skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is culture, justified censorship (of extremism for example) and then there is hiding what government did during Tiananmen Square incidents and hiding the transgressions of the CPC and twisting or destroying pre-communist Chinese history, culture and religion.

No one is telling Muslim countries to show women hair or telling Singapore or China to unban porn or Europeans to stop enjoying football and enjoy baseball. But if a country's culture includes censoring actual genuine political criticism then perhaps western culture should include not dealing with such countries or undermining that part of their 'culture' whenever possible.

All of the things you mentioned as possibly wrong in the USA are very widely criticized domestically and abroad and debated (the efficiency of debating against people who justify for profit prisons and inhumane treatment of prisoners and so on is completely separate matter of course) and not censored so they might actually change in the future and even if the government attempts censorship is some roundabout way it blows up in their face with even more attention to the issue.

Meanwhile Chinese government wants to use censorship and related powers to cover CPC and governmental abuses and misuses of power, attack its neighbouring countries with propaganda and so on. And people consider this largely okay.
Maybe there is room for a publisher that makes books for people that already know how to program?
Although you used a throwaway, you forgot to include contact info. Assuming you want to sell the side project that is.
In other words, current computers are hopelessly slow
Samira tv
What's your hourly rate? $25/month doesn't give you much room for it to be profitable.
1989->2017

Photonics are promising QC technologies - especially Phonons, but we are a long way off!
His comment about a "really good offer" applied to the (potential) $3k per month, not to the couple of hundred per month.
This doesn't make any sense, as an interviewer I will definitely read your code on Github. It's a great way to get a sense of how someone writes code without having to ask for a time consuming assignment.

If you have a popular open source library on your github thats a huge plus. It shows that you've mastered quite a few different skills. From documentation, to promotion, ease of use, testing, accepting contributions, review etc.

But even if it's just a 1 star repo, it at least gives an overview of your code quality and style.

PS. we're hiring https://angel.co/stream/jobs
What will the top technology trends be in 2018?
> Nah, I don't think it is a false dichotomy in this case. It seems unlikely to me in the extreme that China is going to change its policies in response to pressure from some foreign company, even one as large as Apple.

That is still a false dichotomy. They don't necessarily have to change the policy in order to render it ineffective.

Apple is full of smart people. They could think of something if they had to.

Others in the comments have already suggested that they could allow side-loading of apps, which would remove their ability to prevent people from installing VPN apps. So the choice isn't actually "do evil or leave", it's at best "do evil or open the walled garden", which makes the choice they made far less sympathetic.

> More generally, I don't think describing countries & cultures that don't share your particular values as evil is reasonable or useful.

Prohibiting VPNs is part of a wider crackdown on free speech and privacy. If "evil" means doing wrong, that is doing wrong. "The banality of evil" and all of that.
I'm always surprised more libraries are not coupled with good coffee shops. Seems a perfect match.

There is a bookstore in Austin that has a great coffee shop inside, and it certainly attracts folks to come in and browse.
TCP/UDP/IP are BE, but that's largely an artifact of the time they were invented (when the LE/BE split was more even), hence networking hardware is probably where BE is still commonplace.

Most application protocols I've worked with are LE; serialisations like Avro, BSON, capnproto, protobufs, etc. come to mind, as well as numerous other proprietary ones. ASN.1 is a notable exception, but it's also much older.
In the spirit of Muehlhauser's list of textbooks ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subj... ) can anyone recommend a more technical introductions to Shor's algorithm -- kets allowed -- who's read at least two other such introductions?
In my experience more educated clients are better clients.

If your service can be so easily taught, you're probably not providing much value.
What do side-projects typically sell for?

My own is 8 months old. It averages $3K/month in revenue with costs of $100/month. Mine is a plugin not SAAS. I've had 100 sales so far, currently around 5-10 sales/month. I offer 30-day no-questions-asked refunds, but no-one has requested one yet. I've never had a visa chargeback, either.

My own probably requires at least 3 software updates/year to maintain the revenue level. E.g., a small feature added or a couple bugfixes. Customers always buy annual licenses, and annual maintenance extensions to the license are half price.
Did the greek oracle use quantum computing. Yer a retard nigger monkey.

37898 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God,
37899 the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
37900 4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn
37901 after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; 4:21 And the
37902 flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that
37903 perfect gold; 4:22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons,
37904 and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner
37905 doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of
37906 the temple, were of gold.
37907
37908 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was
37909 finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father
37910 had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments,
37911 put he among the treasures of the house of God.
I'm going to have to say that _older_ people(seniors) are keeping libraries alive.

