skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You underestimate how introverted and isolationist Japanese default culture still can be. Those devs aren't contributing because they feel competent or fluent. They're contributing despite not being. They have the capacity to take initiative and not be shy. This is a separate trait altogether, which isn't even being discussed let alone being made mandatory.

And ultimately, these devs speak code, which provides a common objective baseline for exchanging substance (which everyone certainly refers to if they can't decode their English). Their confidence likely stems for them objectively knowing how good their code is.

This is the case with science and mathematics, and with the bilingual students also. The best Japanese talent are all competitive at a global level. They aren't the issue. Them being rare is the issue. And though they should become assets to Japan, they quickly assimilate to the global community, at which point, the global community tends to appreciate and reward these people more. Many, if not most, end up in Silicon Valley or Hollywood or just working for a foreign company. Overachievers have a hard time in seniority based bureaucracies which most of Japan still is.

As marak830 commented here,

> I teach high school student part time (so I can work on my side project), and the

> teachers over the age of 40ish have pretty terrible English(these are English

> teachers), but all of the newer ones have pretty good levels.

That wouldn't be that big of a problem in a meritocracy. And it's going to be far worse with a modern skill like programming.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted, but God help us if science has become a data science hackathon.
SQLite is one of the world's most popular databases in production (I heard it's the most deployed database in the world, but I'm not entirely convinced) so it surely can't be awful at least..

For webapps, it's a mixed bag. I've run a few sites with low 6 figure pageviews per month (i.e. as big as probably 90% of all sites) on it without problems but in situations with high levels of concurrent writes, it's classically been advised against. If your app or framework of choice likes to timestamp every database record it touches or logs heavily to the database, be careful ^1.

(^1 - SQLite 3.7, which I've not played with yet, supports a write-ahead log mode which means writers and readers don't block each other. This could resolve a lot of potential performance snafus.)
Priorities differ. Furthermore, not every job is in SOMA--or even in the Bay Area. Many tech jobs are in exurban areas an hour or more from the nearest metropolitan area. You can certainly choose not to work at one of those companies, but it limits one's options.
I would absolutely go back 100 years and live John Rockefeller's life. I certainly value a lot of the advancements we've made since then, but for me luxury means not having to work!

I don't know if there's any reasonable way you can actually measure "standard of living", since it arguably includes "happiness" which is difficult to quantify.
you can also autocomplete emojis in emacs

https://github.com/syohex/emacs-ac-emoji
https://github.com/dunn/company-emoji

and display them as well

https://github.com/iqbalansari/emacs-emojify
MS Affordable Access Initiative: Meet the Winners
Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter
I imagine you know this but the tax advantages for stock options aren't as clear cut as you make them sound.

To make them more compelling than stock grants the options have to be ISOs, the spread on them has to be negligible or zero (to avoid a large AMT bill), the exercise cost has to be low enough that you are ok with handing over that amount of money up front, and you need to be able to actually hold the actual stock for long enough (at least 2 years from date of grant, and 1 year from date of exercise, to be counted as long-term capital gains).

Note that on this last point if the company is acquired prior to that date you're likely SOL on the tax advantages. These days I much prefer RSUs. I've twice failed to reap the theoretical tax benefits from ISOs due to acquisition prior to the 2 year window, and I find RSUs much easier to reason about especially once option exercise costs become non-trivial (which is the case if you were to join many of the hot pre-IPO unicorns these days).
Also, for the Core at least (the one I'm interested in) it's an early 2017 projected release date (and I have bought enough Kickstarters to know that this slips). Seems to me that a normal retail experience simply would not support this kind of anticipatory release (and it is a dealbreaker for me)
> It was harder and less acceptable to use international labor then

Yes, but we have been told that international free trade benefits us all. Do you disagree?

> there were that many fewer college educated people,

Yes, but we have been told that education is the key to our future, and a more educated workforce should be able to produce more and better goods for us all. Do you disagree?

> that's 36 years behind the current level of automation technology.

Yes, but automation was what dragged us out of the stone age and through the industrial revolution. It has, at times, apparently made us vastly richer. Do you disagree?

I don't say all this to be a dick (well, OK, kind of) and I agree to some extent with each of your points, but I think there is a larger issue at the root: debt.

I find Steve Keens analysis compelling.
Same result? With something like a Yubikey you can't (excepting any vulnerabilities) extract the private key data even with the admin PIN codes. Based on your PIN caching preferences an attacker may be able to sign/encrypt/decrypt data with your keys (suggest setting force PIN for sign and low TTL for pin caching in gpg-agent) but they won't be able to exfiltrate your private keys.
Innovation discussion at 20m38s

Transcript:

http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/peter-thi...
Most implementations of Common Lisp have ahead of time compilation, at least as an option, but also have the compiler, or sometimes a different compiler or an interpreter available at runtime. Clojure is also typically AOT-compiled to JVM bytecode.

