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Not all statements have to be timeless.

I think the arguments are valid for his paradigm. Some of us may have problems even entertaining such ideas, but then again we grew up to a docile, friendly japan. Just to make it more contemporary, swap Japan with Iran.

(Disclosure: I'm not in anyway against Iran or something)
Taken in the light of today's news about Fire engineers being laid off, it might suggest that Amazon is walking away from the Android hardware space but wants to stay relevant in the Android App space.
I like it, thanks for building it! So far I've used csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.1/), which is quite powerful. Can `rei` also parse the header row of CSV files to automatically assign names to columns?
Yes, the original article is much more informative.

For convenience: http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-ma...
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Plenty of US leaders at the time opposed it (some privately). Here are quotes from Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral William D. Leahy (Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman), Herbert Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur, etc:

http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htm
as the article says, they try to keep the yuan up. so they sell treasuries and buy yuan with the usd from the sales. (what they then do with the yuan doesnt matter, its theirs anyway)
This article necessarily has a lot of business jargon content, and I'm having trouble parsing it. Could somebody with subject knowledge please summarize the article in terms a simple hacker can understand, and speculate a bit on the possible ramifications?
What Monday's trading indicates to me is two things:

1) the markets self correct much better than they used to. I think this is a positive and

2) that stop order should almost never be used. During the crash of 1987 stop orders were just coming into vogue as a sort of protection. The ides with them is that they are sell or buy orders that are in the money but not entered onto the CLOB(Continuous limit order book). Once the stock falls below their strike price, they spring into action and become orders to sell (or buy if you are stopping for short protection).

This has a downside of extending slides when markets go down because as markets fall stops get hit which adds to the selling which means more stops get hit, rinse and repeat.

Unfortunately this means that in a flash crash you'll get stopped out of your position and when the market recovers you'll wonder where your shares went.

Stop orders, just say no. Even if you are watching the markets, you'll be too slow to cancel them.
Entrepreneurs. It's been covered a few times, and not only just recently.

http://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/can-introvert-be-great-entre...
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This article http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-08-26-another-day... refers to Zeng attempting to use the info to negotiate better severance, which if true is basically blackmail. The article also links to other (possibly unrelated) post on MachineZone's recent clash (heh) with Kabam.
What new evidence? I searched for this a couple of months ago and found that the "Japanese were close to surrendering" is one more recent 'internet myth' that's been propagating lately, with no real hard, substantiated evidence. Please help me correct myself on this issue.
They are mechanical because CT is more a language than a field in its own right. They're mechanical in the same way that a lot of logic or universal algebra is—the interesting stuff arises when you start making choices and using the tools to express your ideas.

On the other hand, CT was invented to talk about homology, so if you want to see a ton of examples of CT being used "in its natural habitat" then look there.
That's pretty much how it works today; though there's not one single massive law firm because employment laws vary by state and city. But lawyers do specialize in this type of case at the city/state level, and it wouldn't surprise me if there is a "standard settlement" scale that says what % of annual salary the employer is willing to pay to make the case go away (I know this exists for auto insurance cases because I used to have a client who was a stereotypical ambulance chaser).

But generally you're right -- when you sue someone, only the lawyers win. At a minimum, a cursory background check would turn up the lawsuit and potentially damage your chances at getting another job. It's the same as with whistleblower cases: you have to ask yourself if the injustice you're trying to correct is so big that it's worth potentially destroying your career (whistleblower laws promise huge rewards for exposing behavior but they can be very difficult to collect on and generally make you unhireable).

That said, if a specific company (like Amazon/Google are rumored to do) routinely does things like this, they could face a class action suit. Class action suits are a company's worst nightmare because they are run by the lawyers -- who have every incentive to be as public as possible about the proceedings. Dragging a company's name though the mud in the media is a good way to get them to settle on your terms, and the former employees aren't at the forefront of the case so there's little downside to it. It actually wouldn't surprise me if we see a class action suit come out of this; this kind of treatment is common enough in the tech industry and there's a lot of money on the table if a law firm can put together a case. But again, in a class action suit the lawyers keep most of the money, so ultimately they're the biggest winners.
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Some context from back in the day...

http://harrop-highly.blogspot.ca/
Do you seriously believe that if xmonad had been written in anything else (and perhaps by anyone else) HN and proggit still would have been inundated with as many posts about it as they were? Please. It was rediculously obvious to anyone (or at least it should have been) what was going on.

"The VERY first time I ran it - up popped a timeseries visualization. Mind. Blown!"

Almost every programmer using almost every language has experiences like this. That hardly justifies making such expansive claims, claims that even a dependently-typed language would have difficulty justifying.

