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Replace your first word with "Reward" and re-read it.

My own observation is that both of these claims are partly true but that there is some effect that remains even when they think they are not observed. Parents often see what kids think they don't, so I have empirical evidence of this (as all parents do).
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Good SDRs have overwhelmingly better performance than all but the most expensive traditional superhet receivers. Even then, the exotic superhet receivers match rather than beat equivalent SDRs. Direct conversion receivers are exceptionally good at isolating weak signals that are close in frequency to strong signals, which is a particularly important trait in amateur radio operation. This is widely understood and largely uncontroversial.

Some amateur SDRs are essentially computer peripherals, but they increasingly look just like traditional transceivers. The Icom IC-7300 was the most talked-about transceiver of 2016; It operates like a traditional transceiver and costs about the same, but has exceptional receiver performance and a host of DSP-based bells and whistles. I expect that many Elecraft customers are completely unaware that they bought an SDR rather than an analog transceiver.

Personally, I would never go back to a superhet receiver. If you use a good SDR for half an hour, you're spoiled for life. Superhet receivers still have a place at the low-end of the market, but they're being slowly squeezed out.
Oh, I think you're assuming I'm more skeptical than I am. I believe they have one or more Stingrays on site. It would be silly to assume they don't, given the history of use of Stringrays at protests.

I also suspect the number of active cell phones on the networks in that area is probably a hundred times higher than usual; there's probably enough cell traffic happening there to saturate the current capacity many times over. This can lead to cell phones dying faster than usual (searching for signal), cell phones coming online and off, failing to send large files, etc. It can look like "jamming", even when there is no nefarious activity actually happening.

So, I'm not trying to argue nefarious shit isn't going down. I have absolute confidence it is; I know too much about our nation's history with protestors to think otherwise. I don't know that airplanes are carrying the Stingrays (or other cell phone hacking devices) or WiFi honeypots. I don't know that all of the unsecured networks are honeypots put up by law enforcement. etc. I'm saying the specifics of their assessment may be wrong, not that the hacking and spying isn't happening. It's picking nits, in some regards.

But, the motivations of law enforcement are sometimes misinterpreted by protestors, and the capabilities of law enforcement are sometimes over-estimated, even by people that understand the technical side of things. Law enforcement does shady stuff all the time, particularly in dealing with protestors, but, local police also don't have particularly strong technical teams. If the FBI is involved, then things get murkier. They have the resources and the expertise to do probably more than the worst thing we can imagine them doing (and possibly the will, as well).

But, to be clear: I support the protestors, and think that the abuses they've endured in all of this have been criminal. Indigenous peoples in the US have been treated like garbage from the very beginning, and it continues today; this very reservation has been shrunk and unilaterally "renegotiated" (sometimes with guns) multiple times due to profit motives. The reservation has been shrunk on behalf of gold miners, and for major river re-routing, flooding, and damming projects. Even if these folks were making huge and unreasonable demands (which they aren't) I would still support them.

I'd like to see a more thorough investigation of what's actually happening, by someone with a bit more expertise than Cracked. Wireshark dumps are great, but that's just the beginning of an exploit post-mortem.
When creating policies we should assume all human organizations are corrupt.
But that means you have pretty low conversion rate. You have 1000 numbers of stolen cards, and you only going to get 10 of them? It reduces profitability substantially. And even 100 attempts is enough to mark card as stolen if bank is watching it.
Yeah, I just did some basic googling and it looks like there are very few options. I suppose it all depends on how lag-free you want your retrogaming to be. If you want it as low-latency as possible and you want to use your flatscreen TV (assuming it doesn't have a ton of lag!), this seems like a much better deal.
Syntax-rules isn't great. But pretty much every scheme has recognized this, and added an imperative hygienic macro system (think Clojure's macro system, where you can't leak environment unless you want to, but better). There are three main choices at the moment: syntax-case, sc macros, and er/ir macros.

er (or explicit rename) macros are the simplest system: they're like CL macros, with a few minor differences. Also, because Scheme is a lisp-1 with a mutable global environment, you have to rename absolutely everything. Even lambda. Yes, really.

