skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a thing is undefinable, you will naturally resist efforts to define it. If a thing is forever in flux, you will resist efforts to freeze it. If a thing is composed exclusively of compromise, you will resist efforts to make decisive decisions. And if a thing will never be good, you will resist efforts to make it good.

Isn't that a good way to approach software development? You probably shouldn't make decisive decisions, you probably shouldn't freeze your project, and if you define it you risk missing opportunities outside that definition.
How do you know they don't and how do you think would this be achieved for cheap other than recruiting at the best (private) schools of the country?
> change voicemail systems so this does not work

But if the GOP made prohibiting direct-to-voice-mail illegal you wouldn't be able to do that...
Looking at the code it looks like you could easily change it for other chipsets
https://github.com/pezipink/asi64/blob/master/expander.rkt
My guess about VCs and big data:

My guess is a special case of my guess about VCs and X for any new technology or
tech buzz word X, that is, just
substitute "big data" for X.

The guess is a special case of
the difference between the
sizzle and the steak. Or,
remember, sell the sizzle, not
the steak.

Well, VCs have Web sites
and there commonly
emphasize the X, the sizzle,
they are interested in.

In fact, for a VC, X or sizzle with a dime
won't cover even a 10 cent
cup of coffee. And a VC
won't invest even 10 cents
in X or sizzle.

So, why do VCs emphasize their
interest in X they don't care about?

Well, VCs want deal flow, that
is, entrepreneurs presenting their
projects so claim they are interested
in current sizzle X. Then entrepreneurs with a project in
subject X will eagerly contact
the VC.

Now what? Sure, the VC ignores
the X, the sizzle, and looks for
some steak, usually traction
significant and growing rapidly,
better still, revenue significant
and growing rapidly. They also
look at the founders, etc.
The one thing they do NOT look
at, understand, respect, evaluate,
or care about is X or the sizzle.

None of this effort means anything
for a VC unless they can
see enough steak to
start negotiations with the
entrepreneurs. Now we
see why the VCs said they
were interested in X:
During the negotiations,
they will pretend to
evaluate the business based
on X, not on the steak.
Then the VCs will denigrate, diss,
minimize, insult, run down,
criticize
X as of not very solid business
value and lower their
evaluation (pre-money)
of the business. And THAT'S
where the VCs get
their payoff for their
claims of interest in X.

So, selling/buying the sizzle
instead of the steak
hides the real value, the
steak, and the VCs want to do that.

There must be some explanation
for the very common practice
of VCs saying they are interested
in X. IMHO, no way are the VCs
interested in X, big data, AI,
ML, etc. -- those topics are just
sizzle to hide their interest
in what they regard as steak.

If can, then check out my
guess: Say, get a VC to
explain any of the value
of big data, AI, or ML
in a reasonably solid and
well informed way!
Uh, "X is eating the world"
is NOT good enough!

There must be an explanation,
and my best guess is above!

YMMV!!
So in the sense of COTS, it might be bad. In the sense of engineering being done inside the org, it seems to work better.
The older I get, the more I'm convinced that icons are not a terribly good way to convey information. Some things and concepts, sure. Others, not so much. Especially in technology and science.

Navigation can make good use of icons. Left, right, up, down, start, stop, these kinds of things can be learned and used widely. Somethings like text manipulation icons, cursors, insertions, selections, can be used effectively, but can be surprisingly hard to explain or even describe. Icons for operations can be really tough. Right now as I look at my computer I can see a library of arcane and archaic imagery. Telephones, disks, pen nibs, VCR controls (navigation, sort of), little boxes with arrows, little boxes overlapping, deadbolt locks, paper airplanes, file folders, fluffy clouds, paperclips, and of course little hamburgers.

These can certainly be useful clues, but they also can be very confusing. I've seen paint brushes used to indicate a paint brush in a paint program, but I've also seen the exact same icon used to indicate a screen refresh. Now I'm at as much a loss as anyone to come up with a good substitute, although I will note that I can't imagine any _good_ circumstances when a user needs to be in charge of refreshing the screen.

These days I'm using a lot of 3D software, and the user interfaces are a crust of complicated and indecipherable icons. And that's just the top layer of the UI. Almost all of them rely on a text/label system and hot keys for doing much of the work. Discoverability is essentially zero and the only way to get good is to learn the words and the alphabet. Pros end up _hiding_ most of the UI.

Sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures.

The only one of the icons in the link that make much sense is the one with kcal on it. Unless I dealt, in detail, with these everyday, I'd never remember what the rest stood for. Something like this may make a lot of sense for the people that produce the labels, but I'm unconvinced it does anything good for those who need to _read_ the labels. Word labels in the intended reader's language is almost certainly the best way to go for actual use.
There also seems to be inverse relation between consuming porn and rapes.

