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I don't understand your point. Who said anything about ostracizing people with links to the opposing side? In fact, Sama said the exact opposite. Winning back key constituencies is all great, and should definitely be done, but it isn't going to do anything until the next elections 2 years away. If you're suggesting we just sit tight and let Trump do whatever he wants till then, that is simply ridiculous.

It's not easy, but protests work. Calling your local congressmen and putting pressure on them works. Remember the debacle from back when Republicans tried to "reform" medicare? People spoke up overwhelmingly. They put tremendous pressure on their congressmen, who in turn put pressure on the party leadership, who then backed down. The same mechanic played itself out during every single government shutdown, where public pressure eventually cowed stubborn politicians into submission.

It's not going to be easy, but some things are worth fighting for. Defeatism is seductive, but isn't going to get you anywhere.
> the opposing side

The opposing side is people who support the arbitary and harmful ban on a huge number of people based primarily on their religion.

No, the opposing side needs to learn some bipartisanship. The idea that a narrow election victory gives the right to steamroller a programme like this through is extremely dangerous.

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No, obviously not. We can disagree on all kinds of things. What we can't disagree on are facts and figures and historical lessons learned about walking certain paths.

If we fail to learn from the past we will repeat it endlessly and I really could do without a repeat of the path that we are currently on. But who knows, maybe the world just needs it's population reset every half century or so, we're overdue.

With the kind of bull-in-a-China-shop behavior on display at the moment it's a toss-up how this will end but war is definitely on the menu.
I think this article is one big categorical error.

The author is not talking about people using computers, everyone he describes as not being able to use a computer is obviously using one. He needs another word to describe what they can't do.

I would suggest the people in the article cannot "maintain" a computer. I can use a car, but I cannot maintain one. I can use a watch but I can't maintain one (unless it's quite large and easy to disassemble).

It's troubling that people can't maintain something that's a big part of their lives, but society has made do with maintenance services for plenty of other things. I think nerds and geeks (let's call them computer mechanics) scoff at groups like geek squad (for reasons I agree with), but they take their cars to car mechanics like everyone else and don't think twice. I think it's common for computer mechanics to suggest that someone who wants help should learn to help themselves, but I know I would be taken aback if my car mechanic finished a visit by handing me a maintenance manual and a catalog for in-home lifts and told me that, really, I should learn to do this myself.
Muslims, then GC holders. Very soon, certain group of citizens will suffer the same fate.

The prison walls are getting closer... By the time you're able to reach out and touch them, it'd be too late.
Article and headline are incorrect: "Carbon monoxide poisoning has also been ruled out."[1][2][3]

Both MIT grads; one a founder of gaming company Glug Glug[2] and co-author of game Shard[4]

1. http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/25/berkeley-toxicology-t...

2. http://kotaku.com/game-developers-mourn-sudden-passing-of-ex...

3. http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Two-people-found-dead-Be...

4. http://shard-game.com/
Sayre's Law in action
It is not possible to really invoke Godwin's law regarding Trump, he already opened this door when he accused the CIA of being like NAZIs for reporting he facts. I don't think there is very much reason to be shy with such comparisons anymore.
The "gas supply" you're referring to is most likely an "air-assist". Laser cutting works better when you have a flow of air (just air), blowing the smoke out of the way.

Many folks use small compressors for this purpose.

But it won't have anything to do with CO levels.
You focus so much on holding people accountable rather than prevention. Lay off seeking justice for a while, try to seek order instead. Listen to why people voted Trump rather than call them all bigots and justify it with "they knew what they were getting into".

As a european who truly despises Trump: This idea that you're too busy blaming people for being racist to spend time listening to them is honestly frightening.

One day perhaps in your lifetime, there'll be a candidate, populist like Trump but with extreme-left ideals and you'll be duped, just like the people you refuse to listen to were duped, because when there was time to learn you chose to be vengeful instead.
Yeah I skimmed this book, it's basically a For Dummies version of what I would hope to find.
LOL you're right. I guess I still managed to misread my table ^_^;
Pretty ironic in consideration of "red lights don't apply to me" Ubers and more sane but extremely slow grandma Teslas
For some reason I'm thinking of a parable that goes like: "First they came for the Nazis"...

Oh wait, maybe not. Because when we finally got around to fighting Nazis it was good fucking riddance.
weird, I haven't played any games since the in-app stuff started
Reminds me of the time I lost a solid hour because the pip repository name was different than the module name.
Let's just say we've both worked for a particular online retailer who thought having the mobile site act like an app but not be an app would be a good idea.
And if you had read the text, which you clearly haven't, you'll see that there have been issues with the visa process, and the new administration wants to review it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/refugee-musli...

