skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard this said a few times, but never really felt it rung true to systems I've seen/designed. Anyone have any examples?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131323
Exactly. Somewhat dramatic, but equivalent of saying 'decided to use postgresql instead of flat files, therefore scalable'.

That's why I was really wondering if there are people who find strong reasons to do that.
"Is anyone using WeChat or Weibo outside mainland China?"

I don't know about Weibo, but WeChat is available in 200 nations and 20 languages. Over 70 mil people use WeChat outside of China. They seem strongest in south and south-east asia. Wechat penetration into the mobile markets are: Malaysia 38%, India 22%, Philipines 19%, etc. My understanding is that they have aggressive inititatives underway in Brazil and South Africa.

So, not super-awesome, but respectable.
There is a very improbable risk of hash collision for two different original works, so… no, they aren’t?

Interesting (and somewhat very worrying) proposal, however.
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Though, using a specialized language like Erlang can make it possible to run WhatsApp on only 50 engineers (in 2015). I agree with the OP that choosing a stack like Rails can kill your Pokemon Go related MVP pretty quickly (I'm a huge Rails fan myself, but would definitely use Node.js for something like that).
I was at the Alipay headquarters a few weeks ago. What caught my eye was a large IBM machine kept outside the office with lots of signatures on them. When I asked them what it was, they said this was the last piece of American technology the company used and they'd kept it as a trophy. They've replaced every thing else in the company with Chinese tech. That's quite something for a company which processes millions of transactions in a day.
This was tried 200 years ago, and it fizzled (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Harmony,_Indiana)
~15 Years ago I went to to Poland on a student exchange. They held a presentation about their school and stuff and in the middle of the presentation theres a popup from emule saying it has finished downloading something. Mind you this was a school computer on their school network.

I suspect this has changed, but back then they were pretty laid back about that sort of thing.
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Commuting outside of areas well-served by public transportation is a huge detriment to quality-of-life. Those extra hours really add up, especially during the shorter days of winter. The advantage of moving to a second or third city is that you can still enjoy the amenities of an urban or semi-urban setting at a lower price point. It doesn't even have to be in the Rust Belt (although personally I like Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Cleveland a great deal) - Raleigh and Charlotte are still affordable for people who like that area and climate. And there are any number of small towns in VT, NH, CO, UT, upstate NY, or central MA for the outdoorsy who don't need an urban setting
Yeah, I used to be gross when I was younger (biting my nails, nibbling on pens...), and it didn't prevent me from developing some of the worst allergies imaginable. I can't even eat 90% of food types lest I enter a pseudo-drunken allergic state of stupor.

Certain kinds of cigarette vapors make my ears and throat constrict in a matter of seconds.
> The United States wants to believe that the scourge of censorship thwarts online innovation, but China is challenging the idea in ways that frighten and confound.

As an American, I do believe that a culture of censorship and phenomena like the Great Firewall stifle an economy's capacity to innovate. That's not to say that innovation is impossible in such an environment, just more difficult.

> “It doesn’t matter how the car is capable of traveling. Once it gets on the highway, you can imagine what the end result will be,” he said.

> The implication is that China’s government is happy to have companies build shiny, fast things as long as regulators can put up roadblocks as they please. So far, they’ve mostly targeted foreign firms.

Exactly, so far! What happens when the state determines that your blooming startup threatens their agenda?
Services can be used and are used when a developer wants to try something fancy in an otherwise boring, simple tech stack. No one says that, it's usually covered as 'best tool for the job' but oh that can be very dangerous.
Yes, with Postgres (which I am most confident to talk about), most precisely using PostGIS, you can do that in a matter of hours using it for geo-queries and indexing for getting important stuff (new, trending, etc...). Plus Postgres is supported basically everywhere in any tech stack. I still don't get one point, why people totally ignore SQL dbs by default with new products? I know MongoBD, RethinkDB, CouchDB, etc... are really fascinating solutions, but why not considering SQL eliminating it by default? I am just curios.
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Unidan[0] comes to mind.

[0] http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-unidan-shadownban-vote-m...
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It is unmaintained now, but you might want to have a look at [1], which builds on the type inference system to add some static checks. I believe there may also be some related work in [2].

> Then again, maybe nobody else has these issues and I'm just bad at deducing when AbstractVector can't be used.

Nope, not just you. This is definitely an issue.

[1] https://github.com/astrieanna/TypeCheck.jl
[2] https://github.com/tonyhffong/Lint.jl
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> What counts as "excessive"?

That should be obvious: any data the user hasn't given their specific informed consent to be collected. How is this even in question?

