skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banning all those accounts based on a tiny minority of tweets promoting fake election dates seems like totally bs reasoning. If their reasoning for the bans was actually a policy against "dehumanizing speech" as some have said, then why not ban everyone who tries to dehumanize a Trump supporter with an accusation of them being a "Russian bot?" Or what about dehumanizing language against opponents like racist/sexist/Nazi/homophobic/transophobic etc?

Also.. I think this meme has a grain of truth to it - I don't know about the political aspect, but as to people's minds generating the same content and repeating the same phrases over and over: it seems as if our popular media is pretty limited in the things journalists and TV hosts are "allowed" to cover and say. Late night hosts all seem the same. That's one reason I enjoy 4chan, because the content is so diverse.
The article gives one example and says it was a "few" accounts. Why ban all of them?
Because if we're the only one's actually capable of appreciating the beauty of the universe, if we are in actuality the only mindful expression of the universe, we are more incomparably valuable than any other element existing as part of that universe, and an irretrievable loss once gone.
Actually, propaganda is agreed to be a good thing for a democracy. It's why we have free press and free speech laws.

Many of the founders ran printing presses or newspapers to push their own propaganda. The most prominent being alexander hamilton and the NY Post.

What is bad for democracy is censorship ( aka one sided propaganda ).
Related story just popped up on Bloomberg: A majority of board members are still using personal email accounts to share corporate information

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/dusty-pro...
It is no more propaganda than #maga or #orangecheeto or #impeachtrump. It is political satire and commentary.
Looks quite cool but why put a server into my flat? :thinking:

If I'm somewhere and my internet goes down, I will lose access to everything. And as we all know, stuff will go down at some point (probably at the most inconvenient time).
> "Stop being such a creep" and "stop being blind" don't really feel all that equivalent to me.

A creep doesn't understand what makes him creepy, that's the whole point. So it seems like the "advice" is both cases is equally unhelpful.
hey jawns, great question. I'm Giri Sreenivas, co-founder and CEO of Helm. To answer your question, ISPs block port 25 and email service providers typically reject emails coming from residential IP blocks.

To build a plug and play solution, we knew that our server could not require listening for inbound connections on a residential internet connection. So we set about looking into how we could route traffic to and from a home server but we needed to do this in a way that prevented us from being able to spy on traffic. We investigated solutions like sshuttle and eventually settled on the combination of a simple iptables configuration combined with a VPN connection. Helm establishes an outbound VPN connection to a dedicated EC2 instance with an iptables configuration that routes packets to and from the connected Helm server. The EC2 instance also has a static IP address associated with it.

It's important to stop here and explain that the only way this architecture is viable while adhering to our design tenet of knowing as little about our customers as possible is because of the Let's Encrypt project. Every Helm server has a unique domain associated with it and trusted certificates for that domain are fetched from Let's Encrypt. We strive to ensure that all inbound and outbound traffic routed through the EC2 instance is using TLS with these certificates from Let's Encrypt. This way, our EC2 instance is effectively just an extra hop on the Internet.

I hope that answers your question, let me know!
> "well those people are reacting exactly how we thought they would"

Almost like NPCs...
I must admit, it has been entertaining watching how the meme's proponents have acted as if they have uncovered some great Truth of the human experience, when in fact it's nothing more than the tired old "I am a critical thinking individual while those who disagree with me are not." wrapped in video game nomenclature.

I suspect that deep down this was an attempt at coining a "new" SJW after the term had gone mainstream.
Harmful seems like a stretch.
Oblivious transfer [1], especially as it pertains to secure multi-party computation (MPC). It's not as easily visualized as Diffie–Hellman or Shamir's Secret Sharing (both of which have already been mentioned), but a good chunk of what MPC allows for [2] seems like magic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivious_transfer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaires
JFYI:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/07/banker-umbrella/

I personally like the 1949 version:

>Definition of a banker: A man who loans you an umbrella when the sun is shining, asks for it back at the first sprinkle of rain, and doesn’t own the umbrella in the first place.
Presumably there's a legal argument that you aren't providing a public service. Helm is tunneling SMTP connections from their cloud-based servers to your device over an encrypted connection, so you could claim you're really consuming their service, not providing your own. But I wonder how much VC money you need to outlast Comcast in court...
From https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/world/canada/marijuana-le...

> Canadians who admit at the border to using marijuana may be refused admission, according to the United States border authorities. But the border agency said it would not routinely quiz Canadian travelers about their cannabis habits after Wednesday.