Go read it, now.
I'd start with digging up the material safety data sheets (MSDS)[1] for all the compounds you're working with, and reading over those.

I'd also search around for books and papers on electronics safety. It's really amazing just how little electricity is required to stop a human heart, if the conditions are right.

The same goes for chemical safety. College level textbooks on these subjects tend to at least give a decent overview of the issues involved, to a more thorough degree than books targeted at a popular audience. But I wouldn't stop there, and would try to find some more specialist literature dealing with safety in particular.

I'd also encourage you to take courses in these subjects, and talk to the professors about your interest in safety. Unfortunately safety is not a very sexy topic, and tends to get glossed over a lot. But you'll still be far better off with guidance from an experienced instructor than trying to go it all on your own.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_data_sheet
He indicates that the CO poisoning could have been gradual. This is not mutually exclusive with faster poisoning.
I have always supported ban to Refugees. But I do not understand why a person who has already got his/her greencard should be denied entry into USA because he/she belong to one of the 7 nations. Pakistand and Saudi Arabia are conveniently not included.

I hope these nations respond by confiscating any/all American assets around their territory and expelling American ambassadors.
It looks like the car doesn't travel in a straight line (it wobbles) because it's trying avoid parked cars.
It's not short term thinking at all. This is the GOP's big chance to roll back the modern American system, which was erected by liberals like Roosevelt and Johnson, and replace it with something more to their ideological liking. Doing so has been their #1 political objective since the 1930s.

Why on earth would they fail to seize such an opportunity? Especially when, as you note, changing demographics mean that another one is unlikely to ever come again?
How do you propose Trump voters be "held accountable" for their vote?
Then you voted for an autocratic, racist, dangerous man that is implementing policies antithetical to a free and democratic society after he openly said he would do so.

I'm not interested in evaluating whether you are evil or not. I am interested in opposing everything you voted for. I don't want to change your mind. I want to keep you far away from any sort of power.

Whether or not you voted for Trump because of his racism, you voted for him DESPITE his racism.
Microsoft is doing is same. And it seems like users don't have problem with that.
App stores are just a digital version of any physical store.

Honestly when I go any store, I sometimes wonder how all those companies with products on the shelves, manage to sell enough goods to keep the engines running.
I'm tech savvy, but I can have 3 very decent non-flagship Android phones (eg Oppo F1S) for the price of a similar sized iPhone.

That's a massive deal breaker.
That's a hot tub in the US... Which generally stay hot all the time and cost about $30 a month in energy costs.
Cars are vastly less important than computers.
I friend of mine, alternative spectrum publisher for 40 years, found a pretty good solution: For every book he buys, he has to get rid off another one. Literally: One book into his library, one book out.

His motivation was that he simply did not have any more space for books in his house and his SO made up this rule. When I was about 20 (already owning more than 5000 books that I had paid for with my own money) I tried to apply it. A miracle happened: After a few weeks I realized that it was not just about some arbitrary "equilibrium of books" in my bookshelf. What I did realize instead: I could not decide which book to get rid off because I could not even remember most of them! A few years later I moved out of my apartment/the country/the continent and just gave away all books I did not instantaneously decide to keep.

Ever since I stopped the compulsory book buying thing and only buy those I desperately want to read now. If I don't have time right now, it goes on a list of book to buy (compared to the list of books bought to read). Result: I read 100% of the books I buy.

EDIT: And of those I read, most go to public libraries when I am done, the few books I really, really want to keep (well, in storage in my home country/continent) fill 2 boxes. The rest of them, I can buy again when I really need them.
why are we giving so much benefit of the doubt to trump and trumps supporters

not only is this move ridiculous but it was executed with no foresight. now border agents are forced to make ad hoc decisions because it went into effect immediately. trump supporters cheering and claiming its just temporary, to give us time to "figure out whats going on" are deluding themselves. they rush through a ridiculous, anti-american order and now somehow they are going to make it all better.

trump supporters are a minority of the country. they won this time but i dont see any reason to pander to them.
Yes, but those would feed CO2 into the laser tube, which I thought you just excluded ("I never said anything about the laser tube.").

