skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people need to go massive input either in country or online

having actually learnt to the point of watching news tv shows and reading chinese forums i can say that going the classroom or exam route is a waste of time and money

learn the top 50 to 70 chars then start watching dual subtitled programs like cctv4

do it actively meaning pausing rewinding attempting to read subtitles before the speaker etc but never touch a dictionary in flow only much later if you couldnt figure from context repeatedly ie greater than 6 7 context attempts fail

1.5 years and you will be much ahead of anyone else
I thought it was decided that tor was already compromised, because the five eyes intelligence apparatus already controls more than 50% of the exit nodes, giving them almost complete insight into where all the traffic originates?
"enterprisey" is a word I've heard used to describe jira a few times. Its meant as an insult.
> The upshot is clear: If you find yourself mapping a “whether or not” question, looking at a simple fork in the road, you’re almost always better off turning it into a “which one” question that gives you more available paths.

I like this idea.
Haven't heard of her, so thanks a lot for bringing Dr. Charpentier's name forward!

This only shows there's plenty more women that are unsung heroes of science to discover!
And poof goes the unicorn. Also enjoyed Bad Blood its really well done.
Someone hasn't driven the 18 Camry.
Well, there's Tor, I2P, and good old Freenet. But I2P is too small, and Freenet users are too readily targetable. And once suspicious peers can be globally targeted, it's hard to imagine how even decentralized systems could be viable.

The best I've come up with is a P2P mix network which used some covert channel. For plausible deniability, it would need to spread as malware, pretty much like WannaCry did (both virus-like and worm-like). But obviously, it wouldn't do anything horrible on inadvertently infected systems, except perhaps relay some traffic.

And yeah, it's a horrible idea. But what else is possible, if using unauthorized encryption itself becomes illegal?
Spain: 37°C
That is _awesome_. I've been wanting to do exactly this for Thai Wikipedia for quite a while, but you have some serious issues with identifying words in Thai.
I moved to Bookmark OS for organizing my notes and bookmarks like Mac OSX and have never looked back https://bookmarkos.com
So what is the point? That we won't stay the same, because we'll want to be better? If that's it, then great, that's the goal!
Www.qiex.com
QIEX is a digital asset exchange that is one of the company's businesses. QIEX I committed to provide digital currency investors with a safe, fast and stable blockchain asset trading platform. QIEX can provide a trading floor for project parties, help track projects, and increase project exposure.
Pay doesn’t come from value. In fact markets work very hard to destroy any surplus value above costs. It’s kind of their main feature, find a cheaper way to provide the same value and _lower the price_.

Economics only focuses on balancing limited resources between competing interests and has generally nothing useful to say wrt actual value.
Dang, this car looks really cool. Like TESLA cool https://www.wired.com/story/mercedes-benz-eqc-electric-suv/
Just dance is made by Ubisoft not Nintendo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881157
Morgan Stanley: Tesla’s autonomous ride-sharing network is worth 1/10 of Waymo
Yeah, it seems like it would be pretty easy to grab a meaningful title. Hell even the filename would be better in most cases.

OTOH, it's the best web clipper -- even with the stupid PDF name thing -- of any of the notetaking apps. So I can see why they don't put a lot of developer time into it... they're already beating the competition.

If OneNote had a decent web clipper that was on par with Evernote's, I'd probably switch: EN has done some shifty stuff, killing features and then selling them back to users as premium-tier stuff when they get pressed for money, and I can imagine that's going to happen again soon.
All modern cryptography relies on random key generation. But the current state of the art is that there is no way to distinguish between truly random numbers and pseudorandom numbers generated deterministically from a key. So how can we even begin to talk about security without openness? Maybe the key generated in the secure enclave of your iPhone never left that enclave - but maybe the NSA has a copy of it all the same.
A low (R)HR isn't always indicative of good health. High blood pressure can cause your HR to drop, for instance.

I hope they're actively researching their data set, I suspect we can learn a lot from it. They might even be able to detect certain arrhythmias, though that can't be easy with just an optical sensor which only reads HR.

With a user base this large, I'm sure people have died while wearing their fitbit. Maybe they could help predict/prevent the sudden cardiac death syndrome that many young athletes are afraid of?
> some censorship / legal control is absolutely necessary lest you become the child porn network, or crown in spam

Arguably, "becom[ing] the child porn network" is the only proof that you can't be compromised. Because assholes will eventually migrate to the most secure options.
How true hackers write JavaScript
This is why I come to the comments first.
Just announced is another project that's doing just that

https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/09/04/licheetang-anlogic-e...
Static Program Analysis [pdf]
In the future, if you or anyone runs across an account that has been abusing HN in this way, it would be much better to email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. I happened to randomly see your comment, but the odds of that are low.
Loading the blob by M4 core instead of A53 core don't put any pressure on the manufacturers.
(This is a bit off-topic, but I couldn't help it.)

