skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Most likely they're doing specific financing: whenever you pay with a card (or with your cell phone) in Japan, they ask you how many monthly payments you would like to pay over. There's also a general aversion to going into debt - cash and debit cards are generally preferred over credit cards in Japan.

- I'm not sure if I'm thinking of the right 'fake beer', but marketing of food products in Japan has lately been heavily skewed toward 0 calorie food and drinks. I'm not sure this is entirely fueled by reduced purchasing power.

- The internet in Japan is still very much limited by the fact that it's still primarily browsed via low resolution cell phones. It's getting better, but a fair amount of sites were written for C-HTML/i-mode-HTML, and laptop browsing experience suffered as a result.

- The effect of fringe groups on trends plays out differently in different industries. For Anime, shows with more mainstream appeal are actually hard to find now. On the other hand, in Japan, Anime has always been less mainstream than Manga - people who read a series as a comic book often find the TV shows to be watered-down, or don't find the voice acting to their liking. So, it's more just that a medium that's always had fringe appeal is doubling-down on it. That is, it likely would have happened even without reduced mainstream purchasing power - otaku, who actually buy merchandise, are just a more profitable group to market to.

With fashion and music, it's more that the fringe groups have bought the power to influence mainstream habits - plenty of people who aren't otaku but enjoy AKB48 and Perfume. Many shop at d.i.a. but aren't gyaru (at least not to the extreme the author portrays them as) - just trying to be fashionable, particularly in the short period of time between being in school (with black hair, uniform, and no piercings) and working (with black hair, uniform/suit, and no piercings). The increased availability of foreign brands also has an effect - by moving toward more extreme domestic trends, brands can better distinguish themselves from foreign competitors: with the surge in popularity of K-Pop, it doesn't make sense to try to compete with more of the same style of music.

I don't disagree with the general premise of the article, but I think its tone comes off as a little extreme at times - things aren't so bad there that mainstream purchasing has disappeared, it's just shifted toward some very distinctly Japanese trends, which were popularized at least in part due to the disproportionate spending by those groups.
Sounds similar to the OC Tattoos in Peter F. Hamiltons Commonwealth Saga - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga#Man-machine_s...

Science fiction becoming reality, :D
If we want a microcoded architecture, I'd prefer the PDP-10, but that's me.

How much more complex is a mostly-microcode VAX implementation compared to a MIPS? The point about being able to move stepwise up the hardware complexity ladder by progressively replacing microcode with gates is a really good one, though.
Fake beer is a result of beer manufactures getting around tax laws (beer is taxed more than spirits in Japan). Originally it was low malt beer, but now is low malt beer mixed with spirits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happoshu
how does this work under the hood? in particular, how are the hosts emulated? by separate processes?
You gave some great advice.

Assignments might not always be geared towards something useful, but sometimes you can go above and beyond the requirements to make a boring assignment interesting.

For example, I'm taking a class on web applications. One of the assignments was to establish a website that supports PHP and MySQL. For this assignment, all we really HAD to do was sign up for web hosting, although I had zero web experience, I thought it sounded kind of boring. Instead, I rented a VPS for the first time, registered a domain name, and taught myself how to install and configure a LAMP stack. I took an otherwise useless assignment, and turned it into something fun, interesting, and useful.
It's perfectly understandable. AAA is an old company, and Uber is the hot new and often controversial tech company. Now whether you agree with how they worded it.. that's a different story.
This seems like another case of where the constant factors of these super-smart algorithms will end up nullifying any benefit you get, even producing worse performance.
What kind of clock rate could this achieve? As fast as a historic 8086?
How about Sugar? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_%28desktop_environment%29)
I have a question about the 2nd amendment: Is the right to bear arms absolute, or is it subject to reasonable regulation?

Example: There are a lot of weapons I cannot legally acquire, for example: I can't buy an M249 machine gun, most automatic M-16s, a functioning fighter jet with all its armament, or a nuclear warhead.

In your view, is this acceptable, or is it a clear violation of the 2nd amendment?
Google-style glasses led to attack in McDonald's, professor says
Language affects how you think, there is no question about that.

Quite to the contrary, it is an old and tired notion which has been refuted and refuted and refuted (see, e.g., the third chapter of "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker) and yet it can't die because some people just find it too appealing to let go.
Personally, I can't understand why you care about how 'we' handle guns in our country. I don't own a gun, but I appreciate the right for my fellow citizens. I don't care if you ban it in your country; why are you so interested in restricting freedoms of people on the other side of the world?

>The rest of the world just sits back and watches your government attack its people?

What are they going to do? Do you know how much we (the US) spends on military compared to the rest of the world? It's really no wonder that the citizens of such a country (not to mention drones, elective wars, and the "right" of the President to kill without trial) prefer to be able to own guns (as many as we can).

