skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...as someone who is oblivious to these things (only knew it was a "thing" last night)...can someone explain why this is harmful and not just people wasting time?
Wouldn't that be how you would critique that sort of thing? I dont think it's that hard to get.
Paste the url into outline.com. Works like a charm.
Is it really that hard to understand? At its simplest level, the NPC meme is an extension of "I'm a member of [insert outgroup here], look how dumb I sound" trolling.
Yea, they will retry for 48 hours before a message is marked as undeliverable.
My first programming project was a tic-tac-toe game with a computer opponent. I painstakingly copy-pasted about a hundred nested `if` statements to check for a winner & decide the computer’s next move.

Several years later I saw a Matlab demo that did this by indexing the grid using values from a 3x3 magic square[1]. In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal has the same sum. So checking for a winner was just checking if a player’s three moves added up to 15. Finding a space that would make the computer win, or block the human opponent from winning, was subtracting two moves from 15 and checking if that spot was available.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square
Don't get your hopes up for WhatsApp.
If it's not the government, it's social media. If you carry a 'smart phone', you are the product.

Whoring you data for free.

Taxation without representation.
Care to elaborate?

From the Hague Convention:

"The Contracting Parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core, or is pierced with incisions.

The present Declaration is only binding for the Contracting Powers in the case of a war between two or more of them.

It shall cease to be binding from the time when, in a war between the Contracting Parties, one of the belligerents is joined by a non-Contracting Power."
I made a graph showing download counts of those packages on npm - https://npmcharts.com/compare/carbon-react,material-ui,antd,...

Obviously don't use that as a sole factor to determine what to go with, but with this many options, heuristics may be helpful to narrow down which ones to further investigate
I do not think so. Yes, it is ok if you are single but in India and earn 2k/mo, but remember everything is paid for and conditions are not very friendly. e.g. In Delhi you will most likely need a car (unless you WFH or live next to the office) and the fuel prices are among the highest in the world. You have to pay and save for your kids education (which can be pretty steep). Because of the heat and pollution, you have to invest in air-conditioning, air-purifier, water-purifier and the list keeps going on for a comfortable life. Also no health or social safety net means you have to maintain decent savings at all times.

Finally, the real inflation (not the official one) is high and any saving could potentially be worthless in a few years (except real-estate which is why it has absurd prices) which also means owning a home is quite hard.
It's also kind of stupid. As in, very tiny amounts the things that the "joke" tries to attack are based in reality. Its as if they cannot accept that large numbers of progressive or liberal minded people exist.
How hackable is this I wonder? Would just be cool to have a machine this shape. Of course you could probably do the same with a raspberry pi and a 3D printer.
Agreed. But you can ingest marijuana.
Climate change and the 75% problem
Well, meduza.io is not strictly Russian. That's why they can raise a lot of hot topics without fear to be silenced by Kremlin.
MTAs will retry delivery for up to a week. There are other options for more advanced usage though, e.g. one can configure multiple mail servers with different priorities, `the helm` having the highest priority and if it's down a MTA would try the next mail server which could be just a forwarder like mailgun.
They have a sort of FAQ on their shop page that provides info about this: https://thehelm.com/pages/shop

See under the question: What happens to my email if my power or Internet service goes out?
If your ISP doesn't let you run your own mail server, they're not an ISP.
Plus they tend to block the ports you need to run something like this.
It's just an elaborate form of calling somebody stupid by implying that they don't consciously think about their decisions by means of having an inner dialogue. For twitter to ban this is weird but hey, I guess they are moving more towards the european model of free speech if they aren't already there.
> Last week, a trolling campaign organized by right-wing internet users spilled over onto Twitter.

So Twitter bans a bunch of satire accounts for political reasons and the New York Times applauds the decision. This makes me incredibly sad but I guess it's to be expected.

If your political position is so weak that some jokes can damage it, maybe it's time to take a deep inward look. I don't see anyone calling on SNL to ban Trump impersonations.
The two aren't mutually exclusive; you could easily get contractor work with five years of EE after going to another school (provided you can pass the background and security checks).
Looks like state of the art can achieve up to 120x compression on CNNs for image classification.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02271
All asteroid crashes aren't equal. Earth got most of its water from an asteroid crash.

Basically a huge of range of things have to work on large timescales for intelligent life to evolve on a planet.

Which is why intelligent life apart from us could just be absent or very very rare and far away.
A long time ago, I was told "don't feed the trolls". It's hard to see how this publicity (e.g. the NYT) is not feeding the trolls. There is no doubt that this campaign, whatever motivations, was successful. At the same time, social media platforms are more at the ready to ban pranksters, bots, etc. That might be the only approach that works when the majority of society participates.

