skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right that the party became notably less insane when Deng Xiaoping took over. However the various administrations since then have spent significant resources and time going in different (and sometime opposite) directions, and not always in a blunder-safe way. The example I have in mind is the declaration last month by the foreign affairs ministry that the Hong Kong "Joint Declaration" is not binding any more for China. They rolled that back a week later (probably after they realized where that was going), but essentially for a few days their official stance was "we don't respect treaties we have signed, even the ones we pretty much wrote and that gave us what we wanted. Our word as a government has no value". Kind of a risky move, and could have set a precedent.

As for your specific point regarding teaching English, I think you're right they wouldn't do that now, however it's a bet I could see them make if their domestic economy becomes slightly larger. After all there are other countries (Japan, Russia, France...) where English has a low penetration rate, and they get away with it.
Copyright Infringement is an act, and at least here in the US, an act which both criminal and civil laws provides specific penalties/remedies. On the criminal side, obviously, one of the penalties is imprisonment.
>It's not a knee jerk reaction.

Followed by a knee jerk reaction without any facts backing it up...

> That is not realistic, naive and outright dangerous thing for which people actually get badly hurt or die.

PS: Potted plants are often placed on the top of flat roofs with a lip and don't get tossed off it by the wind. The reason has to do with how the wind is deflected over the building and the obstructions around it. Often pushing them in opposite directions from the wind because of a giant counter rotating vortex of air. But, be happy with your inaccurate and over simplified model of how the world works.
I disagree. In an autonomous system, more sensors is almost always better, provided you have enough computing power to process the data. Having two sensors that disagree gives you much more information than if you had a single sensor with a malfunction. In the first case, you know there's some kind of fault and can take steps to fix it. In the second, you're running off bad data and who knows what could happen.

Three sensors are better than two—it's a common setup in flight control systems to have three identical computers running all calculations, and the majority opinion is taken as truth.
>> But in this specific field, with regards to safety and security, it needs to be out in the open.

This is one of the horrors of capitalism.

If there's money to be made, you can bet that if someone creates a proprietary protocol, it won't be released and will force other companies to develop their own technology to compete.

Yes, it will drive competition, but I fear that it will spawn a host of different, competing technologies and make the whole industry awash in proprietary technology. In most of those cases, the people who lose are the consumers.
Out of interest, has anyone actually tried to do that? (the simulation that is).
Since owning a house I am no longer surprised when seeing high costs for quotes of solar installs. Pretty much everything from a simple plumbing job to getting a window fixed has gotten very expensive.

I'm sure the costs for a contractor doing solar panels on a complete new build "cookie-cutter" subdivision could be quite reasonable but anytime it's a one off, with every house having its own unique quirks, it becomes expensive. It's also one of those things where I assume liability for the contractor can get quite high. Panel falling off the roof, or causing issues with standing ice or roof leaks, etc. Additionally it requires expertise in not only roofing but also electrical circuits (so a qualified electrician).
Look at GDP graphs for China, and you can see very clearly when the political upheavals ended and business got a stable, predictable regime to deal with (look at GDP graphs in general, and it quickly becomes clear that stability matters much more than the specifics of the economic or political system)

The Chinese government has demonstrated very clearly over the last few decades that it is more concerned about maintaining economic growth than about maintaining "ideological purity".
It's quite clear that you didn't read my original message. I explicitly said that I don't like systemd (for some of the less inflammatory reasons you've mentioned), so I've not "drunk the Kool-Aid".

Red Hat conspiracy theories are quite interesting, but you might want to provide evidence for the claim that a unified init system somehow locks people into Red Hat. You do realise that you can have the exact same .service file work on RHEL just as well as it works on openSUSE or Debian? I will reiterate that I don't like systemd by any stretch of the imagination, but a unified init system makes life so much simpler for any user.

Rather than bashing systemd, the community should be working on alternatives. GNU Shepherd is a viable alternative, maybe we should work on that rather than sitting around complaining about what systemd is doing.
So your vision of self driving cars involves dedicated roads being built for 200mph speed? So essentially you think the best use case for self driving cars is to replace rail between cities?

Who do you imagine will vote for the many billions of dollars it would cost to build these self-driving Veyron tracks for the absurdly wealthy? The people who can afford 200+ mph cars can probably afford to employ drivers anyway.
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A maintainer for amp (atom package manager I guess?) explicitly said they're sitting this one out. The mini-map plugin has been forked and rolled back to the version before the ads popped up.
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Sandbox that keeps them from your filesystem - maybe. But not from the editor or network (most of the plugins need or rather based on the idea of using them).
> Nothing at all, that's the thing German legislators seem completely ignorant about like a lot of other facts about the Internet.

