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>the 'short term' income of most drivers will be under minimum wage (because there's no income regulation) //

That sounds like a problem with minimum wage legislation [as well].
Start by trying to decrypt it :o)
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This is the second political post I've seen sky rocket on HN this morning. I assume a mod intervened on the last one since it disappeared rather quickly.

Do we really want to start political discussions in HN? Politics creates enough friction between people in real life let alone discussions with strangers over the internet.
I believe he is referring to the global hate train (media hype?) being run on Trump, magnitudes higher than any directed at the previous administrations responsible for those actions.

edit: Are military actions against these countries targeting Muslim communities worse than removing immigration privileges of Muslim communities? I dunno how to approach this question...
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Impressive work, mate!

Does mixture-of-experts works well the other way around, as a way to minimize power and hardware in common sized problems ?

And would it work in low resolution networks, like BinaryConnect ?
It's not just "a 90-day ban on immigrants coming from war-torn countries" - the fact that Christians from those countries are exempt makes it explicitly a "muslim ban".
The consequence of a child not being allowed to drive and not allowing human to enter a country where they maybe have lived for years are a bit different though.
> Prevalent reason is ignorance...
> Second reason, which makes most sense, is availability

I think these arguments are in wrong order. Availability and page performance are huge things in webdev. Accessibility profit from correct fonts does not always cover usability cost of waiting them to download.

Arial and Helvetica are good readable fonts which always exist on every platform and don't require additional download.
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> 2. The algorithm behind rsync.

Do you mean the rolling checksum part?
>Companies would have to try to hire American first and if they recruit foreign workers, priority would be given to the most highly paid.

Wow, that's horrible. I mean, a country giving preference to their own kind. When is this nightmare going to end?
Yeah that makes a lot of sense actually.
I started using 'sans serif' for almost everything. Because every device, OS, user is different. So let them decide what sans serif is.
Some candidates just dive into code and then get stuck. They confuse them selves.

The best candidates are the ones who ask lots of clarifications at the start, they break down the problem into little pieces without writing a single line of code. They emulate a computer and trace the steps in an abstract manner. They think like "to solve Z, I need A then do B and C and D." They then slowly write code for the little steps.

My thoughts exactly
The bug here is probably with encfs and most frontend tools to enc are doing exactly what cryptkeeper is doing.

For those who want alternative to cryptkeeper,there is SiriKali[1], next version will be released on Feb 1st and it will have support for OSX.

execlp ("encfs", "encfs", "-S", crypt_dir, mount_dir, NULL);

That line of code also has a bug as its wrong to pass NULL in C++ to a variadic function. IMHO,usage of NULL in C++ should be strongly discouraged in all cases.

[1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/sirikali
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Try holding option/alt on most controls, it usually have something nice hidden.

E.g. alt+clicking the button that shows/hides the notification center (that's the name?) will toggle notification popups.

Another one, alt+clicking the wifi will display additional data about it.

Holding alt while right clicking on an app in the dock will toggle between "quit" and "force quit" as well.

Etc.
If that were the extent of the "specification" I got, and I couldn't get any additional information, then ...

Yes, I'd quit. Period. End of discussion. I couldn't work at a company that operated that way.
So I went hunting from that link, since scoring so highly simply doesn't pass the sniff test. The reference is an academic paper full of weasel words ('many studies show' type stuff), and that particular commentary (1,952 students bit) came from a book by Brian D. Ray, a not exactly neutral proponent given he is the president of the National Home Education Research Institute. I didn't find a relevant excerpt from the book, but I have found an infographic[1] based on it and other articles.

Turns out that it doesn't matter how poor or uneducated the parents, the students still perform in the top 20%, including maths and science (the latter being particularly suspect given the strong showing of fundamentalist religion in the homeschooling world).

Going back to the reference paper and pulling another reference[2], it clearly states in the abstract that while they found significantly higher rates of performance in the home-schooled kids, they also had a significantly more educated parents and significantly higher family income... and also clearly state that since their experiment wasn't controlled, you shouldn't read too much into it.

These numbers in that link are cooked. They're nonsense. That link is using weasel words, apples-to-oranges comparisons, and pulling info from non-neutral parties. Is home schooling better or worse? Well, it depends; it is better for some, and there are certainly some myths. But that link is cooked.

[1]https://www.nheri.org/HERR.pdf

[2]http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/543
Stopping issuing visas in itself would be bad for US reputation. I know many Iranians who really work hard to get a visa for the USA to visit the country they long for at least once in their life. As there is no US embassy in Iran (for good reasons, by the way), they usually have to travel to Turkey at least twice. One couple I know came to Germany for two weeks just to get their visa from the American consulate here. They were so freaking happy to visit the USA for two weeks (they just got home a week before inauguration).
No. No it is not.

