skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He lost the popular vote by millions of votes.

True. That said, the popular vote does not matter in any sense other than showing how the country as a whole is pretty evenly divided. If the popular vote (as opposed to the Electoral College) were the deciding factor in the election, the campaigns and GOTV efforts would have been run very differently, and the result wouldn't likely look like it did.

Don't get me wrong, this is very important. The fact that the country was closely split along in an election for historically unfavorable candidates shows just how dissatisfied voters were as a whole with both candidates, and how much work we can do to find common ground—surely there is some: many (most?) people aren't single-issue voters.

(The fact that the Electoral College results and the popular vote results haven't been in agreement is definitely a problems as well, and one that should be addressed. But that's a separate issue, and not the rules the 2016 election was conducted under.)
> Oracle's JavaEE application server is kind of nice

You mean Weblogic, right? Because OAS has been dead for a while now. Afaik, Weblogic and Websphere are practically the same, hard to say one is "just plain inferior" to the other.
If you're solution to the problem is to not solve it under the constraints offered, then you're not really solving it. Someone could easily use your argument to say we shouldn't have self driving cars in the US either when we can just use automated trains.
Are there any projects working to automate the identification of offensive material with Machine Vision or Machine Learning? Replacing these peoples' jobs with computers might actually be a humane act.
GSM signal sniffing for everyone with gr-gsm and Multi-RTL by Piotr Krysik
China has a special visitors visa category for foreigners of Chinese ethnicity, which gives them multiple entries over some long time period (could by 1 year, I forget). It's not available to foreigners of Caucasian, African, etc ethnicity.
How do you set firefox as the default? I didn't think that was possible.
I had already posted this elsewhere in the thread: https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/T72eVRRHv39
Here are some reasons (things I used in past):

- ASM

- DataGuard

- FlashBack Query

- RAC

- PL/SQL (the worst language ever but very useful for building packages inside database)

- Window Functions

- Transparent Data Encryption

- online reorg

- RMAN and online backup

Oracle as a company is terrible. But Oracle RDBMS is a mean machine. Do not underestimate it.
Oracle is making a big push to move customers from aws and azure to their own cloud hosting.

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/global-region-...

Raising prices for hosting with the competitor makes perfect sense when viewed from that angle.
> They only wanted 1,500 EUR? That seems like an awfully low number for something this serious.

Besides the argument of picking a sum that makes it relatively easy for a business to cough up, this is 1500 EUR tax-free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... lists average net monthly income in Austria as 2000 EUR; pull something like this off twice a month and you're doing fine.
You feel so strongly and yet you use gmail (according to your profile), associating yourself with them, making use of the free storage space and services, and even augmenting their datasets to a small degree. Perhaps the people who find a way to work at Google and still be against collecting data for malevolent purposes make the same types of rationalizations you have.

Do email me, though, when a story pops up that Google or Facebook got rid of all saved data that could be used to hurt unpopular groups all thanks to such people in the company.

At... your gmail address?
Hmm, got me there. I indeed cannot predict how tis will turn out.
So long, 3DTV – we won't miss you
I’ve run with 4 GB of memory and no swap for a long time. It’s not hard.
Pilots know that, but I bet a sizable portion of the passengers don't.
As the article states, "Although algorithms and artificial intelligence have helped streamline the process of moderation, most technology companies that host user-generated content employ moderators like Soto to screen video, text, and images, to see if they violate company guidelines."

So the algorithms are used to create the list of dubious material. But in the end you need a human being to look at the picture/video and call the police as needed.

The day that AI can do that for us, they will do any other job also.
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This is something I started doing in my teenage years, to help measure and equalize my breathing while running. Count 1-2-3-4 while inhaling, then 1-2-3-4 while exhaling - while running. After some time, I could only count 1-2-3, measuring my fatigue through lack of breath. I thought it was just something my odd self made up, and never knew this was a significant activity.
I utterly agree that it's patronising to use a generic grandma as an example of a naïve user, and we should stop doing it.

However, I suggest that your grandma's long experience with computers probably means that she in would be especially displeased with the crummy state of the Linux desktop in 2017!
I didn't recall their issues getting in, but watching it again, there were no Russians involved. They ended up going to the North Korean consulate in Shenyang, China. No other embassies would help them get in.
> If so, why do you hate it so much? It's an amazing idea - on Comcast owned CPE create a network-wide wifi network before you hand off to the customer. It affects that customer's traffic in absolutely no what whatsoever any more than anyone else on the neighborhood cable segment would.

> I'm very curious why you think this is remotely a problem. I hate on Comcast more than the average guy, but the absolutely incorrect FUD they get on this product even on HN where folks should know better is beyond puzzling to me.

