skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like doing a startup in Japan is not yet cool, from a general society perspective.

I think that almost every one of these new founders are having regular arguments with their parents, who would be trying to convince the founders to get a "real" job at a "safe" company.

Having said all that, I agree that inexperienced people often give up at the first speed bump. As Steve Jobs said:

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.”
The arrow notation here is not material implication, but function evaluation. The function itself can be interpreted as an Indicator Function[1] for the employee set, or alternatively, as simply evaluating the predicate.

In terms of tables, the rows are exactly the subset of predicates that are TRUE. So FALSE statements like the second one are indicated by their absence in the employee table.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_function
Yeah, seconds after posting I got the same email :)
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As the old saw goes, rules are meant to be broken. That simple.
Thank you for this post. I had noticed wallbase was stagnant but didn't know there was a successor in the works. Thanks for pointing it out..
I have done this so that SMS takes me to me Google voice inbox. It's pretty nifty...
What a fantastic article. I think the most frustrating thing about this kind of person isn't that they don't do work, but that they'll go out of their way to derail actual work with constant"questions" and "concerns", which always require various meetings, because they need to put their stamp on things. Why write a feature when you can spend a week talking about how to write it instead? Ugh. Bonus points in that now the engineers that are actually productive have to slow down to constantly explain/justify their work, making them look equally mediocre.
If only there were some convenient lookup service to tell you who-currently-is the person you'd need to contact.
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OK, congrats on your test. Still go watch that video.
Thatn you very much for your detailed answer. I particularly appreciate your last sentense that refects true scientific objectivity.

If you are an expert in such topics you may want to have a look at this Space Time Quantification theory [1](http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/STQ/STQ.pdf). The author has no nobel prize, but this theory propose a new idea of which one consequence is that speed of light could be bypassed.

The author initially explored the possibility that there could exist a limit to space and time units. Currently accepted laws assume there is no such finite limit. He named this finite limit a. Current laws are obtained by considering a=0. He explored the physics implications if a was different of 0. He found no contradiction and could even solve some paradox with existing law. He has a few predictions, some of them is the existence of yet to discover particles with no charge, that these particles can combine to form havier neutral particles. Based on these findings he also proposed an original equivalent of the mendeljev table for elementary particle. It's one of his assumption that dark matter is made of these neutral particles. He can suggests tests to check his predictions on LHC data.
I have to agree with you on this. The places I've seen people like this thrive are big-company-cya-all-the-time kinds of setups.
So they say your one hour of work is worth $4 then you can easily take that and buy 1 hour of legal advice + 1 piece of bread and be left with 35 cents. That representation and value-holding entity is money as we know it today. It did not just appear.

The problem that bitcoin is trying to solve is that the currency representation you're talking about does just "appear." It appears, potentially in vast quantities, whenever the government issues more of it. This is a big problem for anyone who has savings denominated in the currency.
That's a good point about the older generation. I have a few friends who feuded with their parents when they quit a very very good engineering job at a big company to do their own thing instead.

That being said I do think that doing a startup is perceived as being cool by their peers. I've met at least a handful of people who I'd cautiously call "fangirls".

(Perhaps an overflow from their perceived coolness of working in SV/SF -- which honestly doesn't make much sense to me since their motivations to cross the pond is often profoundly lacking in substance)
Ask HN: what to do when you rediscover your stress tendencies?
How do you handle going from a three-month period of no stress to a three-month period of max stress?

Summer vacation into semester... Term off into semester... In between jobs to job... Unemployed to working overtime...

Everybody experiences these transitions, and each one spikes stress levels. So how do you handle that?
Actually, machines are attuned to flat, unstructured lists of instructions, the polar opposite of functional programming. But when people wanted to think clearly, they invented math, of which FP is nearly the computational manifestation. You have the human-vs-machine thing exactly backwards. The reason we tend to think in imperative terms is one of familiarity: most of our first programming experiences are in languages that are (sometimes high-level, but still) descendants of assembly, because at first that was the only programming that existed: flat lists of instructions designed for a machine.

Granted, if a human wants to describe a physical process, they will use procedural language. But computers are primarily about information, and we think about information in terms of relationships. That's exactly what FP is about: expressing computation in terms of relationships.
The answer is easy... Don't pull crappy stunts or dirty tricks to improve your rankings... Deliver a relatively light, clean page with relevant content.
I feel like one of these articles comes around every few months or so. I guess the storyline of "daring entrepreneurs fight against rigid societal norms" is just too appealing…

But in my opinion it remains to be seen if it's actually a trend, or just a few isolated examples.
If you consider the miserable schmuck who barely gets by in his job by playing games to be "successful in life," you're... well, you shouldn't.

