skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short, the UN forces were able to drive North Korean forces out of South Korea. They then began advancing into North Korea. At this point China entered the war (under the guise of the PVA) on the side of the North Koreans, which was not something which had been anticipated. This resulted in several defeats, and the UN forces being pushed back towards the prewar boundary. MacArthur wanted the option to expand the scope of the war by using nuclear weapons against North Korea and northern China, which Truman didn't want because he was afraid that doing so would mean full-scale war against China and the USSR, and possibly an invasion of Europe by the latter while the US was tied down in Asia. The Wikipedia links posted by some of the other users make for interesting reading.

It should also be noted that North Korea, while the instigator of the war and a Communist country, was in a very different position in the 1950s. It was a richer country than South Korea until the 1970s, and South Korea at the time was an American-backed military dictatorship. While there may have been a moral argument to roll back Communism as far as possible, Truman's concerns about the geopolitical implications of expanding the war were very real, and calling them cowardice is a rather crude mischaracterization.
Wait, how do I get my provider to give me a discount in return for paying full price for the phone? I was never given that option to begin with, though I'd much prefer to the savings.
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Unleashing an entire nation of uneducated, brain washed and tortured people would wreck havoc on Asia. I'm all for freeing those people, but there needs to be a plan other than bomb the shit out of (freeing) them.
Take a look at this: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/

'cperciva likes how the business is.
Symmetric counteraction sounds more threatening while still somewhat meaning the same thing.
Lunar speed reentry is quite feasible, and has been practiced. Apollo did it fine, and Orion did it a few weeks ago. State of the art ablative shields, like the PICA-X used on Stardust and Dragon, are quite capable of handling entry at Mars transfer speed. (Lunar entry profile is about 11km/s, Mars 13-14km/s--though it can go as high as 20km/s deformation on design.)

The real problem with the return trip is getting off Mars. Specifically, putting enough propellant on the surface to get you back up. Sure, it's easier than Earth, but it's still a planet. If NASA were serious about Mars, they would be sending prototype ISRU plants every cycle, because having rocket fuel waiting for you on the surface is the real enabling technology for Mars exploration. Or Lunar or Venus for that matter.
"ok that's fine. For now though, let's take it off the site since we know it's working - that will give you guys some time to make the decision without any pressure."

This tactic is likely to be useful to more than just those working in the early days of a startup. Nice move!
Okay then don't call them a programming book, call them a language book.

What I had meant to say was that just reading a python book won't make you a programmer, it goes in the same way about any other definition of programming books you may call, one has to practice to gain perfection regardless of which books are called programming ones and which ones aren't.
I think it is a bad and misguided post that doesn't understand the success that Patrick has.
I tried getting projects on gun.io and never heard back from a client. Perhaps I need a better opensourcing profile - https://github.com/flipflopapp . Did anyone ever hearback from a gun.io client?
MacArthur wanted to nuke everyone...including Stalin's new Soviet Union.

Perhaps it's best he didn't get a chance to do all that.
I have a hard time believing this is a serious comment. Obviously plane travel is in no way comparable to travel intended to replace the family car -- they're wildly different modes of transportation with different destinations, plane travel is vastly less frequent, and its many annoyances are dealt with because it is the only reasonably expedited way to travel the distances it covers.

Depending on what you mean by "train" travel, that is perhaps more comparable (ie, local subway is in some ways a substitutable good for local car travel). In short, though: families are considerably less likely to find local rail travel useful than are single people. Yes, of course you can find people who use it by choice or necessity. But when you have to tote a baby carrier and diaper bag, or your kid's soccer gear, or just keep track of a gaggle of children in a crowded train, it's just much less convenient.
Get the money out of client's pocket into your pocket.
This is from a real general. You can tell. He talks about logistics before he talks about battles. Napoleon's military funded the development of the tin can. That wasn't enough to get his army to Moscow. Here's a view of that logistic disaster: http://www.indiana.edu/~psource/PDF/Archive%20Articles/Sprin...

As is usual with the conquer-the-world types, not knowing when to stop was Napoleon's downfall. Hitler made the same mistake - taking on both Britain and Russia at the same time.
As I understand, the classic thing to implement is a todo list. You have CRUD and then need for some sort of storage solution (whether local storage, or DB backed).

I usually start really small, and add features/refactor as I learn more.
Yep, MacArthur was a great military strategist, but very politically naive. Truman really had no choice but to relieve him after MacArthur went off the rails and tried taking executive authority he didn't have to further military goals.
Two errors in this. First, the 22 oz is before cooking weight. After cooking will be less - maybe 16 oz raw (after you deduct bone and fat) and 12 oz after cooking. The remaining lean meat isn't pure protein. There's other tissues. nutritiondata.self.com lists only about 76.7 calories per oz, or about 920 calories for the whole thing.
MacArthur is possibly one of the finest generals in American history. But while he's widely beloved across Asia for his work in Japan and especially the Philippines, his American legacy is tarnished after Truman publicly disgraced him for threatening China with war after Chinese troops had overrun American forces in Korea.