I noticed the article refers to "hashmap" as a data structure. Such as this statement:

> Go maps are hashmaps

I think instead of hashmap, this article could use "hash table", which is the actual data structure. The term hashmap sounds almost Java-specific to me (but I understand it helps distinguish when you have both TreeMap and HashMap in a language, like Java).

This is a cool article regardless, giving a sneak peek into the internals of Go map type.
I'm not asking for every detail. It's horrible to wait 20 hours and counting for unknown reasons and to not have something to work towards. I only ask for more transparency is all.

It's akin to waiting for surgery and the doctor saying "we're working on it". I don't want/need the details for the surgery, but tell me everything is ok, what comes next and give me some estimates to set expectations.
My fault, I just skimmed through the article and missed that comparison.
Why is it hard to tell between throttling and congestion? Maybe my understanding is wrong but they are still sending the same amount of data. But when it's encrypted traffic from the VPN the ISP can't sniff and throttle.
I work at Neos, where we’re using IoT in the context of home insurance. Almost all our investors are insurance companies (including Munich Re who underwrite our policies).

Insurance is all over IoT, and indeed anything else with the chance of reducing risk - it’s what they do.
There are plenty of unions that make it nearly impossible to fire bad employees. Teachers and cops are notorious for it.
English has a slightly more general word. It is "grit". The ability to work continuously and without being distracted.
Perseverance of effort. Ability to execute on a long term goal efficiently.
Sometimes statements of facts may seem incredibly offensive. Others should be able to mention those in a related discussion, even if offensive, because otherwise the discussion is biased.

I use the word "fact" above because I think it is obvious that if firing is hard, low performers accumulate. I'm happy to elaborate if you wish.
Don’t feel sorry for her. She basically made your job harder. Now everyone who invests in medical research will be less likely to believe in your prototype, regardless of its efficacy.

Nothing she did was good for anyone.
Evernote's Skitch was absolutely fantastic and I still haven't found a better replacement
Unless you are using DC/OS enterprise, DC/OS is incredibly insecure by default. Any container running in the cluster has access to the full marathon API (which has NO auth). So any compromised container will be able to: stop and delete everything, see all environment variables set for other containers (often contain secrets for databases or other external apis) and even start arbitrary new containers on your cluster.

So think about it, any compromise in anything you run on the cluster has the potential to access all your data.

This alone should be reason enough to never use the free DC/OS, and the enterprise offering has no public pricing information.
any system that can be compromised to pwn malefactor

That's kind of the system we have for everything else that isn't digital communication. I don't support backdooring but this line of argument, in itself, is not likely going to convince policymakers.
I like your approach but I disagree with your conclusion. Just recently Pepsi Co bought SodaStream for $3.2B. AFAIK, SodaStream is essentially a company that innovated with the UX outside the Internet-based technologies, not solving some hard problems.

Theranos claimed to have been doing something similar but failed due to their choice of UX improvement approach being based on technology that does not work.

An analogy in the internet-based business would be promising to improve the UX of customer support using AI and then not delivering on the AI part.

I think that your "Outsized impact" concept is interesting but I think that there is no such thing, it's just an illusion due to the speed differences of the delivery of the impact. Should Theranos was not based on pseudo-science, the eventual impact could have been no smaller than your average internet unicorn.
Ethical isn't a silly concept; it sounds like an abstract term, a proposition, while it is actually more nuanced; it is a spectrum, not an absoluteness. And it goes beyond technology.

There's also social ethics which the company Fairphone tries to tackle with their products (Fairphone, Fairphone 2, and the upcoming successor). They're transparent about their ethics [1] which contains examples about sourcing ethical cobalt, the supply chain of the displays, and so on.

[1] https://www.fairphone.com/en/blog/
I qualified my statement with an "often" for a reason ;)

But looking back at the article, it seems like the author is complaining that the compiler used an unaligned move instead of an aligned one–but based on the code they wrote, this seems necessary. The compiler has no knowledge of any data alignment (how would it know that the data is always aligned without telling it?), so it emits conservative instructions.
Gotta cite for that?