Find something you ENJOY doing with your time 40+ hours a week, and do THAT. That is the person who has won at life.

What value does the cheater actually gain? Almost nothing.

I mean, if that job is the only job he can possibly do to survive, and he is genuinely incapable of doing it properly (because doing it properly would, in practice, give him much more actual job security), he has gained a value... but that is a very false hypothetical.
I'm sorry, I had thought you meant based on pieces and videos before you had even heard of this. That was how I read the last response and I suppose is why I am now defending them personally now, as opposed to their actions (which I still believe aren't a right or wrong issue - although it definitely will hurt them).

I don't work there but I use the site a lot, and when I used to live in New York they were one of the few teams of founders I met who were not complete bullshitters.

I started building an app and they had no reason to do anything for me, or provide me with any help whatsoever, but gave me detailed feedback on the product, gave me actual useful advice, and as my efforts became more and more successful have introduced me or championed me to numerous hard to get to people. Most people in their positions do not do this (at least in New York).

The reason why I responded to you in the first place was I saw you were still in university, and I bet when I was (I'm 25 so only a couple years ago) I might have thought the same thing of them. I might have burned a bridge for no reason, when actually these guys are extremely good people.

Although they put on a bit of persona when they deal with the tech press (mind you a lot of people I know wish they could do that), in real life they are sharp as hell, and are full of love. You don't meet a lot of people who give up jobs at Google, hedge funds and law firms to work full time on a lyrics website - but those are the types of people who put themselves on the line to try and work on stuff they are truly passionate about. Yeah sometimes outrageous, sometimes don't play by conventional rules, but those are the type of people that you want to work with if you want to try and build something successful.

PS. I don't believe you are toxic
Working in SV/SF and doing own startup is surely sounds different things to me, as an Japanese grad student
No, sadly. This person cannot think their way out of a paper bag. There must be some talent I'm missing, but in a decade of knowing them I've not seen it. Bit mystifying as the role is secret.
How does this kind of stupidity get in there in the first place? When making a secure secret key, who in their right mind would decide to only use the low 8 bits?
No. It's disputed, but Neanderthals almost definitely died out before the human migration to North America.
> Dieter Rams complained that the word “design” was ruined by the fashion industry and marketing. They sell products as “designer products” that aren’t necessarily good representations of good design. He suggested that we be called “Gestalt Engineers” - Gestalt is the German word for "form" or "shape".

Loved this line and the term "gestalt engineer".
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> It's an interesting thought experiment to consider which laws we routinely use today to punish people will become morally unacceptable in the next 50 years.

It's also an interesting thought experiment to consider whether beliefs we deeply and routinely hold today will become as morally unacceptable as the belief that homosexuality is wrong, unnatural and ought to be punished.

For example, what if it becomes wrong to believe in meritocracy? If in fifty years, everyone from scientists to politicians to the media blasts the message that it's wrong and hurtful to heap prestige, financial rewards, etc. on brilliant hackers and successful entrepreneurs?

Presumably many HN'ers strongly believe in meritocracy and point out historical examples of stagnation in non-meritocratic societies, mathematical/economic arguments why meritocracy is good, etc.

What if anyone who sincerely believes in meritocracy, and makes these kinds of logical and data-backed arguments in favor of meritocracy, is met the same way that today anyone is met who argues against the liberalization of our treatment of homosexuality?

Please, treat people who honestly believe that homosexuality is wrong the way you would want believers in meritocracy to be treated in the hypothetical world I've laid out. First, because you want a civilized precedent for dealing with distasteful beliefs, to reduce the downside if your own beliefs will one day be regarded as distasteful. Second, it simply makes the pro-gay argument look weak if the best way you can deal with opponents is call them names like "bigot," or threaten to blacklist them and destroy their livelihood.

