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What advantage would a protocol based on shifting machines have over something much cheaper like random number generation for say HTTPS communication?

At the end of the day, you'd fundamentally want the possibility of people guessing to be close to zero no matter what method you chose.

So, the question boils down to how could the idea of disposable VMs/containers be better than simply using better primes which use much lesser power and give a greater throughput?
I think you can with regard to climate change - no one is saying that the termpreature isn't getting warmer, what they are arguing is whether human released CO2 is the cause. It's probably not going to be a popular opinion on this website but there are some holes in climate science that points to humans as the major contributor. For example:

1 The climate record started in 1800 which was one of the coldest periods in history - 1816 is popularly called the year without a summer and there had been a little ice age that started in the 1600s and ended during the 1800s (of course it's been rapidly warming since then)

2. Recent NASA observations show glacial retreat and warming on Mars that happened exactly at the same time as global warming on earth suggesting possible solar origion of climate change rather than human caused.

3. I have yet to see a single piece of evidence that conclusively links a warming climate with human released CO2. All we are told is that CO2 makes things warmer and that humans are releasing more CO2 than before. That's not enough, for climate change to be plausable they have to show that human released CO2 is enough to make a meaningful impact on atmospheric composition such that it makes the earth warmer. I don't think we have enough understanding of how atmosphere behaves or even of how much gases we are releasing to make those kinds of conclusions.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

2 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/31/mars-also-un...

now my purpose isn't to get into a debate on climate change here, all I want to demonstrate is that the people who deny man made climate change aren't crazy or fanatical, they are ordinary rational people that for whatever reason have reached a different conclusion and we should not be so quick to dismiss them. The hallmark of rationality is willing to inquire and debate for the validity of opinions, not dismiss opinions outright as fanatical or crazy without at least looking at the other side's evidence.
And this is a low margin business to begin with. People clamouring for union should take the red pill first.
It's called running a business. And because it's open source, anyone is free to fork Sidekiq and make a version that uses the atomic Redis commands. What people are choosing to pay for is Mike.
"Owning a home in a crowded city, not living in it the vast majority of the time, and refusing to rent it out to people who desperately want to live there imposes a negative externality on the city"

It is proposed that doing so imposes a negative externality.

That proposal is not without counterpoints, however.

Specifically: that the owners of those homes not only pay their full property taxes already, but they impose fewer costs on the infrastructure of the city while not being present. They don't drive on the roads or walk on the trails or use the public restrooms, etc.

Look, I proposed a hypothetical situation[1] that has nothing at all to do with Chinese speculators buying up housing assets in a safe haven market. I proposed an unintended consequence on an otherwise innocent, well meaning actor. It's very interesting to note that the response is, basically, "too bad for them".

[1] I don't live in Canada.
AFAIK, the goal is not necessarily indefinitely long pulses, but pulses long enough to allow for a net positive energy output. This is the reason why there is also pulsed laser research, etc. The bar is high, but we don't need perfection to make a lasting impact.
The process of writing software involves some interpretation and making good small-scale design decisions. Think of things like checking for buffer overflows and error handling. If you completely specify how this is handled everywhere you've practically written the software already.

One trivial and silly real-world example: I'm currently working on a C codebase with a few developers in India. Sometime before I started the project, the American company I now work for contracted out a security audit of the code, and one of the obvious conclusions was that "safe string functions should be used" - strcpy() had been used to copy user input to statically sized buffers such that it was vulnerable to classic buffer overflows, all over the place. Requirement set, requirement followed - now strncpy() and strncmp() etc were used everywhere, but always either uselessly (25% of the time) or wrong and unsafe (75%). Most typical was to use the length of the source, calculated with strlen(). Now, I guess it was not specified "use strncpy() correctly, with the size of the destination". Failure of specification, right?

For what it's worth, the root of the problems on this particular project are that the original American lead dev was not that great and set some bad examples, which the outsourced devs copy diligently and industriously.

