skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people think that Trump does not sincerely believe the things that he is saying, and furthermore that he not the best messenger. However, at his most incoherent there are people who vehemently agree with anything he says because they think he is a "winner".

I'd guess that anyone who already thinks this is an outrageously bad decision isn't going to change their mind because they dislike this messenger. As for the others, they seem unpredictable when it comes to what works or doesn't work with them. Maybe they think he's implicitly credible as a rich guy who isn't sentimental and doesn't make an effort to be portrayed as a do-gooder.
I doubt it will affect anyone with a US passport at the border, but it's about time for the USA to adopt the Japanese policy and simply ban all dual citizenship. If you hold a foreign passport or any kind of documents from a foreign country for its citizens, your US citizenship should be revoked and you should be deported.
Glowforge company is upthread, says the deceased were not customers of theres. Presumably it's a different brand of laser cutter.

That said, I'm assuming Glowforge is going to scramble to make sure that users use their device safely regardless.
I agree; that line of thinking is only valid if aging is considered to be "beyond the ability to reproduce." If the organisms can still reproduce at the same rate, they are not too old to contribute to natural selection. However, a cumulative distribution over the number of offspring created by age for a particular fitness model will regardless overshadow reproduction in old age with the aggressive reproductive periods during youth, and there are likely diminished evolutionary returns for keeping an organism around longer.

On an ecosystem/gaia scale, there is also the argument that organisms that never die will break the ecosystem by failing to return nutrients to the nutrient cycle. However, this is not necessarily an argument against biological immortality, as there are plenty of other ways to die (starvation, predation, etc.)
Congress sets the standards under which a green card can be revoked, not the executive branch on the whim of the President or one of his agencies. The rules are in the Immigration and Nationalization Act. It is a false statement to say that the terms green card holders were here under included "can be sent back for any time for no reason".

As a green card holder, you are not a US LPR at the discretion of the President or any of his agencies. You have, in effect, a contract with our country. Congress could change the rules, but until they do, you have substantial rights to remain in this country.

Even people without LPR status are difficult for the government to remove. Among undocumented immigrants put before immigration court for deportation, over 70% of those with legal representation prevail in court --- unfortunately, in most places in the US, they have no right to counsel, which is why we should all be sending money to immigration law organizations.
Eh if you look from a narrow angle, he is providing employment through his business. I think that's a benefit to the country.

It's too early to say what benefits the country will have after his presidency.
Well, that site is bad. Clicked on the search button because the link does not exist, and got taken to another site
It gives them an excellent opportunity to move to their new spouses' countries and settle down there.
And citizens who are already married to non-citizens.

I'm worried about this. My wife isn't from one of the banned countries, but who knows if that will remain the case in the future?
The Midwest/East Coast really need this, since that is where all the powder, fentanyl-laced heroin goes. People are dropping like flies in those regions of the country, while I would imagine the West Coast, where black tar heroin is sold, hasn't seen as much of an increase in overdoses/deaths.
An under appreciated assumption about building out comprehensive surveillance is that one will never lose control of it.
Yes, there has been a big, big problem in the US for many, many years now, but it got especially bad with the gerrymandering in 2010.
Lol, blame the Democrats for not doing what? The Rs control the White House and both branches of congress.
you have a (small but valid) point
Travis likes breaking any law that stands in the way of him making money and breaking into new markets. Now that he disagrees with an Executive order (that really means he's being deprived of a cheap source of labor), he's come out in full PR mode. You can like or dislike Trump, but Kalanick is a hypocrite through and through.
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Sure, but that to me sounds like a technical argument, not a political one (that is, it is neither Republican or Democratic, for example). It is not really a moral argument.

And it might not be the only possible scenario - in fact, with all the Hitler comparisons floating around, this stance towards China reminds me a lot of the appeasement politics towards Hitler.

Ultimately, saving face with regard to Taiwan is probably just one part of the general trade deal with China? So as the other parts, it should probably be up for negotiation? Or even be a factor ("we pretend Taiwan belong to you, and you give us moar iPhones").

Not saying that protectionism is a good idea, but also not saying that all trade deals are always optimal for both parties.

I think Ukraine was about more than saving face for Russia, too - Russia has always wanted the Krim for strategical reasons?
Have an upvote. You shouldn't be downvoted for expressing yourself.
They are not moving to chip and pin, but chip and signature: very different.

Now, the internet being a bigger share of retail every year, chip and pin is not an improvement: what we need is 2FA across the board. You have my CC number? Great. Without my 2FA secret, you won't be able to charge me anyway.

