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> everyone categorizes anything that discusses immigration as "extreme-right" or "alt-right"

No, not anything, just those which are clearly racially motivated.

> beyond "They're stupid racist biggots"

That, largely, is why he got 62M votes. The US is a deeply racist country with catastrophic social and economic problems that are imagined to be the fault of "others" and "liberals" - he pandered to that demographic and won.

> Milo Yiannopoulos

Oh dear. As a wise man once said, "when in deep hole of shit, stop digging".
> it would have been hard to be a worse one.

That's a bit unfair. IBM would have probably canned hardware (and hence Solaris) much earlier than Oracle did, because they already had their own offering in that space and they were as invested as Oracle in Linux (ok, they don't have their own RedHat clone, but they are definitely big on supporting Linux).

IBM was buying Sun because of Java, and planning to chuck the hardware out one way or another. Oracle bought Sun because of the hardware and basically kept everything else going, albeit in a reduced fashion where there was overlap (MySQL) or they were not interested in the niche (OpenOffice).

I think Oracle had some decent ideas and didn't execute well on them, partly because of cultural issues. I don't think IBM would have done better, certainly not on the hardware/Solaris side. They would have probably done a bit better with Java/OpenOffice but that's about it. Solaris was doomed by the Linux boom, there is very little anyone could have done about that by the time the acquisition became inevitable.
You should've spent more time sourcing that last claim, considering it was by and large the most bold one.

Furthermore, whilst it may not be obvious in activist circles, seeing the topic was about eating animal produce, the obvious counterpart in hunting would be game animals, and not a sport (which fox hunting is, more or less). My (unsourced) guess would be that most non-vegetarians do not condemn hunting, and it would also be a somewhat hypocritical stance. Furthermore, meat consumption isn't exactly on declining in the world, but you can make your own conclusions about that.

(I'm a city dweller, and haven't hunted anything in my life. I'm not saying that to validate my opinion, but regardless I know quite a bit about the realities of hunting that probably apply to most places, and the reason it is in decline may well not be because of a shift in the moral landscape. It is a consuming hobby, but that doesn't in itself imply that all non-hunters would automatically start to disapprove it more and more.)
Remember when you could do kickstarters with simulated renders of your product and everyone got scammed constantly?

It's because of that
Junction boxes are a cheap alternative.
Thanks. I really like 3Blue1Brown.
When engineers and scientists have to get some real work done with DEs, what do they do? Is it all solved numerically these days?
I agree. Just relaying what I believe the common logic is for supporters of such bans.
> a user or program should be allowed to do anything they choose with the bits they receive. They can alter, modify, ignore, strip, or save any part of it.

If you sign a NDA with Coca-Cola, and they share their recipe with you via email, you're allowed to do "anything you choose" with it?

If you sign a partnership contract with Google, and they share their algorithms with you, you're allowed to do "anything you choose" with it?

Where's the line exactly of how far you can violate a contract simply because the property - intellectual and otherwise, can be represented as bits?
Anarchy is not a lot of fun. it usually ends up in pure might makes right. North Korea is a timely example of what the philosophy of might makes right leads us to.
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The popularity of ripgrep, ag, ack, etc., is an object lesson in "defaults matter." I don't say this in the prescriptive sense, i.e., "hey, you, you should care about defaults!", but rather, in the descriptive sense, i.e., "there are a lot of people out there that care about the defaults." The second lesson to learn is that people care about the difference between "results are instant" and "there is a bit of noticeable lag." I don't personally care all that much, but other people do. (AIUI, some people use ripgrep in their fuzzy searchers, and maybe "instant" matters there. A lot of engineering went into ripgrep to make its directory traversal fast.)

Before I wrote ripgrep, I was a grep user. I hadn't migrated to ack or the silver searcher because I didn't see the need. (Sound familiar? :P) In my $HOME/bin, I had grepf:

#!/bin/sh

find ./ -type f -wholename "$1" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -nHI "$2"

and grepfr

#!/bin/bash

first=$1
shift
grep -nrHIF "$first" $@

And that was pretty much all I ever needed. If ack had never come along, I'm not sure I ever would have changed. The tools I had were good enough.

ripgrep didn't begin life as something that I intended to release as its own project. It began life as a way to test the performance of Rust's regex engine under similar work-loads as the regex engine in GNU grep. In other words, it was a benchmark that I used. (In fact, I used it quite a bit to reduce per-match overhead inside the regex engine. The second commit in ripgrep says, "beating 'grep -E' on some things.") I didn't really start to convert it to a tool that other people could use until I realized that it was actually as fast---or faster---than GNU grep. That, plus I was bored in an airport. :-)

A lot of people are happy with their tools that are good enough. I know I was. Has my life been dramatically changed by using ripgrep? No, not really. But I do like using it over my previous tools. It's a minor quality of life thing. It turns out, a lot of people care about minor quality of life things!