However I think the strongest connection seems to be in the amount of lead in the blood and crime. The crime rates seem to fall everywhere in the world (with predictable delay) after that country restricts lead in gasoline. We know that lead is causes developmental problems in children (like problems with impulse control).
But tracing bitcoin is not impractical. It's been done.
As opposed to corporations who stopped at a fair point when they started to kill unions off?
The whole thing is from the Silicon Valley TV show. I'm fairly sure that the two pillars are Sales and Engineering, but you're making me actually go watch Season Three all over again to find out if Barker referred to Growth and Manufacturing as pillars too. YouTube clips on that particular part of the series are sparse.

Edit: Yep, Barker refers to Engineering and Sales as the two pillars of success in S03E02, and Growth as the "foundation" of the CToS. Compromise is the "shared hypotenuse". Jack was fired before they could discuss Manufacturing.
It's more like saying "breaking sha1 is slower than md5".

Like, it's more awkward but quite doable especially with decent resources.
I planned to do that too. Having a readable.. even story tellable code instead of a too succint result of brain sweat.

I might try to make one from scratch using yours as an inspiration. Just to see how my mindset evolved along the years.
It's not just tickets. It's tickets + permits + insurance + plates. I wasn't blaming anyone else, either. I assume you're perfectly vigilant in every aspect of your life? Meh, never mind.

By the way, a friend just tried to park in the spot that I got towed out of. That's how unassuming it looks. That's just a thing you get to learn if you happen to live here, and the only way you learn it is after you get towed. Not a damn thing you can do about it other than pay up.

And how about the $120 ticket the other day for making a left at a light that was green but happened to be labeled no left turn without an arrow? No reason not to be able to turn left, as long as it was green. There wasn't any oncoming traffic. Yeah we missed the sign, and for that we get to pay $120 to follow the silly rule. The tickets add up faster than you think.
Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will
> Isn't that a good way to approach software development?

Not if your software needs to actually meet users' needs--in other words, not if you want to make a living at it. To meet users' needs, your software has to ship, which means you need to make decisive decisions, you need to freeze your product, and you need to define what it does.

What you don't need to do is stop doing those things once you've done them once. You can always update your software, you can always make new decisions, and you can always redefine what your software does, in response to changing user needs or changing understanding on your part of what user needs actually are. But the only way to do that is to do it, which means you have to start somewhere. And never making decisions, never freezing anything, and never defining anything means never starting anywhere.
Size doesn't matter... :-)
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Shoes? Basketball you want ankle support; football you want a stiff sole with good grip, usually studs ('cleats' I think in en-us).

Studded boots ain't cheap.

I've spent about £5 on a video game and played for a few hundred hours. Discounting the computer, the only other cost is probably mouse & keyboard wear and tear ... and life.
I live in Seattle and there are a couple shared fleet services that are pretty close to this. Interestingly they're both owned by car makers (Car2Go [1] by Mercedes and Reach Now [2] by BMW). Sort of like a Zip Car in that you can get into the car with your phone, but unlike a Zip Car you can just park it anywhere within the bounds of the service (they pay the city a monthly fee per car to cover parking).

[1] https://www.car2go.com/US/en/
[2] https://reachnow.com/en/seattle-wa/
What is poison?

Water is poison: drinking 50 liters in 1 minute will kill you.
Eh, it's like saying bitcoin has no value because electronic payment systems exist. And while I understand some would indeed argue that's​ the case, to me _trustless_ prediction markets have great value, enabling eg autonomous AI enterprises, self settling smart contracts linked to the "off chain" world.
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> Many animals can rival or exceed the intelligence of the average human.

That is an absurd assertion, the 'average' human being can use language at a level far beyond what any other species that demonstrates language can, complex tools, create even more complex tools from those already complex tools, write down the things they have learnt and gain knowledge from the things other humans have learnt and written down, create sophisticated predictive models of the world and test them refining the models as they go.

Do animals have intelligence, absolutely, is it in the same realm as the average human, not even close.

The difference in vast, there were other species with intelligence comparable to our own, they went extinct (and it's arguable that we are the reason why) I refer of course to the other species in the Genus Homo, the neanderthal's and others.

We had competition from other species and we eliminated it not intentionally we just out-competed them (and interbred with them but since we where more numerous the end result was the same though their genes are still present).
The evidence is pretty convincing. You saying "it's just unclear" is just you misinterpreting "decreases the likelihood" to include "to zero".
True, I just found the argument for IMSI Catcher Detectors to be more effective once I changed from presenting it as "fighting state surveillance" to "protecting corporate IP" most people stopped even suggesting that it will be made illegal (usually citing radar detectors).
In a way, this is a huge relief. I never listen to voice mails, so not having to be bothered by my phone ringing for something unimportant saves me a bit of time and anxiety.

