skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or indicative of the crappy job market in the US for those specialist skills.

The thing is, there's no such thing as an "average" developer. Every company and its tech stack has a unique set of conditions that will match better with some people than others. If your codebase is bog standard [insert popular framework], someone who has done it 4 times before, but couldn't make a relational schema because he doesn't know what an SQL constraint is and thinks functional programming is "academic ivory tower stuff" is going to be a lot more value adding upfront than someone with a PhD in category theory and 5 years AI experience; but the latter is the person you want building your search algorithm or trading technology.

And then, as with academia, you have non-financial compensation; for example, we got a lot of people interested by offering Haskell jobs which are very rare today (at least in stable places); remote work was another plus, as many people have a comfortable situation and don't want to uproot their life for the sake of a new opportunity, and it allows people to arbitrage cost of living differences between cities. But Scala didn't work out for LinkedIn, which is rewriting all of it back to Java, and remote work didn't work out for Yahoo, so YMMV.
I don't expect my local pizzeria to design, implement and maintain a new natural language, to then ask customers to learn it before they can proceed to ordering pizza using that language. We all share English (or French in my case), so that's what we use to communicate.

The natural interface to order pizza from Pizza Hut or Domino's is mostly the same. The interface to order a cab is intuitively similar. Why is it that once try to do these things digitally, things get a lot more complicated? Shouldn't it make things easier?

Even though I'm not a big fan of natural languages as an interface, Magic [1] is a great example of what we should aim for in term of unification and flow. No need to install every pizzeria apps (if they have one) to start ordering pizza. You just need to ask.

> But people still love this old-new thing.

Can you tell me more about that? I can't seem to relate even though I'm a person.

[1] http://getmagicnow.com/
Venture Profile: Darwinex is parsing the algo of great traders
There are certain stupid people among Abe's camp who pretend that nothing happened in Nanking, but as far as I know Japanese officials have apologized for the country's war crimes on several occasions. How about the US ? Have they ever recognized their (previous and ongoing) war crimes?
What about a naval blockade? No need to land troops and war-fighting ability would be quickly crippled without fuel and food etc.

Almost worked on the UK.
I didn't get the counter strike example. It is an example of a non-obvious mechanic, but I didn't see where the "rich strategy" was coming from.
To be fair Japanese schools don't teach anything remotely useful about the world in general. The level of general culture over here is abysmal.
They chose Eich because he is a great engineer and a great manager. He's evidently also able to separate his job from his political views. I'd like to think that's what really matters, but I'd be wrong :) We are in year 2015 and marketing is what makes-or-breaks one's company. He'd piss off LGBT people - in that and only that sense he was a bad CEO pick.
There was this joke running - when Samsung's CEO learned that Tim Cook is gay, he announced he's twice as gay AND waterproof.
No, it's not ridiculous, it's appropriate.

The genocide Japan committed against China, in which they murdered millions of people, is every bit as horrible as the atrocities the Nazis committed. Further, the Japanese committed genocide against many other nations in Asia as well during that era. Unit 731 did things to people that were very comparable to the worst atrocities of the Nazi regime.
Anecdata: I've stopped drinking alcohol (3 years), and I've stopped smoking (~10 years), but giving up candy, sweet pastry, or anything that's got significant refined sugar in was too much. I managed it for six months, and then broke down, then three months, and really I haven't tried again.

Interestingly, when I came at it from a slightly different angle ("mindful eating") and allowed myself as much of anything I wanted eaten mindfully, my natural desire tapered off, and I eat a lot less sweet stuff these days.
How about: don't wage war on innocent folks/civilians ?
Are you arguing that blackmailing someone into having sex with you, or threatening them with consequences like having your career ended, isn't rape in the state of Illinois?

Why?
I'd feel less comfortable without NASA, NIH, and DARPA, since I have benefitted a great deal from the work they sponsored. I doubt very much I would have had those benefits so soon without these grossly inefficient agencies that have no idea what they are doing carelessly spending other people's money on creating the space age, the Internet age, and the age of genomics respectively.

I don't believe for a second that private investment would have done these earlier or better if the greedy government had stolen less tax money from you.

edit: downvotes yay! Please enjoy using the Internet to show your distain for giving credit for revolutionary federally-funded technology projects.
Count me in as one of those who defend these bombings, and the atomic bombings.

For the allies to take over Okinawa island, it took 80+ days of near constant combat, resulting in U.S. manpower losses of over 82,000 casualties, including non-battle casualties (psychiatric, injuries, illnesses) of whom over 12,500 were killed or missing. All this for an island of 463 square miles.

And the size of entire Japan is 145,925 square miles.

And Japan was actually saving up their best troops/planes/ships for the defense of the main Japanese islands.

