skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer not to hang up right away. Instead, I try to waste a bit of their time. For automated calls, I just put down the phone and wait a while to hang up.

But for people? I try other means of time wasting, so they can't call someone else to scam them.

Last time they called, I told them that it was good that they called, because my computer had detected a virus on their computer and that I wanted them to download an install malware.exe to remove it.

Next time they claim to call from Microsoft, I think I'll tell them I'm glad they've called, because I really need to speak to Bill Gates. Or if he's not available, Steve Ballmer.

I guess Bill might not answer his own phone any more, but I have to admit that I wonder what Bill does if he gets a call from them?

Maybe next time I should say that I'm Bill Gates and they're all fired?

At least this is more amusing than simply hanging up in disgust. And it helps slow down the rate at which they scam new people, even more so the more people who do this.
The only justifiable coercion is against coercion. Someone injures you physically or financialy. Forcing someone to do something they don't want to including dieing or giving you their things is coercion. Coercion is always unjust and only fit as a reciprocation for coercion.
Not sure this needs to be this inflamatory.

Are people surprised that PG will defend and explain away income inequality the way he did? Why was there that much shock and dismay. I don't get it. Are people afraid others will read post and start believing it because it comes from PG?

Startup envoronment thrives on myths, promises and hope. Myths are what keep it alive: founders have to say they have a burning desire to change the world (even if they really want a phat exit). Early employees are given magic points (options) that they believe will turn into money. Investors hope the company they invested in will grow a horn and four hooves.

One of the things leaders do is build up these myths. Without them things might start to fall apart. So one problem everyone is talking about lately is income inequality. It is not just crazy hippies, some more serious people are mentioning it. This inequality thing seems to be a odds with what startups do, and, most imporantly, with what keeps them going. So PG as a good leader stepped up to provide an interpretation, and surprise! it is favorable to startups.

If someone approaches a founder and says, "Your Uber for dogs just got valuated at $27B... what do you think about income inequality in this country". Well, they can safely pull out the phone, surf to the "essays" section and say something like "it's complicated, and let's look at the causes" etc.

To put it another way, would anyone be as surprised if say if Starbucks published an article how coffee is really good for you, etc.
It has been flagged once (when it was the second link in the front page), then de-flagged somehow. Not sure if there is a penalty associated to that.
Worth dipping into even if you're not really into synths, because some of the anecdotes (like his quest for the GS1) are pretty funny.
Flagged stories have a [flagged] tag. This is plain blatant censorship.
We have those "tedious" things because programmers don't like ambiguity.
Maybe the brutal terseness, toilet language and straw manning is apparently holding traction against his blogging? It seems the longer, more eloquent, and extremely well researched works that shame PG's ridiculous lower-than-high-school-sociological waxing _do not_.

I know it is often viewed as a grand cop-out to withdraw from an a debate until someone has read XXX, however I can't help but feel that this is the case with PG. Go take some sociology classes. Go study the humanities. Go learn in that place you constantly tell people to drop out from.

Except he won't. He doesn't need to. His privilege buys him a platform, ears, and a ridiculous following that actually defends his pompous soap boxing. Worse, again, is that it simply isn't bringing anything to the table. At all.

So while I am not a huge fan of the language or attack posturing, I also feel better knowing that there is a wave rising up against the derivative pablum PG peddles. The hubris it takes to actually forward thoughts as his and _believe_ they are novel, valuable, or even remotely insightful is... Frightening.
I think the suggestion would be something like having SSL certificates tied to phone numbers the way they're currently tied to domain names, such that there's a difference between a call from some phone number that when reverse-lookuped says "the IRS", and a call that actually shows up as being from "[padlock] the IRS"; and eventually the former could become "[x] Probably Not Actually The IRS".
I like Douglas Crockford's "Class Free OOP" approach for managing dependencies and composing functions:

function constructor(spec) {
let {member} = spec,
{other} = other_constructor(spec),
method = function () {
// accesses member, other, method, spec
};

return Object.freeze({
method,
other
});
}

but prefer to use an immutable data structure instead of Object.freeze().

