skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are reporting facts, really it is as simple as that. People are moving money out of China (I'm one of them), confidence in the economy is not good even if the government says everything is completely spiffy. Bloomberg doesn't have to make anything up to talk about how people are moving money out of China, they just need to follow the money. And if the money is flowing one way, it is completely reasonable to speculate on "why" that is so, and I think it is obvious (confidence is low, better investment opportunities exist abroad then what can be done with the money at home).
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That's already been the way people have been using the favstar on twitter. The difference now is that it'll be obvious to more people that this is the main purpose of the feature. That plus now it'll be slightly different if you want to "favorite" something that is negative (the "like" problem).
This is the "Great Blowing Sound". Ross Perot's "great sucking sound" in reverse. All that money we sent out the trade deficit is flooding back in to real assets in the U.S and elsewhere in the western world.
Wow, I did not expect that Servo would be comparable to Webkit in number of unique authors per month, as young as it is. I know the Servo devs put a great deal of effort into outreach and making it easy for new contributors to jump in, and that appears to have paid off. :)

EDIT: Actually, now I'm curious about the methodology of how the numbers are collected. I know that Servo is designed to consistent of independent components contained in separate repositories whereas IIRC mozilla-central is fairly monolithic, so if you look only at the repo at https://github.com/servo/servo you may be underestimating the the activity on the project.
There's also nothing professional about irrational hatred of a platform, or having the need to complain about another's choice of platform.
Gah, OK time to switch to Apple music.
The economy can remain insane longer than you can remain solvent.

You can claim that the Chinese financial system is immune to economic cycles and that the law of gravity doesn't apply. But we've heard that before about American real estate, where people were saying "how long has this real estate is about to crash story been in the news?" in 2007...

If everyone around you is talking about how to get money out of China, then something might be up.
yep, it took like one hour to them write the "install xorg" command

What a moment when they actually accomplished!!

.. now they realized that there's no `grub` installed, so they will attempt to download via curl
Court Orders Shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub
This is an interesting thesis... which is that brick and mortar can work if you also own the online alternative.

I never bought books and B&N because I knew I could get the book cheaper at Amazon. The same with toys when I used to shop at ToysRUs. But those are both goods that I'd actually like to buy on the spot. If I know that the price in the store is the same as online, I'd probably do a lot of in store purchases.

And since I'm a Prime customer, they save 2-day shipping cost to me (I'll continue to be a Prime customer).
> At what point do we see static sites take a fair share of the top-X-trafficked sites? Top 100? 1000? 1,000,000?

Honestly, most media sites could (and probably should) be static. Think of Time, or Cracked, or CNN: a lot of content, which could be regenerated once and viewed by millions of people per regeneration. Comments could be grafted in with JavaScript (which would suit me just fine, since I don't read such sites for the comments anyway).

> This is probably great for a small corp's info site... but then the client asks for a contact form or members/admin secured area, and there we go down the rabbit hole again.

It's not an all-or-nothing thing; a web server can serve both static and dynamic content, after all.
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I don't think that safely fracturing when struck by a human is the safety function referred to in the linked article - once a person hits the windshield, the primary safety mechanisms (seatbelts, airbags, and structural integrity of the car) have already failed, so whatever happens at the windshield will make little difference.

What the article says is that the safety role of a windshield (besides not breaking into dangerous shards of glass) is in being strong enough to maintain the structural integrity of the passenger compartment:

Modern, glued-in windshields contribute to the vehicle's rigidity, but the main force for innovation has historically been the need to prevent injury from sharp glass fragments. Almost all nations now require windshields to stay in one piece even if broken, except if pierced by a strong force. Properly installed automobile windshields are also essential to safety; along with the roof of the car, they provide protection to the vehicle's occupants in the case of a roll-over accident.

Today’s windshields are a safety device just like seat belts and airbags. The installation of the auto glass is done with an automotive grade urethane designed specifically for automobiles. The adhesive creates a molecular bond between the glass and the vehicle. If the adhesive bond fails at any point on the glass it can reduce the effectiveness of the air bag and substantially compromise the structural integrity of the roof.
I'll make a shameless plug for my freeware task manager ToDoList (for Windows).

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5371/ToDoList-An-effecti...?
Especially smoke.
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"We’ve been scale testing [swarm] to 1,000 nodes and 30,000 containers and it keeps on scheduling containers in less than half a second."

