skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that this is a typical NY Times tech puff piece:

"Already in China, more people use their mobile devices to pay their bills, order services, watch videos and find dates than anywhere else in the world. Mobile payments in the country last year surpassed those in the United States."

Yes this tends to happen when you have a population of 1.2 billion people compared to 330 million.

Also seeing how outside of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong you need a VPN(and even this is a constant game of whack-a-mole) to access Facebook and Google, it's hardly a level playing field. Economic nationalism in China has been discussed pretty extensively at this point.

"But China’s tech industry — particularly its mobile businesses — has in some ways pulled ahead of the United States. Some Western tech companies, even the behemoths, are turning to Chinese firms for ideas."

Nowhere in the article does it go on to substantiate how they have "pulled ahead." Have they pulled ahead by using QR codes? By using dating apps? Have they pulled ahead because of in app purchasing? (Hello, Uber Eats?)

Different cultures respond differently to different services, this is evidenced by US/European music streaming apps that have had a real difficult time getting traction in the Asian market. Does this mean they have "pulled ahead" and are now setting the pace? Perhaps ocal entrepreneurs understand their local market and culture better?
I don't see why people obsess about the MAXPATH as it's quite possible to get 32,768 characters, just use UNC paths with .NET which has been supported since I don't know when; you just need some DLL imports. https://ingehenriksen.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/how-to-work-w...
Why is being communist bad for innovation?

In 40 years, the Soviet Union went from a medieval-like society with 95% of the people being peasants working their lords' lands, to inventing LEDs, grid-scale nuclear power, orbital launches, artificial satellites, manned space flight, commercial supersonic flight, seminal work in transplantation and artificial organs, etc. It became the second world superpower in science and innovation, which by the way, it no longer isn't after the fall of communism.

It was pretty much an economic miracle, like the so-called "German miracle" and "Japanese miracle", although of course most current thinkers won't recognize it because Communism is Bad(tm) and it seems we can only think in black and white (as the Soviet Union had an autochratic and murderous regime, apparently we can't say what they did right).

So I don't think the statement that communism is bad for innovation holds water historically. It's bad for other things, but not necessarily for innovation.
I half jokingly suspect Oracle only bought Sun so they could sue Google
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Heh, sorry about the late reply, but his experience in the short lived Hungarian Soviet Republic involved their "quartering troops" in homes/apartments like his, something that at his age and the context he found profoundly disturbing (this is from memory of the recently read and superb The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes).

On the other hand, this was made as a semi-joke by him, so I'm sure it has nothing to do with his memories of events back in 1919.
Anybody can pick cherries by hand, but a bad machine operator could damage it and cause losses to your farm.
Of course it is. Everyone remembers getting shitty offshore technical support from company X then a few years later you're the engineer making recommendations or the CTO signing off POs and you think "I will never deal with X again".

I've got my list, I bet everyone reading this can think of their own X's too...
Would you at least tolerate them a bit?
FB isn't a platform; it's a business, it makes money. If something interferes with FB making money ...
> Is people getting served really more important than people's lives

If the person being arrested is a danger to others, there is no distinction.

This was not about a subpoena being served. This was an arrest warrant.
> How many will be able to do the job well enought to be able to work at the hospitals?

None of them, because programmers hate working with people so they'd all quit.
This is called a circular journey. In contrast with a linear journey. I too, prefer the circular journey as it adds a little bit of flavour to the story
I think you mean "i not work for company run by asshole".
Depends on the jammer, you can buy ones that only work over few feet, you can build ones that can jam an entire block.
Normal banking systems can have the same problem when they, too, have lax security. Witness the $100 million heist from the Bangladesh account at the NY Fed.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hackers-steal--100-million-fro...
That's essentially exactly what it is. Our team got a demo from them trying to determine the best tool for our use-case and we simply couldn't justify it over google docs for how we do things, especially since we were already setup on the google apps platform for our domain.
Intercom’s Matt Hodges on product marketing
Beijing is a government city, so lots of national and provincial officials floating around, their car of choice seems to be a black Audi, but they seem to be branching out into BMWs, Mercedes, and even land rovers. You can tell who they are by how many traffic rules they ignore, but the police typically don't bother enforcing anything on anyone unless they are in special campaign mode.

Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou are better. Heck, even Kunming and hangzhou are better than Beijing, given there aren't so many officials in these cities.
On 2, I would say yes. The default experience matters.
Theranos' AACC Presentation: Lack of Data Proves Doubters Were Right
DataJoy is shutting down
How much space does it actually save? The two sides probably add up to as much volume as a conventional tram line. If you made an ordinary double-deck tram the same length the capacity for the same "footprint" would be not a whole lot less, and it would probably be more stable - therefore able to go faster.

