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I think that NR exemplifies how scientific software should _not_ be.

Despite the availability of the source code, already the usage of NR programs itself is seriously restricted, even after license purchasing. Distribution of the software is not allowed (neither in the original of modified versions), which prevents proper verification and advance of computations. Adaptations or copies of the source code (extracted from the software or from the book) constitute a copyright infringement. Academic citations alone do not avoid such infringement. Rather, specific exceptions should be asked (and may not be granted).

Scientific codes widely used in physics often have comments such as 'this is taken from NR' (clearly violating the license/copyright). It shows that what most of the scientific community expects is everyone to be allowed to use/modify/distribute scientific codes, given proprer attribution. In the same way as everyone would feel free to write down and modify the standard model Lagrangian in their papers by citing appropriate references, and to publish their results without any of the above restrictions.
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Is support the only reason people choose Oracle databases over something free like MySQL or Postgres?
It'd be great if Snowden got a pardon in the process, too.
Interesting. I sure as shit don't know enough about Rat Park. Do you have some links to the failure to replicate?
I don't understand these types of comments. Why bother arguing that [some country] is worse than yours when they have experiences that you most likely will never ecounter personally.

One way to improve is to be able to open oneself, or in this case, a whole country, to criticism. Merely rebutting with "my country is superiors to yours!" adds nothing of value and puts forth a level of ignorance that should not be tolerated in today's society. Thank you.
> They cannot enforce all the executive orders while complying with all judicial orders

Of course they can. They will enforce all the orders, except for the parts which are specifically prohibited (or otherwise instructed) by court orders. Exactly how it always happened before.

> does not say they will comply with all judicial orders

Of course not. They don't have to comply with all of the orders, just with those that relate to something they are doing. See, I can do it too. The point is that this release doesn't say anything but "we'll continue doing what we should be doing in accordance with the law" and all panic about it is completely self-generated, as so far we haven't seen even single case of non-compliance (actually, people are not only not being deported but are being released: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/iraqi-man-free-de...). Of course, whatever floats you boat...
She has no hard political power and can't direct politics, but she has soft power in that she's a queen and people listen to what she says or try to curry her favour; the soft power of a ceremonial head of government. It's a complex picture. Oversimplifying quite a bit, if parliament were to 'cut her off', everything with "royal" in it would become "federal".

Curiously, they'd actually lose on the deal financially if they got rid of the royals - the UK government manages the royal estates because of a deal back in the day, and they bring in more money than they lose (before even getting to tourism). The estates would revert to the family in such an event, as I understand it.
Were your niece and aunt born in one of the 7 countries in the ban (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia)? If not, then their situation is irrelevant.
+1, would be great to have something like that as an integrated toolkit on the Python (more specifically, Python 3) side. I currently use tqdm for progress bar, but it'd be great to also have a spinner and the rest of the goodies.
It's a thin fig leave for "we don't care, but do it anyway". Their grandiose cloud plans tanked hard, they screwed up all products they bought, now with their backs against the wall the only thing left is milking existing customers at any cost. It's obviously a last resort short-term strategy.
> I think since around the same time he invented the internet

On the remote chance that you are not trolling: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Trump and Prince Charles in Climate Row
The thing you need to understand about Oracle is that it's never — well, never in my experience, and I've worked as a DBA (mostly postgres, but I have had my hands on some Oracle) for a decade now — chosen by the technologists. It's chosen by management. Usually non-technical management. Often dangerously so.

But Oracle support basically doesn't answer the phone unless you're regularly cutting them six-figure checks, so you kinda need that level of management to be making the decision whether or not to use the platform.
My comment was to draw awareness to the larger picture, to a larger group of people, the whole world of people. If they can look good to the majority of the world market, and of the 30% of people who 'approve' of Trump - who hopefully aren't complete racists and just are thinking Trump's actions somehow prevent terrorism from occurring in the U.S. - hopefully only a small % of those are racists and the others will see Airbnb supporting people who may have trouble finding shelter. It really doesn't seem like a risk at all, and they'll write off the costs and not need to pay as much taxes on the profits they seem to now be claiming pre-IPO. Maybe there's an increased risk if Trump starts tweeting that Airbnb supports and hosts terrorists - however the rest of us will see the drivel that that is and Airbnb will gain further positive marketing exposure. Overall of course, at the surface, Airbnb's offer is good for the people affected by this and for helping the world feel united - however we don't really know to what extent Airbnb really will follow through with their announcement; is it a shallow or a deep offering? Call me skeptical: I've had ongoing issues as an Airbnb host and a guest and Airbnb by and far is only interested in keeping as much money for themselves as possible, obviously to help increase their perceived value until they IPO -- they take a relatively high % of booking fees compared to how helpful and caring they claim to be.
I suspect this is the angle they are going for. And, as I said, I think it unwise to read stuff into words, when actions are what counts.

