skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never had much problems with BT while indoors.

Outdoors, particularly walking down streets, may be a different matter.

Tricky bit about BT is that it is actually designed to bounce of surfaces to some degree. This because in its most basic form, that of a wireless earbud connection, it may not be able to penetrate the human body.

So to work around issues with devices being on different sides of a walking, talking, bag of water, it tried to make use of echos from nearby walls and other suitable surfaces.

End result is that in a environment that is constantly shifting, like out on an open street, performance will be hit or miss from moment to moment.

But when indoors and stationary i have been able to get a phone to talk to a tablet and earbuds, while the tablet also talks to a keyboard.

And this was all kit from before BTLE...
You’re counting Jeff Bezos as an activist but not Rupert Murdoch? That makes no sense. Most of his media conglomerate is openly political all the time (Fox News, New York Post, The Sun etc.) while some maintains a pretense of objectivity (Wall Street Journal).
Except Tesla is almost never cash flow positive on an operating basis, while Amazon almost always has been. Tesla is financing their expansion (in addition to covering past loses) with new cash infusions, while Amazon financed their expansion with actual profits. Justifying Tesla losing money because of Amazon is a complete false equivalence.
How did they get your car home number? They typically don't ask for it on customs forms.
Nothing is for free. There are no magic tricks that create free money. If you think about this, home loans (and moreso the banking empires) are subsidized by the average worker and money-holder.

However, with a k-percent rule keeping inflation at 0.5-1% it would not be that much harder to get financing. I do agree we need monetary growth to avoid commodity money. In other words, we don't want people holding money because it grows in value--we want people to have some incentive to invest it.

If you want to give people free money to buy houses, just give them free money. Wall St & the Fed are a criminal middleman profiting off everyone else's expense.

The real question is how do you fairly grow the money supply if we cut out the Fed? Maybe finance national healthcare this way. Hospitals could issue currency and buy securities on the open market. We could even restrict it to treasuries to subsidize the national debt like we do now.
Unfortunately, no detail on the actual algorithm in question. Is it executed manually or is it using a statistical model optimized for some tradeoff of metrics?
I think you are talking about Blue Chips with Nick Nolte?
Only two? Murdoch, Turner ... I'm sure there are many more.
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There isn’t some set number of relationships you can have such that you’ve got to pick out the “important” ones.
Except that Japan and the US were at war at the time (therefore not peacetime targets). Maybe you're thinking of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
Sounds like Norway basically. Thankfully the local powerco decided to roll out fiber in my area recently, and i think some 99% of the households jumped onboard.

Before then it was all about ADSL2+ (or some such) over a aging copper pair.
> Essentially, rich people are rewarded and poor people are screwed

Yet with our inflationary system, this is exactly what has been happening.
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"Most if not all the things we have to do, as foreigners, Japanese also have to do it."

Chinese also have to register at the local police station when they move. It's not just for foreigners.
Which law from which book? To quote from TFA

> The immigration officers explained to me that a new law that had come into effect in recent months meant I was unable to exercise the longer transit visa. My previous visits were not subject to that, I was told. The officials denied my request for details about this new law.

Most of the Chinese "law" are not lawfully legislated and are selectively enforced TBH.

Looks like some kind of special 规定 or 通知 targeted directly towards OP's visa.
I guess it will depend heavily on the type of your exchanged parameters. If it's a few integers then it's no problem since both JS and the WASM side can easily read those.

However for complex objects (like Javascript objects, strings or DOM objects) objects you need a serialization mechanism for those. That might be similar to what typical system call implementations do. However system calls mostly have a very simply set of parameters, so transferring Javascript objects might be far worse. If you would want to share Javascript objects on both sides you would also need some kind of reference-counted handles, which can identify the objects.

I haven't done anything with WASM yet, but I'm pretty sure the domains you mentioned (promises, asynchronous programming and also DOM handling) are the ones which will least likely benefit from WASM. Lower level math algorithms might however benefit a lot.
I think that's what "independence" in the media looks like. The alternative is ownership by massive conglomerates. GE owns NBC, does that make NBC more "independent" than the New York Times (which is owned by the Sulzberger family)?

Media outlets are valuable, thus your options for ownership are 1) very rich individuals or families or 2) large corporations. Which one of those did you want to see more of?
I don't think that quote tells us anything important, other than he can be charming. Lots of people, good and bad, are charming.

> what is the political problem with him?

