skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far from the most deadly bombings at that time.

That is my point exactly. Those cities were selected for the purpose of a technological demonstration, not body count. I thought I made it clear in mentioning the time span between firebombing and surrender that Japan was not super concerned about body count, it was more about maintaining sovereignty following eventual defeat. The US demonstrated a technology that would allow it to annihilate Japan without having to shoot every child holding a stick. That would make total war, and the hope of war weariness in your enemy, completely pointless.
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I don't know. That SV diva Marc Andreesen does it all the time, lashing against the old establishment on Twitter right and left, apparently with no bad consequences.
This would be an interesting application for Las Vegas, and clearly the core of any 'flip this house' get rich scheme. But as a way of finding and developing underperforming real estate it looks like a good start.

Adding value here will be finding ever more unstructured/invisible feeds (like the records from the county clerk's office recording title changes).
> I have to say that if there's any specific reason why I'd hesitate to enthusiastically endorse living in the Midwest, it's the racism.

The midwest includes a broad swath of states. While I've encountered some racism throughout the area, I'd be hard-pressed to see how it's vastly different than any other racism that permeates US culture.
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One of the reasons is surely that different fields of maths/engineering reuse the same symbols to have different meanings.
What is the option for rapid application development using Dropwizard? Is it possible to refresh a web page and the code changes are automatically compiled and deployed?
Mind you, there's a downside to that. An FBI that can infiltrate and dismantle the KKK at will can do the same to any legitimate movement for change, like Occupy, etc.
Isn't that statement itself an absolute?
I'm keeping a close eye on http://matrix.org/.

To quote the homepage: "Matrix is an open standard for decentralised communication, providing simple HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting JSON over an open federation of servers."

It's not finished by far, since for example there is no end-to-end encryption yet [1], but the specs look really promising.

[1] http://matrix.org/docs/spec/#end-to-end-encryption
Working with HTML/CSS has made me feel like I've got a Chronically poor knowledge of the platform's features. In 6 years I've not been able to form a coherent mental model of how it works that lets me actually go "oh, I need to do Foo? I'll just do Bar and Baz."

Is this a sign that I should stick to working with scheme, Python, Go, JS and other actually Turing-complete tools and my mind isn't made for layout languages? (I have the same problem with Tex.) Or is there something I can read that will finally help this make sense? Or do I just need another 4 years?
You're supposed to eat a moderate amount. Fruits and grains aren't that healthy. Most vegetables don't contain any carbs/sugar. Oh, and lots of meat.
I'll help you out here:

You unwittingly fall into an enclosure filled with angry chimpanzees.

Some of the chimpanzees are guarding a ladder. You can't see where it leads.

You notice other people have fallen into the enclosure too. They help you stand up and remind you that the chimps suck.

Who has your best interests at heart?
Would love this technology to auto-analyze politicians (or anyone's statement) and be able to automatically 'fact check' or reference them to keep them honest & improve news quality.
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I was refering to WaPo, as there weren't any comments here yet. Predictably they are not a whole lot better here though.
I use Postman in my workflow on a daily basis. Thanks for making such a great product.
This support must require relatively recent hardware with newer firmware because it's definitely not doing a UEFI install on a 2011 Macbook Pro.
Same here. Postman is the shit.
> I think there are valid points to both sides.

What is it you think are the two sides here?
Mathcad has a reasonably good system for that.
Dropwizard has support for front-end development, but I think it really shines when developing RESTful API endpoints. You can use it to serve static assets, and those can be automatically "deployed" by refreshing the page, because Dropwizard just wires up Jetty to grab files off of the hard drive. If you want to use Freemaker/Mustache for views, I don't think it currently supports any "live" development.

It really works much better when creating a REST API for access by apps or separate front-ends (e.g. a JS SPA).
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Multi-dimensionality optional/drawback? Strongly disagree.

This may be my experience as a Googler talking, but I also somewhat disagree with the notion that the data can't fit in memory. I operate a X0,000 task service, and our monitoring data could fit into memory in a large server, if need be.

Of course, we don't keep per-task data permanently, that would be prohibitive at a 5s monitoring interval like the one we use, even if it were put on disk. Instead, we accomplish what I described by aggregating away some dimensions, mostly task number, and then holding the aggregated series in memory, for fast queries. There are some nuances, particularly around having foresight over the cases where you do want to see individual tasks.

But suffice it to say that this person's experience does not match mine in terms of what I need from a TSDB. Perhaps his ops background comes from a different set of needs than mine, but if you're building a TSDB for many customers, I wouldn't take this list as gospel.
It's all about the quantities and the delivery mechanism. An apple has about 20g of sugar, about the same as half a can of coke. But two apples come with fiber and vitamins where a can of coke doesn't. That fiber will help you feel full. The coke won't. In fact, the pure refined sugar in a coke will make you feel hungrier.

