skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Guccifer 2.0 sprang into existence on June 15, 2016, hours after a report by a computer security firm forensically tied Russia to an intrusion at the Democratic National Committee."

There have already been serious questions raised about the accuracy of the Crowdstrike attribution, particularly when the alternative theory about Seth Rich taking it via USB has a stronger evidentiary trail.

https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/guccifer-2-ngp-van-met...
Ask HN: How to maximize utility with my tech skills while I'm unemployed?
I'm without work and am looking for another programming job but it's not something that really comes easily for me. To keep fresh on my tech skills I work on side projects.

I also know I have to work on my interviewing skills, and have been to multiple interviews. But in the meantime, I still want to be useful to others with applying my tech skills. I feel like they're going to waste as long as I don't have work. Open source contributions are one way I know of, but are there any others?

My experience in programming is mostly in web development (>7 years, PHP mostly with lots of JavaScript/HTML/CSS) with hobbyist C++, C#, etc.
200 years ago there was nothing to understand in electricity: it was just a liquid :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_theory_of_electricity
I create random small jobs, and I risk a bit of money in hopes of getting what I want. I don't need to, but I get a joy from creating opportunities.
I'm a CTO at a YC grad Care Revolutions. There's a lot of comments on what kind of work environment is bad. What do y'all suggest a startup with limited resources do to be an incredible place to work for while also being a highly productive environment? I'm especially interested in suggestions as it relates to your health both physically and mentally!
Well maybe not currently safer than human drivers. I don't think any sound-minded person would claim that they will never be.
Might I suggest we link to the Bloomberg article which Kotaku references? It offers a longer biography of the founder:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/charles-l...
Their friends didn't, though, that's why it's comparable and the intent is irrelevant. A small number of willing users fans out to a massive number of unwitting ones.
> Teenagers can hack NASA [...] so I don't think a sufficiently motivated attacker [...] couldn't pull off something like this

Right, the fact someone could compromise a random government agency in the 90s clearly means someone else could compromise Russian military intelligence in 2016, because NASA's IT security in the 90s is totally comparable to the GRU today, absolutely.

> possibly backed by a nation state

Which nation state, exactly?
No http server. Modulate the data to an analog set of pictures (actually text based QR codes) then demodulate the pictures from video. No network needed.
Reducing debt is equivalent to accumulating wealth. Your wealth increases as the debt goes down.
This was literally Bill Gates' pricing strategy in the beginning of Micro Soft. Double the previous price for each new Basic licensee.
Bingo. This is the difference between "intelligence" and "artificial intelligence". AI as we know it today is pattern recognition. There is no ability to form even the most basic of concepts. They may have incredible sensors, but these driverless cars hardly have the intelligence of a dragonfly.
I think focusing on the safety statistics is somewhat of a red herring. Uber wins when you get hung up on how well its self-driving cars drive, because that's something that they can improve. Instead, I think we should focus on the fact that these dangerous machines are being operated by chronically irresponsible companies and because cars in general have issues, not because we expect them to be less safe than human drivers.
Wait, now I have to Google protected substance abuse issues. How is this a thing?
There was far more money spent by third parties e.g. PACs, NRA, Special Interests etc and so without including those this statement isn't a true reflection of the campaign.
Bill per hour and charge more.
What would be the point of pursuing fusion? We don’t even have the political will to deploy fission.

Funding a fusion program would be like buying a car while your license is suspended.
Is there a way to migrate a repo from Bitbucket Server into gitlab preserving pull request history?
That is exactly my point. We can use fluid dynamics and PDEs in waves. We understand some properties and processes. We are nowhere as close in biological system.

I put the example of the metabolic pathways because last time checked (~2015) the most advanced things in the field were extremely simple and without any predictive power. Things like calculating the kernel of a stoichiometric matrix or the centrality of a node in the interactomic graph.
There are several properties that make the lottery and startups different, if we really want to take seriously the attempt to analyse the degree to which the analogy is a faithful representation. For one, the lottery is winner-take-all, while it's totally possible to succeed in a startup as long as you don't artificially clip the failure threshold at some insanely high bar (especially if you choose to not pursue a winner-take-all market, like building the next social network). Despite the many startups that fail, you're still more likely to make a living betting on that than a lottery.

There is definitely a case to be made that taking a normal job vs doing a startup wins in terms of opportunity cost. But to compare it to a lottery is obviously an exaggeration.
Or you simply avoid consumerism, do your best to improve your situation, and try to hit the $50k/year point where its practical (in much of the US) to retire early if you are willing to live on a living wage rather than an inflated middle class lifestyle.

Something like 27% of the country could retire by 45 if they were willing to make the sacrifices necessary.
Why can't you buy a TX2? Arrow appears to have 462 in stock right now.
Is anyone here coming to LibrePlanet this year?
With one data point, you can't extrapolate much. This is misuse of statistics.

