skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having to rely on others to ensure you can get around causes a lot of anxiety. Also, it's probably a lot easier to get consumers to add chargers to their homes and automakers to extend the range of cars than to convince uninvested third parties to build out infrastructure.
Do you see anything different, today?
For example the curious argument... would just apply to the NSA as well...
... and now it should be working. Have fun with the demo. Happy Friday to you too!
When I receive these calls, I set my phone down and go about my business, letting the robot play itself out. I figure every CPU cycle wasted on me spares someone else.
> They do provide a service.

That's true. I should have worded it differently. They're trying to attract developers to build apps for their platform, rather than launching them as a service (i.e., SaaS).
Sounds like McCarthy was right: the point of Drosophila is that it's a very small, simple model organism. You're not supposed to "solve biology" by modelling something in Drosophila, you're just supposed to be able to narrow the field to hypotheses that are not so flagrantly stupid they fail in a fruit-fly.
Still waiting for the closing parenthesis. Yes, I'm - amongst other things - a lisper.
How magnetic levitation trains work
I think the outrage is over the fact that MS broke any use of the command wget or curl and also, it doesn't even provide a compatible alternative to what they were aliasing ala busybox.
I don't understand why reliable caller id isn't possible, especially now that so many calls are VOIP from end-to-end.

I wish there was some type of TLS for phone calls and I could set my phone to never ring unless the caller can be authenticated.
As soon as someone doesn't acknowledge my name when I pick up the phone, I hang up on them, since I figure only a robot would ignore such basic etiquette. Thankfully, I don't get robocalled that often.

Now, hooking a telemarketer up to a robot (http://jollyrogertelephone.com/about/) on the other hand, I have yet to do.
Powershell's "native executable" story (running things which aren't cmdlets) has never been simple or graceful [1], which means that posh scripters might call exes like curl more explicitly and avoid the alias altogether.

After months of varaible-expansion-frustration I have alnded on the form "& foo.exe par1 par2", spelling out the .exe and avoiding the alias.

[1](https://web.archive.org/web/20110726162028/http://huddledmas...)
Not for Non-IT
Ehh, I don't agree with this. If you're hiring primarily for a Java position, but a candidate with 5 years of C# experience shows up, they're not going to have too hard of a time in switching.
Can a mod like dang please fix the headline to be more accurate please?
Found that person. We can both be working on our own things in the same room, no problems. And spending time with her keeps me more on task and less distracted by all the shiny things on the internet.
I just want to send all non-contact calls to voicemail, and defer those notifications until the end of the day. The idea that anyone can immediately demand synchronous communication from anyone else is really weird.
Yeah, this is the kind of thing I was talking about.

OTOH, you're seriously linking techrights? They're like the Free Software version of Fox News for tech.
Robots for Telemarketers
Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough
This is really cool! Next time I need CAD software I know where to look. Maybe I'll actually buy a 3d printer and start playing around now that there's a good modeling software option.
People tend to miscomprehend freedom as an act that is performed according to our will without any form of constraint or predisposition.

The problem I have with statements like that is that such statements tend not to provide an alternative meaning for freedom that most people would accept.

It seems better to say that most people comprehend freedom in a fashion that's some combination of incoherent, self-contradictory and trivial.

IE, it's better to say people comprehend freedom as you say but such a comprehension doesn't make sense if you look at it logically.

One thing you might say is that the concept of free and unfree choice makes sense in informal human concept of control and blame - those who freely choose things we don't like get blamed for it, saying people should be free is saying their behavior should be regulated by informal, unconscious interactions rather than formal, rules-based systems.
There is now no longer a reason to make emoji as part of the markdown, as the vast majority of devices can now do it natively. When Github flavored markdown was first created, emojis were most certainly not at all widespread natively.
Or, if you torrent these files, the question "have you ever passed classified materials to someone not authorized to receive them?"

>reported by 100's of news sources

That really doesn't matter for many people. Anyone with any links whatsoever to the US military (a large chunk of the US population, including retirees) is bound by orders not to read classified material despite it being all over the newspapers/CNN. This was and still is a big deal re the Snowden material.
Were they guilty of fraud? I don't think the court found that.

