skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Comparing to? There is no easy legal way into US

That's the point. There is no easy legal way to become a permanent resident. There are far more Chinese students who want to stay than can, so your evidence doesn't support your claim.

> One 2016 survey of nearly 1,000 Chinese students studying at Purdue University – a large public college in rural Indiana – found that 29 per cent reported developing a more negative attitude toward the US since their arrival.

And a statistically equal amount developed a more positive attitude. I'm not sure what a survey of 1000 Chinese students at a random college is supposed to prove. Students who are willing to travel to the other side of the world are more likely to hold an unrealistically optimistic view of the US before coming here, so it's expected that some percentage of them will have to reconcile fantasy with reality.

> Forty-four per cent said their attitude toward China had become more positive since coming to the US.

Rosy retrospection [1]. People have a tendency to judge the past more positively than the present. If you asked those students the opposite question after living back in China for several years, you'd likely get a similar result with respect to the US.

>It's understandable from American perspective to be sure US is the best place on Earth though.

I can think of several other places that are better in terms of quality-of-life for the average person. China isn't one of them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection
In reading this piece, I found it sprawling and difficult to get traction on. I clicked a few other pieces and found them similarly difficult to read. I then googled the site and found a bunch of other, impossible rabbit holes purporting to criticize or defend the writer of this site, some of which is documented in the article linked here. The gist is that everyone seems to be accusing everyone of doxxing, pseudo-science, groupthink, sockpuppeting, ban evasion, and harassment. Okay.

I don't consider myself to be a stupid person, but it's very difficult for me to understand what I'm supposed to take from the linked article -- beyond a massive amount of drama in the Skeptic community, which overlaps heavily with the Wikipedia editor community.

After spending 10 or so minutes trying to figure out whether the author of the linked article or the person he was criticizing came off more crazy, I gave up.
Depends on what you're doing. I know the SREs can probably get up there after a couple years, given the crazy amount of knowledge you have to have coming in.
Ask HN: Is the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System Under Bank of America?
When logging in to pay my (federal) estimated taxes at www.eftps.gov, I notice that my browser shows me "Bank of America" in the URL bar (next to the padlock).

An inspection of the certificate shows that www.eftps.gov is assigned to the organization "Bank Of America". The Issuer (CA) is Entrust.

I am surprised that a government organization collecting taxes would not be at arms length with a private bank.

Is this supposed to be that way or is there an SSL certificate problem?
Terrible article that, like most comments and articles about the headphone jack, completely ignores Lightning and USB C adapters.

It’s much easier to make the case that removing the headphone jack is a huge money grab and inconvenience if you ignore the fact that a $9 dongle included with your phone lets you listen with any pair of headphones you want.
These May Be the World’s 10 Riskiest Housing Markets
- He knew what should be, and how it should work and look

- He knew how to find people who could create what he wanted

- He knew how to get them to create it according to his vision
I've been using https://superhuman.com/ for a while. It really is as fast as they say and with their focus on keyboard shortcuts, you can fly through your inbox(s).

It's not free but then again, that's a good thing I hope. Implies they plan to be around for a while!
>"The mini scooter is pretty revolutionary IMO because it offers the convenience of the bike, but it’s much easier to balance and feels safer than a bike, and of course the motor."

How do you reckon this?

In my experience, razor-style mini scooters are harder to control at speed, and their tiny wheels are prone to catching ruts and not very good at riding over uneven surfaces.

Compare this to bikes, which basically balance themselves once moving, and have large wheels that easily ride over bumps and ruts, and provide some additional cushioning inherent to spoked wheels.
The wrong model? Almost certainly.

A moral infraction? Debatable.

