skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's ridiculous you have to have a Nexus phone to get this capability. Anyone with a Google account and Android should be able to get this functionality.

Right now with Google Voice I get a dozen hang up calls per day, it's always from a different number. When I don't answer, Ive got a dozen 2 second long voice mails. I used to spend a lot of time setting these to spam or being blocked, but between Google Voice and Hangouts simply asinine and beyond incompetent integration where some calls show up in Google Voice but not Hangouts and vice versa, I'm losing interest.

So recently I just decided to make the default behavior for the Google Voice number not ring any of my phones or Hangouts, but set up contact groups where friends and family should ring through. Well that's not working, I'm still getting spam and hangup calls, and some friends ring through, others don't, and client calls don't.

It's really craptastic.
Can you develop IOS apps on a hackintosh? Can you get into the developer program from one?
Given that one of those traits is "unable to reproduce", it's got everything to do with the mechanism by which they were generated.
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> The “stupid arbitrary” system has a number of benefits.

Yes, it does. Those features aren't exclusive to webpack though (they're really, really, really old features of webdev) and can be replaced by much less silly systems.

I mean literally everything you just listed is better handled by more mature, developed, tools.
Slow Progress to Better Medicine
It's because the relevant regulatory apparatus has been captured by the to-be-regulated industry in the USA. There's no technological gap that prevents us from dropping a smart bomb on telemarketers within minutes of their first spam call. We just don't care.
Oh, absolutely. People are ready to ditch anything that doesn't deliver enjoyment. Good brands selling a shit product or two. The original article is definitely more about the layers of marketing bullshit on top, than the actual content.

I do agree that the tactics they tick off are all annoying garbage. Nonetheless I'm frustrated with the article's bad logic, which I think everyone here is also saying.
Chip Makers Admit Transistors Are About to Stop Shrinking
They are, but only if they are not paying the spam detection service. It's kind of like the BBB.
So what is the deal with people from under the orange sun? They're all...

v|^ ^|v v|^

But us guys from under the red sun, we're like...

u)n n(u u)n

Right? Am I right?
I'm not sure I'd qualify the Aleutian invasion as effective. At best it was a waste of men and materiel, and at worst it weakened the Japanese taskforce at the battle of Midway by two potentially decisive aircraft carriers.
Wow that thin font-weight is hard to read. In chrome; Hit f12, in the styles tab change the font-weight to 400.
As I read through this thread, I was thinking of this book, too! Great book that is very relevant to this topic.
Wow, this reminded me of how much detail on technical specs about stereo equipment I used to carry around in my head. Cartridges for record players was a whole separate section of my brain. I think I spent $300 on one once - in 1979 dollars, too.
I get 'em all. Almost never answer, and block every number. I've tracked the origin of a few of them down. Found the personal cell phone of the CEO of one of the companies that was behind one daily call that changed numbers everyday. That was a fu conversation, and it did stop the call, but hopefully if both Google and Apple implement this (as is planned in iOS10) it'll end this avenue of abuse.
I find Googling phone numbers to return nothing but junk sites trying to leach ad revenue off of those queries, with little in the way of actual information.

I just don't answer the call. If I don't know who you are, and you can't be bothered to leave a message … why should I care?

Empirically, half of upstate New York seems to think my number is the one they're looking for. Back before I stopped answering calls, I had to repeatedly tell one unknown number over SMS that this wasn't the number they were looking for. Over SMS. I hope that that number didn't have a smartphone, as my reply of "This isn't the number you're looking for." would quite probably have been right there on the screen as he typed in the next message, again to the wrong number.

I actually have a few of the more common wrong numbers in my contacts list, and some of them still call regularly. (Never leaving a message.)
I also believe that people with bad experiences tend to review hotels more often than those with good experiences. That would bias the entire data set in one way or the other (obviously this has nothing to do with the quality of the tool being presented).
Dang, the curse of GitHub OAuth granularity strikes again!

> public_repo:

> Grants read/write access to code, commit statuses, collaborators, and deployment statuses for public repositories and organizations. Also required for starring public repositories.

Source: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/
Why'd you choose to build a Hackintosh rather than just going Linux and/or Windows?
That comparison isn't completely fair: CS and TF were in their infancy when Valve got involved and Valve took big risks developing those games. Valve taking over DotA after DotA had existed for nearly a decade felt more like them trying to play catch up to LoL in a genre (market) of games that they had nothing in. Agreed, great for DotA players - but it didn't strike me as being a particularly impressive or interesting contribution to gaming.
Sort of agree but I would've liked to see how John Resig manages his time.

