skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people don't trust each others to "give back", and that's the reason people rely on guanxi, instead of trusting normal social contract and normal civil relationship between strangers. They want to have extra fixed|irremovable elements embedded (such as born in the same county, having blood relationships, etc, etc.), so they can have a bit protection in social|business transactions, to accomplish anything in China's trust-less environment.

In the past Chinese have lived in small villages. Even though the land is vast, people rarely moved to other places due to lack of means and the atrocious government policies. So ordinary people dealt with relatives and village folks in their entire lives. Trust was based on the threat that you would be practically dead if you behaved badly and were shunned by the village.

Now coming into the 20th century, people started moving into cities to interact with strangers. It's a new and somewhat shocking experience, because most of them only knew the way of life which you just obey the orders from parents/senior family members, follow the old rituals. Unlike the western countries which went through centuries of Enlightenment, the new Chinese cities are almost void of social and civil code, void of sensible law and law enforcement. That's what China has been through in the last century. Quite a few, now escaped from the watchful eyes of folks back in the villages, use the newly gained freedom to conduct unlawful activities, from fabricating their credentials, to using dirty recycled oil to prepare food, all the way to bribing and accepting bribes to drive people away from their home in order to build a shopping mall. So imho ordinary Chinese do not trust each other that much. They seek insurance(strong guanxi is a form of it) in all daily interactions, and hope others would behave.
Not sure about other things you said, but is it true that QQ sucks?

QQ supports over hundreds millions online users every day, and numerous group chat rooms at the same time. QQ is far more advanced than any IM softwares outside of China.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clinto...

Cites obama admin source

byline By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMARCH 2, 2015

24 hours before

Netanyahu’s Full Speech Before Congress, Mar. 3, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/10000000354782...
I'm speaking anecdotally, and there are many ways my sample may be biased. (Also, maybe bad PhD devs make sure everyone knows they have PhDs, while competent devs never mention it?).

OTOH, there could be something in culture and personality that pushes lesser devs into getting PhDs.
I agree with you. UBI will be hated by people because it is a forced equalizer and removes agency from their hands.

UBI depends on tax collection, but state is corruptible and companies are greedy. This puts people in a bad position, but, if you think about it, companies are going to be in a weird position too - when people are moneyless, who's going to buy their products? Is it sane to tax companies, give free money to people in order to buy products from said companies?

The solution should include breaking automation monopolies and empowering people. Instead of UBI, what we need is to spread the use of automation and AI technologies in all parts of society, with the aim of achieving self sufficiency on a country, region and community level.

Research in self sufficiency should also include solar energy, water filtration, sustainable agriculture and 3D-printing - all that is required to live off-grid. I envision co-ops formed of a few thousand people, farming land, making houses, offering education and health services for its members.

If we're not going to get jobs, we need to own and rely on automation instead.
I think people are being way too harsh on this guy. Most people make a habit of using the same username everywhere and it's not a problem until there's a sudden national interest in every cat photo they've commented on.

2 years ago it wasn't even clear that HRC would run, let alone that her emails would become such a large and specifically scrutinized aspect of the campaign. Yes, it would've been better if Combetta had the foresight to avoid this sticky situation, but I don't think it's reasonable to claim he's incompetent because of this quite unusual confluence of events.

His two mistakes were using a known username and calling attention to how "VIP" his VIP was. Some people will say the only purpose for the latter is to brag, but I disagree. People on online forums are frequently both hostile and caustic. A likely response to his question would be "Tell them you can't do that". Combetta's emphasis on the VIP's stature was a pre-emptive attempt to get the help he needed without bickering about whether or not he had authority to shut down the request. Since that was obviously not on the table for a sysadmin trying to earn a living, he needed to make it clear that he was dealing with orders originating from well above his pay grade.

People will also say Combetta should've known this was illegal, which I think is silly too. HRC is a laywer. Everyone in politics is a lawyer. There is no intrinsic moral compass around email retention policies, and even if you say "Hmm, that doesn't sound fair", well, we all know that the law isn't perfect -- unfair doesn't make it illegal per se, and none of us would be employed if we had the full moral latitude we'd like to decline employer requests (for example, there's a good argument that modern marketing as an industry has deep moral flaws, but how many companies can afford not to market themselves? There's a lowest-common-denominator factor that drags everyone down. The option becomes indigence or compromise, accepting that everything is not necessarily as we'd like it to be).

