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There was plenty of relevant info in those leaks, such as Obama's 2008 cabinet being chosen by a Citibank executive

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-r...

My Filipino friends also all ran to the exchange today to stock up on low PHP since Trump presidency means no pressure on Duterte and rise of their peso.

Also odd considering Trump spent the entire nomination campaign shilling his deal making abilities, and how he would lead by consensus instead of executive orders.

I don't see how YC denying Peter Thiel is anything more than political theatre it has no bearing on whether Trump will win or not.

All these distractions when the US has two states CT and IL in near bankruptcy due to pensions being 200%+ over state revenues, and a frightening national debt meaning Feds will likely not be able to bail them out. Wish everybody could panic over that not Thiel being involved with YC.

As soon as you start getting x > Sepa transfers banks will drop you quickly, or sooner if anything goes wrong like a fraud xfer comes in, and you aren't a huge account worth the bank's trouble.

Many shelters also have rules that nobody can adhere to like curfew hours or being forced to stand in line everyday to get a spot first come first served. Often you can't book more than one night at a time so you have to spend a significant part of your day, everyday, securing your temporary bed and storage for that night so if you have a job you can't stay at a shelter.

It's much better to just live out of a tent. Problem is people in squatter tents tend to get ridiculously drunk every night, light their tent on fire accidentally or spend all night screaming and fighting with each other thus police get called and their tent city dismantled.

The Salvation Army from what I've seen has the best system going. You can book 3 months, and they help you with employment. You get your own room and there's not a lot of rules besides no alcohol or drugs allowed in the building. This is where most of the homeless go who fell through the social safety net for whatever reasons, and they can save 3 months of income to get back on their feet whereas the addicts, chronic homeless by choice, and mentally ill are the ones in tent cities.

For all these reasons: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html

Many school courses use ML/OCaml as well in their classes and as you do the course they explain why OCaml/ML is best suited for what's going on https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15411-f13/schedule.html

This is what I first think of when a government makes up excuses to block a foreign service, they are just trying to promote their own local services like Baidu/Sina Weibo in China.

They each have websites with their platform up in full. Most discussion you will find will be each side spinning the other side's platform or outright lying about it. Just read it yourself and decide

An amnesty for cash repatriation is what Trump is currently shilling as part of his job creation platform since corps like Apple have billions overseas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/tim-cook-... and are pressured by shareholders to not return it to the US where it will be taxed. Tim Cook will have to pay out 70 billion lump sum to the feds on that overseas pile of money.

Obama was also working on an amnesty for years and it never happened for whatever reasons. Of course this would work once then build up again overseas as they would just wait for another amnesty as explained by other posters.

Don't governments already do this by giving universities large research grants? http://research.fas.harvard.edu/funding-sources#federal

We could triple the grants, but that money has to come from somewhere and every corner of society has a vocal group of voters who want that money. If the future US federal leader makes it a priority to cure the HIV epidemic in foreign countries while taking away cancer research funding or slashing social security that sounds more like political suicide than leadership.

I wish he would elaborate on his education vision too. "New tools" is totally vague. Khan academy and other remote tutors?

Offtopic but there was another post here recommending that people do just that, be very visible and public so when the layoffs happen you aren't the person laid off even if you're just doing the same work as everybody else you appear to be indispensible. Recruiting works the same I guess.

This also explained it well, predicting contracts would be full of problems http://vessenes.com/ethereum-contracts-are-going-to-be-candy...

Which points were missed

campaign ties to the Kremlin

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-clinton-foundation-state-and...

speeches in Moscow that benefit the Kremlin

https://www.quora.com/Who-paid-Bill-Clintons-2-5-million-com...

We can play this game all day. Both US major federal political parties are neck deep in Kremlin corruption and ties to each other. Trump has also never taken an 'anti-NATO' stance, he wants to shake down NATO countries for cash to pay for protection, and so did Dubya, who threatened my country into joining the Afghan military adventure with that whole 'you are with us or our enemy' speech.

The question is, is Russia trying to get Trump elected which is hard to believe since they enjoy a pretty good relationship with the Clintons, but who really knows I will concede. I'm also not buying the secret IOCs that "verify" state sanctioned involvement, they verify similar attackers, that use a Russian VPS.

Sabu disagrees, claims the methods and tools are widely shared on the same criminal forums http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/450298715/DNC-hack...

The Putin/Trump friendship is largely invented by the media. For example when Putin supposedly called Trump 'brilliant' he used a Russian term that means 'bright colorful personality' not intelligent. Our media knows this but ran with the illusion of Putin admiring Trump because it serves domestic political talking points. Trump's whole platform of America First(tm) populist rhetoric would be detrimental to any agenda Russia has.

