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Sorry, but I care. I switch all my browsing to firefox now. I use chrome occasionally due to some extension that help me transfer information between laptop and my mobile, which I didnt see yet replacement on firefox extension, nor the creator will port the extension to firefox.

There is still something that firefox quantum needs to improve, the new extension support (either they provide backward API equivalent, or more complete API)

I really missed the old opera, fast, lean and many features (bloated or not bloated, that is just preference, IMO)
Your post has a lot of great information in, but I must take issue with:

> (you never become a citizen if you're not japanese).

This is not true. Japan has a very clear path to citizenship. If fact, you need 10 years consecutive residency to get permanent residency, but you only need 5 years to get citizenship. You have to give up any other nationalities.

This site gives lots more information: http://www.turning-japanese.info/
From the sounds of it, he wasn't "a typical engineer with not enough stock." He lives in Los Altos Hills. The cheapest house for sale on Zillow right now is $5.5 M [1]. This guy made out just fine

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Los-Altos-Hills-CA/pmf...
Bitcoin warnings
Nvidia launches Titan V desktop GPU to accelerate AI computation
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PayPay, Google Wallet, and many other systems allows you to move money within the system for free. Only paying a fee when money comes in or out of the system.

What most of us are unhappy with this that they plan to split the pledges into one transaction per pledge.

Which will make micro payments unfeasible.
I can definitely agree with it being easy to use at least. I'd figure that's the main reason it's as popular as it is (together with the feature set, of course).

Being able to click a link and simply join a channel without all the fudging it can take when using TeamSpeak or even IRC is great, not to mention how easy it makes setting up your own "server".
Were you by chance a teenager during the Gingrich years? It seems a common pattern to think the government goes off the rails as one begins to become more aware of politics.

Dysfunctional congress goes back long before that.

1960s https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/50-year...

“The 88th Congress, before the [Kennedy] assassination, had sat longer than any peacetime Congress in memory while accomplishing practically nothing. It was feebly led, wedded to its own lethargy and impervious to criticism. It could not even pass routine appropriations bills. It was a scandal of drift and inefficiency.”

1856 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner was 'symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" that led to the Civil War.'

Congress has been broken for a long, long time.
Learning the Enigma with RNNs
Yes, the distributed part is hard to wrap your head around. But IMHO, hiding it is even worse because you'll always be wondering what exactly is going on. Whereas with git you just check the status and the current DAG to figure out where you are.
Oh, if you have a phone+SIM card from Bic, you get a number. You need a non-tourist visa for that one, though...which means you need the stamped gaijin card.

I never had issues with anyone being snobby about the number, but I was in a bigger city, so maybe I had it easy.

(My sad/funny story was that in order to cancel the recurring phone payment, I needed to receive a text message to the phone number I was cancelling. But I had left the country by that point, and the SIM didn't work for international SMS. So I was screwed. I just told my credit card company to reject the recurring billing, and thus I'm probably blackballed from all future SIM-card purchasing in Japan.)
The major problems with Trump's foundation was that (a) it involved a lot of "self-dealing", where the foundation would pay for services/room rental etc at Trump properties, (b) some money that was outright spent on items for Trump, such as a portrait of him, (c) that he made specific promises regarding the use of funds, but never actually paid much or anything to the announced recipients, and (d) that he overstated the amount of money he had put up himself.

(a) is not a crime by itself, but it raises red flags, and there usually needs to be a really good paper record showing, for example, that other options weren't available, and that only market prices were paid. (b) is basically misappropriation or embezzlement, but depending on the amounts involved, it can be considered a mistake and healed by paying it back. Not sure about (c) and (d)'s legality.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with structure of, for example, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, or Soros' Open Society Foundation. Yes, the foundations are not subject to inheritance taxes. But the money is required to be spent on altruistic endeavours. It cannot be clawed back for personal expenses, not by the founders, nor by their descendants.
Years ago and today it still feels weird to me to

/msg nickserv...
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I would be interested in knowing replies to this as well !
Pressure to take transit, coupled with few transit stations and low-rise/single family zoning around those transit stations, is worse: now instead of sitting in traffic, commuters with the least access to premium real estate must walk the furthest.
Thank you very much for taking issue and filling that gap in my knowledge!

The relevant page:
http://www.turning-japanese.info/p/steps.html

While it looks pretty involved, it is certainly possible, and I didn't know that, much appreciated.
Hello fellow Fukuokarite!

