skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually doesn't mention that police surveillance of your social media posts calculates a threat score for you, which is used to make law enforcement decisions.

In fact, the article I think does a poor job overall doing compare-and-contrast. It has a paragraph (two?) on the United States, and dovetails into an opinion (without covering America much at all) about why China is worse.

Americans need to understand that they can't fight the Chinese for their rights. They have to fight Washington for their rights.
> they are a peaceful country (read: no wars)

Hah. Their aggression in/with South China Sea, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, India is just fake news right?
Look at how Arduino is doing it:

- Market / Teach

- Innovate / Extend

- Ensure better quality
I do not think anyone will use the 'social score' descripted in the article, except the china in the author's imagination or in reader's probably if the author is successful. The article is kind of propaganda.
Because, even in the simplest case both would involve changes energy/enthalpy and therefore would interact with each other. In particular reactions in one might drive the equilibrium populations in the other and vice versa.

One problem with simply combing the current General Relativity and Standard Model theories is local vs non-local determination. That is moderately complex to explain... perhaps someone has a better source than Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_locality
1st comment on the article

> there are among even the most terrifying of targeted massacres such as during the regime of pol pot or the misery of rwanda nothing comparable to the holocaust. Jewish children were being hanged from windows in the neighborhoods of germans whose neighbors knew the families. the german people eagerly and happily enjoyed herr hitler and his band of sick psychopaths and perverts and lest we forget to mention it, drug addicts. those who stood against these crimes were murdered along with the Jews. beyond everything, it was the automation and the mechanization of killing innocent Jewish german citizens and gassing and hanging 1.5 million little Jewish children with great purposefulness that gives the german inquisition its special ignoble bloodstamp on history. we have the evidence of the smiling laughing hitler saluting audiences crammed together because there were hardly spaces large enough to hold them all. don't use the word comparable. just don't.
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I like caprese on toast, and also just cheese-on-toast with a slice of tomato under it. Both are better with the usual seasonings (basil & olive oil or pepper respectively) but neither are horrible without them.

I agree strawberries/chocolate/brie doesn't sound that horrible, though. That's just a fondue party with two pots, isn't it? Or is that cheating?
> The intelligence can act on itself more readily

Given the ever greater resources needed to build a new fab, the gap seems to be narrowing.
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This doesn't seem in the spirit of this rule, which seems designed to prevent questions of the type 'How do I get into YC?'
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>Except romaji isn't used to teach pronunciation

I know, but students will continue to treat it as a pronunciation guide anyway, unless told specifically how to pronounce otherwise. It's especially bad when the Japanese is supported by romaji way into the course, which fosters laziness in the student.
Because that would cost a shitload of money and might not work. Hence a trial run.
Business schools (and MBA programs) were an interesting experiment: can you abstract away the most important parts of a business away from what that business actually produces? Empirically, the answer appears to be no. It's understandable that such an experiment would take place. But now that we have an answer, we should stop pretending that the value produced by business schools is sufficient to justify their existence.
Put a cache in front of a dynamically generated page and you have a static page again.

Now... when should the cache expire?
I would call it state propaganda, not fake news.
Seeing patents like this disappoint me. It's very reminiscent of people scooping up domain names and just sitting on them, hoping that someone else makes them valuable at some point.
how could Germany recover so fast after World War 1 ?
and build autobanhs, car industry, weapon industry etc..
follow the money and find out.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworl...
"Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. . . .

"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."

Albert Einstein
Did you read all of what I wrote? I'm not suggesting the action is "justified" because of "Freedom of Speech." But you absolutely cannot deny that from a legal context, this absolutely comes into a freedom of speech discussion. For the history see (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#U...)