Because of this, CHICKEN (the only scheme that uses er macros) also has ir macros, which are like er macros, except that everything is implicitly renamed unless you say otherwise. However, expanding an ir macro is O(n) under the hood, which sucks. This is probably the worst part of CHICKEN, but it works well enough.

sc (syntactic closure) macros are similar to ir macros in nature, although the syntax and abstraction is different. It's a pretty nice system, currently used in Chibi and MIT scheme, and (while it's really too early to tell) seem to be the macro system most likely to make its way into R7RS-large.

Finally, there's syntax-case. It's used by racket (I think: racket's syntax-case has apparently been heavily extended) and guile, and is the R6RS macro system.

Personally, I don't like syntax-case. IMHO, it's overly complex, it throws away the standard macro abstraction for little benefit, and is generally a pain to use. But it's not objectively badly designed, and some people seem to like it (conveniently, this description, with some minimal modification, applies quite well to R6RS itself). You might be a person that likes it. I don't know. All I know is that I am not one of those people.
Then we try to sell that story to single moms with low-paying jobs, and tell them to suck it up when they're breaking down due to the stress and unattainability of it.
It's remarkable how much better this movie was than the story it's based on [http://robertomunizdias.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Ted-C...]. In particular, the story has the main characters encounter their alien interlocutors almost without anxiety, or fear.

The first half of the movie, on the other hand, conveys the feeling of dread wonderfully.
I highly recommended pycharm.

I audit business python code for a living as a consultant while in university, and pycharm has saved me soo much time and hassle with its debugging, profilers, introspection, autocomplete, git, and various db support.

It made my life so much easier than fidling with plugins in vim or eclipse.
That's the core issue. Lots of bad habits don't lend themselves well to only positive reinforcement because the habit itself provides a positive reinforcement to the individual. They'll continue to do whatever because it's fun even if it's self-destructive in the end.
Any recommendations for sessions worth watching?
>I’m sometimes asked whether Stripe could have been started in Ireland. It’s impossible to really know the counterfactual, but I suspect not.

-p. collison (blog)

I think he was on a US bound circuit as soon as he was done with Leaving Cert. I don't think they "tried" Ireland despite selling a company siopa when they were 16 or what not.

pg was aware of the two lads from an early age and recognized their talent quickly. I have no doubt they would have done well though I doubt very much as well as they have and theres something for ourselves in the Irish scene to reflect on that.
I'm not sure why that would humble her. If she trained dogs, then she already knew 99% of the dogs out there with behavioral issues are a direct result of the owner. There are VERY rare circumstances where it's just a genetic defect (for lack of better term) in the dog, and it just has insurmountable issues. After fostering/owning roughly 75 dogs in my life, I can say 9 times out of 10 that consistency and discipline are lacking in households that have a "problem dog".

Ironically enough, the exact same consistency and discipline are pretty vital for a child as well. They need a little structure in their lives to feel secure. (No, I'm not talking helicopter parenting or scheduling every second of your child's day).
I have to file both MO and KS returns, and also pay KC, MO 1% city earnings tax. I have to over withhold on MO, then (normally) with that refund turn around and pay KS. Though with Brownbacks tax cuts I am now getting couple $100 returned. File ASAP with MO as those last to file are last in line for refunds. If the state is out of money, like it was a few years ago, I didn't get my refund until August.

One of the only pluses is being able to get in-state tuition for some MO schools; not that I will send my kids there. They have two choices, and they both start with a K.
Relevant discussion on the Facebook group Hackathon Hackers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackathonhackers/permalink/1...

The group skews to a younger demographic than HN, and they are in massive support of the person described in the article, unfortunately.
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This technique worked for us a bit in the toddler years, but it became ineffective for both kids around 4 or 5. They clue in quite quickly and start pushing for ... other options.
I hate that I'm not confident enough in myself to have children because I don't think I can be the financial provider and a mother.

That's no small problem. The other thing is she kind of inadvertently experienced a bait-and-switch scenario. She married the man of her dreams, and then he turned into something else.

I did the full time mom thing. I did not marry for money, but the conflict between motherhood and career is very real and not just in her mind.
The only two other federal countries I can think of off the top of my head that has different criminal law in different subdivisions are Australia and Mexico.

In Canada, criminal law is unified on the federal level. So far as I know, this is also the case in Germany and Switzerland.

