skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article sounds like it was written by a man. Not saying it's not accurate. But I've never heard any of the women I know frame things that way, even if they might agree with the ideas if presented with them.
"Our results suggest that signals from the body ... contribute to success in the markets"

Does it suggest that physiological emotions help traders make good decisions? Or does it suggest that conscious awareness of physiological emotions helps traders compensate for gut biases and make more rational decisions?
Why is he not running in this election against Trump? We would have some "make x great again" debates.
I actually regret writing out such a detailed reply. Congratulations, you're a top HN troll.
I remain skeptical. All the examples you listed have Western analogues, not to mention that the West still also highly favors men. But again, my point was not about the shape of the social graph (men, family, age, organizational affiliations) or the characteristics of the relationships between them, because those will all have Western analogues.

From the Wikipedia page, the most useful paragraph in describing the differences is probably the second paragraph under "Western vs. Eastern social business relations": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi#Western_vs._Eastern_soc...

It's useful because it uses a framework for understanding relationships in either culture: trust, bonding, reciprocity, and empathy. Western guanxi and Chinese guanxi can be understood through this framework. While I'm open to the idea that it's a flawed framework, it proves my point that Western culture has analogous social expectations. Less like beet sugar and aspartame and more like bat wings and bird wings - both shaped differently, both used differently, but for the same function. I am interested in the differences, but there will be a fair amount of structural similarities.

I also disagree with your characterization of this perspective as being "very western." Considering guanxi as something fundamentally different from how Western culture works is Eurocentric - very Western, as you had said. Stepping back and analyzing how informal Western reputation systems work in the same light as how guanxi works in China is a way of de-centering the Western perspective and removing the exoticism from Chinese culture.
Denying essential humanity to anyone is always and everywhere unacceptable. "Unattractive men are animals, not human beings" isn't provocative, it's totally beyond the pale.

If the essay called an ethnic or religious group animals, would you still link to it and characterize it as "interesting" and "provocative?"
I love the idea of Watsi. I do wish they would, tastefully of course, take a page from CharityWater's playbook and highlight better the impact your money creates. Also is it like charity water in which my donation goes to the cause 100%? or are the funds going to support watsi ops? (I'm ok with either, but would prefer transparency this day in age).
The donate a birthday Idea could be pushed further. I've given up my birthday a bunch on charity water, raised thousands that way. I'd like to see "I'm giving up my birthday so we can get Maria in honduras a new kidney" or something along those lines.

anyway sorry for the rant.
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I didn't, and you didn't mention type checking above.

One very common way though was to avoid the need for it altogether in javascript, by rendering html on the server.
1996 - age 14. I had just gotten a computer at home I could use. I took computer science class in summer school (extra credit. Summers without school suck). Watcom basic. A year and a half later my professor gave up and gave me the wbasic manual so I could play with non ascii which he did not understand. I was 99% sure I would be working in pure math before then. I always loved solving problems or puzzles. Computers seemed to give me more options. Played with Linux/BeOS/Visual Basic. (And a very little java/Delphi). Got my BsC, now I lead a team of 5+ and work in any language/framework I want.
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You forgot an important difference between JS and Java : the tooling is inferior. Sure you can use Typescript which makes thing a little bit better, but good luck with out dated type definitions or libraries that do not have type definitions, good luck with templates can't be validated ( forgot some directive ? misspelled a component name ? too bad you're fucked ... ). Java is verbose but there is a fairly large number of tools and IDE that make programming painless. JS on the other hand, good luck maintaining those 1 million LOC codebases ...
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> only respects the freedom of some users

Depends on whether or not you believe that "freedom to not respect other users' freedom by creating proprietary forks" is a freedom that should be protected. I do not, so I disagree that the GPL (or any free software license) respects user freedom more or less -- the GPL is just much better at protecting freedom than other licenses.
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That's a different poster, and I did mention it above.

What does server-side rendering have to do with Typescript? Are you advocating avoiding javascript all together?
Impressive to make it work with direct-drive actuators. The previous lowest gear ratio I know about was the MIT Cheetah, at 5.8:1. Detailed comparative analysis at http://biomimetics.mit.edu/research/optimal-actuator-design
Container Door has customers come together to buy a container load of products
Anyone noticing from these interviews that a lot of first employees are kinda just randos that aren't very impressive in their own right and don't stay at the company very long?
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Please stop using HN for political rants—it's not the kind of discussion we want here.

I know this is a particularly politicized thread, but your many comments still stand out as particularly ideologically driven.