And let's not forget how many Japanese soldiers and civilians were killed in Okinawa battle. Many, many more Japanese civilians would've been killed if an invasion took place. School girls were being instructed on how to use grenades/homemade weapons to try to kill invading US troops.

Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals (awarded for combat casualties) were made to prepare for the invasion of Japanese main islands. After Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, they still haven't exhausted the stock.
Honestly, I did not get the gist of the article. I am combing through the comments to understand more.
> The only thing that brought them to the table was the idea that their enemy possessed a weapon where a single bomb could level a city

Utterly wrong. This has been shown many times that the A-bomb was not the decisive part. It was the upcoming involvement of Russians on the Japanese front. Please stop spreading explanations for 5-years olds.
My personal opinion on that is that it's another layer of complexity without too much to gain. It's something else to manage (operational overhead), and something else to interact with (programmer overhead).

MySQL by itself is plenty fast for us. As Baron mentioned, we don't even run the database servers at full capacity.
> In the grand scheme of things all the errors he mentioned do not make a difference to the overall direction of the proof.

They make a huge difference if the reader wants to reuse a certain formula without deriving everything in sight. The time necessary to use a formula is no longer O(1), but O(n) with n being the length of the preceding discussion.

It also means you can't look at two expression and immediately check if they are equivalent as the variables might have different semantics.

Plus, you don't get to correct the mistake in the original, so every time you (or someone else) have to read it, you might need to redo the calculations just to be sure.
Blockade? Japanese govt would've just watched their population die of starvation and still not surrender.
But I'd rather get punched in the face then lose a job I worked really hard to get. So why do we consider the latter not as bad?

-- I have no objections to saying "his sexual harassment and manipulation was worse than physical rape". I'm wholly on the side of using every means possible to stop both rape and sexual harassment in the workplace and punishing people severely for both. I'm even all in favor of punishing the wealthy for using their wealth in abusive and manipulative ways, sure.

But I think the "it was as bad as rape so we should call it rape" argument really loses potential supporters.

The problem is that redefining the term creates a situation where the outside observer will feel that they can't really verify the truth or even the substance of the claim.

I know the argument that it is wholly unfair to demand that someone who has already been victimized also speak in an exact and clinical fashion about how they have victimized. Yes, it's unfair but is still the only a believable (by an outside observer) argument is going to happen. And there really isn't any alternative to that.
"relationships where one person is financially dependent on the other."

Suppose a couple lives together, and one tells the other: "let me sodomize you right now or I kick you out of the house and you can live on the street."

What in the world would be the point of arguing that this is not rape?

On the other hand, if there is no threat accompanying a demand for sexual access, it is obviously not rape and nobody is saying it is.
I wish this were at the top for this thread. Dan Carlin's summaries and analyses of the decision making at that time are wonderfully thought-provoking. The concept of logical insanity in particular is one i see consistently reproduced in every part of modern society.
Mazzucato provides no real evidence the government is good at funding commercially viable innovation. If you look into the details the two examples she offers were more blind luck than thoughtful investment.

While it's easier to make the case for basic research the governments attempts to sponsor commercial innovation have almost always ended in failure or turned into subsidies for politically connected companies and industries. A good case study was the $600 Flat Panel Display Initative in the 1990s. It's a good bet something similar is currently happening in the various green initiatives.

She is actually correct about these programs socializing risk and privatizing reward. Stanford got the Google shares from research funded by NSF and Continental Illinois got the Apple shares from the SBIC investment guaranteed by SBA.*

However this is the one role government has a unique advantage. And this is a good thing - think NIH, NASA, NSF, etc but also pretty much every social safety net program. Of course she (being quite left) is actually making the case for increase government ownership of public companies or at least greater taxation and license fees.

*-You could argue the U.S. got some this back when that bank failed a few year later in the largest bank failure in US history - until WaMu surpassed it in 2008. Although the $44 million from Apple shares was insignificant compared to the billions in bankruptcy costs. BTW-The Continental Illinois failure is where "too big to fail" was coined.
I figured that might be the case. Would it help to have password reset policies in the time frames of years, I wonder? A stolen password might be used inconspicuously for some time. I'd prefer two-factor became more ubiquitous.
I mean, well, you do mean to split legal hairs, clearly. Why are they relevant to the discussion? What do you think it is we're discussing?
Tesla Cuts Jobs in China
Yes me too. 5 is when the quiz got harder.
First of all, thanks for trying the app. Can you tell me the format you were using to enter the number, please. Thanks. If it is a bug, I will fix it. :)
Oh, certainly. To address the original post, though, the numbers that the top-tier gals are putting up are in the same league as male lifters with 2-3 years of training, which sounds fairly moderate to me.
For more than 100 years about one out of four American Nobel Prize winners were foreign born – and in the past 3 years, nearly half of American laureates were immigrants.