That said, Khan Academy has some interesting tech:

http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/aphrodite-inline-cs...
It's funny, but I like JS a lot, still think that Python is probably a better learning language... there's enough sharp edges in JS, that I don't think it's great for starting with, other than it's accessible, and combined with a browser, close to instant gratification.
I literally fail to grasp the point of the article.
Or pick it up, listen for three seconds, and decide then?
Zawinski's Law
You've both broken the HN guidelines egregiously in this thread. That's unacceptable. Please stop, and please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech — not evolution — is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.

It's time to read the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel once more. That's always been a fascinating story for me ... the notion that people were forming a real or virtual tower that threatened divine order and so needed to be split by making their speech mutually unintelligible.
Any unknown caller that starts his conversation with "Congratulations! ..." deserves public waterboarding.
That is quite interesting. I built a hackintosh in 2011 after a lot of research (hoping to use it to produce music if possible) and the only thing that gave me significant trouble was the audio. Would you care to share your setup?
> I think it's ridiculous you have to have a Nexus phone to get this capability. Anyone with a Google account and Android should be able to get this functionality.

It's probably part of the Dialler app, which many other manufacturers replace with their own application.
It's a serious violation of the rules here to bring in someone's personal details as ammunition in an argument, regardless of how wrong they are. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cell.

I haven't had a landline since we got one in college, in the early 2000's, mostly because it came free with the internet service, and I was going to plug in an answering machine with amusing messages.
I think these are demographic specific scams, and you aren't the target demographic. Scams that target women, old people, or maybe even it's a pre-scam where it's just trying to find out if there's a human on the other end of the call and these numbers get more money when sold.
To the downvoters: You likely don't understand how out of control the California list of known carcinogens is. I recently went to a Fry's Electronics store, and on the path to registers were non-ironic signs reading "All items on this aisle may contain substances known to the State of California to cause Cancer, or Birth Defects, or other Reproductive Harm."

It has been pointed out that if in the State of California one were to sell the coins handed back as change after the sale, they too would require legally require a safety warning about the cancer risk. My favorite warning is that of Dharma Trading Post, a silk importer:

"To conform to state laws, our labels make everything sound
like a deadly poison, even simple things like sawdust and
seaweed. The law says you have to warn everyone about
everything, regardless of how obvious, stupid or remote the
possibility. Anyway, we are now labeled to the "max". Please
don't hold it against us."

http://www.dharmatrading.com/home/safety-information.html

There are many reasons why you can legitimately be afraid of glyphosate. It's presence on California's list of chemicals requiring a Prop 65 warning should not be one of them.
A lot of food these days is bred to be more attractive (because it sells better), often at the expense of flavor and with no regard to nutrition and little to cost. If you look around, there are plenty of articles out there on how this has changed foods like apples and tomatoes.
Most good audio software is for Mac. Maybe Windows, but then Windows.
Why do you doubt it is true?

Einstein, who you mentioned, is the quintessential example that science progresses one funeral at a time. He was a brilliant scientist who not only single handedly ushered in one of the two pillars of modern physics but sparked a revolution in the other. His own research into the photoelectric effect was one of the earliest hard data that showed that quantum phenomena were not deterministic and yet he fought against the very concept of nondeterminism for decades. He went so far as to popularize the quote "God does not play dice with the universe" and despite a wealth of experiments or effective theories to explain them, he continually rejected the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Even though he still contributed a lot to physics and remained friendly with the rest of the theoretical physics community during that time, he was essentially a social pariah when it came to his thoughts on quantum mechanics. However, he was already a very public and popular figure (think Neil Degrasse Tyson minus the ubiquitous television) so this very very wrong belief led to an untold number of rejected grants and misguided careers.
"DEATH TO SPAMMERS" [1]

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon?from_sear...
Very cool. Just started looking for a solution here, and wasn't sold on the Ingress-based approach of kube-lego; I want to be able to do HTTPS-to-the-Pod, so terminating on the Ingress is a no-go for my use-case.

Also great work Kelsey on providing a solid example of how to structure a complex k8s integration.
It's worth what you pay for it.

That said they should charge me for more features! If it had pro features that worked for $35/year I'd do it.
I find it interesting that you still thought of RS as a choice. Has there been a RS you could go to for components or soldering stuff any time recently? I haven't seen one that wasn't more than just an electronics store like Best Buy in over a decade if not more.
You Should Read More Romance Novels: The Libertarian Case for Bodice Rippers
I have some local area code 867-5309 numbers and the number of calls I get is insane.
Would you take a 1/100 if you were guaranteed to be initially marked as a spammer?
Nintendo really needs to stop making hardware and develop their games for mobile systems.
I got a call from someone who told me I had a virus and had to install some software so they could fix it. I told him he should find a new job instead of trying to steal other people's money. He repeated his script. I repeated mine. And after the third time he went off script and asked me, "can you tell me where I can find a better job?"

