skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMS messages are somewhere around $0.01 to $0.04 for sending in bulk, depending on region. Doesn't stop spammers.

And a fee will also never, ever fly for email, being not a matter of entrenched tech, but rather one of artificial scarcity, being the reason for why SMS is dying.
Ahmed Mohamed will not face charges related to device [pdf]
I can't believe I had never seen that until now. Thank you for sharing.
How is "ownership" over a domain resolved?
A reply disagreeing got deleted, but in case anyone else is wondering, you're trusting your ISP because SMTP's STARTTLS, the most standardized, widespread email "encryption", is basically worthless[1] if you're really paranoid. It's not required, so if you try to require it you're going to be unable to receive/deliver some email. It's negotiated over plaintext, so ISPs in between can just make the two servers think each other doesn't use it. I believe there's also some confusion in the standard, or at least widespread bad implementations, about how to verify the certificate, so an attacker can probably MITM the cert too.

You can of course encrypt the mail yourself with GPG etc, but that would make self-hosting, the topic of this sub-thread, less relevant, and nobody but your fellow cryptonerds will do it.

[1] https://blog.filippo.io/the-sad-state-of-smtp-encryption/
Paxil Is Unsafe for Teenagers, New Analysis Says
> if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives.

Not necessarily, because the more people you alienate, the more enemies you create, and the more genuine threats you will face.
Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law
Content blocking requires an ARMv8 processor (so 5S and later) - must be a requirement of whatever they are using for regex.
Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker
You're reading this backwards... The privilege part is that the Angry White Man doesn't get called out for raging much of the time. They get latitude. The black guy doesn't.
> Isn't a bit bizarre from the author to point the finger to Italian anarchists for this unsolved case?

It's the investigators that are pointing the finger, not the author: "Investigators immediately suspected that the bombing was the work of Galleanist anarchists"
Yep, this is the key factor, you get to shorten your deprecation cycle to little or none. In contrast, with multiple repos, even for small projects, you will get a few days up to a month of lag time.
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"Future proofing" by picking what people may want to use in 3 years instead of using what's most productive right now seems like a serious case of premature-optimization-itis. Most projects built today won't exist in 3 years.
> Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to ancient Hispania (Iberian Peninsula).... Brazilians are a good example of Latinos who are not Hispanic.

Weird to focus there. Portugal was part of Hispania and is part of the Iberian Peninsula, just like the rest of their descendants in the Americas.
Huh? $20,000 at 7% would be a $133 monthly payment. If you get $20,000 up front in exchange for $500/month for 30 years, that's an effective interest rate of 30%. Quite unreasonable.
Right, so imagine how much worse it would be for you if you were black on top of being large.
Most spam isn't encrypted. The overhead's too high.

Behavioral methods might still work, particularly whitelisting/greylisting. Whitelisted senders will be passed, greylisted ones filtered. Spam can still be filtered locally with a key, if necessary, though that misses the leverage of delivery-time notification.

A notify-and-fetch dynamic might also work. Rather than delivering messages at send time, a notification that there is a message is sent, an on its strength, the message is later requested. Spammers have a much larger mail storage problem. Whitelisted senders might have mail delivered automatically. And collaborative spam filtering could mark and downrate spammer reputations before many recipients get to requesting the message, sparing them the spam.

Greylisting / teergrubing / delayed receipt (even just 1-2 retry intervals) cuts down much on spam as well.

Play the costs.

There are also distributed anonymous reputation systems, designed mostly for Tor / Web, though similar concepts for email might work. FAUST and Fair Anonymity:

https://gnunet.org/node/1704

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.4707v1.pdf
And here's the problem with anecdata: Most people I know use both, or Uber exclusively. This is also in Seattle.
For now, there is a default bootstrap list:

https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/7fbfecf6fab5920317de2e9...

When new nodes enter the network, they connect to a subset of this list and use this as a starting point for discovery.

After that, queries/operations on the DHT will result in the discovery of other nodes.
So it's kind of unfortunate that when people see a system full of ignorant jerks, they have been trained to always think "let's give the ignorant jerks more money," and never think "let's fire the ignorant jerks."

The incentives are completely upside down when one's entirely avoidable screwups are used as an excuse to ask for more money. That's how we get the current state of public education and, frankly, most levels of government in the United States: hideously expensive bureaucracies run by ignorant jerks for their own benefit.
I'm pretty sure that's not what why-el meant by "verifiable". What you're talking about is identity-binding, the value of which I explicitly acknowledged in my original comment.
You're not going to be throwing very much in there. I don't think a bottle full of liquid explosives is going to do much.