And actually, your comment makes no sense. Controlling exits shows where traffic goes. Exits don't connect directly with users, but rather through middle relays, and either entry guards or bridges. So adversaries either need data from all three relays in circuits, or they must control both ends, and be able to signal through circuits. That's how CMU researchers pwned users and .onion sites, using the relay-early bug, which allowed intra-circuit signaling.
You can switch it off.
https://puri.sm/posts/hard-not-soft-kill-switches/
Power to the people!
We've banned this account and numerous others. It's a violation of the site guidelines to use HN that way, especially when the accounts are used also to break the site guidelines. Could you please not do this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The stock market needs to crash and the myth of steve jobs needs to die

It's not all about myths. The interest rates are still very low especially for the rate of growth. Decent returns are hard to find and people are willing to chase just about anything. Ofc, her decision to copy alot of Jobs' style made for some easy pickings.
Interesting. I’d echo the original commenters sentiment. I have given blood a few times and was never really bothered about the long needle sticking in my arm, nor the process in which it got there, but the two times or so where I got the finger prick for a small amount of blood were a painful and inconvenient experience.
At some point, we can forget about convincing policymakers, and just build stuff that works.
The assholes migrated to TOR. They were wrong, their migration didn't act as a proof. You can always be compromised a dozen different ways if you're breaking the law (in the US) and your adversary has the resources and reach of the US Federal Government. You're fucked, period, if they're on to you and determined. We keep seeing this demonstrated over and over and over again. There are always flaws somewhere.
"Investing in property" is not something I would include in "live well". It sounds like you are assuming everyone should be aspiring for wealth.

Regardless, I was based in Taipei for about 1.5 years and if you just adapt your lifestyle it's still definitely doable to even save a significant portion of a $2k salary. Rough calculations below assuming a single person on a conscious but not frugal lifestyle:

* Rent: ~10000 NTD per month if you're not sharing (you can still find decent places for cheaper). This will put you central enough to have easy access to everywhere but not smack in Da'an.

* Food: ~8000 NTD per month

* Transportation: ~4000 NTD per month

* Other: ~20000 NTD per month

That leaves > 30% of your salary left over. If you regularly splurge on coffee shops and western-style bars and restaurants (all of which are relatively ridiculously pricey) you will have less of course.

I am guessing that in 2 months you might still have had a more of a "tourist life-style" (eating out at expensive places, paying much more for accommodation than if you have a proper contract or own your place, going to work at Starbucks, etc).

It's kind of ridiculous just how much of a luxury coffee shops really are. One coffee at hipster cafe will be more than twice of a good meal at the delicious vegan buffet next door.

Median salary in Taipei is somewhere around 2k USD IIRC.

I love Taiwan and only reason I left was relocating for building a team in Europe.
املاک دریاکنار – فروش ویلای نیمه کاره 450 متری در خزرشهر جنوبی and عکس
In Germany firing a teacher or cop isn't hard because unions but because they're state employees which makes it hard to fire them at all (though it does happen).
>The i.MX 8 has some A53 cores and an M4 core all on the same silicon.

The FSF guidance on the co-processor exception is breathing room. I haven't read the fine print on what they mean by co-processor. My conjecture is that it was written at a time before these sort of architectures, and referred more to traditional GPU over pci-e like co-processors so that non-essential stuff can be excluded from requirements. In this case, you have single silicon, and single RAM. RAM needs blob for init. You claim that if you squint, you can see single silicon as multiple processors, and voila RAM init quandry is solved. That is purim's gymnastics.
Discord has apps for Windows/Android/iOS/Linux, as well as a surprisingly good web interface. I've switched over completely from Skype and been consistently impressed.
Now if only it were accurate...
> "flashcard blindness" [...] sometimes it was like I had to learn two words, the word I 'learned' in anki and the word in the wild. Even though they were obstinsably the same word somehow they couldn't connect.

I've also felt this problem a lot too, but haven't found a good alternative for self study. Anki/flash card needs to be a support, that uses the minority of your study time, and links closely to the other parts. This is easier when following a class, than when doing self-study.

It is so easy to build elaborate flashcard strategies and get lost in implementing them.
In Australia I noticed my downloads from some sources were much slower than others.

I have two examples:

1. YouTube vs Netflix. When I would try to watch YouTube in the evenings it would not buffer fast enough for continuous playback. While Netflix would. I assumed that my ISP was prioritising Netflix traffic. When I turn on my VPN YouTube plays much smoother in full quality.

2. Steam downloads. When I would download a game off the automatic download server is would start at full speed (Blistering 100mbps on NBN...) and after a few seconds drop down to single digit kbps. When I switched the download server to the Singapore one I would get constant full speed downloads. Could either be throttling that specific server, or there is something wrong with that server.

I switched ISP and now both of those issues are gone.

From my understanding that points pretty strongly towards throttling. Though admittedly my knowledge may be lacking.

Note: This is for a wired connection. But I thought it was relevant anyway.
Well, there is the little detail that we greatly rely on, benefit from and live in a society of laws.
Did she ever get pulled over by the cops? Asked if there were any weapons in the car lol. Or do they get diplomatic plates?
Don't you consider e.g. LineageOS open source OS?
But more in the context of what you need for family gatherings
Finger pricking and typing don’t go well together. One is a really annoying experience. One is like, “ooooh that didn’t hurt as much as I expected”
I never really got into Evernote. It's me, I'm horribly unproductive with so called productivity apps and end up abandoning most of them. But I get that the product was hugely popular back in the day and had a loyal group of users.

