skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is eerily reminiscent of this quote from MLK's Letter From Birmingham Jail:

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er 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 can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
They're not talking about that because it's not relevant here. People are reacting to the action he took. The basis for it and the underlying legal structures are a different, or at least tangential conversation. If the house is on fire that may not be the right time to discuss why someone was allowed to store flammable chemicals next to the furnace.
Where in the EO does Muslim come into play?

So Trump campaigned on a promise to ban Muslims from entering the US. He then instituted a blanket ban on entry from 7 overwhelmingly Muslim countries. Are we splitting hairs again implying that these two things are a coincidence because the wording of the EO happened to avoid a blatantly unconstitutional formulation?
Thomas was the sole dissenter in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which struck down the detention of a US citizen held in Guantanamo without trial. He's an intense believer in the power of the executive over the border and national security.

(This is not totally clear cut. Controlling entry across the border is an issue uniquely within the President's powers. I think the due process issue overrides that for immigrants who have been granted visas and green cards, but I could see Thomas being "unitary executive" enough to see differently.)
Have you explored Vagrant?

https://www.vagrantup.com/
It was so wordy, I couldn't read the whole thing. Not enough information density!!
Why would I want to use this over SQLite?
> especially someone who was voted in on the slimmest of margins.

How so? He won an unexpectedly high number electoral college votes 304 vs 227. That's not the slimmest margin. Slimmest margin would be having a national recount and so on.

> Just twitter for a couple of weeks.

Shadow ban him! Let him Tweet and if he refreshes the browser he'll see his own tweets. Then add a few "great tweet" comments from some robots, but nobody else see them.

> Elsewhere governments can fall early and new elections would be called. Such a thing would never happen in the US and I believe this is an important safety mechanism

Oh, great point. I forgot about that. I remember it periodically when I read "such and such government has fallen" in the news from Europe and then have to explain to the horrified American what that means (they think it means mass unrest, cats and dogs living together, chaos, looting etc)
AFAIK, the only supported way to build a deb is using dpkg-buildpackage, and all the others just wrap it (unless we're talking about alien, but that's not really "supported" going any direction).

Updating your system is all the same backend, and the Debian-alikes try to tell you to only use one tool for cmdline (apt, now, which just takes the same args as all the various apt-FOO commands did, all of which still work), and one for the GUI (Synaptic, or wrappers around it, unless Ubuntu Software Center has mutated a lot since I last looked).

IIRC they made a big deal about not installing aptitude (a popular alternate text UI for apt-based systems) by default on Ubuntu _because_ they wanted to standardize and fix any deficits, rather than working around them.
Who gives their real, current phone number (or any text-capable phone number) to Paypal in the first place?
Oh, I know it's easy to fix, I just single that bug out as "I have done nothing with this box but install updates and surf the web. I am Grandma. It breaks".
I wouldn't say that it's bad. I just find it to be quite complex, e.g., why does it need its own web server? I was also troubled by the number of Debian maintainers who left the Debian project over the intense controversy, as well as Linus's comments.
Since you only comment three times in a year (including this one) I think you may not be the best person to advocate this point of view unless you feel that non-engagement makes you entitled to tell others what they should discuss or not.
He said he was going to do this for a year, how is it impulsive?
Ruby is a fantastic language for writing command line tools. String interpolation and regex are great on it, easy to use OO principles as well as functional principals, etc. Definitely going to be writing wrappers over some of my favorite unix commands with this!
Entirely subjective. I have people that would testify to a similar experience but no objective proof.

I am basing this off of my experience being prescribed 20mg extended release Adderall
Thank you for the tip.
Depends on the type of unit you had. A "sensor" certainly should have picked up lower levels, but most "alarms" don't go off unless harmful limits are hit - often calibrated at or above 100ppm, depending on the unit specs.
It might have but the problem is that you're going to be throwing good money after bad and you might still end up paying. Pick your battles. After getting a lawyer give me a quote I decided that maybe an appeal is not the best use of my resources. FWIW he thought it could have been won.
The State Department implemented new layers of bureaucracy at the start of 2011 which acted as a de facto impediment/delay to applicants in the Iraqi refugee program, and were rightly criticized at the time. [1]

This differs substantially from an affirmative ban which stranded people at airports.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/world/middleeast/13baghdad...
You mean for example a US employer who is being harmed because their potential employee is presently stuck in an airport unable to work violating a valid employment contract, or do you mean a potential employee who is in their home country?

I think the first is arguable but there would have to be some actual harm, the second probably less so.

