skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always amusing to see the US lecturing European countries on how they don't welcome migrants well enough, and then see that these additional visa requirement for "bad european countries" which population they do not see coming on US soil...
You may look at lowendbox.com for some really cheap vps options, performance may not be ideal. Also beware that you might end up in an unsavory ip address range, fine for most things but any emails sent from that ip will most likely fail.
Visas usually involve having to queue at an embassy.
I thought one of the reasons why everything had to be done by the free market was that government is bad at picking winners. But what do you know?
Every time you use your phone your camera is on your face. Facial microexpressions could be automatically detected and analyzed based on the content the user was viewing at the time. This information could provide a detailed emotional picture of the individual as it relates to different stimuli.
> You think that if I tell my parents this, they'll suddenly start using the command line?

Probably not, but that doesn't really matter as it was never the intention (if it were, there's probably a better place to write it than Hacker News).

I was offering software developers a perspective which demonstrates that the GUI/CLI distinction is mostly artificial, and that a CLI doesn't automatically mean "hard to use". After all, as others have pointed out, people managed just fine on DOS back in the day (where "managed just fine" == "shouting at machine for not doing things right", just like today).

> This is userfriendly and easy.

I don't like applying the phrase "userfriendly" to a piece of software, as it depends just as much on the user.

For example, I'm a user of youtube-dl, and I find it incredibly userfriendly: when I use it in scripts, I just write "youtube-dl" followed by flags for the appropriate behaviour. In contrast, your solution sounds really unfriendly to me. First my script would need to open a browser, and since the downloader is part of an addon, I wouldn't be able to use PhantomJS like I usually would. Instead, I'd probably have to go off and learn Selenium, assuming that Selenium drivers can use browser addons? If not, I might have to write a custom XUL app (not done that in a while!), and make sure it's compatible with the addon. Does XUL even work on a headless machine (in my case, RaspberryPi with SSH access)?
Probably not really. At most you would get really efficient datasets about the virus. Maybe things like 'an algorithm that recognizes patterns in mutations to attempt a simulation of hiv resistance to various treatments'. Computer science could probably make the information available cute and neatly parsed but 8 years of medicine experience is baby-level.
The EU is negotiating on the behalf of future and current Schengen area members.

While you have numbed it down it is simply that the Visa Waiver Program is tough on Romania and Bulgaria and also has a fee for the ETA whereas there is no such thing to go to the Schengen area from Canada or the USA.

So yes it does have to do with Schengen, but not the treaty specifically as it doesn't involve inter EU travel.
>this is not even close to setting foot on the the Moon.

I strongly disagree. Landing on the moon provides evidence that humanity is technologically capable of space travel. More or less a proof of concept. But markedly reducing the cost of going into outer space means that humanity now has access to space tourism and whatever future benefits space brings.

No one knows about the first digital computers in the 1940s. The general public sees the computer revolution as happening in the 80s and 90s, because that is when computers were made available to consumers.
Economics will never disappear because many goods are fundamentally scarce. Fortunately, the necessities of life really aren't, so the economy could conceivably be pried away from its current position as holder of both carrot and stick (I'm defining "stick" as "withholding the necessities of life" here) and reduced to simply offering carrots. This would be an extraordinary improvement and would put capitalism on course to actually live up to the "consensual transaction" and "monotonic improvement" rhetoric so frequently brandied about by the younger members of the capitalist camp. And the communist camp? Well, people owning the means of production is what their philosophy was about all along. If it becomes practical to achieve such a state of affairs without government enforcement then the controversial and historically failure-prone side of their beliefs becomes moot. Capitalism and communism become more or less compatible, which will be no surprise at all to the people who have familiarized themselves with both schools of thought but possibly a bit of a shock to anyone who took the highly polarized rhetoric surrounding the issue at face value. In any case, this type of thing has been thought about and discussed before at great length, but there's a strong taboo hanging over the discussion which makes it easy to inadvertently ignore.

> a single person can use automation to make everything he needs

This would require a large amount of infrastructure per person. An intermediate target would be the point at which communes become viable -- share the heavy infrastructure across some number of people larger than 1 but smaller than 8 billion (or 300M if you think the US government is already sufficiently protectionist). The macroscopic trends of "increasing automation capability" and "decreasing market value of many peoples' labor" make it inevitable that this will happen at some point, the big question is when. It's possible we're approaching or have passed the tipping point but don't know it yet because we haven't invested enough effort in developing infrastructure optimized for decentralization, which is the opposite of what current market structures require. Also, there are a few big social sticking points, namely specialists who are necessary at the margin but who are still treated well by the traditional system (doctors). If workable alternatives can't be developed then the whole endeavor will have to wait until the market turns on them as well. One way or another we'll get past the issue, but getting around the social problems could take decades longer than getting around the industrial problems.