My impression when I last tried it a few years ago was that it was a product that lacked focus in a bad way. Basically they were bolting on everything and the kitchen sink. The UX wasn't particularly good either. It was trying to be too many things at once; none of them particularly well.

To make this work, they need some fresh ideas and focus. More of the same is not going to cut it: they have to do something different. So getting rid of the CTO, CFO, and CPO sounds about right since clearly things weren't working out with them in terms of technical vision, monetization, or product focus. The question is of course whether there's a better plan now or whether this is just stepping stone towards inevitable acquihire of whatever remains.
You don't care about how that cookie recipe that only uses four ingredients changed their whole live and how their children just love it and the whole office goes nuts when they bring them in?

Yeah I don't either, I just wanna know how to make the damn cookie.
> Ethical products don't spy on users. Fairphone uses Android, so it isn't entirely ethical.

Because customers want Google.

The bootloader is unlocked. If you want to install Fairphone Open then you can. That's an Android version sans Google/OpenGapps. [1]

If you want, you can also install different firmware. Examples: LineageOS (with or without OpenGapps), LineageOS + microG, SailfishOS, UBTouch.

[1] https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fp-osos/index.html
The involuntary housewife visa
I mostly have to use Skype at work, and only today I've been unexpectedly amazed at how quickly, almost instantly, it starts up on Mac. Great job.
Just a note of caution - My personal experience with TW is not good. I never heard back from their HR (Bangalore) after sending resume, despite multiple reminders (I am fine to get back a rejection).

My friend (ex-microsoft) had similar experience with them - HR went radio silent mid-way through his interview process (again TW Bangalore office).
I have dug in the documentation and yes, it looks really fun.

For the website itself I feel like the font is too big for viewing, especially in the Examples section, hindering readability and understanding. Have not looked at it on mobile, though.

I do really understand the challenges with an open-source project like this and this especially is really great!

It would be interesting if you can do a write-up sometime about your experience using this in a production setting, maybe more details on the medical imaging project you're working on. I really appreciate the efforts you are pouring on it, including answering people's questions on SO and GH.

btw, do you have a GH repo for the transcrypt.org website? I might be able to contribute to help develop it.
I used to experience this in the UK with Virgin Media. Youtube would be unwatchable and any downloads from the Google Play Store would timeout 80% of the time. Switched my devices over to a VPN and the issue went away immediately. They deny it but thats pretty damning evidence af far as I'm concerned.
Very interesting article. I'm trying to learn Mandarin with a focus on speaking and conversating (using Memrise 2x per day for 15min). Would this help as well? Reading seems to me like a much more difficult project to tackle.
You still have no idea after I told you to read up. Standards already exist and are followed, except by Tesla of course.

Distribute the wealth by independent chargers? This is going to be another high investment and low margin business, where BP and shell roll out electric chargers instead of gas stations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914731
I'm another one of the "long-time but unhappy Evernote users" club.

I've been using it for many years, and have a lot of stuff stored there. I don't know of a competitor that does everything I want, although it's entirely possible that I haven't searched enough, since switching costs are huge in this case.

That said, Evernote is pretty bad. I mean, the experience has gotten marginally better over the last few years, but there are so many random bugs, so many random differences in behaviour of the same features across different apps...

And I'm not talking about non-core features. I'm talking about things like tags, which is as central to Evernote as anything. Just as an example, there's an open bug that if you type in a dash "-" in a tag, it will auto-complete the tag. So if you have tags like "t- something" and "t- something else, writing "t-" will auto-complete one of them. Since many people use tags with a dash to structure their notes, this is incredibly annoying.

The bug has been open for 3 years.
Related, the book "Dreams of Earth and Sky"
by Freeman Dyson:

"Why did [Oppenheimer] not succeed in scientific research as brilliantly as he succeeded in soldiering and administration? I believe the main reason why he failed was a lack of Sitzfleisch. Sitzfleisch is a German word with no equivalent in English. The literal translation is “Sitflesh.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/comments/1k5ihx/...

https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=5nZoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA256&lp...
My decision making process touches upon some of the points brought up in the article. I often speak about how I grew up poor without many options available to me (well, options that led to me being alive) so once I started my career suddenly my options exploded. Now I had many difficult decisions to make.

My decision making process always involves multiple alternatives and backup plans. What if I got laid off from my job shortly after starting, what if I suffer from some medical issue later down the line, what if a better opportunity comes along etc.

This process helps assess whatever weaknesses a decision might have and also helps calm my ever-present sense of economic dread. It's much easier to make a big decision when you have multiple backups if life throws a few curveballs at you.

And as it turns out when I got laid off earlier this year being prepared made it a lot easier to deal with. I almost never make a major decision without considering multiple possible outcomes; outside of the one I had to make to start my career.
Works for me using uMatrix