skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's preliminary evidence for weak but steady selection against cognitive ability and/or educational attainment over the past century.

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/05/037929

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/24/6647/F2.expansion.html

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289615...

https://jasoncollins.org/2016/07/22/kaufmanns-shall-the-reli...

The main driving factor seems to be educated people (and women in particular; some studies have found positive selection for men) not having children.
To clarify, by "China" I mean People's Republic of China, not Republic of China (which is usually called Taiwan).
In this case a distribution site which hosts both the hash and the file was hacked. This test is only good for "is the integrity of the download good" not for "is this created by the original developer". An authenticode or PGP signature is much better.
Then again, Hollywood is now increasingly dependent on China, increasingly tailors film to the Chinese market and cultural demands, and is taking more and more financing from China:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/21/words-...

http://fortune.com/hollywood-film-financing/

https://next.ft.com/content/2cb93908-2c65-11e6-bf8d-26294ad5...
I missed that somehow haha... thanks
So if I buy (or farm) a lure module and place it on a Pokestop, this is the same thing as if I spray painted "Free Puppies" on the side of a panel van and drove it in front of a school? Because I think that's the bottom line from the DA's office.
I went from a DK1 to a vive, so the transition was even more dramatic... but for me the motion controllers have been EVERYTHING. Everything I love about playing on the vive is about having my body in the game, not just my head.
Jet is on pace to do $1B in sales this year (not profit, but gross merchandise value). Not bad for a company only selling stuff for 16 months.
They aren't a direct competitor to Amazon in model, they are closer to a seamless version of Flipkart in india.
My friend who works there says they see Target as their competition more so than Amazon, and that could be what Walmart sees too.
I do wish we could have seen where this company could go, but likelihood is it became increasingly difficult to attract VC money in this market that is tightening.
Your anecdotes are not data.
If an American company failed in China, it must be because it is treated unfairly.

Wait, Walmart, MacDonald's, Procter & Gamble, etc are hugely successful in China. Nah, they are not tech companies. Wait, Apple is successful in China. Microsoft has a good run, too. Even Yahoo had a few good years there.
Had a Vive for months, still play it 4 times a week.

That's not going to stop because it's pretty much replaced my workouts. Instead of doing a 30 min intense workout, I do two hours in the Vive. It used to be more Holoball, Holopoint, Zenblade... but now it's RecRoom, BattleDome and Pong Waves VR. More stuff comes out than I have to try with a full-time job and a minimalist social life.
This dude talks at great length about the homeless problem in San Francisco and makes only the most token of nods towards the fact that China has profound social problems.

The Chinese government is an oligarchic, nepotistic cesspool that violates human rights on a massive scale with absolute impunity: the author's extensively elaborated moral outrage about the presence of homelessness in San Francisco juxtaposes absurdly with his starry-eyed gloss over the sickening injustices of the Communist Party.

I'd rather have a government that fails to effectively address homelessness than a government that blithely sells executed prisoners to Western roadshows. [1]

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/145...
With options (at least ISOs), you don't qualify for the long-term capital gains rate until you've held the shares for at least a year after exercise AND waited at least two years from the grant date to sell them.

It's possible that the second requirement is what affected ChuckMcM.
It's also possible that there is no killer app, and the whole thing just stays niche, like 3D movies or Second Life.
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Success! The issue was just merged[0], hopefully this will make its way into TF soon.

[0] https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/issues/472#issuecomment-23...
> Go is probably the most highly polished language from the 1980s.

I think ML pretty objectively takes that crown, semantically speaking. For simplicity and elegance it's pretty difficult to beat.
That is quite clearly untrue, and you are no longer debating in an honest manner (if you ever were).

Buh-bye.
How do they define cold email? If someone you know gives me your email address, and I don't tell you how I got it, is that illegal? Can you only email people who have actively given you an email address? This seems very unlikely, and extremely hard to enforce.
You should be.
I can only sympathise. Taking the longer content driven approach here.
It's the exact same analysis as ensuring all paths of a function do return the right type -- you just make sure all paths call a divergent function (typically unconditional panic) or enter a loop {} that never breaks/returns.

This is of course a conservative analysis so e.g. "while true { }" is assumed to terminate and is rejected.

Failing to perform this verification correctly would trivially lead to memory unsafety as calling code is allowed to assume such a function returns any and all requested types.
I'm not sure if Jet's business model is valid, or if it's valid at all.

Back in Fall 2015, I ordered two cases of water (I think 24 count in each; normal 500 mL water bottles) for $5.70 each with free two day shipping. They ended up sending me two packages via FedEx Ground (one case per box) with Jet.com branding on the boxes. I was legitimately shocked that they actually processed my order since each case was 30 pounds. They lost so much money on my order. When I checked back two weeks later, they were no longer for sale on the website.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-108publ187/html/PLAW-108p...

