skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps you don't understand what solidarity means. You don't literally have to be the same as the person in order to believe in what they stood for.
Possibly some combination of taxes and internal company policy? ie, they have $x they donate per year, and can get a $y tax write off for donating to a company/non-profit(?) in another country, so they donate $300,000.
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I have to disagree with the article's claim that the forecasts have all been bad. Since 2002 the forecasts have been realistic, although probably not useful. The more interesting bit is what, if anything, can be made of the uptick since 2005 in actual birth rates.
> The right to free speech doesn't justify bad manners.

Yet it protects your rights to have bad manners.
I was ironically highlighting the hype cycle[1] that's common with these types of 'break through' announcements. Thanks for the down votes though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
Noah Smith (Econ professor at SUNY Stony Brook with a background in Japanese) took umbrage with this article;

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/japans-fertility-...

Except that is not what the graph shows at all. Yes,
government forecasts are way off (forecasting is hard).
But for over a decade, the Japanese government has
been too pessimistic about the fertility rate.

Just Look. At. The. Graph! Since 2005, the black line
- the actual fertility rate - has been going up! It is now
higher than the blue line representing the forecast
from 2002. It is even higher than the blue like
representing the forecast for 2008. The graph only
looks like it goes through 2010, but a quick Google
shows that the fertility rate is still over 1.4, i.e. higher
than the 2002, 2006, or 2012 forecasts.

In other words, Japanese fertility has been surprising on
the upside for ten years and counting!
Yup not eating insects anytime soon :) The device looks cool though.
My brain can't handle neon yellow background, but I don't think bullshit jobs are a new phenomenon.

I think there was a huge bloat in bullshit jobs from the 1980s-2008. A lot of jobs that should have been lost due to productivity gains because of computers and networking were converted into bullshit jobs.

We went to so long with a real significant recession, it was like a forest that hasn't had a fire to clear the brush out.

In 2009, the company I worked for fired 1/3 the office staff and we actually improved the collective productivity of the office. And it wasn't forced overtime, the office staff had a 40 hour week max even for salaried people.
Probably:

"We were given a budget of $2m in this department ("innovative press" etc). We want to fund this other N projects in 2015, what can we give to Charlie?"
>"The algorithm, named CFR+ by its creators, uses an improved version of a technique called counterfactual regret minimization (CFR). Past CFR algorithms have tried to solve poker by using several steps at each decision point: coming up with counterfactual values representing different game outcomes; applying a regret minimization approach to figure out the strategy leading to the best outcome; and averaging the latest strategy with all past strategies."

Seems like a useful algorithm for dating sites.

(only half-joking)
I found a great developer by first finding his open source project. It's a great plan but will probably take a while. What's your skillset look like?
Clearly you've never seen Spartacus
That's not what the post said,

"This makes and keeps you healthy, and you cannot overeat even if you try. "

implies that you can make food choices which prevent you from gaining weight, regardless of quantity.
Can't pin down now what I researched a while ago, but do recall that a replacement rate under 1.4 is unrecoverable - the culture just isn't, and can't, reproducing fast enough to avoid a complete population implosion.
Japan, much like the earth, has limited space and resources. So I don't really think of declining population as a problem.
1) ISPs are also essentially monopolies.
2) It is also incredibly expensive to build ISP infrastructure.
I'm not an economist, but Japan has accumulated a lot of capital. If they simply invest it well, shouldn't it be able to provide enough income to the aging population to take care of their needs?

Of course, the economy cannot follow the usual template of growth: more people producing and accumulating wealth leading to continued prosperity for everyone. I don't know what the situation is with Immigration, perhaps the Japanese should consider making it more attractive for immigrants? But I believe Japanese society is very homogenous and maybe not that accepting of other cultures as, say, the US.
I talked to my kids about eating insects the other day with the expected results in the form of 'ew' and such. We've spent so much time in modern society associating insects with disease it's hard to dissassociate. For some reason shrimp which are essentially bugs are no problem because (I think) they come from the ocean, so there's an obvious mental line that can dissassociate them from other bugs.

This is a great idea if you look at the math, but almost impossible to get over the emotional response. Maybe processing the grubs/flies into something less recognizable would help, but at some point you read the ingredients and you're back at square one.

Disgust seems to be one of the more irrational and risk averse emotions, which makes sense - guessing something is disgusting when it's not has little risk, but guessing something is not disgusting when it really is dangerous carries great risk.

Interesting problem especially when recoginzing what damage our current meat production is causing, plus the base inefficiencies of it.
Nothing on centos/epel yet.
The article mentions killing by freezing. Does freezing change the texture of the bugs?
My Facebook feed is mostly non-technical friends and family and I see someone seriously posting the hoax disclaimer weekly.
Seeing the Pokemon boot screen reminded me, I forgot the project which made me start down this road. I don't know if you've seen gomeboy-color[1]? It's an emulator written in Go. The picture of Pokemon Yellow on their homepage is what made me decide I wanted to emulate the Gameboy and not the NES.

