skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an IP basis, I do agree that China is on a land grab to establish its own patent system because of how new it is. It's also unfair to the Utility Model which the US lacks to be attacked by these higher import costs- markets like Shenzen flourish because of it's ability to sell so many things for so cheap. I for one enjoy the ability to buy cheap electronic parts from Aliexpress and Ebay without minding the high lead time because of the low barrier to entry and creative freedom it grants to buy more parts; and see this tariff as being more of a defensive move than a reciprocal agreement.
A recession is part of an economic cycle to rebalance misused assets.

More housing isn’t the solution. Many House bubbles had ample housing for people to live in, but not enough for speculation.

Building more houses kicks the bucket down the road as it accumulates more than necessary housing. When a recession hits, and asset bubbles are deflated, speculation goes to zero, and you’re left with an over supply, an indebted society, and the country may lose generations of productivity (what actually happened in Japan in 1990).
Traditionally, all mainstream Christians believed in libertarian free will. You can find this discussed in Augustine and Anselm and Aquinas, off the top of my head. That changed with Luther and Calvin, but even today you'd be hard pressed to find a large body of Christians that outright deny free will, since it is so blatantly referred to in the Bible.
Hype aside, we can say for certain that Tesla is _trying_ to ramp to five figure weekly production. The evidence we’ve seen is the Gigafactory, and Tesla’s official (legally binding) production plans.

I haven’t seen any evidence that BMW or anyone other than perhaps Nissan, is currently trying to ramp production to 10k weekly.

It’s not that I don’t think any of these cars are serious about the ramp—surely at least one is. There’s just no evidence any specific one is serious about it, besides vague “we’re serious about it” statements.
Your fourth option is perfectly acceptable to me: exercising free speech right to say that original post is a terrible thing to say. However, we should not enforce the "no discussion whatsoever": if either the original speaker or another person wants to argue that it was not in fact a terrible thing to say, let them.
even if its not timely to implement - design the replacement right away, and update it if necessary. this helps scope the work, understand what other components are being effected, and allows related systems to be written with an eye towards the fixed version instead of the damaged one.
Are Echo Chambers Actually Getting Better?
> GDP was up 2.5% last quarter, so no, we're not in a recession

That both starts with a false premise and, more critically, is an invalid argument.

First, the GDP grew at a 2.5% annualized rate last quarter (Q4 2017), it wasn't up 2.5%.

Second, the definition you provide indicates that recession is normally visible in a set of variables, but not that it can be conclusively ruled out when it is not visible in one variable in that set.

Third, and most critically, the condition of the economy last quarter doesn't tell you whether we are in a recession now, only, at best, whether we were last quarter.
Except batteries have become cheaper because of consumer electronics, not Tesla. https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/imonS5R0.ZB...

If what you said was true, only Panasonic would have cheap batteries. Not lg and Samsung.
GitHub adds contextual hovercards
Actually it was more flamebait than off topic, though the two are related.
Entire swathes of high-end US industry are propped up by DoD procurement - a thinly disguised state subsidy. This has a huge trickle-down effect on propping up their upstream suppliers, and, by proxy, unrelated manufacturing segments.
Well, enjoy your 37 Interesting Facts About Tea, I guess...
Thank you! I missed those news.
Europe's most densely populated square kilometres
Wow, as much as I dislike clickbait titles, that's an anti-clickbait title! No wonder I missed it the first time.
> It was a feature of that version of Android to turn it on... how can FB know you didn't want it on?"

What user wants that "feature" on? (or at least to send the data to Facebook for storage)
There are argument for protectionism, just not for a highly developed country such as USA.

But I'm not going over them for a single reason. This act will fail "bigly". China is the 3rd largest export market for USA. It imports a lot of grain and cars and can retaliate on politically sensitive goods.

Midterms are coming and China may use it to restrict tourism to Florida, put tarifs on soybeans from midwest, cars from Michigan. Companies from those states will likely suffer more in short term than benefit from the protectionism - it takes a while to build up capacity and conquer markerts. Meanwhile people will put the blame on Republicans as companies start the lay offs.
Exactly my point. Compatibilism is incoherent. It is just calling determinism free will, like calling the number 1 green. But if free will is determined, then no one has any control over their actions. Everything is determined, and given the right parameters in their decision algorithm, they will do whatever you want. Hence the atheist regimes' focus on brainwashing detailed in 1984.
And it's an even bigger problem with MEng/MS students. These are usually unfunded cash cow programs even at top universities. They accept fairly mediocre students from China and India and the class is usually 80% Chinese/Indian. A generalization, of course, but they have 0 intellectual curiosity. They are here to pay $50k-60k for 1 or 2 years, make sure they have as close to a 4.0 and then go get a tech job where they will make $150k/yr, and little to none of their skills from class would be needed.

