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I guess they're moderately OK at carbon sequestration? Assuming that we just choose to do nothing with them once they die.
Many modern games are so meticulously balanced, that it makes decisions seem pointless. Compare nethack, to dungeon crawl stone soup. In DCSS everything is so carefully balanced, that you can choose A with caveats or choose B with caveats and it amounts to the same. Choose heavy armour, and have less agility? Or light armour and more agility? Who cares, your overall impact is the same. By trying to get rid of "no-brainer" decisions, they have made the decisions that you do make seem meaningless. Nethack by contrast, could be completely imbalanced but so much more atmospheric and fun to play as a result.

DCSS tried to be like chess, nethack feels more like an actual place that might exist without the player.

This also applies to modern 4X games, like endless space. Perhaps that is one reason for the success of Dwarf Fortress, you definitely get the feeling that the player is an afterthought - right down to the very UI, the game hates you.
Please let us know how it worked out! ;-)
I wouldn't trust this company anymore. Bye Lenovo.
> 70 million people is a lot of people.

So one person isn't a lot of people ... are you saying one person is negligible? That one person's life doesn't matter?

Two can play this game.

1% is 1%. Every life is important, but 1% is still 1%. And 1% is not a lot. Whether it's people, apples, or pencils doesn't matter. It's a ratio.
Okay, I have to ask, just how do we test his hypothesis?
Komodia seems to be a good guess on the question of which company.
Why is it called Gun? The name is a little off-putting. What's next, a database called Kill? How about Murder? Genocide?

Edit: The fact that I'm being downvoted for voicing a concern about the naming is really disappointing. This is a serious issue, and I would appreciate a response, not being buried.
For the same price, you can get Navicat Essentials, which has syntax highlighting, import/export, and more. If you want to spend $160, you get the version that can talk to MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, and more.
WOW. I wonder how frequently the grants will be awarded.
I have an XPS 13 from 2013. It's just over a year old. As I wrote elsewhere the left usb port can't support full power devices - something which support tells me after sending a technician out three times to replace the logic board. They couldn't fix it, so they told me it's "by design". Riiight...

This week the SSD died. I won't be calling them again, I can't face the pain of talking to them.
Yes, my Ux31 is my main machine. I often plug an extra screen, though.
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What are "hard distributed database problems"?

I came to the conclusion that they do exist, but I have observed a need to manage millions of tiny write transactions per second-> IoT.
The weight isn't that different, though.
We don't want to use ES too much as Graylog should still work when ES has some problems. It's currently the default output but that may change in the future for special use cases.

That being said, we're aware that many people don't like the dependency on MongoDB and we'll work on that.
I can confirm this. In many cases these keys are exchanged over email with simple DES encryption and a key known to everybody in the business (pretty obvious key BTW). It really boils down to the security procedures in place between the SIM manufacturer and Mobile Network Operators.
As a buyer, you can use multi-signature transactions.
I find it hilarious how Bitcoin haters (like the ones we have here on HN) say it's never going to work, but then they spend hours every day trying to talk people out of using it.
This is exactly why Intel's upcoming SGX worries me greatly, too. NSA could get the "key" to all SGX machines and therefore to all applications using SGX to secure themselves properly (ironically enough) [1].

Intel really needs to figure out how to protect the SGX system against such a key robbery, and not by promising to only give access to a couple of employees in the whole company who know a very special hand-shake. Intel needs to modify the SGX system in such a way that you don't have to trust Intel (or anyone hacking Intel) to keep the key secure, even if that means the company not giving itself access to SGX at all (which includes not having the ability to update it).

[1] - http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/09/23/thoughts-on-intel...
What do VMs have to do with the size of the display? How are the two even remotely connected?
This looks cool enough but it would need a big community to really change the common lisp landscape (in my opinion). I wonder how the lazy sequence support stacks up to Clojure, Haskell, etc. support.

One difficulty with promoting a more modern layer to common lisp is that Clojure is already such a productive and practical language. I have written a few common lisp books, and remain a fan of the language, and an upgrade does sound good.

I am curious to hear the opinions of the heavy hitters in the common lisp world.
I'm really not trying to stir the pot and get any vitriol but I'm genuinely curious: do organizations like the ACLU, EFF actually get things done?

There has been pretty much no change in the state of affairs with regard to NSA mass surveillance, and the same can be said for RIAA DRM technologies continually pushed forth in the mass market. Everytime I see an EFF related article here or on reddit, I just get the sense that it accomplishes nothing real. Maybe things would be different if the big tech giants started suing the agencies and the US federal government for various abuses, but even then, it wouldn't make sense for them to attempt this because of legal backlash from the US (or other more insidious forms of backlash...) All in all, it feels like quite an unwinnable struggle.
This turned out to be a longer first post than I though it would be.
I don't know why people are comparing these "good" laptops to Apple laptops in specs. Apple laptops really have not been better than the best laptops. For every MBPr that has come out there has been a better laptop by one of the tops Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer. The reason is I buy Apple is I need a stable operating system. The last 4 Windows based machine I owned crashed when I close/move/sleep/awoke it/plugged in another display (who would think that would crash a computer), the reason was drivers. I switched those laptops from Windows to try Linux and it was marginally better but again driver support did not fix those problems.
I bought 4 non Apple laptops in hopes to get a good one.

