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Note that this is the order of display:

The order of display of hunk slots is historical in nature. For better or worse, the elements of a hunk display in order except that the 0th element is last, not first. e.g., for a hunk of a length n+1, (cxr1 . cxr2 . ... . cxrn . cxr0 .)

It could still make sense to have the layout in memory being sequential, like (cxr-0 == CDR, cxr-1 == CAR, ...others ...).

Note also that CAR extracts the leftmost element of a hunk, just as it addresses the leftmost element of a cons. Similarly, CDR extracts the rightmost element of hunks and conses.

It seems more logical that CADR is just the combination of CAR with CDR. It don't think the designers would try to transpose the fact that it means "second", with proper lists, for hunks. It just seems unlikely, but I have no proof.

Also:

(Note that the operation CAR is undefined on hunk-1's, but CDR is not.) This means that if you want to make a plist for a hunk of your own, you can use its cdr as a hunk; it does not mean that you can blindly assume that any hunk wants its CDR treated that way. The exact use of the slots of a hunk is up to the creator; it's a good idea to mark your hunks (e.g., by placing a distinctive object in their cxr-1 slot) so that you can tell them from hunks created by other programs.

My guess is that there is some metadata associated with a hunk, stored in CRX-0, a.k.a. CDR.

http://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/hunks.html
You'd have to part with some sort of security token to make this possible so I'd say you need to trust the site or set up a limited access account.
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>Except that it does not

You contradicted here but provided nothing to back it up? Why don't you think freeing people from driving has value?
Not the same thing, obviously, but 1/10th the price: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html.
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>the kinds of fraud models you'd expect from a web startup

Code written in Javascript by a fresh college graduate with no domain knowledge that you pulled from GitHub?

When evaluating a financial service the last thing I ever want to hear is that it's run like a "web startup".
You don't have to repeal anything. You use the budget process to cancel all individual and employee mandate penalties, eliminate the relevant taxes and subsidies, and roll back funding for the Medicaid expansion.

Then you just sit back and let it collapse on itself.
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I think a lot of people crave work or spend all their "alone" time having a relationship with a computer because they are not comfortable in their own skin.[0]

[0] I say that because it applies 100% to me.
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Uhm.. it won't be MADE. It won't be RESEARCHED. It won't be MARKETED. It won't go through CLINICAL TRIALS.

I wonder how low the average HN reader IQ has gotten lately that my insightful comment got downvoted and that I have to deal with crap like yours. Way too many total little teenagers and idiots on this site now.
0.5/0.38 a very fine line? I'm using Staedtler pigment liners which are 0.05. The downside is that my handwriting has become positively tiny...
Red light cameras have nothing to do with safety, they are an income stream for cities.
My issue with Telerik was more to do with their free tools. The installer tries everything to install trials of everything, and the free tools dial home every time you start them and try to encourage you to log in to a Telerik account or upgrade. At one point they were using a port/protocol blocked by our corporate firewall to download the "what's new/updates are available" content and Just Decompile would literally crash every time it started up unless I disabled all of my network cards/wifi. But not immediately, it would fully start and it would be like 10 - 15 seconds later that it bombed. Not the greatest. It's a shame, because the actual free products are very good once you get past those annoying shortcomings.
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Assuming it's all self-driving and networked, why not? The next smartphone (or implant) could warn cyclists and pedestrians as well.

That's a little futuristic, but sensors and software could potentially be good and cheap to get things safe.
If you don't drive much the fixed costs of buying the car factor in much more negatively compared to the variable costs. Every trip you make costs much more than someone who drives a lot.

This is no easy function as it depends on your fixed costs vs. variable costs and trip lengh.

Especially for people going shot distances on rare occasions a rented car might be the better option.
Are Transferwise profitable and earning at least their cost of capital?

While I hear your startup vs big guys point, I looked at the public companies in this industry before and was amazed at how much they do spent on compliance systems (much of which is for automated checks) and also of course on human checks/follow-ups.

Two things stood out:
1. How unprofitable the smaller of the public players in this space (e.g. Moneygram) were as a result of regulators pushing for ever-higher reductions in fraud, using threats of the kind of action that was taken against WU as a stick. WU spends $200m a year on compliance, and if remember correctly unprofitable Moneygram just completed an $80m IT system upgrade.

2. In addition to the large up-front fixed cost for systems, how much ongoing variable compliance cost these companies have to spend because fraudsters are notoriously good at figuring out how to beat automated KYC checks.

