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I'm from Poland, born in 74, so I remember that time well.

1987 was 3 years before bankruptcy of the communist government and fall of iron curtain. It was still bad as author described. I remember the long lines to bakeries, I remember the grey block of flats (these are still there, and even though painted in other colors are dull as hell!).

But... we, children, did not know there is a "better life" out there. Sure, everybody had someone in the West (mostly in US), we got an occasional package for Xmas with chocolate and some clothes.

But we, children, did not care for the West that much. We were outside playing stupid games like hanging out on carpet hanger next to block of flats (and screaming "cinema!" when one of the girls revealed her underwear while doing some risque maneuver). We jumped rope and "rubber". We played war (zee Germans vs us). I would come out in the morning or right after school and stay until dark, at which time my mom would call "comeeee baaaaaack!" from the window.

So yes, it was dark middle ages, but somehow simple and pleasant. This is in contrast to my children today rarely venturing outside and playing some phone crap all day long.

For adults that might have been whole another story. The promise of the West likely has been large. But I still want to bet guys were busy chasing the ladies, the family was the focus, and people who wanted to be happy were happy.

So not romanticizing the system too much - I am a successful software engineer working all other the World for "the man" and like it - it was not that bad as people might think. Some of us were quite happy, despite system's shortcomings.

Strange for sure, but not hopeless.
In my experience, immigration as a westerner is pretty easy -- especially after the horror stories I hear about the U.S. You need to have some sort of sponsor (business is the most common) but overall the process is fairly painless, and relaxed.

Living here is fairly cheap as well -- especially if you're outside large cities.

Casual Racism is probably the biggest hurdle to living in Japan, especially outside of big cities. I've only had a handful of overt racism in the last 12 years, but there are constant reminders every day that you are not, in fact, Japanese. And it's not done through malice, but rather just pure curiosity.

I'm hoping that immigration policies get better in the future, but not holding my breath.
Chernobyl started with them 'power cycling' the reactor, an on-off-on test for a backup system. It did not go well.
> Japan is pretty famously racist

I think that a certain degree of delicacy when you make statements like that.

I know what you're trying to say, and I think its true, but I think one has to be careful with the word "racist" and how the audience interprets it.

In my opinion, and as a generalization, "racism" in Japan is less sinister than "racism" in the other parts of the world. Especially the US.

(Disclaimer: I am a foreigner living in Japan, but not for very long yet.)
> And you will be competing for resources and attention with all the politely racist elderly that lived in that place since forever. Does not sound like a retirement plan for me.

The currently-elderly might not be there by the time mistermann wants to move there.
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I had to recently power cycle my refrigerator.

The bottom ice maker stopped working and no matter what setting I had it on would make it create ice.

My current theory is that I changed the ice settings while the freezer was open (a few days) earlier. I noticed this because the water in the door shuts off if you open the other door.

Sure enough, after leaving the fridge unplugged for 15 minutes I now have ice.
Thanks for the post! You mentioned Spark via OLAP connectivity. Can you please elaborate a little on how gremlin works with spark? Does it use the GraphX API behind the scenes or is it just spark? Are there any sources on how well it works?
This is an invalid comparison: the US government, unlike the Stasi, doesn't pay your neighbors to spy on you, doesn't interrogate your wife and children about you, doesn't bug your home without a good reason, and doesn't even record your calls (only the meta data).
I believe Ask HN is a pretty valid place for that if you're looking for feedback in the idea stage. Other than that, gather a few of you most important questions needed to validate your idea and have a brief product summary and hit the streets asking for people's pinions. I would do a few different group types. Start with whomever you believe would be your target audience, go to places where you would find that audience type, and start mingling. The other set should be a populated unbiased public place to get as random of a selection as possible. The point of this is that with your first group, your thoughts may be confirmed that they are your audience and that your idea is solid. However, when surveying the second group, you may find that there's a lot of interest in general or in a different demographic. You may find that another group of people even like it more or you may find that nobody likes out and that your initial group is your primary audience. On the flip side, your first group may not like it at all, but you may find a lot of people that like the idea in the general group. In that case you know your initial predictions were wrong.

