skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the impression that the idea that Chinese culture is somehow more naturally accepting of authoritarianism is part of a propaganda narrative promoted by Chinese authoritarians to protect their own power.

> China Takes Aim at Western Ideas

> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lead...

> Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a somber, secretive warning issued by senior leaders. Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society.

> These seven perils were enumerated in a memo, referred to as Document No. 9, that bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping, China’s new top leader. The first was “Western constitutional democracy”; others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism,” and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past.
You would be surprised how the obvious can be overlooked if you have a conspiracy theory to prove.
In an ideal world, yes a spike would be a simple binary signal, easy to generate/detect. Unfortunately, in the world we live in, it's quite a bit more complicated. Have you ever looked at Spice simulations where you needed to propagate a pulse (a spike with duration of one clock cycle)? It quickly gets distorted and attenuated. I don't see how noise in the circuit is anything less of a problem for a spike than it is for a constant signal. It actually seems to be more susceptible to noise, because now some spurious noise injection could be interpreted as a spike by the receiver!

What makes you think short pulses are more noise resistant than long ones? And if you try to utilize interspike timings to encode information you expose yourself to a whole bunch of additional challenges (not sure if those timings are used in the current spiking network models though).
High Sierra Filesystem
In this case watching second or third episode first would be better than starting with pilot.
I stand corrected by the comments here. Apologies for getting this wrong.
I hope parts 2-5 are significantly more insightful than this.
15mm drives are not really suitable for internal installation due to limited height in most NUCs.
Yup, sorry. Those responsible have been sacked.
Why's that? Are you using some commercial VPN service where they're blocking the DNS?
Apples makes the best consumer electronics of all time, and Reagan was the best president of the last century.
Not going to go into detail as I'm sure you know how to use Google.

Wechat isn't simply chat. It has grown into a platform that has empowered it's users to partake in a growing ecommerce industry. It also has p2p payments which is hugely popular.
Integration into VS is a huge value add, by doing so MS guarantees that VS becomes the most easy platform to do ML development in
FWIW, I have at least one book from each of the "levels" (dead tree versions, though) and each of those books would individually easily justify the cost.

I'm debating going ahead and picking up the entire bundle but I really really really prefer hardcopy versions of books. I personally don't care for "e-books" at all.

(Edit: the books I have are the Metasploit, pf, Hacking, and OpenBSD books.)
Can you imagine any other language / ecosystem where you're encouraged NOT to use any libraries of any kind? The web is a weird place.
Genuine (but possibly stupid) question: How do I tell the difference between that and the 'exchange temp accounts' theory promulgated upthread?
A Talent for Sloth
Where are you seeing that the German economy is booming? It hasn't net expanded in ten years.

GDP 2007: $3.44 trillion vs 2016: $3.46 trillion

It has been averaging around 1.5% GDP growth since 2011. That is not booming. Germany may finally climb above the pre great recession era GDP numbers in 2017. Germany is having the problems that it is, precisely due to the lack of meaningful economic growth. There's no scenario where you're going to see almost any wage growth if GDP is mired in 0.5% to 1.5% type expansion; to make matters worse, the next recession will easily swat the recent modest gains right back down (which is one of the many reasons faster growth is a must, inevitably a recession will occur).
FreeBSD had a linux syscall layer before either of those, I believe.
I think the problem more importantly is the current tracking ad bubble. The design of the current debt based economy naturally leads to these kinds of bubbles.
What Should Keep Facebook Shareholders Up at Night
I miss the old early 80s Times Square! Nice and seedy. (I was born in Brooklyn in 1962)
I think it's also that new OS releases aren't optimized for battery life. They focus on cleaning up significant bugs and don't always get to optimizations until version x.01 and x.02.

In my case the excess battery usage has been all Apple Maps, according to the battery usage report.
At cppcon this morning he spent 10s expressing his gratitude, and followed up with a talk on "Teaching Modern C++". In the talk, he explained how C++ needed textbooks/teachers to focus on the message they're trying to pass to students, because he believes that putting ideas in peoples heads is more important than showing off new features.

