skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unaware of computers being high priced in Japan. Prices on Apple.com or Dell.com are +/- 2% difference. Haven't used a fax machine in Japan since about 2002. Cash ok, but cash = privacy which Japan values more than just about any other culture.
> Artists aren't that special

Good artists are/aren't special in the same way that good programmers are/aren't special.
Why Chocolate Experts Think the Mast Brothers Are Frauds
I wonder if (when?) someone will make a program that auto-validates the ICANN emails and ignores all spam.
In browser UX, you simply mouse-over an icon to get it's tooltip. But screens are big so there's almost always room for labels. In mobile UX, there's just not much room for labels. I don't see why more apps don't use a tap-and-hold approach for showing a tooltip.
+1

This is a huge issue with open source software - everything seems to be named Libre- these days and I haven't found many Americans who can pronounce it...let alone people in China or India.
When names are routinely erased for political reasons, why would one ever give credence to the official story?
also known as Mystery Meat Navigation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation
It's real and if you're willing to move to SV, they're always hiring.
We stopped using them because we changed the language we speak due to external factors like being conquered and dominated by foreigners who brought their language and writing system with them.

It wasn't a voluntary act, trust me and with the rise of the emojis as a medium of communication, I can say that we or the ancient Egyptians had it right all along in using hieroglyphs.
Smoking outdoors is bad because it's crowded and smokers end up scaring kids in the face etc.. In other words they're not looking at from the same perspective as westerners. It's not about smoke in the air.
I hope not- that seems like the perfect balance between invasive information gathering and sane validation measures.
Some pilots are just drivers - I'd certainly rather ride with the former, given the choice!

While it's tempting to characterize some programmers as just coders, that sounds pejorative and wouldn't be very charitable of me. So instead I'll distinguish programmers as tool makers and tool users. I know which one of those I'd put my faith in too, all things equal.

No offense intended... at all! I don't grok monads either, but in my world (mainframe stuff) Haskell doesn't register. If I used monads though I'd surely be driven to understand what's going on under the hood.

Forgive me another tangential OT story, an anecdote I read in a magazine many years ago. A man was spending a Saturday afternoon puttering around in his back yard while the family's hound slept on the back porch. The man called the dog, who then roused and put his nose to the ground, retracing all the steps his master had taken that afternoon until he finally reached the man. "The dog didn't give a damn about coming to me" the man growled, "He just wanted to know how I got here."

Hee! That's me.
Your mom sounds pretty cool
One more datapoint from Google (non-Bay Area office):

$75k (partial year), $182k, $254k, $360k

and then I left for a start-up where my total package is $50k. No less happy :-)
The best way to judge your experience as a programmer is not by educational level, but more by number of years of experience. If you have been a novice programmer for X number of years conider your true experience in the pro world to factor about X/5. But mainly just be honest about that number. If you've done 5 on your own, call it 1. But just you should be looking for entry level and you might be able to cut it in the real world.
Namecoin basically.
FYI: The trashcans disappeared after the sarin gas attacks. They've never come back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
> For me, it's a safety issue. I'm pretty certain that I'm going to be able to handle 99.99% of encounters with roadside females (or elderly). I've gotten into an altercation with a roadside male I stopped to help in high school (who was likely high when he ran his car off the road).

Well, the question is: Do you decide based on physical strength/behaviour of the individual or based on gender? Sexism is when you ignore the individual's characteristics and instead decide how to interact with them based on some supposed characteristic of the gender that they belong to. If you simply decide based on how strong or high the individual is (or appears to be), independently of their gender, and that then happens to correlate with their gender, that's not sexism--if you avoid helping a male despite them appearing completely non-threatening/-intimidating/whatever (and that's how I understood what you wrote--after all, there is nothing "old school" about avoiding situations that seem risky, is there?), then that is sexism.
An interesting article. I am very glad for the recent flourishing of CJK fonts, both paid and free (see e.g. Noto fonts including Noto CJK[1])

Some feedback:

> Here an Arphic edit suggests aligning the bottom of the character 磋 with its top part, writing in red ink, “don’t shift right.” The character, as it happens, is cuo, and means “error.”

1. The character in the image is 蹉, not 磋.

2. The red edit text says 下偏右 = "the bottom is shifted right", not 不偏右 = "don't shift right".

[1] https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/
I've given to the OpenBSD Foundation in the past. Giving $5 to a few foundations tends to help with number of donators which helps non-profit justification in some countries.
> It's like they're super-high-tech in everything - except computers, which are very expensive compared to what you can get here in the US.

