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The FCC has dragged their scapegoat into the public square to torture in a big show for the brutalized masses. But how effective has the FCC been at actually curtailing the problem of robocalls?

This FCC won't do anything meaningful because they've been bought off by the telecoms, and the telecoms make money hand over fist on robocalls:

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-fcc-ro...

"The problem," he said, "is that for the carriers, it's a conflict of interest. All of these robocallers represent billable minutes. From a revenue standpoint, anything they do to crack down represents a reduction of billable traffic on their networks."

Same way this FCC's purported "deregulation" of net neutrality is a sham which rigs the game so that the telecoms can leverage their market dominance in more verticals.

We know what the technical solutions are for the problem of robocalls. Corruption and legalized bribery are preventing the application of those technical solutions.
Yeah - seems like it would be one of those things that you could allow the user to configure and they'd set it once and never again. I suppose you could switch your client to plaintext composition, but would be nice if there was a setting like you describe "don't change formatting after pasting" and/or "always strip formatting when pasting".
Yeah, well those are not graduate courses, maybe the exception of topology (for a non math major). Those are 1st and 2nd year undergrad engineering/CS courses.
Yes, because vendor lock-in and all the bad things that comes from Apple makes perfect business sense. /s
The question "why should claim X be trusted?" indeed runs into infinite regress and has no well-founded answer. But the modified question "why should claim X be trusted by creature Y?" can have a well-founded answer, based on facts about creature Y.
I like the metaphor, but I think it would be more appropriate to flip the roles: it’s more akin to asking the person using the models (or the airplane in your simile, the pilot) to understand how their work (i.e. have basic mechanical understanding). As it happens, that’s precisely what we ask pilot: they need to have enough mechanical engineering talent to inspect the plane in detail before take of as well as understand, diagnose and fix a problem in the air.

To come back to modelling: I see daily people with a cursory understanding of models misusing their tools and not noticing blatant problems. Just today:

- someone using random forest to predict a quantity (which you can do, it’s often nicknamed “random tree regression”) so the first thing their did was to turn quantities to predict to as many categorical variables;

- someone else, on the same problem didn’t see why having a massively higher mean square error on the out-of-bag sample compared to the test sample was suspicious.

I’m not saying that five years of university will solve that, but I’m noticed that taking the time to dig into the model, vs. assuming it’s like a car -- you only need to turn the key and go with it -- is strongly correlated with making those mistakes.
What a great device. It could also be interesting if it would provide an optional "only kid can initiate a call" mode.

For example, in the online account management section, where one can set up the channel (I'm just guessing how it works, I don't know how it gets set up), an option can be toggled to enable/disable the parents getting the capability to initiate a call or not, and this option is protected by a second password which only the kid knows, so that parent and kid set up this property together, in an agreement, and the parents can't override the agreement unless the kid also agrees and enters the password.

This would help chronic helicopter parents to not be able to constantly call their kids and possibly tell them to send them the gps coordinates or bug them otherwise.

The same should go for GPS access, that only kids can send position updates to the parents, and optionally, if both agree (again, protected with the kids password), let the parents poll the GPS data.
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It’s the kind of book you need to sit down and deliberately read for a while, rather than snatched moments here and there or while waiting for something else.

Personally I found it very informative and interesting - though not ‘enlightening’. I did stop reading it for a while and found it difficult to pick up the thread again though.
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Telcos charge for connecting phone calls and routing voice packets. Even robocallers have to pay those fees.
Also, without paid overtime, workers are often expected to make up productivity outside of the meetings.
excellent point, you would make a great defense lawyer
Tagging on to say I just tried this - even though I activate Siri without unlocking, I was asked to unlock my phone to continue with the email.
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Personally I'd prefer ebikes over electric scooters, You can easily get around on an ebike sweat free. But they seem like a great means of transport if a bike isn't practical for you.
I believe OP is asking about the training model data for Google Duplex (i.e. did Google record calls between two people for training data).
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If a penny saved is a penny earned, then conservation is the safest of all.

I'm not saying we don't need sources, but most Americans could reduce their energy use by probably 50% - 90%, probably improving their standards of living if they did it thoughtfully.

In terms of deaths caused, conservation is probably be negative, by saving lives from power industries, which tend to be dangerous.

