skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the transition from magstripe to chip-and-sign hasn't been so smooth (confusion among customers and cashiers for a few months), I can see why we haven't moved towards it yet. Merchants would be more nervous about additional lost sales because of customers not knowing what to do or not being used to having to memorize PINs for their credit cards.

PINs really only just deter someone from physically stealing your card and then using it, so until card theft becomes a problem, I don't think we're going to be moving to chip-and-PIN any time soon.

(On the bright side, Android/Apple Pay are generally good enough to function as chip-and-pin: it's as secure as a chip card, and don't allow thieves to use your cards unless they're either sophisticated enough to get past the fingerprint sensor, or they know your passcode. It's just a bit awkward to set up.)
How this effects [sic] this country's current reputation as a place to study, travel, find work, and start families + settle down can't be understated.

That's the intention. The USA is more than a convenient incubator for foreigners. It's a nation responsible for its own future. Quite a lot of Americans don't want foreigners to make plans expecting that the USA will just always be there to fulfill their whims.

A little unpredictability goes a long way in changing your national reputation as an easily exploited doormat.
>That story mentions Bishops and priests who are very likely to not be Syrian Citizens, and instead be capable of just flying back to their home countries.

I'm by no means saying that every Christian will be more capable of leaving, or not be a citizen. But if 30% of Christians are citizens elsewhere, and only 3% of Muslims, then you have 70% of 10% of the poopulation as potential Christian refugees, and 97% of 90% of the population as Muslim refugees, which would make 7.4% of asylum seekers Christian, as opposed to 10% of the population.
Sure. But it doesn't mean we condemn all Germans. Other threads in here are basically suggesting we confront every German we see about Hitler's atrocities. What will that accomplish?

edit: a good chunk of this is that all this sets up "damned if you do, damned if you don't, double-damned if you choose the winning side". This doesn't encourage more people to get involved, it just drives them away from trying. That's the exact opposite of what we need.
That's meritocracy for you. We have to select people for scarce and highly desirable positions somehow; "willing to work the hardest" isn't the worst strategy that's been tried.
Not sure where you got that information, but it contradicts everything I've ever heard.

Cuba's been for a long time the only country the US won't allow its citizens to visit (head, meet desk); North Korea is, so far as I know, the only country that actively prevents US citizens from visiting, although that may be a misrepresentation of the facts on the ground.

Anyway, http://uncorneredmarket.com/american-travel-iran/ has more information.
It's quite simple: null is not a valid value for any type. It completely breaks the entire point of a type system. Null isn't an Integer, nor a String.

Simple example that proves my point: You can't call .length on null, but you can for every string. Therefore null isn't a string. So why in hell should you be able to write code that states (falsely) that null is a string? You can't say an int is a string.

Removing null from a language adds a tremendous amount of safety.
we need to setup ways for any students stuck outside the country with this madness to still be able to continue their studios for the 3-month period (or however long it takes) using digital tools like Skype calling into classes and other things that can be setup.

We cant give up on those who love to learn and want better lives for themselves and their families.

This is just such depressing madness.
This is really shitty. Regardless of what you think of the immigration issue, blocking legal residents from entering the US is absolutely terrible. It's a contract violation from the US government. This order essentially says America doesn't care you're a full legal resident, because you hold a citizenship from this limited subset of countries (many of which we're bombing), you can't come back.

(America is bombing seven countries by the way, in case anyone forgot. Our last president is the first in history to have the US in armed conflict for every day of his presidency. He will not be the last.)

What I also hate is that Uber tries to play the PR game and show themselves as the great guys here. Forget that they pay their drivers peanuts, that drivers have to drive up to 30% more now to make the same wages as just a few years ago, and that many are calling Uber to unionise.

I hate they way everyone is just using people to further their message and forgetting that these are people.
And here we thought that "public safety" was about keeping the public safe, while actually they were talking about keeping themselves safe from the public.
Yes, it may well come to that. Let's do what we can to avoid that.
Clear message, clear call to action, clear action with the ability to leverage what he is advocating while acknowledging and respecting opposing perspectives.

This had substance and was clear and articulate. It's exactly what Sam's Time to Take a Stand post is missing.
> Let's look at Kim Peek- people say he did pretty amazing things because he could calculate your birth day from your birth date and he memorised facts.

What? I'm not sure you actually know who he is and his abilities. It's not that he knew some facts. It's that he knew the zip code for nearly every street in the country, even inconsistent ones. It's that you could have an auditorium full of people asking him the most obscure questions they could come up with ("When was the birthday of Lincoln's younger Aunt?").
It's not just conceivable. It's how the output of grotty in TTY-37 mode works to this day. When you are reading a manual with underlining and boldface, and you haven't brought your manual system into the bold new GNU world of the 1990s where it actually uses ECMA-48 instead of TTY-37, the tty output driver is using carriage returns and backspaces to enact overstrikes.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html

I wrote a better manual page for ul(1) that explains some of this. ul is basically a TTY-37 to your-terminal-type converter, and it implements a lot of the effects that one would see on a real teletype. Unfortunately, the old manual hasn't progressed much beyond the original 1970s one and doesn't explain a lot of the functionality that the program actually has.

