skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're thinking too small if you think this is just about self protection.

> "No. The goal of [North Korean] nuclear armament is not mere security from U.S. attack, which conventional weaponry trained on Seoul has preserved since 1953—and through far greater crises than George W. Bush’s little “axis of evil” remark in 2002. As every North Korean knows, the whole point of the military-first policy is “final victory,” or the unification of the peninsula under North Korean rule. Many foreign observers refuse to believe this, on the grounds that Kim Jong-un could not possibly want a nuclear war. They’re missing the whole point.

North Korea needs the capability to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons in order to pressure both adversaries into signing peace treaties. This is the only grand bargain it has ever wanted. It has already made clear that a treaty with the South would require ending its ban on pro-North political agitation. The treaty with Washington would require the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the peninsula. The next step, as Pyongyang has often explained, would be some form of the North–South confederation it has advocated since 1960. One would have to be very naïve not to know what would happen next. As Kim Il-Sung told his Bulgarian counterpart Todor Zhivkov in 1973, “If they listen to us, and a confederation is established, South Korea will be done with.”"

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogatio...
Doesn't advancing nuclear programme mean even more sanctions = less money?
I remember reading something here on HN. I'm paraphrasing:

Contracts aren't there for when things are going smoothly, they are there to save your ass when things go wrong.
Almost the exact same timeline. I 'deleted' my account in 2010. My wife showed me my activated profile earlier this year.

I logged in again and re-deleted it. But I somehow doubt it's actually gone.
Thanks! This is great advice.
The ME won't turn into something like this. The US heavily influences, finances and arms the ME, so there aren't any leaders who need to pursue this type of tactic.

Additionally, Marshall plans won't help the ME at all. I'm going to leave it there. You can look up the reasons why it won't work.
Not really. Nukes prevent you from being invaded, they won't magically make everyone give you everything.
That's why I developed a lightweight native client for Slack, Skype and others:

https://eul.im

It's only 4 MB and handles tens of thousands of Slack messages in one chat without lag.
They are building the New Silk Road [1]. This is part of the reason South China Sea is so hot, 2/3rd of world trade goes through there. Also the reason we haphazardly threw together the TPP which was not as generous to trading partners as China's deal which includes tons of investment to partner countries.

We in the US have to get better at remembering how we helped re-build countries after WWII, we need to understand that economics wins all wars again. We need to get the authoritarians out of power that don't believe that. China gets it all too well. Extremism is rooted out when people have comfort from a good economy.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/16/528611924/f...
Will do, thanks for the recommendations.
I don't think you understand.

I am not cutting myself off from one side of mainstream news. I am cutting myself off completely.

I have no idea what is happening with Trump or North Korea. I am vaguely aware there was a flood in Texas.

The subreddits I subscribe to are special interest subs that have nothing to do with mainstream news or opinions, and are relevant and assist real world activities I do.

I only read local news that could actually be relevant to me, like a new restaurant opening up in town, or special interest sites like HN that feed my professional interest in technology and programming.

I have old been cold turkey for about 6 weeks, but I hope to get to the point where I have no knowledge of whatever "big stories" (or small) the MSM is occupied with.

My basic philosophy is that the main/only thing important in life is achieving my personal goals, and the only stuff worth knowing about is things that can directly affect that outcome.

I'm looking forward to walking in to work one day and see everyone's ashen face turn to surprise at my apparent indifference to some big "world event". Talk to me when life changes in my 50km real world bubble.
Korea has something like this too. Any citizen can pay a small fee to get a digital verification cert, which contains a private-public key pair and a digital authentication signature from a trusted authority, who has been vetted by a nationwide system. Alternatively, one can sign up for a bank account and get a cert for free. This is used to login to online banking stuff, government business (taxes etc) and online activity.

Fun thing is that the trust tree terminates at the government or via a trust web made by the banks. The reason for this is that when they were making the system, the academics and government officials had a bit of a disagreement and made two systems.

Korean crypto is pretty crazy. Read about XEED and the decade long battle with MS ActiveX.
The issue is when a developer forgets to do so. No reason to not escape it.
Sad news all over industry. Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years. Solaris killed. Thankfully zfs continues living trough FreeBSD. MariaDB is forked at the last moment. Some of my work depends on VirtualBox.

Quote from American Gods:
“A single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky! They get a choice, of course! OF COURSE! But they are buying salsa.”
What rule was it again that allowed the US to declare war on Iraq in 2003?
Burning Man is bureaucratic because it is big. If it were smaller it could be more casual about all sorts of things. No one cares if one person poops in the wilderness. But 50,000 people doing it is rather a different matter.

