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The article reminds of my story. I left 5 years ago. I'd written everything from 3d games to accounting & stock market analysis. Couldn't wait to get out.

I now write for me, and for friends. For free. Some of it could even turn very lucrative, if I felt inclined -- which I don't.
I'm living off savings mainly, but occasionally do a bit of manual labour -- and am happier for it.
According to the article, an ADA partitioning scheme (ravenscar) enforces this option.
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I thought the point of fibre was that it was low noise ...

EDIT There's a good discussion of what you're talking about here [0]

Upon further reading, there's a such thing as an all optical regenerator which would appear to provide the best of both worlds, though there's nothing here about how widely these are used [1]

[0] http://www.rfwireless-world.com/Terminology/Optical-Repeater...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamyshev_2R_regenerator
I don’t know what it’s phor(for)
Those are quite old concepts - I would imagine any patent to have expired by now.

They are also available in almost all embedded/rtos ecosystems.
Is Net neutrality going to be the next "Russian hackers" which gets shoe horned in to and blamed for everything?
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Everything is easy when you are one person caring for your own software. That's not a problem that needs solving.
I love this article. Years ago I tried to find the formulas on my own and implement them in my own Complex function visualizator but failed :(
I have to retry !

Someone who succeeded : http://2008.sub.blue/projects/droste.html
Interesting thought: A market for flawed tech/designs.

Consider a product that, part-way through development a fatal flaw was discovered. Perhaps, a company can insure itself with a deal whereby if such a flaw is found, the tech design will be bought out at a reasonable price.

The insurer then makes use of the design by ... setting up a company based in China manufacturing that product. Over time, China steals poor designs and cripples its reputation..
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Non-macOS user here on a random laptop: when I type Fn+<some key> and that key doesn't have a special function that can be invoked using the Fn key, the result is the same as not holding the Fn key.

If the behaviour of the Fn key were inversed (i.e. keys with special functions perform that function unless the Fn key is held down), I would still expect regular keys to work normally no matter where on the keyboard they are. The F# keys aren't special.
It was really funny back then when you could easily perform it (basically a MitM attack), today it's not feasible any more thanks to widespread https adoption ([1] scroll down to "https encryption by chrome platform", 60-80% depending on platform).

[1]: https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview
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sure, but the rudeness could be much stronger, too, so this doesn't appear malicious.
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I take it you don't use them in key combinations then. Ctrl+Home, stuff like that.
Considering it recently told Britain its HK agreement was not to be honored.. I don't know why China is trusted at all..
I spent a month exploring the country Guinea last year and absolutely loved it. Extremely friendly people, amazing landscapes and by far the best hiking in West Africa. Tons of waterfalls that make your jaw drop, tons of culture and extremely cheap. I loved that country!

Since Ebola virtually no tourists go there, and Lonely Planet does not even cover it due to "a general lack of interest" ! HA. They could not be more wrong.

Stories and photos: http://theroadchoseme.com/category/guinea
Just came to say that Tom Friedman is a hack and this op-ed reads like a paid commercial. To call a top-down authoritarian power grab "Arab Spring" is mind boggling.
There is no such simple point.

Astrid Lindgren continued to live in Sweden even when her marginal tax rate was 102%.

On the other hand, some people leave to avoid paying taxes even if they do not have a high income.

The NYT article you pointed to tells me that the marginal tax rate should be quite high for those making, say, 10x minimum wage. Otherwise there is too much concentration of power. It's much easier to pander [] to the rich, simply because they are few and influential, at the expense of the poor whose voting power is great but diffuse.

([] I use "pander" as the opposite of your "target". I also use "pander" to describe when a government offers tax breaks for Wal-Mart or other large companies to come in, at the expense of unsubsidized local businesses, or in a race-to-the-bottom competition with neighboring governments.)
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While reading this thread away from my machine, I'm curious now what happens when

export default { foo: 2 };

export const foo = 3;

// other file

import { foo } from './file'

console.log(foo);

Presumably last one wins or, if the other way around, a reassignment of const error?
> For example, dynamic dispatch is as fast as a DIY dynamic dispatch in assembly?

Yes, zero cost means you could not implement it in a more efficient way by hand.

> The borrow checker, AFAIU, has a cost in that it forbids some (more efficient) shared data accesses that it can't prove safe but still are.