But yeah, I hear roughly the same sentiments that you say from a lot of people. All it really comes down to is different strokes and different common workloads that magnify the improvements in the tool.
The implications for the ROM community would be amazing. Reading this, the implication is that the LineageOS project can make a single build that would work on all Android devices that have 1) Treble support and 2) an unlocked bootloader. In the text it is in fact implied that Google themselves make such a 'single' AOSP build/system partition that the device needs to be able to run to pass Google Play certification.

It would no longer mean device specific builds and hoping your device is supported. No longer would it mean that you would have to tactically buy popularish Snapdragon devices to have a chance of some aftermarket support after the vendor inevitably leaves you. You would be able to run Lineage on (Exynos-based) Samsung and Huawei phones, which is either impossible or too much trouble to worth the effort at the moment.

Hell, in theory alternate non Android-based, OSes like PostmarketOS [1] could write their OS to be compatible with the Android HAL and work with that. Stuff like this would have likely made Canonical's life in running Ubuntu on Android devices much easier too.

Vendors could make a system partition with their latest skin version and distribute it to all their devices, instead of only their flagship ones, meaning feature updates can be deployed in a much broader way than is done now. Driver updates will likely still be an issue, but security fixes that pertain to the Android base can still be deployed.

I really, really hope the implications here turn out to be true, and vendors don't find a way to fuck this up.

[1]: http://postmarketos.org/
That's a fair point, and the last sentence of my previous reply should be qualified: compelling someone to reveal the combination to a wall safe is not necessarily a violation of the Fifth Amendment. In this case, the court decided that the 'foregone conclusion' exception in Fisher v. United States, 425 U.S. 391 (1976)[1] applies. In Fisher, the court acknowledged that producing documents in response to a subpoena can be testimonial, because it 'tacitly concedes the existence [and possession] of the papers demanded.' But when the existence of the location of the documents are a foregone conclusion, the testimonial aspect of the production of documents – the tacit concession as to their existence – adds 'little or nothing to the sum total of the Government's information.'

As you suggested, compulsory key disclosure can be a violation of the Fifth Amendment, and here the court referred to an example of that in In re Grand Jury Subpoena Duces Tecum Dated Mar. 25, 2011, 670 F.3d 1335 (2012)[2]. The difference was that in In re Grand Jury Subpoena, there was no evidence that the TrueCrypt volumes contained any data, and no evidence that the suspect could actually decrypt them.

[1]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/425/391/case.htm...

[2]: https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar_case?case=201586737907...
What about all those legitimate startups that raised money from ICO's???

Here on Hacker News we had a staunch defender of ICO's, who was saying "ICO's of some form are unquestionably the future of raising capital for most tech companies up to a certain size".

In response to that wide claim, I asked the following question which I'll quote part of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15121111

>May I ask what the largest/most successful "traditional" tech company that used an ICO is? By "traditional" I mean that their tech has nothing to do with blockchains and they could have also just raised money on angellist, and today are just a normal tech company shipping some kind of a product, like a hoverboard.

Here was their response which I'll quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15121451

>This is early days, very early days. Give it a few years, and people won't bat an eye at raising capital via the blockchain. It's just more efficient and easier. I mean, if you like having to travel around, having tons of meetings and discussions, hoping your lead investor doesn't pull out and fuck up the whole round, by all means keep supporting the current system. It just is going to change, massively, in the coming years. There will be some sort of place for traditional capital but blockchain capital raising will hit every industry.

If you think about it, that response to my question really says it all.

(Upon my folowup, they did name two software companies.)
Ah, so protecting people from scams is now banning people from their own decisions?

I suppose we should drop all laws about fraud really, why should we ban people from freely transacting with "microsoft" support services who just want to help them with their computer?
It's improbable that the AfD will get enough votes to become a part of the government but I don't find it at all unlikely that they'll perform better than the polls suggest, especially considering the recent failures of polls in other countries.

