skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Called this five years ago: https://rocknerd.co.uk/2012/10/08/no-film-is-not-in-unique-n... Not that it wasn't obvious.

Filmmakers plead their uniqueness and that only they can deliver blockbusterism. Record companies did the same! and then the studio turned out to be a computer with a DAW program on it, and you can literally record something of full professional quality at home. You can use a full studio if you want, but now it's optional.
I agree with that, and after the initial confusion it turns out green card holders are being allowed in, at least if they don't have an extensive criminal record[0].

[0]http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/donald-trump-travel-b...
Frequently, companies which make use of open source code will do scans, and identify (and immediately remove) such code.

It's a common occurrence in my experience in companies over 1k or so employees. Under 1k, getting hit with the GPL would probably just be a death knell.
Washington Post as an impartial fact-checker? Surely, you must be joking. WP has been pretty blazen in disregard in their "facts" during the election and have most blatantly been pushing an anti-Trump agenda under Bezos's guide. Obama most certainly did suspend or slow immigration from Iraq for a period, regardless of religion. Difference is Obama only did it for Iraq for 30 days, Trump has named 9 countries for the "ban" for 90 days, none of which is capable or willing to cooperate with background checks. All 9 countries are countries that were known to the Obama administration as either harboring or sponsoring terrorists. There is no religious test here. There is no racial test. Everyone wanting to the enter the US from these 9 countries are all subjected to the same scrutiny.
https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/1aqh31/is_acade...
> which Parse only was after it had already failed

You just listed some pretty impressive metrics, Parse was acquired for $85M and yet, you still think that Parse failed?

I'm curious what you would call a success.
One of the loaner Teslas was defective too. The headlights would turn off intermittently.
Google employees rally across the world to protest Muslim ban
Racist seems to be expanding and contracting. The whole "you can't be racist against white people" thing has been gaining traction lately. It's quickly becoming a word devoid of all meaning.
Yes, the way it was communicated was pretty terrible. The Trump admin was contradicting each other which I think fueled 90% of this outrage.
Please don't be snarky about it. Leaving lone URLs as comments is not helpful to other members.
This has been around for a while? I'm not sure why this is surfacing on HN now.

Here's an article from 2015: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/15/dropbox-announces-paper-a-...
It's Google Wave.
"In couple weeks I got notified that my refund was approved, and I got contacted by another guy, who suddenly suggested me to get vehicle rebuilt. Of course I agreed to that generous offer saying I’d love to have the same vehicle."

What?
in other words, assume the worst will happen, despite assurances of the contrary.

And, just to emphasize, having a small company or product acquired by a big company is no guarantee. In fact it's oftne quite the opposite. E.g. Parse was acquired by Facebook, and then killed. Google has killed countless projects and companies. Oracle loves to kill products they acquire. The list is endless.
First "real" program I ever wrote -- at age 12 or 13 was on TI-99/4A. I've never been into video games so I wrote a program to manage my paper route. Back then there were these paper publications called newspapers and kids could get jobs that entailed walking around the neighborhood without adult supervision and delivering the papers to houses. Also collecting money once a month.

I had a customer file (on cassette tape of course) and it tracked how much each customer owed, etc.

It was a spaghetti mess I'm sure as I knew nothing about programming but I got it to work.

Of course a paper ledger would have been just as good (and probably faster to use) but where's the fun in that?
Solarwinds Orion Server & Application Monitor, Splunk, Lots of custom stuff using python/selenium/phantomjs to go through end user flows, etc...
What are you saying "What?" to? It seems pretty clear to me.
Sorry if I offend anyone, but this text is utter crap.

There's a bunch of anecdotal evidence (experience which varies a lot depending on your particular conditions), over-generalization (please, England? it's the worst visa system, of course you had trouble with them) and the text leaves me with the feeling that he didn't planned any of this.

"Now that I'm on the UK let's see how the visa goes..".

In fact, if you look at this guy's Linkedin profile, that impression really seems to match reality.

Last, but not least, USA may not that restrictive to enter in a non-immigrant high skilled visa - the same way as Canada and a lot of European countries. Immigration, OTOH, is a whole different thing.
I've been using it since October, and I agree with all your points.

The biggest draw for me has been how quickly I can throw together a relatively well formatted doc without thinking much about it. Using inline markdown for headers and basic text formatting is fantastic, and I agree that the table implementation is the best I've used with any markdown-based tool.

I really appreciate the inline google maps, which has been great for planning trips. One welcome addition would be the ability to include a single map with multiple "pins", as having multiple maps on a single page can get pretty untenable as a doc grows. I've tried using links from custom google "My Maps", but that doesn't work (yet?).

