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What is more, they did it with the weapons taken by the British from the Japanese who surrendered to the Vietminh.[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8H_oi1ck0
> Because managing databases in Python should be as simple as reading and writing JSON files.

Not the best sales pitch. :D
It seems like a great idea. But how do you protect results from malicious users and spambots? How do you solve the positive feedback problem? And I can't see the upvote/downvote buttons (Chromium 47.
By that token, judges should also be biologists to not fall for stupid arguments about DNA. They should be forensic analysts to not fall for misguided arguments about forensics.

And people should really all be physicists to not be worried that the Large Hadron Collider will blow up the universe, and aerospace engineers to not be afraid of flying in airplanes. They should all be soldiers, to understand what war is.

Are you arguing this point because you happen to be a programmer, so are more personally affected when people get things wrong in your field? If not, please explain the difference.
There are grammar issues, yes. We unfortunately have one tiny case that's context-sensitive though, so we didn't quite get there :/ that vast majority of the grammar is very straightforward though. There's a lot of benefit to it.
I bookmarked something similar:
https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.ht...
Not quite. TinyDB is itself a new data base while dataset seems like a wrapper for popular relational databases.
Here are some reasons why people believe those things.

First off, in the context of the Vietnam War, VC stands for Viet Cong. I think that you mean North Vietnam, instead, because the Viet Cong were spent as a fighting force after the Tet Offensive. Thereafter, the Vietnam War was mostly a fight between regular armies.

In 1969, Richard Nixon began a modest pull-out of US troops from Vietnam.

In 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam with 150,000 troops. They had support from the Soviet Union in the form of tanks. Lots of tanks. Zhukov would've been proud of that force. South Vietnam defended themselves with help from the United States in the form of air support.

Result: Fewer than 50,000 North Vietnamese soldiers made it back North. American KIA: 650.

Perhaps not coincidentally, peace talks improved for a while before breaking down in mid-December 1972. Nixon then ordered North Vietnamese cities to be bombed for eleven days (the "Christmas Bombings"). Perhaps not coincidentally, peace talks resumed. On January 27, 1973, both sides agreed to a cease fire, America would withdraw all of its forces, all POWs would be released, and South Vietnam would remain independent (of the North). By the end of 1973, all US troops were gone.

Being a bunch of communists, the North Vietnamese lied about their end of the deal. How's that for fair and square? They kept fighting to subjugate South Vietnam with the full support of the Soviet Union. South Vietnam fought on with aid from the United States... until August 1974 (thanks, Congress!).

So, strictly speaking, America didn't lose the Vietnam War in much the same way that tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable. See? History can be complicated.

As for "doom predictions of the time," well, North Vietnam proceeded to aid communists elsewhere in Indo-China, just as the war hawks predicted (cf., Domino Theory: http://thevietnamwar.info/domino-theory/ ) By 1975, Cambodia and Laos had fallen to communist insurgents. In all of these places, they instituted revolutionary socialist reforms to overturn the legacy of foreign colonialist occupiers. These reforms so impressed the locals that more than a million of them took to the high seas in hand-made boats in order to return to those self-same "occupiers."

Here, in America, we have a number of Vietnamese neighborhoods made up of those people and their progeny. The grey hairs among them would take issue with your evaluation of modern Vietnam as "a functioning state."

http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/50_years_communist_crimes.html
Mobile web = mobile app conversion (case studies: Yelp, Foursquare, TripAdvisor)
Thanks for this thought/argument about mobility. It's extremely valid and not one someone has yet made when I bring up base rates.

With this in mind, I'm very curious if we're asking the question of what these overrepresented groups are doing differently and if there are lessons to be learned by and applied by underrepresented groups.

As someone born in Brazil, when I meet a Brazilian in SF, we get to talking about where in Brazil we're both from at some point and one thing I've discovered is that Brazilians from the state of Goias are very much overrepresented in SF despite the fact that São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are typically more represented globally with Brazilian expats. Why are Brazilians from Goias over-represented in the Bay Area? Near as I can tell from the numerous conversations is that there is a strong network of weak ties, à la Granovetter, at play and that this is the same phenomena that can be see among Asian and Indian communities in SF.

In fact, the only Indian-Brazilian person I know in the Bay Area (and in the world, since there isn't much cultural exchange between Brazil and India) is a VC and he has commented that he wishes there was as much community and support on the Brazilian side of the Silicon Valley as there is on the Indian side, because he has seen that as one of the greatest external factors (i.e. outside what the individual himself is capable of) helping Indians move to the region in the first place and be successful once they arrive and establish themselves. Perhaps more efforts to establish professional and social networks of weak ties would be an effective strategy within identities group that are underrepresented. I'm curious how effective directing energy towards helping those within your identity in-group is versus fighting for your identity in-group as a whole relative to other identity in-groups?
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Learning how to code is not the same as computer literacy. There are plenty of people who code for a living who have little understanding of things like network security.

