skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applied to be a DMOZ editor of my niche and was accepted. I could freely put my website at the top and remove my competitors. I was a 17-year-old little shit and that's exactly what I did.

I'm not convinced that a "directory of websites" can work. If it actually becomes popular, then people are willing to pay a pretty penny to get listed. Essentially just becomes another advertising platform except far less fair than what we have with Google.

Imagine just how hilarious the "Payday Loans" or "Online Pharmacy" sections of a popular DMOZ relaunch would be. i.e. Industries that happily bid dollars (plural) per measly PPC click.
Yeah but the caterers are all outside of SF because they can get warehouses and kitchens.
I compared them all at one time. Encrypted by default was a must, the rest were excluded.

Signal - Featureless

Telegram - Not encrypted by default, and controversial encryption

Wire - Really liked Wire, but it had a bug of not doing push notifications correctly. Many missed messages until opening the app manually and seeing them.

Viber - No real complaint with Viber I guess, I don't quite remember why I didn't like it.

LINE - This is what I settled on. Nice interface, customizable, same encryption as WhatsApp/Signal/etc, voice and video also encrypted E2E, everything worked flawlessly. I wish more Americans used it.

In the end, LINE was the winner. That said, if Wire were to fix the issues I had with them, I would choose it instead. I really like the fact that you can use multiple devices with Wire, which is the only one that let's you do that.
You don't have "job security" just because you're an employee. You have a wee bit more of it, compared to a contractor, and it depends on your package.

Job security is a myth. In computing, it's the subject of a familiar meme: if you're one of the few people that understands some legacy technology that is important and hard to replace, then you have job security. It's a pejorative term: oh, that <expletive> tech, that's just for job security. Nobody who is "with it" wants to touch it.
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San Francisco liberals are not liberal in the sense of promoting liberty. "Leftist" would be more accurate. In fact in America, neither the mainstream left nor the mainstream right is particularly liberal: both want things to stay more or less the same and are afraid of change, both are conservative in that sense.
> A company's HR department/accountant does this all the time. This is their core competency. This is not my core competency.

My small business doesn't have money for anything like that. It's me, the owner, doing it instead of doing my business.
Its not hard to imagine some Russian oligarch, Saudi prince, or American billionaire getting off on having these in their private collection.
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Having done both, I strongly disagree. Contracting in the United States creates an extreme amount of risk both financial (doing your taxes correctly is very, very difficult, and if the next words on my screen from you are "pay an accountant" you are acknowledging that your position perpetuates the problem) and personal (even with the ACA and living in one of the best states in the nation for individual health care finding a plan where I'm not fucked if I get hurt is very difficult).

I'm going back to a full-time job in two weeks and the difficulty of managing stuff that individuals just shouldn't have to deal with is a large factor as to why.
I can install (and have installed) as many chatting apps as possible. But what is the point? I mean I will have to use the app everyone else is using (which in my case is Whatsapp).

Honestly speaking, I actually tried to ditch whatsapp but failed.
For a Return to China, Google Is Said to Build a Censored Search Engine
Thanks for the feedback, and for having took time to take a deep look into the project.

1. In the structured example, I decided to name my files this way because I felt it is more convenient, for example when you navigate in your code editor. Furthermore I got inspiration from Angular2+'s naming conventions. But in fact you can name your "actions" and "routing" files as you want, but you have to set in Lumie's configuration to not search for a "routing configuration" in those files. This is why a I told Lumie to exclude all .action files. So if you want to name all your actions files: "action.js", you have to exclude: "action.js".

2. You are right, this is a good point. This could be the object of my next PR

3. You can do it the same way as others, you can use whatever routes names you want. I'll add another example to illustrate it

I've made the changes to fix the broken links. Don't hesitate if you have any others questions or tell me if I was unclear in my answers
But was that closed cafeteria replaced with catered lunch or with nothing? If they company pays for the catered lunch then you won't see the uptick.

I too have anecdotal evidence -- when reddit moved and no longer had access to a kitchen, they started bringing in catered meals, and pretty much everyone just stuck around for lunch.
Why are Javascript and Node.js different here? Especially considering this is back-end only. Who is using Javascript on the server without Node.js and how? I think they should probably be combined and if so, you would see absolute dominance by Node.js
Off topic: your formatting seems to have gotten messed up. Try putting an extra line between each one.
First, we don't have a free market capitalism, so you don't know that.

