skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appaling thinking.

Firstly, I don't know that all warehouse work sucks. Post an assessment that shows this are the widespread conditions in the industry, or at least other examples of companies doing the same.

Secondly, if that were the case, it would be only more reason to be outraged! What, companies paying workers under minimum wage (as low as 2.70£ an hour), treating their employees as cattle without the bare minimum conditions of dignity, all the while making its CEO the richest man on earth? We're supposed to be okay with this?? Shrug our shoulders and say "eh maybe they're evil, so what", say "a company that makes 150,000,000,000$ a year can't pay its workers minimum wage, their work will be miserable but that's life"?

What an appalling way to see things.
Working at a startup does not make you an expert. Especially when your opinion goes against what pretty much everyone else in the field thinks.
>I think the fundamental reason this is happening is that the chinese do not trust their own gov't enough to store their assets in a more liquid form. Or, perhaps there's really no other forms of storage that's not risky."

Leaving your money in a bank, the most liquid way to store it provides almost no appreciation on that asset. I think the Chinese put their money into real-estate for the same reason other people do - because it's seen as a good investment:

http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/China
>> Why is it impossible for Westerners not to use drugs, while the Japanese manage not to use it fairly well?

Japanese people drink.
Japanese people also are major users of over the counter drugs which we in the west can't get hold of, notably benzodiazepines like flutazolam and flutoprazepam are available to buy there.
No, not anymore. That was phased out for new Model S's a few months ago (existing owners were allowed to keep free charging) [1].

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/13/technology/tesla-supercharge...
>It's almost like a full-time job, which is why we elect representatives!

We elect representatives because our history is dictatorial, and each step taken toward a more democratic system has been a compromise after a revolt between the ruler(s) and the ruled.

That usually means leaving them with some power.

Direct democracy doesn't mean that you have to make an intelligent decision on every single topic, ever. It means you can choose which topics to make decisions on and which topics you want to delegate to somebody else and whom to delegate it to.

It would still mean that you could delegate your vote on decisions about regulating the Internet to notorious full time job holder Ted Stevens if you really wanted.
Last year I developed a server emulator for the game - On the server's first run, it cloned all models from the official servers to a local folder. The download urls and the models itself were encrypted, also their urls got disabled after ~24 hours. Other informations like how big a model gets displayed inside the game world was declared inside a GAME_MASTER file. When connecting to the custom server, the client asks for the GAME_MASTER file and the models as needed. It was pretty fun to edit these and send the players custom models like a GIANT snorlax or a red pikachu. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the GAME_MASTER file even contained a "model signature" to trigger a forced model update, so it's possible to overwrite already cached models. In the first weeks Niantic broke the model of Starmie (it turned full black) and I'm pretty sure they fixed it without a full game update. You can checkout the emulator project here: https://github.com/maierfelix/POGOserver
Well, I just found out which half I wasted on Google AdWords. I had a campaign targeting the US. It was much less effective than I had expected, and just yesterday I found out why: There is a little option in advanced settings that lets you decide if you want to display your ads to users "in your targeted countries", or "interested in your targeted countries". The second is the default option, and if you do not change it, it will display your ads in Belarus, India, Turkey and wherever, altough you have an US-only audience. I got lots of calls from the Adwords sales team, always trying to tell me how to spend more money on Adwords. Nobody every pointed at the wrong setting, although they had all my settings and campaigns clear in front of them. I have the feeling that Google owes me a few thousand dollars.
> There are forthcoming breakthroughs in humanity being an interstellar civilization. We just need to build faster-than-light engines and terraforming equipment. Nothing major, right?

Building a dataset is easy and not something you would compare to faster-than-light engines. Believe it or not, some major breakthroughs are held back by simple lack of funding, and lack of awareness.

To make a dataset you need to pay radiologists to label enough data for the system to do its job well. This could be thousands, or hundreds of thousands of images. It is technically speaking very doable, but also very expensive. Then there are data privacy issues stopping you from sharing data. These are social issues, not engineering issues.
I remapped Ctrl to SPC (like spacemacs) and swapped CAPS with ESC.
One or two seconds sounds pretty long to me. I think I close accidental ad clicks well under a second a lot of the time as I realize what I did without waiting for the site to load.
The property (the house) is "inflation free/resistant":

Money is subject to inflation, because houses (and other goods) rise in price / money is watered down.

