skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your specific point about semiconductor fabrication: It's much harder to scale 28nm down to 14nm than to go from say... 65nm to 32nm. Quantum effects become much more prevalent. All sorts of new materials and technologies must be used. Even with Qualcomm's help[1], SMIC's 28nm process was delayed by a year. The first chips came off the line last month, putting them 5 years behind modern fab tech. Though companies like SMIC are playing catch-up, it will take a lot of R&D to get to where Intel is today. Speaking of R&D: Intel's R&D budget is five times SMIC's revenue.[2]

To your more general point about surpassing the US in "the next couple of years": I seriously doubt it. The US has many advantages that we take for granted. Developing countries have a huge problem with brain drain. Many of their most talented citizens immigrate to the US or EU. The US has relatively little corruption. It has a large, wealthy domestic market. It has the most prestigious universities. Lastly, the US has plenty of capital and a culture of entrepreneurship. We're so used to these things that we hardly even notice them. But for developing countries, these are massive issues.

1. http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322988

2. Last quarter, Intel spent $3 billion on R&D. SMIC's revenue for the same quarter was $547 million: http://www.smics.com/eng/press/press_releases_details.php?id...
John Oliver Segment on Peeple Social Media App
>Wouldn't it be interesting if processes running on my behalf within Facebook or HN couldn't access other users' private data

No, because HN comments are public and the only reason to share data with Facebook is to make it available to (some) other people. It might be interesting for Dropbox or Google Drive, but even for Google Drive, the killer app and value-add over Microsoft Office is realtime collaboration with (specific) other users.
Terrorism is show business.
The side with the real power - the voters. You can blame businesses or activists or interest groups or governments or whatever but America still has a democracy and American people actually do choose the outcomes they get. You personally might not want them, but most of your fellow Americans either do want them or succumb to some personal greed to make them happen.
The original definition of terrorism is "government by intimidation"[1]. i.e. If a government uses terror to control it's populace, it's terrorism, e.g., U.S. government intimidating it's workers not to whistle-blow is one example. Somewhere along history it flipped to "intimidation of governments". Whichever way you read the word, however, the U.S. is a state sponsor of terrorism[2], having provided support to Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden when they were fighting in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union, amongst many others[3][4], not withstanding the acts causing terror such as the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital[5], and in 2013 giving weapons to Syrian Rebels[6], which we know ISIS & Al-Qaeda[7] are the biggest factions.

To answer your question, Pinochet, Taiwan government in 70's, Stalin, would all be terrorists, according to the original definition of terrorism, as in "intimidation by governments". Somewhere along the way propaganda completely reversed the meaning of the word to "intimidation of governments by non-government actors". Either way, the word "terrorism" used in propaganda everywhere, it is a loaded word used carefully with craft to manipulate the people's perception of nefarious activities performed by governments from all around the world, the biggest of which is the U.S. government.

Terrorism, the word itself, is the weapon.

Terrorism are certain activities performed by one's enemies, when one wishes to use the word terrorism to intimidate the populace to allow the government to implement draconian policies.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/07/terrorism

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Allen_Davis_incident

5. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/05/us-bombs-doctors-without...

6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-b...

7. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1...

U.S. claims to only supply weapons to "moderate" rebels, and U.S. describes Al-Qaeda as "moderate".
Still I can't believe that so many people must have known about this and just let it happen. Sad. This is a tech oriented forum and I hope some of the engineers reading this would act differently in a similar situation.
Unless he's using cash, make no mistake, his purchases are being tracked in some capacity.

Why do you need a store card when a credit/debit card track has more than enough information to identify?

- Card number (useful on its own as an identifier)
- Name (not perfect, decent secondary info)

Granted, these don't generally make for a super-continuous history on someone, but they're pretty decent for the average person for a year or two.

Also, if you make any returns at one of these stores that you've previously used a CC, your real state-issued ID will be correlated with your purchases (via your CC).

Also, if you do any online shopping with a retailer and use the same cards in the store: instant correlation.

Checks? Necessarily correlated with DL and account numbers, even better than CCs.

Outside of cash: there're just too many ways to establish purchase histories for most individuals.
Of course Congress should be allowed to amend bills. Since Congress writes most bills of course they can amend them, if not directly then indirectly by scrapping one bill and introducing another, almost identical bill with the amendments.

No amount of process-tweaking is going to make any difference if Americans keep electing stupid assholes to public office. Likewise, even a rather broken set of processes can be mitigated if they're administered by intelligent and reasonable people.

