skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I checked, China had 1 Trillion dollars in reserves. Chinese people is not living on credit cards, actually quite the opposite, they save a lot, even the little waitress at the cheap restaurant has a lot of savings. Every year, at spring festival, hundreds of millions of young chinese give their savings to their parents to keep, and those old people can save! I dont know where is the debt guys are talking about.
I remember reading about MSX in Creative Computing magazine, there's also 4 pages devoted to it in the book Digital Retro.

In addition to the reasons listed here I'd say that what killed MSX is what killed everything else back then, the rise of the PC compatibles. In the early 80's there were "personal computers" based on 8-bit processors that were for the home hobbyist, and the IBM PC-type computers that were so expensive that they were mainly owned by businesses. Basically everyone wanted the PC compatibles to run all the available software, so when prices came down no one wanted the 8-bit Z80 and 6502 machines anymore.
As long as the entire internet isn't tolled because it is a new way to tax. Crypto coins have been branded for all types of needs, pay it forward is a big part of many coins. What would suck is if it became pay to use everywhere if biz runs away with it. We might be entering a bad era of tolls and tiers if we aren't smart.
Good luck Tyler!
All this is true, but perhaps we should also be exploiting cheap and redundant systems that leverage more up-to-date technology, eg multiple lightweight pods that are designed to eject automatically under certain circumstances and consist of a battery, the same sort of technology you'd find in a typical satellite smartphone, and a small parachute - something you could build with a unit cost under $5k, which you could easily make back without a drastic impact on ticket prices. If you deployed, say, 20 of them automatically during a catastrophe, odds are that a few of them would survive.

I'm not disputing anything you wrote above, but right now all our eggs are in two very expensive baskets (FDR/CVR). When a plane goes mssing you want to pinpoint the location of the crash ASAP and get some telemetry as a second priority. The existing systems are great but could we not also benefit from some cheaper and simpler systems that didn't rely on being bulletproof?
When the aircraft stops receiving signal from the ground on one channel, it searches for a beacon on another channel.
No, non-encrypted passwords are an artefact of poor design and incompetent programmers. Cryptographic hashing has been around since the 70's, and cryptography itself pre-dates history.

There is no excuse --no excuse-- for storing passwords in plain text. Anybody who attempts to justify it deserves a swift thwack in the back of the head.
I do some online training - I'll refer people over to this for a good refresher/intro to regex. Thanks.
Whenever there's a big disaster, people want to find technical solutions. But the real problem is not even plane crashes at all. It's car crashes, heart attacks, suicides, murders, and other preventable disasters that aren't so newsworthy but can still be helped. We all know air travel is much safer than walking or driving and also expensive, partly to pay for that extreme safety. Adding more expense to make such a safe thing even safer is wasting money.
spherical harmonics! Cool to know that aren't only used in quantum mechanics :)
Exactly. Safety-critical applications by nature have to be risk-averse, and that means anything new, anything that hasn't been thoroughly tested and backed by years of experience, is an unacceptable risk.

Older processors constructed on older large-size processes and often operating at higher voltages and slower clocks are more robust because they have a smaller number of transistors, which means a simpler more predictable model of error propagation; larger features mean lower current densities, increasing resistance to electromigration and decreasing the chances of defects from natural process variation; higher supply voltages reduce the effects of noise; slower clock rates allow more time for noise-induced glitches to settle instead of propagating.

One of my favourite examples of this is the CDP1802 - an 8-bit CPU from the mid 70s, which is still in production and use today in aerospace applications.
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As to your req: TWA Flight 800 incident reports claim that the pilot and 70% of the passengers were pulled from the fuselage following structural failure of the aircraft (the front 1/3 of the plane detached from the remainder following a fuel tank explosion). Several rows of seats were also detached.

Situation would have been massive structural failure and exposure of the aircraft interior to the jetstream and fireball, which is more than an explosive decompression, but it is a referenced case.

Specific mentions begin at about 20 minutes into the following video based on NTSB reports:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbny8XnAifY

There's some mention of passengers being hurled from the plane in the NTSB accident report that I can find, but I can't find full cites for the claims of the video:

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2000/AAR0003.pdf

There's the fact that most of the passengers suffered "severe" trauma (described as "internal decapitation" in the video), likely from sudden deceleration as the nose separated.
I don't think "guilt" is the right word here either. She is expressing disappointment, but it's disappointment with what the person did, not with who the person is.

