skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used WhatsApp. Even had a group as far as I read on the news.
All the companies you mention are having big problems in China right now.

Apple will lose at least 50% of its sales in China over the span of about two years. They just lost a third of their sales there as of the latest quarter, while their market share is plunging rapidly. Zero chance that situation will turn around. In China, if you lose your position, you're toast.

Yum is desperately trying to figure out how to liquidate out of China as their market share collapses rapidly. Yum is finding out that China is hard to operate in to begin with, and much harder to operate in when the ground is sinking out from under you. They'll be out of China entirely, holding a minority position, within just a few years. McDonald's is in the same increasingly struggling boat:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-03/china-star...
Florida has somewhat of a...reputation...for the caliber of its criminals.
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Countries don't implement standards (though they do sometimes translate them and give them their own national standard number), they implement Directives.

Otherwise I agree. The risk is quite low there.
How have Japan and South Korea a larger pool to draw from?
> Most of our staff are in the US, and don't speak french.

> As you can imagine, hiring a full time french speaker just doesn't make sense.

So how are you based in Montreal, and why? Why not relocate to the US, or English-speaking Canada?
I always thought ^ is the XOR operator, not AND.
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I'm really curious. What is the wise CTO's recommendation for a coup's way to securely message?

As one of the other commenters said, WhatsApp and Signal still rely on third parties to host the system. But doesn't Signal simply have each device generate a private key that it claims it never knows about so even if the Signal server were hacked it still wouldn't compromise existing keys?

PGP (or Keybase.io) seems like too much work for non-techies.

I'm not as familiar with Telegram.

In the end, could you do any better than a trusted third party providing a protocol it claims generates keys on your device and doesn't share them?
Indeed, most of their big industries are heavily owned and controlled by the government. It is interesting how the WTO has allowed China's eg heavily state controlled and owned steel producers to endlessly dump below cost with zero consequences. The same thing is going on in several other industries at the moment.
My first computer was put together from pieces, but at its heart was a CCS case, backplane, and power supply. It was a happy medium between totally geeked out (IMSAI) and dumbed down (Sol). Of course I wrote my own BIOS from scratch.
No, this is not a good comparison. The price rental calculators tend to show renting is the correct option in Vancouver.

If it's paid off, it's perhaps fine. But many people owe mortgages on those houses. They will be in for a world of hurt if house prices drop. I.e. The exact scenario we are discussing here.
>I've been in teams where pull requests that significantly cleaned up the code base were literally rejected, because people were paranoid that any change at all could break something in unforeseen ways. People just bunkered up into a "if it ain't broke, don't touch it" mentality, which meant that the tech debt problem never ever improved.

Was this in a project with or without unit tests? Usually you can win over people like this by writing a test harness around the area affected, getting that through their desks, and then pushing for change.

If even that is rejected you take it upstairs and make an ultimatum or straight up quit and pat yourself in the back for a job well done, regardless of which one you picked.
These are good points but you're leaving off the fact that these companies paid off State legislatures to make competition illegal in various ways. Particularly stopping people in a city or state from using tax dollars to fund something better. It's banned in some with only the local utility able to do it in others. Plus, the big companies got billions in tax subsidies to build their networks with promise of getting broadband to about everyone.

Quite a lot of corruption by a cartel of a few instead of laissez-faire.
Has anyone seen details on compilers and maths libraries they're using? Must have been some effort for a new CPU.
People (especially males I've noticed) seem to equate good driving with great reflexes.

I have pretty good reflexes, but that doesn't make me a good driver.

I equate good driving with common sense, not speeding over the limit or taking unnecessary risks, not tail gating people, and in general not being a tool.

I.e. when you're driving a 2-tonne metal tank going at 80 km/h, good == safe.

In this sense, autonomous cars have already far surpassed us.
I was going to suggest we can change our DNS to someone other than our ISP, but if what you say is correct, then that becomes irrelevant, too.
There are also hardly any search queries on Google trends [1], and less than 10 total tweets in Turkish between 2014-01-01 and 2016-07-16 [2]. Very strange, indeed.

[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2014-01-01%202016...

[2] https://twitter.com/search?q=%22bylock%22%20lang%3Atr%20sinc...
You don't have to be the best at something to get use out of it. Sounds like you need to think a bit more about what you actually want to achieve.
A surplus just means "more than you need". Other poster isn't necessarily making any statement that Americans are dumb overall.

But there is a surplus of low-IQ people. In the modern (and definitely future) economy, dumb bodies just aren't needed. They're the "unnecessariat".

If you want proof of that, look up the unemployment stats on low-education or low-IQ workers.
A small amount of current leakage is actually normal in a well-designed switch-mode power supply, as odd as that may sound.
The barrier on PGP or GPG is EXTREMELY high for a bunch of normal people on various kinds of cell phones. I can see why someone found an app that someone thought was secure and everyone went with it.
Pretty simple.