The big danger is that we don't get to the point of viable decentralization before the automation economy makes enough people redundant to create large-scale human misery and political unrest. Arguably this has already happened, but it can get a lot worse -- and I sure hope that we don't get a chance to find out just how much worse that is.
No, I have a Visa type R class B1/B2
Ask HN: Any Ideas for Master's Thesis in Software Engineering?
I am about to spend six months on a master's thesis in software engineering and would like some inspiration for the topic.

Any ideas?
Non-Immigrant visa (such as a B-1) are issued for long durations, up to 10 years. Note they don't allow staying for 10 years, just multiple entries in that period.
It'll likely be online just like the US/Canada eTA, so no queuing at the border or at an Embassy.

It's only there because the US/Canada has it, not for any other reason other than reciprocity.
That was more or less my point.
The-art-of-command-line: Master the command line, in one page
Here's the software he seems to have been the owner for :

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ljsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT31&o...

Certainly looks like it had potential. Of course he was going up against microsoft at that time. Certainly wouldn't have been easy.
Since you're shopping around, take a look at Vultr [0]. It's the same price ($5/month) and they've been recommended before by other HNers.

If you're just toying around for now, AWS offers a free 'micro' instance. It's low-powered but enough to run a simple, low-volume site on.

[0]: https://www.vultr.com/
I mean closed sources are .. closed sources (did I say something stupid?). Unless you consider black box testings or things I don't know.
> regulating external borders is a very important part of what the EU does.

Whoa man. Lets not open up that can of worms here, lets try and keep the topic about Canada eh/ I think telling another country who they must allow visa free travel to is similar to telling them what laws they need to follow.

Canada isn't a member of the EU, there never was any such agreement. An EU council regulation should have little to do with them.
Pandas doesn't really do symbolic computation... at least for me that is 90% of the utility of Mathematica (Maple on the other hand....)
I agree.

Fifty years since we stepped on the moon, and we're just now re-using rockets? It's a great accomplishment, no doubt. Many congratulations to all involved.

But this should have been done in the 1970s. The same economic drivers that lead us to do it today were still there back in the day. What happened is that we lost sight of the economics of space travel -- if we ever had our eye on them in the first place. We chased a rabbit down the wrong hole. Political systems exist and thrive for political reasons. NASA was always going to be about bringing home the bacon to defense contractors and looking good for the current administration. Elon is stuck with an economics/efficiency goal: make it both safe and cheap.

Just to be clear, my comment has nothing to do with the great folks at Space-X. I'm a huge fan. My point is that they're just continuing the natural evolution of spaceflight. But in the big picture, it's an incremental achievement (and yep, I know how difficult it was. All of this stuff is difficult.)

The next big goal is probably regularly-scheduled private manned spaceflights. And no, I don't mean sub-orbital fun rides. More like week-long tourist trips to the space station or a moon base. This would indicate that 1) access to space is truly becoming relatively cheap and reliable, and 2) there's actually somewhere to go.

Historic things are things we do for the first time, sure. Re-landing a rocket qualifies, but it is much in the category of orbital-docking: necessary but a footnote. Anybody remember the first manned space mission that did docking? How about that remembering the first one to leave Earth orbit? Space fans like me would know. But not in the history books for the general public.

Note that the question was about how historically important this is. Not how critical it is to spaceflight, or any other qualifier. It can be stupendously important in terms of the technical details, yet have very little value historically.
As ever, greed is the downfall of the ill-prepared criminal. He could probably have won a ~$2 million prize once, left it at that, and got away with it.
The linked list code example wasn't something I expected to see in a TED talk :)

Toward the end he mentioned Wikipedia and open academic journals - never really thought of those things as under the open source umbrella, so that was eye opening for me. A popular Wikipedia page probably touches more lives in a more meaningful, or at least more direct, way then any commit pushed to GitHub.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_W.... Saudi Arabia is the 6th country. UAE 10th, Kuwait 11th, Egypt 12th. Sweden is 13th. Germany is the only rich european country in higher positions, and it's the fourth one.

Why don't they go to China, Japan, Russia, Kenya or New Zealand? Well, just look at a map. Syria -> Greece can be a long but doable journey. Except Russia (and that would be entering via Georgia, which doesn't seem to be like an easy route) all of those are pretty unfeasible.

About the figures, yes, they're not the best but they're an indicator and probably useful for comparison. And they do not confirm that immigration is higher in NWE. Sweden and Belgium have far less population than Spain (~10 vs 45 millions). If you add immigration percentages in France, Portugal and Italy, I'm pretty sure that it's not higher, and even if it is, it wouldn't be by much.