High-tech/lo-tech and expensive/cheap are different axes. Everyone in Japan was doing the whole text message thing 15 years ago, back when most of us were just coming to terms with email. The same can be said about GPS navigation.
In short, the 'acutal' programming is NEVER visual. The best way to express commands to a machine is in a language by some syntactical text. Pictures are for children. Unless you are studying something inherently graphical, like trees, graphs, charts, you just need code to be as 'efficient' as possible. Usually a chart that does "If(X) then Y", takes just as much effort as typing that by hand.
Japan values privacy more than other cultures. Cash is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. Even ordering online you can buy things by (1) place the order and get code (2) go to convenience store, tell code, pay cash. Merchant knows what you ordered but payment processor does not know who you are, only that cash was paid for order #XYZ. Similarly adult videos in hotels are paid by cash. You put cash in card dispensing machine and get code. Type code into TV.
You're #1 on Hacker News and Product Hunt today with an app whose repo was created 12 days ago and your server is not down. That's commendable in itself.
The problem with modern art is that there's no way to determine good or shitty artist. It's become some kind of weird money driven popularity contest, but skill of any sort has not been a component for decades.
Do what you can when you can and have the understanding that sometimes you cannot and that's ok. Sometimes the only thing you can do is put one foot in front of the other and move on down the road.
5 Reasons Why You Should Build a Small Business – Not a Start-Up
Future Microprocessors Driven by Dataflow Principles [video]
I think a big big part of this is that English is hard and Japan is just large enough that they get away with doing everything in Japanese (compared to something like.. Estonia). They have their own Physics and Engineering journals, their own textbooks on everything, their own programming world. In the tech sphere they basically don't really have to learn English at all to be successful and so they end up being incredibly disconnected from the rest of the world. They put in a lot of resources in getting people to learn English and yet it doesn't seem to pay off (I don't know what the solution is)

The horrible web design to me can only be partly explained by that though. As a people with an special eye to detail and design this is simply incomprehensible to me...
Thanks for the perspective. I too am thinking of going in that direction, moving outside of my current comfort zone, but try to stay in the hardware area where I will be able to contribute more.
Careful what you wish for. I'd prefer my isp not keep careful records of where my bytes are going and when.
Sony Developing Sulfur Smartphone Batteries with 40% Higher Energy Density
This isn't recycling, though. The bees are using the material, not recycling it.
Hi! Author here. Thanks for the feedback!

How did you manage to find tenants for your spare desks?
I don't know about 250k, but there is a lot of money to be made at a big company. I am not a 'SWE' at Google so these are not my numbers, but I know it's pretty normal for people to see this out of college:

~110k salary
~60 shares of GOOG per year (so right now about 45k)
~15% bonus (so 15k, conservative)

That right there adds up to 170k and that's entry level. Get a promotion or two (could be a 20% increase if you're lucky) plus the general year-to-year raises to keep up with the market and you're looking at 250k being possible before you're 30.

Now of course this can't be everyone. But it's a lot of people, and anyone who is going to be competent enough to keep a startup afloat is probably good enough to rise a rank or two at Google/Apple/Facebook/etc.
and yet, your action prevented multiple someones from encountering a bug and took a little entropy out of the system...

Thanks for preventing others from experiencing a bit of pain.
Extensive discussion from 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10731022
Yes, and also similar to Firefox bookmark keywords.

e.g. a Chrome search engine or Firefox bookmark with URL "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s" and keyword "wp" will return the Wikipedia page for Hacker News if you search "wp Hacker News".

Also works for stuff other than searches, e.g. "https://www.reddit.com/r/%s" with keyword "rr" to quickly navigate to the Hacker News subreddit with "rr hackernews".

Chrome automatically adds search engines, while Firefox requires a bit more manual work:
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-search-from-address-bar
Art is exploding these days. Maybe not "fine art", but when I was growing up, everyone said, "Oh, no, I cannot draw." Today, the internet is full of art being created and shared. Even by teenagers or other folk who "can't draw". Anime is popular, and many people and trying out that style as well. Painting is as popular as ever, and the crafting movement, too. The geek culture of the internet has spawned people making geek art in all kinds of media.

Not much of this (if any) is going to show up on gallery walls, and I am not even claiming that I like much of it. But it is art. And it is absolutely relevant to the people creating and viewing it.

We have an entire generation of people growing up knowing that they can create. Whether those creations use traditional art media, digital media, crafts, or something entirely new, the point is that the creative process is alive and well, vastly more so than when I was young.
For anyone as confused as I am about the shortness of the article, you have to click X on the little box to put in your email to see the rest of the article.
If I'm reading this right, the registrar suspended the domain because the contact details weren't validated by the customer. It wasn't ICANN.