The city has definitely been pushing hard for foreign startups but the changes they are making are only baby steps and PR in my opinion. I thought it was rather strange that the press conference held by the mayor to promote foreign startups had to have an interpreter because the mayor couldn't manage any English and the foreign entrepreneurs on stage didn't speak Japanese.
Exactly. This is a problem of lack of imagination and empathy. How do you think it can be fixed in mass? I think we need mechanisms that make people understand experiences of disadvantaged groups. Like maybe some VR app showing their reality + some laws that those who deny other groups problems must use it.
Most universities in Canada have the same thing. In my university you can do a masters "avec mémoire" (with thesis) which is four semesters of full time research.
and to think they would have gotten away with it.
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Firefox is genuinely a blessing to use now. I still haven't gotten used to the developer tools after exclusively using Chrome's for so many years, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually.
Why Wildfires Have Gotten Worse and How We Can Stop Them [video]
"Today the teacher kicked my kid out of class for being loud and obnoxious, tomorrow they'll be kicking your kid out of the class too."

Please do us all a favor and look into what a slippery slope is.
Altadena Library going to seed. Literally
So basically the credit rating agencies scenario all over again.
I have my 2016 tax return pulled up and filled everything out. It looks like I'll pay a few hundred more due to the State and Local tax deductions being removed. :\

Every calculator on here gives a different result though.
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It’s the set of values that controls nearly all land use policy in the United States. YIMBYism exists, and I am one, but I recognize that pro-skyscraper or even pro-mid-rise is a fringe position.
Cryptography using Russian peasant multiplication/exponentiation
Care to share that extension? I haven’t quite solved that laptop <-> mobile sharing workflow yet, myself.
Perhaps your point is poorly made.
The other 80% is probably just what they were doing before they started the 20% of keto. I don't think that's what made the change.
Yeah thanks, I always check the domain before clicking a link and was surprised to see google.com...was in part the reason why I clicked.
Anheuser-Busch orders 40 Tesla trucks
http://www.scala-native.org/en/latest/

Have a look at Scala native?
We use Redline13 to help spin up load generators for stress and performance testing.
Self driving cars is an existential threat to Uber if others have accesss to it while Uber doesn’t, or others have cheaper access. Why don’t you think helping Uber fighting off parent claims without merit would help?
At least for me, "wasted" is a matter of perspective. Personal interactions and experiencing the surrounding world can be valuable — time is what you make of it.
um why is taking the train without a seat wasted time? you can't read standing up?
Facts, not views. Facts says it favors corporations. It may seem like we live in a post-fact world, but here, I believe, you can still call a fact a fact.
I have a shed outside Amazon could possibly have a key to.
I don't think that makes sense either for ISPs or for the third party. ISPs are evil, but they're not cackling supervillain evil.
You moved to another country to live and work there. What makes you an "expat" and not an immigrant? The color of your skin?
I eagerly await @patio11’s thoughts on all of this. I imagine he’s got >0 to say...
Singapore? http://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/entrepass/eligibili...
What I think is happening with Patreon and their fee structure
Nvidia announces fastest GPU yet delivering 110 TFLOPS
Los Altos Hills are where Los Altans go when they get sick and tired of all the "poor" people in Los Altos.
It's using alot of energy now because of miners mining coins. There is a finite supply of Bitcoins, how much energy will the network use once there are no more coins to mine?
While this may or may not be true, I'm still shadowbanned by sctb and that raises some questions about moderation.

You're welcome to check my comment history. It may be somewhat snarky but I hope it is mostly positive contributions. Unfortunately, I tend to dislike YC's business and silicon valley in general.
Exactly. You're only one / away from bad times.
Japan's immigration system seems heavily set up to encourage young people to come, work and then leave.

This startup visa is good for getting a toe-hold on Japan but only targets people out of country. If you live in Japan already (so you might already speak the language and have helpful local knowledge) there aren't any great paths to starting a business without permanent residency. You can't start a side business on a regular work visa. If you change your visa to manage the business and the startup failed you are likely to be "directed to return to your home country", losing all the residence time you have accrued so far.

I've been working as an engineer in Japanese startups for the past few years and I'm kept on 1 year visa renewals. On a one year visa you can never apply for permanent residency.

And on top of this, there is the 5 year "technical trainee" visa, which is a means of getting manual labor in the country temporarily without having to publicize it. All the people on this visa do not have university degrees so after their 5 years are up they must return home and have no chance of residence in Japan (outside of marriage).

Of course, Japan is free to set its own laws. If you look at them the message is clear: "Japan wants your work and taxes, but it doesn't want you"
> driver is not chatty: 0 minutes wasted

> driver is chatty: 30 minutes wasted

Not the most social person, eh?
Oh hey no problem, my attendance has been pretty few and far between so far! Slack's not really my style (I find it hurts focus sometimes), but I might pop in there actually just to say hi.

