skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Gamers" and "Gamergate" is a generic boogeyman that media outlets can use to direct their anger at. See "Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups" [1] for another example.

The obvious answer to "Why are non-whites joining white supremacist groups" might be "They're not white supremacist groups, they're just mislabeled by people who call everyone they disagree with nazis."

The article explains that it is, however, Gamergate and Ayn Rand that are turning non-white people towards white supremacy, even though Gamergate and Ayn Rand don't have an opinion on racial superiority as far as I know.

edit: It looks like I triggered the NPC downvote algorithm. I hope the next patch gives them dialogue choices.

[1] http://archive.is/P0X3D
The paper is entirely theoretical and controls the polarity by mechanically changing the distance between mirrors. I would say that this has a roughly 0% chance of having any direct practical impact in the next 20 years.

Here's an introduction to what the general field might give you:
http://nelson.mit.edu/blog/terahertz-polaritonics-and-techni...

This field is pretty new relative to other options which have similar technological advantages, the stuff I learned about plasmonics in grad school was quite primitive despite being the state of the art 15 years ago. Whereas photonics and spintronics are much better established. I'd personally focus on graphene, single electron transistors, and photonics (with perhaps plasmonics for interfacing) as the most likely candidates for real-world improvements in the next 10 years.
With the assumption that we will, not that we currently do. That’s not a given, but it seems likely. The bar to clear is not high.
Take the blue pill or the red pill ? Not reading the news will make you happier. Reading the news will make your life miserable. Still, I don't want to be the person that lives in a bubble without understanding how the world is moving and become part of the problem.
> these where designed to get banned for publicity.

I don't think they were. I think they were designed to be funny and characterize a particular ideology.

As I said in the other comment, this article gives one extremely mild example of incorrect election information and says "a few" of the accounts were participating in that. Why would you ban all of them, including the accounts not spreading misinformation?
> don't feed the trolls

Absolutely, but it's still interesting to dissect and debate on why this campaign spread like fire compared to all other running trolling campaigns

What also make it interesting is how quickly social media reacted to it, seems unprecedented in speed and efficiency.
Exactly that.

Right: Hey you guys just keep repeating the same thing.

Left: You're a racist

Left: You're a racist

Left: You're a racist nazi

Left: You're a nazi racist

Left: You're dehumanising us you racist

Right: Well hell, make 5000 more of these if they're getting such a great engagement rate.
hey stevehawk - thanks for your questions. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Helm. Let me take them one by one:
1 - how many domains can I use? Each Helm Personal Server currently supports 1 domain
2 - Can I have multiple users? Yes, we have no limits on the number of users.
3 - Please see my response above about how we navigate around ISPs blocking ports. We route traffic through an EC2 instance with an iptables configuration and an outbound VPN connection. We utilize Let's Encrypt certs for this traffic to be encrypted with TLS.
4 - I've run my own email server for 15 years. It's a pain and more and more people are willing to pay for convenience and peace of mind that comes from a dedicated team like ours looking out for them.

On the meat - we have a post coming tomorrow that is the first in a series where we will dive into the technology.

Regarding Firefox issues, please email me at giri@thehelm.com and we'll look into it. We have avid Firefox users on our team and did test it but may have missed some things.

Thanks for your questions and let me know if I can answer any more.
>take Pepe - the only reason it caught on was because the left took the bait and lost their shit over it.

Pepe was popular way before it was a political meme.. Pepe comes from a book released in 2006, and according to KYM feelsbadman became a meme in 2009.
Why not use an actual Commodore 64? I’m serious, get one for a song on eBay and a SCART adaptor and you’re in business. There are ample books around, they will be cheap too.
These should be treated as similar to political cartoons.
I’m no expert either, and maybe there’s a precise definition of fragmentation that I’m not aware of. My understanding is that fragmentation is about software.

The extension scheme allows you to use the same binaries across all platforms. If you care about widespread compatibility, you simply compile-in software emulations of potentially unsupported instructions. If a platform ~does~ support the instructions, the emulation is never used and you get a performance bonus.
>> But, I never imagined it'd become the hive of negativity and sadistic nihilism it seems to be today that's bleeding out all over the internet.

