skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, there's an interesting commentator machine operating in China for public manipulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

I'm not ruling out genuine believer of their opinions but there's also this possibility.

They're getting pretty sophisticated and sometimes instead of supporting the government, their goal would be disinformation, induce hatred (i.e. troll) to divide and conquer.

If you're interested in the perspective of some HongKongness (myself included) I'd recommend this film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Years_(2015_film)

It's so touching to me because it's dystopian but really just exaggeration what I perceive in real life that how the changes are creeping in during recent years, continual development of public swaying psyops is just one of them.

Not that I like Britain nor UN either as they both dropped the ball of enforcing the Sino-British Joint Declaration or giving HongKong a chance to decide its own fate as other post-colony.
> You are either being purposely obtuse or don't see the hypocrisy

Personal attacks and incivility will get you banned here. Please don't post like this regardless of how unfair or wrong you think someone else is.
Since we live in a supposedly free market where all these companies, both incumbent and startup, found successful business plans why is it now necessary to prop these companies up with new laws? Isn't it a part of the free market that if your business is not able to compete then it should die. A little cutthroat, but isn't that the dog eat dog world of business.

I am against placing the burden of proof on the employee. I am more so against cementing these restrictions in laws. It would be ok with me to allow someone to enter into whatever contract they want, but this feels like a continuation the big bank bailouts and the auto bailouts just in miniature.

Don't we need less laws and more comprehensible contracts to create a more level playing field. Can't we refactor the law instead of implementing these "duct-tape" fixes which only restrict the liberties of hard-working, law-abiding citizens?
> Living costs are proportionately lower as well

You have to be more specific. EU has a huge range in cost of living. Switzerland/Norway are very expensive. Poland/Romania are cheap.

Plus, as an American, you will get double-taxed in some of the countries that don't have an agreement with the US.

Having living in both the US and the EU, USA is still cheaper, as in, you end up with a lot more money after all your expenses, even if you account the health insurance costs (which the difference with the EU taxes alone will offset).
Sometimes I wonder whether actual optimization (as a craft, if you like) has been poisoned by scripting languages (Python etc.) and frameworks.

For one thing they completely changed how the speed of computers is perceived, e.g. it is actually considered fast when a web app spends "only" 20 server CPU milliseconds on a request.

And because most things are so inefficient, it is relatively easy to get integer speed-ups. When looking at applications written in C++, written by actual engineers, then often just getting 5 or 10 % on some functionality is appreciated, and achieving more can be seriously difficult. With software in scripting languages improvements below a few hundred percent don't raise an eye brow.

However, actually optimizing code in a scripting language (and not changing the way a native library is used) can be seriously difficult and annoying, because most simply don't have efficient tools — obviously, if a scripting language (like Python) had something substantially faster than, say, attribute access, then that something would simply be used to power attribute access in the general case. So in C++ (or other native languages) you can actually make good use of the processor's and memory system's resources, but you just can't writing in a scripting language.

It is also surprising that most tooling available for e.g. Python is rather immature, insufficient and cumbersome to use compared to the tooling (especially commercial) available for native code (or Java). This likely has something to do with people a) not caring about performance at all and/or b) since it is basically not possible to write fast Python code, as soon as something becomes important for performance, it is written in another language and used from Python, and for analyzing the performance of that code, which is now an external library, you don't need tools for Python.
do you have a particular one you recommend?
I'm down-voting you (and not only you, to be fair) because you are hell-bent on creating a discussion against Iranian politics in a thread about the tragic, early death of a brilliant mathematician who happened to be an Iranian-American (and also, more notably, a woman). It's not the time nor the place.
No comment on the poor implementations (why quadratic complexity, in all three cases?), but some general notes:

For reporting benchmarks, you probably want the minimum, rather than average. While keeping an eye on the distribution/variation of the individual timings as well (to mitigate caching effects). Check out Python's timeit module or the %timeit magic command in IPython.

With more numeric-heavy workflows, the gap between Python/C grows even larger. The more you can push to native-compiled-land, away from Python loops, the better. As another data point, when optimizing the word2vec algorithm, the numbers came out something like [0]:

1x (pure Python) - ~120x (NumPy) - ~2880x (C/Cython)

[0] https://rare-technologies.com/word2vec-in-python-part-two-op...
I memorize multiple passwords.
John Wagner explicitly said, "However, [he] doesn’t rule out CBP keeping [US citizens' photos] in the future after going 'through the appropriate privacy reviews and approvals.'"

