skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you didn't intend your comment this way, but I see it as a bit patronizing to assume that just because China hasn't produced a Rousseau or a Hobbes domestically[1], that they couldn't possibly take new ideas from them.

Asia is about a lot more than social harmony and the mandate of heaven. There is an incredible diversity of opinion on almost any subject there, just as in the West.

[1] Citation needed.
This is not a new situation. I grew up in a more liberal part of China and always thought their political situation was their bottleneck for economic, cultural and human development. The state of the world right now shows how I was wrong.

And as you mentioned, tightening of control by different governments around the world seems to indicate that we have found a common trend and its not the liberal one...
If you watch DIYers, technicians or engineers on youtube you'll see that.

You also get to see differences between product you cannot see. I just saw a super glue benchmark and well loctite won, but some "neat" brands failed early.
My fiance's children just started in a new school system and they use an app called ClassDojo that is intended to increase involvement between teachers, parents, and the students. At any given time, my fiance can login, see photos of what the kids are doing in class, send/receive messages with the teacher(s), check grades/assignments. Compared to their previous school system, the level of involvement is beyond compare. Her son who is in middle school also uses an app called Remind that has all the assignments and communication between parent/teacher/student on specific assignments.
A majority of areas are Republican-dominant areas.

If your metric is land mass, dividing on party lines is only going to get you one result.
Runaway greenhouse effect due to high levels of atmospheric CO2.
Is there a bug bounty?
This sounds terrible. Poor students get slapped down even more than they are now.
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From what I've seen of the 1930s/40s tax photos, they're much better quality as far as framing. Not sure if this is the case across the board, but the copies I looked up were pretty consistently better. But you have to either go in to the municipal building to look at them or order them online.
He's got a point though.
oh, but England "had Locke,... or a Hobbes" (see comment above)
India with its 1.3 billion people is capable of operating via a Democratic system (with its various issues and flaws not detracting from that fact), and they're even poorer than China and with fewer resources. There's no reason China can't manage a successful (even if messy) transition away from authoritarianism to a variation of representative government.
I had ads but playing devils advocate they have given a huge number of people access to technologies they never would have had access to otherwise. They have made entire businesses viable that wouldn’t be as good otherwise.
At the height of the GamerGate debacle someone created an auto blocker that automatically blocked ppl on a list, it also blocked anyone who followed those ppl. So if, like me, you didn’t necessarily agree with the views of ppl on that list but followed them to get a sense of who they are and what perspective is, you got blocked right along with them. ( http://fogknife.com/2015-07-27-why-i-support-the-use-of-twit... )
The article and its source notes "almost all the staff with expertise on production had retired or left the agency", they then proceed to spend a little short of 100 million replicating the process.

There's no mention of any attempt to simply find the people that originally made it and asking them how it was made, since protection was halted in 1989 most of them should still be alive.

Surely that would have been more cost efficient than reverse engineering the production process, but of course the government would have had little incentive to save money.

So just reading between the lines this is less of a story of how the USA "forgot" something, and more of a story of how some sprawling bureaucracy couldn't bring itself to pick up the phone, presumably due to some combination of information siloing, the complexities of re-granting some retirees security clearances etc.
Auditing is a real argument; but is decently-written specialized code really that much less reproducible than Hadoop/SQL? (I'll accept "yes", but note that that also rules out e.g. the fairly common practice of using R or pandas for some ad-hoc processing.)
There is no other word to describe the groups behind the wave of petty but vicious activism in the last decade or so. The people calling for "safe spaces" and trigger warnings, literally shaking from micro-aggressions, trying to ruin people's careers for holding common opinions, and always claiming to be the victims of some -ism. What would you call them?
Nice, I'm curious how it maps the system call to the source code line number dynamically? (Edit: seems like ctags + http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source [1]) It supports every kernel version.

The linked source code browser seems like a useful way to check the history of system calls for research...

[1] https://github.com/thevivekpandey/syscalls-table-64bit/blob/...
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There are currently possible ways for early employees to cash out their stock options, which further incentivizes talents to work for start-ups.