I don't recall security lines getting noticeably worse after the liquid ban was enacted. It doesn't take up much time relative to the whole process.
Why are the world's best speakers so expensive?
It is a crying shame that there is so much teacher churn...why is that? In the article you reference, it's actually not primarily related to compensation, but to autonomy, support, and student behavioral issues.

Yes, of course, like I said, there are many outside the class hours. And in fact, 6.33 hours/d are not the "hours in front of the camera" (I assume you mean instructional hours.) The exact number is a bit hazy, due to self-reporting issues, but it seems to be about 700 h/y.
http://cbcse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-Mi...
Build It Break It Fix It – Security Oriented Programming Contest
Will you take 111k today or a job paying you 33k pa for the next thirty years? That's the ratio 20k : 180k. Oh and you can't go out and get another job - that 110k has to last the next three decades.

It's clear cut throat exploration.

And I utterly refuse to believe this paralegal just suddenly took it into his head to forge those signatures and everyone else at the company were poor naive innocent dupes
Building something to deliberately look like a bomb, and then placing it in a location to again make it look as much like a bomb as possible is completely different from:

* Making a clock
* Telling everyone it is a clock

Woz got told off, Ahmed got interrogated with no parents present, then arrested, walked past his schoolmates in hand cuffs, placed in juvenile detention, suspended (still suspended), finger printed, ...
>If it's provided by a trusted third party, for example, it might not be so easy to use it to distribute child porn.

And what about whistle-blowing? Without true anonymity you're relying on humans to protection rather than verifiable and trustless systems.
Maybe relevant case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Co._v._Dish_N... It's a bit more complicated since it involves a contract between the provider of the ad-skipping device and the content creator. Hmm, it could get interesting if contracts arose between browser vendors and advertisers.
I haven't read the full paper, so I don't have a complete understanding of this scheme...

But what stops a malicious attacker from registering a bunch of dummy accounts, and then using the known passwords to reconstruct the Shamir Secret?
> What is the ultimate goal you wish to achieve? Do you want to be known as the "gay black guy", or just another human friend?

The fact that you think this is a dichotomy is why the whole proposal sounds ridiculous to you. What if people don't want to feel that they have to choose between expressing their racial/sexual identity and being accepted as a human? Do you seriously not understand that that is the issue -- the fact that the issue is presented as a binary and exclusive choice: either express your atypical cultural traits or receive "normal" treatment, but not both.

> The trans-gender, sexual-orientation debate gets specific, but it's irrelevant in the end.

Do you realize that you're calling irrelevant the core feature of many peoples' identity? The only people who can spout this and seriously wonder why nobody else sees it this way are people who fit into mainstream, typical populations and are completely unable to take into account the fact that their own cultural affinities are accepted as normal.

In other words: you already enjoy the acceptance which you are blithely dismissing as a worthless goal for others to pursue.
Your question is an interesting hypothetical, but I don't see how it's relevant here. How does "where you have to do the work" fit in?

Sure, it's a matter of opportunity cost, but taking $20,000 today instead of $500/month for 30 years is effectively taking out a loan at 30% interest. Even if it's worth it, you can do a lot better.
>specifies "ahead of time", which is implicit in "compiler"

Well, not that implicit, seeing that we also say "JIT compiler".
> Because amongst other things, an artist might want to control what their works are associated with and how they are displayed (known as moral rights in some copyright laws, not sure it applies to the US).

The issue here isn't what the artist wants. The issue is whether we as a society should allow the artist to control an expression of an idea, and if so, for how long. What society wants is more important than what an artist wants and intellectual property is a made up figment of societies imagination. Words are not actually property, my copying those words doesn't steal yours. My using the same sequence of some part of your song shouldn't entitle you a right to say no, I own that phrase and if it does, we are all harmed by said restrictions. Information is not property in that sense and should not be.

Intellectual property rights are harmful to society if not kept in strict check. It is now virtually impossible to write a computer program without violating someone's IP even though you've never seen it. That means we've gone too far in allowing people to own ideas.
I can appreciate a point about someone violating privacy by building that particular feature, but your comment is so caustic and accusatory it's just noise, not a valid addition to a legitimate debate.

You cannot call someone a "raging, power-hungry narcissistic sociopath" or accuse him of having a "god complex" for 1. wanting to build a successful company catering to rich people or 2. naming a company after a Nietzschian ideal. Does NASA have a god complex because they used the name Apollo?

Your points about Travis do not seem to be informed by reason or experience with the man. In fact, it just seems as though you're emotionally invested to the point of complete and utter bias.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't degree mills typical still accredited?

No, not really.

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

> I thought the process was they acquire already accredited institutions and rebrand them.

I guess it's possible, but I've never heard of that happening.
I'm taking it as an accusation of false/misleading advertising.
I feel sorry for the senior partners in this law firm. The poor hard working lawyers were callously duped by this master criminal and paralegal, they took his word that those dubious sales had been approved and never even checked his paperwork.

