skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the author of this article.

Unfortunately financial and officer/director data for Hong Kong private companies is hidden behind a paywall (see details here under the section Tear Down That Wall: https://webb-site.com/articles/identity2.asp), although at least it is available, as far as it goes, but even then, the Ultimate Beneficial Owner is not public. [This is the situation currently being litigated against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who it is claimed still controlled a Hong Kong company Skycom (https://dataguru.hk/hkcompany?crno=0644842) behind the scenes].
Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Setter [0]

This book tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran's nuclear efforts but reads like a genuine thriller or cyberpunk novel.

[0] https://chris-lamb.co.uk/azn/B00KEPLC08
Yes, it would be a hugely complicated undertaking and probably impossible for most humans with little academic mathematical knowledge. But the point is that it would be possible, which indicates that the problem does not necessarily lie in the amount of data but in the algorithmic approach itself.

ML is a great tool that is creating very real and tangible value, but it still has ways to go. Just adding more computational capabilities and more data will only bring marginal improvements.
The same way any other session-based multiplayer game, like any Counter-Strike or DOTA or Fortnite are not an MMO. MMO has "massive" in the name, as in "massive amount of players that you can interact with in one game session", and usually implies public spaces that are persistent and can be visited by any player freely.

Although, I must admit, the distinction is much less clear now than it was, say, 10 years ago.
Python did not have a genesis at Google. It existed before Google did.

JavaScript was written by Brendan Eich as the browser-side scripting language for the Netscape browser, originally based on Lisp I believe. It was not meant to be a joke.
That would seem to raise serious questions about the veracity of anything biblical, then. So if you discounted any evidence in the bible, based on the supposed dubiousness of other things there, what's left to build a case on.
Holding people accountable for their actions is hardly a form a fascism.

On the contrary it's frequently argued as one of the cornerstones of civilization.

If someone is knowingly harming others, most people would probably agree that activity should be curtailed. That's not really authoritarianism, it's securing a prosperous future.
Ballari
Ruby is mostly for the web annotation application. It’s also quite good for text processing. But the modeling and such is still done in Python (our web collection is a mix of Python and Ruby). Sorry for the lack of clarity there.
I'm liberal.
Be aware that the UK is currently planning to leave the European Union, where a lot of high quality funding for projects is coming from. The next few years are a little bit unclear in that regard.
Well, an option if you don't mind losing ADSL(1) and wifi from your ADSL router.

(1) It's not clear: the docs mention an Annex working but it's not the same as the one the hardware provides?
I've only read part of it, but it seems great so far! I always appreciate the clarity and practicality y'all at the JGL take.

I'm amazed that the implementation was under 1500 LOC! Was that the research prototype or the shipped preview?

Congratulations on the VLDB paper! Hopefully I'll come say "hi" in LA :)
> ... a fantasy world, persistent, vast, "real" (as in, internally consistent and fair), a world you can live in...

Incidentally, are you aware of the LitRPG genre in fantasy? It's pretty much that, in literary form.
It's nice to get away from frameworks from time to time. If anyone is interested in something similar written in Java I recently created a couple of examples based on Undertow. They are available at https://github.com/tofflos/undertow-examples.
How to Tell If a Widower Is Interested in You
Don't lost hope. Make another one, maybe that will generate.
I'm the author of this article.

Can you address the question of why this phenomenon exists ?
> This is a problem in itself that people decide they could let their guard down because someone else will take care of them.

I understand your point, but this is a cruise ship, letting your guard down and being taken care of is the whole point.
Exactly, it's just a white page for me.
World's Cheapest Drawing Sold for One Billionth of a Bitcoin
Good logistics is one of Aldi's strengths in Europe, so I assume they've taken that experience to the USA.

That also have less range of products, which might mean they sell more pineapples as there are fewer alternatives.
I mean these articles in general. They aren't written by Republicans; they're written by leftists who feel they should do better and this and that. Most of the time they've never experienced poverty and why poor people make the decisions that they do, like shop at Dollar General, for example.
Given that there are plenty of test harnesses that allow for testing of GUIs, what about GUIs do you think proves impossible for the TDD process?
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Which phenomenon? Being the author of an article? ;)

If you mean "why are names of companies being changed every couple of months?", I really have no idea, especially given that some of these companies seem to be linked, so it's not like different groups of people are doing it. Perhaps.

If you mean "why is the Hong Kong government making its Companies Registry less transparent over time?", there are some landmines involving China and tycoons that I'm not going to risk stepping on here, at least right now.
Good luck. It's a tough world. You know, Christ was born under an order for his death with soldiers knocking on doors killing babies, born into a rickety wooden construct for holding animal feed, full of snot and spit. Even the greatest man is born into a world of threats of death, disease, and eventual death. We all share this burden together. And whether Christ was real doesn't actually matter. Almost every historical figure is a legend, an abstraction, and history shows us who we are nonetheless.

