skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started an ecommerce company with less than $100.

.asia domain name: $5

Google Play account: $25

Logo: Free. Designer friend did one in exchange for me doing an app for him. He decided not to do his app in the end, so it didn't even cost me man hours.

Development: An incubator (Startup House) gave us 3 months to stay + food.

Marketing: ~$5 for domain name, $25 for copywriting. We did a fake blog. Registered a domain name for it. Paid a blogger friend to write up something along the lines of "If you follow the Atkins Diet, you MUST download this app". We sneaked the link into an Atkins Diet Facebook group and got over 1,200 downloads in the first 24 hours.

Products: We made a recipe app and sold ingredients through it. Our ingredient supplier partners packed and delivered them for us. We simply gave them a list of who to send to and then paid them once every few weeks. We made almost no profit from this, roughly 5%, not including payment gateway, but we didn't have to have money on hand either. After verifying the business model, we bought the products, stocked, and distributed them ourselves, for up to 30% profit margin.

Later, we sold off the company, for more money than I've ever got in my years working.
Or we could just skip the proxies and bill people directly based on the estimated road damage done based on number of miles driven and the type of car driven. We could use the ubiquitous highway cameras to track that. Call it a "road use tax". I guess people might not appreciate the government tracking their movements, though.
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What is exactly? It's an industry with lots of money (100s of billions USD) flowing through with little oversight and cheap startup costs thanks to cloud vendors and commodity tech.

If there are criminals willing to invest intense effort committing physical crimes, it's expected that there would be a just as much put into something like this. Similar to a lot of the bitcoin/crypto dealings where there is plenty of organized crime involved.
> Yangtze (China) Indus (India, Pakistan, China) Yellow (China) Hai (China) Nile (Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea) Meghna (Bangladesh and I think India?) Pearl (China, Vietnam) Amur (Russia, China) Niger (Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin, Nigeria) Mekong (China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam)

If you add up the populations that live within 100KM of those rivers you'd probably be approaching 50% of the human population.
Sentimentalizing about drinking tea around a candle resting on a table of nice wood is all fine and dandy, but let's put aside the images of upper middle class comforts and imagine your local butcher embedded in a family and a local community. He's providing a service people need and he's receiving money for his work which he uses to support his family and keep his business running. There is a network of interdependence in communities that also extends into the economic sphere of life. The butcher's trade, craft, and work are meaningful and the meaning exists in that web of relations.

The butcher's motives are complex, but one motive is that his work is also for the sake of supporting himself and his family. His relationship with his family, his wife, his kids, is also complex, but part of it is the (at least partial) reliance on their husband and father in an economic sense.

What does UBI do to the butcher and his relationship to his family and to his community?
Humans have excelled at producing more than they need for centuries. Route everyone's outputs through yourself, and then dole out the necessities only. Now you're wealthy.

Edit: I guess what I'm saying is; things will stratify. Someone will always be "paying the rent".
Good luck my dude! Keep rocking it
>You're putting a lot of responsibility on some regular people.

Putting nuclear weapons at the finger tips of someone is a big responsibility.

>Ordinary citizens do not vote on issues affecting an individual country.

They vote on representatives that tend to have a policies that might. See for example those running on platforms on building border walls, kicking out immigrants, banning people from other nations from entering them, pulling out of climate change agreements, etc.

>I'm sorry, you're just going to have to accept the fact that not all Americans are well educated.

I accept that's the fact now. I don't accept that that should be a fact for the country's future.
Life sucks sometimes but it doesn't matter whether you merge or rebase in the scenario you describe, you need to test the combined version of the code. You can't just assume it is still working and whoever comes second needs to shoulder that responsibility.
With that amount of money the federal government could make a few interest payments on its debt and not even really make a dent in the total
But did you call the support phone number shown on the dodgy domain?
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K's approach of arrays of arrays would preclude an efficient 2d stencil operation wouldn't it?
Self-sufficiency is inefficient, but specialization has enabled greater and greater consumption rather than reduced impact.

If everybody lived like the Amish we might need to farm more land, but for example there wouldn't be much in the way of fossil fuel exploitation or mineral extraction.
If you are above a mid-level engineer the. I can agree with your point. It rarely financially turn out to be a good move.

However if you want to break into software engineering then startups can be a great place for a hungry developer to make their own waves, and potentially ride them to success.
My product manager litmus test
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we need a 'secure escape' sequence that disables all subsequent escapes until rescinded!

And it can change the background colour of the affected lines to a shade unrepresentable by unprivileged sequences.

