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I completely understand where you're coming from. I also know that phrasing it the way you have, without any additional context, very often results in semantic, distracting discussions like those that followed, distracting from the very valid point you're making.

When making a similar point, I focus on how clearly split the country is and the record-low unfavorability of both major party candidates. Hard to argue with either of those, and clearly demonstrates that Trump can't accurately be described as having a mandate. It's also generally non-partisan.

It also reminds everyone that Clinton was by no means a great candidate either, which also is well worth keeping in mind. So much of the rhetoric on either side during the campaign was "how can you vote for that candidate?", pointing out the flaws, rather than extolling the virtues of the candidate one was going to vote for. If Clinton had carried the Electoral College, we wouldn't be discussing this under "Trump Fires Acting Attorney General", but the split and polarization of the country would likely be just as strong, just on different topics.
It looks like this is getting released in the next major version of most browsers[1].

For Chrome, that means no sooner than 03/14/17. That version, Chrome 57, will also come with automatic background tab throttling[2].

[1] http://caniuse.com/#search=grid

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13471543
> Probably assurance that gender doesn't matter to be accepted and well-regarded?

Isn't a list like this the exact opposite of that?
> Probabilistic Programming sugggests a new programming paradigm

PP itself is not just an API for stat functions and data. It lets you write a generative, forward program, and then you run the program on outputs (data), and it generates probable inputs (parameters). It's similar to constraint programming paradigm, but based on probabilities.
Don't forget wiretapping the whole world - - a move that would have made your every dictator jealous. You, Americans, really are crazy sometimes. And you voted for him twice.
It's your own responsibility to tailor this "clean" state to your liking and make it look like you use it.
Ask HN: We need a way to discuss political articles here
For the first time, I am spending more time on 'New' than on 'Top' here on HN, because there are dozens of very insightful political essays and articles being submitted which are flagged and dead in moments.

I understand we are trying to keep HN tech-centered, but things have reached a point where we all care deeply and wish to discuss ongoing events. I do not wish to see HN continue to exclude politics.

I would prefer to be able to tag those posts as Political, and give users the option to stick to old-fashioned pure HN, tech only, or to include political content for those of us who wish to engage with it.
> "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" started as a low-budget picture rendered on Macs. In that film, if nobody touches it, it's CG. Ended up costing $70 million. Worldwide box office $50 million. Fail. "Iron Sky" was made for €7.5 million. Worldwide box office $11.5 million. Fail.

I know very little about the film industry, but is the box office the end of it? I was presuming that there was always some kind of long tail of modest cash flow from stuff like video rentals (days of yore) or online streaming services (present day). Is this a wrong assumption?
Ireland's in the EU too (eu-west-1)
Just like that.
The ESTA form asks for social media accounts (though not passwords, and ostensibly providing the accounts is "optional"): https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/
sure - that was not the intention. Fixed. I care deeply about user data privacy and how we have traded privacy(and user experience) for free software. Maybe recent events will change the trade-offs.
I understand your reasoning, and in the case of a fiscally conservative moderate (republican) that's not bought by corporate interest I would fully agree with that sentiment.

But for sake of argument, let's Godwin this:

I don't want an 80% Hitler because someone good is working with him, tilting him 20% towards the better. The only solution is opposition, and that's hard. He needs to be gone.
https://changelog.com/podcast/196
Game developers rally against Trump’s Muslim ban
Requesting account names is already common practice: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/foreign-travelers-soci.... That does not include passwords, and it's "voluntary". But having filled out US immigration forms a few times (and watched others doing it), the process is quite intimidating and many will be pressured into providing that data. Why else would they? There is no upside to the US gov having that data for me.

With regards to passwords, I don't have numbers, but have seen a few dozen reports over the years without actively looking for them and knowing someone personally to whom it happened (he refused and was allowed entry after a few hours). And whatever is currently discussed would probably include it, considering the San Bernadino case they cite as justification involved information shared with strict privacy setting:

https://www.google.de/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=us+askin...
Will US companies really be able to segregate like you suggest? That sounds too easy...
Except that travellers may be (and sometimes are being) asked for login credentials to online accounts.
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@patio11 's blog is pretty good. he tells the story of building a micro isv, then another.

at the end of this page is a link to his first post.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/start-here-if-youre-new/
As far as I knew, taxi licenses were there specifically to certify that the driver was trustworthy. After all, the service involves getting into a stranger's car...
1. [Damian Gryski](https://github.com/dgryski) - implements a bunch of modern academic papers (mostly in go). Also his twitter has a bunch more stuff.

