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The real solution is to move beyond the ridiculous limitation of 65535 ports to choose from.

I'm definitely on the same page. Just check my Twitter. The writing is on the wall. Although I'm not personally sold on Trump (more on the #BernieOrBust side), I can certainly see the appeal of Trump over HRC, given her very questionable history in politics.

Everyone seems to presume the NSA has one overarching goal in what it does, but I thought it was obvious that it answers to the demands of the POTUS. Shouldn't conclusions about "effectiveness" and "competence" stem from what a POTUS's intent is when employing it? These aren't going to be satisfactory arguments against it (viz., "ineffective" or "incompetent").

But she's on the side of the MIC, so she'll always be treated with kid's gloves about that. Proof? She's still running for office, not being pursued for law violations.

No. You'd be better served by learning a language you do not know. The exposure to different syntactical schemes is what would be most useful in programming.

This is really great news and I hope they execute this right. As liberating as crouton is, I still find myself wanting an Android apps for the ease of access.

Title should read, "The False Promise of Flawed DNA Testing". It isn't surprising to see prosecutors resort to underhanded methods in their zeal for imprisoning others.

The basic science is sound. However, there are gaps in it. For instance, most DNA testing techniques do not account for methylation patterns in DNA samples. This is important for profiling epigenetic traits.

Ref.: http://www.atdbio.com/content/56/Epigenetics

It would be more preferable to get (e.g.) 12 degrees in a year and be done with it. Online schooling that has you take tests and gives you the degrees would be far and away more rewarding than getting hammered by years of invested time and a large debt.

Unless you're the kind of personality that enjoys academia, don't bother.

In a way, you're correct, but in another, you're stretching it by a significant margin. Those expenses come out of payroll and is categorized as mandatory spending, in any case. The discretionary spending, to which I implicitly referred, is the principal thing under discussion here, I believe, and is remarkable in its primary output.

Ref.: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

While this is technically true, the issue is that the result of the print is sent to a favored few, which is fundamentally at the expense of those who do not receive an apportioned amount. Hence, with the kind of structured inflation that is designed to "aid" the economy, you will always find losers - usually the average tax-paying citizen who constantly struggles to save up for (rental, car, mortgage, school, etc.) debt payment.

Ketamine is still far too drastic and probably only really necessary when the depression is acute and prolonged. I would rather advise a non-SSRI like tianeptine. At least that is currently O.C. without an Rx required.

Edit: looks like HN has been down this very same road before[0] when Ketamine was brought up; and I'm smiling to see that I'm not the only one to think of Tianeptine in contrast to the drastic use of Ketamine. Psychopharmacology is the tried and true drug pusher of our times.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4615750

Not merely will it store biometric data, if you happen to use their Messenger to share photos, those photos will remain stored on their servers even after you've deleted the associated conversation. Facebook's disregard for privacy and content control for its users is the biggest problem with its platform by far. And with its latest profit reports, it's bound to get worse.

One might say this is something of an over-generalization when one realizes that there were monumental figures like Charles Sanders Peirce -- but then one recalls he has ironically only but recently come in vogue in philosophy-the-field, such that many of the old heads schooled in even today's philosophy can barely fathom his work. Philosophy-the-field is indeed a dead end. One can merely step back and be awed with the romantic ideal of architectonics as dimly intimated by most today.

Corvids and cetaceans would be good for future study, but I doubt we're in for much of a surprise.

This is a study in line with interspecies differences. Intraspecies differences still require some teasing out. E.g., how does a Gauss differ from Joe Q. Public?

This might actually work. Thanks!

Your complaint about clunkiness isn't wrong. But consider the contrast of (1) stating a full phrase that preserves the symmetry between syntactical constructs with their semantic counterparts or (2) the acronymic representation thereof. Whilst (1) is always clunky, it tends to be easier to use for non-experts, whereas (2) is minimal but requires an expert-level familiarity. In essence, it is little different from the contrast between written English and written Chinese.

By delete, do you mean I can delete %APPDATA%\Local\Lxss from the Windows side? I don't think that will work, as I've already tried that.

