skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It gives the Trump administration time to evaluate the procedures used to vet nationals from these hotbeds of terrorist activity. Are you concerned that it doesn't do this, or do you simply not agree that this is a worthwhile thing to do?

There are many things wrong with the excuse of requiring more vetting:

1. The countries included in the ban have not been responsible for causing damage to the US. The countries with nationals that were involved in such acts were not included. Which makes it rather suspicious that "more vetting" or "preventing dangerous guys" from entering the country was the point of the EO.

2. There is ALREADY an extremely rigorous process to determining the suitability of people before they obtain a Visa/Asylum in the US. If there was anything specifically wrong with the procedure itself that the Trump administration had identified, it would make a lot more sense. They have given no details, and just like Trump's lies about having military plans to defeat ISIS, this seems like the same.

> It's not White House spin. Green card holders were never banned. The media falsely reported a statement from a DHS spokesperson, literally not even quoting a full sentence, to try to cause a panic (and they obviously succeeded). After a few hours, they were forced to fix their erroneous reporting when the White House began issuing corrections (that wouldn't have been needed if the media hadn't intentionally misconstrued the story in the first place).

This is just not true. Other commenters have posted/commented on how Bannon overruled the initial order saying that GC holders were INCLUDED, but the WH had to change that later.
Strikes should not be a feature of free societies.

Choosing not to work for whatever reason is a feature of a free society, I should think. If one wants to publicly declare the reason, that's exercising another important freedom.

Strikers understand that it's going to be an inconvenience of some sort: that's part of the way it attracts attention. They're also willing to pay the price for their actions. They understand that some will not look upon what they're doing favorably, and there may be repercussions.

Your suggestions regarding donation boxes are also very worthwhile. Some issues are important enough to warrant inconveniencing others.
I don't support Lyft and my first comment on this post was critical of them and the riders who switched to them out of a false solidarity. Perhaps read other comments on this thread before making assumptions.
I agree with your assertion regarding the need for a particular kind of preciseness, but it also well known to often be the case that jargon emerges in various professions/trades/cliques to make a "club" which favours members.
People keep saying that and it's just not a good point. I'm sure there's a lot of Republicans involved with every company. Peter Thiel is just yet another one of them. I wouldn't let him investing in Lyft turn you away- everyone including him is learning that Trump is bad for business.

If you go off 1 guy's name to avoid a company rather than their actual business practices, no partisan from either side could buy anything.

I'm a registered independent whose compass is science rather than ideology, (at least since the Bush Jr era, prior to which I was a registered Republican)- and I'm still deleting Uber and will use Lyft instead.
I don't disagree with your point, whatsoever, but I did see another perspective that I might not have otherwise considered while working with a larger company recently.

During the public debates regarding marriage equality, the company showed a very public display of support for marriage equality. They updated their branding and I assume their marketing as well to show that support.

From the inside, it was clear that this was to ensure the people who worked for the company could be proud of where they worked. From my perspective, it seemed the affect on the customer was second priority to the affect upon the employees, and that seemed to do well for all parties involved.
I slightly disagree with everything you said.

> Pulp Fiction wasn't created at a time where
> home movies were so widespread

VHS: 1976

Pulp Fiction: 1994

I'm not sure what you mean, then, by "home movies." If you mean "home theater," well, even middle-class people were spending loads of dough on big-screen TVs and hi-fi surround sound.

By "home movie" do you mean the ultraconvenience of streaming Netflix, Amazon, and Youtube? Then you probably have a point, even though it wasn't that hard to drive down to Blockbuster.

> If a movie is character-driven,
> there's not a lot of benefit to seeing it in a cinema these days
> as opposed to the comfort of your own home.
> Big effects on the other hand, they benefit from the cinema experience.

I think seeing a movie in a theater is more social than technical.

>> The point is that people want interesting,
>> well written movies with great stories.

> If they did, then these films would be the blockbusters.
> Whereas Adam Sandler's films were routinely panned for being crap,
> yet routinely pulled in 8 figures.

I think you two are talking past each other. He's talking about Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, which check all the boxes in Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. But you think he means The Remains of the Day or some other literary adaptation that nobody really likes. So as a contrast you pull out low-brow comedies, the cinematic equivalent of going out and getting drunk. But those same audiences also went to see Lord of the Rings.
You are never too young or too old to follow your dreams
neocities does seem particularly good for your use-case.

your students could keep their site after the class.
Avoid these food habits to remain insanely productive
I'm very serious about the language. When presenting to people like trump you must change your language. Take "VPN". I would never use that term in front of someone like trump. Never use an acronym that bossman might not understand. It pushes him into a corner. Someone like Trump wont ever ask to clarify a term because to ask suggests he doesn't know something, that he isn't the smartest person in the room. So he wont ask and instead just stare at you trying to be intimidating, a defense mechanism. Maybe he'll like your confidence, but even so you are wasting his time because you are using terms he doesn't understand and so the information isn't getting through. You wont be asked back.

