skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All other things equal, probably.

People hiring on freelance sites are looking for the perfect Silicon Valley genius programmer who inexplicably turned down a six figure offer with Facebook to strike out on his own and charge $15/hr for his time on Rentacoder.

They really do expect to find this person, and are therefore shocked to see the candidates that are actually available. They'll naturally try to sift through the heap and find the person closest to their ideal, and, being non-technical, the only thing they really have to go on is writing style.

So the "dear sir look no further we are A++++++ professional company" guys all red-flag themselves out of the competition leaving the one dude in Iowa who bothered to put together a complete sentence.

The takeaway from this is that if you're offshore, the best thing you can do is work on your English. Preferably your casual proposal-writing English, since the half dozen sentences you put together for a bid will likely be the only thing a potential client ever reads. Unless that looks right, it doesn't matter what your technical skills are like. Nobody will ever get around to asking.
This section, primarily, argues that the atomic bomb created a political out for the Japanese government:

> Attributing the end of the war to the atomic bomb served Japan's interests in multiple ways. But it also served U.S. interests. If the Bomb won the war, then the perception of U.S. military power would be enhanced, U.S. diplomatic influence in Asia and around the world would increase, and U.S. security would be strengthened. The $2 billion spent to build it would not have been wasted. If, on the other hand, the Soviet entry into the war was what caused Japan to surrender, then the Soviets could claim that they were able to do in four days what the United States was unable to do in four years, and the perception of Soviet military power and Soviet diplomatic influence would be enhanced. And once the Cold War was underway, asserting that the Soviet entry had been the decisive factor would have been tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

It basically argues, yeah, both Stalin AND the bomb likely contributed to a surrender. This part is not cited as well, however. It relies on implication based on the dissonance between records before the surrender and statements by the Japanese government after the surrender.
> It could not have been Nagasaki. The bombing of Nagasaki occurred in the late morning of August 9, after the Supreme Council had already begun meeting to discuss surrender, and word of the bombing only reached Japan's leaders in the early afternoon -- after the meeting of the Supreme Council had been adjourned in deadlock and the full cabinet had been called to take up the discussion. Based on timing alone, Nagasaki can't have been what motivated them.

I've not read the whole thing (just starting work, have it marked for later) so I may be jumping the gun with this comment, but that paragraph jumped out. A lot of arguments I see for why dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary seem fairly rooted in hindsight - this doesn't make the arguments wrong, but it does mean we can't judge the decisions made on these metrics because at the time people did not have that hindsight to help them.

Did they know that the effect of soviet actions would be so detrimental to Japan long-term?

Did they absolutely know that Japan, or one of its allies, didn't have something up its sleeve had the potential to turn that situation around? Or that a sudden change of fortunes wouldn't disable a large chunk of the relevant forces against Japan such that they could pull themselves "back into the game"?

No one thing beat Japan. War isn't about doing the one thing that will probably stop an enemy: it is about trying to make sure they stop and stay stopped long enough for you to solidify your position and deal with your other problems (particularly, in a large war, battles on other fronts). This often means hitting an enemy while they are down just in case. Rule 4: The double-tap.

Of course as taps go dropping a nuke over a civilian target is at best morally dubious, this is undeniable IMO, but I find a lot of the arguments against to be ill considered from the point of view of what people making the decisions at the time definitely knew, definitely knew that they knew, and the long list of things that they could not confirm so strongly.
Interesting, but needs a bit more context - when and how much?
I've done a small study and it turns out a combination of documenting, preparing unit tests, and cardboard boxes improve my source code quality by quite a bit.
I have no idea if this conversation is satirical or not.
Never given an explicitly bad reference.

Have very occasionally given non-good reference (while you say nothing bad about them - you say nothing good either... as an employer you get to recognise those when you get 'em.)

Have very occasionally had to say "I have no idea who this person is - can you get them to remind me who they are?". In reality I strongly suspect that these people had a fictitious CV.

Have once given a (genuine) excellent reference followed by "You should probably not be asking me this question when they still work here" ;-)

In reality you very rarely get asked for references for somebody you wouldn't recommend. The employee knows that the reference won't be glowing, so they don't put you down.

Basically - I never lie, but I very occasionally don't tell the whole truth.

Also I've pretty never had somebody who I would consider a bad employee. The worst usually have to deal with is somebody we hired for the wrong job, or they'd outgrown the company, etc. I've never had somebody steal the petty cash and set a client on fire ;-)
I wont discredit your experience, however, I have been a consultant in several 64 bit shops, linux and solaris who had 64GB servers who could not scale above 8GB due to OOMs.

