skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is anything one could say that would make this situation better either way.

Well, I'd like to think our little exchange made things a little better. I know it helped reinforce for me that people can step back and reflect, which it's easy to lose sight of. And figuring out ways to do so is increasingly important.
Yeah, it's just about fitness for a lot of people.
* As long as he is not a dual citizen.
I think you're incorrect (and perhaps a little paranoid) about this being, as you say,

'...the conservative social media strategy in action -- repeat talking points to divert discussion whenever "their side" is criticized.'

tomp isn't trying to change the subject. Instead he asks a valid moral question: why would someone refuse to visit the USA because of Trump's (comparatively insignificant) executive order, yet the same person not be put off by a far more morally repugnant act: Obama's killing of thousands with drone attacks.

tomp also has a strong argument in his comment below about hypocrisy. I'd want him on my team in a debate - he sounds like an honest man.
This was a Cold War propaganda technique.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Suboxone, methadone, buprenorphine, and several other non-narcotic medications are all available through an outpatient pharmacy with a prescription. They are regularly and widely in use with mixed results. You would be extremely hard pressed to gain support for adding pharmaceutical grade heroine to the mix without extremely compelling data.

Any pharmacy that administered or dispensed pharmaceutical grade heroine would suffer public backlash from their communities. They would be forced to specialize and essentially become a new flavor of methadone clinic.

Plus, there is the whole acting in good faith and professional judgement thing that seems like it would be a large hurdle to overcome.
Space used on disk is less than when the data is in RAM. It's not a binary copy loaded. It's binary data loaded then inflated into app-object memory. So much overhead
Does anyone think Obama did any of these things because "Muslims, bad!"?
The reason I have a history degree and not a CS degree is because the asinine tie-ins with the mathematics department made it nearly impossible to get back on track if you did not take calculus 1 your freshman fall. I still fume, thinking about the data structures and algorithms clasd I suffered through, where we wrote reams of proofs, but not a line of executable code.
My impression is that a Never Collect Data Usable Against Minorities Pledge shouldn't be signed by people supporting exactly that to tune of billions of dollars and nearly as many users under surveillance. Unless they're full of shit. Hell, even The Onion saw how helpful such companies are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

I remember watching it knowing it was satire but most of the benefits were still true. I bet the people against discrimination and such at those locations are still coding away at the algorithms and data stores to make it happen. Easier to put your name on something than to make real sacrifices. Do email me, though, when a story pops up that Google or Facebook got rid of all saved data that could be used to hurt unpopular groups all thanks to such people in the company.
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No, your assessment is correct. They also went on their NYC social media accounts to advertise that they were still running from JFK at reduced prices (since everyone expected surge pricing to be in effect). There was some initial confusion that Uber might be striking in solidarity with Taxi drivers, but they made sure to clear that up.
>"fix of previously broken behaviour" as in 0 not being able to disable swap entirely

But you can disable swap entirely by not having a swap partition/file, so I don't think that's a huge issue.
It looks like we went to the same college in the US and in fact, I remember seeing you around. Such a shame these draconian laws exist.
Well, I'd argue just use base debian. All the same benefits, none of Mint's security issues.
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See tptacek's comment on this thread and my response to it.
It's a hypocritical, authoritarian, and dangerous belief that many people of every demographic share.
> Even with a skilled pilot, the adrenaline rush was similar to my first time tandem skydiving.

following lines from neal-stephenson's cryptonomicon come to mind:

"like Disneyland with the safety locks taken off"
Here's some evidence to the contrary. http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/01/24/trump-iraq-oil

"...If we kept the oil you probably wouldn't have ISIS because that's where they made their money in the first place. So we should have kept the oil, but OK. Maybe we'll have another chance."
Holy Fallacy of the Excluded Middle, Batman!
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Failing to stand up against egregious civil liberties abuses for eight years, then immediately springing into action again (on every possible topic) because your party is now out of power, is the definition of hypocrisy politically. This happens with every rotation, I watched it happen from Clinton to Bush, and then from Bush to Obama, and now from Obama to Trump.

At the same time the Democrats wanted my vote for Clinton against Trump (I voted for neither). One of the lesser reasons Trump is President, is that vast hypocrisy by the left on civil liberties. It does matter. Clinton was a war hawk that supported bombing only Muslim countries (she supported bombing something like eight different Muslim nations in the last 15 years; but I'm to believe she's not anti-Muslim) and overwhelmingly anti-privacy, she isn't getting my vote on the argument that she's the lesser of two devils. Sanders by contrast, has historically been very consistent on civil liberties for decades, and I'd have considered voting for him.
There are many countries that don't require a pledge of allegiance for citizenship, so you can't really argue that being a citizen of those countries constitutes a conflict of interest with US citizenship.