2. [Daniel Lemire](http://lemire.me/en/) - comp sci professor who frequently blogs about interesting db/indexing topics
They are a company, sure. But the citizens vote with their wallets, and are clearly making a choice for the type of company they prefer. Maybe that means most people in New York prefer a company which cooperates with their local unions.
Thank you. It makes more sense now.
> When you've been doing it for a while your mind will be blank all the time

As others have suggested, this is hyperbole, verging on proselytising. Whilst there is rigorous scientific evidence for the therapeutic benefits of mindfulness, "blank minds" and other exotic states are anecdotes from those heavily invested in particular religious systems. I have no reason to disbelieve the less fantastical claims such as a blank mind, but I see absolutely no evidence to suggest that they are an inevitable and universal climax of those who practice for long periods.
Seems it does include US citizens.

Per "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla... : "and "agents of foreign powers" (which may include American citizens and permanent residents suspected of espionage or terrorism)."
Honestly I don't see where all the sci-fi analogies and Wave comparisons are coming from. I've been using Paper in beta for several months now, and it is nothing more then a slick, streamlined version of the Etherpad , which arguably was a slick and streamlined version of Wave.

It has all the features I used from GDocs, it is convenient and pleasant to look at. Long-form notes are very pleasant to write there. Note-taking aspect of this is definitely something they should explore more.
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This wasn't a strike, it was a political protest.

By not participating, Uber naturally made enemies among a group of people with a tendency to boycott everyone they disagree with.

(I'm not taking sides here, just pointing out that this was a predictable outcome.)
> Short of taking care of sizing the elements yourself, sadly, you can't have both a vertical and horizontal rhythm by just using flexbox alone.

Accompanied by https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2017/01/css...

I'm pretty familiar with Flex but I simply don't understand and the diagram doesn't help. What does 'rhythm' mean in terms of layout?

Taking a guess (which I shouldn't be), I can make https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2017/01/css... with flex, but I'd have header and rest-of-page as columns, then have rest-of-page as a row with nav and content, then content as a column with content and footer. I think the article is saying:

> CSS grid means I can do it all at once rather than continually having to make rows and columns.

But it doesn't actually say that anywhere (and again I'm guessing).
I think it's possible that other students had a different experience to me. I think it's possible that other students would have been much worse off without going to school.

I'd like to see more data, to better understand the situation.
We had a simpler standard in 1995. It was called tables and it did this exceptionally well and more importantly was easy enough for even amateurs to understand. And then armchair demagogues decided that markup should no longer be used for markup, setting web layout back decades and creating the field of web designers whose major accomplishment was understanding stupid div hacks.
Because tables are bad!
> Another perspective is that Christian and Muslim employees of those companies were told that the management's official policy is that certain aspects of their religious beliefs are wrong.

How so? To my knowledge, the modern "Christian" marriage (and marriage rites) are dogmatic and have no basis in the either the old nor the new testament. Those whose sensibilities were offended were creating, to use your words "fake outrage". Would they be offended if the Government passed a law that allowed non-believers to pay a tithe?
It may well enrage him sufficiently to begin the process of nationalizing Twitter and Facebook, so as to snatch the megaphone from the SJWs who currently seek to control public discourse.

If they keep poking this bear, don't be surprised when it turns out that November 3rd, 2020 is just another day - no need to fuss about the Electoral College or the popular vote, won't need to worry about any of that.
I would add another advantage: You get to escape the steaming mess that is configuration management. Our legacy landscape uses VMs configured with Chef, and our new landscape has containers on Kubernetes. I like the latter approach much better since I don't have to care about idempotency or whatever. I just scrap the container, start a new one, and its startup configuration is handled by a (usually trivial) shell script that `exec`s into the application binary at the end.
I've not read Arnold's autobiography but out of interest what are you referring to? If you are talking about his use of steroids etc (which I'm assuming is covered in the book?) then that isn't really cheating since in the case of professional bodybuilding since the sport is untested. There are federations that test and in that case using PEDs is cheating but in an untested federation, it's considered fair game.

Obviously, there are legal implications around the use of PEDs since many substances are illegal however I'm separating that out for this purpose.
What kind of misconduct? There is a big difference, for example, between plagiarism and fabricating results.

And which percentage of the researchers are involved in this? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? Do you have any studies you could link to that in any way quantify this?

China's research spending and number of research articles produced today is second only to the U.S. There are always going to be some bad apples among that many researchers. That should in no way discredit the rest of the profession.
EU regulations on algorithmic decision making and “right to explanation”
Except for mobile ( Android, iOS ), which is the main reason that we use responsive design anyway.

