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New user registered a minute after the URL got submitted, just to leave a one word positive comment. Don't do that.
Some scientific technique you have here at approaching problems!
Complete tangent, but in case someone else gets a chuckle out of it:
the word "fabrication" means "creation"... but also serves as a synonym for "falsehood", almost an antonym in some contexts. I'm not aware of many words in English that can mean both a thing and its opposite. "Cleave" means to bind together, or to completely separate...
Any language geeks out there know of others? Or what such words are called?
Let’s face it; Facebook doesn’t care about privacy anymore
There is a showstopper:

Running a neural algo using already formed net is easy-peasy. Doing actual learning on an MCU for anything serious is still impossible.

Learning can be ran on commodity GPUs/DSPs, and they will not be that much worse than dedicated hardware. But on embedded side, a small, low-power ASIC is the only thing that makes makes 99% voice recognition a possibility.

This is why I think that learning startups will not go anywhere far in comparisons to companies that will be using results of that learning that can be done in DCs using commodity hardware.
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You don’t really need tests for everything.
If you make the invalid state unrepresentable in the type system then, guess what? You don’t need to test for its validity and more importantly you are guaranteed that if it compiles it can’t ever reach an invalid state.
This renders a whole class of tests unnecessary.
glad you dig it, man
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Good article for information and anecdotes but it also rubbed me wrong: smacking a bit of American Exceptionalism.

I am so used to hearing what is basically propaganda in our press about how much better we are than the rest of the world, that now articles like this inspire scepticism.

Our country (USA) does indeed have a lot of advantages with: technology and geographic isolation.

But we also have problems in income inequality and increasing corruption in our political system (Clintons, Trump, etc., etc.)

I really like the ‘Sputnik’ analogy because just as my country had an ‘oh shit’ moment when we realized we were behind, I expect the Chinese to go through the expensive and long process of owning the entire stack, micro chips, and up.
Thank you for all the comments and advise, I think I can see a way forward now, its been an eye-opener, I really didn't expect this many responses.
These forks (for the most part) occurred organically, not just in order to sound different. After the fact they became a matter of pride, culture and nationalism, but originally they were not. People just spoke in the way that felt the most convenient and pleasing to them, at the time there was no widespread long distance communication and the vast majority of the population never left a relatively small radius around where they were born. Languages diverged because there was no external force unifying them (like, say, the roman empire). Eventually due to the lack of contact languages drift apart and become mutually unintelligible.

Imagine a world where there's no TV, radio or internet and you could only travel by horse and most people use the language mainly in its spoken form (if they can even read at all). How long do you think the Australian language would remain unified in these conditions? One generation? Three? Ten?
Most of the fictional dystopia center around a single mega-corp not mega-corps... Thus if you have 3 or 4 Mega Corps that would be preferred to a single monopolistic Mega-Corp.
The reason why humans are good at discerning things in the very narrow field of vision that's straight ahead, and not very good at the peripheral vision is biological, there's simply a much lower density of receptors ("pixels") in the periphery, so in the periphery there's much less sensory information for the brain to work with.
My advice : abort everything.
You seem to need mental support and that's ok, everybody does at some point. Go back to a place where you feel secure and have family/friends/anything that can help you.
Throwing 50k USD into a company that has no purpose is insane. Doing so after multiple years of being unable to produce anything is beyond insane.
Better call a Western support line than a Japanese one, especially for a foreigner. I know someone (Japanese) who used such a service recently and their mental state was worse after speaking with the volunteer.
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The C128 is a really bizarre beast

It really is. It's a fantastic looking machine but the internals are just bonkers.

The reason for the internal Z80 was that Commodore had sold all these CP/M plugin cartridges that actually had a Z80 in them, but they drew too much power and the C128 engineers pretty much unilaterally decided it was cheaper to just build in the second chip than sort out the power issue [0].

The story of how this machine was designed and built is quite hair-raising and the likes of which I doubt we'll ever see again!

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/c128/comments/682da4/c128_ama_from_...
Training budget for confs/courses/books is a big one for me, it shows that a company is invested in you and helping you further your career.

Another one is relaxed working hours and having a culture of trust with regards to when you're actually in the office. It shouldn't be a big deal if I need to leave early one day, or if I decide to do reduced hours but work flat out during the time I'm in the office, as long as the work gets done - who cares when?
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Four can be answered with this similar article.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/everyd...
When I lived in Japan, I noticed a pretty interesting dynamic play out in that many of my white friends had complaints and voiced concerns that were extremely common in the black community back in America. My black friends complained way less about the racism/xenophobia in Japan.

