skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. They have repeatedly turned to nationals from other countries to inflict cruelty upon detainees; why do you suppose they'd exclude psychologists in particular?
This isn't talking about where US dollars are - it's comparing incomes. The numbers are in USD for convenience's sake, but you could easily convert them to euros, rubles, yen, or krona if you wanted.

Of the three lists on the page you linked, the smallest different is $8151, not $6k.

You're right that the article doesn't account for purchasing power - they only do it for US states. Of course, that doesn't help your case since Sweden is a more expensive place to live than most of the US.

I won't touch your point about the Spanish Empire because I assure you that I don't understand whatever it is you're trying to say well enough to discuss it.
The Germans built just fine at scale - remember that it took the resources of Russia, the British Empire, and half of the US industrial juggernaut to take them down.
Everyone is a potential criminal.
Startup and product without sales and marketing?
I'm thinking about a team of engineers and product that requires no sales/marketing. I guess during the early phase of a startup the founders wear multiple hat and sales/marketing may not be required. However, I'm also thinking about the long run.
Do HN users think it is possible ? Are there any success stories ?
No please! Julia Julia Julia fills all those, but with beatiful python like syntax, lisp like macros when you wnat them, go like channels, distributed capabilities and leading class numerical stuff. Also webserver with a front end that you can build with polymer in Pure Julia.

http://escher-jl.org/
User acquisition takes priority over retention
I'm not seeing anything to convince me that this is a "very good thing." It seems to be a thing that's great if you're a Disruptive Tech Startup(TM) and somewhat mixed if you're an average Joe, but--like many recent tech articles--it's written solely from the perspective of a Disruptive Tech Startup, which is getting tiresome.
I used QNX extensively for a few projects at work, as it has historically been used quite a bit in the "automotive infotainment" world. I was really impressed by the overall clean architecture and documentation of the system, and I much prefer implementing device drivers in the QNX microkernel environment over implementing them in Linux, where interfaces are under-documented and always changing, and it's quite easy to lock up the entire system during driver development.

An interesting data point, though: QNX had a very clean and modularized 'microkernel-like' network stack called 'io-net'. But due to throughput issues in some situations, they switched to a new architecture a few years ago called 'io-pkt'. This is essentially the kernel networking code from BSD transplanted to a process in QNX; one advantage of this is that there's a large stock of drivers available to port and a lot of people are familiar with the BSD networking model, but some of the lesser-used corners of it weren't fully debugged when I was doing network protocol hacking, and in general it made me sad.

Anyway, you can definitely run full desktop environments on it, and you can especially run a full tablet environment if you buy a recent Blackberry tablet, as RIM now owns QNX and uses it as their latest Blackberry OS. This was, unfortunately, a step backwards in their openness and embrace of Open Source.
All histories of wars that are still in living memory or close are going to be grossly distorted because people want to hear stories that pander to their own emotions.

As a prime example, historians are often legally (and certainly professionally) forbidden from freely studying some aspects of WWII in case the come to conclusions that are still politically sensitive. I'm talking here about the Nazi concentration camps. This 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 about 80 year old history.

Then there's the opposite problem in Japan where the official and popular history paints them as the good guys and hides from their killing 10's of millions of Chinese. Americans fall for this too and feel bad about the nuclear bombing of Japan, despite the enormous good it did to the whole of south-east Asia.
seems like his resume updates automatically, or did he just happen to update it and repost it on the day this link was posted? (October 31, 2015) http://pgbovine.net/philip-guo-cv.pdf
>What I was taught in public school

Why down vote someone essentially confirming what the main article claims? Are you down voters just too embarrassed by what is being taught in US public schools?

I for one am not surprised considering we still hear of fights by school boards to include bologna like "intelligent design" in school books right next to the theory of evolution.

Edit: Yes, do respond by down voting this post too. We wouldn't want to shatter your fragile but entirely false views of the world now, would we? "US is the best. US education is the pinnacle of the world! USA! USA! Woop woop!" ... Did I do it right? I can haz imaginary internet points nao? :P
Good advice here: http://paulgraham.com/name.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41 not AK-47
I've extended the "in my home" argument to "on my website" before--e.g. Reddit restricting what you can say on Reddit is not really censorship--but stretching "in my home" to mean "on the hardware which you purchased from me" seems like rather a different thing.
> You may say whatever you like, provided no one is there to hear it.