Mostly tongue-in-cheek, but... one of these years I'm going to track down what the heck the 'PRIVACY MESSAGE' sequence is actually for. ECMA48 is infuriatingly vague, and nothing seems to actually use or support it.
Assuming no change in employment. Yet one of the first arguments for UBI is always that people can then quit their crummy jobs.
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I work at one of the companies in the parent post (~1/2 year), and worked mainly at startups prior.

I have less meetings than I had at most startups by a significant fraction.
I have total technical direction on the product I work on (within reason).
I have gotten to code in more languages than at any other shop I’ve been at, most of which I had zero professional experience in prior.
I work on an internal product that excites me & is more complex than anything else I have worked with prior professionally.
I work with any technology I like that does the job, new or old.
Have no competition to jump into management because not enough engineers want to become managers.
I also have flexibility to take days off unofficially because I work hard of my own volition, as well as work from home, and almost all of the flexibility I have gotten from startups.

Not to say I don’t like some things about startups - after all,
I worked at them for about 75% of my career spanning over 5 years. There are a lot of myths about bigger companies out there though I have found at my current job, and friends at similar companies like Facebook and Netflix.
“Misunderstand”? Yeah, right. They knew most donations are $1, and just wanted a bigger part of the pie.

If they were out to solve a problem, they’d just do this for transactions say $10 and above.

Nay, Patreon knew very well what they’re trying to do, and seeing it fail, decided to use the “play dumb” card.
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This is a sad sentiment, IMO.

A friend of mine who works in philanthropy educated me against my misconception that charities that spend a higher portion of their funds on non program fees (i.e. middleman type expenses, and not direct to the person who receives the benefits) are actually often more effective, rather than less.

I'm not an expert here, but this friend of mine is particularly thoughtful, so I'd say it's worth at least evaluating your position before you critique people like this.
It's a pretty intro level book, but a great one.

I'd say its suitable for maybe junior level undergraduates.
I dont think there is anything new. This shows up frequently it seems.
The narrative ends in 2008 with Nissan Motors attempting to "obtain a Federal Trademark Registration for computers and computer peripherals among other classes of goods and services" in an apparent attempt to create another line of attack. Nissan Motors applied in 2007 and were registered in 2013. Wikipedia says that Nissan Motors has dropped its claim on the Nissan.com domain name, and uses nissanusa.com instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Compu...

More detail here:

https://namecorp.com/nissan-com-a-20-year-battle-of-david-vs...
I learned on a typewriter (early 90's), and when I moved to a computer (I was poor and really didn't have access to one growing up) I initially used double spaces after the period, but at some point I switched.
The usual cloud offerings, e.g. Amazon AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, are relative expensive when you need large harddrives. At least when you rent for several weeks. My typical projects need 1TB fast SSD.

If drive speed is not an issue, it sounds like download speed is, have a look at a server auction https://www.hetzner.com/sb Those are servers other companies custom-ordered and no longer use. "2x 3TB" give you about 2.8TB usable space (drives are mirrored for redundancy by default, but you can change that and combine them).
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This doesn't make logical sense.

We don't care about their problems, their employees should go find another job which isn't so predatory and leaching off public programs and funding.

Nobody has to pay, a better alternative is for these publishers to cease to exist.
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It might be a very weird to sound that to install Apple App store or run iOS apps on your Android device because it is impossible to do so. However you may browse the Apple App Store from your Android mobile device. Have you ever tried to check out that Apple App Store through your Android device?
500m for what exactly? Really would like to see more numbers on this. Also dont see what Target has to gain from the acquisition, seems pointless given what I can see at surface level, there has to be more to this.
It is interesting that open access and preprint are being conflated in some way. At least preprints public. But why is a preprint public and final not in any case?
Bitcoin Cash.

They are sitting on hundreds of millions worth and stated they will give that to their customers.

Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin.
Commodity:
noun, plural commodities.
1.an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service.
2.something of use, advantage, or value.
3.Stock Exchange. any unprocessed or partially processed good, as grain, fruits, and vegetables, or precious metals.
4.Obsolete. a quantity of goods.

So if you're saying its a commodity (and therefore should be taxed), it has value (and has to be based on something).

But semantics aside, taxation is theft, even more so in this case - there's no justifiable reason to hand over a portion of the gains to a government that had no involvement in the creation of the source of revenue.
Looks like you've gotten some helpful tips so far. Here's a few things I can add.

As far as marketing yourself as niche vs. a generalist developer, it really depends on the types of clients and projects you are looking to work on. Being a generalist means you will qualify for more projects, and probably can create extra work for yourself since you can help clients with a broader range of development tasks. This will be useful if you want to help clients build and scale a product. Niche skills on the other hand means more niche marketability and searchability for clients looking for those specific skills.

