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Caser i would be very interested in joining you for a drink. Currently me and a friend are running a small event for the startup/tech community in Tokyo. Check us out on slack/doorkeeper.

http://techtokyo.herokuapp.com/
https://techcrawl.doorkeeper.jp/
Since everyone's mentioning their favourite fonts...

Some time ago I discovered the IBM OS/2 VIO (console/terminal/monospace) font converted to PCF for use with X11.

A screenshot and an archive can be found here: http://www.karasik.eu.org/fonts/

I haven't used this resource, which has (aparently) the same font data converted to BDF: https://github.com/dk/ibm-vio-os2-fonts

I'm on a spare (unconfigured) PC at the moment since my main systems were taken down for abrupt maintenance, but it's currently the default font I use in my terminals, text editor, etc. It looks a LOT softer than Fixed (the default X11 font)!
The poor still pay, in the form of their attention, thus guaranteeing that they are distracted and consequently still poor.
I think the disease model is in many ways flawed. It posits one notion of normal and then divides everything into "normal therefore fine" or "different, therefore broken".

Some good, HN-relevant examples are ADD and autism-spectrum "disorders". One of the hallmarks of ADD is hyperfocus, so ADD is a misnomer; it could easily be called, "doesn't pay attention when the teacher wants syndrome," or "is not interested in your boring trivia syndrome". There are a ton of people previously diagnosed with Asperger's who lead happy, productive lives. Both of these characteristics can be positive in the world of tech entrepreneurship, and could well have been positive in previous environments. [1]

That said, I think this guy making his central message, "Addiction is not a disease," is dangerous to the point of idiocy. In our current society, we really only have one mechanism for aiding those who will need a lot of help, and that's saying that they're sick. If he would like to make a full-scale assault on the disease model, godspeed. But a lot of people already want to believe that addicts could quit any time if they just applied a little willpower. Reinforcing that means that people who could be saved will die unnecessarily.

[1] See, e.g., the hunter vs farmer hypothesis for ADD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_vs._farmer_hypothesis
This is a neat. I like the idea and implementation!

Reminds me a little of the .plan files from the old Quake days, mixed with twitter / social media.

http://floodyberry.com/carmack/plan.html

I've signed up. Here's my little log: http://littlelogs.co/rpgdan/
You like talking, don't you?
> “We used to see changeovers as down time,” Glover says. “McLaren sees pit stops as an opportunity to win the race.”

This is a compelling way to change the frame-of-reference. Business X has a factory that makes widgets. By framing the downtime as a "pitstop" instead of a "break", it totally changes the mindset, expectations, and pace of the participants.
I took touch typing in the 1980s. It was just on an IBM Selectric "massaging" typewriter :-)

Bvvvvvvvvvvvv.... (the sound that thing made)
I hate it when sites like this change the normal scrolling behaviour. I use the trackpad on my MBP and on sites like this scrolling accelerates too quickly and gestures like going back don't work in chrome.
Did you mean to post this on stackoverflow.com?
If the only way for me to test your small market share desktop browser is to buy hardware from you because you artificially lock your os to your hardware, I'm not going to test on your browser.

On Mac OS, the solution for users is to run a different browser like Chrome or Firefox, as nearly all of my Mac friends do. If this issue starts to affect media consumption sites on iOS's Safari, that's another story since iOS users aren't allowed to use an alternate browser (they're all running Safari underneath).
Is this what AppEngine apps / Google cloud storage files are served from, or is that a different CDN?
US residences have 240VAC available, and standard outlets provide half of that, 120VAC, all single-phase. US electric ovens, dryers, water heaters, conventional split AC, etc run on 240V. It's fairly trivial to install a 6.6kW "charger" in most US residences. (It's not in a detached garage if fed by only a single 120VAC line.)

US industrial is variously 208VAC, 240VAC, 277VAC, and 480VAC; some are single phase; some are three phase.

If you're discussing only the "walk up and plug into an existing outlet" situation, EU charging will be faster. Not so for permanently installed chargers.

As for the very last point, the supply equipment negotiates with the car to advertise how much supply it has. Unless you can tell it to charge at 24A, it doesn't "know" and the charge will be at the slower rate. Same in the US. If I plug my trickle charger into a typical 15A plug, it charges at around 12A. If I plug the equipment into a 20A plug, it still charges at the same rate, because the equipment doesn't know that a higher amperage is available.
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So you want to invent your own currency
Interesting! I just read [1] this morning, which describes an optimizing BF compiler (written in Rust) that compiles to LLVM IR. The article also gives a good overview of optimization techniques used.

[1]: http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2015/08/29/an-optimising-bf-co...