Freedom of speech does not mean you are granted unmitigated control over the content a private medium, channel, or platform. For example, it doesn't imply that I can force the New York Times to publish this comment in their newspaper, nor can I force NBC to read this comment aloud on the nightly news. Similarly, I cannot force Apple to publish my content on their platform. In no way does this violate of my freedom of speech.
Yes, it is much more efficient. It takes a lot more energy to transition water from gas to liquid state (energy which is mostly wasted when the water vapor is converted back to liquid) than is needed just to work against osmotic pressure.
Internet firms 'should retain users' data'
It's also that American football has a lot of downtime between the relatively short plays, whereas Rugby has a more constant style of play. An entire NFL game consists of roughly 11-12 minutes of actual gameplay -- the most recent numbers for rugby I could find put it at ~35 minutes. So, players are less fatigued and can hit harder and faster.
If you look specifically at the Spandeau machine gun mentioned in the article, Is the US using the same damn process with the F-35 Strike Fighter? A plane that is over designed, clunky and extravagantly expensive?

From War is Boring: No, the F-35 Can’t Fight at Long Range, Either — Stealth fighter can’t see, shoot or survive.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/no-the-f-35-can-t-fight-at-...
> America built 74,000 Sherman hulls and engines; Germany built just 1,347 Tigers.
That's not * really * accurate. The Germans had a big head start, because they started the war, of course. But by the time the US and USSR had ramped up to full military production, by 1943-44, they could have rolled through Germany 3 times over and had hardware to spare.

The US was by no means at the end of its resources by the end of the war, running on fumes (the Germans were of course, out of fumes).
"After the failure of the Great Leap Forward and the disruption of the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping and other leaders took the country on a path of economic development based on a market economy, without relinquishing the party's grip on political power."

"The government resorted to nationalism, including an appeal to the CCP's anti-Japanese credentials, to reassert its legitimacy to lead the country and defuse the inevitable tensions that would accompany rapid economic growth.
Today, surveys have shown that anti-Japanese sentiment in China is higher among the current generation than among the Chinese who lived through the occupation of the Second Sino-Japanese War."

"Anti-Japanese sentiment can be seen in anti-Japanese war films produced and displayed in China. More than 200 anti-Japanese films are made in China each year."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_Chi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine_deat...
How does this compare to DragonflyBSD which has a completely lockless network stack?

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/~aggelos/netmp-paper.pdf
Evanston: A Suburb That Actively Discourages Cars
Hah. Cool! Thanks for sharing.
Does anyone know what the proof was that proves eugenics can't work for raising gca? This is stated as fact in the paper (reference 32).
Holocaust denialism does not constitute "research."
Not so. Priors/posteriors are only as good as the model they're based on. For instance, if you choose parental income as the feature it will can be a stronger signal than skin color, even though both may be good predictors. But the correlation between the income and skin color can account for the predictive power of one feature when the other features is the true cause.
> It’s whether they’re willing to take action that would destroy the companies’ $2.5 billion combined value owned by important investors (and campaign donors) like KKR, Comcast, NBC, Major League Baseball and several Silicon Valley VCs.

On one hand I want to agree, on the other hand I'd like to see some justification for this statement. $2.5 billion doesn't seem like a really big industry, sure, it's a lot for two companies to be dominating in, but nothing compared to even the smallest durable goods market.

It seems like a really small fish that the government wants to protect, rather than some giant that can't be touched. What it reminds me of is Hollywood. I read somewhere that the market cap of the entire movie business is handily outstripped by Disney's toy arm, or something like that, and what gives them outsized influence on policy-making is the symbiotic relationship that so much of our capitalism has with our content industries.

Football is like that. Yes, there's a lot of money in advertising and ticket sales and the actual business of football. But the rest of the economic effects that football generates is just huge. The govt is loathe to do anything to endanger football's ability to make money because of all that. It's not that they can't, they just don't want to.
make a portfolio from volunteer projects

i.e. build a website for your friend who is a DJ

or create a small open source project to solve one of your own problems

or find something that bugs you about a famous product and design a prototype that shows a better way

then blog about it
yet gnome still runs on the BSDs that have no systemd.
> In truth, there were never enough U-boats to more than dent the flow of shipping to Britain. In fact, out of 18,772 sailings in 1940, they sank just 127 ships, that is, 0.7 percent, and 1.4 percent in the entire war.

I thought this was partly thanks to Turing et al's breaking of Enigma. The allies had a window into tons of "secret" Nazi communication.
Kela to prepare basic income proposal
CentOS has NEVER been independent of RHEL
Why is this of particular interest? I work in a neurology research lab that specializes in stroke. There are dozens of proteins that have similar effects, BDNF, EGF, VEGF, NGF, etc., not to mention miRNAs.

This is just one small component of brain repair.

Oddly, it seems that I am seeing more of this on HN lately.
I find irony in how you criticize Japan for painting themselves as the good guys. And in the very next sentence, you paint Americans as the good guys.

You are proof that people want to hear stories that pander to their emotions.
My most unrewarding educational experiences felt like I was being fire hosed solutions to problems I didn't have. This is a big challenge in the early stages of learning any subject.

