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When google chose to quit from the Chinese market, many people told me that China basically cut itself off from the modern world. 8 years on, we all know full well what actually happened. Comparing China to Russia is laughable at best - China's domestic market is 10x the size of Russia, it is comparable to the entire EU but with only one language, one system plus one culture making it much easier to do marketing for whatever products you can think of. In your single sided mind, you consider foreign investment something that makes China progress, yet you failed completely to recognise the fact that many many foreign companies rely on the Chinese market to continue to justify their existence.

The whole concept of US/EU/SEA countries should all team up against China is also laughable. Just look at EU, for Internet companies, mobile and AI, EU lost almost everything to the US dominance, EURUSD dropped 35% from its peak 10 years ago. You seriously believe EU has the interest to further strengthen the US?
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I'm kind of the opposite, I just love laying around all day doing nothing but reading. I spent most of my time at my last job doing this, but surrounded by people, noise, and fluorescent lighting.

Plus, being able to attend events spontaneously and stay out as late as you want is pretty great.
I would say "data engineer" is the new programmer, in that programming is evolving away from procedural monolithic threaded code with locks everywhere, to distributed message processing pipelines whose capacity can be flexibly adjusted, etc. "Data scientist" is an actual role at some companies but most data scientists are actually struggling with the contradiction between what they learned in school and the harsh reality of what their job demands of them.

Edit: misspelling.
It only does. Everything seems like some optimized hack of some sort that things aren't as performant as true native apps. Just maximizing the window size feels sluggish.
I don't know whether you've also read these books or not, but for others who are really interested in this, I can't recommend Anti-Fragile and Skin In The Game by Taleb that explores this view and topic. I just finished them both and I feel the book can explain it in a reasonable way, but don't get too serious on his name-calling. It gets a bit funny when you know where he comes from.
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As other poster said in this thread.. Let's say day switches at noon in your location. You and a fried decide to go out for lunch. Do you meet for lunch on monday or tuesday?

Does the day start with monday morning and ends with tuesday evening? Or is it monday evening in solar morning and tuesday morning in solar evening? Does morning and evening still hold any meaning? Or does morning and evening hours differ in every location?
I really recommend Quiver (http://happenapps.com). It supports code blocks, LaTeX, html, markdown, etc., as well as attachments of any kind (pdf, jpg, etc.) The format is well documented and open (https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format), so you could potentially write your own parser if it ever becomes unsupported!

There's also an android app (called quaver) that someone else (not the original developer), has built using the open JSON specs. It works, but isn't that great.

Syncing the JSON data to the cloud keeps all devices in sync. It also has an import feature that allows you to import your Evernote notes.
This was a fascinating read! I had never thought about what the MBTA was like before its current design. Color-coding the lines particularly seems like an obvious-in-retrospect way to orient passengers, and it's hard to imagine how confusing the system must have been without this.
You usually want the recipient to be able to verify the sender, but not be able to prove it to a third party. Throwing away authentication entirely is a pretty baby-with-the-bathwater solution to deniability.
> Democrats support the Jones Act because their core constituents do.

I bet 99% of their constituents don't even know what the Jones act is or would be perfectly willing to change it.
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50mph downhill is very dangerous... indeed. When I was 12, I rode downhill with a friend riding in the back... really fast. But I doubt it was more than 25-30mph. I hit a dip, somehow managed to do a front-flip, landed on parked car and asphalt. I scraped my knee so deep, it didn't bleed. It was white! Instead of going to doctor, I unrolled the skin back onto my kneecap, went home, wrapped it up, and went to bed, and hope for the best. Almost 30 years later, I still have a nasty scar from it. Since the incident, I developed deep fear of going downhill and losing balance. Ski? nope. Snowboard? ugh. I can ride them, but if I find myself going just a wee bit fast, I brake.

Long winded way of saying... yes, riding bicycle even at 30-40mph is no joke...
The XR is getting the same new sensor, so if you want to save a couple hundred bucks and can wait a month, it might be a thought. (That's my plan, less for absolute cost-saving reasons than I think I really want one of the colors that are only going to be available on that line.)
Sorry to be dense, but why would one want do to web browsing in VR at all? It's all built on a metaphor of flat sheets of paper, so it's paradigmatically 2D.
That solved the hot split problem, but that was more of a once-in-a-while gotcha. The main downside for Rust specifically was the complications that arise when doing any sort of C interop in the presence of growable stacks. This mattered more for Rust than Go, since Rust is relatively more intended to freely intermingle with C code (and other languages via, C FFI), whereas the happy path for Go tends to involve exclusively Go code in a given process (even going so far as to reimplement their own libc in Go), and use of cgo is discouraged by the community (https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go).
This is a good overview of nitty-gritty details of exchanges that wasn’t assembled before. If the purpose of the document was to scare people from trading or purchasing crypto, I think it failed.

