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This documentary has real footage from inside north Korea, not the usual 'north Korea show' you usually see everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csI1EoMOXXk

Secret footage shot by an activist inside north korea.

eg:

markets inside a north korean town
https://youtu.be/csI1EoMOXXk?t=1366

dead bodies of people who tried to escape in the yalu river

https://youtu.be/csI1EoMOXXk?t=1145
Hang on. That's not ideal.

Could you possibly go into further detail?

I feel that Rust is envisioned by its followers as the just-unveiled never-before-known perfect solution to memory safety and related problems, when in reality C and other languages continue to have similar issues because the issues themselves are not solved problems. So I'm holding Rust at arm's length until someone can thoroughly and objectively debunk the views that I have.

But I'd love to be able to argue effectively. I agree with all the statements you made two levels up. Can you provide further detail to counter the parent comment?
I'm betting it also has to accelerate and decelerate at appropriate times.
You don't pick strawberries for a few hours after school - you have a limited window to harvest some crops and it's back-breaking, all-day work.
I took a very strict approach when it came to things over people's heads. I never allowed anything "extra" up there. There were no spare bulbs tucked away somewhere, no pile of twofers left on a gangway. I even pealed every tiny bit of tape off each truss. If it wasn't needed and secured it stayed on the ground. My worry was always what might happen in an earthquake.

As a lighting guy I saw to much stuff fall from the sky. One concert hall I worked at used a rice-paper snow effect for a Japanese show. Four years later we still had the occasional bit of rice paper glide slowly down from 100' up. It could never hurt anyone, but film/TV clients who used the hall would be screaming mad when they saw it.
Have you asked what the justification is for allowing general internet sites but not image hosting sites? I can't imagine it's at all reasonable.
You could just kill people on site. That might have an even stronger effect.

Just because it works doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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Good. Graffiti is unsightly and low brow. I don't want to look at some "street artists" trash.
Sorry, should have elaborated on that a bit. The K80 is Kepler architecture (from 2012) and underperforms Pascal on most Deep Learning benchmarks. Here's a comparison of several NVIDIA cards and you'll see the K80 at the bottom: http://timdettmers.com/2017/04/09/which-gpu-for-deep-learnin... This article emphasizes consumer cards which means you're building a box ie you lose all the benefits of offloading your work to the cloud. That said, there are cards that are better suited for DL that can run in a datacenter. It's not mentioned here but Pascal includes new GPU instructions designed to accelerate DL operations -- CuDNN is already taking advantage of these new capabilities. Perhaps, more importantly than the K80 card, is the P2 instance type itself, which includes significantly more RAM than you would need for DL (hence the high cost of the instance). In other words, the instance was evidently tuned for general GPU compute tasks like graphics-intensive applications/video encoding and not DL.
You make a good comment (which I generally agree with), and prompted a thought: How much would it take to change this situation?

For instance, the tax credit is a huge subsidy, and obviously reduces the effective capital cost. But once the capital cost is depreciated after a short period of years, then what does the ongoing marginal cost look like?

If it's low, which I expect it is, then can it be retrofitted with batteries or other technology to store energy?

I don't know the answer, but the lower effective capital cost has to have longer term effects - especially when a coal plant is depreciated over a couple decades.
Move to the US for work. I'm Canadian and have probably given up hundreds of thousands of dollars because of not moving sooner.
Which is unfortunately wrong (unsafe), as it assumes the noise is random.

That seems to be an unproven assumption, and quite likely to be a wrong assumption. For example if good people turn out to be less interested in "honing their interview skills", adding parasitic noise to the signal.
Did we watch the same video? There were people below that helicopter quite often. I'm not sure how you'd go about just dropping the pole.
Except farmers or any customer who buys physical product are under no obligation to understand or believe there is Software that is running the Physical product they purchased. If i buy a physical product i should be able to control it completely, unless i am not buying a physical product but a service that happen to be physical, in which case seller must own all responsibility of its performance in the field.
OVH or Online.net alone can get you that much bandwidth with a dedicated server and for less money. Use one to serve US users and the other one to serve EU users. CDNs are not a zero-sum game, you will always have users downloading "from across the globe" or over slow connections.
Actually, Google is quoting the official rate.. but the official rate is basically impossible to convert at. You'd need to convert at the black market rate, which is supposedly about 8,000 north korean Won to $1. If it's actually priced in North Korean Won, that would make it $12? I think we're missing something.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/02/05/north-korean-e...

https://www.nknews.org/2015/04/north-korea-the-most-expensiv...
> The result of a free market is that the better products will always win out.

Just two words, capital costs, suffice to throw that entire line of thought to the ground.
That's exactly the type of iterative improvement I'm talking about.

