skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really does sound strange to me as well, almost derogatory in tone. It sounds so much better to my ear to say "i'm married to a Japanese person" or "... person from Japan". But I have no good reason as to why the same doesn't hold for Canadian/American.
It varies by the type of establishment.

But all of the ones discussed are drive through restaurants. There you typically place an order through a microphone, and only later do you drive up to a window where you can pay.

On the inside of the same establishments, you typically will place an order, pay, receive a receipt, then later on exchange the receipt for your food.
I think the referring to "a Japanese" vs "a Japanese man/woman" sounds a little racist, it shouldn't, it makes syntactical sense, but I guess its the cultural influence on the language, I don't know why I brought it up, I was just really taken back when you said "I'm married to a Japanese"
In the midst of all, this seems to be one of the best parts of it:

"Tomita says a woman's chances of promotion in Japan stop dead as soon as she marries. "The bosses assume you will get pregnant." Once a woman does have a child, she adds, the long, inflexible hours become unmanageable. "You have to resign. You end up being a housewife with no independent income. It's not an option for women like me."

Great, so if a woman marries she loses independence and her own income, and then people don't know why women don't want to marry?

Same thing here:

"Romantic commitment seems to represent burden and drudgery, from the exorbitant costs of buying property in Japan to the uncertain expectations of a spouse and in-laws"
1) I'm fine with incomplete arguments if there is at least some attempt at an analysis shown instead of just a meaningless collection of facts and anecdotes. In that case the engaged reader could benefit by gasp thinking about it for himself.

2) So the problem is that corporate media is politically streamlined? Yes, I absolutely think so. In Switzerland we have an interesting weekly magazine called 'Weltwoche', which allows rather extreme opinion pieces of all political sides to appear unedited. I enjoyed that a lot, until the selection of articles began to appear biased to the right. I think the idea is still great - give me unfiltered opinions and analysis, instead just filter by the 'intellectual depth' if you will. It'd be black coffee in magazine form.
A movie theater in Italy is actually using Epson Moverio glasses to show subtitles (hopefully more will follow). No digital projector required :)
Does to me; I guess I think of it as either an adjective or referring to the language. While this usage is technically correct, I think I'd always say "Japanese person".
I don't really have a good explanation though of why it's different to "American" or "Canadian" in that regard. Maybe just it's less common for some reason.
There is something about Japan that really brings home the meaning of 'foreign' to me.

I think that being the first rich, advanced large country that isn't western is the reason. On paper, they have a similar relationship with money, technology, their religion and traditional culture. I can't explain the strangeness away with those differences.

When I read something like this about some trend or supposed cultural pathology cropping up, I have nothing to connect it to. I don't intuitively get where its coming from or why. Not even a hint. I don't know whether to dismiss it as conservatives concerned with something harmless, some fringe phenomenon or whatever.
What the parent comment is trying to get at is that many people today do not know how to sit quietly alone with their thoughts. If they have a single spare moment, in less than half a second they whip out their phones and mindlessly check fb, etc. Due to this, they are less pensive and self reflective. While hard to test, it seems like a reasonable theory.
Yes, but you can talk about demographic trends without delving into fetishism and sexualization. As strange as it sounds, there isn't much relation between sex and the choice to have children, from my understanding Japanese women are rejecting motherhood because it cancels whatever limited career opportunities they may have had. In other words, like most demographic trends, it is driven by economics.

Of course to a sexually repressed Brit walking through Shibuya with a childish smirk and a hard-on surrounded by sexually voracious vixens (in his mind at least), sex is everywhere and needs to at least be a sub theme on any reporting on Japan. Cringeworthy.
Firstly, your comment is not what I called foolish. I was referring to the original act. Secondly, I'm not raging at all. I'm quite calm. That is what I'm actually asking for. Calmness.

With regards to driving not being related because of it 'having regulations', RC model plane flying has regulations too. Ones I abide by. You say it needs to be regulated. Guess what? It is. I've even talked to my local ranger about the regulations.

