skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality_law_of_the_People%...

In practice, naturalizing as a Chinese national is extremely rare, even more so when the sheer population of the region is taken into account and compared to other comparable regions, such as the European Union, United States and India. Majority of foreign permanent residents simply remain that for the duration of their residency, without ever being asked or forced to naturalize. During the Fifth National Population Census (2000), only 941 naturalized citizens that do not belong to any of Communist Party of China's recognized 56 indigenous ethnic groups (which already includes Koreans, Vietnamese, and Russians)[13] were counted in China's mainland.[14] As of 2010, the total number of naturalized Chinese was only 1,448 in Mainland China, out of the population of over 1.33 billion. In 1990, there were over 3,000.[15]

More foreigners have applied for naturalization as Chinese nationals with permanent residency of Hong Kong since the handover in 1997. Among Hong Kong residents from 1997 to 2012, 3,411 Pakistanis, 3,399 Indonesians, 2,487 Indians, 1,115 Vietnamese, and 387 Filipinos have been naturalized.[16] One case of mass naturalization occurred in 2003, when less than 200 Damans, an ethnic-Nepali people who had resided in Gyirong County of Tibet for over two centuries, were granted Chinese nationality. The serial numbers on their naturalization certificates suggested that around 4,000 people (including the Damans) had naturalized as Chinese nationals in Mainland China until 2003.[17]
> Unlike France and the US, the government is corrupt but they don't vote any law against Chinese themselves

It's not very logical.

By definition, the word "Law" means: a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior[0]. Who's behavior? Trees? Mountains? No, people's behavior, people who living inside the territory of the country.

So, the right way to put should be: China's laws are more restrict towards foreigners, which is reasonable, because:

1) Foreigners contributes less to the society than locals in general.

2) Foreigners have no proxy or benefiter in the government system, so nobody will speak for them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law
As a French citizen, that's a very big risk to take. I speak from experience when I say one tiny mistake (that would be a non-issue in most Western countries) is all it takes to get kicked out of the country, after which they'll deny your Visa for years with no obligation to tell you why. It doesn't matter if you own a house in China, it doesn't matter if you've invested hundreds of thousands/millions throughout your stay there, it doesn't matter if you lived there for 10 years without a problem, it doesn't matter if you're a month away from graduating from Tsinghua/Beida, etc. If you've been to China before then you've probably already broken the law in many different ways, such as not going to the local police station whenever you stayed at a hotel/switched apartment/stayed at your friends/partners place, etc. In other words, settling down and investing a lot of money into a life in China is a disaster waiting to happen.
Are you sure using bank robbery is a good example here? Some real financial crime like embezzlement would make more sense.
Yeah, I'm sure certain restricted types of cargo may be launched this way. We will still need rockets for the vast majority of cargo types.
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I haven’t found anything in this thread except the most radical and unconfirmed claims which don’t correlate with some result of corporate capitalist applications of the same technologies. Note I say result because the acts and perpetrators themselves would unsurprisingly differ in various societal structures. The sacrifices and misplacements are plenty congruent in effect and affect to warrant acknowledgement. The tone of PR and response to PR, the latter being a measure a couple degrees insulated by public interpretation, presents as nearly identical. I find nothing intriguing or enticing about observing these Huxleyan scenarios so if anyone can refute this angle, please share.
Isn't the fact that you've seen a bunch of people already hand-roll this a good indication that there's a need for something like this, so no-one else needs to hand-roll it anymore?

It doesn't need to be novel right? It just needs to be helpful.
It’s even cooler than that. In Havana, there’s a local network via Ethernet cables strung between buildings, that you can use hacked video game consoles to play against others on, among other things!
You know.. I never actually considered that possibility..
>Seems to me there is a large public relations push to normalize their authoritarianism in the view of Westerners.

So, bigger than the push to make it appear worse than it is?

Because that has been a tactic with any competing nation/enemy du jour of the west for over a century...

Not to mention that everything is judged with US-norms and interpreted through US-preferences in all those articles (aside and above the interpretation through their national interests) -- as if, e.g. rugged individualism and puritanism -derived principles is some universal law and e.g. a collectivist spirit, or some religious-derived norms, or other such cultural ways, are by default bad.
time for some soul-searching
Sorry to hear that, it's an eerie reminder of our mortality.

You can edit the contact, remove the birthday and add it as a note to keep the info but let it be handled in another way.
Your gut has shit for brains.
Maybe the tech was bad, but the marketing was worse. I never even tried Wave, so didn’t experience the bugs and bad UI, because I could never understand what it was or what family of problems it was trying to address.
There is a Angular Elements project in Angular's 2018 roadmap to make it easy to create web component. This feature likely will be in AngularDart. There is also an early stage project to create light weight Angular to be JQuery replacement and non-CRUD apps.
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It is cash only net worth, they don't have data on tangibles.
> Even an 30min from one of the 10 biggest cities on the USA, broadband is still unavailable to a majority, ambulance times are in hours, and school funding is increasingly disappearing.