"Trump asked for a ‘Muslim ban,’ Giuliani says — and ordered a commission to do it ‘legally’"

“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.'"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/tr...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9GKL6i38pI
No, you'd see (as with youtube and G+) people putting out objectionable content under their own names. While genuinely vulnerable people would tend not to get involved for their own safety.

The problem is one of "lawlessness"; adhoc reprisals from your fellow netizens aren't an improvement.
Yes! I was squinting and trying to figure out if I agreed or disagreed with some of the points, tabbing into various sites and playing around with the inspector when I noticed that.
Where's 8 year long trail of posts shaming and blaming previous administration and personally pres. Obama for those actions ? I see hypocrisy reigning supreme since Jan 20, from both sides.
> They are just doing their job

The US does not regard this as a valid excuse. Cf. the Nuremberg trials.
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No attempt to ridicule here, just an attempt to convey a concept in one word.

Gaslighting, I think, means a kind of manipulation where seeds of doubt are gradually sown, questioning the targets' perception and sanity.

I still think it's a great word to use if someone tries to claim that banning entire countries and their citizens is not racist.
First stock exchange in Russia called RTS was built originally on Stratus computers. First launch of the trades was done on Intel 960 based Stratus XA/R in 1995, then in late 1996 we migrated to two PA-RISC based Stratus Continuums, if memory servers me well. Both models provided quadruple redudancy and for the whole trades history we had no interruption related to hardware problems. Only bugs in our software. ))

Continuums were working till 2003 when they were replaced with x86-based Stratus servers, which were double or triple redundant, depending on the model. They are still running at the RTS Exhange which is now part of Moscow Exchange (formely MICEX).

The only problem with x86 models, at least the models produced back in mid-00 was that the backplane with synchroniztion clock was not redundant and if the clock failed the whole server went down.
Fair enough, but it is still not a literal ban is it? I repeat my statement as a question: as a muslim from e.g. Malaysia, you can still enter US - right?
Yeah, it is horrible. Why limit your professional life, team, workplace and day to day exchanges to a tiny pool of people when there are billions of people who inhabit planet earth.
Iran is not a war-torn country.

And this doesn't just ban immigrants, it bans green-card and visa holders too.
I flagged this, not because I have issues with the political stance, but because it adds absolutely nothing of substance to discuss. It's just a re-iteration that this administration is "hateful", "racist", "bigoted" and whatever else without anything compelling to convince anyone to change or even strengthen their views.

I see nothing useful that can come from wasting discussions on this. I'm already regretting spending the time I have in this comments section, it's a wasteland of blind posturing and inane flaming that I hope others avoid as well.
Schiphol has a very bad reputation for its security theater, either.
Yet people seemed to be awfully calm when Obama was droning weddings. I'm not saying we should've put so much hate towards Obama as well, I'm saying we should put things into perspective.
Release notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3
My own love for Georgia is basically due to distinguishing oO0 and |l1. It also helps that it looks nice. But it still seems uncommon, so I appreciate its increased exposure too.
Why would SV clash with Trump on this? This seems like a sensible solution to the problem and one I've seen posted multiple times here on HN.
Totally agree that it is not the right move. But that policy at least would not have been so strongly contended.
"Better the devil you know" vs "Out of the frying pan into the fire"

Maybe change was needed, but this is so much worse than before.
They are, but the motivation is the same. The motivation is what I'm highlighting (hate vs. fear).
A very well-reasoned and well-written piece. Thank you.
Thanks for your input. I understand the "productivity phases" just sucks when you don't have the luxury to say "Well I guess I'll take today off" though I guess really you can do that. But have things to do, yeah that's something I read about regarding the insulin spike.
I think so.

Communities that aren't willing to deal with this tragedy that's rapidly unfolding in America aren't communities I want to be a part of.
Damn no sense of sarcasm in here. Where's your pattern matching ?
> C#/SQL are a dime-a-dozen. You're competing in a market that is dying [...] Get yourself up to speed with NodeJS/Vue/React

I think you are out of touch there. Maybe all your friends are web UI devs, but web front-end development is a minority of programming jobs - smaller than writing CRUD apps that interface via SQL, and smaller than writing the desktop applications that create all the data that the web dev guy gets to doll up and push out.

I wholly agree with your advice on constructive interviewing and seeking feedback.
I wholeheartedly agree with this post. We may regret that the wakeup call didn't come through earlier, but late is better than never.
Admittedly my comment was poorly worded and could be easily misunderstood.

