skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither is it true that "any claim, however small, about the Holocaust" is "a research no-go-zone where only the officially sanctioned results are allowed to be published and people can go to prison in many European countries for making false or unpopular claims"
This seems like a junk article. World War 2, especially the European theater, is one of the best studied historical times in existence. Especially since the Russian archives have come to light. It is really not believable to claim that we have gotten the story that wrong -- with such weak evidence.

I don't believe carping about the merits of specific machine guns is substantive, and I think what he said about tanks was incomplete and misleading, although I don't want to spend the time to demonstrate it.

The article really went off the rails in dismissing the significance of the Battle of the Atlantic. TFA claims that U boats only sunk 127 ships during 1940, but Wiki claims that 270 ships were sunk during June-October alone. And it is well known that Churchill himself said that winning the battle of the Atlantic was critical to Great Britain's survival.

In a later phase in early 1942, after America had entered the war but before it understood the threat, German subs sunk 609 ships at a loss of only 22 u-boats. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Happy_Time)

A recent examples of a book that has changed emphases and perceptions about WWII is Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands, on the unique savagery of the Eastern European conflict.
Brilliant article. I have always found something off about people saying - "why reinvent the wheel?" Well, this article confirms that reinventing the wheel will make you a good learner (and in turn a good teacher) while reusing the wheel will make you 'efficient' worker. Whats the tradeoff? Something to think about!
Q. What direction do you want to go in with your career?

I think you really need to think through where you'd like to be when you get out of school. Do you want to work at a big company or a startup? Is there a problem space that you have a passion for (this can be anything from finding a cure to cancer to videogames)? Are you into a certain language or a certain platform?

The people who stand out are the people who have a passion for something. If your obsession is stock picking then you want to bring that passion to an investment bank. If your obsession is self driving cars then you want to work for a tesla or uber.

There's the old Woody Allen phrase "half of life is showing up". In a humorous way you can envision a slacker who shows up for school and manages to pass, but in reality it's showing up and hooking up with the people or projects that you want to work on.

By the way I trick I use is this: If I gave you several million dollars and no conditions, what would you do with it? Would you buy a house or start a startup? By the way don't buy the hype and be honest with yourself on that answer. Many people are selling startups, but there's a world of people doing other things out there.
Think Again: Tech and media outlook 2016
What are you talking about? I never suggested that was a good idea. I just said it would have the same effect. I was trying to explain the purpose of daylight savings time, because you didn't seem to understand it. My original comment was just saying that "permanent daylight savings time" is nonsensical.

Since you bring it up, I do find it absolutely horrifying that we rely on the government to mandate that people miscalibrate their clocks once a year. Instead of businesses and stuff doing the right thing and moving their schedules back so people can have more afternoon time. But unfortunately that's the world we live in.
A good twitch stress test. Hopefully this stuff gets cleaned up in the future!
I’m not sure anyone should have made this car,” Tesla Motors
No in the null hypothesis,
for the distribution, don't
have to care, can be distribution
free, except assume that
the expected values on the measurements
are the same. For details, see
my post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484602
Sherman: 33-ton tank, Tiger: 60-ton tank; Sherman: mainstay of US armor, Tiger: heavy tank. You're comparing apples and oranges.

The Sherman's counterpart was the Panzer - which the Germans still only built roughly 15k of - but then again, the Germans also made heavy use of tank destroyers and assault guns - the Stug III by themselves were another 10k worth of hulls.

But, again, just because someone has more capacity than you doesn't mean you're not building at scale.
> their tanks were initially technologically superior

It's my understanding that French tanks like the Char B1 and the SOMUA S35 were pretty effective in fighting German armor early in the war.
No, in the null hypothesis,
for the distribution, don't
have to care; the distributions of the
measurements for the men and the women
can be different; the work can be distribution
free, except assume that
the expected values on the measurements
are the same for the men and women.

For details, see
my post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484602
I'm a spacemacs convert after using vim for 2 years. This editor + configuration is extremely hard to beat. I just pulled from master after using it full time for two months and updates were amazing.

Way better ergonomics than vim and elisp is extremely easy to hack on.
> I like the idea, but how do you apply this to power law distribution outcomes and get any statistical significance? I don't know the answer.

See my post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484602

where are distribution-free.
So "power law", Gaussian, anything else,
doesn't matter.
Since the government has tried as vigorously as possible to make it expensive and legally risky to employ people, there is really no mystery here.
Philidor was changing doctors' prescriptions by writing DAW on them
...
this is highly illegal, people will definitely be going to jail for that.

Oh, boy, this could get exciting quite quickly.

Valeant owns an option that lets them buy Philidor for $0 (plus possible incentive payments).[0] Yes, that's not a typo. This was submitted to HN a few days ago but didn't generate any comments.

