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"It will bar green card holders," Gillian Christensen, acting Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in an email.

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/US-Homeland-Security-Gree...

Now, of course, one could argue that the spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security was making things up, but the overwhelming evidence, from ideologically and geographically diverse news sources all says the same thing: the ban included green cards, before being reversed.
I love the idea so much. Good luck :)
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Wouldn't that make it difficult for them to breathe, reducing their performance?
Using C# without .NET is like using C without libc or POSIX.
I know what "hate" means. I know what bigotry is, and I know what racism means.

Don't you?
In the situation where "laws and regulations" mean dysfunctional government enforced monopolies, in ok with a company saying fuck that. Even if people like you will characterize it as a "black market".
> I genuinely believe that home schooling shouldn't be allowed, except for kids with disabilities which stop them from leaving home.

That doesn't really seem like a well reasoned argument. Can you provide any data to backup that statement?

Let's try some quick googling. This article looks pretty good:

http://www.educationandbehavior.com/what-does-research-say-a...

Two interesting quotes from a paper they cite:

"For instance, one nationwide study analyzed data from 1,952 homeschooled students across the country and found that the students, on average, scored at the eightieth percentile or higher in every test category"

"Several studies found no significant difference in the social skills of homeschooled and non-homeschooled students. Other studies found that homeschooled children score significantly higher on social development rating scales/questionnaires."
I meant you can still disable DRM completely or enable only on request.
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Selective quoting?

A senior White House official later sought to clarify the situation, saying green card holders who had left the United States and wanted to return would have to visit a U.S. embassy or consulate to undergo additional screening.

Additional screening, not barring green card holders.
Just because Helvetica wasn't designed or hinted for modern displays doesn't necessarily imply it looks bad on them, far from it. It's handsome typeface and its legacy lives on in typefaces like Roboto and San Francisco, which are designed and hinted for modern displays.

And as for Arial, most of the attitude directed towards it is nothing more than anti-Microsoft snobbishness.
"they are unreadable" is a pretty exaggerated and subjective statement. I don't find them unreadable at all. A little over-used in logos and such, but I don't see them particularly often in the body text of websites.
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Calling something/someone racist works on the principle that it's an undesired trait in society.

However Trump's supporters either believe that other races/religions are inferior or believe their concerns are more important and ignore it.

So what can someone do if they want to combat inequality/injustice/etc?

It's not like their opponents are arguing with an open mind.
It's not just tuition fees.

Consider that cities with top-league universities also have deep links with industry. Oxford and Cambridge —as examples I'm familiar with— both have off-site science parks, secondary research centres. Many tech companies host labs there and operate PhD programmes that link in with the universities.

That has driven the growth of these cities for a century.

All because these universities have the best and brightest. Take away those, and I can only imagine the business support will dwindle.
Quite a few people have been working on making VHDL more accessible by generating it all from Python. Tim Ansell gave a talk about it at LCA 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkVX_mh5dOU), and it seems pretty cool.
say what you will about Hitler, at least he killed Hitler!
Site seems overloaded.

Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20160404030737/http://www.64note...

Ironically, the CSS didn't load for me, so I read this site with the "browser defaults", which do many of the things the site was complaining about.
Very well written. Although this article is quite emotive and could be considered an extreme point of view, I think it is important to read in order to understand the multitude of voices wanting to be heard in the current quagmire.

I disagree with some of the assumptions made but nonetheless think this is a voice that should be heard.

As a follower of Jesus (I have to be careful how I say Christian because of how loaded that term has become) I feel sad that the writer is marginalised as if it is something Christ would have done.

That Jesus has been attached to a particular political agenda is particularly heartbreaking.

Historically, when Christianity has gotten in bed with power it has been bad news for the essence of Christ and the humbling power of His work - I would argue this is because of the corruptibility of humans and not through something inherently wrong with Christianity.

I'm sorry for some of the things being done in the name of Christianity but this is an intelligent, thoughtful community - please find out for yourself who Christ really said he was and don't assume that what some powerbrokers say in Christ's name is true - their interests are vested.

I hope that HN continues its history of thoughtful, respectful discussion rather than the vitriol I am seeing elsewhere.

EDIT: Spelling/grammar
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For people outside the US, I believe it is perfectly fine to donate to ACLU, but do check if there is an equivalent organization in your country. For example in the UK there is Liberty (https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/). Threats to human rights are a global problem after all.
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plus they can remotely disable your device without your approval, very safe...
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The statement literally said "I believe that [...]".

How can I provide data to back up that statement?

I never reasoned that home schooling doesn't provide results, or that home schooled students do worse. I'm sure that with dedicated enough parents, it will provide results, and the students will do better or at least just as well!

