skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah me either as it is off topic. But in response, it is not a ban on people of one religion entering the country. It is a ban on people from 7 terror prone countries entering.

For the passing news consumer, it would be very easy to be led to believe that Muslims are banned from entering the US.
Determining truth is hard, and as you say the trouble is that everyone does propaganda. We are in a "fog of war" situation.

Maybe a better approach would be to focus on ways of securely authenticating, signing, and delivering primary sensory data like photos, video, audio, and transcripts and doing so without interpretation.
This means I don't like book reviews on HN, that's like paywall but worse.
Personally I would love to travel and work remotely (building up towards that) and the flexibility and comfort for me means being able to accomplish other things in my life that I want to do while working. Like travel across the world and see new places. If there is enough trust and flexibility I could see myself doing that for the rest of my life.
I would really like to see if a moral position like that could still stand tall. I'd be surprised if they could defend Milo Yiannopoulos's Twitter account without massive protests and everyone losing their job.
This is what business leadership looks like. Truly inspiring to see the corporate world embrace civic responsibility like this.
Being my first full time job out of college I don't have much of a say, but compared to retail jobs and previous internship(s) it's great.

The company culture isn't stuffy - I can essentially come and go as long as I get my stuff done that I need to. I wish it was less bureaucratic and "office like", but I think we're growing away from that.

Tech wise - the .NET stack has grown on me in the time I've been here, but I still worry that I'll only be exposed to languages I'm forced to use at work as opposed to languages and technologies I want to use/learn.

Everyone I work with is great as well, but the one thing I miss about college/small college town is the community/connected feeling. I don't get that feeling at all currently, so I'm trying to pinpoint why I'm not feeling that anymore.
>Are you sure you understand the history, legally defined role, and traditions of the AG well enough to say, "You seem to be radically redefining the role of the AG/DoJ." to me? That's an awfully strong statement.

No.
I've been working on a project that makes data-driven reporting more transparent: https://thegamma.net, which might very well fit with the accountable news theme. Any feedback on how to make it better would be much appreciated :-).
Does the really need to come up 8 times?
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Trial%20Balloon%20for%20a%20Co...
The way he lied about it raining during his speech to the CIA seemed almost like a way of sending a message - "See how well I lie? I can get away with anything."
I wish the various papers linked in that page used a different language than Wolfram Alpha to illustrate the various concepts, especially since that language doesn't support even basic functional constructs such as pattern matching.
I have to wonder what YC's exit strategy is here, exits not always benefiting the funded company.
Some of the celebrities who've been using those bombed Syrians to attack Trump did speak up before - in support of the bombing. J. K. Rowling, in particular, was quite vocal in insisting that anyone who claimed that politicians who supported to bomb them were morally in the wrong or that voters should hold those who did responsible was supporting evil misogynistic harassment because someone might take such language as justification to harass MPs, some of whom were women.
"Fake News" is completely making things up facts like "Trump punched the Pope today" for the sake of clicks. Calling recent actions as a "Muslim ban" is an interpretation of real events, including quotes by Rudy Giuliani and Flynn's son calling it a "Muslim ban" themselves. I would not consider it fake news, just an order executed with enough plausible deniability that they can prey on people's newfound obsession with fake news and call legitimate interpretations as such.
And if outsourcing leads to lower quality, then that tactic would be abandoned by a successful business model in favor of a better way to save money.
You're not gonna get a better Mac laptop than a real Mac like yours.
HGST was acquired by WD, but they have very different manufacturing processes and AFAIK the design teams are still seperate.
CNN now uses words like "freak out" for their headlines? Amazing.
True. Posted as reference to the pay grade perceptions around H-1Bs.
There is a huge range of salary's for recent grads from minimum wage to 200+k/year. So, a minimum salary of say 75k would allow many students to stay but not all students to stay.

PS: I suspect if there where a direct path from student to staying in the US then people would just game that process. Which would reduce the number of 'real' students and cause a political backlash.
A possible line of argument:

Testosterone increases vascular tone, which increases blood pressure, but also lymphatic flow-rate.

This is why all medications for "varicose veins" are marketed only to women: it's not that women are more vein (ow that pun) but rather that they're much more likely to have the inadequate lymphatic flow that leads to veinous over-pressure and sclerotization.

The lymphatic system clears blood-borne toxins from the blood, and from organs and interstitial spaces. (You can think of it as projections of the liver, sucking crud toward itself.) So, if women's lymphatic systems tend to work less well on average, they'll be more susceptible to the build-up of such toxins on average—including in organs like the brain.
Because Hong Kong is a separate state. They govern themselves.
Of course, once it becomes a pattern there will be the Chinese corollary, that appears to maka a knockoff, then waits for a big order.
I've only ever worked for "conventional" large, multi-national non-software type corporations, so can't help with smaller orgs., or startups, or software companies...so my notes should be taken in that context...

