skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so take one! Your partner is complicit in this and you still haven't done anything about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12926843
If this is a Muslim ban it's a weak one - the vast majority of Muslims in the world live in countries not affected by the new rules.
Having seen teams try and fail to optimize late - I fully buy the concept it is never too early to optimize the architecture.

If you get to the point you can't optimise because the fundamentals are too baked-in to realistically change - cut your losses that day and start pasting the usable parts in to a new project.

It's important to differentiate between architectural optimisation (which should be optimised from the outset) and code optimisation.

I do believe there is an argument for minimal code complexity (optimisation) in early phases - even if that leads to some latency - it will assist refactoring and onboarding new developers - later in the project team can revisit code that can benefit from being more complex.
“when the operation of the machine becomes so odious”
On Android, the Google Keyboard has both symbols on the same screen[1], and it's difficult to visually differentiate them. When you see this particular typo, it's probably someone using the Google Keyboard on Android.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/56hwfd/psa_is_diff...
It bans some Muslim immigrants and refugees.

I don't recall seeing anything about Indonesians being affected, or Indians, or Nigerians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, etc.
I understand. It's sad and alarming that this is happening. But it's too late to wish that we could ignore it.
Absolutely! There's some folks who aren't going to be persuaded and love what Trumps doing, but there's a large group of people who tried to convince themselves this was just campaign rhetoric, or who just disposed Hillary, or who are conservative Christians and pro life but who do missionary work and help refugees. Collapsing anyone who supported Trump into "deplorables" won't help change their minds next time an election comes up. Convincing them that he's dangerous and doesn't represent their values however very well might.
> Anyone in a position of power who took a look at Trump and didn't recoil with disgust needs to be exiled from civil society.

And this well represents the leftist-elitistic-rhetoric that drove so many to vote for Trump (HRC's "deplorables" comment).

Five year olds say "I told you so," adults find reasonable pathways forward in difficult situations.

People voted for and supported Trump for a variety of reasons, let's not generalize them all into one block like his administration is doing to Muslims.
OK, but they explicitly mentioned that non-Muslims from the target countries are exempt from the ban. What do you call that?
A majority of his voters did vote for Trump because they support his views on immigration. It's why they voted for him. To deny that is to simply deny reality just like Trump does on a daily basis.

Honest question - What will statements by tech CEOs do? Trump has a mandate given to him by the people of your country against the very elites this post is appealing to. The politicians are with him because they want to keep their power.

And am I misremembering all these powerful tech CEOs went grovelling to meet Trump and hoping to have a foot in the door with the new administration with Thiel?

These are turbulent times.
You can't change a closed mind. Trump can say the sky is green and his followers will agree.
Thiel donated $1.25 MILLION to the Trump campaign. This isn't holding him accountable for his "beliefs" or even his "speech" - this is holding him accountable for helping to cause this mess we're in.
Exactly. Vast majority of the world's Muslims are not affected by the new rules.
Trump is not really a "Republican" and the real Republicans don't know how to handle him. What is sad is that it would only take two Republican senators taking a stand to block his legislative agenda. How more outrageous does he have to be before we get two such senators.
If anyone hear could vouch for Qucs simulator and explain a bit why it's good I would love to add it. It was recommended before but without reasoning and I haven't had a chance to try it.

http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
> What about the restarting of the keystone XL pipeline? With the added bonus of having the project built with US steel?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pipeline-transca...
What type of visa are you getting? I thought visa applications were not opening until April.
This is a problem on Android devices. The ℅ symbol is above the space bar when switching to the symbol keyboard. With the keyboard font as is, the two look very similar.
That is not true! My non muslim, citizen brother can't bring in her fiance from Italy because she is Iranian !
There is a significant difference between voluntary association and compulsory exclusion through use of force.

It's not even partially hypocritical to claim one is ok & the other isn't.
DJT and his associates hint that only a subset of the population have a right to their beliefs, others should keep their mouths shut. That seems like a problem worth going against and it may become acute rather sooner than later.
"90% of the time I wind up subconsciously ignoring comments that exist in code."

That's ok - because they are there for reference purposes.

So you can ignore them most of the time.

When there's an issue, or you are reading unfamiliar code - you can reference them.

I leave notes in the code as to the oddities/undocumented nature of weird API dependencies, and of things that were tried in the past and failed.

So many times I've tried to compile some off-the-shelf thing and failed because I didn't read the release notes.

You just have to read the release notes :)

So when you're perusing an unfamiliar module, read the comments :)

I grasp that they can become stale, but on the whole, decent comments are better than none.
Why? Does this order not affect tech workers? You can't blackout things you don't want to see and pretend they don't exist.
> I am affected personally by this.

> Although those countries aren't affected by the ban...

