skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the camera positions and angles are done right, getting distracted by this may not be such a big deal because you are being “distracted” by what is on the road in front of you, which is good!
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Nothing justifies a massacre. Or war, or any sort of nonconsensual act (I'm asserting here that murdering people en masse is nonconsensual). There's no casus belli that makes war just.

But making shit stop, and stop right now? That can be useful as opposed to just.
> some gender differences have remained.

That just like saying that the fact there are a lot of things science has no answer for shows that those things can never be understood.

> some argue

Nobody who has studied the subject argues that, at least not regarding differences that greatly effect the change in the power distribution.

> The intractability of the remaining differences in a nation where bias is widely opposed suggests a cause stronger than bias.

No intractability. The struggle simply started with the big stuff, and now moves on. The pace of change hasn't slowed. History shows that anything that women or minorities struggled for, they eventually got and old entrenched biases dissipated.
When I was in (mid-80's) there was the CUCV program, which was Chevy Blazers and Silverados. They had Detroit Diesel engines and 24V power, and were designed for what you'd use a pickup and SUV for - running around base and the local area.

I expect with the price and weight of the new L-ATVs, they'll bring back that program for a "runabout" vehicle.
I think you should do that if you take the risk of publicly announcing your position, and it is probably better than plain stops (which reinforce the current trend)

However, even then you might have bad luck such as in this case (which admittedly doesn't happen very often)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-10-18/nyse-euron...
Same here! all of the buzz around iPython, and there is no succinct explanation of wtf it is or why I would want it. Jupyter seems to be a more generalize version of iPython with pluggable engines, but again, what does that mean?

So far, I am coming to the conclusion that iPython is a tool for data scientists, but I am not really sure.
Seems to be a fair number of BJJ practitioners here. It comes up in most threads on fitness/exercise. I've only just started (6 months now), mostly as a way to force myself to really exercise regularly. Having a positive social environment and forking out $$ each month encourages me to actually attend, versus the (good) free gym available through work.

EDIT: If you really want to know it could be put in as a poll. Ask which martial arts (if any) people here participate in.
They're being downvoted because they used the phrase "tin foil hat" which should be a bannable offense on all discussion forums. It's only used to delegitimize other people without having to put forth effort into forming a counter argument.
On the other hand, i just tried opening this page with adblock plus and it froze the browser tab for quite a while. Switched to ublock origin and at least the tab stays responsive.
The author of the article used the word "patriarchal". And the category for the article is Objectification.

OK, clearly, this "project" is of an inflammatory nature, I'll give you that, but can we please not spiral into a SJW discussion on Hacker News?

From what I can gather it's just a bunch of trolls making fun of fat people (there are men there, too). Not the most noble of pastimes, but not Hacker News worthy neither.
Additionally to that, it's also not particularly useful in most situations even if it can be performed effectively. Unless you're truly in imminent danger for your life then killing someone will likely be a hugely disproportionate reaction, especially if done in such a brutal way as ripping out throats, and will lead to some serious consequences like long jail time, getting sued for medical bills, etc.

There's a common (apocryphal?) story about an untrained guy who got into fight with an experienced grappler. The grappler got the takedown, got on top and was beating on him a little to show he'd won. Then right when he was about to stop and let him go, the guy tries to stick his fingers in his eyes. He ends up getting completely brutalized by his now really upset opponent who had already won and wants to punish the loser for trying to permanently blind him rather than just accept he'd lost.

You basically stop being the victim and become the aggressor at that point, so it's good to be able to de-escalate a fight without having to severely maim the other person. Having a small repertoire of techniques that can only be used to kill or maim someone leaves you vulnerable in a huge number of self-defense scenarios.
Accepting that a nuclear weapon was the best way to end the war, was it really necessary to use 2? It's the second one that doesn't sit well with me. Even by the logic in this account, the first bomb made the threat of subsequent attacks real. At least it is still being discussed and debated.
If your kid is reading at a first grade level or so, the best device for her is a Chromebook. It can play all the little flash games on nickjr.com or pbskids.org, but is also a tiny functional computer with a full keyboard and trackpad.
Well pretty much the purpose of those reserves is to maintain their currency peg so selling in order to do so is no surprise.
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I'm not an expert on all the various orders that are in play at every exchange, but in the venues I traded in you don't actually see stops in an order book feed. They are orders that do not appear in the book until the stop has been hit at which point they appear (or fill) as regular orders. Someone with more knowledge of equities platforms could chime in if I am wrong about those venues.