How much space do the stations take up? Those elevated platforms have got to be more expensive than a tram stop, and they won't be accessible without space-consuming ramps and/or expensive lifts that require maintenance. Speaking of which, how do passengers safely move from station to "bus" at that height? At a minimum you're talking about deploying ramps or similar, which will make the stops take longer. And what about away from stops? In my part of western Europe all new public transport is legally required to have disabled-accessible evacuation facilities through the whole length of its route - if this thing got into a crash, how do even able-bodied passengers get out?

How's it getting its power? I don't see any overhead wires but I do see some kind of tracks under the wheels, so we're probably talking about live electricity in the roadway. That's dangerous, and prone to getting shorted out by road debris or the like.

The thing can only run above ordinary cars - a lorry in either lane blocks it - so I'm not sure it will actually be able to travel that much faster than a conventional tram. If you're willing to restrict the road to standard-height cars, a monorail suspended over the roadway would offer better stability (so higher speed) and safer power supply (though it still has the evacuation issues).
If you're concerned then send your own money, don't advocate policies that take it from our poorest.
In countries where the employer does the tax for the employee, then the employer will see how much tax has been paid earlier in the year. They can deduce salary from that.
React Native is a React based JavaScript runtime that renders by using React output as a base when talking to the APIs of various different native platforms. As an example, React Native for iOS renders the GUI using UIKit.
No one uses seatbelts, so no one cares, so they just bury them to make it easier to put on the seat cover that isn't really designed for seatbelts with only nominal holes for show.
IIRC the MAX_PATH limit was lifted from Win32 with one of the Windows 10 builds.
But it's true that unicode support was there for a "while" ;) the limit however was still enforced, so I should've been more clear that only the restriction lifting was more recent than 2 decades past.
Not to mention repeated game effects (of setting a precedent in this case), which make the setting even more difficult to analyze.
> So your argument is that it's okay that we've made it worse for the people who already had it the hardest because the rest of the more wealthy people in the country benefitted from it?

Where did I write that? I included the excerpt from the article to demonstrate your intellectual dishonesty in selectively quoting a single sentence from an article that is positive about the effects of immigration. I did not make any moral judgments anywhere in my comment. Quite the contrary -- I argued that a moral judgment in this situation was not possible to make.

What legal framework have I dismissed which determines what someone deserves to earn, aside from the minimum wage?

We are debating the same thing. I'm arguing that your assertions have no basis. If you don't know what is fair, you cannot know if someone is treated fairly or not.

You have no basis for your claim that some people are paid less than they deserve to be paid, unless you know what they deserve to be paid, and can demonstrate that what they are actually paid is a lower number than what they deserve to be paid. That's not a vague argument. It is very clear. It's also not existentialist, and if you think it is, you don't know what existentialism is.
Yes, I know mandarin and English. Wait, I have to learn French also? Pass.

I had the same problem in Lausanne, though French wasn't required for my job. I just couldn't completely devote myself to my research AND learn another language concurrently.
Also worth noting that if you floss properly (maybe also use interdental sticks) the descaling routine becomes a lot more comfortable. For this reason alone it's worth doing.
Does anyone know the back story to Uber - why didn't it try to improve Postgres rather than move on to feed on another host?
HNHOD: Hackernews Hug of Death.
You need a replay for that, but you rarely need slow motion for that.
No, it was US futures trading regulations (though arguably that's the same thing). For regulatory reasons they had to provide "actual delivery" of the bitcoins in question, and the CTFC held that cold storage didn't count as "actual delivery". See http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@lrenforcementactions/...
I came here to write a snarky comment, but now I can write two ;)

first: if you think any particular db platform is clearly a winner in "db wars", you are naive. there are so many factors involved in configuring the db, the backend, the frontend etc. that you can always find a case where: the supposedly winning db is failing, or the supposedly worse db is performing perfectly fine. and from my experience, you should always use the platform/framework/language that is best for the current project, not the one you madly love. clearly postgres wasn't working for uber. that does not mean it will not work for your project. i have a recent experience where a binary file of a programming object works much much faster than mysql and solves several other problems. would i say "use binary files instead of rdbms"? of course not. but in this one case it does wonders. the "tech-vs-tech" wars need to end, they are pointless.

second: if you cannot setup your blog to withstand an HN spike then maybe you don't have as much real world experience with scalability (albeit simple) as you might think (hint: static page cache behind cdn will make you almost bulletproof - also, with for example Azure, that's dead cheap).
So, I was wondering about licensing, if this would mean that Google/Microsoft would have to open-source their browsers in order to use Servo, but seems like Servo's license (MPL) does permit linking to it from code which is under a different license.

The MPL is similar to the LGPL in that way, and KHTML is licensed under LGPL, which is what WebKit was forked from, so should be legally settled at this point, too.