(In case it's a concern: we don't care what your specific ideology is. We just care about not pushing HN off a cliff.)
I've dabbled in Android dev, but have always lagged due to not really liking Java. Android Studio was a pleasant experience for me when I tried it this year, and now that C/C++ NDK support is better in this release I am going to give it another go.

I almost feel like I should just go completely Android given the numbers of devices out there is overwhelming compared with Windows/iOS/OS X combined. I will keep up with my other PLs and things simply through osmosis. It's time to join the Borg!
Wow, thanks so much for the link. Amazing watching people build that together.
Just take comfort in knowing that female attractiveness usually drops off a cliff far earlier than male attractiveness does. The same girl writing that essay will one day be 40+ and begging for any of those "genetic superiors" to give her five seconds, while the same male "uggo" with a stable income and decent hygiene will be able to take his pick of a bunch of nicer women who didn't view the whole of humanity through the lens of the beautiful people master race.
That's the big problem. What we charge is universal across carriers; it's the law. What the carriers then do is try and negotiate me down to accept some fraction. I could charge $5,000 to everyone for a PETCT; Medicare laughs and will pay a set amount. Depending on their market power, private insurance will pay a multiple of what Medicare reimburses. I would be stupid to set my "charge" lower than the maximum a given insurance will possibly pay.

If I charge under what they will pay, they aren't going to reward me with all that savings.

If someone wants to negotiate with me directly, I'll charge you some other price, then write off the rest, just as if you are phkahler insurance co. It's the only "legal" way to offer a discount.
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My gut feeling says it depends on the trading strategy of the firm they used for the testing.

Traders don't need a bull market to make money, they just need market volatility.

If the market is going up they can bet on the value of stocks increasing, if the market is going down they can bet on the value of stocks going down.

If the firm has a policy of being long only and traders have to hold their trades for a long time then yes, the direction of the market is going to affect the performance of traders.

More information about trading strategy and limitations are necessary to really tell.
"Combetta appeared under subpoena in a committee hearing last week on the alleged destruction of evidence, but both he and colleague Bill Thornton exercised their Fifth Amendment right not to testify."

Actually it's the Fifth Amendment protection against self incrimination.
We’re 12-18 months from a reckoning for Indian startups-Chamath Palihapitiya
Link to the article (paywall) [0].

0. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6305/1257
No, I mean people like Richard Spencer, an unashamed white supremacist who believes in segregating by race.

"We live in a society of a great deal of degeneracy, we live in a society in which the fundamental norms are liberal, and we are attempting to fight our way out of that. And sometimes that's going to involve using the means that are at hand. That's going to involve being a part of this fragmented group. That's going to involve dank memes. It's going to involve pepe. It's going to involve unleashing a little chaos". - Richard Spencer at the recent conference of the Alt Right

Willfully ignoring that these people are attempting to get organized, and co-opting whatever gets them traction, is unhelpful at best and dangerous.
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Please take care to remain civil when commenting here.

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These guys were trading futures contracts. Unlike stocks, when you are long a futures contract, someone else is necessarily short, so it won't be the case that "anyone taking financial risk would be rewarded".
Agreed. The article says from a founder's POV that every dollar you spend is a dollar of dilution. From a VC's POV, every dollar they invest is percentage. If a company is doing well, they want to increase that percentage whether the company needs the money or not.
As one of the employers posted on a Reddit forum (https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/53h2sl...), CodinGame is not really a "learn coding" style site. If anything it's a "reinforce what I know" site. You aren't 'learning' the concepts, nor are you learning 'game programming', you are practicing what you already know via a game format.

I once had a student that was taking my Java 2 (OOP concepts) course and was using CodinGame for "fun".

If anything, I believe CodinGame's business model is more on the recruitment side, as their tournaments often offer interviews with the sponsors.
Great so every time I spring for the brand name molex connectors I'm helping those assholes out.
> But let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And you feared to be in my debt.

This is the part hinting at the fact that Don Corleone is in a higher position of power. And since this is Don Corleone speaking, you are missing the way he is being adressed by the one asking the favor - clearly looking up to him.

Hierchical power structures are not just a part of Confucianism, there are everywhere around the globe.
Yes, a lot of Chinese, especially those who have lived in the West for a time, are uncomfortable with the social expectations inherent in guanxi. My parents usually refuse to accept gifts or invitations to dinner from other Chinese that they don't know very well because they know this will usually be followed by a request for some rather annoying favor later.

