skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not China-based, but I grew up in China, is now working in Silicon Valley. My father now runs a medium sized tech company in Nanjing and he used to be a high level exec at one of the largest Chinese tech companies. I actually follow the Chinese tech scene relatively closely due to this.

What you heard is all true, and those are actually not really conflicting point of views. The situation in China is very unique and cannot be fully explained without going on and on about the culture and its current political/economical climate.

A few points to note though: Tech people there are smart, educated, and very, very hard working. However the number one thing they all value is "efficiency", or rather: "the efficiency of getting things done". I've talked to people from Tencent, and one guy laughed at American companies approach of writing good, scalable, maintainable but very often over-engineered code. Over at Tencent they very often do whatever it takes to be first to market, and if needed to be, refactor everything 6 months down the road, and rinse wash repeat. It's the only approach that works for them in a hugely competitive market (also the largest one in the world). Company management wouldn't tolerate coding practices that very often serves no purpose other than to stroke the ego of senior software architects.

One may argue the merits of that approach, but if you look at how well services like Weibo, QQ, and Taobao scale (I think Taobao handled the largest E-commerce single-day-ordering in the world last year without having any major problems), it obviously works just as well as the western approach.

So an extension to this mentality is that whatever method it takes to get things done is the best and most celebrated method. Even if it includes brutal copying of a competitor's business model, or bribery of a government official, or direct corporate espionage being employed. The Art of War never mentioned any code of business conduct.

I have a hypothesis that a hardworking American engineering with a super-competitive dog-eats-dog Wall Street mentality may do very well in China, or even enjoy it, but I would never go there with any sort of idealistic vision of an "utopia".

Things happen there happen very fast, and a lot of money flows around very quickly, countless opportunities come and go on a daily basis. It's an amazing place that can make and crush people in the blink of an eye, so in the end, it's really up to what kind of person you are and what kind of lifestyle you want to pursue.
On a mobile phone, for most carriers, received calls are deducted from your plan's allotted 'minutes'.
While I appreciate him not publicly shaming the hosting company

Why do you appreciate that? He should be publicly shaming them.
This only works if you provided an email in your profile. If you didn't, you're generally out of luck.
I have no idea where the data is...I just saw this link posted on twitter and thought it was interesting.
Of course, and if these formulations are valid British grammar, then I don't expect you to change them. That's why I asked.
Fuck MPEG-LA, we are not paying them anything.

> The only advantage to VP8, from a developer's perspective, is in being royalty-free.

Good enough for me. Once it is in Chrome.

> Make no mistake about it, this move is a play for power under the guise of good intentions.

Make no mistake software patents are a scam disguised as way to "enhance and protect" innovation.
>> the key assumption that's baked into that statement is that everyone universally recognizes the 'best deals'. Of course that's not certain. The wisdom of the crowd may be better than VCs at recognizing the 'best deals'. I can easily imagine 'best deals' that the crowd identifies that VCs wouldn't fund.

Wholeheartedly agree with your statement - but keep in mind that VCs typically get access to way more information than what's available through a crowdfunding site.
How does ShipBuilder compare to other open-source PaaSes like http://www.cloudfoundry.com ? CloudFoundry's pretty far from production-ready at this point, but it does have the huge advantage of supporting existing Heroku buildpacks.
Git has become pretty synonymous with source control management, which is definitely valuable for a mobile dev, and a first class citizen of Xcode now. So, makes sense for it to be there.

Cocoapods is a great project -- basically makes it a _lot_ less painful to deal with 3rd party libraries.

However, in general I think junior developers rely way too heavily on 3rd party libraries.
People won't tell you that you have an ugly baby (podcast)
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There are over 1.5M videos being uploaded to the web every day and more than 95% of them get less than 1000 views.
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Only on cell phones. Most cell phone plans include some number of free minutes per month (e.g. 450), then charge an exorbitant rate per minute after that. When you receive a call, it counts towards your free minutes or the rate.
He is saying its a fundamentally different business. A higher number of SKUs necessitates a much larger space and lower per employee productivity.

