skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nigerian scam is nothing new; in fact it is based on "Spanish prisoner" scam scheme from 18th century.

It is interesting, however, how the new scams are created in the age of internet. The recent one is called "AirBnB scam".

Basically you flood a message board, such as Craiglist, with phony non-existing apartment rental offers by non-existing individuals for 60% of the market value. You blast New York Craigslist with beautiful photos of rentals at $650 when normal price for average spot is $1,500. Once a gullible person answers, you auto-reply to them via human looking response (bot in reality) that tells them the place has been rented but they should check AirBnB website where more are posted...

Its a classical scam of information phising with criminal conduct of false advertising (could be Federal offense if crosses state line) and few other statues. PG is very lucky they whole company is not facing jail time, but I think they stop it many years ago and usually statue of limitation is 5 years.

Here is more info on spammy history (including FBI most wanted list) of AirBNB founder, Mr. Blecharczyk.

http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...
Call the house? Call back the original report?
For anyone else who didn't know what the "blue checkmark" means in this context:

Twitter et al. apparently us the blue checkmark to indicate they have vetted the identity of that social media account, and they vouch for @ev[0] being Mr Williams while @finkd may or may not be Mr Zuckerberg.[1]

At least on Twitter, it has a "first-prize ribbon" look to it, as if being the blue-checked Mr Williams were an achievement superior to that of the second (red) Mr Williams and the others on down.[2]

[0]: https://twitter.com/ev

[1]: https://twitter.com/finkd

[2]: http://www.trophies2go.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/RBB...
How do you know he didn't have a gun? You were told her has a gun, you get to the house and the person letters his arm and then raises it and starts pointing it at a fellow officer... What do you do?
I don't think this particular incident is as cut and dry as you think it is.
> Another thought I keep coming back to is dividends. A proper investment gives returns without having to sell your stake. Lets provide incentives for companies to share profit rather than pump stock prices, then everyone can get excited about the right things.

the psychology behind dividends is not on your side here. dividends are viewed by knowledgeable investors as a company admitting they have run out of good ideas to generate even more profit (aka growth). while dividends can be issued for a host of reasons, the common case is that dividends are issued when reinvestment in the company would generate diminishing returns. typically returns diminish when the company is no longer in a high growth phase, so the company gives the money back to investors to find better returns elsewhere for their risk.

this is why dividends are largely issued by larger, mature companies rather than growing ones. you just won't get most companies to issue dividends because it hurts their growth potential.

you have to change structural incentives to make people care about the long-term. one fundamental reason for this is that many people on wall street want to get rich quick, so there's enormous pressure for companies to be that vehicle, in exchange for which, the companies get rich quick too via their stock price (underlying fundamentals be damned).

why do people care so much to get rich quick? (rhetorical question) i personally don't respect such people, but apparently plenty enough do that my opinion simply doesn't matter as they seem to get the prestige and power they seek. if we all genuinely respected ingenuity, determination, and the ability to make things (not shuffle money around), we wouldn't use income & wealth as a proxy for those things and we wouldn't have perverse incentives that make companies seek short-term pops (high-minded, i know).
They don't seem to be all that afraid of someone mistakenly killing an unarmed man.
I haven’t read the current rationale but one thing I’ve read is that Everest is _crowded_. This is OK when everything is moving along ok, but when something goes wrong it can be catastrophic for the climbers in front and behind you. I imagine it’s likely that solo climbers have higher incidents of accidents on Everest than group climbers.

As far as why waste money.. if you are asking that question in earnest there’s probably not a rationale that could convince you as to why. So I’ll abstain.
A PhD is paid. Universities near me pay around $30,000+/yr.
My knee-jerk reaction is that they are detecting anomalies and low-quality reviews for some definition of quality.

As you pointed out, without a consistent ground truth target how could it really separate "fake" from "legit"? Perhaps they partnered with a fake review business and used their records?
"We" could do it. But "we" - as in, US population - don't want to. As to why, it remains a mystery to me, but this is clearly the case.
It can be more than that.
Everest is an absolute beast of a climb. Even with preparation and a full team, lives can be (and have been) lost. Going it alone, while remarkable, is extremely deadly and Nepal is doing the responsible thing by banning such endeavours. For other teams of climbers also, it's one of the more sinister (and perhaps annoying) things - when you're doing well on your climb, but your good nature makes you abort your effort for some random twit alone and in trouble halfway up a mountain.
except that you, and 6 colleagues, have your service arms drawn and aimed, requiring only a trigger-pull to kill a person- and are well out of reach of a knife.

then there is the notion that the LEO chose to take a job with an oath to protect and serve US, the society, the people. and here this person is putting their own lifes value so much higher than others that they are unwilling to even wait to visually identify an arm prior to shooting. that is wrong. that is wrong on so many levels.
the onus is always on the police officers to manage the situation, and what we have here is a culture of police violence encourage by IMPUNITY. The cop get's acquitted or never goes to trial, getting paid administrative leave or whatever... the family loses a person, never to roam the earth again, and all due to some shitty training and false premises being taught.

