skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I cannot even buy train tickets online (yet i can ride the train) with it and I cannot open a bank account in my own country

Side point but generally speaking you don't need a national ID to open a bank account or buy train tickets online. Banks do require a +86 mobile number, which you can get with your passport alone. You can then use your +86 mobile number, passport, and hotel address to open a bank account. You can then add your bank account to WeChat and buy train tickets there. You will have to line up to pick up your electronically-purchased tickets as paper tickets, using your confirmation code on WeChat and your passport, which is a huge inconvenience compared to those swiping their national IDs to get into the trains (they built the entire train system basically only for locals), but there are separate lines for ticket pickup that move quickly, so it's not as annoying as getting in line to buy tickets and the finding out that seats are sold out. At least your WeChat purchase guarantees you your journey and seat.

You can also use Alipay instead of WeChat if you prefer.

That said I'm not sure if there are additional restrictions on Chinese passports, but a non-Chinese passport can use the above procedure.

Of course it's a massive pain in the ass because of all the stupid SMS confirmations and things involved in the process. Easily the worst UI/UX I've seen of a ticketing system. The trains themselves are fantastic though.

Also, yes, everything is tracked to your passport number, so even if you have no national ID you do still become part of the same "credit" system.
You can indeed open a bank account in China with Chinese passport or even with a foreign passport. There are lots of limitations without the National ID, but do not spread false information if you are not well informed.
> But at the end of the day, this means a balanced or surplus Government budget is actually bad for the economy by definition

Not necessarily. You're thinking in nominal terms. There could be the same money supply but nothings prevents producing more and consuming more. Also beware the trap of equating fiat money with wealth: Zimbabwe government's deficits are also private assets...
The way it collapsed and the arrangement of broken spans, it looks like it has very little reinforcment bars in it.
My understanding is that Facebook act as the 'ad broker' themselves, as opposed to selling the data on to third-party ad brokers.
Zuck is a Democrat, he’d get a pass on all that, especially if it meant getting Trump out of office. Let’s not kid ourselves, hardly anyone in the media and government would make a stink about what he does with FB to get elected.

This is all hypothetical of course, he has to be one of the most unlikeable people in ages, and the reception to his “I identify with you, middle Americans” tour really solidified that feeling.
The slightly less PC name of "third-world squat" was how the position had always been known to me.

Which, while probably also being technically incorrect, does make the slightly more correct observation that it isn't something to do with "asian" countries and cultures specifically, but there seems to be some correlation between finding the position difficult/impossible, and living in western Europe/the anglosphere...
Did you watch the video? They claimed real results helping Ted Cruz in the primaries with this sort of hyper-targeted advertising.

The access they have to online data sources would absolutely be enough to start correlating things to build an individual profile. Say you can link someone's FB, Twitter, (HN?!) account posts, likes, shares, to credit card data, maybe even search keywords from shady advertisers, to vehicle registration records, tax records, census data, etc.

Do you really think this profiling is that far-fetched that they need to BS everyone? It doesn't have to be perfect to be many times more effective than untargeted ads...
Nobody outside of Facebook has any way of knowing. That’s the problem.
Guess this is well targeted at wealthy oligarchs.
This is pretty close to the "autorelease pool" concept in objective C - an idea which I copied in C++ for a product around 10yrs ago to good effect.

You wrap an auto release pool around every turn of the event loop, which is the deferred memory release mentioned in the article (I admit I only scanned it). Within the "react" part, this gives you much cleaner way to code even if your code involves raw pointers to objects, as long as they are allocated on the pool and aren't being transferred to another thread or caught in an RC loop - both of which we managed using custom smart pointers.
They at least had charisma and decades of being beloved movie stars working in their favor.
The static type of both c and t is Vehicle, but by dynamic multiple dispatch Car::Collide(Truck) is selected. That's not how C++ works, but the example was exactly about illustrating how C++ doesn't work.
> a seminar with a Bond villain

Incidentally, the psychologist mentioned in the FB statement appears to have changed his surname to Spectre.

https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ak823%40cam.ac.uk
There’s nothing they can do. Once you have access to the data it’s as good as copied.
From the article:

>>It can take up to three days or longer for six-digit passcodes, according to Grayshift documents, and the time needed for longer passphrases is not mentioned.

