skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Index of Economic Freedom, Hong Kong has had the highest degree of economic freedom in the world since the inception of the Index in 1995.[0]

Hong Kong is the 32nd largest export economy in the world and the 12th most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (ECI).[1]

Hong Kong’s unemployment rate was 3.3% as of January 2017 according to Trading Economics.[2]

I think these metrics Trump the photos.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Hong_Kong
[1] http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/hkg/
[2] http://www.worldstopexports.com/hong-kongs-top-10-exports/
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The picture of the combo toilet-kitchen made me viscerally upset. That must be so unsanitary.
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Bloat is making me so angry that I'd take an as400 textual interface as native feel any day. The web era is one step too much in the wrong direction to me. I enjoyed the hyper genericity of the web, but I'm tempted to say we need a little bit more of the flat and trickful things of the past.
Hopefully they won't be called VersaLife.
I'm guessing the reason so many companies are in Utah County is because of tax incentives, but it's still weird to me. I would think that it's harder to attract talent to an office in Provo, seeing as the stereotypical tech worker is probably going to prefer living in SLC where there's less Mormon influence and more going on socially.
There is a cost to having to commute more than an hour to work compared to living 5 minutes to work by walk. Once you try the difference you won't go back unless there are serious economic differences between the two choices.
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Johns Hopkins has a medical school. But they have other schools too!
A corollary is what accents sound nice is different languages. I have been told that American accents sound awful in Danish, and French accents sounds nice.

I think Spanish, Italian, Portuguese sound nice in English, even when the accents are quite thick. French can sometimes be variant, a really thick French sounds worse than thick Italian I believe. German accents do not sound that nice. A really good Danish accent often tends to sound nice, whereas the thicker ones are just awful, dull and plodding. These are of course my own perceptions but I wonder if there are any studies of accent preferences across cultures.
Integrating this app into Playgrounds in xcode would work, although they'd have to make it accessible; xcode is easy enough to install, but it's not marketed as a "install this to learn to code" type of app. Distributing it separately would be better.
Yep, they just don't care and keep throwing pointers instead references or std::vector/array, #define instead of const, char* instead of std::string and so on.

I have been preaching how to write proper C++ code vs "nicer C" since the late 90's, but without much success, specially to enterprise developers.

Many of the so called modern C++ features were already possible with C++98.

As a good example, MFC 1.0 could have been like Turbo Vision, OWL, VCL, Qt and so on, but the test group from Microsoft found Afx too high level and wanted just a thin layer over Win16 thus it was reborn as MFC.
I agree!

> You've got to be cognizant of what details you are sharing over the connection, regardless of who signs the certificate.

So why not cut out the browser errors, for free? Somehow this vaguely feels like Don Quixote straining hard to hold onto the original definition of the term "hacker".

Props to this guy for sticking to his beliefs; I don't mean for this to be interpreted as saying anything should be changed.
UPS hq is in Atlanta, too.
In startup investments like this one the media basically make a simple factor of the percentage an investor gains and the price he's paying for it. There is no value to that number besides nice newspaper titles.

Real evaluation is the same as for any other company, however in a private company you have less data to go with, the data can't be relied upon as much (since the source is mostly the company itself), and all of these risks get increased by the company being relatively new and not profitable yet. In exchange for the risk investors hope to gain similar growth of company value after they purchased their shares. Therefore most investors mostly look for factors that show huge growth chances, instead of looking at traditional health factors.
> that keeps going off

If the C language (not even a compiler, the language) somehow magically inserted bad code or rewrote your good code to be buggy on its own, you'd have a point.
Yes and no. It's clearly satire, but who can claim it's not a real valuation?

Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...
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It also has one of the highest levels of income inequality, which is what this article highlights.
Though obviously I skwonked the percentage increase there. The inflation in that tiny bread example was 1400%
Christopher Domas does some very cool work. His System Management Mode exploit a few years back was quite nice. It will be interesting to see which processor it is that he found the ring 3 hard lockup instruction in...
The internal chat app built by the Uber is named uChat
I don't think that I am trying to fight any politics, but rather just trying to understand the circumstances of the situation here.

I have had some experiences with women where things seemed to be going fine and then I was abruptly blocked or ignored, and it was very frustrating at the time because I had poor social skills and I didn't have a good understanding of what had happened or why. Now I understand that dating is often asymmetrical and one person just may have many more options than the other, or just decide they are not interested, and that's OK.

