jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Hyperion series by Dan Simmons, nice mixture of sci-fi topics.
While I agree that all of these ideas have been thought of prior to the Asian chat apps, it's largely the similarity in execution that FB Messenger is taking compared to WeChat/ Line/KakaoTalk that the parent is talking about.

One important thing that the Asian messengers have executed better than the others is monetization of IM, something which has eluded Western messengers for a long time. To this day, FB still doesn't charge $$ for its stickers. Meanwhile, Line reported earnings of $600M+ and WeChat $900M+ from stickers/games/ads last year [1]. I think that's what has FB's attention.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/technology/personaltech/me...

Disclaimer: Former Meebo engineer
Boy are they screwing up, big-time.
I'm assuming this website is being served from S3 based on the HTTP headers. As I'm typing this, I get an empty Content-type: header. Is that a configuration oversight or is this par for the course if serving web pages from S3?
As a founder of a Japan based startup catering to businesses in Japan (MakeLeaps) and also as a co-organiser of the Hacker News Tokyo Meetups with my co-founder Paul, I found this article to be full of defeatism, inaccurate and generally disappointing.

A few points:

“this is accompanied by a very envious, critical and vocal audience. They underline every possible reason that the product will fail and keep doing so indefatigably. They attack the innovator on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc; and they keep doing so until the innovator raises a white flag.”

What.

There's always haters and detractors. That's part of doing anything in life, and start-ups are no exception.

Once, a Japanese guy spent 10 minutes trying to explain that our startup's failure was guaranteed because Japanese people would never upload their company stamp (a necessary function of official Japanese business documents) to a web service. Even after I told him we already have a bunch of users who are doing this, he was steadfast, so I simply crossed him off the list of people to spend time on. Problem solved.

One of the very first things we learned when selling to businesses in Japan is that social proof is a critical factor. So our focus changed to getting even a single business using our software, and then trying to feature them and promote them as much as we could.

It's pretty damn hard for people to say your product is failing when you can show you have a lot of people using it.

The more we did this, the more businesses we could get, and we continued to repeat this process until last month when we finally crossed 10,000 signed up companies in Japan.

Getting to here took years of work. This is part of a startup. Understanding your problem space and challenges, and then adapting your product and marketing message accordingly.

"Japanese businessmen tend not to trust the younger generation."

Oh yeah? Try doing a startup and being in the younger generation, AND being foreigners.

You have to build and earn trust over time. You're not handed a trust card as soon as you open a new business.

"If you look at successful Japanese start-ups, they are mostly run by CEOs who have applied the ‘foreign connection’ in some way"

This is frustratingly inaccurate, and belies a total lack of exposure and understanding of the Japanese startup scene. There are plenty of very successful startups that are based in Japan, and focused on Japan, that have zero foreign elements.

"In some cases, like Mr Son, he has managed to combine all five factors."

Commentating on the Japanese startup scene using the CEO of Softbank as an example, Softbank being a company founded in 1981 with a market cap of 43 billion dollars, makes no sense at all.

"There’s lots of venture capitalists here but they are only interested in games and new media"

Wrong. We get weekly un-solicited contacts from Japanese VCs asking for meetings with us.

This is a result of us hustling very hard over a long period of time, and working very hard to establish our credibility and stability.

The Japanese startup scene definitely has areas where it can improve, but they're at best papered over in this article.
I believe they showed this on PBS in an episode of The Elegant Universe. http://youtu.be/4yyb_RNJWUM
We're just grateful we got some games.
Really not true.

I have the karma of a simple country boy. As a HN reader, I read many of tptacek's comments, and in particular his invitation in his profile to "Don't apologize for contacting me! I'm happy to meet you." So I ran into him at HN Chicago, we talked, one thing led to another, and now I work at Matasano.

So you know about the club by reaching out to anyone you find interesting.

I am not a member of any other group that is as friendly and accessible as this one here.
You can collect data in a flat format or have the tags indicate how groups of linear data relate to one another. There are only so many combinations, and the data received is much richer than before.

This is really a simple matter. Either collect in 1-dimensional format or collect data with more depth. If there's a need for the new format, it will eventually win out, whether it leads to "tag bloat" or not. (And believe me, we already have tag bloat running out the ass with HTML. I find your concern for more bloat difficult to address given the already existing state of the spec)
HipMunk. They demonstrated that design & UI really matters.
Not sure why this got a downvote -- the question was what startup inspires _you_ the most. Inspiration doesn't have to come from the the biggest players.
I didn't have the feeling of urgency to bring something into the world when I was in my 20's. The feeling of mortality you get as you get older is a real motivator.

I suspect that those who want young people to drop out of school and start businesses are Pied Pipers running yet another "chew 'em up and spit 'em out" operation like McKinsey or grad school.
How is the Canadian stipend? And do higher-paying countries tend to pay lower stipends?