Yeah, I feel the same way about cable news.
Try https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element for an alternative to VDOM, without the VDOM part. It's reactive and uses lit-html under the hood.
You work at an utterly dysfunctional office. I say this as someone with an office job that not at all resembles what you describe.
Ask HN: How do you get your weather forecast?
The news that Weather Underground is shuttering its API is the latest change that is pushing me to look for a new website or app for weather forecasts. I'm on the hunt for something that is reliable, easy to grok, and has an extended forecast. What do you use?
This is a market cash grab that preys on peoples' ignorance and fears. Fancy looking hardware for an excessive cost that isn't stand-alone. For e-mail. Really?
You aren't missing anything. It's just a far left propaganda outfit keeping with the message - "alt right", "right wing", "far right", "gamer", "incel", etc.

Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v.

Also, this story is like a week old. It's funny how it only reached HN via a nytimes post.
For the most advanced of users, would you opensource the server so that we can host our own gateway servers instead of relying on Helm? That would solve the "what happens if Helm goes down" question and "how do we trust Helm" question.

Still wouldn't solve "how do I know my emails won't end up in spam" but at least we're getting closer (to at least what I would want to pay for.)
I found the CG Maximite lately, which powers on to BASIC and has composite video or VGA out:

http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

There's also the fignition which has a composite out and powers on to forth:

https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition

But does require assembly & soldering.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’d prefer if this culture war crap were kept off HN. There are plenty of other places to discuss this, just because Twitter is involved doesn’t mean it’s related to tech.
They weren't all banned. There's still at least a couple of these NPC satire accounts floating around out there now.
I wish them all the best but I don't know a single person in the market for this. For geeks, programmers and DIY folks it's overpriced, for the casual user the benefits are questionable - you're switching from a proven, free blackbox (GMail) to an unproved, paid blackbox. It's a tough market to enter, I guess.
The short answer is "yes", but the longer answer is "we haven't observed this happen in practice for any significant planetoids".

There was an observation five or ten years back that originally looked like it might be two planets in the same orbit, but it turned out that one planet was in an orbit with a period exactly twice that of the interior planet.
But does your autossh have a beautiful web page? Didn't think so!
It's not enforced. I've had HTTP and SSH available on Comcast and Verizon lines for... decades, I guess. No one cares.

SMTP is more problematic because of spam: outbound traffic on port 25 is blocked, so a true home mail server won't work without a reachable gateway mail server somewhere else. That's basically what the linked product is: they manage the protocol side of the service on your behalf, and forward all the content to your local device which connects to them via some internal protocol.
I mean, "a fraction" is "half" in this case, which is actually pretty close to par in my mind. And that's what I pay for one address for a year; so if this is more addresses and more domains at better scaling prices, that's quite interesting.
Personal anecdote, I was a heavy cannabis user in Colorado when it became legal. In the beginning most people still would purchase green from their dealer to avoid the the high tax. Over time, most people simply switched to using dispensaries for the convenience and selection. I no longer live in CO but of my cannabis friends there, almost everyone I know uses a dispensary now.
You are correct. However I think in practice you can get away with it if you keep bandwidth low. I've been running a OwnCloud/NextCloud server from my residential Comcast account for years with no issues.
Give me a break. It’s a discussion about advertising and Google is the ad company.
Thank you for this very informative reply. (I hope you'll put this information in a more prominent place on your site.)
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Seconding this. Its super easy to understand and explain to others (albeit implementation I have found to be somewhat more challenging when you dig into the details)
Hi apo - Giri Sreenivas, co-founder and CEO of Helm here. The gateway funnels packets to and from the Helm servers in people's homes. These are packets of encrypted TLS sessions so we can't do anything with this traffic. Happy to answer any further questions or concerns.
A product like the Librem5 is currently not viable to manufacture by any known OEM in the smartphone market, just as it wasn't viable for a company to develop a free-software UNIX, so RMS had to come in and start it even if it wasn't necessarily "market viable" at the time.

People sometimes do things out of passion, precisely because the markets would not support their ideas, at least initially.

So, it is not known at present whether the Librem5 would prove viable at all, but Purism are doing it despite this and there are people who pre-ordered are trying to make it viable, despite there being no guarantee that they'll get security updates or even a viable product at present.

In essence, this phone is probably non-market viable at present, but there are people who are per-ordering anyways, in order to eventually make it viable for the wider market i.e. taking practical steps for a cause they believe in. Such causes are not a good fit for "markets" in general.
Creator of remote access tool LuminosityLink sent behind bars
I thought that sending email from EC2 instance was not allowed and only option was using their SES service.
>Aren’t you giving these trolls the attention they’re seeking by writing about them in The New York Times? Yes, probably. But understanding how these things happen, and how easily joke memes can escape the internet’s seedy underbelly and morph into actual tools of influence, is part of understanding the mechanics of modern politics.

