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> a system that will lead to unexpected bottlenecks when you parallelize

This is a funny comment. You are implying that performance is of higher value than correctness. Speed without correctness is dangerous, and leads to significant bugs, especially when you're talking about concurrent modification of state across threads.

I'll take correct and need to improve performance over incorrect and fast where the cost of tracking down incorrect concurrent code is so extremely high, let alone dangerous for actual data being stored.
As much as I hate the NK regime I have to agree with this. If I were on the USA's shit list I'd be trying to become nuclear capable as quickly as possible to prevent "regime change".
I really don't think Kim gives a shit what happens. He is probably literally living a kilometre under ground in a palace with as much food and women and luxury as he wants.

He wants the big one - the war - and he doesn't care what happens to his people or anyone else.

Kim is the head of a brainwashed cult of "Dear Leader" and his actions are not rational.
Given the DPRK's secrecy, there's always tealeaf-reading involved in any interpretation of its behaviour. Many DPRK-watchers do suggest that the neocon drive to regime change in general, and the 2011 Libyan intervention in particular, cemented its determination to gain a credible nuclear deterrent.

If the US had a normal President, this might be rational enough. As things stand, we're a whisker away from a war which will incinerate millions, kill the world economy stone dead for decades, and prevent all progress on the many critical issues facing our dying planet.
Great article, the psychology of time is really a fascinating aspect of UX design, and besides Apple, ignored by most companies.
The point is that NK gov't is trying to ensure that they have a seat at the table, and so far, all evidence they have points to the fact that having nuclear weapons gives them a seat to negotiate.
> Everyone turning ther A/C on is actually making the planet hotter.

That's bull. I won't have absolutely any effect on the planet if I run my AC 24/7 for all my life. The scales are way too different. You are free to do what you want but please spare me the sanctimonious baloney.

BTW, how do you get to the sea - I bet it's in a car and not on the back of a unicorn? At least most people do. Same as they get to air-conditioned malls (whose AC would probably be consuming energy couple of orders of magnitude more than that home AC) and other places. As I said, it's your choice how to deal with it but please, less posturing.
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Is this the original title of the submission or did it get changed?
The US did get a bunch out of those deals: military bases across the globe and the related political influence.

For example, several European states house US nuclear weapons. [1] Japan serves as an outpost against China and North Korea. [2] "Currently South Korean forces would fall under United States control should the war resume. This war time control is planned to revert to South Korea in 2020." [3]

And Vietnam? The south was lead by a series of military governments during the war, which the US was apparently willing to accept. Sure, they pressured for elections, but in the meantime, fighting Communism was more important. [4]

I wouldn't call the US an empire, but they're not exactly a selfless force of protection either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93United_States_re...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea%E2%80%93United_Sta...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam#1963.E2.80.9373
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They do have people manually re-balancing the stations (I've seen them loading up a trailer with dozens of bikes around 2nd and Brannan). How often they do the re-balancing right now, however, that I don't know.
I think the idea with Flow is you just have JSDoc type annotations, so you get strong typing without transpiration.
They aim to change that with their new project called Liam: https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Liam_white_paper_Sept2...

It's a robot that can take apart and iPhone and separate its components for recycling.
> But for some reason, I seldom meet hackers who understand the fun in doing stuff from scratch.

Go visit your local hackerspace :).

That said, it's probably because in tech, there's much more vertical space for one to pick their definition of "from scratch" from. You go low, to assembly level, but you don't fab your own chips :).
It would be true if it was his father. The Nuke program was always a bluff to get more economic aid. For Un? We don't know...we do know he has attempted to purge those critical of him in his own inner circle.

Unfortunately, I don't think our leader is that sane either.
There is no need for them to use nuclear power to attack SK. Conventional shelling would immediately kill over a million people in Seoul at any point. One of the reasons nobody can touch them right now. (And historically while we knew they're continuing the nuclear tests / missile research)

So it is probably for display and power at this point. Being dangerous to Japan and SK is only slightly worse than just SK.
North Korea is supported by China. Without China's support, North Korea government will not be able to get all the technologies, parts, and fuels it need to survive. It will have collapsed.

We (US) and the world support China by allowing manufacturing to be migrated to China, an authoritarian government which has horrific track record of censorship, human rights abuse, pollution, etc.

We need to stop, and punish China
I honestly don't believe he actually wants nuclear war - but he wants to perceived as someone who has, and is willing to use, nuclear weapons. History here is simple - no country that has nuclear weapons has ever been invaded. They will sanction North Korea, call it out on international forum - but no one will actually attack a country willing to launch nukes at US/SK. If US one day decides they had enough of the posturing and attacks NK - that's 100% on them.
Kim is becoming less sure of his grandpa's defence treaty with China.

