skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just difficult, and making the wrong mistake can create problems.

Suppose we say transparency is a value. Well, it's extremely easy to have too much transparency. Suppose it is collaboration. Then you can easily run into costly processes that serve no purpose in value.

I've seen "values competitions" before in organizations, where an escalation of commitment to them sort of generates a positive feedback loop.
Vastly? Like the vast reaches of outer space? Wow...

Because things are laws is the reason the US has been able to maintain its democracy (constitutional republic) for as long as it has. So yes.

Picking and choosing what laws you want to follow based on how popular or pc they are is why Hillary lost and is why we have sanctuary cities and is why welfare wiped out the American family.
I'm sorry is Obama still president? No? Then let's talk about our current presidents actions and not live in the past. People are reacting to Trumps actions as he is president for now.
Right, and herein lies perhaps the best thing to come out of a Trump presidency: People obviously aren't prepared to discover exactly how much power has been slowly conglomerated and consolidated into the office of President. This stuff didn't just suddenly happen with Trump. He's just using the laws this country gave him. And perhaps there is a contradictory law somewhere on the books from fifty years ago. That doesn't mean much, because the kid going to MIT can't return to school after visiting family right now. The law might get sorted out by the courts later, but right now? Maybe after this, there won't be as much apathy about what's made law in the United States.
Thanks for taking time to answer questions! I have two short questions.

1. Are there any plans to make the dataset available?

2. I missed this, what incentive is there for players to "unravel", or move the first round of defection earlier? My naive thought is that turkers want to maximize monetary payoff by getting a high bonus (1 cent for each 2 points earned) and playing quickly (to free up time for other HITs). From your payoff matrix, both players cooperating all ten rounds in one game each get 50 points. A player could instead defect on round 10 to get 52 points. He could also defect on round 9 and expect mutual defection on round 10 to get 50 points. But if he defects even earlier on round 8 and expects mutual defection afterwards, he gets 48 points. In this experiment, earlier and earlier defections seem worse than cooperating on all rounds, even for the defector.
A protest isn't hypocritical just because something worse in the past happened that wasn't protested. Maybe some issues with a human face to rally behind receive disproportionate attention, but that doesn't invalidate the issue.
The merging of machine capability and human consciousness is already happening
Why couldn't we just change the rules for new visa that are being given out? People would have had ample warning before they get to the border and people with existing visa who randomly happened to be traveling wouldn't have been impacted. Arguably we would have achieved about the same security without the giant mess.

The only reason I can see why this was done in this fashion, side stepping regular process as if some disaster wag imminent is so that our new president can own this news cycle and make his fanatic voters happy.
Where the hell was everyone for the last 8 years? The last administration murdered an, innocent 16-year-old child and said he should have "had a more responsible father" even though the kid hadn't seen his terrorist father in years.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-tea...
Systemd doesn't embed a webserver. It provides a service separate from both the logger and the main systemd process, which allows remote logs access. There are many issues I have with pulling various projects into one umbrella organisation, but saying systemd integrates webserver is just incorrect.
We've banned this account for trolling. Please don't create accounts to violate the HN guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Declaration of the Rights of Man: Men are born free and equal (1789)
And thinks it's OK to molest women...
Serious question: have you noticed how there's no way to level that accusation without feeling like a jerk? It's because it's hard to accuse someone of doing something good for the wrong reason without behaving like a jerk. It's a sort of intrinsically nihilist position to take. And we laugh when nihilists take a bowling ball to the stomach. Or maybe just when it's Flea.

It's very difficult to use the concept of "virtue signaling" as a rhetorical weapon without conceding a whole lot of personal credibility. There's a reason that only a certain strange subset of people, people you probably don't want to associate yourself with, toss that term around casually.

I know how patronizing I sound writing this, and I'm sorry, but I swear to Christ I'm serious about the morbid curiosity I hold for people who think "virtue signaling" is some kind of devastating online bon mot.
> Maybe I'm unique, but I kind of like bash. I don't see why it shouldn't be my default shell except "Well, if it didn't exist in the 80s, it won't exist now" (It could also be a licensing issue, but as a user I don't really care about that).

