skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keeping books for the sake of keeping books is just hoarding. And hoarding is a form of fear. Finding the nerve to throw away a book just means finding and facing the fear that drives you to hoarding.

Having cleaned up after deceased book hoarders... it's a cruel thing to do. Case after case of books, of no real interest or value, that will never get read, still sitting there rotting because OMG IT'S A BOOK YOU CAN'T THROW BOOKS AWAY.

Keep the books that are great. The books you'll read again, or use for reference in the future, or that have true sentimental value (beyond omg it's a book). I often give books away when I'm done with them - if I loved it, I probably know someone else who will love it too.

But that copy of Learn Lotus 1-2-3 in 24 Hours? Trash it. That third-run paperback of a Stephen King novel? Trash it.
> This seems like a pretty shitty premise given the US mortgage meltdown of 2007.

Not exactly. The US mortgage meltdown of 2007 happened because, in effect, banks realized that the aftermarket for debt had grown so unskeptical that they could basically resell any loan immediately after they made it.

So, from their narrow perspective, virtually no loan was too risky.
So that the video is accessible to people who are hard of hearing?
Equating Kent State with Tiananmen Square is very disingenuous. While the loss of life at Kent State (4 killed and several wounded) was reprehensible, it pales in comparison to the thousands killed and wounded in Tiananmen Square.
Can I access whatsapp messaging from a twiml bin, or do I have to host a script on a third party somewhere ?

I really, really like using twiml bins because no third party or hosting is required - the code resides on, and runs on, twilio ...
Applications like WhatsApp noticeably improve the standard of living for people in WhatsApp, as they allow them to communicate with people far easier, cheaper, and faster than otherwise would have been possible.

It really is more cruel to say that because you, in a first world country, can pay 1 dollar much easier than they can pay 1 dollar, you should decide that they're not allowed to pay with their data if they desire.
It's cruel because WhatsApp is already there and people rely on it. Also worth noting, second point applies to Facebook but WhatsApp is encrypted.
Banks are limited in the total amount they can by regulatory controls to prevent uncontrolled expansion of the money supply.
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One more under the Electrode comparison:

monolythic => monolithic.
I have done graduate computational physics (Multigrid and such) So im familiar with the "digital" side of this but certainly not familiar with almost any analog computations. (beyond those trivial op-amp integrators)
Because they paid $19 billion for it and need some form of return on that investment? You can't just throw stockholder's equity around like that and then come up with a plan that maxes out at ~$1 billion a year in revenue.
I make zero calls, people know to reach me by whatsapp, except say Citibank which sends a fraud check by SMS which I cant respond to and my credit card gets shutdown. I don't want a stupid Google voice like app, and it all goes to hell when porting a number.

WhatsApp is so reliable. iMessage goes to hell unless you put +XX country codes for all of your contacts.
This looks really cool. I've occasionally dabbled with messing with CSS on sites before. I installed it, I'll give it a whirl when I get a chance.
A company can dump a full-time employee in an instant too (at least in the US, which runs entirely at-will employment). I've seen companies do just that to full-time employees, while said employees genuinely did care about the company.

I'm of the opinion that any amount of personal investment in a business entity is toxic, regardless of your employment status. The only reason anyone should personally invest in a company is if they have some kind of founder role.

From the article:

> Accenture is one of the world’s largest providers of outsourced labor. Along with many rivals, it is pitching chief executives on the idea that their company’s core business is smaller than they think.

This is a key point I'd like to see more companies think about. There's non-trivial work, and there's critical core work, and I think companies do a poor job at recognizing and separating the two.

As for your anecdote of full-time onsite work being more efficient than outsourced off-shore work, sure, that's usually the case. However, could it be that poor management was the issue, and not the location or employment status of the workers?
> I think anyone interested in learning ML should invest the time needed to deeply understand Linear Algebra: vectors, linear transformations, representations, vector spaces, matrix methods, etc. Linear algebra knowledge and intuition is key to all things ML, probably even more important than calculus.