Do schools in Scandinavia and the Netherlands even care if your only language is English?
Isn't the data still collected in a flat format? x=50%, y=25%, z=25%. They're all still needed to determine the values (ok, you can remove one).

And yeah, I'm aware of existing tag bloat. But its existence is no reason to make it worse.

edit: You'll also note that the humble bundle used zero-values to make non-changing sliders, and values grow / shrink related to their current value. Should these be standard? Should they not? How do you handle it, without JS, because it too has uses? (edit2: they also have an arguable "bug"; set one to 100%, and it forgets the ratios it had before, and makes them all the same. Standard? Not? All this will come up in a standards debate, so why not get it over with now?)

I still vote fieldset + JS. This is a behavior, not a thing. And yes, radio buttons and selects are identical in that respect; I do think one shouldn't exist, as they're just behaviors of checkboxes. It seems to me to be more of a hold-over from non-JS days than anything else.
And also, the variance in the amount of money undergrads make after 6 years, compared to the variance in the $ that PhDs make. Some undergrads could earn MUCH more money than PhDs, but it's also ENTIRELY possible that undergrads could fizzle out/make a major mistake and end up in a perpetual cycle of low-wage jobs (and this can happen to the highly intelligent too)
Don't forget mandatory practical training in driving in wet/icy conditions as well as mandatory winter tires in such conditions. This probably causes some deaths in countries where such conditions occur less frequently. On the other hand, several months of snow/ice is likely adding to Swedens death toll. Training looks like this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6AJ1J5wVpMY
> The difference between Anselm's original ontological argument and modern ones like Goedel's or Plantinga's is that while Anselm's is full of terrible reasoning, Goedel's reasoning is (unsurprisingly) watertight and all the terribleness is concentrated in the axioms.

To me that makes it a success. Part of the entire game of philosophy is to use watertight reasoning to illustrate flaws in the original axioms.
Saying "prove it" is the diametric opposite to being a sheep.
> Hang on. Is this hyperbole or are you saying you've actually had not one, but multiple summers ruined just because you could get a particular spot? Seems like too rigid a definition of a summer to enjoy the very nature of summer.

My thoughts exactly.
Taxi drivers swindle everyone, they just have a wider array of tricks for swindling tourists.
According to a government report[1] 68% of workers are satisfied working for ride-sharing services. Which admittingly isn't super high, but not awful either. But the most important thing like is the independence it gives.

1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The laws are created by a minority of people who don't always vote in favour of the public.

You regulate it like a normal job, and the thing they like about it most will be removed.
If you’re designing a language, it’s not a stretch to assume that understanding how parsers work would be useful.
> Evidence for my view is evident if you add up all the little things HN readers encounter regularly. For instance, it's a rare news article posted on HN (or in other relevant communities frequented by experts) that doesn't get thoroughly ripped apart when someone posts the original source behind it, or when someone who knows the topic first-hand or second-hand chimes in.

I mean this also might have a touch of selection bias, in that the vast, vast majority of what's posted to HN is either entirely or majority related to technology, which the mainstream news sources are garbage on reporting on in general, and the bleeding edge tech stories that regularly make front page of HN even more so than those.

Fox is generally accepted as the hard Right news source of choice, and CNN the hard Liberal (not Left. Most Leftists hate pretty much all mainstream news.) What does make Fox and the Right somewhat different though is the sheer ubiquity of the Fox network relative to the conservatives. There's simply no news source or viewpoint source if you prefer that's nearly as comprehensively consumed as Fox is for conservatives. Every single conservative I know is deep in that network in one way or another.

This is also playing in the reverse direction, where Fox continues to dig deeper and deeper into the right's talking points and ways of thinking, much in the same way as the GOP has, because anything less extreme than the most extreme is viewed as compromise. Something about the Obama years fundamentally altered the Right. I don't quite know what it is, but ever since 2008, they've been doubling down and doubling down on their most fringe viewpoints, over and over. The Democrats of today act downright Republican simply because the GOP is dragging the entire politic to the right so hard.
reminds me of how things were back in the days of the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition!

EDIT: Wow, the TDP of that was only 115 watts[0]. I remember thinking it was just a monstrous power-sucker of a CPU.

0: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27492/p...
"eventually"

Windows switched to composited desktop with Vista in 2006 and didn't lose any[0] functionality. 14 years later and we're still saying "eventually" when discussing basic features Wayland should have.

[0] Technically it lost a few, the ability to ignore vsync for non-fullscreen applications being the biggest one.
Any Java-focused conferences worth going to?
Google abandons projects swiftly when they think that don't make sense; Wave, iGoogle, Reader, Glass?, Buzz, Plus?, Answers, Google Video, Google Checkout/Wallet, Orkut, Picasa, Gears, etc... When you are a large company you need to focus your resources into areas where you can be effective and not stretch yourself too thin.
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/why_...

