skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best friends came from a local (now defunct hackerspace) which spun into a lock picking group (of which some people from hacker space were members, which spun into some of my best friendships and a recent career move.
Finding Pwned Passwords using local shell
That's why white collar crime is so difficult to prosecute. And it's why prosecutor's rely so much on getting low level people to turn on high level people.
Manaforts crimes are as bad as they are because he and his buddies were instrumental in destroying a country that was already fighting for its survival and many people have died and will continue to die as a result of this. If you compare the reaction to the VW scandal to what is happening here it is funny how the 'end result' is so much worse in the case of Manafort that it is a miracle he's just indicted for what are in essence financial issues.

The austerity and economic issues are very tiny part of the contrast here, the real damage is the instability in an already fragile region of the world and the machinations to act against the interests of almost all parties in the region except for the Russians.
I don't think it was the conversion that was the issue, the gleeful schadenfreude of the article notwithstanding. Mueller is armed with subpoenas after all. This makes it easier for Mueller at best.
You can specify that a given dependency be replaced by another one. That only applies at the top level though, not when the go.mod file with the replace clause is used by another module.
I suppose we currently are not and don't? I think a big aspect of this is that everyone makes mistakes and with an increasingly interconnected, complicated, and honestly insecure digital world those mistakes are just going to be amplified.
wizzard0, why didn't you use the original title, as per HN guidelines? Your title doesn't match what I read from the article at all. Environment is only mentioned once and culture isn't mentioned at all.
> You don't have freedom of speech in Germany because there are hate language laws. Thus, it's not a democracy.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make? The German people can always vote to overturn the laws they've imposed on themselves.

For a large part of American history, black people were literally unable to vote (or were considered 3/5th of a person). That is by definition the opposite of a democracy.
Everybody's stupid sometimes, and it only takes once to do you in.
The third option is protests of various forms. The most polite one is throwing a brick trough the window of society by electing some loose-cannon politician. The brick went obviously unheeded, and I’m worried of what will follow.

Capitalism has succeeded in its primary goal - amassing resources for capital-intensive projects. We’re done, we have so much capital companies sits on hundreds of billions of dollars. Something new will be needed for the next step.
> There are people who with a straight face claim configuration management is unnecessary if you have a single shell script, aka Dockerfile.

Apparently it is not only unnecessary, it is an anti-pattern: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/presentations/confi...

> You used to be able to write an app in C, pre-build it for a dozen platforms, then run it on a dozen platforms. Now you have to run everything on one platform (a virtualized containerized Linux environment) because anything else is literally impossible. You can still run the app anywhere - it just has five or six layers of virtualization, abstraction and tooling now.

I see more and more "here is a Docker image!" things pop up for tiny shell script utilities on github. It's like autotools with 100x the complexity and "portable" to exactly one platform. People have no clue what they are doing, they just want any excuse to use Docker.

> The container is supposed to be this read-only isolated self-sufficient jail, so good luck getting anything out of it without a bunch of hoops. You seriously need to specify 50 different config values just to do simple things like networking, writing to a persistent disk, picking what to run or stop, interacting with other apps.

This is my biggest pain point with containers, and where I feel Docker marketing is lying the most. Docker is pitched as making development easier, when in fact containers significantly impede debugging. You even need special tools (like https://github.com/emacs-pe/docker-tramp.el) to do the most basic tasks like look at files. The marketing hype is that all you need to solve production problems is a log server and a few line graphs of metrics (better hope you instrument your app code for the right metrics...). Add in microservices and now you need distributed tracing too. This extra infrastructure is a ton of work to set up for small apps.
Another life ruined by not knowing LaTeX
Would you expect a big performance difference from using CUDA 9.1?
No, Manafort knew what he was doing here, and was doing it for technically sound (albeit legally fraudulent) reasons: Word documents, unlike PDFs[1], store editting history. Manafort knew this, and wanted to evade that tracking.

Where he fell down was in the actual conversion step, and in failing to realize that his email to Gates about the conversion were themselves a history of the edit. But his technical instincts were sound. If all Mueller had was that final PDF, he wouldn't have been able to detect the fraud (absent some other info, that is).

[1] Obviously "PDF" is a histoically complicated format and some versions have features that might allow tracking. But the PDF/A documents emitted by typical "export" tools are stateless representations of printed documents, AFAIK.
I took my current job for the money vs. a low paying job into a new field I've been wanting to get into for 10 years. (Film/TV Production)

....I regret it.
What the did I just watch. Is HN reddit now?
Not sure why you'd need to use something from crates.io; there's a doubly-linked list in the standard library[1]. That being said, the standard library documentation itself strongly suggests that you use a VecDeque in most cases[2].

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.LinkedList....
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/index.html#use-a-l...
I love how they tell their stories, like they even matter. 3 lucky dudes, nothing more.

