skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Run for office. Since it's hard to get up the gumption to run yourself (everyone here knows what imposter syndrome feels like), convince friends to run.

Don't limit yourself to Congressional races. Those are incredibly hard to win, especially for political outsiders. Run for parks commission, for library board, for school board, for town trusteeships, and for county offices. Run for water reclamation. You don't need to be a subject matter expert --- that's not expected of you. You just have to be willing to do a little extra work every month.

Any elected office gives you a greater voice in all of the rest of our politics. You use local offices to put pressure on your congresspeople and your state reps, and to build an organization to win more offices later.

This is what the Republicans have been doing since the 1980s, and as a result the GOP controls most US states.

Another fantastic place to start:

https://www.indivisibleguide.com/
> Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.

The vast majority of Middle East refugees are Muslims in the majority in their countries, so here the Secretary of State is directed to prioritize non-Muslims.

> The United States cannot, and should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place violent ideologies over American law.

What does this mean? Trump is in charge, and he has made it clear that this is how he sees Muslims.

Trump has also specifically stated he will prioritize Christians: http://www1.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2017/01/27/brody-fi...

Finally, there's nothing wrong with a slippery slope argument when Trump has explicitly stated that he wants to get to the bottom of the slope.

> Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

- https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...

This is still on his website. We don't have to guess what he'll try to do next, he's already told us.
That's mighty clever of you, but there's a world of difference between a random pseudonymous person implying we should take Second Amendment solutions to kill Trump and a Donald Trump implying we should take Second Amendment solutions to kill Clinton.

You're a smart guy: you know this. You can do better.
For what it's worth, I certainly have. I'm not being hypocritical here.
In the old days streaming video was forbidden not for its content but for the heavy use of data. I had that in the past at university and companies I work. Nowadays it looks like more an obsolete rule as Internet for companies and institutions is really cheap. So it only makes sense if they are located in a place with bad/expensive connection.
One of these things happens abroad - out of sight, out of mind - another happens at home.

One of these things happens as part of a (relatively) few "outrages", one of those things happens as part of a consistent torrent of outrages.

One of these things is a fact and an action, the other is an interpretation. In case that isn't clear: The interpretation is "clearing the mess"; I sure as shit don't agree with you that that's what's going on, and I doubt Sam does, either - which is part of why he's posting this.
> He did not ban immigrants from a single one of the countries of origin of the 19 attackers.

I found this interesting as well
I think most might be stretching it. Things like games and Photoshop generally are considered better than their open source counterparts.
Lay off seeking justice for a while

Dude, I'm also European and I've spent 25 years listening to and debating with conservative people - in person, on the net, at academic gatherings and many other places. I have studied a wide variety of conservative philosophies and social groups. At what point are you OK with me drawing some conclusions, even temporary working conclusions that I might have to alter later?

When I hear comments like this, the overriding impression I have is that thinking about this stuff is rather new to you and you are hesitating out of uncertainty. But it's a mistake to assume that people with stronger opinions than your own have not put in the hours to think through the issues.
Carbon monoxide is "CO". CO2 is carbon _di_oxide.
This is not a Muslim ban. This is a temporary suspension for immigration from certain countries (many of which we are currently droning, which in itself should've been an outrage years ago.) No one called for action on Malaysia, for example.
We can't retreat to the comfortable confines of our algorithms and code, the real world needs us and needs us now.

Judging by the comments here, HNers have nothing to offer the real world (of politics) other than shrill shrieking about racism and bigotry. That's not going to help anything.

If you actually want to create political change, put your head back into your work and amass a fortune. Maybe in 20 years you'll have enough to make a difference.
I'm firmly on the "I can get political news elsewhere" side.
s/YC/SF/
Of course, but Apple is enormously profitable. That's what shareholders care about, so why would they?
I think it's disingenuous to say there's no difference between celebrating your cultural origins and refusing to adopt American ideologies.

I'm of Finnish descent. I have a Sisu bumper sticker and eat pulla. Do I refrain from making small talk with strangers at a bus stop? Of course not! Americans tend to be more open to strangers than Finns.
Support the ACLU, who have already filed a lawsuit

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/aclu-and-other-groups...
I keep seeing people repeating this meme everywhere, but I've yet to figure out why it's actually relevant. 9/11 was sixteen years ago.
"Level 4" means that no human intervention is required and in case of conditions going from good to bad, the car can autonomously put itself in a safe state.