Able to score points in Econ 201? Yes.
https://twitter.com/danluu/status/931018170420400128
Yes, he understood very well, I agree. I got downvoted alot on this thread as many people don't seem to want to believe that Steve Jobs was also a techie. They should check out Walter Isaacsons biography if they doubt it. Just because he is the best at marketing didn't mean that he couldn't be a good techie. But it is ok, techies always think in binary terms
The whole idea of a "no fly list" is absurd. People have their rights restricted without being accused, much less convicted, of any crime. It's astonishing it's passed constitutional muster (for US citizens anyway).
1) You use a mobile phone with, 20ms? latency

2) The price displayed to you is 20ms late

3) You accept order at this price

4) The actual price might be less, so a firm can buy it and sell it slightly higher.

5) You get a fill at a better price than you thought.

- There is a premium to Robin Hood vs other apps because most users are on mobile, where latency is likely to be higher.
Playing a game of GANstruction
Not sure I understand - wired headphones are much cheaper to manufacture, are inherently higher quality (they'll always have less loss and less latency), can fit just as well, don't have batteries to begin with, and are much easier to connect to devices. The only point that makes any sense to me is that wireless headphones are better for exercise, but why would Apple remove the audio jack just to indirectly improve the state of wireless audio for when people exercise?
I'm very happy with screens implementation. It will stick to the size of the first client and you override it at will in any other client or if you want to update the size (maybe you changed the size of the window).
Mandy 2018 Film izle Full HD 1080p
Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
Currently I am watching Daniel Shiffman (example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5IH0L63wo) and I really like his enthusiasm. I've watched a whole bunch of high production, paid courses (udemy, udacity etc) and somehow Shiffman's free videos are more fun to watch and learn.

Any other teachers you like? Doesn't need to be math or computers, other subjects welcome too
I live in Chi too and frequently lyft. They need to make it easier to report bad driving. That would solve the problem. I submit tickets when the driver drives like a madman but it’s not clear what to do about it inside the app.
Probably because crypto is only useful insofar as it can be converted into useful fiat currencies, which means that it can be tracked.
Ask HN: Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular?
We recently decided to move from AWS to OVH, primarily for saving money. We realized that the bulk of our AWS bill was made of EC2 and Data transfer costs. So, leaving S3, Cloudfront and SES, we moved everything away from AWS. The costs have become less than half.

My question is:
Why is OVH not as popular as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure among startups when it is so much more cheaper?.
I am aware of the following drawbacks of OVH:

* No disk replication i.e unlike EBS or Google disk, if my disk fails, I am at the mercy of my backups (given no RAID)
* No private network for all the servers by default. Unlike AWS security groups or Google Cloud private networks (which are setup by default), I will have to pay for vRack to setup a private network and is more complicated.
* Decreased flexibility i.e I may not be able to spin up instances instantaneously or shut down instances to save costs in off peak times.

These maybe big factors for large corporations but I think that a startup which starts with a small monolith (or a handful of services) and is focused on eventual profitability may benefit from using services like OVH.

Am I missing something here?

Also, please let me know of any better and cheaper services out there than OVH.

Edit: I would add that we have moved to OVH dedicated servers not VPS.
A lot of US Military spending is wrapped up in infrastructure too.

US Army Corps of Engineers for example maintains levees and dams throughout the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_En...

Yeah, that's part of the DoD budget. Really weird, but that's how we budget for things in the USA.

Then there are mixed-projects, like Military colleges and schools. Officers are all college-educated, so when they leave the military, they still benefit private industry all the same. Or DARPA's contributions to the advancements of science (Adoption of TCP/IP and other long-term research projects)
Nasdaq Inc (as opposed to the NASDAQ Stock Market it owns and operats) has more than a few subsidiaries, and operates many markets around the world: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1120193/000119312512...
As far as I can tell with my limited use of WeChat while in China, most of the extra features are created by third parties and are hosted as third party web apps inside of a web browser. I could be wrong though.
USB C audio isn’t a mess right now. We’ve had USB audio figured out for at least 10 years and USB C is no different.
Shouldn't there just be a law stating that doing such things as deleting negative reviews is fraud?
I too resisted, screen was great. But it had some pitfalls.

I tried tmux, by the end of the day I was sold. Never restarted screen again.

