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Games are absolutely more immersive, engrossing, and addictive than they used to be...and designed to be so. It's a higher-grade drug, if you will.
Without mining (proof of work) how would the block chain be considered secure and immutable?
Which is why New Orleans to California internet signals can't take less than 10ms.

In reality it was maybe 40-50ms last I checked.
I've always thought of Derrida as some kind of shaman poet sorcerer who uses philosophy as the material for secretive experiments, which makes me not so upset when I can't understand him.
Darn, internet info foiled by more internet info...
Since when are targets of blatant and long-standing smear campaigns given the chance to tell "their side of the story", and what good would it do if they were, since there is no story of which they could tell their side? You've fallen right into the trap of thinking there is a story which needs to be told, rather than questioning from the beginning, "where is the evidence for any of this?"

What's incredibly sad is it took his detractors this long to find someone willing to fabricate such a transparent story.
Because, IMO, it combines the worst aspects of Java, Delphi and FP family traits in the same package.

Trying to follow what a Scala program does under the hood makes my head hurt. Following the edge cases through a forest of syntactical candy-floss is just too much. The plain Java parts are not bad, but the moment you pull out and nest all the special lispy shortcuts... from that point onwards I need to expend a big fraction of my brain cycles trying to figure out just what the hell the piece of code is actually doing. Or trying to do - because I can't properly trace the subtler logical parts.

And the end result is that, with Scala I do not feel qualified to assess your problem solving approach. Code should be written for computers to run, but for humans to understand.
What I want to know is what Jacob Appelbaum is blackmailing Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange with.
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Ah! Right on all counts. I have come across this feature before... but (eg) looking at the ordinary wiki page for factorization, I'm not seeing a link to it...

So, to access the user-friendly, non-technical, layperson version is simple, all you need is to know how to edit the url... that's wot you call ironic, that is.

EDIT It's not even linked under "see also"... ok, your remark on it being only english was a tip-off... it's counted as the language "simple english", and is available under the language icon (a funny looking "A" on the left... which I would never have guessed was for languages). I can see that'a a very easy hack to add an alternate version of a page, since that's what languages are already... but IMHO, layperson versions of a page (or even for experts, wanting to just get the gist) are an essential part of wikipedia's mission and purpose.

Re: simple versions in other languages: they could use the same hack, and have (eg) "simple french", "simple japanese" etc, but because it's so important, I'd suggest another explicit level, something like "https://simple.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization" (BTW that's also a mobile url, since I'm on a phone... I'd say, "simple" is just as important).

I understand wikipedia reached a level of completion a few years back, and the organization consequentally changed in character. A push for simple versions of everything coukd revitalize it.
And for images, there is netpbm: http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
Haha okay thanks for your advice. I'll definitely look into Ruby before building anything, then. Sounds like Sinatra might be better for me to start with if it's the simpler of the two.
If you genuinely think that video games, 'memes', twitter messages, social media posts or vlogs are art at all, let alone art on the level of the fucking literary novel, literally the most artistic medium of all time, then you're part of the problem.

Classical music isn't 'almost dead'. The art of painting has never not been confined to museums and art galleries. Cinema most certainly has not be replaced with blockbusters - there have always been mass market blockbusters and films for the intelligent at the same time.

The TV series you claim have 'replaced what cinema used to be' are a far cry from art, the Breaking Bads are few and far between and rubbish like Game of Thrones (occasionally well-shot but very poor for at least the last three seasons) is not art.
This may be new to your information bubble but have you ever read about working poor phenomenon?

Your comment is perfect example of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
> I mean you say that, but wasn't this an accident predicated on not being aware of the positions of other planes?

Uh, no? "an Airbus A380-800 was observed by the crew passing 1000 feet above" http://avherald.com/h?article=4a5e80f3

> You're basically saying that we should plan for accidents

Yes, whenever possible. It should make sense, really.

> because

...because it's sometimes possible and predictable, in which case it logically makes sense to plan for it.

> wearing a seatbelt is somehow... what? Cumbersome?

Not because of that. But yes, it is cumbersome. Makes it harder to relax, sleep, get up, etc... is this really that shocking to you?
"Syracuse, New York, often dubbed the snowiest city in the United States, receives, on average, 117 inches of snow a year. "

Not even close. Valdez, Alaska averages 305.8 inches per year.
It's weird that over the course of 7 hours no one on a site called Hacker News noticed that send_email.cpp passes unsanitized user-supplied args to system(). I've spent less than 5 minutes looking at this code, so maybe that's the worst of it. But if 5 minutes of investigation found 1980's style bugs I doubt that's the worst of it.
> Jacob learned of a plan to help him correct his behaviour at the next Tor meeting

If I "learned of a plan to help [me] correct [my] behavior", I'd react extremely poorly as well. What utter bollocks; what savage lies!