That said, I'm a bit surprised that people who make a big deal about independence and thinking different put up with the bureaucracy, whether necessary or not. You'd think they would prefer smaller gatherings that don't need all that formal process.
I don't understand how that would happen.

First, North Korea can't force the U.S. to do anything, the only they can hope for is to make an invasion too expensive to consider.

Second, even if the U.S. accept (why would they?) to leave South Korea, then what? Do NK have the capability of invading SK? That would be their end.
To avoid that kind of stuff, when I deleted my account a few years back, I used an automated script to delete all my posts. Then I went through my profile and replaced all fields with empty or no fake data.

If they ever reactivate my account, there's not much left to see.

By the way, I thought quitting Facebook was going to be hard. But I haven't regretted it a second. Same thing with Whatsapp.
The mom Test
> Everyone has a smartphone yet it hasn't made them happy

Wasn't there a comedy shtick about how incredible it is to fly at 30,000 feet in a padded seat sipping a drink crossing the country, and yet complain about the flight being 5 minutes late?

I wonder how you propose society should fix that.
Two words: Tab groups.
That doesn't check out. Why would China try to push down the US dollar when the US is their largest export market? That would also damage all the effort they put in trying to devalue the yuan.
Such depression is a medical condition, not a result of capitalism.
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> Well, if you have made your account impossible for you, or anyone aside from certain employees of those companies, to access, the account is deleted.

Eh, no, that isn't the same at all.

There's 2 clear cases where this is proven:

1) In the case the company still uses profiling on your personal data in order to profit from you. (Or, if they still contact you in relation to your supposedly deleted account as pointed out by people throughout this thread.)

2) In the case of a security breach the data used for profiling (which was supposedly deleted) can be breached, shared, etc (a good way to figure out where spam comes from is using catch-all e-mail addresses something which ironically works great with Gmail).

For people in the EU, if they ask a company to delete their account, that company has to comply which includes any and all of their data. I don't know how it is for US but as a general statement I do wish our friends overseas including in the land of the free have solid laws to protect the individual citizens since I find that an integral part of a free nation.

Even from a moral PoV it makes sense (not that publicly owned companies have any sense of moral). Because in the end with a profiling service company you are the product, gaining access to a gratis service. When you decide to stop using the service, you are no longer benefiting from them; why should they benefit from you in the years to come? With security risks attached?

> Better yet, a girl you dated for the past 3 years but then broke up with could have tons of knowledge about you, and photos, and videos, but unless you're a politician, celebrity, or high-level business executive, where's the risk there?

No offence, this is very ignorant. Everyone has something to hide. Moreover, revenge porn is an example which perfectly fits your scenario. But that was done with consent at that moment; there's other complex scenarios where the cat is out of the bag like bullying videos on the school yard.

> Even just consider how Snapchat became so popular among teenagers over the last few years

And there are many ways to record the data received via Snapchat. As long as the space between device and eyes is analog, there's always going to exist one loophole there. A loophole you won't hear Snapchat about as it doesn't serve their investors/shareholders.
Keming is hard.
The US did invest heavily in rebuilding Korea after the war and in "economically winning over people and giving them more opportunity and freedoms". The portion of Korea that was and still is occupied by UN (primarily US) armed forces is now a healthy, well-educated, free and prosperous country—South Korea.

North Korea, on the other hand, is an impoverished totalitarian state that has been using the threats to demand aid for decades. It wouldn't even exist if China hadn't decided to intervene against the UN command in Korea and flood troops into the peninsula, and to this day it is the one and only country in the world China has formed an alliance with.

And your assessment is that the problem wasn't that the PRK chose communism, but instead it was the US not offering enough freedom or economic opportunity!? What about its communist allies?

I'm not a fan of all of some the US's military actions in recent decades, but if ever there was a war worth fighting since WWII, then surely the Korean War was it. You'd have a hard time finding anyone in the south wishing the communists had won the entire peninsula and that they'd become part of the PRK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#China_intervenes_.2...
It is a shame for the Solaris project, but I feel anyone who would stay with Oracle for so long knew it wasn't about the tech and all about the money.
This is wishful thinking. The whole point of software is to automate the repetitive, predictable, boring parts of any task, allowing people to focus on the more unpredictable, creative aspects of it. Software development is specially prone to go through this dynamic, since it's a task software developers know very well. Simple tasks that can be completed by "just typing" are good candidates for automation.
Emotionless chatbots are taking over customer service
The US is not withdrawing. The US did have a plan for Iraq and executed it. The plan was to take out the regime and establish a military presence and prevent a strong regime from taking the old one's place. A mess accomplishes that. The US is still surrounding Iran with operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US still operates (indirectly?) in Syria against Russia. When Gaddafi tried to circumvent the petrodollar his country was wiped out. The sanctions against North Korea continue.