It seems to me that embarassing leaks are best distracted away from the political news cycle by manufacturing a sexy story about Russian interference instead of trying to spin the content of the leaks themselves.

Indeed just having one region legalize skyrockets trafficking. Prices also go down, so prostitution becomes less attractive to locals as a way to make money which means foreigners in poor countries have to be imported, which leads to trafficking rings. Vice claims of the 500k prostitutes in Germany two-third's are foreign http://www.vice.com/read/a-visit-to-one-of-germanys-all-you-...

It's extremely difficult to stop gangsters from trafficking because they operate in the trafficked persons home country as well, so if you run to the police in Germany or Canada they can seek retribution on your family members back home in Ukraine, Vietnam ect. Thus the not legal nor illegal does a good balance of preventing super brothels opening up full of imported sex workers while at the same time being able to arrest pimps without relying on the testimony of the sex workers.

Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr are full of escort ads, so is 'fetlife' which is basically a prositution social media site for people in that scene. Then there's all the porn sites with escorts uploading videos of themselves like XVideos and shilling their services. Nobody is going after Instagram's CEO for allowing #gfe or #(city)escort hashtags.

Backpages seemed like a good police tool in that they could entrap politically connected people with fake prostitution ads, and they could identify organized prositution more easily. For example here it was simple to find the gangster listings running microbrothels, these are condos rented by street gangs who import girls from Asia, seize their passports and pimp them out. These gangs were also well known to rob each other's micros, and there are plenty of stories on all those escort review forums of armed gangsters kicking down the door and jacking the place since police won't be called.

Selective law enforcement again happening here so the Backpages CEO guy must have made political statements advocating for legalization or was politically active in some other way. It's my main theory why Redbook was shutdown, because they entertained very loud activists in their forums calling for legalization who often called out city and state politicians directly. Reminder if you want to run an illegal business don't be politically active and you can operate under the radar like Fetlife with it's thousands of escort ads.

Police seem to only want to manage the war on drugs not defeat it, as was explained to me by a friend who's a cop and became totally disillusioned, just counting out his days until retirement. This means working with one criminal group to help arrest the other groups. Of course by interfering in the drug dealing free market by propping up various mid level street gangs and arresting the others they create an extremely dangerous powder keg where these targeted groups go to great insane lengths to survive, and the propped up group is often dismantled and arrested by police whenever they become too confident and do something stupid like their untouchable gang members terrorizing too many innocent people. The demise of the dominant group once propped up by police means a power vacuum forms and streets become a warzone as all fight to take over the dominant position of police protected status.

I'm pretty sure that without police 'managing' these mid level street gangs, they would just exist as smaller decentralized crews that would be much less violent as we would stop creating Tony Montanas and instead just have disorganized criminal activity on a smaller income scale since honest police would be able to easily disrupt these networks into bankruptcy. Instead we get police helping to form supergangs, with multi millions to spend on weapons and corrupt all aspects of a city with criminals getting into mafia-like construction industries to influence city tenders, bribe city employees or unchecked extortion of local business. Either legalize it all or end the strategy of selective enforcement, which means we likely need to double police budgets as cost is a major factor in this strategy of enforcement that relies on criminal cooperation.

There's a lot of existing document-oriented databases like RethinkDB such as MongoDB, CouchDB, RavenDB, ect and they all have the same network bandwidth problem for geo-replication http://acmsocc.github.io/2015/posters/socc15posters-final52....

I guess those other document-oriented dbms just had better early stage shilling to get funding before RethinkDB did, and by the time Rethink shopped around there was already enough competitors that investments in documented-oriented dbms dried up.

The current state of the art is an in-memory dbms to take advantage of future available (soon, 2017) non-volatile memory. CMU is developing such a dbms http://pelotondb.org/ and there's also MemSql and Sap Hana.

Mason Curry also wrote a book about artists and their schedules http://masoncurrey.com/

Soldiers of fortune do go home afterwards and wait around for another job these days (unfortunately a short wait) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/south-africas-...

Guccifer 2.0 could also just be who he claims to be, which is an ethnic Romanian hacker living in Moldova who launches attacks through Russian servers because he/she knows any kind of US state dept req for evidence from that server will be ignored. I would assume this to be a personal beef against the Obama/Clinton admin for locking up Guccifer 1.0 by somebody in his crew not automatically assume nefarious nation state actors are behind the leaks.

http://www.dcldc.org/

The DCLDC will advance its important mission through pro bono attorney referrals to those who cannot afford legal services and the submission of amicus briefs on key issues.

