skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually watch that video, Vice had to bribe a Russian border official to gain entry to the country. It's generally known as the only means of getting in with a reasonably high odds of success.

The typical experience for Americans who have applied for visas to visit North Korea is a very long wait, with only gaining approval (sometimes after years of applications), only to have the approval revoked sometimes as late as hours before their flights depart. Some people report having had their travel visas revoked three or four times before finally being granted entrance.

"Not blocked" doesn't seem like the right term for whatever that is.
Of course the USA should support the recognition of the Kurdish state and its success and freedom. And that is where Kurdish aides to the US have a right to live.
I think the capacity for computer proficiency is simply something you're either born with or not. Some people can be introduced to an unfamiliar system like a computer and actually make an attempt to make sense of it, figuring it out as they go, learning what does what such as actually reading the words on the buttons to make educated guesses on how to accomplish what they're trying to do and gaining an intuitive feeling for the filesystem/window management system, while other people (a lot of people) don't have that faculty and never will. These people will ask you how to print something when there's a giant print button on the screen, be taught how to share a picture on their phone with the messaging app but then not be able to connect the dots on their own to figure out how to send a picture in an email and have to be told to just select email instead of messaging, and so on. I've had extensive experience with these kinds of people and my only conclusion is that they are unteachable and you have to be born with "computer genes" for lack of a better term.
> "can I ask you a question?" .. doesn't seem to serve any purpose

I think of it as a request for a context switch. If you're mentally occupied - writing a tricky recursive function, say - and somebody walks up and says, "Hey, what's the time complexity of inserts into a red-black tree", it's likely that just parsing the question will kick you out of your current context so you lose track of what you're doing.
> We were talking about the bombings in the post a few further up though. Let's stick with one topic for now.

Ugh. You responded to my comment which stated "There's a lot of denial on HN about the magnitude of Obama's foreign policy belligerence." Trolling/nitpicking is not welcome here, please.

> And if you want to bring in further topics, at least do more than "here's a link to an list of attacks" without at least exploring why they were made and how they're a sign of belligerence (i.e. what better options existed).

Would you like me to write you a thesis? I don't think you would appreciate it enough to justify the effort. The facts are there -- there are an overwhelming number of topics to explore related to Obama's use of aggressive foreign policy (aggressive defined as leading to people dying). If you truly do not believe Obama was a belligerent, you really should read through some of that. Sorry to burn down your idol.
Their laser printer was stored/run in their closet. They may have been doing this for a while with no problems because Berkeley is so nice and everyone leaves their windows open.

Berkeley has been unusually cold/rainy this last week and I'm guessing they sealed up their apt and didn't realize how dangerous that was.
> Comcast, all my p2p traffic is encrypted. How do you know what it is?

1. You start torrenting (over an encrypted connection) a pirated movie

2. A movie studio is connected to the same swarm, advertising chunks of that movie

3. Your client connects to the movie studio's server, giving them your IP address

4. They send a letter to your ISP

Encrypting P2P traffic is pretty much a waste of time. This scenario goes away if you download over a VPN, since the movie studio can't send your ISP the letter.
How hyper-targeted psychometric data may have helped Trump win
The fitness that evolution is driven by and toward is "reproductive fitness".

That is, species are driven by natural selection towards those traits that increase the likelihood that they survive long enough to produce offspring that themselves have a reproductive fitness greater than or equal to their parents.

So natural selection just does not care anywhere close to as much about what happens to an organism after it successfully reproduces, except to the extent that sticking around to raise its offspring improves the reproductive fitness of its offspring and thus its own fitness.

For pretty much every species, there was never any selective pressure to improve physiological maintenance mechanisms beyond what was necessary to achieve the above. So our short-term maintenance mechanisms are fairly robust (e.g., healing injuries, especially while youngish), but longer-term we still have issues with cancer and cognitive decline because the sorts of maintenance needed to prevent them were never selected against except while we were old enough to be parents.

So evolving to "not age" happens, but only to the extent that it improves the reproductive fitness of the population, and usually not much further than that.

As far as the whole migration issue, it's likely just more likely for animals to evolve to reproduce more often than to live longer if there exists a sufficiently large ecological niche for them to occupy. Changing the frequency and degree of reproduction is much easier than fixing aging.

