skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you that you ran a public company, and you may well be right on the boon for altcoins bit, but please know you are incorrect in relating options and shorting to futures trading. Please try to seek first to understand and only then to be understood.

source: cfa, sellside and buyside trader.
"Well run" is so wide as to be meaningless without qualifying it. Economy? Environment? Human rights? Life expectancy? Happiness? There are an endless number of metrics. China certainly would do well on some of them, and horribly on others.
More info and screenshots would be nice.
Hey Ben! i'm going to start at 2Sigma soon. would love to meet up with you if you are ever in new york. swyx@swyx.io
For a few months: Relax, watch netflix, eat out alot, do a few holidays. Then after that do a Phd.

Are you offering?
If you're looking to public for-profit corporations to, of their own volition, take some sort of ethical stand, you're going to be disappointed more often than not.
Not in the least. I just noticed that you seem to have a bit of an agenda. Nothing wrong with that, but you've presented more rhetoric than fact as far as I can see.
A skilled human with a decent tool can also make a pretty good 3D model from one face image in less than 5 minutes.
https://youtu.be/Eq0tTzCwXNI
> in free market capitalist system duty to shareholders takes priority over anything else

That's not actually true, though I agree that it is often repeated and there is pressure from shareholders and others. It's not and never has required absolute obedience; and IIRC even that idea in the theoretical sense was developed in the 1980s, long after the advent of large public companies.

> Do you suggest Apple leave Chinese market?

His choices are not so extreme. He doesn't have to show up at this conference, for example, or he can make a speech that promotes the freedom of the Chinese people. There are many other ways to navigate the situation; see my prior comment regarding that subject.
Do you have any real data on the percentage of people with a great attitude who go on to do amazing things? Or are you just speculating?
So basically, the people who look like "generic white guy" or whatever are going to get hounded by the police. Great.

At least they can probably escape attention by gaining a lot of weight, growing a beard, or smoking and drinking lot to cause skin damage.
Compiling is ivory tower?
I would say the chance of recovering any data is bigger than 0, yes.
I like how you mention Tezos and filecoin not being scams.
Can you please not use all caps for emphasis? It's basically yelling and the site guidelines ask everyone not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
My greatest fear is eeking out an existence while I wait to die.
> but if nothing changes slowly the HK will be assimilated and mainstream opinion will align more with mainland Chinese as time goes on

With due respect, that's a prediction without a basis, not evidence or an argument.
Your last paragraph is particularly funny to me because it’s exactly my experience, too. For all my hard work and successes, my marriage had the most impact. It opened doors to me that weren’t previously available. And, that access was most important.
That's racism.
Not usually. Only modifications will usually do that.
Monoliths are problematic. They're dull, they're poorly connected, they're in the way. It's worse when they're arranged horizontally because people tend to move horizontally. When you build up, the problems mostly develop for the people inside your building. When you build across, you obstruct everyone around you.

How are these "landscrapers" different from sprawling office parks? The key difference I notice is that the plan doesn't include an ocean of parking (which admittedly is a big part of why office parks are terrible).
I think it might depend on country. Mainland China I'm not sure about but in Taiwan/HK/SG I think parents choose a second "unofficial" English first name for their children. This is useful exactly for reasons of traveling, studying or working abroad or for multinational corps.
In Russia, they say professional internet trolls get 11 RUR per comment (about 18c). I am curious how it is in China? Is it more or less?
This thing is so smart.

Add a 'z' to the end of the first example and it figures out it needs to 'reverse . drop 1 . reverse' to take a character off the end.

Imagine if it could learn on every open source Haskell codebase on GitHub and then learn in real time while people type.
One photo is mislabelled. Its a 'potemkin village' labor camp, the photograph is obviously re-constructed stagefronts of work camp houses, with no sides or back, and with russian orthodox crosses alongside each: its either a memorial or an art installation.
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I'd figure they're probably working with a few hundred megs of connectivity at most. Thing is, as speeds increase (esp when you go above a few Mbps), usage actually stays pretty flat. Mostly, videos load faster leaving an emptier pipe for the next customer.
This is looking like the show Mr Robot when the UN passes a motion to allow China to annex Congo. It's fucking preposterous.
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Asia, Australia/New Zealand are well awake and almost at the end of their working day :)
"In “Europe A History,” British historian Norman Davies counted 50 million killed between 1924-53, excluding wartime casualties." [1]

Or doubled...

1: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-kil...
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What's changed about China? Have they stopped propping up their own businesses with false profits? Have they stopped stealing IP from other companies? Of the companies you listed only 2 are able to compete outside of China because they actually make a reputable product.
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I recently moved from a 1Gbps pipe from BigCo to 5Mbps provided by a WISP [0].

