skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China (PRC) culture suffers from two systemic weakness: the selfishness created in one-child, post Cultural Revolution, and the cha-bu-duo (nearly good enough) attitude of rapid modernization. In Asia many consumers think of Japan and Korea as being committed to craftmanship and China as being low-cost questionable quality.

Engineers and innovators growing up in such environment are naturally not adverse to cutting corners to reach their goals quickly.

However I have to add that, given the huge population of China, the top 0.1% can still be enormous, and once China learn to discard its shardy attitudes, they can race ahead rapidly.
Nah, it' all done without 'looking ahead'. A typical match will be anywhere from 20 to 35 cameras, and doing look-ahead at broadcast quality would add an extra $200K just in infrastructure, and need another 40 production staff... The tarmac for the extra OB trucks wouldn't be big enough in many cases!
The problem with students has been an ongoing problem: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-...
What are the negative outcomes? Presumably we leave a niche for other mosquito or insect species to prosper in, which species will they be. Which species predate the mosquitoes we're eliminating, or how do those particular species adapt the environment and so impact the local eco-system?

If we've not found any negatives then I imagine we've not tried very hard.

Australia is kinda synonymous with species-wide population control and not in a good way; hopefully this will change that?
Yeah but by sharing the music with others youre helping spread propoganda. Even juust watching the video probably helps it spread on YouTube with the recommendation algorithm. Gotta be careful.
Cheat. Had literal cabinets full of test answers & assignments. Though frankly there were shops near campus that sold such things as well.
Give it a month or two and hopefully you'll find clones on aliexpress for $5
Merriam-Webster defines "ban" as "to prohibit especially by legal means". I don't see the problem.

If you replace the word "Apple" with "Microsoft" or "Red Hat" or "Canonical", would you still be as outraged?
Yaourt is also unmaintained and unsafe. Please switch to something better.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers#Active
What happens when someone else sends you the Taiwanese flag emoji?
There are likely no small number of people who are like that but...

(1) As a sibling comment said, many engineers are quite confident and charming, men and women -- and you cannot determine they are engineers even if you talk for hours on end with them, without them sharing their occupation. Many people told me the latter about me post-factum as well. I simply don't tout it even though I feel it gives me more credentials to talk on certain topics. But I still prefer to invite discussion by expressing healthy skepticism instead of arrogantly claiming that I am the authority on the topic.

(2) Those who have trouble socializing usually have a teenage trauma of some sort. I legitimately only met 2 programmers in my entire life who looked and sounded truly malevolent; 99.99% of all engineers I've ever met were normal human beings struggling to overcome their limitations.
Imagine if an organization recruited children to running-centric lifestyles to the point that it consumed their afternoons and weekends, dominated their social lives, threatened their academic performance, and routinely imparted injuries requiring long-term care by an associated cottage medical industry. I bet they'd be sued into the ground.

Oh wait. That's every high school athletics program.
Maybe the tech will be hackable contrary to the article? Entangle sets of three or more particles instead of sets of two at the source, surreptitiously have the third set go elsewhere
I mean I don’t know where you got the idea about property and idea ownership in China, but it certainly wasn’t from the China that I grew up in. Wow.
But the reason to eliminate trade secrets is to increase innovation, because other innovators can build on the released information to make new innovations. But in practice, at least in the us, that isn't what happens. Patents are often difficult difficult to reproduce They are in effect so long it isn't worth creating derivative works unless you have significant negotiating power (usually as a corporation), because then licensing your patent requires also licensing the original patent. And in some ways it is worse than trade secrets, because even if you reverse engineer a product, you can't make your own version without paying royalties.

I suppose one benefit of patents is to reduce incentives for corporate espianage.
Sorry but I don't think that is a well-informed answer, and I am not speaking in favor of china. Speaking as a Chinese who studied aboard early-on here.

1.The government do promote innovation in a violent way and lays-down a lot of infrastructure. Start-up has hence became fashionable to do and they did produce a lot of useful product for domestic consumption which is a different playing field. A lot of time they don't need to go global (china have a bigger mobile game market than the US for instance) and that is part of the reason a lot of the products are not visible to the world.

2. Form my experience with Chinese start-ups they haven't accumulated the design thinking and attention to detail as SV does. They also lack the history of CS as the INTERNET got popular in china in the late 1990s. One exception of such lack of richness is DJI as the founder is dedicated and brought good culture.

So in short the Chinese are trying very hard, government are helping. They have the brain power but lacks richness and system to make real innovation, also sometimes they have no need to go global.
> If they weren't, we couldn't have things like a free press.