Interestingly, experienced software developers benefit from barely-learning about many solutions to problems they don't have, yet. What I mean is a style of skimming stuff like API documentation. You don't really learn it. You can't recall details. But you can recognize its applicability. Someday a problem tickles your memory, and you know roughly where to go looking for the details. And of course then you're really motivated to learn it, for real. You have an immediate need.
That's pretty interesting. I think in order for it to take off you would need a good autocopmlete editor to go with it.
Yeah, this sentence, "Almost every narrative history of the war ever published almost entirely concentrates on the strategic and tactical levels, but gives scant regard to the operational," either suggests the author hasn't read much or is a really poor reader.
AFAIK pg added that to the article after WildUtah made his comment, and pg acknowledges this in a reply to WildUtah
I'm sorry but your definition of FOS is radical. I think few people would agree that FOS means you can say anything anywhere at anytime.
Denying any claim, however small, about the Holocaust is not "Holocaust denial" in the sense you're using the term.
I know that Nazi imagery has been banned in Germany, but I've not heard of professional historians being legally bound to avoid research into the topic of concentration camps, on threat of imprisonment no less. Do you have a source for this?

Edit: Have hit comment limit, so replying to AC__ here

I've been through all the sections in your link, and a total of 3 people have seen prison time. The only one that could be called a professional historian would be James Keegstra, who wasn't convicted on holocaust denial per se, but due to violating hate-speech laws by teaching his high school history class: "During class, he would describe Jews as a people of profound evil who had "created the Holocaust to gain sympathy.". Keegstra was convicted in Canada.

Ernst Zündel was convicted in Canada and Germany under hate speech laws. Having had a look at his website, it's about politicking his views, not history. But he's been in and out of court for decades on hate speech violations.

David Irving could theoretically be called a professional historian, if it wasn't proven that he used known fabricated documents as source - during the libel case he brought against someone else. Irving was convicted in Austria.

None of the above are professional or dispassionate historians taking the topic seriously. All of them are politicking.
I think the latest number is looking more like 6M Mpps SYN (http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=144431864418007&w=2)!

This is also awesome because it fixes the issue with SO_REUSEPORT where the 3WHS gets screwed up by the per listener queues. I think that we still need some extra help from another patch (http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=144331389206170&w=2) to allow SO_REUSEPORT applications to drain connections, but the original patch plus the SO_REUSEPORT_LISTEN_OFF patch, or whatever Eric and Tolga end up doing, should be enough to allow applications to finally do graceful shutdowns of listen sockets. This is very relevant to my interests because it means that HAProxy will be able to do a natively supported hitless reload on Linux for the first time ever.

This stuff is brilliant.
How does one obtain this list of registered, expired and dropped domains? I always wondered.
> Americans fall for this too and feel bad about the nuclear bombing of Japan, despite the enormous good it did to the whole of south-east Asia.

That's definitely a claim I would need to see substantial evidence for. The traditional defenses of the nuclear bombings that I have heard could not be more unconvincing.
It's an outrage. I recently submitted an incoherent, hate-filled diatribe to the New York Times, and they refused to publish it on the front page! Where is my freedom of speech? I recently submitted a video of my parrot to NBC, and they refused to play it on the nightly news! Where does the censorship end? We're clearly witnessing the erosion of our constitutional rights.
Are you drunk?
1. Homeless.

2. Scrape up enough cans and donations for lunch.

3. Scrape up enough cans and donations for a cheap as possible pay as you go phone.

4 ... N. Apartment!
My point is that it's difficult to separate the horrible, malevolent, criminal aggressors from the benign spectators or unwilling particpants, when witnessing barbaric events of human cruelty.
Everyone in Europe was ramping up in the 30s - it's an utter myth that factories only started really getting going in '39.

Germany could build at scale just fine - however it was also facing three resource powerhouses, and had no allies that could compensate. Germany couldn't build at a scale to compete with the Allies, but it could "build at scale".

> by 1943-44, they could have rolled through Germany 3 times over and had hardware to spare.

... and yet they waited until halfway through '45? :)

Edit: I've hit my 'make comment' limit, but in counterpoint to adventured:

The parent said that "by 1943", the Allies had enough to "roll through" Germany 3 times over. Never mind that the Allies couldn't organise an effective coastal invasion for another year and a half, nor that the war in the east had only just reached tipping point.

My point was that if it was so easy ("roll through", remember?), then why wasn't it done in 1943?

> Why not sit back and bomb the hell out of Germany prior to rolling over them?

You have the cart before the horse - "bombing the hell out of them" was a major part of being able to defeat a tough, tenacious foe.