It is my understanding the executive order allows DepHomeSec the ability to allow entry on a case-by-case basis so any potential plaintiff already has an avenue to exhaust prior to seeking relief in a federal court.
Creating a Flask server from scratch
https://breathe.now.sh add to your home screen
> If you're running a startup delete your account and look up from your laptop.

> If you're a VC cut ties from members of your class that actively destroy free speech and rant about the coming dystopia.

This is just pants on fire hysteria. Its destructive to productive communities where it takes a lot of silent toil and concentration by a varied group of people to get anything done. Programming is not political activism. Neither is starting a technology company. Neither is starting an open source project.

Software development is not exhibitionism. You can not have a few drinks and show up with a sign and snappy chant and build a database or compiler. You can not get a game engine working marching through the streets.

All of these Social issues have nothing to do with programming or computer science. Its just a obnoxious divisive distraction by people who looking for followers.
IMHO if you can't not use swap without running out of memory in normal workloads, you either need more RAM or to work on reducing your memory consumption; swapping is for temporary overloads or gracefully recovering from one, not a substitute for RAM.

It's not just a bunch of people setting cm.swappieness to 0 is it? That behaviour changed and now prevents going into swap /ever/ where it used to mean go into swap as a last resort. Changing it to 1 fixes the issue and will act like the old behaviour or only swapping as a last result.

That's a surprising behaviour change (from the perspective of "don't break userspace"), but looks more like a "fix of previously broken behaviour" as in 0 not being able to disable swap entirely; from that perspective, using 1 makes sense.
Until I can install arbitrary software on my phone myself from source, I will still have use for a laptop.

What I wish I could have is a phone that I can copy an arbitrary python script to, then execute it. No "Android Studio" or "Xcode" monstrosity to create and load software. Just my text editor and a shell.
> ACLU has negative expected value.

Welcome to the Internet. Anyone is free to have an opinion. Live in fear and do nothing.
It's long ago (about 20 years) so I'm no longer mad about it but the feeling of injustice was quite strong and when I think about it I still think it was absolutely ridiculous.

A couple of such incidents in your life and you start to feel really bad about authorities of any plumage.
How could they do that?
> One pet peeve is people who ask "can I ask you a question?"

Back when I was TA'ing a course in college, about half of the students on average in office hours would start their conversations with me by saying "I just have one small question." I'm not sure what was worse, when they didn't just have one question (or it wasn't small) or when the question was so small they could have gotten an answer by the time they finished assuring me that they weren't going to take up much of my time.
What is sold as "china white" nowadays will often contain fentanyl
That's unlikely to happen before the new justice is seated. Getting on the SCOTUS docket normally takes years, and I'll be surprised if we don't have a new justice before the next term starts.
My subjective experience with adderall is that it makes you good at lower order, mechanical creativity and bad at higher order, "inspired" creativity. So, for example, you can write a lot, but much of it turns out to be less profound on rereading than you initially thought.
Yeah, I just learned of that a few hours ago. Not surprised though, I was assuming they'd reciprocate and I honestly can't blame them in this case. The visit is/was going to be in continental Europe, which seems like as good a middle ground as any these days.
> You can worry about a slippery slope of violence all you want, but I don't recall historical oppressive regimes making a special exception to their oppressive practices for the conscientious objectors who repudiated violence, do you?

Rather the opposite, those were the first up against the wall because it was already known they wouldn't resist.
I hope you're kidding. In an area where they had just opened a freeway segment for my commute, my car had a couple of "reverse bird strikes" -- the car was safe but the fate of the bird was unknown -- at the beginning of the new segment. It's possible the birds weren't pigeons.
Make middle- and right-click work on bugs.chromium.org
This attitude that I'm getting from employers a LOT (in Europe) is so incredibly destructive. It's usually expressed by people who also refuse to decently pay for service.

Apparently if you write software to their invariably insane and wrong and totally misunderstood specifications they gain the right to bother you every time anything goes wrong with it. Usually it's 100% their own stupid fault.

Whether this happens at 6am, 2pm, 8pm is apparently all your fault and you, as a developer, should not just fix this, sacrifice your time and drop what you're doing, but you are also expected to pay for this.

So let me just say:

1) No

2) if you want this, you're paying extra, and sorry to say, but a LOT extra (10% of a month's consultancy rate for 2h + incidents which DO NOT include new features. Furthermore it is expected that 2 out of 3 months you're paying for checking if the monitoring system is working, nothing more. If it is more, price goes up)

3) if you disagree on this, we have contracts, AND labour law that disagrees with your assessment that "SWEs" aren't paid for 9-5 hours.

