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I don't understand what you are trying to say -- you think expensive software is better or worse?

I don't know what Microsoft Office has to do with this.
> sure, there were probably a few drunks firing into the air, but that's more reckless than violent

Seeing as it can lead to fatalities to bystanders [1], I would be fine calling it "violent". [EDIT: "potentially violent" being perhaps a better term].

In my opinion, this is why at last gun education would be a good bipartisan way to reduce gun accidents (if not gun crime). If a police dispatcher does not think that firing into the air is serious problem and can kill people, that in itself is a big problem.

I was browsing the ShotSpotter website, and they have a paper that talks specifically about celebratory gunfire. [2]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14616491

[2] http://www.shotspotter.com/system/content-uploads/MYTHS_abou...
You only need to calculate round((1+√5)^n). The other term tends to 0, and thus can be ignored.
> "and their unique voting credential code (number/identifier)"

I find this the most interesting. I thought of a voting system where every citizen gets a unique voting key. It obviously would be a huge mistake to vote directly with such a key. Signing your voting decision makes a lot more sense. This way only the government and you know the key.

I wonder what will happen now, looks like they will have to reissue 93M codes.
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Can someone help me understand why intel has both the rdrand and rdseed instruction set? If your device outputs high quality random data, why would it need two outlets?
Every year is a new annus horribilis in term of magnitude of personal data leaks, the "other moore's law"...
Insufficient security at a national level has been frontpage of hnews all this week from various countries: Turkey, USA, Malaysia, Mexico, &c.

From this and many other leaks and breaches from companies, governments & institutions one could deduce security is imperfect & digitally massively so.

Identity theft is rampant; Biometrics are irrevocable - yet the solution is used by most people everyday.

Cryptography solves both the problem of identity and privacy simultaneously.

It is establishable as persona via chains of trust, e.g. PGP signing.

Apart from societal control there seems no good reason not to adopt a system whereby everyone is issued a private and public key - which signs every email, bank instruction, comminucation & vote.

Akin to good practice being to store only password hashes so only the individual posses the secret.

Ones identity would be ones own responsibility and huge leaks like this would reveal nothing but a list of public keys obtainable by crawling the web.

One can imagine a dystopian future nation where individuals must fight to protect their basic fundamental rights from state level adverseries operating outside the law - punchline is the worst threat is their own government.

Ever since Gibson the best science fiction is set in the present.
Hmm, I think there's an edge-condition bug. Starting with fib(0), its values are (0,1,2,3,5,8...) instead of (1,1,2,3,5,8...).
> Seeing as it can lead to fatalities to bystanders, I would be fine calling it "violent".

No, I would say "violence" requires a certain intent, whereas firing shots into the air is merely ridiculously stupid and reckless.
Perhaps some lovely clean Irish randomness:

https://www.random.org/

Sadly, LavaRand, the connoisseur's choice of internet randomness, is no longer with us:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010926221159/http://lavarand.sg...
I'm not saying it isn't a problem. IIRC, there was a breach in Georgia with a lot of extra information similar to what you describe.

If it isn't provided by the state, Political parties buy lots of information based on the voter rolls. They know alot.
Nonsense. Putting one bike thief in prison can save the public hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.

He steals a $1k bike every other day = $182k/yr

So even if a cop only tracked down 1 thief per month, he's paying his own salary back many times.
Competing with Hoover Dam's 3.x billion kWhs per year selling for $0.02/per is probably not a winning strategy. It does sound like there's some long term issue with levels at Lake Mead though, so perhaps in the future.
In short, the study uses a 1 dimensional model of the atmosphere, a particle of soot can go up or down, but there are no winds, no oceans, etc. These models are said to be especially prone to failing hard when given extreme inputs, and the second part is the soot they claimed would be lofted into the air, sizes and quantities, which they did not justify, or justify well (can't remember, it's been decades since I read the paper).