(But then again, it's not enough to say "this is clearly wrong, it will overflow if (expr)" - they tend to need explicit examples to copy. Sometimes they impress me by figuring the cause of a tricky bug. Sometimes they write smart but actually useless code, like using floats and log() to figure out how big a buffer is needed to print a uint16_t in decimal - 5 bytes will suffice, no float math needed. Sometimes they write 20 lines of code to calculate how long the string result of snprintf() will be, instead of using the size of the destination, right after I've lectured on what strncpy() is for. They often seem less thoughtful than a neural net. I've even seen "buf[strlen(buf)] = '\0'" - I just have no words sometimes.)
I do not intend to say QA as an type of engineering position does not exist. What I was responding to is the parent's claim that "most large companies have a QA team so this fear is not super tangible to many developers"; that's not true in general.
Amazon is supposed to make money with innovation, not exploitation.
It's not a horrible place to work. I've worked at Microsoft and work for Amazon now. It's unavoidable that with a company the size of Amazon there will be some (maybe a lot) of bad areas to work and it's obvious that despite even the best hiring practices in the world, you'll find people winding up in a position for which they are not a good fit.

There's a lot of interesting work, though, and a lot of people happy working on it. I wouldn't tell anyone it's the best place to work or that it's "better" to work than another place, but I love what I do and work with hundreds of people who (more or less) feel the same. I also know people who don't feel this way and I encourage them to move on or move out because nobody should be in a job they really dislike (and I'm aware of the incredible privilege that's reflected by my ability to say that).
Clickbait to the max. Here's the summary at the end:

To summarize my main points: A few lucky men are at the top of society and enjoy the culture’s best rewards. Others, less fortunate, have their lives chewed up by it. Culture uses both men and women, but most cultures use them in somewhat different ways. Most cultures see individual men as more expendable than individual women, and this difference is probably based on nature, in whose reproductive competition some men are the big losers and other men are the biggest winners. Hence it uses men for the many risky jobs it has.
I think this is the most meaningful and valuable thing about it: `Result` gives you a type-level indication of the need for error handling, but in a manner that is sufficiently polymorphic and friendly to handle that it doesn't end up like Java's checked exceptions (which could be seen as a special sub-system of the type system).
Whatever you're reaching for here, it's quite a reach.

He sent an internal email about politics and it backfired. It's not like he gave a press conference announcing the company was in financial trouble.
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PPC Mac laptops used ADB as an internal protocol for many years after no Apple computer shipped with external ADB ports.

My recollection was that the transition to using USB as an internal protocol came slightly before the PPC->Intel transition, and that the first several generations of X86 Mac laptops used USB internally for trackpads and keyboards. You sure there were ever any using PS/2? Seems unlikely.
Maybe it's a larger home (say 5 bedrooms) and it's not near a university or college so students wouldn't want to live there, and the market for huge rentals like that isn't very good. Or maybe the market rent for the type of house is lower than the expected price appreciation /and/ you can sell it for me if it hasn't been lived in, so it's worthwhile to sit & flip rather than rent it out.
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The Water issues can be resolved using technologies developed / enhanced by Israel.
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And with good reason: polls measure popular vote, not electoral vote, and Trump most certainly did not win the popular vote by 8 points. He didn't even come close to that margin.
The one I'm watching (and this guy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/11/09/president...) is Peter Navarro. Presumably Trump is going to find 2 more people and make up a council, like Obama's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers, but it's an interesting data point as to whether Navarro ends up as chairman.
A sad day. I'm a big fan, had the privilege of seeing him perform four times and I've named my daughter Suzanne.

I cant be sure, but back in 2008 when he played "Democracy is coming to the USA" he seemed to be delighted that Obama won. IMHO this part of the song is more appropriate for Leonard's last days on earth: "I love the country but I can't stand the scene".

RIP

edit: removed comment about the president elect
Well, that makes me feel better. Let me rephrase: By buying Lenovo, you're supporting a company that exchanges the privacy and security of unwitting customers for profit.
It does not have to be wealthy people, just people who make substantially more then the locals. Housing prices have risen in my city(2nd tier city) in India. Most are brought by NRI's/outsiders, many vacant. There are numerous flats coming up. For locals it very difficult to acquire one, hence they are buying out in smaller cities, and prices have risen in smaller cities as well.
The hatred spewing out from the Left defies description. Instead of supporting Thiel he is now the enemy. How sad.
The near zero rates occurred in response to the economic crisis after the housing bubble burst, not a driver of the bubble.
An argument can be made that if abortion WAS murder, and prosecutable as murder, then every time an innocent woman had a miscarriage or stillbirth (which happens much more often than you realize), there would have to be a murder investigation (due to the possibility of the mom having induced the abortion somehow).

If the prospect of forcing millions of innocent women already suffering from a miscarriage through a trial (not to mention ALL the added cost and effort) doesn't horrify you, it should.