Millions of people on this earth have bet $600 on way more credible ventures than Bitcoin (from a 2010 perspective) and come out with diddly.
It seems to me that the unique feature of a computer controlled legal entity is to extend a human's agency beyond their death or otherwise incapacitation, as a kind of smart will. In other cases, there seems little benefit over just employing the computer to aid your decisions or acting through a computer, as legally you would be culpable for actions you intended (purposely culpable) or didn't give due consideration to (negligence or recklessness).
It's funny how this isn't even about encrypted pdfs but plain ones.
Ollie (https://www.myollie.com/) gives 1% of their revenue to shelters and rescues.
I'm sure they asked their "IT" staff to do the work for them. I wonder how they felt about doing these things
Isn't that the point of encapsulation?
wahoo! I still have top fighting game (admittedly, this list is probably from 1998):

http://nordman.tripod.com/qgames.html

:) I miss the community that was the QBASIC Prodigy BBS groups. I spent hours trying to design better games and utilites, only to be outdone by a random stranger. We'd have to first make the games, then invent new compression techniques to get the big ones posted to the board, and i think someone even had a splitter/combinator thing to put the encryption back together over multiple posts.

I also miss the ABC Code Packs (memories: http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/basic/abc/).
“That nag screen is a nice way of sayig we’re still paying for your hard drive space.”

i don’t remember what the nag screen says, but saying that they’re still paying for hard drive space for me would feel a bit more straightforward and genuine.
What, the spending at $25,000 at Duane Reade (NYC-area drugstore) wasn't a dead giveaway of money laundering?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/manafort-under-scrutin... (bottom)

The entire inventory of the store is barely worth 25K, I assume he must have been loading up on gift cards a la Mexican drug lords (http://am.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/10/drug-lords-using-gift-car...).
Politics is just the process of mind killing. Its unlimited democracy and people's habit to collectively decide about everything possible. When everyone gets vote on everything, manipulating others (and yourself) can result in real gain.
When the Copyright Office Meets, the Future Needs a Seat at the Table
I like how they compare a teenager's risk of contracting AIDS with a 10 year old, but not with a 30 year old. Nice cherry-picking.
All I see is an article trying to explain risk-taking of the youth as a pathology. You might agree with that, but I think it's just retarded.
Yeah, that's right it ran those other games. But the name Atari 400/800 doesn't sound familiar for some reason. Maybe there was another name for it at the time. I was 9 at the time, so I don't remember exactly. I do remember playing Bug Hunt, Dig Dug, Missile Command (built in), Arkon, Lode Runner. I was never able land in Flight Simulator II. I should go find an emulator and try now.
Author says “politics is war by other means”. This is often cited as a good thing; the very intense/ brutal nature of politics is in some ways an outlet for a society instead of war.

Also America is a weird nation. Other countries have an academic domain called “American Studies” that is full of fascinating insights about ourselves. One is that historically the US has been a very bipolar nation. Incredibly fearful of being weak / thinking itself weak, certain the decline of American empire is on the way, and at other moments filled with religious fervor, manifest destiny, and build a Navy larger than every other single Navy in the world combined.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tonnage+of+largest+navies&ie...
I think the problem is not as big because you don't need to have those people do monumentally stupid things all the time. It's sufficient if they do it every so often.

And unless someone is an incredibly paranoid person which has the privacy routines ingrained in their DNA, everyone does make stupid mistakes every once in a while.
VB.NET is widely used in life sciences labs, where most of the systems are Windows machines connected to devices like this one.

https://www.biotek.com/products/imaging-microscopy-cell-imag...

So researchers already used to VBA, usually get IT to install VB.NET and go from there.

However I have started to see a trend of them moving into R.
Exactly. Conversion to PDF 'flattens' the document.
Venezuela in Freefall – An Interview with Francisco Monaldi
Given how underserved animal shelters seem to be, and how passionate many pet owners are about animal welfare, this wouldn't be a bad idea at all.
You can't make this stuff up, but someone will certainly claim it is made up.
He's not really talking about where you write. He's just talking about changing expectations for writing. They're independent ideas.

Also, it's a canard that Medium gives you a larger audience. Even if everybody is there, everybody isn't going to be reading what you wrote.

Bottomline: smaller targeted audience > larger unfocused audience. Step 1: write about what you find interesting. Step 2: find your homies and show it to them. They're hard to find, but they aren't captive to any single gatekeeper.
First taste of chocolate in Ivory Coast - vpro Metropolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEN4hcZutO0
Amiga AMOS was my favorite "BASIC." They even sold an optional compiler :)

By the time we got a PC, Visual Basic was a thing. It just wasn't the same anymore :( Motivated me to move on to C.
Because they hold a billion worth of ETH and BTC.
> Those Enron-esque cross-cut shredders don’t cut it anymore with open source machine learning that can easily reassemble those documents.