* http://jdebp.eu./Proposals/ul.1
Looks like it also affects dual citizens of those countries as well. per http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38783512
Regardless of how others are behaving, it's never okay on HN to express yourself this way. Please keep things civil and substantial, or refrain from commenting.
Ah yes, the proverbial "ottokorrekt" as I call it. I am still on the fence about whether it is a blessing or a curse.
Anxiety About Muslim Refugees Is Stoked Online by the Far-Right Media
I've read that insurance people strongly suggest to never wave: it's one of the top things that seems to occur during accidents. It's hard to distinguish from someone "waving you on" versus someone "waving to say thanks for letting me go". Trusting anyone else to check for oncoming traffic is a terrible idea. It's really easy to focus on the wave-giver and not check the rest of the traffic. And even if you are good at these, all waves are inherently involving at least 2 drivers, and you can't really count on them being any good.

I couldn't find any real information on this though. I think I picked it up from Reddit comments. Some info does suggest it's legally complicated: http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2014/03/06/244965...
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Will your brave PM institute any sanctions against the US? Tweets are cheap as.
I'm confused. Is this saying that you would expect to experience "time flies" with high or low dopamine?

Otherwise, holy shit. Confirmation bias is likely in play, but this sounds an awful lot like my experience of daily life. Slow time, difficultly with delayed gratification, strong desire to repeat situations/actions that resulted in successes.
I think the question Steezy was getting at is, yes, those things are great. What kind of ventilation? Can I 3d print in the garage if the door is open? How much air is required to make it safe?

Is there a simple way to lookup a material and make sure you're using the right safety precautions? Most materials seems to carry the "will cause cancer, sometimes, maybe, always" label.

Is there a modern "maker" safety course, covering things like 3d printing, laser cutting, glues and paints, electronics, etc. that I can follow?
At the cost of a war that killed the most Americans in history.
I stopped reading as soon as I got to "Muslim ban". Muslims did not get banned.

A Muslim ban would mean any Muslim coming from any country is banned. Sad that this is the level of discourse and understanding these days.

I care more about correct terms than if you are for or against it. Stoking fears over something that does not exist is childish at best.
Yep, looks like PR. nickrivadeneira's account is 4.5 years old and has commented 4 whole times.
Glad to see the tech industry leaders taking a stand on these immigration issues. Sam Altman and Travis are being very public but I'm sure many are working the system behind the scenes and there will be more public results in the future.

The fight has just begun. It's just a matter of time now till they to tear apart net neutrality.

Trump might just be the wake up call the nation needed to wake up and stop being so complacent.
It's great to see Uber come out so publically against this travesty of a Presidential executive order. It's a despicable act and all Americans should be ashamed of what's happening. That said, it's interesting to see a company that has regularly ignored the law to build their business dive into the fray. They've also employed many of the same tactics of bullying, just like Trump. Perhaps that's what we need? Perhaps the DNA of fighting and ignoring regulations will come in handy...I just wish it didn't have to. The whole thing is just sad.
To address the trump problem, we must have a good understanding of trump himself, his DNA and this clip helps with that I noticed: https://youtu.be/CTzBZuPx1lQ?t=1643
Up to this point, it has been possible for supporters and apologists to waive away his vague or careless remarks during the campaign as political rhetoric, jokes, or leverage for future negotiation. Now we start to see the mean (in every sense of the word) instinct that informed them and the harm they can do.

If you poll this issue, you'll find at least 80% of Americans don't care how inconvenient our immigration policy is for those countries affected. And a very large majority wants no immigration whatsoever from any of those nations affected nor from any of their neighbors save Israel. Probably a majority of Hillary voters would approve if they could be reassured it would go no further than that.
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False equivalence. Obama did not ban a country or religion wholesale. This is a substantial and disturbing step in the reckless anti-fact, anti-science, anti-truth administration of Donald John Trump.
How is it that at all?
There is a paragraph and video fragment describing this in TFA.
Obama isn't president anymore. If Obama's foreign policy truly has failed the Middle East, isn't this just a continuation?
I believe I might have been the first person to correctly analyse the thermodynamics of evolution by natural selection:
http://thinkinghard.com/evolution/2ndlaw.html (originally http://web.archive.org/web/19961221074218/http://www.xmissio...).
Why isn't Saudi Arabia on the list?
The MIT should offer a remote study plan to these students.
You mean "We are the first person, plural personal pronoun ..."
> What I also hate is that Uber tries to play the PR game and show themselves as the great guys here. Forget that they pay their drivers peanuts, that drivers have to drive up to 30% more now to make the same wages as just a few years ago, and that many are calling Uber to unionise.