I have had it up to here with the notion that the civilian populace, including deaf and blind people, are supposed to accomodate a police force that will shoot them so casually for, and in fact are even unable to stay alive when complying with orders, as in the case of several recent high profile cases.

Make no mistake, the "swatter" has committed a crime of violence and should do hard time, but it's high time we stood up against this culture of police WICKEDNESS and reformed it.
'Freelancer' and 'contractor' more or less are synonymous terms although the former is more common in the software industry. The latter arguably is a bit less prestigious, too.

The difference between a consultant and a freelancer is that a freelancer solves a technical problem while a consultant helps with solving a business problem (which might involve solving technical problems, too).

Freelance jobs typically are more hands-on while consulting gigs tend to be more high-level.

As others on this thread mentioned this is also why consultants usually get higher rates than freelancers.

Consultants also come in an employee variety, i.e. as in working for larger consulting agencies. In that case and depending on their seniority within the agency their work can range from anything a freelancer or employed programmer would do to work a self-employed consultant would do.
Title misleading?

I don't read anywhere that Nokia is telling people to not purchase their phones...

The are just recommending people to turn off your devices for the holidays and spend non-digital quality time with family.

"Switch off for the holidays

Technology connects us in amazing ways, but nothing will ever replace being together.

That’s why we encourage you to stop here, switch off for the Holidays and give the gift of you.
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Let's just hope the scammers don't start using AI/NLP to generate the emails they send to us....
That’s correct, and irrelevant to the point I was making.
Organisational Structures for Sustainable Free Software Development [video]
On the contrary, I'm just trying to acknowledge that artificial limbs are not here and available for the masses just yet.
2014. And the headline result from the last recession only captures 3 years of the recovery, through 2012, when equity markets had climbed back significantly, but always-lagging labor markets had not.

I’d be shocked if the numbers didn’t look very different if you looked at the expansionary cycle to date.
One of my cousins naturally toe-walked similar to the video at least into his teens. Of course his mother wondered out loud "What type of sport is that good for?", and at the time I didn't have an answer ready to fire at a moment's notice.

Myself, I naturally heel-walk and rather heavily as well. You can imagine the wear-pattern on my shoe soles.
I applaud efforts to improve corporate governance and rationalize public market function. But I believe that this initiative to "...realign investors and companies around long-term value creation (LTVC)..." is a suboptimal approach.

First, who in the game really favors LTVC? As a generalization, I would say passive investors and/or those seeking income. For these parties, guaranteed dividends might be a more effective alignment tool than titration of voting power. The dividends would also provide more incentive for them to invest.

Second, the folks who actually run the companies – CEOs and Boards – often favor the current setup. Short term metrics mean near term personal wealth. In a world where CEO tenure can be measured in quarters, why wouldn't I want to take money off the table ASAP? And lots of it. I would offer that greed (big bonuses) overcomes fear (shareholder votes) for these players. Thus, the more powerful lever is to reduce (alter) the incentives, not dilute the fear.

So perhaps a market that limits both retained earnings and executive compensation would seem a better mechanism for alignment around LTVC.
Referenced books and links: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events...
These poor helpless cops! Next you'll be asking them to exercise the same level of reason and common sense as civilians! OK, I get that you're saying they're sort of pre-emptively traumatized by their training and socialization and I partly agree, but in saying that you're implicitly also saying they have less responsibility than civilians with no training, which is an inherently self-defeating position.

Look, in this situation they're armed, covered, and have a strong numerical advantage etc. etc. etc. and you're offering a panic defense. If I was to rely on my anxiety level to govern my conduct I'd have killed 30 or 40 people by now.
Its a life and death game of Simon Says in these situations. And you get to play regardless of guilt or innocence at the time.
That's awesome info, thank you! :)
Firefox 10.0 for iOS.
Why not sell individual permits and make it so expansive that it covers the rescue?
Done in Spain as well, free to download (RGB-colored .laz), but no online 3D viewer: http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/buscadorCat...
And there goes my cheap cryogenics backup plan...
In my experience, at my school testing is done to pass a professor's designed test cases. Usually you don't know the professor's test cases in advance.
We moved back to NZ where I grew up, and our kids went to a 50-person primary school with not a pair of shoes in sight. You learn where the patches of prickles are and avoid those bits of the grass. (Data point: the prickles are in the same places at the beach and community hall as they were 40 years ago when I were a lad)
I agree, not saying he shouldn’t be held accountable. I was responding to the idea that we know what happened, he’s obviously a murderer, etc.
We're talking about people who think they won the lottery without even buying a ticket. You say that these victims shouldn't carry any blame; at what point do you hold people responsible for their own actions?
I have experienced short-term thinking, driven by stock market expectations, very directly.

