skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean so few? If you expect the same hype you get from SV startups yeah it doesn't compare and also the language factor plays a big role there.

But there is a community and Japanese startups, at least the ones targeting Japanese market face unique challenges like Big companies not wanting to work with small/unproved startups.

Here's some resources that might introduce you some startups:

- http://www.disruptingjapan.com/

- http://www.startjapan.org/

- http://japanventureshow.com/

- https://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/

- http://www.tokyostartupevents.com/

(shameless plug) I work at a startup here: http://www.mytenten.com
Why humans that lived for millions of years in different enviroments would evolve the same way? I don't really get the things about "racism", it would be more absurd if people thought that there are no differences between races. Some are clearly visible (skin color for example).
If you think free speech ever and/or still exists.. then wake up!

You can only say what you want if enough people agree with you, else bad luck for you.
This salt is more than 280M years old, but will expire in July 2018
HN users usually reply to these kind of posts with their first experience using the product being shared, I was just following a trend, in case someone happened to know what this kind of error means.

In particular, I saw 'EFILESYSTEMERROR' and thought maybe I set some Firefox preference too strict, and some of you could be familiar with the error.

But you are right, the best way to get this fixed/understood is probably by contacting the devs/support for the product.
I'm black and I don't think this is racist as at all.
This is a pretty normal way to handle things: double writes, active sync/migration, double reads, disable old writes, finish sync, disable old reads.

Over the last 12 months we've migrated our entire system handling hundreds of millions of requests a day through 2 different database systems. Just requires testing and good release management.

Also it would be nice to have real numbers other than "bajillions"... what's that even mean? Doesn't sound like much more than a few gigs of data, in which case this transition could take seconds by just using an in-memory system.
Ask HN: Did my girlfriend get her Apple account hacked?
So yesterday my girlfriend received a bunch of weird iMessages saying that "Find my iPhone" had found her lost iPhone (which obviously wasn't lost). It included this link http://bit.do/lost-or-stolen which in turn just redirects to http://188.26.15.18 (it's still up). The page looks exactly like the "Manage your Apple ID" page.

But before I managed to stop her she had tried to login and I assume her credentials got sent to some hacker. We immediately changed all of her passwords, but has anyone else seen this?

A traceroute seems like it ends up in Russia:

$ traceroute 188.26.15.18
...
9 xr01.amsterdam.rdsnet.ro (80.249.208.51) 31.182 ms 31.053 ms 31.012 ms
10 10.30.2.101 (10.30.2.101) 98.765 ms 98.810 ms 98.754 ms
11 188-26-15-18.rdsnet.ro (188.26.15.18) 100.827 ms 100.678 ms 100.752 ms

And HTTP headers hints that it's just a simple Python web server:

$ curl -I http://188.26.15.18
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: SimpleHTTP/0.6 Python/2.6.5
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 07:05:29 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Content-Length: 19169
Last-Modified: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:39:29 GMT
I see. Out of interest how does it write back the new version of the SQLite database file with only the differences? Does S3 support binary patching?
In that case, why does the ellipse look like that? Why are the angles where they are? Why wouldn't it be curved?
Wfm nightly z3c and its fluid but cant see fps counter
I remember going to a trade show in London in 2001 called "m-Commerce World", which was all about the impending revolution in mobile transactions and payments.

At the time I worked for a web development company that identified itself as an "e-business solutions agency". It was in the process of collapse following the dotcom bust, and we were looking out for any new opportunities to cling to. I remember feeling a bit second-rate at this trade show when I introduced the company I worked for, because we were only "e-business" while the exhibitors were very proud of being "m-".

Nothing came of any of it of course.
4chan is about as public as you can get.
I realise this may sound very conspiracy theorist-y so please forgive that but does anyone else see a very strong relation to the Cicada 3301 organisation? The last two paragraphs especially made me think of the 3301 challenges released in the past few years.

"the mystical system in which meaning is derived from the numerical value of letters"...."symbols don’t represent just words and letters, they stand for numbers too"

I had a play about with the challenges when they were released and throughtout them were strange runes/ciphertext which could be both used as letters and numbers. I have done a fair few CTFs before but I have never seen anything like the Cicada challenges in terms of combining maths and language in such a way - how prominetly primes featured or how insanely well words and there numeric meaning seemed to align. The reason I immediately thought of them after reading the article is because I remember thinking while looking at the challenges that no one could come up with such an intricate and interconnected mathematical ciphertext system without some special (and as yet unknown/unpublished) "new way of calculating".