And I can speak for Indians, but CS education in India aside from the IIT, the IIIT, BITS and some NITs is dismal. Cheating is rampant there, and they're much more well versed with the art because it's much harder to cheat and get away with it in India - you can't bring phones to your exam or freely go to the bathroom mid exam, for example.
the reports are just 'face-saving'. China lost big here without a way to counteract. bad for the new dictator

> Xi knows the Chinese economy must rebalance for domestic reasons

China lacks the middle class to be able to absorb the rebalancing.

> Chinese investors are eager to invest more in US assets and companies.

CFIUS already rejected most of the intended Chinese government purchases of US companies via shell companies.

> Xi's new power suggests he'll enjoy the authority and longevity necessary to complete China's adjustment

Xi has been aiming for dictatorship ever since he came to power, under the guise of 'routing out corruption'. that was long before stock market collapse. It's good US is crippling this dictator's desire to grow any stronger. Look no further to the uigher concentration camps to see the fate that could befall any western countries around the world.

> I don't think China has sufficient reserves in-place for a trade war

Correct. They are a cash-flow economy. Any small decrease in cash flow will severely crash it.
I think you're losing out. The types of middle/upper management that look to startups from the enterprise have seen how to operate their part of the business at scale, even if it did mean a lot of meetings and red tape, and they are usually looking to work in a startup environment for the challenge and the ability to "make a change."

They might not be a good fit at the very beginning of the business, but they're probably essential post-funding.
AFAIK: Servo is an experimental browser with many components, including a web rendering engine. Some parts of Servo already are migrated to Firefox, mostly in the Quantum release last fall.
This is a weak argument, nitpicking semantics. Virtual spaces are protected, too. [1] Telephone systems and television cable systems are not technically "areas" either, yet have protections under the first amendment.

Furthermore, you contradict YouTube's own mission statement:

> Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.

> We believe people should be able to speak freely, share opinions, foster open dialogue, and that creative freedom leads to new voices, formats and possibilities.

> We believe everyone should have a chance to be discovered, build a business and succeed on their own terms, and that people—not gatekeepers—decide what’s popular.

[1] First Amendment Architecture, Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2012, No. 1, 2012, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1791125
For Americans: 20,000 people / sq km = 52,000 people / sq mile.
The reading of ehmu's comments doesn't make it clear that he/she probably agrees with your position on the second amendment? It's seems obvious to me. If it's easy to get confused with the intent of ehmu's two comments then it should be understandable that reasonable people can interpret the meaning of the 2nd amendment in different ways.
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I have built my consultancy over the past 6 years and it started with me doing freelance and now we do over $1m/year in revenue.

How many employees does your consultancy have including yourself?

Find influencers / networkers in your area and buy them coffee. Ask tons of questions and end with "Who else do you think I should be talking to?"

I feel like something is missing here. The sales part, I imagine. Otherwise how does simply asking people questions translate to business?
Xi Forever
The i3 is shit.
The numbers involved wouldn’t make any significant difference either way. The fear is retribution, counter-retribution, and the breakdown of the free market consensus of the last 70 years.
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It absolves them of responsibility for the problem and makes them feel like they are exempt from being at risk of homelessness. Since they aren't currently homeless themselves, this is proof in their minds that they aren't guilty enough to ever be homeless.

It's a convenient means to opt out of addressing social ills while simultaneously not feeling like that choice might come back to bite them in the butt someday.

More succinctly: "It is your fault for being a bad person. Society didn't do this to you. Not my problem."
I agree, lots of wise "old heads" out there who could make a large contribution. Super smart idea because they're being ignored by everyone else in the talent search.
Thanks, but the link on The Great Shaun Bridges is somewhat out of date:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv7dgj/great-mome...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/8/shaun-bridge...

[EDIT:] Scroll to the bottom of the Motherboard article, click on this exemplar of LEOs' name, and read more. Apparently there may have been another LEO ridin' dirty on this investigation, only we don't know who. All we know is that she or he modified all the digital evidence that was later used to convict Ulbricht. This is law enforcement, people.
" 4-6 billable hours are about the most you can consistently get out of a 10 hour work day"

Could you expand on this at all? Why so few billable hours? I can understand why it's not 10/10 (administrating your own work, keeping records, billing clients) but just 40% of your time? What kind of things are taking up the other 4 - 6 hours that can't be billed?
> The search for authenticity in food is a weird obsession anyway since cuisine changes on contact with new ingredients.

