skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sure, they targeted key industries and sometimes "got them". But so did a lot of other countries try the same thing, and they didn't get them.

Which countries are you talking about specifically?

>I'll note also that throughout most of their boom periods, both Singapore and Hong Kong had very small or no tariffs on almost all goods

They tended to suppress the value of their currency by buying treasuries, rendering their exports more competitive. This acted as an implicit subsidy on all exports.

Also, while they tended not to put tariffs in place, they did directly subsidize - the flip side of the same coin.

"Free" that was not.

>Also, that housing, the most government-controlled sector in both countries, is notably very expensive - not a particular success story.

That's a global phenomenon. After the US plunged interest rates to zero everybody else had to follow suit or watch their exports drop off a cliff.

It used to be much cheaper before that happened.

>not a particular success story.

Whether you call it a success or not it is the direct opposite of what you claimed: it is interventionist.

The housing is all excellent quality and it forced the private sector housing to be even higher quality still in order to be able to compete. I'd say it was a policy that we should probably copy.

>China before and after the 1978 reform process

China didn't fully open up after the 1978 reforms and still hasn't. The investment in the country is largely state directed even today. It's a counterpoint to your argument, not proof of it.

They also loaded up on treasuries and put in place covert and not so covert subsidies/tariffs.

>Vietnam before and after the 1986 Doi Moi reforms, India's 1991 Rao-Singh reforms, among others

Hardly great success stories. Considering that Taiwan and South Korea, for instance, started off from pretty much the same place and reached first world status.
A title that will get to the front page, basically click bait.

Crap article with not much thought behind it. sigh...
I made similar lists 4 years ago. I quit my job, and applied to a PhD program in ML (still doing that).
Looking back, I can offer the following advice if you goal is to become a ML Engineer:

Foundation:

Start with (re)learning math. Take those boring university level full length courses in calculus, linear algebra, and probability/statistics. No, unless you're a fresh STEM graduate, 10 page math refreshers won't do. If you're self-studying, make sure you do all exercises and take practice exams to test yourself.

Tools:

1. (Re)learn C/C++, as well as a linear algebra library, such as Numpy or MATLAB. You will also have to learn parallel and distributed programming at some point (CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, etc). Next take a boring university level full length course on algorithms and data structures.

2. Get a book describing ML algorithms, and implement them yourself, first using plain C, then with MPI or CUDA, and finally using plain Numpy/MATLAB, or one of the low-level ML frameworks (Theano or TensorFlow).

Application:

Finally, start doing ML. Not learning about it, doing it. Choose an application that interests you (computer vision, NLP, speech recognition, etc), and start learning what you need to make something work). Focus on specific, practical tasks. If you don't have any particular application in mind, go to Kaggle, choose a competition, and read what models/tricks the winners used. Then jump right in and start competing.

The first two requirements might take years to master, but if you skip them, you won't be able to do any serious work in ML, or even understand latest papers. You will be a script kiddie, not a hacker.
I agree that this is generally true, but Finance is sort of a special case. In a world where firms pay the premium for colocated servers and direct data feeds in order to shave off a few milliseconds of latency there is also a strong push to use the vary fastest language possible + have the very best possible architecture, all to shave off as many extra milliseconds as possible.
I thought the same too. But in layman's terms, both are same.
It's not our money funding this company, I don't see the utility in trying to take them down a notch. If they fail, only their investors lose. If they succeed, we all win.

If it's an HN thread about the latest social media startup, the lament is that SV doesn't innovate enough. If it's about a company tackling something hard, out come accusations of 'vapourware', and predictions of their imminent doom.
However the Model 3 will beat it on range.
Most people think they need the range (even if they don't). Plus BMW doesn't have a Supercharger network.
All black money and hoarders will cry to sleep today.
The problem is that American business is participating in unilateral trade and technology transfer to China. Further, many companies are, in the present, heavily invested. While it might be the least of China's worries, it certainly should not be the least of ours.
In retrospect TFA seems to be the writing on the wall for this recent event, doesn't it? There is no shortage of DB engine companies, and hasn't been for decades.
As a quant, I can't say I've heard of a single quant I know who uses Julia. It very well could be promising, but firms will be very hesitant to switch from Matlab, R, Python, C++, and VBA
Shot you a message on your contact form
And what if an intimidating person in your household has strong opinions about how you should mark that ballot?
I don't think There will be any positive change but the businessmen will suffer as think how will they run thier shop as some shops are costly ones
The author should try React and Redux. I've used many different UI frameworks/libs over the years: jQuery, Backbone, Angular, etc

I don't claim that React is the end all be all, it has a few trade-offs.

The first thing that isn't ideal is that it has a fair amount of boiler plate that's kind of unavoidable: reducers, actions, mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps

Also, the size of React and React-Dom (which is required) is quite large, although with minification and gzipping it's not as bad.

