skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they do have a choice. Their choices are more limited because they live in a poorer country. On the American companies, didn't you said I hear some companies actually get work done this way and are very happy with it, growing continuously without worrying about who does the tech; Not saying you're 100% wrong on outsource being a safe option for managers, but you really did say that American companies were happy with outsourcing.

If you apply basic microeconomics to this situation, it is actually very simple. The company makes Indian workers better off, American workers worse off, and American companies better off.
I'm 34.

As an entrepreneur, there's no expiration on my work life that I don't set myself.

The last six years of my life have been the most productive, by far, in terms of churning out value and being good at what I do. I can't work as long of hours any more without feeling it, but I'm vastly better and smarter now; I know a lot more of what not to do and where not to waste my time.
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So about $3.6 billion worth, if he's held on to it all.
> It's neither good nor bad to me. I'll apologize if my wording is confusing.

Ok then I guess I don't understand your point/purpose of posting that then. From my point of view, it seemed like you were providing an argument against what I previously posted.

> What I really want is to expose the underlying details about how things work here.

I think I've already done a good job of that myself ;)

> It's not just simply 'different' in one or two parameters. It's not about good or bad.

It is bad and it's not subtle bad; it's pretty obvious, glaring, and embarrasingly bad. Again here are the reasons why I feel that it's pathetic that China is just one big photocopier:

1. As everyone has already mentioned, most of the population in China are very capable when it comes to anything technical, making stuff, or hacking it. The skill and talent are both there.

2. China dwarfs everyone when it comes to population.

3. Recapping, China has a lot more people than every other country and proportionally it even has a more skilled population due to many factors; yet most of the innovation still happens Outside of China. China always follows. It never leads in innovation.

> But I really want to say that it's interesting, and it's not just China. The fareast countries are similar.

I disagree. I would say that both Japan and Korea are ahead. Japan is still pretty original, and while Korea does some copying for the most part they also innovate (You can even see it in their films and shows).

China's current predicament is the price for having a totalitarian way of life, where too many ideas are censored by the CCP. Maybe one day China can mitigate the lack of creativity by either allowing more freedom or by importing enough foreigners like Singapore... I kind of doubt it though given the CCP's paranoia and the current laws concerning ownership if you're not a citizen.

What will happen in HK will have more repercussions for the mainland than just control and order.
Freak. Everyone knows that Vegemite is the one true spread. Fun thing you can do with vegemite - get a bunch of French people in a room that have tried vegemite and get them to discuss whether the word is masculine or feminine. Some want feminine because of the 'ite' ending, others want masculine because of the nature of the product :)
This would be awesome. Right now I'm experimenting using raw HTTP requests and Newtonsoft.Json as the JSON [de]serializer. I presume that you will make your C# SDK a portable class library so we can use it in iOS and Android apps as well via Xamarin?
The problem is that the US has too many people who were actually better off in the past.

This is where the pessimism comes from. While a very small number of high-tech areas have gone fast-forward into the future and are way better off, the vast majority of the country has been left behind.

Fix that, and people will be optimistic again.
Woe to the developer trying to parse 0x13a0ce!
I guess the use case you mentioned is more to adding variations like an alternate ingredient, or a tip to a step or something like alternative to what is suggested in the original recipe.

We have a wish list in our mind where we can add structured annotations (tips/alt ingredient/photo) to the original literature and have a repository of such stuff residing on top of the original recipe itself.

This way it can become a far more richer data, set in the original context and offer mutual learning to all.

Thoughts?
Little soldering and serial-uart makes unbricking them quite easy.
The company famous for its “happiest employees in Japan”
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Yes, there are all the usual ways of deprecating things, migrating the callers, and then finally removing the deprecated methods. This is rather tedious and people tend not to do it for small cleanups like renames. If you can do it in one commit, you can work faster and hopefully get cleaner code.

Of course even if you have atomic source control commits, you don't have atomic deployment so there's still migration to take care of, but it works fine for in-process API's.
Agreed. 1, 2, 3, and 10, are/were pretty common stuff that I eat/ate. 4, 5, and 9 were less common 15 years ago, but is today a lot more popular, thanks to readily available breakfast mixes (primarily from MTR http://www.mtrfoods.com/products/breakfast-mixes )
Very possibly, but proponents of a basic income consistently fail to articulate three things: how these monies will be collected, what rationale there is for distributing it (other than the implicit acknowledgement that the alternative is civil unrest) and why it won't be inflationary.
https://openwrt.org/

Though, dd-wrt's website looks a bit more user-friendly. Though, OpenWRT is where the most of the development and porting is happening.
HN allowed me to create an account. If that isn't "explicit authorization", then I don't know what is.
Proofhub is also very effective tool for teamwork. I'd suggest you to try it.
Schneier's blog explains his stance on this in great detail consistently over many years.

