skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The amount of call metadata that is available to the NSA for such requests (available either through one of their monstrously large data centers like the one in Utah, or available through one of their many programs that automate access to private companies' metadata) is almost certainly quite close to 100%.

This is false. Before Obama, they requested and received all call metadata. After Obama, they no longer receive that data. This article is about the number of call records sent to the NSA from the telecoms.
Shrug. I found that arithmoquinification of G's uncle stuff to be very helpful in terms of its explanatory power. Puffed up or not, Hofstadter made it accessible without dumbing it down. GED is a good overview of various issues and stimulates thinking.

He kind of lost me when in one of his books, Le Ton beau de Marot, I came across a little diatribe against rock and roll. Fuc...king wanker! :)
I don't think they have the authority to stop a private company's service (verizon, etc.). Also, they don't monitor the calls themselves, so it would be impossible to tell if it was a scammer until someone reported it, and blacklisting one-by-one will never be effective since they can just change the number.
wonder if sqlite would work for something like that, if you can get away from sql, i.e., strings.
In a few years, employers are going to start screening for and rejecting / hiring employees based on how secure they think they are in their personal lives.

A user who is compromised in their personal/computer life is 99% going to be a user who is later compromised in their work/computer life.

From a legal scholarship point of view, this is going to initiate some very interesting federal court cases. Like for instance, can an employer mandate that their already hired employees use an iPhone in their personal life? Can they require that all of their employees use a password manager? What about a specific brand of password manager? The questions are endless.
No, it means this is the number of records they got from the telecoms.
In embedded system, many manufacturer’s default startup code does not even implement argc/argv. In that case this won’t work, or you need to implement your own startup code.
Serverless has nothing to do with frontend vs backend templating. I use Lambda and do server rendered pages. I just don't have to manage the server, it's invisible to me.
It's a weird address that was going to cause problems like this
Most gates are automatic now in Japan (with a conductor sometimes checking tickets on Shinkansen after gates).

When I was in the US there was a guy handing me a towel in the bathroom. That is an incredibly meaningless and superfluous job!
I thought hound was dead? There was hype a couple years ago but have never heard anybody using it since. It's not nearly as integrated with IOT as Assistant or Siri.
Yes, unit/integration tests
> Don't use web technologies to implement it. Make a native app.

> Javascript is a cancer that has lead to a slow, bloatware-, spyware-, and malware-infested web. Getting rid of it should be a priority.

That may or may not be correct from developer's point of view. I am not sure and I am not going to argue that.

However, how about user's point of view. A lot of users (including me!) prefer not to install native apps but use Web apps especially when achieving one-time tasks. Do you have any thoughts/data on what users prefer?
I agree with what you're saying and I don't think what I say next matters as much because the outcomes seem similar. But I think it needs to be pointed out.

Maybe it is just posturing and lies, but the conservative viewpoint has been to have a merit-based system for permitting immigrants into the country, as opposed to immigration based on familial relations. Every country gets to decide what kind of people that they want coming into their country and I think its perfectly fine for conservatives to feel that way (it is a different matter that I don't agree with that idea). My perception (again, which might be wrong) is that that is essentially what Republicans have been getting at for the past couple of decades (perhaps more).

Now, that being said: these are the same folks who were about Family Values, Fiscal Purity etc. So, like I said before, I don't think the arguments are being made in good faith. But the argument does have merit.
MOOCs yes, but not MOOC platforms
Only one time I got away with it. And I tried it every single time. The agent looks at me and "Sir, do you have any laptop in your bag?". Maybe something about my appearance?
Why? Especially when you can buy foreign skilled labor (H-1B) with no long-term obligation.
California has a high amount of debt, particularly per household, when compared to (some) other U.S. states. However, the last few years under governor Brown have led to a budget surplus for those years, which is commonly attributed to the tax hikes of Proposition 30, among better spending decisions.

We're looking at a pretty substantial surplus for this year's budget, which will be finalized in June, and lawmakers have different ideas about what to do with it. Governor Brown wants to put it in the rainy day fund, conservatives largely want to enact tax relief for some Californians, and the state's liberal politicians largely want to spend it on other things.

Personally, I'd like if California used at least the bulk of it to pay down some of our unfunded liabilities with regards to pension programs, of which we still have about $275 billion (of over $400 billion in total debt). There are plans to take care of these over the next 3 decades, but settling it a bit earlier never hurt.
Yes, great advice, don't kill yourself unless you have skin in the game.
"AWS Certified Technologist" == "AWS Lock-In Specialist"
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

(Though, in the end, I agree with you.)
>That's also why when people do tend to leave the Bay Area, they go to other liberal areas like Seattle/Portland/Boulder/Asheville/Austin/Boston/NYC, even though those areas also have housing crises and the cost of living is rapidly approaching the Bay

Wow, that's true for all those cities? I might have guessed it for Boston and NYC, maybe Seattle too, not so much about the others. But don't know a lot about this area.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/01/iranian-immigrat...