# you don't need to state the list in here
variable "test" {
type = "list"
default = ["test1", "test2"]
}

module "test_module" {
test = "${var.test}"
}

# in module test_module
variable "test" {
type = "list"
}

# and now you can use it as ${var.test}

Hopefully it helps
Comparing JS and F# is interesting... I would be very psyched if web browsers implemented F# rather than JS. Type safety, with inference, would be a big win.
C# ASCII Character Codes
Not good enough, you still have metadata, which in this case is gold. "So you were messaging General X, while he was performing the coup. Would you like to tell us more about this, maybe during some waterboarding?"
The capabilities built into today's chip sets and motherboards is just insane. This weekend was the first time I plugged a board into a PC in over 10 years, to add USB 3.0 to a system too old to have had it already. The last PC I put together was based on a mini-ITX motherboard, simply because I knew from experience that I wouldn't need anything more expandable than that.
Intelligence is roughly:

80% hereditary
0% from childhood environment
20% from unknown factors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTF_XVspfDM
You don't actually need to hold the lock while doing I/O - just while allocating yourself a region of the file that's yours to exclusively write to (eg. by opening without O_APPEND and instead using pwrite(2) to write at a specific offset).
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It is fascinating how many downvotes you get for posting a mild condemnation of heinous and/or illegal behaviour and hate speech. I wonder what their internal justification is.
Idiomatic English is hard. From your HN profile[0]:

"At least 5000 people bought my books..."

Don't ask me why, but to me it should read instead:

"at least 5000 people have bought my books,"

or even:

"over 5000 people have bought my books."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Swizec
How did they get to a place where there are multiple copies of the same external codebase? Shared libraries FTW.
So maybe hold the cash and short-term assets you feel compelled to have, and index the market with the rest? It may decrease in value for a time, but if you avoid realizing those losses, it'll likely bounce back. If you think the whole economy is in for a serious contraction with a decade+ horizon for recovery, you could go into previous metals, but you may just be screwed either way.

I actually do believe that the US is in for serious contraction due to the unsustainable infrastructure and development patterns. I'm hanging out in the market anyway, because the federal reserve and misplaced public trust in municipal bonds will kick that can decades further down the road before we ever face the facts.

Until then, I know that I don't have the forecasting ability of large banks, so I play the game with the only advantage I've got: patience.
Time to cross off that line in app_ideas.txt :-)

Thanks for making it, it's extremely useful to me.
Because diversity in America is an emotionally-based internal and external marketing, not a statistically rigorous initiative to truly measure and hold companies and Universities accountable.

Better similar questions are, what is the ratio of East Asian and South Asian middle-management and senior management in Silicon Valley over their individual contributor head count (vs. the same ratio for Caucasian counterpart)?

What is the ratio of black students and employee's in a company, when broken down specifically by class (e.g., middle and upper-middle class black people living in suburbs of DC vs. first generation black college students from inner city Baltimore) and by immigration (e.g., Nigerian's who have the same immigrant/culture work-ethic's as East Asian's are just as over-represented in elite American schools)?
Woah, that's all kinds of meta.
Have you tried Cosmic Trip?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/427240/
Out of interest, I've heard that acceleration I'm VR games is a big cause of sickness, have you experienced this in your racing games at all?
Interesting though they may be, John Oliver and Better Call Saul are not documentaries. I hope nobody is seriously informing their political opinion based off shows from Netflix and HBO.
Have the NSA design one for you through a front and have the Americans on your side (publicly or not).

It really depends on who you are trying to depose. I wouldn't trust any device if you were going against the interests of America / NATO, there are just too many opportunities for side channels. Likewise if it were using Chinese hardware against China. Assume you're compromised in either situation regardless of how secure your encryption seems to be.
Parent strongly suggests that they don't live in US.

The utilities thing was what I found crazy. I was paying about 1-2% of take home pay to utilities at my place in California, despite making what I assume is far less than most people here.
It's usually not simple to add unit tests to a project that weren't built with them.

Sometimes the unit tests are the technical debt...
If any candidate had done this at a place I was unhappy, I'd have told the truth. Honestly, a lot of candidates are drinking kool-aid by the time they walk in the door.
I'm entirely confused on how the Hulu thing plays.

This could mean it is them selling ads on a service they are owners of using the data they gathered as an ISP and not only as a service, like the data Netflix would have.

Somehow Hulu, using data bought by Comcast is worse when Comcast owns a share of Hulu? How does this change whether Comcast is an owner or not? Hulu could purchase the data either way and since Hulu is an investment, not a subsidiary it would end up a customer of Comcast data. Netflix could also buy the data from Comcast, but of course that makes no sense because Netflix doesn't have ads.