Now granted I agree with you, that there needs to be a deterrent, but it doesn't seem like the article says that is the reason for the higher damages. It says that, it's for public good basically. What I'm questioning is the basis for the increase in damages.
No, the author does not miss the point - though I assume he may not understand it fully. The quote is written in context of Lisp macro facilities, which let you DRY your code from a lot of things, including GoF-style design patterns. So e.g. if you see yourself using "Memento pattern" (or whatever) in many places in your code, writing the same kind of methods doing the same thing everywhere, you should consider writing a macro that'll do that for you instead. That is, if your language lets you do that. Design patterns really start where the language's ability to abstract ends.
Of course every personal experience is just anecdotal but since I only work 24 hours a week I feel able to educate myself, do sports, feel more healthy. Before that I worked one week full and one week only 4 days repeatedly and I really got the feeling that coming in on Mondays after a short week was so much easier. I felt more relaxed and satisfied because I could do other stuff on the weekend than trying to catch up with buying things and all that organizational junk you have to do as an adult.

Now I work 6 hours a day, 4 days a week and I don't take long breaks anymore. I stopped to read blogs or news at work after lunch, I just work. Would be really interesting if this is just me or if it could be scientifically proven that working less is more.
Yes, and on most platforms, .net has fairly weak integration.
> The big question is the likelihood of the gamble paying off. For a lotto ticket that's easy to figure.

I agree. The gamble is tricky.

> Now some of the winners of the collapse seemed to have had a firm grasp of the situation. But how would _you_, as an investor, know that? How do you measure that?

Read all the data. Defaults of 4% are expected in the ideal market. Their bet only needed defaults to reach 5% to pay out. Those who started in the game carefully selected from the sub prime mortgages the ones most likely to default after 2 years: the interest only no documentation loans. The real question is why were they able to short the ones more likely to default for the same cost as the ones less likely to default. Those risks were all upfront.

Note that the methods these people used is obvious even with foresight: read the data on the investments, it was all there. The only hard part was the data was 100 pages of fine print. This data was was there and honest, if I gave any investor this data and forced them to read it they would arrive at the same results. Again though, reading the data is a hard job and so most of those who should read it didn't, they just assumed everything was as it was before not noticing the the numbers of no documentation loans was going from few to a majority.

If there was any luck involved it was only that the investors who made money had the idea to one day not read a stock 10-k report and instead read a bond report. There were signs that these guys saw that others didn't, but once they had the idea to look at the data it really is a no brainier.

The only thing I didn't have is enough money to invest (minimum investment is $30 million and that was raised to $100 million quickly), the patience to wait 2 years for it to pay off, the luck to think of the bond market (if I was looking for a great stock in China at the time I might have found something good, but not this great investment in bonds), and the willingness to wade though all these finance documents looking for any that are worth investing on. The last is by far the most important: I find the data boring and so I don't want to analyze it.

Note that the subprime bubble is over. You cannot pull that off today in subprime. Or at least I don't think you can: I haven't looked at the data. Every 10-20 years some opportunity comes up. 3/4ths the battle is the idea to look in the right place, the other 1/4th is to actually understand all the data. There might be something now, there might not. I don't have a crystal ball.

Even if I did, I don't have enough money to ride out the market. As more than one person has said, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". Several of those who made a ton of money nearly went bankrupt holding onto their bets for just the 2 years they knew it would take for them to pay off - and they were right about the 2 year prediction!
That's basically what happens in open source, once you get enough people in and around your project.
What's your point? Even Ubuntu sold what you typed in Unity Search to Amazon.

By the way, the thread to discuss about Windows 10's privacy issues is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598
Well, it CAN call out to unix commands, but it has poor text manipulation capabilities...
> Copyright creates enormous wealth. You can't have markets if you can't have transactions, and you can't have transactions in software if you don't have copyright protection. You're limited to this impoverished world where the software creator has to lock it behind a services API in order to monetize it. The world benefits enormously from just being able to sell software, movies, etc. as you would a physical product.

It's not a black or white thing, although I guess that's what supporters of endless copyright extensions would like to convince you to think. I concur with the conception of copyright which dictates that it should protect or make worthwhile the upfront risk and investment to produce something of value.

Would having a much more limited span or at least capped to the life-time of the creator versus 120 year copyright have prevented happy-birthday or mickey-mouse from being created? I think the answer is unequivocally no.

Neither is it true that you can't have transactions in software without copyright protection (Redhat, Mozilla is proof enough of this). Meanwhile larger companies with all the benefits of copy-right protection are making most of their money from Cloud Apps and Web services anyways (Facebook, Google) even Microsoft the traditional major player in the 'for-sale' software business is moving away from it towards cloud offerings.

> A world without copyright is not one in which studios still make the AAA movies people want and just distribute them into the public domain.