We work in an very complex field where it is impossible for one person to have in depth knowledge of all aspects. I offer up all the security vulnerabilities from companies like Microsoft and Google as evidence of this fact.

Yes, a person should have basic computer literacy; but unless they plan to code in a regular basis, teaching them to program is a waste of time.
The goal was to prevent Vietnam from becoming a communist state supported by the Soviet Union. Vietnam became a communist country: that's a clear cut Soviet win and US loss. That US was not able to translate its technical superiority in a victory is very interesting (including with regards to recent wars), but doesn't change the outcome.

If you are talking about recent or ongoing wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Syria), indeed the goals are much less clear, so it's hard to see how anything currently being done is really helping.
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I started with "I don't believe the majority believe we won in Vietnam".
Freedom of speech. Courts have ruled that citizens have the right to group and petition to Congress to listen to a specific issue or more (redress of grievances). That has evolved into lobbying groups that are funded by corporations, organizations, unions, etc.

And courts have ruled that money = speech and thus government can't regulate that either.

You can read more here:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/043015/why-lo...
But this is also true if the file does not exist, and the could would then fail anyways.
> ... both sides fought for the same thing: Freedom.

Not really. The US government doesn't give a crap about freedom. What they want is influence and hegemony. Freedom/democracy are only PR excuses for american public consumption when it's convenient. Ordinary american people are nice people though.
>Given the recent developments in the Spratly's and Cam Ranh Bay, i think it is even more clear that the US, losses notwithstanding, gained much from the Vietnam Conflict.

I don't understand. U.S. controls neither, Vietnam controls Cam Rang Bay. Given recent developments there, it looks like U.S. gained nothing from the Vietnam war.

Edited, I mistook about Vietnam controlling Spratly.
It would be nice to see a list of sources you used.
From RFC7469:

"user agents (UAs) will require that the host presents a certificate chain including at least one Subject Public Key Info structure whose fingerprint matches one of the pinned fingerprints for that host."

This makes it easier to deploy. If an org repeatedly gets their certs from a single CA they can just pin that CA. It does of course open you up to being compromised if anyone compromises that CA. But, like you said it's a big improvement over nothing.
I'm using this app daily. There's some annoying monetization stuff in there (They charge you if you miss more than 3 days of exercise per month - hmm. Now that I said it, I guess that's not a terrible idea per se), but the basic 7-minutes-per-day is enough for me at least. http://perigee.se/apps/seven/
> If the bar for discussion on hacker news is the same as for a peer reviewed paper no one will ever be able to say anything of use here.

Agreed, but when someone posts some sources, replying with speculation isn't very useful, in my opinion.
You are seriously heartless. Many small communities utterly rely on buying groceries. Can you imagine not having anywhere to buy food and having to drive 3 hours just to get it?

Walmart drove into these small communities, destroyed the smaller stores, then realised after deliberately making either a loss or tiny profits it wasn't economically viable, then buggered off.

I think the only lesson I can see in this is that small communities should always oppose multinational retailers when there is a local option. Even if they have to spend a few dollars more. Otherwise, they'll be left with nothing.
Or even South Korea.
>Deflation is not an issue if accompanied by growth

Which it isn't, because it acts as a choke on spending.

>It's acknowledged that the period from 1874-1896 was one such event.

Acknowledged by historical revisionists.

>As for banking panics, they were always particularly bad in the United States because of geographic limitations, specific bondholding requirements and other restrictions.

Or rather, lack of counter-cyclical spending.

>Theory of the firm has many variants. Coasian, Alchian, evolutionary, etc. Again, what type of neoclassicism? What is neoliberalism, anyway?

A political ideology that champions unconstrained markets, privatization, fiscal austerity and zero constraints on the movement of goods and capital. This isn't a controversial definition even if people do use it with a snarly tone of voice.

>There was no sudden "jump" in the 1970s,

If you take a look at the share of labor's income as a % of GDP there absolutely was. The trigger point was likely Reagan firing the air traffic controllers (that marked government support for open season on all unions).
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In 1900 you would not just have been fired for different sexuality or skin color. The consequences would have been worse.

Racism in any period in time other than today was far, far worse. Not just, of course, for non-whites in Europe. What were the survival chances of a lone white man in Moorish Spain ? Not good. In India ? You would have been attacked and killed because you were probably trading goods they could steal. Africa ? Same. Japan ? It was illegal for foreigners to be in Japan, punishable by death, before the Meji restauration.

