skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some crucial lessons here, many underappreciated.

Communications providers are the problem. Just as the USPS supports junk mail (it pays the bills), phone carriers support telemarketing (likewise). It's a case of perverse incentives and impunity, and the way to fix the problem is to hurt the carriers themselves.

Lowering prices often makes a thing worse. "Cost" means "what you've got to give up for something", and it can be inverted to "how badly do you want to accomplish some X?" In a large number of cases, mostly involving network technologies -- transport, communications, data, commercial and trade networks -- reducing costs means that those who provide little overall social benefit seek to use a service. Highway congestion, Usenet and email spam, social network trolling, telemarketers and robocalls, hazardous or unsafe products or materials transported or transacted. Unless you can impose very effective regulation or restriction mechanisms, those uses will dominate the system.

Phones are ripe for disruption. Both POTS and cellular networks. I've not carried a phone for months now, in part made possible due to specific circumstances, but it's wonderful. There's one use-case I miss: on-the-go access to transit information. The lack of access, filtering, blocking, voice-to-speech, and similar features on traditional services is inexcusable. The complicity of major carriers in global warrantless surveillance and data collection is another huge trust-buster.

We've had VOIP technologies for over two decades, and several large providers: Skype, Apple's iChat, Google's Hangouts (still a lousy name), and others. The biggest problem is that these don't interconnect. If they did, and bridged to legacy voice comms, they could take out the voice comms market in a few years. I suspect customers would flock to them with the offer of control over interruptions alone.

Coordinated campaigns against providers are powerful. A coordinated set of efforts to drop vendor service on account of phone spam might elicit a faster response from providers.

The combined effect of the last two elements also makes phone providers subject to the evaporative cooling effect. This is the inverse of network effects, and is why social networks often collapse so rapidly: defection by valued members and customers leaves lower-quality prospects and more noise on the channel, leading to ever more defections. Eventually it's just spammers and those who must retain service for regulatory or statuatory reasons who remain, and the system dies.
I absolutely agree with your argumentation. It is a very interesting construct that could be the future - or just a test ballon that disappears as fast as it rose. Personally I found it worth investing 100$ in such an interesting concept to participate and raise it's chances.

If it turns out bad I loose a tiny bit of money and we all have learnt something.

If it turns out good - awesome, curious to learn from it and see how it develops.

PS: At least I can tell my grand-children to have participated at the biggest crowd-funding event so far ;)
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Not only that, but I would think if Reddit participants did get paid, surely the quality (such as it is) would go way down as everyone would be even more incentivized towards producing clickbait comments and stories.

I'm actually amazed that Reddit continues to even exist given how much traffic it gets every day and how little income it must get from what (relatively) few ads it serves. I don't know what this massive cashflow is that people think they're entitled to tap into.
I find this criticism and Eliot's of very little value without Orwell's choice of rebuttals. The format of 1984 is very different from A clock Work Orange, which is the closest thing I can think of to Asimov's request. 1984 works on a different level because it doesn't distance the reader from the characters by giving them new vices or unessential tech that we must map to the present. The pigs in animal farm also work very well from Orwell's perspective. I don't think he viewed his class controlling India as an accident, and for all intents he was a civic minded pig that at best understood that his peers were going too far in making an empire with all the unfortunate traits of past empires.
Worth noting that Germany was considered "the sick man of Europe" due to its poor growth and high unemployment from the middle of the nineties to a bit into the 2000s. Not sure that is the entire explanation of his problems, but is probably related.
I think the US equivalent to the GmbH is being 'incorporated'
> "Nike filter", you must be kidding me. Nobody wants to put goddamn ads on their photos.

Plenty of people want to put certain kinds of ads on their photos, and are happy to do so!
I'm genuinely surprised to see that someone had made laws/rules about this.

Seem impossible to enforce and frankly a little overbearing.
I'd think style and structure would be agreed on up front and possibly partially enforced by a formatting tool like Astyle. of course, prototyping might be something that can be varianced, so long as its agreed that the prototype will be discarded. But a given shop may not have the maturity for that. Shame, really.

Nobody ever wants to do it, but I've used a statement of work approach in the past.

I once used the wrong version of coding standards in a shop, and heard about it in a performance review. I'm in no way convinced this was inadvertent. My piece had negative defects - I found a dozen or so old crufty bugs in my testing. The rest of the team took months getting integration right.
And what will Vitalik testify in this subpoena? What could he reveal that wouldn't already be public? It's like giving a subpoena to a hammer maker to ask them what happened with hammer x that built thingy Y that they sold long time ago.
Inside the Development of Astroneer
No! Be quiet and let me raise money via overfitting my datasets and making short demo vids!

