skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoofing Caller-ID is easy. So they use familiar looking numbers to appear local to get you to answer.

They seemingly call numbers at random (at least, there's zero reason to call me in Chinese). The Chinese language scammers once hit my employer and made it hard to call them for a few hours because the scammers were dialing sequential numbers, and un-assigned numbers were sent to switchboard...

Though sometimes the calls seem to be targetted. Some immigrants have gotten calls from "Immigration Canada", while non-immigrants I've spoken to have not. So maybe there was a leak/theft that hasn't been detected.
Does this surprise you?
This is the kind of mindset that discourages people from taking healthy risks. There are any number of legitimate ways to explain a gap, such as, "No, I was not actually playing video games and surfing reddit the entire time! I actually wanted to invest more time in ____. Can I share with you what I learned?"

Disclaimer: my CV has often been a horrendous mess of 3-6 month "gaps" (during which time I learned many of my most valuable life lessons) and it never cost me more than a month of training myself up, networking, and interviewing.

Another disclaimer: I've always been of the habit of saving my money so that long gaps feel stress-free and I don't have to take the first job I'm offered.
I get robocalls that leave messages about once a day. These days it's some message in Mandarin. A few months ago it was something about health insurance plans (same message every day).
This isn't a new thing. I remember Nintendo's made Wii updates that intentionally brick modified consoles.
Why use RSS at all, if you can use ATOM?
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I can't speak for others, but in my case it was uncovering an issue with a legacy feature that led to needing to rewrite a good chunk of the site logic.
Your evidence would seem to suggest that the TinySeed venture is very likely to approach 0% as well, no? Which is my concern exactly.
I've been to chiles, not surprised to see that on the top of the list.
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Mostly anything related to computing in general.
Pittsburgh. PA, not CA.
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This happened to my work number the other day. I received hundreds of callbacks, and a full voicemail box, before I had my employee disconnect the number.
Capacity for uncreative destruction remains undiminished.
I didn't mean to slight you or the authors for the difference. I just noticed your questions seemed to follow from that ambiguity.
I live in Dallas, which is notorious for being pretentious, not very creative, and pretty "corporate", so that probably contributes to the experience I've had.
Why do you want them to change gloves?

"Also America is the only country I've flow through which still makes you take off your shoes. Fuck that nonsense."

Agreed. That is the dumbest thing ever, especially because the elderly and children can get out of it, and so can people who pay more. I wonder if I ran on a platform of "You can keep your shoes on when you fly!" how many votes I'd get.
Ugh, there have been Cessna deaths caused the same way. It's my least favorite failure mode to think about, since there's no obvious way to correct. In a Cessna, best you can do is release the yoke and tiptoe on to the rudders, but professional instructors have still died when this happens to them, since low altitude errors are often not correctable by the time you've lost too much altitude.

Usually there ought to be more than one locking mechanism involved, though..?

https://generalaviationnews.com/2018/03/16/failure-secure-se...

https://generalaviationnews.com/2016/10/18/seat-sliding-back...
Unfortunately don’t have time for a long post at the moment, but as an airline pilot and instructor/check pilot, I can say that extreme incompetence exists in the airline world, especially in Africa, India, SE Asia. There could be some very good reasons that they chose to continue, and often I learn those reasons when the facts are released, discovering that a good decision was made. I’ll be following the investigation, but this one seems somewhat alarming to me. Here’s another of mind-blowing incompetence, also from India - https://www.ajc.com/news/national/airliner-forced-land-after....

Also, more automated, single-pilot/ground operated or pilotless aircraft can’t come soon enough.
Just took a closer look at the examples and played around with some code. It works really well and a surprisingly low footprint. Basically doing exactly what is promised.

However i wonder why there is no way (visible?) to generate words for Javascript? Or at least a documentation on how the format for those byte arrays is build.

Assuming this is a licensing thing, i would really suggest to not put limit in that way. On first impression i assumed that this is useable for free for everything except commerical projects.
I feel, this may be more about Mozilla trying to get rid of XML at all.

Because, why would something simple as RSS be a burden to maintain? The code has been written (!), the format well understood, the years gone should have ironed out the bugs, so what could be the problem?