Laudable goal. Yet they shot themselves in the foot. Instead of focusing on "everyone falls into the trap of substituting popular rhetoric in the place of critical thinking" they had too much of what could be dismissed as "orange man supporter bad."
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As far as I can tell you're only arguing against poor implementations of K-means. If you demand that the score strictly improves at each iteration then the algorithm must terminate.
That's not a real Internet.
If you admit to smoking it, you must have been in possession of it.
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Security flaw in libssh leaves thousands of servers at risk of hijacking
If you are misled about when the vote is by a tweet from an account with a wojak avatar, it's probably for the better of mankind if you don't vote... or procreate.
> It's a very simple algorithm and has been "superseded" by Xiaolin Wu's line which can also do antialiasing

Actually, not really! Bresenham's Line Algorithm secretly has a very useful generic low-level algorithm at its core. It just happened to be created for drawing lines first.

The thing most people miss is that it describes a way to do error-free repeated addition of a fraction using only integers and addition. In fact, you can add many different fractions, as long as they all share a denominator.

That is hugely powerful in the right context: imagine an embedded context where you have to add fractions to a counter, but the counter should be an integer value at all times. Maybe you must add different fractions in different situations. For example, an embedded device with two non-matching frequencies to keep track of over longer periods of time. With this method you're guaranteed that no matter how long you keep adding, the sum will always be correct.
I had no idea Amazon advertising could be so profitable it could out-earn its retail business but looking into it it makes sense. Amazon search results by keyword has to be the most effective form of advertising I'm aware of. Google searches, social media ads, TV ads, etc., are mostly just throwing up noise. But when I search on Amazon, similar to how I used to search eBay, those promoted results are relevant to something I'm actively looking to buy. And since Amazon is my go-to retailer for nearly all non-basic necessities, it's probably the most relevant and targeted advertising I see by far.
Sorry... you designed your own ICs for this? That is a big claim.

If that's not what you mean, what does "from the silicon up" mean?
That's a heck of a name conflict with https://helm.sh/ although I suppose the target audiences are fairly different.
Not a stupid question at all. The answer is: yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_(celestial_body)

Theories for the formation of our moon suggest a Mars-sized Trojan collided with earth before it was earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)
This doesn't make sense to me. Either you confirmed that it's working (by tapping your key or entering your token) or you didn't. Why prevent the user from actually securing themselves in this fashion?
The link you posted redirects to https://history.adversary.io/missions/facebook/birthday. It seems to not be working right now.
I like skip lists (technically a data structure, but with associated algorithms). I love the simplicity vs. other balanced tree algorithms. Also I'm a fan because it's a relatively recent development that shows that progress is still possible in fundamental areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list

Some runners up: Gosling's dynamic programming algorithm for optimizing text editor screen updates and gap buffers.
Oracle patches 301 vulnerabilities, including 46 with a 9.8+ severity rating
Polaritons are quasi particles in the sense of solid-state physics,quantizations of lattice oscillations „induced“ by transversally polarizized photons. These are not particles in the sense of the standard model of particle physics.
The API I've always used for weather data is https://openweathermap.org/
Fairly sure parent meant 'hackable' in the good sense of the word - ie. repurpose the hardware for your own uses and have root on it.
The backing algorithms figure that out and include all the necessary patches, applying them in an order that works.

Without understanding the theory behind it, it sounds a lot like magic, but apparently it works.
>The brain can think about things without you "hearing" it. Then it just mashes everything togheter in a coherent result that you can actively think about.

Sounds like intuition based on experience, where a new situation is compared against your experience, with the brain filling in the gaps.

>When I have to think about something hard I try to do it without words in my mind.

Hard in the sense of difficult to solve and unfamiliar, or in the sense of the level of focus or concentration?
I think small accidents help kids learn. Splashing a bit of oil on yourself isn’t the end of the world for adults and I don’t think it is for my toddler either.
Happens to me. Sometimes out of reflex I'll accidentally click it two or three more times before I have to resist muscle memory and wait for the page to completely finished jumping around.
> how hard is it to implement TOTP?

