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And French bombings. Yeah I know our forces are ridiculous and it sounds patriotic to request to be named when we participate to a war. But every French home who pays the income tax spent about 800€ to bomb Syria in 2015, out of the 2300€ average of income tax, so please include us ;)
Guns make suicide attempts more deadly. Places with fewer guns do have proportionally more deaths from other types of suicide attempts, but the overall suicide levels are still substantially lower. Suicide ruminations may be frequent, but suicide attempts are often impulsive.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine-features/guns-and-suici...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/1...

Your point about CA having the most gun deaths falls flat: CA has far and away the most people in the US. Gun deaths per capita is the interesting, relevant statistic. California is actually pretty high here too; it has more gun deaths per capita than Texas, though gun ownership rates are far lower in CA. Anyone know why? My best guess is that the gun ownership rates rely on legal sales, but gun homicide rates don't. So California, because of strict rules, has proportionately more illegal guns (perhaps purchased in lax states, like Texas).
SEjeff is seriously over-reacting to reject the entire article on the basis of a bad analogy that isn't even central to the material. If the article was pushing this system for use in HFT, that would be bad. But, this is just someone who doesn't work in the field that SEjeff is very, very deeply involved in mentioning that field offhand, in a clumsy way, once.
Don't your two points contradict each other? You say that legal gun ownership isn't the main issue, using homicide statistics as the basis, then say that most gun deaths are suicides, and in another comment say that suicide is the real problem.

Legal gun restrictions may not affect homicides much (I'm skeptical of this view, but it is an obvious fact that criminals don't always obey the law) but I would think that they would affect suicides a lot.
This was just a time thing. That and it was so cold my phone actually shut down before the 2nd Uber finally arrived.

I guess next time I could hedge my bets by ordering Uber and waiting in the taxi line at the same time.

Does anyone know if cancelling a supposedly en-route Uber could earns me a black mark? I probably would've cancelled the first ride after 15 minutes if I knew it wouldn't flag me
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Seconded, where is the Solar Flare card bypassing the OS for network ops? (Does that even work in windows? Doubtful)
If I have a choice of buying Windows 7 or Windows 10, I will pick Windows 7. Does that mean I'm paying for stability?
You just have to do it. Either be bold and go straight to their doors or schedule 5 minute meeting with person in charge. Try to get the meeting with people with budgets and not with us monkeys that run their equipment for peanuts ;)

There is no silver bullet for this and while books and articles can be of help it will never describe what you do and feel once you are before people you are pitching your product. You have to overcome any issues with that yourself. You just have to do it. I am still sometimes anxious so don't worry. It's normal...

People will tell you to post on the Internet but they know jack shajt. You will get freeloaders and hardly any feedback from those users. Once you land 3 serious biz users those are gold mines. Better spend the time and $200 for a dinner with them.
Virtually no one was opposed to marriage equality. Many people were and are opposed to the judicial redefinition of marriage.
Ya, I saw that. However, SF is the most liberal city in the country if I were to guess. It's so far leaning in that direction, it's not of any surprise. However, I have to say ... nicest place on the West Coast. I can only compare it to Toronto during the summer!
This is the kind of comment I would expect on hacker news.

Who has a woodshop?
Carpenters, cabinet makers, furniture makers, CNC operators, instrument makers, boat makers, the list goes on.

The basic ability to decompose and fix real world objects is quite important, and our cushioned zones of computer bliss may make us forget that we need all of those people to keep not posting on hacker news and learning how to use physical tools.
IPredator is a Swedish VPN service that appeared when the "Ipred" law was passed in Sweden, a law that was passed to allow rights holders to find and prosecute people who torrent stuff. So most likely, it's used for piracy.
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felixgallo - this is the point I've been making to all my friends and family - the no 1. point of the documentary was to shine a light on the broken system itself... the fact that everyone is talking about the case shows that ppl really don't care or don't get it...
Why?

As already replied by other HNer, most of the projects are existing ones.

Our customers are the enterprise, not startups.

The consultants are expected to bring value within the customer's IT stack.

Usually even the dev environments are provided by IT, to be returned on project termination.

If the customer hires us to assess their stack and provide feedback on what to change, that is another matter.

Which still needs to be approved by their IT anyway.
> prosecution presents first. (Google Anchoring, Confirmation Bias)

How else would you do this? There is a presumption of innocence; the defendant needs to defend against the arguments made by the prosecution.
Interesting article, but my opinion after seeing the documentary is that there is enough reasonable doubt to declare Avery not guilty. Maybe he did do it, but with all of the bullshit that happened during the investigation (the car key in plain sight, the cop calling in the license plate days before the car was officially found, the evidence tape cut on the blood vial, absence of blood in the bedroom despite the bloody and vicious confession from the nephew) the whole thing is beyond ridiculous.
SF are distributing malware and they steal other people's work. The block is more than justified and in fact users were asking for it.
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> Is great science done anymore?