I'd love to be able to add other extensions, like yelp review lookups or gist lookups. Maybe not as embeds but as "paste lookups", where pasting a url would create a pre-formatted paragraph or table in the doc (just like how pasting a map url embeds the map).
It's sad they couldn't license any real super heroes. Those guys are lame.
That's a separate issue in finding common ground as to what amounts to negative discrimination. I'm definitely not interested in litigating this one.
Find it funny that you mention Fox News as biased. I find the other big three (CNN, NBC, ABC) unreadable/unwatchable, while Fox News is kind of OK. I prefer RT to any of them, though.
I think you're referring to Section 1 of the 14th amendment, which does not apply to "all persons", but only to citizens:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

People not within our borders that are not also citizens are not within the US's jurisdiction, and those are not afforded the same protection under the Constitution.
Amazon Is Working with Lawmakers to Counter Trump’s Immigration Order
How many sheep will read this, assume it's true, and not realize it's somebody's daydream?
Two counterpoints:

1. Rudy Giuliani is on record as saying that Trump asked how to 'legally' implement the Muslim ban he promised in the campaign trail, and that this executive order is the result. Even if the end result isn't a blanket ban on all Muslims, the intent remains.

2. International law, and treaties that the US have signed, oblige them to shoulder some of the collective responsibility for refugee resettlement in the international community. Banning refugees based on their country of origin works against that, and may well be illegal.
Perhaps we do disagree, that's okay! I think a fair comparison would be Mithril vs Backbone, but not necessarily with using jQuery as you could use Zepto.

I think it's really tough to do comparisons well and what it really comes down to, in my opinion, is how useful the library more so than the size and performance (within reason).

Also, my mistake on missing the links to the implementations in the comparison. Perhaps there needs to be a bit more contrast between the copy and the links?

Anyways, I've used Mithril and I think it's great, just wanted to make sure that the comparisons were fair.
It's one of the most useful tools I've come across in the past few years, I use it daily.
It seems the process of writing notes longhand instead of typing into a computer may have a positive effect on the retention and understanding of information by students. This link is to a 2014 study by Pam A. Mueller and Prof. Danial Oppenheimer.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797614524581
Google is honoring Korematsu today, and it's an interesting story, including the supreme court decision which upheld the validity of the whole ordeal: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/30/512488821/...

I'm not muslim but I'm probably not far down on the list of groups that Trump might take action against in the next 4 years. I'm not fearful for my livelihood today, but I'm extremely wary. Trump himself hasn't really taken a strong stance on this but some in his party seem to think it wasn't a bad idea: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/1...

These days I feel like we're all ants following pheromone trails, and individually powerless against the emergent phenomenon of a new yet familiar social movement.
It's clearly a right-wing site.

Or at least they seem to rant against "leftist" scientists. http://www.science20.com/kevin_m_folta/the_scicomm_challenge...
Immigrants from these countries are not a significant source of labor in the tech industry. Moreover, while Obama set the framework in place, it was Trump that was responsible for the disasterous implementstion that excluded existing visa holders and green card holders with no process.
It doesnt. The hologram is a metaphore. Once upon a time our 3/4 dimension world was encoded upon a world with fewer dimensions LIKE a 2d hologram contains the info of a 3d image.

This world didnt last very long. Under our concept of time it happened long ago, but we can see evidence of it smeared across the sky in the cosmic microwave background. (A 2d image that should look the same no matter where you stand in our 3d space.)
Peteris Krumins - http://www.catonmat.net always has interesting bits on his blog.
I am impressed with Elon Musk and his accomplishments, no doubt. But this is not even close to the worst Tesla customer service story I've heard. The company is a nightmare. The only state you can even SEE a service manual for these cars is in Massachusetts where they mandate it by law, and you have to pay by the hour to see it! There's huge issues that haven't been tested in court with how Tesla treats these cars as "their cars" even after you buy them. Refused to activate salvaged and repaired vehicles that you have the title for, calling and threatening you because they detected you dared tinker with your own car, etc.

I really want to like Tesla, but as long as they treat their cars like a service rather than a product, I'd be terrified to invest my money in one of their vehicles.
Because if they couldn't get me, they'd be forced to hire the next best person from my interview cohort. That would reduce the pool available to all the other companies.
Armchair economist here. More workers = less competition. Competition affects salary. Simple supply and demand? All of the companies who spoke out like Amazon, Apple, and Google NEED workers to fill those roles to run business, and rely on them heavily because there isn't enough data scientists, or engineers for example, in the U.S. or the world, for that matter.
Because the demand for good workers doesn't go away when the supply of good workers gets decreased. To be clear, I am supportive of immigrants working whatever jobs they want to work and that people will hire them for (and I'd argue that the free market is also supportive of this), I'm just noting that people have a financial motivation to keep people more competent than them out of the labor pool.