It’s been interesting. I definitely click back on more websites than I used to due to slow page load.

The bigger issue is with streaming video services. YouTube, YouTube TV, Netflix and HBO are all fine. Hulu and Sling are nearly unusable.

All in all, it’s not as bad as I had feared.

[0] We’re at 7k feet in altitude and there is a point to point WiFi network blasting down the majority of the canyon. All Ubiquiti gear. The ISP is owned and operated by a couple locals.
Exactly what I'm doing right now. Money doesn't change anything.
The night Wiles did the fermat reveal I took a call from a Canadian mathematician friend working the (internet, phone) tree to get the word out. I found myself, no mathematican, ringing the ABC australia science desk, asking for, and getting connected to Robin Williams (one of our formost science journalists) to try and encourage him to go with the story on the national news. Quite an engaging moment for me: in my domain of computer science we'd call what I did almost a social engineering attack: "I have important scienting news, put me through to your chief scienting reporter..." and it worked!
Yeah, it's the one that I'd personally want to use BTC for. I still might use it instead of a wire transfer, and in this case, I can see some use for futures as a hedging device, because even staying in bitcoin for one day or one hour seems like unnecessary risk when you're trying to get work done, and not make bets. This again ups the costs in terms of money and time, leading me to prefer, when possible, services like TransferWise.
This combined with a robust type system should be nice. I thought it would be a solid direction which would've happened but didn't. One of my uni courses was ILP (long time ago indeed) and that seemed to have merit with faster computers, more advanced algorithms and heuristics. After that I saw Hoogle when I learned Haskell; seems combining these things can make something powerful. I was going to post MagicHaskeller here as well but gergoerdi did that already.
It's actually my opinion. I'm not claiming it is a provable fact. It is just what I think might happen in next 50 years let's say.

HK has been independent for a long time and been given back to China quite recently so I think 100 years from now if it stays as part of China it would be much less independent.

For example, take a look at Kaliningrad which is completely Russian now. Or other parts of Europe which were assimilated when taken over by bigger nations/states.
2-year-olds are definitely capable of this kind of thinking. The ability to explain it and introspect is more rare.
This style of architecture definitely allows for more sunlight and doesn't dirty the skyline with nasty highly reflective glass. Sometimes you're located in an area that is better without skyscrapers. Although I'm sure most of the posts here will be about "inefficiency".
Heck if India could fix it's power issues and network peering issues they'd catch up pretty darned quick.
Even if this statement is pristine, it's still pretty flagrant:

> August 10, 13h00 GMT

> We implement a unique encryption system that uses a portion of your private PlexCoin address to encrypt your email address, your password and your wallet. Security is very important to us. That's why we invented a new type of encryption system based on your private virtual currency address, so it is undecryptable.

I mean, even in context, what does this mean? "Security is very important to us."
The difference is semantic. You don't invest in a depreciating asset (USD). Despite this fact, you still do have and use depreciating assets - cars, inflationary currencies. It just so happens, that your preference is to get rid of bad money first (Gresham's law). When the bad money is gone, all you are left with is the next worst money/ wealth you have (money as in M0,M1 money stock etc.)
I'm missing the point then, I thought it was half of your statement. Could you explain it further?
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That’s not the point. Step away from the idea of one market maker intermediating a trade between a buyer and a seller who would otherwise miss each other. Conceptually, automated market making improves liquidity by enhancing price discovery. The markets become more liquid because prices become more efficient, and prices become more efficient because buy and sell opinions are much more rapidly absorbed into the market.

The faster the market makers trade, the tighter the feedback loop from buy and sell signals in the orderbook becomes, and the smaller the spread between competing prices.
Infinite divisibility is the important point you are overlooking here.
It can certainly be difficult regardless of whether or not there is a defined place, but the benefits of a repeated time and place for events, much like sports bars, is what I was getting at. In a sports bar you would still need to support the local team and learn the lingo to impress people, but that doesn't mean it's easy.
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This requirement for local partners is even present for doing scientific geology studies in the country. Without a local partner you are not going to get permits to look at rocks and take small samples anywhere in the country. Public lands in the US are wide open to walking around, looking at stuff, and taking a few rocks.
well, at least Russian does that for a living. In America, some internet trolls do it for free, as they choose to ignore the facts, or too lazy to check the facts.
Thats a bold claim given the history.
Do you have a mac? I have had some success with Things 3. Omnifocus is a little too overloaded for me.