Maybe Trump's mistake is being vocal about it while Canada maintains plausible deniability.
I didn't say total slaves vs. total prisoners - I said black men.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/michelle-alexander...

edit: I can't imagine why I'm being downvoted here. My statement was utterly correct, and when challenged I cited a credible source. What'd I do wrong?!
I'd like to see a PowerVR, or Qualcomm GPU that I can slap inside my 8th gen i3 right now, please.
> Most Chinese/Indian immigrants gravitate to low-risk jobs, specifically at larger companies, usually for visa/immigration related issues.

Seems to me that the risk-aversion is caused by their (not-yet-)immigrant status, not their cultural roots.
Why not Chromebook?
A smart traffic light that can count how any cars enter and exit the zone. It's perfectly possible to automate, but it may not be the best ROI around.
That is an awesome resource, my friend.
It is nice, it seems it uses asm.js. With what language was it coded at first place? I'd say the only issue is initial loading times (> 30 seconds on my machine). You got to have some kind of visual cue for loading or it's not clear whether the app is stuck or not. Subsequent loading time seems to be much faster (less that 5 secs).
This is cool, I bookmarked it to check out later.

I’ve always been curious about chatbots. I feel like in the right situations they can provide a good customer experience, but I’ve never seen them as being able to stand-alone as their own product.
Sure, but a house of that size in the bay area is $3.3M USD.
I think that's far from normal...if you look at any board of average senior level engineering salaries, even in Silicon Valley and even at the FAANG companies, it's nowhere near that.
I created this because I wanted an extension that didn't have any extra bells and whistles, and one that looked decent. Thought I'd share since it may be valuable to others.
This is just a form of supply and demand. More people want to do $desirable_job or $satisfying_job (and there's plenty of overlap), so you don't have to pay them as much, because there's always another person in line to take the position.
Exactly. Fully understand why should never do x, so that fully understand when you actually have to do x.
It doesn't help seeing people give hiring managers and recruiters so many excuses for just plain shitty behavior at large.

I have to painstakingly detail and format my resume so YOUR job software can parse it, make it easy to scan and read but the job advertisement itself looks like someone let their cat walk on the keyboard?

Granted it's a minor thing in the grand scheme of how much cruft jobseekers put up with just to get noticed and have a snowballs chance in hell of even getting a screening call-but I'm beginning to hold a lot of contempt for the job hunt. More than just the stress of needing a job and the people involved who seem to-by many indications-look at job seekers as subhuman.
It's a nice, short, memorable address that Cloudflare has every right to use. What's wrong here?
This is not the US government's debt. It is debt belonging to the State of California. And California certainly does care about deficits. States do not have the same leeway handling their indebtedness that the federal government does.
> Then why so much domestic spying, the entire point of this conversation thread?

The estimates in this thread are that they received .3% or less of all call metadata in the US, which is probably a generous overestimate since the article says the full call records are "billions ... per day." Of that, they query less. I don't know how this can be considered "so much" domestic surveillance.
> ... entire rest of the world ...

Speak for yourself! I certainly agree with the parent that the Web is for content. And I believe many here around do as well. You do realize you're commenting here on a site which is as non-PWA/SPA as it gets, don't you?
There are probably more like 50 people working on animating the hair. But yeah, your point is well taken.
You don't want to discuss it in public? Fine. Email them to dang. (His address is in his profile.)

And dang only lets toxic people and their posts remain for a little while. At some point, he kills their account. (His threshold may be higher than you'd like, but he does do it.)
I read this blog post assuming I'm actually going to learn a thing or to in terms of Best Practices in serverless paradigm, some ops/observability tricks and such.

It turned out to be a complete AWS advertisement as well as hand-waving to bunch of other blog posts without any good explanations. What makes me curious is don't these people actually ever read Hacker News and know what good technical blog posts look like (unless they're just bunch of paid evangelists writing blogs with catchy titles)?
I don't think a single iota of the prison disparity - not one - is attributable to "cultural differences". I also don't think that it is an accident. Drug prohibition was designed precisely - and initially sold expressly - as a way to control black and asian people, and later other people of color.

> Don't solve problems, ignore them, expect that people behave the way you want, wait until someone screws up here and here, let it escalate, ignore again and/or apply short term solutions, mix all this stuff, fast forward all of it, and you have the current situation.