And now look, he has skipped town, they are bischmirced in name, cannot hold their heads up at next weeks charity tennis match. It's awful.
Note: windows programmer for 19 years now. Only because of the cash.

You know why there's cash? Because Windows works for a lot of people.
Right. So the fact that the Angry White Woman doesn't get called out for raging much of the time, while the man does, is an example of female privilege. Right?
Yes, but wouldn't it be way better to make them honestly try to balance budgets, rather than knowing they can always over-run and kick the can down the road?
Cepheus is the first computer program to play a perfect game of poker
A video from ~600KMs south of the epicenter. https://twitter.com/jorge_cerda_/status/644284954923417605
Oh, readers of HN, you credulous fools.
Title is incorrect. In its current form, the title gives the impression that paralegal forged Judges' signatures to reach structured settlements. However, the paralegal forged judges' signature to help clients of his law firm acquire (the documents also uses the word "transfer") structured settlements awarded to individuals, presumably for a one-time payment.
That is actually what you want. You want arguments to gain support based on their merits. You can't prevent propaganda from getting everywhere, in such places where this is most important it's already everywhere. You just want competing ideas to have a chance.
But permanent with respect to what? US GDP is 16.77 trillion. In 1950 it was $.3T. Ratio is 55:1. Population is only approximately 2:1. That's a compounded growth rate of 5%. So really- just to break even and make a dollar mean the same thing, we'd need an average money supply growth of 5% ( which is not the same as inflation ). But all the prices will be radically different - some more, some less.
If you go to 47 Wall street just 25 feet from where George Washington was inaugurated as president, you can see chunks of marble missing on the wall where the shrapnel hit.
My guess is that Uber subtracts it from the amount that Uber would pay the drivers for the credit card transactions. They still support and encourage use of credit cards.

If a driver didn't deliver cash to Uber they would probably be deactivated. If they had an excuse for it they could try customer service.
Einstein was boring before he was brilliant
4% of the planet. If 4% of America spoke a language, most of us wouldn't be in much of a rush to localize.

You're implicitly assuming that the remaining 96% of the population is speaking another language which is untrue in your analogy as the world population speaks more than one language and the largest one in terms of number of speakers goes to Mandarin with around 15% of world population.
some knights, probably
Sex differences of this type can be seen as privilege, but, in the real world, women who show strong emotion are often described as being hysterical or with other negative terms and marginalized while men are described as driven go-getters for the same behavior, and rewarded.
You're right. "Utterly benign" is too strong.

LSD is a very strong medicine, but it's possible to consume it in such a way that is profoundly helpful; what's more - it generally visits upon its users substantially less grief than heroin, to which it was being compared.
In addition to the many iPads, I have seen a few surfaces in the wild, and a few years back, a few android tablets, but never a non-surface Windows tablet. They may be on sale but that doesn't mean there is a market for them.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
Depends on the context really. You can verify something as either correct and incorrect, depending on what data you choose and how you interpret a statement. That's not a problem of verification, that's a problem of vague statements though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)
I would agree in the sense that LOC isn't an informative metric at all since there is surely a lot of auto-generated and copy & paste code in there, likely superlineraly more than a medium sized software project. It doesn't matter whether it's off by some orders of magnitude as it's beyond imagination and comparison anyway.
Yes, you did.

I'm not defending what happened, but I'm just pointing
out that this could have been easily avoided.

No, it couldn't have been. Unless it's easy to avoid being born colored and named Ahmed Mohamed and having a love for electronics. Or unless it's easy to fix systemic prejudice. Saying this blames him for not using "common sense" --

If I walk into a gas station with a ski mask and my hand
in my jacket, I'm not breaking any laws. But I have enough
common sense not to do that.

Let me fix this for you:

s/common sense/privilege/rg

You compared a colored boy who indulged his creativity to someone dressing up as a mugger. See anything fucked up about that? You suggested that it shouldn't be common sense for him to go into school "being who he is" with an electronic device. He's 14 and his name's Ahmed Mohamed and he likes technology. What's common sense here?

You want a better comparison? You are saying "I have common sense not to be a black man loitering in public." As if black men should be harassed by law enforcement at any turn. You are saying "I have common sense not to be a woman dressed (some subset of) the population finds scandalous." As if her body were owned by the public and not herself and as if it weren't her prerogative to dress however she damn well pleased.

The illogical behavior / lack of common sense is completely on the part of the system. There ought not be a suggestion other than "fix the broken-ass system."
Last I checked, Google was banning ad blockers in the Play Store. It will be interesting to see whether the popularity of this feature on iOS will force them to allow the adblockers again (I'm not expecting it to happen over the next year or two, though).
I am happy to consider it, the Enterprise Plan is currently $999.99 and we have found it capable of supporting all of our current Enterprise customers.
I am always reminded of Clayton Christensens very simple principle. Be patient for growth not for profit.

