skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my point was not just from the perspective of a user of email. There are entire research thrusts just in identifying spam, nowadays using machine learning, even. Much bandwidth is wasted, and if you set up your own boxes, you'll have to deal with it yourself, minimally with something like SpamAssasin.
I had the same thing happen when my phone was stolen. To my knowledge, it was never powered on after it was stolen (because iCloud never registered a ping).

I received a variety of phishing attempts over email, but most surprisingly - I received phishing iMessages too. They were all eerily good.

My assumption was that police reports were being scraped. I wonder if this data is available unencrypted on the phone or sim card

Edit: Here are some of the messages I received - I forgot that they had my name too: http://imgur.com/a/NmIt4
Or they could just pop the sim card out and power it on. Without wifi, iCloud will never hit it.
It also has very little to do with real-life mathematics ability.
There's probably a large societal aspect to this too; the gender imbalance stands out much more than ethnicity, in my opinion.

Note too that each country can only send 6 people, and Asian countries (China, India, arguably Japan and South Korea) have a much larger pool to draw from, although this doesn't explain the prevalence of Asian-Americans on the USA team.
Make sure there is time dedicated to cleaning up the bad stuff. All the platitudes about code quality are worthless without dedicating time to improve things.
I've met with a few folks. Both companies are becoming more open with their platform.
> in-demand programming skills

No offense, but hasn't your experience shown that, regardless of how strong your skills are, they are clearly not in demand?
The class action suits will cost them another $100 million
I agree with all that you are saying. I try to make sure that stuff I care about that goes online is encrypted before leaving my device and only I own the key. Still, I don't think I have quite the same reservations about putting some less sensitive content online.
Sadly using a VPN for general usage is getting more difficult.

Many sites block traffic from known VPN providers (PCPartPicker.com just leaves an unhelpful message similar to " we are down right now" of you connect over some VPN providers), and sites like Netflix are blocking all VPNs they can in an effort to stop people from watching things outside their region.

I used to run my whole house through a VPN 24/7, but now I need to only turn it on when I know it won't cause issues.
In a housing shortage, you don't have to build a nice building to make money. If people are stretching to find a place in a neighborhood they want, you can't charge higher rent for a nicer building.

Our priority in boomtowns has been to use our government to create exclusive neighborhoods for the wealthy. People feign surprise when more and more people get excluded from our cities while they fight for laws that exclude people from every single neighborhood.

If we care about ending the disgusting practice of government-imposed income segregation, we must make our neighborhoods inclusive, especially near jobs, parks, and transit. In inclusive neighborhoods, we don't exclude people by declaring the neighborhood full by law. You can always add more homes to include more people. Cities full of inclusive neighborhoods will be affordable to all, especially if we use our tax dollars to subsidize homes for those whose needs the market might not meet.

Our current practice is to decorate exclusive neighborhoods with subsidized homes and pretend we care about inclusion. It's a lie. Providing homes for everyone in our cities near the things they care about is possible. Building homes that people can afford to make look nice is possible. We've chosen to enforce exclusivity instead. It is unjust.
Including Pittsburgh in Appalachia is being very generous. You're way too far west there.

Unemployment numbers are mostly bullshit, to boot. Depending on which set of them you are using, that can have huge discrepancies with the actual labor force numbers percentages, since after so many months of a hopeless situation, people drop off the unemployment rolls and into the masses of the long-term unemployed.
How can you log in to your account from anywhere after your phone is stolen?
You don't need that.
Anyone with basic understanding of how business works will know that you have far more profound experiences than most corporate ladder climbers.
It looks like you accidentally duplicated your comment when you changed "prepared" to "preferred".
Is it surprising? Intelligence isn't 100% hereditary; maybe 50% can be attributed to genetic factors? So if you see three family members performing at world-class intelligence levels, you might actually be experiencing a nurture argument, not a nature argument. The heritability of intelligence isn't strong enough to explain that outcome through nature.
> How does phishing like this scale?

I saw in another long blog post how something like 80% of all stolen phones in the world end up in about a half dozen locations in Asia that act as bulk resellers. (I think the article was about the guy in SF who lost his phone at a bar and it ended being used by an orange farmer in Shanghai?!? - it was a cool story).

I daresay these bulk 'processing' plants for lost/stolen phones may have a team in place that try and identify the previous owners and send out bulk scam emails to try and hook them?
"Who owns this phone?" or "who does this phone belong to?" will answer the question, too, if Siri is enabled, and is useful knowledge if you find an iPhone. This includes numbers if they are on the "Me" contact card. I just tried it on mine and it dumped everything from my contact card including my mother and father, BUT, I have had my phone returned in minutes from someone who knew to ask so it's a mixed bag.