This seems like it could be a very extreme case which got way out of hand and the guy went off the deep end, but I think it is best to at least try to have some understanding of and maybe some empathy for both sides.

I think the same thing can happen to women who are pursuing men, and it can also become extreme, like the woman who broke into David Letterman's house. Should you just call her a creep and throw her in prison, or should you feel empathy for her mental illness and try to treat it? It seems to me like the best solution is to determine and treat the actual cause of the behavior.
See also "Microsoft's Calibri font is at the center of a political scandal in Pakistan" from two weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751358
Big and famous universities have deals, but not the rest, which is the reason why scihub exists in the first place. Maybe publishers should up their game and provide near free access to any PhD student or higher and a better uptime (people laughed at the fact that scihub+libgen hack was more reliable than springerlink).

Students would pay a little fee, if that doesn't impede their research too much.

Also I was thinking of a time based value. Papers / Journals older than X years, or that have already received a fair amount of fees could fall into free access. That could make students looking for alternative or forgotten ideas more motivated.
The fact that you deliberately want to silence any conversation about how it can be bad is very telling about how you think women should behave in the workplace and respond to abuse.

It's also a classic example of an asymmetric definition of discourse. It's only permissible to speak about things that paint you and yours in a positive light.

> And even when they decide to talk about it, it pre-trains them to paint it as oppression which predictably gets reactions ranging from "WTF" to "we don't give a fuck, your paranoia is your problem".

Just to recap this real fast:

1. You don't believe that men have intent to hurt women, even when they do.

2. You think that dismisses the impact and consequences of the behavior, both legally and morally. You imply that this is so BECAUSE...

3. If women realized the game is rigged towards men that will further undermine them. And pointing out to men that their actions are crass and inappropriate and in some cases illegal just angers them.

4. So ultimately she asked for it by sharing an article about difficulties she's faced in tech. She should have kept her mouth shut and not provoked the men around her.

I want to stress this: You're attempting to gaslight people. You're dismissing toxic, abusive, and unprofessional behavior. You even grant that it can be these things, but somehow draw a line between then men and the consequences of their action and label it "intent".

If the only thing that discriminates a man's actions between sexism and a joke is HIS internal mental state? Well then, it's sexism. You don't get to avoid the consequences of your actions in a shared setting, words are actions, therefore they can have consequences. For the speaker as well as those spoken to.

As an aside...

> because I found TFA informative and there is nothing you can do about it.

I do not care even slightly about what you upvote. Upvotes are constructive. Flagging is meant to remove spam and obviously useless articles. Your spurious "dime a dozen" complaints don't fool anyone, don't defend your actions, don't conform to the guidelines given. You're misusing flags to sink stories that obviously a good number of people chose to upvote.

Maybe stop censoring hacker news because you can't bear the truth.
I suppose if you live in a block of flats, this would be useful.

I tend to use Amazon Lockers a lot anyway, there's one just outside my tube station (Transport for London let Amazon put one there, which I thought was smart)
I really love Kerbal Space Program but I stopped playing a couple of years back. Unity is really terrible. I remember landing 3 pieces of a moon base, and I was getting like 3fps... After another 3 weeks of making a space station, again was getting 5fps.

The funny thing was, I went out and splashed 1.5k on a new PC just for Kerbal, I loaded my save file of my moon base, and now I had 7fps....

Absolutely useless. KSP is like a Mr Universe Body Builder wearing a 3 year old girl's dress.
> To help make the European debate decent and civilised, it is now more important than ever to value the skills of the linguist

Personally I think the German establishment is just trying to conquer Europe again, as much respect as I have für die Deutschen und ihre Sprache. Today, Britain needs no additional sympathy for Germany, they need sympathy for themselves, a will to live. The EU is unrepresentative, unproductive, and unaccountable. Nobody needs any more reverence for it. The EU is the worst French idea the Germans ever took to.

Germany is today a country where foreign journalists are chased through the street by communist activists, and where you need a license to post a video on YouTube. If your teacher's beloved Germany ever returned, it is surely leaving yet again. I talk to Germans who are fleeing to Austria, because they feel something wicked coming, and I don't blame them.

Britons could stand to learn from Germany's mistakes and be more honest with themselves before it's too late for anyone to be honest with anyone.
It depends on how you define intelligence. If you go broad, grit and such are part of it.