As others have said, normal laser cutters have sealed tubes, although its of course possible they had some DIY rig for whatever reason. MIT students building their own CO2 laser just for fun doesn't seem all that odd, using it for long time in a cutter maybe more so. I don't know if a leak in a CO2 system would lead to CO poisoning or no. CO produced by the material cut seems more likely to me.
Honest question: how do you think a country where nearly half of its population are "bad people" should be governed? I can't imagine you'll actually be successful in pushing away one out of every two Americans. What do you think would be proper action to devalue the influence of these people and where in the world would you draw the line?
The GOP smear campaign was so successful that even many liberals went along with it.

Trump is undeniably more corrupt, less trustworthy and has no experience whatsoever. It shows everyday. She on the other hand was actually a decent candidate with a lot of experience and few scandals.
Can you provide the source please? BBC says that the minority will have a priority e.g. Shia in Yemen.
I just want to say that I appreciate Sam Altman for speaking up - I know that just speaking doesn't change things, but tech/business guys are often very cautious when discussing politics, as they fear that making their political stand public may have negative consequences to their business (which might be true), but in times like these one has to take position.

So kudos, Sam, and please America don't go the route of politics that mimic politics of Europe's 1930s (sadly there are also suboptimal developments in Europe).
1. This is nothing to do with distributed storage

2. Symlinks are not required to be linked to existing file

3. Symlinks are not atomic

4. You still need to maintain filedb (or how do you resolve which storage contains given file?)
>>> The primary problems that the FTP poses to firewalls, NAT devices, and load-balancing devices (all of which will simply be referred to as Ârouting devicesÂ and not "routers" since gateway machines generally aren't problematic) are:

this reminds me how some companies such as Nestle use term "chocolate candy" because in order to call it a chocolate, it actually needs to be a chocolate :)

>>>Additional TCP/IP connections are used for data transfers;

>>>Data connections may be sent to random port numbers;

>>>Data connections may originate from the server to the client, as well as originating from the client to the server;

>>>Data connectionsÂ destination addresses are negotiated on the fly between the client and server over the channel used for the control connection;

>>>The control connection is idle while the data transfer takes place on the data connection.

>What a protocol.

These behaviors thought allows things like FXP, where you can actually transfer files from one FTP server to another without it having to go through you (this is especially useful when those FTP servers are on a fast connection, but you're not).

The part about using random ports, is half truth, by default transfers were happening on port 20. This port was opened on the client (to avoid mix-ups when multiple users are accessing the same server) and server connected to it.

As NAT was introduced this (an in fact NAT made a lot of things difficult, I'm glad IPv6 doesn't have NAT) became difficult so a PASV (passive) mode was introduced, where the server picked a random port and waited for client to connect to it.

The passive mode made firewalling a bit harder, but not that difficult. As an admin you could control the range of ports used by the server, also firewalls such as IPFilter had built-in FTP proxy[1]. It's also possible to do this in other firewalls but it might require an external ftp proxy rules.

[1] http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/IPFILTER_(IPF)_Firewall...
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This only works in a system where every citizen has perfect, unbiased information on what is happening in our government. Unfortunately, this is impossible, and humans are emotionally-driven creatures, so whatever memes get the most emotional traction in both traditional media and social media spread the quickest, regardless of logic or reason.
It would be particularly hilarious watching the left twist itself into knots transitioning from an anti-gun position to pro violent overthrow.
>How we can't go anywhere without the fear of being shot and killed by other black people.

I'm not from the US but this really looks awful. I wouldn't set foot on this city even if you paid me a million dollars.
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/
Your assumption about me being "the left" is wildly incorrect.
Don't try Socialism? Noted.
In a Brazilian state a law was passed that forbids restaurants to put salt shakers on their tables, as obviously a people shouldn't be able to decide how much salt they want on their food.

The law specifically mentions putting salt shakers on the tables, though. This was the response: https://is.gd/oiQUop
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I'm just looking at the evidence of the last two weeks and that's my conclusion. That he thinks he's doing something positive I'll believe but the end result is going to be a very large net-negative, the longer this goes on unchecked the worse it will get.

What you think is hyperbole is merely extrapolation from the last two weeks over a period of four years. You'll see a world order remarkably different than the present one, one in which America's role will be greatly diminished and where the American economy will be much smaller than it is today or even worse.

It's about May 1914, time is running out to get the train back on the rails before momentum will take over.
How well do you think the aggressive tactics work in long-term relationships? How well do you think they work when you're in the weaker position (e.g. when your side controls neither congress nor the white house)?

