skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article speaks directly to your point: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/27/14397448/de...

Basically, the standard practice used to be for most cabinet appointments to be easily confirmed with bipartisan support. Obama's appointments saw unprecedented levels of push-back from republicans, but still received significant numbers of republican votes. Democratic opposition to Trump's nominations has been, again, unprecedented.

My opinion: perhaps, given the fact that their votes are purely symbolic anyway, some democrats are choosing to 'pick their battles', and vote yes to the picks they feel are halfway reasonable, saving opposition for the cases where (again, in their opinions) it matters most.
exactly, the cognitive dissonance between code and other research results is striking, sometimes. Then again, this just mirrors the expectations in the scientific community and the capitalist industry.
“You took so much time to joke me”–two hours trolling a Windows support scammer
In discussions like this, I often hear people say companies choose Oracle because they'd have "someone to sue" if things go wrong.

Did your employer attempt to recover the money from Oracle? If not, did they even consider doing so?
Dead man's switch?
So when i listen to music you also want me to sing. You have writers and readers, im a reader and a huge fan of writers, who i support when i can.
Main reason that I have seen for Oracle is that businesses buy applications and then install the database they need to run that application. How many ERP/CRM/HR/financials applications are there that compete with Oracle applications that run on MySQL or Postgres?
Why you need something of your own
Oracle is worth every penny that they charge. Unless you've worked with it, you won't understand the love / hate relationship toward it.

Yes. It costs money. Why? Because it does so many things that nothing else comes close to. Its query optimizer is insane. MySQL is a toy and PostgreSQL, while admirable, remains in a lower class.

I say this as a supporter and contributor to open source databases. Like the open source cars of tomorrow; you can't compare them to the pedigree of a Porsche.

I was always a Sybase and DB/2 guy myself, but Oracle could do things. Things Sybase couldn't be tuned for. You don't put Wordpress on Oracle. You do crazy insane shit on it that will break MySQL.
> The idea that a president should ever have this power is ridiculous. Only people who think that their president is a benevolent figure would dare support this ability.

Precisely.

Now, please someone pay attention to what the NSA has been set up to do.
The internet is pretty fickle though. I still remember when people switched from Altavista to Google and from MySpace to Facebook. It didn't take all that long and look at those old companies now.

Whilst Oracle has done absolutely nothing the last few years other than crappy, me-too products they do have a LOT of luck on their side. Why ? Because nobody is touching the EDW (enterprise data warehouse) space. There are no new startups. No disruptors. Nothing. All of the excitement and growth is happening in the analytics space where companies are just sucking all the data from the EDW into Hadoop. And then doing feature extraction, modelling, machine learning etc there rather than doing it in the database.

So nobody is really going after Oracle/Teradata/SAP etc core business any more. It's just kind of forgotten arguably like Windows or Office.
Yeah division of labour is a corner stone of modern society. The title do you think it be fun to do ... would appeal to me more than to try to guilttrip people into doing something / humblebrag. However I do find the post inspiring.
Lawyer's Led Zeppelin Complaint Is a Work of Art (2014)
The main btrfs devs who were at Oracle have been at Facebook for a while, so you can't blame Oracle for btrfs not moving along haha
So much written, so little sense in that.

Have you actually looked at Ubuntu, have you tried to use it? I'm not even going to go through your assertions one by one to debunk them, as most of them are wrong and unsupported by facts.

Cheers.
Let me read you a specification I got for a project a while back:

Build and implement an Intranet system based on Oracle

That was the start, and finish of the spec we got. Question about what sort of information the intranet stores? Here's your answer:

As long as it uses Oracle

Standing your ground where Oracle is involved usually just means quitting. Not every engineer has that luxury.
Though I had a commercial contract in place for Software Collection, these were not as up to date with what the communities released (e.g. Ruby). Hence my approach of packaging and testing my own builds of these.
Well that depends, are you a singer? Then it's probably a good idea to communicate with other singers beyond the local bar where you sing now and then.

Not saying that everybody should start a blog or that most blogs are not garbage written by people that don't have anything interesting to say. But if you want to take your career further it's probably a good idea to immerse yourself in your professional community in a way that expands your reach further than your near friends and co-workers. A blog can be a way to do that.