Key escrow is a back door.

Schneier has generally moved focus from designing and breaking cryptography (although he was a key contributor to the Skein SHA3 candidate) to the bigger aspects of risk. And trusting the government or any third party is risk.

You'll like his blog.
All these people here defending the CFAA, as if it's good law or something. "How dare he connect on that host on that port! He should've known better! He got exactly what he deserved!"

It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Absolutely you could. Indeed, it has arguably already been done, albeit indirectly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
Interestingly, that's similar to what Firestone did nearly a century ago - built a city in Liberia, and has been the major influence of the city ever since.

I'm not sure about Apple, Google, Facebook, et al (and even less hopeful about the success of building an ultra-modern city right next to an existing, poor-er [by comparison] capital) ... but ... there's a good notion here.

With a large plantation of rubber trees, it makes sense for Firestone. Rather than re-creating silicon valley in the jungle, finding and exploiting an economic resource there - and doing well by the locals at the same time - seems to be a great model to follow.

From the article:

Asked what's needed to turn that around, Flannery says, "More Firestones" — places that have the money, resources and unwavering determination to stop Ebola.

Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but this sounds like a situation where what we tend to call globalization turns out rather well for all sides.
Hey... has everyone forgotten the Smart TV issues that were unable to connect internet due to the company service went down due to fire.
This may all be true, but it does not say anything useful about Ebola and what the selection pressure it is under. At the moment the speed of disease progression to death is so fast that it is slowing the spread of Ebola. If the Ebola took longer to kill it would infect more people.

The problem with Ebola is its mechanism of transmission is quite closely linked to the reason it is lethal (large virus production and body fluid leakage). It would take a very large leap in genome space (mutations) to turn Ebola into a virus that is efficiently transmitted, but causes limited symptoms like a Rhinovirus. It is not a large jump in genome space for it to just become slower in progression.
I don't know about impulse response and signal filtering, but the Soviets did try to model their economy with linear models. Cosma Shalizi put up a good analysis [1] of why this is very very difficult. Simply put, any kind of "real" economy has so many variables (in the kinds of goods and services, their various quality levels, and the locations in both time and space that goods and services have to be) that any kind of linear programming quickly gets swamped by the sheer number of variables that have to be adjusted in order to compute an optimal outcome. So yes, in theory you can model an economy using a linear system. It's not even an NP problem. But in practice, the computational complexity is high enough (though still within P) that even toy economies with as few as a thousand elements become impossible to optimize with linear programming.

[1] http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...
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Some query patterns I use in Google that you might be interested in

Translate {words} to {language}
My flights
My schedule
My packages
What time is at {city}?
How tall/old/heavy is {important person}?
{description of a photos} in my photos (like 'ocean in my photos')
Note: if you have G+ photos. description doesn't need to be typed in the photo meta info
compare {food} and {food} (nutritions)
People are not tired of this kind of FUD?

Whatever you do good devs are a limited resource, and all that is made to try to walk around the problem worsen it:

- outsourcing ? => You have to compensate in supervision and you lose in quality. (Indians are not bad coders, but there is something called the Babel tower effect that creates a lot of signal perturbation/costs)

- agile? => Trying to cut on correctness and detailed specifications to ship value faster result in insecure useless softwares. Ofc a startup owner does not care of the sustainability of his product because he will cash out a lot of $$ before the problem will happen. But what about the customers and the economy relying on it?

- Web as an UI because web dev is less expensive than GUI devs/shipping? GUI devs then where making atrocious bugs because they were clueless on asynchronuous coding (reentrant code) and money related data still needs to be transactional (transactional is a property that is exclusive of distributed). Devs that understand this class of problems are still few, and Web dev is causing even more problems.

- The Cloud? It has non linear costing! If you x2 your customers you cannot predict your pricing unless you make fat margins, and swap KPEX and slowly linear OPEX for strongly growing non linear OPEX is kind of totally mathematically irrational (except for the one doing fat margins).

- Containers? In 1999 the problem of the GUI was already the dependency Hell. Well, now instead of solving the satisfiability of dependencies (NP complete problem) in one closed system you do it on a set of M containers that still requires internal KSAT solving (yes instead of solving one KSAT, you solve N KSAT coupled to M KSAT). (so we created the DevOps and more security holes!)

When automation can replace people, it means the industry does not requires skilled people. That is not the case.

