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In case my comment was ambiguous, this article was a pretext for a critic to repeat a trope wrapped in trivia, and an attempt to conflate their opinion with insight. It begged mockery.

To address it directly, the article was a vehicle for a criticism of the legitimacy of masculine traits without demonstrating any competence in embodying them, making it a petty complaint wrapped in academ-ese.

If gender norms were arbitrary, anyone could be a good man, even a great one, and yet even though this is allegedly arbitrary, there are still so few of them. What the author views critically as "performance" is the effect of their embodiment, just as music is not arbitrary and merely performed, but the effect of the skill of the performer. This trope that masculinity is merely performitive is like saying Rachmaninoff or Arthur Rubinstein were just actors. It's the artifact of a dissociated hall of mirrors worldview that has seized intellectuals who have no grounding in physicality and competence. All I can add is, sure, totally performitive.

Having a critical theory of music does not make one a musician, and playing some show tunes doesn't make you a great one. While the listener is free to like or dislike it, the author's opinion carries about as much weight as any other complaint.

I do agree that a man is certainly not his beard, in fact to have one is a statement that he is more magnificent than his beard, which, given modern grooming concoctions, is a very bold statement to make indeed.

What makes hipsterdom so laughable is that their beards are more remarkable than their achievements. What makes this article laughable is the author can't tell the difference.

I would regret if my views were not presented clearly.
Is anything preventing debt collectors from being Verified by Twilio?
I will install whatever app I need to get this service if it works as advertised. Well done and congrats to the team(s) that worked on this project. It's a travesty that we need a private company to solve this problem, or even that the problem exists in the first place when we as a society could have legislated it away a while ago. However, a fix is a fix.
Nice development! Would be interesting to see something like amdgpu rewritten in Rust.
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Javascript has adopted this, among other nice things it's gotten from Perl.
perl5 needed a single switch to make it loosey-goosey anything goes otherwise have use strict and -w by default.

That one decision cost the language so very much. I miss Perl. Python is what was pushed on me by employers and it's fine, it's perfectly acceptable. As is ruby and many others but I just miss Perl.

I hope the Perl6/Raku folks get things happening in their tech and perception of it the way they might like. I think they deserve a break.
Ha! We went into a Panera Bread last week. There were two counters but no service. We stood there for several minutes expecting someone to take our order at the counter and then realized there were iPads to place your order.

We ordered soup and bread and a couple drinks. For $20 you obviously get what you pay for, but is it a place I would really ever go out of my way to eat at? No.

It was clearly microwaved soup with way too much salt. The place was rather filthy inside. The people working there didn’t want to be there and neither did we.

Maybe it’s nostalgia but years and years ago I recall Panera having better service and food. I didn’t really change my standard that much (we eat out a few times a year and not at upscale places).
It's not a solved problem, and it's not just s simple technology problem. It's a problem of getting a large number of people from far-flung suburban or even rural areas into a small urban area, and then back home again.

It's still the last-mile into the city that's going to be congested, and far flung commuters complain about local commuters "Don't make dedicated bus lanes, they slow my car commut!" or "Get those bikes off the road, I'm already driving an hour to get to work, they are slowing me down" or "What do you mean you want me to park outside of the city and take the train, I'm already in my car, I'm not going to go park and then ride a train".
I wonder how many of the spam calls are actually powered by Twilio? Is this an instance of a company trying to make money by getting paid by businesses on one hand to do spam calls, and getting paid by consumers on the other hand to block spam calls?
so he pulled it off the shelves. The man is a hero for our times.
Well that's cool I guess. But:

1. How are they partnering with all of the device companies to get this on at least most phones? That'd be interesting to know.

2. I guess somebody has to type that intro text. As long as they're doing that, why bother with a normal call? How about just sending the text instead. Or send a text and let me call back for more details when it suits me, either right away or in 10 minutes. It sounds like whoever is sending these probably has a call center or somebody who's job is to sit around and answer the phone when it rings.
Probably no different than the scammers that are A+ rated by the BBB.
Let’s not forget the Game of Thrones books, which depict politics in a strikingly selfish and human way
See the link in the parent comment.
Quality of educational is proportional to quality of evaluation.

Evaluation of how well someone follows arbitrary language conventions is worse than useless.

I only got to university English 101 outside of some technical writing in the engineering department, but I have to say none of my education in writing was worth anything past elementary school. It is perhaps one of the most difficult things to teach and evaluate, to be fair, but I feel like I am missing a huge chunk of my education and general ability because of it. I can't write or form an argument particularly well, rambling on HN and the like is the closest thing to education I have had.

