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Not for at least 20+ years.

His son is about to achieve one of the last great overt dictatorships in the world.

I bet everything he is going to want to taste that power for a long time before he actually does something aggressive.

That is not to say he doesnt press his luck, make a strategic failure and gets attacked (e.g. not accepting a rothschild-backed central bank)
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Kim Il Sung was his father.

Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un is the annotated successor, though will be a puppet for a while, if he survives the next few days and weeks.
"However, it only takes a day or two here to realize that people enjoy a ton of freedom (I see protests all the time, and haven't seen anyone pepper sprayed or arrested yet)."

It won't be like this forever. I think the autonomous government deadline is 50 years. When this happens, it won't be as "free" as it is now.

This is also only if the Chinese government doesn't go back on their word.

If you truly want a free country, go to Taiwan. Taipei is just as vibrant as HK.
Agreed, the tone and community here provide interesting discussion and insights on the really big turning points such as these. Comparably on reddit there is a lot of chaff to work through to get to the interesting kernels.
A mixture of scenarios two and three have long been considered the most likely by many "informed" (a relative term for NK) observers.
> Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un is the annotated successor

I'm pretty sure you meant "anointed" there.
2011 certainly is a disastrous year for Terrorists and Dictators around the world :)
Saddam Hussein: dead at 69.
Gaddafi: dead at 69.
Kim Jong-Il: dead at 69.

How did Fidel Castro get out of this?
I believe you meant to say "...he wont press his luck"
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> Sounds like something the special forces could do in a few weeks, it just has to be a surprise so the military doesn't get a chance to respond.

Right, because surprising nutjobs with nukes is a great idea.
Maybe the joke what he heard was about his cause of death. I am South Korean and there are many joking tweets about it. It's not really usual expression in South. But after I read the comment below about the chinese trope, understood why they announced like that...
Yes, "anointed", typed too fast & forgot to re-read. :-(

Thanks for the note.
Well, beyond that you have the fact that in order to maintain the kind of control that the regime maintains, they need isolation. This means that they do things to get isolated, so that the North Koreans get only one side of things.

As US News and World Report once commented, threatening the North Korean government with isolation was like threatening a drowning man with a life preserver.....
As much as I despise SOPA, and realize this is little more than an wealth transfer to the entertainment industry from the internet industry, I will acknowledge that DNS blocking is actually a pretty efficient way to stop your average person from accessing web sites.

Remember - SOPA is not designed to stop piracy - there are hundreds (thousands) of mechanisms for file sharing that your average government policy will have no impact on. What it will do, is make it burdensome for 99% of the non-nerd population.

As long as the 99% are impacted, the entertainment industry really don't care about that final 1% trading files to their hearts galore. This isn't about principal - it's pure economics.
Research is something everyone stresses, but it is something I struggle with and I would really like to see more advice on it. Advice on parsing the data I get rather than more data.

Now I've gotten into the habit of only looking at directors statements on their annual reports when I need to research a company. I get so little from the rest of their website, I can spend hours and not understand anything more than the names of their products/services. I have the distinct impression that coding teaches me to only believe what is stated, whereas parsing marketing text is all about reading the lines, which I am terrible at.
The media was wide awake during the Iraq war-mongering. They were the primary supporters of the war. War is good for business. They are war-profiteers.
I find this comparison offensive and juvenile.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead
This is only a major issue if you are in the US. Here in Australia, as well as in Canada & most of Western Europe, universal health care is a lot closer to reality.

Perhaps that's part of the reason why more than half the people at Sydney's weekly meetup group for startups (Silicon Beach) seem to be well over 30.
Cache associativity isn't necessarily the only problem. Also possibly relevant, from http://drdobbs.com/184405848 (Mike Abrash):

"The other cause of erratic performance—and by far the worst—was 64K aliasing. On most Pentium 4s, if two data items in the L1 cache are at the same address modulo 64K, then a massive slowdown often occurs. Intel's documentation explains this by saying that the instruction that accesses the second piece of 64K-aliasing data has to wait until the first piece is written from the cache, which is to say until the first instruction is completely finished. As you might expect, this can wreak havoc with out-of-order processing. It was 64K aliasing that caused the aforementioned four-times slowdown in our large-triangle drawing benchmark.

