skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you could argue that. But a _nation_ could improve its proportions by restricting immigration to a subset of the _global_ population.

To a certain extent, this principle is applied today. But I imagine it could be scaled up to something akin to highly selective university admissions process (e.g. interviews, standardized testing, resume critique, references). If a country starts with sufficient desirability, this could result in a positive feedback loop -- an increasingly competent and productive society.
What was the previous title?
My list wasn't about China being evil or "worse than the US". I wish them well but the combination of problems they false has sufficient to make their economy stall. And with a stalled economy, China will have a hard time affording a Clean Air Act, adding to the vicious cycle they are experiencing.

Further, repression also make the equivalent of a Clean Air Act hard. The pattern currently is the central authorities issue a call to protect the environment (usually kind of ad-hoc) but local authorities ignore it and no one can complain because all the authorities are beyond criticism.

Just like the way you have the President start an anti-corruption campaign but the President's cronies exempt.

China boosters for years said these problems didn't matter. Maybe they didn't matter for those years but now, they are here in spades.
More interesting links about B5500

https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500

http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...
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is that a bit contradictory to be bothered that privacy is turning into something for the wealthy and yet wish you could pay for your privacy on fb?

edit: i think fb would offer that if users would be willing to pay it. something like 400 million daily active users? if t hey could collect 5$ a month off them that'd be a lot of coin
I had a bank account locked to the "show up in a branch with id" level for this.
It works pretty smoothly with K-9 Mail + APG.
if you've ever watched a woman's basketball game they look like they are in slow motion compared to an equivalent men's basketball game. Same is true for olympic sports like snowboard half pipe, etc. The difference is especially obvious side by side.
North Korea has also cheated a couple times, so it's a little questionable: https://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-i...
Walmart failed miserably in Germany, I guess it's the governments fault.
One key action he initiated is to put F-1 visa high school students to the IMO team, basically he is using top students from China to compete, a practice that the physics and chemistry Olympiad do not take.

And guess what, that's the key to win.
Malcom Gladwell has been debunked thoroughly.
I disagree. I'm working on a large react project now and am not using JSX. I find JSX to be very ugly with all their closing div tags.

Check out this project to see how people use React without JSX:

https://github.com/jador/react-hyperscript-helpers
Good call. Apple Pay has a high level of anonymity too.
Or perhaps a more accurate answer is "it's complicated." [0]

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/sports/soccer/usmnt-uswnt-...
honestly, NK scoring 168 is very impressive, imho.
The captchas serve to stop bot nets and DDoS attackers who are all over the world. It is why many sites throw those up. It is not a miss configuration. It is a smart move.
Well paid customer support people are called salesmen in a solutions focused company.

In this age of metrics and micromanagement it is rare, but in olden times key vendor salespeople were really an asset to past employers.

Unlike support people, they are a revenue center, so when they say "This needs to be fixed or it puts $X in quarterly revenue at risk", it gets fixed.
You've misread/understood. They dont state or imply Americans are dumb. More recognise America (as do all countries) has a surplus of average, so points out why increase that.
One thing that might not be crystal clear on a junior's mind is that we want code to read as close to "business logic" as possible - or as some people say, read like prose.

Sometimes they land on the job still on the honeymoon phase w/ technology, not having worked on a big enough codebase and stack, and not only take complexity as granted but actually find it exciting / stimulating.

A seasoned programmer learns to hate complexity and starts valuing expressiveness more. It takes some experience to be well calibrated on the complexity / abstraction axes.
"Yes and here's the deal Comcast is offering, 1. Pay full Rack rate, and we don't sell your data. 2. Take a cut on our rate but we sell your data to advertisers.

"Whats one sided about that? One option is "do the same thing you're already doing" and the other is 'pay less, lose some privacy'"

But this statement of the deal is ultimately disingenuous - as a monopoly/duopoloy, Comcast is going to be setting its prices, so over time, the deal will become "pay more, maybe a lot more or we do what we want".
I guess I'm really naive.

Isn't 5 years at a startup doing [presumably] technical work pretty much the best thing you could possibly put on a resume?

I guess if you were a bizdev-type, then maybe the negative here is: why was still a startup after 5 years?

5 years at a startup, for a technical person, sounds awesome.
Cool. I definitely want to try one. Especially if the eye annoyance is less.
Seems like I should clarify... It may be that Asians are just better at math — “inherently” as you say. Ok, maybe.

It also seems possible that there are certain aspects of language and culture that support math achievement. Gladwell, in _Outliers_ is after this category of explanation.

Personally, I tend to like cultural explanations more than raw talent explanations because I like to think that everyone is capable of everything (eventually, if they work hard enough). I certainly like to act like everyone is capable of everything and it helps to have supporting theories.