The executives still (at least nominally) running Philidor must be shitting in their pants right about now. It looks like Valeant is out to make them look like bagmen. But why would they go down without a fight? The internecine warfare is about to get very interesting, or in more colloquial terms, the shit is really about to hit the fan.

[0] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-26/valeant-s-p...
This is pretty much the premise of "Brute Force" by John Ellis (1). It argues that Britain, Russia and especially America won the war by sheer industrial capacity, which vastly exceeded Germany's output. Their logistical advantage was reflected in their tactics. If I remember correctly, in the battle of El Alamein, Montgomery had vastly more equipment than Rommel, and won the battle through massive artillery bombardments and by numerical superiority in tanks. In the invasion of Normandy huge numbers of shells were fired, using carpet bombing which overpowered the Germans in the Falaise gap. Germany's "war of movement", with its aggressive advances, which had been so successful at the start of the war, sputtered to a halt before sheer quantity of materiel against both Russians and Americans.

The book also argues that the Allied "brute force" mentality worked against them at times. Patton used a dynamic war of movement against the Germans several times, but was often held back by the plodding methodical approach of his superiors.

1.http://www.amazon.com/Brute-Force-Allied-Strategy-Tactics/dp...
So if Americans from race A commit ten times more violent crime than others and the police consequently accuse and manhandle vast numbers of innocent Americans of race A, there's nothing unjust about that? The vast majority of citizens of race A are innocent of all offenses but deserve constant suspicion and low level official humiliation and violence in a just world for no reason other than being the same color as some crooks.

I don't agree.
Everything you need to understand about Germany's defeat in two numbers, which can be surprising ones for Brits and Americans:

German troops killed, missing or POW on the Eastern front: 2.1m

German troops killed, missing or POW everywhere else: 1.2m

The Russians beat the Germans in any meaningful sense of the word.
He said they broadly reviewed behavioral genetics research and did not mention GCA in this sentence, probably on purpose?

I don't think there is any proof that eugenic policies will fail to work for GCA or even other behavioral traits that are highly heritable. See, e.g., https://infotomb.com/0q783.pdf
I found your last sentence hard to parse. Are you saying that all of the justifications you've heard for the bombing were absolutely unconvincing?

I have strong feelings both ways, but I find it hard to deny that it probably saved a lot of allied lives. It doesn't mean that it was the "right" choice, but I don't see how it can be possibly dismissed (put yourself in Truman's shoes).
Ignoring the difference in salaries due to markets for a moment: This is obviously about respect and acknowledgement concerning this person's contribution.

That said, if you don't already you must learn that cost of living and the job market have a huge impact on compensation and can vary dramatically from region to region in a country. Different countries entirely are literally a world apart. If you do already know this your comment can only be taken as sour grapes.

Even giving you the benefit of the doubt concerning that still makes your comment a bit shitty. You have a skill that can be used not just remotely to get paid more, but as a basis for immigrating to a country that can pay you what you're worth. Yes, that's easier said than done but if you want something more you can get it with hard work and some elbow grease.
Assuming that the distributions are exactly equal, the test would still give misleading results in situations in which the bias does not manifest as a different cutoff.

For example, if a VC funds all male founders but flips a coin to decide whether to fund each female founder, the test would fail to detect overwhelming bias.

Obviously that specific scenario is not realistic, but I believe something like this is plausible enough: A VC funds all male founders who are considered promising, and all female founders who are considered promising AND went to school with one of the partners.

And it's not hard to imagine a plausible scenario in which the test would give false positives rather than false negatives.
We have been working on something like this as well using docker containers. We call it Bakula its still in an early alpha phase.

The idea is that instead of writing to a particular API it listens for events and mounts a filesystem. Then you just process files in the filesystem as your events and delete them when they are done.

The code can be found on github at: https://github.com/immuta/bakula
What understanding do you think they would need to have to find your unhappiness?

Because while I'm sure in a competition of esoteric kernel knowledge I would lose to a great many people, I also simply don't care. systemd makes establishing my service start up dependencies amazingly simple. It makes daemon deployment simple. It simplifies a whole host of problems which are not cleanly solvable by other means. It handles process restarts, limits and a whole host of other things for me.

No one is bringing a superior solution to the table. Everyone is telling me daemon-tools and init scripts are "fine" (they're not).
OK, so capitalism is fundamentally about choices. Market players compete to bring products / services to the market that both a) people want to choose, and b) is cheap to provide. Because it is not the case that the most desirable service is the most expensive to provide, that allows for competition. Markets "learn" over time, advantages gained by one firm are copied by others requiring constant innovation.

