skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan's population is about 127MM people. Sustainable population with healthy natural fish stocks, abundant open space, sufficient rice stocks with diverse strains, a high quality of life, cheap spacious housing, and nature reserves, woods, and wilderness to maintain a healthy ecology would be about 10MM-40MM. With low birth rates, Japan is on its way back down toward those happy sustainable levels.
By some measures at 127 million inhabitants Japan is overpopulated. Example of such measures:

- Japan only produce enough food to feed half of its population, so an embargo on food imports would certainly result in a massive population shrinkage.

- Japanese people are concentrated in small plains: there is physically very little space.

On the other hand I've lived in Japan and love it, but I don't think population growth would be a reasonable option at this point.
at least the japanese people have been able to stop the corporations from artificially inducing growth via mass immigration....unlike here in the USA.
If Facebook hadn't existed (nor any other high profile social network) I wouldn't have been invited to half the social events I've attended. Thus, I have a lot more friends than I did. Some data.
and some forms of growth are akin to cancer
Lol well said...
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LightPaper 1.0 is released
Very cool!

If anyone is into trains (and/or subways), there's a really neat/fun/bizarre South Korean subway simulator app called Hmmsim (it's free, on the iPhone App Store - not sure if it's available for Android as well).
As with most such things, your mileage will of course vary. There are credential managers out there for things like the the Mac OS X keychain and Gnome keyring.

So yes, if you've already got SSH keys in play and you aren't dealing with (corporate) firewall issues for SSH protocols then that is often going to be convenient, but the point is that credential managers are out there and are equally convenient (work just like the ssh-agents you rely on) for those (stuck) with HTTPS or who don't need SSH keys anywhere other than git(hub) repositories.

Also, I'd almost take that wager. There are a lot of Windows developers these days on Github and/or Github for Enterprises. I don't think Windows developers have made it into a majority yet, but I'm guessing there are a lot more than you think there are.
Postcard steganography. Would be downright devious.
Totally upsupported supposition - maybe because Zuck basically is in the same age bracket as a lot of the population on here, whereas Larry and Sergey are a bit older?
banks... defence contractors... governments... If you guys didn't have something horrible to hide you wouldn't need this encryption.
Bootstrap is where Wordpress and jQuery are - "good enough" for a large swathe of problems for a large number of people.

js gurus will decry jQuery - "learn to do it by hand"

php gurus will decry Wordpress - "it's a mess, learn to do it by hand"

and ... wow - front-end developers decrying bootstrap - "it's a mess, learn to do it by hand"

They're all not entirely wrong, but the specialist nature of their roles should not be ignored. Do you have a team of web devs ready to build something that is vital to your business and will be mission critical? Building on something that's not wordpress might be a good choice.

Are you trying to squeeze out every ounce of bandwidth performance and CPU optimization? Yeah, jQuery might not be the best choice.

But these libraries/products work "good enough" for so many people that it'll be a long time before anything dethrones them as the 'go to' tool for problem X. There's too much of an ecosystem built up around each one.

EDIT: I say this as someone who is generally pretty anti-wp, but I still recommend and use it for certain projects, it's just not my default go-to for everything.
The EU is still losing its mind over cookies. Every Euro site now has a big disclaimer about cookies. The hysteria, at least for Europeans, never ended. Which is amusing considering how much local storage HTML5 can do and how easily it is to track people via their unique browser fingerprints, even with cookies and no plugins enabled.

The reality is, of course, encryption was used in these attacks. These terrorists aren't stupid. That doesn't mean it needs to be banned the say way a randoms stabbing don't mean knives need to be banned. I think the people saying "No way, never no encryption has every been used for nefarious purposes" are just as bad as the other side. Having a sophisticated view of this stuff makes a lot more sense.

Encryption will be like the gun debate. It will flare up from time to time. Its an easy horse to beat because its too technical for the layperson to really have a good understanding of and clearly there are political elements that would love Clinton-era laws limiting key size and such. The reality is that this ship has long sailed away. The genie is long out of the bottle to control encryption like its 1993.
> The truth is that people are not inherently bad.

I don't know about that. I'd argue that most people don't think of themselves as bad, but it doesn't make them not-bad. And humanity definitely has base instincts - if we didn't, we wouldn't need governments and police.
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I don't know, I mean, there are OK arguments against using bigger libraries, but if I'm just making a basic front-end for my toy application or for a hackathon I'm gonna just use bootstrap to get something that looks decent fast. I'm not going to spend time designing the front end (unless that's the whole point of the project)
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"It's not processing terabytes of similar images to "learn" about the object."