Have you ever lived in an apartment complex?

1) The interference from a block of 20 units is now doubled and massively overlapping.

2) The people in the common area by the pool by those units are now drawing on the wifi rather than using cellular. So, yeah, it has a net effect of adding people to the "neighborhood" that would not otherwise be there.

Comcast pretty much rendered Wifi completely unusable in the last apartment I lived in. (i.e. Sub ~5mbps speeds on a 75mbps connection that used to serve wifi at 20mbps+)
PG 9.6 brought bidirectional replication in and supported via mainline extension (no patches).

http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/bdr-is-coming-to-postgresql-9-6/
Your interpretation isn't the interpretation being put forward by journalists. I am not a lawyer, but I am inclined to believe Reuters more.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-chao...
I guess people won't draw their guns and march against each other

I imagine most people in countries that have violent civil wars think that before it actually happens.
Yes, and those ignorant scared and angry won an election per the rules. Sure, I hope they have buyer's (voter's) remorse. But even more I hope the 42% eligible who did not vote have some remorse and commit to participating in 2018, onward.
Of course you can turn it off. Just wrap your modem in tin foil.
> "Cryptocurrency" is a large set of currencies, each of which work differently.

That's true, which is why the sentence you quoted said "the way THE cryptocurrency works", not "the way cryptocurrency works". The "the" is a back-reference to the particular cryptocurrency that is being discussed here (Bitcoin). This differentiates it from a general statement about all cryptocurrencies.
I don't really deal in the gossip or alt-news, but with the law and actual orders.

The link I gave you is not an article. It is the legal code of the United States.

That is what is on the books. Ratified by Congress, signed by Obama, and the list of nation-states that were areas of concern were created by agencies of the Obama administration.

When you see headlines "Trump bans muslims from seven countries" and then look in the Trump EO and don't find the words Iran, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, etc it is drawing its authority from this which has been the policy of the US government for years.
Unfortunately those are blocker level issues for most enterprisey IT managements.

Adding extra implementation to application, to do the database's work against the usual division of labor, no thanks. And bringing some shady 3rd party support package on top of the database is a second really big no.

For businesses only what you get out of the box counts. Otherwise you can always state that "the platform has C++ compiler, stfu and code". That doesn't really work. The companies are into buying complete products for a reason: they don't want to implement unnecessarily things they really should just get out of the box.

TBH I love postgres, but before they offer proper multi-master transactions out of the box most companies just still go for Oracle. That's similar as to why people buy Photoshop. GIMP fell some 10 years after in usability and features when they did not prioritize implementing the dynamic layer effect system. Instead of that they chose to masturbate with GEGL or something like that for 10 years, without providing the actual end user requested features. The situation still stands there, before they implement what Photoshop 4 or so did they got no chance of being valid alternative...
Does that mean you don't believe that responsible alcohol or tobacco use is possible? What about prescription pain medication?
Everything is subject to interpretation, especially if people are motivated to interpret it in a creative ways to prove their pre-existing opinion. However, one must distinguish between what the document actually says (next to nothing) and what creative interpretation can achieve (coup d'etat in DHS omg fascists). Nobody is banned from the latter, but it's still not the former and never will be.
Most SELinux policies, Corosync and Pacemaker and related HA / clustering tools, and a pile of other things and they settled for a really awful stable kernel major in Jessie / 8.x.

It really went downhill with, the release of 8.0, the only improvement we really saw was a slightly newer kernel (but still old) and SystemD (although not consistantly implemented), The Debian community has also fallen through the floor, lots of smart-ass bickering and slack package maintainership and generally unhelpful, rude contributors / owners. By contrast RHEL/CentOS sped up their release cycles after re-in-housing Fedora as and taking a lot of it's rolling updates into stable a lot quicker and the community has been fantastic, Redhat have really stepped up and modernised their game a lot over the past two or there years.
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This isn't Twitch chat.
It's not Windows of course, but you might look at hdparm [0] which does a similar thing on Linux. It's a wrapper around ioctls, which led me to 'Winsock IOCTLS' [1] which is maybe helpful.

`GetPwrDiskSpindownRange` page [2] has s potentially useful remark:

> Starting with Windows Vista, power management configuration of the system's hard disk drives is controlled through the GUID_DISK_SUBGROUP power settings subgroup. Use the PowerEnumerate function to enumerate individual settings.
For more information on using PowrProf.h, see Power Schemes.

But all I did to find that was search "spindown" on MSDN, so I'm sure you've seen that already.

[0] - http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/zesty/en/man8/hdparm.8.h...

[1] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...

[2] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
>attempting to lay claim over every individual's body

If that's the way it's going to be, why not let them simply die when they OD?
That's agreeable.
> constant exposure to the worst of humanity on a daily basis takes an undeniable toll.

