skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's both legitimate and important to point out the fact that as this is a popular public internet destination where presumably some quite influential people are known to frequent that it could be a very likely target for Russian-backed (or otherwise) trolls looking to sway public opinion. I think it's important that everyone consider the intentions and motives behind the comments that they read.
Well I just created ##intelme on freenode. Though, I'm just a nobody whos managed to get his laptop me_cleanered.

Feel free to join.
Haven't listened to this yet but audio interview with one of Bitfinex's and Tether's main detractors...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TerIjELO7IY
A lot of people here are arguing with corporateguy5 (to whom i can't reply directly on his dead comment) on the basis of his apparent racism, which is bad, but no one has pointed out that he's just passing the buck, instead of making an effort to improve the country, he can just blame the failure on ethnicity xyz.

So, while I don't think I'll have an impact on corporateguy5's opinion, maybe some other reader will keep this in mind and somehow benefit from the awareness?
My kingdom for a browser plugin that automatically identifies a recipe site and strips out everything except the actual recipe. Reader mode comes close, but you still have to scroll through all the crap (assuming the recipe is all on one page).

What gets me though is why Google suddenly felt the need to rank these sites over more established recipe sites that literally just gave you the recipe. I've been in digital marketing a long time and seen a few "waves" of major SEO updates come and go. When there seems to be a significant shift in quality for a category of results, Google does tend to eventually take action. So I wonder if we're going to see a correction at some point that stops favoring those sorts of aggregator blog posts and "long-form recipes."

The content being created is not valuable, and is clearly being done solely for rankings at this point.

If any Googlers are reading this, I'd love any additional insight as to why these sites continue to do well.
One of those stepwells was used to great effect in Tarsem’s movie The Fall (which is a glorious visual feast where clever cinematography did things that you would expect to be CGI)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/
As you said, moving money isn’t money laundering. No prosecuter is getting a conviction from people moving money.
Orly?

NYT: Workers Lured to Australia Find Low Pay and Tough Conditions

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/world/australia/temporary...
Scalyr scores $20M Series A for super-fast log reading tool
Bitcoin is crooks' playground! Inside theft, hacks, and everything possible happens as there are enough idiots who hodl and who keep buying at any price in hopes to become millionaires overnight.
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those sites aren't really under any threat from an interstitial like you currently get on an expired certificate (which i assume is what the parent means by "refuses to load by default"). It would be a knockout punch for any site trying to build an audience, but it doesn't actually block the site. I don't think anybody is suggesting that insecure archived sites be deleted from the internet.
It's time for a new kind of bank - a transparent bank.

Exchanges could publish a daily report of their bank account balances for each currency along with a daily message signed by each cold-storage key.

And the transparent bank would publish a daily record of balances for each account, which ties out to the bank's balance sheet.

We wouldn't need to rely on historical audits, because we could do our own automated audit every day.

Transparent exchanges with transparent bank accounts would attract funds away from secretive exchanges with secret bank accounts.
> combine temporally adjacent frames for greater resolution

Even just combining multiple still photos to produce a higher resolution photo is itself a hard problem in the field of super-resolution imaging. Google has a consumer product for it (mostly for removing glare): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEyDt0DNjWU&feature=youtu.be....
I greatly appreciate the comment giving further context to your downvote. That is all too rare around here! Big criticisms I have around the recent Microsoft server offerings:

- Opaque and uncommon/needlessly-unfamiliar command-line management toolkit (seriously, what is so difficult about 'output text, receive text as input' in 2017?)

- I cannot, yet, fully manage a Microsoft host from the CLI. What I consider to be 'fully managed' revolves around: installing software, updating software, adding/removing/'managing' users, setting up basic server-like features such as simple firewall rules, viewing common log-files ('user X logged in', 'software Y tried to execute Z task, the result was A'), starting/stopping/troubleshooting daemons, etc

- Pick a major config-management system (my direct experience is with Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt). Configuring them to play nice with Windows-anything is an order of magnitude more difficult than even the most baroque *nix-like operating system.

- Licensing. Srsly, charging for the operating system, THEN the web server, AND the 'remote desktop server', PLUS the mail server... is downright punitive. Microsoft does exactly none of these 'well', but they still think they should be able to charge money for it. Their customers, in my opinion, must be masochists.

Lest I be accused of being completely unfamiliar/anti-Microsoft, here's a couple of things I feel they do quite well:

- remote/centralized user management (seriously, Active Directory's extensions and integration of LDAP/Kerberos are quite impressive). Pity it's not even remotely open-sourced, as such any modifications (hesitant to use the word 'improvements') are effectively prohibitively difficult to bring forward unless you're a Microsoft employee, directly assigned to the Active Directory group, in good standing with your direct manager and his manager's manager.

