skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, remember this happening and being reported, maybe the NYTimes.

I'm having trouble finding dates for some of these cases and none seem to have happened while GWB was POTUS. But here are a few links involving US citizens whose ability to travel into and out of the US were curtailed. None of the following links are the case I remember, which involved an American who was a father (from NY?) and who had been stranded from his family in the US.

• U.S. Veterans Stranded Overseas|Challenge No-Fly ‘Terror’ List [0]
• ACLU challenges constitutionality of no-fly list [1]
• No-fly list grounds another San Diegan [2]
• How a Young American Escaped the No-Fly List [3]

[0] http://courthousenews.com/u-s-veterans-stranded-overseaschal...

[1] https://www.publicintegrity.org/2010/06/30/2631/aclu-challen...

[2] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sdut-no-fl...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/how-a-young-american-esc...

EDIT: formatting
Lol your post doesn't even make sense. According to your own logic, he's fighting local government laws, ie. breaking laws, and now he's fighting an executive order that he disagrees with, so that makes him a... hypocrite? I think you don't quite understand what that word means.
> If you are experiencing a problem of the nature of one of the first two in that list (does not compile or has a run-time exception), then somewhere, you’ve got an error message or an exception, and probably even a line number.

Thing is, in this particular project I'm in - most of the time - you don't.

Since our project is an in-browser text editor most of our bugs occur because the browser did something unexpected, like suddenly changed the selection, or inserted an element somewhere. In situations like these you usually don't get an error message or anything - just weird behaviour.

Normally our users report this by writing that pressing a button or using a shortcut "does nothing" - and that's fine.

When you're dealing with leaky abstractions on a day-to-day basis you sort of have to get used to bug descriptions like these.
>Even if you feel that you're just calling a spade a spade, you're just providing others with ammunition to dismiss you and anything you say as just an angry, unreasonable rant.

I think the problem here is that I genuinely feel I'm calling a spade a spade. Trump himself is probably not ideological enough to be a devoted neo-Nazi. Stephen Bannon, on the other hand, makes Republicans allude to fascism[1].

>“The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office,” said John Weaver, a Republican strategist who ran the presidential campaign of Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and previously advised Senator John McCain of Arizona. “Be very vigilant, America.”[2]

[1] -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/14/steve-bannon-who-...

[2] -- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/donald-trump-...
>Shame on you HN.

Yeah shame on people for having a different opinion then yours.
"You: Eduardo, do you think that this is like regular data, but sparkly?
You: I don't feel particularly sparkly. "

Ok, maybe mean wasn't a good word choice. I just assumed you were kinda mad, and with reason to be, my point is being nice to people usually works better than demanding what's "right". It's their job to drive you into surrender, they're trained to do it, unless you overcome the medium abstraction and gain some empathy, you won't get anything.
I also read the book, and think everyone should -- it seems like everyone has a different takeaway from the book, it really is a fascinating read.

* As others have said, Rockefeller was very frugal. His son, John Jr., wore his sisters dresses because they didn't want to waste money on new clothes. Seriously.

* Rockefeller Jr tried to run the family business for a while, but decided it wasn't for him. He was a primary contributor (ie, bought and gave land away) for Acadia, Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Teton, Yosemite and Shenandoah National Parks.
What does ignorance of the law have to do with this? It's a brand new executive order. It's not something that they could have known about in advance.
Searching for 'Racist' gives you a better picture of the situation with 40 hits and most comments in bad faith.

The nazi thing is to the most extreme. Do people really believe trump supporters are warming their ovens? Israel is great supporter of Trump. Donald's daughter is a jewish as is grandkids for example.

Thanks for the good faith.
I'm all against this immigration ban, but where were the tears and protests when the previous administrations targeted the same places killing thousands?
> ("we pretend Taiwan belong to you, and you give us moar iPhones")

That's pretty much the way it was. Except for it being a lot more than just iPhones.

> I think Ukraine was about more than saving face for Russia, too - Russia has always wanted the Krim for strategical reasons?

The Krim is extremely important from a military perspective to Russia, their response was - again - extremely predictable (in fact, I'm surprised they didn't simply call the EU's bluff and invaded outright but then again, appearances matter even to the Kremlin).

See also: Kaliningrad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad
Nope, and there's http://nohello.com to point people in the right direction.
Pigeons and human have a pact. You continue and they will fly away in the last second. Cars don't need to stop for pigeons.
https://youtu.be/xPCZtrac-Ss
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> 2) He financed the founding of University of Chicago one of the most respected universities worldwide.

