skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it was true, but no.

In 2006, I have both QQ, Skype, MSN, Yahoo messenger installed and they all work in China at that time. QQ for friends and family, Skype for Voip calls, MSN for friends in university, well, Yahoo messenger, mostly was used to chat with people outside of China, to practice English.

QQ was huge popular among younger populations at that time, in way I could not understand.

I used MSN most of the time to communicate with my friends in university, but almost all my friends or relatives that were below 20 at that time, who have an IM, is on QQ.

But now most people in China are on WeChat, people are moving away from QQ. And WeChat becomes many people's first IM, for example, my mother in-law who is retired, does not know how to use a computer or how to use QQ, knows how to use WeChat.

I have to say these guys are onto something. Yes, they were copycats in the beginning, and yes, their current counterparts outside are blocked in China, but I strongly doubt the theory that if facebook, google etc are not blocked in China right now, they would be successful in China. After all, they had their chance before, and they blew it.
Women seem to prefer sharing an alpha male with other women, than have a harem of losers. Because of that, I think it would increase the mismatch.
What impresses me most about this years upgrade is that the graphics performance of the iPad Pro is better than my 13" Macbook Pro in some benchmarks. This is why they can say "desktop class performance".

Anyway, the title is misleading; the article talks only about the CPU whereas chip implies the whole SoC. But that doesn't matter. The whole article is written rather one sided by someone who just copied what a clueless analyst told him.

I can't wait for Anandtech's full review on the A9X SoC. They already have a short preview on their site:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9780/taking-notes-with-ipad-pr...
Kik is not new. They've been around for years, with ~200M users.
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You aren't concerned about cosmic rays?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Effect_on_electroni...

>> Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.[76] To alleviate this problem, the Intel Corporation has proposed a cosmic ray detector that could be integrated into future high-density microprocessors, allowing the processor to repeat the last command following a cosmic-ray event.[77]
For that matter, most social contexts involve signalling adherence/allegiance to a specific set of values and beliefs: clothing is almost always a uniform of sorts. It helps establish an initial foundation for further communication.
That one seems almost a waste then.

Thanks.
I miss all of the C&C games a lot. Are there any modern successors to them?
Incandescent bulbs which mostly emit light in the yellow–red part of the spectrum are much better for nighttime lighting, because they make less glare in your peripheral vision (which is dominated by rods and “S” cones), have less effect on night vision (short-wavelength light causes the eyes to become bright-adapted, making the rods completely useless), and cause less disruption to sleep cycles (Melanopsin is less sensitive to longer wavelengths). Furthermore, incandescent bulbs have a nice smooth spectrum, which in my experience results in better preservation of color relationships.

LEDs can be okay if you make an effort to find ones which are ~3000K CCT, and diffuse them properly. Fluorescent bulbs are invariably unpleasant, and tend to give me a headache, in addition to making everything look garish.

LED car headlights and streetlamps of CCT >3000K should be illegal, they’re much too bright in the short-wavelenth part of the spectrum, blinding drivers and pedestrians, disrupting people’s sleep (and animals and plants), creating nasty light pollution which blacks out the stars, and not actually improving visibility compared to less-blue LEDs or high-pressure sodium lamps. Same goes for flashlights and camping lamps, though those probably shouldn’t be literally illegal, just discouraged.

I hope someday display technology improves a bit and can support broader spectrum output with more than three isolated/intense primaries. Ink on paper is much nicer to look at than pixels on current screens. (Of course screens have the nice feature that they can easily change what they show.)

For daytime lighting a carefully constructed LED lamp might be better than incandescent lamps, but I much prefer just sitting near a window.
I haven't gotten a chance to use the product yet, but from what I've heard it's really solid. I've implemented Google maps before and frankly it was a very basic experience with a completely unsustainable pricing model. It would not surprise me in the slightest if Mapbox forces Google to change their maps API or to drop the product all together.

Side note: I got a chance to hear from the CEO of Mapbox once and he came across as a really stand-up and hard-working guy. The company has a great story and was almost entirely bootstrapped, only recently taking major funding (they've been around for awhile). This alone will cause me to explore their product offerings when it comes time for my company to implement some map stuff.
> I'm not a erlang expert but the use of the case statement is not considered a bad practice?

Only by people who see the world as black and white. There is absolutely nothing wrong with case.
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Good read, but I think the referred Smithsonian article is in fact this one.
React text to Emoji
Even then, not all MBs support it... Most of the higher end Asus boards do, with AMD CPUs. The difference in power usage is pretty significant... Going from an FX-8350 to an i7-4790K was a significant power/heat improvement, for a faster CPU. The i3-5010U in my htpc is pretty awesome for what it does as well.

It really depends on the tasks if you NEED it... I wouldn't to a byo nas ever again... I would suggest that a lot of workloads don't need it.

