skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"their economy is in the toilet"

Japan ranks 27th on GDP per capita (PPP), which is pretty good. In fact it's mostly a reflection of their unusually old and retired population. If you looked at GDP per capita excluding retired people, they would likely be in the top 15, maybe top 10.

"they're struggling with deflation"

Deflation normally leads to lower consumption and unemployment. Is Japan struggling with unemployment? Nope. 3.2% in Japan, which is incredibly low.

It's interesting how foreigners tend to have a distorted view of Japan's actual economic performance indicators. You can look at a lot of them, but ultimately what matters is that people have jobs and make money, so the unemployment rate and GDP per capita is what matters,¹ and Japan is doing very well according to both.

"population is declining"

That's the only factor you correctly identified. A shrinking population means lower demand for housing, hence lower prices.

¹ Actually some economists make the point that what matters is happiness, but it's hard to objectively measure it.
It's surprisingly hard to find the actual text of the Business Source License. Where is it?

The link in the article points to a FAQ, which also does not appear link to the text of the license:

https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting

A Google search did not turn up the text of the license itself.
That's nice, grandpa. I'm probably physically older than you, but I mostly commonly see your attitude when I'm sipping beer with old vets down at the Elks lodge.

Just because we invented and pioneered the early 'net doesn't mean we own it. Things change and usage patterns evolve as people join and leave the medium. Email today is a medium for HTML and emojis for almost everyone using it, except for the curmudgeons. We don't get to define "communicates properly".

Don't be a curmudgeon. This isn't "our" system anymore, if it ever was at all.
> Designing a machine that still works in 31,600 years seems a pretty tough challenge.

Good point. I'm quite sure we can already point something somewhere and it'll get there, or close, in 31K years. So the real challenge is what you point out. And remembering is maybe even more challenging.

So the first one out ought to be very simple. Maybe it just pings home every N days. That would mean that we'd start out listening for it, and perhaps that infrastructure would be taken care of.

And maybe that first one would die before it arrives. But if we continue to send something better each time we're able, I think we'd eventually have success. And if we do continue to send things, maybe we'd have an institutional tradition of listening for the original.
HN.

By bubble, I mean the memetic assumptions that any culture takes for granted. They generally only get questioned when some event happens that causes an individual to doubt a prevailing narrative. Usually, that individual then seems crazy to everybody who is comfortable leaving said narrative unquestioned.

I definitely saw insightful comments from him, so I'm not not going to speak up. I was merely hedging my assessment because it's impossible to discern justified from unjustified paranoia [0], especially merely observing via a forum.

[0] I hate when this word is used as a pejorative, but I don't intend it as such. Much paranoia is justified.
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> ugly {BLABLA} everywhere

It's been a while since I used angular (1.4) but from what I remember, ng-cloak handles this.
The best way to keep anonymous is to constantly create new accounts.

I do it every so often, and this account is actually the longest living one I've had.
It's mentioned in the comments:

> As for the Starshot thing, that sounds like a reboot of Robert Forward's Starwhisp idea from the 1990s. The real problem with that is, how to get any data back from it. (Not to mention how to construct a continuously operating gigawatt laser array in space).
First off Hulk Hogan was washed up before this incident. 100million+ dollars was way over the top. Secondly, Hulk Hogan didn't lose any money from it. Where is the damage other than it gave him publicity.

People have had medical procedures go wrong and been unlawfully murdered by law enforcement and gotten far and away less money.

The reason I use the term justice shopping is because Peter Theil had been unsuccessful at attempts to get back a Gawker for outing him in previous law suits. TBQH he's a hypocrite on the issue of gay rights.

Peter should stop making his sexuality everyone else's problem. So what someone said you were gay and you are gay. Big f-n deal. I'm gay myself.

Hulk Hogan made a movie and is mad it got released. If you don't want your movie released, you don't make it in the first place. He is a celebrity and knows the risks. This isn't some non-public figure.

I don't like the implications here that if the media reports on something you don't like, jamming up the court system with law suit after law suit is a viable option.
That page was mostly debunked. He had two or three sock puppets and this was back in 2004 when sock puppeting was allowed on Wikipedia.
So you want another anecodote?

An Asus Eeebook bought with Ubuntu pre-installed in 2012, everything should work out of the box, right?

Actually no, from the time I bought it until the wlan driver worked properly took around 6 months.