Also remember that if you are on linux doing that 28 GB heap you are living in the world of memory over-commit, which means if you actually tried to use that memory, you will probably segfault.

Again if you have done it great, no shop I have worked in, has been able to do it with app servers and keep their servers up reliably. Its a constant source of pain and I think JVM GC is not sufficient to scale at the level of current hardware.
I just now realize that this comment is gender-biased for no reason. Read dude/dudette and he or she is a 400K pipe dream.
Does it work with RubyMotion? Any tips for installing it for a beginner? :)
Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong?
There is both wikibooks and wiki university - last time (several years ago) I looked on wikibooks there were actually very good physiology and biology textbooks that had been open sourced. Not sure if development has tapered but it seemed a pretty robust community for a while
^except that's wrong. The best of the Kwangtung army stationed in Manchuria was already shifted to Kyushu and the southern islands of Japan to prepare for the possible US invasion.

>"Most of Japan's best troops had been shifted to the southern part of the home islands. Japan's military had correctly guessed that the likely first target of an American invasion would be the southernmost island of Kyushu. The once proud Kwangtung army in Manchuria, for example, was a shell of its former self because its best units had been shifted away to defend Japan itself."

It wasn't that the best troops were defeated; just that Japan couldn't fight a war on two fronts. Once the Soviet Union invaded, they had no other viable options other than surrender or fight a losing battle.

However, even if the author's analysis is correct, I still think it best to believe that the nuclear weapons were the main cause but the other variables also influenced the outcome.
Good question indeed. I would also like to know what other people do in these situations.

I try to stay honest, though not by identifying negatives when they are there but rather by highlighting strengths and areas of improvement. This is in fact the way I like to see it anyways, and I openly guide those people directly also using exactly the same feedback.
I think that any potential incentive for the investments to leave could be properly offset by lowering or abolishing taxes.
Yes you are right, and you also need to include the storage cost.

I pick the min. cost for EC2 as my point is to show you that SL isn't much cheaper by a lot (at least using the official channel)
SAC Case Tests The Classic Prisoners Dilemma
I'll be perfectly honest, when I was working on the MS compiler team (for CE), I just sort of got used to it.

But yes, thick skin is required for those who self identify!

Then again I have always held the view that if my users are unhappy, it is a personal failing on the part of my team and myself. (Although I am low enough on the software engineering totem poll that I can't really do anything outside of ensure components I create are as user friendly and high quality as possible!)
Of course, technically sushi doesn't refer to raw fish...
Duh. It's obviously not the box itself that has reduced mortality. The "cardboard box" is a rhetorical shortcut that refers to the contents of the box and all the associated materials such as the written guides on infant care.

There's a strong autistic trait in HN discussion sometimes...
Were I actually making a sales pitch or trying to comfort you, believe me, you'd have a point.
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I'd like more gumroad services where the author sees more of the profit. That's what I hope the future of the internet is like, just totally cutting out egregious middlemen and leaving services that take some small percentage.
The United States dropped two very big bombs on cities. Cities, not military installations. That's very close to being a war criminal in my opinion, realities of war be damned.

Edit:

> You have the privilege of tarring the commanders of US forces as war criminals "of the highest gravity" because of the sacrifices US soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines made during WW2.

In reality, we Europeans have the privilege because of United Kingdom, Soviet, United States, Canada, Finland, and countless volunteers and freedom fighters from the occupied areas. I appreciate the sacrifices, suffering and determination from a nation I so admire; in fact we celebrate it once a year, but please remember that United States were never alone in the fight.
Who is "Hollywood" the article mentions?

Unless it's tinfoil hatism, he must provide at least one credible source other than "Hollywood approved"
There's no decryption. It's encrypted all the way to your screen's each pixel.
Not as scary as the thought in my mind that this is just Intel astroturfing
Perhaps you live in a country where you can become aware of the injustices, and have some power to help stop them?
That rule of thumb usually refers to having unfettered access to the hardware - to be able to crack it open, snoop on internal signals etc.

In this case the problem is that the dock is expected to be a safe interface (untrusted), when it actually isn't. For ex, people would be surprised if their computer could be hacked by plugging it into a malicious power socket. And likewise they'll be surprised if they find out their phone can be hacked by putting it on an alarm-clock ipod dock in their hotel room.
You were trying to suggest that Singapore is not a police state by comparing it to "one that most people on this website are largely familiar with, and largely agree is not a dictatorship or a police state."

Your comparison does nothing of the sort though; America is a police state.

