skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
considering Huawei, xiaomi, BBK, lenorola control majority of market everywhere outside US one would say it's quite opposite, they just need to convince Samsung to join them and Google with their Google play services it's past and they can keep their small market with their pixel phones thinking about their importance and that devs charging 30% it's moral
This is already the case, economically.

Android is open source, these vendors are free to fork and do whatever.

The lion's haul for Google is not 'app store sales' in China , it's search.

Android is not about App Store, that's just a marginal thing - it's about owning and controlling search everywhere. It's a means to extend their primary product.

Samsung can make it's own app store tomorrow, but they're not going to get 'Google Search' - which is what people want - so they'll have to do for now.

As far as Huawei ... well, open trade can only be had by like economies. If one economy can externalize pollution, labour costs, healthcare, and the other can't - then there cannot be open trade. Same thing for more contentious issues such as IP theft, foreign ownership rules, capital controls, state control of enterprises.

Huawei is the example, the tip of the spear. It hardly even matters what the degree of materiality is, that said, there should be not question that there's existential risk with Huawei. The CCP can require Huawei to do whatever, at any time, and Huawei will happily comply.

China can't enjoy the advantages of a 'developing economy' while trying to put 1st tier industries form advanced economies out of business, it's not going to sit well.

So we saw the big rise of China, now they're slowing down to 'nice growth' instead of crazy growth, they're grabbing land and industry so the West is wary. Meaning the trade rules will change.

This is the new normal.
>> "Processed foods" are not inherently hazardous.

Research suggests they are:

Ultra-processed food causes weight gain – firm evidence at last

https://theconversation.com/ultra-processed-food-causes-weig...

Apparently, the important ingredient lost during processing is dietary fiber- not vitamins and minerals.
I read a doctor complain about the balkanization of medicine into specialties. Specialists will give advice that reduces problems in their specialty and not care if it causes problems not in their specialty.

Example: Keep children out of the sun to reduce the chance of skin cancer. Result, sub clinical rickets and myopia.
I've toyed with the idea of building a website where you can build mock portfolios of startups based on e.g. Crunchbase data (I'm not sure if there's enough data publicly available to do it nicely). You could add bells and whistles such as shorting, and gradually transition it to use real dollars instead of fake money.
The question for a real investor in a stock market is, is it going up or down over a 10 year period or if it's a company the same thing applies in a period of 10 years is it going up or down. Outside of that in any stock market you are gambling.
Any VIP program works on the (perceived) social standing that comes from (perceived) exclusivity. YouTube doesn’t want to alienate the traditional celebrities with ties to big media companies; part of that means stocking the VIP pool with only people that those celebrities consider to be their peers.
> One thing I found interesting is Brian Chesky was in Uber's seed round in 2010. I tried doing the math to see how that was possible if he hadn't been rich (seems a stretch)

pg: It merely says he was an early investor, not that he invested in 2010.

> "First Round ultimately led Uber's $1.58 million seed round, with participation from more than 30 other investors, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Ashton Kutcher and Airbnb founder Brian Chesky "

pg: Sure enough, you seem to be right, at least if this article is. By 2010 he may have had some money. I doubt he invested much though.
Calling doesn't show or track attempts to get a hold of these individuals. CC'ing managers on emails being sent to other groups/IT is what I've been told to do now since I'm not the only one having issues with this.

Also I would be lucky for them to pick up the phone.
No problem, apparently. Talk to these folks:

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/19/05/18/0227204/russias-a...
Fly over a reconstruction of 4th century Rome [video]
Show HN: Flake8 Markdown – lint Python code blocks in Markdown files
WhatsApp and signal work fine without GCM/FCM, dunno about other apps but WhatsApp it's international standard so you are fine

you can get updates through their own app store AppGallery, but your paid apps are paid through Google, so don't expect them in order store, tying your money to Google ecosystem was bad idea in first place
In the EU countries where I've worked, coworkers usually shared some activities (e.g. weekly soccer matches). For some, especially parents, it's their main social schedule outside their home.
Yes. Isn't this what has Felicity Huffman is facing a prison sentence?
Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19954673
That's the job a marketing website should do.
After seeing some autonomous cars in action, I believe they are 20 years away. In that sense I mean a fully automated driverless car that you can command to do what you want.

It would be great if you could buy a car, have it bring you to work while you read or slept, then after dropping you off, go earn money while it was ubering people around until it was time to pick you up. But I highly doubt this will happen in less than 20 years at this point. There's just too much lacking. It needs real artificial intelligence, not just machine learning and pattern matching. The car needs to know "that's a paper bag flying in the wind I'm about to hit", or "that truck in front of me is stopped."
Yes, agreed with everything. I don't think Boeing's test pilot's dismissal (basically: they had their checklists, and knowing about MCAS wouldn't have made a difference) was reasonable, but neither do I think it was sarcastic.
Cool. All it takes is replication. The trial lawyers will beat a $100B path to your door once those pesky negative results are accounted for.

