skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming we're talking about foreign investors. Quite simply that's going to depend on the policies, not whether Xi is in there or not.

As a party dictatorship with routinely transitioned politicians, China's government has been fairly stable in recent times. Xi clearly isn't necessary in any regard, he's trying to make himself necessary. Hu Jintao was a stable leader that oversaw one of the fastest economic expansions in world history. He also wasn't necessary, in terms of remaining perpetually in power. Xi inherited that nicely built-up economic position. It's the policies that Xi follows/implements that will determine investor confidence, just as it was for Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin (also a stable leader that didn't need to remain in power perpetually). Xi is properly replaceable like the others, insofar as he doesn't implement political changes that forcibly make him otherwise. The power move that Xi appears to be going for, is all down to his personality, rather than necessity, which is in stark contrast with the prior two Presidents.
We still have the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous festival, it's just on land now.

It's actually happening this weekend! It's always the last full weekend in February, in case our city piques your interest ;)

http://www.northofordinary.com/winter_rendezvous

Anecdotally, I've also heard from a couple of farmers that the wind up here is different than it was in the '70s.
I don't agree with almost all of it.
If you compare a normal wristwatch with Apple watch w.r.t time keeping only, you're not comparing it fairly.
The Apple watch can just do so much more than a normal watch can, and it's programmable, you can add things with time.
Same can be said for the alarm clock and what not. Why no compare a smartphone to the analog alarm? That'd what most people use I think, and they instead pick some gadget alarm clock which not many use I'd say.

A big difference is that a smartphone and Apple watch is a device that can a do what a 100 "dumb stuff" can do. It's a all-in-one device and that's very valuable.

Their last point on touch screens in cars is very weak. With a touch screen, you can change the UI anytime. It's flexible with infinite buttons.
A normal one with real buttons sure are more tactile, but when you ship it, it's set in stone with limited button and functionality.
"anonymized data"

That's if you're lucky. I don't want to sound paranoid but if there are sensors in your house its only a matter of time before someone wants to use them.
And Xi's thought name is the longest, which means he will be worse than Mao.
It Forensic challenges for excercise
As an aside, I truly dislike lazy loading. If it's really that important to perceived page speed, isn't it something that the browsers should be implementing, rather than everyone and his brother breaking HTML and require full JavaScript execution in order to display images?
I think this is similar to “liking” vs “doing” something, in terms of defining yourself.

Anybody can like something, and build an identity based on taste and opinions. It requires no skill. But doing something is a much deeper way of defining yourself.
I assume he's talking about a correlation, and probably not strictly limited to a healthier lifestyle, but also to higher income (on average), which provides potentially better access to healthcare, etc.
AWS sells optionality. If you build your own data center, you are vulnerable to uncertain needs in a lot of ways.

(1) your business scales at a different rate than you planned -- either faster or slower are problems!

(2) you have traffic spikes, so you to over-provision. There is then a tradeoff doing it yourself: do you pay for infrastructure you barely ever use, or do you have reliability problems at peak traffic?

(3) your business plans shift or pivot

A big chunk of the Amazon price should be considered as providing flexibility in the future. It isn't fair to compare prices backwards-looking: where you know what were your actual needs and can compare what it would have cost to meet those by AWS vs in house.

The valid comparison is forward looking: what will it cost to meet needs over an uncertain variety of scenarios by AWS compared to in-house.

The corallary of this is, for a well-established business with predictable needs, going in-house will probably be cheaper. But for a growing or changing or inherently unpredictable business, the flexibility AWS sells makes more sense!
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"Proficient" doesn't mean the same thing for the two categories. For example, it probably means:

-> for student : "I will manage to have a job a do it"

-> for employer : "do the job as good as other employees"

So comparison is meaningless.
They are definitely bad for your hearing. In a previous job, my boss and his biker buddies were all deaf to varying degrees after years of biking. I got a 125cc bike and ended up wearing earplugs for anything but the shortest rides, and that was a relatively quiet bike. Even then, I'd have ringing ears for hours afterwards. I got rid of it before I'd had it a year for other reasons, but if I was in the market for another bike, being loud would not be on my list of desirable features. A quiet electric bike sounds great to me.

As someone not really in the biker scene, I find the whole image people try to project with loud bikes etc. a bit ridiculous. It's not about the bike and enjoying riding it or just using it to get to places, it's all about what others think of you while you're doing it. It's a fashion/lifestyle statement, and it's not something I personally care about so much.
Why not send the kids to a private school?

