skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I have to respond because there is a lot of misinformation flying around.

MSDS's are good, but you'll go nuts trying to accommodate all of them.

1) Safety glasses. Safety glasses. SAFETY GLASSES. I can't mention this enough. Most injuries can be adjusted to accommodate--losing your eyes isn't like that. And, if you're using one of the more powerful lasers, get the specialty glasses for that.

2) Soldering doesn't really vaporize lead. There are other nasty things in the flux and board (Chlorine radicals are particularly bad). Keep your area ventilated and try not to inhale stuff. Fume hoods are excellent, but nobody I know who does this ever used one. An open window or open garage door generally is good enough for soldering.

3) Use leaded solder. Yes, I said it. Lead-free solder sucks to work with by hand. Lead-free solder takes a lot more heat and vaporizes more garbage than leaded solder, not less. One of the best ways to desolder lead-free solder is actually to add leaded solder and then desolder the result since it now melts at a lower temperature.

4) Too many people store their solder paste in the same fridge with food. That's a problem. Solder balls get everywhere very easily.

5) Arc welding is nasty. Old school shielded metal arc welding (stick welding) vaporizes all manner of nasty stuff. Use MIG or TIG instead--they still vaporize stuff but way less. They're better welds anyway. Also be careful about welding things like galvanized steel.

6) Hearing protection. You need it more than you think you do. I have hearing loss from years in server rooms in the 1990's.

7) Respect even the small machines. A small milling machine or lathe can't take off your hand as quickly as a radial saw, but it can still maim you quite badly.

8) Respect anything with a cutting edge even if not powered. Sure, an unpowered cutting edge probably won't kill or permanently maim you, but that doesn't mean you can get careless. I see people change milling bits without wrapping the bit in cloth while they hold it all the time. Generally, those same people wind up with scars across the palm of their hand. I suspect the lowly utility knife causes more injuries than any other tool.

9) Powders are really damn dangerous. In addition to being highly flammable and explosive, they get in your lungs and don't come out easily. Sawdust from real wood is bad--sawdust from particle board is worse. It has all manner of nasty shit in it.

10) Volatile organics are worse than you think. Acetone, kerosene, paint thinner, etc. do nasty things to you. If people can use it for "huffing", it probably is nasty to your brain. Ventilate these things much better than you would for everything else.
This is why companies that can properly classify their user base and serve compartmentalized/customized products to those specific niches flourish.

If you are making a product for everyone, you'll eventually dissolve. This is what I see Apple's problem as being right now. They're shifting their entire OS towards the lowest common denominator which are casual users. Meanwhile their OS is becoming more and more like the new Windows.
I was bored, and browsing Harry71's onion-index site. Which has been down for a few weeks.
The solution is simple. Screen a drag race across the interior windows of a self-driving car.
Relevant part of his background [0]

>They formally applied for their exit visa in September 1978, and as a result his father was "promptly fired". For related reasons, his mother also had to leave her job. For the next eight months, without any steady income, they were forced to take on temporary jobs as they waited, afraid their request would be denied as it was for many refuseniks. During this time his parents shared responsibility for looking after him and his father taught himself computer programming. In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country.[12] At an interview in October 2000, Brin said, "I know the hard times that my parents went through there and am very thankful that I was brought to the States."[17]

>In the summer of 1990, a few weeks before his 17th birthday, his father led a group of high school math students, including Sergey, on a two-week exchange program to the Soviet Union. His roommate on the trip was future Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor John Stamper. As Brin recalls, the trip awakened his childhood fear of authority and he remembered that "his first impulse on confronting Soviet oppression had been to throw pebbles at a police car." Malseed adds, "On the second day of the trip, while the group toured a sanatorium in the countryside near Moscow, Brin took his father aside, looked him in the eye and said, 'Thank you for taking us all out of Russia.'"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin#Early_life_and_edu...
Let the other 95% of Great Programmers in (2014)
I wonder how many of these lock systems rely on cloud services, making physical isolation impossible without some redesign.
Did you hear that lie on Fox or make it up yourself?
Probably for the best. Someone could always open up a car door unexpectedly. I imagine it would be very hard for a driving algorithm to read social cues and notice drivers getting in/out of cars.
Citation needed. So-called "sanctuary cities" are merely complying with the standard of law.
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Stealth edit. You claimed the title did not mention Trump as evidence of media bias. The title explicitly does.

> The media will either spin this as ineffective, or simply won't report it

The media will not report it? Then how are we seeing this story?
That's me, or was anyway. Addict for 6 years, clean for 4 (well, on Suboxone)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/trumps-immigratio...
Seems like the ban was overruled.
The constitution only applies to citizens.