Secondly, over 50% of fertilized eggs never actually implant into the uterus and get washed out. If nature itself is tossing fully half of the fertilized eggs out, then a few more won't make much of an ethical difference.
And the US in the early 1800s.

Schuyler Towne has an amazing discussion of this, how Europeans routinely were laughing at American inventions... until they suddenly very much weren't.

It's in this talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjacHSTd48&list=UUBDpLXSbLH...

I'd link directly to the relevant five minutes but it's hard to justify doing that sort of harm, depriving you of the other great 45 minutes there.

(Ok, let's say it's 34ish to 41ish. Still, that entire thing is probably better than the other way you were going to spend some 50 minute block today.)
That's not really a science either. While there are things like experiments and the scientific method, most of computer science is a confluence of mathematics and engineering.
Bigotry is a state of mind, not a manifestation. I'm not arguing against the existence and dominance of a WASP authoritarian power structure. My point is that accusing someone of being a "bigot" without providing a valid argument for what constitutes that label is no more compelling than any other ad-hominem. All it does is reduce social justice to an empty virtue signaling buzzword that fails to evoke the struggle and pain behind those victims of discrimination that you fight to protect. You will never get your message across to Trump supporters if you continue to lump them all into a basket of deplorables that is beneath contempt and not even worth a thoughtful interaction. Modern liberals, particularly the "social justice warriors", aren't helping progressive causes with their dogmatic approach to political discourse. They could all benefit from reading Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power [1].

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam met with the KKK in 1961 despite mutual hostility that would never be ameliorated [2]. In 2016, your entire career can be ruined simply for holding the "wrong" opinion. Boy how things have changed.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/48-Laws-Power-Robert-Greene/dp/014028...

[2] http://www.vice.com/read/when-malcolm-x-met-the-nazis-000062...
Tens of millions of people are going out to the street and are not going to let these little goons take over America.
I'd put it at about 75% (1) (and we'll see how long that switch lasts; I really hope he manages to keep it up, although experience makes it difficult to be too optimistic) and 25% (2). The media really wanted stories about what a horrific boor Trump was. I expect they were good for clicks, and also I'm sure the vast majority of the college educated, urban members of the media honestly believed, as I do, that Trump wasn't fit for the Presidency, and wanted to convey that to others. A lot of the time he obliged; sometimes he didn't, and so they stretched to make it fit. ("Kicking out" the mother and baby from the speech was one of the most egregious examples.) Ultimately they did their own cause a disservice, as many people wrote off all Trump reporting as biased, and he ended up getting away with a great deal that he shouldn't have.

I watched his acceptance speech live and was mildly encouraged. I still have grave doubts, but since there's no going back, all we can do now is make the best of it.
This kind of thing has been going on for years in one guise or another but the BBC has some axes to grind so lets make out it's something unique to amazon.

The BBC actually has some bogus self-employment issues of it's own but since this is just 'talent' using clever tax avoidance methods it's not a story.
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Whatever Trump might do policy-wise with regards to freedom of speech and our democracy, realize that Thiel literally sued a popular media company out of existence over things they wrote about him. I don't think this gets better soon.
You are drawing the literal opposition conclusion of my argument. The fact that North Carolina allowed child labor was part of how they pulled manufacturing out of the north east, but over time, as the benefits of the economic growth produced wealth, it was able to eliminate awful practices like child labor.

My argument is that trade with the developing world will pull them out of poverty, decreasing global inequality, and as the population becomes wealthy, they will demand more labor, environmental and social protections. This is supported by the history of the developed worlds progress over the last 30 years.

I am not suggesting we preserve a differential between regions or countries. I am suggesting that free trade tends to create equilibrium over time as wages converge. I am also suggesting that tariffs and trade barriers preserve economic disparity as it keeps assets, labor, capital and knowledge locked behind these barriers.

I think a cursory reading of history supports this argument first with the development of the American economy and now the global economy.

Last point: China is now experiencing outsourcing of textile and furniture manufacturing to Vietnam and other counties because wages have become too high.
Surely, the Title is. But the view, and his theorys in this article are truly opposite of the Stereotype thinkings about that topic today.

Most of the day, Males saying femals arenz better or worse than men, are called Old angry White men in my filterbubble.

Edit: wanted to say, there could be a good discussion about it.
The revolution came about first, but the United States government was enacted by a vote of the second continental congress, formed of delegates from the thirteen colonies.

