skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WeChat is not an independent company; the comparison doesn't really apply.

But to your point, the biggest single share holder of Tencent is Naspers -- a South African company -- which at it's hight owned 45% of the company but currently owns about 35%. Their orignal investment of US$18M is now worth over US$115B. Foreign companies have a long long history of taking major stakes in Chinese tech companies. Softbank and Yahoo both had major stakes in Alibaba. The large American VCs tend to be fairly active in China.

Also anyone can go buy shares in Tencent themselves. They are a major part of my portfolio. And if you don't want to buy them directly then KWEB is a great ETF that focuses on the China tech industry. BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) makes up the majority of KWEB.

Edit: Maybe you meant Alphabet specifically. Yes, that could be more difficult because of Google's long history of operating more as an extension of the US State Department than a private company.
Perhaps there are issues I have not considered, but I always appreciated the fact that original netcat accepts "serialized" IP addresses, as the author calls them. For example, 127.1 as shorthand for 127.0.0.1.
Let’s cut down the slack and focus on processing itself.

It wouldn’t hurt to know about the databases if they are heavily used as part of processing
This clause is not legal or enforceable. You can sue anyone you agreed not to, contrary to corporate legal attempts to intimidate.
Dealing with auto layout is probably my least favorite aspect of iOS dev, but I wouldn't recommend doing layout by hand. There are just too many variables to consider to write really robust manual layouts.

That said I'm really disappointed with UIStackView. When it was first announced it seemed like a great solution to a lot of common layout problems but in practice I've found it tends to cause as many problems as it solves and now I mostly just use it when I need a clean way to hide & reveal various UI elements dynamically. I'd take some variant of flexbox over all this any day.
See: the SAS Institute model of profit sharing, which they began shortly after forming the business. It has endured in an extremely successful manner for four decades as SAS has remained private.

To put this into context. Facebook will likely hit ~$17 billion in profit for fiscal 2017. They have 20,000 employees. If their only obligation was to employees as owners, they could very safely distribute half a million dollars per year perpetually to every one of their employees (while distributing billions to the early shareholders). This model would have vastly outperformed the IPO model as far as the VC firms are concerned (specifically as far as their institutional capital suppliers are concerned). Most VC investment gets liquidated early on, shortly after the IPO (the same happened with Google, most of the early backers bailed not long after the IPO, or their returns to date would be comically higher; Peter Thiel made the same choice with his Facebook position, selling a lot of it early after the IPO).
Robert Kiyosaki covered this topic pretty thoroughly in Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
I don't live in Silicon Valley, and I don't think are pitch-events in Taiwan. Certainly not where I could give a presentation for free, I'd probably have to pay to join.

Customer-driven innovation means I have to find people who will give me money first, and then make a product to sell so I can take their money.

The problem is that I don't know anybody who will give money to me for any reason, even though I have plenty of friends. We're all too busy just trying to pay for food and shelter. I think that rich people can easily start companies because they have rich friends who will pay them. So the only products that get made are things that benefit rich people, not poor people.
Hey looks really cool. Have you checked out collaborizm.com I'm the CTO, we have maker projects and a community which helps users take their products to the next level.
ive always liked the idea of automated restaurants. weve seen what automation has done for car production, so its interesting to imagine what an automated restaurant might be like. since the food is the product of very exact expenditures of energy, time and resources, you could forecast, resupply and otherwise manage your output and resource levels in a much more accurate way, for one.

and of course, you could make the food a lot faster i would imagine. and you could make it perfect every time. and you wouldnt have to pay people huge amounts of money to make it. i would also advocate for automating the delivery of the food to the table but that might be off putting to customers, so you could just build a system that would automate most of the mental load of managing tables and just use your human employees as meat puppets for the delivery software. perhaps something like google glass could be used. i bet you could reduce your serving staff very dramatically by doing that.

and as for ingredients, you could even grow some of them. ive seen videos about restaurants in new york that use roof top aquaponics systems to grow all their vegetables. whether on the roof or off site, one would need to run both production and processing and delivery in order for uniform quality to be achieved. the quality of the ingredients is supremely important -- i went to sauls in the bay area and their cheese burger literally gave me pause. if you want to know the difference between average ingredients and good ingredients, go try the cheese burger at sauls medium well.

even outside of automation, there are so many improvements to be made. i used to work in a restaurant and they would cook food on these large woks. i would guess more than a third of the energy from the flames below simply go around the wok and up out of the vent hood. automating the heating of the food would probably make it much easier to capture and use all of that thermal energy instead of half.
Target-Action: A button needs to send a click action to a target handler.