It's like building a really good workshop. Ideally everything is exactly where it needs to be, and in the exact order you might need it.

Another example is: my electronics assembly dreamcart (that I haven't gotten to build yet):

-18-24ga stranded wire in at least 3 different colors on spools above the worktable

-Soldering iron

-Oscilloscope

-Power supply

-Multimeter

-Strippers/side cutters [1]

-Crimpers

-Crimps/ferrules

-Network switch/ethernet cables

All of this stuff on a cart that is on casters, with a UPS that can power it so if I need to move away from an outlet I can.

I didn't figure out exactly the tools I wanted and how I wanted them arranged on my first project, but over time I figured out the exact tools I want, and where in my workspace I want them, so that I have to spend as little time as possible looking for things, or thinking about where they might be.

I think seeing the little improvements people have made is really cool. Like the bolts. It's cool because maybe the didn't figure it out on the first time.

[1]: I particularly like this one because it puts the strippers and the side cutters in the same hand, which is just closer to my optimal dream-shop/workflow: https://www.amazon.com/DA76070-KLENK-Wire-Cutter-Stripper-Sm...
> A $20 VPS comes with 3TB outbound

You can get $40 servers with 30TB outbound.
Lets be cautious here and not jump into any quick conclusions. Investigation on the 2013 gas attack and who was behind it is still murky at best.

Theodore Postol of MIT analyzed the rocket trajectory and put a lot of doubt on the the location firing the rockets [0]

There is also reports that, Obama's Director of National Intelligence at the time, James Clapper came to the conclusion the gas attack did not come from the Syrian regime [1]

"Obama's Director of National Intelligence at the time, James Clapper, was able to dissuade Obama from ordering a cruise missile strike, according to a newly-published book by Mideast expert Michael Lüders. Presumably, a deciding factor was an analysis of the chemical weapons used in Ghouta, conducted by a British military lab, which found the gas to be of a different composition than the Syrian army possessed."

There are also reports of the ISIS using chemical in Syria [2]

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1006...

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/is-assad-to-blame-for-the-chemical-weap...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/middleeast/isis-che...
I think he is familiar. The "you can't do" comment really means "you can't do with good performance."
Typical C code would not run fast on a GPU. Indirect data (pointer chasing) has /extreme/ latency penalty!
Why is it that farmers don't have a right to modify and fix equipment that they purchased in 2017 because some software they didn't ask to be installed on their equipment prevents them from doing what they've been able to do for generations?

Up until a few years ago, farmers used to be able to buy farm equipment with the understanding that they could fix it whenever issues arose and didn't need a gatekeeper to come fix their hardware.
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How hard do you think it would be to add SAML/OAUTH2 authentication?
Many policies are literally convincing poor families that it is in their best interests to help support the frail legacy of billionaires. How!?

In the US, poor people don't see themselves as poor. They see themselves as not-yet-rich (or, at least, not-yet-middle-class). Therefore people oppose taxes on "the rich" because they think that those taxes might one-day affect them, even if that expectation is unrealistic in the extreme.
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Does anybody here ate there? I'd like to know personal opinions about the food.
Can confirm it's usually proprietary and locked. An old roommate is employed by an implement manufacturer--his sole job is traveling the western united states, making housecalls to upload newer versions of control software to equipment. They absolutely DO NOT trust the owners to do it themselves.

This has pretty frightening implications for the state of consumer goods, if industrial goods are already going this direction.
It's not that big of a computation even at 4 collisions, but yes, I'm familiar with the math (I wrote the PDF).
I suspect the main reason is that it makes economic sense to most farmers to keep buying the tractors, despite the gatekeeper.

Sucks, but there you go. If they managed (as a group) not to buy the tractors, the gatekeeper would go away.
The abstraction and data layout cost penalties are extremely different in a GPU than on a general purpose CPU.
I think one issue is that interviews are often confused about whether they are checking credentials or checking for fit. That is, are they looking for people who will thrive in the environment, or are they checking that someone has the skills they say.

Google's interviews may well boil down to "prove you're smart enough to work here at this smart company with smart people like me. "

Other examples:

"Oversell yourself so you pressure yourself into high standards and thus end up working late often out of guilt"

"The job is easy but with a lot of specific untransferable domain knowleedge. Prove that you're a company man. "

"Most of us aren't sure what we are doing, but there's value in our companies general direction. Can you seek out help and thrive in such unknown conditions?"

These simplifications are actually for the most part "good" and is actually reflective of how the manager sees the world. Google is unique in that the direct manager doesn't have as much control, but the manager spirit is a belief in giving smart people freedom.