It is truly incredible that in 10 years cryptocurrencies are now worth in the $100 billion vicinity. If you read HN regularly, not only should they be worth 0 but everyone with a neutral-to-positive opinion of them belong in jail.

Just like self driving cars, the HN opinion can be wrong to extremely wrong.
Notational Velocity (and clones) always seemed to do well with that. Very light, very plaintext, but great as a sort of reactionary "Open and start typing and ask questions later" platform.
Probably most content people read does not easily translate to a product as in your fishing example. Generally, ads with no targeting are not very profitable.
That's just China -> US exports. It doesn't account for imports for export, and Chinese imports from the US. They would still be growing if all trade with the US was stopped, after subtracting these.

Net trade globally, they're running an imbalance of 1.5-2% GDP.

They're growing at almost 7%/year. So there's quite a ways to go to get to -2.8.
Have you mailed Google customer support to do so with their Gmail?

Today, web apps are getting to the point that it can functionally be called 'apps' (whatever its definition is) and we're all seeing exactly the same UI from every platform and people seem to be just fine with that.
I think the problem is with the employer, not the platform.
I don't understand why Facebook should be blamed here.

How is it possible for a global platform cater each and every local custom?
I'm open to new ideas but I can't imagine this being a very efficient way to input words and characters into a computer. I have worked with older game consoles and remote controls that tried to do this stuff and I'm not sure anyone likes it.

Why not simply speech to text? I don't think a lot of people are doing VR in a room with other people.
ITT: People talking past each other about 'highest performing males outperform highest performing females at almost everything' vs. 'average women are better at some things than average men.'
I like bear, it’s my current note app besides .git. I wish they’d improve their code formatting.
I guess I would like to see more data and less opinion. Especially in economics.
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To me QT apps look like they came out of some old code base with old UI and web apps look more appealing imo.
> But on the other hand, if people were dying because of a water shortage

That's exactly what governments are for.

Of course, it only works when they're held accountable for failures.
I wonder happens when some "problematic" entity wants a component. Will we have a component for posts from Gab.ai?
I think the issue with GDPR is that you can't deny service if they don't want to pay and don't want to be tracked. Iow, you can't ask them to pay if they don't want to be tracked. That's where the complaint about demanding a free service comes from.
It is unimaginable to me that Facebook or any company should ever be obligated to show ads to anyone for any reason. Don't use Facebook as a job search platform. Facebook is just a website, you don't have to use it for everything. The fact that some people are not receiving ads on Facebook, in any sane world, has got to be the sole prerogative of Facebook. Nobody pays money to receive ads on Facebook, there is nothing to lose by just uninstalling the app.

Facebook should offer a "Premium Ads" program where you pay a monthly subscription to see all the ads discriminatory advertisers weren't willing to show you on their own dime!
>Which law specifically states what you say?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
I find myself using the plain old "Notes" on Mac for nearly all of my note taking. It's just so much simpler than dealing with sections and pages and organization.

Most of my notes are relatively ephemeral, perhaps lasting for a task or project. Rarely to I need to reference things that aren't in relatively recent history. When I do, I'll just scroll back or do a universal search.
Sorry - should have been more clear. I'm mostly talking about local policy, which is where most of my experience with government comes from, through many FOIA requests. Federal is much more calculated (read: slow) in comparison to local government. I've found local government to be very "we've checked the box, let's move on", which doesn't leave room for analysis, let alone the acknowledgement that analysis is even possible.
Attachments, yes. Web clipper, no I don't think so. But I doubt most people who used to use Evernote and now use Apple notes ever used the web clipper (including me).
> With all of the talk of how China is or is not playing fair, I feel like their internet bans get taken for granted, and I wish there was more pressure to play fairly there.

In a fair environment, you'd be seeing Facebook/Google/Twitter used by hundreds of millions Chinese when most Americans paying their bills using Alipay and talk to their friends using WeChat. US dominance in tech is _NOT_ something called fair.
If anyone wants to breach into kernel development, I recommend osdev[0], which is a very good resources for beginners and others.

0: https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
SameSite is supported by many more browsers than just Chrome these days:

https://caniuse.com/#search=SameSite
I would say, with your background, consider applying to DeepMind[1], or a national research lab. What you'd be looking for would be "entry level" research work. This would allow you to easily stand out in your applicant pool, and make it to the interview, where'd you'd have a better chance to properly explain your non-traditional academic background. If you're a US Citizen, maybe consider applying to positions at the MIT Lincoln Lab, Los Alamos, or Argonne National Lab. A lot of these guys aren't doing that much with ML/RL/AI, but that's okay! If you're serious about research you'll probably want to do a PhD. To get into a good PhD program, you'll need good references.