I'm not a lawyer, though, so no guarantees that this is correct.
Golang tips and tricks, pt. 3
>The rest of your points are invalid. Development is not only about a http server(which I'm sure is subpar compared with Go). You will burry your time and energy in making basic things work.

The same could be said, and was said for Go compared to Java C#, etc just a few years ago. And it probably can still be said, as older languages have much more stable, richer ecosystems, support, tooling, and use bases.

>I must say it again: C++ is a horrible language. It may perform well and it may be widely spread but that doesn't change much as far as its design is concerned. C++ competes mostly on its reach not on its merits. Hopefully that will change as new platforms emerge(i.e Rust).

Well, it gets a lot of things right. Compatibility with C. Great performance. Enough abstractions to be usable. Enough batteries built-in compared to C. Great ecosystem and tooling, first class vendor support, etc. A language is not just its syntax -- not even just its semantics.
Yeah, but that means you're carrying those (presumed heavy, because structural, particularly if they have to be able to survive a car hitting them without compromising their integrity) supports around for however many miles it travels every day.
That really hasn't worked well for the Chinese in the past. The Great Sparrow Campaign and the Great Leap Forward immediately springs to mind.

Tens of millions of dead in each one.

Does your buddy not know anything about recent Chinese history? I guess I got taught it randomly in school (UK, happened to be on the History GCSE), so perhaps it's forgivable.
Do you have a source to know more about this hack?
LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux
Building your own build status indicator with GoLang and RPi3
I was reading up on the physics of how hearing works at the molecular level and the movements involved are very small of the order of the width of an atom so shoving elsewhere on the head might be able to affect things in the ear on that scale. The mechanism kind of works by running a sort of string (tip link) between two hairs linked to an ion channel so when a wave moves the hairs the string pulls the channel open enough to let K+ ions through. The whole thing looks Heath Robinson enough to go wrong fairly easily. http://www.cochlea.eu/en/hair-cells
Well, it seems to me that you are overpaying. I'm paying 15 EUR for 250 down and 100 up for the FTTH service (GPON terminal in my cabinet), and the ISP (Orange) even has its own Youtube cache.
Do you have any resources about this type of playbook about writing narratives for games?
There's plenty of hate for entity framework among full .Net devs too. It's one of Microsoft's quick to get started but crap to enhance and maintain tools.
Can you use React Native for the UI thread and talk to another thread to get data or perform long running calculations?
How Humans Have Tried to Predict Earthquakes
My main concern is about the performance and overhead that whole node ecosystem brings.

Despite that, it's nice to read a positive feedback :)
Is this sentence machine-generated?
> "OK, we can do that. But we have a policy of always making the lowest possible offer to candidates who won't share their compensation information. I just want the best for you."

"OK, you can do that. But I have a policy of always turning down offers that are too low for the role and benefits involved. I just want the best for me."
Read the article. It mentions actual studies saying they haven't evidence it does much if anything.
In all fairness, you can't blame a company for not wanting to become a commodity producer. Being a dumb pipe is a race to the bottom, no matter how well you perform. I'd say we have to blame the system instead.
Ask HN: Remember FidoNet?
It was all the rage among techies from the late 80's to the mid
90's. In those days, the World Wide Web didn't exist and internet
access was much too expensive for most. But BBS:es did and with those
of them that were connected to FidoNet, you could participate in
discussions (like UseNet) and send FidoNets equivalent of email.

Phone bills were a problem for anyone using BBS:es, so FidoNet's
hierarchial system was based on geography to ensure its users would
only have to make local phone calls to access it. For example, I was a
user node connected to a local BBS which in turn was connected to
South Net which in turn was connected to Region Sweden which in turn
was connected to Zone Europe. Cost minimization was very important
since it was all driven by hobbyists and no one got paid for it.

For me, it was the first time I networked. You could send FidoMail to
people all around the world and they would get the mail in a few
days. The delay in delivery was because of buffering; each node
in the network would only pull and push mail from and to their
upstream once or twice a day to save on phone bills.

But the discussions were the amazing part of the network. Being able
to read and participate in discussions with very smart people was very
fun. Most groups were computer-related, but other topics like ham
radio, religion, politics, sex and science were discussed too. There
must have been thousands of messages posted to the network everyday.

Anyways, I was trying to find the archives (spurred to it after
reading https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/) but
there are none! :( No one has bothered to archive FidoNet and now that
piece of computing history is lost forever. All the thousands of
messages I and many others wrote vanished in the aether.