Isn't bargaining a two sided affair?

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"
recruiter/sourcer, 4 years exp.

- don't worry about inflated job title, especially in the bay area.

- resumes are targeted to its audience.

- know what you want to do (engineering, product management, etc).

- reach out to managers at companies that you'd like to work at. ask them what they need (don't go by job postings, too generic most of the time). fill resume with relevant info if you have them.

- communicating that you're a desirable hire is done in the interview stage. resume is a tool to get you the interview if you have zero connection inside that company (don't blow it off though, since it's usually shown to a hiring board for final decisions).
Do you have any data to back up those assertions? Because they seem pretty "Here is how I feel so therefore it must be that way."
The main benefit of wordpress for most users, as I see it, is a way to get simple, user friendly CMS onto their own domain.

For me, it's for my handful of non technical users to be able to publish posts and have a central repo for sharing event information.
Often really awful code is covered by really awful tests.
I think it would be reasonable to claim that the larger the proportion of smart people in your population, the better. If that's true, than any number of below average intelligence people would be a surplus.
If Uber's goal is to dominate the Chinese market, it lost the war, of course. But Uber as a business company, making profit is it's ultimate goal which is actually accomplished in its deal with Didi. Also Uber can focus on all others markets in other countries where it is more possible to be the dominant.
For another data point, I live in Australia and can see a doctor, same day or night, for around 20 USD. It is very convenient and I am glad that part of the system runs well enough.

There can be waiting lists for public surgeons however, and private health insurance can help solve that to an extent.

I think we have a good balance here but I am not familiar enough with the nuances of health care to know.
I suspect that part of the reason this (regular practice with male athletes for women's teams) doesn't happen as often as it should is that there is a disparity between the competition levels on the men's and women's circuits, and a constant display of this would have a negative effect on the equal pay agitations going on in some sports [1][2].

For example, Karsten Braach, ranked 203 on the men's circuit, once beat both Venus and Serena Williams in friendly tennis games in the same afternoon. [3]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/sports/tennis/equal-pay-ge...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-soccer-equal-pay-...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,543962,00....
No problem!

We were told that IVF would cost anywhere between $12-15,000 per attempt, there is no guarantee, and the woman has to be injected with a cocktail of hormones that is quite complex and has some associated risks. Generally it seemed much more physically and mentally demanding and expensive for something that might not work out.

We chose to try IUI treatments at a local, well-regarded fertility clinic and have had several much less invasive rounds of treatment for about $6,000.

Alas, ultimately nature will decide. We are looking into adoption at this point, and honestly I feel that I would be very happy with that outcome as well.
You mean the lessons they stole from Valve? (Couldn't resist)
Thank you. :)

The last part about adoption made it sound even better. :)
In my family, we had four boys swimming competitively. So that's club fees for four, plus 20000 calories/day total if you figure each parent at 2k and each kid at 4k. My parents also paid for car insurance, which may as well be paying college tuition when you've got four young male drivers in the house.

So those are some ways. Paying for phone plans (my parents didn't) could also get expensive, as could clothes if they don't have to buy their own.
No, LEAPS are taxed at long-term rates (assuming of course a year and a day duration or greater).
found the Jet investor
The US has a horrible human rights history.
The country started with genocide of native americans.
It enslaved and murdered millions of africans.
It still has very racist tendencies.
It killed several million koreans, vietnamese and cambodians (indirectly).
Then there is Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are a lot of really horrible things the US did that is on par with the Nazis and the worse we've seen from many other countries.
The US is good at hiding or ignoring its atrocities.
I don't think China is better or worse.
But I don't see why it should be vilified when the US (and many other 1st world countries) have done much worse things to each other and to the 3rd world.
In fact, I think all 3rd world countries should grow their internal markets in a similar way until they can become 1st world countries.
Supermeat
> Is writing a novel all that different from writing a compiler from scratch or hacking on obsolete consoles like so many posts here.

Yes it is. But you're mostly right about your other affirmations.
At least Mail.app lets you whitelist certain domains, making recipients with other domains pop in red when you're composing. It's useful in a corporate setting.

As for sender, you can make it show the actual email address at all times (disable "use smart addresses").
What about data center IPs? A pay-by-the-hour VPS can be cheaper than any VPN service. I've been using one recently and it hasn't been flagged by any site I care about.
You example makes the point that formal English hard to write, not hard to read.
Caught me red handed. lol.
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I was thinking you failed to mention that US won many times, but it seems like you just put US in the same like as Hungary.

It's worth mentioning that US got the only whole team full score (252 = 6 * 42) in 1994.

