skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the more staggering because back in those times the majority of the world population resided in China and India. At around 0 A.D, there were 100M people in India and 58M people in China[1][2], leaving a few tens of millions in the rest of the world.

By the way, in the 202BC battle of Gaixia, 250,000 people died in a world of 150M people[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history#India

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaixia
I have mixed feelings about Java.

Reflection made one tricky part of a project very easy. I still love how elegantly it turned out. The type system is... I used to think it was really good, now I'd just call it "OK". JNI is useful for getting certain things done, but the syntax is gouge-your-eyeballs-out awful. Checked exceptions are very useful if you are serious about error handling, and a royal pain if/when you are not.

But the thing that was great about Java, to me, was the library. It was like Barbie - it had everything. I'm just talking about the standard Java library here.

Then you get into the other libraries - Spring and J2EE frameworks and Hibernate and so on, and the XML configuration files multiply. They do great things, but if you have to change what they do, you have to change some setting in some XML file, which uses some syntax that you don't know, and your job is to figure out which XML file and which setting and where the documentation is, and you just go insane. I understand why people loathe that environment.
Vox has an excellent, balanced followup here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759157
I've been intrigued and frustrated by Haskell on and off for years now. But I think the open sourcing of Swift has, at least for now, iced my interest in Haskell. Certainly they are not directly interchangeable, but I think Swift brings a lot of the benefits of an FP language like Haskell or OCaml but is eminently more practical and applicable. Or at least it will be as the OS community behind it gains speed.

So Haskell is still on my radar but, for now, off my list of things I intend to learn.
Well, apart from his prediction that it wouldn't be a very successful language, his analysis still seems pretty accurate...

And one has to grant Java this: it has matured a lot over the years. Even has lambdas now! ;-)
Yeah, I think every city does, but like anything in property tax land, it's the value of land and additions. So a bunch of office buildings plus cheap land by the Bay.

I tried to find an exact answer, but San Mateo county doesn't publish a list of largest property taxpayers (some do http://ttc.ocgov.com/proptax/toptaxpayers so I believe it's public records), and a search for variants of Hacker Way on their site doesn't yield much.
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Thanks! I didn't know OH is on Github, otherwise I would post an issue myself :)
I always think "Am I turning into a stereotypical old person? Unable to use a computer?" I always feel like I'm just out of touch.
https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/15
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Oh man that's awesome!

Don't mention it. I got into Linux when I was 13 and it's been in my heart and soul since. I'd actually be using it full time if the Unity3d editor worked with it. But I made a vow to always support Linux with everything I make because I love the community and I love giving back to it.

I'd really appreciate it if you linked to the twitter or facebook btw. Not for promotional reasons but so people can keep up to date on it. Also I don't have much else right now.

https://www.facebook.com/IrisStudioGames
https://twitter.com/irisstud
I'd imagine it's fundamentally because restaurants don't actually use a precision measurement device to dole out drinks. If you saw the cup was low you could complain, and if they used fraudulent cups that said 12oz but were really 11oz, then that would presumably pretty easy to prove (since the now-wise customer would have a cup).

I'd expect state laws to be pretty specific about what types of measurements are regulated, but data usage seems like it would conceptually fit given the opaque and after-the-fact nature of its reporting.

Phone companies have been keeping call records forever, and even printing them line-by-line on paper in the past. The design theory behind IP was kind of to avoid that kind of centralized complexity and its associated overhead, but alas Comcast is hell bent on reimplementing it because decommodification is profitable.
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I can improve land I don't own? I don't see how I'm going to manage to get paid in that scenario...
> your insistence on dis-acknowledging our cultural past as a source of the obligation seems odd.

Well, look at it this way. If someone had killed my father, I wouldn't be satisfied with them saying "here, I'll pay for your college education and we'll call it even"; I'd want them in the electric chair. Similarly, a focus on alleged crimes of past cultures leads inevitably to angry demands for retribution for said crimes, followed by a lot of people replying -- with absolute justification! -- that they weren't responsible for these past crimes, or maybe the other guys were just as bad. Next thing you know everyone's screaming at each other and the formerly universal values have been turned into a political football. If you've got a concept that should be apolitical and universal, the last thing you want to do is prominently attach it to one side of a bitter cultural war.
> except the first one spawns an extra process for no reason.

I wonder how many processes I could spin up in the time it would take for me to figure out "hmm, no, invoking that command would use one more process than necessary..."