The job market is no different, but the second quality, being cheap to provide, means there is going to be a constant degrading in the monetary compensation offered to workers, while the desired benefits those workers are getting is paradoxically going to increase. You can most clearly see this in companies like Uber where compensation gets slashed every year, but there's no truly mass uprising of drivers taking place.

You can treat this as a failure of union outreach, that Uber drivers should unionize and demand relief. But it's not like they can't organize. They were perfectly capable of organizing a march at Uber headquarters. No, most Uber drivers choose to keep driving, the arguments that they're being exploited seem a little thin when you realize that Uber drivers could be doing just about anything else to make more money if they were really truly being exploited. Workers in America have unparalleled ability, compared to other countries, to try out other industries and occupations.

What I think is happening, is that the information age has brought unmatched and unmeasurable utility to common people, in the form of free services provided by tech companies, to everyone (take a second to let it sink in just how unprecedented this is, historically, for a hugely valuable service, like Google search, to be provided to anybody with a Internet connection) and the job market is simply adjusting to meet the new status quo.

Being poor in America isn't nearly as horrible as it used to be. You don't need to expend unreal amounts of effort to increase your station just to have a more-or-less happy life anymore. Homeless people all can get online somehow. And that access provides them with incalculable value. There's a reason that everywhere you go, you see people buried in their smartphones. They're choosing smartphone interaction over everything else they could be doing right now.

So the labor market is adjusting to fit. People can choose to be poorer, and are doing that rather than expending extraordinary efforts to climb ladders that have, all of a sudden, become so much harder to climb. Because with these services, being poor isn't nearly as onerous.
Ask HN: License to Code Only What Must Be Coded
We are a startup in stealth mode and we would like to ask you to help us understand our revenue space.

We have a set of tooling, processes (from dev code to 24/7 operation) and sets of platform services (social, messaging, logging, inventory, etc).

If developers make use of our tooling and processes to create new proprietary services and/or proprietary solutions and code, etc, we expect each developers to save 1 to 5 days of work per month for the life of the platform service.

If developers make use of our platform services, they will save years of development time, reducing, substantially, execution risks.

In other words, developers will be able to focus their energy to code only what must be coded to further your business.

Would you pay $299 per developer per month for the tooling and processes and the use of all platform services for development, prototyping, demoing, etc? The $299 does not include the cloud cost, whatever Google or Amazon may charge you.

What would you consider to be an attractive price range? What would you want to be offered?

The cost to license the platform services for commercial operations will be separate. However, for the purpose of this discussion, please assume the licensing model will work out just fine and very agreeable for you.

All your thoughts would be most welcome and appreciated...
Has nothing to do with information. The argument in the book is about markets exploiting kinks in human nature and reasoning to sell things that in the long term are not beneficial for anyone but driven by short-term thinking people buy the stuff anyway. Even if you were sufficiently informed a lot of research in psychology and behavioral economics shows that you still wouldn't make the "rational" decision.
> social justice

Gee, I never saw a definition.
Not sure the meaning of the phrase
is clear without a definition.
Google search is buggy recently
They didn't wait until half-way through '45. Hitler was dead at the end of April '45. Germany had already been smashed well before that date.

Of course they 'waited' somewhat. Priority #1 was taking back France and bringing an ally back online. That single outcome by itself guaranteed the end of Nazi Germany. Why would any sane commander do it differently?

Why not sit back and bomb the hell out of Germany prior to rolling over them? Again, the only smart choice, and that's exactly what the allies did.

By '45 Germany was exhausted and obviously defeated. The only thing left was to cap it off. Nothing Germany could possibly do could turn the war around at that point. Why would you choose to do anything but wear Germany down in an optimal fashion? You win when it's most convenient for you, when you can lose as few soldiers as necessary, not when it's best for the Germans to inflict casualties upon you.
> Americans didn't.

That's not really true. Lend-lease, the American Volunteer Group, the embargo against Japan - these all predated Pearl Harbor. In fact, these were the impetus for Pearl Harbor.
Should you quit your job to start your own startup?
Criminal justice and orchestra employment are non-market phenomena. The people in charge do not benefit if the orchestra is great and are not accountable if innocents go to jail and murders spree freely and the tubas clank.

So of course the bosses pick out their friends and cronies. And a decent polity should restrain their corruption with blind auditions and accountable audits of prosecutions.

But investors should be looking for a good return on their money. They should be looking for the best investments they can find. If they're not, that is the source of bias right there.

Of course, the Wall Street industry is located in New York because you can use big city lights, strippers, and steaks to scam small town municipal pension fund managers who aren't investing their own money. Sand Hill Road is supposed to operate on different principles.
Iterations of an indie iOS math game
War is a racket, some lesser acknowledged operation information of WW2:

a) IG Faben and Standard Oil and the supply of TEL (Tetraethyl Lead) to Nazi Germany. [0],[1]

b) Production of Ford (and GM) engines by German subsidiaries for motorised transport was directly used against the Allies.