Being a citizen of a country typically means that you have certain rights and privileges in that country that non-citizens don't. That's about it. "Loyalty" doesn't enter the picture unless one is a hardcore nationalist.
Look at how the presidents behave in the 2nd term. They know that they don't need to get reelected so are willing to do the right thing more than pandering to their donors. Currently other elected officials have to balance what their voters want with what their donors want and side with the donors.
But the biggest problem with US currently is two party system where their is huge us against them mentality republicans vote republican and Democrats vote democrat. So politicians from both sides are unwilling to vote across party lines as that would kill their chance of getting reelected. If they don't need to run again they will be more willing to compromise.
I interpret it as GM/Ford etc, the big ones, means serious competetion when they start focusing on this, but they are slow to start the focus since they are big.
> All of these things I've had to suppliment myself dating

> back into highschool when I started programming. I'm lucky

> I got a head start. There's graduate students at my school

> who couldn't for their life tell you what historically

> important programs/protocalls are like vim or telnet is,

> who don't know who RMS is, who don't know what Bell Labs

> is, who don't know that by writing code they own it to

> some degree acording to our country's legal system.

You really don't need to know the history of computing to make a dent in research; why should a protocl like telnet be relevant today, when we have much better alternatives? To learn from its mistakes? No, that's why you take design classes that you seem to dislike.

Leaving aside the lack of need to know those ancient things (I say this as a heavy user of vim), you seem to conflate engineering with computer science. There's a lot of CS that doesn't have anything to do with network protocols and UNIX programs
It's a constitutional issue because it's a constitutional issue (Due Process and Equal Protection). Not because it's the "new guy."
It's the contents of the orders that people are upset about.
I recently heard that George Michael's song Monkey was about addiction too..
Or, maybe, you've missed the point that I disagree with the sentiment of the author of the comment to which I was responding. The only negative I could find in the article was that he was a "monopolist" (whatever that means to the author) and hence, that's bad. Was he using his monopolist power to cheat widows and orphans, or to deliver cheap heating oil to New York City?
The idea that a president should ever have this power is ridiculous. Only people who think that their president is a benevolent figure would dare support this ability. So yes, it is relevant, because people should start asking, "what if [insert evil politician] had this kind of power?" That would prevent these issues from being possible in the first place.
> should be dropping all inbound requests

But then they never would've been able to detect the ransomware! How can we make sure our systems are secure if we can't audit them, and how can we audit our systems if we can't SSH in, and how can we meaningfully SSH in if we can only do it from the office and not from employee computers at home? /sarcasm
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"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
You managed to write a lot about the fact that they are missing something, but didn't even provide an avenue to help them start to try to understand.
How is it planned ? you try to decrease heroin then switch for another molecule ?

Do you think it's possible to go off this drug without substitutes.. say by forcing small sever periods etc etc ?
And why is this being flagged?
I agree with all of your points. 'potatosoup has been making essentially the same comment throughout the day without engaging further in any nuanced way. It's one thing to point out inconsistencies in a constructive manner. It's quite another to repeatedly spout the same tired line. I'm not out to score rhetorical points. I don't think HN is a place for that.

As for the historical record, we can't do anything about what has happened in the past now. We can learn to do better. I know I'm not perfect and have things I can improve, which means I'm going to have to change and as a result be inconsistent with my past actions. It's true that some people are insincere and continue to be inconsistent and fair weather civil libertarians or what-have-you, but it's also the case that sometimes it takes a serious kick to mobilize people, and once mobilized they remain so. And if those that aren't consistent happen to align with me on an issue I care about, I'm not going to turn them away if it means that a temporary alliance helps a cause I care about. I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt as long as is reasonable.
Anyone have thoughts / ideas on what people need that developers could create for times like these? ie. What are the biggest problems in today's political climate which a developer may be able to solve?
> How does one distinguish between a person acting from genuine good intentions and a person who is merely "virtue signalling"?

Not only is the determination usual just a reflection of preexisting bias in the determiner, but I think it matters less than people tend to portray, at least in pragmatic terms. Virtue signalling can do as much to reinforce the norm that those genuinely in favor of the message wish to advance as a social norm as honest advocacy.
Maybe I can explain better. There are two concerns. One is, what is ethical and right for a person to do? On this we agree. Building botnets to spam Twitter is not ethical and people shouldn't do it.

