skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the private security companies who performed the investigation said so (and provided plenty of evidence, if you take the time to look at the links). So did the intelligence community. So did Obama. So did John McCain and Mitch McConnell, who you'd think have a pretty good vested interest in not saying so.

What is your basis for disbelieving all of those people and groups?
Signed up! This is really well executed. I would like to offer a contrary opinion to those suggesting to change the name. Outside of a very niche audience, Kismet isn't confusing and is a great name for the product.
Exactly. If the alternative is Google Maps (or even Apple Maps), it’s not good enough to make me pay $5 to download a map of 1 country and forcing me to keep 500mb of data on my device permanently.
Yes, for bad actors
Your post shows a very idealistic position. It assumes that all ideas come from a legitimate point and are worth discussing.

But guess what, the person that came up with the anti-vaxxer BS just wanted more money, and fuck whoever dies because of it. It's not an issue with lack of education.

BS is easier to produce than it is to refute. That's the fundamental problem

All democracies are subject to propaganda (be either external OR internal)

> were actually serving our citizens and maintaining the level of education and sustaining the standard of living required for democracy to function across most of the population

Both parties are responsible for that, (though I'd say R makes it worse usually) but even then, populations love to shoot themselves in the foot
> At the same time, some Russian activities seem to have risen to the level of espionage

There has always been Russian espionage. Not only that - there has been Russian (or Soviet, same difference) agents in Manhattan project, high positions in State Department (see Alger Hiss) and so on. Recent kerfuffle has nothing on that. Russia sees itself as a geopolitical foe of the US, of course they are spying on the US. In fact, US spied on Germany, Britain and Israel (and Israel spied back on US as we know, others probably too but were not caught) - and those are close allies! Of course Russians would do the same. It's not something new that "have risen" recently.

> The article also says that Russian agents organized and funded political rallies.

So? US and US-related organizations funded and organized political and quasi-political activities in many countries. So do many other countries - EU finances a wide variety of NGOs that do all kinds of political campaigns, so does the US. All this fainting about "oh, Russians dare to have opinion about US politics and tell us about it using Facebook! Oh horrors! Our democracy is dead!" just sounds bizarre. Yeah, we live in a global world, Russians can have opinion about US politics, and Americans can have opinion about Russian politics, and both can publish real opinions or any crap they like on Facebook. Making a conspiracy of the century out of it is insane.
Forget about whether russia had used the bots to influence elections. I was really surprised that Hillary with all the Silicon Valley support couldn't built a team to counter these.

On the election day, the Trump tweet in the morning got a million favs and Hillary hardly got 200K. When I looked at it, I was shocked about how dismal Hillary's tech team is.
Wasn't there also a programming language that was planning to hold an ICO?

Maybe ICOs truly are the new Kickstarter.
But how could they "be a LOT better"?

I see this being said, but from what I've seen async handling is generally not very graceful; with that said, Promises are a very simple but powerful API that seem to handle the problem fairly elegantly.

That is why I'm surprised. I just don't know what the alternative is supposed to be! Can you point me to a language and a library that you would say does a better job of handling asynchronicity than Promises?
The simulator teleported the "Blue Team" fleet right into harbor. They were not ordered to go there and were in fact ordered to stay away, precisely because that would lead to the possibility of boat attacks. I think that counts as a bug. The simulator also didn't account for the capacity of small boats, so allowed the boats to move much faster that reasonable for the amount of explosives they were supposedly carrying. That is probably not a cheat, just an exploitation of bad simulation rules, but also makes the results less demonstrative of the actual results of an engagement with Iran.
It's not like we never engage in propaganda or media influence in Russia or anything.
The why doesn't Apple do what other companies and industries typically do in a situation where there is one dominant player? Get everyone else to join a single open solution and then start attacking Google for not being open with its maps.

Get Microsoft, Tom Tom, Samsung - everyone else - to work on OSM.

Right now, Apple is basically building the "Windows Phone" of map solutions, because it "wants to be different", and making the same mistake Nokia did in smartphones.

They should get over their own egos and actually choose the option with the highest chance of success against Google Maps.
Replacing jQuery with Vue.js: no build step necessary
Capitalism isn't designed. It's just the natural state of the world.
Is your argument also that a government is not allowed to get upset about disinformation propaganda efforts conducted by foreign states in their territory?
If you think about it, this is exactly what immunization is.
#16 Coding Influencers – Ms Brandy Morgan
> If Uber is able to deliver ride cheaper than everyone else, they can make a ton of money.

