skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this. I poked through his videos and I agree with your sentiment.
I left the Midwest to build a career on the west coast. It was fun and productive, and I made tons of friends. But my god was it refreshing to later move back to the Midwest.

I can see that folks on HN are taking this a bit personally, but in my experience the warmth, authenticity and friendliness in the Midwest is night and day a different world to the west coast.
This is hilariously awesome. I want one!
> Schmidt is the ultimate establishment opportunist,

It can also be seen as a business move. The perceived failure of the news media to convince people to vote for one candidate has left a void in the market. So now Google, Facebook, Twitter and others are racing to fill that void. They are signaling that they are willing and able to better target and manipulate public opinion than anyone else.

Does Google and others believe that lizard people stories and pictures of Hillary boxing with Jesus made a difference in the election? https://assets.pcmag.com/media/images/561223-an-example-of-r... Probably not. But the adherence to the story and the faithful reiteration is a good backdrop to signal a more important message to those willing to read between the lines.
Oh, the horror!

import SwiftPrivateLibcExtras
#if os(OSX) || os(iOS)
import Darwin
-#elseif os(Linux) || os(FreeBSD) || os(PS4) || os(Android) || os(Cygwin) || os(Haiku)
+#elseif os(Linux) || os(FreeBSD) || os(PS4) || os(Android) || os(Cygwin) || os(Fuchsia) || os(Haiku)
import Glibc
#endif

(NOTE: Not the macros, but the apparent decision of early Swift developers to divide the world into two camps: OS X and Linux. Moreover, glibc is conflated with Linux. Worse, glibc is the de facto portability layer. I want to cry....)
One of the most despicable examples was Malaysian Flight 17:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17#Ru...
You're not using it correctly. You don't throw shade /on something/, you throw shade /at someone/.
Plus who knows what kind of festivals will be drawn to the area by the sudden availability of a giant pit!
How Bitcoin queen Maxine Ryan dropped out and built a multinational business
I'm currently using an iPhone 5, have 11 tabs open and am streaming music from spotify.

Other than occasional crashes and a tiny bit of lag, my aged phone handles it very well.

On the other hand, when I'm on the desktop I open multiple browser instances with 20+ tabs open on each of them.
I guess I have a problem :).
Dropping marketshare for others may not mean falling business. It's possible that the market size is growing fast enough for the commercial ones to actually be seeing a growth in business.
It depends on the experience level of people running them. Cryptocurrencies have a good deal of enthusiasts YOLO-ing on them, as far as I can tell.
> I'm not sure the impact so much matters as the intent.

I think some of the election-related stuff is mostly politicization. If you follow some of the hearings on the subject of Russian propaganda (cspan has some) it seemed more that they were targeting and prodding cultural divisions.

Organizing anti-immigration rallies at the same time and location as Muslim rallies and pushing racial and cultural divides. It seems like their focus is to polarize people and try to promote extremism.
What information was misleading or false? There were lots of emails leaked. The FBI investigation was concerned with the legality of using the private server, but none of the potential campaign finance or ethics violations revealed by the contents of the emails has received any attention at all.

As an American citizen who is not aligned with either major party, I'm pleased when one of the power mongers from either party is destroyed.

What should have happened is that a panel of experts should have reviewed the troubling aspects of the emails and issued a statement. But the partisans wanted to pretend the issue was either a) automatically damning or b) a complete non-issue. The truth was likely somewhere in the middle.

RT did nothing at all wrong by reporting on those things, and surely would have been happy to report on more Trump scandals or leaks if they'd existed.

I think that what people miss is that the intention of RT was simply to reveal unflattering truths to help make Americans unhappy with their leaders. This is not a bad thing. If our leaders have committed crimes or ethics violations I want to know about it so that it can appropriately impact my vote.

The most peculiar implication of the criticism of RT is the idea that somehow Americans should not know these things or should remain blissfully naive of embarrassing things about our leaders. It's almost too patronizing to believe.
1: http://archives.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php

2: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9256.12097

3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/0...

4: http://fortune.com/2017/09/17/russia-network-rt-propaganda/

5: https://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/505751335/-rt-america-the-one...
What do you mean by "a campaign to manipulate its visibility"? Do you mean the link being launched on social media?
I've been stress testing my dex setup and it's surprisingly performant. To push it to the limits I decided to start a youtube channel documenting how it goes and I'm not even using the official DeX station, just a $20 ripoff from china. It's been suprisingly powerful to edit video on and even have all the files on same device. Even the adobe suite is suprisingly well implemented on android. I find that any issue I have with missing programs I can find on XDA in the form of an apk file.

http://youtube.com/c/DennisAleynikov
Yes, we were camping as well. It all happened during a sunny weekend.
I wonder, if your parents didn't have you vaccinated and you contracted polio, could you sue them for negligence and loss of function? Can an 8 year old consent to getting polio?
I meant RT articles.
> Schmidt seems to want to suppress such ideas, helping to suppress these unflattering stories so that the Al Frankens, Donald Trumps, and George HW Bushes of the world can stay in power. As an aside, Schmidt is the ultimate establishment opportunist, so of course he would do this sort of thing. He cares only about making Eric Schmidt powerful.