(1) don't feed the troll, but it grows despite most people trying to ignore it.
(2) ban the troll, and give them the NYT press they wanted in the first place

Not a lot of good options here.
It's basically propaganda. Propaganda is generally agreed to be a bad thing for a true democracy.
Many provinces have a long history with government run liquor stores (see LCBO in Ontario, BC Liquor in BC, SAQ in Quebec). There are pro's and con's to those stores.
Well, on the one hand, it's "just" nested linear interpolation with some control points, and traditionally, interpolation falls under mathematics. On the other, the wiki page mentions computer contexts first[0].

I think most of us would agree that there is a fuzzy boundary between mathematics and algorithms, or even that the latter is a subset of the former. Bresenham's Line Algorithm[1] is an algorithm, but it can also be interpreted as a kind of mathematics to determine points on a grid based on a path through that grid.

More importantly though: yes, it is a very useful and simple tool in many contexts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm
> Do "real hackers" have unlimited funds and don't have to worry about $800 purchases on still-virtual products?

No, but you can invest in a product you believe in. We all understand it's an investment, not a guarantee. This phone is about the user being in control of their phone, if you don't care about that, or are not willing to invest, either wait until it comes out or get another smartphone.

The pre-order is for free software enthusiasts, not the general public.

As for the security, the company has previous experience shipping hardware, so I'd say it's better than your average hardware Kickstarter, but it isn't Apple and that's not the point.
From the article, spreading misleading voter information, which could cause voters to miss the date.
Yeh, keep the carbs super low and you'll lose weight. All the other stuff is just to make this one point easier
Could say the same about most journalism today as well.
It's not necesarily banned, but very often port 25 will be blocked. Additionally it's pretty likely your email will be marked as spam if it comes from a residential IP. They must have thought about this though, so maybe they have their own SMTP servers that emails go through.
Oh almost certainly! Earth grown animals have been found alive on the outside of space stations [0]. Dumping a bunch of earth stuff in these places would likely lead to a new ecosystem. So long as there was an energy source, like thermal vents.

This is actually a major problem for looking for life elsewhere in the solar system. How do we know it isn't just an Earth grown hitchhiker? Instruments sent to other planets have to be thoroughly cleaned.

In theory they could have been seeded as you describe. The problem is, to quote Douglas Arthur, that "space is really, really big"[1]. It's also not great for life, even the hardiest Earth animals can only survive for decades, and it could easily be centuries or millenia until they were deposited anywhere.

Additionally the gas giants, due to their mass, act as a big attractor to stray mass. And any biological life adrift is likely to be sucked into one of these, rather than land on an orbiting moon.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th... fiction, doesn't back up any point. But hilarious and correct about the size of space.
Do you have references about this?
Email has several retries. Something like 6hr, 1day, 2days... After that the sender receives a delivery error.

All that is managed by the SMTP servers and the numbers change, but normally just losing internet connection or power for some hours doesnt make emails dissapear. By design.
Weather underground has fallen so far.
> Why wouldn't I be talking about it at parties?

For the same reason why you would not be discussing "Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese" -- wrong audience.

> Do you think that Master and Margarita is overrated or do you think people like it for the wrong reasons?

I gave the answer above - fawning over TMAM among the western population is signaling of intellectualism targeting their friends. TMAM actually addresses it.
Hey there, I'm Giri Sreenivas, co-founder of Helm. Glad you like the hardware! Good question on email bounces. As Arubis mentioned, email has retry built in and most servers default to retrying for 48-72 hours.
That doesn't describe a hollow point.

It describes a completely different type of round.

That was written primarily to apply to what is often called a "dum dum" bullet.

5.56 (with certain exceptions for things like m855 or armor piercing) is designed to fragment, not expand, and some variants that might appear to be a "hollow point" are actually designed in that way to enhance ballistic performance (OTM).
Works fine with Ghostery.
if Twitter were to ban stupid content from its website, not much would remain ; the stupidity of this can't be used as a reason to explain the bans.
I would say METU @ Ankara, Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Technical_Universi...

You can see prices(~200$/term -- thanks to value drop in Turkish Lira) here: http://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/tuition-fee-amounts

The EE department is infamous for being competitive.

Pros: Ankara is very cheap, the campus is huge and very active, the technopolis is also very active with companies such as Siemens, Udemy, OpsGenie etc. English is the main course language. Turkey is beautiful and central for your summer plans. It accepts SAT with minimum 1200 out of 1600, so for a native speaker with good math skills, you should be able to get in easily, it is very competitive for Locals, arguably the best Engineering Uni in Turkey with a huge alumni network in EU/US/CA.

