skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well since the audience here probably hasn't changed just for this story may I suggest that the lack of coherent commentary reflects the unfocussed and meandering style of the source article.

It does have some interesting snapshots of Japanese culture in there but they are bookended by too many personal rants based on the author's peculiarities so the result is part travelogue, part social criticism, part gaming commentary, part manifesto.
Ha, Wikipedia articles fit the same concept as mesofacts.
There is absolutely nothing impolite about asking this question. You don't need to be delicate. It's morally equivalent to asking whether your salary is denominated CDN or USD.
Ok, let's try switching them. See above.
No, I see the sarcasm, I just don't see the point.
Advertising is very clearly propaganda and much of it is state of the art psychology to influence people's purchasing decisions. In other words "mind-control".

I have no idea why society puts up with it. (I guess it slowly grew on us and have accepted it in seemingly innocuous steps).

I bet most people (well the non-wingnuts at least) would say they are against government propaganda. And the government is supposedly for the people. But they're OK with corporate propaganda. Corporations by design and law exist to extract as much value in the form of money or labor as is possible from people.
That is pretty impressive. I use colorgcc to make gcc's messages easier to spot and sort, and I always thought gcc had the best error messages (better than MSVC last time I tried it). I might just try clang to see if its messages are better in all the cases I typically encounter.
Great, now just move all of these off the front page entirely, and we'll be good to go.

I know self-posts are algorithmically docked already, but I think I would prefer that HN was set up like StackOverflow where all meta-posts were cordoned off from the real stories.
Hey man, welcome to the mid to late 1990's.

And if you're just figuring this out now you don't have much business giving advice to the News Industry.
One day I discovered that I'd hand-coded a vtable in order to allow polymorphism in structures of function pointers.

I've found myself in a similar situation. I am writing embedded software which needs to be as portable as possible, but I've found myself starting to implement polymorphism and objects in C. I am tempted to ignore platforms that lack a C compiler and switch to C++, but the reduced predictability of runtimes has kept me from doing so thus far.
Man does this bring back memories from back when I was still a young hackling... Watching in eager anticipation what will happen next. For four straight episodes it was Goku with his hands in the air constipating, and somehow I loved every minute of it.
The modern experimenters failed to find the original articles, since they were published in German before last Thursday. So they heated the water too fast, leading to their result.

The ages of the experiments are irrelevant here because
1) 19th century Germans had thermometers and heaters that were more than adequate for this task. We have no technological advantage over them in this regard

2) The modern experiments weren't building on or refining the old ones because the experimenters weren't aware of them. We only see farther than those who came before because we're standing on their shoulders. If we can't find their shoulders, we don't have that advantage.

There's more about this in the discussion page between two wikipedia edit warriors, on of whom, coincidentally, has the same username that I am using on this site right now.
If you don't mind a good amount of screaming in your music (or if you're particularly worked up and need some screaming), there's a song called "Boiled Frogs" by Alexisonfire that is about this topic. Very very good.

In other news, this exact topic is my biggest fear in the world. I hope I never wake up 20 years later and realize I've been doing the exact same thing the whole time.
The French Laundry isn't the type of restaurant that you check hours (reservations are required and if there is an open spot you take it) or menus (they change daily).
You still have to do something for the functions with many local variables. In those cases you have little choice but to allow all N variables into the set, even if comparatively few are in any particular set at one time.

Sparse sets are also a great way to implement NFA state sets, where again you have a large number of possible set members but most sets are small, and you don't want to pay the O(all possible states) cost over and over.
I can only relate to my own experience (6 years in Japan now), but I have never been in a position where I had to drink. I have never been in a very big Japanese corporate company, but in both University, gvt labs and start up, there have always been people who do not drink, and that has never been an issue.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this was posted due to the discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174036
about whether the boiling frog story is true or not.

tl;dr - it is.
The PC will Die
This title should be changed to: "The Beauty of LaTeX".
feh -- of couse somebody suggested it already...
I have no idea, but I'm interested in answers because when my blog used adsense, I'd always worry about mentioning viruses because of the ads that would show.
Yup, it'd be nice to give more front-page time to the project announcements and to the posts asking for a feedback.
Haven't finished yet, but I find it a surprisingly entertaining read.
Use the :make command so that vim knows about the errors. Then use :clist to list errors, :cnext to go to the next error, etc. :help clist and :help make will get you started.
Sugru: a silicone molding compound for hacking around the house
Assuming author's definition no, it can't be "fixed". Advertisements never benefit the consumer.