- AAA (authentication/authorization/accounting) - given their AD prowess above, they'd have to be a special kind of stupid to foul this one up. To their credit, it is amazingly easy to assign RBAC to a group of users and apply it site/directory/'forest'-wide, then go back and bean-count exactly which users did what and when, if needed. For a lot of environments, this is a huge plus.

Still, for the vast majority of 'webby' environments, in my professional opinion, Microsoft hasn't been able to hack it for at least a decade now. The market has moved on to more powerful, less costly, more manageable/scaleable platforms. If you're running an application, or even serving basic web content, on a Windows-anything, you're needlessly wasting your business time/money/agony if you choose to implement it on a Microsoft stack.
Actually, no. The story is that this woman approached a reporter when she was there for a completely different story.

> Moreover, we're in the midst of a moment when women who've been harassed or abused by public figures are more willing to come forward.

Right, so does that mean we are more likely to hear about true, buried stories, or hear about new fabricated stories? Or both?
> when it became known that it was Russian intelligence who procured those emails

So the server in question was apparently un-patched for months. Chances are dozens of third world intelligence agencies had the emails.

Is it really plausible that Russia would have its highly trained hackers infiltrate a server and then leave a trail of Russian language metadata on the data?

We also saw recently in some of the stuff leaked by Wikileaks that US intelligence agencies have tools for making attacks look like they were state sponsored from one of any number of other agencies (by leaving code comments in the language of that nation).

This doesn't add up.

Also, if a true political adversary obtained the emails, the most damning way to do it would be to release the worst stories one by one before key campaign events. The troves were too large to be processed in a timely fashion and many of the scandals faded from view almost as soon as they were revealed.
This could definitely be true. I've set up SSL on a bunch of sites that otherwise wouldn't need it at all just because the Let's Encrypt client is so easy to get working.
Who the fuck is Google to tell me what I can read or not?! I rarely consume RT, but if I want to, I should be able to do so freely. I'm a free person with agency and a sense of reason. This is why I stopped using Google months ago...
> It is concluded that the two explosions in the reactor that many witnesses recognized were thermal neutron mediated nuclear explosions at the bottom of a few fuel channels and then some 2.7 s later a steam explosion that ruptured the reactor vessel. The nuclear explosions formed a plasma jet that shot upward through the still intact refueling tubes, rammed the 350-kg plugs, and continued through the quite thin roof and then some 2.5 to 3 km into the atmosphere where the meteorological situation provided a route to Cherepovets.

That's pretty crazy. It ended up as a nuclear canon firing 350kg (700lbs) projectiles straight up into the atmosphere, right through the roof. Even more odd is that some lab, for a completely unrelated reason (building a liquid oxygen and nitrogen facility) was sampling noble gases from the atmosphere. And then someone could go back and draw these conclusions more than 30 years later.
Banks can be robbed, museums can be swindled, even credit bureaus like Equifax can get hacked. There's no such thing as hack-proof. That some cryptos will hard fork and adjust shows that the system can heal itself and not be in a permanent state of disrepair. That's not a bad thing at all.
Check yourself. It has not moved yet: http://omniexplorer.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=16tg2RJuEPtZ...
Alibaba spends $2.88bln to partner with Auchan in new retail collaboration
Twitter account @Bitfinexed [1] has been calling out Tether and Bitfinex for possible fraud for a while. Time for popcorn, see how this plays out.

[1]: https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed
Both gave up, the point was who was there first and me not being too found of Samsung.
Abstain from Facebook? For me, that's like saying "abstain from talking to your friends". Why would you choose to be so antisocial? Besides that, your other suggestions match my usage.

What I am trying to do with FB is treat it like talking to my friends on the phone - which I would not do during the workday other than by exception. I thought that I could do this with self-control but I have not succeeded. So I think that I am going to have to add time filters to my router configuration.
They don't deserve a knockout punch any more than FTP or Gopher deserved it, but unfortunately commercialisation of the web and the merging of static pages into dynamic apps (feature creep) and one gargantuan application (the browser) to interface with all of it and one gargantuan entity to discover it (Google), means that minnows are going to have to go with the overall flow.
That is a fantastic idea.
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Nah they'll just use those laws to steal your money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5292750.stm
Top ten stupidest comments I've seen on Hacker News. Which, admittedly, is a pretty good site.
great read, but reading title I thought it had something to do with Elon Musk's Borking company and it's tunnels lol
Why is it considered a foregone conclusion that removing net neutrality will change anything in the first place? I mean, we’re talking about rolling back the clock to the situation as of ~2 years ago. Which was just fine. I would prefer net neutrality to stay in place, but it’s intellectually dishonest to make claims about the internet as we know it coming to an end within minutes of the repeal.
It would be wonderful for FreeBSD as well as Linux if both operating systems supported capsicum. It would mean that both would have the same sandboxing API. Which would make it more likely for application authors to use capsicum, which in turn increases the amount of applications using it. Also why do you assume Linux's implementation would be poor? there's nothing to indicate that it is. Also capsicum is already implemented for Linux and has been for a couple years, it's just not in Linus's tree[1].