That gets you in, but your immediate manager may end up not believing in this. Michael O Churches story comes to mind. In some cases, the manager having no say in the process is bad as there isn't a good fit.

A manager who believes in treating people like slaves and people who want to be treated like slaves for a specified amount of money is actually a good fit. Someone who wants to be a cog but is given freedom is paralyzed by indecision and vice versa, the person is stifled.

It's hard to see this in the US because there's a strong bias for the free/smart paradigm and all companies have to outwardly present this shared value. In china though "i'm just a code monkey" is said a lot because despite having little to no say in hours worked or project assigned, software pays much mich hogher than other jobs. It's a deal they accept because there aren't any better ones. Or more specifically, because there are too many other people who will take the deal.

Only when a majority of people demand a base standard of life can you prevent a race to the bottom inflicted by employees themselves.

The key is to see through the game that companies arr required to play (at least in the us) and track down the exact team you want to be a part of, figure out the actual culture (having a taxonomy beforehand is useful) and then deciding if it's for you. (Given your BATNAs)

Because of this game, all marketing about being great places to work is BS because thats the ONLY thing they can say. I say mostly because the marketing is a result of a real cultural shift in realizing how to effectively manage knowledge workers.

So silicon valley does in fact have a more progressive attitude to management styles unlike the east coast which is more about play books, but it's fsr far less than what you would think. The majority of managers still subconsciously reject new team managment styles, and shitty interviews are a result of having preferred filters but NEEDING to dress them up in all sorts of covolution.
Among the most successful cars were those with straightforward replacement parts, a defacto standard, and reasonably well documented and available maintenance manuals.

Tesla wants control over this, by literally renting the maintenance manual, and remotely disabling the car if repairs or parts aren't authorized. I don't expect the model 3 market will appreciate this business model. It will be a much more price sensitive market compared to the early models which has been relatively inelastic for repairs and resale.

Consider the x86 computer market, if every component had signed firmware, and the main system verified this signature in case of component replacement, and would fail to function at all if signature verification failed. What a pain...

Consider voting machines, proprietary hardware, expensive to design, maintain, audit, and go obsolete in as few as 1/2 dozen uses. Compare that to pencil and paper.

The older I get the more Darth Vader I become: "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." (Let's say the Force is common sense in this metaphor.)
Don't take this the wrong way, but the anecdotes of people who didn't make it through "the gauntlet" are quite likely to be biased. Those of people who did make it are as well.

This is not data.
>Now it seems to me that the companies that sell these tractors have decided to pursue a model by which their software is more or less SaSS (providing encrypted updates over the air).

Did you read the article? It doesn't say anything about hacking any SaSS at all. Or about " encrypted updates over the air"... so where in the world are you getting this from?

This is a right to repair issue, as the first part of your statement talks about. This is farmers in the feild, and gasketA broke, now either they have the right to modify their own software (that exist on their systems, not on a server somewhere, so not SaSS), or they have to pay a JD contractor to come out, and lose all that daylight in the meantime.

>Why is it that these farmers believe they have a right to modify that software?

Because, farmers of all people have traditionally been supporters of the free software movement before the free software movement even exist... in the form that farmers have exercised the second software freedom

"The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this."

and see no reason they should have to stop now just because some corporation wants more money. In the past instead of software it was justy a pair of pliers and a welder.

The real question is, seeing how to fundamentally misunderstand and misstate the issue, how is it that you think they shouldn't be able to modify their software?

Following this horrible line of thought, what abuse does it not allow? What's next; "You may not weld that axle because it contains our proprietary metal blend and we own the patent on the method for repairing it and we also own the patent on the filler-rod needed "? The mind boggles at the mental gymnastics.
>because some software they didn't ask to be installed on their equipment

Are you sure about this?

From the article:

today's tractors are high-tech machines that can steer themselves by GPS, you also need a software key — to fix the programs that make a tractor run properly

So - its not the same as the tractors they purchased a few years ago.

Maybe they didn't buy the tractor specifically for those features or maybe you can't even buy a tractor today without those features, but they probably knew what they were getting into before they bought it. Its not a great situation for farmers who don't want those extra bells and whistles but it is what it is.
I fully agree, and that's exactly what I am doing -- even if an offer from another company ends up only being a leverage to force a raise in my current company (see below for clarification). However, I am taking it slow and I am patient (even though NOT being able to randomly go to the cinema or a restaurant with my girlfriend is getting on the nerves of both of us lately; money is tight and I'm very unhappy with my current compensation) because I don't want to replace one problem with the same problem in another company. So I am picky, I am clear in my requirements, I don't accept terms I know will make me hate the job, and I am perfecting my negotiating skills during this entire process.

