skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the assessment of shillage. It's just another article in the vein of "scary Orientals and their Tiger Moms are outperforming us!" Mozur's article would better be categorized as a lazy sensation article.

A sliver of merit exists in the article; Chinese internet companies do match American ones when it comes to scaling their infrastructure. Many Chinese software developers, designers, and architects are similarly talented as their American counterparts.

Otherwise, this department-store-esque vertical integration of different features is just an artifact of the domination of fewer players with SOE connections and not a sign of dominant innovation. Is payment provider lock-in really something the rest of the world wants to emulate? At least American consumers can choose between 3 major credit companies.

Could you point out the inaccuracies? Aside from the QR code non-sequitor, nothing jumped out at me.
Just in case you don't know how close you are to be wrong...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit

... truth is stranger than fiction!
The Instagram folks are awesome, and active in the developer community!
The fact that Apple has tons of cash and could pay off patent trolls does not mean they have to or that it would be a good thing. In fact, exactly because they have tons of cash the moral thing to do for them is to fight the trolls tooth and nail - because they can afford to - so that trolls would be as weak and timid as possible when they approach those who doesn't have Apple's pile of cash, and so they would have ample anti-troll precedents.

Most of thing patent trolls claim to be their "intellectual property" is a banal rent extraction by managing to sneak a patent claim on either idea long accepted in industry or some tweak of an existing idea which when, when somebody else arrives to it completely independently, becomes their big payout. Like trolls claiming they invented clicking on links, online ads, peer-to-peer networking, shopping carts, and everything else in the world. They do not serve any useful function, they do not produce anything needed by anybody, they are just parasites and rent-seekers abusing the inefficiency of the law to their private benefit.

The sooner they would be completely destroyed and their craft becomes as respected as spammers and 419 scammers, the better.
Servo is written in Rust. That isn't going to improve performance.
Automatic generation of schematics, now via JavaScript and web capabilities
Interesting project, would just like to say that the Git workflow isn't that great and CVS isn't that bad.

The Git workflow is quite complicated and will probably not appeal to people who typically just use Excel for everything.

It is true that CVS is messy, but its strength is that it is really simple, and it can easily be fixed.

Also, CVS can be versioned with Git quite well in many cases.
Let people work remote. I would be happy to live in the mountains, but there ain't any jobs there.
Some great points here for sure.

I forgot to mention in my post that not only is the government in bed with the real estate industry (new rumors that the biggest real estate marketer in the city was notified weeks in advance about the new foreign buyer tax), but that they also "unexpectedly" took in 50% more than forecast, to the toon of $500+ million, in extra property transfer tax last year. Good luck getting them to slow down that gravy train.
I've tried them, but they refuse to go in too.
Intro to the Frankfurt Tech scene
Not yet. I'm planning to write until book six before I start publishing (I expect my life to get busy during the writing of the last three, so I want a buffer in place).

That said, I'll add you to my list of people to contact when they start being published (probably end of next year).
chmod(1) man page would either contain the meaning of each number or a reference to where the definitions are on any decent Unix system.
You seem to have conveniently removed from the quote you cited the following sentence in the very same paragraph, which says, "They have heavy governmental investment in infrastructure (eg internet, cell networks) and they heavily regulate industries so as not to stymie utilities such as the internet."

Doesn't that address the points you made about the benefit of government intervention and infrastructure build up?

> B) Their populations are closer. This is a big one for transport, in particular

You realize that S.Korea is ~3-4x as dense as China, that China is only about as dense as the UK, and the distance between major cities in China is comparable to distances between major cities in the US, right?

I could agree with some of the latter part of your post. Could have done without the glib rudeness at the beginning. I don't mean anything "bigoted" whatsoever and I'm curious what exactly came across that way.
That wasn't really a fall, just a dissapointment. They still made a pretty hefty return on their investment there which adds to the cash position of the company and I'm sure the investors are pleased with the attempt to crack China.
They don't search a patent database to build their own, but license a pre-existing (patented) solution.

You don't look at mp3s patents to build your own awkward version of a sound compression algorithm, you just use mp3
Very surprised Bloomberg would put out such a fluff piece about the Vancouver Real Estate market.

There are very serious issues in Vancouver, and some suspect Canada is in for a ruder awakening than the US.
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/meet-the-wall-street-short-se...

1) Canadian Real Estate is being used as a money laundering facility http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ike-awgu/canadian-real-estate-f... .

2) Canada also has a healthy (well, actually unhealthy) sub-prime lending market http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/18/subprime-lending-can...

3) Then there is the issue of occupancy. The reason the 15% tax was brought in is because money was coming in to purchase houses which then sat empty. Many have become derelict. When I lived in Vancouver, Yaletown was full of apartment towers, but where were all the people (I believe occupancy in that area has improved). http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/poking-...

