skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say that I was surprised it wasn't the Sony rootkit DRM scandal, but that was two years later!
...to pay for hiring super-ninja-ex-google-guy!
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Sorry Jon, a slip of the keyboarding synapse. Anyone interested in language design should look into Jon's experiments with concatenative languages.
I realize that "dystopian" is in the original title but it's pretty clickbaity.
The argument would be no different from all the products out there who design their own UI (MUX, GitHub). Our framework Frappé (and product ERPNext) has a great emphasis on minimal style, and we really wished the charts to be free of visual clutter (not have too many measure markings for instance). Something that even the customizing API should take care off. Chartjs is awesome and very comprehensive, it just didn't go too well with our look and feel :)
I'm (pleasantly) surprised that C++ isn't nearly as hated as I expected it to be. I never considered C++ to be a bad language in my experience.

I'm surprised that C# and Java are higher than C++.

Perl being #1 isn't a terrible surprise. But I think its no small secret that Perl is usually the ugliest, but most practical... language for a huge number of jobs. No one likes using Perl, but damn is it useful in a lot of situations.

Matlab would be that language I dislike (despite it being low on the list).
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For any multi instance or multi datacenter managed distributed service, lock in is to be expected - the companies build and provide the service tightly coupled with their infrastructure and tech, so the effectively the companies are the service. The lock in follows from there. See DynamoDB, Bigtable, Spanner, SQS, S3 etc.
I think at the speed of these bores, there'd be a fortune to make boring from HWY-74 in Lake Elsinore through the Ortega's into San Juan Capistrano. Especially if one were to buy a large number of currently "cheap" properties in Lake Elsinore before the project begins.
I think the jury is still out on their success, but it is certainly an area of research.

https://www.marketplace.org/2016/01/25/world/robots-or-immig...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-robot-girlfriend-li...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/toyota-robot-baby-kirobo-m...
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The original AIBOs were also $2K-$3K each. The tech's price has dropped quite a bit since the early 2000s, and I imagine there's more demand at lower price points.

Edit: Apparently the new one will be selling for about the same price? Yeah, in that case they'll probably have the same problems as before.
Mumbai and Chennai are coastal cities with cable landings, but Mumbai is the finance and media capital - it has the stock exchange and Bollywood, both of whom I imagine will be big customers. And a bigger population as well.
Doing anything that deviates from being a cog in the machine is compromising against "the growing prosperity of the companies that employ them". You say it like it's a bad thing, but it's normal and accepted and human and widely viewed as a positive force.

From an employer POV, you should expect, accept and maybe even encourage that your employees have personal and collective agendas in addition to their jobs.
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It still downloads half a GB.
Isn't it often like this? The number of people who dislike mathematics is much larger than the people who can do mathematics.
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We gave it too less data than it deserved I believe.

Thanks for reporting the click problem. Would you mind creating an issue at GitHub, so that we can keep track?
LA is on it's way.

https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/
Sadly, this is a result of deeply-rooted parts of Japanese culture.

In Japan, you don't just walk up to people and strike up a conversation. Foreigners might, but native Japanese largely don't.

To establish some sort of repertoire, you need to share some sort of acceptable social context with that person: went to school together, played on a sports team together, work together, etc.

And, given that Japanese companies commonly have working hours that would be classified somewhere between "insane" and "criminally negligent", you don't really have time to socialize with anybody outside of your office.

This all goes triple for Tokyo, which has a very cold and sterile personality.

Expats tend to glop together into a tight group -- the "foreigner" community in Tokyo is like a small town in and of itself -- but for the natives, the end result is that there are a lot of very lonely people here.
I dont understand this phrase. It's completely incorrect usage. If demand can't be met, then the price will raise naturally until demand is met. I can guarentee that for a raw material, this is bound to happen.

I suppose they could fix it just by saying "at the current price" at the end.
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seems like a perfect use case for Docker.
Are larger houses materially improving anyone’s lives? Over a certain amount of space, increases experience diminishing returns.

Meanwhile, the important things, such as percentage of income directed toward expenses and debt payment, and amount of leisure, may not have improved.

More households are composed of both prime-age adults working than 30 years ago. Are expenses simply rising to match this rate of increased employment?

Either way, it’s sketchy until those factors are quantified.
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Using gulp with webpack means you can't use webpack incremental builds. Why would anyone want that?
previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15556387
That is so disturbing :)

Hmm. Maybe there's an emerging market for robot funerary services.
Hikikomori[0] are far more common in Japan now. It's a market of usually depressed and anxious people, who have been overworked to the point where they don't want to interact with the outside world, but still get lonely. The stigma around it is fading.

