skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ugh, no, unless they live abroad. ...

Come on... I am a Chinese. I know how much western gaming videos are trending on bilili.tv, acfun.tv, youku.com. Why are you repeatedly claim things without evidences?...

> play on Chinese servers which are cut off from the rest of the world

Sure, if you are talking about playing with foreigner players. That's certainly not possible. But that's not the same to claim that Chinese gamers do not play western games...

> Foreigners are often taken advantage of

You shifted the topic to taking advantage of. That's not the same as you previously claimed "western barbarians".

> the Chinese are outright racist to non-whites.

I am not sure where did you get this. It's pretty well-known fact that African people live in Guangzhou have been treated preferentially. They are real African people. They are a pretty popular meme about African people live in China and should be exported because they do not have legal residence status. But that's about it.

To say Chinese people are racist based on some online memes, it's itself a racist claim. Applying same logic to US people, I can claim that US people are outright racists too. But that is nonsensical.

> It's also not Chinese-produced.
I was referring the competition. As you claimed that there is no real competitions and any rubbish games can make a lot of money. That is not true.

> No. https://www.techinasia.com/china-releases-censorship-rules-f....

As I said, politics is very sensitive.
And also as I said, banning traditional characters and english words has little impact on the popularity of games, because the majority of gamers are not educated to communicate in these 2 channels. That's my point that such bans do not have big impact on how a game should be produced in China. There are some impact, but none of them causes a game to succeed or fail just on them.
You only have to handle the 20% of users as a special case if you have gone and made some technology choices that excludes them. There is nothing inherent about the internet or web that says that needs to be the case.

A rephrasing might ask why we make technology choices that exclude 20% users?

If we're not able to produce a single page web app that reaches 100% of users, that's cool... just make a many page web site without lots of JavaScript that does.
We're talking about a company with just short of 4,000 employees. I can't possibly imagine dumping 20 of them lets them refocus the company in any meaningful way. Their overall impact has to have been relatively insignificant.
This alerted to one the existence of one of the companies. This is a data point for good behavior for each company.
In the future if I need either of the companies products, I might consider them.

I guess that is a win, but then again I am not likely customer in the first place.
It sure helps though, and can hopefully keep costs down.
Of course, "Use your judgement". I try to fulfill small asks quickly, as time permits. For bigger asks, I work with the person to get them slotted into the roadmap.

Same approach for bugs. If something comes up where it's not absolutely clear that it's a critical production bug, I go ask the roadmap guy whether this is more or less critical than what I'm working on.

The idea isn't that he's my boss and I only do ahat he says, but that he has broader insight into the business and criticality of various things. Sometimes something can be terribe and critical and everyone gets up in a huff, but it's still not worth doing instead of the business critical project you're working on.
>By "high-temperature" superconductivity, physicists mean liquid nitrogen temperature

...sure, but there are superconductors at a lot warmer temperatures than 77K.

mercury barium calcium copper oxide at 133 K (atmospheric pressure).
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993Natur.363...56S

Hydrogen Sulfide at 203K, under pressure:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/aug/21/hydroge...
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Imagine a patient dies during surgery because the surgeon didn't wash their hands. Would you give the surgeon a second chance or just fire the person and revoke his license for not following basic hygiene procedures?

Likewise, a programmer that doesn't provide deliverables that are maintainable is also disservicing the company, and society as a whole.

There's a difference between a legitimate error and negligence. In this case, the problem looks like negligence and was easily avoidable.
Not necessarily. I'm a programmer and I have neither a life nor a family.
It's marketing pushed so far it becomes its own opposite. Bizarro Marketing. Anti-marketing.
Do underused brain areas adapt to different tasks? If so, isn't this an expected result?
I wonder what that means for the Prague office.
I feel like TypeScript needs some work in areas around typing methods - for example, I ran into type issues when trying to go more functional via ramda.js (http://ramdajs.com/) using stuff like compose, and ultimately it felt like a limitation of TypeScript.
"Make it fast" sometimes does not need to be coded for if the applications is fast enough after the "Make it right" step.
No, but not having a PhD filters out people without a talent for coding. Same with not having a college degree at all - it's not that going to college makes you worse at coding, but that getting a coding job without a college degree requires you to be better at coding.
Economists, based on empirical research, by and large agree that "Regulatory Capture" will normally make regulations work in the interest of the major companies in an industry, rather than the public interest.