Prescriptive language rules are not entirely useless. That is the best you can say about them.
Ie, if the algorithms fail to make you over-use it
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Security in IoT devices - how to stop millions of new computers from getting hacked?
You’re ignoring the comment two above you. The suggestion was that there are no uses for Perl 6. That implies there’s at least one language that does what it does. There is not.

If you need real rational number math and are doing a lot of text processing for example, there might not be a better alternative.
i used to agree, but i've found a 3.5mm aux cord can fall out quite easily over bumps as the phone gets old. otherwise completely agree.
Express tolls here max out at $10 - I'll pay the $10 if it saves me 30 minutes (the toll signs also give expected travel times for the express (toll) lanes compared to the regular lanes).
Just curious: if you're not interested in the ads part, why did you decide to switch, rather than using Chrome/Firefox with an ad blocker?
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Ask HN: How Will “Web Assembly” Succeed Where “Adobe Flash” Failed?
From what I've read [1], Flash was initially accepted, but then gradually hated more as [2] problems became obvious.

Could the same be true for the adoption of "Web Assembly"? Besides using the Javascript runtime and sandboxing, they seem like they may have similar problems in the future like; running binaries, compatibility, security updates... just like Flash did... but maybe this time it's different...

[1] https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-story-of-flash/

[2] https://www.granneman.com/webdev/graphicsmultimedia/multimedia/flash/whatswrongwithflash
I'm skeptical for the following reasons:

1. Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls, so I'm always a little skeptical when the company selling the poison is also selling the antidote.
2. I really don't like the idea of a single company being responsible for a global verification system for something like phone calls. How are decisions made over what is verified (e.g. the example shows "call purpose" snippets on the screen - if I put something there saying "I have an important flight update", but then my call is "You're only getting free peanuts on your flight, but if you enroll in this MileagePlus card you'll get snack mix too!" who judges that?)

Overall I'd just say with all the consolidation of power with US tech giants I am extremely wary of giving them anything else that could consolidate that power further. I would much prefer an open, federated model.
> without any kind of guidance or oversight of the repairs made using the parts that they would be forced to provide

I may have missed calls to force Apple to sell parts. Is that actually happening? In any case, aftermarket parts exist, but Apple is intentionally annoying users with persistent messaging in their product and intentionally making their devices difficult to repair. Further, Apple often replaces devices instead of repairing. Difficult repair in not incidental to their design; they're doing it on purpose. And I wouldn't expect Apple to have oversight of an unaffiliated company. It's not their business to play regulator.
That's entirely fair. Manipulation is kind of what a writer does yet the word manipulative has perjoritive connotations. Many types of writing don't have literal truth as any kind of pre-requisite. Others make a pretence of literal truth to achieve greater effect then basically lie, many autobiographies fall into this trap to some degree. All these things. Differential empathy. Data quality matters.
I was just reviewing my call detail records on my "home" number yesterday, and realizing that the vast majority are spam - we pretty much don't answer that phone. This got me thinking about alternatives to even ringing for any unrecognised numbers, such as an IVR menu that said something like "Hi, we're screening spam, press 4 2 if you're a real person". I'm not sure how that'd be accepted by, for example, the dentist office though. Has anyone set something like that up?

I really hope Twilio is successful with this - it would definitely help, so long as there's a way to avoid abuse.

Just in case someone asks why I still have a "landline": it's VoIP, and I maintain it for basically two reasons:

* We use our VoIP number anytime we have to give a number out as part of signing up for something, rather than cell numbers

* It typically costs me under $25/year, which is actually mostly the 911 fee (oh, and it's an extra way to call 911, if we need to)
An iPad is not going to survive in a parked car in the hot sun. Supposedly that's the reason that Tesla's have the "dog mode" aka "Cabin Overheat Protection". Their cars will cool themselves down to prevent the big touchscreens from being destroyed by high temperatures.
This is a great list of my exact same needs. I believe that the correct solution is a desktop application. How many of you/us do you think there are? And how much would you/they pay for this?
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Also from Detroit. Dearborn is in Metro Detroit. I don’t know anyone who would nitpick this.
Its difficult to "guess" ahead of the fact how you are going to scale for the next 10x, because you need to know.

a.) Which component is going to start breaking, and that depends on the usage pattern.

b.) Which business/tech compromises are ok to make, and that depends on a.)

Generally speaking though, you'd try to benchmark the system to find the bottleneck component, and based on the nature of it, either try to throw more hardware (horizontal or vertical scaling) or optimize the software.
Just a wild and crazy guess here...but if you take this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1145778611242319874 in context with the following hint:

"To be targeted might mean simply being born in a certain geographic region or being part of a certain ethnic group." (https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...)