When I switched to Apple I still faced issues bug only 1/10 the time as when I was with other brands. I hate apple operating system lack of getting things I want. I wish I could have stayed with Windows, I am hampered by using silly work arounds to play video games I love. Linux is great if I didn't have so many configuration issues, installing the correct video driver is a pain (I'm looking at you intel video cards). The system works.

I spent 20 years working on windows machines. The last 4 years Windows machines just have had more and more issues which pushed me to something that is stable and will work.
> The best we can hope for is that our understanding of the universe and nature casts light on more things so those that would abuse it have fewer shadows to hide in.

I suppose. But the question still stands: what if there was rigorous evidence that one race was genetically more intelligent than another? We need to have an understanding that such data would in no way be justification for oppression or mistreatment. We get to choose our own values. That needs to be the message, IMO.
These are all very good points, but I guess I was think purely in architecture terms, like "does this software have a known-bad crypto design?" Tptacek answered that, but you make a good point that ultimately no one but Apple knows whether FileVault is doing exactly (and only) what Apple says it does.
Here repping enterprises, can confirm this is how things work. But we don't pay late out of malice. Often incompetence and apathy, sure, but we don't actively set out to cheat you guys.

We start our Net-X countdown clock at the very last moment, and typically that is when we start receiving the service (not when we agree to a deal). This seriously irks most vendors, but they seem to have been beaten down and conditioned over such a period as to just deal with it. Ultimately, the goal of an enterprise (or any business) is to have revenue that exceeds expenses, and a super simple way to maximize this on a periodic scale is to ensure your AR period is shorter than your AP period. Iirc, we're currently standardized on Net-45 for receivables, down to Net-30 whenever possible, and start negotiations with Net-90 for AP, usually getting down to Net-60. That extra 15-30 days makes a huge difference sometimes in positive cash flow. I don't endorse the behavior but it is what it is. Another "trick" to save money is to negotiate an annual contract into quarterly (or other periodic) payments. For one $1.5m/yr contract, for example, that saved us something like $200k/yr.

We pay by ACH whenever possible (it is cheaper and easier for us, by far, than writing checks), and part of our vendor qualification process includes getting bank details. We do write thousands and thousands of checks, though. :)
Nice looking unit. I'm going to look seriously at it, instead of a MacBook Air 11, for a travel machine.

Dell's claim of "a 13 inch display in the chassis of an 11 inch notebook" is reasonable:

Dell 13: 304 mm x 200 mm x 9-15 mm

Air 11: 300 mm x 192 mm x 3-17 mm

And the weights are within 100 g of each other.
It's interesting because last I checked Obama/NSA were saying they don't collect content, only metadata (that harmless, harmless metadata [1]). If that's the case, why were they so interested in the SIM key?!

[1] - http://justsecurity.org/10311/michael-hayden-kill-people-bas...
Interesting, but for looping I think a better point of comparison is iterate:

https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/

In my personal opinion, the iterate loops read better than the code samples of the main page.
So I might be alone in this... but I can't see "Vulnia" without thinking about vulvia, a vulva metropolis where Zaha Hadid has a major architectural influence. Again, that might be a personal problem - but in the interest of feedback, you've made me think of a vulva city.
The SSD is just a hard drive, and they do die...

You wouldn't tell people not to buy a Ford because you owned one once that got a flat tire...
Wait 30 million years to cross the galactic disk again? /s

Maybe we could find a statistical difference between systems that are passing through the disk now and those that aren't.
There are benefits to anonymity, which arguably outweigh disadvantages.

I was just pointing out that bitcoin is anonymous when used by someone with a brain. (I.e not Ross Ulbricht, who apparently sent money to an assassin from his personal wallet, without using a mixer.)
Clarification, I said GUN is NOT acid compliant from your "usual" understanding of the term, since GUN is AP. Most people assume acid means CP.

ACID is very vague though, and I'd like to explore it more by writing tests to either confirm or deny whether GUN supports it or not (would you be interested in helping build those tests?). I also want to get some Jepsen like tests up as well.

Data convergence (data sync) is guaranteed by the Hypothetical Amnesia Machine algorithm, which is completely deterministic and idempotent. There is some details on it in the wiki, let me know if you have any questions. I also did a tech talk on it.