4) Lastly, the shadow flipping, again, mentioned in the article, but didn't get the attention it deserved http://bc.ctvnews.ca/house-flipping-concerns-as-368-vancouve...

Don't worry if you don't want to read the articles, it will be a movie in a few years along the lines of The Big Short.
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Control Stelarc's Robotic Exoskeleton Right Arm via the Web
This was in Norway, Trondheim.
>> I can't remember an AWS resource that isn't nameable or taggable.

ElasticIP is one among many. For a complete list: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tag...
Bitcoin exchange hit with $61M theft
If you have .NET 4.x app and you want to convert it to .NET Core you're going to have a bad time.

However making things from scratch works totally awesome.
In the same way that having sex with children is a "cultural issue" [1].

Chinese culture still has many elements that are absolutely barbaric and primitive. The concept of "face" is one of them too.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36892963
Yeah, this is working so well for the real estate market in New Zealand...
How to Deploy an App from GitHub with AWS CodeDeploy
I walked to school back when I was in elementary school. In grade 2, my mother confirmed that I remembered the stranger rules, and stopped walking with me. It was about a 2km walk.

Why is it ok for this to not be the norm? Why do people just accept that their kids are growing up in a city where they can't be allowed to explore their environment?
The Road to the Uber-Didi Deal
> But they are paid peanuts because it's women's work, not like the manly engineering which obviously creates more value

Cherry-picking one profession to claim low salaries are because of gender is absurd. The world is an unfair place if you can't cope with the fact that a large majority of jobs will pay "peanuts". If tomorrow there is an infinite supply of highly qualified programmers, surely programmers would be paid low wages too but the truth is that there never will be - there is a lot of valuable software left to be created, to be maintained and we won't hit saturation any time soon.
How Good Design and Web Psychology Increase Conversions of SaaS Businesses
Your link does not seems to work for me, but after a small Wikipedia research : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio

On another note, the ratio for Arabic countries in the peninsula are quite fucked up. If you see the TV show "Generation Kill" from HBO, the character played by James Ranson has a theory, which is quite interesting watching the numbers : there would not be a single war if there was enough women in the Arabic Peninsula.
Well also checks and balances is a core concept of American government. It's designed to prevent an overly strong central government albeit at the expense of getting things done.
Nobody is nice to the DBAs, it's like a law or something.
> Well that's the problem, we don't have better evidence.

We actually have had it for quite a while. The CAMBRA MOOC is put together by a dentist/statistician and lays out a point system based on correlation between patient behaviors/health and carries. It has been iteratively corrected based on effective and ineffective results when modifying behavior according to the system.

Notably in that system, floss is not given a point. Whatever effect it may have is either too weak or better described by other factors flossing correlates with.

When points like that come up, the teacher stresses that the system is only measuring odds of near term carries, so flossing may be effective for something else with regards to oral health or preventing one of the negative factors.
That's very US-centric
ECMAScript 7 (ECMAScript.next) in NetBeans 8.2
Yea, you also need .NET Core runtime, not Mono. So it's kind of lightweight.
I'm the opposite: Never understood how people are NOT able to floss :-)

However, if you aren't able to sink in the floss between your teeth, even if you apply technique and power, well then rest assured neither will chewing food then be able to sink itself in there.
Why was 3D printing Not used in this case? Read up on the story on item 2
Do you have any proof for either statement?

All I could find is the 2014 report on the FIRB which said they would never initiate court proceedings; http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/foreign-buyer-rule-enf...

I have no clue how much has changed there since then, and I don't assume anything will change. This still doesn't mean that any of my original points are wrong, the entire system is bad and IMHO Chinese foreign investment is just a scapegoat (if you look at the report, at that time Chinese investment was already the highest but back then very close ($5.9 billion) to US ($4.4 billion) and Canadian ($4.9 billion) investment: Why did no-one complain about either?)
my friend, 50 usd/day in current value is an unrealistic dream for poor of this world. that is high above world average, and if that happens, then high salaries will rise appropriately and those 50$ will have a value of maybe a cup of coffee.

I cannot see undeveloped parts of Africa, Asia and South America being much better-off in 50 years, just because time passes. They will all have super cheap phones, and their own version of poverty. Plus many places can actually spiral down due to continuous wars (ie middle east)
It makes perfect sense. If an applicant doesn't want to disclose their previous salary and disclosing it is the cultural norm, that indicates a) they're troublemakers (very privacy conscious or what have you), or b) their previous salary was very low.

You probably don't want troublemakers so there's no point in making them a generous offer. And if the previous salary was very low the lowest possible offer is probably not too far off.

It actually incentivises disclosing your previous salary because unless it was lower or as low as the lowest offer, you'll have a better bargaining position.

