skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an accountant, but since the OP is moving at the beginning of this year then they'd have at least 9 more months before having to sever their residential ties to Canada (i.e. selling their house). If the CRA believes that they're still a resident for tax purposes (even after having moved to the US), they may be on the hook for both Canadian and US taxes for the 2017 tax year. The tax treaty between Canada and the US for tax offsets may not apply because both countries may claim that the OP is resident in their respective jurisdictions.

Of course, I'm sure they're already consulting an accountant, but at least they have a window of opportunity to see how the new job works out before pulling the trigger on selling Canadian assets.
I always thought git's rise was mainly because it was #1 an acceptable DVCS and #2 because Linus Wrote It.

I'm doubtful that if bzr was just a bit faster it would have taken git's place. hg was arguably better than git and it still lost.
Can you explain what you mean by "unmodifiable"? I have a limit, but on the banks app and website I can lower it (and I keep it very low) in the hope that any issues I have would be limited by this. Is this not actually worth doing?
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Hotel management said that they have now been hit three times by cybercriminals who this time managed to take down the entire key system. The guests could no longer get in or out of the hotel rooms and new key cards could not be programmed.

Oh dear god, three times? Bump this up your priority list, fellas.

Brandstaetter said: "We are planning at the next room refurbishment for old-fashioned door locks with real keys. Just like 111 years ago at the time of our great-grandfathers."

Ok. Or couldn't you just disconnect it from the net and secure local access? Have a mechanical override mechanism? I feel like there are many solutions here.
200 million from 7 countries temporarily suspended. 1.3 billion from the remaining 189 -- unaffected. Tell me again how this is a blanket Muslim ban?
> (2) put safeguards in place that limit the power of the Presidency

> Way too much power in those executive orders,

Makes sense. Coming from Europe and talking to people there, it takes a while to explain to them how the President here has so much power here.

> we'll shut the country down until congress presents a working plan on how we're going to:
> (1) get rid of Trump

But what would be the basis of that? Just people saying "not my president". He was voted in by a large part of the country after all.

Now let's think about Google or Facebook shutting for a day maybe. That would get people's attention. Wonder if that would work... it might. There is no real "Republican leaning" equivalent there for those services. Most technology companies which face the public are left-leaning I think. So yeah, I want to see they try that perhaps.
Violence is not the only possible outcome when political discussion breaks down.
CNC zone reports that cutting polycarbonate on higher power lasers under nitrogen can be made to work, but it's touchy.[1] The plastic tends to melt rather than cut. Pre-freezing the material is suggested.

[1] http://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-laser-engraving-cuttin...
I would consider paying a small amount for feedback/editing but I would expect the feedback to be very good otherwise, I would not continue to use the service.

I would also consider to exchange feedback for feedback.
Do you think Idaho's representation in the US congress is "ceremonial at best"? Those 21 counties constitute a nice slice of CA pop and given their agricultural might, I think the US congress would give them some attention.
There has been a moderator comment on politics:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
Witzel comes across as a deeply racist person. I am told that he told an Indian person that "Hindus cant get a chair professorship to study Indology because they will be biased!". He has a long history of viciously attacking other scholars who try to criticize his work in academic fashion.

Having said that his book on world mythology is excellent.
Oh I agree about SA. They are not fully our allies and they aren't fully our enemies. I linked the article mainly to illustrate that things are not so clean cut. I just constantly see "9/11 hijackers" parroted with no other considerations of the ramifications of a SA ban and what it would mean for us.

My primary goal right now in these discussions is to expand the minds of the people on HN who seem to be overly myopic. These are complicated topics that have many moving parts.
Our's would check for words on the page and block it if it had certain words. A lot of times you could get around it just by moving over to https.
Hi folks. Val and Roger were dear friends, and I am on the ground here, and I'd like to respectfully ask that you refrain from speculation. The press is rushing to print sensational items, and they don't know the actual facts.

I've been talking to the police directly, and nothing is conclusive yet. They don't even have full toxicology reports.

On a personal note, I can tell you that there were two devices in the house, a small 3D printer, and a small laser cutter, that were used for building models and rigs for scientific research. Val was an immaculate engineer, and conformed to all safety rules in operating these machines. To the best of our knowledge, neither of the machines were operating the night they passed away.

Again, please refrain from fear-mongering and speculation. I know it's natural for engineers to attack unsolved problems, but you are not working with correct or full data. Once more data is available, we will write up a complete and truthful statement to try and provide closure on this issue.
> If you think you are a salve then you clearly haven't experienced real slavery.

Any one who is not financially independent is a modern slave.

> It's designed for people who need to close a gap between gaining knowledge and employments; coping with stress to not finding suitable jobs.