EquityZen is a platform that lets employees sell shares before IPO: https://equityzen.com/?utm_source=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombin...
You should read the history of retail, general stores used to be places you ordered goods from or where you had the counter person pick out your goods from the shelves behind them. Piggly Wiggly revolutionized this model by letting customers pick out goods and bring them to the front of the store, and Sears changed the whole economy by giving rural Americans (most people at the time) access beyond the monopoly of their local general store.
I can only report from a viewpoint inside my own filter bubble obviously, but this "two or three jobs to earn a living" is something that is still associated with the US here and practically unheard of in Germany.
Wow. That is some Person of Interest-level business right there.
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Rise and fall of Extjs, as a sencha fan feel sad
I know you (and many people in HN) do not want to think about this, but have you considered the legal liability of exposing a bunch of underage children to a group of adults under minimal/non-existent oversight? Adults taken from a demography that's famous for their low social skills and awareness, not to mention empathy.

It does not have to be just sexual predators (which is probably the worst case scenario, although still on the table), but anything that could offend the parents, or any activist with an axe to grind, really. I teach a high school programming class these days, and I had to change my class plan which included the "99 bottles of beer" classic example because it is against school policy to encourage alcohol consumption in any form.

You may argue whether this was justified or not, but this is the state of affairs already set in place, and you are an outsider of this industry. Even if you are right, the energy and resources devoted to fight off this conflict can derail your startup if not properly planned for and prevented.
Not quite. His definition is about what the organization was formed to do.

If a company was formed to search for a scalable, repeatable business model, then he's still interested in it when they have found it. Then they're in the growth stage.

But if a company was formed, as most companies are, intending to use a proven business model, then it's not in his definition of a startup. No matter how fast it grows.
I agree that it sounds like Microwaves from the brief descriptions I hear. I mentioned that two week ago on this forum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256524
Given that MacOS is primarily a personal OS, the slight decrease in performance, that I am sure will be fixed as it APFS matures, is completely unimportant.

What is important however is that file name are finally case sensitive! (I know you could do the same with HFS+, but some applications didn’t support it, ie Adobe)
Completely agree that they will further cement their power, but it won't be at the cost of innovation and growth IMO.

China's access to leading technologies and technologists is absolutely unparalleled. The amount of Chinese students that are publishing some of the leading CS and ML research from the best universities and corporations worldwide is staggering when compared to all other nations.

China isn't 'Closing up' they are pushing people to use the services that they control and have insight into. Consider that Tencent, Baidu etc... all have major offices in SV, Seattle, LA etc. Remember the story from yesterday about the Chinese ADTech company giving $3M salaries? That's just growing.

Unless the US, Canada, France, Israel etc... closes the visa program for Chinese workers Chinese companies will continue to be relevant and innovative - and they will likely grow faster with more tailored services because, China has the biggest capabilities to mine user data - more than any other nation by far.
I agree with you, this does seem like one more justification for trafficking stolen data. And like you mention using this for a "legitimate" purpose really is invalid since you know TH is filtering it. I would think that once start charging money and filtering content that you all of the sudden miles away from where you started and the original intent is now lost. And how many times does he have to justify this (not his first or last post on the subject I am sure) you get the idea that he must get asked this more and more often. Don't get me started on opting-out...
Worried about cell phone radiation? Just wait for the Apple Watch
> the transition from "proper text and descriptions" to one-liners was thoroughly A/B tested too

I have my doubts on that.. I'm pretty sure the transition occurred before A/B web testing actually became popular. One liners are instantaneously more appealing than a block of text, even if their long-term usage is worse for the user. (which would also throw off A/B testing, if it did occur)

Blocks also tend to be done with significantly less stylization, aka less work, so you'll also see projects starting with a block of text (just shitting out information, because its easy), and later working towards the more modern and appealing one-liner. And it takes a good deal of work. So you've got the affects of cargo-culting and investment involved as well.

And finally, more likely than not, most of those websites didn't have the resources, time or interest to A/B test this, and if they did, not thoroughly. It's easy to imagine someone with no design background looking to ape something (because they're not interested in this, just need to shit it out), so they'll hit the standard design-notable sites, and see the one-liner + image. Looks good enough, Apple probably did their homework, why the hell not. Of course, I'm in the business of software, and no one knows my name or has any inkling of what I do, but what the hell.

And then of course because its become popular now you have frameworks popping up to help build in that particular fashion, and it becomes simpler/easier to do that than anything else. So it eventually becomes unreasonable for most sites to do anything other than this.

And then it falls out of fashion and we'll move on to two-liners
To my knowledge it does not, but it should.

Censorship is a weak attempt at mind control, which is a bit worse than chattel slavery on the list of heinous things that humans do to one another.

Not only that, but in order to implement it effectively, you must be omnipresent, with a finger in every ear and a hand over every mouth. The concentration of power necessary to do that is an open invitation to corruption.