Reviews, user comments/ratings, search results and goto sites (like craigslist) are the forms of marketing that benefit consumer. I don't consider any of those advertisements. (I think author considered craigslist classifieds as advertising.)
A worthy feature for sure, but moving something that's been commonly used for years to squeeze something else in is a negative UI experience. The "threads" link is no longer where it used to be. I'd guess the earliest it should go would be before "jobs" as I doubt the average HN user clicks "jobs" or "submit" more than once a day (if that often), whereas "threads" is the way to a common activity.

Twitter did something like this when they added the new "retweet" feature. They pushed the "reply" link aside and put the "retweet" in its place. I had to write a Greasemonkey script to resolve this due to years of muscle memory built up on how it was.
Whether or not "don't spend your families life savings on your startup" is good advice or not really depends on the amount of the savings, the age of the individual/family, and the family's earning potential, etc.

Losing all of your $20k savings at age 25, DINK family: hurts, but not life-changing in any way (as long as your spouse is OK with it, and you'd better be damn sure they aren't lying to you when if they say it's OK)

Losing all of you $200k savings at age 35, two small children and stay-at-home spouse: extraordinarily painful and will impact every decision you make for a long time.
I thought the best short introduction to the product was this interview w/ pictures:

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view...
There's no way they missed the negative publicity leading up to the launch. They were trying really, really hard to not let this happen, but there we have it.

Internet: 1 Ubisoft: 0.
Startup Visa update
When it comes to entire countries, or even large cities, they usually have every possible lifestyle within them -- somewhere. It's never what you know about a place; it's who you know.

You may have to make different choices though. It's probably possible to be a teetotalling vegetarian in Japan, but you might have to go to a monastery or something. Whereas you could easily be a games developer with those traits in the USA.
If you paid closer attention to the physicists, you'd realize that exceptions break the rule: they're clues to a more general theory. Is it so inconceivable that a postmenopausal woman might provide some fitness benefit for their kin? What evolutionary basis could there be for a person risking their life for a stranger? There are many more forces at work here than strict biological decent.
Something like this might work:

g++ [options] | sed -e 's/^(.*: (error|warning):).*/\1 please have a look at this line and see if anything jumps out at you/'
"Posts Without Urls"
*'memoirs of a dutiful daughter'
"Treat functions as first class citizens"

Actually, Object oriented programmers already do this. If they use "class polymorphism", "mixins", or any mechanism where an object's method could be determined at runtime, they use first class functions. They just don't know it yet. So, take an example where they would use mixins, then present them a closure or lambda equivalent. That should make functions less scary. (Side note: try to avoid the terms "first class" and "anonymous", "closure", and "lambda". "Ordinary" and "literal" are better, less scary. They point out the fact that functions are as mundane as integers, or strings, so of course they could be parameters or return values.)

"stay immutable"

This is indeed crucial. But effectively impossible until you don't change the way you think. Most imperative programmers think about what the objects should do. Of course, without side effect, they won't do anything, making programming impossible. So they have to think more about what the objects should be. Then, they will be able to avoid side effects until they are really needed.

"factor relentlessly"

Talk about that only when you have talked about functions (don't say "first class"!), as an example of how you could really use them. `sort`, `map` and `filter` would be my favourite examples. Insist on the low syntactic burden of factoring.
> In other words "mind-control".

I could say the same of your comment. Maybe you should not have been allowed to post it.

> I have no idea why society puts up with it.

Think harder. The desire to allow owners of corporations some freedom in which to grow them? The desire to avoid unnecessary regulations? The lack of hard evidence that advertising actually causes significant harm? The individual's thought that someday they might benefit from being able to advertise their own goods or services? All of these are possible reasons why society puts up with it. I am truly surprised that you could manage to have "no idea" why. Actually, I suspect that you are lying and you do have an idea, you just claim to have no idea to emphasize your point.

> I bet most people (well the non-wingnuts at least) would say they are against government propaganda. And the government is supposedly for the people.

The point is that the government should not actually need propaganda if it is acting in the peoples' best interests. Through history most cases of government propaganda have been when the government is subverting its people's interests and lying to them about it.

> But they're OK with corporate propaganda.

Corporations typically can't force you to do anything at gunpoint. This is the main reason why they're allowed much more leeway than the government when carrying out their wishes. To be more explicit, it is precisely because the people wish to _keep_ the government on their own side that they try to limit its means to oppose their own best interest.

> Corporations by design and law exist to extract as much value in the form of money or labor as is possible from people.

I see this spouted a lot, but I also see that many, maybe most corporations do not do what you say. Actually, I can think of many laws that in manifold ways restrict corporations from doing what you claim the law and their "design" forces them to do. For example, there are labor laws, trade laws, environmental regulations, and securities laws, many of which prevent corporations from maximizing profit or labor extracted. Actually, with this realization, I think I can safely treat this claim as a bookend without any meaning save its rhetorical, knee-jerk inducing quality.
I wonder if this means that Activision are going to breathe life into the old kings quest franchise and this move was to avoid dilution of their IP
I agree that it's much more likely for a math geek to develop serious knowledge of lit-crit than it is for a lit-crit type to develop serious knowledge of math. That's the something that there is to what you're saying.