What I'm getting at is that the rulers of the new government voted to start it. That's pretty much what I'd expect from any government.
I can second this. Mike is incredibly down to earth. In talking with him (briefly) about Sidekiq as a business, he seemed intent on making sure it remained compatible with his current lifestyle.
I hear working hours are more about the team than the company.
Dunno, were you around when Reagan was in office? He nodded off in public frequently, once famously in a meeting with the Pope.
Hilarious!

Most of you (HN commentators) were bashing Britons when they decided to leave the EU (which policies they don't like), calling them backwards, xenophobic, etc.

And now you want to do the same. And perceive it as 'progressive'.

Moreover:

1. EU had been imposing unpopular polices over Britons for years. Trump administration hasn't introduced any policy yet, moreover, it hasn't formed yet.

2. Trump and Pence were _elected_ in a direct democratic elections. European Commission president and all commissioners are being _appointed_ by ruling elites.

In future political science textbooks this will serve as a prominent example of the phenomenon named 'liberal hypocrisy'.
I did buy one od these XPS developer edition. It comes with ubuntu.

If we want to signal to the market that we want laptop with linux we need to support this kind of initiative. The fact that linux just work without any changes is great.
United States haves Trump. We have Rajoy and the PP (Popular Party) ....
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I don't think this article is that bad. The article was actually quite moderate in its perspective and would lead to a (hopefully) insightful discussion here.
> no one is saying that the termpreature isn't getting warmer

Many are, until recently the most common talking point was "it's cooled since 1998".

1. We have temperature data going back lot further than that, just not direct measurements.

2. Mars has an extremely different atmosphere than ours, Our only commonality is the sun which is actually in a cool period.

3. Can you propose a better explanation for the observed warming? It's a massive amount of energy that has to come from somewhere. When there is a theory that fits the data and you want to challenge that then you need a better theory. Galileo faced the same problem.
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I agree but it wouldn't be a headline if the title did not include a well known name like Amazon.
Ah, yes, if only the British had responded to the American rebellion by "not allowing it", then the US would have never existed.

That sounds reasonable.
Maybe the word "feud" wasn't strong enough. Have you seen what's happening in Turkey? My Turkish friend suggested that's where this leads.
You can smash ahead with unwrap()s and get something that works. And then when you want to make it reliable, you know where to look. It's like the language forces me to put in those "// TODO"s my code would otherwise be full of..
This is true and also true of any company Amazon's size.
>Reader

Not quite sure what you mean there. If you are talking about the Lexer, it's also rather simple since LISP doesn't need lookahead. Everything is in prefix notation.

>Garbage Collector

Which can be incredibly simple since you only have the persistent global scope and the list local scope, so you only discard data that goes out of scope. There are no references

Heck, you could probably just write the Garbage Collector in LISP too.

>Hash Table

LISP-family languages usually aren't called LISP for being Hash Table Processors. There are only lists.

>Vectors, Object System, Stack Unwinding, Closures

Not needed either, you can macro Vectors, you can macro the Object System, you have lists, not a stack and closures are a basic property of the language last I checked.

>Unicode

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LISP is a rather simple language since you can write a macro for almost everything, a minimal implementation only needs a couple keywords. Object Systems are usually implemented via macros.

It is special because after implementing a minimal set, you can program the language itself to provide the rest.

And I'd like you to name another language that is not assembler or original BASIC where you would not have to implement
all this stuff while remaining as simple and expressive as LISP.

I don't think you really need any of this complicated 1960s and later stuff. LISP is the second oldest programming language, it's really not complex.
The transaction was before the elections. Looks perfectly normal to me.
And in 2 years Democrats might control the house.
Thanks for posting those links. The thing to think about is that the 'protesters' that showed up at the rallies were precisely the people the DNC sent there to try there hardest to stir up violence.

The DNC sent those protesters to provoke violent confrontation that the Clinton media operatives at the networks could use to craft the narrative that trump was a big baddie.

So while its not the sort of behaviour anyone want to see in an election. The fact remains that the entire scenario was being crafted by the DNC to damage there opponent which is far worse then what happened on the ground.

The use of fake protesters sent to stir up violence at political events is an attack on democracy itself. And an attempt to shut down peoples write to participate in a democratic society. In that light the behaviour of Trump is quite understandable.

Would you let a few paid protesters shut down your political rally?
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Coders who make over 85k a year are exempt from overtime rules in the State of California. Your comparison is not valid.

Knowing labor laws in the state you work in is very important. I would recommend that everyone understand what makes an employee exempt and if they qualify.