Any other prominent examples?
The person implied I was a shameless, a liar, and that I was eviscerated. I was just using his words back.
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Azure has a ton of serverless components. Functions is their lambda equivelant. Azure has many services you can create apps and capabilities without standing up a sever. Like anything else it has some pros and cons.
Yeah, that's more like me. tx
I guess "fighting" really is an appropriate word for what he's doing when he describes or-introduction as the "Act-Stupid"-rule in that composition paper.

His alternative or-composition rule looks strange to me, since given either A or B it is entirely subsumed by simple implication, but his rule still seems to need both..? Or am I missing something about his notation?

Section 6.3 also contains unsubstantiated claims about what is "popular among computer scientists" and what "many computer scientist" do or that they "denigrate the use of ordinary mathematics". I mean, this guy knows who he is talking about, why not call them out on the specifics? (He does reference one paper, and then attacks it by comparing it to a specification he worked on, which he does not reference.)

He's obviously way smarter than me, and I think I understand his general position, but it's hard to get at his arguments when he wraps them in some much hostility.

Personally I'm more interested and fascinated by the stuff going on in the Milner camp, so I'm obviously biased against him. But I do think the most fruitful approach is to have many people working in different directions and seeing what falls out, instead of trying to prove a priori that a research direction is useless.
I got a Pocket CHIP recently too. I'm having lots of fun with the music tracker in PICO-8.

I just wish I could figure out a way to write chords that didn't take up three of the precious four channels! Makes you realise how impressive some of those 8-bit chip tunes really are.
It's funny that Chris Bishop in 1995 wrote the textbook "Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition" and now is effectively arguing against using neural networks.

I haven't read "Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition", but his "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning"[1] is the text for ML work including Bayesian approaches.

I don't think one should view this as "arguing against" neural networks - it's more that Bayesian approaches give you something different.

[1] http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387310732
So much of this sounds like "control".

> "it's BF Skinner's Operant Conditioning"
> "Choice increases the likelihood of compliance"
> "There are a whole bunch of things that happen…and you can get the child to comply"

Most parents would want the best for their child, but there's a massive gulf between wanting the best for someone, and using psychological tricks to force them into complying with expectations.
What OS are you using that has no native VS code support?
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The ones I've heard about are usually publicly traded companies with sort of transparent finances so they're liquid. It's possible they're worth $1B, but I'd bet that more companies would like to claim they're worth $1B than actually are.
My youngest is not motivated by rewards or punishment. He just doesn't care. If I reward him with something good, he will accept it, but the loss of the reward will not motivate him to do things. Similarly he won't like being punished but the punishment won't stop him from doing things that he wants to. His teachers told us the same thing, which creates problems because when he decides he wants to misbehave, there's nothing that will motivate him to behave until he chooses to behave.

I don't spank him, but I'll give him timeouts but I've come to terms with the fact that he is motivated by different things than other kids. The techniques in the article won't work for my child at all. Hopefully he will mature and we can reason with him in other ways.
i can only comment on the german economy, but i think it's not always comparable. It's true that germany is not producing the same number and caliber of startups as silicon valley, but it's very good at supporting medium sized, specialised business in the long term (from enabling them to conduct cutting edge research though heavily distributed government research institutions to a high number of organisations that help them tackle foreign markets and opportunities). If you're not into these things it's challenging, but as a student i see the different paths and institutions helping the more german subjects like chemistry or building engineer.
Finger trees are very cool. I have an efficient rope implementation in C based on skip lists here:

https://github.com/josephg/librope

I'm proud to say that the only bugs AFL found in my implementation were related to my (documented) lack of UTF8 validation. And my skip list implementation beats the performance of the SGI C++ STL rope implementation by about 20x while being several times smaller. (It comfortably performs in the millions of random operations/second on documents up to 1M in size, and it has a smooth logarithmic decline in performance after that).

Unfortunately in C its quite awkward to generically control what aggregate information is cached at internal nodes in the tree. You need control over that to be able to efficiently implement lots of the operations you need in a normal text editor. For example converting between line/character positions and offset positions. I can't just hardcode a lot of those translations into the data type because the bookkeeping is expensive and it kills cache coherence. Its a cost you only want to pay when you need it.

I'm curious to try porting the skip list code to unsafe rust to see if I can add that abstraction capacity in while maintaining the current performance profile. Data structures are fun!
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> I want less prep time for traveling(E. G. Saddling horse).