That's interesting! When I googled for this, I found a few papers, but nothing like a git repository. Do you have more information?
Finally understand how pointers work
Google probably got back a lot of the engineering costs before it even rented out the first TPU, simply by virtue of running its own workloads, without having to buy tons of CPUs or GPUs. They're also very, very good at reducing computing resource waste (I know this firsthand).

I wouldn't be surprised if public TPUs are to some degree a way to print money: at least for a while, Google can probably just rent out its unused capacity that it had already planned and paid for. :-)
Mostly true. Hans Reiser and Ross Ulbricht were smart folks who got caught nonetheless.

But not always true. No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet.
I think that has a lot more to do with prosecutors never going after executive because they are buddy-buddy.

Martin Shkreli is a perfect example of a CEO that can get canned when it is decided he should be.
Is it just me, or does the whole thing have a whiff of NōKA chocolate? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noka_Chocolate
Citi to Refund $330M to Credit Card Customers It Overcharged
Put that in AWS Lambda and charge $1 each. Boom, Saas-retirement-fund.
I mentioned this in another comment, but it does provide a doubly-linked list in the standard library: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.LinkedList....
Is Linode Down?
But not that well. I haven't heard of anyone trying to do keto and lose weight with 5 meals a day, as pictured in the article.
You can still get BASIC compilers for embedded programming.

For example from MikroElektronika

https://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic,
Our neighborhood supermarket has recently started carrying it, and I've seen it in Target, too. This is good, since the neighborhood Petco closed recently. But yeah, I can't imagine GF paying $8B for a product they weren't going to do mass-market distribution for.
I scoffed a bit at this part:

>Try it in Adobe Acrobat (via the “Save as Other” command under “File” on a Mac) and you’ll quickly be redirected to Adobe’s website and presented with a handful of subscription packages that will allow you to transform your documents. [...] Indeed, it’s probably a little safer, all things considered.

If I was doing shady stuff the last thing I'd want to do is send my incriminating documents to some 3rd party service. That being said I would also probably not send them over the clear in emails either.

It's pretty insane how cavalier people are with email security (or lack thereof). I can't imagine that they would be so lenient if they were sending each other the files over regular mail. I think most people simply don't realize how thoroughly unsecure stock email is, you're basically lending an open postcard over the internet and you can be sure that a bunch of copies are made along the way. It's pretty much the worst way to share sensitive documents online short of posting them on facebook.
On a Mac I think printing to the built in PDF saver might work?
I found the video I saw, it's hiding at the end of this VSauce Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08
Yes I see what you mean, and wow thanks for putting his crimes in a broader context.

It’s my hope that “financial crimes” are just going to be a convenient way to indict the many many people who have committed crimes like him.

Back in 2016, a weird / interesting / pretty smart idea in Clinton’s platform was to help the US deficit by only enforcing current tax laws. Lol that’s all it was, enforcing the laws that were already there to raise an additional 100 billion+ in revenue every year. It makes you think how many people are committing tax fraud at this very moment...
For a modern sacred geography take a birds eye look at the new capital of Kazakhstan - Astana.
Nakamoto is also not a criminal, so there's less will to uncover their identity.

But yes, you're correct it's not a forever and always thing.
I, for one, love Crackling Oat Bran.
You don't even know how votes are counted yet you're trying to argue about the subject. Guess what, you can't DDoS polling stations with your "agents" and competing parties do not collude. Collude to do what? Lose the election? This isn't a joke.
The first time I heard of the Computer history museum was when I was looking for a new credit union, and one of the ways to get a membership was to sign up for the CHM. Even though I don't use that credit union anymore, I keep renewing my yearly Computer History membership because they really are preserving parts of history that might otherwise just be lost.
Probably you could nominate your local shelter via smile.amazon.com?
> I try to explain carefully and clearly to anyone who will listen, how important privacy is....It doesn't matter. We lost

Either you don’t think Hacker News contains “anyone who will listen” or your position is inconsistent.

In any case, you’re wrong. Nothing has been lost with finality; small wins are made every day. The single thing holding us back is popular apathy. The second thing is apathy amongst technologists (or their preference for being melodramatic).
I guess hoping that someone who works for them does something monumentally stupid just once and can be flipped.
So, you're a trusting fool? Having the ability to quickly discern someone's initial intentions is a good trait to have. Second guessing your own subconscious judgement based on concern for biases is going to make you an easy dupe.
Well, my argument is a little different than that. I am saying my university education is, in my mind, part of the reason I was able to go from having the notion of learning programming to following through and learning enough to make it my career. I don't think my education makes that much of an impression on my resume after five years of work as a developer except as a curiosity, but if I weren't able to learn in the first place that would be the least of my concerns.

