skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually this is classic daily life of a chinese netizen: you are never quite sure what the cause of your network woes is (not without spending time digging into it). Is it due to ISP QoS, or is it reset by GFW, or is it just mere network failure?

And what most ppl do when facing this? They choose a local service instead of Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Google. See, censorship is only a part (though a vital part) of the grand scheme.
> Thats the only way we can save money

Please take this in the constructive manner in which it is intended:

Do you drive 2 cars newer than 2009? Paying a loan payment on both (or worse, leasing)?

Do you eat out at restaurants more than once a month [for very special occasions]?

Do you regularly buy Starbucks or the equivalent?

Do you pay $100 to your cable company and $120 to your cell phone company every month?

If you're anything like the average American, you are leaking a large amount of consumption that's on autopilot. Expensive, nearly new cars, in multiples, upgraded frequently, each with a loan or lease payment and expensive collision insurance required by the bank, paying an army of servants to cater to your food needs, buying $5 cups of hot water poured over roasted beans, etc.

"But, but, I need all of those things to get to our jobs reliably, to de-stress after so much work, etc!" No, no, you don't, but American marketers have convinced you that you do, and you see it reinforced by most of your peers, so you do.

For those who want to learn more, start with:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/04/22/curing-your-clown-... and http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... and then randomly click around his blog)

Even if you don't want to buy a bike to commute with immediately, you can make small changes, like keeping your sensible, reliable car for 12 years instead of 4, cutting out $5 coffee runs entirely, switching to a $50/mo plan for 2 cell phones, cook at home more, etc.

(I have no connection to MMM and I don't follow all of his guidance, but I find his perspective to be amazingly helpful in challenging auto-pilot consumption. I use Ting [Sprint reseller] as my cell phone plan; wife and I pay $45-55/mo for 3 phones, two iPhones and a Nexus. www.ting.com is the non-referral link, [ https://z9prmb2f3t5.ting.com/ is my referral link, but I care more about you saving money than getting a referral credit, so I listed the other first ])
Unless the malware uses the backdoor/exploit then patches it out once it's inside. It has complete system control, after all.
North Korea warns it will attack South as Kim Jong-un declares state of war
Code completion evolved from a graphically structured language, AlicePascal, for this reason. We've been adding visual features into our text based lnaguages via tooling for quite some time.
BMW was aware of the flaw exploited by the OwnStar Hack
> but there's no state possible where the user can use the app and _not_ have given permission, as the app is only installable if the user gives access to the photos through the Android access rights at install time

Use an iPhone.
Analyse Asia 54: Twittamentary and China's Media Landscape with Tan Siok Siok
Tan Siok Siok, CEO of Kinetic One and a notable documentary film-maker who made Twittamentary in 2012 entirely with social media and crowdsourcing, joined us for a conversation on how she has managed to make interesting documentaries from China to US. Tracing her story across Singapore, China and US, she discussed her journey from a filmmaker to now the CEO of a technology media company, and how she saw the transformation of the China media landscape from 2004 to 2015.
I find this is a very gentle warning compared to what we hear about secret law enforcement in general and China in particular. Isn't the practice to stage a suicide after deleting his repositories?
Pixels are half the story. Cellphone cameras for example boast their megapixels but if the optics suck there's not much value gained from all those extra pixels.

In those demonstration shots you can still make out faces from the far side of the stadium even though there's considerable noise.
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
In the context of a Chinese hacker fearing prison this is awfully cynical hyperbole.
From the things I've seen, an 80-hour employee is worth 0.8 a 40-hour employee.
Because it is a lot of hard work without much in the way of rewards or recognition. Hundreds of thousands people use clowwindy's code, some of them even make money by building services using his code, yet very few people are willing let alone be able to contribute. Until a few days ago he was complaining that the user community is now full of leechers and he is pondering when to quit. The police visit was probably the final straw.
So, isn't the real question how to get you into a more liberal country so you can continue your work?
Leaked images claim to show BlackBerry's first Android phone
That Structured Haskell Mode (https://github.com/chrisdone/structured-haskell-mode) readme has some very interesting gifs to show how things work.

It's pretty powerful, and I use SHM in my Haskell stuff to mostly good effect. I just have some issues involving the default indentation that I need to get round to fixing, and I haven't figured out how to surround a block with square brackets yet. But otherwise, very good stuff.
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US citizens can use any encryption they wish.
> taking VC money

Usually this argument is phrased as a "household debt", but the problem is the same: you're mixing up private debt mechanics with sovereign debt, which follows a completely different set of rules. Consider that startup with VC money in a situation where they can print money or define base interest rates.

Sovereigns have a lot more flexibility in how they handle debt. A successful tool used in the past with long-term thinking governments has been to simply inflate away debt. For the same reason a mortgage is sometimes considered "good debt" when it becomes cheaper with inflation, the US is still paying off debts from the Civil War.