"The truly insidious thing about 64K aliasing is that it is very hard to reliably eliminate it. Sure, it helps to avoid obvious problems. For example, pixel buffers and 32-bit z buffers are accessed at the same intrabuffer offsets for any given pixel, so if they encounter 64K aliasing at all, it will happen constantly; to avoid this, Pixomatic makes sure the two buffers never start at the same address modulo 64K (and also not at the same address modulo 4K, to avoid cache contention). But time after time, we've tweaked our data to get rid of 64K aliasing, only to have it pop up again a few days later after more changes were made. About all you can do is run VTune periodically to see if the number of 64K-aliasing events has spiked and, if it has, start backing out changes to figure out what variables or buffers need to be tweaked so they're not 64K aligned.

"On newer Pentium 4s, 64K aliasing changes to 1M aliasing, and in the most recent versions to 4M aliasing, which should reduce the problem considerably. Older Pentium 4s that have 64K aliasing also have 1M aliasing, which introduces an additional penalty on top of the cost of 64K aliasing, so beware of 1M aliasing even more than 64K.

"By the way, on Pentium 4s that have 1M aliasing but not 64K aliasing, the aliasing event counter still fires on 64K-aliasing events, even though they don't affect performance on those chips, so VTune will report incorrect results in such cases. On newer P4s that only have 4M aliasing, VTune will correctly report only 4M-aliasing events."
I received another letter from the white house. I am going to say it now. whitehouse.gov is BS. It is complete and utter bs. You are lucky if an intern looks at it, probably just a pre-canned response to any media whatever. All these petitions say is "bla bla bla write me some bs"

We need a better methodology.
The OP's script can be refactored to half a line of JS. Not exactly HN worthy.
Excellent way of putting it.
SUPER great news. Thanks all for the hard work on this. The developers are doing an amazing job. I'm head deep in CS 10+ hours a day right now working on my startup and I can't imagine what life would be like without it.
Look at the tables on caniuse.com. The only browser to which it compares favorably is Safari 3 (from 4 years ago) and all other versions of IE.
This might look like a good idea, but you need to include the energy costs from building all those tiny robots. Fixing them when they break down. Building a strong enough roof to hold them, 6 inches of topsoil and your crop. Irrigation and fertilizer and pesticides for that crop. Storage space for that crop for the better part of a year including some form of climate control to minimize spoilage etc etc.

Honestly, sectioning off the mid west and transporting the food to you by trains is actually a much better idea. You can still use robots but you get to use really big and cheap ones that do a simple job and get regular maintenance by people that know what their doing. You can also minimize the contamination from air pollution etc.

PS: Moving 2 weeks supply of food around the world by boat can easily take less energy than driving to a 5 miles to the super market to pick it up. If you want to be as environmentally friendly as possible, move to a big city and become a vegetarian. Living in the countryside feels more natural but it's much much worse for the planet.
Ha, I wasn't being a grump...these kinds of problems are An important party of the evidence in showing thre practicality and usefulness of code. I love it.

I mostly wanted to see who else remembered that particular Waldo puzzle...it was the final one in one of the books
Would you like to have a hacker community having smart conversations about Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, too?
Climate in Cuba is way nicer than any of the other places.
I would agree. In fact, I have a huge amount of ideas floating around too, and have been running my own business for some time (and now looking at finally dramatically expanding it).

I am 36, and figure I will never have a shortage of ideas. It's finding the time and people to make sure I can implement them which is hard.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead, state media reports
I'm patiently waiting for the submissions about Angelina Jolie.
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Angeline Jolie wants to be the new leader of N.Korea
This is definitely one of the reasons for online petitions. I doubt that's why Whitehouse.gov exists.
just thought that HN is ready for the news about Angeline Jolie.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/1219/1224...

