skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the political system was "deeply broken" before Trump is a popular meme these days, one that IMO is utopian, ahistorical, and increasingly destructive.

Rule of law and representative democracy, as we know them today, are quite young, and the modern take on basic human rights is even younger. When did black people win full equality in the US, even in the legal sense? When did Western colonialism in the middle east and India end? When was the last time Western countries opted for total war and incinerated civilians, en masse? These are all things that are today unthinkable that have actually happened within the lifetime of someone who could plausibly be alive today.

Building a just state and society is a slow, delicate, multi-generational project, and we are just at the beginning. We're just now getting to a place where we're moving past barbaric mass violence and mass racist persecution. And you expect us to have a good handle on subtle, systemic problems like inequality and imbalance between state and private power? Have a little perspective and patience!

It's like people look around, notice that we're not in fact in some enlightened Star Trek like utopia, declare that the whole edifice rotten, and decide that the best response is nihilistic glee - why not burn it all down? Get a grip.
It's odd that you would link that. From my perspective, I'm the one doing the boycotting and showing of the door. How do you see it?
>And as for Arial, most of the attitude directed towards it is nothing more than anti-Microsoft snobbishness.

I disagree. Arial features some truly revolting glyphs. The R being the worst offender. Probably of any font I can think of. The G is also pretty disgusting.

On the other hand I find it hard to make something look bad using only Helvetica.
Many SV companies are against Trump because their employees are prevented from leaving and entering the country. And since this decision was not communicated to anyone or timed appropriately it is caused widespread panic.

Chaos is antithetical to a successful business.

SV companies were largely supportive of Trump (due to the chance of corporate tax cuts) up until this point.
Thanks for this link. Reading the draft order reveals a lot - for example, Section 4 a) ii) of the order would kill the international entrepreneur parole rule before it even comes into effect.
High surge prices should pay an oversized amount of wages and profits, in theory leading to lower prices at non-surge times, right? That's a benefit that I will happily give up a chance of a ride for. A 50% chance of a ride is worth much less than half as much as a guaranteed ride.
Do you have the specific steps/requirements for each country documented somewhere?
affects.
Would that not demonstrate the point then? You're saying wages aren't stagnant anymore, occurring at a time when the demand for workers has finally outstripped supply because not enough visas are issued. So don't blame it on immigration now, fine. But if issuances of visas increase then you're back in the <2012 situation of stagnant or decreasing wages due to the availability of cheaper workers. So can you then blame stagnant industry wages on immigration?

Displacement of indigenous workers is also a major issue.

By the way, I wasn't trying to "blame it on immigration", my ire is solely directed at corporate lobbying for public policy, given that their sole motivation is an increase of private profits regardless of the socioeconomic side-effects. It should not be allowed.
powershell approach comes to mind - you just pass objects.
The question then becomes why were the bombings not getting as much or more coverage than a temporary visa ban?

5 of the 7 countries on the visa list are currently being bombed by the US [0].

It's no surprise then that these countries made it on to the Obama administration's list of countries that are sources of terror, which was used as the basis for Trump's visa ban.

From a security perspective it's difficult to argue that countries you are currently bombing won't have people trying to enter the U.S. looking for payback.

0: https://qz.com/895516/which-countries-is-the-us-currently-bo...
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/02...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/01...
If you changed the case of a table name, this means you had to change whatever was generating the SQL since mixed or lower case requires table or column names to be surrounded by double quotes.

So, you changed code and didn't test it. Yup, definitely Oracle's fault.
>Who is saying that this is acceptable?

A few, but this is irrelevant to the parent's point.

Which is that whether people say it is acceptable or not, much fewer numbers complained about it when other administrations where doing it, and much less visibly than people do today .

Which gives one the impression that if in 2 or 4 years some democrat or another republican gets into office and does the same or worse, things will be silent again (except for few consistent protestors), and hence that it's all about ousting Trump rather than justice in general.

Case in point: Obama halted people coming in from Iran in 2011 (for 6 months) and nobody said much of anything. Or how about this: Trump said he'll get rid of 3 million illegal immigrants and all went crazy. Well, Obama has the record thus far with 2.5 million deportations, but nobody seemed to care back then.
Well written. I've seen a lot of stupid arguments defending Richard Spencer's assailant. They all boil down to either some sort of weird false equivalence, or two rights make a wrong. This needed to be said.
A 1958 US Air Force plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
yeah, a study of the literature will show that it is a constant problem for people that start to assume a secret identity. There is a class of people that are actually better at this than others[0]. For police that go undercover flow long periods, they run the risk of "going native" [1][2]. There was Tolkachev[3][4] who insisted on personal meetings rather than dead drops (although it was ultimately Alrich Ames' betrayal that doomed him, not KGB surveillance or tradecraft errors.)