(Unless, of course, the replacement of competent workers with incompetent ones causes the economy to shrink, which now that I think about it is pretty likely.)
In theory, increasing the supply of labor lowers it's value.

In practice, I'm unconvinced. Tech companies succeed when they put quality over quantity, and demand for high-quality engineers simply exceeds the quantity put out by our universities.

We aren't hiring H1Bs for cheap labor, we're poaching the best from other countries. Hiring more lower-quality local talent is not equivalent.
Glad I'm not the only one. It's not often that I run into fonts that slow me down, but that hurt to read.
Increasing the supply of labor, and accepting lower wages and worse working conditions than natives.

Edit because I hit the post limit, in response to a comment on the idea that they are mostly poaching top talent from other countries: In reality, most are either low pay low skill workers for contracting companies like Infosys (largest employers of H1Bs), or fresh grads that are cheaper and less risky to train (because they, in a sense, own them).

Edit edit for serge2k: If you're so great, then I'm sure they won't mind paying extra for you when the visa party is over.
Gated communities mean they are unimpacted? What is it you think the impact of the wall is? Most of it the justification for the wall I'm hearing is based on economic ("they're taking our jobs") or fairness ("they are stressing our social safety net") arguments. Gated communities don't shield you from those things.

Basically gated communities shield you from some kinds of crime. If you think Mexican immigrants are causing lots of crime then you should also think people in Maine or Michigan shouldn't have much say because of the lower concentrations of immigrants there.
because apparently we (people on visas) are getting horribly underpaid. Trump supporters keep trumpeting this despite the fact that I don't remember showing any of them my pay stubs.

I'm sure Brin showing up in person at the protests was totally because a couple hundred google employees getting screwed is going to drastically raise salaries.

As for people less competent then me. Maybe they should focus more on improving their skills than on how they are getting fucked by immigrants. Guess what, you'll still be whiny losers if they toss out the H-1Bs tomorrow. You'll still be whiny losers if they start tossing out green card holders.

You know why? Because you whine instead of going out and figuring out what you actually need to do in order to get a job.
I think cities should reimburse cabbies if they aren't going to enforce quota restrictions on Uber, etc.
So Camus against violence and Sartre for.

Makes sense; the philosopher or revolutionary most in favour of violence comes from the middle or upper classes, not the lower.
Is your question addressing QuietKit or meditation in general?If the later the results, some of which you have mentioned, are definetly not purely anecdotal see:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation
Before feeling bad for the man you see behind the wheel, take into account that in many cases it is not the individual taxi driver who took the loan; some companies and individuals used medallions as a mere financial product, buying them in bulk and renting them to drivers.

For actual numbers and graphs see this NYT article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/20/taxi-...

If you don't have time to read it, two important points:

- "In New York today, there are four drivers for every medallion, all but ensuring that an investor who owns one can find drivers to lease it 100 percent of the time."

- "The threat to medallion owners isn’t that they’ll lose passengers to these services. It’s that they’ll lose drivers — who have been aggressively courted by Uber. A taxi driver who doesn’t own a cab and medallion can earn comparable fares driving UberX passengers in his private car, without paying a lease fee."
I would question the quality of those longer videos though. The long form videos I usually see are easily made rants over stock video. They aren't typically stories like you would see in a professional shoot. Well-done youtube videos clearly have a team of people behind them doing lighting and set work, plus good editing and even some animations. They cost money too! But I'll concede that movies aren't truly special at the end of the day and they can still be disrupted in the same way as the industries I mentioned above.
Oooooh very nice. I will give it a jam tonight and get the kids to try it out next week :D
Correct, but keep reading.... "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

Also yes, the Constitutional status of foreign nationals in U.S. custody within and without U.S. territory is a much litigated rabbit hole.
A friend of mine has been trying convince me and my peers for like 2 years that the universe is holofractal. Holofractal is different than holographic [1] but is also an interesting idea.

Things like the Em Drive device and this are really making physics interesting again.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/holofractal/comments/5r3i83/hologra...
I've been using Paper since October, and thus far it's been my favorite Markdown Editor. It's not perfect, but it does a great job of accepting inline markdown and then just getting out of the way.

Also, you can export from Paper to Markdown or docx. I've written a few of my github READMEs in Paper and then exported to Markdown and they've worked just fine.

The examples you've mentioned (ctrl-i, ctrl-b, insert hyperlink) all work just fine, as does pasting markdown directly into the editor.

-- I have nothing to do with Dropbox, except as a happy paying customer and a happy Paper user.
Yep data modelling and querying capabilities is a real deal breaker in Firebase.

Something as simple as filtering by 2 or more values becomes ridiculously tedious.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26700924/query-based-on-m...
SGI Memo Development Problems Are Known Since '94 Have We Learned Anything?
He's comparing Reading/UK and Bochum/DE with those areas in the USA. "Oh wow USA is so cosmopolitan" /facepalm

Also, he's essentially mistaking immigration and work visas.