I just kept it and constrained myself to LAN during those months instead of returning the laptop, because I wanted to somehow support GNU/Linux on laptops.
We live in a one-track world, but anyone can become a polymath
I'm so happy that we can have PowerShell on Linux as well now. Thanks, Microsoft!
PHP isn't a framework though.
One problem I have had with mutt and I don't see it fixed in the current issue relates to GPG support. It appears that when I send an encrypted e-mail, mutt does the obvious thing and saves the encrypted e-mail in my sent folder. But that's encrypted /to the receiver/, not to me. Hasn't this bothered enough people for mutt to fix it, so that GPG-encrypted e-mails are encrypted-to-self when copied to Sent?
(mu4e author here)

Mu4e has a few different options for displaying rich-text messages. In recent emacsen, it defaults to a shr/eww based display; it's not perfect, but it reduces the set of problem cases.

For those, there are the view-in-browser action, and with (as of yet unreleased) emacs-25 you can use a webkit-based display embedded in emacs.

With those, I'm able to view just about any message; even the ones I get from airlines etc., which tend to be html-only.

Anyway - to get back to the top-level subject: congratulations to mutt, which is a great e-mail client, and a big influence on mu/mu4e.
So the plan is for the compiler/tools system to expose an api that can be consume but everyone ? (a bit like C# new compiler ) ?
Every Lisp article promoting the "elegance" of its syntax will do the exact opposite to non-users of Lisp.

This is no exception.

From the first example on there is not one case where the Lisp syntax is a clearer expression of the concept and it's hard to justify that anything that is less clear is elegant in the slightest.

Personally I'd put destructing assignment as more elegant for the first example:

[a, b, c] = [10, 20, 30]

But that's just me.
I do not think that "provable" is the correct term to for the rust compiler. Type checking (safety) is only one subcategory of proofs. You can still have unproven behavior that will break the program at runtime that will not be prevented with a type checker.

You can find higher confidence in code being correct in other programming languages. "provable" is better used to describe interactive (Coq, Isabelle, etc.) and automatic (Z3) theorem proving languages. Interactive theorem provers generally require a large amount of work on the coders part. Automatic theorem provers are limited in the types of problems they can prove. I am sure they can still run into runtime issues.
I just feel like clarifying that it was in no way an "assassination forum"
That simply isn't true. Intelligence tests - e.g. the older SAT - are strongly correlated with wealth. That's why, in order to make things "fair" (both on the basis of income and "too many Asians"), the college board has tried to make it more education/prep based and less g-loaded.

As for your willingness to teach as a part time gig for fun, that's a model that many code schools are happy with (and probably favor). CC tends to have mostly academic faculty. If you want to teach computer science at CC, nothing is stopping g you from applying.

Fundamentally, if CCs have not already done this, and code schools are filling the gap, it's because CCs squandered their 20 year lead.
I would still suggest editing AST direcltly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0tAVjwuc1U text syntaxes brings complexities, a lot.
If this is an interesting topic, check out the book, Seeing Like a State. It has really great coverage of the history of things like urban planning, naming of people, mapping, etc.

The standout thesis of the book is that from a birds-eye-view perspective (what the state sees), cities that were designed to meet the local needs of people look chaotic, but the ideal clean order from that perspective ignores needs of people.

For example, a neighborhood with just houses connected by a highway to a commercial district looks clean and organized on a map. Only with boots on the ground do you see what a disaster that is compared to the model of having neighborhoods and boroughs with all of the community resources (housing, work, food, shopping, parks, schools, etc.) they need.
I'm not sure where to begin with this essentialist exaggeration.

First of all, the history of Japanese agitation for change, especially in Tokyo, has been notable. Consider the massive protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s over security and labor unoin issues, and the protests against the establishment of Narita airport in the 1970s. Consider also Goto Shinpei's ambitious rebuilding of Tokyo, which had been destroyed in the 1923 Kanto earthquake, with a roads, parks, and a transit system inspired by the great cities of Europe and the US, not by Japanese tradition.

Japan's current zoning system is a recent innovation, borne of the necessity of spurring growth during their long recession. The system it replaced was developed during the 20th century. You would have to look back before the late 19th century to find more traditional systems. This, along with the history of protest movements and the radical redesign of Tokyo in the 1920s, disproves the idea that Confucian orthodoxy and survival of tradition have much to do with Japan's zoning system.