And while she's doing that, she's implicitly expressing the expectation that her students can do better. That's actually a far cry from the way lots of parents use guilt in traditional societies, where the implicit message is, "You did bad, again, just like I expected you to!" and the aim is to elicit effort through neurotic self-hatred.
isn't chinas foreign debt still net negative? if so, wouldn't be the obvious strategy be to start outsourcing the debt as the US did? we possibly have a few more years and as poulson said, there are quite capable people steering the ship.
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> Is there a group for older white males trying to break into the industry?

Uh, the ACM?

Or any of a number of professional organizations where being older, white, and male will typically confer an image of knowledge and competency. I seriously hope you are joking, but this tired refrain "nobody gave me any special treatment" is so terrifically ignorant of social reality and insulting to anyone who has ever been followed by store security simply for not being white.

And why, pray tell, would the industry even need to encourage more older white males to join what ranks are clearly swollen by this demographic? The entire point, in case you were too self-absorbed to notice, of encouraging marginalized people to join the tech industry is to ensure a diversity of ideas and opinions, rather than risk becoming a narrowly focused homogeneous echo chamber incapable of sustaining any real innovation because everyone thinks exactly alike.
I'd argue that the solution to the problem is to make sure null can't happen, ever. It's way too much boilerplate in Java, but par for the course in, say, Scala. If it can really be null, and it makes sense for it to happen, wrap it in an Option.
And for someone doing basic support who doesn't or shouldn't have access to the database? These sites make that sort of thing easy.
I would argue that it's generally a massive failure, and that history will view these models as extremely naive when it comes to judging risk.

Comparing it to Newtonian mechanics is unfair. Newtonian mechanics actually work, just not for everything. To have a risk model that doesn't work for risk is something completely different.
Aside from Alaska (which has some radar limitations due to the terrain) I'm pretty sure none of those accidents occurred after coast-to-coast radar coverage came in to force in the continental US.

Believe it or not until 1973! there were massive land-based lighthouses all across the United States that would illuminate the aerial pathways that aircraft would use to get across the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway_beacon
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The tutorial I learned regular expressions from, which is longer but more detailed than this one, was http://www.regular-expressions.info/. It’s free, thorough and well-organized. Its only flaw is that its section on support in various languages is out of date. It was written to sell a Windows-only regex tool, but it’s very non-pushy with the advertisements.

You can see a list of online regular expression testers for various languages at the Stack Overflow “regex” tag wiki, in the “Online sandboxes” section: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/regex/info. For JavaScript regexes, http://regexpal.com/ is easy to use.
Yes, Erlang patterns are non-linear, Haskell has view patterns. Neither are more powerful than the other. They are just different.

Erlang non-linear patterns fit more with the semantics of match where an already bound name isn't shadowed, view patterns fit well into Haskell because of the ensured purity.
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For anyone reading: please just use HTTPS!
About time for an HN China meetup? Who wants to come visit Yunnan for some clean air and nature? :)
Does this video portray the right 10 strategies for startups?
The problem is that we're not talking about a safety net anymore, but a solution for a permanent reduction in the workforce. That's something entirely different, more daunting, and perhaps unsolvable.
It's really hard to make understand to high school students the benefits of programming. They often lose interrest after few minutes because they thing that's really trivial when they start reading few lines of code. You guyz made a great job by convincing them
It's a mistake to believe that either China's will continue along uninterrupted or that it will fall into severe crisis. The reality is that China has a strong economy AND also a very flawed and troubled economy (India has similar problems but in a different way).

The result will probably be that China's growth will at some point stall out before reaching developed world levels and they will probably be faced with some manner of serious problems at a level less than countrywide existential crisis.

Also, as to "predictions being proven wrong", remember that every year during the 2000s many people predicted that the housing market would implode and lead to a major economic crisis. They were "proven wrong" every year until it actually happened.
If statistics exist, I'm sure they are covered under the state secrets law.
You can tunnel all your traffic over DNS - http://code.kryo.se/iodine/

Useful for hotspots that allow DNS but nothing else
We have a specification: http://opendylan.org/books/drm/

We have, in the past had multiple implementations, but due to community size, desire to evolve things, etc, we narrowed it down to Open Dylan being supported and maintained.
Sending a straight hash of the password is no more secure than sending the password in cleartext - an attacker can just replay the hash they sniffed off the network.

As skyebook said, use HTTPS. There's no excuse.
I think stretchwithme meant to say "though they create more value"
chinese dont live on credit like americans, they live for saving. The financial market is slightly more regulated than the american financial market, aswell.
The US economy was badly hurt by household debt because household spending fuels the US economy, this is not the case for the Chinese economy. An 8x increase in corporate debt in China in the last 5 years means something in an economy driven by industrial production instead of individual consumption. I do not know exactly what it means but I suspect there is some grounds for believing it may not be entirely good.

