skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a very nice paper by its wonderful last author

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.p...
GP is factually incorrect. Defending that is not a recipe for success.
Isn't the classic way to just pick a color and an animal.
The price of put options on VRX is extremely high.

For example, VRX closed on Friday at $93.77. The cost of a 1 week put at 90 strike was about $5.70. The cost of a 2.5 month put at 90 strike was about $15.00. The cost of a 15 month put at 50 strike was about $10.00.

I doubt that VRX will collapse immediately. These things always take a while to play out. With that in mind, look at that last data point. You would have to pay $10 for an option that won't have any value at all unless VRX goes from $94 to under $50 in the next 15 months.

It might make more sense to sell a call spread instead of purchasing puts, but the option prices are very high and this stock swings wildly. This is definitely adult swim, the very deep end of the pool.

I'm not brave enough to play this stock. It's much like playing Herbalife, where you've got billionaires like Ackman on one side, billionaires like Icahn on the other side. Often the best move for a small investor is to not play at all.
This used to be a widespread perception in Western Europe, too, but changed during the cold war. When people in France were asked in May 1945 which country had contributed most to the defeat of the Germans, the answers were: 57% USSR, 20% USA, 12% UK. But asked again in 1994, the numbers had shifted to: 49% USA, 25% USSR, 16% UK.

According to: http://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sondage-...
They'll turn to other countries for turnkey services, i.e. we hand you this person and maybe some cash and you'll tell us what you learned, if only because it's politically unfeasible to do it ourselves. Having been around government service most of my life, I can tell you that we're pretty lazy in that regard, so I can see why we'd practice rendition. Intelligence is already a really mercenary field, so our normal distrust of foreigners might well be disregarded in special circumstances.

I don't think that portions of services we are already providing, we'd contract, not just to some other American company, but to extra-national contractors, for tasks more complicated than manning customer-service-type posts, like mess halls. It's not the American way. When the service gets complicated, such as for maintenance of complicated military hardware, the government prefers to hire American contractors that use American workers, even specifying nationality in the contracts. It's a cultural thing.

Americans just don't trust foreign nationals. I could never see them trusting foreign psychologists, it flies in the face of everything I could ever consider to be "American".
You can't tackle someone around the neck in rugby or too high, it's a foul called a "high tackle"
That's not the same as using the C preprocessor to implement the language.
the story I have heard is that some things about french tanks were superior to german tanks - they had more armor and a more powerful main gun. however, the french had a 2 person crew, a driver and a commander/gunner, while the german had a 3 person crew, a driver, a gunner, and a commander. so the french had a more overloaded crew driving a superior tank and that didn't work out.
> ...research like that in which contemporary behavioural geneticists engage helped to undermine the eugenics movement by proving that eugenic policies could not achieve their stated goals.

What's being discussed here is the historical eugenics movement. Just from the text of the article, it becomes clear that the multi-generational confounding effects like prosperity, education, and social class would make an naive effort pointless.

More generally, you should think of the problem thusly, I suggest:

Even with extensive genetic surveys, there are no clear candidates for genes that one would wish to select for that present themselves; this is consistent with the notion that general cognitive ability is evolutionarily advantageous.

It may be that g.c.a. is locally maximal; that there is no easy conflux of changes which could occur that would predictably raise the g.c.a of human individuals. A hypothetical change might for instance do something that would seem likely to increase cognitive ability, in the abstract, but carry a systemic cost that either prevents such a change from manifesting itself, or renders the value of such a change moot.

For most people, I believe, it seems intuitively clear that eugenics is analogous.

We know that eugenics efforts cannot produce any remarkable or decisive selection for increased cognitive abilities. We know this because eugenics is a sort of hobby-horse form of evolution, across handfuls of generations, and because evolution cannot, taken over thousands of generations, select any more strongly for increased cognitive abilities than it already has. If it could, it would; thus we must conclude that it can't.

We also know that eugenics requires a society that permits centralized, forcible control over how and whether individuals combine genetic material to produce offspring; it requires a society wherein all individuals can be indoctrinated so as to cooperate with this effort; it requires a society wherein these means of force and social control cannot be usurped or arrogated by elements of that society so that they may be directed towards other purposes; and it requires that this state of affairs persist for a modest number of generations, perhaps twenty to fifty.

It seems very likely that selection for eugenics is something which will fail because of the systemic costs that it would entail. In fact, it seems more likely than not that eugenics is something that would have arisen in the course of history, already --- perhaps for more trivial purposes than increasing cognitive ability --- were the social structures required not too fragile to sustain the effort.
There's a very interesting article arguing the simplicity of Russian armaments:

http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/06.html
And airborne Radar.
> I find it hard to deny that it probably saved a lot of allied lives.