It also has a pretty big learning curve when you're first getting started.

On the plus side, it's very performant, concerns are separated well and it scales well. Once you're up and running and familiar with how things work, it's a pretty nice environment to develop in.

I've replaced lodash with ramda and that has been a pleasure.

Also, JSX is really nice. It's nice to use a full-blown markup language that's pretty much HTML, and to use JavaScript. That beats trying to fit every abstraction you need into a template engine.

I haven't done much experience with Elm, it seems nice, especially since I've started to program more functionally. I would consider using it on my next project.
The book is all well and good, but I would prefer to read an actual article about "allowing their bureaucrats free rein to terrorize local businesses and extract mob-style protection payments".

It is easy claim that China is autocratic therefore it must do X bad things
hmm so the blank money hoarders would buy flats from low income bracket and framers?
Yep. Intuitively, sound propagates when particles bump into each other and transfer energy. Lower pressure means lower density, so there are fewer particles, which means it takes longer before an energized particle happens to bump into another one and propagate the wave.
They are introducing new Rs 500 and Rs 2000 notes and they are going to control the circulation of these new notes
Since programming language is often tied to programming framework, then switching languages means sacrificing frameworks. That's a problem. Admittedly, it's a form of Lava Flow Antipattern, but it's significant. I'm giving up a useful toolset, and I'm giving up accumulated domain knowledge.

So why do it? Mainly, if the framework I'm currently using can't do things I need to do, or if it's incredibly painful to use. To the extent that someone has neither of those problems, a new language is a cure worse than the disease, whatever its benefits.

Look at it this way... imagine there's a rib joint across the street. It may not have the best bbq, but it's there. Do I walk across the street for bbq, or do I drive halfway across town to get slightly better? I'll take what's there, thank you. Now, if I'm a vegan, I'll get up and go somewhere else.
I don't want to rent/hire a car, I want to own it.
They must not know he works for the CIA.
What's the visualisation library they're using here? Looks great (I'm guessing D3, but it's hard to break through the webpack file to figure it out).
I agree with the throwaway. You should drop it in favor of average person or something else that's neutral. People seeing us insult them will only hurt adoption. Plus, many of these people that dont know much about computers are smart in other fields or have other talents. We aren't all supposed to have same strengths. So it's double-insulting shen it's an intelligent, but non-technical, user we're talking about.
You should read all the article.
So is Visual Studio Code, your point is?
A professor at Darden, Saras Sarasvathy, has been teaching and advancing the study of entrepreneurship for some time now, with emphasis of her studies on what is known as effectuation.

You may find this useful:

http://effectuation.org/

overview: http://www.effectuation.org/sites/default/files/documents/ef...
Startups aren't about code, they're mostly not even about actual products, it's just a lot of idiots running around trying to get funding using the latest new buzzwords and shiny new tech that looks good on their resume.

If you have a strong engineering background especially in C++, you'll be just fine.
It's not a matter of being stupid. I watched The Sopranos as each episode came out on HBO, but they aired 6 seasons over the course of 8-1/2 years. That's a long time to keep story lines in your head. It's entertainment, not homework.
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Interesting no mention about gold, land or other valuables. This hits hard on the middle class who were holding money. Then there are ultra rich, for whom may be they are holding anywhere between 0%~30% of their black money in cash, others in other investments. For them, this is not a big issue.
Obvious arrogance aside, security is not a scalar value.

A centralized service is a convenient stop for the three letter agencies to do their work. Multiple independent implementations of the protocol and interoperability is a much stronger ecosystem. Even if the security of one individual user might not be better.

If you applied the argument to the web instead, it might be tempting to say the security of a single user would improve if Google just ran the whole web, instead of all of these small shops with shoddy security, but very few people would argue that it would improve the reliability and security of the system as a whole.

"Just centralize it" is not some great insight either.
Right now (alpha) yes, but I'm exploring other options for its future. Do you have any idea? I want to avoid fragmentation initially so open-source right now is not viable as I cannot support many different pre-releases from different users, but I've definitely considering open-sourcing it in the future ( see http://github.com/franciscop/ ).

For the sake of it I will point out that the alternative, is actually two different third-parties dependencies, http://embedd.io/ snippet and https://hn.algolia.com/ service (;
There was an experimental procedure using trans-cranial magnetic stimulation that opened up empathy for an autistic person. (And similarly, TCMS was used experimentally to temporary induce autism in someone). So I wonder to what extent TCMS can be used for this. Though, like autism, if TCSM can reduce, it can also induce.

It's in my experience that psychopathy (or whatever we'd like to call it) is a consciousness state, and there are some people who can deliberately shift into it by choice. These are usually folks who experiment with hacking their consciousness, such as psychonauts or meditators, so I'm not necessarily talking about people who are born into it, or conditioned by circumstance into it.