Gladwell’s theory goes something like this: First, the counting systems tend to be more consistent, less idiosyncratic. This means kids learn them better earlier and build confidence early. This early start builds on itself — a point he comes back to over and over in his book. Second, the numbers tend to be faster to say. This means you can remember more digits — quite a few more. This has the same impact on confidence. Third — and this is his main deal — rice farming yields to careful, persistent effort much like a math problem. This is less true of western farming. All the western farming sayings go something like “there’s no accounting for the weather. sometimes your just eff’d!”. All the Asian sayings go something like “work hard and your family will prosper for generations.” He says this gives Asians a leg up in math because math yields to the same kind of persistent effort.

Also — someone below diss’d on Gladwell calling him a “pop” psychologist. I don't think he is not a psychologist, though I guess he is pretty pop. Still, what he does, while researched, is not science, that’s for sure.

I think explanations like Gladwell's are valuable even if they are not true because they at least show us how nuanced and twisty the truth might be. That keeps us looking for explanations that are maybe not so simple. That's good because as a species we're stupid enough without the crippling detriment of thinking we already understand what we do not.

EDIT: very minor for clarity.
It is sad founders and employees are considered different groups here.
Oldie but goodie - Robert Heinleins 'Moon is a harsh mistress' gives anyone interested a nice introduction into coups, cells and other things conspiracy.
I always just assumed the card provider put a cookie on your browser when you logged in to their site (to check your bill e.g) and then sold part of this ID with the purchase history. Could be way off here though.
By that definition every country with visa requirements is a closed city.
Po-Shen Loh is a complete badass. You're the best in the room until Mr. Loh goes and finds a tiger for you to wrestle with.
This question has come up before, but never found a suitable answer -- anyone has a list of notable alumni that have participated in IMO that have gone on to do great things in life?
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It's my understanding that he's been putting his own people in high military positions for a while now. So it's not surprising that he could have short circuited the coup mechanism.

Having said that, I stayed up watching the whole thing, and it never felt very real. There's no way you're going to fire on people in the streets with a helicopter but not shoot down the president's plane. Hell, they didn't even arrest the Parliament.
And the worst thing about Vancouver's 1990s lowrise condos: Water damage. Unfortunately someone imported building plans from southern California which had never been tested in a climate with six months of rain...

(But this problem at least Seattle can probably avoid, since it's entirely possible to withstand the climate; you just need a different design.)
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This is the 'null cipher' [1].

A modern, digital scheme similar to this is called 'chaffing and winnowing' [2]. Both are steganography rather than encryption, but the intent is the same -- to communicate securely over an insecure channel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_cipher
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winnowing
Fair. I actually loved the feature of Eclipse where bad code would pseudo compile. I just worry heavily about anything that emits warnings. Most warnings, it seems, either should have been failures, or needed more powerful tooling to know why it was ok.
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This is true. Also money inside sport creates excellence. Both the male and female German football team are world class, but the male team consists of multi-millionaires while the women just have a regular job. Below the males are three leagues of professional athletes and some well-paid amateur leagues. Boys are scouted in their early teens and clubs are actively trading them already. Below the first league of women football, there is very little, while they both have to retire in their early thirties often with destroyed knees.

This money effect is also illustrated nicely by the US teams. Here the women are better than men relative to their competition, because for men there is more money in the other football (about which I know nothing, but have heard that there are some positions that need similar skills) so why would they choose otherwise if they did not plan to live or are already living in Europe?
Chris elaborates his points here in a post titled "Dear Gusto, Mission is More Than Marketing" : https://medium.com/@octopoedi/dear-gusto-mission-is-more-tha...
I agree with most of your comment, and I don't see how it contradicts mine. I'm not saying at all that WNBA players shouldn't be paid more than NBA players because they are less competitive -- just that the "we play the exact same sport, so we should get the same pay" argument for equal pay is incorrect (since the "same sports" are at different competitive levels).

In my opinion, professional sports especially in the USA is largely a matter of entertainment, and pay is determined by how popular they are. For whatever reason, if WNBA is more popular than the NBA and the female athletes get paid more, that's perfectly fine.
Depends on the customer and criticality.

I saw one contract with a clause that a Sev1 incident had a 15 minute SLA to the highest tier support engineer and 30 minute SLA for initial contact from an SVP level exec to the customer CIO.
You're not sending the message to the phone, you're sending it to the sim, in the clear. Si I pop this some in my flip phone and receive the code.
Maybe zom.im ( https://github.com/zom/zom-android ) - possibly combined with Tor/Orbot. Or Signal.

