skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you your viewpoint. I can understand. I just want to tell you something more about this. We will be activating the applied accounts within a week. The idea is actually very popular among the people of northern India. The term "gehri" has a punjabi slang attached to it. It means "rounds". So whenever people go out in the city to take a "round" for leisure, they call it a "gehri".

Check this location page on facebook
: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gehri-Route-Sector-891011/210...

Its not even a single real location. Its a complete route.

And check the number of checkins. :
It has : 115,717 Checkins !!
I come to HN for a balanced perspective. If the article is positive, then I want to hear the other side of it. Like the comment about how it has the feeling of being cooperative but not really effective in redistributing resources. I don't know if it's cooperation or altruism, but I'm okay with comments that don't necessarily reaffirm the positive tone of the article.
A psychological history of the NSA.
More like "Google turned my iPod touch into one of their data-hoarding drones. But I don't care about my data, as long as I get a free service in return!".
Population growth rate is declining all over the world, but the effect is more pronounced in developed countries. As standard of living increases people tend to have less children.
My $partner is Japanese/British/American ...
America does have a quite liberal attitude about gender roles.

As far as France and immigrants go, I'm not sure relevant studies are available (since France has very specific policies about not mentionning race/origin in its official data).
But My intuition is that the role of the immigrant population is overrated. Mostly because the keyword here is "recent" and while France has a rather large population of second or third generation immigrants, the recent immigrant population is probably not much higher than anywhere in Europe.
Do you really expect to learn about open bugs by reading HN?
With static type inference?
I was always curious as to how this worked. Thanks for clarifying it.
+1

Word of support: Some people call this "technical debt".

At my current day gig, developing new "products", I spend a lot of time trying to understand what's what. Oversimplifying: dealing with terrible legacy code, overwraught design, poor implementations of poorly defined interfaces, supporting byzantine processes.

We have acres of documentation. Mostly out of date, useless, or both. We make up for the lack of clarity by having lots and lots of meetings, where we get to swap misunderstandings.

I experience recurring eurekas, each time I finally understand the actual end goal (business need, user's use case). Quickly followed by a face palm slap, wondering why anyone would make such a simple problem so frikkin hard.
This certainly isn't a phenomenon exclusive to Japan either.

I know plenty of western young people who have no interest in marriage, procreation or families. Maybe they're more interested in their work. Maybe they're more interested in rock-climbing. Maybe they're more interested in Pokemon.

More power to them, I say.
Are there ANY good social sciences blogs covering issues like this? Looking for recs ...
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As an armchair student, I'd judge most wars to be about resources. We must differ in definition of resources.

Which recent wars are not about resources, do you think?
Unless you make your country wide-open to all sorts of immigrants. Than your birth-rate will be "OK".
Yeah but it's because you get a lot of welfare when you have babies in France,especially when you have 3 or more.

Stop giving these freebies and fertility rates will drop in no time.

The question is , should we encourage it? in the long run ,it doesnt make sense. We often hear on the radio here how Germans dont make babies anymore and it will doom Germany. I dont think so, one country doesnt need perpetual population growth in order to survive, i believe Germans are smarter on these issues.
Do you want me to pull out news or video showing people's head got cut off flying copter?

There is a weight class. There are already regulations. People have been flying RC aircraft for fun in cities perfectly happily for a long time and accidents are rare. Most of the aircraft weigh very little. If flying RC aircraft were a particularly dangerous activity then you would expect there to be many injuries when people gather to fly them, but there are not and certainly I have never heard of anyone getting their head cut off.
Ode to version control
If God endorses me alone.

God can witness any event. God is lawyer. Fuck-it, God can kill.

God says...
theft whatcha_talkin'_'bout Boo rockstar how_goes_it Russia
not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer Mission_Accomplished
one_more_time umm_the_other_answer what_the_heck don't_even_think_about_it
not_in_kansas_anymore why_didn'_you_tell_me high_mucky_muck
pride face_palm joke well_golly love Ramsay in_theory
mocking rich that's_much_better what_a_mess Catastrophic_Success
where's_the_love no_news_is_good_news after_a_break I'm_bored
now_that_I_think_about_it I_made_it_that_way imports just_lovely
I'm_thrilled
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والقطن
What makes you believe happiness (or any positive feeling) is limited, but sadness (or any negative feeling) is not? Because that's quite a radical hypothesis, and as the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The only people I've ever encountered using the "a (Japan|Chin)ese" construction were (Japan|Chin)ese people themselves. Which may have rubbed off on GGP from GGP's Asian spouse. I've wondered if there was some correlation in Asian languages, but the English translation of the Japanese version of that wiki page makes it seem as if the concept of demonym is foreign to Japanese readers: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&pr... (and there's no Chinese version, as far as I can tell).
Each is special in their own sub-(sub-)genre niche. You can't expect making a quality Angry Birds clone and be hugely successful. Now cross it with some other game and you might be on to something.
Generously assuming your comment is merely clueless instead of intentionally offensive, that sort of subtlety would hardly be necessary, as finding commercial sex in Tokyo is trivial. Most larger train station have red-light districts in the immediate vicinity, with (Japanese-only) signage making it extremely clear what's available.
The Subject: An Intro to Continental Metaphysics
(The family also becomes the source of one's "career" as well. It isn't that women don't participate in family businesses. They do, extensively. It's that family and work time are no longer separated by a wall.)
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It's a multicore x86. It resembles GPUs only in the sense that it sits on its own PCIe board and has a lot of cores, but the programming model is just x86. It would have been very different from the NVidia/AMD competition if it had ended up as a GPU.