To play devil's advocate, (EDIT: an intuitive understanding of) probabilistic reasoning (probability theory, stochastic processes, Bayesian reasoning, graphical models, variational inference) might be equally if not more important.

The emphasis on linear algebra is an artifact of a certain computational mindset (and currently available hardware), and the recent breakthroughs with deep neural networks (tremendously exciting, but modest success, in the larger scheme of what we wish to accomplish with machine learning). Ideas from probabilistic reasoning might well be the blind spot that's holding back progress.

Further, for a lot of people doing "data science" (and not using neural networks out the wazoo) I think that they can abstract away several linear algebra based implementation details if they understand the probabilistic motivations -- which hints at the tremendous potential for the nascent area of "probabilistic programming".
People don't search for those things directly, but they might search for competitive advantages on those platforms, and if you can give them a good reason why they need x, you might sell.
Kent state was tragic, but not only is it not subject to pervasive and draconian state censorship, it also was not explicitly ordered as an intentional massacre by the government. That particular distinction really does matter.
The difference is significant however.

The Google/Maven project just barely got started and people were resigning in protest.

The Google/China project has...

Teams of programmers and engineers creat[ing] a custom Android app, different versions of which have been named “Maotai” and “Longfei.” The app has already been demonstrated to the Chinese government; the finalized version could be launched in the next six to nine months

and nobody is resigning or internally protesting.

Not only that, Fei Fei Li set up an AI research shop in China for Google and was one of the most outspoken advocates of keeping Maven quiet, yet is loud about Google/China AI cooperation on literally exactly the same technology.

So Google, employees and management, have clearly chosen a side here, even if it wasn't an intentional policy.

And just to be excruciatingly clear, the work that Google is doing in China includes a heavy specific computer vision piece around object detection/recognition/segmentation, which will be used with the Yilong UAV systems (and others) as well as the Guangdong social experiments.
I didn't equate them. It was a counter example to the parent’s claim and nothing more.
I use Syncthing as a self-hosted Dropbox clone.
Can't help but see this also as the perpetual struggle between business and state.

State adds regulations, businesses look for areas where regulations are fewer, and try to do more business at these areas. Then the cycle repeats.

Taxi vs Uber, hotels vs AirBnB, employment vs contracting,..
The perpetrators of Tuesday’s heist risk up to six years in prison for aggravated theft.

Nobody hurt. No weapons seen. One witness describing a white motor boat -- which narrows it down dramatically.

I guess all you can do is wait for a mistake of some kind.
Apple is a luxury good. You also don't see Gucci or Prada or Moet-Chandon unhappy because they can't be purchased in the poorest areas of the world.

Facebook has a different business model and a different mission than those companies.
Oh yes, that's one of our techniques for finding graduates.

I was just wondering about how this job board was going to do it, as "who will see this" is the key question for someone considering posting a job on it.
Clickbait from a new website.

The "strengthened workforce" if you click through is actually about this paper with the alaska fund: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24312.pdf

Not about basic income per se.

The work disincentive of basic-income-like cash transfers, in studies so far, is actually somewhat consistent at around 10%. Some papers referencing this approx figure:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r19npwc30trejb6/Basic_Income_in_a_...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oi0kv3vcya9o0ad/The_Rural_Income_M...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hkd489vcarcrorg/Findings_from_the_...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5m2k5qzgv699dfe/THE_TOWN_WITH_NO_P...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dsucn7jone74g65/New_Jersey_Graduat...

(from research on a long BI article I wrote)
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For the writer, this format has the same advantage as a tweetstorm: they get feedback that's very granular because each tweet / text block / whatever has its own reaction counters.

It can be surprisingly revealing to see that a particular paragraph got 100 likes and the next one got 15, for example. That data can be used to hone future writing for the audience's taste.
WhatsApp was encrypted before the acquisition. And I am 100% confident that is why they want to find a way to monetize it directly. Not having access to data is not something they are used to.

You don't see them telling the FB Messenger team: "Hey, you need to make money."
> Curious, why'd you stop using WhatsApp?

