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>Trump is not the problem, he is the symptom.

I completely agree with your assesment:

"About a little of a year ago, when I worked in a lab, some of my colleagues routinely laughed and mocked Trump and boasted how he had no chance in hell (as well as fueling fire with continued patronage of sites and news that gave them more of the same "entertainment" [in their words]), and no amount of me pointing out to them the environment that enabled a such a persona to exist/rise to fame/power should be the topic of conversation rather than on the team $x circus ring leader de jour."[0]

>Anyone who is out there protesting now but would have been cool with Clinton doesn't get it.

Part of me thinks that, just some (most?) people never will. It seems like there will always be those who are quick to believe those who will pander to them only to be sold out for later tbd date or possibly in the same transaction!

Faux diametric ideological battle field lines are being drawn stateside (and arguably globally) and led by the same people that have benefited and continue to do so from the status quo, and we are expected to Coke and Pespi this and most take up such role willingly…

I'm taking the wait and see approach: if people are as fired up and eventually willing to fight and kill each other, might as well take the practical route as P&G did during the civil war and sell metaphorical glyceryl trinitrate to both sides and wait for the dust to settle while lurking in the shadows of the madness.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13111842
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13493396
"Often, the moderators are workers in developing countries, like the Philippines or India"

It looks like those two countries do have a legal minimum wage [1], although it's pretty low - $0.28 for India, $0.61 for the Phillipines. No idea whether those numbers reflect living wages for those countries though, or what a content moderator might actually earn.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/a-look-at-minimum-wages-aroun...
So all US exports should be subject to a 20% tax to make the world great again, right?
It is appointed to be the best and most competent venue to address problems like that. Government is the way "collective individuals and businesses" solve the problems that impact the whole society. Replacing it with something else is appointing yet another government, which will require yet another form of legislation (because there have to be the rules), yet another form of taxation and tax collection (because it will need the money) among many other things necessary for successful governing organization.
> 1) The interference from a block of 20 units is now doubled and massively overlapping.

Not true. It's a second "virtual" SSID, not a second physical AP. If it has no clients, you're just getting an extra periodic advertisement packet.

Of course your second point stands. But that interference scales with # of connected users, not # of APs.
Very interesting. I like how about half the article was about reassurance that this won't lead to out of control monsters.

Along with the recent article about pig embryos, I wonder if the not-too-distant future will lead to bizarre custom pets, like something out of the Spore video game.
Isn't that what this guide is for?
I think Trump supporters will see this as a welcome side effect.

My assumption is that they would see companies being forced/incentivized to employ US citizens over imported workers as a positive, even if it meant that innovation/tech profits would be inhibited.
https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js

This is the one VSCode uses. (But its just a frontend)
> Oracle sells to managers and executives and are very, very good at it

I agree, but the point is that they are getting worse. Their cloud shift is not panning out as well as they wanted, I think, and they are actually opening opportunities for competitors: if you have to make significant efforts to migrate your existing solutions, you might as well move somewhere nicer. And by basically threatening their own partner ecosystems (which won't be needed in the new oracle-cloud era), they're losing steam in sales and presales.

(Of course, it doesn't help that Safe Harbor first and Privacy Shield now have been shot down, so European businesses are not keen on moving to US-based clouds. The sort of businesses Oracle pines for, does care about these things.)
Well, it's certainly not blameless.

Edit: It also seems common to misplace fault in many directions while ignoring the influence of globalization completely.
On the developer side of things, Google has the Google Developers Experts (GDE) program. It plays a very similar role. https://developers.google.com/experts/
Is that a requirement your security auditor has, or are vendors demanding this in vendor-specific security reviews? And is this for e.g. network segmentation in PCI, or more routine assessments?

Depending on what you mean, perhaps you want to get in touch if you'd like better technical due diligence :)
Wow to both. Yet to me, Immediate Railways (2015) blew my quite a bit more than Demoplex (2006) ;)

Maybe I missed a detail, a film cinema room, including chairs, middle aisle, rotating camera, friggin ambient occlusion AND an animated plasma on the projector screen. Absolutely jaw-dropping, not a single doubt. I used to write 4096b demos but this is a class of its own, even crazier skills I don't have, I could have a stab but I'd get stuck at 512b at least, - cough - :-P

But Immediate Railways is the first 256b demo I remember seeing that actually has multiple parts! Three parts and they actually make sense! You could even argue that the three parts connect in a (very basic, minimal, three-clause sentence) story line. Now I haven't been keeping up with everything in the scene, but that's a first for any 256b demo I have ever seen. Many cases a 256b is showcasing a single "thing", scene or effect that is a few times more complex than Kolmogorov's worst acid dream. Also I think the design and colours are nicer than in Demoplex (and yes, that counts).

