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No I think all devs has to be more or less full-stack today.. When I think about a "full-stack dev" I think about someone with T-shaped skills. Aka specialist in one area (web/backend/devops), but knows a little bit about everything. Not an expert but knows enough (or takes the time to learn) about e.g. data structures, time-complexity or even css quirks to make educated decisions and participate in engineering discussions.
I think those people tend to "serve at the pleasure of the president".
Using a CI server as a scheduler? How is that at all the right tool for the job?
Brian's pretty prolific!
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No, but we can sense hostility where there it exists.
Later versions don't let you easily give the client full access. You instead have to do it through Cloud Code (another facet of Parse), so the key never leaves the server.

Not to disagree with your overall assessment. I'm generally wary of these swiss-knife frameworks - they're written for a particular use case in mind, and if your project doesn't fit that, you may go through contortions to get things working smoothly.
Chrome, the browser, was born with the idea of reducing the amount of "chrome" (frames, controls and other UI elements) in the app. I guess developers like to have fun when naming their projects.
Yes I did, sorry. Thanks! Edited to fix that.

I was of the understanding that some vertibrates were protostomes, but it appears I'm mistaken! Maybe this wasn't a common ancestor then, though it still begs the question how it went from one hole being a mouth/anus combo to a deuterostome.
It's unfortunate that such a literal instance of hashtag activism was based on pure speculation by random people on Twitter. Uber definitely botched the messaging, but they were in a no-win situation.

Their surge pricing algorithm will raise prices in times of low supply and high demand, which a protest coinciding with a taxi strike will definitely hit. I can understand why they would want to announce that they're going to turn off surge pricing, to make it clear they're not trying to profit off of this situation.

In retrospect, they would've been better off not saying anything, and perhaps refunding some portion of the ride price later. By making a public post devoid of context or justification, they invited fired-up commenters to arrive at their own interpretation. Some felt that Uber was trying to break the taxi strike, some felt that Uber was incentivizing protesters to clear the airport quickly (as some have pointed out, rides to JFK were not discounted).

This coupled with impassioned public largely powerless to react against government action, made a private company which has stoked people's frustrations for a while an easy target for hashtag activism. Lyft's marketing was ingenious -- they quickly capitalized on this unexpected development by donating a million dollars to the ACLU -- actions that are commendable on their own, but definitely appealed to large segments of the population.
We've been this way since Reagan and it just seems to get worse every cycle.
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If the law is illegal, then everyone in that position would have to resign, which would make the resignation pointless. Someone shouldn't have to fall on their sword in order to do the right thing. That way leads to dictators surrounded by spineless yes-men.
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Considering that the user base of HN can't even agree on what is and isn't fake news, I'd say your fake news bot is an AI-complete problem.
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Collaborating with the administration legitimizes and normalizes their policies of hate.

This does far more damage than any marginal benefit from "speaking into the president's ear".

I'm sure it's good for Uber to be on Trump's team, but don't pretend you're "standing up for what's right".
Ironically we typically spend less than 5% of a workshop talking about the router. So saying that we make breaking changes to sell tickets to our workshops is just naive. I can see how that's a gut reaction though, so no judgement on my end.
A question, and one that probably shuns any kind of methodical thinking and science, but there's always talk about 'rewriting' or 'rewiring' the brain. Plasticity and all that stuff.

Are there thoughts I -should- be thinking, patterns I -should- be training or ideas I -should- be following to maximise the positive changes meditation has the potential to bring?
> it's pretty disturbing.

It's far worse than the election cycle. My own read on the situation is that a lot of folks have wrapped up their ego/identity in opposition.

I'm incredibly happy to see so many people participating & engaging with the government. It reminds me of the satisfying experience of watching the enormous online response to Collateral Damage / CISPA,CISA,etc... / PRISM / and all the rest.

We've seen that online protest isn't as effective as we would like. And I'm thrilled to have discussions with my friends in which they express their desire to participate in government in a direct way (trying to become elected, for instance).

I think it's a lot of "millennial" participation, too... which makes me wonder how similar this is to the Vietnam protests, I'm to young to know.

But yes... it's a nasty spin-cycle, and the news all seems to have a stench of fairness to it.
I disagree. This is a historic moment and immigration definitely affects technology.
I disagree. This is a historic moment and immigration policy definitely affects technology.
I've heard the same for wolves and lions in nature shows. I think it has to do with members within a developed social structure killing eachother.
I would add Erica Sadun to this list. She's been my go-to authority for all things ObjC (and now Swift) since 2008.

http://ericasadun.com/
No, the AG is supposed to warn when the president steps into legal trouble, whether he wants to hear it or not.

