skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't view privacy the same way we view them in the west. The government is obviously not too keen on passing Privacy Laws that itself has no intention of obeying.

I still attribute the success of Tencent and Alibaba significantly to both the public perception of privacy as well as what I expect to be a tacit compliance with the government on making available the data that they gather.

The Chinese government can find ways to shut down any company pretty much at will. I can't imagine Tencent or Alibaba or Baidu got to where they are today without playing ball with the government.
Yeah, I was gonna say Skype communication protocol was proprietary and encrypted until Microsoft bought them and rewrite a lot of it.
This wrecks a lot of useful things and doesn't really address the problem.
Shanghai is "smog-choked"? The AQI is the same as San Francisco.

The score is easily 10x worse in other cities but specifically Shanghai seems overblown.
Same reason people buy a house with a mortgage and not straight cash.
I mean... it can be both. I don't see that as being incompatible with what the author is saying.
I have the opposite observation, women do tend to get promoted to managerial roles fairly quickly.
This is ridiculous and uncivil flamebait. We've already asked you not to post like this, so could you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm curious as to how you manage the mirror. Do you perform all operations twice (e.g. if you push to Github, do you manually push to Gitlab)?

Edit: Nvm, found out Gitlab has the mirroring feature (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.htm...). Pretty cool!
One fundamental problem you may be running into is that generally the older people get the more they value "safety". So it's possible that you and your mother simply attach different utilities to "keeping others safe" and "potential for misuse" even if you agree on all the facts and conditional probabilities and whatnot...

I really wonder how much changing demographics (population aging) account for the shifts in public opinion on issues like this.
Note that until the 80s freedom of emigration was not allowed by the Chinese government. I believe the same was true with Eastern European countries.
Skype complies with at least court-ordered wiretap requests (they were forced to when MS bought them). How exactly will that work without "e2e but with key escrow"? And "e2e with key escrow" is basically the same as "plaintext"
Sociopaths can be charming, neither are clinical definitions.
Yes, but this seems to be unique to the US market. In countries where people don't earn as much, getting a subsidized phone via the carrier doesn't seem to be the case.
I heard the other side of the story that ABCs could have a hard time in China, because they look just like full han Chinese, but when people find out you are not really "Chinese Chinese", attitudes/expectations/behaviors change.

Edit: I guess I should say "attitudes/expectations/behaviors change, for the better or worse"
Yeah, he should come back with a 50:50 joint venture with a US manufacturer.
Smart contract is a misnomer. Neither the author nor those she is criticizing understand what a smart contract is.
When Stellar's codebase was still just a fork of Ripple (entire codebase was completely re-written from scratch in 2015), it experienced many divergent forks of the network due to weaknesses in the Ripple consensus protocol. Those weaknesses have been eliminated in the new SCP described in this paper, but AFAIK Ripple still has these systemic problems. The new Stellar codebase is actually a joy to work with.
This is the allegation of the Ellis, Pease, and Wisuri lawsuit against Google - that Google does okay at hiring women, but slots them into lower positions and gives them fewer promotions than men. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/technology/google-gender-... The NYT's report on the leaked #talkpay spreadsheet seems to show that pattern: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/technology/google-salarie...

The neat thing about this form of discrimination is that you can claim to be fixing "the pipeline" all you want and you can still maintain the discrimination, because the leak is after the pipeline. The dominant group isn't threatened by competition if they fund efforts to increase the number of underrepresented groups in grade school or college STEM education, as long as those college graduates aren't later competing for senior jobs on a level playing field.
Agreed, but Bitcoin Cash intentionally has not added Replace By Fee for this reason.
You really might not even need to make a great impulse... you can probably get away with recording response to a series of "known signals" (e.g. chirp signals played back over a known loudspeaker), and then determining the impulse response from that, and applying that (via convolution) to your actual signal of interest.
You might use GMail, but I can communicate with you perfectly fine even if I don't use GMail.
Money is the king. Seriously there are people that prefer their own familiar environment but a logical explanation is if you can get significantly more money elsewhere why not to go ?
After all you can retire early and live wherever you want.
You would be surprised how many brilliant engineers work have small coffee shops around the world not caring about money anymore.
> I would also bet the database is probably not much bigger then the shazam app itself.

I don't know what you're trying to say here. Shazam has millions of songs in their database, according to the original paper the offline mobile recognition system by google just has something over 70k finger prints. That's the big benefit of using an online system, you don't have to have all the fingerprints stored locally and also don't have to stick to the low power constraint.
Ask HN: Favorite Original Online Fiction?
Let's make a thread with links to your favorite online fiction. It doesn't matter if it's fanfiction. Go ahead and post it.
At the risk of being censured for a frivolous, redditlike comment by a new account, I am reminded of a snippet of doggerel by Ogden Nash, and compelled to share it:

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all
Eli5 please ! ;-)
What, no. The problem is that the typical arrangement is that employees must either buy their options (which have been very expensive at Dropbox for past 5 years at least, and thus out of reach and highly risky for most), or forfeit them soon after they leave.

