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All of your arguments apply to English too.

A Chinese reader could wonder why we use multiple glyphs to expose a single concept. "How inefficient," they might think, "each character has so few bits of information! Are speakers of this language just memorizing entire blocks of characters at a time so they can read fast?"
A few notes on this article:

* It seems a bit crazy to me to have a newly minted MBA jump into a CEO role. Of course, this is not unprecedented with the search fund model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_fund) but those are MBA grads from top 5 schools (and mostly just Stanford MBA grads)--very different from your average MBA grad
* The top 5 MBA grad can expect to make on the order of $20-50M over the span of a career with a Mck/Bain/BCG role. Yes there is a limited number of people who make it to the top, but tbh that is much more due to people wanting to leave for other career paths than it is a weeding out.
The curse of open plan (radio programme)
Massively-Parallel Lossless Data Decompression
Anime is a big part of it but I think if you look deeper there is a sense of respect for a culture which can produce something like that—a place where dedicating oneself to something is respected in a way that isn't just about getting rich. Anime is a manifestation of that culture but there is much more to it.
> Opposing the draft isn’t opposing war, it’s supporting war by contractor and making wars easier to wage by politicians who’ve never served, whose kids don’t serve, and who have no real skin in the game. Truly a sad state of affairs.

Yeah, that's the sad state of affairs. Totally not supporting the enslaving of the population of a supposedly "free" country to force it to go off and die in some other country.

I mean I know the Supreme Court conveniently decided that the 13th Amendment doesn't apply to the draft, but the language is pretty clear:

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
There are early signs that the real estate boom of the past few years might be beginning to ebb. For example, home prices in Aspen have begun to fall, apparently unexpectedly:

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/12/aspen-real-estate-in-a-...

While Aspen is obviously different than Palo Alto, there is some crossover in terms of who buys houses in each of those locations.
How would such a force handle the mere existence of North Korea? How would such a force handle nations with Sharia law?

It sounds pretty, but until we are ready to say what is and isn't just, and acknowledge that that makes some other sun just and needing of adjustment, it won't matter.
Wikipedia disagrees in the second sentence of the link.
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Repeat after me:

Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Few people actually use GIFs anymore. Most image host convert them to video.
If so, more likely to me a cultural thing as it's most certainly not limited to animation/comics. Among the popular things there's also at least video games, music and, to some extent, cinematography ("live action" movies) and literature. Some may also start to get interested through history, mythology or games (Go, Shogi, Mahjong, Hanafuda, etc.). Or martial arts.

Source: initially I got hooked on Japanese music (then anime and the rest followed)
The article explicitly mentions that if the cost is too high, the minority rule will not apply, but good observation nonetheless.
> It's obvious that your steering the conversation toward a certain set of talking points.

I'm obviously biased as everybody else is. So I interpret the direction our society is moving towards (and articles like these) according to this bias. You can enter a discussion or ignore my comment, it's up to you.

But what I'm definitely sure of is that we don't really need to discuss why needing mercenary armies is bad for a society. Most people will agree that mercenary armies are a bad thing.

It's better to discuss why we do we need them in the first place and what can we do about it. The article suggests legislation to ban this, but you can't simply legislate societal trends away that created the problem in the first place.

Someone will eventually have to do this job, it's just that there aren't enough persons willing to do it. So if you ban use of mercenaries some other entity will likely take power where we left a power vacuum. (like ISIS did in Iraq)

And if at some point we can't even find enough volunteers to provide internal security (which could happen) then we are probably all finished.

Edit: Btw I agree that most of these wars have been immoral and wrong.
While I don't know this specific situation, I have seen both situations where either people quit too soon or didn't quit soon enough. A lot of these things are much more clear in hindsight than when they are in progress.
The main point of the article appears to be that the vegan diet doesn't use the perennial cropland. Would be nice if they bothered to mention why. Are the perennial crops 100% feed crops and not something that humans can use, even in crazy reprocessed vegan food substitutes?
I think intent is irrelevant here. I did it in the spur of the moment, because it was funny and because in my eyes they deserve it - it's not like it was a premeditated attempt in the hopes of writing a blog post.

In any case, I think acts are best judged based on their impact of the world, and not on random people's understanding of why they were performed. Here, we have (possibly) one less scammer on the job today, and more importantly, maybe a dozen or so new people who thought this was a good idea and will in turn try to make scammers' lives harder.