If I had significant influence over US trade agreements, the degree to which ordinary citizens had open and unfettered access to information would factor into every last one of them.
I used to think this way too until I went to china. The current batch of US apps are also copies of earlier apps. Remember chatting on bbses? IRC, ICQ, etc?

China doesn’t need western internet companies, they have a quarter of the world’s population. Can you blame them for wanting to promote home grown apps to build wealth within their country? Also, they like control, why would you let an foreigner end to end encryption app into your country? I don’t agree with their control but it’s not my country.

I’m surprised iMessage worked for me while I was there. I wonder what consessions Apple had to give for that?
Also notewhorty for there very small bureaucratic water-head- and even more notice-able for there doctors who do not apply following overly rigid rule systems.

One of them always gave away free soap bars, so that locals could sell them on the markets. Those guys are astonishing- my deepest respect to everyone who toured with them.

Also -if you look as NGOs, who get into troubles as a quality sign (if your NGO workers get into the thick of things, they are where people really need help), Doctors without borders are always where it hurts. (Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia).
I'm not a big user myself. However, what I think is missing is a tool where you map your data flows, choose the flow steps as Amazon services, get required parameters back, fill them in, get back estimated cost.
Also now long-dead Borders; linking this post I'd come upon years ago because it has links to all the relevant posts in the first paragraph (even though one of them is more focused on the online shopping aspect): http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1641949.html
> as long as the actions don't break the user's flow.

This. Yet you propose to keep the action that breaks the user flow even if it's often triggered by mistake ;)

I propose to remove the action that breaks the user flow.
the issue is that I need bootstrap which requires jquery
Betteridge's law of headlines answers this one.

Old devices get slower when they're updated to newer OS's because the newer OS's are designed and tested against newer, faster phones, and try to take advantage of the expected increase in resources. Old devices that are not updated remain just as fast as ever. And not all OS updates slow down old devices anyway (just most of them). On rare occasion, an OS update will actually speed up old devices.
Of course it does. It's censorship and authoritarianism that the majority of people there seem to be ok with, and perhaps actively like, but that doesn't change what it is.
> If you're really passionate about it, your own biases are almost certainly going to prejudice your business in harmful ways.

I'd really like to hear more about this, because from what I've seen it's really important to "give a shit" about what you're working on.

Without a deep level of giving a shit you are quite likely to give up due to the waining of your interest level.

I mean, I've seen loss of interest as a major killer of side projects countless times in Nugget and also from speaking to lots of other entrepreneurs over the past 10 years.
That was a good read, but I think the author's conclusion is a little bit too punchy (although it did make it a fun read).

Figuring out how to scale-out non-trivial problems is difficult. Many of these scale-out solutions are going to be worse than local processing, and many won't add meaningful value at any scale. However, there's real value in approaching difficult problems, and there's real value in "the fastest way to do X in a cluster" even if it's not "the fastest way to do X". That's because scale-out is a real requirement to do a lot of interesting things, and because if we can find better ways to scale out we can start to compete with single-machine solutions (and "custom cluster" and "supercomputer" solutions) then we have made real progress towards something that's faster at all scales. It's a valuable research goal.

Now, it would be great if the database community (and the systems research community at large) was more explicit about that. They should set the standard that authors need to clearly differentiate between "improved on result X under constraints Y" and "moved the state-of-the-art forward under all constraints".

It's also good to read systems research skeptically, and think about whether you really need to pay the cost of scale-out. For companies who's output isn't primarily "research", it makes a lot of sense to constantly look for "the cheapest way to do X", not "the cheapest way to do X in a cluster".
Most important question here... how long has this vulnerability been around for? Was all ready to upgrade this morning...
Wait...Star Trek isn't parody?

snerk
What should follow the web?
Well it's very valid reason.
Companies like Google and Facebook do influence their users, and do define how they interact.

So banning the big tech companies is kind of protection against this, as US influence can be really toxic for local businesses. Even the EU starts to fight back against them.
> I don't agree that deep integration is the same as sophisticated features.

PowerPivot is a sophisticated set of features.

> As a base product without the extras, excel has no advantage over google sheets.

Sure, if you define all the very real advantages Excel has as “extras”, that's true. It's also not meaningful in the real world where the artificial distinction between “base product” and “extras” has no meaning; the actual product of Excel that businesses get has features for which Google Sheets has no equivalent.

