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I cross posted this to /r/china to get some input from a different community and this comment was made. Thought I would replicate it here in case anyone else finds it interesting

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From /u/ThomSEN1

Honestly the ones that are buying overseas are probably unwilling to be openly discussing it online. They aren't hedging against exchange as much as they are hedging against having to stay in China in the long run, or simply getting freehold land somewhere in the world or getting some of their net worth out of the country.

The foreigners that have networks to tap into these sorts of guys will be employees of real estate companies. The one thing you may look to do is visit display suites in first tier cities for upcoming developments. In Australia, companies like Mirvac, Sunland etc all set up sales displays SH/BJ/GZ etc to sell apartments off the plan, you might be able to make a connection by chance at one of those sort of events.

They won't be looking for bitcoin but they will likely be interested in owning some of your company, as that means they can get their name on a shareholders register somewhere overseas and as such they might be able to move money out through that. In some cases they won't even care what the company does, as long as its registered offshore. Building high net-worth connections in china is hard, (but fun, if you like long meals and 8 hour baiju/cigarette binges!). Nepotism is the name of the game unfortunately.

If you're looking for investment in the tech sector, focus on SZ/HK. Most of the money is moving to the west via the HK financial sector, and Shenzhen is clearly the tech hub so people may be more willing to adopt bitcoin or similar concepts.

Get personal business cards if you don't have them already, be prepared to hand them to everyone. You might get lucky with a mission like this but it'll be hard if you don't have some connections already unfortunately.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/4ohish/where_do_prop...
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Which is a great thing, as we can then focus on what matters/we care about. Normal people are annoying, and tend to be demanding. :)
Yeah, if you start from the break HP of the motor, pretty much all the work can be converted into electricity. If you start from the energy in the fuel, and go all the way to the generator, its like 50%.
This is wonderful.

I recently spun up a horizon(http://horizon.io) project on Digital Ocean with a Vue.js front end, and it has been by far the best experience I've had with full stack javascript, ever.

I really hope things like this start getting Vue the hype it deserves, because even though I'm a JS churn hater, this is one of the good ones. Much much nicer and simpler to work with than React or Angular, but using the ideas that have made them both of them great and popular.
I'm about halfway through migrating a ~30kloc ES5 codebase to ES6 with a transpiler (Babel), linter (ESLint), and fast test suite (Mocha) [1]. Once all files are going through the transpiler I'll probably add TypeScript or Flow. We already had RequireJS in place so the conversion from AMD to ES6 module format has been pretty straightforward, but I'm continually amazed with every file I convert I usually find a couple real bugs with the linter. The most common have been:

* Undefined variables referenced in a seldom-traveled conditional branch.

* Leaked globals due to missing `var` keyword.

Every bug I find is immediate feedback that this is a worthwhile use of our time.

[1] https://medium.com/@kevanahlquist/evolution-of-javascript-at...
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I still recall Microsoft finding some bug in their visual-c++ set of dlls. Problem was that just about nay software shipped with their own bundle of those dlls.

So All MS could do was to release a scanner to look for faulty versions, and beg people to pester ISVs about getting updates.
> the hallmark of a good piece of music is that it can be transposed and arranged into any other genre of music and still sound amazing

I would also make a similar claim, that almost any piece played on classical instruments sounds good. I would point out at Apocalyptica as an evidence.
Nice !

request : can you do some screencasts on window functions ?
So you live next to a noisy factory and a smelly dairy farm too?
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Except for the security stuff, i think many would be quite happy with last years Firefox, Chrome or even IE.
The types are what give it structure. Types are the structure. When you create a type, you are saying in concrete terms "this is exactly how things happen and nothing else".

This is very useful information for a large project. Think of it like a map. You don't need one for your house, but you need one to walk cross country. Or like NASA procedural manuals for something normal people don't need a guide for...like an astronaut taking a shower or something.
I maintain that the best of both worlds is a scheme like Nix or Gobolinux. It allows multiple versions of libs to exist, without having each program come packed with half a distro.
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> your hypothetical is so ludicrous

My wife is a former welfare case worker. The scenario I painted is quite real, but if it is so far removed from your reality that it seems ludicrous then that says good things about your family life.
Best advice ever right there - our sanity was saved on several occasions by friends offering to look after our child for a night when he was small and not sleeping.
> It's in the best interests of those who own homes to lock people out of homeownership.