I'm not saying the reasoning is particularly ethical or nice, just that it is entirely rational.
Some lights have cameras, not all, many drives know the ones that do and don't. Also, the black Audis don't care if they get caught on camera, they are basically immune to punishment. I see a few WTFs a day, still.

I wish abiut the seatbelts. Almost every single taxi I've been in for the last few years has them hidden under the back seat where they aren't usable. We have to take a zhuan Che just to get them for ourselves, and the the driver is never wearing. Any kind of enforcement in Beijing has a short attention span, they might do seatbelts once a year at a few locations, it isn't enough to form any kind of deterrent.
OK seriously. What innovation are we talking now, aside of mobile redux of PayPal?

They shown the world how to land a rocket stage intact? Perhaps they developed a bunch of new medical treatments that are not actually snake oil? They invented social networks that the rest of the world copied in envy? Introduced touchscreen tech that's actually usable?

Honestly I must have missed all the "big" news in soft and hard tech, 'cause another eBay clone is sure as hell ain't big. It feels like rerun of Japan craze from 3 decades back, only without ninjas and shurikens this time.
It looks like they learned something as well, since you declined after they invested time into your interview and offer process. Thanks for doing that, you made things better for everyone else here in aggregate.
Practical or not, this isn't going to be the first time China builds something we didn't.
I don't get it. I work on OSX with .NET Core using nothing but open-source tools.

Are you from 2006?
IPsoft | Full Time | Cognitive Implementation engineer | New York or Amsterdam or Bangalore | ONSITE

The implementation engineering team is responsible for aligning our breakthrough cognitive solution (Amelia) with client requirements and expectations. You will implement functionality in Amelia's Cognitive modules as well as integrate and automate backend business processes.

The cognitive division is growing fast and we're looking for someone who loves to rapidly create new functionality for our clients. Skills we are looking for is experience with scripting (JS, Python, or Groovy), working with APIs and the ability to design client facing processes.

IPsoft | Full Time | R&D engineer | NYC | ONSITE

We are looking for developers to help bring us to the next iteration of our cognitive agent, Amelia. As an R&D engineer you will work on a variety of topics related to conversational and cognitive technologies. It’s a unique opportunity to work alongside our senior developers and linguistic scientists as they build the next generation of language understanding automation. Our junior developers are eager to take on assignments and relish the opportunity to learn from senior staff.

You will be a part of an artificial intelligence team working on intelligent virtual agents. You will participate the development of algorithms to allow our virtual agent to learn and execute natural language driven processes and tasks. R&D engineers in BPN are expected to handle full-stack development on Java 8, JEE, Redis, JavaScript/ExtJS, MySQL, JSON, etc. As Java is the primary programming language used in the project, excellent Java, JEE, and object-oriented design are a must. Since our projects include graph search and manipulation algorithms, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), a good understanding of these is considered a plus.

We have had some great profiles from HN. When replying to this opportunity, please do mention why you are interested in IPsoft and Amelia. For more information, feel free to contact me directly: dennis.dereus (at) ipsoft.com.

The interview process is a CV screen followed by a first round of 2 interviews and then a second round of 2 interviews.

Example of the work we do with Amelia:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160615006592/en/Publ
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Anybody at other bitcoin exchanges have info/ideas to share on what may have happened here and how other exchanges can avoid similar pitfalls? It's intriguing that withdrawal limits were bypassed.

I wonder what sort of monitoring+alerting their team had set up and how long this attack ran for.
> bleed less when I floss regularly

Sheesh, shouldn't they ideally never-bleed? Just what is it you're ingesting (or not ingesting)?
How we got 300+ users from Tinder (.)(.)
To grid or not to grid, that is the question
You might find that if you go to the dentist for teeth cleaning and they clear away all the plaque buildup that you'll be able to get the floss in between your teeth.

Like you, I have good teeth (never had a filling) and on average have visited the dentist about once every 10 years.

Like you I also used to never be able to get floss in between my teeth, but after a dental checkup some years back the dentist cleared all the plaque buildup and from then on getting the floss between my teeth was no problem, and I've been flossing regularly since.

Once the plaque builds up and hardens, it's very difficult to break it up with just floss and you'll have difficulty getting floss in.

For what it's worth, my teeth definitely feel cleaner after flossing, and if I miss a couple of days they start to feel dirty.
I get the impression that the US has hit a "max". It could be just me, but we are still on old english measurement system. The latest payment change was chips in credit cards. We have ApplePay, but I don't see many people using it (could just be me). Like you say, people fight back against sprawl and increased density. Everyone wants their house, yard, pool, car, etc. I just saw an article saying something like "we won't make required benchmarks for yearly co2 production because people won't give up their SUVs/trucks". There are serious, societal pressures against 'change', in the general.
Startups typically pay less in exchange for equity. This is expected and transparent.