Furthermore, traditional Japanese urban buildings are not a whole lot like traditional Chinese urban buildings in their exterior appearance nor their interior layout.
There's a lot of important open source stuff that can use help from experienced individuals. i.e. Tor. It probably won't pay, but you'll be doing something incredible, and nobody but yourself can stop you.
This article is actually a lot better at explaining the characters system used in both china and Japan, than the articles that have hit the front page today and in the last week or so.
I don't think that he ruined this site. Whether you agree with his approach, Michael O. Church was trying to save the tech industry, and he fought very hard. He failed, not because he did anything wrong, but because it was too much for such a small number of people who actually cared. Most people just leave when get to a certain age. This startup game really is just for kids.
Well-produced short form video stories. I watched "Meet the Lawyer Defending Anonymous" and enjoyed: http://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/meet-the-lawyer-defendi... Of course, the short form leaves you with many questions, but it's a fun little way to get exposed to interesting topics.
Not a single one of them looks better than the one they already have and at least half of them are awful. Besides the name makes way more sense with the dinosaur logo.
This game was so over-hyped. Maybe moreso than any game I can remember. As others have stated, the novelty quickly wears off. The procedural generation is a nice tech demo, but it doesn't actually generate anything... interesting. Occasionally diverting environments, but little in the way of substance, unfortunately. It's also unforgivably buggy even after a couple of huge, game-changing patches.

I hope Sony learns from this, and that building what was essentially an indie game up into a triple-A game without all the support and trappings of a triple-A studio was always going to be tricky.
He was banned from Quora. No one knows why. While he'd aged out of his usefulness here by the time he was banned, he was a top contributor over there.

Marc Bodnick blamed it on Quora's investors and allowed Paul Buchheit to eat the blame, but Bodnick is a sleazeball, so who knows?
This seems like something we're not supposed to do... why not just use tls or ssh?
My anecdotal experience: I only started working with Docker and distributed systems in January and I've been through a couple iterations of provisioning, deployment, and orchestration since then - started with docker-machine and docker-compose, added in swarm, private registries, and a set of bash scripts, now moving to kubernetes - and I am finding that kubernetes handles many tricky components out of the box with very little effort. I wouldn't have understood how to use it four months ago but now that I've implemented much of it myself I understand the underlying architecture and design goals and find it to be a better solution than the tools I've put together. It took me a few days to see if it would do everything I needed and understand how to configure it, which I suppose could be seen as complexity, but it took me much longer to understand how to run docker in production in the first place since I had to learn and build it all without prior knowledge. Kubernetes has been a cakewalk in comparison. If I ever need to set up a cluster from scratch again I'll be using k8s.
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With List you know that no matter what semantics someone invents, you are not going to have to struggle with its syntax (too).
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This is like the economic twlight zone, when you see one overvalued company trying to rationalize the value of another. Why not pay 4 billion or 5 billion when you are playing with monopoly money?
> I wouldn't be surprised if Tokyo's economy was stronger than other parts of Japan

The GDP of the Tokyo metropolitan area is about 1/3 of Japan's total GDP. The country is weighted toward Tokyo like the UK is weighted toward London.

In the US, the center of finance is New York, the center of entertainment is LA, and the center of tech is Silicon Valley. In Japan, Tokyo is the center of all of those things, as London is in the UK.
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I'm not sure I intended to convince you, as opposed to merely expressing my emotional response, via this short Internet comment, and I'm not sure I can. I'm merely vocalizing my antipathy to a phenomenon I see around me every day, and that I feel is causing active harm, but that frequently passes without examination or moral outrage. I want you to know that I exist, that my position exists, first, since you should at least acknowledge that I am here in your own mind before you will consider my argument.

But in brief: while you are making a lot of money selling targeted ads by enabling an apparatus that collates detailed information about the lives of everyone on the planet, where they live, how they live, who they speak to, other people are creating machines and systems of murder that increase the power to kill and persecute based on this kind of surveillance.

The 20th century was replete with histories of people who used systems of surveillance to terrorize, persecute and kill hundreds of millions of people. The technology you are building is not only likely to be, but IS being used to this purpose today.

I implore you to stop. What you're building is a system of power and control. It is immensely dangerous. I don't imagine I will convince you through this, or any comment I can make here, but maybe I can provoke a kernel of doubt.
See examples in repo, that output svg or png
put the pedal to the metal

(idiomatic) To exert maximum effort.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/put_the_pedal_to_the_metal#En...
What's the bug ? (hopefully it's not just a missing break statement.
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Racket always seemed a bit heavyweight to me in general. I'm more of a CHICKEN fan myself, though. You clearly are on the other side of that particular fight (r6rs vs. r4/5/7rs) though. Which is fine.
In 1934 everybody thought that Fermi had discovered transuranic elements, that it was fission wasn't clear until Hahn and Strassman's experiment in late 1938.
> Of course you can't (in reasonable time) procedurally generate history

Dwarf Fortress does it, and it's awesome. I'm not sure how you would adapt it to a setting like No Man's Sky, though.
Even though the national population is shrinking, the population of Tokyo is growing.
This interesting given I brought up a similar model talking to people here. I agree with the founder that licensing trumps support agreements in terms of supporting development of the product. He didn't even mention amassing patent portfolios or defending patent suits. These are relevant given big tech uses them to stop competition. Development, sales to increase amount of it, and legal investments all take much money. Licensing from paid users is best way to get that.

