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Ask HN: When was the last time the news was directly useful to you?
Examples that might qualify: A writeup of your company. Learning about a tool or service that came in handy. Feeling well-informed during a lunch conversation. [insert whatever else might occur to you]

I'm asking because I'm a tech reporter and I'm curious which parts of our work actually serve members of the industry.
>"Yeah, the GP's history is rife with directionless rage. This is just his latest lashing-out"

Whoa. Wait, thinking critically and questioning things amounts to "directionless rage" and "lashing out"?

I find both your dismissiveness and judgmental nature very alarming. Since when is HN a place for that?

I am many things but angry is not one of them. There wasn't anything even remotely uncivil in my comment.

I enjoy HN and an generally make a point to be civil and polite.

There's a great deal of irony in the presumptuousness and arrogance of your own comment. But thank you for validating my original suspicion.
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So the fifty year old that got picked up for weed in 1982 doesn't deserve to find anything more than the most menial job?
I can't help but think that he received such a punishment because of the media trial which admittedly he is partly responsible for because of his theatrics. Hope he comes out a reformed man.
I never pretended not to know who he was. I simply asked why it was relevant to mention him in this context.
> A traditional capitalist corporate structure incentivizes the complete opposite: pay workers as low as you can get away with, so you can personally pocket more profits

That's incorrect. The Capitalist structure enables multiple avenues of labor competition, one of which is to pay more than the next company to get the workers you need, and to pay workers more, ie take better care of them, to keep them happy. These approaches are extraordinarily common.

That so many businesses offer health insurance benefits - such that half of all Americans get their health insurance from their employer - wasn't always a legal requirement (and in many cases still isn't). That happened out of labor competition. It's no different than numerous other competitive benefits that companies choose to offer.

Google, Microsoft, Netflix, et al. often pay programmers extraordinary salaries to attract the best. The competition between companies has driven salaries to the moon. See: AI talent.

The SAS Institute, as one example model, has been doing profit sharing for four decades, and it has proven to be a wildly successful Capitalist approach.

Walmart has used the over-paying approach for decades. By intentionally paying more than they absolutely have to based on state / federal minimum wage requirements, to lure labor away from smaller businesses that can't match what Walmart can pay. Walmart has had a voracious appetite for labor over the last 30 years, the sole means to keep 2.x million people on the payrolls, is to out-compete on pay.

Speaking from experience of having seen it up close across multiple decades, if the federal minimum wage is $7.25 and you pay even just $9.25 or $10.50 instead, you will attract considerably superior employees versus if you pay the minimum. And the quality gap between those two types of employee, is surprisingly vast. Even if you're running a very thin margin business with minimum ability to pay high wages, a convenience store for example, paying a few dollars more per hour is well worth it because it produces a big leap in the quality of employees you can hire.
My wife is mexican and I am telugu. We can speak a bit of both now by forcing each other to converse it in it couple of days a week. Spanish Sunday, Telugu Tuesday :D.

I would find some local and pay them a little money to hang around and talk to you and correct you.
>The FCC is responsible for regulating commercial satellites, including minimizing the chance of accidents in space.

Perhaps also important is that Swarm is an American company.
> I'm not convinced it is a huge indictment of our society

The indictment of our society is that hundreds of millionaires can enrich themselves further via dishonest and illegal means, wreck world economies, and suffer no consequences, while a regular joe can be chocked to death for selling cigarettes on the street (disruptive!)

This isn't an impossible problem to fix. We just start voting for politicians willing to execute white collar criminals.
Yes. That ^^^

I rarely talk on mine, and the folks who are really into it aren't generally the type i'd want to hang with, but i want to be of service to my community in an emergency, and i want to be able to communicate with others in an emergency for purely selfish reasons.

also, it's kinda cool to be in a strange area, start talking, and find locals who can point you to a good place to eat, or spend the night, or whatever. ;)
Even better, artisinal AI:

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Headlines from the future: FCC Sues Moon for Unauthorized Transmissions of Visible Light
If you follow any "authority" to its logical end, it largely boils down to a consent of the governed, or various degrees of coercion.

Its the idea behind "fake it until you make it". People accept the "fake" long enough that either "fake" no longer accurately describes you, because you've bootstrapped in to legitimacy, or the accepting people aren't savvy/interested/powerful enough to discern your inauthenticity.
Why was it insufferable?
Until one of their micro satellites hits one from the USA.
From CJR: The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the internet. Except he didn’t

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/farhad-manjoo-nyt-unplug.php
Thats a very foreign view of the concept for me. I think of analogy as a non-rigorous functor.

