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Would older, elliptical galaxy be less hospitable to life? Or would it not matter? Would there be more GRB's and various other conditions that would decrease the likelihood of life? Just curious.
All this is reminding me not a little of the original crypto wars when Zimmerman was up against the feds in the headlines semmingly every other day.

In the end publishing the source code as a literal, printed book and exporting it from the USA as printed material (Free Speech!) then OCRing the contents in whatever country they wanted to get it to only now we already have a precedent for code is speech and those extra steps might not be necessary.
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That's not what he said:

aka. Clojure (...) compiled to JavaScript

You stopped reading a few words too soon :)
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And as a bonus they're building all this in Rust, probably the first language to seriously compete with C++ (for the things C++ is good at, like web browsers and game engines, where complexity and speed rule out most other languages).
So you are saying that friend should go on a campaign to convince all of that product's potential users to not use Google and use DuckDuck ago instead?
The point about ECC and accepting lower error rates makes a lot of sense. It's the end-to-end principle again: since all of these HDDs are going into a global pool in which each of them is disposable and written content is protected by FEC spread across multiple drives, there is no need for each drive to spend a lot of resources, going deep into diminishing returns, trying to make itself as resilient as possible. If a network transmission fails, it is retried and doesn't need to be swathed in huge numbers of elaborate checksums and ultra-reliable links; if a hard drive fails, the content is recovered from the FEC and re-written out to a new drive.
Ah, going back to the beginning of micros, where drives were often full-height things that could easily break feet when dropped. The thing that worries me there is that having had a big full-height 9 gb seagate scsi drive back in the day is that you needed to give the drive about a hundred watts on its own to run it, with a spool up that sounded like a jet engine was about to take off. I know that motors have gotten faster since then, and platters have gotten lighter, but that's still quite a bit of mass to get up to speed.

The thing that interests me more is the idea of more read/write heads. Add a second, independent set of heads for read/write and you will decrease latency a good amount. Or, a second dependent set of heads which would not provide as much of a performance boost, but would still improve latency a good amount.
> My real objection to US concern over TPP is that TPP has minimal impact on US domestic law.

That is a mischaracterization. There is plenty in the TPP that sucks if you are a citizen of the US as opposed to a corporation.

Many people in the US are trying desperately to stop the TPP. We simply don't have a lot of voice.
That thing where someone calls core.async CSP and my eyelid twitches.

Reading the paper, it has very little to do with core.async.
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There was a company providing pricing pages as a service, but I can't find them now.
How can the FBI verify that the data they get from Apple is the same data that was on the phone?
One of the strengths of Apple's arguments is that they do not have software that the government is trying to compel them to provide. The government compelling the creative act of making this software is not something that has occurred under the All Writs Act previously, as far as I am aware, so this would set precedent.

Once the software is already created, it is, at worst, just a question of getting the timing right for the next request in order to make such an order (to provide software to assist in the unlocking of phones) merely ordinary.

Aside from some arcana, what you are proposing is equivalent to the FBI's position, which I think many here disagree with.
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Why the difference in price? Is the bandwidth more expensive or is it people will pay for a higher def stream?
I find your lack of faith disturbing.

https://mo.github.io/2015/11/04/browser-engines-active-devel...
> If you mean Lisp as a straightforward expression of "Lambda calculus, then I would agree.

That's what I was talking about. The language, being programmable, especially with read macros, can be used to create a very syntactically full language, but at it's basic core level, there is really just '(', ')', '.' and symbols.
While I do actually drink Soylent occasionally as a replacement for Oatmeal when I need a quick breakfast, I'm not a "food replacement" guy. Still, I find this project fascinating and Elliot is a passionate scientist and entrepreneur who would probably love any feedback HN has.
Hm, now that I read well, I feel this research group does too much "snapshotting" of dynamics. Groups not performing well could have had their "norms" subjected to a harsh external force, such as, say, performance reviews, hire / fire / downsize / layoff, etc.

And where is the discussion of sociopathy and other classic psychological manipulations? You'd figure that subtle disruptors would be critical to the study, since I argue that middle management collapses in most large organizations due to the Machiavellian predilections of petty power brokering.
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I think this works better for people who don't want to schedule their entire lives around an airbnb calendar. If you have a room / guest house to rent, and you don't have hired help, you need to be there. Ruins the spontaneity of life, like if I want to take a few days off to go on a getaway. I could see this being useful as a seller.

