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Would you like to share any reasons you believe that? Or at least which part you find unnecessarily complicated?

React exists out of a need to organize a complex system of interactions. Unless you understand what it's like to have to reel that sort of thing in, it's not going to be easy to wrap your head around quickly.
I've always felt like the intent of a warrant was to prove to ME that the police were authorized to search my property. I'm thinking back to when people had to physically show up and be allowed entry into your estate.

If my feeling on warrants match up with the true intention of the law (as it was originally written) then no-knock warrants are suspect as well as any kind of secret warrant to tap your phone/computer.

I think even with warrants we still have an issue, because what's really stopping them from getting a warrant in this day and age?
Not anymore.

On Android devices with unlocked bootloaders, a great amount of apps won't work.

Android Pay, Snapchat, Pokémon Go, etc.

Google has tried to fight rooting as much as possible.
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Unfortunately, ads pay for a lot of web content just like they pay for most TV content.

The 5% (of which pretty much all of HN is a part of) can probably afford to pay for the cost of creating that content. The 95%, consisting of not just hourly wagers but also salaried folks generally can't afford to. The trade off is ad supported content.

So it's very unlikely to die off.
People founding startups are a very small subset of overall immigrants. There is probably another form of visa which would work well for that.

Also, most people who do start startups are also competent, if not educated, enough to probably qualify under a more traditional points based system. A specific job accepted might be a +5 (and maybe make it contingent on remaining there for some period of employment), a college degree might be evaluated on school/program and +1 to +5, other specific achievements might get some bonuses, age (youth; working life before retirement, generally) would be some benefit, and such. Proof of assets is some benefit, and maybe sponsorship/bond/whatever from some entity could be a factor.

I think we could probably have a lower point threshold than Canada, although I'm not sure. That is mostly a political decision and should involve a lot of factors beyond economics.

If the negative consequence here is you have to come to the US for a job, but your immigration status isn't tied to that job, and you thus have to work in the US for 2-4y before getting PR or citizenship, that's not a huge bar to entrepreneurs, IMO. If you don't already have the business or funding, working in the US first is probably necessary anyway. The problem with H1B is retaining residency after switching to the startup.
Title says it all. That is why the US is kicking immigrants out.
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My initial reaction to discovering the Tapper patent was that it seemed like a hilarious parody.

So what's missing here is some historical background to Tapper, which could give some insight into why the patent was written this way.

Bally/Midway regularly contracted out to external design firms for game ideas. One of these firms was Marvin Glass and Associates, a toy design group in Chicago. MGA was responsible for many childhood favorites such as Mouse Trap, Simon^, Lite Brite, Operation, and many others.

The toy industry is highly secretive and extremely competitive. Anything and everything that comes out of their design labs is immediately put into a patent application. Tapper was no exception to this rule.

(^ Simon was designed by Ralph Baer, who was on MGA's payroll at the time. It can also be argued that, given the amount of copying that went on with Pong and other clones, Baer also made sure future video game designs within his view were more closely protected than before.)
>Social media seems so much more superfluous by comparison.

But as you say, it allows you to indulge in a habbit you wish you didn't have. It's addictive, and there's always money to be made off of addicts.

*I say while compulsively using HN at work.
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http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
Yes, it's quite frustrating to try to discuss topics when people won't speak clearly.
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If you want to experiment, you should just check out the testnet:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet

it's a separate testing bitcoin blockchain. you can get test coins from bitcoin testnet faucets (see link above).

If you want to try out Ethereum and write a smart contract, you want to test it for free so not on the real ethereum chain. Same principle, you can just try your smart contract on the Ethereum testnet (ropsten I think but whatever) for which you can get test ether from ethereum testnet faucets (faucet being the keyword you want to get free test coins for various blockchains)

cheers
I'm happy to see the RJ-45, I don't care if it's thinner, my ~2011 mbp had one and thought it was a fine size (miss being able to reasonably upgrade the ram and hdd myself too). I'd much rather see another hdmi or dp/mini-dp over the vga though. Though the lack of a quality touchpad is the biggest omission for me... I hate all laptop keyboards, but the mbp touchpad is super nice.
> Making Mexico wealthy.

I think it would be great to for Mexico to be more prosperous so people wouldn't have to leave their families to come to the U.S. But you also have to ask yourself: does that fit with the purpose of the U.S.?

Having a government necessarily means yoking people, stripping them of their natural autonomy using coercion and under the threat of violence. I'm by no means an anarchist, but the only way I can justify that state of affairs morally is by (1) putting the beast we've created under democratic control, and (2) giving that beast the mandate to work toward the prosperity of its subjects.

