skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not really any special sauce in the tech. I scanned the FCC Order and didn't see a reference to a particular autodialer, but there are dozens to choose from.

If his service was purely playing an automated IVR message and the live call center he hot-transferred to was someone else, I could see him making a custom solution to cut costs. But it'd be fairly easy to make that volume of calls via most enterprise level autodialers without raising any eyebrows as long as there were enough agent licenses to support it.

Most autodialers bake in regulatory compliance functionality and warnings, but the laws that apply are so specific to an individual user that those features can be disabled or overridden and they leave it up to the client to understand what laws their calling must adhere to.

For example, the guy in question would have been legally fine to spam 100mm calls in three months if they had been business landlines, as the federal law they're leveraging for their fine only applies "to emergency phone lines, wireless phones, or residential telephone lines"[1]

[1]In the first paragraph of the order: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017...
I uploaded with Clojure 50kbyte compiled java, which have multi handler in one function. Execute times avg 15ms.
What is wrong with the Bancor team defending themselves from unjustified, and close to vulgar, criticism? They gave very clear arguments, and you try to turn it into an emotional fight.

As a professor you should use exclusively rational arguments, and under NO circumstances emotional manipulation. It seems you've been paid enough to do the opposite. Shame on you!
I can talk about myself and the reason I think Gmail is not working for me.
I'm less worried about the security part of the email and more about the tracking aspect. I don't need encrypted emails, however I don't want someone gleaning information from my emails and using it for selling me stuff and generally profiling. All my Amazon order confirmation used to go to Gmail and they would most definitely read it. I know this because they use it to show me status of the deliveries. It is not unrealistic to think Google will also use this data to build patterns around my buying habits and things I use etc. That does not make me feel comfortable. Amazon already know that because I shop there, I don't want Google also knowing that.

My opinion is tracking, ads are all fine on the primary website, but if you follow me around the web, tracking my every move, I'll stop using such services and try my best to prevent the tracking.
I am guessing you did even look an how PostgREST works :)
That is definitely one of the big mysteries of the modern era. Personally I subscribe to the hypothesis that we're just running out of low-hanging fruit. As humans developed better knowledge of biology, chemistry & physics there were a whole host of relatively easy to invent items from the steam engine, to antibiotics to air travel to the transistor and modern electronics.

These were world changing.

But now we're mostly done doing that and are now in the refinement stage on most technologies where we spend an enormous amount of effort to get, for example, 5% more fuel efficient airplanes. Physics is tough.

Maybe we'll have some sort of revolutionary breakthroughs in the future that lead to another era of rapid invention but until that happens we'll continue plodding along building a slightly more efficient world instead of a transformative one.

This is really just one hypothesis though. The real answer is that no one really knows for sure.
Reputation systems need to have more than just the number, they need to have a date, and they need to have out-of-band communication points where prospective buyers can see anything said about sellers outside of the transaction-level reputation system. Silk Road at least had this. So how many months/years is the cop account going to operate for, and how many fake sales can they get away with without selling a legit thing to someone? If the system is using bitcoin, each fake sale needs to use real bitcoin (and pay transaction fees), and since site owners have an incentive to find and get rid of fakers cops need to make sure their coins are adequately mixed too. To not actually ever distribute anything, how long until multiple people complain that attempts to buy resulted in the item being delisted? Or if they actually do get to buy, how many times are the cops going to sell and deliver illegal goods in a manner that will give them positive reviews sometimes with pictures (like good package obfuscation)? The real protection for buyers is that cops don't spend nearly as much resources (with the exception of maybe a couple items / circumstances) going after buyers as they do going after sellers.

The protection for sellers is that it's actually pretty hard to track one down from a package. Not impossible but hard. (And you might even get the wrong seller. The seller you buy from might just be buying from someone else and entering your information for delivery, like drop shipping. If you're concerned about a seller, you might even pay a premium to sell their same item at a loss and wait for someone else to take the buy risk for you.)

It's interesting to look at known dark market arrests, buyers tend to go down to controlled deliveries of certain items but there's not all that much commonality in arrests. https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20arrests#analysis
If we had adopted nuclear power decades ago, none of that would be an issue. Solar power is only just now catching up to cost effectiveness with nuclear. And only on sunny days, the storage problem is very far away from being solved. Maybe coal is cheaper, but only if you exclude externalities. The amount of radiation released by nuclear is tiny compared to coal. Not to mention mercury, carbon dioxide, etc.
I totally agree with the statement about wealthy individuals pouring money into very few narrow channels.

