skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those below-prime numbers are being subsidized by the price of the car. The calculus isn't any different for a car dealership than it is for a consumer: if it made more sense to invest that money than loan it out with a car for collateral, the dealership/bank would have done the same thing. They give you low rates because they want you to buy the car at the price they ask.

In principle, you can pull out a checkbook and bargain back the hit you know they're willing to take on financing.
> The next generation of the cellphone protocol should include some kind of PKI so the telco can't be spoofed without its permission.

3G already does this. But apparently IMSI catchers have often been able to get around this by various means, including downgrading to an earlier GSM protocol (that lacks authentication), or spoofing a carrier from a different region (whose keys they have obtained somehow) in order to induce roaming, or somehow obtaining keys of a local carrier. I have heard there are a couple of other tricks too but I don't know what those are.

> Don't know if that will actually help, because the telcos are already quite compliant about giving every bit of data that passes through their systems to the NSA.

It's true that IMSI catchers can also be used to wiretap mobile telephony and SMS, which trust the carrier to provide confidentiality, but that doesn't cover everyone's use of mobile data services. But IMSI catchers often represent a very different kind of threat, which is not just wiretapping but real-time location tracking and/or enumerating devices that are present in an area.
First thing I thought of was these annoying Afrin ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSZOWggCa-E

Imagine telemarketers were forced to wear that all day, I'm OK with that instead of a noose.
They are in no condition, yet, to run a post mortem. At this moment they're probably still trying to figure out how to get their data back or maybe just close up shop entirely.

You run a post mortem when you're back and running again. They may never be back and running again.
We get it, your wife is attractive. Seriously though, nothing makes a car salesman's heart drop more than when you negotiate hard, set a tough price, and then write a check for the while thing, when they were hoping you would finance to get some more upside.
"Portfolio" is precisely what I meant. Given it appears you have a background in PE, perhaps the term is more aligned to PE/VC investors in the UK (where much of my M&A experience originated from). VC models aren't necessarily diversified, because diversity implies variance in type, not necessarily in volume, which the latter driving the lack of incentives for VC investors - they simply don't have the time.

Nevertheless, I think we're saying the same things - just different terminology (which certainly is prevalent in finance).
My anecodatal experience is they don't because I had friends in South Africa, DRC, and Nigeria who came from more privileged middle class backgrounds and still struggled due to a lack of education. They were never recruited by tech firms due to the issues the author faced. One asked me to refer them into some of the firms here but I was unable to get them in.

I don't know if it would have been cheaper to recruit them but I do know they had no chance here in America. They have hustled their way to a living but have worked 10x harder than me because I have an American citizenship and degree.
New Hutter Prize submission – 8 years since previous winner
Perhaps a shrink-wrap style TOS in my voice mail message? By leaving a message you agree to pay a fee per ringless message?
Nothing wrong with swift but the build tool team. I can tolerate method name convention that always changing. And also still not support async await.

Xcode build tool is the worst. Compiler time is the most hurt. Very slow. Android, react and xamarin already support hot swap compile.

Migration tool is not working. I'm not sure this year xcode able to refactoring rename method
My first impression is that having the government regulate them is unnecessary, since you can block them on your phone(and phone providers can sell phones that block them by default). All you need is one company to sell a "telemarketer-resistant" phone with an automatically-synced blocklist and some other settings enabled by default.
I have it enabled. If I receive an unexpected call from an unknown number, I don't bother returning it unless they consider it important enough to leave a voicemail. I don't use it much, but of course there are places like doctors offices that wouldn't communicate via sms or email.
Saving the Statue of Liberty from Climate Change
I feel that the fabric labels are a straw man though. The labels on clothes can be very small. Icons take less place than text and it is trivial to find an explanation of the symbols. Icons have the advantage of being compact. They are accompanied by text when there is place for it, but it can be omitted when there is not. People will have learnt their meaning by then.
very fair point. My response was mostly in response to "fire the asshats."
I hate listening to voice messages. But my provider didn't allow it to be disabled. So my greeting says "please don't leave a message. I won't check it. Send me an email or text message instead"
Roman Reigns is Super Man of WWE with super man punches
When I worked for a telco, you could easily call the voice mail main line, and then just use options to leave a voicemail in any mailbox. Easy peasy.
There's something called the Hygiene Hypothesis which states that "a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms (such as the gut flora or probiotics), and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system".[1]

In other words, it could mean that excessive hygiene in childhood could be causing allergies.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
How do you set that up?
Broad general intelligence? Yes. Field specific intelligence? Not even close.
Writing HTTP Request Logger for Vapor Web Framework
You keep saying that, but I've done nothing other than engage with you respectfully. You're the one who has sworn at me, accused me of having "baggage" and made sexist generalisations about my gender. The feeling is mutual, I'm done as well.
Pydantic is not just a toy, I built it having used and abused numerous other libraries and found them wanting in one way or another.