> My right eye, into which Jacob placed an irritant eye drop, has never really felt the same since then

How can a story written by someone who is so obviously mentally ill and in need of help, not publicity, make it to the top of HN?!
Absolutely, I still have to fax and it's ridiculous how low the bar is. I was just replying to the op that just the fact that Epic can talk to itself at other hospitals (for the record the VA can do this too, but it is slow) makes it relatively great.
Game theory is domain specific. Generic methods in AI tend to dominate domain knowledge over time. Although I agree that other game-theoretic techniques might help here.
The story would be a lot more powerful if it were vastly more concise and meandered far less. This reads like an angsty teens livejournal entry, which doesn't do the serious nature of the matter justice.
Same. Neither parents went to college. I went to college completely on the government's dime because my EFC was $0.

The only thing I had to do to get free grants was to show my parents didn't have money.

Their poverty became an enormous benefit for me when applying to college and receiving financial aid. It's an incredible and amazing country we live in.
The algorithms that 'generate news articles' don't: they abbreviate news articles.

The algorithms that 'generate music' don't: they generate noise that sounds a little like music but is completely derivative and unoriginal.
Where do you think rich people put their wealth? A savings account?
>False equivalence. 70k hits means that 70k people somehow reached your page. Most of the probably closed the browser/tab before even fully loading the page.

I hope you're kidding and don't genuinely think that most people close links before fully loading the page on average.
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as far as stupid examples go, I was surprised at how low the quoted hours played were (the couple of times they were mentioned). the largest was 600 hours of KSP. I have more than 1000 hours each in Dota 2 and Eve Online. I'm not sure if I'm significantly more addicted than the interviewees or I play fewer games longer than them. I know I don't game hop much, but still. Worrying.

At least I have a dev job I'm happy with that scratches my problem-solving itch and that I partially got because of experience I gained writing tools for Eve. Haven't been playing anything as much these days because when I get home from work, I'm usually ready to take off my thinking cap for a while and most of my games very much require me to keep it on.
> I would love to hear his side of the story.

Some of his side of the story has been told in the leaked emails:

https://www.hdevalence.ca/etc/34de2f3c2a48f7da/EmAiLs.txt
The PDF reader is pretty interesting, because don't modern browsers ship with PDF readers? To decode the embedded JPEG2000s, the browser has to be able to decode them right?
If I remember right the "longer path" thing was in Encarta, there was a guy that used Encarta to prove to me that the theory is right and I believed it m it made sense I am wrong and not the encyclopedia.
"According to information The Aviation Herald received on March 4th 2017 the CL-604 passed 1000 feet below an Airbus A380-800 while enroute over the Arabian Sea, when a short time later (1-2 minutes)"

They saw the plane, and 1-2 minutes later... bang. We already went over this.
I've also run into exactly this tactic:

"When I informed the project reviewer and the other fellows that, in fact, I had resigned due to sexual harassment, Dan sent a response which opened with a long, irrelevant, and inaccurate story about how my work was low-quality, my research contribution was minor, etc. "

Myself and a business partner had a web startup that we ran from 2002 to 2008. I was the CTO, he was the CEO -- at first the titles didn't mean anything because the whole company was just the two of us. Later we had some money and we hired some people. He was nominally in charge of sales and raising funds from investors, but as the years went by, he struggled with the stress. He started smoking way too much marijuana. I eventually lost all faith that I could build anything with him. For years he had tried to win me over with excessive praise (especially when we had no money) but when I told him I was leaving, suddenly he complained that my work had always sucked, I wrote terrible code, I aggravated everyone we'd worked with, I scared away all potential investors, etc. It is curious the way that particular mentality works. It's very much similar to what is described in the article. Once they realize they can not win you back, they feel an urgent need to delegitimate anything you might ever say.
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"It should be respected and fought for. "

Sorry, 100 million dead bodies is more than enough to convince me that Marxism doesn't work.
This sort of stuff, character assassination based on hearsay, used to be considered tabloid journalism, something no one with half a brain would read. Now it get's up voted every time on HN.
I have seen instances of Jake behaving inappropriately in front of DJB, and I'm pretty sure he saw.

I've heard Jake bragging about his sexual exploits on numerous occasions, including the sawzall story.

Not posting under my normal account for obvious reasons.
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So... Someone was literally assaulted with drugs and your response is to call them mentally ill?
Not having all of those probably makes live a lot better in a purely professional sense.
or make sure your appliance/software vendor isn't screwing up.
They were not flying at the wrong altitude - ATC cleared both aircraft to the same altitude on a collision course.
As a founder of 6 figure MRR SaaS, it is possible if you can hire good developers overseas for less. That said it is really useful if you know a little code or have someone who can vet good coders for you. Take your time with hiring.
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I don't know about that. I think mostly it has to do with having the power to pick and choose critical service providers, bully them, etc. If Michael Jackson and Steve Jobs had not been as wealthy and powerful as they had been, they would also both probably be alive.