The most interesting thing about consciously shifting into that state is that, once you are there, you feel zero motivation to shift out of it, even if you have the knowledge and skill to do so.

And it is not so much that there is a lack of emotion, so much as the lack of suffering when it comes to experiencing things. At that point, any morality is driven by choice, rather than by pathos.
I'm really interested in learning more about data science. Currently attending moocs to learn R but I don't have much free time and it's a slow progress. Currently I work as analyst for an environmental consulting firm but I always wanted to work in something related to quants. I know I'm probably being naive but I want to change careers. Do you guys recommend that I keep learning R or should I take a closer look to Julia? Or both? I don't have a programming background but I do know statistics and Excel. Edit: fast, concise and useful comments in a matter of minutes, I love HN. Thanks!
Inasmuch as Trump gets significant mindshare/voteshare today, it's largely because of fears that something similar might happen here.

Hillaty Clinton has stated that she thinks the SCOUTS decisions in Citizens United and Heller v. DC were wrong. She wants do-overs on them both, and will nominate only justices who will reinterpret the laws as she sees fit.

I'm no Trump supporter but that is scary. Inasmuch as we have a constitution that means anything, it means the rights so protected by that constitution can't be just interpreted away by nine men and women who don't think you should have them anymore.

And no, Citizens United isn't about campaign finance or "getting the money out of politics". It was about a corporation paying for their own movie to be distributed and advertised with their own dollars. The movie could be wildly inaccurate and needlessly fearmongering -- and probably is, I've never seen it -- but the First Amendment should nevertheless forbid government from banning private entities from producing or exhibiting it, or the amendment has not very much meaning at all.
Holy smokes, that mutation breeding was news to me!
- It diminishes privacy

- It shows by example that this behaviour is okay thus others are less reluctant to run queries of smilar nature

In itself each of them is not so big but all these behaviours add up to the 'culture' of either respecting the user's privacy or taking it not very seriously.
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The reason for this is simple. Excel is

1. An incredibly powerful tool.

2. No bar of entry (cost aside, true in corporate environment).

3. Very gradual learning curve.

4. The efficiency gain vs time invested is exponential.

Power Excel users, much like their VIM/Emacs counter parts don't use a mouse. It is just keyboard short cuts [1][2]. This makes them insanely productive.

[1] https://youtu.be/jFSf5YhYQbw

[2] https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c
It's pretty but what is this really telling us? There's a 126% increase in searchers for "Voter intimidation" in Hoback, Wyoming. OK, so does that mean that someone's being intimidated? Planning to intimidate? Curious about the news? Does a "126% increase" mean there were 7 searches today instead of just 4?
> If only 10% of those users are developers

Your overall point stands on its own but are you really trying to argue that 1 in 10 PCs are software development workstations?

Also, you should not expect that having a 90% market share overall will translate into 90% market share among any particular subset of users.
IoT election hack? Nup. Far more interesting – bringing security back {webinar}
I like Julia as well, but there is an interesting scientific library for LuaJIT:

http://torch.ch/

Anyone have experience with it?
Your comment/question is very useless. We discussing an important issue: Random disappearance of real human being and their possible torture.

Why does freedom of speech has any importance here?
You have to deposit all these notes in your bank account, from which you can get new notes. Anyone hoarding huge amount of black money in cash can't go to bank with it, and his money will turn worthless. Diluting such money will easily erode 20-40% value. So definitely a bold move.
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C++ is dead there (and in many other places). The closest thing is Golang and Swift (and perhaps Rust).
That doesn't mean there are no C++ jobs, but you'd need to look for them elsewhere. Why is that surprising?
An AR Cardboard would be awesome. I searched some weeks ago if someone worked on this without luck. Do you remember the name of this company?
> a courtesy I suspect is not granted to everyone.

It's worth pointing out that since we don't have a dump of the Bernie emails, we don't know what their press interaction was like. I'd be shocked if they did not participate in this article. They certainly pushed it pretty hard once it published.
Yes, right now I'm in a bit of a stalemate with that since you'll need first to submit it to the networks and then to manually add the id. It's not a priority right now, but would you be interested on it submitting the page/post when you publish the page? Say add a button that says "Submit to Hacker News" and when clicked it gets automatically sent there (if technically/legally possible).
This is a strategy copied from China. They did same in 1970-80's. Funny part is this is trying to get money from within Indian economy and wasting on govt and pet projects. The promise to re-patriate black money stashed outside India nowhere in sight. China bring in fugitives and money back even from official who took US citizenship. Modi can just dream of it and take money from hardworking Indians living in India.

Populist measure to increase vote bank and divert attention from original promise to bring back black money from abroad to India.
1. Practically most of governments in the world are guilty of this.

