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I'm not sure that "the boss deserves more wrath than the poor shmoe doing the calling". I've talked my way through a number of "Rachel, from Cardholder Services" calls. The human "service" reps ask for card number, expiration date, last 4 of social, billing ZIP code, and sometimes the CVV/CID/CSC. Those "service" reps must know that's enough info to start using the card. They certainly know it by the 3rd time they're told to soak their heads or pound sand or jump in a lake. When I've given an expired Visa gift card's CC number, I've gotten a very curt dismissal. I feel pretty certain that everyone involved in "Rachel from Cardholder Services" knows exactly what's going on, and that it's a scam and illegal.

Those poorly-paid "telemarketers" are part of the problem. They deserve all they get.
Just clarifying, are you speaking of SF, or the US more generally...?
Ironically getting that reserve currency status could be biting them in the ass in the short term. You need to have fairly free currency flows as part of the deal. Which means its tricky for them to impose capital controls now.
Hard to know, because High end London property is pretty weird. It's basically a piggy bank, a tax dodge, a money laundering vehicle and a fashion accoutrement all tied up in one dirt cheap currency.
I'd like to know how they tackle battery consumption in a server-less architecture. Skype P2P was a huge battery drainer, linked to the number of contacts you have. For instance if you have 50 contacts plus group chats, the client needs to sync one by one and share the data with 50+ points, which might come and go. I care about privacy and latency, I'm not buying the argument that p2p is a solution for those though.
Can you name and shame the company that wanted your Facebook and Twitter account? That's absurd.
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Master Card has been doing this for a while, and I think they do it better: https://developer.mastercard.com/portal/dashboard.action

They've had hackathons, and they have a few sample ideas. My favorite is checking local restaurants and the zip codes of users. This gives you a listing of places that are popular with locals.
> If you're being called extremely consistently at the same
> inconvenient time, then your case is extraordinary, take
> some measures to make sure the company doesn't call you
> again (no call list, whatever else) -- don't take your
> frustration out on the person who's turn it is to call
> you.

There is a large group of people for whom there is literally no way of stopping them calling. That's the point you don't seem to understand. You're saying essentially "it's not their fault that they're illegally harassing you having taken steps to hide their identity so you can't report them". It's a moronic argument!

You're conflating "being an adult" with "meekly accepting that some people are going to phone you in the evening when you're relaxing with your family and try and bullshit you into giving them money without giving them a piece of your mind". All of the phone calls are inconvenient because they all waste my time; when are they ever not inconvenient?

You might just as well describe crack dealers as "businessmen, just after an honest buck".
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The sentence preceding the one you quoted should explain it. The point is that there is a particular font style used in "mock Chinese" imagery that makes English words look like they are written with the sort of sharp strokes that Western audiences saw as being like Chinese characters.
I wouldn't be so quick to say they hate their job. A person with a financial incentive to do so can swallow any justification to be enthusiastic about their job. Not all of them will, naturally, but if I'm allowed to be crass, some whores actually like being whores.
The low-price contender is Periscope (periscopedata.com).
This is a huge part of it. I was a Java programmer for almost ten years, and it is wholly opinion but most of those tools are inelegant and cumbersome. I realized most of the code I was writing was boilerplate or even worse, XML configuration of code.
Apart from quality comes from successful integration of all the components together rather than individually.
How much from injury prior? How much of this is detainees being treated like rental car pre-checkout inspection? How much is from abuse? When? Where? How?

With context is impossible to establish, difficult to see this as really helping prevent future abuses
The same could be said of strong encryption: if people use it, the government might crack down.

On the other hand, the more people use encryption, the less useful mass surveillance will be to the government. When the government no longer gets much worthwhile information from eavesdropping, it may be easier to get politicians to put a halt to eavesdropping.

So it could be that the best way to protect privacy is to use both technical and political approaches.
It's really cool. What happens if you add a new tweet with a date in the past? Isn't a bit weird to be able to change the history?
We should probably feel sorry for them. In many ways, they're the victim. Actually, muggers too. I understand some of them came from broken homes and didn't have the same advantages you or I had. If you don't give muggers money they may decide they have no choice than to murder you, which will almost certainly provoke a turn for the worse in their lifes. Give all you can - they need it more than you.
It is not just knowing that you are under 24-7 surveillance, it is knowing that there will be CONSEQUENCES for "negative" behavior while under that 24-7 surveillance.

For example, if one takes the traditional image of the tyrannical government spying on its citizens (the East German Stasi comes to mind) the fear wasn't just that the government monitors would hear you say something anti-government while in private. The fear was that they would use that private conversation as a reason to imprison, torture, and/or execute you. You had to watch every word you say for fear of detention or death.