Literally all of those services are more efficient in cities. A km of fiber serves more household when population is dense. Ambulance (and any other vehicle) commute times are shorter when everyone's in the same place. A single school building can be within walking distance of more kids.

Its not a matter of city folk being entitled or holding their provincial counterparts in contempt. It is impossible for rural areas to enjoy the same standard of living as urbanities because literally every interaction and service has to pay extra to solve the last mile problem.

Do you know how much fiber, how many ambulances, how many school buildings it would take to make every rural area as desirable as the city?
Yes, I am also using PyInstaller for an infrastructure automation CLI project I am doing. Works really well to produce the single executable. Also for most of the automation work, you don't really need Go's speed. Python's convenience makes iterating a lot quicker.
I support him. If you want "tenant rights" you can sign appropriate lease contract that allows you to stay longer in case you are in some trouble. Perhaps you could also buy some insurance for that. But why owner of the property would have to keep it in hands of somebody who is not paying? Because tenant is in some bad life situation? I think in most cases if that really would be the case, property owner would help, but in general this problem is to be handled by tenant, state or charities.
That is what i took out of the paper.

I don't believe i was trying to summarize the paper from an objective standpoint. I guess i was trying to summarize how my interpretation did not lead to the same conclusion that you came to.

There are many hierarchy's some model the world better than others.

"To me this argument seems like a sophisticated way of telling someone that he/she is stupid."

Ok, what argument? Did you interpret my personal theory as an argument for something? I did not mean that it applies to you. I was expressing an idea that i thought was related to what we where talking to. Sorry.
Iridium Browser: A Browser for the Privacy Conscious
It might be unethical to not beat it.
It says "based on mainline linux", not "running on mainline linux". They probably have non-upstreamed patches.
I don't think you've thought this through fully.

If you start calling the cops on some bogus claims, what's to prevent him from doing the same? This is purely one person's word against the other's, so it isn't really going to work.

There are criminal solutions to these problems where you're unlikely to be implicated, but getting the police involved in your conflict a priori is certainly not the way to promote success.
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It’s all about tradeoffs.

If you prioritize performance over safety, there’s no way around these problems. To implement efficient algorithms processing trees, lists or graphs, you have to fallback to unsafe code & potentially invalid raw pointers. Unsafe Rust is as dangerous as C++, but for C++, standard library, runtime and tools provide huge help implementing and debugging such things.

If you prioritize safety over performance, of course Rust is way ahead of C++. But Java and C# are much easier to use and deliver safety comparable to Rust. Also in these languages, trees & graphs might be even faster than in safe Rust.
Citymapper is a fantastic app, but I still wonder how “operate a bus/taxi/... service” can be a successful monetisation strategy. Happy to be proved wrong though.

Looks like Uber is doing something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435877
The argument for violating privacy in communications is literally that it is being used as a mechanism for breaking the law.

I'd be interested in hearing a logically consistent argument for why bad guys hiding illegally gotten gains is a legitimate reason for opposing banking privacy, but bad guys using encrypted communication platforms for planning crimes isn't a legitimate reason to oppose communications privacy.

In both cares, the information would of course only be available to the government who will only ever use it for Legitimate Good(tm).
Obviously this data set is heavily skewed due to the fact it comes from loan applicants. Can anyone suggest a better, more representative source for net worth data by age, income, etc.?
I think the ”hello#greet” part is there to be consistent with Rails route mapping.

As a standalone syntax choice, it makes little sense. But for a RoR developer, it’s obvious.
Getting website GDPR compliant in examples
That depends on what you're measuring. The average individual American is worth $388,000 net, third in the world behind Australia and Switzerland. That figure is radically ahead of the rest of the world, except for a handful of countries.

The average Russian has a net worth of $16,000. The average in China is $26,000.

The median US figure, is far lower than the average, at maybe $60k today, with rising stocks / housing. That median figure is higher than Germany and Sweden, but well behind eg France at $120k or Belgium at $160k (they're #3 in the world at the median).

The median figure in Russia is $4,000. The median net wealth in China is around $7,000.

For the US it's simple: you want to be in the top 50%. Below that, wealth levels fall rapidly. In the US the gap between the average level of wealth and the median, is extremely high, as wealth tilts overwhelmingly toward the top half. Sweden and Germany also similarly have badly skewed median vs average net wealth figures (not quite as bad as the US though). As an engineer, you should be in the top 1/3 pretty easily assuming a decent career and income level (an average engineer in the US will earn close to 2x the median full-time wage).
I've actually been posting about this a bit recently on various threads. I think a permanent rotating space station with 1G artificial gravity in low earth orbit could be the next stepping stone to opening access into outer space. Facilities with gravity would enable permanent habitation without bone and muscle loss, and manufacturing could be done with existing processes.

