skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're in Beijing - that's like someone living in NYC complaining US house prices are $0.9m each. Accurate for where he lives, but cannot be generalised to the entire country as a whole, where median US house price is only $0.2m each. Things are a lot more affordable out in places like Foshan (where I had my Maccas).

EDIT: Reply to below:

You're talking from your Beijing experience and I'm talking from my visiting relatives in Shunde experience...Maybe it'll be hard for us to agree. Rents, Food, Public Transport, Clothing, Education are all quite cheap compared to the U.S. and those goods are what enable people to carry out their day to day lives. Walmart made-in-china goods are naturally cheaper in China than in U.S. House prices, Car taxes, Luxury taxes are part of government policy in managing monetary policy and exchange rates with the U.S. and has as much relevance as the nominal GDP - not much when you're measuring the average person's income and the goods and services they can purchase. And remember, China's population is several times that of the U.S.
I like this "kick and kill" plan. This is the sort of technique that I'm sure I will use to solve a problem in a totally unrelated area some day.
Is this[1] the programme you refer to?

[1]: https://vimeo.com/44948377
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Most(almost all) Elevators in the US have to comply with the ADA codes. One of those is that the doors have to be open for a certain amount of time, period. During this time, the "close" button is required to have no effect. After that time, the "close" button can close the doors, but this is usually about the time the doors would start closing anyways. In essence, the "close" button does nothing most of the time you are hitting it.
The subject at hand is whether a very large economy can produce certain goods. If we're measuring in goods, we should use PPP.
What's so special about August 30th that that is the day to reduce the cost of hiring people? What about the rest of the year?
pretty sure he's saying he's launching a platform on the 30th, and that that platform is designed to reduce the cost of hiring people
"Loss" is the term we use when we want heat, but it's going away against our wishes. The correct term for generating and eliminating unwanted heat is "dissipation".

That this is the intended meaning is clear from the later wording "... being able to conduct electricity without generating any waste heat".

> What happens if I put 200 amps through a thin stand of it?

That's a good question. Even if a material can carry some small current with apparently zero R, that doesn't mean the same R value applies at a high current. It could be non-ohmic, that is.
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Please, let's not even get into housing...I can never buy a house here. But at least rents are cheap!

Quality goods in China are expensive period. If you are in a second or third tier city, its even worse. We schedule trips to Hong Kong for shopping...we aren't the only ones also! Cars are expensive all over China as they are heavily taxed. Only food could be considered a bit cheaper, but you have to avoid the low end completely over food safety concerns (e.g. gutter oil).

All in all, I would save money by moving back to Seattle, I think. More to pay in rent, but houses are cheaper to buy, food is more expensive, but groceries would be cheaper. Taxis are much more expensive, but I could actually own my own car and park it legally without paying a whole bunch of money.
"To ensure that extensions cannot
leak through the page’s DOM, we argue that extensions
should instead write to a shadow-copy of the page
DOM—any content loading as a result of modifying the
shadow runs with the privilege of the extension and not
the page. This ensures that the extension’s changes to the
page are isolated from that of the page, while giving the
appearance of a single layout"
Could you elaborate more on this? Do you mean that you'll compare the network requests made from the main and the shadow pages? What if the main script is sensitive to the request receive time? Then the shadow DOM may act differently.
From more practical standpoint, having two DOMs for every page will eat even more of my laptop's RAM.
I think you have a point with
> "Another would be, for example, to ban all imports made under conditions which don't meet U.S. human rights standards" but it can be interpreted as a "trade barrier, if it's unilateral --you'd need a global enforceable framework, for it to work.

Still, even with that, there'd be offshoring just because cost of living can be much cheaper...

And people in third world economies still deserve to have a job. If the fist world monopolized good jobs, we would not bee seeing the record reductions in abject poverty world-wide. Yes, a side effect is the first world will see some loss in income but not as much as gained by the third world economies.

Without some of this offshoring, first world economies would see much larger waves of economic refugees.
The alternative to being "abused and exploitive" is an agrarian economy with an even lower quality of life. People work in sweatshops because it's their best option. As their economy develops they'll improve working conditions. How does sanctioning them help them improve their lot?
I'm just gonna leave this here.
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But if I want to release a wheel package for my software I do need a Windows and a Mac OS machine to build the packages.

Depending on your resources that may be possible or not; personally I can't provide them as I only use Linux.
Wow, I don't even know where to begin except.. [1]

There are already millions of "drones" out in the world more then capable of doing all of the terrible things you can imagine and yet they don't because there are easier ways to do evil and people who have the desire to do bad things generally choose the easier route.