Now I just have to worry about people I know, phone interviews, and debt collectors (who seem to be harassing me less often via phone these days).
1. Companies investing hundreds of millions want to ensure a return
2. Food companies want customers to eat (and not die from) their products.

Groundbreaking, I know.
The answer is simple: any of them will work just fine. npm 5 brings many improvements, a lot in performance (in my tests the speed between them are very similar), and new functionalities (e.g. outdated command).
That's exactly how it works. While I was at Twilio, we figured out how to do it - mostly from a customer abusing the system - and shut them down at the time. The problem was that it wasn't complicated enough that it would take long for others to figure out.

The problem I noted at the time is that since we only charged for minutes during the call, the first call - which was dialed and immediately dropped - would never get a charge, only the second would.
Be careful about leaking your phone number online, such as in whois data or other places. I started an LLC a few years ago and my god the number of spam calls I got, it was absolutely ludicrous (I still get them to this day, although it's now on the order of 2 a month)
You are right. It does use ES6 Proxies and they are not polyfillable. IE and React native is not yet supported because of this (it's mentioned in the platform support section).
Most automakers do something similar now. Regular financing is so cheap now it almost always makes sense to get the cash back deals from the manufacturer rather than get the 0% financing.
I don't think that this would be as large scale an issue in the United States at least if public transportation was as good as say, Japan's.

That would put a lot of pressure on the industry indirectly to be more transparent to the average consumer. I would think anyway. I don't have anything except anecdotal evidence and a gut feeling to back this up.

I think car ownership being needed outside the major 12 cities (Lookin' at you NYC!) that have good public transit is a national crime in and of itself.
Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, incl. social media checks
Not similar. It is by far more robust than bitcoin. Imagine a quantum computer mining. IOTA is designed to be quantum proof.
Banks can position themselves to benefit from a depreciation of any given currency, miners are tied to the success of the one they've chosen.
I think the problems with receiving a voicemail message and requiring a serious legal protection because you could be murdered or physically harmed by a specific person and not even close to the same order of magnitude.
you don't need Gregory House to diagnose an anaphylactic shock
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No matter what kind of investment, you have to have a system with clear entry and especially an exit strategy, all part of your solid risk/money management.

In any event of a market down turn I'll be out long before the bottom and will be probably in some sort of alternative investment which will rise, because the money will seek to go into something else, maybe gold for example.

I strongly recommend to look into systematic stock trading systems like trend following for example and to have a plan in place when the stock market turns down from the Friday all time high... Also i makes the greatest life style business with no customers, no employees and no investors and will run on autopilot as long as the stock market exists...
The Richest Man in Babylon.
This should be on top of HN, really great series and something I will use to justify event-driven distributed architectures when I need to. Spot on!

By the way, check this part from the series: http://blog.christianposta.com/microservices/why-microservic...
How do you sleep at night?
That's "in vogue", isn't it?
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It looks better, but it's not even remotely close to how BR looks (and how 4K actually should look when bringing full resolution to the table) - even with H.265/VP9 it's quite bit starved at that bitrate.
Do you not agree that people renting out their homes is massively more popular than people renting out their cars?
Right. Show me the compiled object code and tell me how much faster it is.

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

— Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger in The Elements of Programming Style.
Both of them, obviously. ;)
What platform are you using? Do you pay for each trade?
I did! You can do that with most providers. If they don't explicitly offer it, just tell them you want to switch to an tablet/iPad plan. I pay $15/month for a 3 GB data-only plan and $1/month for a VoIP number that routes SMS to email/app (voip.ms), for those 2 people I know who still use SMS.
This is me but with coffee. And coffee is everywhere.
I've always locked in the price and flat-out refused to talk about how I was paying for it until the price was agreed upon.

It worked for me, took more time I will say, but I got a good deal on a brand new car that I'll drive for a very, very long time.
How interesting. Thanks for this info. The SeaGlass method is much more data-heavy, it seems, which is both good and bad. A good baseline is labor-intensive to create and requires lots of physical and temporal presence, but once you have it, it's a great way to vet outlier signals. Seems like that's the point you want to apply work like yours.
A heretical opinion, but one I agree with. I feel like the success of iOS and Android proves that the world of windows and icons from desktop computers was fine for nerds but ultimately a failure for mainstream use.

hell, just look at fabric instruction icons…
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a0/6b/b9/a06bb91bc...
What could have changed?
That could reasonably be regarded as wire fraud, a la prank calling.
Although I see where you are coming from, restraining orders aren't just for stalking/threats/abuse. It'a also for harassment, which I would definitely say telemarketers do.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14474956
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Yeah, there's a lot of legwork to be done if you want to use this kind of data, but it's legwork that can be distributed fairly easily. People can check public listings for this or that tower type, carriers document their test setups, etc. Once you weed out the strange but not that strange stuff you probably see a few like the one in Sea-Tac.
Not at all. The password sheet password is actually a GPG key. Everything stored encrypted.

