skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authenticity of those messages is not a given. Keep in mind, that's the task force that had multiple agents independently of one another steal thousands of BTC and launder the cash.

That whole investigation was shady as hell even outside of the agents who were corrupt and got caught. Keep in mind, those agents were the professionals looking for criminals doing that kind of thing. They of all people should have been good at stealing those coins and not getting caught. How many of them succeeded and weren't caught?

Also if the murder for hire allegations were legitimate, why was the task force even attempting that sting in the first place? The corrupt agent was the one who allegedly persuaded Ross to order the hit in the first place while he was simultaneously the guy who had stolen the BTC to begin with. That's textbook entrapment and I can't imagine that a DEA agent of all people would believe for a second that that would ever have a chance at standing up to scrutiny in a court.

The prosecution also knew about the corrupt agent who was behind much of the work on the case before the trial but at the time that wasn't public knowledge. They illegally withheld that information from the defense. Not to mention that the prosecution lied about how they identified the IP address of the Silk Road servers in the first place.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/how_did_the_f...

Looking at that traffic log, I'd wager that half of the people on this site are knowledgeable enough to realize that the prosecution committed perjury. Parallel construction is unethical enough as it is, this isn't that. They flat out lied about how they identified the server.

I think Ross certainly deserves a great deal of jail time for his crimes but that trial was a travesty of justice.
It is easier to extract oxygen from water and there is plenty of it - notice the difference in size between a fish' gills and a mammal's lungs. Pressure is only a problem if you try to fight it, keep your body at the same pressure as the surrounding water and you're fine.
I see a great divergence coming: take a look at a culture divide in between rich Chinese cities, and the rest of the country. The divide is visible in everything from aesthetics in art, to attitudes to marriage, the proletariat and 1% are a world apart.

I see the same coming sooner or later to the rest of the world.
Even the HackRF clones are a quarter of the cost and are much more capable than a 20-40 dollar SDR
r/RTLSDR has a lot of great info.
Illegality also encroaches users to use drugs in a way that maximizes their effect, such as injection, insufflation or smoking. Cocaine is, for instance, active orally, but few people take it that way these days.
Reddit has a really nice community of rtl-sdr enthusiatist http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR
There isn’t the road infrastructure for most people to feel comfortable riding a bike in the US, so people give up riding bikes after the get a driver’s license, and their bike handling skills and confidence go down.

Also, most bikes in the US aren’t practical like dutch bikes, they’re harder to maintain and they don’t have fenders or racks.
Those people protesting a rise in their fuel costs should first be jailed for about 5 years.

After that they can choose:

* receive a special card which will allow them to continue to purchase fuel at 4x the normal rate.

Or:
* be deported to go life in subsaharan Africa.

There should be NO SYMPATHY for such an attitude at this point in human existence. Time to wake up and smell some covfefe.
This sounds less like serious academics more like "kids these days, am I right?". Identity politics, nationalism, tribalism are all very pre-modern and just never went away. I think you could easily argue that they've diminished to an all-time low and not the other way around. The reason we hear so much about it now is that in past generations, race and class strata of society were simply an unspoken fact of life and the current trend of public whining is just a reaction to the walls coming down. Asking for social justice is not new, it's just being listened to now instead of stamped out.
There is a lot to unpack here, honestly.

Simple infrastructure is one of them. Many folks don't have safe options for bicycle transportation, regardless of whether you live in a city or not. Lack of sidewalks, lack of bike lanes, and lack of folks watching out for you. If you live outside a small town, you might have to take non-main roads and have a much longer commute as well.

Weather is an issue in some areas as well. While I can get studded snow tires for a bike here in Norway, I couldn't get them in Indiana. Not only are there these things, but employers frowned upon people arriving to work sweaty or wet (from rain). There were often no employee break rooms to change in, let alone a safe place to store one's bicycle or accessories while one is at work.

Another thing I'd like to point out is that the bicycles themselves were differently styled, at least judging what I saw in Amsterdam. Often, they had wide seats with springs and decently wide tires and a basket or two to hold your stuff. A bike built for comfort plus a place to put stuff helps tremendously.

This leads me to my final point: Distance. I imagine that you can reasonably travel to the grocery store and whatnot on a bicycle. Unfortunately, things are pretty spread out in much of the US. You might have to drive for 20 minutes to get to the grocery store because there aren't any near your house or on your way home from work. This takes much longer on a bicycle. If you do have convenience in this area, you are often paying more for it.
Not only was it dismissed, it was dismissed with prejudice. He cannot be charged with that now or ever in the future.
preference != requirement. Some companies prefer to higher from a specific state school, that again causes them to pay more for less talented applicants.