A mapping between concepts and relationships among concepts in one context to concepts and relationships among concepts in another context.
> The present state of things is the least bad it could be while still allowing us to enjoy the prices we do.

That statement belongs in a dystopian sci-fi novel.
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American company using American banking system. FCC has all the jurisdiction. They should've incorporated in a different country.
Sounds interesting. I was hoping to try it out but your app isn't in the Canadian Android app store.
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This sounds familiar... ;)
Regardless of the parent comments meaning, there's value in communicating complex ideas simply. You didn't have to snip your comment.

If you want a job related to that kind of work, broadly, I'd search around for any STEM journalism or education related. Also many public health/nonprofits might have a significant outreach arm if they're large.

Or you could go the blogger/educational youtuber route. Less traditional but pros and cons.

Disclaimer: no first hand experience here, just my observations of others. Good luck!
They're physically located in, do business in, and are incorporated in the US.
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I have to start giving away personal data before getting to what I hope is the meat and potatoes of what you are offering. I don't think so.
How can you tell? It sounds pretty painful. There is a painless way of killing, through asphyxiation by inert gas (e.g. nitrogen, but not carbon dioxide).
I'm doubling down on my comment.
There is a growing trend in not caring if you are hated, and reveling in the attention. That only works while you are powerful. If you fall you need friends and goodwill.

The world needs to stop rewarding purposefully angering people just for attention.
I can't imagine that'll help in court.
>thats false. many rich hold vast amounts of debt, which makes them benefit from inflation.

"rich" people in vast amounts of debt aren't rich, they're broke.

Rich people are owed money. They have money to spare so they lend it out for interest, see?

>poor people are incentivized to live paycheck to paycheck

people who live paycheck to paycheck, minus a few exceptions, do so because their cost of living equals their salary.

Your concern for the "poor savers" is touching albeit misguided.
you sound a bit mental tbh
Equifax, the company that got hacked, let me unfreeze it discouragingly easily

My wife and I just went through this due to a recent identity theft incident. Our experience in setting up a freeze with Equifax was the opposite of ours. My wife (and she's the financial manager of the house!) actually got refused by their online tool, and we had to call up and go through it all again with a human.
> Well, that might be true for people living in the US but, and I might be going out on a limb here, it might not be so true for others.

And for a comment referencing Florida, is it charitable to apply something for continents to your stated interpretation? Principle of charity says not.

Specifically who refers to America/Americans in English as meaning "People who live on the continents in North and South America"? Lets hear names not an allusion to "others".

I'm only aware of a rather vocal minority of South American students recently getting angry at the term America being attributed to citizens of the USA. But its really no different from my aforementioned Mexico example in Spanish. Their category error is trying to redefine America from its shorteneed form for USA, to some super continent association of "America". But it goes against a lot of existing usage in not only English, but other languages. [1]

I respect that you have a position here, but frankly its a silly way to try to redefine the word America as its been spoken in English for a long time to refer to a super continent of both North and South America.

Example Portuguese, America refers to the USA, and to both Continents, aka like in English have to figure out the context:
http://www.wordreference.com/enpt/america

French, pretty much the same, only the continent is generally called out separately as continent américain:
http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/america

German, closer to French/English here but separate in that they tend to refer to the "americas" as north middle and south america, which is in many ways more appropo:
https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/america

Japanese, i'm not as qualified with my 3 months of learning japanese to comment on this but given the Kanji in use they're already separated:
https://jisho.org/search/america

Etc...

Also are you saying that all of the societies and engineering societies such as The American Society of Engineers should be required to change their name as they don't allow people from Canada, Central America, and South America to join? At a certain point I just can't find this position on the word America to make sense. Its just a weird thing to die by the sword on.
I'm not sure how you tie levels of pain to prices for eggs. (And I'd strongly dispute that being ground up isn't painful. Call it a hunch)

On the upside, there's research on in-egg sexing.
If it were non-optional, I think so.
No, it's ashfault. Though, I don't know what he did exactly.
... in which case India or Taiwan would on the hook for it, if found out.
I don't have the answers you're looking for, just sharing my view of his character/motivations after watching a 30 minute interview with the guy on his upbringing, rap, and the pharma industry.

I'd wager Enron's CEO would come off as an actor or a sociopath reading press releases or prepared scripts for money, whereas Shkreli still exhibits genuine human emotions, quirks (genuinely passionate about rap/hip hop because it got him through tough times growing up), compassion (gave drugs away for free to those who couldn't afford, taught a youtube series on chemsitry/pharma for younger generation of investors), etc. It seems like it's not all about money for Shkreli, he wants to impact the culture and give back in unselfish ways.

