skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our building once leased out a portion to a call center based in India. India's country code is "91" and to get out on the PBX was "9". But this old junky Nortel system would outpluse immediately when it saw the dial string "911". So when ever someone would try to dial "9911XXXXXXXX" it would immediately outpulse to our local PD when the dialed digits equaled 911. And whenever the outbound caller heard the PD pickup, they would get scared and just hangup.

Ugh. Those were good times.
California proposes a plan to tax text messages
Babylon 5 is probably a bit too obscure, but you don't even need to be a Taylor Swift to get that "treatment"; I'm guessing anyone playing a main character of, say, Grey's Anatomy is probably getting constantly interrupted in public (meals, gym, parks, everywhere can be fair game for shrieking fans to badger you and demand you act like the character). At least that's my experience living with someone who got such a part (although at the scale of a small country, not worldwide like Grey's).
CFAA wording is unauthorized access of a _computer_, not a network.
The fixed banners at the top take up a lot of screen. Annoying for mobile phone reading.

I generally dislike fixed elements that stay whilst you scroll through content. Medium has a lot of that going on it seems.
Last hilton I was at had comp WiFi and breakfast. It varies
I haven't lived in Oakland too long, so I don't have memory of these fires, but they certainly haven't stopped the momentum of 1+5's in my neighborhood. Just in the last ~2 years I've seen 3-4 (block-sized) buildings like these go up in my immediate vicinity.

Honestly, I'd never considered them to be negative; they're quick to build and encourage street-level retail and walkable neighborhoods. That seems like exactly what the Bay Area cities (and many other US cities) need right now. To me, they seem like a strict improvement over large residential-only blocks popular in the last 25 years.
Maybe I am off here, but I do something a bit more simple

```
def issue_command(self, command):

if not str(command):

response = None

logger.error('Command argument must be string')

else:

response = os.system(command)

if response != 0:

logger.error('Command returned non-zero status: {}'.format(command))

exit(1)

return response

```
Axos: Up to 1.25% APY. No maintenance fees. No non-sufficient fund fees. No minimum balance requirements.
Former Mt. Gox CEO could face 10 years behind bars in embezzlement
Maybe when the landed gentry can no longer get service in public, they'll be willing to see more housing.
Easy to find out - put the shrimp in the air and see how fast it goes.
>Well, that's why Europe is blanketed in riots right now.

Can you provide a source for this claim? I know of the riots in France (a country well known for civil disobedience/riots), but haven't heard of the entire continent being "blanketed".
Singles day is also migrating around the world now.

There are some numbers from Alibaba that I've seen in Apache Flink presentations, though I can't remember which ones off the top of my head
Exactly. If race baiters can manipulate white __ to show all black results, and a bunch of left-wing trolls can manipulate the word idiot to show Trump, what's preventing real manipulation of results for more targeted searches during elections? it wouldn't be as easy to spot as the aforementioned things. I wasn't quite buying the whole search manipulation/conservative censorship thing until I watched the leaked meeting after Trump's election (which was basically a call to political action by Google's leadership), i quickly reconsidered.
Amazon delivery thieves beware: Cops plant GPS trackers in fake parcels
Happy Charles Schwab customer of over 10 years here. I've never once paid a fee on my checking account. Heck, one time I forgot about a one-time bill that caused me to overdraft (first overdraft since around 2005). Instead of charging me the overdraft fee, they sent me an email asking me to make sure the money was in the account by Monday (email received on Thursday) and there would be no fees charged.

I'll be staying a Schwab customer.
Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane finally makes it to space for the first time
ok, "vessel was seriously overcrowded, with at least 2,000 passengers not listed on the manifest", "it was claimed that the ship carried no radio and that the life-jackets were locked away".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state

(2015) California Revenue per capita is $10,408. Texas, the second largest state by economy in total money, is $10,204 per capita, the average is $10,234. Incidentally, California is very slightly "better" at 16.6% GSP than Texas at 17.1% GSP, and further better than the average of 18.3% GSP.

If this is a "money grab," they've got room for it, compared to other states -- say Delaware or most of the South, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets

Meanwhile, California spends $4,636 per capita on the state budget, ranking 15th lowest of the 50 states. So again, not really "burning through cash."

As is mentioned every time California's or blue states' budget and spending are brought up, blue states tend to give more federal money whereas those fiscally conservative red states tend to take in more federal money.

As for if this is the way to do it; yeah, seems a little like extra taxes on faxes home phone service at this point -- diminished returns at best.
Yup. The eth often has even less security on it than wifi
>I don't buy into donation matching.

I'm not sure what this means. You don't buy into it as a donor whose donation will be matched? Or as the one doing the match? Or as a charity? What is there to buy into?

>I also want to donate to the cause that I feel is most important for me to support, not to who has the best deal.