I still think that it shouldn't be allowed. I'm not sure how I can provide sources on that.
> I don't think primitive data structures like a gap buffer are useful anymore. They come from a time where saving on memory was more important than it is now.

I beg to differ. I routinely open multi-gigabyte log files and SQL dumps in text format, and would not like to have to resort to “sed” to edit them.
You can pry Helvetica from my cold, dead, hands.
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Yes, that was one, but this too:
https://clojurescript.org/guides/externs

The previous way was painful. The one before that few years back was also very hard to get correct...
I agree. If most of the people viewing your site/app/whatever are using high DPI screens, use whatever font you want to. Most accusations of 'looks terrible on screens!' apply to low DPI screens (which, I'll admit, most people still have, and will continue to have).
"Mainstream media" has not only developed a pervasive bias that has, somehow, incidentally developed. It is a direct and inevitable result of what they're taught in Journalism and Media schools - that there is no such thing as "truth", there is only opinion, and conforming to th narrative of one's political affiliation is he essence of doing their jobs. They have been taught to be Marxist propagandists as if that were the only possible thing that could constitute a "serious" media profession.
I agree this is overlooked. I know of a research group at a high-profile university in Europe that had to hide the fact they had a key team member from Iran when they applied for using a large US supercomputer. IIRC this was back in 2013. So they got a user account for one European-born team member, who gave the login details to the Iranian person who then did the actual work on the supercomputer.
Note that CRCs are designed to cover a certain message length, and are designed to catch bit errors within that message. The probability of a single bit error getting through is much much greater than a simple probability of 1 in 4 billion, the probability of catching 2 bit errors is somewhat less than catching 1 bit error (but still greater than 1 in 4 billion), and so on.

(e.g. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/networks/dsn02/dsn02_koop... argues CRC32 will detect all 1, 2 and 3 bit errors in an ethernet frame)
With respect, the problem is that you are both using gut reactions and anecdotal personal experience in order to determine the correct government policy.

You could approach it from a civil liberties angle. But if you're really interested in what would be best for the population overall, perhaps try and cite some data? It took me 5 minutes of Google searching to find some interesting results...
> But later, when I mounted it once again, cryptkeeper said the password is wrong (though, I 100% know, it's true!).

Is it a vulnerability if the product wasn't even working in the first place?
I'm happy for the next four years. All the enemies of the state are uncovering themselves for what they are.

This article, written by an incognito Jewish Marxist agitator, doesn't really show having much balls, though; but this is a future doxxing that I'll really enjoy.

edit: it was a joke ffs lol
The article nicely demonstrates that .jpg is not a good format for screenshots of text.
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I wish I could like get a "read out of my vitals" it's probably a dehydration/blood sugar problem.

I find that after drinking coffee/eating food I want to pass out. Also when binging on junk food (I don't do this everyday) same thing happens. I mostly eat a diet of lentil beans, onions, ground turkey and snack on some carrots. In the morning if I get good sleep, I feel good, clear mind, I can code/think and solve hard problems. But after eating/drinking coffee there is always that risk of a momentary shutdown for at least half an hour to two hours where I want to do nothing. Sometimes I don't eat and just drink water as I'm able to keep that good energy when you first wake up. But I also have this "feeling of need" that I need to drink coffee to get in motion.

What can I do? I'm not obese or anything but I'm also not running every day/exercising. Also my family has high-blood pressure problems at least on the father/male side. (I'm next in line for the grave)
"People become sick of this, and vote Trump just to fuck with everyone."

This is extremely superficial, arrogant, even offensive to people who voted for Trump. And that is the reason why Trump won IMO. Opposition couldnt understand (not even recognize) the legitimate and valid thoughtful reasons people had to vote for Trump.
No, their argument was that not all show no Fox News where news. They where trying to make a distinction between news shows and editorial shows.
> This article, written by an incognito Jewish Marxist agitator

the grugq isn't incognito.
Food isn't medicine; shocking. Turmeric is tasty though; I think I'll put some on some chicken.
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Situation A: it's hard for me to get a VISA.

Situation B: I have been a permanent resident for years, own a house and a cat, my family are citizens, I went to Europe for a few days and now the border authorities detain me and want to send me to Iran.

How big does it have to be?
> For top schools, money is secondary to building and maintaining reputation and leadership in research. Money comes as a consequence of being leaders,

This is not quite exactly how it works in Europe, though. Money is channeled through national/EU government, one way or another.
Just saw this got momentarily flagged into oblivion. The dark forces seem to be gathering.