After going after those two groups, I would then go for a second round. This time it could be a number of things. If your target audience turned out to be different than you thought or if you have more than one target audience than you nay want to go to places where you'd find a dense populous of those people and ask me people the same Quaid to confirm the result. The other thing you may want to consider is to come up with a different set of questions to help refine your idea. Would you like product A our B better? What features would you like to see? Would you add, change, or remove anything? Just try to get a better sense of want people need and would like to see.

Lastly, when doing this it would also be a great to start collecting emails from people interested for when you launch our if you want to get further feedback from them.

This is probably the most important stage if in any product life because it will determine if you're idea is needed or wanted, how much of a demand there is, and get your product on the right track so you're not developing features people don't want and wasting time/money. Don't be lazy with this stage. Do your due diligence.
I find it odd that no one compares this to real life:

If I say "Tom said y", it is perfectly okay, why is this any different online? Why should what you say online be treated any different than what you say in front of other people?
> Every time you use a Web browser, locate yourself on Google Maps, draw money from an ATM, or play on a game console, you rely on computer code I wrote and gave away.

I am puzzled. What does he refer to? http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/ there's nothing here that resembles a network stack, the Wikipedia page doesn't mention anything. https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/CREDITS mentions him as the ncurses co-maintainer and terminfo master file maintainer. What am I ignorant of here?
Turing-Completeness is a wonderful thing. In fact, it's pretty cool just how many things in various systems are Turing complete: http://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
It shows that:

1. Different municipalities are addressing the countryside population decline in different ways.

2. Different municipalities are addressing the abandoned property problem in different ways.

It seems directly relevant to me.
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I'm most interested to know what percentage of HN'ers visit /newest regularly. If that percentage is low, doesn't it mean that stories bubble up to the front-page somewhat by chance?

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/ (i.e. /news) - Yes
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The area in question was a large midwestern city, so its not exactly tops, but the pay rates for computer people in that area are almost always >$100k for anyone with experience.

I don't have a breakdown of payrates for the CC in question, but I'm guessing many of the students going into plumbing/electrician/AC repair/etc were making as much or more than the students going into the mainframe positions.
You can, but why? If there are non-Italians on this site, then why not ask for the same (higher) price they do? There's always someone out there who spends less than you daily and can outbid you however low you go.

That's provided you get continuous jobs of course - but you won't know if you do unless you try with the high rate first.
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There were programs in place that helped displaced persons – including refugees from the GDR – to start a new life [1]. This included direct financial aid, loans, and even (some) compensation for property that was left behind.

[1] The Lastenausgleichsgesetz, or Equalization of Burdens Law: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26090
For China to regain some measure of competitiveness, the easiest and most probable solution is to devalue the Yuan around 20% against the dollar:
http://www.barrons.com/articles/why-chinas-currency-could-fa...

This will lead to massive drops in global equities due to fears of deflation.
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In fact, not joking at all: this is how I make Finder not slow down. Every 4 hours, I restart it via crontab.
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The article asserts in one sentence that the CIA knew and covered it up. I'd love to hear what they actually knew; Give the level of soviet secrecy, it's possible they really didn't know enough information to make it worth talking about.
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The OP paper proposes a different architectural approach to the translation task of the 2014 NIPS paper by Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals & Quoc Le,
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learni...

which "uses a multilayered Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to map the input sequence to a vector of a fixed dimensionality, and then another deep LSTM to decode the target sequence from the vector." The task was English to French.

Meng et al.(2015)(OP) translate a Chinese sequence to English, using a network based on Neural Turing Machines(NTM) which uses LTSM units, they name this novel architecture Neural Transformation Machine (NTRam).

