skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived in China for two years, I think it's accurate to say that some, maybe even most, Chinese people have a mob mentality. I can't support this claim with the kind of evidence you want; there are only countless anecdotes and videos and personal experiences.

For example, a foreigner in Zhengzhou in Henan was thought to have slapped a girl on a scooter. When an angry mob formed, he locked himself in his car. Video shows hundreds of angry Chinese people yelling staring at him though the car windows. When they saw a Walmart badge on his chest, they decided that he was American and started calling him "American devil". He had to be escorted to safety by local police to avoid being dragged out of the car and beaten.

But only the smallest fraction of people there had actually seen the alleged incident. The "badge" on his chest was actually a Walmart brochure sticking out of his chest pocket. I contacted Walmart media relations and they were aware of the incident, but the man had no affiliation with them.

That, I find, is the way it typically happens. Chinese people are already angry and resentful about something, and then something sets them off. It doesn't matter if the "something" has little to nothing to do with whatever they were angry about.
tl;dr summary: We're all screwed and the hippie progressives and tea partiers can't save us because they aren't being really innovative and getting to the heart of the problem.

So first off- I agree. Second, this post is way too long, pisses off the left, and doesn't provide solutions that I had the attention for.

So, I'll provide some. Put money into education and infrastructure, and teach our kids to be innovative, then get our debt fixed in a way that doesn't cause massive change and disable business. That isn't the Libertarian stance, but it is a the moderate stance, which no party supports these days.
Class in the US is absolutely an aspirational thing, but he's referring not to "class" in the literal sense of positional status within society, but more to the material trappings of "middle class life": things like a house, one or two cars, the ability to take occasional vacations, cable TV, an iPhone, etc.

Arguably many or most people want many or most of those things because of perceived status advantages they provide, but that's another issue altogether.
I'm really not sure how I feel about this.. on one hand, I'm kind of glad he found his way out of the protective bubble of the OC but for perhaps the wrong reasons. The nonchalant way in which he treats the danger he's in screams "adrenaline junkie" and not political activist. Did he really care whether he was fighting for the rebels? Would have have joined Gaddafi's forces just the same if they were more open to taking in some random American into their ranks? From a legal perspective, was what he did legal? He mentioned he killed some soldiers/people during the fighting. Did he execute or torture any Gaddafi loyalist during the uprising?
How does someone powerful help you?
I would be curious to hear of people's stories where one needed the kind of help only someone in a more powerful position could provide.

Any details involved, such as how you discovered such people, approached them, offered something in return, and the end result, would be greatly appreciated.
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This article, I'm not such a fan of because it's poorly written and doesn't really cover much.

In general, I'm a fan of having the average developer know something, and in general I want that "something" to be:

1. Here's some basics on how crypto works

2. Here's some basics on how it gets broken

3. Here's how you can screw up even with well-designed systems

4. Here are some solid things that will see you through if you use them correctly (plus how to use them correctly)

This article doesn't really do any of that.
The major challenge though is to find good code to read.

In my experience, reading and working with bad code has proven to be extremely valuable too. Until you realize why something is bad (e.g. extremely long methods), you won't appreciate "good code". So, I suggest picking a medium-sized open source project in a language of your choice and start contributing some bug patches. You will come across plenty of both good and ugly code.
I'm still curious about the inclusion of GRT under Toronto. I realize the region isn't that large but that's not an intuitive classification for locals - unless they go off exploring and check the agencies listed under Toronto, they might think it's not supported.
Compiler errors aren't usually implemented as exceptions because compilers these days don't stop at the first error.

Exceptions are ideal for things that require aborting and unwinding to a point - usually a loop, like a server request handler or UI event dispatcher - high up on the stack. If the general behaviour is not to abort and unwind, it's not a good fit for an exception.

It's also why exception handlers should be very rare. There shouldn't be any more than a half-dozen in most programs. Error codes that need checking and aborting by hand at every function call boundary are a poor fit for replacing exceptions, because they optimize for the case where the error can be handled, rather than the usual case for exceptions, where the error cannot be handled.
> They create too many possible exit points

Irrelevant with go, thanks to the `defer` statement.
Yeah this needing to dig through the source is no end of pain, when you do actually want to handle the error.
I'm not trying to disagree, but you are not giving him any reasons.
This is completely on the mark, think about it, Apple have massively damaged their reputation through this. Perhaps they could have removed a default map app for now and speed through Google's map app, as they have made one. and wait till a few months to release their own version, then for next year make it default.
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Thanks for your comment. I'm sorry that---despite using so many words---I didn't make myself understood. I didn't intend to argue that student evaluations can't or shouldn't be widely deployed. I was criticizing the sloppy, casual attitude towards the evidence displayed in the Atlantic article. And I thought I had linked to a literature review, and pointed out passages in the article, that supported that criticism.
Again, please criticize the idea and the action, not the person. Confluence is not revolting.
Dojo is a good choice but if you like coffee and want to be surrounded by startup people all day, no better place than Red Rock Coffee in Downtown Mountain View. You're near dozens of startups (including ours) and close to 500 startups, Y Combinator and others.

