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This is sad. Nuclear proliferation can be a good thing (energy), but it can also be a bad thing (weapons). NK only does this to get attention from other nations and feel like they are on the same level as them. The end result is food aid to stop the nuclear development. What's really sad is the world produces enough food to feed the entire population of the world, but most of it gets thrown away. I'm willing to pay twice as much for my food if it means the rest of the world gets to eat too, but I fear most people just don't care.

The good news, if you could call it that, is that China doesn't want American troops stationed on it's south border, so they will do what they can to keep NK in line.
Yes. You can get the same approximate closed-form Fibonacci behavior in Julia with this definition:

cfib(n) = ((1+sqrt(5))^n - (1-sqrt(5))^n)/(2.0^n*sqrt(5))

julia> cfib(128)
2.5172882568355055e26

Unfortunately, this approximate value is off by 1066512995643 (~1 trillion), so it's hard to see how it would be useful. Actually, it's hard to think of good uses for computing Fibonacci numbers in general :-)
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An earthquake 1000m below the surface on Nuclear Test Road (not a joke: type the coordinates into Google Maps) which occurs after a week of nuclear test threats and has a slightly larger magnitude than the last North Korean test is unlikely to be a coincidence.
Seems like a little more than link bait: "South Korea and the US placed their forces in South Korea on alert in the wake of the rumoured blast as reports emerged that North Korea may have yesterday given the US and China advance warning of the test."

Edit - From http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/world/asia/north-korea-nuc...: "Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), said the seismic event's location was "roughly congruent with" nuclear tests carried out by North Korea in 2006 and 2009."
Eh, I think the PR2 beta program institutions ended up buying the PR2s, although probably at a discount from the sticker price of $400k. I worked in one of the research labs that had one and we ended up buying it recently at a pretty steep discount. Also the clarifying post from WG that states that they're not going anywhere mentions that there are 50 PR2s out in the world, and there were only 11 or 12 that were given out as part of the beta program so clearly someone bought them.
Exactly, then it will be news, now it's nothing
The best entrepreneurs are dead.

They have less ego than anyone living and a great deal more experience to draw on.

Young people should therefore consult the dead first, resorting to their older counterparts only as a means of last resort.
I'm positive that North Korea wants the world to believe that they're testing nuclear weapons, because that is their only bargaining card, but that doesn't mean they made a successful test.
I am not certain but I think being a foster parent you can decide to permanently adopt the child after a period of time, thus he calls it an "overlooked route to adoption."
the business model is probably a big topic. You would need some surveys to find out what the general public think ( maybe that is why you are asking on HN )

From what i know of tv show pricing, the purchasing of prime time shows is 2-5million per episode for the tv channels to air it. so they have to play it many many times and get advertising and maybe subscription against it to pull a profit.

I guess Itunes is a "pay per episode like model", but i would be more interested in not thinking about purchasing each show.
Actually, that is incorrect. It's relatively easy to determine if an 'earthquake' is a natural occurrence or if it is from a test like this. http://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/seismoblog.php/2009/05/25/of...
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>it seems damned impudent of them to be assuming my voice

I agree. This is something that has been bothering me every since Windows XP. I think less about what marketers want and how desperate it may or may not be, and I spend more time feeling offended that someone is presuming to intrude into my personal space in my program on my machine and tell me how I plan to use it. It's like they're misrepresenting me to myself, and it never fails to provoke much scoffing and eyerolling from me. I consider it a major signal of BS in software.

On the other hand, software which uses "your" or no pronouns at all can do almost exactly the same stuff - like creating a default organization of data - and I don't mind. I see it as a respectful suggestion which has my best interest in mind, and I'm more likely to actually incorporate their idea into the way I do things because I'm not immediately on the defensive.

Edit:

This reminds me of when I was staying at one of those tropical beach resorts and one of the souvenir sellers was announcing "shopping time, everybody!" to everyone that passed by. I didn't like that he obviously wanted me to participate in a dishonest exchange, but he was presumptuously "reminding" me that giving giving him money is a natural part of my day, the same way that I have an "eating time" and a "sleeping time".
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If all hell is breaking loose, I'll ride on the rims of some crappy old bike rather than plod along with a backpack.
I hope these guys become the case study for "If you can just avoid dying, you get rich".

Something that's been hinted at a lot through this series of posts are technical challenges that adioso faced that almost killed them, I'm really looking forward to hearing about those in more depth.