(Now, for my pet idea :)

What I would like to see, in addition to an electorate that doesn't make such terrible decisions, is a requirement that every bill have a falsifiable statement of purpose, along with clear and convincing reasoning why the proposed legislation might achieve that purpose. The purpose would always include some time limit. If the purpose of the bill is not achieved by the time the limit is up, then the bill is automatically repealed. If the courts (or some new institution analogous to the courts) determines the the reasoning is not clear, or the time limit is not reasonable (e.g. a million years to do X) then the bill is also repealed.

But even that's going to break down, if administered by idiots.
So before about 10 years ago when Facebook was launched, these things were only "conceivably possible", maybe with significant effort expenditure? Really???
So, if Facebook shut down tomorrow, we'd lose all online communication options?
>One survey found that two-thirds of Americans believed that the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has almost doubled over the last 20 years.

Curious that the author attempts to attribute this to media sensationalism rather than, say, an increase in American poverty.

Or perhaps not, since Kristof is a fierce critic of the anti-sweatshop movement.
If you work for Facebook, quit
Hey - criticism will be harsh because your decisions are polarizing. Something to remember is that things that are easy to do happen more frequently. So your decision to promote subreddit listings as the "first clas citizen" of your app is detrimental to peoples primary motivation.

Consider your users. When they go to reddit what do they want to do? Look at content mostly it seems. Let them do that first, and perhaps your subreddit discovery mode could slot into that.

Good luck and please keep building things. :)
The negative effects of mass shootings are largely because people don't understand the risks. So I think they'd go away if we realized they didn't matter.

You're right though that smoking shouldn't be top. Everbody dies of something but we can't save all old people from old age diseases forever.
Yep. It really was a different world before Facebook. Just one real and important example: I had lost track of many of my old friends and acquaintances, and am now in touch with them.
>No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

- G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

(Yet here we are, applying the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in biology, and the Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula in physics)
Now you're just being argumentative. This kind of thing belongs on reddit, not here.
Asepsis under OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
"At some point, certain sources of oil will become economically viable which aren't now."

Indeed. Higher prices are what lead directly to the fracking boom. Now some of those wells are being shut because prices have declined.

"Heck, it's an insane, absurd speculation, but maybe at some point energy will become so expensive we'll even come to our senses, stop listening to Greenpeace, and build nuclear plants to use that 10,000 years of uranium."

Your mouth to God's ear, my friend. There's actually enough for billions of years, if all sources and technologies are included. The late John McCarthy (probably better known here as the creator of Lisp) had a series of web pages about it.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html
Tried the documentation for setting up the sync-engine, I must say its bit confusing. Can we install on say, on a AWS VM ?
I'd agree if there weren't safe ways to have sex.

Breaking a treatment regimen to use a drug that wreaks havoc on the specific neurotransmitter the antidepressant acts on doesn't work.

There is no way to reliably control the outcome of stopping treatment and taking street drugs.
Google drops “don't be evil” for “do the right thing–follow the law”
But if your system is to pick high variance players that are also underrepresented on other players rosters how many lineups can there be? I remain skeptical that this is a viable strategy.
3 Pioneers Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Parasite-Fighting Drugs
Okay, so five of you checked out the website. Champions! I really appreciate that A LOT.

Can you please leave your feedback? Would love to hear your thoughts. You can be as honest as you want. Thank you again!
Apple Acquires Perceptio, an Artificial Intelligence Startup
Facebook banned my account last year, which was meh, but one of their engineering managers in NYC then used my email I signed up with to try and recruit me, and I just fell out laughing… they're a fucking joke and the aggressive sell on getting to work on react.js was equally humorous… yeah I'll stick to neural interfaces. I don't know how people put up with this shit in tech, but hey, different strokes for different folks and all that jazz.
> It's not like one day someone's going to say "oh, shit! we ran out! sorry, no more oil."

That's not necessarily true. Well extraction curves decline exponentially with the highest amount extracted early in the well's life.

Well discovery follows a very steep increase followed by a very steep decrease. The new fraking boom gave the extraction curve a new "bump" so it looks more like two gaussians overlapping each other. But the deposits were already discovered for the most part, so the discovery curve has remained consistent. And the drop off of the discovery curve is also exponential.

Ok, what all that boils down to is if the extraction curve doesn't keep resetting the drop off goes from global glut to largely unavailable in 20-30 years.

So when it runs out, for all practical purposes, you could easily be talking to a 25 year old who clearly remembers when everyone had a gas car, yet all the gas stations are closed.

