skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recognize that none of the arguments we make here are deductive logic, rather they are entirely persuasive. You fail to be persuasive because you express hate and disgust where it's not necessary or appropriate, hence your arguments fail where perhaps they could succeed. If you don't care whether or your arguments succeed then why bother responding? Your opinion is what it is and nobody will ever change it and you should have no need to ever express it, it's just wasted words. Of course this is silly and you do care if people agree with you or not.

Anyone who refuses to consider morality when it comes to economics and price action is always going to end up at a horribly misguided and perverse world view; you retract your ability to do moral reasoning in order to be 'objective' but miss that the assumptions you've made to even have a market economy exist in the first place have moral weight. You cannot ever escape ethics and morality unless you resign yourself to only discussing technical cause/effect in a particular system and never making any human judgments about it, anyone in it, or any effects of it.

I think you use faux economic objectivity as a shield to protect yourself from the consequences of the actual moral judgements you are making about the less fortunate. If economics says morally reprehensible things will occur then economics is /wrong/ and it is our moral responsibility to force a solution other than the market one to that particular problem.

You look at the intentions of the rich (which are wholly irrelevant) but never the consequences of their actions; it was never the intention of the plantation owners to enslave people, rather, they just wanted free labor to more efficiently produce their products. A noble goal, yes?
I have some doubts about the validity of this report. Bloomberg got it from Time's education blog, which apparently got it from The Times of Higher Education (a blog), which claims it got it from Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan's major newspapers.

But searching The Japan News[1], which is Yomiuri Shimbun's English-language site, there's nothing on this. The only recent reference to Education Minister Hakuban Shimomura is about a test-cheating scandal.

[1] http://the-japan-news.com/news/search
>Whenever I see this happening I find it hard to not think up of unlikely but satisfactory conspiracies where this is all a plot to make the educated middle class less aware of social issues and the similarities in the themes of human struggle of all societies.

It's not exactly a conspiracy, but it's entirely the result of the elites trying to shape the labor market.

They still see engineering as an overpaid profession (one of the last holdouts of the middle classes), which is why they're trying to push more of the younger generation into it and pull in more immigrants (see Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us, for instance).

Driving up supply will push down wages.

This is the source of all of the sneering about useless degrees in humanities too - as if it were the fault of 21 year olds that they graduated into the worst labor market since the depression.
Count me like another sample. A lot of my friends use it.
I think that at this moment is very strong in the continent: Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland

So, the valuation is not so strange, except that the business model is not clear to me. In the other hand, I could say that about a lot of others startups.
Using non-blocking and asynchronous I/O
Political correctness, as far as I've been able to tell, boils down in most cases to: be respectful in how you treat people, because the ubiquitous disrespect shown to women/minorities/gays/whoever is no longer considered appropriate or praiseworthy.

I don't think I've ever heard someone complain about political correctness run amok, and had it turn out that they weren't just complaining--in careful language, mind--about uppity black people or women trying to rise above their station (i.e. the kitchen).

You might not be referring to that, of course. What do you mean about "sick and tired of political correctness"? And what demands are being made that are so burdensome? Is it the stuff about not assuming muslims are terrorists, or not assuming brown people are illegals? Is it the bit about not tossing around phrases like "anchor babies," or the thing about putting a woman on a common denomination of currency?
Mhm. The Ace Attorney series of games is a parody of this ridiculous justice system.
They didn't mention source code. And the Jeep Cherokee bug was found by analysing firmware, so it can happen. I agree in the case of emmissions it is easier just to measure them.
That's a good point, Telegram launched their bot API in June:
https://telegram.org/blog/bot-revolution
<Firefox> By the way, the APIs aren't all there yet, so what do you need?

Mozilla already know (for a large part) what APIs they need; they keep stats on the extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/extensions/?sort=us...

So at least enough to implement the top 50 ? Preferably the top 500 :)
To bet your country's demographic future on "often have" is a bold move.

It depends. After WW2, USSR seems to have recovered its numbers (until late soviet birth rate and life expectancy slow dive). Germany never actually recovered, it seems to me - their population numbers are flat for decades and they're bringing a lot of immigrants in. France, I don't know - I guess they sidestepped this issue by repatriating people fleeing from ex-colonies.
> you would need a testing rig that could be mounted on a moving car

