015/7/15/11614750/uber-fined-7-3-mill...
Love the points made here, my first impression of this was I thought this pot was sort of gimmicky/redundant than practical for daily use.

Then I went home for Christmas and my mom was downright evangelical about this thing. My family is deep in the cooking gadget game but I've never seen this much enthusiasm for a new appliance.
As the lead developer (I think) I would expect him to counter any points made about the service to the positive or negative.
Thanks for the comment foxhop! We try to keep things as simple as possible where we can.

This project came out of the need from our content team needing to publish content late at night and when people are out of office =)

Check out the code https://github.com/serverless/post-scheduler/blob/master/han... this serverless service is just 2 functions that get deployed. It's a set it and forget it service =)
c) they are Elon Musk and Sam Altman
Well, it also seems like he applied to a lot of jobs (he worked for 5 companies since 2012, for many only under a year!). He must be constantly looking for a new job.

I know switching jobs is common here, but i would think that sticking at least 1 to 2 for a job would be normal (assuming it works out).
Trees themselves may be renewable but soil composition/nutrients/hydration doesn't regenerate as quickly.
If Uber was trading on wall street it would be shorted to oblivion. When this unicorn implodes, it's going to change the valuation dynamics.

Downvotes not going to fix Uber.
Facts don't change our minds because we make up our world views and beliefs in a way that's expedient for us to happily continue about our lives.

For instance, we all NEED to believe we're the 'good' guys. Whether the 'we' is our religion, our job, our state, political stance, etc... This prevents existential angst from realizing we're in the wrong, and then needing to change our behaviour which would disrupt our everyday lives.

This is also the reason why we stay in failed relationships, keep toxic friends, jobs we hate, etc... It's easier and more conducive to our survival instincts to keep the status quo, whatever it is. Only when things get extremely bad do we ever change.

On the flip side, let's say popular opinion about a particular topic flips. When it becomes expedient to change our opinion, then we're very quick to do so. When keeping an archaic opinion begins to cause friction in our everyday lives, we change to the prevailing opinion because again, staying with the tribe is easier than going against it.

But of course, realizing all of this would be to reduce human existence to base survival instincts, which would also ruin our self-narrative. So we think we're all special, enlightened, unique and think for ourselves no matter how much the evidence points to the fact that we all devolve into holding the same popular opinions.
All users are expected to donate. Ok, but how can this work better than just selling storage space like S3, Dropbox or whatever?
> Compare the security of Android - which we now know to be 'owned' by the US Government

To what are you referring to here, precisely?

Since AOSP is open source, is there a specific line of code that you can point to that contains (or is emblematic of) this insecurity?

Your article doesn't seem to say.
I think it would be completely fair to see all countries affected by CIA's hacking to take the exact actions US did with Russia.
You are 100 percent correct. Though I think the headline is a bit clickbaity but have to agree, it is accurate.
I'd question the assumption that all having web pages be immortal is a good thing. There is great value in letting natural processes erode items or things that don't get maintained.

Throughout history, we've learned to write down and preserve important stuff. Sometimes we've gotten it wrong or we create huge single points of failure (see, e.g., Library of Alexandria), but we should be careful in assuming that preserving everything is inherently better than the historical approach.
Jekyll is way more simple from a "stack" perspective. It has no database, has less moving parts.

Wordpress is simple from an end user perspective.

Services like medium and tumblr hide the complexity from its users. Its a trade off.
That's because so far he's been right. Every news outlet seems to want to report on a "signal hack" and will go to great lengths to twist words to make it sound like that happened.
> I think it's a bit disingenuous to conflate all homeopathic remedies with "quack" science.

That's true, it's not science at all, but homeopathy is a particular form of quackery (and many homeopathic products are frauds on top of the quackery of homeopathy.)
I'm not sure why you would assume one of the largest computational and datacenter service providers in the world with many datacenters in many regions would require all input to be over a single connection to a single location, and even if it was, why it wouldn't come across the many, many peering agreements they have.