That threat is enough to disturb me.
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You've done more than anyone else to take this thread into flamewar hell. If HN can't discuss Maryam Mirzakhani without degenerating into a shitstorm about "the terrorist act of 9/11", then we've failed. It's time to stop this now and never do it on HN again.

We all have strong emotions about the life-and-death issues that affect our nations, tribes, and families (or feel like they do). Mostly such issues are off-topic on HN and their mesmerizing power needs to be resisted—or else every thread can easily become about nothing but that. Considering how fire consumes everything in its path the term 'flame+war' is strikingly apropos for the phenomenon, and every HN user is responsible for containing it.
Boy I hope you never get in a position of power where you also have access to history books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
I don't use one, but to give an example, Google for "nextcloud iphone".
Would be interesting to know what can be shared from those projects. For instance Jolla are just preparing to release Sailfish on the Xperia X, I wonder how much assistance that will provide to this project as well. Sony have an Xperia Open Devices programme which at least puts some effort into running on a mainline kernel.
I'm confused about this article. On the one side I agree with his point on constant and timely feedback. On the other side I disagree with his dismissal of yearly reviews and weekly meetings.

You need these more formal environments to quantify the performance over a longer period of time. In doing so you can correct for biases, and get feedback not just from the manager but from everyone you work with. Additionally you can aggregate the data company wide to see patterns and hopefully try something new. I'm sure plenty of people do it wrong and that might be a different conversation.

Maybe what the performance improvement was missing was a human touch. Giving feedback without caring for the person can feel cold and calculating.
Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him, it's pretty clear he's talking about the modern republican party. Ie the coalition that was formed as a backlash to the civil rights act.

If you disagree with him (and there are legit reasons to), then write your views opposed to him, don't try to misrepresent his view and argue against that instead.
That example is way off at one extreme end of the spectrum though. In reality, though, non-competes are far more often used to prevent people from jumping ship making LOB CRUD apps to making other LOB CRUD apps across the street for a $5K raise, or even leaving one sandwich shop to go work for another for a $1 hourly raise.

For every one possible situation in which non-competes might be good for employees, there are hundreds of situations in which they are outright bad.
Cash is (still) king.
I don't agree with the author. With a few notable exceptions, these tend to be truisms in my experience.
Note that Cypress acquired these from Broadcom and have opened up a lot of the documentation. There's still quite a lot of info not present, and they might still be going through and renaming them, but maybe if you ask... either way, a surprisingly pleasing result in contrast to the notoriously closed attitude before.
My company uses it and I really despise it.

Basically their web add-ons are extremely buggy. I was using Firefox and after many issues tried Chrome version, that one looks nicer but is similar POS and similarly had its own set of issues. Perhaps I would be happier if there was just a standalone app that I would only fire up when I need it.
American bioethicist Jacob M. Appel has argued that "treating human beings differently, simply because they were born on the opposite side of a national boundary," is inherently unethical. According to Appel, such "birthrights" are only defensible if they serve "useful and meaningful social purposes" (such as inheritance rights, which encourage mothers and fathers to work and save for their children), but the "birthright of nationality" does not do so. Economist and writer Philippe Legrain argues that the countries of the world need migration to help global trade and reduce the occurrence of regional wars.

Open borders cannot be dismissed as a utopian idea, argues Harald Bauder, because they do not propose an alternative way to organize human society but rather are a critique of closed or controlled borders.

Restrictions on mobility can only be justified if it can be shown that those restrictions prevent significant harm. Since research indicates that open borders will be better for both the natives and the migrants, and at the very least have not been shown to cause major harm, those restrictions are unjustified.

Free migration is the most effective way to reduce world poverty. Migrants from developing countries can earn higher wages after moving to a more developed country, usually lifting them from 'developing world poverty' to 'developed world poverty'. They also send remittances to relatives in their home country, the flow of remittances being estimated to be around three times the global foreign aid spending reported by the OECD.

A literature summary by economist Michael Clemens leads to an estimate that open borders would result in an increase of 67-147% in GWP (gross world product), with a median estimate of a doubling of world GDP.

From a human rights perspective, free migration may be seen to complement Article 13 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
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What's the point of this comment? It's off topic at best and an excuse to debate about European vs US colleges at worst.
Inkjets printed pages have to dry or the ink will smudge, so printers (at least those of that era) have a mechanism that holds the page for a few seconds before dropping it on the stack of completed pages.
I'm very sorry but this is simply not true. It's only IP if it's subject to copyright or patent protection AND in the latter case if your company is spending money on a patent strategy.