Fun thing to imagine though, if you'd concatenate 16 of these babies to make a single 4096b demo, you wouldn't stand a chance in a modern 4k compo :) Not even allowing 20 of them, sharing init code. The expectation of "way more than the sum of its parts" has already exploded in the step from 256b to 4096b. I'm not even sure one could fit a softsynth worthy of the music expected in a modern 4k into 256b? (ok probably one could, probably someone did, prove me wrong already :p mine was about 1100b, back in 2000)
Like I said, it's a temporary ban to allow the President and his team to figure things such as these out.

It is also an edge case that can be overlooked because there are other routes to get to her desired destination.

She is an Iranian. You and I don't know her. We cannot speak to her credibility. We cannot even speak to the credibility of an actual American who goes to Iran and comes back after a spending some time there let alone hers. How can you know whether she is radicalized unless you're absolutely careful about who comes into your country? These things are happening and cannot be sugarcoated or denied any longer. Something must be done and I for one am glad that Trump is setting such a great example for all other countries.
i think the point was to avoid incessant beeping due to multiple short sentences.

I have seen the embarrassment on people's faces when in a meeting and their IM app starts beeping like a time-bomb after someone has cut the wrong-wire.

The sender sending a short 1 liner and waiting for acknowledgement before proceeding would prevent this.
(results in a single beep if the receiver is busy)

Its also avoided if the sender simply sends their entire query as a single message.
(again results in a single beep if the receiver is busy and doesn't reply)
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I agree with your points but "The collateral damage from the bombings, added up over a decade, has probably been hundreds of innocent civilians' lives" is not really true. One single drone strike during Bush era killed almost 100 children in a school. There's been much more than 1000 killed civilians and probably 10x that injured (and, as you can imagine, injuries from drone strikes are not usually soft ones).

Drone strikes stats can be seen at https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/dron...
Forcing a pipeline through a sovereign nation is not in good faith. Alan Kurdi died because Obama wanted to help Saudi Arabia. None of the people on the left or right felt outrage on September 2nd 2015.
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True, my Dad born in 1952 had a ration book for the first couple of years of his life.

He didn't remember that but for his parents it would all feel too recent.
Depends how you want to distribute it. You can provide the web application via a package manager (apt, yum, pip etc). If its infrastructure related maybe provide a puppet, chef or ansible module. Documentation is always good as complementary to the above. Hope this helps.
Hi, I did this little puzzle game based on the Wireworld cellular automaton some while ago. It proceeds from basic puzzles to building logic circuits in wireworld.
I think it could still need some polishing, but I am quite happy with it's current state. Feedback is appreciated.
Some European banks implement that second factor, although most commonly using an SMS or phone call.

Mine only does it when the transaction is large, or unusual. I get a call asking me to confirm the transaction. Maybe they ask some other information, I can't remember.
>What kind of soulless, dead-eyed scumbag do you have to be to wilfully introduce something so utterly pointless and utterly destructive just to sell more shampoo?

A company executive that will get a million dollar or several as bonus.

It's the same in the food industry (let's add crap to it so it's more colorful, more sugary, more addictive, more long lasting, and worse for the consumer's health to increase our profits), in the car industry (let's lie about our emissions, and save billions to the company), in the internet industry (from "dark patterns" to privacy violations, to bait and switch schemes), ...
The departure of both Uber and Lyft in Austin, TX seemed to be filled by others pretty quickly. I don't sense any driver loyalty...I believe a large portion of them already drive (at the same time) for both Uber and Lyft, some also for taxi services.

Facebook, on the other hand, if I pack up and go to say, Google+...none of my friends and family are there.
I had a friend when I was in grad school who was from Iran, during the Iranian revolution. We had a lot of discussions on what was happening and why. He was still intent on getting his grad degree and going back home and teaching Chemistry. I lost track of him so I wonder what happened. Education is a great way to bring people together. Treating people like dirt is a great way to ruin everything.
>Hanlon's razor might apply here.

When there's profit involved, Hanlon's razor gets rusty quickly.

Try Sinclair instead: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

They had actual chemists and material scientists working for them. Tons of them. It's not like some executive had to guess whether it will deteriorate or not.

Besides, it's not like 1000 years have passed. Those are likely last's or 2-3 years ago plastics. They could have tested their product on this front for for a couple of years before releasing the product.
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...and often people still send me the "Are U busy?" message despite my status being busy.