Just look at how many people we imprison (particularly in for-profit prisons), our absurd war on drugs with absolutely obscene punishments and classifications of drugs that defy scientific literature, the number of people executed in America every single year, America's ludicrous notion of civil forfeit that involves the government suing inanimate objects that are incapable of defending themselves, a country where the public prosecutor is a political position used as a stepping stone to greater politics (provided the politician in question can achieve high conviction rates at all costs...) police departments that are increasingly using "seized" property with no legitimate notion of due process to buy themselves "riot gear" and drones...

What is the point of looking at that list and saying "well we aren't that bad"? You are just telling me that your toast is better than burnt.

I am telling you that your toast may not be burnt, but your diner sure as shit still smells of smoke.

If you like burnt food, then knock yourself out, but don't pretend for an instant that it isn't burnt.
serious question - is there a reason why computer models of thought and 'weak AI' focus on biologically-inspired models instead of generalizing to higher-level cognitive phenomena? It seems like this is quite a bit like trying to model the hydrodynamics of a river flowing by going down to the quantum mechanical properties of water and dirt.
Saying "Make something people want." is like saying to a music composer, "Make something people will want to hear; make a hit." What will they make? Justin Bieber pop fluff that's forgotten the next day.

A lot of the startups I see are just that. They're vapid and have little insight. True innovation comes from a different place than looking for acceptance.
Secure videoconferencing? But yes, a stretch use case, I know!
How about actually attempting to defend your government instead of just making absurd arguments about it being better than others. "Better than others" is a piss-poor defense. The refuge of those incapable of thinking of anything better to say of themselves.
All I know off the top of my head is that Stirling engines have pretty terrible weight to thrust ratios--they're heavy.
Ruby on Rails caching explained with an example app
> requiring some proprietary plugin for Youtube

You mean something like Flash Player?

Yes, I know, they are transitioning to html5, but not for everything.
It's almost funny to notice so many people got so brainwashed with "the cloud" hype - especially AWS hype - they completely ignore the alternative and end up paying more for less.
"But hey, we're elastic. Gigity!" :-)
> I'm really not sure if PAP would have the support it does if people could freely criticize it.

From another perspective, I think it is a harmful anti-democratic cycle that the PAP has enough voting power in Parliament to effectively amend the Singapore constitution without debate [1], and to implement regulations such as this without opening it up to prior public debate.

Other forms of democracy have their shortfalls as well. First-past-the-post, at least in my opinion, needs to be replaced.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore#Amend...
I wouldnt do anything because I believe the protests have been subverted by opposition political forces.

While the protests over the removal of green wedges are honourable, I think at the heart of the issue is that the traditionally elite, educated, secular middle class is unhappy and feeling threatened by the growing power and wealth of the historically poor, religious underclass.

This is a protest of power and privlidge and I don't believe people are spending the appropriate time understanding all the issues at hand. I think the protests have been very succesfull at selling an image which I dont believe is necessarily correct.

I could be mistaken though.
This article is fantastic. I did not like the fact that the sushi chef was a scumbag who created families in different countries and abandoned them which the author called out. He even complicated doing it a third time at the end of the article due to his greediness. I hope he does go back to North Korea and runs out of luck.
Their reason for hyperventilating is ad impressions. Their business model is telling (former) digg users how awesome they are and how evil the xxAA's are.
The article does not claim that the cardboard box itself played a big role.

It implies that the requirement to get prenatal care in order to receive the box played a role. EDIT: And it's not even making a strong claim about that. From the article "Mika Gissler, a professor at the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, gives several reasons for this - the maternity box and pre-natal care for all women in the 1940s, followed in the 60s by a national health insurance system and the central hospital network."
You find incredible value in it because you're so old. Of course someone in their fifties wants to feel like they're "more a part of something."
CNN on the right is the international one, yet it is focused on Turkey, doing live broadcast. The one on the left is regional, in Turkey. It is showing a penguin documentary while Turkey faces the biggest riots and unrest since its foundation.
Thanks for the input, will check them out today!
So not an expert then
Carbon nanotubes are mostly hexagons. They certainly could make toruses, if they wanted to.
>Since its foundation.

Thats not entirely true now is it.
"except for pharmaceuticals" (according to Posner, and notch)

(I happen to disagree)
> Nothing good can come from sleeping with a co-worker

Except, you know, sex?

I know what you are trying to say, but categorycally saying 'nothing' seems a bit far-fetched.
Somebody needs to take responsibility for this. Letting 520 people go is not normal, especially not in the tech industry. It's a disgrace.
Yes, It's called postfix & roundcube.
Dopplr is really dead now
When I saw this I remembered about the time Netflix launched on Android, and how they only made the app available only on certain devices with "hardware DRM" [1], at least initially.

