skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the environmental effects, Paris accord is an excellent vehicle for guaranteed ROI on third world "green" and "renewable" investments. What better plan than to take taxpayer money involuntarily and forward it to third world renewable investments. If everyone chips in just a little bit in the name of doing something good why would anybody try and stop it? A brilliant plan grinding to a halt all because of Trump.
Ask HN: Operator agnostic call barring on Android?
Hi there,
[contextual prose] I recently had to fetch my then-gf to a psych ward. To help her take her mind of this mess I want to supply her a smartphone with which she can stream some shows and movies. [\contextual prose]

My cell contract includes zero-rating on some streaming services and I can get a multi-sim (several sims all related to one contract and phone number) from my operator. Now, I don't want her to get calls destined for me (trust is not the issue, rather avoiding remembrance) but call barring is not supported by my operator. I would supply her an old android handset of mine (rooted Samsung G800F sporting a 5.1.1 Android). All the apps I tried so far either use call barring or auto-blocking calls, which would presumptively lead to me not getting any calls on my handset.

Do you got a solution for this? I thought about "uninstalling" the phone app, but got no more than a basic grasp of Android.

Appreciate your thoughts and ideas!

(I wanted this in "Ask HN" but do not see an option in the submit screen.. I hope this one works out.)
I'll​ never forget when a startup tried to poach me to be Employee #2 or 3 and refused to even match my previous salary and suggested that I really wasn't taking their equity (.15%, I think?) seriously enough. I told them that if they had a billion dollar exit in five years it still wouldn't bring me up to what I wanted, and then they said, "Well, all the tech guys we talked to said $YOUR_COMPANY overpays by 20%. We also think that we're spending too much time talking about money here and are worried you have the wrong priorities".
I mean, I really want us as a country to follow the agreement, but not so badly that I want to dissolve the entirety of the United States and legally unravel our entire country over it. This, IMO, is not Civil War-worthy.
Of course, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the article, but it's always funny when someone posts an article they didn't read. It directly contradicts what you're claiming:

> The red states aren't in fact poorer than the blue states. They're richer: that's why they vote more conservative and more right wing.

The article argues that people who make less move to areas with lower costs of living, because they have more purchasing power in those areas:

> Because those lower income places have even lower prices, making consumption standards higher.

That is, red states aren't poor because of red policies, they're poor because they're cheaper to live in.

Further, the article claims that blue policies hurt the poor!

> What we now need to go on and explain is why those nominally left policies, those blue ones, are so to the disadvantage of the poor they're supposedly helping....
I'd love to see stats on total comp for engineers at "normal" established companies. Sure, everyone knows that you can make a lot more at Google / Apple / Facebook, but it's also significantly harder to get those jobs and not everyone can.

If you're a SWE at Oracle, are you really going to make much more than you'd make at a 50 person startup? According to Glassdoor, not really.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-senior-soft...

Just look at the Oracle SWE salaries: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Oracle-Senior-Software-Engi...

Even including total comp, that's barely more than I made the the first <20 person startup I joined.
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That's crazy. So are small businesses expected to take out a loan to pre-pay taxes?
California itself had tax revenue problems not too long ago.

In 2011, they had state-wide tax revenue of $282 billion. That was the year Jerry Brown followed Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor, and a series of tax hikes were put into policy.

In 2015, tax revenue was $405 billion.

So what you're seeing is a shift in policy from Schwarzenegger to Brown, and a closing of the revenue gaps because of it.
One thing I never see addressed with all the talk about climate change:

Let's say we managed to cease our CO2 production, even reverse the current man-made warming trend (save me the "impossible hypothetical scenario" talk, substitute in whatever values of "cease" we would have accomplished with the Paris Agreement, whatever).

Eventually, the earth is going to warm significantly without the aid of mankind. What are we supposed to do about that? Global warming is an eventuality, and no amount of carbon taxes that apply to a certain set of countries and not to others is going to change that. So someone enlighten me, what's the long, long-term view plan for global warming?
Honestly, I'm jealous. While I find them convenient, I also find them troubling.
It's not really their 'own self-destruction' in so much as that the world over coastal regions tend to be a lot richer than inland areas. If you took a 300 Km swath of all the land bordering the oceans world wide you'd have captured a very large portion of the wealth.