So in practice, employees are shackled to the company until IPO happens.

(Note: some more progressive companies have been combating this dynamic a number of ways -- I don't know if Dropbox is among them)
Cytochrome P450 is a family of closely related enzymes that are involved in drug metabolism. There are certain isoforms that have variants with wildly different activity in certain populations. In drug discovery we screen for their involvement and do not like to develop compounds that are metabolized by one of these isoforms because the variation in pharmacokinetics would be too huge. This is kind of the opposite of personalized medicine, making response uniform across the population.

This article gives an overview: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0801/p391.html
The day Trump starts vetoing bills sent to his desk is the day 25th Amendment proceedings hit full stride.
If their target audience is PTSD patients, they are looking at a primarily veterans as participants. It's pretty hard to determine if a veteran was exposed to an explosion or not.
You don't understand why people would pick a small monthly fee over a four figure purchase price for a phone? Because very few people have the savings or extra money to do so.
If one were in his position, how would one scheme a safe escape from the UK?

I can imagine scenarios to leave the embassy building (mob action, disguises...), but then what?
Benefiting society newer was the main goal of science, those benefits are byproducts of science.
Network effect is real, but that can not defend bitcoin if tx continue to stay prohibitively high.
Well, congrats to them for doing it. All they had to do to get there was bring a Bush admin war criminal on board. Hurray for state surveillance!
Well, unless you are dashan maybe, but even he went back to Canada eventually.
Yes, if it happened within our galaxy. It has happened other times too, like this example from more recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1054
What an overwrought load of BS...

This libertarian fantasy may have felt reasonable 20 years ago, when people still used the term 'cyberspace', and nothing that happened there had any effect on real life whatsoever. But, of course, a virtual fantasy with no effects on real life is neither useful nor exciting.

Over time, the internet grew, and so did its potential for both good and bad: It's impossible to create something that can make people happy, without also potentially making them unhappy. Nor can you create an economy without also creating opportunities for fraud, theft, blackmail etc.

With the system having such power, the remaining question is where this power should reside, and this caricature of a manifesto doesn't even try to answer such questions. It seems to advocate a sort of anarchy. Yet that happens to be precisely
the worst possible form of "government". It's pure "might is right": money, power, freedom, and all other tangible and intangible assets will flow to those already possessing power.

Bit, luckily, humanity has already invested 10,000 years into spilling each others' guts in the pursuit of power, and has slowly come around to principles, mechanisms, and institutions that, while flawed, undeniably allows many more to flourish without constant fear of their neighbors.

So fuck off, cyberspace boy. We've delegated the monopoly of power, and certainly not to you.
Handwavey political trolling is not what this site is here for. Please don't post like this anymore.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All the Canadian carriers are such assholes I can't bring myself to sign a long term contract with them.

It's also nice to have an unlocked retail phone. Much cheaper to get a SIM from a vending machine at the airport anywhere outside North America than to suffer Canadian carriers' insane roaming charges.
I think one thing people, especially on HN, need to remind themselves of is the price isn’t determined by what _you_ think, it’s determined by what _everyone else_ thinks.
I think there is a deeper truth here - understanding of what the hardware is doing has always been essential for writing correct, secure, performant programs - and it is the (IMHO, mistaken) ideology that this is not the case that took the biggest hit from Spectre/Meltdown/et al.
Most people will get a mortgage to buy a house. Most people aren't going to get a loan to make a $300 to $500 purchase.
The thing is. How will Microsoft and Skype handle backdoors now. As far as I understood the reason Microsoft broke Skype so badly was because they used centralised servers with backdoors for countries who wanted them. Not always the good countries.

But this. This baffles me.
Deeply.
Google search uses HTTPS and, unless you personally is a target and/or your devices are hacked, the content of your searches is not visible to anyone except Google. Your citizenship doesn't matter.
There's a worst-case for the difficulty adjustment, right? Just hedge your expected worst-case production through shorting the future, then.
Basically AI/ML is the new hot thing so everyone wants to be called an AI engineer.

If they previously integrated Nuance's speech recognition into a product, they were just an engineer, now they are an AI engineer. Worked on mapping product which does routing before? Well route searching is an "AI" kind of problem so they are an "AI engineer" too, and so on.