Consider if there was a new lottery and you weren't sure what the odds of winning were. You play it three weeks in a row and the third time you win a million dollars. Conveniently, no one else tries the new lottery yet.

Does it follow then that the odds of winning a million dollars are 1 in 3? Or should you play it a few more times before you declare to all that one in three plays will make one a millionaire?
You also have to know which IP address to spoof.

That means that if it it wasn't Russia then it must be some "deep state" conspiracy. Which so far hasn't been backed up by any decent evidence.
That is very real, and I have observed this personally, especially with male managers who have female reports.
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and the Revelations of Open Secrets
Well, treason is already well defined in law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_Sta...

No one has been executed for treason against the federal government. Yet.
It really is super easy. Even since 2007, malware like Zeus and SpyEye, and a million different Remote Access Tools (RATs) take over your machine and allow all activity to emanate from it. Very easy to plant a false flag or incriminating evidence.

and please note the careful wording: "Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow. "

interpretation 1: The guy accessed the device from his GRU office

Interpretation 2: The IP belongs to a guy (maybe his residential connection), and he happens (from other sources) to work at the GRU office. Assuming the GRU device is relatively secure, is it possible that other devices on his home have malware on them? If the latter, all the devices would appear as coming from that same residential IP address.

I work in this field and false attribution happens all the time. Evidence is really easy to fake.
Oh my goodness, that’s some straight USSR-style indoctrination. Didn’t realize they had songs for individual executives!
I appreciate the sentiment of 'making your own luck', and while I think that it is true to a certain extent, there are also the opposite cases.

Let's look at one totally random example off the top of my head - Grumpy Cat. Now, GC's owners basically sat there while the owner's brother I believe, posted the cat's picture on social media, which turned into a storm that netted GC's owners multi millions of dollars in marketing deals. Sure there was probably some hard work after the fact in managing those deals, but initially, it was just pure dumb luck of the cat's picture being posted in the right place at the right time to ignite the response of the world. Tons of other cat pictures go unnoticed every day.

I had a client many years ago - a nice chap, but not what I would call a good businessman. He had trouble stringing a coherent sentence together, and had a bad drinking and gambling problem. Only he happened to start an aboriginal art retail business right when 'Crocodile Dundee' came out and Australian Aboriginal Art was the big thing. He basically had a $1M annual turnover business overnight, and had no clue how to manage it. In fact, we were called in to run an audit because some of his employees were embezzling truckloads of money from him right under his nose. He just lucked into a thriving business but not due to any sort of acumen or hard work. Next door to him there was an auto mechanic business I also worked with whose owner (who was in a wheelchair BTW) worked 80+ hours per week to struggle to put food on his family's table. I found it hard to look at these two businesses literally running side by side, and say that it was anything but dumb luck that separated them, regardless of hard work.
I challenge you to prove that you are capable of more than recognizing patterns.
This is a straw man. Nobody is asking for perfection. What is needed are processes and regulations that ensure a high confidence that companies with self-driving cars have done the best that can be expected of them to ensure their vehicles are safe and that they have met a minimum bar in that regard as well. There are many industries where this already happens, there's no reason to single out self-driving automobiles as being impossible to regulate properly.
Half a year?
some trolling on facebook == attack? yea, I think the radical lseft is scoring the biggest attacks on western culture everyday but the news media doesn't cover it whatsoever.
I feel like it’s been this way since we were cast out of eden (aka the agricultural revolution).
Correct in most cases but if they put an identical job title out at an identical location, they are still vulnerable so you have to pick someone a grade more junior or a grade more senior to replace them.
You don't have to be so extreme as to live off the land. If people would just love below their means and save, they wouldn't be in an absolute crisis the moment they lose their job.
I feel there's something rather ironic about countering "the slide to dictatorship and oppression" by using state power to interfere in foreign elections, particularly if it used covert or underhanded means rather than openly setting out the country's position.
> I'd bet if there were too much evidence, naysayers would say it can't be them because the russians can't be that incompetent.

Indeed, Trump has already said something like that:

“Somebody did say if he did do it, you won’t have found out about it. Which is a very interesting point.”
Stephen Hawking to Be Interred at Westminster Abbey
Redox OS Release 0.3.5 – New Network Stack
The website is actually a pretty exhaustive resource on continued fractions, although I'll admit it's been 40 years since I read Khinchin and I can't honestly say which is more exhaustive.
The scenario described is almost certainly the end of human civilization and the majority of life on earth. Assuming I’ve done the math right, an aphelion of ~5 AU and perihelion of ~0.9 AU gives a highly eccentric (e = 0.69) orbit taking 5 years.