Edit: apparently I was mistaken. It applies to 'the people' of the US, which is anyone with 'substantial connection' to the US and under US jurisdiction. Green card holders would seem to be pretty clearly of 'the people' then.

Of course, it's a damn shame to treat any legal immigrant or legitimate asylum seeker this way. Seems to be absolutely against the long standing traditions of the country.
Any thoughts on why Bezos abstained from comment?
See Vancouver's Insite program for proof it works. It's been a huge economic and social success, allowing timely intervention to help drug users get clean, reducing the rate of HIV and HepC amongst intravenous drug users and helping numerous people get a fresh start at life.
Where were all these millionaires and billionaires when we were droning people in some of these countries? They all donated to Clinton's election campaign and under her watch as Secretary of State we dropped thousands of bombs. They supported the pro-war candidate.

Why is restricting our borders considered so inhumane as to cause an Internet-wide outcry, while killing people for years hadn't?
Nope, not a stealth edit. I deleted that part of it within seconds. The HN title is U.S. sets 5-year and lifetime lobbying ban for officials. The moment I realized that this was not the title of the article itself, and before you posted your comment, I deleted that part of it.

The media will not report it? Then how are we seeing this story?

Most people do not get their news straight from the AP. It will be fascinating to see this story get spun and spun again by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, etc.
This is rank hypocrisy of the highest order!

Where was Sergey Brin in 2011 when the Obama administration banned refugees from Iraq for 6 months?!

> As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets. One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 Iraqis were resettled as refugees in the U.S., half the number from the year before, State Department statistics show.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-te...
It's also a really nice carrot-and-stick mechanism for currying favor!
Errr.. the linked article means no, it is not safe to just cron an apt-get upgrade. In theory Debian is maintaining ABI/API. In practice there are issues. Rolling releases in practice have better tradeoffs, but require continuous deployment. On a workstation there are really no significant issues. On a production infrastructure, you need to use poudriere to maintain your own repos and orchestrate a branching and installation strategy.

btrfs seems like an elaborate hoax. ZoL is fine, but support and integration still go Illumos > FreeBSD > ZoL. There are enough commercial products using FreeBSD ZFS that it is robust.

UNIX uses the shell for a lot of things, interactive users are just one infrequent process. Bash is harmful as a non-interactive shell. Change your interactive shell to bash or zsh, problem solved.
Not to mention the man Bezos regards as his father, Miguel Bezos, was an immigrant from Cuba. Bezos is a pretty quiet individual in general, he always has been (but if you do some digging, he and his wife are active politically behind the scenes, giving money etc to causes they support). If you compared his public activities around interviews, it's a small fraction of that of other CEOs over his tenure. I'm not surprised he isn't saying much yet, but I'd bet on them issuing a statement at some point, once they sort out the political risks (also Bezos with Blue Origin, which is dependent on Trump and the Republicans now in various ways).
how ironic! Brin's parents escaped communists from Soviet Russia and his son 35 year later marches with the communist-founded organization...
Bezos bought WaPo and that has been his anti-Trump mouthpiece for the past months. Doesn't need to make a separate statement.
The crackdown on "pill mills" meant that the cost of oxycodone shot up on the streets over the last 5 years. Demand remains the same, supply is lessened.
What are the many missing packages on Debian? From my experience Centos looks like a bad joke.
Can you please stop saying "if you weren't paying attention" when you were the only person in this thread not paying attention?

Us leftists are willing to work with Trump voters and bridge the divide that wounds this nation. We're willing to listen to concerns about your jobs and communities that we clearly failed to listen to in this election cycle. But you have to be willing to say "I was wrong about Trump, I wasn't paying attention."
I'm not. And again, this is equating every conceivable bad thing. It's a deeply naive (never mind disempowering) way to think. Yes, governments do illegal things. Yes, of course, it's possible that the Trump or some other administration will try to constrain naturalization in some way. It's not going to be over ACLU donations, if they do.
Or, he could do what the previous presidents have done, rescind the order once he leaves office.
Yep. HN is liberal only. If you dare to disagree with the liberal worldview you are censored, flagged, and banned.
Wow. That's amazing. Thank you!
here you go, even fro liberal media: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/03/us/san-francisco-killing-suspe...

> So-called "sanctuary cities" are merely complying with the standard of law.

Bingo! Do you like the law that let criminal offender to go free? I certainly don't. And by the way I am a legal immigrant.
"Another provision sets a two-year period during which appointees must avoid working on issues involving former employers or clients.