At night, hang out with the cool kids in downtown Palo Alto. Thursday nights at the Rosewood Hotel gets pretty crowded and you mingle with Sandhill VCs and startup folks in a more ritzy environment. Weekends, make it up to San Francisco, and hang out in the Mission and SOMA.
If you don't want to pay them you could always process the GTFS yourself.
But, if trying to eliminate cruft, why include define_singleton_method? Why not just set the proper scope and define_method? Same with instance_eval, class_eval (and module_eval maybe?)- why not just set the scope to define whether you are in instance, class, eigenclass, etc. and use instance_eval? Not a criticism, but a serious question if the goal is to pare it down.
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The question should be whether Apple is repeating history once again with a closed operating system and closed hardware. The fact that any hardware maker could use Windows led to Microsoft's dominance in the 90s, and it is roughly the same strategy that Google is following with Android. If Apple continues with missteps like the new maps, it will find itself in the same situation it was in ~15 years ago.
For people who don't know what you're talking about:

Boo - http://boo.codehaus.org/

Shed-skin - http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/

Both are projects that take a crack at adding or creating a static type system in concert with Python like syntax. The above take very different approaches.
You'd be surprised at how ugly the data we get provided is. The "curating" is actually much of the work we do. We probably spent as much time developing internal tools that clean and improve that data that on the app itself.

Server costs and continued development also are recurring expenses. Like I said, we might have gone down a different path if Apple allowed paid upgrades, but they don't.
After reading the article, I can't help walk away with the idea that China has massive internal tensions that will probably be resolved by violent revolt, whether it takes place on a civil war model or on the model of the riots during the fall of Soharto in Indonesia in 1999. What we are seeing, I think, are indications of tensions and these will be released just as tension within he earth is released by earthquakes.
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I don't know about Go, but lint is commonly used to enforce checking of return values in C. Presumably Go could bake an option into the compiler to enforce this too.
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Stupid Apple, if only they have used micro-usb...

Update: Ok, sorry, looks like sarcasm is not clear, so here.
Yes, the wars contribute to spending but it's not being argued they are the entirety of excess spending.

We do perpetually borrow but our finance charges steadily increase, and not all of that is able to be deferred. The deferral will eventually have to be repaid or there will be an enormous disaster. It's actually worse in the long run than steady expenses.

To use an everyday example, it is similar to saying a laptop is not expensive because it's on a credit card and the credit card payments are financed with another credit card and so on. The laptop eventually costs more for using such a scheme.
I agree. It's also a problem for Victoria and Kelowna in BC, which are both listed under Vancouver. We need to find a way to better communicate this information in the near future. Maybe something like a search or use the browser's geolocating services to tell you whether your area is supported or not.
I think Cloud drive/player was in part an aggressive move against bitlocker licensing; the labels didn't allow multiple download licenses and Amazon launched this and claimed a purchase was a single download into your personal locker and future downloads were from your personal space, effectively skirting the issue. I believe they later negotiated licenses but they were probably operating from a stronger position at that point.
Thanks for this. I think it sounds worthwhile to move my own country table work in PostgreSQL to an extension so everyone else can use it. Thanks for the inspiration/motivation!
You're right, I got my terminology mixed up (it's been a while heh).. Point is what I meant.. Thanks. :-)
A lot of people are focusing on whether the specific scenario in the article could possibly come to pass, but they are missing the big picture: the Internet is unprecedented in that it remembers everything. This is why it is a horrible idea to use online services that force you to drop your anonymity: if you put your personal information on them, then someone will mine it and use it against you at some point in your life.
It would likely also be useful to have the local language name for the countries as an optional column. You can probably source this from the http://naturalearthdata.com source mentioned elsewhere here.
Someday... but first we want to cover solid grounds in US and Canada.
What do "Friedmanites" have to do with military dictatorship?

Oh, right: nothing.

On the other hand, communists are DIRECTLY responsible for the deaths of millions. Millions.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
This would be essentially "Admitting defeat" and would cause a lot more issues with PR/Branding/Customer Psyche IMO.
This blog post is well-written and value-added, but here is the journal article for reference: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109.full...
It appears your link is incorrect and perhaps that's why you were downvoted.