However, as a buyer, it's risky. You need to trust that a room will always be available with your expectations, and you won't know until the same day. It would stress me out.
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Run some lists with images on them on iPhone 5. Anecdotal, and I am sure you can dig into metal to improve performance, but out of the box, it's kinda poor. I still like React and I'm hopeful React-Native will improve.
Oh. In that case, I have no explanation to offer other than "math is hard", which does not sound very plausible in this case.
Their and there are generally pronounced the same. Would you have had similar issues if you had heard that sentence? Or where you just being snippy?
Again -- "People currently do not do this, ergo they should not" is not an argument.
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Here's a good wiki on the topic:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispLacksVisualCues

After a brief period of usage 'the parens disappear' and you just read the code by indentation.
On the contrary. Culture fit is a pretty normative term: It says to me, we act like THIS at this company, and we're looking for more people who act like THIS. It's pretty explicitly anti-diversity, and speaks to a search for cultural homogeneity.

Psychological safety is less normative: It's about being in a space where it's safe to voice an opinion, and feel that you're heard and valued for your contributions. It's a term that can apply in a very culturally diverse team.
As far as I can see all software built in Germany always ships on time and is within budget. Or maybe the page needs an update :-)
First, there's almost no relevant metric sorting Earthers that would have an American as the median.

Second, it is absolutely nuts to suggest the average American citizen was better off in the 1950's. 1950's America still had a substantial amount of truly crippling poverty, it had millions of citizens who had almost no chance at that great office job due to their race or gender, and life expectancy at birth was lower by almost a decade.

And yes, that's before you figure the months of salary to buy, say, a refrigerator, that the median wage earner can now afford on a week's pay. A refrigerator, by the way, that will be larger, last longer, and use substantially less energy than the one from 1955.

Or the huge growth in sales of air travel, entertainment, dining... luxuries in the 1950's that are commonplace today.

Yes, access to cheap credit makes it easy to bid up the prices of scarce resources like slots at good colleges or houses in desirable areas, but the average American isn't paying out of pocket much more for those things as a % of their income than they were 70 years ago. And of course the colleges are much nicer places to live and study than they were, and the houses are bigger and better constructed.
My point was that making generalizations about Lisp is like making generalizations about languages with C-like (perhaps more correct ALGOL-like) syntax. Most people wouldn't make a statement about Java and assert that it applied to C++, too. This is why saying that Lisp has no type system doesn't make much sense. There are many completely different languages that use s-expression notation, and they all have different feature sets, much like all the C-like languages.
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> though there should probably be fewer exchanges in the first place.

Why, what's wrong with distribution and competition? These are good things.
> In contrast, Go and its `json.Unmarshal()` aren't that well suited for parsing arbitrary and/or complex inputs. However, if the expected input is well formed and can be directly mapped to a predefined datastructure, the convenience factor is pretty high.

I think go revolves more around well-defined structures, and JSON is anything but. For inter-process pipelines, protobuf (polyglot) and gob (go-only) work better in my experience.
> But then that makes me wonder, you know what... how many humans can actually follow everything I'm actually saying? It's not like I can peer into their heads and verify the transcription of voice-to-words inscribed on their brains.

As far as I know, I have good hearing, and I often struggle to understand people. It would be interesting to see what a human error rate on transcription is.
I think it's way more important. When you're working productively with people you enjoy working with, it's almost hard to imagine feeling bad about your job.

This is one key advantage of startups, actually. Just take your dream team, and co-found a startup with them. Find the business that your particular group can excel at. The more this becomes a viable alternative to just taking a job, the more we'll be optimizing the matching of great teams to big opportunities.
AutoCAD uses AutoLISP for scripting and extension. Its been a significant part of AutoCAD since 1986.

http://ronleigh.com/autolisp/ahistory.htm
Does anyone know where the benchmark pages live? Can I run them on Servo myself?
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For me, lisps (CL, scheme, or any other variant) hit a nice sweet spot. You're programming at the AST layer, which makes adding new semantic features (say you wanted erlang style concurrency and message passing) trivial to integrate syntactically (less trivial to implement the underlying feature). Compare this to trying to patch that into C#. Same for any new semantics: logic languages; specific constructs for math, physics, music; OO - see CLOS.