Also, not all sugars are created equal. Fructose is much worse for you than glucose, so sucrose (which is half glucose and half fructose) is much worse for you than starch, which is long chains of glucose molecules. Also, because your body has to work to decompose starch into glucose, that too will make you feel full longer.

But by far the best thing you can do is replace sugar with non-saturated fat. Fat is not the enemy, sugar -- and fructose in particular -- is the enemy.
I love Dropwizard and I love the direction they've steered Java Web Development in, but I prefer Spring Boot: http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/

I find it much quicker to get started with, much better supported and better tooling.
No, because "a good bet" is not an absolute. If I had said "When it comes to food all absolutes are wrong." you would be right.
My acne also disappeared when I cut all carbs for a diet.
I'm not so sure about this article. It states that government funding invented the internet. This isn't true. Government funding did indeed help to create the foundation of what became the internet, but for years they didn't know what to do with the technology. It wasn't until entrepreneurs got involved in the early-mid 90s that things started to shift towards what we know as the internet today.
The point was to neuter the Japanese imperial system, which had declared war on and attacked the US, aligned with the axis, and spent the previous decade butchering Asia. That required total capitulation and the abolition of their State Shintoism, not a mere agreement to cease hostilities.

Given the vast genocide Japan had committed - given their fanaticism - there was also no way to know for sure that Japan would cease its war machine and territorial conquest aims, without invading and overseeing the dismantling of their system.

After what Japan had done, were the allies supposed to just take Japan's word for it, that they were going to become peaceful and withdraw from mainland Asia permanently?
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most IDEs have support for this - you can change a method while debugging even and itll reset the stack with your changes. Theres also pro tools like jrebel that are supposed to solve it better than the built in stuff.
> If I wanted a coffee with lots of sugar and dairy added,
> I would go to a place that specialized in such
> concoctions, thanks!

I don't necessarily disagree, but would you kill a $2B/yr product?

In 2010, McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson said coffee accounted for more than 6% of its U.S. sales. That share may since have increased, but even 6% of the chain’s 2013 domestic sales would be $2.15 billion.
What does homebrew "business rule engines" mean? Are there a bunch of them already made? What would be an example of this?
Do you happen to have a source?
How about instead, we all share responsibility for keeping each other safe in the workplace? All of us who care about our coworkers being kept safe anyway.

I liked the OP for it's message in that direction.
I think it is far more useful to build a process for software engineering that continually reviews itself and makes things better. A fizzBuzz test is useful to figure out how a person approaches a coding problem and something like that should be part of hiring new developers, but most whiteboard interviews take the whole thing way too far and approach it as an exam that you have to pass.

Fact is that everyone has their 10X moments and their doldrums. Only by working on processes and team building, can you create an environment that lifts your engineers to the 10X level more often.
> Such as the US guaranteeing that the Emperor stays in power, which they allowed after the war anyway?

"the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Government to rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied powers"

> And what is that smile for, anyway? Do you think this is funny?

Yup, because you just demonstrated the irrationality that I was hinting at: what is an emperor who is subservient to a foreign power? Not an emperor.
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I find Kotlin+Clojure (or Java+Clojure) to be a winning combination, too.
Another political theorist, Albena Azmanova calls this aggregative capitalism. An interview here: http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/1099/tues-22415-post-... and an essay here : http://www.academia.edu/11034347/The_Crisis_of_the_Crisis_of...

A summary from http://events.newschool.edu/event/politics_talk_albena_azman...

> A key feature of the new modality is the renewal of the state's redistributive function, with an altered logic of distribution, and a simultaneous increase in the state's administrative power and a decrease in its authority - a process that has failed to trigger a legitimacy crisis of the socio-political system, despite the recent confluence of financial, economic, and social crises. And no wonder society accepts the pain with equanimity, Professor Azmanova will argue, as the very social contract in Western democracies has been recast, thus breathing new life into capitalism.
No, you still need something like JRebel for hot-reload of JVM classes. This framework is really designed for implementing REST APIs, it is not an MVC framework - even though it has support for serving pages using Mustache or freemarker.
How does this (poetry technology) differ from electronic poetry[0]? There must be some degree of overlap. PoetryDB sounds fascinating, could you go into more detail? I was tinkering with an electronic poetry publishing platform which I called Poetify[1] but I didn't get too far. It requires Ruby 1.8 and Camping so it's a bit quirky.

