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somerandomone··on G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
Yeah, but they usually don't originate from the same location. So instead of matching destination, now you have to match destination and departure location.
somerandomone··on Tesla's $35k Model 3 Sedan to Start Production in 2 Years
Yeah, >Model 3, our smaller and lower cost sedan will start production in about 2 years. -- Elon Musk
somerandomone··on “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
This is different. China(ese government) has a much, much stronger incentive and political resolution to reinforce their Internet speech control than crackdown a couple of bitcoin miners.
somerandomone··on “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
> I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.

Can the author reach the US by whatever mean and apply for political asylum? That 'fear that they will suffer persecution due to: ... Political opinion'[0] seems legit.

[0] http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum

somerandomone··on China Moves to Devalue Yuan
First of all, that comment is mixed with a bit of rant. But seriously, the issue is so much more than mere access to Facebook. The connection to GitHub, Google Code, or anything via ssh or HTTPS in general is slow, flaky and frustrating. This poses a cost on acquiring latest news and technology, collaborating and deploying. AS for the walled garden, there's a Chinese saying of 闭门造车, which says if you build a cart with a closed door without any exchange of ideas, you can't make much progress. (Though that's not what the phrase originally meant, but the meaning when the phrase evolved)
somerandomone··on China Moves to Devalue Yuan
As long as the government doesn't allow unobstructed access to foreign websites that aren't even remotely related to politics I don't see that transition any time soon. </rant>
somerandomone··on Nvidia Digits DevBox
The difference is between "given this particular hardware and OS setup, the driver will work correctly, guaranteed." vs. "on your (discontinued) Sony laptop with a strange hardware interface running the beta Slackware release the driver will probably work"
somerandomone··on History of largest strongly connected component in Debian bootstrap
I'll take a shot. If I understand it correctly, basically components have dependencies. For example, A depends on B and B depends on C, etc. If you have A depends on B... and somehow along the path you have a cycle, eg. E depends on A, you have a problem because in order to install A, you need to install B, C,... E. But in order to install E you need to install A first. So you have to break the dependency cycle.
somerandomone··on Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
Nah, they will just sweep it under the rug in the name of national security. Not even a post-mortem because that would put some highly ranked people whom about to become the advisors of the defense industry on the grilling fire.
somerandomone··on Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
But unlike F4, F35 has a main gun, and I think that demonstrates the dogfight doctrine still has its way. Unfortunately that gun has its own problem [1].

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/31/new-u-s-ste...

somerandomone··on Reading Is Forgetting
I'm curious because once you have the ability to understand several-hour-per-page materials reading novels should be a breeze?
somerandomone··on Securing Email Communications from Facebook
Sure. Let's say I want to use the public key listed at here[0], like this[1]. This[2] is the error message.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9kwqLwGBg_7NGd4QlRreU5hSFE...

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9kwqLwGBg_7WlpqUFlEWmRMY2c...

somerandomone··on Securing Email Communications from Facebook
Bug report: the add public key page doesn't recognize the public key exported by GnuPG which has the header

  -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
  Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin)
I figured out that the second line with version should be removed but the error message is not quite helpful.
somerandomone··on Names of the chemical elements in Chinese
Inventing computer with Chinese/Arabic is inherently harder because it's more difficult to type such characters. Once you pass the punctuation card stage, now what? Build a huge keyboard with 10s of thousand of Chinese characters? It took 13 years for MS-DOS to support typing in Chinese.
somerandomone··on USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016
The goal of marriage really shouldn't be getting a visa... I'm saddened that we have to entertain this solution. It feels almost like exchange my body for some materialistic goal when I think about it (of course I'm not OP).
somerandomone··on USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016
L-1 visa holders can't change job.
somerandomone··on MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing
I wonder how they prevent Remote Code Execution. Because >just embed arbitrary html/css/js is THE definition of RCE.
somerandomone··on Why 40-Year Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control
I would argue it is broken. >It can handle a limited amount of traffic, and controllers can't see anything outside of their own airspace—when they hand off a plane to a contiguous airspace, it vanishes from their radar.

To me there's no way to tell if the plane flies out of their space or drops out of the sky at that moment. If that's the case the search and rescue won't be better had MH370 happened in the US.

somerandomone··on Ask HN: Coming to the USA for a study exchange, where are the tech hubs?
You can work anywhere regardless of your/company's physical location as an F-1 student. The restriction is placed on the company's and position's type. The nature of the job must be related to your major, and the employment is subject to approval from USCIS in the form of CPT and/or OPT.

Source: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/f-1-opt-optional-practic...

and I'm an F-1 student myself.

somerandomone··on Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
That's one example of management being utterly technologically incompetent, which unfortunately is the case in a lot of Chinese companies.
somerandomone··on Browser Vulnerability to Superfish: A Fact-Finding Trip to Best Buy [pdf]
I originally discovered this issue a month ago when debugging my friend's Lenovo laptop. Neither chrome nor IE can render battle.net correctly because the HTML injection is not properly escaped. Since the problem persists after a fresh recovery, I guess it's from some pre-installed software. I almost reported it to FBI.
somerandomone··on “A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”
I don't understand, what's the point of such spamming? It's not advertising a brand or a product at first sight (I read it casually).
somerandomone··on China
Well, not really. Then you have all the funding agencies above them.
somerandomone··on How Misaligning Data Can Increase Performance 12x (2013)
It's probably because if your data is spanned across two pages, it may require a lot of page swaps if you access data back and forth?
somerandomone··on China
Speaking from personal experience, the atmosphere in the U.S. is a lot better than in China, in terms of the recognition of importance and respect to science and technology fields as well as scientists and engineers. I feel an implicit discrimination towards engineers in Chinese culture in the sense that "you are regarded successful if you hold a management position and live a (perceived) decent lifestyle, but not if you get your hands dirty, tinkering around stuff and being managed." when I worked in China. In Chinese college, the "elite majors" including cooperation and government management usually have the highest bar of admission.
somerandomone··on 77% will not download a Retail app rated lower than 3 stars
No I mean in the sense that I don't "trust high star rating but I'm inclined to trust lower star ratings." I find myself unconsciously weighting individual really poor review much higher than general good reviews.
somerandomone··on 77% will not download a Retail app rated lower than 3 stars
I used to take the same approach towards restaurant reviews on Yelp, which from personal experience caused me to miss a lot of great restaurants.
somerandomone··on The C++ bashing season is back (2009)
>But for some kinds of applications it seems that the only viable options are still C and C++ ... and you could never, ever, make it so fast and small using any other language. C++ and C are the only options you have here.

Is Go a viable alternative now?