skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guanxi is basically a kind of transactional friendship. You make guanxi the same way you make friends, by spending time with people, and going through things together. Some guanxi is built on real friendship (or on something like having gone to the same school together), in other cases it's pretty obvious to both parties that it's just a quid-pro-quo thing. In both cases, though, it sort of looks like a friendship from the outside.

Treating people to dinner and getting them drunk is a pretty common way of building guanxi. I've had people invite me to dinner and give me alcohol I don't want, hoping to then get something out of me later. The whole thing is terribly uncomfortable, largely because I simply don't like going to dinner with people I don't know well, and do not feel like I owe them anything afterwards (if anything, I'm annoyed that they've imposed on my time). Then they call up week or two later and say "hey, can you help me out with this thing", and then I have to decide what to do about that.

Like I said in my other comment, though, plenty of Chinese people don't like working this way either. My friends are real friends, and the people I usually work with are professionals, people who don't need to pretend that now we're blood brothers and we'll bend the rules to help each other. I've been in China for 15 years, and I've seen this kind of professionalism slowly supplanting the old system.

You lose guanxi by pissing off your "friends", or not returning favors. In my case, I can play the "I'm a weird foreigner and don't understand your rules" card, and I've only ever mildly annoyed a few people.
Given the potential outcomes of Trump vs Clinton, a lot of people believe (rightly, IMO) that this electoral cycle is not a good time to make symbolic gestures or long-term strategic voting games. Too much is at stake.

And a lot of us believe (rightly, IMO) that both Clinton and Trump are so equally bad, that there's no effective difference.

Me personally, if Gary wasn't in the race, I wouldn't cast a vote for President at all. shrug
No book is for everyone I guess but I think calling it "just" Christian horror is oversimplifying. Especially because I don't think Huxley was very religious at all.
The device frame screenshot is a really nice feature.

A couple weeks ago I found out that using $x in the Chrome and Firefox console lets you select and highlight an element using XPath.

Lot's of cool stuff hidden in the dev tools.
>The reason I'm worried is that it's becoming increasingly clear why the GOP was so enthusiastic about blocking Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to SCOTUS. That never made any sense, except in a bizarro world where they were very sure they weren't going to lose the Presidency.

How does that not make sense? They've been blocking everything they can since they got the majority.
Better to replicate it. Science ain't easy.
Which platforms don't have good package management? Linux has, if anything, too many. Windows has chocolatey. Apple has homebrew. Writing portable applications can be done in a variety of ways and packaged for each platform.
If the point is feasibility, Java has shown us that for a long time...unless we consider the null pointer evidence of something not memory safe.
Despite having some domains which I mostly use for gaming purposes and stuff, my main "serious" email address is @fastmail.fm. It is a nightmare to tell it to someone by phone. It goes as far as "dot fm, never heard that, do you mean .com?" Wtf, that doesn't even sound similar. Emails never arrive.
Yep, the thing different about this election that is that we really have two bad candidates that is hard to like.
With previous elections even the candidates that were disliked and lost didn't seem as bad:

- Obama vs Romney

- Obama vs McCain

- Bush Jr vs Kerry

- Bush Jr vs Gore

- Clinton vs Dole

- Clinton vs Bush Sr
Share the read only sheet and append htmlview?sle=true# at the last

If you remove this part, you can see the read only version of the spreadsheet.
I like to get a right of first refusal for cofounder share sales so I can block low valuations in an acquihire where you're not getting hired.
The states that have a distinctive "style" of driving, which isn't close to the "average" national style, are known for having bad drivers, by visitors who aren't yet comfortable with the local style.
Why would you do that instead of just putting away 53k pre-tax, as a self-employed with Solo 401(k)?
Easy- Duverger's Law.

Keep in mind, "Duverger's Law" isn't a law in the same sense that gravity is. That is, it's more of an observation of how things usually are... it's not an inviolable fundamental principle of the universe.

If you vote for one of those two people, you get to influence that outcome.

You're not influencing the outcome when the outcome is the same in both cases.
> Writing UI code is hard, and I'm not sure why some HN folks assume web developers are ignorant.

Probably because every feature you listed was achievable before react.
Probably even more mildly amusing when the ideological cleansing begins as well.
You haven't been paying attention. Yes, pepe was fine, and yes many people who post it do so with no ill intent.

But you are ignoring that people who are proudly racist are openly admitting to using pepe specifically to broaden and popularize explicitly racist ideas. That deserves to have light shown on it.
Reminds me of this robot from a researcher at McGill: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW5FR3rmI4w
That Aleppo thing is a total joke. If our foreign policy wasn't a complete joke, there would be no need for the President to know anything about Aleppo. As it is, it's still questionable if there's any reason for him/her to do so.