So: You may have no gain, but your savings are protected from dropping 5 to 9 percent each year, if "you have it invested in real estate".

Sounds good to me.
That's why email service platforms are a thing. SendGrid, MailGun, and the like.
I can't be absolutely sure but I think my code and online participation (totally unrelated, not even same programming language, domain, etc.) helped me in the end.

It shows I have MY (as opposed to 'uni forced me') foot in the door and proves (along with a certificate) that I know English really well.

There are many people who just coast through their CS degree on medium grades but still have basic problems with git, bash, English, etc.
There is no such mentioned risk for using VPN. I am posting here from Shanghai using my VPN. It has been going on for more than a decade and I couldn't name any single person who got arrested/charged/or even questioned for using so called "illegal" VPN.
Is there no government agency(ies) who track this to protect businesses from fraud? Otherwise with these practices in place, clearly the businesses selling ads are simply seeing what level of bullshit businesses will tolerate - how far into businesses' profits they can dig before the businesses say fuck this.
It's closer to 99% and it always has been. Even for traditional advertising.
My first impulse is to think "oh another socialist rant from the NYT"...

And so is my second.
I disagree that it's marketing drivel. Wanting everything to be consistent is the entire reason I was driven to the Mac as a platform in the first place many years ago.

Being on a platform where users and developers care about exactly what shade of grey their menu bar icon was, or matching the platform characteristics, adopting system-wide services, making apps accessible, is very important to me.

You may not care, but that's how I choose a platform. It's not marketing, it's personal preference.

I'm going to push for iOS and macOS to develop in this direction by supporting developers who try their very best to make thoughtful and consistent software.

Your argument works against yourself: "cheap cross-platform apps are relevant to some, but we don't need the personal tastes of some precious souls to be mandated for all of us." (I'm not making this argument against you, but try to see how cross-platform is your own personal preference that you are trying to push onto others. In my opinion it degrades a platform even if you don't use any cross-platform apps.)
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
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> What's wrong with being competitors?

Nothing. My point is that they are competitors AT BEST. Unlike say our fellow anglo nations like canada/britain/new zealand/etc who are our "family/friends" at best.

My point is that china will never be our "friend/family".

> Japan gained the most public respect in the U.S. when it looked like they were kicking America's ass in manufacturing and high technology.

They did? Asians were mistaken for being japanese and killed. Doesn't seem like "respect". I know plenty of people who still hate the japanese to this day and blamed them for the decline of american industry.

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

Sure, the chinese have overtaken the japanese now, but the "respect" is highly superficial.

> I was mainly saying that you don't tend to see the language used as a tool for propaganda.

Really? You don't see people mocking chinese for sounding "silly"?

> I'm just saying that their languages aren't being used in propaganda like German was used in anti-Nazi propaganda.

That's because there are other differences to attack the chinese. Germans are fellow white northerner europeans. We can't attack them for being "white like us". We have to find something different about them to attack. With the chinese, there are plenty of differences to attack.

> The only people I hear complain about (South) Korea are Japanese people

Really? I know military personnel stationed in south korea. I have friends who visited south korea on business. Many of them had bad things to say about them.

> Maybe I live in a bubble, but I would think I'd run into somebody with one of these prejudices over the years, if it were a big thing.

Maybe you do. I'm from NYC. Where did you grow up? I'm not saying EVERYONE hates them. I'm saying there are plenty of anti-chinese, anti-japanese and anti-korean sentiment in the US ( including highly liberal areas like NY metro ).

Why do you think Trump got elected bashing china, japan and korea?
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Code is how we realize abstractions. They complement each other. The point is that the code is a key part of the product, so saying it's an afterthought is to misunderstand the product.
For German speakers: Bayerischer Rundfunk has it as a radio drama, free for download. The text is slightly compressed, I think.

But the speakers are first-rate, especially Koroviev in a gorgeous Austrian dialect.
I'm fortunate enough (no pun) to be willing to spend money on an EV and I just don't find what I want. I understand Tesla had to produce vehicles like these to make people realize EVs actually were usable cars (usability predicated on luxurious interiors and sporty performances - which I don't care about.)
But it is still game-theoretically correct.
You can ask: if this is not working for P&G why will this work for you. I have mixed experiences. If I am attacking a niche where the user will act immediately after finding you exist then it works, if you are targetting a big market with a lot of competitors it is not worth the money and time except you discover new specific keywords.
One or two seconds is not too quick for a human to reject your page after clicking on an ad.
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The Scion xA and xB both had center console instrument clusters, and AFAIK neither had HUDs.
How many brands could just cut out the traditional or sales-based advertising and go for quality and word of mouth growth like ANKER?

