jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
All correct. And to add to it, Nanjing was the China's capital at the time (the Japanese never bombed D.C. after all).

This is a description by an American surgeon living in Nanjing at the time (it's horrendous):

The slaughter of civilians is appalling. I could go on for pages
telling of cases of rape and brutality almost beyond belief.

[...]

Last night the house of one of the Chinese staff members of the university
was broken into and two of the women, his relatives, were raped.
Two girls, about 16, were raped to death in one of the refugee
camps.

In the University Middle School where there are 8,000 people
the Japs came in ten times last night, over the wall, stole food,
clothing, and raped until they were satisfied.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

To the West's credit, Japan/Germany/US/Britain have mostly moved on from WW2. It's 60+ years ago, and almost everyone alive at the time is dead (except for the US Visa waiver, which still has a question about Nazis)[1].

But, reading about Japanese actions in Nanjing helps understand why there are bad feelings.

[1] http://www.usvisalawyers.co.uk/images/I-94thumb.gif
I think Twitter used to have a feature like this but they killed it. ps, "twitter" is spelled wrong in the title... if you care.
I was under the impression that Howard Lederer and possibly several other "celebrity" poker players had ownership interests in Full Tilt Poker so I'm surprised I don't see any familiar names listed as defendants in the indictment
Are they adjusted for inflation? _One of the lines is the Consumer Price Index._
...and here we have a nicely presented example of the practical difference between the purely kolmogorov complexity-based Solomonoff Induction[1], and in-principle computable measures like the speed prior[2].

The latter is, of course, unnecessary when you can do hypercomputation in your head.

[1]http://singinst.org/blog/2007/06/25/solomonoff-induction/

[2]http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/speedprior.html
I've used gofix several times, it's quite useful. Now, if I didn't use the weekly snapshots instead of the release ones, I wouldn't have to use it as much, but that's the price of life on the bleeding edge :)
I've been sitting here for 5 years in Megacorp's cube farm and I still don't think I have "real world experience."

As far as scratching your own itch goes, I think there is a disconnect between what problems you would like to solve for yourself, and what corporate deems worth spending money on. For a trivial but true example, I've noticed that every big corporation has no good system in place for reserving conference rooms. I'm talking about Fortune 500 and 250 companies where I've worked. At least a few times a month a whole team stops work and walks to a conference room, only to find it occupied. This leads to a 30 minute search for an empty conference room either on a different floor or in a different building altogether. I often wondered why these companies didn't invest in some cheap resource scheduling software or some scrappy startup's app to manage this process. It would save wasted productivity, but I bet department heads and ops directors would have a tough time getting that expense approved.

So when you think about what problem to solve, you also have to think about who would be willing to pay for the fix
Right, but the point of this discussion is indicating the abuses the government perpetrates on the people, not the practicality of running an alternative enterprise if you don't want your life destroyed. Everyone knows that doing something like Liberty Dollar is greatly frowned upon, and that the feds will dispose of that as quickly as they can. Some people choose to do it anyway for the effect. You can think of it as a protest, I guess.
I'm not sure that the dictionary definition of currency really matters here. I assume/hope that there is a legal definition of currency. Also, I think it will be very difficult to discuss this constructively without legal opinions on the definition of currency.
It takes a certain amount of natural aptitude to excel at that level. Don't be disappointed or try to push too hard if he doesn't reach that level.
When I saw Gish for the first time, I thought the same but I bet they fake a lot of physics.
HughesNet has 600,000-some subscribers. WildBlue has over 300,000. They're satellite ISPs with 12-15mbps residential service.
Adam Drake's essay concludes:

> If you have a huge amount of data or really need distributed processing, then tools like Hadoop may be required, but more often than not these days I see Hadoop used where a traditional relational database or other solutions would be far better in terms of performance, cost of implementation, and ongoing maintenance.

This new essay says "I agree with the points made but in the end I feel like it’s missing the point." It then argues that scalability, reliability, and performance are the missing parts. (Though only in the context of batch jobs and large data sets that don't fit on a single machine. While it mentions scaling down, the overhead of going through Hadoop is too much if you want to scale down to search 1K of data.)

In the end, I think Adam Drake made exactly the point that this new essay says is missing.

Several people in the HN thread (and earlier threads on the same topic) have commented about people using Hadoop for "large" data which wasn't large and wasn't ever going scale past a single machine[1]. Complaining against that misapplication of tools was the thrust of Drake essay. It wasn't a statement that it's better than Hadoop for all cases.