That said, the additional cost should be nominal at this point, and I don't quite get why it isn't standard. It's like the coprocessors in the early 90's eventually became a critical integrated piece.
Yeah this is really cool! I tweaked the settings a bit - think this is a bit more stable of an ecosystem (also not the most realistic) http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K4Bsn4mc4p0CJkH43cB
> Facebook recently disabled API access for online/offline status of your friends unless they've consented.

Is this for just the messenger app or the facebook mobile app?
Like spontaneously disintegrating?

(Seveneves is a good book, I highly recommend it.)
If "everyone" includes Elixir, I'd argue otherwise. While syntax is a part of Elixir, them much bigger deal is the addition of Macros and Protocols. I'd also weakly suggest that while the pipe operator is just syntax, it changes idiomatic usage drastically.
i'm no computer scientist, but don't i have to request information in order to receive it?
What i mean is, do i have to attach a LED light to my laptop to request the data from the LED in my roof?
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I find pleasure in mocking consumerism.
Yeah, there is the Shannon Limit which gives the theoretical max, I was more trying to get at there not being a reason why we'd be stuck at remote control/irda speeds.
I think this will be quite popular with those who like watching races for the crashes, but also don't want people to get injured.
Read the moon is a harsh mistress. They had very interesting solution to severe gender imbalance. From just a normal married treesomes to line marriages ( a commune with seniority).
I didn't notice - I just compared URLs. It turns out that the referenced link actually redirects to this one. Thanks!
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There's really no such thing as an alpha male, the term is nonsense taken from some old bad science on wolves and misapplied on humans.
It's fascinating to me to contrast this with the dominant American nuclear family paradigm. The family as a power-wielding unit is not the part of the American Dream. And so there's no incentive to build such extended families. A nuclear family strikes me as a much more expensive way to live, however.

But really, how many of us would want to live with our extended family? (A significant percentage would not, I reckon)
There were rumblings from a fruit related technology company that ECC may in fact be required in future memory hardware because the risk of error becomes too high without it. This makes total sense to me, I am frankly surprised that ECC is still considered a weird premium upsell considered worthy only for servers and server farms. Shouldn't every computer be reliable?
For most people, manufacturing an image is the authentic thing to do. To deliberately interact with society without a manufactured image is in itself inauthentic.
I would have rather gone on the trip we had planned.
China has a parent-selected imbalance.
[Eich] was ousted for his donation. I saw no mention of a defense and
only people calling for his head because of the donation.

You're right, I was oversimplifying, because he was very careful not to actually say anything of substance when he defended his donation. I think my point stands, however: he wasn't ousted in retaliation for the donation. People called for his ousting because of how the donation and more importantly, subsequent non-apology non-defense reflected on his current, at-the-time-of-being-promoted-to-CEO views, and how they'd affect his performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7460030
That's not retaliation or outrage, that's relevant and important concern about his ability to do his job as CEO of Mozilla.

Also, the parent argument is that death threats are a disproportionate response, not that they're new.

Also, I think it's very clear the grandparent was talking about a new/increasing level of disproportionate.

> a population that increasingly cannot tell the difference between words and violence

> That's why people are afraid of the new outrage.

And, of course, the grandparent was a direct response to the original article where "new"-ness was part of the main point:

Tagline:

> People are so sensitive these days!

Opening sentence:

> Is the world more easily “outraged” than it used to be?

Conclusion:

> So is the world any more “outraged” than it’s always been?
Read it as an 'attractive male' then.
Are you a shill for Udemy?

It may not even matter if they knowingly acted as a marketplace for stolen goods. See OCILLA (the "safe harbor" provision of the DMCA). Similarly, see the fate of Grooveshark [1].

Providers seeking protection from OCILLA must:

1) not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity,

2) not be aware of the presence of infringing material or know any facts or circumstances that would make infringing material apparent,

3) upon receiving notice from copyright owners or their agents, act expeditiously to remove the purported infringing material.

Udemy is playing a dangerous game. I guess they can feel comforted knowing small independent content producers don't have the legal resources that record labels do. Though together, they may have enough.

[1]: http://artlawjournal.com/grooveshark-protected-dmca-safe-har...
Years and years ago I used to read The Register, as it had good content. Now, it's just a tabloid - a technology-oriented one, but a tabloid nevertheless.

Unless I'm mistaken, what The Register have said in the article would constitute libel, right?
Neither of our (very good IMO) sysadmins bothered to check ECC counters on our existing server memory as far as I know. We did check SMART counters and SSD wear levels, though.. It is certainly a very good point that unusual numbers of ECC errors (corrected) are a bad sign and that machine should probably have its memory replaced at a minimum.
You get to be seen to have got issues if you're doing housework in Asia. Probably from a broken family.
No, it doesn't. Udemy would fall apart as a company without illegal content. Their entire business DEPENDS on pirated content. You really think they would be making any money with the very very few legitimate courses? The business knows the majority of courses are pirated, and they don't care. This is how they make their money.
> no more ?

