skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Should you undertake political violence in response to the age of Trump? I don’t know; what political violence, by whom, against which targets, towards what end, as part of what larger strategic campaign? If you don’t have answers to those questions then the debate is useless. Should you undertake direct action? I don’t know; what direct action, by whom, in what sites, towards what end, as part of what larger political campaign? Should you get involved in partisan politics? I don’t know; what campaigns, for what party, towards what specific political goal, as part of what larger vision of building an effective mass movement? Should you call your members of Congress? Same deal.

No more dorm room debates. No more abstraction. What is going to actually work to build a better world, right now, under these real-world conditions? What’s your plan to make real, substantive, large-scale progress? That’s the question you’re confronted with. If you can’t tie a particular act to a plausible vision of how to make real progress in the real world, then you’re wasting your time."

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/01/25/make-every-question-a-st...

If the Democrats and liberally minded people want to affect true political change, then this kind of discourse needs to take hold within discussions like these. There's far too much emoting and virtue signaling going on that builds up tribal unity at the expense of alienating all others that do not go along with it.

Like it or not, a significant portion of the country is deeply afraid of Islamic terrorism. They are not assuaged by the methodology of the past 8 years. What alternative solution can the left offer that calms their fears while holding true to core ideology of the movement? Calling these people racist may energize your base and serve as catharsis, but is going to shrink the potential voting base more and more.

It deeply saddens me to see how much invective is being thrown around on a community that I prize for being able to discuss technical issues at great depth.
Just be careful when using hyperventilation for diving. You can drown. Might pass out before you feel the urge to breathe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout

That said, it's hella effective. Used it a lot as a kid snorkeling in the Mediterranean. Only swallowed water a few times.
I'm (YC S11) not blindly anti-Trump (I support the sitting President whoever he is, but while I voted Johnson, I don't think Trump was the worst choice of the 4 top choices), and I think some of what he's trying to do is positive. I support Keystone XL and other pipelines. I think out of 2000 founders there are probably >50 but <250 who support Trump as much as I do.

On the immigration issue: I'm in favor of immigration reform. I disagree with the current EO because it doesn't include Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and because it doesn't exempt Special Immigrant Visas (which should have been super fast tracked), and because it seems punitive vs. corrective. If the reasoning behind it is an actual improvement in the screening process, and re-examination of all past visas under that basis, then there's probably a way to do it which is less disruptive to the >99% of visa holders who are not terrorists.

(The immigration reforms I'd like to see are both improving the experience for "good" people, and more effective screening of "bad" people, though superior technology and procedures. I'm hugely in favor of deporting/banning actual criminals who are in the US and not citizens; tracking visa expiration better; physically securing borders to prevent access without valid authorization. I'd like the borders to be far more deterministic for valid visa holders, friendlier, and for the immigrant or visitor experience, starting from the websites and how we treat people in foreign embassies, to be better. That might require more funding for State/USCIS, and definitely requires better tech. In general I think the test at the border should be "will this person make the US a better place." We have a human rights need to provide emergency refuge to refugees, but that doesn't necessarily mean immigration, and could in Syria be most efficiently accomplished by funding camps in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq.)

(The trade war is dumb; if the wall is going to cost $15b, we should just pay for it.)

Reporting "will give priority to Christians" is a mischaracterization of: "> (b) Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality."
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Ask HN: Too many ideas to work on. How do I discern which one to choose?
I simply have too many ideas. I can perhaps narrow them down to 5. How can I choose the winner?

I don't think it's a good idea to work on more than one project, but that's just me.
If there are any political activities or policies that affect tech community or companies, does that fit in here on HN?

Example: Many employees of tech companies are affected by Trump's immigration ban, and tech companies are recalling their employees as a result.

Example 2: Protests at Uber's office, and tensions among it's team due to CEO's relationship with Trump.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505474

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13507737
& through https://github.com/shinh/elvm here's a lisp implementation: http://shinh.skr.jp/elvm/lisp.png

Good tut: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~diddesen/piet/index.html
?? My 2011 17" MBP, which I still use all the time, has no problem at all with Sierra. I think you're quite mistaken. Battery runtime is actually better than it used to be.
You can turn on airdrop to advertise over a wired network connection and then that will go away mostly if your on the same network.
I suck at slogans, but...

"You like this service? Our founder came to the US in 19XX"

"You enjoy this website? Here's a list of 2nd generation immigrants on our executive board"

...might get people to realise how much of the US economy is driven by 1st & 2nd generation immigrants.
Could open up a new area of art, depending on how complex these crystals can get.
Some of the things you mention seem somewhat exaggerated. Your expectations and apparent level of entitlement are a bit surprising.