Karl Fuchs described his mental trauma of being both a Western atomic scientist and a Soviet Atomic Spy[5].

There are many more references available, but it is seldom discussed. This is one of the reasons that the CIA (and other secret agencies) become so insular. The members are unable to be open with anyone else except each other, and so they tend to stick together.

Theres more on the extensive work that RUC and Special Branch had to do to maintain the sanity of the IRA informants they were running. There is a constant refrain, human beings do not operate well with secret identities under high stress environments for long periods of time.

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...
[1] Undercover and Alone
[2] Lu-CiFER: Memoirs of a Mongol
[3] The Billion Dollar Spy
[4] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
[5] https://archive.org/stream/sovietatomicespi1951unit/sovietat...
The disadvantage is that if your rewrite branch is halfway finished, you _can_ merge in the latest main branch, but if you do the reverse (which is exactly as much effort), you're blocking the other developers until your rewrite is done.
I love seeing Red Blob Games' articles on HN. They're all excellent, recommending everybody to explore the site a bit.

My favourite article: http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Formerly on medium.com and discussed a couple of times: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F@yani...

Primary discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230508
Why didn't the Enlightenment happen in Italy?

The Enlightenment did happen in Italy.

> Why was Galileo arrested whereas Newton became a national hero?

Because of the Jesuits, and not for the reason you imply. Read Infinitesimal by Alexander Amir.

Galileo was a national hero in Italy, in fact he was an enormous figure across the whole of Europe. Giodarno Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome in 1600, Edward Wightman (for heresy) in jolly olde England in 1612.
>droning weddings

I chuckled pretty hard at this one, imagining a DJI Phantom filming a wedding. Why not call it what it is, "bombing weddings" - the focus is on what the aircraft was doing, whether it was piloted remotely or locally shouldn't matter in the slightest.
Well it says that people from a religion which has the majority in a country are probably not persecuted for their religion. That sounds lie a pretty reasonable assumption?
Yep, a non-technical user will rather go buy a new computer than press Ctrl+F5.
I never said it is enough to reduce inequality. You'd have to heavily tax luxury goods, so the rich would have to convert some of their assets to cash, to pay for their taxes. Sure it won't make rich into middle class, but it is possible.
It is possible that this situation would add frustration for on lookers who notice that a large group of people accepted (or did not SEEM to care) about the killing and torturing of people, but all of a sudden are taking the high ground against a 90 day ban on immigration.

For SOME people it would be hard to accept the opinion of such people?

I find myself falling into this sometime... Is it a cognitive bias?

edit: Its hard for me to think about these issues with large fear based reactions from both sides and the hysteria the media is putting out.
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> makes it explicitly a "muslim ban".

No, 'explicitly a Muslim ban' would say 'this is a ban on Muslims'.

Do consider that the list of proscribed countries is compiled between the Departments of Homeland Security and State, not by the President, and is published in the Federal Register. The fact that the majority on that list currently coincide with dominant Muslim populations might have been useful for Mr Trump's intent but is not guaranteed to persist.

The list was last updated in February 2016.
HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
Project Death
You mean like Netduino?

http://www.netduino.com/

Otherwise there are a few options already

https://www.toradex.com/windows-iot-starter-kit

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Explore/de...

The problem with using C and Assembly instead of more productive options, when the hardware allows for it, is that many don't search properly.
Massive Clintonite, but here's the way I see it:

Would Sanders have lost any state that Clinton won? Probably not.

Would Sanders have worked better in WI, Pennsylvania, Virginia? Probably.

Clinton was 77k votes from being President. Sanders might not have had as much institutional backing in the primaries, but considering that this seemed to have been decided on turnout, and Sanders had a strong grassroots following...

Basically no Clinton voter would not have voted Sanders in Sanders v Trump.
What's your point? That Americans care more about Americans?
It doesn't explicitly call out the E-3 in the leaked document, however IANAL and couldn't tell if any of the clauses implicitly affect it. [I'm on an E-3]
> with non-blocking I/O, you don't need hundreds of threads

That stands true. No need to use Workers for IO. We won't suddenly have to use it, because it does not solve a problem for most of us (like promises did, for example).

> start driving complex UI in multiple web workers

I would guess that for 99% of UIs, it would be total overkill to use Workers (you could still offload e.g. AI, in a game).

In general, the push comes from WebGL and similar heavy stuff.