No. You can do anything or remain idle. That UBI.
Shimming things adds stuff and even out the field/load/distribution in stuff I do. E.g. I'd say that balancing a cars wheel was done by adding a shim.
For eight years, Obama's detractors have been ranting how he's a spineless Muslim sympathizer because he's "afraid" of bombing his way through Iraq and Afghanistan. I can't think those internet warriors would have voted for Hillary Clinton.

So where are they now, and who are all these peace-loving people who suddenly came out of the woods in the last year to denounce Clinton for "loss of Muslim lives"?
I haven't seen one, but I think about it a lot. Locally I'm co-coordinating an in-person group where we start meetings learning about civil discourse and rhetoric and mediation concepts, then we move on to a specific policy issue such as Obamacare, and try to make progress after being primed and equipped for civility.

We're working on making a curriculum out of it. Reach out to me if you want to discuss via chat or email. I have some ideas for an online forum as well.
Hi folks. Val and Roger were dear friends, and I am on the ground here, and I'd like to respectfully ask that you refrain from speculation. The press is rushing to print sensational items, and they don't know the actual facts.

I've been talking to the police directly, and nothing is conclusive yet. Nothing has actually been ruled out, nor determined to be the cause. They don't even have full toxicology reports yet, those take days and sometimes weeks.

On a personal note, I can tell you that there were two devices in the house, a small 3D printer, and a small laser cutter, that were used for building models and rigs for scientific research. Val was an immaculate engineer, and conformed to all safety rules in operating these machines. To the best of our knowledge, neither of the machines were operating the night they passed away.

Again, please refrain from fear-mongering and speculation. I know it's natural for engineers to attack unsolved problems, but you are not working with correct or full data. Once more data is available, we will write up a complete and truthful statement to try and provide closure on this issue.
It sounds pretty plausible. But, I'm not sure what benefit that gives them? The article says the cameras are trained on public spaces. So in principle they (China, Russia, etc.) could get the same information by having an agent just hang out there (yeah, I know, the same can be said for the DC Police). So pwning the CCTV cameras probably doesn't give them access to any sensitive or novel information.
You invest in education, obviously. Is there any other method that works?

Get rid of your television and replace your cable news subscription with a library card.
Developers will target platforms that have users with money to spend. I can have a team developing on a non apple platform, and then share one mac mini for final builds.
"I don't think it's a good idea to work on more than one project", yes I also think that's a bad idea.

Do you want to realize the ideas for fun, for profit or to learn something?
Yep, agreed. I do like the sandboxing quality though, as most things I install aren't as widely used and trusted / audited as wget and jq. I might consider using this for well over half of the stuff I touch, simply for default-safety.

Anyway. It's pretty clear this is mostly an experiment to see how far it can go, not making any claim to what you should use it for. I think we can agree it's pretty neat, if a bit silly sometimes?
Sorry got that one wrong, his adoptive father was an immigrant, but Ellison was born in the US. Thanks for correcting.
After a period of 6-12 months outside the country, US Green Card holders lose their Green Cards.

In a time of grave concern for many green card holders, it's probably better to avoid this sort of inaccurate info. It's freakout time but let's stick to freaking out about true things.
Isn't that the reverse?
"Not the profile they are looking for" in this case sounds like "overqualified", possibly with the expectation that you'll want to much money or are going to try to get a higher-level job soon. To much experience on the software side.

"DevOps for a Fortune 500" doesn't sound like you spent much time fixing hardware, CS degree isn't all that relevant either. Note that "Basic knowledge of Linux and networking" is quoted as a "preferred qualification", vs "Intermediate knowledge of computer hardware systems" and "Able to lift/move up to 20kg equipment on a daily basis" being basic requirements.
That's not quite correct. It happened in 1977 and in 1982.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_general_election,_1977

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_general_election,_1982
Defcon 24 vid about skimming EMV cards at ATMs and withdrawing cash from the skimmed account at a different remote ATM (cashout): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgIk_oIK2SM
Also I see no reason to give Uber a high chance of being the first to develop level 4 autonomous cars. Google, Tesla and Volvo all seem ahead. And then why should they give the market to Uber rather than run their own taxis? Tesla are already talking about competing.

("Tesla says it will roll out Uber-style ride-hailing program "http://europe.autonews.com/article/20161020/COPY/310209846/t...

"No, you can't use your self-driving Tesla to make money through Uber" http://mashable.com/2016/10/20/tesla-ride-sharing-ban/#6Mklf... )
Clearly you've missed the intention behind his statements regarding crowd sizes, which is yet another jab to the news media. It was very successful among his constituency ("liberal media lying again! very devious!") but the message seems to have been missed by the left.
It lets go on its own. The levels in your blood fall by half every few hours.
- Islamophobia is an ideology, Islam is a religion. Persecution of Muslims is no different than persecution of Jews, which we also -- rightly -- call racist.