Years ago I saw an interview with a Sami. 'Why snowmobile instead of reigndeer?' 'I don't have to spend half an hour chasing down my snowmobile.'
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> I am skeptic of what this sentence is supposed to mean. Well, except that you've programmed in C++ for a very short period of time, in what seems like a very particular environment.

By choice. I use C++ where I absolutely must and nowhere else. It exists for particular use cases and no others. If I need high-performance native code with a strong(-enough) type system and I can't use Rust, I will use C++. Why would I use it elsewhere?

I have been using C++ for about five years, which by some lights is a short period of time--but, then, I've also been programming for twenty and I can comfortably say that I understand the hows and whys of C++ as a language even if I don't practice it heavily. (I learned them even before I used C++ at all because they reveal the particulars of the underlying techniques used by other programming environments, such as the JVM.)

And C++11 and later is pretty easily made straightforward, comprehensible, and manageable. (I mean, if you only stuck to the axioms of "never pass a pointer" and "always use std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr" you'll have code that's leaps and bounds past C++98/03 or anything written in C.) I write it in such a style and the code I'm exposed to generally does, too. Sorry that you don't?
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This has been duped repeatedly. Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995125
You can't put politics aside in this situation. You either collaborate, or you don't.
Thanks for sharing, really fascinating :).
FYI, My blog that went down last night is back up, at least for now, but it may be slow. At least recently it is running better. I'm starting to wonder if there was a problem with the hosting service.
How often would it be switching cameras or having communications issues?
> Take into consideration that it's easy to criticise a system as an outsider. You would have to witness first-hand an organised chaos that film and/or TV production is in order to appreciate every single idiosyncrasy (at a first glance) that makes it all work.

I think this can't be overemphasized. I got into the movie business from software and was astounded by all of the quirks in the process that seemed to me to be fundamental inefficiencies. I was fairly certain that I could quite easily reinvent the process to make it smooth, efficient, and pleasurable.

Now, having been in the business for 14 years or so, almost all of it makes sense, and my arrogance in regard to their process is embarrassing at best. There are still a handful of quirks that don't make a ton of sense (even the property department will acknowledge that the only reason they handle cast chairs is because it's tradition), but generally speaking there is a good reason for everything being done the way it's done and it was a tough lesson that made it that way.

I also think it's important to remember that this is a 100 year old industry, and it's not an engineered process, it's an emergent process.

Just as an aside, the first time you have a week worth of wet work scheduled on a movie that's shooting so far out in the sticks that you have to have a satphone for set to communicate with basecamp, a lot of the reticence to adopt technologies that aren't completely bulletproof makes a lot more sense.
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Not sponsored by Couchbase at all (I worked at Couchbase during its formation, this started near the end of my time there).

For pluggable storage engines our node.js adapter uses leveldown, so any *down backend can be plugged in. https://pouchdb.com/adapters.html has some more information about this.

For p2p yup its been something quite a few people have been using pouchdb for, one of the more notable examples has been http://thaliproject.org/, the core storage format is entirely compatible with p2p (inherited from couchdb)
Knowing assembly won't teach you the difference between legal overflows and ones triggering undefined behavior, or why you might need -fno-strict-aliasing to cast your pointers, and many more things.
Does anybody know any correct nontrivial C programs beyond the ones by DJB? Or anything close? And it's not like, once bug-free, those are evolving much...
It would not bother me at all. I would not try to convince them (what I mean by not prosthelyzing) but I won't (or cannot ;) keep silent on purpose.
As a Django consultant its nice to know about this info. Do you happen to know the name of companies using Django? Id like to approach them for work :)
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Don't bother sending me more spam. I've already filtered any emails from hn@ycombinator.com to be deleted upon receipt.

If you're going to ban me, just ban me.
Yeah, they need to be sure you are crazier then them and you will followup on most things you promise.
It's OK, if you look at it as a cow to be milked until a multinational drives you out of business. From a business perspective there's nothing necessarily wrong with milking a cow until it runs dry, but you should have made a conscious decision to do it. The execs I'm talking about haven't.
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Wouldn't easier usually mean shorter proofs and better proof automation? What is Lean offering over other proof assistants?
Firefox ships with emojis to fix this. :)
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Thanks for your reply! I would be interested in more specific features that you are missing from the plugin system. I'm not familiar with what Immunity has to offer on the native side and my current focus is on improving the plugins.