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How do you suppose you can deal with radicalized immigrants if you're indiscriminate about immigration?

It is a temporary ban first of all.

Secondly, it is not just about security. It is also about welfare.

I'm not a proponent of welfare but if you must have it, then you cannot possibly combine that with unrestricted immigration because the logical outcome of that is a population full of immigrants on welfare voting themselves more welfare. Is that how America was built? No. It was built by hard working intelligent people to a country that is the envy of many today.
This reminds me of a programming discussion I saw a while ago where someone came up with the "carpenters don't spend so much time being picky about their hammers as we do our own tools" line. Which got a prompt reply by a carpenter saying they indeed have very personal opinions about hammers and a whole subthread on which hammers are best for which applications. Programmers think they're way too special... :)
It's not the case on Linux either.

Linux intelligently swaps out ununsed pages even if there's enough physical RAM (that is more useful as page cache).
True. I was pondering the trade off of switching off hyperthreading on AWS because of this.
We've been trying to fight a security auditor requirement to put antivirus on all of our amazon amis (including linux). It's insane that anyone thinks that improves security.
I agree... it's a nightmare. Look at the Oracle Identity suite. It's a mess, crazy disjointed collection of SOA apps to spin up user accounts for god sakes.

Some friends are working on a project with these tools... they are a couple of years in and don't have password reset fully implemented yet, and cannot come up with a date for implementation.

With a commercial product like Microsoft ILM/FIM, a team of 3-4 people could meet 90% of project objectives in 90 days with 90% less spend. The other 10% would require some product evals or tool building.
Been using Ubuntu for years in multiple production environments and I agree with him.

Much fewer issues with Red Hat.
But then, how will torrent indexers receive their ad revenue? That's why torrent indexers never release dumps.

Also for future reference, there's a difference between a tracker and an index. Trackers connect a peer to other peers with the same torrent, whereas an index just lists torrents. I'm not saying this to nitpick, but because it can get really confusing if you don't know the difference.
Not an expert in Oracle DB licensing. Could you explain?
This issue has been on the front page on at least a dozen different posts in the last couple of days, sometimes with more than a thousand votes. If that's not enough, what is?
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Using abrasives in acne products probably does more harm than good by irritating the sling and disrupting the acid mantle.
As someone who is using all of them, I'm inclined to agree.
Fully agree with you until the last phrase.

Highway autonomy will be a nice feature but you still need a competent human driver to be present for end to end transportation. So I still need to order a car with a driver to get to the airport.

I assume that you're referring to trucking. It's possible that trucking companies will set up depots right off the highway and will reduce drivers as a result. But a lot of long distance container transport is already done by trains so it's not immediately obvious that eliminating drivers for only the highway portion of trucking is necessarily a big enough win to make it happen. (Especially if autonomous driving systems allow for the driver to sleep in his cab while underway.)
How is EPEL an unstable mess?
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> It’s usually better to start from zero in mathematical formulas too ...

No, it's not. There is no universally preferred indexing in mathematics. The indexing scheme that is "natural" changes with the particular application.

There are of course instances when 0-based indexing makes more sense [1], [2]. But, there are cases when starting at 1 is more natural, as well [3]. Moreover, there are instances where starting with negative indices is more natural, say with the coefficients of the truncated Fourier series, or with the weights of a finite difference operator or of a cross-correlation operator.

Fortran supports all these conventions, which allows for a more direct translation of the mathematics to code.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series#Formula

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_series#Definition

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(mathematics)
They most certainly can - but the majority of the harms actually result from our treatment of the issue, not the issue itself. I think we simply have to accept that people are going to want to use these substances, and make it as safe as possible for them to do so. If the first step of a plan says something like "1) First, change fundamental human nature", the plan really needs a rethink.
Trump can only be a legitimate president under our constitution. If he fails to respect the limits on presidential power laid out by that constitution, including the right and responsibility of the judicial branch to block an order deemed unconstitutional, then he disavows the very document on which his legitimacy is predicated. To say that he's legitimate under those conditions is not even wrong. It's gibberish.
I agree with you except for the GRSec part - most GRSec features are still missing except for a few low hanging fruit.
>To say heroin and alcohol/tobacco are equivalent would be stupid.

It doesn't sound like you have any experience with drugs or medicine outside of what you learned in D.A.R.E.
In general you'd also want the possibility of gaining entrance quickly, even if the latter might require use of a fire axe or something (typically emergency keys, though).

Both for evacuation in case of fire (a guest might be unconscious in a room) or in the case of a medical emergency (a guest might call down and complain about chest pain, and pass out before opening the door).
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I agree that they complement each other. Pledge isn't an evolution of chroot, it's an evolution of chroot jails. And I meant evolution in the sense of continuing the approach of implementation centric, non-policy-based security limits orchestrated by the developer, not the system administrator in terms of access to logical resources. Capsicum is also similar in that respect.

