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How "true" this statement is (with all its flaws) really depends on the country. If you look at gun ownership over the world as a whole and individual countries we can see that some countries have very high gun ownership, like the USA, but they do also share the homicide rate. This if anything shows its possible to have guns within the community without large numbers of murders and accidents.

In America the argument is regularly used to defend the position of maintaining the gun laws as they are, as right, but its actually quite true that as a culture Americans kill each other more than many other developed countries. That isn't really the gun, they are the weapon of choice but as an outsider looking in I see a lot of violence and it appears to be associated with the cultural heritage in your country.

I visited Las Vegas earlier in the year and I spent some time in a range there firing all sorts of assault rifles and pistols and such. I love firing weapons and here in the UK I am limited in what I can do, no assault rifles for example nor even a 9mm pistol. But one thing an ex marine working on the range said was "I think the USA has a violence problem and guns make it worse". I think that is the truth and until the USA really starts talking about why they have so many people in prison, why its so disproportionately black people, why the homicide rate is so high when compared to most other developed countries the fix isn't going to be obvious. If you remove guns it might help reduce the lethality of the violence, maybe more people will survive knife and other attacks, but its not going to actually solve the underlying reasons for the violence.

The problem is there are two sides to this, people using guns kill people, and people not using guns also kill people:
Guns AND People => Death is TRUE
People AND NOT Guns => Death is also TRUE

Guns are thus irrelevant, its a term that can be removed entirely and the statement reduced to people killing people. The question is really do guns increase the amount of deaths due to their relatively lethality and ease of death dealing and that most probably is true compared to most other personal weapons due to there range and the damage they inflict. But People killing People as I have pointed out has dramatically different rates in different countries, guns don't necessarily increase homicides that is all based on the culture and laws of a country.
Other happy T430 user here. Great keyboard and trackpoint. The touchpad is meh, but you don't really need it with the trackpoint.
AFAIR it works by storing the most likely human move for every 3 move sequence e.g. "St Pa, St Sc, St St".

If we assume most players play similarly, and don't remember much more than the last three results, this works really well.
To clarify for the poster who asked you the question, playing aggressively might mean better more than your hand otherwise dictates, but it might also mean betting more often even if you don't change your bet size.

For example, you might always fold low pairs 22-66 initially (and perhaps conspicuously reveal that you folded them) but then start raising with them later. If your opponents were paying attention, then (a) they will think you have a good hand, and may be scared into folding right now, but (b) even if they don't, they won't suspect you of having a low pair, so that if e.g. a 2-6 comes up on the board and gives you three of a kind, you have an advantage because your opponents won't consider that you have this hand.
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Ah, I did see the T440P but there was something that put me off. Maybe I got the weight wrong (thinking it was much heavier than the T440). Or perhaps there was something in the service manual (which is fantastic, by the way) - awkward HDD upgrade or similar.

As an aside, the dual-batteries on the T440 are fantastic. Though you do need to remember to disconnect the internal one when doing any work inside the unit.
Afaict that's not technically correct. For example the GPL doesn't require that you provide the source code up-front, it's enough if you provide it when asked for. Which seems to be what the epic folks do.
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Can someone touch on the legalities of using a radio band frequency in the U.S.? I didn't skim the source, so my presumption was it's within a reserved band.
Then we can invent in a proper paywall, something that works unintrusively. And then users are the customers again, and we can get our internet back.
I've heard very good reviews for the X1 Carbon. The only cons are: 1)weird keyboard layout 2)low-quality mousepad. Except for that the X1 Carbon seems to be a perfect Linux laptop. My friend's running Arch and it's working like a breeze.
I don't think there's anything wrong with what they say. Your chance of winning one round of RPS is 1/3. Out of three games you win once, lose once and draw once on average.

If you replay when a draw occurs, then of course you have a 1/2 chance of winning.
From what I've heard the driving/licensing test in Germany is actually a test - in the United States the written test questions show a picture of a stop sign and ask what it means (there are then three multiple choice options).

The driving portion is not much more difficult.
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Ah, I think you misunderstood my post. I like my ssd as well, but I don't care if the laptop comes with one, as I'll just buy one separately and fit it myself. :)
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The order is presumably the same in Chinese as in English, given the conclusion.
DNT is not designed to protect everyone's privacy, it was meant a way to grow a clear sign that people don't want to be tracked. If browsers really wanted to protect people's privacy, they'd block 3rd party cookies by default and show 1st party cookies as a warning.
Same in Chinese: 剪刀石头布: scissors stone cloth
For HDMI/DVI you can get a converting dongle, but the 8GB RAM is definitely not going to be possible; the '945 is a 32-bit chipset.