It comes down to wanting to be accepted, without needing to constantly be vouched for. when you know the default view of you is negative you want to improve it not only for yourself but your community, especially if the acceptance will lead to a noticeable higher quality life for everyone.
> how to avoid getting into scrapes like this in the future?

It seems that your intention was to use your investment as motivation to further your career, i.e. "Once I own a company I will get awesome stuff done".

I recognize the line of thinking (from being there!). It is not "hopelessly naive" it's more of a bias, the other side of the sunken costs fallacy. "If I invest in this I will find the motivation to perform". Same principle for paying an annual lump sum to the gym and then never attending.

Though it seems the lesson is "never use fear of loss as a motivator", fear of loss is simply a variable in a complex formula. You can't rely entirely on it to get things done.
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I normally just lurk here on HN but your post hits a lot of empathy from me, so I've logged in finally to share my thoughts.

Businesses come and go and they are not more important than your life. And money is not more important than your life.

First, you should congratulate yourself on taking such an impressive personal risk by moving to a vibrant, different place -- you sound like a very interesting person. Be glad that you are experimenting in life because that's all we really get during our time here -- a chance to try new things. Many people never find the courage to do that, and those who do quickly learn what you have learned, that experiences are unpredictable when you stray from the norm. This is a good thing and it means you are putting yourself out there in the universe to see what is on offer. Now it's time to deal with the next step.

I feel your pain. I know exactly what it is like to feel backed into a corner when the short-term view is a combination of stressful and terrifying.

But it's only the short-term view. When I look back on those moments in my own past, the details are long forgotten, the misery is remembered and I remain glad it is in the past.

Wise man once said: This too, shall pass. And it will. I promise you that. Get through the darkness, there is light on the other side -- guaranteed.

What you need to do is minimize the stress in your life and take responsibilities off your plate -- starting with the business, the work, the overall lifestyle, all of it needs to be reduced or minimized or removed entirely for awhile.

Put yourself in a position where you can do nearly nothing for awhile, except reflect, get some positive interactions with whoever you are close to in your life, whether it is friends or family (or no one, if you are truly comfortable being alone), and don't ask anything of yourself except to take a life pause with no other demands.

During that downtime, give yourself permission to do nothing, to explore your creativity and interests with no pressure to make anything come from them. In the absence of pressure, life has a way of illuminating the real goals.

Japan is always going to be there. You will enjoy it more and perhaps even prosper well if you first learn to relax and enjoy life again without so much pressure.

It's fine if you end up losing a little money to close the business, and maybe even leave Japan for awhile. It can be very stressful to live abroad, and Japan is arguably one of the most challenging because of how different the culture is (assuming you are coming from somewhere in the West).

I have lived all over the world and done so without much money, and it has not always been easy. Feel free to contact me if you need someone to talk to.
The primary goal of soccer parents in the US is to get their sons/daughters a collegiate scholarship. I suspect the primary goal of most other countries is to play professionally.
The article you reference blames the debt load.

> To compete, Toys R Us would have had to invest significantly in its website and stores. But the retailer was using most of its available cash to pay back its debt.

Yes, profits were falling crazily, but the company was still profitable. Without the debt load, they could've spent some time losing money while they pivot to a new business strategy. The debt load really prevented them from trying anything except surviving as long as they could.
Nim includes "nimgrep", so I have good luck grepping for a variable, and it is supported in most common editors with a nim package. Nim also includes "nimsuggest", which provides intellisense - also available in most common editors.

And if you really insist, it is quite easy to write a simple program that will unify the styles for you. In practice, it's not a problem.

In this respect, Nim inherits pascal's case insensitivity, and just adds a few minor and arguably useful details (underscores are ignored, case of first letter preserved). It was never a problem for Pascal (or BASIC, or Excel, or NTFS or HFS+) and it's not a problem in Nim.

And being an early Python advocate and evangelist, I feel history is rhyming again .. ."What? You use significant spaces ? That's so stupid, and bound to make everything fail. Yes, some people still dislike significant indentation, but by and large, experience shows that it's not inferior[0] to token block delimiters, and in some ways it is superior.

[0] as long as tabs are a syntax error ....
Meanwhile the new Intel chips use the same LG1151 socket, but still need a new motherboard because, erm, well they do.
My Dad was like this with me. As I got older I got to support bits of wood he was sawing, bleed radiators, drill holes, mix concrete, and even wire plugs (under supervision, of course). These are some of my most fond memories growing up.