Not to mention all the secrecy around Cicada and the only rumors or supposed leaks from them suggest a secret organisation with a similar philosophy to the Oculists.
Ask HN: Where Has All the ISV / Entrepreneurship Content Gone?
I've noticed over the last year or so that the quantity of entrepreneurship / practical business-building content on HN seems to have gone down a bit.

(Examples: pretty much anything that Brennan Dunn, Patrick McKenzie, Jason Cohen, or even more Internet-Marketey folk like Pat Flynn write. I know Patrick's busy right now, mind!)

There's a lot more programming and general article-on-the-world-of-interest-to-hackers stuff - and I find that interesting too. But I'm just wondering if the entrepreneurship stuff moved somewhere else, or if it's just in a down cycle right now, or even if I'm just missing it on HN?

I've tried bootstrappers.io, but it seems kinda dead unless I'm reading it wrongly. Inbound.org is good but only for a very specific subset of articles. And Reddit tends to have a rather lower expertise level than HN, and thus a lot of fairly basic questions - which aren't really what I'm looking for.

Just wondering if anyone has any insights on this?
You need to learn more languages. "Checked exception" is highly Java-specific and it is biasing your understanding.

A checked exception is okay but it is still an exception with all the stack frame capturing overhead that brings.

In better languages like ML variants (say F#) we have discriminated unions. These let us return structured, type safe, result codes and information. Without all the overhead and OO-ness of nasty exceptions. We can still throw exceptions but these are strictly, and I mean strictly, for those very exceptional and unexpected scenarios.
Postabounty: refer someone for a gig, get the bounty if they're hired
The Android Framework team has been working on improving the runtime and its garbage collector for quite some time.
There have been many improvements to the garbage collection strategy.
With ART on Lollipop, according to its creator, there should never be a visible GC pause when the app is in the foreground.
More information here : http://www.anandtech.com/show/8231/a-closer-look-at-android-...
and in various I/O talks.
Extremely bad code will still cause problems (but that's true for whatever memory management strategy you rely on) but in my experience, on a nexus 5, GC pauses are no longer a real issue on Android.

Still, Samsung is here to samsung things up. Comparisons of scrolling performances between a flagship samsung device and a nexus are just as expected : https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/3ck9no/scrolling_...

That's another topic entirely, but I think that another key factor is to move almost as much as possible of the UI work to a separate thread, not just to make heavy work in the background. It is starting to happen with ripple animations on a RenderThread, but I think that this strategy could be generalized.
Yet Another Report Generator?
Representative democracy has hardly been a solution for irrationality, stupidity, or over-reaction.
I'm not entirely certain whether their rivals actually value market share over profits as such. It's hard to run a company for long if it's not making money, regardless of what it's market share is.

Market share matters for a lot of companies because economies of scale mean that your unit costs go down as volumes go up. This gives a natural advantage to market leaders, in addition to things like increased brand visibility.

Market share is very important to pundits though, because it changes very rapidly and is often measurable throughout the year on a per-product basis, whereas company financials are less frequently reported and harder to tease out. A battle between products that readers can see in the shops and read reviews for is easier to create a narrative around than corporate financial performance. I think this is why sales numbers and market share are focused on so heavily in the media.
> There is also evidence that ""educated"" people have been outbred by ""uneducated"" people in the western world recently

Well, yeah. Decision to have kids is not rational. Decision to have a LOT of kids (an old coworker has 10) ipmay even be accompanied by religious delusions or some misguided notion that one has a lineage to protect.

I think we should not incentivize people to have children. No tax break per dependent. No tax break for saving towards your children's college. Basically, the only people who have kids should be people willing to take responsibility. Of course, we need to step up ways we take care of young people but it is the relationship between a society (through government I guess) and a young person. For example, easy, free of cost access to health care, easy, free of cost access to education, nutritious meals dad in school, and so on but no incentives for parents to have kids.

> The point I'm getting at is Wisdom of any given mob in Generation N > Wisdom of any given mob in Generation N+1, during and after the modern age.

I feel like this belief is similar to my previous ideas of a glorious past, almost a heaven we got handed down but were unable to keep up. We are looking at the past with Rose colored glasses. I mean surely the average man today is not as smart as Plato was has a mind to think in scientific processes as Lavoisier did. Now, I have to be careful of making a bad assumption that a newer generation is always wiser but I think I can safely say the newer generation has the benefit of hindsight.

Basically what I'm saying is while there seems to be a trend of decline, it might actually be a trend of enlightenment overall and we just see the top declining while we might not see all boats slowly rising.
The classical "they've done worse" retort. I'll let you in on a little secret:

Two wrongs don't make a right.

The internet is rife with tu quoque. Even, if in the specific case of Hunt and his bigotry, death threats were not made against him it does not mean that this has been the case of all similar internet arguments.