That was nice and clean city driving in the video clips but nothing that distinguishes it from "Level 3" (human intervention may be required within ~15 seconds or so) or even "Level 2" (human intervention may be required within seconds, current state of the art).
Very tragic.

All the signs were CO poisoning from the start. I think first responders said the body discoloration looked like that. The "ruled out" is probably just a mangling of: water heater, oven, and furnace all ruled out as CO sources.
> False. It's incomplete.

Such an obvious vulnerability as this is either gross incompetence or due to the original action being nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Pick one
The Year in Language 2016
How about the best way:

7. THINK

Think up better arguments, that might convince people. Examine your own opinions, to see whether they're actually right. Examine your opponents' opinions, to see whether they're right too. Maybe come up with new ways of thinking about the issue which are better than the way anyone's thinking about them at the moment. And then start talking.

People in politics should put less thought into HOW CAN I SPEAK LOUDER and more thought into how they can think of smarter things to say?
Well, that didnt take long. The definition is about to get broader, per WSJ:

In a statement that the State Department is due to release, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the 90-day visa moratorium extends beyond just citizens of Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Libya, and Yemen.

It also applies to people who originally hail from those countries but are traveling on a passport issued by any other nation, the statement notes. That means Iraqis seeking to enter the U.S. on a British passport, for instance, would be barred, according to a U.S. official...."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-visa-ban-also-applies-to-c...
Me too. It even pops up on notifications that I set to filter out the top 5% (or so) of posts, so I don't miss anything that was really good.

When governments of "other countries" do something like this, it's a political post that has no place on HN. When it's America, oh boy do we get involved.

I understand this place is 90% American, but truly, there are plenty of other places to discuss this.
EU: US is ‘encouraging extremism’
> For instance you can't drink in the street

Untrue. A few municipalities forbid it, generally in specific places and/or for a specific duration, but the general rule is that it is allowed.

> or be inebriated in public places.

True, but not enforced. Only if you have done something wrong but they can't prove it or they don't want to bother proving it, they will (sometimes) charge you with that.
Yes, don't worry--I'll stay away from a city that has 250 property crimes and 80 violent crimes every day while those in power keep looking the other way to be politically correct.

15 humans lost their lives yesterday in shootings, 268 during January: http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings

I suppose that'll end when Trump sends the Feds as he's promised on Twitter, though.
Organisations have different concerns; Microsoft Exchange used to deduplicate email attachments internally with SIS (Single Instance Storage). It did it within a mailbox database, not company-wide.

But when there was a single attachment and lots of people wanted to get it, it generated a lot of disk IO looking up where the attachment was stored and going to get it. Storage space is cheap, disk IO is more expensive, and in Exchange 2007 to 2010 timeframe - seven or eight years ago - they took SIS out of Exchange and it no longer does this. Now every user reads their mailbox and all the data is right there and the disk IO is reduced.

Disk IO went down, the storage design of Exchange changed to the point where it's recommended to be run on cheaper SATA disks entirely, which is a bigger saving than reducing storage size a bit.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/e...

Mail.ru has different needs to a company internal mail server, companies can enforce quotas and provide alternative file storage.
Do you have any experience running Dolphin on these? I'm trying to replace my just-barely-too-old current system to run Gamecube games.
Yup. Plus the mayor was trying to remove as much red tape for them as he could to bring the notoriety to the city.
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You the people voted for him, so support him. Its a democracy. You dont always get what you want.
> You can only afford to ignore politics for as long as it ignores you.

Hey it's totally ignoring me. So sorry for Americans here, but I agree with the person you're responding to: I too liked HN for being quiet about Donald duck.
Violence is usually the outcome when political discussion breaks down. So if your belief that discussion with Trump supporters is impossible is true, it would seem like time to hop to it.
It is a partial fulfillment of the goal Trump explicitly stated repeatedly during the campaign: "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the country".

He has taken a very large concrete step toward this outcome, explicitly and obviously in service of it. To claim otherwise requires both being obtuse about the wording and the belief that Trump won't do what he said he was going to do. After the events of the past week, the latter claim seems indefensible.
> the greatest threat to humanity

Objectively ridiculous. Davos disagrees[0], and geopolitical experts are utterly nonplussed by Trump (Stratfor, Geopolitical Futures). What 22 year old journalism majors decry as "a systemic threat to the world order" is just seen by geopolitical observers as an interesting gambit that may pay off big. Take what they say about Trump and Taiwan[1], NATO, torture (Trump said yesterday that Mattis was in charge, and if Mattis doesn't believe in torture, he gets to override Trump's orders). Your hysteria is unfounded.

