skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had that car and feel your pain. I searched a long time for a nice aftermarket solution and gave up.
This would cause massive capital flight and long-term capital avoidance of that jurisdiction.
China slows down all non-domestic traffic. Even using a VPN, sites still load slow. It's kind of a tariff system to encourage local internet companies and discourage outside companies. Which is why they have WeChat and not Facebook dominating their society. And anyone who doesn't want to play by the government rules is blocked.
I want to live in a world where businesses are formed based on the value they deliver to the consumer directly. Not siphoning the data and selling it to third parties. Ever growing advertisement and marketing needs/greed has created a universe of stuff around us that makes me ever so vigilant of companies selling me stuff for cheap and in turn selling me advertisements.

In old days (before the internet), if I buy a PC from Apple or IBM, you get what you pay for. Besides the cable companies / newspapers / magazines bombarding ads, everything back in the day was 1:1 - you pay for something, you get value for it.

Now a days, we have large companies losing money while killing competition (Uber), large companies in bed with government, and large companies in bed with advertisers and marketing agencies.

Fuck the world. I can't wait to see Dieter Rams' documentary premier this October. From the trailers, it looks like it is addressing the very fabric of today's society than talking about industrial design. [1]

I don't want to be a product. I want to be a loyal customer.

[1] https://www.hustwit.com/rams/
Ukrainian hackers arrested for stealing 15M credit cards – The Verge
Years ago, I played with the idea: https://github.com/danneu/klobb

I went on to implement it in Swift (https://github.com/danneu/hansel) and then seriously improved on it in Kotlin (https://github.com/danneu/kog).

It was fun but hard to really make a convincing upgrade to Koa once you consider the rest of the ecosystem. For example, since Koa exposes Node's req/res, then you can still use existing Node/Express middleware.
You mean they tell us 1.5 months after the event that our emails and passwords might be compromised?
Also, they need to "predict" whether the loan would be profitable as they have not loaned the money yet. The decision largely depends on the precision of their prediction
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we learned that SMS-based authentication is not nearly as secure as we would hope

Yeesh, what is going on with their security team over there? Years ago it was "oh, now we realize why everyone was saying that storing passwords in plaintext is a bad idea." Now it's "oh, now we realize what a bad idea SMS auth is."

So what is Reddit doing today that you and I would think, "of course, no one does that anymore 'cuz 'duh'." but they think, "nah, it's still okay."?
And of course she'll be allowed to have water guns because she's a senator and therefore above our mortal notions of "law".
"With so much of the U.S. population in urban areas, it’s little surprise that these areas contribute an outsize amount to the economy. The 10 most productive metropolitan areas alone contributed to about 40 percent of U.S. GDP in 2016."

I always find facts like this misleading, not purposefully so but misleading all the same. Take a semi-random example, PepsiCO. HQ in NY, Incorporated in NC, 250k + employees, 60B+ revenue. This is a huge company with many brands and global sales. They are stocked and sold all over the world with factories, distribution centers, sales centers, etc all over the place.

Does the NY metropolitan area claim all 60B in productivity?

Weyerhauser is another interesting company. For 100 years they were based on of Federal Way and only recently moved to Seattle (probably same metro area anyway). Obviously their bread and butter, timber, is not grown, harvested or converted into product in the metro area. The CEO lives in Seattle but the thousands of lumberjacks and mill workers are not in urban areas. The employees that "do the work" are not in urban areas. That last sentence isn't meant to be inflamatory but it was the best wording I could think of.

Some companies, maybe Facebook, do generate the vast majority from the HQ in an urban area.

It is beyond my skills to figure it out but I think an equally cool map/graph/infographic (I do think this is cool, just a small nitpick here) would be to break down how and where companies actually generate their revenue.