[1]: https://github.com/google/capsicum-linux
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He wrote "anti-anti-vaxer". IE turning it into a flamefest against anti-vax fraudsters.
I'm honestly tired of hearing this (don't take it personally, I just read it a lot) argument that "Well what if we ban Fox News? Where does it stop?

It stops where we bloody well want it to. Fox News is not the only news org that puts out crap content on the regular, they're just one of the bigger ones. CNN has a similar problem in the other direction, both doing the same basic tactic; taking and leaving facts and figures that don't suit what they want to say.

The vast majority of news networks yes, have a bias, but also report more or less the facts with more or less a complete picture. There are only a few news orgs out there that report just plain, outright, easily disproven bullshit and at the front of them is Fox News, that, in perhaps an honest attempt to counter the bias of most mainstream media, -or- in a cynical cash grab picked up and stoked the fears of white middle America, choose the narrative you prefer. Outside of that, most are relatively fine.

And yes, get Fox News the hell off Google. I'm all for it. Let's get rid of CNN too for the same reasons, and make news agencies compete for ranking based on who gets the story RIGHT, not who gets it FIRST.
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> surely would have been happy to report on more Trump scandals or leaks if they'd existed.

If only, then RT could have had the balance they were craving! But poor RT, thwarted by ol' squeaky-clean Trump.

Why is it shocking that a Russian government-owned news agency would promote things aligned with the Russian government? Do you think Voice of America doesn't push American topics?
If the server isn't started yet, the easiest way is to use the HTTP validation. Once it's started placing the file is easiest. You can use both methods.
This is backed up by older systems working fine with the ME firmware completely removed, and on newer systems, for 30 minutes before a watchdog triggers: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
I found that if I distract myself enough, I can start doing a task and the time just flies.

Currently my solution is to listen to classical music full volume. That way I can concentrate 1-1.5 hours a day.

On the other hand I too can focus without any problems when I'm programming. The problem is that I'm studying law :/.
In any case, the argument is not fallacious, at least as I read it; it’s just partially implicit. To spell it out:

Most people (not all) wouldn’t consider government distortion of markets as inherently morally bad, but bad because it can cause negative outcomes, i.e. sellers away/out of business, and ultimately leave consumers with worse or more expensive goods. And certainly that’s one possible outcome, depending on the policy and the market in question. But a lot of people leap directly from “government distortion of markets” to “disastrous results”, ignoring that in other cases, the results seem to be either positive or at least not all that bad, as evidenced by a well-functioning market existing despite government intervention. An example of this - with a greater likelihood of applicability due to being in a related market sector - is the agriculture market in the US and EU, with respect to the aforementioned subsidies.
Nothing stops any of the big CA's to offer their own ACME endpoint. It's an open standpoint based on software that is on github.

Running a ACME authority is not hard. The CA's just don't want to cannibalize their business.
I had no idea this was possible. Good for you. That's awesome.
I wonder how hard it would be to make CAD models of the parts for these machines, to allow them to be made on a CNC mill or the like. They're not particularly complicated tech but they have to be extremely reliable.
On newer Thinkpads, the firmware for the EC is on the same SPI Flash as the ME firmware, but on a different partition. The EC is an entirely separate chip (labeled ThinkEngine) and by virtue of being only on SMBus is a lot less dangerous.
Podesta's G-Suite account was unpatched?

Please review the history of events. The Hillary email server emails were released as part of FOIA actions, and reposted by Wikileaks. The Podesta emails were novel because they had been exfiltrated by the Guccifer 2.0 persona, reasonably attributed to Russian state actors by Crowdstrike.
moving money around without record-keeping to prove it wasn't criminally obtained is a serious crime.
While it's great to have a link to the charts themselves, you'll definitely want to also inline some screenshots of the charts in action. Pages of code samples are handy as examples but you'll need that first impression to draw attention.

Nice library though!
Neoliberals like Clinton aren't looking out for the consumer either.
The smartphone is no problem at all. Hardly anybody "calls" anymore, and the only time I look at the thing is when I'm sitting on the crapper (and in that case I'd say I'm not wasting time but multitasking). It could be because I was very late to the smartphone party and never got addicted.
Not sure if current two party system is geared towards solving such issues altogether. Where is the Pirate Party for example?
On the contrary I find contracting marketplaces to be much better environments. Toptal treats contractors more like staff, in that they provide training and things like copywriting.