Their excuse for using such a model was a lack of computing resources, and they were indeed dear back then. But that made their running a massive propaganda campaign based on this inadequate at best "science" all the worse.

Anyway, LLNL, which had serious supercomputer resources for designing nuclear warheads and such, ran 3D simulations with more plausible inputs, and indeed found effects were possible, but they weren't a big deal. Certainly not on the scale of some of the bigger volcanic events. (It's a bit arrogant to automatically humans are so capable of changing the earth that much, especially that quickly; compare, as you do, to events like Tambora.)

The folks arguing - as you appear to be - that a nuclear war wouldn't be that big a deal, got a lot quieter.

Not that I noticed. Especially since we never argued that, only that it wouldn't be "the end of the world". Maybe we just got more thoroughly ignored by the media, after all, the sainted Carl Sagan was wielding SCIENCE! and we were nobodies. Note Sagan and Turco of the TTAPS team should have been a little more modest when the prospect of Kuwait's oil wells getting set on fire in the first Gulf War came up, their theorizing did not match the reality to soon follow.

Of course, to the extent this might be an issue (and even modest effects would be less than welcome in the aftermath of a major nuclear exchange), it made SDI/BMD all the more important, to prevent city busting in the first place....
Politico aspires to a pretty low bar, journalistically. I stopped reading them a year or so ago when it was clear their political articles were just crap, and as you said, often had clickbait headlines.
The database is given to parties so they can audit if people live where they are voting, or even if they live for that matter. Not giving them access is not an option, if you want the continue having a voting system that does not require trust, as the mexican voting system was designed to allow.

I agree that the database should be made public for all citizens, as it currently stands, only parties registered for elections get a copy, and no doubt use it for their campaigns. This puts people outside of the party system in a disadvantage against the parties, particularly relevant for things like citizen initiatives.
> This is posing the question wrong. If some area has half as many fatalities per gunshot, they're clearly doing something right.

Not necessarily, I'd imagine easy availability of fully-automatic weapons would lower your fatalities-per-gunshot ratio but not be a good thing.
You're correct it does. Specifically I believe it uses rdrand to fill the initial SSH values when get_random is called which then proceeds to mix in stuff from the kernel pool. This avoids the problem with using xor for mixing as has been discussed before (even though that attack vector is unlikely).

BoringSSL takes a similar approach with rdrand in that it mixes it using the chacha20 stream cipher. The operating system PRNG is used to generate the keys and rdrand is filtered on every call when you need a random number. I don't know what LibreSSL does (it uses chacha20 in some manner) and I'm pretty sure OpenSSL doesn't use rdrand at all unless you ask for it (in which case it will ONLY use rdrand).
> "The trend can be traced back to Google and Zappos"

Or Apple in the 1980s. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... describes it as "In the center of Macintosh work area in Bandley 3 we had a ping pong table, a nice stereo system, and a Defender video game machine. We found that competitive play gave us a jolt of adrenaline, and a refreshed mind-set when we resumed work. We also learned a lot about our coworkers and how they excel during competition."

> "and defined their workplace cultures with the help of beanbag chairs"

Sorry, I meant PARC in the 1970s. Here's a picture of PARC's "famous" beanbag chairs from 1971 - https://hightechhistory.com/2011/06/02/a-brief-early-history... .

> "Perks have since proliferated at startups"

See, problem is, now that I've shown that these sorts of office perks have been around for at least 45 years, it's hard to really agree with a timeline which starts with Google and grows from there.

The references to millennials is gratuitous. It's not that they are millennials but that they are young. Twenty-something Gen X'ers in the dot-com era had their own set of perks, and turnover rate. Here's an InfoWorld article from 2000 https://books.google.com/books?id=QD0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA75&dq=si... which talks about extended vacation time, laundry services, and on-site doctors as perks.