Large and medium size businesses have much more information available to them than their applicants do.
It is also the reason why broadcasters do not show field invasions from fans in football (the real football). There are some people with very loose screws in their heads. Claiming fame with stupid shit like that totally justifies it in their mind.

Invasions dropped very substantially after the TV stations enacted this policy.
We do not forget what the M$ stands for. Nor should we. Sure there are others, who are admittedly more evil, but M$ is no angel and it never was.
What makes a programming language functional?
I find it interesting the DRM hate of the crowd given the Libertarian leanings. I'm personally somewhat excited about the prospect of a democratized/p2p and open/ubiquitous DRM.

It seems much of the hate is that we don't like being shown we don't really own something completely with no restrictions (the HW or the DRM good) even though we bought it or that DRM gets too much in the way. Seems like the GPLv4 could help with the first former (where the trusted computing bits are opt-out, like in a BIOS or registry).
While the attempt of cover-up was ridiculous, the event as a whole doesn't seem worse than Spain's derailment that happened two years later, in which many more were killed, and for which all blame was laid on the driver.
Toothpicks work just as well for me.
Estonia’s Skeleton Technologies receives €13M to revolutionize energy storage
Vancouver home sales dropped 75% after foreign buyer tax announced
I avoided purchasing one by forming a loop with the wire. I cut a 20cm (8in) piece, then I tie a triple knot (the simple over hand knot with both ends). The wire is very slippery so I move the first knot as close to the ends as possible, so as not to waste floss.

Having a loop allows to have a firm hold on the floss and adjust tension. I use it with both hands though. And I waste very little floss because I can rotate the loop and use every inch of it.
> “I am literally sick to my stomach,” wrote group member Carolyn Farino.

It was a stupid comment, how can a stupid comment like that induce sickness in another human being?

Make a joke about typical male stereotypes, nobody bats an eye, make a bad joke involving females, the feminist lynch mob goes into action.

Let's assume in a fashion show a women CEO would have made a similar stupid comment to a male, would we see such a male outrage? No.
I prefer developers to definitely know that users opted out of tracking. It avoids useless, misleading data, sends a clear message and maybe convinces some developers to prefer proper pricing instead of ads as a monetization strategy.
Can the Quality of Data Impact on Sales?
Why is face barbaric and primitive? Please do bear in mind that "they" use HN as well.
Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review
I've never been to the dentist and i am perfectly fine. I'm getting tired of soup, though.
I think part of the reason both QR and BLE don't fare well in the West is related to the point a), about doing things without switching apps. QR codes and BLE beacons are things that should be interacted with on the OS level, not requiring a separate app for every possible vendor that decides to use codes/beacons. Alas, the primary application of BLE today is trying to trick people into spending more on shoes and clothes. What a waste of a potentially very useful technology.
> For example, in the yard of our apartment we have storage cabinets with password locks

We've had these in Japan for decades, but less high-tech - it's just a manual code lock and the delivery man writes the code down on a delivery slip and sticks in your mailbox.
Impact on retirees, impact on existing resident property owners, and lack of control over what income tax Ottawa sets are a few reasons.
I somehow missed that it was already submitted (I even checked new!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12215449
Can we have a space race, but for awesome urban tech? Because that would be super awesome.
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214049
These numbers are almost hardwired in my brain and I am not even a kernel developer. I think most kernel developers should not need the help of these magic macros.
My partner's startup in game dev allows dogs and cats. Though nobody has brought a cat in yet, he does look forward to the day I show up with our cat in his cat stroller...
Didi, SoftBank Lead $600M-Plus Round for Grab
...Thank God I'm married.
You have a prejudice against Silicon Valley / California.

Aside from that, I think one key point you failed to observe is that the engineers are often the biggest producer of innovation and invention in the production process. Software engineering is not manual labor, instead a heightened level of mental focus and ingenuity is required to perform the job.

I think I might have a prejudice against manual labor.
A lot. Like nearly all Car manufacturer or Banks.
And the brute forcing of Telegram's API shouldn't have gone unnoticed (and apparently it was, I mean, 15 million telephone numbers brute forced?)
Galaxy Note7, più funzioni sicurezza e nuova S Pen
Classic Nintendo Power issues added to archive.org
Hash Functions all the way down
If Obama wins, Guantanamo and CIA blacksites will be shut down.

Oh, wait, presidential candidates' promises aren't worth anything.
It should improve performance in the sense that Rust helps to produce code which can be easily parallelized.

But Servo being written in Rust isn't the argument that he's making.

Servo is built with a modern architecture, which all current browsers don't have, because they all started out somewhen pre-2000, before multi-core processors were really a thing, and before the web was really graphical.

What Servo can improve is mainly, that the rendering of HTML itself is parallelized in Servo, and that with WebRender, they utilize graphics cards quite similar to the way that videogames do it, which both do result in noticeable performance improvements.