skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt trump actually drafts anything. His alt-right neo-nazi minions Bannon will draft it up, and he'll just sign it. I doubt he actually even reads what he signs. He's too busy looking at himself on tv and twittering.
> Any lock that can't be opened from the inside should be illegal as a fire hazard.

I'm just pointing out the flaw in that statement taken literally.

In theory, in the event of a failure, the guards should still be able to open the cells to release people. I wasn't advocating for fail-impossible-to-open-doors.
I looks like someone at google has hacked the google news twitter feed so that it is prioritizing only trump's 2014 tweet asking if a president can be impeached for gross incompetence!!
hah!

I feel sorry for those who were caught up in this through their stay, but I feel no sympathy for any company that ties their door locks to a vulnerable, non-isolated network.

I have to wonder if they considered breaking down the doors with a fire axe... if they were booked, would replacing the doors outweigh the cost of the ransom?
>>It wired to perform, not wired to enjoy.

If you think of it from survival point of view, it makes sense. Our survival depended/depends on our brain's ability to perform and not on it's tendency to indulge in enjoyment.
You've been making many comments to this effect. Do you agree with the Executive Order? If you disagree with the Executive Order do you think it's worth protesting? If you think it's worth protesting, will you allow others to protest with you even if they didn't protest to your satisfaction for similar issues in the past?

If you agree with the order, please say so explicitly. If you disagree but don't think it's worth protesting, what's the point of your comment? If it's worth protesting, can you forgive others their past mistakes and let them join you now?

Or are you content to just repeatedly point out what you perceive as hypocrisy? If that's all it is, at this point it's no longer civil or substantive, and please stop.

If I'm misunderstanding your goal, please do elaborate and correct me.
I'm not disagreeing, but this modal doesn't disappear until you've actually hit the close button. It will continue to attempt injection at any page which is not encrypted unless you acknowledge it.
The xfinitywifi access points I've come across (just about everywhere I go) are unsecured but not free. You need an account before they'll handle your traffic. IOW, useful to Comcast customers but nobody else.
If this were several years ago and I was still a college freshman, I bet I would have tried heroin if it was available for 5 bucks a pop next to the Benadryl at CVS. Things much more innocent than heroin get in the way of a freshman, so yeah, I would be concerned if heroin was on the shelf for anyone who is 18 right now.
Interesting, I had not realized how much today resembles the mid 19th century.
> Software engineers have been led to believe that their time is more valuable than CPU time; therefore, wasting CPU cycles in order to reduce development time is always a win. They've forgotten, however, that the application users' time is more valuable than their time.

I've no words to express how much I agree with this. Developers who ship bloated software that chugs painfully even on high end computers, with the defense that "the developers time is more valuable than the CPU's", the developers who prefer to use brutally slower, but easier to use tools, they need to be reminded that this is their job. Your objective shouldn't be to make your own job easier. It should be to deliver the best product you can, and the best experience to the users. Not make them suffer long loading times, slow applications, unresponsiveness, and massive size bloat so you can write your shitty app in your breezy to use language.

/rant
As an Iranian in the US, you are restricted.

What is it like for others in Iran?
it is sad to see someone with this much influence and intellect but yet an IDIOT.
What he said is there is no difference between refugees and illegal immigrants. He implies you can break a law and get away with it. Then he shows he don't give a fuck what this immigration order is all about, it is obvious he didn't read it!
He either is being manipulated or he is indeed an idiot.
The idea is that evolution is not about individuals, it is about a population as a whole. Every generation brings new genetic combinations, and the best ones have to survive and spread. From an evolution point of view, you don't want the older individuals to stick around too much once they have passed on their genes.

All other things being equal, there is usually a benefit in being there for a longer time. This is especially true for intelligent and social animals: you know the place, you have a social network. Therefore, older individuals need a handicap for the competition to be level with the new generation. Without aging, a population would simply stall as strong individuals who were there first would systematically squash younger competition.