This is one of the troubles police officers find in their daily work. When they are not part of the society where they work it is hard for them to empathize, as they just see the worst parts of that society.

In the police case also to have members of the police that are part of the communities they serve. But counseling also is needed to be able to deal with a biased view of reality. People don't call the police to show them how nice a neighbor is, or to invite them to a party. Their experience is, like for the guy in the article, to see only the bad parts as the good ones are filtered away.
The US Army has a project they're calling " Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System" that's designed to kill just the person they're after. It's essentially a tiny remote controlled helicopter with high-precision sensors and a stabilized rifle.

They started flying a prototype in 2009, but I can't tell from public sources if they ever got it to work.
Engineers need to learn how to stand their ground
Can't you go theoretically go to the toilet on autopilot? It won't land for you, but while turned on it will keep the plane aloft until fuel runs out, no?
and a number of other useful community / product maintained repos such as PostgreSQL's official yum repo, ELRepo, Docker's official repo, Sernet's official Samba repo, Nginx's official repo etc...
Many years.

I've had two jobs in the past that have been in Oracle shops and from my experience those companies were so fully invested in a lot of the Oracle suite (think WebLogic, ESB, the database etc) it would be like turning a huge oil tanker around to pivot away from it.

And don't forget the reams of PL/SQL that often sits at the core of a lot of business logic
Okay, sorry, you're right. In my head "multi-master" is N > 2, for some reason. Probably because of Bucardo.

Also, we're only on 9.5, so I haven't gotten to play with BDR yet, though I do have a meeting next week to start talking about how we might use logical decoding.
Never do this. There are a basket of edge-cases and weirdness that you'll miss in your three-minute re-implementation that aren't worth that pain you'll have using or debugging later on.
Remember, Oracle also forced 'Redhat' customers (who rely on Oracle DB) to their Linux in similar manner.

Now I wonder BTRFS is not getting enough attention, because its started by Oracle and their history with open-source?
good point; although one would hope that they'd would simply provide better services on their cloud (for the same price) ...
That's like asking, "Does that mean you don't believe in responsible knife juggling?" One is going to kill you a lot more surely and quickly than the other, but neither is a good idea.

To say heroin and alcohol/tobacco are equivalent would be stupid. To say an addition to heroin has no similarities to an addition to alcohol/tobacco would also be stupid.
This link says there are "confirmed reports" that DHS disregards the stays - namely, deports people - but does not provide any details, e.g. which person named in the stays was deported, by whom, on what grounds (e.g. people can be rejected not only on this exec order, people has been deported long before Trump), who confirmed it, etc. Even that report plainly says "I simply don't have enough information yet, and hope to update as we know more". I suggest to wait until that update before proclaiming DHS is actually refused court orders with no proof of such. I understand that if they do it it would be a big deal, that's exactly why saying it happened before we know it actually happened is wrong.
You're saying that Apple is focused on providing the best quality possible.

How is a 3-year-old PC good quality?
I was wondering about that. In the US a system that could prevent guests from leaving during a fire or medical emergency would never be allowed, and I can't imagine Germany is much different.
Yes exactly. Nixon's approval was about 24% upon departure. It will take far more damage than this ban to get an approval rating low enough to motivate and give cover to this Congress.
I am hugely frustrated by this as well.

I often am interrupted by coworkers simply telling me "it doesn't work". Despite repeatably asking to be given more context from the get go, I am still regularly facing the "it doesn't work. dot. end of sentence.".

My answer often ends up being a clearly annoyed "Yes and so...??" hinting my interlocutor that I'm expecting more, and quickly. This is unfortunate since my annoyance can now be felt by the coworker in question, and potentially other people in the room.

This interaction happens as much in spoken conversation as it does in chats.

To add insult to injury, often times the reason why "it doesn't work" is contained in an error message that wasn't carefully (if at all) read.

I recently had to get up and go to the desk of one of my coworker telling me "it doesn't work". They were trying to connect to our MySQL server using a common macOS GUI client. Upon arriving at their desk I immediately knew what the problem was. I was baffled and frustrated that someone supposedly competent made me get up for this: "Unable to connect to host 172.20.0.100 because access was denied.

Double-check your username and password and ensure that access from your current location is permitted.

MySQL said: Access denied for user 'admin'@'172.20.0.1' (using password: YES)". I had to ask my coworker to read the message out loud, only then did he realize his mistake (it doesn't work, because the password is wrong...).

Although this example is extreme, my day to day life is made of many, less extreme, instances of this kind of interaction that are wasting my time. A benign as it can seem, this contributes a lot to my stress and frustration.
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What's "current", and what's your benchmark?

