skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Japan prostitution is effectively legal. It's not legal to have penis in vagina sex but everything else is legal and you can bet that all of the places that claim they provide everything but that also provide that service as well. There's tons of "red light" districts as well as call up places.

Even if you don't want sex Japan has a culture of hostess clubs and "snack" clubs. A hostess club is a club you pay to have someone flirt and talk with you. A snack club is a club were the owner entertains everyone. Think of bar where the bartender leads everyone in discussion, games, songs, etc...

In other words, Japan has that but is still having these issues.
If you paid it weekly, or even daily electronically, this would be a non-issue. Joe doesn't have enough cash to buy food? Tough shit; he'll get $20 in his account tomorrow and can buy breakfast at 12:01am if he's hungry.

Every welfare or social safety net has a similar schedule. We would not give someone a $12,000 welfare check on January 1st and expect it to last very long. People reliant on welfare or BI have proven that they have very low financial literacy.

The way we solve giving money to people with low financial literacy is the same - don't give them their money all at once - spread it out over time to limit the financial harm they can do to themselves.
Seems like a PR piece [1].

I wouldn't buy the DELL XPS 13 due to my experience with the Samsung Series 9 and seeing other people use Macbook Air.

All these classes of laptop are not really durable - they last maybe 2-3 years with heavy use - so unless you are ready to shell out a huge amount of money every 2 years for a laptop it it not worth getting these shiny laptops.

My current laptop - Thinkpad X1 Carbon is like a wife - durable and I can have some garantee of failure tolerance.

# There is a reason NASA only approves thinkpads in space - ask yourself why your laptop is not being used by astronauts ?

[1] '.. Bryan is a writer and works as the Social Media Marketing Manager of SUS ...'

how does this person know this laptop is good for developers without being a developer ? It says right there that his job is marketing ! wake up sheeps !
As an American living in Japan, life in Japan is a lot more enjoyable. From having lower healthcare costs to a more stable food budget.
uBlock Origin practically always blocks adblock-blockers. And keeps up to date with new ones almost as soon as they are released.

In my experience every other adblocker lags behind by months, or does not even have this feature at all. I don't know why anyone would use another adblocker.
Plenty of people would get that idea without the media.

It is sublime how when you feel lonely you look for a lover and then pretty soon you have more people around. It makes heterosex seem almost subversive these days...
Sadly this happens elsewhere in the world too although the case I remember was "only" dead for two years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent

Having just moved to Finland I'm less believing of the stereotype that Finnish people as a whole are insular and isolated, but I think there are always going to be agoraphobic, depressed, or otherwise very isolated individuals in any country.
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This idea have been in place for ages, so I don't think we can connect it to changes that we see.
Loneliness due to lack of romantic relationships is a real thing.
I would miss you! I like your Facebook updates and silly jokes and pictures of your family. I always read your stuff there. I know we don't get to see each other in person much, but know that there are people out there who care!
A big part of this that's unpopular to discuss in current culture is people actively avoiding going to a church. Whether you actually donate and believe everything that is said isn't really a factor in whether or not you can show up every week, meet other people in your community, participate in events, be there for each other at during the hard times in life, have fun activities for your kids where you can meet other parents and get involved in the community with those same people. At least in the southeast US where I'm from, churches have filled this multifaceted role of connecting people for years. All ages from newborns to elderly. I don't know of another community structure that even comes close to pulling that off.
This question sounds a little too close to "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" to me, but in any case I think it's Facebook, attempting to build dossiers on billions of people for profit, who need to justify themselves; not me for wanting to remain undocumented.

As far as concrete reasons go, I've had to deal with far too much fallout from being incorrectly flagged by braindead processes trawling private databases which I didn't even know I was in. Since lots of these databases share information, but not necessarily updated corrections, I still run into the same mis-flagging every few years, across utilities, courts, credit agencies, banks, letting agents, etc.

As far as Facebook goes, being a citizen of the CCTV-riddled UK makes me acutely aware of the power, and potential abuse, that facial recognition technology can bring; having images of my face tagged and fed into a database does not sit well with me.

Since I don't use Facebook, I don't even get the meagre upside of whatever services they build on top of this database (some kind of gallery, I presume).
Because for some reason many commentators find it perfectly reasonable to use absolute GDP growth as a metric for comparing Japan to America, ignoring the fact that America's population is growing at around 3% while Japan's population growth is around 0% or negative (which means all things being equal one'd expect America's GDP growth to be around 3% higher). In terms of GDP growth per capita, which is the metric that actually matters when comparing standard of living, Japan hasn't done so badly.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/09/05/japan-is-...
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Growth is next to zero in many first world economies. Most of Europe is basically not growing. Only Germany is. Many economies in Latin America are doing poorly, especially Brasil, Argentina- Venezuela is in free-fall. There is growth in Africa (from a much lower starting point), but it is uneven. There is a little growth in parts of South East Asia (Indonesia is doing ok, as is the Philippines, and Vietnam not bad) but growth is hard to find in most countries. The US and Germany are doing well. China is doing badly in comparison to the 10%+ growth they had in the 2000-2010 decade, but they are still growing.
I only delete everything and start again if I have made the mistake of making any changes to some source code. After a while you learn not to change things.

