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So Japan's surrender, six days later, was just a coincidence? Maybe if you shared one of the "many" demonstrations that the "A-bomb was not the decisive part", we could weigh that against the strange timing of the whole thing.
Fruits and honey do not have complex sugars. They have simple sugars like fructose, glucose and maltose. Fructose doesn't spike your insulin as much, but it's also 50% of table sugar. So honey is chemically almost the same as diluted sugar.

Most of the nurtients in honey is small bee pieces. The rest of it is sugars and water.
Not trying to put down the parent comment by MCRed, but my experience is very much in line with what you say and in fact getting a patent is even easier if you work at large company (such as Sony). Those technical writers in the patent divisions of orgs are amazing at their job:

1) Submit a thin, whacky idea, with loose documentation to the patent department.
2) Hold a 1 hour phone call with technical writers.
3) Two weeks later you get emailed a 10 page patent application of your idea complete with diagrams asking you to review it.
A blockade, no fuel, no food, Russian invasion imminent unless surrender to the US. this is a big "What if" and I do not think we can say outcome A or B with any certainty.
How has your experience being using Druid? It seems like a good fit for our use cases, but there doesn't seem to be much of a community around it.
Absolutely. But it's more a curation of some excellent libraries than an independent framework. At the top of the list are Jersey, the reference implementation of the JAX-RS standard, and Jetty (DW's servlet container). Metrics (by the same author as Dropwizard) deserves another honorable mentions.
> So Japan's surrender, six days later, was just a coincidence?

Japan had been already utterly destroyed by that time, the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far from the most deadly bombings at that time. Let me remind that most large cities had been already razed to the ground. You are completely missing out the context of the time and giving way too much importance to the nukes.
It doesn't, and they're not. But it's possible he lowered his intake of things like soybean oil by not eating sugar.
Don't worry, he wouldn't believe it.
Your argument is that the U.S. military was justified in committing an awful act because, if it hadn't, it would have instead chosen to commit an even more awful act.

I would prefer that it not commit any awful acts.
* "Seattle is incredibly friendly and polite"

My ten-year residence in Seattle (U District, Lake City, and Burien/Tukwila) led me to use terms like "passive-aggressive", "frigid", and "unaware".

Seattle drivers are particularly terrible -- they'll force a line of 20 cars to stop just so they can "politely" let someone in who would have been able to turn just fine ten seconds later when all the cars had passed; they're perfectly willing to inconvenience multiple other people in order to be superficially polite to one. If there's a space in front of them, they'll speed up, getting right on the bumper of the car in front of them -- even if there's plenty of room to pass -- and then follow closely, as if they just can't stand being more than a few yards behind the next car. (This particular passive-aggressive maneuver is so distinctive that I once identified a vehicle on the interstate in Kansas as "drives like they're from Seattle" from a distance, confirming from the licence plate when I got closer.)

I also noticed that everyone in Seattle was polite to my face, but the majority of long-term friends I made while in Seattle were from other places. The people who turned out to be fake friends were mostly the natives.

That's not to say that Seattle entirely sucks. It was a neat place to live, and there are a lot of good people there. But I find it interesting how differently we perceive the same social scene, and how that contributes to my being much happier far away from there.
> "Not sure why you're being downvoted"

The "5 year old" comment probably has something to do with it. HN doesn't tend to downvote people into the gray just because they are saying something that other people disagree with, unless the comment is also not particularly civil.
Thanks for the info. I got too busy and stepped down from the Meetup group. I encouraged Mozilla to take over as organizer, but they didn't. I hope that someone else will start one up.
Don't forget the close-to-10% state income tax (at engineer income), higher sales tax, CA SDI, higher food/utility costs, higher insurance, etc.

If you're lucky enough to work in a state with no (or low/fixed) income tax, that 10% combined with the hilarious housing cost situation covers the spread in salary difference very quickly.

And if you're working remotely there are obviously other potential lifestyle savings to be had (parking, generally less restaurant expenses, etc.)
> this is widely accepted that both the bomb and the soviet invasion had equivalent weight in their surrender

I seem to recall that from the archived discussions between the officials at power at the time, the Russian invasion wa the key topic at hand to capitulate before any soviet forces landed.
There are actual studies. For example, there is no negative effect on health eating 100g of sugar a day. But above a certain amount you do start to run into problems with the amount of fructose your liver has to deal with.
These were different times, where it was still legitimate to win wars. Today's warfare is a long and costly attrition, sparing lives in the short term but taking a much bigger toll in the long term.

WWII was won, with an unconditional surrender, followed by rebuilding and indoctrination. Not merely a cease fire which just flames hostilities in preparation for another round (e.g. Middle Eastern conflicts).
The golden rule of Magic is that a card's text trumps all else. In other words, the entire premise of the game is that the rules are malleable.
>A software patent is meaningless to most software developers.