The only difficult thing to maintain may be an XML parser, but that is also there since the Netscape days and, for RSS, you don't need current XML technologies (XPath 2+), you are fine with XPath1.
We passed through a period where shared libraries were a great way to save storage and memory, but now dependency management has become such an incredibly headache that it's driving us back to monolithic binaries.
As someone who has "taken a lot of time off" to spend time _on_ the things I think are important, may I suggest answering the work question with "I'm currently working on _____" or "Right now I'm spending a lot of time on _____". There are a hundred ways to direct the conversation somewhere productive and fun, but "I don't currently work anywhere and am taking some time off" does sound like an embarrassed euphemism for "unemployed." Don't be embarrassed.
I remember implementing ssl in java when I worked for Netscape back in the day. Nostalgia rush looking at this. Great stuff
You clicked an RSS icon in the URL bar. A page would pop up, showing the RSS feed styled. Below you would have the choice to subscribe with any configured feed reader, be it desktop or web-service. Totally fit into the browser as a standard tool.
So that's why they want me to change my password (I've had the same one since pre-acquisition days.)
Seriously. What a great filter for people you wouldn't want to grow close to anyway. "If we can't talk about corporate servitude, why talk at all?"

/s, hilarious.
'There were warning signs that things were going to get real'...'rappers'...odd framing of an article that is essentially about theft of personal information from databases with inadequate security and oversight run by giant corporations who know everything about us
> CNN should do basic fact checking before reporting stuff like this.

And it did:

> However, on its website, Apple does not list fingerprint verification as one of the Apple Watch's capabilities. A representative from the company confirmed to CNN the watches do not have the feature.
No, for a few reasons:

First they are producing too many collisions (probably many quadrillion of collisions, I can't find the exact number). Most of the are boring, so they have a lot of filters to select and save only the slightly interesting collisions, because otherwise it would be impossible to save the data. IIRC they only got a few thousand of Higgs bosons, he signal to noise ratio is almost 0.

Second to film something using light, the object must be bigger than the wavelength of the light. There are some tricks to reduce this a little, but you can't film elementary particles directly. The old method was to let the particles create small bubbles or drops of water inside a recipient, and then photograph the chain of dots with visible light. In the new equipment the process is more complicated, but the interesting part of the collision is too fast and too small. They only measure the particles that are flying away after the interesting part happened, they only measure the leftovers and try to reconstruct the actual collision.

Third, the interesting collisions have strong quantum effects, and the quantum effects "disappear" when you are using light that is strong enough to get an accurate position of the particles. You can imagine that if the light is strong enough, then the light itself will bounce against the particles and modify the direction and the collision. It sounds somewhat like magic, but it's possible to write this correctly and precisely using a lot of math and is one of the bases of quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
I've been in the industry nearly 20 years and I always take breaks between jobs. I've worked for startups, Google, Dropbox, non-profits, etc. Between jobs I've pursued personal growth, traveled extensively, re-tooled my CS skill sets in new directions, gotten healthy, done extensive open source work, and more. I highly recommend it to others in the industry if you have the ability to do so; it's only helped my personal and professional career not hurt it.

Live your own life and don't let others tell you how you're supposed to exist.
It's a solution if and only if the space allotted is enough for everyone on the plane to bring a decent sized suitcase. If not, then it's not a solution.
> I think it’s funny to use java as an example when jar files have been around forever.

?

Jar files are not a self-contained, single binary (executable).

I can't

curl -o binary http://example.org/binary
./binary
> How do they know that you can be trusted, and aren't just another spammer/phisher?

That's not it, not all of the time anyway.

Over the summer I discovered a third party mail server with a missing DNS entry. It was like that for months and all their mail was getting flagged as spam.

I sent them an email (from an account that wasn't flagging their mail as spam) pointing it out. They fixed it within 24 hours but I never got a single reply.
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Hundred years are nothing
Yes, my idea of “the same” is “the same”.

I understand what I believe to be your actual point: it would be nice if documents were more often published in a format that doesn't completely fix their layout and visual appearance. And I agree with that! When I'm reading something purely for its information, and don't care too much about the appearance, I too would like it if it weren't in a visually-fixed format. (That's what I said in the first comment tot: “when the visual appearance is not important, […] not use PDF”.)

But my point is that for the goal of completely fixing the visual appearance, PDF is a pretty decent format (better than say, photographic images of the page), which is why it exists.

When you say you want “the day when PDF is dead”, it appears as though you cannot imagine anyone wanting that goal.

Here are two examples:

Suppose you are an author of books (a physical artefact that will inhabit libraries for centuries; forget about digital displays and all that nonsense for a moment) and care about their typographic quality. Then you will want to make sure of things like:

• that each paragraph contains appropriate line-breaks (http://eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf), so that the page as a whole has a good “texture” or “greyness” (or “colour”),

• that the words have hyphenation (to make the aforementioned good line-breaks possible), but not any poor hyphenation (https://tug.org/docs/liang/),

• that the typefaces chosen are in harmony with each other, that the paper size leads to a good “form factor” for your book, and is appropriate given the kind of binding used, etc.