Wealthy people don't think outside the box enough, they just invest money with their friends who are probably already wealthy themselves. This widens the class gap and is bad for the economy.
But there's always a line without a comma -- comma-last has it on the last line instead of the first. So you can have the same line-swapping problem in either arrangement. Comma first just makes it easier to spot.
Most of the time criminals end up in jail. Sometimes if they're very rich they don't. We'll see how it works out.
The 3 minutes idea is to kill anything that may be deeply imbedded the bits of wood, leaves, and other detritus suspended in the water.

It's generally considered paranoid overkill when you consider the water will take a while to cool - it will stay in the "kill everything" temperature for quite a while in the process.

https://besurvival.com/guides/how-long-should-you-boil-water
Where are you using it, can you share a link?
What a horrible university. If a system is so bad that people will pay for the improvements, they are doing it wrong.
> Serious question, does free speech apply in these situations? You have the unalienable right to speak your mind and some people may be offended but that is not illegal.

"Give me all your money right now or I'll stab you with this knife!

What? What? I'm just speaking my mind, officer! Just because this guy feels offended? Hey, I thought this was America! First amendment!"
They do have it: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/additional-di...

It's OpenStack Cinder.

They also have object storage, Swift: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/object-storag...
Screenshot: https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcnTG8JBgvp3gAD7aDFVqZ53bYKfwa...
That's amazing. Just curious - what made you want to start a newsletter? Were you always interested in writing?
Nobody said anything about "compelling." The person asked, "How does Ethereum help with retail?" I answered. What exactly is your problem with me here?
Will fauna stay closed sourced? or is there a chance it will become a PostgreSQL/mysql/... competitor.

I like the idea of the db. I have a future project for which I'd need something that's distributed and can handle a lot. I'd love to pay for my own db but my clients might also run there own local db with my opensource client. Forcing these clients is not the way I want to go. I could use PostgreSQL at the clients and fauna for me, but that will probably give more pains than gains.
I guess instead of Nyan Cats on the internet we have Nyan cat as a part of it .
Agreed. Another alternative is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/uber-said...
Tell that to the developer communities for Microsoft, Apple, and Linux. Quick, should I develop a new Windows GUI app using Win32, MFC, ATL, WTL, WinForms, WPF, or UWP? Which of the five million flavors of .NET am I supposed to be using right now? Should I be developing Mac/iOS apps using Cocoa or Carbon, and writing them in Objective-C or Swift? What about Qt (or KDE's variations) vs Gtk, and use of Mono or Vala?

Yes, I'm somewhat deliberately conflating languages and libs there, but my point is that while the web dev world has certainly been churning quickly, there's also been tons of churn on the desktop and backend development fronts as well.
How often did you change the python/go compiler, how about an apache module? :)

edit: Point being every day you use a lot (i would say majority) of software which most probably it would be very hard for anyone to "change" and yet this seems to work. There's no point in making a decision to use some software by thinking "am i personally able to understand it's codebase". By this logic there is very little software one person should use, no one is able to know everything.

Let the experts (in that particular software) work on it, while you contribute to the things where you are an expert, everybody wins.

I remember an article here not long ago about the distinction between an expert and a smart person, interesting read.
No, not really.

In fact, you have it totally backwards: you're not supposed to sanitize all user input before storing it. Instead you're supposed to sanitize any user input before you output it back to your webpage.

Even more so: it's the output that dictates what sanitization you should perform, not the input. You don't do input sanitization for HTML (for XSS etc) when you store your data in your DB. Instead you should sanitize the input for SQL Injection issues. And similarly for whatever other output -- if you take user input and run a shell command, you should sanitize for shell safety, not run html sanitization.
This specific problem is a womens' problem. That doesn't make it gender politics. The number of women VCs is so small that there's no power imbalance to wield. What we're talking about here is individual assholes using the power of their "group" to take advantage of women. If, theoretically, a man were harassed by a woman investor she's being an asshole. But he can move on the other 9 investors who aren't women.

It's similar to police and citizens. Police who commit crimes are wielding a different power than individuals who commit crimes. It doesn't discount the crime, but it is a different problem.
Slippery slope though, tools like Metasploit are extremely important for security auditing and are generally regarded as a good thing for that reason, but your logic would apply to it as well.
For anyone who has even read a bit on infrastructure, this is a no brainer. The problem with alternative transportation is you have to go all in to see the benefits. Half assing it won't work. But half assing it is what a lot of places do, and then they say "see, ridership didn't increase, going further is just a waste of money."
Google Photos. I'm talking about Google in general, not Gmail in particular.
The starting point is a BMP file of the Nyan cat which is read into a simple two dimensional array by a small python script. The script looks at the current time and maps that to a column of pixels in the BMP. Each row of pixels in the BMP is represented by one IPv4 /24. If the pixel is "on" a BGP route announcement is generated, if the pixel is "off" the route is withdrawn. Each pixel in the BMP file represents 8 hours of announcing.
I don't think "people will pay for <thing>" is justification for "any university that doesn't do <thing> is horrible".
Not surprised Comcast did this.