But remember that Turkey is a NATO ally, so you're up against the NSA, CIA and MI6 for starters (in addition to the fine intelligence service of Turkey).

So I would think that Signal would have to hand out all registered phone numbers in Turkey - a list which could be checked against all military personnel. Given that they've detained thousands of teachers, I don't think they'd be above detaining thousands of suspected troops, even at the risk of waterboarding loyalists.

You don't need an accurate list, just some help "short listing" people.

Similar issue with Tor - if you're in the military and your mobile device used Tor before/during the coup, you'd be on a watch-list (or shot).

The best op-sec is the terrorist/stay-behind/contras: small independent cells, with no knowledge or communication with each other. Obviously some plan is needed to set up a command and control structure when the coup is "won". I don't think there are any great solutions here, that also doesn't leak enough meta-data to get you tortured and killed in the event of a failed coup.
I use inoreader + reeder. Reeder integrates with Pocket so I can read offline.

I follow:

- Newsites: HN, Dzone, Voxxed, ARS Technica, Highscalability...

- Webcomics (Xkcd, Commitstrip, Dilbert...)

- Youtube channels: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel...

- Most of these: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
The reason for the web technology choice is firstly that it works on the web :) and secondly for not needing to maintain code bases for each OS.

It has meant a lot of extra work, so I'm not sure I would recommend that choice to others.

And, yes, the iOS version shouldn't take much work :)
Glad you like it :)
I'll check on that detail on the Calendars View, thanks.
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Ultimately the "environmental" factor depends on how much the environment naturally varies from family to family. Anyway, having one IMO kid is virtually not possible with most parents' genetic contribution, and there are plenty of IMO competitors with siblings that would have no hope of being such, where, if there was an environmental factor, the question was decided by the second birthday as a result of air quality, lead paint, or what music was on the radio.
Some sports not only have a different tempo, but different tactical options. In football women goalkeepers just have a lesser chance to get the ball, because they are smaller, while shooting from a distance has more to do with skill than force.
Bitmovin (YC S15) is hiring solution architects in San Francisco
I'd note that historically the Soviet Union (and later Russia), Hungary and Romania have all done extremely well.

Knowing more than a few people who grew up in that area prior to the 1990's I think it is interesting how engineering was seen as such as a prestigious career.

Many children were encouraged to study math because it was seen as a pathway to that kind of career. I think there is some similarities with at least China and Singapore - I've had a number of Chinese interns who were encouraged to do math competitions as a pathway to Computer Science.
Exactly. Businesses will use whatever means at their disposal to remove competition, whether that's government, financial, and even morally reprehensible actions at the expense of others.

My point is that even if companies weren't able to leverage government to reduce competition, they'd find other mechanisms to accomplish the same goal, such as just buying up all the competition.

Think about it. If you're a competitor and trying to make profit, how better to do that than to consolidate with the big players until one player gains significant control over the market to demand whatever price they wish to maximize their profit?
> My eventual conclusion is very simple: the overall amount work that goes into developing web apps has increased compared to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS

Not true. Application complexity has increased over time for the web, that is the effect you are perceiving. React actually helps cut through that complexity like a hot knife through butter.

> Performance is abysmal,

The above response applies here as well. What performance are you talking about specifically? There are a ton of large scale, production applications that are running React ...

> and as is the case with many frameworks, you're soon reaching a point where your people spend more time (and in the end: computing resources) tricking the framework into doing what they want it to do.

React is not a framework, it is a very basic view library. There are literally only seven public API endpoints that developers use:

* componentWillMount

* componentDidMount

* componentWillReceiveProps

* shouldComponentUpdate

* componentWillUpdate

* componentDidUpdate

* componentWillUnmount

That's it, that's all you have to learn, the rest is generating markup and learning about setting properties and state within a component. The only exception that I will admit is that integrating react with d3 is awkward.

Having built large web applications before React came along, there is a very good reason why it is so popular and that is because it moves the focus from dealing with transitions between states and simply dealing with the state as if we were building the app from scratch.
The amount of miles driven per year on highway, which is the issue I'm addressing, is much too low. Just need higher throughput.
Shelfer here.. porn is what keeps it on the nearby shelf.
because today there are bigger problems with taking options than a 5 year schedule? a 4 year schedule was important when a company wanted to go IPO quickly, but today, where startups are private for 8+ years, and option terms make selling the options in the secondary market very difficult, it doesn't matter if you vest in 4 or 5 years: next liquidity event might be in 10 for all you know.

I work for a company that is very likely to make it, but given that I don't know when in the world we'd even attempt to go public, I count my options at zero. Will I still be happy here in 2 years? 5? 8? I better get used to being happy here until there is a liquidity event, or the equity is worthless to me.