• and finally, that after you have carefully proofread and verified every line of every page, the reader will not see something totally different, with lines of different widths broken in different places, etc.

Or if you cannot relate to that example, then forget all that, because it's just a special case of a simpler, more general case: suppose you know that your document is ultimately going to be read on paper, and you'd like to make sure it can look the same ten years from now as it does today.

Then PDF (especially PDF/A) is a decent format for this case.

(PS: I've seen very few websites that have good typography in the sense that when printed they approach anything like the quality of a halfway decent book.)
My bag fits under the seat, so I never need to worry.
Do we really need laws banning anything that is "annoying"? Couldn't airlines just ban it themselves (like airlines ban some pets, naked people, etc)
"This is a way for airlines to get the lowest price in front of consumers" and "this is a way to address a market segment willing to go carry-on only in order to save money" are not mutually exclusive, are they? Consider the recent addition of "Basic Economy" fares for some airlines now, which incur extra charges for overhead bin space. I would assert that this is a way to get an even lower price in front of consumers. You would presumably assert that it is a way for the airlines to let people who can travel with little to no luggage save even more. Again: both of those things can be true.
Just came here to say that I think protecting your CV at all costs from any kind of "gap" is some of the most overrated career advice out there. Take risks, show some self-direction and self-respect. Companies and colleagues will help you, but only you can steer the ship of your career trajectory. Follow the currents underneath you at your own risk.
I doubt a court would make a distinction. The claimant (plaintiff) would have to prove the defendant knew about the emails being sent to the public blockchain and decided not to do anything about it.

That's not necessarily easy to prove, in the same way the defendant could claim emails were trapped in spam filters, etc. or more realistically, the burden of proof is on the claimant so the defendant wouldn't say anything if they're smart.
> this sounds like a pretty good problem to have.

Think that one through. Who pays for the disabled, unemployed, and elderly?
Yes! I am amazed at the general attitude of skepticism expressed in response to the Bloomberg article.

BTW, Amazon doesn't know anything about security. Every day I observe examples of people who work there, wittingly or unwittingly, doing things to erode any security that might happen to be in place. It's almost entirely run by below average people scrapped up and recruited from the dregs of third world countries.
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The supply in question isn't land, it's housing. There's enough vertical space available, so far all intents and purposes, it's not a limiting factor.

What's limiting efficient land use is artificial constraints put on construction.
The format created out of petty spite against Winer that nobody's ever used? Died on its arse when presented with millions of podcast users, didn't it?
I'm building a tool that will help with understanding your gene mutations: Meports.com if anybody is interested.
I've been staring to write a paper on bcache/bcachefs's b-tree design, which is also a sort of combination b-tree/trie (it uses binary trees in eytzinger layout). Pretty cool to see the same idea coming up in multiple places.

Running index-microbenchmarks now to see which is faster :)
one hack you can use in the US (admittedly with a lot of overhead) if you're worried about tampering with checked bags, loss etc. is to check in a firearm inside of a particular bag with other expensive goods.

the requirements (law) specifically states that only YOU may carry the opening mechanism for the case, and it must be a hard case. sure they might ask you to open it, but it will be tracked with great vigor, must be in a hard case, and only you can open it.
Seriously? Pocket as the replacement? The thing that shows me three articles with click bait titles on my homepage? Yep. That's just like RSS...
Your point is well taken, but when I mentioned people that "I know for a fact are better off financially", I was taking all of those things (debt, family, lifestyle) into account. Again, I'm sure for some interactions, those things apply, but I've had similar interactions with people that have no debt and have no family to support (and in fact, actually receive monetary support from their family/parents).

>To put it another way – who wouldn't take a two year sabbatical if they could?

It seems a lot of people, actually. Again, I can't speak for everyone, but even many of my close friends, who I know a lot about their financial situations and have actually had this conversation with, have even said that they could take time off just as I did and have no financial issues at all, but still would not do it because they feel too pressured by societal expectations to always have a job.

>I also don't think it's necessarily a judgement of privilege. Consider the reverse scenario: a party of people enjoying their sabbaticals, and one person with a desk job. No-one's going to hold a conversation for long with that person, simply because their day-to-day experiences are not relatable. The sabbatical crowd will want to talk about long-term travel, how to stave off boredom, and the interesting startup ideas they're working on. No-one wants to hear this one guy's stories about scrum drama, getting a promotion, and taking their kids to the recent company outing. His stories may be positive or negative, boring or interesting, but no-one else can commiserate with their own current experience. For anything topical you're left with sports and the weather.