Dependency Injection: A controller requires a service (e.g. access to some API) to work, so it's injected into the instance typically by the constructor. Think hierarchy or dependency graph.

Delegate: A table view draws cells in a table but it doesn't know how to draw them, so it delegates this to something else, typically the containing view controller. Data Sources are a similar concept but instead of asking the receiver to do something it asks the receiver a question about the data it's supposed to model. For example the table view would ask how many sections and rows do I have.

MVC: Model (data), View (visual representation of data), Controller (controlling flow of data to and from its visual representation).
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I thought this will be mentioned but no - what is private repositories are archived? Do they count against your private repositories (granted they want to push the newer users based pricing model)

Edit - Tried actually doing it and here is the message:

> You will still be charged for this repository. This will not change your billing plan. If you want to downgrade, you can do so in your Billing Settings.
>> It doesn't have to be 100% fair, but being somewhat egalitarian produces better results for everyone on the economic scale.

Why did you perceive my question to be anti-egalitarian?

I understand that a more equal society == better collective potential. BUT, our whole species (and life on this planet) is based on inequality. It started right from evolution (other animals got extinct) and it goes on until today because not all genes are equal.

Now this doesn't mean that we shouldn't remove/reduce artificial barriers to equality but we gotta realize that inequality is inherent. What makes humans awesome is that we have a brain and can strive for the collective good.
Probably because spaces have long been an important delimiter in queries and shells.
If someone is targeting you and especially you, I assume it wouldn't be super complicated.

However, purchasing a thousand SSNs and automating signups sounds hell of a lot easier than purchasing a thousand passports and physically visiting the bank offices.
Picking an issue at random:

>A minority of individuals may elect to have personalized modules sitting at home so they can leave their vacation stuff and the kids' soccer gear in them. They'll still want that convenience.

I think Bob owns a car. I don't right now, but I've owned a car, motorcycle, and bicycle. The storage ability is incredibly undervalued.
Do you have an opinion on the correct balance between state a federal powers, and how long ought an election cycle be - does the adding a ballot based recall mechanism change things?

I'd argue our style of law making is no different than other western democracies. How do you feel law making should be different?
You can use mako in salt, I haven't had any issues with it at all.
And there is decent free healthcare.

But nobody really starts companies here....
The power needed to create a HD need to be accounted for and the metal supply that it lowers could create issues that needs electricity to make up for, just a theory.
Why do we step on ants and spiders?

It doesn't need to be rational. All it takes is one sufficiently powerful species to decide "better safe than sorry" and lobbing suitable planet killers at any new upstarts they notice.
Its almost comical to watch Trump threatening all these wars when at the end of the day social inequality is so bad that effectively there is no one to draft. The typical cannon fodder of yore have been so beat down they would last 15 minutes or less on a battlefield. The only ones healthy enough to serve have parents rich enough to by their way out of a draft. You can't do a ground invasion with just drones manned by chubby kids with joysticks in a bunker. Corporate America has been so ruthlessly effective at pushing through such brutal levels of inequality that its actually become an existential threat to national security.
There is no money to be made.

You won't be able to build a network in more than a few cities at first because anything else would cost astronomical amounts of money.

That means that the current monopolist in those cities can afford to lower prices, making your investment unprofitable.
I do love AVX512 and FMA instructions for CPU code with lots of branching. But that's not definitely going to cut it for the pure almost solely linear algebra workloads of most deep learning.

I do have high hopes for their memristor initiative, but that's got to be years out.

The GPU move is smart for Intel.
Have you ever heard the expression hindsight is 20/20?

Yes, he made a lot of mistakes but it wasn't clear to him at the time. And of course he didn't know what he was bad at. We are all bad at several things.

It's good to keep these things in mind, whether it is for a restaurant or a tech startup.
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Many of my dreams have died after I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation of startup costs and revenue potential.
Our current rate of population growth is declining, and projected to become negative (for a while) towards the end of this century, before resuming growth at a much slower pace.

Not disagreeing with your conclusion, but assuming the current rate of population growth is relatively meaningless seeing as no reasonable model assumes current growth rates will continue (as it's been steadily changing).
I completely agree with that. Employee satisfaction surveys are always biased. But for me, this product looks much interesting when it comes to lead generation and customer satisfaction surveys. I would be curious to fiddle around, if I get a chat like personalized popup, for my opinions when I visit a website I use frequently. I feel like chat based interface for collecting feedbacks is a way to go. Congrats Shihab and team!
>> Had ordinary people being inconvenienced as some stories in media and reports suggest BJP would have become a political pariah.