Saying that the solution to illegal immigration is for the U.S. government to work to make Mexico wealthy is really difficult to reconcile with what I see as the only legitimate purpose of government.
>t's very easy to learn programming on your own these days, sure. But it's a lot harder to learn public speaking, finance, management principles, marketing, college-level reading and writing, technical writing, time-management, political science, biology, physics, and all of the other stuff that you're taught in college.

Am I insane, or really bad at programming? Because with the exception of biology and physics, the other things you mentioned are significantly easier and more intuitive to learn on your own compared to say, computer science concepts and math.
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as a deep learning professional, the deep learning community is something like 99% Python. You'd probably better learn Python at least well enough to recreate the corresponding Go code in your mind instantly.
Immigrants founded 100% of U.S.
Claims to the contrary the map is not the territory and a country is not a house. Finally, a wall around a country is definitely not the same as a wall or fence around your house.

Note that most dictatorships use walls around their 'houses' to keep the population in, not to keep others out.

Note that countries that are bordering other countries with great wealth disparity are using walls to keep the wealth concentrated and those on the other side of the wall poor so they may be further exploited.

This is not the same as you and your roughly equally wealthy neighbor sharing a wall in a duplex or a fence between your two gardens.

Those fences and walls are there for practical reasons and to delineate responsibility and right-of-way, not to specifically make it harder for your neighbor to share in the collective wealth of the neighborhood.

The equivalent of that would be a gated community in a poor country (which by the way look exactly like inside-out prisons).
> Moderators never saw it

And Ian Murdock never killed himself after being abandoned by all his friends and acquaintances. Isn't imagination beautiful?
I used to work for one of those big email marketing software companies...we gave out the same guidelines.

Looking at the statistics, from what I remember, I believe Thur/Fri had the best open rates. (end of week, people catching up on emails before heading out, creating todo lists, ect...)
For a wiki, I like plain old Mediawiki. For file storage, I guess it depends somewhat on your use case(s).
This is awesome!

I currently have a small pet project where I think some simple ML would be cool but I don't know where to start so these things are great.

Basically my use case is that I have a bunch of 64x64 images (16 colors) which I manually label as "good", "neutral" or "bad". I want to input this dataset and train the network to categorize new 64x64 images of the same type.

The closest I've found is this: https://gist.github.com/sono-bfio/89a91da65a12175fb1169240cd...

But it's still too hard to understand exactly how I can create my own dataset and how to set it up efficiently (the example is using 32x32 but I also want to factor in that it's only 16 colors; will that give it some performance advantages?).
I feel that if I cancel something and then don't remember to reactivate it, I'm probably better off without it in the first place.
How does such a deployment scenario work? Are there devs out there who would agree to not set up their IDE themselves? The VS installer has one million optional components, and every dev needs a different set...
+1 - I stopped visiting Forbes because they decided to block ad-blockers. Fuck them; they won't get my eyeballs.
>money is just fictional status points

Disagree. For many, money is the literal difference between life and death. Every dollar spent on college is a dollar not spent on food or medicine or safe housing. Time and money, for a poor person, are exchangeable at nearly a 1:1 rate. Most poor people spend all their time trying to get just enough money to scrape by. If they had more money, they would have more time. Since they don't have any money, they don't have any time.

I don't know you or your history, but saying money is just status points indicates to me that you don't know what it's like to not have any money. It's far from fictional, and it's far from status.
It's like talking about how it's such a great car, the engine's fantastic, but the interior is all tacky plastic and the power steering is all squirrely.

The only way we'll see an actual "MacBook Pro" alternative is if manufacturers actually understand what makes that product great in the first place. It's not specs!
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SoundCloud still has a niche in my opinion. Nowhere close to what it was theorized to grow into, at least in my perspective. Getting deals with RIAA instead of fiercely cultivating & breaking Indie artists & curators was the wrong pivot from my perspective. Now it's just bloated. Partially responsible? YouTube being easier to find stuff. Them's the breaks.
> just data structures and algorithm skills seem starkly lacking among the autodidactic programmers

remove autodidactic from the sentence and it is still true.
I edited my comment to remove that line.
> Yea, 32 years old programmer is just too old, 32 years old surgeon is usually too young to work alone.

Wait, how are you supposed to be a senior level developer without at least 10 years experience?
I would say that the reason politics is fucked is that one party is an apocalyptic cult. The Republicans have given up on governance. Change is not possible when one party is willing to defy any norms. I wish it wasn't that way, but unless the right wing is broken as a political block, nothing is possible...
No it doesn't. It needs to up standards for a secondary degree and double down on its investment in post secondary education. We need more literate, culturally aware, mathematically and analytically capable, scientifically knowledgeable humans, not less.

