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>There are definitely some songs in that genre that I enjoy but most of it is unbearably mysoginist, vulgar, materialistic and shallow.

Ever think they might like it exactly because the lyrics aren’t pleasant or agreeable? And can do so without agreeing with the ideas in the lyrics?

In other words: People don’t have to be suicidal to enjoy Hamlet’s exploration of suicide, do they?
it's so annoying. Is there any card which can give me something like notification on the mobile app before subscription will occur? Maybe like ones per day with all tx will go to happen and I manually can cancel undesirable part of them. Sort of 2FA for all transaction, where the second authenticator is the mobile app. that's would be ideal for me.
This is pretty egregious, but in reality the only thing that was copied was the docs for the API, not the API itself. The other company still has the write all the backend code, and given their track record of just ripping stuff off, may not have the engineering chops to pull it off. In addition, as Smartcar continuously improves their product and API, the other company can only react to these changes.

If I was the OP, my reaction would be shock and horror too. But then I'd realize the old axiom of imitation is the best form of flattery.
Trying out a job site I hadn't used before, I found a position at a local startup. A run of the mill startup, but well funded and with a non-amateurish brand feel.

Despite being a few simple pages, with not much interactive features and no experimental layout stuff, their website required JS to load — a 3.7MB bundle.

I briefly entertained my pedant side, wanting to send them an email, but I didn't. Let the devs play, let the execs run their racket, let the market sort out whatever.

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Thinking about the startup's product, it sounds like a convoluted implementation of an existing product from a multi billion-dollar company. So maybe it's turtles, bullshit jobs and inscrutable schemes all the way down.
Even if that's the case, that parking is still priced into your rent whether you use it or not. The building needs to built taller or take up more of the plot. The parking needs maintained. It's bonkers for a city to require parking at buildings that are accessible by transit. This is a case where the market should be left alone to deal with supply/demand.
What kind of tools are used to create API Docs like this?

I made a dev-focused SaaS and struggle to find a good way to document API's directly via the codebase, so that code changes can be reflected automatically in the docs.
I agree, that's what I meant. Are directly copied tokens enough to justify a lawsuit? There isn't a direct copy of any other content.
The C&D letter mentioned in the post probably already alerted them.
They were stealing actual money on labeling it as a “Prime Subscription” to avoid detection and direct the issue initially, when detected, at Amazon, which probably averages getting them a few extra billing cycles each time they pull the scam.
Admittedly I was a little concerned by that, but since I already use them for credit monitoring I didn't feel like I was handing them all that much more information. Better to give them a little more info, than involve another company who may still use my info even after I pay them.

I do like they're at least pretty transparent about their business model:

https://help.creditkarma.com/hc/en-us/articles/202414090-Is-...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/01081...

https://www.moneyunder30.com/credit-karma
Sort of, via preprocessing, but you won't get any real benefit from it at present. There are two barriers: the compiler itself needs to become TS-aware, and we need to teach editors like VSCode how to typecheck inside <script> blocks.

It's very much on the radar (I'm a TS convert, personally — Svelte itself is written in TypeScript), we just need to get round to it. The version 3 rewrite was largely about laying the foundations for TS support.
You will need additional hardware in the car to achieve this. Smartcar just does a really thorough job of hiding this fact.

AFAIK the is not a single car manufacturer (not even Tesla) that has any API available. Most cars don't have internet connectivity anyway.

Disclosure: I do NOT work for Smartcar, but have build multiple backends for P2P carsharing and bike rental platforms.
"The magical disappearing UI framework" was a much better tagline than "Cybernetically enhanced web apps" …
dont forget inheritance. its either orthogonal or essential to what it means to be 'object oriented' depending on who you are talking to.
Ya, but we never used TMall or Taobao either. There are lots of other better options for consumers in China.
Do you have an alternate source? This data is from Shopify who is actually an Amazon competitor.
This is exactly how Stripe works. Except you don't even need the credit card info at all, even initially – Stripe handles that.

Now that's currently only online, but they're releasing a point of sale product soon too. But even with that, you connect to their card reader and receive a token that you can use.
"Expecting the world to be fair with us because we are fair, is like expecting the lion not to eat us because we didn't eat him" - Paul Graham

I am no Paul Graham, but I think you are wasting your time. Let's say you win the case next Tuesday and the judge miraculously orders them to shut shop. They dissapear on Thursday. Then what?

You still wake up next Friday with 99% of the problems (and opportunities) you had, before you "came across Otonomo’s publicly available API documentation" a few days ago.