I understand the sentiment. I do not, however, see this as any different from an influential person donating and telling the world they donated, in order to raise awareness of an organization/cause. In both cases the goal is to advertise an organization that they think is worthy of donations. And yes, both are manipulative behaviours. As is any kind of persuasion technique. I know many of us don't like the ad industry these days, but persuasion by itself is not immoral, and can be quite positively moral.

>If they care and have the money and are going to refuse to donate it unless people of limited means donate,

If it means that on average the organization gets more donations than without this technique, I'm OK with this aspect of it. At the end of the day, if I like a charity, I want to maximize the amount of money it can receive. If I have $100K and I set up a 1 for 1 matching, and individuals like you and me give a total of $60K, then yes, I gave only $60K and not $100K. That leaves me with $40K to give to some other charity (preferably with a similar deal). The net effect, though, is that the first charity got more money because of my match than if I had just given them $100K. And now another charity will get more money than had I just given $100K.

As a donor (wealthy or otherwise), I've set aside money I intend to donate. Whether I give it all to one organization or split it up across organizations is the same to me. I want to donate to them because I like them. And because I like them I want to maximize how much money they can get.

I really don't see this as any different from me posting on Twitter that I strongly support Archive.org and everyone should support them. Except I may be wealthy and not famous. So I'll use a tactic more appropriate for my situation.

I think your concern may be that poorer donors will now prioritize a matching arrangement for donations than non-matching. Perhaps - I would like to see a study showing it. While I do know people often donate when a match is announced, I've yet to find someone who goes shopping for matching arrangements. I'm sure such people exist, but they are probably in an extreme minority. If archive.org had been a mere 1:1 match, my instinct isn't "Let's see which charity out there has an even better match!" It's "Cool! I like archive.org and should have donated a while ago. Let me just do it now."
There is usually a cap on those high interest rates - at my CU, its $25k. They pay 2% though, not 4% - it used to be a pretty good deal, but these days its easy to get a money market fund elsewhere that pays more than that with no maximum.
Brave browser moves to Chromium codebase, now supports Chrome extensions
I Built an Apple Music Web Player to Use Apple Music on Linux
plus they really sell themelves as the all gloriuos knight, savior of people from evils of big bad wolf. Fine, but who is actually under the shiny helmet? Answer is not that glorious. The knight is just a puppet.
ALMA visualization of protoplanetary discs
The damages from murder aren’t calculated relative against population count.
I can make ~3-5k/yr on ads, but I make 25x more at my day job, it seems petty.

Although, this seems like bad capitalism, cant grow if I dont charge money...

But I started my website to help everyone(especially the lowest income people).

Very conflicted.
Big loss for RTP area in North Carolina which was favored to land it, but got nothing. Guess they pay for the disgraceful performance of the NC General Assembly in the past several years - at least enough that TX tax policies won out.
If SF is so ridiculously expensive, it makes every kind of sense for restaurants to raise their prices accordingly.

The only reason for restaurants to have paper thin margins is if there are too many of them. That will probably change once their waiting staff disappears.
Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?
> Whatever Curator does should really be part of ES itself.

Just as an FYI, Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) is landing in 6.6 and provides some of the features that Curator supports: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.x/...

Basically, it allows you to define things like hot/warm/cold architecture, rollover, retention, etc at the index-level, inside Elasticsearch. Will be landing as beta
We did a fair bit of this kind of thing at my last company.

More specifically, we were using the PBT-like `hypothesis` framework in Python for the purposes of more exhaustively exercising the CLI tools we were creating.

It worked pretty well.
I think that just keeps people from making claims against the stocks they bought going down in price. A checking account holding dollars isn't going to lose protection because Robinhood the company invested in some stocks.

Aside from that, it appears they're investing this money in short-term treasuries rather than stocks, making up the difference in merchant fees for debit card transactions, and maybe treating this as a loss leader. They've partnered with Sutton Bank since they don't have their own banking license.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2018/12/13/in-a-bol...
Exactly. "Lean 300-person staff ..."
Thanks for the suggestion. But, I'm looking for an open source tool that I can tinker with, contribute to and modify to my needs if needed now or in the future.

Seektable looks cool for enterprises that wants a hands-off reporting tool. Good luck!
"No longer"? this didn't exactly happen yesterday; and it's not limited to SF -- Mountain View or Palo Alto are exactly the same.
Rhode Island sues Google after latest Google+ API leak
Many Lehman clients got pennies on the dollar..
MS-Linux? Lindows? Could Microsoft Release a Desktop Linux?
I'm quite surprised here to not have seen anyone point out the way these patent games typically work inside of a big company.