Stick in 'Silicon Valley perk' into a Google Book search for books before 1990 and out pops, "The chip war: the battle for the world of tomorrow" (1989) which says "Salaries, stock options, bonuses, and perks grew to astounding proportions, leading demographers to dub Silicon Valley workers "gold collar" workers." There's also "Book of perks" (1984) which talks about sabbatical leaves for Silicon Valley engineers.
I'm a Java and a C# dev, Scala when I feel adventures or when I'm drunk.

I do all my work in IntelliJ and Visual Studio but I found a
few useful tools like VsVim which emulates all the keys in VS, there is also the IntelliJ plugin which brings Vim into the IDE.

Then you got the best of both worlds, I have to admit it's not the same as running Vim from a terminal but it's very close.

Other than that, if I had to write something in a dynamic language, I'd still prefer Vim with a few useful plugins.

I really tried hard to emulate an IDE inside Vim but that was a lost cause.
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Sounds like a good idea, looking forward to seeing the evolution of it!
I've been thinking about this lately and my thoughts resonate with yours. My situation has amplified since moving to London a little over a year ago, where I had no friends or family. I've been wanting to go back to a simpler style of friendships like when we were younger.

At the same time I've also missed sports. My solution was to get back into skateboarding. I haven't skated in ten years but you'd be surprised by your muscle memory. I got all the gear and headed to the nearest skatepark and was quickly approached by the local skaters. I met a lot of great people and skated with them all evening. Haven't had so much fun in a while. Can't wait to go back.
I think it's good that as a society we do not lock people up for years for stealing a phone.

But I would love to hear from you what we should do of the people who commit assault?

What is a woman was punched? or a minority (because they were a minority)?

Do you honestly believe that prison for assault does not deter would be assaulters?
It's 100% preference. I prefer Vim.

An IDE feels like I'm learning to use a piece of software. It doesn't interest me to become a Eclipse/VisualStudio/etc. expert. I'm most comfortable in front of the command prompt. I like to write my own tools and play around with utilities. If I didn't enjoy that, an IDE would be very compelling.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. For what it's worth, I think the rebuttal misses that Thompson wasn't actually arguing for a Services division - he was arguing that if Apple is serious about creating better services, as they are currently claiming to be, then that's what they should do. But that doesn't mean that they should be serious about services! That's basically the same conclusion that is drawn by the article you linked. (Thompson goes into this a bit more on last week's Exponent podcast, if you're into this sort of thing.)
The idea behind Divisional Organization is that you'd motivate Services by holding them responsible and measuring success and failure via quantifiable things like turning a profit.

But a lot of what would make Services profitable isn't necessarily good for the rest of Apple: squeezing people harder to upgrade storage space for pay, paywalling popular features like Find My Phone, or selling iCloud for Android might all make Services look better on paper but hurt Apple as a whole.

Your proposed compromise, if anything, might make Services worse -- take it from someone who's been there, there's nothing more demotivating and worse for productivity than being held responsible for the bottom line while not having any authority to do anything that would improve it.

And if you're not going to hold the Division responsible for its financials, there's no benefit to moving it out of Engineering.
I've been doing a bunch of graphing for my current projects and have tried a variety of libraries. Chart.js has been the best experience by far. Yeah, there's rough edges here-and-there if you're doing really strange stuff to your graphs like me, but the community around it has been beyond helpful and solving the odd issue that crops up is not difficult at all.
> I would say "violence" requires a certain intent, whereas firing shots into the air is merely ridiculously stupid and reckless.

I think (and this is where I probably differ from other people) that the discharge of a death-dealing weapon that is far deadlier than a gun or a knife implies at least a potential for violence. I guess I wouldn't go so far as to classify a death from it as actual violent crime though, which seems to be what you are driving at.

To explain this analogy a bit, if a drunk person is running down the street swinging a chainsaw for purposes of "celebrating" New Year, do you think he will be reported to the police as potentially violent? Why should drunks firing guns be different?
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/11/17/the-differ...

rdseed directly gives you the output of a hardware RNG, limited by the rate that hardware RNG produces random bits. rdrand gives you CSPRNG output seeded by rdseed.
When do people drive with Autopilot on? When the probability of accidents is lowest.