I can't remember there being a clean line for decades now.
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1. dowries is money that the bride's family gives to the groom's family. you are thinking of bride price.

2. often times the dowry and bride price will mostly offset each other.

3. this already happens in china. it is so bad that sometimes the grooms and his family have to borrow money from relatives for the bride price.

4. this seem to only apply mainly to china and india. taiwan, japan, s. korea the dowry/bride price (if any) is only a token gift, with maybe the grooms family paying more money. but generally you're not doing this to make a profit.

regardless of all this, there is still no amount to incentivize having a daughter because technically daughters cannot pass down your family name, and own nothing. it doesn't matter if daughters are worth 1000000x a son in the dowry/bride price exchange if it means your lineage dies with you. daughters are considered part of the groom's family once they marry.
Brotli is a "strong" compression algorithm so it's obviously going to be much slower with much better compression than "light" algorithms like Snappy or LZ4.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Every week on the news you hear about a miracle graphite battery that is super thin and has 500 times the capacity. The first time I was excited, the second disappointed, and every other time I just sighed. I'll believe it once it's hit the market. I don't understand why the news reports experimental research just because it's novel. Of course the researchers will play along because it makes their work seem important, stroking their egos and helping them get future funding.
Ask HN: Advise for a self-taught budding programmer
I have been learning how to program on my own for sometime now. I have mostly been learning Java and Spring - I have some other reasons why I specifically chose these technologies. I have also been working on developing my own website that will be offering some services to clients in my home country.

On the front-end bit, I have identified Envato Market where, I think, I can find good and affordable designers. So, my first question, do we have alternatives to that?

Secondly, on hosting, what are the best practices bearing in mind the mentioned technologies above?

Thirdly, while I will not be able to afford an expert on security at this moment in time, what other options are available to me?

Thank you in advance.
The recent Act of Aggression is a inofficial successor of C&C Generals. I just had time to play it for a few hours, but it seems to be almost as good as Generals. Though it's more complex (more unit upgrades, more ressources) and unlike Generals the building part of the game is less advanced: it limits buildings to a grid and building cannot be placed everywhere.

And Cities Skylines is the best city building simulation. It was a big surprise that a small team managed to create such a superior game. EA's SimCity 2013 with fake simulation was a failure.
I have soft white CFLs that look identical to incandescent bulbs. I also recently bought some full spectrum 5500K CFLs for my bathroom vanity, in an effort to see if full spectrum light in the morning will help my mood. A lot of the "daylight" CFLs are not full spectrum, and are a harsh blue. Things look rather natural under full spectrum once they warm up and your eyes adjust. When I turn off the full spectrum light, it is interesting to see just how yellow "soft white" light is.
I guess this was an attempt to sound like a visionary with a "Big Hairy Audacious Goal"

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

Instead, it reads like a parody. The world isn't a computer and it doesn't need an operating system.
That's what I know too for graphics draw calls. For GPGPU there's been hard work for finer grained preemption, last I looked into it (~1yr ago) on Linux it was a work in progress to put it kindly.

If you're curious, lookup the Intel Broadwell GPU specs, there's sections devoted to the various levels of preemption. If you're really curious look up the workarounds needed for the finest grained preemption (this would be preempting a single GPGPU draw call).

Then decide enabling fine grained preemption should probably wait for Skylake, unless you took too much Adderall and no challenge sounds impossible. Do I speak from personal experience? I plead the fifth.

I've no experience with how fine grained nvidia's preemption is.
It is okay, they don't produce the 800, they produce the HAL5.
> I don't understand why the news reports experimental research just because it's novel.

Ad impressions.
Not just Silicon Valley. Although US is not 'missing women', there are significant number of American men seeking foreign brides from EU and Asian.
No CFLs are “full spectrum”. The fundamental nature of the technology is to create a number of sharp “spikes” in the spectrum. This inevitably causes distorted color relationships relative to daylight or incandescent lighting.

The bulbs also cost much more to produce than incandescents and are full of toxic mercury, and wear out much more quickly than advertised when turned on and off frequently (as is typical in residential uses).