That's true if the Japanese would have fought a land invasion tooth and nail for every inch of ground, civilians charging at GIs with kitchen knives, etc, etc. That's what the Western propaganda of the time predicted; East Asians in general and the Japanese in particular were broadly understood as hive-mind insects yearning to sacrifice their lives and families for the glory of the nation.

The reality is considerably more doubtful, especially now that we know about the government factions that were desperately eager to surrender even before the A-bombs fell. And even if we discount that, there's no excuses made for why the nuclear show of force had to be targeted against civilians, nor why the second bomb was dropped only three days later.
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My Grandfather was an Australian Commando assigned to a secret British mission operating within China during the war. It is still the longest overland mission ever undertaken by the British Army.

It was known as Mission 204 [1], or Tulip Force [2].

They were trained in Burma before entering China to help train the Chinese Nationalist Army in Guerrilla warfare, demolition, and try to encourage a resistance movement. The mission had limited success.

Not many Australians, or anyone else, knows that Australian soldiers were under the command of a Chinese general in China during WWII.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_204

[2]: http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/farflung/
Can he hide the song in the image before hiding the image in the song ? #Yc

meta humor aside, wonderful article
I think the most important fallacy about WW2 is that nobody entered the war for a noble cause. It was all self-serving. It's often held up as a just war. Now of course I agree Hitler had to be defeated once 1939 came around, but it was also preventable, like most wars. The extent of appeasement was really an eye-opener to me. I'm 1937 the US state department still said Hitler was a "moderate" and should be supported! The background to the Pacific war by Noam Chomsky also tells of an economic war among empires which led directly to the Pacific war.

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/196709--.htm

The indescribable savagery of the war, particularly near the end is hard to imagine.

Lastly one of the biggest fallacies concerns Hitler's invasion of the USSR, and speculation as to whether he could have won. The truth is the Germans were incredibly fortunate to do as well as they did! In fact the USSR was a world leader in tank production and tank strategy, before the 1937 purges they had the best and most innovative tank commanders and the most advance tanks. They should have crushed the Germans from the beginning!
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What's preventing the companies from then simply dropping you as a client?
OP1: >> "...the enormous good it did to the whole of south-east Asia."

OP2: >> "...saved a lot of allied lives..."

The atomic bombings of Japan had nothing to do with the military campaign in the Pacific theater, which by 1945 had been decisively and indisputably won by the Americans. They had literally run out of targets to bomb in the Japanese home islands. [0-1] An argument could be made that the Atomic bombings saved some American lives by accelerating VJ day and thereby precluding some unpleasant island-hopping, though I've never been terribly convinced.

The atomic bombs were about scaring the Soviets, plain and simple. By '45 the American military was perfectly aware that it had won the Pacific, would soon win the European theater, and had long since turned its attention to preparing for the cold war and plundering German technology and other assets.

[0] See for example Sec. of War Henry Stimson's diary and papers, which are excerpted here among other places: http://www.doug-long.com/stimson5.htm It might help to command-F down to this quote: "I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan#Attacks_on_...
Regarding Uber: are the majority of its drivers part time, or full time? If the majority of drivers are part time, I wouldn't suspect there's as much of a chance of a march on Uber Headquarters, as it may not be their main source of income. There's also the problem of geography: the majority of Uber drivers are not close to it.

I'm a little shakier commenting on your poor people/homeless ideas. Have you experienced being homeless/poor recently? I hate to think your perspective on this is from, ahem: an ivory tower.
The US is in fact the pinnacle of education, in several regards. For example it has by far the best university system. No other country comes even remotely close. On any list of the top 50 universities on earth, the US will routinely take the top 40 or 45 slots. If you make a list of the top 20 universities, it's going to be dominated by 19 from the US, with Oxford thrown in for good measure.

The US won the math olympiad this year, and is pretty much always near the top. You might want to check out where certain highly praised European countries tend to come in every year by comparison.

The US has one of the highest GDP per capita levels, at $56,000 (#5 for 2015, behind only a few tiny nations), to go with one of the highest median incomes - you don't accomplish that without some amazing education output. The US leads in nobel prizes globally. The US leads in general innovation, R&D, and sheer scientific output. Its universities are productive in that regard in ways nobody else comes close to. Its economy is also one of the most productive.

The US leads in space, space tech, aerospace, medtech, biotech, pharma, software, Web, Internet, mobile, agriculture, entertainment, defense tech, is one of the leaders in computing hardware, and is also one of the leaders in pretty much every type of energy technology. It's also the world's #2 manufacturer.