No, hiding blanket statements in a privacy policy is not specific consent, and dissembling about spyware details in an vague or misleading option description is not an informed choice. This is how you bring bad regulation to an industry; if businesses cannot police their own ethics, event laws will be written to fix the problems.

> malware detection scheme

Not everyone uses that, and there are other ways to implement malware detection that are not privacy leaks.

> Microsoft learning what apps you download

Or run, or interact with...

> good signal

...which then claim is a good thing. Microsoft (or anybody else) can ask the user if they would like to track that specific data.

> they have other alternatives

The cost to change platforms - which may include replacing an existing investment in software - can be large. Forcing a Hobson's Choice on users indicates it's time to open up another antitrust investigation.
You could even use Java on JVM and let your ops team decide which OS should be used.

Although unless Oracle changes its way it seems we will soon be a point were Apache will port Tomcat etc to .Net and we can use the best language with the best servers from the best communities.
This is how CDRom worked under DOS(MSCDEX).

from wiki:

>The driver uses the Microsoft Networks interface in MS-DOS. This is the reason that at least version 3.1 of MS-DOS is required. The driver essentially looks like a network drive from the system perspective. It's implemented as a TSR program[3] and an extension to the redirector interface (CDEX).
Yes, but it's not exclusive to the US. This is standard procedure among allies, and US & Poland are definitely strong allies. The same thing happens between Germany & Latvia, or Russia & Uzbekistan. Beyond that, this can happen even between non-allies if the pursuer is powerful enough. The US & Russia are probably with the widest grasp due to this.
Awesome! I've actually been working on a java IDE that allows uploading examples together with the results to a website:
http://jpad.io/example/1s/generating-random-int-array-within...

The idea is to build up libraries of examples in different areas, allow easy code sharing and to remove some of the cruft needed. It's good to see stackoverflow hit this "code examples" area better.
I think it is very generalizable. Maturity in a sharing market likely means more to the people doing the work.
> if users dislike the way Microsoft do it, then they have other alternatives they can easily switch to.

So tell me about all those alternative OSes that can run all the same applications that run on Windows.

Before someone suggests it, running a Linux distro + Wine is not an easy switch by any stretch of the imagination.
Awesome! I've actually been working on a java IDE that allows uploading examples together with the results to a website: http://jpad.io/example/1s/generating-random-int-array-within....

The idea is to build up libraries of examples in different areas, allow easy code sharing and to remove some of the cruft needed. It's good to see stackoverflow hit this "code examples" area better.
I cannot vote in the coming us election.

I just find it slightly ironic that had Facebook and Google (and probably the us government) been accommodating for Chinese requests to censor uygurs during their uprising some 10 years ago then the situation likely would have been completely different.

Now Facebook and Google are missing out of a big high growth market - a market that ultimately may foster companies and innovation strong enough to challenge us social media dominance.
This is the right perspective. It seems the OP believes actual photographs are privileged in some way. In reality, any visual input from our eyes counts as training data, as you said.
Yeah the idea that there could be a country innately incapable of innovation is absurd. Sometimes people ask me if I am worried about India taking my job (programmer) and I always say no....not yet.
Great to see my favorite language evolving! I also use various lisps, Java, Haskell, Typescript, JavaScript, Python, etc., but I am happiest when coding in Ruby.

Unfortunately, most of what I do now is machine learning, and Python wrappers for underlying C++ code have by far more support than Ruby. (Ruby does have some great ML projects and libraries though).
Thank you! TorrentProject indeed looks like the proper alternative to KAT.
I was really impressed by WeChat while living in China. Quite a few times I thought "hmm, I wish we had that back home"

To counter the argument that it's not true innovation, just a re-combining of existing ideas... what other type of innovation is there?
> “There’s this strange belief that you can’t build a mobile app if you don’t know the truth about what happened in Tiananmen Square,” said Kaiser Kuo, who recently stepped down as head of international communications for Baidu, one of China’s leading tech companies, and hosts Sinica, a popular podcast. “Trouble is, it’s not true.”

There's something that's hilarious, delightful, and depressing about the above statement, all at the same time.
Oh my stars, was the CIA doing something questionable again. How shocking. The US govt so rarely overreacts to imaginary threats by spying on its citizens.
I will add some soon, still tweaking the newsletter design!
I would love to see an Arcology, I always enjoyed Oath of Fealty mainly for the ideas he referenced about one. With regards to the article, a sustainable community built with the drive of someone similar to Disney might be able to work, the issue outside of money and drive is NIMBYs. We certainly have the technology to do it.

However, you don't need complete independence, I think energy independence and protecting the environment with a family and pedestrian friendly layout are the best achievable goals
That's really the tradeoff. Some people like trees and grass and a modicum of peace and quiet and privacy. Other people like to live in the caves of steel, with a seething mass of humanity flowing all around.