That seems like a decent market to start with. (Though the ethical side of me feels slightly queasy.)

[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/11/asia/japanese-millennials-...
I'm thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie's
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This brings to mind two horrifying futures, thankfully neither of which will ever happen:

1) we use those big lines full of electricity hanging adjacent to the road to power vehicles,

2) we stop using cars
I think Clojure contributed to the functional and meta programming resurgence. It didn't innovate on any one feature, but it brought a whole lot of old forgotten ideas back together, and showed their value.
There are people who don't know how to ride the bike. Shocking, I know, it was for me too. It might work in SoCal, but in temperate climates in winter, biking through ice, snow, and sludge is a non-starter for most. I, personally, don't do it during the summer either, because I sweat a lot and there is no shower at my workplace. Bikes get stolen all the time. The bikes stationed throughout the city for rent are heavy, with low centre of gravity and have only 3 gears.
The first. TalkJS does not currently have a native mobile version, but has been designed to work great on mobile as well, be it mobile browsers, Webviews or cordova.
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Sure, but usually you don't want to hire _all_ of the good applicants - the reason you get bad hires is the false positive rate, not because there aren't enough total good hires in the pile.
Lisp? Did I miss a mention of it?
I have 2017 MBP with touch bar. The sound kept playing, but mouse and keyboard didn't respond to anything. The game canvas was black. Couldn't quit browser or switch window from keyboard so only option was to force boot.
> One tag that stands out is the functional language Clojure; almost nobody expresses dislike for it, but it’s still among the most rapidly shrinking
Unforunately, us lispers are probably too obscure for most professional programmers to even have an opinion on :(
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TypeScript is never mean to be a replacement of Babel.

The spirit of TypeScript is code integrity. Imagine that you are working on a project which change often. In this case, refactoring and maintaining breaking changes are headache. How would you identify potential issues before pushing to CI and being punished by errors with no clue?

Babel and TypeScript are different. Babel is a transpiler which enable us to write modern syntax which are not widely supported, while TypeScript is a transpiler which help us to write in confidence and integrity.
I'm no statistician, but if languages are new and upcoming, thus still have a standing chance at being fast-growing at all, on Stack Overflow, would they also be languages that aren't yet so established in corporate culture (for being new) that they aren't forced onto people, so that people gravitate more voluntarily to them, so that they are more prone to liking them, so that (finally) they're bound to be less disliked? I mean, I read it, and I went like: "duh".
I've lived in tokyo for ~1 year now and have been coming here since early 2015, I have to say the tech community isn't that bad. Granted, one person's experience/ancecdata etc, but I've found it easier to associate with locals.

Usually going to meetups and the like can help quite a bit. There's quite a bit of social context that tends to stem from that.

Like you said, breaking the ice helps a lot. I can imagine it's worse in other industries but tech has by far been the most forgiving.
Reasons why there isn't more public infrastructure for cyclists:

1) someone has to pay for it

2) it gets in the way of my car

That's it.

Seriously. It's no more complicated than that. I have watched bike lanes make their way into major cities and those are literally the only stumbling blocks. But really it's just #2.

I don't know why people are downvoting this. I know the people who fought for 6 years to get one cycle track in Baltimore. Residents are still fighting it because it made them drive less fast and park differently.
That's kind of the advantage of making it easier for the professionals to participate - they have a tendency to react better to news and more accurately price things (since they make giant piles of money if they accurately price things that others mis-price). I suspect that bitcoin futures would damp the volatility in the bitcoin market.
> With the opening of this Mumbai region, Indian customers are now able to buy these services directly in Indian rupees.

Somewhat related: I was forced to switch to GCP for hosting my static website because of lack of payment options. AWS doesn't allow you to prepay. The only way to settle your dues is using a credit card. My international debit card usually works everywhere but it didn't in case of AWS. I never felt the need to get a credit card. I had to waste many hours in moving to GCP because there wasn't a way I could use to pay.

It's funny how I have failed often to buy something online because payment options are not international friendly. Latest in this case was New Yorker subscription. Every address combination I tried said the same thing: "Address is invalid", even though I had ticked the option for International subscription. Support was hopeless and in the end, I had to go without it. It's like I am saying, "Shut up and take my money" and people at the other end are tone-deaf to it.
Its right there under "Javascript". Lol.

Since Javascript is one of the few languages that first properly implemented clotures, and are functional to boot. A big joke in LISP circles was that Javascript is more similar to Scheme (one LISP dialect) than it is to Java.
Well, that was not really my point about height, I was just drawing attention at how ridiculous it would be to see, for example, a sedan (about 1.4 meters tall) connected to an overhead wire that is any where from 2.5 to 3 meters (about the height you would need to be able to pass a swap body) in the air.