(unofficial site) http://www.pcistandard.com/card-association-fines/
The requirement for adding -R might be useful. Consider the case of accidentally executing `xvc .` from within $HOME.

Of course, cp/mv already provide plenty of ways to obliterate your foot so...
> On the contrary, there certainly is a dollar figure, but it's far higher than any individual would be able to provide. That dollar figure is: whatever amount of money-effort it would take to save one hundred times as many people as the people I love, such that that one hundred times as many people were at least as good as the people I was killing.

With so many arbitrary qualifications there, how could you begin to evaluate the net result? Or simply, what is "at least as good as"?

> How much money would it cost to provide everlasting peace? Probably far more than the total economic output of the world in a year (that's sixty-six trillion dollars).

Continuing with the hypothetical, the species that will disappear would have prevented a global pandemic that wipes out all of humanity. And here you weren't willing to pass on a single years worth of global economic output to save the species that saved humanity. How could you! I can't really understand your prioritization, and I vehemently disagree.

There's a Zen koan that I'm going to murder here:

A boy in a village falls from his horse and breaks his leg. The village elders gather around the monk and cry "oh no, how terrible! isn't this sad for the boy to break his leg?" To which the monk replies "perhaps it is, perhaps it is not". The elders walk away in bemusement. A week passes and the despot ruler of the kindom declares war against a peaceful neighbor. Soldiers come to the village to round up all the able young men to fight. The boy with the broken leg is passed over. The village elders gather around the monk and cry "oh how fortunate for the boy to have broken his leg so that he does not have to go off to war and die! isn't it fortunate for the boy?" To which the monk replies "perhaps it is, perhaps it is not".

It's a Zen koan, so the meaning is probably buried layer under layer (assuming there's a meaning at all). But perhaps it means that everything is priceless because you can never know the real value of anything.
Actually the whole point is for both of the lights to be green in one direction! :)
You are completely free to wear a FreeBSD shirt, a "I love Satan" shirt, a Buda Shirt or whatever you like. Equally Christians are free to wear a "God loves you" shirt and I'll take no offence. I have a shirt with Jesus as a Dj. That is, you are not approaching Christians and telling them that they believe in an imaginary friend, that would be proselytizing... yet they insist on make you believe on their imaginary friend and take offense if you show that you don't care... If some Christians/Jeowah witness/whatever approaches me and tries to proselitize me I'll feel free to throw my reason into their minds and make them realize they are wasting their lifes.
Hi,

just for the record, V8 differs in one very important aspect from the JVM: it includes no interpreter. It directly compiles methods to native code before their first execution, whereas the JVM includes a highly optimized interpreter for the first couple of executions. This affects memory usage, too (a couple of things that come to mind are profiling, additional memory for de-optimization, etc.)
Awesome! The failure mode seems pretty brutal still, but it still sounds amazing from that description all the same.

The Singularity Is Near. Aunt Edna's going to see it coming on the Tube pretty soon.

(I think it ought to have to speech recognize Alex for the game though)
I agree that there's a lot of value in face-to-face interactions. Whenever I meet with clients or partners, I always try to do the meetings in person, because it's easier to reach a desirable outcome that way.

For particularly difficult discussions, such as delivering bad news, face-to-face is the only way to go, IMO.

It's interesting to note that even a distributed company like Automattic, which has gained some fame for having employees all over the globe, realizes the need to meet face-to-face once in a while:

"Probably the biggest disadvantage to being distributed is the lack of social interaction. Online tools help make up for some of this, but most people like to spend some time together to make their work experience more enjoyable. The good news is that there are ways to compensate for this. We took inspiration from the MySQL team and started having in person meetups for the whole company every 6 months."

http://toni.org/2010/03/08/5-reasons-why-your-company-should...
You have to respectfully state your argument or your comment is useless.
Is it actually doing speech recognition, or is it being fed the questions as text?
Pretty sure that doesn't count as internal use.
> valedictorians with 4.0 GPAs

Not trying to say you are wrong and not trying to claim any kind of authority as I have zero insider knowledge of college admissions process but just thinking out loud as a student, there can be a world of difference between an A from one teacher to an A from another teacher from the same school. Now if we extrapolate it across schools throughout the nation (we have not even gotten into international students), there is a wide gulf.

I like your solution though and this is probably very easily feasible without much protest assuming we reserve a small portion of the seats for donors and/or "legacy". Although, probably would be better just auctioning off those seats to the highest bidder now that I think about it. We will still treat everyone equally after students are admitted (and all auctions are nonrefundable) but we don't have to leave money on the table with an auction system for a small portion of the available seats.
Generally speaking ANYONE can violate someone's constitution rights. It's what happens (if anything) as a result that is important.
Why do you think it reduces coupling? You can use Django apps to have decoupled Django services that all run in the same gunicorn webserver
I wouldn't accept a pay cut - there should be enough companies to work at that realize that WFH post-pandemic is in their interest.