All application state can be stored in a single "Atom" (i.e immutable data) and all message passing can be achieved through CSP channels.

When dealing with the DOM, 'incremental-dom' is a nice option.

Of course, separating pure functions from side-effects inducing code is key to maintaining control.

This is my approach when going "framework-less".
You do realize that if "they" took C away from us, then all we would be allowed to use is closed source lock-in oriented ecosystems to the point we wouldn't even be able to trust the very language itself. That's always been the dream, trusted computing all the way from boot to .NET (or similar). You can not in the same breath call for secure computing and spread propaganda against C. (I know it's too much of a leap for most, but it's the same non sequitur as being against government's tight grip on society and for gun control at the same time.)
Kevin Systrom made around $400M before tax when he sold Instagram. After 15% CGT, there's $340M left in cash. Whether this is a "fair" reward or not is a political opinion. I'll put forward mine here:

1. Equity stake is a poor proxy for share of value added, or risk assumed. One man alone did not create $400M worth of value.

2. Massive payouts provide incentives, but is $340M such a greater incentive than, say, $100M? If founders knew they could not make more than $100M, they would work just as hard.

3. The amount of money gained exceeds both the value created and the amount required to be sufficiently motivating. The remaining $300M, could therefore more equitably be used to save around 60,000 lives with negligible ill effect.

This is one case (sorry Kevin) but I think it illustrates how out of whack things can seem.

The whole pg post came off as very defensive, almost kind of persecuted. Which is understandable, that's the knee-jerk reaction to criticism levelled at one's moral standing. Here's hoping he'll be a little more analytical and take his ego out of the analysis in future.
No, only flagged stories that reach a certain threshold [number? quality?] of flags get a [flagged] tag.
I use it to search job postings which often redirect to career pages on corporate sites. I also use it to look up resumes of new colleagues to get an idea of their background without coming right out and asking what they know/what kind of experience they have.
I have recently revised my views in light of Michael Huemer's latest book, which I found convincing (, despite my initial reluctance to accept many of his findings).[1] It takes at least a book to explain his reasoning (which rightfully separates political legitimacy and political obligation from each other and independent moral obligations), and I won't bore you with poor paraphrasing here.

[1] http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-problem-of-political...
Are you guys possibly looking for any interns? Was in France earlier this year for one.
Hacker News needs more opinionated moderation, not less, if it's going to retain the quality of discussion. 4chan is not exactly a shining example of quality discourse.
> Is it even controversial?

It absolutely is.
There's an exception in the law for DRM
Really depends on a) how Magic actually bills (as in, how many minutes do they take for tasks) and b) what kind of tasks you use them for.

Your personally hired assistant won't be there 24/7 and will take way longer for many tasks, since I bet Magic is going to work on having direct and fast overview over and access to as many services as possible. But for many time-flexible tasks (booking trips, managing contacts, small research tasks, ...) Magic isn't so viable anymore.
>I have to pay for all sorts of treatments I'll never use -- addiction counseling, prenatal care (I'm a man), etc. --

Yeah, I know! Outrageous! Next thing you know they'll be asking me to pay to educate other peoples children!! Oh wait....

Having a society full of healthy babies (remember those babies are going to grow up to be adults someday) and people without substance dependency is beneficial to you.

Are you also upset that the people who live across town from you have roads that you never use?

The whole idea of "insurance" is to pool risk anyways. Do you also go on a rant like this every year you don't get into a car accident?

>because it was considered unfair that I should pay less for consuming less (why this argument doesn't transfer to auto insurance, where men pay higher rates, I don't know).

There are some countries (and Montana) where gender discrimination in auto insurance is illegal.
Unclear.