Because it reuses python's typing system it should have the most pythonic and flexible description of types possible.

I agree about the need for complex validation chains relating to numerous fields, that's already partially possible with pydantic (although not documented). I'll add support for this stuff as well as documentation over the next few weeks.
Another interesting read: "about 80 percent of the children who received the peanut protein plus probiotic treatment were able to consume about 0.1 ounces (4 grams) of peanut protein without a reaction. What's more, when the parents of these children were interviewed about three months after the study ended, most said that their child was still able to include some peanuts in his or her diet (varying from five peanuts to 3 tablespoons of peanut butter a week)."

http://www.livescience.com/49638-peanut-allergy-treatment-pr...
You raise a very valid point. If you break down a public blockchain by resources used you find those transacting on the network are getting a phenominal deal on storage and compute resources. In the case of bitcoin your data is being backed up and verified on thousands of machines forever for just a few cents. The economics of this are not sustainable which can be verified by a simple comparison to any other storage cost such as s3 or even just the raw spinning disk cost.

We at present are seeing the Bitcoin network saturate and the average cost per transaction has climbed as it should continue to if it is moving towards optimal economics. Ethereum's scaling problem is even more conplex than Bitcoin's considering the state information held in the chain and scripting capabilities.

There are a few approaches being built to handle these issues. One is payment channels like lightning where the public chain is only used for settlement. Another is private blockchains like consortiums which would allow limited access and abuse of the ledger. Yet another factor is sidechains that could create a way to keep information off of the main public chain.
Yes. Ironically, the hardest parts would be closed source drivers (Nvidia, several others). Linux after all is only a kernel.

One interesting way in which you could do this is to build a wrapper around device drivers so that each device driver becomes a process on top of a microkernel.

The userland can mostly remain unchanged as long as you expose the expected interfaces.
This is awesome. I work in the VOD space, specifically in content protection and this is great reference guide. I've been meaning to write a similar guide for DRM.
The lean startup. How to win friends and influence people.
Commonly set up? Depends on what you mean by "like this" - for this exact purpose, probably not at all. Enforceable? Absolutely. The entire point of a trust is to give out flows of cash to beneficiaries while restricting certain rights you may not want those beneficiaries to have. Usually this is more along the lines of "can't use the assets to pay down debts" than ensuring that the wealth generated from founding a start-up gets distributed fairly.
Walmart is training employees with a Black Friday VR simulator
You have it backwards. Buyers demanded the ability to buy homes they couldn't afford, the government required Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and banks to finance them and the US Government guaranteed some of the loans.

The buyer behavior was rational, at least on the surface, because homes almost always appreciate over long periods and were appreciating like crazy during the bubble. We are pattern matching monkeys, all of us, and it's only the few who can see the bigger picture during those times.

Many didn't want to miss out on the big payday buying $300k homes and flipping them for $500k a few years later. All bubbles accelerate bad decisions/behavior and it's really difficult (if not impossible) to legislate incentive driven behavior away. It's obviously possible to not legislate bad market incentives, but we flunked that one to.
Obligatory john oliver episode on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2eDJnwz_s
I also think my entire choice of career, and thus readship here, is due to this series. If you're ever near Lowestoft UK, Tim Hunkin the presenter has an interactive installation of many of his coin operated arcade games. http://www.underthepier.com
This is because the use the technology and it works well.
Deep Work + Flow [0]

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-deep-work-flow/
> larger projects can be extremely slow to build

Ironically this forced me to start using Swift Package Manager more and to split my projects into frameworks.
This book changed my life.
Or even simply about believing that it can be better than it is right now. That may eventually lead to it being good but that's not a given.
I don't know anything about this, specifically. But for consideration:

You know those ads that puzzle you and leave you examining them, trying to understand what they're saying? They've just grabbed a chunk of your attention.

(And a lot of ads, these days, are designed to leave a memory of the product, preferably associated with an emotion, lodged in your sub-conscious. Not to sell you outright, but to be there, lending familiarity, when you are at the point of selection and purchase.)

Anyway, I wonder whether the difficult to read spines are more noticeable and so grab desired attention in certain contexts.

Or, they just have a crappy graphic designer. ;-)
That's why I was thinking triple call. Only double call would cause call waiting.
The article makes a good point but I wonder if it is an incomplete explanation. What would happen if Linus Torvalds walked away and there was no single leader to guide (or "dictate", depending on your point of view) its development? Would it begin to fragment and exhibit signs of Conway's Law?