In the information age, we are still trying to figure out the murky boundary cases in a way that makes sense, both legally and socially. Those cases include: cyber-bullying, drawing mohammad, posting people's address online, trolling, cease-and-desist[1], fake news / pizza-gate, speech-codes [2], whistle-blowing

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%...
i think we're more concerned with how it's more profitable to be fatherless on welfare and the high rate of out of wedlock births also encouraged by the current welfare rules. Their is a fairly large chunk of Republicans that are "rule of law" instead, and that makes quite a bit of difference. The problems with the justice system are the end not the root of the problem. Sadly, one justice problem which kills families is more prominent in Democratic lead cities: civil asset forfeiture. Philadelphia being the prime example.
Regarding SQL Server Express Edition, it is limited in much more ways than just max database size (memory, buffer size, etc). Since SQL Server Developer Edition become free most MSSQL developers I know switched to this one, as it has no limits whatsoever (except one - cannot be touched by end users). MSSQL Express seems more like a DB for small scale production environments now..
As a European living in the US I believe what is holding Europe back more than anything is the fragmentation. Companies like Google and Apple come out of the US because of the pro-business policies. However, I believe the gigantic, relatively homogenous market is by far the biggest advantage. If Europe spoke predominantly a single language and had largely the same regulations Europe could stand a much better chance. That's too often overlooked and the lack of a European Google or Apple is just blamed on socialism.
By the volume of money involved and the impact on the rest of the planet, the USA is the single one country most characterized by corruption and opportunism by a wide margin.
Have you conflated Bjorn Lomborg and Hans Rosling?
The chocolate mustard used in that brownie recipe is specifically marketed as being good on pretzels. :) http://store.mustardmuseum.com/product/1296/exotic-mustards
Let's say it does work. Based on Finland's small population and economy, what are the chances it's scalable to where we're living in Wall-E?
That is the most interesting question about old industrialized countries vs "China" (put in quotes because they certainly have developed beyond a pure low-wage approach by now). The high per-hour productivity achieved by highly optimized automation seems to come at a cost that is difficult to quantify.

One year you might proudly undercut an army of low wage welders with your sophisticated welding robots. But if a year later the market suddenly demands carbon fiber, then your robots will weld on at a loss to at least partially recoup their investment while the welders are retrained for doing prepreg layups. The difference is ultimately rooted in the initial wage differential, but the consequences go beyond price.
China is a peaceful country? Let me guess, you are Chinese.
This link doesn't work for me, but I must confess that I first clicked the original link. Has WSJ started to block users that try to be smart?
Do you have a source for this? I'd love to read it!
> don't use the word comparable.

The only occurrence of the string 'compar' in the article:

"Mr. Fritzsche [the author of the book described] does not labor this point by comparing the situation with those that came after..."
Could be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13201763
As of December 2016, I believe you are, generally speaking, incorrect. iCloud data is encrypted in transit and at rest, but only iCloud Keychain is encrypted "in such a way that Apple cannot read or access" it.[1] For all other data stored in iCloud, Apple both provides and retains access to the encryption keys. Note that this includes iCloud backups you make of your iMessages; however, if you do not back up your iMessage content to iCloud, then technically speaking your iMessages are not part of your iCloud footprint and Apple does not have access to that content.[ibid]

Apple's law enforcement guidelines[2] provide more detail about what Apple effectively has access to and can/will provide upon presentation of a warrant.

(As of iOS 9.3 and macOS 10.11.4, it appears that notes that you explicitly password-protect in the Notes app are also encrypted with a user-supplied key to which Apple has no access. They don't explicitly mention this functionality in [1] or [2], but they do imply that this is the case in [3].)

There have been rumblings [4] since the San Bernardino case that Apple is considering providing what you describe, so that users can provide their own encryption keys for their iCloud content and backups, such that Apple no longer has access to the plaintext. However, Apple has not implemented this functionality yet, and I haven't heard anything about it since the FBI dropped its case against Apple in this matter.

[1] http://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/

[2] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...

[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205794#forgot_password

[4] [paywall] http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-beefing-up-icloud-security-ap...
While the features of IIIA are nice, it will be a while until all the existing ones are replaced by IIIA.

The more immediate nice thing about the IIIA launches are that it adds more satellites that can transmit the L2 signal. Currently there are 18 healthy IIR-M and IIF satellites which can transmit L2. I believe you need about 24 minimum for full coverage.

Once we have full L2 and we get civilian dual band L1/L2 receivers it will get rid of one of the biggest sources of inaccuracy which is ionospheric delay. A dual band L1/L2 receiver will be able to measure ionospheric delay directly. This means the delay calculated will be for that specific point instead of the area covered by a WAAS ground station. Plus you won't need a direct view of the WAAS satellites.
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Are you being sarcastic or silly?