Note that this does not include second/third generation immigrants.
Medium.com did
Have you ever read Thus Spoke Zarathustra? You might like this short chapter:

http://4umi.com/nietzsche/zarathustra/11
This is an excellent notation. I commend the author and will be using the metaphor myself.
German cities still have plagues/statues/memorials everywhere to remind people about the holocaust and the past. In Japan, you will not find a single prominently placed memorial to remind people about the wrongs Japan did, unfortunately.

Even the few small ones that had been placed in country side have been taken down in recent months/years thanks to Abe. And interestingly, Abe's mother's ancestors are from Korea supposedly.
Surprisingly good. I got a good chuckle recognizing myself in some of these.
While there are a few groups that call themselves the KKK, as an actual national organization they were gutted by the FBI decades ago. Whenever any self-styled "KKK" group gets large enough, the FBI infiltrates and guts them as well.

It is hard to weed out a general mindset or philosophy entirely, but tearing down organizations is surprisingly easy.
> Most of us prefer sweets over sour and bitter foods because, evolutionarily, our mesolimbic pathway reinforces that sweet things provide a healthy source of carbohydrates for our bodies. When our ancestors went scavenging for berries, for example, sour meant “not yet ripe,” while bitter meant “alert—poison!”

There is absolutely no basis/source for this. There are in nature a number of foods that are palatable and even taste good and which are extremely toxic/lethal to humans. I rather think the association between taste and proper food is largely coincidental more than anything else.
What an incredible example of Olympic quality mental gymnastics.
Best I'm aware, all diets, whether low carb or high carb, cut down on sugar sources if followed properly.

Also, there is [data for humans](http://www.uctv.tv/shows/Sugar-The-Bitter-Truth-16717) but nutritionists are only slowly coming to conclusions.
Sounds like you implemented something similar to http://www.actordb.com/
It is not that unique. The Germans have dealt with their history and accepted their wrong doings.

I don't see a German Football team named "The SS" playing in the playoffs. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redskin_(slang)
This reminds me of Robert McNamara's rule for proportionality in the movie The Fog of War. What amount of brutality is necessary to achieve a political objective?
Teach or Perish
> German cities still have plagues/statues/memorials everywhere to remind people about the holocaust and the past

I don't attribute much importance to monuments and statues. Do people actually care about them ? There were monuments to the ones who fell during 14-18 all over Europe and it did not prevent any of the European countries to enter a large scale bloody war all over again 20 years later. So what are the monuments good for?
I really don't get all that XML hatred! How is JSON any better?
Referencing Wikipedia in specific technical instances like this is ill advised. Wikipedia is good for summarizing sources, but if you actually read the sources, I don't think you'll find any of them [1][2][3][4] make any mention of "abuse of authority" pertaining to rape.

Rather than reflecting "the lowest common denominator of what most people agree on", it seems more likely this is what one specific individual with a less accepted definition of rape who cares enough to edit the wiki and fight off all dissenters wants you to believe is the default definition of rape.
There's an interactive map at the Tokyo-Edo museum (great museum; highly worth your time if you're there) that shows the progression of the bombing campaign over time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_biWi-lXTM

The scale of that is mind-boggling. I had no idea, the first time I saw it, the amount of destruction involved. It rivals Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but we (in the US) almost never hear about it.

To put a more human face on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo#mediaviewer/Fi...
Anti-terror strategy a toxic brand – Muslim former officer
No accessible link to get to getpostman.com from the blog?
"Isn't your small laptop a more powerful system?"

EeePC with win.

Now I could fire up the beastly server I have on my desk with 300W power supply, multiple HD's with linux, but as an experiment I moved all the dev over to a Pi. Add a few more Pi machines and I can use one for image processing, another for dev, another for sound/media & I have the core of what I used to do on a desktop for the price of a fast HD.
> The vast majority of people don't buy a brand new car more than once or twice in their life.

The adage has been that "Americans buy, on average, a new car or truck every 3 or 4 years."[1] That's like a dozen new cars in a lifetime.

I was going to call bravo sierra on your assertion, but I decided to try a back-of-the-envelope calculation to check the plausibility:

Roughly 10 million cars are sold each year in the U.S., the U.S. has 230 million adults, and they'd likely buy their cars between ages 18 and 65 (a span of 47 years). That means each adult has a 1 in 23 chance (230M/10M) of buying a new car each year, so over a 47-year span they'd buy 47/23 = 2 new cars.

There could be all sorts of ways my calculation could be wrong, but it agrees surprisingly well with your claim.

I'm wondering now if the "new car every 3-4 years" is a myth propagated by auto makers.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/49504504
Hands free phone gestures from 2 meters away
Germany: Reminding one's population of the country's sins is the true sign of sincere apology.

Japan: When you actively rewrite history books to hide your past sins, you cannot be apologizing sincerely.
"mount it as a remote filesystem (such as sshfs) and run an IDE locally."

could but a PIA.
I guess that is a [citation needed]. Definitely a possibility but something for the historians to debate I guess.
"These articles"? I'm not sure I've ever seen an article quite like this before. It's a pretty amazing essay, pretty different from almost any I've seen before in it's approach.

