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I wrote an extended series on North Korean strategy that begins by explaining the current incredible stability. Until Kim Jung Il died, since 1945 a country the world disliked and actively tried to change had two (!) leaders, father and son.

It begins here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-strategy-preview

I believe a strategic systems perspective reveals why that stability is so durable, but reveals little opportunity to change it. I can tell you what won't work -- military, diplomacy, aid, and sanctions. The most effective agent of change so far is the smuggling of dvds into the country, which reveal how different the outside world from the government propaganda.

(by the way, I'm in the process of making an e-book out of it. If you're willing to read it critically and give constructive criticism, I'll send you an advance copy)
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Scala is a big experiment in functional/OOP integration and the jury's still out. If you don't need objects and the JVM, use Haskell instead: you'll learn a lot more.

Clojure has taken the lisp baton from CLisp and Scheme, if you want macros. But even without them, the underlying semantics for concurrency look promising.

If you need to run websites on the JVM, use JRuby on Rails.
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That was a great bibliography + blog about NK.
Good and interesting interview but your site's layout is horrible. 7 pages for that? It should have been 1 page. No print / single page view either.
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Ok, YOU produce more than a tiny fraction. I'm 52 and out of shape. I can ride 50 miles if you give me all day, but no way am I putting out more than 1/10 of a horsepower. And NO WAY am I putting a generator on my bike while I'm riding it!
Thanks for the heads up on that bug. Which browser/OS did you encounter it?

Bounceapp.com already does that URL thing you are talking about. I use it before I made Mocku.ps but I needed more precision i.e. tiled backgrounds, to better communicate designs to some clients.
This National Geographic episode about an eye doctor who visited North Korea shows North Korea from the inside without showing off how cool the film makers are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4
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Seeing as at least 2 of the 5 are to be blunt crap why are we even discussing this - this is as relistic as the fusion "to cheap to meter" stories they ran in the 50's FFS
The technical term for what CoffeeScript is doing — a compiler that doesn't need a global view of the program and does local source transformations — is a transpiler.
These victories all look rather like failures.
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If pay at both places would be zero - where would you rather work? Pick that answer.
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I'm not sure, why you think the value of the lambda function is thrown away. The lambda function returns a generator object. The function body of a generator is generally not executed until you call .next() on it, so that's why you don't get a NameError instantly. Also the value, that you .send() into the generator is not thrown away either. In your example the generator just runs into an exception before it goes into a state in which it would accept a .send() call. Just consider this modified example:

>>> f=lambda: (yield)
>>> gen=f()
>>> gen.next()
>>> gen.send('foobar')
'foobar'
Like I said, libnpjp2.so is a 64-bit plugin from Sun/Oracle. It's been available from Sun since Java 1.6.0_12 in 2008. It's still available in Java 1.6.0_29; I just downloaded and installed it from Oracle last week. I have not looked into support for Java 7 or operating systems besides linux.
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I thought of that too and hesitated in taking "visitthe.re" but ultimately decided against it because the URL would've been too long. I think both versions play well and are easy to remember.
Rails 2 and Rails 3 run beautifully on JRuby.

Github:FI (the locally-installed version of Github) was, for instance, a JRuby application.
White on black for me. Since a few weeks the twilight256 theme is enabled in all my editors (ST2/Vim/Textmate) and it's great with an non-font-smoothed Courier New in the terminal (Vim) as with a bigger smoothed 'Monaco' in ST2/Textmate.
I think if you studied people involved in emergencies, the people who knew about the bystander effect would be the ones who made all the difference. It's good to be prepared.
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Thanks!

Please also see http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephferris76/sets/72157627450... for stunning pictures of our trip there.

Joseph is an amazing photographer. We found by treating our guides well, we got great access (as opposed to Vice's condescension).
Take an hour a day to read some news, the articles are typically short enough that it's more "relaxation" than "work", and after a while you're caught up enough on the context to understand the significance of stories and to put on your critical thinking cap and notice agendas once in a while.
In China they prevent you to speak. In the west they let you speak as much as you want but the state ignores you and propaganda machine covers you with noise. The european powers fear the referendums like hell. If still by some miracle some bunch of guys manage to unite over some slogan or message not tolerated by the state and put pressure on the state institutions in unauthorized meetings(unauthorized by the same state - duh conflict of interests) then the police kicks in and abuse and arrest everything that moves. I don't ask you to agree and praise some other regimes, I don't ask you to go somewhere else where it's better. I just ask you to see the bullshit and the hypocrisy of the west.
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But even bigger, succesful companies can be acquired and disappear forever. I don't think its any guarantee of stability that they are charging money for service, not any more. Heck, Verizon may buy Netflix, then what?
Consider n = 1729.