> The problem is that this is happening in a few decades time. In countries that have never seen immigration and were screwing it up big time long before the Syrian refugee crisis.

So what's the solution? Sweeping the problem under the rug? Because it's not an impossible task. It can be done. Spain has received a huge amount of immigrants in the last decade (2000 it was 2%, 2010 was 12%). The fact that a lot of them were spanish-speakers helped a lot, but you don't either see problems with the muslim population (12% of the foreign population is Moroccan, for example).
Too Many Bells and Whistles Will Not Sell a Product
Yes exactly, i'm not kidding!

Entering the EU as a Canadian or as an American has no forms before and is free. You just book your ticket and go.., if you're unlucky at worst a 1 minute conversation with a border official. That is what the EU finds that the easiness of the EU's version of entry is not reciprocated
sigh Let me explain. The EU would like to have its citizens treated under the same legal conditions abroad regardless whether they are from a Schengen country or not. In fact, the Schengen Area includes multiple non-EU countries as well (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland etc), and their visa policies are not involved in this issue at all.
Barrier of entry would be what I would consider the primary use case for using all of these vs Pandas and R.

If we look at Mathics only, it features a Mathematica compatible syntax which allows users familiar with the syntax to be up, running and productive with the tool much quicker.

Mathics also provides a notebook, however others do as well as optional downloads. R has RStudio, and you can use Jupyter for Pandas.
From the article about Facebook Live

> If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable thirst for more ways to become the middleman in your digital interactions. It literally wants you to broadcast your life on the platform. But, as noted earlier, being caged doesn’t come that naturally to humans.

From "The Circle" by Dave Eggers - a "fiction" novel about a Facebook-like mega infoglomerateorporation.

> Lionel can give me access to any of the cameras he wants. It's just like friending someone, but now with access to all their live feeds. Forget cable. Forget five hundred channels. If you have one thousand friends, and they have ten cameras each, you now have ten thousand options for live footage.
...
The words dropped onto the screen:
ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.
"Folks, we're at the dawn of the Second Englightenment. And I'm not talking about a new building on campus. I'm talking about an era where we don't allow the majority of human thought and action and achievement and learning to escape as if from a leaky bucket."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
It is a Schengen issue and the UK is completely unaffected by it.

The visa policy of the Schengen Area is set by the European Union and applies to the Schengen Area and to other EU member states without the opt-outs enjoyed by Ireland and the UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_the_Schengen_Ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_the_United_King...
On Being a (proud) Salesperson for Georgette Packaging (YC W16)
This is not ad blocking. They told you they don't want your visit and you still go ahead and consume the content.

This is not a game. You just like to freeload and when somebody calls your bull, you throw a tantrum.
No.

The Guardian is wholly owned by a UK trust, and its head office remains in London.

The only thing that changed was that reporting of the Snowden affair was shifted to their US office. The Guardian pointed out to GCHQ in advance that it made no difference as they already had copies of the data elsewhere.

Furthermore, it was The Guardian itself who "ground up" their computers, as they refuse flat out a request to let GCHQ inspect the computers and do the destruction. Instead they agreed to destroy them in the presence of GCHQ staff, exactly because it didn't matter, and let them avoid legal liabilities. And frankly being able to put the story in the paper probably didn't hurt. From the article you linked:

'"Three Guardian staff members – Johnson, executive director Sheila Fitzsimons and computer expert David Blishen – carried out the demolition of the Guardian's hard drives. It was hot, sweaty work. On the instructions of GCHQ, the trio bought angle-grinders, dremels – a drill with a revolving bit – and masks. The spy agency provided one piece of hi-tech equipment, a "degausser", which destroys magnetic fields, and erases data. It took three hours to smash up the computers. The journalists then fed the pieces into the degausser.

Two GCHQ technical experts – "Ian" and "Chris" – recorded the process on their iPhones. Afterwards they headed back to GCHQ's doughnut-shaped HQ in Cheltenham carrying presents for family members, bought on their rare visit to the capital.

"It was purely a symbolic act," Johnson said. "We knew that. GCHQ knew that. And the government knew that," He added: "It was the most surreal event I have witnessed in British journalism."'
Australia requires US citizens get a visa to visit. It's not an all around bromance.
It's a bit stale, but I've used Eastwood in the past as an open source substitute for Google Charts

http://www.jfree.org/eastwood/
I'm torn on exploding offers for schools. On the one hand, schools usually have a number of potential students on the waitlist, and these folks would certainly like to know that they aren't going to be left hanging indefinitely.