[1]: https://deepmind.com/careers/
I’m much more cynical now. I don’t get my “inspiration” from my job. The only reason I went to work up until my current job was to get a paycheck and learn skills to get a larger paycheck. As long as that was happening, I was happy.

Now, things are different. I’ve come close to maxing our as an individual contributor in my local market, I have no desire to be a manager, and a dev lead position doesn’t pay enough more (about $10-$15K) to be worth the extra headache (been there done that).

I am continuously learning to keep my options open in case something changes, but I really like my job even though it can get crazy but its not because of the people.

As much as I say in theory that you should always leave a job if you feel like you’re stagnating, I’m not sure that I would have the discipline to leave a job a like just for that reason as long as I’m making enough to live the lifestyle I want and my compensation is not to out of whack with the market.
For the lazy, here is where you find Quiver: http://happenapps.com/
Upgrading to Safari 12 fixed it for me too. Not sure why it was broken on Safari 11.
I'm trying to understand the magnitude of her accomplishment.

Based on the help she got from the car and the bike's unusual gearing, it sounds like her main athletic accomplishment was to accelerate a bike by 83.9 MPH.

Am I missing something?
> I think the problem is with the employer, not the platform

No, the platform gives the tools to specifically filter by sex. Facebook is enabling sexual discrimination.

> every local custom

euphemism

You mean the law, the very thing that will get your in legal troubles if you break it. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to discriminate by sex when it comes to employment in US, and Facebook is an american company.
I liked and used bear when it just came out, but it is moving at a glacial pace when it comes to adding certain important features, such as adding support for tables and equations.

Bear has a very good story when it comes to sync with the iPhone. But if you need cross-platform support, tables, equations, and such features org-mode, Typora, etc. are much better options.
I agree that it doesn't make any sense, however I recently interviewed at two different companies for a software engineering role and both had requirements/expectations for sys admin experience. I will refrain from going off on a rant and just remain hopeful this is yet another short-lived trend.
Looking at the blog name I would say DTrace on Solaris (Sun) and SystemTap on Linux.
Yes. It's typical for a team to have different people handle different platform and spreading task on multiple people suddenly slows down the progress than letting 1 set of people handle the front end.
I don't think it is a problem with the VC model at all. Evernote has taken more than $300MM in funding. Nobody put a gun to their head and made them take that money. The people who run Evernote decided to go in and tell investors that they had a plan to turn Evernote into a multi billion dollar company, and that plan said they needed a huge pile of money, and the investors made the mistake of writing a check.

Evernote could have skipped those VC meetings, skipped renting the huge, insanely expensive office just off Rt. 1 by SF, skipped putting huge, expensive light up Evernote signs on that office, and skipped hiring hundreds of engineers in the most expensive place in the world to hire engineers. They could have rented a small office in a commercial park in San Jose and only hired 10 people and now they would be quite profitable. They could have done this by only taking a few million dollars in funding, and now they wouldn't need an insane valuation to exit.
The Chinese cheat all the time.

- high subsidiaries for their exports

- blind eye on IP theft

- forced technology transfer

- closed market for many industries and services

- forced "joint ventures" for certain industries

- legal system the favors Chinese companies

- systematic attack on western industries

Feel free to ask and I will give specific examples. Based on the kind of business relationship of the US and China, e.g. Apple products are produces in China and hence also go into the trade deficit, the trade deficit is heavily distorted. (China, Foxconn makes very little profit on assembling apple phones. Yet, Apples makes most profits offshore, e.g. via selling from China to HK and from HK to US). So a trade deficit is not surprising. Trump never said that he wants a zero trade balance, he told Xi to "lower it" and "equalize the playing field". This was a reasonable request.

Xi just could have agreed to this but instead wants to play hard ball. In my opinion Xi can not win this game and the only rational strategy in a game that you can not win is not to play it. It makes me doubt the strategic abilities of Xi but we will see.

"suggested on Sunday that China could deliberately disrupt American companies’ supply chains by halting the export of crucial components mostly made in China."
Outstanding idea. I am sure Western companies will love this, invest more in China and don't move production to other countries.