I have been mulling the idea of a standardised electronic poetry markup (PoetryML) for some time, this would facilitate openness, sharing and innovation in the field. Of course, it's not an easy task to come up with a file format that encompasses all this experimentation. I have some concrete thoughts on the matter and a small bit of working code...

My friend and colleague, Giovanna Di Rosario, recently wrote this dissertation, Electronic Poetry: Understanding Poetry in the Digital Environment[2]. Great to see a fellow HNer into this deeply interesting field.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_poetry

[1] https://github.com/igravious/poetify/tree/clean_raine

[2] http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/electronic-poetry-underst...
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I'm from the Minnesota. I lived in Minneapolis from age 18 to very recently. I played in bands, my friends played it bands, etc. But let me tell you, after 10 years in that town you realize it really is very small.

@msutherl is completely right. If you have any creative bent outside of pop culture even a town the size of Minneapolis does not really provide the kind of creative stimulation you need. The kind of diversity and culture mixing that comes from a metropolis like NYC is on a whole other level entirely.

(By the way, the current is a crap radio station and they haven't played anything other than indie top 40 for years. Radio-K is cool, but every town with a university has a college radio station </hipster>)
This rings true. I grew up in a suburb of Kansas City and, looking back, see it as a safe friendly place to grow up.

At uni, I was friends with a group of expat Manhattanites (not wealthy though) and similar to what you say, they looked at St. Louis as a quaint toy city. Many inconclusive dorm debates were held on the merits of the two environments. Of course neither of us could give ground, so similar to what you read nearby, we were talking past each other. Too defensive.

But that was 20 years and several cities ago. I still visit the Midwest and enjoy family and a few friends. I experience it as not open to newness, to difference, or to the exceptional. These things are just not valued. It is valued to be a regular person and to be comfortable and respectable.

This won't work for me. I love LA, where I live now, and have great respect for the Bay Area as well.
I, personally, double majored in philosophy and computer science. I think the upper level CS classes would have washed out most of the philosophers, but I agree that the intro classes were fairly accessible.
> 'continuous tactics'

I think the words you're looking for are "micromanagement" (if it's about dealing with more than one unit) and "mechanical skill" if it's about having twitch reaction times (for last hitting, landing spell-combos, etc.)

I play DotA on and off, and thi is the part that irritates me the most :x
A lot of untrue thing are being said online about the state of French law on paternity tests, so I wrote a summary in Reddit. It is relevant here as well :
https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2tidar/explanat...
They were selfish to start using the drug. The dangers of drugs are known to all, they can not claim ignorance.

Drug use includes a risk of addiction, not a guarantee. Just like a lot of activities, there is a choice to be made considering the risks involved. For some people, the level of risk is acceptable. Unfortunately, brain chemistry is very complex and users rarely take the time to understand what they are doing to themselves. The result is often an unexpected rollercoaster of self-destruction.

they do not make good employees.

On that point I agree. I'd be willing to look the other way at drug-related charges for a fully recovered junkie, but someone who is in the middle of the recovery process (or possibly hasn't started) would be a no-go.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need to stop demonizing drug users. Addiction isn't an excuse for criminal behavior, but it shouldn't be a crime or carry so much social stigma.
Very interesting.

Here is an idea: for saving space on my bookmarks bar, I often empty out the whole name of the bookmark and leave the favicon only: http://i.imgur.com/Na63dCS.png

Would be nice if search will count those (based on URL?) as well.

Also, when I hit ctrl+B then press enter to add it to a folder, if I press enter again it will add it again. I'd expect a toogle (add/remove) or at least one single add.
Following 9 months of computation and 4 petabyte of disk IO on a Dell PowerEdge R280 server

I wonder if the time could be improved by optimising the programs some more, since at this scale constants matter a lot. The amount of memory needed might not be reducible but optimising a tight loop and reordering it to take advantage of cache effects could yield nontrivial speedups.

Taking advantage of the very wide new instructions in recent CPUs might also be worth it, instructions which compilers often have difficulty figuring out how to use effectively:

http://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/02/25/overkilling-the-8-q...
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I'm more of a fan of individual installations than a distributed grid.

My point is, you can install solar panels on roofs, but you can't install anything above and around solar panels.
I was not duped by the old english poetry, but only because I recently wrote a Markov-chain / rhyming dictionary based Shakesperean sonnet generator. It's amazing to see a computer generate plausible but meaningless words in a register we generally regard as profound due to age!
Love Dropwizard.

Development, testing, deploying, and monitoring the way it was supposed to be.
I'm aware of the work they do. A couple of stupid decisions can cancel out a lot of good will. Not back-porting key pieces of tech and sunsetting products without open-sourcing them is going to counteract the good will they generate. I actually don't dislike Google, and appreciate that they've been a decent open-source player.

