skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

English raw text: 11KB

Chinese raw text: 8.8KB (UTF-8), 6KB (GB18030)

English compressed with xz: 3.8KB

Chinese compressed with xz: 3.7KB (UTF-8), 3.3KB (GB18030)

Yes, the information density does seem to be a bit higher in Chinese. Which, of course, is obtained at the cost of an encoding algorithm (writing system) that is more difficult to implement (learn), encode (write), and decode (read). It's the typical tradeoff between processing efficiency and memory consumption.

I wonder how much time it takes for the average American to type or handwrite the UDHR in English, versus the average Chinese to type or handwrite the same document in Chinese. After all, hard drives are cheap today. Human brain processing power is not.
The same offensive narrative repeats itself.

- The government is bulk collecting data on foreigners.

- Meh...

- They're also incidentally spying on US citizens in the processs.

- SAY WHAT?!

If the USA could try to acknowledge the human rights of non-US citizens, that would be really nice.
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Of course, it's a matter of tradeoffs. It's particularly interesting to observe how Rust is moving along: since I started watching it, it has undergone a huge quantity of non-trivial changes. Which would tend to show that "worse is better" doesn't work for programming languages. Indeed, languages which have grown organically, like PHP, are not well-regarded. Maybe it's a question of surface: the smaller unpolished surface you expose to the outside, the faster you can ship something which will not turn into PHP later. If your CLI is not well thought-out, it's not a big problem, but you won't be able to make drastic, incompatible changes in syntax and semantics for a programming language with millions of existing lines (ask the Python 3 people :) ).
Few weeks ago, I tried to create a roulette wheel for an iOS application. For ball animation, I used CGPath but couldn't make a realistic movement then I changed it to UIBezierPath.

https://github.com/abmussani/RouletteWheel-for-IPhone-Ipod (Sorry for bad code structure).
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Reading through the spec, there is something eerily familiar with the key directory implementation. Quoting:

Alice will obtain a proof from the Key Directory that demonstrates that the data is in the permanent append-only log, and then just encrypt to it.

Within the message to send to Bob, Alice includes a super-compressed version of the Key Directories that fits in a 140 characters (called STHs which stands for Signed Tree Heads). This super-compressed version can be used later on by anyone to confirm that the version of the Key Directory that Alice saw is the same as they do

Append-only log. Global. Hash of the log's tip state at the time of use...

Smells like a mixed blockchain/git type approach - which is a good thing. The "super-compressed" version of the log tip sounds like git revision hash. The append-only, globally distributed log is pretty much like a blockchain.

And it attempts to solve a really hard global problem. I like it.
dsirijus, that sounds awesome :)

To clarify, though, I wouldn't presume that any of the devs would necessarily be working on the same project. So perhaps that would cut down on the contention.

I'm not sure what else to try without any investment money - unless you've got some space left over you want to give a guy who's doing his own thing :)
For a visceral and entertaining exploration of what a literal fourth spatial dimension might be like from our perspective, try Rudy Rucker's hilarious 'Spaceland'.

'In a tribute to Edwin Abbott's Flatland, a classic mathematical fantasy about a 2-dimensional being (A. Square) who receives a surprise visit from a higher-dimensional sphere, Rudy Rucker's Spaceland describes the life of Joe Cube, an average, modern-day Silicon Valley hotshot who one day discovers the fourth dimension from an unexpected visitation. Spaceland contains scenes that are violent and sexual in nature as well as suggestive illustrations.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceland_(novel)
I feel offended by the way US-media approaches this matter and by my country's stance on the matter (not even a comment about it).

Civilisation (broadly speaking) doesn't evolves hand-in-hand with technology. It is the major danger of our future.
The blockchain (as most people understand it atleast) is an implementation of a Merkle tree. Which is why Git/Bitcoin are eerily similar - they both utilize Merkle trees for integrity.

The real innovation in the "blockchain" was using proof of work in combination with the Merkle tree in order to enforce a single history.
Take that away and yes, it looks alot like Git. :)
The house is in the country in West Virginia, so no city whatsoever :)

Silicon valley would be ideal, but can any indie actually afford to live there? I was paying $1800 / mo when I worked for Maxis in Redwood City.
Because, I think, they would have to be part of the Key Directory too, listed under "Spammer".

