skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and there are already AI/Machine learning solutions for this problem. The paper detailing this must be a few years old already.
The business model for botnets
Well, you should have a problem with calling them evil based on a few actions that you consider evil without taking all of the other things the US has done into account.

Doing one evil thing doesn't necessarily make someone evil. Doing a few evil things doesn't necessarily make someone evil either.

If a doctor who has saved thousands kills one person, are they evil? What if that person was a convicted child rapist? What if it was in self defense? What if killing them would save a thousand more? What if killing them would save 10,000 more but the doctor doesn't care about that and would have killed them anyways?

Deciding whether a single person is good or evil is a very complex process. Deciding whether a country or a military is good or evil is enormously more complex and needs to take a lot more into account that you just did.
Start with simple books to warm up those grey cells. For maths, I recommend Mathematical Circles: Full of fun discrete math problems.
Was a physics student. IMO the best book you can drill questions from is Boas' Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. It offers fairly succinct yet comprehensive overviews of various fields of math. I still have my copy sitting at home. It is considered an essential textbook for any physics student.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Methods_in_the_Ph...
That video seems to have been copied everywhere, and the copy you linked to seems to be on a fringe UFO conspiracy channel.

As far as I can tell, this is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
Hades Canyon on average scores in between 1050 and 1060, in some games much better in other much worse (GTA V). Your 970 should be much faster unless there is something wrong with your tower (970 often beats 1060). In VR Hades is going to be way faster though.
Is there any constitutional right that isn't also regulated
with all manner of laws on top of it? Why would the gun one be any different?
​Making mesh networks just got much easier with Wi-Fi Alliance's EasyMesh
>The real issue is that these arbitration clauses can be put in a non-negotiable, all-or-nothing contract by the more powerful and savvy party to the determent of the weaker one.

In this case, given the difference in power between the two entities, I think the issue is still consent not being valid. Arbitration is one bad thing to stick in, but there are many other clauses that a person would normally not agree to but who are coerced by the situation to agree to. To me the issue is still a matter of given consent when in a coercive interaction where the parties involved has significant power differences.
Or make it easier to conceal carry a weapon through all 50 states. It's completely natural to arm oneself for self defense. Criminalizing this is criminalizing our human nature to be prepared and ready.
> This is not to say that the two are necessarily connected so much as it's to say that not investigating the timing of the two is to exhibit a lack of due diligence.

They don't even have to be connected with any explicit quid pro quo between the parties. It could all be implicit from the Chinese government knowing full well who the owner of the Trump Organization is.

Trump had a recourse, he could have easily put his assets in a blind trust. Instead, he should suffer the consequences.
I have a question for the people who applaud them.

Do you think USA should have no military?

Would you vote to dismantle it?
Of course you can. That won't be Signal though, just an another network using its code, and there's already XMPP, so there's no need for that.

> (and thus doesn't allow other apps to connect to their servers)

"thus"? You can easily use centralized model and allow the client ecosystem to thrive. You don't have to do much, just don't actively prohibit them.

And I know the blog post, it isn't very convincing.
Banks are already bumping up against the limits of AI in lending decisions
Windows 10 Mobile is supported until December 2019.
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It's literally the same thing that allowed concentration camps to happen. Or, in the words of the late Sir Terence:

“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”

— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
> What a weird take this is. There's no need to look for monsters under the bed. The much simpler explanation is that arbitration interests are aligned between the State and businesses -- lower caseload for an already overworked court system, and lower costs for business. Since those are the groups with power in the situation, it is only logical that they would choose arbitration.

These two explanations aren't even contradictory unless the state is motivated by profit, which it clearly isn't, so your comment seems like a bit of a red herring.

Your comment makes an implicit assumption that the goal of the state ought to be maximizing its revenue to expenses ratio. Some (e.g., the writers of the US constitution and the bill of rights) believe the state's interests ought to be aligned with those of the underlying population.

When the goal of the state flips from "profit" to "maximize general welfare", it's no longer obvious that "decreasing court expenses" at the expense of "eroding consumer protections" is necessarily in the state's best interest.
I doubt they're doing that, but it can be done realtime. Here's an example that runs in your browser, just move your mouse around and her eyes track it. http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/gaze_dolores.html

[Edit: Disclaimer, I work at MS but not on Surface. I also don't know if there is post-processing applied to the video I linked, so maybe it can't be done realtime.]
Teams has voice?
That's not the conspiracy. In fact there's no conspiracy needed; just a belief that private individuals (including companies) are better at coordinating than the state is. And it's not even a controversial belief. What makes all the difference is how much of an imbalance of power between contracting parties you're prepared to accept before you think the state needs to intervene. That's a sliding scale, not a binary distinction.
> Still not paying their taxes