More specifically, if Uber is able to deliver rides cheaper than everyone else, at a cost to them that is even cheaper than that, they can make a ton of money. If it's the other way around, they lose a ton of money instead.
And don't forget about Pizzagate too!
Uber is reportedly preparing to sell its Southeast Asian business to Grab
If you can't find a job in this economy the problem is you, and if you're somehow demoralized out of the workforce by a perceived "anti-male" bias then you'd be an uncompetitive person in any environment.
How specific is the dose? Do they calibrate it by weight or body fat or anything?
If you run them side by side, you will often find that Google Maps does not try as hard as Waze to save seconds. It prefers routes that are easier to learn, as you yourself like them, with fewer turns (and thus fewer interruptions). It caters to the 90% of people like you that don't obsess about seconds. Of course, it also has get traffic into account. Perhaps, in your case, the intersection isn't that busy, but traffic information is noisy.
I'm in no way an expert in social media advertising, but the claims that I've heard are that the ad buys were hyper-targeted to swing districts. Incidentally, it's been suggested that this implies that the Russians were in secret coordination with Cambridge Analytica (the data firm that worked with the Trump Campaign). On the other hand, I think it's consistent with the following model:

Assume that Putin has a longstanding grudge against Clinton and wants to undermine what he assumes will be her presidency [1]. Let's further assume that the budget for this operation will be low—on the order of tens or hundreds of thousands (plus salary for operatives), compared to the hundreds of millions spent by the campaigns [2]. Any reasonably savvy head of this operation would lean towards a start-up model—i.e. very aggressively targeting swing districts. Thinking up ways to target the most swing-able people for the fewest number of dollars is very much worth your time if your time is relatively inexpensive and you don't have tons and tons of money to spend. Is it possible that they received targeting data from people associated with the campaign? Sure, but I don't think that hypertargeting implies that they did.

[1] http://observer.com/2016/06/she-isnt-president-yet-but-russi...
[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16
It will probably end up like the NI fund which exists in theory but in reality immediately gets lent back to the government.
2FA notif scam was the last straw for me. Just deleted my account. So long and thanks for all the fish!
In my area Waze does a better job at anticipating future traffic patterns. For example, every Thursday I have to get my son from school and drive across town starting at 5pm. It's a 20 minute drive if there's no traffic and 30-35 minutes typically and we only have 40 minutes to get from A to B. Google will pick a route that is fast at 5pm, but builds a lot of traffic at the Nike headquarters by the time we reach it 15 minutes later. Waze seems to understand this better and has never routed me into that traffic jam.
Anecdata: My teenage kids don't use iTunes, even though we have the unlimited family package. Their music is on youtube.
Revenue? Wallmart gets that making pennies in every sale. And with 2.3M employees -- Apple does half that revenue for 1/20 the employees -- and has 2-3 times the market cap (Walmart is not even in the top 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by... ).
well before we used Panoply we used Redshift.

And it was a pain it didn't scale, changing data types was a bitch, even the amount of GB stored was sometimes off. I mean, today we use Panoply so it offsets a lot of the crap that goes into maintaining Redshift.

But I think that Redshift is just not good enough today and without Panoply its close to impossible to have real scale on it.
Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars
Is the introduction mutual? That is, if I get user X, does user X also get an email with the same intro for me?

I wouldn't want to feel obliged to contact every "match" if they don't seem interesting to me (and vice versa) but there might be such an obligation if they knew I'd got them.
Not very convincing. Yes the words are simpler, but the density and mental paren parsing are roadblocks.

Perhaps a lisp with python-style indentation for blocks would be more easily read?

def read (filename)
with-open-file (input filename)
for line in (read-line input nil)
while line do
print line
>a) biggest company does not equal company with highest market cap

Actually it does. Especially since you can have 1 billion in revenue by selling $10 dollar bills at $1 dollar.

>b) having the biggest market cap is something thats good for their shareholder, and terrible for anyone else

Whatever.

>But yeah, do continue to praise your beloved highness.

Irrational argument ad hominem.
I don’t think that it’s that they misunderstand.

I think that it’s because they make more money by making it divisive and emotion driven.
Yes and also they block receiving emails from GMail domain for security purposes. So if you want to email someone internal in big co, you have to do it from your own domain. I suppose it is not only for GMail. Probably Yahoo, Microsoft also but I only had one guy trying to use GMail sending mail to corporate users.
I think you are missing the class aspect to all of this.
There is a huge amount of documented research of the impact of social class on jobs.

Most of society (men and women) doesn't exist at Harvard, and the top 500 companies.