If you think that Schmidt and Google are the forces motivating viewpoint moderation and it's something they're foisting on the rest of the world, you clearly haven't paid even a second of attention to what's been going on.

Liberalism (in the classical sense) is _incredibly_ unpopular right now. There's been a constant drumbeat of articles (including all the ones that make it to HN's frontpage) about how modern-day content platform giants like FB and Google are being and make sure that legal but "bad" things like "fake news" need to be controlled and removed on their platforms. It hasn't been coming from inside these companies: it's been coming from journalists, politicians, and a host of other random (though sadly often influential) empty-headed loudmouths on Twitter.

> Note to Google: We do not want you to be an information censor or a moderator of the ideas that we are exposed to. Please stop.

Dude. Seriously. Read the news every once in a while. Half the country has been screaming at Google for not fulfilling _exactly_ this "responsibility". _You_ may not want them to be a viewpoint moderator/censor (and neither do I), but you're grossly misunderstanding the situation if you think this is a path that they're motivated to do by anything other than intense public and political pressure.
Not sure if "a whole bunch of people" equates more than 5 extremely vocal people on twitter and reddit.

Tether published an audit a month ago.
But I have zero use for SEO-friendly pages -- all my client-side pages are behind a login-wall. It isn't one big blob of JSON -- it's multiple endpoints. With HTTP/2, multiple small requests are fast.

> build the few dynamic elements on their pages with a simpler, more robust technology

This is a horrible idea that has worked poorly for so many projects. At one potential employer, they did this and their app had a message view with a read count. They didn't care the read count didn't update -- you had to reload the whole page for it to update. Those are the kind of inconsistencies that the above approach encourages because it's not cohesive.

Can you do it? Yes. Should you? No, not in my book.

> low latency, URL routing, progressive enhancement

I've got low latency, I have client-side URL routing, I have no need for progressive enhancement -- it's just more complexity that neither I nor my customers need. These are all great ideas if you have a public website and need to cater to a wide range of visitors. I don't. I'm very happy to be able to only have to support the last couple major versions of each browse.
Yup. My ancient nokia works for me. All it does is make voice calls, send/receive texts, and last for a week on a charge (when left on 24/7).

I carry it turned off and turn it on if I really need to make a call or expect someone to contact me.
It's not that RT is biased. Fox News is clearly biased, but I wouldn't treat it the same way. It's that RT utterly doesn't care to report the facts.

To show you what I mean, I came across an RT article that was trying to pin the blame on the hacking of the Estonian government on UIUC. The article had several flaws:

* It miscounted the number of people in the city. While I understand there's definitely some room to come up with different values (having two cities and a general not-in-city suburban area), I couldn't come up with a combination of reasonable values that was close to their estimate.

* It misidentifies the NCSA as the NSA.

* There was an odd bit about how it's "suspicious" that the area has so many IP addresses, which is a) nonsensical, b) I've no idea how to actually come up with a number here (I'm quite sure it was made up for the article), and c) not so surprising if you understand historical IP address allocation policies.

* It also identifies the small town as having three major airports. There is in fact only one airport served by one airline (now two) that serves two destinations (Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth) with 5 flights a day. There is a second, 4000 ft airstrip. I don't know what they think the third airport is--best guess is the decommissioned Air Force base in the next town over.

After reading that article, I have decided to never again grace RT with even ad revenue.
I liked your article about Unit Testing Nested View Partials in Rails. Thank you!
I'm in the same boat, about 5 years in the Midwest. I have absolutely no financial concerns in my life with what would be considered a fairly modest senior software engineer salary. I don't even have the slightest interest to push for raises anymore because I'm already so comfortable and happy.
That's pretty disingenuous without talking about the respective level of corruption in each country:

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...

Britain: Very clean, US: Clean, Russia: Corrupt.
This has to do with Russia's official PR aimed at its own people. RT can't contradict that any more than NPR can call for the imprisonment of high level officials due to Gitmo.
Yep that's what I meant. Read it again I said "When u make a lot, it takes a lot" which is synonymous to "Proportional". Also, I can save a shit ton of money if I make my own Gumroad.
This is much easier to unwind than Mt. Gox since tether is only redeemable through the tether company.

Participating exchanges have to upgrade their omni/tether clients or they run the risk of accepting the unredeemable tethers for which their customers will hold them liable. Omni's design allows tether to track all the disavowed tethers so there's no risk of payout to addresses downstream of this one.
Modern? Both vi and emacs are "still maintained" and are both keyboard driven interfaces that huge numbers of individuals consider good. You can try out both on most Linux distributions.