If Transferwise are just using automated checks and not the additional human reviews that WU uses (per the article 25% of their workforce are devoted to compliance) , aren't Transferwise just basically biding time until they get large enough to attract the attention of an attorney general due to the undiscovered fraudulent transactions going through the system? Then bam $586m fine like the one just handed to WU and you go out of business.

How can a startup that charges 25% of the revenue of the only profitable public player in the space hope to cover the variable compliance cost required to mitigate this risk?

I recognise that the argument often put forth is that the fintech startups match people on either side and hence take out the bid/ask spread on the exchange rate transaction, but doesn't this ignore that the largest money flows are uni-directional - i.e. remittance payments from immigrants in wealthy countries sending money back home? The matching breaks down if the money-flow is predominantly one-way.

Genuinely interested in the answers to the above - I passed on an investment in the industry because I couldn't get comfortable with the above.
I'd rather that - than run like Western Union. Lol
yeah, it feels like in 2010, you had awesome mac and pc options. Snow Leopard was perhaps the best OS ever.
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`pyenv which pip` would be the command that answers the specific point you mentioned :). That also works for any bin that gets shimmed by pyenv.

It also has plugins to automatically work with venv, if you don't mind some 'magic' in your workflow.

Overall it's a solid setup.
> Again, please show me any talk which says, that developers benefit from the need to address vendor lock-in which forces them to support multiple APIs instead of having an option of good cross platform ones. I doubt you can show any such talk.

You know that even OpenGL requires multiple paths full with extensions for supporting properly various render targets, right?

So if there isn't a talk accessible in the Internet it didn't happen?!

Again, talk to professional game developers, which apparently it is something you don't do.

As for the rest, FOSS advocates see lock-in as an hindrance, professional game developers see lock-in as the right set of features to make their game outsell the others.

That was the magic of computer hardware like Commodore 64, Atari, Amiga.

It was the lock-in to their hardware, to their special processors that made these platforms special, and many of the ports just meh quality.

This is the culture of games industry, pushing an agenda without understanding how the industry works, is like D. Quixote fighting windmills.

> But I suppose you'll say that it's all imaginary. In such case further discussion is pointless.

Of course, because I have the game industry experience that you lack and are unwilling to accept how it actually works.

Which I might add, also caused me issues in the past, because I used to think like you, before having had the opportunity to see the industry from inside.
Me too, and I've tried a lot of setups before settling on this. I can download faster from Amazon drive than reading from a USB 2.0 hard drive, and rclone makes it easy to keep important documents in sync on both services as well as locally.
They are also regulars here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rsync and (for example) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13277835
I think the problem of many engineers is that they think that they do not need to take part in low or dirty practices of business. They think: "I'm smarter, and if I just do my job, I don't need to play dirty games to be successful." However, reality does not agree, unfortunately. On the other hand, many engineers get to have very intellectually fulfilling jobs.
why would I use this over tarsnap?
It has nothing to do with FOSS specifically. Lock-in is a hindrance for pragmatic reasons. Time costs money, which you seem to blindly ignore. Trying to say that lock-in is something positive is beyond silly.

> Of course, because I have the game industry experience

Apparently your experience didn't demonstrate you the negative effects of lock-in. May be you can develop an engine for all APIs at once for the cost of one?

So far, I'm waiting for some more substantial sources from you about benefits of lock-in for the industry, and how it's not a tax that hinders development, instead of abstract "get it from GDC".
> ~24 times faster to implement

But these two generators don't deliver the equivalent power, 72,000 MWH versus 80 MWH so 900 times difference. Are we going to say that to generate the equivalent power the battery plant would need to be 900 times bigger and therefore take up to 900 times longer to build? 900 x 4 months = 3,600 months = 300 years.

> they're smaller

Again, these two generators don't deliver the equivalent power, 72,000 MWH versus 80 MWH so 900 times difference. Are we going to say that to generate the equivalent power the battery plant would need to be 900 times bigger or that we'd need 900 of them, each with their own facilities and connectors and security placed near the population they serve?
Texting a driving is worse. I don't understand why so many people rail against people driving after a few drinks but will then play with their phone while driving.