Keep in mind, Johnson is running for President, not Chief Cartographer.
I've noticed that the firewall really doesn't like TLS connections. It doesn't block them outright, but it does slow the traffic, and periodically break the connection. Basically they just try to interfere with it enough that you don't bother.

I run mail servers (based in the US) for my company (based in China). My employees don't understand why I make them use these email accounts that time out every twenty minutes or so, or drop connections randomly. I've explained why we do it this way, and they understand the security, but still don't really get why I bother.
This is by far the best-done "trick you into learning how to code" onboarding experience I've been exposed to. (I've tried many because I want to get some friends interested in coding)
If you exclusively use name.surname, you could set up a filter to catch anything sent to namesurname and automatically have it skip the inbox/put in a folder/deleted/whatever
I mean the npm dependencies are broken.
Mr. Burns: I wonder if this Homer Nixon [(meaning Homer Simpson)] is any relation [to President Richard Nixon]?

Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.

Mr. Burns: Bah! Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
Couple of points -- (1) Colin powell's leaked e-mails apparently called the meetings a circus and a sideshow but also placed blame at the feet of HRC for outcome of that episode. that last bit isn't always quoted in the media.

(2) The leak to the NYT about the server that broke this story appeared has been originated by the Obama administration. They were seeking to clip her wings as whispers about her policy differences with the Obama administration were circulating on Iran. Once HRC became such a sure thing she was inevitable as POTUS it would rended BSO an early lame duck, and on policy in the middle east where the two differ, would create issues for obama establishing a legacy. Obama now has the ability to pardon her (or in the actual turn of events, the Justice granted 'stonetear' limited immunity and killed a looming FBI indictment).

So both of these narratives play into a deeper and more complex game existing in DC than any sound bite or talking point proffered from a PR agency will attest.
Exactly. I also used to think that rounding out my technical skills with business knowledge, basic design skills, project management skills, etc. would make me more "marketable". Unfortunately, the reality is that companies by and large look to hire extremely specialized cogs, and your value to your employer is your ability to execute within the narrow constraints of your job title.

You could be a self-taught product design genius, but if you're hired as 3rd software engineer from the left, your company expects you to sit there and code away. They aren't going to listen to your design thoughts. You could be the ex-founder of a billion dollar startup, but once you take $ROLE_X in $COMPANY_Y, your broad set of skills will not be appreciated. You're going to be judged by how well you do $ROLE_X only.
> simply unused most of the time

That's an assumption that is only true if you are careful to only use Gnome/KDE style, recently made applications. Backwards compatability is a good thing, and most of those features are necessary for running older software, and they don't interfere with modern software.

> nobody uses bitmap fonts

I use bitmap fonts for almost everything that isn't firefox and ps/pdf rendering.

$ xlsfonts -1 | wc -l
16264

Bitmap fonts render significantly faster, and a well made bitmap font[1] that was actually designed around pixels avoids anti-aliasing which saves CPU and occasional rendering issues[4].

> everybody renders into pixel buffers anyway

GTK+ and Qt render into pixmaps. Other toolkits vary.

> because the protocol demands it

...because backwards compatibility demands it. Maybe you only run recent software, but that isn't always an option.

> protocol being horribly outdated

Fortunately X11 has an extension mechanism which allowed new protocols to be added at runtime, removing the need to use older protocols. This is needed if compatibility is to be maintained. Unfortunately, the fd.o culture seems to think it's fine to remove working code without regard to the people that do use it.

> Wayland as far a I know is also a much simpler concept.

It's simpler because it's feature incomplete. These features still need to exist, and all Wayland is doing is pushing those problems to other areas where they are someone else's problem. In some cases (like use cases outside their experience), Wayland developers like to pretend these problems don't exist.

> I would tend to Rust here

I completely agree that Rust is probably a good choice, as it was designed specifically to avoid many common types of bugs. C is good, but Rust may be the first language that can actually replace it.

[1] Such as Terminus[2], Dina[3]