I think that's pretty reasonable. That's pretty much the point I was trying to make about intelligence agencies as well.
As if Node doesn't have multiple versions that a nvm* is exists and widely used (and I really like node)

*Node version manager
Waymo van involved in serious collision in Arizona
What do you mean by "the concurrency problem"?
Automatically collecting everyone's cell phone data, has software automatically installed in Smart TV's everywhere, monitors your online footprint (emails, social media[of course]).

According to all the documents published so far, the NSA does none of these except monitoring public social media posts.
Apple iPhone: mostly works as long as you agree with the Apple way of doing things. No alternative web browser for you, no expandable memory, no 3.5mm jack if you want a recent device, no full control over your device. Very limited choice of hardware from a single supplier. Expensive hardware, this mostly related to the issue of there only being a single supplier. Hardware also with well-documented problems which tend not to be solved [1].

You need to trust Apple. What makes you think you can trust them? Remember that Google started life with 'do no evil' as their motto, people tended to trust them as well. Lately, not so much anymore.

If you don't feel these issues are valid or think they don't matter Apple can be an option but it does not make sense to portray them as the solution which 'just works'.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
> You know that rent-controlled units reset to market when vacated. A barista or a teacher is not going to move into your studio. It's probably going to go to another tech worker.

It's sure a lot more affordable than the "luxury condos" everyone complains about. And, besides, the reason why it's likely to go to another tech worker is that there isn't enough housing. If the city were to cap the rent at $1,000 (post-Costa-Hawkins-repeal), then the units would still go to tech workers, because if there are many applicants landlords will nearly always rent to the richest.

> You dismiss Tim Redmond's analysis based on his vested "millionaire" homeowner interest. Yet you cite an "academic" analysis paid for by the California Homebuilding Foundation. Completely hypocritical.

I dismiss Tim Redmond's "analysis" because it's wrong and is based on talking points that have been debunked, as I explained. Tim has a history of making specious arguments, always in favor of NIMBYism. For example, Tim made a ludicrous claim a while back that most "luxury condos" are vacant, based on classifying of any listing of a homeowner with a different address as "vacant" (which excludes all rentals!)

The paper I described is academic, because it's written by an academic. Tim is not one.

> You attempt to paint the YIMBY groups as diverse and representative of low-income minority groups by citing only their LGBT representation.

Because it would be weird to namedrop people I don't know well in order to win an an argument on a message board that YIMBY groups are diverse. You are welcome to do your own research to confirm that there are plenty of ethnic minorities in YIMBY groups.

> You mischaracterize BMR as "rent control,"

I never said BMR/inclusionary zoning is rent control. Nor do I disagree with rent control, if implemented properly (see below)!

The problem with high inclusionary zoning percentages is that if they become too high developers won't construct housing at all. Developments have to pencil out, unless we fund them at public expense. (I want to do that as well, but that will be very hard in the current political environment, so in the meantime we have to pursue realistic policies.) Exclusionary suburbs know this—they create unrealistically high IZ requirements in order to prevent new housing from being built.

> And even economists who argue against the downsides of rent control recognize it has "benefits" and argue for other forms of government "protection against rent increases."

It's simply a fact that economists disagree with rent control. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-18/yup-rent-...

Government protection against rent increases is a good idea, as long as it's means-tested—tech workers like me shouldn't stand to benefit from it. For example, a progressive tax credit, as suggested in that paper, would be a great idea that would protect vulnerable renters.
Your data is a bit out of date. California has a surplus now.

There is an underfunded pension but the payments aren't due for many years in the future.
Facebook is reviving your career
And improve the weather.
Honestly, you might be right, especially in that having Warren Buffet as an investor could actually give Apple some long term wisdom. And Apple probably has some growth in it still.

But I do have some credentials here. My track record is having told my mom to buy AAPL in 1998 before the iMac even came out :p

She didn't listen because her financial adviser thought it was too risky!

But as a kid, I understood the market and recognized it was undervalued.

My hunch now is that Apple's recent direction has been utter trash garbage. And the culture that made Apple what it was is dwindling fast. They're getting pretty close to "sell high" and will have some major reckoning to do before they get back on track.

edit:
Seriously, look at this video about the butterfly switch keyboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgc69MAdYE0
The Art of the Bodge: How I Made the Emoji Keyboard (2015) [video]
UK has a huge deficit too. Most highly developed countries do.
Off-topic, but the name "time crystals" just sounds like something straight out of a Doctor Who episode.
If you invest in EUR you don't get any voting rights in the EU, if you invest in a Vanguard mutual fund you probably don't get any rights in Vanguard itself, and if you invest in an ICO you generally don't get any rights over the developers (except in cases like Decred and Tezos).

It's probably best to think of TON and Telegram as separate companies; when you invest in TON you get a stake in TON which, by design, will probably never have any assets other than network effect. So the answer is that you're buying into the network effect.
Because Lucene wasn't good at near-realtime in 2009 or so, Twitter's original (acquired via summize) search was written in mysql. It might have even been a row for every token, not quite sure.