Just do a quick search and you'll find plenty of material. Essentially, they have revived the goals of the John Birch Society, an extreme right-wing group in which their father played an important role.
Lucky for the author though, this is probably the only time he'll have to walk through the China bureaucracy labyrinth. Many of my friends including myself need to deal with it from time to time.
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No, storage is near irrelevant already. Math for one square meter of solar paneling: that's 186 W of solar cells[1], about $192 installed[2], including land cost, taxes, etc etc etc. A residential system will cost about 3x as much. Over most of the US, that panel will generate an average of 1 kWh per day (5.5 kWh insolation times 18.6% efficiency). To a rough approximation you'll need to store about 30% of that power overnight- 300 Wh. Lets call that $120/kWh for the batteries- that's a reasonable large-scale current cost. Say it lasts 5000 cycles, same as the Tesla powerwall- 13.7 years. In reality that could last way, way longer at a slightly higher capacity, but say you just replace it until the panels run out. That's $192 for the panels and $108 for the batteries, warrantied for at least 41 years. That gives you a cost of 2.0 cents per kWh. Even if you quadruple the cost of batteries, solar is still stupid cheap.

It just needs financing.

[1]: http://sinovoltaics.com/learning-center/quality/standard-tes...

[2]: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68925.pdf
There are many democracies younger than Japan.
Sounds like he ruined his career covering China. Well deserved. Move on, and start another career covering India or whatever. Maybe China has become important enough that anyone who intends to mess her law within her border would think twice.
We don't truly know because we don't/can't/won't know all the stories that WaPo killed because of influence. However, worrying about stories being "killed" is the wrong way to think of the potentially nefarious effects. The much more common problem, and much harder to detect, are knowing the stories that the WaPo (or any news org) just didn't put priority into pursuing because of institutional inertia and unspoken rules.

If WaPo had a reporter/editor who specialized in particular zealous investigations into Amazon, we would likely hear murmurs and off-the-record complaints about how WaPo has been going unexpectedly soft on Amazon post-acquisition. In contrast, there is no possibility of knowing how the average Wapo tech reporter would have covered Amazon in an alternate universe in 2017.
I like the British media, because they don't pretend to be impartial. Impartiality is impossible, so it's better to be honest about that fact than to pretend to be impartial as the American media does.
Canada does the same thing. Even if transiting you need to be admitted into the country before getting on your connecting flight.
> This is reasonable. You would not have immigration officers in the US telling people to sign documents written in Chinese, would you?

Well they do, for the record, if you enter at the right port.
The progress of the last 100 years has a lot more to do with technological progress and less to do with the economic structure.

Technically the US was still on the gold standard up until the 70s.
And this is a basic problem of the consumer networking market.

I know at least one box i have here are listed by 3 different variants on the OEM site, and the only distinguishing factor is a single letter on a single model code pinted on the sticker underneath it.

Checking the box or anything similar and you would be non the wiser.
OCD replying to myself, but I used the word "incubated" when I meant something more along the lines of shielded, unaware, protected, unaffected.
That stupid article has been debunked over and over. Its utter garbage. Random refutal: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-is-no-corporate-...
Turner's network didn't turn full on opposition till recently though and he's out of the picture anyway.

HuffPo but she's been at it for a while.

I meant to say major ownership changes to activist owners in the last two years --though there may be some other big ones.
If you think they're fine, maybe look at cash flows a little closer.

Cash flow is up half a billion because they just issued 1.8 billion in junk bonds (which are already trading in minus territory btw). Meanwhile operating cash flows are increasingly negative to the tune of hundreds of millions per quarter.

Sure, they're fine if they continue to raise billions. But they're nowhere near profitable, and they're also going to continue to lose billions. What's going to happen if they receive a credit downgrade or institutional investors decide to stop playing along?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
I think a majority of the commenters are missing the point of the article. We get it, you're all smart and know the rules, this guy didn't. That's his point. Instead of having the rules explained to him, he was treated horribly and denied any recourse. That's what its like facing a soulless bureaucracy. I've gone through my own share of that and it's really frustrating getting shuttled back and forth with each person passing the buck and no one to really turn to in order to resolve everything. Should he not have been skirting rules? No shit. Should we completely blame him for being ignorant? Maybe the immigration department is also at fault for not handing out handy infographics written in multiple languages to reduce friction and incidents like these. Notice for example that the author actually had tried to apply for a business visa but hit a brick wall. It's certainly not conducive to foreign journalism on Chinese topics like the burgeoning tech industry, that's for sure.
media companies, given that they can't make a profit in 2017, are a service that should be publicly-owned
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High throughput is 'easy' to obtain if you don't mind high latency. The only thing the internet is great at is reducing latency. Luckily for human scale actions this is not a big problem.

Mesh networking technology is old at this point. Application layer software that takes advantage of it's strong suits has yet to be developed. Though there are many ideas of where to start.