The other concern is, what should we do about it? This is where I "chastised" you, because focusing on the ethical behavior of members of the public is generally useless. If the people commenting here didn't do it, someone else would. That doesn't excuse them, but it does mean going after them isn't an effective strategy.

Imagine trying to fight email spam by shaming individual spammers. Many people have done it. It doesn't work. If those people had redirected their energy towards fixing the system, rather than the people, the spam problem could have been solved decades ago.

> The HN mods could grab the IP history of the fraudster user and pass them to twitter.

Besides setting a bad precedent for HN, this would be useless. Twitter already has access to much more information than the BBC did when they did their investigation. Twitter simply doesn't care to act on it. If it was a priority for Twitter, they would fix it, certainly not by bringing a lawsuit, but by applying a technical solution across the board.

By blaming the bad actors, you take heat off of Twitter, and encourage people to waste their efforts doing things that will never make a difference.
I think the idea is that he consistently advances in every video until he eventually builds a computer. Might take a while.
> As a King County resident, though, I want this facility nowhere near me. As long as it stays in Seattle or near SeaTac, I'm ok with it. Yes, this is NIMBYism.

At the risk of being flagged into oblivion, this is why I f-king hate the Eastside. I live and own property in Seattle (so I pay King County taxes just like the rest of you lot) and I'm sick and damn tired of Seattle being the dumping ground for whatever crappy problems Bellevue, Redmond, Shoreline, Kirkland, Sammamish, Issaquah, Duvall, and Fall City don't feel like dealing with.

This is on top of the city then getting a reputation as being "dirty" and "crime infested" so that those exact same cities in a "regional partnership" can troll bait in front of the people and businesses of Seattle to induce them to move out of the city, thus taking away the tax base to deal with those dumped problems.

I guarantee that there are heroin users near you and those people would greatly benefit from this kind of service. Oh, and there are also homeless, unemployed, and special needs people around you, too. Seattle--and SeaTac--isn't the receptacle for the entire region's problems, especially if we're going to get looked down by you lot from high atop your long noses for receiving them.
I didn't perceive it that way, but you're probably right. I shouldn't have taken the bait.
If I recall his brother, who was born in America, was there as well.
I was very impressed at the number of fringe cases it handled.

A car forcing a merge right in front of it, an armored car taking a lane and a half where it had to wait to go around (there were numerous instances of similar lane blockages that it navigated around), a pedestrian jay walking in front of it, a bus picking up passengers, a bike cutting in front of it, and car pulling out in front of it in heavy traffic.

I had no idea they could handle that many scenarios already.
What's wrong here is allowing a single person to have the ability to do this in the first place. Giving a single person power over controlling who can enter the country should raise of huge red flag, regardless of political persuasion. Those who allowed this ability to be in the president's hands are at least at equal fault for allowing this to happen.
I applaud this and very much wish to see more like this.

That's from someone who finds plenty of opportunity to criticise Google. Including presently for the company's support of the GOP, now a de-facto fascist party. Yes, I'm aware the situation's a complex one, and Google isn't a garage operation any more.

Regardless: thank you, Sergey.
The EFF probably has some things. https://github.com/EFForg/
Which is amazing since it's a problem we have been trying to solve for more than a decade. I figure we just can't solve it fast enough to keep up with browser features and bitrot.

I once built a wysiwyg editor that utilized drag and drop for dynamic page content. Native browser drag and drop is an utter mess.
Pretty much everybody does that.
I was trying to submit this to show: I may have done it wrong? It's my work, in part - led a team of ten people making this tonight.
Again, we have only the author's account for the interaction, and he sounds like he's got a big chip on his shoulder. I wouldn't be surprised if his attitude his coloring his interpretation.

Even if this particular user was being willfully ignorant, it's not been my experience with many, many other tech 'illiterate' people, who I've found by and large ask good questions and listen to explanations. I think computer-literate people really forget how much background knowledge they've absorbed over the years and how it helps them learn more.

Existing knowledge helps acquire more knowledge, and the effect compounds over time.

For example, a lot of posts here seem to be saying 'just Google it', but even knowing what terms to Google for is confusing for someone who doesn't have a knowledge base, because they don't even know what search terms to Google for, and which sources to trust.

For example, here's the first link you hit if you search 'remove viruses from computer':

http://www.pcworld.com/article/243818/security/how-to-remove...

Among other things, it recommends installing third-party AVX and random 'malware scanners'. Given how poor antivirus software is, following this advice will often slow down the computer and causes other problems down the line.

For someone who really doesn't know what they're doing, and knows that they don't know, another barrier to trying to learn is simple risk aversion. I'm hesitant to work on my own car because I know that I'm ignorant, to the point that I don't have a clear idea of what the failure modes are and the cost to me to fix them if I screw up.