Chalk it up to the successful propaganda by the party. Anybody against it was either a corrupt/black money hoarder or unpatriotic or both.Nobody wanted to be labeled that with the growing nationalism. Of all the leaders of corporate houses only one spoke out against demonetization.

>> This has reduced bank lending rates. Banks are offering housing, business and other loans at a lower rate.

Yes, a major side-effect of this is that banks flushed with cash can show a reduction in NPAs(which is a major crisis India's banking sector is grappling with), and can freely lend again, which will lead to more NPAs down the line.
Totally agree on this point. I mean, if we could as humans as a race come together and figure out how to live on this planet together, imagine what we could do.

Also good point to remember is maybe the aliens are nothing like we imagine they are, maybe they are already here and we just as a agreed collective don't yet have the capacity to sense this. There are many stories of people communicating with ETs already, if people did some research and had the capacity to understand more of the spiritual nature of things we would already see this on a global scale I believe.
Sure, sure—but you're cutting one small phrase out of my larger sentiment. I know it's a dumb platitude. I said as much. I'd prefer the focus of my comment be the rest of it.

I didn't think I had to break it down further, and I was trying to be cool and all that, but what I was trying to say is: [if you know that area of Toronto, the location he chose was not that out of the way business-wise, but it is a little bit and ] he was trying to bring growth and culture to an area of his city that needs it. He was trying to do something that would have a significant positive impact for his family and his community. That seems like a good thing to me, overall.

He didn't do everything wrong. The reviews he received, being rated higher at some point than Bar Isabel (one of the best, if not the, best Spanish restaurant in the city), and Cafe Boulud (one of the finest French restaurants in the city at the Four Seasons in Yorkville) are substantial.

Wasn't congratulating the guy. He's got a tough road ahead. I'm just encouraging the humanist understanding treatment vs. hard-analytical treatment of the article. He already knows he's screwed He's said as much. That might mean he wrote it for another reason, no? It certainly isn't encouraging charity. Maybe he just wrote it for people like himself to read? I think that's a good starting question.
I just opened a bank account in Germany via an app.

I had a choice between either using my eID for verification, or doing a video call and showing the ID into the camera (in a way that their systems can automatically verify the security measures).

It took 20 minutes to go from nothing to having an account, and being able to move money to ans from it.
I'd love to see some examples of a proper GraphQL gateway that consumes the cache control
Yeah I second this. Despite having a superior type system, flow is so behind in both tooling and 3rd party library definitions it's really hard to justify continuing to use it over typescript. It's weird to say, but the unsoundness of typescript doesn't matter much next to all the other advantages.

Besides, I feel like if I really want a strong type system https://reasonml.github.io/ might be the better choice over flow.
By customer-driven, I mean the first talk to customers, then code. Understand what kind of job your customers are doing (don't talk about a product, just try to understand your customers), for example, people who study Chinese what kind of day to day tasks/job/activities they do related to learning Chinese? What gives them the most pain/problems? Is there anyting that you can do about it?

I don't agree with "rich people statement". I started my first web-consulting company by self-learning how to code websites and then lived in a shitty room in Russia with my girlfriend, barely making money for a rent and food.
Rich kids with some brain and brawns. I just want to be fair with the rich kids
If you have a way to circumvent the electronic signing solution used by most European eIDs, then nothing stops you anyway.
Now they may know “the rationale behind doing this”?
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This has been an issue with Mosh for a long time, finally one solution has appeared.

Mosh Issue: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120
For a long time it was illegal to use SSNs as identifiers except for tax purposes. It was a mistake to allow that restriction to be rescinded.
It's about maintainability more than anything. I want a different developer to be able to jump in an understand a code base as quickly as possible. In my experience, unless there is a lot of duplicated code, it's usually much more cost effective in the long term to repeat yourself a few times (heresy I know).
You don't really value them at $0. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a binding contract saying you'll transfer them to me for $100 paid now.

Hey, that's $100 for free! Only it shows you don't really value them at zero. It's only a slightly smaller lie than founders who insist their startup is worth hundreds of millions.

The truth is somewhere betweem the two...
Unfortunately I agree with your intent (going after your dreams, trying to enrich your life or enlighten yourself in a way that may seem crazy to most) but disagree that it can be applied here.

He literally did nothing to prepare himself to fulfill his dream other than a mandatory 3 months of lazily being a line cook learning nothing, and a weekend cooking at a festival.