Other examples from Linux/Unix systems are the Joe editor, which ships with configuration files to emulate several other keyboard driven editors. Also the "less" file viewer, as well as the "mutt" email client and the "tin" usenet news reader. All are also "still maintained".

For less modern, WordStar and Visicalc and Lotus123 all had fully keyboard driven interfaces. Lotus123 added menus and such in later incarnations but retained the keyboard driven interface. And in all of these cases they keyboard interface was not "the keyboard simply drives the GUIs menus and windows" but true keyboard driven without menus. How you could try any of them out today would likely involve a VM (i.e, VirtualBox), loading an old copy of Dos, and finding an old copy of one of them to install in the VM.
I wonder if anyone has noticed that you can't even query a search without it already being flooded with the news. You can't really customize the search in away you get zero news from any search.
It's really true that, as someone in my 20's, polio really did seem like a thing of the past before reading this. While I knew what an iron lung was (always disliking the name, though), I had no idea there were still people using them.

The most striking thing is how early in life these people were affected, while I feel like I've only just begun to experience life. Really makes me appreciate all the work that went into the vaccines and public health to make a disease that was so terrifying only a generation ago, virtually non-existent today. (And really hate that the anti-vaxers, who benefited from it, are working to undo such a great achievement)
When you say "better", remember to ask yourself, "better for who?" For you?

Honestly, I'm pretty sure Google doesn't care what would be better for you. You're a product, not a customer. Now, who is a customer, then? Usually, answer seems pretty obvious, but you couldn't answer it regarding this particular case, could you? It might be government, it might be some other company, it might be Schmidt himself for whatever reason…

And it seems to me, the fact you are being sold without even being able to tell who likely buys you anymore is even more noteworthy than the notion itself.
Best thing I ever did with reddit was to subscribe to the subreddits that are useful to me and then never ever go to the front page again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782508
One way to workaround this is simply to prefix your Google search with site:rt.com

ex

site:rt.com my search query

With or without the communist Chinese style ban on RT.com it is convenient to use this technique if even to cross reference a specific issue you've heard buzz about with an non-US (and by extension, non Five Eyes) based source of news. Otherwise your news is, now openly admitted, at the discretion of Google's / US governments distorted and now limited view of what is 'news'.

Have always enjoyed RT because it is one of the few quality international news outlets not based or biased in US - and will continue enjoying it despite Google or US introducing Chinese PRC style blanket censorship.

Jim Rogers and Peter Schiff are just a few of the respected names who have routinely appeared on RT to share their commentary.

Slippery slope, but hey - this way they seal their own demise as independent thinkers lead the way in replacing the likes of Google and other compromised tech companies with decentralized, censor-proof solutions.
has anyone checked to see if this money has already spread to downstream addresses? It's possible the damage is already done and exchanges have accepted money from the poisoned address.
I think you should change "there has not been any data" with "there has not been any data that I like".

The Crowdstrike, Mandiant, and the Facebook & Twitter reports all linked Russian government actors with unregistered election interference, with varying amounts of forensic evidence; the Crowdstrike and Mandiant ones were chock-full of evidence, while the Facebook and Twitter ones just claimed that Russian media agency IP ranges were used to control the social media accounts.
Omni layer wasn't hacked or exploited, this company just lost their private key
Just wondering, why do you need nginx started to generate a valid certificate?
A lot of messaging in politics is unspoken and unrecorded to avoid culpability. You do things that favor someone higher up without being asked to (or based on available public signals), and get rewarded without having ever asked for it.
I've found RT to be incredibly right leaning and pro-Russian.
Using letsencrypt + nginx. You start with just a http server, letsencrypt does its thing and gives you a certificate, then you set up https.
Not to take away from what Franken did, but Schmidt is known for his extravaganza parties with escorts that he likes wearing paper bags over their heads.

Of course you wont find this on Google; not on the first page even thought dailymail usually pops up on the top when you search for simialar stories:

Comparison:

https://www.google.com/search?q=eric+schmidt+paper+bag+over+...

https://www.bing.com/search?q=eric+schmidt+paper+bag+over+he...

I highly doubt this is pure Google Algorithm and not a human intervention.
How is SSL going to help? I assume you are hinting at app operator will sell user’s data? Or do you mean parent’s network provider does?

I guess in latter case SSL would help, but what’s more likely, though, operator selling out or app developer?
And then re-shared and promoted by bots masquerading as US citizens specifically for maximum impact against targeted individuals who are most susceptible to manipulation and most likely to propagate the material.
It might be easier to commit money to an arbitrage bot than to understand the risks involved.
dude, you're talking to a bot.

look at his syntax. he's using the right single quotation mark char (’) instead of a plain apostrophe: that's because he's not typing, he's copying the predefined chunks of text from some approved document aka the fresh methodichka (методичка).
Most modern CPUs have similar features
Propaganda bots and troll armies? None have been linked to the Russian government. Surely someone wishing to spend time making bots and hiring trolls would promote certain articles, but if the American papers did an acceptable job writing about facts, those bots/armies would obviously prefer to link American articles if trying to persuade the American people.