This might seem so if you don't leave the HN bubble (which, along with tech media as a whole, has no idea how patents really work yet and so harbor notions like "most software patents are nonsense").

But really it's impossible to generalize a statement like this to any significant portion of our industry. Right here grandparent is an engineer who obviously doesn't agree. There's another comment just below that actually thinks one patent in 25 years is low. The overwhelming majority of software engineers I personally know are proud of their patents. Anytime somebody posts a new patent to their LinkedIn profile, I see nothing but a cascade of congratulatory comments.

Not to say that all the patents out there are awesome, but the notions most people here have about them are far from commonplace.
I've been coding professionally for 15 years and only have one such story. I once worked with a guy who had supposedly been coding professionally for over 10 years, the most recent 5 of those in Java. He, in all seriousness, asked me how to sort a List. I can forgive not knowing the Collections interface in Java, but not being able to google it and figure it out as a senior developer and team lead is troubling.

Conversely, there have been plenty of people who I would call anti-workers. They technically accomplished "something" but the quality of work was so bad that the team would have been more productive without them. They were a net negative productivity for the team. At most companies I've worked at there was one of those.
I live in the Midwest, but visited a colleague at another site owned by my employer, in California. She echoed your sentiment. 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.
Sounds like you hired someone who spent 200 hours studying interview questions instead of learning how to program.
Cue impostor's syndrome kicking in for many HN'ers:

"Crap, do I work with this guy? Is he talking about me? Did I miss any bugs in the code I shipped this week?"
> Japan still refused to surrender.

Japan had no capacity to attack anywhere anymore. All of its fleet had been sunk. What was the point of leveling the country to the ground, when the opponent is already KO and on its knees ?
Nine months ago I quit sugar to see if that would help my chronic sinus congestion (it did). I had a killer headache for about two weeks, then I was fine. After my pants started falling down I noticed I'd lost a ton of weight. I lost 25 pounds and I still eat a ton of carbs.
> ... they could have ended the war before that, without any need to even think about invasion.

There is no way to know that without knowing the conditions of surrender that Japan had in mind. I have a feeling that the conditions would have been as well reasoned as an island nation attacking an industrial powerhouse with the natural resources of an entire continent :)
How many plaques and statues does Japan need to erect before you will be satisfied?

I posit that even if they installed as many plaques and statues as Germany, you would still find another reason to criticize them.
Why choose Metrics over Servo? Metrics lacks dimensions, which is a pretty significant oversight, IMO.
ekianjo, of course not. But we are talking about japan here.
Then you and I are talking about different things. I don't read a mathematical proof to see what formulas I can copy. I read a mathematical proof to re-use the techniques in some other domain and to understand it I have to follow along and re-create bits and pieces of the proof. Obvious mistakes like the one mentioned in the post do not hinder that process. Less obvious errors would not be caught by a linter.

As for correcting mistakes I usually go to the author's homepage to find the most up to date versions along with errata. These days most papers are put up on the arxiv anyway which is often more up to date than whatever is printed in a journal so fixes for minor errors is again a non-issue.
The issue is there is NONE in Tokyo as far as I know. I would love to be proven wrong with links, pics.
Only one in four? I would have guessed higher.

Albert Einstein also chose to become an American.

What you're describing is the greatest honor a country can receive. There is no higher compliment, than the best and the brightest the world over seeking to immigrate to your shores. They have been seeking America out for centuries because it was and still is an immense land of opportunity.
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Sure, video games have had female characters for ages, take for example one of my favourite arcade games - Street Fighter II - Champion Edition.

You had Chun Li to choose from if you wanted to play as a girl, or Ryu, E. Honda, Blanka, Guile, Ken, Zangief, Dhalsim, Balrog, Vega, Sagat or M.Bison if you wanted to play as a guy.
Ah yes, feel sorry for someone who chooses to live where their rights are not (or are less) infringed upon.
That's the real issue. What are these new approaches that will actually work? Many things have been tried before and the track record is very poor.

And stepping back is a shortage of funds really the problem holding back innovation? Seems like there is plenty of seed and VC money for good business ideas.

I think more and better managed basic research is what the government should focus on. One area that seems obvious is basic energy research which seems grossly underfunded.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=koizumi+research+energy...
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Are you saying that it's important to argue about whether the word 'rape' is the right word or not? (For a specific occurence we have virtually no details about, what do we even have to argue about?)

Why does this matter for the topic matter of the essay? For real.

Why is the most important thing to discuss, in response to the issues raised in the essay, technical or legal definitions of the word 'rape'? Apparently most important thing to a great many HN commenters as it's incredibly well-represented this unusually enormous comments thread.

