skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were also targeted sanctions and freezing of assets of Russian and Chinese smugglers, which was the most important policy change. Realpolitik cargo culting prevented prior administrations from taking that extra step.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-sa...
He was 80 when he hauled a 40lb chest from his car to the hiding place, so presumably he could visit it now.
I thought that saying was pre-facebook
Because the cost of nuclear research and development alone is driving his decision to denuclearize, not some good, humanitarian intentions. North Korean society can't afford the development anymore.
Skipping a meal is easier than eating half a meal. When you begin eating, your appetite increases, making it harder to eat less.
I meant the phrase in the first paragraph ("when it doesn't matter, in the eye of the investor"). In fact there's nothing in that first paragraph that isn't false.
This is mainly about my struggle for open source funding in pure mathematics.
Can we remove this link? They didn't jail him for copying software. The issue was he created copies with the intent to sell them. He also branded the disks to make them appear as if they were created by Dell.
This is why you target high density development close to where the jobs are, and close to public transit stations. What increases traffic more: people living an hour away from work and commuting in because they can't afford living near work, or people living close to work because sufficient high density housing is built near the workplace?
I used to live in Brest which was also heavily bombed during WW2, and it's the same.

Every time they dig to start a new building, they find some exploded bombs. And each time, it's an evacuation of a lot of people in the city center to deal with it (easily a few hundred meters which in a city center means a few thousands people).

However, leftover bombs from WWII are a bit different. They tend to be bigger, hundreds of kilograms where the "typical" shell you find in old WWI battlefields are less than 10 kilograms. Also the problematic is a little different since on one side, it's a medium to big city, on the other it's mostly the countryside.
I'm curious if that kind of note would protect a publisher from potential legal liability, or if removing it is the only way to avoid that.
ummmm....HN is free. I'm just saying...
This context was important on the study:

> large doses of MSG given without food
My first computer was a ZX Spectrum my uncle passed on to myself and my brother in the late 80s. The games took a ton of time to load from cassette, but some of them were great fun. My fondest memory is playing Silkworm in co-op with my brother. I always thought the Sinclair machines looked cool too, they had a certain mystique I can't put my finger on.

Personal anecdote aside, it's safe to say that without the work of Rick Dickinson and his colleagues at Sinclair Research the UK computing industry would have been much slower to take off. The ZX Spectrum in particular was hugely popular in the UK (alongside its main rival the C64), and did more to push forward the UK computing industry than any other computer I can think of (and I say that as an Amiga fan). Even with the passing of Mr Dickinson his legacy lives on.
Mainstream media gets attacked for not doing enough fact checking, but also gets attacked for removing incorrect stories. I guess there's no way to win.
Good luck understanding the whole picture when everybody is so fucking keen on censorship! I'm fed up of this. Censorship is never the answer. Publish a correction. Publish a retraction. What the fuck is this!?
The paper by Hallmann et. al. studied insect biomass in nature-protected areas in Germany over a period of 27 years. They didn't refer to "habitat loss" in their paper, but do refer to "land use" as a broader generalization describing the overall biodiversity of foliage in areas surrounding the insect traps.

They measured a number of variables during the study (different aspects of weather and climate and land use), but failed to find a single explanatory variable to match the trend they were seeing. They proposed that the cause was something they weren't measuring.

Abstract: "We show that this decline is apparent regardless of habitat type, while changes in weather, land use, and habitat characteristics cannot explain this overall decline."

Results: "There was substantial variation in trapped insect biomass between habitat clusters (see Materials and methods), with nutrient-rich grasslands, margins and wasteland containing 43% more insect biomass than nutrient-poor heathland, sandy grassland, and dunes. Yet, the annual rate of decline was similar, suggesting that the decline is not specific to certain habitat types (S5 Fig)." "On average, cover of arable land decreased, coverage of forests increased, while grassland and surface water did not change much in extent over the last three decades (S3 Fig). Overall, adding land use variables alone did not lead to a substantial improvement of the model fit..." "These interactions, which were retained in our final model (Table 4), revealed higher rates of decline where coverage of grassland was higher, while lower declines where forest and arable land coverage was higher."

Discussion: "In light of previously suggested driving mechanisms, our analysis renders two of the prime suspects, i.e. landscape [9, 18, 20] and climate change [15, 18, 21, 37], as unlikely explanatory factors for this major decline in aerial insect biomass in the investigated protected areas." "Agricultural intensification [17, 20] (e.g. pesticide usage, yearround tillage, increased use of fertilizers and frequency of agronomic measures) that we could not incorporate in our analyses, may form a plausible cause. The reserves in which the traps were placed are of limited size in this typical fragmented West-European landscape, and almost all locations (94%) are enclosed by agricultural fields. Part of the explanation could therefore be that the protected areas (serving as insect sources) are affected and drained by the agricultural fields in the broader surroundings (serving as sinks or even as ecological traps)."

i.e., they're finding that habitat type is insufficiently correlated with the observed effects, and suggesting that some other effect related to nearby agriculture is the predominant cause.

