skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on this exhaustive study I recently read http://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-August-Became-Nuclear/dp/069... there was signaling we were open to allowing the Emperor to stay.

History's been my thing since, oh, the early 70s, and in the last half decade I've been closely studying WWII history, especially in the Pacific, and the Manhattan Project in general in the last half year or so. Nothing I've come across suggests there was any better option, if you accept the targeting of mixed use civilian-industrial areas.

Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, was toast as originally planned, too many IJA ground reinforcements, and our estimate of the number of Kamikazes was low, actually 8,000 or so (!). Thanks to the latter, the Battle of Okinawa was the most costly in US naval history, and it would have been much worse with their not having to fly so far let alone over the featureless ocean.

Those who knew about the Manhattan Project were planning on using 5-8 bombs to make Olympic feasible, and per the above linked book, there was major discussion about what to do with the 3rd bomb if the 2nd didn't force a surrender.

Those who didn't know were planning on mass use of chemical weapons....

The Soviets wouldn't have been much help, if ever, in taking the home islands (who's navy would land them even if they were willing?), but it didn't hurt how they predictably smashed through the IJA in China when they got started between the two bombs.

Just letting them starve on the home islands ... very bad, and again, costing a quarter million lives a month in the sphere outside of the home islands. East Asia was already enough of an abattoir, 25 million plus lives lost.

As for concessions, besides the fact that we'd pledged "unconditional surrender", which we indeed backed off of for the Emperor, I'm just not aware of what specific concessions we could have made that would have likely made a difference. Especially since unconditional surrender was part of a "never again" post-WWI attitude (per Tom Lehrer's MLF Lullaby "We taught them a lesson in 1918, and they've hardly bothered us since then") we were very determined that we wouldn't have to do this again. And, you know, we succeeded, and as I've noted in a previous recent A-bombing discussion, we've not had another great powers war since then.
For example, there's a $10 million suit against Warner Brothers of the film Gravity. Tess Gerritsen, a writer, alleges that the film film depicts the major events in a book she worte in 1999 and optioned to a film production company. The problem is that in the meantime that company no longer exists after a bunch of acquisitions, mergers and so on, and although there's good reason to think her book wound up in the hands of the film's writer/director and that the film is indeed derivative o the book, her legal problem is an inability (at present) to prove that Warner Brothers is the ultimate beneficial owner of the firm she was dealing with back in 1999. The problem here is not so much copyright as a lack of transparency in corporation law.

Isn't this direct evidence against the claim that "copyright protects individuals against big corporations"? If it weren't for copyright, Warner Brothers would collapse and we'd be back to holding each other accountable on a personal level.
I'm glad you ask questions. I've worked with many people who didn't understand the contracts they signed. Or thought they "owned" options (if the company fires you you generally loose the options).
I completely agree. I came here to say this but see you beat me to it! I might add that this could be used to park your car miles from where you live. You would simply let your car know when to pick you up and it would come to you like calling the valet at a hotel before heading out. If tesla had overnight parking garages/chargers scattered around we could use all that garage space in our houses for more activities!
>Do people really understand what complex neural networks do

From a biological sense, the only neural net we have a decent understanding of is the C elegans nematode worm with a few hundred neurons. Large neural networks like that of our brain are beyond our understanding and I suspect the same is the case for ANNs.
Oculus' Palmer Luckey lands on Time cover, game dev Twitter explodes
Pretty much depends on the country where you file your taxes. In general, you pay taxes on the difference between the nominal value (strike price) and the current market price of the shares because that's the compensation you received instead of an ordinary salary.

What happens afterwards depends on both if you sell the resulting shares at a profit or at a loss and when you sell them. Typically, taxation amounts to a lot less if you hold the shares for more than a year.

See https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Investments-a... for more information on how this is dealt with in the US (including which tax forms to file).
Is there a difference between QPX Express and Google Flights results?