And it taps into a discussion I had with another friend of mine who is a founder of a venture backed company.

His claim was that he wanted to create a workplace that wasn't like those old industries which exploited it's workers.

My claim was that the only reason he could even care about that was because he was backed. The second you actually have to make a profit and there is no potential investor waiting to bail you out lets see how nice you are going to be.

In other words. It's easy to want to change the world and do things different when you don't have to create profit but just grow. It's when you have to make a profit every single day the true nature of your business become apparent.
The bootstrap list isn't hard coded, it's just a default. Here's how to work with the bootstrap list: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTkzDwWqPbnAh5YiV5VwcTLnGdwSNsNTn2aDxd... (from ipfs.io/docs/examples)
Facebook will start using like button data for ad targeting
It was built from scratch because it was designed as a replacement for Perforce because Perforce is expensive and the G used wrappers around it, anyways.

The commands are still basically the same as Google's wrappers around Perforce and the learning curve was non-existent for someone who was used to using Perforce at Google.
Direct link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/644284669375197184/pu/v...
China has always reserved the right to shut you down, copy your service and acquire your userbase. Not much has changed
To be fair, your 'agriculural automation system' components likely could be used for an explosive device.

On the other hand, I once had an airport security agent delay me because I had a transparent purple Game Boy Color in my carry-on. He (an older Filipino gentleman) seemed genuinely confused about what it was. It was pre-9/11, coincidentally also in Texas.
Can you please explain that? How can Uber's strength in other regions impact performance in a specific one?
The author chose how much context to include. Not to even mention the issues that most historians have with the treatment of S&V, while mentioning the case in apparent support of a completely opposed proposition, is odd in a work of this length.
From vague memory, the nice list of hints in the SDM on how not to screw up SYSRET is new.
I live on a 11th floor apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil (near Av. Paulista), and I felt this quake very slightly! It was very subtle and I thought first that I was just feeling dizzy or something. Then I searched for "terremoto" (earthquake in spanish) on Twitter and then I found a bunch of posts. Isn't it crazy that I could feel this from over here?
It's now being reported as an 8.3 earthquake, not 7.9/7.3 as reported in the article.
I would love to teach. I am very good at it. But I am also an entrepreneur to the core and hate, hate, hate bullshit.

I am one of two engineering mentors for our local FIRST FRC robotics team. Brilliant kids fully motivated to learn. I love it. We've built a bunch of neat stuff. I happen to own a lot of nice manufacturing equipment so we've taken advantage of that with the kids learning such things are running CNC and manual milling machines as well as soldering SMT, using DSO's etc.

Anyhow, one day I get hit with this business of having to register as an official school system volunteer in order to be able to be a mentor for the team. Mind you, FIRST has no such requirements, this is the school system bureaucracy meddling with things.

What did it entail? Filling out a bunch of forms that nobody could email me. I had to go to the main office and get them. And then they need to do a full-up background check, blood test and other crap. The process takes months. Oh, yes, and I have to pay for it.

Being that part of my work is in aerospace there are certain things I just can't do, at least not without involving certain checks and balances.

I flat out told the school system folks to go stuff it. I further threatened to fully fund the robotics team myself and pull it completely out of the the school. FIRST does not require teams to be attached to schools, so, technically, we could run it out of my warehouse and we'd be fine. The school folks took a few steps back and figured out a way to allow me to continue to be a mentor (after two years of doing it) without red tape. I suspect someone is making money somewhere by having this team be at the school. We are required to have a teacher associated with the team (one who knows nothing about nothing). My guess is he is getting extra bucks for having his name on a list somewhere.

This is just one example of why they don't attract better talent. We could have a lot more engineering mentors in this team but everyone recoils at some of the red tape they toss in front of you.

I know I and other practitioners could be amazing teachers and sources of inspiration for students. Yet, none of us has any interest in dealing with bullshit. And the school systems are permeated by it.

I mean, imagine the idea of having someone like Elon Musk do a physics lecture at a High School even once per semester. Think of the inspiration and effect that would have on kids. The effect would be very similar if you had passionate practitioners, perhaps less well known than Elon, yet passionate about their work, contribute to the education of our kids.

Money, to some degree, isn't the problem or the solution. We just don't have a good system. Teachers could be professional "inspiration organizers" who pull-in from the local and distant communities with the goal of blowing away kids with the passion, wonder and possibilities of the subject at hand, whether it is music, mathematics or physics. That. Something even a little bit like that. Would be amazing.