I hate they way everyone is just using people to further their message and forgetting that these are people.

This +100. From what friends who were early at Uber tell me, this is not consistent with his character and feels like a PR grab. This issue is beyond f'd up, and while I guess any attention is good attention if it causes action, I draw the line at giving credit for cheap PR stunts.
As an Uber employee, I'm morbidly curious as to how HN will spin this into something negative. :)

For the record, I'm super proud of working at Uber because those on the outside never see the things we do for our drivers. This is a big one and I'm really proud. You just don't see this on the news that often because who knows.

I've said this before but the Uber of the last 2 years is not the same Uber from 2013/2014. As a company it has grown up and matured and realizes the responsibilities it has to its drivers, riders and cities.
Go ahead and downvote me, but NSA has a different process than warrants for a reason. There is signoff which satisfies the constitution. Secret court, secret panel. It is secret for a reason and the court is overseen by congress.

However personally I would prefer these cases to be declassified after a reasonalbe amount of time, where it is possible to protect the innocent.
Three things:

1. It's not what "half of you wanted". It's what a portion of the portion of those that voted in a 55% turnout election wanted. A tiny and vindictive portion, that lost the popular vote.

2. Even if it were what "half of you wanted", it's also what half of you did not want. This is not a kid's game where you count up the points and call the clear winner. If half of your population's will is being disregarded and worked against, there is a problem.

3. This is plain and simply abhorrent. Even if these were popular policies, they are reprehensible. The majority can be misguided.

PS: Your twitter feed is worse than an angry child's. Seriously, get a hold of yourself. Applauding Trump's targeting of the free press and minorities? "Civilizational cancer"? Are you seriously surprised that people dislike you and your ideologies?
> I can't speak for the East Bay, though, but that increases the commute tremendously. Much like the CAP theorem, you can only optimize for two of: good schools, good commute, good house prices

Tremendously seems overstating it. Many in California are used to driving very long distances to work but you can get from even beyond where the BART line ends in Easy Bay to SF in an hour even with bad traffic. The trains in the bay area are a great way to minimize commuting to and from the city.

Good house prices is too subjective. In some general sense sure but I don't think CAP is a good analogy here.

> I said it sounded like he had a sense of entitlement, I actually meant from the point of view of the company. I mean it sounds like he also wants free meals included, and Wifi on the plane as well.

I didn't get anything like that AT ALL from the OP's post. This sounds more like a strawman than anything else.

> I hate to say it but he's only a dev manager. Personally I don't think unless his wife is an engineer or another high-wage career, that they shouldn't move. Their quality of life will suffer. Anything less than $300k combined salary is tough with kids, rent, commute, etc.

This...is wildly off topic and pretty terrible advice. You don't really know anything about OP other than they wanted to know what other people's relocation packages were so they can compare and get an idea as to how generous, or not, this company's offering is.

Yes the bay area is expensive but less than $300k a year isn't "tough" unless you're trying to live in a million dollar home and you're burning through money. You seem to have very unrealistic expectations.

Personally, I make considerably less than $300k a year with two kids. We rent a large house and my kids go to highly rated public schools. It's expensive, yes, but I don't think I would call it "tough". In fact I see my family far, far more than I did when I worked on the east coast.

My point being: everyone's situation is different and I think your perspective is a bit too narrow to be giving general, unsolicited advice.
Are you referring to the families of refugees fleeing indiscriminate bombing and war?
We dropped off the damn money.

WE?!

I — the royal we, you know, the editorial. - the Big Lebowski
haha every deep breath in I noticed that too... such a tiny thing but so distracting
"Allied" in the sense that the Saudi crime family can sponsor 9-11 and their catspaw the Bush administration can exploit the occasion to supplicate even more to them.

And the opposition and the media are so deep in Saud pockets, they can't even call Bush out for it.
Would sovereign nations like Turkey accommodate such requests that hurt their sovereignty and open them to public outrage and probably civil unrest?

I don't think so.
I agree completely. And the video although not new is quite impressive.
But if the claim of the author that San Francisco is a tough city in which to drive is true, than I fear that some parts of Italy (and probably A LOT of cities in the world) won't have self driving cars for a very long time.
When I saw the video the first time I was very impressed, but I would have never imagined that for someone that was a VERY challenging urban scenario.
From the article:

when we see the streets of San Fransisco conquered, then we know that self-driving is ready to come of age.