Second, you also don't know wether humanity and capitalism are at odds. I'de wager they aren't.
At some point someone who lost money tracks you down via the business information? Ala rubber hose crytography.
The conservative-controlled court has generally ruled that a contract is a contract is a contract. A contract may void all rights and it may override the laws of the sovereign States. Contracts are the ultimate tool to subrogate rights into someone elses hands.

Once you understand that you can accidentally sign away human rights, a corporation signing away its "right" to speech under corporate personhood also makes complete sense.
If you Google around you will see that the interests rates charged by Kiva (or rather Kiva local partners, the ones actually handling the loans) can be pretty high [1].

But keep in mind that interest rates should always be compared to inflation. Lots of developing countries have inflation >10%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization)#Interest_r...
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Why should we prefer that we support people who work at restaurants vs people who work at tech company cafeterias?

That’s what this legislation is effectively doing.

The biggest issue here is the cost it takes to run a business like a restaurant in this city. It’s too damn high. Even right near Salesforce in Soma there is not really that great of a selection of food.. I wouldn’t blame tech for that. I would blame the city and it’s awful regressive anti-housing legislation that has driven up the costs of everything to near unsustainable levels.

Which is exactly the kind of bullshit that Aaron Peskin supports. Hes literally causing a problem, then trying to blame someone else for dealing with the fallout of that problem. Truly a terrible politician for most of the residents of this city.
TOTP has a downside when compared to SMS as well.

In cases where server security was breached and databases (or database backups or dumps) were accessed, if the TOTP seeds were part of the database (not sure how likely that is, but I'm guessing it's likely), then TOTP is doing nothing for security.

TOTP protects against things like credential stuffing and weak passwords, and is safer than SMS (no hijacking/intercepting), but for database security breaches things aren't so cut and dry.

I wonder if there should be a TOTP-like app which you still register with a site when you first log in or create your account, and which codes are sent to when new logins are needed, but which uses a more secure communication channel than SMS. This gives you the best of both worlds, no? One-time codes not generated from a single plain text seed, communicated to a known client over a secure channel, to prove the initial user is still in possession of the known client?
I used to do a lot of work in Asia, and it was pretty common there to see businesses have the option to use whatsapp to contact them. It was very common place to be able to contact customer care via whatsapp, or to do things like book a haircut, or restaurant etc... It also drove a lot of B2B communication.
Just a few days back on NYT:

Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/business/economy/work-...
Exactly, you can choose one of our servers which is closer to you can then configure your streaming software/encoder with the ingest URL & key provided.

You can configure the platforms which you would like to stream to from Castr's dashboard. You can enable and disable the platforms on the fly as well.
Because society is really bad at determining what is acceptable parenting. Look how popular the tiger mom bullshit is. Our foster system is also incredibly bad. It's easier to trust society in aggregate than it is to trust an individual.
We already have a word for what css does. Style..
The hypocrisy of western activist types on this issue is astounding. One week, they demand that tech companies across the US censor what they find "harmful", but the next week, they condemn the Chinese for doing exactly the same thing for content they find "harmful".

Either you're in favor of free speech or you're just partial about which content you want to censor. The activist crowd in the west lost all moral standing on this subject years ago.
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Your average mom & pop can't handle TOTP 2FA, they will inevitably need to reset it when changing phones.
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> other employee workspace files

If "workspace files" meant "home directory", that's the big holy shit moment. People keep all kinds of stupid shit in home directories. SSH keys. Browser profiles. E-mail cache. Private keys for TLS certificates. Logs. Logs with secrets. Literally anything that's supposedly secret and used to run things.

Put user home directories on an NFS mount and I can basically own your whole company.
Or mail-order things like these:

https://www.mealsquares.com/

https://soylent.com/

I wonder if this ordinance will cause an uptick in their business.
Even better, replace all humans with SaaS products and automation, at least as far as knowledge work goes.

No morale issues, no HR violations, no hiring, no diversity quotas, no standup or sync meetings, no one-on-ones, no wanting a promotion, works 24/7 with no sick days or vacation time, no rivalry within the team, no need for office space, catered lunch, benefits, work visas etc.