We suffer from NIH greatly. We end rolling our own stuff because either we don't trust 3rd party stuff, or it doesn't work in our infrastructure. In this case, multiple access locks with GPG is sufficient.
"Many animals can rival or exceed the intelligence of the average human"

Huh?

The only animal on Earth known to be capable of exceeding the intelligence of the average human is the above-average human. Octopuses, dolphins, chimps, crows, and elephants are all extremely intelligent, but let's not get carried away.
Anyone who's read one free speech case knows that commercial speech has less protection than, say, political speech.
it's ok.

but the issue is randomly calling ppl. not the call itself. at least in germany random/cold calls are forbidden so you can only call people who agreed to it prior.
It also doesn't including using a private commercial service that I am paying for.

The stench of hypocrisy is more than subtle, here.

As always, follow the money.

P.S. Here's what I expect from carriers, if this goes through: A clear, easy to use, and permanent switch to turn this off on my account. (Yes, government emergency situations -- genuine ones -- excepted.)

If this really is a "free market" or something arguably comperable -- their basis for arguing for the elimination of a whole bunch of regulation -- then someone should offer this "off switch" as a feature in response to the obvious demand for it.

If they don't? One more nail in the argument that they do not represent anything like a free market nor real competition.
It's a bit rude to post alternatives in someone's Show HN without also giving ideas on how to improve their product (e.g. which features specifically would you be missing out on?)

I guess it's not so much the posting of alternatives, but you're really selling that particular alternative. It'd be nice for Show HNs to be less cutthroat.
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Go for it, its mostly inspired from nix in how I set it up. I can just run make and create dot files for whatever I need then rsync it over to where I need it.

Aka I can customize my dot files based on if i'm going to a bsd/mac/linux box with(out)/nix/perl/haskell/git/whatever and have an easy way to copy things over the top of things or not.

I declared dot file bankruptcy a few years ago and this is my "perpetual penultimate dot file solution" (yes I'm making a joke at my own expense with penultimate here).

But this new setup is easily the most sane I've found so far. Most dot file management uses softlinks which sucks for rsyncing, or some hokey templating language.

All mine amounts to is just a stupid .el file that holds predicate definitions that just controls via stupid elisp when an org babel block gets tangled out into a file. Its pretty simple and straightforward. Wonder if I should do some sort of show and tell for it or not.

Good luck! Hope it helps or inspires something better.
Did you compare with the cost of a similar loan from a bank?
There is no battery in the 'connect' device; it uses the car's battery for power. Major mistake not including a battery as it is the reason I and many others have taken our cars off the service.
Amazing story.Congratulations!
> Everyone knows how addicting these things are.

No, the point of the lawsuit is that they don't (or didn't). The article makes that clear through quotes such as: "We believe that the evidence will show that these pharmaceutical companies purposely misled doctors about the dangers connected with pain meds that they produced."

> Nobody cares about smokers getting addicted although they do care about public smoking because it infringes on their right to clean air.

Public smoking is a focus of conversation today, but the analogous 1990s big tobacco lawsuits centered on the medical costs of treating smokers. See wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
Also, the compensation for renting out your car on the platforms I've tried does not cover wear and tear. I received 80 dollars for nearly 2000 miles driven in one month. Considering the inconvenience and risk this does not turn into a profitable venture for me.
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> In the East-Bay, AAA is making a massive investment in car-sharing with GiG.

I love seeing my neighbors in Oakland lose their minds over GiG because the cars are stealing 'their' parking.
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For whatever reason I had the opposite take: after just skimming the article I could quickly identify the icons' corresponding nutritional "unit" on the very bottom chart. I can't say I personally like the aesthetics of the icons, but for a global company trying to make a few nutritional facts universally identifiable, I would say they did a great job. I am still not going to eat there though...

Edit: spelling
I've gone as far as reporting the numbers to my state AG, but it clearly hasn't stopped them. I get them constantly. I used to hang up right away but these days I try to keep the robot on the line as long as possible to make it less cost effective to call me.

Do we need the equivalent of Fail2Ban for phone numbers? Some app that allows you to flag calls, and past some threshold the whole network bans the number?