There could easily be "anti middle/low class bias against males" from the upper classes. Which is a common theme in history, lower class men are slightly more disposable (war) then lower class woman.

I could easily see lower class men escaping into video games.
Vim Anywhere
Then again, depending on whether men worked too much or too little before, it could mean better work life balance. Unless you believe the proper amount of time to work is "all the time", there will be a point where people work a bit less and it is not end of world.
Why Traefik Will Replace HAProxy and Nginx
Well ostensibly you'd want things like security fixes, in the very least.
They do not and in fact technically can not, because the underlying map data is different between google maps and waze.
Isn't regular Ketamine use especially bad for the bladder? I recall reading multiple anecdotes from the Erowid ketamine vaults where people lost their bladders due to recreational Ketamine use.
kis·met

ˈkizmit,-ˌmet/Submit

noun

destiny; fate.

"what chance did I stand against kismet?"

added the google search definition:
I found E M Forster’s novella “The Machine Stops” in the same league as the above: it is about the human condition, and technology is just a setup to talk about that.
"Most of his science output was in a bunch of nonfiction books that I'm not even sure are still in print, and he had a rep for churning out books on every subject at lightning speed, rather than for great insight."

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (now called Asimov's New Guide To Science) was and is still very highly regarded.
UConnect, more botnets, and poor OTA updating practices
"Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions
in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber
Incident Attribution

NIC ICA Report:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
> I bothers me no end that influence/propaganda operations continuously get termed "hacking the election"

You realize you're on a site named "Hacker News", using the term to refer to influence operations, right?

> If we, as a nation, were actually serving our citizens and maintaining the level of education and sustaining the standard of living required for democracy to function across most of the population I do not think these Russian-style campaigns would be very effective.

And this is exactly what classic Soviet/Russian propaganda wants you to conclude: "So in practice I guess the 'Democracy' system is no better than the Soviet Communist/Putinist system after all."
OK I should have been clearer about my interpretation - I read flying in experts as they flew in experts from MongoDB and stumped them so that had me thinking maybe this is not possible if they stumped them. Earlier in this thread one of the engineers from MongoDB says Epic solved the issue but had not updated the blog so I was wrong about that.
It sounds extremely bizarre to me that it's OK to criticize Hillary Clinton, it's OK to do it when getting salary from, say, CNN (though not that it would ever happen... ok, from Fox News, right?) but not OK to do the same if you get the same salary from, say, RT. It's like freedom of speech suddenly depends on where your money come from and whether any of it were in hands of Russians before. That's one weird interpretation of the First Amendment.
There's another angle - vendors also make money from support contracts, and fear that if they gave you the ability to get support from anyone (even yourself!) they'd lose that revenue stream. For more consumer-oriented products, manufacturers don't want to deal with supporting products that have been modified... (well, they don't want to support them unmodified either, often as not).
Another Google service devoid of humanity.

God forbid the help page doesn't suffice, when your ride bootloops in the middle of nowhere or a bad neighborhood.
US social security is also like this.
> but it could be fixed if the market demanded it.

The market (my mom for example) is unaware there is a fix.

> there is no pressure from anyone to maintain backward compatibility.

You and your manager are both part of the problem. And the phone makers, because they invented a market place for shit companies that wants to ship unfinished software and push daily updates to their users to eventually reach a point where their API is stable.

There used to exist software developers who took great pride in (API) backwards compatibility. These days, where are they? My guess is they have been overrun by the a huge crowd of new people who have never maintained a backwards compatible API and who don't know how to. Management love fast-moving people who say "yes sir" and "not a problem sir".
I’m not sure when the original law was passed, but it was reaffirmed by SCOTUS in 2012. Prohibited by the FEC:

>Making any contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or making any expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement in connection with any federal, state or local election in the United States;

There’s more, but the above covers a good chunk of it.

[0] https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/supreme-court...

[1] https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/
That was my first thought as well, it will not be so great for SEO.
Once you realize how important owning your technology is you never go back!
Can you briefly explain how a PF anchor is not equivalent to a iptables chain? From a very short perusal of the PF documentation it appears to be the same concept to me (i.e. a set of filtering rules you can branch to from another part of the ruleset...)
Previously I really like the flexibility of the tagging system in open street map. I used something like it for a unrelated commercial product and we have found we have to switch away from it. And we had very tight control over the definitions of the tagging we were using.

The tools were difficult, as is mentioned in the main post. That is certainly an inconvenience but I figured we could muddle through that. The bigger problem is that the customers just never got it. They wanted a single, authoritative classification for an object.