Edit: Just saw this was also discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141604
Sometimes I feel like the writers from Lost are in control of our universe, improvising plot twists as we get seemingly closer to understanding how things work.
Your idea is already in place. The regulations state you cannot cause interference but people still modify their devices to do so anyway.
fuel consumption while idle is quite negligible particularly when it comes to a MPG calculation.
My car (and actually all european models over the last few years) have auto-idle when stopped. My stats are that over the 10,000 km I have driven since new I have extended my range by 85 km in terms of saved fuel (so approximately 4 litres saved over 10,000 km, or approximately 4/700 (700l being total fuel comsumption over those 10,000 km).

So i've saved half a percent of my total fuel consumption. Useless individually. But of course potentially enormous savings when rolled out to a fleet of thousands of cars
I kind of lived through this effect with the decline of the British coal industry which was nationalised at the time. It became uncompetitive mostly because British coal was hard to get at compared to say open pit mining in Australia, so money was lost on each ton dug up. But the argument against closing it was the miners needed jobs, it was hard for them to switch to other work, sacking them would kill the economy in mining towns and so on. It was easier for the government to pay the losses from taxes on the general population who didn't complain very much, than to fire a bunch of miners who would complain very loudly. And who did of course when Thatcher eventually fired them.

With hindsight it would have been better for the industry to decline gradually than laying off everyone at once.
I'm not a physicist, but I do follow physics news regularly and have a fair bit of understanding. From what I remember, many physicists are not entirely satisfied with the Standard Model and have been "looking to replace it" for quite some time, the main problem being that it was still the best at describing reality (or experiments results, which is about the same for physics).

Could somebody who is into the field answer how relevant this is, and/or perhaps point to a better source? The article is quite thin on substance, for example, that diagram of the LHCb experiment without caption feels weird, as if it had something to do but we're not even told!
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Nice font. I really appreciate that it supports non-latin alphabets. Even though it seems that these alphabets come from the original font (deja vu maybe?) and hasn't been much worked on, it still is extremely useful!

Some critic:

The small i seems a bit funny to me. It is like a greek iota (ι) with a dot on top. Also it is a bit tall font. Whilst that makes text/code more readable, on the same time it let you see less lines on your terminal. My main mono font (Liberation Mono), lets me see comfortably 51 lines in a full screen terminal on a 15.6" laptop. Hack font only shows 45 lines (11% less code :p) at an equally acceptable size.
It will not take much additional friction in practical usage to remove the hydrogen car from the equation. Just as steam cars were similarly discarded from the mainst[r]eam.

We didn't run out of whale oil, coal, or wood. We haven't run out of oil, but as cheap solar infiltrates as solar generation drops in price, it will make much more sense to run personal transportation on clean and simple electricity.
As a "bilingual Japanese/English engineer who has startup-compatible risk tolerances, is comfortable working in a bicultural environment under a minimum amount of supervision, can solo-ship code in one or more modern programming stacks", I indeed have had to check on a few occasions whether the stated salary was monthly or daily. Generally a good sign that the talk is not going anywhere...
> For example, experimentally induced worry increased creativity in high scorers on neuroticism.

Jesus.
Why can't you put chargers on the street?
All of the train cars on the MTA L line were made between 2006-2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R160_(New_York_City_Subway_car...
The blog post describes a study published in 1960.
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Pity the article is so frustrating to read.

http://i.imgur.com/youRjpv.png
The problem is that these accidents have actually happened even in countries that were deemed to be "serious" (Soviet Union, Japan). The cost of having a whole region devastated and becoming a no man's land for several dozen years is I think unacceptable, particularly if it is avoidable with alternative nuclear fuels.
German residencies have 240VAC as standard, and 400VAC available. Normal stoves usually end up using around 18kW here.

For permanently installed chargers, this will be a lot more power.
I am certainly no fan of "chartjunk" and value clear graphics, I do not see the value of removing the lines on the axes. I find them to be valuable visual cues. I would also note that Tufte used them in his books, for example: (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...).
> It's no wonder that the Netherlands has a larger number of sold bicycles than it has citizens.

Many people in NL have two bikes per person if a daily commute's too long to be comfortably done by cycling alone:

- one bicycle at home to cycle to the train station near the place of residence;

- second bicycle parked overnight (and over weekend) near the train station of the city one work in, to continue the trip to the office.

...and in the afternoon - same exercise in reverse.

This practice is so widespread in fact that a year or so ago, it was a matter of public debate - who is due to pay for those huge bicycle parking places next to the train station: Municipalities (because those bike parking places are on municipal ground), or NS, the Dutch train operator (because it is NS' customers who make use of those bike parking).
He could go to Burning Man and work as a sherpa for people richer than himself to repent and atone.
I'm an undergrad in US and have thought about going to Japan to work after graduation.

