skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never, Panda Express isn't authentic Chinese food. They'd probably serve you a Grizzly Bear with stripes.
No, I am not referring to that document specifically, but I am referring to the same incident and subsequent lawsuits over the issue. Yes they really were planning to do that. See
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3axduuybL0jNUUtUWxUenFzMGM...

Your document is ambiguous, however the others are not. Please try not to cherry pick.
If the identity of a function object doesn't matter, then a compiler can automatically lambda-lift inner functions that don't capture variables, without introducing new arguments.
So I'm assuming "LES" stands for Law Enforcement Services and the blocked area then points to which branch of law enforcement planned to do this?
Why paper cuts hurts so much
If your entire app is rendered by JavaScript then it doesn't matter.

also you don't need to make it a blocking script tag in your <head>, you could load it at the end of <body>, it doesn't prescribe anything.
> this world you mention where STEM students gain so much prestige and math papers go.... viral? Where is this world? What planet are you posting from? Which galaxy is it located in? Is this post of yours real-life or am I dreaming?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
How to Learn Faster: Being the Dumbest Guy in the Room
It makes sense that a porn ring would question the role of government in society.

How to be taken seriously, step zero: proofread
STICKBUBBLES a perfect way how to extend your photos with METADATA
Wow, that's good to know! I've had an itch for years to re-watch this, and this may be the final nudge I need.

So many old beloved TV shows just look really bad on a modern TV, and can be hard to get back into. (I never have that problem with old black-and-white movies, for some reason.)
This Guardian article states its economics and not Xenophobia.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald...

Believe what you want to believe.
Shouldn't Forth be in hype again due IoT?
It introduces an interesting question on tactics. Stopping child porn is good, reducing gun trafficking is good. It's not clear how that is done currently.

In place of continuing to host the content to catch predators, could the government covertly transition sites they run from hosting to linking to other sites? Making their site "more robust to takedown"?

Encouraging users to instead link to other sites? The resulting contributions can then be used to go after and prosecute, and even shut down (some of) the submitted sites?

I don't know if it's possible to do that transition well, at some point the site is just a host of links (like HN or Reddit). At some point they'd become the largest aggregator of child porn, at which point they can go after the most popular or prolific producers.

This of course is also along the lines of locate and punish, and doesn't explore helping the people who make, distribute, or consume. Addressing the demand for the content I don't like the idea of a strike system however catching and treating people and moving to prosecuting the people who reoffend after treatment is harder to do, I don't even know how monitoring to detect offenders after catching them once.
>Mozilla.org is an excellent target to evaluate client diversity because it receives traffic from all sorts of devices from all over the world. It's not an opinionated site that only certain type of people would visit. It's not region or language specific (the site supports dozens of languages). And it's the main entry point to download Firefox.

Is that really true? I would have guessed that people visiting mozilla.org either have or want Firefox, or at least have an interest in technology. Also, probably the percentage of desktop users vs. mobile is much higher for mozilla.org than for Facebook or Google?
...But what if you're the rare HNer than doesn't actually care about startups?
(Note that the article also mentions confusion with complimentary sense)
Interesting. I always wondered what motivated this personality type. Seems that they get a high from it. (Not that I am bothered by it, I am glad they do).
U.S., China Reach Agreement to Stem U.S.-Bound Flow of Fentanyl
Article might as well be titled "to live long, be rich"

How they managed to completely overlook the "hidden" confounding of being very wealthy and retiring in Manhattan is rather impressive.
I may be in the minority, but I don't want to watch videos when learning how to use things. I want written tutorials that I can refer back to when necessary.

My big problem with tutorials in JS-land is that so many seem to assume too much background knowledge in the reader. Webpack has been no exception; as someone who generally doesn't do front-end stuff I have really had to dig around to find out how things actually work and find things like lists of valid options for different sections.
Well, stating that the "value to a user increases as more users use it" seems incorrect for Skype and Facebook at least (not familiar with WhatsApp).

In fact, I'd say the more people around that you don't know or relate to is actually detrimental to community spirit.
Toxic air pollution particles found in human brains
So, a site was made by a pedophile, they got that guy, and then kept the site online so they could make further arrests of people who viewed the site.