Yes. The problem is not a lack of excellent scientific results, the problem is the sheer number of mediocre people in the field and the amount of trash that's published as though it was either significant or science. These mediocre results tend to hide the high-quality work.

My theory is that there are just as many original thinkers as ever lived, but the noise level is much higher now, and scientific publications tend to publish page fillers with little or no significance or that are simply wrong:

http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...

In my opinion, the problem is not that science is over, the problem is that it's become to a large extent a business instead of an exploration of nature for the sake of exploration.
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I used to think I am immune to advertising, now, I confess, I never stood a chance. I think most people expect the true enlightened will fall for ads. Its not just you not buying their shit, its just the attention they take away from things you really care.
I'm a hugely leaning conservative thinking individual, but I think all guns should be restricted with the NICS check. I think only exception maybe immediate family for obvious reasons. The "gun trust" idea is even more my liking. However, any sale outside of this ... NICS always.
What the links show, is that suicide is the real problem the United States has.

Two thirds (2/3) of all gun related deaths in the United States are suicides. That's roughly 20,000 gun related suicides annually. The odds of being killed in a mass public shooting are about 1 in 7,800,000[1]. Compared to your chances of being struck by lighting (about 1 in 1,000,000)[2], this is exceedingly rare.

Legal gun ownership is not our problem. Suicide clearly is, and we cannot be so naive to believe reducing the number of guns in the country will have any real effect on reducing the number of suicides.

Sure, we'll see a decrease in gun related suicides... but the suicides will still occur, just with an alternate method.

These people need help, yet we're ignoring them because it's far easier to get riled up about people owning guns than it is to care about some faceless person committing suicide.

[1] http://www.psychlawjournal.com/2013/01/school-shootings-what...

[2] http://discovertheodds.com/what-are-the-odds-of-being-struck...
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I don't want a 17W Celeron on all day, every day. I want something like an ARM Cortex-A57. Powerful (and possibly well beyond 17W) but with "big.little" cores that just turn off in low load situations.

When is the ARM universe going to get serious about desktop-style construction? The chips are getting fast enough for anything now so they're going to have to end this ridiculous throwaway culture soon.

How about standard memory and accessory slots for starters. Something I can upgrade when I want faster network.
Have you ever seen how much Microsoft will pay you? Those sort of people often end up as very good programmers. Not that surprised that people in this camp end up working at Microsoft and then quit because they don't like working there.
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Or maybe, the main economic problem for ISIS are falling oil prices?
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So you're willing to pay out of your own pocket for all these things you enjoy, right?

Right?

Right?
Ads by themselves don't bother me that much I certainly understand the convictions against them but I don't share them.

It's just much better to browse the web with them blocked. I don't hate ads just what they do to my computer and phone.
"ISIS ran into a classic problem seen by several startup companies"

Bro culture?
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Regarding private sales, I'd really like a system whereby the buyer can generate a 1-time code (by filling out some information on a gov't website, for instance) that's good for say a month. The seller can then enter that code, see that "John Smith" is clear to buy a gun, and after checking the buyer's photo ID can sell him the gun in relative confidence that he's not selling to a prohibited possessor.

This would help eliminate private party sales to prohibited possessors, but it has the unfortunate (to gun control advocates) of making firearm sales more convenient and safe; their desired solution is of course to eliminate private sales.
Obama is, legislatively speaking, one of the worst Presidents regarding gun-control. He does very little and received an F by the Brady Foundation.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/76717-gun-control...

The media manipulation that Obummer is coming to get people's guns is quite simply staggering.
You might just want to take a chill pill and get off the internet a bit; I know it can be frustrating when you get a downvote for an honestly held opinion, but the best thing to do is take your licks instead of what you are doing here.
> Where do you see negativity?

The same place you saw the negativity, which is why you prefaced the sentence with "I'm sorry."

One should not assume someone's technical prowess based on one poor decision (a decision they've recognized as suboptimal). Also, they still shipped.
That works both ways. In the UK, presumably elsewhere too, there are long running themed adverts - they drive me nuts on the occasions that I don't hit the mute button soon enough. Brits will know the mongooses, and the two marathon runners, supposedly humorous - incessant, for years on end. Never, ever will I use those services.
That sounds way off. Way less than 25% of tax revenues go towards the military (more like 2% in Europe). Then the bombing campaign must be a fraction of that.
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I was just reading some web performance audits by Paul Irish:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K-mKOqiUiSjgZTEscBLjtjd6...