It seems to be up to the registrar -- other registrars I use send an email that requires no action if the details are correct. But one I used previously suspended a domain of ours because the guy that registered it ignored the email.
I am really tired of hearing about this revolution for all this time. When is it available for purchase? I'll pay $2!
Annoyingly expensive. I wonder if they have a goal of restricting the number of VPCs, as you basically can't run a VPC without NAT to access other AWS services like S3.

But the t2.nano instances will make a DIY solution cheaper.
WWII was devastating to the economies of Europe, Russia, East Asia, and North Africa. Do you just make stuff up or what?

The period 1330-1480 was not marked by significant economic progress. Europe only started to get ahead of the rest of the world economically after the founding of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange around 1600.
Extensive discussion of this topic 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10731022
Is organizing the violation of copyright laws political speech, or do you mean something else by "political reasons"?
DNS is about as decentralized a naming system as you can get where there's also widespread agreement regarding who controls a name.

I'm not sure how someone not checking and confirming their email address once a year is going to motivate anyone to do anything, other than be sure they use an email address they intend to check once in a while.
Not 100% sure, but I think this is to mitigate exploitation of UAF (Use After Free) flaws.

Adding an unpredictable delay in between when an application frees some memory, and it becomes available for reuse elsewhere will likely reduce the window of vulnerability where an exploit may be able to leverage the issue.
At 3.5 years of experience Google offered me about double what I'm hearing for new grad total comp, so it seems that they value at least the first few years. Given the oft-cited ageism in the industry, I expect that tails off pretty quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 years of experience wasn't worth noticeably more than 5 years.
I think your comment is really insightful.

> Or, more generally, any potential value of it is subjective, and evaluations of merit aren't actually taking even that into account.

Art is art, there doesn't need to be some line in the sand where things are suddenly "good" or "art", or "bad" and "garbage". But there's definitely some kind of range of quality, and subjectively if the work isn't moving the audience, it's not subjectively "good".

I think you tap into the notion that "good" can be different for different audiences, and I think that also makes sense. I'm not particularly moved by most religious art, but I recognize it as art because of its capacity to move others.

Trying to create a precision semantic framework around art is a fool's errand. But I think there needs to be some kind of recognition that there's a kind of ordering in art that happens. The stuff on display at the MoMA or the NGA's Modern Art wing or the Tate Modern? Somebody ranked that better than anything else they could have spent their limited conservation funds on. It was more "worthy" than other pieces. So this ranking happens de facto no matter what any philosophy of relativism in art pretends to be about.
If you're really interested in looking more at this, look at the flightaware stats for the flights going out of KILN -- Wilmington, Ohio.

Outside of a Corporate Jet going to New Orleans (R&L Carriers), it's all ABX Air traffic...and it's going to airports near major Amazon Warehouses (Lehigh Valley/Allentown was the biggest one that came to mind when I was looking at the flights).

Atlas (ABX Air Competitor) doesn't have a lot of wiggle room -- they're doing freight contracts for DHL and PAX contracts for the Oil and Gas companies to Africa right now.

I think what Amazon's doing right now is moving or rebalancing the freight -- something that they've traditionally done via semi -- in order to get it in place for the holiday season. It will be interesting to me to see if these flights continue to keep up during the slower months in the beginning of the year.
When people cite total comp, including RSUs, they only include the RSUs that vest in that year. At least, this is how the recruiters at the big companies talk about it, which is typically where total comp numbers come from. So a grant of $300k worth of RSUs vesting evenly over 4 years counts as $75k of compensation.
You mean CISA.
For those who thought prices were already too high - thanks Obama!
Ask HN: Most inspirational Ask HNs of all time
Hey,

What are some of the most useful, insightful, inspiring, interesting ASK HNs.
From what I've seen, it's more like there are too many people with great marketing and poor talent that make lots of money, and too many people with poor marketing and great talent that don't. You don't really see a lot of great talent at art galleries and shows because you need good marketing to get into them. But when you start to know artists personally, and you follow their process and techniques, you can witness the development of their talent, even for modern art, which I assume means anything developed post-war. We probably agree that most stuff is crap, but maybe just dig a little deeper and look a little longer?
> Even Facebook is using text,

The problem with the text-only approach is that you can't change the layout or the names of the functions visible to the user in your app or you'd face a severe backlash or blowout from your user.

But in the case of icons, you could still move things around and the user would find it less demanding to locate the new place of the function by identifying the pictogram quickly taking into account that we humans are better equipped to identify pictograms and shapes than text very quickly and efficiently.