Chinese households might be less inclined to take on debt, but they've still managed to rack up about 30+% of GDP worth, so they are working on it.
"Most people familiar with Roslyn understand that it marks the first real change in compilers in recent memory." and then goes on to describe llvm...
It's also the people who create the means of production.
Hahahaha, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcTu0-1rqAU

"What country has the most doctors?"
I'm interested in what's happening here. Can you provide a link/more info on what the XSS issue is?

(I honestly don't know and would love to learn about this. Thanks)
Except that Chinese make stuff people buy. The US housing bubble was economic onanism.
kill me now.
I love the summary at the bottom. Concise and to the point... He could have wrote how to learn regex in 55 seconds.
An American ex-pat in China here. I came to China during the economic crash in 2009 and have seen it all progress the last 5 years.

Yes there are random empty apartment buildings and a few absurdities like --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_China_Mall.

However, overall the infrastructure they have built has put this country in a position to achieve dominant superpower status over the next century.

For example, within 5 more years the entire of Guangdong Province will be connected by high speed rail and subway - meaning 100 million people and businesses will be connected by public transit with no more than a 2 hour ride. There is already a critical mass of manufacturing capability here, and with that added layer of network infrastructure, even if labor costs rise 100% YOY to match USA and Germany in a decade, Guangdong China will still be the worlds factory.

Furthermore, the internal consumption machine of 1.3B people is undeniably ramping up now. They are spending money, the largest middle class on the planet is clearly taking shape, and lives are measurably improving all around me.

There may be a few bumps in the road but there will be no collapse.
Wow. I went from Austin to NYC via Chicago and it was 50 something hours on a train. LA to NYC would be an incredible amount of time on a train.

I definitely downloaded a ton of movies and music and brought a few books.
holishitwow.

That was really good.
If you're sending a non-trivial amount of data this way, won't the large number of consecutive fake DNS requests get noticed and draw attention?
A great job to give an intern is to get them to write a nice front-end for support techs to use. Then get a manager in training to audit the code.
The Chinese internal economy is not as robust as its export economy, and shifting the economy to one based on consumption is an important goal to making it actually healthy. Right now, people just save or invest...and the investments are limited to some shady financial products and...real estate.
The result you point to, in terms of taking up overdevelopment slack due to China's urbanization having a long way to go yet, may turn out to be true. But it's generous to say anyone anticipated that in building these white elephant projects.

China's economic growth will cover numerous sins. As will the oil boom in the US. But they're still sins.
> Will this be the beginning of an antibiotics scare?

One would hope so.
This practice is more to prevent the user's password from being revealed than it is to prevent others from logging in as you. In a trusted environment, you may not care that someone there has access to your account, but you don't want them to know what password you chose.

Having said that, do use HTTPS when possible, but keep in mind some corporate environments force proxies that can see your traffic anyway.
Exactly. And there will always be this kind of mismatch between what the human wants and what the device can anticipate as long as the human is smarter than the device. Even among humans it takes years of learning social norms before we are able to anticipate each other with any degree of accuracy.

People always get upset at these "smart" devices, and decry their stupidity, and yet they wouldn't really do that much better of a job were they in the device's shoes, so to speak.
Another excellent resource, which I believe was highlighted a few years ago here on HN: http://regexone.com/
Kentucky used to have Amtrak, the Kentucky Cardinal. It went from Louisville to Chicago and took what felt like 12 hours although not sure I'm remembering that correctly. It was only $30. I had high hopes for that route, that it would open up more options to travel by rail from my hometown.
It's not that there is a limited number of people capable of doing work in STEM, it's that the economy doesn't offer enough jobs

It's quite likely both.

There are absolutely people who can't (or won't) work with technology. And there are those who are qualified to do so who don't have the opportunity. Either way, opportunities for employment in the sector are limited.

I'm old enough to have seen a number of phases in high-tech career trends: highway construction (1950s & 1960s), nuclear power plants (1970s), defense (1960s & 70s) (a good family friend went through the trifecta of these three), consumer tech (1990s, 2000s), and Wall Street / technical trading (1990s - 2000s). Petroleum careers had their dark ages in the 1980s - 1990s oil glut. And there's the boom that never really materialized in biotech, which everyone and his kid brother's dog was pitching in the late 1990s / early 2000s, notably Larry Ellison and Tim O'Reilly.
Been there, done that. A lot of public WiFi hotspots will allow outgoing (and incoming) DNS, by design.