Sopat?
I'm curious, what counts as leaving HK? A quick hop on the ferry to Macao or do you have to go further like Taipei or Hanoi?
here it comes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3368478
Kim Jong-Il Dies
Something tells me the North Korean Generals aren't about to take orders from a 20 year old.
This needs to be an augmented reality mobile app. The problem on the AI side of things is that a good algorithm that reliably "learns" what Waldo looks like would need a substantial number of examples.

A good solution to this would get close, then calculate the probabilities of every "maybe-waldo" and then display the one with the highest probability of being Waldo. An augmented reality app that highlighted Waldo on every page would be awesome.
Business finance, actually. Not many individuals generate P&Ls, balance sheets or cashflow reports (though in principle nothings stops this from happening).
I have a friend doing long term AI research in the HK area and he talks it up so positively that I have considered going there for 4 or 5 months to live and work on my own projects. Does the Cyberport rent inexpensive shared office space suitable for one person to have a nice work environment? I work out of a home office in Arizona, and have a great working environment but living for 4 or 5 months in a foreign country probably means a small apartment so I don't think that I would want to work at "home."

BTW, my wife really likes Hong Kong (we were there 15 months ago) so this would be an easy sell for me to talk her into it.
The article is about corporate finance, I don't know about you but I'm not disciplined enough to maintain income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements for my personal life.
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I grew up in Cairns, a small city in far north Queensland. When it came time to go to uni, a huge subset of our year shifted to Brisbane (those looking on - Brisbane is Queensland's capital city and has far better tertiary education available than the rest of the state). After uni, it seems everyone is shifting to Sydney/Melbourne.

This simply shows people will aggregate toward where opportunity pre-exists.
Were the president of North Korea and Paris Hilton friends? No?
I was going to say the same thing regarding this app. I love cooking but I absolutely hate figuring out what to make for dinner to the point where I sometimes avoid making anything beyond pasta. Something that makes the decision for me is appealing.

So there you go: the target audience has grown by one.
I disagree. The younger population is far more technical than the current older population. Granted I live in a tech-y city (Seattle), and a lot of my friends are "internet savvy," but everyone I know that is under 35 torrents stuff. Simply making it harder to get to web sites will not stop "non-techy people" from pirating. Napster seemed to do really well and it didn't NEED DNS.
That's a simplistic view of matters. My relation to my employer is not quite so atomistic.

I carry enough savings to get by for a few weeks if they go broke or tire of my lame puns; but for many people certainty is worth money. That's why lots of folks prefer steady paycheques to high hourly rates or equity.
overkill, too.
It wasn't the multiple cores that allowed AMD to steal market share from Intel. It was the original Athlon chips around the turn of the century. They were the first chips that ran at a lower clock speed but produced far superior benchmark numbers in just about any benchmark. Combine that with the much higher prices that Intel charged for inferior products and AMD had a great run until Intel ditched the Pentium 4 line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon

Dual core chips came along much later.
Think rubber banding, part of the fun for the player is thinking they have a chance. Either by splitting up the players into leagues based skill levels (star craft 2), or fudge the game slightly (or significantly in mario kart's case)
I m surprised no one mentions vibrant Vietnam with its endless tropical beaches, amazing food, fast internet at nearly all coffee shops and friendly people. The population is young, cost of living is still low and many big tech companies have shops here (Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel,etc) Plus it is a breeze getting a visa.
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Not likely. Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law was generally understood/guessed to be the one holding the reins of power in 2008 when Kim was ill then and will likely take firmer control again, even if its from behind the scenes, using Kim Jong Un as a figurehead for perhaps a decade. This is similar to what happened when Kim took over in 1994 after his father's death.

There isn't sufficient command & control capability or maneuverability for the NK military to take swift control of the country or perhaps even the capital, if the party apparatus (cadre, spies, police, informants) doesn't stand in its way.
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Anyhow, here's the link
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If the bill passes, would people band together and try and invoke the bill on the very people that wanted it in?

Like the government website, record labels, etc, on the very frivolous grounds they are trying to ignore right now to get it approved.