This kind if implies a secondary directory market of ratings and rankings of the prime source (ie isASpammer, isWithinThreeHopsOnLinkedIn)
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You could also use CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/) for the images on your page, which would mirror them automatically. Unfortunately, if you try to submit a link to *.nyud.net to HN directly it turns out dead.
More exactly latency of switching between concurrent activities, which might be handling user sessions, but might be something else too.
Minor point: simplified characters weren't intended to make Chinese easier to read (which is good, since they'd be a miserable failure at that). They were intended to make it easier to write (by hand!) -- the idea was to reduce the number of strokes used to write common characters, and the accompanying propaganda was to the effect that using simplified characters would cut a piece of typical text from so many strokes to so many (less) strokes. Characters were targeted for simplification not based on how ungainly they were but based on a combination of how many strokes they required with how frequently they were used.

Then the advent of computers and typing made stroke count mostly irrelevant.
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>GigaOm reports that the dispute arose around tools associated with a workflow management tool known as Berkshelf, which Vargo worked on. Some in the community preferred an alternative solution, and directed their anger towards Vargo.

So because someone doesn't like the tooling, he gets death threats?
In what world is getting angry a solution (or accepted) when disagreeing with something you get for free?
Difficult to implement any kind of useful public transit that would obviate the need to drive everywhere.
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The 3 lane to 2 lane problem is solved already. These cars follow a centimeter-accurate 3D map that has the lanes precisely defined (as well as acceptable speeds, location of stoplights, etc).

The Google car knows the lane change is approaching long before it shows up on any sensor.
> Increasing literacy by slightly modifying the writing system is why the PRC created Simplified Chinese in the first place

While it was an interesting experiment, the fact that Taiwan still has a higher literacy rate than Mainland China, and one comparable to the other developed countries using the latin alphabet, shows that traditional Chinese isn't that much of a hindrance.
[citation needed]

More seriously, there are many classes of problems which range from extremely impractical to impossible to tackle without software. The question is also, who is getting the headaches? If you pile up enough man-hours on the most awful software, it will eventually work satisfactorily. Customers don't give a damn about the underlying code, nor they should, they want a product that works.
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1) And what Thai law consider work exactly?

2) According to you, if a businessman comes to Thailand to rest for 2 weeks and decided to do some work for one day on his laptop (which he brought with him) then he'll become a criminal and can be taken to a jail.

3) According to you, millions of people break this law every day: they come from their countries to other country and once they reply or send an email (or something like that) - they are criminals!!!
I'm not trying to be snarky or anything but take a look at this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMj9MTs3lw

A self driving car would just sit there frozen as there would be no 100 % safe action to take.
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Ah, so that's why.

The term "Merkle tree" was familiar, but I didn't know what it was used for. (Read: never had reason to look it up.) Now I do.

Thank you. :)
If you don't know even the most basic concepts of a language like using strings for strings that's a problem in every language. You can use an array of chars in PHP and access it by a reference and then compare pointers if you _really_ want to but you don't see people ranting on that.
Singapore is excellently planned from what I can see. Dubai is another as well.
I'd like to see one navigate its way around this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMj9MTs3lw
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Path tracing is highly parallelizable, a ray doesn't need to know anything about its neighbors (there are integrators that give better results if more information is available) to be traced. In practice, each process just gets assigned a part of the picture and can calculate in until it's done, moving on to the next part.
First that comes to mind - obesity.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/blame-the-...
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A.k.a why not just use Shapeways. The level of detail they are capable of is very impressive: http://www.shapeways.com/model/1987984/tribal-voodoo-skull.h...

I don't now a lot about 3D printing, are there any serious competitors?
I think it's possible to get something going with the right people in a home. The problem here is location, maybe hard to get others to join you in a location other than the Bay Area.
This title is worth its weight in gold! So true!

I no longer present with words - but just with photos, images to help me tell my story. I also use props - great for pitching.

The guys at Instagram never had a pitch deck - they just dragged in a prototype that told a story....
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For those not old enough to remember, (I believe) this is the Google-Yahoo deal referenced: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066171/Yahoo-Partners-...
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You can't make this stuff up. According to TFA:

1. CIA created black propaganda in USSR linking Soviets and international terrorists to foment dissent in Russia.

2. Somebody picked it up from outside and wrote a book about Soviet-terrorism links.

3. CIA director read the book, took it seriously, freaked out, lobbied for more powers.

4. CIA and NSA got more powers.

It's clearly not the first time in history that an intelligence organisation engineered a privilege escalation from fraudulent circumstances, but doing it by accident seems almost funny.
isn't this just that game we had as kids where there was a picture that was all jumbled up and you slid the tiles around to unscramble it?

http://www.tilepuzzles.com/default.asp?p=17
The have an online store in several countries. I've heard from people who work there they're not expanding the trial due to shipping not working with their slim margins (paying for one person returning a sofa ruins the profitability).
In sprawl, the city is bearing most of the risk: all the developer has to do is throw up some more cookie-cutter detached homes and sell them, while the city has to keep all of the grid infrastructure and services to those homes running for decades to come; low density sucks up the budget that could otherwise be used to create big-ticket service improvements like transit. At the bottom end, this can send suburbs into a Detroit-esque downward spiral where they are no longer viable.