The big problem for me is that all of these things have been predicted well in advance and explained in detail by the 'crazy conspiracy theorists'. One of the predictions is that North Korea is a strong candidate for initiating World War III.

The main thing I worry about now is if China really considers North Korea an ally when it comes down to it, if there is some missile launch at Japan, a US retaliation, and then China gets involved. It seems absolutely crazy but so are all of the other wars. News about China circumventing the US dollar is much more frightening for me than hearing about all of the latest North Korea threats. Because this gives China a reason to back North Korea if the US effectively blocks China's oil benchmark plans.
I agree with everything except the last sentence, at least insofar as it applies to Kim Jong-un. As you allude to yourself, he is behaving rationally if speculatively.

I'm curious as to what you think the right course of action would be in dealing with these types? Honest question, although I realise it's a minefield.
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The aliens would be missing the point of those green pieces of paper. They are a legally enforceable claim on future work.
If we're actually keeping data, then that'd be a shock to me.

So, why not just state in the terms of service that data is actually erased within N days/months after deletion? One could always list exceptions (such as business listings).

Either Google cannot really guarantee that the data is deleted (due to its storage system); Google wants to reserve the right to retain some data in the future; or it is actually retaining some data. Otherwise, there is no point in putting this in your ToS. All three reasons are pretty worrisome.

Also, what you say is provably false in a more general sense. Google retains all kinds of analytics/tracking data of internet users that you cannot have removed. When you visit a site with Google ads or analytics, Google is keeping data on you.
And I have seen him post for a while. I'm going to assume he's busy.
Instead of using Promise.all, wouldn't an approach like this work?

const a = taskA();
const b = taskB();
const c = taskC();

const result = [await a, await b, await c];
I get Facebook but why did you ditch WhatsApp? If you don't get bogged down in groups it's just a slight upgrade on SMS no?
I've seen a number of mathematicians take umbrage at the idea of describing statisticians as mathematicians, or even applied mathematicians.
None of the countries have a technology that can reliably stop a modern ICBM, let alone 7000 warheads simultaneously that Russia has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missile#Current...
There is a drop in filter holder that takes 52mm filters designed to screw on to the front of lenses.
I believe `await` is sequential in the scope. `Promise.all` would be truly parallel.

edit: just checked and your version is indeed parallel. Interesting.
The objective function for humans seems to be "Perfect the Human Soul" which can have conflicting optima in different contexts. Obviously no other mammal optimizes for it, either.
See any slice of human culture or human activity ever for reference. Thanks for putting this slideshow together.
Not only that, but there is also something morally very questionable about making promises and don't giving a sh*t about whether you'll be able to deliver or not.

This a wrong attitude in its moral and legal aspects, and I think it tells us something about the very worrying ethical aspects of today's (or maybe it was always like that) startup environment.
There are two primary purposes for a contract:

1. Laying out legal remedies in cases of breach of contract

2. As a formalized negotiation tool to make sure both parties are on the same page

People focus on #1 but overwhelmingly, the utility for a contract comes from #2. In cases where business deals go sour, actual malice is a far trailing cause to misunderstanding and contract negotiations are a best faith effort to avoid this as much as possible.
You're not wrong. The failure of the West to honour its agreement with Ukraine is a serious impediment to future disarmament.
My chime on why MP doesn't work in ME is simply because no one really asked US to come. The never-ending ethnic conflicts cannot be resolved by Marshall Plan. MP worked in WW2 because the entire Europe was buried in ashes, everyone hated the Nazi, everyone was in the same boat, everyone's life was at stake, so the only thing people wanted right post-war was to rebuild life, and nothing more (but of course soon countries split part...)

ME today? Unless, for example, you can tell Sunni and Shi to STFU and just love each other as Islam teaches them (sorry for the Shi and Sunni folks here), then expect no change. The same goes to Israel and Palestine, China and Tibet, China and Japanese over some stupid islands (for controlling the sea and oil). Stop this BS, and move on...
New industry comes along and their tycoons take the seats from the older. That seems to be a truism as old as capitalism. So this one half of the basis of the article I feel is obvious. About the other half, Mozorov is right, everyone has turned on SV. But it's not just that... technology in general has become the boogie-man-under-the-bed for the left in the same way that gay marriage is for the right ("my children can't think without their phones" "phone use fires of the same thing in the brain as sex and drugs").
There has been some modeling work that suggests an India-Pakistan exchange, let alone the US throwing down, would alter the climate enough to have far reaching impacts the world over.