Another possibility- I don't know what I am talking about and these stats already take this into account.
Another one is Photos. Sometimes it is creepy what they do with your photo stream, but sometimes the AI hits the nail straight on the head by producing entertaining mashups, and I have to admit I started to love it. I know it's the bait and I am a dummy to bit on it.
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And don't forget: proponents are claiming this is necessary because large groups of people will be incapable of obtaining gainful employment. This means, by design, this cannot just be "the necessities" because increasing groups of people will be relying on it to live out their entire lives.

That means we'll be discussing how many vacations should be paid for. After all, you wouldn't tell a huge group of people they'll never be able to afford a vacation their entire life, right? And this will include a car, at least for most of the US. How much money should be allocated for that? Should they be able to afford home ownership, or just rent? Will it be enough to let them choose where they want to live?

These questions (and many like them) will be debated over and over again. I don't think it'll be as on-the-nose as you laid out, but over time, the end result is the same.
You got it bluehatbrit! Yuchi is right in the sense that I got inspiration from ROR routing. But we are far away a large framework like ROR or even Sails.js, Lumie is not comparable to them, this is not the same usage, Lumie is helpful to keep organized while growing your controllers codebase.
Friendster was too consumed with being led by a womanizing partier IIRC, which set the tone there... (this is anecdotal hear-say-info, so I could be wrong)... but as I recall it, they were too concerned with partying at the time to pay attention to what they were on the precipice of.
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>It's comparatively much easier to just pay a contractor a higher hourly rate

Is this an actual option though? I've heard this notion a few times on HN that you can simply "1099" people and all is well. Admittedly not my core competency but I have been told numerous times by experts that you can't do that because the IRS and state labor dept will make their own determination as to whether your staff are employees. They may disagree with your thinking.

e.g. https://www.dol.gov/whd/workers/misclassification/
How do they know they got the original back?
It's been a while since I looked into it but, last I checked, the only way to pull that off is with a rooted phone and a custom ROM. Is that what you're on? Seems every time I attempt to do that, the ROM I want to use isn't available for the phone I have or it's future is very uncertain.
I had one of these SONY-branded devices, in Italy, gifted to me by an American relative when I must’ve been 13 or 14. I absolutely loved it even though it a bit less functionality than my PSION 3a. Ultimately it met a gruesome end when a school bully purposefully smashed its screen in an act of jealous spite.
I think views on healthcare would change rapidly if employers were prohibited from providing it as a benefit and all people had to get it privately. Even if employers raised salaries in accordance the shock people would have seeing the full cost of insurance would stir discontent.

The answer as others have pointed out is obvious. Medicare for All is something every business owner should support to simplify their own lives. (Ignoring that it’s just good business decision for “USA, Inc.” since it’ll save the country money.)
In many ways the "end of employees" parallels the "end of marriage." Many people take the option of short term relationships. What's interesting is that society tries to deal with the change by trying to tame the new trend.

For employment, it's government trying to classify Uber drivers as employees to give them protections. In relationships, it's governments attempting to set up alimony when co-habitating couples split up.
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That's inbound communication. This is outbound, with the risk it's only spam.
This is the goal of the wealthy class and corporations. To treat the common man as a disposable and interchagable cog.

Fully aided and abetted by the tech industry, don’t forget. If we aspire to be real engineers we all need to apply some ethical thinking to writing code that enables outsourcing, offshoring, zero hours contracts, surveillance/privacy invasion yadda yadda. And for working for or with companies with those practices.
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I had the same problem with Wire, it prompted me to move to Signal. It has giphy gifs/stickers, emoticons and basic sketching now if those were features you desired.

LINE I've not heard of. Play store says it contains adverts and IAP. Is the 'lite' version good enough (it doesn't mention ads)?
Oh yes I didn't even mention the stickers! As an adult I thought I'd never use such childish things, but my wife and I abuse them all the time and find them absolutely hilarious. That's probably a big reason I convinced her to switch.
Why is this priced the same as SMS? How does WhatsApp allow it? Why does it only allow Twilio? Is there an API I can connect to directly?
I had a driving instructor once who used one of those hand controls for driving. It was set beneath the steering wheel and when I operated the vehicle I didn't notice it at a all. Looking back, it feels kind of incredible and wonderful that we have the means to design devices to be operated in many different ways.
"As Jeremy Howard points out, even academic papers often use softmax for multi-class classification, and I too have already seen it used incorrectly in blogs and papers during my short time studying DL."

