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I don't understand this whole obsession about the evils of executive orders. The making of an executive order is simply the invocation of a power that is either constitutionally or legislatively granted to the President and the Executive Branch. There are plenty of areas where it is absolutely appropriate to grant the executive branch authority to make decisions, issue policy memoranda, make regulations/subsidiary legislation, and so on.

The problem is only when said executive actions are either a) ultra vires (beyond the power that the law grants to the executive to make these decisions) or b) completely insane. In the case of this particular executive order, it may well be both.
> other people in need

they have done that before, e.g. during hurricane Mathew. "Airbnb is brokering free housing" probably would be a more accurate phrasing, since it is obviously the hosts providing the housing. Airbnb just provides their platform for free.
What a great read!

Marketing is mentioned early on but I feel the route to the interview was very valid, I would be interested to see how a revised version with their feedback taken into account played.
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That's a good reason, why US government and taxpayers, not individual corporate entities, should take responsibility and handle this systematically instead of banning the entry.

(btw, somehow you forgot Bush with Iraq and Afghanistan)
If you think this will bring LESS needles then you are gravely mistaken. Go take a stroll up to Vancouver to the safe-injection site they are modeling this after and you'll discover destitute conditions in a large radius.

Seattle's homeless problem is possibly one of the worst in the nation, likely due in part to the friendly & enabling atmosphere the city and it's citizens have provided. By denying these people hitting their bottoms, they will never have a chance at cleaning up and returning to society.
Thanks, that was what I was thinking of. :)
"The real hallmark of Homo Sapiens is that culture and knowledge are externalised and persist outside individuals."

Homo Sapiens can do that, but I think it's more a consequence of our particularities that a cause.

I think the 'real hallmark' it's our capacity for abstraction: never mind how hard you try, you will never teach the Pythagorean theorem to a dog.

From the point of view or our current knowledge, there are not reasons for that being impossible to implement in software.

Also, why was the grandparent down-voted, please?
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Just out of curiosity and without judgement: are you still supporting what he does?
I may be missing something, but I don't see any mention of 2 nodes in that blog post. In fact, BDR is designed to be run with many more nodes. That being said, it's an asynchronous multi-master, suitable for geo-distributed architectures. Everyone has their own concept of what multi-master is, sadly.

The other thing is that "PG 9.6 brought ..." might suggest this is built into PostgreSQL 9.6. That's not quite the case - we're working on moving it into core, but that takes time. For now it's an extension (plug-in). PG 10 will however include pglogical, which is another step in that direction.
I don't feel that the second paragraph is realistic. But where to start in explaining why?

Cop life is so complex that a weekly home economics shift isn't going to repair relationships, normalize psyches or adjust attitudes.

There's a depth of behavioral psychology to this problem that extends well beyond imagining a one-size-fits all therapy plan.

This can't be approached from the perspective of an outsider's view of what plays well to the public concept of what ordinary people imagine about police.
I feel alone on this board in thinking this. While I believe the execution of the order was clumsy (why ban green card holders who have already made a life for themselves here and people already mid-flight?), the people of any nation have the right to self determination and have to have complete control over who comes into their country. Trump did not hide his intentions about what he was going to do once in office. He said it loudly and repeatedly. And he still got roughly half the votes.
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> Cheaper for him, but the cost will be beared by society as he has now encouraged the practice.

Perhaps white (grey?) hats should run a series of ransom hacks and proceed not to release the code after payment.
I think you are right in that animals of all sorts can improvise solutions in similar ways, most current ML systems aren't looking in the right places, and communication between systems is important.

Where I differ is that what is I believe animal intelligence (with human intelligence an example of to a higher degree) is actually incredibly powerful, and its that type of intelligence that we haven't quite been able to replicate yet. I think that combining highly parallel approaches like deep learning with virtually embodied AI will lead to animal-like general intelligence within a few years.

When that happens, when we have human level general artificial intelligence, the ability to perhaps instantly transfer granular knowledge between AIs, or at least, replicate full AI datasets, may be the biggest aspect that humans can't keep up with.

That is where things like DARPA brain computer interface research projects can help us to keep up.
Friendship is Optimal is quite positive take on tha AI: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal
Didn't we sabotage their centrifuges? I would consider that an act of war.
In India it's done by Airtel, they apparently outsourced the job to a company from Dubai.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503107

duplicate, please check before submitting!