If you are using a PC, I like Todoist. Verge also recommends TodoIst
I am mature enough and proud to have a consistent view.
Can you share any resources for getting started? I'd like to at least try and see if it is something I would benefit from or not.
You would be surprised how many people are trolls for free. Just brainwashed people parroting Russian talking points planted by Putin's intelligence service. I can see this on discussion forums in Eastern Europe. I don't doubt many of those people genuinely believe those things and are not being paid.
The question becomes: is Apple helping give away the keys to the kingdom with China-based manufacturing and business, in exchange for ultimately fleeting short term profits?

Will they start to get the boot too?
Second that. This looks brilliant. Had no idea something like this existed :)
I have zero experience from the industry, but I still want to defend my point:

"Comparing it in a useful way across different institutions" seems like a BIG deal!

Institutions revealed to be inferior would have to improve close down. Those proven to do great work would be richly rewarded, but at all levels there'd be a new level of scrutiny.

This would be of huge benefit for patients, save tons of lives etc, but also put a lot of strain on doctors and hospitals, and I can see how people with power in those fields don't want this to happen and thus don't make it happen.

It's also entirely possible I babble too much about things I know nothing about here. If so, I'd appreciate learning about it!
"Any foreign company eating up the market share of a local company will get blocked eventually or be forced into merging into a local entity."

Can you provide an example of a foreign company that was willing to comply with Chinese law, but still faced this outcome?
> When you don't understand the structure of the underlying database that Git uses,...

The directed acyclic graph of commit objects, their associated trees and blobs? After all these years and git tutorials, you would have to be trying really hard to avoid coming across an easy git intro. If someone is a developer, I'd say it's past time to learn it.
I love it. We do not live on Coruscant, space is not at such a premium even in London or NYC that you must push higher and higher. Skyscrapers are sterile; nothing happens at street level. The entire purpose is to isolate. The landscrapers have a more humane elevation and will end up creating entire neighborhoods.
The solve times certainly show how much better GPGPU problem solving can be for problems that can be massively threaded.
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"Landscrapers" will (obviously) have fewer, but larger floors. For certain types of organizations (e.g. software development organizations) this can be a real advantage, since more of the people that each person needs to work with can be on the same floor. Being separated by even a single floor can make a remarkably big difference to communication.
> It reminds me of the Sea Lion comic[1]

You nearly made me spray coffee all over my precious Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard. (Which - no joke - would have been the third I would have destroyed this way.)

Thank you for starting my day with a healthy dose of laughter! (I know that comic is trying to make a serious point, but the surreal example it chose is just so hilarious!)
From Bezos to Walton, Big Investors Back Fund for ‘Flyover’ Startups
Yeah, if you have 250 billion in cash (offshore alone), it's only 6 percent, a decent tax rate if you end up paying it.
Reminder: both Apple AND Ireland agree that they don't actually owe any tax.

So it's not that Apple didn't pay tax to Ireland - it's that they were specifically contracted to pay a certain rate and the EU disagrees.

So the headline is incredibly misleading.
"Liberalize things" can you cite any, because as someone who is familiar with China, Xi's regime is less liberal than ever. The country does welcome foreign investors, but that's about it (and that comes with a lot of restrictions).
You retiring or do anything interesting with the money?
They're not just competing on time; they're competing (and driving competition) on price. Electronic trading has decimated spreads.
1984 Mac ad, anybody?
New Facebook App for Children Ignites Debate Among Families
When I was a grad student I worked deep in the Amazon of eastern Ecuador. The following wild foods could be found at the market: white-lipped peccary, spider monkeys[1], woolly monkeys, paca, parrot, macaw, iguana (I think, might have actually been in Panama), and fish.

[1] this was utterly heartbreaking, spider monkeys are rare, even in intact tropical forest, and have a very low reproductive rate. I remember visiting a local village where a female adult with a juvenile had been killed. The juvenile was being raised as a pet until it was large enough for the pot.
A deep dive on Angular decorators
skyscrapers are mostly about making a statement....there are very few places in the world where land is truly so expensive that absolutely everyone, even the wealthiest corporations in the world, must build up.

Apple's new campus for example is basically a landscraper.
I'm convinced that our decision for how much effort to exert on work is not governed by the rational part of our brain. It's part primal - fear of insecurity and belonging to a social structure - part ego - accomplishment as confirmation of existence and your salary as a concrete number to compare favorably to others - and part culture and habit.

I also think overwork is a byproduct of a globally connected society. Humans are happy if they are relatively well off compared to what they know. With smaller societies, we know less and thus expect less from ourselves and our situations. But it becomes more difficult to remain this way as small societies get replaced with large social networks.

As a small example, you can be having a great life one day and feel woefully underpaid the next, and the only thing that has changed is your knowledge that in the valley, people get paid twice the amount you do in the UK.

I believe we need a generational understanding, acceptance, and appropriation of some of the unintended side effects of modern society.
It's not only in Russia, actually.