Can't you see there is a trivial contradiction in the thesis of this article?

Seriously this insanity never ends? IT industry is just bullshiting the rest of the economy to sustain its totally insane model and paying our daily wages.

I would be happy of this waste of money (I am a still a coder) if only people were not starving in the streets and our economies were not suffering and thus creating instabilities all around the world. I long for the internet 2.0 bubble to explode soon so that we can get back to an economy that profits to everyone not only the IT crowd.
I indeed did say happy. Should have the context on my screen when typing replies. You have a point of course; they do have a choice. Sort of. If you are not very talented but you did get a CS degree (which holds for a lot of people), what are you choices really?

Guess the point was that outsourcing is no longer cheap (it is) and I only know about coders as that's what I encounter every day, I'm not thinking call centre employees etc. So it's rather logical why all try to get a CS degree, as the article probably applies well to call centres or manual labor. For CS is see a bright future; I would just like it more if Indian founders would go for nice, high quality startups offering services for 70% of western prices instead of massive factories hiring anything they can get and selling for 30% (and rising).
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Wait a second. Cups are a measure of volume and not weight, though. Grams is not the right unit to compare here.
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> How tall/old/heavy is {important person}?

This!

My love affair with Google Now started with exactly this query. Me and my friends were debating over Hina Rabbani Khar's height[1].

[1] https://www.google.co.in/search?q=How+tall+is+Hina+Rabbani+K...
If I understand the quotes correctly, Page is talking about marketing Google to users, while Thiel is referencing Google's sales of search ads. Two totally different topics.
...though if the labor market is at all free that should self-correct pretty quickly. Unfortunately we tend to tie things like retirement and health care directly to employment, totally distorting that market.
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We have control in principle, and, in practice, if the public was energized enough about this it would get done. It's just that the bar is set extremely high and it's almost unthinkable what abuses might need to occur to get that much attention to the drug issue. The reason we're in this situation to begin with is that drug users are poor advocates for their own cause and they are easy targets for discrimination and persecution. The biggest reason is that drug users are a small minority that's mostly invisible. If you eliminate marijuana it gets even smaller.
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I had visited a small company working on their bus booking application. The owner had a big screen in front of him monitoring his employees. My ex-colleague who is now working in TCS says they use camera as well.
I know we always talk about rich families accumulating wealth, but what about corporations? Apple has $150 billion in cash sitting idly, accumulating more every time someone buys an iThing. That's money that's disappearing in the short term.
It's too bad that this wiki absolutely refuses to even mention the problem of anyone who doesn't identify as female being raped or sexually assaulted.
Perhaps you missed it when the GP made the point that "Just because we are correctly critical of some aspects of technological process doesn't mean we have become a bunch of petty pessimists who are just trying to make everyone feel bad."
Did you live in Tokyo?
Clearly you've not heard of uCLinux.
As a kid in Germany, I used to eat a slice of bread with butter and jam or nutella on it, sometimes with cheese, plus a glass of OJ or milk. Sometimes cornflakes with oatmeal/muesli and cold milk and maybe some fruit, which I still do every morning.

I do enjoy a good hotel breakfast with baked beans, crisp bacon and hash potatoes (plus the normal continental bread/jam/cheese selection), but I wouldn't dream of preparing food myself in the morning when I'm still asleep.
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You're tempting the gods when you say "no possible way." Recent history has shown repeatedly that when it comes to hacking especially access to funds, defenses are good for only short periods of time.
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I'm not sure what you think I was saying. What I was saying was that I'm okay with Reddit not shutting down subreddits. What happened to Kathy was horrible and I don't condone it. But, while whack-a-mole-ing on the internet may make people feel better it doesn't fix the problem. Shutting down forums is a copout.
sigh - this question comes up so often.

No.

1. Candidates are not stupid neither are companies - trying to fill "quotas" is both wasteful and does not have a good ROI.

2. The assumption that the reason companies are not diverse is because one group of individuals is more skilled is wrong.

Diversity is not about hiring one group over another. It is about limiting and highlighting the explicit and implicit biases that exist in every organization and working to resolve them.