Also, please don't editorialize titles.
Which law does it violate?
I know plenty of people in their mid to late 20's who don't own real computers and just do everything from their phones. Some of them use a real computer at work but many of them don't. And this is in San Francisco, no less.
Yes, in fact my 2017 website re-write stalled because I wanted to keep a blog, but I'm fundamentally shy about sharing things. These words could have been written by a more confident me. Maybe it's time to have another go.
It's nowhere near that precise a number...
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> having no ZRAM

Windows 10 has had memory compression [1] for quite a while now. On the PC I am on at the moment with 100+ Chrome tabs open, I have 1.3GB compressed out of a total of 16GB.

[1] http://www.thewindowsclub.com/memory-compression-in-windows-...
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This is why we here at Microsoft (in the developer side of things at least) have an "MVP" programs. This program is something I really love and am proud of as it lets us connect, take early feedback from (under NDA) and invest in our biggest developer platform fans. They do a lot for us, so its well deserved.

https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/
I've seen multiple people write that it's illegal or unconstitutional, but I don't understand how. Can you help me connect the dots to see which law or part of the constitution it violates?
cognitive load would be higher
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There's a better alternative: don't have complex usage in the first place. You can get all the functionality you want by having multiple executables calling a common library.

Consider netcat. You read the man page, and try to do something following its advice. Often enough, it just doesn't work. Because it's trying to cover a range of unrelated usages through a single entrypoint.

It's easy to set up multiple exes cleanly. Have a non-executable module that contains the functions that your application requires (e.g. call it lib.rb). For each distinct usage, create a separate executable script that imports lib.rb, extracts a, b and c from the for just that usage and then call lib.usage(a, b, c).

Users will find this easy to discover. You will find it easy to maintain, even compared to dedicated parsing DSLs.

We don't special-case functions to do multiple things based on complex argument cases. We just create well-defined functions. We should think of executables in the same terms.
To be fair to Uber, whether or not those drivers went to JFK was entirely optional. I don't think the taxi companies started the strike at JFK.
It's not "tax free", it's illegal income to which tax is a pretty orthogonal concern. You have to consider a fairly high discount on any non-trivial illegal income, as there are many things you can't do with it without laundering them first (which is very expensive to do at scale).
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For the people who support the ban: do you realise it was catching people in transit, who had no intention of staying in the US?

Here's one woman who was flying from Costa Rica to Scotland. Her initial flight transited through the US, where she was told her transit visa was no longer valid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-38788116
In my experience using Oracle is throwing performance out the window. It's not uncommon to have 40+ machines running an Oracle product that struggles to support 1-2k concurrent users. For instance the Oracle Identity Manager, which is glorified LDAP was deployed on about that number of boxes at a previous company I worked at. It took over a year to implement and they still only used the LDAP functionality. In the end it was falling over under load testing of just 10k sythetic users. It needed to support 100k.

I built up a single OpenLDAP box, just using the standard mdb backend and a ton of RAM. Easily crushed the load test.
Sadly could't be implemented for political reasons.

Screw Oracle, especially if you care about performance.
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Something wrong with this world. I wish it to be vice a versa. Brin should be in the president chair, making America great as Google, and Trump should be outside joining protest against modernization.
Ask HN: How to make more money on the side?
Software engineer here at BigCo, work around 40-50 hours per week. I want to earn an extra 15-20k per year, so I'm thinking of getting a second job. I'm not in a mental state to do my own side project, so I want to join someone elses project.

Does anyone manage a second job working 10-20 hours per week for a completely separate entity?

Is this legal? Would the second employer care that I am already employed?
Wow this is beautiful.

It's capitalism with a mission.
A mission to let people belong.
Anywhere.

Now I know why your company fights so hard to skirt regulation and taxation.
Because it would impede that mission (to let people belong (anywhere.))
I've been a serial lurker on a few internet communities for a long time. On one or two of them, I've gotten over the initial shyness and in one or two cases even become an extremely prolific contributor.

It's quite organic, never a deliberate decision, but I guess if you find a particular community very rewarding over time you may slowly grow comfortable enough to contribute very actively.
From what I understand it's going to be custom, but with integration to existing protocols and standards in the space (Webmention, OStatus, ...)
This is Austria, not Germany. Better don't confuse these two countries if you are in one of them. :-)

Though the laws are surely quite similar.
And you thought Silicon Valley was a free market Capitalist system. As the article notes, many of the big innovations have come out of Big Government spending of taxpayer dollars through agencies like DARPA. Yet most of the profits stay in private hands.
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This is correct. If a major ERP/CRM player used Postgres it would be different. I guess a lot of that is down to the slow development cycle of those products.