Say what you want about modern C++, but Bjarne is an incredible person.
You're contradicting yourself. If you're afraid that redundancy will hide hardware problems, then VGG is a bad choice, because it's pretty much the most redundant NN model ever :)
We might as well start adopting policies straight out of China since we seem to be a few years behind them in recognizing these issues.
They are incentivized to give new phones better battery life, while being disincentivized to optimize battery life for previous generation iPhones.
DIY LiPo Protectors
Venus is so strangely ignored and forgotten. Measured against the attention other planets are getting, an orbiting reconnaissance platform with a handfull of atmosphere and surface probes would seem long overdue.
If I go get change for $10,000 in $100 bills and ask for all $1's do I realize 10,000 dollars in capital gains because those are "other people's dollars"
Here it is:

https://github.com/kylewill/apple-watch-podcast-sync

I really did hack it together before a run and am very embarrassed by the code. pull requests welcome :)
Actual title: "How the use of antibiotics in poultry farming changed the way America eats"
> In the 1850s US, there were pro-slavers and anti-slavers. Who was in the middle, and were they right?

Abraham Lincoln
New Twist on Venture Capital Taps a Well-Connected Village
But like you said, something more probably has to be done. Or else consider the case where the authoritarian model is perceived to have "won" and gets exported. That's also part of the ethical consideration.

Taking a measure such as gp's suggestion, which is at least fair and on face justifiable, may be the most just move.

And given the particularity of this case, history probably doesn't have a huge sample size. New contexts emerge, such as technological development. It's much more conceivable now than before that a small group of people could indefinitely hold power over the overwhelming majority.
Didn't know. I see them advertising like crazy on my facebook feed lol
Something about me feels that these efforts by IBM and Microsoft around AI are less around providing Open Source tools to democratize AI and more around providing "big data" style tools to "big enterprise". Both companies made TONS of $$$ selling Business Intelligence tools (SQL Server Analysis Services, Cognos, etc). They are smart enough to see the danger in open source tools like TensorFlow, Spark, etc. cutting into their lucrative revenue streams in the enterprise.

In particular, Microsoft has always been great about providing tools for no to low cost at the entry level, to get you (or more likely your company) hooked into the ecosystem. Not making a criticism, they have made some great stuff over the years (see the Visual Studio ecosystem for example).

The other angle is providing these tools, which can be complex to install/configure/manage, as a service offering via a subscription as part of the Azure platform. Recently MS has been hiring every superstar/rockstar evangelist/advocate/architect/engineer/etc to help design/build/promote/advocate for Azure that they can find (See Jessie Frazelle, @catie, and a ton of key people in the Golang world). Microsoft isn't just coming to play, they're playing to win.
If I understood your event delegation example correctly, I would use event.target.matches inside the event handler. Not the greatest support at the moment though.
Depends on the jeans, really. I'm pretty sure it's fairly common for people with jeans made from selvedge denim to go months without washing them so they don't fade as much/have a nicer fade pattern.
Companies only have to be in silicon valley for the three months of YC. After that, you're welcome to move to an inexpensive area, and many companies do.
I was referring to Brookings naming it, not Amazon.
26 सितम्बर नवरात्रि का बड़ा मंगलवार बस एक रोटी होगी हर मनोकामना पूरी Navratri
It’s not due to cost of living, most of the software engineers straight out of school (in my cohort, at least) want to be in NYC or SF. Amazon does the bulk of their recruiting from new grads, so a large contingent of their workforce is disincentivized from working outside those areas.
> VC

This was really striking to me how bad Chinese-based ones were (which got me thinking about this issue). The QQ client doesn't even seem to work when I attempt to visit the international one; WeChat lacks a webapp with VC, has no Linux desktop app and the Windows desktop app I used had rendering difficulties with the self pip screen -- far worse experience compared to Skype and Google Hangouts.

> Baidu translate

Are your referring to http://translate.baidu.com/? Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't even offer speech to text or text to speech, making it far less viable for conversation.

> Maps

Right, I'm comparing US to China here. As a simple example, of something Baidu maps seems to omit, it doesn't offer time estimates for travel at an arbitrary point in time. I can see historical traffic data, but can't seem to get routing/time to drive under that historical data.
I'm not even sure how well Baidu reroutes based on current traffic data..

> Email

Even at work is this true?