The fact that Americans are some of the least intellectually engaged people on the planet is not proof that we need better alternatives to college. We need better alternatives to intellectual disengagement.
I'm guessing english is not your first language, so I just wanted to point out that "bare bottom" is generally synonymous with "uncovered buttocks" ie. in the context of changing an infant's diaper.

Perhaps you were meaning to put "bare bones"? Google's definition of the latter is "reduced to or comprising only the basic or essential elements of something."

Don't want to detract from your point but I think your title is throwing some people off. I know I would be hesitant to click something at work that sounds like it could contain nudity.
Also be sure to check out all the on-demand videos we have up now (including two training courses we did at RTM launch event), its all up on our developer network for free: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Visual-Studio...
Ha, was just reading http://aosabook.org/en/llvm.html.

(Really like that LLVM IR. Does anyone code in it directly? Was also thinking it would be interesting to port Knuth's MMIX examples to it.)
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I'm just pointing out the root cause being regulatory and not the existence of professional organizations. I personally find the dual-world "experimental" vs. certified regulatory environment to be a pretty good compromise.
for PHP probably not
Let's not forget about your beloved Putin, who started 4 wars for the last 15 years.

And who is certainly provoking biggest nuclear power _right now_.
My mother's debt for nursing school was cancelled if she agreed to work in the hospital system affiliated with the school after graduation. I think it was year-for-year trade off.
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beat me to it...

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Revenge-of-MUMPS-Madness!
Thanks for the links, I'll give it a try. Not holding my breath though.
Use magisk or suhide and they'll work just fine. When you have access to the bootloader, there's nothing they can do to stop you - any attempt will ultimately be futile.
I've found that while it is true that most people don't care about government surveillance, many do care about cyber crime, identity theft, and unsettling ad personalization. I typically am successful in getting people to adjust their behavior to counter these things which has the added benefit of protecting against mass surveillance somewhat.
That's just plain sad.
Makes me wonder how much dead code makes it into that abnormally large binary.
Find a coach. Find someone who can keep you on track, someone who is independent, who knows what he or she talks about, who knows what you do and what is good for you, personally and professionally. This is probably a professional (life) coach with IT knowledge (assuming that is your profession), so that means paying for it.
I bet this is the one you refer to:

http://giudansky.com/images/articoli/2016/11/blender-infogra...

At a glance it looks quite bad, but if you actually learn Blender it's probably useful.
Looks like it didn't make the release notes but one of the features new for this release is opt-viewer. It's useful for finding the rationale why some bit of code was/wasn't optimized. It's a WIP but usable today.

I made a demo [1] for this tool.

[1] https://github.com/androm3da/optviewer-demo
I hope someone reaches-out to the Ludacris team about this but I fear it may be too late.
React trying to do such fine grain scheduling with current DOM APIs is very impressive. I wish browsers had better APIs for doing this.
What the heck has Obama done so far?
I know at least one of the two top major EHR systems uses MUMPS (Epic Software) at its core. If your a member of Kaiser Permanente, or hundreds and hundreds of other hospitals/medical systems, you rely on it for your medical records..

</shudder>
> money is just fictional status points.

For fictional "status points" it sure has the ability to drastically change your life.
I think that a lot of the 'unfixable suckage' comes to exist by people not wanting to rewrite boilerplate code to achieve a seemingly simple task, so they import someone else's boilerplate (angular) and use it to achieve their ends quickly. The fact that multiple boilerplates don't all work well or that one doesn't work in every case is hardly surprising.

I'd be curious if the time tradeoff in the "Rewrite the whole goddamn app" bucket is smaller than the one in the "Churn out boilerplate code and maintain it yourself" bucket.
Don't be such a dick

It is good software which does simple things very well.
I didn't mention the U.S. I'm not American.

> they'd be better served going to Northern Europe, not the US

You're right, for most people, there are better places to migrate to than the U.S.

> You appear to be making an argument that a sovereign nation has a moral obligation of care for another sovereign nation as a penalty for their success

A sovereign nation is not a natural kind. What is your basis for believing that humans have a moral responsibility to care for humans on one side of a political line, but not the other side?

What coherent moral framework leads one to conclude that we should care only for compatriots?

> What makes you think someone who is unable to be productive and needs care is better off immigrating to a wealthy foreign country rather than staying in their home country?

That's for them to decide. The discussion is about letting would-be migrants in, not yanking people out of their home countries against their will. If they are trying to migrate it must be because they think they will have a better life in the host country. I wouldn't presume to know better than them.

(To reiterate, I said accepting a random sample of immigration applicants, not taking in a random sample of the population.)
Get out of your comfort zone, the more time you spend out there the more comfortable it will become.