The paper is free to download and very readable: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
The articles on most major newspaper websites these days indeed evolve after first publication. The text you are looking at at any given time isn't necessarily the exact text that was there a few hours ago, or at first publication. But they don't really tell you that or give you any way to see history.

On nytimes, sometimes you get a note at the bottom of a web article "This article, with slightly different text, was published on page X of the Y print edition." I can't find an example now so that's paraphrasing from memory.
Much less cities where you have the opportunity at multiple such large companies. Seattle has Amazon's HQ as well as Microsoft's, and presences from Facebook and Google.

You can be a Microsoft tech lead in Raleigh-Durham, too, but you aren't going to have as many opportunities with Amazon/Facebook/Google/etc there.
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What about your chances of dying while not spending your time outdoors, in one of the most beautiful parts of the United States?

A man died walking down the street in New York because a piece of fire escape fell off and hit him in the head. I wonder if he'd rather have died in the wilderness, if he were given the chance.
> If a department from a reputable university like Oxford calls itself the theology department, you're telling me that they're wrong and they aren't actually a theology department, they're something else instead?

If Harvard was founded a hundred years earlier they'd likely call their chemistry degree a bachelor's of alchemy, yet we'd all understand that they had just retained the name for historic reasons. Does anyone actually use the word theology to mean the secular academic study of religion?
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The news is a little hypercritical with it being free and all.
> But... why? SSL will eventually make it into the official Redis release.

"Eventually" it's 2018. It's too late.

I'm especially cynical and jaded about the insanity of running any plaintext protocols in 2018, why wasn't SSL/TLS implemented by now? It should have been at the top of the priority list.

People who think unencrypted traffic is okay should have their competency challenged. Sure, in very limited specific deployment models you can maybe get away with it without compromising security, but actually even in the most restrictive networks it is still an open door for exploitation.

It's the same kind of stupidity as Docker running as root by default... this stuff is amateur hour and these apps are mission critical enterprise tools. That's a bad recipe. In the 90s it was forgiveable, today it is not.

Kudos to the guy. Maybe it'll light a fire under the official project. Or maybe the fork will pick up steam. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
> where AI essentially meant rule-driven behavior like logic programming

I think the full history is a little more complex.

In the early days, there were two camps: the "connectionists" who worked on neural-net type stuff, and the symbolic reasoners who worked on hand-authored rule-based systems. Both fell under the "AI" umbrella, believed their approach was the one true one, and squabbled over funding and public perception. (Because public perception affects funding.) Remember that at the time, much AI research was government or defense funded, so politics was heavily involved.

The connectionists invented neural networks. The symbolic folks gave us Lisp, Prolog, and a lot of compiler and parser theory stuff.

The connectionists hit a wall in the sixties, and shortly after "Perceptrons" was published. That book deliberately pointed out the current limitations of neural networks and effectively shut down research into them for decades. It was one of the causes of the "AI winter" of the 80s.

After that, "AI" became roughly synonymous with symbolic reasoning and rule-based expert systems because that camp had won.

Then, in the 80s, backpropagation and other learning techniques for neural nets were finally figured out and those researchers started making progress again. Two AI winters had happened by then, so "AI" didn't have all of the positive connotations it used to (at least when it comes to funding) and the term almost solely referred to symbolic reasoning at this point, so they started using "machine learning" to refer to neural-network-based AI.

In the early 2000s, big tech companies found themselves with lots of cheap computational power and tons of data on their hands, the two key ingredients to make machine learning useful. Meanwhile, symbolic reasoning and expert systems had petered out.

So "machine learning" got bigger and bigger until eventually it became the main computer intelligence approach in town. On top of that, it's gotten smarter and smarter until the public has started associating it with the old image of what "AI" means. So now you see "AI" coming back to refer to what is, essentially, the same connectionist approach it used to include in the 60s.
The first Erlang platform was even written in Prolog.
The code above I believe is the point to jump to when the register has been assigned some value for x. Think along the same lines as a function call once the pre-amble is out of the way (or a ‘goto’ by someone who knows when to use it!)
NK rare earth minerals are fuel for the tech industry in SK.
Probably worth 6-10 trillions USD [0].
Well enough to pay any bill.