One of the biggest obstacles to GPGPU exploitation is being at the mercy of each vendors proprietary software stack and the resulting fragmentation & lack of openness. It's like the pre-PC era, without Unix... Larrabee might have helped. Now Xeon Phi is a niche product.
OpenMandriva Lx Beta Up For Grabs
Very interesting article, multiple points to make:

If living and being in Japan has taught me anything, it's that generalising from anecdote is not a good idea.

Case in point, if you visit an outlet mall a few miles outside of central Sendai on a weekend, you'd have a lot of trouble convincing anyone that Japanese people aren't making enough babies. It was very, very difficult to spot single people, or even couples without babies crawling all over them on our one day out there.

In a population of nearly 130 million, if there's any generalisation you want to make about Japanese people, you'll find enough anecdotes to put together into a convincing article.

On the usage of mendokusai, I think the author of the article may have misunderstood in the situation he's describing. I believe that in this situation mendokusai meant "It's tiresome to be constantly propositioned by male colleagues at work" rather than "I would have sex with everyone, but I can't be bothered". IME you use mendokusai whenever you're tired of something, along with describing a task that is tiresome.
Sorry, but I still have close to zero idea what you're offering, or what I can expect from signing up.
Do you think that the Japanese would be less inclined to speak frankly about their sex lives with foreign reporters or pollsters than, say, Koreans, Italians or Americans?
As transistor switching speeds get faster, the switching supply can operate at higher frequencies, which means less energy has to be stored per cycle, which means smaller components can be used.
I don't think people are all that much kinder and care more about their community overall, but rather big cities puts people into "survival mode" a lot, where we are trying to cope with too many people around.

It'd be exhausting to acknowledge everyone we pass, much less great them in a friendly way. It'd be exhausting if everyone asked you if you need help (and so too few end up doing it instead) just because it's obvious you're having a bad day.

And sheer numbers means running into the occasional people trying to scam you etc. is much more likely, and another reason for people to be more sceptical of your motivations etc.

Get past the shields people put up to cope with this, and there's plenty of kindness to find in big cities too.
I'm an OVH customer, and I find this unbelievably bad practice. This rant is a piece of polemic that only serves to legitimise their screw up. Not selling cheap dedi's makes them entirely redundant.
Sex nowadays became a redundant, obsolete, risky, overcomplicated act which you can totally avoid with the help of good porn. So why bother with searching partner, if you can have all of sex benefits alone, but with porn or good imagination.
A social networking site loses its appeal when those ex-coworkers you don't like start "friending" you.
We are making a platform where people can create and discover routes. A route is a series of locations. You just have to enter some locations, and create a route out of it.

Now, People can "like" these routes, "check-in" in these created routes and can also share their life moments related to those routes with their friends.
> That's why France has one of the highest birthrate in Europe for instance.

France has very active policies in place to promote large families, which is why if you run into a French couple with children they'll often have three or more instead of just one or two.
Beowulf or War and Peace vs Google's terms and conditions
As far as the text of the DMCA goes, the only restrictions on sharing what you learned are if that sharing could facilitate copyright infringement rather than advance knowledge or security. I can see how that could be a bit hazy in some cases, but certainly should not apply to cases like this one.
The chains are peculiar yes, but not that peculiar: It's strongly ingrained in us to return favours, to the point that giving someone something is a brutally effective way of exploiting them by later asking for a bigger favour back (e.g. consider Hare Krishna, that tended to use flowers for this purpose). The effect is so strong that we often try to prevent receiving favours because we don't want to become indebted.

In that light, these chains are easy to explain: People might like the idea, but people are also likely to want to prevent a feeling of being indebted - if you can't pay back the person who did you the favour, paying it forward to the person is the next best thing. There's also social pressure to show that you're as charitable as the guy in front of you, and against being seen as the person who is either "too greedy" or too poor.