[2] http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

[3] https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/

[4] http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...
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I'll have to ask about that the next time I'm at Lincoln Labs.
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Hello, I would be very interested in learning kdb for analyzing smart meter data. How would you like communicate?
Hillary is far, far more deserving of that label than Trump. To campaign and donate millions of dollars on her behalf requires ignorance, a seriously twisted moral compass, or some financial and political incentives that you don't want to talk about.
The thing is, people who create drama tend to be much more visible than those who suffer quietly (for better or for worse).
Why is "foreigners stealing our jobs" contemptible? Assuming H1B is abused (I understand this can be in dispute), why should a candidate for a country not want to help its own citizens?
I hear this all the time, but I haven't heard an explanation of exactly how it is different.
Hillary Clinton's IT consultant has been erasing his secret comments from Reddit
Then you have to summarize those replications and decide whether or not the replication studies replicated findings... which means meta-analysis.
How racism and immigration gave us a whole new kind of politics
That is super awesome and even more awesome when I read that those are direct drive motors. All the compliance is done in software. This is something I must spend some time playing with. That advent of these small brushless motors with insane amounts of torque makes all sort of things possible that weren't before.
Don't worry Darawk, I was agreeing with you. I even posted video evidence of how those people live and how they destroy communities due to their particular cultural habbits. But the growing left leaning part of the HN hive-mind started the downvoting and I realized it's just not worth it, I deleted it and just left "wow HN". I've been on here for over 7 years (registered 5 years), I remember when the front page was literally linux code snippet links, nerd chat, and startup dreams and non of this political diarrhea / white savoir nonsense. I remember Reddit when it was just 1 Reddit (no subreddits), and I remember browsing Digg starting from the very 1st page. And I've seen the same pattern over and over all across tech/news websites: Like Digg, Mashable, and so many subReddits, HN too over time has become...well... "wonderful and totally tolerant of non non-left-wing views" and "is totally not a hive-mind, not at all, I swear". I'm an independent, neither left nor right. So it's annoying to see this happen over and over and over.

It got so annoying I started taking screenshots of the front page when it first started years ago. Before the new mods, before Altman took over Ycombinator, before the new algorithms, as proof of increasing left-leaning articles that have nothing to do with tech or startups. I should dig up the evidence and release it someday. I ran from the propaganda of conservatism and Fox News from the exposure to it in my teens with the other "Generation-4-Chaners/Anonymous" and now find I'm having to escape liberalism. What happens when there's no place left to go?

I think i'm done with this community. I left Digg for Reddit, Reddit for Mashable and TechCrunch, left those for HN, and now I see no point. There was a time when there were "Show HN" submissions all over the front page. Now they are far and few in between. Tech hangouts all turn into Huffingpost eventually. HN was a sort of last bastion due to the algorithm changes every now and then but it's starting to creep back. The Fall of HN is often laughed at, denied, and explained away using cherry picked evidence. It isn't until you flash a screenshot of HN 7 years ago and compare the headlines that the shock hits you. And each time someone brings this up someone who's also a long term member explains it away. It's useless.

Did you see what happened to Paul Graham when he published his articles on Inequality, Women, and the Problem with foreign accents in startups. All of his articles were honest and accurate and based on the reality of things, and immediately he was attacked by left leaning media. When he stepped down and replaced himself with Sam Altman he was asked about the attacks and he specifically said and I quote "that part I won't miss".

Saving a community on the decline means saving the people who made it decline. What's the point? Let them suffer in their own stench.
Actually, I'm not so sure its a acquihire. Google has very recently announced a bunch of cloud machine learning products:

https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/

* Cloud Vision API - Upload an image, and it will tell you what is in it

* Cloud Speech API - Upload a wav and it will transcribe it

* Natural Language API - Parse sentences, extracts entities, sentiment and syntax

* Cloud Translate API - Translate from one language to another.

Api.ai would make a great bullet point to add to the end of that list!
On the trees numbers, the US now actually has more forest or trees than it did at the start of the twentieth century.

The argument sometimes gets confused, since conservationists are concerned about the loss of old-growth forests, and animal habitats vs. the quantity and area of forests.
I think most people don't realize just how much money the richest people have. People generally think of normal(ish) distributions like height, where if you're 10% taller or shorter than average, you're a tall or short person, and 40% taller makes you the tallest person in the world. In comparison, wealth has a very, very long tail, making it hard to visualize.

Here's what I've come up with to visualize wealth. Suppose you start counting, going up by 1 million dollars every second, and people sit down when you reach their net worth. Most people in the US will sit down immediately. After about 9 seconds, people in the "1%" will start sitting down. Mitt Romney would sit down after 4 minutes. Near the 17 minute mark, billionaires would start sitting down. Eric Schmidt would sit down around 2.8 hours. Finally, after nearly a day, Bill Gates would sit down.

The point of this is there's a huge range of billionaires (analogous to comparing 17 minutes to a day), and the 1% hardly even registers on this scale (like a few seconds).
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This reads very presumptuously. The FBI stated she was reckless yet did nothing illegal. Reckless neither implies bad nor corrupt.
I think gamer culture is a vast invisible swath of humanity. If you look at the communities on Twitch or YouTube around certain popular games, it's pretty clear that billions of human hours are poured into gaming.
You did not answer my question. Is punishment deterring people from committing crimes? Yes or no? If you say no then we need no punishment and we can make every crime legal.

There are several possibilities as to why capital punishment may not be or may not seem to be as effective today as it could be.