I would also like to point out Cars kill 38k+ people per year in the US and could also be used for all sorts of bad things (like running people over) should we be worried about all of those imported cars too? Autonomous cars could be instructed to run over a lot of people! Ban Cars!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_mongering
Doesn't seem like it. I too was hoping for this.
This looks really interesting, though the last update was over a year ago.
I"m curious, would it be more efficient to use JSI instead of Node on embedded platforms? Or is there another purpose it serves?
Labor Force Participation =
Labor Force / Working-age Non-institutionalized Population =

(Unemployed + Employed) / Working-age Non-institutionalized Population =

(People looking for work + People working) / (Anyone who is physically and legally able to work)

Decline in LFP means that the labor force (people employed and/or looking for jobs vs. discouraged but otherwise able-bodied workers) is shrinking relative to overall population.

This is caused by at least 1 of 2 things. (1) A decrease in the numerator: workers becoming discouraged and leaving the labor force - note that if workers simply shift from being employed to unemployed, the LFP ratio doesn't change. (2) An increase in in the denominator: more working-age, non-institutionalized workers in the overall population.

If the LFP is 100% then everyone who is able to work is either employed or actively seeking employment.

If the LFP is 50% then 50% of the total population is not actively seeking employment. With the current unemployment rate of 5.3%, this would mean that 44.7% of the total labor force is employed, 5.3% is unemployed but searching, and 50% is content to not work/discouraged.

Confusing to say the least, but in the end it's a proxy for the amount of discouraged workers in the total labor force.
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Once you go black you ... pay $1500 for a pre-fab coop?
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In the US, for public figures at least, to prove a libel charge you have to prove that the individual knew the claim was false. EFF can make any claim they want as long as they're not aware its specifically untrue.

See: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Even in the limited example given there is a clear path of attack. An extension that is permitted to access mail.gmail.com can simply collect its target data and then email it to its self and delete the email afterwords.
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That's the natural course of events. Take any school of thought, and each sect within would rather have its views represent that school without qualification. Certainly proponents of the Labour Theory of Value would rather it just be called the Theory of Value, and similarly proponents of the Subjective Theory of Value would rather _it_ be called the Theory of Value with any other requiring qualification.

Now, because we aren't (intrinsically) proponents of either, we qualify both so as to distinguish them. Either way, the renamed title is far better. "Feynman's concept of scientific integrity". Excellent title.

On a more important note, this approach of being the greatest critic of your ideas is probably a phenomenal way to make fault-tolerant software (not necessarily accounting for every eventuality, but being aware of as many as possible, and appropriately choosing to handle or not to handle them). I'm not nearly as good at it as I'd like to be.
> There has to be early adopters of the word that are using it before it is in common usage.

You're right, but using a word that may be popular in the future decreases the effectiveness of your writing today. Are you writing to effectively communicate, or are you writing to spread the adoption of new words for future generations?

I'm also not arguing that no one should ever use uncommon words. I'm arguing that there is a cost to using uncommon words, so the benefit should be worth the cost.

Usually a word becomes common because there is a need for it, because it fills a niche better than available words--either because it is easier to say or write, or because it is more descriptive than available terms. If that is the case, the word will spread incredibly fast. There are many examples, the most recent I can think of is "selfie". It became common over the course of a few months.

I wouldn't advise that an individual writer should have started using the word selfie 2 years ago simply because it was going to become common, anymore than I would've advised Charles Dickens to describe writing love letters as sexting.

USian has no benefit over American other than political, and people have been pushing for it's adoption for decades. It hasn't happened, it's not likely to happen, and the only result of using it, is that your writing is less effective.
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Out of curiosity, what made them different from e.g. a PC with 386 CPU? I guess price may be one thing, but other than that?
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Parent commenter was saying that if the MPAA hate Google, MPAA-members shouldn't be using Google, not that Google should cut off MPAA/MPAA-members.
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I read it as meaning that it should be a superconductor. Why they do not mention it, I don't understand...
This is an "unofficial" release (aka not by Apple).
The sources of the GS/OS was leaked on the internet in 2013.

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You need a mac (pre OSX)
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From the sound of it, you'll probably be able to transmit much lower amounts of electricity over a much longer distance in a conductor, and expend less effort sending the weak transmission.

200 amps proportional to an amount of work, measured in watts. If the wire demands less work, but you expend a constant amount of work, you'll just be sending that many more electrons to the other side of the wire. Like hitting a baseball with a baseball bat in fresh air, as opposed to under water.

I guess that means it's a super conductor, or maybe just a really good conductor? Did they say zero resistance, or only very low resistance?
If you want to read the details on how it works, I suggest this paper [1] "Large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in tin films". The real hope is that this will be a replacement for the conductors in traditional silicon. You still have the heat bottleneck when you hit a traditional conductor. The dissipation free property breaks down at about 100C for this material, so you are going to have an issue with what ever is interacting with that 200A.
[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.3008
I didn't say anything about building cheap stuff for "western consumers", those are your words not mine. All I said was their manufacturing capabilities are currently unmatched but they are in no way leading in terms of the cutting edge stuff when it comes to either technology. It just seems counter-intuitive to me that being in that position they are limiting exports of supercomputers and drones.