If he asks what "VPN" means, you then say "Virtual Private Network" ... which he still doesn't know and must ask again, making him feel doubly stupid. So when presenting to such people you absolutely must start with baby talk. Instead of VPN start with "tunnels through the internet protected by encryption". If he recognizes this as a VPN he will interrupt you, making him feel smart. And don't mention servers. Say "computers". "Servers" will make him picture waitresses.

Not kidding. This speaking-to-the-idiot-bossman is a skill, especially in politics or military areas where bossman is appointed for reasons divorced from knowledge or background.

And "man" because I've never seen this behavior in a female leader. This is a macho male thing imho rooted in instinct and genetics.
To put it another way, if you think medallions are worth X but their market price is only Y (Y < X) then you should buy them for Y+1. If markets have significantly discounted their true price you'll make a windfall.
It's a real double plus good game he's playing at then, since Uber broke the strike and Kalanick is directly aiding Trump. I guess we're lucky that Uber is so consistently shitty that people saw through them, unlike what happened with Lyft.
This sort of thinking is so tragically misguided. If the only sane people who might potentially have Trump's ear turn away from this role, then the only people advising Trump are the extremely dangerous group he currently has! This is the far bigger danger then appearing to "legitimize" him (as if someone who was elected president needs any more legitimacy). The good he could do as an adviser is orders of magnitude greater than what he could do by turning down the role in fear of adding legitimacy.
...and Lyft have taken $1m of his money and donated it to the ACLU. The situation is confusing to say the least.
Has anyone noticed fake pro-Uber accounts on Facebook?
Hi HN,

Recently I made a post in a public Facebook group explaining my reasoning for deleting my Uber account account and in the comment thread I noticed a lot of activity from a user with a sparse Facebook profile and a LinkedIn profile that says he is a "Community Development Professional" based out of Redwood City, CA with experience in transportation systems.

I want to be careful in making a public accusation so first I just wanted to see if anybody else in the HN community had noticed something similar.

If so, let me know in the comments!

Andres
>We demonstrate that the psychedelic effects of LSD can be fully blocked with the selective serotonin 2A receptor ketanserin.

So taking a dose of ketanserin would make you stop tripping immediately?
Yes, I didn't realize Volkswagen violated European laws as well. So when he said "Every western nation", I was confused.
Ball Valves, Needle Valves, Foot Valves, Brass Gate Supplier in South Africa
The idea of Open Source was, first and foremost, to allow the users of software to inspect and modify the source code. "free" in this regard has something of a political as well as an economic component. To summarise the political very broadly, I'd say that software (and the data it manages) are power, and giving broad access to both distributes that power among the users of software.

The economic aspects are not just cheap access to software, but also the benefits of increased competition result from access to the code, which allows the creation of data-compatible competitors.

These missions have failed for anyone but software developers, because so much of today's software runs on servers where the GPL does not enforce sharing of code, and because the community has become dominated by commercial players and permissive licenses like MIT. As a metaphor: the bakers are all happy because the flour and yeast are free. But bread is as expensive as ever, and most people eat in restaurants, anyway.
I had the same reaction.

Women in IT talk about how hard it is for them not to be judged by their gender but by their skills and yet many of them promote their gender as if it's more important than the skills.
Are you sure eight ball is related? OED thinks "baller" comes from the wealth of sports figures: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/06/ballin-for-real/
It still is. A few months ago I had to go to the airport and there were some problems with the Uber app. I hailed a taxi but it intentionally took a longer route. I was furious that I might be late for my flight. The driver apologized and said he wouldn't have done that if he knew that my flight would be leaving soon. He graciously capped the fair at 'only' $60.
Consider this alternate reality: It is exactly like our timeline, but alternate reality US does not intern it's Japanese citizens during WWII. Some of those Japanese citizens went on to commit mass murders against civilians. Other than that, the timeline is the same as possible (US wins, etc).