Similarly, if a computer user really has no clue what they're doing and they know that they're ignorant, they might perceive the process of experimenting and learning as potentially very costly -- maybe they can lose all their files, or bork their computer for a week, etc.

There's also a second-order effect here -- some people are just not that quick at picking up new things, and they know that they're bad at it. I bet most software engineers are in the top 5% of the population in being able to teach themselves new things and learning them quickly. Unwillingness to learn a new task or fact can be rational if you have strong reasons to suspect that the cost of learning more is high.
Put a different way, it would seem the brain might make the good times something you want to repeat and make you avoid bad times.
I was hesitating saying anything, but I've noticed MANY of the anti-trump stories getting flagged aggressively. It's not uniform, and I can't quite say I've noticed a pattern, but there's enough that it's stood out a few times on articles that I thought were very tech related (bigCo employee situation legality). While it could just be people getting fed up with the political news, it doesn't really sit well with me given the relevance of recent events.
Traffic in SF is traffic that works imho. I love the nuance and judgment that drivers are forced to use. I feel safer walking/bicycling/motorcycling here than in any other city, and that speaks volumes about the city's livability. Density creates these problems, and density is good for other reasons. It's only in suburbs and rural areas that every store can have a loading zone, but then no one can walk anywhere.
> When Obama rode somewhat roughshod with them, people were okay with them.

Accuracy of the characterization aside, no they weren't.

> They didn't complain.

Yes, they did. All the time. Even sued to overturn a number of them, in some cases successfully.

> It reminds me of the dissonance in some Calexiters --the same people who mourned Brexit.
It's only good when you do it.

More accurately, people think content matters (for legislation or executive orders), not just the style of action, and context matters (for exiting a larger union).
The Indivisible Guide, written by former Congressional staffers, supports your comment but goes on to add a lot more context and tips. Highly recommended:

https://www.indivisibleguide.com/
There was no bait. I disagreed with people supporting surveillance companies on that pledge on Hacker News when it posted. I did on Lobsters citing that. I did again on Hacker News now when you brought it up with pat on back of surveillance, company supporters. I don't bait you back: merely debate with argument and evidence like when I first started doing that here. I try to avoid rhetoric and pure fights much as possible. I count those as failures to be honest.
You just don't hate those two particular geezers enough. One ran the Democratic Party into the ground (and got rewarded for it with another term as the leader of House Democrats), and another makes Emperor Palpatine look like Mother Theresa. One is 76 years old, another is 74. They should long have retired if they had any decency whatsoever. Anything that shows them where the exit door is will receive my enthusiastic support.
Yes, absolutely no idea regarding what has been the policy of the United States for several years:

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/visa-waive...

Do you think magically that no one was previously denied entry and faced irreparable harm based on this longstanding policy of the previous administration and passed into law by Congress?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1187

You will have to state specifically which "international and amnesty laws" you think the US has been violating for the past several years if you wish for me to comment.
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For vortex breathing (in 3, out 5, no pause between either phase), listen to "Breathe (in the air)" by Pink Floyd.
And other people's money too.
Over the years, they've also had source code in Fortran 77, Fortran 90, C, Pascal, BASIC, Lisp, and Modula 2. More history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes
It doesn't require much abstract thinking to see how legislators (and chief executives) could craft policy to guarantee their reelection. Places without term limits are good examples of how policy can ensure reelection.

Whether or not one agrees with it, the concept, at least, of term limits, isn't wholly without merit. It may be feckless, it may be antithetical to the direct democracy many Americans inaccurately assume they live in, but it isn't inherently just some partisan, feel-good policy.

This particular implementation of the concept may be, but that's a separate conversation.
What I'd liks to see with level 4 is millions of miles driven by a car with a SOFT outer shell. That way collisions don't hurt other cars or even pedestrians. Make the car's top entirely out of foam or something, when driving without a driver.
Please don't post empty insults. If someone else's comment is wrong, please explain why, so we all learn. Alternatively, just flag and/or downvote and move on.
But arent there two types of yoga? The spiritual one (yoga) and the 'fitness' one (hatha yoga)?
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Look, shit in someone else's yard, I don't care.

Shit in my yard, I care a lot about that. There is nothing hypocritical about expecting your country to look out for your interests, while other countries can look out for the interests of their own citizens and residents.

This is nothing about "party". Bush would have never done this, neither would McCain and Romney have been so stupid if they were elected. No, this transcends republican and democrat to a new level of damaging politics unseen since the 1930s.