Neither has much to do with being risk-takers, although you might be right that a higher arousal threshold desensitized them to risk. It may also be that people used to winning, on some level, expect to keep winning. Either way, we're not just talking about Fortune 500 C-levels here, plenty of people with loads of money and power did nothing to get it, and have no special qualities associated with that ability to get it.

They still often have bad outcomes.
Or we can just go to the demonstration that our flight instructor did in the first 5 minutes of our Aerodynamics 101 lectures.

Get a piece of A4 or Letter sized paper and try this experiment with it [0]. For best effect, hold both the edges closest to you in each hand and twist the front edge downwards to keep it straight and prevent the paper twisting which could inadvertently straighten it. (i.e. Not with one hand like he is doing in the video).

The Bernoulli principle with postulates the Venturi effect is about the only theory that can explain why the trailing edge of the paper moves UPWARDS when you blow across the top of the curved paper.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VVbajPqc0
After what happened to Assange, I can't help feeling skeptical of character-assassination pieces on people associated with Wikileaks.
If you'd ever experienced real privation, you would understand why they hang on to that "useless" stuff.
he just said he doesn't care :P
The implication of the article is that Dan has had more than 12 weeks to make his side of the story known, and has chosen not to.

What's Dan's side of the story going to be that would change your mind about raising pitchforks? That actually Jacob wasn't fired for sexual harassment from a previous job?
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Again this is recency bias. You think it's more significant because you're experiencing it.

'Knowledge economy' is a myth anyway. The 'knowledge economy' produces nothing of actual physical value to people and .com bubble 2.0 will burst within 5 years.
Just wait man. Many other people are about to come forward if even a little bit of this is true.

People in this thread have ALREADY started to back up the claims.
You can't possibly believe that ridiculous story? That he tried to poison someone with eye drops, and that the only evidence for this is that while nothing happened at the time, the eye in question has felt irritated ever since?! I don't even know how to respond! I'm not an expert on mental health so I don't want to go claiming this is due to one mental health issue or another, but I was brought up to believe that such stories are evidence of extreme paranoia.

EDIT:

> I was having panic attacks

This person admits to being mentally ill. I will be the very last to say that one form of mental illness (anxiety) has anything to do with another (whatever caused this paranoia) but I did want to add this to debunk the notion that there's no evidence that this person is mentally ill.
> They saw the plane, and 1-2 minutes later... bang. We already went over this.

We did, that's why it made zero sense that you said this was predicated on not being aware of the positions of other planes. They were aware of this a full 1-2 minutes earlier at least. They could've turned on the sign. The solution was totally implementable.
Socialists screwing things over and keynesian economics at work. Maybe not so much in the US as in Europe, but you were on the right track with your previous administration. Mindless state borrowing without any intent to pay back. Taxes. Then a single salary wasn't enough for a household so why not encourage women to get a job, be independent? Feminism. Then why not encourage immigrants work small jobs for us? Those are nasty/boring jobs anyway. Secularism. Now what? More taxes? Americans' incomes being tracked outside the country. Climate change taxes?

The Trump administration is merely a reaction (of the people fed up with this) against just that: political correctness, immigrants, feminism, socialism, taxes taxes taxes.
"Senseless violence of the sort you almost seem to be advocating (am I misreading?) could be easily suppressed by a modern police force."

What makes you think the police are going to be on your side in such a situation?
I think this post was meant in sarcasm but sadly it is a more accurate reflection of the world...
But it's certainly true that mum has not even one item of 'heirloom quality' or higher.
I haven't read the code, but regarding unsanitized user input... Isn't the user the, well, user, in this case?

Complaining about bad data in that situation is like complaining that an admin could hit the power switch.

Or maybe I've completely misunderstood the purpose of this software.
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The author of the article published what he claims were emails sent by Bernstein. If the entire story is fabricated, Bernstein's side is "I never sent those emails".
Places I've worked - in Australia and NZ - have adopted American spelling throughout the code in an effort to standardise with tools, APIs, etc.

That is, "Use American spelling wherever possible in the code" is part of the coding standard.
Microsoft, yes evil in present day, they never changed.

"Microsoft Blocks Windows 7/8 Updates on AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake Systems":

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusses-a...

was on HN yesterday, but Microsoft plays with the HN ranking algorithms, it vanished rather quickly due to more comments than voting points ratio:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883064

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I enjoy BTT bunches and use a non-apple keyboard/mouse.

