skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In ww2, you can objectively say that pure evil won and that pure evil lost.

If both sides are equally evil in your view, would you say you are indifferent to which side ended up winning WWII? Is it a mistake on my part to assume you would be indifferent had the Axis powers achieved complete and utter victory over the Allies? After all, they are both equally evil.

Seeing as you seem to be claiming that both sides were equally evil, I'm very interested in your views on how you think the victorious Axis powers would have treated those they defeated.

Whatever may be said of the crimes committed by both sides during the war, it seems to me that both Japan and Germany fared rather well after surrender considering they were both completely defeated. We are not all that far removed from WWII and yet today Japan and Germany are both overwhelmingly populated by the descendants of Germans and Japanese, not the descendants of foreign conquerors, and enjoy some of the highest qualities of life in the industrialized world.

I'm curious how you think Jews in Germany, or Europe, or indeed the rest of the world would have fared under an Axis victory. Do you think there would be any meaningful Jewish community left in Germany or Europe? How do you feel the Roma, or Slavs or homosexuals would have fared? How would the populations of the Korean peninsula, Taiwan, China, the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia have fared in the subsequent decades of a Japanese victory in the Pacific? Would these communities have fared as well in defeat as the Germans and Japanese have?
Compress, encrypt and then MAC. If MAC fails, don't decrypt. If decryption fails, don't (and can't) decompress. If decompression fails, throw away data, because compression-to-encryption time corruption occurred.
1.6 billion less, according to http://cis.org/node/4573
I don't know if you are being sarcastic?
Marriot Intl: 200k employees, 13b revenue, 4000 hotels, 15b market cap

Hilton Worldwide, 160k employees, 11.3b revenue, 4660 properties, 21b market cap

Hyatt, 97k employees, 4.4b revenue, ~600 properties, 5b market cap
Maybe I've been shaped by my history... but I've been writing core code for other devs to extend for 5 - 8 years by now. And hell, the smart code I've written is necessary, sadly, but impossible to maintain. I've written non-blocking, lock-free holy-balls pieces of code, but there are very few people I know who could maintain that kinda code.

The best code I've written is when a junior can hit me up and go "Yo, I've tried to implement this feature here. I've picked up on those patterns over there to get started. I'm not sure about those two parts, can we talk about those a little? I think the rest of the code I've done is good, let's look at that though. That part over there just looks weirds, I'm not certain it'll work right."

Overall, I think smart code not a good thing to do. 90% of your code, or more, should just obviously work because it follows "the pattern".
IIRC a key point of d3 was to not be declarative, like the gog. That was more an influence in protoviz, its precursor.

You might be interested in Vega and Vega lite if you want to go declarative.
One reason to incorporate as a C or S-corp is that it's easy to add 4-year vesting to founder shares. This protects you if your co-founder walks away after 6 months. It's much harder (if it's even possible) to vest "shares" in an LLC.

In your case of a 50/50 split, make sure your agreements also have a clause that deals with disagreements. IT's likely you'll come to a point in your business where you do not agree and 50/50 ownership can make your business stall. Codify how those disagreements are solved before you get there.
Rust's Community Automation [pdf]
Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Found Trapped in Amber
It probably helps with some markers deemed important in competitive sports like VO2 max and won't help with others that aren't measured. With HIIT you significantly increase the risk of injury and/or death comparing to moderate longer exercise. You should only do it when your body doesn't gain much benefit from moderate ones. Try the popular Tabata sprints just once to understand the stress you are putting your body through (20 seconds all out effort sprint followed by 10 seconds pause, repeat 8 times).
moc - Music On Console, use mocp to spwan it and you can also detach again. Never used another music player afterwards.

youtube-dl

ack instead of grep, most instead of less

tor

GNOME stuff just works, from gnome-builder to gnome-disks to gscan2pdf
Encrypted data is "indistinguishable from random data" but it is not actually random data. No patterns will appear.
Any exercise can lead to the release of endorphins. Endorphin release doesn't occur only to mask the damage you are doing to yourself in the face of an extreme life threatening situation (which is also accompanied by the release of adrenaline and other hormones).

>The endogenous opioids seem likely to be assigned a significant role in the integrated hormonal and metabolic response to exercise. This article reviews the present evidence on exercise and the endogenous opioids, and examines their involvement in a number of widely disparate physiological processes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6091217
I heard that "runner's high" only sets in when you train hard and for a long time. To make that clear, you're saying it's actually a sign of you having gone too far?
Referrals in the Game Industry
RabbitMQ. It just works. We're operating with in the normal use case for it. We turn it on, transfer 50k or so messages a day, then forget about. The memory is fairly low, CPU is low and constant. The connections for month or year long clients stay open.
Russians also mutilated many German/eastern euro women as well during the during the final months of WW2. The best analysis I've read explained that it was due to a multitude of factors:

a) Not only allowed by authority figures (Soviet officers) but also heavily promoted by propoganda coming out of Russia via pamphlets saying to show no mercy

b) Done by soldiers who faught for months/years in some of the bloodiest and most zero-sum fighting in the entire war, as the soviets fought their way to Berlin against Germans who were given an obvious suicide mission - to buy as much time as possible for Htiler futile end-game strategies. The Russians also passed many Ukranian/Belorussian towns that were ravaged by Germans.

c) There was basically total anarchy that existed in that area between Russia and Germany. It existed well before the Russians arrived. This stateless anarchy was largely how the Nazis were able to conduct their genocide so effectively and without worrying about punishment.