I think if you look at it you're actually over reacting a little. If you are worried about "copter cut someone's head off", what about someone who chops someone's head off without first getting "a permit"? What will you do then? There will always be foolish people doing foolish things. And there are laws and consequences.

Have you actually looked at your local regulations regarding RC plane flying?
Is there hard evidence that this is bad?

Resource depletion is among the highest risks to civilization. Seems straightforward that severe population decline should be desired, and voluntary refraining from reproduction should be welcome.

(Please don't just extrapolate the trend till extinction. See http://xkcd.com/605/. )
I'm married to a Britisher (which is not used in Great Britan anyway) sounds similarly awkward. Married to an Englishman/Welshman/Irishman works, but is gender (and England/Wales/Ireland) specific.

I'm married to a Scott works though.

Not sure there is a general purpose word you can use to say "I'm married to someone from Britian".
The whole story seems to be based around stuff that some ex-dominatrix is telling.
Agree. Packet management is mainly the reason I did the switch.
While the level of discourse on HN is high enough, it still suffers from the memes( as in their original definition) permeating through the content and diverting the attention to emotional, not rational issues. I for one find the emotional level on HN too high.
"I'm married to a Briton". That sounds weird.

(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)
I think you might be right.

An/a American/Mexican/Thai/German sounds ok.

A Japanese/Chinese/Dutch sounds wrong.
Thanks, I think I'll have to keep that in mind when talking in English. The thing is, I thought about writing 'Japanese woman', but her gender seemed besides the point to me, so I didn't want to mention it. In my native tongue (German) there is no unisex term for nationalities, you're either a "Japanerin" (= Japanese woman) or a "Japaner" (= Japanese man). Because of that there might be less subtext when talking about nationalities, but I think this is all just due to the history of your cultural relations - for example in Switzerland there is some negative subtext to the word 'Yugoslave', because their immigrant group was rather unpopular at one point.
I love the idea of someone having "no first hand experience of a proton" :-)
"I"m married to a Brit"
Thanks for the heads up and see my response to tux1968.
So, let's consider the colonization of the Americas.

Most people today would probably agree that mass murder and torture of aboriginal americans is bad.
This was _not_ true at the time it happened.

Bartolome de Las Casas is known _because_ he was an exception, and yet he thought a perfectly legit idea to use african slaves rather than americans, until his late years.

Do bad things still happen? Yes. The difference is that more people now have a framework by which they would consider them "bad" than there were in the past.
Without a doubt turning on the following was the biggest win for me and Vim:

set relativenumber
Maybe we should see civilization as a process, not as a state.
Better and Faster sure. Cheaper is substitute if you can't do the first two and will likely fail.
Curso de Conceção de Estruturas de Edifícios em Alvenaria em Lisboa
If you get 'error 0xc0000005' when starting 32-bit apps under Win7x64
Similar story here in the UK. I was paying for my McDonalds at the drive-thru when for whatever reason I looked in my mirror and saw a young girl sat crying in her car looking deeply depressed. I asked if I could pay whatever her meal, did so, picked mine up and looking in the mirror I could see a genuine smile appear.

I hope that if I cheered her up for even 2 seconds, she can see whatever happened to make her cry isn't going to keep her stuck feeling down.
People outside big cities have higher levels of Give A Shit Capital. http://shrik.theswamp.in/2013/07/why-people-think-what-they-...
Should I Warn My Hippie Friends if I Serve Genetically Modified Food?
> With the advent of incredibly cheap RC aircraft, it seems more and more people are getting into the hobby who have no idea WTF they should/shouldn't be doing, have no one to teach them, and aren't aware of their own ignorance.