I don't give a hoot about that stuff when I'm doing stuff interactively. e.g. when using `more`.
Good watch, thanks!
It must have been all California sales. They were top sales tax producer for the city http://www.almanacnews.com/news/2009/05/27/menlo-park-a-top-...
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I saw and thought the same thing at the bottom there! I also didn't know "su" = "substitue user" therfore "sudo" is "substitue user do".
They rely on OAuth.io [0] for something trivial as Twitter auth. I'm disappointed! The limits of the free service of OAuth.io [1] are ridiculously low, too.

[0] https://oauth.io/

[1] https://oauth.io/home/pricing
who has the ability and desire to pull this off?
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Not just scrub lands. They literally have mountains everywhere, even between heavy populated eastern cities. If you take a bullet train from Beijing to Guangzhou, it is heavily tunneled for much of the entire trip, which makes the task even more amazing.
This is where I come back to my working hypothesis that symbol based languages make computers more awkward to Adopt and engage. And to that same point, fax machines seem to make sense.
While a moderately high dosage of Ketamine does have anesthetic effects, through it's antagonism of the NMDA receptor at dosages (which suppresses activity required for signals to cross spine/brain), inhibition of nitric oxide production, and weak agonism of opioid receptors, it also has a slew of other interactions at various affinities.

Ketamine inhibits the reuptake of all three major monoamines. Thus it mimics to some degree both the mechanisms of action of SNRIs (serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) such as venlafaxine (effexor), used to treat depression/anxiety and DNRIs (dopamine/norepinephrine) such as bupropion (wellbutrin)/methylphenidate (ritalin), which are used to treat depression/ADHD. Ketamine also impacts the acetylcholine receptors, which have been linked to anti-depressant effects, and the less-well-researched sigma receptor.

While the above interactions may contribute to the reported anti-depressant effects, some of those same interactions make it undesirable as a medication. Dopamine reuptake inhibitors and mu-opioid antagonists are notoriously abused for their euphoric effects. However, those effects are contrasted with psychotomimetic effects of ketamine's interaction with NMDA, kappa-opioid, muscarinic acetylcholine, and simga receptors.

Ultimately, it's incorrect to simply categorize ketamine as a depressant or a sedative. The body is an exceptionally complex chemical network, and you're right to be skeptical. But I think it's important that we not dismiss the positive reported effects of the drug because of the side effects that occur at various points on the dose-response curve. We may find out that by controlling dosage we can tune a beneficial level of antidepressant response without psychosis, dissociation, or amnesic effects due to hormetic effects. Or it might work exceptionally well for some otherwise treatment-resistant cases. Even if not, we'll be able to use that data to tweak the binding affinities to investigate drugs that have a better therapeutic use.
I think it is quantifiable. One way to quantify it is to determine exactly how much you are prepared to pay to keep the tile, (or some else is to get it).

A possibly fairer way might be to let you pay what the next highest bidder is prepared to pay. That means you unique addition remains your profit, while also quantifying the opportunity cost instead.

Regarding idling, I'm not arguing against that, only against the system by how it's scheduled and who pays and who gets paid for it
My second job was at my local newspaper. Started, I think, when I was 19. I lasted five years. I had html, css, js, and php under my belt at that time too. I was and still am a generalist. I think the current term is Full-Stack Developer though.

You should get more experience with other backend languages. Try Python, Ruby, and something slightly exotic like Rust or Scala or Elixir. If you've been there for ten years you've probably gotten comfortable in your stack and your code. Start reading more code. Push yourself to learn something. Get your github up and churning. Contribute to some OSS projects.

You've got experience with highly dynamic websites. That puts you head and shoulders above people that only have experience building landing pages or small business sites. It's a whole different beast to build something that has to respond to a random bit of content flowing into a page and all that entails. You've worked with some of the most set in their ways people on the planet, journalists at a local newspaper.

I'm 35 now and I've stayed, mostly, in the content space since I started at the paper. That's my niche, rather than focusing on a language or front/backend discipline I focused on content. I've had four jobs since working at the paper and I still remember those days as some of the longest days and most fun I've ever had. I'm now making over three times what I made at the paper when I left too.

You can do this but you're going to have to work for it.

Edit: I don't have a degree either.
Well the one thing I would push back on is...how useful will the computing power of the average cloud instance today be in 2030?
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Definitely agree with this. This is also something we're looking to update, along with the great article about how the hamburger icon fails on mobile: http://deep.design/the-hamburger-menu/
Obviously, it matters very much what the market price of the stock is. Your grant will be for a certain number of shares on some vesting schedule, not for a certain cash value.

Remember kids, stock prices don't always go up. Some stock prices go down, and sometimes all stock prices go down together. Those RSUs that, if fully vested, would have a market price of $400k at time of hire, may well be worth anything from $0 to $millions at the time they actually vest.
Open Source gives you a false sense of protection. A VM gives you a real one. But I get the point.