>You're the only modern country that thinks this way.

That's what Europeans have been saying to us for ~200 years (although, previously referring to things other than gun ownership). In other words, "What's wrong with having monarchies?"
Yes. Virtual hosts are in isolated containers with their own pid and network namespace. So each host can have its own routing table, IP address, etc. without interfering with one another.
It's a joke - Great Neck has an extremely large population of Iranian Jews.
Show HN: Octogrep - a better way to find relevant Github projects
To be candid I don't know the details of what is changed in ES6. Is there a specific aspect of ES6 you're thinking of?

But the new features of ES6 aren't features of CoffeeScript. Why would we expect them to be?

It's like noting that Java 7 adds support for strings to switch statements and wondering how the syntax of Closure is going to change in response.

There is no strict requirement for the languages to be tied together at a syntax level, they just "compile" to something compatible.

There may be strong technical reasons for the CoffeeScript compiler to take advantage of the new features of ES6, but that doesn't force a change to CoffeeScript-the-language. (In other words, it can target ES6 while remaining backward compatible.)

I wouldn't be surprised to discover I'm missing something, but I'm genuinely confused why this is seen as a technical problem. It's not that CoffeeScript-the-language is "not interested in the new features of ES6", but that, technically speaking, CoffeeScript-the-language is not interested in ES-the-language at all.

Apples and oranges. (Or maybe lemons and limes.)

As an aside, I do see this as a potential social problem. CoffeeScript would probably like to remain conceptually-compatible with JavaScript, and that gets much harder if the two have different semantics for similar syntax-es, but I'm going to guess this isn't the only example of it.
Github's is great: http://developer.github.com/v3/
I recognize Norton Commander in the first photo. Good times.
Outright banning is only legally permissible when a) the state can prove that they are able to NARROWLY infringe your rights and b) that they can demonstrate significant gains and c) if the firearm to be banned is not "one in common use at the time".

For affirmations of this, you can reference the Supreme Court decisions in DC v Heller (and to a lesser degree, Chicago v McDonald). Both cases were notable for having overturned outright firearms bans in both DC and Chicago as they were Constitutional infringements.

It's also worth noting that they're both relatively recent cases.

The AR15 is the most common rifle sold in America today, and while a 1994 Assault Weapons ban was able to get passed, I genuinely don't believe it could happen today. There have been a plethora of recent Supreme Court cases affirming that citizens have the right to bear arms, even though the state might wish to prohibit it, and as these are SCOTUS decisions, they of course apply at a federal level. In the 94 ban, there hadn't been any challenges to gun control legislation since US v Miller, in 1939, and that was at the very least an odd case as Miller was tried in absentia, and actually died before the case concluded with an unfavorable verdict for him.

Regardless, the cases are piling up in support of the second amendment, with Illinois' firearms ban having been affirmed as unconstitutional just a few days ago (though the initial ruling happened sometime last year).

I realize this is a large rant in response to a fairly small statement, but I think that precedent pretty much eliminates either a regressive licensing system or blanket banning (on firearms in common use), though of course there may be other strategies (which I'm sure we'll find out as many states are passing clearly Unconstitutional legislation).
You're thinking of the Perq (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/PERQ/). The VAX was probably implemented with microcode, but it wasn't that modifiable.
This article seems rather un-Zen

>>> import this

... though rules are made to be broken
we?

If it's not your bag my friend, walk on.
No, but I work at Google, and I'm interested, so I've had lots of chances to play with it and talk with people who are on the team or are in the dogfood.

ETA response to the second question: I'm very happy with the display. That's probably as much as I should say, and I don't know the actual details anyway.
You never wait for the chargebacks. If you get chargebacks, they cost you a lot.

You try to detect/block immediately - if a thief wants to check 10 cards in 5 minutes, you want to block him in the middle of it. And you immediately revert/cancel any transactions that succeeded so that you don't get chargebacks.
Poor SparrowOS. His operating system does look pretty cool, and I have a lot of respect for anyone who can write something like that.
I feel this can be done on vanilla linux, without x, and the 'python' command appended to your bashrc
Is this model scalable and profitable? I have serious doubts. I see too many similarities to onsite pc repair services of the past like nerd on site, etc. This is at best a lifestyle business opportunity.

About 10 years ago, I operated a business of onsite pc service for small businesses. The largest cost was unbillable time spent on traveling from one customer to the next or sitting idle.

The article mentions tech, on contract, making $70,000-100,000 (seriously doubt these numbers from my own experience). Generously assuming each repair generates $100 in revenue, a tech has to fix 700-1,000 devices per year to make the reported number. With 350 tech on contract and iCracked eying "eight figure" (~$10 million) in revenue of which 50% from repair. At $5 million dollar in repair revenue, each tech is only generating about $14,000 in revenue.