So what if there'll never be enough people to totally wreck their business model? I think the world is a little bit better now, and that's good enough for me. Even if I had done it all just for a minute of fame, I don't think that would matter and/or change any of this.
Agreed. I 'pair program' with my consulting partner. That is, we sit in the same lab and do our own thing, coming up for air to discuss an approach or algorithm, or even to review code. But 99% of the time is spent at our own tasks. This kind of 'pair programming' works best for us.
He's mostly talking about Kanji from what I can tell. Learning Hiragana is probably a big different. It takes about a weekend and helps with pronunciation. Everybody is different, but I found it useful to at least know about...
The author is from Lebanon himself and is probably referring to his own interesting nose in that passage.
This exercise is poor because it's totally unrealistic. I work with a lot of investors who buy "a $1.5 million EBITDA company for 4x paying $6 million and using 50% debt financing". But they are organizers/firms that split carry among the firm. AFAIK, if you're not working for a PE fund, this type of investment structure is only possible if you execute what's called a Search Fund[0]. I personally know a Kellogg MBA who did this, but it was after 2 years of working at a PE firm. The verdict is still out whether he'll make any meaningful return from it. The other person I know who attempted it (from Stanford) gave up after a year because it was too hard to get investment. In other words, the assumptions that any MBA (typically a 26 year old with 2-3 years of real work experience) even has access to this are fairly unfounded and not typical. What is more feasible, is that MBA grads go to PE funds and are part of a deal team. Even then, those opportunities are scarce and require you to spend another ~6-7 years getting to Principal to earn any meaningful amount of compensation ($500k+ year).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_fund
Perhaps?

Or perhaps they havent coded in a whiteboard in years?

Or perhaps they havent had to think about RB tree vs trei for a while, so can't code them perfectly.
Question to moderator. I thought HN allowed dupes as long as community found them interesting. Now the post is marked "[dupe]". Did it change?
Inspiring fulfilling work is a luxury not everyone can afford, and it is a conceit of the modern world that meaning and fulfillment in your life should come from your employment.
You are misreading that...he is stating that the divorce and alimony laws in his country favor the women over the men, which is often true. He is making no claim that the woman couldn't earn more.

Its not that all men work and women don't. Its that in his case, under current law, he would lose a lot in a divorce. Please read more carefully on such a sensitive topic.
"opportunity for independent review doesn't guarantee that review will happen."

Maybe not with the software most of the world doesn't care about but I'd bet that there will always be someone willing to look real hard at software being put in to popular automobiles.
Fixing Git Accidents 101
Maybe someone will be interested, on 11.0 syncnthing doesn't crash system when quitting.
Google is secretly creating a new OS that’s not based on Linux
No matter what small tooling changes come about, the Python packaging ecosystem is fundamentally flawed, and will always be more complicated and less useful than others such as Maven (yes, Maven).

The primary reason is that setup.py, etc., have you download/manage one set of dependencies for each project you're working on rather than simply housing all dependencies in a common folder, separated by version, as Maven does. It's pointlessly redundant. But the real pain comes when you start to install things. Since in Python land, dependencies for all tools are typically stored in the same folder, you very easily and quickly hit version conflicts since the dependencies are not really segregated by version. This leads to brutal bugs that creep on you at runtime when you realize, too late, that some tool you installed has dependencies that conflict with another.

What's worse, complex Python projects like OpenStack may have numerous dependencies which all in turn have differing and conflicting dependency versions of their own. Trying to keep them all in sync is a ridiculous exercise in time wasting and pointlessness, and problems caused by version mismatches are common.

The brilliant solution (sarcasm here), of course, is to create virtual environments with separate copies of every dependency for every tool we run. Again, pointlessly redundant and a pain to manage.

Is there a better way? Obviously. Use a single common repo with dependencies structurally segregated by version (ie: different folders), as is the way of doing things in Java-land. I know that Java-land stuff is bad and we're all supposed to hate it. But I've always failed to understand why developers in other language ecosystems continue to create tools in a vacuum, as if roadmaps for solving these problems don't already exist elsewhere. Look beyond your bubble. Hopefully one day the Python folks will catch on.
Matt Macy added support for current Intel and amdgpu graphics out of tree for now https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree.... It is up to Linux 4.7. The graphics stuff is MIT licensed and the linuxkpi is re-implemented so it will eventually trickle into 11.x or 12 and/or a loadable module packaged with FreeBSD Ports.