Yet, NK is a Chinese proxy state. All what it did to harm SK and Japan goes on in total synchronicity with political climate in Beijing
Always assume the worst reason someone is doing something. It might work in Game of Thrones. It is unlikely to be the best way to do world politics.

Other reasons:

+ Kim Jong-un needs to stay in power and look strong to his people.

+ Kim needs negotiation material to lift sanctions.

+ Kim feels threatened by Trump and plays defense as best as he can: playing the nuclear display card.

+ Kim is controlled/manipulated by (foreign) actors we don't know.

Etcetera.
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I wonder why they chose monospace. Wouldn't a proportional font be more tamper-resistant?
Well, I can't be sure about what the entire company is doing, but I've had an awful lot of code dealing with properly deleting accounts cross my inbox.

If we're actually keeping data, then that'd be a shock to me.
If this is so obvious, why don't any of the people who know the DPRK well think this is what's going on? The majority of them believe the purpose is deterrence. Literally no-one outside of blogs and newspaper comment sections believes its intention is war. What information do you have that they don't?
Humans survived without dental care, anesthetics, antibiotics, regular bathing, deodorants, vaccination, pasteurization, etc. for most of their existence. At least some humans. Now, people are free to get as close to the stone age as they like, but I like my civilization, thank you very much. When my teeth hurt, I don't bash them with a stone and don't drink boar's urine, I go to the dentist, where she fixes my problems under anesthesia. When it's too hot, I turn on AC. Yes, it is a luxury, as most of our civilization is. And I love it.
> This is a funny comment.

Funny would be an understatement.
Encrypted, yes. It's so you can sync to other browsers.
I know for a fact that they've built some utter shite IoT hardware as well. Can't give details, but it's a sensor that gives data which can be used to detect early on the failure of a GE $very_expensive_machine. One of our clients bought hundreds of sensors, and after two years only ~30% of the sensors are providing sensible data. The rest are suffering from constant power failures, or just showing constant data, or even measurements decreasing with time (which is not physically possible).
> In Paris, if you leave the bike in Montmartre (high hill) they give more time in your hide.

This incentive seems to have little to no effect. Bike stations on top of the Paris hills (Montmartre, Belleville, Pantheon, ..) are almost always completely empty.

It's not a huge issue in Paris as the city is mostly flat and you can walk down the hills within 5 minutes usually, finding a bike. The same system would fail miserably in a in a predominantly hilly city such as SF.
Yeah, because Fallout style life would be great every one would want to live rest of his life underground
yup, matryx is a truly unfortunate name given the subject matter :(
> From what I understand, the definition of a transpiler is one which almost exclusively performs syntax-syntax transforms, and doesn't delve into the semantics with e.g. dataflow or control flow.

A counter example to this is the typescript compiler which some might describe as a transpiler. It does sophisticated control flow analysis to, for example, make sure all branches of an if statement return the same type.
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They're also heavily supported by Russia.
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It is impossible. China and US are so integrated into each other, that it's like trying to stop and punish your liver.
Same applies in the opposite way.
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It's nice Peter Thiel found a new hobby other than testing hepatitis treatments in low income countries that is illegal in the US. Even though this is a scam and as many other people pointed out, something anyone can do, it's actually one of the less shady things Peter Thiel has done. Good job Peter. Way to be somewhat less shady.
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Well, it depends on how it's installed, the power, the model etc. Built-in central air models, especially combined with heating, can run pretty pricey. If it's a big house and it's a new model, with all regulation-required energy-saving features, it's a five-figure territory. Of course, if you need to cool only one room, you can get small second-hand one for much cheaper.
US has already been punishing Russia via sanctions
I find it amusing when scientists spend years of research validating some common knowledge.

I wish they titled the article 'mid-life crisis: it's a thing!'
Really interesting slides, would love to see a talk or a more in depth write up!
That's not true; manufacturing has been moving out of China slowly, it just needs to speed up. And US can source from other SE Asia countries.

There's no other big consumer country like US to buy all the stuff from China.
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china, didn't support in nuclear it is Russian. You need to ask yourself such as question: what are opportunity for Chine, if we NK launched on SK, or Japan? Also need to understand Chine have traded with Japan and SK instead of Russian. Also NK could to use Nuclear only in Japan Sea and Yellow Sea, But it is a trade way with SK.
Historically most attempts to engineer society through force of law have had disastrous side effects, and have led to some of the most deadly atrocities in history. Communism is all about engineering society.

The Great Leap forward is probably the most intense example of this. The Five Year Plans of the USSR are another. The one child policy, prohibition, the war on drugs.

