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turingbookon Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property

Yes, it is very impressive. I lost my prepaid card (Suica card? withou name or password stuff) with tens of thousands of Yen in Tokyo's Disneyland train in last year. After half an hour, a sweating Metro staff found it and returned to me.

turingbookon Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?

The digitalization of the world is just beginning.

turingbookon Ask HN: What have been the biggest technical achievements of the 2010s?

The penetration of deep learning and other machine learning technologies.

turingbookon Layout 101

I really like this book. CRAP principles are very clear and easy to follow.

turingbookon Ask HN: How Do You Read?

First, choose the topic really matters to you.

Then find one good book in this field and read it carefully while doing practices.

Find other books in this field to broaden your thinking.

turingbookon Tell me something important about IT that I don't know

Focus more on the real problems over tools.

turingbookon China’s Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech

Postgres community is very small in China with MySQL dominating.

turingbookon Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences: An Attempt

One of the authors posted the PDF on GitHub: https://github.com/rdgao/WH2CogSci/blob/master/nunezetal_fin...

turingbookon Ask HN: Anyone making 200k as a software engineer outside the US?

Top level software engineers(5%-10%) in top level China Internet companies (BAT and TMD).

turingbookon Uber S-1

On the contrary, China is the most competitive country in Internet industry and Uber was beaten badly by Didi.

Actually, the success of Didi,Grab,Ola etc. vs. Uber proves that in the complex e-business, as long as there is enough market space in the local area, and you can organize a good team, you can win in the competition with foreign companies. Just like Alibaba and JD beat Amazon, Meituan beat Goupon in China.

turingbookon Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO

The original name of 36Kr is something like Chinese version of TechCrunch.

turingbookon Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

There are some better lists for laws of Software Development:

[1] http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/07/18/laws-of-software-devel...

[2] https://exceptionnotfound.net/fundamental-laws-of-software-d... (not so good but with solid discussions from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11574715 )

And more:

[3] https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/8/13/timeless-laws-so... (a whole book titled Timeless Laws of Software Development)

[4] https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/opinion-pieces/...

[5] https://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/some-laws-software-devel...

[6] http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/softwarelaws.php

turingbookon Ask HN: What are widely used Chinese cloud companies?

AliCloud is the biggest one. And Tencent Cloud, UCloud are smaller but also mainstream cloud providers.

turingbookon Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us

In China, most Android users have native feature or Apps which can block harassing calls. And every user can label the new unidentified bad call numbers. The crowdsourcing model works well.

turingbookon Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?

What kind of Software Development shops did you worked? There are several tiers of companies. Developers in outsourcing shops are bad at lots of things everywhere.

turingbookon Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?

Native Chinese guy here.

Software Development in China is more like the United States, not India. China now has several very big software development product or platform companies like Huawei(more than 80k engineers), Alibaba and Tencent(20k to 30k engineers), even the newer companies like Meituan-Dianping (market valued 30B dollars) with nearly 10k engineers.

These teams are learning closely what the counterparts in silicon valley or Seattle did and they learned fast. They also have built massive IT infrastructure.

Java and Python are the most popular languages for server side or other things, and JavaScript is the king for front-end. Newer languages like Go, Rust, Kotlin are gaining more and more adoption. It seems China has much more Go users than US！

Everyone wrote code and comments in English. There are viable programming language projects in Chinese keywords, but very, very niche.

The hottest buzzwords? K8s, Elastic, Flink, Vue (developed by a Chinese guy), deep learning, GAN, TensorFlow...

Agile is not very hot here, although Scrum stuff is often heard in office. Lean Startup(MVP) dominates.

turingbookon Ask HN: How do I prove that a certain Gmail account does indeed belong to me?

What is the streamlined recovery process like?

turingbookon Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a company run by AI yet?

Ray Dalio's Bridgewater seems to be on this track: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/22/the-biggest-hedge-fund-in-th...

turingbookon Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

CCF, the counterpart of ACM in China, has an official ranking for computer science conferences and journals classified into ABC.

The A class conferences in AI field are: AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, IJCAI, NIPS, ACL.

http://www.ccf.org.cn/xspj/rgzn/

turingbookon A good resource for financial advice to share with people in their twenties?

Searching "financial advice" on HN itself, you will get this item: This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll ever need (washingtonpost.com) 155 points by bcn 1532 days ago| 249 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6396352

turingbookon Software architecture is failing

There is a Chinese translation for this article http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2017/11/Software-architecture-d...

turingbookon Apple Pay now available as person to person through iMessage

Obviously a copycat of Wechat.

turingbookon What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence

The Chinese version: https://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20170914/what-the-worlds...

turingbookon Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?

If you can read Chinese, Meituan-Dianping Engineering Blog is a must-read: https://tech.meituan.com/

turingbookon Three New Open Source Container Utilities

This is the technical blog from the tool author: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/three-new-open-source-co...

turingbookon Ask HN: What primarily drives you upvote something on HN?

Just to save the links and comments of good articles.

turingbookon Introducing the Berkeley AI Research Blog

I wonder what is relationship between BAIR and AMP Lab?

turingbookon Chuck Thacker has died

I talked with Chuck when he visited China in 2010 just months after he was awarded Turing. He was a really nice guy. It is funny to talk with him.

He joked that he was an unfortunate guy because he always invented something decades of years ahead of mainstream era.

And the secret of so many original inventions? Read the original papers, the very old ones in various fields and learn how people initially thought, and why they failed.

turingbookon China Can’t Sustain Its Debt-Fueled Binge, Moody’s Says

Reactions from China: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/24/c_136311065.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/24/c_136312043.htm

turingbookon Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO

Steve Jobs said when his acquisition proposal was refused by Dropbox founders: it was a feature, not a product.

This is the sword of Damocles for Dropbox.