...and then if you think about what's been going on in Hong Kong recently -- search iPhone and Hong Kong in both languages and you'll find some interesting posts on Twitter that appear not to want folks to know that:

"All that users can do is be conscious of the fact that mass exploitation still exists and behave accordingly; treating their mobile devices as both integral to their modern lives, yet also as devices which when compromised, can upload their every action into a database to potentially be used against them." (https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...)

...it kind of reveals itself.
Not OP, but FWIW your italicizing of drugabuse.gov also gave me the impression that you were dismissing it purely by domain. I did not ready any rudeness in your parent.
That's a pretty bizarre basis for differentiation - I grew up swimming in the ocean, eyes wide open. never once did I get red eyes. Chlorine in pools is a different story.
Note: FB actually has a higher barrier, just not right around signup. If they detect "bot behavior" (rules vary), they freeze the account and ask for a government ID.

Agree with the fact that companies "complaining" about bots, actually benefit from them. And even use them. I was looking at huge proxy servers providers and they have those same companies in their client list too.
I don't think the private methods proposal will help with cryptography at all. The "security" it provides boils down to making it difficult for code outside the class to access the value, like you can already do with closures like this:

function makeCounter() {
var x = 0;
return function() { return ++x; };
}

It doesn't help at all with side-channel attacks, which are the main reason why it's hard to safely perform cryptographic operations in a just-in-time interpreted language like JavaScript. It also doesn't stop rogue scripts on the same page from pulling the user's passwords/keys right out of the password field, URL bar, localStorage, or wherever else your script gets them from.
Sounds like the start of something good. Though the comments feel a bit weird. Maybe it's just a strange day for some reason, but I feel like today, I've seen an awful lot of comments from people pushing rewriting things in Rust who know absolutely nothing about the code they're asking about or the problem domain it runs in.

I mean, I personally think Rust is cool and all that, but come on, who does that?
GM recall 159k trucks for fire risk: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/07/12/chevrolet-silverado-gmc-...

GM recall 368k trucks for fire risk:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-recall/gm-recalls-3680...

GM recall 1mil trucks for power steering problems:
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-09-1...

Well...
Make something faster, get rich :-)
It presumably prevents it by forcing them to use a single verified number per corporate entity — this once I blacklist that entity, I can be done with them. The real problem these days, IMHO, is not repeated calls but spoofed calls where the source number changes every day, and thus cannot be blocked. This would solve that.
or you can run termux on android with a bluetooth portable keyboard https://termux.com/
Not understanding the GDP lawsuit. Who does adult film then gets upset at success? Seems like a back handed way to get to collect royalties. Good business for PH to pay top performers a reasonable share of ad revenue directly independent from their production company.
Risks are higher at the center of the cone. A hypothetical 100 mile wide storm that’s 40 miles west of the centerline still covers the centerline, but likely misses the eastern edge.

Also, staggered evacuation is a good thing, you don’t want everyone in a city to decide to leave at the same time.
I mean is this not literally the cost of business? I could think of a few things entirely outside of my company’s control that if happened would just straight up end our business within the week.
I have a grant where were are doing just that. Implementing more or less SOTA research using fairly vanilla LSTM networks from 2-3 years ago (primarily Taghipour & Ng) to provide low stakes feedback to students on their essays in one of our teaching tools at Purdue. It’s based on research using the Kaggle ASAP database and we have found it to be pretty accurate across a variety of domains in early testing. Though some essay prompts seem to do better with CNNs vs. RNNs. I doubt many of the systems in TFA are based on LSTMs or neural nets at all. They are probably doing regression on hand-crafted features.
> The method we developed images the eye multiple times to see whether it’s actually responding to changes in brightness

Hopefully the person does not have Argyll Robertson pupils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll_Robertson_pupil which is seen in late stage syphilis and causes the pupil not to react to the light.

Also, another thing is that they should make sure that they train their system with dark eyed people. Often the iris is very easy to identify if people with light colored eyes. In people with dark eyes, it may be more difficult.
> So do what? Contact her local police?

> With a written accusation from a child? Is that enough to get a warrant to force the company to release the demographic information?

Yes, she should have absolutely went to the local police. A child's first hand account in writing of child abuse and neglect is slam dunk evidence to secure a warrant to link the essay ID to the individual child.

> Everything she took in and out of there was monitored, too. So it's not like she can go to the Xerox, and walk out of there with a copy.

Doesn't matter. She could have went to the police herself as a witness. That alone would be enough for a probable cause warrant to retrieve the essays.

It is very sad she saw these signs of abuse and did not report it.
A biocompatible magnetic skin that could enable new wearable systems
Need to use a cloud synchronization AND a backup service/scheduled app, or switch email providers such as setting up your own domain and email server in a country like Sweden, Iceland or Ukraine.