"Mel Weiss, an American attorney for Iwanowa, argues that American Ford received "indirect" profits from forced labor at its Cologne plant because of the overall increase in the value of German operations during the war. He notes that Ford was eager to demand compensation from the U.S. government after the war for "losses" due to bomb damage to its German plants and therefore should also be responsible for any benefits derived from forced labor. Similar arguments apply to General Motors, which was paid $32 million by the U.S. government for damages sustained to its German plants."

This came out from a law suit (class action) by Elsa Iwanowa in 1999 (IWANOWA v. FORD MOTOR CO) for being rendered from Belgium to work in Nazi Germany for a Ford subsidiary in Cologne. [3]

It could be argued, more effective control of TEL to the Nazi war machine would have resulted in a halt or severe reduction in Nazi air power. And Ford did sue the US Government post-war for $32M USD for bombing their factories in Germany during WW2. [4]

Reference:

[0] http://web.mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html

[1] http://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/0303critic/03031...

[2],[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/na...

[3] http://www.leagle.com/decision/199949167FSupp2d424_1453/IWAN....
Even if the founders aren't sociopaths they will be pressured by themselves and their investors to do what's best for them and the whole time someone will be telling them that "business is business". If people can rationalize committing genocide they will easily rationalize screwing you over.
A 10g network can saturate a modern CPU if you're doing interrupt per-packet (disabling adaptive coalescing), on 40G, 56G, and 100G infiniband networks it is trivial :)

Multi-queue is absolutely mandatory for a modern networking stack, so this is really fantastic work.
It shows up in http://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/
The first versions of Objective-C were most definitely implemented as pre-processors to C compilation.
Isn't that instruction timing data assuming a L1 cache hit?
After the war, yes, but design began in 1945 and was completed in 1947, thus the "-47."
One of the most interesting aspects of this article is the brief discussion of commodities, subsidies, and supply chains. In the tech space you can ignore a lot of this but when you're buying 500 million pounds of butter that's going to be a logistical adventure and it's going to have an interesting effect on the dairy industry. And despite all these financial instruments that are trade of risk or feelings, there is still big business in commodities.

The article talks about the necessity of developing regional markets if we want local vegetables, meat, and eggs. Is anyone on the tech side doing anything meaningful in this space? I know plenty of non-profits and community development groups working on it, but they are concentrating on the footwork and relationship building in more rural areas that has to be done to create the networks.
I wasn't referring to any particular systemd thread (my experience has been watching Linux/Linus in the context of ARM), but I think you are referring to the post by semi-extrinsic and this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/420

I examined that thread, and the upshot seems to be that the kernel wasn't rate limiting logging so userland could break the kernel. And Linus threw a hissy fit instead of actually examining the situation. The kernel not rate limiting is a fault in the kernel. The fact that a user program exposes it does not mean that the user program is the one in the wrong. And Sievers basically said: "Not rate limiting logging is a kernel problem. We're going to make you fix it." So, basically he had the temerity to both A) pull a political power play and B) be technically correct--and it pissed Linus off ferociously.

Linus, however, is fighting with the 800lb gorilla. That's not a good position to be in. Linus needs the RedHat programmers more than the RedHat programmers need Linus. They'll keep Linus around to avoid the bad PR that would come with a fork, but, if he gets in the way, they'll just cut him out of the loop.
Im not sure if this is a new find. Doctors in Japan and Karolinska Institutet in sweden did something similar when they took samples from patients who received cord cell transplants. The findings suggested suggested that brain function can be improved using mesenchymal cells that secrete growth factors and cytokines which activate a mechanism that leads to improved neuro function,neurogenesis and angiogenesis. The issue is that the results should be able to be verified with long-term follow ups to evaluate functional outcomes and possible harmful effects.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11988611

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=stem+cells+AND+s...

http://stemcellthailand.org/therapies/stroke-ischemic-hemorr...
This is not a hypothetical for me. I went to a private school that sounds like it had approximately the same rules. I received detention at a rate of about one every six grades. I was hardly the only one. I think we had one punch thrown in the whole time I was in school. Children should, and can, work with good structured education.
I still think that an ai afterlife would not work for, among many other reasons, the bekenstein bound.

Unless the computer expands without end, it has a finite number of possible states, it would eventually have to repeat states, so there would be a limit to what the ai-self could experience. Not just in the sort of things it can experience, but in the number of distinct subjective times of experience.

So, even if brain uploading is possible, it would not be an end to death, only a delay of death.