Many Americans do not believe that their government would or could use that information against them, especially since they are not terrorists (think of the old cop line "if you are innocent you have nothing to hide). The fact is that much of the information that is being collected by the government is ALREADY being collected by Google, Facebook, Yahoo and AT&T. Most Americans rightfully assume that google is keeping track of their searches, and that AT&T has records of who they call. Why would they trust some corporation with this data, but not their government? I don't necessarily agree with this thinking, but I understand it.

Until there are MULTIPLE reports of the U.S. government using that information against ordinary Americans, you are not going to see much traction on the issue.

> Unless you planned carry a concealed gun all the time, you'd hardly ever be affected - only on the occasions where you'd have otherwise carried.

This might sound strange to people who don't carry guns (particularly if you live in a country were civilian ownership is restricted), but for the people I know with concealed carry permits, many actually do carry all the time (at least everywhere they can legally). These folks don't carry their guns only on special occasions. One firearms instructor told me that he carries everyday because "if I knew the exact day that I would need my gun in public, I would just stay home instead." They treat carrying a gun like wearing a seat belt. You don't only wear your seat belt on the highway or in heavy traffic. As soon as you get in the car, you buckle up.
The ELK stack is really fancy next generation "tail -f | grep" in a web browser. Which is awesome and really important, but a very different problem from "tell me how many users have used my app for three or more days in a sliding thirty day window".
A shawl is worn over or around the shoulders. Sometimes that includes the head; sometimes is does not.

Try an image search. Or watch Fiddle on the Roof :) https://youtu.be/7V2lxFWBqfI?t=2m49s
I am a fan of Fujitsu. Have been using a T902 for about 3 years - works great. Prior to that, had a T4000 (I think) that lasted me about 5-6 years in spite of a case-ruining drop (that I subsequently fixed). I will likely replace my T902 with a T904.

These are hybrid Windows Tablet PCs built for enterprise users so I tend to buy them refurbished from Fujitsu (on eBay or directly). IME, they are very upgradable, very high quality, and with unmatched customer support.
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tptacek, you have a J.D, correct? I would love to chat about your experiences in law/tech, if we could exchange info.
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For anyone else wondering, they're using AES-CBC with no MAC: https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird/blob/master/secure/cryp...

Should at least use a decent HMAC construction, but would be better to switch to AES-GCM. There's an issue filed for it: https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird/issues/4
Great, this is just the solution Verizon offered me, after the service rep acted like nobody on earth had ever called in to complain about robocalls from Cardholder Services.

The problem is that robocallers often spoof the telephone number from which they call. It looks to me like they change the false, spoofed number about once a day. Given that I get 2, 3 or 5 calls from "Rachel" or "Ann" or "Microsoft Tech Support" a day, that's a lot of spoofed numbers to block

In short, not a solution, except from a narrow, legal standpoint.
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It reminds me of chatting with scammers who don't speak good English on dating sites. My first test is whether they can answer questions accurately such as "How's it going?" or "What are you up to?"
Tesla has their own battery technology. But the chemistry belongs to Panasonic, who creates cells.

You combine cells (like the 18650) together to create batteries. The Gigafactory is trying to make 26650 cells, which should be more efficient in cars than the 18650 cells (which were originally designed for laptops)

Tesla's use of 18650 was highly innovative. They "hacked" growth into their company by taking advantage of the scale and scope of laptop manufacturers. But now that TSLA is one of the largest users of Lithium Ion in the world, they need to come up with a more efficient, car-specific cell design now.
Ok but that is a point you could make without comparing two compilers. It seems an ingenuous choice to compare a 2007 compiler to a 2015 compiler.
> A quick "no thanks" and hang up is enough.

A quick "sorry, he recently passed away" is just as fast, and probably reduces future telemarketing.

On the one hand, the callers are humans with dehumanizing jobs who probably just want to have a non-awful conversation for a few minutes before returning to the auto-dialer to get rejected yet again. On the other hand, they get fired for not making their numbers, and their managers listen in on their calls to make sure they keep pushing the hard sell. On balance, I tend to go for polite, quick refusal. I wouldn't mind chatting for a few minutes, but they would probably get in trouble for that.
You know what, on second thought, you're right.

Given the context and content, it's pretty ironic.
I find they call from a new number every time.
Sean Griffin (and others), the maintainer of Rails' ActiveRecord, has been working on this ORM for a while now. It's not a port of ActiveRecord, but a look at what an ORM that takes advantages of Rust's strengths would look like.

It makes heavy usage of Rust's type system features, particularly zero-sized types, to provide a large degree of safety with no overhead. Sean has mentioned several times that he even believes that he is faster than literal SQL strings, due to pre-compiling them in some way, but that's a bit out of my league.