I'm not in the food industry, but off the top of my head here are basic things I would advise to prepare yourself for success:

1. Get yourself a year of runway so that you can spend 1 year being a restaurant owner's apprentice. Spend 3 months being a line cook, 3 months working bar, 3 months wait staff, and 3 months helping with the book.
2. Use this year network with restaurant owners. Agree to buy 10 them drinks so they can tell you about their biggest mistakes. This < $1000 investment probably could have saved him 10s of thousands.
3. Use this year to also network in the service industry generally, which tends to have high turnover and is good to have a network to find replacements.

This plan took me 10 minutes to think of and could probably be vastly improved. Instead he just hoped things would somehow work out. At some point you shouldn't applaud someone for following their dreams and instead just call it what it is, dumb.
By customer-driven, I mean the first talk to customers, then code. Understand what kind of job your customers are doing (don't talk about a product, just try to understand your customers), for example, people who study Chinese what kind of day to day tasks/job/activities they do related to learning Chinese? What gives them the most pain/problems? Is there anything that you can do about it?

Before trying to sell, try to understand your customers. If you really solve an important problem for them - people will pay.

I don't agree with "rich people statement". I started my first web-consulting company by self-learning how to code websites and then lived in a shitty room in Russia with my girlfriend, barely making money for a rent and food. I found first customers by browsing and phone-calling through local classifieds.
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Is the demand for it that is creating the rise of illicit data collections.
What do you mean? I can use my driver's license as an ID in any state.
Regex was taking 5 days to run. So I built a tool that did it in 15 minutes
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Apologies, I'm a few glasses of wine in, and your elucidation made it much clearer. Thank you for your response!
Except this ignores scarcity. And also ignores post-scarcity; this is the time period when robots do all work and farm all resources leaving humanity to decide the value of things divorced from rarity and labour. I will concede to Marx one aspect of his maxim; that is, scarcity is directly correlated with human effort towards a reseller market. So it still applies even if indirectly. For example, there is less labour spent trying to skim off the top of automotive mechanics work than labour spent reselling gold or limited edition Nike Airheads, etc....
That’s actually a salient point! I appreciate you telling me that as I had not thought of it that way! Seriously.
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Are you saying that the only, readily available, modern x86_64 system without this crap (or AMD equivalent - or Apple equivalent) is a mac?

Any sources for IME being completely disabled / not present on macs?
Thats one hell of a test..
why do we all have to be so stoic and serious? can't we have a bit of fun?
No kidding. When he learned (to his surprise) that he could barely afford a food truck already, that should have been a red flag.
Has anybody found a way to combine GraphQL and REST in a common API? I've searched but so far found no idiomatic ways to accomplish that.

The reason I need REST in addition to GraphQL is that there are sometimes oddball cases where only GraphQL is a poor fit or where compatibility with older clients that I can't modify has to be ensured.

Also, is there a good way to do file upload of big files with GraphQL nowadays?
Hinglish alone won’t do. Any business targeting India must crack these languages
I would say for the median engineer, a buyout is better because valuable employees will be put on a retainer, which is where the real money is for the little guys.
SheepMind

I must say, these past couple days on HN have been exceedingly sheepish. Yesterday I believe there was a story about [Google] Sheep View.
Some sources on this? I’d love to read more.
Potential downsides to consider:

1. What happens when we remove the "negative" side of using plastic products? Why use less if the worms can eat it all? I'm guessing production and consumption of single use polyethylene products will increase.

2. What if the worms escape control, (like the possums in New Zealand, the farmed salmon in the pacific etc etc) then what sort of new disaster do we have on our hands?
Life could be fair-er. Artificially made so. Hypothetically made so. Do we have to rest on social Darwinism as the organizing principle of society simply because it is natural? Human history is in part a gradual divorce from such naturalism, a gradual mitigation of the base suffering of animals.
Except with lots of blame on display to ruin the culture.
It's not disabled.
that's pretty impressive

You can also run aclock on on an emulated tek terminal.

https://github.com/tenox7/aclock

Though you need to download the tek source (its one file) and compile it.
I've often wondered about the selection bias of the "80% of restaurants fail, they're the worst investment" because I had a suspicion that many people start restaurants thinking essentially, "My Mom's pasta sauce is so good, people say they would pay for it. I should open up a restaurant with her recipe." and then proceed to fall flat on their face.

Reading this article, I think I'm right. I wonder what the success rate is of a restaurant is when the owner has even a basic idea of how the various positions in a restaurant work and the important business metrics.
Most software companies. And 4-6 hours is optimistic. Actual productive time for most people is more around 3-4 hours per day.
How many throws did Mark Zuckerberg have? Sergey and Larry? Elon Musk? I'm not saying life is fair, but you shouldn't generalize like this.