Before you downvote me, give an argument.
China just marks parts of the Internet as a territory and introduces laws that meet the authority's satisfaction. Since free information and speech make people call in questions about the legitimacy of ‘the party leads everything’ and dark past, this situation won't get changed unless we distribute everything(but decentralization violates tech giants‘ interest) or a regime change happened. Otherwise, progress US and other countries made would just hold up a while.
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Makes sense. The way local governments deal with things like pensions is truly horrifying. Even the simplest analysis would quickly show that they are setting themselves up for disaster.
P.S. I specifically underline references and research experience because that's where it appears you'd be weakest at the moment. Getting a 4.0 GPA in your grad school coursework (which is online, I presume) says a lot more about your organizational skills (which must be really good!) than your ability to research. Getting someone with a PhD to write "This person is capable of doing good research and I've seen it with my own two eyes" is probably one of the best things you can get on a recommendation letter to a PhD program, which is far more valuable than "this person did well in my class" (see: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...)
Would you stop using the word “fucking”? Do you think anyone is offended by it? Probably not since it’s so pervasive. In this case when you immediately use it to dismiss what the other side is saying it can alienate others from learning and changing their perspective.
While Apple (naturally) never really publicized this, the map data they've been using, including the terrible data where you are, has been cobbled together from a variety of third parties. According to reports earlier this year, a new Apple Maps data set is rolling out with iOS 12 -- but it's going to take a long time to be everywhere worldwide, because they're essentially building it from scratch the way Google did.

The good news is that they had their new data available where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area during the iOS 12 beta period, and it's a noticeable improvement. I haven't been using Google Maps too much recently, but I find Apple Maps' routing here to be pretty comparable to Waze's, without doing the "here's a crazy shortcut!" thing that Waze occasionally does. (Sometimes the crazy shortcuts are good, but more often than not I've found they...aren't good.) The bad news is that it's probably gonna be years before they get Europe done.
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> The flaw to that argument (from my perspective) is that if a company wants more capital they can find lenders, issue bonds, or even issue new shares.

Well yes, but that's the problem. If you issue new shares when your share price is lower, you get less money and it may not be enough. You can't just sell an unlimited number of shares, each one dilutes the others and at some point no one will buy them. And all the other lenders rely on your ability to issue new shares to pay them back if it comes down to that, so they won't lend to you if your share price is too low, or will demand interest rates you can't afford.

> Instead, it is pretty clear their business was dying and they had no way to compete against larger tech companies who could provide a better product with cheaper costs to consumers.

They could have at least been GoPro if not the company supplying the cameras in half the phones on the market.
In some of my own benchmarks, was indeed able to get better perf using SBCL for some graphics stuff vs. Love. I particularly want to run this stuff on mobile though, so Lua / Love is the way to go!
Thanks, Ludwig!
I don't want to think about how many \vspace{-0.05in} I've sprinkled into manuscripts over the years.
> When we introduced DNSSEC to all our zones back in 2005, we did this using some home-grown perl scripts.

I am simultaneously cringing while nodding my head in approval.

> In 2009, we switched from these perl scripts to a signer product developed by a company called Secure64. This is a dedicated signer solution that runs on Secure64's SourceT operating system, on HP servers with Itanium processors.

I'm not going to malign them for choosing a proprietary product. Back when I did DNS admin for a company, I didn't trust myself to handle all the vagaries of DNSSEC, and so I relied on our Infoblox appliances to handle it, which they did seamlessly.

Itanium, though…

> We settled on standard Knot DNS for our signing solution…

Interesting! I haven't heard of this before, and it looks interesting. Will keep in in mind if I ever end up needing to choose an authoritative DNS.

> …and we have found the support from CZ.NIC to be really good.

Very important. Helps keep the product alive.

> …use of an HSM might actually be overkill. We have therefore decided to keep our setup simple, by adopting a design that uses a regular Linux server running Knot DNS, with keys on an encrypted disk partition.

Hmmmmm, I wonder how they set that up!

Just as a fun thing, I experimented with using a chain of systemd units to handle the unlocking and mounting of an encrypted EBS volume. It went like this:

1. A oneshot service which attached an EBS volume on start, and detached it on stop.
2. A mount unit that mounted the filesystem that contained the encrypted (wrapped) key.
3. A oneshot service which called KMS to "unwrap" the key into a RAM-based filesystem, and then call LUKS to unlock the encrypted filesystem.
4. A mount unit that mounted the unlocked filesystem.

(Note that AWS Secrets Manager didn't exist at the time, so I couldn't use it. Also, I didn't want to rely on external infrastructure like a Vault.)

It all worked because, instead of putting entries into `/etc/fstab`, systemd lets you create `mount` units with that can have the same dependency relationship as services.

> Our old Secure64 signers do not export their private keys. This means that in order to migrate to the new signers, we will have to perform a KSK roll-over. Therefore, we will pre-publish DS records of KSKs from our new signers.

A KSK rollover? That's always 'fun', and I wish them luck! Although, it'll be alot easier for them, compared to (for example) rolling over the root's KSK: See https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/apnic-services/dnssec/keyrol... and https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-09-27-en and https://www.icann.org/resources/press-material/release-2018-... which OMG just came out today (/me goes to post it).
Since the childhood, I always thought Physics to be the way of life. Everything that I saw has it roots in Physics - Lamp on my table, speeding car, floating paper boats, rainbow, gravity causing objects to fall.

The love of Physics combined with Mathematics led me to take up Engineering.