> concluded this was a good way to run your life

It's not, but nations are different, and ignoring those differences is foolish.

> I have no clue how wasteful our governments are

In general, they are surprisingly efficient for what they are trying to do. We may disagree on what those goals should be - which is why being involved in politics is important - but we do generally get a very good value for our money in implementing those goals.

A big part of that is the fact that a government doesn't take a large initial cut as profit. An easy example of this is paying for healthcare: a government can legislate how much money is wasted in the implementation (Medicare is incredibly efficient), while private insurance companies used to take a significant percentage (15%-50%, if I remember correctly) as profit.

The phrase "government waste" is usually a euphemism for "I hate that project and don't want to see money spent on Those People" (which varies with political affiliation and opinion). Sometimes this has racist or similar tribal origins, and sometimes this has class origins. Regardless, simply calling things "waste" usually oversimplifies the situation.
So don't raise the tolls that high. Just raise them high enough that they're moderately congested, but not excessively.
Community archivism FTW (with a dash of leadership, out-of-pocket $, project management and planning).
I am a native Chinese. I was threatened by the police because of publishing a unfair treatment from a decree of local magistrates.
The police said that I had to delete all of them, otherwise I would be brought into jail and my parents would lose their job.
At that time, I was only 16.
I don't want to live in this country anymore but I have no choice. I love China but the government.
I think of equity as having roughly the same value as a jar of farts. For most startups this will be the case.
those sucks a little less than, say, bugtraq, offer enterprise support on premises which you'd never use but you need to do the purchasing when you go for a big company and kind of have a big recognized name for their customization support even if their whole stack sucks.
I went to a university where my direction was programming/game development. We had a course in, I can't remember for sure, C perhaps, and it included making a game for the GBA. It was some time ago but I remember it was quite interesting.
Perhaps if there were some semantic way for HN to link an article to a previous one, like threading. For example, a text field with previous HN item ID and a type drop-down with "duplicate"# and "follow-up" fields.

# For editors to reduce duplicate posts.
His Holiness Via Lactea Maximus, Grand Emperor of the Galactic Cluster, Potentate of the Southern Quadrant, Imperator of Countless Worlds
This is market at work. If a person can run an organization as big as Mozilla then they can run a similar position also. So CEO of Mozilla can get a job in a 500-persons startup and get a juicy ~$5M/year pay. Most of people working in non-profit make a sacrifice actually.

I'm not saying the CEO of a company with around $100M in revenue SHOULD make that much, they make it in this market and a lot of people are not happy about it.
"Thanks" to the Great FireWall by one of the evilest governments, I might have to finally give up Gmail after many years struggling using it with the help of a wide variety of GFW-fighting tools. My deepest respect to all the authors.
That comment was obviously not benign, and you were all breaking the guidelines—not necessarily equally, but that doesn't much matter. What matters is that the thread is not the kind of discussion we want here.
According to this text by Joel Spolsky, in SVN-days developers spent days and days massaging code but not committing, because committing meant pushing to the central repository public to everyone. With git/hg developers can use version control also in their incremental daily work, and finally merge or rebase or squash or whatever, to massage their work into a form that is good for pushing to the master.

http://hginit.com/00.html
It's obviously far worse in china, but still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen
we had Smalltalk machines. The same hardware which ran Xerox' Lisp Machine OS also ran Smalltalk. The processor microcode was different and it booted into Smalltalk on the metal.
Spoofing GGP tends to work very well in these situations.
True Story - Missing are the rent prices that eat 70% of your paycheck plus having 4 roommates on a 1 bedroom apt and the fact that every and any food you can think of is already served as a $14 burrito here.
What is this supposed to mean?

https://github.com/clowwindy/ShadowVPN

"Removed according to regulations."
Ship it on an usb drive. (use encryption)
It works in your theoretical scenario unless you also take away word of mouth, international communication, and international travel. I don't see China banning any of those any time soon.
Anyone reflecting over the high valuation of these startups which does not yet make money and that it could be a bubble?

Nobody considered the Tulips bulbs mania in Amsterdam a bubble until after it burst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Related TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about...
As a Chinese developer, I got more and more disappointed to my country.

I'd read a book written by LinYutang, called My Country and My People. All my understandings of my country after reading this book are not same as nowaday China.

What's wrong? I don't know. I just wanna have freedom for Googleing. I just wanna the people in this country be happy not only because they get enough to eat.
Is there a description somewhere of the moderation process here?
No, dear. They are just putting childprocesses into existence. If there is no state, there are no citizens.
3 things I learned at a VC
Well, it appears there are two different organizations, the Mozilla Foundation--which is the non-profit--and the Mozilla Corporation--wholly owned by the Foundation, it is a private company.