So, you have not yet been personally affected? That's like saying German citizens have been personally affected by this action.
This comment reeks of victim blaming. Nobody who voted for Trump and Pence should be allowed to escape being held accountable for what they support. If their "economic anxiety" was bad enough that they can ignore the rights of LGBT people and religious minorities, then they are all the more guilty. Those people were never centrists and knew exactly who they voted for.
Not thinking of dialogue as 'culture jamming' would probably be a good start.
Yes, pretty much. If enough people call to object then the prospect of losing the next election becomes real; they figure that if people are motivated enough to call then they might just be motivated enough to vote. That more than anything is what motivates politicians.
Yeah I did and it got removed. Some reason or other.

Haven't written a price cleaner etc or started looking at crash recoveries - quite a bit more tricky! Also PH allow e.h. 996 C4S to be advertised as 996 Turbos as they have "Turbo Bodykit" or somesuch which is really annoying. I blame Porsche drivers ;)
I was talking about this last night with my wife and she mentioned she saw some statistic showing Christians were, until now, de-prioritized and actually given refugee status at a disproportionately low rate compared to their population in the ME. I don't have a source, but thought this might be useful to bring up. It sounded like this was why he did that.
The most effective action tech companies can take is what they did against SOPA: post large protest banners on popular websites. Though I don't think this is the right time to take that step. There are many outrages ahead, many will be directly related to tech, like killing net neutrality, forcing tech companies to compile Muslim registries, banning tech worker and student visas, and who knows what else. I think tech companies should reserve their fire for the many battles to come. Many different parts of society will be involved in these fights, it's not only up to tech communities to fight every battle.
> are just bait to keep our attention away from big money legislation that the 1% wants to get through.

I really doubt that, considering a vast majority of the 1% supported Hillary.
Let's not give up so quickly: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/28/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-f...
There's edge cases for nearly all of FTPs failings but none of them are employed as part of the default standard protocol. Which means nearly everyone ends up falling back to the lowest common denominator.
I strongly encourage people who consider Donald Trump to be a threat to consider arming themselves in accordance with the 2nd Amendment. While my hope for the future does not involve needing to use them, if the situation one day comes to that, I would prefer that people who are indifferent to the actions of this administration NOT be the only ones with guns.
What objective fact are you talking about?
How in-app purchase is not really destroying the games industry (2014)
Minorities on average earn less, have less job security and despite this they utterly rejected Trump and his hateful platform. Trump voters also weren't the most economically desperate, those people voted Clinton. Trump did well among solidly middle class white people in rural areas.

So no, Trump didn't get elected because people desperate for a job were willing to overlook his hate.
Balderdash and blather!

This type of empty outrage and chatter serves little purpose.

Well articulated facts and solutions along with the leverage to put them in to practice or enforce them is productive. Tabeth's comments are appropriate and on point.

Sam has clearly proven he is a bright guy, but this is nothing more than a chant for a march, or a pointless drum circle. I know it feels good, and that's not a bad thing, but a call to action should have more direction.

Disappointing.
I've heard the exact opposite, people saying Trump's orders on highly controversial but minor-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things pipelines are cover for his less tangible but much more damaging moves on immigration and refugees.

As to your last point, it is not unreasonable to ask the president for evidence when he challenges a core pillar of our society. It is good that hugely significant yet baseless opinions are not considered acceptable, especially for people in power.
> We need fresh blood, and we need to start now.

There is a real chance that you'll get more fresh blood than you are bargaining for.

When you start running roughshod over peoples lives violence is just around the corner and should be expected.

Action -> reaction, it's as old as physics.

Of course that plays right into Trumps hands.
https://dailyaction.org
> This is very important people

It's also complete bullshit. I actually live in a Trump-supporting area, and everyone I know who voted for him is ecstatic about this disgusting, offensive action. Trump is a bad person, and the people who voted for him are bad people, and I hope to God I 'push them away' as far as they'll get from me.
>1. Call 2. Participate 3. Share 4. Vote

This is the same kind of bullshit that's lost Hillary the election and got us here in the first place. It might have worked in the '90s to get a gold medal for Rosa Parks. It will not work in 2017 to make Trump back off his core message.

The problem here is not that your side isn't loud enough and can't get political attention for an issue. The problem is that the opposing side is too organized and too strong and already has a decided stance about your issue.

Being more strident won't help. Ostracizing people who have links to the opposing side will positively hurt.

Instead of doing all this "yell out louder" crap, any serious opposition should rather do some serious soul searching to figure out how to win back key constituencies. The only people who need to be ostracized are the idiots who got us here in the first place.
Plenty of large companies took a stance against NC. While this is a larger stance, you may still see it.
Are you really comparing divestment to segregation?????????????

