skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spyfone's response:

"Dear Valued Customers of SpyFone.com,

Within the last 10 days, one of our servers experienced a data breach and an unauthorized third party gained access to the data of approximately 2,200 customer accounts. The potentially exposed personal information of those affected could include pictures, call logs, and emails.

While our team is taking steps to enhance our site’s security and we have since taken action to ensure that all accounts are fully encrypted, we are notifying you that your account may have been one of those negatively impacted by the unauthorized access.
In an evolving landscape of online threats, SpyFone.com is committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and proactively works to ensure the safety and security of our users.
We will continue to work to address this matter as we partner with leading data security firms to assist in our investigation, and coordinate with law enforcement authorities."
How does Sonder qualify the spaces they purchase? If they aren't careful, aren't they really just one big target for lawsuits?
Well if you could build more housing this would be less of a problem.
The value the sunlight provides, like all positive externalities, is capitalized in the value of land.

The benefits of sunlight can only be acquired if one has acquired a place on Earth to stand, suitable places to stand have been enclosed by land titles, and land rent or profits which can be acquired from ownership of these titles without having to produce anything make up at minimum 20% of national GDP.

Land and sunlight are consumed by virtue of occupying a physical space on Earth, and play an extremely large role in the economy, but land and sunlight were never produced by the economy or as a result of economic processes. They are instead the product of natural physical processes which pre-existed the evolution of humans.

All goods are certainly not the result of economic production, as this would create a chicken-and-egg problem where human civilization could not exist unless another human civilization was around to produce it.
Trump’s tweet echoing white nationalist propaganda about South African farmers,
Many companies start with no outside investment or debt. Like unions, it's a risk assessment: do you give up control in exchange for stability?
If the owners of all these companies are actually afraid of their own managers allocating funds within the companies they have supposedly invested in, then what's the point of investing in anything at all? In that case, the "economy" is nothing but a bunch of fools wasting investors' money and it is certainly a bubble.
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哈哈，这你也信
TL;DR dividends dont get a tax deduction, interest from debt for buybacks do, so buybacks are more attractive

Given that interest rates were so low from 2009-2017, many companies actually issued debt not because they needed the money but in order to do stock buybacks. Some companies such as McDonalds have definitely overdipped as their revenues declined significantly, but other companies like Apple and Microsoft were smart to do it while maintaining growth.

Apple had $0 long term debt in 2013. At the end of June 2018 they held $97B!!!

The average debt interest for AAPL and MSFT is somewhere between 2-2.5% interest, and prior to the 2017 Jobs act the interest payments were 100% tax deductible. I think that's a key part of why companies did this, they viewed the debt as basically free money after inflation and the tax deduction. Unfortunately this is less tax revenue for the US government and its citizens, so in effect its us the taxpayers that are funding the debt for the buybacks. The NY Times opinion piece fails to mention this aspect. It would be amazing to hear from a CFO on the topic.

Since the 2017 Jobs act companies are now restricted to 30% of their pretax income being deductible to interest. For fiscally responsible companies like AAPL, MSFT, they're nowhere near to 30%, so the intent of this change is largely moot.

Now for a real financial hacker -- i'd like to ask about a wild idea, what happens 2 years out from now supposing that interest rates remain high. All companies looking to raise debt will have to raise at 4%+ interest, and CECL and the fed reserve rate increases will see banks requiring much larger deposits than toda. The bond holders for MCD, MSFT, AAPL, etc, could look to sell to increase their reserves and also get better returning assets. Will megacorps be able to buy back their own debt above fair market value, but above below their principle amount, in effect having earned money on the debt they issued?
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This already exists in apartment buildings. Typically a few suites near the ground floor are reserved for rent by tenants for their guests.
A personal hardware security device is useful not just for logins but signing messages and encrypting data.

Imagine signing up to a site or service,all you need to do is allow it to generate a unique public/private key pair on your personal hsm. You would optionally associate a username with the public key,but that's it!

No need to enter name,address,phone,email,etc.., Unless required for the service. You won't even need a password(!!)

Lost the personal hsm? No worries,you wrote down a recovery key on paper and stored it next to your social security card and passport.

Here is my thing, simpler security is better security. I use a yubi everyday and it's nice but I also use TOTP and SMS every day. If I am using a hardware security device,why do I need any other form of authentication?

Why can't that same device be used for TLS client certificate storage for every site I visit,storing SSH private keys,trusted root CA store I can use with any device, message(email,signal,telegram,etc...) Encryption,message non-repudiation(think a twitter post or even this comment being signed by my hsm so I can't say 'the hackers did it'). You can use it for banking,voting,signing important documents online,etc...

You can already see how much work goes into adopting something like a yubikey. Why not make it a general purpose hsm that solves all these security problems.