Of course there are some exception (Switzerland comes to mind) and large inland cities tend to be at least a lot wealthier than the surrounding country side but as a rule it is a pretty good one.

Yes, it is sad. But people in the developed countries are relatively free to move around and it can be a conscious choice to live in a place that is a bit slower paced and has a different landscape.
Why is setting Nginx as a reverse proxy on top of Gunicorn a good idea?
For people who are privacy obsessed, just create a fake account. You'll find that all your friends are sympathetic and are more than happy to friend you. I know several people who do this and I happily friend them. My bday and location information is all fake, for example. I click on ads sometime when they peak my interest. I think once I actually bought something based on what I saw on Facebook, but I can't remember if it was because someone shared it or it was sponsored. I honestly don't know whether it matters or what the big deal is.

Admittedly my profile picture is there. I worry about that sometimes and is probably my biggest concern. But it's not facebook's fault i posted a picture. There's no rule you can't see your friends posts if you don't post your own photo, and I have friends who just use a picture of their dog or something instead and it never bugs me.

Honestly, Facebook is just a business and in return you look at ads now and then. If people had to pay I don't think it'd be very popular.
The blue states go on to prosper and the red states languish.

The inverse of Atlas Shrugged, as it were.
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Did we come from pigs?
You missed his/her point. We go on and on about this difference between the coast and, as those on the coast have dubbed them, the "flyover states" and then people act all smug about how they are leading to their own destruction and what not instead of being responsible and trying to educate and help. It's, frankly, pretty pathetic that this attitude is so pervasive. I'm not sure what you (not you specifically) are thinking, but if you think that these impoverished areas are somehow just going to go away or that (and seriously lol at this) somehow California is going to merge with Canada, you're (not you specifically) incredibly naive.
Some part of me believes that Musk leaving a board like this is cutting off the nose to spite the face.

I don't believe that this administration is redeemable, but I also believe that these advisory boards, and the Federal bureaucracy in general might also slow the administration down.

Power players leaving whittles away at the strength of that barrier slowing that tide. What is the alternative for Musk et al. if they opt out of this type of public service?
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"Full-time, on-site at our office in San Mateo".
> We're in a budget mess because of pension obligations

Let me guess, that's also the fault of the Republicans.
The fact that many larger cities are controlled by Democrats is a very interesting phenomenon that I do not fully understand.
And it is why you get so much better battery life on the iPhone compared to an Android device.
Is the data freshness a joke? 2 DAYS to get data into the data warehouse? Stitch, Fivetran, Segment, and more can do way better than that without any internal hooks.... :/

> Additional processing time–up to 48 hours–is required to make your account’s transactional data available in Sigma. This means that it does not reflect your account’s most recent data and should be considered a couple days behind. The Sigma interface displays the date and time of the last update to your data.
Depends on many things, but we try to hire as employee where possible.
If Google makes its ads look like Carbon or something, it would be lightweight, simple and non-intrusive. (Example: https://semantic-ui.com/elements/input.html)
You might have cause and effect backwards (hard to know when you can't do experiments) but having a strong economy and wealth due to say Silicon Valley, Hollywood, or Wall Street (however those were created and sustained) might allow people to choose to have "(high taxes, high minimum wage, strong environmental standards, strong labor protections, etc)".
> What would you consider a nominal fee? Blue Apron costs about $10 per person per meal for modest portions, I can easily buy ingredients for half, if not a third of that.

This is excellent logic! However, it's possible that it only really works ideally if you consider shopping to not be a cost or do it for zero time. When shopping is both a time and complexity sink, some people choose to consider the option of spending money instead of time and effort.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'expectation of one case' here, but just to clarify: rolling a ten-sided dice, 10 times, gives a 65% chance of rolling at least one 10. So you still have a 35% chance of zero 'wins'.

I can't comment on the rest of your model, but its worth keeping in mind how the binomials shake out.
Do you think that people who are so theoretically time-strapped as to be using Blue Apron are likely to invest the time to recycle?
Escape charge dismissed because state didn’t prove prison’s location
Why do these non-democrats hold the USA hostage to their policies? Why can't the democrats appeal to them?
For deodorant, I've been loyal to Old Spice since I was 16.