Did you mean that Lisps are dynamically-typed? That's true, and whether it's mostly good or mostly bad is a religious topic that almost certainly lacks one true answer. My own take on it is that I program very interactively and static typing feels like an impediment to that most of the time. Furthermore, type errors are usually a small subset of the possible errors and many static type systems allow any type to be null anyway, drastically reducing the benefit.
It's the same number in decimal and binary :)

I might be a bit weird, but I know the powers of 2 up to 2^20 in decimal. They've just snuck in there over the years, along with 2^24 and 2^31. So if I need some powers of two I might well just type them out like that. I can recognise a few common combinations too... it is all much easier in hex though.

I should really get the full set up to 2^64 memorised...
Intent is a huge concept in english law too. As an example, 'good samaritan laws' are an incredibly new concept in the UK (eg, the last 12 months). It was eventually enacted not because it's ever been needed - it has never, not once, been needed - but so that people don't have to hesitate to act.

Honest intent may defend an action which would otherwise be illegal. Or you can skirt the edges with malintent and be found for it. Carrying a knife may be legal with demonstrable reason. Carrying a screwdriver may be illegal with malintent. And we trust the courts to spot the difference. And in general, they do.

America, however, has been raised on "a healthy distrust of government". They simply don't trust, or don't want to trust the courts to straddle such grey lines. They want nice solid black & white line so they can point to the law instead of the courts - and they want to see "the people" (juries) police the gray lines.

Personally, I think there's merits to both systems. But it's clear to see that both are very culturally ingrained. I think it's actually very difficult for either side to see the other clearly.
> So why didn't they all vote for Obamacare and for the public option, subsidized by higher taxes?

Did it come up for a national popular vote where you got five options and you picked the one you liked best? I don't remember it happening this way.

And let's just say that it did. If everyone didn't vote for that option, well, that's not what gets enacted and you're SOL. Government isn't pick-and-choose, it's all-or-nothing.
A quadratic function is a convex function with a global minimum. Doesn't mean it's a good model for much.
Yep. So maybe we should try and ship this as a variant of TLS where we strip out a lot of the negotiation and extra features and just say "TLS2 means you use X, Y and Z."

I think it'd have a shot at being better than we've got now. And frankly, better than what TLS 1.3 is doing.
Yes, This was demonstrated in the Silicon Valley HBO show. Hooli had the employees sign a contract which could not be enforceable legally. The episode where Gavin Belson is in a arbitration hearing room surrounded by a bunch of Hooli lawyers and gets his ass handed over to him by the arbitration judge. David beats Goliath in the court of law.

I don't remember actual details but I am pretty sure someone here can shed more light on this.
How would you expect this to be quantified? Just curious, I'm not planning to go researching for you. I admit it was a rant, and I'm allowed to have one from time to time.
I don't get the love for Stratechery. Thompson is a good writer but the few articles I can recall from him were bad misses. For example he wrote a long piece about how the Nest acquisition heralded a major new consumer products business model for Google. How has that worked out?
As my mother-in-law lay in her deathbed, she actively tried to get her kids to fight over what little remained in her estate after she had already squandered most of what her husband had saved before he died.

One of her last statements to my spouse was, "They're in cahoots against you."

Some people should have died alone.
Anyone have any suggestions for a Pebble Core competitor that exists today? (I don't want to wait until deep into 2017 for the Core) I'm basically looking for:
iPod shuffle, but with BT audio and ideally compatible with a streaming service.
Unlike the US, countries in the EU do not appear to be able to compete by offering favorable conditions to corporations and this especially concerns taxes.

which is a big design fault that hampers the EU especially as nations facing debt problems will use it to shore their finances up which keeps up and coming countries from doing that, being up and coming.
Apple is reportedly building a Siri speaker to rival Amazon’s Echo
So why didn't they all vote for Obamacare and for the public option, subsidized by higher taxes?

Forgive me for my ignorance, but was there actually a general vote about it? Weren't the elected representatives actually voting? If so, one could argue that the agents of the voters made a poor decision, but then one could hardly blame an common citizen for actions of the politician they voted for.
> like Perl or TCL or C++

how about PHP or Javascript?
Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health
I've never even used 10 and I can tell you some of the complaints about it:

* bad driver support

* invasive telemetry

* missing accounts/files after upgrading

* slow, wonky UI

These are well known problems even to me.