There's also very low perceived cost: You were intending to pay for your meal anyway; that you're actually paying for someone elses meal makes little difference for you - it's more like friends that takes turn paying the bill when going out, where it is a social gesture rather than an attempt at charity.
Someone supposedly asked Mahatma Gandhi “What do you think of Western civilization?” and recieved the answer “I think it would be a good idea”.
Your comment is just another over-generalisation. You sum up the entire spectrum of Chinese companies with 'they'. Why do you think this makes sense and yet you'd naturally spot that it would be plain dumb to summarise and generalise American companies in this way?
Haha. They can't resist hormones and desire. Platonic love forever is lying. Japanese could do better as they have highly advanced porn and sexual industry.
Maybe tangential, but interesting!

It seems like not only do you get more information from someone tweeting about a book (etc) vs just liking it on Facebook, it takes more effort and that probably says something too!
Wait, shell code does not mean "here we inject machine code, that arbitrarily happens to spawn a shell" and instead means "here we launch a shell"? How did I miss that.
CEO announced on twitter they would have new offers in 10-14 days.

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/390557634790973440
Facebook replaced AOL for keeping in touch with friends and family at all distances. Something can replace Facebook for that purpose just as rapidly.
Surely if users are flocking to the 'latest and greatest' you deal with that by gradually reducing the prices of the old servers such that you get natural price discrimination?
The Fear of Freelancing
Japanese are less inclined to speak frankly about anything to anyone. A western reporter is probably more likely to take what they say at face value, without understanding the subtlety of their response and then report it as truth, especially when it supports a click-bait headline.
You have to be a graduate to understand these [google] terms and conditions,' Ewa Lugar, a researcher at the University of Nottingham, told The Times.

'Fifty per cent of the population cannot interpret them.'

The study analysed the literacy level required to understand a number of internet user agreements.
Not all people in India have premarital sex.In cities it may be different.But in rural areas very few does.This is not something people discuss with a journalist.I know many young men belonging to Christian communities who consider sex outside of marriage as a bad thing.
>the social conservative movement is the largest movement in the US which questions the desirability of Capitalism on an economic level (and the critiques are really interesting)

Huh. Reference? Perhaps it's because I just don't know enough conservative folks, but I've never heard of a mainstream socially conservative anti-capitalist dialogue.

If what you say is true, either I have a pretty huge hole in my political knowledge (that or we're just using 'socially conservative' or 'capitalist' to mean different things.) Especially if it's the former, I'd like to close that hole.
>The main competitor of OVH is actually OVH itself. The customer stays with OVH but orders a new server instead of keeping the old one.

Interesting problem, and surely not the worst one to have. What would have been a more graceful way to deal with it, though, if any?
> You assert that exercising and changing your diet have the same end result when they clearly do not, unless you are using "healthy" as a euphemism for "lose weight" or something similar.

Do you know what a euphemism is? A euphemism is calling something that is undesirable, unpleasant or offensive by a word that sounds nicer or has better connotations. How is "lose weight" - which in this thread clearly is about losing excess fat and not about something like being anorexic - undesirable, unpleasant or offensive?

Yes, eating well is one facet of being health - try to find someone who thinks ones diet is inconsequential to ones health. That does not mean that it is the only facet of being healthy, just like I can't accuse you of using exercise as a "euphemism" for health since doing a lot of exercise and only eating ice cream is clearly not healthy overall (even though the exercise in isolation is).
I thought the gesture was great, although I couldn't help wondering if it's an act of kindness to give away fast food in a nation that is struggling with obesity.

Could just be me.
It's the thought that counts, but from a European perspective it's a bizarre thought nonetheless. Quaint and cute and gross all at the same time.
How about simply reduce the rental cost of the older servers to below that of the newer servers? I don't see this mentioned anywhere, isn't it pretty obvious?
Haven't finalized that yet, but cheaper than the small competition for storage servers

1gbit connection, 24 drive for €400/ month ex VAT no setup
10gbit connection, 24 drive for €800/ month ex VAT no setup

OVH are sold out for same and want €942 ex vat
http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/hg_xxl.xml

Gorrilaservers in LA want $900 a month for similar

Thats pretty much all the competition on this high end with 24+ drives
Discussion on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ottdn/mozilla_...

I sometimes wonder why something gains traction on reddit and not on hacker news or vice versa.
What rant? Unless you're seeing something different to me, it's a Q&A form text that calmly explains the problem they have encountered with their current business model, and how they are going about trying to figure out a model that will work for the long term.