[0]: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-biggest-risks...

[1]: https://geopoliticalfutures.com/trump-taiwan-and-an-uproar/
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It would be a pretty powerful move if the big tech companies all participated in a blackout of their sites/services in protest.
Chicago and Detroit don't get all that much snow.

(Southern Michigan gets quite a lot of snow. Prevailing winds are westerly so lots of lake effect. Grand Rapids gets almost 2x the snow that Detroit gets. Cleveland also gets more snow than Detroit, lake effect from Erie)
If that figure includes Apple Store employees, the number of engineers and product people is even lower.

Cook has said multiple times that their biggest challenge is acquisition and retention of talent.
I voted for Trump, and am very happy with the ban- I don't see the benefit of bringing in Muslim refugees.
Out-of-patent prices are inflated
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Comparing Rollup to Webpack and Closure Compiler
Faxes are actually the most noticeable and effective tactic.
Punching nazis is OK. The left gets to decide who is a nazi.

Punching commies is OK. The right gets to decide who is a commie.

Welcome to 2017.
It is specifically for Muslims. Notice there is a special provision inviting Christian refugees from Syria (albeit a token quantity just for show.)
I'm confused. Was Elizabeth Warren wrong to criticize a second amendment solution to the wrong person being democratically elected?
That page hasn't been updated since 2015. The linked uservoice site[1] for feedback has also been shut down (most of the activity was protest).

[1] https://webextensions.uservoice.com/
clearing up a few things about this post, that their moral intuitions are ill-suited for advisory of politics to maintain a landed empire when their morality is suited for cosmopolitan commercial areas(California, but even here we're pushing it).

So they cannot listen to their moral sentiments that are provoked or their intuitive sense of justice, it's not made for this situation! Such is the issue of politics of scale post-industry! So it's not their fault, but we're all going to get hurt if we keep listening to our english friends, no matter how sympathetic we are to their charisma and how beloved they are in trying to be our 'parents'.
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Holy shit, no one has actually read the text. Why do I bother.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/refugee-musli...

> (c) To temporarily reduce investigative burdens on relevant agencies during the review period described in subsection (a) of this section, to ensure the proper review and maximum utilization of available resources for the screening of foreign nationals, and to ensure that adequate standards are established to prevent infiltration by foreign terrorists or criminals, pursuant to section 212(f) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f), I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for 90 days from the date of this order (excluding those foreign nationals traveling on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3, and G-4 visas).

> Revision doesn't mean suspension of the ban

Doesn't mean not suspending it either.

> Temporary can mean indefinitely.

It can also mean temporary.

> The overwhelming number of terrorists that commit acts of terrorism on American soil come from people born in the United States of America.

I can also say, without sources, that, if you account immigrants and children of first generation immigrants, there's a disproportion of immigrant attackers vs the total US population, meaning, there's a far higher chance of a terrorist attack resulting of a poor immigration vetting process.
I guess this is the modern, "And you lynch negroes!" Russian is en vogue among the Trumpistas, I get it.

For what it's worth, I opposed endless drone strikes and endless war too. But you're engaging in an idiotic equivocation: they're simply not comparable.
I'm not sure about candles, but a decently oxygenated open flame (e.g. your stove without a pan on it) emits essentially no CO.
Hoswabout profiling on "radical" rather than "muslim"? You'd also catch many mass shooters, who (AFAIK) tend to still be radical, but usually aren't muslim.

> letting them in unchecked seem irresponsible

Why do you think they were being let in unchecked? Betcha TENBUX there's plenty of checks.
All the banned people are Muslim, but not all Muslims are banned.
We never should have been in Iraq or Afghanistan in the first place. Now that we have been for years, of course, we need human resources like interpreters and contractors just to maintain this nation-building crusade... but why are we maintaining it?

America used to have a neutral stance like Switzerland towards foreign affairs, but in the last half century we increasingly evolved into a world police.

Remember that before we entered WWII, we knew about Germany's injustices towards its neighbors but we kept our noses out of it––until they bombed Pearl Harbor.

We used to have a solemn regard towards a nation's sovereignty. That needs to return to America.