A Trader Joes customer is willing to pay for customer service and a Walmart customer is not. As a society we may say well thats an unacceptable attitude on the part of Walmart's customers and then put them out of business. But at the end of the day its not like Walmart's executives would be the ones picking up the tab, its the customers.
Modern-day journalism
If they really wanted, they would just hold you until you unlocked the phone.
4096 words @ 400kHz

Logical "1" - 20-60mV
Logical "0" - 10mV (not more)
The Big Big Book club of entrepreneurs introduces smart booking system
It's a big mess. Apparently someone high up in the company abused the travel expense policy, buying refundable tickets and cashing them in somehow while still getting reimbursed. It's a huge mess and the accounting department has gone from super-lax to draconian.
The Aldis in Illinois roughly 20 years ago were bottom-barrel discount grocery stores. Poorly maintained and all the produce was very suspicious. I don't know which half of the Aldi empire owned those stores.

Trader Joes is owned by the north aldi brother.
The (female) author's point isn't that "Wal-Mart can't do what Costco does because it has more SKUs and thus a higher density of employees." It's that Wal-Mart, Costco, and TJ's have so many differences on so many axes that it is quite silly to make naive comparisons between their level of employee compensation while ignoring everything else that makes them different.

I find this example particularly baffling, as one visit to TJ's should be all one needs to recognize that it's not even in the same category as a store like Wal-Mart.
Boarding passes need to change. But here’s the question:
Is re-structuring the information enough or is the
boarding pass concept obsolete?

i don't know if the whole boarding pass 'concept' will be obsolete because it basically passes the buck to smartphones, kiosks and intelligent seating (or some other novel contraption which alerts you to where your gate is, where and when you board and where your seat is). Maybe you know something that i don't, but those seem like problems that are solved handily (even if poorly) by ephemeral printed boarding passes with a minimum of fuss.

For me, the problem is primarily that the people who design boarding passes, either printed or mobile, seem to do a remarkably small amount of flying themselves (or at least they are willfully ignorant of the needs various travelers have). It's ok to assume that phones with embedded context info will solve many of these issues, but the amount of information contained in a printed boarding pass is significant and, for the most part, dependency free.

I'm not trying to be contrarian, i also want boarding passes to be obsoleted, but it seems to me that "the wayfinding problem" isn't going away anytime soon.
I believe your game went "extinct" not "instinct"
You found me out: I haven't actually tried to use sphinx-apidoc. Its help page seems to imply that it actually generates all the output HTML, not just a prefab Sphinx dir. Sorry for spreading misinformation.

You do have very good reasons for wanting a separate tool (or at the very least, for improving Sphinx's behavior for this use case). I think you can make those reasons clear in your docs without causing the sort of confusion I had. In my mind, pdoc's advantages are that (1) there really is no need for file-based configuration, and (2) (now that you've told me) it has superior discovery of instance variables. The hand-waving "I couldn't configure it" doesn't work in your favor.

I'm no stranger to how bad/strange Sphinx can be; I work on this: https://sphinx-better-theme.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

and I work with it a lot to write the docs for this project: http://mrjob.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

and it's generally a monster to figure out the internals of.
Two posts today about google romance, Hugo is leaving as he broke up with his girlfriend a googler And Sergei Brin is romantically involved with a subordinate .
Maybe, but consider two scenarios. In scenario 1, I use Kickstarter, get 10,000 backers, and release a shitty game, and predictably they blanket the internet with hate in every nook and cranny. The hate is just as much about me as it is the game, since my face and reputation are plastered all over the Kickstarter, and I was actively engaged with these 10,000 people during the entire process. They are personally invested not just financially but emotionally in the product over a span of months or even years.

In scenario 2, I self-fund or get a few angels, build a shitty game and release it with little hype or promises beforehand. It garners a few bad reviews from early adopters and gets 1-star ratings on all the gaming sites, but really it ends up just staying off the radar since it never builds an audience in the first place. This is typically what happens when a company releases a bad product, it just dies without much noise at all and is quickly forgotten about. Also, the negative feedback is largely about the game and not about me. If anything, the hate is directed towards my company but not me personally.