Especially for minorities today's living conditions are amongst the best that have ever existed. Even today's Saudi Arabia is more tolerant of women and homosexuals, and especially much more tolerant of black/otherwise different ethnical people, than the Ottoman empire was 100 years ago. Yes, they kill them, however they don't publicly torture them first anymore.

Racism is not something that's new or unique to our portion of history. It is a constant throughout the entire history of the world that not being part of the majority ethnicity was very, very bad for you, with few exceptions, like the Roman Empire.

I think you're on the right track with the second part of your argument though. Working conditions for the middle class today have, imho, clearly deteriorated compared to 10-20 years ago (depending on whether you're talking Europe/America/Asia and which "class"). This is a constant across most (all ?) of the world, and certainly seems to be getting worse. And there is an exception : China, although that's begun to deteriorate as well. India still seems to be moving forward. But today's level in the west is still at 1980-1990 level conditions, no worse. Compared to before that, we've still advanced. But a hell of a lot of middle class people were better off in 2000 than today.
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You can create an operator that can be made of other operators

cardinal of A intersection B == cardinal of (A) (or cardinal of B : since A~=~B implies card( A )= card( B) ) This is your test re-expressed by using math.

But basically the formula I gave is the shortest non factorable form of this operator in a normal set theory.

And there you have a problem, every truth are biased by a corpus of prejudice called theory and the physical nature : because of the nature of computer you cannot represent any given number. There always be a number that can saturate your computer resources. It is called MAXINT.

Old MAXINT where the size of a register. With Big Int there are the size of your allocatable computer memory (phys + virt)..... on a distributed grid it will be the resulting union of resources. And universe being resource bound there always be a limit to the representation of the integer you can make. So computers will still fall short of resources to represent ALL numbers.

So the absolute operator you call for does not and cannot exists as long as computer are resource bound. So there is a map problem here that cannot draw completly the territory. The playground of physic is bounded, math abstraction/measures are not.

And your way of interpretating data can be wrong : what tells you the input number are not modulo something? Like in a % 2 universe : 2 == 0 [2].

Good software are high context software. There is no such thing as immutable truth and monads is still an elucubration of a monk that ended being burnt by the church for blasphemy. Not to say he was wrong on saying the earth is moving (in fact the solar system)... but to say ignoring context can literally burn you.

PS Noise is defined by the observator. It is measuring the log of the ratio of non of relevant choices over relevant choices (entropy) and entropy varies according to what the observer calls relevance of the data.

What is relevant to someone (random numbers in cryptography) maybe irrelevant to other ones.
yeah - the link seems to be hugged to death or something
Long ago I learned the peculiar way the early speech synthesizers pronounced the phonemes and decided that it was just like learning any other accent, so I studied and practiced.

I can still do it today. The younger folks haven't heard it as much so they don't understand the reference, but the people my age freak out when they hear it.
Good old propaganda.

Too bad they won't do a piece on what happens in a small town when Walmart opens. In mine multiple campgrounds and small locally owned small businesses closed down. Not to mention the workforce is all people from out of town now earning a pittance, living on government assistance.
I could imagine this being very handy for a lot of ETL stuff and one-off data migrations.

But really I just love the logo:

https://dataset.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Similarweb doesn't show mobile web traffic
> Can you imagine not having anywhere to buy food and having to drive 3 hours just to get it?

But why wouldn't smaller stores open again now walmart is gone?

Edit: Say what you want about them being mom & pop stores that somehow cant start up again, if it takes 3 hours to drive to a shop and back there is a market opportunity. People will pay more for groceries when it doesn't involve a 6 hour round trip. I thought the idea of Americas great free market is that this void would be filled?
I think it's still offensive and racist. It's also scary to see that he basically has a university freshmen's outlook on the world but for some reason has a position to execute these ideas from within Github.
In the 80's there was a product called 'dataease'. For once a product actually lived up to its name, fairly complex databases could be created using a very simple user interface. So simple that plenty of non-programmers used it to create functional applications that were hard to distinguish from custom built stuff (usually using DBIII or FoxPro or something along those lines).

I've never seen anything come close to the simplicity with which that package managed to connect the various tables to each other and to generate forms with sensible rule based validation (types, ranges, sets).

Databases for 'lazy people' should have a good look at what has already been built to prevent re-inventing the wheel badly, JSON files are easy for programmers but the world is a lot bigger than that. (Or maybe they intended to write 'databases for lazy programmers', then it makes more sense.)

