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You don't want politics on HN; I want (some) politics on HN, but not the redundant drivel that passes for most news. The political posts are often illuminating in their content; they also document the events HN readers feel are important to the tech community.
US citizens can visit Iran—at Iranian discretion—with a state minder the same way US citizens can travel to North Korea. You can't travel freely and you can't travel without personal scrutiny ('extreme vetting') from Iranian officials.
Because that might hurt Trump's own business interests: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-muslim-ban-ex...
Travis Kalanick, standing up for the cheap labor that drives his Ubers and writes it's code.
I'd say it's not because `done` would mean 100% of your objectives are fulfilled.
What's the average hourly earnings of a busy driver after they pay their expenses (vehicle amortization, insurance, fuel, maintenance, etc.)?
I'm wondering: isn't this whole phenomenon more about information-mania than biblio-mania?

Do people who collect lots of books also read lots of online-material, and vice versa?
That was about making products, not blind removing of any topic some "we" personally demands.
Make a pitch for 3 of your ideas that you think have the potential to make the most money. Pitch them to your friends/colleagues/people whose opinion you trust who would be in the market for such a product.

Ask them which one you think is best/most likely to be a product they would use. Tell them it's okay to say none of them. If no one thinks those 3 are good move on to the next.
I was expecting Uber to ban the Trump administration from using Uber, but instead was pleased see a far classier move to help out drivers stuck outside the country:

>> We are working out a process to identify these drivers and compensate them pro bono during the next three months to help mitigate some of the financial stress and complications with supporting their families and putting food on the table. We will have more details on this in the coming days.
Uber pledges to compensate drivers stuck overseas due to Trump's executive order
Digital natives can use MS Office, play pokemon go and other games, use social media snapchats and bully each other online. They don't care about privacy online because they have nothing to hide (unless they are being bullied), they don't know how internet works but have strong opinions about it. They can not replace RAM, sometimes they have the luxury to through away the whole PC because they can't figure out that it's just graphics card that's dead and since parents can buy new anyway. Digital natives don't know how programs are made, they don't control the checksums of their software and if they see a recognizable logo they would think that it's totaly legit thing even though the utility isn't signed and they downloaded it from some dodgy forums.
Too bad he's silent for the past year when these issues were obviously going to happen. He allowed it to happen. And now he's quietly giving Trump lip service behind closed doors. He (Travis + Uber) doesn't give a damn about anyone. As long as they can get some Uber-friendly policy from Trump they'll continue to let him do whatever he wants. They are enabling him by working with him on other issues while ignoring this.

Such PR bullshit. Trying to look good in the public eye.
If these countries are not reciprocating as you seem to suggest, why did the US DoS issue them visas in the first place?

Don't tell me that they don't reject visa applications at their diplomatic missions and for reasons related to national security because that's what they do all the time in the ME.
I don't see us in disagreement then.

I took the IOT one as illustration. But even the current project, isn't that big, and they do want properly done job.
blocking legal residents from entering the US is absolutely terrible.

Why? It happens all the time, and shockingly, even before Trump got into office.

A green card does not guarantee you entry into the US. I was informed of this many times when I entered using one. Leave the US for more than 6 months? You can be turned back (and your permanent resident status canceled). Among other reasons.
Voting and participating lost Hillary the election?

The fuck are you even talking about? That makes no sense.

Furthermore, millions of people voted for Clinton over Trump. Trump has the lowest approval ratings of a new president ever. It's very clear that the majority of the country is against him and his policies.

>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

How do you do that without calling, participating, and sharing? These are all key on-the-ground actions for building a political base.

I've worked in politics and organizing for 20 years. You don't know what you're talking about in the slightest. Please stop spreading bullshit.
I think that being a student here is hardly catering to their whims. She was let in by the University, works there, and studies there. It seems fair to let her continue to do that.

Also, why do you think immigrants are always going to be non-American? My father has lived here for nearly 40 years, pays taxes, pays into SS, and raised my family here. Is he just fulfilling his whims?
First, hat tip to you for getting to those questions. Usually no one looks at the supplementary material at all.

So the cooperators' strategy looks like tit-for-tat, but I don't think it really is because tit for tat means if someone started cooperating again after defecting, they would switch. We think it's actually a strategy where if you get defected on, you just stop cooperating altogether in the future (at least for this length of a game). However, because we never see people switch back to cooperating after defecting (after the first day where people are trying random things), we can't distinguish between these two strategies. But effectively it doesn't really matter.