What is the term ( in length of years) across which Studios calculate the gross revenue vs. expenses from their production? I don't have a graph in front of me but surely they calculate that revenue must top expenses within the release year to justify expenses and it's a highly diminishing slope after that. Netflix is already effectively locked down (and clearly the future), - I don't see how copyright is preserving any kind of liberties here.
Not sure why you think it doesn't happen in other fields. Every time I spoke with a software developer, they were constantly cursing the architecture of the code they had to dealt with.
I like the words you use
Pokemon GO MitM Cheats Banned
Because the myriad ways public people interact with your code through HTTP and routes starts to rival the complexity of getting crypto code right, with a lot of the same sorts of downsides (which is to say problems often lead to security issues, and very few people are capable of reasoning about all the implications of the decisions made). I would suggest someone not roll their own framework (which is essentially creating a framework of their own at some level) for the same reasons I would suggest someone not roll their own crypto. The upside is relatively minuscule compared to the downsides, IMO.

> Nobody sees any other kind of application written by a previous programmer and cries "oh no! I am entirely at the mercy of this previous programmer! If only they had used one of the dozen competing frameworks this tragedy could have been avoided.".

Yes, they do. If you came upon someone's custom HTTP client, I imagine your response would be something along those lines. If not lamenting that you're at their mercy, at least cursing them for imposing a requirement of some level of strength that you use what is very likely to be a substandard implementation of what you can find freely available. So, you either replace it with something less likely to cause the odd problem later (and deal with all the testing to make sure you didn't introduce a bug, and you probably did) or deal with those odd problems ("what do you mean we aren't conforming to TLS correctly? Why haven't we seen this until now?").
You currently hiring? :P
This is true in my case. We work 8 hour days, 5 days per week, and I always mention it when interviewing candidates. We're proud of the fact that we can ship a successful product without working the team to constant exhaustion.
Yeah, I agree, the rotation rate seems very high right now, and they're mostly the same robocallers. This just means, to me, it should be very easy for telecoms to suss out who is buying these numbers, and through what telecom.
Am I crazy or is Microsoft announcing new open source or dev friendly stuff everytime there's a PR bomb here on HN?

18/08/2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598 With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy (eff.org)

A day later they announce Power Shell is open source.

I remember a few months ago they blasted HN's frontpage with news after a few discussions about telemetry and EEE (first wave of Windows 10/UWP showing its true colors).

I don't care enough to do a reddit-esque investigation on HN stories. I just find it funny, that's all.
Wow, thanks for the implicit warning, I've been an Amazon customer since a year after they opened, am using them very heavily right now as I remodel and move to a small house built in 1910, and it would be crippling to be disconnected from my order history and wish lists.

I've only bought a very few Kindle books sold for $0 or on deep discount, never bought a Kindle, and only bought 1-2 digital copies of music when the CD was out of print and way too expensive. No way will I buy another digital item from Amazon if they make it this dangerous....

I don't think they want this outcome, but the more they savage their customers like they did you, the more it'll happen.
Have a 20-30min scripted phone conversation. Lead with an overview of the company, description of the position, and responsibilities. I do this first because I've had candidates bail out when they learned the details, so don't waste time interviewing people who don't want the job. Then, ask a few technical questions. I typically start with really easy ones. "Tell me the difference between the public, protected, and private keywords." A surprisingly high percentage of candidates will not be able to explain the difference clearly. If people can confidently go through my canned list of technical questions, then I'll bring them in for a group interview with the team they'll be working with.
Maybe if you're talking to someone like Dogbert... however, I often use this technique in a sincere attempt to understand. I think it works well...
The problem is the greed and narcissism on both sides.

The content corps make a ton of money by exploiting creative people. They used to be able to justify this by claiming that they sponsored and nurtured talent.

That was always a stretch, even when 15% of a CD sale - maximum - went to the original creator, and the rest to the rest of the industry. But advances did happen, and they were the only way creatives could afford to get on the first step of the professional ladder.

Now we have shitty YouTube and Spotify streaming deals where advances don't happen, and the industry - all of it - keeps way more than the 85% of nominal value it used to.

But the "I want it, so you should give it to me for nothing because it costs nothing to copy" pirates aren't any better.

How many pirates have made any effort to sponsor creators, or pay creators directly for original content?

So what we actually have isn't a moral battle between good guys and bad guys. It's a battle between two distribution cartels - one legally sanctioned, the other not yet sanctioned but hoping to be.

And both are increasingly indistinguishable in their lack of interest in sponsoring and promoting original creative work.
> How is it wrong to put an alias when wget and curl are not standard Windows applications?