The first obvious one is that universities and most of media has been under control by the left for decades now, so everyone that might tell you death penalty is ineffective is more likely to follow an ideology that views these punishments as inhumane or have an incentive to do so. (Let's not kid ourselves, most people here that are against capital punishment do this because they view it as inhumane. If presented with two studies where one showed that is was ineffective and one that is was effective most of these people would choose to believe the first one - no matter what)

The other possibility is that we made changes to how we apply the death penalty that causes it to be less of a deterrence. For example it gets less and less likely for any criminal to be actually executed, and if that happens then often after decades of trials and retrials. Or how about the fact that we seem to be so much more concerned today about the cruelty and the supposed inhumane treatment of the criminal than about what the victims of said criminal had to go through?

There used to be a time when we hanged people publicly for everyone (including the criminals family) to see. Today we make criminals that are executed into martyrs against state cruelty (many even reach celebrity status) instead of displaying them as criminals that are likely to piss their pants in public before being hanged for their heinous crimes. This definitely has an effect on deterrence.
Does that book provide anything helpful to someone who already understand music theory?
Gongkai means "open" or "public". Very different word from "guanxi".
I recently failed a Google interview. I used Python. I believe I did solve the problem, but my code might have been the deciding factor in rejecting me. My code looked similar to this. For example, I implemented my own `min`. Which did a O(N) walk of the array. Probably a horrible choice on my end. Looking back I should have used more builtins.
An example of some deleted comments here: http://archive.is/FXcao
Might Mobileye be reacting to advice from their lawyers?
Unless you're being micromanaged to an incredible degree, there's still a lot of room for an engineer's discretion on how things are implemented. That's where "getting it" can play into making better decisions.

I'm not talking about moonlighting doing the design or PM work, I'm talking about bringing an understanding of the business to your engineering work.

And yes, you don't want to go complete cowboy, major decisions should be run up the chain, but you do need to know what and why the major decisions are.
When non native companies initially wanted to go into China and failed it wasn't because they could not speak Chinese or because they didn't know the laws or didn't have connections or contacts --it's because they didn't have guanxi. It's something you develop over time, you typically don't buy into it, it's a paternalistic system which heavily favors males into the system of relationships and expectations --which may differ based on many different things (like family, age, power, tally, connections, party affiliation, military connections, acceptance, etc). It's like saying beet sugar is sweet and aspartame is sweet and they are both used as sweeteners, so they are the same thing. It's a very western take on the concept.
Triplets are tough to play haha
I found this essay interesting:

>It’s not “creepy” if he’s hot. I freely admit it. When a very attractive stranger approaches me and tells me I’m beautiful, it brightens my day. When a guy who is short, fat or balding does it, it makes my skin crawl no matter how tactful he is about it. I just want him to go away. I’m not alone in feeling this way. Most women feel the same, but hide the true extent of it when the guys are around.

http://theplacetorant.com/ugly-creepy-guys/
Thats not true. The reddit thread explicitly states what he wants to do is legally and ethically problematic. And it spells out why. "That is why the functionality doesn exist in exhcange" was the sort of end result of the larger logic here.
In 20-30 years, Zuckerberg is going to be in a league of his own.
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> If you look in older but still affluent developments, you'll find a lot of cars parked on the street because there are fewer garages and the ones that exist are often small. I have no garage but do happily have off street parking. My neighbor has no off street parking at all. I live in a rather pricy neighborhood.

Best example of this I have around here is Ansley Park in Atlanta. Lots of very old houses, not a lot of garages. Tons of cars on the street. It's also, along with adjacent Sherwood Forest, one of the most expensive places in the entire Atlanta area to own a home.
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There are living ecosystems underground too. Worms have been found at 1.4 km depth and microbes down to 3 km underground. We are probably destroying ecosystems we don't yet understand.
well there are other laws (eg violations of certain statutes that some accuse clinton of breeching) but there is no per se morality test in terms of ideas. The latter is a fundamental pillar of separation of powers.
I agree. The term is showing up in article titles and such way more than usual. I hadnt heard it for maybe a year then suddenly every week or few days. Some fad going on...
I tried using $NAME.co, but everyone seemed to think it was a typo. I Recently switched over to $NAME.io and haven't had any issues. It's short, looks nice, and I've had generally positive reactions to it.
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Same thing happened to US-74 in North Carolina. Parts of it are I-74 despite being south of I-40.
the overall verdict from Lora alliance members on Sigfox is that they are big on words but small on revenue or customers. add grain of salt
Now this thread is below the fold showing 254 points on the FP and when you get in it says 312

Screenshots http://sli.mg/a/wMhiQp
If you want to claim to be a scientist, you replicate the work.

If you want to be a statistician of increasingly obvious limited social utility, you rerun the statistics.
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