Suppose you have two applications one with your hidden preference and one without. If your preference has say slightly less experience or requires slightly more pay, well they are a slightly better applicant in your mind so that’s ok.
If you are vulnerable to `sleep()` you are vulnerable to `drop table...` and `select * from users...` . Sleep is not the issue at all.
This paper has some information: http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506 (see "The Distribution of Biomass Across Environments and Trophic Modes").

They divide biomass up into three environments, with 6 Gt C in "marine", 70 Gt C in "deep subsurface" and 470 Gt C in "terrestrial". You can also see in their analysis that the huge biomass bias towards the land is due to plants and fungi, which overwhelmingly favour the land; among animals there is actually more biomass in the oceans.
Because there are vast quantities of methane under the permafrost and if they escape to the atmosphere the temperature will rise by a lot.
I agree. If you see comprehensions as map+filter, they make more sense, but it's also exactly that reason that makes them more complex.

List comprehensions are basically a watered down gateway drug to functional programming. Everyone who has ever taken a functional programming course loves it (rightly so), and often tries to find places to use it. Comprehensions do quite a bit in a single expression, it's easy to see that inch towards functional programming.

However, junior developers haven't taken a functional programming courses. They learn to program instructions or statements line-by-line. They are told (not entirely accurate) that every clock tick, the processor moves forward one unit at a time. Your mind starts to imagine the processor in that way, executing a line and going on to the next. Do this, then move forward, then do that. This is procedural programming.

A list comprehension doesn't quite fit that model, because it does quite a bit in a single line (generally map + filter, sometimes reduce).
They teach you that units of complexity can generally be broken down line-by-line.

Of course list comprehensions can be formatted to multiple lines, but it is intrinsically something quite different. A list comprehension is not a statement (e.g., var foo = b + 5), it's an expression (['b' if x < 1 for x in y]) and a pretty complex expression at that.

Junior software developers are taught about statements, going line-by-line. They aren't taught about functional programming or complex expressions. I love python comprehensions, but I wish they were presented in a way that was as easy to understand as a for loop with an if statement.

Senior developers wouldn't care, but it would open up a giant world to junior devs.
This is a Brexit / no longer having access to Galileo military grade tracking issue rather than NIH. Incase you were wondering.

Nothing on costs though. I assume this would have to be global in scope.
I started on the Project Euler problems years ago, and like most naive coders I took the brute force route. After discovering the problems have a deeper mathematical basis I decided to start again and learn some math. Wikipedia illustrates with the first problem, the difference in elegance and efficiency knowing some math can make.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Euler
I've been waiting five years for that, I suspect it isn't coming.
Climate change is causing this.

Every ecoystem on Earth took 10s of millions of years to find it's equilibrium. Everything living in those ecosystems is a product of millions of years of adaptation and evolution.

If you go and change the temperature, the amount of water & the seasons, then it is a big rug pull under the feet of evolution. Everything can and will collapse.

Look at what is happening in the arctic... now that permafrost is melting, you have massive, uncontrolled methane release.

People think that we can continue to pump CO2. We are very wrong about that.

I just wish it were the pine beetles as the ones dying out.
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Do you think that those companies would exist in their current form without the consumers (/the actual population) buying stuff made by those companies?
You’re not wrong, but this has nothing to do with the parent’s comment. He was saying “in the future” metaphorically, not literally in the future of society.
thanks a million :)
I think postmodernism also affected journalism. It was more important to invite both sides of the argument rather than care about facts. But I think the attitude has been changing lately, with the ecological dangers and dangers of fascism that this system brings.
Suprisingly, they never mention what Autonomy is selling. Have everyone in UK heard about the company?
Whether tall people are considered more attractive will almost certainly depend on local culture, and fashion, but I think I read about a study showing that in one particular European city taller women tended to marry someone from a higher social class.

However you define "social class", you'll probably find higher social class is associated with higher intelligence, however you define "intelligence".

There are loads of research papers on "height" and "social class", though perhaps they are mostly concerned with nutrition rather than genetics.
See my other answer to a similar question above, but basically for-loops and comprehensions are different due to their "learn-ability" and "read-ability". For-loops are easy for novice programmers to understand and functionality is broken up line-by-line as the processor consumes instructions. Comprehensions are an expression, and do several things in a single line. Novice programmers don't understand them, and I do believe that even for expert developers, they are harder to read than an equivalent for-if loop.
By how much? Any serious analyses online about this?

What would a runaway greenhouse effect realistically look like? Venus?
Did you try 271117 as the invite code?
All our evolved natural systems are collapsing, and are being replaced by crude early-stage technological ones. "Fighting" each as a separate policy issue is a continuation of the fluffy-minded & neurotic economic/business attitude which cannot cope with facing physical reality.