This is a social science result, not a meme.
Was closely following OpenResty and it's interesting echo system. Good to see its growing footprint.
Those words, except for the references to the Perron Frobenius theorem are fairly basic mathematical literacy, and should already be well known to anyone who is doing math or CS or programming or engineering or reading the blog in question.
I don't know about your experience, but in my own case, the opposite of this is true, and in a major way. The last company I worked at fired tons of people overseas and it managed to cripple an already withered morale. It may not have hit people as hard as if the person sitting next to them was let go, but I assure you, it was not seen in a positive light.
Correct functionality and good implementation respectively.
That is the old model we had with pre-paid in Portugal back when mobile phones were introduced, however they were locked to the provider and it was a fight to get them unlocked at the end of the leasing time.

Eventually our version of FCC got around making it easy to complain if an operator would make someone's life hard regarding unlocking.
I usually iterate. Building upon what was already built.

All to often a 'prototype' becomes the finished product without the intervening iterations. If that was the plan from the start it works more smoothly.
Hi there -

There's no contact info in your HN profile, care to collaborate with me? I'm looking for smart meter datasets for my new deep learning platform ...

alainr.richardt@gmail.com
The buble project wouldn't exist if babel ran faster and worked out of the box without setting up confusing config files. It fills a need.
It might be sad, but I have a hard time thinking it's true. It certainly runs counter to my own experience.
Since the Skype team hasn't actually done anything worthwhile in the past few years, they can stop pretending and just kick them out.
I guess they fixed it. Try it yourself. http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/

Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type 'number' on line 3.
By academic, I mean any project for learning. Not something specifically realated to schools.
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>It's basically $0 in Twitter dollars.

It's probably a significant number in a VP's expense line who is under pressure to cut costs or allocate those dollars to another team.
You don't appear to have read it.
Conversely, my experience working with teams out of India has been bad without exception even when we had proper planning and authority. Which only goes to say that you can have bad teams anywhere.

I'm disappointed to see the same ingredients that led to failure with offshoring a decade ago now taking more firm root here than even during the dotcom boom: perception that 'coding' is a path to easy money and certain success, dime-a-dozen "coding boot camps" that teach how to make an Angular site but don't get into any fundamentals[1]. The perception existed in the waning years of the boom, but at least the most common path then was through a full degree.

While my perception is that the situation is improving in India (at least if you avoid the well known warm body suppliers), it's getting worse locally.

1. This isn't to say that there is no value to boot-camp style programs - but there are presently a whole lot more that exist solely to capitalize on a financial opportunity than focus on providing a foundation for skills growth.

edit: I should add that this was just an opportunity to express my general sentiment, and given the phrasing of the news from Twitter, I doubt performance was a factor.
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Put your solar panels in the exclusion zone. Win/win.
It's possible. That would still fit the general premise that people can "rewire" their own brains through use. One of the leading theories of Synesthesia is that different areas of the brain are not separated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_basis_of_synesthesia#Cr...

It would follow that it is possible that they could then be rejoined as well.
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Not quite.

His argument is that she had the option to achieve privacy (by complying with the request and simply keeping her private emails). Instead they decided to not let anyone ever have the possibility to verify if she complied.

She chose to achieve privacy by making any future investigation impossible.

Is it legal? I guess, assuming she told the truth (and made no mistakes) about which emails were relevant. But personally I would like to hold people in office to a higher transparency and ethics standard than "strictly legal".
Do you realize just how good you have it? Do you realize how shitty and monopolized internet access is in the US, compared to the (presumably) Nordic or eastern-European fiber paradise you are fortunate to live in?

We're still trying to solve the 'last mile' problem.
I'm guessing he/she is referring to using .ts instead of .js
That is happening too, but it's an independent technology that can also be very useful in human driven vehicles.

https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/09/connected-cars/
engineers do everything: Product management, testing, ops?
Thanks for the response, it was just a rant.

I suspect the Rust community and I simply have irreconcilable differences. They want a better C or C++, and like special character ditties such as &, *, <_> (whatever that does), and I would rather have short keywords in some places.

For example, declaring a parameter with "var" in a function heading means it is a reference, instead of a copy. However, there is no dereferencing syntax, you simply use it as if it were a local "auto"/stack type variable (which also cannot be a null, so no checks are required - which Rust probably takes care of as well if you ask nicely), and there is nothing special for the caller to do, unless the caller has a pointer that needs to be checked and then dereferenced in the call.

I also miss reasonable "set" operations, even if the sets were just bit vectors on short enumerated types (enums or short sub-ranges of other discrete values). Maybe Rust has sane set operations, but Java's collections operations are a bit off: mutating "add-all" vs union producing a new set, and so on.

Eiffel's pre/post-condition and class invariant special assertions are nice, as well.
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> book burners

Not sure what are you referring to here.

> Spending more time producing junk doesn't make it not junk.

I did not claim they are producing junk. What I was saying is that 1) the competition is fierce, which counters the parent's claim that Chinese gaming industry has no real competition.