[1] For the record, data in my field takes about 10 years to double. The same algorithms that took a small cluster 5 minutes to search in 1990 now take a second on a laptop.
This is our NHS, not a social media company. You can't compare the two.
Unfortunately, "ads" has become a synonym for many people to tracking and privacy and invasive elements, when like most things it encompasses a whole spectrum from minimal and informative (the name of the restaurant on the outside of the building)to manipulative and annoying. People feelings about one particularly negative segment of a spectrum often overflow into other examples and taint their feeling. It's just how people are.

I also have nothing against straight ads. Who knows how Mozilla will implement this though, and whether it will be more annoying than useful. I have some suspicions, but I'll reserve judgement until I've experienced them, since I sometimes have a hard time predicting correctly (as I suspect many people do) because the topic is somewhat emotionally charged.
It may have been a war crime, not sure about that, it was never officially a war crime, so it is what it is. My understanding is basically the following:

Right before the bombs were dropped, the US was in a situation where they were trying to end WW2 and they did not want the Soviets to invade Japan (which they did anyways).
Before Trinity, the US was bombing the hell of out of Japan already. ~100K Japanese died in Toyko in a single night [2], and other cities were being bombed also. The US was also under the impression (because of a few previous land invasions) that the Japanese were fighting to the death. There were mass suicides of 1000s because the Japanese wanted to die instead of get captured [1]. (The emperor did not agree to the Potsdam Declaration after until the 2nd bomb was dropped) The US was planning to invade but then Trinity worked and we of course didnt.

I'm from the US, and I did not learn anything I am saying in school, I read it on my own accord. It may be wrong, but if it is wrong, tell me why it is wrong so I can learn what is right.

Basically, if you are not from the US, what scenario do the education systems think would have played out if Truman didnt ok the bombs? Also, given the US avoided the land invasion, how did that not save lives (US lives, but lives nonetheless)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Cliff
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
Only you have the keys, otherwise it'd be like saying if you purchased and downloaded a movie, then Microsoft/Apple/Google/Samsung/Canonical have ownership of them as well.
Yep! Just a heads up that last time I checked, p5.play had an issue with images/sprites for versions of p5.js newer than v0.5.4 October 01, 2016. [1]

As a workaround, I just stuck with v0.5.4 and was happy with that. I was pretty happy with the documentation for both.

[1]https://github.com/molleindustria/p5.play/pull/140
You can get GCP support for as little as $100/month. AWS charges for support too.

https://cloud.google.com/support
> You’re also ignoring the impact of cultural values here.

You may also be ignoring the impact of immigration policy: there are a limited number of ways for Nigerians to (legally) get into the US - they no longer qualify for the DV program (unlike other immigrants who do not have a similar selection pressure). If you filter for educated Nigerians by leaving only F/M visa as a way to get into the country, you get mostly Nigerians who value education who qualified for the respective visa's (and their offspring) - there is nothing inherent to Nigerian culture there.
Look into Genode, and their dynamic scenario, Sculpt.

Note it is not QNX's architecture. It is a better one.
This anonymized data is basically nothing compared to what every social media company has on much larger populations. Smoke but no flame.
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This was my response when cookie labels started to pop up. But now general attitude has changed towards cookies because of them (at least among my non-tech friends)!

I had this moment where I realized I was dismissing a bad thing (cookie advertising tracking) just because it was pervasive.

I think labels like this have a real power to change industry norms.
As their terms of use have said since day 1. What’s the news?
Will resumes used as examples or for any other purposes be anonymized? I.e. if you chose my resume as a "bad example" for instance, would it be anonymized? Or would it be shown as-is with my name and other details?
>I agree with you, if I type in a search term from location X, advertisers have enough targeting to serve me a relevant ad which I'm totally fine with.

i am not fine with that, because that's just a step from sellers offering a personalized prices for me, trying to squeeze everything out of me.
I use it in Jupyter notebooks for civil and structural engineering calcs. The reason is simple: I can print expressions and manipulate the expression with a guarantee that my calcs conform to the pretty printed ones. This allows non-programmers (senior engineers) to check the work on the engineering side with some additional assurances that the calculation is going to be correct compared to just inputting the expression in python seperately from the pretty printing process.
But that's the point. A walled garden, a locked ecosystem.