I strongly disagree; it can be pretty useful in certain contexts. Namely, on contact with US/Western market demand, a lot of cuisines get blander, sweeter, less complex, and sometimes heavier. (The history behind this is pretty interesting, and if you'd like i can pull up a source on this). For those whose palate is used to more flavor and complexity than the Western palate, the difference between the Americanized form of a cuisine and the "authentic" version can be pretty substantial. The latter can be preferred for either reasons of taste or reasons of variety (the difference between American Chinese and American Thai is far tinier than the difference between a given regional Chinese cuisine and a given regional Thai cuisine). Note that this is probably the case in every country: I was born and raised in the US, and I remember finding McDonald's to be pretty bizarre when I'd visit India, because the flavors had been modified to fit the local palate so heavily (this was about 20yrs ago; I gather that the menu has changed a lot since).

This isn't a search for authenticity per se, which as you say, is pretty much meaningless. It's just an attempt to avoid the flattening of every cuisine into a similar spectrum of flavors. Unfortunately, restaurants only exist if there's enough demand for them, so food with flavors outside of the country's palate are hard to sustain unless there's an ethnic enclave nearby that can support an "authentic" place.
Been working for/with Toptal for over a year and really liking it. I first started working freelancing through Upwork and hated it, the clients were bad & rates low (plus Upwork takes 20%).

I really like that Toptal takes care of screening for quality clients and dealing with payments. Plus they try to provide some soft benefits like personal & professional development.
<() expands to a path:

$ echo <(true)
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I don’t know how easy or hard it is to get on board or what strings are attached to it, but https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHand...:

”The Power Cloud that enables developers offers no-charge remote access to IBM hardware, including IBM POWER8, IBM POWER7+ and IBM POWER7 processor-based servers on the Linux, IBM AIX and IBM i operating systems.”
ooh way late response! That is actually the opposite. Friedman also addressed that point. The case you are presenting is essentially "we shouldn't rely on foreign XYZ too much, we should have our own manufacturing".

Well sure we should have our own if its able to compete freely. But its never been the case that if we go to war with China, the Japanese/India/whomever couldn't start producing more steel and selling it to us. Sure it might be slightly more expensive but it wouldn't paint the picture that you are proposing. If anything MORE producers of steel would pop up willing to sell at a higher price. Crazy theres this thing called supply/demand.

As for the EU/Russian gas example, Russia isn't the biggest producer of gas in the world. According to wiki[0] its the U.S, there are other non-Russian actors in the top 10 list who I'm sure would be willing to provide gas at a higher price.

As to why you mentioned EU/Russia is that Russia so happens to have a nice giant pipeline ready to provide gas into the EU. Well...last I checked there were millions of barrels of oil being shipped globally by ship. Would you have to pay a bit more for energy ? Sure. Is national security critically dependent on Russia ?

No, because I guarantee you if Germany started paying $200/barrel of oil(or natural gas/whatever) all the oil ships around the world would reorient themselves to deliver to Germany. Crazy world called supply/demand. You now have near infinite suppliers.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_g...
I dislike anti-discrimination laws for anything other than manual labor anyway. I think they are probably fundamentally flawed.
The Exponential Increase of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Ruby's history and future as seen by Matz
Learn calculus like Huygens (2018)
Congratulations on open sourcing this. It looks great. Is there a reason you went with Node.js instead of something like Go? As a sysadmin, I personally hate having to deal with dependencies from tools built in non-compiled languages like Python, Node and Ruby.
Microsoft would have never succeeded with an e-reader even if they had shipped it. Amazon succeeded because they already had a stranglehold on the print book market and skeptical publishers had little choice but to go all in on the Kindle. Consumers bought Kindles because Amazon was able to give them basically any book they wanted on the Kindle at the price they wanted (later deemed illegal), which Microsoft would have not been able to do.
We did build more housing, far too much, in 2005-07.
It looks great!, would you accept PRa for adding other languages than English ?
This is why Houston food is so great. I actually grew up in the Rio Grande Valley (mentioned in the article), then moved to Houston after graduating from college. Most of the Mexican food in the RGV is really good, but I think Houston has it beat overall, maybe just because of the increased competition. People from the RGV will never agree though, because the RGV is the "authentic" style to them. Most of the time, "authentic" actually means "familiar".

You can find great TexMex and MexMex all around Houston. Not every place is great though. There's always places that serve cheap, bland or stale food.
But the best thing about Houston is the variety. There are large populations of people from all over the world. Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, and Mediterranean food in particular are pretty popular. Then add the traditional american food, BBQ, seafood, and the Louisiana dishes, and it's hard to find a city with more diversity in food.
Hi there. Yep I'm here. Ask me anything.
Before you deactivate, set a unique password so it doesn't get hacked. One day I got asked if I had re-joined Facebook supposedly I was making posts about food supplements ...
And the consequence of these groups having lower discretionary income shifts their buying habits to favor items that are cheaper to manufacture and likely don't fall within having an active Chinese patent covering them. Putting a tariff on the foreign good targets people who see equivalent value between the US and non-US good in order to sway their decision to the domestic choice.
Carved in stone.
They can actually work together.