I (along with a different startup's CTO that I'm currently working with) somehow missed the recent meeting this week somehow, I thought it was going to be on thursday, and it was supposedly the biggest one yet :(

I dunno who is who on HN (and almost don't want to) but the two hosts do an excellent job of creating a fun, not-awkward, encouraging, yet semi-professional and restrained atmosphere and I appreciate how hard that is. Also thanks to the other people behind running it, as I assume there's one or two more people in the background that are crucial. Also one of hosts introduced me to the existence of tethers a full week or two before the hubbub this last week -- so that's cool -- that kind of knowledge is why I come to HN.
Irregardless its still a word
I feel like there's this weird preciousness fetish that comes up around hardship. "Oh, you poor thing! Life must be so difficult and interesting for you. Please, tell me about your struggles, preferably in 15-20 minutes while alternating personal anecdotes with general observations about society."

I see this in how we think about disability, but also poorer countries, where the gold standard is the noble African tribeswoman, carrying water for her family, living in a hut, eating soup made of sticks or whatever. Shame she has a cellphone and wears a t-shirt. It kinda ruins the magic.

And I think deep down we want that magic, the idea that things could be so different for us that we try to amplify differences beyond understanding and into caricature. It's hard to believe that if we were in a wheelchair, or carrying water every day past all the World Vision cameras, it would just be mundane for us. How's things, N'gatu? Oh, y'know, carrying water again. Same old grind.

It would be harmless enough, except that you really want to be firing on all cylinders against hardship and deprivation. These aren't problems that need wide-eyed mysticism or hand-wringing sympathy. They need pragmatism.

Why is someone in a wheelchair disabled? It's not because they can't walk, it's because they can't walk in a world that expects them to walk. If they went through a portal to nobody-has-working-legs-Earth, they'd fit right in. But of course, on that Earth stairs would never have been invented. The nobody-has-working-legs-Earth scientists would have been hard at it on wheels and ramps from day one.

Which isn't to say someone with legs would be just as disabled in that world or some nonsense like that. Legs are better than no legs. But also being able to fly or see infrared is better than being stuck here on the ground with nothing but the boring visible spectrum to watch. Without society as a reference, there's no disability, just degrees of ability. And more is still better.

So finally we come to enhancement. Technology enhances a paraplegic into a person with wheels for legs, the same way it enhances N'gatu into a person with a detachable water stomach, and the same way it enhances you into a person whose hydration comes through a vast external network of water arteries. There's nothing mystical about any of these examples; it's just ability being enhanced by technology.

So I think we could do a lot worse than just taking disability to mean "has the most to gain from technology". I mean, I'd gain a lot from a jetpack and infrared contact lenses, but if my quality of life could be significantly improved by an inclined plane, well, that sounds like the definition of an easy win.
I think the difference is that in one case I am dealing with Walmart (or whoever) and I don't care what they make as long as I get the promised services in return for that money.

OTOH, on Patreon the messaging is that you are paying the creator, so I am kinda dealing with the creator with Patreon as the intermediary, and when it says I pledge $1, it feels like I am paying the creator $1 for their service.
I remember being recommended Shinsei for banking.

"Oh great, they have an account setup app".

I go through the app, take pictures of my documentation etc.

"How easy!" I thought.

I get a call later asking me to visit a branch.

"Sorry, the app is only for Japanese" they tell me.

These kind of stories abound.
Mysterious attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba have left them with brain damage
No disagreement there. I thought you were actually arguing for the connectivity to SV and that culture.

As I argued in the thread I linked to, it might be a bit misguided for these folks to run around trying to fund a hyper-growth style startup in 'flyover country' (which I don't consider NC) when what's probably more beneficial for local communities are stable, sustainable businesses.
Well, hopefully the folks doing a PhD are the ones that "want to just do research". I am doing my PhD now and I feel like 3 years (on top of a two-years masters) is not enough time for a quality dissertation. It is enough time for at least one good paper. But to avoid mediocrity, I think it can be useful for students to actually slow down (design thoughtful experiments, reproduce what others have done, thorough literature review. etc.) instead of rushing against the clock. Sometimes there is a negative attitude toward students who ask for program extensions. "Oh, you weren't able to finish in three (four, five) years, so you must not be a good scientist." Something along those lines. But there shouldn't be.
Imagine you have a user who supports five different creators, each with a $10 donation, and the money they are charged comes out on the same day every month.

From the end user perspective, as a result of this latest change they will be charged five transaction fees. However, from Patreon's perspective, that's not an efficient way to process the payments. What Patreon can do is bundle up the five $10 payments into a single $50 payment. What this means is Patreon will only pay for one transaction fee, but they'll charge this user for five transaction fees. The four extra transaction fees that Patreon have charged for are then used to boost Patreon's profits.
A general AI would not necessarily have any motivation to take over the world.