Like I said, it is technologically possible, but for most intents and purposes seems like a wonky solution, at least for personal vehicles, mass transportation and freight are completely different scenarios.

As for the other points, you are right, there are fairly straight forward solutions.

Inductive charging is definitely a good option, which has already been explored by transport companies[1]. It again seems to be that politics and money are the main barrier for implementation.

[1]http://primove.bombardier.com/products/charging.html
I'm not trying to be snarky here, but .. did you report those on GitHub / to the Signal developers?
Did you actually hold up the photos for the dead fish to see? How did it feel like holding photos of people for a dead fish to see?
Why an apt package for Debian derivatives only, where they could have opted for a snap and supported a lot more distros: https://snapcraft.io/

I'm very happy with it nonetheless!!
This is probably why Stroustrup famously remarked "there are two kinds of language: the kind people bitch about, and the kind nobody uses."
Thought Rio is the first one.
https://www.amazon.com/Rio-One-Digital-Audio-Player/dp/B0000...
No MUMPS? No RPG?
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I suspect that cliff side isn't as steep as it looks - the steepness is being exaggerated by the camera's fisheye lens. The path looks like the sort of ridge trail used by skiers in the winter.

Also, the path isn't that narrow, so the chance of tripping and falling off the path (especially assuming they already know the route) seems minimal.
I don't think it's either or. We should give sober advice while acknowledging that a better future is possible. One without the other alternatively doesn't keep the door to that better future open or isn't practical.
The war had enormous implications for the economy. Commodity prices were driven extremely high due to investor uncertainty about the Middle East oil supply. It got so bad that Congress had to pressure traders to stop hoarding massive amounts of crude oil in the hopes that the supply would be disrupted and the price would escalate. These commodity price rises fueled speculation into other asset classes, such as housing and loans.

As always there were some short-term positive Keynesian stimulative effects by increased government spending, but a massive run-up of the deficit did increase the cost of servicing the national debt, which might otherwise have been directed into productive enterprises, rather than the wasteful Iraq war which achieved negative progress.
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Cobalt is probably not a problem. See the annual USGS report for cobalt.[1] The main problem with cobalt mining is that it's usually obtained as a by-product of nickel. So nickel demand drives cobalt supply. Direct mining for cobalt is possible but not done much yet. Right now, there's a mild cobalt oversupply, because nickel refining produces more cobalt than is really needed. This is expected to change soon.

Potential supplies in the US, Canada, and Australia are substantial.
Not a fundamental problem for the next century. Also, much cobalt is already recycled.

[1] https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/cobalt/mcs...
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Cheaper and better to get a real dog.
Both cases look open-shut in favor of photographer. 1) He has right to fair use. 2) they cannot just use his pics for profit
It's cash settled based off the price of an index, which makes it easier. They just defer to the folks making the index.

If it was physically settled you could squeeze the shorts by having a last-minute unilateral grant of a side-token to everyone who possesses the underlying. The shorts have to come up with the token or cover the contract - either way, you have people who are forced to buy it to cover contractual obligations, and you probably own the only exchange capable of making transactions with NewToken (and maybe also you pre-mined some of bonus tokens to sell?)

When its cash settled, this is much less of an issue. No market? No market price, so it doesn't get included in constructing the index.
In most of the US, enough parts of the ear are too snowy, too rainy, or too hot for biking that relying on a bike as a primary method of commuting is non-viable; you need a car or nearby public transportation. And since you need to have a car or nearby public transportation anyway - there's not much incentive to bike at all.
As someone that doesn't care at all about Signal (I'm in the "no federation & mobile number as ID is unappealing and I can just as well use WhatsApp" camp) I came away with the opposite opinion:

The people in the report (not necessary the original submitter, the "Now I'll go and tell everyone to uninstall Signal! There you have it!" crowd) seemed to be demanding/whining and spammed a bug tracker with random anecdotes and their personal agendas in a rather rude way.

Whereas moxie - again, in my opinion - replied in a very friendly, objective and calm manner and invited these people to discuss the issue further. In the _right place_ for an open debate about design decisions.
But why? Do they know what will be built there? Is this really in line with rhe urban planning?
Still requires pairing with my phone, thus not standalone.

Thank you but I'll just keep using Wire on the desktop and Signal + Wire on mobile. Too bad, because the mobile version is really good.
> Usually going to meetups and the like can help quite a bit.

Selection bias -- you meet people who want to go to meetups. Usually those kinds of meetups are quite small, too; I don't know many Japanese people who'd actually like to go to something like that.