Evolution did the processing and saved the results as the architecture of the visual cortex. I suppose that, in a way, it's a work in progress.
odiroot was likely talking about this: https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker/search?l=python
A couple of Easter Eggs would be nice.
The article refers to Apple's taking a more "extreme" stance on privacy and it being at a disadvantage for doing so. While I appreciate the article is about data in AI, they neglect to even entertain the idea that privacy may be more important in the long term than obtaining some added benefit by using the personal information entrusted to them.
He says that bootstrap is too bloated and big and yet recommends Zurb Foundation. Wat. It's even bigger than bootstrap.
Big picture this is a good reminder when the next big thing comes along <cough>React</cough> but he forgets where we came from. Prior to Angular, the major way of doing web-apps was with rendered templates that would replace whole swaths of html and so the "updating the DOM" step truly was more expensive than the Javascript driving it. This is the problem that Angular (and newer) frameworks/libraries sought to address.

But there's one more consideration...isomorphic rendering. If a framework can be rendered on the server-side then the time-to-interaction only matters if it's longer than it takes for the user to mentally process the page and take an action.
> According to Yuri Kornilov, Chief Designer of the Salyut Design Bureau, shortly before Polyus' launch, Mikhail Gorbachev visited the Baikonur Cosmodrome and expressly forbade the in-orbit testing of its capabilities. Kornilov claims that Gorbachev was worried that it would be possible for Western governments to view this activity as an attempt to create a weapon in space and that such an attempt would contradict the country's previous statements on the USSR’s peaceful intent.

That sounds so weird to me. If you're not going to test a laser in orbit, then why bother putting a laser in orbit? Is this story non-factual? Did Gorbachev say it publicly, for the record, with a big ol' wink? Or was it just poorly thought out, with the military really wanting to put a big weapon in orbit, the engineers really wanting to put anything big in orbit, and the politicians not wanting to put a new battlefield in orbit?
A debt is a debt is a debt.

Debt is meant to be repaid, not held indefinitely. It is not being repaid because everyone knows (certainly in Japan's case, and most probably in other countries' cases) that it CANNOT be repaid and therefore WILL NOT be repaid. Debt 'servicing' is just sweeping the problem under the carpet.
Intent. Google advertises where you are already "in the market" for something (be it a physical product or a site). Facebook advertises where you hang out with your friends, which is less effective and feels ickier. Which doesn't mean FB ads don't work, but it does mean they work very differently than google ads and have very different connotations.
> Typical HN. How about someone answering the argument that will really be made by governments instead of the pointless one the NSA, etc have already answered. You can downvote me but you don't get a downvote in governments around the world when they outlaw real encryption.

I was ready to up-vote your argument because I agree with the first two paragraphs but the snark turned me off from supporting you. Leave it out next time and I you'll make a more convincing argument.
What are the advantages of UIKit over bootstrap?
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It never ceases to amaze me to what lengths people go to stay in the land they're attached to. I'd have fled my country a very long time ago if I had ISIS that close.
Previous discussion of it on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6969897
And instead, you'd still have time to sleep, for hobbies; you could attend to less events for a longer time, or have meaningful conversations with fewer people.

But true, a lot of friends with the ability to press a button or to select and emoji to communicate is way better.
Trained networks of artificial neurons are function approximators, so they are basically algorithms , we just don't care enough for their analytical expressions. The analytical expression is appealing but some problems may prove irreducible or very-little-reducible. I don't see a problem with either approach since they both achieve the same effect.
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Are you actually going to put some lone nut jobs here and there on the same level as organized and determined jihadists? If so, you need to include the tens of thousands of murdered people that ISIS has been responsible for. You'll need to include the Russian jet that was blown up, the attack in Paris, and all those killed by al-qaeda on 9/11, etc.

You'll also need to explain why the FBI terrorist list doesn't show that the government has a similar concern for white supremacists.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists
"The Paris attacks were...because France was bombing Daesh."

What a disgusting rationalization of the indiscriminate killing of innocent people.

"An online statement said eight militants armed with explosive belts and automatic weapons attacked carefully chosen targets in the "capital of adultery and vice," including a soccer stadium where France was playing Germany, and the Bataclan concert hall, where an American rock band was playing, and "hundreds of apostates were attending an adulterous party.""

Oops, they were actually "carefully chosen targets". That's better.

[1] http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/isis-statement-france-to...
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actually, you want to destroy savings to get a growing economy, because it incentivises spending. Why hold onto yen if they'll be worthless in a year? Might as well turn them into tangibles now
Show HN: The Remote Space (inspired by usepanda)
>In the world of Fukuyama et al, rather than a basic religious worldview with precise tenets, is there a solid framework of meaningfully defining/determining good/triumph/progress?