This is only true in the absence of periodic appraisals to recalculate property taxes. In states where that is the norm, homeowners are incentivized to allow other homeowners to prevent their properties from appreciating, so long as they're not planning to sell in the immediate future. This has its own drawbacks (mostly longtime, fixed-income homeowners who are forced out due to onerous property taxes), but it's a much healthier dynamic than what states like California, where property taxes are capped, have.
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Structure means walls. There are tons of crazy things you can do 'outside' the walls with javascript. There are no checks if anything you reference exists or that your assignments are compatible. The browser's compiler will figure it all out and/or blow up at run-time.

Type and reference checking creates the walls your code must stay inside of otherwise there are compile errors. The compiler enforces a certain structure on your code that you must adhere to in order for the compilation to succeed.

Think of it like a coloring book where TypeScript keeps you inside the lines. Ever see a three year old's coloring book? :p
Sure. All live will grow until it consumes all available resources. There is no such thing as voluntary growth control in "natural systems". Agent Smith was wrong when he claimed all other life seems to find a "balance". Balance emerges from mortal competition between species.

Only humans have this: http://www.vhemt.org/
Sometimes I feel I am the only one sceptical of the politics and alarmism surrounding climate change. I am Not saying I'm skeptical that it is real (or to be more appropriately scientific, that the evidence suggests the observed increase in CO2 and temperature most likely is caused by emissions), but I'm saying the politics are more complex than that.

I can think of a number of other issues that pose similar if not more immediate, or greater risks to humanity that have lower economic costs to solve.

Global warming activism also bothers me in some ways. Snobs have an absolute affinity for it, and it seems in this cause it's easy to create an aura of good will without actually having to follow-up and do anything tangible to benefit other people. Think: Buying hybrid cars that pollute more than my simple Honda. Preaching about the importance of action on this topic is also rather convenient: you don't appear to actually have to take any action. Preach about the problems of homelessness, drug abuse, crime, healthcare? There are obvious ways to actually spend your time helping people who are victims there. Want to hold the moral superiority card with as little effort as possible? It's super convenient.

There's also the the west's party line to the rest of the world: We can afford clean energy now, and of course we want it; but even though other nations can't afford it, they're now declared immoral for not embracing it.

None of what I'm saying is that global warming isn't a worthy cause, just that the enormity and alarmism of the politics that surrounds it is cause for question.
It quite funny how socialist American football is. :)
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>the "bad" of PHP has been completely papered over through best practices, documentation, fantastic tooling, or removal from the language.
I mean sure I could just reimplement a sane standard library from a different language in PHP and then live with the suboptimal syntax or maybe I don't waste my time and just use that language with the better standard library from the get go.
I don't know why this dude is getting downvoted. He's actually right, some mobile browsers do really really really inane shit when you're doing CSS3 animations.

Example: Safari. I don't know if it affects today's Safari, but semi-recently (in the past 2 years) it hasn't been too performant there.
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This is fascinating! From what I can understand with my poor chinese, This is a news portal and forum just for Chinese expats in Vancouver or Chinese citizens who have an interest in Vancouver.

It's such a niche topic and community, but the forum has half a million posts and a peak of 4000 people online at the same time. That makes me think that there has to be over 100,000 registered users.

I need to consider the Chinese market more for niche sites. With so many billions of people, a "niche" site could be amazingly popular.
As always, see https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/ for the up-to-date spec that implementers use.
They broke a written confidentiality agreement with Space Data. You don't need an agreement like that for things you have patented (and hence are public and protected).
I don't understand.

> Types are the structure. When you create a type, you are saying in concrete terms "this is exactly how things happen and nothing else".

Types make the interface concrete - which is better for compiler/interpreter (catch bugs) and better for developers (easy to understand instead of guesswork)

But when I think about "structure", It is usually about how the codebase is organized. How different modules interact with each other and is the flow of the code easily understandable. This could be easily achieved without Types.

Maybe it's just my interpretation of the term "structure".
What you're experiencing is called "cognitive dissonance". Feel free to look it up. Allow me to quote the article:

"Space Data further adds in the complaint that as many as 10 Google representatives, including co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin"

Google is rotten from the very top.
We will have lots of pre-made AI blocks that do all sorts of functions. Actually using them will be easy. We don't need to understand every nuance of probability theory to call a library and have it do its work.
A machine is faster and more reliable than a human at comparing. Matching types for verification is one of those things.
Decorators are not an ES7 feature. They are a stage 1 proposal, which means roughly that the committee agrees this problem space is interesting, but that it might see drastic changes in implementation, syntax, and more, or might not make it into the eventual standard at all.