All of these policies go against human nature and while they are all at least somewhat effective at achieving their aims, they all have had massive terrible side effects. We are just not very good at predicting the outcomes when we try to engineer society and we should be very careful about its application, and probably we should attempt to not do it when possible. The natural state of man is capitalism, it predates recorded history.
It's a bit more complicated than that. May I recommend Mr Lindley-French strategy blog?
> (I don't think IRC lets you use italics or underlines so caps would be the only way to go).

Well, /actually/ it _is_ possibly to use other tricks than ASCII to emphasize words you think are important in IRC. Or _any_other_text_medium_.

(Note that ASCII is printed as italic by HN, since I typed <asterisk>ASCII<asterisk>)
I learned Scheme in my first semester of computer science (in Germany). Back then, I thought "What's this garbage? I want to program a game or a webapp, not some obscure stuff in a language I never heard of".

I can appreciate the idea of teaching functional programming only after I graduated, but for starters, it seems too far away from what the industry, magazines and people talk about. That might be a reason why it's not taught at many schools.
I think there's a cultural thing going on here - in many places people are paid to sweep the streets so the city doesn't put out public trash cans ... people aren't being 'dirty' here, they just put their trash in different places

(and yes I find it hard to throw stuff on the ground too, I hold on to it in China, I'm socialised that way)
Yep, I wrote a container system similar to docker (also in perl) and had to make sure I had signal handlers setup properly for PID 1 so that weird things didn't happen when it execs to another process or fails during that. Not too difficult to do, but if you're doing docker then dumb-init is probably the better option than adding some boiler plate to everything you're going to make.
The goal of this system is too make faking license plates using a bit of black tape hard/impossible. So I have some trouble getting the point of Erik Spiekermann's comment.
License plate recognition would be harder if they used a proportional font.
Yes but that would leave clear evidence you tampered. Will be an interesting conversation with the cop explaining why your plate is sawed apart.
I didn't realise that road was so nearly finished. Should be open by end of this year.

That's 3750 km (2400 miles) by road from Vancouver BC to the Arctic Ocean. Longer than Melbourne to Perth across Australia.
Don't underestimate selling shoes or something at "web scale" - this is what Amazon does ;)
It was funny to me to read about the people at fifty, at the peak of their carrier and with teenagers in their house. I am 36 and have both. The first one is debatable, but the second one is 15 years old. :) I hope it'll get better from now on.
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China has enemies around it with India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and so on. And it hates Japan with a passion. If it can get rid of even one country without blood on its sword, it might.
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Which war? The one with NK, or the one with Russia?
Ukraine's invasion also encouraged countries to get nuclear armed, Ukraine gave their nuclear weapons in exchange for US/UK guaranties which proved to be worthless, another Obama legacy, a pussy of a president.
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It would be nice to have a VCS that could work on the native MPS data structures.

Text is probably the next biggest mistake in programmer productivity after null.
We'll just have to learn to live with it. American exceptionalism is a farce.
This has been escalating for decades.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/...

I imagine that in the 21st century it’ll be easier for many more to build nuclear weapons.
I've had domains registered for over 20 years already, much longer than gmail has existed.

You can renew a domain for ten years in advance and easily transfer between registrars (and email providers, I use Fastmail), so it's a lot more reliable for the (very) long term than a third-party service.
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Sorry you are being downvoted. But what you write is the perspective of North Korea. And within some underlying assumptions it is perfectly relational.

Nrk is spending massive amounts on military but probably is losing to South Korea. Nuclear weapons offers nrk a way out of being outspent.

The west accepted Pakistan as a nuclear power; my guess is that we will accept nrk as well.
China isn't going away even if the US stops buying its trinkets from them.
Yeah pretty much.

It might be helpful to make a distinction between cryptocurrencies (some popular ones being Bitcoin and Ethereum) and tokens (Augur being one) which operate predominantly through Ethereum smart contracts. (Disclaimer: I own some of each of these, but I mention these ones specifically because I think they bring some innovation and are better examples than most of the ideal purpose and decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies/tokens. There's a lot of contenders in this space which are unsound and really only exist as an item to speculate on.)

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin need some way of verifying the valid transaction history and generally solve this through proof-of-work mining. In order to incentivize people to mine and to solve the problem of distributing amounts to users, the system is built so mining generates currency for the miners. Generally there is no privileged party in the system with the special power to mint arbitrary amounts as they wish. (Some like Ethereum did do an ICO-style sale at the beginning to raise money and to jumpstart getting Ether into people's hands. Generally I've thought this type of thing has been pretty scammy as a lot of innovation-less pump-and-dump altcoins have done this kind of thing and it's not exactly decentralized, but Ethereum has actually delivered on some technical innovation so I'm a bit conflicted.)