This is not what it meant with "cost" in this context.
It is zero cost because it only runs at compile time. That it rejects some valid programs is irrelevant, because it is zero cost for the programs it accepts.
All nice feature but Firefox still doesn't support hangout or bluejeans
You can define the sequence in the set ℕ∪{∞}.
That's an issue with shared hosting and cPanel. Most of those servers are configured so terribly that they'll probably mark their own outgoing email as spam if they set up their spam filter any stricter.

I don't like black holes, they're impossible to debug when something goes wrong. All email should be either rejected at the SMTP level or delivered to a mailbox (even if it's the spam folder) so there's a clear indication of what happened to it.
Being “well known” solves precisely zero of the things which causes software projects to fail.

Being seen as a “low-risk-high-return investment” attracts developers, but only until it stops delivering that promise.

That said, my claim is that most will fail, not that all will fail. You may think that’s weasel words, but I will not accept a currency that even has a 10% chance of failing in 15 years (and if you think that’s harsh, imagine being a bank and taking a 10% risk of default on a relatively short 15 year mortgage), and judging by both http://deadcoins.com (looks like 600 entries, I stopped counting at 200) and the Wikipedia claim that there are over 1172 currencies, that risk is much, much higher than 10%.
Are the generated animations "stable"?

I mean that in the same sense as [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15766249
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Well, unsafe Rust does tend to look like this. You were claiming that it is only for interfacing with C code, but unsafe is also used for performance, as in the snippet above. You were IMHO incorrectly dismissing the parent comment based on that. (On the other hand, the code in question could probably rewritten in safe Rust while still avoiding the bound checks. It would be less straight forward though.)
> They are doing a superb job of giving the impression they have little control over money leaving the country.

Well, the US tries to promote the ability of Americans to engage in foreign investment, because foreign investment is a great way to suck money out of a country. If I buy a countries companies, then all the profit from that country goes to me. It's actually in China's interest to have "money leaving the country". And it is more in China's interest to have no one fight back.
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> The beauty of language is that we can be imprecise and still be understood.

And the terrifying thing about language is that we can still strive to be precise and yet (perhaps even unknowingly) be wildly misunderstood...perhaps malevolently. I've heard someone describe programming as telling a very precise story to a very stupid human. However, I think it would be better to describe a compiler as a more humble listener. One who is willing to say "I'm sorry, you just told me to multiply a string, and I think I'm misunderstanding you." Thinking of compiler errors as an expression of humility can explain the comfort one finds in a stronger type system.

It is the same comfort one finds by not speaking publicly on twitter but speaking to a person who has the charity to say "huh? I think you just said this thing that sounds wildly offensive, and I think I'm misunderstanding you."
Skype does: Start your message with `!! ` (without the back ticks).
This makes sense. The human body consists of many biological control systems, and if few of them are out of order, then the human will become ill. So add an artificial control system and you might have a fix.

However, as humans evolve, we may become dependent on this type of technology. That's what worries me. On the other hand, patents will expire within one or two generations.
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No, you use optical amplifiers for long haul fiber.
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This does not have to be "either-or". As we see an increased focus on teamwork this could evolve into a shared (electronic) team logbook.
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I have no idea about China or Chinese economy but your whole comment consists of serious-looking references accompanied by "behind the doors" gossips. All your comment makes me doubt regular Economist/NY doom-saying about Chinese economy. Do you have trustable independent references for the below claims?

* Selectively enforcing their laws to the detriment

* Extorting international companies into "joint" ventures

* "Treats" (as an insider told me) every several months.

* Hearsay that I've heard from several different sources
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The original effect is how it's supposed to look and how it would have looked on an old computer with 1-bit graphics.

If there is an option to choose between the different effects, I would personally go with the first one, because that's exactly how I remember old games looking.
After Ghost in the Shell i don't watch remakes in cinema. I'll watch it when it comes to Netflix.
I don't see how this will change the game when physical infrastructure is the control point. Anything that happens in the application space would be subject to the control of whitelists of IPs. Even 3rd party proxies would be powerless.
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You wouldn't be able to make another sale in the future. For a one time thing, absolutely though.
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The PR damage to the company would be much greater due to people speculating a worst case scenario. Followed up by the fact people wouldn't care anymore when the investigation is finished.
Rare might not refer to the painting itself.