One of things he mentions on one of the sites, is Adsense looking at every scroll event, and doing tracking work which takes 25ms on a smartphone (his smartphone, likely to be high end). That means your scrolling performance is going to be inherently bad, probably below 30 fps one you take into account other work associated with the browser or the site. Having a browser which takes out this kind of code, but doesn't break the business model of the website owner does seem like an interesting idea. It seems like a major part of the mobile web is half-broken for these kind of reasons.
At the same time public services get worse and worse.

The problem is a shrinking amount of money to pay for these work that needs to be done, as its all being filtered into CEO's pockets rather than corporations paying taxes.
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The whole article is about doing a test to see if they can get away with using TCP instead of UDP. They end up pretty pleased with the results. Though, they don't spend nearly as much time talking about latency as they do about throughput.

> For our high throughput needs, prevailing wisdom would suggest you need to write your server in C++, use UDP rather than TCP and run on a very high spec bare metal box running linux. We are already running the client in javascript; so if we ran over TCP (websockets), wrote the server code in managed C#, ran on Windows on a VM in the cloud – is this just madness?
If it wasn't clear, we are in agreement on this point and that was the entire point of my comment.
Did you even read the article? The arguments still hold up. It's clearly the case that it's not worth the effort to move VS to 64-bit.

- "First, from a performance perspective the pointers get larger, so data structures get larger, and the processor cache stays the same size. That basically results in a raw speed hit..."

- "The cost of a full port [due to the amount of code involved, not the quality of the code] of that much native code is going to be quite high and of course all known extensions would break and we’d basically have to create a 64 bit ecosystem pretty much like you do for drivers. Ouch."

- "A 64 bit address space for the process isn’t going to help you with page faults except in maybe indirect ways, and it will definitely hurt you in direct ways because your data is bigger...32 bit processes accrue all these benefits just as surely as 64 bit ones."
Right, but a store is no longer brick and mortar and our industry in particular facilitated the change. Namely, Ebay as a market place, but most "stores" do not operate as an entity as we would image in the real world. Case in point, is the FFL Class 7 gunsmiths option. This can be done from home, and can be used as a dealer license. You simply have to operate in a secure area very distinctly different than your home residence - namely locked door, separate entrance, and a ton of other exceptions. BUT you do not operate as a brick and mortar.
It's great to see more people working to solve the problem of intrusive ads! I wonder what exactly they mean by intrusive ads, though? I hope it's more than just ads that don't respect your privacy. To me an ad is intrusive if it has any kind of movement or animation. Anything that moves automatically attracts my attention, so this is very annoying if I'm trying to read something.

I don't mind ads in print magazines so much (other than the fact that print magazines are unlikely to write negative stuff about companies that advertise with them). Ads in print magazines are ok with me, because there's no movement on them. So I can easily read one page, even though the next page has a full page ad.

They mention standard sized spaces and faster browsing. I actually wouldn't mind large ads - like something taking up my whole screen - that I can scroll through. Back in the 90s, it probably made sense to have small 468x60 pixel banner ads, but as fast Internet connections are becoming more and more common, I don't really see the point of restricting the size anymore. Large full page ads aren't really a problem in print magazines, and I don't think it would be on the web either, if we just got rid of the animations.
That depends on your definition of manipulation. Most people consider manipulation to be unfair or unscrupulous. Knowing a motto or the name of a brand is hardly either.

I also happen to know what "get serious about social" refers to even though I've never seen an ad by them, nor have I ever been in a position which would make me a customer. There's nothing "sneaky" advertising techniques. They are well-known.
> when we gave ISIS (then known as the "Free Syrian Army")

There are several sides to the Syrian Civil War. The Free Syrian Army is different from ISIS
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He sounded pretty serious in that post. Maybe I missed the joke.
The reasons may be varied, and perhaps Russia added alot to the mix with their less discriminating bombing...
Add to that better financial tools for tracking and removing illicitly gained moneys from their coffers.

But, really, that's beside the point. The how. The important thing is the what. And that is they are getting financially squeezed.

And their pay scales allow for internal dissent since foreign fighters get paid twice the rate of their locals...

Good to see them make poor decisions.
In my experience, the majority of FFL license holders do not have a storefront. In fact, I just did a quick survey of the 20 FFL's who do business near my zip code. Only 8 had storefronts. There is big business in running background checks.
Right. Sell premium movie ticket prices that do not have ads (although I like previews, those can stay). Sell me a subscription to duckduckgo, payable in bitcoins or similar. Paywall every newspaper website. These are far more honest approaches in my view.
The first attack on oil convoys was in November 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/middleeast/us-strike...)