If there's still a little voice inside your head that's sayin - Paul Graham didn't say that, you are missing the f*ing point. Start over.
Just components for now, but we have an issue for it: https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/2324
I think there's more at play here. I often find myself struggling because of this even though I'm not out of money. It's more a chaotic ever changing social context that creates uncertainty that money seems to ease virtually.
Thanks for clarifying! I'm still confused as to why a vendor would check on a customer or care if they're infringing.

I sell a SaaS reading product and don't care what my customers are using it to read, or whether their own websites our products contain any infringing content.
Have you considered that the way the title is written can act as another channel for information about the article?

Is the informational content the only reason to read something here? I've read plenty of entertaining things here that I have no utilitatlrion use of the information (if there exists one) afterwards.

Do I really care that great white sharks are scared of orcas? Will that likely ever be useful to me beyond an anecdote in conversation? No, likely on both counts. But I enjoyed it, and in a way I likely wouldn't have had it been a dry listing of events.

Could the title have been "a recounting of select cases of great white shark and orca interactions"? Yes. But while that would have accurately described the content, it would not have accurately described the article, which is presented in the specicifc style the author chose.

Asking for all artistic liberty to be removed from titles is like asking for some machine learning algorithm to succinctly distill factual information as a title. That isn't always making things clearer, often it's just reducing the content of one channel of information in order to increase the content of another. Sometimes that can be useful but since each channel excels at communicating a different thing (facts vs emotion and tone), I think there is a decrease in how useful adding more of one typeof information is when there's little present of the other. I think this is a net loss in utility.
The opioid crisis and the War on Drugs are fundamentally intertwined
It is way easier and faster to file your taxes using paper forms. And free! Maybe your hand isn't held as much, but for a group of people that know how to use ctrl-f, it should be pretty easy to get it done.

Now, this is certainly unfortunate. I'd prefer to submit my taxes electronically via simple forms on the IRS website instantly. But with the lobbying, this is what we're stuck with.
I once ate deer meat in Sweden. Do you know if deer populations in Scandinavia are infected as well? Should I be worried?
Nobody can agree on what OOP really is. I've been in and seen many long debates on the definition of OOP. It's kind of a like a Rorschach test: people project their preferences and biases into the definition.

Until some central body is officially appointed definition duty, the definition debate will rage on.
They need to add some features from the Transmeta processor, using the technique of rewriting code on the fly. That way, this could also be "A JIT" processor.
There's actually a great list provided by the folks at Fast Forward, specifically focused on tech forward non-profits
https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofit-jobs/opportunities/?_sft...
Let's try to price out couple features -

1. Spotify expects 2019 sales to grow by 20-30% but profitability is still MIA and their net loss will be $300M. Let's say they are thinking to add a feature to generate Excel extracts of your playlists. You are the product owner for the desktop app, and the senior developer calls a meeting to say they had done market research and 300 upvotes on /r/spotify say this is a good feature, and he's open to all reasonable rev-share offers to implement it. However, if the percentage is not reasonable, his team is not going to want to work on this feature. How do you negotiate?

2. Apple announced animoji as one of headline features for an iOS release. There was a group of designers and animators working on the Alien animoji. The Alian animjoi was used in an ad with Childish Gambino to promote the feature. iOS itself is free, but Apple makes money on hardware with TrueDepth cameras that make animojis possible. In the fiscal quarter following that iOS release, Apple scrapped together ~$10B in profit from iPhones. What portion of that should be assigned to the designer who used Illustrator to create assets for the Alien animoji, TrueDepth camera people, marketing team who worked on WWDC slides and TV ads, and celebrity team + lawyers who negotiated with Gambino?
My son lives in a "junior suite" - basically a classic end-windowed studio, but with a wall blocking the bed from the living area. Worst of both worlds.
How else do you ship it? Radioactive materials count as pretty much anything irradiated, so for a Navy nuclear plant (something they transport on trains that is radioactive) that's every pipe, valve, and metal fitting from the primary loop. You're not shipping all that by truck or plane with more security than a train, which is pretty unstoppable and it's easy to anti-air missiles and stuff to a train vs. a truck. Also, you'd need dozens of trucks or planes for one reactor decommissioning vs. one fairly compact train.
In this case hate the game and the players.
> The New York Times is trying to have it both ways.