You realize the reason segregation was wrong was because it was based on someone's skin color, not the actions they've taken?
I believe the idea is it is shimmied into the slot?
The first law of thermodynamics is basically conservation of energy. The internal energy in a closed system cannot change. In this case, if 'the system does not radiate its rotational energy', the particles will keep on moving indefinitely.

Since you ask, QM can sort-of 'break' this law though, very temporarily, via the uncertainty principle. Many particle decays are mediated by 'virtual particles', which are heavier than the input particles. For example, a neutron can decay into an electron+neutrino+proton (Beta decay), this is mediated by a W boson which is ~80 times heavier than the neutron. So in a way energy is 'borrowed' to create the W, which then promptly decays into the lighter electron+neutrino, so in the end energy is conserved.
Yes there is value, comments like those let me know which developers need more training to learn how to code cleaner.

I know what you said, and I disagreed; responding back by repeating your disagreement doesn't add any value to the conversation.
I think that their desire for safety is not valid either.
If an immigrant population believes they are unwanted by the majority, they'll tend to have "no skin in the game" for the society which they live and be much more open to political violence, crime etc.
I believe if you compare (in this case) Muslim immigrants to England vs Muslim immigrants to Canada you'll see a difference in acceptance by the majority. Obviously Canada does not have universal acceptance of Muslim immigrants or any immigrants, but Canada does try to integrate immigrants more. I believe this is reflected in the number of terrorist attacks in those countries.
If the Muslim immigrant minority (or any other) becomes more alienated, expect poor outcomes. Just like some poor Americans feel alienated by their country and some have fewer qualms about violent political acts.

I'm a Canuck and so I may be biased. But if my understanding is incorrect, I'd be interested in hearing.
> People have a right to their beliefs, even if their beliefs are stupid. If not, than what kind of country are we?

When the person's actions are directly and publicly detrimental to the business interests, the investor/backer/employee is at odds with the rest of the group and yeah at that point its not just a belief but a question of the self-interest of the business being at odds with one of its investor/employee/backers.

Let us be honest here, Thiel is also backing a man that has no trouble firing people who aren't Yesmen. If that is the sort of standard he wants applied to other people, it should apply to him as well.

There comes up a point when the pile of problems extends simply beyond belief but realized action in the real world that directly impacts other people. It is at that point, action is always taken in any situation. Please do not simply call this a 'belief' at this point when Thiel's goals and the related actions are realized in the manner he desired.
Laws do not enforce themselves. They only have power when there are people with authority willing to stand up and enforce them. Without that, they are just words on paper.

Right now all three branches of the Federal government are in the hands of the Republican Party. Trump has one branch; the other two have no interest in opposing him, so long as he lets them do what they want as well. So for the moment, at least, those laws that all three of them disagree with can be assumed to have gone by the boards.
Just because you voted in someone doesn't mean that they necessarily know what you want them to legislate. Writing them letters and calling them is one of the most effective ways to do this and this was effective for SOPA.
Sama, I appreciate your taking a stand on this, but how do you reconcile YCombinator's ties with Peter Thiel? Actions speak loud than words, and so far we've only seen words from you guys. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Because they want to frame it as "racism"
> First, it's not a "ban". It's a temporary suspension until new vetting procedures are put in place.

He's got his foot in the door. That's all he needs right now.

> But there's another aspect of this that baffles me. Somehow Sam has no issues with democrats totally destabilizing the Middle East, and funding/arming ISIS to depose Assad. Yet the moment Trump attempts to mitigate the negative side effects of that to this country, "it's time to take a stand".

Taking who started it out of the equation, I find it morally repugnant for the USA to destabilise a region then find it acceptable to callously turn away those who were victims of that away.
Have you ever tried resuming a failed download using that feature though? Support for it is so bad that it's usually quicker to just redownload the whole file from scratch.
It would have been nice if they had given some of the technical specs of the system. After all, it is an article in "computer" world.
Hey guys, author here.

This is my weekend project, I just decided to fix a pain point that new python developers usually have. This utility helps identify where the ciruclar import is.

issues/pull requests welcome!
"The reader must read and understand it in any case."

Because in the cases wherein the code is abstract or dense, a little 'English' can go a long way.

Especially when making use of APIs that are weird and have weird behaviours.

AKA: "I'm breaking xyz convention here because API abc has the following odd, undocumented behaviour (i.e. returns nulls when it should not)"

Comments are not always good, but if there is any reasonable thoughtfulness to them, they will be 'mostly good'.
is that true? those people represent a minority of the minority of citizens that voted.

there are enough people who hate the ban and the ideas that lead to it to win elections. they need to be activated, consistently.
yeah a lot aren't racist, they are just incredibly stupid lemmings. we need to learn to brainwash them like Fox News, Trump, and ads for buying gold do.
Thanks for saying that, I had no idea CO stays in the body so long. I thought you could just breath fresh air and clear it form your system quickly.
The answer is yes, most chip cards can do public key cryptography to sign a transaction without compromising the secret key burned in.