PS: Assuming a conventional method or approach to this problem and not a hybrid or innovative one.
That is a large airport.
I made no mention of "political speech". Preventing people from communicating amongst themselves is a political action.
Yes, very interesting. I assume I'm reading it correctly that NetBSD was immune to all tested faults (and Debian was susceptible to all)?
What about laptops with touchscreens? Not a valid use case?
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You're not getting my point.

YES, ABSOLUTELY, sometimes it boils down to knowledge. But MOST OF THE TIME, it DOESN'T.

I'm not moving the goal posts. I said poor, and then you wanted to talk about people who aren't poor, but think they are, and if you educate them, it turns out they're not poor.

> They're much better now

Dude, not cool. Do you have a paper towel I can use to clean the milk off my screen? You just made me spit all over.

And now you're moving the discussion between having KNOWLEDGE, and having TECHNOLOGY. Those are, in fact, different things.

And let's just BACK UP.

Let's pick that kid with a Nintendo. Which was, of course, more than 20 years ago. Is he really THAT much better off with an XBox One today?

And please remember, the target we're discussing is "poor today versus RICH 20 years ago." RICH. As in, if you want it, you buy it. If you need information, you hire people who research it for you. If you are ill, you go to the best doctors in the world. RICH. In 1995. Rich in 1995 ain't too shabby. In fact, I'd say it's much better than poor in 2015.
With CSS media queries, can we finally get rid of the user agent string?
Equity at a startup is a joke these days, even as valuations climb to infinity. When you're an engineer at a VC-funded startup you're competing against VCs for a piece of a pie. And guess who will walk away with the pie at the end? Will it be the Ruby expert who wrote the backend, or will it be the VC partner who drew up the terms of the funding and the exit?

If you join a startup early you'd be very lucky to get 1%, 2% maybe? Ok so then 4 more rounds of funding go by and you're diluted. Then finally after 5 years you sell to Googapplesoft for $200M. Holy shit, payday is here! Wrong.

First you're going to pay out to all of the preferred shareholders, some of whom might have special payout clauses because you guys really needed the money. Then you find out your 1% is now 0.3% and you have to wait 6 months to sell any of it. So you busted your ass for 5 years for a few hundred thousand dollars when you could have had a full-benefits, low-stress job at Googleapplesoft in the first place and not put nearly so much at risk.

Oh and there's a 90% chance that exit never even happens and all you did was work way below market salary for worthless stock. Oh and that whole time you probably had crap health insurance and minimal 401k matching so your savings aren't looking too good either.

The point of the above is not to say "don't work at a startup" because it's obviously a great experience and the right choice for some. And who knows, maybe it will be WhatsApp and you'll be a billionaire and you can come back here and mock me. But if you run the numbers (as the article says), you really shouldn't work at a startup if you're after money.
I don't get it - who wants this? The real estate market has recovered to the point were it's hot again. There's the whole debate around a living wage and millennials living with their parents in record numbers.

Who sees the need to open up real estate to more foreign investors who will never live in our neighborhoods, go to our schools and be part of our communities?
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I wasn't equating good with privileged. I'm well aware people can be completely miserable for any number of legitimate reasons regardless.

If there's biological factors working against a person harder than any emotional/environmental/life changes can correct for, then those techniques are ultimately rendered inadequate.
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what I am saying is that once your app is using multiple languages, is available in multiple geographies this "just use labels" stuff goes out of the window.

Cancel becomes what, "Zurücksetzen"? "Abbrechen"?
All longer strings, good luck with your tiny button.

Not even mentioning Mandarin or Japanese yet.

Oder aber das ist einfach Enterprise-Software Problematik und die Consumer-App Afferl spielen weiter mit ihren Zehen.
Similar x-ray imaging of ancient covered up texts:
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/imaging_experimental4.ht...
Yes, a thousand times yes.

Creativity is everywhere and in our daily lives and basically infused into every corner of the new culture. Damn near everyone is a photographer, and a hefty number of us don't suck at it either. We're writers, critics, performance artists, musicians and videographers with a huge shared publishing platform. We can share and sell our creations and art with huge audiences with ease. Problems are approached as creative exercises. I'd even argue that the code we write may be art - I profess to find great beauty in some of it.

It's pretty cool that as weird as Snapchat is to some of us, and as creepy as Facebook is, they're popular mostly because they allow people to share their creativity, as mundane as it may seem.

Yes, some if not much of it is pedestrian at best, but the rate at which we consume art, and the ease with which we can create and share art is mind-boggling for those of us that remember "before."