Working link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_People%2...
Mobile apps, catalyst of entrepreneurship potential in Japan
You can switch on the error type, since "error" is an interface.

switch err.(type) {
case Type1:
// do something
case Type2:
// something different
default:
// something else
}
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I'm from Iran.

I can confirm that https is blocked on google.com domain.

But contrary to what the title suggests, it is not really related to the domestic internet(small i).

To my knowledge it is more related to the new Anti-Islam movie that was published on Youtube, and Google's rejction of taking it down as whitehouse asked them to.
A bigger reason is that migrant workers can now find more opportunities closer to home. Why bother moving to a coastal city when you get a decent job in a city near your village? Perhaps building more factories inland is part of the 5 year plan, but I see it as an inevitable progression in China's development.
What about "hints"?

def foo( often int n ):

This one would generate both the dynamic & the static versions.

Once all call sites stop using the dynamic version, one can move on to strict typing (and remove the "often" qualifier), if such is the goal.

Think of it like the old "register" hint in C code (now obsolete).
China Labour Bulletin [1], the NGO run by Tiananmen labour leader Han Dongfang and labour expert Robin Munro and staffed by a talented group of activists, gives a far more detailed and nuanced representation of mainland Chinese labour issues.

[1] http://www.clb.org.hk/
I don't think you've read the rest of my posts.

I have far too much of an online presence to ever get away with lying about my age (I'm 29) or anything like that, so you don't have to worry about me.

I've also had enough experience to know what the real crimes are and what the worst players actually look like. I've been screwed over by people who are actually deeply unethical (like a member of a prominent family who robbed me and threatened to bribe judges if I sought legal action) so if someone benefits by fiddling with dates and making a better story, I don't really give a shit. If you care about these things, then go and do something about the real crimes, which are usually perpetrated by powerful people who never get caught and involve far worse deceptions than a few dates on a CV.

Also, the pile-on that happens to people who get caught in these minor lies isn't a reaction to a lack of integrity; it's indignation at the thought of a low-status individual getting "above his station" (the horror!) I'm lucky enough to be one of those high-status people with a good career and pedigree, but I'm not foolish enough to believe that it comes from innate superiority rather than mostly luck.
Is it even possible to build a database of countries without making political statements? Taiwan is one example where you can either use the ISO database and piss users off (and they will perceive it as a political statement), or you can make a change to the ISO database and make a political statement the other way around.
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The article kind of nicely sums up why using USB wouldn't work, adaptation to other transport standards being the big point.
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Chinese people are already angry and resentful about something, and then something sets them off.

I could reply by pointing out similar behaviour in countries all over the world, it is a common human trait, not something that is somehow peculiar to China.

Out of interest, have you ever read "Orientalism" by Edward Said? As this discussion could almost be an example from it.
Yeah, that was my first thought. Although they're essentially redoing the exact same code so they might have a fairly good idea of how long it would take.
Um, what data can Apple get from iOS 6 Maps that they couldn't get previously? Remember, they wrote the iOS 5 Maps app, Google was just the information source. They could (and did) have gathered whatever data they wanted. It is quite possible they didn't want some data that they should have gathered, but that's a different issue entirely.
First-class Canadian-run legal systems, oh my! Sounds so wonderfully egalitarian and efficient, you almost want to move there... except that things aren't always what they seem:

The problem is there are no clean slates. Honduras does not have untouched expanses of territory awaiting homesteaders to lay claim. Trujillo, the site most often mentioned for the first Charter City, has long belonged to afro-indigenous Garifuna communities and campesino farmers, and suffers from a long history of attempted usurpation, from the Republic of Poyas to the United Fruit Company.

...

Trujillo’s Garifuna and campesino communities have, over the past 20 years, been preyed upon by violence unleashed as a consequence of a set of rules inspired by one of Michael Strong’s ideological cohorts, and co-author of a book promoting ‘entrepreneurial capitalism,’ Hernando de Soto.

In the heart of the region apparently now proposed as the future home of a Charter City, on August 27 the Garifuna community of Vallecito awaited government officials, who never came, to measure a small portion their land, to which they hold full legal title. The huge majority of their lands has been taken over by businessmen and drug traffickers, mostly, they explain, through violence and fraud. The measurement would be a first step in recovering possession of the land.

The Vallecito community was surrounded by armed bands firing off weapons through the night. A group of heavily armed paramilitaries snuck into the middle of a Garifuna drumming circle, made their presence known and left, the death threat established with clarity. The armed bands have continued to circle the community.