[0] https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/ljkelly/201...
So if I surreptitiously install a camera in your house and take pictures or video, then tweak the files so that their binary images denote prime numbers, all is cool; I'm just doing math, not invading your privacy.
Oh, I didn't realize the page said that. I should have read it more carefully. You're right that it's a combination of size and method used. The Mersenne numbers are especially easy to prove prime, so it's also interesting to keep track of the largest primes proved by other methods. I think these days a 2000 digit prime wouldn't be notable in any case, but it sounds like it was back when Carmody was doing this, so this was in fact a good example of an illegal number that was independently interesting.
Why bother publishing first-hand sources of history? Because new meaning or insight can possibly be gleaned from them.
There is a very easy way to win. Do not censor stuff. Own up to your mistakes and failings. Be responsible for what you publish. Maybe that is a foreign concept to modern "journalists".
Please don't disparage capitalism, it has no opinion on affordable housing, only people do. I'm a self-proclaimed capitalist, and affordable housing for ~all should be one of the highest priorities of a functioning society, capitalist or not.
The very first paragraph of the retraction notice:

> Editor's note on April 11, 2018: NPR has retracted the story that was previously on this page because it did not meet our standards. "Fairness" is one of our guiding principles, and to that end we have pledged to "make every effort to gather responses from those who are the subjects of criticism." In this instance, that did not happen.

So how does this not count as owning up to mistakes and accepting responsibility?

Your analogy with a git commit/`push --force` is flawed. In software, the end user is not at risk (without much deliberative effort) of running the buggy commit. In journalism, the article content is the actual end user product, and grievously erroneous content causes actual harm. Moreover, the mistakes that NPR admits to making were not just a "buggy" commit. It was the equivalent of checking in malware from the very first commit.
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> South Korea and the United States are politically weak right now ...

I don't know where you're getting news about Korea, but since his inauguration on May 2017, Moon Jae-In has been consistently enjoying approval rating of 60-70%. Even his party is enjoying ~50% support, while the chief opposition party (the conservative Liberty Korea Party) is struggling at 10-15% (although they do have 116 out of 293 seats at congress).

Moon is politically invincible now.
Why does Redis need SSL/TLS? It's meant to be used as a backend service across trusted networks. And if you need to use it over untrusted networks, you're best off using an actual server like NGINX or HAProxy to mediate it. Not to mention the killer feature of Redis is not neccessarily throughput, but it's best-in-class latency, which could be severely affected by SSL termination (and if you are doing SSL termination on the same machine as your Redis instance, you're doing it wrong.). This seems like added bloat to a really great lightweight tool.
Some of the context missing is many theology students intend to go into the ministry -- becoming a pastor. Or a missionary. Many of the people on this track are intensely passionate about this calling.

Many couples pair up because their goals coincide and they decide to do this together as life long partners.

Or, to put even more simply, the intersection of their shared values is much much higher than business majors.
If you intend to keep it "as is", it's not a problem.

But you would need to if you want it for it's moneytary value. Even selling in piece by piece on a black market, which is quite hard to do, will require you to advertise it.

However my guess is that whoever is smart enough to find it is smart enough to solve this problem as well.
This can come from the food itself, and many recipes—in fact, almost all recipes that aren’t either fast food or molecular gastronomy—were crafted to derive umami flavours from their ingredients, rather than being “boosted” after the fact.

Which is not to say the result isn’t the same as if they just added the MSG. It’s just a different approach to adding it.
I forked Redis years ago providing threads and SQL support, though I can't remember if transactions were supported now. This was done mostly for fun and as an experiment, learned a lot about locking and database internals in the process:

Main concept: http://thredis.org/

Implementation details: https://github.com/grisha/thredis/blob/master/README-THREDIS
Facebook’s product has always been highly targeted ad placement.

Users are in no way the product, and for people to keep saying that is grossly misrepresenting the business model and puts all sorts of weird ideas into people’s heads.

Unless you are being bought and sold you are not a product. There are people in this world who ARE products, and we should be doing everything we can to liberate them.
Governments that don't repress their own people are an outlier, not the norm.

Yet, every time Belgium, or the United Kingdom, or Canada or the Unite States is brought up, we don't always have the thread of discussion dominated by all the awful, but irrelevant things that they have done, or are doing.
>> Doesn't it look like the initial reading was the anomaly? Like the 1989 number is twice as big compared to 1991.

There's variation between years but a clear downward trend that leads to a significant reduction overall.

Intuitively, if that was money, someone would be pulling their hair out by the handful.
> just plain censorship

Who are they censoring, themselves? The word "Censorship" has been so abused in the past few years it has ceased to have any real meaning in casual conversation.