That's a massively different picture than what you get by reading the article, and the headline 'FBI's deep web child porn ring'. It wasn't FBI's child porn ring, it was this guy's child porn ring.
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That's part of it.
Yeah, the thing is, this needs some kind of IRC bridge, with auth. If you're an HN user, IRC is probably your usual mechanism for realtime textual communication, and I gather many would rather use their very rich tooling built on IRC than check another website.
that you are wrong, and you live in a bubble.

i thought i was pretty clear about that, but i guess i should have just kept it short and sweet.
You fail because you are using a complex way to do very simple thing. I think you need to brushup you software engineering skills.
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I cannot think of any situation where the rocket exploding on the pad would not cause the mission to be considered a failure.
Have the arrests done something to address the larger problem?
Profilers help identify hot spots, but don't really explain the dynamic behaviour of why something is a hot spot. So comments saying that something is O(n^2) when it could be O(n) is very helpful when you see the inner function hogging 90% of resources. Profilers don't get complexity classes.
It appears that the current gen of "IoT" is built on cheap SoCs which run Linux.

Linux is millions of lines of C code already, so using Forth in that context feels a bit ridiculous.
>> “Speeding up access doesn’t create the desire to do it,” he added. “The fact that people come to the market looking for it already doesn’t make it entrapment.”

This is a pretty interesting argument for the government to make, given its existing legal theory that the children depicted in child pornography suffer redressible harm whenever such an image is viewed. By that theory, improving the site, resulting in many additional views, means the government is actively causing harm to the viewed children, which it shouldn't be doing.
JavaScript: Missing features
Do you think that there are some missing features in javascript? Language features, syntax... but also libraries etc.
Sure, but none of those sources say anything like:

> Given the nature of the site, this included uploading large volumes of new child pornography.

or

> During the investigation, logins increased by more than 350 percent to 50,000 per week. The defense attorneys’ motion seeks to discover exactly how the FBI boosted its traffic so much.
I tried to find the full version of the PBS "To catch a comet" about the Rosette/Philae mission but came up empty handed. Searching google, I was able to find a talk by Mark McCaughrean (ESA) called "Rosetta: to Catch a Comet". Been watching it for about 30 minutes and it's awesome. So, for anyone else looking for something to watch, this worked out great. Pretty amazing talk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOiY-OCCRjs
> If you're an HN user, IRC is probably your usual mechanism for realtime textual communication

I doubt it. I see less and less developers using IRC outside of quick help and instead using Slack.

A lot of languages and techs have both a Slack and IRC... it's hard to know which one's more active sometimes which is annoying.
Krypton Abandons Ethereum-Based Blockchain After 51% Attack
La paz santista, nueva componenda neoliberal
Doing something for the sake of learning doesn't ever feel like wasted time. When I was first getting into networking I wanted to connect two computers directly without have a router or a switch between them. I carefully researched how to cut and crimp an ethernet cable into be a crossover cable, and successfully connected the two.

Feeling proud of myself, I scrolled farther down the page that described it only to read that most NICs will automatically do it for you and you don't need to make crossover cables any more. I'm still glad I took the time.
What about the people who actually did it or allowed it in those countries? Aren't they the ones to blame?
but after the creator is in jail, it's 100% the fbi that host and promotes the site.

there are law against entrapment. but when fbi agents get on a chat room anonymously and send someone a link "want to see this illegal content?" now the person who could have zero interest in the matter will just want to check it out to see if it's true, for whatever reason, which could very well be to report to the authorities if it is true. but now, since the person was entrapped, the fbi can just deny the anonymous entrapment and prosecute the person for arriving on the site by their own means and drive.
Why do you assume your preference for IRC is everyone's preference?
Sorry about that I don't mean to shit on your project; honestly its pretty damn cool. I like the usage of django/daphne for a single page app...it came out nice.

I just don't see the usability cause I already have multiple messaging/chatroom services.
...cool boat. Poor website.

Why, oh why, do designers insist on interfering with the simple act of scrolling through their website? Don't mess with my scroll speed. Ever.
This is the reason.

It's abstractly difficult to inform a person that their close family member has died, potentially from violent causes, possibly very suddenly.

But come down this hallway, now, to tell this woman that her child is dead; this is what it will be like. You'll need to change your clothes first; you'll need to practice first; and this is what it will do to her, and what it will do to you.

I (obviously) found this very powerful, and while there's some compromise involved in adding in these carefully-selected specifics, it's worth it.
great! can finally answer if they taste good now!
"This is an enormous challenge for us, as for everybody in the government who’s sitting here, because we do not have the dough. We cannot compete on dough."

How are we not funding competitive salaries in this field when it's absolutely crucial to the safety of the nation?
He probably just misremembered a few characters of his password, like mypass1234, mypass1235, mypass4321, etc. It would be time consuming for human to try all the 4 digits but trivial for computer to try out the 9999 enumeration.

The complication is finding out the algorithm used and the parameters applied to the algorithm. Once figured out, he wrote the small program to brute force the small enumeration.