Seriously, I'm asking, why is this such an important or interesting point to so many here, the legal definition or rape?

I thought one of the most interesting and important points in the OP was about moving away from concerns about legal liability and towards concerns about keeping people safe and treated with dignity -- because the former has not accomplished the latter.
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This is a good point, I have had very productive study & coding sessions in university days in brightly lit libraries and secluded corners of buildings.
It's all so confusing since sugar and carbs are in all fruits and vegetables and grains. What are we supposed to eat? I think all the "sugar is toxic and always bad" stuff is too simplistic and a better understanding will hopefully emerge.
As someone studying physics at the moment, this is a great re-energizing force. Incredible to see that Einstein wrote the same equations, and (mostly) in the same notation that we use today. Humbled.
My personal experience is that cravings are gone after about 2-3 weeks after I cut simple sugars out (that includes all types of "healthy" sugars and even fruits). After that period I can watch people who gorge on cakes just like I watched people smoking after I quit and see that with different eyes and different thought process then when you are hooked too. It is pure addiction. Also, for me, if I fail and eat one portion of sweets after some time, my brain goes to the swirling path of explanation why it is ok to eat one more and tomorrow again and again... One more fix, and another...

Also when I do not eat sweets and junk for a few months your taste changes and can feel stuff you could not feel before. Once after a few month I ate one bag of small chips and almost puked from it how it tasted then after my taste "cleared".

Simple sugar is really more poisonous and addictive than some of the banned drugs, but the problem is that the most people do not think that way and most people know next to nothing about foods which is sad. Also when you go in to the shop there is almost not one thing without sugar in it, food industry is sick today, excpecially in USA where they are using high fructose corn syrup in every item they produce.
I remember Dropwizard being a favourite amongst many folks at a previous job. Decided to read the listed contributors to find some of their names:

Hats off to you Adam Jordens & Cameron Fieber :)
> I don't attribute much importance to monuments and statues. Do people actually care about them?

Yes. Here's a cemetary of russian victims in the center of Hannover, right across the street of one of the most popular gathering places in the entire city.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4lzlr7p5kmao7s1/AACiUPiTvnMoYYom-...

https://goo.gl/maps/MkW1V

Notice how it's well-kept and clean.
Me too. I would prefer no wars at all, but japan did start the war.
Blaming the tool is just like blaming the messenger then, isn't it? Could fraternity / sorority culture be the problem?
I agree in spirit. It's worth including "private" schools in your statement. Depending upon local culture, non-government schools often have curriculums as ignorance-inducing as curriculums of government schools. Encouraging nationalism and a lack of self-awareness, criticism, and skepticism is a recipe to foment, forge, and forgive atrocity. There exists an alarming number of people who fail to even question the ethical basis of Vietnam, let alone be concerned about human rights and atrocities of powers that subject them and the rest of the world in the present or in a more distant past.
Of the three, I think private investment would have done better than the first two. Even DARPA is notable for a handful of home runs that may have been just luck.
Reference intake for sugar is about 90g.

http://www.foodlabel.org.uk/label/reference-intakes.aspx

I find it difficult (but also fun) to resist all the treats.
Perhaps you can provide the authoritative reference that substantiates your view. From what I have read, some historians believe that the soviet invasion was partly responsible for the timing of the surrender, but it's contribution is difficult to know. These events happened in short order. Unless you have a source from the Imperial Army or government that documents the decision making, it's all speculation. Also, I find it interesting that the soviet military waited for the second bomb before invading. Were they being opportunistic?
"I have had interviewers attempt to solicit sexual favors from me mid-interview and discuss in significant detail precisely what they would like to do"

Bullshit.
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Pitcher plants are also brightly colored and, I'm sure, look delicious to the insects they eat. Evolved heuristics aren't perfect.
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It's not the GUI per se -- I'd say that a classic smalltalk-80 system (or a pc set to boot into Pharo) would be way more "hackable" than even a standard GNU/Linux install (you can look at/change the whole window system, blitter etc while it is running).

One could make a solid argument that knowing what a file/program "really is" is entirely redundant: it's all von neuman architecture after all: why make the distinction?

That said, I absolutely agree on your sentiment about the ios platform being way too locked down. Most annoyingly, it's entirely arbitrary: it could very well ship with something along the lines of hypercard/applescript or something better out of the box.
They don't need to be harassed for them to feel like the environment is hostile, or, at the very least, unwelcoming.
If I were a woman I'd want to know where this was illegal or not. I want to know for my daughters when they grow up.
Yeah, I lost a ton of weight too. Felt great. Just wish I could have stuck to it.
> I don't actually think every single German citizen during WWII was a card carrying Nazi

Regardless of what you were thinking, you said it and i could not have possibly known that you were not actually thinking that, precisely because i have encountered a great and numerous amount of people in my years who do carry that belief. I was not joking when i told you that you were literally indistinguishable from both a very motivated troll and a complete prejudiced ignorant, with no feasible way of determining which it was. If you don't think something, don't say it.