Pick a = 1722.

a^[(n-1)÷2] mod n = 742

Therefore 1729 is composite.

The test seems to hold, here.
North Korea is a vassal state of the PRC, and exists because it is politically advantageous to China for them to do so.

Until recently, China hasn't liked to take a direct approach to many aspects of international affairs. So they influence countries like North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran as tools to achieve their political aims.

They aren't whole-hearted supporters of all aspects of the North Korean regime, frankly, I'd say that they don't really care about what happens in North Korea, as long as they are achieving their foreign policy goals.
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Looks like a good proof that any 'a' relatively prime to 7, 13 and 19 should pass the test. Why don't you try a=7 and see what happens?
> I didn't want anyone to know I had parents.

As anyone who is the parents of teenagers can tell you: That describes pretty much describes a large fraction of that age group.

There is a psychological growth phase which involves separation, and that is one manifestation.
I wonder how long until the JRuby vs PyPy "benchmarks" start appearing.
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To save you reaching for gunits or doing any upsetting mental arithmetic, 4000°F == 2204°C, and 3000°F == 1649°C.
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(Not really directed at you calloc)

I would love it if anyone could provide any information or studies of behavior opposite of the "bystander effect". I don't really even know what to search for. What causes people to take action in emergency situations? What separates them from the crowd?
The calculations you described are wrong. If a is a multiple of 7 (or 13 or 19), then

(a^6)^144 = (0^6)^144 = 0 mod 7.

We can confirm this (using python):

>>> (7864)%1729

742L
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Isn't there a book dedicated to coding interviews?

http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...
Yeah, in the event of actual war, there's no way they intervene as long as the North Koreans are the aggressors -- they know North Korea will lose on its own, and they don't want to get into a fight with the US. South Korea's one of their major trading partners now, too.

I think they let a US/SK operation clean up while issuing various diplomatic missives decrying the violence, then wrangle a treaty barring major military installations or exercises in northern areas of, and establishing free trade with, the reunified Korea.
6162 does sound very like my issue. I must try sticking a sleep inside the block passed to popen and see if that gets past my problem. It's not a solution as such, as the process I am calling could take anywhere from a second to many minutes to execute, but it will be interesting to try. If you manage to solve these bugs it will be a great help to me, so good luck!
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I used light on dark for a long time, but now I have a Mac with a glossy screen, and a dark background makes it really easy to see reflected objects. So I have switched to dark on light.
it's great to see people come together and help each other out in such short timeframe.

However, one thing i noticed is that the user posting this "teej" is a popular user on HN with a high karma and post count. Do you guys believe that's one of the reason this post got lots of up votes to make it to the front to get the help needed? I'm just thinking, what if someone new had posted this link? would it have gotten buried within the first hour? I sure hope not.
Touche. I shouldn't be doing math at 5:30 AM.

Still, the density of values not relatively prime to a Carmichael number is asymptotically zero, so the test is still broken.
What is the other cash cow ? :)
Your portfolio is already on the homepage. Either have it in one place or make the other one richer. The transition of the portfolio slides is too slow, makes me impatient. Also it will be neat to make it start sliding only when the user has scroll to it. Like check scrollTop on scroll event then start the slideshow.
Is it http://www.newspvr.tv ?

If so, I'd suggest you read over these blog articles.

http://conversionxl.com/

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/

Also an interesting read:
http://www.spring.org.uk/

In my honest opinion - focus on what will make you money. If you're doing community (geo-sensitive) based news, then you'll have to get advertisers from that same community.

No point in watching local news and seeing adverts from overseas companies. Approach your key players and find out if they're interested and ask local companies if they would be interested in advertising.

You'd probably have to charge the local companies for advertising and giving the news companies a cut from the profits for using their content (if they're keen).

Small scale, small profit - larger scale, larger profit.