Edit: they're (surprise!) still around after 30 years:

http://dataeaseuk.com/products/dataease/dataease-dos
I've used [mbox][0], [firejail][1] for this case.

mbox COMMAND

run COMMAND and shows you what files changed. Then you can select drop or commit those files.

$ mbox mktemp
/tmp/tmp.cfJElOQmNK
Sandbox Root:
> /tmp/sandbox-30749
> F: /tmp/sandbox-30749/tmp/tmp.cfJElOQmNK
F:/tmp/tmp.cfJElOQmNK
[C]ommit all, [c]ommit, [i]gnore, [d]iff, [l]ist tree, [q]uit ?> q
$

firejail --private=/path/to/home-for-command COMMAND

does similar things. But it only sandbox $HOME. Also does not show what is changed by defult.

[0]: https://github.com/tsgates/mbox

[1]: https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Rambo II re-iterated the fiction that massive POWs were still in Vietnam. Watch the History Channel and you'll see almost no mention of agent orange, and none (that I've seen) would ever use the phrase "chemical warfare". The narrative that the media lost the war for the U.S. at the Tet offensive is pervasive.

Then there's what is omitted. I can't think of a movie/TV show I've seen about Vietnam that mentioned we bombed South Vietnam as well, or that we propped up a dictator that rigged the election and made life so intolerable for the Buddhists that monks were self-immolating in protest.
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I smell a startup opportunity.
Seems like the blow had already come from the closure of the mines in this case. The first paragraph of the article:

"""

To hear Mary Francis Matney tell it, Walmart didn’t kill the once-vibrant cluster of shops next to a railroad and a creek in the faded old coal town of Kimball, W. Va. — the disappearance of the mines had pretty well taken care of that already. But now that Walmart’s leaving, too, as one of 154 U.S. stores the company closed in January, the town might be snuffed out for good.

"""
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I didn't write this blog post, though I did help the author optimize their Rust code when they dropped by #rust, so I'll respond to the generic Rust stuff rather than those details.

> Semicolons inconsistent usage

You've asserted this, but not demonstrated it: semicolon usage is consistent in Rust. Rust is not C++, so it doesn't necessarily follow the same rules, but it is consistent, even though it may be different.

> C++ is better precisely because it's more grained on the initialization side.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not exactly sure what you're saying.

> There is an interesting &⊛env:: in there that makes the language
> looks like it needs a bit more work.

See above: this kind of thing is about how Rust views coercion and heap allocation: explicit, not implicit.

> Just replace the :: with something else.

We tried that. We still ended up with :: as a scope operator.

> Remove the 'let' from the language, and it does look cleaner than the C++.

`let` has a few advantages, in that it allows you to take advantage of patterns, and makes initialization explicit.

> Why isn't "(0..7).rev()" "(7..0)"

Because ranges always iterate forward, from start to end. rev() reverses the direction.

> On the bottom part, lamba-like usage

I'm not sure what you're referring to here.
Sorry, to be clear -- an annual PCP visit may result in the doctor ordering a blood test that you have to partially pay for, depending on what the doctor thinks needs to be done following his/her examination of you.

Basic blood work of a preventative-care nature, such as HDL/LDL ratio, triglycerides, etc, is covered. Those are the metrics I was referring to in the parent comment.
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Look I really like this idea of a UBI but I don't think it would work. We tend to think everyone is like us and we're hackers and creators to us its a compulsion to add or create value. The trouble of this idea to me is for a lot of low income families we pretty much subsidize their lives and it honestly isn't working. I grew up in an area of the country where we had tons of people living on welfare. Did they create? Did they add value to the community? Nope not at all. They were a drain the community. Take for instance a friend of mine we'll call her Mary. She has three kids and she gets free child care and after school care. She also gets food stamps, low income housing, and is eligible for 2 free college classes a semester from the local university because she's a single mom with low income. She's also got her CNA licence. She holds no job despite offers from places in the community. Now according to this UBI theory she would be a prime candidate. We give her money and magically she begins to add value to the community because she doesn't have to worry about money anymore. However we already do this and she's a drain on the community. She takes and never gives back. Now let's take another friend of mine we'll call him James. He doesn't have a job and didn't qualify for college but he can code. His github account is filled with commits to all kinds of crazy projects. He just loves to build things. He adds to the community.

My question to you is do we give every one UBI because I'm not really ok with that. If James said man I'm short on rent this month I'd give him $100 but if Mary said she need $100 for diapers and cloths I'd refuse because she has places to get that and if she's short on money its most likely her own mismanagement of cheques. I'm open to new ideas though. So help me understand why UBI is a great idea.