I guess you are the customer, you gave feedback, he can make up his mind. Fair enough. Though I doubt you are his target customer for now as you don't want it badly.
> This is where I come back to my working hypothesis that symbol based languages make computers more awkward to Adopt and engage.

I'm reasonably confident you can drop it, because it doesn't make any sense and doesn't actually match the country.
Ctrl-click anywhere on the toolbar and select either "Icon and Text" or "Text Only". Problem solved!
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I'm just 3 points away from having enough to redeem for the giant stuffed panda -- please upvote me!

But seriously, I think it's meant as a sort of credibility metric and/or a disincentive to create troll accounts (e.g. if new accounts had the same "powers" as existing accounts).

I think it would be more meaningful if it included a time metric (e.g. 503 points, 37 in last 30 days), since there is a wide spread of time since account creation.
Yes. All other things being equal(and they are, for the most part), if you save 10% of your salary a year, you are going to be a lot wealthier upon retirement living in the higher cost of living place. If you want to maximize your retirement fund, you should be looking to move to the place with the highest cost of living possible.
In other words, punish people financially for not being rich enough to live close to work. That'll work.
They are infatuated with hardware and appliances. That could be blueray players, toilets, robots, game consoles. Maybe it is a cultural thing, but that's how I see it.

Thinking about it, how much software do you know that has been written in Japan (I can think of Ruby, games don't count as they fall under game console, think PC software), compared say to Western Europe or US. It would seem they are at the same level as any of those countries and there would an equal distribution of software written but that's not the case.
No just a H1B willing to work for half the going rate.
I don't see why this is getting much attention. You can look at the financials all day long, but what really matters is your happiness. Are you going to be happy at a big company doing the same job day in and day out? If so, great!

If you're the type of person that can't stand repetition and predictability and want the emotional roller coaster of creating something new, then join a startup!

We don't have blog posts talking about the payouts between being an artist and a hedge fund manager, and yet people still become artists. Why do we do this in the startup culture? We shouldn't feel apologetic or like we're missing out on something if we decide that what makes us happy is to work at a startup.
Does not appear to be the case in London. I know indirectly people working in Google around here and they are on the low side of banking salaries.

Getting $250K is certainly doable in bank, but it does not follow a specific career plan. I have known senior system tester making 150K GBP and for the same job and responsibilities another was making 50K GBP.
Doing it in 5 years out of school is difficult in tech.

It is doable without too much trouble in finance in trading, m&a, ... the trick is that you need to survive which require more luck than skills.

Overall though, in the 4.5 million workers in London, only 120K make between 100K GBP and 200K GBP, and 60K that make more than that.
> Insofar as current arrangements of a state holding eminent domain, yes. Not intrinsically.

No, property rights are intrinsically a creation of government through law, whether or not the government reserves something like the power of eminent domain.
Where else is the 0.1% going to put their 95% of the worlds wealth?
The policy hasn’t been changed, though. There’s still no explicit statement that privilege escalation invalidates a report: https://facebook.com/whitehat
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> I think my biggest takeaway from Japan was that it's stuck between two worlds -- one 20 years ahead, and one 20 years behind.

I don't know that it's the right way to put it — after all mayhaps things are just as odd the other way around — but some things were definitely jarring, like the ubiquitous vending machines (cheap and with cold and hot drinks) next to houses with no central heating (heated room by room mostly with kerosene heaters) or the weird ubiquity of "busybody" jobs (e.g. any form of road encumbrance having one person on each side directing traffic, and we crossed a lot of roadworks).
A surprisingly accurate take on surveillance by the Dvorakasauraus I mean Long Time PC Ecosystem Commentator John C. Dvorak. Thanks for posting this link, I didn't know he was actively writing.
Yep, Steam frequently locks up like that for me. It hasn't crashed, but it takes some jiggling to be able to click on any menu items within Steam again.
I have a Ph.D. In English and got involved in a startup while doing a postdoc. Initial gig was just copywriting but as the only non engineer, my role quickly grew into product mgmt, business strategy, marketing, partnerships etc. Small teams benefit a lot from someone with her broad range of skills and experience. Tell her to find a product she loves and try to join the team that's building it in whatever role possible.
While the brakes are important, the tilting is most definitely not a side-show. I've been on a train when the tilting is not working, and the lateral forces are significant. They make it unpleasant to ride, and impossible to work. Certainly drinking coffee is no joke.
Yes, I would like you to describe what you mean by "specific context", because I can think of many contexts that could be described as a "threat like this".