Fukuyama himself considered capitalist democracy to be the End of History, so yes.
Having grown up in a Third World country, I am oftentimes amused/annoyed by the seeming insignificance of "problems" people in the West complain about. Although the longer I live here, the more I find myself doing the same... Raised standards lead to raised expectations.
Or guns today.
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As of Sep 27, what about since then? Either way, thank you for the information.
I believe it is relevant. The West is sticking it's nose into many places around this world. But the response is not always the killing of civilians. Take South America for example. Their answer is much smarter, because their approach is different. I think the middle east approach is tainted by some parts of the islamic ideology.

This is not to say, that I agree with what the west is doing. I think "what goes around, comes around" applies here very well...
No, the point is the place the gun is pointed to needs to first go black, then white. If it is a static reflection of a light that area will never be filled in with black.

They do mention in the article that early versions of the game may not have had this protection, so that could be the case with OP.
>> for opportunities to sow chaos because they believe it will tip the scales eventually toward a Caliphate.

From what I've been told and read, they've already established a Caliphate. The primary driver of having a Caliphate is that ISIS must control territory, without controlling territory, there is no Caliphate - correct?

This was one of the best explanations I've read about why ISIS is doing what it is doing:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...

If it loses its grip on its territory in Syria and Iraq, it will cease to be a caliphate. Caliphates cannot exist as underground movements, because territorial authority is a requirement: take away its command of territory, and all those oaths of allegiance are no longer binding.
> I fly Delta a lot and their economy comfort is not 300x the price. It's a fraction of the ticket price.

I just checked, the cheapest I can find is 200x the ticket price (e.g. $500 Vs. $1000 for economy Vs. comfort+). 300x is definitely common too depending on how popular the flight is (e.g. $500 Vs. $1500).

> Most Delta flights I've been on lately use a different recline system. The seat recline pivot seems to be near the arm rest and the seat bottom slides forward.

It depends how high the person behind knees are. If you're cramped into the seat, your knees have to go higher to fit at all. The design you're talking about only works when the seats aren't too close together, once they get that close it still impedes leg/knee room.

I've been on Delta flights a lot, they suck.
You're down from "40%" to single examples. Time to stop worrying ;)
And if it were up to you you'd turn your country into a third world shithole. Just a similarly bigoted fact.
Ideas can be bad, which is why we have to be honest with ourselves and call the idea that leads people to conduct evil acts evil.
“Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours
As someone who wrote HTML and CSS from scratch and then put a little time/effort into learning Bootstrap, I can do so much more in the same amount of time it took me to do my old layouts, and it looks so much better and is actually responsive.

All that to say, there is value in "becoming an expert" in a framework.
$24k is the marginal cost of the recording. In this model the band's living is paid for by touring.
Free VPNs/Proxies as Honeypots
Magento with enhanced media and image optimization
Hmmm, isn't that what they want? More attention?
New Magento plugin speeds up eCommerce stores and empowers them with cutting edge image features. This post describes the plugin and gives an overview of the features included and the setup involved.
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I feel there is a difference between giving both (or all) sides a voice and setting up a fire only to fan the flames.

1) Release 3-5 articles all supportive and encouraging and downtalking any other sides. Fire them off daily or weekly at the start of a movement.

2) Spin around a month or two later and post little positive coverage and now post the other side(s) arguments while downtalking the movement. A complete tailspin from the first step.

If 1 & 2 don't have that month period between and happen at the same time - I see it as giving a voice to both sides. If 1 and 2 have a large time gap between them, it's setting up a fire then fanning the flames.

In recent memory, outside of "fringe" or "everyone discards it as a right wing nutjobs newspaper" (Breitbart) there has never been negative/critical coverage of any school "protests". All MSM has nothing but positive things to say until the movement is dying out/people are forgetting about it at which point they become highly critical, piss off those in the movement, and fan the flames a while longer.

It's something I see time and time again. It's the timing that is suspicious. Not necessarily the articles themselves.
^ This rocks. I always wondered why I don't hear from liberals from Middle East on the forums on these sensitive topics. Ask your friends to come out here and comment. Talking openly like this will do a lot of good

- People here will realize you are normal too

-People here will understand your perspective

Don't bottle it up and 'splode once, cause that confirms their world view.
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The Polyus was a violation of pretty much every space treaty. It was a clear weaponization of space designed to shoot down US satellites. Gorbachev knew that any attempt to use it would bring US retaliation in a variety of ways the USSR couldn't handle: move more nukes close to the USSR, ramp up nuke production, launch Reagan's SDI missile shield concepts, build large missile shields in Europe, etc.