I wouldn't have said this if the offer level was, say $10k or $20k. But $30k seems pretty good even if you have decided that you require the ability to buy a house (not everybody has that privilege; you should feel lucky, and not take it for granted).

It is an offer. It gives you and your family certain benefits. You may also have certain costs. Those are your business. Just deal with them, or not.

You can take it or leave it. If coming to California is worth it for you and your family, take the offer. If not, don't. Not every opportunity in life is cost-free for you. For some of them, you have to step up and pay some of your own contribution.

That being said, your concerns are all valid. These are all things you need to consider, and it's good you're thinking it through. Maybe you can present them to your prospective employer as inputs to your decision. Just don't give them the feeling that you have a very entitled attitude, although you seem to, because that could backfire either with a withdrawn offer, or feelings of rancor later.
A little on the low side given all you have to do with it. Made a 'similar' move about 2 years ago from Canada, in the end, with about the same amount spent, we found that it ended up being a loss of about $10k. Can provide more details if you like, send me an email.

One key recommendation that no one seems to have noted here, don't sell your house or belongings yet or buy new stuff. The comment about the role not working out and then having to figure out what's next from x0x0 is coming from someone who knows what they are talking about. Give yourself at least 6 months to understand if the job will work out before buying at your new location. This is especially true given that you will be on a visa. With the job gone, you will have 3 months max to unwind and leave the US.
I bet the people who write this language has no concept of "time" in the way they perceive the world, therefore able to time travel freely.
(2016), please. Article makes references to Obama making recent executive orders.
For most of the hackintosh ports onto the NUC or NUC-style hardware, the onboard Bluetooth/WiFi is usually not supported because there are no OS X drivers for the integrated chipset used. This is kind of a deal-breaker for me. The process of applying new OS revisions is also painful. I guess the hackintosh process is pretty straightforward on certain models of full-size motherboards, but I haven't seen a fully functioning SFF impementation. If there was one, I would get such a box.
Yes, I absolutely do think that some kind of car-to-car communication is required for these situations.

It's not an impossible problem to solve, but I have not heard of any efforts to create a car-to-car or car-to-road communications protocol and infrastructure that would be cross-manufacturer and/or internationally approved.

In my opinion, before such a mechanism exists, autonomous cars will only work as long as the majority of cars are driven by humans. I will change my opinion when I see a demonstration of a city (or city-like test site) traffic where all or the majority of cars are autonomous.
I wonder how much your opinions would be widened if you learned about the extent of terrorism during the troubles in Northern Ireland[1], and how that conflict was ended[2].

In many ways the Good Friday Agreement is incomprehensible to people outside Northern Ireland. How could they forgive the other side for what they did? Release prisoners that were know to be paramilitary murderers?

The cries of Trump supporters are not the cries of victims of terrorist violence. They are the cries of people who have never seen terrorism in their lives, never mind the kind of repeated and sustained terrorist attacks that threaten the entire fabric of a country.

If you want to respect the victims of terrorist attacks then you should let them speak for themselves and don't assume to know what their response would be.

You say there are bigger things, but it's peace and compassion that is the biggest thing of all. Tit for tat violence isn't something we should aim for, it's something we should aim to rise above.

[1] the graph here should put it into context: https://www.statista.com/chart/4093/people-killed-by-terrori... much all the UK deaths on that graph are related to Northern Ireland, with the exception of Lockerbie in 88 and London in 05.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement
So no, Trump didn't get elected because people desperate for a job were willing to overlook his hate.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/e...

Check out the swings in the race section. If there hadn't been a massive swing towards him from blacks and hispanics, he might not have won.
A statistic that someone else saw does seem like the kind of rationale that Trump uses.
In Erlang, the pureness allows a clean split between processes and enables that clustering and hot loading magic. While it's less efficient for a single operation, it scales to handle many parallel operations way better. This is generally why pure functional is hyped.

It's just easier to think of a pure functional construct, there's less possibility for mistake.

No one claims it to be efficient at single operations. Though some people blame the hardware for that, as in theory, there's nothing slower about it.
my first adventure in programming was changing a snake program to use different ascii characters. then that got boring so i taught myself a little bit of basic so i could make it put random letters on the screen so i could move the snake around and eat letters to spell out bad words in the snake.
> can leave any time you want?

Leave one master to serve another master.