In other words, sure, releasing bad work is always bad. But in the case of Kickstarter, I feel you are exposed to a larger surface area of potential damage to your personal reputation. Kickstarter is a much more intimate and personal thing, and you are basically "putting yourself out there." The only real upside to using it is that it makes it incredibly easy to open a possible channel for funding, but it has crazy asymmetric risk in return compared to the traditional route IMHO.

edit: I guess one thing in Kickstarter's favor is if you actually get your 10,000 audiences and you deliver, you have some solid momentum coming out of the gate. The more I think about it the more it has the flavor of financial leverage: you magnify your outcome in either direction but have reduced flexibility (in the case of Kickstarter, due to the audience's expectations, in the case of financial leverage, due to the fact you are borrowing money on margin and can't make any big moves from there.)
"The average American cashier makes $20,230 a year, a salary that in a single-earner household would leave a family of four living under the poverty line."

20k is on the low side, but one should still consider their own income before having children, especially two.
TJ is a grab bag of expensive and inexpensive items often justified by a difference in lifestyles, e.g foodies and hipsters. They're a different target demographic than Walmart and Costco, most of their inventory is comprised of their own brand, and they control their entire supply chain. Most shoppers at TJs have half empty carts or use baskets.

Quite the fundamental difference.
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split
I can't comprehend the second part of your sentence :(
"Sources in position to know tell AllThingsD that Barra recently tendered his resignation, but that it came before a recent personal situation related to the end of a romantic relationship he had with another Googler, and is unrelated.
That Googler is now seeing the company’s co-founder Sergey Brin. As AllThingsD reported earlier today, Brin has split with his wife, and is in that new relationship."

Whoa. Doesn't that seems like weirdly intimate details that really didn't need to be mentioned in a published article?
Data science is about company culture
I would really love to see this too. A diagram with layman description of all the different packer/vms/dockers/vagrants/deployment projects and how they work together.
Absolutely.

Only about 320 million [1] out of 7 billion people still use fahrenheit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#Usage
Not to get all anti-Chinese here, because I'm not, but Xiaomi is a big-time GPL and intellectual property/license violator. Not like that's unusual with Chinese companies, but Xiaomi in particular has been publicly called out a number of times on the issue.

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/11/android-community-demand...

If you thought some of Samsung's early Android phones were too close to copying the iPhone, you've seen nothing. Xiaomi phones blatantly rip off design of other manufactures, especially Apple. They are not even coy about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/business/global/in-china-a...

As far as the OSS comunity goes, this is probably a career limiting move by Barra right here.
I don't think I missed it but I am confused why the author steered clear of some really interesting data. Based on the table Walmart has 2X the profit margin of Costco. Walmart's doing around 4.5x topline revenue but over 9x the total profit amount.

For the author's central point to hold true those numbers need to be more closely aligned. That is, they need to be roughly the same in % terms. They aren't, which means one or both of the players are doing something substantially different in their approach. Given that labor costs are the single largest expense for these types of business it's not unreasonable to reach the conclusion of those she's rebutting with this article. Namely that Walmart is overly maximizing profits based on the back of paying extremely low wages. To put it another way, if for some reason Walmart was told to bring it's margins in line with Costco the easiest way to do that would be to bring your wages up and keep your prices the same.

Let's do back of the envelope math based on the chart in the article. If Walmart had the margins of Costco rather than the current ones that would see it's profit dip from $15.6 billion to $7.53 billon. That in turn would "free up" $8 billion in what is now pure profit. With 2 million global employees you could pay them all $4K more. That's a 20% salary increase for the basic salary they highlighted of $20K per year.

I'm not bashing Walmart. I'm just pointing out that Costco seems to have made the decision to have meaningfully smaller margins than Walmart. Given where the bulk of their costs lie they must have had the conversation more than once about paying folks less to move those margins up to please Wall Street more. Yet they have decided not to do that. Perhaps it's simply because they believe the business benefit around being easier for them to be accepted in new communities (and thus grow) based on the real and perceived perception that they treat their workers well.

PS: Anecdotally Walmart opened near us two months ago. I have now been there 4 or 5 times. I am struck by just how many people there are working there on the floor. There seem to be too many whenever I'm there. They look bored and so congregate in groups and shoot the breeze. I couldn't get that out of my mind as the author kept stressing they really need a lot more employees.
This looks useful to me. And compared with the difficulties of getting LaTeX to build on an iPad, it's a quite acceptable next best thing.