Cons: Ankara is a bit boring, but campus being huge makes up for that, some low-level staff(canteen clerks etc.) don't speak english, students would be happy to help-out. Some Prof decide to teach mixed with Turkish, but this is not very common, exams are always English.

Disclaimer: I have studied as foreign student in CS(CENG) department, I made a really good choice choosing METU and CENG, EE I am not sure.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
It's more around 1300 euros actually :-)
And it's only possible for EU citizens afaik.
This meme is originally based on the idea that not all people have an inner voice, and the supposition that people without an inner voice may be less likely to introspect and think critically.

I think the ban is a little ridiculous and likely has more to do with it's origin on a so called "far right" website than anything else.
Hashcash, a proof-of-work system adapted by Bitcoin:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-hashcash-...

1. It solves an extremely practical problem (spam) using a very simple idea (provide a value that when appended to a message gives a hash value within an acceptable target range).

2. It can be understood by non-experts who simply understand (or accept) the one-way nature of cryptographic hash functions.

3. It can be implemented manually, given a working hash function.

4. It sat around for a decade in obscurity until someone dusted it off to build a system most thought was impossible.
It's a joke, you're taking it way too seriously
The cheapest yet probably recognized all over the world ( to a certain extent) and with good track record of quality instruction would be the Indian Institute of Technology, India. And they have quiet a few of them spread across the country. EE dept was especially strong in my hometown (Madras) 10 years back and I am sure that's the case now. URL.
Cost FREE. Yes.https://www.iitm.ac.in You heard that right. But you have to go through a one of the most rigorous entrance examinations in the world(IIT-JEE) to get placed. But once you get in like they say, your life is made. Email in the profile so feel free to reach out.
You're asking for the meaning of life there. For some it's pure unadulterated hedonism, for others it's religion, for others it's science or technology, for others it's their children, and so forth and so on. But for many the continuation of our species, whether or not we're a part of it, is certainly quite a crucial part of it.

As an aside from this, you also don't know your statement to be true. Our planet has, multiple times, killed just about every single living species on it. We'd probably stand a decent chance of partial survival due to technology and intelligence, but on the other hand we might not. Think of all the [relatively] near miss large asteroids that we detect only long after it would have been much too late to do anything. And that's something we can actually control. An unfortunate gamma ray burst or other form of harmful electromagnetic radiation could be GG earth with little to no warning or even chance to react.

The chance of an extinction level event happening at any given point is very low of course, but they have happened and will continue to happen. It's just like winning a lottery, one that you'd very much prefer not to win.
I loved this article on the elegance of deflate http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/elegance-of-deflate/ finishes with this:

It's not one algorithm but two, that dance and weave together in harmony. You can pick dictionary matching, or entropy coding, and you can select between them on a per-byte basis with no overhead. That's what I find so clever about it - not that it can do one thing or the other, but that it can choose either, and yet represent them using the same language. No extra markers, nothing to say "oh, now we're switching to entropy mode", nothing to get in the way.
Along similar lines, one of the first things that came to mind for me was Benjamin Franklin's Junto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto_(club)
"Fun" is such a broad word that it's hard to really draw a conclusion IMO. It's not exactly the first word that would come to mind when I describe the book but I suppose that it is, in fact, pretty fun even though the story being told is extremely bleak.

You have witches, the devil, a talking cat, magic performances where people end up running around naked like headless chickens, a ball in hell etc... That's entertaining regardless of the morale of the story. I think that's one of the reasons this book is so very well liked, it combines fantasy with a very strong message. The Lord of the Rings is fun but it's not exactly known for its very strong political message and criticism of an authoritarian regime from within. Karl Marx's Das Capital is politically and historically very interesting but about as fun as reading the phone book. Master and Margarita manages to do both at the same time.

Of course if you only focus on the "fun" stuff then you're missing a lot that the book has to offer but if you want to get people to read the book you'll probably have a better chance if you talk about those fantasy elements than if you describe it as a bleak criticism of the soviet union with bits of the crucifixion of Jesus spliced in between.
Emphasis added:

> provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network

I'm not sure if Verizon has the same intention, but if they take their own wording exceptionally strict, you would be in the wrong whenever you play a multiplayer game and end up being the host.

Generally in my own experience they don't want you hosting a service opened to the general public running all the time. I think running an open mail relay would get you banned very quick. It seems like this product is intended to be used purely for yourself.
Meanwhile, my ISP's customer service gave me a few pointers on how to get my self-hosted website to work with a dynamic IP address.
Only if you assume solar systems with advanced life need to model our solar system, which I'm not sure is a foregone conclusion yet.
Is the definition of "algorithm" that you're using here useful?
Alex - Giri Sreenivas, co-founder of Helm here. We've designed security from the silicon up to make this device very difficult to hack. That means implementing secure boot, full disk encryption and utilizing a Secure Enclave for managing keys on the device.