(1) Address harvesting and dictionary attacks
(A) In general
It is unlawful for any person to initiate the transmission, to a protected computer, of a commercial electronic mail message that is unlawful under subsection (a), or to assist in the origination of such message through the provision or selection of addresses to which the message will be transmitted, if such person had actual knowledge, or knowledge fairly implied on the basis of objective circumstances, that—
(i) the electronic mail address of the recipient was obtained using an automated means from an Internet website or proprietary online service operated by another person, and such website or online service included, at the time the address was obtained, a notice stating that the operator of such website or online service will not give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by such website or online service to any other party for the purposes of initiating, or enabling others to initiate, electronic mail messages; or
(ii) the electronic mail address of the recipient was obtained using an automated means that generates possible electronic mail addresses by combining names, letters, or numbers into numerous permutations.
There's an old scifi novel where a religious organization survives a nuclear apocalypse by being the only remaining organization with enough forethought to build a space rocket instead of a bomb.
Yes they are motion tracked. They have inertial sensors and are tracked by cameras just like the Rift headset. Early reports are that they work about as well as the Vive controllers.

We'll know more towards the end of the year when they are slated to be widely available.

The great thing about Valve's approach to VR is that they have been very open and committed to compatibility with Rift hardware and aren't playing favorites with hardware. To Valve a motion tracked controller is a motion tracked controller.

People are using stuff like Razer Hydra to play Steam games with tracked controllers and the Rift today.
"All told, I'm getting really sick of the Euro-lectures-Americans schtick." Oh, please. If it is something Americans are bad at, it is keeping their opinions to themselves and they are loud about it too. If you lecture the rest of the world about how to run their affairs, you can't complain when somebody in the rest of the world criticize you.

I've been subscribing to American news magazines for decades and if there ever was a mention of any problem in Europe, you'd be sure to hear the normal American lecture to the Europeans about how they need to rid themselves of their addiction to their welfare states. Get more flexible labour markets (read, get rid of worker protection laws). Basically the lecture always sums up to be: stop being yourself and be more like us.

If America insists on lecturing us about economics, maybe it should tolerate a European lecture on social policies.
I love Siracusa's Mac OS reviews, but it was a pain to try to queue one of those up for offline reading (26 pages or more!).
Wow, lucky them. What crime do I have to commit to be barred from _hearing about_ Pokemon Go?
Reverse Engineering a Bluetooth Lightbulb
The person doing this doesn't care about the ethics of this. He's got his passive income - he's going to take it and run.
This does seem a little basic but I forked and rewrote another setup guide specifically for front-end developers using a Mac.

https://github.com/asuh/front-end-osx
>In it, one of the moral cruxes of the main story was that the crew needed 'Unity'. I saw this as a subtle shift from american 'Freedom'.

Teamwork is a huge theme in countless Hollywood movies. A rag tag group of misfits who has to overcome their differences and learn to work together is a classic movie trope.

I don't think this has anything do with trying to appeal to Chinese audiences.

Less complex (and less overall) dialogue designed to make it easier to translate is an actual example of trying to succeed in China.
Well, the party is CPC. The Central Committee is abbreviated CC in Wikipedia, though that seems unofficial.
I'm curious if the police would have entered and shot at her if they couldn't get the live stream shut down.
It'd be type and memory unsafe if it weren't verified, so yes, it is.
The Rice Cooker Has Become a Test of China’s Ability to Fix Its Economy
> and do a "rm -rf" and see how it burns

`chmod` can be interesting as well.

sudo chmod -R -x /
The US is as much like Free Software as anything is. That is my point. His comparison is just random fodder based on superficial commonalities.

The US is not like Free Software in many important ways:

* The US has judges. What is the equivalent of judges in free software?

* US law is based on common law. What is the equivalent of common law in free software?

* The US has elected representatives. What is the equivalent of elected representatives in Free software.

* The US is composed of states, counties, and cities? What are the equivalent states counties and cities in Free Software?

* The US has a congress. What is the equivalent in free software?

* The US has jails. What is the equivalent of a jail in Free Software?

Etc.

I could go on and on, but the point really should be obvious by now. The comparison to Free Software is weak and most importantly, unnecessary. China is just as much like Free Software as US is.
Both Oculus and Vive have been shelved after 1-2 weeks of use.
Played some of the launch titles, Adrift was amazing, the steam VR workshop was nice, some of the creative stuff was pretty darn cool.

But "hardcore" PC gaming on them is just god damn awful once you get pass the "omg it's so fucking cool in in awe" period.

They are heavy, comfort levels aren't there, sweat is an issue especially in the summer, they put strain on your neck and since they give you a considerable smaller viewing angle than what you can do with a display (not to mention an ultrawide/screen spanning setup) they are disadvantaged in just about every game.