"Destroy" doesn't necessarily have to mean "Glass"
Every major Linux distro uses systemd. I know its opponents are vocal but a bunch of us are silently enjoying the simplicity of .service files and systemd timers.
Yeah, there were a few highly-publicized cases of bike vandalism in Singapore but thankfully it seems to be subsiding. I'm actually seeing a lot more bikes from multiple bike-sharing companies around my neighbourhood these days. It's definitely catching on.
The only pressure unfortunately that I know of is the most massive, deadly, and technologically advanced military the world has ever seen. I worry that since supposedly North Korea is nominally an ally of China, all of these North Korea nuclear/atomic weapon headlines are aimed towards an eventual trigger for World War III. They will say its about an evil dictator and a bomb or something, but really it will be about the petro dollar and global power.
Europe v Facebook
Good point.

Perhaps the Chinese feel secure their transition into a consumer economy is on good footing. I've noticed my China stocks go up 50% in the last month or two. Confidence is way up.
You're forgetting that people who want to use the features older versions had but not anymore are likely the same people who have been using Firefox for a long time. These are the same people who drive Firefox adoption by being experienced long-time users giving advice to the young'uns. If you lose that core user base, you'll lose the rest of 80 million to Google/Microsoft ads in no time.
Erik is just trying to position himself as the only one in Germany who knows something about typography...

Just bullshit talk imho, as the FE Schrift does exactly what it´s supposed to.
I'm hoping GDPR will help get ALL my data removed. [1]

[1]: Right to be forgotten: http://www.eugdpr.org/key-changes.html
Not defending Oracle here, however I have learned working all these years in the context of Fortune 500 company cultures, that they are not alone.

The way Oracle as company behaves, is quite common in that universe.

I will miss having Solaris around.
I also doubt they'd come or be invited, but if they did, they would be protected by the Vienna Convention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/convention...). The US could break that, but not without serious consequences for their own leaders and diplomats abroad.

Could the ICC issue an arrest warrant? Yes (https://academic.oup.com/jicj/article-abstract/7/2/315/90220...) if only the US was a participant in the ICC.
My Version of “TDD Is Design, Not About Testing”
Ironically a lot of Ignition is about experimentation rather than modeling - while they could predict the energy of a reaction, all sorts of other vital properties like detonation resistance had to be found out empirically.
You're probably right, but the tongue-in-cheek tone of the article implies that the author knows this as well.
Sun used to sell Toshiba laptops with Solaris x86 pre-installed.
This is not just about self protection or about blackmailing to keep the regime going. The end game for North Korea has been and always will be the reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogatio...

This has been North Korea's policy since going back to 1960 under Kim Il Sung. No discussion of what is going on right now as far as NKorea's motivations is complete without mentioning this. Everyone knows what happens to SKorea when the US pulls the trigger on NKorea. People need to start thinking of the ramifications of the US signing a peace treaty and exiting the Korean Peninsula. The status quo of us kicking the can down the line is coming to an end. It's time for people to stop thinking NKorea doesn't have an endgame.
> MariaDB is forked at the last moment.

What is this about?
The problem is that the ios app store (not sure about play) does not offer a paid upgrade option.

It is unrealistic to expect developers to toil away, improving software each year, using new platform features, all for no incremental income from existing users.

I'm an app developer with a relatively successful app who spends about 1 minute every 6 months thinking about upgrading the app. No money, no honey.
South Korea is a great example of how a country can prosper friendly to the US.

Japan, Germany (and much of Europe), Philippines, many others, they may have had conflicts with the US but after we helped enemies become friends. It is easy to win over the side that is already friendly, we need to economically turn the non-friendlies into friendlies.

Around the time of the Korean war, we also recently moved from #16 military in the world before WWII to arguably #1. With this our economic plans turned more harsh in the following conflicts, we thought we could win with harsher ultimatums rather than just getting money to the people in the state we are trying to win over. Eisenhower even warned about this and he saw everything from WWII through Korea, a complex was emerging, the military-industrial complex, that in some cases preferred conflict to extend chaos over actual war ending nation building.

We stopped nation building for the side that we needed to win over, not just the friendlies. We essentially turned into the strict parent instead of the one that makes a good time for everyone and lives life for quality.

Yes China is complicit in this, they also fought the other side in Vietnam but the whole of Vietnam is now friendly to the US and economically it is benefitting finally. A divided Korea helps China and is a buffer. They need to be called out on it and much of the turn for North Korea has to come from China but we can encourage that.

We should have worked harder at getting North Korea on our side much much earlier, 60+ years of division is not the solution.