This is a very good illustration of the need for long and non-trivial password; otherwise, it can be easily guessed.
I still say that the smartest thing we ever did at reddit was allow users to create their own subreddits and then decorate them how they choose. The second smartest thing was making text posts official.

Both of those features differentiated us from the competitors, and as you aptly point out, it has a nice side effect of keeping people on the platform who might otherwise leave (although that wasn't an intended consequence).
It also re-introduces the question of goals, which is to often overlooked in any discussion that involves the word "child". Specifically, most people I talk to eventually agree that a bigger goal is to stop the production of child porn, more so than it is to stop the distribution of child porn. Even if the FBI was not activly catching consumers with this approach, flooding the market with already existing child porn (which the FBI should have access to), would help starve out producers, and reduce total production.

When the FBI prosecutes the consumers of their honeypot, it has the added benefit of shrinking the total market (both directly, and by spreading the perception that consuming child porn is not safe because of the chance that it is a honeypot).
Do you take care of the Visa/Permit for France? Any email address to get in touch?
The complimentary sense is completely blocked by context here:

> The problem is ______.
That is true only for rapidly decreasing part of the population, especially in certain parts of the world.
No.

We emphasise the actions of white men as being more important those of other groups. We write out of history the acts and perspectives and contributions that other groups have made and somehow manage to convince ourselves that we are not biased.

You describe a meritocracy that we aspire to and yet is almost completely detached from reality.
Here is an idea. Given a Craigslist listings and Tensor Flow deep learning whatever, build a tool for searching stolen bikes -- batman style.
Sentient: a declarative language that lets you describe what your problem is
Evolving App Store Business Models
Interesting ideas.

Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432312
Not totally. The problem is [that you're awesome] and people find you intimidating (or something).

I suppose it could be made up or embellished, but I don't think it's the most wildly implausible thing ever (unlike @woodman).
"It's not that power corrupts, but that power attracts the corruptible", said mr. Frank Herbert...
Feel free to argue why you think it's not an art form, otherwise your snarky opinion is of little value other than to highlight the likelihood of you being both ignorant (of the topic) and closed-minded (in general).
The other option is to choose the greater evils, right? There's a choice to be made: pick the lesser or greater evil.
Don't use LastPass to generate your passwords
I can't remember the company name, sorry.
It's a great book, unfortunately few of its environmental predictions are very valid today. Brunner missed the greenhouse gas problem and focused on things like air quality, garbage, sonic booms (!), poisoned drinking water and overpopulation. One thing he does get right is the need to develop new agricultural tech -- a core subplot is about a company that uses a new hydroponics system to grow cassava at a large scale, for distribution to impoverished third-world countries.

The real impact, for me, was twofold: First, the idea that someone could develop a simulation of modern society to the point where it could make a recommendation about how to make a course correction (which turns out to provide the books its deliciously tragicomic ending), and second, the idea that society's collapse will prevent a technological solution to envionmental disaster. The latter is implied rather than spelled out.
The rule should be that law enforcement cannot commit a crime in order to catch a criminal. For instance, they cannot be part of a bank robbery, or murder someone.

This reminds somewhat of the "gun walker" case where the ATF let illegal guns flood the market in order to track the buyers, which resulted in the death of a border patrol agent and countless others along the border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429393
> ...and then kept the site online so they could make further arrests of people who viewed the site.

> That's a massively different picture...

No, it isn't. The USG treats every instance of child pornography as a separate occurrence of a crime against the child. That is the way they've structured it so that they can convict as many people as possible, not just the individuals responsible for production. In this case the USG, by their own standard, committed an untold number of crimes against these children by keeping the site up and acting as a distributor. There is no difference between this and them setting up a honey pot full of CP.
I don't write down my most important passwords and they're randomly generated gibberish. About a month back, for whatever reason I just couldn't remember one for a minute and it damned near gave me a heart attack. I think I ought to go with your strategy now.
Nevertheless, it was interesting to see how they downplayed their company. There was no woop woop and no flamboyance. I liked that.
Men willing to sacrifice 3 hypothetical men for every woman of reproductive valu
Does anyone know why communication is being shut down? Can they leave it on so we can get telemetry?
Rustifying the Dependency Inversion Principle
You can check my profile for the GitHub repo; it’s a long work-in-progress research project, so I don’t like to advertise too much, but you can play around with the old compiler and check out the work on the new one if you’re interested.
So I lost my WD NAS password (and pwn'd it)
I think the poster was pointing out that the statement

> everyone can only be held accountable for his own actions, not for the actions of others.

is very broad, and isn't at all supported by just one example of drug user/cartel, because there are plenty of other cases where that's not true.
> TLA+ is not a programming language. A 3000 line spec easily specifies a 100KLOC program.