So yeah, up to three days for six-digit passcodes. If you have a longer passcode with letters and special characters, you could wait a long, long time.
the fact the methods of accessing the device are so secret seems very prone to a court rules of evidence challenge.

The accused has a right to know exactly how evidence was obtained, and if the chain of custody was broken, just hiding behind an NDA isnt going to cut it.
This is an interesting side of the problem I have never thought about. Is this boredom and other psychological stresses responsible for the sexual offences committed by deployed troops?

I am not alleging anything on any particular nation, but coming from a developing country where its own internally deployed troops known to commit a lot of sexual violence, I am curious about the underlying causes. And if there is a way through which civilian governments can control it.
> It's bewildering that they knew this huge amount of sensitive data got into the hands of unauthorized third parties and were willing to treat assurances as a sufficient remedy.

What exactly should they have done? It’s data, once someone has it, game over. It’s like trying to unring a bell.
And after you dump facebook, invest in creating a strong social network in real life.
Everything about the way ETH and all this other drivel gets evangelized reeks of some sort of baseless fanaticism.
What about video games, board games, or study for the MCAT (or another exam). Would you be able to do those things?
Yes, I think it's more the "of every single adult in the United States of America" that is the disturbing part.
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I believe the complaint was reduced follower counts reduced credibility of some real accounts
Husky headed boy checking in. My hat size is slightly over 8. One Size Fits all is a joke.

Anybody know where I can buy a hat?
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I'm 43 years, Indian and have never had a problem squatting. Was surprised this is such a tough thing to do for some. I work sitting on a chair for 8-10 hours everyday, but ensure I take a squat break every 1 hour or so. To make it a habit, I take every opportunity to squat, when I have my green tea, play with my son, watch TV. It does feel great after squatting for 3-4 minutes. I also workout in the gym and perform 4-5 sets of squats with 30Kgs.

I read this yesterday - “Every joint in our body has synovial fluid in it. This is the oil in our body that provides nutrition to the cartilage. Two things are required to produce that fluid: movement and compression. So if a joint doesn’t go through its full range—if the hips and knees never go past 90 degrees—the body says ‘I’m not being used’ and starts to degenerate and stops the production of synovial fluid.”

https://quartzy.qz.com/1121077/to-solve-problems-caused-by-s...
Everyone know it is been Slav Squat first. China copy everything!
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GDPR will most certainly reach into US businesses as well as EU businesses. Any business collecting data on EU users will be subject to the GDPR.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/04/ye...

Though as the article points out: "There are still questions about how the EU will enforce these actions against U.S. and other multinational companies [...]"
Are you serious, defending Facebook here?

There can't be a single repository of online data, which by design gives the repository owner too much power and control. Blaming the users for falling for it is like saying we can't have regulation because markets can self-regulate themselves.

After the last 3 years, anyone who defends Facebook comes across as disingenuous, naive or for a lack of a better word, a shill in my book.

Saying Facebook wants to protects your personal information is the most hypocritical statement, I've heard yet.
Yes. He says he changed his name from Kogan to Spectre after his wedding.

See:
http://cpwlab.azurewebsites.net/CV/Aleksandr%20Kogan%20CV%20...
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> Are you sure it is Android problem and not manufacturers decision, because they are afraid to be flooded with warranty issues from broken rooted phones?

I'm dead certain that some manufacturers would still not ship root, but I'm also dead certain that more would do than do right now, if it was officially supported.

> So, these apps are illegal from law standpoint, and make damage to Google.

They're not illegal. It was never trialled whether they're illegal. Google did not sue these app developers and did not have a judge confirm that they actually violate the YouTube ToS. They just threw them out of the Play Store, with the accusation pretty much just for PR reasons.

And I'm sure that they would not have won an actual lawsuit. The point in the YouTube ToS that they accused with, basically said that you're not allowed to separate the audio from the visuals of a YouTube video. Supposedly this was in there, to have something against people pirating music through YouTube.

