skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the Chinese government can pull this off effectively, without doing anything too stupid (splitting up families, letting people starve to death, destroying their inner city economies), then I would see this as a good thing. The most efficient farming and food-production systems today produce a unit of food using far fewer resources (people, labor, energy, etc) than were required in previous decades.

The people who continue to live in rural areas should focus on farming efficiently for large populations rather than for subsistence. If you can move the subsistence farmers into cities, and if (this is a big "if") they can work and earn a decent wage without obliterating the current economy, then they will more than likely be better off personally, and will consume fewer resources globally.

I happen to think that this is a very difficult thing to do, and that their timeline is probably way too optimistic, but I don't think China should be criticized for trying. They stand to gain tremendously if they can pull it off.
That is the claim, and support for that is often claimed to be lacking. The point is that this is false.

I don't think anybody has ever claimed that linux has good support for specialist multi-media hardware.
Yes, that was the claim.

The parallel to your argument is that people should blame Apple for random third-party hardware not working out of the box with OSX.
The logo is not equal. I think that it was not copied. Your logo has rounded sides, but the bank's logo has vertical sides with rounded corners. Maybe it was only an honest similar design based on the letter S. Anyway it's too similar and it can make the bank's layers unhappy. (But in this moment, the logo is not your biggest problem.)
I've seen waivers that require you initial every page, so this isn't that crazy of an idea.
"You don't have enough money or experience to start this company."

Agree. Put another way the saying "you have to walk before you can run" (or is it "putting the cart before the horse".)

While it is fine to ask questions you also have to narrow down the questions that you ask and show that you are willing to put the time in (as others have) to figure it all out using already available information.

I'm reminded of many years ago when a friend wanted me to simply tell him how to start a similar business to the one I was successful at (non tech business). I was willing to fill in gaps in his knowledge of course but I wasn't willing to give him a play by play of things that took me years and years of trial and error to learn or to be his "help desk".
Well shit, just noticed this. :p
There was a time when "time spent searching for P" was much greater for Apple hardware than Wintel machines.
Except that MLK wasn't protected by his fame. It's not just the gov't that is the risk.
This may be really helpful :) Thanks a bunch!
Keith
Why should we want him to end up like Manning? Why would anybody wish that upon another human? It is a barbaric thing to suggest.
It's a tough spot. Now days, you need at least 1.5 million to defend yourself against a federal prosecution, after the feds have seized your assets. Very few people can do that. Without the cash, it would turn into "guy did some stuff, then went to jail".
rockridge is 100x safer and nicer than many of the places where people flock to in SF, as is grand lake, as is jack london square, as is piedmont, as is temescal... oakland has some of the nicest neighborhoods and most coveted real estate in the entire bay. drive around the hills sometime. the "oakland is dangerous" meme is laughable. you are in trouble in parts of west oakland and far east in fruitvale. just like in bayview/hunter's point in SF. welcome to oakland! now I can't compare it to suburbs in the midwest, but if you take it as a city, oakland is already an incredible place and one of the last places you can get good housing on a normal person's salary in the bay.
This is in conspiracy theory territory. You really think there's no difference between sending strike teams to kill (a) the number one wanted war criminal responsible for the second biggest attack on your soil into a country where you already have troops for the same purpose, and (b) a regular old whistleblower into an independent country that owes you nothing?
You are all missing the point, China is in a construction boom, construction is the best way to achieve double digit GDP growth, construction and sale of apartments and houses also lines the pockets of the Party

But of course all of the comments so far have been about the environment, the Chinese do not give 2 shits about pollution and sustainability, the motive is clear
KEEP THE PARTY IN CONTROL AT ALL COSTS
Right, MLK lived in a world where innocent men got strung up in trees.
The reason why propaganda works, in my opinion is, you send a "simple" message a 1000 times.

Here the message is "young narcissistic man, who ran away"

"But bob, you are only arguing the means, not the end. Do you think, the idea of a surveillance-free America should be stiffled ?"

That question, will never be asked with equal flair, in a one way propaganda.
Oh, this is nice! May I suggest previewing the video so that I can set the start and end time in a more direct fashion? Other than that it just works.
Chris....

Lots of people have weighed in on this thread with some wonderful advice. I encourage you to heed all of the cautions!

I have little new to add, but I want to give you some compliments. Most people dream big dreams and never do anything to reach them. You, on the other hand, dreamed a big dream and are clearly working your tail off to achieve it. That alone is admirable. Add in the fact that you either saved up some money to invest in your business, or you've found an investor, and you've clearly got a whole lot of good going on.