Part 1: http://tomhoward.co/part-1-reality-check
Part 2: http://tomhoward.co/part-2-stunts
Looking at taxes as a partnership is more appropriate. The government sets up systems that help you make a good business, for example a good financial system, a good law and order system, good infrastructure etc. These things help you make the money. So the government is a partner with anyone who uses these infrastructure to make money and in this partnership there is a sharing of profit which can be understood as taxes.
I wonder if the U.S. would react any differently if Iran had conducted these same tests.
Aaron Patterson just rocks, what a great explanation.
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Thanks guys, but no it wasn't catfan :/ :p
I like your idea. I had similar idea. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4698265
It's written in c#!
I think this is more due to the fact that Seoul just happened to be next to the arbitrary 55th parallel drawn after WWII.
I'm a little confused here. Your position is one that not even the biggest benefactor of North Korea supports (china) and is indistinguishable from the position that every regime regardless of its political structure should be able to access nuclear weapons. In other words, there should be little restrictions on the proliferation of nuclear technology.

The fact that they are conducting tests is also rather interesting. The simple devices they have developed do not require any testing and given their limited plutonium stockpile they are reducing the amount of deployable weapons by conducting their third test in six years.

I assume you would have supported South Africa's nuclear program?
How did this get published? He did not release the JSTOR downloads and "make them available to the public". The writer draws a weak connection between Aaron Swartz and himself and seems to miss the point at so many levels.
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You seem to think having nuclear weapons is some sort of national right or something. It's not. Nobody wants an unstable, belligerent, nasty dictatorship to have the ability to nuke other countries.
I'm skeptical.

FWIW, you can carry more spare inner tubes on a bike than spare tires on a car, and although I've had bike inner tubes punctured by goatheads, maladjusted brake pads, tacks, and a burr on a spoke nipple that cut its way through my improvised post-apocalyptic rim strip made of electrical tape, I don't think I've ever had a broken-glass puncture.

I think both bikes and cars have highly variable resiience to hostile conditions. You can get bikes with big fat BMX tires, put Kevlar strips and thick inner tubes inside, and pour in a bit of Slime, and you probably don't have to worry much about punctures or pinch flats or blowouts, unless you have misadjusted rim brakes like the ones I mentioned before. And there are plenty of cars that aren't fairly new and can't travel even dozens of miles without a repair.
Can you cite anything for this? Wear leveling is not the same as log-structured storage.
Former administrator of an international student program, here. If you're an international student, you can work for the school (at least you could at mine). We used to give kids literally 1-hour careers sitting at a desk in our program at minimum wage so they could get social security cards. If you were to furnish Paypal with a valid ss#, could you then get your money? That's a lot of money. If your school won't do it, I'd work on tranfering your 1-20 to another school that will.
I disagree. We're not using the latest patches. We're using an independently verified and tested set of patches. The baseline is 2008.
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Then what do you think caused the earthquake? They haven't been stockpiling tnt and faking a nuclear program at the same time.
Amazing that anything suspicious on Mars is followed by a graphic scientific explanation.
Or about the tracks that beat the shit out of you :)
Your comment conveys another implication that UN is supposed to be impartial to issues between member countries. That cannot explain veto power of five permanent members of UN security council, which no other country has.

On consistency: I don't think UN, as a group of nations with conflicting goals, tries to behave in a consistent way, although people are free to blame it for its inconsistency.
Most informative piece on North Korean culture I've read recently was written by someone who worked in Pyongyang for a year as a "reviser" (giving a final read over their English translated press releases):

http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html

"A Year in Pyongyang" is just fascinating. Really digs into the mechanics and psychology of a state run under a cult of personality.

It's also completely free.

The biggest takeaway: there are probably a shockingly high number of "true believers" there that would fight to the last man in any conflict.
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Keep a journal. Does't have to be anything deep, just a list of any out of the ordinary activities you did on a given day. Things like movies you saw, dates you went on, conversations you had with friends etc.

I started doing this a few years ago and it's really great at the end of the to look back year and see all the cool things I did.

There are a few apps for this. I use Everday.me a bit and have been meaning to try Overdrive.

There's also a company called OhLife that sends you a daily email to reply to. I think they're YC.
ddply can be very slow. Strongly recommended to get your data into the form you want in something map-reduce-y _then_ throw it into R for analysis and graphing.
Is that a Starcraft reference?
yes one of our 3rd party quoting engines' source tops 20mloc of java.

Facebook is a really simple project compared to most of these sort of things.
Man-made explosions, both chemical and nuclear, have seismic signatures that are substantially different than natural sources and which have been measured countless times from US and Soviet testing. The earthquake sensor feeds are often scrubbed of non-earthquake sources; ever wonder how they do that?