I'll give you that I don't have great comparison on this one (hard to use random email providers).. and that Outlook is quite good.But the integration between gmail and other services is extremely powerful -- e.g. extracting appointments + flights from my email and auto-populating maps and sending reminders.
I'd argue that you could have locked zuckerberg, gates and the rest of them in a closet for 5 years with a computer and they would have still gone on to do amazing stuff. Is it harvard, yale etc that made these people great or was it something that was already in them? Their drive to innovate and passion for exploration is what made them successful, not harvard.
>If a serious crime (like this one) is suspected, companies have an obligation to report this and not just conduct their own investigations which will have an inherent bias.

Why are rape accusations ever investigated outside of a legal context by police? They do the same thing in colleges and it boggles my mind how anyone would think that's a good course of action.
Roads are built by competitive bids.
What subject/age-group do you teach? What's been the most useful bit of technology you've used in your job?
Nah, two of the 100 closed, the industry is fine. One is going to start up again in the same place with the same people and a different name. The other was purchased by Kaplan, which is as close as you can get to a death knell. Most are making grundles of money.

We’re not really a code bootcamp but we get thousands of applications per month and have employers incredibly hungry for our grads.
Very cool. I'll have to give it a whirl. I haven't taken a stab at a custom image in a while. Thanks!
Trustless – Auctus – Medium
This reminds me of an article where people tried to reverse-engineer a rocket engine from the Saturn V rocket, whose manufacturing process was also lost: https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the...
>The lowest TDP for Ryzen is 65W, so while there has been at least one laptop announced with a Ryzen 7, it might be the most thermally throttled CPU/GPU combination ever.

Big gaming laptops can handle astonishing amounts of heat. The Origin Eon17-SLX can achieve useful overclocks on an i7-7700K and two GTX 1080s. It's two inches thick, weighs 12lbs and needs two power bricks, but there's clearly a market for desktop-replacement monsters.

Intel and Nvidia have the laptop market dominated for now due to their greater power efficiency, but it isn't inconceivable that AMD could make some inroads into the laptop and SFF market when the Ryzen APUs launch.

https://www.originpc.com/gaming/laptops/eon17-slx/
Aha! I have been looking for the book this is promoting for years! "(All Yesterdays: ...etc) It was my Internet white whale!
It's odd. The owner of this Git repo has Issues turned off so I can't post a question/issue, and it appears to have been auto-generated - https://github.com/thevivekpandey/syscalls-table-64bit is a "fork" of https://github.com/paolostivanin/syscalls-table-64bit
I did, but something about Alpine rubs me the wrong way. I know it's probably irrational, but my gut always goes to Debian. I really can't justify it. Maybe I should give it a better chance.
Not impossible if the voter registration data from 21 states was used for targeting.

https://www.apnews.com/cb8a753a9b0948589cc372a3c037a567
I have the physical copies of the first two. The IDA Pro Book, I remember ordering 8 years ago because I didn't have such persistent internet connection back then.
> We need to tweak things sometimes.

This means creating new laws.
We should edit the blog post to make this clear - thank you for pointing it out.

But for the record, it refers to a piece of advice we sometimes give, to "become the 007 version of yourself". James Bond is always competent, cool, collected; even in the face of everything blowing up. Since as a founder, things are constantly going wrong, it can be helpful to think about remaining as calm as James Bond would be.
Not all computer are built to do heavy computing. My poor Mac mini would probably melt after a few minutes of mining.
Yup, which is pretty neat. Before you'd have to wait for the little Finder window to show up, calculate time remaining and then do the job. Now it's instant when copy-pasting files around :)
Ask HN: How to best handle a review
I'm coming up to 2 years in my current position and a review is looming.

I feel I personally have added a lot of value to the company but I have a difficult time articulating it.

Do you have a particular method, or any tips & tricks that might have to best handle your performance reviews?
Are you suggesting we should have banned ICOs?
So, you smug Linux guys think it can't happen to you? Well, before you get off my lawn, let me tell you a story...

Early versions of FrameMaker kept all resource files (internationalized strings, dialog box layouts, etc.) in the two subdirectories .../FrameMaker/Resources/{Unix,Core} (the first one for the Unix platform-specific resources, and the second for the cross-platform ones also used by the Mac and Windows ports). We had hundreds of happy customers, and had been shipping for 4 years or more.

But one new customer was calling in a panic. They'd installed the product, and it would work fine, but the next morning, it wouldn't even start up, and they had to re-install it. And then it would break again over night. After much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth, it turns out that due to some other flakey product they were running, they had previously instituted a nightly cron job that ran around removing any core files it could find (since they were large and wasteful of precious disk space back in the day). And the knucklehead who wrote the script had it do a case-insensitive match on "core" and had it essentially do a "rm -rf" even though no true core file could be a directory. So, every night, our Core resource directory was blown away.