I'm saying tourism has opened up huge opportunities for everyone. Many are opting to not take advantage of those opportunities, but it feels hard to argue that they don't benefit from tourism.
The changes on L-1, E-2 and B1 visas could seriously affect SV talent recruiting. It is a very significant change, in any case.

edit: I'm mistaken, it seems... sorry.
I don't live in the USA currently but I have worked there before on a visa and I think the current system does require some sort of an overhaul. The current way of doing things is great for some companies and for customers who want to save money on IT services but I believe it does undermine wages (for Americans and others) and being on a visa tied to a company just opens up foreign developers to abuse (not the horrific kind but certainly things like having to endure a lack of certain freedom and lack of stability, begging for green cards and the like). If the overhaul is even worse than what they have now then the rest of the world should stop moaning and treat this like an opportunity. Same applies to the immigration thing. If they turn into a basket case and it is hard to trade and do business with them then why not promote conventions and business elsewhere and grow other economies instead.
The whole "major SV tech companies use H1B to employ underpaid slaves" accusation is bunk. Maybe H1B is abused by other companies, but the big Bay Area corps are giving perfectly fine salaries to their H1B staff, as others have shown on HN in the past. Like everything else Trump does, there is no purpose for corrective action, because the problem Trump sees does not exist. H1B is bad for workers' and immigrants' rights, but that isn't a problem Trump ever brought up.
actually, the proof for the halting problem is rather esoteric in its demonstration. The claim isn't that you can't predict when most programs will end, but that it's possible to construct a scenario where the program goes out of its way to be unpredictable by running the prediction algorithm on itself and inverting the answer using an infinite loop.
I see nothing more consumer-hostile than the surge pricing algorithm uber uses.
Democracy Now, "Drone Attacks", 152 results, all but two since 2009, overwhelmingly negative.

http://m.democracynow.org/tags/282
>I don't see how that is not clear

Because you're not even using the right word? Discriminating by country is not racist, it's xenophobic.

Otherwise everyone who says American tourists are annoying or has a stereotype about Americans is racist by your definition.
Yes, you can. Trump activated a policy invented and signed into law by Obama, he did not choose the countries himself.
Four pages of results right here on HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query="drone%20strikes"&sort=byPopul...
1) what does the temporary 90 day ban from 7 countries that export terrorism have to do with Tesla hiring foreign engineers?

2) what does Elon's resume as a legal immigrant have to do with anything? most legal immigrants that I know are covertly/not-covertly pro-Trump
Have you tried just changing your job and asking for 20K more?
how is it wrong? is it wrong for a sovereign nation to take care of it's own national interests even if that offends some people? most of what is happening is media-driven hysteria with masses of people that haven't even read the words of the executive order. Do you have proof that Bannon is a neo-nazi? I've heard quite the opposite but it's a common leftist talking point so if that's where you got it I understand.
> Apple has never been about the What (ticking boxes in a checklist), more about the How (the overall experience)

That's the key issue. If you're starting out, do not like to customize, or have not yet reached your (locally optimal) setup, then I guess Mac is superior.

However, having perfected my setup over the last 12 years, I find the default Mac tools quite limited; e.g.

Time Machine is inferior (except in UI) to Borg, to which I've switched recently from Bup, to which I've switched before from a set of rsync scripts (which are time-machine equivalent, and I had them running long before time machine existed).

I don't make music (so don't care about GarageBand), and I also care about privacy so all the cross-device integration that apple offers goes out the door.

Thunderbird is, for my use case, superior to Apple Mail; Firefox is superior to Safari.

Finder puts junk all over my file system, and the old hacks to stop it (aseptic, and a couple of others) are no longer supported under Sierra.

I like Unity (the v on 14.4 - I think v7) with a few tweaks much better than the Mac doc, though that's a matter of taste.

And I like the transparency of the system. My main laptop ubuntu never breaks, but when I do weird experiments on other hardware, I can actually tell what's going on - if my Mac had trouble booting, it's likely the recovery partition will come useful - but there's basically nothing else I can do.
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> he is an outsider to the established system

He's a billionaire who inherited around $750 million. He didn't pay his taxes. His chief of staff was chairman of the Republican party. His cabinet have a combined net worth of $6 billion. If anyone represents the powers-that-be, he does. If anyone has a glib marketing campaign, it's the Trump presidency in claiming to be 'outsiders'.

And if you think the political system is broken, well, you haven't seen nothing yet.

> how hard the mainstream media is bent on pulling him down

Maybe the media is criticizing him because, you know, he does things that deserve criticism.
The uproar is not about blocked visas.
In CSS you want to use the special name 'sans-serif' (note the dash) to indicate the default user configurable sans-serif font.
Finding out whether your encryption is strong does require some determination.
Social response is rarely linear. Think of it as gaining critical mass. Think of it as the droplet that overflows the glass of water.