Still lots of rough edges but it's pretty fun to watch and participate.
I picked up Vue a couple of weeks ago for a small dashboard project where client-side makes total sense: consuming JSON from HTTP APIs. I'd previously played with Ember (good, but not using Ember Data feels punishing), looked at Riot (neat, but very small community), and of course React.

I'd dabbled with React before, but there's a huge gap between 'dabbling' and 'building something reasonably production-worthy'. Webpack (and its contemporaries) are neither accessible nor straightforward to modify, and create-react-app[1] is still maturing.

Vue's fantastic documentation[3], ready-made project templates[2], well-sized community, sane-looking 2.0 API changes, and lifecycle methods that are similar to React (but a little less verbose) were all pluses for me. Making HTTP calls, populating a simple central store and passing that down to components was easy, and for a less-often-a-frontend-dev like me, writing Handlebars templates with helpers for looping, binding form inputs to state (v-model), and adding classes to CSS based on helper methods (e.g. :readonly="isReadOnly(key)") was easy to pick up.

I can see the advantages of React's JSX approach (limiting template-logic, as templates don't exist), although Vue 2.0 will have JSX support as well.

Like with most tools, your decision is part-requirements and part-subjective ("I'm familiar with X, Y & Z approaches"), but Vue made sense and I'd definitely build something else with it again. That Evan has such a huge amount of support on Patreon[5] is impressive as well.

I hope Dan Abramov can keep create-react-app focused: there are an incredible amount of feature-requests, and if create-react-app grows flags to accomodate even half of them, it'll be a monster. Thus far the dam seems to be holding!

[1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app
[2]: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli
[3]: https://vuejs.org/guide/reactivity.html
[4]: https://vuejs.org/guide/application.html#Single-File-Compone...
[5]: https://www.patreon.com/evanyou
It's always better to email the mods, because they often don't see these questions if they're posted in threads.

I'm guessing the [dupe] tag is a mistake.
Scitland blows away the competition – 106% of electricity form wind
Back in the real world, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (read: california prison guard union) alone made more campaign contributions than the two largest private prison corporations put together ($22 million vs $10 million). The Fraternal Order of Police spent another $5M.

https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or...

Most likely the reason for this is that private prisons enjoy no monopoly position; why lobby when others will capture the benefits?
No, it is a novel if misguided attempt at explanation.

In the US though the reason I think that this explanation is wrong is that the recruiters are verrrry aggressive in High School, and so I question if any of the big-picture men's role issues come into play.
I remember this clearly. Or at least, I remember going to the camera store for darkroom supplies, and being faced with almost weekly price changes. Of course, I don't recall the prices going down again very much after the market collapsed.
Pretty sure access to internal APIs not exposed through the executable's CLI/GUI/config/etc interfaces is typically superior to no access.
Kana pronunciation is not completely unambiguous. は and へ have different pronunciation when they're being used as particles. Additionally, there is pitch accent, where small differences in pitch can change meaning. (Although pitch accent varies between regional dialects and you can almost always guess the meaning from context so it's not critical for understanding.)
>I disagree on that one. I find writing c++ without an IDE to be doable. However with java the import statements are not human memorable.

Whereas C++ imports are? Except if you code all the relevant functionality by hand, or just rely a few std stuff. But then you should compare like to like (e.g. only using the Java analogue to std, utils, collections, etc).

>Same goes for class names and variable names. In java everybody writes getFoo and setFoo. Which just gets annoying

So? Expanding to getFoo/setFoo is something even Vim can handle, no IDE needed even.
Is there a way to hide the table of contents on the right? It overlaps the text pretty badly and makes the content unreadable on iPad.
Also: if this was possible and sustainable, everyone would be doing it.
what's about battery ?
I've always found Palantir's sales&marketing strategy to be unique and fascinating among Silicon Valley startups.

Palantir is a high-touch, B2B enterprise software startup, and as such, they are no different than other startups when it comes to sales&marketing. They need to find leads (= potential customers), close them as customers and retain them.

Yet, Palantir's leadership and employees have repeatedly emphasized that they don't do sales or marketing. The OP confirms that they meant that they do sales and marketing differently than other companies.

Retaining lobbyists and policy advisers is one example. Typically, enterprise software companies retain industry analyst firms like Gartner, Forrester, etc. and "influence" their opinions via briefing/consulting. These industry analyst firms also work with technology buyers and make recommendations to them based on their knowledge of software/service providers and the needs of the buyer.

To be sure, no analyst firm is 100% pay to play because if they favor select vendors too much, they lose credibility, access to information and hence influence. That said, it's naive to think that they are 100% free from monied vendor incentives.

