skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly (given her immense passion for physics), she ended up in software (doing SRE).
what the hell kind of mathematicians have you been talking to, if they look down on intuition?
But less well-received by the neighbors of those customers:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article49959860.ht...
http://www.mystatesman.com/business/google-fiber-install-pro...
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article123001...

[ disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on Fiber. This post is my opinion, not that of my employer. ]
Well... it happened in 2016, so yes, many of the articles about it are going to be from around then.

You may want to take a closer read of the editor's note prepended to the Nation article you linked to, which is a lengthy apology for the article's inaccuracy:

>we should have made certain that several of the article’s conclusions were presented as possibilities, not as certainties. And given the technical complexity of the material, we would have benefited from bringing on an independent expert to conduct a rigorous review of the VIPS technical claims[...] We have obtained such a review in the last week [...which] lays out several scenarios in which the DNC could have been hacked from the outside, although he does not rule out a leak.
Somebody might be doing that for their area but for example I haven't seen that happen in Estonia where the government provides absolutely excellent data but there's no easy and meaningful way getting that data into OSM
Facebook headquartered itself in the EU to tax dodge. They're directly under EU jurisdiction.

Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwhich, but alas they'll have to eat their Brussels Sprouts.
A lot of ordinary users do everything through a browser now and never install additional desktop applications. Those people are pretty easy to transition off of Windows. I did it for my wife with Ubuntu 5 years ago and for my mom with a Chromebook this past Christmas. Show them how to start the browser and they don't care about the OS.
As a telugu speaker, let me try answering you question..
The squiggly character you see has two characters joined
The top and Bottom..
The top By itself can be used separately so It would be called "ja"

The bottom if used by itself would be called "na"

So basically the grapheme you see is made by joining to consonants Ja and na ..so it basically becomes "Jna"
(spelt gna)

there are specific rules like english but like any language we have to learn these rules..eg I know that
I can add k+ nowledge and that makes something in english..

But what if I add ra+no "rnoledge", yes you can add but that sounds weired, not sure if there is any rule which says you cannot add R+na, same with telugu.
Netlify CMS?
I suppose that's fair; I thought about noting that. Technically there is no evidence since the public can't see it. But, re: voting systems, this was a recent headline: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/russians-penetrat...

Depends on your degree of trust in the US and Russian governments.

Re: the DNC/RNC, even if they didn't hack anything, they did leak the information that they acquired - clearly to shape the political situation. Still reprehensible.
What?

So far everything that has come out has disproved all of the claims in the memo, including the memo itself!

And of course your comment won't get anywhere, you just made up a bunch of nonsense. For example, I read the text messages. I didn't know that a calendar of Putin is now Obama's conspiracy to destroy Trump. Those scoundrels!
I don't think most people would know what to do without work. It'd probably be worse for their mental health than working a bad job.
I took the topic to be the tactic of intentionally causing chaos in political discussion. Your frame is general polical disagreement. We are talking past each other.
A few thoughts from Julia (the OC) 24 hours after this post caught on:
1. Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts - The Kapwing chat box has been full of supportive and kind messages this morning.
2. I didn’t intend to solicit pity; annoying users are just one small challenge on the way to growing an Internet company and are easy to avoid, thanks to the Drift messaging platform and pseudonyms. But it is one example of a small thing that steepens the path to success for women founders.
3. The discussions in these comments are, for the most part, insightful and interesting. Even though my users and my experience are not representative of everyone’s, I appreciate the conversations this post has started around user behavior on the internet.
As he traveled to Hanoi, the second-to-last stop of his Asia trip, Mr. Trump told reporters that Putin "said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did."

"Every time he sees me, he said: 'I didn't do that.' And I believe -- I really believe -- that when he tells me that, he means it," Mr. Trump said, calling the accusation an "artificial barrier" erected by Democrats.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-reiterates-he-believes-ru...
For everyone? The only reason Uber and Lyft have been successful have been because the regulated taxis suffer from artificially constrained supply and zero quality control in terms of passenger experience. And we have governments to thank for that.

Even on the technology side--sure, Uber isn't groundbreaking, but having used Uber and Lyft and also having used my state portal for buying health insurance through Obamacare, it doesn't seem like governments are capable of producing the same user experience.
Anyone know any good "Virtual Deep Blockchain Learning Reality" javascript frameworks, preferably designed to be easy enough for squirrels to use?
> They even got access to voting systems

No they did not. They did get access to voter rolls in one (or maybe two? it's unclear) case, but that's it. Voter rolls and voting systems are not the same thing.