Remember, just because it doesn't work on one street corner, doesn't mean it won't work on another - location, location, location! Good luck!
Sounds like the kind of thing that would sent Tesla running back to his lab the moment he learned of it.
So, if you love it, then go ahead? Jump in if its the only way you can enjoy your work, if you live for it? That's exactly what romanticizing means.

I think some of us are like that, and romanticizing works for us. Others are just in it for the return, and reject poetical interpretations like the parent article. It's not bad writing, really. Just doesn't resonate with everybody.
Interesting to see this. Smalltalk blew my mind coming off of a C and Java background. Everything from the development environment to dynamic variables to sparseness of syntax was just amazing to experience for the first time. It was one of the most enjoyable languages to program in, and it was poised to take over cooperate fat client programming. That was until java and the internet exploded onto the seen and pretty much killed it off. Is it poetic justice that it's revived on the JVM?
Love the fact I can switch Solarized light/dark in MacVim easily.
Black on light gray. I've notices as I've gotten older that a white background just gives me headaches.
It is http://www.muziboo.com that we have been doing for over 4 years. It has about half a million users and we make good cash from ads + pro account. Happy to answer any more questions
Hey, the beauty of great support libraries is, its a joy to build on top of them. So lots of people do.

Collaborate? Makes sense if you're doing it for a job. But for fun? A hobby? To learn? No, then you have to do it yourself, that's the whole point.

Maybe npm could organize, some kind of 'social score' for how often projects are used or how many '+'s they get or something.

But lets not discourage innovation, or hacking, or re-inventing something already solved just for the joy of it!
You're not, the person you're replying to was. I find it odd that you would object to an analogy where the signal propagates through the marbles at the speed of light (i.e. 'instantly'), and offer up instead one where each marble moves simultaneously. If the exit event is simultaneous to the entry of the other marble, they are separated by a spacelike interval despite the causal relationship between the two events. This violates relativity.

On the other hand, in the original analogy the two events are separated by a lightlike interval, which while impossible in the case of marbles, at least does not violate relativity when the two events are causally linked. This is what I meant when I said the conflation of the speed of sound and the speed of light is not such a big deal, in this case.
Or somebody who didn't turn their cellphone off while in flight?
- I interviewed at OPower way way back, 2 things: The interview process was hair brained, I was explicitly told devs were expected to work 65 hrs/wk. I've been told these things have changed since, but interesting culturally nonetheless. On the whole I did like everyone I interviewed with and what they had to say about the company.

- I live in DC, and can tell you it is a great place to be a young person with some money.

- Don't sweat the stock options. If you aren't the cofounder or employee #1-3, you should be getting paid market rates and viewing the stock options as a lottery ticket with a drawing so far in the future it is likely not to matter. I'd be willing to bet money that after 3 years you'd do better participating in the MS ESPP, if they have one.

I think the clear choice is MS, for me. More money, better resume fodder, Windows Phone would be an incredible product to work on.
I think the __name__ idiom is a wart that should be abandoned tbh. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0366/

It's a legacy of the import system and I'd rather see it go.

The non-alphanumeric argument is pretty weak though.

I don't know enough about asyncore/chat but SimpleHTTPServer is quite spot on. It's fine as a development tool, but really should be avoided in production environments.

(btw, Twisted is awesome. A comparison with Tornado only compares a small part of Twisted. Sure it was developed pre-PEP8 but it's still solid kit. Nothing quite like it on the Python market, afaik. Also the docs have gotten a lot better in recent years.)
Does anyone know why an investigation like this takes three years? I would have guessed that since the plane landed safely it would be a pretty quick diagnosis.
I'm forever looking at random objects I come across and criticizing the way they are designed. I figure that there are a lot of engineering minded folk in the world who do the same.

Yesterday I had the idea to make a website where we could get together and come up with the perfect design for everyday objects such as chopping boards, keyboards etc.

It's nearly Christmas and my head hurts from working on my real startup so I will be working on this for the next few days. I've been coding for about 9 hours in total so far. I will update my progress in this thread, a bit like a real-time weekend project.

Link: http://www.designtheperfect.com/

Github: https://github.com/dtuite/designer

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtuite
I was all about white on black until I realized that I keep being visually fatigued by flipping back and forth into a webpage that was black on white. For me, unless my entire workflow can be white on black, I stick with black on white.