I assume Facebook. I'm trying to get everyone I know off of it for that reason. Have you considered Signal or Telegram as additional integrations?
Your highly detailed personal data is infinitely more valuable to them than a measly $1 subscription fee. Until the incentives around building massive surveillance apparatus and calling them "tech companies" goes away, this will always be the case.
The cap only applies to European debit and credit cards used at an European merchant. It also doesn‘t apply to business cards or three-party schemes like AmEx or Diners (unless they‘re co-branded, due to a recent court ruling).

Based on this, I believe it‘she merchant who‘s picking up the tab here.
It is within the context of distributions or generalized functions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(mathematics)) but people are often loose on the terminology and tend to just use the term "functions". It's a wonderful topic, with a lot of interesting applications in differential equations and physics.

I just found a quick explanation by Terence Tao about why people are generally loose in this case, meaning that some properties transition nicely from smooth (here, differentiable) top the rough categories by passing to the limit and density arguments: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/preprints/distribution.pdf

Of course there are exceptions.
> What's the point of writing content for things no one knows they're looking for?

There isn't. But there's great value in writing content your future customers will want to google about on their way to becoming customers.

Take, for instance, an app vendor that sells some kind of cash register software specialized for bars. If you're that, your ideal client is a new or future bar owner, because it's a harder sell to clients that are already equipped with some kind of solution. So you've every reason in the world to create bar creation tips that walk new/future owners through the red tape and caveats of creating one.
No, this has been going on for awhile now, especially when you look at the high profile defections of many of the original WhatsApp executives.
But extremely cheap compared to the markets they're targeting. SMS is expensive in countries outside of the US, and that's why WhatsApp is so widely used.
Do you have to have armed security with you or how does that go? I can't fathom the other poster who said they drove 35K miles from Morocco to Capetown--talk about epic and potentially life ending.
https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm...
That's not true, there are idealizations of ideal analog computers, such as the field computer model of analog computation†. We already have analog computations using continuous-time digital that can solve 32nd order differential equations in less than a millisecond††. We are also unaware of even the theoretical possibility of computation in QM. The noise and sampling problem hasn't been settled (see Kalai for a convincing argument); given the Quantum Threshold needed it becomes suspect when you have the equivalent of 1,000 CPU's for every individual CPU for just a .1% probability of error.

Given your same line of reasoning, we are able to measure real numbers, in fact you can derive discrete numbers from real numbers while the converse is not true. Intuitively, discrete numbers don't exist and everything ultimately becomes real numbers. This is obviously a correct following of the stimulating rhetoric yet completely untrue. The ability of derivation from an axiom has nothing to do with the validity of the derivative representations.

† https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1138111
†† https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7463004/
It's not some nebulous evil of "capitalism" that is the issue here, it is the issue of filtering, manipulation, and distribution of people's private communications & data, and of the effective "town square". Money can be and has been made without these practices, which the laws have not caught up with, and to which there's strong ethical disagreement.

And yes, it cost a lot of money to get online and/or host data back then, which was subsidized by piggybacking corporate and university internet presence. Nowadays it's dirt cheap to personally host & access tons of content, so there's even less need to monetize.
The only thing I really rely on nowadays is Search. Gmail would be a major hassle as a ton of stuff is linked to that, but I could use a new name somewhere else and give everybody that matters the new address instead.

But search: too ingrained into everything I do.
I know stealing is morally wrong but I can't help but admire the audacity and the success in the backdrop of a kleptomaniac economy that forces neo-liberalist free market ideals on other developing economies while practicing protectionism.

It's like waking up to find out the credit card interest rate fee was literally pulled out of the ass of a banker who bribed the people in charge entrusted by "democratic vote" purchased with high end transexual escorts and expensive sushi flown over from Tokyo.

Or how about the fact that European economy was largely the result of usurpation, larceny, and deception upon naive colonial subjects? Sweden out of all countries, I find it to be highly ironic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLFPLe1tzI
My system is built for a conversational interface, but I don't have voice recognition in place yet. Questions: Why is a Raspberry Pi required? If a Raspberry Pi is required, why does the computer need to be either MacOS or Linux?