Oh, and in the meantime, I'd avoid hanging around near fireplaces and stay out of the sun, because "THz" is basically a synonym for "long-wave infrared."
No, Racket is my first Scheme.
Multiple companies are currently testing level 5 autonomous fleets in some European cities.

I think the article misses that you can't reach 5 without efficient and secure v2x.
+1. I have the account configured, but disabled auto-refreshing. It only fetches emails when I manually "pull" them.
The founders found a way to utilize otherwise vacant housing. After they got big people started buying specifically to lease on AirBnB but that would have been considered crazy before they effectively changed the culture around this.

It was this cultural change that created value.
Based on what I hear from those in the know, the perception is that it's decades away instead of years. And an even more complicated problem isn't whether or not they can make it work with considerable constraints (geofence, no highways, avoid several spots that are hard to handle, weather, assistance via remote operation when stuck), but how to do it profitably. The cars are expensive. The maintenance is expensive. The ongoing cleaning, charging, and prepping of vehicles is expensive. Constantly updating HD maps is expensive. Of course the engineers to keep everything running smoothly are expensive. And the small army of people you need to actually talk to and help customers - something Google has basically never done before - is expensive.

I love the idea of self-driving cars and I really can't wait until they're ready. But I'd say that's going to happen about as quickly as changing the infrastructure in this country. Personally I'd rather have better public transit anyway.
the author and others did not avocate manual DOM manipulations. He wrote a framework that can generate optimal DOM manipulation code without the need of a virtual DOM.
I think the author links to a post where they predicted this would happen during the upswing in the first few paragraphs actually.
Airbnb is profitable in the way that running an illegal, unlicensed anything in a highly-regulated market is profitable. Running a casino or liquor store in your basement is also very profitable, because you can tap into a supply-constrained market with none of the cost of regulatory compliance faced by your competitors, while offloading the social costs of your business on the public.

There are some 'real' Airbnbs - people renting out a room in their primary residence, or the whole place for a few weeks a year while they're away. I slept on an expat's floor in Yangon for $10 once (via Airbnb). And that is real value creation. Sometimes it's just a good discovery mechanism for legitimate vacation rentals (like beachfront homes in resort developments in Hawaii).

But 90+% of it is illegal hostels and hotels in apartments or homes removed from the long-term rental market where the 'value' is just not having to pay taxes, meet fire code or respect restrictions on where hotels can be built.
Amortization is simply depreciation of intangible assets...

And with Tesla and Elon Musk especially, it's extremely foolish to assume that Tesla will meet any of the benchmarks that Elon has ever set...since they never have.

Right now, Elon is saying they have 10 months until cash runs out. And knowing Elon, that's almost certainly an overly optimistic prediction since it doesn't take into account the increased burn rates necessary to launch the Model Y or the self-driving taxi fleet, so less than 10 months. If Tesla doesn't raise additional capital by the end of 2019, they won't see the end of 2020 as a going concern.
There's a Visual Studio plugin that I use that does this. I have an images directory in my source tree and in comments I can refer to them with syntax that looks something like:

/* <img source="images/bubble_sort.png"/> */

If you have the plugin installed, the image is displayed immediately after that line.
No, I don't time it - and I also prefer it good and strong. I suppose it roughly works out at 5 mins in a pot with loose leaf, and I'd guess around 3 mins with a teabag. Shorter as tea bag tea is so much nearer dust. Just not so long as to let it get stewed.

Green tea and some of the lighter black teas - like Darjeeling - definitely prefer a bit less time. Lapsang souchong seems to magically avoid stewing no matter how long you leave it. :)
Is that basically just pho with egg noodles rather than rice noodles? If so, I agree.
To accomplish almost anything on this planet you have to network with other people. That includes feeding yourself consistently day to day, holding a job and acquiring any amount of formal education. Speaking in strict terms, humans are nearly useless without other humans.

What's the point of the criticism exactly, when typically even the most basic of accomplishments requires social networking between people? It makes perfect sense that one of the most valuable skills, and most valuable assets you can possess, is networking with other people.

There are a lot of success examples of people that were not born into super valuable social networks. From Marc Andreessen to Jack Dorsey, from Jack Ma to Larry Ellison, from Robert Noyce to Jerry Sanders.

You know how I got my first VC round ever? I built a prototype (wasn't great), I was entirely self-taught in all regards (not a single minute of formal education in my trade), and I emailed a prominent venture capitalist cold.

It was built in a few months, on an old raggedy PC with a shitty monitor, using free software.

I came from nowhere, poorville USA, with not a single connection to anyone in the tech industry. What I had, is something to demonstrate.