I've started using the "Do not disturb" option in my Office Communicator when am in important meetings. Using that option on the communicator makes it impossible for someone to send me a message. Any attempts explicitly fail on the sender's end with an error stating the obvious - The receiver has set "Do not Disturb"
I suppose it stops people from buying these dirt cheap phones and consider buying the original (if they want the SilentOS benefits).
Ruby apps are by far the most time consuming to configure and install. Nothing is simple. Nothing just works.

The whole idea of exposing end users to your apps's depencies and compilation is a broken user hostile model. The potential rabbit hole of versions incompatibilities and mismatches is a time sink that cannot be justified.

Go is by far the simplest hassle free deploy followed by PHP and Python. For a unix command line tool that seeks a userbase beyond Ruby users Go or Python would be the most user friendly choice.
This.

If you have the means - and a lot of us here on HN do - consider going a step further and matching donations from friends and family. Many employers also have donation matching programs, and if yours doesn't now is the time to ask.
What does it mean, in the context of this comparison, that Google Ventures are significantly invested in Uber?
Is anyone using this on the daily to run Sidekiq, Redis, etc? I dig this and will use it if its stable and not crashing, etc.
lots of cli frameworks around... but most arent as comprehensive or well documented as the OPs.

i personally like plumbum, but its definitely not the same.
https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum
But if sources are at human head level, by the time it reaches the ceiling, you already inhaled a fair amount of CO ? what did I get wrong ?
See the book The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato who covers this topic.

"Her book comprehensively debunks the myth of a lumbering, bureaucratic state versus a dynamic, innovative private sector. In a series of case studies—including IT, biotech and nanotech—Professor Mazzucato shows that the opposite is true: the private sector only finds the courage to invest after an entrepreneurial state has made the high-risk investments. In an intensely researched chapter, she reveals that every technology that makes the iPhone so ‘smart’ was government funded: the Internet, GPS, its touch-screen display and the voice-activated Siri. And in another chapter she argues that the green revolution is today is missing the kind of patient public sector financing, and de-financialized private sector, that got the IT revolution off the ground."

http://marianamazzucato.com/projects/the-entrepreneurial-sta...
> Shit in my yard, I care a lot about that. There is nothing hypocritical about expecting your country to look out for your interests

Well, from the point of view of Trump's supporters, that's what Trump is doing - making things difficult for people who are not American citizens.
I'm glad to see that after 8 years civil disobedience is once again acceptable.
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It might not be legal.

From the screenshot, it's not entirely clear to me that the baseband is actually bricked. The updated OS refusing to run on some phones isn't the same as damaging the phone.
Incidentally, at least on Windows, you can save a ton of harddrive space by changing your swap settings - the default is crazy high, especially if you have lots of RAM.
Don't think there is a std::optional yet, have to go with boost::optional.

I think you're point is completely correct though. You can write very safe code today using modern C++ features.
"create organisms with wholly unnatural attributes and traits not found elsewhere in nature"
I'd argue that this shouldn't add anything categorically new, just like switching from 32 to 64 bit programs doesn't change the world.
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Vizbi is a tool we built recently. It is similar to Mode Analytics/Periscope Data, but we are proving two things which we hope will differentiate us

1. Multi language support: We have Python 2 and Python 3 to start, but we are planning to add R and Julia
2. We support on premise installs

Here are a few storyboards we have built which show what is possible:

* https://app.vizbi.com/#!/public/akshar2/bi-skills-and-job

* https://app.vizbi.com/#!/public/demo_user/us-immigration-201...

* https://app.vizbi.com/#!/public/demo_user/us-crime-rates

* https://app.vizbi.com/#!/public/demo_user/us-crime-rates
This seems to be about inline with some criticism this guide got on /r/rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5qq7ty/a_guide_to_por...

Specifically, I think this work should be regarded as a "work in progress." :-)
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You're right in that a binary blob may just contain a backdoor and analyzing it is very hard.

There is Replicant ( http://www.replicant.us/ ), a version of Android that aims to get rid of all binary blobs. There is also CopperheadOS ( https://copperhead.co/android/ ).

Related reading: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-improbable-hardenin...
This is an on-going project; in the coming months, we will work towards expanding the coverage of budget data available on the portal and present a greater proportion of the data in machine readable formats (i.e. CSVs and MS-Excel, instead of only PDFs). Moreover, we will also be adding a database for facilitating inter-State comparability of budget data across years. However, we believe it is necessary to carry out this expansion as an incremental, public process. Hence, we have made the beta version of OBI live and we are seeking feedback and suggestions (from all potential users) on how could this portal be made more useful in future.
Playing the devils advocate here, the phones were accessing their servers without permission. They made the phones stop.
That's another major problem with on call: Things changes over time. The alert rotation may be sustainable for a while, then things changes and there are a lot more alerts.
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What should the process be for foreigners in the US?
If they install SilentOS on their unlicensed devices, SilentOS can refuse to run.
The question is: Is there an alternative OS that can be used with these devices? If not then they are unusable without the OS. Is that the same as bricked?
So replication & high availability -- I assume these two points are one (as replication features would enable high availability).