And more specifically, how well do you think they worked in this election?
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

-Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Irrelevant. The text of the order is what matters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/refugee-musli...

Yeah, he's doing a shitty job communicating it, but what did you expect...

> (b) Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality.

> (e) Notwithstanding the temporary suspension imposed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security may jointly determine to admit individuals to the United States as refugees on a case-by-case basis, in their discretion, but only so long as they determine that the admission of such individuals as refugees is in the national interest — including when the person is a religious minority in his country of nationality facing religious persecution, when admitting the person would enable the United States to conform its conduct to a preexisting international agreement, or when the person is already in transit and denying admission would cause undue hardship — and it would not pose a risk to the security or welfare of the United States.
I built a Mini-like machine with a fair amount of oomph before Christmas, and have all the part lists and build details online:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2016/12/17/1840
I guess it is only a thing in junk food place (i.e. mostly American style places).

Soda doesn't go well with "normal" meals anyway.
There is a "strong progressive majority" in the bay area? I guess if one's calculus is "Democrat == liberal == progressive" that might be true. From my perspective I see a large majority of folks who pay lip service to the social tolerance issue with the most media coverage around election time every two years and who otherwise act like conservatives (especially on economic matters) in most other respects.

Either way calling Congress members is a feel-good thing that takes almost no effort. It's worthless in terms of getting political power and making changes.
> What this is really about for executives like Sam is Trump's meddling in the free movement of labor.

Bingo. It would substantially increase the cost of labor in the short-term.

Notice how there's no outrage over a dozen other outrageous things done by Trump over the last week ... just this specific one.

> Where the action goes wrong is in its banning of our Kurdish and Iraqi brothers and sisters who have fought alongside US & NATO troops for years now.

Agreed.
They'll enter somewhere and kill infidels, it just won't be the United States. It will probably be Europe, or Australia, at least until those places start imposing similar bans.

I reluctantly support this policy. Islamic terrorism has become sufficiently decentralised that we can no longer fight it with the means we've been using. Either we turn our own countries into police states where everybody is constantly monitored and searched, or we just do it at the border, where we're not actually impinging upon anyone's rights (note: nobody has a right to enter a different country as a guest).

Treat Islamic terrorism like a disease. Either we all walk around in full protective gear all the time, or we simply quarantine the disease in the areas where it exists. That sucks for the uninfected people who live in the area, but... I dunno, being born in most places at most points in history has kinda sucked anyway.
You have directly caused my wife's parents to miss the birth of their first grandchild, and worse things I won't name because they would personally identify me, by electing an idiot who is terrified of fictional terrorists. You are a bad person, and I don't care whether you appreciate knowing it or not. I don't really give a shit what you think of Hillary, because she did not needlessly block my family from coming to me. Your guy did that. And he is capable of doing it because of you.

There is nothing 'mindlessly nasty' here. The central theme of the Trump campaign, and now the Trump administration, is right-wing virtue signaling with no consideration for the effects those actions would have on real actual human beings. This shitty situation is exactly what everyone said would happen if he got elected, and you elected him anyway. There is no room for interpretation here. Hillary is a straw man. You elected a man who is causing American citizens active trauma and the best I can hope for you and those like you is that one day you at least realize what you have done, and take responsibility for it, instead of this weak-kneed "well I only support SOME of his policies" apologetics.

You won. The least you can do is develop a fucking spine.
While you're at it, Sam, you should disassociate HN from Marky Mark for building his racist wall in Hawaii. He should be building bridges, not walls.
You'll be happy to know that coalition forces have retaken the city of Qaraqosh, referenced in your 2015 article: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/middleeast/mosul-isis-operatio...
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Holland is stepping in to fill a vacuum left by Trump's policies
I tried implementing WebDAV servers some 10+ years ago. Back then this was a major pain with different clients expecting and sending different properties etc. No idea how this looks these days.
I disagree with your charges of "racist" and "dangerous".
Slander is easy to throw around but it doesn't mean it's reality.
Most space in email attachments is photos and office documents.
Reviewing the visa process is fine

However the lack of concern with Saudi Arabian citizens just shows how this is nothing but smoke and mirrors
> (This is a term of art with a very specific sense.)

Would you care to enlighten us?
Maybe not racist but ok with racism; don't hurt my fee-fees!
Because we have already read many fine American gentlemen asserting the same thing in all seriousness.
Sorry, but HTTP/2 is not a panacea for everything, especially for transferring large files. FTP would actually transfers files faster than HTTP/2.