And I meant solution in the sense that it's a solution to limiting namespace visibility and visibility of vulnerable software interfaces. It's not a security "solution" in the sense of it guarantees, on its own complete safety. Security is a process, not a product. But in distinction to containers it is a security solution, just like a gun is a self-defense solution. Whereas containers are no more a security solution than metallurgy is a self-defensive solution. A container by itself doesn't limit anything, where as a chroot jail, however imperfectly done, does create a concrete a defensive posture by its very nature. Just like ASLR despite ROP attacks.

I should have been more careful in making those distinctions. It's especially important because chroot jails are something of a hack given the origin and original purpose of the chroot syscall, which leaves it open to lazy criticism. But it's still an effective hack as far as its limits go. Criticisms of chroot jails, and discussion of exploits, usually boil down to not properly creating the chroot jail, not because there's no way to ever create the chroot.

That it can be difficult to create the jail properly and to keep from breaking it later on as an application becomes more complex, such as by accidentally keeping a directory descriptor open across the jail creation, or mounting /proc, is a valid criticism. But as you say it's not as difficult as people make it seem. Setting up seccomp jails isn't trivial, either. With chroot, seccomp, SELinux, and any security method it's always going to be the case that some innocuous-seeming capability or resource preserved out of convenience turned out to be a portal for breaking out of the jail. And convenience is always a concern, otherwise we'd always limit processes to nothing but read(2) and write(2), sort of like the original seccomp that few people could make practical use of.
I've had this experience too. I complained to the FCC about it, and for my efforts got a likely-cookie-cutter mail response from comcast explaining that they provide these "rare, important messages" "for my own good".

edit: to clarify, I was complaining about the fact it broke all my connections, not that it was going on in the first place (which i'm also livid about)
It's always somebody else who pollutes.

Try this: for one week, don't have any food that requires any packaging. Don't just think about it. Do it. Then look back at how much packaging you needlessly go through.

Or try not flying for one year. You won't die. In fact, you'll figure out ways to enjoy life without causing all that jet fuel to go into the atmosphere. Then look back at how much pollution you needlessly cause.

People lived for tens of thousands of years without food packaging or flying while still making themselves happy.

If you're going to call someone soulless and a dead-eyed scumbag, are you ready to look at your own behavior? Or is your pollution better than theirs? Do your excuses apply to you but theirs don't apply to theirs?

I'll probably get downvoted because people don't like facing their pollution, only everyone else's. Theirs is always okay, or can't be avoided.

Bottom line: if you want them to reduce their plastic, you can reduce yours.
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> They're shifting their entire OS towards the lowest common denominator which are casual users.

Has this not been Apple's schtick since the beginning? Computers for everyone, easy, accessible, friendly, fully 'appliance-ized'? They did aim a bit more towards making their users feel 'sophisticated' during the early OSX years but they were selling social sophistication, not technical (ie. 'you're a high end artist, an innovator, a visionary', not 'you're a computer expert'.) And even then, their bottom line was 'it just works.'
Yeah, even when I was in grad school some 15-20 years ago these recipes were at best "okay" for very basic work. Then again my work required use of non-trivial linear algebra, which (at least at the time) NR's chapters on that topic said "better to use something pre-built".
Progress in medicine is very slow and that's concerning but it's not true at all that nothing has changed over that timeframe. Medication that cures Hepatitis C has become available in that timeframe for example.
The title is an instance where automatically substituting 'humanity' for 'mankind' leads to a contradiction in terms: humanity is the quality of being humane, or benevolence, and there's nothing bad or malevolent about it.
I've met plenty of addicts, and they're perfectly fine people when they haven't been pushed to the brink by restricting their access. People can end up pretty nasty this way, the same way that people can end up career criminals - but they almost certainly didn't start that way.

Your perspective seems very out of touch with the reality of things, and I question whether you've actually really talked to any of them at all, and instead are simply arguing in respect to some caricature of one.
Child advocacy groups are exasperated. The tactics that have been shown to actually help kids aren't sexy enough for law enforcement or politicians. Busting actual abusers is one bust, and its almost always of a parent or other close relative of the victim. Whereas they can get dozens of people trading pictures online in one fell swoop, and the public tends to treat that as just as useful, but research shows it just isn't. Those people aren't the ones abusing kids in the vast majority of cases.

To stop child abuse, the most effective tactics are education and empowerment. Educating kids about the realistic dangers is uncomfortable and decidedly not something people are comfortable with. And empowerment - telling them that their body is their own property and no one, not even their parents, has the right to make them do anything they don't want to - goes against the narrative people want to believe about children being incapable of making those decisions (as if they're difficult).