I will stick to flexbox for a while.
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She's a an ex head of Justice, you don't act like that with people who were in charge of your country's pillar. She is knowledgeable, and competent; even if it's 80% defiance, you know she's not the average rebel.

Trump just acts like a child removing everything that gets in its way just because he can.

I agree with you that he's seen through a biased lens, because he smells like tragedy. His past and now present actions and ideas are mostly void. Now people question the reason he didn't ban all muslim countries because he has business interests there (to be proven though).

He has no regards, no diplomacy, no sense of balance. Lots of people say he's a 5yo, I tend to agree.
I think "proper" is a bit strong. Sure there are some religious systems that prescribe breathing methods, but from my understanding of mindfulness, the entire point is the quality of awareness, not the quality of your breathing.
IT outsourcing is not an H1B problem.

If they are hiring Indian workers in India, it has absolutely nothing to do with H1B visas. A comment above discusses that Accenture seemingly used Indian workers on H1B, but also alludes to simply outsourcing work to India. These problems are significantly different and arguing for H1B reform based on international hiring practices is misleading. I'm not saying the H1B system isn't a problem, but I don't think your "sources" backup your claims.

All of your sources are about hiring in India, not hiring Indian workers in the US.
I have a good experience with cloudsigma.ch (but that only replaces the EC2 part, so it depends on what you need).
Forgive me if I have read you wrong, but only from a place of ignorance could a statement like that be said without humor.

You are suggesting that being a Barista is such a low peg on society and such a suffering to endure that it is akin to subservience.

Many baristas are incredibly talented and proud of what they do and make coffee an artisan pursuit. Not only that, but it is perfectly alright to enjoy serving coffee and enjoying customers company even if it isn't an artisan task for you and is just a job.

Regardless of all that, just because you replace a barista with a robot does not mean they will suddenly be interested in STEM fields or art or music or furthering a corporate career. I know you didn't suggest that, but the implication from others seems to be that if someone isn't doing an engineering job then they just aren't living correctly and they sure would if only they didn't have to do their blue collar job. That's clearly not the case nor will it ever be, no matter the will of progress and innovation.
I've seen a lot of BASIC-to-C converters, inspected the source code for a number of them (the transpilers, not the output), and almost universally been disappointed at their poor quality, which I decided I couldn't trust for a real project. This one however, looks like real software engineering went into it (see eg http://basic-converter.org/String_optimization.html), even if the code is... well, it's shell script which looks an awful lot like perl, real arcane magic.
Uber doesn't charge up front. You get a suggested fare, but the actual fare isn't guaranteed to be in those bounds.

Uber drivers also aren't guaranteed to go the optimal route. More and more Uber drivers seem to ask me what route they want me to take (which given I usually use Uber when abroad means my answer is almost always - whatever the GPS says).

If/when self driving cars come in, obviously these problems will disappear...
I had the same problem with docker.com a few years back. I read through pages of "successful developer stories" and shit, and was sitting there like, "That's great and all, but what does it actually do?"

On the upside, this has led me to a good practice: When I do a website for one of my apps, the first few sentences will state in the utmost clarity what the software actually does.
well if they failed on messaging I think it's because

1. they've done a lot of questionable things over the years so when they did something that looks a little off on something that a lot of people are upset about then all those things they did in the past came back to haunt them.

2. if the message is we consider this a bad policy and we don't support it, they mumbled that message low enough that people might have thought they were saying something else.
How does one save comments? I would like to read up further on Pensees.
Sam Harris, who's been outspoken on what he considers the proper role of profiling and discussing honestly the threat of jihadist terrorism addressed the Executive Order in a blog post you may find interesting.

Yes, thank you. For Harris's #2, do you think the executive order would have been better received if Saudi Arabia was on the list? I found myself wondering if it was consciously omitted with the intention of creating public support for adding it later.

And for #4, do you think it actually is possible "to speak about the ideological roots of Islamism and jihadism, and even about the unique need for reform within mainstream Islam itself, without lapsing into bigotry"? I'd like to see more of this, but I'm doubtful that the current political climate allows for it.

As counterpart, you might like this piece, in which a Russian-American tries to explain how his immigrant community ended up anti-Clinton rather than pro-Trump:

It is thus unsurprising that Trump’s insistent anti-war calls in his rallies and his defense of irredeemable but relatively stable regimes like Saddam Hussein’s resonated so much with my Philadelphia community. In my conversations with contractors, barbers, cooks and other hardworking immigrants, legitimate concerns over America’s actions overseas quickly polarized into a distrust of a “one-sided U.S. press.” Instead of a community backlash against Democrats, leftists or a potential female president, I saw an assault against a hawkish and “corrupt” bipartisan establishment, for which Hillary Clinton was its indomitable flag bearer. And though I noticed this often did not translate to passionate affection for Trump himself, his representation as a force against this status quo was enough to sway many Russian Americans toward the Republican’s cause.

https://medium.com/@Kareenmov/how-american-journalists-helpe...
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Speaking as a long-time contributor to and maintainer of permissive/BSD software: the thing about the GPL family which drives me away is partly philosophical disagreement, but mostly uncertainty. You can if you like say this is just the "U" in "FUD", but there's truth here.