The AfD is much more socially acceptable than the NPD ever was. It's largely seen as a "protest party" and the general consensus that they have no chance of being part of any government coalition only helps support that.
But wait, central banking is itself a scam! It's the only entity that doesn't have to balance its books.
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Money laundering is what you are doing when you move money from your savings to your checking to pay your visa bill. Literally, under the legal definition, that's "laundering". It's a thought crime.
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You're not. Not sure what that says about my priorities in life.
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Getting the exact same thing...

Happens in both Powershell and CMD prompt.

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Albert Heijn tomatoes are terrible. Actually most of the fruit in AH is terrible. Ironically it's also the most expensive.
Fair enough, but effectively it has the same economical implications as the gold standard, except maybe made stronger by the fact that the government can't do anything at all to change the way it works, doesn't it?

I think the pro and cons of the gold standard (as listed by Wikipedia) seem to apply fairly well to the Bitcoin economy.
There are many statical tests that can be used in these situations and have been honest over the years for use in scientific research.

For example, chi-squared and if you can quantify the error distribution and it's normal, student's t-test.
Wonder how MyTube is able to tackle this.
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
Note that he asked a random salesperson for permission, and it was the salesperson's manager who reported him.
Hi

This is an API with two endpoints.

One is about word changing paradigms and it detects and works with over hundred grammar patterns. It automatically finds grammar patterns in a free text and generates multiple choice tasks using relevant word paradigms.
The other one detects Tenses (active and passive voices) and builds a multiple choice for each found Tense pattern. Each wrong variant has tags that may lead to an explanatory material that helps to correct the problem. This is the diagnostic multiple choice.

The link is to Mashape where you can try the API for free. You can use it in your English learning app to provide a flexible and individual way of learning grammar.
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If you look from that perspective, it can be applied to anything. Shoes can be chipped up easily too.

Market may be trying to move in that direction, but there's plenty of force against it. Like recent right-to-repair laws. Or people ditching subscription-only software for worse, but paid-once alternatives.
You're still free to give your friend 10k for a startup.

Uh? As a gift but not an investment on his company, that's illegal if you're not accredited.
Why can't Raddit abandon its open source mission statement ?
Like eventually nobody will be using mainframes... except they are still there, and somebody is still cashing cheques for their support.

Ironically, it's Oracle itself who is busy self-destroying. The move to cloud-based subscription services, where switching to competitors can be so much easier, looks good in the immediate but it's pulverizing their stranglehold on partner ecosystems, and making their long-term outlook more fragile.
Even Tasty Tom or small plum from AH are terrible compared what you can get locally in Spain or Italy to give an example.
Reading minds at a board meeting
Once, I had to specify HMI of air traffic controllers for a simulation. The controllers have described their hmi in meetings, then I have sent them the document to review, then I went to an ATC center to watch controllers. I was amazed by the number and importance of differences between my reviewed document and reality. Many details that seem obvious for the final user may cause drastic changes for the developer.
But banning them from participating in an entire class of financial transactions is not just protecting them from scams. There are token sales that are not scams. It's prohibiting them from entering into legitimate investments that simply don't have government approval (e.g. a securities sale that doesn't ask them for their ID, and thus doesn't meet securities regulations).
>"you should shut the fuck up, because you are male / white / heterosexual / cisgendered / wealthy / neurotypical / had good parents / some other form of privileged that I just thought up".

Holy narratives bat man. That is such an inaccurate assessment of what is being discussed, I'd wager you have ulterior motivations for being so disingenuous.

I feel like the "shut the fuck up" part of that is a complete misunderstanding of what happens when people who have secure livelihoods in whatever form attempt to "educate" or dismiss the complaints others have about the society they live in, even though the "educators" often have no experience with the hardships being discussed and don't see (and even worse, don't appreciate) the advantages that were given to them -- either due to aggregate "system" side-effects or just straight up inherited security (in its many forms). Or even worse, these "educators" can't even begin to abstractly reason why these complaints might have some merit.

In other words, they aren't presenting arguments. There isn't some attempt to counter-reason with the complaints. The actual "shut the fuck up" comes from the "other" side, which strangely seemed to be entirely missed in your post.

If you're going to try to use SJW-boogeyman talking points, just come out and do it. Don't try to dress up a turd with poorly used and understood philosophical nomenclature.
This article is now basically an excuse for a ton of pop-overs and pop-unders that make the site unusable. It seems that the publisher has decided to maximise their revenue from the HN hug.

Shame.
It seems that ripgrep looks at .gitignore files. You could write such a file to exclude glob-patterns.
The question is never about why something doesn't exist - it's about if it can be made to exist. I.e. how can we get from here to there. Economy is a dynamic system; for coops to thrive, they not only must be good coops, but also better or equivalent to regular companies, in order to survive on the market.