To stop abuse, you have to realize what abuse is happening. And its abuse by parents first and foremost. A close second is close family members and family friends. Strangers simply aren't the problem. They're a statistical anomaly that is certainly a problem, but one that education does away with quickly and easily. That leaves kids who are afraid of seeing their family destroyed and potentially being tossed into the foster care system. Kids need to know that they will be taken care of, and to be made confident and competent enough to stand up and call out abuse when it happens. It's depressing, slow, intensive work. And law enforcement and politicians are instead too easily convinced to abandon it entirely and just go for the quick busts of extremely dubious benefit to kids.
> The sad fact is that the internet has gradually become a shithole as the entirety of humanity has joined in.

In what year do you feel the Internet was better than it is now?
Many years ago, in an engineering class, each of us was given an in class exercise of describing something to the rest of the class that only one of us could see in a box. We had to use physical properties only, color, arrangements of geometric shapes, etc.

It made me realize the value of careful observation (looking at an old fashioned black telephone with a dial in my case) and then careful description of what I was seeing in terms that would communicate it to the others.

It's funny how often someone tells me their computer or some software is simply not working. I guess I'm no better; I usually reply "Have you tried turning it off and then on again." (A favorite line from the British comedy, The IT Crowd.)
Is the borrow syntax (&x) a reference while vanilla (x) is by value? Or are both passed by reference but with different ownership affects?

Reason I'm asking is I got hung up the other day on passing a String to a function that accepted &str which someone explained to me Strings dereference to &str but I think I just ended up more confused.
Heroin is already safer than tobacco and alcohol.

Deaths per year from Heroin: 13,000

Deaths per year from Alcohol: 88,000

Deaths per year from Tobacco: 440,000

Hmm...
>Squeezing locked in customers is the Enterprise Software way

No doubt about that, but for basic infrastructure like DBMSs the customer of the future will be another tech company. Try extracting the same margins for a database system from, say, Airbnb or Uber as from a mid-sized bank founded in 1888.
I have FreeBSD systems that use gigs of swap with gigs of memory free. If you have a Linux system with that much swap usage it's usually about to crash (as it struggling under memory pressure)

People should stop monitoring swap usage and start monitoring the amount of page in / page out IO.
And if Canonical hadn't required contributors to sign a CLA... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7640930
It's now continued as LineageOS with the same core developers. http://lineageos.org/ and the builds are at https://download.lineageos.org/bullhead
Are you presently multibooting or planning to in the future?

If so, do you use a Windows 10 (NT6) boot menu to select from other operating systems which incude Windows XP (or presumably other versions of NT5)?

Then the defective Microsoft engineering described, applies to your use of XP after it is booted from the W10 menu.

Looks like it may also apply to other Windows versions or operating systems like some Linux distributions, so beware.

This bug was reported by user Brindusa Tot during operation of Mozilla Firefox. 2015-11-16

Confirmed with difficulty by engineer Yuhong Bao as a defect in the Windows 10 BOOTMGR routine. 2017-01-27

yuhong is on this thread, this is the kind of engineer I would want on my team.

Further testing needs to be done to determine if there is an alternative BOOTMGR or procedure which does not suffer from this insidious failure.

Mozilla is not a source of this defect at all.

It's simply the Microsoft Windows 10 code that's failing to properly do what it says it does.
> rendering Gnome apps for everything non-Gnome3 either useless or ugly.

I use i3 instead of Gnome 3 and the Gnome 3 apps with CSD fit in beautifully. There used to be issues where there were gaps and such, but those are resolved by now.

> something that has been solved more elegantly by putting menus in the top panel

Arguable and probably comes down to personal preferences. For some apps (like the screenshot tool) it fits really well.
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Given that the benefits of renting ones house out on Airbnb accrue almost exclusively to coastal 'liberals' the regulation flouting is possibly not long for this world anyway.
The original essay is eminently readable and, in my opinion, inspirational: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71.

Under 10,000 words, funny, and insightful. It tells of a man who didn't just complain but acted on his conscience. Gandhi and MLK followed in his footsteps.
No one demonizes you for being addicted to potato chips and reality TV, so maybe try some empathy.
Suboxone and buprenorphine are the same thing.
Yes, I know the manufacturer claims they're different, and the naloxone in Suboxone performs a function, but it really doesn't other than extending the patent lifetime. Buprenorphine itself is a partial agonist, and will cause precipitated withdrawal like they claim the naloxone is for just fine by itself, since it has a very strong affinity and low-medium intrinsic activity, thus ejecting lower affinity opioids like heroin from opioid receptors.
This is purely anecdotal, but I'm not so sure legalization would have a large effect on the rate of drug use.