If your client is a bunch of lawyers, and you're an IT guy (not a lawyer), and you work for a contracting firm that treats this like a legit request, you're going to assume that what they're asking is legal. Unless something is fundamentally and blatantly immoral (and I don't believe specific sniggles over email retention laws are), I don't think he should be blamed for complying with the directives issued by his clients and allowed by his firm.

This is an embarrassing time for Combetta, to be sure. Let's not unjustifiably heap it on. As far as I'm concerned, he should be fully covered by respondeat superior.

I say all this as someone who is probably going to vote for Trump and thinks that HRC should be prosecuted.
There's just something off putting about having a president that doesn't keep up with current events.
a) yes, it is new to me because I was not raised in your country, not because the web came after I was born.
That explains the rise of Donald Trump, but not the previous 30 years when many US factory workers supported the Republican party.
Although both parties have similar trade policies, haven't the Democrats generally been more critical of free trade?
Snowden did not expose the documents, the journalists did... It was their journalistic duty to reveal a minimal yet sufficient amount of evidence to inform the public, not his.
For beginner use cases of the Android API, this isn't really a problem they would encounter.
The law behind the mishandling of classified information is from the 1950s and is mostly outdated.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

What is clear however, is that judging Clinton's mishandling of emails as a crime, when only one person in a hundred years in completely different circumstances has been prosecuted for the same crime, would be unprecedented.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/07/heres-...
Some things are much more sane and well thought out than iOS. Styling and layouts, for example, are so much better than Interface Builder, which is pretty much just a toy for demos.

Other things like the way events are handled and some of the native widgets are clunky. Some of us are fed up enough with all the incidental complexity Apple puts in your way every day as a developer (provisioning, in particular), that we prefer to put up with Android's warts.

That said the native app market is feeling pretty saturated these days and I'm not sure that boning up on building responsive/progressive web apps isn't a better long term bet.
This book[0] enlightened me in a lot of ways. Check out the book review, I would testify that almost of what the reviewers said are true.

By reading this book, I've developed my skills in programming with C/C++, assembly language and also learning computer architecture all at the same time. This book contains lots of low level stuffs like designing a cpu core, translate a C++ program to assembly, write an assembler, and many more. The explanation starts with a very simple concepts like translating y = x + 1; to assembly language equivalent until translating an object oriented code to its equivalent assembly language code. It has been a lot of fun learning the relationship of cpu, operating system and the compiler. The exercises are easy enough and had really sharpen my skills. Although the target machine is theoretical, I was able to switch easily into the real machine.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Computer-Architectu...
In regards to some peoples opinion on the U.S. government? You did okay. On the article, little off.

The article had a tone about it of folk who feel "cheated", who did everything they thought they were supposed to and still ended up in a bad place. Ultimately these folk look at others who are receiving welfare and feel like the welfare recipients get it easy.

The article tries to paint some genuine frustration into the complaints, but it still sounds like people voting against stuff because a political machine told them to.

I feel bad and understand feeling cheated, but it also comes off as a bit petulant, especially with how they use their vote to just make matters worse in the hope of upholding some vague ideals.
Thank You, I agree that explanations for people that already know are close to worthless.
Isn't the whole point of UBI is to smooth out and provide a safety net for those displaced by advancing technology?
Great justification for extrajudicial state-sponsored murder. Non-congress authorized war makes it okay. Gotcha.
It'd be helpful to have more context about your development experience. I've done some iOS development in the past, and as spapas82 mentioned once you understand the core Android concepts it's easy to pick up. The docs are good, and there's a lot of tutorials and small articles to get you going.

If you've never done native mobile app development (e.g. you only have background in web dev), then regardless which platform you start off with, the initial learning curve will be a bit steep. Most APIs are "lower level" than the web counterparts and there's more ceremony to piece things together since you're working in such a constrained environment (memory, CPU, battery, network speeds, inconsistent internet access, disk space).

All that said, I think Android is a _taaaad_ easier to start off with vs iOS if you're a web dev. There's the GC, the Activity model is similar to web pages and their View XML abstraction is not that far off from HTML/CSS.
The thread dropped because users flagged it.

The 254/312 isn't what I'm seeing and ought to be impossible given how the software works. Can you reproduce it?
Making sense of modern pornography
I thought one of the major benefits of UBI was that, because it's universal, there's less stigma attached? If you're either "working" or "on the dole" then the latter makes you feel pretty useless. If everyone gets UBI then looking forward to yours is legitimized. It'd become no different to a tax return.
>In 2013, a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) official criticised the government officials for using public funds of over 10,000 yuan for banquets. This totals to approximately 48 billion dollars worth of banquets per year.