Where's the beef? If you like/want it, then just make it your default shell. All it takes is "pkg install bash" and "chsh". I happen to find the default /bin/sh (Almquist shell) provides just about everything I care about in bash, while being much lighter weight and less full of security holes, but if I ever want bash all I have to do is type "bash" from my sh prompt.
> you compare what is currently happening to Jews being gassed in Nazi Germany.

Poor reading comprehension; I did no such thing. It was merely a very strong counter-example to your idea that one should not question the rule of law.
Are you trolling a dead couple? A candle's CO is what you are worried about? Sigh.
Did it really? PyPy is quite a piece of kit.
Please stop bringing up every last thing you can think of, no matter how wrong you think others may be. These discussions are difficult enough as it is without throwing all variety of incendiary materials on the fire. It's not constructive and actively makes things worse.
Shutting off surge pricing... reduces the disincentive to strike. Drivers get paid more when surge pricing is on.
CentOS only includes packages that Red Hat builds and supports on RHEL. Extra packages are maintained by the community as part of Fedora EPEL.
Why don't you use Software Collections to get the newer versions of the runtimes?
I didn't realise how easy moving within the EU was, in comparison. I'm surprised Canada to the USA is so much more hassle.

My employer paid for my flight (at £80 or so, including my bike, on the nice airline), plus the cost to move my furniture.

The paperwork was putting my new address on a form, and ticking the box labelled "EU citizen".
Well, since that attitude doesn't get useful results, maybe try the humanizing one that might?
I'm disappointed that you chose to editorialize the actual headline: "Twitter removes Donald Trump's account from searches for offensive terms". The for offensive terms is really important, and by removing it you've (seemingly deliberately) engaged in click bait.
It was Uber's competition striking, right? Disabling surge pricing when they'd otherwise have it seems like a way of capitalizing on the strike. That kind of thing is generally frowned upon in the labor movement.

I'm speculating, though! I don't know much about the Delete Uber thing; I'm as curious as everyone else is about it.
> The phrase “does not work” should be reserved for when you’re taking your car to the mechanic and you don’t have a clue what’s wrong with it.

I might suggest that the phrase "does not work" is as irritating to mechanics as it is to programmers. "Don't have a clue what's wrong with it" is clearly not the case if you are taking a car to a mechanic in the first place -- you surely have _some_ idea of what's wrong with it.

Certainly applies to other professions as well. As a rule of thumb, please help others help you.
Really? The narrow downtown San Francisco streets? You should check out a suburb sometime.
> "same stunt in 2011"

i tried to find out where the source of this information came from. all i could find were far-right blogs reposting the same story from thefederalist, whose source was this ABCNEWS article[0]

Other than that article; in which it says federal sources have told them the State Department had stopped processing Iraqi refugees, I cannot find any other news site that doesn't link back to this very article.

At best there is another site that had some coverage of what happened back in 2011[1]. which only says there's been a large slowdown of approvals for Iraqi refugees due to the incident that occurred in 2009.

In all I can only find 4 EOs from Obama that "banned" immigrants and it was not a blanket ban on all Muslims in select countries. The 4 EOs he made were never targeting certain nationalities or people of certain religious faiths. The last one he made was in 2014 where he banned the entry of anyone who claimed to be a government authority in the Crimea region without authorization from the government of Ukraine.[2]

So I would like to find an actual government website that has a statement saying that they did bar all Iraqi refugees in 2011. I cannot find an EO matching that description. Maybe the State Department did it internally? I do not know.

[0]http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-te...
[1]http://web.archive.org/web/20151122040105/http://archive.nav...
[2]https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13660
Ok, got it, you want Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell running things forever. It's a bold strategy, let's see how it works out for you.
Tell that to the nut jobs who occupied the wild life refuge in Oregon after having had a previous police stand off.