This 2FA beats a pin, and would make payment fraud so much smaller, it'd become a minor thing, but good luck finding a bank in the US offering such feature for all charges.
Why do you not want to be a dev?
As others have said, the executive is in charge of applying laws. So if you take the example of the ACA, Trump can't just overturn it. But, he can instruct the relevant departments to half-ass their enforcement of it.

That said, I feel the same way. I'm not an Obama supporter, but I gotta wonder why he wasn't even more aggressive than he was with the orders.
Individual injustices are not new. Wholesale bans of everyone from certain countries are. Both are bad, both deserve to be fought, but they are on completely different levels.
The husbands and wives of US citizens, many of whom have lived in our country for decades, are being turned away at the border as part of an appeal to bigotry against Muslims. I could give a rat's ass about net neutrality. The big fight is here, right now.
While I understand Trump's motive to micromanage Saudi, Yemen, and Syria due to ongoing military conflict ... Iran makes no sense. Reminds me of a South Park Episode, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Yikes!
I don't know the details, but there are probably many possible ways to get the PIN, since it's getting entered right then and there. Smartcard is a small computer, but the connection to it from terminal is probably not that secure and can be read somehow, side-channels or directly.

The card decides if the PIN is correct, but it might be possible to record all the PINs that were tried.
No the House of Commons would stop him. Unlike the USA, countries with governments based on the Westminster system, such as Australia, NZ etc don't give the Prime Minister this type of unlimited power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system
People (re-)coming in with green cards, or the Iranian PhD student mentioned in TFA are hardly without knowledge of who they are. They've been vetted by the INS and already live in the country.

Even for those strongly against Muslims, or immigration in general, it seems difficult to believe that this kind of lame-ass shit is what they had in mind when voting Trump.

And for those few with enough animus to want to screw over some innocent PhD student because of where she was born? Fuck those guys.
I hate to be obtuse, but this is much more comprehensive. A "no fly list" at least gives you the option of traveling by sea, or flying into Canada or Mexico and coming in through the border. Horribly inconvenient, but not a blanket ban.
> This new rule is a violation of the existing contract.

The US government down to the municipal level, is not bound by that concept. Ignorance of the law etc. It's strange how many people are figuring out how screwed up the US system is AFTER they decided they don't like something. It smacks of the same behavior that US politicians engage in. Idiocy married with desperation.
You think competition law is needless nonsense? That a pure free market does not end up with a handful of people owning all of the marbles?
If you're one the best and brightest abroad, why would you trust staking a future in this country anymore? Even if what we're seeing now recedes and fades. Huge damage to our future of this country, beyond just the "temporary"-so-far order.
> FTP doesn't support compression

The FTP standard (RFC959) actually includes RLE compression (see section 3.4.3).

(Almost no one implements it, since RLE is a pretty poor compression algorithm.)
It's not pedantry. "Minority" is not a synonym for "small," neither in its official definition nor how it's commonly used.

And yes, a minority voted for Hillary too. Is that supposed to be some sort of gotcha?
I'm ethnically European, so my ancestors shared the same race and values as the demography of the United States at the time. More so, the country at that time did not strive to provide government funded food, shelter, or healthcare, so no financial burden was required to support them.

I don't think it would have benefited, say, Israel or Japan to have extended my ancestors citizenship.
> VOC

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure at ordinary room temperature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_organic_compound
Agreed.

I'm not a big fan of the policy precedents that TK has set, and sure, this is probably a publicity stunt, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a vocal, commendable move by someone in a position to drive change.
Weird, I was just playing Wolfenstein: The New Order today, where the main protagonist uses this technique all the time. I'd never heard of this technique before that.

What's the phenomena called - where you encounter the same new thing multiple separate times within a short time frame?
Call him on opportunist, but a hypocrite? This is just another bit of government in his way.
Can you enumerate which current laws capitalism would be better off without?
Putins information war: number of web sites or fake social media accounts does not imply lots of people are reading them. In any case, Trump and Hillary wanted to win - all the strategies of the Russians would have been open to Hillary and Trump, too. Why should Putin be better able to employ them?

War - everybody has some interest to pursue, sure. That is nothing new, though.

Europe on its own: what risk do you mean?

"congratulating the dog on catching the car"

Becoming president seems more useful than a car is for a dog, though.

Edit: only now read the BBC link. That's even more ridiculous than "The Russians did it". Now it is Macedonian teenagers who rigged the US election? Come on...
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The book fly list restricted people flying to the US, it didn't block entry to people who arrived via other means.
The regular NUC has a much quieter fan than the more powerful "gamer" one you selected.

Often, bigger/faster is not better... :)
It was 46% of voters in a roughly 58% turnout election. So, roughly 26.7% of eligible voters wanted this.