I don't understand your trade at all. Could you explain it precisely with the orders someone would put in to take advantage of that trade?
MonoDevelop for .NET stuff (http://www.monodevelop.com/), QtCreator for C/C++ (http://www.qt.io/ide/).
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The article doesn't directly address this, but most people think many, many more civilians would have died in a protracted land/aerial invasion of Japan.

You could basically factor out all the soldiers on both sides, and the total casualty count (just civilians) would have been higher.

That's the argument, anyway. I am not any sort of military expert, so I leave you to make your own judgement. But it isn't like they had the equivalent of twitter @dronestream highlighting civilian casualties back then.

In the non-nuclear regular-old B-52 firebombing of Tokyo, hundreds of thousands of civilians died, and the entire sprawling city was quite literally burned to the ground.

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=firebombing+of+tokyo&clien...

Those pictures don't look like reduced civilian casualties to me.
Perhaps a bit of a different viewpoint, but one of the reasons that I keep coming back to Haskell is that it lets me refactor things things that I can't in other languages. Take the following C code:

char* response(messy* message) {
body* b = message->body;
if(b==NULL) {
return NULL;}
char** lines = b->text;
if(t==NULL) {
return NULL;
}
if(b->line_count < 11) {
return NULL;
}
return t[10];
}

Writing all of those if statements grows tedious. A lazier programmer could just drop them, but then the program would crash whenever the program received malformed data.

With Hackell, though, I can refactor out the if statements and get the following equivalent code:

response :: Messy -> Maybe String
response message = do
b <- body message
lines <- text body
lines `atMay` 10

I want to be clear on a couple of points. First, the Haskell code performs all of the same "null" and bounds checks that the C code made, so this is an apples-to-apples comparison. Furthermore, this isn't using exceptions, like a similar piece of C++ code might try. There's no stack unwinding and nothing can escape to contaminate the rest of your program. Finally, this isn't just a weird special case built into the language. With a minimal amount of effort, I could have each failure return a unique error Code.

errorCode :: Maybe a -> b -> Either b a
errorCode (Just value) _ = Right value
errorCode Nothing code = Left code

response :: Messy -> Either Int String
response message = do
b <- body message `errorCode` 1
lines <- text body `errorCode` 2
(lines `atMay` 10) `errorCode` 3

I don't know a way of doing that in any of the C style languages. In those languages, you're forced to add in another if statement every time your code touches message->body to ensure that you're not going to segfault. With Haskell, I can refactor away those if statements and I don't have that code being duplicated all throughout my project.

EDIT: improved readability of errorCode
What most people in the west neglect about Japan was what it was doing to China and south-east Asia during the war. Their killing of civilians was greater than what the atomic bombs did. That's where the good came from - saving the rest of Asia, not saving America.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were industrial cities making the weapons that the Japanese were using to kill the Chinese civilians. The residents were civilians but not entirely innocent. They were part of the war machine.
It's curious seeing you mention this, while completely ignoring how overwhelmingly negative the linked to thread is, devolving into personal attacks for no good reason - the other linked discussions between various language communities have been very civil and fun to read, but reading this bunch of OCamlers writing long lists of often minor deficiencies shows to me a level of insecurity I haven't seen elsewhere, and I find it very unappealing. It's enough for me to not want to try OCaml because the community seems very hostile. And it's not just jdh, even without his (your?) comments, it's overwhelmingly negative, and needlessly so.
The relevant question is pretty far down the page, here's the money quote:

>The stuff she found that goes viral is either stuff that is telling a truth that seemed hidden in some way, is really informative and someone might not have heard of before, or is really amazing and shocking. What doesn’t go viral: anything ambiguous, anything that doesn’t tell a really direct story, that’s not easily transmissible. I think the kind of history that does well on the web is the stuff that’s really unambiguous.
What are you talking about? Japan completely gave up on declaring their own terms. Taking away the godhood of the emperor was a colossal blow. If Japan surrendered on their own terms, there would absolutely have been no occupation.

Japan for a decade after the war was a completely occupied, controlled, planned state (by the US). They got NONE of their own terms. What about "unconditional surrender" is BS?
By most approximations, there were about 200,000 causalities from the bombs and their aftermath.

That said, had the bombs not been dropped, estimates ran into the millions for Allied casualties and tens of millions for Japanese (civilian + soldiers) casualties.

Ultimately it boils down to an issue of numbers (achieved by expediency).
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have you considered that maybe the market doesn't want a "decent node-powered blogging platform?"