In NO way does gun rely on S3 for consistency. That would be horrible. Check out the algorithm and slam me with questions/critiques. Thanks for looking. :)
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> Actually, there is a way to decide if something is scientifically better.

Not in a general sense, there isn't. "Better" can only be scientifically defined in terms of a utility function, a goal. If you're trying to conduct, copper is better than rubber, if you're trying to insulate, rubber is better than copper. If you're trying to provide adequate healthcare and social protection to people, then a lower margin of error would be better.

> All you have to show is that your construct is competitive within the ecosystem of constructs.

Competitive based on what utility function?

> But there's no new theory here. How do I predict complications based on what factors? What's the new model? The "spectrum"? A spectrum is a scale with escalating and deescalating values as you travel up and down, where jumps in the spectrum are connected to jumps in prediction. As for abnormal and discrete bins, well, the scientific community already has that. What's new to the table? A reformation of language so that we avoid the word "abnormal"? But where's the improved model?

I think an admission that the current model is inadequate goes a long way towards motivating the discovery of better models.

> Also note that you propose that there's no way to think about scientific or construct "betterness". Yes there is. You can measure by complexity, prediction, explanation, or generalizability.

Okay, so you've named a bunch of utility functions. Now do you really want to apply those to this situation? How do we apply these to the question of whether 1% is a negligible margin of error. Let's optimize for those:

1. Lower complexity: "everyone is a man" seemed to work back in the day.
2. Higher complexity: let's subdivide male and female. There are certainly other genetic traits besides X and Y chromosomes that we could include in our definition of sex. (Hint: It's silly to optimize for higher complexity, but why? I propose that the answer is based on your values.)
But I would expect someone not to buy if they are expecting good support, and the vendor cannot offer that.
As Men in Black 3 wasn't that great and Star Wars: Episode 3 also had its lengths (don't get me started about Lethal Weapon 3!), we tried to avoid that. Let's see how Ghostbusters 3 will work out and maybe (but just maybe) we'll think about releasing Graylog3. ;-)
RE exceptions: in HHVM at least you can change this:

1. set hhvm.error_handling.call_user_handler_on_fatals=true in your ini file
2. throw exceptions from your handler :)
In my experience, this results in MegaCo taking the 2% discount, and still not paying within six months.
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I've come to a similar conclusion. The smaller your updates are the better, and allow for cleaner data sync. Check out my other reply.
Wow, so money actually doesn't buy taste...
While still much more than 100 per acre, they're actually only planting "three to five saplings per square meter."
> They're doing 40 per square meter!

Where did you see this? I see

> three to five saplings per square meter

and

> 300 trees of 42 species in a 93-square-meter plot

I wouldn't nitpick but it's an order of magnitude.
I was involved in creating something similar a couple of years ago - http://www.websecuritywatch.com/

My advise would be - aggregate! There most annoying aspect in security news tracking is wading through multiple iterations/announces about the absolutely same vulnerability. Of course that type of aggregation is much easier said than done :)
The metadata qualifier is about U.S. domestic data gathering.

There's no such limitation on their activities outside of the U.S.

(Hence there is no reason to make an inference about what capabilities they would attempt to build out)
We try to get as much as possible up front, with a minimum of half of the first year up front. After that it's monthly or quarterly payments, depending on what we negotiate. So far all payments have been by check.

For context, we're early stage with a handful of initial customers, mostly small companies. Deal sizes in the five figures per year.
A small error I noticed:

After explaining the difference between subset and strict_subset, they claim that for all A

empty_set strict_subset A

which obviously fails when A is itself empty.
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I'm not sure there is any point in making a distinction, because while the DNA identifies him as the perpetrator, it also ties him to the crime scene.

Therefore, if we made a rule that evidence that ties you to a crime scene (such as fingerprints) can be collected without a warrant, but evidence that identifies you as the perpetrator needs a warrant, couldn't the police simply collect the DNA from the chair without a warrant, and only use the DNA from that sample to tie him the crime scene?

Then, once he's tied to the crime scene, that could be used to justify a warrant to collect a direct DNA sample directly from him, and then they could use that second sample to identify him as the perpetrator?
I think they were referring to the buyers view, where you are referring to the sellers
why do we - normal people - want to handle a currency free of any legal oversight or reversibility/traceability even in the case of outright theft?

see this story of ours just from the past month -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9053621

they know exactly who did it and why/how it happened...

what advantage is there to the coins themselves being completely untraceable, transactions completely irreversible?

suppose your net worth is largely a matter of the value of your startup at its last valuation. would you prefer to just have that many hundred thousand dollars in cash in your home? But with the added benefit that it can disappear at a distance without anyone visiting your home?

Bitcoin is great but isn't it about time to put a sane banking layer on top of it?