You know what I like about this the most? Minimal user education required,just plug it in,click yes on the app's prompt and press the button on the hsm. Not only that,you can't phish or some other way social engineer the user to give up the private key. Users can keep it on their keychain or building access badge that would give physical attackers similar level of access(they can unlock your house keys and steal pii or get in the building with your badge and steal your laptop).

A user friendly usbarmory for the lay-person!
You've repeated this often enough in the thread that it's actually a kind of trolling. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Have you looked at high write endurance cards?
What is the threat model that these keys are typically designed for?
Hence the “all things being equal” qualification.
Yes, the pretentiousness can be over-the top. They literally see themselves as a global movement. I have the same problem with TED. It's just a place for privileged people to rub elbows and pretend they're doing something for the betterment of society.
Yes. I was behind the second screen application for the Sean Hannity show. I did not write any content, but my work helped to spread all that misinformation.
Just being verbose to remove ambiguity from the conversation. Better than misunderstandings.
Presumably contractor pay would be adjusted to reflect this.
Causal Inference and Deep Learning, MIT IAP 2018
Ask HN: Where can I download an archive of resumes in PDF or Word format?
I'm writing software to parse resumes from PDF or Word docs and return JSON. I've tested it on a few dozen resumes I have on hand, but I would like to test it on hundreds or thousands of resumes. Is there any place I could get my hands on a dump of resumes?
I wouldn’t go that far, unless you and your buddy are both mice. Even if a cure for all cancers were discovered tomorrow, you’d have to progress from testing in Petri dishes (maybe), to mice, to safety trials in people, to double blind controlled studies in people, to regulatory approval, to clinical practice, all in under 4 years. If I were your buddy betting on the cure, I would offer to settle for $500 today.
NYT's bad journalism: Is Facebook causing anti-refugee attacks in Germany?
The money for the interest payments comes from taxes!
They are doing it - see AirBnB Plus:

https://www.airbnb.com/plus
Be interesting to hook up a jtag to the SoC and fpgas to pull out what they do. that's going to be the secret sauce for all the super speedy stuff.
OK but who’s going to convert all the larger units the small ones
One turning point that saddens me as an ex-Smalltalker - at one point there were negotiations underway to have Smalltalk installed by default on all new Sun Workstations (this was back when Sun was a very significant player), but it fell through for financial reasons. Had this been the case, I'm sure Smalltalk would be significantly better known and more commonly used.

And as justinpombrio says above, that has nothing to do with how good or bad the language is.
> To be clear I'm not talking about the model of renting out your spare bedroom on Airbnb because nobody actually wants to do that.

Demonstrably false - there are many thousands of such rooms available on AirBnb:

https://www.airbnb.com/s/homes?refinement_paths%5B%5D=%2Fhom...

I often prefer to stay in this configuration, especially in a city where I don't know the local language. This way you have a host and a cozy, lived-in place to stay instead of some sterile suite that makes you feel like you never left your own city.
Randomised-controlled trial of a “Wellness Programme”: they are a waste of money
gotta say, if you do distributed systems, subject yourself to Jepsen analysis and publish it, you win a truck-load of points in my book.
Completely unrelated to my above comment:

"Bullitt spent the rest of his life writing and speaking, most often about the dangers of Communism — like many young leftists, he took a hard rightward turn later in life." – I guess, having witnessed the promises of an early, Leninist USSR, as of 1919, having promoted it and fought for it on the expense of his career, and confronting this with the Stalinist reality of the mid-1930s (Bullitt became US ambassador to the USSR in 1933, witnessing the purges of 1933 and 1934, and probably the beginning of the Great Purge starting in 1936) must have been a harsh experience.
If it affected your tendons Magnesium is recommended. I'd also speculatively suggest iodine (a few mg per day) and glycine (1-20 grams per day). I am not a doctor, but then that's who prescribed you that crap ;-)
Golang is pretty beloved at BuzzFeed.

It’s one of our two standard languages - the other being Python - and whilst the vast majority of our services are Python, Golang is being used for growing and significant number too.

Touching on my first point, we have observed people enjoy writing Go apps, and it is a great fit particularly where performance and scalability are needed.

Therefore when engineers have moved to another team internally, they often will evangelize Golang to their new team members.

So we expect it to continue to grow and thrive here!
Bounties are one thing but how about selling exploits to organizations like zerodium? Since you won't disclose,won't they pay a lot better?
I have almost the identical setup as you - everything is ZWave (plus ecobee, sprinklers, attic fan, and some other sensors) and goes into Influx and grafana via mqtt. All of it is running on a single RPi3. Only difference is I’m using smart things not HA. I have had zero issues whatsoever. I got sidetracked for about 4 months over the winter with other projects and assumed this setup would crash or at least need a reboot when I came back to it. Instead it just hummed right along. So there must be something about the way HA uses storage.
If you believe, as many of us do, that cryptocurrencies are really self-organizing distributed Ponzi schemes, then there's really no ethical way to make a living taking money out of them; every dollar you extract ultimately contains some significant component surrendered by an economically vulnerable person in the US, Asia, Africa, &c.
I gather that Freud hated Wilson. He blamed him for destroying the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWII. I suspect that he also blamed him for the the Nazis.

