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Some of your titles and descriptions are mismatched. For example, the description of the Tony Robbins book is actually the description for Money by Martin Amis. Much more likely Bowie would be reading Amis than Tony Robbins! The CJ Box title/description is also wrong.
Well, assassinations are usually political or for payment... so maybe? But probably just personal in this case.
Markov chains can do amazing things in password cracking: https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-m...

But an RNN isn't necessarily going to help as much as you think. An RNN has two problems compared to a Markov chain:

1. Markov chains memorize strings very very easily, accurately, and scalably; it's easy to memorize phrases, words, suffixes, and prefixes from the existing corpuses of billions of passwords. That's all a Markov chain does, memorize & count. On the other hand, an RNN will struggle to do so because there's no 'place' for it to put all of that, everything has to be encoded into the fixed set of neural net weights, otherwise, it just doesn't know about it; and the more you ask it to learn, the more the competing demands fight each other. RNNs augmented with external memories might help fix this but are still cutting edge research.

2. Markov chains are also very fast, far faster than an RNN. Multiple orders of magnitude difference are possible, unless you use a RNN so small as to be irrelevant (since then it can't memorize anything). For cracking hashes, a small gain in plausibility of guesses is not worth being able to make hundreds or thousands times fewer guesses (unless perhaps the hash are something proper like bcrypt/scrypt where it takes seconds to check, in which case the guessing phase takes up a much smaller fraction of runtime and better guesses may be worthwhile).
I bet the Intel chip will get kernel security updates for longer.
Google Reader getting shut down was a good thing. After I moved to other RSS readers, I realized just how terrible Google Reader was. It wouldn't give you alerts if a feed started to 404 among other bugs and quirks.
What has google ever done for us?
>The problem with assertions is that sometimes they mean people get woken up in the middle of the night for an issue that would have been caught hours/days/weeks before by a statically-typed language. If you don't have 100% test coverage in Python you just can't rule that possibilility out. I say this as a full-time Python engineer and I've been woken up at 3am by things that slipped through testing and would have been caught in (say) Java or C#.

For me, carefully placed assertions combined with a comprehensive (but not 100%), test suite nearly always means A) catching the exception with a test or B) a clear production error that indicates a problem with the production environment.

I've been woken up plenty by poorly written Java that has had its type system intentionally weakened by terrible coders, meaning lots of detective work. It's a fallacy is that dynamic automatically means weak and static automatically means strict.

Assertions aren't just useful in dynamically typed languages. Java would benefit from using them as well.
I feel like you are operating under the assumption that deleting this leaked data is trivial, that they just have to hit a delete button and the data is gone.

This is not the case; it is not obvious, trivial, or easy to delete the leaked data. It is not simple to find it all. This is not like they are being given a URL and being asked to clear the cached version of it; they are being asked to search through millions of pages for possibly leaked content.
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"Next fifteen years of Moore's Law?" The recent failure of Intel's "tick-tock" alternation of process shrinkage and new architecture suggests that however performance improves in the next 15 years, projecting the last 15 years' Moore's Law forward is a bad idea. For crypto stuff, I'd think about how quantum computing may advance by the 2030s.
>As a result of Thursday's action, "thousands" of small and medium-sized internet service providers (ISPs) around the country are no longer required to give their customers detailed information about broadband prices, speeds and fees, according to the FCC.

This seems regrettable, but what do this have to do with net neutrality? Isn't the point of net neutrality that all consumers of bandwidth should have equal access to the internet, and they should not have to pay more for access to any particular part of it? The article's title seems inaccurate, at no point do they explain what this new lack of transparency actually has to do with net neutrality.
Or design your protocols to be safe from length extension attacks in the first place.
Chiming in to fully support - the benefits are clear and until you have actively put the time into learning and practicing it will be hard to recognize them.

I recommend beginning with some Guided meditations (just search until you find some you like) no more than 10 minutes to start. Once you feel you have familiarized yourself with techniques continue without the guide. 20 minutes a day - I personally do it in the AM after a run - is all it takes. Better concentration, focus, helped me personally "slow down" my impulsive reactions, better relationship with my business partner (more patience), and a better sense of self.