Note: like all sane people I believe in a mix of government oversight and personal freedom, maybe 90% the latter. But having an untraceable currency doesn't make me any more free. Unlike every tech luminary, Satoshi can't even identify himself.
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> Given a free and unlimited choice, I'd happily bet the vast majority of this 1% would happily and wholeheartedly select either "male" or "female".

True, but sex has medical and social implications that go beyond people's preferred terminology. You've brought up some of these concerns yourself.

> Frankly, arguments against the gender binary are much better rooted in cultural phenomenon like South East Asian Katoeeys and Samoan Fa'afafine who openly define themselves as a third gender rather than medical abnormalities which for the most part people prefer to overlook or even medically "correct" to align themselves with a binary gender identity they feel mentally comfortable with.

I'm not sure what makes you think that nobody in Western countries defines themselves as a third gender.
In the EU there is the better payments directive to handle exactly this problem; big companies dragging their feet with smaller suppliers. The law requires NET-30 unless otherwise specified and anything above NET-60 in a contract is normally considered unconscionable. Of course the big companies can fudge that by complaining about issues with supply or by querying amounts, not enough description of supplied services, SLAs etc and delay it that way; but the big companies do run the risk of the regulators coming down on them.
I think the solution is not to fret to much over beginners and focus on the people who are trying to solve problems that make learning a new language worth it. It's like regular expressions - because they describe state machines there's a limit to how far you can dumb things down.

Any programming language that seeks to map well to mathematical notation is going to have a particular set of abstractions and therefore require a particular mindset. We don't expect maths to be easy for beginners...taking off just a few of the painful sharp corners is considered a big big win. Why should other languages for describing computation be considered failures or successes under different criteria?
"With respect to conscientiousness, the longer men spent without jobs, the larger their reduction in this trait, which is also tied to enjoying one’s income, according to the researchers. [...] The researchers theorized that women may have regained some conscientiousness by pursuing non-work-related activities traditionally associated with their gender, such as caregiving."

Just wondering if voluntary work would help with these indicators? Anyone got any idea about why conscientiousness is linked to enjoying income for men in the study?
Genetic material is funny. On the one hand, it's as personal and private as things can get. Your DNA is basically you. But on the other hand, it's also the most public thing about you. It's a biological equivalent of an open, unencrypted radio broadcast. You leave it absolutely everywhere all the time - you can actually imagine a mist of your genetic material floating behind you as you walk around. Dead skin cells, hair, whatever you excreted through sweat - you leave it on everything you touch or otherwise interact with, be it public or private property, or other people.

I'm having trouble reconciling those two views and developing intuitions around how we should handle it.
One of the things I don't like about Common Lisp is the unusual names. Just on the basis of the linked page, CL21 doesn't fix that.

Take princ #"Hello, ${name}\n". Why not just use print like the rest of the programming world. Okay, some languages use writeln, etc. But princ? Why not print?

A little further down, we see while-let1. Why the number? If you want to call it "Common Lisp in the 21st Century" you need to clean up the syntax.
Thanks! Interested in joining and working on these types of problems? You seem to have some pretty good skills. Shoot me an email mark@gunDB.io
While that may be a 'solution', that is absolutely insane.
Strange to see anyone still believing to american officials.
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> after sending a technician out three times to replace the logic board.

Seems like that is premium support. Lenovo only does that if you pay the upgraded support fee and have a business model laptop. Most have to mail their laptop to the depot and wait 1-2 weeks to get it back... then discover the original problem wasn't fixed.

In my experience, Dell's support is pretty good.
Common misconception, Giant Redwoods and Giant Sequoias are not the same tree.

Sequoia Sempervirens is the Coast Redwood we see in places like San Francisco and surrounding areas. The tallest tree ever recorded was a Coast Redwood. These trees grow only along the coast in areas with plenty of moisture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens

Sequoia Giganteum is the giant sequoia that grows in only on western facing slopes above ~4000ft in 68 groves in the Sierras. It is the most massive single-stem tree in the world. They also get quite tall, but not as tall as the Coast Redwood. As they mature, they become effectively fireproof, but their seeds do rely on heat to germinate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum

As far as trees go, both species grow quite fast. even as they get older, they add significant mass every year.
This. I tried buying a pair of flight tickets from a German airline Condor with a US credit card. What a hassle, in the end I had to call the bank, get redirected and verified 4 times (because they don't pass the verification along when they redirect your call) and I was finally able to pay for the damn tickets when they "pre-authorized" the transaction.
This is a surprising comment to me. I've followed the laptop market pretty closely for years now and Apple consistently has offered the highest quality devices of everyone in my opinion. Most importantly to me is the sheer size/weight of the device while still maintaining features. In this way Macbooks have been superior for years - but I'm hoping there's just some lines I've missed.

If you could point me to some laptops that match the specs of a Macbook for the year they were out and are as thin/light then I'd much appreciate it!
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