> but the most logical conclusion is that they did

No it is not. Most logical conclusion is that reading the data is much easier than changing it, and thus it is more likely that they gained just read access than that they gained both read and write access. Even if they did, changing voter rolls would not give them much, unless they somehow managed to also convince hundreds of people, otherwise ineligible to vote, to actually show up in person and vote using fake voter records (which would be an excellent case for voter ID if anybody in US politics could be bothered to have a logically consistent opinion). But most likely scenario is using these data for identity theft - as it includes driver license numbers, partial or full SSNs etc. - in short, everything you need to open an account online. By far the most likely scenario is stealing this data for commercial purposes.

> Even if they didn't, they should rightfully be charged for penetrating the voting systems at all.

They did not penetrate voter systems, they accessed voter rolls (list of voters). For which the culprits, of course, should be charged, even though it's mostly useless as there's no chance US can punish them in any way unless they are so stupid as to visit the US or a country which extradites to the US. Which astonishingly is what some people are stupid enough to do. Thus only "mostly".
I believe you must mean 40/60.
Yep. It does cost money to expand into new geographic areas or markets (like Uber eats). That doesn't indicate that ride prices are subsidized, though.
FBI says it didn't act on tip about Parkland shooter
Could you please share your experience with RN?

Have you created an app from scratch or added RN to existing native app?
In the long run, higher prices for consumers. After the predatory prices have driven out competition.
Are there any examples happening of this happening in recent years? (80's-now)
I'll never move on from a mikrotik router and UBNT wireless.

also mikrotik routers comes with a standard config that comes with NAT w/ masquerade pre configured. But I agree there is a TON that is done behind the scenes. That level of granularity is what I am looking for.
Open maps used to be the job of the USGS. They stopped doing it because of Google.

I was touring the USGS in Palo Alto about 10 years ago, and the librarian there was lamenting the existence of Google. He said that while it was nice that Google was doing all this work, it was causing the USGS to stop doing it, since they could get the data from Google.

He predicted that the USGS would get severely cut in their funding for mapping activities because of it, and he was right. He was worried that all the best data would be locked up in Google's servers, and he was right about that too.
Ask HN: Why would I pay WeWork's Hot Desk for $220/month
Why would I pay WeWork's Hot Desk for $220/month when I could use a public library or coffee shop for free?

Ok maybe some coffee shops may have loud annoying music, but there are still community college / local universities everywhere I sit for free.
Context is important, because the US and co. did the exact same thing when Soviet troops were in Afghanistan.
Time to move away from awful raster maps and to vector maps?
Probably because they need to rationalize their animal abuse.
I was more trying to make a general remark around e.g what kids do in social media when anonymous.

The reason only the female is harassed I think has a very simple explanation, only men behave this way.

Why the same men don’t behave e.g racist or otherwise harassing the male identity can’t say. Best guess there is that these men are simply threatened by women, especially those that are attractive or successful. But I’m way out of my comfort zone of even man-guessing now.

I didn’t intend to detract from the fact that these men are assholes or say sexism isn’t the issue here.
PACs still cannot accept foreign money, though obviously it is easy to launder. NY real estate companies are a popular money laundering method for this kind of stuff.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/foreign.php
The litmus test for whether someone is controlled by Russian trolls is whether they supported Hillary for president last election. She spent more on her election and got more endorsements from the mainstream patriotic media. She should have won and Russian trolls successfully remote controlled almost half the country to defeat her!

You see the American people don't control their own minds. They only believe what they see and hear. Thus they should only see snd hear patriotic messages from the patriotic Hillary backing media or they will become confused. They are all little children and cannot tell what's fake and what's real. They must learn about the outside world from approved sources to prevent... confusion...

Geez... Why do we even have elections? We should just have a panel of anonymous leakers to the Washington Post choose who gets into office.
I don't think it is unfounded at all. Over the years I've known many victims of psychedelics. There's a guy in my apartment building who lost his shit on a bad acid trip 10 years ago and hasn't been a productive member of society since then.

I've used them, but it's really impossible to say whether or not I have suffered ill effects. No control subject. The author of the original linked essay points out that they produce large permanent changes to personality. That's a really big deal, and potentially very bad.
> The problem is that most companies using OSM are using Mapbox.

Is that even true? And is number of companies even a good metric? Based on revenue/market cap, the bulk of companies use OSM directly.

The world's biggest company (Apple) uses OSM directly. Telenav uses it directly. Don't Tesla and Uber use OSM directly too? And we use Mapbox at Gaia GPS, but we also use OSM data directly.

> How about letting users experiment and seeing what cool stuff they can come up with?

In my experience building a company, if you focus on too many things, you get everything wrong. This smells to me of being not on target for making OSM as strong as possible, even though it has alluring upside.
As always when people make these claims, you have a lot of far-from-proven assumption embedded in here, so the claim that society is "anti-male" rather than "less aggressively pro-male than it used to be" is unsupported.