Working on a game, we had a build ready two weeks before the end of a quarter, but we weren't quite done. We had just a few minor tweaks that needed just two more weeks to complete, and we in fact delivered a complete game two weeks later...that was ignored, because it was more important to make their quarterly goal than to release a better product.

Turns out there were several games being developed that quarter, and ours was the only one to make it even close to under the deadline. But because they were doing quarterly reports, they were under tremendous pressure to release something, and so an inferior product was released.

Oh, and this was the era of physical cartridges. No updates possible. We put in a ton of extra work to make it perfect and they didn't care.

The international versions were shipped later and included the improved changes. If anyone is interested in seeing the difference, you can probably find the ROMs and a Game Boy Advance emulator: Check out the US release of "Tetris Worlds" and any of the international releases (all include English, but the three different international releases each included other languages as well).
Who uses BSD?
Which is exactly what happens in the movies - die hard for example.
Thank you for your candidness. Your experience matches my own. It's a bittersweet grace, I suppose.

That said, I come from an area where for whatever reason, there was a large population of undocumented or otherwise illegal immigrants. One of my good friends, then and still, was able to get a work permit through deferred action. Her experience transitioning into a legal workforce has been nothing but depressive frustration to the exploitative and apathetic practices that her employers are able and willing to get away with. We both agree that the same practices happen in and out of tech.

While her struggle is strong and her ambition gets around a lot of niggling motivation problems. I can't say the same for many of my other friends in the same situation whose lives are irrecoverably fucked before being adults, despite their bleeding passion for what they do and care for.

Point is - peoples' lives are complicated and others' apathy only makes it worse. Your paycheck every two weeks and the decisions that follow can make or break a person's life. Please grow some empathetic balls, consider the power you have over others and try to look past lines on resumes and try to see the person behind it. "That's life" is not an excuse for your selfishness.

Thank you.
Modern mythology
Nice idea, kudos! One curiosity though: I read a thread from the ones listed on the homepage and the signature of the Spamnesty emails said Mnesty LLC. If that's constant in every message the service sends out, wouldn't it be quite easy for the spammers to filter them out? Wouldn't you rather randomise sender details, including the signature?
It's too bad you can't work up this level of sanctimony on behalf of the innocent dead guy.

We have quite a lot of information and evidence already, and while our conclusions must necessarily be tentative we are absolutely entitled to form a preliminary impression.
Skyscapers are fine, but the housing in them can really only be so cheap, since they're inherently expensive to build. SF could do with a lot more low- and mid-rise buildings too.
Doesn’t hinder either. It’s individuals doing harm, not Judaism.
No, calling SWAT for the 100th time doesn't mean somebody is trying to get you killed. The victim was shot because he failed to obey orders:

> The cops didn't shoot soon as he opened the door. They commanded Andrew Finch to put his hands in the air, he did then put his hands down. They tell him to put his hands up again. Then he drops his hands by his side again. The cop that shot him thought he was going for a gun. Andrew Finch wasn't following directions of the police and the officer made a mistake and Andrew died, but he would be alive today if wasn't for those two morons on the internet that started the whole thing. The Cops legit thought a dangerous situation was happening and I believe they had good intentions. The amount of time to react to someone pulling a gun and killing you is milliseconds. It's bad that they shot him but the weight of all this falls on the people the winded up the machine and sent it to an innocent family.

If it was indeed homocide, the prosecutor needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the guy who called SWAT would be able to predict the course of events. The fact that he swatted others before and walked away will point to the fact that this was indeed a prank gone horribly wrong.

I'm just looking at the facts and the more they come out, I get that you are emotional but I'm not defending the guy, but that it's a stretch to say the person swatting was trying to get him killed, rather than say using pipe bombs or hiring hitman which show intent to kill.

It's clear there was no malice aforethought here which you repeatedly claimed without any examples or arguments to back it up.