Also, more frequently than I would wish banks or payment processors ask payment terminal operators for a "simpler", meaning less secure, transaction protocol. Most often it's for compatibility with some legacy system from the 80's somewhere in their payment validation backend.

From my experience in the industry, this happened very rarely in Europe but considerably more often in the Americas and Middle East.
The point is that, to the voters, there were many unsavory characteristics of each candidate. And from a strategy perspective, it is a mistake to treat the people you need to appeal to as if they personally embody the most unsavory characteristics.

If Trump supporters want to appeal to the left, they shouldn't assume all Hillary supporters are liars, in favor of obstruction of justice, and want to go to war with Russia. Likewise, if you want to appeal to Trump supporters, which is what you'll have to do to get their votes in the next election, you're not going to get very far by calling them racists, homophobes, etc.
Cars competing in the World Solar challenge have a similar number of solar cells. They weigh about 300 kg with occupant and have ridiculously good aerodynamics compared to ordinary cars. Further, their cells are almost all pointed up. Those cars manage about 600 km per day, but are also tilted towards the sun for a couple hours a day in addition to having their cells oriented ~optimally while driving.

There's simply no way that anything even vaguely resembling a normal car is going to have that kind of solar energy performance. Having been the team captain of one of those solar race car teams, I long-ago decided that solar panels are best bolted to the ground or a building and the vehicles unburdened of their weight and fragility.

I do think cars should have a tiny solar panel built in to them, but it should be there to offset the quiescent load of the body electronics on the low-voltage battery.
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it illegal. The Immigration and Nationality Act gives him this power.
Yes. Those, too.
That means 52% of Republicans don't strongly support it, and Trump was elected by a mix of Republicans, independents and even Some Democrats.
Then just skip to violence and stop wasting time? You can absolutely change closed minds, and I don't think most of those people's minds are as closed as you perceive them to be.
Given a fixed number of refugees to be accepted, prioritization of one group means a near total ban on another. If there's a justifiable reason for that prioritization, then that's what you'll get. For example, if you had a refugee admittance process in the 1930's that was limited to N people (being a time traveler that knows the future), I might kick out a Jewish refugee in exchange for a nuclear physicist, but not some rando Lutheran. So what you'd get is a mix of Jewish people, Jehovah's Witnesses, disabled people, etc, with prioritization towards the young.

Obviously, this is not Trump's rationale, and there's the whole other angle of blocking reentry of permanent residents.

But for the general concept of religious based refugee admittance? I can't imagine the ACLU going back in time and arguing prioritizing Jewish refugees is unconstitutional.
Five-year-olds don't commit genocide. Five-year-olds don't become tyrants. Five-year-olds don't deport people. Five-year-olds might say "I told you so," but they have a far better track record at the things that matter than adults. Maybe we should take a lesson from them.
Brexit re-demonstrated that business interests are ultimately secondary to politics, populist politics especially.
> The only way to stop Trump is to silence him by breaking up the Republican Congress majority, and it's only in 2 years.

In the Senate, this will get tough, because the majority of positions in the senate available for reelection is mostly Democrat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2018).

And even if Congress Republican majority is broken down, Trump and Pence will still be able to rule with Presidential orders, much like Obama did.
Also, it's not low margin, they charge $200-$400 for each upgrade you make. So if you only want a 1.8GHz box with 5400rpm spinning rust, then you're still paying $500 and Apple can't be out more than $300 in parts and costs.

I still have a Late 2012 Mac Mini. The CPU is almost as fast as the 2014 and I put in 16 GB RAM when I bought it (you could just pop off the bottom without a screwdriver). Later I also added a 500GB SSD. It still runs great.

Still selling the 2014 Mini is even a bigger offense than if they'd sell the upgradable late 2012 flavor.
Nah, it only takes a few minutes for the person to say "I just finished this feature, here's what it should do and here's what it looks like."
Easiest way to take a stand is to be logically consistent about federal power - which means be against it always and not just when the opposition party is in charge.

If 2/3 of the country can't agree that it needs to apply to the whole country then it's a state policy and not a federal one. Embrace the 10th amendment and make nullification a common act and not some rare that people scorn. It's the agree to disagree amendment. Push it's use and you can unite this country again because half the country won't be able to impose themselves on the other half every 4 years.
I think CO doesn't get unstuck from hemoglobin at all. 2 weeks sounds about right, in that that would be the body's mean replacement time for a hemoglobin molecule.