As for what you have brought up. In my opinion many-replica content networks, when combined with modern video compression technologies, could solve the issue of video streaming from a no-master and high-latency system.
This is a fascinating thought process on hiring.

We can hire all the brightest MBAs in the world, and if they don't have the right values, we will fail. We hire based on values first - then talent.

https://youtu.be/Z7Pj2rKdKII?t=25m12s

Other quotes:

What are my capabilities that will create superior values for others? What are the best opportunities to do that?
The utility has gone down? Bitcoin utility hasn't gone down it has had many additional features built into it but the utility has not changed.

The fact that this is upvoted so high really shows the number of people who truly lack an understanding of an asset but are vocal in spite of that fact.
As with many other areas, the best money might well be in selling the shovels instead of mining the gold claims.

Develop a good system with decent results, sell the recommendations. I've watched this play out in daily fantasy sports over the last few years and I'm convinced it's second only to running the betting sites themselves, only with infinitely less hassle.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-12/chanos-s-...
A really quick used book search for the top 3 books resulted:

Sapiens: $12.87

Chaos Monkeys: $6.69

Creativity Inc: $7.50

Not sure why I'd ever pay $10 for a rental.
Since 2013, Comcast, not GE, owns NBC.
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Those aren't the exclusive possibilities. The algorithm for the six-point scale is detailed here: http://www.arnoldfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/PSA-Risk-...

Apparently, it's used by almost 40 different jurisdictions.
> Why do you think Kraken isn't more popular now?

When you try to place an order on Kraken it 100% of the time on the first try gives you some generic message that says something like "We're not sure if your order went through. Check back later." So you wait a bit, refresh, and it looks like it hasn't gone through, so you enter it again. You get the same message 5 times in a row. On the 6th try, your order goes through. Sometimes you end up with 2 orders going through because one you thought didn't go through just took longer than you had the patience for.

I'm being completely serious when I say this isn't something that happens occasionally; it happens every time.

They say they're working on a new engine or something that should be out in a few months, but it's a known and annoying problem for now. Other than that, I like Kraken and agree that it seems less shady than most.
I'm not sure what the parent's conclusion is, but AFAICT they are saying that there is no evidence of activism/bias. (I assume we are excluding opinion pages, which are supposed to be biased.)

I don't agree with the general point that bias is necessarily difficult to detect. For example, with Murdoch there is a large amount of explicit evidence.
sorry to sound like a jerk here, while I'm aware things like this happen in China all the time and I am no fan of this type of policies and unclear communications, why does the author call out China in particular when they clearly indicated he has previously broken a Chinese law, now you may not fully agree with the law and there were unfortunate mistakes and lack of communications by his AirBNB hosts, it is still a valid law.

Same thing happens at western countries to Chinese citizens every single day, and yet nobody bats and eye just because Chinese aren't as vocal and expressing their dissatisfaction. Before my family obtained Canadian citizenship (we are originally from China), every time we crossed the US border we'd get questioned like criminals for a good 40 minutes, mind I was a 13 year old child so what crime could I possibly commit while in the US? And it wasn't until recently that I found out my Irish colleagues who do not even hold permanent residency in Canada, their experience going over the US border has been smooth as silk, no question, no fingerprints, no nothing.

I'm sorry I have a hard time emphasizing with the author, and I just don't know what point he's trying to get to here. That China is a shithole that discriminates western journalists? I don't know.
Ehh? If WashPo kills a story, the other news outlets would most likely be running those stories.

Lets say WashPo kills a story, why wouldn't Fox News run that story in the headlines? Or New York times? Or Politico, or... any media organization worth a darn?
> A far better way to write tests is within your production code. Validate every parameter and every assumption. Raise errors when possible, log everything else.

> It runs when you testers, and customers use the applications.

Do you rely on any sort of automated testing to catch errors before it gets to your customers? From a business standpoint it doesn't feel right to offload testing to your users, especially in more critical systems.
Honestly it's an unpalatable dilemma, but I'd say I'd prefer a conglomerate which has fewer owner impulses over an owner who has an agenda to drive.
Well sure, I'm not arguing that monetary policy is responsible, only that "it worked fine during feudalism" is a silly argument.
Will we march for Net Neutrality?
A more critical look at what effect the US nuclear program had on the Marshall Islands and its ongoing impact on its residents.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-27/the-dome-runit-island-...
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It’s not valid written form of other Chinese languages, for the record. People who speak other Chinese languages learn to read and write Mandarin. Cantonese can be written noticeably differently, in terms of character choice and word order. The same can be said of Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and other “dialects” for which there is extant literature, however small. Also, notably, “Classical Chinese” which is totally different from the modern variants listed above. It’s he same characters, sure, but combining in very different ways.
On the other hand the state sponsored one forces you to pay an involuntary fee and it is not all that balanced a source.
> (This has probably been explored in a Tom Clancy/Michael Crichton -type novel...)