More seriously though, even if there's a lot of undeserved hype (I don't think so, I just think non-technical people are making up foolish expectations), all this work and investment into technical development of statistical machine learning algorithms and software is going to pay off. Much in the same way that overinvestment in internet infrastructure during the dot-com bubble paid off.
In about two months I'll quit my job, I'll start a business with a friend, we'll see how it goes. I'm really interested on how it went for you.
> Even though Digg was on decline, it was still bigger than reddit

It most definitely was not. reddit was already bigger than Digg long before v4 was launched. v4 did cause a bump in reddit's traffic, but it wasn't nearly as significant as people think. Most Digg users were already reddit users too. In fact, a lot of the power users were getting their stories from reddit.

That's why at the time the joke was that if you wanted to see a summary of reddit the day before, you just looked at Digg.
Write them in terms of user requirements. When someone does X, they expect Y to happen. If a test breaks, it should mean that a user somewhere would think there's a problem. See for instance this:

http://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste....

You can write integration tests with the same tools as unit tests.

Personally, I try to make sure all major paths are covered, but I won't test every little UI detail. It's faster to test those manually. But YMMV.
Is there a gays-in-navy tongue-in-cheeks ref in teh title?
A no-service phone can still make 9-1-1 calls in the US, it's a legal requirement. Many other nations have similar requirements.

Free-riding off the target-rich environment of available phones is another option.

I've made precisely one true emergency request call in my life, and that was when employed in a safety-supporting role. I've used emergency phone services on other occasions, but in those cases, the situation was either not life-threatening, others had reported the event, or the involved party was already clearly dead.

And if I need a burner (trip/travel), I can pick one up / refill an otherwise unused phone for a few euros.
I'd like to see Apple and other mobile phone companies to actively build functionality to screen calls that works all the time -- whether or not I have enabled "Do Not Disturb". I never want (nor need) a telemarketer call.
Jamais entendu ça de mes trente ans au Québec
This is actually typical bad parenting or poor management. Whilst orders without explanation work in the army through absolute discipline, it doesn't work very well with people who haven't been conditioned to it.

Given an instruction when you don't understand the "why" is highly ineffective. As seen by your experience with your doctor.

There is also a further problem in that antibiotics treat not just you, but prevent infection in the wider population. People in general find it hard to think about the wider impact, which is something we see every day with regards to the world wide population's regards to the impact of their own pollution. It's why we recycle but then drive SUVs.
Because it changes the motivation for recommending recommending a product when you're getting paid for it. The perverse incentive structure is why most of Reddit bans them.

In Reddit's case, it means they have an incentive to silently promote posts and comments that have affiliate links because it makes them money.

If a review of a product has affiliate links then I'll immediately distrust the review because it's not possible for me to know whether they actually like the product or because they get paid if they convince people to like it.
Yeah, usually with Dark UI Patterns I associate a bit more hostility to users=like tricking someone into buying or downloading something. This seems more like someone had a good idea, but found out it was too hard to implement so fudged it.
This is by far the most coherent and detailed critique of the current "mainstream" economic discipline (from within) AND the most radical yet feasible set of proposals for building an alternative theoretical approach that actually helps.

The author could be a bit clearer that he's mainly addressing macroeconomics, not microeconomics.
Nope - Freedom of speech isn't a blank check for communication.

It only protects from government censorship, and even then, situations deemed harmful (such as death threats against individuals) are exempt.
For sure this is interesting, but it's curious that articles of this sort are appearing on HN with increasing frequency. There used to be purely tech news, now it seems that anything interesting qualifies for an up vote.
Your comment seems to be confusing momentum (m * v) and kinetic energy (m * v * v).
Yes, on x86 at least. There are special data structures that can only be initialized with special instructions, which you can't generate with normal C because they aren't useful for anything but initializing those special data structures.
I'd never get anything done. The feeling is quite hard to explain to cis people. But I'll try anyway.
So you're trapped in a life that you don't want to live in. You've been trapped in there for too long. When you finally step out, you need to fight your outside world. But despite doing the right things and hurting nobody in the process, some of the outside world fights against you. You hate it. You feel patronized every time that happens. You're not the free person anymore that you used to be.

[This might be possible to deal with for some other trans people. Some have both boy and girl mode where they switch. My mind is not up to that because one side of it is a lie]
Very little, since it's primarily for internal DoD use. It was never meant to be a part of the commercial 'web of trust' nonsense, and exists so that DoD doesn't have to trust idiots like Comodo.
Show HN: I created an open Product Hunt for games
I have been in the position plenty of times where I am trying to get my game out there and there just aren't a lot of places to do it. Product Hunt is great... but it's a little restricting and difficult if you don't have an in to post. So I created Game Hunt. The goal is to help with the exposure of a game to people who might not otherwise get exposure to it.