Trump is allowed to waive any of the restrictions.
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Trump said Obama's order was "full of loopholes.""

So, this provision just has one gigantic loophole.
That's a... heterodox interpretation of things.

The vast majority of the constitution makes no distinction between citizens and non-citizens subject to American jurisdiction (the exceptions, of course, being for voting and holding office).
You all are aware that the past 6 U.S. presidents have done this sort of thing...right?

Obama last did it in 2011.

The hypocrisy here is that because Trump did it, it is wrong.

We are a nation of laws and in order to maintain law and order, we must follow those laws. The minute tech companies (let's not be obtuse here, corporations are in the business of making money and appeasing shareholders) decides they are either for or against certain laws, well...you have anarchy.

This has nothing to do with denying rights to immigrants and everything to do with the far lefts disproval of the elected president of the United States.
Where were you when Obama, who got elected primarily by people who opposed to the recklessness of Wall St, continued with the Bush bailouts, ordered the murder of thousands via drones, and supported policies that increased the transfer of wealth to the top 1%?

Trump is horrible, but so was Obama...How come all these HN "progressives" did little Obama was screwing the country over?

P.S. I like your site, awesome job!
For better or worse, he's not like the previous presidents in nearly every way.
"One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay thousands in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack their electronic key system"

"Hotel management said that they have now been hit three times by cybercriminals"

"we had no other choice. Neither police nor insurance help you in this case."

Do they not see the problem here? Perhaps they should have paid the thousands of euros to a security expert to fix their crappy system, rather than paying the hacker to do the same thing again.
CRAN now has 10,000 R packages
My laptop has 8 gigabytes of ram. I can fit all of my personal files in that at obce, I don't see why that's not enough for everything.
Yes! See my comment. They were all silent.
I think it's barely worth protesting now (in the style it's mostly being done), because of how ineffectual that will be in obtaining results.

It certainly appears that the protests today had some effect. It at least increased awareness. Don't dismiss protests with specific purposes out of hand. The MLK Jr and others of the Civil Rights Movement were very effective when doing just that. And there are those on HN today that participated.

In terms of money, I've read numerous comments where members have made donations to the ACLU and other organizations.

I agree with you that there should have been more done to roll back the infringements on civil liberties that go back all the way to at least the Patriot Act. There were people that did, even though it was very difficult to do so without being cast as unpatriotic. I don't see how it does anyone any good to say "Well, you missed your chance then! Just wait until you get a president you like, you can protest then!"

As for "fawning over a liberal president", have you noticed the contortions some are bending themselves into reconciling the many blatant mistruths and inconsistencies uttered by Trump during the campaign? For goodness' sake. Not everyone on either side fits in either category, but there are those who do. Focusing on that and using such pejorative language does nothing to help the situation.

Certainly people should remain critical of even the politicians they vote for. With a limited number of parties, it's unlikely that any one candidate is going to align perfectly with anyone's particular set of values. But to admonish people to stop now because they weren't adequately righteous in the past is just asinine.

And there are those of us who aren't really happy put in one party or the other, but have issues we care strongly about. Do we get categorized as a Democrat when we happen to align with them and a Republican on other issues? What are we supposed to do, regardless of which party the President aligns with, or which party holds a majority in which chamber of Congress? Let people work together on the issues they care about, regardless of party affiliation.

Unless you have another agenda.

I ask you again: Do you support the Executive Order?
Sounds like you need a managed runtime. Wait... You already have one, it's just a bigger problem than solution. Hrm... Have you considered making a real IDE?
> "E.g. the woman from the article expects PowerPoint presentations to just work despite Internet video being blocked, because she has a (correct) mental model that PowerPoint presentations should be local. This is what I would expect from someone who was trying to understand their computer and has made an honest attempt at diagnosis."

The PowerPoint embedded video issue in specific is a case of not understanding the difference between a link/reference and the object itself. That class of misunderstanding occurs all over the place and PowerPoint's UI probably wasn't helping the situation, but it's still an extremely basic thing to be confused about. The user certainly did not have a correct understanding of what PowerPoint was up to; she was expecting PowerPoint to conform to her vague wishes, rather than deriving her expectations from any technical reality.

And taken as a whole, the anecdote shows a user that immediately gave up in the face of both simple and hard problems, was unwilling to help in the diagnosis process, and arrogantly rejected the author's attempts to educate the user. This wasn't a user that was trying to learn or understand, this was a user that had clearly decided not to learn anything more and was trying to outsource all further need for technical knowledge.
> That is rare among politicians.

It's not rare at all. Many politicians who are from gerrymandered seats cater exclusively to their base. Because that is the only constituency that matters to their re-election.