The above was a fairly superficial examination of the issues and there, of course, exists more nuance if you look for it. But I hope this explains the basics.
If we have a "Vichy regime", then
...Putin's Russia?
I agree about some of your points, but the Patriot Act was not Obama's to kill, and we both know it.

A lot of what Obama had to do to get other policies enacted is not optimal, but that _is_ what politics requires for slow, steady progress. And Obama has always been a very vocal proponent of that gradual process.
Would capitalism work better if people were free to smoke crack?

Would it work better if people could choose not to educate their children and instead spend the money on other things?
It's not "commendable" to play a double game.

Kalanick can't claim to "stand up for what's right" while simultaneously joining the administration's economic advisory group.

Collaborating with the Trump administration gives it badly needed legitimacy and credibility and facilitates the polices of hate.

Collaboration undoubtedly benefits Uber, but you can't call it "standing up for what's right".
Oh, it's nonsense then. Artificially sweetened drinks don't create obesity.
... asks the one who can't write 11 words without a syntactic error (in case you edit it: "Do you even know the meaning of the words to use ?"). Also be advised that it's not correct typography to prepend the question mark with a space.
> We as a society can do better than to help people be strung out.

Safe injecting facilities are not about helping people be strung out. They're about reducing harm, both to the addict and to the rest of society, coming from drug addiction.
In some parts of San Francisco there's a stoplight with a green X. Took me a long time to figure out it means "one way street, don't enter"
Have you looked at Thor? It has amazingly simple interface for commands including short and long forms for flags and hierarchical commands
Joel Spolsky: Time to take a stand
Explanation: there is a lawsuit challenging the order in eastern district of New York. Plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order preventing enforcement. It was granted minutes ago (hearing ongoing).
The most hopeful thing I have seen all week. On a slightly whimsical note, are you familiar with the legend of Lamed Vavniks from the Talmud? From the wikipedia article: "It is said that at all times there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadikim_Nistarim
Ask HN: What's not great about Golang?
There has been an active good thread about what's not great about Elixir. I come from Python/Django background, I've been thinking to rewrite a serious project of mine to Go because it's much faster and economic in terms of memory footprint. I need to know some the disadvantages of the language.
Not until now, but I happen to be knowledgeable enough about immigration law that it's no big surprise to me. My primary worry is that because the executive branch does have extremely broad discretion over immigration enforcement and the scope of judicial review is somewhat limited, by law, the administration will be able to do enough damage on its own initiative that by the time disputes work their way through the courts the issue will be moot, as court proceedings are overtaken by facts.

Put another way, it's real hard to bring someone to justice for arson when you're inside the burning building. It might happen later, but in the short term that does little to remediate the risk to your life and property.
I have done a little teaching with younger age ranges, coding and math included.

I had a lot of success with 'unplugged' computer science activities. Basically, any activity without computers. Let's learn what an algorithm is. Let's play with binary and make a 'secret code'. These activities are engaging and teach something worthwhile. It's very easy to get bogged down with tools, syntax and minutia when actually programming. For younger age ranges definitely try some computerless lessons.

http://csunplugged.org/
By your logic, you should absolutely be downvoted for making an entire comment dedicated to meta-discussing the scoring system. Your point would have been better made with a silent downvote.

Mine should be, too, if I subscribed to your espoused scoring logic.
It's what rails uses by the way!
I'd hate to have tabulated the amount of my life I wasted in tabulating.
Colorado to Use Pot Taxes to Treat Drug Addiction – INSTEAD of Prison
How do you expect others around you to treat you when they see you treating refugees in this manner?
Ordinarily I'd be skeptical, but in this case there are actual families being denied entry at our airports, and it's not at all crazy to believe that green-card-holders are being admitted in part because of surprising turnout to these protests.
Join protests in your area if you can. We can't afford to merely hope that others do the work of being a citizen for us.
If we remember correctly the Obama administration mostly stayed out the conflict.

That is 100% bullshit. USA bombed Gaddafi out of Tripoli (don't believe me, just read NATO press releases), and then supplied the arms to those who hunted him down (and incidentally, the bayonet that was located in his rectum when he died). And if you ever believed the "bombing his own people" pap peddled by political rivals hiding out in Switzerland, I got a bridge to sell you.
> Think of why Go works so well for Google: it's designed for code bases that are maintained by many people.

There's another dimension of this that works for Google, though, and it's one that people particularly here should take note of.