It did not occur to me until reading this post that the same model applies to lobbying, and that's where Palantir invested their influencer marketing budget.

Palantir often emphasizes their technological innovation and unique culture (again, a great marketing strategy to attract great technical talent and put them in sales engineering roles). However, I've come to believe that Palantir's greatest innovation is in their business strategy.
People try to keep the big ticket items in major releases on the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD11

Async sendfile, TCP/IP improvements, RSS are things that stand out for my workload. bhyve with UEFI and graphics is probably pretty neat to many folks. VNET (jails closer to Solaris zones with their own network stack) is also closer to correct.

There's a lot of groundwork that will make 11.1 exciting as a followup too (for new TCP stacks, memory management scalability)
Cool! I'm traveling to Japan for the first time later this year. When I started making a few flash cards here and there for common phrases, I realized that learning a new language might be a good use of spare brain cycles, and Japanese seemed pretty cool, so I kind of fell into it.

From a beginner's perspective, this seems like a good overview of the "mechanics" - good to read at the beginning in order to get a basic understanding of the concepts, and a good reference, but not a good way to actually start learning the language.

My local library has the full beginner/intermediate/advanced set of Pimsleur Japanese, which has been great to use during my commute - I say "use" rather than "listen to" because the point of the Pimsleur method is that it's interactive - you're supposed to respond to the prompts out loud so you get used to physically forming the words and so you can hear yourself in comparison to the reference speaker. The Human Japanese "app textbook" is pretty good as well. Anki is a good flashcard app but making the cards yourself is painful and time consuming, I need to go find a few more premade decks.
Or you could just use Azul Systems pauseless JVM and not have to worry about the GC ever.
There's no free lunch. While I don't doubt that this strategy is possible - the underlying principles behind it are well known for as long as inverse leveraged ETFs have been around. What that tells me is that there is minimal opportunity for arbitrage - and that any pricing built into the ETF or the options is accounting for the risk. As the author states - you might have difficulty borrowing these stocks to go short - and if you do you will be paying up for that. Borrow rates fluctuate on a daily basis which is not mentioned in the post. The author suggests selling the stock synthetically with options. You will be paying up for the option premium. Additionally, being stuck with a short-dated short naked position in an option is a recipe to blow all your capital - especially if there is an "unexpected" move right before expiration. Just be careful!
why do free masons would fight against veganism now?
because I have a blog that speacks about free masonry crimes and I am orthodox and hold lent and they see that lent could be justified with vegan movement and they fight God Christianity and lent
here is the blog
https://medium.com/@CyberBuyan
I Was Prince’s Private Chef
Not sure why the Carberry desert doesn't qualify as a desert:
https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g1871864-d50114...

I was under the impression it holds the largest piece of "soft desert" in Canada, but maybe that's wrong.
I had been trying Vue for a couple weeks, with at least two different approaches to file organization (first setting up bash scripts to build release and dev channels, later switching to minifying and compiling using gulp with things like Closure) before I discovered vue-cli and its webpack template.
The only exception being that the market has gone up and down, and will in the future. ;)
I would start by looking at usage data. Octave actually seems more mainstream to me than the others. Mailing-lists and self-hosting are ultra-niche and few bother installing their own OS on desktops - let alone mobiles. Nearly all scientists use Matlab-like software, on the other hand.

Also, if there's nothing wrong with charging for software, then it sure as hell is nothing wrong with accepting donations for it. Congratulations!
Dropout rate from 30 days of the coding challenge
I agree, I'd recommend learners to learn kana because you can learn it in a few weeks (as opposed to many years for kanji, and even after that many years, people - including natives - don't remember them very well).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNxPRBvRQg
MIT researchers devise a secure anonymity network that’s 10x faster than Tor
>Go is both statically-typed and perfectly usable without an IDE.

To the same extend that Java is perfectly usable without one.

Besides I find Go intolerable with or without an IDE. Not sure how people do any work without Generics, probably don't care about being DRY or don't smell the badness in e.g. using different math methods per type.

>Modern emacs is pretty easy to set up. Take a look at prelude or spacemacs. You're up & running within a few minutes.

Up and running with ...something. Customizing that, and getting to use it is another story altogether.
I've also found venv to be a pain if you're trying to set up your editor to execute scripts in the virtual environment. Npm project? Build and run. Python project? Figure out how to make VS Code activate the environment first.