The post speaks about "owing something to someone" but this holds even just by purely egotistical measures.
Trump is not the problem, he is the symptom. Whilest I agree with your sentiment, it's hard to work towards solving the problem when there is not even an ability to understand what the problem is from those you suggest working with. Anyone who is out there protesting now but would have been cool with Clinton doesn't get it.
Don't understand the downvotes?
Too cynical and I take back this comment. Am impressed with the level of activism and response. Well done.
Have you seen guys dancing? Its recklessly amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxANQdr2WVc

ps:wouldnt let me post a url
Because of its longevity, replacing the program will essentially mean replicating all the logic so that its input and output is perfectly duplicated - including any bugs or quirks it has. Any differences, I'm sure, will end up causing a domino effect of failures and inaccuracies in all the other antiquated systems this program talks to. So then the question becomes, "why bother?" and 58 years later it still chugs along. I know of code I personally wrote over a decade ago still being used in production happily every day, so I'm sure this is bound to be a much more common experience in the years to come.
Civilization and SimCity addict here. After 7+ hours of play, pushing out over 1,200 products, putting on hundreds of events for hype value, hiring good engineers and designers, hiring robots, making every product design possible, firing said good engineers and designers, researching everything, expanding to every location, acquiring all the competition, decommissioning the robots, attaining $1.1trillion in revenue, then achieving corporate nirvana by purchasing The Foundry AI, I get this nice little kick in the pants: http://i.imgur.com/4LF3rjx.png

Well done, sir.
OK, so the one point you've brought up is the query optimizer... do you have any data to back this up? a comparison between query speeds for trivial & non-trivial data sets/queries?

Could you put into words a little bit more of what the Oracle DB does that Maria/MySQL/Postgres could not?
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Support is the biggest issue with open source. It's why companies like RedHat, DataStax, Hortonworks, Databricks, MongoDB have all done so well. They basically took over their open source projects and provided official vendor support in the Oracle "style".

They all offer certifications, training and conferences around the world for you to spend company money on.
I think you are not taking into account the shift out of the DB and into the application layer. People care less and less what the DB can do. Yes large slow enterprises will continue to have a need for Oracle DB. But I've never seen anyone connect a microservice to Oracle. Why? Because you dont need that much complexity when you only have a collection of "simple" services.

Everyone who needs Oracle deserves Oracle.
Sorry. My unintentional bad. (It takes 2 c/p actions to get the URL and title bcs no one since emacs understands kill rings! HN should have a button called [Load Title] that grabs the title given the URL.)
It's surprising that many professionals have broken mental models about how an operating system supposed to work. I think they have something like DOS in mind. I was just told last week about how caching static (!) files from web server in redis increase performance in their infrastructure. I was baffled.
> Only FreeBSD has jails, but it's not quite the same thing. Jails are more like containers. The evolution of the chroot concept on OpenBSD is pledge. On Linux it's seccomp.

> runC creates Linux containers. Containers and VMs are not security solutions, rather system administration and provisioning solutions.

As someone who maintains runC, I disagree with you quite vehemently. Containers are a security system. Yes, they've had their fair share of problems but that doesn't mean that

> chroot() was originally implemented as a type of container. It allowed you to run programs (especially before the adoption of dynamic linking) from a private directory tree when building, installing, and testing software, without risking overwriting the real system. Basically, it's purpose was just like Docker.

That is a very narrow view of what the purpose of containers is.

> But the use of chroot() as a security solution is different. You don't usually mount /dev or /proc in a chroot jail as that would defeat the purpose.

That's not correct. Many programs require /proc, /dev or /sys to function. Most of the uses I've seen of chroot do mount stuff like that in the rootfs. If you're an unprivileged user you haven't really increased the attack surface.

And even if you don't mount those filesystems, chroot doesn't namespace networking or process trees -- so those avenues of attack still exist. That _alone_ makes containers more secure than chroot.

> Containers don't reduce code surface area at all, not to the kernel, nor usually to stock SUID and SGID binaries. All the same devices files _and_ system calls are still available, as well as typical SUID account and system management binaries.

This is not necessarily true, given the existence of no_new_privs, seccomp and user namespaces in Linux. Not to mention that all of the runtimes I know of do not just mount /dev (instead it's a tmpfs with bindmounts for the devices needed by containers).

And not to mention that chroot is just a weaker version of mount namespaces (which is a far more powerful primitive for isolating processes).

> But that's no different than chroot, and so it's not really an improvement over chroot in that sense. More importantly, the code implementing Linux containers is complex and has opened up far more kernel bugs than it's closed.

That's just FUD. Yes, the way Linux went about creating namespaces wasn't the best way, but modern Linux containers are more secure than chroot. Chroot doesn't even protect against messing around with other processes on your host system! It doesn't protect against accessing things outside of your current root (pivot_root actually fixes that problem -- but you can't use it without using mount namespaces).
The parent poster is steeped in identity politics, and such people do not confront hard truths. I don't expect much from corporate democrats either. There is a movement within the party called Justice Democrats that might have a chance at reform if they gain enough traction.
> Microplastics absorb or carry organic contaminants, such as PCBs, pesticides, flame retardants and hormone-disrupting compounds of many kinds, he says.