4) Obviously we can talk about this. But either modifications to software or improvements in general will come at a cost. I'm very willing to discuss, design, implement, even hire a team etc. for you to do this, but we need to understand eachother : it's not free.

I don't know how it works at Google, but I've seen these attitudes often at large companies. And ... euhm ... you can find some other poor victim to pull this crap with.
I still like Xkcd's theory best:

https://xkcd.com/593/
You're welcome in this country, this doesn't reflect our values, and I'm here for you if you need me.
Plus the most populous Islamic country, Indonesia.
> The greatest action a tech company could make that would really sting would be twitter shutting down his account.

Shadow ban!

> If his twitter account were hacked the results could be literally catastrophic in terms of the damage that might be caused to the subject of the tweet before it came to light that the tweet was not legitimate.

Agree, wish there was more talk about that. That is scary. He distrusts the press, I can see why. But what are the procedures for him to deny quickly something that was posted there by a hacker. "Lol, launching nukes to China". What is the turn-around time for an urgent TV / radio address saying "oops someone guessed my password and trolled everyone" before China launches anything back.
(Serious question) Where do you hang out to come across such sites? IRC channels, specific onion sites?
> How so? He won an unexpectedly high number electoral college votes 304 vs 227. That's not the slimmest margin. Slimmest margin would be having a national recount and so on.

Lost the popular vote and won because of approximately 100K votes in three states.

The electoral college is a total aberration and should be abolished (fat chance of that happening), if it didn't stop this BS from happening it is patently useless, that was the only reason I thought it might have some use one day.

I hope those electors lose a lot of sleep.
Ha! I just noticed this. My comments don't karma whore, and I'm not interested in appeasing the whims of the mods.

It doesn't do the community much good to pull punches, if that means putting a diplomatic muzzle on valid points and opinions that contrast with a preferred norm.
No, they never supported Trump.
If you mean trackpad, I've had many in the last nine years from work (I worked for Microsoft).
On Facebook here in the middle to upper class suburbs of Baltimore I see friends of friends OD and dying once a month.

I don't understand why as growing up I dont recall such an epidemic, yet I do recall a ton of don't do drugs type of education. Has all those type PSAs & education in schools cease to exist and or not as well funded as back in the 80s and 90s?
That bombing was extensively reported and widely criticized.

This attempt to dismiss complaints as hypocrisy is really tiresome. Obama bombed some countries so who cares if Trump fucks over law-abiding American residents for no reason.

Also, I'm fairly sure Obama didn't bomb Iran.
I know a high-functioning heroin addict who's a programmer by day. It's surprising to discover seemingly-normal people who have this monkey on their backs, given the popular perception of addicts.
I'm a native-born US citizen though - surely we're not in such a bad state as a country that I could be denied entry just for being married to someone from their list of scary countries...?
That's not much of an argument and equating all bad things is not a very useful way to think about things (but again, you're welcome to it, it just doesn't make for much of a conversation). The president can't change laws with executive orders.
FreeBSD has been a learning curve for me in terms of learning kernel development and things like kqueue and ZFS. I didn't find it difficult in terms of getting started, since it is a lot like Arch in terms of setting up things like X windows.
Maybe stop spamming?
Neither are that hard, FreeBSD has the additional challenge of overcoming Linuxisms. Just takes a little reading, and the FreeBSD Handbook is an excellent work.
> Brought to you by the very people selling your data, infecting your computers with malvertisements, bowing to their corporate masters and shoveling you shill-dirt for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Buy a newspaper.

Edit: Or a weekly periodical which employs fact-checkers.
Yes if they can show harm and that the court is the proper forum to address it.

Alien Tort Statute establishes (among other things) that non-citizens can seek remedy in US courts for civil actions to remedy violations of treaty obligations or international law in the absence of any more proper legal forum.

There is no treaty obligation to allow entry into the US from the countries listed in the executive order.
There is nothing wrong with healthy pride (compared to egotistical pride). We all have things to be grateful for, hopeful about, and proud of, and that has never hurt anyone. Lack of healthy pride in oneself, one's identity and one's values is a sign of low self-esteem, a great source of suffering in the world. Black and white thinking on pride leads to fuzzy thinking and bad conclusions.
I think it is a little naive to think the effect on the country's "reputation as a place to study, travel, find work, and start families + settle down" wasn't considered by those pushing for this policy. Damaging this reputation and therefore reducing overall immigration was most likely considered a positive effect of the policy.
There's no need for wild theories. The list of countries was previously chosen by the Obama administration. The EO specifically orders for additional research into amending the list of countries in the future.