This might not be the right startup for you, but I respect and admire your drive. Keep at it, mate - you have an immense amount of potential and I'll be cheering for you.
The free market actually can help us control our privacy
Good question, HN has grown so big and I'm concerned about private data of members as well.
I want all of the glory and none of the bruises too, if possible. I'd be very suspicious of anyone who said otherwise.
Where in EO12333 does it forbid spying on Americans?
Hogwash. You don't need to spend that on an apartment.
My biggest problem with the book is that it gives you an adequate, hand-wavey idea of how a computer works, but it doesn't impart any hard skills. Karnaugh maps are a reusable skill in digital design. I've done hundreds of them for simple problems, it's like breathing now. I suspect using multiplexers to simplify a design is also left out. VHDL is a real language people actually use, and you can put it on your CV or do something besides this class with it. Breadboarding a real circuit and troubleshooting it is useful and opens up a whole world of projects.

This class equips you with the tools and knowledge to do one thing: finish the class. It guides you along, handing you simplified abstractions that allow you to progress without getting frustrated. At the end, however, you'll only really know how to take the class. If you wanted to drill deeper, you've already done the introductory week where they do a high-level overview of the course material.
Question to those that already have this book - is the book full of diagrams? I ask because I could get this on kindle instantly (but diagrams suffer) or in paperback in a week or so. Is it worth getting the physical book over the e-book for this?
Because population control always works out so well for the population.

/s
No, this is actually a pretty anomalous situation on the face of it. Everyone knows that you can be sitting outside in the evening sun using your laptop in Western Pakistan, and Barack Obama can send a Predator drone over the horizon to kill you without any US constitutional issue if you're not a US citizen. (Aside from maybe the War Powers Clause.) What he can't do is confiscate your 500 shares in AT&T or other US property without any legal proceeding. So it's actually moderately suprising that non-resident aliens' US cloud data apparently doesn't enjoy the same US constitutional protections that their other US interests do.
He could trust that he would be vindicated by the justice system.

His belief that justice would someday inevitably prevail belied the injustice of his system. To the degree that any of what you suggest was true in the day, it wasn't true at all for blacks, less so for those who didn't 'keep their place'.

In this modern case, Edward Snowden is the beneficiary of far, far more privilege and opportunity for fairness from his own government than Martin Luther King could ever have hoped for. Just imagine what the discourse would be if Edward Snowden turned out to be Arabic, or Muslim, or went by a Muslim sounding name. If he fled to the wrong country they might already be picking smoking chunks of him off a cafe wall. There would be no debate in the media as to whether he was a 'hero' or 'traitor'.
Yes... after seeing $4000 for a logo, I think this is too much of a trainwreck to be true. Then I see past posts by him and it seems it's very real.
Since cutting the cord and going pure Netflix, I haven't seen a trailer since like, ever.

This has a profound impact. I know longer know or even care what's coming out, or what's impending on DVD release. I know there's a new Star Trek movie, and the Hobbit came out a bit back, but I'm no longer edge-of-my-seat excited to see this because I haven't been being bashed about by promos for months. I'll wait for it to appear on Netflix, or maybe the Redbox thing. I saw Iron Man 2 on Netflix, so I figure I'll get to see part 3 there too.
in rockridge, they are pretty much in berkeley already. oakland "could be" an incredible town? coming from someone who moved here 8 months ago? this guy is trolling on the out-of-towner's ruining the bay meme, and we're falling for it
Maybe Snowden wants neither glory nor bruises.
I'm mostly a backend web developer but I'm really curious to see where Google is going with Dart + AngularJS. I think there may be something interesting there, for those like me who don't like javascript!
For me, it's certain pieces of software, like OmniFocus and Transmit. (Went through the same thing when deciding between iPhone and the S3, both of which I own, and one sits in a drawer to only be brought out for testing.) I know there's always someone who can name some random app in the same category, but they're usually very weak substitutes.
People who make this kind of argument are often the same who say "Sweden is much more homogenous; you can't compare apples to oranges like that" whenever some success story about welfare, healthcare, democracy, or something else is used to contrast against the U.S., despite the fact that that very same page shows that Sweden has the same number of immigrants as a percentage of the population that the U.S. does.
Too many old, related, Ask HN posts from OP for this to be a joke.

That, or it's the most well-planned troll I've seen in a long time.
Enjoy http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/truecrypt.com
op, would you be willing to license this for a different vertical?
I guess personally I would feel like I wasted a semester when I had no problem being motivated to deep dive into the other topics already. I suppose if someone was undirected and needed to pick a specialization this might help.
NYU boots blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to add Shanghai campus.
The most karma points i've ever gotten from one post are from a pun I made about Google's balloon network thing.

It really does seem all but meaningless, and yet it seems as if the whole culture of this site is build around farming it and gaming it.
Haha, yes some sort of "robot" - it's a humanoid carbon unit with a backpack :)
Nice. I'm thinking this would be cool to develop as a computer player to other meatspace card-games.