Seriously? And if you conquer the street of Naples what will come of age?
Trump voters are a minority, they should be defended also.

Geek philosophy (let's pick Yoda this time) applies to Hillary and Donald voters: Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Attack the policies, not the voters, not the president. Convincing will happen with compelling arguments that demonstrate these policies are flawed.
Mine was altering a BASIC space shooter so that one's laser beams would fire directly at the location of the target without having to manoeuvre so it was in one's crosshairs. The hacking was more fun than the game became after my modification.
> "Muslim immigrants as a group consume more in societal resources than they contribute in taxes or skilled labor."

There are several issues with this type of justification.

1) We do not value human beings based on whether they are net positive or negative contributors to societal resources.

2) We do not value human beings based on whether they are net positive or negative contributors to societal resources. (This point is rather important, I wanted you to read it so I included it twice).

3) Babies and elderly are a drain so why not give them the same treatment? If your answer is "because babies will eventually become contributors and elderly once were" then consider the following:

4) Many of these refugees are from war-torn countries, they have few resources of their own and perhaps little education. It might take a generation or two before they fully come into their own and contribute to society in the same way that many other immigrant groups have in the past. Give it time, and they too will contribute.
> > For instance you can't drink in the street

> Untrue. A few municipalities forbid it, generally in specific places and/or for a specific duration, but the general rule is that it is allowed.

My bad then: that's what I remembered from visiting France for some months at time.
Anecdotal.

I've used them also. It's when things go really wrong when you'll understand the issues with them.

This might not be the majority experience, and I accept that, but I wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole based on my experience.
I wonder what YC Part Time Partner Peter Thiel thinks of this...
Why "Wow"? He has done one thing I like, dropping out of the "trade" deals TPP and TPIP. Who knows, he might actually do something else I like. Who knows.
Per product, they probably have most employees, both overall and if you count R&D
> If Putin can control the US from his third world backwater, maybe he deserves to be in power.

Destruction and construction are asymmetric. It takes far less effort to destroy something than it does to create something and things that are delicately balanced can be toppled with only a small application of force.

> What makes him so good that the world's most advanced country is powerless against him?

Internal divisions, magnified to make them seem larger than they really are.

> Is it because Russians are such good hackers?

No, it is because when it comes to propaganda Russia has a leg (or rather several legs) up compared to the USA. The USA would do something like 'voice of America', the Russians would carpet bomb the nation with their version of the story, a history to corroborate their version and a continuous barrage of flak to get in the way of intelligent discussion.

And anybody that managed to get some kind of opposition going would as a rule never be heard from again.

Fortunately in America that stage has not yet been reached, let's hope it will never happen.

> Taiwan, Mexico and so on - fair enough.

Ok

> But overall it is not as if all the countries in the world were friends and only Trump is shaking things up now.

No, but they weren't all-out enemies either and Trump is pushing in that direction (not Taiwan). Even in Europe, one of the USA's staunchest allies when it comes to operations abroad there is strong talk of distancing because of the new perceived instability of America.

> There were always conflicts of interest, new trends that shift power (like oil and phracking), military interventions and what not.

Yes, but just like Hitler found out: you can't fight wars on all fronts at once.
Complain to your state's Attorney General and whatever they call their consumer protection division.
Put your hands in the air and step away from the kool-aid dispenser.
Netflix CEO: ‘Trump’s actions are so un-American it pains us all’
A majority of Americans want to allow refugees from Muslim countries, including Syria: http://www.voanews.com/a/poll-americans-divided-along-party-...

Democrats (who voted 89% for Hillary) are strongly in support.

Overall 59% of Americans believe immigrants make the country stronger: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/15/americans-vi...
Btw maybe you can explain the Taiwan thing to me? Why is it the obviously good thing to keep supporting China in their policy of claiming it?
How is that any different than now? At least the public-facing oligarchy would change every few years.
Could you expand on how Uber has changed?
Firstly, I'd like to point out that Travis' post was spot on (I abhor Trump's policies, so the more big names speaking out against him, the better).

However, is Travis really the best messenger? Is this just glorified PR or does he actually care? I can't read his mind, so we can only judge from his actions. Let's see what he's done to "stand up for what's right" in regards to his own organization (this isn't exhaustive, at all):

- Uber employees order fake rides to sink competitor [1]

- Blaming the media for suggesting Uber is liable [2]

- Blind passengers denied rides [3]

- Uber executives looking into critics' personal lives [4]

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You may think those things are irrelevant, but one should practice what they preach, especially when they have a post titled: "Standing up for what's right." My examples, by the way, only scratch the surface to Uber's own shady practices.

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/ubers-dirty-trick-campaign-again...

[2] https://pando.com/2014/02/27/we-call-that-boob-er-the-four-m...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/1...

[4] http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-dig...