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I'd like to know why anyone thinks America owes anyone anything?

The ban is absolutely necessary. You Americans have a great country but you're going to ruin it if you don't take your time to listen to Trump.

There is no way that unchecked immigration is a good thing for any country in the world let alone America.

I've heard what has been said about how immigration made America what it is today - great. However, immigration should be based on whether the immigrant will add value to your country. If an immigrant is coming to set up a business, do further studies and other positive things like that, then by all means provide them with a way to come in.

However, if there's a threat of terrorism from the immigrant or if they aren't adding value but will instead be recipients of welfare all I can ask is, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

How can you sustain this? You cannot save everyone in the world. You just can't. The best you can do is help them from a camp in their own country and even then, it's your choice as a country that has fair elections.

Why did you even have these elections if you're going to disallow the president that you yourselves chose in FAIR elections to do his jobs. Is there anything new that Trump is doing that he did not promise his voters he would do? If not, then you're saying that the majority of the people that chose Trump don't deserve to be heard and that only your views matter.

And don't even get me started on that business of, 'we didn't vote for him...he didn't get the popular vote'.

Why is it okay for previous presidents who won in the electoral college to be legitimized but not Trump? This is absolutely UNFAIR and selfish of anti-Trumpians. Remember, you take away California and Trump actually wins the popular vote anyway. To me, this is a clear indication that one state wants to bully the rest of the country into doing things their way and their way only. So UNFAIR.

Without getting into my country of origin, I will tell you this; we too are building a wall to stop illegal aliens from a neighboring Muslim country from getting in. These fundamentalists are really terrible human beings. We have lost so many lives to their suicide attacks. Friends and families losing their loved ones to these actions. I remember a time we were so scared of the attacks that we had to close offices in the daytime when working and verify you knew who was knocking on the door before letting them in. It was a terrible time and with a recent attack, last week to more precise, the fear is coming back. I just wish we had finished putting up our wall by now and that it was as strong as the proposed American one.

People have to be responsible for their own country. They have to build their own countries and stop the fundamentalism.
I'm really worried that our current trackers are just a few single points of failure and we're at risk of losing (or at least greatly complicating) content discovery in torrent. What do you think about the idea of compiling all of the torrent files currently in circulation and sharing the collection over webtorrent, enabling self-hosted torrent search engines for everyone?
zram[0] is not the same thing as zswap[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap
Doomsday Engine
The title of this article is click-baity in its abuse of the vague, subjective word "consciousness."

"[blank] is already happening" is a trope, in wired's headlines, that gets reused frequently, to provoke exasperation. Wired probably advises writers with an internal style guide, since their tone has remained pretty consistent over the years.

The article is a lot of hype. There's a mix of several separate concepts brought into play, with anecdotal details, to produce an emotional effect.

Without explaining the differences between the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system, ideas are presented to confuse such differentiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_nervous_system

The article touches upon advanced ways to interface with the peripheral nervous system of the body, in particular the extremities, addressing paralysis and amputation.

The article is not about the brain itself, although witnesses within the article explain their personal experiences. It isn't about machines becoming alive. It isn't about replacing the mind with a computer.

It's mostly about advanced ways of restoring sensation and motor control, with computer systems that remap connections beween damaged nerves. The external stimulation of nervous tissue does not translate to a migration of human experience from a biological system to a machine.
Which is why programs like this are important. Keep them alive and healthy long enough to seek help...
It's complex enough that the etiology might well be rooted in our entire culture. There are movements of people trying to approach the problem at that level. Their goal is to destigmatize pain, attack anti-pessimism, etc.
Can you give more examples or provide a source? The only examples I encountered are breathing cycles during exercise and stress-relief techniques.
I really loved the following:

You're mad. You should grow up and use Ruby, Python or Go.

We're proficient in all of them. And we've delivered some seriously hard core stuff in our time: message queue brokers that handle 1,000,000 simultaneous users in C. Postgresql network protocols in Java. Static webframeworks in Ruby. Devops automation in Python, oh, and a portfolio trading system in C#. A professional uses the language most appropriate to the problem domain. We do have beards and sandles, though.

Source: https://github.com/shellfire-dev/shellfire
The goal of copyright law, in the US (from the Constitution, Copyright Clause) was: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

All earthly art is influenced or derived from previous art. Some is outright copied, then modified to produce something "new". Sometimes this is considered valid, but sometimes it's not. Either way, that is how art (which includes music) works.

But in the US (and other countries with similar corporate influences), copyright is used both to prevent derivative works and to control the consumption of the art.

I could give numerous examples, but with this HN audience I doubt it's necessary. We've all experienced some unreasonable negative related to copyright.