Maybe it's just me but I also find black on white more legible at low brightness display settings as well.
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Did anybody else read Piers Anthony growing up? I must have gone through 20 of his Xanth books when I was younger. That was one of the reasons I wanted to be rouge adventurer with magical partners.

I got a degree in CS instead =/
I thought so too. I think that's where I got the idea from; that's why I went off and tested it, but it turns out that's not what they do anymore.
Disappointed, thought we would be expanding the Periodic Table.
Well, looking at your website I wasn't sure what to do. Your step 1 is "enter unique name for your drop" - it should be : "upload a file to share" that's the main thing.

I would make the upload file the center, take a look at ge.tt :)
I whole-heartedly agree =)

The truth is that I only built this app for fun (first version was made to return the closest bar to each tweets from a specific friend) and curiosity (Node+Twitter+FourSquare) and when it began to get "bigger", someone suggested me to use a "real" design, with a logo, a presence, etc...

I'm no designer but using Illustrator to get something quickly was a nice break from emacs. The arrow was completely inspired by the FedEx logo (though by bad memory, it ended up being a bit different) and the colors were only ran through a "can I look at it more than five minutes without my eyes burning" test. But if you want to submit a better logo, I'll gladly take it =)
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? (expt-mod-n 7 (/ (1- 1729) 2) 1729)

742
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I read somewhere years ago that a light blue background is easiest on the eyes. Any thoughts?
I generally like black text and a white background, but I also tend to use green text on a black background for some items.

For terminals at one job, I had red backgrounds for production, yellow for test, and blue for development. It kept me from being super stupid.
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is a useful one-liner to serve a directory over http. There's no good reason to have it in the standard library — mapping directories to html listings and http paths to filesystem paths is a bit idiosyncratic — but now that it's there I'm happy to use it.
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Thanks for the points. I'll continue improving and trying to popularize the service.
Read _good_ newspapers, critically. Seek out good writing of views you disagree with.

When you start asking questions the articles don't answer, shift time and attention into books in the core subject. Even the best journalism doesn't go anything like deep enough. Your understanding should reach a point where an hour a day in newspapers is like taking a long walk to train for a marathon.
Google might also benefit greatly from SOPA. One possible scenario is that millions who are used to free content(and now hate big content companies due to SOPA) will use youtube much more, especially for longer content and share much more youtube content. This will help pull content producers and advertisers into youtube , turning into a big positive feedback cycle.
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I'm reading this thread and kind of tearing my hair out.

One theoretical case where lists beat arrays is seeking to the middle (once) and inserting 1000000 items in that one spot.

If you want to test if lists can ever be useful in Ruby then you want to test the case that they are theoretically useful. Your test is a theoretical dead heat as arrays and lists both perform O(n) in it. All you learn is that arrays are faster in Ruby for the same complexity, which we knew already.
Can someone explain. It would seem like g still isn't defined. What's special about 'yield' that makes g valid?
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Thanks for the confirmation
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This is how programers deal with Kids' time-outs, make an app because they are lazy :)

My co-founder has 3 little ones.
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> How would you cope with 90% unemployment?

Special Economic Zones are the name of the game, and yeah, it'd take decades to transform the whole economy -- China's still working on it. But the standard of living can start increasing almost immediately with the combination of trade and increased aid once they stop being an international pariah.

"Screwed" is on a spectrum, and you can start moving up immediately, if slowly.
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Well put.

North Korea's military could easily be beaten -- if you don't mind possibly hundreds of thousands of South Korean and Japanese killed by their missiles. You'd win the war but lose a battle no one would consider worth losing.

You'd also have to negotiate with China first, so they know you'll stop invading well before their border. Last time the U.S. incurred too far into North Korea contributed to China entering the Korean War.

North Korea effectively holds South Korea and Japan hostage with its missiles. It acts belligerently to make credible its threats to use them.

Meanwhile, the people don't know things could be better. They aren't stupid or brainwashed. The state simply controls nearly all information entering the country. They believe they have nothing to envy from the rest of the world and that the U.S. is starving them. From their perspective they have no reason to revolt.

They have no internet or knowledge of revolutions elsewhere in the world.
It's interesting, but are bandwidth hotspots so unpredictable that one can't lay a few wires to alleviate them, without adding new hardware?
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