I personally don't think 7 was "good", but it was tolerable. A lot of people clearly don't want 10, but are being tricked into installing it. Why not just extend the product people are happy with?
Not to mention that options can, and do, go underwater at which point they're worthless. I would argue that an option to buy stock at a $15 strike is worth a lot less than 1/16th of a single RSU when the company's current FMV is say, $16, if the company is still private, especially given current market conditions.
I suppose that would be possible, but I think that it is very common for private companies to work into their stock agreements that they have right of first refusal for stock sales. Therefore, they should theoretically be able to restrict a competitor from purchasing their stock by simply purchasing it from the seller themselves instead of allowing the sale to go through.
Yes yes, we all hate the outsiders and the terrible ideas they bring. We must protect ourselves from them!
get a TSA compliant laptop bag

No good. TSOs essentially reserve the right to void or override any policy, at any time, for any reason, with no warning in advance. Many will simply tell you that no such policy exists or ever has existed. And there is no appeal of the decisions made by the people at the checkpoint: either you do what they tell you right there, even if it contradicts policy (even if it contradicts federal law -- the TSA is being sued over that very point by a guy who claims they routinely violate disability-accommodation laws), or you don't fly.

Which means there is no such thing as "a TSA compliant laptop bag", only "a laptop bag that a TSO might, a majority of the time, if you're lucky and they're in a good mood, let you send through the x-ray without removing your laptop".
In 1960, say, the discovery of DNA looked like a fundamental increase in understanding, but not revolutionary - kind of like discovery of the Higgs boson looks today.

What's "broken" is that it takes more than 25 years to work out the practical uses of a lot of these discoveries. We see much more of the total fruit from a discovery in 1950 than we do for an equivalent discover in 1990.
Very likely you need to hold some threshold of stock similar to how certain amounts of stock provide added benefits such as representative voting.
Yeah, negotiating the version up front seems to have worked for HTTP/2 which I guess is a success story as these things go.
On the other hand, the lives of people who are non-white, non-male, non-straight, or any combination thereof.
On-demand business model goes global
The Game Boy, a hardware autopsy: Memory mapping
It's human systems.

Cities, buildings, books, philosophy and theology all bear the marks of their time.

For me it becomes a modal guide: given XYZ attributes I can expecr MNO properties (usually).

As another commenter notes, GUIs have similar tendencies. And Web frameworks.
May I ask a hypothetical?

If you were stopped at a border crossing and asked to unlock your drive for inspection, would you do so?
I deplore the current policies that treat refugees as criminals. Dutton is engaging in the dog-whistle politics that got the former Prime Minister Abbott elected.

And during the current federal election campaign, the Labor opposition can't be seen as soft compared to the government (and is even claiming some credit for setting up elements of the "offshore processing").

But, I cannot condone restarting the people smuggling trade that puts so many in danger at sea (also in the Med). The bottom line is that we should be targeting the people smugglers, not the people.
Bearded & Coiffed Hipster Stack (BCHS)
In other words, The FBI doesn't want to play by the rules.
Programmers can also benefit from the readability of proportional fonts. I like this article, but it is hard to read for reasons beyond the writing itself.
> We are talking about error handling.

I thought we switched to a little more down-in-the-trenches discussion with
you saying:

> The tools to watch, restart, etc are bash, ps, top, etc
Well, in this particular case, there was no popular vote for any part of Obamacare. But there were a very large number of congressmen elected before the bill passed, during its negotiation and even now well after it's been cemented as law by the Supreme Court who had a major policy platform of reforming or completely rolling back the ACA.
Hah, we are doing this as a final project in a data science course I'm enrolled at. Not sure if we'll reach this goal, since there are a lot of interesting pieces before and time for it is really short.
> For a young adult in the current economic climate, the only way you're living in one of these cushy homes is if you're living with your parents.

This is a very coastal/urban-centric view, IME. The large majority of my social circle growing up in suburban Dallas (a) still lives in suburban Dallas and (b) found a detached home before age 30 (if not 25). I moved away from the suburbs, and to a big coastal city, and so did almost "everyone I know" out here (with a lot of selection bias), but judging from that and housing prices in those crazy markets doesn't work for extrapolating to the country as a whole.

Of the ones still living at home, I don't know anyone thinking "it would be just as cool to have my own place, so might as well save money." The causality is reversed: "I'm broke, so might as well save as much money as possible, and my parents' place is big."

"Not cool" starts being a lot less relevant pretty quickly after getting out of college for most people, IME. Suburban houses are bigger than apartments. They're less noisy. They're more pet friendly. You have a garage for storage/workshopping/whatever. You have more space for starting a family. All those reasons still apply as much as they ever did, the big change from ten years ago to today is economic, not around coolness.
http://traildb.io/docs/images/wikipedia-sessions.png
> The $600 iPhone which I absolutely need for any modern job (thanks to BYOD)

I agree with your overall point that things like housing, healthcare, and education are much more expensive today and are much more difficult to acquire, securely, on a median income. However, when you say things like "I absolutely need a $600 iPhone for any modern job", it comes across like out-of-touch whining. No, you do not need the latest iPhone for any modern job. You want the latest iPhone. You can get a very capable, brand new Android phone for around $100 bucks.
See what the SEC has to say about insider trading.[1] You can usually sell to another insider, which in this circumstance would seem to be anyone who has at least one share and thus an equal right to examine the books.