In New England, many buildings are from early XX century or older. People still live there. (Of course, they are refurbished.)

What changed from the Soviet times - now there's no free money, so no one will build new buildings unless someone else will pay for it.
> He doesn't have to show up at this conference

I agree. But that would be mostly meaningful gesture as it wouldn't change anything.

> he can make a speech that promotes the freedom of the Chinese people

This might be more meaningful and would actually mean he is putting something on the line / has skin in the game. Which is why I can't imagine Cook doing that. He would be putting Apple's business in China in danger by doing that.

> There are many other ways to navigate the situation; see my prior comment regarding that subject.

Yes, but the more meaningful actions Cook / Apple could take, the more likely it would damage their business. So it is against their interest to do anything other than empty gestures.
India is a fragmented country and Modi has to win another term impressively to get any kind of "true" reforms. Even if he succeeds, its the South and West leading the economy and Hindi heartland playing catch-up in spite of being political and population center.

India will develop unevenly Gujarat, Maharashtra, TN, AP will forge ahead. The interior will have lesser impressive growth.

As long as India periphery is culturally diverse from Hindi core, India is not going to get anywhere. It will grow and medium pace and will make it to middle income in 2040, but nothing stellar.
This is great story, probably wins the year for "best bug you've ever encountered?" question.
Having implemented some weird runtimes for weird languages, I am sympathetic to Go team here -- these odd tradeoffs of pushing the envelope on OS <-> your_own_compiler interactions can trigger some wild experiences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
From the stories of people who visited or lived in Norilsk (a decade ago though), it sounded like it was the closest approximation of hell on the planet.
Facebook

Zuckerberg is all ready to comply and multiply his attempts to get closer to the Chinese government (look it up), but stays blocked.
I mean, that's provably false with all of the innocent people who end up in jail or things like civil forfeiture which are used to take money from anyone. How about the people who get attacked by cops who no knock raid the wrong house?

Saying that cops only go after criminals and their associates is a view that can only exist in ignorance of the mountain of evidence showing the opposite
Google's NYC building (111 8th Ave) is 790 ft long -- not as long as the new one's 1,082 ft, but still comparable. Few people realize it's NYC's fourth-largest building, since it's only 15 stories. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue
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It took a long time to take off in the UK too, despite heading calling party pays. SMS enablement was a subscription service - £5/month from memory - and initially there want interconnect between mobile networks so texts were limited to those on the same provider. On the other hand, the original plans were all you can eat, and pager gateways worked for SMS too.

It took off when interconnect was sorted.
This recent story in the Atlantic does a good job of capturing the quiet desperation of motel-homeless life.

They thought it would be a brief stay, but they ended up staying in various hotels like the Red Roof Inn and the GuestHouse Inn for the next two and a half years. All six of them would pile into one room, with two of the boys sleeping on the floor and everyone vying for bathroom time. They could rarely stay at a hotel longer than 28 days—many establishments have time limits—and so would have to pack up their bags every few weeks and find a new place to live. “I think the worst part of it was not having your privacy, your own room, we all had to share one big room,” Karina told me. “And not having a place to call home during Christmas.” ...

Moving into a place where they had a kitchen and some privacy was an almost indescribable relief. Karina posted pictures of scrambled eggs she made on Facebook, puzzling friends who didn’t know that the family had been homeless for two and a half years, because being able to cook in her own kitchen again filled her with joy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/the-nev...
How large is the archive file? I couldn't see that info listed anywhere.
Possibly, although hotter fundamentally means more thermal noise, which might actually reduce correlations / ability to communicate effectively between adjacent circuits.

Think of it as SNR (signal-noise-ratio) -- increasing temperature increases thermal noise (there are other kinds), and with the same signal, it should actually reduce the efficiency of the side channel.

But it brings up a good question, I wonder if anyone has studied this...
A long time ago I read "Speed Reading" by Tony Buzan. It provides plenty of techniques, tricks, and exercises.
> Isn't it a common practice to follow the local law

Oh, I like this statement.

Because based on the same statement, if Cook wants to make money in a country where been gay will be punished by death[0][1], he must be smiling like a sunflower when he standing in front of a gay couple who will soon be executed because of, well, local law.

Very delightful, Huh?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_for_homosexualit...
Agreed. We should expect governments to take ethical stands not for profit companies that only care about profit. Unfortunately western governments are also being totally hypocritical when it comes to China.
You make some compelling arguments. I’d be curious to see the rest of your essay. Have you published it somewhere?
Tim Cook has himself explicitly challenged this logic before:

> “If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock” [0]

I don’t necessarily believe you are wrong in this case, but I don’t believe your path to supporting your statements was necessarily correct either.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-companies-...