A game with a finite number of rounds is a finitely repeated PD, for which the NE is to all defect. An undetermined number of rounds is ~= an infinitely repeated PD with a discount factor, for which there are many ways to sustain cooperation according to the theory.
U.S. official says entry ban applies to Canadian dual citizens from 7 countries
Why? Because this submission is on HN and HN is associated with YC? Need we drag Thiel into every political discussion? Yes, everything is ultimately related, but can we try to focus on one thing at time? It's hard enough to discuss politics constructively on HN without making it harder by reaching out for every possible tangent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13510054
I've read some of Haidt's work but not that one in particular. Thanks for the pointer.
I'm doing the same currently but like any subject I encourage questions about the how & why. If we have a discussion about content that is filtered that has more to do with technical aspects I will, right now, always allow access. If it's about the actual content then it becomes a broader discussion that involves both parents.

My goal is that by keeping communication open early their moral compass will be developed enough to evaluate situations when the parental units have absolutely zero control over access. Pretty much like any other aspect of parenting except requiring more technical acuity.
This from Kalanick was unexpected to me:

"We are working out a process to identify these drivers and compensate them pro bono during the next three months"

You could argue it's just a PR thing, I suppose, but it certainly wasn't something I expected to see.
Swift is getting very verbosive. I would hope it get to stabile state soon as possible.
Because the list of countries was drafted by Obama's administration.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1187
Many HN readers (and Dem voters) are among the tech elite who at best benefit (and at worst promote) the fundamentalist neoliberal-corporate ideology that has crushed the US citizenry and contributed substantially to the von Clownstick revolt. They were the useful idiots content to keep their heads down, buy shitloads of expensive tech gadgetry, pay the elevated rents that dehomed locals, and obediently wrote code whilst their fellow citizens slept in cars. Well the 'minority' bit back. Irrationally, and probably fatally, but it was entirely predictable.
Apparently they are America's friends in the Middle East
Yep, US has been bombing and droning many of these countries and people coming in should be taken without any knowledge who they are or what are their intentions?

Trump just signed action for 5 year lobbying plan. Looks like he deliver once more. It's shameful HN doesn't flag posts calling Trump and his supporters nazis, homophobic and other names. While any dissident about liberals is flagged/downvoted to oblivion.
The moderating staff tried a one week ban on politics. It didn't work and didn't last a week in part because it failed so spectacularly. One result: Almost every single submission had people threadshitting with announcements that "This is POLITICAL" as their way to protest the ban on politics.

Flag or downvote. Read the things that interest you. Ignore the stuff that doesn't. There is no obligation for you to read anything in particular and I have difficulty believing that anyone can manage to even read everything that hits the front page, plus all comments, etc.
None? What does government jobs have to do with equality? Well over half of US works for private companies already, the impact of no government jobs would be minimal if you ignore the obvious problem that we wouldn't have a government.

Arguably companies would come in to replace the government. Private security, private trash pickup, private road maintenance. It would work, but I'm not sure how well
This is looking at two effects and deciding one of them is the cause.

Saudi Arabia is a close ally of the US. That's the really horrific truth, and that's why Trump has business there and not in countries which the US is less friendly with.
Right... and that's the collective name for the terminal device's settings. I see, thanks!
Interesting bit: Travis Kalanick pledges that Uber will compensate drivers stuck overseas because of the executive orders.
Undergrad at MIT here, thanks for signing! Our community has been fairly troubled by this to say the least, and your outpour of support is incredibly helpful.
"build quickly to prove out a product feature, but always with a path to a more robust solution."[0]

I like Discord's compromise.

[0] https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-m...
False equivalence.

I never stated their were equivalent, but the silence pre-Trump about immigration issues was deafening.
I don't think I've met an Uber driver that was paid in peanuts. Can you cite your sources?
Bayes Impact (YC S14) is hiring data engineers
Cracking down on illegal immigration was definitely a major plank in his platform. I think the wall is stupid and a waste of money but, at the end of the day, it is in service of existing immigration laws, so it's not abhorrent to the same degree as the Muslim ban, which uses executive power to capriciously deny entry to people who were previously legal immigrants, visitors, and tourists.
Is it sensical to accuse the entirety of HN of spinning all Uber stories negatively, and then in the next sentence note Uber doesn't talk about what it does for drivers, implying you understand that HN's perspective is primarily influenced by reams of rigorous work showing Uber drivers have a very precarious position?

The insanely high star requirements (What is it, 4.4? 4.8?) are more than enough to doubt Uber's charity, especially when your PR department focuses on spinning intentionally breaking laws as a crusade for everyone's rights, instead of communicating all the wonderful things done for drivers.