So, how to balance that versus wants of OSS community that might test, contribute code, and so on? One thing I posted was that the license would come with source, allow fixes, allow local extensions, and simply block redistribution unless its to paying customers. Covers most OSS benefits. To address lockin, I suggested provisions to cap what they can charge for given software and (relevant here) make it go GPL if it's abandoned.

Only got two reviews on this so far. I'm interested in getting some more. I think I've gotten pretty close to getting almost all benefits of OSS software while ensuring it stays paid for. Btw, one can also give out free or supported-at-cost copies to those help out in docs, debugging, whatever. One could also do free, AS-IS licenses for small businesses or startups so long as their revenue is below certain point.

The only thing I didn't try to do is restrict by number of CPU's, servers, whatever. It seems natural in mainframes, clouds, enterprise, whatever. I'm just concerned about its effects on how product is used in terms of innovation or robustness. One example is desktop virtualization at level of individual apps for security or failure isolation purposes. Your user experience at OS level is still about the same given you're using same OS to run same apps. The deficiency of OS in isolation means you had to add a virtualization solution. So, should people be charged an extra $100+ an instance to make up for that deficiency? Or same thing in high-availability setup where extra nodes don't contribute to throughput? So, I'm undecided on usage licensing.
Fission was discovered in 1938. Fermi observed fission but drew the wrong conclusions, he thought he saw creation of transuranic elements.
Ah. Yeah, I can identify. This is exactly the reason I prefer Guix to Nix.
The original logo is nowhere to be found on that page because they don't have the balls to compare it to any of the new ones.

Translation: you better not change it.
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Hi guys -- interested in fielding opinion on where you locate your content marketing, and whether there is any best practice around this?

I'm keen to bring in visitors to one my of side projects (http://findemailsteam.com), and wanted to do some content marketing, and so write a blog.

Do you tend to install Wordpress at /blog, and steer people back to the homepage from there; or write for Medium -- where there is an existing audience -- and rely on the byline; or some combination of the two? Or even a third option?

Thanks! -J
Well at the end of the day you are trying to resell a commodity at a rather high multiple. Your intention of just providing clean and honest information is somewhat conflicting? Even if someone does place their first nootropic order with you, what would keep them ordering from you?

You need to convince people that there's a good reason to order from you (or to not order from others!). Which inevitably will involve some deceptive marketing.
Your comment makes no sense in the context of this article.
That yellow logo looks an awful lot like Monsters Inc.
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In CL without the need for destructuring:

(setf (values a b c)
(values 10 20 30))
If I were CEO of Uber, I would want Lyft to survive in order to avoid anti-trust issues.

I suppose Uber can point to taxi companies as competition, but at the rate those are dying off, and considering that Uber's app puts Uber in something of a new category, I would want to hedge my bets and keep Lyft around in case a regulator doesn't take the taxi argument seriously.
(From 2012)
I'm reading up on Cellular Neural Networks and it seems like they are simple convolutions, of which you can specify the kernel. In fact, this library is just calling scipy.signal.convolve2d() with different kernels [2].

The research (from the original 1988 paper [1]) apparently tried tackling the signal processing problem from a different angle (namely, having connected neighboring 'cells'), but the end result is the same as what we know today. I actually wouldn't be surprised if CNNs were a precursor to today's ConvNets in some way.

TLDR: these 'CNN's are convolutions. They aren't ConvNets because they don't have pooling or fully connected layers.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7600
[2] https://github.com/ankitaggarwal011/PyCNN/blob/master/cnnimg...
I bet the mods use it.
Comments like this make me want to delete my HN browser bookmark. The spirit of it is on nearly every story posted here and it's so very tiring.

Note the original comment has been stealth edited. It originally said the scientists were milking this story.
He's talking about generating random hashes.

Edit: Parent is asking "What are we hashing?", but the article says "Every language has a decent crypto package for generating random hashes".
never mind the energy requirements - it relies on the existence of exotic matter with negative mass. don't hold your breath. it's a cool idea though.
The public school I attended used trailers for overflow classrooms. Simple, cheap and effective.