Sorry, not familiar with this and googling isn't turning up anything. Is this the IRS's opinion or just your own?
There have been a couple (or more) guys throughout the years that designed and implemented their own extra cushioning on their helmets, like this: http://www.helmethut.com/DrDelrye/Dr102808a.jpg

The extra foam was always on the outside, I believe. Not sure how well it worked.
thank god, tired of paying extra for "whois privacy" that various registers offer

running a hobby project should not require you to share your private contact details with the world
Right, and if the two parties, of their own volition, decide to use arbitration instead of courts, that's a good thing. But it should never, ever be required to sign away your rights for redress in the courts as part of any agreement.
You'd think that people would know that concepts like "good" and "evil" are complex and somewhat subjective. There are plenty of times when you can kill someone and not be considered "evil".

At the very least, most people agree that killing in self defense is not evil.
I don't remember exactly but it may be $PATH.

I run into this trying to run rvm-managed Ruby scripts in cronjobs. The solution (IIRC) is to explicitly reference the interpreter you want to run in the cronjob line.
The military industrial complex is a huge employer, both in the state of California and the rest of the county. The likelihood of enough people saying no to a high paying job like this is effectively zero.

And even if - wave a very large magic wand - every AI/ML engineer in the United States pledged to not work on military applications, the U.S, would just contract that same work out from the U.K., Canada, etc...
Only if you're operating under the assumption that the NSA has broken all modern encryption algorithms
I agree, but pretty sure that 90% of the average users doesn't need geo-replicated safety. It's nice to have, of course, but does it worth it? You can buy a couple of HDDs for multiple backup copies and it's an order of magnitude cheaper.
Remind me what is the population of Swiss again ?
I think your goal to "learn math/physics" is too broad. Steven Hawkins was still trying to learn about physics before his death.

Define what "understanding physics" means to you and then figure out how to get to your goal.
some incoherent ramblings...

I would be curious to see the list of employees who quit for this purpose. They are making a statement. They might as well publicly disclose their identities to inspire more people.

Also, wondering. Are most of them financially independent to have made this decision? When money is not an worry, people have freedom to truly align themselves externally with their internal core values. If you are constantly worried paying rent or securing your kids future - people make compromises. That is not ideal to build a great society.
We have had pretty good (albeit not perfect) experience with Skype for Business over the last few years. We use it with Office 365 and the Cloud PBX, so we don't have any PBX/POTS or server hardware in our office, and we haven't had many issues with connectivity, especially in the past year or so. The meetings work very well, the PBX functionality works great, presence is a huge plus across all the Office products, and the ability to federate communications and presence with other businesses has been great for our consulting business. And paired with low-cost Polycom phones on the desk, the hardware/software combination is excellent and the value is truly there. It's not without its flaws, though: IMs in particular often get lost when you have multiple devices (i.e. a message goes to your mobile and you don't see it on the desktop), the mobile apps (especially Android) are pretty horrid, and the future of merging with Teams makes things uncertain (although promising).
Yeah but your good guys and their good guys will not be the same for ever.
State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models
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> Data Classes are a cool feature, useful, and a superior alternative to namedtuple.

I'm curious, how is it "superior" to NamedTuples?
I think that's just building the idea that it's going to be a painful and uncomfortable process
Sometimes I can "hear" my processor working through my headphones. I'm not sure how, but, for example, when I scroll down a page I can hear high frequency chirping in my headphones which stops as soon as I stop scrolling.
Depends on culture. I've been developing technology for customers for some time as a freelancer, without many contracts/regulations etc. Worked fine.
It's hurting my brain to think about this. Surely if you aren't looking into the lens then your eyes will not appear as if they are looking at the person since the lens's perspective is the source for the projection on the other side.

Like, if I take a picture of myself with a camera and look directly into the lens then my eyes are pointing directly forward. If I now continue looking at that same point but move the camera up on a step-ladder, the image I am going to get would not have my eyes aligning directly into the camera. How do you get around that?
Are you also against end-to-end encrypted messaging? Telegram is used extensively by ISIS - who does actual evil and deliberately targets civilians.
I'm thinking that they have a problem with the military, period, and don't think soldiers should have been in Iraq etc in the first place. Its an issue of trust.