I wonder if this absorption of high surface plastics could get used to actually filter out those organic compounds from highly contaminated waters. For instance the baltic sea has high content of them, that even lead to some heated debates in the EU, as Sweden and Finland allow the sale of contaminated baltic fish.
Could you elaborate? Are you suggesting that something about capitalism prevents industry from taking advantage of research?
The CFPB ruling will (is?) certainly to be appealed.

Besides the SEC, you also have the FTC, FCC, CFTC, CPSC, PCAOB etc run by groups of Directors who can't be fired at will.
The FHFA and OCC are led by single Directors.

See the "Ground for Removal" section in

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43391.pdf

Grounds for Removal

Although not always specified in statute, it appears that the heads of financial regulators, in
contrast with Cabinet Secretaries, typically do not serve at the pleasure of the President (“at
will”). Instead, most regulators may be removed only if a higher “for cause” threshold is met. The
one clear statutory exception is the OCC’s Comptroller of the Currency, who “shall hold his
office for a term of five years unless sooner removed by the President, upon reasons to be
communicated by him to the Senate.”
“For cause” removal limits the ability of a President to remove, or threaten to remove, an
appointee solely for political reasons. According to one law review article, “The distinguishing
feature of [independent] agencies is that their principal officers are protected against presidential
removal at will.” According to another,

A requirement that members serve a fixed term of years is an essential element of
independence, but alone is not sufficient. The critical element of independence is the
protection—conferred explicitly by statute or reasonably implied—against removal except
“for cause.”
I think the Oracle license prohibits people from publishing performance benchmarks of Oracle against other databases. Or at least that's what I remember.
Walls don't keep drugs out. The corruption is largely due to the fact that the US keeps drugs illegal and in the hands of criminals while being the source of demand for drugs.
Is it just me or is it a GPL license notice that links to the LGPL?
No one predicts "an absence of effect". Don't worry, it took me years of reading the literature, running my own simulations, and having discussions in person and online. It is really difficult to accept how bad this is.
Everyday Hacks for Docker
> I was always a Sybase and DB/2 guy myself, but Oracle could do things. Things Sybase couldn't be tuned for. You don't put Wordpress on Oracle. You do crazy insane shit on it that will break MySQL.

I'd highly doubt that there's something one can do with Oracle that couldn't be done with a FOSS database - although it's certainly true that it requires more servers but servers are a commodity these days anyway.

What's going to keep Oracle in the market is the amount of enterprise software that has been written without database abstraction and would require complete rewrites to support anything else than Oracle as its engine.

The only exception to that I know of is SAP which supports MySQL backends, but then again SAP is only used by companies big enough to just mindlessly shell out big bucks for Oracle too if that's what they already use.
> most private trackers didn't want to just take cash and seemed to want you to jump through hoops instead

The higher end trackers are communities and they typically want people who'll fit in. One way to do this (and the one that's employed) is to only let people in if they're vouched for by someone who's already proved themself (get an invite from an existing member) or if they've proved themself on another tracker (get an invite from the tracker itself through the invite forum on another).

Lowering the barrier to entry by letting people simply buy their way in results in the tracker as a whole being degraded. This can be seen through the recent replacements for What.CD. One of the new trackers chose to heavily limit membership and focus on a small group of prolific uploaders that had proven themselves somehow while the other chose to have pretty much open signups. The pickier tracker, despite far more stringent entry requirements and a tiny fraction of the user count, currently has the larger catalogue and higher ratio of FLAC.

Also, my limited experience with pay-to-enter trackers has been that they're pretty much on par with public trackers. Perhaps even lower quality, definitely not close to the What.CDs of the world.
No, that's nonsense.

For one, there's genuine concern now that the next step will be action against "internal dissidents" or "malcontents" or "nonconformists" - or whatever language this administration decides to use against people who protest actively, or even just on FB and Twitter.

There's already an internal no-fly list. How happy will voters be when friends and family start appearing on it because they criticised the administration?

For another, freedom of movement - within the limits of immigration and the visa system - is a basic human right. With this action Trump has crossed the line from party politics to an attack on human rights in general. That's a protest-worthy step change in itself.

Finally, there has actually been quiet but steady agitation against foreign wars all the way back to 2003. (If not before.) It's never been as high profile, and it's been considered a "far left" effort.

The Democrats in the US are an unfortunate amalgam of incompatible interests, and there's always been a solid pro-war core of financial and political opportunists in the party who are consistently at odds with the ethical position of many mainstream D voters.

If "people see this as virtue signalling" that's up to them. I don't think they do, because this level of protest is unusual.