The president of the US is not
like the proprietor or CEO of a business. The people
who work in the executive branch are obligated to the whole country, not to him.
The AG takes an oath to uphold and defend the constitution etc. - there is no promise to obey the president. This AG
said she doubted the executive order was lawful, so it was her duty to point that out.
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"An elegant method for resolving collisions in hash tables... It has the rare distinction of being easy to implement and efficient both in theory and practice."

It does an amazing job of packing values into N hash tables so there's very little dead space but lookups are very fast.
> I'm really confused by this. Are you mad because the political climate is encouraging people to wake up and go,

I am mad that an app on my phone is now sending me emails about what I think is a fake outrage and jumping on a bandwagon.

> Are you mad because the political climate is encouraging people to wake up and go,

People should wake up. And one can argue, a good thing about Trump is perhaps we'll see a start of a new party and a new generation who is more involved and will be successful next time during election. But I don't want apps on my phone to wake up. They should keep quiet.

> but then mad that that touches your life,

But my life is already touched. Don't need Lyft to touch me more.

> I'm not sure what you're actually asking for.

A taxi app that doesn't send emails every time Trump does something stupid. I imagine that is probably too much.

I heard there is a "support Starbucks" thing now as well because they vowed to hire 10k refugees. So I should make an extra effort to get some of that tomorrow. I remember when they were the corporate burnt coffee and independent-suppliers crushing overlords. Then I should enable G+ because Brin was in the news protesting at SFO. I am sure there is a longer list I can find on how I can "support the refugees and squash Trump by buying these 10 great services and products.
Yes, you're correct.

My language was imprecise in that I was referring specifically to the orders limiting entry of foreign nationals, and also specifically referring to singling out specific religious affiliations rather than religious background as a general principle.

But yes, the order does also contain an instruction to prioritize refugees seeking asylum from generalized religious persecution, and states that the refugee's claim should only be prioritized if they are legitimately a religious minority (which seems more like an implicit implementation detail). That section of the order is completely unrelated to the travel ban on foreign nationals.

I appreciate the correction and I will attempt to keep the language precise moving forward.

One other note, it would be best to link to primary sources next time. The full text of the EO is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/execu....
So just black out the area for drivers and passengers?

Unless this is a coordinated effort, drivers and passengers will just go down the list to see if Lyft/Gett/Wingz/you-name-it is working.
We called Tesla roadside because other tire shops were closed and I didn't want to put the spare on myself. They offered to just tow it to the SC and have it fixed on them.
Noah's Ark? Pffft wait till you see Brian's Ark
Do you have a list of these native paradigms anywhere?
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There may only be a handful of topics you want to brush up on and that is why I created this. Enjoy!
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I agree, and this has been my practice: flag what doesn't pass my internal bar and see if the algorithm / moderators / community agree.

For all this community has generated inspired commentary on the technology world, I maintain that we don't have the framework to manage net-positive political debate. My point is we should choose to address that deficiency or choose to avoid political debate.

We'll see where flagging and voting take us - maybe it's enough. So far I would summarize the karmic reaction to my first comment as: "meh."
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There's a local dealer who sells VWs and Mazdas. The Mazdas outsell VW 2:1, but they have 4x as many VW technicians.

I had two VWs: a Jetta and a Passat. Both required an astonishing amount of maintenance compared to the Toyota Camry I had before. VW has really mastered the art of "this feels well-engineered" without actually being well-engineered.

My current car is a Ford Flex and frankly I love it. It's not a perfect car but so far so good. It has the same solid feel as the VWs did. I hope it turns out to be more true. I wish the rest of Ford's cars felt as good as the Flex. Maybe they do, but I didn't want to try a Fiesta or a Taurus.
The intended audience might be more experienced than you are.
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As an SAP (ABAP and web) developer: I stumbled upon an internship 10 years ago which provided me with some formal training and a company to work for. It's not an easy specialty to get into. Most developers I know are either converted key users or the old school mainframe type guys since ABAP resembles COBOL in it's syntax. The younger ones generally come in through the large consulting companies who move massive amounts of juniors around to see who fits where. Think IBM, wipro, TCS.