> Employees of marijuana companies and their investors will generally be allowed to enter the United States, the agency said, if they are not coming on marijuana-related business. But the agency said those people might no longer be able to obtain or hold cards that speed up border crossings.
Yea. Not every parent sees it as essential to spend three THOUSAND dollars on a pre-school. Please don't generalise.
One of the worst ideas. Every big email provider (gmail, yahoo, outlook ...) do block every mail sent from a home isp. so you will not be able to send anyone a mail.
*chan land is chaotic neutral and always has been. Authoritarians just can't handle chaotic. A projection of a high dimensional vector (politics) onto a line (left - right) is always going to be a goof.
So there's two high-confidence bets we can make about alien life:

(1) They will probably share huge swaths of the basic chemistry and machinery: proteins, sugars, starches, fats, and even more surprising things like cell walls and digestive acid and (something like) DNA. The building blocks of life are basic chemistry, and are some combination of "the simplest possible molecule that can do a thing" and "things that arise naturally from inorganic processes".

(2) There will almost certainly be 0% overlap in terrestrial and alien DNA, even assuming aliens use DNA and use the same four amino acids to encode their DNA and even assuming they have identical proteins and cellular structures. This is because the encoding from DNA to proteins is more-or-less arbitrary, and determined by both the exact cellular machinery used to turn DNA into proteins and by our genetic history. Even in our own cellular machinery, different DNA sequences can code for the same protein, so you can encode any individual protein in a bajillion different ways. The only real reason for to different organisms to share any common DNA sequences is because they both derive from a common ancestor. If our DNA and alien DNA overlap in any meaningful way, even with the tiniest of percent, it's basically conclusive proof of exogenesis of some sort.

So basically, it is very likely we'll be able to eat aliens (probably no more or less likely than how likely it is you can eat any particular plant or animal on Earth, to be honest), and almost impossible that we could ever hybridize alien and terrestrial plants and animals.
You misunderstood my comment. Top 10% in both intelligence AND top 10% in potential physical fitness. Which has a ceiling of top 1% (0.10 * 0.10), but practically speaking, it's probably closer to top 0.1%.
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apologies if this is a stupid question, but I always wondered can there be multiple objects/planets in an orbit?
One thing I really like about Twitter is that you can choose to follow who you want. If you don't want to see memes making fun of you, just don't follow accounts that post/retweet these memes.

It's sad that Twitter is banning satire accounts. I'm against all censorship of lawful speech, and condemn Twitter and any social media platform that participates in this kind of censorship.
> Evidence suggests that these are mostly just attention-starved gamers looking to impress one another

What is the link with gaming I'm missing here? Is 4chan simply associated by gaming defacto? I don't see anything else about video games or any evidence of these people being gamers in the article...
Whose Truth: Sovereignty, Disinformation and Winning the Battle of Trust [pdf]
Harmful? "a few of the accounts started posting misleading information about the midterm elections, including encouraging liberals to vote on Nov. 7". Yes.
I am not against this practice the problem is that the corporate network is detecting that script as a trojan.
I'm sure you could setup a machine with FreeDOS and boot it right into QBasic at startup. That'd probably be almost perfect; you'd have the relatively good built-in interactive help files, and all the graphics and sound APIs to actually do some cool stuff out of the chute.
You're completely correct. Don't feed the trolls is exactly right. And yet every single time that the right throws out some more bait, no matter how silly, no matter how stupid, the left looses it's shit.

Take this NPC thing, it's a damn joke, just like every single meme - it may be funny, it may not be depending on your own preferences, but when it gets posted and in response you have 50 articles the next day about how it 'dehumanises' something or other ... before it even gets to NYT, the trolls are more than fed.
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Propaganda for what?
>If you go to a crappy college

If it's an ABET accredited program, there's a limit to how crappy it can be.

Most companies don't care where you went as long as it's ABET accredited. Sure going to a well known school doesn't hurt, but school reputation isn't nearly as big of a problem in engineering as it is for other majors.

You should get an internship though, or better yet do a co-op.
We don't usually detect them directly. We observe a star dimming (planetary transit) or wobble and infer the planet's location, speed, and mass from that. We are only just developing techniques to observe very large planets close to their sun directly by efficiently cancelling out the sun's light.
The article discusses an "oligarch" model of planet formation, where there are roughly early sized and spaced oligarchs early on in planet development.

Because our solar system didn't end up with the "peas in a pod" pattern, planet formation they also posited a period of violent collisions that stirred things up.
Wild, uneducated, and necessarily oversimplifying speculation: perhaps all these early collisions brought water which helped encourage development of life, and led to the formation of Jupiter, which then protected that life's development.
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The Bresenham Circle Algorithm is cool too. You can draw a circle with it in just a few lines of code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm
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And bash/zsh. Bash can be really powerful. Slow for some tasks though (much slower than perl for example), but little times I've had that problem.
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No they're not, their idea of freedom of speech extends no further than "I want to say whatever I want."