And also, to point out the glaringly obvious, it's not as if talk of building a wall or locking out people with green cards can't be even more easily dismissed as virtue signalling itself. For some reason the right seems to believe virtue signalling is purely a left wing pastime - which is a curious conceit, and is clearly incorrect.
Configuring mostly through the web interface of dnsmadeeasy. Great service, good pricing.
Even if there were smokealarms with CO dedection it's really bad practice. Carbon monoxide dedectors need to be installed on to walls 100-150cm from the floor. In the bedroom I would recommend the height of bed. The reason for all that is the fact that CO molar mass is really similar to air molar mass AKA "that shit will reach the sealing when you're long dead".
Trump Adds Bannon to National Security Council
Trump adds Bannon to National Security Council, demotes Joint Cheifs of Staff and Director of National Intelligence

More links:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-holds-calls-wi...

https://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2017/01/todays-news-ja...
> But I've never seen anyone connect a microservice to Oracle.

As a matter of fact, I did so multiple times in order to provide simple JSON APIs which consume data from massively huge enterprise software and expose them to nice shiny web apps. Can't name any more details though, but it works - at least if you use PHP, but I believe there's also an Oracle DB driver for nodejs, and most certainly for Java/JDBC.
So AirBNB isn't providing any free housing. Seems you'll try to browbeat/hoodwinkle people who volunteered to offer "housing to displaced neighbors and relief workers" into providing free housing to people who are neither neighbors nor relief workers.
Very reassuring.
I think you're misunderstanding their point. The gp was saying don't ever attack your most enthusiastic customers, parent was suggesting there is equal potential for harm in refusing to detach from your enthusiasts and citing Kodak as an example. Sometimes your most enthusiastic customers are also out of touch with how the rest of the industry is heading - it's easy to get complacent and fall from the top.
Digital Art: Don’t Mess with Texas by Desire (Texas Instruments TI-99/4A) (2017)
This could never happen, the USA don't have an embassy there
When I freedive, I'm often weighted so that I'm neutral buoyant at -10m. So the last 10 meters I will start to float upwards, and thus go faster.

But that's not the issue here. It's the pressure difference when ascending.

> [1] Ascent-induced hypoxia is caused by a drop in ppO2 as ambient pressure is reduced on ascent. The ppO2 at depth, under pressure, may be sufficient to maintain consciousness but only at that depth and not at the reduced pressures in the shallower waters above or at the surface

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout
So Oracle's future is based on those large enterprises, while the more nimble, those that will be large enterprises down the road, steer away from Oracle? Maybe Oracle realised that they won't be winning the smaller one's over and now decided to squeeze the larger ones even more.
Cloudflare.
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A dive into numbers, in the general, computing sense
You have to do it some time.
Stunt, then, as AirBNB isn't providing any free housing. You're just going to browbeat people who offered "housing to displaced neighbors and relief workers" to underwrite "your" provision of housing to people who are neither neighbors nor relief workers.
I think this applies to cofounders and employers/bosses as well, if you're the programmer and they are non-technical, and they come to you and simply state "someone tried to do this thing and it didn't work" without giving you anything to debug with, view it as a huge red flag indicating that they do not, and do not want to, understand or appreciate your work and your time.

I've had this happen to me and after asking politely multiple times, and explaining the need for communicating in a detailed and useful manner (that I demonstrated), I would end up just getting angry when it would continue to happen.
I say this "garbage" because in my opinion it's true.

EnterpriseDB has according to LinkedIn between 200-500 people mostly located in AMR and EMEA based on experience with their APAC division. They simply are NOT a top tier support company on par with Oracle, Teradata, SAP etc. I am based in APAC and so my opinion is going to be far different than other parts of the globe.

And the difference with DataStax, MongoDB etc is that those companies are basically the open source projects. They control the steering committees, copyrights, branding etc. And so there there's a lot more confidence in being able to reach someone who actually wrote that part of the code. PostgreSQL has always been far more decentralised.
That's awesome lol. Gives a cookie
WebExtensions : Quicksaver (Luís Miguel) quits writing Firefox add-ons
It's not stupid when writing mathematics-related code. Few things are more annoying than having to mentally translate between the 1-based indexing in every formula, theorem and equation to the 0-based indexing in a program.

I agree (based on Dijkstra's arguments, I'm not smart enough to come up with my own) that 0-based indexing is the more logical, general choice, but 1-based indexing is more convenient for about 99% of the code written in Fortran, Matlab or Julia.
H1-B visa – the need for reform
Trade deficit isn't a good indicator for overall jobs but it's a good indicator for where all of the manufacturing jobs have gone and by extension why the labor force participation rate in the US is so low.
The Culture novels have both what is probably the best case for human-AI interaction in the Culture itself and what is possibly the worst case - societies using technology to implement virtual hells where uploads are tortured for eternity...

Edit: Are there any SF stories that give a more positive view of AI than the Culture novels?