I remember one WWII veteran complaining about the film Saving Private Ryan, in that while the opening scene was realistic, the rest of the film had Germans acting like idiots, running into machine-gun fire and across open areas for no reason. He hated it because not only did it not do the Germans justice for being excellent soldiers, it also didn't do the Americans justice for being able to take out this difficlt foe. Painting the taking of Nazi-occupied Europe as a form of cakewalk doesn't do either side justice.
It's 17 commits, each that do one thing.
It seems so obvious but yet it's good to be reminded of this kind of 'horizontal gene transfer'.
It is more that such a historian would be immediately shunned and made into a "hack". That puts a limit on how far you can go, regardless of whether or not there's a "legal bound".
It's their platform. Don't use it if you don't like it.
How is the Chinese attitudes outside China to that the Communist Party killed many more Chinese than even the Japanese?

(And probably a large reason for the focus on anti-Japanese films is just as a distraction from that?)

I guess that there went my value on the coming Social Credit System. :-)
The Tigers were heavy tanks plagued by manufacturing problems. The Sherman was a medium tank more comparable to the Panzer line - the Germans built around 45,000 of those. The American M6 was comparable to the Tigers, of which few were built and 0 saw battle.
Westboro Baptist Church is a classic example of a Christian group that doesn't follow a "mainline" doctrine.
You left off the marketing expense

It seems like we're on a different topic now. My original point was private companies do most of the drug discovery now with gov't funds helping out. The marketing expense doesn't change that.

As for the marketing expense, selling drugs is a high touch business. You can't just run ads, you need sales people to go and visit doctors, answer their questions, provide educational materials. That costs a lot of money. The $24B in marketing to physicians is likely mostly the salary of sales reps.

And before you say that it's not needed, I've spoken to a number of doctors that have a good relationship with sales reps and find them helpful. They don't have time to keep up on every new piece of data on a drug.

If you're drug is crap, you won't be able to sell it, period. A great example is Pfizer's inhaled insulin, Exubera. It barely sold $20M at peak. You'd think a company like Pfizer who are marketing geniuses could move anything, but they couldn't move Exubera because it was a crap drug.
This isn't exactly new news. I'm not sure how you could actually protect them though.
Or they could pull the good ol' "SVP of Engineering hired to be the actual VP". If they do that you're in trouble since you're directly in the new guy's way because you're between him and the people he wants to directly manage/reorganize. But at that point you may as well take the hint and leave.
This is only for IPv4 though :(

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=144438785303456&w=2
I'm in the middle of reading that book right now. So far, I'd say that I highly recommend it. I'm actually planning to do some work trying to implement a program for the Le Compte Est Bon game.

I've also been reading Surfaces and Essences, also by Hofstadter, and recommend it as well.
I don't find the comparison particularly compelling.

The MG 42's issues were more logistical. It was designed for an idealised situation (e.g. shooting range). Not as the article describes it "total war" where you have to carry everything you need to the battlefield. That meant issues like weight, complexity (for field repair), and replacements became a real headache. Arguably the real issue could have been bad feedback/communications between lower ranks and engineers/designers (and something we still see today with field equipment failing e.g. see the M16's long history, and how long it took for some of the changes).

The F-35 is more "too many chefs in the kitchen." The F-35 likely is over-engineered, but not because of too little feedback like the MG 42, but too much. Every major US military arm tacked on their own little requirements here and there, until the aircraft was so loaded down with toys and gadgets that it could barely fly. For example, the entire airframe is designed around a lift fan that the vast majority will never be fitted with.
Unless, of course, there actually were good guys and bad guys in that war.

As far as real-world wars go, within the constraints of the real world where nobody is ever purely good or purely evil, World War 2 is about as close as we're ever going to get to a good guys vs bad guys war.
> energy which is mostly wasted when the water vapor is converted back to liquid

Please tell me the condensing coils are used to pre-heat the incoming water...
Discover Europe’s Hidden Gems with Google Maps and the Financial Times
http://denver.craigslist.org/search/sof

Not necessarily where you'll find your job, but it shows some demand. A lot of those are probably posted by contracting agencies, and there are a number of contracting agencies where you also might find something.

In Denver there's a lot of telecom and defense, as well as the Boulder mini-oasis.

You say Javascript, so I'm assuming you want web work, but software lets you do much more than web, in almost any industry. Instead of focusing on your technology, think if there's any industry that sounds really interesting.
Red Hat is definitely under no obligations to maintain things it doesn't see as a valuable, and if no one else wants to pick up the slack either then action and code speaks much more loudly then words about the actual value people assign those things.
Interesting article, but the history of public-key crypto in the article is a little iffy.

EDIT: Here's a cool article about the birth of public-key crypto written recently by a friend of mine: https://medium.com/stanford-select/keeping-secrets-84a7697bf...
Instagram Builds Its Own Version of Snapchat Live Stories
I can't comment on all of them, but I've dealt with a bunch. I'm out enjoying Halloween right now but if I remember on the morning I'll follow up.
There have been a number of individuals charged around the world, as well as various academics blacklisted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#History_and_d...