As I stated repeatedly, the quality is not par with western games. But they are not junk or rubbish just because they are not the best...
I believe it was ext3 or ext4, but I'd have to look.
It's cool to bash on desk jobs but for most it's low-risk high-income work, and there are surely plenty of guys doing very manual risky jobs who would be only so happy to trade up to a cushy air conditioned office job for the same or better pay.

But some folks will figure out what works for them eventually. And admittedly it's probably not for everyone.
>>Probably means some people are getting fired

I think the proper term in this case is "laid off", since the company is eliminating those positions by closing that particular office.
The person that said the quote about which financial people he wants has Jewish grandkids. I hardly think that is "Nazi level" and I don't mind having my comment up.
One problem is that regulations tend to accumulate. I like what Canada does with its "one for one rule" which removes one piece of old outdated regulation for every new regulation made. In fact, at first when British Columbia implemented this law, they did 2 for 1 to clean out old laws, until later switching to 1 for 1.

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/26/409671996/canada-cuts-down-on-...
ASLv2 is compatible with GPLv3 (works under ASLv2 can be inorporated into GPLv3), but not vice versa. This is because GPL has (arguably useful) restrictions which ASL does not. A common goal of ASLv2 and GPLv3 is the restriction on patents, which makes them both incompatible with GPLv2. This is an important difference which makes GPLv3 a superior freedom-preserving license to v2, and the resulting incompatibility is not a matter of interpretation - you can't downgrade licenses. It is unfortunate that Linux was not licensed as GPLv2 or later which is, alongside Linus' support for TiVoization(DrM) and the corporate lawyers' spreading of FUD, the reason why we're still forced to discuss GPLv2.
Are dedicated IPs required for great email deliverability?
When you buy solar panels, or build what TFA called "a solar plant capable of generating at least 350 megawatts" (note the units) you certainly are paying for power. Quoting an energy price hides all sorts of assumptions about finance, equipment longevity, and maintenance costs, so it's clear that doing so is just an excuse to say "cheapest solar on record".
gens's* law of writing software that performs well: Don't be smart.

Do simple data structures where you can. Arrays, AoA, SoA, AoS. Process data in bulk where you can. Put complex algorithms only where needed (kd-tree when doing something like raytracing, threading only when necessary and even then only with bulk processing, complex locking or timing mechanisms only when you have to, etc.). Don't follow paradigms blindly.

Basically data should be processed only in a functional way or in "waves". When there are only a handful of variables, a functional way will keep them in cpu registers. When there is more data, going over an array will make the cpu load the data that is to come next into the cache.

Oh, and write C.

[*] gens is a hobby programmer and possibly an idiot
We all agree with that. OP was saying that she deleted more than just personal emails - she deleted work emails as well.
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Reposting this link that I found in the comments section from the previous time this article was submitted:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778
The value of the team is also larger than the individual engineers on it. Plus, a package bid is less risky if you're looking to get the entire package.

Oh, and poaching has another risk - that you get only the worst employees.
This doesn't appear to be part of any strategy to increase his net worth:

"All of the investments we make will be owned by my nonprofit organization."

"They are intended to be successful—because I want to show how private capital can play a constructive role helping migrants—and any profits will go to fund programs at the Open Society Foundations, including programs that benefit migrants and refugees."

Open Society Foundations financially support civil society groups around the world, with a stated aim of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations
The beauty of Gmane v1 from a user persepctive was its simplicity.

http://gmane.org/lists.php <-- a simple gzipped list of all the groups and their corresponding gmane category prefixes

ftp -4o lists.gz http://gmane.org/lists.php

zgrep and a little bit of sed was all that was needed.

http://download.gmane.org/gmane.[listname]/[start]/[end] <-- bulk download list messages in the range [start] to [end]; no brackets needed of course.

There was no JSON or other nonsense. No pages upon pages of "API documentation". A user could figure it out in a matter of minutes.

This was an easy way to retrieve chunks of a mailing list, from circa 2002 onwards, in a format that was easy to work with, using only basic UNIX utilities.

It was like dumping a mail spool.

Given the Sirens of gratuitous complexity that never stop singing on today's web, I fear for the future of this project.

But the point of this comment is to say thanks to the author of Gmane v1. Great project, great execution.
>What I meant was that the dystopian imaginations of AI (Terminator, paper clip maximizers, etc) involve the machines acquiring a strong moral certainty that doesn't ever pause for doubt.

Ah. Well, considering that acquiring such a thing wouldn't really work out mathematically, fair enough.
Skype is the worst business tool that I use day to day and it continues to get buggier with each new release. I now have permanent ghost notification icons and I had delete Skype on my iPhone so my desktop app could receive calls reliably.