The Chinese intervention in Korea was overwhelming, and Americans were forced to retreat -- and considered evacuating the peninsula altogether. MacArthur, fresh from Japan and the Philippines, was determined to save Korea from its modern fate and threatened China with war if they would not withdraw from what is now North Korea.

Truman had already significantly interfered with MacArthur's prosecution of the war, and eventually relieved him entirely when he felt MacArthur was too provocative. That led to the use of North Korea as a Chinese buffer state, much as Stalin used Eastern Europe, and to the situation we have today.

It's one of the worst blunders in the history of American foreign policy. Now, not only is North Korea a paranoid dictatorship with more than enough conventional arms to reduce South Korea to rubble within hours, they're armed with nuclear weapons and increasingly hostile even to their Chinese sponsors.

Since I identify as mostly liberal, I always defaulted to a defense of Truman. But I was wrong. Truman's failure should have stained his legacy, not MacArthur's. And for exactly the same reasons I outlined, MENA states dominated by fundamentalist Islam must not be allowed to gain nuclear weapons. Rogue states and lunatics have ruined too many lives to be protected by a kneejerk fear of war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Truman's_relief_of_Ge...
PEG parsers are not streaming. They have to keep the entire input in memory in case backtracking happens. I'll look into Pratt parsing. I've actually implemented a Pratt parser in the past but I thought it was just for parsing operators with precedence?
With the DDoS attack taking out the internet, they probably couldn't use Google Translate and had to use a locally installed tool.
Good comment. I agree.

There is no way to avoid the necessity of making a value decision. Even if one chooses the "will of god", they still are making an arbitrary choice. (Never mind at this stage in history the vast smorgasbord of "divine wills" to choose from...).

It all comes down to human valuation. Create your own or follow someone else's. Inevitably.
Can you point to some other studies? This is an interesting topic.
Haskell and steam fusion will turn them into iterative loops for you automatically ;)
>What?! msft + node.js?! Crazy talk.
>Crazy indeed...

the worst.
Speaking of large gaps between primes - There is a Bitcoin clone recently released called "Gapcoin" which replaces the SHA256 hash-breaking with finding large prime gaps. It seems completely unknown and has very few people mining it, yet it already broke a few hundred records, and is one spot away from breaking Donald Knuth's record in the "top 20 highest merit gaps"

http://primerecords.dk/primegaps/gaps20.htm

http://gapcoin.org/primegaps.php

I am curious if there is any scientific use for finding these high-merit gaps? Or is it the same usefulness as finding a slightly longer expansion of PI?
I'm not an expert on this topic, but tried to look up why "we haven't crushed them", i.e. why those poor, suffering people were not given the option for change is that it is against the interests of the USA. If North Korea were liberated then South Korea would almost automatically become an atomic power and that would create new problems. As I said, this is what I found, but there may be other reasons, like oil or who knows. What I'm certain about is that the decision is not based on a moral backbone of some sorts. But would an idealistic approach be any better?
From a guy who wrote a 768 page book [1] about this:

"The 'small profit', along with most of the so-called 'recovery' of Uncle Sam’s $426 billion initial investment, was ground out of the backs of America’s savers and depositors; or it was scalped from the massive financial bubbles the Fed has generated in the Wall Street casino." [2]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capit...

[2] http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-greater-abominatio...
Honest question: how is the "North Korea is bad" problem our fault, or our problem? Do you believe the US is obligated to intervene with anything that's bad?
Nobody I know. People I know that use C++ every day will admit it has issues but are also realistic enough to understand that any language with the same design constraints and long history as C++ will be complex.

It's the catbirds in the gallery that don't actually have to write the kind of apps that require a language like C++ that "bash" it.
When I run a modified version: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XJup4FsU

qsort: 10466 ms
std::sort: 5137 ms
My oath doesn't prevent me from taking untaxed intoxicating liquors across state lines, in whatever hypothetical case in which that would do the greater good, no matter how unlikely. My oath is to my interpretation of the Constitution, its spirit, and not its literal wording. Where my interpretation differs from the wording, the wording should change. For example, if the document allowed slavery, it should be changed to disallow slavery. If the document allows <insert evil here>, it should be changed to disallow <that evil>, or that allowance should be stricken.

> And you've just relied on the No True Scotsman fallacy. Obviously anyone who doesn't interpret your oath the same as you do must have flouted it. Or perhaps it's Cheney who says you flouted the oath. How do I tell again who's right?