So yeah, the US does a lot of things really really well. You don't accomplish all of that, and manage to produce such a massive economic engine for over a century, with extremely high output levels per capita, without at least a decent education system to go with it - which is why so few countries can match up to the US economically or scientifically.
So take a position that makes money on large swings?
As a FreeBSD guy, I'd like to claim smug, grey beard superiority, but there are more than enough counterexamples to poke holes in that attitude.

GEOM, cvsup, how many versions of port managers?, perl and gcc extraction/clang migration in base system, and the big ones NetBSD and OpenBSD--all represented wrenching progress--*BSD has its own set of people throwing temper tantrums at various points, as well.
As a workaround, I use google cache or the waybackmachine when viewing sites that have issues with my strict HTTPS-only policy. I expect it's also a viable workaround for Tor users.

DuckDuckGo nicely lists these options if you search for the full URL too.
Sure, my idea of good guys and bad guys might be wrong. And so might the idea that Nazis were bad guys and allies were good guys. This is the same concept that we choose the history we want to believe, myself included.

You could even make the argument that the allies should not have resisted the Nazi invasions of Europe/Russia because the cost in lives ended up greater than what might have happened if they'd easily taken control. Though we can't know that "what if" scenario, we can at least try not to fool ourselves too much by assuming it would be unimaginable worse forever.
Ask HN: GitHub contributions: green or yellow?
Recently, my github contributions started showing up in shades of yellow. What color would you prefer?
I dislike that this is getting downvoted. While the claim is certainly debatable, the comment itself is civil, grammatical, links to a non-crank source which is indisputably relevant to the claim, and appears to be made in good faith.
This is weird, because it is mostly accepted in American History classes - at least from my school and a few other public school kids I asked when I saw this. Everyone I asked at LEAST thought the USSR contributed as much as the USA in terms of winning the war.
>the germans could only build one [bismark]

The Germans built two Bismark-class ships. The other sailed under the name Tirpitz
The lifetime stuff in C++ is full of annotations, with effectively just as many required as Rust. I think of it effectively as a separate language. It's also significantly more complex, with points-to analysis instead of inherited mutability, and the restrictions on pointer aliasing on function entry seem very restrictive compared to what RefCell provides.

I think that Rust's system has proven itself to be about as simple and easy to use as you can get in this space. I also think that you cannot just "bolt on" a lifetime system to an existing language that was not designed for it without large amounts of annotation, modification of existing code, and additional learning curve.
Better yet, just run this on a t2.micro on a throwaway EC2 account. Doesn't matter if they own the box, they get literally nothing they couldn't get for free from Amazon anyways.
Ah, very good. The page the submission links to did have some kind of error at the time I posted my comment - instead of the commit message and diffs it had a vaguely-404ish error message in red. But it sounds like it was probably just a temporary error - perhaps the HN effect!
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I think I get what you mean, but your wording is just slightly off.

The Fallacy: That anybody was a noble actor.

Your wording makes it sound like there's a wrong-headed perception that war is not noble, and that the correction to the fallacy is to find ALL participants VERY noble, valiant and in high regard.

Then, your next sentences:

It was all self-serving. It's often held up as a just war.

These clarify what you meant to say, and contradict the preceeding statements.

The words "fallacy" and "nobody" inadvertently constitute a double negative.
caveat, I didn't read the article because either it is timing out or ublock is blocking it (just see white page)

I think it is a good thing that the law can't keep up with technology. Take Uber, people like it and it works well. It is hard for the law to stop this and public opinion is quite loudly for it, so it stands. The internet is changing from centralized to distributed with finance depending on it wholly for infrastructure.

Protocols will change at that level and slowly money will become more digitized. Even without bitcoin, it will be possible to quickly transfer funds from organizations at banks. If the public embraces this, the gov't can't do anything.

This is like a riot for freedom. When enough people do something the government is outnumbered and it becomes defacto legal. Often, this rare phenomenon is referred as democracy.

Drones falling on people will be bad. Some people will be scammers. Medical devices/technoques will be more dangerous (with better upside). People will hide income which is good for the individualshort-term but bad for the governemnt, and possibly everyone long term. Wages are fucked.

This will force cooperation between people and ultimately governments because the power distance delta will be lowered significantly from a person to "the government". Technology is killing government just like home taping killed the music industry. Very slowly.
> Leaving aside the technical issues the launch of systemd 'looks' very much like a playbook PR campaign designed to push through something unpopular.

> The discrediting debates, labeling near abuse and mockery of opponents, appeals to authority and exaggerated consensus do not look accidental. This has all the markings of a sophisticated campaign.