I've been asking BofA and Merrill for awhile. Apparently for the institutions that control my money, "very."
OAIC calls for sunset clause on encryption-busting Bill, warns of privacy risks
Chrome 70 released with revamped Google account login system
Regardless of the truth, for practical purposes we are alone. The speed of light is far to slow on the scale of even the galaxy (must less universe) to do anything useful about any intelligent life that might be there.
Depending on their age, for young kids best results I've had are Pi's (or old/cheap pc's) that boot straight into scratch. Far better results than an intimidating command prompt.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Alternatively Pi's (or old/cheap pc's) that boot straight into Minecraft Eduction Edition:

https://education.minecraft.net

This has paths for the very young in minecraft itself to older kids using ide's.
And this is really at the root of the entire culture war.

It used to be 'hey, that person said something stupid', lol ok what an idiot, anyway moving on to what we were doing'

Now instead it's 'hey that person said something stupid, I need to share it to 5000 followers to show just how stupid they are and how virtuous I am for pointing out that it's stupid, hey hey hey people look look look I'm resisting the stupid look look there's a stupid person'.

What we have is a large group of people who can only be described as professional offence takers. They wake up in the morning, and go out of their way to look though twitter what to be outraged by. They proactively seek out conflict purely for the sake of virtue signalling.

And when these people engage so consistently, after a while you get people who just post shit just for the sake of getting that emotional response out of the other side.
> 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.

My experience of Twitter is the opposite. Someone I follow posts something I think is intelligent and polite, and the replies are filled with people launching tangential attacks and making weird accusations.

A tweet is like a tiny conference talk whose attendees are self-selecting. Yet random strangers all over the world are able to detect the in-progress talk, parachute in, and yell crazy things, and nobody can take away their microphone.

> 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.

Would you distinguish satire from impersonation? Eg, https://twitter.com/RealDonalDrumpf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7... is clearly self-identifying as a satire of Donald Trump. Nobody is going to confuse that account with the real one.

But suppose hoards of people with political opinions you detest start creating accounts that pose as "your side", using the worst possible arguments for your positions, insulting everyone, and making "your side" look stupid and cruel. Is that a kind of speech you want to protect?
https://stefankrause.net/js-frameworks-benchmark8/table.html - thats old lit release there vs react 16 (react pre 16 would be slower and everyone agrees its generally fast already), on slack channel I believe I saw newer release benchmarks that are better (it also depends at which specific test you look at).

New version of repeat is interesting:

https://slack-files.com/T03PF4L4C-FCY51FZAB-c2fcf32931
Zero-days, fileless attacks are now the most dangerous threats to the enterprise
I never understand why people think having your files physically in their homes is somehow more secure than a data center.

- You run the risk of hardware failure, which would take days to recover. When your warranty expires, it'd cost you, too.

- Disk failure may lose all your data.

- Fire, theft, or hurricanes may destroy it.

- You still give access to your data to a company, which controls software updates and the EC2 proxy (in this case).

- Many home ISPs have shitty upload connectivity, so your email won't work that well on the go.

- Internet and power outages mean you won't send or receive any email.

- You lose the knowledge email providers get from scale, including ever-evolving spam filters, and a guaranteed clean outgoing IP.

If you really want to control your data, just spin up something like ownCloud (not sure if that's the best solution, just an example). Companies like DigitalOcean make it as simple as point and click.
What does it mean? They will retire the api but will make another one? Are they planning to point PWS to other competitors? In what other ways was the wunderground api providing services?

Side note- their site has been suffering performance issues for a long time.

Update: they edited their post.
>unless it's being repeated without any attempt to consider broader implications.

That's just it, I think. The meme was taken in by a crowd that itself does not practice introspection. I don't think the New York Times is too far off when they mention its spread by "attention-starved gamers": disenfranchised young men attempting their own first run at exercising a naive political opinion over the internet.
It's that last bit that needs justification - that being ignorant contributes to the problem. The claim is that your knowledge or ignorance, peace or anxiety, affect only you.

Although even if you accept that claim, you could argue that being aware of the world made you a better person even if it makes you unhappy - a sort of Socratic argument that "escaping the cave" is inherently good. In that case you'd have to justify (only to yourself, of course) that "news" is the right kind of knowledge to accomplish Goodness.
hi jstanley - I was answering the question about retry when there's a service outage. Did you interpret the question differently?
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