chasontherobot

Its true, addiction is a troubling disease

I've read through the linked paper and I can't understand where they get the assertion of 777 characters give 90% coverage. The original paper isn't even about that topic, but rather comparing and contrasting a corpus created in 1994 with a corpus created in 1962 and 1976.

The "alphabetical" order is based on the sound of the word. If you are trying to look up a kanji you don't know in a traditional dictionary, you generally look it up by the radicals (parts) of the kanji or the number of strokes of the character, but most people these days use an electronic dictionary where you draw the kanji to look it up.

Why would you suspect that, when so many of the metaphors are so very blatant? When people create things, they usually put thought into them and meaning doesn't generally happen by accident.

What a puff piece. Obviously paid for by Snapchat, with every single image in the article coming from them and the interviewer lobbing softball after softball.

Not OP, but there is a myriad of reasons: https://twitter.com/KeziyahL/status/1155154616281178114

And this is why we need more regulations on the "Bootcamp" industry: https://twitter.com/KeziyahL/status/1155154616281178114

you should check out Elite Dangerous too, its great in VR

...what can? the "vitality of eternal experience"?

When HTML was hand written, it was largely awful. Just like anything people make. Bespoke HTML is now usually nice because the people who care to make it are the type of people who care about that sort of thing.

So, a few really cool things but 95% weird porn?

That was already cancelled.

Do you have a citation for this? Tokyo has a high minimum wage (and low enough unemployment that most employers have to pay more than minimum wage), but I've yet to see an automated kiosk here.

Though in support of your point, when I went to Korea last year there was a large number of automated kiosks, and I know the minimum wage there is fairly high as well. So, Japan's lack of those kiosks may have to do with a preference towards cash/human interaction in the culture.

Found the link via this comment, btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302545

As someone who ate those Dulce de Leche M&Ms, what would've helped is if they were any good or bore any resemblance to the flavor they were named after.

Haha! They've made several movies and written books about this drama. Whether or not it was traitorous depends on who you view as being a traitor first, Steve Jobs or John Sculley.

I recommend reading Walter Issacson's book on Steve Jobs, or watch the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" for a good take on it.

what happens the other 1.8% of the time?

I've only found a lack of public toilets in conbini in notorious party areas/tourist locations (Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Shibuya, etc). Any conbini outside of those, or even just on the outskirts have usable toilets.

Both of those places have a TON of foreigners, and neither one of them are central Tokyo either :p

jedberg is one of the original reddit peeps, he started in early 2007 I think! He is also one cool frood. Hi Jeremy!

Speaking as someone who had very little ambition, drive, or work ethic, going to university seemed like a perfect opportunity to put off doing something with my life

Yes, it's pretty obvious that lots of HN readers don't actually read the article.

Jisho does not have the last stroke wrong, that is how you write the kanji. The way it is represented in computer fonts is different than how it is hand written. The jisho instructions show how to hand write it.

I remember the moment I walked into the Menil Art Museum in Houston, Texas and saw my first Jasper Johns. They were so simple from a distance but up close had such complexity that they really stuck with me.

Really good art is often both striking without any foreknowledge, but also reveals extra complexity when you learn about the context in which it was made. When you look at a piece of non representational art, before you know the artist, try and think about the choices the artist made, and why they made them. Why is this line a certain thickness here, why is this part more or less transparent?

The process of making any piece of art is a series of decisions, conscious or not and at least to me, non representational art is an attempt to distill that part of creation into a physical form.

Citation needed

According to the State of Working America:

> Among racial and ethnic groups, African Americans had the highest poverty rate, 27.4 percent, followed by Hispanics at 26.6 percent and whites at 9.9 percent. [0]

[0]: http://stateofworkingamerica.org/fact-sheets/poverty/

This article is about parenting, but I think it also applies to management. How often have you been dealing with a crisis at work when management is pressuring people to put in a solution, any solution and it ends up just making things worse or causing bigger issues down the line?

so when I get into a car accident and am bleeding internally, I can march down the street to the next hospital if I think the bill at the one I'm at is too high?

Tokyo has no street parking. You will occasionally have someone idling their car at the side of the road for long amounts of time, but they have to be inside the vehicle.

> In the case of a tie the winner gets 150k, the loser gets 50k.

this literally makes no sense. In a tie, there is no winner and no loser. There was a winner and loser in this case, so there was no tie. I don't know why you keep insisting there was.