That's how this was discovered.
>Trump clearly knows how to hire good people

What gave you that impression?
The US conviction rate is upwards of 90% in many areas, especially federal cases. Given how eagerly US police arrest at the drop of a hat, and how hesitant the Japanese are about arrests, their respective conviction rates would seem comparable.
OS X includes a convenient app for all this https://imgur.com/zvCzT5l
Test-Driven Product Design
I could understand a move to somehow limit the number of students in some fields where (if) the number of people with degrees there is too high for the jobs market. But an order to "end education" in those fields is just retarded.
I live in France. Right after I read this comment I went outside and asked three of my neighbors who where heading to work if they heard of Uber: all 'yes.' Blah Car? Blank looks. "Incredibly popular" perhaps in the 'cool' techy scene among normal folks, not so much. Definitely not a scientific survey, but still interesting. Remember people were using Uber until it shut down in France. This company would not have the same traction in France if not because of the Uber riots.
Does this count as a showhn?
There's no such thing as "quick and easy" security..
Well according to Mozilla TST has 100 000 users. At a few bucks that's 300 000$ I suppose that could be enough :) With that money you can even maintain a separate Firefox patch-set to allow the plugin to work.
> The disaster could have been forseen and prevented. As in the Chernobyl case, it was a human, not technology, that was mainly responsible for the disaster.

It's always easy to say that with hindsight. Remind me, how frequent are Magnitude 9 earthquakes resulting in massive Tsunami?

Of course you can plan for everything, but there's always something that occurs you did not think of. The good thing is, we learn from previous mistakes and plan better accordingly next time.

> Have we learnt anything since then?

Nice punchline to finish your article, nihilist-like, but completely nonsensical. Of course we have learnt a lot since Chernobyl, and designed subsequent plants to be much more safe based on what happened there.
Im pretty sure it's the other way around
It's "design" stuffing its empty head into everything - webpages that are dozens of MB while effectively being a text document
Applications that are flashy and showy and DONT FUCKING WORK RIGHT
Google maps pretty much have no usability left - i used to be able to use it to navigate across europe,now its a chore to get across town (no options,no waypoints,no route planning - its either do as we say or fuck off)

Id rather have something that isnt shiny but actually does it goddamn job.

And doing more carbon copies of current fad is neither creative or intellectual. Solving problem is,though
This poor company will go the way of Daily Motion if Hollande stays president. Any decent exit will get blocked. Either that or they'll leave France before they are exposed to the risk.
Startups in Denmark vs. Silicon valley [pdf]
It has always been said that in Japan, "it is hard to get into college, and easy to graduate". By contrast, US universities are characterized by the Japanese as easy to get in, hard to graduate.

The accuracy of above statements aside, it is true that generally speaking, Japanese students study much much harder in High School than in College, because the College you get into traditionally determines much of the rest of your life. So the stereotype is that students cram to get into great schools, then party for 4 years because their grades don't matter in landing employment.

Within this general stereotype, there is a further stereotype that the students in science and engineering slave away in the labs while the humanities students have a jolly good time in the social culture group "circles".

Given the hierarchy of stereotypes above, it isn't a big surprise to me if the humanities are seen by some as "glut" that can be cut, since government is subsidizing student partying. But it's surprising since the lawmakers should predominantly be from these exact programs being cut.
"Have we learnt anything since then?"

I'm very curious to hear from those who are knowledge in the area.
Yeah that was a great idea. Until NAT, firewalls, your average contracted out MSP at an SME sysadmin who's idea of admin is lock everything down and pay £300 to open a port (I have to deal with this at least one a week).
Seeing how this uses mktemp, I assume the results of runcython build are not reused. Is that correct? If sou, wouldn't it make sense to save the results? Maybe with a switch?

Also feature requests: Windows support for run/make would be nice. Cross-compile options for make would be awesome.
Japanese technology companies are predominantly run by humanities graduates who come up the corporate FP&A side of the org and yet are notoriously "spec" driven in their product and technology development rather than being user driven.
The game itself sounds almost exactly like the new version of Outrun, or perhaps Afterburner Climax. Good news!
1. Look at existing designs for inspiration.

2. Draft a prototype with a tool that's easy to hack with.

3. Try out your design with strangers; take notes where they get confused.

4. Change the design to address issues from #3.

5. GOTO #3

When drafting your design, don't worry about how it looks; focus on clarity and easy of use.

Note: There are many prototyping tools out there; this is a great resource: http://prototypingtools.co/
You forgot the part where it's used to harass and chase people you might consider to be 'fascists'. Where it's justified for the Gulag ;-)

But if you want to keep thinking it's about respect and not abused by people, sure, that's pretty noble.
Let's Sell Some Shit to These Millennials
>In other words, it will need a bunch of social science and humanities students.

Hah! Japan has those students for the past 25 years and nothing great came out of it. I don't think the government should eliminate such disciplines, but trying to make it seem like they are essential to run your Economy is a very shallow promise.

Plus, I wonder what they teach in Economics in Japan apart from the government love for Stimulus, which is all what politicians in Japan seem to do no matter from which party they come from.
Comparing Japan to the US makes Japan not look so bad, but only because the US is also quite bad.
Google 'trump polls women'. Then reassess.
Here's the source (Japanese):

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/kyoiku/news/20150824-OYT8T50033.htm...