- There are no such cities. You're just spouting racist paranoia, nothing more.
It's not the cost of conversion, it's that the fraud just vanishes in the insane rents American credit card processors extract. In the EU, these fees are limited to 0.3% for CC and 0.2% for debit cards, so there is less margin to just keep paying the fraudsters instead of updating systems.
I have a NUC5i3RYH and you can (I have) set the fan control curve in the bios so that the fan stays off until the CPU reaches 75°C.

It is completely silent until you do some gpu/cpu intensive stuff for some time.

It is a lot better than my previous MSI cubi which had the fan always running and had a much mor annoying noise.
The Xbox One S has an integrated power supply fortunately
Might be worth editing your original comment to remove the suggestion that it's a Glowforge, just to avoid unnecessarily associating a specific company that wasn't involved in this tragedy.
Ask HN: What are your experiences in pair programming
Do you apply pair programming? what are your key lessons?
Blocking a country is not racist. If the EO was "Persians are not allowed in" that'd be different.

Indeed."Muslim" is not a race. Perhaps a better word would be "bigoted" or "discriminatory" not "racist"?

If we are going to be splitting hairs: are Persians a race, or are they an ethnicity?
Ask HN: SQL based e-mail clients?
I have almost 20 years worth of e-mail. I probably don't need it all.

However, e-mail clients change. Sometimes I change my primary OS. Currently I am on OS X.

I am looking for an e-mail client that uses SQLite or SQL based backend. Everything I have is in .mbox, so pretty portable. But, if I could fire up a SQL tool and run queries, I could always have access to my e-mail, client agnostic.

Does anyone know of anything that exists?
It's not that simple.

"In the realm of extremist Islam, the Saudis are “both the arsonists and the firefighters,” said William McCants, a Brookings Institution scholar. “They promote a very toxic form of Islam that draws sharp lines between a small number of true believers and everyone else, Muslim and non-Muslim,” he said, providing ideological fodder for violent jihadists.

Yet at the same time, “they’re our partners in counterterrorism,” said Mr. McCants, one of three dozen academics, government officials and experts on Islam from multiple countries interviewed for this article.

Saudi leaders seek good relations with the West and see jihadist violence as a menace that could endanger their rule, especially now that the Islamic State is staging attacks in the kingdom — 25 in the last eight months, by the government’s count. But they are also driven by their rivalry with Iran, and they depend for legitimacy on a clerical establishment dedicated to a reactionary set of beliefs. Those conflicting goals can play out in a bafflingly inconsistent manner."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-ar...
Agreed. HTTP2 is garbage.
> But what would be the basis of that?

Damaging America, possibly beyond repair. One person should not be allowed to do that, especially someone who was voted in on the slimmest of margins.

I'm trying to imagine how the Republican congress would have reacted to Hillary Clinton signing any of these executive orders, I don't think they'd be wanting for reasons to impeach in that situation.

> Now let's think about Google or Facebook shutting for a day maybe. That would get people's attention.

Just twitter for a couple of weeks. That would at least stop Trump from putting his foot in it for a while, though I'm sure the narcissist in chief would quickly find some other avenue to keep ramming on the buttons of his base.

Oh, another real problem with the US electoral system: no matter what there is a four year lock-step system, even if the outcome is horrible. Elsewhere governments can fall early and new elections would be called. Such a thing would never happen in the US and I believe this is an important safety mechanism.
It's about productivity. If it's purely pictographic or idiographic, it can only encode precisely what the symbols mean. When cuneiform, for instance, went from its early pictographic/ideographic stage to a rhyme, rebus and initial stage, it went from being just a "tagging" system to an actual writing system, where anything that could be said could be encoded.
I mean in Russia
It's donated into the public domain -- please change it, redesign it, and otherwise do whatever you want with it!
Still, I don't have the impression this was happening under Jobs. He would still had 2 guys in there, updating the chip in the Mini right now.

Total neglect of 60% of their products (Mac pro, Mac Mini), and ditching complete other productlines (Cinema displays, Routers) at the same time, is unprecedented...

I really think Cook is messing it up. Especially not even having the option of a regular keyboard on a 15" MBP, is almost insulting.
Funny to see the it slow down for the pigeon in the road at 14:50.
Would you elaborate on other possible outcomes?
Three years ago my company paid me US$28,000 to move my family (me, wife, three young kids) from New Zealand to New York City. This covered a moving company (approx US$10,000), flights, and one month's rent while we found a place to live. So it was basically enough, but there were a few costs we just covered ourselves (always the way). So from my perspective what you're being offered sounds reasonable, especially seeing you have fewer kids and it's "only" from Canada.
It does sound like you were not a "culture" fit for Amazon. But why tie your self-esteem to a company like Amazon? They have had been called out over the last couple of years for their hiring and work culture. I doubt that they've resolved all of that at this point in time. It's not you. Quite frankly, you could probably find a better company to do this type of work for.

