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md8··on Urllib3 in 2022
Man, How do you remember all this stuff? - "Copenhagen Interpretation of Morality"

Thanks for posting this.

md8··on Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years
Hey, I am a leandomainsearch user. Thanks for building.
md8··on Urllib3 in 2022
Well, thanks to the employee whoever it was
md8··on MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes
I agree on the point that we should have our own charger/adapter. But I would love to do that when every company follows the same standard.

European Government and few of the Asian government's are enforcing companies to follow a single standard. Hope this will help us move toward a universal standard

md8··on Urllib3 in 2022
While I appreciate Indeed sponsoring, but why $420? Are you kidding Indeed?

Your entire business is build around web scraping and using libraries to pull data from other sources. Common, you can do better!

md8··on MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes
Google/Fitbit refunded entire price of Ionic watch when they found out that there were issues with battery.

Apple under Tim Cook has gone into a state where it doesnt care about the customer.

The whole no adapter thing moved the entire industry into suck a Scam-Customer state that even Trimmer companies are not offering adapters.

Apple is spoiling entire electronics industry.

I will keep typing 'i' in my keyboard, and it will instead type 'ii'

Apple - You need to send a full refund for manufacturing such as pathetic laptop.

md8··on Worldcoin
Privacy by Design! - We use biometric identification to ensure a fair launch.

So collecting fingerprints and iris scans, Privacy by Design?

md8··on Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
Session is built to fix this problem https://getsession.org/

It does not require a number to setup an account and communicate.

md8··on My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
Impressive.

What keywords did you track on Google trends?

md8··on H-1B in 2020: Immigration Visa Faces Further Restrictions
Classic example of "How to Lie with Statistics?"
md8··on H-1B in 2020: Immigration Visa Faces Further Restrictions
I have come across companies that stopped hiring in the US and moving jobs to Canada.

Even a Silicon Valley company with good funding recently that I applied to, with a job posting in San Francisco, eventually hired in Canada.

md8··on H-1B in 2020: Immigration Visa Faces Further Restrictions
And companies opening branches in Canada as well.
md8··on Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
You missed "Data"
md8··on Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
I love Fitbit. I dont want another brand to be destroyed.
md8··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
Is the Government currency True money?
md8··on Applying deep learning to Airbnb search
"They need to hire engineers who can take an algorithm implemented well by somebody else, and apply it to a business domain."

I dont think so. While Engineers are needed to operationalize the models. For Statistical Learning part, understanding of data preprocessing is an important step which requires knowledge in statistics.

md8··on Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
Sometimes, photos can be paid reviews as well mostly they do it for free products.
md8··on The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce
Current state of AI is pattern recognition, kind of augmenting humans rather than replacing humans.

In order to render millions of people jobless, we have to achieve Artificial General Intelligence.

md8··on Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?
Visual Code & Tasks+ plugin for the same.
md8··on Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat
I assume you are referring to ClearMe? https://www.clearme.com?
md8··on Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars
Having been working in "AI" field and delivered couple of projects. I think, Automation/AI always needs humans.

What we see from all these hyped tech, is just the MVP version. You discover the problems when it's in production.

md8··on Ask HN: Do you like to see “Back to top” buttons on websites?
I use them very often.
md8··on Technical Book on Deep Learning
arxiv link https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01412
md8··on Companies and Billionaires
Remove htmlview?sle=true# in the url and you can see all the spreadsheet options. In the File Menu, you can see save as option.
md8··on Companies and Billionaires
Share the read only sheet and append htmlview?sle=true# at the last

If you remove this part, you can see the read only version of the spreadsheet.

md8··on Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
No 3. What procedure do you follow for fasting. Could you elaborate please?
md8··on Ask HN: If you have a hard time reading can you still be good programmer?
keratoconus ?
md8··on Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?
Nice app! How do you plan to handle the paypal's rate limit?
md8··on Ask HN: Alternatives to HN
firespotting.com
md8··on Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Mining, Statistics, Probability FAQ
What does convergence exactly mean in Machine Learning?
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