This has a scan of the paper clipping:

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2143619433341443601
IoT is one of the least well thought out ideas in quite some time, right up there with the "semantic web".

Hopefully it dies a quick death and is resurrected in a more sensible and mature form years down the road. There are worthwhile ideas there, but running headlong into a world where everything has the same quality and security as a typical software project doesn't seem like a notch in the "advance of civilization" column to me.
I don't use Telegram, but Threema seems "full featured" enough for me. It is proprietary though. It is what I recommend to friends until TextSecure/Signal is good enough.
Isn't the old system of guaranteed employment starting to break down, too?
> It has always been said that in Japan, "it is hard to get into college, and easy to graduate". By contrast, US universities are characterized by the Japanese as easy to get in, hard to graduate.

I can confirm that it is the case. Once you get it, it's like vacation. 20 hours max of classes per week, no homework, no practicals, it's relax time and that's when they take a side job to make money since they have so much free time.

Japan's Universities level compared to how much they cost is completely laughable, The whole education is done by private companies once the new graduates enter the workforce, since they know close to nothing.
If normal Skype supported SIP it could just be bounced to Skype in that case.

Also, IPv6 FTW!
SSIS Data Flow Components
The good thing about post-commie unis is that we have entrance exams,period.

Not a fuzzy opaque admission system from UK/US where they do 'hire talks'
And no grade curving nonsense

You study,you score points and you either get in or not. The only way money can help is by hiring extra tutors to prepare you for exams - but a lot of my classmates at top polish polytechnic were poor as fuck,just brilliant.

The admission system works (the unis themselves have a lot of issues though)
No, not really. I mean, the % of folks with a guaranteed job BEFORE they graduate is going down a bit, but still higher than anywhere else in the world.
In certain spots, yes. Vulnerable industries like semiconductors, IT vendors, and household electronics look like they are in trouble.

However, that has meant that students flock to industries where said lifetime employment is still a rock. The #1 destination is Import-export trade companies (Mitsubishi Shouji being the top dog there), followed by ad agencies Dentsu and Hakuhodou, then super high quality industrial companies such as Toyota, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Utilities, etc.
> What this will do is create a shortage of lawyers, making access to justice expensive.

LOL, as if it was not already expensive as it is.
But is that what they are saying in this article? Obviously they would prefer a future where firmware like this is open source (for regulatory reasons or whatever other reason) but all they are saying in the article here is that it's wrong that you can't tinker or reverse engineer? "Unlawful to look at the code" that is a roundabout way of saying that it's unlawful to try to decompile, right?

I agree that peeking at code or decompiling it should never be illegal, nor publishing what you find. But requiring companies to publish code openly would be something completely different than allowing decompilation.
I think the business model is fairly straightforward. People offer rides in exchange for money. Blablacar pockets a small percentage of each ride.

I believe they used to not charge a fee until about a year ago but they do now.
Stackoverflow 404
I hope you never took any of these games seriously.
It's like self signed certificate. From their FAQ:

"...but any regular user's browser will rightly put up a big fat warning message as they do not trust the root certificate of your TinyCert CAs."
I'd hardly call IoT engineer driven

It's VC money spawning this nonsense,followed by "design" (look fancy,do nothing)
Well the cost is about $8k/year at Tokyo University, which is way cheaper than any reputable university in the United States.

I've been at one of the largest companies in Japan as a new grad, and I agree that in some ways they pick up the slack, but their internal training systems can be pretty broken and inefficient as well.
Yeah,looks like you don't remember that Japan was razed to ground almost everywhere in the last war they fought. It did not work too well for them.
How doesn't it work? Having a shared passphrase would work just fine - and it wouldn't even be more complex UX wise. Not being able to receive WhatsApp messages on two devices is one of the major annoyances with having browser tethered to the phone being the second in line.

Especially when you have flakey wifi on the phone it gets really unbearable.
There are a lot of people who believe surprising things. For example, from a 2013 Harris poll:

58% believe in The Devil (26% don't)
47% believe in evolution (29% don't)
42% believe in ghosts (37% don't)
36% believe in UFOs (35% don't)
26% believe in witches (54% don't)

-- http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/...
It's huge in Spain, a lot of friends use it all the time.
Spicing up work atmosphere with Slack
>Social sciences are sciences. They study different things to the 'hard sciences' but this doesn't mean they're not science, and doesn't mean they're not important.

Something's a science if it adheres to the scientific method, not just because it calls itself a science. Given findings like http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/100-psychology-experi..., social science may not be doing a great job of following the scientific method.
As far as I know, the political correctness police don't actually send anyone to forced labor camps, because, of course, no such thing exists.

As for being harassed or chased, again, it seems like, if there's any merit to that accusation of harassment or "chasing," the beleaguered not-politically-correct victims of that could, you know, call the cops or file a restraining order or whatever.