It wont be SAP though, they seem to be all about HANNA these days
> I'd wager that a lot of these recently-announced initiatives have strong grass-roots origins, meaning that employee sentiment was the primary motivator (rather than PR bandwagoning).

Why not both?
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The problem I have is that I like consuming information so much more than producing it that I never have the willpower to stop reading, watching videos, etc, and start producing something.

I do feel that I would have a fair amount to share back of what I learn. However, when I think about the limited time we all have to live, and how nasty people can be online for even the most trivial matters, I always reach the conclusion that my time is better spent learning. As an Italian friend of mine used to say, “my objective in life is to die wise”.
It depends what hardware you are running Kodi on. I was running OpenElec on a raspberry pi, it was pretty much unusable for me. When I opened Kodi, the scan for new media would take ages, and often not work at all. Now I had a dedicated Windows 10 HTPC with an SSD, and the experience is night and day versus the rpi.
Don't browsers have a certificate store that can be used to store private keys?
I don't feel guilty, but the topic of writing a blog comes up in my journal quite often.

I have a dev blog I post to every 2-3 months. Nothing regular, but if a thing costs me a lot of time to figure out, I'll write a post and hope it'll save others time when they search for that particular topic.

I think this is really the only way for most people. Nobody knows me, nobody gives a shit about me, why would they follow me as a person?

Giving back to the internet is a good thing, but only if the stuff is read by someone. So either post in a community or have your blog be found through Google.

Everything else is just noise.
I think we'll see more stratification on the internet in the coming years with subscriptions, etc.

There's probably even a market right now for a paid version of reddit or HN.

The sad fact is that the internet has gradually become a shithole as the entirety of humanity has joined in.

Twitter, for example, is being dragged down by low quality user accounts that add nothing but noise. It's actively hurting the stock price.
The book appears to be promising, but it is still far from being complete and doesn't touch the main points of interest, such as inheritance and problems arising from any form of template specialization.

Perhaps the author could get the book up to a presentable point before advertising it.
I agree the companies are unlikely to rework the current code from Oracle to PostgreSQL (or some other database), but they'll definitely think twice when starting new stuff.
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Worked for Microsoft for Decades,

They also found a new way to apply that same model with 0365 and their continual effort to add new features that only cost a "few dollars more per user per month"

Squeezing locked in customers is the Enterprise Software way... all of them do it.
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I would be really shocked to see a hormone treatment to go from initial research discovery to full human trials in just 7 years, especially for something that's not an crucial medical issue like fat burning.
Based on your definition - "refusing to employ people from the other party, DDOS attacks" - I would say we're already sort of there.

People do get fired/rejected for their political views. Which, and don't take my word for it, I believe is not illegal. While religious beliefs are protected, political ones are not. Again, I just read that somewhere, so, to take with a grain of salt.

As to an actual civil war, I don't see it happening. A lot of people are pissed and outraged, but IMHO this is nowhere near the level that triggers a civil war. Let's face it, people in America still enjoy a level of comfort most the the world can only dream of.
> I was hesitating saying anything, but I've noticed MANY of the anti-trump stories getting flagged aggressively.

Perhaps you're misrepresenting it, and in fact you're seeing blatantly political and partisan content being pushed on a tech forum whose editorial line favors filtering out all political content.
I believe the full quote is, "Time flies like the wind, and fruit flies like bananas."
Hehe, I myself was a very quiet internet persona for most of my life, though I've been on the internet for longer than I remember myself as an adult (my parents first got a dsl in 1998).

The last two years though... I've been personally affected by ongoing politics in Canada. The country quietly denied renewing work and study permits to few hundred Russian nationals without explanations and I was one of those. I began to turn way more emotional in internet conversations since then.

When I was a child, I was of no high opinion of 30+ plus adult men with families wasting time on vain talks in place where their opinion mean nothing. Now, I myself will soon become one of them.

How ironic.
>Airbnb should run a promotion for free nights at hosts who live within a mile of a Trump property.

How much longer do you think AirBnB's regulation flouting would last if they went to war with the President?
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I don't see the problem. Why not use Javascript toolkits to package, and develop in Javascript?

I can understand languages not self-hosting their compilers, but I'd at least like it to self-host its toolkits---bundlers, packers, preprocessors, etc.
You might want to scroll back your timeline a bit. It was Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003 that created these refugees. Expensive bit of election-securing that.
That's RFID. Yeah, you can read that with a $5 reader off ebay.