And yes, you could definitely do this on a raspberry pi. That's what we used to prototype. It's not great for a long last, durable and secure platform though.
Check how many BUILD 2018 videos presentations were done in Chrome and how many were using Edge.

As for actual market share, http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
They sometimes invest in products they believe can make an impactful change, perhaps with money others spend on partying and what-not, so what's your point? Nobody's forcing you to pre-order this.
I think it's actually the reverse. Your critique is that the NPC meme ignores that lots of liberals/progressives exist.

The rightist promoters of the NPC meme would agree with that statement -- but they would say that it's because most are just acting as ideologically/memetically programmed automatons. Crucial to understanding this meme is that its promoters see "libs" not as literal bots, but as humans-with-bot-thinking, who have grown up on a diet of platitudes and mantras without deep analysis.

On the contrary, the left/libs/progressives (whatever you want to call them) on Twitter have had a habit of actually doing what you're saying, when they pull out the "oh look another Russian bot" troll. That meme actually asserts that the number of actual conservatives/right-wingers is literally small and being amplified by actual programmed chatbots.
Holy crap, US ISPs are completely absurd. This definitely isn't a thing (or at least not enforced in any way) in Canada; most of my friends run on-prem web services out of their basements or closets.
Odd that they hide their FAQ in the shop page and hidden below the fold on a 13" screen. I looked everywhere but there. You'd think you most customers would want their questions answered before buying.
Sure. But good luck getting your mail accepted by other mail servers, coming from a broadband IP address.
That approach only works for people who are "acting out" and trying to get attention online. The meaning of "troll" has changed. It doesn't work for people who are conducting harassment campaigns or spreading misinformation. It kinda doesn't work for anyone you're interacting with on a personal, non-anonymous basis anyway. If someone is behaving badly in a company or even in a casual group, you don't just ignore them.
IMHO, Sears is going under because it's a terrible shopping experience. I worked next door to a Sears - my office was literally 50 feet away. I'd occasionally pop in to pick something up and the checkout process never took less than 15 minutes. There was only one person handling the checkout and that person was operating at the speed of a sloths up to its neck in molasses.

It never ceases to amaze me that for all of the money brick and mortar retailers spend on marketing, etc. they cheap out on the most fundamental part of retail - taking the customers money.
I love the last question ‘Aren’t you giving these trolls the attention they’re seeking by writing about them in The New York Times?’

I thought the same thing. Interesting to see right-wing business coming out of *chan-land. I’d always seen it as more of a left-wing place.
Quickselect. Very elegant, fast and solves the problem. I'm surprised many people don't know about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickselect
I'd say the opposite. It actually worked for about 15 years... that's a pretty good run and shows you just how susceptible to bullshit some of these guys are...
And independent patronage at that. A lot has changed with my monthly media budget in the past ~2 years. The majority of it is now contributions to creators on Patreon, coming it at about 60 a month. Journalism and independent blogs can be funded on this model as well.
Not sure how to feel about this one. Waiting for John Oliver's take.
"30 year old boomers"?
Calling women "chick" has been iffy at best for at least 30 years. That's not new.

I've never heard of "Ms." being an issue, though, since it explicitly doesn't make assumptions about marital status like Miss and Mrs. do. I'd guess that someone didn't actually know what it meant.
Honest question - who here has done Twitter ads and got positive ROI? AdWords/Bing/Facebook all seem to "work", but I've never found Twitter to be fruitful..at all.
Canada sells a _significant_ amount to the US for medical purposes and legal sales.
Browsers should include popular fonts. Currently there are not enough good cross-platform fonts, that's why designers want custom fonts. Or something should be done for better caching of custom fonts, so if you've used your browser for few weeks, you won't have to load any custom font ever, because they are already cached.
Not convincing.

We know Kepler results are heavily biased for (1) systems edge-on to us (2) with big planets (3) very close to their star.

The only conclusion to draw is that planets that are all clustered close to their star tend to similar sizes. Then only Mercury is unusual. Even there, it's not unique.

Stars with planets distributed more widely, like ours, have been systematically filtered out of the results. We have no idea how common they are. It might be that they are rare, and that would make us unusual. In that case, distribution would be interesting and relative sizes would be unremarkable.

If in fact they are common, there is no reason to expect sizes in those cases to be uniform.

A system that condensed from a cloud with less intrinsic rotation seems more likely to have its planets clustered close. Less intrinsic rotation could also result in more uniformity.
> These accounts posed as liberal activists and were used to spread — among other things — false information about November’s midterm elections

Which violates the Twitter policy against intentionally misleading election content. Pretty straight forward.