A broad definition is ability to solve problems.
Beauty is outside it unless it really solves some problem... which it well might in some occupations.
You could make one hell of a good C++ web framework with this.

http::controller mypage
{
//Browsing to http://server/mypage/test?some_str=blah&param=5 calls this
http::response test( const std::string& some_str, const unsigned param )
{
return web::response{ 200, "You did awesome stuff" };
}

//This method can only be called with HTTP POST
[[POST]] http::response save_some_data( const std::string& blah )
{
return 200;
}
};

int main()
{
http::server server( "localhost", 80 );
server.add_route( "mypage", std::make_unique< mypage >() );
server.run();
}

It's all the magic of a modern web framework but in a fast language.

Due to web assembly you can easily have your server and client side scripting be done in the same language, with the same libraries which is also huge bonus.

I honestly can't think of a better stack.
Consider a world where your company always dies after 1-5 years. But for each dying company there's a new one. Investors still make profit, people still get products, employees still get jobs. In that kind of scenario do you really need a long living company? I'd argue you don't. Long life is an arbitrary factor that in itself has not much value.

And the longest living companies may actually be the biggest ones. At a certain size companies don't die anymore. They get merged with other big companies, restructured, or renamed.
They're really handy in the latest version which requires you to set up a sattelite network for communication with unmanned probes, you'd need at least three (ish) to be able to communicate with a probe on a planet, and you'll need several in various positions around the sun to make it work across the solar system (in career mode you only unlock the strongest transmitter late in the science tree, and even then you'll need several).
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Yep, there is very little discussion over taking the language in other directions, because ultimately Evan supposedly knows best. It's sad to see such a nice project being bogged down by such a mentality, but Evan really brought this upon himself.
I think the founder is originally from Mexico so it's possible that English is not their first language. And either way, there's a more polite way to bring something to their attention than as you did. It's possible to have your heart in the right place, but misstep with language.
What the hell, I used Android exclusively for nearly a decade and have just now seen the long press for the first time..
MechJeb is awesome, but I only tend to use it once I got the launching manually thing down properly - MechJeb can compensate for some bad design decisions. Some, that is.
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Why would it, if you keep it clean? (And are not dumb.)

You would be surprised, but toilets tend to be the cleanest places nowadays.

However the one depicted is unsanitary for sure.
There's stuff like the fair open access manifesto: https://fairoa.org/ .

I suppose that's partly a backlash against predatory open access journals that publish any rubbish as long as (significant) fees are paid..
It's actually possible that your revenue is higher than your evaluation, because evaluation is mostly based on how much profit people think you will make in the future. It's true though that companies with big revenue often also have big inventory, and considering both usually yield an evaluation higher than the revenue.
When I lived in Los Angeles, a significant amount of tech jobs I applied / interviewed for where in the industry. It's possible they are over-looking all the major studios (Sony, NBC, etc), along with the very large support for gaming and movies. Data pipeline, meta data management, and streaming are just a few things that are popular out there.

I think the difference is that many companies in LA are smaller and independent, but I caution that anyone who thinks that Hollywood is more than a small fraction of Los Angeles work hasn't explored much of the city. E-commerce and random website dev is also a much larger market than any town I've seen.

Another problem is the shear size of the city and the accompanying suburbs. You have tech in Pasadena, Burbank, Santa Monica, Torrence, etc, and no sane person would make these cross-town drives every day. I don't think that many people who live in LA even realize how large the place is, and possibly wouldn't realize that many "cities" aren't cities at all, but a part of LA.

In my observation, there is more tech work in LA than Austin, but I digress.
Scanning the entire DGI handle table reminds me of this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14808652

Relevant sublink. see Linus Torvalds comment

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.arch/_uecSnSEQc4/...

tl;dr Traversing page aligned structures can totally hose the associative cache, which relies on a simple hash of the lower address bits. (I hope as a small brained primate I got that correct)
Too bad major projects got stuck on 2.10 and there is no safe way to upgrade to anything newer. We were running into issues even upgrading to 2.11 with Spark.
No, they don't compete now and probably never will. Yes, unwise to ever bet against either.
Due tu the fact they lost/were stolen 70$M of BTC last august (which they apparently repaid to their customers over the following 8 months).
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What an absurd claim. They were not to stupid to understand how to get to orbit. The made the choice to focus on a sub-orbital tourist effort first.
Yeah I tend to order ESP8266 devices and random sensors, from AliExpress. Although the postage often takes 3-8 weeks its a little hit and miss whether the packets are delivered or have to be collected.