Perhaps people have caches of messages from that era on their old hard
drives? It would be so cool if it was possible to put together an
archive of it! Perhaps not? Perhaps someday someone pulls the
plug on Hacker News site and then everything written here will be lost
too?
SuperMeat
I never advocated a policy. Why do you think I did? You are reading a lot into my comments that isn't there.
Newb question: why Telegram does not use Google Authenticator ? Why so few app use it ? Is it more secure or completely useless ?
Unrelated: Lewis Trondheim is a brilliant comic artist.
Dan Liebgold:
Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c

Slides: https://con.racket-lang.org/2013/danl-slides.pdf
I've used eBay, Aliexpress and native TaoBao directly. About the only difference is their current market cap. They are so alike in user interaction and session flow one could probably reuse 80% of test cases unmodified.

Wechat is great but here (Norway) payments have been a solved problem for years. I'm not even sure I used cash this year at all other than to unlock a luggage trolley at the airport and it's been like that for over a decade. Even the bank card transaction is so smooth, fast (seconds) and ubiquitous that mobile payment services like Vipps struggled to get a foothold.
Verizon is on a shopping spree. How much cash do they have? I wonder what the end play is.
Idiocracy is beginning.
That the Bangladesh example is the common counterpoint despite tons of banks and money in US unaffected really supports parent's claim. You had go to to a 3rd world country whose banks had little to no security to make average bank look as bad or worse than Bitcoin exchanges. Doesn't work that way.
How does the in-browser MQTT work? Does this require a WebSockets ready broker?
Fortunately they can call themselves!

WHEN IT'S CRITICAL, YOU CAN COUNT ON US
2ndQuadrant provides full 24/7 problem resolution technical support for production systems.
If PostgreSQL breaks, we'll get you back up quickly.

[1] https://2ndquadrant.com/en/support/support-postgresql/
7.5k stars is "most underrated"?
Yeah but loads of software isn't signed so the warning is fairly useless.
I completely missed that vital detail. Thanks for correcting me.
> First the law expressly forbids a patent on ideas.

Only in the sense that you can't forbid anyone else /having/ an idea, just that you can forbid them doing anything with it.

In software, it is definitely the idea that is protected, not the specific implementation - otherwise, copyright would be enough.
Blood Meridian is terrific and terrifying. Now there's some source material for a gritty Western...
Encryption's quantum leap: The race to stop the hackers of tomorrow
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BBC: Emirates plane crash-lands at Dubai airport
Sure, but "become"?

I already see all internet providers exactly as this.

Sure, they try to sell me "more than just internet" and I get calls regularly, but the only good stuff they offer are their "pipes".
Maybe the Russians already had it in them and we're just being held back by bad government? You don't just grow a science community in a generation you either (a) steal it (e.g. From Germany) or (b) nurture it over a long time, and the USSR was able to have both. Russia just didn't go from people running around in loin clothes to sending robots into space after the Bolshevik Revolution. There is already a deep scientific culture their before.

China even more so. For much of history, China has been the richest country on earth! Not just total, but even per capita! Ya, the late Qing and republic eras were a mess, but that China would prosper after a period of decline has happened before and isn't surprising. Mao's Great Leap Forward and cultural revolution probably hurt more than helped, and China is mostly where it is today inspite of the communists. It's all about the people.

Germany and Japan were both developed before they were devestated, and knew collectively how to develop again; it wasn't a miracle in any case. Leading countries tend to lead even when knocked back with setbacks. What is perhaps a miracle was Germany breaking away from its Holy Roman Empire roots in the first place, or Japan modernizing in the mid 19th century (incidentally, this happened at the same time). Once you make that "step", you are likely not to fall backwards.
All transactions are voluntary but they are also verified by 3rd parties to prevent tax avoidance and other shenanigans.
For example if I want to leave a property to some one if I gift it to them they (or I) will have to pay tax on it just like on any other transaction the value of the property would be assessed and it will be taxed.
This happens regardless of the sum of the transaction so I can't just sell it to them for 1$ so effectively no tax would be paid, in these kinds of transactions they usually tax the value of the transaction unless it was substantially lower than the estimate (most government estimates are some what low balled).

If I report a transaction for a value considerably lower than the estimate they'll investigate it which usually would result in a new estimation and if that one is as well differs considerably than the transaction amount there would be an investigation regarding possible tax evasion.

Corporations aren't different when they exchange assets the valuation figures are reported to the authorities if the regulatory body thinks the estimates were set higher or lower than their actual value they can choose to open an investigation and if need be fine or prosecute the offending parties.
Are you familiar with Merleau-Ponty? What you wrote reminded me of him.

"According to [Merleau-Ponty], perception is a behavior effected not by consciousness but by the body, but not by the body as a piece of the physical world, rather by the body as lived, a living body."[0]

[0] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/merleau-ponty/
https://github.com/coala-analyzer/coala — 'Language Independent Code Analysis'

Love the idea, love the execution, the maintainers are amazing people, and it somehow only has 250 stars.