To talk about energy and safety without talking about conservation seems irresponsible.
Just as an anecdote, I was recently taking the ferry (as a passenger mind you), and the ferry encountered a Burke-class DD (which would be slightly unusual around here, but I later learned it was on its way to a friendly visit to my country). The Burke was ahead of us, to starboard, going in roughly the same direction, although slightly converging (lets say around 45 deg difference in heading, maybe?). When I got up, it was at maybe 1 nm distance, at 2 o'clock. So I go to another area of the ship, and the next time I look out of the window the Burke is on our port side at maybe 300m distance. Which, if my interpretation of events is correct, means the Burke cut in front of the ferry at frickin close range. For no effing reason whatsoever, considering there was plenty of open sea around both ships. This is the kind of macho BS attitude that gets people killed. Sure, nothing happened, but what if they would have had some kind of machinery or bridge communication malfunction? The ferry would have plowed the Burke in half.
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That's a hell of a lot of $.

I was on $100K for doing a similar amount of depressingly simple or "easy" work, while being surrounded by people who felt or at least appeared stuck.

It seems like a dream but I also got really demotivated and my sharp skills quickly became stale and then one day I realised I didn't care enough to upskill again.

The job became more about appearance and saying the right things, showing your face in the right meetings, and claiming recognition for other people's work.

I've now shelved that career. The money wasn't worth the feeling of guilt or missing out. I think the hardest part was knowing I was getting paid double than people who worked 3X harder.
I was going to write there's no ferry there, but TIL: https://www.visitantwerpen.be/en/transport-antwerp/ferry-ser...
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For us, the most frequent issue on our land line are out-of-country calls (so out of jurisdiction) trying to sell duct cleaning services. We've gone as far as booking a couple of appointments to identify the local businesses that use these providers, but nothing comes of the reports. Where the origin is foreign, there are still avenues for domestic enforcement but authorities appear uninterested - to me this is an easy way to increase the effective cost of foreign call centers that don't obey local laws.
What kind of helmet have you been wearing that causes loss of hearing and wind noise? That's news to me - I've been cycling with a helmet for 15+ years and have never had a helmet (gone through a bunch of them) that's made any noise. Quite the opposite of you, if I'm on a bike without a helmet I don't feel safe. Been biking in Austria, Poland, London for years.
Why so? It appears to be in vogue at the moment but it doesn’t seem to be saying anything novel.
Not to be picky, just an opportunity to inform - the word you're searching for is anecdote, rather than antidote.

Also just while I'm here, normally I wouldn't point out spelling but, epitome.
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Yet another HN Who's Hiring Browser.

It has various handy filters and sorts and lets us assign and sort by "stars", flag as "applied to", and record notes.

Uses localstorage so stick to one browser! Tested on Opera, Chrome, and FireFox. FF is needed to load index.html as a local file (unless someone help me work around Chrome's complaints).

Regex searching needs a ton of refinement. Working on that now, and performance when hundreds of jobs are matched.

More/same info here: https://github.com/kennytilton/kennytilton.github.io/blob/ma...

Happy job hunting!
Yeah their take on goto is a bit odd given that it's probably the sanest way to do "cascading" error handling in C given that we don't have RAII or exceptions.
You know there is a multibillion industry with vested interests against GMO: the organic food lobby.
I've considered it. A combination of

- Rain (possibly solvable with a bag of some sort, but this becomes increasingly complex, consider locking).

- Locked bikes are annoyingly often bashed slightly. My bike can take the abuse, but a bashed up helmet becomes even more useless, sometimes without even showing it.

- Makes locking the bike substantially harder. If I don't want my helmet stolen I'd have to lock it through the actual helmet and not the straps. That would be a pain in the ass with a ulock (and other lock types are considered even less secure for the bike).
Remember "Don't be evil"? Security bug, won't fix block the demo to decrease awareness of security hole, that's evil.
Working from home definitely allows for more “heads down” time. When you are in the office there are more distractions to break your focus.
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You can't greet the client shake their hand and establish a connection over a video conference nearly as easily as you can in person. As a client I find myself paying attention to the little things. Did they offer coffee or water? Did they open the door? How was the handshake? Did they look trustworthy? If you are remoting in a global team it will be more difficult to provide the experience.
Everything thing old is new again. Does anyone else remember the kids show Newton's Apple? One of the segments was called Newton's Lemons featuring products that were duds. I remember seeing an electric scooter being shown in that segment, using old black and white film of the product in action.

I thought it was great at the time and still think electric scooters are a great idea.
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All those are fine with the rule proposed as you can easily prove the consent of the holder of the original number.
Surely you should be providing safer alternatives if you're convinced of them?
Which is the reason why you shouldn't write outer joins.
It is, as an unstructured "anything goes" statement.

As for continue, break, and return, they have an explicit workflow, existing or resuming the current scope.