Also wouldn't be surprised if Comcast got off scott-free.
Why is this site's content off-center...? 1920x1080 desktop on Chrome. Is that slightly ironic?
Lets just not talk to women at all. Keep it a pay-for-sex relations. If you say anything these days it's "unwanted advancements".

You're cute! Harassment
Want an open relationship? Harassment
Touch a girl you like? Harassment

Just think how ridiculous this is. Did you not first touch the girl you like thinking she will be ok with it? And in most cases she is. If she isn't, she just say .. i'm not ok, or move on and give you a cold shoulder. That's how we human actually interact with one another.

I'm sick of these women and more so, of these reporters, that try to destroy one person after another. For the most part, for clicks to their sites.

So there you have it, please downvote this post. Let's all be PC and just hang this guy already. His side doesn't matter. Facts don't either.
Pretty sure it's compiled,I tried it out and it took a while to process on code that ggtags parses in seconds.
Had a similar opinion until dusting off my browser for some front end work recently..

Browsers being roughly standards compliant, and those standards congealing is a relatively new thing (last 10 years), having this happens facillitates alot of browser-side dev (e.g. JS) which simply wasn't possible before, throw in the growth of mobile/tablet UI's, and server side javascript, and the shift from 'CGI extensions' into web-native applications where the browser is the GUI and the 'web server' is really the 'application server', and the appropriate paradigms to deal with this change rapidly.. the frameworks have changed because the underlying platform and its use is rapidly evolving.

I think if you look at GUI toolkits early on as the desktop evolved and you'll find a similarly chaotic and changing picture (e.g. Cocoa is not MacOS v1; WinNT is not Windows 1.0, and neither are dosshell, etc)
> that it's very easy to write code that will break if you poke it the wrong way

No way. Even in its most basic, untyped form the React model simplifies things all the way down your app pipeline. Errors that used to be common tend to naturally vanish over time.
Which is intuitive since only tornados are known to consume input symbols.
Microsoft pushed out fixes in March, so WannaCry occurred two months later.

There would have been even less time if this was indeed a security researcher using a 30-45 day time period.
> $20,000 digital goods are so uncommon it might as well be a fantasy.

$20k subscriptions in finance (like a market data live feed) are not only common but even cheap. Now ask yourself why Wall Street is so much more hyped with blockchains than SV...

> You can very easily end up paying a similar price for conversion surcharges and unpredictable daily price swings

You don't have to pay with ETH, you could do things like peg your ERC20 token to the USD, 1 of your token = $1, the underlying asset (ETH) can do whatever it wants with the price, your tokens are decoupled from its value. The monetary policy is up to the party that issues the token... Remember: this is "programmable money".
At least one of the down votes you got was for the last sentence in your post.

Stopping sexual assault should concern everyone!
Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond
What follows is a statement that Caldbeck provided to Axios this afternoon.

"The past 24 hours have been the darkest of my life. I have made many mistakes over the course of my career, some of which were brought to light this week. To say I'm sorry about my behavior is a categorical understatement. Still, I need to say it: I am so, so sorry.

I direct my apology first to those women who I've made feel uncomfortable in any way, at any time - but also to the greater tech ecosystem, a community that I have utterly failed.

The power dynamic that exists in venture capital is despicably unfair. The gap of influence between male venture capitalists and female entrepreneurs is frightening and I hate that my behavior played a role in perpetrating a gender-hostile environment. It is outrageous and unethical for any person to leverage a position of power in exchange for sexual gain, it is clear to me now that that is exactly what I've done.

I am deeply ashamed of my lack of self-awareness. I am grateful to Niniane, Susan, Leiti, and the other women who spoke up for providing me with a sobering look into my own character and behavior that I can no longer ignore. The dynamic of this industry makes it hard to speak up, but this is the type of action that leads to progress and change, starting with me.

I will be taking an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, the firm I co-founded in 2014. I will be seeking professional counseling as I take steps to reflect on my behavior with and attitude towards women. I will find ways to learn from this difficult experience - and to help drive necessary changes in the broader venture community.

The Binary team will also be taking measures to ensure that the firm is a safe place for founders of all backgrounds to find the support and resources they need to change the world, without abuse of power or mistreatment of any person.