We could still have a free press, since "the press" is explicitly mentioned in the First Amendment. Whether things that resemble a free press (if that's what you meant by "like") are desirable, is another matter.
> Proponents of the restrictions argue that they protect restaurants’ investments in training in an industry where employee turnover is high.

Well, the companies are arguing they are doing it to protect their training investment, so apparently they think the onboarding process is not that simple.

It is a bullshit argument anyway; you keep your ‘investment’ from walking away by paying them a decent wage.
If anyone's interested, I made a set of apps that turns your macOS desktop into a rotating art gallery, given an existing directory of images. It's all done in a completely native way, so you don't have to worry about weird software interactions or future compatibility: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/05/02/a-native-art-gallery-for...

Anyway, I'm looking forward to throwing this batch in there. Hope somebody sticks them all in a torrent soon.
Are you saying that we shouldn't act on scientific research based on the possibility that the research will be disproven in the future? Or on the possibility that the research was done in less-than-good-faith? The latter would require the burden of proof, and the former seems pretty untenable/unreasonable.

But all that aside, let's talk big picture: does it really matter whether something ends up actually being clinically proven to be addictive if a company is taking action with the intent of making a product more addictive?

Let's say, for example, that I put a substance that I believe to be addictive into some new sports drink that I manufacture for the purpose of getting my users "hooked" on the product. What does it say about me, my intent, and the purpose of my product - even if it's discovered at some later date that the substance wasn't actually addictive all along?

All of that being said, this issue is a complicated one: the very question of what it means for something to be "entertaining" versus "addictive" is one hell of a deep question, and I think one that we're going to continue to evolve in our understanding of as a species as time goes on... and perhaps it's even something where the line is different for different people, or even the same person when in different moods/circumstances. But I do think that it's both worth it to examine intent when thinking about whether a company is doing something "wrong" or "right," and I don't think it makes sense to dismiss scientific evidence without probable cause for doubt.
This is quite different than Apple and Google refusing to cross hire. It’s not even McD and Wendys’s not cross hiring. It’s within the same company to a different franchise so moving from McD on Avenue A to one on Avenue C.
Imagine if half of all the humans who have died didn't.

How screwed would we all be right now.

Of course it doesn't work quite like that, but still. We might save enough humans to destroy the planet faster than we can fix it ... now solve that one without doing something "evil"!
edit: I took a look at the 2016 NYT article the website and they describe Ghostery as difficult to install and configure and went with Disconnect because "... it was the easiest to understand."

It's difficult to trust the intentions of profit motivated extensions, and the Disconnect website and revenue model seems to be geared towards that.

That same article also mentions PrivacyBadger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) that appears to be less undermined by moneygrubbing.
Yeah. Article summary: AI is about prediction. So if you want to use AI, reformulate your problem as predicting the answer.

Cheap dopamine hit of false comfort for someone distressed about not understanding AI. And also a book ad maybe.
I worked for a company that got acquired by a larger company who happened to have a JV with a Chinese company. A few months after the acquisition, one of us stumbled across a shockingly blatant copy of our product on the Chinese firm’s website. Same box, same ports, same darned WebUI but translated to Chinese.

Now this was a hardware product with a weekly data feed, so not only did someone at the JV feed all the specs and source code to the Chinese company, they sent them weekly updates.

Needless to say, when confronted about this the company didn’t seem too surprised we found out, nor did the understand why everyone was so upset...
Adding sugar to cake, then?
Let the tribalism begin.
Too much stereotyping, almost zero context, bold claims on topics that are highly subjective and vary wildly from person to person.

These were the things I found myself categorizing the post into as I was reading it.
Can you list "Taiwan" as an entry if you don't really care about countries per se, but are just making a big list of states/provinces/territories/other small "cultural" boundaries? Whether or not Taiwan is a country, and whether or not Taiwanese is a language, Taiwan is certainly a place, containing a number of people; and those people certainly speak a mutually-unintelligible dialect of Chinese.

Could I get away with listing "Cultures" and "Dialects" rather than "Countries" and "Languages"?
My stupid JSON returning functions average out to around 50ms - 250ms.

I'm querying across a couple hundred rows. I'm reasonably certain that calling out to Perl and a regex would be faster for so little data. :/
I tried installing Arch Linux, and it was harder then installing SunOS 4.3. The instructions were absolutely wrong. I wish I could give it another try, but I just don't have time to experience the wow's of the early 90s just to get a browser up.
Not all jobs are the same. If you read the article, it mentions a person trying to get a better position at a different location. That means an entry level employee couldn’t take a manager job at another franchise.
But why wait? How you prefer to know? With $$ in the bank or hope for a tweet?
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I'm not doubting that some Chinese students cheat. Maybe it's even higher than the proportion of students in other ethnic groups who cheat.