This is not so minor.

If they start handing out hundred dollar bills I would think they'd gone nuts.
FizzBuzz is easy iff you are aware of the % operator. I only know how to test for divisibility (cleanly) because I looked it up in the course of doing Project Euler. I could easily see there being developers who worked exclusively on non-mathy business logic and never had to test divisibility, which would explain floundering on FizzBuzz. (Then they should be able to reset counters every 3 and 5 iterations or something, but that's a tad more involved than the canonical solution and might be regarded by some interviewers as incorrect.)
Startups dies when they solve employee's problems and not employer's
Can't take my eyes off this Cockpit widget. Such beautiful execution and data http://www.solarimpulse.com/widget-rtw_wrapup
I'll endeavor to reply directly to what you said.

Let's use a hypothetical (I love these). There's a female CEO of a company, and one of her female employees is sexually harassed by one of her male employees. Is there an obligation for the company to have a sexual harassment policy and for it to be carried out? Absolutely. Is the female CEO ultimately responsible for this? Yes. If this process fails is she ultimately responsible? Of course. This is the law in the US.

My argument is that you're focusing entirely on the wrong thing. There's not some kind of crazy problem where women in power are overlooking sexual harassment. The problem is that there's an epidemic of men sexually harassing women. In that context, focusing on the female CEO's obligations is deliberately missing the point. It's the same thing as when there's a discussion about sexual harassment, to remind everyone that something like 5% of workplace sexual harassment claims are made by males. Sure, that's a problem, but it's not a problem that holds back an entire class of people, it isn't rooted in centuries of discrimination and oppression, and it isn't pervasive in every institution from schools to courthouses. The problem is with male behavior. I don't know how many times I have to say it, but I'll keep saying it.

===

I'll try and crystallize it even further.

> Anyone that's been in a position of power where they could have stopped harassment without much risk, and didn't, is a part of the problem

No. Oftentimes women who stand up against harassment are harshly punished for it. So even when they are in positions where they can, "without much risk" stop harassment, they won't, because they remember how it went last time. They're victims. Promotions and positioning don't change that at all.

But it's important to say again that many women are impressively brave, and even in the face of consequences speak truth to power. But again, that's always their choice, and you don't get to condemn them because you don't understand the concept of victimization.

EDIT:

I just saw this article: https://medium.com/@katylevinson/sexism-in-tech-don-t-ask-me.... You, and everyone else should read it. It's fucked up.
There is way to socialize the rewards of innovation. It is called taxation. Why US allows such wide tax evasion is whole other qustion.
"I've created a cool game with heaps of female characters"

"YOU MISOGYNIST! The female characters are all X".

"We've taken feedback and made some Y & Z characters as well".

"YOU MISOGYNIST! There is more to women than X, Y & Z."

"So we've made a game with male characters..."

That's the argument as I can see it. Is it fair or real? Who knows, but that's what it is!
Which questions were 9 and 10? Because there wasn't a question 9 and 10 on the quiz I looked at.
In fact, some economists argue that corporate taxes are fundamentally inefficient, because corporations are just a mechanism for producing either individual income or capital gains for their shareholders, so it would be better and fairer to tax the actual humans profiting from the business rather than the corporate straw man itself.
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I happen to live in the (Northern) Midwest and I think you're just not in the right area. My city is ethnically and culturally diverse and I never encounter open racism. There are some of the more rural areas where that might be present. However, without statistics to back up any density of racism that may or may not be present it's hard to say whether race might be more of a factor here than anywhere else in the US.
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Re: GET and POST differences and usage has always been pretty clear if you read the RFCs.

RTFM.
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With all due respect, you're jumbling a bunch of parameters w.r.t. contango, and its implications. Contango structure can exceed cost of carry even if crude oil prices stay flat. There are lots of dynamics, which you allude to.
If you refactor in a way that you improve code readability and reduce complexity, you substantially reduce the likelihood of having an undiscovered bug that is already in your code.
Hey guys! So I made this webapp in a few hours over the weekend and wanted to share! I would love to hear your feedback. I know it's not perfect, but there are some limitations due to how I'm generating the file. I'm trying to figure out some solutions!

I'm also looking for some feedback on the UX/UI. If you have any suggestions on improving anything, please let me know!
my personal experience in this regard has been that after i took up running (3 times a week, approx 3-4 miles each), my sugar intake has dropped to very close to zero (with an occasional once-month-type deal of a single candy). even those colas with 'zero-sugar' appear too sweet, and the regular ones are just bleh...

overall, a good thing i hope :)
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