So I don't think ARM was the first to do this. Both Qualcomm and TI seemed to have some kind of hardware DRM before, although ARM may try to "out-compete" them in this department now, and offer a more advanced/harder to crack solution, which can only mean Qualcomm and Nvidia will probably offer something similar in the future.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/netflix-for-android-demoed-on-qual...
Dinner Out
I love it - I've been wanting this for ages. Super convenient.
>Everyone should just live like you, a collage student without a job or bills

You're awfully presumptuous for someone who can't spell "college" correctly.

The problem is there is still a giant gap between what makers and sellers earn. It is no longer the case that distribution costs are prohibitive, makers no longer need massive upfront investment to sell things. So why is it acceptable to you for such exploitation to continue?
How do I fix merge conflicts in Git?
Pop quiz time: Papua New Guinea is one of the four countries without mandatory paid maternity leave. What are the other three?
A start up (or Google) ought to give a similar kind of thing to their employees on their first day. At minimum it would get marketing buzz.
I thought they actually gave up on that product because the production costs are to heigh.
Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation?
Most languages can be used to built themselves, in a process known as compiler bootstrap.

The main reason why some compiler developers don't do it is mostly a question of using existing tooling instead of redoing all required stuff in the new language.

Additionally porting to new platforms by bootstrapping usually requires cross-compilation, which for some developers might not be worth it, depending on the target audience of the language.
That makes no sense. You might not be able to get at the decrypted pathway from software, but at some point there's got to be a decrypted linear buffer to drive the pixel array.
It isn't just that though. It's that you have a lot of information now that can be ripped out of context and used to create a very different narrative.

I have said before and I will say again, Facebook is primarily useful as a tool for self-marketing, not for socializing. If you aren't marketing yourself and trying carefully to create a specific image, you are better off elsewhere.
A TL;DR is just a summary, it doesn't need to contain all the information in the original text to be useful.
"We added the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header to our raw URL responses way back in 2011 as a first step in combating hotlinking. This has the effect of forcing the browser to treat content in accordance with the Content-Type header. That means that when we set Content-Type: text/plain for raw views of files, the browser will refuse to treat that file as JavaScript or CSS."

https://github.com/blog/1482-heads-up-nosniff-header-support...
> you have to have the ops system in place to deal with the dedicated environment AND the EC2 environment, which is why devops cost will be higher.

Only if you choose your systems so that they can't be used across both platforms. I don't see why anyone would do that if they want to run a hybrid setup.

> Inter-datacenter network issues are less of a problem when your datacenters are from the same provider

If your data centers are from the same provider, your added degree of resilience is much lower.

> because they are responsible for making sure the connection is good.

That doesn't help you when one of the data centers goes out entirely. Such as when the power needs to be cut for fire brigade safety due to a fire alarm (yes, I've experienced that), or the supposedly redundant UPS's triggers failsafes and causes the entire site to go down (experienced that too), or when one of the sites see cascading failures take out heir entire network (seen that happen too).

Assuming you will have live, working network connections between your locations, and/or that all your locations will stay online is pretty much guaranteed to cut your availability.

Basically, if your systems can't operate independently, adding an extra data center means adding more failure points.
Can you use DRM hardware for anything other than DRM? For example, are there extra DSP registers that can rapidly decode stream?
By this logic you could justify becoming a drug lord provided that you donate some of your earnings to charity.
For public speaking, I have a theory of what "confidence" is. It's pretty simple: confidence is actually knowing what you're about to do. Public speaking is scary because there are so many things that people haven't accounted for.

While all of those things are very important - I don't think that's all there is to stage fright. I certainly know folk who have nailed all of the things you talk about and still have major problems with fear. Hell - I still get cold sweats before any talk I give and I've been doing it for years.

A process of acclimatisation seems to help some folks - I talked about this in more detail over at https://medium.com/speak-up/18cfbc7c5a78
There's something so particularly American about gaining so much of your identity from your job. American's are so defined by what work they do.

I am not my employer. My employer pays my wage and that's it. I'm not interested in joining a cult. I'm earning a paycheck.

This is not to say I would feel comfortable working for a company like Zynga. Absolutely not. But I also don't doubt there are many people at Zynga who really do not like the company's direction. Don't blame the soldiers for the fault of the generals.
> Often the problem with these queries is that there are not enough devs complaining to MSFT.

No. "Customer complaints" are not a substitute for product design sense.

Any survey of your customers is inherently biased: Your customers, by definition, are people who were willing to buy the product. You're rarely going to discover your biggest problems by counting the number of customers who report them, because your biggest problems are the ones that make people unwilling to become your customers in the first place.