Developers are much more grudging in taking on the economic risks of infill projects with higher densities, but even low-rise, 3-4 story buildings are sufficiently dense to push this equation in the other direction and make city services more sustainable and cost-effective.
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So it seems they invented PGP keyservers with a monitoring protocol as a bag on the side?

I've had keys on keyservers for years. The monitoring side is interesting though.

It's also unclear how the whole directory will be compressed to 140 bytes - iirc, the best compression algorithms reduce text by ~80-90%, so it might work for a week or so, I guess.
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The special thing about this Key Directory, is that
whatever is written in the directory can never be
modified, that is, it's impossible to modify anything from
there without having to bring the service down, or telling
to everyone that's looking about what is being modified.

The MIT PGP key server has eleven different keys in my name which I created in 1997, when I was about 12 years old. Of course, I have long since lost the private keys and e-mail addresses.

I guess with this proposal, the fact you used to go by benstillerfaggot69@verizon.net will be part of your permanent record.
Madrid has an excellent public transport net. I sold my car two years ago, no regrets.

But there's also a lot of traffic.
I wonder if I'm the only one who gets annoyed by how many suggestions of evolutionary theory there are in the article.

we acquired our mites from our ape ancestors...

as early humans walked out of Africa...

I believe in evolution...but I believe in misinterpretation a lot more.
It is interesting to ponder how much the world would have been different if the PRC had just gone all the way to Pinyin when they decided to simplify the writing system.

Also interesting: the linguist who developed Pinyin is apparently still alive at age 108 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Youguang
A quick search seems to indicate it's almost a tie, overall. That is, Chinese readers end up reading at about the same speed add English readers. It seems like an unintuitive result though. From my own mild studies of Japanese and the kanji, the few kanji I can read, it feels like the information just jumps right into my mind.

Also apart from the actual reading, which may be a tie, I'm not sure the complexity cost overall, e.g. teaching, fonts, IMEs, etc. are actually worth it. What would a designed writing system look like? I think a properly phonetic/syllable approach like Hangul or even the Kana might be correct.
I suppose I'd be in good shape if I knew someone in the Bay Area that would oblige, but unfortunately I don't. Still, I don't think I should give up on the idea just yet.
There are very few companies that do not follow the standard interviewing practices. So if you try to filter them, you won't have enough to get a job.

Instead, you can try approaching things differently. People want to judge your abilities when they feel that it's critical to get the best employee. So you basically need to eliminate their fears. Networking and making friends works pretty good. If you are recommended by an existing employee, the interviewer will take it easy on you. Internships also work pretty good. There is less pressure. And when you prove yourself after a couple of weeks you can demand a salary or walk.

Homework is never a good idea. Searching for a job usually takes you through many companies. If at least half of them give you homework, you will waste days or even weeks just solving imaginary problems that nobody cares about. Solving tasks at home sounds like a good idea at first. But after you do it and the company chooses someone else, all you get is a bitter aftertaste.

As a personal note, it really helps if you treat the interviewers like stupid children. Some readers may be offended by this, but it really works. When you finally accept that he has no idea what he's doing, it will be much easier to control the interview.

Interviewers are rarely good programmers. If they start with something like FizzBuzz, you can easily tell that they don't have the ability to understand things. They just take ideas from somewhere and run with them. No originality, no abstract thought and no critical thinking. Once you see that and realize that you are better, performance anxiety will no longer be a problem.

You're basically being judged by people following a generic checklist they got from a blog or "top 10 interviewing tips" article. Understand their reasoning and you will own them.
She writes: " Even if Google was mostly good, I need to have the right to call them out when they do bad things."

Are you really nitpicking about "evil" vs "doing bad things"?

And everybody can say whatever they want, and criticize whoever they want. But companies are not obliged to keep people on the payroll who use their position to make the same company look bad. The whole assumption is absurd.

Board members forbidding whatever is not the issue at all. The job of the board members is to keep the business afloat and prevent harm from coming to it. Bosses give their employees instructions all the time.
Just to point out, using UTF-8 to examine the informational properties of Chinese text is absurd. All Chinese characters are three bytes in UTF-8, and there's no reason to use it over GB, where they're two bytes. UTF-8 would only make sense if you wanted to have a document with stretches of, say, English, Cyrillic, Greek, and Japanese text all together.