Nothing sells me on a product like a happy customer. I scroll past the adds and related items on sites and dive right for the comments. Or just ask around work for what people use for X.
They get what...30-40% of their profits from China?

Here is how it would play out: Tim announces they are leaving China, Apple stock loses 90% of its value overnight, Tim is removed as CEO, new CEO comes in and says they are staying in China, Apple stock recovers 70% of its value.

So ya, even if Apple isn't selected out, Tim certainly would be. You are suggesting actions that a publicly traded company just cannot make. Don't try to outsource such morality to companies, they don't have the ability to act like that and exist at the same time.
> If it's a fee, how do you deal with absurd feature requests whose development costs far outstrip what you've quoted?

You make it painfully clear in the original contract that all changes and features requests require additional cost quotes.
Unauthenticated installers have been a dumb idea from day 1. This finally looks like the right opportunity to get rid of them.

I'm sure that having an additional step to verify your read/write access to the installation directory (eg. by means of a token file) isn't too big a hurdle for users, and it will properly close off this attack surface.
After North Korea Test, South Korea Pushes to Build Up Its Own Missiles
In that scenario, sinking a Chinese ship in Chinese waters is still very problematic.
> In general, it’s not a good idea. And in general, Newton’s method won’t converge.

Right, but this blog post isn't about the general case of using Newton's method to find roots, it's about using Newton's method for solving logistic regression for which it is perfectly suited, though there are better methods as well, of course.
>After cutting back on certain digital ads, “we didn’t see a reduction in the growth rate,”

>P&G, whose brands include Bounty, Crest, Tide and Pampers, spent $2.45 billion on U.S. advertising, not including spending on some digital platforms

So, even if digital advertising performed on par with everything else, it would only affect the growth rate by 5% of the effect other advertising had. Surely other factors contribute to variability at least enough that an overall effect cannot be determined using this data?
The unemployment from Foxconn's closure wouldn't really make a dent, and would go away pretty quickly. Opening up access to information would be hard to reverse later without facing the same argument with Apple as before. The only reasonable solution is to not yield to Apple.
I've worked in and around marketing/advertising for the last 6 years in different capacities and have found that the emphasis on audience hyper-segmentation and retargeting to the exclusion of other methods is the single biggest piece of bullshit out there. Targeting people based on what they are apparently interested in vs. places they go that reflect those interests doesn't give better results and can turn off your customers. It sounds cool to marketing teams and it works to get you contest entries, but it doesn't usually translate to more conversions than a well managed campaign would give.

If I buy a mattress, advertising more mattresses to me doesn't make me more likely to buy them; I bought the thing already. Advertising mattresses to a person on a mattress review website, though - that works. Of course, that's harder to do.
Not for a managed hosting with 1-3h of allocated maintenance work plus HA guarantee. It's cheap, for that level of service.

Either you want cheap mass hosting, then you have to live with support that can only assist you with basic stuff (and most don't have any support other than FAQ pages), or you pay more and get support that can actually help you. For example, a hoster I know, when you go to them even with the most hipster tech stack imaginable, they'll educate themselves on said technology and will help you until the app is set up successfully.
Researchers hacked a car wash to attack the vehicle inside
Well, for instance I currently have a talk mostly assembled which would cover the way in which our team architected a system to allow small components of a complex stateful system to be deployed independently with minimal risk to the other components of the system. This could be classified under "Devops" or "System Architecture".
Since the author is reading, a few small typos, followed by one slightly more substantial comment: 'simgoid' should be 'sigmoid' (S-shaped); `x y = log(x) + log(y)` should be `log(x y) = log(x) + log(y)`;'guarentee' should be 'guarantee'; 'recipricol' should be 'reciprocal'.

I would like to see some mention of the fact that the division by the gradient is a meaningless, purely formal motivation for the correct step (inverting the Hessian) that follows.
I don't get your complaint at all. What would you rather have them do? What would "sticking to their guns" involve?

Or would you rather have them not "make so much noise" about social justice?
Is CL doing just that?
I see it as 'Don't make me think!' (Steve Krug) applied to a fresh redesign of what is really needed and where.