The stuff I love for a cologne used to cost around $40 - $50 but then they stopped producing it for years. All of a sudden, it is back on the market, and the price went up.

It is called Joop! What About Adam.

https://www.amazon.com/About-Joop-Toilette-Spray-Ounces/dp/B...

If I were to explain the fragrance, it is definitely a very overpowering manly smell with hints of wood, tomato leaf, lavender, mint, oakmoss, labdanum, cedar, and sandalwood, and sweet grapefruit--which is usually the most notable result. It definitely teases the nose. I've worn it on a date or two along with a few interviews. I remember I had a college class before my date and I wasn't going to have time to stop home, so I sprayed a bunch of it on myself beforehand, and all the girls were going crazy over it, trying to figure out where the smell was coming from.

I think I've got one bottle left.. its not cheap, but the arrogance in pricing comes with complete confidence.
It's not in settings, it's in the News Feed toggle on the top of the navigation pane on the top LHS of the home page.

And I think after a couple weeks hiding posts you'll significantly reduce the variety of content hitting your newsfeed.
Yeah that's my biggest beef with the Paris Agreement. If it's about the global environment, why are all countries not compelled to participate equally? Don't let China off the hook and I think a lot of people would be less skeptical of the whole arrangement.
In 2008, Californians voted through referendum to make gay marriage illegal, overruling their own supreme court.

If that incident had no great impact on Cali's overall ability to lead, why does this event say anything about TX's?
Really wish this was at the top, instead of a comment that simply calls the president "shit-the-bed" Trump.

It is scary how people, even on HN, go on a hating spree with out actually looking into these details. If you go on reddit, you see the same thing, but multiplied 10x.

It is a sickening display of how even "smart" communities, like HIN can harbour stupid behaviors and beliefs as long as the majority shares it....
Like most climate policy, it becomes a lot less appealing the more specific it gets.
Shrugs, it pays the bills and has improved radically since 4 and even 5.

It wouldn't be my first choice but there is plenty of reasonable paying work around.
I'm interested why that disturbs you?
Postpone immediate danger until we're sufficiently technologically advanced to deal with other issues? Or, in other words, build MVP first instead of starting the heavy project which ultimately cannot be finished by the deadline.
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We have higher sales tax than most, which is regressive and disproportionately impacts lower incomes. Property taxes in certain areas (Seattle) can be higher as well.

But the lack of income tax and higher wages make up for it. My tax burden is about 30% of my income, whereas in other states, Red and Blue alike, it would be anywhere from 30-40%. In general it's a low tax state, which is great for high income earners but not great for the state budget. We've had constant battles over funding education and Washington schools are woefully underfunded.
ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and BP are all in favor of America staying in the Paris climate agreement, and if you look at those company's websites, they all accept the prevailing scientific consensus on climate change.

The coal industry is the last holdout of the climate change skeptics. Everyone in oil and gas has seen the future and have started to push research and investments into renewables to limit their risk exposure.
I was a longtime Delicious user, but it really fell apart after the Yahoo acquisition. I'm happy to hear that it won't disappear.

I've recently switched to raindrop.io, which is an excellent replacement. Bookmarking serves two purposes for me:

1) It provides a way to record sites I don't visit often, which I hope I'll be able to find easily in the future if needed.

2) It provides me with easy access to the sites I visit regularly on all devices, without restricting me to a specific browser, and with an aesthetically pleasing and intuitive UI like Speed Dial

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpe...

I want the record of these two kinds of pages to live in one place, and while Delicious and Pinboard were close, I felt that they never quite met that need.
I apologize for writing "cellphone" instead of specifically "smartphone" in my comment - I meant to say the latter.

Nevertheless, what you describe sounds a lot like a "smartphone with location services off" (assuming you trust the smartphone)
I was considering PlexPass yesterday and today I am definitely getting lifetime membership...
The US dollar will collapse one day too.
Your strawman is showing
I tend to think of OO as a spectrum rather than a binary thing, and I think that Rust certainly belongs somewhere on it. I'm not convinced there's any language that can be considered "completely object-oriented"; Java has primitives, and Python, while considering everything an object, is perfectly content to let you use functions and variables without writing a single class. JavaScript doesn't even have classes, but I think it still can be considered to be at least partially OO. I might just have a more liberal than average interpretation of what OO means, though.
Oil is only about 15% of the Texas economy, I would hardly classify it as a "petrostate". Real estate is a larger percentage of California's economy.
I think it's like when you have a human corpse with his wrists crossed on top of the chest. Sure, not all or,actually, hardly any people are buried with that pose. It'd still be weird if you always drew people sleeping like that.
> If you're optimizing your career, either make the most you can at an established company, or start a startup.