The list really does go on and yours will be unique to you. Try it!
I've worked around this with Lambda tasks that write a result to a presigned S3 URL and a wait loop that polls it (like CloudFormation custom resources do) but it would be nice if this was built-in.
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Animals typically don't kill and eat their own species, so in these matters humans fare a lot worse than most animals. Given that a belief in a higher authority is one of the things causing humans to kill each other, it seems this theory is wrong.
Not directly about mediation but helped me get into it: The Bhagavad Gita - (I grew up Christian in rural Scotland - no religious slant here)
Why don't you just come out and say that you voted for Trump and it hurts your feelings when people criticize or make statements even remotely critical of his staff. Or you could just not comment, it's not fake news. It's certainly not that important, but there's no evidence it's untrue.
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Can you suggest where one can start learning "how" to meditate?
What if Alex was bluffing? An average Uber employee reading this would think that some massive congregation of his/her peers is happening on Blind and would rush to install it.
>If there is a border between code I trust and code I don't trust I put some sort of sanity type-checking to catch this type of problem early. This usually gives me immediate notification of certain classes of bug when a test invokes that code.

That's still on a "due dilligence" basis, and too late.
RenTec doesn't make money off "buy and hold." They're a quant firm that profits from small inefficiencies in the market, trading that with leverage. Their really good secret is that they have superior data sources, and superior modeling (lowering their risk to almost nothing).
I'm not suggesting it is. This discussion has kind of branched out from the issues Ms Fowler faced into a general one around diversity.
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>There's nothing inherently wrong with the drug, but there's something inherently wrong with the behavior around it, by people who are so desperate for edge. Down that road ultimately lies Lance Armstrong, and East German women with beards.

In other words, if you're desperate for an edge and willing to spend money, compromise your health and integrity for it, then you'll eventually move on from expensive bullshit like copper bands, to blood doping (in the case of sports). Right now, with the state of the "art", you're mostly just hurting yourself, but I think it's reasonable to assume that given the money and interest, it will be determined which drugs/methods do yield actual results.

If the attitude remains the same, "Anything for an edge," then when that comes you're going to be screwed as a group.
It's not trying to get "something for nothing", it's trying to tune your brain/body to the workload you actually perform by altering the way signals propagate.

Tuning low-level settings to optimize the stack for the workload expected is standard engineering practice. Heck, we even do it in hardware: deciding if we want higher single-thread performance or higher throughput for a given heat envelope.
You have to fight for the rights you want to keep.
> I cannot help but wonder how what Google is doing is different than any startup working on a product

From a marketing point of view, the big difference is that a startup isn't labeling their product with a very well known brand. The downside for the startup is that they need to build their brand recognition and image from scratch. The downside for the big brand is that they have a lot to lose if they tarnish their own reputation.
> This doesn't tell you the content but if an employee uses the app

It appears that one has to register using a corporate email address, so it's trivial to figure out which employees are using this service.
I think her point was the public humiliation made a bad thing even worse.
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Drug abuse is a real thing and has extremely negative effects for individuals and those in their lives.

That being said, it's a public health issue, not a criminal one. Abuse can also be significantly curbed by open and honest discussion about the benefits and negatives of various drugs. The DARE and scare model is an abject failure.
It took me years... years... but the result of meditation (and some CBT in there to guide the process) is that I went from daily, crippling anxiety to virtually none at all now. It was harder than taking a pill at first, but I see where the people who went down the benzodiazepine road are today, and for me at least, I know I made the right choice.
CloudFlare typically shows a CAPTCHA when a site is accessed by an IP with a bad reputation. This is mainly to block access to spammers and evil crawlers, but the IP addresses used by Tor exit nodes often have bad reputations, as they are used for all manner of things.

For people who do most of their browsing via Tor, it can get annoying to be repeatedly presented with a CAPTCHA.
It's true. Alan Watts isn't necessarily the best, but I always like his (paraphrased) quote "Like the water waves and flowers bloom, the Universe peoples."
>is vastly superior idiom

What makes it superior? Just that is appears more generic?

It actually isn't. As long as it's passed an object for iterable that's not iterable it will break. At runtime.

As long as it's passed an item inside an iterable that's not compatible with the testing predicate makes, it will fail. At run time.