It also inspired me to build an interactive debugger that understands the Gameboy memory map. It's _pretty sweet_ when you can dump the 32x32 tile-map as a nice grid of tile offsets.

[1]: http://djhworld.github.io/gomeboycolor/
If you can categorically say they didn't draw those cartoons ie a black person as a monkey , Then yes I'd wrong .
This calls for a USB condom? http://www.zdnet.com/article/protect-your-devices-with-a-10-...
I do think there are some interesting tidbits here, (albeit none of them exactly new), only that OP does not explicitly highlight them. The article is simply a narrative of their success story, with most of the analysis being left up to the reader.

That being said, what I got from it was:

1. Acute Observation. They had a prior product (a tiny social network), and they noticed that one of the features they had implemented (experimentally, I expect), namely the photo-filters, was disproportionally popular among their user base. This is a prime example of what Drucker calls "unexpected success", and drawing lessons from that.

2. Focus. Their original product had a much broader scope and they narrowed it down considerably. Not only did they discard a lot of their existing feature-set, but they also reduced the platform support in order to launch earlier, and test their idea ASAP.

3. Traction Can Carry. They had an existing user base, albeit small, and they managed to cross-sell some of those users on their new product from the start, using them as beta testers. This is similar to the "halo effect", only on a much smaller scale.

4. Luck. As OP puts it: "[Our] combination of being photos-first and public-by-default would prove to be a combination that solved an unmet need."[1] I suppose they thought this through, but as far as turning out to be right, I suppose one could say they got lucky.

The take-away for me then is that we could try to observe "unexpected success" of experimental features in our own, or even other people's products, and use the same strategy of applying focus; and that in the end there is always an element of chance, so one needs to keep trying different things, or different variations of the same thing, until one gets it right.

[1] Someone else mentioned Radar.net as a precursor to Instagram; but that app did not have the feature of being public-by-default.
Wow! ... very impressed. By the effort, ingenuity and by minecraft too.
This isn't hype though. No one is pretending that you can buy this tech in "5 years". Every lab that wants this tech is expected to build it themselves because you can't just buy it anywhere - it's almost anti-hype!
They are not racists, you are sadly misinformed. They criticized and made fun of misbehaviors in religious practices (like fanatics, people using their power, etc.). They had lawiers of North Africa origins (even though atheists) when they went to court because of drawings with Mahomet.
Besides copying large files, do you have an app that can consume 2 GB/s? That's more than two streams of uncompressed 4K.
Smalltalk as a live environment blurs the boundaries between runtime and editing code. There's a video on ThingLab[1], a constraint solver, from 1978 where Alan Borning draws constraints graphically and then switches view to show the code that was generated. When he manipulates a constraint the runtime creates and compiles a new method based on the system that was graphically defined. That kind of thing would still be pretty awesome today (who generates JS at runtime for performance?).

Your comment reads a bit like "we cargo-culted the things we could see in the Smalltalk environment, but didn't understand the underlying philosophy or elegance of what had been made; what's left to learn?" (I know that's probably not what you meant, but I feel like there's a lot left to learn from Smalltalk and the tools that were built with it).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThingLab (see link 4 for the video; it's really fun to watch).

Also check out: https://github.com/cdglabs/thinglab -- there's a link to a St-78 image with ThingLab. Also interesting to note proportional fonts, text selection (by Larry Tesler) and popup menus, all of which I thought came later...
Oh wow, Lenovo finally got out of its own way. At least from a quick surface glance. I spent a few days looking for something for me to just type on. I gave up and got a new SSD for my X201 last night. But the heat is unmanageable (under warranty I had the fan replaced thrice, to no real avail).

Still, one can hope this is a good sign and I'll be able to get a non-suck, non-Apple, 12 inch machine this year.

Edit: Apparently it's a max of 8GB RAM which would be a huge sacrifice. FFS, Lenovo.
North Korea -- Population 25 Million -- is estimated to have a GDP of $40B. Wyoming -- Population 550,000 -- is estimated to have a GDP of $40B. North Korea is extremely poor by any reasonable definition. The presence of a wealthy elite doesn't change their abysmal GDP per capita or poverty rates.
There's already an Isis message published to their followers to find and kill staff of another Silicon Valley tech giant for percieved slights. So the threat wouldn't be new, but taking a stand publicly would.
From the article, it seems like you still can, you'll just pay a higher price. If you want next day shipping on one item, you can do that; you just won't reap the benefits of their bundling idea.
You spin out the vertical. If the consumers can support ten services, then those services should be able to support one infrastructure provider investing in better/stronger poles.
Thanks for the advice. I've basically ignored it for the last couple of years, but with the Yosemite changes the bugs are reaching a breaking point. One of my concerns is that the bad reviews are starting to have a "negative halo" effect on my other app, so I'd like to take some kind of action on it.