Not to mention that when he founded it, he didn't actually believe in modern medicine. His father was essentially a snakeoil salesman, and some beliefs were imprinted in Rockefeller. But he believed in the pragmatic approach to medicine. I think later in life he eventually decided modern medicine was superior.
Who hated whom? Here are some pertinent quotes from Iran's Supreme Leader[0] (repeating "Death to America!" less than 2 years ago) and President[1]:

[0] http://www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-calls-death-to-america...

[1] "Saying 'Death to America' is easy. We need to express 'Death to America' with action. Saying it is easy."

"The beautiful cry of 'Death to America' unites our nation."

(Wikiquote)
In Australia if it's telecommunications related, raise a complaint to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).

For anything else raise a complaint to
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Isn't Trump a wildcard? It was pretty hard to predict his electoral victory at any point before he actually won.
I wonder if this can also explain the variable success of different societies and cultures. Perhaps societies in environments of greater disequilibrium will "evolve" cultures that most efficiently model their environments and thus are most efficient at dissipating energy and hence increasing the external global entropy.
Age discrimination is hardcore in tech! Especially programming. I get it, when I was 23 and people told me they were 40 I was like, "damn that's my mom's age. This guy is old." I was really stupid.
I installed two carbon monoxide detectors at my mother's house over the holidays and really we all should, it's not a big cost. This is very sad for their friends and family but most of all for the poor couple. I think it's selfish but rather human to say that when something like this happens to 'people like us', in this case referring to background, interests, and hobbies it can feel extra shocking and upsetting.
Like I said, it doesn't matter if it's justified or not. All that matters is whether you're able to appear as a legitimate voice. I'd love for everything to come down to rational facts and discourse. That's just not how human psychology works in the even the best of circumstances. And when people are actively choosing to act in bad faith, you need to take that into account even more so.
The facts being some polls? Because those don't lie, right?
What do you mean "America is full?" Our population density is 182 of ~250 on a global scale. We have more space, money, and food per person than almost every other country on the planet.
Everything about this act, including the fact that the countries chosen don't actually represent active sources of terrorism and seemingly avoid harming Trump's business interests, are exactly in line with how he presented himself during his campaign.
Water Protectors Ready to Resist the 'Tail End of DAPL' at Louisiana
> only now read the BBC link. That's even more ridiculous than "The Russians did it". Now it is Macedonian teenagers who rigged the US election? Come on...

No, but it's but a small wheel in the much larger machine. There has been plenty of reporting on the Russian propaganda machine, if you're going to reject each and every component out of hand then you'll end up rejecting the conclusion as well but that would be a step too far.

See, for this to succeed a number of things have to happen:

- reliable sources of news need to be discredited

- a large amount of flak needs to be generated so people are discussing that rather than the real news

- a consistent barrage of the 'right' talking points needs to be presented so people start repeating those things as though they are real

All of those components are well represented, I would be highly surprised if all this would amount to coincidence.
The h1b cap is crazy, unfortunately. If he has a phd he could have gone through eb1 route, but i am not an expert on that.

That said, it looks like it's past now. Good luck to your friend.
Trump bans Canadian dual citizens from 7 Muslim-majority countries from U.S
The progress bar gem looks pretty nice. I've been using the similar https://github.com/toy/progress for a long time and it's super useful.

One thing I prefer about progress is that the default config includes an ETA, which is generally the thing I care most about. It's interface is also a little nicer. It's really nice to have an estimate on when a script might complete, so I know if I have to optimize it or if I can just leave it running for a while.
I think the bigger problem here is employers requiring 4-year Computer Science degrees when they don't actually want computer scientists, they want software engineers.

Thus the Computer Science zeitgeist as a whole becomes this unholy combination of academic things relevant to computer science and practical things relevant to software engineering, instead of actually focusing on computer science and having a separate 2-year program for software engineers.
How are these polls unlike all the other polls that e.g. predicted Trump will lose by a large margin?

Most polls are quite vague approximations, when they aren't just lying with statistics. And you can easily frame them in all kinds of ways by how one asks the questions and how they present an issue.
Not to defend anything that's currently going on, but you have to consider the possibility of a dispute at the border over whether someone is a citizen or not.

Honestly, this is why I don't complain very much about biometrics and databases, because the realistic alternative (potentially being detained at the border while they try to guess whether your passport is forged/altered/stolen) is much worse.
https://www.eff.org/HTTPS-EVERYWHERE is an absolute must-have browser extension for this.
Hadoop Is Dead. Dataflow Is Alive
Taking inspiration from this, my friends and I made a programming language where each program is chess games: https://github.com/VitamintK/Passant
"Post-privacy"; a little dramatic don't you think?