So there you go. Money making good people do bad things again.
What about using scope environments and variable binding? For lambda calculus, variable binding (of the single variable x) in an environment (the current application of lambda) is a fundamental part of it anyway.

A scope environment gives you a place to name "things". "Things" can be functions. It's just a name-value map. You create a local scope environment for every function invocation. You can bind things (value or functions) to names in the local environment. Then you can refer to "things" by their names, like calling a function using its name.

Parent scope environments can be nested in the local scope when the function is called. A search on a name not found on the current scope can be delegated to the parent scope, so that functions defined and named in outer scope can be referenced in inner scope.

Recursive call is not a problem for named function since you can look up the function by name. It becomes a problem for anonymous function (lambda) since it can't be looked by name. For that you can introduce a special name like "_lamb" for it. Upon entry of a function, you bind the current function to the name in the current environment. A reference to it would call the current function again. e.g. _lamb(). You can even have a special name "_parent" to bind to the parent environment. In that case you can call the anonymous parent function. E.g. _parent._lamb()

Function calling and recursive function have nothing to do with OO or Java/Python/Ruby. It has everything to do with name, binding, scope, and environment.
> plenty of irrational opposition to GMOs.

If GMOs are actually safe, then why goes the government need to pass laws making planting non-GMO crops illegal? (C.f. Order 81 in the Iraq constitution, written by the U.S. government.) The whole argument that GMOs are inherently safe doesn't even make sense; it's like saying all drugs are safe or all food is safe. It's just corporate propaganda that's marketed to the ignorant pro-science crowd. I can't believe that people here consistently fall for it, given that it's basically on the same level as what Idiocracy is making fun of with Brawndo.
I'm not running a Hackintosh, but here's why I'd do it if Apple doesn't come out with reasonable hardware soon:

* Lots of professional userland software that you don't get on Linux.

* Has a POSIX compatible terminal, package manager and fully integrated keychain built in (compared to Windows). Ever tried to get a reasonable setup for git, python, perl, ssh with PKE etc. going on Windows without pulling your hair out? With a Mac I'm productive within 1h (especially thanks to migration assistant), with Windows it takes at least a week and it's still not satisfying. In that time I'd rather setup a Hackintosh properly.

* hands down better configuration system than
Windows (defaults system >>>> registry).
You can find the full history of the submarine (I-17) as well as lots of other great information about the Imperial Japanese Navy here: http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-17.htm
> "Not meant to be upgraded, the Power Macintosh 4400’s 160/200 MHz CPU was soldered to the motherboard."

... that does kinda sound like a Mac
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Well, at least your advocacy of torture offers some transparency...
It could be ejected outside of the atmosphere, and later come back down.
Or scroll to a specific location in a large page.
I bet this is using the same information as the builtin spam protection in Google Voice.
It's because other manufacturers replace the Nexus dialer with their own app.

But you can download the Nexus dialer from the Play Store now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
> Sorry pal,

Including uncivil swipes like that in your arguments here will eventually get you banned, so please be scrupulously civil from now on, especially when commenting on inflammatory topics and/or when you think someone else is wrong.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159551 and marked it off-topic.
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Shame?
One complaint I've always heard about mulch and rubber is that, unlike asphalt or dirt, it's excellent at hiding things like broken glass, used needles, dead animals, and other fun things kids don't need to be surprised by.
Those of you who turned this discussion into a circle of hell with your incivility, ideology, and attacks make me ashamed to be associated with this site.

We're soon going to release a much stronger version of the site guidelines and start making it a lot clearer how unacceptable such behavior is on HN. If you want to abuse each other or blast your views at enemies, please go elsewhere. There's no intellectual curiosity in any of this, and the vast majority of us are here to avoid it.
"The Power Macintosh 4400 required expensive 3.3 V EDO memory, back when every other Apple computer worked with cheaper 5 V DIMMs."

The fun thing is that most 64Mbit DRAM chips was 3.3V, yet the 4400 did not have support for most of them.
Effective Application Data Design
Thanks, makes sense. Though there isn't the cost of seek time associated with magnetic media, there is the cost of rewriting the whole page.
AFAICT, Alphabet gave up on google voice. It makes me a little nervous that's my main number. I imagine i'll soon have to roll my own thing with twilio.

Although the gv voice prompt "state your name" seems to help immensely.
Looks like he just got tired of typing before getting to the point. Done is better than perfect, I guess!
Teaching JS to kids? Let's hook Dijkstra up to a dynamo, he'll be spinning in his grave fast enough!
It's not worth what I don't pay for it anymore. Nothing is worth this. Mosquito bites are free too, and also not worth it.