This is very much it. I see the solution as education and mentor-ship. I would recommend anyone interested to get in contact with clubs and activities that are happening in their area. Even indoor flying is an option in the big cities!
Robots put to work on solar energy farms
We've been using Uptime Robot for a couple of years at Blue Bay Travel.
Notably, it appears that prior generations had higher birthrates because women were not expected to participate in the workforce. They didn't want to and/or weren't allowed to. They were treated differently than men.

A potential downside of making women equal to men is that they become more similar. They don't need each other. They don't complement each other anymore. Opposites attract, but if women are expected to succeed in the same way as men, then the prior balance is lost.
Actually this phenomenon isn't that foreign. Less children being born, a falling number of "serious" relationships etc. are all things that can be observed in any technologically advanced society.

Japan is just an extreme case because their current set of values doesn't deviate as much from more traditional values, which escalates the problem.

Germany is actually somewhat similiar to Japan when it comes to these issues and while the results are by far not as extreme the reasons are very similar: lack of government support for modern types of families and traditional values that still have a strong impact on how children are supposed to be raised.
Because parents and schools in the developed world have stopped raising kids and have instead opted for 18+ years of babysitting. Part of the problem is that we don't even know what we're about anymore, so we don't know what lessons and principles to pass on to our children. It's a wonder that the problem isn't far worse than it is already.
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Is there convincing evidence that resource depletion is among the highest risks to civilization? Much of what I've seen shows the opposite: for example, China is a rising superpower largely because of their huge population. Having more people means more potential productivity, and that could lead to more prosperity.

On the other hand, small countries with few people are usually able to accomplish little. Places with few inhabitants are considered rural and have a lower standard of living than places with high extremely high population density, like cities.
Here's the link http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-japanese-lo...
I think the concern is an ageing population rather than a shrinking one. Too many older people, no longer working, who need care or support and not enough younger people to provide it.
Same here with http://cloud306.com
Just the gateway is missing..
Try to view it as an art project.
Will Nintendo sue?
Really? I am not sure. We've got a lot of quirks in our cognition and intuition is not really a good heuristic for studying human mind.
An identically priced MBA has a mediocre, low-res TN panel in comparison with the Yoga. A Haswell rMBP is going to have a marginally better GPU and a ~$300 higher price.

If you like OSX better than Linux or Windows, it makes more sense to get a Macbook. If not, Lenovo has a better screen at a lower price than the rMBP, and at the same price as the MBA.
Managing project modules in separate branches with git-subtree
GehriRoute – Create and share routes (Beta invitations open)
But the NSA (with the FBI) IS strongarming companies to comply with court orders :-)
I absolutely loved (and miss) We Are Hunted's music discovery engine.

They recently started putting out the emerging charts again on Spotify, which is interesting (they were on twitter music, but since you only got a few second-clips of songs, it was useless to me): https://twitter.com/wearehunted/status/381496704052129792
Not sure that usage at a coffee shop or an airport is particularly useful. Like I've said, I regularly use a mouse as my primary choice over the trackpad. But if I was going out and about, I'd almost certainly not bother taking my mouse with me.

As I've said, I'm not saying that most Mac users do regularly use a mouse (although every single Mac user I've ever talked to about it at work regularly uses one). But to demonstrate whether it's true or not, laptop sales figures and anecdotal evidence based on people's habits at coffee shops isn't particularly compelling.
I noticed this as well. Personally I feel that twitter/instagram/vine is more informal and disposable. Facebook and its albums, status, friend lists, etc., it's all so formal to the point of being old-fashioned.

It feels like the current zeitgeist is not to give a crap about anything older than a few hours. Instagram feels like it's only about about making "now" look cool, hash-tagging it and then forgetting about it. Vine gives you a few seconds of entertainment, about the threshold at when boredom kicks in.

Honestly about 99.999% of the time I never re-read a tweet, look at the same instagram or vine. It's disposable social media. Facebook feels like the exact opposite.
Not every web developer does web design. If you only code, there's no advantage to using OSX.