CLARIFICATION on the leverage remark: it's my opinion that 99% of the time leveraging an offer from another company that wants to give you more money, to make your old company give you more money, is a huge mistake. Most businessmen HATE being strong-armed, or, to use a milder language, hate being shown that their employees have power over them, and this makes them hate you even if they very much need you in a business sense. They end up actively looking for a way to get rid of you, even if it costs them more money and/or stress in the long-term. I've witnessed it.

SOURCE: 4 of my stupider younger acquantainces from 7-12 years in the past. And an observation from my first job. After I "strong-armed" my first employer to double my then pretty measly salary, he went on a hunt to replace me (even though it took him around a year to really do it), but I was smart enough to detect the signs and resigned long before he had the chance. No regrets.
Well what do you expect?

Patch releases are for bug fixes. If you can't handle any change in behavior, including a bug fix, then you shouldn't be upgrading.

I understand the problem, and kudos to Postresql for figuring out a solution, but railing on glibc for fixing bugs in patch releases makes about as much sense as breeding raccoon families to chuck into people's cars.
This is super off-topic, but it is possible to bypass the 'residential gateway', if you have the fiber to ethernet gateway (possibly on the outside of your house), and then the separate gateway inside that turns ethernet into ethernet. You basically need to bridge the 802.1x authentication packets, and then you can do whatever.
I'm pretty sure Java's feature is that it has java.lang.NullPointerException
I hope people on Hacker news doesn't get duped by all the toxic people dismissing BU and promoting Core. The facts are that r/Bitcoin and bitcointalk.org, both owned by theymos and a handful of other people, are paid by Blockstream to censor any dissident opinions. About the ongoing censorship, have a look to this article [1], which is a compilation of facts, it's very depressing. Up to a point where a second subreddit /r/btc full of banned people have almost half of the active user of /r/bitcoin, despite its relative young age.

Bitcoin core also organize troll campaigns [2], push for a radical, unwanted change of Bitcoin with SegWit, coordinate attack on nodes when a vulnerability is discovered [3], and spread FUD everyday, sometimes technical nonsens like this very non-issue that is ASICBOOST. Those people work fulltime to stole bitcoin from the community, thanks to the huge bank account of Blockstream, the company behind all this shit show.

At least this proove that Bitcoin rely on a very solid basis, because despite having 75 million in bank, blockstream opted to corrupt core developpers and community managers instead of competing for hashrate. But still, the situation is pretty bad right now.

[1]: https://news.bitcoin.com/brief-history-censorship-bitcoin/

[2]: http://telegra.ph/Inside-the-Dragons-Den-Bitcoin-Cores-Troll...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5zgefe/this_was_an_orc...
I'm assuming a budget provider like OVH or online.net to get to the $300-$400 a month already. I suppose, yes, you could instruct users to pick from a North American or EU set of urls.
I'm glad. Graffiti is a big net negative.
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> Wouldn't you know up front when you're choosing a stack whether they meet your compliance demands?

No, not always. Good luck with the refactor (complete rebuild?) when the time comes.
It's always a good laugh to see the mental acrobatics that Bloomberg columnists will undergo in order to maintain the Party Line. She literally links to a dubious study of 34 rhesus monkeys[1] to justify her insanity. I can imagine the cognitive dissonance going on, though: imagine spending decades of you're life defending capitalism and "creative destruction" in all its glory only to have the whole country (left and right) turn against you.

The reality is that these sorts of economic migrations are not new. The whole point is that the market produces winners and losers. But now the wrong people are losing so people like Mcardle are forced to wring their hands and make pseudo-evolutionary nonsense arguments and appeal to identity politics (which are now suddenly okay because it's the right people whose identity is at risk.) It just goes a long way to show how empty these people are. Now, when their entire model is most at risk, they point to rhesus monkeys and claim they don't know what "Plan B" is.

[1] I don't use the word "dubious" lightly. The study draws fantastically broad conclusions from a very limited data set. This is not okay because it opens the door for people like Mcardle to come along and really abuse the science to fit their crackpot agenda.
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How did you make the animation?
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this looks like china 50 years ago.
"I suppose, yes, you could instruct users to pick from a North American or EU set of urls."

No, you instruct your DNS to point to one location for EU users and another location for US users, urls don't change.
As a resident of Oakland CA, easily one of the graffiti capitals of the world, my take on this is a pretty simple one. Super aggressive buffing campaigns by the city.

Businesses on Broadway in Oakland will actually be fined if they don't paint over new graffiti in a timely matter. When a writer knows he will be buffed over within days if not hours he will probably look for more low key spots that will last longer and actually be seen by peers.

Anecdotally it also seems like there are way more legal walls around town now. Spots where businesses pay the better street artists to do big murals that less established writers won't write over.