I know people with 7 digits in paper vested options, but they can't exercise them: It's hard to afford them, the taxes are killers. Until there is a liquidity event, they have nothing, and all the promise of riches goes away 90 days after they leave the company. In practice, they might have a 10 year real vesting schedule. I don't know about you, but I don't know that many people that have stayed 10 years at a tech company.

So that's why the long vesting cycle is fine in practice: The real cycle to getting cash out is even longer.
It feels quite strange. The app is supposedly made by a single person, who decided to... unpublish the app because it was too popular? And then, he kept a central server up and running to support the app nearly two years after that? There are 1951 user ratings for an average of 4 stars, and the creator claimed that there were about 1M users, yet hardly anyone has heard of it? The app also doesn't seem to have any ads from the screenshots.
I agree with you there. Unfortunately, the greatest motivation to bring in someone outside the country is rarely for their exceptionalism, its usual about making/saving money. And at most institutions, its far more cost effecting to get individuals who are just sufficient and will accept a substantially lower compensation than their domestic peers. The individuals who are exceptional have loads of options/opportunities in their own homeland.
Tell that to Lyft/WeWork, and a number of others ;-)
Both WhatsApp and Signal allow verification of the keys. Signal will error out if you change devices - contacts must manually OK it to continue. I think WA has this too, maybe?

Signal also had some sort of work towards preventing contact list disclosure.

At a state level, there's also traffic analysis. If you find Target A then look at their traffic, you might be able to time-coordinate messages sent to other users. (Target->Signal Servers->Recipient)

Guess they could take the Signal source and run their own copy of it, too, eh? I'd also add a time-based auto-wipe function to Signal, which is useful if your are suddenly captured. Doing it by hand is tedious, so people don't. Signal doesn't do this because they don't want people to think it implements a secure remote wipe. But they should consider the problem of an activist having their phone recovered. If the app would delete on time, it'd mitigate some damage.

Telegram shouldn't be touched.
And the President got exactly what he wanted out it, an increase in popular support and a consolidation of power. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he had a hand in his own coup attempt as a way to solidify his grasp on power.
gvs put electrical signal to your brain to make you feel that you are moving.
It looks scary to me though.
You appear to be the exception.

I've been through atleast 4 laptops, and 3 tablets. Owned various Mp3 players starting with one of the original Creative Nomads. At this point countless phones as well. When I was younger I'd travel with most of console video games and of course the actual handheld ones with their chargers.

I've never had a single cord fray nor had the need to replace a charger that I didn't lose for any device except every single Apple device. With my MBPr I knew how awful the iPad and iPod cords were so I was careful to not wrap it too tight around the little feet. Both feet broke but still worked after a month. The cord still started fray on one end after about 3 months and one foot completely broke off. I still try to wrap it loosely but there doesn't seem to be much point as the amount of electrical tape I need keeps increasing on both ends whenever I replace it.

I don't think they intentionally designed them poorly, but I do think they are refusing to fix a widely known problem to bilk user out of more cash yearly. I now only buy third party iOS device cords and I wish there was a viable third party alternative for my MBPr brick.
[...]and at least some prescriptivists obelize using "over" like that (I believe the AP Stylebook used to).

Indeed they did, until very recently[0]. I had no idea.

[0] http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/more-than...
VIA Reddit -

Turkish Television shows secret codes from the coup which are actually GTA IV Cheat Codes

http://i.imgur.com/D96MaPw.gifv

I'm not sure stories from the region are always accurate....
Almost all money flows to support the opposite tail, the lowest performing students. For example, No Child Left Behind, which every career educator I've spoken to believes set education in the US back a decade or more.
Seattle's 90s condos all had water damage too (not exaggerating either). Let's see what happens in 10 years.
Also without mutation testing you can't have any real confidence in the quality of your tests to begin with, if they exist at all.
But in idiomatic spoken English, at least in the US, people omit that have. I agree that it's there for more formal or more British English.

Also, what you're describing goes beyond native level English and reaches the level of professional writer/teacher/linguist/editor/etc level English. I would expect many HN readers to have English proficiency beyond native level.
None of the above (though Vancouver is very susceptible to quakes). I think OP was referring to the massive leaky condo scandal of the 90s where vast numbers of buildings couldn't stand up to simple weather. It wasn't just the wood framing, but widely used water sealing practices were shoddy and allowed moisture infiltration in a vast number of buildings.

The fallout cost billions and many homeowners were straight up screwed as contractors and builders went under one after another.
Portland's architecture is at a much higher level than Seattle's. It can be done.
What is real-life mathematics ability?
It would be a nice thing to warn consumers about when marking the phone lost and setting up the alerts.