At this point it is best to call them a Babel feature, not an ES feature.
I would like to bitch about the name: are there already not enough projects named Mint, including at least one that is quasi-related to UI, such as Mint, the Debian fork, that features the Cinnamon DE?
> I can think of a number of other issues that pose similar if not more immediate, or greater risks to humanity that have lower economic costs to solve.

Cool, like what?

> None of what I'm saying is that global warming isn't a worthy cause, just that the enormity and alarmism of the politics that surrounds it is cause for question.

I agree. But that doesn't make it less of an issue. And cutting off your nose to spite your face doesn't seem like a useful solution, so what's the answer?
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In a statically typed language you would have to constantly enter the type of the class as the first parameter.
> just means that different organisms will thrive

Like non-human fauna.
The police are probably at least 10 minutes away. That's plenty of time to use your own gun in self defense, and have it put away long before the police arive. During the recent tragedy in Orlando, it took the police 3 hours to enter the building.

If you choose to try to stop a mass shooting, by far the biggest threat to you will be the shooter.
No. Observables are a stage 1 proposal, which means roughly that the committee agrees this problem space is interesting, but that it might see drastic changes in implementation, syntax, and more, or might not make it into the eventual standard at all. The idea of observables for async function* {} has been withdrawn in favor of async iterators (https://github.com/zenparsing/async-iteration/). Additionally, the last TC39 meeting surfaced some strong concerns about whether the design of observables is something that can fit with the rest of the JavaScript ecosystem, and at this point it seems that they will either undergo radical changes (becoming promise-based, for example) or will stay as a user-space library instead of becoming part of the standard.
You think the world isn't better as a result of GNU/Linux existing? I personally think that GNU/Linux has had a positive impact on the world, and without it the world would be a worse place. Sure, my impact as a single developer is very small, but I want to help a movement that I agree with.
I was expecting Numa Numa for some reason.
No, its a systems viewpoint. And it can only be held by an organism that can appreciate the system. All other organisms breed util the systems natural capacity is exhausted and continually competes against one another.

You know exactly what I mean by "work". The current 6'th mass extinction (Holocene) is currently ongoing. The species responsible for this has no natural enemies against which we compete and will therefore continue unabated until all resources have been consumed and the system collapses. Just like it always has.
> Yes, the ROI of the various treaties and tax plans are beyond negative.

Have you factored externalties into those ROI calculations?

> Yes, if the earth were an unstable system it would have destabilised in the past.

A stable system can still have its equilibrium point shifted in one direction or another. Your blood for example is a buffered solution, keeping a relatively stable pH. But it can still be influenced by many things.
There's a regular flight from Glasgow to Barra which makes use of these - the runway is a beach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFjH6b07a4
Could probably use a 2013 in the title.
http://www.spaceref.com/iss/ops/sm.life.support.book1.pdf

A guide to the ISS personal hygiene facilities and operations.

I couldn't help myself...
I don't get it: why would they need/want to set up a server to test the sql module in the first place?
The behaviour of the sql module doesn't depend on server, so logically I would assume the tests shouldn't either...
And if some tests really need a server, then they are not testing the sql layer anymore, and shouldn't need access to internals of the sql module.
When the powerful engage in a mutual struggle with the poor and attempt to overcome it at great expense, it is called theft.

capitalism.
What was your relationship like with your parents?
I've used Haxe in several production projects, and if I'm starting a new code-base from scratch I would pick it again. (I prefer type system, the cross-compilation options, and the meta programming)

But if you're migrating an existing code base, TypeScript has a more obvious path forward. Because TypeScript is a superset of JS, it means that all of the JS files in your project will be compiled by TypeScript as is. And you can add the extra typing information as you go, it doesn't have to be an "all or nothing" transition.

Compare to Haxe, where you have to create a separate *.hx file, with a slightly different syntax. You can either translate all of your code (a massive undertaking), or type external files as an `extern Class`, or just use `Dynamic` (equivalent of TypeScript's "any"). But all of these involve a little bit of work for every single part of your code base, so it's going to add up.
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It is. DNA Traceback is a huge deal in the beef industry.
I'm one of the authors of the article, and the CTO of Superpowered. I apologize if the article was confusing.

Marshmallow improves audio latency here and there on some devices, but even Android N has the fundamental audio stack problems we mention in the articles.

There is no Android version delivering <= 10 ms round-trip audio latency.

Audio can be handled by built-in hardware or external (USB) hardware.

External:
Android is not able to deliver glitch-free low latency audio on USB devices. We introduced a solution for this last month, that's one of the links on the top of the article. It opens up a market of 1.1 billion devices (meaning, Android 4.4.4 and up) for USB audio on Android.