Our plan is to move to a system inspired by the model used in BIM for classification. The princicple difference is that in open street map all data identifying an object has to lie within the tags. In the alternate system, a single identifier for the object type is used, and this references external metadata that gives you additional information which does not have to be embedded in the tags on the object. An example of additional information held external to the map and tags is that a bathroom is a type of room. I don't have to include in the map data that the object is both a bathroom and a room.

I should add, the external meta data also gives a strict definition of what types of tags (and maybe values) are allowed on the given type of object. If you need something a little different, you can make a new type.

I am not sure how well this type of system could work in open street map. Is it too rigid? Or would there be too much proliferation of types? Classification is always hard and I am not sure people have solved that problem in any large context.

And of course, changes like this would mean a new database. If people ever do think about making an OSM 2.0 maybe this, or another tagging alternative, is something to consider.

(edit: typos)
I really don't blame her. Years of interaction with end-users on ww.com/camarades.com has taught me that if you do use your real ID and photograph you will most likely end up regretting it. Threats of rape and other niceties will be your lot if you use your real data. Also when you use fake data but at least you will have reduced the possibility for real harm considerably.

The same goes for your users, not just for the operators, especially in any context where the site operator allows or encourages end-user interaction.
It goes back a little farther than that. Cold War. I know, I was there, man!
Although, it obviously doesn't.

I personally have always felt it had a romantic undertone to it.
What about all the Washington Post and New York times articles with anonymous sources? How do you know that isn't all fake? Are we now only to blindly trust specifically whitelisted authorities that relies on unknown sources? Why keep playing around? Just put these unknown sources in charge of everything. Maybe the public should directly elect the people behind "anonymous sources say" since they largely determine the news these days and thus what people believe and who they vote for anyway.
The prices are verifiably not too low to pay the drivers because they do pay the drivers at the prices they're using.

If the drivers are being paid below market rate and still driving for them, then they are the ones subsidizing.
>Those are opinion articles by a self-described "rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper."

I was pointing to the arguments -- could not care less if Humpty Dumpty wrote them.

>Call me crazy but I'm going to side with the intelligence community (and Obama and John McCain and even Mitch McConnell) on this one.

I'd just call you gullible. If one actually wants to get out of the establishment bubble, that's the last source they'd want to slide with.

But of course they have such a great track record for people to be trusting them, from Operation Mockingbird to the Contras, WMDs, lying about surveillance, and so on...
Yes, it is! As you mentioned, that's by design, though if you're asking the question that means I'm not communicating it well enough :)
In Google I see options for enabling which types of roads to prefer.
yes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27001627
Recently facebook pixel started collecting information on pretty much everything a user does on the website naming them "microdata". Those users have no clue they are being tracked in that manner.
Any sane corporate security? You can setup gmail account in 5 mins and start phishing people in corporate env. That is why receiving emails from generic domains is no go. I also had actual requirement where we did not allow people to register with gmail account, only non generic domain emails allowed. So that you use your company email for B2B product.
I was expecting this to be about Rorschach slides for some reason. Somehow this is even sillier.

Maybe there should be some kind of way to sue for damages for claiming damages from work you don't own. What a waste of time.
> Regarding the loop: that's exactly what I described, you just move lines and fix the indentation.

The experience you get with Paredit is not the same experience you get with C and vi, because you have to be concerned with things at the character level to make the transformation. What single command do you use to move the function call, for loop, label, or do-while loop after the closing brace of the current block into this block, whether it's 1 line or 100? What if you have something like f(x, y * 2) and you decide that you want to put y * 2 into a variable instead? Do you write every argument to every function on its own line?

Again, if you want to do things the C way in Lisp, it's not like Lisp makes it hard to do those kinds of edits. Things like Paredit are popular because people find them more efficient to use. Editors can support Paredit-like editing in C, but it's much more difficult to accomplish because of limitations with C's syntax.
They weren't ever really in the business of publishing data.

(A challenge: download a routable road network for the US from a USGS source)
And how well is this legally distinct philanthropic institution doing now that Hillary lost?
The models are predicted off of "~20k activated SNPs" - 20,000 separate mutations, most of which have really small effects on height. "Designer babies" are pretty far off (IVF is awesome and great, but not trivial, so it would be risky to do this just to make sure a baby will be...probably somewhere near average height). Engineering the right mutations with CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing would be astronomically expensive (and is realistically impossible); filtering embryos for the right genetic background would also be incredibly expensive and probably impossible, as you'd be relying on the natural, stochastic arrangement of those 20,000 mutations to be in sync with the vision you have for your baby.
CRISPR Isn't Just for Gene Editing Anymore