Building a quality product takes time, and often times a lot longer than you think it will take. Lots of things get in the way, and with a product like this, education is a huge part of the adoption cycle. At 500k/year, they are poised to have healthy growth until they reach that point. Might not happen on your timeline, but at least they are still chugging.
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Reminds me of when I used to use Windows. I'm just glad I don't have any of these problems with Linux. Seems like no matter what OS you use, there's always some hardware configuration that the OS has problems with.
The quasi-libertarian anti-politics of the tech nerd
They dropped the first and Japan did not surrender. Only after the second. So, accepting it was the best way to end the war, it was necessary to use 2. From what I've read, many high officials still didn't want to accept the surrender, even after the second bomb.
So you put in a stop loss order and didn't want it to trigger when the share went down? Perhaps it's not the correct hedging tactic for your trade? Maybe you should have been using options?

If you don't understand proper hedging for your trade, you aren't easy pickings for HFT algorithms, you are easy pickings for everyone in the market.
They also realized that no one is going to pay for software so they need to make revenue via advertising and premium features.

The last few decades of Microsoft's trading history would seem to disagree.

This is why their new strategy seems so odd to me. They seemed to have a solid business model, whose main downside was that as people bought PCs less often they wouldn't sell as many copies of Windows preinstalled on new machines.

They could have compensated by moving to a subscription model for very long term support, which is something they have generally always done much better than anyone else in the field.

They could have used their combined back office/front office/mobile capabilities -- a combination of strengths almost unique in the industry -- to push a more business/professional/power user friendly alternative to just shoving everything into the cloud and reducing software to lightweight apps that are a shadow of what traditional desktop applications have been.

Instead, they seem to be trying to out-Google Google and out-Apple Apple. It's almost like they've given up and now they just dreaming of maybe, one day, being able to take on the awesome development capabilities of those three guys eating Ramen in a parent's basement as they crank out yet another small business app in a couple of months and charge a $19.99/mo subscription for it.

I think plenty of people will pay for good software. I just don't think Microsoft thinks those people are its market any more, and that's sad.
Good way to compare pre and post revolution Russia is to take number of officers in police and other repressive forces. Tsar had police apparatus comparable to France. Soviets had almost 15% of population in repressive forces.
Surely the pilots were briefed about the destructive power of the weapon they were going to drop on civilians.
He knew. He had a choice. He could have chosen not to fly that mission.
Even with the risk of being court marshalled. Even if somebody else would have done it anyway.
He could have stepped aside and chosen despise or even punishment over glory.
But he didn't. He went ahead and pulled the trigger on women and children. He chose the glory.

Saying later that "those were the times" does not exonerate you from the sins committed.

--

This is a good example of choices that we might face in our lives.

We all have a choice not to participate in the insanity (or "immorality") of war.
In fact, if we all did, wars wouldn't exist at all.

Refusing to go to the battlefield and kill other young people is not immoral.
It is the most moral and humane thing you can do.

If you ever need to make that choice, remember this.

I highly recommend reading Tolstoy's "The kingdom of God is within you", were he does a very deep analysis of war, state, violence and Christianity not as religion, but as a non-violent philosophy of life.
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Definitely the answer to your apparent disappointment and frustration with node/js is to cling on PHP and WP madhouse because why not.
Its likely that they used 2 because they only had 2. If they had a dozen or the thousand they have today they would had used them all.

The real effects of such weapons were unknown and the public opinion didnt really care about killing all those inocent civilians(it is not that different from the mass bombings done in the war, with "conventional weapons")
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What is your source for this new evidence? There is overwhelming evidence that is quite the contrary to what you are saying at the time it happened (which is why they dropped the bomb) and even now in retrospect.
Sell Treasuries --> USD Cash

What is being done with the USD Cash generated after the sale? Are the Chinese immediately selling the USD Cash to local CNY holders in order to defend the peg? What do they do with it next? Is the new USD Cash leaving Chinese borders? Does it stay in local accounts - eventually to be used to buy up other USD denominated assets?
If that Haskeller you're referring to was me then I'd like to clarify: I think mathematics is a good fit for humans because it's the output of a few centuries of careful large scale use and design, not because it's simpler by any direct merit.

Human languages might then be said to be the process of an even longer historical evolutionary process—so they must be the best, right? My thoughts here are that the natural selection pressures of human languages are very different than that of mathematical languages and we should direct the conversation there.

Mathematics expresses a desire for (a) elegance and (b) economy of proof which might be taken to be an expression of the complete logic of a complex idea. This isn't the perfect thing to optimize for, but I think it's well in-line with what we're doing in programming.

So I tend to take the bet that in the long run PLs and mathematics will converge and PLs will have further to move than the bulk of modern mathematical literature.
> The perennial "Bash the US for dropping the atomic bombs" really just needs to stop. You're judging actions that happened 70 years ago by your standards you hold today.

