skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point is valid and, in the sense of TCP exchanges, true. However for most people "the Internet" is the experience of the services that are available to them via that medium. For the general non-technical, it has always been centralized services, and there seem to be larger more centralized services now than there were in the earlier times. The ability of companies to customize the user Internet experience into a reinforced echo chamber has unquestionably arisen.

But back to TCP. Governments have certainly improved their ability to monitor, restrict, and even manipulate that traffic flow. Is the Internet more free? I'm not sure.
The US has historically accepted more refugees than every other country in the world put together [0].

Some of people's criticisms about refugees are totally valid. Unless a person is willing to integrate with their host country's society and accept their culture, you won't be welcomed in. I think that's a very reasonable bar to hold people to.

I haven't seen anyone seriously calling for an outright ban of all refugees, so that seems like a bit of a strawman. Having some kind of limit seems reasonable, and other countries can help to balance things out. I'm not sufficiently educated on the subject to comment on the factors which might've influenced us to reduce our cap. Maybe the number of refugees we accept should be different, I genuinely don't know. But ultimately, not everyone has to come to the US. Why aren't you criticizing all these other countries that barely take in refugees? The US is still accepting a very large number of refugees relative to the rest of the world.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
> It’s not some universal concept

> it’s quite rude

> we developed without china’s input

It is hard to argue that detaining 1 million people for their beliefs[0] and then torturing them[1] is justifiable by cultural relativism. Or massacring people for that matter[2]. At that point you could argue for any atrocity.

It’s not rude it’s basic humanity. It’s not just completely reasonable to ask a government in charge of more than a billion people to please exercise basic humane standards, it’s morally atrocious to suggest otherwise. The Chinese government deserves all they criticism they get for what they have done and continue to do, and it’s arguable that we in the west deserve criticism for enabling them.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45147972

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inm...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of...
Probably the biggest single thing you guys could do to make this thread even worse is turn it into yet another comic book feud about Elon Musk. Enough with that, please.

More generally, please don't practice the online shaming culture of denunciation on Hacker News. It makes for lousy, predictable discussion, regardless of how right you are or feel. From an intellectual curiosity point of view—which is the main value of this site—all denunciations are the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Using Vim as a Note-Taking App
"It's warm inside the herd"
I live in Los Angeles, where the sun is often hot but the air is dry, and it cools down at night. You only need A/C during the hottest 2 or 3 months of the year, and many humbler homes don't have it. Those places are pretty unpleasant during peak summer.

It would be so easy to make every building comfortable. Design for high airflow - the air is not muggy. Include long awnings over all windows. This is obvious: even on the hottest day, it's usually comfortable under a tree. But the home builders have stubbornly ignored these old and simple solutions. Most houses are sealed boxes with no window shade at all. I don't understand it.
I would say Africa isn't the biggest. Vietnam (mentioned in article) and Bangladesh already produce a lot and are overtaking certain industries like textiles and shoes. For example, Nike's biggest amount of contract factories are Vietnamese and they earn roughly one to two dollars per day per Vietnamese worker.

For now, Western companies are still choosing countries in Asia. Maybe Chinese companies are choosing African countries because minimum wage has increased in China and many factories have gone bankrupt and other Asian countries only cater to Western countries for their factory needs.
> and if they want to they can leave

Unless you are a woman and don't have the permission of your father or your husband. Or a migrant labourer who's had their passport confiscated.
Since the phone's IP address can be expected to change, you can't really use that to choose the right key to present, or to verify the host fingerprint right?. How do you work around this?
> Mandarin isn't strictly necessary to live in China

Basic question: what do you do in China for browsing, emails and maps? I suppose Google doesn't work there and all the local services would be in Mandarin, no? When I travel I use Google search, emails, maps extensively but I have no clue what would I do in China. Also FB and Twitter also likely won't be accessible. So how do I even keep touch with folks outside China, especially if I don't know Mandarin?
Relevant ToS clause for AT&T Wireless:

>5.4 Unlimited Voice Services

>Unlimited voice Services are provided primarily for reasonably uninterrupted live dialog between two individuals. If your use of unlimited voice Services for conference calling or call forwarding exceeds 750 minutes per month, AT&T may, at its option, terminate your Service or change your plan to one with no unlimited usage components.
Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM
This is actually terrific advice. Thanks!
Petit-miner/Blueberry-PI: Blueberry PI
That’s one option. But the unfortunate conclusion of that choice is that continuations leak a lot of memory. One shot continuations are better, since it frees up the variable references.
Of course not, it will be where the markets are, mainland China
I came to Boston to work in a startup. I had the same exact problem as you. I was just too curious about fast paced startup life and wanted to experience this. Boston is not that better than the Bay Area (in fact fresh food and wine are more expensive than what I found in Berkeley) but it's relatively better and I have a pretty good living standard and I can save more money than I care. Startup life has been very stressful so far for me. I definitely learn a lot and it's tons of !!!FUN!!! but I'm thinking maybe in a year or two I'll go back to the Bay for a larger, more stable company.
Imagine a world where there was some sort of legal apparatus to prevent abuse of these surveillance devices. And then even go further, let's imagine that there's some sort of legal protection for whistle blowers who witness such abuses of power... I can only imagine.
Top pay in UK up by 11% as workers’ wages fail to match inflation
Huh, this sounds too good to be true.

Remote FDE? Yes please!
Late edit:

- Skyactiv uses the spark to control the compression-based ignition.

- Skyactiv-X goes a step further to use only compression to ignite 87 octane gasoline.
I lived in Brazil. I would say that after visiting Cuba and comparing it to Brazil, Cubans seem much less desperate than poor Brazilians, and the violence is incomparable. Cubans "enjoy" a decent educational system and while there are zero opportunities outside the state run fiascos, there are worse places to be, like I imagine Haiti would be.
Well, for one I’d really love to see even more improvements in recognizing supply usage. As near as I can tell there is nothing out there that’s doing the job. Most inventory management still requires someone in the lab to track and report. There’s a lot of barcode-based solutions where folks scan stuff out, but people are so busy that this either never gets pick-up in the lab or not enough people commit to it and you might as well not even bother with the system.

Something that could track the removal/use of products without needing so much handholding or constant verification would save so much time and avoid so many urgent orders.

Also, something that ties together ELN work and related supplies alongside inventory, and that adjusts inventory levels and helps with reorder alerts at particular thresholds. That would smooth a lot of the pain around planning. Like if something could alert me that a reagent/consumable/chemical was out or low before I was about to commit to a project it’d sure avoid a lot of urgent orders which can be a huge cost driver due to shipping costs or having to pay more than average because only one vendor doesn’t have something on backorder or they’re the only ones who can ship in time to keep things moving.
not sure how many modifications were made but the About page states:

> Paperkast.com built on lobste.rs open source news aggregator system.
Yep. They even have hacked video game consoles to play multiplayer games with each other on. I got to have a go with an Xbox (the original haha) in Havana last year — was a lot of fun!
The deal with Github has not even closed yet. It is supposed to close by EOY.

Internally we don't even get free/discount licenses or anything yet. We aren't supposed to operate any differently with them until it closes.

Source: I work at MSFT and asked. It also says so in our blog post "the acquisition is expected to close by the end of the calendar year."
https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...
Haiti is not exactly a functioning democracy.

It was a dictatorship until 1986 and the first elected leader to actually serve a full term without getting overthrown in a coup was Rene Preval (2006-11). Their most recent elections were a mess as well.

At best they're starting to become a democracy.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing this.
The comment may be referencing this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17737942
Of course not.
Since when freedom worth money?
You mean as a bundle? That makes sense, they'd dampen each others vibrations.
You can set a static IP in your wireless settings.
Looking forward to YC North Korea
I don’t think questions two and four are asking for a definition, but rather talking about classification based on established definitions within specific field of mathmatics. In that context the questions should be read to mean something like "How can we know what things are and are not computable/information."

If something is computable, that means it’s solvable within a particular model of computation such as a Turing machine (Turing computable). The most common question of computability found in applied computer science is “is there programmable algorithm to solve this problem”

Information, in this context, just means meaningful signal, as opposed to random noise. “What is information?” could be expanded to ask “How do we differentiate information for randomness and noise, and how do we extract information from noisy systems?”

Question three does seem a bit vague, but I think it’s intended to be something along the lines of “What systems and algorithms give rise to human intelligence.” But yes, intelligence itself is hard to define. I still think you could find an acceptable answer to this, at least a partial one. If you could directly design and create a system that presents a human level of general intelligence, then you would have necessarily defined some part of the systems/structures/algorithms that give rise to such an intelligence.