There is far more to talk about than just sports/weather and work-related stuff. Even when I was employed, most of my friend group was not in the same industry and we were still able to have lengthy conversations even though most of the group didn't even know what "scrum" is, or never had to worry about a promotion, or never considered startups.

My experience has been that the topics of conversation or ability to commiserate isn't the issue. I've been in situations where I have had lengthy, wonderful conversations with a person where we clearly connect and can relate to each other, but as soon as I drop the "I am currently unemployed" bomb, their entire attitude toward me will change for the worse. (FWIW, I've also been in situations where their attitude has changed for the better, but I find those to be rarer)
About accomplishment, maybe the thing you wanted out of escaping the rat race was to take a break from feeling like you constantly did have to accomplish something.

As long as there isn't something seriously wrong (such as depression that leads to inability to enjoy pursuits), maybe that is OK. It could be important to be able to accept that you don't always have to accomplish something, and that your life doesn't have to be about maximizing how much you can accomplish. (Which is a different thing than saying it's OK to never accomplish anything or OK to consistently accomplish very little.) You don't recover from burnout or whatever else by driving yourself crazy with worry and guilt over how you aren't living up to some standard.

About the weird reactions, I've been through that after making a similar choice, and I've found that with some people, they are just not even slightly open-minded about it and they are going to judge you instantly. You can't do much about those people.

But with other people, their reaction will depend on how you present it to them. You've just told them you're doing something far outside the social norm, and they're going to be thrown for a loop and wondering why and how to understand it. They don't know if you're a lazy, broke, aimless loser or a person who has a plan and is doing this for some kind of purpose and real benefit to making their life better overall. You're going to get a whole different reaction depending on whether you say "Uhh... so yeah, I'm not working anywhere right now" or "I was fortunate enough to be in a good place financially, and I really wanted to take a year off, so I am". The second one signals that you're in charge, you're content with what you're doing, and your successful enough to give yourself the opportunity.
Yes it should work. Definitely worth trying.
You got me there. I still maintain that they should put that closer to the headline.
Blame it on the rappers
Yep. And if you get lucky, the people at RyanAir won't measure/weigh it if you volunteer when they ask. Means you can often get by even if you're over their limits, though it varies by airport I think.
In the past, I've seen this Google STUN server used on Chrome when none is supplied by the user JS. This may have changed in recent years.
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> the lights were off

While it is true that the normal lighting was off (because it wasn't a valid runway at the time), there was a lighted, flashing X to indicate that fact. Along with the fact that the taxiway was not illuminated as a runway, and the pilots were notified about the runway closure…

https://ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA17IA148.aspx
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Its too bad that the phone companies don't offer a service where you can get real metadata on where calls to you are originating from. I think that being able to block by the region of call origination would solve a lot of these problems. I know its technically infeasible especially with VOIP but a guy can hope.
Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to Record His Own Death
Several news outlets -- most prominently MSNBC (as of Oct 12 at 10pmEST) -- are reporting that Jamal Khashoggi may have used his Apple Watch in conjunction with an app like Just Press Record in order to capture audio of his own interrogation then have it be uploaded to the cloud. (It has been alleged that Khashoggi was then murdered.)

Turkey's Sabah newspaper first reported the story saying the audio was recorded on the watch but then discovered on Khashoggi's iphone -- that his finance was holding outside the walls of the embassy.

It has been noted that the LTE feature in Apple Watch 4 is not supported by any carriers in Turkey.

AppleInsider has the most uptodate coverage I could find in print:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/12/saudi-journalist-used-apple-watch-to-record-own-interrogation-and-execution-report-says
I thought the same thing! And I'm tempted to say that if that was their reaction, I probably wouldn't get along with those people very well anyway. Still, it was very jarring when it happened, because it was clear that it was my statement of unemployment that turned them away.
a. why do they need to? your gut flora derives value from variety, not always certain strains.
b. that's just specific to brand, storage, distribution, etc. I can name plenty of dairy brands that are incredibly effective cultures kefir is one (yes i know its not yogurt)
c. false. you dont need high concentrations you just need a "landing zone" for the good bacteria, and there are plenty of methods of clearing a landing zone and making space for the good bacteria.
You should look at several papers written in scribble(racket doc templating language), they are beautiful, not hard to author(compared to latex).

Here is an example: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/scope-sets .

Although some of the models on semantics are pictures generated from latex :p
It would be a good idea to speak to a physician.

That's not because your current system has any problems--if it works for you, great! But that discomfort you describe is both abnormal and frequently linked to health issues that could cause serious problems over time.

Source: dietician relative on the couch next to me, FWIW.