Assuming tech works 8 hours a day 5 days a week, that means repair at least 3 devices a day. It is unlikely any organization can generate 3 calls every day for each tech within a short area.

IMO, this business is a dud.
Respond to England's proposed Computing school curriculum
NASCAR blocks eyewitness video of Daytona crash due to 'copyright' concerns
>>* The abuse problem is that anyone could call the access number and leave a message for anyone

> That isn't really a new problem (i.e. spam).

But it is -- we can usually trace an e-mail by way of its headers, which often (not always) reveal its origin. But if the source for an e-mail is a phone call, there's no way to identify the sender.
Ask HN: What do you know about thorium as an energy source?
Thorium is a naturally-occurring element that is so safe you can hold it in your bare hand, that’s four times more abundant than uranium, and that’s so dense and highly efficient, a ball bearing-sized amount could provide all the power an average person will consume in their lifetime.
O Material Estrutural Mais Leve de Sempre
It's interesting, but psychologists have found no evidence of learning styles.

title: "Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence"
abstract: http://psi.sagepub.com/content/9/3/105.abstract
fulltext: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3.p...
GNS3 is another tool for emulating a network. It is a graphical tool where you draw network diagrams, and nodes are emulated with Qemu/VirtualBox , Dynamips (Cisco hardware), or another emulator.
Ask HN: How can a 16 year-old programmer make money writing code?
Being so young there is absolutely no sane person that'd hire me for any freelance work.

So I'm wondering if there are any other ways I could make money writing code?
Most of design for the web is not landing pages. If you are designing a website that will have any kind of dynamic content Lorem ipsum is a great tool.
Dartium doesn't attempt to do cross-VM GS, so that supposed overhead isn't there.

I'm not sure any such overhead would always occur, or would only happen if both VMs were in use and there were cross-heap references. It'd doesn't seem likely that cross-heap GC would have such an impact with only one heap.
The timeframe for getting citizenship in Japan is quite long, and from what I've heard from all those I know who have it, largely not worth it - if you don't look Japanese, you will generally continue to be treated as not Japanese. Landlords who refuse to rent to foreigners on the basis that you might book it out of the country will still not rent to you, and customs/immigration workers will still consider you a foreigner. It also just potentially introduces you to a new set of bureaucratic problems, all with forms that simply don't account for the possibility of a non-Japanese name.
Certainly agree on high failure rate. Unfortunately for most, that is not achieved in the span of a hackathon, or using the style of hackathon development, which cannot be sustained.

It often takes months to reach product-market fit... and if you have a team of people working on an app together, and you are having customers sign up and use your app, you need it to look beautiful, and your ability to collaborate with colleagues over those months needs to be functional.
The reason for using Lorem Ipsum is so the client can't waste time in the meeting arguing about whether the lowest tier is $5 or if it should really be $4.99, and if it should be phrased "$5/month" or "$5 per month", details that are not relevant to the issues at hand.
I just looked at prices for those and WOW. Why so much for a light?
Japan considers citizenship to be via decent. It doesn't matter where you are born, unless your parents are Japanese you are not either. Naturalisation is an option - about 10,000 Koreans in Japan become citizens every year; out of 600,000. Obviously, it's not an easy process.

If a child would otherwise be stateless, then they will acquire Japanese citizenship if they are born in Japan. But since Korea has a similar system, Korean children aren't stateless, they are Koreans.
I usually just benchmark in a production environment.
A couple of years ago my wife and I made a concious decision to move closer to the city. We pay more in rent but save a bundle of time/money by not driving so much.

And yeah, I used to have a job where performance was measured by time spent in an office. I got a different job.
What do you hate about VB?

I'm a C# dev that thinks in terms of F#/ML but I've long recognized that VB is actually a more expressive language than C#, especially if you want to write OOP in a functional style. For instance, VB has better IDE support for expressing sum types, doesn't require type annotations for lambada expressions, and has more Linq (query comprehension) operators.

Edit: I'm wrong about the "better support for sum types", I was thinking of Completion List feature but it doesn't quite give you a proper sum type (though it comes close).
I also telecommute and the quiet hours are particularly valuable.

A nice side effect is the reward of getting stuff done first thing in the morning. It puts me in a good frame of mind for the rest the day.

Conversely, if I dont get stuff done in that morning period I feel I've wasted the opportunity to do 'real work' before the email and meeting requests start piling up.
I have been eying F# for bioinformatics work for a year, but a dearth of bioinformatics library, difficulty linking existing libraries, and flaky tools on Linus have held me back. Right now I am stuck with Python and R, which are good languages with plenty of good libraries, but I want to branch out into functional languages. It also does not help that I don't know C# and am disinclined to learn it.
You should jsperf your function definition advice. The standard "function foo() { ... }" way is over 10x faster than the "var foo = function foo() { ... }" way or any other variant.
I agree with you about human happiness. I'm well aware that being born in America puts me among the global top 10% by wealth.