Another fun thought experiment: s/bigot/heretic/
Let's not forget anyone that pays google in some way (adwords) bounces back from this almost immediately. Aka 6 months or less. Have known people only spending 10k per month that bounced back from penalization in 2-3 months.
Most of you people are very smart, and I'm sure code very complex apps/services. Seriously, you can write this much CSS on your own. You don't need a framework.
I could at least understand if you found him too over-the-top. There are some parts that seem to be trying too hard. The general "throw random references in a blender" style of humor might not amuse everyone. That said, I do find him hilarious.
Better name it VM.js !!
See the codes or products of javascript library d3 http://d3js.org/ I learned a lot from here
What are you building over the holidays?
The holidays are here, and it's the perfect time to dive into a project. So spill it. What are you building?
I'm working on extension services for http://techendo.co/
I had to go a half step farther... In order for the swipe input to get the curse words first, I had to add them to my personal dictionary, including derivatives...

Fucking annoying, but relatively easy to get the little fucker to output the shit I want.
Ask HN: Anyone attending the 30C3 in Hamburg this week?
Hey - I will be in town for the event all week. If anyone else is around we can arrange a mini meetup.

Email me at Adam ? ionicsecurity ! com
Working on a ruby gem that makes it easier to use software defined radios. My goal is to let someone write a police scanner in 10 lines of ruby.

https://github.com/tjarratt/turtleshell
Still Japan is the country where companies such as Sony and Nintendo originate from and the people over there certainly can be creative/disruptive.

One such company that can truly change the world as opposed to creating another chat app is euglena: http://www.euglena.jp/en/
"Unfortunately, the notion of editing an AST is by definition language specific, so it's unlikely that someone could create the structural editor and just have it work for everybody.
"

This is, well, false.
See, for example, the harmonia project at berkeley(http://harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu/harmonia/index.html), and ensemble before that (http://harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu/harmonia/publications/ensemb...)

This stuff has been done forever, and it's been "the next generation" forever. Things like separation of structural editing from the language specficness of an AST while still providing a sane and useful editor are paths that have been tread before.

Not that this means people shouldn't try, but as you can see from just these two links, there has been a lot of research and effort put into this area in general. This is an area where i'd read a lot more than i'd sit down and code, because a lot of smart people have been this way before.

Case and point: Susan Graham (and maybe Tim Wagner), who lead the Harmonia project (and many projects before that), is basically the goto person in the world if you ever wanted to know anything about incremental analysis of programming languages (she also helped write gprof, among other things)
The line I'm starting to draw for people is from the network itself, to the resources that run it. Power powers the network - compute, storage, network (physical). Power is where we derive value. With Bitcoin, it's like we're parking power (work) into a storable unit of trust. Then you have compute, storage, network, trust.
Sorry, to clarify: many young people seem to see the whole SV/SF thing to be cool and seem to almost idolize the prospect of working in the promised land. By association startups as a whole (regardless of location) are cool to them. As a result startup founders in Japan get additional social support from their peers for their endeavors (which as you know is a huge psychological benefit in Japanese society).
Been playing with iBeacons today: https://github.com/younata/Apartment

Other than that, more work on my flight simulator: http://younata.com/
Would you be willing to give a talk about this at a future SFHN (San Francisco Hacker News) event? (https://www.facebook.com/groups/gosfhn/)
A few of the big things that are dampening the startup scene in Japan are as follows:

* Weak ecosystem - Very few angels available to fund and support early stage startups, although accelerators are popping up that are starting to fill this gap.

* Less exits - Japanese companies tend to be less acquisitive than their western counterparts. IPO seems to be a far more common liquidity event. Even 2-3 years into MakeLeaps, we started getting offers to help us IPO(wtf).

* Less entrepreneurs - A typical "FUCK! THIS SUCKS AND MUST CHANGE!" attitude found in many entrepreneurs is a pretty rare commodity in Japan. The educational system has been designed to generate workers who are effective at carrying out orders rather than taking independent initiative.

* Still not accepted in society - Japanese who set out to do their own companies are still generally looked down upon, and struggle in general. If someone from a western culture starts a company, the typical attitude is "Great! Good luck!" but in Japan it's more "What's wrong? You couldn't get a job at a proper company?" This is however starting to slowly change.

* Less community - There is a much smaller community in Japan, which means less support. We're doing our best to help by organising the Tokyo Hacker News community meetups. Again, this is changing, and there is a marked increase in events now compared to say, 1-2 years ago. (shameless plug - come along if you're in Tokyo - http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp - next event is 16th of January)

* Less early adopters/more risk adverse - Until we being reasonably well known, getting initial signups and customers was intensely painful. On the flip side, once a customer signs up with you, they tend to be very loyal and stay with you for a long time.