Oh, they are well aware of that. However, they rightfully see technology alone not as a valid reason to stop caring about something. If you target the German market from abroad, they will try to apply German law. If you make it obvious by moving an already existing operation abroad without noticeable change to the user doubly so. Why should the physical location of the server change anything? Usually the people arguing against regulation say that there are no borders in the internet. Somehow that argument is only used when it suits them.

This is not unique to the internet. Radio stations that targeted other countries learned the same lesson 40 years ago. The same happens to people who try moving their financial assets to some tropical island. Just because technically the money isn't in the country anymore does not mean the government gives up on taxing.
Ah the old "there were no poor people before capitalism" mistruth again. You might want to research what Mao did before defending it in any why.

But you're right, communism the idea is not genocidal, just all of its prominent leaders were. The fact that the ideology lends itself towards "there is only 1 truth" has nothing to do with that, I'm sure.
This is a bit hyperbolic. If the original maintainers of a project are making changes you don't like, just fork it.

That said, if I was already unlikely to trust Kite, I don't want to work with them at all given this behaviour. Betraying the trust of a significant portion of your potential customers is a sure way to be exed from an industry you never capitalized on. Congratulations, Kite.
There are by far more small companies using Haskell & FP than large ones. I mentioned large companies because they are recognizable. So what is your point?
As Snap Continues to Stumble, Should It Consider Selling Itself?
Historically D&B was the business credit company that actually sent people to look at a business. They'd report back "2 story brick building on busy street in good condition with good customer traffic". Somebody has to collect data on the ground.
Actually I think I'll avoid it altogether, if someone is willing to do that on the web site then what might they drop in the installer.
THIS --> "someone found out that the admin password was adminadmin and managed to log in using that."
The control is only there if people have a fallback to making money another way. Once they become more dependent on gigging they will have to do whatever they are told to do. They are easily replaceable cogs that have no market power.
I was excited about an idea – and now it is dead
http://imgur.com/a/0oDU7
Librarians are always worried about preserving garbage, which is what the Million Dollar Web Page is. Now before you downvote me, bear in mind I did Information Science in grad school, so I hung around with a lot of librarians. I know the librarian hoarder mindset pretty well.

The point I'm trying to make is that the Internet is a different kind of thing than a library, it is more dynamic (which is good and bad) and generally a more living and lived-in type of medium. MDH was a money making scheme. Clever? Maybe. Intended to be long-lasting? Doubtful.

It's a cool article, nonetheless.
Considering no one is forcing people to spend their money on tapas bars or $10 cocktails, maybe it is terrible. The old delis/sandwich shops/diners/grocery stores have bad product and bad service, otherwise people would go there. Why would you not want a Trader Joe's, where you can find products of much higher quality, than a corner store bodega type place where there is no quality control or accountability? Why go to a deli when you can go somewhere with various options and spices than instead of just meat and bread?
He believed that money was God's way of showing favor, and somehow that worked out to, "Anything I do to get money is okay." He ended up appropriating most of my possessions. This was of course the first and last time I asked for a lift from that guy, so if you like you can consider him to have appropriately valued his time and effort. However, not mentioning that until we were in the car and driving was frankly extortionate. As I recall, he did back down on the charge rather than pull over, but it provided an extremely sharp life lesson.
That's why betrayals of trust - such as adding spyware that takes data without the user's informed consent ("opt-out") - are such a big problem.

You're right - there isn't enough time to audit everything, so we have to rely on trust. "Relying on trust" means instead of reviewing code, you have to review trustworthiness.
If you take collectively everything you mentioned and then think of other issues, they are no longer "edge cases", these will all have to be mitigated against.

Edge cases deal with extreme parameters (min or max), what you're describing is neither and poses a significant problem that needs to be dealt with.
The real answer is probably that total languages are obscure and the Ethereum inventors didn't know about them so they chose a simple and ordinary stack machine.

But those total systems are, of course, subsets of Ethereum, which means that if you write your program in an obviously finite way, you can use the same inductive proofs you would use for a total language.

Turing completeness makes it hard to prove properties automatically about arbitrary programs, but you can still prove properties about specific programs.

I'm pretty sure that MOST research on program verification has been done in the context of Turing complete systems, from the work of Floyd and Hoare, to the symbolic execution of Deutsch and King, to temporal logic, TLA+, etc.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I agree that there's a sort of negative feedback loop for people who exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia. A few years ago I went to visit someone in jail whom I'd only known from an internet message board. He couldn't stop talking, and had probably been arrested for being disruptively psychotic. He's doing much better now.