I owe a heartfelt apology to my family, my investors, my portfolio, and the team at Binary, who have been completely blindsided and in no way deserve the pain I've caused. But most of all I apologize again to those who I've hurt during the course of my career - and for the damage I've done to the industry I care so deeply about."

https://www.axios.com/justin-caldbeck-takes-indefinite-leave...
Not every argument has to go to court. I don't see this going to court anyway, but even if they do sue, he'll probably just settle out of court.
I do not know if it was automated, but two eBay sellers I purchased from were doing this with their Amazon Prime accounts - the items were shipped to my address by Amazon. I was upset because the reason I shop on eBay instead of Amazon is to purchase from independent resellers and vendors.
I guess this is old news, but apparently if you get hired by Netflix to shoot anything and you want to use an Alexa.. good luck. You should get in line and wait for an Alexa65 when it's available.
Why rising temperatures don’t make solar power rise
Umm no, this isn't anything like racketeering. This is no different than any other sting operation.
Right, but not Alphabet. They just shifted it.
Thinking about high-profile domains: there are no close attacks on .gov (.gop is closest), but .mil is subject to both .mit (not so close) and .ml (Mali, quite close) attacks.
They might be blowing it a bit out of proportion, but it appears Uber indemnified Levandowski for trade secret misappropriation of mind trade secrets.

There are honest reasons for a clause like that--mostly because anyone who poaches a direct competitor's engineer to have them create a competitive product is risking a trade secret suit.

But the WaPo article doesn't mention any qualifying language. If I were trying to draft a contract to cover incidental mind secret leakage, I'd only cover indemnification as long as he used best efforts to avoid disclosure. Now maybe the full contract has something like that, I've only read a summary of it.
Rational choice theory holds that actual behavior will be that which maximizes utility (in it's simple form), and expected (in the Bayesian probability sense) utility (in the more complex version addressing uncertainty.)

“Rationality” refers specifically to this mathematical optimization.
et al Facebook.
As a facebook post? Really?
Really glad to see people like this getting called out.

This story was posted yesterday and it got flagged. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14613890) When I saw that, I thought the Hacker News community did not care.

I am glad to see supportive comments like yours in this new thread.
There's nothing wrong per-se with the clause, but the linked article, as well as the source WaPo and Bloomberg articles, go out of their way to call it "unusual", which WOULD make it seem like a big deal (if it were true). It all hinges on whether or not it's standard practice – you say it is, but I've at least personally never heard of it before.
Inline Stack Overflow Answers in DuckDuckGo
Yeah, targeting competitor domain names tends to perform pretty well. Do you know if domain targeting is disappearing with this update?
If you treat emails with the same urgency you give phone calls, I would argue there's a fault in your phone/communication set up. For most people I know, email can wait an hour or two, or even overnight. Phone calls require you to choose to ignore them.
Ask HN: What is your hack for social anxiety?
>It's not simple.

It is that simple.

>What would prevent the new window from crashing for the same reason the original window crashed?

The same thing that prevents every other application on my computer from crashing whenever Google Chrome does? Why do none of my other programs crash?

Just write it in a different language by a different team and more securely and have it call the open tabs and windows over an API and when Chrome crashes, throw up an option to reopen them. Done. This is a 200 KB program.

But I guess a company with an $11B R&D budget couldn't possibly make a 200 KB minimum viable product. (A minimum viable product for a web browser is a window that keeps a web page open.)

If their $11 billion R&D budget isn't enough, they need to change this language:

You’ve gone incognito

Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your
browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed
all of your incognito tabs. Any files you download or bookmarks you
create will be kept.

However, you aren’t invisible. Going incognito doesn’t hide your
browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the
websites you visit.

To this language:

You’ve gone incognito

Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your
browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed
all of your incognito tabs *OR GOOGLE CHROME UNEXPECTEDLY CRASHES*.
Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be kept.

However, you aren’t invisible. Going incognito doesn’t hide your
browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the
websites you visit.

Because they are not keeping their current promise of keeping this stuff until I close them.

But hey, I guess there's only so much $11 billion can do. Maybe in twenty years they can keep a web page open for me until I close it.
How much are Bitcoins predicted to be worth by 2020, 2025, 2030,?
How much are Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum coins predicted to be worth by 2020, 2025, 2030, etc.?

over 100000$ or more ?
or under 100$ or less?
I've been tracking my personal diary with http://jrnl.sh/ and backed up encrypted on GitHub. Why use this?
What service allows you to make 28 calls/second and not be tracked back?
I tried it on a fairly big repo today (~500k loc) and once it was done with the initial processing performance was fine.
I think it's just as important to demonstrate that you have (presumably) learned from previous mistakes.
Well, to be frank, I honestly don't know what to think. I've had people telling me it looks great, people telling me it looks awful -- it does look amazing to me: http://imgur.com/a/yMTz8

Having said that, I'll definitely work out a update that's readable to wider audience.
It's not just power. Men and women have somewhat different distributions of personalities. Women, on average, are more willing to try to smooth things over rather than engage in explicit conflict.

If you flip the genders, then on average, abuse of power will cause outright conflict sooner rather than after it has built up to completely unacceptable levels.