Jane Jacobs has a section in her seminal book on American cities about "gradual" and "cataclysmic" money, which can wipe out a delicate neighborhood ecosystem.
If you want to run multiple node apps on a single box, you might find bouncy useful too: https://github.com/substack/bouncy
Who is doing the mining/securing if they aren't using Bitcoin?
Brazil. Definitely Brazil.
https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...

Insurers are now limited to making 20% profit maximum under ACA to prevent pathological scenarios like that. Will there be a reduction in "innovation"? Maybe, but how much innovation do you need from a payment scheme? In any case, the game now is to increase their subscriber base by stealing from competitors or the uninsured, both likely to result in benefits to consumers.

I found this site helpful too:

http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-control-costs/
Shaq Sold His Name and Image to the Managers of Elvis and Marilyn Monroe (2015)
Any application can request the permission to track certain Android app lifecycle events. In this case, when an app gains and loses foreground focus.

Data and location API access are separate permissions. But if all three are obtained, fairly detailed correlations can be made.

Although I don't know much about Cyanogenmod, it is likely it enables global toggles for the app lifecycle permission.
Far more likely it's call centre staff who work for dell customer support abusing their system access than an external hack, this seems quite common across almost all brands and industries
Some say that this kind of policy is coming back.

Crypto Wars Part II
The Empires Strike Back
Kurt Opsahl Deputy Executive Director of the EFF

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7386-crypto_wars_part_ii#video

There is no first part of this specific talk.
The talk is only called "Part II" because of the Crypto Wars of the nineties.

If you are interested in the "Part I" history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

is a good starter.
The article did mention they do development. If it's OSX/iOS development, "inexpensive" probably actually means "inexpensive for an OSX-running laptop."

(And not just "inexpensive for an OSX-running device"; there's always Mac Minis if that's what you want.)
The reason is because they don't have the rights to show it in other countries, and they will be sued if they do so. It is very difficult to put together global film rights unless you are the producer, but usually those rights are sold to agents who then resell them to individual distributors in individual territories. By the time your streaming company gets to it it's been chopped up into such small pieces that it's harder to put together than humpty dumpty.
Any idea how much time per day the author spent on their projects?
The old site was broken, though: all the links lead to non-existent pages.
Jolla to ship next batch of tablets, but not enough for everyone
There's definitely a market for it... if it's well built, and the keyboard has a good feel, I'd be interested... and 64gb of ram can run a lot of dev vms...
> Massive payouts provide incentives, but is $340M such a greater incentive than, say, $100M

Yes, it can be. At least the general principle of not capping upside. For someone with $0, sure, I'd agree that $100M is approximately within the same region of desire as $340M, and maybe even $1B.

But if a founder had already made $100M, the prospect of making only another $100M will ensure that you'll have fewer repeat founders. You'll still have people like Elon Musk, who I think would have started SpaceX/Tesla even if he knew he couldn't become a billionaire for tax reasons, but some founders would be dissuaded from starting new companies after their initial $100M gain, if there wasn't the prospect of making billions on their next venture.

Ironically, at some point in time Elon Musk went broke spending his money on his post-PayPal ventures, and was borrowing money from friends. If he had made less money from PayPal, we would not have Tesla/SpaceX, or at least he would have sold them early.
You can look up a picture, but to paint one more evocatively through description: there's about 2mm of metal casing above and below the USB ports. The sides are effectively one USB-port high. RJ-45 ain't gonna fit.
Simple Icons: SVG icons for popular brands
Show HN: Mashily – Make Donald Trump Say Anything
I really have to ask... Why? What's the difference between this and using Nancy with a Knockout VM?
Some of these makes Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray TimeCube rants seem cohesive and well thought out.
They certainly do in many parts of the world. I personally saw the dead body pickups in India. Seems like the parent aspires an American health care system more similar to the developing world.
From one of the comments in the article, it's probably more like we've lost control of how businesses work. Many people don't like the phrase "race to the bottom", but that's what comes to mind when you get to see how personal data is handled to third parties and/or cheap, expendable workforce.
Comparing the lower class to real slaves was exactly and explicitly what he did do. Or are your scare quotes meant to imply that the modern lower class isn't a "real" lower class?
Paying for better performance only applies for CEOs and engineers. Teachers should live in squalor for the love of educating.
I'm not implying anything. It means what is says.
you'd think that this is a pretty frequently asked question though, no? how could apple dev support personnel not understand/answer basic questions that affect a significant portion of apple devs?
Few thoughts:

1) expensive areas have a proportional amount more to spend on teachers. If they actually were short teachers and needed to pay teachers more, the easily could and would.

2) teachers are generally easy to find. Open teaching positions routinely have hundreds of applicants. It is a very desirable job despite the 'low' wages. Working with kids, month long holidays, and tenure appeal to a lot of people.

3) 45% of your income on housing is not that extreme. I pay 30% and I'm in LA on a CS wage

I'm not convinced this is a problem, just your typical heart throb emotional piece.
Well, the number of humans willing to work remains the same... unless you mean the number of humans willing to work BELOW A CERTAIN RATE has increased, but that's the market clearing level, not supply. I know you are agreeing with me, and I don't want to nitpick, just clarifying.
Maybe it has more to do with the warehouse of origin than the size of the item. Did they run out of paper and resort to bags? Is there some reason they'd use paper in one warehouse but bags in another? Perhaps one hasn't been fitted with the advanced paper-wrapping robot and it's quick to just drop it in a bag? It'd be really interesting to learn what dictates the wrapping material.
Getting to Zero Exceptions
What doesn't work that way in Canada? For that matter, doesn't work what way?

If you mean that in Canada you're never ineligible for your physician because you changed insurance providers, that's basically right (except when you move between provinces, in which case you need to change physician anyway). So the whole problem cannot happen in Canada (nor in the U.K.).

I'm not saying everything's roses and perfection in commie-land... I'm saying that the U.S. system is just obviously horribly worse than all the socialist implementations.

(Well, okay, let's be fair... the U.S. system is probably better for the rich. When I was living in California, and had a medical incident, I got VERY good treatment... for which my employer's insurance company paid a HILARIOUS amount of money, and presumably charged my employer commensurate premiums. I mean, no-expenses-spared levels of treatment. I think Canadian doctors would have been slightly less cavalier about running up the bill.)
Working fewer hours would make us more productive
Interesting thought. I could picture it for an iPad Pro as well: a "docking station" with peripherals, that is itself portable. You could market it primarily as an extra battery, the way those "portable USB chargers" work.
Sounds like the cost of business licenses in SF should go up...
I agree. I think a lot of people would feel more comfortable using a gift wrapping service if those same people could pick their own wrapping paper, which, in the end, would mean more $ for Amazon.
If you're not literally about to die in Canada you're looking at multi-month delays to see any kind of specialist.

Meanwhile my friends in SV just whip out their credit cards, pay a small deductible, and get seen immediately.

Single payer isn't all sunshine and roses.
ignoring anything else, that process seemed pretty smooth to me, esp for government. Sure you hit a few snags, but the main one (a lost email) could've happened signing up anywhere.
These scams rely on nobody tracing them back. The phone system is completely insecure, loses are too small to prosecute properly, and it hits mostly people who don't know how to defend themselves. The whole idea of unauthorized phone systems and impersonating officials is probably only going to go away after it actually hits someone who "matters". For example soon after a well known politician's house gets swated a few times and they learn it's how hard is it to track it down. (if the caller knows how to protect themselves and do a few redirections, that is)
Like I said, I don't think it'd be a good idea for Wikipedia to start copying and pasting from random websites without the appropriate clearances. I do think it'd be a good idea to revise the law so that normal uses are not illegal anymore.
Apple's laptop internals are increasingly commoditized, to the point that with things like the 12" Macbook, you can basically consider them a battery in a case with ~$100 worth of other stuff attached. You may as well throw the whole thing in the battery recycling bin. (Also, given the way the battery cells are packed directly inside the case now, a sealed Macbook has the same number of layers of aluminum between the recycler and the electrolyte as a regular AA battery has. It'd probably be more trouble for the recycler if you take the battery out: they'd be having to deal with a soft bag of electrolyte that may have been punctured in transit.)
(1) Measuring teacher performance is hard (and because it's taxpayers miney, there's much less space for subjective opinions), (2) supply/demand ratio of teachers is quite different.
seriously, not offended :) you get used to it working on frameworks :D