Which would definitely feel like an "Oh shit!" to anyone experiencing it.

edit

To clarify a bit, that's 20-30 years from peak to pit. So if society doesn't seriously talk about the problem for 10-15 years (totally believable, we were heading downward before fraking), then argues over the solution for a couple of presidencies for ~10 years (again totally believable...), then you only have maybe 5 or 10 years to adjust societies power sources.

And it takes 7-10 years to build a nuclear power plant. Oh. Shit.
A Performance Review May Be Good for Your Marriage
Finally! Always wanted something like this! It looks beautiful! Sorry if this sounds to flimsy but how an app looks is probably a huge factor for me to consider using it. This always pushes me away from open source because they aren't designed (visually) as properly as their proprietory counterparts. Love this project!
California Governor Signs Assisted Suicide Bill into Law
I mean this kindly: the tone in which you read comments on the internet can be very dependent on your own mood.
> In 2006, I sold an Internet company that I had cofounded a few years earlier for millions of dollars.

It looks like that unnamed company was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_Database
You can't be betrayed if you weren't promised anything. Users simply have no power inside the system.
This is very likely just a case of reporters misquoting or over interpreting what they think he said.
IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards...

...and I'm still using one!
Use Evernote? Want to switch?
Fuck you, that wouldn't even be a good enough manufacturing rate for god damned phones you heartless piece of shit.
That's right, but the negatives are presently having a large impact on society. There is a balance to be struck, but it's something that viewing the raw numbers can obscure.

Non-domestic terrorism seems like a good counter-example, where we have gone too far in an attempt to eliminate it: a huge financial and societal undertaking (e.g., the TSA, the justified mass-surveillance, the increase in public fear) for relatively few deaths.
What you can do in your own time is one thing, what you can do commercially is another.

Encryption is something you do by yourself or with another consenting party, facial recognition is something you do to someone else without their permission and possibly use for nefarious purposes.

There's nothing wrong with outlawing certain activities from the commercial sphere, or any sphere. It's not an assault on your freedom, its protection of my privacy? It's illegal to stalk and harass people in person or over the phone. It's illegal to serve people undercooked food or raw milk or whatever. It's illegal to breach HIPAA.

Are you next going to say its terrible that you can't access my medical records for your startup?

How about security cameras and genitalia recognition in the bathrooms at restaurants, is that cool too?
FanDuel is a Scottish company.
The World If: A compilation of scenarios
On a whole, I found this article somewhat condescending. It starts out declaring that it will try to create an "impossibly pure" mathematician in order to display paradoxical & problematic aspects of his role, but it really does neither. It shows a (negatively) stereotypical mathematician hopelessly confined to his field, and by this example uncovers nothing paradoxical or self-contradicting, but rather pokes at the perceived societal shortcomings of the mathematician in a way that could be interpreted as flippant.

And this "pure mathematician" is even contrived in an unrealistic fashion: no ideal mathematician would say that a proof is simply "an argument that convinces someone who knows the subject." This entire student-mathematician exchange is facetious at best.

This article really reminds me of a strawman: it pretends to paint a picture of an "ideal mathematician," but at points like the above simply resorts to vaguely offensive stereotypes (in most of the exchanges, the mathematician is stereotypically bad at explaining just about anything).

The final point the authors (who, by the way, are reputable mathematicians) make about mathematicians and their relationship to the outside world is a deserving one. There are many humorous and correct insights in this article (for example, the convention of concealing any sign that the author or intended reader is a human being is one that I find to be quite unfortunate and worthy of address), but I really found the pseudo-platonic dialogues to be nothing but off-putting. I think this might have been much better delivered as an earnest essay.
What does the FB app give you that the website doesn't anyway? I had no idea why I would want it on my phone when FB was pushing it on me.
I actually like and use sheets (it's much better than Excel for simple and/or non-analytical use cases), so when I use Excel for something, it's because I want to use Excel for that thing.
Try to create a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for something to be considered fraud, without invoking the concept of reasonable or relying on the contents of the alleged perpetrator's mind.

Human judgement turns out to be pretty important in deciding whether or not something is a crime. That judgement is influenced by argument, guided by precedent, and reviewable by higher authorities, but it is ultimately judgement. It's somewhere between very, very hard and impossible to write laws that catch the edge cases without ensnaring innocent people or being subject to human interpretation.
I think the approach is quite similar, but the devil's in the details. From looking at a couple bugs, the efforts to reduce TCB were not as effective as hoped.
Spacemacs! Spacemacs! Spacemacs!
You beat me to it. Partitioned caches have been explored for years to defeat covert timing channels. Other measures were used decades ago with varying success. I was excited at the title thinking Intel was finally on some bandwagon for suppressing timing channels given cloud market, security concerns, etc.