> It seems intuitive to me that keeping an old body from falling apart takes great resources / evolutionary focus

Actually, it looks increasingly like aging is an additional feature, not a constraint, of life. Some organisms (some shrimps, naked mole rats, galapagos turtles...) seem to have inadvertently switched off aging.
Google employees were very heavily represented on the Never Again pledge a few weeks ago, more than any big tech company. I've been able to talk to several Googlers since then, several of whom are now directly involved with Tech Solidarity. Google takes a lot of shit, and some of it is probably deserved, but there seems clearly to be a moral core to the people working there.

I stick up for Google a lot --- nobody has done more to improve the security of the web than they have --- but they deserve credit for this kind of thing too.
I said it before and I'll say it again:

You might not be able to turn an aircraft carrier on a dime but when you do you've got an aircraft carrier.

GM (and the other automotive manufacturers for that matter) decided they wanted in on self driving and electric vehicles, had a few meetings, wrote a few checks and a few years later look at the result. Are Google and Tesla going to reply with similar videos?
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In case you weren't paying attention, the main reason for this round of protests is that Trump's executive order is causing legal permanent residents to be detained in US airports and/or deported from the country.
Why H1-B reform is needed?
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Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
Wow. None of that is true.
Here's a week-old story from the national broadcaster ORF:

http://kaernten.orf.at/news/stories/2821290/

Regarding the "locked in" issue; this article doesn't say anything like that:

"Die Gäste kamen nicht mehr in die Hotelzimmer, neue Schlüssel konnten nicht mehr programmiert werden."

"The guests could no longer enter their hotel rooms, new keys could no longer be programmed."
Well at least people are pushing back.

What was starting to worry me is that many of the top CEOs were all kissing Trumps ass as to who can bring back more jobs. They were stumbling over themselves, "we are bringing 10000 jobs in the next 2 years".

There needs to be a lot of vocal people against this, immigrants are one the weakest groups in society. Trump just deomstrated and confirmed this.

What I don't get, and maybe someone can explain it, why isn't this un-constitutional? It feels like banning people, people who are perfectly legal not citizens but still legal, based on their religion is against the constitution. Am I missing something? Wasn't this country started by people looking to escape religious persecution?
eww, mod_proxy. I've seen it do seriously weird things, and I have sysadmin friends who hate it with a vengeance.
> I mean, the LGBT+ community can very clearly point to a huge amount of support, funding and policy execution to improve our role and protections in the US.

He has provided vocal support, but the sole thing he did policy-wise was end DADT. He was actually anti-gay marriage during his '08 run, but as the tide shifted, he updated his stance. It was state legislatures and judges and people that helped the LGBT community make the gains it did. So good for him for going with the flow, but he certainly wasn't the reason progress was made. If that is the best thing going for Obama (which it may be), that's pretty bad.

> you are normalizating racism

Number of logical fallacies here. Wasn't Bush Jr. an ape, a retard? Clinton a rapist? All presidents face tremendous scrutiny, both reasonable and unreasonable hatred, and it's ridiculous to adjust your ranking of a president's success based on ANYTHING, let alone something that is basically part of the job. Was FDR a better president when he was in a wheelchair? Unlikely. Was Reagan better because he had dementia late in his second term? Nope. So the point is that it's completely irrelevant to an assessment of Obama's policies, and it likely is used as filler because there's way more bad than good to Obama's reign.
It's not universally or obviously regarded to be true, but I work from the following premise—

difficult and slow communication makes it harder for smaller actors to defend themselves against the tyranny of the majority, as plans get made without proper consultation with representatives of minority interests.

With easy information, however, news travels faster, and more elaborate plans can be worked out in the same time, and hence it is easier to account for minority interests.
Not just permanent residents, it also affects legal visa holders as far as I can tell.
Ask HN: What are the things/informations that you cannot find on internet?
I think any Republican is a homophobic by default. I know this by reading Hacker News.
We've had so many fire false alarms but finally a real one happened. It was raining hard and maintenance closed the top vent to deter water intake. The unit is a 4 story multi-unit dwelling and luckily someone had a cheap $49 dollar CO detector. The fire came sans alarm and everyone had to evacuate. We were thinking ah man not this again. Someone had some burnt cooking that day. We could only return to our homes until all clear CO detection from the inspectors. My family opted in for the pulse oximetry that the nice fire folk were providing. Needless to say many, including myself, bought CO detectors that week.
Syria was on the state sponsors list when it was created in 1979. So, unless the al-Assads are prescient, probably not. More likely factors are the US support for Israel, Syrian support for Palestinians, particularly Hezbollah, and possibly leftovers of the cold war.