Plenty of people in the day opposed it as well. 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
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Lol, they'll end up buying this thing just in time for the next major operation to be in a flat urban environment with narrow passes.
HN doesn't, either.
We don't use abstractions merely to reduce duplication, and the removal of duplication is not the only, and not nearly the best, way of creating them. In my experience, abstractions arise naturally from thinking about the task to be done and the options available to do it. If an abstraction does not help in understanding a design and simplify the task of explaining it, it is probably not a good one.

Unfortunately, Fagan's rules for inspections try to rule out this sort of open-ended issue, and a code review is too late to be discussing it, anyway.

A developer's job is not to create abstractions; doing so is merely a technique - a very important, effective and general one, but not an end in itself, and when it is mistaken for one, that is how you get over-engineering.
You could say the same of anyone working in any industry on any side during the War. The civilian farmers in the US weren't actively killing people, but their food was sustaining soldiers who sure were.
I hope underground is no copyrighted or a trademark right now, it would really be ridiculous.
You can already write programs in this style in Ruby quite successfully, but there are advantages to having it baked into the language. It forces consistency and also opens up opportunities for tooling.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's something that can be bolted on after the fact.
'BJJ', yes (although e.g. Pancrase which started around the time of UFC1 had skilled grapplers - if there had been a few more (besides Ken) Pancrase fighters 'seeded' in the early tournaments, history would've looked different), but not 'Gracie JJ'. There are still very good grapplers with the last name Gracie of course, but the whole 'worship us for we brought the light' (e.g. the 'Rickson is 400-0' spiel, 'we perfected JJ for 60 years' (yeah and then it took 2 years to break it, so what?) ) is undeserved. Even in UFC5 Royce had a hard time with Ken, Royce was broken after 36 mins but Ken came out smiling.

The thing with Americans is (saying this as a European, and as as someone who's generally abhorred by the low kickboxing skills in the US) that they're so pragmatic, and that that is much more to credit for the amazing development of MMA than the basics the Gracies brought in the 1990's (although it cannot be assigned to one person of course, so it's much more difficult to build a Hero story around it). Look at how much the techniques, the training, the professionalism, everything has improved since the early 2000's, when people like Tank Abbott or Kimo actually were top level fighters. As soon as MMA took off in the US, it was all about 'what wins the fights'. Whereas in Japan, and here in Europe as well, things were (are?) much more about 'bushido' and 'following what we've alway done' and all that nonsense which keeps people from improving. As late as 2007 or 2009, there were many 'MMA fights' (which were usually just sideshows during kickboxing events...) where any blue belt BJJ player could step into the ring and win pretty much any fight in <30 seconds, because nobody had a clue about takedown defenses. The same way I submitted a judo black belt once in < 30s with a straight ankle lock because judo players don't generally even know about leg locks. (Of course after I got him once, he didn't fall for the same setup any more, and went on to destroy me in 50 different ways - not saying I'm such a great fighter here).

Again not sure where I'm going with this and my comment reads like a Sherdog post of the type that made me leave that site years ago, so I'll just stop :)
Given an average of 100,000 [EDIT 100,000 per month since 1937] civilian deaths at the hands of the imperial army just in China alone (there were civilians being slaughtered in Indo-china and the Korean peninsula also), if the bombs ended the war just two months earlier than it would have ended (incredibly unlikely to the point of absurdity), it was a net gain in civilians saved.

And it can be well argued that the Japanese civilian deaths should be blamed on the imperial army for not capitulating when it was obvious the war was lost.
If "done properly" implies "works ok", then it's circular reasoning.

I'm not sure your example is a counterexample either. Implementing part of a fairly simple runtime (like Lua's) using longjmp is an example of a good use of longjmp, in my opinion.
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I've heard that claim made before, but the fact is that the Emperor specifically mentioned the atomic bomb in his surrender speech.

That seems to me to be the most powerful evidence against the notion that it had 'little or no effect' on their reasoning...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyokuon-h%C5%8Ds%C5%8D
You're judging a whole community based on interractions you had with Haskellers most likely many years ago - dons almost never speaks publicly these days, since moving to SC (which is shame, he's someone I've looked up to and learned a huge amount from). If I were to characterise the OCaml community based on what jdh says, I'd be writing to politicians to ban all use of OCaml everywhere because his comments are toxic, and far more dishonest than I've seen from anyone in the Haskell community.
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Nothing justifies massacre -- except if you can claim that you can make a quick one right now, compared to an 'inevitable' long one, and that trade-off is worth it. (Back to square one)