I think you can guess where I stand on the matter. You couldn't pay me enough money to relocate to Manhattan or San Francisco.
>IMHO, Google storing voice recognition samples does freak me out, especially because voice recognition is automatically activated by "OK Google"

I've had google search activate a few times by my wife watching TV in the background and once when it was sitting in front of my speakers while listening to a podcast. We've tried going back and replaying the same bits but can never get it to activate in the same place twice. Still, it is strange to be sitting there and suddenly have the Google mic pop up.
HTML seems the most time proof format to me.
I think you misunderstand, or at least the article misunderstands. It's not innovation as such, it's the ecosystem. Even without network effects Chinese companies are starting to stand on their own. Xiaomi is maybe even second to Apple in the consumer electronics industry (especially with western brands, like Nokia, folding), DJI is probably the leading drone manufacturer, Taobao (while not really available worldwide) is far better than eBay.
> Hall hired Ellis Mills Public Affairs, and kept buying land.

Is this the modern white collar equivalent of paying for protection ?
Andy Grove wrote a great essay on exactly this topic:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-07-01/andy-grove...
To achieve IIHS Top Safety Pick+[1] you have to have front crash prevention, so it's "mandatory" already if you want your car to be perceived as safe.

1. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/ratings-info/front-crash-pr...
2. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings

Disclaimer - I work for GM, any opinions are my own.
Please do keep in mind that CloudFlare is essentially a consensual man-in-the-middle and for certain threat models is not compatible with the "secure" modifier.

If your threat model differs, this is cool.
Here's my problem with the climate debate: statements like "politicians refuse to acknowledge facts" implies that the facts are not in question, but then there are other scientists who say the data are skewed or insufficient or otherwise unreliable. There are also scientists (perhaps some of them the same people, perhaps not - I haven't paid close enough attention) whose theory is that climate change is driven much more by the solar cycle rather than human activity.

From there, it typically descends into the sort of courtroom contest where "my expert is better than your expert" because of all the politics involved. One side says we must radically change the foundations of society and the economy or the world will end, the other side says it's not a big problem and it's been happening since forever.

Any discussion by a layperson of these things results in the worst sort of internet crap, particularly if it seems to dispute the "facts" that seem to be undisputed to one side but not to the other.

So it's not just politicians who "refuse to acknowledge facts," it's also a lot of ordinary people who are skeptical when those facts are not undisputed, nor the theory that frames them, and then those who say it is so demand policy changes that disrupt their entire lives. Ask anyone from coal country if you don't believe me.
please don't associate them with libertarians who don't condone violence let alone deception and theft.
there's gotta be an integrated way to copy&paste examples (i.e. via autocompletion/snippet) from SO to our favorite code editor/IDE :D
At this point China's debt bubble is too large to have a "bailout" from the West. China will have to do it on their own. The ratio of debt growth to GDP growth looks pretty grim as of 2016. Without having experienced an economic correction in such a long time it is possible even many of the companies which appear strong, innovative, and important have serious underlying problems which were easily masked by growth.

Japan may be a rough guiding point to China's future path. After the growth miracle ends, a decision has to be made on the debt. Whichever decision is made the debt will be absorbed by someone. Like Japan, China can continue to do amazing things but the consequences of that debt will throttle back future potential, especially if China's economy fails to rebalance and they choose the Japan option (zombie debt.) The greater geographic size, ethnic diversity, and far lower GDP per capita may make it much more difficult for China to pacify the population during a economic disruption.

China matters a lot but drawing a linear line upwards based on previous trends is a big mistake.
when did SV become a "city" comparable, in any way besides housing prices, to nyc?
Regarding #2: I noticed that in Python there are content blocks that can be marked specific to a version.
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And that posts some advantages we still need to do a lot of work on. Mammals and birds are able to learn online from a few examples per instance, shift to changes in underlying distributions relatively quickly and do so unsupervised.
That assumes you like cities. I don't dislike cities in general but I also like my rural property. I honestly don't see a particular advantage to small towns. What I like about cities is things like theater, good restaurants, and related culture which typically take significant scale.

Not sure what extra hours you're talking about. I have a modest (25 min or so) commute when I go into the (suburban/exurban) office and frequently work remotely. I can't say I miss depending on public transit though I use it when I am in a city.
Or perhaps they dropped it because Java 6 was end-of-life 3 years ago.
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> If you're going to build a torrent indexer, don't profit from it.

It just occurred to me, what if someone wanted to go the legal(ish) way, setting up a non-profit organization to host the tracker? Such an organization could still manage ad-derived profits, keeping only those necessary for its continued operation, and donating the rest to cultural entities, like museums, libraries, independent producers, etc.