Tmux is an improved, more coherent screen.
Yes. Base pay for a very junior hire is $140k - $160k and equity ranges from $250k to $400k or more (vesting over four years, so $62.5k to $100k per year). After annual bonus and raises, for a single person who lives reasonably and has no debt it's about 4-6 years from zero to $1M in the bank.
Unfortunately mandatory parking minimums are written into the zoning codes of most American cities, leading to the surfeit of parking in lots of places. Undoing this will take no small amount of work.
Is it the same thing as the first lyapunov method?
> I think you are misinformed

It appears, according to that leaflet, that I was, and that central policy is that people should be able to register without fixed address.

It does seem that at least one homelessness charity[0] has taken up a campaign around this, so it may well be an implementation detail within individual GP practices that leads to accounts such as:

> "Early in our frontline delivery, staff reported difficulties in supporting people to register with a GP." [0]

[0] https://www.homeless.org.uk/connect/features/2017/oct/06/hom...
>The practice, which violates company policy, is particularly pronounced in China, according to some of these people, because the number of sellers there is skyrocketing. As well, Amazon employees in China have relatively small salaries, which emboldens them to take risks.

Sounds like Amazon is finding out the hard way that you need to pay for trust, not just skill.

When you pay the absolute bare minimum to your employees, coupled with other coercive practices, you drastically increase the chances they will steal.

There's a reason casino cage cashiers don't make minimum wage despite it being a low skill job, and it's not out of the goodness of their hearts.
Van Gogh Museum's High-Quality Reproductions
Wars are not one dimensional. Having a superior economy also doesn't mean you'll have a strategic advantage in the field.
I migrated to Fastmail from Google Apps a couple years ago. When Inbox came around, I moved everything back to google. While Fastmail is a wonderful service, I don’t think it has the features that Inbox provides. so I’m not sure it’d be a good alternative to Inbox.
I own really good bluetooth headphone and they work great. But at the same time I own really expensive jack phones which are tiny and I can keep them in my pocket. And I have always string of various 10$ headphones (Philips mostly) that I loose when jogging and destroy when biking.

My point is - bluetooth getting better and more accessible - there is a place for compact and cheap headphones that do not require charging. And getting rid od headphone jack takes that away.
It would be much more helpful to see what the rendered pages look like. Perhaps add a link in the README. Also like to see a list of current and next-to-implement features.
Federal law mandates all modern devices support it, although it's usually seen as a last resort channel of communication, like a nuke going off in DC
They will probably come down hard on someone selling sales metrics etc (assuming it is happening in the US), but probably leave the fake reviews etc alone. It is just business - anything that isn't a big enough problem (yet) for their bottom line, why would they care to change it? On the other hand, selling sales metrics etc is serious (Amazon almost never releases raw numbers, for example, sales of Kindle readers) enough for them to take action
I am amazed this issue isn't raised more often. The majority of my headphone usage is in downtown San Francisco. Any wireless headphones will break up like every other second. For my purposes they are useless.
I haven't used one myself but I've heard the dongles are horrific. They overheat, and sound quality fades as temperature rises. This was a couple weeks ago my friends were telling me they couldn't get anything decent for their pixel2 on Amazon everything is cheap and produces the same result.
They thought they could use their millions of customers as leverage against the theaters but that was a ridiculous plan.
Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)
A Solar Filament Erupts
What will you do now when Inbox is dead?
Check out https://asktmk.com/ too :)
There's an API!
This looks like it is presented as geared towards mastodon consumers who want to control what they see on their timeline. I think a mastodon client would be a better choice for an entity that supports these features than a mastodon instance. Why did you chose to design such an instance instead of a client with filtering capabilities? This instance looks like a great tool for moderators instead of mastodon consumers.
..and when those Bluetooth headphones are AirPods, it’s very easy to never look back.