Their longstanding history of doxxing, conducting raids, etc. on those who they disagree with are the exact opposite of actual proponents of free speech.
Some counterpoints from my experience fundraising.

- I had a ton of success cold-emailing VCs. I was able to cold email my way into Accel, a16z, NEA, etc.
- I raised $16M through 3 rounds and was heavily oversubscribed in each round *without ever creating a deck*. My pitch was a conversation that included a compelling story I got really good at telling.
- No counterpoint on your third bullet. This is spot on. :-)
Pilots are in short supply worldwide, any country creating further restrictions is going to obviously face even more supply problems.

Get the feeling it will pass unnoticed, like many regulations that don't make sense it's far easier to let it slide rather than change the rules.
It would be great if the system's default choices were something more reasonable than what some random Netscape engineer decided circa 1995. The user's choices? I'm sure there are dozens of users on the net who have customized their browser's default styles.
Indeed, I founded one: http://www.fromdayone.co
You can just say "no". And smile. Will be completely correct on your part.
Maybe they think that only gamers know what an "NPC" is. But, feels like a stretch.
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Some might.
This answer implies that you have no idea what the problem is, which doesn't bode well.

The problem is that the major email hosts send to the spam folder any emails from IP addresses they don't explicitly trust.

My solution to this is just to ignore it and tell people if they want to receive my email they should work out how, as the problem is on their end not mine.

But lots of your customers won't like that answer.
Why is perceiving beauty so valuable? It does exactly nothing except for the one perceiving.
200,000 years ago we did not exist as a species.

2500 years ago stabbing each other with iron weapons was literally cutting edge technology.

In the past 200 years we have invented: production automobile, airplanes, space flight, launched probes into interstellar space, computers, the internet, ... We have discovered relativity, quantum mechanics, galaxies, ...

Assuming we are able to survive, imagine where we'll be in 200k years. Actually you can't. It's just impossible to even begin to try to imagine that. On that scale we'll likely have even begun to experience evolutionary speciation as we settle different regions of space and end up with extended periods of relative isolation.

And now consider that this entire timeline is but 400k years. That's not even a blink in the eye of the cosmos.
Insurers with more data can create incentives to stay healthy. E.g. insurer could tell you "if you lose 10 pounds your insurance is going to decrease by X".
I'd much rather have a high pilot than a hung-over/drunk pilot though which seems to be quite common.
Helm just works with your home network—no configuration needed. Helm connects securely to a unique gateway, which is assigned a static IP address so Helm is reachable by other mail servers and secure TLS sessions can be established.

This sounds like Helm becomes the email gateway. Sure, an email server might be running on the device, but emails will be routed through Helm the company. Am I missing something?
This looks pretty cool. Very happy to see email space still being explored.

Somewhat off topic, but another nice project named Helm is the Helm Synth by Matt Tytel, which is open source and sounds pretty freakin good!

https://tytel.org/helm/
Trading is a very specialized activity, huge sums of money are actively changing hands and there are tons of regulations in place on this stuff - of course that will be monitored - just as bank tellers are.

But most jobs in banking are definitely not.

And there's zero chance that traders managers are monitoring for 'bathroom breaks' or 'chewing gum' or anything like that.

But yes, monitoring is generally done to protect the company. But even in the case you described - trading - it definitely protects traders from being wrongfully accused of such and such (i.e. insider trading).
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Unfortunately, I don't have plans to integrate with GraphQL. I wanted to keep it closer to Turbolink's approach by loading the next page's props into the store instead of firing off a bunch of API requests.

Great thing is, aside from the way it loads data, its just mostly plain Redux and React. Feel free to add your own functionality.
My Dutch ISP gives me a static IPv4 address (besides an IPv6 netblock) and allows me to purchase additional IPv4 addresses. They also offer various levels of port filtering, from no filtering to filtering port 53, etc.

(Combined with fiber, it's ideal for a small home server.)
Langrangian points L4 and L5 are stable places where objects can orbit ahead of and behind a larger one, like a planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

Asteroids occupying these spaces in our solar system are called Trojans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_(celestial_body)
Yes, I am looking at it in Chrome on Ubuntu.

Just tried it in Firefox 62 on Ubuntu. Works good there too.
The Galerkin method, which is the underlying concept that finite element analysis uses. Suppose you want to approximate the solution to a PDE with a finite sum of basis functions.

The solution usually lives in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space, whereas our space of possible approximate solutions is a finite-dimensional subspace.