> something like react-parallel

I definitely can see it, especially with redux. Just for the sake of it, someone somewhere will try it.
He lived a full life, taught a lot of people, was great fun to hang out with. He greatest sadness was that the cancer robbed him of his pleasure of food and wine in his last years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia
This one is extremely popular in the interviewing circles thanks to CTCI.
That's not how Americans view it. The notion of belonging to a nation is very different in the New World, as best exemplified by this map. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jus_soli_world.svg...
> If the job required a unique talent that would only have been possible to fill with an exceptionally talented immigrant worker then the job won't be filled,

Actually wage floors or setting up a bid/auction based system makes it more likely the exceptionally talented worker can get a visa.
To take a note from popular culture, I recall how the primary plot of House of cards - season 2, was the difference between power and money. Power is describe as created by favor and influence, while money mostly creates more money.
Just to clarify, you cannot by train tickets with BTC, but you can buy BTC from train ticket machines. This service has been available for just a few months, and is provided by sweepay.ch.

BTC seems to be culturally accepted, and Switzerland is the home of Buterin and Ethereum as well.

I've also heard that some Swiss banks may soon incorporate BTC wallets into their e-banking solutions (they'll hold your keys for you).

Just thought I would finally add, I have a small service business in Vaud, and have been accepting BTC since 2013. I have yet to have a single person transact. Everybody pays with debit cards.
What’s your real thrival number?
Virtually all of what Trump is being called out on has been consistent bipartisan policy, or at the least supported consistently by recent Republican administrations and by every Republican primary candidate, all of whom were openly racist, xenophobic and anti-science. I think it's a good thing. Finally an ugly, stupid face on ugly, stupid policies.
Those are secondary effects, and it is very much debatable who they favour. I would argue reducing the labour pool gives workers a stronger bargaining position, and thus better wages, reducing the rising income inequality.
Overcommit: A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
I'd be interested to see what the results would be if you took that jpeg and asked 1000 people which font was best.

Also, if the designer is focusing on "readable" they need to make the text of the jpegs very much larger.
no. never sold anything to "3rd world dictators."
Actual libraries.
"Make America great again" never stood for making America actually great, it was all along an euphemism for "Make America go back in time 50 years again", and sadly a lot of people wanted just that.
ISIS is an offshoot of Al Qaeda and the Saudis have always been a major target of Al Qaeda. Bin Laden attacked Riyadh before New York.

The narrative pushed by many journalists that ISIS is a Saudi ally is a complete fiction and big slander against the Saudis, who are very aggressive against ISIS.. The two have been at war since ISIS began.
I think it's an apple to orange comparison; sha1 needs to be compared to a proper crc160, and sha2 to a proper crc256.

(Proper means one nontrivial cycle e.g. An irreducible generating polynomial of a proper size)

I would be surprised if there's material difference in error detection between sha2 and crc255 (other than the 1 bit difference).

However, crc is useless against an adversary - preimage attacks are trivial. at the same size, it becomes an apple to apple comparison, and whether you choose depends on a speed/preimage requirements.
When posting, I was actually not sure about exactly this point.

Thanks for clarifying!
While I understand your point, I think that where HN falls on this spectrum is precisely why HN is valuable (and what keeps it from becoming just another reddit clone).

You're absolutely right in that the OP has no obligation to 'jump through hoops' to prove their point (and again they are free to not reply), but people on HN generally don't make claims without at least some citation/proof, and that's why (to me, and I'm sure others) HN is valuable. Everyone has opinions. The expectation on HN is usually of reasoned discourse, and fact-driven analysis (where applicable)... While this is a minor inconvenience for posters/community members, it does a whole lot to solidify HN as a worthwhile place for people who care about that kind of thing to hang out.
I really like Fleury's algorithm[0] - I used it to generate more efficient paths to draw on a canvas, for the purpose of displaying simple wireframe models. It may not be the most efficient, but I really like the simplicity.

[0] http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/fleurys-algorithm-for-printing-...
A Genetic Fix to Put the Taste Back in Tomatoes
> Is it migrants that refuse to learn the local language, or locals who refuse to learn the migrants' languages?

Good point. In my 2 years in NZ, no one invited me to a BBQ, because I am eastern European. I mostly hang out with asian colleagues.

At work though it's kind of cool to have such a multicultural teams (unless you are manager - those positions are still mostly kiwi (I guess more of an age thing, than nepotism)). I guess it's what USA was a century ago.
The draft order is here: https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7872567/P...

It doesn't mention the E-3 specifically, but the E-3 could come under review under the broader non-immigrant visa review provisions such as section 4d)i)A). The J-1 is specifically mentioned, which would affect Australian students on working holidays. Also, this order, if signed, would stop the international entrepreneur parole rule which would close another entry pathway.
Who was the abandoned man with no memory?
> to the crisp 7pt pale-gray-on-white designers usually label "joy to read" or "beautiful".

Perhaps because they are actually neither and many designers are not well-versed in typography. Making text beautiful (but not necessarily readable) is design; making text readable (but not necessarily beautiful) is typography. They of course, overlap, and good typography usually looks good as well.
Intuitively I'd feel like the larger the bank, the more work such a transition would be and thus the smaller the likelihood of it having happened.
Maybe because the bombings were in faraway countries and had scant information about them? In a large enough city, people generally don't hear about murders that don't happen in their neighborhood nor receive outsized public coverage.
> If wages rise significantly companies will just cut back on projects

The more likely outcome is companies will adopt more efficient work practices.