I do a fair bit of work with Logic and Ableton and consider myself reasonably advanced when it comes to audio production. When I am doing recording or mixing on my Mac, the built-in headphone jack is never used: it’s always a fairly high end audio interface. Since AirPods, I can’t remember the last time I actually plugged into the Mac’s headphone jack: it’s either using “pro” headphones via the audio interface or AirPods.

While I can appreciate the headphone-jack vitriol on iPhone, I can’t help but drawing parallels with the ditching of the DVD drive. At the time that happened, people were losing their minds for a variety of similar reasons. I used to own mixers that only took 1/4inch plugs and remember to have a 1/8inch adaptor was a real pain, however it just became commonplace. My point is that having a lightning to 1/8th adaptor is no bigger of a deal than having a 1/8->1/4 inch adaptor.
I just use my domain providers email forwarding service to forward to Gmail (or whatever) and then change the from and reply to addresses to my domain email address. Should work with just about any service to get your own domain email and be able to move on to another provider at a moment's notice.
I dumped Inbox for ordinary Gmail, because Inbox felt just smart enough to be neat, but dumb enough to screw up a lot. Most of the mail I receive is not in English, which may be part of the problem for Inbox.

Later I completely dumped Gmail for a reputable hosting provider and a personal domain name. Full cPanel setup and Roundcube webmail does what I need.
> Anyone arguing for the removal of headphone jacks aren't grounded in any sort of reality tbh.

The problem is that there isn’t really a good argument to keep the headphone jack. It’s a redundant port because lightning/usbC and Bluetooth both handle audio. You would need a strong justification to keep it when you could use that space for other stuff in the phone.
"Just as it took decades for us to get supercomputers in our pockets, it will take decades to work through all the engineering problems necessary to build large-enough quantum computers."

This is not an accurate analogy, and you shouldn't believe that there is a continuous engineering path to practical quantum computing as there was for miniaturization of semiconductors. We understood that there was "plenty of room at the bottom" for semiconductors and classical computation and had "Moore's Law" which pointed to a future with supercomputers in our pocket. However the physics of quantum computation are not so well bounded today, and the author acknowledges that we may not be able to build such quantum computers, and he is placing a bet.

Let me place my bet: error correction will prove intractable for quantum computation, with a recursive relationship between the size and coherence time of a topological qubit, such that the minimum number of particles required to factor N-bit numbers will exceed the number of particles in the universe for an N that is small enough to just keep using RSA on classical computers.
Risks from Daily Low-Dose Aspirin Outweigh Benefits for Healthy Seniors
Painful headline... "#" is only a "hashtag" on Twitter and other social media. It's also used to abbreviate "number", "pounds", a "sharp" note, part of hash-bang to indicate a runtime (#!), and in drawing, to shade an area lighter than the black graphite, ink, or charcoal be applied.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-name-o...
> People complain that dockless rental scooters and bicycles block the sidewalk, but I have never experienced being blocked by one.

I've certainly seen Lime bikes mostly blocking the sidewalk here in Seattle, and I rarely if ever see cars parked on the sidewalk.
Maybe he schedules them for when he's in the office?
Possibly more annoying is that he ignores the Lightning to 3.5mm cables that are available. Those nice expensive headphones all have replaceable cables, you don’t even need a dongle.

https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Audio-Cable-Lightning-Connecto...
Zoho suite is a very robust alternative to GSuite. They have all services that GSuite provides and then some more.
Because the Borg code base is a hot mess while the existing crypto in Borg is pretty much the equivalent of a dumpster fire.

("The project" also has rather severe contributor and maintainer retention issues given it went through four maintainers in only two years.)
How is this different than manypixels.co?
Agree with keeping the “walk” in sidewalk,
excepting wheelchairs & similar mobility
solutions for differently-abled folks,
but with everything with wheels that can
travel faster than a walking pace (say, 5 mph)
having the opportunity to use a space that is
normally devoid of pedestrians: the roadway.
> Yeah, that's part of the DoD budget.

$4.8 billion / $639.1 billion = 0.75%

It's a minuscule part of the DoD budget. A rounding error.