He also wants to have features like "type-check all of your queries at compile time and then query the database to make sure that the schemas all line up" and other such compile-time safety shenanigans.
I'm sure scam artists and burglars are just trying to pay the bills too. If you choose to do something so anti-social, then sometimes you'll have trouble.
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Any way to get early access?
>It's not that I'm resentful of people with another disease, but rather the fact that two unrelated diseases have the same name, leading people to assume I've lead an unhealthy lifestyle because I have "Diabetes", while in reality I work very hard to stay healthy.

That's not a good assumption to make. It's probably true in most cases, but there are lots of people with type 2 diabetes who've never been sedentary or at an unhealthy weight. Sometimes it's just genetic. Also, if you have a condition that requires you to take steroids you can end up with type 2 diabetes as a side effect.
Who can write a Simpsons quote search engine?

https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=the+garbage+man+can
May I give a "collector's" point of view? I recently added a sort of phone home functionality to an app that runs on the client's network and the only goal here is to ensure that the people who use the software get value out of it. It helps me decide what to focus on and what matters to the customers.

It's not a substitute for picking up the phone, but it allows me to have more meaningful conversations when I do so.
Not only that, why is he all of a sudden claiming this now, AFTER the stock has tanked? If he felt that way, he should have been talking about it when the stock was much higher. it's easy to say things after the fact.
My form here needs my recruiter's salary before I can move on.
This is some fascinating analysis. And like the Author I am amazed that Twitter doesn't crack down harder on their spambots.
I think what Kin is saying before in 2008 and dot-com there were fundamental reasons for a bubble to burst which had an navigate reprecussions on the economy(recession/increased unemployment).

dotcom - shell companies, with no revenue or profits.
2008 - excessive/unsustainable leverage both by corporations and individuals.

This time around multiple QE cycles resulted in decreased treasury and bond yeilds. People\funds with captial went to invest other assets classes e.g. equity markets seeking high yeilds and as a result increased the price multiples/valuations while the intrinic businesses valuation and growth remained the same.

Now people are starting to realize that multiples(what you pay for a company and what its actually worth) are too high and started taking money out of equity markets. While the fundamentals of the business has stayed the same.

Hence this bubble bursting or "significant price correction" wont have the same impact on mainstreet as the other two bubbles because the business are still sustainable but the prices weren't.

Prices are not proxy for revenue/profits/growth or value. So unless someone can give actual facts that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses are/will be impacted on a systematic basis I agree with kin.
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I don't see another way to bootstrap value in an unbacked unofficial currency. It's possible to back digital currencies by gold or something, but then we have counterparty risk and potential for shutdown by governments.
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You're right. My error. Thank you!

I have been seriously frustrated by the dominance of Craigslist re apt-hunting, but it's quite fair to note that, while I may object to their choices, it is obviously not greed that (primarily) motivates them/him. So it's definitely not right for me to group them with LinkedIn.
Have you ever been inside a mine?
It's the same in Spain. I also think it's popular mainly in Germany.
I came here to find this. Upvote for you sir.
I use Anveo as my VoIP provider. They have a neat web-based call flow tool. My line is setup so that if you're not ona white list, you get a recording asking you to press a digit, else the call goes to voice mail. This has gotten rid of all telemarketing calls. Maybe 1 in 10 even make it to voice mail (most hang up first).

But anyway, Anveo has had a "robotalk" feature for years, though I dunno how much AI it has.
The calls I get usually start by the telemarketer asking to speak to the owner. I say she isn't available and they always hang up right after that.
What passes for innovative in your universe? Fancy JSON file format? AutoCAD web app?
what is 2ch?
This is amazing, one of my favorite articles on HN ever.

I'm really curious what the heck that "eye" is in the bottom right space of the clusters. Some cluster so radically orthogonal to any other content it has an order of magnitude more distance in differentiation?
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> A quick "no thanks" and hang up is enough.

No, because then they get to annoy the next person.

The more of their time your waste, the less profitable it becomes, and the fewer telemarketers there will be. Wasting their time is a public service.
That's exactly it. They haven't yet. Right now what they do is assembly. Look up what Chanos said about Tesla.
Can you go into more detail? For my personal mail, my default approach is to toss spam client-side (via automatic filters or otherwise), so the spammer gets no signal about whether or not it is delivered. Does reducing the reputation of their relays hurt them much more? If so, which mail hosts support doing this?
Hmm, now I'm curious what the heat map for, say, > $100k cars looks like, though I'm guessing perhaps something like: https://xkcd.com/1138/

Maybe what I really want is 100k cars per capita?
Great resource, thanks for sharing this!

For me, transparent meaning is far easier for understanding systems than, for example, visual programming (I'm thinking the Unreal Blueprint[1] system)

[1]: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/i...
(original author here) it's a spambot network. If you click the link in that post to the interactive version (this: https://pile-of-junk.s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_scatter_10k.ht...) you can see for yourself.
The thing people don't understand is that in order to simulate human intelligence, you have to be able to simulate TWO things:

1) A human brain

2) An entire human development up to the age of intelligence you are looking for

The first one is not the harder of the two.