So circumventing copyright puts the ethical control back into our hands. Those who are thieves and freeloaders will always exist, but the rest of us will contribute to supporting the art that we consume - even if we download that art "illegally".
I wonder if this is a result of Obama ordering American intelligence agencies to stir the pot. The January 26th article[1] seems to suggest that the crackdown began around the time of the U.S. election. Although, maybe the phrasing was merely intended as an editorial flourish that implies a more specific timeline than intended.

But it would make heaps of sense for Obama to make threats of future retaliation all the while plans had long already been put into motion. It would be an especially smart strategy considering that one of the dilemmas of retaliation was risking exposing American intelligence sources. And Obama participating to such an extent in the deception and distraction is not only ingenious, but probably would have been quite cathartic for him given his personal dislike of Putin.

Obviously quite speculative and perhaps wishful thinking. But Russian meddling in the election was known to the US long before the November election. Obama even said he personally spoke to Putin about it last summer, after which Obama claimed it stopped. And for all his faults, Obama is still a rather principled man as far as politicians go. Obama may have never have had any intention of letting it slide, whether or not Hillary won. And indeed, setting plans in motion before the election would have insulated Obama from some serious ethical criticism regarding his motivations. (Albeit quaint ethical criticism in our brave, new political era.)

[1] http://www.prevendra.com/russias-fsb-cybersecurity-team-impl...
The solution to all of this requires only 2 words: criminal negligence.

Prosecute a CEO or 2 from tech companies for criminal negligence, and you will see companies actually investing in actual security. Put some business school graduates in a jail cell on criminal charges for their hiring and corporate practices, which would be criminal negligence if they were building bridges or doing any sort of work in any other industry.

Hiring the cheapest, least experienced engineers you can find, not even mentioning the word security on your job listing requirements for software or hardware design engineers, depriving the engineers of the time, tools, and environment they need to do competent work, putting business concerns ahead of engineering concerns when determining product development schedules, etc are things that executives should be judged in a court of law for. They are criminal acts that put not just money in jeopardy but frequently lives.
It sounds like a simple blog platform for blog posts with short content and no title only, including syndication (RSS/atom) and some subscription functionality. Details are discussed in a not so Open Web Slack channel for backers only, though.
The worst part is the unspecified directory listings. They look standardized but aren't. It's basically impossible to write a parser for them.
First, I appreciate your nuanced response about the ACLU.

> IMO too many politically left-leaning people have an irrational fear of guns.

The fact that you could place the word 'irrational' in front of 'fear of guns' at all, says a lot to me about your views. I don't think I would ever mistake you for anti-gun.

As someone who is from a rural area, has also shot plenty of guns (many if not most of them assault weapons), and leans left politically; I would disagree with the assumption that more regulation would not be effective or viable in the US. It has been shown many times that a majority of gun owners[1] (and an overwhelming majority of Americans in general) support universal background checks, it's mostly only the gun lobby that keeps it from happening.

You're never going to make all the violence go away. And I agree that changing how we deal with drugs may well make a bigger difference than gun control. However, it's hard for me to come up with an argument that justifies the right of every citizen to own and carry an assault weapon. And while a total ban on all assault weapons may be extreme, I think it's hard to believe that it wouldn't result in a reduction in homicides, not to mention mass shootings where the body counts would be much lower. Gun culture too strong? We're just too violent? If this was the case you would think we wouldn't need a huge gun lobby spending millions of dollars every year to fight sensible restrictions.

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2015/11/17/12...
Yes, Brin, who campaigns to let in more cheap workers from emerging economies via H1B should be in charge of America.
> In addition, the last number of the sequence indicates the count of the members.

This is only the case for 1..N, not for I..J, when 'I' is not one. In this general case, the number of elements is 'J-I' if using zero-based numbering and exclusive upper bounds, which is more convenient. Zero-base also simplifies index arithmetic with modulo operations, such as when you are mapping between different index spaces.
On (6) - I had a US LLC with bank account without even visiting US.
> Do you ever feel guilty being a lurker?

No, not when it comes to the decision not to have a blog, or a facebook page, or a twitter account, or a non-throwaway HN login.

Others may disagree, but I see profound narcissism in the popularity of these (plat)forms of expression, which are mostly about signalling.