Would you still feel the revulsion against internment camps as we do in this timeline?
To make a statement and show solidarity. If you live and work in NYC it's very difficult to protest in a place that is not New York.
Maybe my clock is time-dilated, but isn't 1st of April still months away?
The design of Poly1305
Not to mention the racism.
It makes me indescribably euphoric to imagine Twitler seeing this everytime he logs in.
One of the interesting areas our startup http://8-food.com/ hopes to explore is allowing for the effective distribution of short-run/seasonal/non-standard produce which would normally be unavailable due to conventional distribution chains / market forces. We are able to look at this seriously because of our emphasis on consumer choice, custom products, and dynamic pricing... whereas established chain restaurants seek reliable perennial large volume suppliers and supply-chains first (usually to support a year-round stable, unchanging, generic product), and optimizations for marketing (color, taste, etc.) a distant second.
Fellow BTSync (now Resilio Sync) user. Lately, even its mobile clients feel superior to Dropbox. I have a "master" computer that has everything synced to it, then use backblaze to back up everything offsite (it stores historical files/edits as well). I'm 100% satisfied.
I never recommend up taking any MS stuff until the atleast the V2. Been programming in .net since 1.1 when i came over from java.

First off - get off the marketing bandwagon. You dont need .NET core. If you want to be "prepared" for .net core eventually, u can do this by using dependency injection, and isolating all your platform specific code - ie. Never use File. Directory. directly, always wrap them in a service, ie IFileSystemService. If u want to be mostly compliant (esp with reflection), use PCL projects as they are widely used and supported and are basically core compliant.

But yeh anyways, u need to be more specific as to WHY u need .NET core? My startup is using Owin + WebAPI + React, no need for ASP.NET/razor at all.
Don't you have to agree to a strike (or agree to be part of an organization that strikes) to be considered to be "breaking the strike"? Wasn't it taxi unions or collectives that decided to strike? Aren't Uber drivers (and Uber the corporation) not beholden in any way to the organizations which chose to strike? When the writer's guild decided to strike in 2007, that only applied to members of the WGA, not everyone who happened to do any work in that industry or a similar industry. Were bus drivers "breaking the strike"? How about pilots? Train engineers? Surely the fact that taxi organizations decided to strike doesn't mean that anyone involved in human transportation at the time was "breaking the strike."
Probably because some ad agency told them it was a good idea. And also because the tweets aren't really the point of this campaign - they just want to make headlines and keep the brand name in the back of people's minds.
Ride-sharing services to be halted in Bangalore
Seems to be against the common man is right. As the other commenters have said reasons are ,but not limited to
1. Moat for lawyers. If it was easy to write functional law, their wages would go down.
2. Precise control on level of vagueness to achieve desired result by forcing subjective interpretation
3. Need for precision and build of technical terms by practitioners I.e. Lingo

People are experimenting with various things from Ethereum smart contracts to L4 a programming language for law.

I have also stated a github repo www.github.com/naveenmishra88/opencontract
So that we ccan collaborate on a crowdsourced plain English version of contracts that work for us rather than against.
it's probably 'cause you suck at your job and your genitals don't matter anymore.
What about the million dollar donation to the ACLU Lyft made? Does that count for anything?
No. I'm just struggling to imagine why anyone thought Uber would join this and why nobody seems to care about Lyft.
no. Google wave = (Ether pad + Gtalk) + plugins :D
I think that tech companies are being expected to be vocal about politics (in this specific climate) because of all the rhetoric tech companies spew about "making the world a better place," agree with it or not.
> I bet you can get a lot of reddit gold thrown your way to start one...

Probably not. Many Trump supporters on Reddit have a thing against buying reddit gold.
What a lazy criticism. What form of public protest is not virtue signalling by this standard?

The drivers sacrificed their income to make a public statement.
Donald J. Trump is calling for a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States

They did a pretty bad job then. The vast majority of Muslims don't live in those 7 countries.
If they submit a request seeking permission to ply, we will recommend to the Karnataka government that ride-sharing be allowed,” Mr. Aiyappa added

This is the kind of inept and useless bureaucracy that needs to stop. In a city that is choc-a-bloc with traffic and has poor public transport options, why would anyone want to stop car-pooling services? Boggles the mind.
Using the x86 trap flag to write a very very slow strace clone
You don't understand protest.

Sure, one thing you can do is disrupt the specific people doing something bad. But that's pretty rare. As MLK explains, the point is to create a more general disruption so that everyone has to take notice of an issue they might otherwise ignore:

"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."

From his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....

The whole thing is worth reading. In particular, this bit always wakes me up: "I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a'"more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
Taxis, if regulated by the city, are effectively a utility provided partially by the city.
> Uber broke the strike by breaking the strike.