On the page you've described: "For each individual whose compensation must be reported in Schedule J, report compensation from the organization in row (i) and from related organizations, described in the instructions, on row (ii)."

For Mitchell Baker, Brendan Eich, and James Cook, they all have their salaries and bonuses listed on row (ii), indicating it's from a "related organization". Further down a few pages, the only related organization that is listed is the Mozilla Corporation.

Ryan Merkley, Mark Surman, Christopher McAvoy, and Christopher Lawrence are the only people who are listed as having their salaries paid by the Mozilla Foundation, and their salaries are much more modest, in the range you had discussed.

I don't know how Mozilla Corporation makes its money.

EDIT: this old page says "contracts with Google" http://www.technobuffalo.com/2010/01/01/how-does-the-mozilla.... I suspect those have been replaced by "contracts with Microsoft" now that Bing is the default search engine. It would suggest the CEO is not in any way being paid with donated money.
Did you miss the original link?

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#is...
Gods i wish.

I dont own a car, we have talked about renting one, but it hasnt come about yet.

We eat at a restaurant maybe once every month, and we try to keep it under $50.

I take my own coffee to work(nice big starbucks mug though! haha... sigh)

No cable TV, we do have internet, thats $50 a month.

We dont live in america, its easier here in Japan compared to Australia where i came from, i get a comparable wage(about 2k per month AUD approx), and instead of paying 1200 per month in rent, i pay 870, so we can save now.

But we have public transport costs, food bills etc. Honestly i have no idea how anyone could survive if they had cable tv, starbucks coffee, restaurants too often AND a car. We could pick one, maybe two if we didnt want to save.

I think their idea of a standard wage is not accurate. IF you are programming in some big company, yeah maybe, but i earn less than 40k US per year (which btw is more than i was earning as a fully qualified chef in Australia, with over 10 years experience - when you consider the hours 50+ hours then vs 40 now).

As i said originally, i may be missing the point of the article, but for me, if i was earning enough to get what you mentioned, id be quite happy. Id have my house very quickly.

Side note: My apartment/house is my goal, a shitty little place that will allow me to save half my rent a month towards another shitty little apartment that i can rent out.

Again, maybe im missing something here?
I think you have that backwards. You, as the person with physical access, is in full control as SIP can be controlled from recovery mode. Processes running as root are no longer trusted to have full access to the system. This is definitely a step in the right direction.
HTML5 resources
Unions? Seems to be the only proven to be working solution.
Meteor js had this with the aldeed:autoform package ages ago
Yes. The way I've seen it explained is people (particularly younger people) confuse euphoria with happiness in the same way people tend to confuse infatuation with love.
No, it depends. The mass transit option might be e.g. 20% slower compared to the travel time the poor have now.
Maybe not central LA, but FastTrak does cover major freeways all over southern California.
Huffington Compost should be marked as spam...
Tell me about it. I recently bit the bullet and upgraded to 10.10 after waiting for quite a while. Man... Firefox has been crashing regularly since then, the Mail.app will also crash every now and then, and to top it off, the system itself has crashed twice on me over the past... two weeks. Sigh
They aren't. In fact, there's a lot of research showing otherwise, going back decades, at least since the '80s/'90s or so.
Ask HN: RSS feed that links direct to Hacker News not source?
Every RSS feed I've found for HN (official or not) links to the source site as the "primary site".

Anyone know of a feed that has the HN discussion page as the primary URL?
> There are relatively few countries in which the government both could and would interfere with someone's publication of code

It's not about interfering with someone's publication of code. It's about neutralizing threats to rulers' rule.

China's rulers shut this guy down because his tool might enable too much free speech among the masses, which, in turn, would pose a threat to the government's rule.

As for the idea that "it couldn't happen here!", see how the US government "interfered" with someone's publication of articles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUYMPZ4nEOY

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ebudnWlh4
Let's say people were angry about the pocket integration/deal and wanted to get the Mozilla CEO replaced.

How would they do this?
Don't be alarmist, worst case a cleaning tool would have to be run from recovery mode, but nuke and pave is usually the recommended cause of action if you get a infected with a rootkit.

SIP holes will be found, and Apple will patch them just like other security flaws.
I loved visiting Tokyo, but I recall an almost overwhelming sense of not understanding how the economy worked for the people there. It did seem insanely difficult to just break-even working a job there, yet everyone I met was unfailingly polite and pleasant to interact with.
Or if you want an anonymous pad with video chat, http://snapmeet.io
Do you think you're allowed to talk about the government suppressing you?