Who owns Open Whisper Systems? I know Twitter bought WhisperSys, and with it Textsecure and Redphone though unsure who currently owns Open WhisperSys and it's products Signal (I assume Twitter does). Twitter is also rumoured for sale with Microsoft looking at aquiring it, so the future of Signal not keeping this metadata depends on who aquires it.

Paper conclusion says the cost of running Vuvuzela is pretty high per month, so you would need a benevolent millionaire to make it happen.

As for signal what every prosecutor wants is metadata to show the court that user A was in communication with user B. The actual contents of the messages aren't important especially in a conspiracy case and user B is an informant, their word against yours plus metadata showing you communicating is good enough.

Besides forcing Signal to keep this metadata in the future, I wonder if they can just obtain it themselves by watching all traffic on their federated servers and timing it to discover communication networks.

The same, by not saying anything to police who question you on the street it can be 'obstruction' if you don't ask for a lawyer first before being silent, unless you are arrested and your right to be silent is given to you. Also in Canada police don't have to stop talking to you if you've requested a lawyer they can still keep you in interrogation trying to get you to talk for as long as they want, which usually means all weekend until you see a judge on Monday morning. http://www.edelsonlaw.ca/news/show/40/8/0000/0

Any informants they place in your cell with you, regardless of you asking for a lawyer may continue to interrogate you as well. Your prison phone calls can also be recorded and used against you, again regardless if you've asked and not seen a lawyer so if you phone your job and make up an excuse why you won't be there on Monday morning, that excuse can be used against you in court. A well known trick is for the police to place you with an informant who offers you a cellphone, because typically you have to call 3-4 people when arrested (family/gf, job, a lawyer) instead of just the one phone call they have to give you (which they don't have to provide until days after you are arrested). This contraband phone will be recorded hoping you say something incriminating, or just hoping you lie so they can prove later you are a "known liar" since most people don't want to tell their employer they've just been arrested and will lie about it.

First I would recommend Cal Newport's blog about using time wisely. http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-got-t... Plenty more great info in the archive: http://calnewport.com/blog/archive/ Obviously the best way would be to go through your school's course syllabus for whatever classes you want to take and look at the material you will be doing, but these are good for a general preparedness:

Axler - Precalculus 2nd version http://precalculus.axler.net/ He works through every odd exercise solution, in full. Also gives you a good intro to sets and series, summation notation, binomial theorem, all this will come up later in discrete math. He assumes the reader knows nothing about Trig as well.

Gilbert Strang's videos "Highlights of Calculus" https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-005-highlights-of-calcu... just to get an overview of what calculus really is since I assume your university will throw you into an applied single variable class first year. MIT Open Courseware has their calculus (18.01/18.02) course lectures up if you want to watch them too to get an idea of what you'll run into.

"Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel" gives quite a good explanation of Mathematics as a whole, like why we learn elementary math the way we do and how it applies to more advanced concepts, explains Rings/Fields and has a really good introduction to Logic. I wish this book existed 5 years ago when I started http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10697.html

"An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning" by Eccles is short and excellent. You can also download the lecture notes here from CMU's course on proofs http://math.cmu.edu/~svasey/concepts-summer-1-2014/ and try some of the homework if you want but you probably won't see any of this until second year judging by most university calendars and recommended program course list I've seen.

CLRS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms which has a great first chapter "Foundations" that compliments Knuth's 'Mathematical Preliminaries' chapter in TAOCP vol 1. Knuth's book you can really drill yourself in these concepts though with the many, many exercises writing proofs. The skills I learned doing these exercises paid in full years later when I started more advanced math and even at work.

You may be interested in this, it's a Jun 2016 paper on the current state of "NewSQL" and describes most of the dbms out there including NoSQL. http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2016/papers/pavlo-news...

Microsoft quote in this article advocating H-1Bs is interesting, as they spent $90M USD to open a research center in Canada in order to avoid H-1Bs. When asked why they didn't expand their Redmond base for the new research center and make use of H-1B visas they gave an answer about 'needing to diversify geographically and reach out to hubs that can offer new talent' which I just read as 'wanting to pay lesser salaries and benefits'.

They briefly allowed some industry people to look at a few of the documents, like Bruce Schneier who said he wished he could have had more time instead of being placed in front of a live OS with a few dozen pdfs the Guardian wanted him to review. As for OPSEC there was the time the Guardian leaked the password to the first Wikileaks large Manning dump (the Assange hotel napkin PGP password incident), then they actually wrote Op-Ed attack pieces on Assange for "releasing unredacted classified information".