I can't see that there is (i.e. no Southwest results etc.).
One theory for the urheimat (homeland) of the Indo-Europeans and the technology of chariots involves the Black Sea littoral:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis
I can see how an ad could pay for a visit to a web site, but how can you get an advertiser to pay enough for ads so that they pay for a few miles worth of power for a car (let's assume that it's an electric vehicle), plus a few miles worth of depreciation and maintenance?

The IRS currently allows a deduction of 57.5 cents per mile for business use of a vehicle. That's a ballpark figure for what the fuel and depreciation costs per mile.

I doubt that an electric car is that much cheaper per mile than a gas vehicle, since the battery is very expensive and needs to be replaced after some number of charge/discharge cycles. For a car that's used as a taxi 24 hours a day, you probably have to recharge daily, leading to frequent battery replacement. (A taxi can easily drive hundreds of miles every day - one round trip from midtown Manhattan to JFK airport is around 30 miles).

Even an electric self-driving vehicle requires periodic replacement of tires, shocks, etc. And a vehicle used by the public would probably require at least a daily cleaning of the interior. Plus, you're legally required to carry liability insurance (for damage you cause to other vehicles, people or property). Adding up all these expenses, it doesn't seem possible to break even by selling ads.
Who claimed it was ethical?
I've done this before with perl and POE::Component::Omegle. IIRC a large majority of the conversations were insta-disconnects, and those that lasted longer than that were very, very boring.
Also appears to resolve in curl.
How is this different than golang-builder (https://github.com/CenturyLinkLabs/golang-builder)
This is by far the best wireframing / mockup tool I've ever used! It is: easy to learn, free, nice-looking and full-featured enough to build a fully-functioning (read: clickable) prototype in it.
Would I be paying tax as if I'd made capital gains in the amount of the delta between the strike price and the stock's value today?
>> Yes, assuming you have not early exercised. This sucks.

>>>> So, if the company hasn't raised funding since I was offered my options, would I have zero tax liability for exercising my vested options?
Most dogs hate Roombas as well.

After a little persistence, it usually settles down to an uneasy status quo.
Pass the data by compressed, binary file using something like bcolz or h5py?
Bing to warn customers about the threats of fake online pharmacies
I usually read through a couple pages worth, but I'm usually only reading the asks and shows. I'll scan the headlines of a few articles, but they're submitted from so many sources that it's hard to sort through for something I want to drill down on.
The backing company eyeo blackmails advertisers into paying eyeo 30% of revenues from users with adblock installed [1]. While adblockplus may not inherently be evil, I see no possibility that they don't so turn when more ads goes straight to their bottom line.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboo...
Flipping single bits from unprogrammed (conventionaly 1) to programmed (0) state is commonly used in both embedded systems and flash filesystems and translation layers.

Typical modern flash filesystem or FTL is copy-on-write and only marks old version of the block by either programming one bit (1-valid, 0-invalid) or programming address of new version into the old block.

Typical 80's/90's prepaid phone card is simple serial (E)EPROM that decrements count of remaining credit by programming successive bits. Modern smartcards also often have blocks that require separate access rights to be programmed and to be erased (although they also tend to implement normal binary counters that can be only decremented). Features of various programmable devices that relates to code security also tend to depend on this property of Flash/EEPROM (EEPROM and Flash differs mostly in the fact that for EEPROMs the size of write block is same as the size of erase block, typically one byte).

The convention that 1-unprogrammed and 0-programmed comes mostly from NMOS and TTL, where for both technologies, 0 is the strongly driven state (output strongly driven into ground) and 1 is essentially undriven.
Hedonistic Sustainability [Urban Planning]
Thermal management in space is a big issue. The ISS has big radiators on the long truss, and lots of plumbing for cooling.

For a superconducting magnetic shield, it depends how much power is used to maintain it. MgB2 supports high currents compared to cuprates, so I guess once it's turned on it doesn't need much?
Same level of ethicality as opening two Omegle windows and forwarding messages between players.
As a piece of new technology, it might need more frequent replacements than an averate Tesla car part.