That said, I have an X60 and it's a great machine to use, if only a bit underpowered these days.
The problem is that you can't compare $100 purchasing power in USA with $100 in a remote village in Peru.

Imagine that instead of $100, they give you $10.000 and things change. Would you refuse $1.000 free money even if someone earns $9.000?. Hardly.

But this is exactly what is happening. With 1000 euros/month I live like a king in some parts of South America,like Argentina, but I live badly in Europe, the cost of living is way higher.
I hadn't actually seen Facebooks numbers, but that impressive. You're right, they don't fit in then :-)
Yeah I don't use the touchpad most of the time either. With a huge SSD and plenty of RAM, the i7-3520M T430S gets the job done.

I'm not entirely pleased with the screen quality, but perhaps I've been spoiled by the IPS display on my personal laptop (Dell XPS 13) and my desktop monitor (Samsung S24C750PS).

My one complaint is that the keyboard isn't as robust as previous models. After only a few months I already have some keys which don't work without a firm push. I could sent it away for repair (or replace the keyboard myself) but I can't afford the downtime and tend to use an external mechanical keyboard when I'm not travelling anyway.
I think people in the US don't understand effectively how afraid US allies are about criticising it. No one ever wants to stick it's head above the parapet and risk damaging relations - even when the US does bad stuff like torture in Gitmo. Especially if your from a small country. Even a big country like Germany is more afraid about damaging relations than standing up for the rights of its own citizens.
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> On this matter of drive Edison says, "Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration." He may have been exaggerating, but the idea is that solid work, steadily applied, gets you surprisingly far.

The thing that is often forgotten about this little gem by Edison is that it was during a live radio debate with Tesla. Tesla came back with "If Mr. Edison thought a bit more, he wouldn't have to sweat so much". It is ironic in that it would have been a more appropriate quote for Hamming to use.
I've only used it once, for hand wobble correction (it did quite well), perhaps higher frequencies break the algo used.
Ok, afaik we're evolved to be programmed by culture -- we're more optimized to get respect from others than to earn money.

But... I wonder how much of this is an effect of an inability to see some things about other cultures, because of political correctness?

Some differences are just shocking to modern westerners.

If you have read a bit of mideaval history, you realize there are some similarity between traditional clan cultures and modern organized crime families; e.g. the lack of humanity assigned to outsiders. This is not possible to discuss, since some places on the planet still have similar societies.

Another example is that tolerated pederasm (greek/roman style) is not gone from the planet. It is hard to know, since it isn't really discussed even by e.g. NY Times.

(All these are obvious examples from my own media, yours might be different.)
This kind of problems is going to be more prominent as "Internet of Things" starts to take off. I was rather concern about Nest, our cars, Fridges etc being connected to the Internet and, on some devices, the security is quite low. This article is shows an example of it.
This is very much a beginner's book. When I interviewed for internships in the summer of 2008, the interviewers expected that I would already be familiar with a large portion of the content of this book.
Most people know somebody whose emphysema, cancer, or other air-pollution related disease was at least exacerbated by exhaust. They just don't know that they do. This could even be you a few decades hence.

Ironically this is similar to the danger posed by low-level radiation releases (except exhaust is far more dangerous), except everyone freaks out when their local radiation levels are 10% above baseline, but nobody cares when local pm2.5 levels are 20% above baseline. (They do notice at 1000%, to their credit).
I'd start with Smart Referrer

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer...
i don't see any link on your pages to them, so just saying.. i wonder if kobo toolkit, open data kit, and related projects are of any use to you..
I live in Tokyo and I absolutely love walking. I sometimes do 10-15 km a day easily. There are so many small interesting back alleys and hidden nooks and crannies here that you could spend half a lifetime exploring this city and still not find everything it has to offer.

I find walking, observing my surroundings and watching people extremely mentally stimulating but also relaxing. It's a great way to get rid of stress and come up with some fresh ideas at the same time. Besides, when you live in a city that's visually appealing, it's hard to get bored even when you're just going from point A to point B.

Tokyo is very pedestrian friendly, maybe even more so than many European cities. Why American cities are hostile to pedestrians is a mystery to me.
I can point you to their test rack:

http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg

They run every version of OpenBSD in every machine they support, including 32bit SPARC, HP 300 and SGI. By running in all those machines they uncover subtle bugs that are made evident by architecture differences.

Also, please see http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/tree/regre...
> The stakes Henrich used in the game with the Machiguenga were not insubstantial—roughly equivalent to the few days’ wages they sometimes earned from episodic work with logging or oil companies.

I don't think he offered $100. It was probably a much smaller amount.
I've done a bit of everything, from web development to embedded systems and electronics; currently mostly the latter. Some reverse-engineering included.
Looks interesting. Had to work out that I could right-click, and CTRL+Space opened the menu. Buttons for those with the keyboard shortcuts / instructions in tooltips would have been helpful.
Eh, where was this line of reasoning when I was hand editing autoexec.bat and config.sys files to find an IRQ and DMA channel that would work with my soundblaster?