Sophisticated? That's pretty laughable. To most outside observers this looks like monkeys flinging poo.

In addition, you make a serious error in your assumptions:

Popular != technically correct
Unpopular != technically incorrect

RedHat did not just magically have an epiphany and decide to shove systemd down on everybody. They started by using "upstart". Remember how everybody went apeshit over that? Sounds a whole lot like the current debate doesn't it? After using upstart for a while, folks at RedHat decided that wasn't sufficient and they needed a replacement for that.

People seem to think that just magically RedHat decided to rip things up for no reason at all. That's patently false--RedHat has some issues that need to be solved and systemd solves those. If you want to beat systemd, you're going to have to give RedHat something which works better.

After their experience with upstart, it's no surprise that RedHat just decided to ignore the community. It was clear that a solution was never going to be accepted.
Why would Oracle want to fix bugs in MySQL?

Sure they want to give the appearance of caring, but the worse that MySQL looks the better that Oracle looks. Maybe it's fixed in the paid version?

Edit: Just to be clear, Oracle purchased Sun which owned MySQL AB. IMO an astute businessman (of which there are many at Oracle) will do enough to keep MySQL alive as a toy database. So it's suitable for e.g. Slashdot to use. But if MySQL is too good, then it starts to compete against enterprise databases.

Too bad for Oracle's strategy, the people behind PostgreSQL don't seem to be playing along.
I specifically tried to omit the homeless from my analysis. Americans have largely excluded homeless people from being able to participate meaningfully in the economy, for various reasons. I am in Colombia right now, and homeless people here play critical roles in maintaining city infrastructure. I saw a homeless guy once fixing water piping out in the street. It felt like the street was his home, he had a pride obligation to making sure his home was in good repair. I also see them doing things like trash sorting, things nobody else wants to do at reasonable rates.

I think Americans, if they could moderate their sense of social justice, could find win-win solutions with the really hard-up that makes everybody's lives better. But they don't, so industries such as sanitation become hotbeds of corruption instead.

But I grew up lower class, white privilege made my life much more palatable than it otherwise would have been. But I am very familiar with the psychological burdens of the working poor. Life is hard, but they are not stupid people. There's a tendency in America to equate lower-class with unintelligent. Just because you don't have an education doesn't make you stupid.

Hard life makes you hard, eventually poor people become unable to climb the social ladder. I've met people who willingly chose less affluent environs over more affluent ones because the poorer ones were places they knew. They felt richer because of their knowledge than because of their opportunity.
You can't publish holocaust denial material. That means if you find a new discovery that seems to challenge the legally sanctioned story, you can be breaking the law by publishing it. I don't think that politicians should decide what research is "right" and what is "wrong". This is completely against the American concept of free speech.

Austrian law seems quite clear on holocaust denial being a crime:

§ 3g. He who operates in a manner characterized other than that in § § 3a – 3f will be punished (revitalising of the NSDAP or identification with), with imprisonment from one to up to ten years, and in cases of particularly dangerous suspects or activity, be punished with up to twenty years' imprisonment.

§ 3h. As an amendment to § 3 g., whoever denies, grossly plays down, approves or tries to excuse the National Socialist genocide or other National Socialist crimes against humanity in a print publication, in broadcast or other media.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#...]

Imagine if he US criminalized downplaying the crimes of the Vietnamese Communists or any other group the government decided was "bad". This should be a matter for public discourse, not an imposed official history.
Colored pages isn't about group editing per se, it is an artifact of not being able to change page numbers to avoid screwing with the shooting script. Instead you have like page 5 and then 5 red that is the extra page.
You mean he was not in fact taught that in school?
To be poor - to really be poor - is to live under the constant stress of unexpected payments and unexpected interruptions in your ability to pay the bills you see comming. To be poor is to have to really think about every small purchase, every half mile driven. Living from paycheck to three days before the next paycheck is not a pain that can be pacified with distraction. (Those people buried in their smartphones aren't reading the Wikipedia page on Haskell...)

Have you ever seen the interest on a payday loan? What situation would someone have to be in to make that a good idea? Surely, if the internet could help people that much, nobody would go for it.

I've seen both - you are confusing poor with idle.
"On any list of the top 50 universities on earth, the US will routinely take the top 40 or 45 slots."

Do you by any chance have a handy link to such a list, that was not compiled by Americans?
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> The Interesting thing about Windows NT was that Microsoft had plans to port it to different processors

The didn't plan it, they did it. I was looking after Windows NT on Alpha processors at one job. I never personally saw the NT on PowerPC or MIPS, though they did exist.
Box is stable and fully supported. The built-in "box" syntax is unstable still, but Box::new suffices in almost all cases.