skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Trump is a racist homophobe but he also won the elections: straight and fair. At last 45% of American population is like that - if their "economic anxiety" causes them to ignore rights of LGBT people, immigrants, latinos, blacks, and other minorities, then just imagine what they will do when there is no food on the table.

I cannot blame these people: that is how it is. But we need to accept that fact: we live in a very diverse country where there are people who do not share the same moral values as SV, NY, LA, etc.
Ask HN: Where you apply new technologies after leaning them?
What you do after learning a new technology. As we all have limited time. I have learnt new technologies but where to apply them. On my job I am limited to my technology.

I lost motivation to learn new technologies as I can not able to apply them anywhere in my work.

I am wondering what is your motivation to learn new frameworks and technologies. What you do after learning it.

Explanation: I am iOS developer and learned android, react, angular in past but can not apply any of them in real world. What benefit you get by learning them.
Green card holders are subject to the draft, so I think that counts.
I haven't actually physically inserted my card into a machine for at least 2 years now. It's contactless everywhere. If the transaction is more than ~$50 it just asks for my pin and that's it. Maybe we should just introduce this everywhere and then see how criminals can possibly break it?
>Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans.

This false equivalence convinced people to vote for Trump. No way Hillary would have implemented this ban.
"...until the day someone can actually buy the stuff"

I'm reasonably certain we can stop right there. It's a heavily regulated field and these things can't be sold until they've been rigorously tested. I know SV isn't known for its coziness with regulatory agencies, but in the field of safety, they'll have to play ball or take on all the liability the lawsuits will throw at them.
> People have a right to their beliefs, even if their beliefs are stupid. If not, than what kind of country are we?

Politics is a process of conflict and negotiation between varied, competing interests. In a liberal democracy, "people have a right to their beliefs" is the starting point for that process, not the endpoint.
No argument that reliable estimation is hard.

I think organizations that find conflict at the estimation stage are actually suffering from a shortage of design. For complex projects, design means R&D, and setting deadlines based on unfinished research can lead to failure or ballooning schedules.
Wow. Suddenly the left supports the 2nd amendment? I never thought I'd see the day.
Perhaps because he has business interests there? Pakistan is particularly interesting because the San Bernadino shooters were from there. Saudi Arabia is also not on the list, despite being the home of Wahabist terrorism. I'm totally against the ban, but these inconsistencies are revealing.

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2017/01/26/countr...
Canada does not have anywhere near the same amount of skin in global geopolitics as the US, consequently it has not pissed off large number of people in other countries making it less of a target for bad things. I do appreciate the immigration system in Canada and such, I'm only pointing out why the comparison b/w US and Canada is not correct in this particular matter.
"Trump is hell bent on destroying America from within"

No he isn't. Those kind of ridiculous hyperbolic statements don't help anything.

You may disagree with Trump's policies and platform. But "intent on destroying America" is a silly charge. And it is equally silly when (as often happens) it is leveled at the left.
Keep in mind, when politicians measure how much people care, the numbers are weighted by how much effort went in to making the statement. So, a unique, hand-typed letter takes a lot of effort and therefore is given a lot of weight. A phone call, less so. A copy-paste letter much less. And, a online petition signature, zero.
I think that one of the main issues of politics is the lack of real time data. There should be a website where people can vote every day (I'm not sure what exactly I mean by vote, I guess the bare minimum would be "i'm content with current political situation" and "i'm not content with current political situation").

Idk if this could take off but i feel like it could become a tool for voicing discontent and seeing some of these numbers of how many other people are voting could lead to something more.

One of the fundamental instruments of dictatorships is deceiving the public about how many other people are dissatisfied with the regime. If you know for a fact that 9/10 of the population is extremely dissatisfied with the regime, you can topple these regimes.
Very cool. But am I mistaken that they didn't attempt to go through a 4-way stop with massive pedestrians, like in PacHeights or Marina? I would be curious to see how they fared with the obnoxious drivers skipping their turn as well as the constant flow of pedestrians.

I'm also curious how it would react to going up Mason and California, where there's a traffic light at the top of a steep hill. Last time I had to physically pull myself up via the steering wheel to see anything, and as a seasoned driver I was a bit worried.
Destroy the most radicalized, enforce Syrian law for the rest. There's nobody that can do the job better than the Syrian government (which is more "well versed" in local politics than any White House hack will ever be). That's the only way to minimize the body count.
+1 (I find it useful too). I actually started writing my own implementation of something similar (named "PersistendDict" - feel free to steal the name ;) ) but never finished it so I will definitely check out your library. Thanks!