The scene was typical of the region since the 1992 Land Modernization Law unleashed paramilitaries against agrarian communities. The law altered the Agrarian Reform Law from the 1960s, which prohibited the resale of land acquired through the agrarian reform program. Businessmen and drug traffickers, with deep ties to the military intelligence death squads infamous for political killings in the 1980s, used armed bands and other forms of coercion to force Garifuna and campesino communities to sell their land, illegally, and used their political clout to maintain control of the land despite the illegal title transfers.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/privately-owned-charter-cities-...
Sure, but my point was that in the meantime, payments aren't actually higher, which is what was originally asserted. IOW, the average citizen such as myself isn't materially affected by this ballooning debt.
While the article starts out very interesting, towards the end the author starts to sound almost delusional. He implies that although the introduction of capitalist reforms seemed to help the Chinese at first, it has ultimately been an instrument of oppression. In reality, the market-based reforms in China are a classic case of the introduction of some capitalist principles massively increasing overall quality of life. An article telling how factory workers in China are offensively demanding better wages and better treatment is fascinating, but the author's militant Marxist worldview made the whole article a little less believable.
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'correct' is always only about a given specification, that is right for a limited period of time, assuming needs are well understood. It is very well possible to write satisfactory code one day that becomes inadequate the next.

I won't deny the presence of bugs though, there is endless evidence that bugs always exist.
The article explains how micro-usb connectors can be used to connect to both HDMI and display-port. And obviously USB2 can be connected to USB3. All the article is saying is that Lightning could be used to transport USB3, even with only 8 wires.

So the only advantages for lightning are that it's reversible, and it makes Apple scads of money.
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So what's the fix? I want to GET something that has an 8k long name. What do I do?
By cruft I more literally meant the fact that MRI being interpreted means a hit on performance, not necessarily syntactical cruft. Perhaps I should have chosen my words differently :)

RubyMotion is aiming to be a more complete implementation of Ruby, and one of the core ideas of Ruby is "there's more than one way to do it." Whether you agree or disagree is outside the bounds of RubyMotion and maybe even Ruby IMO; ultimately, whether or not more techniques than scoping define_method are allowed is something that can and should be done a per-project basis.

Food for thought, I found this article detailing all the ways to add singleton methods, in varying levels of grokability: http://wowkhmer.com/2011/01/15/different-ways-to-define-sing...
I owe my soul to the company store.
When I was little, my grandfather worked at NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland. One of my earliest memories is of him taking me, age five, in to see the Cray 1. I remember crawling around on the bench, but of course, that memory could be flawed. Who knows if they would have really let a five year old sit on the fastest supercomputer in the world. Still, that's how I remember it, so I'll stick with my memory.

It was the first computer I had ever seen, and it didn't disappoint. In 1976, the idea of getting to see a computer at all was the ultimate marvel to a little kid whose granddad had already started reading Asimov and Heinlein to him at night. The Cray fit every imagination I had about what a computer should be—sleek, huge, and like nothing I'd ever seen.

I don't remember anything else about the visit. I don't remember what else was in the room, or what I thought all the people might be doing. All I remember is that it was the first spark of fascination that led me to seek out any chance I could get to be around any computer. Seeing that same machine reproduced in miniature, right down to the bench, warms my heart. I wish my grandfather were around to make it with me. I can't wait to give this a try.
Wow, I totally didn't realize Victoria and Kelowna were actually supported from reading the Vancouver list. (I live in Vancouver now.) I know the BC Transit thing is a pain in the ass from naming perspective, but yeah, get that reworked when you have the time.
The meaning of the idiom is related to but not the same as the literal meaning. This is normal for language.
Micro-USB has one tremendously major disadvantage for battery-powered mobile devices: Maximum current.

USB 2 has a maximum current of 1.5A while communicating and 5.0A when not. Micro-USB has a maximum current (per spec) of 1.0-1.8A, and the usual rating for most connectors is 1.0A. The result? By switching to Micro-USB, your iDevice will now take significantly longer to charge. (However, keep in mind the iPhone charge adapter is 1.0A, whereas the iPad adapters are 2.1A).

So in exchange for a standardized connector, we would have devices that take twice as long to charge. Honestly, that's not a tradeoff 99% people would want to make.
This is quite amazing. Good thinking on Apples part and is a good bonus for them later down the track when others try and copy them
Use POST. GET is not meant for that amount of data. Alternatively, GET by a shorter ID.
I saw a TV in 8 of 11 pictures. All the pictures were remarkable in their austerity. The first picture struck me by the wind generator, satellite dish, and TV next to the other utilitarian possessions.

Conclusion: information ranks right up there with food and shelter.
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