> Without medication there's no way to break the cycle.

Metabolic therapies break the cycle too. The simplest form of this is Niacinamide, one of the B-vitamins. Also useful are T3 thyroid, topical progesterone USP, CO2, good nutrition, etc...
Well, in this case we have a clean slate, though, so we can decide what is optimal. It may be that LIDAR is more effective than a purely binocular approach to detecting distance.
But when an accident due to highway braking occurs, the person in the following vehicle will always be considered at fault -- the person in front of you may brake hard for any reason good or bad, and if you collide into the back of that vehicle, you were following too closely, driving too fast, and/or not paying attention.

The person in front may also be partially considered at fault if they didn't have a good reason, but the person following will always be considered at fault.
Is 28nm still the cheapest when lifetime power consumption is factored into the cost?
This is naive. People get the best job they can get, which is rarely the one they want. I was always forced to work more than 40 hours and I hated it but never had a choice when I was younger. I had employers erode all sorts of my rights and I couldn't say a word, because I couldn't find any other work.
Come on. Quote from original comment: "Until we have near-perfect code writing AIs every new smart contract is just a disaster waiting to happen."

If smart contracts are at all useful, they most definitely will be useful before we have near-perfect code writing AI's.
While this is nice, and much better than using e.g Google, it is even better to use an end-to-end encrypted solution. Messaging has underwent the same transition in the last few years. Trusting the server, even if yours, is just not enough.

I created https://www.etesync.com for that purpose exactly, it does end-to-end encrypted sync for Android and desktop for your contacts and calendar.
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The obvious answer is political censorship, but there also exists a persuasive economic argument. By blocking, or inhibiting the performance, of foreign Internet products, China gives a "head start" domestic clones (e.g. Baidu<->Google, TenCent<->FB, etc) to corner the market. The GFW effectively hamstrings foreign products, making it easier for domestic companies to compete in their early growth stages.
It's not a tautology, because its truth relies on the truth of A. A true tautology would be something like "A or not A".

However, I address your concerns in the second part of my comment, as "A and A" is derivable from "A", and so is excluded.
In other words, they didn't actually give away their "secret sauce" by answering the VPs questions. What they did do was convince the VP that the product would be easy to build in-house. Ironically, that was actually false as Novell failed in building it.
Right now, you manually inform the car by driving that part yourself. By the time that changes, these cars will have billions of miles of experience.
The problem is the contractor, may not be working more because he wants to, but because he is not certain the work will be available in the future. Also, since the contractor is willing to work 60 hours, he is a little more attractive to employers. Also the town you live in has a finite housing supply. So even though you think you are making decent money, you are being outbid by all the 60 hours/week contractors who have more money than you. So you eventually give in and start working 60 hours to keep up.
It's understandable that they are forced to kill off such a money pit and divert resources to more vital features that users demand, like telemetry and a re-designed start menu.
PSA: I removed the whitelisted directory from my local install of Kite and then uninstalled the application. Logging into https://kite.com/settings/files still shows my machine and all of the synced files.

I still had to manually purge my machine and files from that page.

If you think your files were removed, check again.
3 Reasons That Got Us into Y Combinator
Since when is it ok to say "rape" instead of "theft"?!
An interesting moral query: how much debt erased is worth a prison sentence of X years?
A timeline map of the massive increase in human-caused earthquakes in Oklahoma
Their reporting and "past performance" info gets used by USG if you are interested in federal contracting.
would be great to hear about other YC folks' experiences
> Hitler was democratically elected as well

No he wasn't, it is not that simple. His party at that time had no majority despite being the largest one. He got appointed chancellor not by democratic vote but by backroom negotiations - mostly because he was expected to be easy to control.

From this state he went for the dictatorship but again not by democratic election but rather by scaring the other parties into voting him the Enabling Act in 1933 after the supposedly communist-inspired Reichstag Fire.
Woh, why would a distribution drop something as common as grep? Saying you can build it yourself sounds crazy when it always exists and cross-platform...
> this tactic seems to reveal a massive desperation by the Kite folks

That's the weirdest part to me. Who, exactly, thought this was going to go well? It is hard to be sneaky with open source. And even harder to win back goodwill after being caught out.