Is it just me, or has the yuan significantly appreciated in value...?
Are these not closely related? IIRC the plasma containment would be a lot easier if the magnets would work in higher temperatures.
So a form of multihomed tribalism?
I guess people from ex-communist countries understand this phenomenon better, where almost everything is obtained as a favor from somebody in a privileged position, to whom you will have to return the favor.

It has a lot in common with corruption but in a communist state it is the norm. Because communism fails at selecting performance, nothing really works and the state institutions are the first affected, but it spreads eventually in the whole society. Thus, the only way to get something is as a favor from someone. You don't go to the institution but you go to someone who "works" there.

So another way to describe these guanxi is : networks of influence with favors as money.
Yes, it does. The difference is that this time it's actually true. And I say this as someone who was rooting for Ron Paul back in 2012.

Unfortunately, because this argument was abused so many times before, it's hard to convince people that this time is different.
Right. IDEs and editors appear, get their hype, some stale, others get forgotten, people get attached and then whine for years about shortcomings and weak support for certain languages and complain about lack of specific features. Or fell into Stockholm syndrome without slightest realization of how miserable and inefficient their workflow has become.
Who remembers Borland C++ Builder? who uses Komodo or TextMate today? And now check the number of projects on Github written in Emacs Lisp.
No matter how popular those shiny, fast and noisy F1 supercars would be - there always will be plenty of enthusiasts who'd rather choose Nascar, with its simplicity, openness and customizability.
No IDE or editor would ever get even close to the power of Emacs. And the power of Emacs lies within its extensibility. I am not worried about other editors or IDEs getting better, faster or shinier. Because Emacs already can do same things better, or will be doing them better someday soon.
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As a corollary, 70% of the people in the Dust Bowl stayed.
Booking.com has a bad reputation with users as well. Just saying.
Read "Policy Paradox" by Deborah Stone. She gives a great example, where she describes bringing in a cake to class for her students to share - all would no doubt agree that the distribution of cake should be 'fair'...but that means many different things to different people.

Equal amount per student present ('unfair' to absent students)? Equal amount per student enrolled ('unfair' to those who made the effort to come vs those who didn't). Amount of cake proportional to body mass (unfair to small students)? Amount proportional to grade? Amount proportional to degree of historic injustice to a minority? And so on.

The point of course being, there is no such thing as 'fair', only that policy makers (and the voters who vote for them) need to balance benefits and harms to different groups, and make a set of choices that have the most benefit and least harm, according to some set of priorities.

I think it's unhelpful when the implicit criticism of the
"people who need help" is that they are too stupid or too evil to know what's good for them. We might want to at least explore the possibility that they value the freedom they feel they might lose from increased welfare above the purely monetary benefits they might gain.
Boofuzz: A Fork and Successor of the Sulley Fuzzer Framework
they are creating a secret key by sending chunks of secret keys (with a mention of a blockchain database - not sure why). Or at least thats what i saw in the code comments.

secret in cryptography has a very special meaning - it refers to the part of the communication process you dont want visible.

encryption is actually mostly a solved problem. There are several good algorithms which are fine with no real problems.

The problems are all in establishing keys. For that there are currently only two choices in use. ecdh. which all the standard curves appear to be backdoored. and rsa, which the russians reckon they have broken.

the dta is just another key sharing scheme. needed. but not one that gives up on all the comsec we have gained so far.

do you not find it dishonest that they claim for example, that the uk government is using it already, but then it turns put it doesn't actually exist beyond a few lines of poc code.
Project Autobuild
I don't think CockroachDB will be a good fit for your application.

The nodes expect constant network connectivity, they're talking to each other every few milliseconds. You want a very fast and reliable network.

For logging, some sort of store and forward architecture may be better. I don't think the level of consistency provided by CockroachDB would be necessary.
> You can come up with the Perfect Five-Year Roadmap and preach about how someone should first learn music theory and proper form before taking a crack at it.

Oh come on now. That's hardly the same thing as suggesting someone could put in a few hours with a decent resource and see where they get without needing it to be in game format, for goodness sake.
PG doesn't appear to be active any longer (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg). Looks like 2 comments in the last 2 years (and last post is almost a year ago).
I don't think the API is that complex (although yeah, there's a lot in it). What really puts me off is the rate of churn of API 'best practices'. It's alleviated somewhat (in an ugly way IMO) by the XxxCompat classes but it still feels like you're running the Red Queen's race just to keep an app running on a decent range of devices.
As long as.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023035055045774024...
I would be curious about "most". My n=1 experience didn't have acceleration terms. In fact, all of my remaining unvested ISO's vanished at acquisition ...
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The beauty of (NLP) bots is supposedly that you can just ask what they can do.