The majority is spent by the army, navy, and air force. The biggest expenditure category is operation and maintenance, followed by personnel, then procurement.
That’s why you build systems that don’t allow for abuse whenever possible. And when it’s not possible, you create an audit trail.

For example, I trust Google to make my individual search history difficult for employees to access, specific search results difficult to change, and confidential data difficult to access.
Seems to be a clone of manypixels, same pricing as well
Three.js playGnd
Very suspicious of the whole line of this work. Suspect that the “Bragg peaks” are trivial. For instance all primes > 3 are in the form 6n + 1 or 6n + 5.
Not in Europe, certainly not in Europe outside London and Zurich.
Ask HN: What is your favorite motivational video?
Are there any open source email clients that are as polished as GMail?
We are at the end of the console cycle, which means games hardware requirements will plateau until the next gens are out. So from now, at 1080p, a 1070 is enough to handle everything at 60fps until then. That probably translates to a 2060 this generation - which is the card I'm really interested in.

Other than that Nvidia cards are severely restricted due to their lack of support for Adaptive Sync or HDMI 2.1 VRR.
I keep seeing variations of this business model cloned. The free trial seems risky to operate.
My favorite feature is the mouse support, which makes the window names in the status bar clickable, even while logged on remotely.
It seems to me that my definition of an embedded device is different than the developer of this framework. Just because it is headless, doesn't necessarily mean it is embedded. A Linux server can be considered embedded, if that was the case.

The ESP32 is an awesome chip, but it is a beast. Dual-core, with Bluetooth, wifi, and everything else you could think of. I wouldn't call that your typical embedded device.

But, as things get cheaper and more power efficient, my definition will be antiquated and wrong, if it isn't already.
Asymmetric crypto for backups feels overrated to me.

The "write-only mode" argument makes sense, if the backup target holds data from other nodes, but that doesn't require asymmetric crypto.

The "shouldn't be able to read own backups by default because what if it's hacked" argument doesn't seem to hold much water to me, because the most valuable secrets will generally be those in active use on the machine.
Check out tmux-fingers by morantron. It lets you copy any line that matches a pre-defined regex. I just recently got a PR merged that supports kubernetes resources. So now I don’t even have to click the line (in mouse mode) and then hit shift+4 and yank, instead I just hit prefix+F and then the corresponding letters that appear.

Kinda hard to explain, but it’ll make sense if you look at the gh repo.

[It’s always driven my insane how kubernetes names its pods. They still haven’t implemented regex matching - there’s an issue on github related to that that went stale. For now I use a combjnation of selectors and old school unix regexes (awk, grep, etc) when I’m passing around kubectl commands that I need to work rgardless of whether the container has restarted or not]
My understanding was that a key component of Nvidia's solution was a denoising neural network, dramatically reducing the number of rays needed.
Just to join the choir, in Swedish they're para nuts as well.
Ok. What I meat was:
"All mainstream media claiming Hillary was certainly the election winner. And some pointing statistics like 95%." was propaganda.
Root and empty password was a macOS issue: https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752
They are 160 dollars. Decent earbuds can be had for 20 or less. Airpods dont make sense for a lot of people.
> More money compounds faster.

Not really. X% interest compounds at the same speed if you have $100 or $100 million in your account.
Why humans love robots
So is an MS in Computer science worth it?
To those who use a tiling window manager: how do you incorporate tmux in your workflow? Since I've mainly used tmux to show multiple terminal sessions at once, I found it to be redundant in a tiling wm environment. But I'm sure I'm missing out on other features that my wm cannot provide.
Rfcdiff Web Service
Not sure. I’m like everybody else looking for good alternatives here :)
China has an advantage that it has no large ethnic underclasses, and minimal welfare state.

But the country would have been undoubtedly better off if the Nationalists won the civil war - and the place ended up like Taiwan.
Pistols must have a rifled barrel. Almost all home built guns are smoothbores.