"Since then I've worked at hedge funds and investment banks in python and built a startup on Haskell. My opinion is built on my own direct experience, and I find it somewhat disrespectful that you dismiss it as "drinking the Haskell Kool-Aid"

I am not trying to be disrespectful to you, but I think you are being far to charitable in your interpretation of the conduct of your peers in the Haskell community.
It’s cool, I’m getting pretty accurate tags for the companies I’ve searched. How does this work?
> I don't know of any other martial art where your formative years are spent being kicked up in the ass.

Judo and Wrestling kicked my ass as much, if not more, than BJJ practice. Probably more, as they're both faster paced than BJJ.
I remember Mr. Wizard's World on Nickelodeon with great memories intertwined with getting my first computer (Commodore 64) and learning about programming. Great times.
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My armchair hypothesis is that Chinese central planning allows them to off-set the burden of USD to large corporations(Sinopec,ICBC) and purchase cheap energy. With current crude prices they can easily purchase large enough volumes to increase the price and hold on to a valuable commodity.

America is for sale.
That's a really magical analogy right there. Though I'd take it a step further and say nowadays even stumping for an FP language smacks of the same sort of thing.

Case in point: I've probably done more to evangelize functional programming by just demonstrating to colleagues that they too can write their own higher-order functions - just like LINQ! - in C# than an army of Haskellers could accomplish in a lifetime of hurling jargon from category theory. My thought is, if FP is really so great then I should be able to show people by writing some functional code and then having someone else come along later and go, "Hey, that's great!" When I find I can't do that then that's a signal that it's time to double-check the ingredients of my fruit-flavored beverage.

Yeah, that does mean I have to accept that Racket will forever be a hobby language for me. My boring sellout Herman Miller-cradled enterprise developer butt is comfortable with that.
Buying HACK is to invest in a particular industry. SPY and VOO don't track an industry, they track large us companies.
I don't get you point, or how your link reinforces your point.

If I put in a limit order to buy some stock at 20% discount, yes I'm announcing my intention to buy. Is my order for crumbs going to provide the floor on the price because I 'announced my intention'? I feel it's more likely in a moment of volatility like this, that I pick up some bargain. What bad thing may happen except actual bugs with limit orders, which shouldn't really happen?
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Author here, FWIW this article was one of many posts some colleagues and I wrote at Pivotal during a "blog writing tontine" to encourage us all to write more and develop our skills, written hastily and intended to be part of a series I didn't finish before leaving.

My intention was to point readers to some of the good ideas that were emerging (more accurately: had emerged some time ago) from alternative paradigms and how they could be used to make OOP programs better. Agreed that its certainly more about the team than what syntax you use to push bytes around, but tools do matter.
> History shows that anything that women or minorities struggled for, they eventually got and old entrenched biases dissipated.

Absolutely. The differences between genders have far more to do with preferences than with abilities.

Women can have anything they choose, and, in aggregate, they choose different things than men.
“Strategically, it probably has been China’s intention to find the right time
to lighten up its excessive accumulation of U.S. Treasuries,” he said.

I think that is the crux of it. They are itching to move away from dollar and any excuse to do so is used. This has also been tied with AIIB & they accumulating a large amount of gold to back up their currency to be the base denomination for global trade.
How would this be different from something like Freecycle or Freegle?
How does it differ from checking the domain name in the certificate? I don't get it.
In fact, most of Japanese intestines are shorter than Americans' ones.

The length of intestines are not relating to their races.
It's just relating to their height and age.

In 1995, British and Japanese research institutes reported as 'International Colorectal Disease'.
In 2004, Tokyo University also reported similar subject.
Both reports completely denied the story like "Japanese intestines are 1.5x longer".

I think many Japanese believe this kind of stories,
it's because one Japanese drug company made false advertisement to boost their products.
After all, this is Pseudoscience.
An active fund at 1% or less per year doesn't make sense. Most mutual funds essentially act like ETFs as a lot of them are focused on relative performance and not absolute performance. You should read the beginning chapters of Margin of Safety (if you can find the book) as it really helps to explain the mindset of a MF. To reduce expenses for active funds further will only exacerbate this.

If you want to outperform the market, however, you need to find a GREAT hedge fund that charges 1% management fee (at most) and an incentive fee...otherwise it doesn't make sense to pay a flat fee to a MF and get just average performance. (There are exceptions as some MFs do consistently outperform the market but these are few and FAR between).
A fool and his baggy/money will be soon seperated :D
Is there any economist blogging about this move yet? My question is what are the possible outcomes of this sale for the economy as a whole?
You realize that's over 50k in today's money right?
Unfortunately this article doesn't mention his books Mr Wizard's Supermarket Science, which I had as a kid and it was pretty awesome: http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Wizards-Supermarket-Science-Herbert...