The only reason it looks more generic is that it does LESS.
For the a-type personalities that can't see themselves meditating, try the triple combination of a 20+ minute cardio workout while meditating, and additionally give up alcohol. The triplicate combo is amazing for your body and your mind in so many dimensions. I use guided visualization meditations, sorta like trippy radio drama, and the workouts virtually disappear. Plus, you start looking great, which is a nice bonus on top of feeling self actualized.
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None of the things I listed are difficult. They just require the right tool and know how. For someone like me with Xubuntu, I had neither the tools nor know how for creating small jpegs. I didn't fell like wasting 30 minutes researching and I didn't feel like walking over to a different computer that has MSPaint.
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Why would they even bother denying it then, in that case?

There's no advantage to North Korea of doing such an unnecessarily complicated and risky assassination in such a public and relatively secure place, when they could do it anywhere else, using any other weapon.

There is an obvious motivation for countries hostile to North Korea to so publicly frame them for this though, and bring up the issue of WMDs, particularly a week or so after their latest missle launch.

We'll probably never know what really happened, but just because North Korea is a bad place doesn't mean we should automatically accept everything they're accused of.
SHA-3 is faster in hardware!
Never read and understood JP Lewis' "Large Limits to Software Estimation", eh?

http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf
http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html

It's hard to outwit Goedel and Tarski on this stuff.
Your local library, or nearest equivalent is a good place to start. Read some books on the subject. Meditation is one of those things that you can get to from a lot of different, equally valid directions. Just be careful that you're getting into meditation for its own sake, and not something culty/religious.
OP here. The implication was that the organization cannot deliver consistent guidelines. The devs of the sim I am working on are using Python and Jupyter on their systems, which were accredited and approved in the exact same fashion that I need my corresponding data analysis network approved. However, the IA professionals -- who are the same people who approved the sim dev systems -- are telling me that my request for Python (actually I'm requesting an enterprise license for Anaconda Python distribution) is problematic for the reasons I spelled out in my original post.

Consistency, clarity, and understanding are what I'd like. But, these same IA people also get confused when I mention "highly technical terms" like the size of the SAN I'm planning on using.
Some people don't understand crypto. That's where SHA-3 could save them.
Apart from the fact we're talking about microdoses, this seems exactly backwards. Surely if you are a happy person your risk of a bad trip is much reduced?
This damages their brand because it creates an expectation that you can't build anything important on their services. Who wants to spend time and effort in learning and building on a service, if you can't trust it will be there in a year?
>Regarding typing errors in production, I meant that we never encountered an error that could have been directly prevented by a Java-like static type checker[1], e.g., a function with an int parameter that was called with a string argument.

That's because your devs had already suffered this bug in their test runs once too many times, and killed it before it got to production.

That, and luck.
compromise your health and integrity for it

Why is microdosing LSD compromising integrity?
The intel Atom C2750 keeps par with my AMD Athlon II X4 640.

Fun fact: I was running Blender in non-GPU mode on far lower hardware than that almost 15 years ago.
I think the lesson here is that you can't just have a bot scrape together a mishmash of book titles and descriptions without knowing anything about books. Bowie was a reader and if this list is to be of interest to other readers, it needs to be correct and hand-curated by someone who knows literature.
HPPD is definitely a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...

And there is some evidence that taking psychedelics can precipitate long lasting or even chronic psychosis in those with genetic predispositions

I interpreted what they said as a reflection of those facts, though you are correct that risk of dependence is relatively low
That's interesting. I am surprised I didn't see the mention of this last year.
True, but this project will not be allowed to die. So we will see what happens when the proverbial immovable object (IA) meets an unstoppable force (people with stars on their shoulders).
Those who credit american ingenuity and exceptionalism must acknowledge land is by far the most precious commodity, an entire continent and a beautiful and rich one like North America is essentially priceless, and will enrich generations to come till the end of time. Much much more than $90 or $900 trillion. The economic value of this immense tract of free land and slave trade cannot be brushed aside.

But there is also credit to the courage and ingenuity of the early immigrants who took perilous journeys leaving everything behind, risking diseases and an unknown and uncertain future, and made something out of it.

One would like to think those who are proud are proud of this and not the usurpation of a continent or slave trade.
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The ships play such an important part.

In the way capitalism arose from pillage & plunder.