Imagine if Apple removed apps with lower than a 4.5 star rating, and then an Apple employee commented on Apple's unambiguously helpful response to a national crisis by immediately trashing HN and crowing about all the secret wonderful things Apple does for developers.
The best way is to threaten to take them to courts and hope they will wilt under that threat. You could also try lodging a false/misleading advertisement complaint.
I hope I am not downvoted because I have a different view.

I think Trump is a show man to some degree. He has said in the past he wanted to be in Hollywood. This is important to understand what drives him.

I think what Trump is doing is a part of a show, to tell his voters he is credible. But I think his long term policies will not be this drastic even if they are. I think the tech community should work with him to do the right thing, dissenting with him is not the right way at this point in time. It is too early to decide that you are against Trump ( as a Tech community).
Lol you mean the candidate that got more votes than Trump?
So why isn't there somebody with total laser focus on the Mac Mini? The Mac Pro? iOS for the iPad? Seems to me that these are some of the functions that the supposedly functional Apple organizational structure is neglecting.
This is the time to make as much noise as you can - protest, call your congress person, etc.

This is the time to follow the "no quarter given" tactics of the NRA - they get their members to show up at any legislation anywhere that even smells of Gun control and raise a massive ruckus - similarly the time to protest is NOW before Trump rolls out the really evil stuff.
The present day generation Germans is so far removed that that would make no sense. But it would have made sense prior to approximately 1935 or so.

Even then it probably was too late but who knows, maybe there would have been a way to push back against the brownshirts.

Historians are not in agreement on this subject, there is a school of thought that the whole thing might have been averted.

The main culprit (the treaty of Versailles) was a 'winner takes all' arrangement that sowed the seeds for WWII, Hitler merely tapped in to the resentment that was already there and managed to wreck Europe for two generations as a result of that. In the end Germany ended up much worse than where they started as a result of their 'Germany First' policy.

I think the main lesson learned here is that if the spoils from globalization aren't divided in a fair way there will be a huge backlash (predictable), unfortunately turning the clock back will result in yet another backlash.

These pendulum swings are way too fast and violent for society to adapt without damage.
It's not ideal. For instance if I as the caller wished to provide an empty dict-like object (e.g. dict_arg=collections.OrderedDict()), then your code would silently ignore it, and use a new dict.

Instead of checking for any object that evaluates to False, you should explicitly check for None, e.g.

def func(list_arg=None, dict_arg=None):
if list_arg is None:
list_arg = []
...
You're not very good at this.
Huh. My next door neighbor is an American citizen, born in Iran. He left before the Shah was deposed. He owns a successful local company. Sounds like this would apply to him.

No wonder I haven't heard from them in a few months.
So what are the Democrats doing about this. The silence from that group is deafening.
The n-player PD is also known as the public goods game, and is used to study cooperation as well.

Another meta-conclusion I would draw from our paper is that current game theory is insufficient to explain what we observe in real life, including politics, negotiation, and so on. It is folly to apply hyperrationality (strict economic modeling) to real human behavior, and part of the goal of our work is to stimulate more realistic models of what people do in these situations.
I'm surprised that anyone thinks it's OK when a program has trouble with a data set with over 100 small entries. Can you point to an example of that?
This sounds really appealing. How do you do this? How do I get started on running for water reclamation?
Trivia: the specific seven countries are ones deemed by DHS to be "high risk" in February 2016, during the Obama administration, so it's not an arbitrary pick by Trump [1]:

"Have you traveled to, or been present in, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, or Yemen..."

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/visa-waive...
Is it fair to call the product unsafe? It's industrial production equipment. I think if a person chooses to operate one in their own dwelling, it's on them to take increased safety measures.
I agree that some violence is unavoidable, and some violence is absolutely necessary. I don't think that the time for either is when people are simply talking though. Disagreeing with someone doesn't justify punching them in the face, no matter how self-righteous you may be. At least that's the way I look at it.
--->Legal immigrants
How do you plan the help the US residents stranded overseas?
> It's just a matter of time now till they to tear apart net neutrality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13474079

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/fcc-to-be-led-by...
> The same goes for his powers of recall (it's a parlour trick and something you can train at) except it's also possible to fake it, in the way I suggest above, because nobody really keeps that sort of fact handy and they'll probably not be given the time to check.

Also, yes they do. They absolutely did that with Kim Peek. People investigated him with lists of such facts at hand.

> Right off the bat, the very fact that the two things he's remembered for -calculating birth days and recalling news items-

You have no idea what you're talking about. He was known for neither of those things.
> Won't release his tax returns,

How does that show undeniable corruption. He is not legally required to release those. It is suspicious, yes. I wish he did, but because he didn't doesn't mean there is undeniable corruption. There might be corruption but it is pretty deniable

> appointed an administration full of bankers, CEOs and even family members (nepotism).