Seems troll-ish to me...
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The quality of the comments is surprisingly high: a AWS analysis, some maths, etc.

My favorite being:

> If you disassemble your cube and put it back together, there
> are 12 possible sets that you can land in. Those sets are
> not reachable from each other.
> The proof is quite elementary.
You know, COBOL programs are easier to run on modern machines than a lot of Win16 programs. I could only imagine that utter vile feeling of seeing a Win16 program for a modern Windows programmer.
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The arrow quote things don't work on hn fwiw, try italicizing it with asterisks around the paragraphs.
I imagine if he'd been the victim of a deliberate hit-and-run, you'd be saying something like "so to be clear, you want someone to be imprisoned because they drove a car."
You might be interested to read about William Deming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

He was brought in by MacArthur during the post-WW2 occupation of Japan to help get their industry running again. You can see some of the seeds of TQM/The Toyota Production System in his management philosophies.

His management theories are interesting to me because of the emphasis placed on leadership, and the success and failure of systems of production being almost entirely their responsibility (he claimed around 85% of production variance was due to systemic factors i.e. entirely within managerial control).

Some of his 'deadly diseases' seem particularly relevant in this thread. I've seen many MBA/MPA trained managers makes these errors:

The "Seven Deadly Diseases" include:

- Lack of constancy of purpose

- Emphasis on short-term profits

- Evaluation by performance, merit rating, or annual review of performance

- Mobility of management

- Running a company on visible figures alone

- Excessive medical costs

- Excessive costs of warranty, fueled by lawyers who work for contingency fees

"A Lesser Category of Obstacles" includes:

- Neglecting long-range planning

- Relying on technology to solve problems

- Seeking examples to follow rather than developing solutions

- Excuses, such as "our problems are different"

- The mistaken belief that management skills can be taught in classes

- Reliance on quality control departments rather than management, supervisors, managers of purchasing, and production workers

- Placing blame on workforces who are only responsible for 15% of mistakes where the system designed by management is responsible for 85% of the unintended consequences

- Relying on quality inspection rather than improving product quality
Also a huge problem is that you get this living support based on your income, and it has no proper upper bounds. One could receive hundreds if not a thousand euro in extra support if they chose to live in a costly neighborhood (namely, central Helsinki). Even more of a disincentivizing factor to consider here.
Well most likely the oldest way would work best: go into business, make mistakes, build business acumen.

If you're just starting out, I recommend reading business books that are good at explaining things like value proposition, market creation, etc, but also have a compelling narrative.

One book I really like is "The Everything Store" that is a brief history of Amazon.com and the challenges they faced as one of the few high-profile survivors of the dotcom boom.

Another I've enjoyed reading is "Losing the Signal", which covers BlackBerry's rise and fall, starting from its origins in the 1980s to its struggle to adapt to the consumer smartphone age. It's a great read because BB originally began as a telecom engineering company that developed a once-insurmountable advantage in enterprise communications.
I think the author is conflating two every different notions of consciousness here, more specifically by not quite getting what the 'hard problem' of consciousness refers to.

The easy problem, which is what most of the article is about, is just self-monitoring—having some 'meta' processing. It's not hard to conceive of a system structured (roughly) like this: you start with a first order brain that just reacts to external stimuli, then you layer another system on it that monitors its state and calculates new inputs for it based on what was observed.

The hard problem isn't a scientific problem at all. It relates to immediate experience: what it's like to actually feel cold, or the experience of the color red, etc. It's basically accounting for 'qualia'—and it has nothing to do with what's usually called 'conscious thought.'
An ignorant person will always choose to commit an act of violence towards another to protect against uncertainty. To resist this urge and live with uncertainty is a form of wisdom.
I am American.

I am referring to the well known and well regarded Chinese policy of non-interference and non-intervention, and the Chinese leadership of UN Peacekeeping missions, as well as their lack of having been in a war with any external country for a very long time (and then their being the defenders in those wars).

Let me guess, you are American.
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Why do jews always think they're such special flowers? There's virtually no difference in the brutality of atrocities compared to Darfur, Armenia or what the IS is doing. The only difference was sheer magnitude and ruthless execution - with uncompromising German efficiency.
Harvard University's Entrance Exam (1869) [pdf]
http://www.gpstk.org/foswiki/pub/Documentation/GPSTkPublicat...