> The concept of universal individual privacy is a modern construct primarily associated with Western culture, British and North American in particular, and remained virtually unknown in some cultures until recent times. According to some researchers, this concept sets Anglo-American culture apart even from Western European cultures such as French or Italian. Most cultures, however, recognize the ability of individuals to withhold certain parts of their personal information from wider society—closing the door to one's home, for example.

> The distinction or overlap between secrecy and privacy is ontologically subtle, which is why the word "privacy" is an example of an untranslatable lexeme, and many languages do not have a specific word for "privacy".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
There's modern precedent for the President's sending in Federal troops as part of law enforcement activities [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0925.h...
Some countries do not allow renunciation of their passports.
> everything evolves by a process akin to natural selection. Nature acquires an ever growing bag of tricks that are being constantly refined. In effect, there is an overarching process of trial and error. This is truly general, but with a major trade-off: it is expensive. Our biology evolved but it took all of the Earth ecosystem millions of years to produce homo sapiens. Our technology evolves, but it takes all of the power of human civilization to keep it going.

This is glossing over the robust modular meta-systems that life and technology have both developed to preferentially express a broad range of potentially useful variations.

This makes evolution of life and tech ever more efficient over time, as it becomes much less likely that any particular random change will produce a non-viable result.

You might say that the mechanisms of evolution have themselves evolved to become less expensive.

This isn't about anything as straightforward as error-correction, but really about increasing the systems' generativity.

Example: a mutation may result in longer legs. This does not require separate mutations for each affected limb, nor does it require separate matching mutations to adjust the musculature, ligaments, circulatory system, skin, nerves, etc. in tandem, because all of those systems are adaptive within the context of the individual organism.
+1 to that guy, even if it is a PR move
Where is this story about Uber mistreating its drivers coming from? Uber has been successful in attracting drivers because it is paying above-market rates. It is losing billions of dollars by subsidizing drivers and riders. Will all those people criticizing Uber be happy when it shuts down?
In 1914 the world was a powderkeg and Franz Ferdinand's murder was the spark that lit the fuse.

> Had there been a couple decent diplomats left in Europe the war could have been avoided.

Cf Trumps twitter feed.
Actually what that does is create encrypted storage signed with a password of your choosing on a server of your choosing (can be your own).
I agree. It was for a research project. I would be happy to pay the $145 plus interest if Google would like to bill me.
Finally a voice of reason.
> Would it bet better for everyone to have a safe, controlled dependency on heroin, or for 5% of people to have an unsafe, uncontrolled dependency on heroin?

For an answer, you can just look at alcohol, which is typically assessed as having roughly similar social harm to heroin (although it varies by source). Were things better during prohibition, or today?
Ostrich behavior at its finest, though I understand what drives it.
Ask HN: Are you going to cancel travel plans into the US?
I was thinking of going to US Pycon. My company here in Montréal has already bought my ticket. However, I'm Mexican, one of the currently targetted people, and it fills me with trepidation to try to visit the US at this time. I may also need to buy a new visitor visa. The US has demonstrated that it will unilaterally revoke permission to go or be there.

I also feel like I'm morally obligated to make some kind of stand about not visiting the US right now, even if everything goes OK for me.

What do you think? Are you going to the US?
نتيجة الشهادة الاعدادية
> What do you do when you encounter something like this?

I write a letter on paper and send it by mail to their complaints department.
"I cheat my boys every time I get a chance. I want to make 'em sharp. I trade with the boys and skin 'em. I just beat 'em every chance I get." -- John D Rockefeller

I wonder how that worked out...
‘We're Taking Names’ of Those Who Fail to Support US, Trump’s New UN Envoy Warns
I'm an American citizen and a very senior software engineer. I'm also a white male. Immigration restrictions will raise my wages. These measures also infuriate those who regularly denounce my race and gender in the name of fake "diversity". Why shouldn't I be in favor of this program? Of course, in public, I'll denounce Trump, but in private, I'll root for expanding bans and reducing the H1-B supply.

While I'm sure that corporate executives feel a certain personal level of frustration with this administration, I suspect that the prospect of rising labor costs also prompt a certain shrill activism.

My stance is indeed cynical. I'm an unabashed cynic. Cynicism doesn't make me wrong. While it's true that many people in the valley are foreign-born and that wages are high, wages are still far below the value each worker produces. Take a major tech company. Divide its annual profit by the number of people it employs. The difference between that number and the money you're paid is the value of your work that you've failed to capture.
It's not particularly trivial to become a citizen of the UK. It involves living in the country for years and passing a test. This is in line with most other countries.
> having a separate 2-year program for software engineers.

Software engineering isn't so simple as to only have 2 years of course material. There's actually a lifetime of lessons to be learned but I think settling for a four year degree is a happy medium.
Those polls were broadly accurate, as has been heavily reported. In particular, the outcome tracked the national polls, and upsets were targeted and involved very narrow margins.