There's no IP from simply seeing if something works, if that is not subject to patent protection and you are not pursuing a patent strategy, and you don't bring any of it over with you to another company.

The know-how you acquire from having done it before (and which would make your cofounder likely to be hired away to compete with you) is also not "IP".

Quite simply I am asking you to assume the time you put into the joint project is not subject to patent protection and you are not pursuing a patent strategy, and to assume that there is no IP at the company that the cofounder would take with them.

Under this assumption (which is realistic) I asked you to make a judgment about the morality of the promise you solicit and receive from your cofounder not to go off and compete with you.

My question is quite narrowly phrased.
Oh my ZSH (http://ohmyz.sh/), if you use zsh of course, has autocomplete, so folders and GPG files are only a few tabs away.
Woah!

This is such a trip: I wrote the original StackOverflow post in 2008 this repo is based on (even though it seems to be credited to someone else), posted a bunch of books, turned it into a community wiki and promptly forgot about it. Now I realize 9 years later it is/was the most starred topic of all time and resulted in your repo which is also one of the most popular of all time! Amazing.

Edit: Seems I can still see it once logged in: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yll89xoa7qwl4ed/Screenshot%202017-...
> religion and the right to bear arms (this is a generalization, of course).

Minor nit (sorry!) but rural folks mainly want limited government – a lot of their other arguments stem from that. They tend to not like power or authority and want to be left alone. (Perhaps to commit their own power abuses!)
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I agree.

Other people are pointing out that soundbites existed before Twitter, but it opened up the ranks of the public babblerati to everyone, and promoted it as a platform for public discussion.

I dropped Twitter years ago, subscribed to a collection of newsletters to fill the gap in technical discussion, and honestly, I think I'm actually more informed for it.
Maybe not for much longer at this rate, though. They seem to be doing everything possible to kill their tech industry rather than grow it. California indisputably has the best tech industry in the country and it also has the most stringent regulations against non-competes; it really makes you wonder what the legislators are even thinking if cultivating their tech industry is something they actually killed about.

Also, Idaho is a Republican state, so you naively expect they'd be all rah-rah free market and competition, but this appears to just be pro-big-business and actually quite anti-competitive.
Are these supposed to make Israel sound good? Because to me, it sounds like Israel is doing the dirty, inhumane works for the US.
It's about as safe as sms 2fa. Once you've used the password 10 or 20 times it becomes memorized.
KeePass with a Yubikey for TOTP. Database and metadata is synced between devices via Syncthing.
My statement was about the genetic basis for behavior in humans and whether there has been enough time for genetic based human behavior to have much variation.
I just use lines of poetry for my passwords. They're long enough, complex enough, but extremely easy for humans to memorize.
Slippery slope argument works better when the things you're comparing are similar. A country having different rules for citizens and non-citizens is perfectly reasonable.
This thread has nothing relate to Hong Kong. Could you please stop introducing such completely off-topic stuff? Thank you.
There's a third option. Self educate. Take 200,000. Buy all the tools and equipment you need to do what you love. Do what you love for 5 to 10 years and you'll have more than enough experience to be successful in your industry.
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Throwaway accounts used for political flamewar are particularly not ok here. Would you please not do that?
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Yes, I picked an example that is way off at one extreme end of the spectrum, but I did not offer my value judgment for that extreme example. What is your value judgment for that extreme example?
It does seem that was the case and then if you can simply say "please never disappear for the whole day without telling me" and that would be the end of it. I think there's more going on here.
The reputation system is not unidirectional today. I don't accept rides from any Uber passenger with less than 4.5.
It's a pointless joke. For a high enough standard, last place is plenty good. The fact that someone is in last place says nothing about how difficult the cutoff is.

To reverse the joke: you know what they call last place in the award ceremony? Bronze medalist.
To actually be serious instead of flip, I think "Calvin" is just the name of the software, without being an acronym or initialism. However, the authors may be alluding to John Calvin and perhaps some Calvinist idea such as predestination, just as the Cassandra the database is named after the greek historical or mythological figure Cassandra "someone whose accurate prophecies are not believed by those around them".
> democracy is simply an effective means for social control to maintain a status quo

Occasionally, democracies elect a party that promises change and then actually delivers on it. That the status quo is mostly maintained has more to do with the fact that one high-stakes mistake can obliterate a party's reputation and completely ruin their chance at reelection, so representatives end up being more careful. It is essentially the "autocrat suppressing a revolution by populism" dynamic, except revolutions are regularly scheduled and less bloody.