> Pull your head out of your arse and grow up

This is the worst thing about modern slavery. People are not even aware of it. Wake up.
...or taking methamphetamines?
Also one of the threads in the latest Adam Curtis film [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
Oh, I certainly agree that coding standards are important. Consistency of coding style makes a codebase substantially more approachable. I'm just interested in making that as automated as possible: https://blog.scottnonnenberg.com/eslint-part-3-analysis/
it's possible and not even bad. Just live in a long stay hotel for a month or two until you find a house. Pay 3-5 k to have all your stuff packed up from old house and dropped at new house. Pay realtor to sell old house.

Simple, it could all be arranged within days.
Show HN: Penny Pincher – budgeting app for Mac, with a focus on simplicity
You are completely incorrect. Empirically, the country voted with a nearly 50/50 split between the two candidates, meaning the country felt both candidates were "just as bad". Just because you have your own personal biases doesn't actually make them right, the data does.
That's just with drones, and I'd say it's a very conservative number. He also funded and armed "moderate opposition" in Syria, al quaeda associted groups (Jabhat al-Nusra and others) there, and helped topple several governments. This displaced millions and killed hundreds of thousands.

Here's Hillary laughing about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
Jefferson's representation in US Congress would be ceremonial at best. Their population is too small. They are much more likely to get concessions from the state than the dysfunctional federal government.
> This is the definition of autonomy levels from SAE

It's still domain dependent, right? If the rules say we're flattening precipitation and visibility within normal bounds, fine, but sometimes you have abnormal weather and badly-maintained roads. It is useful to compare hypothetical cars that autonomously navigate conditions no humans would dare.

EDIT: Never mind. The point of "Level 4" is it is competent in all reasonable operating domains.
Why does it even matter? Nobody is letting Bill Clinton run the country.
Will this code not cause issues? I know that you aren't modifying args or kwargs, in the _run method, but it just seems like a potential point of failure or a python anti-pattern

def _run(self, func=None, args=(), kwargs={})
For my personal blog I (mostly) don't collect feedback before I hit the publish button but I correct the blog post according to the feedback I get afterward.
Clinton paid $850,000 without admitting liability to make a lawsuit go away. Jones' lawsuit was bankrolled by Republicans.

Equivocating what Trump bragged about with what Clinton was only accused of is a sad argument.
Can you expand on why donating to state offices is more effective? And, which states?
> How is me saying "fuck people who voted for bigotry because it won't affect them" a "flavor" of bigotry?

Because you are indiscriminately labelling all Trump voters as racists.

> Are you saying that white Americans would had been okay with Obama campaigning on harsher policing for white people and their kids because he also spoke about lowering taxes or giving everyone access to healthcare?

I do believe many white Americans would still have voted for him, if they felt the alternative was worse or felt like harsher policing was a small price to pay for universal healthcare.

> You people keep coddling these bigots or bigot-ajecent people and telling us, the people most affected, to treat them with kid gloves.

In my defense, I'll probably be more affected than you (e.g. I stand to lose my visa if Trump does re-negotiate NAFTA like he said he would). I'm also what you might call an anti-nationalist and am generally in favor of free movement across borders. Still, I can see valid, non-racist, reasons people might have voted for him.

Finally, I'm not trying to coddle people who voted for Trump. I don't want you to show them good will or have sympathy for them. I just want you to be more rational about this because I'm tired of seeing Americans talk past each other. People who voted for Trump did so for a variety of reasons and while you might not convince the racists amongst them, you might still have a chance of gaining support from the rest (if you stop insulting them).
There's a pretty strong tension between creating a great product and creating a product that encourages learning.

Great products we love make it so that we need to learn as little as possible to be successful (intuitive = didn't need to learn). Windows just works, macOS just works, and Linux gets closer every day.

The author recommends switching to Linux, but I think he underestimates the Linux dev community. They're taking their sweet time, but they will eventually get to 'just works', and students raised on Ubuntu will be just as alienated from the command line as Windows users are.

I would never have learned so much or gotten any sort of limited understanding of computers if Windows 98 just worked. That is scary because we've been in 'just works' territory across the board for years.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but asking people to fix their own problems is probably a good first step.
I wonder if a catalyst converter would help.
I got about 4K + VISA fees to move from Brazil to the US. It seemed fair and enough. We sold everything back there and started fresh here with way less things and a lower lifestyle, but it was still worth it.

Everytime I hear about similar subjects and people talking about business expenses I'm always spooked by how much business money people spend. When it comes to other people's money (company in this case) it seems that one doesn't care like it was theirs.
Hey HK2! Sorry for the delay.