When it comes to marketing yourself....keep blogging! Even if its only for 15 mins a day, write something. Share what you've been doing, answer questions for potential clients and other developers. You've already seen the pay off. Netowrk, online and off. Go to events and conferences, share your work and interests. Personal connections still count for a lot, and have a stronger tendency to lead to referrals.

Lastly, don't forget, as freelancer you are your own business. Some freelance platforms will take care of a lot of business aspects for you, but you still should be prepared/ knowledgeable about the following:
-Terms of Service Contract
-Your own (favorable) NDA
-Time Tracking/Invoicing Software
- Regular Review of Your Rate

Here's an article I wrote on landing clients as a freelance dev: https://www.codementor.io/blog/land-clients-freelance-develo...
I've sold and transferred more than $800K over the course of 3 days. I had no problem. This was from Gemini to a US Bank
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Wow is this for real?
Scotiabank, one of the biggest banks in Canada, has the same issue:

http://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/0,,2,00.html

Didn't find any contact to report it. Is Twitter really the right place?
The anecdote I heard was that the extra space made it more clear when sentences were ending based on how the fixed-width typeface would read. With proportional fonts the spacing is already clear enough with 1 space, and that has become the conventional thing. So adding the extra space creates too much space now. It certainly sends a signal to me that the person has absorbed a “rule”, but not its purpose, which I think doesn’t reflect well on that person. But on the whole that’s a minor side note and I try to not go overboard interpreting details like that.
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I studied hard for a year and now I have an AI job building robots
Ethereum explained by a Ninth Grader – I wish I was smarter than this kid
One of the sites he lists as fraudulent rargb.to is actually a torrent site as large as thepiratebay
I think I remember hearing about a common trick of buying a painting, holding it for a while, getting it appraised by someone who deems that the value has gone up to a bigger amount, donating the painting, and then you get tax breaks based on the appraised value, even if that appraised value is much higher than anyone else is actually interested in paying.

Granted, I can't remember if you're supposed to actually be able to turn a profit by doing this trick, or if it just makes it a little cheaper for rich people who want to temporarily own fancy things.
That's tautological. Implicit in the question is a request for an explanation of why both are not to blame. If you don't believe Bitcoin has an enabling or encouraging effect on activity that is bad for the environment, why is that? Why is it more appropriate to shift blame entirely on the energy provider instead of the very energy inefficient process?

Do you also suppose that we should reduce vehicle emissions by increasing the cost of gasoline? Why isn't it fair to blame vehicles that run on gasoline and vehicles which are particularly inefficient at running on gasoline?
A) Are we sure it even flies?

B) Do they have the very nuanced tech to handle the complexities of stealth?

C) Most important: it's a team, not a pilot. What makes US Air Power so effective is the coordination, and multi-role availability etc. AWACS, communications, meshed fighter groups, all sorts of strike packages from cruise missiles to drones etc.. So when you need to go in stealth and do the AA + Comms network, you can do that. When you need low-air with some jamming support etc. you can do that. When you need to hit something way past the horizon you can do that. When you want to linger forever you can re-fuel and do that.

Hopefully it will never matter, but the ability to project power makes a difference, even if it's not used.

Time to get some good gear into India ...
I find it interesting to read up on UBI schemes and the discussion here as well as Altman's is fascinating too.

What particularly strikes me is how he points out that this already exists in cultures. Even in villages in India, you'd find people simply willing to do stuff for each other. If you have a wedding in your family, the village will come together to cook and serve meals, offer hospitality to your guests and generally work to make everyone happy on the occasion. If you happen to be mentally ill, someone would still feed and clothe you, include you at least in some small way in their social life, and so on. You won't be abandoned.

UBI looks like a quantified version of this social capital. If we resist and think "why should someone else do nothing and get the benefits of my work?", the society has lost the practical generosities of village life and UBI might be a way to resurrect that. I personally find it pretty ridiculous that there are homeless and hungry people at all in the wealthiest of countries, and am certainly curious about what potentials UBI could unlock for them given they haven't yet fallen into antisocial ways despite their condition. Something is wrong if you see an old man in rags rummaging through a trash can for food scraps in a high GDP country.
Cloudflare isn’t an ISP.
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Thanks, the video link in the pdf doesn't work, but the one here does: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9SX5ANPyMzTNWgtMzdq...
As someone who works with a lot of people new to machine learning, I appreciate guides like this. I especially like the early slides that help frame AI vs ML vs DL so that people can have a realistic understanding of what these technologies are for.

For my part, one of the biggest realization I had after many years of applying machine learning was that I got too caught up in the machine learning algorithms themselves. I was often way too eager to guess and check across different algorithms and parameters in search of higher accuracy. Fortunately, there are new automated tools today that can do that automatically.