As far as I can tell, Go is a language where the solution to a given expressive problem is usually "write more code." There's nothing subtle or clever to leverage into a multiplier, like there is with Forth or LISP. You don't write a DSL. You don't factor out largely common implementation details. You may well not create composable subcomponents for some intermediate level. Instead, you put in the time, turn the crank, and create whatever straightforward code solves your concrete problem at the level it's written, straightforward if verbose. It's similar to how MJD describes working in Java (http://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html ), except you're missing some of Java's expressive power and you have some of Pascal's to make up for it.

There's a degree of simplicity to it.

An organization like Google is not lacking in any way resources to have developers produce more code. Or understand it, if any issues with expressivity to volume ratio ever makes a given codebase difficult to grok.

Does your organization have those resources?

Do you?

The answer to that question (along with who you're competing with) might tell you whether you should be using a Google language or a hacker language.
We still see heroin addicts in countries that have a death penalty for heroin use, so harsh punishment clearly isn't working.
The Peaceful Revolutionary Party
so, where is the YC crowd defending Thiel now?

how does it feel to support a fascist? in the literal sense.
Thanks for submitting this and following this as closely as you have. I appreciate it.
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FB engineer here; worked on HHVM for several years. We absolutely do "micro-optimize", e.g., our string hashing code is written in hand-tuned assembly.

Where we apply those optimizations is, of course, driven by profiling, so those statements aren't entirely in conflict.
Courts will decide the legality: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/28/14427086/federal-court-hal...
> If cities want to protect their citizens from authoritarian oppression of their residents

Why would they want that? They worked hard to reach their current positions, and may have grander ambitions still...
Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban
This is such a hacker news response to a breathing and relaxation technique. Thanks for the laugh.
I think only Congress can push Trump out of office before the end of his term. This will happen only if he gets extremely unpopular even with his base, or the Republicans will chicken out. Barring that, there are elections in two and four years.
ACLU apparently just won a nationwide stay of the executive order in NYC, so another thing you can do to help is to cue up the bit in the movie Ghostbusters where they pull up to Dana's building to take on Zuul and listen to the "Savin' The Day" montage music while you make a big ol' donation to the ACLU.

At least, that worked pretty well for me. I was going to go protest, but we apparently shut down ORD and now they're not even letting cars approach the airport.
> while other people (a lot of people) don't have that faculty and never will. These people will ask you how to print something when there's a giant print button on the screen, be taught how to share a picture on their phone with the messaging app but then not be able to connect the dots on their own to figure out how to send a picture in an email and have to be told to just select email instead of messaging, and so on. @jimmaswell

We call those folk: LAZY.

They're too lazy to think for themselves, and want everyone else to do the lifting for them. This isn't new. This isn't some computer only or tech only thing. It's just plain lazy. Lazy has been around for thousands of years. It's just more noticeable now that everything is meme'd and shared online.

TL;DR - They're lazy.
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BERKELEY (CBS SF) – A couple found dead in their Berkeley home under mysterious circumstances earlier this week was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, a law enforcement source told KPIX 5 Friday. The source said that the couple was using a laser 3-D printer that was venting into their residence. Symptoms and signs consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning were found in their bodies. Valerie was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. © Copyright 2017 by CBS San Francisco and Bay City News Service.
Pretty sure that at the St. Patrick's parade, they just want to get drunk on green beer.
No, the order violates the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which banned all discrimination against immigrants on the basis of national origin and specifically overrules 8 U.S. Code § 1182.

What the United States President is doing right now is illegal and unconstitutional.
I would imagine they haven't done it simply because the execs haven't thought about it or don't understand end-to-end encryption. If you know someone at google, give them a prod to do it.

Adding end-to-end encryption to the gmail app would not be difficult. It would work similarly to end-to-end encryption in whatsapp, and would be massive boon for freedom worldwide.

Google is not pro-NSA spying, not by a long shot, despite common belief. They are the ones who convinced the entire web to turn to HTTPS, for instance. Check out: http://www.google.com/takeaction.

Additionally Sergey Brin grew up in the Soviet Union until the age of 6, his father was marginalized, he knows the cost of a dysfunctional society.

Turning the USA into 1984 isn't good business sense, so even for that reason alone Google would do it (that is, add end-to-end encryption, etc).
What's the pro argument for the wall?
No, they were not. The Immigration and Nationalization Act forbids discrimination on the basis of country of origin; even the notion that Trump can exercise executive authority to single out nations as threats was challenged, decades ago, and found false. Not only that, but they're denying lawful permanent residents at the border.