I applaud this effort by leaders in our community to stand up and not just let this awful bigotry slide by.
How can you ever know if encryption is working properly?
I'm talking here about the alt-right, e.g. Milo Yiannopoulos' crowd, who self-profess that this was partly why they voted for Trump. People for whom this election was largely cultural, and saw Trump as a "fuck you" to the safe-space, microaggression, language-policing left.

I know they have real concerns, like economic pain, threats to their way of life, and concerns about mass immigration—concerns which, by the way, I argued in the grandparent that the left counters with labels. "Your concerns aren't real; you're just xenophobic." But I think the cultural stuff was a big part of it.

I realize they don't represent all Trump supporters, and never said they did.
Cloud GPUs are cost effective if you need to either fine-tune a pretrained network (eg, use pretrained ResNet/VGG/AlexNet for custom classes, ie[1]) or for inference, or if you don't want the upfront costs.

A 4GB GTX1050 is ~$180. A p2 instance on Amazon is $0.9/hour. The cost effectiveness depends on if you have a PC already.

[1] https://blog.keras.io/building-powerful-image-classification...
What if you create a folder, encrypt it, and then never bother to mount it again? You'd think it's safe when it isn't.
I don't disagree. Although a good rope implementation can handle that. Ropes are nice because it doesn't matter where you edit. Gap buffers have to copy around a lot of data if you are editing in different places.

Btw the memory overhead is not that much. It's just the memory needed to keep the pointers between the nodes. So I'm talking 10% increase or something.
For example systems like RC 4000.

http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/1967b.pdf
> for the population overall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...

It was definitely good for them to hold that child in the basement! As a population overall.

Why would I care about "civil liberties" if they come at cost of ruining my life? And I know I'm not in any way an exception. I won't be around enjoying them, right? Do I look like a person who enjoys anything right now?
Sorry, I should have said "could you provide data which shows your believe is valid/would make the world better?"

Stating "I believe X" without any basis in reality doesn't seem like a useful contribution to any discussion really...
Yes, that complexity does not go away. But you only need one delivery pipeline, with one test/staging environment. Toggling and running acceptance tests against the variations can be automated, but is viable when done manually.
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School is NOT the only source of knowledge. Parents have the most important role in teaching values. The school has an important role in socialization. School teaches the children that they are part of society and that there is people out there that are different and that's a good thing.

It is as bad that children ONLY learn from their parents that children ONLY learn from the state. Both radical situations go against a complete and balanced education.

I'm against "the state should be the only educator", my mistake if I didn't expressed that correctly.
My colleague is from Iran but live and work in my country (in the EU). Last year my company were sponsoring a tech conference in the US and him and a few of my other colleagues were going to attend the conference (he's the lead engeener on a product that we were going to publicise at the conference). He was denied entry to the US simply because he was from Iran, so it hasn't been all roses. But now it has just reached insane levels.
I used GCP successfully on a big project for Nike.

Went to use it again for another client, and mid-development, they froze the account with no way to recover it.

Well, my Nike job was for a live event. Had it gotten shutdown the same way, I would have been fucked. Holy shit even the thought of that happening scares the shit out of me—this was a multi-million dollars live event!

That killed GCP for me permanently. Same CRAP Google support they always have, but now with the ability to do serious damage to my reputation. Never. Again.
Funny enough, I was just planning to email the author of this w/r/t some of my new maps:

e.g. http://i.imgur.com/U16RRnv.png
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Consider the volume of traffic going over big backbones though (e. g. 100gbps per second). Let's say one of the devices terminating this backbone has a piece of memory go bad that mangles IP payloads. At 8.3 Mpps (1500byte mtu line rate), a 1 in 4 billion chance would trigger on average every 9 minutes or so.

That only assumes random probably with checksum collisions, but its interesting to see how the volumes of traffic moved around the Internet now have brought 'rare' events into much more frequency.
Also if you create a folder, encrypt it, and then are completely unable to re-mount it because it says the password is wrong.

He figured out from the source code that the password was "p", but for many people it'd just mean important data lost.
Those generally complete identifiers, not the various symbols like "->" "*" "&" "{" etc... So I think the parent's point is still valid. If anything autocompletion increases the symbol-to-letter typing ratio.
Why don't get is why there is so little discussion of systematic governance system shortcomings in the US.

Gerrymandering, a primary system empowering extreme positions, the role of money in politics, the extreme level of noise and lack of signal in the media, house and senate rules enabling obstructionism, lack of clarity in the constitution (e.g. senate being able to stall a supreme court judge for a year), etc.

As a general rule of thumb, money and power don't mix all that well ...
It keeps getting flagged and vouched back and forth.
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I know what those words mean too. That's why I voted for Trump in San Francisco.
Hi, I'm the author of the programming language Céu.