If you're not cool with that, you can configure Siri to only function when unlocked. I used to operate that way, but especially controlling music in the car and fumbling with Touch ID when fingers aren't cooperating, I grew tired of it and went back.
And these are the exact kinds of people who have to work the hardest to get a US citizenship. On average it takes an Indian citizen 10 years more than immigrants from other countries to get a US citizenship. Its equally bad for people who are born in China too.
Do you happen to know/would you mind explaining how Netflix detects VPN usage? Is it through timing measurements?
As if leaving room in a suitcase were easy.
Congratulations, you are an IT expert. Not everyone is.
https://twitter.com/urbanstrata/status/753932591514787841
Despite reading many such articles there is one thing I have never understood.

Under what circumstances it is NOT a good idea to exercises as soon as possible?

Only one scenario is where you have to pay a large sum for this early exercise and you see a risk that the company might go out of business. But in such cases if the amount is large you are probably at the wrong company in first place.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12220091
I believe they just keep a list of known VPN IP addresses. (How they get them in the first place I'm not sure).

It's a wackamole game for sure, but its annoying enough to be a problem, especially for the less technical.

I know I can buy my own VPS and tunnel through that, but now that's another machine I need to maintain, secure, and pay for.
The Singapore driving style doesn't make sense if you're used to driving on western roads in western traffic. It makes perfect sense if you think of the lanes as aisles in a packed supermarket, and each car as a trolley. Cars don't so much 'navigate' as 'flock'.
I'm not sure I understand, or rather I don't think you understand their business model...

I think they set up their CloudFlare 100% correctly.

Jet does not sell outside the U.S., they have no plans to ever sell outside they U.S. Most of the cyber attacks against them are from outside the U.S. Their entire business plan is cutting cost out of the supply chain inside the U.S. By bundling items together in the same box and saving the consumer in the U.S. Money.

The entire point is to reduce the risk footprint, when most startups are being hacked left and right jet is being very smart by throwing captchas and saying to everyone outside the U.S. we don't want your scammy business.
And even if they try to build a premium hardware division with Oculus, it's unlikely to work. Culture is incredibly sticky and companies rarely succeed in building products that are orthogonal to their culture.
But it is quite a lot for CP/M - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
They probably should've gone old-school and kept their plots strictly to meatspace. It's a lot simpler that way. Any digital supplementation should've been seriously restrained, relying on pre-determined, inconspicuous code phrases buried within an otherwise innocuous conversation.
Ahh, that's way less interesting of a mechanism than I thought. Thanks for explaining!
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I suspect they probably were using Telegram or similar, not some unknown app...

But it is all in the PR of the after party.
If we had a free market, without laws preventing competition like we do now, then there'd likely be alternatives to choose from, e.g. people could pay more for privacy or get a bargain if they don't care about privacy. Since Comcast uses the state to enforce its monopoly, the artificial scarcity has the effect of locking in users. Comcast is a great example of why free markets should exist -- to give users more choice.
Let me rephrasethar for you:

* 5.5 yrs of contract work as proprietor of Cableshaft Technology

* Gig 1

* Gig 2

* ....
My brother did say this. But only because the text is fuzzier in his DK2 than on his giant monitor.
I'm impressed when someone says English is not hard to learn. I'm a native English speaker now living in an Asian country where I have learned the language. When I view English from my new perspective it seems so much more difficult. Even just trying to explain to non-native speakers inconsistent pronunciations it seems ridiculous (how about these 4 words: rough, plough, though, through). I can't even get started on verb conjugations and all the irregularities
That's a bizarre interpretation of events. Schwarzenegger went along with the prison industry by vigorously opposing Prop. 66 (reforming the three strikes rule) and generally taking a "tough on crime" stance. Prison population increased every year under his administration until a court (and eventually the US Supreme Court) finally ordered the state to reduce it. Schwarzenegger's solution to overcrowding was to ship inmates to other states, which is shock doctrine privatization, not union busting.

Brown has actually reduced the prison population, notably by reforming sentencing laws and reclassifying many crimes as misdemeanors. The California prison population now stands at a level lower than in 1996, and a per-capita level lower than in 1992.
This is possible in some circumstances with real estate - it's called a 1031 exchange, and you can sell one piece/set of real property, roll the profits directly into purchasing another piece/set of real property, and not owe capital gains taxes on the profits from the first sale, although they will be owed if you eventually sell the second set of properties for cash.
I'm not suggesting that the applicant should withhold any relevant information. Obviously, the whole point of the application process is to get to know each other.

I believe if I see your job posting, research your company a bit and get in touch describing why I'm interested in that specific position and what I think I could bring to the table, that's a better starting point for a discussion than me sending a generic list of buzzwords, positions, qualities, etc. trying to sell myself.