I put myself in his shoes, and I feel bad for the guy having 7 years of his life taken from him, especially when many other white collar crimes of seemingly greater magnitude go unpunished
Already there - whatsapp, instagram oops...
Or a better question: why are social security numbers used as a password but yet stored by every financial institution you interact with?

If only we had some way to verify an identity while keeping important information private- oh wait, we do, public-key cryptography.
> seemed like a nice person

> ask yourself if mean-spiritedness really matters in this context

Yes?
What can business learn from the military about strategy?
The company that produced the payload for the rocket is in the US and was denied their application to launch this payload because it poses a risk to other satellites and spacecraft.

If all companies were outside of the US then it would come down to whether a treaty or similar agreement exists (of which I am not aware).
For some reason you seem to be terribly angry, though I assure you I didn't mean to impose anything here, just curious about the reasons. There's quite a bit of snark to cut through in your reply and the only substantial sentence I can find is "I don't want to move my schedule".

This is a perfectly valid reason, from which I assume you're not encumbered by any particular organizational schedule (such as school starting at a certain time, work starting at a certain time, regularly scheduled meetings year-round etc.); it makes sense that you would find these time changes annoying, although I'm not sure why it affects you if you truly don't care what the clock shows when the sun rises and sets.
> Couldn't this company just incorporate in Taiwan or India and keep doing what they are doing

No. They would have to move operations abroad and convince a foreign country they’re worth the risk. (American operations of foreign companies are still subject to U.S. law.)
This may actually be more difficult for chickens.

Chickens use the ZW sex chromosomes, and females are ZW while males are ZZ.

This means, among other things, that it is the female germ cell which determines the sex of the offspring, by contributing either a Z or a W.

My understanding is that with mammals, you can centrifuge sperm to (more-or-less) separate "X" and "Y" sperm, changing the odds of conception in the direction you choose; even if you found it economical to go this route with chickens, you wouldn't have the option, because all the chicken sperm is "Z".
Because the law says it's "bad" and that's why everyone used quotes around "bad".
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If I understand correctly (and that’s a big if given I’m not any kind of lawyer, never mind an international treaty specialist) the country which allowed the launch is responsible for the damages in situations like that. So no, it’s still their problem.
China is the source of largest amount of space debris (as a result of testing their anti-satellite weapon). How will the US (or any other country ) know the country of origin of the space debris ?
It could be some some super secret technique. I suspect it probably relies on Javascript though, or they'd probably hoard it for military ("cyber") use.

Tor is reasonably secure but if you run JS or download and execute files from Tor you will probably reveal your IP to a determined attacker.
If you are bothered by them, they just don't use them. I'm fine giving up basic information in exchange for movie credit.
pretty sure the main problem is distance on the frequencies and power ratings that are available to unlicensed users. Hams can use more power (because in theory we know how to do it without cooking nearby people) and we can transmit on wavelengths with greater potential for travel. https://disaster.radio is one of the groups trying to address similar problems via unlicensed mesh networks but the problem they (and others) have is that you just need a boatload of nodes to get the signal across any distance.

You can't roll that out in an emergency, and it's a logistical nightmare to buy, setup, power, and maintain enough of them that in an emergency (including power outage) there will be enough of them to get the message from the people in need to the people who can do something about it.
That's a different Swarm. The one making satellites is http://www.swarm-technologies.com/

The rest of what you said is correct though: the FCC has jurisdiction because the company being discussed is an American one.
Owner surveys show that Tesla is #1 in "would you buy another one". Can you suggest any data that shows Tesla is having a significant problem?
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It is long and rambling and I took to skimming after a while.

The liberal arts are called such because they are liberating. They are freeing and empowering. They teach you how to get things done.

As a homeschooling parent, I gave my sons a humanities education defined thusly:

An education in the art of dealing with the inconvenient, inescapable fact of your own humanity and that of the people you are surrounded by.

Language, poetry, expressing yourself, dealing with your feelings and that of other people, knowing the wisdom contained in classical stories, having some background information on the foundations of the society you live in. These are some of the pieces and purpose of a humanities education aka liberal arts.

If you don't really understand what the humanities are about, reading up on The Clemente Course in Humanities is eye opening. They set out to teach humanities to poor people and found that it allowed many of them to escape poverty.

Here is their website, though I read a book about the origin story years ago:

https://clementecourse.org
Look, Florida has this... reputation, okay. So what, maybe the GP was trying to wish it away like the rest of us. Let us have this one okay?
They are referring to the region around Argentina.

The southern part of South America, a similar distance from the equator as Florida.
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That wouldn't make any difference at all.