Now I do all of the building and decorating work in my house myself. I was up on the roof repointing ridge tiles yesterday, for example. My friends don't understand but it's all just second nature to me. It saves a huge amount of money and is very satisfying to live in a house that you've worked on yourself.

These are definitely great skills to have, and even in this day and age of being able to Google anything, just having the confidence to handle power tools and the knowledge of what's possible makes all the difference.
On the other hand, if the abstractions on the CLI tool are well chosen, it is good that the same ideas work are employed in the GUI as well to facilitate learning who the tool actually works.
Please call: 03 5774 0992. Its a hotline that can offer some relief.
This is exactly what I do. I hid everything from the menu bar and replaced them with custom (smaller) clock and battery percentage items, along with a few additional things I like to see.

Bartender is a must have on MacOS in my opinion with, or without, a bitbar or similar.
I’ve only been in Tokyo for three months, and have already caught myself in this self-awareness paradox: you have to be extremely self aware that you don’t offend others around you, yet your own needs / wants come later.

I recognize that it could potentially have negative effects on one overtime, but I see this as a fair trade off for the abundant safety and civility in Japan.
What tooling exists for writing/compiling Swift on Linux?
For those interested, this might be a good place to mention Newsbeuter, but Mutt of feed readers! It can be pretty efficient to do feed reading and management via CLI.

https://newsbeuter.org/screenshots.html
This is a game all CPU manufacturers play. I still remember the days of Apple claiming their G4 processors were faster than Intel ones. Then they swapped platforms, and all of those claims evaporated without a trace.
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The construction is also probably less subject to decay when unoccupied than your standard stickframe house as well, so vacant may cost substantially less than constantly occupied.
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Small software business owner/consultant here...

First, it sounds like you've got unsolved personal issues that are going to prevent this from working. Taking good care of your mental health is key to making any business work. Getting off the ground is a marathon, not a sprint, and you need a certain amount of mental stability and long term thinking to ride out the highs and lows that are part of the process.

Second, I'm not sure of your familiarity with Japanese culture or language, but if Japan is quite foreign to you, I'd have thought that's making things much harder.

Last, unless you can afford to and are willing lose all the money, don't mix up your personal wealth in business ventures. It's much better to bootstrap and be learn to be profitable right from the off with tiny amounts of money than lose your life savings because you've no idea what you're doing. Keep your money and the business' money separate and grow slowly.
If you don't help your wife around the house you're not a "husband", you're a "man child".
Search results scraping on Amazon is fairly stable.

What's more difficult is product page scraping, because there you have hundreds of different variations. Some from A/B testing and a lot just being specific things that show up for certain product categories (e.g. video games).
+1 and I wish I could give you +10. You nailed it: we need to get our own house in order and not just made ourselves feel better by focusing on difficulties other countries have. I am a grandpa, and leaving the world in good shape for my grandchildren is top priority.
> What type of legal entity did you open?

It's written in the post: a kabushiki-gaisha.
The raspberry pi is built on top of a graphics chip with some ARM cores tacked on as an afterthought. [1]
The binary blobs are not firmware. A full proprietary RTOS called ThreadX is running on the Raspberry Pi as the primary OS and this won't change until they move off of broadcom's video core.

[1] https://www.heise.de/ct/zcontent/16/08-hocmsmeta/14601932130...
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> I was just noting what I felt was an important detail that the framing was glossing over. I think to some extent you are reading in things I did not intend.

Totally possible! And for the record, I found your post great food for thought as well!

And thanks for the details on your children - good to hear. We're expecting a daughter so I'll soon have a chance to see how it works with 2 children :)
Fair enough. I wrote a blog post once about the arrogance of software developers[0]. So I get your point that sometimes because we can do one kind of hard thing, we think we can do most any type of hard thing. But we're wrong.

0. http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/134
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277018
I found RSS feeds to be better alternative to read the news beyond the filtering bubble that our social media platforms create.

There was an interesting tool to monitor RSS list of newspapers[1] on HN sometime ago. I wish that this tool [2] is hosted somewhere to easily get notification on my slack without setting it up or managing it. With load of information we face everyday, the idea of monitoring RSS feeds through Slack interface is very interesting.

[1] https://github.com/tzano/wren/blob/master/wren/config/rss_fe...