IIRC, when we moved to a highly-customized-Lucene-based system in 2011, we dropped the server count on the cluster from around 400 nodes to around 15.
It's stupidly obvious that this is the case, but data is always nice.
This ICO is not an investment in the company. The buyers don't get any equity, just the tokens.
Is it strange that C++ is able to do this but C itself cannot? Sometimes I hear the argument that "C is lower level" and their is the idiom that "C++ is C but better" (not that I believe these are true)
> Also, you should delete your Facebook account and never go back, because there's tabloid crap in there, too.

You can block those with UBO as well and use Facebook via the browser. There are reasons to get off of Facebook, but this is not worse than another random website really.
Countries have the power to print money. California does not.
I maintain a client dashboard for large ad vendors who need to visualize their data across multiple time spans. It's too much to sift through on mobile. Are you saying that in this brave new world you're envisioning, I'd have to build them a desktop app?
Mus.js
The question is what is CA going to do when its municipalities indirectly cap GDP via their terrible housing policies. The entire state is under a slow boil by NIMBYism that will eventually choke its otherwise impressive economy.
The Swift project uses an array of Mac Pros: https://ci.swift.org/computer/
I think that is indeed the perception, but that the time savings would actually be quite pronounced if people did things correctly. I've seen many projects get immediately bogged down by bugs / feature creep / lack of planning and end up taking far longer than if people had done things correctly. Also, many labs hand off code bases when post docs or students leave, creating chaos for the next person that is tasked with working on them.

As an example, I wrote a proof of concept script to show that we could automate some basic image analysis in my lab three years ago. That was immediately grabbed by an investigator and put into production without any further thought. Because it was a proof of concept script, it was of course very buggy and required substantial feature addition. This was added without any thought for design etc. Fast forward to today and this code base is a sprawling shit show which is being rewritten for the THIRD TIME. Each time has ended in failure because people failed to observe basic best practice, and this attempt will likely fail too. That is an ENORMOUS waste of investigator time. Another project I can think of involved a model which had a 10,000 line function. No one could trust what was being outputted by the thing, so they eventually abandoned it. That's hundreds of investigator hours down the drain.
So, they've created a product and they're making a bit of money of it. Whats the problem?
> I hate these posts, because Hacker News is incapable of talking about an Electron based project productively.

Oni maintainer here! I agree - I get stressed out sometimes when this gets posted to HN for that reason ;)

I'll piggyback here because this is near the top, but I'll give a couple quick reasons why Electron was chosen for this project:

- Development speed As mentioned in another comment, the React ecosystem has some excellent development tools around hot-reloading / live-reloading. I never found this sort of 'live-reload' workflow in any of the C/C++ toolchains I've used. (Would be interested if that has changed!)

For a very small team, this is an important consideration! It's the difference between Oni existing as an Electron app vs. not existing at all.

- Developers Oni is an open source project, and I open-sourced it because I wanted help building it (and I've been fortunate to work with some amazing contributors [1]). When you look at the last StackOverflow Developer Survey [2], web tech is overwhelmingly at the top - if I want help, I should pick the tech stack that has the broadest appeal.

Every editor is an exercise in trade-offs, and of course Electron brings trade-offs of its own. Oni is an experiment in a different (not necessarily better, because that's subjective and relative to each person's workflow) set of trade-offs than other editors - an attempt to bring together the "modern" functionality of editors like Code/Atom with Vim. It resonates with some people, but it's not going to be for everyone, and that's OK.

Even if you don't use Oni or agree with the tech stack, these sorts of experiments are important, because if new ideas or workflows work well... they can find their way into your editor of choice, too.

One other note - I focused a lot on Electron, but the project wouldn't be here without neovim, either! They've done excellent work, and there is quite a variety of front-ends - so even if Oni isn't your thing, I'd encourage to check out that project as well as some of the front-ends for it [3].

[1] - https://github.com/onivim/oni/graphs/contributors

[2] - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology

[3] - https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects
Euro countries don't either.
Sure aikido straddles the boundary between open handed and weapons. Kendo is going to do way better at ken than aikido. On the other hand, most aikidoka will have spent more time training bokken takeaways.
I routinely bring this up actually. Testing is literally equivalent to running experimental controls -_-
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&h=0&v=0&f=Doh&t=...
No, that's the whole point of this discussion.
I don't think the issue is about the minutiae of who's paying whom. It's more the idea that a service which was created to serve the users by blocking ads, is subverted into yet another ad-tech vendor, skimming cream for themselves based on strip-mining the brand equity of what was once a principled venture.
Warnings over fresh processor security flaws
Sounds like a good time to buy a house in Seattle then, if you can afford it.