These days it's a little bit easier because you can get developer editions of HANA for free, and their front end framework is open source (UI5).
Those people are already being vetted. A lot. Do you think no one before Trump realized that there are some bad people in those countries?
I can understand your frustration. While you're right that HN is international (thankfully so), it still does have a large US demographic, which affects the number and topic of submissions as well as flagging behavior of the group as a whole. I know that may not be a whole lot of comfort.

As for the guidelines, you rightly point out that they ask specifically to void political submissions, and you also point out that there's an argument that some exceptions should be made. The discussion of the appropriateness of politics on HN has come up numerous times just today. Here's a link to another one where I included a list of comments by 'dang that hopefully sheds more light on the mods' views on politics on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13527694
Read the article more carefully. From the article:

> “How did the president decide the seven countries?” she asked. “Okay, talk to me.”

“I'll tell you the whole history of it,” Giuliani responded eagerly. “So when [Trump] first announced it, he said, 'Muslim ban.' He called me up. He said, 'Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.' "

Giuliani said he assembled a “whole group of other very expert lawyers on this,” including former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Tex.) and Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.).

“And what we did was, we focused on, instead of religion, danger — the areas of the world that create danger for us,” Giuliani told Pirro. “Which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible. And that's what the ban is based on. It's not based on religion. It's based on places where there are substantial evidence that people are sending terrorists into our country.”

The story goes:

1. Trump phone call to Giuliani: "Muslim ban. Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally."

2. Giuliani assembles "a whole group of other very expert lawyers": “And what we did was, we focused on, instead of religion, danger — the areas of the world that create danger for us. Which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible. And that's what the ban is based on. It's not based on religion. It's based on places where there are substantial evidence that people are sending terrorists into our country.”

It is clear that in this executive order, the intent and desire (Muslim ban) is imagined, then the subterfuge (the focus on law) applied, contradicting your original point:

> The ban is a temporary measure and has nothing to do with religion.
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The lawyer that creates much of his immigration policy, Kris Kobach, has pushed to scale back immigration, specifically writing "have less of it".
Oh that's mine :) Glad it was a motivator. There are surely better configs out there now with a lot more resources behind them like easyengine.
This story is a perfect example of why that statistic doesn't mean much. People buying Tessa's now are so giddy to purchase that almost nothing could dissuade them from sticking with Tesla. It's a small sample size of excited early adopters. Once the hype dies down, so too will their loyalty if they continue to produce cars with poor reliability. Great customer service doesn't make up for not being able to drive the cars.
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/consumer-reports-least-reliab...
The orders only have the force of law if they are based in laws already passed by Congress. If the order conflicts with these laws or the Constitution, it's the order that gets ignored, not the laws.

The law passed by Congress in this case states that the immigration department is not allowed to discriminate based by country of origin. The Constitution also states that people are required to have due process before their rights are taken away. If the acting attorney general felt that the order conflicted with these two, as she clearly did, then it was the executive order that should get ignored.

Now I will agree that there is a political dimension to this, especially since the current nominee for Attorney General is going through confirmation hearings and her actions make sure that this will come up in those hearings. But the President could have consulted with Congress, and didn't. He could have gone through Homeland Security and didn't. He could have waited until his nominee of choice was confirmed and consulted them, but didn't. So there is alot of this that is backlash against the lack of due process and the attempt to run the government like a corporation, which is against the law itself.
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Guliani is not the President. Trump is, and Bannon is a top advisor. Trump went to Guliani asking for a Muslim ban and asking how to dress it up; Guliani complied (in a really, really incompetent fashion.)

Bannon's views are quite available from the history of Breitbart reporting, and from his interviews (Asian CEOs.) Motives matter when the executive branch has as much power as it does now (and that power is so concentrated in figures like Bannon.)
If you own a VW/Seat/Skoda/Audi diesel car in US, you can give your car back and get your money. In EU, VW promises to fix the car by adding a 5cent placebo plastic pipe and a software update which lowers the performance and increases the diesel consumption (physics after all). In US VW has to pay billions, in EU VW has to pay nothing to speak of. Of course the German government is involved in this company as shareholder and probably knew about the cheating and probably the EU laws for diesel were altered some years ago because of this company. One would assume a more strict law enforcement that split that company into separate smaller VW, Sear, Skoda and Audi companies and disallow them to use that old Audi Diesel engine from the 1980s that causes the troubles. And one would assume VW has to be fine and pay to each state were the poisoned the inhabitants with their diesel fume. And oe would assume that TUV or whoever certified and tested the cars get fined as well.
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As a (now former) Tesla owner, there's not a single moment of this story that surprises me. As I tweeted on the day that I was told that I would be receiving $5,000 less for my car than they had offered me and that I would be waiting 2-3 weeks (I actually waited over 6 weeks and had to follow-up multiple times to get the check which incidentally arrived today), a Tesla is a nice car--but the company is garbage.