However, according to my Japanese teacher many people in Japan have to work until 8pm or later on a regular basis, and sometimes overtime. Does anyone have those kind of experience in Tokyo's tech industry?
It's file upload: I'm 99.9% sure that the most braindead 90's style way of doing it will work on all browsers today, and continue to work in the future. Why do you need to break it?
Yep. 桁が違う all over the place. (Translation for those who'd find it helpful: ("Not the expected number of digits." / "Off by an order of magnitude.")
> The other problem with cycle infrastructure is that if it's not good
> for a 7 year old to ride on, it's not going to work for the general public.

Bikes are children's toys, that's so... Saudi Arabia?

I really consider this a terrible design principle, because nobody likes to be treated like a seven year old and doing so could be a serious disincentive against cycling for anyone but the most irrationally fearsome. Design for competent cyclists, everyone can eventually become one. If the result happens to good for the seven year old, fine, it'd not that unlikely if money and space permits it at all. If not, treat children like pedestrians and grant the appropriate exceptions in law for supervising adults. They are surely not the kind of cyclist who causes havoc on the sidewalk today (this won't work in exceptionally walked places like most of Manhattan, but there, nothing less than a complete network of elevated bikeways could be made even remotely child-proof while providing real transport and not just some recreational riding in a park).
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There's a lot of interesting material there besides the linked article, it's worth at least a quick browse.
Great point. I go to drive in movies frequently with a Honda Odyessy, and idle most most of the time with the AC and radio on. It lowers the tank's MPG by about 3-4 miles.
One of the things Tokyo has going for it when compared to SF is the aroma. There is no olfactory assault from urine, feces, patchouli, and pot.
All of the following are "right even if in reverse": Columbus started from the Caribbean and discovered Spain in the late 1400s; the Mormons left Utah due to persecution and relocated to the Midwest; Australians convicts in the early 1800s were transported to Britain to work and live in penal colonies; millions of free people were sold into slavery in the Americas and shipped to Africa to work; and the Mississippi flows from Louisiana to Minnesota.

Heyerdahl believed there were cultural similarities between pre-Columbian civilizations of the Andes and Polynesians because the South Americans "colonized the then-uninhabited Polynesian islands as far north as Hawaii, as far south as New Zealand, as far east as Easter Island, and as far west as Samoa and Tonga around 500 AD". (Quoting Wikipedia.) He also believed the current Polynesian population came to the islands centuries later by first going to the Pacific Northwest of the Americas and then to Hawaii before going to the rest of the Pacific.

That can't be so easily reversed.
I recently switched to Roboto Mono Light and I love it so far.
Looks really clean on retina screens.
The simple political reality in Germany is that you will not be able to build nuclear power plants and that's that. Germany is a democracy and the will of the people will not allow it. All other considerations and discussions and arguments are wasted breath. Germany will have to do without it. I don't think that's so bad, all things considered. It's an interesting experiment and I'm quite optimistic.
The similarity to 2 coins is: if i have a 1972 coin and a 1973 coin

What you have explained is "Quantum local hidden variable theory". Which has been proven wrong again and again. The article says this test has closed the last loopholes that made this theory a possibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory
Six people sealed in a dome for a year
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HTTPS is not working correctly. This site seems to be hosted on Github Pages. So use the HTTP URL: http://polyfills.io/.
Indeed they have, consider their "turbosteamer" technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosteamer
even shorter, change the loop to:

for(i=4000;i--;)

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Is it this paper they are talking about? http://inspirehep.net/record/1380182

"This result, which is the first measurement of this quantity at a hadron collider, is 2.1 standard deviations larger than the value expected from lepton universality in the Standard Model."

To see how much this is relevant see for example http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/five-sigmaw...

Usually physicists claim "evidence" for something at 3 standard deviations and "discovery" at 5 standard deviations.
And interesting HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065710
> Teach them ways to become autonomic, to find their own path through life, and addiction will calm down by itself.

How is this any different from the "premise of curing addicted people"? It seems naive to expect problems to go away by themselves.

Your comment seems to present some sort of anti-psychiatry narrative, which is a dangerous and irresponsible set of ideas, IMHO.
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We do put chargers on the street. There are a couple outside pubs i drink at.

I'm not sure what would happen if you had a whole residential street wanting on-street chargers, though. At that point, we might need some new planning rules. Doesn't seem an insuperable problem, though.
>"If you take the vector for Paris and subtract the vector for France and add Italy, you get Rome"

I would have liked to hear more about the parts that are not purely based on associations between words given some context. Associations only get us so far. Eventually, we will need to extract logic as well.
The dating method sounds very unreliable:

"The style of the art means it is at least 17,000 years old, but it could be up to 50,000 years old."

Art style? Yeah, right..... I call bull.
Until carbon dated, I call this false.

If i draw something today in that style, it would not make it 50000 yrs old.
If you were to take every single car on the road today and replace it with an electric car overnight there would be massive, massive blackouts, everywhere.