Probably even a cheap one is better than any public school?
A relative of mine just got PR in Slovakia and the "money in the bank" requirement is 2400 EUR. While there's a bit more to it and he'll have to meet some visa conditions over the next 5 years if he wants to stay on, the detail was handled swiftly and quite cheaply by a visa agent. Nothing like the US or AU PR experience.
A completely new account with all comments defending IOTA. Hmm...
The world seems set for a gerontocracy. Mugabe flies to Singapore for mysterious medical treatments, but the pattern seems to be repeating with elderly politicians and leaders everywhere. Perhaps they receive much more medical attention than the average old person, or perhaps they have access to life-extension treatments that aren’t widely publicized yet.

Regardless, it seems like the case for term-limits is stronger now, than it’s ever been.
Is there no credit for doing it officially and transparently?
Similar finding here. Lost quite some market shares is what we "felt" was happening around out circles, although the stats usually tells a slightly different story. Especially when you are suppose to be using Chinese Brand if you are in business and have any relationship to political circles.

And may be given a lot of these phones are likely being used to do App Store Reviews, ranks, Gaming levels, etc. May be that is why we see them less around us but sales figure tells a different story.
Was it running a Windows update ;-) : "do not power off your computer" = "tough tits if you were packing up your laptop to go home matey, one of those soi-disant 'updates' is actually a virus scan, which will take hours if you're lucky, or I might just bork the whole frickin' thing, we'll see..."
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This argument is known as Pascals Wager. The problem is this issue is preventing Millions of people from being brought out of poverty. Instead we are funding organizations that are attempting to industrialize western civilization.

In my opinion we should industrialize suffering regions which will lead to lower global birth-rates. Meanwhile continue to develop Solar, Nuclear, and Hydro where possible. De-industrialization is so unrealistic to me and would be foolish given how awful the climate predictions have turned out to be.
Glad you enjoyed the documentary.

"Hover Bovver" was a fun game by Jeff Minter of Llamasoft: I think my favourite from him was "Revenge of the Mutant Camels".

Paradroid was another classic.

Another fun game for the C64 was "Impossible Mission" which can be played on line at [1]. See [2] for instructions

[1] http://impossible-mission.krissz.hu/

[2] http://www.arcadedivision.com/classicgame39/platform/impossi...
Isn't the issue that they are discussing getting rid of term limits altogether? As opposed to setting a higher term limit? If so, how is it a fair comparison to Germany or Japan? I'm sure we'd have even more outrage if any number of countries decided to get rid of term limits altogether. I could be misunderstanding you though.
>I think that's a fair expansion of scope, but something unmentioned here is that customers are not uniform in benefits received. Paying for the regulation ends up a bit like paying for insurance here - you may pay more this year, but it can save you against anything catastrophic.

That was my point - you need to assess this and then add it to cost benefit analysis. Saying that it's worth it just because caught a random error that amounts to 300M$ is very bad reasoning that can be used to justify very bad legislation. And unfortunately people accept this kind of reasoning from politicians. I expect more from HN.
Lots of other countries don't impose a limit in this many terms the prime minister of the head of state can be reelected... And some have a higher democracy index than the US, where such a limit is in place.
Oh, congrats to the team :)
Hope you are doing well max!
The point is that the GP did not compare political systems, but only looked at the number of terms that leaders are serving in very different systems, as if that was a meaningful comparison.

You don't need US-centric brainwashing to understand the difference between Germany, with our seven(!) major parties, and China.
I think term limits are a weak defence against autocratic leaders, because in such situations the separation of powers necessary to maintain the constitutional check usually doesn't exist. I.e. there's no independent judiciary or opposition bloc in the legislature. In a system like China, these institutions are politically inert facades, designed to outwardly resemble their democratic counterparts, but with actual power remaining wholly invested in the executive, which is wholly controlled by the ruling party.

The real checks on an autocratic leader are rivalries within the ruling party's elite, and once a leader like Xi has achieved dominance there, then amending the constitution to remove the term limit clause is trivial.
I struggle to get creative when constrained to the chair and have noticed I go a lot more frequently to the whiteboard to brainstorm a problem now that I'm already standing at my desk. That doesn't mean I get better results, only that I find the office space offers more to me in general when I adopt that active stance. This is going to sound lazy, but I'm in an open office and i also find I am less resentful about having to walk out of the room to get some thinking space when I'm not having to sit down and get up again all the time.

One thing to note vis a vis long term health is that standing with good posture requires using your glutes, hamstrings and abdominal muscles. If you fully commit to a standing position and don't do some basic strength exercises in these areas you may end up tilting your pelvis forwards a lot, which makes the whole body tighten up. Ironically its people with back problems who are the most keen to adopt standing desks, but if you have a history of back problems or a diagnosed condition often the last thing you want is your whole body tightening up as this could encourage injuries. This is one reason why the general advice is not to underestimate the effort or concentration required to transition to a standing lifestyle, and to take it slowly and mindfully.
D-Wave computers are quantum annealers, not machines capable of running, for example, Grover’s or Shor’s algorithm.