I’m honestly not sure what specific question 5 is alluding to, I think this is touching on Complexity Theory, but that’s a topic I am not at all versed in. I wonder if someone more familiar with that field could weigh in.

All that being said, I agree this particular article does not do a good job of posing the questions in a clear and well defined way, and the 3-word versions of the questions makes them ambiguous without further context and background. I think the purpose of this very short article is just to present the questions as "curiosities" as a way to spark the reader's interest and prompt them to seek out other resources with more detailed and context/field specific explanations.
I know it may be tangentially related, but did anyone of you try to use TensorFlow.js with Vue.js? While some setups do work, the default one (i.e. `vue create proj`) results in some strange errors (seem to be a problem with dev dependencies). More details:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51812619/error-for-tenso...
You may want to look into having your hormone levels tested. A lack of drive may be attributed to that. If not, listen to the advice regarding depression.
Aside the inefficiency, surely it's not necessary to 'turn up' the AC in that case? I thought that you set a target temperature once and just leave it there?

Domestic AC is very rare in the UK so I may have misunderstood.
Obfuscatd gradients give false sense of sec:circmventin defense to advrsarial ex
Find a startup that's actually trying to solve a problem. "Uber but for college kids" is not a problem. E.g. "how do you make aviation safer" is an actual problem and if you can find a startup attacking this problem using technology, it might be interesting to work with. Imho -- I'm currently working in a startup solving what I believe to be a real problem -- it's a fun ride to work in a startup, it's stressful but you learn a lot. I recently graduated from college (UC Berkeley) and I can't say my learning muscles found time to relax. It's all about what problems you can solve.
Archived: http://archive.is/9lu2S
I think these scientists are the real winners. Computers just work for them, they don't need to jump through hoops - eg, rewrite their software for immature proprietary software architectures. Chasing that last 10x of performance at great cost is for the desperate!
If it's only related via something generic then it's a generic tangent.

FWIW: when you deal with the quantity of this stuff that we do, "agree with" doesn't enter into it. It's not even in the same solar system. No one could sustain the cognitive load of having to agree or disagree with that many things.
> the maximum you will spend out of pocket per year is $2000.

Do the employees have to pay all of their medical costs up front out of pocket and are later reimbursed $4000 through the HSA? So an employee must have the available funds to pay more than $2000 up front.
I visited Cuba in 2009. One of the places I went was a communist museum. It was mostly full of what you'd expect. But in the gift shop (yes even in communist countries the museums have them) they were selling a used VB programming book.
I don't see how this is different from lambdas in general, in JS/Python/etc... wouldn't it only be held as long as the variables are alive? If you use the callback only once then they should be eligible to be freed after being used once.
>Some of people's criticisms about refugees are totally valid.

What are the valid criticisms? I don't know of any.

>Unless a person is willing to integrate with their host country's society and accept their culture, you won't be welcomed in. I think that's a very reasonable bar to hold people to.

This argument is not convincing to me at all.

I've lived in California, New York, and Florida and if your requirement for refugees is to learn the culture of all these different places I would say it's impossible.

How does people coming to the United States, speaking a different language, eating different food, and holding different beliefs affect your life in any way?

>I haven't seen anyone seriously calling for an outright ban of all refugees, so that seems like a bit of a strawman.

I think this is dishonest. Many people are calling for an outright ban on refugees.

>Why aren't you criticizing all these other countries
that barely take in refugees?

Because I'm not a citizen of other countries and I actually believe refugees and immigrants in general are good for this country.
I know how unsatisfying this is going to sound, but: this is a point on which we just have to pull rank. It's our job to foster the kind of site where signal/noise ratio doesn't completely suck, and many years of experience have taught us that generic tangents lead to low-quality discussions that grow like weeds.
For a long while shadowsocks/shadowsocksr (the latter being more actively developed) has been preferred way to bypass the GFW although what works is constantly changing. This was an interesting write up passed a couple years ago where a dev tries out various methods for bypass on a China trip: http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...
Funny, years ago a friend and I were trying to make something exactly along lines of lobste.rs but for scientific papers. https://github.com/seltzered/journaltalk was as far as I got.

Didn't get very far due lack of motivation and other parallel projects, but it's been neat to see things like this (and fermat's library, and peerpub, etc.) spring up over the years.
I have nothing against the people of China but the PRC government and Chinese business is so intertwined that I don't think it's possible to do business with China and not interact or enable the PRC in any way.
Basecamp has been doing so for a while, which is daring for a project management app to do while their competitors do the opposite - https://basecamp.com/pricing
> but we don't call them a dictatorship oppressing the people.