One weird thing is that I have many online Japanese friends who have absolutely ZERO interest in meeting in real life; the gap between virtual and real can be surprisingly strong here.
Here in Germany they build a bit of bicycle infrastructure in the last years, but most of the time you see by the bad results that the planners themselves are still deeply stuck in their mind in a car-based society.
Indeed, it doesn’t even always backtest well. There are several 10 and 15 year periods where negative real growth occurred in stock market indices.

Sure, with a 30-year horizon, everything smooths. But entering a market at the wrong time has severe implications.

That said, it is far more probable that a reluctant investor misses growth opportunities by failing to invest than by investing at the wrong time.
You are aware that most Japanese find this kind of stuff creepy right? By far when given the choice Japanese will go for the human operator/human equivalent if available.

We should not mistake Otaku trends for the general Japanese population.
The current demand for high quality nickel used in batteries is very small in comparison to overall world nickel production. This will continue for the foreseeable future.

Nickel is trading at very low prices historically and most producers are losing money at current prices.

This would imply that the current supply of nickel is more than sufficient for the worlds needs and that some producers need to shut down. (Why they don’t is fascinating on its own)

Most of the worlds nickel production is low quality ferro nickel used in the production of stainless steel.

Despite this we are not seeing larger premiums for high quality nickel products which would indicate that there is more demand for high quality nickel.

High quality/ high cost nickel producers know that their only chance to survive the over supply of cheap nickel in the world is if we see the same over exuberance as which we have seen with cobalt trading in recent months.

The only problem is that nickel is a much larger market than cobalt and as such is not as susceptible to small market changes, and as the article points out nickel does not face the same geopolitical supply risk as cobalt does in the Congo.

We are unlikely to see a shortage of Nickel.
That still implies it took them 2 years to close the deal (2018-5=2013) which seems a bit much.
Finally, a reason to go into space!
It's a bit trickier (and more time consuming) to set up than I initially imagined but not at all undoable. A lot of tutorials are bit out of date or conflicting so it wasn't quite as easy as just following a recipe.

I didn't use DO but an even cheaper host and set up VPN at router using DD-WRT.

Occasionally I have to turn it off at router as certain sites/ services recognize the datacenter IP but not all that often.

Main reason I set it up is I use a small local ISP and know the owners and no need to have them watching net traffic.

The settings on both ends have to match perfectly. Don't forget to set DNS for openVPN also.
Well, if it wasn't their actual motive, but it's how it was sold to the American tax payer, isn't it fair to then also present the bill under that category?
> Share memories. aibo keeps records of everything it experiences in day-to-day life, uploads the data to the cloud, and creates a database of memories that you can browse with the My aibo app. You can even ask aibo to take a picture—and you’ll be able to preserve that moment for posterity.

http://aibo.sony.jp/en/feature/feature3.html
Includes the cost of paying and feeding troops. Presumably you have to pay and feed them if you aren't at war and they're playing cards and doing drills in established US bases and hopefully acting as a deterrent to war?

I'd like to see the actual marginal cost of the war on terror that excludes money that would have been spent on defence anyway (spent anyway rightly or wrongly, this isn't judgement about whether that spending should have gone up, down or flat).

BTW the war against Iraq absolutely was "War on Terror" It was sold as such with "Weapons of Mass Destruction" That justification being entirely false and knowingly to those who made it is beside the point, without the War on Terror existence and used as a justification it is reasonable to assume the Iraq invasion doesn't happen.
This looks really cool.

A 30 day warranty for an $1800 USD toy robot seems quite short. Is this normal for electronics in Japan? In the US I would expect at least a 1 year warranty.
I have nothing to do with this product, and although you appear a little negative towards the OP, it still seems as though you have quite a lot of knowledge in this area. So you peaked my interest. What what you do to avoid the scenarios you highlight?
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I dislike R. As in, design and performance wise. But an alternative often doesn't exist. So i am kind of saddened to see it so "liked".

You can best be sure as hell I wouldn't be listing it as something I hate on any of my applications/resume though :P Try getting away from it in my field. Not least because of the err...positive over-zealousness...of the R community. I used to joke that the main difference between R/Hadley (no offense Hadley) and Jesus was that some of Jesus' followers admit he might have made some mistakes.

Also git. Look, i like it. I use it almost every day, but I'll be damned if i trust anything that says its universally loved/not loathed.

I feel there's another dimension to this data not being captured/expressed, but I'm genuinely struggling to verbalise what it would be...
I'm having a hard time finding any kind of feature comparison or list. What makes v9fs stand out?