I feel I'm optimising my career, working as a sysadmin at a small startup. It's not optimising for money, but I get to touch a lot of tech and design a lot of infrastructure. Make a few mistakes and learn from them. I'm not implementing someone else's design here.
> Global warming might be a bad deal for Arizona.

Global warming might be a bad deal for the globe.

> But most big city governments are going to be run by liberal Democrats because...they are big cities. Not that they are wrong, just pointing that out.

You are pointing this out why? Obviously the lead in to "just pointing that out" was circular logic that means nothing, and I feel there is a deeper message you wanted to convey but then it's just so easy to type dot dot dot... instead.
I don't see them as competing products or services at all. In fact, it might only increase visibility.

If we used subscriptions in Stripe, we'd use Baremetrics. But we manage subscriptions using third party software, so their metrics/products are unfortunately not a great fit.
It's not surprising that the poorest states would both pay the least taxes and receive the most welfare, that's just the way the math works, regardless of anything else about them.

That Business Insider link directly contradicts the Tax Foundation numbers. Business Insider puts North Dakota and Virginia near the top, but the Tax Foundation puts them at the bottom.

Don't forget that we are all subsidising the states with high state and local taxes via the federal tax deduction.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-deduct...
"If I can't have it then noone can" is truly the most unproductive position you can take when it comes to such as important thing as the environment.

First off, we're talking about still developing countries. China is on the final parts of it, and started with coal. It's a shame, but they are also the biggest investor when it comes to solar. The US doesn't have this need to grow so fast, and it won't.

Secondly, should we compare the total emissions of the US to China's, they could emit for a while before catching up.

Thirdly, but I hate this argument, the per capita emissions of the US are over ten times greater than China's.

No, fuck you Donald. You're condemning us all because you were elected on a fucking "clean coal" promise. Clean. Fucking. Coal. This agreement is not about you. It's not about us. It's about our children, our grandchildren, and leaving them something that is how we enjoyed it. That is better.

Mark my words. He will pull out. He will never renegotiate those terms.
tl;dr sha512 outperforms sha256 as message size increases.

pastebin output for lack of decent formatting:

https://pastebin.com/zqgtTKhm

on a linode system with 2 xeon E5-2680v3 cores @ 2.5ghz and 4GB of ram on this version and config of openssl on ubuntu server 17.04:

OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016
built on: reproducible build, date unspecified
options:bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) blowfish(idx)
compiler: cc -I. -I.. -I../include -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -m64 -DL_ENDIAN -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/openssl-p_sOry/openssl-1.0.2g=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wa,--noexecstack -Wall -DMD32_REG_T=int -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM
I did it recently. You have to email them, at which point they send you a link. At that point it's pretty straight forward.
I notice most articles and news coverage dont get too much into the details. Its nice to hear some counterpoints.
> They zeroed in on 29% of median income. That’s a nice trick to make their argument stronger, but it makes no sense.

Sure, this is reasonable.

> $1.50 per day is $1.50 per day regardless of the median income.

No, the relevant concept here is PPP (purchasing power parity) adjustment.
Already there.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/star-w...
Their point is that if you wanted one to reverse engineer, you could just buy one and disassemble it
Comments that suggest looking in alternate reality to justify violence aren't substantial.

We can't know what happened to people in Dimension X, but we know that you aren't supposed to kill your citizens in our home dimension.
Yep, there is this thin line in between that requires a little bit of self discipline where everything's fine. Still, the problem is with illiterates in technical fields or general privacy that let everything go to hell. People can't control facebook in general I'll shamelessly state without citing sources.
Doesn't the south have far greater numbers of black people?
Well I mean give me a taste here, what technology are we talking about that will keep the earth's climate stable in the face of natural warming and cooling periods that have occurred throughout its existence?