> You could equally build your stack to the same degree of sophistication on proprietary google tech.

You could, if Google offered equivalent proprietary tech for the purpose, which it doesn't.
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This slanted, misleading title from the police is a perfect example of how important the language we use to describe events is. Like the David Miranda case this had nothing to do with terrorism, but laws put in place ostensibly to fight terrorism were instead used to harass people the security services find troublesome. Just reading the title would give you a different impression.

In fact this man was arrested without cause and convicted only of refusing to give up the passwords and data of his devices. This law renders our spies and police above the law and able to intercept the communications of anyone they choose without a warrant.

For a more informative take on the arrest see this intercept article

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/25/muhammad-rabbani-guilty-...
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L2TP tunneling works when you use an ip address for the vpn server.
Facebook Dropping Patent Clause
Ask HN: Desk Pedal Bike
Anyone have any thoughts on what is more optimal for health. Slowly pedaling a bike at your desk for 8 hours OR condensing all of that into a 30 minute workout on a bike machine?
Oh, I see. The temptingly glib response would be to say that those people are wrong, and leave it at that.

Instead I guess I'll say that those people should try to be clearer about whatever distinction it is that they do see between those things, because just using "SJW" as a pejorative without explanation tends to look like a rejection of those ideals.
Traffic analysis will tell you that something far from the norm is going on. You don't need to be able to read packets to recognize that the pattern is all wrong for an HTTPS website session. And it's not ordinary for a client machine or network to be listening for TLS sessions on port 443 in the first place.
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One would assume by now that the State Department's protection people have already taken measurements of both ultrasonics and RF. It can't be hard to detect. Why so much speculation after a month?
That's just wrong in so many ways...

London black cabs can take more pax than most cars (5 or 6 plus luggage), they have a very small turn radius, are wheelchair accessible, the drivers have "the knowledge" and actually know where they're going, and if you want, you can also call one online.

You can argue about the overall experience of London cabs vs Uber, but worse "in every facet" is just silly.

Lastly, Uber fares cover only a fraction of their cost, so they're not "sending money to a US company"; at most they're contributing to Uber's $2 bn annual loss.
It's advertised as a comedy show and with Seth MacFarlane (of Family Guy) headlining it I also assumed it was some cheap Galaxy Quest-esque jab at Star Trek. There's some of that, in particular taking some jabs at Star Trek tropes (e.g. one situation being neatly resolved by the crew using seatbelts)[1].

But it's not just some cheap comedy. Yes there's campy humor that's basically the equivalent of TOS not taking itself quite seriously, but it's in every other way a proper modern day sequel to TNG, and the humor doesn't get in the way of that.

I'm not going to spoil the 3rd episode of it that just came out, but it's a "moral conundrum" episode of the likes TNG was famous for, except it's IMNSHO executed better than any such TNG episode. Those tended to get resolved with some Deus Ex Machina or something resembling a stereotypically happy American ending, but The Orville took the hard way out. I was very impressed.

1. For those unfamiliar with Star Trek: Approximately half of on-screen fatalities could be prevented by some combination of seatbelt usage, and the computer consoles not being powered by 100,000 volts of electricity with no fuses or circuit breakers[2].

2. The other half being prevented by not bringing no-name red shirts along on the away mission.
Was putting a Russian guy and a black woman on the bridge of the Enterprise a nuanced thing? It strikes me that the original Star Trek was fairly blatant in this respect. It may seem nuanced looking back because we see nothing special about something like a white man and a black woman kissing on TV, but at the time it was about as subtle as a stick of dynamite.
Just giving a 20% raise across the board won't do much, and piecemeal rewards for visible successes will be even worse as they will cause more optimization for visibility than for success. I fully agree so far. But an engaging work environment with high pay will keep people a lot more motivated than the same environment with low pay. You can't fix a bad environment with higher wages, but higher wages make a good environment even better.

As for open plan offices, it's not the open plan that is frustrating, it's the coworkers that the office is shared with. Nobody is a perfect office-mate all the time. But open plan multiplies not only negative but also positive morale, so I would not generally rule out the possibility that it can be net positive in places where all other factors are close enough to perfection and that the problems only really start when they are copied by the less exceptional. High pay would be an important contributing factor (maybe even one of many necessities), not a silver bullet solution.
Are you saying that before democracy appeared (300 or so years ago) humankind didn't prosper economically, financially and culturally ?
There is no real difference, I kinda wanted to stress that no site ever gets unblocked (AFAIK).