As to why we haven't built one already, the main reason is because early research indicated that such structures would have to be prohibitively large to avoid nausea (300+ meter diameter) and require thousands of tons of shielding. The Space Shuttle's lift capacity was also limited (only 25T of payload) and expensive ($450M/launch).

This paper suggests that humans are more tolerant of a rotating environment than early studies led us to believe, and that shielding is unnecessary for some low-Earth orbits: http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/GlobusRotationPaper.pdf (In particular, see pages 19-23)

The figures it suggests are ~600 tons of mass, 25m to 60m radius for the station. Falcon Heavy can launch 63T for $95M, and the BFR is aiming for 150T for $7M.
Question: Would it be similarly easy to locate such a transmitter if it were on an exceptionally busy ISM band?

Also, what if upstream transmission rate was reduced?
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That’s true. Nevertheless, you can pass pointers to C++ algorithms accepting iterators.
You are right I forgot that, heh. Anyway, the problem remains that over time there will be more people to upvote so a post is likely to get more points if it was posted in the future than in the past.
The User Experience of Game Development Tools
You Won’t Be Able to Purchase 3-Year SSL Certificates from March 1, 2018
Lessons for deep-tech startups from Skydio, the autonomous drone company
Agreed. College/university is more of a party experience for most, it doesn't necessarily help you doing your job (although it may help you do your job, since many employers require you to some degree).
There must be a dose where the volume of heroin outstrips the body’s ability to generate antibodies, resulting in opiates passing into the brain. Addicts who have taken the vaccine will increase their chance of overdose when they relapse because they know just one balloon isn’t going to do the trick. And slam 5 balloons instead.

Also, opiate receptors serve a purpose in pain relief and feeling pleasure when the brain secretes endorphins. The article doesn’t cover whether endorphins will trigger the immune response in people who have been modified by the vaccine.
Imagine- you leave a USB-Stick lying on somebodys desk- that USB-Stick contains pirated software.

The person picks up that USB-Stick and keeps that USB-Stick- and just for this - setup you are clearly in the right to get him in for half a century.

Also, does this mean that you can get GPL-Infringers for six years sentenced?

I wonder if those taking the Lobbsters money here think there creation so ridiculous that it be repealed in an instant.
Encourage you to switch to Jupyter Lab
AFAIK, almost the same process is used for Bios whitelisting. Meaning, Lenovo(and I guess others) has hardwired in the bios that only secific vendors+versions off e.g. WIFI cards can be used. You would dump the bios, same as described in the article, do some magic, and write it the altered bios back. If anybody can enlighten me on the magic part, I would be very thankful.
> I use ncu to check updates every couple of days

You can use "yarn outdated" for that.
Wait, so we we invent some great drugs for very specific use cases, prescribe them to the masses, just to find out that we created an epidemic and, then, instead of going back to prescribing it only rarely, invent a new drug against the abuse!? I don’t get it
Did anyone else read this paragraph wonder wtf really happened...

"Bachman enrolled at Tulane University in the fall of 1975, but his time there was rocky and brief, ruptured by a horrific incident in January at the Sigma Chi house, just off campus. Although Bachman was not a member of the frat, he told Friedman he’d been hanging around the house with a friend from Elkins Park, a boy a year older named Ken Gutzeit. Suddenly, a man had appeared with a knife and slashed Gutzeit’s throat. “The word Jamison used was beheaded,” Friedman told me. According to news reports, Gutzeit was killed by a 25-year-old student librarian named Randell Vidrine. The two were said to have been feuding since the previous fall, after Vidrine called campus police on Gutzeit for eating a cheese sandwich among the stacks. (“I know it sounds incredible, but from what we understand they never argued about anything else,” a police spokesperson told a reporter at the time. “It was always about the sandwich.”) Gutzeit stumbled onto the frat-house steps and bled to death, surrounded by Bachman and some two dozen other witnesses. (A grand jury declined to indict Vidrine.)"

I looked into it...

The Times
Shreveport, Louisiana
31 Jan 1976

https://goo.gl/E7za2q
Pretty amazing how they managed to raise this much money, i thought it would just fizzle out after they have raised such absorbident amounts of money they would run out of incentive. its not like a traditional acquisition where they are contractually obliged to make good on their ICO promises, ICO participants often forget they are in a sense buying part of a company that is up for sale (why?).

For a legitimate Crypto company that hasn't ICO'ed or raised money checkout my company https://bitbank.nz which is forecasting cryptocurrency prices :)
I will second the ESP32. It's sub $4 in most places, has a dual core processor, BLE, WiFi, hardware PWM and I2C, and much more.