Although Céu is about 5 years now, this is the first time I post to "Show HN".

In this new version, we are trying to surpass the academic fences with a more polished work (docs, build, etc).

All feedback is welcome.

Francisco
I vouched it and it went back onto the front page, but it got promptly flagged away again. :-(
OK, some stuff is nice (async), but seems like the standard keeps adding syntactic sugar while not addressing more pressing daily challenges, i.e. deep cloning (Object.assign does not go deep).
Steal very important data from the NSA, encrypt it, wait.
Make sure to check out the comment down the bottom where Fred Wilson says he'll talk to Disqus about killing Breitbart's account, as well as the related discussion.

As a non-American with less to lose, while I think the latest move by Trump is contemptible and stupid, a lot of the response to it seem counter-productive. People here (edit: on HN) and elsewhere are doubling down on hatred, both of Trump supporters and of Muslims, without any kind of thought for convincing the other side's decision-makers or wooing independents. That's a dangerous thing to do, especially when you've just lost an election.
Would you care to elaborate, because I don't understand. Usually people would like the society in general to have less bigotry, hatred, and racism. Do you think Trump will help us get there, and how?
This works similarly to paradigms in science. Most of the time people don't actually define paradigms; it's implicit in the general experience of being a researcher. People similarly have a commonsense understanding of what hate, bigotry, and racism are. This works fine when everyone agrees, but once a field reaches a crisis, once you have a political climate so violently polarized, it stops working to appeal to people's basic intuitions. People no longer agree on the most basic things. You have to start calling out specifically what the other side is doing and why it's a bad idea.

Simply calling someone "hateful" is an emotional argument at this point, and hurting discourse.
I thought IronPython had been abandoned by MS ?
I'm not nearly knowledgable enough about this subject to have a well informed opinion and my only exposure to homeschooled kids have turned out to be very well adjusted adults. Despite my own anecdotal experience, I'm certainly open to any data showing the overall negative effects that homeschooling may have on the societal level, but if you strongly believe it shouldn't be allowed, and yet this belief isn't based on any solid reasoning or evidence, isn't that somewhat similar to the kind of unfounded beliefs on display in the article?
I recently went back to using Helvetica (well, Arial) more often. I have to do a ton of powerpoint presentations at work (at least two or three group reports a week).

In the beginning, my personal template used to be very complex. Header, footer, a cloud chamber image as a watermark, custom fonts. Over time, I simplified it more and more, removed the watermark, the header and footer backgrounds, and so on. The only extravaganza remaining was the font (Source Sans Pro, and Source Sans Pro Light for the titles... I found it looks quite elegant to make the titles lighter instead of bolder, they draw enough attention already.)

Long story short, today I just droped the custom font and went all Arial. I'm surprized how clean and professional it looks (like "I don't have to pretty up my slides, I have confidence in my content :-D"). I think I'm going to try this out for a while. It also has the benefit that everybody can now edit my .pptx files.
Yep. Sadly, it seems HN may be getting overrun by Trump apologists.

Where's the next good place to be after HN gets gaslighted to not knowing the meaning of words?
Grugq has been a pretty consistent and coherent commenter on cyber security issues for some time now. Your "Jewish Marxist agitator" comment is pretty inflammatory and seemingly without reason or backup. I'm glad trolls are uncovering themselves though.
> a lot of Americans don't have passports [...] set of people who would be excluded

Let's keep it real: The contributors to a global science conference are unlikely to be people who don't have passports - and in case that happens, getting passports in the US is as easy as filling in a form and driving down to the local post office.

Whereas even getting a business travel visa to the US is a month-long bureaucratic nightmare for 80% of the world's population (basically everyone bar EU, Japan, Korea and AU/NZ/CA).
Check Vala it's a compiled language that is inspired from C#. It's used in ElementaryOS I believe.

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Chrome _used_ to, a long time ago.
But this is certainly not a halting program.... or is it ?
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Helvetica is a bit of an acquired taste (I can't stand its grotesque x-height), but regardless of whether it looks good or not (which is a subjective judgement in any case), I agree with the article that it is for many people just not a very good typeface to read larger amounts of prose in.

If readability of multiple paragraphs of text is your goal, than there are many alternatives that are measurably easier to read (e.g., for sans-serif typefaces: try DejaVu Sans, Open Sans, or Calibri, or consider a typeface with serifs suitable for screens).

A lot depends on your target audience of course (age and eyesight matter as well), and HiDPI screens help a bit — but unless your demographics consist exclusively of Apple fans or mobile users only you can't rely on that. On average though reading Helvetica (and Arial) is cognitively more taxing than a lot of good alternatives. I'm surprised this isn't common knowledge in the HN crowd.