Would you be for making the punishment for texting and driving worse than a DUI? It should be if it's relative to the harm it causes.
This site is going down the drain. More and more like Slashdot and others. I'll only post useless comments any more, anything else is a waste of effort. The only way to achieve change is to make things WORSE. New mission: I'll slowly help lower the quality of this "discussion" with two many angry know-nothing teenagers even more.
RE the warrant canary: all legal analysis I've seen points to the canary being functionally useless. A court would throw out the defense immediately, removing a canary pointing out that a warrant has been served is the same as tweeting that you got a warrant.

It's the minimal legal hack: completely useless in a court but massive generator of internet comments

Though it generating discussion around the warrants themselves is a good feature
Judging from TFA it's due to KeePassX having one maintainer, so the pull requests all bottleneck with him. Also mentioned is that one desirable outcome of this is that KeePassXC developers are given co-maintainer status of KeePassX and that they re-merge down the line.
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That requires the stuff to be in the storage unit rather than randomly distributed across seat cushions, door cubbyholes, cupholders, and so on.

(Cheap robotic guaranteed theft-free car valeting might change this, I grant you)
There's been a kneejerk reaction to ban e-cigarettes in English MH hospitals. Justifications vary from "we don't know it's safe", "we think the nicotine is harmful unless it's being used to quit smoking and also being tapered down", to "The batteries are dangerous".

This ban isn't just on actively vaping inside the hospital, but having the unpowered device, or vaping in the hospital grounds.
Some people mentioned that b2 is "get what you pay for" with heavy usage throttling bandwidths and stuff like that.

(I cannot verify these claims since I have never used b2, I'm just noting what people told me).
Yes I would absolutely be in favor of this.
Yeah, I think engineers have decent prestige, what we lack is business leverage. Which to me is the real indicator of class.

In terms of leverage, we are on par with administrative office workers, construction workers and labourers - It didn't have to be that way, but companies have managed to turn us into replaceable commodities.

I think that even sales people and HR recruiters these days have more leverage than we do.
> I've configured Chrome to not send my address bar to Google and to encrypt my sync with a custom passphrase.

Remove physical microphone from your computer, Chome will turn it on randomly and send recordings to Google.
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But DOS executable name can be maximum 8 characters, KeepassXC is too long.
Nobody lost their land to a bloodthirsty colonialist. These indigenous families opted to sell their land and were compensated at some point. So please elaborate on what you mean by Zuckerberg's boundless "greed"?

Were I indigenous, I think I'd actually find this kind of Western academic white-knighting slightly offensive. You'd be essentially questioning the agency, sovereignty, and decision-making capacity of my people's ability manage resources.

The partial land-owners with lineage to the original 14 parcels of land on the North Island are being compensated for something then never knew they had, and are not being evicted from the land. Those that sold their land also initially knew what they were doing. So it's unfair to hold Zuckerberg solely accountable for the market forces that dispossess the indigenous of their land.
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I've been wondering is there any disadvantage in using password hashers (either as plugins like [0] or standalone) for generating safe passwords? It seems like a great idea to me, yet most people here seems to be prefer full blown PW manager apps or even online services for this. Am I missing something?

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What makes my suspicious is that I can't find any information on the company itself anywhere on the site. Where are they headquartered? What's their contact information? It's not even clear under what jurisdiction they operate.
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You would have to merge entries added on different devices manually, however.
The answer to al your questions is: in a perfectly competitive market, the two pricing strategies lead to the same price.

However an hour of one person's life does not have the same market value as an hour of another person's life.
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An important point to note is that esp. with S3 infrequent access or Glacier there are additional costs associated with restoring, which can be quite high. With S3/Glacier one needs to spend a bit of time to even figure out how much a restore would cost.
I dropped backblaze when I read that you have to reattach external disks every 30 days or so or they'd just wipe the whole backup of that disk.
I doubt this will be read as I've taken too long in replying. But does it matter? If only 1% get to create new and interesting projects, then that is 1% more than at the moment.
anyone that can suggest me a personal backup system? I've < 100GB of photos (RAW) to store as a second backup (I already have them in an external HD). Amazon Glaciar could work for me, just i don't get much how it works and if I can use as a sort of Dropbox with very low access rate.
Hey - great questions

So the reality is that - "moving money" costs - almost nothing.

Think about it. The process of doing a bank to bank transfer (what transferwise does) - involves one bank in one country, crediting another banks account in the originating country, and then the money turns up in a "correspondent"or "nostro" account in another country. The matching bit helps - but the real magic - is that monopolisitic incumbents have been charging spreads for years - TransferWise is different as they aren't greedy.