Built-in:
The current article introduces a demo solution for the built-in audio hardware.
Isn't that a felony?
Paper: http://www.mit.edu/~ilkery/papers/phys_nips.pdf
I can't recommend flow highly enough for gradually typing existing code (as it requires far fewer code changes than TypeScript). Not sure what your timelines are like, but it takes no time at all to set flow up, and you might find it makes the task of migrating a little more varied.
It's actually comparable to league minimum in Major League baseball, roughly $500k.

And I can guarantee that the average minor league player out there makes far less than your average software engineer.
Your definition of "variational methods" is actually a definition of generative models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_model. variational methods is a much more specific concept, and your answer speaks more to the general and high-level concept of generative models.

Notice on the wikipedia page for generative models, there is a lot more than variational methods.
Common prefix or suffix? I know in the RxJS community it's not uncommon to suffix an Observable variable like `fooBar$`
Shouldn't my compiler do such things for me?
I dont disagree with that but i think it can be a reason ppl will think about before pulling their gun and if muliple do it at the same time its gonna be messy (why not scale the argument?)
CTEs, window functions, JSONB, PostGIS, and other stuff I wouldn't have heard of or learnt otherwise :)
Yeah, never mind the theology, this story gives a scary view of how an experienced scammer/conman can work. The part at the end, where he implicitly admits that he's been found out, but tries to tempt the journalist with getting in on the scam -- wow.
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Hopefully your book will mention in big bold Red letters why it's crucial that all the files except for data inside of a Docker image be OS packaged, every single one of them, especially the configuration files, and show how configuration management can be performed efficiently and at scale with OS packaging, as well as how one might perform change management with the whole lot.

And hopefully your book will mention SmartOS and Triton and zones providing full isolation for Docker.
Why not both? Trump is an alien robot sent from the future to prevent us from becoming unpalatable to our Alien master over-cooks by removing good Mexican food from our diets.
Yeah, I've also had a really nice experience using Vue. It's easy enough for a non-front-end engineer to get started with. And at the same time I can bring in all the components I want and combine with Vuex to get a nicely structured application.
From what you say most of those problems are just syntactical, isn't it? Somehow I started to believe that it is a matter of visibility and self selling skills in the haxe community.

The problems you mention seems to be possible to solve with software (AST generation and transformation) however it still has to be done. Let's hope we will see soon a project like that in haxe-land.
Umm... outside of R&D or the valley, the breakdown is something like:

PHP: 30%;
.NET for finance/enterprise: 25%;
Java for finance/enterprise: 20%;
Java for android: 10%; iOS: 10% (~5% overlap);
Everything else: 10%.

And as far as payscales go, PHP is nearly always > the "Everything else" unless it's super specialized. But clearly everyone paying median or above for PHP is getting conned and they should convert their entire business to [flavor of the month] language.

[edit]And I'm leaving js off there on purpose as there are very few web devs who are expected to only work in PHP and never touch the js. And in those other orgs, you usually have a specific "front end" developer that probably doesn't deal with any other kind of code and makes less than the "full stack" devs.
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What is money?
It is pretty much impossible to have any sort of inferred structure from plain javascript. The reason you can use super powerful tools to refactor, rename, and find all references across files in typescript is because the IDE can build a 100% accurate data model of your code base when it's written in typescript.
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I was wanting the same kind of thing! We have an old Node (lol, funny to write that) code base of about 60 services that fetch data from 3rd party APIs. They're all very dis-organized and written in different styles, so a tool like that would be really useful. I've been experimenting with using Facebook's Flow on this, but it doesn't do the magic that you describe (which I'd like)
Well, for one, Typescript is a superset of Javascript, meaning that all valid Javascript syntax will compile properly when passed through the Typescript compiler. This removes the need to rewrite 10k lines of code in another language, even if syntactically similar. Avoiding that overhead is a huge time saver - Javascript and Typescript are simply much closer than Javascript and Haxe, making the time savings a strong incentive.
I'm not sure if it's off topic, but stopping mass shootings is not the point.

Gun ownership is about stopping the catastrophic damage governments can do.

Both stopping a coup and totalitarian policies.

Police are much more hesitant to go around raiding/searching homes and people when there is a gun culture.

I feel amongst educated people the OP is a silly topic(but an interesting analysis). I get it's part of a propaganda war, so perhaps it should be discussed but this does seem to be nothing to do with why people should and do have a right to arms in the USA.

The NRA and libertarians know guns don't stop mass shootings. Do we really think they do think that?