However, being that either scenario is astonishingly rare and unlikely, I just don't see that as a good argument for asserting any kind of superiority of STEM culture over humanities culture. And when, astonishingly rarely, that does happen, I suspect the human in question doesn't see themselves as primarily STEM or primarily humanities, but just, you know, curious about stuff. Knowledge-hungry, culture-hungry, and screw the tags.
I wouldn't dismiss this article as simply culture shock. A university surveyed foreign students and tracked their progress as they adjusted to the new culture, they found that most people get over the culture shock after 2 semesters. [1]

This guy is writing this after living 5 years in Japan. I would therefore not dismiss this as simple culture shock, it's a genuine critique of a culture after he's become accustomed to it.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPfB6GIjM9Q
Mandatory paid subscriptions for content that is of value to the subscribers does work.

How does one let people know about one's pay-for site if you're starting from new? Don't say advertising.

If someone wanted to start a competing paper in your neighborhood, how would they pick up an audience? Loud-hailers, flyers, and sponsorships would essentially be verboten in an advertising-free world.
"...Americans, who from my perspective seem to have trouble forming deep adult friendships."

Uh...
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the work of a DDOS. I mean Ubisoft probably worked hard to make sure this wouldn't happen so they wouldn't get even more negative publicity. The only reasonable explanation I can think of for such a terrible failure is that anti-DRM people are DDOSing the servers.
I'd look for professional and customer reviews which would likely convey more useful information than ads with bikini girls next to the product.

How would the customers who make those reviews have found the product or business in question?

Say you open a Chinese restaurant or start a local news site. How do you get people in the door (virtual or otherwise) without printing flyers, advertising on the Web, or buying space in the local paper? It has to start somewhere for your reviews to exist.
because usually I already know what I'm looking for, if I'm looking for something.

How? Let's say you want to buy a computer and you go direct to, say, Dell. How would you have heard of Dell if not for advertising? Seen a Dell at someone else's house? How did they hear about Dell? It has to start somewhere.
Inverse graphing calculator
Server and networks go down. It happens, and sometimes, no matter how much local testing you do, they only fail when you are at a huge number of users at a peak time (Sunday game playing). They should have expected it to happen and program accordingly.
I second that on gcc version. On many math related code gcc-4.4 is amazing. Specially if vectorization and/or SIMD is possible.
Thanks a ton PG for this new feature.

How are these ASK posts are ordered? by the Points, Comments or Time Based?

I have been using http://ask.searchyc.com/ for checking ASK related posts. They also have the feature of highlighting the post in BOLD font if the post is commented heavily.

Going to bookmark this new ASK url.
Facebook grew without advertising.
The data for this list is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from all the large BitTorrent trackers.

So they counted a rather large number of votes multiple times?
Twitter can also suspend your account for strange reasons, though: http://www.bogost.com/blog/cascading_failure.shtml
Gotcha. I understand the reasoning behind different sizes, but it seems unwieldy. Having never used it for any length of time though, I'm sure I'm over analyzing it.

But yes, other countries' currency seems much more artistic, for sure.
if it really added 10% to the bottom line, why not take payment on commission?
I doubt the restaurant has the time to read the menu to me. I'd much rather just look at it on my phone.
"We've got a really great suggestion for how to make such an assurance: Find a less abominable DRM policy."

I don't see how Ubisoft isn't getting sued for this. Here, you can own this object, it and everything on it are yours. But, if we decide so, then you can't use it at certain times, even though you paid in full to be able to use it at any time.

Sure this is being a little harsh because Ubisoft didn't do this on purpose, but seriously, this is ridiculous.
For now the same algorithm as the frontpage (points divided by time to a power).
Microsoft is definitely the reformed company after antitrust trouble, as with AT&T in the 80s.
> Here, you can own this object, it and everything on it are yours.

They explicitly do not say that.
Lynx and blind people depending on screen readers.
Leksah: the Haskell IDE. V0.8 now available
Reminds me of The Terminal Man, especially the line:

"I would assume that extended use would cause you to slowly condition yourself to keep your brainwaves at a low frequency, probably impeding concentration and cognition."

Of course, The Terminal Man had the opposite set-up: when he became agitated, his pleasure center was stimulated, and he calmed down again. This conditioned his brain to become agitated again, so it got another injection of pleasure, until he was constantly agitated/pleasured.
When can we downvote a comment? Remembering this feels like remembering perl syntax.
I'm deaf. How would you suggest that I do this?