Trump is supposed to be the President of ALL Americans. Not just the 25% odd percent who voted for him. And the fact that his popularity and approval rating is dropping daily attests to this.
Aren't we just masters of different illusions? Our illusions are lower-level, consisting of "file systems" and "kernels", "processes" and "TCP/IP", and "drawing calls". (And indeed, being able to upgrade a hard-drive and reinstall an OS hardly denotes mastery of anything, and never did. It denotes being able to follow directions.)
Well, at least they're doing something. I agree though, it's a horrible crime to see how nobody expresses any outrage at some of the horrible things the US has done before. Like all those 100s of thousands of people who died in Iraq.
FTP does indeed predate compress (ca. 1984), but I'm unsure of the penetration of IP at the time. UUCP networking was more common and that really only carried 7-bit US ASCII. (Including quite a lot of gifs, I assure you. :-) ) And, yes, on the fly compression would have killed most workstations at the time. My own experience, though, from the late '80s and '90s, was primarily using FTP to get .tar.Z files.

For failed downloads, memory errors, and so on, a hash in the protocol isn't that helpful. You really do want a whole- filled hash check after the file is written persistently. (TCP's checksum is a performance optimization, although it doesn't work very well with wireless networks.)

P.s. "wools"? Stupid android keyboard.
Maybe try reading Article III, Section II:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii
I've found that "this doesn't work" usually means "I've spent the past three hours on this and I want someone else to take a fresh look at it before I go insane" with my co-workers. In the case where someone doesn't provide more information because their brain is on fire and they're starting to get stressed out about the problem, it's easier to just help them and trust they'll do the same for you.

Having said that, with a team that's spent less time around each other, you might not have that level of consensus.
Shouldn't non-citizen foreign nationals be granted the right to keep and bare arms, then?
I find that for me, "Hey are you busy?" is enough to drag me out of my focus. At that point you may as well ask me about the time complexity of red-black tree inserts. That way I get the request over with and back to what I was doing.
Since Obama clearly isn't motivated by xenophobia, Brin had no reason to distrust the reasons for it because he's sophisticated enough to understand context.

The Obama administration paused the program temporarily in response to a specific weakness in it, see the article you linked. That's reasonable. Trump is ideologically opposed to accepting refugees. Brin understands the difference, do you?
He already bought the WaPo as his personal blog.
Not sure what the "No" is about, because the rest is a restatement of what I wrote. Yes, they are transforming the value that's wrapped in an Either/Optional, just as I wrote, and yes, the map/flatMap is necessary due to that construction.

However, just as I also wrote, that's not an actual sequence of values, it's a single wrapped value (or none).
Please see this comment on a related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511973
> If he does, and if he manages to get congressional term limits passed as well, DC will be in a much healthier state once the current crop of entrenched geezers vacates the premises.

Why would an arbitrary restriction on representative government = a healthier state? Look, I think there are grand problems in the electoral process that lead to the same people getting elected forever. That produces an environment conducive to career politics and incites people to pursue that path over public service.

But the public voting for representation is not the problem. The baby should not be thrown out with the bathwater.
You realize this is the media, reporting it?
> Using Bitcoin for cybercriminal activities is becoming increasingly commonplace, as tracing payments is much harder due to the way the cryptocurrency works

"Cryptocurrency" is a large set of currencies, each of which work differently. Also, Bitcoin is a public log. It's much easier to trace bitcoin than to trace cash.
SFO is much closer than Syria. Anyone can go protest, anyone can go take pictures and post on social media.

The trouble that strikes at home always feels more important than the trouble that strikes far away.

Many people have friends who are immigrants or are immigrants themselves. Few people have friends living in those countries.

What worries me personally is what if this border closing stuff escalates further and further. I'm here on a visa and my country is not on the list, but who knows what they might come up with.

Especially considering the rumors that they're asking questions about allegiance to the regime and checking social media.

Hello future border agent waves
We really need to move beyond this binary division. Yes, there are partisan cheerleaders on both sides that will only parrot opinion that matches their sides. So what? They can be safely ignored.

Personally, I saw plenty of articles sources that criticized the NSA snooping, including liberal sources (also more libertarian ones). I saw plenty of articles criticizing the Syrian bombing (and articles that wanted more intervention, again from various viewpoints). I also saw criticism of the refugee ban.

I personally lean moderate left, and yet there is a lot in Obama's presidency that I didn't care for one bit.

I am hoping that there is enough on the right that cares more about civil liberties vs. partianship too, and is appalled by Trump's actions.
>They were all silent.

And how precisely do you know this for a fact?