Just as obvious as that, except for those lacking empathy, is that some things are wrong. You needn't prove they're wrong, you need only believe they are. Do you have to seek others' say-so to tell whether it's okay to kick a toddler in the face?

Oliver North flouted his oath, because his actions didn't serve the greater good. Simply consult your own conscience to tell whether ones' oath is broken.
No, of course not. It's not generic cartons of "insert kid item here," it's your stuff. It's your kid's clothes, it's your stroller, it's your sporting goods, it's all the elements of a life that isn't the mid-20's techie lifestyle, where all your important material goods are your various computing devices at home and your smartphone.

I suppose that you could try to have the cars come with baby seats (though there are like a million variations of baby seats depending on the age of your child, so that's going to be a headache) and things like kleenex/wipes/snacks/drinks (though replenishing those is going to be a huge logistical issue and there are some legit sanitary concerns). But lots of the stuff people tote around is individual, valuable property.

This is what I'm saying about the blind spot of the tech commentariat. Next time you walk past a family unloading their car, glance at their trunk. It's twice the size of your car's trunk, and it's filled with stuff all the time.
Sony were pretty dumb to even let this movie get off the starting blocks. Did they somehow imagine it wouldn't be controversial?

Free speech or not, it is in poor taste and i'm damn sure that if the protagonist had been Obama instead of Kim it would definitely not have been made.

Sony, you made a bad call, you got p0wned. Take it like a man.

Obama, why are you even in this conversation.

DPRK, hire a better translator, yours sucks.
You make a valid point. Love is a powerful force. And cooperation does seem to overcome competition historically.

But you must admit, there are no shortage of psychopathic uberman talking about love and goodness to further their own ends....
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I guess what I'm saying is the quest for a general purpose AI is probably a dead end. Specific AI's for specific tasks is by far the most successful approach so far.
Law and order are everyone's problem. Why should the North Korean government be allowed to torture, imprison and enslave large parts of its nation with impunity? These things are international crimes (as are many actions of the CIA and the IDF, incidentally) and everyone in every country should be clamouring for justice for civilians attacked by their, or someone else's, governments.
Every time I see anything out of the mouth of North Korea I think of the 20+ million starving, in forced labor camps, etc.
Which hash function and salt value are Facebook using for this?
You made my day, guys, please don't stop :)
C++11 is a very different language, in much the same way Java 8 isn't Java 1, or Visual Basic .NET isn't BASICA.

(It's entirely possible that all six of these languages are terrible, but that would be six separate claims.)
One of the reasons people use "low level code" for performance is because the STL doesn't easily provide control of memory which is critical to performance. Electronic Arts wrote their own version of the STL largely so they could better control memory [1].

I'm not really sure about the rest of the myths. I'm a little confused about how "To understand C++, you must first learn C” is a myth since C++ is a superset of C so you kind of have to learn C.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
My experience with legacy C++: Main problem with C++ is that it has lots of accidental complexity and a relatively weak standard feature set. The lava layer pattern is apparently very hard avoid in old applications. Due to the aforementioned weaknesses the lava layering now applies also to the modules that would be standard static modules in other languages. So it's a bit wastefull.

But since lava layering is caused by cultural and architectural issues I cannot claim that the system would be in any better shape just if some other language had been used.
Not believing in something does not disprove its existence.
An interesting article on the respective paths of ROK and PRK:

http://my.firedoglake.com/inoljt/2012/11/30/how-north-korea-...
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Hi, I've came across this cool interactive "SVG Christmas animations - Google Chrome Experiment"
Please Check it out.

https://ihatetomatoes.net/svg-christmas/

and you might include this for one of your topics this coming holiday season..
thanks so much and more power.!
Funny english
And article on a Japanese domain.
Url changed from http://www.sciencedump.com/content/first-man-made-biological..., which points to this.
I agree partially with you. And to add to that. The probable problem with the US approach to this is the "rate of change" ("probable" because it is too hard to call it anything more, since this is world affairs we are talking, we can't talk loosely)

Spreading freedom is right, and I can see the good side of US authorities in this. I imagine there might be lot of people living in North Korea under medieval set of freedoms (but we all lived through that and is it that bad?).

But people can't open up easily, even if you are trying to help them. It takes time. If we want NK to come to terms with upholding human rights, we need to give them time. While at the same time pushing them a bit as well. Sometimes I wonder if that is what is happening. US the lash, Russia/China the console. If that is so, then the culprit is neither US or NK or Russia, but us, for over-reacting in certain senses.

For example, in the above translation there is a line: "all war spaces including cyber warfare space to blow up those citadels."