Headwinds indeed.
> Iran between 1953 and 1979 was a U.S. puppet.

Are you repeating n-th hand propaganda? I kind of don't blame you since Google refuses to dig up the story of "Soviet-Iranian Agreement of Cooperation" of 1966. This agreement was reached because the West refused to support Iran's industrialization program under the Shah, so the "puppet" went ahead and reached an agreement with USSR.

Intelligence Memorandum, CIA, June 1967:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000381440....
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"I hope that we've gotten to the end of the race to the bottom in desktop computers and that the market is ready for innovative, high quality hardware."

As a demanding and discerning desktop computer enthusiast[1], I find it very difficult to see how one could improve on the mac pro.[2]

In fact, the mac pro is so perfectly executed, I would venture to say that the desktop computer is finished. It's all done. We've solved it.

Maybe the mac pro is not a desktop, which allows you to be dissatisfied ?

[1] Prior favorites being the SS20 pizzabox and the SGI Octane2

[2] The real mac pro, of course - not the weird spaceship one.
It still can't sync message status across devices. Now and then I get re-ordered messages. Some messages repeatedly keep showing up as unread. It's quite bad at the messaging side.

The dumb UI I sorta excused as being, well, made by a small team not a big US retail company. The fact MSFT didn't overhaul it all is really annoying.
These are common questions of fault that are trivially resolved in any motor accident. Someone or something is in control of the vehicle and can be assigned fault. Or in some situations, everyone is at fault and the shares of fault are determined.

If the system is operating autonomously, then the fault lies with the system. Failing to leave sufficient following distance is a common cause of accident and almost always results in fault being found with that driver. This would not change if the driver was a computer system.

However - side note - objects that project from the rear of a vehicle must be flagged using a red cloth. So if the truck were operating with an unflagged load then they could be the party at fault!

If the occupant takes the vehicle out of autonomous mode, then fault would lie with the occupant, unless it was to avoid some kind of impending accident in which cause the situation would have to be examined in detail.
They downplay it, but this situation was exactly what I said it was the other day: AJ syndicated a piece from another outlet with whom they had an agreement, and they understandably thought that the layout was part of the deal.

Ultimately, it sounds like someone screwed up and used a tool they shouldn't have to build the layout. (That tool being Scrollytelling.)

The lesson here, apparently, is that if you're syndicating content, open-source tools are best.
On Linux you have the choice between "never changed, clunkier than ever" and "OMG, this is completely different" (https://blogs.skype.com/2016/07/13/skype-for-linux-alpha-and...)
Is there as much evidence available with bush as there is with HRC?
Suprisingly, not that large. My archive of NNTP messages has about 10M messages in only 5.6GB of space, with no compression. SMTP messages accumulate far more header cruft (in particular, chatty Received headers and often times DKIM as well in practice), so I'd expect 10M SMTP messages to be about 2-5 times as large as the same number of NNTP messages.

The total size of gmane is only on the order of a few TB at best. I think the author said that it was only 2TB--for 14 years of history!
Unrelated to this Ask HN: two weeks ago you presented raw data about a HN survey with over 3000 responses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431228. Did you ever write a blog post about your findings?
"The company said it was consolidating its London offices and moving workers to a new site in Paddington."

It's not that big of a deal, they are just trying to consolidate all of the good engineers into a cheaper office and letting go of the dead weight.
True, not the correct tone.

The code quality seemed low and to me it was negligence and a disservice to the employer that had to compromise their reliability for quite a long time and spend significant effort root causing the problem.
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I quite like the human rights and environmental protections afforded me as a EU citizen. British people see the beginnings of their work rights already in the crosshairs since Brexit. Glad I live in the Netherlands now.
At least we now have an HTTP API so we can write our own Skype clients.
Well maybe their jobs could be saved by dedicating them to reliable tone production over TCP/IP. Ever try to access a mailbox or navigate a customer support call center through Skype?
Out of interest, is the built-in Go server what everyone uses for hosting their Go websites? I'm used to the typical Nginx / Gunicorn / Python stack and Python's built-in server is used for nothing more than development.
How can a website where the majority of people likely live in Silicon Valley actually believe that the majority of government regulation is good? Any regulation needs to be intensely scrutinized because the implications are not even completely understandable when they are created.
Don't hesitate to jump ship to Mobx. No regrets at all, it was like trading in a Lada for a Toyota. And being written in typescript, the TS support is impeccable.
The user might not have another provider capable of fulfilling their needs. Either too laggy, too slow, too expensive, unacceptable data caps, or not mobile. It's completely possible for the user to live in an area where slow DSL is their only broadband option, the cell phone signal is weak, and the user can't afford satellite.
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