So this is the same enviornment that the Russians commited their horrible mass rape of German citizens.

China was similarily going through their own anarchistic transition with the battle between communisits (Mao) and nationalists (Chiang Kai-shek) taking place in the power-vacuum. So the pesants who were caught in between existed in a similar brutal enviornment as in eastern europe/Germany and a similar war-ravaged army with a superiority complex operating in an anarchistic state.

Although whether Russia/Japan military were special in their brutality, even in a greater historical context, it's hard to say. There were definately some differences between the Japanese empire/early Soviet Union compared to the west that stand out even today, in terms of harshness of the military towards their opponents/civilians - which may make it stand out.

While many people will say "but the Nazi's were evil too"... the abuse of civilians by Germans was largely kept hidden from their military. The secret police would only come in after the military left an area and it was kept as much a secret from them as possible.
Or it's proof of the strength of their convictions that they can have an impoverished type system despite all the pressure to have an enriched one.
I'd attribute it to continuous instant gratification
They're not waves, they're cycles, with each successive generation rediscovering the lessons of the previous generation. I found it particularly amusing to see javascript front-end developers struggle with model/view binding strategies a few years back knowing that all of this was already hashed out by desktop developers in the 90's and terminal interface developers in the 70's. Still, react came out of that, and I don't think the desktop ever had an equivalent to react, at least not in the 90's. So every once in a while a genuinely novel idea pops up, but they're rare.

Citing Alan Kay on the difficulties of keeping up with tech:

We are fortunate that most of what is "new" is more like "particular 'news'" rather than actually "new". From the standpoint of actual categorical change, things have been very slow the last 30 years or so.
Yeah, they plan to do it, but:

On May 5, 2016, the Caltrain Board of Directors adopted an agreement that invests an additional $211 million in the Caltrain Modernization Program. The seven-party agreement increases funding commitments from Caltrain’s state and local partners, including an additional $113 million commitment from the California High Speed Rail Authority.

(from http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/...)

That's a significant chunk of change to be relying on from the HSR.
The Perfect Programming Language [pdf]
Putty has some pretty strange design choices. They coupled the terminal emulator and the SSH client, and (at least used to have) really bad default configuration (blue color was unreadable, windows codepage instead of utf-8, etc. etc.).

Now that Mintty exists, I prefer to use it + openssh on Windows.
Apple doubles down on photography with new Shot on iPhone campaign
I've also noticed a trend in which people who have not travelled internationally are far more opposed to public transit than people who have.

A lot of America's deficiencies in infrastructure and public services can be attributed to the fact that many Americans don't know how much better those things can be.
This comment was marked 'dead', but I think it was a useful question (though maybe a little aggressive in its wording):

> So what's the point ? Linux is a niche market. Mac & Windows will be the vast majority of your users and won't enjoy your killer kernel-based feature...

Even when Windows/Mac are the vast majority of clients, each client only needs to process its own traffic. The VPN gateway is more likely the bottleneck, since it needs to process everyone's traffic. There are many organizations that would have no problem running Linux on the VPN gateway and could reap the benefits.

Also, the Linux in-kernel implementation is just the first(?) thing being released. WireGuard is a VPN protocol and its killer feature is good security that's simple enough to implement in 4000 lines of code. This simplicity makes it easier for someone to write a Windows/Mac kernel driver.
I really like that idea. It should also cause businesses to push for LIMITING the number of voting holidays so that things are bundled up properly.
NYC used to have one... Maybe it still does. I don't agree with it. Tax them on profits, whatever, but be fair. Don't go out of your way to tax a class of business in special ways, unless you're trying to disincentivize them.

So, of course all companies should pay taxes their fair share of taxes. Just don't construct special schemes to tax a class of businesses.

Imagine Detroit saying, we're broke, let's tax car companies by the amount of potential pollutants their end products could produce. Hey, they'd have a windfall till Tennessee says, hey, GM, wanna come over here? We'll tax you as a normal state would (as an exaggerated example).
"On that train all graphite and glitter

Undersea by rail

Ninety minutes from New York to Paris"

http://genius.com/Donald-fagen-igy-lyrics
Note: This project, despite having the text of the GPL 2 in a file named “COPYING”, is not actually licenced under GPL 2. The actual copyright statement found in source files is “Copyright 2015-2016 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>. All Rights Reserved.”. It does not reference the GPL. This means, legally, that nobody can do anything with it.