That being said, within non-startups and non-software companies, any folks in any organization who have any inkling of software dev. (or any tech knowledge) are usually respected...so you will want to highlight that. Not necessarily that you CAN CODE...because the orgs specifically hire devs for that. Simply that business/marketing folks believe you can act as a translator, BS detector, etc.

For example, technology to this day is still dark magic for many people...So much so that whenever a dev. or digital agency or freelancer/consultant gives project/product stakeholders a development estimate - e.g. the platform will be deployed in 3 months, etc. - stakeholders have no expertise to call BS on that estimate, or wherewithall to pose questions about it. Your exposure to the desires/wants/needs of the business/marketing side, and your exposure to deeper tech than the typical person will uniquely position you to become an advisor to the higher ups. Most higher ups will respect you, a small percentage will abuse that...but with this dual-expertise, its straight-forward to bounce to other jobs.

My overall recommendation:

* Gain tech experience, whether that's dev./coding or system admin, or even just a general survey/overall understanding of "how stuff gets done".

* Continue to improve your communication skills...your value will be shown when you can act as the translator between the "techs" and the "non-techs". The good techs will learn to appreciate that they can speak with and through you, too.

* Highlight the heck out of the above sets of skills. That could be with S.T.A.R.-type bullets/notes on your resume, or through side projects, etc.

I hope that helps!

Good luck...And you can always reach out to me for networking (bam! This is another skill, that i admittedly don't do enough of! ;-)
Casablanca in 1942 = Hong Kong today.
The one thing I dislike is that sales departments are treated like gold in some instances ie: sales rallies, bonuses, contests, free vacations, cars.

Where as IT/Tech departments miss out on a lot of those.
It works quite well on Dell laptops. There are some issues with power management but it's worth the trouble if you can do it.
You can't compete with free
Ask HN: How to Protect Free Speech and Stop an Internet Blackout?
Given that Trump and his administration have shown that they are not impressed by the First Amendment, the threat of a large-scale Internet Blackout is significant;

Given that the capacity to implement such a blackout is already in the hands of the Trump Administration and is used routinely all over the world and has even already been used in the US in some cases;

Given that the ability to communicate is essential for the people to secure their liberties and organize against tyranny I think it’s prudent for our community to consider these questions:

1. What can/should hackers do in the event of an Internet Blackout?

2. What can hackers do to obviate the possibility of an Internet blackout? What actions can we take today to make Americans' connectivity attack resistant?

Please answer both.

Original was here but was flagged for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531471
None taken! This issue has come up on HN before, just trying to clarify and support what you were saying.
>Where has YCombinator been as our own impoverished African-Americans are getting slaughtered in the streets of Chicago?

Please stop with the hyperbole about Chicago. Yes, it has a problem, but it's beaten by St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Cleveland, Newark, and Memphis for per 100k murder rate in 2016. Also, while the national per 100k murder rate has been trending upward lately, it is still lower than approximately 1965 to approximately 2007. [0]

0. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/u-s-cities-experienced-...
A list of public projects on GitHub resisting the Trump administration
Technology has political ramifications, like what to do with a population that has been economically displaced by robots, physical or virtual; or how much nformation government and powerful corporations should be able to harvest about individuals; or whether you have the right to use encryption or not, or....
It's at least a little risky because you're depending on the Chinese knock off coming in at the right price. Though I guess you could just sit on the Kickstarter money while you wait so you don't have to raise money if one doesn't materialize.
Does the fact that Trump himself is calling it the "Muslim ban"change anything for you?
In a brief search, it appears that the ISS is within Earth's magnetosphere and is largely protected from ionizing radiation e.g. [1]. The radation and possible craft shielding question is at the forefront of my mind; not only for a Mars crew, but for the plant seeds/seedlings they'd necessarily be bringing with them for an eventual food cycle. Any construction materials, fuels, etc. will have to either be shielded (heavy and bulky) or immune to changes from radiation. Also, Mars's magnetosphere is super weak compared to Earth's, so this is an ongoing concern after a successful transit and landing.

I'm thinking that best practice for a potential Martian would be to create a sperm/egg cold-storage repository before leaving Earth (in case they want kids after potentially and safely returning). Kind of a weird, radiation-related tangent.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/2016/08/23/astroq...
One of the main reasons I bought the GearVR was to watch movies in VR. But I only wound up watching a couple before I realized that it was far too bulky, hot, and uncomfortable to bother.