Also, it would be unfortunate if you can't refuel your car because it has no juice left to power this appendage.
I guess actually using this program would be blatantly illegal. But it's an interesting problem--how to defend against this? One way is to compute a fingerprint of the Diffie-Hellman shared secret, and then have the chat participants vocally compare it (I think one of the "secure chat" programs do this?). That should be secure as long as the attacker can not imitate voices, but it's rather heavy-handed.
We Don't Have a Moon Base Because You Don't Need One to Nuke Moscow
Do you have anything more specific to add? This comment doesn't tell me, a non-erlanger, anything other than that you like it more than systemd + Docker + Go. But clearly there are numerous success stories with this very stack (or some permutation thereof).
I considered editing the post to include the caveat "Where that strategy could make sense for an executive is when he's able to hide (or at least obfuscate) what he's doing."

>And I wonder whether the price of current stock market transactions adequately reflects the knowledge of all investors, including the long-term ones.

That's sort of an odd way to put it. By definition the market transactions reflect the knowledge of all investors, unless you're postulating they don't apply knowledge when they trade. Do you mean the stock price is influence by people without knowledge other people do have? That's true.

But professional and institutional investors have the most influence, and they've got a pretty good idea when managers are eating the seed corn. It's an obvious strategy for executives, so professional investors are always on the lookout.

Do some executives get away with padding their bonuses through short term strategies? Sure. But I think it's rare.
Sorry what were you saying? I couldn't hear you over the bitter arguments about endian-ness.
Binary pattern matching in Elixir with PNG parsing example
That reminds me of the Arthur C Clarke story 2010, where he says they used ammonia instead to avoid the boil off.
So that helps? Thanks a bunch! Time to Google. :-)
The first should be allowed, but I can see why the latter are excluded. If the purpose of this validator is to run against user-submitted URLs, then you wouldn't want to allow users to specify ones to which they don't have authority. Imagine that the program takes the user's input, fetches the item, and the stores it somewhere accessible to them. If the program allowed URLs for internal subnets, then a malicious user could attempt to acquire internal assets!
While its not very hacker news to post funny cat videos there's one here of one reacting in what looks like an anti snake way to a cucumber. I doubt the reaction was a learnt fear of cucumbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Ov_ptXsE8&feature=youtu.be...
Tks for your contribution to the discussion, brudgers. I don't think you understood the question though. It's more about would investors be willing to reveal events/talks they will be at in a public profile like meeta.vc/investorname ?
No, the board can still increase the fmv value for two reasons:

1 - the company has executed well and increased their value;

2 - to ratchet golden handcuffs tighter
The Man Who Found the Titanic Is Not Done Yet
If you run it in a VM on your Mac, you can take advantage of any host-level full-disk encryption and avoid needing Bitlocker. (Of course, you probably want to pay the $50 or so for VMware Fusion, if you're going that approach.)
Not a Tinder user so I might be wrong, isn't Tinder used for a hookup app so people shouldn't really complain about how it's bad for dating?
The Uber-ization of Activism
Disco Melee | Full Time or Part Time or Freelance | 100% Remote
http://discomelee.com/ - http://beta.discomelee.com/

Disco Melee was founded by gamers, for gamers, to deal with with the lack of social features in other gaming-centric sites, and to reinvent the concept of social streaming. Basically we are "making gaming social again". We're in closed beta now, but will be opening up very soon!

The frontend is built in Clojurescript and Om, the backend in Clojure on a PostgreSQL database.
While we do require some degree of prior experience with these technologies, we also greatly value an ability to learn, take ownership, be proactive, and communicate well with others. For the full posting see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AZNGw7QaoN7jY8MjwpxcKcTT...
I don't mean to speak for bcantrill, but yes, this is exactly how we (at Joyent) build programs. We wrote in detail about why we do it this way:
https://www.joyent.com/developers/node/design/errors

It's not that this approach motivates root-causing failures (though that's true). It's that uncaught exceptions are programmer errors, and it's tautologically impossible to correctly deal with them. Attempting to do so can make things much, much worse.