That's because there's an actual definition of dictatorship. China is a dictatorship, the US is not.

> Plenty of western countries are involved in censorship on a smaller scale but that's not considered evil and suppressing the true views of the public.

Yes it is.
CVE-2018-5390 and “embargoes”
Are we getting safety in return? We’re giving up virtually all our rights to privacy, but are we really any safer than we were in the 70’ies?

Violent crime is certainly down in general, but is that because of increased surveillance? Terror and postal episodes are more frequent, so the surveillance certainly didn’t prevent that. Some surveillance is arguably helping prevent terror without us knowing, but we’re not even having a debate on what works and what doesn’t.

Street cameras in particular seem to me to be a lot more about retaliation and crime solving rather than actual prevention. You still get murdered, but now society catches the killer.
Contrarily, I'd say that these questions were picked precisely because the author understands the profound difficulty we've encountered in the pursuit of formalizing them. Also, at least one of the other questions has a very precise formulation (number 2).
Out of curiosity, why did it go defunct?
How much does it cost to run an ad on a Billboard in Times Square?
Here is an invitation for Mr.Qi Lu
Dear Mr. Qi Lu,
On behalf of the committee of the Global Entrepreneurship Week China (GEW-China), we would like to cordially invite you to participate in the 12th Global Entrepreneurship Week China 2018’s opening ceremony which will be held in Shanghai on Thursday Nov. 13th 2018, deliver a keynote speech.
The announcement that you are joining YC to launch and run YC China has aroused Chinese entrepreneurs’ great concern. And Chinese enterprises are greatly encouraged and wish to have discussions with you on the direction of innovation in following decades.
As a global movement to inspire people to create with fresh ideas, we are supported by Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal People's Government. Last year, we successfully invited Microsoft, Siemens and the Dow Chemical company sharing their innovation agenda and Attracted nearly 20,000 attendees. And we believe your presence and cutting-edge ideas are sure to enable more innovation and ensure that the benefits of that are fairly spread throughout humanity.
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Many foreigners have VPNs, but many do not. They aren't the easiest thing to set up, and they often close shop a few weeks after you pay a yearly subscription fee.

Email: I use outlook.com, but I shut my gmail account long before gmail was blocked. I'm weird.

maps: Apple Maps on an iphone works well enough. Not sure if gmaps on Android works or not. Many Google services still work even if a few are blocked.

Browsing: many websites work in China, but I also had full internet access at work for when I needed it, so Facebooking family was easy enough, I just didn't use it at night when I was at home...I didn't miss it.

Its definitely isolating, but not incredibly so. If you are addicted to social media, this can even help you become unaddicted, weird therapy for sure :)
Tips for marketing a Kickstarter campaign?
The trouble with this is that when people bring such grandiose and generic rhetoric onto this site, the only place the discussion can go is into flamewar, as others get even more grandiose and generic (or personal).

You're not adding any information when you post like this. It's just a big opinion with a strong feeling attached. When someone else with the opposite opinion comes along and blasts their opposite strong feeling, is any information going to be exchanged? No it is not. Therefore it's off topic for thoughtful conversation, which is what we're trying for here.

HN threads thrive on curiosity and specifics, wither on the gruel of grandiosity, and burn under scorching rhetoric.
You’re going to be matched with the person you married. Tinder is a little thing that that’s not even a flame... much more casual. Less commitment. More swipes.
One of the most important research projects right now!
I'd say procedural more than functional, it drives you to avoid encapsulated state and that's about it, unless of course you want to define C's level of abstraction as functional :)
http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html is pretty informative. It was kind of eye opening to see just how many corner cases there are when dealing with continuations.

(See the section “memory leaks”.)
Just love Justin's "no BS" style. When I see folks straight out of college try to get hired at FANG (or even worse, tier 2/3 companies), I feel sorry for them. They would have little clue about getting in to daily grind that sucks their soul away little by little for some whims of incompetent higher ups. At starups, you would get in to even more grind but it's just of different kind and everything you learn and experience would be 2X-10X faster. If you are straight out of college and try to join a company with > 1000 people, you are not doing yourself a favor. On the other hand, if you have kids, mortgage and car payments then FANG is your best friend.