skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect. Wikipedia has a decent overview of what really occurred with the Japanese overtures:

Satō advised Tōgō that in reality, "unconditional surrender or terms closely equivalent thereto" was all that Japan could expect. Moreover, in response to Molotov's requests for specific proposals, Satō suggested that Tōgō's messages were not "clear about the views of the Government and the Military with regard to the termination of the war," thus questioning whether Tōgō's initiative was supported by the key elements of Japan's power structure.[47]

On July 17, Tōgō responded:

Although the directing powers, and the government as well, are convinced that our war strength still can deliver considerable blows to the enemy, we are unable to feel absolutely secure peace of mind ... Please bear particularly in mind, however, that we are not seeking the Russians' mediation for anything like an unconditional surrender.[48]

In reply, Satō clarified:

It goes without saying that in my earlier message calling for unconditional surrender or closely equivalent terms, I made an exception of the question of preserving [the imperial family].[49]

On July 21, speaking in the name of the cabinet, Tōgō repeated:

With regard to unconditional surrender we are unable to consent to it under any circumstances whatever. The Allies read this in realtime. Japan was not ready to accept any sort of unconditional surrender. More the point, America and Europe had just finished a brutal war in Europe. The point of view then was that the war occurred because Germany had no truly been defeated in World War I. All where concerned with not seeing another world war.
Sounds like they're jealous that the NSA gets all the cool toys and they want to play too.
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http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/09/how-to-watch-apples-spring-for...
It's been awhile since I've used OS X, but I don't recall there being any bundled installers on anything.

Hopefully there will be some backlash; that was one of my favorite parts of the platform.
I'm willing to put $10,000 into escrow as a bet that this is all made up for attention. The OP is just a feminist propaganda spreading troublemaker.

Put your money where your mouth is. You produce proof, I pay you $10,000.
I'm not an expert on what kids are doing on their phones, but my phone does not encourage interactions. When I packed my computer and took it to a friends house I didn't read Slashdot and play Simfarm alone, we'd hook up Starcraft or Diablo.

I think of the Pewdiepie episode of South Park where Ike and his friends each have their own device and each consumes their own media separately when I think of kids having sleepovers now.
Everything for PHP is in France :/
That's a bug I'm trying to work out right now. Sorry about that!
I thought cyber meant systems, like cybernetics.
Go take a look to Hell to Pay by D.M. Giangreco. Compared to the alternatives - mass starvation of the Japanese by blockade, or tens of millions of Japanese deaths, and one million American deaths, it's looks like a bargain, and it was viewed at the time as the last, best chance, to avoid invading japan.

The specter of nuclear war makes us wish we had never opened that Pandora box, but anyone making the decision in the past could not have made it any other way.
Anyone care to explain how they somehow haven't ruined VirtualBox yet?
You're right, I switched it to using the tab key, thanks for the feedback!
And most IT Admins know that the best place to get the installer isn't from Java.com that has crapware built into the installer but from the link below which doesn't have crapware built in.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...
I'm wary of this without knowing exactly how your profile would be anonymized. I work in a very small niche and even if the company names are hidden, just seeing a list of job titles, time frame, and my skill set would really narrow me down. If my location is listed, that absolutely pinpoints me, as I'm the only person in my niche, in my area.

I didn't sign up, so I don't know if is possible to see and edit your profile before it goes public or not. But giving me that level of control would resolve most of my concerns.
Do you really think anyone has the power to change the US drug policy? In the next 100 years?

Yes. The cops and the doctors.

Between them, they are largely the reason that drugs policy has been moving towards liberalisation in Europe and the USA. Pot smokers have been batting for pot legalisation for a very long time, but it was people doing research into the role of cannabinoids in the nervous system, and organisations like LEAP http://www.leap.cc/, that have managed to shift drug policy in a very short space of time.
Is this a number station? https://twitter.com/googuns_staging
That's why he added the 'home computer' bit.
I worked on a couple of large Oracle projects, and they were probably the worst vendor I've dealt with in the last decade. They had the potential to solve really compelling problems, but it was overshadowed by how poor their products were and the eye-watering costs.

Once you're hooked of course on their financial stack you have little choice but to remain.

I'm watching with interest the adoption of Workday as a replacement for Peoplesoft, and wonder aloud if someone will unseat them in their related product groups.
That 600ms difference between load times for the style guide is not something small. In fact, the difference in load times for the merchant portal was also 400ms. Given the importance of page load times for SEO (especially on mobile), this is not a marginal result. For most sites that I've dealt with, consolidating assets makes the biggest impact. But once you've done that, if you can squeeze another 500ms just from your CSS, you'll do it.