This is the plot of Rainbow Six, where a scheming group of evil environmentalists plan to unleash a weaponized strain of Ebola on the world to wipe out 99.99% of the global population so that the ecosystems will survive. Other comically evil things the environmentalists do include experimenting on homeless people abducted from the street and provoking/funding acts of terror worldwide as part of some hazy cover up for their activities.

It all ends in tears for the environmentalists though, at the hands of an all-American red-blooded special forces hero and his multi-national above-the-law and above-Top-Secret counter-terrorism task force.

Not really Clancy's finest hour, IMO, but a good look into the conservative id.
A POTS telephone line, which is what we're talking about here, can handle being cut and reconnected without a fuss. It would appear the elevator guys did not notice what they had done or did not understand its importance.
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Nope. Governments and countries can work just fine without democracy.
Well, you can trade forex at up to 50x leverage, so you could definitely lose half your money in 3-6 months. But maybe double it.
Hmm. Why wouldn’t I go to the library and borrow them for free? The max fine for overdue is $5.

Edit: Also, if they are available as e-books, they auto-return so there is no fee at all. One can always re-borrow.
My bad, good catch.
Not sure. I think they called the first hotel. I come in and out of the US all the time for work and was once a student there. I assume they have some sort of immigration file on me that probably has various contact details.
In the case here with the Twitter logo, lack of height attribute causes the logo to look squashed on some oldish browsers. I imagine the addition of height would fix this.
Has there ever been such a thing? Were the newspaper barons of the past neutral?
But volcanos can cause a volcanic winter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter

So why not a nuclear exchange?
What market lead in self-driving EVs? Their lane-keep that occasionally veers out of the lane? The market leader in self-driving EVs is Cruise, and if you take away your EV qualifier, it's Waymo.

The NUMMI factory is worth little. Automakers are unlikely to want to repurchase a CA factory due to all the regulations they would have to deal with.

What solar tech? Solar City was an installation company, which Tesla bailed out and has been winding down. The solar freaking roof thing doesn't even exist yet--Tesla's reveal was a bunch of fake solar shingles.

People will very generously give Tesla all kinds of benefit of the doubt, but these people might soon realize they don't know what they're talking about.
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I think in a philosophical sense that is true. However, our wetware is just wired to keep about 100 fellow people close. More than that and relationships seem to become very superficial. Most people only maintain a very small number of close relationships. Those are the "important" ones. Importance is sort of decided naturally, though.
I concur 2) was nitpicky :)

Regarding your statement "let's use force to take from productive people and give it to unproductive people" which is not that good of an idea in the first place from economics perspective (proven empirically in many countries many times)."

Firstly, one can easily argue force to take wealth is already in place. Most people would pay less tax if it was voluntary. Try not paying your tax and see what happens. So pretending this taking by force system doesn't already exist is ignorant or misleading for rhetoric. The discussion really should be about levels of taxation, not should there be taxation (ie forceful taking of money).

Secondly, I'd be interested in where your empirical evidence comes from regarding how taking money 'from productive people" is a bad thing. And clarify 1) productive and wealthy are not the same and should be recognised and clarified what is being debated. I assume we are staying with the core discussion of taking money from billionaires in general, and not focusing on billionaires that rent seek vs value add. And for your empirical evidence, I assume your looking at the usual quoted countries at the more extreme edges like Communist Russia or Venezuela. But please point me somewhere if I'm wrong.

I would suggest you look at history more openly. You should find empirical evidence suggests some level of redistribution is hugely beneficial. No economy in the world has transitioned to first world status without significantly balancing wealth distribution during this time. This could be coincidental but I doubt it. Look at western Europe, Japan, US, Canada, Australia etc through the 19th century. These became first world as they built the service and mass consumer economy. How you ask I am sure? We'll it was many things and redistribution of wealth and assets was a paradigm shift during this transition for all nations, much like what china is attempting now. People make the mistake of thinking first world countries are 'capitalist' in a much more pure sense than reality. All these countries have significant redistribution policy already, most more so during boom times. Think about education, health, unemployment systems, fire departments, roads, libraries, vehicle authories etc

So my general point is that outside the fanatical fringe, people shouldn't debate whether wealth redistribution good or not, but what level of redistribution, or on what financial terms is it beneficial. I dont claim to know whats right, but I feel places like Venezuela massively overcooked policy left, whilst many western nations are swinging a bit too right these days.