I'd pay $35 a year for the f'n basic features it has now to work as they should, but don't. I'd pay a one time fee of $35 to see Hangouts die a fast death.
Caller IDs can be spoofed too. Around year back, I started getting calls asking me to stop calling them, when I had never called them in the first place. Then it clicked, someone had spam called by spoofing my number. What is googling going to do in this case?
The first line of your response very concisely illustrates my growing unease with discussions related to privacy on hacker news.

The fact that you're having to "hold back" is sadly indicative of why debates on sensitive topics like this are turning into echo chambers. I suspect that many who hold the minority view keep quiet to avoid being yelled at.

I don't intend to take sides here. I've only ever come here to read and understand other's opinions on topics that seem too complex to tackle on my own. I have a lot of respect for this community, but sadly its becoming harder and harder to keep reading.

For example, you make some good points here but it takes tremendous effort to consider them on merit because the language in which they're expressed sounds condescending and attacking (even though you say you're holding back).

I do hope that you, and anyone else reading this, will not take this personally and instead reflect upon the virtues of more open and tolerant dialogue. And very sorry for singling you out; it's not just you.
Why not just do as you suggest ("kick off the radio, turn off the AC, sound and alarm, or even just pull the car safely to the side of the road") if the driver isn't paying attention?

You can still do all that you suggest while providing semi-autonomous driving capabilities.
> The richest in history took extraordinary risks to get there

Not exactly accurate. Bill Gates may have dropped out of college to pursue Microsoft, but that was hardly an extraordinary risk. His parents were extremely well off, and had that adventure been a failure, he simply would've gone back to school and completed his degree. Same thing with Zuckerberg.
Why is it efficient for gains in the market to be won by only a few actors?
There was, and it's explained here: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/why-aren-t-people-using-sm...
Probably because it's only partially written in JavaScript and CSS. The link you posted is for GNOME Shell, which is primarily the menu bar and user interface components, which arguably make sense being written in CSS.

The actual window manager (which is what is implemented in this project) is separate. It's called Mutter and is written in C, like many other window managers.
I believe I read that many phone spammers are based outside the US now and so have no concern with US law compliance. They just spoof US based caller ID numbers.
Organic farming is a scientific field of study. It can meet the demands of the present population as well as future growth [0]. It is a viable option against GMO. Rather than having the scorched earth policy of GMO, organic seeks to balance an ecosystem to reduce the impacts of weeds and pests. It's not just smelly, hairy hippies dancing around a tomato while smoking a joint.

Many of the modern farming techniques that have caused famine are a result of people importing ideas, without first checking to see they would work with in the context of the local ecology. GMOs often do this. We tell African farmers to grown mid-west corn because that's what we know. We want to grow wheat in Saudi Arabia because we eat white bread.

There are other products indigenous to those localities that could support that population when paired with modern water management and soil improvement processes. One such technology is hydroponics. The proper system can use the limited water resources in a semi-arid landscape to produce stable food supplies. Weed management reduces the impact of this further. You can use elevated gardening to improve vine plant yields.

Holding up GMOs are the only source of life for the population around the globe is fallacious prima facie. Time honored agriculture, plus modern takes on improvement of the support system can provide the same outcome without the need to introduce animal/plant hybrids. As a result, the risk of introducing a carcinogenic into an otherwise safe plant is limited to environmental factors like careless fuel storage rather than the agent being the food itself.

0 - https://www.organic-center.org/news/response-to-can-organic-...
Add visualizations to DOM changes as well and you have a 'living' tree. ;)
Students, teachers detail pervasive cheating in program owned by test giant ACT
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True? There isn't much point to this statement. Many people will be dead within a few decades presuming that few is any number between 3 - 6. That doesn't mean I or they shouldn't plan on achieving a comfortable life between now and dead.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160377 and marked it off-topic.
I just plain don't pick up unscheduled calls.
Food Poisonings in the United States
> It's ridiculous that it took Google so long to implement such a basic feature on their phones.

Do other phone vendors do this?
I think it was partly arguments over Mac clones that forced Gil Amelio out. I was wondering what would happen if CHRP and Mac clones actually happened, with Ellen Hancock eventually becoming CEO. This reminds me of the "xMac" arguments. This also reminds me that Apple tried to bring PC style floppy drives to the Mac twice (the LPX-40 was part of the second attempt).
Are you sure about that? In 2012 the FTC had a robocall summit with a variety of speakers. I watched the live feed and it seemed like they were quite sincere about tracking people down. It was just a hard problem given the rise of things like VOIP.