ETA: the author's discussion of TeX logfile parsing is particularly useful to me at the moment.
I have heard of this journalist before. Apart from the absolute lack of an explanation as to WHY Walmart cannot pay higher wages (spoiler - it's complicated!)

also, I find the link in the S.H.A.M.E. project of interest.

http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/
As a developer who also grew up in China (Nanjing as well), I second everything you said. It's like the wild wild west there. I would add that connection is more critical to survive there.
I remember it. It wasn't as loud (because anyone with half a brain would be ashamed to say it) but it existed.
This is a hack of mine that stores files in public DNS caches. It's a horrible, hack and slow but it does work.

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/dnsstore
http://tubes.io/blog/2013/08/29/web-scraping-javascript-heav...
Character-through-the-years
EVERY Tech Commercial is the same. Right? (video)
Hangouts supports full screen, along with sharing individual windows which is actually really useful
Most of China's 3million+ cities are on the east coast, the west is relative unpopulated. I was there in November and while the results of this map shouldn't have surprised me, considering the extreme city expansions I saw, I was still very surprised to see that half the country is at the same level as Saudi Arabia!
Strange..the link only works after I google it.
Why do you decry Google for the Nexus One being "obsolete", released in 2010, not getting any updates... when you have an original iPad from 2010, which is stuck on iOS 5.1?
be patient. it's going to space.
The size of the SKU assortment has such a profound impact on so very many areas of the business, I would venture to say that if two retailers don't have a comparably sized SKU assortment, they're well-nigh incomparable.
How did we get from comfortable to disheveled? No-one dresses up at my office but they do still smell like they take showers and wash their clothes.
HTC Develops China-Focused Mobile Operating System
I hadn't thought of it in those terms but I like that understanding of governments. A cell is a state, its laws are its DNA, and its borders are its membrane; and not just metaphorically speaking.
> Xiaomi phones blatantly rip off design of other manufactures, especially Apple

Here is the original Xiaomi phone

http://imgur.com/a/nWsOW

It's iPhone copycat because obviously it has Round CornersⒸ.

There are tons of MIUI roms out there available for download, try it yourself and see if you can find iOS there.
http://allthingsd.com/20130828/google-co-founder-sergey-brin...
New hobby: searching LinkedIn for developers that work at LinkedIn and endorsing them for crazy stuff.
In the case of the military it can be the opposite: they weed out applicants who they are not confident will pull the trigger every time they are asked to.
Meh. Either her content is substantially right or it's substantially wrong. Let's just debunk her theories if we don't believe her vs personally attacking her. This "She's a conservative activist from the heart of Koch!" is no different (or less offensive) than "She's a bleeding heart liberal from Berkeley!"
Right because people obviously work for the sole purpose of supporting their manager. Not to feed themselves or anything, that's silly American stuff.
>> I think we're forgetting that the Walmart customer is not the Costco/Trader Joe's customer.

I would say the same for the employees. Your average Walmart worker would probably be washed-out in a shift or two at Trader Joe's. Everyone at TJ's is busting their ass, Walmart employees seem to just be standing around doing nothing but talking to one another.
I really don't want to sound arrogant or rude, but this comment really worries me a bit since it represents the kind of arrogance that's prevalent in the American tech industry. Stories like this represent a global shift of power, financial resource, and more importantly, talent. This trend is only accelerating as far as I can tell, whether people like it or not. The global competition in tech space is heating up to an unprecedented degree.

Yet not even about Android or the mobile market in general, a comment about the feeling of OSS community gets voted to top...
Secret Ingredients to Building Airbnb's International Payments Platform
I keep mine off all of the time. Hurts my eyes almost instantly.
IBM RS/6000
I think you are missing the forest for the trees. The point is that costco's approach reduces the "spread" between management and employees, not that it eliminates it.

From moringstar, Costco CEO's compensation was ~$18.5M, Walmart's was ~$62.5M.

In 2006 (the easiest numbers I could find) the average Walmart employee earned ~$10/hr vs $17/hr at Costco. Walmart employees also had less health coverage (<50% vs ~80%) and were responsible for %33 of the cost vs %8.

source: The High Cost of Low Wages - Harvard Business Review.

http://hbr.org/2006/12/the-high-cost-of-low-wages/ar/1
They should...but if everyone did that we'd have much less population growth. Most people, particularly lower classes, don't particularly care.

I don't have a citation, but it's kind of self-evident. At the very least, people don't expect a family to cost so much, and think if they're prepared for it beforehand they'll be fine. You can't be prepared for poverty with a family.