To make this concrete: I've dealt more than one production outage caused by the mere presence of an uncaughtException handler. If the program had merely crashed, a hundred requests may have been interrupted, but the program would have restarted and resumed servicing requests. Instead, the exception was thrown from a code path that had a database transaction open with database locks held. Because the uncaughtException handler just logged the exception and otherwise ignored it, that transaction stayed open (and the locks remained held) until a human got into the loop -- interfering with tens of thousands of subsequent requests. That's much, much worse. If the process had just exited, the db connection would have been closed, the transaction aborted, and the locks released.

An unexpected error handler can't know the complete state that the program was in because by definition this wasn't a state that the programmer thought about.
Skylake supports DDR4 and DDR3L but the slots are incompatible; motherboard manufacturers need to choose one or the other. All the Z170 boards I've seen do not have DDR3L slots. Even if they did, DDR3L is lower voltage than DDR3; standard DDR3 will never work in a Skylake board.
When chatting on Omegle, you're paired anonymously with an anonymous stranger, with no guarantee of whether that stranger will record anything or pretend to be someone else. I think the front page http://www.omegle.com/ makes that abundantly clear.
Look up Black Sea deluge theory. Black sea was supposedly flooded (a bit later than the actual sea level rise from the ice melting after the ice age), around 7500 years ago, with levels rising up to 70m and turning it from a freshwater lake into Black Sea, and increasing its size 1.5x-2x.
That event is one of possible explanations for the spread of what became Indo-European language/culture/people group, which a good deal of us belong to.
Until the evidence for the Black Sea deluge was found, the Indo-Europeans were theoreticized to have come from area north of Black Sea (it is still so), but I think the initial push came from the now flooded areas.
Russian Cyber Attack Targets Pentagon Email Systems: Officials
Tor Browser Bundle is working on this: "Design Goal: All Tor Browser users MUST provide websites with an identical user agent and HTTP header set for a given request type. We omit the Firefox minor revision, and report a popular Windows platform"

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#finge...

Maybe just make their User-Agent the standard?
What the Freck?
As I'm slaving over a hot laptop in the middle of summer, I have to ask. Will this generation allow for cooler machines?

To be honest I write text files and email for a living. Can anyone recommend the coolest yet snappy laptops? With plenty of memory, min 16gb, "retina" display. Perhaps next year's Macbook with no fan is a candidate? Though I don't mind a fan.

I have a "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz" with "Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5730 / 6570M]", which is a few years old. Looking for something new that has half the heat output, and is hopefully faster.
Well the planet Earth has a nice shield with exactly this issue. Particles are channeled to the north and south poles, where they hit the atmosphere and generate the colourful aurora in the sky :)

So perhaps there's going to be a cool spaceship with it's own aurora?! Or you could try and channel the particles into a collecting device, bombard them into a fluid, trigger muon generation and try to catalyse a fusion reaction. Probably wouldn't break even but it'd be fun to try.
I will still be persnickety and expect world speed records for a "car" (as a synonym for "automobile") to be achieved by propelling it by its wheels, not by being a jet/rocket sled.

(unresolvable ontological arguments to follow below)
Income taxes aren't the only form of taxes. Property taxes are staggeringly high in Texas compared to California (though I would argue that California could stand to have higher property taxes since it would help to put a lid on the ridiculously high prices to buy property there).

Property tax rates of 2-3% are common in Texas, while in California, the maximum tax rate is 1% plus a small amount to pay back voter approved bonds (SF currently has a total tax rate of 1.14%). Additionally, in Texas, the taxes are assessed against the full market value, while in California, the assessed value can't rise by more than 2% per year, resulting in many people paying tax on far less than the market value of their property.
What about new TLDs? URLs with them should be also checked. I can see that some regexes contain list of TLDs, which is already disqualifying.
"The officials said the suspected Russian hackers coordinated the cyber attack via social media accounts."