Seriously, I do understand the point you're making, but keep in mind that not everyone is interested in the phone portion of their smartphone, or able to make effective use of it. :)
Could happen to anybody, really. Who knows, next time I want to play Mafia some DDoS from some anti DRM nutcases will stop me. No, wait …
This is wild speculation, but... is it possible that this is related to caching?

My understanding is that the ranking of front-page items is based on [# points]/[time since submission], which is obviously very large immediately after an article is submitted; this wouldn't normally matter much, but if the high points/time value is being cached, a low-point submission could stick around on the front page until the cache entry expires.
Much better (at least in my opinion).

The old positioning threw me off.
I'll keep reading it.

Most of the quotes on CFH aren't simple "I want Papyrus font" snark, they're unusual scenarios where clients weasel out of paying or have ludicrous paranoia about hidden messages etc. They're not stories of typical 'roll your eyes' font choice requests, thats why its funny and popular.
I think a lot of the outrage is justly squared on the possibility that Toyota covered the issue up for years.
Are you OK with a bunch of marketing guys sitting in an office thinking "How can we manipulate people's sex drives to maximize profit this week?" Razor commercials: Hunky guy shaves; heavily-airbrushed, scantily-clad woman looks on longingly. Implication: Buy our razors, get laid. Flashing lights and "power words". Repeat over and over until you can't forget it. What's the difference between commercials and any other form of propaganda? Commercials are more mundane, but use the same principles.

Totally fine with it. As long as I have the choice to ignore and not respond to something, it don't annoy me. It only annoys me if I have no choice.

There are some people who get upset and write letters to the TV company when a swear word or some blasphemy is uttered or a nipple shown.. sane people turn off the TV if they don't like it and do something else for a while.

Adverts are fine by me because I have a degree of free will to be influenced by them to the point of my choosing. Sure, a Coke ad in the middle of winter can make me feel nostalgic and want to grab a Coke. But I like Coke, so that's fine by me. This isn't upsetting.

Propaganda is everywhere and advertising is only a small part of it. Almost every word out of a person in power has a bias, a motivation, or an ulterior motive. Even regular people in our lives don't say what they really want to say. When one's wife sweet-talks them to get something she wants, that's propaganda. When one gives their wife a compliment but has sex on the brain, that's propaganda. This stuff isn't always bad - it's how life works and it won't go away.

I feel like I'm being treated like an animal.

You are. I am. We all are. And it's awesome to feel these rushes of emotions because it means we're unpredictable, unique, and alive.
Pushy: Send github notifications to Google Wave
I just want everyone to realize two things about computer security:

1) Without very much difficulty, anybody can encrypt a message to be sent to another person. No government can break this encryption, and no amount of surveillance will help. Either the sending or receiving party must be compromised to do effective spying, all the stuff in the middle does not count.

2) Security holes are agnostic to attackers. If your system is vulnerable to attack, then it is vulnerable to attack. SQL injection vulnerabilities do not care if your native tongue is Chinese. "Cyber war" is no different to prepare for whether you're battling a terrorist, a foreign government, or a 12 year old with a botnet.
That could explain it. Another possibility is that this site has a higher than usual percentage of nippophile users, and that they react negatively to articles critical of that country, its culture, or its institutions. Either possibility doesn't put an end to my disappointment.
My feelings are very much the opposite. When I see a big ole' brand advert on last.fm, I have good feelings towards that company. They are supporting a great free product that I enjoy.
The hardware design can be demonstrated to correctly execute every permutation of every instruction.

Isn't that impossible vis-a-vis the halting problem?
Nigerian scammer nets $40.5 million in 15 months
aren't clickwrap licenses a bitch.
If you have bought the game, you have an implied right to play the game (if the small print says otherwise, it should be null and void, and Ubisoft charged with fraud, for that would be making money by deception).

If you bought the game and can't play it, due to Ubisoft's deliberate decision to tie playing the game to their server being up, then you should be entitled to your money back.
That's what I meant, though. They would have expected large numbers of users. They knew how many copies of the game they sold, and should have planned their servers accordingly. Time will tell, though, whether it was a failure on their part or foul play.
I'm not the only one, I hear this from a lot of immigrants both from the old world and Latin America. I can't really explain it.
I would assume he is referring to something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
Thanks PG for the reply.

I can only see 31 posts under ASK. Is it just me or any other user also see only 31 posts?
Facebook is an inherently social business that users only find useful if they promote it - so they do. An edge case.

Bringing Facebook-like user promotion to a company selling everyday products would probably require users becoming affiliates and getting kickbacks. That can work (e.g. Avon) but having my friends potentially being shills seems more sinister than regular advertising.

Thinking about this, though, did bring another option to mind that many startups use: press mentions. Branson and his Virgin companies are masters at this. So are Apple, but they're still massive on the advertising.