Edit: I meant WWI, damn it.
Agree but overall users seem to prefer apps versus browsers at a ratio of 9 to 1 (in terms of time spent in each medium) .
Rapidus: A toy JavaScript engine in Rust
maybe. as much as I enjoyed the old days, the really great aspect of Aphyr was the underlying engineering analysis as in data driven and disciplined. our profession could use more of this...
Agreed. Here's how I'd suggest reading this kind of article and thread: read it through while replacing the word "buyback" with "dividend", and see how 90% of the arguments fall away (or to be more charitable, become part of unrelated debates). A buyback is a roundabout way of paying a dividend, with the exact same effect (modulo capital gains tax, and I'm not talking about something like our b.s. subsidy of private equity services via the carried interest loophole, which is a creative way of paying a subsidy of dubious merit. What I mean here is, if companies were forced to pay dividends instead of buybacks, the superrich who can afford financial advisors would be organized enough to avoid paying, where as the middle class investor who is not playing with perfect strategy would pay a little more in capital gains, simply because it's hard to get the timing right unless you have billions of dollars at stake).

For example, a sentiment like:

"A history of buybacks has a positive long-term effect on stock prices, because investors like buybacks."

becomes

"A history of dividends has a positive long-term effect on stock prices, because investors like dividends."

At that point, you're left with the somewhat valid 10% of the argument: trading in the open market causes short term price moves. Is there is any evidence that the SEC is insufficiently vigilant against, say, any executives who exercise options around the buybacks? If so, that does constitute manipulation by the executives and negligence by the regulators! If not, the SEC is doing its job. The opinion piece makes Rule 10b-18 out to be some kind of backroom deal, whereas this is the SEC doing its job: clarifying the law with enough precision that everyone is playing by the same rules. The SEC is charged with making & reassessing these rules. For example, if they thought that 25% of ADV makes too much noise and is bad for the market, they can tweak the parameters.

Some reactions to other sentiments on this thread:

> I wish more big stocks... paid regular dividends instead of buybacks

Money is money. It doesn't matter whether you feel paid; it matters that a buyback does in fact pay you a dividend.

> This is orthogonal to worker pay

Bingo. This discussion is orthogonal to important questions of unequal opportunities or outcomes, or of redistribution, or the growth of intra-national inequality (while incidentally, things have become more equal inter-nation).
Is there any evidence it’s working? Seems to mostly piss people off.

Anyway, most astroturfing is done by american companies and is more harmful. Will google stop them too? Highly doubtful.
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Actually this is just incorrect.

Spoken Japanese is much more ambiguous. There's a reason subtitles are ubiquitous here. Americans who didn't understand the language tried and failed to get rid of kanji after world war 2. The langauge just does not work without them.

Additionally spoken Japanese uses pitch accent to distinguish homophones such as 雨 and 飴. Long strings of kana are difficult to read period. Native Japanese people struggle and can easily be confused by them in my experience.

Korean isn't comparable because it's phonetically much more diverse and uses spaces.

Kanji / hanzi work just fine for over a billion people. They make skim reading easier and add a lot of character and depth to the language. Westerners have a perception that kanji are hard to learn, and perhaps they're a bit harder than an alphabet, but in the age of computers, it really is a non-issue to learn and use them.
The UK's giant aircraft carriers
> Assuming all engineers get options, and that options are around 1/4 of an engineers compensation, and assuming that buybacks raised Apple's stock by 2%

General consensus I've seen on Blind is that FANG engineers take in about half their wages in stocks, but that includes multiple years of RSU refreshers and appreciation.

But there's another way to think about it: buyback money isn't that much different than a dividend where people self-sort into who wants the money now versus later. Apple approved a 100B buyback program in May, and 4,915,138,000 shares outstanding. 20 bucks a share. Most offers I've seen on blind are around $100k of shares, so for AAPL at today's market close price that'd be $9300 dollars returned. Probably a bit more given they're at an all time high and the announcement was a few months prior.

So the 12 percent figure kinda makes sense: 10 percent or so of the shares announced to be retired via, and a 2 percent jump is explainable via typical earnings.

I doubt you'd find an engineer paid in RSUs who wanted to end buyback programs, but maybe one will pop up on HN and enlighten us.
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> it would only take a few hundred thousand years for a technologically advanced civilization to permeate the galaxy.