I think the above line was for 'biased or mistaken/unbiased' reasons miss-quoted/translated by some in the US media, as 'North Korea threatens to blow up US buildings'(creating unnecessary tension based on the events of 9/11). Instead it might have meant "breaking a nexus". But anyways, quite a few media outlets ran that story. And I guess, to some extent the comedic approach to North Korea is thus needed. But that should not mean disgracing its leader directly. Tease but don't Touch!
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Korea, of all places, is possibly the most crystal-clear example of the success of American intervention. The unparalleled success of South Korea is a direct contrast to the horror of North Korea.

Perhaps I shouldn't say unparalleled -- Germany succeeded under American guidance, as did Japan despite a radically different culture and people. There was a time when we could rebuild countries successfully.

Notably, of course, Germany was full of Germans and Korea was full of Koreans. Cultural values allowed these countries to succeed, just as they ensure the failure of secular states in the Middle East. I don't advocate intervention everywhere -- and I think it's idiotic to try to set up democracies, even puppet ones, in countries hostile to essential Western values -- but the success of South Korea displays the huge loss the world has suffered from the Communist domination of North Korea.

It's simplistic to declare that "there is a zero chance war will result in any good." We sacrificed American lives to save Europe and much of East Asia from hellish regimes, and those were the right calls. It would have been the right call to save Korea as well. War hasn't helped Afghanistan -- because nothing will help Afghanistan -- but we used to have the wisdom to know when intervention was worth the cost.
PHP has a standard library with plenty of collections: http://php.net/manual/en/book.spl.php

Stack - http://php.net/manual/en/book.spl.php
Queue - http://php.net/manual/en/class.splqueue.php
PriorityQueue - http://php.net/manual/en/class.splpriorityqueue.php
Real Maps - http://php.net/manual/en/class.splobjectstorage.php

It's a shame some people are not aware of these.
I don't like surveys, but I can tell you this.
ES6 all the way down.
ES7 async stuff looks great.
facebook flow looks promising

take a look at 6to5 project
That quote and the wikipedia article it comes from are both misguided because they still describe Anonymous as a group.
Kim Stanley Robinson is, FYI, an amazing sci-fi author, one of the best we've got going right now, and if you haven't read his stuff already you should.

But I can't agree with him on this particular thing. It seems like a rehashing of the same old religious argument, that there's some magical, ineffable, indefinable property of savannah-grown meatbrains that no manufactured device can ever, ever have. I can't buy that. Human brains are just an arrangement of matter, and any arrangement of matter can be replicated. Whether we will make conscious machines, I can't say, but there's no rational way to assert that it can't be done.
Launch costs for small Mars missions are on the order of a third of the project budget. Fuel is cheap... on the ground. But paying to send it to Mars is not.

Less fuel means more payload, which means more science or less cost (because you don't have to build so exotically to save weight.) Either way is good. Only in a radically different launch cost regime will we cease to care about efficiency of transfer.
It's not "in their name". There is no "them" and there is no name.
I was actually shocked when I learned that other people went to the moon as well. For a long I used to believe that Neil and Buzz were the only 2 people who walked on the moon.
The writing could be improved and made more forceful, but I don't see much passive voice in there. Are you sure that word means what you think it means?

(And the hemingway app is pretty crappy as far as natural language processing goes.)
I've been thinking about hosting my own XMPP server as well. Does anyone have any recommendations on the most cost-effective place to host it? Since it's for a small group of friends I'd imagine it wouldn't need anything too resource intensive. Perhaps something like Linode or DO?
Using npm to manage package dependencies, and browserify to bundle those dependencies for the browser, is such a good client-side development experience that I use it even if I have no other use for node. I guess sometimes I'm using npm "without" node (which is to say, I'm not always running a server).
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It's out being almost as successful as Perl6 and Python3 :-)

e: Actually wasn't there a blog post posted to HN suggesting Perl skip to 7 too?
Kim wasn't the protagonist, and movies, including comedies, involving the death of and/or plots to kill actual current world leaders are nothing new.
Maybe some of the negativity comes from the idea that people should have to be included in an endeavor regardless of ability?

(Of course there are also no shortage of plain old misogynists and bigots.)
Nice of you to completely change the subject; google "ignoratio elenchi" for your self-improvement.
What an idiotic sentiment.

We have no reason to believe that the entire universe isn't computable on a (Quantum) Turing Machine, or that any finite subset of the universe isn't computable on a (Quantum) Finite State Machine.

The most brute-force approach is simply to make a very detailed scan of a brain and run it in a chemical simulator. This is extremely difficult, but not computationally or physically intractable. A project to exercise this method on a simple creature (C. elegans) is already underway.

Recommended reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church–Turing_thesis

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Deutsch_quantu...