Speak earnestly.

Don't troll.
Such as the US guaranteeing that the Emperor stays in power, which they allowed after the war anyway? http://www.spectacle.org/696/long.html

And what is that smile for, anyway? Do you think this is funny?
When it comes to food it's a good bet to assume that all absolutes are wrong.
The problem is that there are actually several components needed: the semantic markup language, an input method no less efficient than LaTeX, and the math-lint itself. LaTeX is not semantic. MathML is just too verbose to type in the raw. The syntax used by theorem-proving software tends to be both esoteric and a bit too verbose (in addition to requiring the statements themselves to be extremely verbose).

I'm not sure that any plaintext markup can be sufficiently compact, semantic, and still resemble the handwritten syntax. That means we'll probably have to come up with a more interactive input method that is a bit more WYSIWYG in nature and has some auto-complete and automatic parenthesizing.
I'm an introvert: I have few friends, but close ones. The Scandanavian "Seattle Freeze" suits me to a T - surprisingly so! But I can easily understand how people who prefer other interaction modalities would find it aggravating.
Chess has state; it is not a simple function of board layouts. Whether or not it is valid to make moves such as castling or en passant pawn capture is dependent on the move order, not on the current board position.
If it wasnt for the cold war and the space race, I really doubt that NASA would have ever been created. Should we seek for another cold war because its a medium in which some kind of innovation occur? So are regular wars? Should we demand our states to start wars because technology advances during those times?
Not sure about the article, since it doesn't seem to say anything useful, but one problem I'm having with beginners is that beginners are extremely superficial in analyzing a problem and extremely superficial in coming up with solutions and have to be told what to do in very precise words and even if you give them a list of things to do, you still have to review their work because they might have missed some of the bullet points.

This happens, I believe, primarily due to lack of experience - they haven't suffered from superficial understanding of a problem with clients rejecting their solutions, they haven't stayed too many times at 2 a.m. fixing production issues, the haven't witnessed the proverbial big ball of mud coming to life because of patched up solutions and they haven't had a project that had to be rebooted in part because of technical debt created by them. We as humans, only find out that fire burns badly once we get burnt a couple of times.

And as a senior I'm completely out of my league when it comes to educating other people - I'm totally incapable of compressing 5 or 10 years of experience into a couple of months worth of education. And for example I have initiatives, like lets do presentations on Fridays, lets do code reviews and so on. And we do them for a couple of weeks, but then we observe that nothing changes and that our productivity dropped, because communication represents points of concurrency in the development process and concurrency represents the death of parallelization, which is incompatible with really harsh deadlines. And because these deadlines are a never ending story and the seniors are overwhelmed, management kicks in to "solve the problem" and they start thinking of hiring more people, which really means even more rookies to train, because good people that have the required experience are rare. And the problem to be solved by our project is so complex, that only seniors with a deep understanding of the problem can come up with working solutions for the core pieces, the number of seniors isn't growing and these seniors also have to train people and to continuously fix the mistakes that rookies did. It's enough to say that it's turning into a nightmare.
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One of the things I found most useful and insightful in the OP is a focus on things we can do to change our organizational and personal behaviors to actually keep people safe and treated with dignity, as opposed to just avoiding legal liability, since that has not succeeded in making people safe and treated with dignity.

A "focus on the legal frameworks" is not the only avenue for action, and may not be the most effective -- whether in the tech industry or elsewhere.

We're talking about the tech industry because it's HN and we're all in the talk industry, that's the one we know.

If we started the conversation with the tech industry -- which we know best -- but used what we learned to expand to look at other industries and environments too, talking to people in them too, that sounds like it could be useful. Instead, somehow here we are bizarrely motivated to expand the focus from the tech industry to 'everywhere' as a means to avoid talking about it at all?
This sounds pretty shitty to live. I would like to think we can do better.
I would be happy to hire someone like her! She's shown she has guts, and is not afraid to disrupt a stagnant institution. Basically, everything you could wish for in a startup. But I can see why some in the old Silicon Valley establishment might be hesitant; they have very a conservative mindset, and, in general, don't like rocking the boat.
You can easily make an O(n) solution without reordering them by using two pointers; one to read numbers and the other to keep track of where to put the next even number.
No problem : )

> Please though, stop making personal attacks.

Sorry. My apologies for that. Will stop.