This also leads to somewhat amusing cultural disconnects. For instance, I was once interviewing a Chinese student for an officer position in the student club of which I was already an officer. (This is at a US university and I'm Chinese American) He came to the interview and gave me a bottle of 7-up.
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https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/
I tried many times to get into android development but everytime I get put off by the complexity of the api. The amount of digging in documentation you need to do in order to implement the simplest functionality scares me. Is anyone else feeling the same way? And does anyone know if it gets better with time or is it a constant struggle?
I'm confused about what you're trying to point out here, but if there's a question I'd be happy to answer.
I saw it, way back when he spoke. "They're not sending you" never occurred to me as "you, Americans". That'd uh, make no sense: Mexico is not a significant source of Americans immigrating to America.

At any rate, it's still besides the point. He's accurate in saying that people coming in illegally aren't "the best". If you're a top professional you're not going to risk illegal immigration anywhere, generally speaking. This lines up with my and others' personal experience (I lived in Central America for nearly 2 decades).
It seems like either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade would spur innovation. Why do you think one would spur more innovation that than the other?
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There's aren't any big architectural reasons that x86 would need to be less power efficient. Intel already had a go at that side but very few people bought the low power server chips (Avoton etc). AMD also hasn't had much luck with low power server chips (see SeaMicro etc).

One big reason is that halving the CPU power consumption doesn't nearly halve the server power consumption, but it often goes pretty close to halving the system performance. And CPUs are pretty efficient at idling so you're really only paying for the power consumption when there is work to be done - instead paying for larger fleet of reserve servers.
And of course scaling to more but slower servers means a lot of expensive software/admin complexity.
The note that games in China have a more complex UI is interesting. Is this for PCs, consoles, or mobiles? Since computing in China tends to be mobile-first, I would have expected simplified touchscreen-type interfaces.

Here's a recent Chinese kung-fu movie, (mainland, not Hong Kong) fully approved by the government and Party.[1] This has a game-like look to it. It's a sense of the style expected. Even though this is set present-day, it looks like a historical drama.

[1] http://www.gooddrama.to/chinese-movie/the-bodyguard-movie
> In Germany we have "Vitamin B", i.e. beneficial relationships. In America, on the other hand, they have this strange concept of meritocracy.

American is the land of legal lobbying. I'd say this is pretty close to that concept too.
I tried Android Studio around 2 years ago. Is the emulator any better? It used to bring my computer to its knees.
Great video on abstraction and logic (Art of the Problem needs some love on here)
You need a pretty powerful machine to run Android Studio. It lags when I run it on my laptop with an i5 and 6 GB ram. I wonder if upgrading to a SSD will increase performance.
Perfview is an amazing tool to isolate any type of performance issues in your .net applications.I think every .net developer should be familiar with perfview IMHO.The best part about it is that you can use in production with minimal or no overhead at all.Now that it is open source!! Kudos to Vance Morrison for giving a free alternative.
Some states (e.g., Indiana) have grids similar to the Interstate and US routes. Others have different systems: in Florida the first digit tells you roughly where in the state it is, from 1xx routes in the Panhandle to 9xx routes around Miami. And still others just assigned numbers in order of construction, so on a map it makes no sense at all.
Agree with you, this is one of the "myth" about China. It seems particularly mysterious to North Americans, but in old Europe everyone knows that the bosses of the big corporations play golf together every sunday and solve their problems informally, opening the way to more formal, contractual procedures. They will also meet regularly with men of power, and get the temperature.

It also work at a much lower level: if you have good "guanxi" with the boss of the abr in front of your door and often brings friends, he will be nice and, say, call you if the cops are coming when your car is not correctly parked.

Also, if you build your own house, some neighbourghs might play it nice and allow you to use a bit of the public road to stock piles of brick or whatever.

All of these mean we are not wild beast living in the forest, neither are we cowboys, we have a to live in a society and having good relationships with anyone around you (upwards, downwards and at the same level) is very desirable.
“‘Let me give you a lesson in practical politics.’ Senator Burt looked at his wristwatch, leaned back and smiled. ‘It is a mistake,’ he said, ‘to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

‘Now then, young man, don’t ask me to stop the Pumping. The economy and comfort of the entire planet depend on it. Tell me, instead, how to keep the Pumping from exploding the Sun.’

Lamont said, ‘There is no way, Senator. We are dealing with something here that is so basic, we can’t play with it. We must stop it.’

‘Ah, and you suggest only that we go back to matters as they were before Pumping.’

‘We must.’

‘In that case, you will need hard and fast proof you are right.’

‘The best proof,’ Lamont said stiffly, ‘is to have the Sun explode.'”