Lots of projects using git means that I get to spend more time doing things other than coding.
There's (usually) a very good separation between the political and technical aspects of the project.

You can take the Porta Alpina dise-project as an example (which wanted an underground station midway through the tunnel connecting to ski resorts).

Despite strong political lobbying, the project was deemed uneconomical and canceled.

If you compare it with the new span of the SF Bay Bridge, the difference is clear: there was far less political involvement in the technical details of the project in the Swiss case.
>IIRC Broadwell has several improvements over haswell both in IPC

Broadwell was a dye shrink of Haskell but architecturally identical. It was just moving from 14nm to 10nm. There was no IPC improvements. When you compare the 2 chips performance the difference was literally clock speed [1].

Yes there were encoder changes but the iGPU isn't part of Broadwell. It's iGPU, that's like saying the DRAM controller, or PCIe master router is part of Boardwell.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9320/intel-broadwell-review-i7...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori is a social/cultural/psychological phenomenon
Good point - this is exactly the market Sandstorm (https://sandstorm.io) is trying to reach as well. Will be interesting to see how cloud-within-the-enterprise will turn out.
> We called 19 out of the past 19 contests. FiveThirtyEight, whose model cannot work without polling, accurately predicted 13.

FiveThirtyEight's model could work without polling (it's not the only predictor they use), but they don't publish results until there are at least two polls conducted. I would call that a feature, not a bug.

Also, FiveThirtyEight correctly predicted the outcome of every primary race that it modeled, on both sides, except one (Michigan Democratic primary).
I thought it was a store like Guitar Center. It's just the massive media conglomerates that own us all speaking under a few of their brands. They're fighting the tech companies that make all their money from getting between every communication and collecting rents, and blaming everything that goes wrong on one of the endpoints.

"Mommy, the capitalists are fighting again!"

"Don't worry baby, we'll just send our check to whoever wins..."

Vivendi was started as a municipal water company by Napoleon's nephew, also Napoleon.
Next Gen Games? instead of multiple blu-rays, one of these devices?
Not gonna happen. What it will do is make poverty optional for the vast center, and stop the autogenocide of social wealth by the rentiers.
Do you mean one does not need romantic love to have a relationship or one does not need a relationship at all? The former seems like an archaic idea (arranged marriages for example) while the later I've seen very questioned by society, mostly by older people.
MIUI showing ads? Are you sure they come from first party apps?
And India is the most racist country in the world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
In Japan is relatively easy to find a Job in IT as a foreigner. Specially in startups. And more specially if you are somehow "senior".

All the good Japanese engineers are already working for a big company and they are not likely going to change to a smaller one. For Japanese workers, security is usually the priority number one.

So yes, if you have a degree in STEM, it's really not that hard to emigrate to Japan. To know Japanese would open a lot of doors, but it is not mandatory if you have a good CV. Also, anybody can get a decent level of Japanese with two years of study.

On the other hand, you can probably make much more money in California, or even in London than in Japan. And also, the work-life balance in Japan is practically inexistent. When you sign a job contract with a Japanese company, they assume that you are giving your entire life to them. You are allowed to go home to sleep and bathe, but just because they are kind with you.

So yes, Tokyo has interesting things, but is not as amazing as we thought it would be. Also, there are no punks... everybody obeys like robots.
Last time I tried RancherOS is seemed quite heavy, with a 2GB RAM footprint for the initial run (without any nodes attached). What's your experience?
I listened to a MoneyBox radio programme about this. The "financial expert" said that it was effectively a tax-deferral program, just like a pension plan. Any gains inside the fund were tax free until the money was brought back into the UK. It may seem unfair at face value, but any UK citizen can defer taxes on up to 100% of their annual income in a registered pension plan[0]. So, IMO, the fairness would depend on what investors can do with the offshore fund that regular people can't do with their pension plans?

0 - https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-your-private-pension/pension-tax-r...
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I think the stereotype is partly due to the climate. The rainy autumns and long winters simply make one stay inside a lot more. As a small compensation, the summertime in Finland is super bright, lively, and active.
Huh? How exactly did the "force" you to get others to sign up for a CC? I also have no problem opting out of Rakuten emails.
Only in Europe maybe. The Millau Viaduct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct) was also on time and on budget, despite needing a few groundbreaking advances...