Why? How? How soon would they be able to start? Why haven't we begun doing so ourselves? Why haven't we even established a presence on our neighboring moons and planets, even though we are technically capable of already doing so?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the "we should have met someone by now" argument relies upon a bunch of thin assumptions that have been brought up elsewhere in response to other instances of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17829840
It's really just one academic (William Lazonick) who seems to be really good at promoting his theory to the press. It seems like every time I see this topic on HN it's in connection with him.

That said, I actually think his theory is a reasonable one and I'm more confused by comments on HN like this one. It sounds like you're saying essentially (1) your buddies disagree and they know better, and (2) buybacks may help the economy overall because they move cash from less efficient businesses into more efficient ones.

Are you saying that the company buying its own shares is doing so because it's not very efficient? Shouldn't efficiency be reflected in the price of a business due to market forces? If the only place a company can find to put extra cash is buying out its own shares then that doesn't sound like a valuable business to me, and in a healthy market I would expect the price to go down, not up.
Plenty. What does that have to do with my response?
He's nearly a 40 year veteran of things in the relevant space...
What if Spotify would make their app using JavaScript (something like React Native or Cordova) with ability to update bypassing AppStore?
Part of an effort to make a Jupytr notebook-like environment without relying on server side code.

https://github.com/iodide-project/iodide
This is a set of valuable, experienced reflections on the task anyone faces who wants to make music (let alone get a machine to do it).

Much to digest here, but I especially like this thought: "There are no words in music." A whole lot of people think that music is nothing more than a carrier they have to modulate with some important message.
The distinction exists for a reason, but that reason doesn't in itself require taxation to happen twice. If I am in business I can pay tax once or, as the owner of a corporation, potentially pay tax twice. I will obviously prefer the former.

Since, as you say, the corporation is legally distinct, whether I own the whole corporation or just part of it is neither here nor there. My objection is the same, which is that there are two tollgates between me and what I see as my share of the income.

Australia's corporate tax system allows for "franking credits". Shareholders receive these from companies based on their proportional ownership. The income tax paid by the corporation may be offset against the income tax owed by shareholders.

Unsurprisingly, Australian companies are much more likely to pay dividends.
But also from TFA, the lasers will stop after the spacecraft travels about ten times the distance between the Earth and moon. I think the question still stands, is it possible to expect anywhere near the needed precision without some kind of active steering over the four light years (minus ten moons) of space that must be traversed? It certainly must be a limiting factor in the utility of this scheme. I can't imagine using this tech to execute a planned fly-by of an extra-solar moon, for example.
There’s no bluff . Sure Netflix could live on without iOS. But what would be the point of giving up 70% of iOS because they couldn’t get the 30%. It’s not even a problem for them . They’ll be able to move it to the browser just fine and keep 100% they just won’t be able to link it from the app . There’s no fight to be had . Apple has a stronger reason for not linking to external websites where users would be asked to put in their credit cards then just to make sure they get their 30% from the netflixes of the world.
That leverage only exists in non-competitive labor markets, which are almost exclusively low-skilled. That discrepancy can only arise when labor supply greatly outstrips demand. In such cases, you could make an argument that the disadvantages of the levelling mechanism are outweighed by the protection that unions provide. However, no matter where unions exist, they will always restrict individual contributors ability to advance their own careers, as well as their ability to seek remuneration appropriate for the value of their contributions.
Well MS is not hiring. So you're saying that the W2 system shouldn't exist? That means many of these people simply won't have jobs in the field _at all_.
You can't trust that a hotel did either.
In a nutshell, I think it is good business if the business and the customers both benefit.

Historically, several cultures revered honey bees as examples to follow. The bees got fed by providing a service to the flowers. They are not predators. The pollinate plants and create nectar for themselves. They don't eat the plant per se.

This was a revolutionary mental model, one we don't emphasize enough. Trade can be a civilizing force, but is often viewed as an evil force. Many people see capitalism as pure evil, as a means to exploit people in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

Basically, I'm talking about business that genuinely adds more value to the world rather than business that enriches some at the expense of others. There are two ways to profit: one is to find ways to improve your own bottom line by reducing someone else's welfare. The other is dealmaking where all involved parties are better off for having come together.

It's a high bar to meet. I don't think it is unattainable.

Best.
Pitch accent + clarification when needed. Subtitles are extremely common here. See my response to a response of this comment for more details.

The tl;dr is that the language is harder in speech than in writing. If you stick to well-worn paths people will know what you're saying, but I often have to discuss the written form of the more obscure words I say or just write it down and show it to my conversational partner.
duck and cover
In markets where supply is not artificially constrained nobody demonizes or really cares about short term rentals. It’s only in markets where housing is constrained where suddenly Airbnb is to blame for all our problems.
More or better? I think more apartments (condos that you own,not rent) would solve a lot of housing problems. Everyone just has to have a large single family house.