If you feel guilty about "not contributing" then contribute in some meaningful way. Contribute features, support, and/or bug fixes to open-source projects (or start one from scratch if you've an unreachable itch.) Teach people how to do stuff. And have enough self-confidence not to need to "share" literal or metaphorical selfies.
Most of these jobs are offshored now, so it's not as relevant a factor as you think. What is relevant is the amount of business applications and solutions built on the database, that took years to develop and would cost a fortune to replace.
The acquisition of NetSuite is helping them move into the midmarket. Snapping up growing companies as they outgrow Quickbooks and hopping they keep growing.
Proteins don't get absorbed via the gut, they get broken down, the components get absorbed, and they get rebuilt.
While I mostly agree with the general point you're making, please do not confuse one particular kind of heavy work with the much more general "real serious use".

Random case in point NASA is using pgsql for handling data streams from several of their probes, is that not real serious use ?
Now show us how un-stagnant wages are in STEM
EURUSD: Risk Remains Lower on Further Weakness
Here's the CNN version. What's the spin?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/28/politics/donald-trump-executiv...
No, because it's completely true. Repeated use of either tobacco or alcohol cause definite harm - cancer for tobacco (note, not nicotine...), brain and liver damage for alcohol. Heroin doesn't. Long term opioid use can cause hyperalgesia for _some_ people, but by no means all, and that's really if you take them every day at high doses (and heroin is actually not so bad for this - it differs from opioid to opioid), which is a little weird since morphine is quite the opposite - I suspect this is because the active metabolite responsible for the primary effects (heroin is really a prodrug) is morphine-6-glucoronide (M6G), not actually morphine as many would expect.
Edit: Apparently Canadians with dual citizenship with one of the 7 countries, are OK to enter the US:

https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/825566950675845120
Here's a woman who was travelling from Costa Rica to Scotland. The flight stops in the US. She had a correct transit visa. She was stoppend because of Trump's ban.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-38788116

How many Americans have been killed by Scottish-Iranian vets?
I was skeptical of my Yamakasi 4k monitor. But it has turned out well. Just over $300 for 4k.

It is obvious that it is actually 2 different panels on the inside. At one point after being on for a while, the two didn't line up. Rebooting the monitor fixed it. Yup. Monitor needed a reboot.

But I can't complain for $300.
I can't speak for GP, but telling a guest that they are no longer welcome doesn't seem like a moral issue at all, while killing someone definitely is, regardless of how good or bad the people are.
MasterMind+Series:++Going+the+Extra+Mile
There are really only edge cases in usage models - I've found option libraries all fairly poor, because they expose a global view of the options, rather than an iterator view, for the most part.

If args are in a structure that can be peeked and shifted, you're in a good place for context sensitive options. It's just a lexer.

My tools tend towards this syntax:

cmd [<global opt>...] subcommand [<local opt>...]

Composing the data structure for this with option libraries is often more work than iterating over a peekable stream of words.
How is this "low"? I'm genuinely confused here.
FTP is for static files, why would you do on the fly compression? People used to just transfer precompressed files like tar.gz files or .zip files.

FTP has an ascii transfer mode because operating systems have different line endings and this automatically translates for them.
Presumably because it packs to a higher density and is purer, and since sentencing is done by weight irrespective of how much active drug it actually contains, it winds up being essentially a forcing function toward making the strongest substance you can. Such laws therefore are almost entirely responsible for why drugs have gotten stronger and stronger over the years, with the increased risk this brings.
Sorry, but what are you talking about?

Yes, CO is similar to air's molar mass (it's actually slightly lower), meaning it will diffuse evenly through the vertical space in the room. The concentrations at the ceiling will be the same as the concentrations on the floor.

Stop spreading misinformation.
Why is that important?
"The distinction between us (humans) and them (the machines) will become almost imperceptible."

... Absolutely nothing in the text substantiates any of the very strong claims.
I think the days of "no one ever gets fired for buying oracle" are over.

CIO at a company we consult for was recently fired. Or rather made to resign.

In the last few years the cio changed almost the entire businesses enterprise systems to oracle covering.

HR, performance management, reporting, data warehousing, sales, ecommerce, repairs, document management

This has effectively allowed the consulting company and oracle to fleece the business and hold them at Randsom putting the company under tremendous risk.

We have been called in to untangle the mess.

To give you an idea millions have been spent to build an ecommerce portal with sales in the 1000's. The ROI will probably take years To be realized.

Some of the challenges dealing with the mess of a complete oracle stack:

- typical people who specialize in oracle solutions are just that. Specialist in the solution not developers.

- Unless you are using one of the more popular products. Finding information is practically impossible compare the google search for magneto vs oracle atg

- you cannot easily transition a competent developer to oracle tools due to the complexity

- some of the tools are complex for reasons I fail to understand simple things take a long time to achieve. Maybe hard things are easier but I have yet to see this

- they encourage bad practices, everything goes in the db including HTML templates the works.
>There is no policy proposal that could even theoretically offset the damage he is doing. Among those he has actually proposed, I'm having trouble of finding a single issue that could reasonably be considered "not evil"

Everything Trumps's doing is so evil that the damage, after one week, is already insurmountable?