On account of starting / stopping the server... I personally don't care if functionality is there or not as I can always start server manually on dev machine, and it should be started differently on production machines anyway. But that's just my opinion.
That wasn't the questions. It was:

Do you want the possibility of a job? Does it matter if your disadvantaged, Muslim, first-generation American friend - or his/her parents - gets the shaft so that you can have a happy home and a job?

Does having a job mean that I have to be careful not to be out in the sun because then I look arab? With good reason, too - my grandmother was first generation american. Her parents were from Syria.

Does having a job mean that my bi-racial niece and nephew have to deal with alt-right led government?

Does it mean that I have to hide the fact that I'm bisexual?

It isn't enough that I have food and shelter. I want others to have the same, otherwise, I'm simply sharing and having less on whatever paltry sum the overlords will pay out. It isn't like there is a real social safety net to rely on.
> The executive order specifically exempts people of minority religions in those countries

I'm sorry, but are you actually upset by a provision that makes an exception for those being actively persecuted because of their religion?

Regardless of what you may think of the executive order, I'm not sure how you can find fault in that.
It's perfectly reasonable to kick a toxic person out of your community. Free speech means the government won't put you in prison. It doesn't mean that other people are required to entertain your opinions.
I wonder how much calling actually matters, because I feel like whether they receive 10 calls or 10,000, it's always going to be one-sided. Conservatives aren't going to call their reps and they don't have the propensity to engage in the same activism as progressives, so I would think representatives would take calls with a relative grain of salt. If a very conservative congressperson starts getting a bunch of calls saying how much the dislike [standard conservative proposal], they've got to think that as much as the people who voted against them don't want [standard conservative proposal], the conservatives who voted them in do.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough with "position of power". I wasn't talking about "James Wilson, truck driver in Madison" or "Allison Smith, bartender in Columbus".

It's the folks who single-handed lot have power to shape the world. Thiel can grab a friendly dinner with the greatest threat to humanity on Monday, and yet Sam Altman will gladly have lunch with him on Tuesday and joke about his "friends" as though nothing happened?
I didn't vote for Donald, because I think he sucks, but what other non-racist option was there? Hillary? Hillary exhibits just as much racism as Donald does; just in a different way. Hillary, along with many members of her party, are paternalistic racists. In other words, they hide their racism behind agendas that treat minorities and other groups like children. They feel that they are superior and better than other people, and so they talk down to them and coddle them in their campaigns and policies. It is condescending, and indeed a type of racism.

If we REALLY want to solve these sorts of problems, we need to:

1. Stop playing team sports with our votes, and be willing to look for the best options in third-party candidates. Sure, we may lose a few elections initially, but if we keep pushing, eventually we'll win. We can never achieve greatness by settling for the "evil of two lessers," as we did on both sides of the political fence last year.

2. Force our elected officials to stick to the checks and balances of the Constitution, and eliminate things like executive orders, which are in place solely to short-circuit Congress.

3. Get new blood in Washington. Stop voting for morons like Orrin Hatch, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell; or better yet, push for term limits and the elimination of exorbitant retirement benefits for these public servants. We cannot "drain the swamp," as Donald likes to say, until we, as voters, stop defecating into it with our suffrage.

The government is one of the biggest hinderances for minorities, and the Democrats are just as culpable as the Republicans, if not more so. If we're going to fix this issue, we need to fix the corruption in Washington, as well as in our states and local communities.
What point are you making here? That you can find a subset within a minority demographic that voted for Trump? If so, that proves nothing.

Just look at the graphs here:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trump...

White people elected Trump, minorities rejected him. Fact.
If the share holders didn't like it could they vote him out of that position?
Exactly. Doesn't it make sense to prioritize those people who are under the most persecution in those countries?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503107
Thanks for your question. In your solution there is some consistency vulnerabilities:

- (Step 1) If "delete service failed" - timeout is a fail? The decrement probably was done, but your app do not see response. In this case you dont know whatever decrement was done really or not. You cannot do re-try with this error (unless you use "magic" =))

- (Step 1) If you do "unmark deleted index" this does not mean it was fixed on disk forever. Your app or even server can shutdown/reboot before you ensure disk write.

- (Step 2) If marking failed you generally cannot rollback. You can try to rollback the decrement, but operation can possibly fail too. On next delete iteration the counter in filedb will be corrupted in this case.

- (Step 3) Indexes become exclusive data owner. If you lose indexes for 1 mailbox somehow - you cannot rely on counters in filedb anymore. So, you cannot do any decrements anymore until full double-side recheck.