As for US attempts to depose him, as far as I know, those only started after his 2011 crackdown on Arab Spring protesters, which set of the civil war. Syrian behavior after hypothetical help from the US to crush the rebellion, that would probably depend on how long a leash the Russians have.
Not everything Trump does is bad. The media will either spin this as ineffective, or simply won't report it, since this is a positive thing that Trump did and those kinds of stories simply won't be tolerated in today's mainstream media environment. But it is nice to see him carrying out the promises that he made to his base, even if we don't all agree with them. That is rare among politicians.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. If you are, you missed the whole point of the post above you.
ACLU is challenging this. Read the thread about a stay order from a Federal Judge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511348
Very interesting article, and funny in a dark way.

But I can't help but compare these guys to this guy[1] who was on the front page of HN 2 weeks ago. He privately disclosed the vulnerability, then waited 12 days then publicly disclosed it on his blog. And there was widespread outrage and condemnation of him for daring to disclose that quickly, putting users at risk. He was described as "a parasite on society". Well if someone who privately discloses then waits 2 weeks and publicly discloses is a parasite, what is someone who sells exploits to oppressive countries that kill journalists? With that comparison, the discloser seems downright virtuous.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13407717
Did you read the whole piece? There's strong evidence that drug abuse is bad, and that the best way to mitigate it is through harm reduction policies -- and that these policies ultimately reduce use of drugs. Which is what you want, right?
Could this be negated through some freedom of speech rights argument later on once they leave office?
Obomba? Seriously? You are commenting on the wrong website.
We fucked up. We got too confident and comfortable. For one, I'm sorry. There's a lot of other Americans out here for think and feel the same way.

To everybody that warned us about Trump, We cannot express to you how regretful we are. We've really got a lot to make up for.
Why do you feel this is off-topic?
He was a man of his time. All of the books I've read of the era talk about corruption as part of doing business. Many of the things we consider corrupt now where very legal at the time. The Standard Oil monopoly was legal at the time. It's not an excuse but you can't exclude it when evaluating his actions. At the time he was just being a smart business man. He was no saint but it's possible to learn from what he did.

It's interesting to note that one of the biggest criticisms about him was that he would force companies to sell themselves to him or be put out of business by his monopoly power. Now, 100+ years after, it's still a business practice. I know it happened when Amazon bought diapers.com. Amazon threaten to start it's own diaper service and put them out of business, if they did not sell. Was it a smart business practice from Amazon's view or was it corrupt? I guess it's up in the air since it's still happening.

If you read Teddy Roosevelt's bio you get a view of what politics and business where at the time.
The "No Fly List" unilaterally revoked the right of countless innocent American citizens to travel for many months without any notice or redress -- most found out when they tried to travel. The precedent has been around for a long time and is still winding its way through the courts 15 years later. (Americans have the right to travel freely by common conveyance per the Supreme Court from way back. The government has managed to avoid having this question adjudicated through a variety of procedural gimmicks, keeping the list in force.)

Visa holders can explicitly have their entry privileges revoked without cause at any time; it may be a questionable practice but it is still entirely within the express letter of the law for such things. If American citizens don't have standing to travel freely even to return home, then visa holders certainly don't and the former abhorrent practice still has not been fully adjudicated. Visa holders are not going to have rights that have eluded American citizens in recent years.
> While the cab drivers union was striking in solidarity with protestors at JFK, Uber lifted surge prices to scab for their business. Uber is a parasite, get it out of your life

https://www.facebook.com/dan.abromowitz/posts/4414735886905?...
Ah, I encountered Scatch 2.0. I'll definitely check 1.4 out, it looks a lot more accessible and reasonable. I would have loved to have encountered something like this at 14 or 15.

I suspect the reason Scratch felt slow to me is that 2.0 is some kind of HTML5 and/or Flash mess now - you're right, Smalltalk is really fast. I spun up Squeak to check something on this T43 yesterday, and everything was really snappy. I have no reason to expect Scratch will be any slower.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if a reasonable bit of the exploration everyone did was motivated by the fact that they were "hacking" the platform :P

There seems to be a sad lack of excellent online communities nowadays; I've long looked for sites to complement HN, but without success.

