cheshirecat's comments

Thank you for the reply. I think I need to use very different styles for the submissions for HN and Reddit.

Very interesting. What are the real differences between HN and /r/programming? Seems the users from one site despise those from the other.

I agree with you. The only curious thing here is I feel the project might be a bit interesting for HN as well. HN and /r/programming should not be that different...

When it's first shown on Reddit there were tens of visitors in the first few minutes, far more than the case for HN.

Thank you. Unfortunately it seems most of the visitors won't check it :(

A separate example of very advanced strategies in the simplest game: Rock Paper Scissors Programming Competition

http://www.rpscontest.com

Personally I think it is somehow ahead of these academic researches in some sense.

1) Get into fullscreen mode.

2) Swing your mouse to a corner or a border, and click.

3) There are 14 possible functions depending on which corner / border you choose.

Gone are the old days of finding buttons :-)

There are more functions hidden in it. And it has native support of TeX and Code - good for discussing scientific / programming topics. Let me know your comments and feedback :-)

I think it's cool that you know 985 :-) 985 is like Tier 1.5, so they are already decent comparing to the other 2000+ universities in China. But I never heard about "Ningda"...

Most common rural guys I know want to be a boss deep in their hearts, but they are less likely to reveal that to a foreigner. Chinese people are quite shy about their dreams. On the other hand, it is probably better to ask this question in urban regions. If someone goes to a Texas farm and ask their opinions on founding Internet Startups, probably the answers won't be very encouraging as well.

One thing I like about the Gaokao (University Entrance Exam) system: it is good for one thing - the family connections matter less than in US for this matter. As long as your score is impressive enough, you are in Tsinghua / Peking.

And that's why I have some faith in China. China has this "Exam to Win" system for 1400 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination which explains why the Chinese are so good at it.

Take a look at the President of China (Hu Jintao). He has no family background at all (surprise), and got into the best university by his own efforts. But we only heard media fussing about Obama being the American Dream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao

"Though his father owned a small tea trading business in Taizhou, the family was relatively poor. His mother was a teacher and died when he was seven, and he was raised by an aunt. Hu's father was later denounced during the Cultural Revolution, an event that (together with his relatively humble origins) apparently had a deep effect upon Hu, who diligently tried to clear his father's name.[6]"

People who studied Chinese Politics 101 knows the de facto ruling authority of China is a group of 9 persons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_of...

and after Mao and Deng, no one has such power to overwhelm the other eight. Talk to a Chinese about Hu being a dictator and he wil laugh. (Yes, the Communist Party is dictating, but there are ~80 million people in it. No, I am not one of them. Actually I find it a bit scary that almost all of the smartest young people I know are now in it, and they are not naive teens - most of them are i-bankers / phds in top WallSt firms and US universities. Think about what will happen in 20 years).

Interesting enough, all of the 9 persons has no connections as well (except for the newly elected and soon-to-be-president Xi, who is the son of a former Vice-Premier. China is following the same path as every other developed country). What's more interesting: they are all Engineers. Shocking fact: China is a country running as a machine (at least at the highest level). Engineers couldn't care less about the people, but you can bet the country surely "move fast and break things". China = Crazy Startup (and yes, employees do suffer. No talk of democracy in companies). Consider this: if China is really so deeply corrupted, how come it is also developing so fast?

Eventually the lawyers and businessmen will take over and people will talk about China being the "largest democracy". Good thing for the people. I am not sure whether it will be good for the country. Aren't the people more important than the country? Or not? Tough question. I think it depends on the development stage.

TL;DR: The Chinese system is bad for the people. But it works well for the country. China is very corrupted in some sense, and highly effective in another sense.

Try asking about it in a better Chinese university. 5000+ startups listed on 17startup.com and growing everyday.

Besides, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-an...

Entrepreneurial attitudes in Europe compared to the US and Asia // Chinese people have the strongest preference for self-employment (71%), Japanese people the weakest (39%). Similarly, Chinese think it is quite possible to become one’s own boss (49%). In Japan only 12% consider this career option possible. // A higher ratio of Chinese (40%) than Americans (38%) declare that they have first-hand experiences in starting a business. In Europe and Japan these figures are rather low (22% and 20%), even lower than in South Korea (31%). In the US, entrepreneurs enjoy a good reputation. 73% of US citizens questioned in this survey said that they have a favourable image of entrepreneurs. In Europe, at least about half of the population (49%) has a favourable image of entrepreneurs. In China the ratio is only 40%, in Japan (32%) and Korea (30%) even lower.

The richest person in China did get sent to prison: 14 years for stock market manipulation (cant imagine how many hedge fund PMs will be there if people enforce this in every country. personally I think the punishment is severe). Nothing to brag about, but he went there himself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Guangyu The "body double"-stuff is rare and can likely happen in those poor undeveloped regions in China, where money can buy you anything. In better developed regions, the officers won't risk it, unless you are exceptionally "connected" I guess. Medias and Internet are quite good at revealing such scandals in China nowadays, which is why the Chinese government is so afraid of them.

Current Features:

1) Simple uncluttered interface using a single-page design. Most functions are hidden and can be switched on / off with a quick swing of mouse in fullscreen mode. For example, click the top-right corner for an even cleaner view.

2) The two columns can be navigated separately: back / forward / refresh for each of them. Use mouse wheel to scroll.

3) All posts of a person are integrated into his / her user page feed, and you can jump between the exact positions in the user page and the topic page, such that you can easily read everything from the interesting users and discover good topics.

4) You can focus on someone to only show his / her posts inside a topic, and then defocus on one of them to get to its position inside the original topic.

5) You can post on your or other's user page directly. And you can follow users and be followed. You can also create, edit and delete lists of topics.

6) You can edit / delete you posts, and rename / hide / lock your topics at any moment. Hence you can even use it as a todo list or a bookmark organizer.

7) TeX and Code support. Good for scientific and programming topics. You can customize the font type, size, and line height. The site is also very friendly on your data bandwidth.

This is called Diophantine approximation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine_approximation

p.s. Take a look at the "Liouville's result" part.