- Any bug in any app in this chain can destroy filedb consistency.
The latter, and I know plenty about poverty. Economic conditions are transient and tend to improve due to technology, oppressive governments tend to consistently make things worse for everyone. Why would I possibly want to be governed by the sort of person who is prejudiced against me?
> If Trump was targeting Muslims, wouldn't he have started there?

He campaigned on a Muslim ban. Why try to randomly guess at his intentions, when he stated them over and over again, clear as day?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503107
Communicate with other people while driving. You learn a lot!
I believe so. There's no logo or any markings on the case, however.
you could make it a nerves project too, maybe after you get rid of some of those database dependencies.

It'll make you a ~100Mb linux distro that will boot straight into your app in ~10 seconds on a raspberri pi.

http://nerves-project.org/
> Do you believe Christian bakeries should be forced to bake cakes for gay customers?

I don't believe Christian bakeries should be forced to bake cakes for anyone. I do believe that if they want the protections of the legal system, they must follow the same protections for others, even if they find them abhorrent. A principled stand against those protections does not mean they get to do that at no cost to themselves.

If "person who supports an abhorrent ideology" is a protected class in SV restaurant service law, I rescind my call to ban him from getting a table, and change it to "let him eat alone".

> Ostracizing others for their words is incredibly immature, petty, and vindictive. And ironically, ostracizing is an act, not words, so it does expose your character.

No its not. Its a basic component of all human interactions. We all choose to associate or not with people based on their beliefs. Those associations are powerful multipliers for both success and failure in this world. That there is not a penalty for unwanted behavior in a given society is not a mark of value.

Finally, giving money to someone is also an act, regardless of what the Supreme Court says. Thiel has exposed his character, he is not welcome at my house and I won't work for him.
I don't think that's true. I don't think you hear from the "vast majority" of the 1%
I am currently in my bed because I am sick and can absolutely confirm this. I didn't even bother to get my laptop because my smartphone has the YouTube, Twitch, Netflix, and Amazon Video apps on it. Those are enough for me to keep me entertained without needing to have a heavy laptop on my knees, which would also require me to sit.

And since Android 7 has a split screen feature I can have a YouTube video playing while I'm surfing the web. So multitasking isn't just a PC domain anymore.
To add to this, here's a really interesting story of someone who thought that his landlord was stalking him, but really he slowly become poisoned by a carbon monoxide leak.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/34novp/user_thinks_...
Mutable locals do not necessarily imply pointers...
It used to be called HN, back when pg was in charge...
What this is really about for executives like Sam is Trump's meddling in the free movement of labor.

Where the action goes wrong is in its banning of our Kurdish and Iraqi brothers and sisters who have fought alongside US & NATO troops for years now.
This is so tragic. I used to work with Roger and he's about as gifted of an engineer as I've ever met. He was so nice and helpful too, even though he was miles beyond me in terms of skill.

He was so into his indy game, Shard, and even whipped out his laptop to show me and started explaining intricacies of the renderer when I met him at an industry event years later.

I didn't know his wife, but from the things I've read she was also a pioneer in her industry. Rest in Peace.
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Ask HN: Does a forum for rational political discussion exist?
Has anyone ever tried to create a forum for rational political discussion and achieved:

- At least some level of popularity or usage

- A diverse set of opinions. For example not dominated by either liberal or conservative views.

Is it theoretically possible?
You are drowning in your own bias. Everybody who disagrees with you is stupid?
>it seems like maintaining an illusion of popularity is paramount for history's bad political regimes

That's why he is so obsessed with crowd sizes and the lie that he would've won the popular vote if not for 5-10 million fraudulent votes.
Well, sometimes an idiot is just that: an idiot.

See, the 'little helpers' (or useful idiots by another term) are exactly the people who empower these assholes, historically, over and over again.

And afterwards, when the carnage has finally run its course they are all suddenly short of memory and did not know a thing.

If you are able to think for yourself and you dissociate from all things internet related, study history and economics for a bit and then look at what is being done today and you will not come to the conclusion that this is damaging America and the world in general then your critical thinking skills are indeed in short supply.

Whatever button a demagogue is able to push they'll push no amount of counterweight is going to convince scared people looking for a 'strong man' that they themselves are part of the problem.

But feel free to go soft and easy on anybody that is helping to push the cart over the edge, me, I'll happily give them both barrels and that includes my closest friends and family if I feel that they are going to help destroy my country and our world.

In pre-war Germany exactly those same sentiments that you are appealing to were used widely and we all know how that ended. Let's be a bit more forceful this time around, it might not yet be too late.