Trump won't be impeached for this, but with Bannon running the show --- he just replaced (literally) the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Director of National Intelligence on the NSC Principals Committee --- it's just a matter of time before he does something that leaves Congress with no choice.
Good. Thank you ACLU although it is just a temporary relief.
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City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15. The cyberattack affected 123 of 187 network video recorders in a closed-circuit TV system for public spaces across the city, the officials said late Friday. The D.C. hack appeared to be an extortion effort that”was localized” and did not affect criminal investigations, city officials said. On Jan. 12 D.C. police noticed four camera sites were not functioning properly and told OCTO. City officials declined to say who they suspected in the attack.
And all come with 2 co detectors, internal and external
This is an easy position for you to take, since you have already gained admission to MIT and you know these people.

Consider a US citizen who would like to get admitted to MIT. Trump's action will what, double the chances of getting in? Consider the parents of that kid, already paying taxes that provide for the research grants that MIT lives off of.
What exactly do you suggest instead, then? :/
Yeah, building Golang based command line tools is a big bag of pros and cons. There are so many libraries out there for Ruby and Python but having to manage packaging applications written in those languages can be kind of annoying.
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Claiming something “does not work” isn’t what one programmer says to another programmer. The phrase “does not work” should be reserved for when you’re taking your car to the mechanic and you don’t have a clue what’s wrong with it. If you’re telling a programmer that a particular piece of source code simply “does not work”, then you should no longer consider yourself a programmer. This code does not work because… …it does not compile. When programmers come to me and simply say “this code does not work,” I send them away.
I read the safety notices that manufacturers affix to their products and take them at face value unless I have reason to believe otherwise. It seems kinda stupid not to.
I write a lot of internal tools and such, so that is where it's useful (nothing really public facing)
> A lot of what Obama had to do to get other policies enacted is not optimal, but that _is_ what politics requires for slow, steady progress.

I'm not convinced we have made any progress on either surveillance or foreign policy between Jan 2009 and Jan 2017.
A Federal Judge Just Issued a Stay Against Donald Trump's “Muslim Ban”
Comcast is not just an ISP but also a company that produces content - so they are probably extra motivated to stop content infringement.
That's what's on wikipedia. Why am I absolutely required to know who Kim Peek was? Because they based a film on him, and it sold well?

Also, for the love of god, listen to yourself. People "tested" him with lists of facts? And you don't think it's even remotely possible that those people were planted in the audience?

There is even a word for that thing: the people who do that are called "shills" [1]. In popular shows they're paid for it, from the persons who run the show, to make sure that nobody asks questions the mentalist (or the medium etc) can't answer.

You can't base anything on something that happened in a show! Give me a break.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill
And please actually CALL, do not email them
> Nope, if they're not using SNI, you'd just see the IP address.

but that's my point... if you're not using SNI, there's only one SSL server on that IP address, and if reverse-DNS fails you, you can connect on port 443 and ask it for its certificate and it will give it to you...
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The National Review? C'mon.

That's like quoting Ayn Rand and hoping to be taken seriously.
Thank! In v1.0 most of the things that were deprecated from Express 4.0 [1] (and a couple more) work out of the box. On v1.1 you get websockets for free[2] as a router method and a plugin system that goes way beyond what is possible with express middleware so other integrations are possible (think about passport, aws' s3 and the likes).

Truth be told, for the initial release I only expect 2 groups of people to truly benefit from this: those creating new projects on a regular basis and those getting started with Node.js. I've taught to some people how to get started with Node.js and since Express 4.0 it's been quite challenging so I expect this to really help.

[1] http://expressjs.com/en/guide/migrating-4.html

[2] Not yet available (and wouldn't work on jsfiddle anyway): https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/6ca5gzn7/
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SBC meaning ? single board computer ?
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Their own parents had instilled in them this view that you must finish your plate. They had experience of rationing.

In the wake of WW2 clear into the 1950s, there were food shortages in Europe, with hunger and malnutrition. Even Americans were guilted into not wasting food. For example, Allan Sherman (an overweight Jewish American comedian, sort of a Weird Al Yankovic of his era) said in a song monologue:

'My parents would say, "clean your plate; children are starving in Europe!"

So, I would clean the plate.

Four, five, six times a day.'