On the other hand, exploding offers are absolutely a BS tactic to the extent that a student can accept at one school and then, if they get a later offer from a school they like better, reneg on the acceptance with relatively few consequences. They'll probably be out a tuition deposit, though, which may or may not be a significant burden depending on how wealthy the student's family is. That worries me because it becomes a serious abuse of non-privileged students' relatively vulnerable situations. And even without that, it's certainly still a craven exercise in shaking students down for pocket change.
It's possible your shell has some kind of regular expression magic enabled that is eating the '?' and the '=' characters:

$ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=wbKJt1NQtZE
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE

$ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
This post is so wrong in so many ways. First, it is extremely bad practice to leave commitments of any kind open in perpetuity.
Secondly, if you are looking to hire 3000 monkeys and you are searching for people that are good enough to pass you minimum standards, sure you can wait one month and see if each candidate you make an offer to joins your company. What if you are hiring only 20 people, 10 of which for very specific, key roles? You want the PERFECT candidate for the position, and you cannot keep the process open forever. you have a budget, you cannot make multiple offers for the only one position you have to fill?!
Third, you do want to know if the candidate wants to accept the offer because he likes your company and the position or because he cannot find anything better. Many would argue that is much better to hire a candidate that would put passion in what he does, rather than hiring a mercenary.
Finally, what other business activity do you do without a clear timing commitment?
How Company Culture Makes or Breaks Your Startup – Inc42 Magazine
I want to explore another angle of this point I brought up (i mentioned this below for a different point):

"What's the point of basic income then if eventually tens of thousands of GD is required to buy bread and basic income is only several thousand (point is, not enough to make a difference)?

This happens in a sort of way in real life already... Because govt meddle in education loans and subsidies for college, the result isn't just that there are more availability of education only, there's also an ever increasing climb , almost unhooked from reality, of tuition costs. And some people simply stop paying back, which in a way results in a kind of wealth transfer effect like your GD.

But the lethal point is that no force stops the inertia from becoming ridiculous. We already see that colleges no longer have incentive to adhere to reality and prices go to the moon. To remain effective, GD BI have to climb, and off we go to the races.

Applied to entire economy, you get hyper inflation. Your GD can't distribute fast enough when mass psychology sets in."

Another effect is that not only would GD be viral, BI inside this system itself would become viral.

Like the college tuition example, over time, this will disintegrate to the point that people who really make a living and earn USD (or any other way to measure real money, not the BI allocation) will be eclipsed. Everything will become like college. There will be nobody left will be able to afford it in full without some kind of help.

Either that, or the BI effect and influence Will diminish and we're back to square one.

In this sense, I'm back to what I said above. The BI powered by GD is going to become viral on viral. It will destroy the real economy completely, until nothing is left. The structure it's such that they cannot both coexist.
I find it easier to drink lots of water while at work. It is difficult to remember to drink water and if I drink more water, I will use the restroom at least once every hour.

Thankfully, I've yet to work at a place that prohibited employees from going to the restroom every hour. If they want to check if I am really using the restroom, they're free to do so I guess (although I would start looking for a new job if this were the case).
This.

Unless you are unable to do something and need a new technology to solve a problem, but then, probably be best to stick with things that have a track record of just working.

If it looks cool do some side R&D with it, but until you see expected results I'd take any new technology with a grain of salt - especially if it's proprietary.
Works fine with ublock origin.
Hopefully there is a Googler reading who can answer this: I'm curious why the README.md says

> Note: This is not an official Google product.

However the copyright is Google, and you must sign their CLA. That seems pretty official to me? Or is there some other implication to "official" beyond ownership?
Uncovering the Luna Colony, a Lost Remnant of Spanish Florida
Maybe you could argue that it is a more important technological milestone but landing on the moon was a huge cultural moment. There was a huge build up and the world stopped to watch it happen. This is why people still talk about it.

Very few people are aware of who SpaceX are, let alone the specifics of their launches.
Visa-free entry is usually done on a reciprocal basis, i.e. two countries decide that each others citizens can enter visa free. The EU member states decided that they only enter into such an agreement if there are similar agreements with all other member states.

Nobody here tells Canada what to do. They only say that if Canadian citizens should be let without a visa into the EU, they must allow all EU citizens visa-free entry.
It seems the Obama administration could order with a piece of paper and a pen the border guards to stop controlling border flow:

> The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) and Pinal County Sheriff joined forces to denounce the Obama Administration and accused the White House of handcuffing the efforts of law enforcement in regards to the enforcement of immigration law.

> He reinforced the evidence that the Obama Administration has been bypassing Congress by taking illegal executive actions and forcing Border Patrol agents to not do their job of enforcing the law along the border.