And then you have the argument that if you reduce the human cost of wars, you make wars more likely.
Yeah - most people would agree that GraphQL is a better way to access data than, say headless Chrome via Puppeteer. Many folk here prefer TeX over Word because the former encourages seperating content from presentation. But when it comes to the shell, suddenly everyone hates the idea.
It's very complicated and has no good answer that would be acceptable to everyone. Pakistan is a hotbed for terrorism and radicalism; the strategy of drone strikes is not only intended to kill "ticking bombs" but also to destroy organizations and keep them busy while being constantly on the look out. Much more difficult to carry out another 9/11 when you need to sleep in a different place every day, or when your most senior operative is 23 because all of the seniors before them have perished.

It's hard to argue how effective this tactic is, being that:
a. most everything relating to this is classified
b. it's very difficult to assess how many terror operation were prevented by those actions, even if you have the classified data above.

An amazing book on this subject of state sponsored assassination I advise anyone to read is Rise And Kill First, by Ronen Bergman, detailing Israel's assassination policy from operational, political and societal perspectives - truely fascinating.
NFL players are like the modern gladiator. They look resplendent in their armor.

It's core to the image of Football.
Having finally gotten back to rust after one false start (using it for the Synacor Challenge), I'm glad to see it continue to flourish.
I'm the exact same way, my job is really heavy in linear algebra, so it sticks more easily for me.

Usually I go through the code and ask "what am I trying to do here" and "can I do this a better way". A lot of the aforementioned speedups have come because the previous developer was obviously trying to do something, like create a linear projector, but were following some sort of math formula, so made a bunch of extraneous matrices that were huge.

It's a simple fix, but adds up when you're dealing with massive datasets.
I believe, correct me if I am wrong. You need Intel machine to get Thunderbolt. This isn't really a technical issue, just Intel won't sell Thunderbolt Chipset to non Intel Platform. And even if some MB manufacturer tried, they were pushed back by Intel.

But Thunderbolt is going to become an open standard. So hopefully that means lot of people will be design or selling IP for SoC. And I hope it would be in time for AMD to include it in their Zen 2 products.
A couple of tiny hardware side projects that aren't counting on thousands of users anytime soon
Very insightful tutorial, thank you Evan
That is correct. Of course even if the original sample was returned, a digital analysis of it could remain.
Granting authorities from county to county use different and arbitrary criteria for licensing to concealed carry. Many counties including the one I live in don't authorize permits for law abiding citizens, no matter how well trained, for self defense. I'm a serious competitive shooter (USPSA 3gun), I shoot trap and 5-stand, and I am an avid hunter. I have attended over 100 hours of defensive pistol training, and yet, I cannot qualify for a concealed carry license in my county of residence because the Sheriff will only give them to cronies and political backers. This is what creates the badge factories, which I personally do not support. I'd rather your county of residence have stringent criteria, extensive mandatory training, and frequent re-qualification, where only highly proficient, and highly trained citizens are permitted to carry.
Neat project!

I'm not sure if the author is familiar with ambient occlusion, but the method described here can be extended to generate ambient occlusion data which helps with a couple flaws. In particular:

- Although the shading is very nice (see Figure 8), the long shadow rays are distracting and are not very useful for cartography.

Ambient occlusion extends the idea presented here, except that instead of sending rays towards a relatively small light source, consider the light source to be the entire hemisphere of the sky, like on an overcast day. The result is wonderfully soft light that conveys form much like Figure 8, but without shadows.

Simply send out more rays to the entire sky hemisphere to create this effect.
Also also, treating life as a fifth fundamental force of the universe when chemistry explains all the components just fine is… well, literally pretentious.

No. Stating that chemistry explains all the components of life just fine is literally pretentious.

Maybe chemists should stop researching since they already explained everything?
This is the driverless race car of the future
I'm not saying people should not show projects or doesn't belong here. I really like "Show HN" myself, but why did this particular project made to HN front page is what I don't understand.
yes it's been gone for multiple years.
you can not order one right now, out of stock
In the short term WHOIS is going to be limited to just the registrant organization, state, country and a masked email address (Admin and Technical fields will be removed save email). This is short term to come into compliance with GDPR.

Long term ICANN intends to create a privileged group (other registrars, law enforcement, etc) Who will be able to get to the full whois data. So a sort of tiered system. Expect this to take a minimum of a year. The ICANN multi stake holder model means nothing happens fast.
I prefer 4:3 for tablets, but I'm glad we can all agree that 16:9 was a mistake. Even 16:10 would have been better as a standard.
I just want to congratulate those Googlers. It isn't something usual to quit a good job due to ethical concerns. The World would be a lot better if there were more people like you.
Where do you get that these people aren’t being paid?
What about the idea the Noldor had, that they had seen great beauty in Valinor but they’d see even greater beauty through their suffering? They could’ve stayed and let the Ainur protect them from Melkor, but they chose to stoke a sense of honor, and fight for themselves.