The upside is hard to overstate. As an employer, I will do everything in my power to switch human roles to software and will never look back.
In the author's example, the function max(0, x) they subsequently differentiate isn't differentiable.
Why isn't this PDF marked? Aren't they usually marked?

It even has a .pdf extension.

Accessibility fail.
More people exposed to open air drug use and crappy restaurants puts more pressure on there being good restaurants and an end to open air drug use.
> the description of the business model sounds like it's a bunch of transactional companies

From the “people that are running these P2P companies don’t actually understand what P2P really is,” these sound more like badly-run Prospers than true P2P lenders.
I want to know under whose responsibility they were when this happened. Because it should not be as easy as just smashing some glass to get to them, this feels like negligence.
I see where you’re coming from, but all of these are standard things done in a way or another for the public good. But always in a partial manner, not in the absolutes you mention.

> ban private cars

The standard move is to retire parking lots, increase tax on car ownership in a variety of ways. That helps finance reworking the streets, building better infra.

> ban owning your appartment

You get zoning laws.

> e-commerce purchases

Local tax on online goods.

> cleaning your own home

Shoet of cleaning, the city can impose landscaping standards and mandate registered companies for dealing with building maintenance and architecture change.

That’s the contract you have for living in a society; giving up a fair amount of control in exchange of a community.
It seems to me like, if you took a credit union, and then stripped out all the junk that isn't actually savings or loan - so free checking accounts, debit cards, ATM networks, branch locations & most the services offered therein, FDIC insurance, etc etc - how would that compare to Lending Club?

The biggest remaining difference would be the "peer to peer" bit itself. Which feels like a good thing to drop to me. From a purely financial perspective, the "you choose who to loan to" just feels like a way to introduce economic inefficiencies: The loan facilitator doesn't have a whole lot on the line, so they're poorly incentivized to do their due diligence on each loan. And the lender doesn't have direct access to the borrower, so they aren't able to do so in the first place. Nor, being non-bankers, are they likely to have the expertise to do a great job of it even if they could.

The more I think about it, the more peer-to-peer lending, at least as I understand it, sounds like CDOs in tie-dyed T-shirts.
So dealing with paperwork is a pain both for the employer as well as the contractor. Rather than paperwork shifting away from the hands of the company, which you seem to be in favour of, wouldn't a more likely future scenario be that some kind of paperwork-middleman will spring into place? Like, someone that deals with the paperwork (who somehow require minimal paperwork themselves) for a minimal fee so neither the company has to deal with it nor the contractor?
If your science fiction universe has widespread magical healing devices like bacta tanks that can completely regrow body parts, or advanced robotics for prostheses, or genetic engineering and cloning, then disability is likely to be pushed to the poverty-stricken fringes of society. And that's fairly common in sci-fi, increasing the more dystopian it is.
Ha, I assumed for a moment that you meant that the code for the Pirate Bay website itself is actually under copyright and that Pirate Bay did pirate it from the original rightful owner.
So, instead, you're giving all this work as unpaid homework for your employees.

Unless their personal time is worthless, it's functionally the same thing as lowering their wages, and contracting out to an accountant. Except that an accountant would probably do it faster and cheaper.

In another sub-thread, you said that this should be automated, and that nobody should have to do this busywork. I strongly agree. That's not the world we live in, though. As of today, somebody has to do this busywork - and when that somebody is an expert, they can probably do it a lot better then I can.
What I meant is not to search for torrents via google, but go to the website specialized for torrent search and search there. It doesn't really matter how you'll find the website's url in the first place, but don't make the search engine your only entry point to the web.
This is wrong. Australia didnt have a recession because of its monetary policy.

The economy in the US was not based on real estate manuvering and the US had a recession because of bad monetary policy.
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Just to add to your conclusion, I think Apple leads in privacy. I would never buy a Chinese phone just from the fact that the Chinese government has a tremendous oversight and interference with large businesses.

Yes, US has that issue with NSA but at least Apple stands against abuse of data privacy and has a firm ethetical stance to protect consumers data. I don’t trust Google for that matter.