For example, if an artist had most of their work destroyed, any remaining paintings would be a rare painting by that artist.

Or if a historically significant figure had only been painted by a small number of people, any painting of that person could be described as rare.

It's probably fake anyway!
Yes, many professional politicians in Washington are dedicated public servants doing their best under difficult pressures. They additionally are supported by a large staff of career professionals who are largely there because they believe in the mission. Unfortunately leadership of one of the two major political parties has been working to trash basic democratic norms and public institutions, with members of that party under duress from some of their reprehensible donors.

US education is deteriorating rapidly in places where undermining it and breaking it down has been prioritized by a handful of billionaire political donors, for example recently in Kansas and Wisconsin.

The most important first step toward fixing such problems is to pull the unaccountable, unlimited, anonymous money out of politics, and replace it with proper campaign finance regulations. Next we can try to guarantee every citizen the franchise, make our voting process saner and more auditable, and work on reducing computer-driven gerrymandering.
The logical endpoint of the "you don't really own your smartphone/notebook/computer/IoT-device/etc" thread running through much of HN discussion:

> One challenge with stimulating areas of the brain associated with mood, he says, is the possibility of ... extreme happiness

Extreme happiness you'd be able to feel if you were in control of your "own" implants which in turn are in control of your "own" brain.

Needless to say, you wouldn't be.
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Might as well auto generate a header for the file...

function lb() {
today=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')
fp="/home/you/logbook/${today}.md"
if [ ! -f $fp ]; then
echo "# ${today}" > $fp
fi
vim $fp
}
I've done this with a notebook for a long time and it is indeed helpful, especially if I didn't get enough sleep the night before or didn't start my day with a run and I find myself more distractable.
I won't go into details of why you're wrong, but let's just say random posters with unknowable credentials shouldn't comment on geopolitical or economic affairs of a foreign country.
There are various levels of intelligence in repeaters/regenerators in order to balance the additional gained noise margin with added latency. Simplest repeaters only do optical-electrical conversion to binary signal and then back to optical signal, more complex ones also do realigning of edges and only minority of the infrastructure actually decodes and understands the protocols involved.

Most of the design of optical networks traces back to 90's telco requirements and not to computer networking and during that time telcos were extremely sensitive to latency (the idea being that when the latency of the digital part of the network is smaller than some limit the analog-digital transition can be done by somewhat cheaper hardware). The funky interleaved SDH/SONET frame formats are motivated by ability to implement muldexes that introduce less than entire frame (ie. 125us) of latency.
I really really want my message here to be clear. I do not support this nonsense but I would love for people to start very successful businesses in their own respective countries.

One, I am tired of the notion you have to be in a coastal city to be successful (SF, LA, Seattle etc).

Two, as a tech industry we need a wake up call that a tremendous amount of talent comes from foreign workers and we should be more thankful of this.

Three, further competitive wages. I believe that the visas hurt the competitive market for tech talent. Yes, at the expense of foreign talent this will happen. It’s shitty, and I’m really sorry that it will take a tweeting fool of a POTUS encouraging xenophobic behavior to have this happen.

Fourth, I think as a country we have to understand the real economic pain experienced when we no longer have access to overseas talent.

Again, I hope my post doesn’t come off wrong but it can be hard to post on this subject without pissing people off.

There will be shorter term benefits to US workers but ideally this has some economic pain to US Tech companies and we open our borders to overseas tech talent with a more friendly visa program and improved wages.
Take a single issue we, as outside observers, know Uber is wrestling with... saaaaay ongoing litigation about self-driving cars, or internal sexual harassment and cultural issues, or national legal campaigns that threaten their business... two months is veeery little time to get a good handle on them.

And that's not even considering the time a CEO needs just to take a single meeting with relevant internal stakeholders and leaders, and get their outlook settings dialed in.
> This is literally the third line of the article: "We have been notified by the Ministry of Public Security that a number of voice over internet protocol apps do not comply with local law. Therefore these apps have been removed from the app store in China."

Meanwhile, we moved the discussion from a narrower issue of the article to a wider issue of sideloading in general.

> You said you can't side-load apps and that's the proof that you can. This is how companies deploy apps that are not on the App Store. And this has nothing to do with grandparents, it's two separate things. I remain unconvinced that it's easier to sideload an app from dubious sources than downloading from a sanctioned App Store.