So, which is it?

(0) After you verify a TLA+ specification, you still have the rather large task of making sure your actual program satisfies the specification. In this case, why should I bother verifying something that isn't the final program?

(1) The program can be generated from the specification. In this case, the TLA+ specification is a program, although it's written in an unusually high-level language.

> Deductive proofs are cost-prohibitive for all but the most well-funded, patient and rather modestly sized programs.

It would be a lot more cost-effective if we used languages, libraries and even operating systems geared towards formal verification.
> when fbi agents get on a chat room anonymously and send someone a link "want to see this illegal content?" now the person who could have zero interest in the matter will just want to check it out to see if it's true, for whatever reason

Yeah, sure. I see a link saying 'child porn click here' and I click that link just out of curiosity. Sure.

> which could very well be to report to the authorities if it is true

You can report it to the authorities without needing to click the link (as any sensible person would do).
Totally agreed. Also feel this feeling of "moral superiority" is at play even when the complainers are not in a position to exert any power -- otherwise worthless people throwing mud just to feel worthy. That probably counts as practice for when they can get the upper hand.
Creating a Scalable JavaScript Application with Cycle.js
Thoughts on when 4.0 stable will come out?
> keeping the site up and acting as a distributor

They kept the site online so they could distribute malware to people who viewed it. What's the actual evidence that they distributed CP?
So pedophiles obviously don't choose to be pedophiles. I'm certain it is a biological vagary. There should be a better way to treat people that are a certain way because of biology and not choice.

The other issue is I'm not sure if FBI did the right thing here. For whatever brief period this was state sponsored and sanctioned pedophile ring.
Well shoot, you keep producing plausible explanations: so now he might be so narcissistic that he thinks the reason he can't find capable subordinates is because people are intimidated by his awesomeness.
Conditions Are Ripe for a Big-City Exodus
Super excited for flexbox support.
If you believe those "tech salary" HN threads, there are top engineers at top tech companies making $400K. That's how much the president of the US makes. Good luck.
I mean, wasn't the government supposed to learn you can't do this sort of shit, I dunno, countless government scandals involving essentially the same thing? If your involvement in an illegal industry is such that the market is composed primarily of you, you're probably doing something immoral. The ends do not justify the means, especially when you're given a privileged position of power. In my opinion, those FBI agents involved in this operation should be tried on criminal charges. The fact that no one spoke up has very concerning implications about the ethical culture at the FBI.
"Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" - George Orwell had a clear and penetrating view of Russian totalitarianism.
It would be nice to have tab completion for typing usernames.
TL;DR: because the strength meter gives a "green" strength to a 14-digits number only.
That's an unrealistic approach CIs and undercover agents are needed to break apart crime syndicates because otherwise you'll end up arresting the "street level" peddlers and nothing more.

Now as far as entrapment goes there are legal definitions for it under most cases law enforcement isn't allowed to change the outcome of an event.

For example it is ok for an undercover officer to sell you drugs in a sting operation but it is not ok to come to you and convince you to do drugs and then sell them to you.

For the most part wether the fbi was operating this server or not the people who visit the server came there out of their own free will in an attempt to acquire child pornography.

If the fbi did not operate the server they would still have acquired it just from a different source.

The ATF sting was a pretty shitty operation with dubious legal backing but it's not an case for not running intelligence gathering or sting operation, it's just evidence that they should be planned and executed better and that certain restrictions should apply especially in cases where public safety might be put at risk.
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The gizmodo.com article does: "while it was under Government control [increased] from an average of 11,000 weekly visitors to approximately 50,000 per week"
How Bots Can Improve Your Business Processes
But police must "break the law" on a very regular basis. Often those actions that are common are specifically exempt (ie breaking the speed limit to catch a speeder). And sometimes people are killed because the cops broke the law (many have been killed by speeding police cars). So it is too simple to state that they should obey exactly the same rules as everyone else.
In the US a bachelors is typically four and often five years, if taken in engineering or CS... Is this the European version you are referring to?
The FBI uncovered a plot to assassinate OWS leaders in Houston. Claiming that they were planning to do this themselves completely changes the story. http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/02/06/fbi-gets-ok-on-alle...
Oh gosh and it's already devolved into tabs vs spaces and two vs four, what else should I have expected? ;-)

Nice, I'll login later and check it out!
Watch the trailer the article is promoting. It's inspiring, and about time to add their stories to those of the Right Stuff or Apollo 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo
FWIW D3.js is a dependency of plottable