I'd rephrase your question as: under what conditions can coops survive and thrive among regular businesses? After figuring those out, the next question is: how do we get from here to there? I.e. is there any way we can nudge the market, be it bottom-up or top-down, towards that future?
> a forced saving mandate

There are not enough jobs at the bottom half of the economy for this.
I'm from the US and I'm not a Neocon... I don't cheer any bans.

Not all of us are like that... What's happening here is people are butthurt cause ICOs are more successful and friendly to funders, so they took a very bad deal with the traditional investment route so everything negative against ICOs they are happy.

The HN community just like Reddit is just a bunch of children.
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> Germany has private insurance companies

Yeah, practically every country does, if you want it. The problem in the US is that it is practically the only option for many, not a choice.

> and all US insurance companies negotiate drug prices

But that's the problem, it should not be done by private companies, but by a state/national body with more power.

> Even the specific drug prices that the talking point says Medicare should be able to negotiate are negotiated (by the private companies that administer that part of Medicare...).

Yeah, private companies...

> Most Germans are covered by "sickness funds" but those with higher incomes have the option of buying private insurance.

I am not saying anything about the option of buying private insurance, I am saying it should not be a requirement for basic coverage.

> And the sickness funds aren't really single payer, spending is negotiated regionally, not at the national level.

That is semantics, the principle is the same.
I don't suggest that. I think it would be silly not to cover those items through taxes. My post is an answer to the guy above who suggests that healthcare shouldn't be paid by taxes because that's not voluntary. Then I point out that with the same reasoning you could argue that primary education or secondary education shouldn't be paid through taxes.

I think it works very well to pay all those things through taxes.
> This isn't a major security issue, the impact is a denial of service.

Probably just denial of your own service, not everybody else's.
Another thing that was impressive about the Tsar Bomba was how quickly it was developed - 16 weeks from project start to the actual test.
Perhaps you could create a thread in an appropriate forum and we could debate the issue, because I don't agree at all that absent pillaging the rich with redistributive taxes, we'd see a worsening of poverty.

And even if we could save the poor with such acts, it seems like a very shortsighted approach that can't possibly be sustained over any significant timescale, given it depends on ignoring the will of an entire segment of the population. What kind of society could we possibly hope to create with such an adversarial approach?
Just wait till you find another video for gravity4, the parent company running this scheme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtW0WIDM2cY

It's so hilariously bad that it's a masterpiece, almost like "The Room".
Ask HN: Have you done any “prepping”?
Has the North Korea thing led you to think about buying bulk bags of rice and tinned goods?
Found this interesting after recently listening to a lot of Jordan Peterson talks - especially the latest Joe Rogan Experience episode #1006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G59zsjM2UI
Manchester weather is better than you'd think, and within an hour you can be in the Lake District, Snowdonia, Pennines/Yorkshire Dales or Peak District depending on which direction you head.

Yes, it's not as sunny as Barcelona. But it's not the torrential hole that most people imagine. It actually rains more in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco as a total rainfall, it's just that in Manchester the number of days it rains are higher.
BeOS for PowerPC didn't use GCC. It used the Metrowerks Compilers (mwcc etc). One of the reasons is because the BeOS used PEF exe format. As Apple wouldn't open that up, hardly any comilers support that format - which kills gcc on the BeOS PPC platform. This is why you're unlikely to ever see Haiku on a BeBox or any Haiku support for legacy BeOS PPC apps.

I hacked together a MWOB decompiler back in the day and re-implemented it as a fun little project last year. It's on my GitHub [1] is anyone cares. I will some day get an assembler working and outputting MWOB files. Probably.

There's some other BeOS stuff kicking about, including an input driver for using gesture based writing [2]. I was writing this for BeIA, as at the time I has one of the Dt300 web pads running BeIA 1.0. There was a crappy UI toolkit wrapper we were using for Free Pascal too [3]. The latter included "fdb", which was a cool little BMessage based debugger tool. I wrote is as a throw away, bit some one once told me it was their daily driver at one point for debugging apps on end user machines.

[1] https://github.com/memsom/mwobdec
[2] https://github.com/memsom/ratcowsoftopensource/tree/master/B...
[3] https://github.com/memsom/ratcowsoftopensource/tree/master/d...
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This is much welcome ruling and US should follow suit. Current modus operandi is of pump and dump to lure unsuspecting people. Some ICOs are borderline scams. Using Facebook ads to promise the riches. It's almost disgusting