The only language where unconditional jumps make sense is Assembly.

The last time I actually wrote a goto statement was probably in some BASIC dialect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel) + Theory of Constraints
Ev Williams is one of the great entrepreneural scammer of our time. He is gifted master of bootstrapping same old run of the mill blogging web sites slapped with ultra-gradios vision and then sell it to deep pocketed buyers while leaving his user base high and dry. His tech is almost always subpar, ideas half backed, business model broken but he gets billions anyway for his ability to generate massive followers out of thin air. I suppose Medium is up for sale. The idea of paid premium content has been tried so many times... Someone needs to make a case study of how he does bootstrapping.
If control group is selected from people interested in WFH they have incentives to validate the study too.

Or if the opportunity is presented as a privilege they might be less engaged to begin with?
I work 100% from home. Altough I also feel a bit of isolation I kind of enjoy it most of the time and otherwise the benefits easily outweighs the negative stuff like isolation. But that is of course just me, there is no need to force people to work from home (unless the company do not have an office) but the issue is that most companies won't let you even if you want to.
They’re undervalued because they’re easy to replace. It’s as simple as that really.
At least it's a tech industry-only phenomenon right? In all the other industries, people are rational data analyzers with no bias whatsoever. If there's an epitomy of the tech industry, it's blaming ourselves for being uniquely bad at things we're actually better at than most.
Of course, but the whole point of the trilemma is that absolute knowledge of absolute truth is impossible, not that we cannot axiomatically accept the utility of partial, approximate knowledge.

Also, while abductive reasoning is (a bit) different from inductive reasoning, they have the same underlying epistemological justification. In discussions of epistemology you often don't see abductive reasoning mentioned, as it falls under the general framework of inductive reasoning.
No doubt this is a huge reason but it's sad people would put their hairstyle over their health.
I see a small business opportunity hear offering a service of sending weekly letters to a person's postal address just so they can be assured that their address hasn't been changed.
Indeed, a ones-complement negative number would not have this bit property.
I missed the fire by about an hour. I’d travelled to London from Leeds with a colleague and we had intended to have a quick pint before getting the train back. He felt unwell during the day so we returned early, luckily as it happened. As said elsewhere, in 1987, in the days before ubiquitous mobile phones, my wife had no way of contacting me to find out whether I was caught up in the big news story of the day (31 people died).
Later on, I became professionally interested in risk management, reading classics such as Normal Accidents [0]. I also tracked down the Fennel report [pdf, 1] written during the inquest. I used the fire as a case study at work to raise awareness of the dangers of the normalisation of deviance.

The London underground turned out to have been a fire disaster waiting to happen. To quote Fennel:

“London Underground did not guard against the unpredictability of fire. Since no one had been killed in the earlier fires they genuinely believed that with passengers and staff acting as fire detectors there would be sufficient time to evacuate passengers safely. But they had no system to train staff in fire drill or evacuation and their attitude towards fire (which they insisted should be called 'smouldering' and regarded as an occupational hazard) gave the staff a false sense of security. They failed to appreciate the particular problems of smoke.”

Fennel reports that there were a staggering 400 fires and ‘smoulders’ between 1958 and 1987.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents

[1] http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_KX1987.pdf
What do I get ? You get what you ask for.

Then I ... what ? Then you do what needs to be done as specified by the business in the case the queried piece of information is unknown.
I wonder if lack of spontaneity is part of the blame. It seems to me that there is too much structured time for kids. Particularly in suburbia. When I lived in a suburb I rarely saw kids out playing in a park without an adult hovering over them. Never saw kids playing in the street or wandering the neighborhood.
Glass Bead Game by Hesse put academia, and system building of the mind in general, in perspective for me.
So no discussion about any positive evolution of security best practices or static analysis, other than single line remarks?
Also one of the reasons business laptops could get away with awful displays for such a long time.
Don't think it was a mistake as much as a way to increase clicks. Nobody would be interested in the title "Stanford study shows people are more efficient when they work where they prefer"
Lambda means game over for serverless
I wish undergrad EEs knew how to solder.
I don't work in IT, so I can see some differences from that field to mine. But being a functional manager in a business, I can't tell you how invaluable it is to walk outside my office to 20-30 cubicles and being able to get a quick answer or have a quick discussion on something, and how often people overhearing conversations in the office saves useless work.
It's not stupid. The purpose is to shift the blame away from the website when you access something you shouldn't.
Do you have some public repositories so that we can learn from you?
For all of us living in London in 1987, I think the Kings Cross fire is the first thing that comes to mind if you mention wooden escalators. We just took for granted that the underground was safe; I used to really like the old wooden escalators. The fire was a terrible shock and wake-up call to everyone.
Electromagnetics is all theory, so much so it’s been dropped from most EE curriculums for being to difficult.
I interviewed many tenths of candidates at Amazon and I never met one who didn't know the very basics of binary numbering.
Here is my observations from last 20 years:

Mississauga, CANADA: Lots of parks but almost all are empty throughout the year even during Summer time.