Human motivation for domination is based on the desire to survive and procreate, which is enforced by millions of years of evolution. AI, even general AI wouldn't have that motivation unless it was specifically trained for it.

So unless you're talking about some military AI specifically designed to take over the world, or an AI that has reproduced and evolved under selective pressure over many generations, I doubt general AI poses any immediate threat. Military AI designed to protect themselves and reproduce seem to be the most likely to potentially and eventually go rogue.
This pretty much describes all countries aside from US
Do you mind expanding on this? I’m curious about what barriers will be put up, as I’ve thought about moving there.
Easy to say that, but mores can in fact change quite substantially even in one person's lifetime.
Not a reason to choose Japan specifically. That is also true for pretty much every 1st and 2nd world country on earth that isn’t the US.
I feel it's unfortunate that they couldn't also extend the channel paradigm to video, where anyone can at any time pop in and out of topics that they're interested in. Voice channels was the main appeal of Discord for me in a team setting.
http://qdb.us/ was the other fork from GeekIssues.
The largest bank in Japan was flabbergasted that I sweet talked them into getting a business bank account for Starfighter.

Some things I wouldn't agree with: Personal bank accounts aren't challenging given a medium term status of residence. Wire transfers should be trivial for anyone capable of running a business; you just have to ask and not sound like a drug lord while doing so. Credit cards are easily available, including to foreigners (surprisingly so from some issuers), though corporate cards are much harder. Capital requirements functionally don't exist anymore; you can open a 合同会社 with 1 yen and you can convince large banks to open a business bank account with e.g. 10万 as an opening deposit.

(For anyone starting a company in Japan who wants to talk banking stuff I'd be more than happy to; this is very relevant to my professional interests these days.)
I absolutely agree with the message you've arrived at and think you're right, along with the fact that they're free to set their own laws/determine their stance about the outside world.

One minor correction: I think you can become eligible for permanent residency with consistent 1 year visas -- from what I understand as long as the TYPE of visa is unchanged and you've had the same type of visa for 5-7 years it counts well towards the (quite recently developed) points system they use. Previously, I thought it was just 5-7 years of same VISA and you're in a pretty good spot, but turns out there's a point system now.

Here's the official documentation (japanese, unfortunately):
http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/tetuduki/zairyuu/eizyuu.ht...
Not sure I agree 100% with the productive/unproductive value system you're establishing, but I do think it's an interesting idea — how can we weight the various aspects of a trip we value (time spent, comfort, cost, environmental and community impact, etc)? Might be interesting to build a system that lets you specify how much you value each of those, and re-rank transit options accordingly?
That's one way to look at it, and that's the only remotely defensible way one can wash their hands of aiding Nazis.

But it's dishonest. Taking money for Nazis is not the same as ensuring their right to speak. It means you're doing business with them. You are providing them aid and assistance, not even merely a place to speak (which no private citizen is obligated to provide and no private citizen should be removed from judgment for so doing). That's money that doesn't go merely to "speech" at all.

In no place and at no time in history has enthusiastic, freely undertaken business with Nazis made you freedom-loving or high-minded; it has only and ever made you, in the best light of history possible, a sucker and a sap (if not a collaborator). But it might make you money, so...
> We've been able to handle millions of concurrent HTTP(!) connections on a single machine for years;

> Have we really regressed to the point where simply relaying data with reasonable performance is considered impressive?

Sure but it's like saying Facebook is just a silly PHP app to share posts with friends and family, and Tesla is just an electric car those have been around for 100 years.

If you read their page, they do more than just serve static pages to users. It is a distributed systems problem, solving that in a performant and cost-effective way is not as easy.
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This release finally brings a way to raise an error when an unknown key is encountered in a JSON object: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/74830

The error's text is close to useless for even a moderately complex JSON object, but at least it's possible to catch this condition now.
> they just raised a bunch of money

Capital != revenue

> The obvious answer is that Patreon needs more money for some reason.

Probably because like pretty much all other businesses, they'd like to see a profit some day.
Are they doing that? It sounds like they explicitly are NOT doing that.
Yes, being insulin dependent means you would require taking insulin like a type 1.

Only a doctor can tell you if you need to go that route though. I'm assuming they make that decision based on your HbA1c being high or going higher despite being on a metformin, diet and exercise regimen.

You want to avoid this.

As a very tired parent of a type 1 diabetic I beg you to do whatever you can about your situation. You are lucky to have type 2 because it's something you can do something about. You have choices. You should exercise those choices.
Thoughts on AlphaZero
I dont think there are any easy solutions, certainly not as easy as a VR app. People harp on about empathy/tolerance/diversity but dehumanize "the other" consistently, and at a very early age. Tribalism is part of human nature, and caring more about those with similar genes is a primal evolutionary drive.