What kinds of articles is it you don't like? Any article about sexual coercion and gendered harrasment in the tech world?

You seem to be suggesting that any woman writing such an article is somehow not "acting like equals"... huh? What is it about this article that, as you say, disgusts you?

I truly don't understand what you're talking about.
Except that Japan repeatedly tried to make peace before the atomic bombings, and if the US hadn't been so determined that it be an unconditional surrender and been willing to negotiate, they could have ended the war before that, without any need to even think about invasion. So it was an evil slaughter.
Actually it's because our taste is not a perfect poison detector, it's SUPPOSED to filter out foods that are good for you and those that aren't, but it's a heuristic model, it's not perfect.
Come on, almost any language I can think of is a better fit for CS classes than Java.
100,000 Japanese civilians died in one night of bombing. And the govt presses on, and 40,000 civilians died on Okinawa. Japan still refused to surrender.

Not much better proof needed to show that Japanese leadership would've watched their population die of starvation over months and years.
I do not see where rewards are socialized. See how much Google, Facebook and Apple pay for taxes in relation to their revenue.

The problem today is not socializing the risk of innovations but socializing the risk of investments.

The EZB is currently pumping more than 1.000.000.000.000 Euros into the market for essentially failed risk assessments of high volume lenders. Which in turn sank money into projects of people who are everything but innovative, like building another much needed shopping mall.

You say 'road to communism' but do you see North Korea socializing rewards?

Beside the headline that invokes ideological impulses in some readers Mazzucato makes some considerable points.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this is widely accepted that both the bomb and the soviet invasion had equivalent weight in their surrender, with some historians saying the soviet declaration of war was more important.

To add on that, at the time of the surrender, the long term effect of the bomb was not known to the japanese and as such the nuclear bombing wasn't the worst city bombing they suffered, neither in terms of infrastructure damage or loss of life.

Some more information for those interested

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/u6qqo/there_h...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2y98yc/did_th...
How are death camps, the specific targeting of civilians, medical experimentation on detainees, burying prisoners alive and even cannibalism covered under "war of conquest". When does it become genocide? How is it any different (if not worse for its unparalleled scale) than what the Nazis did?

They didn't just target Chinese civilians, they targeted the civilians of every nation they invaded. This includes the British civilians in Singapore and Hong Kong who were sent to ghettos and labour camps, few of who survived. And this was the "preferential" treatment the Brits got. The Chinese and other Asians got far, far worse.
The Potsdam Declaration was the offer on the table from the Allies. It mentioned unconditional surrender but the actual terms were much more nuanced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration

In particular it promised that Japan would be allowed to govern herself after an occupation.

The Russian role in all of this is also pretty nuanced. They didn't sign the Potsdam Deceleration because they weren't yet at war with Japan. Once Russia was in the war then the status of Potsdam became questionable for the Japanese government, it was a classic high-pressure sales tactic. "Take this offer before it expires."

The emperor mentioned the atomic bomb as a reason for the surrender in his rescript, but that was likely just a face-saving excuse. The government already demonstrated its willingness to let the entire population of Japan die fighting the allies so it doesn't seem too reasonable that they'd quibble over the means.
Clojure has a form of this in that the 'recur' special form is used for tail-calls and self-calls are used otherwise. Using 'recur' from other than the tail position is a compile-time error.

http://clojure.org/special_forms#Special%20Forms--%28recur%2...
Also, saw this comparison of Dropwizard with Spring boot: http://blog.takipi.com/java-bootstrap-dropwizard-vs-spring-b... Interesting to understand the libs and flexibility each one have.
In most cases, companies aren't actually able to adjust point-for-point for CoL.. it just isn't possible in any market with local opportunity. If remote markets ever see dramatic expansion/acceptance, CoL won't even be a mentionable factor.

CoL might be N-300% higher in SF but salaries (thank wage-fixing companies) are not. Salaries are (necessarily higher) but it's easy to dwarf the spread in normal, requisite expenditures.

CA has a high state income tax, relatively higher sales tax (than most midwest areas), and in the case of SF, the oh-so-obvious (self-inflicted) real estate problem.
It occurs to me that by asserting that the American nuclear bombardment was not justifiable because the Japanese were not sufficiently terrified of it but were sufficiently terrified of a Russian invasion, we are saying something quite extreme about the nature of an invading Russian army.

Does anybody know what narrative is taught in Russian schools to Russian children?
> Japan: When you actively rewrite history books to hide your past sins, you cannot be apologizing sincerely.

I agree with you on this, but if you think Japan is the only country rewriting history books my friend, you are deeply mistaken. Look at what US kids are taught about History, and cry.