Sounds like a steaming pile of BS to me. MS could have done a far better job supporting both user levels by leaving the win7 gui alone, and adding in the start screen, and allowing this specific option during setup.

Don't believe the arguments of "individual contributor" level employees. They are lied to as much as we are.
>> okay, you win with 1/3, your opponent wins with 1/3, and where is the other 1/3? :)

Wouldn't that remaining 1/3 be the odds for it being a draw?
I have had no luck trying to install npm packages whenever I needed something. It's always some sort of dependency or index or some other problem.
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Try to avoid dual GPU setup laptops like Dell Inspirion 5521 I'm using with Linux Mint.

It's hard to get external monitors / projectors etc to work with this setup.
Only issue I have with mine is that they have non-expandable 4 GB memory, since it's soldered onto the motherboard. I think some of the later models can be manually expanded up to 10 GB.
> They're not your typical CNN

Seriously they are, just with a different agenda.
Have a similar configuration on my T530 as well, wonderful laptop.But I do need to tweak my TLP setting I get around 4-5 but think I have a 6cell
I was wondering about space applications.

A sheet might maybe self heal after gamma radiation, that is why I asked (depending on environment, there might not be much else to happen?). Most other radiation is charged and might be kept away with strong magnetic fields.

But, as I wrote, this was a long time ago.
Should be "rare occasions" I think. Great quote.
I'm on a T-series running ubuntu and it's the best machine I've ever owned. It's fast, reliable, has 6 hours of battery and it's taken a serious kicking and still works perfectly.

It's irritating that they won't sell them without windows, but at least they're guaranteed compatible.
Why do you think that "the lack of humanity assigned to outsiders" is some kind of taboo? I have seen that discussed in relation to world war II or even current politics. You do not need to go medieval to encounter it.
Yeah, it involves quite complicated questions about driving (a diagram with yourself, a pedestrian, a cyclist, a tram, and 3 other cars - you have to specify who goes in what order), and also technical questions, like "your temperature gauge is going into the red zone - what do you do?" or "on a winter day your windows get foggy from inside when driving - what is the safest solution?", and also general question about laws "what is the bac limit?", "how fast can you go on the autobahn when the conditions are poor?"(answer:130km/h(~80mph)).
Also, I don't think binary-blob-free versions of Coreboot on the X60 like that one can run recent versions of Linux as-is; there's some issue with the graphics drivers according to the Coreboot wiki[1]

[1] http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60#Problems_in_native_...
TL&DR Regulations need to require interoperability and cross-platform with medical records and images.

As a "Cancer Dad" the electronic medical records and images that are closed and inaccessible between my local hospital where we got our chemotherapy and the Children's Hospital where we did our major surgeries was mind blowingly crazy.

I had to drive my bone cancer child 2.5 hours to use their equipment because there was an issue with the image file format. So I had to give my child enough pain killers to knock out a grown adult just so we could get the same pictures we could get 5 miles down the road.
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Nice concept. I was surprised to see it using HTML5 audio which was nice. Do you know how that affects the play count on SoundCloud? If you're using your own player instead of an embed do the artists lose out on the play?

Feature request: It would be nice if I could log in with my SoundCloud account and have the option to like tracks from your site.
The fact that they thought their research would get a negative reception clearly shows they're not cynical enough: They were providing a cast-iron case for everyone in the field to say "We need more funding to do new research" :)
Hey..your work can help you succeed. A cliche' .. I know.
But on serious note, you can share important articles, best practices. This need not be in person. But you could collate or email or use something crazy and simple as www.teamgum.com browser extension. It allows me to share, discuss & collaborate with the team.

Helping someone out in resolving work issue..is the best ice breaker. You can succeed for not just your work but contribution as a saviour in hour of need.

P.S. dont forget to order pizzas for your team to start a great conversation.
Usually for me it loads the search results, but also puts a "did you mean http://gerrit.gps" at the top. Clicking yes to that also remembers it for the future. I'm totally cool with this approach.
NOT AN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, but the chromebooks seem the best value-for-money laptops - and already have a linux distribution installed (ChromeOS). The Acer C720 has a Haswell dual-core and 2GB RAM - lower speced than your needs. There's the Pixel, I guess... (much higher speced).
ASUS N56 for me. Everything except the sub-woofer worked immediately and that was an easy fix. Awesome sound, great keyboard, pretty good to look at, good screen and touchpad. Downside is that it's a little heavier but that doesn't bother me at all. Had the N72 17" version too and it was also great.
Would it be possible to add system tests for some/all of these problems?

e.g. a test which calls explicit_bzero() in a way which would have it optimised out in a platform with a low-quality port.