A slowly rising cost of labor fuels automation and increased value for society.
As an American (and German as a second language speaker) I'm very sorry. I hope you will consider coming back to visit when this nonsense ends. I've lived here my whole life and have hardly had a chance to explore 10% of the land. We need good people. We need smart people. We (most of us) want you.
> Isn't ISIS supported by the Saudis to overthrow the Shiite government of Iraq?

I think it's fair to say that "the Saudis" isn't exactly a monolith in this regard. There's an uneasy alliance between the Wahabi clerisy (who in turn keep the people relatively content) and the house of Saud, who again aren't exactly monolithic, but some of whom have something that at times could be said to approach a reasonably liberal worldview (they, for sure, aren't devout Wahabis).

It would not be terribly surprising if some of the more Wahabi-aligned elements are involved in channeling funds and different kinds of support to ISIS (and the Taleban and Al Qaida, for that matter) while the other end knows that if ISIS gets free reign in Saudi Arabia, the foundation under their government can crumble very quickly.
> I wish I had something important enough to say to be able to put this advice to use!

Do you disagree with the way things are? Do you face persecution of any sort if you publicly express that opinion? You have something important to say and should use this advice to say it.

Those who remain silent are complicit in the success of those who they oppose.
here's the link: https://github.com/brigade/overcommit

thank me later ;)
>No, they use skeuomorphic simulations of those things.

No, they don't. You don't paint moving some virtual drawn brush gizmo, taking to some "virtual water box" to wash it out, etc.

You paint moving a cursor (whether it has a brush icon is irrelevant and not skeuomorphic in the UI sense), and you control properties of the underlying line (color, spread, width etc) with some of them going far beyond what a real world brush can do.

>We have the capability to put anything on the screen that we can imagine, but we're not doing that.

That's because it's not convenient. Except if you have some cool new idea we haven't tried.
They do however have that whole 'Death to America' thing going on:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-marks-revolution-deat...
The reapolitik is the only valid view in international relations (outside of one pole empire, but it is impossible on the current scale of the planet with current state). We live in realpolitik world currently - case in point Saudi Arabia on the human rights council. This is possible only in realpolitik world. In any other type of world relations it will be impossible.

Also - any US leaning dictator getting a pass. Like Saddam, Noriega, Pinochett. Which met their demise after refusing to obey their CIA overlords.

For Iran - if Iran us enemy - which the current administration thinks so, giving their citizens education is bad unless you ban them from exiting US after getting said education. And prevent them from taking the know how there.

If Iranian people had the means to overthrow the theocracy they would have already done it.
Quality assurance doesn't have to have anything to do with blaming people.
We must be from parallel universes, because there were massive protests against Iraq war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003,_anti-war_pr...
You must verify your account with a mobile phone if you sign up using Tor. You can use an email address if it's not over Tor.
I remembered Dan working on this project many years ago. The key idea is to create hierarchies in SQL without having to do self joins. This can be useful for computing permissions quickly, for instance, a department manager may have permissions for his/her department, while someone working under the manager would have a subset of his permissions. One of the problems encountered is there is a limit to how deep the hierarchy can be, and the modelling limitations of mapping permissions to an org chart.
There is no "safe" standard, but command line is primarily designed for users, not applications. It almost by definition requires extra scrutiny.

But the issue here was not the command line. It was not handling the interface properly. Somebody wrote a 5 minute hack to handle security functionality and probably didn't even read the application source to look for proper use, much less version checking. The same thing happens with APIs.

And null terminated strings have worked for 40 years, that doesn't have anything to do with this.
Yes, the term "the free world" comes from the Cold War propaganda but it doesn't stop the fact that the US, as an economic powerhouse, has a disproportionate influence on the rest of the world and this is why I would want it to be worthy of the name "Leader of the Free World".

It's unfortunately not and I think that people repeatedly calling them that tends to legitimize the US actions.
Cache of page:
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Not sure if you're actually asking, but the answers America!
I tried this - I have an anti-vaxxer "friend". Didn't work, the algorithm doesn't publish any of her stuff, I have to go and check her feed specifically for the weird stuff she posts.

I have another pro-Trump friend, again, nothing he says makes it into the feed.

Is there some critical quantity of "alt-friends" you need to balance?
Ah bummer! I can't edit links or delete this. I guess best option is to let it die.
That's because that is just what a Turing machine does.
The GOP had a ton of dirt on Sanders that they never used. If they had, he likely would have done much worse than Clinton. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/the-2016-electi...