Godspeed on your journey my friend.
How On-Demand Service Apps Are Influencing the Startups and Customers?
That guy wasn't even being a jerk. He didn't sound angry or confrontational at all. Someone just jumped on the opportunity to get the next "viral video". That's all.
Performance is also a major advantage. Express is extremely slow compared to a basic "native" API without dependencies. If you check out the results in numbers, you'll be amazed.
Civcraft was one of the few games where the economy felt really real, and the gameplay truly emergent.
I don't know about your ISP, but I'm pretty sure my ISP would battle the hell out of anything concerning my privacy.

Link in Swedish:
https://www.bahnhof.se/press/press-releases/2016/02/24/bahnh...
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Is a Dollar store in the US comparable to a 7-eleven from Asia?

I don't live anywhere where they have either a Dollar store or a 7-eleven, I've only learned about the 7-eleven concept on my last trip to Bangkok.
We talk about vehicles, boat, airplane, so moving objects, not connectable to any grid at least in an acceptable/feasible manner.

That's the problem, certainly not electricity for buildings!
Hey Dan!

Thank you so much for your work on the diy book scanner project!
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I think you’ve taken the right-wing bait a little too to heart here. In the US, most young people, most women, and most ethnic minorities are Democratic-Learning, and I’m speculating those are also the groups most affected by poverty.
I can believe you, but every online offer of shelf companies I've seen has prominently listed an inventory of actual, available-today companies by name, making me think some buyers don't want to go through the name change. And, one site I just browsed lists as one of the "main reasons" for using a shelf company is "to assist with the sometimes onerous task of designing a new company name".

Which actually suggests another theory for the HK name changes: maybe they're a fast/cheap way to instantly reserve a corporate name of interest, which is then later released to whoever really wants it.
I just think machines are good at some things, and people are good at others. If it really took billions of samples in related domains we wouldn't develop nearly as fast as we do after being born.
Exactly. I walk because I'm strong and able to do so and it makes me more confident of getting to the train in time. They talk about increasing throughput by 30% but do we really want these things to be running at 100% capacity? I'd hate to have to pack in like a sardine and not have enough space to walk. Standing on one side seems to be a perfectly reasonable compromise.
Iirc the issue comes down to Android. Until very recently there was not real uniform api for accessing the camera between Android versions and the tweaks hardware vendors make. Basically it was much easier to screenshot the live preview then access the raw camera data.

This changed a couple of versions a go and if you used SnapChat on the pixel 2 it used the new APIs instead of taking a screenshot.

But I can’t comment persoanally on the quality of snapchats pictures as I’ve never used it.
All and every semiconductor manufacturing produces tons and tons of toxic waste.

If people are so inclined, they are free to surrender all modern conveniences.
The State of Enterprise Open Source in 2018
Cara Bermain Super 10 Online Dengan Benar
Super 10 adalah permainan kartu online yang dikeluarkan IDN PLAY, dimana permainan tersebut merupakan salah satu permainan sederhana dari permainan Kartu China .
God Rest Ye Merry (2015)
Where I live in California, the sales tax is different between cities.

What city?

Supplemental sales taxes vary by county in almost all circumstances. Generally, people can't really be sure what city they are in (if any) when away from home.

Street address "city" has no legal meaning except for the convenience of the Post Office. A Saratoga address might actually be in Los Gatos, or vice-versa, or outside all city limits. The atomic unit us the parcel; the parcel distinguishes the city (if any).

There are islands of unincorporated land all over San Jose.
It's irresponsible to suggest that burnout is treated with antidepressants and sleep. Burnout is an occupational health problem whose only solution is in the form of occupational changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout

If a job is killing you, the solution is not to numb the pain away.
> It's pieces of fabric that will end up covered in grime and grease, why should I pay twice as much?

I know you said it's the same product so this doesn't apply directly, but I was reminded of something that happened to me.

I was buying sponges, and the store-brand knockoffs were about half as much as the name brand sponges. They had the same yellow/green design, and they're just sponges... why not get the cheaper ones?

When I got home and used the sponges, I noticed that they were leeching green dye onto everything I used the sponges on, even for at least a few days after using a new sponge. I never noticed significant staining from the sponge runoff, but it's also not worth $3 every few months to not have to wonder if my sponges are going to dye my food/dishes/whatever I'm cleaning green.

Anyways, I don't really have a point here, it's just really annoying that I think of these sponges every time I'm buying the cheaper knockoff products.
Reads suspiciously like a "clean coal" anti-climate-change FUD propaganda article to me.
So, in short, US and UK will be faster? How come?
Now the guy is more lost than before...