AFAIK softmax should be used with mutli-class classification and sigmoid can be used with mutli-label classification.
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> The more typical “99th percentile” PHP

What does this mean?
It contains personal data, so it's subject to the GDPR, so the law in the EU requires those "best practices".
If someone in the US isn't buying Apple or Samsung, what do you suggest they buy?

Your opinion that "it is never good for consumers or developers to have proprietary hardware and development kits" isn't much of an argument, it's just an opinion.
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What evidence do you have that this claim is true?

If your evidence is theoretical, what separates your argument from the argument "if true Communism were ever implemented, it would always work for the greater good of humanity"?
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Great educational post, but really someone needs to make a long awaited version called long cat!
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>"guru" at C++

Isn't something like that a requirement for entry level job these days?
> but I'm super curious where the demand from users to connect with businesses via WhatsApp is.

<insert "I think the world is like the US" meme here>

Almost everywhere in the world.

In the German elections, you can message local candidates directly via WhatsApp. In Brazil, you book your doctor, dentist, plumber, restaurant, get a pizza delivered, etc. over WhatsApp. In Spain you get customer support from your airline over WhatsApp.

And all of this was before WhatsApp launched its business service.

So this isn't just demand. This is how business is done, today, in a large number of countries around the world.
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Blockstack: A scalable alternative to Ethereum for Dapps
It is because Google put that hyper moralising hat on itself.

In their hay days, they crafted that hippy/liberal/sensible young alpha image to win customer approval, reducing government regulation and eat market shares against those faceless corporates.

Now they are the new baddies in town, the image no longer does them any good. They will retire it by then and be a normal company.
Why is this particular presentation format better than a good old fashioned blog post?
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The Minimum Wage in an Online Job Market [pdf]
Part of the reason that contractors have a higher hourly rate is to account for the time between contracts.
WhatsApp Business Solution on Nexmo APIs
Employees are both a pain and a liability

Aren't they an asset too? A contractor doesn't really care about the long term health of your company, if your company folds, he'll go down the street and work for a competitor. He knows that you'll dump him in an instant if you want to so he has no incentive to go the extra-mile for your company.

I can see outsourcing peripheral tasks, office cleaning, etc, but for any important part of the business, outsourcing seems like a gamble. (somewhat related, I helped in-source a project that had spent 2 years outsourced off-shore which had met few of its deliverables. In 6 months the new local team got it back on track with literally 1/5th the headcount the outsourced agency used which made it cheaper to bring it back in house)

Granted if you're hiring minimum wage workers, maybe it's hard to find quality employees, but for any non-trivial position, outsourcing to contract workers seems like a short-sighted move.
Why does that guy with perfect English have subtitles?
https://twitter.com/shutupmikeginn/status/403359911481839617...

Have you considered finding a new handle? :)
> Then, does that mean that you can't edit those settings in the Pro version?

Unfortunately you can't. The 3rd party utilities work fine though, you just have to run them again after every major update.
Founders of billion dollar businesses are extreme outliers with uncommon vision & a healthy dose of luck.

Besides, Yahoo bought Viaweb for about $50MM, and Shopify is a billion dollar company of its own. If $10MM or $50MM isn't successful, then I'll be happy to fail.
I actually pretty quickly found a link of the Pentagon ban and updated my post to comment as such. So far sitting at +6 vote wise-for whatever it's worth.
I doubt anyone joins a company solely because of free lunch, but I'm sure it's one of many important factors in an area with a ridiculously-high cost of living.
Hacking the Iron Curtain: From smuggling computer parts to owning