We're almost certainly stuffed. This was probably always inevitable, because the naked ape likely lacks whatever capacities might be needed to operate at planetary scale. But we'll never know, because we refused to even give the alternatives a try. Well, too late now.
These have enough artistic value to go to the Library of Congress or the Met.
Yes, but the rest of his posts proves he has a brain.
This is just not true. SQL injection attacks account for between 7-30% of web application attacks:

https://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/most-common...

https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/web-application-a...
The right way to read such a book really depends on your learning style and personal circumstances.

Personally, I tend to skim; I find most texts to be far too verbose. But then if I find a part that I'm interested in or want to explore at length, then I'd read it more in-depth.

I think classical books suffer from a lack of features like hyperlinks. This is, authors either have to say something or not say it; they can't just say something concisely with links for readers who want to read more (Note below). As a result, textbooks tend to be cluttered.

Skimming helps you to cut through the clutter to get what you need. But since you'll almost certainly miss points while skimming, it'll tend to involve bouncing back-and-forth rather than a straight read-through.

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Note: Of course, footnotes like this, along with appendices and references, are partial substitutes for active content. They're far more limited (Meta-note below) and have a much higher overhead on both reader and writer, but they're still often better than cramming everything into the body of a text.

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Meta-note: Because, seriously, who wants to trace recursively nested footnotes? For more discussion on this topic, please see "_References: Why they're inconvenient_", p.156.
Author is not from USA. It’s common everywhere except for ‘murica to put currency sign after the amount...
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I read programming books just like normal books, and take time to examine the example code. I am currently reading a book about Swift design patterns. I dont try to learn how to implement it but instead on how to use a certain design pattern what it does etc. By the time I need it I look it up and implement it for my problem.
Great breakdown of events here:
https://schneid.io/blog/event-stream-vulnerability-explained...
Yes, the difference is enormous. Use e.g Verlet integration and it’s much more stable. That it’s also much simpler and more elegant RK4 is an added bonus.
Yep Galileo is open and anyone can use it same as GPS. The military component is reserved for EU members.
The real inconvenient truth is that marriage still works best as 'an economic institution designed to build wealth and raise children'. It is the best vehicle we have designed for doing those things; other arrangements have proven sub-optimal. It may also accommodate other needs, but those are secondary. Ironically, those who realize this tend to have happier, more loving marriages.
I've read that they (the navies) are reluctant about adding firepower, because the pirates would so the same (or "natural selection" would mean the knife-wielding pirates will stay home and only the AK-47 and RPG-wielding ones will continue), which will mean all the ships would need defending against powerful pirates.

It's a bit like policing in the US.

A sister comment to yours has a saner opinion, I'd add why not fight the African poverty/corruption that cause these people to attack ships.
> What am I doing wrong?

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. Depending on how the book is written, some might be really boring and unchallenging, pick another one! If you are looking for brain-wrecking adventure and some good story telling, pick something that starts with number theory. If you are looking for understanding the bread and butter for most recent big discoveries and theory crafting, pick something that focus on Complex Analaysis, High dimensional calculus or partial differential equations. If you are planning to stick in the field of computer science for good, pick something that focus on abstract algebra _and_ probabilty theory.

> I often get bored because I don't see the usage in my real life coding.

Then you don't need mathmatics. Depending what you do in coding, there is really rare type of work that need mathematics. Sciences and Mathematics are so far from practical use they are there purely for the sake of knowledge. This isn't just you, it's the case for everyone. Unless some day you find the interest to battle that boredom, the probability of you finding some usage from mathematics might be very unlikely.
Yes, that's correct for my site currently. But what I had in mind is to have the invite code in the sheet itself and then when one submits, I check the entered code with the code in the sheet and then add/not add the rsvp.

However, due to timing constraints, I couldn't do this and instead used a simple encryption algorithm to have the hacker at least put in some effort to know the invite code :)

I will raise an issue on github for this.
My concern with manual labor jobs is not the effect on my body, it's the effect on the mind. Like I said in the previous comment, after a hard day of manual labor, sure I was tired, but I was mostly bored out of my mind. Moving some heavy object X from position A to position B gets less romantic when you've done it 50 times.

Sitting in an office desk for 30 years can't be good for you either, but if it's in a position to keep my brain active (even if my muscles aren't), I'd take that job a thousand times before going back to pure labor.