I would choose the advisor regardless of his/her physical presence (whether at US or UK) and then follow my decision accordingly. I know for a fact that you want to have a friend on your side for the next 4 years or so.
You're right -- I didn't mean to compare them in terms of size/functionality but rather just as other options that were out there and why people might have picked node in the presence of other good alternatives.
I have thoroughly enjoyed The Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell.

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells also very good, except the price for book 2+ are ripoffs at $12 for only 150-170 pages.
One of the problems that most unions try to address is that companies will often fire employees for union organizing if they can get away with it (generally they can make up some secondary excuse, like poor performance). In some unions, firing happens by seniority; the company can only fire employees in the reverse order they joined.

In software development, we obviously don't want to have to work with under-performing coworkers, so we need some way to remove those people that isn't based on seniority. If it can't be at management's discretion either, then what's a good solution?

I think one answer may be to have a union-negotiated peer-review process -- you can be laid off or fired if your coworkers don't vouch for your work, or consider you indispensable. Depending on the process, this could work okay or it could be awful. At best, it would seem to encourage a sort of Lord-of-the-Flies atmosphere and some unpleasant office politics.

Another approach would be market-based. Maybe projects within the company are allocated some sort of virtual currency units which can be claimed by employees when they finish units of work. Employees with a surplus of currency units but not enough time to finish their tasks by themselves can put bounties on subtasks. Worker's pay should be proportional to their credit surplus; if it's not, they can have their pay reduced or they could be asked to leave. This would less political and less personal, but working out the details could be tricky and it doesn't address the problem of highly productive people that no one wants to work with because they treat people badly.

I expect there are other possible solutions.

How does the Screen Actor's Guild, and screenwriter's and athletic unions deal with this problem?
> So what are you driving at?

There's no hidden message, the thesis is explicitly stated: “the gap/niche/market/whatever is the specific unserved groups, not unconditional service.”

> Just some racists, now and from here on out, so no loss?

No, there was no hidden value judgement in the hypothetical. It would be the same, mutatis mutandis, if the excluded group were, say, African-Americans rather than virulent racists; there is demand for services for the specific unserved groups but—and experience, not just theory, shows this is the case—there isn't a “niche” for “serves everybody within the law” caused by the kind of incumbent companies at issue excluding some particular groups. The niche that is opened is serving specifically the excluded groups.

This was a factual response about market realities to the upthread claim about what niche was opened, not some kind of covert value judgement about who deserves service.

> Silicon Valley is clearly not up to the task, these virtual kingdoms are demented, that stuff should be for video games and private forums, not platforms that speak of community or society. They want to receive from society, but not fulfill their duties to society.

Exercising judgement in what ideas one relays is a duty to society, and enabling that is the core point of freedom of speech.

> Free speech is not an optional luxury

Indeed it is not, so why would you deny it to the firms you are pointing to?

> and mobs out to destroy livelihoods and doing their virtual lynch justice stuff are not benign.

Comparing deplatforming to lynching is ludicrous and disgusting.
I like Redmonks' approach on how it'll be devs who will make sense of all this crazy amount of technologies (to put it very simply). My actual question would be if they will make sense of it all after being imposed a tool, infrastructure, platform by the decision makers or if they can influence decision makers to use the best tool, infrastructure, platform for their build and ops processes.
So, in short, US and UK will be faster?

A UK PhD takes 3 years, a US typically 6 because it is padded out with running errands for the prof and other time wasting.
In today’s data-driven world, evaluating emerging trends of smart technologies is essential to shape people’s understanding of data, measure performance, and to take an organization to the next level collectively.
Read: https://mobinspire.com/blogs/top-business-intelligence-trend...
Mapping Brexit: Where the Finance Jobs Are Heading
As a New Yorker, hearing that people purposely queue and wait just to ride on the right side of the escalator when the left side is unused blows my mind.
does it have to be written in 2018? i've read something from 2000 years ago.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

"Meditations (Medieval Greek: Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, translit. Ta eis heauton, literally "things to one's self") is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy."
Bike-sharing firm Ofo's dramatic fall a warning to China's tech investors
Great article. Anyone working with Node.js should be familiar with these fundamentals. It also demonstrates the simplicity (and dare I say "elegance", though that's subjective..) of Node.js and its concepts.

These days my favorite library for writing an HTTP server is micro [0] (and a few middlewares). I like how it provides a minimal, functional layer of abstraction.

[0] https://github.com/zeit/micro
React hooks have been an absolute game changer for me.
“If people are so inclined, they are free to surrender all modern conveniences”

Not really an acceptable response.
Then you're comparing a machine that's never seen anything but animals against a human that has no separation between different kinds of data and can't start on a blank slate.