Would it be possible to use this to, say, look for a hotword and then just always return the rest of the command to a single program, since I have my own command structure already in play? I need the on-device voice recognition and hotword detection, but not the actual assistant.
The YouTube channel LGR has a great video on General Magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opcuy-8VO64
>There is a difference between not having a choice

You have no choice?

>and justifying unethical behavior.

I get it. It's not unethical when you engage in commerce with a regime you find unethical, or when you buy from all the other companies that manufacture their goods in China ... but it's unethical if Google doesn't want to ignore 1.4 billion people?

>The fact that this is the only sentence you've touched speaks for itself.

As opposed to the other three snide and arrogant sentences? If you'd like a good-faith discussion please lead by example.
They should try to apply the fortnite strategy, and charge for cosmetic features such as premium emoticons, and profile photos
Why does a 20% decline in one day of trading matter after such a bull run-up since IPO ? Its just a tiny warning.
What I am saying is that anyone can take MIT licensed code and re-release it as GPL licensed code. That includes anyone of the author without consent from the other authors, or even someone who was not an original author. Specifically because such a change does not violate the terms of the MIT license. Whereas for going the other direction; GPL -> MIT you need consent from all authors (either directly or via a CLA that permits such a change of license).
More proof of how far down the list of priorities Americans place education.
My post has nothing to do with web page size. This is specifically on how monetization has affected that which we use for personal communication and seeking information.
So it was a less bad massacre of protesters by government forces. Shall we forget about it, and claim it doesn’t happen here?

Hell no.
But those who can afford to pay (either for WhatsApp or for YT Premium) are typically the ones most lucrative for the advertisers. So if I am in charge of such products, what is the incentive for me to invest into these efforts which are only going to add complexity while not making any extra money? What is the compelling reason for offering an Ad-free mode if it is going to be adopted by a tiny fraction?
If the property values go up, other people will buy the houses surrounding the collective, forcing the collective to pay more for housing and thereby raising the rents.
Whatsapp had a great business model: $1 a year. With their current 1.5 billion users, that's nothing to sneeze at. It doesn't cost them $100M a month to provide the service.

I wish more companies were like Craigslist - happy to make an great profit and a lasting business by providing basic information services for a reasonable price. Instead, a bunch of MBAs want to rule the world by focusing on growth at all costs, so they can then turn around and squeeze their locked in users for every dime possible.
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>I betcha there are 10,000 people just doing children’s services in NYC

Ok, but we aren't talking about UBI replacing CSA or really any of the local services are we? It's not like child abuse is going to disappear because everyone gets a UBI check. A lot of the state and county level social services are not going to be obsoleted because of UBI. I would think it's more of a federal/national program meant to replace federal/national social services.
It sounds like Reddit just recently hired security. It's not at all unusual for companies of Reddit's size not to have a security team; the only thing that makes them noteworthy in that regard is how old the company is. If your expectation is that most of the companies you've worked with or availed yourself of have dedicated security teams, revise your expectations sharply downwards.
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> Why should we prefer that we support people who work at restaurants vs people who work at tech company cafeterias?

Because restaurants bring a lot of value to the city and area itself. Vibrant restaurant scenes are a key component of a city's atmosphere and an area's walkability.
Square, a company with many years headstart, trades at a high multiple, and has many more integration points into commerce than WhatsApp does currently, trades at a market cap of $27 billion.

Given that Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion, trying a low probability strategy of trying to compete for market share where the best case scenario is $27 billion in value seems foolish.
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Has anyone leaked this? I'm more interested in unlocking my eponymous account I created 13 years ago then promptly lost access to without an email attached :(
I'm curious about how you would describe what you expected a professional job would be like. What do you mean by "beauty"?
This is interesting timing. I just released a podcast episode today about the history of the relationship between Google and China. To get caught up on what's going on listen to this. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/19/
It was for me too!
You can use TwiML Bins! Also, have you tried Functions? It's like TwiML Bins, but with more JavaScript.

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