I am convinced that until manufacturers fix the comfort and convenience issue by making headsets not much bulkier or inconvenient than a pair of ordinary glasses, VR headsets will be tossed aside once their novelty wears off.
Computer outbluffs world’s top poker players
In my experience kids love Garry's Mod if they have the patience to learn it. My brother played the heck out of it when he was 13. (To answer your question, he was playing custom game modes and would sometimes use the character poser/scene creation tools). It's great for technically inclined kids who love sandboxes and are bored with Minecraft.
Doesn't matter. The UK has no spine and will never push to enforce the terms of their 1997 treaty with China that transferred control of HK. When a trading partner is as valuable as China, all ideals go out the window.

I remember the promises well since I was in Taipei and watching Chris Patten, Britain's final governor of HK, talk about it on the news during the hand-off.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/05/hong-k...
Does this affect your experience as a user?
Hmm, we applied with our non-profit tool, Umbrella App, for managing the physical and digital security of journalists and activists (https://www.secfirst.org) a few years ago when we were only getting started but didn't get in. It seems like it's needed now more than ever, so we might look at making another application to help bring us to the next stage of our development.
I think we make the mistake of underestimating Trump because we are accustomed to rating intelligence on a linear scale. We look at only one dimension of it.

Could Trump learn calculus and do well on a math test? I highly doubt it. I doubt he understands half the words he reads in the New York Times.

But is he intelligent in his cunning - is he masterful at persuasion and does he possess a deep intuitive understanding for power dynamics? Does he understand how words make people _feel_? All evidence points to yes.
How is that a problem? I take a book out of the library. (That institution is both about free as in speech and free as in beer.) If I become a huge fan, then I might buy the book for myself and start dressing up like the characters at conventions. If I'm not that into it, I return the book.

If one puts something out there for "free" then one is not entitled to a return. It's the model which is broken, not the users!
I believe the SG failure stats are largely dominated by a specific model line which is no longer produced. I bet SG will recover next year when we see these. Keep in mind these stats reflect the AFR of drives, which in some case can be several years worth of data.

I wish backblaze would share some data around accelerated lifecycle testing.
Time..../sigh
I remember lusting after the twin turbo Supra back in my teens. "Porsche performance at a Toyota price" is the quote from a car magazine I remember (Car & Driver maybe?) Never actually drove one, but maybe I'll include them on the list for my next car.
It's very different than your proposed—albeit much better—alternate headline, as revenue isn't the only driver of store rankings. It appears dollars are a very small measurement for general category rankings (there's a different category for "Top Grossing"), since free apps also rank.

Having a headline of "One download was enough to get me to #18 on the app store" is not only clearer, it's also arguably more compelling.

FWIW I thought the article was about how the author reached a top rank by paying someone or investing in ads for 70 cents.
Unsplash 5.0
It may not be 100%, precisely a Muslim ban, but that was its stated intent and this is about as close to that as they can get, it would seem.

There are no valid security reasons for it.
> Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this!

Well, if you're going to try to build a mechanism to hold the mainstream media accountable, you'll really need to create a standard on when a summarization is inaccurate.

If the media was reporting on, "a ban on travelers from majority Muslim countries by a president who has promised his supporters a ban on Muslims" would that still be misleading? And if opponents of the ban called it a "Muslim ban", would media outlets be allowed to report on that fact?

For the record, I've seen NYT and BBC call this a "travel ban", "Trump's ban" and in quotes designed to indicate attribution "'Muslim ban'". All of these seem reasonable and factual.

Your thoughts?

== EDIT ==

A headline that reads simply "muslim ban" shouldn't be considered fake news (in my opinion), so long as it provides a full explanation of the ban and who is affected.

It is an editorializing title, but there's a massive difference between editorializing and fabrication. I believe calling something "fake news" should be reserved for publications that create falsehoods out of whole cloth. (e.g. "warehouse full of votes cast by illegal immigrants found")
Not to mention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopalpa_donaldtrumpi
I'd go first to node to understand the basis about rest, http, db, etc. And then I'd swap to python/java. Even scala if you are brave enough.

I have to say though, for a frontend dev the big point is not to be able to build apps using the newest libraries. The challenge is to contribute to this libraries or even build your own one from the ground, point that it will require to have some understanding of CS.
That's life in any media. Where revenue for a category is very top heavy.
I think its about context.

If you are a whistleblower, and you claim something is illegal then I don't expect you to accurately make a case that it is so. You may have just felt it was illegal, when it was not and I'll give certain leeway in making the wrong decision there.

However if you are a lawyer, and not only that but the supreme prosecutor of the Federal government, you ought to be able to properly define why something is illegal not just publish a press release that essentially says "it's my gut-feeling this will fail".