You are right, if the situation remains, it does make them redundant. On the other hand, if the turnover is too high to allow them to recover the cost of the new servers, they'll go bankrupt, so it is a problem they need to deal with one way or the other. The approach they've chosen is unusual, that is all.
> Which is why every developed country is aggressively increasing the immigration rate to compensate.

It's obvious that this is an unsustainable solution.
I cancelled all my OVH servers, on the high end they are a ripoff and their internal network went to crap recently, it was faster to move files to another country than between 2 HG XXXL servers, go figure

I am currently testing the waters on offering 24 and 36 drive storage monsters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576796

any feedback is appreciated
Even worse the equality argument goes both directions not just women trying the former man lifestyle, but the other way around as the article barely touches on the two decades of economic stagnation issue.

Its not just salaryman and stay at home wife turning into salaryman and salarywoman, its unemployed dude and salarywoman at the same time.
Perl is great, but today you can just as well (or easier) use ruby, python or even php for scripting one-liners and small tasks. However awk and sed are still fantastic option when you need just a quick processing on a command line. Pipe it in, do some transformations or replacements, pipe it out. Same goes for other unix power-tools like sort, unique, wc, head, tail, split, etc., they are all still very useful...
> The system only works when there's growth

That sounds like a bug.
I think that's probably a large reason along with two others:

They're more content focused. Twitter is about what people write, Instagram is about the pictures people take. Facebook is about... the network? Facebook is more muddled, and clarity is valued today.

Asymmetry. Yes, I know you can "like" things and get updates and you can join groups, but ultimately the relationship between two users on Facebook has to be agreed to by both.
+1. I tried Uptimerobot and Statuscake and had issues with both. Pingdom has on the other hand been 100%. It costs more but it works.
Uk better poodle china than usa - or be free?
So load balancing via DNS records is the easiest way to deal with the problem, at the cost of (potentially) long failover times. What would be the next step to load balance your servers? I know Amazon offers elastic load balancing for their platform, but if I'm not using AWS or don't want to rely on them exclusively, then what would be my best course of action to load balance between 2-3 different VPS?
I expected more graphics. The graphics comparing the different algorithms are http://coco.gforge.inria.fr/doku.php?id=bbob-2012-results (linked at the bottom of the page).
What if it evolves in the wrong way? Plenty of emerging middle classes in developing countries are now looking to join the American-style unsustainable lifestyle movement.
Despite other criticisms, you can pry my $60/year dedi out of my cold dead hands (2 GiB/500GB/dual core Atom)
The lack of anonymity and pseudonymity on Facebook is definitely a factor. Facebook works under the assumption that we have one unified "identity" to which we can and want to tie everything we do. In reality, we share different parts of ourselves with different people at different times.
No. I generalized Chinese hardware shops. Not all Chinese companies. Having spent years working with software, and sometimes rewriting it, from said companies I'm perfectly content with the generalization I've made.
France isn't really that open minded about sex. Although most people are secular, you still have the whole judaeo-christian morals hanging around in the background, subtly changing everybody's behavior. Eh ouais.
Often it's not just algorithms and approaches, but also the choice of tools. I once had a rare opportunity to rewrite a legacy application from scratch, and by simply switching from COM/DCOM to REST I got code base 20 times smaller than the original. 20 friggin' times!
I have trouble taking psychology and psychiatry seriously. They are the softest of the sciences and mostly based on cultural norms anyway. Consider the fact that homosexuality was labelled a mental disorder in the DSM not long ago. This is evidence that they make it up as they go along.
Yes that was my thought, have a price function that falls over time you have held the server, perhaps starting a little higher than the current one. Its a kind of amortised up front fee in some ways.

Alternatively, start a PAAS business to use the servers people dont want to buy, although I guess the VPS business does this to some extent.
What Germany Can Teach America About Ergonomics
What's amusing is that in Japan many Japanese are totally unaware of the political incorrectness of it. In Japan I sometimes hear people use 'Jap' as slang, in store or product names, or just in normal language by extension of how other countries are abbreviated in english. In a country that is mostly japanese, it just loses its racist power.
OVH is the worst out there.
This paper would be an interesting candidate for a visual-data analysis.

That's not so much a criticism of the essay as it is an optimistic not on the power of computers. A good analysis would seemingly communicate 80+ percent of the information with <20% of the words and time. Not only that, but it would most likely drive efficiency benefits for anyone looking at the next N+1 sample. While I'm not sure what the "market" would bear on this, it would be interesting if researchers and teachers made these types of investments. It seems the number of man-hours spent reviewing literature could be best spend on things that are communicated in writing. (Note: I read the google cache version).
How the rich make life harder and poorer for all?
I'm with you, most beers sold in Thailand are pretty good. Singha, Tsingtao, Tiger, Chang. The comparison to Budweiser is way off imo!