I realised this first when learning to snowboard, I found I progressed the best when I did the hard runs. An easy day going down some green runs didn't really help me progress. It was when I pushed myself to try the harder runs that I seemed to progress the quickest.
I'd love to see some kind of study that could prove that college grads are on average more rounded people. It's certainly not my experience.
Disclaimer: I am the inventor's son.

Sure, Kaplan turbine is way more efficient but it is difficult and expensive to use it on such low water head. This bladeless ball is so dumb it can be manufactured in sweatshops and run in dirty irrigation canals from 30cm water head. The potential is huge exactly because we can not build huge river dams any mor. This turbine could utilize micro flows, tidal energy even waste water. By the way it is very efficient as a garden or kitchen cleaning tool on the standard water main.
3-4 applicants per position does not imply 3-4x as many people than jobs. (It's not a pigeonhole problem.)

If you were laid off or moved cities, how many jobs would you apply for? How many of them would you be able to hold simultaneously?
Is it something where the business logic part could be easily abstracted / separated? It sounds like an interesting and useful yet simple tool. The open source community can always use more of those.

Edit: or maybe something like a blog post to describe the structural details.
I, too, have googled MUMPS.
My what? I think you think I'm someone else.
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I think America needs to get over its reverence for the "free market". Healthcare and education are critical needs. Without education we wouldn't have modern medicine, food supply, clothing, housing, etc - you name it. Without any and all healthcare we'd all be dying somewhere between 20-40, if we're lucky. Yet, both "industries" experience ever increasing costs. Consumers in both offset actualized needs with financial tools. Insurance only works if a large majority of people do not use it. That's if you can obtain and afford insurance. Education only pays off if your tuition expenses match up with your employment options. That's assuming you manage to find work out of college.

If you can't afford insurance then you're stuck paying out of pocket. By the "one price" rule, doctors have to charge an individual the same they charge insurance. An individual cannot strike a deal as easily with a provider as an insurance company can - so they wind up paying 10-100x what an insurance company would. Notice, that's not saying anything about what an insured person would pay.

There's no corollary to that for education. People finance their education (largely) with loans and up front. They're striking a deal based on what they expect their future income to be. That future income, by the way, probably won't be realized for the majority. For those it is, it may not be realized until 5 or even 10 years down the road. By that point, the loan payments have already started and may have already been scheduled to be paid back completely.

America needs a new economic model. It needs an economic model that allocates nails and food differently than it allocates healthcare and education. Right now, it allocates immediate needs the same way it allocates 'possible demands'. Financial companies estimate 'possible demands' on imperfect data across imperfect realities. Because those two things are not the same, they need to be handled differently.
I don't see it as an indictment of the teachers, but the institution itself. I know many inspired teachers whose work ethic and selflessness can put us all to shame. There are also some pretty bad teachers. But neither point illustrates that the public education system (in the US at least) is engineered for many other concerns before considering how best to educate its students.

You can see it in this paraphrased anecdote from a middle school science teacher: The principal asks me to do a lot of things. Sometimes, he asks very sternly. However, as a teacher, there is only one thing I am legally required to do for these children every day: take attendance.
> Card = tap and done here

Almost nowhere we shop has NFC readers yet. They're gaining adoption, but they're far from ubiquitous.

Those that do often require that you sign a receipt in addition to presenting your device or card. I've had one place go as far as to require a PIN and a signature... on a purchase where I had to unlock my phone with a fingerprint.

Compare that to "hand the clerk a paper check, clerk inserts it into the register, then hands it back to you".

> Never bounces

Sure they can. They can also be reversed, in some cases weeks after the purchase. Large retailers who print/scan checks (e.g., WalMart) present it to the bank electronically, instantly. There's actually a significantly stronger guarantee that the money is actually there in that case.

> Never gets stolen and used to make fraudulent withdrawals, at least so long as skimmers are mostly mag-stripe readers.

This is a risk, sure - but it's on the retailers, not the consumer. It's a hassle for a consumer but most banks will happily reverse the charges for you if you report a checkbook stolen.
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There are good reasons for it. I hope a sysadmin isn't afraid of some parameters. We've been waiting a very long time for a minimal/piecewise install capable Visual Studio.
> This is a tricky task, requiring carefully shaped explosives, and pretty unlikely to happen by chance

It's not "by chance," the warhead is carefully designed to make it and everything needed is already there, there are no missing parts. The "software" maybe doesn't activate the parts optimally or at all if there's luck but nothing is missing inside.

In the given case, "only" the rocket body exploded (with the fully functional warhead on it) even if it's not designed to do so, and only because of one single fallen small piece of metal (a single socket).