In some sense I've been here before. My very first app was an iPhone app, actually one of the first police scanner apps, with a glowing map of Chicago that got me into the whole software-mapping thing. I had to put that one out to pasture a few years ago, even though I thought there could have been a viable little business in the right hands.
>Sure, the majority of sales happen in this timespan, but that doesn't mean someone intent on pirating the game will give up and pay just because it isn't available now.

I'm not really surprised that a base full of youngish men with a heavy tech background (its a test base for air planes) like reddit.
> [...] because of the huge amount of memory required; roughly 262 terabytes of memory. That’s about 268,288 times as much memory as the 1-gigabyte memory available to an iPhone 6.

Wow. I can't believe that sentence made it into an article, let alone one on IEEE Spectrum.

First, normal people don't know how much RAM is in a phone. Second, the numbers are reasonably identical (only differing by 2.4%) so what's the point of specifying it out that way? Why not figure out what an average amount of RAM in a new computer is (4GB?) and say "That's the RAM of about 70k new Desktops".
This is not about free speech. There is no such things as "free speech" (look what happen to Snowden, for example). Try to publish plans for a nuclear bomb, for example, and see where free speech gets you. Try doing this extreme parody on sacred cows of the US and not expect a visit from the SS - sacred cows, such as certain family members of political entities.

This is about athiesm versus faith. It's about the right of those who believe religion to be worthy of extreme parody because they fundamentally disagree with it.

Some people in the US are already criticizing Charlie Hebdo and obfuscating this as a free speech issue. This is dangerous because it's trivial to provide examples where free speech is a bad idea (e.g. extreme porn, bomb making, etc).

What this needs to be couched as the right for those who don't believe in religion to make fun of it in whatever way they want to - regardless if its Muslim or Catholic or Christian, and that western nations should be willing to go to war over this right, which may very well happen at this rate.

That all being said, I do think we could tone down the pornographic satire. Not sure that I'm willing to die for someone's right to do that.

edit to add: For those who think "parody" is some paragon of rights we have in the US, try doing the extreme parody that Charlie is doing but with some of the real sacred cows in the US. For example, try that extreme parody with family members of certain political entities and see if you don't get a visit from the SS. Which, btw, I think is very well deserved as I do not believe that should be protected speech. I would have no problem see someone in the US locked up over that.

Hopefully, I'm making my point clear with these examples. Some forms of speech I'd be willing to die for, and while Charlie Hebdo is a bit extreme for my tastes, they're certainly close to the point.

I think the right to make fun of religion is very important because so much of it's just mystical nonsense that retards the advancement of the human race.

Another good example, try making fun of the holocaust in certain European nations. I certainly would not be willing to go to war over that, but I really don't see a huge theoretical difference between that and making fun of muslim religion.

The only real difference to me, is that I would be willing to fight for the right to make fun of religion. It's not really worth it to me to fight over the right to make fun of some historical event which, while I have no first hand experience of, seems pretty likely to be true.
There are definitely investment channels. Beware though, the feds could come down at any moment. Some percentage of the money you invest in the stocks should also go to political lobbying to prevent heavy regulation.
This reminded me of a toy I had as a kid: the Tomy Tutor Play Computer. The screen was a lenticular lens over a paper scroll, and pressing the space bar caused the lens to move vertically.

Here is a video made by someone selling one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAghB2-Ks5I

I bet many of the people here can guess the fate of it and many of my other toys.
Sony's still actively working on the Z3 Compact, they've posted some demos but I think your February estimate is probably a bit optimistic unfortunately, judging by the rate of commits on Github.
Was something like this built by hand, or was the map programmatically generated by some kind of tool? Or a mix of both?
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This is how it should be done, ideally. Facebook and similar services behave unilaterally, changing their agreements at will while keeping them dense and obscure, and intentionally make it impossible to communicate with them. Therefore, it's reasonable and valid to simply type into whatever text input Facebook provides "I hereby alter our agreement in the following way" and this should be considered valid.
My mother, a family practitioner, sometimes gets a patient which is on 15 or so different medications, all prescribed by different specialists at different times. She whittles it down to 3 or 4, and they get a lot better.
> But they are racist/bigot cartoonists .

Even if this would be true, this is still no excuse for killing peoples.
In no way there could be any excuse for such a awful terror act.
> You are saying "Let's give in to violence and intimidation".

It's not "giving in" when you would never do something like that in the first place (without the threat of violence). It's just continuing to not do it.
I like the idea, but it seems a bit risky and would require a lot of trust. I'd be open to this with someone I trusted, but I don't want someone to take the software as passive income and ride it down without fixing bugs etc.
Half software development / half data science. Clojure, Ruby + beginner Golang for softdev, R, Weka, Mathematica, Ruby and a bit of Python for data science.