Having said all that, Japan is working through these issues and we are definitely in a mini startup boom in Japan. Exciting times to be doing a startup here.
How have you been finding iBeacons?
Whenever I try to use a template engine, I end up putting too much view logic in the controller. So we just use PHP files (with the .phtml extension so you know what's up). It's the default way for the Zend Framework.
Best Christmas present I could have asked for. Especially since KDE and GNOME devs are specifically targetting cleaning up the remaining places where they're not already (or easy to make) resolution independent.
what do you mean?

It's built in to corelocation in iOS 7... You can even use an iOS device as an iBeacon...
Glad you guys are enjoying it! @maroonblazer, I'd love to hear how it goes :)
1)Another Google drive/plus account begging.

2) data control/access. Same reason they don't include sd card slots on nexus. They can't mine/ad adds on offline data. And google code was too hard to monetize (old system and all)

3) inside Google, engineers get big raises when they make their pet projects work (see mayer and gmaps) and abandoned projects can be fiddled by anyone. So abandoned gcode gets abused at will by prodigal gdrive rising star. Much easier to sell you added users to a project being monetized than to justify you added monetization to a project the press doesn't mention anymore.
In mathematics, a relation is a set of ordered pairs.

Strictly speaking, the relations of database theory are different objects, but closely related. (Yes, I just made an awesome pun.)

I'm surprised that the author didn't include "a relation is a set of tuples" as a definition in the article. Also, absolutely nothing is said about viewing a relation as a graph.
So the project front page can just link to the source file raw url?
The Brazilian ensemble Uakti plays another take on the bowed string and wheel instrument. Hauntingly beautiful. Can't get enough of Uakti.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yZijDmnLuY
Should be Gestaltingenieur.
This article is spot on, I've seen all of it play out in the office environment. I used to work with a guy who had little technical chops but managed to become a department manager through a series of such manipulations.

When he first started out as a dev, he would endlessly call useless meetings where he would talk for hours on end about marginal and tangentially relevant things and try to project authority by looking important by hijacking these meetings. No one could tell him to stop calling these meetings because no one wanted to look like they were avoiding work.

Then the upper management mistook his behavior for proactivness and competence and he got promoted to a "tech lead". That made the situation worse because not only did he not back down, but he progressively got even more aggressive and would actively micromanage and derail technical decisions made by the architect simply to exercise authority and to let people know that he was THE decision maker there. Everything he did was based on scoring social points and not doing the thing that had the most merit. Furthermore, he would often have these arguments with people in front of the entire office in a very loud/aggressive tone, which made a lot of people reluctant to disagree, because honestly, what normal person wants to have a huge argument in front of the entire cube farm. He knew this very well and used it to his advantage.

I remember a number of occasions where he would actively overrule other's (very sound) technical decisions with his half baked nonfunctional crap simply to be "right" and to make other people "wrong". Again, all to score points and buy even more authority.

Long story short, he has done a lot of damage and made a number of people quit because of stress and humiliation. He is now one of the higher ups in the company. Mind you, this is a very corrupt old-school company I'm talking about and is barely staying afloat these days. People like this get found out and filtered out very fast in smaller companies run by hackers instead of old socipathic farts with no understanding of technology.
Using the extra time to finish up an initial version of http://www.flatdoc.com/.

Other than that, working on an a bitcoin price comparison site for bitcoin to track your different coin balances and at which prices you bought and sold (pure for fun)
What's it going to entail?
For me, what's frightening about this is how often I used to reflect on my own life, and at times, couldn't actually be sure whether I was useful or just overrated. People would tell me what a great job I did and praise the amount of time it must have taken, and while I'd smile nervously and modestly reject their attribution, I'd often be left silently thinking, "I don't think this was as difficult or took as long as you think it did." It took a while to just accept that I did my part.

While there is danger in exaggeration, I also warn that there is arguably more danger in being too modest, and understating your own importance and value of your work. I've met extremely talented individuals who were being paid less than a third of what they deserved because they believed that their "work will speak for itself" or because they "don't believe in self-promotion". There is a healthy balance to be struck; remember that just as marketing is essential to a successful product, promotion is important for the self.

There are better ways to do that than the ways listed here, though. For example, taking credit where credit is deserved is extremely useful, but ONLY when you're speaking to someone far removed, such as at a job interview. On a team, you'll get further by promoting and pushing through other peoples' accomplishments when they are too timid to do so. You'll earn respect from both parties, and you'll breed a more productive atmosphere which can only benefit you in the long term.
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