For the record, I have no intention of returning to the office either.
Jon, fill your profile. First thing, you must file a provisional on this immediately. It's brilliant. Really, awesome effort.

A provisional costs you almost nothing, and the future gain is totally in your hands. In 5 years you can sell it to Apple for $5m. Seriously, it's a no brainer if you have just come up with this, and if it turns out it's unique? In that case you will be all set, but you need 5 years and $50k within 12 months.

So, crowd source this patent or fucking what? Seriously, take my money.
This is for you: https://imgz.org/money-safe/
Agree 100%, but I did get a laugh out of the "Our Choice" banner on the "buy the site" tier.
To do that you need to store some information about the token centrally so that any server receiving the token can check to see if it is valid or not - and if you are going to do that why not use an opaque random token and store all of the data that would have been in the JWT in the store?
The CS industry doesn't understand that the rest of the non-CS world runs on tools the employees learn once and never look back.

Coming from engineering, CS people never seemed to understand why someone used Matlab at all, when python existed or even the utility of 'R'/'Stata'.

The effort needed to onboard onto a programming/mathematical/computational tool, when you don't have a strong coding background to go with it, is extremely high. The users will hold on to them till their dying breath, because the is tied to more than 50% of their own value proposition.

Excel is the epitome of this phenomenon.

Also, excel is straight up a good tool. The only advantage of Libre office is the price, which is a non-factor for any major corp. Google's collaboration suite is better, but they lag behind in every other area.

I can see windows being completely replaced by competitor, but Office will stay. It is MSFT's stickiest product.
Why? Just use GUIDs.
I think that sense of relief, when you clean up a work area, is tangible and has a biological explanation.

As David Allen (Getting Things Done) observed, we maintain a physical memory palace in these workspaces. Each item on the workspace is a todo, an unfinished object, a project in progress, or a reference thing in case we ever need it again. The link is works both ways: either brain-to-desk or desk-to-brain. You can probably remember where in the pile a document for some project is.

There is tangible stress having all that stuff in your head.

The beauty of filing things away where they go, off your desk, is that you get it out of your head, trusting the system, and the stress is relieved! It doesn't really matter what system you use as long as you trust it and it gets it out of your head and off your workspace.
You should have waited for 4000U series... By then you might even have HiDPI screens on AMD laptops...
Very belatedly, yes, VALIS is strange and wonderful.

This is making me want to re-read some PKD!
I withs the title was better, but I wasn't sure what to change it to.

It's mostly just debunking hyperbole around climate change.
> we are buying our hardware precisely for this - to be used

I have a counterargument page dedicated to apologists of inefficient software: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Who-cares-about-effic...
I'm still actively working on intercooler.js, which is an extension of regular HTML to bring declarative AJAX to the web. Just released a new version (0.4.5):

http://intercoolerjs.org/

MaxCDN has donated their CDN services, so it's easier to install now.

I now have some decent non-backend specific demos up as well, using mockjax.
Also take a look at NetBSD's rump kernels and PicoTCP. Nobody mentioned them.
> a single webpage that should mainly be text communicating a message

That was more or less true of the web in, say, 1995.

Today, a web browser is an advanced programming environment with broad multimedia capabilities (including audio, video, and 2D and 3D graphics) that also happens to have some excellent document presentation features relating to text and images.

(Edit: I previously said this much better here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743284)

You may think this is a bad thing, and that's a reasonable opinion to have. But if you think it's not true you'll only mislead yourself.
Thanks for checking us out. We will be updating our site in near future to include more games including keyboard supported games.
"shallow processing can lead physicians to choose less effective medical treatments."

But shallow processing can lead ER physicians to choose the correct medical treatment when time is of the essence.

These type of multiple-choice problems annoy me, admittedly because I'm bad at them, but also because you don't always want to over analyze the problem and waste valuable hours when a solution that 'will do the job' is a few seconds of mental processing away.
Yes, I don't think I will ever achieve Minecraft's level of success, in part due to the fact that I'm designing something relatively niche and for a less broad age range. But still, I'm curious to see what the potential of it is.
Its open collaboration versus open source. Even at that a lot of Android is still free software, distributed under the Apache license, but being free does not mean Google needs to accept bugs or interact with users at all on their part, it is just the users ability and right to observe and modify the code they run.
Underrated comment. This is deeply true, but points to something ominous. There isn't really a way that this political vortex ends except through ever more extreme policies/pendulum swings.
Are you sure you don't have a custom theme installed? Mine looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/FBBh1tm.png