And the point isn't that they weren't able to suppress crypto code; it's that they tried.
As the author of tun2socks (which is currently used under the hood in shadowsocks-android and Psiphon3 for system-wide proxying), I wasn't even aware this effort was in progress. Very sad to see it stop.
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I don't understand the idea that CEOs, leaders, and employees generally of charities should make less than a regular market wage. If you want the organization to be effective, then hire an effective leader. Pay for effective employees. This way the organization can accomplish its mission. It really makes no sense to me at all that a charitable organization should not pay its employees the same as any organization or company. (If the answer is that typical charities are poor, then sure. But you get what you pay for, in organizations, leaders and employees.)
They will, one day. anyway Gmail was gone, which I think is the most impossible site to be blocked.

PS: nice to see you here. :)
Make the Mozilla Corporation less profitable. Since they make the vast majority of their money from search engine contracts, basically, stop using Firefox.
As a matter of fact I did, thank you.

Let me just find the nearest cliff to jump off.
Ray tracing with perspective camera in Minecraft
If this happens day to day, you may consider opening a subsidiary in China, with applying for special network. Foreign company in China can have network without GFW.
> This is also true of advertising, startups in crowded
> fields, and businesses with high brand recognition.

Peter Thiel has an interesting stance about startups in crowded fields. He argues that you should pick a niche with little competition and own that niche completely. While growing from that always avoid competition and aim for a monopoly.

Lecture 5 - Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_0dVHMpJlo

Transcript:

http://genius.com/Peter-thiel-lecture-5-business-strategy-an...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8310301
I get a fairly good wage comparatively to australia, and infact compared to locals in the same industry. So technicly im being paid well, and if you compare costs/income, im sure you could find the issue i have here -.-
Segment is hiring security engineers to help secure our container fleet
GAAP is not an uncommon acronym in tech circles. For example, listen in to any earnings call or read any of the big tech companies' quarterly earnings press releases and you'll find references to GAAP all over the place. Quarterly earnings are a pretty common subject of discussion when they occur, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of programmers are familiar with the term.
Sorry, but I'm really not going to explain intersectional cisgender privilege (or whatever) to the guy panhandling on the street.
Same - I did Programming 1 and Programming 2 in VisualAge for Smalltalk in 1997
> Racket, arguably the most popular Scheme implementation

Umm, NO. Racket isnt a "Scheme implementation". Racket was a Scheme as long as they called themselves MzScheme. Then they decided that they changed too much that a complete name change was justified in order to not confuse users.

Racket isnt a "Scheme implementation" for the same reason Scheme isnt a "Lisp implementation".
Always with the government debt, when the real devil is private debt. Private debt is what puts the economy to a halt, when it has been used for asset speculation rather then investment in expanded production capacity.
That's true. But immigration for Chinese is much more harder than you think. Even in China, it is not completely free to move from one province to another.
Those moving guys are very photogenic!
How to determine the aliveness/deadness of a language:

1. Work out what you want to build, and functionalities that you would require.
2. Do a search for libraries in language X. If success, go to 3 else it is dead for you - look at another language.
3. Look for adequate documentation and an active, helpful community. If success, go to 4 else it is dead for you - look at another language.
4. Try building a quick and simple application. If you found it enjoyable and offers something other tools you already know don't, go to 5 else it is dead for you - look at another language.
5. Build something more substantial. If you still find it enjoyable, go to 6 else it is dead for you - look at another language.
6. Congratulate yourself that you have discovered an enjoyable and useful tool. And that you took the time and effort to explore the language yourself and made an informed decision, and not just read someone's opinion and went with it. You may also start to suspect most opinions are from people who never actually used the language for anything more that what you just did, or inherited a dreadful codebase.

I did all this and I found myself using Pharo about three years ago. I still am, and I enjoy it tremendously. Also, (Pharo) Smalltalk is the most alive language I have ever used.
Well, looks like this thread got nuked. I was just about to post the the (much smaller) Wikimedia Form 990 if anyone was interested:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/7/76/Form_...
Once upon a time, it was taken for granted that the
wealthier classes enjoyed a life of leisure on the backs
of the proletariat. Today it is people in skilled trades
who can most find reasonable hours coupled with good pay;
the American professional is among those subject to
humiliation and driven like a beast of burden.

This is very reminiscent of Orwell's 1984, where the "proles" [1], while suffering under poor living conditions, had more freedom than party members, who were constantly under watch and had their behaviors strictly controlled.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles
Unfortunaely, the demo random login isn't working :(
I dunno, a lot of modern language academic research and push are going towards a very compile-time-typing-everywhere mode. see Haskell and Idris, for instance
7 more questions asked by noob designers
Is there a board? Shareholders? Anyone who could vote a replacement CEO through or get the bad one removed?
Working in such network 24/7/365 means I have to spend about $90 per year on my vpn service, and keep vpn connection all the time when working. (otherwise google and SO will not come to save me from problems.)