The longest (heated) discussion ever covers a lot of the reasoning: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/133

More in depth design stuff here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kpuR512G1b0D8egl9245OHaG...

Demo: ng2 + google-youtube polymer element : http://plnkr.co/edit/yh0ACeu6g5n8D7YuhJvg?p=preview
I don't recall if I read that first or the Guardian article linked there, but yeah. Also, my reference to the Vietnam War was made while still under the impression of a documentary about the the Winter Soldier investigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdRivBmISE
>> So, why can't people accept that Linux and open source have won the software wars?

By this logic, most Windows/OSX users have already jumped to Linux, and most Windows Phone/iOS/etc users have already jumped to Android, right?

Or maybe I misunderstand something? :p
I'm not sure this is a good thing... the PFM (pure fucking magic) reminds me of ASP.Net controls (including from paid vendors) and the shear nightmare they became as soon as things got mildly complex, by hiding too much.
Agreed. There are a few things there I don't know how to do off the top of my head, and it would have been awfully useful to see at least a small snippet of code...
At the same time Apple encourages the use of HTTPS with App Transport Security (ATS).

Starting in iOS 9.0 and OS X v10.11, a new security feature
called App Transport Security (ATS) is available to apps and is
enabled by default. It improves the privacy and data integrity
of connections between an app and web services by enforcing
additional security requirements for HTTP-based networking
requests. Specifically, with ATS enabled, HTTP connections must
use HTTPS (RFC 2818). Attempts to connect using insecure HTTP
fail. Furthermore, HTTPS requests must use best practices for
secure communications.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...

Does that mean that in the future nearly every App will need the ERN?
"there are some static variables in macros that use __LINE__ as the unique portion of the identifier"

Now that's a horror story, I hope I will never have to work with such code.
Is the image at 1:11 in the video an easter egg to their consumer car? If so, that's awesome.
https://youtu.be/-h3Xd6PXwc0?t=70
Anyone know how to do similar for Xfce or LXDE?
You're probably thinking of Premium-rate telephone numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number
Uh... I'm not saying this legitimizes his arguments in any way, but to interpret your comment literally, he did study the liberal arts - both of them:

Paul Graham has a BA in Philosophy from Cornell "and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence."

http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html
Crypto Wars Part II – The Empires Strike Back [video]
>What does it mean for the US, when we can't keep up with our demand to import qualified employees?

It means you're missing the root reason why people want to import qualified employees: Because they're more exploitable. If they (the employee) is dependent on their employer to not be deported, then they don't have the employment mobility to negotiate a better salary with.
Bernstein v. United States
The part of people that wants equality is what I call human nature, the part that wants personal rewards is our animal part.
This sounds awful similar to the "Nothing to hide argument". People have a right to privacy and shouldn't have to provide a reason why they deserve it. Tracking should always be opt-in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
Lyft Raises $1B, Partners with GM on Future of Transportation
I use libguestfs and virsh to inject files in a VM (without network).

http://libvirt.org/virshcmdref.html
http://libguestfs.org/
I don't get it. What's wrong with using something like Haskell or Rust?

The security there is in the type system at compile time, no Trusted Computing shenanigans, and you still avoid buffer overflows and SQL injections (if you use them properly).

Even something as lowly as Python mostly protects you from buffer overflows.