If this were to suddenly be interpreted as it not being legal to have any way of just listening to YouTube videos without seeing it, then tabbed browsers would be illegal, any sort of multi-tasking-capable operating system would be illegal, it could technically even be illegal for users to not adamantly stare at their screen as soon as they click on a YouTube video.

No judge would push this through and no judge would rule someone guilty for not knowing that all these seemingly accepted uses were apparently different to offering background playback in an Android app.

That Google seems to not think much of their own rules would not have helped the case either.
A helpful book in understanding the real Winston Churchill is Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke"
What’s better: being culturally distinct and having a failing society (it’s certainly failing for some people), or allowing some more immigration and adapting? I find your comment curious considering the context of this article
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I think robots would be a great help regardless. It would mean that everyone can take care of parents longer when the time comes since they can do more by themselves when you can't be there 24/7.
Everything you mentioned made me think of /houses/; both in the dwelling sense and in the 'a place with family history' sense.

Have you seen the price of housing lately?

Have you seen the lack of /careers/ that used to make living in a house for along time a viable idea?
I guess I don't understand; is any of this actually illegal?
I think you need better questions instead of a direct answer and here were my 2 cents. Funny how people here think about A/B testing before they actually try to put an hypotesis behind the fact. As an average guy, I'd say that remembering things you've just listened to is very harder, except for people who have non-standard memory qualities. In ancient Greece, Epic saga started to be written to ensure the story wouldn't change through time. There's not only memorization involved, but also understanding and the ability to refer to someone else what you've learned. Have you ever tried as a child that game in which you have to pass a message through a number of mates by whispering it in their ear? It's disastrous and you don't even have to memorize it. Hammurabi has started writing laws for the same need of reference. And yet? In ancient times nothing was written, and people had to learn long codes and rhymes by heart and were requested to remember that for a lifetime. And it was easier: they exercised the skill a lot. Their attention span was linear, more focused, more trained. Did you actually learn logarithmic tables by heart? State capitals? We live in times that don't really promote retention in favour of linking concepts and knowing where to search the written information at speed, just because the lack of exercise has taken away our trust in our own memory. So I don't really think that the medium is important, it's the fit. Do you want a soothing voice telling you the beauty of an imaginary landscape? Or to give voice to a particular character from a book which matters to you? Or are you reading a technical reference book? Are you studying for repetition? Does voiced emphasis give you a stronger hook on sentences? Are you reading or listening to a book about public speaking? I remember prayers from my catholic days which I learned by heart in church without even reading them once - because I remember the rhythm and that kind of song they used to make you better memorize it. Still reminds me of Homer and ancient Greek times. What do you think?
I think this is a valid and related topic of discussion; however I disagree with your conclusions.

I think the earth would be much better with a target population closer to 1 billion. That way everyone could have a high and worthwhile quality of life without killing the environment.

Until we reach that goal, a global target of each adult having the birth right to produce half a child is fair.
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I believe Boris explains the hows and whys quite well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8gsWZqDBM

In complete seriousness, anyone can do this. Honest. It is something anyone can learn with even a bare minimum of practice. And despite the joking nature of the video I linked, it is quite accurate in that once you know how, it is quite a comfortable position to hold for whatever length of time you feel like.
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One hedge is bitcoin. Which might explain its relative popularity in Japan.
I'm curious if the cliques are actively rejecting you, or you're rejecting yourself by assuming they don't want you?

Just because no one has invited you to sit with them doesn't mean that you'd be unwelcome.
I am almost positive Rich Hickey hasn't read that book. The only thing more stunning than his ignorance when he talks about OO is the amount of young programmers who believe everything he says.

It blew my mind when I realised I could write objects from scratch in languages with closures, even statically typed ones! Of course each object has its own v-table in the SICP code, so probably not something you should use in production.
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One single person (Dr. Aleksandr Kogan) did all that damage, Facebook? And you think that the current method of enforcement is okay?
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The first part is interesting, but biased. The second part is a repeat of half truths and political conspiracy theories.