The Email system described here is not linked to the secure network?
Just what we need, yet another time scale that is totally arbitrary. How utterly worthless.

Amplified by the fact that the word "present" refers to a shifting moment in time, so it's an abuse of English to use it this way.
Wouldn't it be faster to just have a post that would align with the vehicle, being already at the correct height to start out with, quickly find the connector and wham-bam thank you ma'am.

Snake version will always be slow due to the number of motors needed, imo.
If you don't know why a neural network suddenly reports that video static is a cheetah, the main reason for that is that you also don't know, in the first place, why it reports that a picture of a cheetah is a cheetah!

To emphasize our lack of understanding of the false classifications is misleading.
> To me, the real issue is people not spending enough time researching a candidate.

I feel like the voters are kind of powerless in the election process. Most politicians are backed by giant corps and big money, and even the debates are rigged and the candidates are supplied with pre-selected questions, and the gerrymandering going on, sometimes it feels like we can't really affect the outcome
Note that most/all of the current M.2 SSDs are running as AHCI devices, not NVMe. There's an OEM Samsung NVMe unit not available for retail yet. Apparently the performance difference between the AHCI and NVMe version isn't big, anyway.

Reference: http://anandtech.com/show/9396/samsung-sm951-nvme-256gb-pcie...

Edit: here's the key line regarding a modest improvement for small random access:

> Typically the NVMe version offers about 10-20% improvement in average latency over the AHCI version, which is a healthy boost in performance given that the two utilize identical hardware.
Books tend to have blank pages at the beginning and/or end when the actual number of pages isn't a multiple of, say, 8, 16 or 32.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page#Print...
You'll probably be fine either way, IMO - OCaml has a lot going for it, it's fast and incredibly quick to compile, and has a pretty straightforward execution model. Haskell is not quite the same (different evaluation strategy, different ways of organizing your programs), so there's a bit of associated overhead there, and for a beginner it can appear daunting.

The most important part of these languages is really how they try to enhance your abilities to write modular programs. You might be surprised to find out languages from the 1970s and 1980s have better abstractions (e.g. functors/modules) than some designed today. :)

But fundamentally I think some of it will come down to personal choice and aesthetics at some level; e.g. I really like Haskell's syntax (principled, block structured with no semicolons) and I really like laziness in general, because it makes it really easy to 'float out' and refactor code. OCaml has a much better module system, a very fast compiler, and is very well designed and thought out IMO. None of those are dealbreakers - it's just a matter of picking your poison.
This is actually amazing, thanks so much!
Taking Advantage of Mix Config
You have to have worked for 6 months prior.
How do I price a self published book?
I am almost done with my first self-published book on leanpub (https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython). How do I decide on a good price for it?
That would be interesting. It would have to simulate human distraction and emotional ebbs and flows. I imagine ot taking into account feelings like impatience, boredom, and overeagerness.
sorry, remote isn't an option. Wish it was!
The "acceptable ads" criteria are here:

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria

If you make a modern-looking long-scrolling article that has an ad somewhere in the middle, it's not "acceptable". If you get a crappy CMS that splits every article into 9 pages with an ad at top and bottom, then it is.

The main weird thing is that 3rd-party tracking is "acceptable" (!)

(I recently added some details on the problem to the Aloodo tracking test, because users have started to assume that ad blockers fix everything. http://blog.aloodo.org/posts/adblockers-myths-facts/ )
What Angel Investors Value Most When Choosing What to Fund
It's the standard dating scheme used in archaeology and some areas of geology for material that is carbon dated. As mentioned on the wikipedia page that OP linked to, "present" is actually a standard date: January 1, 1950; chosen because material from later dates can not be reliably measured [using carbon dating] due to nuclear testing.