[1] - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/politics/annotating...

". . . I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for 90 days from the date of this order . . . The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the President a list of countries recommended for inclusion on a Presidential proclamation that would prohibit the entry of foreign nationals."
For Centos 7 its 3.10 according to good old http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos
Tech companies tend to hire a lot of foreign workers. A lot of those foreign workers are suddenly being screwed, and the ability for American companies to hire such people has just taken a big hit. It's quite relevant here.
I've gotten mixed results. From 100% dextroamphetamine (Adderall is about 75% dextro and 25% levo, though also uses salts), I actually notice a distinct (but fleeting) increase in both kinds of creativity.

Writing, programming, and art all seem to be improved across all levels when taking it with a low tolerance.

Adderall definitely seems to hamper my creativity or have no effect, and makes me feel a bit more robotic.
You need to be better at math if you want to go to MIT.
I signed, too, but I didn't see an update in the signature count either. According to https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/signatures-on-the-w... We the People is experiencing technical difficulties at present; the Trump administration said it was "a question of high volume."
in the getting around a webfilter department... at previous job, the way to get around youtube filter?

Use google translate to "translate" the page you wanted to watch.
The ACLU has been demonized and criminalized by the right for generations. IIRC, during the McCarthy witch hunts, being an ACLU member made one suspect.

It also depends where you are, for example in New York City or in rural Texas. I heard someone tell the story that in the 1950s or 60s in a small town in the the Eastern U.S., they subscribed to the New Republic and a similar magazine using a neighbor's address so that the postman wouldn't report them.
Albania is actually mostly atheist/agnostic country. It has three religions on paper but most people are not religious at all.
It is a staunch US ally and part of NATO as well.

That logic doesn't hold water. If the rule was banning any country that has any muslims then it would ban 98% of European countries, as all have a %percentage of practicing muslims.

This rule seems more like a childish fit, to appease to the base voter that voted out of fear of muslims in general.
That again ignores that these people are operating inside a system, not in a vacuum. If you want to assign blame, fine, but don't confuse that with problem-solving. The blame game will not make American democracy functional again, it'll make it even worse.
Conservative intellectuals never supported Trump.

It would be more encouraging if mouthpieces to the rank and file like Fox News or talk radio turned against him.
By the time I was on IRC, most people were using PC speakers, which were real speakers at the time. These days, you get a garbage piezo with your case if you're lucky.

Either way, the power led is useless, so better to hook it up to the speaker header ;)
The GG in Australia has the power to dissolve parliament, yes. This has only been done once (that I am aware of) and that was when the sitting government lost control of parliament and could no longer pass the laws required to pay the bills. The GG approached the leader of the opposition and asked if he was able to gain control of the house of representatives and start government working again.

There has been a lot of speculation about the legality of this event and it would be a very brave Prime Minister who would allow things to go this far again without calling an election and an even braver GG who would not politely point out to the Prime Minister that he was behaving like an idiot, accept he'd lost control and let somebody else get on with running the country.
I feel like harm reduction can go a long way toward helping these people. After all, something like 50% of alcoholics, and I assume other drug users, eventually quit on their own and remain abstinent.

Making it harder for "functional" drug users to accidentally ruin their lives could significantly reduce the number of addicts in the long term by increasing quit rates
Funny, but Linux is the only unix-like OS I've ever run where using swap means you have a problem. Other OSes have much more intelligent memory management.
The two alleged front runners on his SCOTUS list right now are moderates (Gorsuch and Hardiman). I'm not sure those two are all that distinguishable from Garland frankly.
People are being locked in jails for attempting to enter the US with what were valid visas

Name three.
The ACLU has been demonized and criminalized by the right for generations.

Well, to be honest, they seem to be selective about what constitutional rights they are willing to fight for.[1]

[1]http://lidblog.com/aclu-getting-blasted-by-members-for/
I can't help but think this is actually kind of funny.
When you point at techies as the cause, are you problem-solving, or playing the blame game? Sure looks like the latter to me.

Edit: I get it. This doesn't help. The thing is, I don't know how to fix it. It looks like we're just fucked. I'm thinking and trying to come up with a fix but it's not working yet. And in the mean time, when someone tries to blame me for this mess I didn't cause and argued against, I'm going to push back.
The empire certainly wasn't self-sufficient, although the Russian center was richer. The empire depended on very large-scale oil exports, to subsidize the bloc. Even with those exports, the line-ups for basics was real in Russia, too. Russia's self-sufficiency isn't much in evidence today, either, as the economy shrinks year-on-year, and three-quarters of a million of the most capable people emigrate each year.