I've seen programs at libraries to help the Elderly learn basic computing skills, or have activities together(knitting clubs, boardgames, etc), to get them out of their homes/retirement communities and to a new place.
It still annoys me that a company/product that impresses me so much (Confluent/Kafka) has doubled down so hard and so many times on their "Exactly Once" ridiculousness.

Admit your mistake and clarify you really mean "idempotency" or "effectively once," and only if you say completely within the bounds of Kafka, and move on.

It's becoming a bit of a joke having to combat their fairy dust in my profession.
SendCatch.com

I recently picked up this nifty little app from the original developer (https://www.sendcatch.com/), and then immediately got swamped with my main product. It is not currently monetized.

I use it to instantly move larger files between my laptops and phones. Node/Mongo. Costs $5/mo on DigitalOcean. Open to offers! Email in profile.
Every 30 years of Moore's gives enough oomph for the data driven stuff to step up one level in complexity?
Actually you can write a Node.js script that fetches and generates the static html to display the repo stars, so the website itself won't load any JS. You just need to run the script once in a while.
Added to profile. Thanks
Here is a somewhat similar design, from 2016. It uses gimballed rotors at either end instead of modulating the angular velocity within a rotation cycle. Seems more sensible to me to do it that way, and it shows fully controlled flight (even flips it over at one point) instead of the little hop in TFA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14_XQ5nd2A
Not only are there definitely people who click ads, but there are people _like us_ who click ads.

All the dev tool companies run ads! CircleCI runs them, but the dozen or so other dev tool companies where I know the founders or early hires also run ads. You would think given comments like this on HN that they would be useless, but we all run the numbers. The numbers say that not only are they effective, but that usually we should run more of them.

It's like when people here say "oh I hate talking to salespeople". Yet, salespeople make the world go around.
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That looks OK. Unless FedEx has an open mail forwarder, a break-in at "pvma00057.prod.fedex.com", or DNS trouble, that's from FedEx.
We chose our place in part because it was two blocks from the regional library. You can go on the website and order books from the central lib downtown as well so just about anything can be at our fingertips within a few days.

We really need it to keep our daughter entertained as well because we "cut the cord" many years ago. She's an avid reader now, and I'm a proud dad. We're reading the Never Ending Story currently, and it really is never-ending!
Message to Our Customers: Shopify Incompetence Is Causing Us Problems / Delays
What are your current revenues/costs?
Merovíngios
> This includes 1/2/3 hours support/site changes respectively

$150 surely includes 1 hour of billable time. For many, this is in the $50-100/hour range (though higher isn't unheard of), so this seems pretty reasonable.
For a while, I thought Tesla lacked taste. This new interior proves me wrong. It is simply stunning. This strikes me as the obvious future of automotive design.
Going down the rabbit hole with go-fuzz
This is a cool idea. I hope you do this and I happen upon it one day.
Just curious are you an expat there? If so what kind of work are you doing and what sort of compensation are you looking at (if you don't mind sharing)
He mentions further down:

> To discern the system's true purpose, I used Masscan to ping TCP port 80 across the entire IPv4 address space using a TTL of 10 [...] Sampling this list revealed that the system was primarily being used to block access to copyrighted content.
We've seen Chinese aspirational companies try and fail, eg: LeEco (Faraday Future, etc).

But Apple made it a company focus to court Chinese market. So they can't back down now. For some reason I've never really liked the Chinese government. They always come across as a benevolent dictator, they'll let you do business as long as you toe the line. Any inkling of freespeech or such ideas and you're out.
I noticed the huge price swings of this orphaned coin over the last month ... looked very suspicious for a coordinated pump and dump. What I didn't know was that this was being done by a youtuber who basically stole money from his own followers through this scam. What a scumbag.
Steve McConnell's Code Complete can help with the clean code part. Read it and jot down some notes.
The smell emitter doesn't need to be in the same place as the smoke detector.
It's good for Google because they can say they upheld their values, and it's good for the Chinese government because now they have one less external factor to manage in their control of information. Perhaps there is more to this picture than I am seeing but that has always been my view

I don't see how they could have stayed in China and not been involved in things that are truly evil. When the government phones you up and tells you to hide search results related to babies dying from diluted baby formula (yes, this happened), could you in good conscience tell one of your engineers to add that filter? How could a company like Google possibly retain good people when they have to ask them to do the bidding of such an evil government?
But I think if I reply to him then he can't delete and the whole thing recurses.