Just FWIW, from what I can interpret, the ruling is broader than just the people currently 'on the ground' - they were the petitioners, but the judgement was not limited to them, but to:

"individuals with refugee applications approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen legally authorized to enter the United States."

There's no indication that the stay is limited to the petitioners or current detainees. I assume it would prevent deportation of anyone with legal grounds to be here, who arrive tomorrow, or any time until the full case is heard.

So we'll have to see if anyone is deported. Or if DHS get their act together and stop people boarding.
This is a plain attack on Amazon, which Oracle now sees as a competitor, that will hit customers in the crossfire. I guess Oracle expects customers will simply move to Azure, since retooling ops might be easier than rebuilding solutions on other databases.

It will yet again hurt their image though; they've been hated by geeks for ages, but they are increasingly unpopular even among executives. How long can you do business with people who openly despise you?
What about dependency changes (ie: a new package needs to be installed or updated), or database schema updates?

This also sounds very specific (probably using apache+cgi?). It won't really work for most techs out there.
I suspect most individuals use online control-panels, from their domain-registrars.

If you need to be dynamic, or outsource your DNS, there are options from Dynn, Digital Ocean, Amazon, etc, which allow you to use their API (and optionally a panel-interface).

Those APIs can be wired up to allow you to update things frequently if you wish, for example automating zone-transfers from a hidden-master, or converting a git-repository of text-files into live DNS entries.

Really your question is quite broad, and a more specific question would be required to provide a decent reply.
Any plans on providing GitLab support?
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well thank goodness we don't penalize innocent individuals for the abhorrent laws of their nation's governments - especially when many of those people come from nations in which the people have no say and no control over their government and its actions.
I don't see a cite for the "report prepared for the International Maritime Organization", but it's clear that Rochman et al. (2015) sampled GI tract content for fish.[0] Oysters are filter feeders, and don't have GI tracts per se.

0) http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14340
I bet you can get plenty of support for MySQL or Postgres
I'm sorry but this is exactly hyperbole. In a democracy you have elections, and the person who wins the election is invested with certain powers for a limited amount of time. If you want to undermine the whole game just because Trump is unpalatable to you, proceed at your own risk. You may set in motion a self-fulfilling catastrophe much worse than the worst Trump could ever do. At the very least keep in mind that roughly half of the country wanted Trump for president. Have you considered how they might feel about deposing the person they voted for?
If you burn whatever you eat immediately, you would die from heat stroke if you ate too much and from cold if you didn't eat for a few hours (sleeping would be a problem)

So, you need some store. Your liver now is the short-term store; it would have to become the only store. That means you would need a larger liver, much larger for those who are currently obese (anybody know the calories/kg values for glycogen vs body fat?). Death from cirrhosis and/or diabetes (if the liver gives up storing glycogen) probably would be the end result.

Storing excess energy in new muscles probably would be the best option in modern society (want to become more muscular? Drink more sugar drinks!), but our current genetic program doesn't do that (?because creating and breaking down muscles when energy is needed is too hard?)
Vendor locked. Many companies have huge applications bound tightly to the Oracle database. Often the business logic is just stored procedures. That makes it incredibly difficult to migrate and developers will have a hard time convincing management that the cost of migration would be worth it.
Chrome gained a lot of market quickly because of perceived faster speed. Note that perceived is in great part because they took effort to make it seems faster that it was (it was faster that FF at some point though, there's no denying that).

Firefox is now working on well-designed speed upgrade, which will very clearly overtake Chrome. It just takes longer, due to design, and available manpower.
I remember there was quite some critique of the algorithms used in NR and why you should not use them [1]. Not sure if they fixed the issues in the third edition though. Some alternatives can be found here [2].

"It is naïve to hope that every computational problem can be solved by a
simple procedure that can be described in a few pages of chatty prose, and
using a page or two of Fortran or C code. Today's ambitions for
correctness, accuracy, precision, stability, "robustness", efficiency,
etc. demand sophisticated codes developed by experts with deep
understanding of their disciplines. We have long ago outgrown the
capabilities of the simplistic approaches of 30 years ago."