> Does it include people who post "I thing Hunt's comment was sexist"?

No. Just like Hunt is free to be bigoted/racist/sexist, so are people allowed to have opinions about him: so long as those opinions are not designed in such a way to disrupt his personal life or in any way limit his own rights.

> Does it include people who say "I do not think we should invite Hunt for our next 'Women in Science' conference"?

No, so long as Hunt has the right to have his own 'Men in Science' conference without being picketed/harassed or what-have-you.

> > Other female scientists who spoke out had apparently also received death threats.

Much of that paragraph contains content that I would take the man to court over. The objective and irrefutable conclusion is that he actively limited the rights of those female scientists and that behavior is unconstitutional, inhumane and needs to be corrected.

However, "writing a blog post" and the best-case-scenario examples that you cherry-picked are a far cry from what "shame mobs" do on the internet. Indeed, if you believe that mob (of any kind) would resort to such rational and sensible measures then you simply do not know what a mob actually is - it's not a group of people that simply disagree with another group of people.
It is really amusing to see the amount of downvoting in the comment section when the article is about free speech and censorship
There is a worrying trend in minimlaist design lately. It seems that more and more blogs are leaving out information about the author (less impotant here) and when the post was created, two very important pieces of information!
There is a big difference between relying on people to make decisions for themselves in domains of life that affect only them (i.e., personal decisions), and relying on people to make decisions for others. This debate is about how many people should have a voice in making decisions in government, but the more important question is what decisions should be made by government, regardless of how many people participate (though I would argue more is generally better than less).
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Even 4chan has topics that are (for better or worse) no-go.
When it comes to internet vigilantism, it appears to be the case.
> humans

> millions of years

Earliest homo sapiens fossils are about 175,000 to 200,000 years old.
If something doesn't have a profile then it runs unconfined. That's simplified, but really does work out of the box unless you do something weird (then you flip a boolean) or very weird (then you create a custom module).

But for a normal desktop user, it does just work.
That just obfuscates things, it doesn't turn them into public property. In the end you're still relying on others letting you do your thing.

E.g. the provider could disapprove of Tor in general.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles Cheats Hack No Survey
US federal agent investigating Silk Road admits $800,000 Bitcoin
How is Quadratic Voting any different than a free market? In a free market system, people vote every day with their dollars. The only difference is with a free market, there are lots of mini-governments (companies) competing for your votes (dollars), while with Quadratic Voting, you only vote within one government?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751082 -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594876 & https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942302

The issue seems to be in some kind of limbo, with many users reporting that the compositing mode doesn't even make a difference.
Google Data Saver
A 'realistic' simulation of an ecosystem. Three years ago researchers managed to simulate an entire bacterium with every known gene and molecule, I'd like to scale that up. (Though one could not keep same level of molecular resolution when dealing with an ecosystem - too resource intensive.) Something to keep in mind for when I write my PhD thesis...
You will not get many meaningful answers here to questions regarding race.
I don't know about limbs, but it could explain sunflower seeds and branches of trees. If they are distributed with a period, every n'th time around they will shade for other seeds (or branches). Approximating \phi is then a good way to reduce such shading.
For a minute I thought this was about literally how to get to carnegie hall. Thought to myself: "surely google maps works better than talent."
It seems to me that the paradox/confusion here comes from asking someone to consider a distribution over a bound variable - i.e. you are asked to examine the odds of X happening in a situation where there are already side effects of whether or not X happened.

In this sense, it reminds me of the puzzle where a man gives you a choice between two envelopes, one of which is specified to contain twice as much money as the other, with the paradox centering on a bystander's argument that you should then switch envelopes, since the other one must have either half or twice your value, giving you a 1.25x higher expected value for switching.

As I understand it, in both cases the "traditional" solution to the problem is to recognize that probability doesn't work that way, and you can't consider distributions over bound variables, but the more interesting solution is to rephrase things in Bayesian terms, in which case the analysis is reasonably straightforward.

I'm a dabbler though; experts please tell me if I'm spouting gibberish.
Cygwin is pretty good. I am not sure how you can do much better it has a big range of command line programs you can run, vim, git etc. The next step beyond cygwin is to install a linux vm, then to dual boot, then to single boot and chuck out Windows :-). Can't bring myself to do that though as a C#-ie.
You are forgetting about Windows Mobile for Smartphone and Symbian. There was a reason to expect smartphone revolution - because early adopters had smartphones in 2004.
So, is this thing going to run all the IO emulation in the kernel? That sounds like a horrible architecture security-wise, very much not what I would have expected from OpenBSD, which always seemed to pick security over performance.