There is a possibility that it is a chemical explosion, if you are willing to swallow the idea that the North Koreans detonated several million kilos of military high explosives in a mine shaft somewhere. But even then, while the signature is closer to a nuclear explosion it is not identical. Maybe the seismic data from a variety of sources is damaged or defective but I'm not counting on it.

Have you considered the possibility that you are the one over-reacting? Our ability to classify seismic motion is much more sophisticated than you seem to be assuming. It is the same reason they can tell whether an earthquake swarm in a particular spot is caused by local fault activity or the imminent emergence of a volcano -- the signature is different. There is a lot more to analyzing seismic activity than just the magnitude. It is also how we do subsurface imaging for mining oil. It is a mathematically sophisticated field, give it some respect.
NK stated they would perform a nuke test on this date and location.

Which do you think is more likely, a) the tremors are from a nuke test b) Kim Jong performed a mystical ancient Korean wardance that happened to summon an earthquake at the designated time and place?
I don't know what the submitted title was, but the corrected "Gamers deemed too fast for real-life race" is dishonest link-bait at it's finest. <sarcasm>Well done</sarcasm>, mods.

"Gamers perform too well in real-life to be considered amateurs" would have been nice.
Forgive me if this seems inappropriate to ask, but I'm actually somewhat curious. In this article and others I've read about Swartz, he is described using terms like "prodigy" and "genius".

Are these descriptions accurate or is the press somewhat guilty of puffing up the stature of Aaron in order to pull you inevitably towards the cliché story of the 'tragically passed genius'?

If he were not a "prodigy" or "genius", would his actions and ideals be any less worthy of recognition, or his passing any less tragic?
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Are you kidding me? The DPRK is one of the most horrific regimes in the last 2 centuries, and that includes the Nazis and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Of all the regimes that can't be trusted with nuclear weapons they are pretty much at the top of the list.
I remember reading sometime back that White House had increased the threshold to 100,000 signatures. The 'Fire Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann' has got only 25,760 signatures as of now. Am I missing something?
Picking Rand at her youthful (23 y.o.) worst seems hardly fair. The young Rand was very much under the influence of (what she took to be) Nietzsche's thought. (Much of Rand at the beginning and end of her life was Rand not at her best, the interview being a good example.)

Defining a lifetime by a single extreme is a game two can play, so let's play it. Ayn Rand was also capable of great caring and benevolence, as when she loaned money to two struggling friends (who never paid her back). See! See! That's who she really was, all else must be ignored! And since Clarence Thomas and Paul Ryan were fans of hers they too are great humanitarians! It's your ad hominem and guilt by association in reverse. Dang, this is fun!

More seriously, do you really think that someone going thru the intimate details of your life couldn't find one thing to damn you with?

>> Ayn Rand was an eloquent proponent of sociopathy.

No, she wasn't. She was an advocate (hardly a perfect one) of human freedom and prosperity. And speaking of sociopathy , that makes her an eternal enemy of every advocate of one form of socialism or another: Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party, Slobodan Milosovic's Serbian Socialist Party, Stalin's Bolshevik Socialism, Saddam Hussein's Arabic Ba'ath Socialist Party, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge flavored socialism, Mao Tse Tung's socialism, or New York Times-endorsed Robert Mugabe's socialism ("I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their right to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.") Etc., etc., bloody etc.

Mao said "Serve The People". Socialists, like the leaders mentioned above, are the people who truly care. Those who oppose them need to get a good dosing of Zyclon B, or at least a Struggle Session or three.
I was able to prime a community once with my first startup, MyColorscreen.com.

Here're what I did:

I attached myself to one of the already well known forum (XDA-Developers.com) and post regularly with a link back to my service showcasing how my service was better than what people were doing on the forum.

Since I am the user of my own service, I also keep feeding new content regularly to fake that there was activity.

If you are the user of your own service, it is easier to ask yourself "where would I be socializing", and "what kind of content I would like to see".

Ask these questions and fake it until you make it. :)
In a realistic simulation, which Gran Turismo aims to be, being more aggressive than in real life is not an advantage.

Apart from the cost of training, where the GT players have the advantage is that failure is not as penalizing as it would be in a real car. If you crash, you can be back on the tracks in seconds for no cost and no time in traction. If you mess up a corner you can restart.

Rather than desensitizing them to danger, it allows for exploratory driving, which, especially when combined with the amount of track time available, would allow skills to be learned much faster than in the real world.