> A technocratic-governed advanced society like China, can afford to make long term bets and bold moves for the good of its people, and thus in my view better deserves the mantle of caring for its citizens wellbeing.

I think caring for the wellbeing of citizens and making bold moves are mostly orthogonal, since you can make bold moves that completely ignore your citizens, but you can also care about them and not make a bold move when the risk isn't worth the benefit.

I do agree that that an autocracy can make longer-term plans and execute them more efficiently than a democracy, but if those plans turn out to be wrong, people tend to lose their lives. If you bet big, you lose big. China's 5 year plans may have lead to seventy years of economic growth, but occasionally there was widespread famine due to planning failure.

I very much doubt that China would be able to forge ahead at its current speed even after reaching a distribution of purchasing power similar to the West. Productivity gains only get you so far until there are diminishing returns. China's current growth mostly comes from taking established solutions and applying them at humongous scale. I'm not trying to imply that Chinese are only capable of copying, just that it's a hellishly effective method to further economic growth, and that growth will drop to Western levels as soon as all low-hanging fruit has been picked and copying doesn't cut it anymore.

I also don't think abusing "harmony" as an excuse to keep the population complacent is much of a Western thing. I have seen enough Chinese propaganda banners of a similar tone to believe that it is used pretty much universally to discourage dissenting opinions. You mention it yourself as a motivation for propaganda and mass deception, but phrase it as if it was a good thing.

I don't believe much of that propaganda actually ends up benefiting the people (although the daily reminder to brush your teeth might ;) ). I don't doubt that some of the people involved have good intentions, but the higher up in the party hierarchy you go, the more officials will care about securing their rank, and attempt to gain more influence. (This holds true of most social hierarchies.)

To summarize my point, I don't think China is as good as you claim it to be, nor is the West as bad, all the while not being as black-and-white as what you seem to be arguing against.
From that link:

> For Linux folks, sorry guys, the GUI support is not yet ready for prime time, though in the meantime, you could use Wine, Red GUI usually runs just fine on it.
Of course they're different: private communications are not economic interactions, but both are private interactions between mutually consenting parties. So there are parallels.

That people choose to deny any link is not surprising.

Like I said, society has accepted these classes of restrictions on private interaction, and that means it will be very hard to make a coherent argument against prohibiting private communication. Such arguments will be hobbled by arbitrary judgments that this private interaction ought to be free from interference, invasion or censor, while this other private interaction should not. Cognitive dissonance will make a concerted push against prohibitions on private communication difficult.

As for the US Constitution, that only relates to the US. The global question will be decided by the majority's perception of the morality of right to privacy and autonomy.
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Idaho is so culturally and socially conservative though, #3 behind just Wyoming and Utah. I don't see it being a good fit for many SVers for that reason. I wouldn't mind visiting but living there long term sounds rough.
Any typical human can form opinions on politics; it takes more work to say something meaningful about mathematics.
Can you add a value judgment for what you've stated? I did not include one in my comment, and you answered in legal terms without including a value judgment yourself. For example do you agree with the morality of your restaurant example?
I didn't wanted to started this flamewar. But i have to discuss this because my country is under attack from insane right wing mentality when in our country we have great opportunities and great universities. Even Mirzakhani addressed this issue. You can search about it. When she talks about how people in Western countries think about Iran as jungle which every men burns USA flags every day and chants "death to America", when it is not true at all.
We saw similar rallying in the year following 9-11 and the initial invasion of Afghanistan. With the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it became more complicated very quickly.
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MacOS version still able to buy standalone license here without signing up for an account:

https://agilebits.com/store
(Edit: the above comment has been edited to say "I didn't wanted to start this flamewar". Originally it said "I wanted to start this flamewar". Probably this was just a language misfire and that's fine, but since there were objections below I should make clear that my reply was posted prior to the edit, as you can see from the bit that I quoted.)

> I wanted to started this flamewar. Because my country is under attack from insane

I respect your country. Nevertheless this violates HN's rules and if you do it again we will ban you.

The only place to keep Hacker News as a place for things that gratify intellectual curiosity is to keep it free of nationalistic indignation, however justified. It's always justified, and it's always off topic here.
I certainly hope parent poster meant being reachable during working hours.
True, but lots of us don't care about that
The problem is he is beholden to too many people. Too many promises and deals made to get the leadership.
Wow, haven't heard that name in a decade. Crazy that they are still around.
You say data, I say system
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Actually I think this is mostly scare story for managers. But it does highlight an issue that we rely on a lot of hard work from volunteers all over the world that largely go unrecognized.