Okay? So neither Uber nor Lyft wanted to inconvenience thousands of their customers. That's why I use them over taxis in the first place!
No but if you take your 401k money - withdraw it, create Irish shell companies, then have your employer pay the Irish shells , then tell the government you are Irish not a us citizen, liquidate all us holdings -- all to avoid IRS withholdings. Wtf? Please try it let me know how HRBlock goes.

Edit: under "do you have foreign accounts" check "no" as well. (Actually don't do any of this you will end up in federal prison)
I'll check that out, thanks!
People are less and less understanding of the fact that nobody lives in a vacuum and all our actions affect other people. They're stressing individual liberties, which you see in the mainstream political opinion of "if it doesn't directly affect me then why should I care?", and that same guiding principle is also pushing developers to make gigantic changes without any regard to the waves, splashes, or ripples they make.
https://youtu.be/v_UyVmITiYQ?t=455
how does that make more drivers come to a specific place/time where demand is outstripping supply?
> From the inside, it was clear that this was to ensure the people who worked for the company could be proud of where they worked. From my perspective, it seemed the affect on the customer was second priority to the affect the employees, and that seemed to do well for all parties involved.

I'd like that, and it is a good way to support a cause and it makes employees feel good too. It would also be more impressive if they did it in a time or place where it would be have been unpopular or dangerous because of general prejudices. But I am sure they didn't push emails to customers every-time some politician did something against marriage equality.
Sure, but would have been more meaningful if they weren't also breaking the strike and painting Uber as the sole villain.
Many of those protesting are objecting to green card holders being blocked entry into the country they are permanent residents of.

People will always protest against things that are more immediately visible to them than things they read about in infrequent news articles. That's just human nature.
Automating it would undermine the constituents who are calling in.
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Condemning opposition to bad things because worse things have happened in the past is something I do not even remotely understand.
Dmitry,

If I understood correctly, they sold your old car to someone else?!?

If they did, i would not recommend posting the vin here so that the owner might find the story. Don't do that.
Does it convey things precisely though? I seems like everything is being constantly interpreted and even reinterpreted as language changes but the law doesn't. Even old stuff like the constitution of many nations are being constantly challenged.

I'd like to see laws come with unit tests, "under circumstance a, b and c, person x would be at fault".
>This doesn't make scabbing any less vile

This is a political opinion, and the context definitely matters. This wasn't a strike for higher wages, this was a strike to back a political stance.

How would you feel if the cabbies went on strike because we allow Muslims to vote? Would you so vehemently blast people that want transportation to continue functioning in the interim in that case as well?
I think that's more or less the idea, and I also think the article accidentally a word- I imagine that should say selective serotonin 2A receptor antagonist ketanserin. Trazodone is said to do this too.
It should be "the [..] receptor-antagonist ketanserin" (can't take a dose of a receptor). And the effect isn't complete if I understand it correctly. But higher doses or a more potent antagonist could block the psychedelic effects completely, yes.

I'm not quite sure if LSD has non-psychedelic effects that are mediated through other mechanisms (such as other serotonin receptors, or maybe the dopaminergic system). From what I seem to remember (from that neurology lecture, mind you (where I was high)), LSD has some cardiovascular effects – basically everything you may experience from a large dose of caffein: rapid heartbeat, sweating, nervousness.
She did give a case. You can read it here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/30/us/document-L...
I used that for a while, eventually we switched to a hot air popper which seemed to do a better job with less fuss. Then, in December, I got a Behmor 1600+ which is really nice.
The American people chose Trump. Sorry, there is no way around that. The US doesn't elect its president based on the popular vote.
"Policies of hate"

The destruction of 10s of millions of american jobs was an actual policy of hate and arrogance.

A policy stopping immigration from countries with very established terrorist groups isn't "hate".

Is a firewall hate against the internet gestalt of human cognition and computer computation?
Wait... Starbucks indicated they'll take nation of origin and immigration status into consideration when making hiring decisions?

Wouldn't that be illegal in the U.S.?
Fake outrage? I don't understand. Must I preface any complaint about a current event with a list of every historical event that I think was worse? A general argument against unsolicited emails is fine, but you seem to be making a much more specific complaint than that.
I like this approach. The only thing I would criticize is that it uses '' as a substitute for None.

So something like

fizzes, buzzes, empties = str_cycle('Fizz', 3), str_cycle('Buzz', 5), str_cycle('', 7)

wouldn't work since it would print 7 instead of the empty string