Replacing a wide viewing angle and a quick mouse look ability with turning your head is just harder and slower (and after 45 min painfull).

Losing the ability to switch to 3rd person views, zoom and pan the camera or detach it is a huge disadvantage in just about every game that supports VR.

Losing the ability to disconnect from the game for even a second and to focus your eyes on something else, turn your head without affecting the game, take a drink of water, stretch and pretty much just be free to do what you want puts so much stress on you that after 30min you just stop enjoying it.

Overall VR seems to be nice for very very specific applications, ones that are completely impossible to do without it, for everything else it's just worse it turns a completely detached leisure activity in a real life activity and that's a problem.
The holodeck concept might sound cool until you figure out that it's actually hard work.
Personally I don't think VR would go much further, AR on the other hand (Microsoft Hololens) has a bright future, if Google comes out with a slightly less sucky version of Google Glass and you mate it with Pokemon Go it's game over.
Got it. With those numbers, the returns are ~1.86x for the investors of the $565M. ($3B * ($565M/$1615M) / $565M).
I don't think it's going to be a "killer app", I think it's going to be adding the missing "feature". Which is probably locomotion. The teleportation stuff is a handy hack, but it's not immersive. Games are very limited in capability while the locomotion issue still exists.
Think you mean red-blooded.

"Ordinary People" is a blue-blooded American Hollywood film.
True. I did change the topic and offer my opinion.
I love React and want to be excited about React Native but the process of getting your dev environment setup for it is painfully long with way to many steps.

I know this seems like a silly thing to bitch about but it kills my idle curiosity when I have to set aside a significant chunk of time just to get to the starting line.
In my experience, jet.com's primary user base is deal fanatics who enjoy having their consumer goods subsidized by know-nothing VCs dreaming about being in on the ground floor of the next Amazon.
I didn't start with SICP, but going through the first three chapters is probably the single thing that kickstarted my transformation from hobbyist programmer to professional. The next was Eloquent Ruby and then Clean Code.
Docker doesn't work on the cheap mass shared hosts.
Good observation, except it isn't a proof, it's an example.
> I draw stories from fantasy world

The author talks about the problems Google faced with the Chinese govt. Isn't that the bulk of the article?

With that he also says since Uber wasn't large enough to compete with Didi, that why Chinese Govt didn't need to intervene.
As a New-Englander, the term mash comes naturally to me as meaning 'press rapidly.' But I'm also a gamer, so I may have picked it up there.
Developer here, we have pretty much every headset. Vive Pre for 7 months now, and we play it daily. Audioshield, The Lab Archery and Tilt Brush are the favourites around here.
You mean disruptive like SnapChat and Instagram? Sorry but too much Silicon Valley "innovation" is of no importance to the world.
The HTC Vive has this (instantly available full screen pass through of a camera mounted on the headset).
True, was about 5-6 years ago.
I see your point and share your pain about key-value tables in SQL systems.
Yes, I do this in my app. It's well-supported by the platform and quite easy -- there are built-in primitives to call a native function from javascript that returns a promise, which can then be fulfilled/returned asynchronously on the native side once your long-running calculation or transfer is finished.
Defer gratification until you have six months in the bank, if that’s an option.

Phenomenal advice. Having some cushion when between jobs is great. It's also peace of mind.
If thats true, Uber was simply being incompetent here.
We recently launched a shop on Tmall (Alibaba version of Amazon), and you usually hire a local agency to provide customer support for the chinese. 80% of the traffic is mobile, so they use SMS and phone calls a lot, emails much less than in the west. Also chat, they expect to be able to directly talk to someone via chat from the website.

Not doing so means disregarding local habits, good luck with that.
1.8M American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots. What then?
I manage it myself. It's less than a part-time job, maybe several hours a month on average.
Yes, they are, but very few people have them. Oculus hopes to have 5,000 copies out by the end of the year, whereas HTC has already sold over 100,000 units. Oculus Touch is a great device, but your just not going to see it available or supported very well for a very significant amount of time.
That will teach them :-)
One in three surgeries will use robots within the next five years
Is there a serious question to what the original claim was implying?

If sites like Snopes only based their ratings on the literal meanings, that would create a huge loophole for any number of dishonest techniques, and obvious cases of lying by omission and quote-mining would end up with a giant "True" label.
The whole blog, at http://os.phil-opp.com, is phenomenal.
Despite my shitty experience last time, I would be willing to give Google another chance (as long as it isn't in California). They've decided to ignore me.
I didn't. ;)
You need to think about differing motivations.

Right now politicians are thinking, "Hey there's this new thing that's popular. How do we cash in on that?"

Pedophiles and child molesters are easy targets. In the sense that all you need to do is say those scary words and you get more votes.