I may have all sorts of images in my mind, allowing me to make the distinction?
> In some unions, firing happens by seniority; the company can only fire employees in the reverse order they joined.

No unions prohibit individual firing for cause (though they tend to require process for it); union contracts may require layoffs to be conducted by seniority, and companies not covered by union contracts may use allocation of what is notionally a not-for-individual cause layoff as a PR cover for targeted firings, but it is simply not the case that union contracts (at least commonly) require firing by seniority.
React hooks have been an absolute game changer for me, though not sure if that counts as new tech.
How We Saved Flash’s Gaming Legacy, Started a Web Game Preservation Revolution
It's very slow and unresponsive. Any time saved with not having to reload the page is wasted several times over in the clunky UI, and the lags in loading data still remain.
I like the boot story as much as the next guy, but is this actually true in the real world? By which I mean something like this: In what categories of products do rich people actually spend less than poor people? Are there any?

It's certainly true that top-end clothing lasts longer than cheap stuff. But the people who buy it like nice things, and variety. Maybe car repairs? But probably a trick of counting the new-car service plan as part of the purchase price.
I once tried to have this conversation with people who were keen on clean solar power, I suggested the evidence supports nuclear energy as the cleanest option we have to date. Needless to say I was vilified and insulted. (The sun is nuclear anyway :) )
This sounds like the common practice of squatting on a domain name. People who are good at it don't squat on the same set of names forever; they adjust their portfolios based on what's trendy at the time and let unprofitable names expire. People who peddle shelf corporations might do the same, except they can easily rename their wares.

And of course, just like domain names, you can't register more than one corporation with the same name in the same jurisdiction.

Whoever owns this company has probably gone through several phases during which they thought there might be heavy demand for names related to Chinese resources, e-healthcare, education, land, and capital management. They also seem to have a procedure in place that reverts an unsold shelf corporation to a placeholder name or internal identifier (Premier Dragon) after a while.
Latency is a concern on the native apps too, but as tradeoffs go, cell OEMs care about mag/site reviews and "it takes a little longer to take a capture" buried deep in the text will be worth much less than better-looking example photos in the side by side.
Most "Healthy Alternatives" completely miss the point - assuming things like eating a carrot stick is going to be at all the same as inhaling a chemical when one is stressed or hungry or that taking up knitting is going to be a perfect substitute for a mindless habit.
Didn't yet go through the work posted, though at multiple investment banks the pricing/risk engines make use of _compute graphs_ which have a similar execution style. Only recompute nodes that get invalidated on change in input data and propagate till the output.
Do the names have to mean approximately the same thing or sounds the same in English and Chinese? You can imagine someone sneakily using one or the other language to obfuscate.
If you're in or around Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry has a wonderful Apollo 8 exhibit right now [1] including the actual re-entry vehicle you can walk up to and inspect the burns -- the trainer moon lander (way bigger than it was in my imagination) -- and a recreated 1968 living room [2] where you can sit on a couch and watch the broadcast on TV. I was really touched by the experience.

[1] https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/henry...

[2] https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/events/to-the-...
You can do AI-like meta-planning without using your brain btw. What you do is you choose a simple pattern of reaction to what happens on the screen, then you play. If you like the result you try to do more of what's at the core of the pattern, if you don't like it you change the pattern a little. No thinking and abstracting needed. For a game like DDR it might even be enough to get to the very top.
Your attitude is inappropriate on a website dedicated to rational discussion.

Also, you must be unaware of what Al Gore was saying. "An Inconvenient Truth" predicted horrible things would happen by 2015. That was a very common prediction in the 90s, actually.

We're past that now and technological advance is nowhere near eliminating or even reducing climate change. It was obvious even in the 90s that zero-carbon technology wouldn't be ready for decades.

The only solution to the doomsday prediction Al Gore was selling 20 years ago was immediate drastic action (which even the Democrats never actually had the will to call for).
It would be nice to distinguish between different panel chemistry: it's not news that CdTe or CIGS cells contain cadmium, but do crystalline ones?

Also, a sense of perspective; lots of roofs have either lead flashing (toxic heavy metal) or bitumen (carcinogen) on them already.
In a language like C, the dot '.' and the arrow '->' are used for access into structures - both for setting and retrieving values. I think intuitively about a lens as a programmable dot which I can use to compose an access path. (You might have heard that the bind operator in a monad can be thought of as a programmable semicolon - this is similar.) This intuition might mean little if you haven't looked at lenses in more detail, but it does make sense once you have.
Answered (obliquely) in the article (which for some—presumably ideological, given the source—reasons tries to not acknowledge this fact): because environmental costs of disposal are a non-internalized externality which, if internalized, would promote recycling except in certain disaster cases where this became impractical, and eliminate most of the toxic waste.