By far most security bugs in modern hypervisors come from bugs in the emulation of legacy devices, because it's complicated and messy. This is why for example Red Hat's hypervisor solution has had a lot of work put into isolating the qemu process with SELinux.
I believe it uploads the whole thing each time. I think it may even upload it with a new index counter in the name to version it (but I can't find that in the docs now).

http://www.rath.org/s3ql-docs/impl_details.html#metadata-sto...
Show HN: Trebo Chat-Create your own chatroom
There was another essay from Steve Yegge some years ago where he was comparing Amazon vs Google (he worked for both companies) and how Amazon completely transformed themselves into using internal APIs as the only method of communication between teams within the company.

Yegge has recalled an email to all Amazon staff where Bezos outlined new Amazon rules. This was in 2002.

1.) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

2.) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

3.) There will be no other form of inter-process communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team’s data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

4.) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

Especially the last point of the memo is very telling because it shows that Amazon was planning to externalize artifacts of various teams within Amazon at least 4 years before AWS was actually born.
> The reality at the time was to my mind looking really bad. WAP

shudders I worked in that space right around the time the iPhone landed, WAP was way beyond looking really bad, it was an unmitigated disaster, it was horror.

> The fact that Apple forced the carriers to allow an open mobile internet was utterly shocking to me - in a good way.

To be fair, high-end nokia did already have "open mobile internet" available. Technically anyway: compatibility was a craspshoot and the experience was terrible, I had an E70 with a relatively competent webkit-based browser (IIRC), it did technically render pages but:

* very small screen, making interacting with pages difficult (mobile-adapted pages were not a thing, and the browser didn't do much adaptation)

* arrows moving a small cursor around on a small unzoomed page made for a terrible experience

* device lacked both CPU and (especially) RAM, interactions would be very slow and browser would regularly crash and OOM

* flash was still very present, the device didn't handle it at all, it didn't cope that well with javascript either

After it was released Opera Mini did help with the resources side (but not UI and compatibility). Anyway my point is, open mobile internet was available before the iphone, it was just an utter wreck of an experience (though still not as bad as WAP)
Google charged with rigging search results;
Sorry it was to be more like "a shitload" figure of speech (plethora?)
>That other patterns, aside from Fibonacci numbers, are found in nature?

Yes, and that most patterns misidentified as Fibonacci are not Fibonacci actually.

Both of which make the Fibonacci nothing "special", in the sense of its usually touted ("it can be found everywhere in nature" etc.).

The same for the rest of stuff you mentioned. It's written as arguments against things people say about the fibonacci series.

You just enumerating it and dismissing them as "obvious" is missing the point completely.

Of course they are obvious. That's the whole idea: that the fibonacci claims are refuted by such obvious information.

>That washing machines obey laws of gravity and make spirals similar to some that are found in nature?
That photoshop exists?
That artists use 'rules' as guidelines only?
That greedy people will use really stupid ways to trick people into buying things?
This is written as if it's supposed to be an indictment of sorts, but after reading it, I'm no less interested in Fibonacci numbers, their occurrence (alongside other patterns) in nature, or the incredible contributions of a man who brought advanced Indian and Arabic math back home to white people who were still using Roman numerals.

Good for you. I, on the other hand, am.

Your comment seems more like a ill-spirited attack on the article than a valid critique of it, what with enumerating tons of arguments he gave as if they don't mean anything (kind of like saying: "so he says photoshop exists, big deal", "so he says artists use 'rules' as guidelines only, big deal", etc) when those are arguments he makes AGAINST commonly held beliefs about the Fibonacci series.
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Caroline Criado Perez campaigned to have a woman on the back of any of the UK banknotes. She received many death threats, and many threats of sexual violence.

Those threats were real enough to convict at least two people in criminal court.

There are very many similar examples.
Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money
Announcing Marble Maps for Android Open Beta
Yeah, that's probably why engineers work for MBA's or sales guys. Most engineers have no concept of marketing, aspirational branding, or human psychology.

Unfortunately, the one concept we have down is "make it up in volume."
Master, let me be your padawan. Teach me Your ways, for my path is twisted and I see now I am yet to reach the Enlightenment.
The question specified one coin flip. In your thought experiment, after one flip, the answer to both your questions is 50%.
Minecraft creator confirms money can't buy you happiness
QV only really captures preferences if people start out equally rich, or at least, where a given number of votes must be bought with an equal amount of "pain" which might be an expense scaled according to assets.

FM allows a vanishingly tiny minority to sweep up such a huge money-pile that their most casual whim carries more weight than millions of third world people's urgent desperation.