But, of course, none of your comment answers the questions I posed. I'm less interested in litigating abstractions and more in the specifics. Care to take a whack at addressing them?
Did he win straight and fair? According to Trump there was massive voting fraud. If massive fraud against him is possible, as he asserts, then massive fraud in his favor is also possible. Perhaps we should run the election again, just to make sure.
Author here -- thanks for the comment! I also would agree that GPA isn't necessarily the right metric here. The reason I chose all these factors to compare to grades is because I feel that's the stereotype those in academia (students and professors alike) have, that somehow a lot of sleeping and no fun and studying a lot leads to good grades. I was curious whether that was true.

Even though there's a huge negative correlation between activities and grades in my data, doesn't mean that I would sacrifice the time I spent on activities just so that I could get the "better grade". My jobs and student orgs made my experience, and I would still spend time on it again even if my grades suffer.

That sounds like a really good project! Would love to compare notes and read about your results if you make it public somewhere!
Where? And where do you get good political discussion?
In other words, the individuals I met are human beings, but in large numbers they are merely a statistic, and I'm OK with Muslims dying because my (questionable) economic analysis says they are a net negative for the bottom line of the United States.
The biggest issue with illegal immigration is that is does not benefit the United States. A country is not a charity.

The US would be far better off allowing the same number of people in but only those highly educated or those with a lot of money or status. It sounds mean but job of the US govt is not to rescue poor people in third world countries, it's to benefit it's citizens.

Imagine if instead of 6-8 million illegal immigrants with largely low educations, limited English skills and earning potential, no money, and no status we let in 6 million CEO's, scientists, politicians, and billionaires. It's hard to argue that the current situation is in any way "better"
Cop Stops Innocent Woman for Walking, Demands to See Her 'Papers'
Not really. I would be surprised if any currently available drones could fly into a hurricane and maintain control for long enough to send back useful data.
Takes a certain type of arrogance to play the high card with the track record and reputation that he has. He has zero credibility when it comes to standing up for what is right.
> The same goes for "Hello -- Are you there?", "Hi Bob -- quick question.", "Do you have a sec ?", "yt?" and "ping". Just ask the question!

Actually, I'd prefer that coworkers don't start blowing up my phone/PC with chat alert beeps for an extended question until they've confirmed that I'm not in a meeting/trying to concentrate/etc.
Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis
Shameless plug: I wrote a progress bar gem awhile back for that exact use-case: I wanted it to be as simple as possible to use, and show me an ETA for completion. Maybe you'll find this one useful, too.

https://github.com/paul/progress_bar
I think a lot of people are kind of surprised, for better or worse.
Yes, if a Democratic President was doing this, the din from the other camp would be very load. Not a beep from Chuck Schumer or Nancy Peloci?
Second this, I call my reps offices but get a "this mailbox is full" message.
The GG... can dissolve government

Can the Regent no longer do this in the U.K.?

Basically, the Queen maintains her power

But you implied just earlier that she has no power.
This drives me crazy. I've worked with people that describe fully working, well designed systems as "brittle" or "broken" or "don't ever use that" because they found one edge case or bug in them. And they don't elaborate, so when they sound so confident it discourages more junior engineers from using those systems so they build their own which results in them building actually brittle, broken systems.

For a couple I've had to learn to blatantly ignore their recommendations. It's is a real shame because if they've found bugs or edge cases then they probably actually do have experience with it. If it were possible to get more than "it sucks", they'd actually be great sources of experience and information but instead their wolf-crying has relegated them to just being noise.
The TSA already does passenger screening on international airports before you board a flight to the US. They interview you in your local language to find out if you are a security risk. I think in combination with the required transfer of all passenger data before departure, it makes it easy to implement this rather quickly.
This idea that you're too busy blaming people for being racist to spend time listening to them is honestly frightening.

When I call people out for being racist I assure it is not for want of having listened to them first. I'm absolutely in favor of listening to people, but there are also times when you need to firmly declare your opposition to their ideas and your intent to obstruct them.

Not all ideologies are morally equivalent, and I am opposed to any ideology that seeks to limit or reduce the rights of individual people in order to promote compliance with some abstract moral standard as opposed to some utilitarian one where you can demonstrate a harm exceeding a putative benefit.
Former Techie Peter Sullivan Thinks Electronic Devices Are Dangerous
In his Facebook post, he does not once criticize Trump's Muslim immigration ban. The post has the title "Standing up for what's right" -- but there is not a word in it about what is wrong. It is as if he is afraid of calling Racism for what it is because then he might lose his seat on "President Trump's economic advisory group."