We actually had to change the product, as this was a big, important customer, and they outright refused to fix their cron script. Never had this problem on the Windows and Mac ports.
We are already in an era of yellow journalism, every angle, every sentence, every clip is contorted to reflect a narrative approved by corporate elites for publishing. All of this drama merely drives profits.
Spent $200k biohacking- became calmer, thinner, extroverted, healthier, happier
Unlike space, Venus is made of large amounts of matter.
North Korea vs. South Korea in Charts
Thank you, this is perfect.
Exciting new things for Docker with Windows Server 1709
iphones are a much better vector.
Google PixelBook Roundup: specs, price and release date.
I'm pretty surprised by all the focus on spiking neural networks too; they are really still much more of an academic topic and I have never heard of any real practical applications (yet).

There are a number of methods of training these kinds of networks like Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) which is essentially a reinforcement learning algorithm that increases the weights between neurons that spike often together and modulates the increases by a reward signal. However, all these methods are really more focused on replicating and modeling the biological phenomena and not being performant.

In theory, spiking networks should be much more efficient, real neurons are able to take advantage of many non-linear effects to create incredibly complex analog to digital (spikes) computation in every cell using incredibly little energy - our brains only use about 20 watts of power.

But, the current approach to CPUs and even GPUs means simulating all this stuff is ridiculously inefficient and ultimately looks nothing like the real thing.
but they're dollar bills, the currency we pay taxes in, they're always worth $10k no matter what happens to their actual intrinsic value ... a better example is:

I buy 10oz of gold for $1000 (this was a while ago), this week I exchange my gold for a different 10oz of gold (less a small commission to the exchange) currently worth $10,000 - is that a taxable transaction? I suspect yes
I would love to tell you but it is classified. Only the head of security is allowed to know the full details.
Seattle rent hikes slow amid apartment boom, but average two-bedroom tops $2,000
The Future Manager
Maybe it will be chrome OS + k8s with some glue for trivial to run local containers vs cloud for linux/windows.
I suggest that. Not forever but until there can be a framework in place about the minimum information required to be given to potential investors.

A lot of ico's are pure scams; banning them upfront would limit the number of investors to those who are willing to break the law.
> Has the American Midwest recovered from not being one of the coasts?

That's not a great reference point. It only works well if you're only talking about New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

California's GDP per capita is only about 8%-10% higher than Nebraska. Iowa is as high as Oregon. Illinois is 30% higher than Florida. Indiana is higher than Vermont. Wisconsin is higher than North Carolina. Minnesota is close to Maryland. South Dakota is higher than New Jersey or Virginia. Kansas is 20% higher than Maine. Missouri is higher than South Carolina. Ohio is on par with Rhode Island.

The US mid-west is an economic juggernaut compared to the rest of the world. It's larger than the economies of France or the UK, and nearly as big as Germany. Averaged out it's very comparable to the coastal states.
I haven't tested it but I think this should work:

fetch(url)

.then(res => res.status === 200 ? res.json() : Promise.reject(res))

.then(data => { ... })
It depends on your role and what you've worked on. For my former role, it was really easy to quantify what the projects I worked on did, because they were purely internal, I was a lead on them, and they were almost entirely geared toward saving labor hours. It was easy for me to say "Minimum, this saved the company $60k".

One of the things I've never seen many technical people do is track cost/benefit metrics. Learn to spot how you're impacting the company financially, and, even better, if you want to start pitching projects and ideas to the people above you, learn how to do RoI and IRR calculations (they're honestly really simple math). That's neither here nor there, though.

Keep a record (written in a notebook, on Google Keep, whatever works best for you) of what you've accomplished since your last review. If you don't have anything groundbreaking, that's ok - show that you contributed to a solid product or stable business.
WeChat employs people in China.
> It is much easier for Amazon to detect and react to threats than Sears was ever able to.

True, but the competition of the 70s and 80s was also playing at the same speed. Sears was able to react to 80s-paced threats just as fast as anyone else could.

It might actually not be 'easier' today for anyone to keep up with and defend against as many potential threats as there may be today. Amazon, however, is mostly in a league of their own, and generally are the threat to other companies, not so much the other way around.