And maybe the next step could be grabbing a coffee rather than an overly formal interview where we're both trying to see through each other's distortion of reality.

We're human after all.
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that's where the milestones can help; it gives concrete visibility to stakeholders of what the technical debt actually is

"oh we've loads of technical debt, it's such a pain", becomes "well we ticked off 4 big TD milestones last quarter and accrued a new small one"
Station!
I stopped reading when I hit the part about 5 year vesting. Why would anyone put up with such a long cycle?
Wait, what? Can you point us to the rule? It sounds like the WTO might be interested.
> City streets will never be unless we get AI with general intelligence.

Driving is likely a much easier problem than artificial general intelligence. Even when it involves evading rampaging toddlers. Sure, if you want perfect safety, you'll need the car to anticipate a great deal —far more than humans currently do, like looking at the walkways as well as the drive lanes.

If we merely want something that's safer than a human driver that's probably nothing more than a (huge) engineering feat.
- Help onboard another developer?
The U.S. does have a long history of importing foreigners to win competitions, so it's not really an unreasonable suspicion. E.g. a large percentage of athletes at Harvard are from Canada or eastern Europe, since their grades and SATs don't get included in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Yes. BigCorp have very limited access to resources depending on their role. IF you need to install software OR require admin rights your ticket have to pass long tail of approvals with lots of justification.
OK so don't use tools you don't understand is step one.

But now, the coup needs a way to communicate. E-mail's because we know it's insecure. Now what? You research, and find this app, and then....

Feel like this isn't very actionable advice.
> But, that being said, I think all languages are coming around to adding first class functions.

Object-oriented languages have always been higher-order. Functional programming is great, but object-oriented languages have always had first-class procedures, whether they compute mathematical functions or not. And not all procedures compute mathematical functions in functional languages either.

What object-oriented languages lack is an emphasis on values, rather than the memory locations (aka object identities) that contain said values. The benefits of not worrying about object identities cannot be overstated: Removing the spurious distinction between memory blocks that hold equal values automatically endows the language with a richer equational theory that can be used both by language users (for reasoning about correctness) and language implementors (for optimization purposes).
Unfortunately this doesn't solve the problem that WordPress needs to be able to write to itself. It's game over once every skid in the world can pop a web shell in /var/www.
Just say that you got a new great opportunity, give two week notice and offer to help train somebody as much as possible to take over your responsibilities.

What else is there really?

I wouldn't mention the fact that they exploited you. It wouldn't gain you anything, and would just create a risk of burning bridges.
McDonald's and Yum are starting to struggle there, and the parent corporations will likely be squeezed out of China in the coming years as primary operators. They'll be semi-forced to sell off their ownership inside of China as their position weakens, and they'll retain a minority holding (Yum is in that position right now, they've already begun pursuing that end result out of necessity). Yum has lost half of its market share in four years, and McDonald's lost 20% of its market share in that time. I'm not implying these companies aren't responsible for that, but they are not going to be held up as successful examples five years from now.

Since when has China been a successful venture for Walmart? They've struggled there since day one, and have thrown everything they can at it. Their sales are falling in China, rather than rising, and they've gone through one re-branding after another. It's anything but hugely successful.

Apple just lost a huge portion of their sales in China, and are increasingly coming under the same nationalistic attack that so many other US companies have. Apple is likely to see its position there erode consistently going forward as nationalism sways toward other domestic competitors and China places restrictions on Apple's ability to operate freely in media and apps.
There is a note on "SMP Performance", is anyone here knows about whether and how *BSD's support the 72-core/64-core Intel Knights Landing chip? I couldn't find any relevant information via google.

PS. I asked this question in an earlier post, but since this one is more popular, allow me to ask again.

PPS. Google gives me mentions of Linux and Windows server support, but nothing BSD.
If it's a headache perhaps options aren't the best form of compensation? Options do have a stigma of being used as a way to pay people less right now, while later screwing those people out of the value of those options when it comes time to cash out. Companies need to make sure they don't become hypocrites, play favorites, or just act like huge greedy assholes when it comes time to share the wealth.
Email with gpg is about the most secure content format available to the general public, and stable for 20 years. Needs some setup tho
For whatever reason, the US public education system has not put much effort into identifying and nurturing gifted and talented students. Probably the current resurgance of the US in this contest is due to the rise of math circles, summer camp programs, and the like outside of the school environment. There was a good article about this last year when the US team won the IMO : http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/the-math...
Jet is growing at a staggering rate month over month. They are at over 1.1 billion in sales annually in under a year. Yes, while spending money to do it, but you can't magically get paying loyal customers without any advertising or incentives. Amazon didn't do it by making money either.