APL is less extensible in this regard (to my understanding, someone might prove me wrong). Smalltalk is probably on par, if you can model it with objects and methods/messages cleanly.

But in the end, for me, it's the idea of programming the AST directly and being (mostly) freed from arbitrary syntactical constructs.
You'll need a really, really, really massive meltdown before people are willing to fork over the money necessary to restart from scratch. Not even nuclear meltdowns have historically convinced people to do that. Not even global warming is convincing people to do that.
> continuing to deal in private where even lawmakers are restricted from seeing it can be absolutely nothing other than trying to avoid controversy and public debate

Indeed, they just don't want us little folks to disturb their dealings.

They say it's a free trade deal of sorts, but actual free trade could be arranged overnight: just stop intervening in trade, and it will be free.

I get the feeling that the tone on HN has changed a bit. Are intelligent people finally waking up to doubt their "representatives'" or governments' good intentions?

It's difficult to see how they could make it any clearer that they're working against our interests. Going full police state on us would do it, but there's not much room in between.
c = sqrt(a*a + b*b)

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Are you one of these "Dark Enlightenment" people who want to go back to unvarnished rule by an elite and stuff like that?

People being stupid (short-sighted, narrow-minded, self-centered, ignorant) includes people in power. If you're not a fan of democracy, you should just say so rather than dance around it.
The claim is that "massive funding from the U.S. government, the Pentagon and the national security state."

The first part is based on the fact that University of Minnesota, Georgia Tech and Princeton University, and Georgetown are funding the tor project. The argument is that all of them are receiving their money from the U.S. Government, and even if they claim that they are independent organization they are just fronts used by the government when it comes to funding the tor project. One could also get the impression that the U.S. Government are the only source of funding for those universities, and that the universities gets no research funding elsewhere, demand no tuition from students, and so on.

The Pentagon claim is likely derived from statements that SRI international is a sponsor of the tor project, and they receive funds from US Department of Defense. Again, one must assume that SRI international only gets fund from a single source.

I can only guess that the national security state is a reference to either the U.S. (ie, the above), or the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, or US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

The cited Guardian source is based on 2013 financial report, and the list of sponsor today is naturally quite different, but I guess thats not an issue.
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I think you misunderstood. 95% of the universe is not-ordinary-matter, which is split between 70% dark energy and 25% dark matter. _This model has been widely held for years._

This same model suggests that there should be 5% ordinary matter, but until now we have only observed half of that 5%. This new FMB observation shows the full 5% for the first time, bringing our observed data to better alignment with the model.
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Alternative, concise restatement: This already exists. The team is a startup, and the companies that bid for you are investors.
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This is part of the benefits of acqui-hiring.
Yesterday Levine posited that less fragmentation of exchanges makes more economic sense:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-24/oil-loans-a...

I found it odd given what we saw in the US exchanges was the opposite of that before fragmentation, but the argument is that the network effects of large exchanges reduces the overall costs.
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It's really such a simple syntax change from f(x) to (f x) yet it makes an enormous difference and opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Sure, there are homoiconic languages in which you can write macros that aren't lisps but the expressive power and ease of use suffers. Take for example macros in Julia (itself heavily lisp-inspired), they're possible but ugly and not nearly as seamless as macros in lisp.
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Can you tell me where to find the original information about this 12/12 LENR NASA run? I must not know what search terms to use.

Edit: to be clear, I'm wondering what the experimental setup was. What sort of device were they testing, how were inputs and outputs measured, etc. Not just the results, but the experiment from which they got those results.
> Like all laws, laws which give unions monopoly protections are enforced by threats of violence

To the extent that's true, its less true (or entirely, flatly untrue, depending on the relation of the government issuing the rule to the one employing the workers) in the case of laws giving them such monopolies in public employment, which in fact withdraw the capacity of the government employer to apply violence or its threat in certain ways, like all laws restraining government.
A lot of domain languages need infix operators though. And even if you understand the domain, it's hard to read and refactor code in the presence of unrestricted macros, whereas in a language where such DSLs are implemented via the type system the tooling will understand that.
> Clojurescript is not "also known as" Clojure.