I am sorry for this derailing.
Probably good to mention how much it's making, even if it's $0?
JetBrains Elected to the JCP Executive Committee
This is a discussion of the current state of affairs, not, for example, a Searle-like claim that understanding can not and will never be achieved. To substantiate a claim of 'no true Scotsman', I think you have to present an actual case where you think a machine has achieved understanding, but which is being unreasonably dismissed.

Ironically, your last sentence has 'no true Scotsman'-like reasoning, along the lines of 'no true AI sceptic would fairly evaluate a claim of machine understanding.'

BTW, I am not a skeptic of the potential of AI, though I am skeptical of some claims being made.
Cut the cord?
Really curious how that thing generates torque since it doesn't have asymmetric props.

edit: I'm dumb, it has gimbaled props. That makes OP's link much more impressive, since that thing doesn't require gimballing which is expensive.
My wife makes regularly scheduled trips to the library and always pick up her books on the same day. This way you don't have to deal with books expiring at different times. Simply check on the day you're scheduled to go and return the books that are almost due.
I'd also like to note that the Hessian matrix elements should have a \partial{\partial{l}} in each numerator, not a single \partial{l} [1].

If you aren't using LaTeX for formatting, then think partial^2 of l. FWIW: I just found this[2] which would make (using the physics package) even simpler to represent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_matrix

[2] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/225523/how-to-write-...
Thanks and good point, updated.
Libraries have adopted technology in more ways than the obvious - my local library is part of a system wherein I can order books from 70-some-odd other libraries (for free!) and return them back to my local library. I can also physically go to those other libraries, take out items, and return them at any other library, all with the same card. The collection is fully searchable online, with gobs of metadata on each item and the location and status of every single copy (out or available), plus e-books. It's amazing.

Recently I ordered Minecraft for PS4 from another library to play with my cousin (again, free) and when I went to pick it up I also went to the shelves and took out Discourse on the Method & Meditations.

As a result of the system, the selection of media is... beyond compare. I could not be happier that my tax dollars are going to my library.
The original hyperloop from 1868, made from plywood
I dunno. I think it's fine. For new users it has batteries included. For existing users, it's a lot of common-sense rules and a fairly simple mapping anyways.

I apologize for misinterpreting your comment, though.

As for notepad, I will give up org mode when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Can't imagine not using structured text and navigation for notes, outlines and task management.
[pdf] Dumas-Dutil Interstellar Message
Sort of related:

I launched an app a few years ago and sold it for $8.5k. I wish more people knew that exits don't always mean $1m. There's a big market for small project.

link to the project: http://www.germanespitia.com/habit-streaks
What I’ve learned after meeting with 150 VCs in just 100 days
4 ideas for drastically reducing health care spending
Incredible shrinking airline seat
Besides adblock + auto updates, tell them how some of the scams work. Show them some example screenshots/videos etc. from different areas. Enough to make them think twice about what they are allowing to run on their computer. Scammers are usually lazy, many times their email addresses, website address, or web design might give it away - so doing a few side by side comparisons may help.

There's also a lot of youtube videos that could be easier to send and less boring to go through. Ex:

- https://www.youtube.com/embed/bjYhmX_OUQQ?rel=0

- https://www.youtube.com/embed/DXfrfbNk7jo?rel=0

- https://www.youtube.com/embed/poFAzDCGLrI?rel=0

- https://www.youtube.com/embed/5zlnI3Bzslo?rel=0

- https://www.youtube.com/embed/O4KJq0XXIy8?rel=0

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDBC1CF5C16D5585D
Today, Tesla's design ability is about on par with Apple's circa 2000. But Tesla has much higher slope. Watch out.
Well, neural response in biological creatures is very slow---far slower than the clock cycles of an electrical computer.

Yet somehow, biological animals seem to demonstrate more intelligence and adaptability than machines. Perhaps, the issue is more with the machine architecture, than the speed.
thanks for the heads up.
How Rust Can Replace C in Python Libraries
Libraries are about the worship of information. All media should be welcome and the needs of educating and providing the public access to that high quality information in formats useful to them should be the focus.
An attempt to convey a message to extraterrestrials based on mathematics and physics. Regardless of one's opinions on the probability of intelligent extraterrestrial life, it's interesting to consider the challenge of transmitting meaning with almost 0 context.
The airline industry is f'ed up because of geographic barriers to entry and local monopolies.

IE, even though there are a dozen or so big players in the airline industry, there is often only 1 carrier going from X to Y.