I wonder how quickly it would be changed then?
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This is a great idea. Anywhere user content is allowed, start spamming copyrighted material. Turn comment sections on whitehouse.gov into the next Pirate Bay.
That's why I said it's "decent enough" and not "best". Even as a developer who have had problems with IE before, I can say people find that IE9 is real good. It's the opinion from my extended circle and not anyway scientific. They don't know what HTML is for a fact.
No, No, No, No, No.

Assets = Liabilities + Share holder's equity

That is true from an accounting standpoint but does not tell you what a business is worth.

Here are the 2 easiest approaches for "non finance people"

1) Value at a future date of selling the business divided by perceived risk.

Steps:
A) figure out what the perceived absolute maximum value your business is worth in 5 years.
B) determine the perceived percentage chance of that happening
C) multiple by that percentage.
D) discount by risk free rate (this will be over many, many people's heads, but it is the risk free rate because the "risk" is built in to the percentage)
E) that is the max value.

* Improve the perceived future value or the perceived percentage chance of success or decrease the estimated risk free rate and you will increase your current value dramatically.

2) Use an NPV model to determine the value of your business. This is not a good way to go for VC funding
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Before you post, check the "new" page first. It takes just seconds to notice that a headline has been (over)posted 10 times already, and it should be obvious that we don't need to see it yet again. The repetition only makes it harder to find unique new stories.

Then there's the question of relevance. A story can be "important" and still not be "hacker news". Post things that are relevant to this site; anything that's better covered on a general news site doesn't belong.
Interesting has there been any research done into this application. I have friends who have a little bit and just fall asleep (am not sure the effect on myself as I can't smoke and no one has ever offered me a hash cookie/brownie).
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> Company valuation is a complex subject that I won't attempt to cover here. Suffice it to say that the information on the balance sheet is an important part of determining the value of a company, but it is only a small part.
That's funny, I misread it as "Finance for <i>Greeks</i> -- which might also be a useful, if short[1], article.

[1] In entirety: "See Iceland".
I wasn't talking about the comparison, just that the post clearly was clearly referring to the bad old versions rather than the new, more compliant IE.

But while we're on the topic, jokes are often meant to be logically absurd but ring sort of true. For a lot of developers, IE has had more of a direct, negative impact on them than all of those dictators combined, so it kind of feels right, even if it shouldn't. You shouldn't take it so seriously. People getting offended by jokes is offensive to me, because it makes for a more humorless world.
Have you ever uninstalled an app based on aesthetics?
Back in the early 90's when platform games were all the rage I was always confused as to how a platform game that looked great could get a bad score in the magazines I read. For example the SNES game Blues Brothers looked better than a lot of other platformers and it sounded like it had similar mechanics to Mario Bros. So how could it possibly get a low score? I think this article might be the answer to that question.
It created too many divergent paths for developers to follow. One of the great strengths of the flash runtime was how much easier it was to write something that would run in any browser, all with one clear API and one set of ui components that were easily extensible. Flex introduced far too many component sets and encouraged the creation of overwrought java-like frameworks. Eventually even js started looking better in comparison. The only reason they even did that was because they got greedy. They had a decent enough IDE with the flash authoring tool (although it needed additional support and features for pure actionscript developers), but they decided to throw their weight behind flex instead. Of course, flex was totally unusable for designers, and mxml was a godawful pile of shit, so they created catalyst to allow collaboration between designers and devs. Now you've got three different tools all targeting the same runtime, and they all suck. So now if you're just getting into programming for the flash runtime, you have to sort through all kinds of garbage to find what you're looking for, pretty much the same (if not worse) as scrounging around for js tutorials/documentation.
I agree with you, but here's my core problem.

My gameplay involves 32 human players playing against each other in football for a title that only one can win. Each season takes a month.

That's 32 shades of grey, with 31 of those shades being losses.

How do you rubber band that? I'm about to build a facebook app for our game, and I'm trying to brain storm solutions to this problem.

The only answer I have so far is make 32 team leagues, with 16 fairly inept CPU players. But not indicate they are CPUs, so that humans believe they are beating 31 other humans, even though the reality is they are beating 15.

This cuts my problem by a lot, but adds overhead, and removes a lot of the challenge.