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arstechnica.com 7y ago

Scientists found brain’s internal clock that influences how we perceive time

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

Six Years, Four Sore Feet, 2,650 Miles

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www.reuters.com 8y ago

At Beijing security fair, an arms race for surveillance tech

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

How China censors the net: by making sure there’s too much information

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com 8y ago

The Great Firewall of China: Beijing bans: my emperor, lifelong control, and 'N'

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Beg, Borrow or Steal: How Trump Says China Takes Technology

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medium.com 8y ago

How to Retain More of Every Book You Read

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www.economist.com 8y ago

Decades of optimism about China’s rise have been discarded

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www.foxbusiness.com 9y ago

Steve Case: Jobs Created by High-Growth Startups, Not Small Biz

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

Apple Removes New York Times Apps from Its Store in China

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www.prnewswire.com 9y ago

Kryptowire Found Chinese Mobile Firmware Transmitted PII Without User Consent

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www.realclearpolitics.com 9y ago

Debate Text Mining: Trump Has a Cousin in Perot

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www.msn.com 9y ago

I trolled my IRS scammers for weeks and learned something really dark

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fortune.com 9y ago

Uber's Surrender to Didi Shows the Steep Odds U.S. Tech Faces in China

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venturebeat.com 10y ago

Founders: What to do when you’re replaced as CEO

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blog.trendmicro.com 10y ago

Setting the Record Straight on Baidu's Moplus SDK and the Wormhole Vulnerability

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cryptorials.io 10y ago

Free Anonymous Internet Project: Browse, Publish, Shop in Private

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chinadigitaltimes.net 10y ago

(China) Police Say 15,000 Arrested for Internet Crimes

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www.msn.com 10y ago

Software Engineer Developing a 'Taxi' Drone

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globalvoicesonline.org 10y ago

Shanghai Telecom Triples Cost of Access to Overseas Websites

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foreignpolicy.com 10y ago

Sorry China, the Internet You’re Looking for Does Not Exist

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www.npr.org 11y ago

How Corruption Affects the Time It Takes to Do Business (audio)

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github.com 11y ago

BRICKS is a list for all the domains blocked by the Chinese GFW

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

Caving in to China's Power

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zmh0.wordpress.com 11y ago

Cyberattacks: 200M times per second (English translation of a HK news)

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lightbox.time.com 11y ago

Meet Nixie, the Selfie Drone You Wear on Your Wrist

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www.businessinsider.com 11y ago

Former NSA Official: 4 Things E. Snowden Gets Wildly Wrong About American Spying

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www.voanews.com 12y ago

Freeing China's Sina Weibo

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money.cnn.com 12y ago

7 businesses Amazon wants to shake up

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www.slate.com 12y ago

Why Can’t Big Brother Find MH370?

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It also only supports texts with simplified characters. I’ll eventually add support for traditional characters. The silver lining is that when you add a flashcard for a simplified character, you’ll also get a flashcard for the traditional character. It’ll be suspended by default so you’ll have to unsuspend if you want to study it.

This goal is difficult the way you put it. In Chinese, besides reduction in strokes, a number of traditional characters (of different or similar meanings but mostly pronounced the same) are converted into one simplified character. In other words, traditional character set has a n-to-1 relationship with simplified character set. For most characters this n=1, but you would also see n=2,3... quite often.

For this reason, you would often see articles awkwardly converted from simplified characters into traditional characters when it's done automatically. The other direction--traditional character to simplified character conversion--has no such problem.

so China knowing things about me affects me much less.

Not if you have a few experiences when a recipient or sender verified with you that his/her/your email had disappeared. When that happened, we keep wondering did who say what which angered the email provider or hit the censor black list. Such things never happened with email provider from other countries. The same emails finally got through when we switched to gmail or alike.

It could go either direction. There was an startup Innopage in Hongkong news these two days claiming that the design of its iOS App "Worthy" was copied in merely 2 months by China's Alibaba after the latter sent a 10-member delegation team to visit Innopage in Hong Kong. Alibaba responded that "there is no factual and legal basis." What can a startup do?

(The following articles are all in chinese) Founder Keith Li's article: http://www.grandline.hk/2015/02/%E4%B8%80%E5%B0%81%E6%B2%92%...

News: http://startupbeat.hkej.com/?p=1197

Alibaba's response: https://thestandnews.com/finance/%E8%A2%AB%E6%8C%87%E6%8A%84...

And the thing that China has, that the NSA most certainly does NOT have, is support of the public.

Public Support? First of all, Chinese government is known to hire internet commentators to show the public is on the government side.

Secondly, if you have read some comments from Sina Weibo (China's twitter), you would know the public don't support, but can't do anything about the censorship. China comes from a era when simply saying the wrong thing against the leader could get you killed. The latest news this month was five prominent Chinese figures has been detained for attending a private meeting discussing the 25th anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Also a journalist in her 70s has been detained with her son "on suspicion of leaking state secrets to a foreign entity." Both incidents were reported in this news story:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/07/world/asia/china-pu-zhiqia...

Wow, speed is great. I'll definitely check it out. However, the second statement still seems to be valid: OSM is still at the street name level rather than street number level.

I read some MapQuest's document saying that Mapquest actually took points on a street and interpolate all the numbers. Maybe OSM can do the same. Eagerly waiting...

Maybe I overlook? Are there turn-by-turn navigation api yet? Over the last year, every time I check it seems to be not available yet. I believe most or all streets in OSM only support up to street level rather than street NUMBER level. Well, please point me to some counter-examples if I am wrong.

I understand Hugo's marketing effort. But most foreign companies cannot take a bite of their market because you need to accept the Chinese Communist Party's censorship first. Many foreign innovative apps are blocked and then cloned in-house with the censorship enforced. So their apps are not valued high outside of China and beyond Chinese as well.

"while remaining in compliance with China's legal and regulatory requirements." It could mean Chinese Government will start blocking main AWS services outside of China to avoid noncompliance's just like what it did with Google search.

3 days after the launch, there have been 8500 users, mostly chinese users. Some reported that they joined twitter the first time. They are hoping more users join from overseas to help the speed.