Primarily this was to avoid unnecessary civilian and collateral damage:

"Until Monday, the United States refrained from striking the fleet used to transport oil, believed to include more than 1,000 tanker trucks, because of concerns about causing civilian casualties. As a result, the Islamic State’s distribution system for exporting oil had remained largely intact."

Plus why destroy infrastructure required by civilians during peacetime if you don't have to? That just puts them in a worse position when all this is done.
> Sure, we'll see a decrease in gun related suicides... but the suicides will still occur, just with an alternate method.

Suicide attempts by any method might be practically constant; alternate methods of suicide tend to be less successful however, so the rate of completed suicides would likely go down.
I bet it's almost all this [1]. it was like $100+ a barrel back in 2014. It's a tough time to be in the oil business.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/19/oil-prices-fall-further-on-gl...
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Or being bought out by one of the big player, US or Russia.
Interesting - why Electron?
Blasphemy! How dare you say that! (said no moderate Republican, pro-2nd Amendment lover) - lol
No worries - I have left a note on that issue explaining what I think might help! I will of course be giving phoenix another go asap.
I think he was nitpicking your grammar, not your facts
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PhD in symbolic computation (RISC). Symbolic integration is not my field of research, though, and I don't really know anything beyond the basics (covered in courses on computer algebra). Passively attended plenty of seminars and conference talks on symbolic integration, though, and for a couple of years, I did share office with Clemens Raab who is one of the experts on the Risch algorithm.
Not exactly. No need to share with us any keys etc.
Even if you choose to be "locked-in" into a single cloud provider you may have security challenges, like: working with multiple regions, enforcing access control policies that are inline with your AD etc.

The Cloud Infrastructure Security Broker can help you address those challenges in a very effective way.
But doesn't specialization naturally push towards the creation of stations? If your cross-functional team contains both a database engineer and a UX designer, I don't see how either can help with the other's job.
Narnia is only an "ideological or religious influence" if you're already very familiar with Christian symbolism. 99% of children will never get the references.
If microstamping is cruel, then so are license plates on cars.
In a broad (and rather optimistic) sense, advertising informs you of available opportunities, not just things that you can buy. I guess you can try to separate it into "selling products and services" versus "brand promotion and awareness" versus "public service announcements", but the line can be fuzzy and gray.

I don't have anything against ads on webpages in general, but I really hate anything with sound/animation or focus-stealing like pop-up/interstitual/hiding/whatever. I don't block ads because I'm lazy, and because I think it's an acceptable payment model for content, but I just leave the page if the ads annoy me enough.

FWIW, the only ads I've actually purchased services/products from are when I'm actually searching for them and they come up as sponsored results or sidebar ads.
Why else would one oppose marriage equality?
I think there certainly is a case to be made that U.S. prices are lower because there is increased global supply.
That increased supply drives down competition for South American / Mexican heroin, reducing prices for the U.S. market.
> It's crazy just how… unfinished everything involving Windows 10 seems to be

This is how the start up world functions. Ship early, ship fast and fix things later. Microsoft is changing how they operate and are more in tuned with the rest of the world. Why the outrage when this same concerns applies to most the software we see here on HN?
It's not entirely clear from the article, but the data they're using appears to include all types of Federal Firearms Licensees. FFL01 is the license for a traditional gun store. However I hold an FFL03, which is a license to collect Curio & Relic firearms. These comprise guns over 50 years old and some special items on a federal list. With this license I can purchase C&R-eligible guns and have them shipped direct to my door, unlike the general public who must transfer Internet purchases through a FFL01 licensee. I am not, however, allowed to deal in guns, just to make an occasional sale when I decide I don't want a specific gun any more.

AMA about FFL03 if you're curious, I guess.
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The followup article I saw here a few months ago suggested that Sao Paulo hasn't found that entirely successful, and has allowed a significant amount of advertising back.
Ok, all you need is a good platform, a good brand, good marketing and a nice app? So you're basically saying that the reason Swish is successful is that they are doing a good job and deliver a good product?
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Uses the Registered Input/Output (RIO) API Extensions in Windows for user mode TCP/IP kernel bypass.

PacketDirect is the next step for Server 2016 which moves closer to the NIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXfDjIhn0U
Well, yes. But there are so few sites that even have the option. I'm paying via Patreon et al. for a few sites that don't have ads, and I pay Ars Technica not to show me ads. I even paid for the NY Times for a while although I hardly ever use the site. Payments integration is pretty easy so I don't understand why more sites don't make it an option.