I can't provide much in the way of authentic information as to your last question, but anecdotally I find it easier to finger-type Chinese into my phone than English. A couple factors are at work:

- I don't adjust my style for the phone, and it's next to worthless at predicting what I want to say (in English). This leads to a lot of thumb-tiring selection of single letters.

- I don't speak fluent Chinese, so most of what I say is pretty basic stuff, which the predictive input has an easy time with. This leads into the third point,

- Using a pinyin input method, you can call up entire phrases by just putting in the first letter of each syllable, e.g. xx for 谢谢 or bhys for 不好意思 or ng for 那个. This is basically the equivalent of your computer automatically expanding IANAL into "I'm not a lawyer" whenever you type it in, except, for everything. (This is also true for typing on a computer, but I'm comfortable enough on a keyboard that I don't have problems typing English.)
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There's a simple fix to that:

-Wsign-conversion -Werror

You've effectively just made C into a safer language by disallowing implicit conversions that change signedness.
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Well done! :)
Is it possible to embed this in my website?
There are a few other things that could also impact results. Looking at the experimental design, there could be a good 25% uncertainty in the results because of how it's done at such a high level.

Rough up-to values for various things I can think of / see:

- 10% because they're using an OS rather than running binaries straight.

- 15% because GCC is odd and -O3 does even stranger things, particularly when it comes to energy.

- 15% because their benchmarks are large workloads rather than microbenchmarks that may better target the architecture rather than being huge lumps (would exacerbate GCC strangeness).

- 17% because they're measuring board rather than CPU power supply (the claim that SoC-based ARM development boards cannot have processor power isolated is questionable - I've seen Beagleboards with the CPU power supply isolated)

- 10% because they're measuring energy consumption at a low resolution (their equipment measures in Hz when there's kit that happily measures in kHz or MHz).

Of course, some of these will cancel, and others will be nowhere near as bad as stated. It also doesn't introduce order-of-magnitude changes to the conclusions, although a few of the 'Key Findings' may want questioning.
AFAIK most spammers use botnets, so they don't really care about resources - it's not their resources to begin with.
I guess I should say that the growth of bars seem to be exceeding the growth of parking lots. Does that mean more people are carpooling or taking cabs? Maybe. But it could also mean Uber has an effect.
With ARM different companies can license the design and include different system components on the chip. With Intel you need to take a packaged chip provided by Intel. This can allow a system power and cost advantage compared to having multiple chips. It is however a licensing/business model issue rather than a fundamental ISA issue.
"...many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy to be one of their primary contributions to civilisation..." - is this really true?

Anyway there are no reasons to oppose the natural process of more advanced languages displacing the less advanced ones, apart from political (avoiding cultural assimilation).
Extending rights to non citizens? What are you, some sort of communist? Next you'll be asking them to dip their flag to a host nation, or measure something in meters, or some other outrage.

edit - though admittedly here in the UK we are currently borrowing our citizenship and rights law direct from the pages of 2000AD http://usvsth3m.com/post/75158899178/the-uk-government-is-no...
How does that show it? In a developed country, even if literacy is more difficult, we'd expect the education system to have compensated or calibrated for it to achieve an overall good rate. If schoolkids must spend an extra 10% overall time due to increased literacy requirements, that's really but gonna show up on the overall literacy rates, right?
Which innovations would that be?
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Unless I missed a part of it, the key is only permanently tied to the email address - i.e. you could always say that benstillerfaggot69@verizon.net is a different Joe Bloggs and not you (probably only plausible if you have a common to medium rarity name though).
It is actually a bad analogy, because when you draw Mickey Mouse you're using your right brain. This is also the case for a beginner in kanji, because he'll be considering it as a drawing.

When you really learn the kanji (or Han characters to be more generic, kanji being the Japanese name), you end seeing them with their components, and you'll be using your left brain to write them - just like when writing English.
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Taiwan has a much higher rate of english speakers as well. Hence the higher literacy rate.
Please feel free to file bugs on Github and/or ask questions on sandstorm-dev! It will help us figure out what most needs improvement. https://groups.google.com/group/sandstorm-dev

Curious what you mean by "more open ended change to test it". You mean not limited to one hour as demo.sandstorm.io is?
Solvable by only ever issuing marginal trust (technically, if enough people get social engineered in, that still causes a problem, but that's a lot harder than a single person.

Trusting above marginal level should be reserved for very few people if any at all. I don't have anyone with full trust.