Here's the link http://gamehunt.co/

Any feedback would be great!
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This is not the way to opt-out because you have to keep their cookies on your system. The only real way to opt-out is to strip the links and prevent the redirect.
> In my experience, each round of scam calls will stop calling once you have answered their call and said no/hung up after a few seconds of listening.

I believe you but I can only say that your experience is different than mine. Very different. My experience is that it seems to encourage them to call more often.
The Economic Lessons of Star Trek's Money-Free Society
Telling us what our opinions are again.
The details of SMS are a little different in the US to here in the UK, but most online SMS sites will give you very simple options: email to SMS, an online form to send SMS (often with the ability to have predefined templates - think MailChimp), probably an API and perhaps other options.

You can set up a virtual number to receive incoming - and so do 2 way email - SMS, and (not sure this applies in the US) if you don't need 2 way can spoof your number to show text alert instead, eg the text shows as from "1Up Repairs".

In your position it definitely sounds worth exploring. There's a lot of other places than Twilio too.

One last hint, if they're "too cheap" they'll be using grey routes and should be avoided like plague.
I apologize for insulting you.

However, I don't think that either of us see any incentive for continuing this off topic discussion.
I definitely been at places that regard firefighters as heroes and people who want to build houses that don't burn down in the first place as trouble makers and pessimists. It is a terrible culture to have and sometimes it is difficult to get away from, because to admit that you've built a fragile system is to point the finger at someone for work they did months ago or to point the finger at yourself.
Pups Against Trump
if you spend 15 or so minutes configuring your editor (I use vim, so python-mode and ctags for me), you can get around all of these issues you mentioned.
His particular skillset might not be quite up to date anymore.
Solving deployment is orthogonal to organizing your code. You can deploy multiple products which share the same codebase, and you can also deploy one product which draws from multiple codebases (say, from other gems or npm packages that you also maintain). Regardless of where your code goes, handling distributed releases generally requires agreed upon contracts (e.g. schemas) and proper dependency management during rollouts.
Taking dive into fullstack javascript 2 years before!

I picked express, react (v0.9) and sequelize. Webpack for bundling (it was undocumented that time)
It was my first experience with backend JS and react. For service I used docker and fig (now it's docker-compose)

Of course, I failed this project after 1.5 years of dev (it was pretty huge, but this technical debt destroyed all that I have coded). Then I created this project from scratch on Magento (it was just online shop) in about 4 months.

What I learned? A BUNCH of things related to TDD (system tests, unit tests, mocking), JS ES6, program architecture at overall, SQL (things like assotiations, migrations, SQL performance optimizing), about caching technique... This list is pretty huge, I learned in that time 80% of all I know!

That was about positive moments. Now about negative. I experienced impostor syndrome (by the way, I'm feeling it right now and this feeling is not leaving me). Also I experienced burnout 3 times (apathy, lack of appetite, insomnia). This thing was really destroying....

I'm happy I've failed this project! I learned a lot of things. Now I really become full-stack JS engineer. I've got the power :)

And First of all, I started to value my time, my energy and my mental and physical health. Now I place this things in first place, they really matter! I'm 21 years old, don't take me like I'm sick or something (Like all people on 20s, I'm filled with energy). I just found the price... the price of myself.
What are you talking about?

CAN-SPAM laws dictate and prevent e-mail communications that are distinctly for marketing purposes.
Chinese schoolkids climb a 2,625-foot cliffside ladder to get home
I personally would say yes, it is 100% necessary to write assembly for bootstrapping the OS (at least on x86). It's almost entirely due to your third point--x86 has dedicated instructions which only exist to write to certain control registers, and these, somewhere down the stack, need to be written in assembly. C, and pretty much any other multi-architecture programming language, just isn't going to include architecture-specific control register manipulations in its freestanding library.
Having a team style guide helps a lot with that tendency: you get the argument over with once, team-wide, then write down the conclusion. So during each code review it's just a question of: does this match the style guide, yes or no? (Or you can enforce it automatically with tools like ESLint). And then the discussion can focus much more deeply on other aspects of the code.
I agree, it's is not a problem that impacts users immediately, otherwise those phones wouldn't sell. The problem is security: an OS that does not receive patches is an insecure OS. That affects users in the long run, and it's more consequences that not being able to run the latest apps.
How often so you have customers walking through where the developers work? I imagine this differs a lot per company (from every day to almost never).