I’m just guessing here, but I imagine each orbit would start with 6-8 months of relatively normal temperatures as we made or closest pass by the sun, a year or so worth of dropping temperatures, 2.5 years of deep, deep freeze, and a year of slow warming as we approach the sun again. Each orbit is probably going is probably going to see the planet spending at least 3 years competely outside the habitable zone. I’d expect virtually all life as we know it on the surface to die in the first orbit.

With enough warning we might be able to dig some deep facilities that could harness geothermal energy to generate power and avoid freezing. They might be able to use hydroponics or something to sustain themselves for a long time, but to what end?
How to break down a door (without hurting yourself)
You captured a core reason that I picked up wood working: projects finish.

An annoying aspect of software is that it takes a life of its own. It is never done, but there are feature requests, bugs, and updates.

You make a table, and that is it. It's done. Sure, you have to clean it, but mostly it will last a while until it breaks down.
In case anyone missed the obvious: places in the USA with many homeless e.g. SF or NYC also have some of the highest housing costs in the world. Much more so than the Finnish capital:
https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/new-yor...

Still, according to this thread, spending on SF homeless comes out to $40k per year. You could in theory house and feed a person for that much. So where's all that money going?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16645258
At some point, you have to admit that the stress is intentional. That it is a part of a misguided strategy to extract maximum value from employees, while minimizing managements political exposure.
The original context of this thread (starting with user yequalsx's comment) isn't about "tighter gun controls", but rather the a complete ban of all guns ("I hope I am now seeing the beginning of the end of acceptance of gun ownership.") I think that is the scenario -- actual confiscation of all guns -- user purple-again was addressing ("This country is filled with rational, professional, well organized people who will kill before being disarmed").

This is different from outlawing or more tightly controlling certain classes of weapons, which seems to be what you're talking about. I think not being able to easily purchase fully automatic weapons or crazier stuff like rocket propelled grenades, stingers, 20mm cannons, etc is something a minority of gun enthusiasts grumble about but pretty much everyone basically accepts. Nobody that I know of is revolting about that, cops/feds have no problem enforcing it, etc.
Jeff Bezos gave a sneak peek into Amazon’s future
For many animals, every day is a fight to live. Constantly looking for food.
And 9/11 was an inside job and we never landed on the moon.
Yeah I'd be fairly concerned about them lying to or simply bribing the police too.
Mine is a perfectly valid criticism. You do nobody any favors by conflating the goal of total feature parity with the general concept of business intelligence, and understanding your direct competitor's key features.

The strawman you float is the complete opposite of what I asked. It simply occurred to me as strange that there are features that meet all of the following requirements:

1. Available on github for quite sometime

2. Long enough in fact to get a dedicated article in their knowledgebase

3. A popular enough feature to possibly gate the entire calculus for users to switch services.

4. Obviously useful feature, as evidenced by the gitlab triage engineer being convinced to add an issue with a single paragraph plea.

5. Gitlab is seemingly unaware of this publicly available information, to the trivially rectified detriment of their own bottom line.
> Meanwhile, the Kindle is better as an e-reader because they started from the ground up.

I bought one of the first gen Kindles. And discovered that it wouldn't display PDFs. Unless you uploaded them to Amazon, and converted them somehow. But, given that these were confidential PDFs, that was unworkable. So I returned it.

But damn, a Linux-based reader would have been very cool.
No, he is exhibiting humor.
You are right. Much thanks to mbostock, curran, micahstubbs, jefkoslowski, gordonwoodhull, and baerrach.
"Very easy"? to fake a connection from the ip address of "of an intelligence official in another country"?

OK - show us. Doesn't need to be GRU - I'd settle for an NSA or Mossad ip address instead. Go on, install a RAT and make a connection...
Just from someone who has dug too deep trying to figure out what it would take to make this happen, KWin on Wayland right now does not support graphics tablets at all. It needs to be wired up to support them still. And we still don't have a Wayland input KCM, but I think someone is working on that for 5.13. I think.

That being said, I have a Monoprice tablet I use through libinput. I used the wacom driver for a bit but libinput gives me enough to do what I want (I have to say having to do matrix math to constrain the screen size so the tablet is in 1 to 1 correlation to the screen was a bit rough on the UX front). Libinput is pretty feature complete on tablet support in the basic use cases, it is just missing a bunch of the tunables from xsetwacom. The Digimend project has done an amazing job providing driver support for a lot of non-wacom tablets as well. It will be interesting if its Wacom tablets that are the pain point on Wayland. I don't have or know anyone with one to confirm or deny if the libinput support is up to par.