All of the allies were concerned in the final days of world war 2 that the Russians would not stop at Germany nor comply with the Various agreements prior to the end of the war. The Germans and hitler himself also beloved this and beloved it would be his salvation from the soviet bear.
In retrospect the first turned out not to be the case, while the iron curtain and the path of complete and utter defeats toon that the USSR left behind in the blood lands (Poland and East Prussia) ended up justifying
The second concern.

The brits were also worried because America was mostly going it alone in the pacific - and the battle to keep American resources focused on Europe and not japan had completely disappeared after the battle of the buldge.

Churchill was exhausted by the end of the war, and badly out of touch. But he was also pointing out the very thing that would define the next 50 years - a Stalinist war was coming. Thankfully, it ended up being a Cold War and not world war 3...
well there's no need for an AST in a concatenative language - that might be what he's talking about.
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After reading the prior discussion & spending some time at the gym doing deadlifty things with a trainer, I experimented with doing the squat.

What I found was that while I can do a squat in, e.g., gym shorts, I simply can not do them with my jeans: the jeans constrain my movement substantially. And, the other thing I found, is that a bit of fat on the belly inhibits it as well.

I can't speak for everyone, but jeans and a bit of fat on the belly is sort of stereotypically "normal American" - and that can help explain it to me. Curious what sports scientists have to say here.
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> Theft is theft. Drug possession is drug possession. Had these "unfairly" targeted individuals followed the law, they would not be subject to its penalties.

Not all laws are that simple. Are you aware that not even the US Federal Government is aware of how many laws apply at any given time in a given place[1]? While I'm not going to justify people breaking laws, there are many federal laws that you can see might cause problems for people that could not reasonable have known that a law was being broken. For instance 16 U.S.C 3372[2] (the Lacey Act):

> It is unlawful for any person [...] to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law

So if you have ever bought or been gifted a fish or plant that at any point broke Indian tribal law (even if you didn't know about it, even if it wasn't the law where you received it, even if the plant or fish is legally farmed and sold in another area) you have broken a federal law and you're now a criminal.

Does it make sense to not allow someone to have their constitutional rights if they were given a fish that was caught in an area where that is prohibited by Indian tribal law, and they weren't aware of that? Not all criminals have been convicted under such strange laws, but having such a black-and-white view of criminals stops being as obvious when you look at cases like this.

[1]: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?t=279
[2]: http://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-16-conservation/16-usc-sec...
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I've browsed this site for years now, and I do see this pattern in many posts that critique China.

A large number of replies turn the conversation towards how the West is equally bad or worse. Another set of replies talks about how China may inevitably come out ahead.

You can check yourself by Googling 10 HN threads that critique China, versus say, Japan or Poland.

Is China running some indirect social public relations in the style of Russian Facebook ads for Trump? Or is it simply China hawks / nationalists or other casual supporters? My personal conclusion is that there's a decent chance it's a bit of both. And the likelihood of the first may be concerning.

But seriously, check out the pattern and come to your own conclusion.

P.S. If it matters, I'm ethnically Chinese as well, and think well of the Chinese people in general.
It's worse, since this attack doesn't require root privileges to run!
Christ, I’d have trouble suspending disbelief if I read this in fiction! It’s too on the nose.
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This article was a really interesting explanation of how music licensing works if nothing else, I honestly couldn't have guessed the government sets the rate, the same for all music, as opposed to it being negotiated differently by various companies in the industry.
Most "Chinese" online seem to be paid trolls who deliberately feed misleading and false information. Either that or they have a switch in the brain where any critisism of China leads to a nationalistic brain freeze where they regurgitate silly propoganda.

The Hukou system is broken and inconsistent. Getting mine revoked was the biggest pain the ass. I'm sure there are anecdotal evidence to support your view, but the reality is the law is very differently applied depending on where you are in China. I know from first had experience the the original poster is correct.
Ah, good point; I missed that on a fast pass through the article.

I have seen that formulation referring to the warrant process in which police draft the warrant and support it and judges sign off on it and then the police execute the warrant; it’s legally incorrect but arguably deeply accurate in terms of the practical process of who is crafting the details of the warrant and then actually demanding compliance with them.
Yeah, you pretty much can't do this with unions; has to be automated robots to the Nth degree so that your only real costs are energy, time, and the environment.
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