Trump's immigration executive order is the first step towards minding our own business and building up our nation via industry & innovation by American citizens.
The first move in every dictatorship: disarm the people to prevent an insurgency.
Libertarians et al have been trying to do this for quite some time. It does not work. The entire thing is set up so that you can't withdraw your consent or participation. Fines or jail will ensue.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! :)
You have all the same problems with prohibiting bribery of public officials. The governor gives a contract to Foo Corp and Foo Corp hires the governor's brother for $5M/year, is that corruption?

The conclusion to draw from this is not "oh well, guess we might as well legalize bribery."
I think that a person who supports or condones persecution based solely on ethnic and religious background is a bad person. Or a person who support a leader which does these things.

But that is my opinion.

There are even CEOs and very successful people who are bad people. Even Hitler was Man of the Year in 1938... And Henry Ford loved him.

So just be aware that you are seen as a bad person by certain members of US population. Nothing wrong there. As one guy on TV said: just try not to get into serious conversations with gays, girls, brown and black people and you will be fine...
It comes down to the curation. Those books were the result of one or a few people consciously deciding what was important to include. They made value-based decisions to decide what would make the cut. Constraint forces choices which lead to a more valuable experience.

In addition to the physicality of the book, browsing them meant the viewer didn't need to sort through the cruft (someone had already done that work for them), allowing them to use their own energy/thoughts to build upon that work resulting in new ideas and creativity.
I get GM cars as rentals pretty often and while they're better than Chrysler I don't have a lot of faith in their product.
Where did Ellison immigrate from?
Intelligence Leak on Trump's Russian Affiliation
Here's a non-paywall-ed version.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-visa-ban-also-applies...

Those nationals or dual nationals holding valid immigrant or nonimmigrant visas will not be permitted to enter the United States during this period. Visa interviews will generally not be scheduled for nationals of these countries during this period.
>Yes, don't worry--I'll stay away from a city that has 250 property crimes and 80 violent crimes every day while those in power keep looking the other way to be politically correct.

Wonderful. Stay away from the world-leading food and culture scene as well. More for the rest of us.

>That'll end when Trump sends the Feds as he's promised on Twitter, though

Under what authority? And which Feds are we talking? Just more delusional talk.
Logical fallacy.

"I can't cover 100% immigration threats"

"Thus, I shall cover 0%, instead of 50%"

"Otherwise, it's smoke an mirrors"
And Obama was the biggest nazi of all times, he created a spy machine that would have made gestapo jealous. Where was the outcry in the last 8 years. Some of you bigots voted for him twice!
I realize you meant well with this comment but these discussions easily veer off-topic and into unproductive places.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508050 and marked it off-topic.
I didn't vote for the rights of your wife's parents to enter the country. Sorry.

I had other issues in mind.
> a died in the wool Mac user

What an appropriate typo. Normally it should be "dyed in the wool".
Senator Craig took a wide stance...
> Most businesses still feel that technology is a cost to debit against the business

Isn't this one of the reasons why SRE is so important? The monitoring that SRE builds helps to quantify these costs so that rational decisions can be made by upper management regarding the appropriate amounts to invest and where, instead of the finger-in-the-wind biased estimations most businesses use.

> Only applicable to companies like Google

Will most companies achieve or need a level of reliability that Google needs? No. But in the same way which user stories force product managers to have actual conversations with their users about what features are really necessary and which are just part of some kitchen-sink wish list, so too does SRE force management to have actual conversations regarding the real amount of reliability their products need and the costs of not respecting that target, either by spending too much to achieve a level of reliability which is ultimately unnecessary for the business strategy, or by spending too little and leaving money on the table by turning off users who are being served with an inferior product.
The problem, as TFA points out, is that 1) the inscriptions are short, on average 5 symbols, 2) the underlying language and even the language family is unknown.

Most (all?) decipherments have relied on having an idea of the language at least. What we have here are lots of seals with a bit of text, not paragraphs with real structure to analyze, maybe not even sentences.

Since they are seals, maybe they are mostly labels identifying the owner, or maybe some transactional label. In which case you will be hard pressed to extract a language from them. You probably will need longer examples to make progress.
> I don't really give a shit what you think of Hillary, because she did not needlessly block my family from coming to me.

I don't really give a shit what you think about Trump, because he didn't call 25% of the american electorate deplorables and widened the gender gap in the United States by running an awful campaign?

People like you who gloss over the marginalization of large swathes of American citizens because you think they are 'bad people' sicken me.

You're the ones that stoop to personal attacks and you claim the moral high ground? Pathetic.