No, you need to think of the NYT (and any reputable newspaper) as being two separate entities: the newsroom and the advertising department, with a firewall between them [1]. You really don't want the newsroom killing a story because it makes the practices of the advertising department look bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Journalism

Also, demands that the people who expose bad privacy practices have perfect privacy records themselves is to demand for privacy advocates to kill themselves a circular firing squad [2], so no one wins but the advertisers and privacy-invaders. Personally, I want these exposés carried by the publications with the greatest numbers of readers, and I'm not going to gripe too much about practices of those publications as long as the message gets out.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/Circular_firing_squad
It depends, most of the time is better to have separate functions that transform your data rather than have methods and state conflated together. But obviously it depends from the context.
Updates are asynchronous (they happen at the end of the event loop, so that `x = 1; y = 2;` results in one update instead of two), but I hear you on tooling. Svelte isn't yet as mature as other frameworks on that front (though debugging isn't bad in my experience). One day soon, hopefully!
Capital One once denied me the ability to pay for a hotel room in Canada, after I had explicitly contacted them in advance with my travel plans, had booked the plane tickets on the same card, and paid some small items in the airport back home and upon arrival. Given how many transactions they process it should have been abundantly clear I was using my card in a normal manner.

I would never trust them to handle anything more complex like virtual card numbers.
> Australia

Absolutely disagree, their service is shockingly slow and the limited range is overpriced. They make up about 0.4% of Australian online sales.

I'm not sure where you got this impression from.
NextStep adopted it but did not invent it. Once Apple acquired NextStep and released OS X they were the only major company supporting it and had defacto control over the language.

The complaint I have is with NSObject which can be blamed on Next Step. Although another comment pointed out I just didn’t know about a workaround.
Archive.fo:

https://archive.fo/4l7Wl
The key to understand and talk about this is to use the term "on average" a lot.

The best non controversial example is height. As we all know, men are on average taller than women. As we also know, that doesn't mean every man is taller than every woman. If you're a man, there is almost certainly a taller woman out there, if you're a woman, there is surely a shorter man.

So if there is a job where height is an advantage, there are two stupid ways to approach this. (A) Since men are taller, only men should be allowed to do the job, (B) Since any gender can have any height, gender distribution in this job must be 50/50.

I claim the right answer is (C), let everyone who is qualified (by height) do the job, and don't be surprised or offended when there is a 80/20 distribution in that work force.
Parked Tesla Electric Car “Self-Ignites” in Shanghai Carpark
If you do it quick and dirty, then yeah. But I am pretty sure most people would find even the 1040 a bit intimidating. The problem is that the tax code is more than 75,000 pages long. No one knows all of it and there are parts that are up to interpretation and self-categorization. If you want to basically ignore all that (legally) you can go the quick and dirty way and just take the standard deductions and exemptions and not itemize or claim anything and the government will have absolutely no issue with that. But to do it "properly" for most people - where properly means getting the most back that you can legally get back - then it's quite cumbersome and involves a lot of reading.

For example, my tax situation is not terribly complicated. But looking at what I paid my accountant to do, there's precisely 0% chance that I would be able to do what he did and get back as much as we did without spending weeks of my life reading tons of IRS regulations and rules. This is exactly why I pay him to do it for us, and exactly the core of my point - doing it right and getting back the most is not easy at all without assistance whether that be software or an actual licensed professional.
Hey HN, likely this is a complicated topic, but i am sure most of you already used a SMM Panel before.

Well i do, and honestly its a pain to compare their services because there are so many of them!

This is why i created: https://CompareSMM.com

A site that lists several recommended SMM Panels and their current services, based on panels i've used and some i've got recommended by others. You can pick a category like Instagram or Tik Tok and directly compare the different panels.

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> I am no Paul Graham, but I think you are wasting your time. Let's say you win the case next Tuesday and the judge miraculously orders them to shut shop.

The judge won't order them to “shut shop”, but to pay damages. Though it will obviously take longer than next Tuesday (but the real objective is to use the likelihood of a verdict and the harm on both sides to secure a pretrial settlement which either involves stopping and compensation or just more compensation that amounts to a buyout.)
Are you suggesting that the article isn't describing an open and shut case, our that business models may in fact be protectable? As a former lawyer, I would say that neither of these is even a remotely close call (assuming the description is accurate).
Yeah, we had to do retargeting of the original wolf skeleton to the skeleton of the dog model. That was kind of tricky, and introduced this front leg crossing artifact...
Most people miss the real value of such projects. They serve two important purposes: First: they are intended to build a local pool of expertise and capability around semiconductor design and fabrication within the country.

This has real strategic implications for India. So much modern military hardware depends on microprocessors. So what happens to India, if most of the chip fabs fall into the hands of hostile foreign powers? (Or, what happens if foreign powers who have or are near the chip fabs become hostile in the future?)
I would agree on this with one caveat - you should be able to run this battle on a back burner or don't go there. If it would consume you ... Don't. Your time and positive energy are too important. But if you can (it's what's in the CEO learning curve imho) spent a small faction of your time dealing with competitors. If this one is a proper competitor and you have leverage (public goodwill, cash to burn for litigation and communication) - go there. Your investors are probably with you if the threat is both to you and their investment. The outrage factor will probably play into your hands as well. A bankrolled litigation fund (smallish) is doable.
Aren't your examples an admission that dark patterns are dishonest, though? It's not like these companies are e.g. randomly coloring their buttons and just so happened to pick a misleading one. They're intentionally choosing colors that you associate with the opposite of what you want to do. The entire purpose is to trick you into performing an action you don't want to perform.
That sounds like a problem that is not described by "Standard 32-bit or 64-bit multiplication as implemented in hardware".
You think they accidentally the whole docs?
For most people the only drawback will be cost, and storage space when it’s disassembled.
When I was in Belgium and Holland about 3 years ago Amazon was not available due to some tax dispute with the governments and so it was suggested that I use the German Amazon site instead. The selection was lackluster and Prime was unavailable.