He also authored a few more books:

Mr Wizards 400 Experiments in Science
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Wizards-400-Experiments-Science/dp/...

and
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Wizards-Experiments-Young-Scientist...
"The L-ATV can be transported by heavy-lift helicopter or by the Marine Corps' landing craft, but it's a much bigger payload than the Hummer, with a curb weight nearly three times that of the older vehicle: about 14,000 pounds, compared to the Humvee's 5,900 pounds."

and

"But the L-ATV also has better fuel efficiency than the Humvee, and its suspension system allows for 70 percent faster off-road speeds."

What the heck?!? It weighs almost 3x as much but gets better gas mileage?

Glad they are buying something that deals well with IEDs.
That's a pretty clever hack. Do you mind if I add it to a list of hacks at the end of the article?
Companies, individuals, investors e.t.c. are moving their money out of the yuan back into the dollar, China is selling some of its treasuries to get the dollars to give to these people. I expect the vast majority of it is leaving the country.
Ask HN: Are all programming employment contracts this bad?
Two weeks ago I accepted an offer to go work for a web development shop. I am suppose to start on Monday and I just received my contract that I am suppose to sign.

It states that all work I create during my employment is deemed to be the company's, even if that work is created on my own time. Is this a standard clause? How can they own something I do in my spare time at home? I feel very uncomfortable about that, and now I'm really nervous as I was suppose to be starting on Monday.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I couldn't read the article at all -- there was a big blue "title page" that I couldn't get to go away by scrolling down or clicking anywhere.

It got better when I resized the page, though only somewhat -- some page widths did "nice" things (like having a simple header at the top), but others gave the awful expanding blue header thing. With that header I'd scroll down to get to the content, then I'd have to scroll back up again to get to the content that I'd scrolled past :-/
What Would Happen If Everyone Joins China In Dumping Treasurys?
ttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-26/what-would-happen-if-everyone-joins-china-dumping-treasurys
What Would Happen If Everyone Joins China In Dumping Treasurys?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-26/what-would-happen-i...
> All new evidence points to the fact that the Japanese were thinking of surrendering and that the Americans new it, before the bombs were dropped.

What new evidence? This doesn't even make sense. There were fighting until the last man on every island up to that point. What signs of surrender were there?
A bunch of numbers stored on different servers will change. No ramifications for non-wealthy people.
Healthcare companies have been compromised
US public opinion was never high on the Japanese since the turn of the century when the Japanese started industrializing and modernizing their military, threatening US dominance in the region. But after the Red Cross published their photos on the Rape of Nanking, US public opinion bottomed out so much I doubt the attack on Pearl Harbor made them much more hated.
I had the same thing before adding this to my summary. No one ever saw it. I think this is because recruiters only do keyword-search on profiles (if that). No one reads your entire profile.
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Hey Toby, I'm really glad to see the beta drop! I've been looking at setting up a forum for https://cachethq.io and have been holding off doing so, so that we can use Flarum!

How did you find your JS framework change in the end? Did it all go well?

What plans do you have for the future of Flarum? A marketplace perhaps?
Nitpicking about the OP but 14,000 / 5,900 is nearer to 2x than it is to 3x.
Do some people deserve to be hacked?
I am sure current crude prices also help.
Resistance is futile, it will be forked.
So this could fall under their jurisdiction with 'illegal export'?
Watch the very first UFC tournaments...the ones where Royce Gracie won. You'll see something much different than what you see now. Modern UFC training is a blend of BJJ, Kickboxing, boxing, and other disciplines. Royce didn't use much of that, if any.
> but also that it could be accurately targeted

I think it was more to prove that it wasn't a one-off ... that it was repeatable and could be used as many times as is necessary. But that too.
This is starting to remind me of health and fitness "advice". Every day there's a new article "debunking" yesterday's claims, in favor of something that will be "debunked" in another week.

Here's some advice - work hard, do your best, say "yes" to as many opportunities as possible, and be kind. You'll make out in the end.
> This is infuriatingly true. Everything you do in Haskell you can understand in terms of what code gets executed where and how. This is just as true of Haskell as it is of any other high-level language.

I think anyone who really understands what they're talking about (which is, admittedly, not everyone who talks, sometimes loudly) would happily agree with you and then wonder what we were arguing about :)

Haskell tries to take the line that the "compilation semantics" are second class citizens to the "equational semantics". A lot of the technology Haskell introduces is in some way or another directly aimed at this. It doesn't, however, mean that the compilation (or operational, though that word gets abused and won't take you where you want to go exactly if you google it) semantics isn't totally valid, interesting in it's own right, and a useful thing to study.