Without public money even...
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If you are referring to my comment, I didn't mean just construction, I mean this is how the Swiss work in general. They always plan ahead and think long term in pretty much everything they undertake. It's their mentality, and I've learned to respect it and cherish it, a lot.
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It says on the page that I should disable my adblocker because it might adversely affect the performance on Bloomberg.com and that I would have the best experience with Bloomberg.com without it.

It is highly doubtful that any webpage gets better when I allow a flood of unwanted junk to be added. Usually it gets bloated, slower, insecure and hard to look at because of added animations. Apparently Bloomberg and I have quite a difference in understanding what the "best experience" with a web page could be...
except since 2008 business loans have only go up 400b and consumer loans are flat or have gone down some. The problem with the idea that banks loan out what isn't spent is wrong because they have underwriting and can't just loan it to credit unworthy borrowers. don't get me wrong it would have caused inflation and a bigger stock bubble if more money flowed into the US. But it's my theory why we haven't seen the massive inflation predicted from quantitative easing.
I think that there's certainly some influence from the media on how people perceive how to obtain romantic relationships or how a romantic relationship works. That said, I personally don't consider it a requirement to find romance in order to be or feel successful. I do understand however that society in general somewhat views it that way, and I do feel like I am lacking in that department. For someone who is a bit of a completionist and has managed to do many other things in my life, my lack of romance is definitely somewhat troubling.
Sure! But not that nicer. A 50m2 flat is all what an engineer can usually afford in Tokyo.
Something like this would be the key breakthrough. For all all their versatility the human eyes have not evolved to be (have not been designed for - depending on your viewpoint :) an optical interface for digital systems. Most of the hard work at the moment is in working around the "limitations" of our visual pipeline.

Rudimentary technology that does just this has been around for a while as assistive devices for blind people [0] albeit only rudimentary shapes and movement can be portrayed.

I believe ultimately the most effective technology will be that which integrates directly with the visual cortex, which I read somewhere has neurons arranged somewhat isomorphically with the visual field [1]

I think this should be sufficient to stimulate both higher cognitive and the more reflexive automatic visual systems [2] though IANAN and really haven't look at this area in depth for a number of years.

To get into the realms of pure science fiction about it [3], this could even be done by way of the pineal gland, which has some optical features that are largely unused. Perhaps it was put there like that for a reason ...

[0] http://www.fightingblindness.ie/cure/retinal-implant-technol...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-streams_hypothesis

[3] http://www.crystalinks.com/thirdeyepineal.html
You're right. Death rate is about 0.8%, to be compared to 0.02% here (40 times less). Of course, this does not account for the difference in the age distribution of workers vs the national population.
This is not an ECG. It is simply looking at your pulse over time.
Is this really newsworthy? Sites do this sort of thing all the time - and Bloomberg.com is just barely in the Alexa global top 400 so it's probably not even the most popular site to do so.
Higher social class are unethical http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
I had a go at this with Python. It has tests, a fast implementation (O(n/2)) and uses memoization to optimize.

https://github.com/michaelmcmillan/palindrome
You're attempting to imply that HSBC was an innocent party, and that's simply nonsense.

HSBC was fined because it failed to follow the rules put in place to prevent money laundering. Often it completely failed to make any attempt to follow those rules. E.g.

"...The monitor’s findings described several incidents, among them one where an HSBC branch in Sinaloa, a Mexican state that has experienced much drug-related violence, opened a private-wealth account for a 19-year-old man who arrived with a bag containing thousands of dollars in cash. The man described himself as a shrimp farmer."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hsbc-struggles-to-bring-money-la...

There was a consistent pattern of failing to flag, investigate, or report transactions that were clearly suspicious.

That's why HSBC was fined. There's no grey area here, and the laws aren't particularly onerous. They were simply ignored.

>it could trigger a collapse of the entire financial system as bankers exited the industry en-masse.

Considering the close association between banks and fraud/criminality, that would hardly be a bad thing.

So far in the UK we've had prosecutions for fraudulent mis-selling of payment protection insurance; fraudulent mis-selling of premium accounts; LIBOR rate fixing; forex rate fixing; and insider trading.

Last month DB settled out of court with traders who alleged - and provided evidence - of precious metal price fixing.

The entire financial industry is rotten to the core. It's the single biggest destroyer of genuine economic growth in the planetary economy, and it also has anti-democratic political influence which operates outside the usual constitutional checks and balances.