You still can't in general. Only in very specific, narrow situations, blessed by Apple. Your feelings about ease of side loading vs. app store are irrelevant, as we are talking about running software that Apple for various reasons might not approve of.

> In practice, the closest to this idealized model is actually iOS

In practice, you can run only things that Apple approves. Not good enough.
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Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky

> when a person began failing or slowing at a set task ... they were able to reverse it

Vernor Vinge anticipated this treatment and called it "focus".
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Surprising to me is seeing that some of the papers cited here were published in the mid-90s. That's 5 or 10 years before when I would've guessed.

Makes me think of Ada Lovelace and how awesome the mind can be when grappling with the abstract (though I'm sure non-quantum computers were still some help here to researchers for fiddling with quantum algorithms).
As another person said it's just "semantics" so it's going to be legal.

They can't pretend that you checked the "I agree to the terms of service ..." checkbox just yet.

So technically they can't "make you a member" against your will they are just bringing you very close to becoming one.
Is the internet network infrastructure not owned by corporations, and isn't this giving them the freedom to do with their asserts as they see fit?
>"The government has been actively extorting international companies into "joint" ventures. These ventures essentially require "treats" (as an insider told me) every several months. These treats would be manufacturing processes, engineering drawings of proprietary IP, or technical training for their engineering staff."

That sounds like something that a patriot would do. They want the knowledge for the country so they play to get it.

>"Boards of Directors can't ignore the scale of the Chinese market, but it comes at the cost of essentially giving away your business prospects [..]"

So, they want the markets but don't want to pay the price. Nobody is forcing them to go to China.

>"many Chinese investors are desperate to get their money into foreign investments"

Sure, they did well and now they want out, human nature. Unfortunately, capital controls is what China economy needs if they want to keep growing. Without capital controls the growth of the last 20 years would not be possible.

Even without special insight, I'm sure that Xi and his mates want more control not less, and that there is a lot of corruption and unfairness in the country, but you shouldn't put, in the same bag, that with the policies that are the reason of the economic success of China.
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Don't know what (which program) you are referring to, I was referring to official MacOS shortcuts and the Finder [1] (Search for "Command-E")

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
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That's an interesting theory, considering this story is about someone using Bitcoin for a transaction.

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Yes, but I'm sure this will only be valid for big enough companies (read serving millions of EU citizens) as it's subjective what "processing the data of EU citizens" actually means. It's not realistic to expect every minor mom&pop eshop or minor online service worldwide to appoint a representative in the EU. Furthermore, enforcing these rules will highly depend on international relations as it's outside of EU jurisdiction and it can only reach non-EU companies by collaboration and signing treaties with other governments, so this means USA and maybe Canada, but I highly doubt to see companies from China or Russia etc. to be held accountable.
You could describe Mona Lisa as rare based on age. ~99% of existing paintings are probably younger, and ~99% of paintings painted in the same year are likely heavily degraded if not destroyed. Or even just having a vastly higher value than most things. After all few objects are worth significantly more than 100,000,000$.

Or even just "A Rare example of a great masters work." which seems perfectly reasonable to me.
The most amazing thing about SIMH is that in some form or another it dates back to the mid 1960s, and therefore literally predates UNIX by roughly a decade.
Rare in the context of art could mean one of two things. Either there are very few existing works of an artist, or a work has disappear from the market and no one knows where it's gone. It could be in a vault in a private collection and no one has seen it in public for ages (which in some cases could be centuries).
You could argue about exposure and banks that failed would have had larger impact on ordinary people than the 99.999%. But I generally agree with your comment.
Huh, that first example is comparing apples and oranges.

This is the "slow" lock-free version from there:

std::atomic<unsigned long> sum;
void do_work(size_t N, unsigned long* a) {
for (size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i) sum += a[i];
}

It atomically adds for every iteration of the loop.

This is the "fast" mutex-based version:

unsigned long sum(0); std::mutex M;
void do_work(size_t N, unsigned long* a) {
unsigned long s = 0;
for (size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i) s += a[i];
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> L(M); sum += s;
}

Here the sum is accumulated before being added to the total.

Of course the mutex-based version is faster. Try again with:

std::atomic<unsigned long> sum;
void do_work(size_t N, unsigned long* a) {
unsigned long s = 0;
for (size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i) s += a[i];
sum += s;
}
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