I believe the answer is, yes, it would. While Linus is a stubborn and opinionated leader ("Benevolent Dictator For Life") it is those qualities, coupled with his extremely high standards, that have preserved the coherence of Linux's system architecture all this time.
On the shortness of life, by Seneca.
No one was manipulated. Everyone was greedy. They read the news, they knew what the houses down the street sold for a few years before. They all thought they'd get rich flipping houses.

Loan officers just facilitated what their customers already wanted.
There are some not so subtle emotional connotations to the icons which make the icons easier to understand/remember but problematic in usage.

Protein is the bottom of a stack -- implies important or less important depending on your personal view point on stacks
Fat is a scale, implying an association with weight -- a negative link.
Carbs are a gas gauge implying energy -- a positive link.
I've never gotten them. -shrugs- How strange.
A wild sheep chase by Haruki Murakami
Dear Sir: I like words (1934)
LRM database? Could you please elaborate?
F up title editorialization - bloody f developers paid to f company a shitload of money!
If you're on Android, there's call-blocking apps that let you do various kinds of blacklist/whitelist call screening.

For now, I block spammy numbers and unknown/private numbers. If it gets bad, I'll move to a whitelist (only people on my contact list ring through).

It's galling beyond belief that any political party anywhere would let the abuse of the phone system become a free speech issue. These people are actively making the world worse. (And what's worse is how cheaply they're bought off. Come on, you scummy congresspeople, are you really worth so little?)
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Car loans also aren't federally insured and guaranteed, and unlike the housing bubble, the federal government isn't pressuring car loan companies to make shaky loans to bad credit risk customers. This is almost entirely a free market, and so it's bubble will be smaller and the consequences will be visited almost exclusively to those who made the bad loans.
I get maybe a dozen calls per week that become 2 second hangup voicemails. It's been going on for a few years. Mark the number spam in Google Voice, but I still get a voice mail notification on my phone for those numbers unless they're also blocked. But it's a different number every time, endless.
It's not even that, I think. It's just a... "Trade-offs exist: Deal with it." type thing?

If I can offer an anecdote which is tangential: I like to say that I'm actually an Optimist, but it's just that I've been disappointed so many times that I may sound like a Pessimist.

Honestly, I think it requires a certain amount of optimism/hope for the future to keep working in this industry. The people are usually great, but the systems (both technological and organizational) are mostly just awful. Awful, awful, awful. I take a little solace in the fact that I can (most of the time) fix the technical systems.
Hackers hosted tools on a Stanford University website for months
Of course it's reasonable within the system. Inward and outward reasonableness of a system are sometimes quite orthogonal.
True, but a senior engineer, even if he is never able to make architecture decisions, can still be held accountable for knowing better. That is precisely why they are paying him the big bucks.

If a shop is being held together with duct tape and elbow grease, then you should have known that going in, and developed personal habits to avoid this sort of thing. Being overworked and tired isn't an excuse. Sure, the company and investors have to bear the real consequences, but you as an IC can't disclaim responsibility.
that would be addressed by the second sentence you completely ignored.
Sailfish, itself, is free. If you get a phone that's supported as part of Sony's Open Devices Program: https://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/list-of-device... , you may be able to use it with both Sailfish and Android. Although, I expect that support for the more fancy components on the newest phones will take longest to arrive in Sailfish.
I'm also skeptical, but this isn't necessarily true. There's plenty of software being written outside the HN bubble that's totally invisible to us. What if this was some shipping logistics company in Texas City? We'd never know about it; they wouldn't have a trendy dev blog on Medium.
Wow. This is genuinely incredible. The interpreter works, and all of your examples run.

Thank you for detailing all of this.
The same thing happens to lots of fields. Many types of banking and financial services have become obsolete, or will be. The market makers who manually matched buyers and sellers of stocks are one example, as are the traders in the pits.
Stanford Uni site infested with hacking tools and phish for months
Sounds cool - go CML!

There's also some work done by the Jmol project:

http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/3D_printing
Futurist David Brin: Get ready for the ‘first robotic empathy crisis’
The Effective Executive.
My company did not prepare me very well for being a team lead.
These products sell because people want them.

They want low payments.

They want to flip houses for massive gains in short periods.

The facilitators aren't fleecing them as much as just meeting their needs. Anyone who tells you that you can't afford that car or that home prices won't appreciate to the sky tomorrow isn't going to get your business.

And my school and my kids school teaches basic finance. No one ever remembers it because most kids aren't interested in it.
It's a little strange to me that the challenge is always to compress the exact same file. The FAQ talks about this a little bit, but a compressor can become rather specialized to compress that file, and not necessarily perform as well on other corpora, right?
Same thing here in Norway.
When I bought my last car, I negotiated the price down quite a bit and got upgrades/winter tires etc for the same price.