If I had the confidence to know what I'm doing (and I don't, I've never touched the Kwin / Wayland / input stacks on Linux at all) I'd try wiring in tablets to Kwin, but you probably want that first - which is still at least a release or two out at best - before you even think about trying to port your KDE Painting app to Wayland.
Reminds me of an Ask Ethan where solar systems can get slingshot out of their galaxy with planets in tact: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-can-stars-es...
It can operate for multiple days, but it only generates water once a day. At night the foam absorbs moisture, and then sunlight provides energy to release it as water.
If you think it's not absolutely a political narrative (and a shitshow) I really don't know what to say. I'm not sure what you mean by "it's still happening" but if you're talking about abusing social networks to spread discord, I mean, we're watching the implosion of Facebook in real-time, I'd say that the wheels are pretty certainly fucking turning. Where we end up, and if it's better than where we started, well...

The only thing I know is this -- no one is right, no one is good, no one is clean, and there's enough corruption on all sides of this to make anyone sick. You can pick whichever specific aspects of it support one side or another, but I personally think the things we do have hard evidence of point to;

1) An incredibly fucked up situation at the top of the FBI and Justice Department

2) A media which has largely lost the ability to separate reporting from editorial

3) A little trolling by Russian during the election to stir the pot

4) A very close election which was won by the "wrong" person, and a large percentage of Americans who are desperate to unseat him by any means possible
That'll work great until you run into an unscrupulous woman or a grey area.
You obviously want to be technical. Technically you are correct. However, the evidence that this car is a worse driver than a human is currently so weak we're both wasting time talking about it. We need more of the stuff for it to be worth considering.

Your pedantry has managed to upset me and I would encourage you to be a little more understanding of people using language in the way it is used outside of the world of mathematics. Walking into a practical discussion of safety with an existence proof of all things is disrespectful of the fact that lives and enormous quantities of human attention are at stake.

Obviously, technically everything is evidence of something. I know that. Using the language in that sense is not going to help.
What is travling
Killing the messenger - it's true but they'll punish you for hearing it. You may remember that saying, if not: "No good deed goes unpunished."

All actions can backfire, I remember an old friend getting reamed out by his friend he'd given a computer to, when the hard drive failed, for not providing enough free maintainence. Given!

I had a friendship nearly end when I repaired a friend's computer. Something else went wrong a week later and he just assumed it must have been something I did.

A generous uncle of mine is forever finding that temporary favors like free rent are bitterly resented when withdrawn. People ain't all nice all the time.

Benefiting someone is not the same as pleasing them; psychopaths and narcissists please others, but the rest of us like to mix in a little benefiting-but-not-necessarily-pleasing now and then. Otherwise, the world just falls apart.
Dupe of - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16648000 - This article/discussion is still on the front page.
Okay, so this is a statement of what Promise does not do today. Will it never do these things?

What are the lines you will not cross?

Have you seen https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/new-frontier-e-carcera..., and would you be willing to commit to the recommended guidelines at http://centerformediajustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/...?
Pilates Exercises – The Pilates Mat Method
The moment your life depends on a 7% return, you dont have a viable lifestyle for everyone.
But they don't just focus on one industry. South Korea has steel making, automobiles, ship building, and more. Japan has automobiles, steel, consumer electronics, and more. India hasn't even figured out how to get most of its population out of poverty, so I don't think it's a good example. It's hard to have competitive industry when your population can't feed itself. Plus it's a huge country that has had what are effectively ongoing civil wars within its states, and its problems are compounded by it's cultural and linguistic heterogeneity.

The Asian countries I mentioned that succeeded all had major agricultural reforms (some violent, some not) prior to their industrial success.
As much as people like to slam Cringely he covered this in two parts two years ago:

https://www.cringely.com/2016/03/28/is-ibm-guilty-of-age-dis...

https://www.cringely.com/2016/04/06/is-ibm-guilty-of-age-dis...
What is SEO and why is it so important?
They did not sample three times and win once. They sampled three million times and won once. Hardly "one data point."
Is that more a function of density?
See [1], looks like a method for drawing digraphs.

[1]https://github.com/d3/d3/issues/349
The next generation of ICOs will actually have to follow the rules
No real strings although the machines get recycled weekly and access is via vpn only.
If you have gained remote access to a Russian intelligence officer's computer, I feel like spoofing an HTTP request to a social media site is the least exciting thing to do with that access.

Don't confuse the ease of installing tools that let you maintain access once you have gained access with the ease of gaining access in the first place.
If any GitLab people are still watching this thread, has there ever been any discussion on offering subscriptions to specific EE features? Instead of a full per user subscription.

I work at a small community college and we have a self hosted instance of GitLab-CE. There's no way we could budget anything for a subscription (as much as I'd love to support GitLab's development.) So, if I could tell my boss that we could get a needed feature for x-dollars/month, that might actually be doable.

I was one of the people asking for the GitHub -> GitLab-CI integration. So I am fairly disappointed it ended up in EE instead of CE.