The average number of kilometers per accident isn't the same across all kilometers driven; accident rate per kilometer is highly dependant on environment which this data does not evaluate.
Yup. "The Game Book" took quite a few liberties to write a better story, I suggest checking out books/lectures by a guy named Mystery.
Because the drunk with the chainsaw knows whether or not he's slicing up someone at any given time.
Glad you've had a good experience @devbug
The article is about plate tectonics, not geoengineering.
I looked up the stats for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The fuel capacity is about 126,000 L. Judging from Wikipedia, you'd need ~5× the amount of space to store pressured hydrogen for the same amount of energy. Wikipedia also says that the cargo capacity of the same 787 is... 172,000 L. I don't have hard numbers on the size of passenger space, but guesstimating that as the upper half of a cylindrical tube gets you in the region of 1,800,000 L. So you're looking at taking out 10-20% of the revenue space of an aircraft to fit in hydrogen fuel tanks.

Now the 787 isn't the largest craft out there, but spitballing the 747 gave similar numbers. I also don't have numbers on how much less fuel you'd need for the lighter weight (you'd reduce the weight of the aircraft by ~⅓ with equivalent amounts of fuel). If you assume it's more or less linear, you're talking about using ⅔ the fuel, which would be cutting out "only" 5-10% of revenue space or cutting your range by ⅔ and keeping revenue space the same.

Given the amount that airlines are trying to squeeze out of the existing revenue space already, it doesn't look like a particularly appealing trade-off.
The only real reason the answer should be "no" is if you'd go to jail if you couldn't make $X K /month. Life is too short to spend it hating your job.

But you may have a gap while you look for other jobs. Plan to fill that out. It will get stressful, you might have to lose your current residence.

Life might be a little bit more exciting quitting your job, but you'll have different problems to deal with. If you're adaptable, then why haven't you adapted already?
So this makes /dev/urandom more like Window's CryptGenRandom (aka RtlGenRandom) which is using AES256 running in CTR mode as a DRNG.

I'm curious why there still needs to be a distinct /dev/random though. Hasn't history shown that they should really just both point to the same thing? Is there really a need for the difference here? Ditto with the entropy estimation, why is this still a thing?
The storage problem remains. It's really expensive to store energy at the single house scale.
What is it that you're looking for? I believe there's a clear difference between being more manly and having better relationships, though I imagine there's a correlation.
>The going joke is that Belgium is a nation of 5 million Flemish (Dutch speaking) people, 5 million Walloons (French speaking) people, and 1 Belgian - the King

Don't worry, it'll all be Arabic-speaking soon enough...
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Why does it matter whether it was uploaded to US servers? A wide open MongoDB is a wide open MongoDB no matter where it's physically located.
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I always use vim, except where I'm forced otherwise. Any time I have to use xcode it is generally a frustrating experience. While interface builder is certainly a time saver, it has to be balanced against the hassle of random quirkiness of xcode whenever it decides to give you some kind of weird error due to a bug in xcode, and you have to go to stackoverflow to figure out the resolution.

Eclipse just needs to be taken out and shot.
I currently use vim for everything as you once did, with plugins for everything, and a large .vimrc. I started using Intellij with vim bindings for school Java projects and I liked the utility it provided.

However, I feel like the thing holding me back from leaving vim is its customization. I like to work with multiple vim and tmux splits side by side, e.g. dev server output on one tmux split, with vim splits inside another tmux split looking at the server code.

Most IDEs I've tried more or less force a workspace layout on me, and might make it hard to achieve something like that. However, I can see that, depending on your preferences and area of work it can be a reasonable trade-off.
My point is that the author is advocating collecting statistics in a way that equates gang shootouts and backfiring cars as equal incidents of gun violence.