Whether that's a viable UX strategy is still up for debate.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331808
There is SlingTV that works pretty well. I use that at home. I don't think they'll do a white-label, though. I also ran in to a guy last year who was starting a company selling some TV services that could be white labelled, specifically for small / regional Internet service providers ... I'm not sure that I still have his information, but I'm going to the same conference where I met him last year in a few weeks, if I run in to him (or someone doing the same thing) I'll post it here.

And yes I would recommend VoIP for phone, there are several companies that will provide white-labelled VoIP service that works pretty well. You can connect it directly in to the wiring in the apartment so they can plug regular phones in to any jack in the house.

EDIT: Email in my profile, feel free to hit me up there if you'd like to continue this conversation.
Pg_healer: repairing Postgres problems automatically
I roughly agree with you in that I think the "Snowden is in the wrong" perspective is overrepresented in the media. That's what I meant by "it's not their fault." I'd bet the public on average is less extreme in judging Snowden.
It's fairly easy now with a little Javascript and some html knowledge.
Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler approaches 1"—​​that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will ...

His method is known. This is why the study of history is important.
Yes, they did. But long trade routes were expensive, and there was nothing like the current globalisation of labour. People making cheap garments in China weren't undercutting the European makers of clothes, for example.
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It helps motivate others to help keep their standard-bearer out of the most powerful office in the world.
I was listening to Dan Savage today, and he mentioned that the racism of Trump is nothing new, we did it with Catholics, Irish, Chinese, Italians, it seems most every nationality got it's brief turn as the "other". His point was that the right will eventually look back with shame on this moment too, when they demonized Mexicans and innocent refugees from Syria.

His point reinforced sort of the opposite in me, something else that I have been feeling for a long time: we need to understand that many people, now and in the future will have significant problems with immigration. Whether it's right, wrong or just illogical, we on the left do ourselves no favor by writing off their feelings as racism and not at least attempting to address them. Furthermore, this is a democracy, where they should have their viewpoint at least somewhat addressed, they certainly have the numbers to warrant it. It doesn't mean we buckle to racism, but it means we accept that wariness and fear of immigration is something that has existed in this world for a long time, and these sentiments are tied to real feelings people have to feel secure.

True, the real solutions to these insecurities are based on education and economic growth, not limiting immigration, but perhaps it's time we on the left said loudly "We hear you, and we understand."
It's a rephrase of the content in the article.
Clinton may be corrupt and sleazy, but the country can survive 4 or even 8 years of that - it did many times before.

Whereas 4 years of a sociopath with megalomania, a definitive authoritarian streak, and a massive populist backing, I'm not so sure about.

Let me put it this way. As a third party supporter, your strategy, presumably, is to slowly accrue vote until your candidate of choice (or really, anyone who's willing to reform the electoral system to make third parties viable) breaks past the barrier. This presupposes that there is such a thing as elections, though. Say what you want about Clinton, but there's no viable threat from her in that regard. She might be prone to skirting the rules, but she doesn't rewrite them. Trump, on the other hand, seems to be a fan of the "strong hand". Last time my country of birth went for that, we ended up with a dictator in all but name. And the parallels between what I heard people say there then, and what I see people in US say now, are making me very nervous.
>would also cook the planet in a toaster oven.

That energy is normally converted to heat anyways so it's not like it's that much hotter. Solar panels are going to absorb more light than vegetation would but either way, it's not a huge difference one way or another.
you raise the point: where in the timeline of subpoenas or other legal requests does the attempt at modifying the email archive, does Combetta's post fit?

My understanding: Combetta's post comes 1 day after Hillary had reached an agreement about turning them over.

So was she dealing in bad faith with the govt? To be determined I guess?
I think major shareholders of Kodak, MCI WorldCom, Enron or Polaroid would point out the concentration risk one is incurring.
I think it reads worse than that

“I’ve done quite a bit already in the last few months related to this. Her team had me do a bunch of exports and email filters and cleanup to provide a PST [personal storage file] of all of HRC’s emails to/from any .gov addresses,” Combetta wrote. [0]

Exporting email and filtering it, but only for .gov addresses(?).. I would imagine that whoever subpoenaed those mails was requesting not just .gov communication, and I can't help but think that these sort of actions are suggestive of some deeper cleanup activity.

[0] http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/19/computer-tech-who-asked-ho...