Mine is video encoding using FFMPEG (where I run more program threads than FFMPEG decides is optimal in order to make sure no cpu thread is idle).

I get at most 15% over hyperthreading off, and often about 5-10% less than hyperthreading off (For the whole process, beginning to end).

On real cores, it is close to being linear in the number of cores (not quite, but it is close).
Oracle will be around for many, many decades to come. Especially since in the enterprise world nobody could care less what engineers thought. Managers determine budgets and capabilities. Architects determine what to purchase and how it fits together. Engineers implement. Pecking order that's been around as long as Oracle has.

The biggest obstacle to Oracle's future success isn't price or other databases. It's the analytics space i.e. Hadoop/Spark which is relegating big iron SQL databases to being dumb CRUD boxes. It's why both Oracle and Teradata moved into the space but have struggled to get any traction against Hortonworks or Cloudera.
I am not talking about being able to take advantage of every capability of the device in use, but capability to use the device autonomously in basic use cases. In the case of cars, it means that you are able to turn the engine on, refuel when needed, use steering wheel and engage gears. If you complain to the mechanic that the car is broken and the problem is that you have not turned the engine on you can't use a car. If you need to call IT support because ehternet cable is not connected, display is off or because the shortcut to browser in your desktop has moved, you can't use a computer.
It seems pretty ineffective to ban people from 7 nations, and ignore the nations where the vast majority of Muslims actually live and do business.

Do people really think Somalia is some kind of Isamic power-player versus Saudi Arabia or the Emirates?

These countries were not picked randomly because they "Muslim". There is a long standing animosity against them. A retired US general in 2007 said: “We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran...”[1].

And now which countries are banned: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen... that's 6 out of the 7 named above.

Now please do not read this as a defence of the executive order. Whatever its intentions, it was poorly implemented and applied with seemingly no thought to the political fallout or the disruption to peoples' lives. Green card holders in America deserve better than no-notice before being detained at the borders.

However, it seems to me that every one of the countries named is currently embroiled in a civil war or has strong non-governmental forces within its borders----that is the commonality that they share.

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-count...
And the DHS has responded to this ruling already:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/01/29/department-homeland-secu...

No foreign national in a foreign land, without ties to the United States, has any unfettered right to demand entry into the United States or to demand immigration benefits in the United States.
The Verge – Un-American
Don't use EPEL in production, it is an unstable mess. If you need more packages than are in the core of CentOS, Debian is the best choice.
Today’s social networks are broken
SELinux is an absolute must in todays world, simply put it prevents applications and namespace from doing thing outide of their area of interet, for example a web server should never be allowed to execute files from /tmp so it prevents that, another great example is when you have any form of multi-tennancy - for example you might have several docker or LXC containerised apps running on a host SELinux will / can ensure that even if of those apps is compromised and someone popped a shell in it, they couldn't go beyond anything running in that namespace, i.e. to the host itself or other apps running in containers on the same host.

It prevents a lot of sitations where an app might behave badly, for example perhps you're running a PHP app and a 0-day PHP flaw is discovered, there's a good chance that SELinux restrictions could prevent that exploit from being useful to the attacker by not allowing the app to do unusual things.

We have a rule - if it's not running SELinux in enforicng then it's not going into production.

We use to run GRSec as well, however with modern kernels a lot of the GRSec code base has been merged in so it's often not required.
It's useless even with the display open.

I bet most people don't ever use it after the first week.
Most computer users run to a script: click this then this then this... Kids learn the latest app from their friends but the biggest difference is that they aren't as afraid of breaking things as adults. This is why adults are impressed by kids. Also, most of us learned by experimenting further. 'Digital natives' is a myth because only a few pursue what they are soaking in.

So 'maintain' is close. But I would argue that learning to maintain is not the goal or the measure. More important than using computers is understanding computers. Not a bunch of scripts or facts but concepts and a problem solving approach. This helps a little with maintenance but digital literacy is more about being informed of what is a pervasive aspect of our society (security, privacy, trust issues etc). This is also why a car analogy is not apt: technology is more pervasive. We don't use cars to make things in the way we use computers.
> I see no reasonable interpretation of this as anything other than Trump's team's best effort to discriminate against Muslims while being technically legal.

How about Trump fulfilling his campaign promises while being technically legal?
Years ago Oracle would have been in a quite nice position to put up interesting cloud offering. Something like Java platform as a service, bundled with the message queues, database etc. Not targeted just to enterprises, but similar to AWS and Azure in the sense that you can get started small. They had quite much interesting related technology from Sun and BEA (and of course from themselves).

And maybe this would still make sense. Java is still relevant. JavaEE provides the packaging for the applications. Maybe the basis for a nice serverless offering (you have for example the message driven beans).