Also their C SDK environment is quite pleasant to work in.
No framework, but I'd very much recommend reading up on "Difficult Conversations"[1], which has been very helpful for me ever since becoming CEO.

Giving feedback, more often than not, will constitute a difficult conversation, and the concept helps a lot with navigating those in a way where both parties can learn and grow from both emotional and 'semantic' conflicts.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-M...
Brief summary here: http://www.fscanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Difficult...
Thought I was going crazy for a bit, but submitters names do show up in red for me. Possibly an extra feature of the Hacker News Enhancement Suite :). TIL.
Yes... But since we're off-topic, running with the thread for a bit, the kind of upset caused by the euro/franc un-peg is entirely inside the boundaries of "stable" in the context of the kind of country for which just adopting another nations currency is an attractive choice.
Pretty strong cases have been made that the Han Chinese ethnicity is an invention. This makes some sense given China's pre-CCP plethora of wildly different languages, and quite distinct appearance differences between provinces. That's hard to explain if one adopts the "majority ethnicity" view. Of course, from a practical perspective, once everyone believes the myth then it's a de facto reality

https://www.hrichina.org/en/content/4573
http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/04/13/the-myth-of-one-china/
What is your point, because it is actually hard to get..?
IBM Java CTO: Devs shouldn't learn Docker, K8s, 30 other things to deploy an app
I wonder if that kind of authoritarianism can already be qualified as fascism. Declared total unity of state, people and industry? Check. Militarism? Check. Indifference to violence? Check. Concentration camps, mass political persecutions, expansionism? All there.

When does it cross the line from bad to Hitler?
> not going to the local police station whenever you stayed at a hotel/switched apartment/stayed at your friends/partners place

I've never heard of this and I grew up in China. Can you provide a source?
Nothing ironic.

Anaconda integrates pip, it doesn't not compete with it.

I find that Anaconda is the best among the virtual python envs I tried; It does as good or better job of separation and tracking installations as any, AND falls back to pip (with complete integration and tracking) when a package is not in the conda repos.

pip inside conda works better than pip outside in my opinion. I don't understand the general sentiment towards (ana)conda.
nix.package = pkgs.nixUnstable;
r/cryptocurrency is an okay source.
A cake for your cherry: what should go in the C++ standard library?
The economist Bryan Caplan wrote about the topic here:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/01/californias_gre....
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I guess they never got a visit from Minsky, and thus haven’t reached enligthenment.

=======================

Sussman attains enlightenment
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened

====================

http://spetharrific.tumblr.com/post/26600309788/sussman-atta...
Which pedophile case are you thinking about and when was the last time Sweden had a bank robbery?
That's more like ten dollars though.
I do not believe it's ironic. Yes, after stating repeatedly how much she hates men and manliness she says words to the effect of, "oh guyzzz I don't REALLY want to kill you all! Chill out!" and then goes back to hateful rhetoric.

At any rate, that particular article is just one example I used to illustrate my point. Do you really believe Medium's moderation will be completely fair and politically unbiased, given their new policy? I would find it quite naive.
Ask HN: Best tool for product usage analytics
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a tool which can sync with my product's database or takes in a CSV file, and delivers metrics like cohort analysis on retention. I am not looking for an event-logging based tool (say, MixPanel) which I feel are more suitable for UX conversion funnel analysis, but want to use raw data (core action in product, like a final completed transaction) from my database to do this analysis.
Sample input: date, user_id, #actions.
Sample output: 1-month retention.
Thanks!
> you can use pip and virtualenvs within Anaconda, but you'll probably get some inconsistent results.

I've never tried virtualenvs inside anaconda (what would the use case be? anaconda already provides a virtual environment)

pip is perfectly integrated within anaconda, in my experience; What inconsistencies are you talking about?
You'd have to reject 9 of them anyway, assuming you only have one room to let. It's not a big deal to reject all 10.
The Jupiter Ace is particularly valuable. There's one on Ebay right now at 1400 dollars.
Twitter's bot problem is largely imaginary. If actual humans are acting "bot like", given the fact that nobody has made a bot that passes the Turing test so far, perhaps that means these accounts and tweets are actually human and being mis-classified for political reasons.
Royal Mail (in the UK) is currently trialling an electric post van [1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/08/23/royal-mail-new-electric-auton...
have you ever asked for a receipt where one hasn't been offered?
I wish they didn't pull that shit, though. I can't buy two of them because of that. I didn't even know you can buy more than one, every site limits to one per order. I wish they just priced them normally and let me buy them in bulk.

Right now my Pi Zero is collecting dust because I know I can't find a second one easily. Meanwhile, I buy ESP8266s by the tens and use them for every throwaway purpose.
"Corporations are people, my friend"