It's really about the pros and cons of the job. I used to say that 90% of the work in consulting is negotiating features/price and actually getting clients to pay up. Contracting marketplaces remove a lot of that risk. You might get paid less or have more limits, but it's up to you how much you want to "pay" for that kind of security.
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How did they artificially inflate visibility?
"I realized what each of these iron lung users have in common are the aid of generous, mechanically skilled friends and family. And that’s probably the main reason they’ve been able to live long and full lives, despite the hardships and anxieties of depending on aging machinery to survive."

Much thanks to that network of friends and mechanically inclined people. It would be great if we could archive their knowledge. I think it would make great documentary material to follow around these tinkerers.
There are two different things being argued here: is it right for Google to do this, and did Russian intelligence actually interfere in the election. You're trying to re-open a debate into the latter, in which case the discussion of the former is kind of moot. The latter has been discussed and debated ad nauseam in a lot of places and this thread isn't really the appropriate environment.

But as someone who works in the infosec industry, I can say yes it is believable GRU would accidentally leave some tracks (NSA has done the same, which were caught by Kaspersky), and that there is far, far more evidence tying Russian intelligence to election interference than merely the DNC and Podesta email breaches. And also that it was more than just the US intelligence agencies and more than just Crowdstrike that came to these conclusions.
These most recent vulnerabilities don't require AMT. I don't see any reports of me_cleaner being used on a Mac yet, but I'd assume they are running the same ME firmware as everything else unless there is evidence otherwise.
That's a fair point, of course, but in HN's context it's secondary. What's primary is to avoid reproducing the same thing for the thousandth time, which is what happens with generic discussions. Those aren't interesting. What's interesting is the unpredictable. You can measure HN's quality by how good it is at giving meaningful diffs.
Not everywhere.

Here in Europe, contracts are the exception not the rule.

Most people just charge with 15 to 20 euros their SIM card whenever they feel like it, and have to pay full price for mobile phone.

Or pay it in rates to only have it unlocked from the network at the end of two years, so they are going to use that phone until it dies or gets stolen.
2013 Berlin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264567/Robbers-tunn...
Since this is HN I will make an effort to not just make a sharp one liner.

The best version of the OP’s arguing is for individual ability and choice, and the ability of a person to make a difference of their own volition.

This is a fundamentally important right because without it, we are all automatons.

The issue is that in many cases we humans make bad choices, on a truly unimaginable scale.

This is also very much a part of being human - good choices exist only if bad choices exists.

The issue is that sometimes we can agree that people will consistently make poor choices, for a variety of forgiveable reasons.

While we could conceivably go after each individual, explain and educate them in precisely the way required to convince them that they should wear seat belts - it’s is often practically impossible to do so.

Which is why we introduce laws and regulations. All cars must have seat belts - and you must wear them.

Because as a species we are able to make meta cognitive calls or simply- decisions about decisions.

As a species we don’t want our people dying, for something as trivial as not wearing a seat belt.

It causes families to lose parents, parents to lose children - often because they were just at the wrong place and time.

Getting people to wear seat belts causes large scale good, over an individuals choice to put themselves and others at risk.
It was a "memo" not an "audit".

https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Final-Tether-Co...
What does this have to do with the fundamental fact that Google decides to make access to information / opinions from certain sources less accessible than others?
It's always been known that there was a nuclear explosion, it was just called a "power excursion" so avoid frightening the children.
I've watched RT videos on YouTube and after I realized where it was coming from I was able to connect the dots with various socialist leaning good feel pieces embedded in larger stories. But I mean it's not like it was super aggressive propaganda worth censuring. I think a lot of their material is interesting and well produced.
This is actually a bad example, as NPR has criticized plenty of U.S. government officials. It was especially inflammatory about the NSA.

I think you should instead use the Voice of America news agency instead, it is overtly an American propaganda arm, used for the same purpose as Sputnik, and as RT is used de-facto.
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> the whole article is an ode to vaccination and the danger

I disagree. The interesting part is the iron lungs and the people.

That's not as subjective as it sounds, if you define 'interesting' to include 'not having been seen a whole lot already'.
Uber grocery delivery / Uber Espresso (Why Keurig when you can Starbucks?)

Uber analytics (How often do riders get dropped off outside your store? Your competitors?)

Uber Mobile Hotspot / Uber Wardriving Analytics

Uber Maps / Uber Traffic

Uber Music (Starbucks does it, why not Uber?)
Poloniex trades USDT for quite a few ccs

https://poloniex.com/exchange#usdt_str
It was raining very heavily in Scotland unfortunately. Probably also Norway.