If the author actually meant to licence it under the GPL 2, he should read and follow the instructions in the GPL itself, more specifically the section at the end titled “How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs”.
> Not even the German government, engaged in attempting to exterminate the undesirable population of Europe?

They weren't more racist than the US/British. You could argue they were as racist since they modeled their racial ideology from the US/Britain.

> Or the German treatment of Soviet prisoners?

The german treatment of soviets and the soviet treatment of the germans were horrific. But nowhere close to the level of depravity that the allies in the pacific sunk to. The allies didn't just kill japanese POWs. The allies tortured and mutilated and decapitated hundreds of thousands of japanese soldiers. There are countless japanese skulls and all kinds of mutilated japanese body parts in the US because the GIs did so much mutilating in the pacific. No fighting force in ww2 engaged in such disgusting behavior.

> Do you have a source for the hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers being tortured, mutilated, decapitated, and turned into war trophies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanes...

It was so prevalent that LIFE magazine ran a cover story on it...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/LIFE_May_1944...

It was so prevalent that FDR, the leader of the free world, was fiddling with the bones of a tortured japanese soldier in the oval office.

"On June 13, 1944, the press reported that President Roosevelt had been presented with a letter-opener made out of a Japanese soldier's arm bone by Francis E. Walter, a Democratic congressman.[4] Supposedly, the president commented, "This is the sort of gift I like to get", and "There'll be plenty more such gifts"

"In 1984, Japanese soldiers' remains were repatriated from the Mariana Islands. Roughly 60 percent were missing their skulls"

More than 70,000 japanese were killed in marina. If 60% were missing their skulls, that means more than 42,000 skulls sent to the US. That's just one island campaign...

You don't learn about this in school. As I said, evil won ww2 and evil lost ww2. There was no good guy in ww2.
This is in Woodbridge. If you have young kids, I highly recommend looking up the "Beehive Park" playground located in the building. It's cheap and filled with all kinds of different moonbounce playgrounds. Right now the shops in the building are all very ethnic, with one restaurant. Half the building is occupied by a BThrifty store.

There was an amazing used game shop in there up until two months ago that had many old arcade games for sale and for playing on. There was also an incredible electronics shop run by a wonderful old Asian lady that had anything you could imagine hidden away on her shelves, but it also vanished without a trace. I'm hoping something comes in to replace them.

This is all right down the road from the Potomac Mill big-box shopping area. It's marked as the "Depressing Retail" area of this "Judgemental Map of Northern Virginia":

http://judgmentalmaps.com/post/77817188327/northernvirginia
there is a lot of features in Alfred, but my absolute favorite is the workflows [1]

I use Alfred workflow with dash [2], so i can type "go fmt.Println" into alfred, and jump straight to the man-page.

I also use Alfred workflow with SnippetsLab [3], to open my personal notes in a similar fashion.

1: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/
2: https://kapeli.com/dash

Dash is also an absolutely wonderful app, for having all your coding docs on-the-go. Since I am often without internet access, Dash lets me continue working. It even has offline stack exchange if that rocks your boat.

3: https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/

SnippetsLab provides a very much awesome way of organizing all your snippets of code / notes, etc.

This way of navigating means I have to use the trackpad pretty infrequently.

My only complaint about these tools, is that I'm stuck in Windows at work :-(

For another software I use daily and can no longer live without, it would be tmux.
Your rationale is appreciated but it is about the tone of the discourse. The sentence just makes one think about readers comments on some newspaper sites I guess every country has.
Inbox lags quite a bit on my desktop. It still needs some work...
I'm sorry, that article is far too long to tell me what you are trying to say. All I can gather is, I was wrong
Self driving car lanes still means rubber wheels on a blacktop car lane.

Blacktop does not last. The maintenance costs for our road system far outstrip our commitment to maintain them even today.

HSR, though expensive to install, has an advantage in longevity.
I'd like to know how this system compares to TacAir-Soar: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/papers/AIMag99.html
Python 2.7.12
The allies raped far more women than the axis.

I'd be very appreciative if you could link to a source for this claim.
Let's see... stuff I have been using for around 20 years and still use today:

* Emacs

* Postgres

* GCC

* Apache web server

* Linux - although it's big enough in scope that it does have its issues from time to time.
I study kenjutsu (and aikido) - and have friends/colleagues who are also serious kendo practitioners.

Kendo has pluses and minuses - the shinai used can teach habits of "flicking wrists" which just don't work with heavier weapons. And yet advanced practitioners have serious focus and skills.