This page mirrors my thoughts reasonably well (http://www.richsoil.com/CFL-fluorescent-light-bulbs.jsp). On the whole, CFLs are a handout to a small handful of rich lighting companies, sold to the public under false pretenses.
Seems pretty off topic for HN...
Awesome! I tried coming up with justifications for all of the rules, and decided that having animals popping into existence didn't make sense, but if you consider the whole thing an open system with an influx of predators, then yours still makes perfect sense. Much more interesting to watch :)
Zombie apocalypse: http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K4BxmGwlnBjJ96ipVsg or with zombie decay: http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K4C-rlmldj1NYKXa-jf

(p.s. If the subject of "Programming zombie apocalypse simulators" appeals to you at all: http://confreaks.tv/videos/keeprubyweird2015-prepare-yoursel... )
Not the first time I am hearing this. Udemy has no standards whatsoever!
When I was at university I didn't know anyone who played sports. That says much more about my social group than it says about what went on at my university.
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Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I immediately thought this was related to the Terminator universe but it seems to be a coincidence?
--We need to remove a ssh key from all company hosts right now as fast as possible.

FreeIPA, supports this and much more.
I am aware it's not truly "full spectrum", but it is more tolerable than the harsher bluer "daylight" CFLs. These CFLs were designed to provide truer whites for photography. They were also cheaper than buying a lightbox.

Incandescent bulbs also use about 3 - 4 times the power, and burnout quite often. There is no perfect solution.
Forget the implementation, I have never been comfortable with the concept of Timeout itself
You mean to suggest that the guy in the horse head just put that on for a photo op?
> The world doesn't owe you a fucking thing.

And neither it does to the ones who sell stuff.

I'm sorry that future comes in pieces and not exactly in order. That the means to make culture free came before the means to make creators not have to pay for the rent. That the draw people have to educate themselves, or to participate in the shared cultural experience is stronger than the arbitrary restrictions some people try to place.
I would love to play this. It looks like it has just the right amount of frustration mixed with a clever and simple bank shot setup to keep me playing.

The pocket ("hole"?) must've been stolen from a carnival game or something :).
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No problem: self-driving electric scooters and motor bikes - not too far behind cars.

http://www.notimpossiblenow.com/the-latest/google-self-drivi...
I tried to ask my mom to let me do the housework myself several times. It always ended up in arguments. She thought I wanted to kick her out by making her less significant.
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Thanks I might try mapbox because of your story about the CEO.

I am not sure about Google dropping their maps. I think that will never happen. There is just too much data in their maps and Google is a data company. They are trying to include physical data in the web, which includes images, maps, buildings, infrastructure etc.

Another question, what is unsustainable about google's pricing model? I've only been trying out their free trial and they allow you to have more queries than mapbox. It seems that google will be cheaper than mapbox for a very long time.
Why does VR need more bandwidth? Surely it's just a video feed in and some telemetry data out. Isn't latency more of a problem?
They raised $71,145 and announced they're spending money with a list of items they're buying:

http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/
Google isn't selling the pirated content and cracked keys that are easily found with it, but they are selling ad impressions on top of them. That seems to me to be much less substantially different from YouTube's case than YouTube's is from Udemy's.

Also, this isn't just us, the law in fact does consider them substantially different, and specifically uses the word "directly": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10640023
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Speaking of third party clients... Does anybody know a good way to export/backup all of your Telegram conversations? I see there's a history command in https://github.com/vysheng/tg, but it doesn't look like it will do what I want. Ie. dump each separate each conversation.
The philosophical radicals were a group of progressive thinkers who ran a journal that publicised Darwin and debated the rights of women and the trade ofs between lazzie-fair capitalism and socialist ideals (see my links elsewhere).

I'm not sure who you think we is on HN, but if you consider HN to be mostly populated by people who prefer some kind of evidence-based reasoning then I'd think they would fit in very well.
Our current self propelled sprayer can cover roughly 70ha an hour. 36m boom travelling between 18 and 25km/hr. Water flow rate also plays a part in how much you can cover.
Dropbox sync over wifi has never worked for me. Perhaps it's because the two clients are running on different OS's (Win/OS X).
The implementations may have converged but there's still hard differences in the ISA. RISC (including ARM) has fixed-width instructions, x86 has variable width. RISC (including ARM again) is load-store, x86 allows memory to be sources or destinations. So ARM can have simpler decoder logic, if nothing else.
http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K4C-x5QN9AmdeUR8x5L

Forest simulation. Seedlings sometimes appear, and they sometimes turn into trees.

Fires can start within a tree, and when they do they will wipe out adjacent trees and seedlings, with a chance of turning them into fertile ash. When a seedling grows next to fertile ash, that ash turns into a tree. Hopefully simulating the benefits of fire to regrowth of a forest system, although not to any degree of real world accuracy!
Why are these wheeled things referred to as "hoverboards"?
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the democracy can't build nuclear power plants and fast trains, an an oligarchy can. So there's that

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Maybe the case for fast trains stacks up (in some places), but Nuclear power just doesn't. I know some people assume that because some of the safety problems are overstated it makes it a good option, but that chain of reasoning doesn't hold.