For that matter I'm really curious which countries are clamoring for Chinese supercomputers and drones?

As for the history of Chinese industrialization I honestly don't see how that matters when it comes to setting export limits. It is purely a trade issue and usually when exports are limited in this fashion it is because the technology is perceived to provide some kind of advantage to whoever has it. Cryptography software comes to mind as a good example of something that the U.S. government tried to control with export laws for a long time. Carrying that analogy forward I don't see how supercomputers or drones provide any kind of advantage since most countries I can think of that could benefit from buying the technology from China do not pose a threat to it and those that wouldn't be buying from China and instead building things in-house are already equal to or beyond China's capabilities. The export limit in both instances is counter-intuitive because nobody wins from this arrangement.
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Is wage fixing a thing outside the U.S.? It's a bit like bribery laws - you seem ahead of the curve.
Things need to shake up a little bit... 5+ years of >20% inflation even with the dip 5-6 years ago it's starting to get silly again... At least here in the phx area...
There's also Saul Steinberg's famous map, "View of the World from 9th Avenue", which appeared on the cover of the New Yorker magazine in 1976:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...
Interesting, I think this idea should be explored more. Does anyone else think the "MBA Degree" market is rip for disruption? We've been seeing a huge flux of MBA graduates that gets hired for mainly their network or connection. This seems almost opposite to the whole meritocracy culture in the tech industry.

So given a manager/employee could do effectively what a MBA can do, why would a company hire a MBA degree instead?
Why do they say "unsolved" if the classical solution seems to deal with the "paradox"?
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I am also not directly associated with this position, but I work on projects with the House of Representative and can vouch for the Clerk's office as a very cool place to work, especially if you're interested in applying technology to law.
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I think duktape is great http://duktape.org/.

I ran into some issues when trying to use clojurescript with it though.
Not without consulting their backers. 'Pivoting' means not delivering the item people backed. On the other hand, I think the refunds should be the end of complaints.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996038
They're using a water bottle, but AFAICT it doesn't actually seem like it's bouncing back (reflecting) so much as diffusely bouncing off. Has anyone been to the 16th and Mission corner and seen it in person, yet?
But a like is free. If Facebook started charging for clicking on likes, they'd get way less clicks.
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It tastes like black.
"Do you mean that you'll compare the network requests made from the main and the shadow pages?"

Essentially, yes. Requests from the extension should be treated as if
they are of an origin different from the page. (We could potentially
piggy-back on existing notions of security principals (e.g., that
Firefox has) to avoid huge performance hits.) And if the extension is
tainted the kinds of requests will be restricted according to the
taint (as in COWL [1], likely using CSP for the underlying
enforcement).

"What if the main script is sensitive to the request receive time? Then the shadow DOM may act differently."

If by main script you mean a script on the page, then there should be no real difference.

"From more practical standpoint, having two DOMs for every page will eat even more of my laptop's RAM."

I hope this won't be so bad down the line (assuming we'd be able to
leverage some underlying shadow DOM infrastructure and that performs
relatively well).

[1] http://cowl.ws
One part of the problem is that most of the extensions are updated silently in the background. Some extensions fire up a new tab with a page displaying new features and such, but this is not a requirement in any way.
it's not a bad time to get into this space.there aren't hundreds. I'd say the two biggest are fairly googleable. the platform idea won't work because schools don't have the capital and already have the functionality due to (Anki being open source as you mention,) there's money in the banana stand but it's a tough nut to crack.
Look, if you want this it could undoubtedly be done much more cheaply by not building new hardware and taking one of the Chinese Android sticks and getting it to run Firefox OS. A hassle, and not an inconsiderable project, but much less so than building the thing from scratch.
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tl;dr Lucas and a group of economists are pushing a model that has questionable assumptions and fighting criticism with Ad hominem retorts. Krugman et al respond with ad hominem and it all get dirty. Paul Romer is trying to persuade everyone to calm down and have a cup of tea, and puts Feynmans definition of "bending over backwards to critique ones own work" as a standard for all
It is, but the nature of the application demands that a write query is not considered done until it is guranteed persisted on the disk, and the same data is rarely queried often enough to warrant a dedicated cache layer. The data that is queried often is so far handled by SQL Servers buildin caching gracefully.

That isn't the same as we couldn't get some benefit, because we could especially as the userbase scales. But so far we haven't had to scale to the point where it's worth the added complexity to persuit. One can only look forward to the day it is.
So you believe that US manufacturing could equal China's output in both drones and supercomputers if there was an immediate and urgent need for them?
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Siri is very good, but not good enough to fix pop music from the last decade.
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