To find the "best" solution that lives in the finite-dimensional basis-function (or trial function) space, we simply choose the coefficients of the basis functions such that the residual is orthogonal to the approximate solution.
Yes. Many also block ports, like incoming port 25 (SMTP.)
I have a "business" cable internet account and have been hosting my servers for years. It is obviously more expensive.
I'm Irish and my gf is German. I'll be fine from the paperwork perspective in all probability, but my gf doesn't want to be in a situation where she needs to avoid living outside UK to retain right to return to UK - we have a house here. And neither of us has any interest in switching citizenship.

But more importantly, we don't want to be living in a country in a downward, inward decline. Brexit isn't going to solve the problems that disaffected leavers voted for, and I think it's going to get worse - Britain may get even more virulent demagogues. If we have children, we don't want them to grow up in an illiberal society, or be educated in this kind of a system.

Things aren't great elsewhere either, for sure. That's why it's so fascinating.
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Without looking much further into it, I can't imagine it going very wrong. My intuition says that the density function will be bounded, since you're working with a finite number of points, therefore you'll always be able to climb to a local maximum.
I was not. I had early access to a real computer though, with those big trackball mice (my parents said it was easier for me to grasp) and a keyboard, and I had my own computer in my room by 7. I was addicted to that I guess.

And that would be the first thing I'd do if I had to parent actually. Why dumb things down with tablets ? A computer is affordable for most HNers. Give them computers. They can do the same tasks and learn so much more down the road ! Let them use complex contextual menus and find their own way, type on a real keyboard with keys you actually need to press, move a cursor ... I don't get why tech savvy people give touch screens to their children.

These mobile environments lead nowhere. Whereas when I started using the internet I too wanted my own website and already had the tools needed.

Also you said

>as well as have a large assortment of crafts and novel activities for them to engage in every morning while I do stuff like bathe and eat.

I don't remember my parents having stuff ready for every instant of my life. Sure I was bored from time to time (no siblings) and I probably bothered them (again, no siblings, I guess numerous bored kids is messier, but that should be thought upon beforehand), but I had to find my own occupations. What are you going to do later in life anyways ? Ask friends to keep you untertained ?
Word of advice: It's very unlikely someone is going to mail with such a hand-wavy pitch. If you have something that addresses a problem, describe it on a landing page and post the link.
The Euclidean algorithm to compute the greatest common divisor of two numbers.

In Javascript, if you have two numbers x and y that are both greater than zero, you compute the greatest common divisor xyGcd in one beautiful line of code:

var xyGcd = function gcd(a,b){ return b ? gcd(b, a%b) : a; }(x, y);

In my opinion this is the greatest one-liner ever.
It confuses me, because "don't take things at face value" and "don't just follow a script" is, well, postmodernism. It's also anticapitalism. It's also a commentary about peoples reverence of traditional gender roles and religions. Actually, I totally fail to see why it's a conservative meme at all, unless it's being repeated without any attempt to consider broader implications.
The other driver was living in the US illegally, so he cut his losses to avoid the risk of deportation.
Banned for "voter suppression"? Really?

As if a bunch of people are going to get disenfranchised because a stupid joke tweet? Come on. If you don't vote because of that one tweet maybe you aren't educated enough to be voting in the first place.

Furthermore, why not just ban that one tweet? Banning the entire meme because one tweet only goes to further the narrative that anything right wing is being systematically suppressed on the internet.

Congrats on throwing the trolls a giant hunk of red meat, Twitter.
It doesn't seem to be caused by that, I've seen the error with and without the /birthday suffix. It looks to be related to missing data from one of the GraphQL responses.
I'm with you on that. Eagerly waiting to be fed my opinion and then post about it on FB and Twitter. My friends are going to love it and I will feel appreciated.
>You mean like people who per-ordered the Librem5, because it's a practical cause they believe in, instead of just raging in the semi-frequent HN threads how awful Android is?

Can you explain what point you're actually arguing against here, or in sibling posts you've replied to? That's a good example of using the market to achieve a good goal, which is just what should happen. That's not an argument that "markets only matter to capitalists."
The majority of what I've heard at different workplaces about Jira has more to do with a) people not knowing how to use it and b) people not knowing and agreeing on how it was customized.

If the motivation is to track what the teams are doing, even if you win the fight on not using Jira, something will be proposed. Maybe it's Rally, maybe it's some POS that was sold because their sales guys and your CxO had a golf game.

You're better off ensuring that you could do what you need to do with Jira than anything else.

As an aside, I take issue with the term dev team - many people use Jira as part of an "agile" process, but they only plan things around development, but not test, only to find out later that their one liner change from dev could cause the tester a week to setup the environment for an automated test....
I see your point, but what’s weird is Twitter is banning these accounts and the press is freaking out about it. Why not let these npc memers continue to self own? Why interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake?
It's even more evocative of a totalitarian state with the giant face of John Collins on the side of the building.