You can read their rationale for removing it rather than updating it here: https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2018/04/12/601650762/...

> Turpin said, "In order to fix the problems, we would have essentially had to construct a different story," a process that he said would have been "intellectually dishonest. There comes a point that you can't fix a story appropriately." He said the decision was not made lightly; "we believe strongly we don't want to disappear material for any reason if we can possibly keep from taking it down."
Fraud prevention can also be extremely annoying to customers when not done correctly. I've yet to be able to buy something from newegg without them cancelling the order saying its fraudulent. I'm not sure why they still continue to flag my orders considering I've contacted them every time and they've ended up authorizing it. At least now they don't immediately blame my credit card...

If it was a smaller company and more of an impulse buy I could see a bad system definitely hurting sales. I'd probably not order from newegg again if they weren't one of the few places that ship harddrives correctly and have reasonable prices.
The difference is that the existence of your bug in source code form harms no one. But the existence of an unethically reported story, even with a correction, can cause real harm. Using your analogy, your proposed correction would be to leave the bug in production, but give some "Hey, sorry, we made a mistake" message.
The problem seems to be that this area isn't truly wild, not even after the rewilding. The big predators are gone, along with some herbivores, and it's throwing everything out of whack. What happened is only slightly less predictable than if you let a bunch of cows loose.
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This is key. Kim is currently trapped, unable to relax his control because that would get him killed.

Kim knows that being a rich person in South Korea is mighty good. That may be his goal, but getting there won't be easy.
Parking fees, tolls, taxes, etc aren't market rate.

Also, visit any of the neighborhoods on the western half of San Francisco and you'll discover that it's de facto not allowed to be handicapped or pushing a stroller due to cars owning the sidewalks.
Maybe it depends on your shipping deal? Thinking they might just charge the account the different?
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At least with newspapers, you can spend some effort and money to track down the original printed piece. Web-only articles are going fully Orwellian! And the NPR no less!
I periodically deal with recurring fraud from what seems to be a pretty organized network.

- Orders are placed with stolen credentials with correct billing info that matches AVS.

- Shipto address are located near billing info, typically in the same state/metro area.

- They are often rural addresses, trailer parks, what appear
to be rent houses that may be empty.

- Phone number provided has correct area code and rings a call center that has stolen billing info available and will confirm billing address order details verbally.

- Ip is geolocated at/near the billing info area via a proxy.

- Email addresses are often setup on custom domains.

We catch them, but only because they don't vary the pattern much and we know what to look for. I don't know how fraud tools would be able to effectively filter in these cases without a lot of false positives.
Anyone know of a list of open puzzles/riddles like Fenn's poem, Kryptos, etc?
Stripe fraud prevention is not sophistocated at all. I have been trying different fraud prevention providers and all of them are lame. They check if the ip of the buyer matches the billing location of the card and if not they will not accept the order.
So far, the best method I have diwcovered is to verify the order by phone.
The phone number provides me with extra knowledge about my customer. I can match their buying ip address with it. I can talk to the customer in their language to verify they are who they say they are.
It is not bulletproof but I have yet to see fraudster go to that extend.

When you learn enough about your customers, you should be able to roll out your own fraud prevention solition because generic ones are broken. Here is a recent report about what works and what does not in the generic fraud prevention tools:
https://www.braintreepayments.com/resources/kounts-mobile-pa...
It was.

Some muscle loss is inevitable over an extended period of time, but muscle tissue and especially bone tissue aren't storage forms of energy. Fat is.

I definitely felt weaker at the end, but was back to my pre-fast strength level within a few weeks with regular exercise.

I can't assuage your concerns, and I'm not advocating that others do what I did. But, by being careful with electrolyte supplementation and extremely careful when re-feeding, the process was free of negative side effects, for me.
That's exactly the point of the question, though: when/how did sloths transition from "ancient" to "modern"? If ancient sloths were massive and formidable prey, as per the article, what happened? Were there always smaller and/or slower sloth varieties, and we just killed all the giant ones?

EDIT: As always, Wikipedia comes through [1]. There were species of different sizes, with tree sloths always being smaller than ground sloths [2], the giant of the article

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth#Evolution
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth
Sure, you can't ignore fraud.

We have a lot of those each months.

What is more important is to have a smart way to detect the frauds. Most clients that had received false positives never came back even with discount codes and apologies. Nobody likes getting stuck on a checkout page with an error message telling them they are in the wrong.
Being an authority on truth is a challenging role that requires caution and responsibility.

Doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater, but we should hold journalists to a high standard - journalistic standards have weakened in the past decade with the rise of clickbait and promoting partisan editorials as news.
Become a jeweler. Problem solved.