Karachi, PAKISTAN: Severe lack of parks but even the ones which are there are usually empty even during winter times.

Culprit in both cases: technology such as mobile phones, video games and TV. And also, paranoid parents who don't let kids go out and enjoy (and are probably too lazy to just sit quietly in the park to watch the kids).
As a contractor you can also be fired. Most states are at will employment. "Bob wasn't performing and we had difficulties reaching him when needed"
The recent news is that Monsanto have known for a while that the formulations containing Glyphosate are harmful as a whole, while isolated Glyphosate may not be particularly harmful.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-t...
Doesn't ANI work? When I worked at a business with a phone system used for time tracking we relied wholly on ANI as caller id is what is spoofed. However I am not sure if the ANI information is a paid for service or is it being spoofed as well? Caller ID data was always malleable and never to be trusted
I can't find wind or solar in that article?
Well, they might have simply wanted a report that came out before the election.
Yeah and the results are so massively intuitive.
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They couldn't offer an answer using bitwise operators. They knew mod 2.

Most web developers (front and backend) will never use bitwise and many don't have college degrees so they didn't use it in college. It is actually quite understandable that they won't.

I've used bitwise here and there in backend code in my 20+ years of web dev but never in a case where it couldn't be rewritten as slightly less efficient but more readable code.
This assumes negatives are represented as two's-complement, but that's implementation-defined. Testing whether a negative number is even by ANDing it with 1 won't work in a system that uses one's-complement.
I understand the skepticism. I actually try to eat grassfed beef where budgetary constraints allow. In my opinion, grassfed beef today is the most sustainable land -based option given that the person consuming it is fat adapted. If eaten it in the traditional American diet of steak, potatoes, often beer, and bread, the result of this is a less efficient metabolism, the net result of which is more unsustainable agriculture because the person is going back to relying in part on intensive plant agriculture. I have an answer to the exhalation question, which I think is important to understand. The hydrocarbons generated by photosynthesis in the grass go into the cow, become protein and fat in the cow, and then go into the human, and become a hydrocarbon based store of energy. Most of the result of the use of this store is energy, heat, and two biproducts (H2O and CO2) (the efficiency ratios here matter and they are favorable in both healthy cows and humans). As long as we have a human/animal population on earth, we will have a system that produces energy (muscle movement and neurons firing), heat (waste from the inefficiency of our neuro-muscular-skeletal system) and CO2 and H20. The question, which I think grassfed beef addresses, is what is the most efficient way to take sunlight, water, and CO2, and convert that into energy for the human/animal population to use? To this I'd add in my optimal system we actually address the dual-threat type problems of overfishing and ocean acidification, and encourage sustainable harvesting of smaller fish with population management controls (ie sardines and anchovies).
> People who think "goto" is evil should also give up the other jump statements: continue, break, and return (and also switch, though its not listed as a jump instruction in the C standard, at least not in '89 or '99).

That makes no sense. goto is maligned because it's unstructured, the other constructs you list are structured and restricted. Much like loops, conditionals and function calls they're specific and "tamed".

Not only that, but the historical movement against goto happened in a context were goto was not just unstructured but unrestricted (to local functions).

Even K&R warns that goto is "infinitely abusable", and recommends against it when possible (aka outside of error handling & breaking from multiple loops as C does not have multi-level break).
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2.0 was when they revamped the code base because of copyright problems. Check this out:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.0/notes.html
That also makes her probationary under 10 U.S.C. § 630. She can be discharged without a Board of Inquiry (BOI), unless there's a desire to give her an Other Than Honorable characterization of service.
I worked from home large portions of the time from pregnancy into middle school twice and this was never an issue for me. My office was always off limits to the kids (no hope of baby proofing anyway), I had structured work hours where my wife knew to push note cards under the door and I would address them when the time was appropriate. When the kids were unable to be quiet, and I was working on tasks that needed deep focus, the wife took them to the park.
This, I could not imagine having nobody to talk to or shoot the shit with at lunch or while taking breaks. It's a great way to de-stress for me
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So if we don't know the customer's birthdate we can't serve her? I can imagine a problem with that...