Regarding secrecy - companies of Amazon's size are by the book and always concerned about any potential legal liabilities with regard to HR. The rule is usually "say as little as possible". This is pretty much the case everywhere today.
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I know it sounds like it is nothing beyond his personal experience where n=1 but I for one can do n++ for him and know tons of people that would point to a similar experience with dopaminergic stimulants.
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Ask HN: How are Unix tools composable?
The second rule of UNIX is to make applications that can work with each other. All the stuff I read have to do with using text streams. My question is, even if it's a text stream, don't programs need to parse the text stream to get some semblance of a data structure they can work with? So if it can be any arbitrary text stream, how do they ensure composibility?
You want to unite the country by making divide and conquer a stronger and more effective political strategy?
That's actually a security feature. Automatically resending is not.
It only really works if you are showing them that they are going against what they thought their base wanted. Free trade right now would probably be one where a lot of Republican members of congress would have likely been surprised to learn a year ago that there was a large percentage of their Republican voting constituency that was against free trade.

So yes, if you are a Republican with a Republican representative then calling them to voice your displeasure about Donald Trump's behavior may be beneficial. Otherwise it probably won't do much unless there really is massive numbers.
The state organizations have separate budgets, and they do the direct work with affected people.

For example, CAIR-MA serves all of New England on less than a quarter million dollars a year.

Any state, but particularly red states. Consider CAIR-Oklahoma.
I have a few notebooks full of ideas. Detailed ideas.

I usually take a look and decide what would be the most interesting for me to work on at the time. I figure if I am interested, I'll stay motivated and therefore have a better chance of completion.
Are you actually fucking retarded? This isn't a white nationalist forum, this is a discourse of highly intellectual rational arguments. Please connect the dots between your statements.
Working through Jones Forth got me up to speed on both understanding how Forth works and getting my hands dirty with some practical assembly coding.

Once I got a better idea of Forth, I also realized that Jones stays in assembly for rather long. He builds up the entire interpreter from raw assembly words, because you need the interpreter to start parsing textual Forth source. But you if you could somehow write Forth before the interpreter is put together, it would be quite natural to switch to Forth much earlier. And it turns out you can do that. Jones even defines the `defword` macro. But for some reason he makes very little use of it. Rewriting most of the code leading up to INTERPRET using defword was a fun exercise.

The next step would've been making the whole system bootstrapping by rewriting the assembler in Forth, but x86 machine code generation is hairy enough that I bailed out at this point.
IMO it's super dumb that we're going through the whole business of replacing card readers to get chip support but NOT getting pin requirements. I've had a few CCs stolen from my mailbox (apartment with a large shared mailbox with simple padlocks). The new chip-only doesn't protect against this at all. MasterCard SecureCode was also a step in the right direction IMO, but the adoption rate seems very low. Basically, I want to require a second factor for every purchase. There's no way to do that right now with US cards that I know of. Debit cards can do it in person, but the fraud liability is different from CCs, and I don't get the fat 3% back or help my credit score. The best option online seems to be PayPal, which again loses the CC benefits. Thus, I just accept the inconvenience of getting my CC stolen a few times per year, since I'm not liable for the fraud, but it makes me cringe how this is currently the best solution available because of how messed up the incentives in the payment industry are here.
> I can't really take you serious if you invoke Putin as the supposed mastermind...

Between Putin and Assange there are very good reasons to damage America as much as they can get away with and it didn't take much to tip the balance. America has never been as divided in recent memory as what is happening today.

To think that Putin would not be involved is naive, what with the situation in the Ukraine being what it is he desperately needs some way to get out of the stalemate and with America run by the likes of McCain and Clinton and NATO and the EU being strong and united there would be very little chance of that.

Putin stands the most to gain from all this by far.

> International relations: because the countries he temporarily blocked for immigration have previously been such big friends to the USA? I don't think that accurately reflects reality.

You must have missed his comments on Taiwan, Mexico and a whole bunch of other countries.
Is Globalization to Blame?
Hum, admittedly, most of this is past my knowledge graph, since I know nothing of mathematical logic.

Are you saying the practical relevancy here is actually to logicians? In that it means they can now more easily come up with proofs for their theorems by simply writing a program instead of whatever more complicated paper proof they used to have to come up with?

And that for software, it's only helpful in special cases where you need to guarantee a small piece of logic is 100% correct?