It's unbearably slow (especially when you use SSL over it, which I'd consider almost mandatory if you do this) for anything other than email and maybe running a few shell commands, however. Applying additional obfuscation/whitening to the data stream to make it harder to detect makes it even slower.
How many of the people commenting here read the Chinese-language press? (I mean, publications in the Chinese language from either inside or outside the region where the Communist Party of China exercises prior restraint on publication.) The one thing I've learned from studying the language, history, and culture of China since 1975 is that almost everyone who doesn't know the language is full of crazy ideas about China, even if they live there.
Exactly. Most of the money is kept in saving accounts with interest rates that are far below inflation. And what do you think the banks are doing with that money?
Also old news in Javaland; I'd nominate Eclipse's ECJ as the great innovator.
For future reference, the bad API/app design is worse.
The last time I was in Kunming, the air wasn't exactly clean.
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Whenever I get that plaintext password "vibe" on a site, I like to make my password something somewhat degrading go the site; like "thisSiteSux!", but slightly more vulgar. It's not my fault if they see it.

Once after having gotten the vibe, I ended up on phone support with the site in question. At some point I was instructed to "log back in with ummmm that uhhh same password you signed up with...." I could tell that my plaintext-dar hadn't failed me that time :)
You dont need a framework to do PHP webdev, in every other languages,you do.That's my point, PHP IS a templating language,no Symfony,Zend or Laravel can change that. If i write "print" in Python it wont output the result back to HTTP like PHP does. Ruby or Java dont have <?ruby or <?java tags, you get my point.
Security is definitely hard, but security challenges are often proportional to your apps' surface area. If you just have a simple token-based API, your language probably has libraries that can get you started with a reasonably designed security story. It's the same with passwords: at this point, you shouldn't be rolling your own password management system unless you have very specific needs.

For this reason, I don't think "I made it for fun" or "I made it over a weekend" is a good excuse for such broken security. For tiny new apps, it's easier to use a library that does it correctly than it is to roll your own.
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Didn't say it was "so bad there," just that there is substantial variance in the degree to which countries "protect their markets."

Compare India or China with the US or Australia. I can't think of any companies that have been completely shut out of the latter two, but there seems to be a substantial list that have been unable to continue operating (at some point in time) in India and China. Eventually they might work through it and re-enter, but it's clear that they have far from ideal circumstances for foreign companies.
Who says they have to be fake?

While a high number of requests for uncommon domains might trigger a lot of suspicion, you can cart out smaller amounts of data over DNS in ways that are really hard to detect. I've seen situations where data was being sent over DNS requests where the attacker merely held the ability to view the outgoing DNS traffic, but didn't really control (or want to risk modification) of traffic.
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Ex-pat since 2007 here. Change is happening quite slowly, internal consumption is still moribund as people save to cover retirement and health expenses (social insurance isn't very strong). Even a big city like Beijing has a lot of fairly empty malls, and if you go to 2nd tier cities, you'll see new developments everywhere that are basically empty.

China does have better infrastructure than say India, and its long term outlook is good. But there are definitely challenges in this and the next few years to get through.
> Most readers here have the ability to emigrate to a nation with excellent social welfare systems. Look for low crime rates, healthcare, education opportunities and low costs of living.

I don't think you can get all of that in the same place (especially not low costs of living, if you do get the rest). At least in Europe, the richest countries/cities also have the highest costs of living.
This is exactly what I'm trying to do with Coinpunk (in addition to doing a classic crowdfund): http://igg.me/at/coinpunk
Since most clients are supposed to work through a specified resolver rather than run their own, the easy block is to deny port 53 to non approved resolver hosts. Probably a good idea anyway in a secure environment, since it can potentially avoid cache poisoning if DNSSEC is setup right.
Also, python3 is the default in archlinux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python
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The funny part is that you are talking about the backpackers on my travels like you aren't doing the exact same thing as them. The point of them talking about the scummiest stays isn't the squalor it's trying to convince people that their experience is more real/better or that they are a more real traveller.

You like the things you do. That is great. It doesn't make your travels more authentic than your older relatives though it is just a different experience. And you can get all of those things you desire and still spend your nights in a Hilton.

With regards to the writing I have to honestly disagree. Maybe you can't do it but doesn't mean no one can. You are ignoring the possibility that you just have a worse memory or writing skills than a lot of people out there. You assume your travels are more real and apparently you also assume your writing skills and memory are the peak as well.
After having slept on it, I now don't know what point I was trying to make with the bikeshed comment. It doesn't make any sense now!
Steve Fossett died in 2007, flying just outside NV.
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