On the web side, I'm almost purely backend developer.
That's only half the equation, though. The other half is whether Comcast allows you full use of the line in terms of what services can push to you.

As far as whether your bandwidth will continue to go up and prices go down (comparatively), it almost certainly will if more competitors are allowed to deliver to your house.

What's trickier there is new deployment, but that's what the utility model is all about: protect new deployment of infrastructure for long enough to make rollout worth it, in exchange for a guarantee that it will be usable by the public at large without preference.

That gives you, in essence, the telephone model: copper lines protected until (probably subsidized) costs to the provider are recouped, they're a commodity and no further enhancement will occur, then alternate providers let in on them for competition. Tech changes, protect that tech rollout, repeat.
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As its transfer speed yes I do.

I don't have to move 10GB+ files to know if my network is 10MB/100MB/1000MB/10G0B. The speed it transfers is representative of my network speed be that file 4k, 10MB, or 100GB.

The same is true for all transfer speeds.

:.:.:

Also yes there are diminishing returns with information requests, acks, etc.
These are my thoughts exactly. While I love the idea and think it may be great for some things, I just don't see many people making the switch to eating bugs anytime soon.
"Unintuitive quantity 1 is over 268,288 times larger than unintuitive quantity 2!"
Maybe "Japan's birthrate spike consequences are slowly settling down" is a less scaremongering title?
Well then you're omitting the group that transitioned from productive to dependent from old age. If the other numbers are any clue, then it is over a million.
Wow, unnecessarily harsh. It's a KickStater bruh. Concept validation, ever heard about it?
> With interface inheritance the number of implementations you need to look at is always 1.

Well, I haven't seen real need for neither of them. Both seem to only make things worse, not better.
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Acceptable responses include:

- laughter
- eye rolling
- calling them assholes
- shunning people that enjoy the toons
- holding a protest and claiming they'll all go to hell
- etc

Unacceptable responses include:

- shouting religious slogans while executing cartoonists
The symbol on the left is the logo of Front national and the text says something in the lines of "Racist Assembly".
I don't speak French but I think you might be missing something, sir.
The "world" as most people on HN define it consists of the more stabilized parts of the Earth, perhaps because the participants in both HN and media come from those parts. So, I'll hazard a guess that the "world" cares more about French editors being slaughtered because it brings the violence uncomfortably close to home. Also, perhaps more people of the "world" can relate to the French editors than poor African villagers.

It's a sad state to be sure. Until we have some kind of common ground, it is harder to feel empathy. I will admit that I was much more shocked by this attack than the slaughter that you mention, which I even now know little about.
Google could of course also put one of Charlie's "controversial" cartoons on its front page. The one with Mohammed crying and saying "it is hard to be loved by idiots" seems relevant.

No?

This is how censorship works: the threat of violence already limits what even the biggest and strongest "champion of free speech" can do.
Ruby has different styles named after cities, does it? A standard (Tokyo ?) style and a Seattle style? Perhaps we should add the London style, named after Groovy because Groovy's essentially a carbon clone of Ruby except for syntax.
A mix. MCEdit was used to copy-paste segments around.
We didn't just had evidence. There was a huge political debate about warrent-less wiretapping during the Bush administration. Public debate, laws were passed, the whole 9 yards.

In fact the big snowden shocker turned out to be bullshit. The report that the NSA had direct access to facebook and gmail. Turns out that was just a misinterpretation of a powerpoint slide.

The only new and important info Snowden leaked was the metadata from phone companies that included everyone.
One of the key points of the talk happens around the 32-37 minute mark, comparing the crew sizes of various ships. He makes the point that the core of development is really putting together the requirements, not writing code. Unfortunately we've put nearly all of the resources of our industry into engineering rather than science (tactics rather than strategies). What he stated very succinctly is that a supercomputer can work out the tactics when provided a strategy, so why are we doing this all by hand?

That’s as far as I’ve gotten in the video so far but I find it kind of haunting that I already know what he’s talking about (brute force, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and other simple formulas that evolve a solution) and that these all run horribly on current hardware but are trivial to run on highly parallelized CPUs like the kind that can be built with FPGAs. They also would map quite well to existing computer networks, a bit like SETI@home.

Dunno about anyone else, but nearly the entirety of what I do is a waste of time, and I know it, deep down inside. That’s been a big factor in bouts with depression over the years and things like imposter syndrome. I really quite despise the fact that I’m more of a translator between the spoken word and computer code than an engineer, architect or even craftsman. Unfortunately I follow the money for survival, but if it weren’t for that, I really feel that I could be doing world-class work for what basically amounts to room and board. I wonder if anyone here feels the same…