That is to say, the learning processes for someone driving a simulator and someone driving a real car are not the same, but these approaches must converge to a common end point which is the best driving style in order to be the fastest car on the track.
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if classes didn't have such a terribly verbose syntax in basically every language that has them, i'd be less opposed to using them.

in java, c++, or c#, to add a variable to a class, you have to repeat its name 4 times. once to declare, once in the constructor parameters, and once on each side of the assignment. why am i writing the same thing 4 times for what should be a core part of the language?

in haskell, you write it once (i'm not saying haskell's records are nice, but they got that part right). same with rust.

and with a function, you write it once.
I share your dislike of ICEs but you are being far too kind with that 30%. At best 20% is (high-end) typical. Which means that for every 5 gallons of fuel you feed it, it throws away 4. That is SUCH poor engineering that it's verging on insane that we've embraced these stinking, finicky beasts long enough to destroy most of the planet's (easy) fossil fuel reserves.
No, thats the entire point about obtaining nuclear weapons.
It's not skepticism as much as it is dissatisfaction at a poor explanation from NASA.

Ok, it's formed by wind erosion. What is it made of? Why does it look different than anything else in the landscape? Can they show an example that actually looks like this one?

And most importantly, why is this less interesting to look at than whatever they're racing off to?

None of that is addressed.
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> You seem to think having nuclear weapons is some sort of national right or something.

No, I don't think that.

> Nobody wants an unstable, belligerent, nasty dictatorship to have the ability to nuke other countries.

The US opened this can of worms and created an imbalance in the world. North Korea is surrounded by nuclear enabled countries (China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan).

As an aside:

What exactly is 'unstable' about North Korea... it's been the same ruling family for 50 years... I realise propaganda has permeated all of our views and it's difficult to see through the fog of misinformation but think about the words you use as you write them.

North Korea (from all credible reports) is a mess, and quite horrible for A LOT of people, THAT needs to change. I would not rate it any more "belligerent" than the US. It is definitely not unstable and its Nastiness extends only as far as its borders...
This whole event is going to cast a pall on one prosecutors' political aspirations and serve as a warning to others. What kind of response will make you happy?
Or the thousands of tests conducted by the p5. These arsenals aren't any more legitimate than Indian and Pakistani arsenals. What is needed is comprehensive disarmament, which the US and the rest of p5 are opposed to.
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I understand what you are saying, AYIYA is not as bad as miredo. But lets face it:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables = Any Linux Box

It is even easier with:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables + shorewall6 = Any Linux Box

Configuring the linux box is essentially as easy as appending the following to /etc/network/interfaces:

### IPv6

auto he-ipv6

iface he-ipv6 inet6 v4tunnel
address 1234:987:1234:743::2
netmask 64
endpoint 209.51.161.14
ttl 255
gateway 1234:987:1234:743::1
post-up sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1

iface eth1 inet6 static
address 1234:567:8901:1::1
netmask 64

Spend five minutes with /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf and you are done. Granted my mom is not going to do that but for anyone on HN that should be a walk in the park.
It's there, but certainly not as complete as the above gist.
This is a great answer because it points out something that a lot of people either intentionally overlook or neglect to consider: taxes have different effects on different groups of people. Try sitting in on a highschool economics class some time -- full of statements like "Inflation can't be bad, can it? We consumers can pay our debt back in an amount that's worth less in buying power than the amount we borrowed!"
Doesn't property tax raise the rent for everyone?
Well the only reason it isn't 'some sort of national right' is because the US and their allies are the ones who made the rules which decides who can have nukes. If the US and their allies are going to develop, test, and keep nukes on hand - why should anyone else not? If they want to make a point about nuclear weapons being 'wrong', lead by example.
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This is the worst article I've read about this topic.
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Better throw up a few extra photon cannons just in case.
For digital goods you use bitcoin, always and everywhere. please fix this as soon as your next release, God what are you thinking? The USSA has become a beacon of INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM. google that.
I never cease to be amazed at how people who work with data large enough to make tools like plyr slow assume that everyone works with data like that.

I have been using R daily for 7-8 years now and have only occasionally turned to somethig like data.table for performance reasons. "Big data" receives waaay more attention and hype than there are actual human beings working on data of that scale. I can assure you that for the vast majority of R users world wide plyr is plenty fast enough for their needs.
One thing this author didn't mention is the reduced computational effort of rendering flat design. Is there any data showing a meaningful difference in battery life?
> Your comment conveys another implication that UN is supposed to be impartial to issues between member countries.

It is isn't it? Otherwise it isn't a union...

> That cannot explain veto power of five permanent members of UN security council, which no other country has.

That's completely true... turns out there are more problems with the UN than just being a veil for US aggression... colour me surprised.