That's really, really exciting. Been looking forward to the GA release of Swarm for quite some time, glad to see it here.
Freakin' awesome. Congrats on the docker team for this new release! Looking forward to testing out the multi-network hosting.

On a side note, is there any authentication / security for public-ip docker multi-networking?
Could you clarify the "huge problem of load-following" for nuclear power plants? My understanding is that it's mostly a licensing issue rather than a technical issue, and in practice hasn't had a big impact on CF[1]

[1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/nea-news-29-2-lo...

"Most of the currently operating Generation II nuclear reactors were designed to have strong manoeuvring capabilities. Nuclear power plants in France and Germany operate in load-following mode."

"The economic consequences of load-following are mainly related to the reduction of the load factor... In France, the
impact of load-following on the average unit capacity factor is sometimes estimated at about 1.2%."

"Licensing of load-following is specific to each country. In France and in Germany, for instance,load-following is considered early in the licensing process, and no further authorisation needs to be obtained by the utility to operate in manoeuvring regime. In other countries, load-following restrictions apply: for example in the United States, automatic load-following is not authorised"
"Others might disagree, but I have many reasons for why I prefer Android but I'm not going to say what they are because I like to maintain a halo of mistery"
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800 developers on Chromium seems like an insane number! What are the biggest projects they're working on?
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Intel aren't in Dublin either (Leixlip + Limerick)
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Is this the same idea as the YC company Meldium?
Human powered cranes are quite common, in sizes up to a ton or two.[1] Most large auto shops will have one sized for engine removal. Overhead rail and chain fall systems are common.

The biggest hand-cranked crane-like devices ever built were probably the Panama Canal emergency dams.[2] This was a backup system in case a ship damaged all three gates of the top locks and let the lake pour through. The emergency dam could stop that.

It was a swing bridge long enough to swing across the canal, and although it could be operated electrically, it was also hand-crankable. This was regularly tested. The bridge was cranked out across the canal, above the water. Then wicket girder assemblies were cranked down into the water until they locked into slots in the lock floor. Then, one at a time, metal plates were dropped down tracks in the wicket girders, each one blocking more water, until all the plates were in place and the flow stopped.

They were never needed, and were dismantled decades ago.

[1] http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_material-han...
[2] http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/magazine/inventions-panama-...
Yes, it is essentially moonshine. I'm not sure how cattail spirits would taste though.

A word of caution however, the ethanol that you can buy for camping stoves and such is NOT the same thing... by law it is denatured (mixed with toxins to render unsafe for drinking)

And cattails BTW are directly edible... the roots produce a lot of starch and can be cooked or ground into flour if that's your thing. Some of those ponds they grow in are pretty murky though, and you might want to make sure you're not near a septic system if try them :)
>> (The link is to asahi.com)

Asahi Glass Co. is a separate company to Asahi Shimbun, the news organisation. AGC has a historical connection to the Mitsubishi group through the founder's family, but really is a wholly independent group of companies.
I suspect ebooks will replace the mass market pulp sort of books while higher quality first-run paperback and hardback books will persist. With a much smaller resale market and books worth owning for more reasons than just one or two read-throughs the whole market looks different.
Both of these phones have great cameras, but they don't hold a candle to the performance of even crop sensor entry level DSLRs and mirrorless bodies. It seems pointless to me to split hairs over picture quality between two strong options when anyone who _seriously_ cares about pixel peeping wouldn't use a smartphone for photography in the first place
you could just say

[NSMutableDictionary dictionary]

instead of -alloc -init on the annotated class.
Thanks for the clear and logical explanation. I find it hard to trust the news in this day and age so always interested in other opinions on the biases of the publisher itself.
Fijian here. As of a year ago, foreigners are no longer permitted to buy residential properties within town boundaries.

Outside of town boundaries, they can buy residential property but must build on it within 2 years, spending at least USD$125k on the home. Failure to do so attracts a penalty of 20%(off the top of my head) of the value of the property annually.

The chinese were just buying up too much property and locals couldn't compete.
We were shocked how well stock ubuntu performed under these tests. With the stories of freebsd tuning, we expected to hit an OS ceiling, but other than a dozen shell script lines setting some sysctrl limits, everything else was stock. I would also be very interested in how other OS's perform.
[ To avoid any confusion, the submitter is not the author of the post :) ]

I don't really understand the question about the stack. Where it belongs should only limited by its features.

It certainly can be used by people developing browser-based apps. For example, Cuekeeper [1] is a version-controlled TODO manager which uses Irmin. It's also been used with Xenstore [2], which is a different use-case (there are other examples in the readme of the Irmin repo).