I consider myself fairly well insulated from drug use. In my entire social group I know of only one person that has ever tried methamphetamine (which is rampant here in Australia), and none that have tried heroin. Despite that, if you set me to the task of aquiring heroin I'd be pretty confident in my ability to do so. I doubt I'd have to go through more than 3 levels of friends to find someone that could hook me up. And that's not even taking into account darknet markets (which I imagine would be fairly easy to learn how to use as a software engineer).

If I woke up tomorrow and decided to try heroin, there wouldn't be very much in the way of obstacles in my path.

So for me at least, there's not that much difference between the current situation and legalisation. Especially if said legalisation requires a prescription. Arguably convincing a doctor that I'm an addict and in need of heroin is more of a barrier to entry than finding someone that sells it now.
The Cement CLI framework for python looks similar: http://builtoncement.com/
To remind everyone, Trump lost the popular vote by around 3 million votes.
ACLU defends the American civil liberties, not only the American civil liberties of American citizens. You seem to assume that the American civil rights apply only to citizens. That's a peculiar interpretation, and openly against Supreme Court doctrine. The Supreme Court, on the 14th amendment (Plyler v. Doe (1982)):

> "The last two clauses of the first section of the amendment disable a State from depriving not merely a citizen of the United States, but any person, whoever he may be, of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or from denying to him the equal protection of the laws of the State."

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

In that particular case the court was referring to illegal aliens, not permanent residents, who logically would be at least as protected.
In depth explanations of many topics are only available in books.
I spent a while researching 4k monitors a few weeks ago with a strong intent to buy one.

Ultimately I went for a 25" 2560x1440 monitor for ~$300[0] and it's amazing.

The problem is, a good SST 4k monitor with an IPS panel that runs at 60hz and supports 4:4:4 with a low input lag is going to be impossible to find at your price point.

Also keep in mind PPI. A 2560x1440 display at 25" is 117 PPI. A 27" 3840x2160 monitor has 163 PPI. That is a MASSIVE difference and at your price point that's about what you'll find unless you start looking for TVs and use them as a monitor.

The problem with TVs as monitors is they tend to have HDMI 2.0 ports and no display port, so you might have a hard time connecting it to your laptop unless your specific model supports HDMI 2.0 out of the box.

Their specs also tend to be a lot worse and to get a "good" one will likely run you double/triple your budget.

Then of course there's the whole size problem. A 36" 4k monitor is 122 DPI which should be awesome at 100% scaling but at 2-3 feet away you're going to have to move your head around like a maniac just to see each side of the screen.

[0]: http://amzn.to/2jF3WHp
This is like building a hotel in a gangster infested area and expecting to be safe. The internet is not a safe space and if your systems are connected to the internet expect chaos or take the responsibility to secure your systems.

The problem here is this is the kind of constant battle that may not be economically viable for most.

IOT is a deadend without better architecture, these devices cannot be in the open internet and vulnerable to hijacking. Those working on these systems may think otherwise but once businessess are disrupted and have to pay a price they will not use the technology. How many businesses can justify spending more and more resources on security, consultants and fighting off extortionists.
Political censorship cleverly wrapped in a much more palatable package delivered to you for your acceptance.
Bravo to Canada.

This is how you build soft power.

This is how you build goodwill with the global Muslim community.

This is how you break the back of ISIS by drawing millions of Muslims onto your aside and away from the voices of division.
In what way does the U.S. have "unchecked immigration"?

Edit: also, you have a bizarrely pessimistic view of immigrants' and refugees' potential to contribute to their host country. My parents were part of the flood of refugees that came after the fall of Saigon. Like the incoming Syrians today, they were taken in by American families and lived off of welfare for years. Now they, and their children, contribute to the nation's bottom-line, never mind the goodwill that America incurs by taking in people of need.
vim. I've been operating my own DNS servers for over 20 years.
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> How much longer do you all think Oracle will be around as a company?

Forever and a day. Oracle sells to managers and executives and are very, very good at it.

Your opinion of the company as a developer or engineer has literally no relevance.
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Or they realize that your small nimble companies will "grow up" and hire experienced managers who will put in place rules that require mature vendors and Oracle gets another generation of company. Happens a lot, sadly. Idealism gets beaten and the people who don't like Oracle jump ship to new and exciting nimble companies.
Perhaps it doesn't fit being like HN/Reddit, but Something Awful has been around for a good while, and requires $10 to get access.

At least personally, I feel it worked pretty well... but there was a drop in quality when they introduced probations (a temp ban), meaning breaking the rules stopped hurting your wallet (you could get back in as long as you paid, and didn't do something so bad you got a permaban)