I much admire a female Japanese friend (and sempai) who was told by our sensei to go and study kendo (while not slacking off in her other studies). In her fifties, and a 5th dan, off she went and started from scratch but made rapid progress, and brought back what she had learned. Our sensei told other people to do different things - horses for courses.

But what does it mean "to fight"? No rules? For your life? For someone else's life? These are the fundamental questions to be examined and resolved. How would you know if you are ready?
An OK product/service that I have stuck with for too long out of stubborness/laziness. I would understand these changes if it seemed like there was actually active development happening on the product.

I'd say "any suggested alternatives" as well, but I think I can just read the other comments. :)
> Do you mean like how Uber bailed on Austin after a law passed requiring a basic, simple, background measure?

No, I think he means how Uber spends millions of dollars on ad campaigns to try to swing votes in their favour.
Think stuxnet
How to Boost Facebook Ad Performance with Dark Posts
Could WiFi analyzers effectively determine information about space from a single location? Time is obviously possible, but isn't it inherently providing information about space by providing power readings from a single point?
As a MS stack dev:

Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)

VsVim for Visual Studio (https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3...)

Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/)

Wox (http://www.getwox.com/)

and of course PowerShell
Does that solve the taxation based on market cap thing?
DoS Vulnerability in the Ethereum Soft Fork
There's a pretty easy proof to show why compression of truly random data is impossible. Let C be a compression algorithm. Assume that for all bit strings S, C(S) is not longer than S, and assume that there exists strings S' such that C(S') is shorter than S'. Also, assume that for any two distinct bit strings S1 and S2, C(S1) != C(S2). Let S'' be the shortest such string: the shortest string that C shortens. Let the length of S'' be M, and the length of C(S'') be N < M. Note N >= 1, and by assumption every string of length N does not have its length changed by C. There are 2^N strings of length N, and by assumption it is easy to see that since the images of any pair of N bit strings under C are distinct, every string of N bits is the image of some other N bit string. But now, S'' has length M but has an image of length N. This necessarily collides with the image of some string of length N, a contradiction. Thus, for any compression algorithm which is injective (in effect, reversible) and successfully shortens some strings, the algorithm must lengthen some others.

What this short proof shows is that even though random data may have patterns, no compression algorithm can successfully leverage this for every random string.
I mean I know the stock answers and so on already, but seeing these kind of articles makes me wonder why the hell companies that are so mature, and theoretically at least should be spinning off tons of operating cash, feel the need to raise these really astronomical sums of money.

It's hard to see why the savviest long term strategy isn't just to keep booking billions of dollars worth of lodging bookings, keep their cut, and use it to grow the company.

The last time I saw financing in the tech industry seem so out of step with basic economics was 2001. Not for startups in general necessarily, but for these super-giants like Airbnb and Uber something seems really wrong.

When exactly do they have to start acting like normal boring businesses that are supposed to be good at something, and then make their money doing that thing?
Data Scientists: This Is Not Your Grandmother's C++
Airbnb takes a percentage of every stay, don't need inventory(I.e. open rooms), nor more than a few hundred employee's.

My guess is they have their valuation about right, assuming they continue to grow for the next 3 or 4 years
Ian Betteridge explained the concept in a February 2009 article, regarding a TechCrunch article with the headline "Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?":

"This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no.' The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it."
In Parenthesis: in praise of the Somme's forgotten poet
True, but in the case of BlueTooth, the standard is so complex that everyone does mess up implementing it.
1Password on Mac - phenomenal UX, all around joy to use

Not as pleased with the Windows version, but it's serviceable
Right, but neither Lion or Grid Style Sheets were available in the early 90's. It may have been possible to implement, sure, but we're talking early enough in the web's history that the performance of the styling engine was a legitimate concern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padding_(cryptography)
Hype Machine, somehow free and ad free. The music aligns with my tastes and one of the few things that hasn't changed radically since I started using it back in 2008.
Typography reminiscent of ThinkingForth ..
OneNote on Mac is pretty slow, I find the editing features somewhat lacking.
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The story assumes everyone rents(not true) and no one's commutes from East Bay or other city (not true).
> Uber is located in 1455 Market St., which also is home to Square. Asking prices for one bedroom apartments nearby are currently at $3,421. That is actually below the citywide San Francisco 1-BR median, which currently hovers close to $3,500. Interestingly enough, it’s also less than what potential employees of Uber can expect to pay to live nearby the company’s new Stanford research outpost ($3,595/Month). Apartment finding in the Palo Alto area is pretty brutal as well!

The advice I would give to me 2 years ago: do not attempt to live in Palo Alto; same horrid cost of living as SF with the cultural/social opportunities of a Midwest suburb. Except with worse street traffic.

Edit: And fewer dive bars.
Schmidt, Thrun: Let's Stop Freaking Out About Artificial Intelligence