So it's not sufficient to cite the means of distribution/virality, one must actually dig in and find factual problems with the content.

Motive is even more difficult, as the motive of discrediting American leaders for lies or misdeeds is arguably in the public's best interest, so it's hard to persuade me that doing that is somehow harmful to America, even if it was done by an adversary.
> It takes an incredible amount of chauvinism and arrogance to believe that the American people are too stupid to realize that perhaps a news source called "Russia Today" might publish articles that would reflect unflattering aspects of American society and unflattering stories about American politicians.

Does it, though?
So glad to hear there are others using this long term as a computing solution. it feels like I'm downgrading when I'm using any other computer now because it doesn't have all my apps & files just a click away and all of my info logged in properly.

I was sure I could get away with using something that's essentially a chromebook but I was surprised how well apk files replace any program I would have google "function of program .exe" I can search for the equivalent apk file. Really neat for editing videos as well, since the graphics chip is optimized for video encoding it seems that the programs use that to their advantage when exporting large files.

To really put the DeX to the test I'm uploading as many videos as I can edited and shot all on the s8/DeX. http://youtube.com/c/DennisAleynikov
Wikipedia editors have the power to make your contribution "to the global collective" disappear. On the other hand, if you get a physical book published, it can almost certainly be purchased or borrowed even though many disagree with it or harbor ill intentions towards it. So it remains in "the global collective"
They don't disable it completely. Computer can't boot and work without ME.
Proof: Soviet TV as of April 26. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EdubXu5GYxA

“And this is the main building of the station itself. As you can see there is no major destruction incessantly touted by the Western press...”
Survey 112 Puerto Rican funeral homes to check accuracy of hurricane death toll
Why would I repost RT articles? Unless you specifically want me to increase their visibility?

Just read these articles and they'll lead to plenty of examples.
It's not strictly keyboard-only, but several music notation programs (eg., Finale) have a keyboard (QWERTY) interface for quickly entering music. They have a MIDI keyboard interface, too, but that's obviously not what you are asking. :)

I would say that the advantage of a keyboard (non-mouse) interface is that you don't have to "aim" in order to move to the next component, you just press "enter", "tab", or an arrow key.

Having said that, many spreadsheet programs could be considered to support a keyboard interface, as well as your favorite calculator app.

EDIT: Adding that many command line tools fit this. Of course there are text editors like Vim, but also tools like htop.
Agree with this - it's one of the few missing features of lets encrypt. I think more SaaS websites will be inclined to use the service, especially ones that have user.saas.com subdomain structure.
RT regularly puts out propaganda pieces when it comes to matters of contention between Russia and other countries. For example: https://www.rt.com/usa/384800-syria-gas-professor-addendum/

For general reporting, their journalism is probably fine (or at least no worse than most other outlets), but when the state's interests are at stake they will always toe the party line even in the face of facts. Not saying many US outlets don't do the same, but this is Russian state media we're talking about.
You could get a much cheaper (mine was $20) slimport/displayport usb-c to hdmi converter. That's all the phone is looking for to launch the DeX environment.

The dongle version of the station works even better cuz it can lay flat on my desk and the finger print scanner is easy to reach.
Tether is handling this completely wrong. They should not hard fork Omni and force everyone to blacklist addresses. Instead, tell everyone to halt on-chain trading, take a snapshot of the chain, then create a new tether token and send them to everyone holding the old tethers (minus the thief). I think the bitcoins Tether would have to pay in transfer fees would be a fitting punishment for their poor security.
> Compare that to Google where it's almost 20 years old and its major revenue is still AdWords. Diversifying revenue is not easy.

That's like saying Apple's major revenue is still people paying cash in exchange for products — ads isn't a product, but a revenue model, an exchange currency that apparently people are happy to pay instead of money.

Btw, Google has 2 really successful operating systems, Android and Chrome OS. That they don't have much direct revenue from them is inconsequential for the topic at hand, because these operating systems ensure their continued dominance of the marketplace.

Microsoft genius was to control the market with its operating systems. Even if Office and Internet Explorer were good from a technical perspective, having their own merits, I'll always suspect that the tight integration with Windows, along with the deals Microsoft did with computer makers (possible because of MS DOS and Windows) is what killed their competition.

And now Google has taken that to the next level. To not see it is ignorant and unhealthy for the ecosystem. Because yes, Chrome is the new Internet Explorer.
RT has been widely criticized for the quality of its journalism.