For larger sites with tons of visitors, page load speed has a tangible impact on revenues. Being able to trim off another 100ms can result in millions of extra sales every month.

Perhaps we should focus on a CSS optimizer that rewrites CSS rules in the mixin style? Then it makes the whole thing an exercise in code style.
GroupTalent (https://grouptalent.com/welcome/) used to be circling around a similar pain point (helping co's hire teams of developers that have worked together in the past).

Haven't checked them out in a few years (not sure what to make of their expired SSL cert), but I thought the model was interesting nonetheless.
The defense that "hurr durr Sun did it and we just haven't removed it yet" doesn't apply when you're actively adding it to installers on other platforms.
The two lessons to take away from this:

1. Ask someone else who has already done what you're thinking of doing. They have already made all the mistakes you might make and have figured out a way that works.

2. Assume that whatever you think will work will fail in an unexpected way with probably-catastrophic results. Test everything before you try something new.
"...audiophilia was somewhat justified in the 60s..."

I agree that amps are not the best arena for innovation any more, and that audiophiles ("audio fools") are often emotionally invested in their particular choices, and covering it up with jargon and BS.

But moving away from amps -- speakers and room characteristics do still make a big difference. I do most listening on a decent system (mid-size Dynaudio speakers) but hearing their larger cousins in a shop with great source material is still a thrill.

(If you haven't seen it, Fred Kaplan's recent article on the topic of audiophilia is pretty good: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/02/audiop... -- he has written for Stereophile for many years.)
You're still trying to make developers do everything.

DevOps is not get rid of the Ops team. DevOps is not get rid of the dev team. It is get Ops and Dev to talk and understand each other. Ops should not be completely clueless as to how the developers workflow works. That doesn't mean they are a developer. Development should not be completely clueless about what happens during deployment but that doesn't mean they're on call to handle OS issues.

DevOps is these two teams are working for the same company and same goal, so damn well talk to each other and act like it.

Hint: In a devops work flow, if you were large enough to need a separate ops team, you still have a separate ops team.
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> More work for the audience to imagine what is happening? Sure

But this kind of 'work' is meaningless though.

Books that contain a lot of typos/errors give students a lot of 'work' to 'imagine' what's going on, but that kind of work/imagination don't have to exist if the quality material was produced in the first place.
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> DevOps /is/ operations. It is just that simple. It is design and automation of support systems. Nothing more, nothing less.

Design and automation of any systems is "development". It is just that simple. Nothing more, nothing less.

So, from your description "DevOps" is really development whose application domain is operations.

(Though I'm not sure I agree with your description -- I think that's part of DevOps but that DevOps is somewhat broader; in the same way that many approaches that fall under the general agile/lean umbrella have pushed erasing role-based team boundaries and, even within the lower level teams, role distinctions within the broader development realm -- e.g., between programmers, analysts, testers, etc. -- DevOps is about erasing, or at least blurring somewhat, the team and role boundaries between development and operations; this doesn't mean that people don't have distinct competencies, but it means that people with those competencies work together at lower organizational levels and in a more tightly integrated way focused on overall mission, rather than throwing things over the wall at each other.)
Yeah this entire thread is a caustic cauldron of hate towards a 12 year old girl.
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This is the number one thing that I uninstall from my computer and friends and families computers when they accidentally click too fast. These kinds of add-ons are incredibly annoying.
Yeah, but I think the resale factor is exaggerated. If they send you a "good" candidate, you might go back to them, but they're just finding the first "good" candidate they can rather than finding the "best".

I wonder if The Secretary Problem could be used to calculate data points for whether a candidate is good or not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
> Most posters here don't seem to get it. Most replies appear to be the idea that DevOps means you fire your Ops people and the Developers do Ops previous job and their own Development job as well.

Exactly, you have to fire the developers too.
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Yes you are right. For that reason we are planning to show anonymous profile to candidates and let him/her edit it.

UPDATE: FAQs updated.
Also incorrect. The Atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion of Japan held China where both devestating. But as D.M Giangreco documents in "Hell to Pay", at the time, the "Peace Party" in the cabinet, most notably Kido, felt that the Atomic bomb was exactly what they needed to end the war. Kido and others in the peace party literally described it as "a gift from heaven".
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https://github.com/jvdl/CorrectHorseBatteryStaple/pull/2/fil...

Agreed.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. This is what developer.apple.com/java read back in 2009 [0]:

Mac OS X is the only major consumer operating system that comes complete with a fully configured and ready-to-use Java runtime and development environment. Professional Java developers are increasingly turning to the feature-rich Mac OS X as the operating system of choice for both Mac-based and cross-platform Java development projects. Mac OS X includes the full version of J2SE 1.5, pre-installed with the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the HotSpot virtual machine (VM), so you don't have to download, install, or configure anything.