Cars use a whole lot of energy, gasoline stores a whole lot of energy. I doubt there are many places around the world where electric power distribution systems are equipped to serve vehicles, on top of cooling, heating, refrigeration, electronics, etc.
And European homes have 400V available (230V is the single phase). When my parents had their old three phase 400V oven replaced they had to have am electrician in to redo the outlet since the new one was only single phase 230V.
There was a ruler poised over my knuckles well into the 70's...
Yea it took a while. I often joke that it took two weeks to get things working, and four years to make it maintainable. In reality, the first version did take two weeks, but maintainability grew with completeness and correctness. It also took several years to get people to stop telling me I've reinvented FUSE (which I did, but not with rump kernels ;). If you're interested, I recently touched on the early history and original motivation in this blog post: https://blog.xenproject.org/2015/08/06/on-rump-kernels-and-t...
I am absolutely certain that we'd not be having this discussion if kernel driver development had not been the original motivation. That's the buy-in for the upstream OS.

See the community link at rumpkernel.org if you want more non-false information. One of the problems with "related work" is that you're trying to find some difference to your own work to justify the publication of your paper, and all that without fully understanding the related work. So you tend to make goal-driven assumptions, and hence "related work" generally tends to be more wrong than right. The exception is really well-known work, because mis-assumptions about it won't get through the PC. But then again, telling everyone what they already know is not that useful, is it? At least for myself, writing "related work" was always the hardest bit.

btw, my papers are somewhat obsolete, the dissertation is still mostly accurate, even if the use case descriptions are out-of-date. So, I'm sure someone could 100% accurately cite an old paper of mine, and still completely misportray the current state of the art, because there's no "obsolete by" for papers.

I never saw the LeVasseur paper as being in the same category as e.g. DDE. It was one of those "don't fix the OS, just throw (virtual) hardware at it" approaches. Not saying it's wrong or right, just completely different IMO. Though, if you're trying to get rid of the OS -- like we are now, but not back then -- it's a weird approach ;)

Not sure if you can manually manage a research database. Are we really not able to do that automatically in 2015, or is it just a question of nobody building the right kind of crawler/searcher? After all, a manually managed index is a fork of the actual information. The other problem is that most research tends to be conducted with a "graduate-and-run" method. The professor might have a more holistic vision, but the professor lacks a) time to engage in such discussion b) a grass-roots understanding. But if it can be made to work, would be quite valuable.
In Poland, people in schools are too usually forced to write in cursive. But that doesn't mean people like it or are particularly good at it. I was amongst the not-so-few that just couldn't/wouldn't write legibly enough. Some teachers would just give you 0 points for stuff they didn't want to or couldn't read. The most ironic part is, most teachers (and most adults in the "real world") have terribly illegible cursive too. Say when they'd write a comment on your exam, I could rarely understand it. Usually you'd ask some other students for their guess or just go ask the teacher.
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This statistic does not account future deaths.

If we were to stop using hydro or wind the number of related deaths would quickly drop.
With a lifetime of 100.000 years, today's nuclear waste has a potential to kill tenths millions.
A couple points:

First, DAPP is 1974; _VISUAL DISPLAY_ was 1983. Critique based on "once, you did something different" seems misplaced.

Second, if you read _VISUAL DISPLAY_, you'll see that there's plenty of room for individual judgement in the principles he espouses. Tufte is no dogmatist. If you think the chart needs more ink, put it in and don't worry about the response from ideologues.

Third, it would be useful for you to attempt to articulate to yourself the cue value of the line, (as opposed to the tics). You might find that, when you try to describe to yourself what it does, that you're describing comfort with common pattern.
> Can’t you just export a vector file and then let whatever other renderer (e.g. a browser) handle the antialiasing?

You can. In my experience, for good quality, it's best to output graphics from R as PDF and if you need a rasterized version, do that separately with pdftoppm or something with a dpi chosen based on where it will be shown.
The comment thread on this post is awesome!
More info (references, source code, data sets) at https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/

Edit: I couldn't figure that out from the text, but according to a comment by cs702, this isn't about word2vec, but to me, it seems 'just' a more advanced version of it.
I was an "ink monitor" at school in the UK in the 1950s. My job was to go round and fill up empty inkwells. It was the pinnacle of my career ;-)

I don't remember any problems. We were very well-behaved.
From https://peering.google.com/iwantggc:

"GGC is implemented as a set of servers deployed in your datacenter, remotely managed by Google."

Basically you're leading the greedy little boy Google by the hand to the back door of your house, unlocking the door, and going on about your business. "Don't you go in now, kid".
He should ask Jimmy Carter what to do with his life.
I wonder if people who claim to be EM sensitive are also highly susceptible to placebo effect in other situations, and how it correlates with other things like religiosity.