Russia is not known for respecting treaties it signs, so I'm sure Reagan had some backchannel talks to Gorby over space weaponization that spooked him. Both backed off eventually. Reagan's SDI went nowhere and morphed into the SM anti-missile systems in use today and the Polyus, of course, failed to achieve orbit.
He's probably more like you than most non-religious people because both of your belief systems are basically the same thing.

They are Abrahamic (along with Judaism) religions and both feature the exact same God and many of the same practices and beliefs.
To be fair, I bet a lot of agencies would be ok with just having the keys at all times so that they can do surveillance. You could still have encryption for logins, financial transactions, etc.

I don't think that's a good idea either, but there are people who would probably see that as a reasonable middle ground.
Who are "they"? Many politicians are on the same side of each debate, wanting to restrict the rights of free people in the name of safety and security. I'm curious, do you see a distinction between the two issues? Sounds like you're on opposite sides for each of them.
>American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot.

Everything you need to know in the first paragraph.
Some would argue that banning tools of any kind is a stupid and feckless way to address cultural problems.
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I'll cancel your anecdote with one of my own: If facebook hadn't existed, my life would not have been different at all. I don't use it, never have.
"So irrational"

To me, it's transcendental.
> Frankly, I wouldn't trust 1970s era automation to land the spaceship I'm in.

This comment led to me looking up a few details of the lunar landings on Wikipedia; pretty interesting stuff. Apparently the Apollo 14 trusted the computers and the engineers back on Earth enough to reprogram the things on the fly, although the radar system was still buggy - but I'm not sure if the latter counts as software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14#Lunar_descent
Idris already demonstrates that you don't have to have Haskell's ⊥ issues or its space leak issues. Idris may still have some leaks (or may not; I can't think of any), but the so-called law, "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky", is out-and-out false.
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> My other problem is code generation. I can't generate Julia code yet.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your meaning here, but Julia has a range of metaprogramming functionality including both Lisp-like macros, as well as "generated functions" that allow custom code specialization based on input type signatures (https://medium.com/@acidflask/smoothing-data-with-julia-s-ge...). These capabilities have been used for DSLs (e.g. https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl) and parser generation (e.g. https://github.com/abeschneider/PEGParser.jl).
the only issue with all these dns-based blacklists is that, you normally can use its IP directly to fully bypass them.
I hate the clash of civilizations narrative and identity politics as much as the next guy but Paris wasn't attacked because France attacked ISIS first. On the contrary and let me refresh your memory, ISIS attacked first and murdered all those hostages held in captivity in Syria or Iraq mercilessly. Even if they hadn't killed western hostages, they'd still have to be taken down as they pose a threat and constitute a major destabilizing force in the region and the world as a whole.
I bet you would have just as many friends without facebook. That's limited by your capacity to make friends, not the social media you use.
Yes, I think at Google's scale one of the biggest pain points is almost certainly integrating new employees to do things "the Google way". Instead of picking up qualified people who may or may not buy in to what you're doing internally, why not pick from a group of candidate employees who have already bought in and have self-taught, at zero cost, how to do things "the Google way".

Also, as far as I understand, TensorFlow is not technically a set of proprietary algorithms. It's basically a framework for ML.
It's small, without over-complicated class names and has all kinds of add-ons like dropdown etc. available as modules.
I believe Bootstrap has been an incredible boost for web development. For people new to the profession/craft, it is an unbelievable tool.

For those more experienced and possessing sound design knowledge and more complex/detailed development goals, there are better choices.
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What I have never understood, is how can you not take the Bible literally and just kind of pick and choice what part to belive or not to believe.

How is this process of picking and choiceing from the Bible and 2000 years of Christian history not the same as making up your own morality (as most secularist do).

Seems to me, that the only thing 'being Christian' is (outside of the institution), is that you take some more of your morality from the Bible compared to all other books.

What is it that keeps you Christian? Why not just go all the way and look at all books and history to make up your own morality?
I'm happy that my bank uses encryption. I bet most people with bank accounts would agree.
It is available for Android[1] - also it appears there is a V2[2] (paid)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Jeminie.Hm...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Jeminie.Hm...
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There are many many nationalist terrorist groups (e.g. IRA) or communist terrorist groups (e.g. Red Army Faction). The IRA almost killed the British Prime Minister. There actually aren't that much Muslim terrorist attacks