Isn't that a trademark violation when a Big Corp is doing it officially in their software?
So, there’s already a solution.
Is Donald Trump Actually Trying to Win?
Yeah, but streams of text are standard: every programming language can handle text streams. Even brainf*ck can do that. PowerShell objects are PowerShell specific.

>Honestly, it'd probably better for PowerShell to only deal with PowerShell commands, and Unix commands to only deal with Unix commands, with a well-defined interface between these two very different ecosystems.

Well, yeah, but that would make PowerShell even less useful on UNIX than it already is.
> lots of not-extremely-established people call Vancouver their home.

No they don't. Nobody earning 20$/hour moves to vancouver. Those who do earn low wages have roots in the city. They started renting before the rise (and now live in fear of their landlord selling). Or they bought 20+ years ago and are now sitting on a pile of equity. Or they are living in a friend/parent's basement. Such people are established in the city. The low-pay stranger isn't welcome in Vancouver.
So many books in, and I never noticed his name...
But you can easily get yourself crushed by a tank, and also "why oh WHY DID YOU DRIVE A TANK TO PICK UP OUR KIDS FROM THE SCHOOL?!?"
Yeah, the bandwith problem is already noticeable with AMD's current APU's even though they use small GPU cores compared to discrete grapics cards. Faster DDR3/4 memory brings noticeable FPS improvements. If they already had HBM they would run circles around Intel (which they probably already do unless the competitor is a Iris Pro with eDRAM).

Could the CPU also profit from the HBM memory? The bandwith is much better than with DDR4 main memory (even if it is 2 or 4 channels), and I would guess the latency as well because it would be on the same die?
That works fine, until the robocallers get another batch of phone numbers to tie to their VoIP systems and the blocked ones roll back in to general use.

I already get robocalls that are targeted to my own area code and region, and the same calls from multiple numbers. Cycling through those won't like add too much burden to the robot unless there's a heavy price to pay for a new batch of numbers.
There are as many different interviewing techniques that would be successful as there are different types of software jobs. If you're hiring for people to churn out code 80%+ of the time, perhaps 80%+ of your interview / test process should be about that. However, we don't hire people to crank out code in a bubble - we hire people to work with others typically. This starts to tilt more important skills towards technical decision-making and ability to communicate effectively.

If all you're going to do in that dialogue is have a back and forth at a high level instead of looking at and writing some code, you're not going to be selecting well on a technical basis and you're really getting a randomized sampling of a distribution of technical skill of people that are applying for the job.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1993-10-26

Does anybody have time to comment on the article submitted by OP? :)
On Doing It Yourself – With a Response from Alan Kay
It's pretty easy (at least on Linux) to firewall all inbound/outbound traffic on your physical network interfaces, allowing only the bare minimum necessary to connect to the VPN server (DHCP to get a local ip + an udp/tcp connection to a single ip:port).

Last I checked, it was a bit more difficult to do on Windows, because it didn't allow interface-specific rules, and because software installers had a habit of opening holes for themselves in the firewall without asking you.
How fast would Usain Bolt run the mile?
Millenial pop culture promoted romantic lives of being artsy and unique, following your dreams, and trying to save the world. They were told that money wasn't everything and they should try to live more meaningful lives. Not terrible notions in the slightest, but not focusing on a well-paying career has consequences, and one of them can be a life of poverty. A few years of barely being able to pay the bills and having a lower quality of life can change motivations.
Well, maybe instead of "For nearly the next two years, Oregón received frequent checkups from his physicians at Harris Health" they would have told him to take a bus to NM and establish residency there?
Not to mention that in NM residency for Medicaid can be established with
"Self Attestation Accepted without Additional Verification"
so not a huge hurdle
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/p...

He could afford moving from Mexico to Texas when he was 20...
May I ask what industry you work in?
Namespace API Versioning for .NET Core
This battle is lost and the reality is already much worse than just DRM. It is increasingly impossible to actually own digital content and all content is moving to digital. You only lease at the revocable pleasure of some multi-billion dollar corporation. No resale, no inheritance, no right of refusal of obnoxious TOS changes if you want continued access.

Yes, for some technical books it is still possible to buy a DRM free pdf and have something approximating ownership rights, including resale -- for example http://shop.oreilly.com/category/customer-service/ebooks.do.

But as far as I can tell that's only true for a tiny techical niche -- if there is an alternative to kindle, amazon etc. that actually has a reasonable selection and true ownership I'd love to hear about it.
My conspiracy theory is that the comment swung from -4 to +4 as China went to sleep and the US arrived at work.
If you mean the protagonist's full name, it's only mentioned in "Pimpf" AFAIK. And even then, not directly. I had to have TvTropes help me put it together.