===

[1] http://www.uwyo.edu/buerkle/misc/wnotnr.html

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20021015200910/http://math.jpl.n...
You (and others) keep dismissing accusations of hypocrisy as "non-constructive", "non-arguments", "logical fallacies" or "rhetoric techniques". By deflecting this (perfectly valid) criticism, you're only confirming their (our?) point. Yes, the accusation of hypocrisy avoids debating the argument that immigration ban is immoral, but the point is, when someone accuses you of hypocrisy, they don't even believe your arguments - they think you're making the arguments in bad faith, making them up just to support your "side" (Democrats), as if you were truly moral, you would have been protesting for 8 years already. So, people see this protest merey as virtue signalling, protesting against Republicans that would have happened regardless of the issue at hand.

You might disagree with the logic above, but I don't think you'll be winning any arguments by pointing out that it's just "a rhetorical technique".
Ask HN: Can someone tell me how to reverse engineer this?
There is a neat little tool out there called HDDScan. It has the ability to SpinUp and SpinDown Hard-Disk-Drives, which does exactly what it sounds like.
I badly want to know how it is able to do that. I already wrote Artem Rubtsov, but received no answer.

Since you can invoke this functionality via a command line parameter, i thought, it should not be that hard to just monitor its behavior with some Api monitoring tools. But no success.
Even after some hours into IDAPro, i still have no idea...

But it somehow must go through the Win32 API, right?

No one seems to know, how to accomplish this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5367065/spin-down-hard-disk-programmatically-on-windows

Can someone help me, please?

Best regards
MySQL and Postgres have multi-master replication. They do NOT have distributed transactions (with the distributed locking system etc). For some customers it is important. Others have delusions that they need it.

Oracle has other products as well. I am generally aware of couple used widely.

Their ESB is one of the heavy players, and some sausage stands always need the most advanced ones. The funny thing is that with Oracle's ESB you end up developing the missing glue features using Java, and the ESB product's framework. The environment is extremely non-productive.

Oracle's JavaEE application server is kind of nice, if you wanted WebSphere with training wheels. While feature wise it does have similar set, the maintainability and management features are just plain inferior, and most options are bolted down, and not available unless you go to lower levels...

Oh, they offer ERP suite(s) as well. Those are for people that are prone to joining religious cults. They are not technology, and software products really. They are something sold to general and logistic managers with a story that you can actually force your company to use their "best practices" sets for everything, and abandon all software architecture in favor of warm and nice spaghetti. :)
If there's one thing plastic doesn't do it's "deteriorate quickly". Anyone who works with plastic knows this.

I've seen plastic bags stick around in trees for decades despite being exposed to wind, rain, and UV light for for twelve hours a day in the summer. There's a reason cities try and ban those things. A paper bag turns to mush within hours if it's wet. It's basically gone within weeks.

Plastic beads. In stuff that goes down the drain.

Brilliant.
The entire country is not in a meltdown. There's a president and a handful of Angsthasen in a meltdown, pretty much successfully dragging their party with them, and trying to drag the country into one also.

Give it time to process. We have been through much worse. Don't write off the whole lot who do not agree with the true intent of these policies.

Now maybe some of us can stop being so naive about broken campaign promises? Obviously there are some that should not have been made, but they certainly should not have been kept. Notice the emphasis by the administration on keeping campaign promises. That is an explicit dig at all Trump voters: they are claiming you want this. You are being made complicit, even if you think you voted for other reasons.
HT performance grew from generation to generation. In many cases a HT "core" has 80% of the performance of a "normal" core. A current 2-core+HT i3 CPU is almost on par with a 4-core i5 (the i3 has faster cores but less L3 cache).
The GG has only dissolved government without PM's request once, but if supply is blocked in Parliament for the same act twice in a row, the PM can request the GG dissolve parliament in a double-dissolution. This is what happened with our last federal election - some random act, I can't recall, was blocked twice by the opposition and minority parties. Both sides thought they'd win the election, so they were happy to dissolve over a relatively minor issue.

Basically the GG is there to keep parliament ticking over, and not descend into the madness of the last six years in the US where the chamber is eternally deadlocked (party 1 head of government against a party 2 chamber). It's bizarre how many ways the US has to stall its government (eg filibustering, debt limit, etc), and how few to ensure it keeps ticking along...
The little beads are consumed by things at the bottom of the food chain, then those things are eaten by bigger things and so on.

They appear to bio-accumulate.
Ask HN: How likely is a US civil war?
I guess people won't draw their guns and march against each other, but there are other ways to fight a modern war: Refusing to employ people from the other party, DDOS attacks, ...
What do you think?
Postgres has two-phase commit, which can be used at the application level to implement distributed transactions.

It does not have multi-master replication natively, though there are companion projects that enable it.
Qualify "people". For many classes of enterprise applications (BI etc), mysql and postgres are not even a choice, it's all about oracle/sql server/db2.