It's selling restricted stock that's the big problem. You can do it, but it's complicated, and there are waiting periods.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speecharchive/1998/spch221.h...
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to unblock Hotspot on the iPhone?
I have AirVoice Mobile carrier SIM card with iPhone 6s. AV blocks Hotspot feature for some reason. Is there any hack without rooting of the Phone to get it enabled?
Nope, it can be controlled by the watch, but you should also be able to use voice control, headset buttons, and the two on-device buttons.
The per-thread caches are not strictly necessary, but you don't want threads to block because they can't stream in geometry to memory. You want some upper bound on the amount of memory each thread needs for geometry (each thread could try to ray intersect a different mesh). Dividing geometry into fixed sized chunks gives you this upper bound (max N chunks per thread).

Ray re-ordering is indeed a nightmare, but sorting very large ray batches (millions of rays) into coherent ray streams is less of a hassle, and it should enable coherent geometry access (which amortizes the cost of those reads, not sure to what extent).
I think the main data point known so far is that they've hired a bunch of people with automotive or autonomous driving expertise.
There's also a big irony about talking about privacy on Hacker News, where our political views are preserved for eternity on the Internet for anyone to read. ;-)
another such beauty

http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/lugaru/file/97b303e79826/Sourc...
> Apple's is doing fine under Cook

Apple's stock price peaked at $132.54 just over a year ago and recently bounced from $90.

Over the past year, Apple is down about 20% on NASDAQ and the S&P 500....
But the tricks/advancements I mentioned are not changing the function. They changed the initial weights and how the cost function was explored.
What other major industrial nation was not devastated during either World War? (I guess you can say "Canada" but I'm not sure how "major" or "industrial" they would have been in WWI).
Fair point, though many of the tools I've used tended toward evolutionary development. Came a point a bunch of stuff was being binned and/or wall-flung pasta-style.
If a phrase is so foreign that you feel the need to italicize it, don't use it.
Which is precisely the point. You don't get to TELL your elected officials how to vote. You just get to try and elect people who will HOPEFULLY do what's in your best interests. There are no guarantees in the system, anywhere.

That makes the question you asked rather disingenuous.
That's better than the hipster references. Well done!
The author of the article appears to have done everything he legally could do. TSA does not generally give you a choice of customizing their screening procedures to suit your desire to keep an eye on your belongings. So you appear to just be bashing on the author for no reason -- there's simply not much more he could have done.
Living in Mom and Dad's basement is fundamentally different than living with your peers. It's typically very socially limiting, and a sign of stagnating development.

I say this as someone who lived with his parents for two years during college, and would gladly pay the $12k/year it would have cost me to get those two years back, so maybe I'm biased, but nearly everyone I've talked to who's been living with their parents has had negative ramifications from it. Some romantic, some social development, some just general annoyance re: dealing with their parents quirks.

And I mean as a parent, my goal is helping my child develop into a fully autonomous adult. Fully autonomous does not mean 'depends on me for housing.'
Reading the article what's striking is that while living with parents has now surpassed it's 1880 level of 30%, it has otherwise remained mostly stable, peaking at 35% in 1940. The big change is in the the decline in married/cohabiting households, which as nearly halved since 1960 (from 62% to 32%)

A couple buying a house during our current period of declining wages is hard enough. Doing it yourself is even more difficult, especially without a college degree or other marketable skills.
> If they're even talking about avoiding transactions for speed purposes (no matter how stupidly)

As many have pointed out, so much criticism of this article ignores that it is comparing to other key-value stores which are not transactional. Many of what this would compete with are AP, with Consistency not guaranteed.

It really sounds like they should be talking about MySQL cluster, which is protocol compatible but a completely separate implementation and essentially a key-value store with RDBMS attributes atop it. It supports many-master mode like mongo and other distributed systems, which is fairly mandatory for replacing them. It's hard to argue you can replace HDFS with anything that's not distributed, and if you didn't, why wouldn't you just use .. the actual FS? The author may not really understand that HDFS is optimized for storing large-ish files.
>Every time I mention the high price of homes...

Location. Location. Location.

1,480 sq. ft., $23,000
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/113-Bernal-Ave-Hickman-KY-...

918 sq. ft., $18,000
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/309-W-B-St-Ramona-KS-67475...

1,056 sq. ft., $24,999
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/943-Wisconsin-Ave-Beloit-W...

1,134 sq. ft., $27,000
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4751-Bellm-Dr-SPC-20-Klama...

2,064 sq. ft., $28,500:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/908-Lelia-St-Newport-AR/10...