Edit: I feel like there is going to be what-about-tism responses. So, before you respond, ask yourself if you can criticize the Chinese government, protest against it and make a change in China. Last time that happened in Tiananmen square, there was massacre. That does not happen in US.
My argument is that no one should be forced to do this. It should be heavily automated at the very least.
WhatsApp has giant user bases in India, South America, and Africa.
They are if there aren't checks and balances are in place.
Under similar circumstances, I ended up with the one-page 1740 Treasurer's Account for the Town of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1]

A neighbor died, and a relative came by and rapidly dumpstered their apartment. Including a stack of family photo albums.

Now, I'd a childhood experience of family sorting things into two boxes: "toys to donate to the school sale", and "childhood photos and keepsakes". Think "all your eggs in one basket". The wrong box was then dropped off at the school. A few hours later, it had been categorized as trash, thrown out, and was unrecoverably lost.

So I salvaged some of the albums in the dumpster. And eventually got in touch with the family to ask, "are your sure?". They were. But before I got around to throwing them out again, I found the document inside a folded photo card thing. And wondered if there had been more in the dumpster, among that which I didn't salvage.

And if I died today, it would likely end up back in a dumpster. Need to find it a better home.

[1] http://www.vendian.org/1740/
Not the biggest Apple fan but I've never had a good experience with $200 phones from Aliexpress/Gearbest. I always end up returning them. A lot of the times they come with weird "Android" portal OS's. Meaning you can't really access the play store normally and annoying things like that.

There is mandatory bloatware that you can't remove for services that not many westerners know about. Even the microphone and cameras are usually crappy on these. I switched from using a xiaomi redmi 5 to an old Galaxy S4, and the S4 is so much better. Even though the specs are A LOT lower, the S4 had better Microphone processing, better Camera (although not as many mega pixels), and believe it or not less restrictive bloatware.

I realize all these products are made in China, I just want to tell a cautionary tale. The PRICE is right but I think the manufactures don't really understand QUALITY and CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE the way Apple does.
Yes, we'd all love to see it when you're done.
I think you're projecting–unless you job is doing something unethical?
When you are telling someone how to change his behavior, what to think, you are "educating" him or "opening his eyes". You are also a good person spreading the truth.

But when your opponent in ideology does that, he is "brainwashing", "propaganding" or "taking advantage of innocence/ignorance". He is a bad person spreading lies.
Maybe the NSA found something when they hacked into Huawei's servers.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2110960/nsa-hacked-into-serv...

Does anyone have evidence that Huawei's "hardware has been found with advanced roots" ?
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I want to be able to talk to a real person when dealing with some business, in case of a problem with the service, or in case a have a doubt or question. WhatsApp comes in handy in that situation for me. But on the other hand, I dont want that business to talk to me when unsolicited.
Alternately, you could use a PEO! (i.e. completely outsourced HR services, such that your employees are actually employed by the HR's shell company) You get the management ease of contractors; they get the benefits of employment.

It seems to work, but I'm curious if there are non-obvious downsides.
I hope they get away with it. Knowing that the royal jewels were successfully stolen is more interesting than looking at them behind some glass for 15 seconds.
Probably the latter. There's a reason they're called loansharks.

Although if it's from a startup P2P lender it's not clear there's an actual risk of getting your legs broken because you don't pay Vito back in time.
Well, I think the difference between developer symbols and math symbols is that developer symbols are lot more google-able. I can google a line of code, but it's hard to google a crap ton of greek letters and summations. Even if I did manage to parse it into a google search somehow, I probably wouldn't get any meaningful results.

Also, for me personally, it's just such a drag to learn all the notation. After the fact, I've always thought, "Wow, that's all this means?" but while I'm learning, I feel helpless. It doesn't feel like I have any way to google it. My professors never actually want to sit down and explain it to me. All the pages of math equations always look so intimidating. It's just such a drag.
Great Article! Definitely, don't be scared of the entrenched group. As the article discussed, if your domain is new and doesn't have authority, figure out how to go really deep on a topic. The experience of 99.9% of SEO experts that I know is that after 2 months at a job, they get tired/bored and have implemented 90% of the strategy that they are going to. There is always room to compete as new snippets, algorithm updates, updated information or processes occur.