Stand your tablet up at the table, have a rack for their cards and deal them in to your game.
Manning was a soldier subject to the US Uniform code of military justice, essentially a completely different legal system of its own.
Controls on mobile are backwards, up goes down and laterally inverted too.
> We individually make a lot more than half the wage we'd get if we went to SF, though.

But, you live in a place where it is unpleasant to be outside well more than half the year, and the typical dev in your area gets paid a lot less than the typical dev in SF (and, remember that ratios aren't really important when it comes to saving, only net [1]). Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Houston is a fine place for you, but it's important to be complete rather than just stating the pros.

[1] I.e. you make twice what it costs to live in Houston, while I make only 25% more what it costs to live in SF. But if it cost $10000 to live in Houston and $100000 to live in SF, I'm still better off.
The comment about lack of children in San Francisco reminded me of this piece: http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2007/09/rhythm-of-memory.html
Here's the plan...

Pretend you invested $3k in servers and SSDs. Add these services to your site, and try to find your first customer. The bad news, you'll never find them. The good news, it didn't cost you a penny.
Perhaps if the US government wants to protect us from terrorism it should stop acting like a terrorist organization abroad.
I suppose our experiences differ. I've found the majority of classes to reward most the points on exams that require knowing how to do a specific subset of problems from the course.
AT&T also started and continued "AT&T labs" in 1996, which still exists, and was populated by many ex-Bell Labs folks.
Seems he'll be litigating in HK, perhaps years.
The story I read said that Nadler received one answer one day, and another answer during the closed-door, classified briefing.

Didn't know they put those things on CSPAN.

And nobody's implying a conspiracy. I specifically said as much. My point was that leadership had a vested interest in keeping the troops marching in line -- much more than with your normal poicy issues. Also that the Nadler thing is a tiny piece of a much larger tapestry. Doesn't matter much one way or the other how this specific story turns out. I was just assuming his first words were accurate for purposes of having a starting point in the discussion.
Just as meaningful as a full course. This is just a "depth first search" thru the content, getting from top to bottom in one pass; you're complaining its not a "breadth first search" covering everything on one level. Done this way, you get the gist of how it all does, in fact, go from NAND gate to games - yes a lot is glossed over or missed, but once the student sees the vertical structure he can see how each layer connects, and how expanded knowledge of each serves not just one layer but those above and below (and how to leverage each in sync).

I appreciate how my education ran from sand to Skyrim (so to speak), and I find it hard to see how anyone can really function in computing without such a vertical understanding.
Yeah, the greatest accomplishments in history are often linked to narcissistic personalities, generally because the person needs to prove something to the world to make up for their secretly poor self-esteem.
Nested views aren't in Angular. Also Angular doesn't really have models. It has data and dirty checking, but nothing a Rails dev would recognize as a model.
The New Yorker article link is broken (it goes to Pocket). Here's the actual link: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_...
Please, this is HN after all! I would expect most of the guys and gals here to know about tools such as isup.me or other similar tools. I don't think we need a post for every other website that goes offline.
Doubleclick for Advertisers is AngularJS now and that's a pretty big project in terms of surface area.

DFA drove a lot of early refinements in how AngularJS works. Since then, it's largely community driven.
That's the thing people don't seem to get. Not everything bad or stupid is unconstitutional. People just want it to be unconstitutional because then they would be able to go to a court and have it stopped.

There are some things, if you want them stopped, you have to go to Congress.
The things you list are pretty much some of the base fundamentals of circuit design. I can't imagine that this curriculum is of much use without them.

Also, I seriously doubt that it covers the entire breadth of information required to create, from scratch, the entire video subsystem required for displaying graphics. Or anything like that.
Not much to be learned here, except that Python programmers who don't have a clue about Lisp will happily comment on it anyway. The Lisp programmers, on the other hand, don't bother to discuss Python, but just treat this thread like the joke / troll that it is.
Currently, I believe it's being pitched as opt-out.
Those extra words can help a sentence flow better. If elegance in language were simply a matter of maximal compression while following a set of grammatical rules, then writing would be a lot easier than it actually is.
Not a resident, but I have spent some time there.