Just the fact that he got surprised by the UK tier visa system already tells a lot. 15 minutes of reading the gov.uk website and anyone can find out if qualifications are met and what needs to be done.
> Aside: may have wanted? Can't even trust what Giuliani said Trump told him?

I presume the quote is accurate, but that Giuliani (or the reporter) may have dropped a qualifier that would change the meaning. In same way that the media uses "Muslim ban" to refer to a moratorium on entry to citizens of certain majority-Muslim countries, given his sloppy approach to accurate speech, I can see that Trump might use these words in a way that isn't as sinister as some would take it.

Rather than speculating on his internal state of mind, I think the better debate is whether his actions are acceptable. That is, if we accept him at his word as to his intent, is it acceptable for the President to summarily close the American border to adherents of a certain religion if he believes that some small percentage of those who would come in intend to do us harm? I think there is sufficient disagreement about even this question that we don't need to consider dogwhistles.

Trump at minimum wanted a Muslim ban. There's no reason to think he won't continue to push for one, or one that accomplishes the same goals.

I haven't seen yet reason to believe that a full ban on Muslims is part of Trump's goal. Some of his supporters (possibly even some of this advisors) want to keep Muslims out of the US as a goal in itself, but I think Trump's actions so far are consistent with his stated intention to keep out those who wish to do intentional harm to the US. The question is how much damage to personal liberties in pursuit of this goal. If he thought there was a reliable way to distinguish between "good Allah-fearing Muslims" and "fundamentalist Islamic terrorists", I think he'd pursue it:

"The job of the president is to keep America safe. And that will always be my highest priority. We will do everything in our power to keep this scourge of terrorism out of our country. We're going to keep it out of our country. Just so you understand, people are pouring in from regions of the Middle East. We have no idea who they are, where they come from, what they are thinking, and we're going stop that dead, cold, flat."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/01/acd.01.html
I believe this scenario actually happens for soccer players, where investors can by equity in a young player's future sale to a bigger club. Although I think there have been some recent attempts to crack down on this practice.
States get "special solicitude" in the standing analysis when they sue over federal policies that affect their interests. The Supreme Court recently affirmed that idea in Mass. v. EPA, which held states had standing to challenge EPA regulation of greenhouse gasses.
Or keep looking until they find someone else. They aren't just going to hire someone unqualified. If they find someone qualified they will also try to find a place for them, because it's hard to find qualified people.
The words out of government's mouth don't make that so clear cut [1]. I don't see any mention of due-process being mentioned there. Generally speaking, rights outlined in the constitution are reserved for citizens, naturalized or natural born, not necessarily those here on visas or other temporary permits (green-card, even "permanent resident", is not truly so, and a green-card doesn't guarantee you re-entry if you leave).

[1] https://www.us-immigration.com/us-immigration-news/us-green-...
I guess the whole 'cheating on the emissions tests' scandal didn't hurt them too bad. Here I thought it would destroy them. Silly me!
thanks... thinking about this more, I don't even recall installing Widevine at any point in the past. Perhaps bundled with FF? Fortunately, I never stream Netflix / AP to my computers.
An automated test tool is not a magical wand
The Final Yolo: Trader Bets It All on Apple Getting Crushed After Earnings
This. FFT is crazy awesome.
Strategic law-breaking pays off more often than not.

In all seriousness, it shouldn't be much of a surprise given all the properties VW owns: Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, SEAT, etc.
To expand, "fifty-eight percent of New York City’s cabs are owned by corporate entities such as Freidman’s. Just a third are owned by the people who drive them. As a result, most taxi drivers and Uber drivers find themselves in the same boat—working as independent contractors, logging brutal hours."

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-taxi-medallion-king/
All other news sources reported the same thing. This is simply another matter of alternative facts vs. real ones.
What international laws, treaty or treaties are you referring to? I find your statement very hard to believe, but I'm no expert.
I work for Microsoft and while I am not personally affected by this executive order, we all received an email which stated that there are a number of Microsoft employees who are.

So it's no surprise that Microsoft are coming out on the side of their employees, and indeed on the benefits of immigration in general - I know from being tangentially involved in some of the hiring process that it's exceedingly difficult to fill certain positions without looking abroad, as the talent is spread globally.
unless you're planning on living near poverty levels, to recreate US lifestyle in India you will need min. $1k/month (INR 70k).
Ask HN: Who is using Clojure in production, and would you do it again?
This has been asked before, but it's been a while. I'm picking it up, and am curious to hear from people with experience. What are you using it for? What do you like and/or dislike? Would you use it again? If not, what would you use instead?