While this is an interesting technical overview, could anyone give me an idea of how to reinstall lxrun? The blasted thing doesn't work for me anymore and there's basically no documentation on how to fix it other than reinstalling Windows 10. Yes, I've tried lxrun /uninstall /full followed by lxrun /install.

Edit: in fact, I think the problem with my installation has to deal with Windows' NTFS not natively being capable of understanding the lxss file attributes...

It would be helpful to mention that the antidepressants of which you speak are SSRI's. A rare set of non-SSRI antidepressants, like Tianeptine,[0] do not have this deleterious effect.

[0]: http://www.tianeptine.com

You might not be far from the mark, actually. The funny thing about at least one Hillary supporter that I know is how vocal they are about all other politicians being just as bad as, if not worse than, HRC, and that ergo, HRC is no worse than anyone else, and ergo HRC is as equally viable as anyone else. It's quite a distorted Weltanshauung.

As a ChromeOS user and fan of Material Design, this is pretty welcome news.

On the MD note: I really wish they'd improve the development capabilities of ChromeOS. I shouldn't have to install a crouton chroot to run Android Studio, diverting resources that could also have been put into the Chrome Dev Editor (an awesome platform that could be taken so much farther). I've been trying to get a leg up on creating a very, very simple (my first) Android app and it hasn't been going well...

>why is the OP's grasp not profound or accurate?

As already pointed out, but perhaps not so clearly, it is neither profound nor accurate due to misattribution. The OP attributes faults of human beings and their actions to software and tech, when software and tech are clearly not necessarily at fault for such, even if they might be found to facilitate those behaviors.

> I'm not anti-tech, but certainly appreciate what the OP has observed.

I'm glad you can appreciate it, but I'm still at a loss how anything of this kind can make much sense beyond a debilitating neuro-degenerative disorder. The OP would be better of seeking remedial assistance through technologies like trans-cranial direct current stimulation.

It's fairly typical in the general population. The only solution? Don't do it. Fight it. Eventually, it won't feel like a challenge.

That's the good thing about conscientiousness -- it is trainable, improvable.

While this may actually sound patronizing, it's correct. Agonizing over these things is not a result of some profound grasp of reality and the ultimate causes for XYZ problems that have been around (i.e., the bell curve of ethical behavior as expressed in human beings at present). If you really wanted to pursue tech, you'd be a positive force in it rather than trying to pigeonhole tech/software for ever-present human foibles. It would make more sense to be a part of the evolution of technology. In any case, if things were so bad due to software, I'd simply point out that working in society generally could easily be pinpointed as promoting certain values which will have deleterious effects (in addition to the positive ones).

TL;DR. Needless hand-waving at best.

On the other hand, if it is really "killing" you, you might want to try pinpointing legitimate reasons for why you believe that is so. Or don't and just start from scratch in a new venture in the military or a nondescript job.

A nice simple game. Its text-based and timed format reminds me of http://www.beepboopbitcoin.com/ which are absolutely hilarious (at least for those very familiar with the Bitcoin space).

Average users cannot be bothered with the plethora of custom options available. They "just want it to work" and not apply thoughts to how to navigate an unfamiliar UI.

I'd be quite confident in saying if there was a Windows 7/10 style UI for GNU/Linux, you'd have people more comfortable with making the switch. Ubuntu Linux has made strides in locking things down and simplifying the UI for average (non-power) users.

The first big step to making Linux the desktop platform of choice will involve simplification by a large margin, i.e., appealing to the lowest common denominator and then building up from there.

Most Linux desktops simply don't have that.

Hey, thanks! Hadn't heard of turtle before, I don't believe. Time to install it on my crouton chroot and see what it can do. :)

This gets me thinking how awesome it would be to have functional programming on *nix systems, like Haskell (specifically). At least then it might be forcibly designed to be made more useful and ultimately get more people on board. One can dream.

You should perhaps be more concerned about the techno-cognitive dependency you're forming by simply using it more than anything else.

Working splendidly on ChromeOS, FWIW.