Pg and mysql dominate developer-centric operations, but business-first environments are a very different game. There, it's all about long sales cycles and long feature-lists that only big vendors can afford.
You perhaps cannot see through your motivated reasoning enough to realize you just argued exactly my point -- that the press release is unclear and subject to interpretation.
Updating neovim python client automatically
To expand on your second paragraph, I would say it's not argument at all because it implies purpose. There is nothing to stop the ecosystem from breaking.

If there was a species that "fixed" aging and continued to reproduce, it would be so successful it would take over and break the ecosystem. This was never observed, not because of "purpose", but most likely because there is entropy limit to extending lifespan (mentioned in the end of article).
How much longer do you all think Oracle will be around as a company? They burned all bridges with engineers long ago, and they're not going to be able to keep selling their blatant and expensive lock-in strategy to management.

Maybe when they finally do go under Google will be able to buy Java and MySQL...
The Oracle database is a beast, both in terms of performance, performance tuning and features.

It probably out performs MySQL and Postgres in most areas - and if you don't do horizontal scaling, then Oracle is probably your best bet if you want to get the most out of a server.

I don't think there are any advantages of going to vertical scaling over horizontal scaling these days.
Amazing book. This is what got me started in implementing my own FORTH in the early 1980s.
Cecilia Wang, one of the to lawyers for the aclu, along with others, report that CBP is not complying with the court order. Additionally:

"@pierre: This is unbelievable. When asked by two Congressmen [who they report to] CBP agents at LAX said "Donald J Trump" and hung up."
OptionParser. It's in the stdlib. Slightly odd API, but it does all the things.
Does it impact RDS layer-thing they offer?
It is an interesting stand when you walked over to somebody else's garden and took a dump and than you say I do not care about that.

The mass immigration problem is there because of the consistent, bad, misguided, systematic intervention the US committed in the last 30 years in the middle east. Most of the immigrants this executive action is screwing over are leaving their country because of the results of US intervention.

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/us...
He tried contacting them 4 different ways. How many ways is he expected to try? He's not being paid for this, he's doing them a favor. It's not his fault McDonalds doesn't have any method for reporting security vulnerabilities. Is he expected to fly down to their headquarters and talk to them in person? At some point you just have to give up. Admittedly yes, he could have waited longer for a call back in this case.

You can't really compare an individual person with Google. Google employees are being paid to do that, so of course they can spend all day trying to contact companies, it's their job to be professional. And they probably have databases of high level security contacts at most companies. And any company will likely take a contact from Google seriously, but possibly blow off a contact by some random guy.
From the wiki page: "The CFPB was initially established as an independent agency but it effectively became an executive agency after a federal appeals court found that the President of the United States' power to remove the CFPB Director had been unconstitutionally limited."

And while the president can't fire an SEC commissioner, there are only five and one comes up for reappointment every year. By the end of his first term Trump will have the opportunity to replace four of them.
The surge thing is just the grease, the main thing is serving JFK at all.
"When someone understand a little less about a computer language than me, I look down on this individual and act like an asshole. I am proud of this."

- tiny little meaningless creature on a stone somewhere in universe
No way, lucky we do not use any Oracle products. This might push some companies over to some other platforms.
/r/hailcorporate

Look at this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=peapod91

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=peapod91

Same here, https://www.reddit.com/user/watchdogsrox
Or pumice ;)

I was thinking of acne cleanser.
I partly agree with you but I feel population density is also a major contributing factor here.
Others wrote "apt-get dist-upgrade" in sibling comments, which should do the trick. If you want to build packages for multiple managers, fpm is a nice front-end for some of them: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
I'm calling it out because there are many people saying completely wrong things about systemd project. Both the init itself and other services. There's a lot of things that could be criticised about systemd, but if people constantly attack it just because they misunderstand it, it's going to be much harder to agree and change anything about the legitimate issues. Being specific helps.
Even if they didn't stop surge pricing, they announced they were serving the airport after the taxis had announced their strike.
This is also an exceptionally good technique for controlling your pace while you are running. At the beginning, 3 steps in, 3 steps hold, 3 steps out. As you run out of breath, decrease the hold by 1. Then decrease the out by one. Then decrease the in by one. Once you get down to 2,1,2 try to maintain that. You will only be able to do it my adjusting your pace.

This is also nice because it fights getting stomach cramps because you alternate your in/out breathing wrt to your feet landing (odd numbers are best because your liver takes up a lot of room and if you are at full inhale on a right foot downstroke, it compresses things).

I've also got this working for cycling, but it's a bit more difficult due to the faster cadence.
Python and Ruby really shine for scripting when the OS already has the packages installed. Otherwise not so much and a mostly self contained binary like Go produces would be better.