This can be done, for example, by making sure job ads have gender neutral language - so many do not, which turns off female candidates - which is why they are not very diverse.
Hey guys, no need to worry about those workers' health. They won't have a job soon, anyway.
Meh. Pulseaudio works and JACK doesn't. Your argument is invalid.
With anything (IMHO), you should first learn to play by the rules. Later on you can learn/discover when to break them. But that takes experience and judgement, which little kids may not yet have.
There are approximate conversions for recipes, since many American recipes use volume measures and expect you to have measuring cups, while European recipes expect you to have a kitchen scale. But yes, there isn't any single conversion, since density varies: there's one cups/grams ratio for granulated sugar, one for powdered sugar, one for sifted flour, one for water, etc.
And both the first two might have never have come to pass were it not for the global political situation. Soo...
I _think_ my pictures loaded on time, but since they animated when i was scrolling I thought maybe they hadn't loaded before so scrolled up anyway. It was frustrating in my modest experience.
From the Netherlands, when I was young I didn't know many kids who were allowed refined sugar/equivalent for breakfast and now I don't know many parents allowing their kids refined sugar for breakfast. Or at all actually unless at special occasions or in very low quantities. Pop tarts (or equivalent) for breakfast sounds absolutely horrible to be honest. Olives on the other hand...

I grew up on brown bread with cheese for breakfast as did my friends; we are all almost 2 meters tall; is it a coincidence? :)
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Kill your idols. Those people are brilliant and extremely talented at their craft, but like all of us they suffer from the near sightedness that results from decades spent in a few especially detailed fields of expertise. And at the end of the day, they're just humans - susceptible to biases as much as anyone else.

Of course you want to listen to them and incorporate their ideas and viewpoints; but part of growing as a professional is knowing how to balance that with your own experience and knowledge, and having the courage to say (after thinking long and hard) "this guy is full of shit".

DHH's opinion on web frameworks is more valuable than his opinion on game engines. Torvalds' opinion on operating systems is more valuable than his opinion on robotics programming. The same applies to anything you hear from experts. In fact, being in a position of expertise can often lead you into a sense of false certainty about your knowledge: I am a master of X, of course it applies to Y! Well, some insights might, and a few general truths might emerge, but that's the extent of it and it's certainly not systematic.
> Europeans understand this, which is why they've outlawed Nazism. It's to express as a society that such a thing is not acceptable. By expressing that it is acceptable, you are participating tacitly.

If you live in the US you're clearly in the wrong country.

> I think that you sell your integrity away by capitalizing on your privilege and oppressing people, either actively and directly, by being a nazi; actively and indirectly

Zero to Godwin's Law in, what? Two posts. Goodbye.
I only skimmed it but did he ever say what he was using it for? It seemed to focus more on how it feels to wear than the utility.
What is this trend of writing a lot of words about a new product without ever saying what it is? Am I supposed to already know all the strange, early brands that just released a developer kit? At least this article is linking to the Myo web page at the beginning (that means a context-switch, maybe I'll not even bother returning), and the Myo page actually says what it does (many presentation pages just have a catchy phrase like "it changes everything" without bothering to tell what it is).
You are blindly assuming the FBI and the courts are good guys, non-corrupt, and consistent. This is not borne out by evidence, to borrow a phrase from another commenter.
Since its so early stage, there aren't many applications released yet. So, I figured I'd focus on the device itself and wait to have more data before tackling the uses.
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Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep that in mind for next time.
> Personally, I preferred Cortana over Siri. And it basically comes down to speed and responsiveness. Cortana is much quicker to launch, and much quicker to find results.

I haven't used Cortana, and have only had disappointing experiences with Siri (after coming from Google Voice Search); how does the performance on Google Voice Search Compare? I wonder if the performance rankings are just a complete reversal of the quality rankings; If so, I wonder who's closest to the sweet spot?
From my understanding of this issue, that money is "owned" by the Apple stockholders, and is incorporated into the company's stock price. If a corporation has a lot of money, its shareholders have that money. Same with anything else the company owns--buildings, equipment, etc.
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other interview was finished 15 minutes early with 2 problem solved.
Another way to to read betteridge's law of headlines is to say "this article won't answer that question". Which it didn't back in 1999.
I don't think age has anything to do with finding a demand within a given market. You can be any age, at any phase in your life to realize there is a need in a certain market, and to find the motivation and will each day to meet those needs. Younger founders have the edge generally because they're freshly trained with newer and innovative technology, but a person who graduated from college 10 years ago, doesn't necessarily need to rely on those innovations - they have something different, experience within an industry, as well as time to make connections and build relationships within those industries. Business always boils down to one thing. People. If you know people, and you know how to add value to their life and meet their needs, you'll be fine. Age doesn't play a role at all. Only the will of the individual. As far as job opportunities go, and if working on a start up is "okay" in your 30s and 40s... I have yet to find/research a time in human history when all was stable in any given economy. You simply can't predict the future, so it's best to minimize risk given your experiences, assess you current situation, but have the balls to try something new. No matter your age/stage in life, you are responsible for creating your own opportunities.
But both provide secure application isolation, don't they?