I'm simply saying that it shouldn't be framed as a problem with Chinese culture because it is a problem in all human cultures. That's all.
... or getting a competing offer.
I respect your remark about the small sample size but there aren't that many CEOs out there, would you not agree?
It’s all about suppressing wages.

Also, in some settings finding reliable low wage workers with transportation is hard. When I was in high school in the early 90s. I worked for a sandwich/coffee place that would pay a $1000 bonus to people who could operate the cappuccino machine and stay through Labor Day.
You think chinese exchange students invented cheating on uni exams/copying people's homework? Man, you haven't watched enough teen movies about getting through school

And everyone talks about it! Why else would we, on an article about _industrial espionage_, get to uni students copying homework?

Acting like this is some sort of chinese predilection instead of a thing that happens all the time everywhere is not intellectually honest.
Currently up to 98 contracts with $27.1k wagered: https://predictions.global/ It'll be interesting to see how much it keeps growing.
Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world yet
I don’t disagree. What I meant was that it’s a nonstarter for replacing any existing installation of splunk, which is desirable for me as an enterprise customer who spends a nontrivial amount of money every year on this sort of tool. There are a lot of obstacles to replacing an existing, effective implementation of a tool, and I listed what they are in the hopes that somebody pays attention.
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This is really strange and has no bearing on reality. Are you trying to make a joke?
Yeah, but stealing a single glass could get all your future passwords.
So, we messed with the balance before and it went badly, ... that's not logically a sufficient reason to mess with the balance in the eco-system again expecting unmitigated benefits.

When one gets stabbed withdrawing the knife (which follows the same logic) can kill you.

As for small fractions, ecological systems are usually pretty chaotic (in the mathematical sense of small perturbations being able to produce massive changes).
> The purpose for social programs is not to provide freedom, but to provide security against loss of life and dignity.

Citation needed.

It appears you believe the proper purpose of social programs does not include freedom. Others believe that spending more money than today, in the form of the most flexible instrument we have, money, will create freedom and allow everyone to have basic security against starvation and other loss of dignity. No waiting period. No qualifying event. No requirement to prove you’re jumping through arbitrary hoops. No restrictions, other than the same budget constraints that most anyone works with.

On the dignity point, no one will see you going down to the warehouse to get your government issued block of cheese or whatever some central authority has decided is best for you. Instead, you shop at the same grocer as everyone else, making your own selections for what you need.

I don’t hate innovation. Hopefully you don’t hate freedom or believe it should be reserved for high-income people. See how stupid that sounds?
Personally, I'd rather voraciously consume as much art as humanly possible. This is a privilege only granted to the last few generations; why waste it?
I pity the people who judge scientists and engineers by watching TBBT (and there are many of them). Only watched the pilot and could barely force myself to finish it. It was extremely cringe-worthy.
Not surprised - poaching is a very slow way to cook compared to frying or griddling. Oh wait - not that?
I agree. This entire industry needs to take a good, long look in the mirror and ask ourselves whether the ends justify the means.

Now, I'm not saying it's a clear-cut issue. There's a lot of murky grey area in the land of "what is entertainment?" versus "what is addiction?" And I think culpability on a moral level - though perhaps by necessity not a legal level - will ultimately end up being determined by the product's intent.

If you ever want to bum yourself out, go down the road of asking yourself why you really find the things you do for entertainment entertaining. I don't know if it would be for everyone, but it was certainly sobering for me. As a species, we like to think that we have many of the answers about how our brain works and what certain things that feel intuitive mean - things like "entertainment." But I think we're actually a long way off from truly understanding these concepts.
Fair enough. I think it would promote copying instead of inventing. Not sure how that ends.
If China's retaliation harms the Trump base the most, via tariffs on US farm products and manufactured goods, then I'm all for it.

We need free trade and open borders, so let this be a lesson to the Trumpers.
I suspected that most or all of HN basically agrees with your attitude vis-à-vis Facebook and data collection, including your critics here, but that's not the point. The point is that games have Rules, and when you break those Rules, it causes others to wonder where else you might be breaking them. This erodes trust very quickly.

Rules are made up by a consensus of the players. You've just been told by 3 people, 4 including me, that you broke the Rules. This means you broke them.

A landing page for a company is like a job interview. Certain things are expected. First impressions matter and you're on your best behaviour. Sure, you can wear bunny slippers to the interview and then complain that you don't want to work for that company anyway if you can't have some fun. But who's out of a job?

A little bit quirky might be OK - snarky is definitely not. I recommend changing your copy immediately, and reflecting on how better to gracefully accept constructive criticism from what should be your ideal target market in future.
As someone who agreed with both viewpoints, I think I can elucidate. The problem isn't that you're having fun with the copy, it's that it's just bad copy. It's a very cheap shot and feels petty.