And even these algorithms can help asymptotic complexity, but not solve an NP complete problem in polynomial time.

(Even AES256 is pretty much safe against a quantum attack, since a quantum computer effectively square roots the time complexity, and that just leaves key-exchange protocols, of which several QR-variants exist.)

Personally, I think the hype far outweighs the value, even compared to Big Data/IoT.
How come there is no Wikipedia article?
Which, realsitically, should be your comparison set.
Don't joke. On my first trip flying anywhere ever, on the first leg of the return trip, an AA flight from Austin to St. Louis, we had to abort takeoff while the front wheel was up because all of the on-board computer systems died simultaneously.

I've never been in more of a white-knuckle situation in my life, including the time a tire blew while landing at IAD. We then sat on tarmac for close to 3 more hours while they replaced the computers and we took off again in the same plane.
> modern

I don't know: digital rights, digital privacy, climate change? Those all sounds fairly modern to me.

> heavyweight

What other large political institution in the world says "Nope, not with our citizens" to big data, and actually sees it through?

> the demise of Europe

has been greatly exaggerated.
As an Indian who suffers from discriminatory policies of Indian government(reservation based on caste, gender and physical disability), if someone offered me an option to move to US(or any other developed country for that matter), but on a salary say 3x less than avg salary of US employee, I'd most likely accept it. The grass looks greener on the other side, and there is hardly anything to lose by trying.

If you really want to stop people from scamming the system, you need to make the system stronger.
There's a lot more to learn about the runtime, frameworks and tools of a language than there is syntax

That is true but on the other hand, vast swathes of commercial work boils down to, use a language ultimately derived from ALGOL to process data structures that were in textbooks in the '70s.

All the libraries are ultimately written by people, and people who themselves have used other languages, so variations are pretty minor. The function you need to connect to a DB might be different but I bet the parameters you pass to it are in the order of username then password, in any language. Even Ruby, whose community delights in obscure, meaningless names, has patterns in common with everyone else...
Edit: super surprised by the multiple downvotes. I guess the connection is obvious to everyone else - so could someone spell out for me what parent poster likely had in mind?

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Original comment:

I am having trouble seeing why this was brought to mind for you. Was the moral of your story, for you, that when members argue bitterly ("didn't get along at all") to the point of one of them resigning, it means things are moving along?

Okay but what reminded you of the Xi story - there was really no arguments mentioned?

If I extrapolate your lesson too far (I don't think this is what you're saying) it could be that you say, where there is no bitter member conflict, projects die? So, if the members agree that Xi should stay in power, without bitter argument, it is a sign the Party is dying?

That seems absurd. But then I just don't understand why you thought of your anecdote.

EDIT: I'd just like to understand your point.
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Blink may get built-in support for lazy loaded images: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/czm...

I'm not excited about it. I can't remember a single time a page with lazy-loaded images felt snappier. It seems very dependent on latency to the host serving the images. Most pages also don't account for content shifting when images haven't loaded yet.
I think it targets the small consultancies that operate in US. This is where I have seen all the scams happening. These consultancies don't bring people from India, they hire Indians who did MS in US (I am Indian, so only know about them), mostly those on OPT. Those people are desperate for a job (if they don't get H1B within I think 18 months, they have to go back) and are willing to do anything. Most of them come to study in US after taking big bank loans and it would be a lose for them to go back if they can't work for at least 2-3 years in US.

>That's when firms bring on H-1B visa holders but don't give them work and don't pay them the required wages while they wait for jobs.

I can 100% guarantee that the top Indian companies do not engage in this practice. Every single one of them have a policy that if the H1B employee doesn't have a project for 2 weeks to 1 month, they must go back to India. And they get paid the full amount mentioned in their offer letter for the duration they are in US. And they are also paid for expenses that arise from having to go back to India. This includes lease breakage, air fare for the H1B holder and their family and a few other expenses. For "benching", the only exception I have seen is the Indians they hire from US. Those people get to stay on bench until the company can find a new project for them. But they are still paid in full.

>if an employer can't prove the H-1B holder is "more likely than not" needed for the full three years, the government might issue the visa for fewer than three years.

This has already been the case. I have seen many H1Bs getting visa approved only for 1 year.
I believe that's their point: while each smart device can usurp the function of dozens of single-purpose devices, for any single function the smart device makes tradeoffs that the single-purpose one can avoid. So, while it's cool that the Apple watch can check your email, tell your body temperature, and give you directions, it's less good as a watch than a cheap, dumb ol' watch.

