RoadieRoller

Sorry. Newbie here. Which one is the orange site? Is it hacker news?

I currently live in the US. Back in India where I am originally from, we have house roof tops which are flat. Most of us would spend an hour or more on the roof top, after dinner, staring at the sky and talking. Sometimes we wave and talk to the neighbor from the roof top. This I would say is a routine thing in most households after dinner. I miss that dearly in the US.

You really have a rhyming point there.

Preamble - I will be downvoted for sure, but let me still post it.

The oldest software system known to us, and in continuous use would be 'religion'. The hardware in this case is obviously humans. If you observe, the computer and its I/O all are derived from the hardware known to humans, and it is the human itself.

If you see, the hardware features rarely changed, but the software in this case updated and adapted to all situations and has been running for many centuries now. It probably can be related to STUXNET or affects only certain type of hardware. I know this is not the original post about, but this just came out as a thought.

I've a free Google Voice number I use as proxy. If I've to use a phone number for one time use (maintenance person, Online waiver forms etc) I give the google voice number. For friends, families, banks, office, I give my ATT number. So far it has kept me away from spams. My Google Voice number gets all the spam and I care less.

Pogo was (still is?) a famous kids channel in India. There was a lot of comments back then that it was taken from them. Zoho is a $1B without copyright issues on their logo. So it doesn't matter anyway.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POGO-logo.svg

India is considered a "cheap and poor" country in many ways. It's GDP is 1/10th that of United States. Even then, India has free health care, and in many states (out of the 30+ states), Govt run healthcare is the best. Woman give birth to babies and walk out paying almost nothing, men break their bones and walk out paying nothing after a month of staying in hospitals and such. Insurance is never heard of or forced to, unless you own a automobile and pays insurance to drive it on roads. No monopoly of any kind.

And there are arguments against all these points, I concur. I just said it for the American folks to know.

I always start the chat conversation in office with a simple "Hi" or a "Hi, Do you have a minute?" This way, I am giving that person a choice if

1) He/she is in a meeting, they have a choice - to or not to reply

2) If their screen is shared, I am not disturbing the meeting attendees making them read what I typed, and what comes in the notification pop-up

3) Gives enough time for the other person to switch context

4) Ignore me for an indefinite amount of time and continue their work

If the other person responds, my second comment would be with full details.

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I agree. There is no free service. Fake is when candidates stuff in lot of technologies randomnly in their resume, doesn't add those technologies under any project or real experience in any company (think Tech. skills section vs Project Description section) and sometimes even add experience for the time when they were doing their course.

This!. This exactly is what I go through as well.

Zillow and Open Door are manipulating the home prices in US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27765536 Cheap Loans, surplus cash, and inventory hoarding.

(I am not a US citizen, but visited many times) Why not build houses using concrete/cement? Poor Asian countries have been building houses for decades using concrete and less maintenance. No, it is not about weather. Concrete can be easily used in Southern US states where winter is less than a month or no snow at all. At least the structure can be concrete and the walls be wood or drywall. I think it is the wood mafia trying to make a living out of enforcing city codes to use only lumber for houses.

My criminal mind says this could be a way for Apple (and Later Google) to benefit more, from the difference in the price of their phones - Thanks to pricing based on Storage. Once they allow these photo storages to duplicate your data, you will need double the storage and phone starting line-up would be 256GB and upwards very soon. I think innovation to make money has saturated, and now it would be quirks like this to make more money per phone.

Yes, it is.

I just saw this displayed in a Best Buy store, but not on the headlines yet. This one is in North Irving, Texas. I hope it is some other issue and not related to what we discuss here. https://d3926qxcw0e1bh.cloudfront.net/post_photos/e9/97/e997...

FYI. On a related note - I was downvoted a couple of days back for an almost similar comment on the ABP uBO combo. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058260 It seems ABP is shady that they let some businesses bypass their blocker.

uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus on FF, blocks all the youtube ads for me. DDG didn't. I am okay to sacrifice CPU for not watching the ads and hence sticking with the former duo.

You can give selective access[0] to the extensions in Chrome. The restrictive access is that it will get access to the webpage only when you click the extension. Read under "Let extensions read and change site data"

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769?p=...

78 arrested [1]

700 suspected in call center scam [2]

21 arrested [3]

15 arrested [4]

https://www.news18.com/news/india/78-arrested-in-mp-for-invo...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-fraud-usa-arrests-i...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/telefraud-scam-us-...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

> And don’t use any vehicle with a license plate that can be tracked to you, or the area around your house.

And don't use any vehicle which has navigation system or live traffic info screen.

I just took a Google Voice Number and put it in the resume. I get so many calls from recruiters and I will not even be notified as I don't have anything that connects them to my phone. I use the web interface of GV everyday end of day and go through the voicemail, or calls them back if I think they are legit. Again call back is also from GV number. So Google voice handles it for me where it even converts voice to text in voicemail.

Blame it on the poorly written code, not Java.

The point is, if you are sharing it with close family/friends, and their presence in the photo could prompt them to share it in their facebook. So in some way, it will end up in someone's profile with a tag to you/your kids name, unless you explicitly say every time "don't share".

Before Jio, different players held monopoly at different pockets and Jio flattened it. (Think BPL in Kerala, Airtel in metros, BSNL in rural areas, Orange in tier two cities). Because of this, when a provider increase prices, others will follow suit as everyone benefitted. So I assume the prices were high before Jio, and Jio did a correction.

Jio, will soon become a monopoly and as the article says, might jack up prices when they have the bigger slice of the pie. An acquisition of the second best then would seal the low price game and everything will go up then. Thats what Airtel was doing when they were number 1 a while back.

Our team of 5 went to a good restaurant/steak place in LA last week, ate and drank for $300, enjoyed the ambience and ate great food, enjoyed the warmth of the service, spent great time together and tipped $75

Who should the tip go to?

- To the owner who spent/spends a fortune running it in LA?

- To the chef who catered to our needs without seeing us?

- To the person who immediately and happily tended to us everytime we raised our heads and looked around

- To the person who cleared the used plates and never let us wanting for crockery

- (we tipped the valet guy separately)

I wonder what as a customer should I do? How do I know the share goes to all? I cannot pay cash for that amount. I carry barely $5 with me in cash.

True, I do the same too. I take the call, mute my phone and keep it as long as the other person wants it. Spam has reduced, one call in the last 3 weeks. It could also be that the spammers are holidaying.

I am a beginner too. Below is a problem I am recently working on. You can work on it too if you think you have a lot of PDFs in any part of your shipping business. I started attacking this to mainly learn python and uses python ML libs.

My problem statement includes classifying hundreds of thousands of PDFs to different categories based on the content/first few pages. That is, if you have a pdf of a novel by Jeffrey Archer, it should be categorized as Entertainment or Novel etc. If you have a e-book of say Python for Dummies, it should be categorized as Engineering or Technology or Education or Programming and the like.