The Neural Turing Machine(NTM) was proposed by Deepmind's Alex Graves, Greg Wayne & Ivo Danihelka, it couples a neural net and LTSM memory to produce a differentiable, thus trainable analogy to a Turing Machine or Von Neumann architecture - to perfom copying, sorting and associative recall. An exploration of whether Neural Networks can be put to basic computing functions.

Neural Turing Machines(2014) by Alex Graves, Greg Wayne, Ivo Danihelka

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401v2
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Must be an LG, I had the same problem... And yah power cycling fixed it for a couple weeks, then it did it again. The wife got mad and called the repair guys, they said, turn down the temp in the freezer. Apparently something in the software works better with the temp turned down to the minimum, because its not like it can't make ice at 10 degree's or whatever it was previously set to.
Meanwhile S&P 500 is also failing:
https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSP:.INX

46 days ago, I suggested that China slowdown may have global impact:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9851214

I'm glad that I sold my stock ETFs.
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The real problems start when your support organization thinks that rebooting the customer's machine is a solution.....

Then the engineering team never gets to fix the problem, and your support team starts eating up all the resources because they get constant calls from the customers asking about the same problems.

(thankful for not being in that job anymore!)
What interested me in the design of the Mill CPU is how it throws out the usual design of machine language.

I'm not talking about assembly language, and I know the difference, BTW.

In the name of software compatibility, we're still trying to program CPUs using machine language that wouldn't be so strange to a programmer from the 1980's. Sure, there's more registers, and some fun new stuff, but it isn't all that different.

Except that in the 1980's, the CPU actually implemented those instructions. These days, it is all a lie, especially with regards to things like register sets and aliasing. Yes, of course, logically, what the programmer wanted to happen does, but today even programming at assembly level, you are far, far removed from what the CPU is actually doing.

Edit: Here's the website: http://millcomputing.com/docs/
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Eric's ego is apparently way ahead of his actual self-promotion skills. If he's so important to everything, why hasn't he been on staff at red hat or the linux foundation or google or some such for the last, oh, 15+ years?

Also, most of the functionality behind all of the services he names is implemented by people doing regular jobs at technology companies.
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The HN software detected this as a sockpuppet comment. If that's true, please don't—it's not allowed.

It's particularly a bad idea when the post is about good work, like this one seems to be. Good work can speak for itself here, and trying to game HN only risks tarnishing it.
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One of those two things.
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Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103815
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Seven months ago is well within duplicate range, but let's leave this one up: first to show how much the HN community does care about wonderful posts, and second to thank luu for tirelessly posting (not to mention writing) so many high-quality articles here.

If any of you want to see an example of how much difference a single user can make to HN, look at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=luu. Thank you, Dan!
How does that work? My understanding was that money was flowing towards VC exactly because of poor market performance since the 2008 crash.
I felt this way too in 2010. Not so much now. 'Nosql' Data services like parse and firebase is how apps are going to be built. The speed from idea to implementation is a real game changer.
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Personally, I'd rather just fix the problem :)

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Without making any sort of judgement on his claim (in any direction), I think he is referring to gpsd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpsd

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git
> how it throws out the usual design of machine language

Now I'm curious. How does it?
There are still RSS feeds of tweets? I thought Twitter turned those off years ago
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Is "times mentioned on a job advert" really an accurate measure of whether or not something is still used? Surely it lags years behind trends - if a technology is abandoned quickly there'll still be jobs maintaining the old code that need that skill. That doesn't mean the technology is still 'useful'. For example, there are still plenty of COBOL job ads around.

I'm not suggesting that's the case for NoSQL, just questioning the way you're measuring it.
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> Saying "they just earned 20 bucks a month" is not enough -- one also has to know how things were for the majority of people in these countries before socialism, in order to compare.