Judging from your other comment, you have already picked OSX. If it works better for you thats all that matters, but its silly to pretend that you can't comprehend why other OSs exist. The answer is simple, not everyone likes the same thing.
Well if you have spotify they're posting the emerging charts again on it (still really miss the discovery engine though): https://twitter.com/wearehunted/status/381496704052129792
I’ve only been into it since ~2005 (Tiger) when Cocoa itself was quite mature, but Objective-C has gone through a great transformation over that time.

There used to be so much boilerplate in declaring and defining properties and keeping track of memory, and all that is gone now. With clang, compilation is fast and errors are descriptive.

The language has taken an interesting spot because while it’s a compiled language and interops easily with C and C++, using it actually feels more similar to C# or Ruby.
Do most Mac users typically use their Macs all gathered together?
I'd like to think of myself as an experienced programmer, but I still loved your tutorial ! Brilliant ! Keep up the good work.
> Too many older people, no longer working, who need care or support and not enough younger people to provide it.

But this will be a trend that autocorrects itself after some time, as less elder people will be there in the future. Also, the younger people if both working will create more prosperity than being married with one working and the other one staying at home.

In the short term this sounds bad, but long term doesn't seem that worrisome.
Well, he was dead so he didn't care anymore...
Applied. Pretty clean interface.
I like the about page: gehriroute.net/about
This reminds me of Jonathan's card, which was shortly exploited as an 'experiment' and ultimately frozen by Starbucks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877779
We're not Pandas.
Ressource depletion is only a problem if our ressource consumption doesnt evolve. And it will evolve.
What does 'HTPC' stand for? I've only ever heard 'Media Center PC' to describe that sort of appliance.
I disagree... there are a lot of things you can say other than just 'oh that's great'. This comment thread is a perfect example of that. It is an article about people paying it forward in fast food lines (a lovely story about everyday kindness) and the top voted comment is about how much someone hates Chick-Fil-A.

Not every interesting opinion has to be a negative one, and not every criticism needs to be posed in a really nasty way. Most members of the HN community have been pointing out how the quality of comments on HN has degenerated of late, I was just thinking out aloud rather than passing judgment on people who come and comment here.
Are We Alone? - The search for life among the stars
We’re all just playing in Apple’s playground
Home Theatre PC.
It's as simple as:

- In standard English, "Japanese", "Chinese", etc. are now used only as adjectives and not nouns (although the noun usage used to be acceptable). So you can't correctly say "a Japanese came in" any more than you can say "a Swedish came in." http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/29887-grammar...

- "The Japanese" remains valid as a way to refer to the people of that nation collectively.

- "-(i)an" endings are both nouns and adjectives, so Canadians, Germans, and Ankh-Morporkians are all fine.

- "-man/woman" endings are no longer applied except where they've become idiomatic, so we have Welshman and Frenchman, but not Chineseman or Japaneseman. ("Chinaman" is, of course, derogatory.)

- For an exhaustive rundown of the topic, see "Demonym" on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym

- In more academic or historical writing, you might still find "-ese" in use as a noun ending, but it sounds faintly racist and outdated: "More than a hundred Chinese up to that date had been interrogated by police." http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=Yqemz6q_nQYC&lpg=PA74&ot... (The same might apply to "-ish" words, but I'm not certain.)

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(To throw_away) Like you, I've done my fair share of correcting Chinese speakers about this usage, too. But I've seen regular use of "a Chinese" in various older English writing, so the usage is at least historically justified, and probably slipped into older instructional texts. It doesn't surprise me that some of the textbooks used in China may not have kept up with changes in usage over the last few decades - in the first place, English teaching there was almost zilch in the past and remains very spotty today.

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'Home theater pc' so your media-center description is quite accurate.
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live Windows CD/DVD
http://hnnotify.com
It's more an imbalance between social expectations and modern living.

More conservative societies see a steeper decline in birthrate as women participation in the workforce increases.