Or would you rather wait with that until the momentum is so large that this disaster is unstoppable?
Any Trump supporters in YC are probably smart enough to keep their mouths shut.
In sales training seminars, that would be one tactic. Other valid tactics include the frontal attack.
The reason might be psd2 ( a law in the EU) coming up. Which forces banks to open up.

So far as I see Amazon is not working on PSD2 but PayPal is.

Pss2 allows direct communication between accounts, buyers and sellers
"Trump is a bad person, and the people who voted for him are bad people"

I voted for Trump. I support many (not all) of his policies.
I don't appreciate being called a bad person. Certainly you have a right to think this but I disagree.

I won't go into what I think of people who voted for Hillary because I try not be mindlessly nasty but I don't think they are all "bad people".
I feel like the only thing that he campaigned on was hurting black/brown people and repealing the ACA. Everything else, every other policy topic was met with "I have the best people" or "I will have the best advisors." He constantly, falsely, repeated how bad black people have it in inner cities. How we can't go anywhere without the fear of being shot and killed by other black people. He touted the need for a nation-wide stop and frisk program, something deemed wildly ineffective by anyone who looked at the data. He demonized muslims EVERY chance he got. Every. Single. One. Remember the whole Khizr Khan incident? He is still trying to build a wall that will be costly and ineffective.

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to have any good will for people who voted for him. Especially the "I voted for you, but you're doing X" people. EVERYONE seen how hateful his campaign was. There isn't a sensible person who looked at it and thought otherwise. However, there are a lot of people who witnessed what he was doing and thought "it won't hurt me though" and were absolutely okay with him and his hateful approach to "making America great"

Fuck them

I know people, aside from myself and my family, that are already hurting because of his policies. And now when he gets whatever form of that nationwide stop and frisk going, it won't be white kids harassed by law enforcement, it will be my suburban black son and his friends.

You can miss me with the "not all voters" bull because every single one of them are complicit in how things are going now. Those people NEED to be called out. They need to be shown and constantly told that they made the WORST choice. I don't care about their feelings when the person that they voted for policies will criminalize me and a lot of people that I care about. Again, fuck their feelings
Non-AMP link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/...
Come on, banning Muslims was a _key campaign point_. He talked about it all the time during the primaries and the general election. So yes, I do hold people accountable for voting for this.
> I'm sure Trump will be able to stablise the Middle East no problem.

Well at least he'll stop arming them, that would be a good first step towards progress.
No need to fork Brave, we will collaborate on extensions APIs as we scale. We're supporting tested chromium extensions that we curate and fetch from our own S3 (essentially a cache backed by the Chrome Web Store).

For an extension to get support, we need to rank it as in-demand, and then try adding it to Brave to see what missing chrome.* APIs it might need. https://twitter.com/bravesampson is leading this charge, using https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/projects/1 to keep track and engage with developers.

For future extension APIs that go beyond the chromium ones, we won't support XUL, but I'd like to take advantage of our Muon (https://github.com/brave/muon - we forked Electron, because security) React.js-based front end.

In 2Q2017 I'll hope to have more to say about extensions and where we'll go. Interested extension developers are welcome now to join our https://community.brave.com/ discourse. Thanks.
And there I was compiling Gentoo at 13 because I liked the colours.
No it's within hours. A simple google search will show you that.
Yes. It seems liberals still haven't learned anything from this past round of finger pointing and self deprecating behavior.
The normal half-life of carboxyhemoglobin, when the patient is breathing room air, is 240 to 360 minutes (4-6 hours). The half-life of COHb can be decreased to 80 minutes with the administration of 100% oxygen.
5-10 years still seems roughly accurate or optimistic. A tech demo does not a consumer-purchasable licensed product make.
> He's got his foot in the door. That's all he needs right now.

That's a nice slippery slope you got in there. There's zero mention to muslims in the text of the order, and it's clearly stated that it's temporary, with several revision dates for assesment, the goal being to strengthen the vetting procedures.

I bet most people commenting here haven't read it. Do it. Now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/refugee-musli...
I don't understand the "he too". Are you referring to someone else who lost an election?
That is BS. China is easily one of the most oppressive regimes you must be buying from, you probably use Gas from Russia.

Society != Nation. Trump!=America. Trump is an asshole politician (just like Hillary) who has grabbed power.

When you refuse to engage in Trade you are not hurting Trump you are hurting average American and yourself. Trump will simply tax Americans more to keep is Airforce One flying.
I'm not taking a stance here, I'm using facts to prove that this ban is targeting Muslims (and only Muslims) of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
I have not heard that. It doesn't even make sense to me given what's actually getting covered in the press is immigration, his crazy tweets, and gross comments on a bus.