If you mean "threats sent by email", then my experience is a counter-example.

If you mean "threats sent to the XCOPY developers" then it's entirely too restrictive to be meaningful.

Do you mean "untargeted threats send to unspecified members of a large company"? What do you think was the frequency of such events in the 1970s or 1980s, and the typical response?

Without more information, it's hard to make sense of what you mean.
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My understanding is that Japan is relatively racially and culturally homogeneous, and the Japanese like it that way and don't want to change it.
I'd love to see some empirical data, but my intuition is that text + colored icon is the ideal (in terms of how quickly you can find what you want) for both new and experienced users. Every little clue helps navigation, and makes me feel more confident about using an application.
> Do you have a website yourself or something I can follow you on.

I have an empty Wordpress that i'm being lazy about updating with a child theme and actual content (I kind of fell out of blogging a few years ago.) I am planning on doing (and maybe blogging about) the one game a month challenge[0] starting next year, so maybe I can post it to HN then. I'm not good at selling myself and I really need to work on my online presence again.

I'm on twitter at @kennethrapp but there's nothing interesting there either.

If you want to see me suck at some Japanese shooters, My youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUALtf6GWYntaliNPUjWVUQ

[0]http://www.onegameamonth.com/
I'm not sure I follow. If someone sees value in getting the improvement done and are willing to pay you to do it. you can offer your services and accept payment.
On the one hand text labels are convenient when you can read them, on the other hand when you can't (say because you're in japan and japan loves the hell out of its text labels) icons you might be able to decipher are better than text you definitely won't.
This may not be in the 'spirit' of typography, but to me it seems like font creation ought to be automatable, to some degree. Artistic flourishes may have to be added in post-production, but the basic shapes (whether Latin or Chinese or whatever) with maybe some constraint engine or machine learning to get the kerning, etc. right could be bulk generated, parameterised by brush style and dynamics and anything else that can be simulated.
Seems pretty unreasonable to me. It's pretty obvious that the DNC would not have taken access away from Clinton if the situation were reversed.
I am close to somebody who has been strongly affected by depression. She has, in any material respect, a perfect life. She has food, clothes, a supportive family, a great job, plenty of money, etc. There is nothing "wrong" with her life.

But she suffers off-and-on depression. Not just "I feel bad" depression. Crippling, "can't get out of bed" depression. Periodic suicidal ideation. Occasional suicide attempts.

She knows she has depression. She talks about it. And she wants to be done with it. She knows how she feels when her brain is "in balance" and how it feels when she's depressed. One of these states is much more preferable to the other.

She's tried drugs, ECT, talk therapy, etc. And, yes, she's tried ketamine. Anything that will put her back to a state where she is able to get out of bed and function, and reduce the odds of her killing herself when she's depressed.

I'm sure there are a lot of people who are depressed due to outside factors -- poverty, oppression, war, etc. But I can tell you quite certainly that there are people who have "perfect" lives who find themselves clinically depressed. And at least some of those people want to get back to a non-depressed state. This research helps them.

TL;DR: Not all people are depressed because their life sucks, nor is depression something that all people can "cure" by thinking harder or trying harder. Some people have a brain imbalance and would like to fix it so they can have a life. Literally.
Well how about that! I logged into my Comcast account and saw we had hit nearly 250-300 GB each of the previous three months.

There was no way (unless my wifi was hacked) that we would use that much. We do have Netflix, but we watch maybe 3-5 hours a month? We rarely stream anything.

So I logged into my router and saw that in the last 30 days we used 23 GB. Much more in line with what I've seen in the past.

Just waiting for Comcast to charge me extra fees!!
I got it doing this: https://gist.github.com/grownseed/0c7efcacd2cbaa0056e7

Far from clean but does the job :)
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Is it really a matter of intuition or just familiarity with the interface? I suspect it's the latter, likely older people you've encountered aren't "early adopters" of technologies vs. their younger contemporaries and simply not yet learned the meaning of the symbols.

OTOH a younger person confronting a piece of "antiquated" equipment, e.g., an old camera where everything had to be set manually might well feel totally lost vs. the old-timer who knows how to use it from prior experience.

It's not really a generational thing, more associated with environment, exposure to the device in question, education and similar factors. It's all too easy to assume everyone else has the same background and knowledge base as we ourselves, but that's in fact rarely the case. When others aren't similar to us, it's not safe to believe their apparent deficits are due solely to factors like age or obvious personal characteristics.
I know nothing of these subjects so I ask: is there any advantage to the typography and scrip system that is simplified Chinese vs a small alphabet a la Latin or Cyrillic?