You're either in or you're out. And if your friends are all in and you aren't, you'll never get to hear from them again. How's that for social pressure to buy an iPhone?

I'm not saying what Apple's done isn't a good thing. But I am saying that maybe they didn't do it for good reasons.
??? You should learn about ASML - https://www.asml.com/en
Enforcement Droids! Then we can build Delta City.
Nobody deserves to have to go so far out of their way and do tons of research to achieve a healthful diet, though, and most people can't or won't due to ignorance, stress, money, or any number of other problems in their life. Real solutions should be coming top-down to the consumer, so that you would have to really go out of your way to eat a "vice meal."

As it is, companies seem to have barely budged for any of the trends of the last decade - it's easier to sell addiction, after all. But I've often thought that there's probably a lot of room for innovative approaches to the food service business that try to take on these problems and make it sexy to eat greens and drink tea.
Under that theory, there isn't any point in using job boards, since there aren't any good programmers. Sure plenty of great programmers use networking, but plenty use job listings too. My best hire ever was from a free 5-line job post on craigslist.
Usually if nobody understands it after the first two tries, I just say it louder, then slower, then louder and slower.
It's hard to offer advice without knowing more details, but I think it's good that you're not providing many details in a public forum like this.

Some issues can be fixed quickly; others take a long time. The AWS signing bug I found, for example, took over 6 months to fix, because Amazon had to create a new signing scheme and then update a lot of code to use it. Because of this, I would hesitate to specify a hard expiry date; my usual approach is to ask for periodic status reports and only "turn up the heat" if it sounds like the issue isn't being taken seriously.

If they don't seem to be taking the issue seriously, there's two possibilities: 1. They're not taking the issue seriously; 2. They didn't take you seriously and never actually looked at the issue. In either case, it might be useful to work through someone who has experience in vulnerability handling; myself and tptacek come to mind as people who could help here.
I did note the title in my post. And I agree the title is a key part of the author's story. I still appreciate your reply and the others that tried to help me better understand where the author is coming from.

I'm still left wondering if she would be happier if she spent less time thinking about chores and errands and just did them. I feel like these things aren't a big deal to me because I don't sit around evaluating how "fun" they are or if I can procrastinate. I just do them, usually while thinking about unrelated things that I do actually care about while I'm doing them.

And thanks to whoever was nice enough to downvote my post. I'm sorry I didn't jump on the "I'm lazy too" bandwagon for easy karma. =(
This just reminded me to look into online grocery/misc shopping -- my plan is to analyse my shopping/use patterns and then try to automate that. I can't agree with this post enough -- I really hate grocery shopping.

I don't mind running necessary errands, except for when I have other things (coding, projects, etc) on my mind. The 'real world' of unswept floors and dirty dishes becomes a distraction that weighs on my mind when I need to focus. I wish there was some way I could delegate these tasks, but even if I had the money for that, a lot of this stuff just seems too personal to let someone else handle.
I totally disagree, get basic stuff done by the designer, but I find it completely changes as programming happens. You figure out things won't work the way you thought they should, you figure out better ways, etc. Get wireframes down, so you don't spend thousands on designers, and then realise you have to spend thousands more.
What makes you think doctors don't work pro bono at times? Both my parents are physicians and I know they sometimes volunteer their medical services for no cost. Even hospitals sometimes volunteer resources but physical goods aren't free or cheap.
I certainly don’t believe that Microsoft couldn’t have outbid Google, I think that DoubleClick made a lot of sense with Google because its largest client AOL is also one of the largest clients and partners of Google. Going with Microsoft would have resulted in a potential lose of AOL. So may be they used Microsoft to pump their valuation and then let Google do the rest. Poor ol Microsoft, the once powerful company, that used to erode market share and valuations of others is now being used to increase just that. May be Microsoft really is dead now.
> "that affected some of our customers with AT&T 3G service for iPad"

The way AT&T's whole email is worded seems as though AT&T went to great lengths to avoid clarifying if your particular email was stolen.
Previously submitted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79642

but worth talking about again. As regular readers here know, this is my favorite link to post to comment threads about other links.
Exactly right.

The reason I'm replying, though, is that I wanted to opine that a Social Safety Net != Socialism.