A more subtle point would be that, to a marginal young male, it may be hard to tell the difference. Resentment is likely to be high to start with in someone struggling but consistently failing. This I find much easier to believe, and less wildly in contradiction to the evidence of my (male) eyes and the experience of people who grew up around me. But it's a hugely significant difference in what it implies about who should do what.

That's without getting into proving a correlation, let alone causation. The timelines don't seem to line up for your claim, IMO.
Not in number of people.
I suspect that ratio of men vs women in college does have something to do with ratio of men vs women reading and playing videogames. I knew people who did had worst result in school they could have, because they played a lot.

Video game industry traditionally targets women much less - and consequently it might cause women to play less and thus read more and do more homework.
They used phishing attacks to steal people's login credentials. That's not an open door.
Have you seen the recent NRA videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGOQFf9VCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wk4F3_qtf8

The FBI is investigating Russia for funnelling money to NRA for purposes of inciting violence and hatred in the USA. These are Russian efforts to hurt Americans.

Do you really consider this okay behaviour by another country and our own? This is absolutely akin to hacking the brains of Americans. This is election hacking and it is a real physical threat to American Democracy.
Trump has claimed many times that we "don't know" whether it was Russia, and that he believes Putin, who says it wasn't Russia. More recently the message has been that if Russia did interfere then the campaign was not involved/aware.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/trump-unconvinced-ru...
The Russians have a long track record of influencing elections on Brexit and elected office throughout Europe. This is a defacement attack on elected governments, purely meant to weaken them to Russia's relative advantage. They may have gotten so far as to work with candidates by passing them information and coordinating attacks with campaign messaging and goals.
The evidence being some "because private security companies" said so? Those have even less credibility that state agencies, and will report anything you like for enough dinero.

There is no evidence in the post, only claims.
While Russians had a part, Trump was not completely propped up by Russian propaganda support. It's not unreasonable that many Trump voters had no or little contact with fake profiles run by Russians, and were not significantly influenced by it.

But we can't really know that without tracking down all of their activity.

I abhor Trump, but he had plenty of organic and authentic support here in America. I don't think we'll ever find a smoking gun that says "Trump wouldn't have been president or won the primary if it weren't for this one Russian effort" (but stranger things have happened).
It’s the best part because it shows us how ridiculously out of control the issue of third party tracking & data collection is. You can’t even read what’s being done to address it without being subject to it.
I actually agree that the true underlying problem is how uninformed and easily manipulated our populace is. I agree that this wouldn't be an issue if our society was better off and more knowledgeable. Regardless, I disagree that we shouldn't care about Russian meddling.
There are clear laws regarding how foreign nationals can or cannot interact with elections in the US. https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/
They still have the drivers. I'm not even endorsing it--but even at worst, that means drivers are subsidizing the ride prices, not investors.

I don't think they are, though. If they were, they'd be having trouble keeping drivers working and we'd see complaints about long waits and unavailability.
I'm not well-versed, but the reason you see oxen dominant in antiquity is because the ox yoke is far simpler to make than horse collar.

I'd be curious to hear about distinct advantages to plow horses. They must exist, otherwise no one would plow with horses.
LibreTaxi (and several other open source clones) already exist. Governments can easily take those, bake in credit cards (which open source / decentralized apps really can't support) and put in some legalize insurance coverage and they are good to go.

The thing is the value in Uber and Lyft come from their mindshare that gives you access to drivers and customers, their ratings systems to filter out good drivers and riders, and their insurance to help mitigate the risk involved in riding in some random strangers car.

I don't think it takes state actors running the show to disrupt ridesharing though. Just an endorsement of the concept, some kind of insurance drivers must legally buy to do it, and the only really hard part for anyone involved is a rating system. Which isn't something to underestimate, its not technically hard to do but logistically a nightmare to be able to rate riders and drivers without a central business authority. I'm not sure governments are going to be willing to manage a review board.
Except there is a network effect. You will have to lower the cost for both; passengers and drivers for them to switch. Most of passengers I know, use one app, either Uber or Lyft. I don't know which one is cheaper but no one seems to compare prices even if they had both apps on their phone.