I'm sorry but this is just how the law works in America or any developed country anyways. We can't have populism and mob mentality run the courts because they are not based on logic, evidence and impossible to separate bias from the truth. Am I happy that these guys will probably walk away? Absolutely not, but I am speaking from a place of clarity and reasoning, not turning to angry blood lust.
Here’s a grainy photo of the Salesforce tower I took while flying out of San Francisco on a foggy day earlier this week.

https://i.imgur.com/qdGUhc1.jpg

It would be pretty fun to be on a higher floor on a day like this!
Here is an interview with the person who claims to have made the call that prompted the swat:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cCHOI39nJPM&feature=youtu.be
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Airbus sells a very nice Digital Elevation Model. It seems to be quite a lot better than the shuttle data everyone was using for a while.

http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/worlddem/
I’ve worked on accessibility tools before and what you say is absolutely true.

But unfortunately it’s not worth pointing this out, or daring to think of better ways. I’d note your comment is greyed out, and mine suggestion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16035056) is way into negative territory.

Better to just check boxes I guess.
It's hard to put a price on the certain lives of rescuers that will be lost (given enough rescue missions).
Not that my opinion matters, I don't have any advanced degree and no experience building curricula. But if I were going to include OO in a curriculum here's how I'd do it:

1. (Intermediate/Core) I'd cover basic OO in Python. I'd demonstrate basic features like instantiation, introspection, properties and methods before moving on. I would not cover defining new classes before I had covered creating a dispatcher with first-class functions in a hash-map/dictionary. I would not cover defining new classes unless I could cover pros and cons of using OO style versus simple functions that accept rich data structures like lists and hash-maps.

2. (Intermediate/Optional) I'd offer Java, C# and(or) Smalltalk classes at the intermediate level, where the goal would be competence with the chosen language's implementation, tooling, ecosystem and common programming idioms. These classes would involve object-oriented principles, given how important the paradigm is to these languages, but it wouldn't be the sole focus of the class. Edit: Also C++ if possible.

3. (Intermediate/Optional) A design patterns practicum. (Visitor, observer, factory, etc.). Just a programming-heavy class where you solve problems using as many of the common design patterns as possible.

4. (Advanced/Optional) A bottom-up class where we'd cover implementation details of object systems in a low-level systems language like C. Perhaps a semester-long project might be to build a working object system in C. The pedagogical goal would be impart an understanding of the kinds of problems that object-oriented programming was invented to solve by relying on first-hand experience rather than dogmatic instruction and hand-waving about the evils of procedural style.

5. (Advanced/Optional) An Object Oriented Design class that would cover issues in designing large-scale systems using object-oriented programming. It would cover issues relating to inheritance, Object-Relational Mapping, and API design. This is where you'd cover UML and that sort of thing.
What do you think about "lab-grown" meat, if such would ever reach market to speak of?
Tried on the Amazon echo dot best seller which had 4.5 stars but adjusted review score are trustworthy score 3. Thirty percent low quality reviews according to Fakespot.
Censorship can only be committed by the government. The fact that facebook is complying with requests from governments is both the right and responsibility of facebook.
CydeWeys - thanks for your persistent posts... they are a wonderful example of how someone without the condition cannot fathom what is going on "inside" and thinks they can be fixed with a system or willpower. These things help to a point but there is an underlying problem that can't be fixed this way.
As far as I know, Isabelle/HOL is fairly similar to Coq, perhaps with more automation. If there is something like Software Foundations for Isabelle, I'd be slobbering all over myself in excitement to hear about it.

(And I'm still a little confused about how the C code of seL4 is verified against the formal specs. Is there something like Frama-C involved?)
its looking to me like if you are awakened by the police to strip naked before you go out
Fair enough on the money supply point, although crypto currency so far has been somewhat isolated from the economics of nationstates, which are much more complicated than pure market forces.

My take: As long as people still "think in dollars" while they are spending cryptocurrency, purchasing power of cryptocurrencies will be pegged to the dollar. Neither gold nor bitcoin is "inflated" as currency. The dollar inflates (or doesn't), and if you want to pay for something denominated in dollars using something other than dollars, you simply convert at the current spot market rate. There won't be a Bitcoin macroeconomy until things are truly denominated in Bitcoin.
Does anyone know what the errors are and what accuracy the elevation data is?

All I can find is "spatial resolutions of between 25cm and 2 metres" and "Accurate elevation data ..."
I switched from “normal” western shoes to minimalist “barefoot” shoes about 4 months ago. My motivation was to mitigate some pain I had in the balls of my feet.

Since then my gate has changed from heel to toe walking. The reason is that heel walking hurts when walking (nearly) brarefoot. However the change is subtle.

The guy in the video is anything but subtle. Based on my recent experience I strongly doubt people walked that way.

Since switching, my feet feel better, my knees feel better and my back feel better.

I’ve bee wearing xero brand shoes. They are super comfortable but I’ve been disappointed in their quality. Can anyone recommend “minimalist” shoes they like?