Not to mention having to hear the same old jokes every time the customers go look at the monkeys.
Your development process is broken. How "high performer" can create technical debt in first place? I, personally, will not close ticket until it is well documented (i.e. code has comments, documentation is updated, ticket has resolution summary), and test cases are created (to be sure that nobody else will broke new code by incident), and code and test cases are properly peer reviewed by at least one member of the team (to allow information to spread across team), and all issues are addressed. Moreover, tickets are short, so they are easy to done and review.
The article is very interesting and informative, and comes from a good source. But I have to quibble about describing Denisovan and Neandertal hominins who were ancestors of current human beings as coming from a "different species," because by one of the main concepts of speciation, if two organisms can mate and have viable offspring, and then the offspring can further reproduce, you say the two organisms are part of the SAME species. There are, of course, full-length books about the details of defining species among the common descendants of the earliest living things, and about the mechanisms that bring about speciation among the descendants of a common ancestor species,[1] but right now we don't always know for sure when we dig up old hominin bones which belong to relatives of direct ancestors of living human beings and which do not--that is part of what the studies of ancient DNA are intended to find out.

To make the point I am bringing up here, I would rewrite the second sentence of the helpful article kindly submitted here to read, "As the individuals who provided the main genetic contribution to modern humans began to spread out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, they encountered other hominin clades that looked remarkably like them — the Neanderthals and Denisovans, two groups of archaic humans that shared an ancestor with us roughly 600,000 years earlier."

[1] http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3D...
In Finland we have this androdi app callled Fonecta Caller. It basically searches a public registry for that number and returns the owner. I just don't answer calls from names I don't recognize, or sometimes they even have the name of the firm on it!
Orwell's "1984" is a barely disguised description of Orwell's WWII job at the British Ministry of Information. See "Orwell, the Lost Writings", which has letters from his time there.[1]

Orwell's job during WWII was to translate news broadcasts into Basic English, with a 1000 word vocabulary[2], for broadcast to the colonies, including India. The British had a scheme at the time to get everyone in the colonies to speak at least Basic English, and this was part of it.

Orwell observed that translation into Basic English is a political act. Some concepts are very difficult to express in Basic English. Political ambiguity does not translate at all.

Hence Newspeak.

As for "part of the horror of his picture of 1984 is his eloquent description of the low quality of the gin and tobacco," that comes from the Ministry of Information's canteen, described by other ex-employees as "dismal".

"Big Brother" seems to have been a senior staffer at the Ministry of Information, who was actually called that (not to his face) by staff.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Orwell-Lost-Writings-George/dp/0877957...
[2] https://xkcd.com/1133/
Does anyone runs NetBSD on desktops or laptops? How it is the experience, compared to Linux?
And? Everyone eligible has the same right and will get free accommodation as well.
But there is a social criteria rating and a refugee fleeing from war gain the highest grade nothing wrong about this.

The failure isnt with the people but the government for not building enough houses ahead of time as they stopped to do so and even sold some of there owning for no real reason. Money is not the problem especially in bavaria.

But playing the card that the poor have to fight the poor is pretty stupid.
When I read the article, this section annoyed me. You hit the nail on the head with this. I think the author should put this quote into the article to improve that section. Based on the rest of the article I think this is what he meant too.
You literally used "accuracy" and "clarity" as synonyms for intensity of emotion. Under that logic, everything becomes a screaming match, and the comments devolve into a competition to see who's feelings are the most virulent.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Continue down the rabbit hole if you want to see how dishonest and malicious Islam apologists like Glenn Greenwald and Reza Aslan are. Flabbergasting.
The world map for Denosovian DNA is wrong. The Australian/Papua population is around 6% not the 0.8% which the figure shows.

It is a shame that Africa is so ignored in these studies. We know that there were many interbreeding events that occurred in Africa (the African pygmies are one example), but we know almost nothing more.
I agree - I pay $2/month to Jolly Roger and since then my robocalls have dropped to nothing. I actually miss getting them because it's so fun to hear Jolly Roger frustrate them.
Fun fact : there was a "The Good Wife" episode years ago in which this is issue was basically discussed in court. There the judge ruled bitcoin as a currency after about thirty seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJpJgyxKEg
Incidentally I do hiring and I can tell you that in Munich there is an abundance of ex-Siemens people most of them in their late fifties and early sixties. It is difficult for them to get a job. It's sad, sad, sad.

The more interesting question is why his customers stopped paying, but the article doesn't say. In the end I think many things had to happen for such a fall to take place.
I reproduced similar problem in Xperia Z3 on 5.1.1, which I was able to fix and release. Unfortunately 6.0.1 was not on device cloud. Nevertheless, I think there are good chances that update to v13 will fix the issue, in any case, please let me know.
> For instance, I wonder how Facebook manages its open source releases relative to its shared Mercurial codebase.

It sanitizes and syncs them to GitHub

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1715560542066337/automatical...