And you think 26.7% of eligible voters, after you've suppressed and disenfranchised so many people, entitles you to violate our laws, our Constitution, and the boundaries of morality?

No. "President" Trump and his neo-Nazi advisor Stephen Bannon can shove this fascist crap where the sun don't shine.
Or without factories full of workers burning down, or without pollutants getting dumped into streams, or without company towns locking workers down into slavery-in-all-but-name, etc., etc.
Politics should be allowed in my opinion.

The HN crowd has a very interesting take on politics that I cannot get anywhere else. Seriously, the most interesting stuff I read is here, and not anywhere else... it's comments from potatolicious, rayiner, tptacek, yummyfajitas, anigbrowl, etc. HN is still small enough to feel like a group of friends having interesting discussion... of course too much of anything is overbearing, and it's not like politics is all there is... but it should be here. I learn every time I read rayiner's comment or any and all of the contentions that take place between so and so. I don't know any other place where I can find thoughts of such people in such a raw form. I want it to stay this way.
UK ??!
s/almost half/over half after fraudulent votes removed
I would be perfectly happy for Pence to denounce this executive order, whatever he really believes. Somehow I doubt that's forthcoming.
It could happen, it's business after all. He might also be forced to sell by the turkish government. We don't have a stable political environment, and I wouldn't be super surprised if something happened there.

Tax laws come to mind, for example, when Turkish government wanted extra tax money, they started going after American companies.

Edit: Added last para.
You keep writing as if this act applies only to refugees. That would be bad enough: empirically, virtually none of those refugees are threats to American citizens, and the evidence that those refugees are threatened in their home countries is unimpeachable. Our feckless policies with regards to refugees are a stain on our history and our standing in the world.

But, of course, these policies do not simply apply to immigrants. So many green card holders have been stranded as a result of Trump's ill-considered, bigoted executive order that large companies are having to run war rooms to handle their stranded employees: see, for instance, Microsoft's all-hands announcement to their employees, 76 of whom are impacted by the order.

You write both stridently and confidently about this issue, in several places on the thread, in some of your messages going so far as to chide other commenters for their thoughts on it. But you yourself do not seem well acquainted with it.
Not including Saudi Arabia makes even less sense.
"paid peanuts" is not the same as "paid in peanuts". It's an idiom meaning "paid very little".

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/paid+peanuts
> No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...

> No State shall [...] pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
It's too bad this is being down-voted, because you're absolutely right. There will always be people who turn to substances, but the war on recreational drugs creates a black market that results in sketchy, dangerous product. Decriminalization and legalization of drugs will make everyone better off (except drug Cartels).
"Standard" PPE (personal protective equipment) is basically our standard uniform[1], plus nitrile gloves and a radio. Additional levels of PPE include safety glasses, gowns[2], and full face shields. We also carry ballistic vests in the event a potentially violent scene.

We are a combination fire/EMS agency, so I am also a firefighter, with all the gear that goes along with that.

As far as the bags go, we have three main bags:

-The "BLS" or "Airway" bag, which contains a lot of "basic" equipment (bandages, oxygen, some common meds, etc), as well as more advanced airway management equipment (laryngoscopes and endotracheal intubation tubes, etc).

-The "ALS" or "Med" bag, which contains all ~30 medications we carry, as well as IV fluids and all the necessary pointy things to get medications into people.

-The "Pediatric" or "Peds" bag, which contains most of the same stuff as the other two bags, just in smaller quantities, and sized for kids.

There are also a few other more specialized bags (the burn bag, the trauma bag, etc), and portable equipment (portable heart monitor[3], suction[4], etc)

[1]: Stock photo of a standard "class b" uniform: https://www.lansinguniform.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Fi...

[2]: https://www.spservices.co.uk/images/products/pics/1407156050...

[3]: http://www.physio-control.com/ProductDetails.aspx?id=2147484...

[4]: https://www.boundtree.com/s-scort-iii-suction-unit-596400-ph...
Unless you have solid evidence for this, please don't sow seeds of doubt regarding the integrity of the voting process.

Edit: s/election/voting/

The election includes the whole primary system and the electoral college. Here I specifically mean the vote.
Playing with your breath is the ultimate hack of the human mind. There are seemingly endless combinations of techniques that each have a unique physiological impact on the body. Use the right one at the right time and life flows smoothly.
> is Travis really the best messenger?

There is a saying among photographers: "The best camera is the one you have with you."
I like Musk's take: "work on the most important thing".[0]

If money is enough to drive you, try to find out which is more profitable should do it, but being useful and good to people and mankind in general is an added bonus and motivation.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJeht-Mfus
>Because the list of countries was drafted by Obama's administration.