There is nothing remotely positive here. The industry needs to die, and it needs to be replaced by completely new structures and institutions that use the profit motive as an excuse for criminality in quite the same psychopathic ways.
A nice response was posted, ad-mists the bays and hollers:
Anonymous 06/01/16 (Wed) 01:14:43 No.605380

>>605361

Whoever you are, good luck trying to educate your fellow cattle-minded goyim.

They've not done their due diligence and until you point to the source, there's no chance for them to understand what you're talking about.

Hell, most bar lawyers wouldn't understand what you're saying. I do, but I'm anon so it doesn't matter.

What do you know about procedure for filing suits at law in international courts? You would obviously be the one passionate enough to pursue such a lofty goal as freeing up security for all.
Funny you mention that, there was a story a few weeks back (damned if I can find it now) where Japanese people pay someone to hang out with them for a while. Not prostitution, just hanging out at a bar or something!

One thing I found striking, was when they do the customary handshake (which signals a bit more familiarity in Japan than it does in the US), the clients literally sometimes cry as they've not touched another human being for years!
The plan here is to use the existing above-ground rail line that runs parallel to Ditmars from the park, then along the BQE and into Brooklyn. It is the line that literally has a bridge over the Astoria-Ditmars stop with all the Greek murals.
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Why did this cause the builds to fail?
What a foolish analogy. The Mafia uses violence to force people to "agree" to things. If one "can't say no" to a contract because their pre-contract situation sucks and will be improved by adopting the contract, they have suffered no violence.
I agree, but in the US its still illegal. Having such services will only help, rather than cause further isolation.
W-word is "wetback", I think. I've never heard anyone use it.
I don't know for sure if it's possible to use an app to help those kinds of people, but I honestly believe that it doesn't take much more than a comfortable environment and convenient access to people to bring them together. I'm at least giving it a shot.
If you're so worried about earthquakes, you're more than welcome to leave the Bay yourself. And I love how you equate building more housing to lifeless Chinese skyscrapers.
Here's the note, if you didn't see it: [0]

The "continue" button starts grayed out and becomes clickable after a five second countdown (with the number of seconds left shown next to the word "continue").

FWIW: I clicked OP's link with uBlock Origin active and still saw the message. I also noticed it yesterday when reading a Bloomberg story.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/A14cTsy.png
Nice trick indeed.
Just added this plugin, thanks! Hope it will make it better.
They should, if it's so unpleasant for them.
This is a much deeper issue that transcends just rapid transit, and is based on the competing politics and priorities of the two different states.

For smaller scale but completely astonishing example of just how dysfunctional that whole issue is, take a look at this: http://newyorkyimby.com/2014/09/the-port-authoritys-missed-c...

We did manage to get the world's most expensive and amazing $2bn open atrium shopping mall on that site. And for just a few bucks more we could have had a direct rail connection potentially stretching all the way from Grand Central to Newark Airport. Oh well.
I guess someone, somewhere, somehow, could be insulted (people, what can one do?) For example, any time in my decades of work experience I've had anything to do with the English, it was just pressure, pressure, pressure, do it quick, quick, quick! It needs done yesterday. What do we have to do to get this done already!?! PANIC oh my if this isn't done IMMEDIATELY the world will end!!! Implied threats. Passive-aggressive tactic. Blustering. Bluffing.

But never any plan, never any specification, never anything except maybe a lonely Powerpoint presentation promising castles in the sky. Process? No process, that takes too long. And if there anything resembling a process, it's never formally documented, never enforced, and as soon as the next crisis breaks out, purposely disregarded. "Capability maturity model? Yeah, no, we obviously have no time for that..."

It's been both frustrating and fascinating watching it all these years: always panic, always guerilla style work mode, always no plan whatsoever, always pandemonium, always chaos. Completely the opposite of the Swiss or the Japanese. Different companies, different people, but with the English always the same modus operandi. And then they say that stereotypes are bad and not true at all. I guess at least I appreciate that they are consistent in being chaotic and disorganized (;-))
I am pretty sure its the same here in the US for quite a few people.
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Exmormon here, to get into VIP Heaven (highest kingdom in heaven) he also needs temple endowment and temple sealing done by proxy too (which they've probably done). Don't tell me you converted to mormonism because of this
Hi Sheraz,

I thank you for your candor, most appreciated.
"Thankfully we also got up to Muir Woods (just north of San Francisco) for a taste of the pre-European flora" -Its not like the entire ecosystem of California is palm trees. The way you make it sound, it sounds pretentious.
most small businesses do it they pay fines and penalties of 100% or more. They were able to play politics and won, congrats to them. didn't work so well for theranos, lending club, zenefits.
I'd bet among HN readers it ranks pretty high.
http://www.afar.com/magazine/the-incredibly-true-story-of-re...
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As a Demandware developer who has worked on Salesforce integrations, this makes me nervous.