I just had a look at Snap! which is interesting. It definitely flatlines this laptop though, I had to try it on a faster machine. But I'm running the tree animation demo right now, and it looks awesome....
It's not that the media is not reporting good stuff Trump is doing, it's that he's not doing much good stuff.
A visa does not guarantee entry into the country. It is a permit to travel to and to enter the United States. The citizens of certain countries - such as Canada - do not need to obtain a visa in order to enter the US. The Visa Waiver Program waives the visa application process for tourists and short term business visitors from a separate list of countries.

Regardless of whether or not a visa is needed, the border guard has final say on whether or not a foreign citizen is allowed to enter the country.
Of the five largest tech companies in the world, the CEOs of four of them have come out against the Executive Order targeting specific immigrants: GOOG/MSFT/FB/AAPL.

AMZN and Jeff Bezos have strangely been absent even though he was the most critical pre-election.
From the same article: Clinton ended up revoking the order (so his order basically did nothing), and Obama gave waivers even to the previous, watered down 2-year version.

This new order has considerably more teeth than anything that came before, though of course it remains to be seen if Trump grants any exemptions, or follows what was promised on the campaign trail to the letter. If he does, and if he manages to get congressional term limits passed as well, DC will be in a much healthier state once the current crop of entrenched geezers vacates the premises.
Clinton lost the election. This is about Donald Trump, who has presided over sexual improprieties, encouraged violence at political rallies, denigrated POWs, appointed his son in law to an influential position, failed to eliminate international conflicts of interest, claimed climate science is a "Chinese hoax", advocated an invasion of North Korea, and lied to the American people repeatedly (birtherism, voter fraud claims, inauguration photos). He is unfit for the presidency.
I missed how Trump is a homophobe. Seriously, is there evidence for this or is it just a general insult thrown out when someone does something you don't like?
really? that's bad. but it can be fixed.
and if you weren't paying attention, sanctuary cities let go into public thousands criminal offenders...
edit: let me put it in even more simple terms. I think the Democrats should be overwhelmingly focused on rebuilding their party right now (in terms of where their energy is going), in extraordinarily strict terms, as the party of civil liberties. No exceptions. If their next President crosses any lines, mass protests must ensue, otherwise their party can't be taken seriously. One of the problems the Dems have right now is the lack of credibility as they intentionally failed to widely protest nearly all of Obama's rights abuses. I won't support them because I have very good reason to believe they're frauds on civil liberties; as a voter, they get my support when they act consistently. That effort would be far more useful, than protesting Trump and the Republicans, who are not going to listen and do not have to for now (and this isn't to say there shouldn't be legal challenges thrown at bad policy).

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I think it's barely worth protesting now (in the style it's mostly being done), because of how ineffectual that will be in obtaining results. Legal challenges are likely the only meaningful thing that can occur at this point. The protestors should be focused almost exclusively on raising money for that purpose, more so than marching or showing up at airports. Sergey Brin could make a difference by putting together a $100 million civil liberties fund, to try to roll back Obama's spying programs, and legally challenging the Trump policies he disagrees with such as this temporary ban. Showing up at the airport won't do a thing, the Republicans have all the power. It's equivalent to putting a bumper sticker on your car.

Unfortunately for most of the left (to one degree or another), they made a massive mistake in three big ways: not turning out for the election in nearly the numbers they should have, turning a blind eye as Sanders was intentionally sabotaged by the DNC, and turning a blind eye to Obama's abuses.

They can't put the genie back in the bottle under Trump. I think the single most important point is: they better remember how this feels, the next time they are fawning over a liberal President, because that's exactly when they should be protesting. Yet I don't see too many people talking about this, and those that attempt to are roundly getting shouted down. It's the same thing/effect John Cusack got to enjoy, as he tried to speak out against Obama and was shunned for it (now he'll be a hero again); that is, the vast partisan hypocrisy.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE...

8 U.S.C. 1182 - INADMISSIBLE ALIENS

(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
MIT undergrad is only 10% international students...