I think I overstated but still it is possible. Millimeter survey grade is commercial.
I think they still have a place in for example manufacturing where it does make sense. I want to fix problems with things like Yishan-style CEOs though.
> It still doesn't make a difference in my argument. My point is that you gain no added strength via a stacked hash implementation because it's as weak as the first hash in the sequence

God, I wish really I could downvote replies.

Nobody said you should be applying the hash functions in sequence. There are at last 3 obvious approaches: (1) applying the functions sequentially, (2) concatenating their outputs, (3) XORing their outputs. None of these takes rocket science to figure out, and some 5 seconds of thinking would easily rule out #1 and #2 as inferior to #3.

Honest question: did you even spend 5 seconds actually thinking about what I wrote before deciding I must be wrong? I'm not sure if you realize this, but when you reply so confidently without thinking, you (and many others) active harm the whole field of infosec. I'm so frustrated and fed up with you and so many other people's overconfidence and lack of willingness to think for 5 seconds when it comes to cryptography.

>> I feel like you should already realize this (in which case I don't get why you're posting the comment), but while that's a cute mathematical existence proof, it's totally irrelevant as it's not something that can just happen out of the blue.

> Fundamentally, all modern crypto relies heavily on math. I made a "cute mathematical existence proof" to make it obvious how stacking ciphers can weaken an encryption system

Again: are you reading and thinking? Or are you just writing?

You're simultaneously literally claiming that two secure ciphers can be combined to result in an insecure cipher when their keys are generated independently. This is far more astonishing than the claim that the ciphers you're using are actually secure in the first place. You're already accepting the latter despite any sort of proof, yet you're bothered by the former? Hell, you haven't even shown shown this is possible for any pair of secure ciphers; your "example" was missing the most crucial part of the cipher -- the key. The whole argument is so crazy it's just utterly ridiculous.
How is grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup not delicious?
I'm not necessarily opposed to means-testing; for example, progressive income tax rates can be seen as a form of means-testing, and I think they're a good thing.

What I care about is that the function from income earned to income (including subsidy) received be monotonic. Again, the income tax system (at least in the US) is carefully designed to have this property: when you make enough more money to move into a higher tax bracket, that higher rate is applied only to the amount of your income in excess of the lower bound at which that bracket applies. So the total amount of tax never jumps discontinuously, even though the marginal rate increases. Even though you keep less of your next dollar of earnings the more you make, there's never a point at which earning the next dollar will leave you with less money after tax.

The same should be true even if you're receiving a subsidy. That's all I'm saying.
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What if these variables contain addresses to other stack variables?
I think the case is different for languages that use the same script, such as a European language learner learning another European language. The learner must learn to switch "modes" and this is reinforced all the time by any kind of reading, because the learner has no choice but to switch modes.

However this mode switching is not reinforced in the case where the script (in this case the Japanese script) is not latin-based.

I think I'm trying to say that native speakers of latin-based languages who are learning latin-based languages have to learn to change their mode of pronunciation, whereas if they were to learn a non-latin-based language they don't (and shouldn't) learn this at all, because in the long run it isn't useful.
Try to understand the role US play in that.
I support a prorated version, but the common criticism is that it's more open to fraud and harder to implement. I still think a prorated[1], guaranteed minimum income is better than a basic income.

1) something like reducing that payment by $0.50 per $1 earned as an example.
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A single S9 uses 189 BM1387 chips to achieve that 14TH/s.

So that's only 74074 Mh/s per ASIC.

Granted, that's still wiping the floor...
I'd have to agree. Reagent was able to expose the beauty of the concept to me more clearly than Om. When I approached Om, I found it to be on a completely different level with regards to things to understand and absorb.

Having said that, I'm also pretty sure that Om yields bigger payoffs further down the road as far as I can tell.
John Ralston Saul does a great job explicating this in his book Voltaire's Bastards[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Voltaires-Bastards-Dictatorship-Reaso...
You actually aren't free to threaten people, not even in glorious USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimidation#United_States

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

(probably more)

Something to keep in mind.