Phone service is indeed cheap. SIM cards are bought at every kind of venue right on down to carts on the street. No ID needed, no contract. You give money, you get SIM card with nn minutes. Handsets are cheap too, really cheap, like throw away cheap. I hadn't thought about that from a signals intelligence perspective, but I bet that fact combined with the density of people would make it quite challenging to find his signal from among the others. Speaking of people density, guaranteed, no drone strikes in HK. Also, probably no movie-style snatch and grabs in HK. Aside from the tension that would cause in US/China foreign affairs, traffic would prevent that from happening most hours of the day. It would definitely not go unnoticed.
Have you tried benchmarking serving dynamic web content on them?
It's more of a federal grant program than a VC. The fund operates a huge annual loss.
My point is that after reading the book I kind of knew how I could implement a simple CPU in real HW (with ALU, memory, etc.) but it was not clear to me how the IO part (kbd, screen) would work. Is the kbd connected directly to a certain place of memory? How is this implemented? Would there be some screen/gpu HW that is directly connected to the memory region? How is the CPU clock involved?

E.g. if you press a key, hold it and then release it, it is possible that this event gets missed as it was too short and the key press method did not check the memory region at the right point of time. For me their implementation enforces this bogus "I am in total control of everything that happens feeling" which often leads to bad design as it ignores the messy real world. I would have appreciated something more sophisticated and generic there which would work for different kinds of HW. Maybe I am missing some simple bus-system one might say ...

Nevertheless it is a wonderful book and I had lots of fun with it! :)
Don't forget that MLK was shot.
>Reddit appears to be filtered by default by Vodafone //

Do you think that's wrong? Reddit hosts and links pornography and probably a heap of other standard filter stuff, nazism, explosive making and such.

You can just ask for the filter to be dropped presumably. (Or like you said, vote with your feet).
You could convert their custom HDL to Verilog, for programming an FPGA. I've thought about doing it before, but I've never seen enough support to do it myself.
Agreed on AMD.

I don't make them sound infallible, you make them sound incompetent. The point is that because of Intel's experience, sheer size, and resources, they have a massive leg up over the very fragmented ARM group. They fuck up all the time, but they almost always catch up on features or optimizations (except for the power efficiency aspect, which I believe is highly dependent on the architecture) and they do so very quickly. When they do innovate (which is very often), others can't catch up because by the time they do, Intel is already ahead again (not entirely true, but close enough).

"They're great at clinging on to their legacy designs, and adopting others' good ideas after they're proven."

I guess everyone just really loves the underdog but come on, read a book. AMD's history revolves around copying almost every aspect of Intel's business and then they get hailed for coming up with TWO original things in TWO decades (AMD64 and HyperTransport). I'm sorry to oversimplify this, but this is the only response I could think of against a silly statement like that.
>What he can't do is confiscate your 500 shares in AT&T or other US property without any legal proceeding.

Are you sure that would be unconstitutional rather than "only" a violation of various treaties and an act likely to cause powerful entities to respond politically?
There are a few reasons why a mac wouldn't make a good reference platform. Besides Apple changing hardware/firmware setups between every release, it doesn't have much official documentation and support for developers making an OS for it. Many people go to great pains to make linux run well on a Mac, especially hacking around the UEFI bugs that are present (not that they don't appear on other platforms either).

You also don't really want a reference plaform for linux, because as soon as you specify one, you might start making decisions which only benefit that platform. This is bad for the current eco-system, as it could impact linux's ability to run everywhere.

PS. Not to mention that Macs ship with broadcom wireless cards these days, which don't have very good linux support.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. I don't imagine an "interest in Chinese language and culture" would have anything to do with this decision.
My guess is someone gave him advice on it because at first sight Hong Kong isn't the most obvious choice at all.
The infographic explains how it all works but if someone had asked me something like that, I wouldn't even be able to answer it for my own country.
I am jealous that your university had such good classes. Classes that did more than emphasize solving artificial problems through rote memorization, rather than real ones however simple, were the exception rather than the rule in my computer engineering degree.
> Not to nitpick but you should not use informal contractions. (I'm)

I disagree -- and who are you to say otherwise?

> Omit the 'of' after 'all' unless you change the meaning of the sentence. (all of)

If I said "all have been wrong", it would have been a bit more difficult to tell what that part of the sentence was referring to; "all of them have been wrong" includes a bit of helpful linguistic redundancy.

> You should avoid using 'thing' - instead, name the entities under discussion.

Again, this phrasing was done for stylistic reasons. "This thing" fits well in tone with "one hell of a".
Interview Questions for Non-Engineers
> A VPN would be a superior way of bypassing the filter - assuming teenagers too young to have a credit card can figure out how to pay for a VPN.

This comment makes me very sad. It was a huge upgrade to my quality of life when I got a debit card and was able to buy things over the internet. We almost went to a system of paying cash for prepaid credit cards, but somehow prepaid cards are generally not usable over the internet, which is a damn shame for children who have nothing but cash. I don't think the ability to attribute purchases is worth the (yes, minor in the grand scheme of things) immiseration of everyone too young to have a bank account.
Property rights ranking above human rights is neither implausible nor inconsistent in the America that I live in.