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Games are Tencent's backyard and cash cow.

Smart move. Tencent's investing but not controlling strategy make it good supporter of the new generation of ambitious entrepreneurs against AAAAF(Apple Alphabet Amazon Alibaba Facebook): - JD - Didi - Snap - Meituan-Dianping ……

This is Martin Zinkevich's invited talk on Reliable Machine Learning in the Wild - NIPS 2016 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/site/wildml2016nips/schedule

The self-driving car is just a component of bigger system, as new generation of servers on cloud centers. Riding service is cloud computing. I bet on Uber or Didi in China.

There is a similiar post(and several discussions) on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5gutxy/d_t...

Actually, Apple is one of sponsors of this year's NIPS conference: https://nips.cc/Conferences/2016/Sponsors

It is based on Orbeus's technology which was acquired by Amazon. Orbeus was found by two Chinese guys in Boston University.

It is from a 17 year old high school student: https://github.com/SullyChen .

Ha. I never noticed it. Thanks!

Native Chinese here.

There were many cultural and regional differences between cities. China is a country compared to the whole Europe in scale. People in different cities even can not talk with each other. The dialects are very different, especially in the south.

Unfortunately, nowadays nearly all cities in China are more and more similar during mass construction in recent 20 years. When travelling in different cities, I often had a moment to forget which city I was in. Same building, same street, same chained stores.

It should be useful that there is a bot which automatically gets the older threads as a reply.

Is there any good tool to turn Audio into transcript? It took longer for me to listen than read.

Li Mu, the core developer behind MXNet, works for Amazon recently.

Sorry for the replication. It seems that HN should have a better duplicates removal algorithm.

@ibdknox 's blog "Two years of Eve" is useful to understand why of Eve: http://www.chris-granger.com/

As for AI, Apple is a small and outsider player which will hurt in the long term.

In China, Didi (acquired Uber China recently) drivers is more than ten times as the taxis: 14 million vs. 1.35 million. It operates in more than 360 cities.

>This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team,Qihoo 360 Inc.)

A Chinese hacker

There are some discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/53thtt/zuul_2_...

How did you choose the blogs? What is the standard?

WeChat integrated everything:

- Blogging platform? Yes. there are public accounts for enterprises and individuals to publish articles or videos.

- BBS? Yes. there are groups to connect every social circles for you. Every circles. Groups for little family(wife and children), bigger family(plus my parents), even bigger family(plus my brothers and sisters)... Groups for classmates of primary schools, secondary school and high school and universities. Groups for various working circles, groups for various special interests circles.

- Twitter or Instagram or Periscope? Yes. There is friends circle for it. I have thousands of connections on Wechat, and tens of thousands of followers on Twitter, hundreds of thousands of followers on Weibo. But more likes or comments (and from guys I know and real) on WeChat.

- And services you can imagine: Tickets for films, taxi hailing, food or flower delivery, online shopping...

I rarely bring cash or credit cards with me these days. I can pay nearly for everything everywhere with WeChat.

WeChat is for mobile phone as Windows for PC or browser for Web. Actually much more than that.

In China, you can find QR codes everywhere. And the first response for that is open WeChat.

MySQL is dominant in China Internet companies.

It is Foursquare on steroids.

Why not? As a hardware-centered platform company, car is obviously the next computing platform.

They meant proprietary technologies were replaced by open sources or in-house ones.

"India is primed to have the largest developer population in the world by 2018" ——No. The largest developer population is in China with more than 5 million developers now.

I found a link at QQ.com, which is the portal and news site operated by Tecent itself: http://tech.qq.com/a/20160321/030364.htm

Actually this report is so popular in China Internet circle that it seems that everybody has read it.

Beijing's importance is not driven mainly by the government (although open-mindedness of the government definitely contributed to this), but by the ecosystem: best universities (Peking University and Tsinghua University among dozens of others) and best research institutions (the Chinese Academy of Sciences and research centers of big companies), most big VCs, IT communities/media, and most important, entrepreneurs.

In Beijing, if you have time, you can attend some interesting IT meetup everyday. It is what you can not see in Shanghai or Shenzhen.

Talk to somebody in Shanghai or Shenzhen startup community. You will have the insights.

Beijing is absolutely the counterpart of Silicon Valley in China with similar area and much bigger population. Although two of big old three (Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent) is located outside of Beijing, most Internet companies especially new stars such as Didi, Meituan-Dianping, Xiaomi are all here.

Beijing has two tech hot spots now: [Zhongguancun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongguancun) and [Wangjing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangjing_Subdistrict).

Native Beijing guy here. I'd like to answer any question about the city or the startup ecosystem.