1/ On pricing, get in touch for volume-based pricing: https://stripe.com/contact/sales

2/ On creditor identifiers: having your own creditor identifier makes your business more visible to customers on their bank statement, and can reduce the risk of chargebacks which are inherent to SEPA Direct Debit. True, you need to get one—possibly something we hope to help with in the future—but banks cannot force you to process SEPA debits with them. It is their duty to provide one to you. If you're not a business, there can be reasons to proceed with caution on SEPA Direct Debit, not least of which is the risk of chargebacks. I'd love to hear more about your case to see how Stripe can improve: my company email is just gabriel@.
It's theoretically possible but would require a lot of oversight and community-driven moderation.

Hmm... meta-moderation is an excellent advent of the slashdots.
Ever since I missed Chuck Moore's talk at Strange Loop a few years ago, I've been wanting to watch it. By all accounts it's quite good.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip

Glad this piece popped up, time to finally watch it.
>Why would rent be included, by the way?

Because it's a _package_ that includes multiple benefits and not just a single reimbursement of a "moving van receipt and that's all you get."

A good relocation package from a major corporation will include many expenses besides the cost of the moving van.

This was my relocation package:

+ airfare for 2 trips for house hunting

+ lease cancelling fees (which was about $1800 since I broke my lease 3 months early to take the new job)

+ professional packers to come in a box everything up (this is very helpful as you don't have to lift a finger. E.g. They will take all dishes from the cupboards and silverware from the drawers, wrap everything in paper, and box everything up with a label.)

+ the car was also packed into a truck and shipped

+ the moving truck itself

+ professional crew to unpack everything at the destination

+ all hotels and meals while traveling during the move

+ repairs to furniture if anything was broken

That was my package for an engineer. The relocation package for managers such as directors got a few more things... like 3 trips for house hunting instead of 2 and the purchase of the old home if the real estate agent couldn't sell it in time, etc. If it's CxO level executives (CEO, senior vice presidents, etc), the relocation package will often be negotiated on a case-by-case basis to include more reimbursements.

The total came out to about $26k. In a quirk of USA tax law, relocation expenses are counted as additional income but the company was generous to "gross up" extra income on top of the relocation reimbursement to cover the extra tax payment. The amount of money spent on employee relocation may seem excessive but the rationale is that they want the new employee to be immediately productive on the new job instead him wasting time and worrying about how to round up uncles and siblings to help pack and move. Therefore, you provide as much of a "white glove" moving experience as reasonably possible.

That was my relocation experience in 1998. It would be interesting if a relocated employee from Google/Facebook/etc can talk about what today's packages from Silicon Valley companies look like.
Ask HN: cmdchallenge – remove files without extension
Just stumbled upon cmdchallenge. Been stuck at remove files without extension but I'm wondering how I could improve my solution:

find . -type f ! \( -name ".exe" -or -name ".txt" \) -delete

Is there a better way to solve it?
Tech companies standing up is slightly hypocritical when they themselves do not act or make socially just decisions e.g paying less tax than they should be
I agree with the post but tech companies also need to claen up their own backyard before they can be a voice for good rather than just a voice for themselves
Great comparison. I'd love to see this expands to more languages.

A quick question, you talk about Elixir yet mention Erlang a lot. Is the choice of Elixir over Erlang purely syntactic preferences? Or is Elixir just an all around win above Erlang?
If I had to rationalize their stand it's to signal to potential foreign startups that YC is taking a stand on their behalf --YC relies on a lot of foreign talent to drive their portfolio, so it stands to measure that they would have concern about any potential impact on their business model.

If they were concerned about poor immigrants, the ones without anything beyond basic elementary education, they'd be taking a stand against Japanese policies, Singaporean policies, Korean policies, Brazilian policies, etc. (given they project internationally). Of course they'll say they are an American company so they can only affect American policies -well, but obviously they care more than just for Americans given their display of concern, so it should not be a reason not to express concern abroad as well but they don't because it does not impact how potential foreign talent view them (i.e. the poor Indonesian trying to get a visa to work in Japan, Taiwan or China, is little concern of theirs.)
Try counting to 2 instead. You may have to work up to it. Definitely don't strain yourself or you may get the opposite effect.
Because the buy a shitload amount of weapons from the US.
I'm personally affected because my extended family is terrified of what could happen next. They do a lot of business in SE Asia, and can't afford to be locked out of the country indefinitely. We are all in it together, because we're a family, so yes, I'm personally affected.