I don’t think Tolkien sees this as a fundamentally deleterious development. But I haven’t seen how it ends for the Noldor so I don’t know. :)

As for Melkor, I don’t see him as fundamentally a force of decay. Destruction, yes. But Ilúvatar seems to have constructed Eä such that Melkor will always fail, that destruction will lead to differentiation and new lifeforms: not decay.

I wonder if this is an allegory for the way that life seems to defy the 2nd law of thermodynamics... not literally, the end always comes, but by creating a kind of a standing wave which seems to defy entropy, even if it is doomed to eventually decay.
Okay that's what the article says but the tweets specifically say that they attacked the credibility of some very well respected security experts
That's generally caused by poor shielding between components, to save on cost.
Co. Smith's case appears to be well-documented.
All the letter said is that my sample was destroyed.
I agree, this is a great starting point. It contains a selection of articles on such diverse subjects as hot rods, Phil Spector, insomnia-inducing Las Vegas, NASCAR (and moonshining), 60s dance crazes (the mashed potato, etc), The Beatles landing at JFK, Cary Grant, Muhammad Ali, Nannies in NYC, and suits with real buttonholes. All are fantastic reads.
This is truly a favorite of mine.
Genomic research provides clues for new malaria drugs
The back door prng wasn't all that sneaky? I would assess "don't look behind the curtain" and "nothing up my sleeves because I'm not wearing sleeves" quite differently.
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I'm looking forward to see how this impacts existing wifi mesh routers like Eero and Orbi. Hopefully this standard will make good wifi routers more mainstream.
I am not sure where you got the impression that it's essential for any physics student, but I have never used it and don't think it's mattered much in my upbringing as a physicist.
Privacy still has a place, this would not keep someone from knowing what corporation owns a domain - and will not keep the government or other interested parties from finding that out. Privacy services still act as an impediment to keep ownership private far better than this will.
Yeah but its another thing to bundle

/bin/sh will always be there
The Fantasy Land spec and related libraries like Sanctuary and Fluture deserve a mention here, even if only as a next step after reading this guide.

It helps bridge the gap between looking at all of this from the more math/Haskell perspective and how it's implemented in javascript, without sacrificing definitions (as much as possible).
And most of that negative perception appears to come from Uber's early (not so much, anymore) flouting of what could charitably be described as regulatory capture nonsense.

It basically took them coming in and ignoring the taxi laws to put the lie to the entrenched interests and say "See? The world didn't end after all."
Thanks, this is what I was hoping for. Sorry if my questions brought you negativity.

I dig the absolutist approach you take to garbage. Have you thought about it's impact on your overall environmental footprint? For example, have you considered the trade off between energy efficiency and trash efficiency? You poke at canned tomatoes, but eating a canned tomato is probably more energy efficient than eating a fresh one. Another example, I have eliminated paper towels in favor of reusable cloth. I wonder if the paper was overall more environmentally friendly, given that I don't have to run the paper towels through the washer. Thoughts?
It's tricky to make a comparison of 'authenticity': for one thing, some displays had more visible scanlines and for another, it's the sort of detail that's easily lost in photos because you're taking a picture of a small, very-high contrast area and the artifacts often bleed together.
Likely it's your GPU or LCD panel leaking RF. Try turning your monitor off and see if scrolling is still audible.
Oh. Well I agree, CRT emulation does a pretty poor job of actually being representative of the CRT experience -- the scanlines are just so ridiculously exaggerated.
Do any registrars not charge a premium for Whois privacy? I know Hover doesn't have a separate Whois privacy entry price, but the base price at Hover seems to be about the price of a domain + Whois privacy at other registrars.
Thunderbolt should be now open to anybody. E.g. 3rd party manufacturers should be able to integrate it with AMD/VIA/etc. if needed.

"On 24 May 2017, Intel announced that Thunderbolt 3 would become a royalty-free standard to OEMs and chip manufacturers in 2018, as part of an effort to boost the adoption of the protocol."
If the NFL switched to two hand touch 10 years from now, people would still watch. The violence is not essential. The competition, strategy, amazing throws and catches, speed, team aspect, drama, and unpredictability make it fun to watch.
IMO: Uber fucked up tremendously before. It's not doing so now.
I may have put words in the Grimms' mouths here,
either from translation or conflation with other sources.

Thank you both for the German formulas - there are
examples from many languages at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_upon_a_time
I had problems trying to install syncserver in the past, maybe it's worth giving it nother shot - thanks!

I'd rather skip plugins because I'd like to use the default bookmarking function (especially on mobile)
Tampering with OpenPGP signed messages by exploiting multi-part messages