Well, before the war literacy rate was low and noone had a TV set, the socialist state has come and these things took a fortunate turn ;)

Or if we truly want to put things into perspective, prewar Poland, while obviously poorer than Germany or the UK, was better off than Spain or Portugal (not to mention eg. [South] Korea). A few decades later did young Spaniards dream of picking strawberries in Poland, or was it the other way round?
The Chromebook Pixel 2 has a fantastic screen: 2560x1700 (about 239dpi), excellent contrast and color, great brightness range, and it even does multitouch if you care about that. Also the aspect ratio is 3:2 rather than 16:9 aspect ratio, which is proving to be quite nice.

Plus the battery life on this thing is so good it's hard to believe. Like 12 hours.
"The Internet was built by people like me." - Eric S. Raymond

I guess that's kind of like if Tim Berners-Lee said:

"I built the internet."

Maybe this author can fit some Eric S. Raymond's content into his blog post:

http://james-iry.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/brief-incomplete-an...

If Eric S. Raymond doesn't spend wastefully, he should still have tens of millions:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/eric-raymond-how-ill-spend-my-m...

He's a great software engineer, but I didn't like the tone of this campaign for monthly donations either.
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The S&P 500 is poised to drop another 2%. Check out the futures market: http://www.sgxniftydowfutureslive.com/index_files/DOWFUTURES...
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Yeah, there won't be any Japanese businessmen burning crosses on your lawn or whatever. Assholes like Shintaro Ishihara are about as bad as it gets (in "polite" company anyway), and you could probably have a 15-minute chat with him, as a Westerner, without realizing he's a racist old shit (not to mention sexist as well).

On the flip side though, if you're planning on staying long-term you should get used to whatever racism does exist, even if benign, as there is no escaping it and it is pervasive. If you can't do that then it's probably best to start making plans to leave. Japanese culture is not headed in any sort of direction where it's going to change, and the population is so overwhelmingly ethnically Japanese that enclaves are pretty much a non-starter as well. Unlike (so I've heard) the US, no matter how long you live here, no matter how well you speak the language, you will not ever truly belong regardless of where you go, who you associate with, community you join, et cetera.

Oh, and the job market for software engineering here is rubbish ;-)
Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ futures have tanked: http://money.cnn.com/data/premarket/

This week is going to be ugly.
Do you hot patch things or what?
Do compilers take advantage of these features?
It's a bit too absolute of a statement IMO, but some of the comments here elaborate on his work in Android and iOS: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3554 The GIF and PNG stuff would apply to "using a Web browser" or "play on a game console" in general.

Here he says gpsd is used in Android: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4886 . Anyway, that could be "locate yourself" in general.

Don't really have any ideas about ATMs. Maybe using gpsd for time from GPS? He's talked about that on his blog. I don't know why ATMs wouldn't use NTP as they're probably already fairly well-networked, though.

If I were going to say this, I'd cite carefully to avoid looking boastful. To each his own. It does seem fairly well-supported if you do some research. Here's his list of projects he's touched: http://www.catb.org/esr/software.html
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In the process, they quietly transformed a form of surveillance billed as a tool to hunt terrorists and kidnappers into a staple of everyday policing."

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'You have a point, but your point is conceptually "state is bad, build things with the least state possible".

Even though I agree with this, there is a fundamental difference between computer science and software engineering, and in actual software engineering there will often be hacks, and bad state. Even if sometimes it's not yours, but a library you're using.

I agree with you, but this article deals with a more "real life, pragmatic" approach, versus your thesis which is true, but a little more idealistic
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There are scaling problems which require something that scales better than MySQL or Postgres. If you're Google, you really need BigTable. But, as I've pointed out before, unless your site has more traffic than Wikipedia, you probably don't have those problems.

Wikipedia is basically MySQL front-ended by ngnix and memcache caches.
FWIW, the assembly in the link is ancient. Treating FPU registers as a stack was considered a mistake 20 years ago. In this day and age it's been replaced with MMX and then SSE. It will technically still work because of backwards compatibility, but modern compilers will output newer, faster SSE instructions.
NoSql type of DBs have their value added. They'll not die, instead businesses will learn when they are useful, some the hard way some the easy way :)
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