If they go to India or New Zealand, and cause havoc for the FCC by doing something stupid, the US can crush them just the same by working with those governments. Essentially all nations capable of putting things into space have generally shown a desire to be good neighbors with everyone else when it comes to space. Just going to a different country wouldn't spare a company from the consequences of their actions.
With the minor caveat that these are peices of metal being flung with reckless abandon at 17,000 miles per hour, in with the potential to cause a few hundred million dollars or a few billion dollars in damage if they hit the wrong thing, that the US government would hold some responsibility for.
hmmh, sounds like you agree that it says something about laws, but that jacking up prices on drugs is something you don't think the law should prohibit.

well, everything that's undesirable shouldn't be illegal.

but the system isn't working very well if Shkreli's desire to make millions trumps someone's desire to live.

democracy and markets only work if people are decent. you don't have an efficient outcome if one guy has a monopoly, or if one guy has to buy or die.

and the purpose of property rights is a system that works and has good outcomes, if property rights as construed mean everyone dies or is immiserated, the nature of those rights is going to be renegotiated.
Joel, I can’t speak for github, so I’ll speak for myself.

I think the account name has a potential to cause public confusion. This may result in negative consequences to github, the github community and the public itself.

This is immaterial to you. Let it go.

(For anyone who likes analogies, it’s like having a “dummy corpse” on the front lawn, left over from halloween).
Ask HN: Why do we even have domain registrars at all?
It's probably a silly question I know, but given how much technology is open sourced and decentralised and whatever nowadays, why do we need to have ICANN and registrars and DNS servers any more?

I mean, Let's Encrypt has basically destroyed the SSL certificate concept, so why can't there be something like that for domains? Or some system based on a blockchain or whatever, given I've seen solutions in the past where special domain extensions were set up in that?

Why is this last part of the internet still commercialised and generally under central control?
"Fraud" can be civil fraud, or criminal fraud. Criminal fraud is something like "they said they were going to sell me something, but just took my money instead." Civil fraud might be something like "they sold me 10-inch sandwiches as 12-inch sandwiches."

What you're describing in the paragraph above is even one step removed from the sandwiches. Knowing that "loans had material underwriting and compliance defects" doesn't prove that Merrill Lynch lied when it said "the borrowers ... were likely and able to repay their debts." It might lead to an inference to that effect, but it's not indisputable proof. Likewise, the fact that it "rarely reviewed the unsampled loans to ensure that the defects observed in the samples were not present throughout the remainder of the pools" might lead to an inference of negligence, but is not indisputable proof of fraud.

Everything described in that paragraph is classic civil fraud and negligence, not criminal fraud.
What companies or institutions are working on space debris analysis, location, tracking, and clean-up orchestration?
It's a question of personal responsibility:

* I mug you, compared to being a bystander while you are mugged.

* I hit you with my car, compared to being a passenger in the car ahead of the one that hit you.

* I price-gouge you on a medication you need to live, compared to buying a laptop for my job instead of sending that money to buy food for someone half a world away.

Do you really not see the difference?
Wouldn't this still incur S3 fees however?
Not sure there was much risk: The web application used a private IRC server with name+password registered users. L3 support who /msg'd a user session some JavaScript doesn't seem likely as the messages were all logged, and anyone with fileserver access could just put whatever they want in the <script> tag anyway...
While it complies with PCI standards, knowing first6+last4, plus contact information, you can be much more successful at phishing against the target.

First6 will give you ability to know the issuing bank of the card (so an email can be crafted to look like those banks emails). Plus last4 tends to be used by banks as a "hey, we know who you are!" when they send emails.
I would also want to see a privacy policy before installing something like this.
That's the point. They are no better, but we may have the romantic expectation they would be better than that.
He's exceptionally intelligent and I think he also has one or more kinds of personality disorder
>I really hated 2001, except for the 2nd act with HAL. All the rest of it just seemed so pretentious and devoid of story.

I find it really cool that I have had an opposite opinion on the movie. The me the second half was sort of incomprehensible and I never understood the message or point. I understand what happens, I just never understood why. The second half feels like a fever dream.

The first half, while I agree doesn't have a conflict, is more of a spectacle. Everything from the set design, to all the outer space shots, to the focus on people living in Space is done with a lot more care than movies usually do. Space is usually "that stuff we did on Earth, but in low gravity!" - but I found the rotating / perspective shifted rooms really neat.
Didn't see in the article if he did a plea or actually went through a trial because in finance cases you're supposed to just plea using a hired 'prison consultant' as part of the deal so you get the white glove Madoff treatment where he's teaching economics to cons at a min security camp.