They're pandering to the population.
Are you using the https-everywhere plugin? I remember there being a bug where it redirected to https for subdomains of a domain that is https enabled.
Huh? I thought it was well established that intelligence is at least 50-60% hereditary. I believe various adoption studies showed this in a very convincing manner, as the kids who were adopted had intelligence that correlated with their bio parents, not the adoptive parents.
Every once and awhile you see something to remind you that this country was founded by puritans, not all that long ago.
Using a VPN is a much cheaper solution with the same results, with the added bonus of less tracking from Comcast.
Does Linux have exceptions?
Didn't you know, American laws are universal. It is by American laws we judge the acts of all the being in this universe.
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Your last point is especially salient. If wall street needs anything, it's a chilling effect. The threat of personal liability is a pretty good one. Hell, we jail journalists for not revealing sources, but we can't throw a banker in jail for tanking the economy?
Notice the "on parole" part. I doubt it would pass legal must ordinarily, but for parole the state can ask for anything it wants.

So this is pretty much pointless "let's look like we are doing something".
Discussing the actual content of the article, it seems like to me, a non-expert but one interested in the issue, that regulation and the "riskiness" present on Wall Street is a nuanced and complicated issue, but even when there are changes, as the author claims, it doesn't grab headlines because it's technical and not exactly sexy or interesting details that matter.
Apparently many hospitals have also requested Pokestops in them to be removed, making the game unplayable for sick kids in their beds.

https://redd.it/4vykt7
I can see it staying niche just because of the fact that any new advance makes the thing more expensive. It's like boating, if you have one they're great fun... super useful, but they're money pits. I think VR is going to be a money pit for a while. Each additional step of immersion linearly increases the price of VR.

If it could actually fake the signals sent to your brain, whatever that means... maybe it would be possible to improve it via software, but that's far future stuff.
Could be hard to implement this, checking the density of offenders in the area.

http://www.familywatchdog.us/showmap.asp

Search Criteria: New York, United States

If I could link it directly I would.

I am all for keeping kids safe; but this seems to have unintended knockoff effects, such as forcing children who want to play Pokemon Go to venture multiple blocks from their homes in order to play.
> It takes a certain degree of conceit to think a company can only be valuable if you heard of it.

No, but it's entirely reasonable to suggest that an e-commerce company that's trying to compete with Amazon isn't valuable if you haven't even heard about it in passing from friends or family.
people in general have this tendency, i think.
Who do you think cut these services?

This is GOP 101.

Never elect a Republican governor. See MI, ME, FL, etc, etc.
No, I meant you've probably never heard of his subsequent company (somespider.com), where I was the first employee.
>Do you happen to be an older North Carolinian? I don't think I've heard anyone use "mash" in this sense

I don't think it's quite that regional - I've heard & used it in this sense (british, not that old).

Not sure where it came from originally (people use all sorts of odd terms to describe pressing buttons, 'punch' being one I find weird).

I can think of one obvious pop reference, from The Simpsons[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqjF7HKSaaI
The idea behind passive income is that it keeps coming.

Since this is going to get shut down for abuse, it's not exactly passive.
> The only reason to delay selling for tax reasons

What about if you live in a state with high income tax and no capital gains relief from said rate, and you think that maybe at some point in the future you might leave that state for one with a lower income tax? For example, moving from California to anywhere else.
and the entire planet is better for it. any idea how much worse things would have gotten if regulators (bernanke, paulson) hadn't drawn a line in the sand somewhere? those guys are heroes; they go down as the best treasury secretary and fed chair in history.
Sounds like a lot of optimization problems when training neural networks.
Chrome didn't have extensions when it came out. Neither did Edge.
It's one route to nationalization. Increase regulation, make impossible to manage until nobody believes the company can do the job, then add it to your political platform.
Search "abandoned cart promotion" and you'll find plenty of them.
I think the point danielhunt is making—and it's a good one—is that people don't want to use software that isn't pretty. Sure it's functional, of course. Vim is functional. But OSS software like LibreOffice consistently have that... sad soviet-like "hey it's functional enough" feel to them.
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Don't you anyway have to walk to play it? And walk rather long distances.
Great job with the app.

Any specific reason to develop it using web technology over native?

Since the app is developed using Cordova, it shouldn't require much work to get a working iOS version.
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It wasn't just the type of questions, was the whole experience - I did answer, then then interviewer insisted I could do it in one fewer step, and would not proceed or assist until I came up with a better answer. Then time was up, and he answered no questions of mine. Emailing the recruiter to ask if this was expected or if there was another role and received no replies back. Sorry, but to hell with working for Google after that...

Bear in mind at the time I had 8 years experience in non-trivial roles, including some mgmt and architecture, and they were the ones who reached out to me.