I'm talking about Visa PayWave/Mastercard PayPass - both work through NFC and won't surrender any data to a normal reader, you need an authorized terminal that can give an authorization key valid for a given time. There were some attacks against it, but you can't just swipe a card through a wallet, it's extremely time sensitive and requires access to a valid terminal.
"if the qualities that make someone a great programmer are evenly distributed, 95% of great programmers are born outside the US"

When over 1B people have inadequate access to water, it is impossible for me to believe great programmers are evenly distributed. The core point of this article appears intellectually dishonest.
> The evolution of the chroot concept on OpenBSD is pledge.

I think that's a dangerous way to look at it, and thinking of some named thing as a "solution" to making shit secure is exactly the kind of thinking that led people to treat chroot as a "jail" or "sandbox" and then be surprised that it doesn't actually contain their malicious process that runs as root and has access to various system resources.

Pledge does one thing, chroot does another thing, unix users and permissions do yet another thing, pf the firewall does its own thing, and exploit mitigations do yet another thing. Doing privilege separation right will help you get most out them all. If we wanted to view pledge as an evolution of something, that something would probably be systrace; both exist to restrict syscalls, and both exist(ed) on OpenBSD, but the design of pledge is quite different.

These are features that complement each other, and the more your applications employ them, the better off they are. None of them is supposed to be a single-switch solution that says "make this process secure". It's doesn't work that way, and it can't work that way. For instance, if you try to use chroot without privsep, it is quite likely that you end up having to mount things or add libraries and binaries or other files under the chroot, which does carry obvious risks.

On the other hand, when it's done well, the use of chroot in a privsep'd process is invisible to the user, and there is no need to build a "mini-system" inside the chroot. Unfortunately it never seemed to be a particularly popular in the Linux world where everyone seems to be thinking "sandbox" or something more complicated.

So when people say that most uses of chroot they've seen requires mounting /proc or doing other dangerous stuff in a chroot, they've probably just not noticed the quite-a-few uses of chroot that happen automatically under the hood...
Sure, but an Uber policy against disclosing such information doesn't make the question unfair to ask.
Whether it's investors/bosses/clients, if you're invited to share your weakness/inexperience on premise that doing so is a sort of strength through honesty; it's a trap, and the right answer is expected to be the opposite.
So to be clear, Airbnb is helping volunteering hosts to provide their houses for free, right? If so, this tweet is misleading, from its wording I expected Airbnb was compensating the hosts.
Oracle DBA here. Oracle Database 10g through 12c have provided me with a steady income for 6+ years, but enough is enough. It's a solid, powerful product, but Oracle's behavior over the years has been so ridiculous, so abusive, so damaging to open source. . . I've had enough.

Am doing exactly what you suggest. All of my personal projects now run Postgres.
I'm guessing that Brin like me came to the US as a refugee under the lautenberg amendment (which applied to religious minorities in the USSR, mostly jews, also protestants, ect.)

Before the USSR collapsed people had to first go to neutral Austria to apply. Afterwards you didn't.

In 2004 Iranian Religious Minorities(Christians, Bahai'i, Jews, Zoroastrians) were added, in the last few days the Austrian office shut down (for how long?) seemingly leaving these Iranians high and dry.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Trump-s-refugee-cla...
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> Iran was dragged in there due to either existing prejudice or more likely their involvement in Syria and Iraq.

Definitely the latter. They are directly opposed to Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism. [1] Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United States. It is a kind of Middle Eastern Cold War (war by proxy).

[1] http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/proxies-and-politics-why...
>You select the disaster first and then offer your housing, which means the hosts are informed about their potential guests.

Yes, you do. What is AirBnB's role besides providing the platform?
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Honestly, if nothing on earth convinces you, and everything is just one huge collaborate conspiracy to invent a mentally retarded guy, who worked like a info vending machine.
I have one final question. If such a savant exists, would you travel to his location and question him in person?
For this unreasonable burden of proof you demand, would you carry that stone yourself, even if it is so heavy that god can not lift it?
Governments have, and should have, limited resources as well. Where do you think the government obtains its resources..

From private organizations and individuals. Thus if the problem is to large for Private Organizations and Individuals to handle collectively, then it is to hard for government as well

Housing for Homeless is also a job the government continually fails at and is infact today primary provided for by private organizations using money donated by private organizations and individuals (at least in the US)
I wonder for how long we'll be able to take it for granted that our brains are securely contained.
All those things on the edge that are actually the difference between success and failure, that wouldn't be so if everyone knew about them ...
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