However, the key piece of advice I'd give someone new to machine learning is not to get caught up in the different machine learning techniques (SVM vs random forrest vs neural network, etc). Instead (1) spend more time on translating your problem into terms a machine can understand (i.e how are you defining and generating your labels) and (2) how do you perform feature engineering so the the right variables are available for machine learning to use. Focusing on these two things helped me build more accurate models that were more likely to be deployed in the real world.

Feature engineering in particular has become a bit of a passion of mine since that realization. I currently work on an open source project called Featuretools (https://github.com/featuretools/featuretools/) that aims help people apply feature engineering to transactional or relational datasets. We just put out a tutorial on building models to predict what product a customer will buy next, which is a good hands on example to learn from https://github.com/featuretools/predict_next_purchase for beginners.
The article I linked to was from ABC news (as mainstream a news source as you could find).

How is this propaganda? You're saying people in countries with hyperinflated currency have no use for crypto and don't use it? Can you back this up? Can you explain why there are significant premiums for Bitcoin when buying from exchanges from these countries? Or is this propaganda too?

Of course there isn't data (except of course from the exchange rates). These people are breaking the law and at risk of death or imprisonment. What type of evidence would satisfy you?
Having KPIs in different calculators, without ability to save the data or share the results gets confusing fast. I'd prefer downloadable spreadsheets like https://www.eloquens.com/category/startups/kpi-dashboards
Yet incredibly predictable. I mean... are you surprised?
CryEngine is amazing technology and CryTek is a great company. I believe there must be merit to this. Star Citizen is also a very cool project and so I hope they work things out together. I want both companies to be very successful.
Most of those quotes are from the activist group Hope not Hate. They are a group on the left saying a group on the right is bad. Can you see how this is a deeply political issue?

I hear far too often that people on the right are white nationalist, yet I see no one presenting evidence they are.
There are some white nationalist on the right but I don't think it's fair to tar everyone on the right with the same brush.
Eh. But inflation only affects nominal assets like bonds and bank account balances. Real assets like houses or stocks (to a degree) would be expected to rise along with inflation.

That makes inflation distortionary, not some ideal tax on wealth. Governments can't just run away with inflation as an alternative to tax.
If you just wanted the videos: https://goo.gl/x67ioE.
This is going to be tough. The competition in payment ecosystem is pretty hot in India. You have Alibaba funded paytm with about 250 million users. They provide digital wallet services which can be used for buying anything from flights tickets to electronics online or paying for Uber. Apart from that they are also present offline, you can but grocery or even tea with that. Additionally they also have payments bank licence so you can have your bank account there itself. Then there is Jio money funded by India s richest man which also operates in telecom and has roughly 100 million users, they also have a payments bank licence. Finally there is Amazon pay, which is moving slowly but has recently tied up with lot of websites for movies or online food delivery. So the competition is likely to be fierce.
You are ignoring state taxes and tax deferral from not repatriating. Once repatriation taxes are paid the US rate increases substantially, even with a lower repatriation rate.

Apple pays nearly 40% in the US combined with state corporate income taxes. On foreign earnings it pays about 10% to foreign governments. Combined it works out to 23%, but when the repatriated earnings are taxed it will shoot up.
Do think about whether lower taxes is even a good thing in the long-run. Accruing $1 trillion national debt just kicks the burden to the next generation, as does gutting public services to fill the gap. I also live in Washington, and honestly it's rather disgusting that we don't pay any income tax... our overreliance on property taxes is inefficient and leads to systemic funding problems for some programs.
This is a logical flaw. It's like saying "You say that billionaire is wasting money on lottery tickets and alcohol. But if it's a waste, how can he have so much income?"

It's possible for america to be popular for other reasons, but for the taxation of international revenues to be a negative factor.
If the department had been in the School of Engineering, pretty sure there would have been a mandatory ethics class.
I look forward to the day when China will supply the USA with jet fighters. We will save so much money!
It's ridiculous to extol the virtues of a society that values extended family, and then turn around and say it's a good sign for ubi in America, where our family unit has shrunk to minimal size.

Ridiculous.
I'm not sure if it makes sense that stagnant money should lose value (as it does in our current money system). With bitcoin it seems it's the opposite. The article does make a valid point that the fixed money supply of bitcoins would reward hoarders. I'm not certain, but could this potentially lead to financial inertia?
Not a bad "spitball"/brainstorm idea, but what about slower clients? Mobile, screen readers, etc?

And what about abuse via advertisers, injection, cross-site, etc?
They'll figure it out.