For example: the FSF's stance on certain provisions of the GPL, like the ones on linking, is as far as I know completely untested in court and at odds with what appear to be both established legal and common-sense/intuitive notions of what constitutes a derivative work. And I'm not speaking from inexperience there: the Django project had to go many rounds on this because the maintained MySQL driver modules for Python are all GPL. Does this end up GPL'ing Django since it supports MySQL as an option and, thanks to the nature of Python's import system, will share address space with a GPL'd module if you use MySQL as your database? Or does the fact that it's an end-user choice and Django is simply shipping code to normalize API access to any of multiple drivers on multiple DB engines (leaning heavily on PEP 249, which itself is a normalized API for Python DB drivers to expose) avoid that? Nobody seems to be able to give a clear answer, because there is no clear answer, legally, on when the GPL's derivative-works clause is invoked or even if the GPL's derivative-works clause is legally sensible.
It doesn't necessarily sound like any of this is H1B related, it's just job outsourcing.

I'm not saying it isn't a problem in it's own, but it's not relevant here. If they were indeed hiring Indian workers on H1Bs, and paying them less than their counterparts, then we can complain about that. Outsourcing != H1B problems.

Also, anecdotal, but the work I shipped out to India when working for KPMG was absolutely not work I wanted to be doing and being able to send it to colleagues in India to complete was pretty nice from my admittedly small world view at the time.
Quality full stack developers are rare. People who understand nuances of React / Angular / Vue who also understand nuances of MongoDB / PostgreSQL who also understand nuances of AWS / Azure / Google Cloud are rare.

Generally they will be storng in one and weak in another.
Couldn't they just publicly ask any customer to privately provide them with a copy? Failing that couldn't upstream as easily purchase a single license?
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You should care about the message itself not who is saying it.

There are SJW mobs who downvote every comment that hurts their narrative. You can write factually correct and appropriate comments, they will still downvote it if they disagree. If you don't want to lose your HN points, you either self censor, and let the SJWs win or you make your statement from a throwaway account.
So what? I'm sure many people here support Thiel. No strikes when Obama wiretapped the whole world and was in bed with the whole tech community at the same time.
How do you know it's more ethical before knowing the actual decisions made?
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> the tricky question: did anybody figure out how to do a clean enough diesel engine without cheating

Yes. It is just more expensive in terms of maintenance because the urea-based cleaning liquid ("AdBlue") needs to be refilled by the dealer a lot more often if the exhaust scrubbing doesn't cheat and disable it half the time.

If you are interested in the details of the topic, I can recommend this CCC conference talk from last month:

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7904-software_defined_emissions
I don't know what was so bad about that comment enough to ban them right away.

>Accounts that use HN primarily for political or ideological battle are an abuse of this site...

How did you decide this was the case here, just curious.
I really like the fact, personally, that HN is a place I can come and escape politics. I purposely do not read the mainstream news and havn't for years.
I'm really excited for this. I've been using pure flexbox layouts for a while now, but it still has one major problem, in that your HTML structure still contains layout and positioning information.

Everything is either a column or a row, so in the example layout in the link, you'd need two container divs. Whereas the grid example can be done without any.
This is really impressive. Thanks for sharing.
Nah, a serious question wouldn't presuppose a particular answer. I think you've made up your mind long before you asked it.

But I'll oblige anyway. Virtue signaling in this context means that actions of individuals are directed mostly at people within their political and social group, not outside it. Their main purpose is similar to that of a Facebook "like", to communicate adherence to a shared set of beliefs, not to change anything per se. Indeed, in this political climate, where silent majority is actually in favor of the ban, to be in favor of it in the social circles of coastal elites could be harmful to one's well being. These days you have to constantly and proactively reaffirm your adherence to the latest groupthink.

This is further exacerbated by a rather severe level of hypocrisy demonstrated by those within the currently active protest group. When "their" people do the same or worse things, there's no protest or condemnation. Why? Because that wouldn't signal virtue to the socio-political group in question.

People on the right are prone to this too, but seemingly to a much lesser extent. In particular they don't seem to care much about protests.