[1] https://github.com/talex5/cuekeeper

[2] https://github.com/djs55/ocaml-xenstore/tree/irminsule
One thing to note is that the Chromium and Mozilla repos host browsers as well as engines, whereas the WebKit and Servo repos host engines only. (The most prominent browser front-end projects are Safari, desktop and mobile, and browser.html respectively, which are hosted in separate repositories.)
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the link to jobscore works no problem. on http://careers.locusenergy.com/, clicking "View open positions" does not work is all.
But is it as scratch resistant as hardened glass? Having glass that doesn't fracture when dropped is nice, but not if it means it gets scratched up from the keys in my pocket.
Some states in the US do have high property taxes. Texas, for example, hovers around 3%, and it's generally a much healthier fiscal environment for residents than states with lower property taxes (and higher income taxes), such as California.
>You can claim that the Chinese financial system is immune to economic cycles and that the law of gravity doesn't apply.

That right there is the fundamental flaw in your thinking. You think boom and bust is physics. It's not.

(Here we go again, for like the 50th time explaining how this stuff works)

It's a direct consequence of the fractional reserve banking model that sticks the taxpayer with the bailout. In China, the government just prints the money electronically. They've had trillions in bad loans in the banking system forever and the Chinese gov periodically goes and cleans it up with printed money and shoots a few misbehaving bankers. In the west, we make the taxpayer and savers pay 100 cents on the dollar on the bad loans and transfer wealth from them to the bankers. We also take everyone's property and give it back to the bankers while China just lets all the bad loans sit in default forever without any action being taken. They even periodically let big investment funds default and it doesn't crash the financial system because the reverse money multiplier doesn't kick in like it does in the west because the gov just comes in and prints the money, hands it to the banks and they keep lending.
You have to get a license from the BATF to do so, and you are limited to 10,000 gallons per year (which is plenty). To get the license you have to give them permission to enter your property without a warrant to inspect whenever they like, and you have to keep meticulous records to account for every gallon produced. By "in this way" I meant a means through which normal people can make their own fuel with a low barrier to entry and little or no risk of fines and/or jail.
Which grid-scale wind or solar projects are profitable without being subsidized by the government?

I'm not aware of any.
Seems to me those people, or person would also have to be pretty great generalists.

A lot of research type tools get written and then left laying a out. Just testing and packaging, integrating, etc... would be a considerable project.

Could be the basis of some sort of course or career though. I'm thinking of the sysadmin types who manage software and research teams outside academia. The really good ones I know used to hold a position, or have some personal interest sufficient to make these sorts of activities make sense.
That's the biggest difference. The main thing I've noticed (I've owned, in order a Moto Droid, iPhone 4s, HTC One m7, and now an iphone 6s+) is that battery life during USAGE is broadly similar, but iPhone uses a HUGE amount less when sleeping/idle.
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The article doesn't use the words "privacy" or "confendentiality". There's a presumption that there are no limits to spying on private citizens; we're free game, with no interests or rights; take as much as you can from them.

The longer the public takes to understand and react the harder it will be to undo. Already there are organizations that are highly invested in it, from Internet companies to law enforcement and security (and their vendors, such as StingRay) to sales and marketing operations. They will not give up their investment easily.

Clearly these organizations think there is something wrong, or they would openly disclose it and talk about it. But if that's what you want, great - just give me a reasonable way to opt out (i.e., without walking around in a ski mask and with use of modern necessities like telecommunications and public transit).
A more accurate statement would be that you are the supplier of several key inputs (both data and ad viewership), that are used in creating the product that they sell to customers paying money, and that, as a supplier, you are paid with the products you consume (e.g., gmail, etc.)

Another (equivalent) accurate way is that you are, in fact, a paying customer for the product you are consuming, but a customer that pays in-kind with things that they use to create another product that they sell to people who pay with money.
ASLSpeak: Intuitively decode sign language using the Leap Motion, and speak it
How do these results compare to FB AI research results that we re recently announced on the same topic?
I originally found this on MSDN BLOGS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_student_developer_blog/arc...

Like Nick Bowmen (18) and Nelson Liu (18, pictured left). The duo
forms team ASLSpeak - winner of both the Microsoft Hack Award and the
EMC Isilon Hack Award.

Knowing they wanted to create something to help the disabled in some
way, they came up with an idea that aims to aid American Sign Language
(ASL) speakers.