What happened before was wrong. What is happening now is worse, and it got more of the public's attention.
Good for software developers. Not so much for large companies that want to drive down salaries through indentured servitude (H1B).
I was under the impression that an L1 or L2 currently required a candidate to have "specialist knowledge" that a company wouldn't be able to recruit domestically anyway?

I could be misunderstanding, but isn't this just bringing the h1b in line with that?
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Synthetic biology synthesizes viruses till 2002, bacteria in 2010, ribosome in 2013. Inevitably approaching the possibility of synthesizing a cell from single molecules, when it could use mirror-image molecules instead (enantiomers), getting mirror-chiral version of an organism, which among others would feed with L-sugars instead of our D-sugars ... and would be incompatible with our pathogens.

Some potential applications:

- mass production in e.g. chiral E. Coli of enantiomers of our proteins, opening new world of possibilities e.g. for drugs,

- designing and creating bottom-up really sterile ecosystems, what might be essential e.g. for bringing life to harsh environments like Mars – pathogens greatly decrease efficiency of ecosystems and it seems impossible to really get rid of them in standard way,

- finally to create chiral humans – immune to nearly all diseases.

As it seems synthesizing some mirror-chiral organism is a matter of time, for example just because we can, let us try to prepare: discuss, understand its possibilities, consequences ... and dangers.
They're only following orders? I feel like I've heard that one before, I just can't remember when.

TSA employees are free to quit and find another job that doesn't involve fleecing the public to create security theatre, harassing people for no good reason, etc. They choose not to, and they are responsible for their choices.
Incorrect. execlp requires a NULL to terminate the argument list. How else would the called function know when to stop processing arguments?

To quote the linux man page, "The list of arguments must be terminated by a NULL pointer...".
I think it straddles a fine line. Some things are so important that it is worth it to get the HN community's take on it. Is Donald Trump one of those things? I tend to think not. I guess the fact that this was posted by Jeff Atwood tips the balance towards it being accepted.
What do you think unpushed/uncommited changes on your local machine. They are basically feature branches.
>> "Scheduling is pre-emptive. Regardless of priority, a process is pre-empted when it has consumed more than a certain number of reductions since the last time it was selected for execution."

> From the Erlang docs on process priority.

Well, apparently you're right. I must take back what I said about Erlang
scheduler.
This "project" specifically. It conflates ɾ and t and it ignores most non-english IPA letters.
How does removing .NET change anything ? You still need a runtime (GC, reflection/type information for casting, etc.)

You could probably strip down .NET core runtime if size is your concern and have an AoT compiled binary that links to that if you're concerned about JIT. I think there was a MS project a while back that compiled .NET IL to static code trough LLVM (https://github.com/dotnet/llilc - it seems dead now unfortunately)

But C# without .NET doesn't really make sense.
>Building your own big search index ... //

The guy who started DDG [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epi0Bauqu] shared a lot of his solo search engine creation here. At one point at least he was running his own crawlers/index (but not IIRC exclusively). It might be instructive to search over past posts and find the details.

I don't think he was using anything like $1 million as, again IIRC, it was self funded. But this was a few years (10?) ago now.
A really important point from the article:

Put simply, I don’t believe that the stated purpose is the real purpose.

This is a ban on Muslims under another cover, it has no practical purpose, and that's what makes it malevolent. Like the fact that it was released on Holocaust memorial day, and the statement on that day omitting to mention jews for no discernable reason, it is intended to demonstrate absolute power, and to inculcate a feeling of helplessness in any that oppose the administration or belong to groups they do not respect.

I now believe it is a prelude to much worse. This is why trump has moved from being a political opponent to a moral enemy for many people these last few days.
The author views this from a utilitarian point of view. As he seems to view torture under the same point of view, I have very mixed feelings about this. There should be lines not to cross, no matter what.
"Both parties are the same" is such a tired meme considering what has happened the past 8 days.

Do you think President Clinton would be defunding planned parenthood? Planning a repeal of a healthcare law without a replacement, making 20 million people lose their health insurance immediately? Appoint a brain surgeon to HUD?

Do you think Democrats would set up this muslim ban? Not a 6-month refugee ban, but a ban from people who were already legal permanent residents?

Both parties might share a similar vein of imperialism, that deserved to be fought. But it ends there.

One party wanted to carpet bomb Iran, another wanted to make peace.

And, of course, Trump is the most extreme of this. How do you think someone who advocates nuclear first strike is less imperialistic than the other guys?
> but when it's a supposed non-profit enterprise ...

...that's already paid for by the British public...
How many H1s are from Somalia or the Sudan?

I agree with your basic points, but on a practical level, how much does this actually affect things for H1 companies? We are talking 7 countries very few of which produce many H1 employees.
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