This is quite the exaggeration, and it's precisely why the left isn't going to be able to move the needle with Trump voters: the left assumes everyone on the "other side" is a racist, sexist, ignoramus.
> Thus if the problem is to large for Private Organizations and Individuals to handle collectively, then it is to hard for government as well

While that's a trivial tautology, in that the government is the mechanism by which a society acts collectively, it's utterly false in the way that you meant it. Government can coordinate resource deployment more effectively than a hodgepodge of private organizations.

> Housing for Homeless is also a job the government continually fails at and is infact today primary provided for by private organizations using money donated by private organizations and individuals

Fails at how? The (few) governments that are genuinely pursuing housing the homeless seem to be doing a fine job at it. The ones that are trying to get away with lip service to the idea are, well, getting away with it.
Trump supporter here. Unfortunately not a citizen, so I couldn't vote. I believe, as do many people in the world, that US Presidential Election is worth following due to the influence that USA has on the rest of the world.

You are right about the ideology being very important. I originally supported Rand Paul [1] and moved to Trump when Paul dropped out. I wish either Ron Paul or Rand Paul would be the nominee of GOP and sincerely believe that is the purest form of Republicanism that currently exists out there. I support both the ideology and the priorities that both of them are pushing. However, since we couldn't get Rand Paul, Trump was the next best choice this season.

I can't stand any of the Democrats right now. I wish they instead nominated someone like Elon Musk, who would cut on identity politics, political correctness and similar things that are being pushed so hard to divide us instead of uniting us; e pluribus unum. I would like to see a future nominee focus on the scientific and technological development, abolishment or at least a reform of the patent system, ending NSA spying, etc.

[1] https://randpaul.com/issues
And all God's people said: amen.
Judgment much? Utter nonsense. I love music. I don't love fake laughter.
I don't think that says a whole lot about Oracle's growth opportunities as everyone moves to the cloud.

Direct licensing costs are not all that matters. The restrictions on architectural choices and the uncertainty created by these complex licensing structures could hurt them a lot more.
>If these people are going to brigade every post about this topic with the same hollow rhetoric

I think the "these people" rhetoric you use is worse.

The same people who would be enraged at the usage of the term if it was in regards to, say, Muslims, are more than happy to use the term referring to Trump supporters.

"These people" don't exist.
So the anti-systemd trolls who harassed and attacked Debian developers until they quit are a point against systemd? Interesting perspective.
Go Looking for Untagged EC2 Instances, Find a Bug
It's time for me to try and deploy everywhere some small WebKit-based browser, like dwb or its clones. Not very sad, but waste of time.
And you thought Silicon Valley was a free market Capitalist system

Who did? Certainly not people reading HN attentively, which gives plenty of coverage to technical developments by governmental institutions (and universities). DARPA alone has 2000+ stories about them.

Yet most of the profits stay in private hands.

Of course. Public institutions don't make a profit, by definition.
There are plenty of other places to talk about this kind of thing. Why must every forum be politicized? Why must every forum be turned into a soapbox?

"smartest and most plugged-in" - a little hubris such as this can go a long way - in the wrong direction. More important than this would be humility, gentleness, self control, joy, peacefulness, and many other things.
One of the ways to get serotonin is by exercising -- so apart from calories burn (which is typically not that much in a normal work out), the benefits of serotonin can also help us. Great.
Not open source but with a free tier: www.breakdown-notes.com.
Disclaimer: my project.
Could you disable hyperthreading on AWS? If oracle licenses are a significant portion of you per machine cost, it probably isn't worth it.
New Zealand, where I live, also has a harm reduction program. Needles are cheap and easily available. It's been a huge success. MASSIVE drops in HIV/AIDS, Hep C, etc, as well as related things like infection and so on, in combination with reduced family harms like.

Also instituted were our opioid substitution programs, allowing people to choose from methadone or buprenorphine (aka Suboxone, Subutex) at the dose they want. This, too, resulted in massive drops in overdoses and crime.

There is literally no valid reason to oppose these programs supported by evidence. Not only are they the ethical thing to do... they also just work.
The specifics - molecular simulation feedback and prosthetic touch - are cool, but title is overblown. e.g. We've had REPLs and cochlear implants for decades.
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I only feel guilty when, through hard work, I find a solution to a problem that I couldn't find online... but then I don't publish the problem and solution.

Generally though, I feel I don't have anything profound enough to say to add to the noise that already is the internet. I don't mind people who do add noise (as long as I'm not forced to consume it).
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