AI/ML is the new "big data" basically. As soon as "big data" appeared, nobody was doing just "data", they were all of the sudden doing "big data".
Bitcoin dominance dropping below 50% was not close to the realm of possibility just 2 years ago. Bitcoin is now only at ~33% of dominance.
yeah, looks cool. never heard of it before.
I thought they switched to RSUs? Are you sure that new grad didn't get a mix of RSUs and options?
I don’t think foreign Chinese would qualify for federal subsidies. Maybe the Chinese gov’t subsidizes their education.

In grad school I knew of several Singaporeans who had their tuition here in the US convered by the govt with repayment in form of returning to a govt job, which in Singapore is a highly prestigious job.
Alibaba's Jack Ma not a fan of Bitcoin (3 min video)
yes, but that doesn't give you self-righteous, America-shaming browning points on the internet.
I know their api is really nice and I was surprised how easy was to work with it, whether it is a test net or public.
Maybe it's time we stop calling these cryptocurrencies and call them what they really are, cryptostocks.
The welfare state is enormously more expensive. Social Security/Medicare spending dwarfs every other expenditure, and it’s payroll taxes are higher than income taxes for most people. Most people are for reasonable government social programs, i don’t think they have to be given bribes (that they have to pay for) to support them.
Read on the WSJ a few days ago how Huawei got started was straight stealing the exact same patented technology as an American firm and then could produce more cheaply thanks to government help.

America has to act now to prevent this kind of stuff, not just place a bandaid. Huawei is now cheaper and better than competitors but their model has been something Chinese and let's be honest most other countries have tried to implement. Props to them though
You've got it backwards. Psychopathy is a particular variant of Antisocial Personality disorder and is characterized by a complete lack of empathy. The brain wiring literally doesn't exist.

Whereas sociopathy is a learned willingness to completely subvert empathy to serve personal goals. They do have brain wiring for empathy, which is what makes them effective at subverting it.

High-functioning psychopaths generally have to create a 'mask' in order to pass for normal. The mask is quite cognitively expensive and so they tend to prefer solitude. Low-functioning psychopaths tend towards criminality due to poor self-control.
Very odd to recommend Raiblocks instead of at least Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash, which have 300x and 90x the volume respectively. They both also have low fees and near instant transactions, already work for their use cases, and can be bought with USD.

There are real competitors to Bitcoin Core today, and Raiblocks is not one of them. Your value proposition cannot be "like Ethereum but fractionally better because volume is two orders of magnitude less". There are even interesting coins like Aragon, Po.et, SALT, Aeron, district0x that actually do things Bitcoin doesn't do.

Competing for "payments on the internet" is a losing battle, of which you can find hundreds of other pumps on coinmarketcap. They all have nice landing pages about how the blockchain is the future and this is the new way for money and banking. That's a clear sign there's no future in a coin, because the founders can't come up with anything but "let's make Bitcoin faster".

Obligatory disclaimer that I don't invest in any of these things. I'd rather have people invest in curing disease, space travel, longevity research; things that affect the physical world and push humanity forwards. "Like Visa but fuck Visa" is not a compelling pitch.
Good managers have empathy. Women are traditionally more empathetic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19476221/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5110041/
What comments about his coding ability do you claim are slanderous? I said I wanted to see his code, and would not be shocked that it's not very good. I stand by that. Maybe it's good, maybe it isn't.

Anyhow, publishing something on the web invites anybody to look at it whenever they please. Putting a profile on a site specifically made for people to evaluate your professional standing is very much inviting people to look at it when they want to know who you are. That is literally the purpose of LinkedIn.
I think the Dunning–Kruger effect is fairly well established, so I'm not sure why you'd put "researchers" in scare quotes.
The joke's awesome btw; never heard this one before.
Agreed. Where is Google in China? FB? YouTube? Twitter? GitHub? ... the list goes on and on.

This decision does affect US consumers, but not in a significant way...we still have access to cheap smartphones.

Chinese companies can't have their cake and eat it too!
China is a centrally planned economy isn't it, if that's the measure against which you compare the openness and political interference in your supposed free market economy then I think you've got major problems.
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That has been my impression. Sometimes people find little ways to insulate themselves (I know a guy who doesn't put his license plate in the right place so his car can't automatically be tracked when he drives around the country), but in general lack of privacy is just the way it is. Kind of like taxes in the US. People may be annoyed with how much they pay and some people use dubiously clever means of reducing it, and people have concerns about the details, but not many people really think taxes overall are a bad thing and should be abolished or greatly restricted.
They're introducing legislation, and states like NY and CA certainly have legislatures with clear majorities for net neutrality.

The article also cites CA's car emission standards, which appears to be good precedent both for the legality of such measures, as well as state lawmakers' willingness and ability to enact these laws.