The only critical, truly valuable components in all of that, is that I self-educated and I took the initiative to reach out and connect (it costs little other than the willingness to have doors shut in your face until one opens). The US happens to possess the world's greatest public library system. There are in fact few excuses. Email people, connect, start networking, contribute, read some books about how to do it from your nearby public library. How much do you want it? I wanted it pretty bad, it's a choice you make.
I am not a specialist of this field but here is how I would deal with this problem:

My understanding is that it is possible to find the main components (items, regions, etc) in a dataset, for example with PCA [0]. However it will not name those components, but it might be quite easy to infer the name of each component.
Once you know the data in one component, you can find their min/max.
I guess there are several similar mathematical techniques to do the same job and there are also several user friendly Business Intelligence software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis
Maybe.

The thing is "marketing" is usually what I'm trying to avoid when trying to understand what the company actually does.
Not really. Airbnb dynamically allocates (on a nightly basis) the supply of bedrooms within a given community. If there were enough bedrooms, it wouldn't have as large of a net effect. Since there aren't enough bedrooms in many communities, Airbnb seems to "suck up the housing stock".

Incidentally, having taken multiple business trips to SF (as well as traveling there for interviews), it's plainly obvious how Airbnb is so successful there. Hotels in SF are terrible.
> brings all my different API servers together and provides a single API endpoint to the outside world

Correct. And gives you a single entry point where routing to the "different endpoints in different servers" can be controlled, and cross-cutting concerns can be applied - e.g. request logging, auth, rate limiting, https termination etc.

This is not unique to Kong, that is what a API Gateway product will do. But Kong is a fairly full-featured and configurable example of an API Gateway. e.g. you can write Kong plugins, in lua.
"is a good and important thing towards self determination"

This is a lark?

The only thing the CPC is interested in is total and absolute control of the citizenry.

They'd love to have a platform for which they didn't have to monitor with gazillions of staff, and have police on corners to ensure 'government monitoring' is properly installed.

Imagine if the CPC could ensure total thought control without all the overhead?

That is exactly the objective.

There's nothing stopping 1 billion people from developing a mobile platform - or any kind of platform for that matter in 2019.

They can do it now. Or yesterday.

And the 'whole world' could be using it.

Consider for a moment why it's not happening?

Why isn't the entire world using software or hosted solutions for all of our SaaS needs in India and China?

Given that the existential nature of the Chinese economy is intertwined with the CPC, I don't think any good will come of this.

A lot of the comments and thinking abound 'trade with China' are centered around a view that it's a normal economy, but it isn't, so the regular rules don't quite apply.

In the grand grand scheme of things, Huawei is a small thing, we're seeing a realignment of forces given the new reality of China's competitive powers, irrespective of anything else.

It's hard to say where the new equilibrium will land.
how did cheeky become an accredited investor by 2010?
To note is that accenture didn't even go as far as to recommend the complete switch back to Windows the city decided to do.

EDIT:
> role of politics

Role of politics is a somewhat different claim than just "pressure/influence by Microsoft" (which for sure happened, but it's hard to gauge how large the influence was), and includes lots of other factors that are likely to have also played a role. The entire thing is quite murky and I think "it happened because X" is too easy whatever the X is.
On what grounds? I disagree with Youtube’s actions here, but no one is forcing them to publish on YT.
If you hadn't said this, I was going to (rhetorically) ask how many people are likely to misread this as 'obese.'
It was considered crazy before because it's largely illegal, and there was no global online platform where you could anonymously advertise and take payment (with credit cards!) for an illegal service.

Airbnb solved the trust problem inherent in providing or consuming an illegal service.
I’ve researched many moon ago, breaking symmetries dynamically by adding clause conflicts. You take the search space build a graph with it and pass it to a Graph homomorphism detector. Then you create adicional clauses that break the symmetry by stopping possible assignments that limit the search space. The overhead of searching for symmetries and the exposition of dynamic clauses, make it a difficult trade off against the ruthless efficiency of traditional CDCL. Also many competitions used to occur every year to find out the fastest solver, these things have been optimized far beyond you would do for “normal” software.
That's a very interesting DSL they've got there.
Tldr “Do not derive moral lessons from a fantasy show on HBO.”
RadioShack Sold It's Breakthrough Laptop Circa 1983
As a random aside, I picked up a meat grinder for my stand mixer and making my own sausage from super high quality ingredients then freezing a ton was an awesome way to get preservative free, delicious pork and lamb sausage for about three months in a single afternoon.

It was maybe a bit much to try ten pounds grinding my first time making but the results were very yum.
This is what they have a problem with? What about the thermodynamics of dragons?
If you're only interested in the content, then yes, you're right. But I'm not on Facebook because of the content, I'm there for the people.
I eat broth-based noodle dishes often. Maybe once every two or three days (I even review them on Instagram). I have to agree with sentiment - some of my favorite dishes, besides tonkotsu ramen:

Lhaksa - curry-based broth with thicker round noodles. Usually pretty spicy!