Some of the core-er Haskellers like to write about this stuff too. I particularly love Edward Yang's posts on the Haskell Heap

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/04/the-haskell-heap/

But all that said, the reason for having the compilation semantics take a back seat is not because it's unimportant but instead because if you don't intentionally take that stance then it, due to its front-and-center role in executing your language, will become dominant.

What we really want is a language with many compatible and well-developed choices of semantics! Then we can pick and choose our reasoning tools on the fly and know that we won't be led astray by small (or vast) incompatibilities.

It turns out this is tremendously difficult.

It's also important to note that Haskell only does a so-so job at it. Interestingly, this makes it one of the absolute best examples of any large language pulling it off. SML probably takes the cake depending on what flavos you're interested in, though.
100,000 per... month I'm guessing?
Can someone provide a bad-case source that isn't from ZeroHedge?
I find it interesting but doesn't convince me. Their timeline, 20/20 hindsight, ability to predict a future without the bombings, and definitive "we know, know!, they were unnecessary" doesn't make me think highly of their argument.

My favorite example is that the first bombing only required one initial report from the governor for the council to understand what happened. The second bombing had a similar verbal report but they had to wait another day to get the full report to understand what happened.

Never mind the fact they don't seem to grasp the significance that one bomb dropped from one plane equaled up to 10,000 bombs, or more, from around 500 planes. Is there no consideration in that leisurely dropping one bomb delivered more kilotons than a full scale air raid is a major show of force? With the obvious promise of more to come?

For my part, I would say that the bombing were not the full reason for the surrender. But they did play a major part. They faced either nuclear destruction from the US or being totally wiped out by the Soviets invading. If the Chinese didn't get their licks in too.
True, if you assume it was only between dropping the bombs or full scale invasion though. In the end we'll never know I guess.
I just deleted my LinkedIn profile. I'm yet to experience a negative consequence from it.
I haven't re-read my blog post, but let me be clear: my actions back then are something that I deeply regret to this day. I think about it on something like a weekly basis, still.
Likewise, you can't show the effect of inflation on numbers where the effect of inflation has been explicitly removed.

If I buy an equity at $100 a share, and I sold it at $110 a year later, and got $1 in dividends during that year, I earned 11% on it, without accounting for inflation. There are two effects that may occur due to inflation. First, the $111 I now hold can only buy an amount of stuff that could have been purchased for $106 the previous year (or the amount of stuff that cost $100 then now costs $105). The second effect is that someone close to the monetary authority, perhaps a government agency or one of their contractors, could outbid someone else for that $110 equity, because they have newly inflated money.

The return remains the same. The ownership of the equity is different. Without the monetary inflation, someone could have bid a lower amount for the equity in order for me to achieve the same real rate of return. The equity does not cease to exist. It does not perform more poorly. It does not change its own length if the measuring stick is now longer. Those who benefit most from the monetary expansion (i.e. those who can spend the new cash first) can more easily afford to take ownership of it from those who benefit least.

Do you understand now why real rate of return is irrelevant to the value extracted from the economy via monetary expansion? Some fraction of corporate dividends are now going to different people. They do not grow or shrink based on who gets them.
> There is no guarantee when it starts trading again that it won't open 20% down.

That's why I used the words "reduce the likelihood" instead of "eliminate".

As to the efficacy and benefits of volatility interruptions, research has been carried out on this - 'Price Discovery in European Volatility Interruptions': http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2365772
I'm not sure what the point of your post is. The whole discussion happening around the atomic bombs dropped on Japan is - have they actually prevented more deaths, because Japan would not have surrendered otherwise? More people have died in firebombing of Tokyo, yet Japan was not willing to surrender.

Of course, you could shield yourself behind morals and just say "well, they could have chosen not to go to war and not to kill other people!", but it's no different than a 5 year old child saying "people just shouldn't kill each other", without real understanding why people do it. To err makes us human.
Another fine example of this is Cushion, where his running expenses are presented (without revenues) http://cushionapp.com/expenses
The trip is shorter so I expect deaths were much lower.
Hmm, I guess thats true. The second bomb probably wasn't necessary. One must not forget though that the conventional firebombing of the vulnerable wood and paper housings had already claimed much more lives up to that point, so it wasn't exactly a difference in the scale of human lives lost.

Maybe the emperor was scared they'd drop one on him? I know the US military discussed that option.