It was quite startling for someone coming from a relatively small city in a sparsely populations part of Western Canada this was quite a surprise.

I had always assumed that given my remote location people that lived in densely populated regions would be better served by Amazon.
Really, comparing it with Scientology? Can't take the text seriously with claims like that.
So another pathological company with a personality disorder?
I already know that killer whales attack great white sharks. I'm only interested in reading the article if it's about some other predator, but they deliberately omit the identity from the title to force me to click to find out. That is clickbait.
Open Source Won’t Save a Subpar Product
Did you read the article?

>It's been reported in 24 US states so far, as well as Canada, Norway, Finland, and South Korea.

But to answer your question: No.

0 known human cases, only possible in theory. Read the article for more info ;)
I think it's hard for people to stomach the notion of deconstructing race when we've designed society in such a way that has hamstringed groups for generations. I'm all for forgetting 'race' as a social construct, but I think there's a few things we'll need to atone for first.
Found this eventually:
https://support.smartcar.com/faqs/which-car-brands-does-smar...
>There's like 20 links on one page of HN for me, I don't need "a little bit of mystery" when I want to scan what I may be interested in

Right, because your life is so busy with important things like "scanning HN" that you can't spare 15 seconds finding out what "the predator" is by clicking the link.

>I don't need "a little bit of mystery"

The site doesn't exist to cater to your specific desires.
A manual for improving availability amid business growth for startups. Part 1
Agree with almost all of this, but one section bothered me:

> This problem is, by the way, the thing that takes most of my time, 60-70% of my time at a guess. I once spent over a week trying to get a broken LDAP server to work - my boss had forbidden me to implement my own LDAP server - but after a week of struggling with a broken LDAP sever written in C and badly documented I had a lapse of memory and forget that my boss said and accidentally implemented a server from scratch in Erlang during my lunch break.

> To be honest it wasn't a full LDAP sever, but I didn't want a full LDAP server. I only wanted a couple of commands to work, and that was pretty easy to fix

Knowing when to flip the table and reimplement is probably more challenging than anything else outlined in the article.

Joe probably had a good sense for that. Most programmers, however, do not seem to (requires tremendous breath of experience!).

It takes a certain amount of arrogance to assume that you understand (or can predict) the entire problem space along its warts. And if you're wrong, it's often another poor programmer down the line that pays for it—not you.
Smartcar has raised $12M in financing from A16Z and NEA. The difference between $12M and $55M is a single financing stage.

What likely happened here is a remote team was paid to generate docs with a directive like, “Smartcar has a good API,” and stole them directly. Then the management team didn’t bother checking.

This is great PR for Smartcar all things considered, and I actually think has a fantastic silver lining:

The value of a good API isn’t the API itself. It’s the expertise of designing them. APIs are difficult, the majority of the industry sucks at designing and delivering them. Otonomo can always copy you, but if you have the actual expertise to continually deliver a fantastic API experience you will win in the long-term. Stripe and Twilio are your proof points. Go get ‘em, team.

Bessemer invested in Twilio and they know this, and the Otonomo team just showed them that they’re incompetent in the API space. So — I think you’ve got a bigger leg up than you think.
the mining is also a disaster for the affected region AFAIK
I follow your YouTube channel! Really enjoy it. I've wanted an MR2 Spyder since I saw one in my university's parking lot, but it's always been metaphorically like a couple who would be great together but were always with someone else when the other was on the market.
not sure how to formulate it but wouldn't a great execution be very hard to reproduce? looks like it's copying the external API.

also looking at the other company documentation, it's different from the screenshots: https://docs.otonomo.io/docs/getting-started (archive.org history is quite limited so may have been scrubbed)

edit: yes those "screenshots" are very disingenuous: https://smartcar.com/docs/api#introduction
My tax situation was simple enough but I’ve always used a service. This year I used a few services but didn’t file, them printed out the infilled returns and was shocked at how few documents I would have to fill out if I did it on my own.

I ended up using Tax slayer and filed for free.
Beyond Meat files for a public offering
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