I'm not a copywriter, but I think something like "We’ve become complacent in trading information for free access to web services, and then complain when they robotically testify before congress." would be an improvement.
I cannot.

I imagine that would require much better cameras and cost more. On my car the tamper prevention measures make it hard to read from many angles as well.

I think the solution for the use case you describe is coming in 2020, where cars will be able to talk to each other and to road sensors. That technology will probably be used to collect mileage taxes and demand pricing as cars shift to electric, so identity will eventually be a component.
My high school calculus teacher put a copyright on his exams. He didn’t need to—copyrights are implicit. But it communicated the point.
Glad to see your edit. They also point out the theoretical backing for patents not having this functionality: if a trade secret is expected to stay a secret longer than a patent lasts, companies don't file patents (why would they?) They themselves admit some holes here, but cite a general consensus that patents fail to act this way, both empirically and theoretically, in most cases.
Maybe in frontenddev/small companies/small largely static websites FTP pervades, but I'd argue that most developers that deal with any real complexity probably use some kind of source control system to 'share' files rather than some kind of FTP program. And I'd be very surprised if relative FTP usage hadn't decreased significantly over the last 3-4 years (But this is all quite anecdotal, and I could be wrong).

Something that does surprise me is that Panic's Coda and Transmit apps still seem quite successful, so maybe my perception is out of whack.
How do you prove that's been done? You have to hire even more experts to review the reviewers, it's experts all the way down!!
You should read about loot boxes. If you think gambling can be more addictive than TV, you'll feel the same about (some) games.
Even moreso: the fact that it's well-known as a pastebin means that it should be obvious data coming from it are user-generated and could come from anyone.
I am a fan of the book 'start small, stay small' ( https://amzn.to/2JcmFnp ) , but at this point it's a bit dated. Has anyone written anything similar that's a bit more relevant in 2018?

For most of us, success is likely to be via something smaller rather than shooting for the moon with some VC-fueled rocket.
So, catch and release is included in this number. That makes the number very believable to me.
>I would venture to say that there is a cultural disconnect with the Chinese when it comes to the idea of intellectual property.

Back when I did business in Asia, we had a cultural training session before our group went over. We were told that in certain Asian nations, especially China but to a lesser extent South Korea and Thailand, the concept of copying someone else's work or intellectual property as a bad thing is foreign. Instead, the cultural feeling is that copying someone else's work is a subtle way of honoring them and their work.

Our consultants said that South Korea was growing out of this phase in its development, the way Japan did decades earlier. In both nations because the growth of home-grown ideas gave intellectual property cultural worth.

Perhaps over the next 30 years, China will also learn to respect other people's property as it develops into a modern industrial power.

This was a couple of decades ago, though. Things might be different now.
I'm always impressed with the size of the problem that the Perl6 core team is trying to solve relative to the number of volunteers and funding.

It is a really nice language based off of all the tutorials and presentations I've watched. It just needs some better performance before I'll really start using it and I think there are many in the community that are in the same boat. It's a pity, because it's a chicken or the egg kind of problem. I would try to help, but when it comes to computer science I am a consumer and not a producer (I have my own large projects in my domain :)).
Smart move, literally the only thing I agree with Trump on. China has been doing the same for years harming other countries industries.
I have heard(both directly from customer and from friends at other orgs) of 3 Global 500 companies in the past 6 months walking away from OpenShift due to licensing costs. I am sure this will play out more frequently over the next 12-18 months.

Take some time to review RH's annual statement from 2017. Think about where they were in 2013/14, where we are at today and what things might look like in 2023. I am interested to see how they navigate the market. There is a fleet of Titantic like vessels plowing through the enterprise ocean right now...it will be interesting to observe what plays out over the next 3-5 years.
I'm disappointed there is no Gene Wolfe. I'd be extremely interested at his metrics.
The tariffs against Europe and Canada are stupid. The tariffs against China, an emerging dictatorship, make sense. Their admission into the WTO was a mistake [1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/03/01/how-the-west-go...
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A multinational corporation is not actually one thing. It's a distinct entity per country, that all pretends to be one global entity, but isn't.

Are you saying that Apple China—a Chinese corporation, Apple Corp.'s subsidiary—shouldn't be aiding and abetting its own (authoritarian) government?

Or are you saying that Apple Corp (a US company) should be attempting to compel Apple China to break Chinese law? (What do you think Apple China's response to this must, necessarily, be?)

Or are you saying that Apple China shouldn't exist?

I'm not sure there are any other alternatives than these, and none of them sound very sensible.