For instance, now that I know, it would take a change of management and business model before I'd even consider running any of their code, and I'll be writing a Kite-detector for our code scanning tool this week.
From @abe33's comment:

Secondly, even if it may seems to come late, we've heard you and decided
to revert all the changes related to the python links feature. The next
release will no longer show anything. I'll also make sure that the relation
between Kite and the minimap package are as clear as possible. I've been an
employee at Kite for over half a year now and this plugin is now
officially maintained by Kite.
Sounds like a really promising business model. I know hardcore NCAA football fans will pay way more than that for access to recruiting news. I'd consider subscribing once they cover teams I follow.

Hopefully a VC 'growth above all else' mindset doesn't force them to expand beyond a profitable enthusiast niche.
Paint has always been a handy tool for me for making annotated screenshots as well as lightweight image manipulation. I use it on a fairly regular basis at work.

I forsee the result of this being lots of people Googling 'download ms paint' in the future and ending up with malware on their system. Seems kind of shortsighted if you ask me.
Ask HN: What are your experiences of using Zipkin in production?
I have mixed feeling after using zipkin (w/nodejs) in development environment for a few weeks - mostly lack of documentation and framework support. What are your "lessons learnt" of using it in production?
And it only took them what? 30 years?
'Startup visa' alternative delayed by Trump admin
>> Why should we believe reported sexual abuse from someone experiencing a psychotic break?

You should not take it at face value. But neither do I think you should tell them it didn't happen and it's all in their head. The later is telling them there is something wrong with their mind (to shame the patient can be extremely bad practice). Also, if you reject the notion of abuse and it turns out some of it was true, you'd be gas lighting the patient which will lead to additional distress and a distrust of the very people who are trying to help.

On a purely speculative note: Perhaps your family member had experienced some of that abuse. Perhaps the stress they were under (and that is a very broad term) lead to those thoughts mixing with all sorts of present day events and people. Whatever the cause, given what they went through to get pulled back to reality do you think they'd ever mention any of it again?
China Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Gain Global Economic Dominance
It's part of the self driving vision. Veyron's could be as cheap as other high-end cars if mass produced. The point of self driving is not really about replacing drivers but making overall transportation more efficient.

The advantage of lanes over trains is that

a) it would be an order of magnitude cheaper to convert a car lane into a self driving lane than build an entire railway line
b) self driving cars can still go on normal roads at lower speeds, so you solve the last mile problem
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This is my biggest worry with the current features, actually. A lot of people seem overly concerned about distracted drivers overlooking things and getting into rear end collisions that the car overlooks.

I'm more worried about false positives causing unexpected hard braking and leading to an increase in high-speed rear-end collisions on the highways. These are really uncommon now, but could increase if false positives are common.
The blue shell is maximally frustrating because it doesn't help the user. Because of the item skewing, it's basically never a person in the front half of the race who gets it, and so they can't hope to gain places by using it. It's not a catch-up item, it's a 'penalize the person in first' item. This just causes kingmaker situations, which is generally poor game design, even in a casual setting.
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They don't, usually companies in my country opt for a home rolled solution, or Microsoft Outlook.

That aside, Streak.com's beacons work even in Gsuite readers! They're awesome. It's essentially just a unique image included in the email body.
Not sure when you're seeing the privacy policy change was made but as an early user of the Kite desktop tool, directory whitelisting has been in place for a year or more.
WTF, this could get people fired. Many companies do not descriminate whether an employee has uploaded code to a third party server intentionally or not. If corprate software monitors catch this happening, its pink slip in many places. I just can't believe anyone would play with developers this way. What a cruel company.
“Back in the day, [the wage] would have been a great number,” said Victor, “but because of Facebook moving in, everything is so expensive. I have to get payday loans sometimes. We barely make it.”

They make a combined (rounded) $75,000/year. The real tragedy is that you can't afford to make it in the Bay Area on $75k/yr.

I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.
Twas satire
See, you can bring up information theory in almost any context.
The other sad thing is that Solidity, the language of Etherium, is a trainwreck. It has tons of bugs, properties that maximize the memory cost of the program, and until ~6 days ago had crazy double init bugs in constructors using "this".
Maybe they want the core experience to not require ancient command line tools? You don't see many Windows users complaining about the lack of grep.
Nice, I would have assumed there would be additional security for production units honestly.
Clazy 1.2 released – KDAB
> You might want to research what Mao did before defending it in any why.

What do you think Capitalisms death-toll might be?
Bear chases 200 sheep over cliff edge to their deaths
Half the cost of solar panels was not installation for my system. Care to provide figures?
Switzerland has a few car shuttle trains ("Autoverlad") to avoid mountain passes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_shuttle_train#Switzerland - no advance booking required. The Eurotunnel shuttle between France and the UK is another great example (but has inflexible bookings).

High-speed car shuttle trains might be the better solution, if you insist on using cars.