Pho Ga - chicken-broth based pho; nice departure from beef pho, and seriously delicious.

Khao Soi - a Thai dish; from what I've had of it, seems like a lighter Thai curry broth with noodles similar to lhaksa. Delicious! Had it my first time the other day.
Online Bookmakers
how can I stop online bookmakers from freezing my betting on my laptop when I am trying to place a bet on football in play?
The books are arranged in roughly chronological order and constantly allude to and quote prior passages. I don’t think this approach makes a lot of sense.

Most of the Old Testament consists of Jewish history, beginning with creation. There are a few that could probably stand on their own: Job, Jonah, the Song of Solomon, Proverbs, and maybe Psalms. (You would miss a lot in Psalms doing this.)

The New Testament is full of allusions to the old and cannot be understood correctly without reading it first. It probably doesn’t matter the order you read the first four books, or even if you read all four - Matthew, Mark, and Luke are very similar in tome and they describe the same events, but you wouldn’t want to skip John.

Acts is simply what happens after the four gospels, and the remainder of the Bible consists of epistles from the apostles which refer to events in Acts and in the gospels, and it wraps up with Revelations.

I don’t really see how you could read it in any substantially different order and get as much out of it.
pretty arrogant statement there, buddy - decreeing what a real investor is permitted to do. There are many things happening on the stock market on many timescales and the participants would definitely not consider themselves gamblers.
Vacant housing existed because of a conscious choice by society to preserve the residential character of non-tourist districts. Tourists are generally well off, because travel is discretionary or paid for by big business. Now that these wealthy travellers are permitted to parachute in anywhere, rents rise and residents lives are made harder. Like your den? Too bad, you'll have to share it with strangers now in order to afford your house.

AirBnB is a gift to rich out of towners.
There are lots of other Q's too:

- Am I just being prospective and intentionally introducing some contained risk to my financial plan (fine)

- Am I doing this for entertainment (fine)

- Is this for learning purposes (fine)

- Did I just get a tip which is near-insider or insider-quality (well...party politics can lead to this)

So, some gambling can be bad in some sense sure, but not necessarily if informed by various conditions or analyses. A big part of HN psychology skews toward low financial risk + low tolerance for nuanced financial thinking so I thought I'd mention that.
By my understanding, you are mistaken or out of date. What you wrote is true for takedown notices issued under the DMCA, but YouTube is allowing companies to order takedowns or monetize other's videos without going through the legal DMCA process. That's what ContentID is about.
Probably a lot of folks on here that don't remember the Model 100. This model was so popular with journalists (who could file stories from the road with its built in modem) that they refused to give it up. I knew reporters who continued to use them into the late nineties!
Uber and the Autonomy Market Gap
Even if they develop a mobile OS, will it be the quality and usefulness of Google services? Android is just linux + google services. Without those, it's hard to make the sell to western audiences, at least.

Google Maps is a masterpiece of engineering and it's hard to imagine that Huawei will be able to compete, near term. If I'm reading the situation right, this might mean the end of Huawei in the western phone market unless something changes.
>> As someone who currently eats meat but constantly wonders whether it is ethical (particularly for an animal like a pig, which is more intelligent than most house pets), this sort of food based research is fantastic.

Why is it unethical to eat an intelligent animal? Are man-eating sharks unethical for eating humans, who are more intelligent than pigs?
I don't eat beef, and pho does nothing for me. Ramen is delicious. I conclude ramen's magic is in the noodle as much as the broth, whereas pho is mostly the broth.
That makes their market more like a casino, with a house in control. Unlike a casino, the house is not precisely fixing numbers, but doing it dynamically, with elements of chaos and predictability—what will the gov't do next? I imagine that would make the Chinese market a lot of fun for gamblers.
There are technological solutions that help truck drivers to drive safely but they are actively fought by truck producers. No one is a saint, but I promise you that truck drivers spend alot of their time worrying about you and me.

My argument is a variant of "better the devil you know".
One of the most popular WWN features is to automatically trigger routines based on Home/Away status.

Is there an app for "nearby houses with good stuff where nobody is home".
What they're missing is something like the i5 8600 or i7 8700.

That embedded server looks sweet but is overkill for most homes in terms of connectivity and price.
This is where the follow up email to your attempt comes in handy. You try to speed things up by the phone call, but if you don’t get an answer, then you send an email and mention that you called as well. In the cases where you do speak with someone, then you can adjust the content to reflect your appreciation for them speaking with you and then outline the issue(s) still remaining, assuming they weren’t resolved. There are obviously various iterations and combinations but the gist is to be persistent and try to take more control of the situation by incorporating a follow up into the mix.