Those are actual real-world behaviors you're accusing the political correctness police of making, but I guess I just don't buy it. Well-meaning, respectful people are being "harassed" or "chased" by some foul political correctness police? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
It could be i'm totally missing the use-case for this, but personally I think if you can't take the 30 minutes to google one of the hundreds of guides that use OpenSSL commands and precompiled win32 binaries to generate three files you shouldn't be trusted with providing security for a website. Who are these people who need SSL and don't have 30 minutes to learn this once?

There are tons of scripts and other tools that handle the commands for you, too. Do I really need to sign up for yet another website just to perform one operation? (No, and neither should you)
Regarding the GPU, you might find an interest for MGL-MAT[1]:
"MAT is a linear algebra library for working with multi-dimensional arrays which supports efficient interfacing to foreign and CUDA code. BLAS and CUBLAS bindings are available.". The author's blog is quite interesting to read (see for example [2]).

[1] http://cliki.net/mgl-mat

[2] I http://quotenil.com/On-the-Design-of-Matrix-Libraries.html
yeah, and I see a lot of references to how well he does among "GOP women" or women who vote republican already. That's a rather different sort, I think.

(interestingly, I see a bunch of references to the idea that a reasonably large percentage of women identify as democrats.)
I had the good fortune of reading his autobiography. I highly recommend it. It explains the events described in this article (eg the ostracization; allegations of being a communist; attacks on his character; the affairs; seizure of his wealth by the government and the fact that he had to stay away from the country that he loved and called his home for majority of his life). I truly walked away feeling deeply pained and felt sorry for him -- here was a man born into extreme poverty (the scene in one of his movies where the tramp eats a shoe due to extreme hunger, was a part of Chaplin's childhood). His mother went insane (became catatonic) due to hunger. As a small boy he saw his mother being taken away by the police and put into an asylum. And this person, spent his entire life making people laugh.

He was born to make us laugh. I think instead of focussing on his shortcomings and marriages, it is far more important to focus and discuss his craft.

The lookup Hanna speech [1] at the end of the great dictator is must read / listen. One of the best monologues in movie history. Tell me if this speech doesn't move you!

[1] http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechthe... (added link)
Wow. Really loved that. Pretty insightful...maybe we should elect this guy
Yeah honestly that part of the article reads like egregious hand-waving and idealization without considering the general quality of humanities grads coming out of Japanese colleges.
Design at Facebook
> Well the cost is about $8k/year at Tokyo University, which is way cheaper than any reputable university in the United States.

That's because the US system is completely broken and makes it easy to borrow instead of making it easy to pay, which drives the prices upward on and on without any limit in sight, as long as you can borrow (thank the Fed for their interest rates policies!).

> their internal training systems can be pretty broken

Agree it's not perfect, but at least they learn by doing real work. I have seen new grads jump form a "zero level" to "someone I could recommend to work with" within a couple years at a company.
There is nothing bullying in the parent poster's comment.
Because if the Silicon Valley has taught anyone anything, is that it doesn't matter how well you manage a company as long as it's full of engineers. /s
Chinese Cybercriminals Breached Google Play to Infect 'Up to 1M' Androids
This is only public (national) universities, of which there are only 26.

And it is in fact true that there are too many grads in those areas.
Sharing this video here is like pissing in the wind (I doubt there's many people from Japan here), but here's something for the rest of us to consider... http://youtu.be/4D0fLisyjBY

When will we learn that science and technology cannot solve all our problems and apply this knowledge practically? Isn't the pace of technological change already too fast for our culture to keep up with? Culture should be in the driving seat, otherwise you get technology for technology's sake (making things because we can, regardless of the plausible consequences).
Oh. He's using Linux 4.0? That's an old kernel if you're running btrfs. I hope that he re-tests with 4.2 [0] or 4.3. I also hope that he posts his benchmark settings so I can run it on my systems at home. :) I'm very curious about the ENOSPC errors.

Also, the linux-btrfs mailing list thread about the rant is somewhat worth reading, if you're into this sort of thing: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/48248

[0] There's a mv/rm deadlock that I can trigger from time to time that was only fixed in 4.2 and later. (His description of the test stall doesn't indicate that this deadlock is the cause of his problem, mind.) Happily, this deadlock only blocks operations on the file being operated on, rather than the whole FS. Also, a reboot clears up the issue. (An umount, then mount might also clear up the issue, but btrfs is my rootfs, so I can't test that. :P)
They are significantly exaggerated, but there's a grain of truth to them.
Even if they stopped making AVRs together, there are plenty of other (arguably better) MCUs on the market anyway.

At the company I work for, we've replaced all the Atmega chips in our products with the STM32F0 series chips for lower-end requirements and with STM32F4 series for higher end stuff, because they have more grunt and generally have more peripherals, and are similar prices.
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