Mostly these days I tend to use verkkokauppa and similar "local" shops that can be collected from.
The point being that on these experiments, the sensor isn't an array of piezos, rather a single-element piezo. Cuts the costs (a fab invoices around 100-200e for such a sensor), but lowers the overall image quality.
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With the function-style syntax and general compile-time programming support this is getting awfully close to full hygienic macro capacity, even if restricted to outputting type declarations at first.
Yes, let's just listen to one company's exec bashing his competitors... I also find it hilarious how he completely glosses over the fact that the Falcon 1 was supposed to be their product and utterly failed in the market.
same question, I'd love to play on my mac. Unfortunately, I don't know if we can expect Microsoft to put a lot of effort in this...
Have you tried SC2?
It requires some getting into, but the dynamics of the game and the relationships between different races and the tech tree is very well thought out (a well timed upgrade allows you to kill a given unit in 2 shots instead of 3, changing the balance dramatically).

In many ways, as an AoE1&2 fan, I find SC2 a good continuation of some of the best aspects of the RTS genre that requires both a tactical and strategic mind.
Spent time in HK with a well-off RE developer. Played tennis at LRC, etc. and was able to understand the city better.

Basically everything below mid-level is these conditions. For average in mid-level it's like $15m USD. Condos at the Peak are selling for $120m.

The similar thing to this photographer I witnessed is all the helpers that live on balconies of whom they help. For like $300 a month. They're grateful for having a decent place to live unlike the photos but still no way to live..
> For Ethereum, was/is it possible to sell your coins on the fork you're not interested in?

Yes. There was no replay protection (transactions were valid on both chains) but soon after the fork people created smart contracts that got initialized to a different state on each of the chains. So you could, e.g., send your coins to the smart contract which then would forward it to your address A on the first chain and to your address B on the second chain.
and if everyone does that, noone will offer the particular file except hosts, so the availabilty can be spotty - and the torrent interfaces have no way to tell upfront.
It's the same language. ES2015 is just syntax "sugar" for doing the same thing, it's mostly opinionated and for convenience. So I suggest both looking at the old style and the new style and write your code in a way that make most sense to you! Then when you join a company, there will be style guides and "linters" to enforce it. But if you have to choose, start with the old style because that's how JavaScript have been looking like for 15 years and a lot of code looks like that. Also I'm not a big fan of "trans-pilers".
> Do you think there is room for a little more empathy here?

That's sort of the question the author posed, now isn't it?

> but it really is possible they have no idea the impact they're having on this woman

Presumably some did, as they apologized. Again, exactly what are you proposing here? At what point does carelessness become neglignece. Are you suggesting this is a large group of people with a very specific and very similar set of neurodiverse characteristics?

What?

> I was not aware that someone would be as deeply hurt as the author was. I work in an environment where jokes like that are common and often come from the only woman in the office. So I simply had no idea that this could "destroy people".

If at some point people could stop talking about their dicks and start doing their jobs that'd be amazing. How do you find time to work in between all the posturing?

> It's not the same as sexism

Except that it's indistinguishable from sexism without a powerful form of mass telepathy...

> I can't change the people around me but I can develop a resilience such that those things don't bother me

It's impressive that you started off with "Do you think there is room for a little more empathy here?" and ended with this. It's a total around-the-world of the gaslight playbook. Be more sensitive and think about the feelings of the men harassing the woman. And hey, she should be tougher anyways.

What you're saying and promoting is needlessly unfair. Stop it.
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Privately held, taxpayer funded, like most of Musk's endeavors.
What do you mean? That you depend on other dependent projects releasing versions compatible with 2.12? Isn't this reasonable?
This is of course all speculatory, but I think for many of us the things that sets him apart from the "money-focused" crowd are his goals and how outspoken he is about them. He wants to get people to Mars, which as a business venture will not turn a profit in his lifetime. I'm not saying he is altruistic but rather that he might be more of the 'fame and glory' type, wanting to leave a larger mark than a big digit in some future Wikipedia bio.
While I can understand that sentiment and perspective. Those people are wrong, they are inconveniencing their competitors to a tiny degree and over estimating the value of those features due to the awful implenation.
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Which are these major projects? Spark?

As far as I'm concerned, they are working on a way to upgrade to Scala 2.12. But closure serialization is the main blocker IIRC, for now.
The Packstation of DHL is great. What also DP/DHL did, is to make every little shop a micro-postoffice. Probably gave them some incentives, but it works great if you are not at home, you can be sure your package is at the store max 5 mins from you
It costs $100 to order delivery?!