The GP says "ClojureScript, a.k.a. Clojure ... compiled to Javascript, which (I believe) is accurate.
I didn't know it was a locksmithing term, that's actually interesting and I'll have to Google a bit. It also puts the comment into context; but I was probably not the only one to miss the whooshing sound.
And how many people are Gates, Jobs or Ellison? The CEO design review isn't where the vast majority of people spend their time, or where ANY of the important work gets done.
Why wouldn't the landlord raise rent? There's not a lot of housing alternatives (the supply of housing) and if your average tenant makes 125K instead of 70K, why not gouge them?
The former is likely out before the later but ads on the web in general are in dire needs of improvements or they will be erased from existence by browsers.
What prevents the FBI from issuing a subpoena for the signing keys and patching the existing binary?
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I enjoy reading these articles because they always seem to trick me into thinking I got to know of a new insight when I didn't. I don't know why we still cling to psychology when its been shown over and over that the vast majority of psychology is junk science that cannot be reproduced.
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Given 8tb drives and chassis that can fit 90 3.5" drives into a 4u enclosure, you're talking about a petabyte fitting into 8u. Sledding takes about 8 hours for that many drives, so a small team would be able to handle hardware buildouts pretty easily. Moreso if you can lean on your integrator to do the work for you.
Even if it feels safe it doesn't mean it really is. If you aren't paranoid about these things you can lose a lot.
Watched the video yesterday and it's incredibly impressive work. I was actually a bit surprised this hadn't been done more often and had assumed (incorrectly) that it had.

Nonetheless, I imagine we're going to see more projects like this coming out. It's going to be great to see what people can do when they can effectively use CSS to push high framerates. It's awesome that we'll be able to easily achieve 60+ FPS animation in the browser with ease.
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What's frightening is the amount of ignorant fearmongering on issue.

It's embarrassing that even this site has succumbed to it.
I remember a gig I had where one of the developers was someone who didn't seem to be technically that deep. Yet every project she worked on did better because of something nobody at the time understood. I remember having such a great feeling about working with her every day. I didn't get that from other people. I think this article explains why she was so awesome: She made people feel safe. When she talked to you, you felt like the most important person in the room.
Both the article and the original "flash boys" book make a compelling case about how HFT can in some cases be used to virtually front run orders. I personally don't understand the system enough to prove or disprove those claims.

I do think that an exchange that places less of a premium on speed like the IEX is a reasonable way to let the market itself evaluate the benefits of HFT. If the exchanges with HFT do provide a better value in terms of liquidity or price then the IEX will suffer as it provides an inferior product. If IEX flourishes then it is providing some value to investors. Let investors vote with their dollars
While I would love to see this argument succeed, I doubt it will. Free speech already has limits on both the affirmative and negative sides. Shouting fire in a crowded theatre is not protected, nor is remaining silent if the government decides to label you an "enemy combatant". So I'm not optimistic that Apple's argument will succeed. The fear of drugs, pedophilia and terrorism seems to trump the First Amendment -- and the Fourth, and the Fifth, and the eighth, andthe Forteenth -- pretty reliably nowadays.

Alas.
Isn't that not dissimilar in results to subcontracting a project out to a small team with a proven track record?
@everyone: All this hubbub and no guarantee the phone wasn't already wiped and/or doesn't contain any sensitive information because they didn't use that phone for those purposes.

@Udik: I could just keep my tax documents in printed plaintext on top of my dresser but I opt to keep them locked up. Privacy and security are important. If people who utilize privacy/security tools are up to no good then why does the U.S. Gov't have a clause for not revealing information due to State Secrets? Why do we set our Facebook profiles to private? Why have passwords at all on anything? Are you beginning to see the point?
What if Apple was in the business of safes and built a really strong to crack safe. There would be 10 attempts to open it or all the content would catch on fire.
Is it unheard of that the government would seek the help of that kind of company in similar cases ?

The argument that the newly-developed technique could be stolen by unwanted adversaries is the same. In both cases the government has to get hold of the physical object to crack the (digital) safe.
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I haven't looked at these EULAs for a while, but didn't Google Docs' EULA basically reserve the right for Google to publicly display your document whenever they wanted? http://www.cnet.com/news/does-google-own-your-content. Something like that would, in my opinion, squarely take something out of the scope of the 4th amendment.
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I suspect that array mics can be important for accurate voice recognition. My anecdotal impression, for example, is that Amazon Echo is MUCH better than Siri on an iPhone at recognizing what I'm saying. I can tell Echo from across the room with music playing to add something to a shopping list and it gets things mostly right.
Definitely bandwidth, HD video is much larger and more difficult to stream than SD.
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