Two of the largest vectors of wealth redistriubution in the last couple years are extended UIC and subsidized health/COBRA benefits. I think it's quite difficult to argue that we'd be better of having these 30MM unemployed people without ANY income or ANY health coverage.

If for no other reason than that's 30 MM fewer consumers.
Things I love about my simple Nokia phone:

17) The reflective screen works really well in direct sunlight. You lose colours, but you can always see what's on it, regardless of the lighting conditions.
his computer could just as easily have spat out a uniform distribution

But that's the point, isn't it? An exactly even distribution is unlikely. So unlikely, that the first distribution he found was probably fine for use in the article.

I suppose my only real point here is that error bars are boring, and it's perfectly possible to understand what the variation in a typical random set is by looking at the set, without having to explicitly put error bars around a straight line.
thanks tomjen3, I may give that a try
Though not completely. Some stuff is made more complicated than necessary because of the choice of syntax. E.g. variadic function in Haskell vs Scheme. Or the the Haskell record-syntax.
Of course, but the 10-12 inches they quote as normal operating distance is pretty reasonable as far as I'm concerned. So while clever marketing, I wouldn't call it false advertising.
An inventor's club I have known about, tried to work out a version of this against bicycle-theft. As far as I know the idea never worked out (and seems kind of silly for moving objects).
Sounds like a good idea. For the UI, I think you should allow double-click editing of specific paragraphs and sections, and the changes should be kept a list (git status) that the user could request to be pulled by the maintainer.

P.S. is fb.com the new rumored FB email service? Any place to sign up for invites?
It was from here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/hunting-hidden-dimensio...

Summary from http://thethinkingmother.blogspot.com/2010/02/fractals-hunti...

"Another story of interest was that the tallest tree in a rainforest was studied. Measurements were taken of its trunk and branches and the fractal geometry calculations were in alignment with its size of growth. Of further interest was the same mathematical computation matched the design of the whole rainforest, the spread of the other trees, the smaller trees, the width and size of the forest was all in alignment with the fractal geometry computation. The scientists also gathered samples from the leaves to check CO2 content and the point was to calculate the effect of the rainforest had in relation to global warming. The idea that fractal geometry is being used by environmentalists and scientists on the issue of climate was fascinating to us."
Yup. You can sign up here:

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What does it look like once you subtract cost of living expenses though, or even just minimum wage? That'd give you an idea of the discretionary spending of each quintile; more informative than just a raw value. I suspect that discretionary spending would follow much the same pattern as wealth.
That's a ridiculous comment. The reasons were not pulled out of thin air. Relative to the population, it seems likely that more people are qualified to become deli managers today than they were in 1985 due to standardization and advances in technology. If more people can do a job, it will receive less compensation.

At least be right if you're going to try to shoot down a comment with worthless sarcasm.
Well, Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/) generates really good Python documentation. Perhaps if you were able to come up with something that also generated nice documentation, but was language agnostic, that might be cool.

I'm also a fan of the recently popular annotated source code style of documentation. Although I feel like this style of documentation takes more effort to use.

If your service just hosted API docs, perhaps you could just make a platform that allows people to choose their API documentation platform, such as Sphinx, and somehow make it easier to generate it and deploy it on your servers. This might be enough of a reason for people to use your service. I wouldn't pay for it, though, unless you had some compelling reasons why I should. GitHub makes their basic project hosting free and it provides much more functionality and utility than a API documentation service might.
Are the Russians getting too impatient for cryobot and hydrobot?

http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/NVA2~14~14~250...
Assuming that your extra money goes straight into a bank account or is invested somehow. If you have to spend it on medical bills, food or shoes for your kids, extra money won't make much difference to your income.
I believe you want the Department of Veteran Affairs. The 2010 budget was $114 billion.

http://www.va.gov/budget/products.asp
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Sorry, I thought I did provide some advice, not just criticism - specifically the last 6 paragraphs of my post.
Nah, I didn't miss the point, I got it square on. I just wanted to make the point about equality, which the post I replied to doesn't: "comfortable enough with the status dynamics of your relationship" doesn't necessarily indicate equality.
Like I said, I would consider paying for a copy once it's finished. :)
Agreed. In the past, I've made it my goal to use one (and no more than one) new tool for each project. Whether it's the web framework, database, version control system, javascript framework, etc, I make myself learn one new thing. That way I'm still mostly productive, and I don't get frustrated and unproductive due to having to learn so many new things all at once.