She is supposed to make the best case possible for the presidency and allow judges to decide if something is illegal, and someone is guilty or not guilty. Simply saying "he's guilty, I'm sure, but no I can't tell you why" is not a solid answer.
Link for those interested in this piece of history.

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
This is a great point! It is also something me and my co-workers have experienced. We love to build things that not only benefit our company and our goals but our personal careers too. Building and improving our people's careers is really important to us. Something that can be open sourced and keeps our code afloat is looked at as a win.
You are right, I learnt this stuff in a C++0x draft, and it has been notably improved. I'm not discussing C++ minutiae in future, I've learnt my lesson.

Ycombinator allows neither edits or deletions after a short amount of time it seems.
A ban on 7 Muslim-majority countries with exceptions for minority religions.

In addition: "I’ll tell you the whole history of it: When he first announced it, he said ‘Muslim ban,'" Giuliani said on Fox News.

"He called me up, he said, ‘Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally.’"

source: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316726-giuliani-t...
Was going to add a part about stiffing the chinese suppliers as well but you'd probably end up like this guy (separate article currently on HN front page):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13532856

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/world/asia/xiao-jianhua-c...
Thank you for the nitpick. I wasn't talking about the article either.
I was also about to mention the Amiga, but I remember something else: filesystem drivers for ZIP and LHA-files.

You would just cd into the file and the rest was magic. I've always missed that feature since moving to the PC.

In lots of ways, AmigaOS was way ahead of its time.
If I am alone with this thought, please let me know, but:

Isn't the amount of research, meticulate care and millions upon millions spent making space travel as safe as possible becoming ridiculous?

About 150,000 people die each day. That's about 50 million a year.
Test pilots used to die in crashes all the time.

I'd wager there are plenty of aspiring Astronauts that would be okay with an earlier death (due to radiation exposure, bone degredation, whatever) for having had the chance to go to Mars.

We won't really know anything beyond speculation until we actually send someone anyway.
The Democratic party of 1919 did not have the same modern liberalist principles of the Democratic party of today. The parties are not static entities with the same principles extending back to their founding.
Open source project, 5calls, makes it easy to call gov't representatives
Without derailing too much here, can you point me to a non-op-ed story published by a mainstream news source that calls it a "Muslim ban"?
Some sort of uniform, same syntax for representing all of HTML, CSS and the browser-side scripting language would have been a good start instead of this hodge podge of different notations clumsily embedded in each other.

Lisp for just CSS with all else same: lukewarm idea.
The AG enforces and defends the Constitution, not the whims of a POTUS. Trump is quickly trying to turn the USG into yes men. Sean Spicer just said minutes ago in his Press Conference that her firing is pretty much a warning shot that if you don't agree with his views, no matter how you think the law stands you should step up or ship out.

That's not how Democracy works and Trump is quickly trying to change that and it is a terrible thing.
I think we need something a little more revolutionary for news than holding current news sources to account, or fact-checking tools. Most of the problems we see in our news outlets are around the competition for attention as the article says, but also around old business models for newspapers/tv which still haven't changed to adapt to a world in which anyone can report from anywhere live using a simple phone and anyone in the world could contribute to a story, if only they'd let them.

Better something that encourages primary sources on the ground to contribute (video, text audio), and puts them in context chronologically, geographically and perhaps socially, but is not based on an advertising business model.

Difficult to know what it could look like to but we need something fundamentally new which uses the internet not just as another medium.
I am a Canadian citizen who lives in British Columbia and is not Chinese or of Chinese descent. The fact that a Canadian citizen was "seized" is very concerning to me and I hope that our government gets on top of this swiftly.

I also don't see any facts on which you can base your corruption claim.
Even better imagine houston where there is no state tax. There's no way one can pay 130K.
> Is there a credible research about the loss of jobs due to H1B and it is not just an availability heuristic?

Yes. Look there: http://h1bdata.info/topcompanies.php

You'll see that the vast majority of VISAs are taken by miserable cheap indian consulting firms.
AMIcast – Episode 20 – Trevor Dickinson
No.

After reading the page, I can confirm. No. It appears to be a slickly-marketed consulting service.
I strongly disagree. But I think i understand where you're coming from, because instead of 'alternatives' the answer is to stop doing many of our western liberal behaviors.

The alternative to a campaign of drone warfare is to not do the campaign.

The alternative to regime change and overthrow of democratically elected governments is to treat the nation as a sovereign nation, and not overthrow their government.

The alternative to concentrated wealth and monopolists is to split up the monopoly, and make do with smaller 'less efficient' companies.
Do you think it would behoove a company to reward its other teams like it does its sales teams?