Other examples would include the telecom/internet cable industry, electricity/water.
Well I may be wrong but you will be true only if I can't sell it at a price significantly higher than inflation.

I do not not see that happening because price correction have already started if you are an individual seller.

For politically connected developers, game is different.
Of course he does, even if it's passive. That's why disclosures about common ownership are mandatory in journalism.

If you don't believe me, you should go write a negative blog post about your company's CEO right now.
> Your reply, while overall correct, still underestimates the problem of "how do we invent AI?"

I'm not talking about building a real AI.

I actually agree with you that we're nowhere near developing that. Not sure where you got any other idea from me.

I'm saying there are some machine learning problems that could be served by some simple data entry. This could save lives, including yours and mine, via advanced cancer detection [1]

You're right that since I studied data science, I'm incentivized to advertise its usefulness. But, I studied data science because I believe it is a growing part of our future.

You can try it yourself too. There are many tutorials online. Making use of machine learning gets easier every year.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/12/technology/enlitic-technolog...
this is a terrible hack, but if you leave the bios areas alone, you can make a system call like machine that downshifts back into real mode, makes the call, and shifts back up into protected mode (or all the way back up into 64 bit mode)

its not _really_ worth it, but if you're just noodling around and want to send packets or write to disks you don't have to write drivers. of course you have to have dedicated buffers visible in both spaces.

the only other reason i can think of to use real mode is to actually explore the segment model rather than just treating it as trash you have to walk over to get something up from reset...but it would probably be better just to invent some kind of segmented virtual machine
I'm viewing on mobile with no problem. It's a bunch of beautiful renderings of various math concepts/functions.
Often when I see candidates' github accounts they are mostly forked repos with no changes and projects with rails scaffolding. There might be something there but it's really hard to dig through and find. I would suggest candidates build their own projects using documented pull requests and point the hiring manager to the closed PR page of their project. Or even better, point them to a substantial PR they completed on someone else's open source project.
> except maybe Smalltalk which has issues with performance, Forth and to a much more limited extent, Erlang

Just to add to the "performance" aspect, Lisp, with modern compiler like SBCL, is generally close or at the same speed as Java (under Oracle's JVM). Which is pretty good.
I just press the control key with the part of the palm of my hand that's right below my pinky finger. That way my pinky finger always stays on the home row, and never gets tired.

I don't like to remap control, alt, escape, or caps-lock because I don't want to be hobbled when I use another computer that I don't control to type on. This method has worked well for me for decades.
"This is what you get when bean counters run tech companies."

Yeah, letting the COO be CEO isn't necessarily a good idea in a tech company.
add 'cd /mnt/c/Users/$(whoami)/Desktop' to your bashrc
I made these for people who finished the tutorial (in particular, I had my students in mind). It's very much the way I do things and the hope was it would smooth the way for people to get to customizing Emacs in their own way.

I originally wasn't sure if I was going to do the mini org-mode stuff early on but thought that it would be better for organizational reasons rather than pedagogical.
yea there is another top level comment by gtirloni which links to a different example which does it without a gimbal, by applying a sinusoidal current with variable amplitude and phase to the motors. They have symmetric rotors though, so your question applies there! I wonder if maybe the rotors are in fact slightly asymmetric and just look symmetrical.

edit: I got it, this is super neat: The blades are hinged at a 45 degree angle, but in opposite directions. See Figure 1 and 2 here

http://www.modlabupenn.org/wp-content/uploads/paulos_an_unde...
always have a backup processor
don't know if its possible with shopify, but lesson learned
I'd love to have only the problem of Junior developers to pass experience to. I currently have to deal with "senior" developers and architects who desperately want to put some "Big Data" stuff on their resumes and constantly chase after things like Kafka even when it's not justified.
It's always about what one considers valuable. The Chinese government will block Google if Google didn't give them access and censorship.

Google could spend eternity fighting this until the government changes (ha), or pull our and upload their value of organizing the world's information without* censorship.

In your eyes, they are more evil for not bringing their products to China, in their eyes, they are more noble for making their anti-censorship* stance loud and clear.

Apple in this case can be viewed as doing good (assuming having an iPhone and access to Apple's stuff is good for people) or as putting money over censorship values. It's all about which angle to look from.

The world isn't hurting for search engines, mail providers or luxury smartphones. Maybe Google decided that fighting the Chinese government is not the right battle and allowing direct censorship is not a value they are willing to compromise on even if it means losing access to several millions of users

*Yeah, filter bubbles exist and Google controlling search results and ads can be viewed as evil but that's a different conversation.