So I have no idea what you might be referring to by "grandstanding".
Mrgashiras is a nakshatra (one of 27 800 arcminute divisions of the zodiac) not a constellation per se. The nakshatras are however associated with specific stars. Mrgashiras with Gamma Orionis (the "right shoulder" I think?" The next nakshatra Ardra (Alpha Orionis or Betelgeuse) is also in Orion.

A problem in all religions is how to explain the presence of evil in the world. One answer from the Vedas is that the creator, Prajapati (the antecedent of Brahma in later Hinduism) first created a daughter but then united with her to produce the human race. She fled from him in various female animal shapes but he became the male of the species each time thus creating all the animals. The Gods looked upon this with dismay and sent Rudra (the antecedent of Shiva. He is often portrayed as a bow-armed hunter.) to punish Prajapati for the sin of incest. Rudra hunted down Prajapati when he was in the form of a stag and his daughter a doe and pierced (castrated?) him with an arrow.

Some tellings of this story include astronomical symbolism. Rudra is Sirius. Prajapati is Orion. The arrow is "Orions belt" and the daughter is the nakshatra Rohini (Alpha Taurii or Al Deberan.) Rohini means deer in Sanskrit.
Verizon also used to not allow unlocked phones on their network. If the phone was not Verizon branded you were forbidden from using it. I'm not sure if that's still the case.
I can't speak for everyone, but I would definitely have bought tickets to Star Peace. Especially over "Star Wars: even more cgi edition".
maybe because native americans would be the term and your question sounds purposefully obtuse and perhaps even discriminatory?

just a guess.
4 figures? What phones are people buying? I bought my Huawei honor 8 for 300 and I pay 50 a month for a plan.
> ...the collective revenue of financial institutions as (at best) a necessary inefficiency of a market-based system.

This doesn't make sense. If every dollar of their revenue created more than a dollars worth of value for the rest of the economy, then it's a net win. To put it in a different way, consider the economic losses if you couldn't get cheap mortgages, loans, etc. from financial institutions.
BTC is old and deprecated. BTC is now what ARPANET is to the Internet. Without LN and SegWit BTC will suffer long transaction time and high fees before it dies. We all know it, yet, somehow no one cares.
As for (1), flip it around and it’s more realistic (how much of their work in industry or as RAs has subsidized America?). The benefits are in America’s favor still. As for (2), I spent 9 years there and find my experience invaluable. I could have done it elsewhere though, well, it was nice. There weren’t many of us, especially if we are just talking about Americans and not other westerners. But, as an example, one of the best SR/ML researchers I know got his chance in China even though he was European.
Ask HN: Why do email lists get spam signups?
I have a mail chimp signup on a side project site. I haven't added anything new to the site in over a year. All of a sudden I'm getting about one signup per day. If I google the email address most show up as being on a spam or blacklist.

Why do spammers sign up for lists? Seems like a waste of time and that they don't get anything out of it.
The Vuzix Blade is what Google Glass always wanted to be
> I still feel like I did the wrong thing.

In the end, it's not your company. You offered your sincere, thoughtful feedback, it was not taken seriously, and that is on them.

Had you "fought harder" you might have burned bridges for yourself and caused undue hardship and stress. They might have stayed the course regardless.

It's not your fault. It's not your company.

The best thing to do is to do the work to upkeep those relationships you felt were valuable. It's a small world, and a recommendation for your coworker's next position might be more valuable in the end.
Where is the evidence? That article again simply seems to have assumed its conclusion. For fear of just repeating myself, we already spend substantially more public funds, than nearly everywhere in the world, on our children's educations. Even the less well funded districts are receiving far more money per child than the children in numerous nations that are outperforming us.

To be more clear, finding that wealthier school districts perform better than poorer school districts does not immediately imply that the problem is money. I've yet to see compelling evidence suggesting that it is, and I think I've provided reasonably compelling evidence suggesting that it is not. To make this even clearer, let's use the same logic to make an absurdly false argument. 'Poor countries tend to do better than rich countries when it comes to training world class runners. Therefore, the problem for the richer countries is that they have too much money to train world class runners.' The statement is so illogical it reads nonsensically, yet if the reverse were true and that richer countries did a better job of producing world class runners, you might have been inclined to agree with that exact same fallacious logic!
I think that's a little unfair to characterize the Chinese government as uniquely nefarious. NSA's Prism gives the US Gov't free reign over troves of information held by US based software and information services companies.
Recognized with the Ig Nobel Prize in Psychology in 2000.

https://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2000
I do not know why you are being downvoted.

I will use my "Indian privilege" to try to guess the answer to your question. As an ethnic group with more recent immigration, unless the job requires federal security clearance, most of the Indians are likely to be Immigrants, with Citizens in there (most likely in a bit senior positions).