I understand what you're saying to mean simply replication, NOT a proper distributed database system allowing/facilitating writes using what we now know to be state-of-the-art theorems/methods. To rephrase, I assume you mean oracle dbs let people write to one database, and send updates to some mirrors somewhere else.
This is really just an example of geeks overcomplicating everything. The majority of applications don't require the bleeding edge speed or accuracy, they can get by just fine with this book. One example that comes to my mind is the Lanczos approximation given by NR to estimate the Gamma function. With the coefficients given in NR you can be accurate to seven significant digits or so. While there are better approximations available, seven sig figs is plenty good enough for me. NASA allegedly uses 15 sig figs, so I guess if you are literally a rocket scientist then NR isn't for you. The benefit of NR is that it has a lot of workable solutions in a single volume. I save time by having a single source solution that makes it easy to look stuff up.

TL;DR: Perfect is the enemy of the good. Unless your project actually demands the best possible algorithm, get your answer faster from NR and be on your way.
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This era of "disruptive innovation" has been in no small part cultural cover for renewed old-school exploitation.
Isn't gross income a bit misleading if they need to buy out larger and larger companies and harvest their products/good-will with an increasing portion of that gross income?
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I've really enjoyed Hyper so far. My only real gripe -- and it's kind of a big one -- is that you can't re-order tabs.

Not totally sure how thy ever fix this, since the title bar is not displayed -- meaning that dragging the tab area is thy only means thy have for letting users move the entire window.
That's not what the link says. To quote:

"While supplementation with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) has been shown to improve vascular function, it remains unclear if supplementation decreases serious clinical outcomes. (...) Our results showed that insufficient evidence exists to suggest a beneficial effect of omega-3 PUFA supplementation in adults with peripheral arterial disease with regard to cardiovascular events and other serious clinical outcomes."

So it does improves vascular function -- it just doesn't "decrease serious clinical outcomes", which makes sense: if you have blocked arteries and eat all kinds of crap all day and don't exercize nobody expects that Omega-3 itself will decrease the chances of you getting a heart attack or worse...
I'm not saying cross-fertilisation is a bad thing, quite the opposite. Butchering ideas often prevents them from being taken seriously and turns them into fads - that's the bad thing.
Yeah totally, but without a visa you can't work for it in the US ^_^ and you can't sponsor yourself for many types of visas including TNs or H1Bs because you aren't an employee if you have a controlling interest AFAIK, you need to pursue E2 or EB5 investor visas with 100-1000K investments.
These phones are on sale for less than 100 euros, a very good price given the hardware specs.

The genuine phones sell for 662€ with a one-year subscription.
Welp, that's dissapointing, but it gives me a solid reason to never ever trust the claim that Oracle is "just better" than anything else. Claims without proof should hold very little weight with any critical mind. I'm totally open to the idea that Oracle is better in at least some ways (surely their engineers aren't just twiddling their thumbs all day), but I need to see it proven.

So far the features that oracle had that people have mentioned:

- An amazing query optimizer

- Replication (enabling High Availability) features available 15 years ago
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I think that you might be very nearly alone in your sentiment that green screens offer as good a user interface as more recent technologies.
Sadly, yes it is "staingate"

Did a bit more digging and found a site [1] which has a gallery of affected MBP, showing the different levels of "staingate"

[1] http://staingate.org
>"It is never just a stunt, because a stunt means there's no risk."

I'm sorry I fail to see what risk has now been assumed by AirBnB by having a cofounder send out a Tweet.
> "The other reason we don't need to be freaking out, says Romesberg, is that these molecules have not been designed to work at all in complex organisms, and seeing as they're like nothing found in nature, there's little chance that this could get wildly out of hand."

This is how the plot of every horror/disaster movie starts.
I mean, that looks awesome. But there is one question: WHY? I mean what's the benefit of rewriting something in HTML/JS when we already have that natively build in every operating system?
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This is what statism looks like. Hopefully people learn the right lessons quickly now. Statism is enslavement. Google it.
GKE – Any idea why upgrading 1.4 to 1.5 is not available through the web UI?