Often a company is motivated to increase their IP portfolio. In turn they motivate their engineers by offering lucrative bonuses for each patent filed. At my last company we played this game and it was roughly $3k per patent. In general, out of the huge number of patents that get filed in a big company, very few---if any---have any hope of ever seeing the light of day as an actual invention.

While I agree that the technology itself is somewhat alarming and I personally disagree with the idea of anyone building it, let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world?
my experience with this is that its not whether they are able to - but the cost benefit of abandoning legacy service lines that are still hugely profitable but maybe not be growing (or actually shrinking)
Green tea can be infused several times. Usually, the caffeine is pretty much gone after the first round. Plus, with some teas, the finer nuances of taste only come out in the third or fourth infusion.

So if you want caffeine-free tea, you can use green tea and throw out the first infusion (or give it to somebody else).
I understand no one having access to the key, but if data is already encrypted using this key and you want to rotate to a new key, how do you decrypt the old data? re-encrypt all old data with the new key?
> The main challenges with this technique are: (1) handling exceptions

RISC-V has an advantage here: other than load/store and instruction fetch/decode, the instruction set is designed to not cause exceptions. For instance, integer division by zero is defined to return a specific value, instead of being an error.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer.

The Redux FAQ specifically has an entry with rules of thumb to help decide when it makes sense to keep a given piece of state in Redux [0].

I do agree that the "Single Source of Truth" principle [1] is probably over-interpreted, and maybe needs some caveats somehow. That said, it's tough to simultaneously say "here's the basics of how Redux works", "here's the ideas behind why you _should_ use Redux", and also try to tell people when to _not_ use Redux.

We're currently planning a revamp of the Redux docs content [2]. I'd appreciate it if you could fill out this survey on how we can improve the docs structure [3], or leave a comment in that issue thread with some suggestions.

[0] https://redux.js.org/faq/organizing-state#do-i-have-to-put-a...

[1] https://redux.js.org/introduction/three-principles

[2] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/2590

[3] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzIkY3fXZ8PrQKScYM...
My two cents, fwiw: http://btorpey.github.io/blog/2014/09/23/into-the-void/
This almost happened last July[0] at SFO - an inbound Air Canada flight lined up against a taxiway (with five full flights on it, over 1000 people actually) instead of a runway, and missed the planes on the ground by about five vertical feet.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759#Incident
For all the folks suggesting that this is funded by selling your data: is there reason to expect that other banks with lower rates aren’t also selling your data? They may be less technically apt, but banks aren’t usually ones to leave money on the table.
I don’t really care where waiters live....

Do others?
Your question seems to be implying that you believe financial firms are more stupid than greedy. In contrast to Hanlon's razor, I think it's usually fair to assume greed over stupidity.
Wealthfront doesn’t offer a “savings” account.

Betterment has their Smart Saver[1], which offers a 2.09% rate and attempts to position it as vastly better than FDIC-insured accounts by comparing to some terrible “national average” instead of the ~2% rates that Ally, Capital One & others offer. It’s still an investment account with the risk, tax implications & liquidity challenges that such an account has.

Their misleading marketing around this is driving me away from them.

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.betterment.com/resources/sh...
Mobile wasn't that hot in 2010, then in 2013 it reached its pick (companies shifting their entire businesses to mobile). Finally, in 2018 it slowed down by a lot. We've noticed a similar trend with AI lately. AI is at its pick right now. Today, companies have dedicated mobile teams that are fairly independent from the rest. They aren't connected directly to the business of a company but they still have a huge impact for sure. You'd be surprised to learn that 80% of the traffic of company X comes from mobile and that mobile team has only 10 folks in it... Very lean, versus 100 folks working on Web and infrastructure.

If you switch today it's fine, you'll get a lot of opportunities as an iOS dev assuming you're really good at it. The bar is higher than Web, usually iOS devs know their stuff pretty well and ask tricky questions. If you've only built little apps, you may have to study a lot more (more advanced topics) before applying to jobs.

If you're looking for freelance jobs only, you'll be fine as long as you're not working with technical people. You can still hack your way around and build apps that aren't really optimized. As long as it does the job.
Please check out our new `redux-starter-kit` package, which includes utilities to simplify common use cases like store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state automatically:

https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/
I's really interesting that people are willing to pay outrageous sums in one area (e.g. rent) but then are not willing to pay more in other areas (food). I am not sure how these imbalances happen.
I think the concept of shadowbanning may have existed before slashdot. I seem to remember reading about it in the mid to late 90s on slashdot actually.
> Maybe I'm doing it wrong [...] Using my BofA card

I think I've spotted the problem. Seriously though, look into your available local Credit Unions. There are plenty of good credit cards with no foreign transaction fees as well (some of which are from larger banks).
I just did a little test with iperf:

Over my 4g connection to the 'server' box I get this:

[ 3] 0.0-12.4 sec 1.00 MBytes 676 Kbits/sec

Via an iodine tunnel:

[ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 178 KBytes 144 Kbits/sec

I did try and hit up fast.com from a ssh -D proxy over the tunnel, but it didn't seem to like that very much.
agree - but don't think they are going out that far on the curve, probably more like 6m treasuries (2.5%) + interchange fees as you mentioned...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Rise of the Autonomous Economy
Las Vegas Housing Weakness Signals the Slowdown Is Spreading
I actually like the newish Sofi Money debit card. It offers 2% for checking (so not as good but better than any other checking account at the moment), but the real benefit to me is unlimited ATM fee rebates at any ATM worldwide (which doesn't seem to be true of RH's product).
Oh man I haven't heard of Kuro5hin in years. I actually deleted my account there when I got doxed years ago.
I’d imagine Sutton Bank, issuing their debit cards, is small enough to be Durbin-exempt which means they can charge full credit card interchange rates instead of the few cents per transaction the big guys are capped at. They can also collect data about their customers to offer lending products down the road like Mint does, so it can even be a marketing expense.
it's not uncommon to share the car with another 4-6 passengers, as people are picked up and dropped off along the way

I guess you have never been to Egypt or any other third world country where this is completely normal and not an app in sight
Ask HN: Is there any good literature on Offensive PR/Communications Theory?
HN recently had a couple articles about Facebook PR:

Facebook hired PR firm that wrote negative articles about Apple and Google [1]

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis [2]

While the articles make note of FB's offensive strategy, HN users also commented on the "Media narrative" attacking FB. I don't know much about public relations or communications theory, and I'm curious to learn more. What literature or resources are the best for getting up to speed on PR/Communications theory, and in particular offensive strategies?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18455077

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958
There's no reason to start with Python or Lisp, do whatever you want. Personally I found it easier to start with Lisp/Scheme since you aren't thrown into the world of 'everything is an object' and can build toy models yourself of data structures and objects in Lisp, and step through them to help with understanding. The Road to Common Lisp has some advice http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/ note the 'Lisp as a System' section: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#lis... where Lisp really shines if you're hacking on cruise control for fun.

If you're interested two really good rigorous beginner's books, designed by educators with data driven results on the effectiveness of their curriculum, is PAPL https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2018/ and HtDP https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/ PAPL is multi semesters of computer science combined into one book (beginner programming, graph theory, introduction to types, ect) and you use 'Pyret' which is essentially typed Racket. When you're done you'll be able to reason about and understand the programs you will be creating, and both those books teach you how to design complete programs. You'll have direct knowledge transfer to any language, even functional languages considering the type annotations PAPL uses look similar to OCaml/SML syntax. One of the author's of the book(s) posts here as well https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shriramkmurthi

Here's Matthias Felleisen (co-author HtDP, Little Schemer books) giving a talk about first year HtDP based Northeastern curriculum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9REURTUJR_I
Google Illegally Revealed Murder Suspect's Name via Mass Email
> … I find that IBM's Expensive Typewriter,…

Expensive Typewriter wasn't IBM.
Federal Reserve rates have been steadily increasing for awhile, and LIBOR is above 3% short term. If they use this depository capital influx to loan money to options / future traders on their own platform they'll make money, and they won't be paying it to other institutions.

30 year US treasuries are now also above 3%, and we may see that continue with shorter-term instruments so there's a hedge there as well.
I kept arguing with others on the Nextdoor app to keep a lid on their paranoia so much that I ended up leaving. The story that led me to leaving that community?
A van drove down a cul de sac and turned around. A homeowner thought that was suspicious and so jumped in their car and followed. They followed for a long time, then suddenly the van dips into another neighborhood, goes down a street, turns at the last moment, and goes down another street. This was even more suspicious! Except, what would you expect a driver to do when someone is following you through the entire city like a crazy person?
PSA: those using Robinhood for trading, they use the FIFO/first-in-first-out method for determining your cost basis when you sell. This can have unexpected tax consequences.

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001226966
Ask the Dust - John Fante

Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

The Star Diaries - Stanislaw Lem

Maus - Art Spiegelman

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Japanese Destroyer Captain - Tameichi Hara

Elementary Go Series #1: In the Beginning - Ikuro Ishigure

Dune - Frank Herbert

Biohacking Manifesto - James Lee

The Trumpets of Jericho - Zurn
>"A judge just blocked another effort to raise wages for restaurant workers in DC"

Are maximum wages (set by law) a thing in the US? I only knew about the minimum wage concept.
People failing to load the page, note that http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... works.
Create GBA games using Rust
i got a location of the building out of the person i was talking to, and it wasn't where google is. i also know the name of the contractor, and it didn't match any of the signage i saw last time i walked past the google construction site.

so... i'm sure. take that for what you will.