This is the Google home page compared to Alta Vista. The absence of dials, switches, knobs, hidden buttons, things you have to twist in their own special way, it is all good.

Clearly there are some situations where the buttons have to exist, e.g. for seat adjustment, as you wouldn't want to be doing that whilst leaning for the screen. However, the minimal approach and a clear, easy to use console is way ahead of what other cars are doing for their interiors.

Without the clutter of an existing car interior I am sure that big flashing lights on the centre console about exceeding the speed limit will be perfectly visible to all occupants of the car.

This latter point is important, routinely my brother in law drives at speeds that are faster than what he tells my sister. She is sat next to him but can't see the speedometer, so if he says one speed then she has to believe him, even if it is just slightly fast rather than the true excessively fast figure. Having a centre console is a bit more fair to passengers wanting to know that information too. If it is the car rather than the driver that is driving I guess this is no different - everyone including the driver is a passenger.
Does P&G have a substantial in house ad tech operation? They advertise so much that they could probably start their own DSP and license its services to others.
So what do you want Apple to do? Leave the China market and allow a government owned phone company to take the market share? How is that scenario better for anyone in the US or China?

I mean being angry that the Chinese government isn't great at human rights is one thing, but to point that anger at Apple is a bit misguided, and what do you suggest that would actually make the problem better?
Yes, Japanese people drink a lot, and it is a social issue. But there are a lot of functional alcoholics in Japan.

> Japanese people also are major users of over the counter drugs

Japan is much stricter with medicine than US. Several medicibes that are OTC in US are illegal in Japan: https://jp.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/local-resource...

I am sure that there are abuse of prescription drugs. But I have not heard anything about a systematic, widespread problem (comparable to prescription drug abuse in US).

A cursory reading of the WP says that the legal status of the drugs you mentioned is more or less the same as the US:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine
> What can a dictator do that Xi Jinping can't?

Stay in power for as long as he wants, and then pass the leadership to his child.
Programming in the 1960s
Why is this downvoted? It’s a factual statement. Freedoms of speech (in the U.S.) is that Congress shall make no law..

A radio station that refuses to play my song or let me talk isn’t violating my freedom of speech.

Facebook censoring “hate speech” is not violating freedom of speech. Hate speech is protected speech under the U.S. constitution. (Before anyone brings up Schenck v. United States, that case ruled that speech that present imminent danger (yelling fire in a crowded theater) was not protected, but hate speech doesn’t generally reach a level of immediate danger.

So if we are to criticize Apple for curating their store, we must criticize Facebook for curating their platform. We must also crisis Google for their curation of advertising content as well. Because unless hate speech says “kill <some group> today at 5pm at the local market,” it’s broadly protected under the U.S. constitution. What that means that practically every single company in the U.S. is guilty of “violating free speech” – IF they were the government, but they are not and thus aren’t violating anyone’s right to free speech.
Why hasn't iMessage been blocked in China? Does apple run a special compromised version of it there, or has China simply not made banning it a priority yet, or is iMessage simply not as secure as we have been told?
> You're a coward.

What are you talking about? Didn't they remove headphones hack in iPhone 7?
They could always do what Google did and abandon China.
I'm not sure why you think neural networks can't handle variable numbers of inputs. Recurrent networks that ingest whole sequences have been around for a long time, and other structures have their own network topologies. Support for things other than classic RNNs is more limited, but e.g. TensorFlow Fold (https://github.com/tensorflow/fold) was specifically designed for that.
Is there no chance whatsoever that large American companies could influence the Chinese government by establishing a market presence and then threatening to leave / alter it? This is what they do in the the US. I know that China is usually happy to just start their own Google/Facebook/Amazon/Netflix, so perhaps I'm being naive. As much as I cringe at American companies kowtowing to oppressive governments, it seems like exiting entirely is no strategy at all -- merely contrition in another form.
Google was aspirational in China when it left: they weren't making much money there...they hoped to in the future.

Apple is not aspirational in China today: they are already making a lot of money there. Leaving China would cause an immediate shock to its stock price as well as a huge cut in actual profits.
As an engineer hiring engineers, if a candidate gives me a guthub url then I'm going to take a look. There are too many people coming through the door who are marginal coders, so if I can get a sense of what they do for something other than a white board problem then that's a good thing.