Deploying Java applications on Mac OS X takes advantage of many built-in features, including 64-bit support, resolution independence, automatic support of multiprocessor hardware, native support for the Java Accessibility API, and the native Aqua look and feel. As a result, Java applications on Mac OS X look and perform like native applications on Mac OS X.

[0] http://wayback.archive.org/web/20091223033016/http://develop...
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Unfortunately, this doesn't change anything. But for the record, let's just review a few facts:

1 - Ulbricht has never asserted the server belonged to him, as such, he has no assumption of privacy for whatever is on the servers. He could have claimed the servers belonged to him in order to challenge the search, which his legal team opted not to do.

2 - By running a site which engages in criminal activity (legally speaking of course) he violated the 3rd paty hosting companies terms of service, which invalidates his right to privacy for anything located on said server.

3 - Since the site was trafficking drugs (which is defined as criminal activity) the hacking of the site would still be legal since the FBI doesn't need warrants for such a search:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vo...

The Fourth Amendment does not apply to the search and seizure by United States agents of property owned by a nonresident alien and located in a foreign country. Pp. 264-275.

Pretty sure this request will be denied since his legal team didn't assert the information on the server belonged to him in the first place, regardless if the FBI hacked it or not.
The Celera example is a good one, and you are right they did speed up genomics in a specific way. I'm certain they used many people trained-in-NIH-funded-labs and built directly on NIH-funded work, but it's still a good point.

The "idiotic and immoral business model" is seriously not cool though. Clinton banned patenting human genes directly, which might make pure capitalists cross.
i believe they banned apps that depend on the system java.

you can still include your own JRE.
Do you not do code reviews? Can you make comments/suggestions?
Intel has a good history of recalls and replacements of their motherboards and processors. The Pentium FDIV bug comes to mind immediately, as does the recall of motherboards with the faulty 820-series memory translation hub.
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Related blog post about the platform: https://blog.sdslabs.co/2015/03/backdoor-internet-launch-and...

The entire team is here to answer any queries.
Great name for a startup: copacetic.io
Obligatory http://bad.solutions
Welcome to the club, Apple snobs. :)
1. I am an engineer (of the electrical variety)

2. I don't believe in memorizing stuff, I believe in
understanding stuff... which is why I'm an engineer.

You say: "his answer will always be "Why? What problem are you trying to solve?"

Indeed, I WANT people to ask this question. Then I'd like them to suggest why a linked list is or isn't a good candidate for that problem. I will ask them to suggest an alternative method of solving my problem. A good interview is a conversation, but if the candidate has literally no questions to ask, and nothing to provide, and can't even solve the most basic problems that could be memorized, then why would I want him? If a candidate can't come up with a half-decent approach to a problem as simple as FizzBuzz or making a simple data structure container like a linked list; a problem which dwarfs in comparison with what I do on a daily basis at my job, he has no business sitting next to me.

You also say: "Asking an engineer to solve an imaginary problem on the spot is idiotic. "

Well, that just happens to be my job! My boss comes down, asks me "could you solve this problem for me?" and my answer is "I don't know, but I'll try!" and off you go. so my entire job is about solving unknown problems. Isn't yours? I'm not setting up WordPress sites or chaining together SAP modules (not that there's anything wrong with that, I used to do something like that for several years...), we actually solve problems that don't have known solutions, and the amount of data we work with also poses some unique problems. So our interview process is a miniature, and yes, imaginary, version of what you might be tasked with on any given day.

Finally, to clarify, this it the stance I take with people who claim to be "experienced experts". If I'm interviewing an intern or a junior developer, my approach will obviously be very different.
It's also extremely lower than what he could win if he went to "the dark side" and started working in finance or any other non-academic company.
So who gets the production system and database root passwords?
I'm not sure what was more accusatory about my tone than yours; I asked a question "Are you saying..." just the same as you did. Do you think your post I was replying to had an accusatory tone? Please quote the section of my comment that gave you the idea I had an accusatory tone, and explain how it differed from your comment I was replying to. You've made a baseless assumption of my tone, and gone on a tirade.

(Yeah, now _that_, which I just wrote, does sound accusatory, I agree. from the demand that you quote me, to calling your post a 'tirade'. You know where I got the template.)

That's why I hate these sorts of topics on HN. The community morphs into a hot-tempered accusatory group of individuals who takes any discussion of gendered discrimination and violence in the workplaces as an attack on them personally, and responds by attacking the honesty, intelligence, or motivation of the women describing their experiences, usually while descending into philosophical sophistry instead of actually engaging the subject matter in an honest discussion of how we can reduce people's feelings of unsafety in our workplaces.
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It's a very valid concern and thanks for pointing it out. We will let you edit your anonymous profile first. We should add this in FAQs.