When all was said and done and he asked how I wanted to finance it, I pulled out my direct debit and he went pale.

I had to argue for another half an hour to keep all the negotiated stuff while paying for it outright, it was silly.
If it's somebody renting their flat or extra rooms then it's not a problem. I'm in a lovely Airbnb right now sitting in the beautiful back yard. The problem is when people have 10 apartments or whole houses cut up into rooms. This happens in Berlin. That is a professional operation avoiding professional costs. That isn't the market deciding, it's unfair competition by evading tax and insurance that a hotel must pay for. And it really is hurting locals in places like Berlin that have a severe shortage.
Assuming you are not some kind of savant who can time the market, how exactly do you anticipate being able to reliably get out "before the bottom", without advance knowledge of where exactly the bottom will be?

How, exactly, do you know what other assets will be inversely affected? And why do you believe you'll get in on those alternative investments before other panicked investors with equal access to information as you dogpile into them as well, raising the price you need to pay to enter into a position?

What you're saying sounds suspiciously like a common yet mistaken belief that you can time the market.
Fooled By Randomness & The Black Swan by Taleb
Ask 2008. That's when all the boomers started hitting early retirement age.
or somewhere in between.
I agree with you. But I think you're being generous when saying some of the subsystems and architecture are shockingly bad. Some of them are not even designed. If you look at them it's like "This isn't even useable!"

The problem with namespaces and all the "container" tooling built on top of it is, as you noted, security. They were never designed to be secure from the start. It was not meant to be. And it was always puzzling to me why someone would use them to build containers on. Knowing it wasn't secure.

As you also note Solaris got it right with zones, FreeBSD got it right with jails, there was plenty of options to use and build on. But as is the typical Linux story they had to do things there own way, and poorly.

I still have no idea what Linux land is going to do for a filesystem. Since it's pretty clear ZFS is kept at arms length. Btrfs seems like the horse they are hitching to? Filesystems are hard. Which is why they can't seem to write a solid, reliable one and keep starting over. I think it's a big issue for them and is only going to get worse as data continues to explode exponentially.

I wish zfs had been BSD licensed. And I wish Linux had simply adopted it as well. But those ships have sailed. Where to now?
Are they really? I've never spent more than a few days on a book, but I've certainly spent well over 300 hours on some video games. I love reading, but to me books seem quite expensive as an entertainment medium in comparison with computer games.
Compare the equivalent product, rice. Rice is stewed grass seeds. You don't think it's a plant product? Are potatoes a plant product?

Grain alcohol, depending on how you prepare it, might easily retain no trace of biological material other than sugar and alcohol. That is not true of bread; bread is not heavily processed at all. You could trivially analyze any sample of bread and determine what plants it was made from.

Claiming that bread is not a plant product makes all the sense of claiming that cheese is not a milk product.
I'm not contrasting windows to anything. The fact is that with every Windows Whatever I must go to sites and download new drivers, experiencing a lot of frustration on the way, or buy a new device only to make new generation of windows kernel developers happy. "Few times" is too much.
It Cuts Both Ways
They probably think you are scouting for competition. It's common practice for grocery stores to send people to look around in competitor's stores and record prices etc so that they can figure out what kind of sales to start, what new products to put on shelves etc
The Gift of Fear (Gavin Debecker) - how to deal with bad people

The War against Women (Marilyn French) - the underlying premise is wrong, but reading it is a good way to learn how to deal with semi-rational, but insane theses. And yes, I can defend this position with quotes / paraphrases from the book, with rational explanations as to why it's insane

How the Police generate false confessions (James Trainum) - former cop explains why harsh interrogation techniques are counter-productive, and how to defend yourself

Get the Truth (Philip Houston et all) - how to tell when people are lying, via simple techniques you can remember
For what it's worth, I've never really needed to read those icons (I only own two categories of clothing: carefree machine washable clothes, and drycleaning clothes); but if I did, a lot of them would make intuitive sense, especially the ones regarding load size, wringing, ironing and iron temperatures, the no-chlorine symbol... Some of them are a bit ambiguous, but it seems like it's a fair trade for the reduction in tag size, and international accessibility.
just wait for HURD, it's coming. soon.
According to [this page](https://neo4j.com/editions/) it's not. In fact, they are restricting important functionalities to their Enterprise Edition exclusively. Which means, the codebase is not the same.
> lack of centralized control over money supply

This might be clear to someone with more experience in the field, but it's not apparent how the benefits of such a constraint is quantified. For example, the fed raising interest rates is
not translated to a deterministic response from the stock market and so using bitcoin might have sound fundamental advantages but equivalent pragmatic limitations?