Amazon is at roughly 86 billion (I'm sure it's more) in sales online, Walmart is at 12 billion online. Amazon is growing in the double digits Walmart is in the single digits online. How is Walmart going to catch them?

If jet is at 4 million+ loyal customers in a years time being live, how exactly is it dumb to buy a company that is at 1.1 billion in sales in a years time when it took you 10 years to get to that? How long has Walmart been selling online? Jet will pass Walmart in under 2 years, then what will Walmart do to beat Amazon?

I think people on hacker news live in la la land. Ecommerce is very different from your googles and facebooks.

Marc Lore knows exactly what he's doing, he probably won't sell it to Walmart for that little.

Edits: spelling and grammar.
Harvard does have good hockey teams
Will human sexuality ever be free from stone age, evolutionary impulses?
I have mine set to sleep and wake up when I launch SteamVR, there's a delay but not much longer than it takes me to pull the headset out of the bag and hit power on the two controllers.

re: IPD, I'm sure this is why the default environment has the grids, because it makes it easy to check how sharp a single line is. Too bad there's no indication anywhere of how to do this...

My biggest problem with pulling out the Vive is that my play area is pretty cluttered :(
I've seen that in the United States on a completely different domain. I actually changed banks over it when Wells Fargo set it up.

To answer your root cause question: I think it's a hook back to the issuing bank, and Visa themselves are only tangentially involved, AIUI. So things like securesuite are the vendors for the bank. (Am I wrong? That's how it was explained to me once.)
Eh, it's low even for CP/M. MSP430s have 64K of address space, not RAM. Even the smallest CP/M machines had that. A lot even had simplistic paging hardware to exceed that.
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When he gets angry, kick him out of the house to go play soccer, or climb a tree, or whatever.

If he breaks things in his room, let him, and don't buy new toys/furniture.
Here is the author saying flossing is useless, a few years ago: http://www.medicaldaily.com/dental-floss-useless-dentist-say...
Where did you get that impression? That's palpably wrong.

Of course there are many regulations. But the Machinery Directive, for example, is exactly what the name says.
Pure laissez-faire capitalism naturally converges toward monopolies. Without regulation, the only thing that prevents monopolies from developing is if there is a low cost of entry to a market. In an industry where there is a very high cost of entry (like building out a massive telecommunication network), the end result is very assuredly a single monopoly power.

Think about it. The telecoms were already broken up once. The continue to attempt to merge (AT&T + T-mobile, TWC + Comcast). Without a regulatory agency disallowing mergers in the name of competition, you wouldn't have choice at all.

The end result of competition is no competition at all.
Depends if you are compiling/executing the code continuously or not during development. Old-style batch programming environments are already plenty of steps backwards.
From a product development and deployment perspective, it also makes a lot sense to start in Singapore. Unless a product is completely risk-free, it makes sense to validate outside of the largest and most valuable market.
Former oculus owner here. I wear eye glasses and it's just a giant hassle. Ended up giving it to a friend. The times that I got it up and running and having fun could be counted on one hand.

Most of the use I got out of it was introducing friends to VR for the first time. Everyone thought "cool!" No one asked for me to pull it out a 2nd time.
I really like feature-flag releases, but they are not without disadvantages.

The one that comes to mind is complexity. Ten features is a thousand possible configurations of your application. Thirty features is one billion possible feature sets for your app.

Ideally, features are independent of each other and work regardless of the enabled/disabled state of the other features. But ideally code doesn't have bugs.

All in all, I think feature flags are great. I just prefer to limit them to the larger, more risky changes.
The rich get richer, and the poor get children.

There's a book I read recently that I thought did a good job looking into the demographic and social shifts associated with women having high workforce participation. It's 'XX Factor' by Alison Wolf, in case you're interested. She gives a convincing tour of some thorough data, but also makes it into a manageable narrative. She also did a decent Podcast interview on Econtalk, if you want a short version.
I don't know what you're talking about.

The whole article is about the way it legally works in the EU.

Since laws are national, there had to be a concrete example, here Germany. But it works exactly the same in all EU countries. The national laws have other names (and there may or may not be equivalents of regilations), but that's an implementation detail.
If you only have one month worth of expenses saved you are terrible with money. Planning for your financial future is one of the most important things you can do.

If you're in the tech industry you can afford to save 30%+ of your income. We have a it a lot better than other sectors and make good money.

Take a small pay cut now for a large payout in the future. Don't sacrifice your future for a little fun now.
I occasionally watch 360 videos on my gear vr. But it's no more frequent than once a week. I also like playing the smash game. I feel the resolution is not quite there yet. Maybe it's because I'm not using the full PC powered version.
Probably my favorite TIHP episode.
I believe Ford actually released very disappointing figures in the past few days, so you can move that from the 'speculative' column to 'concrete'.