You've identified a problem with using human reports as a means to measure the number of shots fired, whereas the author suggests that some abstract "shots fired" count would be a better measure than homicides and injuries.

The author doesn't propose a suggested methodology for how to do so, but the metrics that he presents are from ShotSpotter deployments. These sorts of systems are designed to identify gunfire in particular, and so are presumably more reliable than monitoring 911 traffic.

Note that he identifies a number of other weaknesses with ShotSpotter-based data -- doesn't pick up indoor shots very well, and is of limited nationwide coverage, for example.

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator
Not necessarily. People who are drunk are not always aware of their actions. His vision and judgement could be very impaired depending upon how drunk he is.
The auctions are run by the dominant leader in the space (Ocean Spray). Supposedly they are selling off "excess product". The accusation is that they are selling with a starting bid that is lower than the actual cost to make the cranberry concentrate...on purpose, to manipulate the market.

Typically called predatory dumping.
It doesn't have to compete - there is demand that is not covered by Hoover's production. For example, there are geothermal power plants in Utah that transmit power to Los Angeles. Perhaps Vegas could send solar to LA, and that geothermal power from Utah could go to Salt Lake...
HTTP 1.1 is backward compatible with 1.0, and I'm pretty sure 0.9 is. I think with SSH and SSL they basically have an (if version) statement at the top level, and then enter a completely different codebase for each version. They can get away with this because there are so few implementations.

With HTTP you had more graceful upgrade. They made "mistakes" but were able to accomodate it within the existing structure.
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1 must all appear twice in the sequence. Otherwise I agree: it ought to begin at 0.
Nice. A cut down version using base-10:

X = 10**3
print X**16//(X*X-X-1)
# 1001002003005008013021034055089144233377610

It's like a sideways addition version of the standard Haskell lazy list version:

fib = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fib (tail fib)
So is the if syntax shown at the bottom coming to K or is that only for illustration? If not, why not use $[c;t;f] then?
It's a small, ruggedised GPS that interfaces with personal military radio systems such as Bowman. Tactical meaning used on a person, as opposed to something on a vehicle with a big antenna. These didn't say they had a barometer, which is why I made the distinction. I used them when I was in the Army. What is there to giggle about in any of that?
This explanation presupposes that running a ride share business is a good entry point for running a robocar business. On the face of it the requirements for running these two business appear to not have much in common.
We don't grow much else in commercial quantities. Tough climate to find any competitive advantage.
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I think what matter is the "footprint" per person, rather than where people live. "In some ways people living in a desert might be preferred over their living in fertile land and basically wasting the fertility of the land. Now, it's entirely possible the per person footprint (all things considered) is higher in a desert like Las Vegas over a place like say the Santa Clara valley in CA.
> Apart from societal control there seems no good reason not to adopt a system whereby everyone is issued a private and public key - which signs every email, bank instruction, comminucation & vote.

Privacy and key loss are two reasons that come to mind.
You are making a big deal out of nothing. Skip empty lines in front of a request and after its content, look for tabs/spaces after \n for multiline headers and that's it, your HTTP parser is ok. No point in parsing comments. And it's not wrong, it's just not RFC compliant. In this case it would even be wrong to comply with RFC.

Actually, we've been parsing human writable text for half of a century. It's kind of a solved problem. We have good enough tools and DSLs to make binary protocols much harder to deal with.
I am curious how this contrasts with the increasing freedom of movement -- people are increasingly able to pick and choose which city to live in.

One of the greatest 'anchors' holding an individual or a family to a city is cost, so what happens when that cost is reduced to the bare minimum? Would we see the migration to urban centers accelerate (eg: Chicago holding >50% of Illinois' population rather than the current 20%)?

Would we see a return to informal alliances like the Hanseatic League[1] as cities increasingly view their Federal overlords as inadequate or obstinate?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
Meh. Throw a dart.