There is always a tension between short term gains and long term planning. I think history, economics, psychology, behavioral economics all pretty much agree that most people are terrible at long term planning and they will consistently sacrifice long term gains for short term gains in exchange for a much worse future for all involved.

I'm not as optimistic as the author of that book. I don't think there is a way to crack this nut and get long term thinking to be the norm. When even people who have cancer because of the kind of environment they live in are voting to weaken the power of the EPA what hope is there?
I'm with you, Johnson all the way. Voting for someone who's positions I mostly align with, who would do the best job for our country with the least amount of drama. Not for the lesser of two evils, or to make sure the "other guy" doesn't win. That's not a protest vote.

If you haven't heard of Johnson Weld, please hear them out and at least watch their 60 Minutes interview from last night: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-libertarian-candidate...
Short answer to your question is "Private Banking":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_banking

You have a specific account manager, who you know, and is in communication with you about that Jet purchase. Yes, it probably is a wire, but maybe to an escrow, depending.
Are there a ton of EU overstays causing noticeable impact? Do you think if millions of Russians were illegally in the US working low-end jobs (for the most part) and being rather highly visible (flying Russian flags at protests) it'd be waved off?
> The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.

This is not a pro-Jewish statement. It's a textbook anti-semite stereotype.
Because if a Democrat is elected, they'll end up dealing with nominees that are even less to their liking.
Yay, no more 'modern makefile' nonsense, the native stuff is now officially supporting cmake in their build workflow!

https://developer.android.com/studio/projects/add-native-cod...

Like cmake or not, this is a really really great change for the whole workflow of using native plugins.
I used Julia a bit in the same time span, and I was frustrated with the breakage, but I also saw a lot of things that clearly needed breaking changes. I'm glad they're happening.

Until now, [a, b] meant "concatenate a and b if they're arrays, make a 2-element array otherwise". This struck me as both annoyingly inconsistent and as a failure to think recursively.

Now it's always a 2-element array, possibly an array of arrays. And that's a huge change in syntax, and it's for the better. I look at many things in the 0.5 release notes and they're fixes to specific pain points I had. This has me paying attention to the language again.
> Willfully ignoring that these people are attempting to get organized, and co-opting whatever gets them traction, is unhelpful at best and dangerous.

You've got it backwards. Allowing their words to control your actions gives them power over you.

Are 'dank memes' now racist also just like Pepe?

Imagine instead of 'It's going to involve pepe' he said 'It's going to involve breathing air and drinking water', or some other common and popular thing.

Do you give such idiots the power to control your actions over some common and totally innocuous thing that you might otherwise enjoy or find amusing?

That is called being played for a fool and that is what gets them traction.
That doesn't make sense at all. I do not see why a PhD would disproportionally filter out people with talent for coding, so that the graduates even after years of industry experience afterwards would still be unable to be great at coding.
By the same token downvotes without words go into the same bin. So far you showed you can click a button. That's literally it.
And the international banking systems in place, with all their power and money, are somehow unable to roll back transactions when it comes to multiple banks.

Sounds more like banks are the real scammers.
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Sorry, I missed that, I was replying to the parent comment only.

But yes, I do advocate avoiding javascript altogether whenever possible (which is more often than current trends). There were a number of other transpilers too, all of which were a pain and I don't see how typescript is going to improve on that.
Guanxi　is written as 関係, and in Japanese (読み方：かんけい) this means connection/relationship in a broad sense. I don't see anything special to this word or very specific to China at all.
Real, but usually only if you have an 'outside toilet'; I had one of these in a WWII-era home located in a country area of Australia, and there would often be red-back spiders + eggs under the seat. Still, easily checked for and destroyed.
Koei has had no problem making games set in the three kingdoms period. Romance of the three kingdoms is a great series. So is Dynasty warriors.
SEH probably refers to Structured Exception Handling.
My money is on Bezos to take the #1 spot and stay there for decades.
Google search, Drive, Sheets, Docs, Gmail (normal web/app) are all blocked; with ZPN proxy on Android (but not on desktop for some strange reason) Search, gmail and drive work, but sheets/docs are broken for me still. I'm in Shanghai.
Can only speak from my experience - I'm a westerner who spent time living with a Chinese family as a 16 y.o.

From my outsider perspective, it's not that there is no western analog; rather the meaning changes with context and therefore it is difficult to translate as a single concept (in English at least).

From your response above, I think that you're correct (from my experience) in saying it is "trust, bonding, reciprocity, and empath", just not necessarily at the same time.

Sometimes it's "trust", sometimes its "nepotism". But it's definitely fluid.