[2] https://github.com/tzano/wren
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The contrast between old Japan and new Japan is unbelievable. Such a large difference in such little time!
AFAIK, the design goals of Rust are better security and correctness in general, than C++. Have you looked at Rust and decided that it does not achieve that goal?
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"They" and "Their" are perfectly acceptable as gender neutral pronouns. A stickler might object, but also bear in mind that in English there's no "proper" second person plural ...
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Intel is mainly faster because of a significant clock advantage. Clock for clock the advantage is small.
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By now the data is about 6.2 TB with overall 20k transactions per second, so I would say not small any more, but also certainly not Uber scale.

Still. I have had MySQL corrupt tables with way less load and data (in the less than 10GB size range)
I wouldn’t worry about your actions reflecting badly on other foreigners. I don’t think that’s really your responsibility.

As far as future advice goes, I think you likely invested too much money up front. It sounds like you may be short on cash. I would have likely started the company somewhere cheaper than Japan (or just not as a KK which is an expensive option). For example, Estonia is pretty cheap (about 200USD, then 60USD a month for banking/accounting). I’d have found another way to keep your Japanese VISA going. Either some kind of student visa (Japanese study) or another option... Japan is much less strict than other countries and I know people who have stayed (traveling outside the country every 6 to 9 months to reset the visa) on short term visas for years.

As far as what to do now, it’s hard to offer good advice. You seem to have 3 options for the KK: keep it going, shut it down, or ignore it. If money is an issue, I’d be tempted to do whatever is cheapest.

I would then probably keep at the English teaching until your situation has stabilized if you can stand it.

After a while I’d slowly (and cheaply) try to bootstrap something, if that’s what interests you.
And therefore the taxpayer should fund a local paper
> Fair enough, there's a bunch of fully open source computers that let you really build things from the ground up

Concerning your linked example: if I look at the specs at

> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/A10-OLinuXino-...

I see Mali 400 GPU. Is this GPU now fully open source?
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And yet the page calls the other RNGs out as being insecure:

> Many RNGs can be predicted with after observing small amount of their output. If you use random numbers as a way to ensure fairness or unpredictability, that's a problem.

> [Talking about PCG] * It's much less predictable and thus more secure than most generators
Can you please share some links on this? All I could find was a similar case in Thailand: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thai-man-arres...
> Linguistically, the use of "USian" strikes back at your argument. There is no ambiguity when someone says "I am American," as people from only one country identify themselves as such. Using the term "USian" thus explicitly rejects one's affiliation with the United States.

There is ambiguity to me, because I consider myself as American as the US does. What does America mean to the US? It usually means things like the beauty that Luis Miguel sings about,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3u7qU_09w

new opportunities for immigrants, such as for Salma Hayek's or Shakira's ancestors, and freedom, such as when Morelos wrote "prohibit slavery forever, as the distinction of caste, being all equal and only vice and virtue distinguish an American from the other."

The good associations that the US has with "America" are also associations that the rest of the continent has with the term too. Thus, I want to share the broader term. I and all Mexicans are American first like the US, and more specifically Latin American. A Latin American is a kind of American, not something completely different.

I use the term American more broadly to point out our shared affiliation, not to exclude the US. But to someone who wants a shared term all to themselves, asking them to share feels like exclusion to them.
I'm saddened to see Intel has taken a good gulp of the "Young people are smarter"-Kool Aid
Can't you run gradient descent on a higher level of abstraction and escape the local minima? People routinely get stuck thinking in a certain way, even when an observer looking at the problem from afar can tell that they are stuck.
Not if the browser is not full screen, this is resolution/size of browser window.
*cheaper
I would be interested to know if the OP has actually attempted to use this, and if so how they have avoided feeling completely overwhelmed.

The challenge with RSS isn’t finding the feeds - they are for the most part readily available. It’s having a feed that doesn’t completely overwhelm.

That’s the problem that social, for all the concerns about filter bubbles and tracking, does actually do a good job at solving.
It's an easy trap to fall into. I'm looking around my office here and I can count about 20 men and 5 women. When I was in university the ratio far more male dominated. It's unfortunate that such an imbalance can make things uncomfortable for women (e.g. oafishly gendering things as male) in the industry sometimes.
For anyone wondering:

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

https://www.rllmukforum.com/

Seems to focus mostly on video games. Was started in 2003. Clearly has its own unique culture.
My 5yo daughter has taken to using a perfectly child-sized book on Cupcakes (Peggy Porschen Cupcakes). She can pick exactly the one she wants from the pictures and then helps to make them. The latest batch of chocolate cupcakes produced by her and my partner (who's a professionally qualified baker) were some of the best I've ever tasted. Above any that my partner has made on her own.

They've done this fairly regularly (a batch every couple of months) for the past couple of years.