You are right - that fraud and KYC checks - are significant in the industry - but lets step through what these are.

I can share that we actually have pretty sizeable complaince and fraud teams - larger than many established financial services companies - but unlike them Fraud and KYC is part of the product - not a sign off team. The team understand our global regulatory responsibilities, and try to understand how tomeet them; whilst trying to figure out how to reduce customer and friction andcostin the process. There's been a complete lack of innovation in this domain for decades due to the dynamics you've outlined.

Forexample with KYC:

From KYC perspective - you have to verify that a customer is who they say they are - and check they aren't on any AML blacklists etc.

Different jurisidictions - have different thresholds (limits) at which they ask for KYC checks in place.

With Western Union Digital (and with transferwise) - someone may take apicture of their passport, driving licence, scan and upload. This then needs to be verified.

For its first few years - like other players in the industry - validated every single one of these documents individually - but over time got to a point where they had built up enough data to be able to validate these documents in an automated fashion. Inevtiably given how strict regulation is in this industry - the onus is still not on letting the bad guys through

I can't comment in public on transferwise's profitability - but can say the business has been operating sustainably for over a year - i.e. not losing money on a transaction - and investing sensibly on marketing.

Marketing is relatively small spend for Unicorn B2c startup - with over 80%+ of new customers coming in through WoM
I think perhaps po1nter meant the actual 'KeePass': http://keepass.info/
> "new services as a service"

Accurately describes systemd's development over the past few years.
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I've been looking into rsync.net for personal offsite backups (turns out using zfs locally doesn't make offsite easier), and was just doing the math comparing the monthly cost to buying drives, filling them, and leaving them at lab. Rsync.net offers a ton of awesome features, sadly the pricing is about an order of magnitude too high for a personal use case :(.
"Developers use what the hardware allows."

Nonsense. Developers use hardware as well as they understand within given project constraints.

Optimizing modern game engine to run fast is generally considered a non-trivial task. The more arbitrary the hardware platform, the harder it is to optimize.

Yes, if PC port had to target only a specific, known, hardware and software combination (say a specifiv i7 with gtx 1080) then they could probably optimize the shit out of it.

A console is a fixed, known target. Thus it takes much less resources to optimize for it - thus developers can reuse their understanding from project to project.

The AAA game scene is full of recent examples with crawling PC ports, such as Arkham Knight.
>But let's not talk about the opponents of this as if they are flat-earthers or white supremacists or something - their stance is just as reasonable as any other socio-economic-political view.

Sure. The NIMBYs are not flat-earthers but they are definitely an impediment to attracting the next generation of young entrepreneurial people to this area. While building more housing might hurt them slightly in the short term, it needs to be done for the greater good. If this needs legislation at the state level, so be it. In this scenario I have very little sympathy for the rational NIMBYs. They had the opportunity for years to responsibly increase the housing supply so that we didnt need heavy handed approaches, but they chose to be greedy and short sighted which means they will have to loose their power.
Hey some people win the lottery, right?

The relative odds aren't quite right, but consider how many people you might know who lost their PCs to virii, compared to people compromised by their Google searches.... Maybe it's a wash ;)

I think your likelyhood of getting your PC messed up is pretty dependant on habits too. You're much more likely to get hit by drive-by adware if you're (on Windows and) going to those random illegal streaming sites to watch some show than if you're reading HN.

An example: I was on a less than stellar video hosting site, and a bunch of pop-ups got me to accidentally download "FlashPlayer.dmg"

I'm pretty well versed in this stuff! And they got me to download this right as I was going to watch this video. If I didn't know better, it would have been like all those other plugin updaters (of course you need root to install flash right?)

Of course, updated Chrome didn't prevent this case for me...
I find it a bit tasteless to use the term slavery or wage slavery for essentially a job that you don't like but feel compelled to do to survive when there's still real slavery going on in the world. The outcome of disobedience is (assumed) unemployment which in most countries where this term is used doesn't even mean you starve or suffer severely. The outcome for real slaves is a bit more dramatic.
Attempting to load https://www.twitch.tv/ results in ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED.

Doesn't seem usable.
Yeah, after a quick look I already found an XSS on a *.webex.com subdomain, but it only works in Internet Explorer and Edge because these browsers doesn't escape URLs, so it doesn't affect the Chrome or Firefox extensions but tells something about how secure these subdomains are (and the IE browsers).
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The internet has been fast enough for 10 years. Something else is preventing teleworking from becoming the norm.