It's a question of whether the tradeoffs are worth it to you. Clearly to you, they are, but for the author and me, they aren't.
That is why i wasn't very optimistic in iPhone X China figures. I dont see them around in China much as well. And the craze was no where near my expectation, and nothing compared to iPhone 6. But the sales figure was very different when announced.

You are not the only one with this observation as well. Most of my friends and colleagues in different area of China had the same observation as well. I wonder why.
LuaJIT is probably faster than the modern JavaScript engines. I don't know how it compares to something like SBCL, but as a JIT for dynamic languages it's pretty much the bee's knees. I have had it beat carefully written PyPy code by an order of magnitude several times
Encryption has become pervasive in modern communication, yet it is clear that we still need more to properly protect the things we are doing. Does the quantum infrastructure that you are proposing not imply an almost complete replacement of the current global communications network with quantum channels, or at least to shadow it with a co-extensive one for key distribution? Is that close to being feasible for mobile and other radio-connected devices?
I don't disagree with you - I just wanted to point out that "see this caught 300m$ error therefore it's worth it, and it also validates other regulations" (which is how I read OP and a common line of reasoning I see in public debates) is dangerously wrong because it ignores costs completely.
Meaningless discussions flooded with brainless terms such as "democracy", "freedom" is not going to lead to anything useful. It is far more useful to actually ask a simple question - what Xi wants during his 3rd term. He already had his name written into party's charter, his name will probably be written into the Constitution in weeks. This already ensures his ultimate power no matter what is his official title. He must be asking for the 3rd term for something very specific. Something never achieved by previous leaders, something is going to be judged very favourably in the book of Chinese history.

My understanding is that Xi wants to be in the office so Taiwan can re-united within his Presidency. This will be considered as the whole reunification of China which carries the ultimate importance in Chinese value system and history. Taiwan itself in that process is _NOT_ relevant, it is an island generating 3% of China's GDP with less than 2% of the population. However, a bold however, being able to do that implies the largely withdraw of the American influence from the west pacific. It is THE symbol of the rise of China.

He is not just asking for his 3rd term. President Xi Jinpin is asking to be the leader in charge to manage and witness the above mentioned transformation.
I can highly reccomend the book “mazes for programmers” which introduces a lot of graph related alorithms in a clear, accessible way.

Dijkstra’s algorithm is on page 36 and explained in 8 paragrpahs.

https://media.pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/first.pdf
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Gosh, the most important image (Fig 1) is broken :(

edit: wait, all of them are :(
Which country would you recommend a skilled immigrant go to in present day ?
Non-uniform with respect to what you're willing to spend on different parts of your business.

AWS is not a "once the sweet spot, always a sweet spot".
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:O 24fps on the all mighty Intel HD3000 :O
I have seen changes of power of governments after 16 years. The result is always that corruption is discovered. After 16 years politicians have had time to get used to power and to put friendly people as public service officers. When power shifts corruption surfaces. The longer the term, the more corruption is found. Some parties are worse than others, but all are worst at the end of a decade that when they began.

It is my experience, and it seems logical. But I don't know if there is studies about this effect.
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The problem with dictators is not that they are all bad for their countries, it's that replacing a bad dictator is too difficult.

If Linus were bad at his job, you'd only have to find someone better and start pulling your kernel source from them. No civil war necessary.
"Fine" as in the syntax of English allows both. "Like that" in that yes, human language is incessantly, pervasively ambiguous. Most utterances are technically ambiguous.

In this case your suggestion certainly is clearer than the original, but the original isn't wrong, and HN isn't a law court or a writing circle and you're not our sub-editor, so if you didn't understand something or want to clarify something for other readers, go ahead and do that graciously, rather than "correcting" with a brusque "fixed that for you".
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That only seems true with hindsight bias, as distinguished elderly scientists are most memorable when they are wrong. Being right 99.9% of the time would not be enough if there are millions of you and people only care about a few quotes.

Granted, you can't be proved correct if you say some action is impossible as someone can always wait to see if you're wrong.
> I have never seen a blackboard that does not work.

I have. It looks like a normal blackboard that doesn't have any chalk nearby. Smart boards are generally worse, but their chalk doesn't run out or disappear.
Thanks for the comprehensive response. It does seem like there should be a way to accomplish something more meaningful for society as part of PoW. That link was an interesting read, I was unfamiliar with "Notary digest chains." I have now some new reading. Cheers.
I doubt they meant to imply previous leaders were unstable. Stability is good for investment, and the current government is stable. A new leader could be any of the kinds of leader that make investors look elsewhere.
The sleep mode is really nice too. I've been chalking these improvements up to the fact that it's also a mobile device.
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