Thompson Sampling / Multi-armed bandit algorithms are traffic allocation strategies to use the least amount of traffic to find the optimal variant.

So say you have version A/B/../N variants of a website, you can split the traffic equally or use a a bandit algorithm and find the best performing variant of it.

But that only helps you test N variants. If you want to test for 4 titles and 3 color buttons, 3 layouts and 5 images you already have 4x3x3x5=180 different variations and you can't test them all. Evolutionary algorithms can help you search through a much bigger search space:

First you try 10 variations, and allocate traffic equally or through a bandit algorithm. Then you combine the top performing candidates multiple times to create a new generation and start over again.

Evolution helps you find which candidates to try in a large search space and then a bandits algorithm can help you allocate traffic optimally.

You have to be careful with A/B testing with Bandit algorithms though. If the conversion rate changes over time or if you have visitors that don't always convert instantly you have to take that into account: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/dont_use_bandits.htm...
Yep me too: first programming job was at PLATO at U of D in 1980.
Was the personality profile any good? Otherwise I could make that claim about extracting a personality profile out of tea leaves.
Have you checked your Facebook ad preference? You'll be surprised about the data
I am in a similar acquisition/merger type situation. Same department, same desk, four different legal entities. I'm just including the three main ones in the same entry for my resume.

It was a pain in the butt when I bought a house, though, and I needed to write a formal letter explaining all the changes and why it looks like I kept switching jobs according to my tax documents.
I'm not so sure that's just before the collision. The driver claimed that he didn't notice the pedestrian until he heard/felt the collision and it's not like the car hit a large object. I'm not convinced that he startled before the car hit the pedestrian.
If you really want to open the tired old “middle America” vs the “coastal elites“ cliche, you may want to consider that the US exports significant amounts of agricultural products to China, which are likely to suffer first.

And unless they have children willing to stitch sneakers, any new jobs are far more likey to be created in Vietnam or Bangladesh than Kansas.
Doesn't work here. As soon as I scan the QR code with my phone, I'm prompted by the barcode-scanner app to open the URL (192.168.15.whatever) on the browser, but at the time this happens qr-filetransfer is already closed and not listening anymore, it has closed immediately when the QR code was read.

How does it happen I cannot know.
>Java is an absolute buggy bag full of vulnerabilities, can't believe people/organizations still run this shit.

Are you sure you didn't mean Windows?
It seems like free trade is beneficial when you're at the top or among relative equals. The educated people you are talking about are presumably American and/or European, so they benefit from free trade. However, countries that are behind in an area would benefit from protectionism in that area, otherwise the companies strong in that area will come in and take the market. This makes local competition much harder. Imagine a local African grocery store trying to compete with Walmart; there is no way they can match Walmart's worldwide distribution system.

I think this is probably one of the reasons why there is no European equivalent of Facebook: it's not easy to compete with Facebook. By the time it was clear that Facebook was something useful, it had already ironed out any scalability and usability problems in the US college market. So unless a European competitor had started around when Facebook did, they would be behind both technically and in the fact that any American friends were already on Facebook. The only Facebook competitors that I am aware of are in protectinistic countries: Russia (VK) and China (Renren and WeChat Moments). (I don't know if Mastadon is European, but I don't see it as an actual competitor, at least at the moment.)
Samsung?
It's actually where WebKit came from... KHTML.
Thats illegal, you had signed contract with upwork.
"Access all data on all websites" isn't the only permission level. However, there are a lot of things extensions do that can only be implemented as hacks within the page the user is viewing, and if you want to run a script in a webpage -- even if it's just `document.addEventListener('keypress', function (e) { if ( e.key == 8 ) history.go(-1) });` -- the browser has to assume it could be reading all the data it wants.

You could argue that "adding a browser keybinding" should be a separate API. You're not wrong (I'd love an extension like this to replace Ctrl+Q with Ctrl+Shift+Q), but browser vendors (at least Mozilla) seem to be very reluctant to add more APIs.

I was going to mention how I've been confused by people having overreactions like "it's just an extension to rewrite 'millenials' to 'snake people', why is it stealing all of my data?", equating the permission to read data from webpages with an implication that it will steal all your data. This never made much sense to me, since it seemed obvious to me that the required permissions for those things would have to be the same. In light of the Cambridge Analytica situation, though, I realize these fears were very well-founded.
Make me wonder, why we can have decentralized grid with 'personal' powerplant ?