Rebinding the f1-f4 keys to tab navigation (previous, next, close tab, new tab) works well. Rebinding extra mouse buttons to get gestures back on non apple mice (tilting scroll wheel to smart zoom). Other setups would be neat to hear about.

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i usually find that internet recipes on aggregators are only good for theme and approach. like, what spices to use for a dish, and whether to braise or saute. the recipe tends to suck in proportion to how specific you read it to be.
Those sorts of wars are largely in America's past. The real money is made in high-tech munitions: cruise missiles, anti-missile missiles, and drones with missiles.

If you're a defense contractor, you're not interested in selling "hundreds of thousands of boots on the ground," but rather guns (weapons systems) and ammo.

As a corollary, no one is lobbying politicians on behalf of a force increase at the scale you're suggesting. Private military contractors just don't operate at the "give the hoards of unemployed young men some plausible way to die" scale.

The situation you're referring to is more of an issue in countries with weaker economies and geographically close potential enemies.
That's both true, and misleading. It is accurate in our universe to certain limits, which is true for literally every theory we have.
My first introduction to Canada was something like this. The winter I got there the first time was some of the worst weather in decades, the trip from Dorval airport to Montreal was through a canyon just like the one in the picture. The only thing sticking out of the snow was the tops of the lampposts.

1997/1998 was quite the introduction to the concept of 'winter' for me. In NL a harsh winter might see one night of -15 and the rest of the time a bit below or around freezing. That winter saw one of the worst ice storms in Canadian history, lots of electrical infrastructure went down under the weight of the ice, power grid pylons breaking off like match-sticks.

Another place where these snow canyons are made in winter is Alaska.
It's hard enough getting eye drops in when both of you want them in, let alone when one side is unwilling.
Everyone knows it's mathematically impossible to replace the liquid inside eye drop containers with something else.
I question your impartiality in the manner considering your 3 (so far) posts on the matter dismissing it entirely.

> is so obviously mentally ill and in need of help

> I'm not an expert on mental health

> I was brought up to believe that such stories are evidence of extreme paranoia.

I too will reserve judgement until corroborating accounts are made. You may indeed be correct - but I will wait patiently. I don't think you're doing any of the accused any favors.
Not nearly as deep, but the Sierra should have lots of snow this summer. Reference https://www.nps.gov/lavo/planyourvisit/fourth-of-july-weeken...
"No. The defense's case does not hold water."
It wasn't written for your entertainment.
I can't understand why any corporate lawyer would let these massive liability exposures run around

A 'lawyer' isn't something stamped out by a cookie cutter. Just like humans, they're all different. Uber can simply acquire their lawyers straight out of Hollywood villain central casting:

Job interviewer: What should we do about all these
pesky laws that regulate taxi services?

Prospective Uber lawyer: err ...
move fast and break things?

Job interviewer: Congratulations, you're just the
type of employee we're looking for!

Until very recently that's worked out pretty well for them.
You're a scientist and a quantitative thinker. You need to analyze this domain like a quantitative thinker instead of simply reacting emotionally.

In situations where there are far more good ideas than funding, good ideas will be rejected. This is mathematics. No other outcome is possible (well, technically you could also distribute the same total resources among all good ideas instead of among a subset of good ideas, but spreading the same total budget across a much larger number of projects means a total of zero projects receive adequate funding to be completed and the resulting outcome is worse than the subset-funding outcome).

Good ideas being rejected doesn't mean it's "just a lottery" where no work needs to be done to select the ideas that are to be funded. Most ideas are not good ideas, even in situations where there are more good ideas than resources. Filtering down to that group of good ideas still takes considerable time and effort, even in the case where most of the good ideas will in the end not be funded because there are more good ideas than resources.

Most people don't get funded. Most people with good ideas don't get funded. That's not the fault of the system. It's mathematics that no one involved in the process wants but everyone involved in the process has to work with.
His wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum Doesn't seem to be the first time he has been accused publicly of sexual abuses. Very far from that.
Any more detail? There is a big gap between inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment and/or the assault allegations made.
If you throw enough shit at a wall, eventually some of it will stick. That's exactly the strategy being used here.
I am one of the people who upvoted this article. How else do you want people to bring problems out in to the open?

The author of the article used their real name, made several references to other people and told their side of the story. Now its up to the accused to tell their side of the story. Even take legal action if the story is untrue.

For an industry trying to get more females to take part in it, sentiments like this against possible victims is not what we should hold. Lets listen to both sides of the story and help make this industry something every one can work in.
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Google is working on another experimental messaging app

Does anyone want to buy in on a betting pool on how many messaging apps we're going to have from Google by Christmas?