That's why France has one of the highest birthrate in Europe for instance.
Happend to us on the San Mateo Bridge (westbound) a couple of years back. We felt special but did not pay it forward. Instead, told the lady at the booth to consider the fee a tip :)
'Dutchman' seems to be unisex in the English tongue.
Are we doing MVC wrong?
The Vice documentary linked upthread suggests that such a startup would be trying to disrupt existing Yakuza business. This is possibly not a good idea.
I honestly had no idea twitter has a music app outside Spotify until now.

If I get it correctly though, does killing this also mean killing the backend which the Spotify app depends on?

If so that does that mean twitter admits it can't make money/data from it's twitter stream? That would put it in a horrible position when trying to sell its stream API to future clients.
I disagree with that. It's a get request that is changing state server-side. That is a dead giveaway for a CSRF vulnerability.
Bonus points for integrating everything. But meh, another solution for controlling newsgroups. As a more casual downloader who thinks newsgroups are too much hassle, this doesn't really work for me.
Personally, I don't have a problem with the form "I'm married to a Japanese" (this usage comes up a lot for me, although I'm generally referring to Chinese rather than Japanese). But if I were to avoid it, I definitely wouldn't say "I'm married to a Japanese person". I'd say "My wife is Japanese".
Thanks for registering. And thanks for the complement.
That's not the point, though, is it?
Most people agree that mass murder of Iraqis was bad at the time, just 10 years ago - it didn't prevent it from happening. The US drone program is still routinely murdering many, even though most people consider it bad.

I'm pretty sure most people would've considered the mass murder of Americans bad at the time too, since Christianity was prevalent, and we know what it says about murder. There's obviously a difference from now, in that people were more xenophobic at the time, but there are still similarities to the current day.

It seems that while most of us are civil individually, as a collective, the civility is lost, and what is manifested is the barbaric elements among us.

The framework for what people consider to be good/bad is flawed and contradictory, because while most of us agree that murder is bad, we routinely pay a hit man to conduct it. Very few people consider that's what's happening when they pay tax, but it doesn't make it any less true. Some people recognize the fact and pay tax out of fear of what the hit man may do to them if they don't pay, and many others will suffer cognitive dissonance in which they convince themselves that it's necessary for "the greater good", and downplay the mass murder and torture.

Rather than being content with what we have being better than what we had, we should consider the ways in which we haven't changed from the past and do something about them. One thing that hasn't changed is that we're still paying the hit man. Will the hit man ever stop killing people when we continue paying it? Perhaps we should be thinking how to create a different framework in which there is no hit man. Perhaps then we may be called 'civil'.
I disagree, I think the opposite is the case. American Caucasians have a higher fertility rate than almost all Western Europeans; birth rates in France typically include recent immigrant fertility rates which are significantly higher. The arguments to avoid children are similar to the Japanese: independence, more money for consumption, etc

Disclaimer: I grew up in Germany/Austria and find the topic of Europeqn demographics quite intriguing
It supports torrents too, though I'm not sure how reliable it is with public trackers.
My point is about porn in general. I'm from a generation that did not have access to porn easily. today some 12 yo kids are already addicted to porn,and not the softcore stuff. There will be huge consequences.

I dont think i'm confused about causality here. If you cant get excited unless you see or do extreme stuff, you're going to have a pretty difficult libido,as in reality not that many women are willing to "perfom" these "stunts".

I dont think one needs to be already interested in extreme fetish in order to get hooked to it,the more one looks at porn the more one seeks extreme stuffs. It's like any other addiction.

> I don't know what "v...t" or "o...p.....s"

Nevermind , i was saying that japanese porn is well known for its extreme fetish.
Nice. In about page, should it be "Let the world know why your city rocks!"?

Also, I get a 404 when I click on top-left corner logo or "Be the first one" button in about page.
That link returns a 404.
Frankly, I think the parallel between "weird porn makes you weird sexually" and "violent video games make you violent" is pretty straightforward.