A reasonably descriptive comment in the header (or failure text) of the test should guide a porter onto the path of wisdom.

(If there is a problem in that the test would need to inspect the output of explicit_bzero(), hence negating the optimisation, it can be implemented as multiple processes).
Your anecdote may tell us something about the "typical grandma end-user" situation, but it is totally irrelevant for situations that arise in large "enterprise" IT facilities, where the admins set everything up for you (in some central, network-booted/installed image), and the users don't really have to figure out anything. Configurations are centrally managed with cfengine etc.

Where I work we have around 10k RHEL workstations, and they are all centrally managed. Users neither install nor uninstall software, they don't set up printers, they don't set up their own hardware configurations, ...

Another example is Disney animations/pixar, where all animators use RHEL workstations.

Your colleague may have given up on ubuntu because he couldn't get "desktop dungeons" or "plants vs. zombies" to run without windows, but in a coorporate setting, management does not generally consider that a priority.
The answer's been the same for many years - Dell Latitude E6xxx, Lenovo Thinkpad T-series.

MacBooks are good buy if you live in the US, but here in Europe their prices/service/support are a joke.

Fujitsu is my favourite laptop brand, but their Linux support is iffy at best.
This is a fantastic explanation. anyone got any favourite uses of this / other resources to share of similar clarity?
My Dell Vostro 2520 seems to match all those requirements, but I added SSD by myself.
Patrick, I think you mentioned once, but could you please share an updated info regrading BCC Web app vs desktop version share percentages?
Yup, I believe Linus uses the Pixel.
The places that ban laptops love one-time pads...
In my experience, "sign in with Twitter" acts as a significant barrier because people don't actually know their Twitter password.
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I wish I had EFF's clout behind my work too[1]. In the last few months, I have been completely dedicated to write an extension which completely informs the user about what a web page does, and gives the user full control over what web sites do in his/her browser.

Spent hours after hours at not only making it work, but also making it work efficiently (wrote custom ABP engine from scratch which doesn't suffer the real one's abuse of memory/CPU), and yet barely anyone is noticing it.

EFF is also one of the recipient I suggest for people who really want to donate something for my work.

In any case, an important warning concerning any extension which modifies HTTP headers on Chromium-based browsers: only one extension is allowed to modify the HTTP headers[2], and since EFF's badger does modify outbound request headers, it will break any previously installed extension which relies on also modifying these headers to work properly.

This means mine[1] is incompatible, one of the two extensions won't be able to do what it says it does. This applies for any other extension modifying outbound HTTP headers.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard#http-switchboard-...

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest#implement...
That case is the easy case (though caching of included files is problematic in most build systems due to inability to express dependency on the inexistence of the included name in a previous include directory).

The hard case is changing defined macros in a way that doesn't matter but does pass extra -D flags to the compilation units. You can detect this by ad hoc preprocessor aware logic, or you can have a separate build step for preprocessing and do content aware rebuilds that avoid rebuilding if the preprocessed text is identical.
The key point discussed in the article is blocking. Erlang processes, like Go's goroutines and Quasar fibers on the JVM block without sacrificing any of the performance associated with asynchronous callback-based styles. The article says that there is no problem with the thread abstraction, and blocking in particular -- there's just a problem with the implementation of kernel threads that makes blocking expensive.

Callbacks, and the various attempts to make them more palatable (composable promises, monads), change the abstraction to get around implementation problems. Lightweight threads (or user-mode threads) simply fix the implementation, and preserve the threading/blocking abstraction.
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> the few days’ wages they sometimes earned from episodic work with logging or oil companies.

$100 is way less than "a few days' wages" for most people in the US/EU, right?
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Have you read The Madness of Adam and Eve?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Madness-Adam-Eve-Schizophrenia/dp/...
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I would have said "steen schaar papier" (rock scissors paper).

I guess, taken all over the world, most permutations show up.
How does the other process inspect the memory at the right time? How do you know all the scenarios where some compiler would optimize things out? It doesn't sound like it'd be easy to do a portable & reliable test.

Testing that your entropy source is good sounds harder still.

reallocarray() should be pretty easy to test though.

But how many potential issues will your tests miss? If we had perfect test coverage for everything (and the tests were perfect, or we had test for them...), all software would be 100% bug-free.

Tests might not hurt, but I am not sure trying to cater for braindead porters is a good idea. They might get the idea they're doing it right once they get the tests to pass one way or another...

Reasonably descriptive commentary on the mentioned functions is there in the man pages. That is where porters should look.
Still, I read his findings as having to do more about differences in attitude to money in particular, than about differences in core human psychology.
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