If I could play the devil's advocate for this story--we've only seen the founder's side. In this blog post, I see no description of what the pitch to the VC was like. It's possible that these doubts and struggles were not discussed between the founder and investor. If this is the case, the investor has a reasonable stance for re-evaluating the verbal commitment. Why expect full disclosure later when you're not getting it now?
Very very interesting. I had somehow not heard about OpenFlow before, which looks very promising (software + hardware based implementations), and network simulation is the easiest way to learn about all the tech. How does Mininet compare to GNS3?

Also, could you run virtualization software like Dynamips inside Mininet?
My advice is to be patient and continue your education. You need to realize if you learn enough about the world around you, people will beat a path to your door.

The first phase in programming is learning how to code. The second phase is learning why. Once you get to the second phase, people will ask you to help them.

Many years ago, I bought an early personal computer. I quickly realized what it lacked, and I wrote it, primarily because I needed it for my own work. Pretty soon the manufacturer heard what I had done and asked to see it. Over the next five years I made six million dollars.

I tell you this just so you know it's possible -- but you need to be able to figure out what's missing, what people need. Being able to code, by itself, doesn't assure success. You need to know why to code.

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
There's a solution to socializing under such a schedule and that is to take a nap during midday. This way you can stay up to 11pm and you have the benefit of feeling refreshed during the afternoon.
I'll think about it. Releasing code like that is not a trivial thing and I don't want to end up having to maintain it or to become a focal point for a bunch of attention.
As best I can determine, the author's name is D. Keith Casey Jr. I strongly suspect the author is male.
Linus Torvalds: Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries
>It turned out that the rate of ring rotation changed the shape of the pattern from a circle to just about anything, including ovals, triangles, squares and various polygons.

Wow. Imagine if it were a square on Saturn. I think that would provide more fodder for sci fi writers than the hexagon.
Excellent. Now we need to block third party javascript and then we have a chance at a more secure web. After all, any third party javascript could be done by an underwater call between the server and the provider of the service.
A dog is the perfect alarm clock :)

It does curtail your lifestyle somewhat but so does having a family. We jokingly refer to him as our 'practice run' for having a child.
I've had it happen to me 4 times (BA, BM) on the Friday flights back to Glasgow. Compensated every time, in all but one case cash in hand. I was also offered an overnight stay in Prague when they overbooked my flight back to Schipol, but unfortunately I'd switched flights to Zurich moments before they told me.

I did have one odd delay with EasyJet - not due to overcrowding - where our plane from Luton to Glasgow was reassigned to a flight to Malta - probably because they were about to hit the limit for compensation - and Stelios, then the owner of the airline, took the flight up with us to apologise in person to every passenger.
It seems to be a good tool for teaching networking. Back in school we used to do that with VDN (which is still maintained http://opale.u-clermont1.fr/vdn/wiki/doku.php).
For those about to bemoan the breaking of things like Google Analytics: this patch only blocks third party cookies from domains that the user has never visited before. Since 99% of your visitors will have visited google.com, your Analytics should continue to function even after this update.
Pagebox — sandboxing XSS attacks
You're really forbidden to do any false positive with that, or you are good for a PR nightmare.
Moreover applying some kind of sanction without any of the traditional justice procedural safegards makes me slightly uneasy.
You are correct. Apologies, too late for me to edit it.
Well, Android users don't need iPhone repair.
Exactly. "A meaningless number, prominently displayed."

His joke's on us.
"For 2011/2012 there were 549 homicides in England[1], for the same period there was ~14,000 in the US[2]. The population of the UK is 62 million, the population of the US is 313 million. There are 6x more people in the US but 28x more homicides"

313 million / 62 million = 5 (not 6).

14,000 / 549 = 25.5 (not 28).

You can't just "round" numbers up or down to suit the bias of your argument.
So.. now that it may affect Apple consumers it's bad.
Look at the size of those objects and hashtables! 96 bytes per array entry (plus the size of the actual value!) Utterly shocking and baffling implementation choices.
I wonder if there's a way to add algebraic equation solving to this, or something like it, easily.
The GA script loads from google-analytics.com, not google.com.

ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
Knockout Advanced Tips: Binding Custom Parameters
I don't actually think this policy will have the desired effect of improving privacy and similar.

While I do think advertisers and analytics abuse third-party cookies, they also have a dozen other things they can switch to that the browser provides fewer facilities to control: http://samy.pl/evercookie/

Meanwhile, any legitimate services that rely on third-party cookies would have little choice but to switch to whatever mechanism the advertisers switch to, to remain functional.