2. I don't see how boycotting the governments/nations will help resolve this issue. In fact, it'll probably make it worse.
Moxie has explained this over and over again, and comments like this continue to pretend that he hasn't, while re-raising the falsehood that Google sees Signal messages. This is tendentious trolling, not good-faith conversation and debate. Which is why your last comment was flagged off the site.
The rupee is a closed currency, the OP was never permitted to take the notes of the country in the first place, so there is no way to change them.
I've taken this path of distraction for most of my life... It's presently as bad as it's ever been...

I'm currently of the mind that the only way to cure it is to stop running and face it head on. Rip out everything that triggers it, rip out every source that adds to it. I understand that there is an element of brain chemistry that is presently considered the root cause of depression. I'm of the mind that this chemical imbalance has an underlying cause and that medicating is only treating the symptom. I've taken the medication route, and it was ineffective for me. I think the brain chemistry is a symptom of an even deeper problem. Our bodies want to be healthy and want to function properly and given the right inputs, they will.

I don't have the answers, I've struggled with this for the past 40 years. I've read about symptoms, treatments, I've read the science, the psuedo-science and the quackery. I'm still of the opinion that there is an underlying cause that isn't presently being considered - depression is on the rise. I'm aware this is just my opinion and that my opinion isn't rooted scientifically. But nobody, so far, knows me better than me - science and doctors included.

I can tell you this without any shred of doubt - if you continue to ignore it, continue to run from it, eventually you will have a weak moment and it will get you. Hopefully it doesn't threaten to rip your life apart as it has threatened to do to me at various points in my life.
For clarification: I'm not against paying, I just want a better way to pay. I'm just not willing to pay $15-20/month when I rarely read what they publish unless it shows up on Twitter or HN.
The government has become pretty smart - their standard rates have increased quite a bit (since they lose tax revenue)
Secondly, I don't think people are going to touch the old notes - just too much risk involved.

Infact, I would speculate that since a lot of black money is now worthless, we might see rates go down, especially for new constructions
It's interesting that this concept has been submitted a few times to no discussion. Not even to say it's BS, which is weird for HN.
I don't think you should extrapolate from the 380k like that.

For example, a show no one ever even heard of "Tyrant", was canceled for averaging 700,000 viewers.
The consumption market is India. The terrorism target and hawala money laundering targets are India. You destroy the market...the support structure will fall in line.
> Many successful applications follow a plugin model

Uhm, do you have examples to support your claim? None of the truly successful applications I know do this, as it's rather inconvenient from the user's perspective.

All in all, I think your issue is with the Android permission model, not Signal, while suggesting workarounds how Signal could improve the situation a little.
Here's how the UX actually works:

1. User chooses "attach photo."

2. The user hasn't installed the plugin. Who does that? So signal doesn't work.

3. The user sends their contact a facebook message saying "signal isn't working" and attaches the photo.

4. Both users uninstall signal and tell everyone who mentions it that it can't even send picture messages.
You should be embarrassed to be repeating these falsehoods on this thread.
Nearly 3,18,000 Android users hacked via Google’s AdSense vulnerability
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I like how Alaska is so chill.
I am originally from India, living in NYC for last 10 years.

Black money is a major problem in India, it's directly fueling This is an ingenious way to handle the problem at its root. I don't know how Government is going to handle this transition in a country as big and diverse as India. Personally, I prefer the rip-off-the-band-aid approach. The only thing I disagree with is the ATM daily/weekly withdrawal limit (10,000Rs/20,000Rs). I think this withdrawal limit is too low and would inconvenience lot of folks. I am not even sure what these low withdrawal limits are supposed to achieve.
2016 talks are also up - http://juliacon.org

Overview - http://julialang.org/blog/2016/09/juliacon2016
That commenter's point is relevant here because major groups in threat model have 0-days in the platforms Signal runs on and many black hats hack Android too. So, anyone with that threat model can't trust Signal at all.

Outside that threat model, it's a useful privacy tool in that it at least reduces risk ftom some vectors. Still need OS-level security like putting and trusted path on OKL4 with secure firmware. Even then, subversion risk is so great that still can't use it for nation-states. Better to put usable front end on very cross-platform, easy-to-isolate tool like GPG. Or communicate in person or mailing encrypted files/messages.
Not my kind of site. My dancing information needs are covered by my Facebook feed, the swingdancing reddit and sporadically yahoodi.com.

As I don't think I'll be able to earn my living with dancing, nor will my free time be dedicated to it, I'm trying to finally learn lisp, so most of my news' search is about that.

Also.. I don't like pages with the look and feel that that one has, I know modern pages tend to be like that, but I prefer other kinds of formatting. Take this with a grain of salt, because I'm no longer in your target demographics.
Visualizing startup hubs around the world and looking at why they work
Even with a much simpler model, the publicly-funded BBC seems to be a better news source for me than my typical American sources.