Most of the hard-luck stories I've heard related to degrees were people who'd had decent careers and then weren't able to get a promotion because of a company policy saying managers all needed a bachelors, or something to that effect, where the subject wouldn't really be what's at issue. If I'm really being shut out from interviews because my degree is in the wrong thing I have not noticed the effect -- even at tech companies.
Cryptocurrencies are not an "asset class" but a new technology that will ultimately replace all other financial instruments. ICOs will replace the entire VC industry.

Watching VCs struggle to involve themselves in an industry that has no need of them is a truly guilt-free schadenfreude experience.

Marc Andreessen said it better than anyone: software is eating the world. VC is what's for dinner.
Calculating fair value of a stock using DCF
Different context but Buffett's quote “If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you’re going to get a ticket,” applies here. If you are a criminal you don't violate only one law. You tend to violate multiple laws and at some point you are going to be sloppy.
When I was 5, I knew it all. But I was wrong, and I realized how stupid I was at 5 when I was 10. Then, I thought I had it all figured out and I knew I was way smarter than the adults. Except, I realized at 15 how much of a stupid kid I was at 10, but I knew I had everything figured out by then...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther#C...
What was your solution with the rookies ? Keep the for expression and fixing bugs, or rewriting them more explicitly ?
Buffet's quote applies to non-criminals as well.
In a 500 million record dataset a discriminator which picks 1 in a million would be expected to return on average 500 results.

I’m not talking about cracking the SHA1 of the passwords in the database since all the clears are easily available.

I’m talking about the value of you sending me the first 5 characters of the SHA1 hash of your password.
No discussion of upstream vs origin?
Plenty of real world uses. Cash on the internet needs to exist. Centralized financial control is not a good thing 100% of the time.

It does indeed suck it's turned into such an insane hype machine and get rich quick scheme - but it solved a real world problem that is going to become more and more acute. The war on cash is real, and having a digital cash to fight back with is necessary if you value freedom or privacy on any level.

Ask wikileaks how well relying on banking access went for them. And like it or not, plenty of grey and black markets exist.
I went to school in Massachusetts and I made a lot of friends who live in Massachusetts but I didn't exactly meet a world-wide network of friends. I was thinking you were talking about something like an alumni association, where your connection isn't really any less tenuous than with people belonging to your same denomination.
Thank you Pingdom for detecting the outage before even Linode saw it.
See master branch: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master
For starters, Google especially for enterprise level hardware is known to limit their need to provide customer support; imagine supporting the chip would fall on Google, not any 3rd parties.
I was a vodka skeptic, but my wife can consistently pick her favorite (Ketel One) out of a lineup in a blind tasting. Even I can tell the difference between, say, Ciroc and Smirnov. So there really are differences that matter, though I agree with you that at the high end it's more marketing than quality. (My wife and I both agree that, for example, Patron is really bad.)

Obchocolate: my favorite chocolate used to be Lindt Mocha. Now it's Dove Dark.
Yes, or universally just open the pdf in Chrome, print, choose to save as pdf.
Maybe you are right on the whole aggregating and redistributing trust thing, but couldn't that be solved or at least mitigated by having multiple peers in the network do the same scraping tasks and having multiple peers return at least hashes for search results?
An Artist’s Mission to Illustrate All the World’s Mythical Beasts
The complexity of many file formats is staggering and I try (usually with no success) to convince people to rely only on simpler formats that can be audited easily.

Another example: I seem to recall a case awhile back where Word change-tracking contained sensitive information even though “the document” didn’t seem to.

Sadly it used to be easy to rely on plain text implicitly but then we made Unicode so complicated that you have to be careful there too. Fingerprinting through zero-width sequences, etc. is essentially unnoticeable if you do not actively look for it.
To be fair, a lot of crimes essentially boil down to doing one monumentally stupid thing. So if you don't do the stupid thing, you aren't criminal.
This reminded me of Tents [0], which is one of the games in Simon's puzzle collection that I reach for while waiting for code to compile.

Someone should add this game! Simon has very good developer documentation [1], and the code is very cleanly written C. Seriously, every C developer should take a look at it, it is inspiring [2].

[0]: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/tent...

[1]: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/devel/

[2]: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git
For sending files, Firefox Send is pretty cool and straightforward. The files are sent P2P and are E2E encrypted. I'm not sure why Mozilla hasn't added a bookmark for it in Firefox yet.

https://send.firefox.com/
If you are writing functional Scala you should be using cats and the ecosystem. Futures are bad for this use case and you should use a proper Effect monad like IO. The for comprehensions will come alive, trust me :)
Survivorship Bias. Take existing successful people, ask them what they did and what traits they had, and then draw a conclusion that those actions/traits lead to success. Ignore the people who also did those things and had those traits who did not meet with success.

See also: any “how to succeed in business” book like Good To Great.