I've got 3 years of experience with them that tells me it's just not worth it. Sad too, I really wanted to be a Tesla owner for life when I got the car.

https://twitter.com/bcrescimanno/status/809137117171482624
Probably because it's hard to gauge intent from animals and that murder requires intent. They were intending to violently depose the current ruler, but did they understand that this would end his life?
> one of my [multiple] wives.

I think "wife's" is correct... but I'm not a grammaritician
>dangers of monocropping

Nothing to do with biotechnology or genome editing. In fact both technologies can and will be used to make crops more diverse.

>turning plants into intellectual property

There are specific plant breeds that are already closely guarded IP. Not to mention, this is like being against software because software patents exist.

>whatever the hell happened to pugs

Selective breeding? That's what is responsible for every vegetable you have ever eaten, ever, without exception.

>Now I'm just gonna come out and say it: fucking with genes worries me. It only takes one unforeseen toxic externality for the whole thing to turn out very poorly

"Fucking with genes" is what enabled the agricultural revolution, the green revolution, and is responsible for all of the food we eat today. Now we have the biotechnology and understanding to edit genes in ways that are inherently safer, more targeted, and less random. Are you not concerned that your conclusion (biotechnology is too scary to ever use) is not held by the overwhelminh majority of plant scientists and geneticists? Is there anything you and I can talk about that would convince you of not being anti-biotechnology?
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According to sources cited by the New York Times, the initial application to green card holders was quite intentional:

> Mr. Kelly’s department had suggested green card holders be exempted from the order, but Mr. Bannon and Mr. Miller, a hard-liner on immigration, overruled him, according to two American officials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/stephen-bannon-donald-...
What would that gain you? Wouldnt the same capital holders pool their wealth into a newly minted corporation to continue exploiting the resources they have accrued?

Are you going to seize the assets of the corporation and redistribute them? How is your proposed dissolution different from a fine big enough to bankrupt a company?
Also known as "immigrants".
The thing about the Mexican border wall is that it already exists. It's hundreds of miles long.

National Geographic shot some panoramas [0] but otherwise you don't hear too much about it in the news. I guess "lengthening a wall" doesn't fire up the base as much as "building a wall."

[0] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/what-the-us-mexic...
Time and space does not exist for a mountain.

Time and space are first and foremost concepts (ideas, opinions, "facts")

Have you tried asking a mountain whether it ascribes the state "exist" to the concepts of time and space?

It is true that time and space exists for humans thinking about the mountain however.
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There aren't any, and I'm serious about it. Unless Trump does something that is totally and obviously anti-populist, like raise taxes for everyone by 20% or send in the National Guard into a city.

It took me a while to understand why but you kinda have to see where Trump supporters get their worldview. Unfortunately, they use Facebook/Twitter a lot, and have been bombarded for years and years by outrageous fake news. When they try to debate some of this fake news, they are immediately dismissed by the reasonable sort who know fake news is fake news. They see shares/feeds from their friends about mostly the same thing. End result: an unreasonable hatred of the left and democrats. And an acceptance of Trump: just because he ain't a "damn liberal".
> People who don't know about how Surge works might assume that Uber is deliberately raising prices in these crisis zones to gouge people in peril, which obviously isn't the case.

They could collect an extra few cents from normal fares and store it to compensate drivers during peak time, without fluctuating the fare price for customers. It would work like insurance, and have the same effect with surge pricing while not generating bad PR.
Trimp is shopping around for an AG that won't investigate him.
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It absolutely is. This doesn't make scabbing any less vile, however. All it has guaranteed in this instance is that a bunch of hapless Uber drivers are going to be feeling the backlash. Friends don't let friends scab.
Workers choosing not to work is a strike. Infrastructure owners choosing not to let workers work is something else.
"Ms. Yates (new AG) was the only person at the Justice Department authorized to sign applications for foreign surveillance warrants. Administrations of both parties have interpreted surveillance laws as requiring foreign surveillance warrants be signed only by Senate-confirmed Justice Department officials. Mr. Boente was Senate-confirmed as United States attorney and, though the situation is unprecedented, the White House said he was authorized to sign the warrants."
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Because cars are hard to make?