And it's worth mentioning that China didn't attend 1998 IMO in Taiwan for political reasons.
I'm not sure what to make of that question. I think part of what makes civilization "civil" is that we don't accept huge swaths of the human population dying horrible deaths so that a lucky and rich portion of the human population can survive.
I got my Vive in batch one. I played it for a while and loved it but ended up selling because I couldn't justify the cost for the amount of time I used it.

While the current version is fun the low resolution is limiting. FPS games are nearly impossible because anything in the distance is only represented by a few pixels.

I will buy room scale VR again when the price comes down and the resolution goes up.
This interests me. Do you know of any good books, articles, or other sources I could learn more about this topic? Specifically your first sentence.
After making a reasonable outlay on a watch in a bricks and mortar store recently and then being retargeted aggressively by watch manufacturers on my browser (apparently card companies selling purchase history is par for the course) I became rather upset about the whole "we like to track everything you do because advertising" theme of the web.

I was recommended and have started using the free "Privacy Badger" Chrome extension from the EFF which is exceptional. The web sans skeezy cookies and 3rd party tracking is a rather different (and enjoyable experience). What's really funny too is that some sites (Bloomberg is an example) simply won't work without all of these nasty trackers switched on.
We might have to define success
I would recommend trying to show the defiant child that he really does need others.

If he tears up his room, then remove anything you care about and let him tear the rest up.

If he is not nice and polite during mealtime, then he does not eat. Or the meal that is provided is very basic, and must be eaten in the room.

Eventually you may have to remove all forms of pleasure, including toys, games, nice clothes, etc.

During this process, communicate that you all love him, but do not like how he is acting. Explain that nice polite behavior will be rewarded. You will eventually feel like you are running a small jail, but eventually it will sink in.

Also hard work is very good at wearing kids out. If you have the opportunity then digging a hole is good therapy. Make him dig a good hole before he can have dinner, and it must be done right, or back to the room. After dinner, make him fill it back up. Once he starts correcting, give more useful chores like sweeping floors.

Keep up the communication, and work on directing the energy towards physical activities and praising polite behavior. Perhaps a game of horse with dad would be a good reward.

Good luck!
Kids sports. It's a stress reliever and teaches them discipline, respect for rules, and social skills with other kids.

I actually coach kids from ages 6 - 12 in Judo but team sports can be good also. It's rewarding to see kids mature mentally through training in sports. I have had some real problem kids improve their behaviour over time.

Once they get to about 6, they are mentally ready to learn an organized sport and the challenge is good for them.
> If jet is at 4 million+ loyal customers

I doubt many of them are loyal. Most ordered from Jet due to huge discount codes, making them the cheapest. I'd love to see how many people place a second order, one with no discount code.
There's the benefit with toilets that they realise it's obviously shit that's the problem....
Most of those problems sound related to early software implementations. E.g. There are ways to "switch to 3rd person views, zoom and pan the camera or detach it" in comfortable ways. The easiest is having a virtual screen (or portal) but not the only one.

Some other problems relate to game play versus screen/mouse users, which I think it's sort of missing the point.

The sweat problem would be easily resolved with a "soldering mask" solution, like PSVR. Some have modded their Vives that way. And I agree the angle could be better, as the resolution.

But hey, it's definitely a gen 1 product and GPUs just started to have features that allow improvements in hardware that don't tax GPUs so much (such as viewport multicast).
Not true. To most corporate recruiters 'doing a startup' for a couple of years is almost the same as being unemployed. I faced this myself after years of slogging away at an unsuccessful project and then trying to get back into the job market.
A reference from Utopia. An amazing TV show you should go and watch.
It's worth keeping in mind that distributions of males tend to have longer tails than their equivalents for females.
In boolean algebra, * (a dot, actually) and + are used for And and Or and the usual rules about association and commutation are used (PEMDAS, kinda, ommiting the * on occasion). Sometimes, what I might call, up arrow and down arrow are used, looking similar to ^ and v, in relation to set arithmetic symbols for the union and intersection oprators.
These pages are authorization page of an Access Control Server (ACS) in the 3-D Secure flow. Visa/MasterCard designed the scheme, but the spec is open (in a somewhat limited sense), so anyone can implement the ACS as long as you're qualified to see the spec and can get it certified. Banks are free to choose the ACS vendor as long as it's certified. Many banks do provide ACS authorization page at their own domain name, although a many of them just use a third party service just like in your case.
The post is using boolean algebra symbols.
> And part of that increased regulation ought to be splitting investment banking risk from retail banking risk again. Both are risky enough as is. Combining their (sometimes correlated!) risk is a really bad idea.

the implication of calling retail and investment banking risks "sometimes correlated" is that they are also sometimes uncorrelated.

The two common examples of diversified survivors of the last GFC are Citi and JPMC.