Truly inspiring work.

github link: https://github.com/nelson-liu/ASLSpeak
I think it probably has to do with the kind of lifestyle you have. For me, I have to commute by bus, and most of the time it's packed so I have to stand. While on the bus I'd like to use my phone to avoid boredom, which means using it with one hand because I need the other to hold onto something.

I can totally see how having a bigger screen and bigger battery are great. But unfortunately for some of us, we have times where we need to be able to use the phone with one hand.
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If you are using an old version there are generally known security holes so while the snappier performance might be desirable I don't think it is a good trade off.
Socialist revolutions happen overnight but capitalist changes need to happen over time. In case of India it took 50 years for the government to realize that it is nonsensical to restrict how many nut bolts a factory could produce.
Same but 1.5 years fatherhood here. My wife and I chose earlier this year to stay in China instead of migrating to Europe or Australia/New Zealand for our daughter's early education. There seem to be a decent number of concerned parents living here and we are collectively considering starting an independent school to avoid the currently poor options (extreme creationist Christian international school, Chinese primary schools) in a few years' time. There is some interest in established alternative models (Montessori, etc.). What struck me about the article was that they broke children in to groups even within the high potential performance group, and that was dumb. Thinking back to my own gifted/talented schooling experience in Australia, that never happened... we were all exposed to exactly the same challenges and often worked to overcome them as a group, which on the face of it seems a more realistic/adult approach to learning and work.
I don't follow. What "inferior technology" (in scare quotes) is being replaced by what actually inferior technology? Are you really trying to claim that gasoline engines are inferior to diesel engines for passenger vehicles?
So they took the Pascal's wager of their religion and reworked it in terms of evil. Oops.

I think the usual response to worrying about being enslaved by the devil is to invoke faith that Good will prevail.
I've seen a lot of pushback against gifted/talented programs over the past year or two, and much of it is very valid. A gifted program starting in 6th grade is the only reason I finished school. Having teachers that knew how to teach to my personality type and learning style helped me discover a love for math, computers, and education.

My district's gifted program was the single best thing that happened to my education.
I've talked about this with my colleagues at work a lot. There are only a couple of ways out of this mess:

1. An assets crash, turning who were winners (the speculators) into losers. Is there really a reason for that 90 sqm apartment in Beijing to be worth $1 million when it can only rent for 9000 RMB a month?

2. Significant inflation with the RMB, keeping the (well connected, mostly middle class) winners as winners, and turning everyone else who wasn't speculating into losers. Keep in mind that a vast majority of the Chinese population has saved lots of RMB and isn't exposed so much to assets (though they would like to be).

We, like you, think that 2 might be a possibility. Hence my need to transfer my RMB into USD and get it out of the country. Likewise, those who know better than me have been more aggressive about getting out of the RMB, as the article states (I had to go through and get tax receipts, income statements, and a bunch of other hoops to do my transfers). 1 is still a possibility also, which means getting into real estate (the only investment for us mere mortals) is very risky.

And just because you can print your way out of a crash doesn't mean the crash hasn't happened. It sucks when the US does this with its freely convertible currency, it is even worse when/if China does this with its nonconvertible currency.
Does anyone know if Docker Toolbox supports NFS (or something faster than VBox Shared Folders) yet?
Chinese government can't print dollars. Think about that.
Is there a Glassdoor kind of website that categorizes companies by the process they use? That would be pretty helpful...
That money exodus has been happening for a decade from Vancouver's perspective. Maybe it's just accelerating now.
Still a great read. Probably the major reason why, when every year I cut down all my subscription services, Spotify remains.
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Bloomberg tends to be pretty good on this kind of story. If they say the money is moving, they are almost certainly right. If they say how much is moving, they are probably somewhere in the neighborhood. If they say how it's moving, it's probably moving in at least those ways. If they say why it's moving, their guess is as good as anybody else's, and maybe better.
Don't write that code
This takes "Look Inside" to a whole new level.

It's a neat idea, and a good way to put a public face on their business.

The major reason I'd still prefer to shop online is the reviews. I doubt that those are printed alongside the physical copies. Sure, I could read the reviews on my phone - but why not then finish my one-click "Buy" instead of walking all the way to a store just to look at my phone screen?

I hope that their employees are treated better than those in the warehouses, too. (from what I've heard, it's pretty bad behind the scenes).
Yep. And since DRM can trivially be stripped off of ebooks, I'll be able to carry entire libraries in my pocket on a 1TB microSD card.