- https://www.cloudhq.net

- Make periodic backups of Gmail using IMAP https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gmail+backup+migration
Nice project. It's out of production and out of stock as so many of these projects almost always are.

Maybe I'll just make some clasps and instructions on how to tape it to a proper keyboard such as the king of all keyboards for all time: Keytronic KT-2001.
I want to know if that worked out for the parent!
If this works as advertised, this is great. Because of all the spam calls people just don’t bother answering the phone at all.

We just started testing texting people before we call them and getting consent on an opt in form to receive a text message.

Im still not sure on the “how”
I enabled call screening with Google Voice, where callers who are not in my contacts are asked to say their name before they are connected.

It completely weeds out robocalls, and no actual humans seem to have an issue with it. On the contrary, everyone sees why it's necessary.
Gojek is a super app in Indonesia serving a population of 264 million. They can afford this level of engineering and are required to do it, to stay competitive. They have millions of motorcycle driver (called gojeks) for whom they are trying to find jobs while idling waiting for passengers to transport.

If uber built these no one will question them why don't they use some off the shelf solution. Gojek is a google cloud customer and under their startup program - surge. So I am sure they are aware of the solution proposed.

They don't call themselves technology company but company which helps gojek drivers to find jobs and earn extra. In the process they became a food delivery, transportation, payments, courier company. In spite of this they still focus on their primary objective to find jobs for gojek and let them earn extra for better living.

Before Gojek app most of the drivers were just idling waiting for passengers, now with a $25 Kai OS feature phone [1], they can just receive a message and earn instead of just idling, they don't have to use iPhone or Android or some heavy OS. Indeed based on social survey some of the drivers could increase there earning 3-4 times based on how willing are they to take up additional jobs.

I believe the beauty of Gojek lies in its model to focus on finding jobs and developing solution to help those motorcycle drivers using technology. Although they extended it to cars. I am intrigued by their idea since its not a copy of Uber, but a solution to a problem local to Indonesia, which can extend to any country in the world finding jobs to do while idling and earn more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
Apple gave a talk this year at BlackHat that talked about some of the new security mechanisms.
That’s what you’re doing wrong.
> With blurry data, there's not much you can do.

The brain does an awful lot with blurry and outright missing data. Look at something in your peripheral vision and name the colour of it, that's the brain filing in information that your eyes can't see. We only have good eyesight in a surprisingly small region directly in front of us.

> The dividing line between near and mid peripheral vision at 30° radius is based on several features of visual performance. Visual acuity declines by about 50% every 2.5° from the center up to 30°, at which point visual acuity declines more steeply.[18] Color perception is strong at 20° but weak at 40°.[19] 30° is thus taken as the dividing line between adequate and poor color perception. In dark-adapted vision, light sensitivity corresponds to rod density, which peaks just at 18°. From 18° towards the center, rod density declines rapidly. From 18° away from the center, rod density declines more gradually, in a curve with distinct inflection points resulting in two humps. The outer edge of the second hump is at about 30°, and corresponds to the outer edge of good night vision. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_vision
The article mentions this:

>Perl 6 performance has now gotten to the point where it's often comparable to Perl 5 or surpasses it. It still needs some work in this area, but the work is clear, the goals are straightforward, and Perl 6 is going to easily oustrip Perl 5 in terms of performance.

I hope it's true. Perl was a great language that was ahead of it's time. Eg, most complaints about Perl boil down to needing an equivalent of PEP8 and a linter.
This practice is called cashing out brand equity and it’s a calculated move to increase profit margins despite damage to the brand.

The key here is that the brand itself does lose its power in the process. It’s a self correcting problem.
This particular linux thing wouldn't involve rewriting anything in Rust.
Wouldn't it require a set of business rules instead of a comprehensive design model? It's logic programming. Based on those rules it can determine whether the input I passed in should produce the output I received.

The logic programming suggestion would be much less work but is usually overlooked. Probably because that kind of subtle, concise code is the polar opposite of brute force fuzzing.
Sounds like CNIP from ISDN.
if for no reason than to see the error of their ways. Large MNCs don't think twice about the havoc they create in individual's lives when they lay them off.
Twilio is not responsible for much spam at all. Their prices are way too high to begin with. And you have no way to spoof your outgoing number.
Scalyr.com and Humio have some of the strongest logging platforms in the market. Their approach of not creating indexes to search makes em easy to work with.
Therapist for understanding and coping of the mind, psychiatrist for medicine to address mental dysfunction and illness

Both likely covered by insurance. And stop smoking weed.
Is there a particular distribution's customizations that you like? I've tried Ubuntu/Gnome and Manjaro/KDE and thought both were pretty bad out of the box. I can go into more detail if necessary...