UPDATE: FAQ updated.
Hate to tell ya, but at anything other than the 'prototyping stage', you'll probably need a dedicated OPs guy, AWS or not.
Not just with the deaths of our dog robots, we feel loss whenever we take stock of how we and our world are changing. Take the case of nearly every single Chinese person still alive today. China has went from a large rural country with sprawling country-sides, rice paddies, dragonflies, etc., to a massive concrete jungle in the clouds (it's smog, really). So to anyone who grew up there, there is no "going home", seeing one's old room, or musing how everything looks so much smaller (and dingier) now. In the shadow of change, and especially rapid change, is always the shadow of death.

That melodrama aside, it's too bad aibos weren't open sourced considering Sony is abandoning it, if it were, it might be possible for some crafty Frankenstein engineer to repair them indefinitely with spare parts. Robo dogs should be all means be able to outlast their real counterparts.
Sounds like a good program, at least from your marketing. But I would market is an alternative to college, not a replacement. It is a just a matter of word choice, but the word replacement could take you down a road of comparison that isn't required and may distract your efforts. "Alternative" lets you focus on what you offer, and the value it will bring to a student's life, without getting caught into the mess of arguing about the value of higher education.
They were threatening his business, not his life.
If a task involves "clicking next", then that task should not require any specialized knowledge to do. I totally agree that all developers should be willing do write code to automate "DevOps" tasks whenever they see fit. I know a lot of programmers who do this. These programmers always have a bunch of scripts sitting in their ~/bin, and you hardly ever see them clicking.
I am a "programmer", but I love "DevOps" stuff, and mostly recently I wrote a large automation framework that got CI team interested. Tons of energy and time is wasted everyday where teams don't understand (and don't want to understand) each other's code.
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Please do. I'm not a LinkedIn user and I don't plan on changing that.
Are you talking about memorizing what a linked list is, or someone else's code? I don't understand what is imaginary about such a ubiquitous construct.
No and we have kicked this around several times, but it always ends up we fall into contracts and the idea get's shelved again because we all get too busy. We tend to rely just on our linked in profiles and send those, I can certainly post our profiles if anyone is interested in seeing who the members are but we have not embarked on marketing via a site or material partly because we don't know what we are. We are certainly not a company, and we are not really a headhunter outfit. But it is becoming apparent that we are a little more organized than just a group of friends.

If you are interested in the bios of the team here are the profiles of some of the main guys:

Myself: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentonsmeltzer

Hung Chen: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/hung-chen/20/51/827

Brian Posey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/btposey

Mike Dunn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-dunn/2/606/76

Tom Marra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmarra

Roy Bowen: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/roy-bowen/2b/11a/328

Robert Allison: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=16189839&authType=N...

Robin Jacques: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/robin-jacques/3/b47/50b

Robert Marsicano: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marsaware

There are a few more guys but that is a pretty good cut across many of the guys that have worked together off and on for a while.
The point of view then was that the war occurred because Germany had no truly been defeated in World War I. All where concerned with not seeing another world war.

In addition, there is no evidence that any peace proposal would have been acceptable to the cabinet at this time.
Thousands of messages per day should warrant immediate termination, what real life person would ever tweet steadily multiple times per minute?
I was thinking it was a BOFH ("Bastard Operator From Hell") reference. [0] The BOFH is a fictional sysadmin who is worse than any you have ever had, in entertaining ways. He basically does exactly the things the OP mentioned, while dealing with clueless management, undeliable vendors, and a Sith Apprentice^W^WYoung Coworker who learned well, and is constantly trying to stab him in the back. He's like a mix between Catbert and Wally. ;)

0: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/27/bofh_2015_episode_2/
Surgical micro-robot swarms: Science fiction, or realistic prospect?
If apple is looking to attract newcomers to their platform I think the last thing they should do is totally isolate them simply because they don't own an apple product already.
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Thanks for the backup. :)

I think the numbers are heavily skewed by people who do buy those new cars every few years.

Also, I think the car rental companies - who would have massive annual turnover of vehicles - further skews the average[1]. The top 4 companies have ~2M vehicles and if they never have a car more than 3 years old (probably more like 2 years), then they buy ~700k/year or 7% of that 10M in annual new car sales.

1 - http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/07/13/surprising-...
The end result would have been the same - mass casualties among Japanese civilians.

Was the firebombing and the atomic bomb much better then that? Hell yes.
Very few people will see it since the OP was flagkilled, but this post you wrote in the other thread was very nice:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9172061
Starting a new project in C++ in 2015? Why not Go, Rust, or any compiled, memory-safe language for systems programming?