Another performance enhancement lol. That's good, too, but damnit I was hoping they mentioned timing channels. It will have to be thoroughly scrutinized before relied on for that but it's a start for sure. Hopefully, more than that. :)
The reason why this doesn't work is because the front page of reddit chooses based on the community what the most interesting posts are at that moment in time.

There is nothing like this here. I have to click on a subreddit, of which I know nothing about, and then the content may or may not be relevant or entertaining.

That's simply not what reddit is.
Maybe what's needed more than an elevator pitch is an open-source app using facial recognition to creep people out without abusing them.
> As far as I know, ownership percentage is available for any player in your lineup as soon as the first game begins. In other words, this is information is already public.

Except it's useless at that point because you can't change your lineup. The employee has the ownership percentage stats before anyone else and before the first game begins and can use it to craft his lineup.
All of those (eg. sales and psychology) are interrelated. For example, say you're an enterprise SaaS company. Saying, "We have a $1B valuation and aren't going anywhere" actually carries meaningful psychological weight during the sales process -- weight which could be the difference between winning or losing out to a competitor. In that regard, it may matter...
Is Radiation Necessary for Life?
jailbreak+iOS+9.0.2+available+with+TaiG+v3.0
It's a start, but I'm much happier having moved it to under my thumb.
Killing people affects people.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/09553002.2015.10...
No other messaging than this exists. We've been waiting for a couple weeks, squirt. Come up here, and I'd be happy to show you the press kit and everything else. Taco Tuesday's tomorrow! God bless.
Again, the positive side of this is, 50 years back the resources of China and India could only support may be 1/5th of their current population. However with green revolution, white revolution, cheaper energy sources living has been sustainable. I will agree that US is not relatively as rich compared to other nations as it was once before, but that is not the point Kristof is making, he is talking about how most people in the world are making the cut to reach a basic std of living (which I think is more important than some rich countries slightly backsliding?).
I don't think they have a real first account. They only created an account at all because they needed it for work, and they didn't give it any real information because they didn't want Facebook to have it.
Snowden: I'd go to prison to return to USA
Abercrombie seems to have done that.[1] But without the logo, what have they got? Their jackets look like everybody else's jackets.

[1] http://www.abercrombie.com/shop/us/womens-jackets-and-coats
>How else is anyone supposed to litigate trade disputes?

In the country's courts, much like any other commercial dispute.

>Shouldn't it be immediately obvious why a company that ostensibly had mining rights in Canada can't expect a fair result to a dispute with Canada by suing in Canadian court?

No. If you assume a fair, transparent legal system, which Canada more or less has then you should expect a fair result. The legal status of the mining rights can be agreed upon as part of the treaty, much as it is in any other trade treaty.

It ought to be immediately obvious that a secret court that supersedes national law overseen by corporate lawyers is not going to deliver a fair result.
Why Canada should roll out the red carpet for skilled foreign workers
It might be too late for that, it's not a matter of elevator pitches anymore. People are already ok with being tracked constantly. I think it's a matter of going back to the fundamentals and re-instilling an appreciation for individual liberty and the value of privacy. That's not something that happens with an elevator pitch, that's something that takes essays, and blog pieces, and conversations, and lots of time.
Or we can automate this in an OS/cluster manager and safely this with everyone like we do with some many other technologies that are difficult for most of us to develop :)
I'm not sure what software level protections can stop your phone from being dropped down the stairs.
Nit pick: This is not about income redistribution to the developing world. The poor of the world has simply become more productive and generated more of their own income.
I hate to Godwin this thread right out of the gate but say Google is in 1930's Germany as the Nazis came to power, so they persecute jews
or look the other way as many corporations did in Nazi Germany? This was legal and the "right" thing to do back then and most people did it.

How about a current issue; mass surveillance and supporting a police state? Could be legal depending on what your definition of is is, to quote one weasel.

Go along to get along the pragmatists always say. "Don't be evil" was a cheap, easy slogan when you are a college kid but now that you are all grown up with responsibilities and mortgages (and dividends) to be paid, compromising with evil doesn't seem so bad.
This is a strange perspective on the history. Why are you emphasizing comparison to the Khmer Rouge and the Nazis, and dismissing the similarity to the East Germans? Why not look at what domestic intelligence has actually already done in the US, which seems quite reminiscent of the Stasi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
Personally, I despise them because they're parasites. I'm also not a big fan of, say, tapeworms. Sure, I don't doubt that tapeworms are also miracles of evolution. And sure, I guess even tapeworms have to eat. But at the end of the day, they're still parasites, and I still think they're repulsive. Ugh.