There are many reasons why it doesn't make sense for them to do this, but this isn't one of them.

Edit: To clarify, and put this in perspective, 12 Gbps is 1.5 GB per second, which is less than 127 terabytes a day. Amazon, through AWS in multiple regions, is entirely capable of adding 127 terabytes of storage a day, and already transfers MUCH more than 12 Gbps. This is not impossible, just very improbable.
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I don't even know if they've done that much; I've got an old "Wolfgang Puck" branded electric pressure cooker with digital controls that I got for free, and it appears to be pretty much the same thing, as far as I can tell.

Seems like their real achievement here is successfully marketing a good version of an already-existing product with the "I made this" angle to a market that wasn't aware of it. And more power to them - pressure cooking is a great technique to have in your culinary arsenal. Still, it just seems odd to me when someone "invents" a thing that already exists and manages to generate tons of press for doing so. Reminds me of the Soylent guy.
The thing is, "17 agencies agree" doesn't really mean anything, if the evidence that all 17 agencies are relying on is a single report from a private security company hired by the DNC, and not independent investigation. If all of those agencies had looked at the original evidence themselves, the story would be different.
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"Most successful" obviously doesn't mean life expectancy, quality of education, or infrastructure, it would seem.
Right, so in the scenario I mentioned, an update to a Google application would give this application more access to the kernel (through some backdoor) and enable it to intercept the communication of other apps. I'm asking whether this is possible or not - assuming the kernel itself cannot be modified. If that's the case then parts of the android kernel or the way android handles access to microphones, etc. might need to be hardened in the future.
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I thought the Podesta emails (at least the ones in the Wikileaks archive that Wikileaks keep tweeting urls to searches of) were from someone sending Podesta a fake gmail password reset email?

I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! I could be confused and there's another set of emails that you're referring to. It's impossible to keep up on everything lately.
The soul of marketing is getting people to overlook stuff like the laws of physics, the arrow of time, and compound interest. Any time you find yourself resorting to the word "should," it's a good idea to ask:

1) why would the universe naturally favor order?
2) why would the order it favors please my sensibilities?

Questioning the above premises will often yield opportunities that a rigid attention to preconceived notions would not.
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sigh I had to switch to Chromium because they've broken + disabled HW acceleration on Linux, and my 2016 netbook is too slow to browse amazon or read news without it. Here is the bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594876

In the release notes for 52, it says hangouts is broken. I wonder if this means all of webrtc is broken or not.

Regressing "stable" features like these is creating serious problems for end users. I wish they'd focus on keeping the ship afloat instead of continuing to chase the new shiny. I really don't like relying on google (or any other ad/surveillance shop) for my web browser.
Somewhat strange that the level of hardware quality is all over the map with these devices. Perhaps we just got lucky, but my wife has been using a Withings Pulse (clip-on, not a bracelet) for the better part of 3 years now, every day, with no issues. Hell, cell phones can do everything these devices do, have a lot more sensitive electronics, and generally have a longer expected lifetime.
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Sorry, my google-fu isn't on point today; what's the difference between 1p and 1u. or 2p and 2u? My nomenclature knowledge is lacking ...
Some people can't tell the difference between authorities and experts.
More info: https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/searching-the-world-wide-w...
It's effective at taking a life. However I disagree that the fallout was "relatively low", compared to even a badly staged suicide, or "gang violence", "road rage", or a "botched robbery". IIRC a democratic organization employee was recently slain in DC from a "botched robbery" or something and nobody blinked an eye except in the more fringe communities. To me, that's how you snuff someone out, or OD them on insulin and have an official coroner report say "natural causes". I think a fiery single car crash at top speed is a pretty high profile event, almost up there with polonium poisoning.
Not really. The top two spending R&D pharma firms are the Swiss Novartis, and Hoffman-La Roche.

J&J, despite having 40% higher revenues ($70B vs $50B) spent nearly $2B less ($8.2B versus $9.9B) on R&D.
It's behind a paywall. Anybody with access who can offer a TL;DR?