teawithcarl

The best article on this matter, by the best journalist on China, John Garnault.

http://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-ho...

Panhandle Lake is NOT the most remote place in the Boundary Waters. Not by any stretch. A clay foot algorithm.

I’ve had 100 square miles alone to myself in the BWCA for days/weeks and know the park well.

Since the BWCA is adjacent to the Quetico (on the Canadian side of the border), the concept of remote skews much further north. Time of year is also “remote” ... late October/early November is beautiful, if you don’t get “iced-in” for winter and can neither canoe nor walk out.

A relatively remote lake is Lake Kiana, where I’ve been between two simultaneous wolf packs (100 yds and 150 yards away in opposite directions). BWCA is where Yellowstone re-populated its wolves from. That close to 20-25 wolves chasing deer in the deep of night ... you listen for the “yip, yip, yip” of the pups trying to learn and keep up.

The sprinkling of intellectual “philosophy articles” in Hacker News have been of outstanding quality.

Yes, I believe you catch the gist of it.

It’s a calculation which proves there is indeed a complexity point whereby quantum computing will exceed classical computing ... by proving mathematically that adding enough qubits will suffice that.

Keep in mind this proof still hints at “a class of problems/calculations” which qubits will overwhelm, not a general overwhelming of everything. At least that’s my reading.

Still this mathematical proof is indeed interesting.

Albert - Ignore the naysayers and keep writing your book and ideas. I have followed your writing for years, and share many of your hunches. As did Aaron Schwartz. It's a bold attempt at a future worth working on. Abundance is indeed here now, and attainable in a more equitable distribution. Not easily - indeed it's hard work - harder still allowing the negativity on Hacker News.

Each time the Cruise starts from a stop light, it's too slow.

Every time ... cars pass it, and dive into its lane (a typical reaction to slow moving vehicles).

Still, nice accomplishment.

Regreyably, Chiyonofuji - the dominate Yokozuna of the 1990's decade (a lightwieght, strong, judo-esque wrestler and a sublime Japanese gentleman) is not included in the article.

It's actually worse than described in this article. XiJinPing is beyond ruthless, law is meaningless. Even this under-describes the reality.

An exceptional well-written article ... about pure intellectualism.

Four things that actually help -

1) a shower before sleeping.

2) stop using iPad/iPhone and TV two hours before sleep. (I also use orange light bulbs which don't emit blue light near bedtime.)

3) begin sleep and wake up at regular times.

4) settling down mentally for the day gradually two hours before sleep.

Lawrence Lessig (@Lessig) has yet to comment on Twitter - he clerked under Scalia.

Lessig also clerked under Richard Posner, considered by many to be the top legal theorist in America.

In 1992, I saw Scalia in person preside over a three-judge panel (including two other federal district judges) at Harvard - at the Ames Moot Court, the famous moot (fake) court for the very best two teams of third-year law students.

He did an excellent job over the two day proceedings. It was fascinating to watch in person.

In a parallel event in the evening, I watched Scalia take questions in an open air pavilion lawn (with no security whatsoever, just an open event on campus). At one point an audience member asked him, "What's the most difficult area of law for you personally to judge?"

After seriously furrowing his brow and mind, he finally and sincerely proffered up ... "Indian (Native American) law".

My take on his answer - he found that area of law truly difficult as a strict constructionist.

Awesome, thanks. Bought two for my friends.

My account has various drag-coefficients on it - which "dang" can see ... all of which hamstring my ability to participate (anywhere near) equally on HN.

Dang, the commenter you are fighting with is right.

I had my account hell banned by posting "too many articles about Snowden/NSA".

PG even modified the HN code to automatically friction-drag (partially flag) articles of such content. He simply blocked content which didn't agree with his viewpoint.

I lost nearly all respect for HN over this.

I am a solid citizen here (my comments are solid and regularly upvoted), yet my account is hell-banned primarily for my views.

I personally believe this is proof that "peak-HN" and "peak-YC" has already occurred.

Le Keqiang is not "some apparatchik" - he's the #2 leader in all of China, and a superlative scientist.

In the early days a joke circulated around Beijing in "China hand" circles as follows:

What's the difference between a Hong Kong Chinese and a mainland Chinese?

The Hong Kong Chinese knows the difference between 1/100th and 1/1000th of an inch.

By the way, Li Keqiang (#2 in China leadership) is a fantastic scientist, wonderfully inquisitive/open-minded about knowledge, and is encyclopedic. Great guy.

"sharetea" has the right idea.

I've studied China for 29 years, speak/read Chinese and Japanese well, and have lived there long stretches.

All his statistics are correct. Most importantly is the capital flight - of both Chinese individuals and overseas investors.

sharetea is closer than the govt figures.

Smoking gun is capital flight by Chinese themselves.

The baby carrot is a bacteria nightmare, as are sliced apples. Removing the skin that early is inimical to your stomach's pro-bacterial flora and bad to the entire digestive tract - even if you can disguise the decay with a spray which causes apples not to brown, or with water to make carrots seem not spoiled. However, they both become slimy much more quickly, a telltale sign. That decay/bacteria is present from nearly the moment you shave/slice it. The stomach is the body's largest organ - many consider it the "second brain". Inimical for health to seed the stomach's flora with the bad bacteria of shaved/sliced produce.

Your comment is flatly wrong. 完全不对。 I've lived in and researched China for 28 years.

Well written.

I first passed thru ShenZhen in 1985, when it indeed was a sleepy fishing village of 10,000 people. At that time I continued on to attend 北京大学 (Beijing University), living in 中关村 (ZhongGuanCun), where many high-tech HQ's (such as BaiDu, Sina Weibo) are now.

ShenZhen has grown overnight to the 4th largest city in China, and your description of it is superb.

Joi Ito hits the nail on the head, as do you.

My trust in HN has dropped significantly since this censorship became so comprehensive.

Nice work.

Fairchild and Honeywell once considered a merger.

New name of the company ... "Fairwell, Honeychild".

Exactly, yes. :)

Thanks Chris - a superb article, deeply meaningful.

I love Gittip, and believe deeply in their philosophy goal.

I visited their hackathon Jan 2nd-4th, in Ambridge, PA.

Great team ... hard working, talented.

Chad is a superb full-stack engineer, and completely sincere in his honorable goals. I believe he and the team will succeed. And when they do, since it's bootstrapped, it will not be owned by investors.

Gittip is truly a new and deep way of thinking.

Gundotra sucked anyway. So does Google+. That's what happens when you "copy" technology, rather than rethinking/innovating. A new player to the space, and they just "copy" - that sucks. (apologize for my negativity.)

Try Google searching on Vic Gundotra "licking the cookie".

(a metaphor for making a project "his" before others can lay claim.)

"Gundotra, we’re told, would “lick the cookie” at Google by putting future products and features into presentations about Google+, long before his teams would be able to get to building them".

http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-and-politics-at-google-it...

Why has this aritcle (124 points, in 1 hour) only 15th on HN?

Who is flagging this?

Vkontakte is larger than Facebook in Russia, and the CEO has to flee due to ugly pressure. This isn't germane technology news?