Tokens are systems implemented on pre-existing cryptocurriencies for tracking arbitrary limited units that can be exchanged and traded like a cryptocurrency. They rely on the infrastructure of the cryptocurrency they're implemented upon. So a token implemented on Ethereum smart contracts doesn't need to be mined; it's just important that Ethereum continues to be mined, and also transactions involving the token generally require small amounts of Ethereum to pay for transaction fees. The idea of most popular tokens is that they can or will be used to interact with a decentralized system made of Ethereum smart contracts. For example, there are various popular tokens intended to be used as the currency for decentralized prediction markets (a fancier type of betting site basically that lets you do things buy/sell out of your positions).

Tokens don't need specific mining in order to verify their transaction history, so for getting tokens into user's hands, the old solution (mining rewards) doesn't work. So I guess that gave an excuse for lots of token developers into doing ICOs / initial limited sales. At least a lot of these tokens nowadays have more of a plan that involves becoming a decentralized system and bringing innovation than run-of-the-mill pump-and-dump altcoins in the past. Though it's to be seen how many end up being vaporware and how many actually take off.
> We need to stop, and punish China

Really ? This might sound like an anti-us rant, but the US has enough weapons to destroy the planet several times over and has a history of using them and invading foreign countries.

I would like to see the fall of NK, but seriously you cannot blame the Chinese for supporting NK in the past and mainly for one reason. That reason is that NK is the buffer zone between China and the 30,000 US troops stationed in SK. Heck what about the 40,000+ troops stationed in Japan.

NK was a pain in the rear end until G W Bush made them a target with the axis of evil thing. The US and international sanctions against NK, all this while trying and some cases disposing leaders in other countries like Libya and Syria.

But if you want to punish China, just send Trump to build a new golf course there.
It seems pretty straight forward to me - Un needs nuclear weapons to ensure NK remains an independent state that can defend itself.

> we do know he has attempted to purge those critical of him in his own inner circle.

Similarly, when your hold on power isn't through any kind of legitimacy except a fading family legacy you need to be strong and eliminate the competition.

He's not insane, he's just playing a very brutal game with higher stakes than you or I will know in our lifetimes.
The OA links to an article about dockless bike sharing in Manchester UK [1]. Quote from the Manchester article

"On launch day, the Chinese designer told me the bikes were basically indestructible and should last four years without maintenance. It took a matter of hours before local scallies worked out how to disable the GPS trackers and smash off the back wheel locks."

Truly "the street finds its own uses for things". The kids are hacking the bikes for fun and display of prowess which is normal-ish behaviour for adolescents. These objects suddenly arrived in the world, so the local teenagers decided to explore this new and interesting crop.

The OA mentions New York city authorities sending cease and desist letters to a dock-less bike sharing company in the city. I'm hardly surprised, the pavements need active management at the best of times.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/16/manche...
I know about history japan and Chine. But today they have a trade market with $23.36 billion

http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/article/statistic/lanmubb/ASEAN...
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I think the key words are "reentrant function" which in the context means atomic, pure functions. He didn't say something about OO, like DI or multiple inheritance in a some clean way, or something about classes or structs. This is more FP than not. By far.
I occasionally drive up by Point Reyes in California, and on the weekends, Highway 1 near there is a popular cycling route—packs of Lycra-clad cyclists along a narrow 2-lane, winding road with hills on one side and a short cliff to the ocean on the other. You definitely have to be careful passing them, but given that the news is not routinely filled with headlines of "another cyclist plowed down on Hwy 1", I'd disagree with your assessment that you'd have to be crazy to do it.
I'm playing on the fantasy that Bitcoin or similar could ever be a predominant means of value exchange or storage. It's a fantasy many hold.
> Because criticizing capitalism is like criticizing gravity. It objectively works

> Saying capitalism doesn't work is the economic equivalent of being a flat earther.

This is such an incorrect framing of the problem. Saying capitalism doesn't work is like saying a hammer doesn't work. Over course it works according to it's nature - however in our situation we really need to unscrew a screw. Hammering on it is going to continuously get negative results.

An even more accurate analogy would be using a flathead when we need a philips...
Well as long as the Government doesn't bail out, then someone assumes the risk, and along the way there are write-downs, and the purchaser of the debt now holds the basket and assumes the old risk. So basically I'm saying "as long as government doesn't bail out".
I wonder how plausible a decapitation strike would be. The Chinese apparently had a coup lined up until Kim killed his uncle. Would the US and China be able to assassinate Kim and install a pliant regime from the existing elites in exchange for economic and security guarantees? Assassination of foreign leaders is an extreme step that is rightly shunned, but it might be the best of a host of really bad options.