Even way before the Industrial Revolution.

The navies protected the (taxable) commerce from further pillage & plunder.

But the only ones that could afford to build any ships at all were usually the monarchs whom had already largely pillaged and plundered the wealth of their subjects.

Capitalism at this complete a level of wealth concentration reveals its eventual destructive effect on free enterprise.

Due to the extreme wealth inequality ships could justify cargoes of volunteers who would virtually pay to live as somewhat of a slave somewhere else.

Eventually it was only a matter of greed whether a particular voyage would contribute to a more advantageous outcome when choosing either physical or financial bondage for their cargoes of slaves.

When the viewpoint of the capital owners is so far removed from that of the lowest-level subjects, the difficulty for them to respect the (finer?) differences between physical vs. financial bondage of their servants in the 18th & 19th centuries evolves into the blurring of the distinction between financial bondage vs. financial empowerment of their employees in the 20th & 21st centuries.

Simply depending on where the powerful draw the line when greed is involved.

When the money must make money even under adverse conditions, the result of unbridled capitalism tends toward slavery of some form or another.

Depending on your point of view, I guess.
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>The term was used in the 1880s in painting circles

Not in any great capacity that culture in general was aware of.

Only in the mid-20th century, and especially post 60s, it became an actual thing with the meaning we associate with it.
Sorry, dude. As someone who was born and raised in the Amazon forest myself I can assure you having a sustainable mahogany supply for everybody wanting some
does not compute. It takes ages for it to be mature and seconds to become beams. Also, logging is the major reason why trees fall in the Amazon, but not the only one why they won't grow back. Most if not all the devasted areas become permanent soy plantation where raising livestock is morally bad and there is monitoring, so I think you vegetarian reason is a bit romantic. Reducing consumism detain deforastation, nothing else does. If everyone could see with their own eyes godzillions of square meters of charred trees and burned dead animals maybe
I would get more optimistic, but deforastation is a problem too afar and too deep in the jungle, denial is closer to the heart.
Let's change computer software to another thing we faced in reality world – house construction. I wonder as a final user of a house if you care about the quality of the parts you don't see, like plumping system, electronic wires, also, if you care what the next plumber or mechanican would complain how hard to fix things and may charge your more money?
To be fair, I and a lot of other early adopters would be more willing to use this if the last 10 new Google products we tried didn't get shut down. I think the most recent new Google product we use that hasn't been killed is Android.

So, sure, makes sense to shut it down, no one uses it. But there are some good reasons for that.
Why is microdosing LSD compromising health? There is no evidence for that
I liked _Mindfulness in Plain English_: http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_eng...
Oh I see, but a few point to keep in mind... if that guy has a cut on his finger, or even a crack... whoooooole different ending. You're talking about someone prepared, choosing a finger to dip, then as the bit says "promptly washing off".

That is not really analogous to having your face in some way sprayed/daubed/covered with it. Your face has large pores, plus your nose, mouth, and eyes are there. I doubt the choice of the face was accidental.

Maybe he could have washed it off, but I doubt it.
Slaves were expensive, not free (not to say they werent a contributing factor)
I get why an athlete that uses drugs for an edge can be considered to be compromising their integrity. But how does that translate to micro dosing LSD while working? (regardless of it being effective or not).
How this is checked???
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>That's a very strange thing for us Europeans.

It's even worse in Britain. Anything remotely smart or cultured is considered "pretentious" etc.
Interesting. I didn't know that. I connected trichinosis, where symptoms are flu-like for the first few days before a fortnight to 8 weeks of symptom-free incubation as it works into the muscle stage, with the fact that germ theory wasn't understood back then.

The second stage of trichinosis would look quite out of the blue without the foundation of understanding behind it. Almost as if by an act of god, which may have been connected to eating "unclean food prohibited by god".

That said, if it is genuinely a tribal practice, I must accept that and change my opinion.
There are so many humans on the planet now, and they all want a piece of the pie. Billions of them dream of riches, or to put it more precisely, they dream of being richer than most of their fellow humans. Yes, greed. The greedy will always win, because they are better at hoarding than the rest of the humans are at protecting resources from hoarding. Look how easily we in the US were duped into electing a POTUS that is the knife edge of greed and corruption. It's depressing.