In fact, one of the most memorable parts of those summer jobs was creating a shoulder rest for the 25 lbs bottles to sit on, out of discarded plastic. I honestly can't remember whether it worked at all or not, but I definitely remember being far more interested designing and cutting this piece of plastic than carrying bottles of water.
The sense of massive deja vu settles over me when I see these pieces. Or more accurately: hasn't this been done already?

I studied continental philosophy as a graduate student about ten years ago and have kept up since as much as possible.

Continental philosophy was the spawning pool for the loose cluster of tendencies[0] that form the concept of postmodernism in the imagination of most - Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard.

At this time, it seemed definitively that this set of ideas this lot was on the way out. There was even a term for what was bad about them, as captured in After Finitude: An Essay On The Necessity Of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux: correlationism[1]. The idea that human thought never "got at" the truth because of intermediate cognitive or societal structures or biases. There was a whole movement against correlationism called speculative realism[2]. In the UK at least, indeed, the focus of continental philosophy that preceded it seemed to oppose this postmodernism taken as a name for this cluster of thinkers. Broadly, a solid focus on Deleuze resulting in "new materialisms" (often scientifically informed) and a figure like Alain Badiou (Meillassoux's tutor) who very much attempted to stake out the ground for Truth with a big-olde-capital-T.

So to me that it is still a live term and people are talking about it so much is pretty strange. Of course that continental philosophy influences other discourses, and that both Derrida and Foucault were quite interdisciplinary in their work. So one could say this is some sort of institutional lag. But it is an odd thing to observe[3].

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[0] I say this because Foucault and Derrida are better described as post-structuralists and this is what they would have considered themselves as. Lyotard helped assist the terms with his work certainly in La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir but it was a term of societal diagnosis rather than support. I feel that postmodernism as a cluster term was the result of the reception of these theories in American literary theory departments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_ontology#Criti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_realism

[3] I'm not actually adjudicating here on the merits or otherwise of those thinkers grouped as postmodern. That's another topic.
Still, I suspect that certain words, when quickly typed, have specific sounds.
1) Use keys, not click on buttons.

2) The collision detection algorithm sometimes fails at detecting that the ball is on the pad.
Those phrases can definitely be abused. When used correctly I think they invite the reader to actively engage with the text and learn to think for themselves instead of passively have everything given for them. The author needs to make sure that they’ve actually given enough information up to that point that the reader, with maybe a few minutes of thought, can see why it’s “clear” or work out the similar case in their notes.
You’re right. Facebook should take this seriously. Their reputation is at stake — which we all know isn’t 5 star lately.
You can find a lot of information in threads that have been discussed here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=permafrost&sort=byPopularity&p...
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I watched a video recently reviewing various versions of Monopoly video games through the years. We got two or three reviews of past games, all rated with either disdain or apathy; they were followed up by a sun-comes-out-its-butt glowing review of the most recent title by Ubisoft that seems to have been rated as somewhere between mediocre and terrible by other outlets.

Even if the review was absolutely genuine, and this was a reviewer espousing love for an otherwise universally-ignored game, I couldn't help but feel I was just watching an advertisement and promptly closed it.

I don't blame anybody for this, but this is seriously ruining my ability to enjoy YouTube content.
I worked with NHK on the London 2012 Olympics. It was unreal. Generally more static shots as that much screen real estate / clarity gives you so much to look at. Probably not that important at home though, as there's a golden ration of distance/pixel density+size and 4k is probably at that edge, even HD is fine for small front rooms (unless you've got a very large front room and TV). Better pixels, not more pixels
>Instead of seeing a group of dwarves, high frame rates made them look like a bunch of guys in funny costumes.

It wasn't for lack of trying either - they went to ridiculous lengths with film grain and motion blur.
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Height and intelligence are only correlated in the general population, not within families. The current hypothesis is there is not a direct genetic connection, but it is due to assortive mating.
YouTube Vanced. It replaces the YT app.
>granted land as a reward for their brutality in combat.

Isn't that also revisionism? You don't exactly win wars by being chivalrous. Hacking some one to death at point blank range isn't ever going to be nice.

We attach similar ideas today, to modern soldiers. Cognitive dissonance isn't a new thing.

Yes modern ideas of chivalry are just that, modern. I have no problems believing that they, and their culture believed they lived a 'good' life.
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> I’d argue that a true beginner shouldn’t trust their intuition unless they have the rigor to prove it is correct.

Yes, which is why you want a teacher until you reach that stage.

> The point is not to study rote solutions, but to check correctness.

Looking at others solutions can in no way prove that your solution is incorrect so I am not sure how those would help you. However having access to others solutions often makes students doubt their own solutions if they don't look very similar, this hampers their growth since they learn to distrust intuitions which are actually correct.
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