So? Obama isn't president anymore. Trump campaigned on Obama's policies, especially his foreign policy, being ineffective. If anything this shows laziness on behalf of the Trump administration – not a good sign.
I agree, and that's what I have to say to my former (I graduated) coworker. I'm very much inclined to pack bags, ship my possessions, and leave this country myself. If this is how this government behaves one week in, violating human rights and the Constitution already, what can I expect as a minority who was born here?

And what about the people I know without second passports? Should a certain friend refuse to visit China with her parents because Trump might decide to ban her (with an American passport!) from returning home over some spat about trade policy?

The Department of Homeland Security should have refused this order.
Trump's rich Muslim friends will be an exception
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Protests will be banned, people will be put in prison, violence will be quashed by even more violent means

"Our country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing. Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter. Our job is to make life more comfortable for parents who want their kids to be able to walk the streets safely."

- whitehouse.gov
And this "it took Apple one and a half years to refresh" hasn't anything to do with Intels lackluster product cycles and product refreshes?

Why update products if the update is only marginally faster/better/newer than the current model?

Really, I can buy a new Acer or Lenovo notebook with a shiny new model number and a lot of "enhanced", "new" and "better" features every two months. It is more difficult to buy the old, trusted models of Lenovo notebooks than fresh models - that all are only better according to marketing, but somehow not faster or better and often somehow crippled in real world use. Do you want that from Apple?
I know that is the popular meme. But is it really true? What country on earth can you buy any drug you want without a prescription in a pharmacy, and how does the culture look like?

Frankly some stuff is really bad and should be kept away from people.
Is this 2017? We're taking ethics lessons from the CEO of Uber?
Did the 4-7-8 thing work for you?
I thought this guy largely had a reputation as an asshole ... but here he comes off as downright responsible and caring.
This looks really great, thanks for sharing!
I don't even mind that I've spent time implementing NeDB only to pull it out again, because it looks like this library will save so much time and many headaches
Nobody who works for $company cares about you, the individual. But $company employs a whole team of people whose job is to make them look good on social media.
I believe Google would be happy to have him in London, Zurich, or Canada. We have solid engineering teams in all of them.

However, my view on that is a bit different - if he can avoid, working on his own for his own future instead of a big corp is the way to go.

PS: goog emp.
Click-bait title. The article itself even says "Comcast is only currently using their javascript injection ability to serve customer account related information". Also, Private Internet Access is far from a disinterested party here.

While we should all be outraged that AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and the like are MITMing our HTTP connections, nobody should be surprised at their ability to do so. In this post-privacy world, only strong end-to-end encryption can provide security. Also, don't forget that PIA and other VPNs are just as able to do this as Comcast.
It depends if I've options: Sometimes one doesn't, especially with prepaid mobile carriers.

Some years back, I had a pre-paid phone through T-Mobile and had ordered a refurbished phone from their website. Wound up needing repairs, under warranty.

Since it was prepaid, no loaner phone. The cheapo I picked up worked better as a flashlight than phone. But back to the story: I sent it in, and it didn't come back. I called a few times, being told that nothing was there. Then being told it was returned to me and I should have it. Each rep had a different story.

Each time I called, I had to go through the same troubleshooting to even be able to get anywhere. Most refused to escalate the call. This is pretty on-par with pre-paid phone customer service - I remember at&t had 2 separate departments for it. At the time, if you didn't have a contract, you didn't matter.

I finally got online and found an e-mail address for their cooporate office, complete with the name of the service manager for the company. I wound up speaking with one of his people in the main office.

Soon, I was sent a replacement phone.

Other times, usually with more traditional utilities, I've not been so lucky as the state i lived in had a weak public utilities commission.

Much luck to you.
This is certainly a possibility, or even plain Linux. For myself, I'd like to be able to run Jupyter/Python, but I think this must be possible on a Chrome machine.
Just not if you are a single male from Syria

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/canada-syrian-...

Or even if a member of your immigrate family has Autism, from anywhere in the world, due to the financial burden to the healthcare system.

Where is the outrage over THAT? But of course platitudes are dished out that give the appearance of openness. That is obviously the only thing that matters in these cases, for the leaders to give the public a warm, fuzzy, general statement whilst doing the exact opposite.

There is a huge amount of sanctimonious talk coming out of other leaders and the public at the moment. People do not seem to be aware just how restrictive most country's immigration policies are. This is all getting lost in the Trump hate.
Why do you care? If getting credit as a "hero" is what it takes to get him to do good things, then let him have it. Even if this is a PR stunt, it has positive externalities that can only be amplified by adept public relations management.