The way I see is that once Uber is a monopoly, it will start using advertisement model to subsidize rides. Should be easy enough, after requesting a ride at full cost, you can watch 5 minutes of videos until your ride gets there to get 10% discount. Or they can ask drivers to put tablets playing ads in their cars. They have history of places you visit, they can probably show highly targeted ads. "Going to a bar in downtown, checkout this other bar on the same street."
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And of course, not hosted at home.
Sure, but we need commodities and there are tons of profitable commodity businesses. If Uber is able to deliver ride cheaper than everyone else, they can make a ton of money, and the logistics and scheduling competencies can be applied to other verticals. That being said, I'm still pretty bearish on Uber's longterm success, and their current numbers do look pretty bad.
A lot. It was a down round and provided an exit for some earlier shareholders.
Somewhat depends on your point of view. A single message sent may not be intended as harassment, but receiving a single message from multiple people can certainly feel like harassment. An individual act might not be harassment, but it can definitely contribute to it.
Number theory's as good a place to start as any. You'll learn proof techniques and see a lot of notation in contexts that require varying amounts of background knowledge. It's feasible that an undergrad intro class would be up your alley if you're a software dev.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-781-theory-of-num...
Somewhat tangential but relevant: As I'm currently moving I spent some part of the afternoon by changing periodic payments setup on my bank account and was somehow amused by the "create transaction" menu in my (european) banks' web application. There is menu item which essentially says "Direct debit (this is probably not what you want)".
As an occasional OSM editor, I wouldn't really feel good about moderation. My edits are limited basically to my home town (10.000 inhabitants, about 10 sq km) where I am adding unmapped roads (usually agricultural, sometimes new construction) that I "discover" while running. I started doing that simply because Runkeeper's website uses OSM and it was showing me running in the middle of nowhere, while there was actually a small road leading to my grandfather's place. (And FWIW Google doesn't have agricultural roads at all, which kinda sucks for running even slightly out of the beaten path).

My edits are probably not perfect, but while somebody cared about mapping the town in the first place, it was out of date enough that probably nobody would bother to approve or perfect my changes. Having them rejected would probably have caused me to stop contributing too.

What kinds of issues and vandalisms did you experience?
SRT in GStreamer
So, again, there is no big problem.

Easiest step: stop logging every single hit on your site (IP, browser, etc).

You want a bit more analytics?

Log general attributes, but not the IP. Just that a hit occurred, browser, general geo (country). that's it. Perfectly compliant.

Want them to fill out a form? Welcome to GDPR, as you should.

As Maciej Cieglowski (idlewords, pinboard) so eloquently states, over and over again, you don't have to store and hoard all this data. It's BS to begin with, and dangerous in the long run.
It doesn’t invalidate the article at all. Quite the opposite.
Not sure I buy a xbone one as a leisure luxury playing polo, skiing or a season ticket to Man U id agree.
>the opposition party

The fact you believe intelligence services have or should have opposition parties is terrifying. I can understand why this sentiment translates into believing intelligence services should or do fall under the President's direct control.
The closest I know of are the widgets in Khan Academy
Please don't post flamebait on divisive topics. If you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the site rules to heart when commenting here, we'd appreciate it.
If you think the asymmetry with the US is bad, you should look at how European businesses get treated! Carrefour gets shut down when the Dalai Lama visits France, most all Norwegian trade got shut down over a Nobel Prize China took issue with... at least the US has a large and unified negotiating position.
Can we extend this a bit so that if you design and build a house without a roof and you're wet when it rains it's the building company and construction code's fault?
I think it's fine to call this an abomination. I wouldn't be on Ask HN if I didn't want honest opinions.

However, the very spirit of being a hacker is to solve problems with less than optimal solutions, like duck tape. Human affection is the optimal solution, but people who use services provided by professional huggers know that they're buying an interaction that is positive to them, not a feeling in the other person.
Start with:

* Algebra, Gelfand

* Geometry, Kiselev
> The article also says that Russian agents organized and funded political rallies.

I remember the one after the election in NYC that was supposedly set up by BLM against Trump, but turned out to be organized by Russians on Facebook
No I do not. You should not draw rigorous scientific conclusions of any kind from this article, as I say in the post haha.
I don't disagree with you in principle and I don't think it's at all clear that the Russian boogeyman had the significant influence on election results in the west that many media outlets pretend, but at the same time the idea that a hypothetical "true" democracy should be able to take all misinformation campaigns thrown at it seems to be heavily idealistic.

I don't think we really have any historical basis to make that claim since there was never such a tool for spreading global misinformation as the internet before. Maybe democracies won't be able to take it? Maybe they can, who knows. (I am somewhat optimistic though since the radical election results in the west can plausibly be explained even without foreign meddling.)
Meteor + React + MongoDB got eddtor.com really quick out of the door. But after 5+ years of maintaining my shipped products (I'm a freelancer, ME-JUST-ME kind of dev), my absolute happiness in customer service & maintanance was the most boring stack of all: PHP + HTML + JS + MySQL/MongoDB. Vanilla FTW.