Now, many AI researchers believe they can cut corners on the whole simulating an entire human lifetime thing, and that they can use a more impoverished simulation and make up for it on volume... say, just flashing a billion images in front of the AI hoping that's enough to form the specific subset of intelligences you are hoping for. Or letting the AI read the entire internet. But at this point it's an open question whether that could even theoretically lead to generalized intelligence.
jQuery is still a whole lot easier to use than native DOM APIs.
As someone who lives in a small (western) mountain town I think one thing that is often overlooked is that all of those small businesses need at least basic web presence and the founders either need to be tech savey enough to set one up or have someone do it. Even static sites or facebook pages are still somewhat rare where I am.

Its not glamorous or particularly challenging work by HN standards but it is a market for people with pretty basic computer/coding skills.
I don't believe that's true. Could you please paste the pertinent text from the 10-K? I was not able to find it.

As far as I know the cell chemistry in use was developed jointly and I believe Tesla holds patent although I'm not able to find a source at the moment.
I know the ".rs" TLD is common to rust projects, but maybe add "for Rust" to the title?
You should share that data, help your fellow job hunters.

Last time I worked at a BigTechCo, salary ranges were $85-100K for juniors, 120-130 mid-level, and 150-165 for senior devs. Bonuses tend to hover around 30%. Of course, stock grants varied widely.

The largest IC pay I saw was $2M/year for a someone who years ago was part of a famous project -- semi-known guy. More recently, I've seen (indirectly) BigTechCo's offering $300-350/year total comp to mid-levels, and 5-600K to seniors.

Anyone else wanna share?
Interesting. I want a phone that basically turns into a full desktop when you plug it into a docking station. It wouldn't work for it to be iOS, though. It's got to have an accessible file system and a way to install (or even build) 3rd party software without going through Apple.
So HN is close to nico (Japanese youtube) and pixiv (Japanese-centric art and fanart site)? Interesting.
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I'm not sure why Autoblog is giving stock analysis. Tesla's stock will be determined by sales, revenue and global rollout. Autoblog's vehicle opinion is irrelevant.
RIP big data. Hello AI. Makes sense, data drives a lot of 'AI' tech. I guess what I find amusing is the push from Google to rebrand themselves as an AI company. My guess is it won't be too long until we see everyone else jumping in the AI branding boat. That will kind of dilute a lot of what is being done.
I've wondered that as well. I'm not "active" on Twitter but I log on occasionally to see if there are any interesting tweets in my feed. Every time I log on I have a new follower from penny stocks twitter, get rich quick schemes, and various other fake profiles. This seems to stay stable at around 20 fake followers as old ones get erased and new ones follow.

It seems like amateurs are more capable at detecting spam than the entire company but I sometimes wonder if they just know about it leave the spam bots because once they crack down, new ones will just pop up. Or if they keep them around at a tolerable level that doesn't drive real users away but still allows them to publish a higher "user count"
> socially well adjusted

Don't underestimate this. Being a better code doesn't make you a better employee.
Really? Seems like most of the progress recently has been against type 1. In many ways it's an easier problem to tackle.
DistroKid founder here.

When people generate fake streams on Spotify (ex: put a 45-second track on repeat all week, volume on zero, for the purpose of fraudulently extracting money from Spotify...), said people are actually stealing from legitimate artists. That's because Spotify pays artists a pro-rata share of Spotify's revenue, based on how many times an artists' music was streamed.

Math: If there's $10 in the pot and my band has 5 (real) streams, and your band has 5 (fake) streams--I'm getting $5 instead of the $10 I deserve.

Spotify's fraud detection system is a very good thing for artists. The system exists solely to protect artist, and has no other obvious upside for Spotify.
> they claim that efficiency is the only thing that matters in intelligence

Who, and where, I've not come across such a claim.

There is, of course, a question of whether a particular AI tool demonstrates value for money in a particular commercial niche. But not being so doesn't mean it isn't 'real' AI or 'real' intelligence. There are plenty of situations you wouldn't be value for money for me to invest in, I don't take this as meaning you aren't intelligent. It's a quite different question.
How does this reconcile the async IO problem?

I couldn't figure out from cursory reading how "PgConnection" works or how it would be compatible with other IO-related code.
Authors: Can you describe the backend infrastructure?

I'm just a bit curious here about the costs of running a toy service like this.
Very true. Sometime back I interviewed a person for Java related work. He had roughly 20 years of experience. Unfortunately most of knowledge and skills were intimately related to his last employer. The said person was jobless for 1 year so. Apparently not much use of company specific skills.
Does someone know where we can try it? Being browsing the web a but without success.