Would this be viable in some country?
A video of a previous Greg Law presentation: http://undo.io/resources/presentations/cppcon-2015-greg-law-...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101347
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Morality often has many sides and exceptions. Take someone who eats meat. I am perfectly fine buying chicken, but would vocally dislike if I saw meat from endangered animals being sold. My objection to have animal extinct does not impact my opinion about buying meat in the general sense.

A person who want to support young indie artist will do so through many avenues, some which supporting that artists IP. That doesn't mean that they must be in favor of IP, or must support every form of IP, but simply that their intention is to support the young indie artist. They morally distinguish the two, not on their opinion about IP, but the opinion of the author.
Innovation. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Seriously this is such an over used and hence watered down word. Every new thing isn't and innovation, novel maybe but not innovation.

The assembly line was an innovation. Ride sharing was an innovation. Pokémon go was a novel use of tech.
Actually we don't have issues parsing PDF but rather downstream some old ATS are not very good at parsing PDF (particularly MS technology based ones that we push to).

The other issue with PDF is that some cheap PDF conversion tools will just turn into an image and thus characters are lost.

Most apply processes allow you do paste your resume as text and attach. I recommend doing both.
I wish I had as much free time as that.
> the media placed way too much of a focus on his family being Mormon.

You're telling me. Four years later I'm in London and the city buses are still advertising the "Book of Mormon" musical. (admittedly that wasn't 100% a Romney thing, but the timing was no coincidence, either.)
[META] This is popular, but is there a way to notify the mods of duplicates so that conversation doesn't get fragmented? I flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135897 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12136086 but I don't know if that's the right thing to have done?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12136039
> We are, however, taking computer scientists and putting them in programming roles.

And how a computer scientist would make a decent programmer? He wasn't trained
in the craft, he was trained in different direction. He could just as easily
skip studying to get a degree and start training under an experienced
programmer.

> And there is high demand for those programmers

Yes. Note that the industry needs programmers, not scientists (or even
would-be scientists). Who the industry looks for and who it needs (judging
from jobs that are offered) is a mismatch, of course. This is what I called
the stupidity.
"I wouldn't live there if you paid me to" - The Talking Heads on suburbia.
Regardless of the current market for talent (which will change drastically based on the sector, the specific job, the company, the geographic region, etc), why would you not want to give yourself the best chance?

Generic resumes receive a fraction of the responses that resumes crafted for the position do. This has been well studied and cited. So why not take 20 minutes to customize a resume?
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The problem would seem to be that you can't build a deep economy on just ideas. Sure, whoever works for Apple gets nice paychecks, but most people don't. Trickle-down economics has always been a smoke screen for trickle-up power.
> investigator cross-referenced an IP-address used for an iTunes transaction with an IP-address that was used to login to KAT’s Facebook account

The article implies that the investigator had a FB and iTunes IP address and THEN Apple gave the rest of the user's details but that doesn't really make sense.

I'm guessing that they gag-ordered and subpoenaed FB for account info, but how did the investigator get the iTunes transaction IP address prior to getting user details from Apple?

Edit:

I think the more likely scenario is that FB was forced to give up user details and the only valid info was the IP Address, and then Apple (and probably google etc.) was forced to search through their databases and produce any records related to the IP address in question.

Or maybe the USG has a database filled with iTunes transaction information -- I really wouldn't doubt this at all. I'm sure music is a partial indicator of "dissident" level in whatever algorithm is used to assist investigators.
Yes, I think the Phoenix guys would rather you forwarded to an OTP app than build a mechanism for plugins.

I think no-one builds their apps this way yet so maybe it needs more explanation.
Morally distinguishing between the two is easy.

Zara had the ability to pay the indie designer for their work and didn't.

It'd be like if Bill Gates made a subscription payment torrenting site specifically for indie games.

If it had instead been a housewife in the Philippines who used the design to make clothes for her kids (or even a little money on the side) then very few people would care.
the article evidences a situation that COULD becomes a pattern, and a pattern that improves the gig economy. I don't think the title is misleading, but your judgment is. The same can happen in every "gig economy" platform, like online transportation (with local taxi unions owning the app) or a neighborhood managing it's own home renting app. This would be a lot safer, wouldn't? :)
So did you make the roads you drove on to work? Impressive.

How about the fire, police, schools, environmental protections, consumer protections, and court system? How big is the military defending your patch of land?

I admit there are problems, but I'm always amazed when people say the government doesn't do anything, then take a car to work on public roads, listen to the radio (FCC), eat food (FDA), etc.
Thanks. That's one of the best compliments I can get.