And Hillary got paid $200k for speeches to the same CEOs and bankers... She appealed to Occupy Wall St. kids in public and also Wall St. That's pretty interesting I think and afraid one of the reason she lost.

> and even family members (nepotism)

True. But Clinton appointed Hillary the head head of the health task force. That is far worse nepotism. She wasn't qualified and it was a waste and a failure.

> Mayor intelligence agencies are investigating his relationship to Russia.

And Hillary has been investigated by FBI since ... forever? The start of her campaign at least. All brought on by her own misjudgment to use a private email server. Which ended up with Top Secret classified material on it.

But the list goes on with Hillary.

* For example rigging Palestinian election:

" we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.” or in her own words: https://soundcloud.com/user-30899546/hrc-determine-who-win-1

* Took $1m bribe from Qatar after she new it was funding ISIS

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

"- Would like to see WJC "for five minutes" in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC's birthday in 2011."

You might say it is because Qatar was deeply concerned about AIDS in the world. And it might be believable except that as soon as the election was lost, Clinton Foundation donations dropped. That is very unexpected as clearly Hillary and her family will now have a lot more time to refocus on charity. Many people might call that whole setup "corruption" and "pay to play".

* Even during the campaign she could not win honestly and had Donna Brazil pass questions to her for the debates. Why? That is ridiculously stupid. She didn't have to cheat. She could have just let Trump talk and bury himself.

* Now also in case there is still doubt about the purpose of many of those "charitable foundations". Doug Band clearly articulates how the "bread is buttered" so to speak:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32240 (see doc attachment)

The list goes on. Unlike claims against Trump these are pretty undeniable. Unless we think these emails are doctored and not original. But I think they are and most people think they are.
"the Russians would carpet bomb the nation with their version of the story"

But how can they carpet bomb the US with fake news from Russia?

"Even in Europe"

Maybe Europe will have to shake off its arrogance and realize how much they have always depended on the US. I say that as an European - and here, also, people are divided over Trump, just as in the US. There are elections in Germany this year (if you meant Germany), although to be fair, no major shakeup is to be expected. But that is only for lack of an alternative, there is no Trump here to vote for. But maybe some adjustment of policies will occur before the election date, anyway.

"Yes, but just like Hitler found out: you can't fight wars on all fronts at once."

Still, making a tactical error is not in itself evil. And chaos is a tactic that sometimes works. It won him the election already.
That's almost alien. rc is quite different, wow.

It's really sad that this isn't available for Linux. :(

Because this just makes so many cool things possible.
This is a good way to get a CS rep to stop being interested in helping you and instead refer you directly to legal@

I'd never threaten a suit unless you intend to file right then and there.
> It's shameful HN doesn't flag posts calling Trump and his supporters nazis, homophobic and other names

No, what it is shameful is applauding this executive order.
The one at my school was pretty entertaining, if you happened to stumble on a blocked site it would load a page with javascript obnoxious enough to lock up your computer while slowly flashing bright colors so everyone could see.
Even citizens can be prevented from coming back. It happened a few times during GWB's reign.
nope - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We
> In fact, it's what half of us wanted

First, it's 46% of the people who voted (i.e. less than half). Second, it's quite disingenuous to suggest that all of those people would support this hamfisted immigration restriction, as-is; in case you were oblivious to your surroundings for the last year, vast numbers of voters -- if not the majority -- were merely voting for the person they despised less. It's more than a tad delusional that there's a mandate here to go and fuck over people's lives because of the happenstance of where they happen to come from.
So what? What'd be right thing to do in this case? I disagree with Uber on a bunch of things, but me judging them to do the wrong thing on some issues, doesn't prevent them doing the right thing on others. By critizing them for doing the right thing you're just disincentivizing from doing the right thing again.

I think this line of argument weakens "our" position considerably.
given that EU students will no longer be offered UK student loans or tuition subsidised by UK taxpayers after brexit, this becomes less of an issue as each year passes...

it's not exactly easy to collect from former students defaulting on their loan repayment agreements at the moment either (if they're not in the UK)

(your argument about GBPEUR also makes no sense, if the euro increased in value that would make the UK cheaper for people holding euros...)
I came here to say this. I have to occasionally use Visio for work, and I prefer the simplicity of this way more.
Good, we can never be sure whether this student's plan was to be educated here and then return to her home country where hostile parties would employ her to our disadvantage.
How would you apply the same reasoning to conjoined twins?
Proud to be a permanent resident of Canada now. I left US (H1B visa) some months back.