It's a good thing not all laws are enforced equally. Otherwise most of us apparently would be on jail because of obscure, old laws that were never revoked.

Also, how did the welfare state destroy the Martian family?

Have you ever been outside the US? Edit: nvm saw you were the same poster who talked about their border experience in other countries. There goes that prejudice of mine.
No matter how wrong you think others may be, please strive to be even more civil during contentious discussions.
Are you aware of the "software collections"? That may or may not be of use to you.
I think it's important to note that the author explains exactly how he is restricted (and it applies mostly to the professional/tech world), and I don't think the experience would vary by person based on his examples. From the Iranians I know as well as other international students in general, what he has described is pretty common. Not Iranian myself though so haven't seen every detail up close and personal, and small sample size. I have never seen evidence or heard of experiences that suggest otherwise in the cases of his examples.
What We Cannot Know, with Marcus Du Sautoy [video]
Executive orders. When Obama rode somewhat roughshod with them, people were okay with them. They didn't complain. Congress hamstrung the president so, sure, why not let him have those powers. Now that the other guy is following suit, oh, no, executive power, abuse of power!

Nothing against Obama, I voted for him, but I find it a bit odd that because the new guy is the opposition suddenly it's a constitutional issue whereas before cuz it was our guy we let it pass.

It reminds me of the dissonance in some Calexiters --the same people who mourned Brexit. It's only good when you do it.
You're about 1,999 short of "thousands."
We restored the article title.
Would not surge pricing encourage drivers to pick up more passengers at the airport? Therefore by disabling surge pricing, Uber drivers have less motivation to be "scabs" by picking up people at the airport?
As many other commenters pointed out, this is completely misinformed -- he didn't break any laws. He also makes for an interesting case study on monopolies, because he did not actually attain as much rent-seeking as many people think, or even compared to today's companies. Natural, malevolent monopolies cannot exist without rent-seeking, and Rockefeller was a great example of that. His empire was very close to a monopoly, but it was not malevolent to the consumer -- he had driven down the price of kerosene by over 50% after 30 years.
It's a useful way to, say, speculating wildly, provide an honest signal to someone not convinced of your hacking capabilities that you've actually got the technical skills claimed.

Now ... if only I could think of, say, some geopolitically significant hospitality enterprise, possibly with widespread or global operations, against which such a proven attack might be of interest.
Pre-cell phone while driving ban, my roommate turned left to a woman who waved him through, and was hit by her. She told the cop she didn't wave him through, but was gesturing to the person on the other end while talking on her phone. He was ruled at fault.
It was arbitrary for George Washington to decline to run for a third term as President, feeling that two terms ought to be enough for anybody. And it took over a century for that wisdom to be codified into the 22nd Amendment.
I had the opposite impression of Google employees on the Never Again pledge:

https://lobste.rs/s/91ah4l/neveragain_tech/comments/yk8l4o#c...

It's almost a joke for people to sign a pledge about not collecting data that can be used against minorities then support either Google or Facebook in any way. They're probably the biggest threat to them that's existed in a long time if they're compelled to share their data. The billions made on their practices ensures they won't change them any time soon. If anything, they've both gotten worse over time in invasiveness and lock-in. Yet, Never Again people will continue making products/services for Google to help them maintain market share doing more of that Orwell shit they do. Quite the moral core [with associated pay, benefits, and fun job].

Whereas, the immigration claim is believable because it impacts them personally and financially if critical people are immigrants. They have quite a bit of skin in the game. It wouldn't surprise me if they'd fight that.
As a non-American: what's the usual non-dog-whistling term for "state rights"?

I might say "federalist", but AFAIK in the US that's pretty much reserved for the effort to make the Constitution back then.
No idea who actually went on strike but the call to do so included Uber drivers, if you read the article.

If there's a shortage of rides in any event, turning off surge pricing is not a way to maximize income. Makes no sense.
Possibly this: https://github.com/docopt/docopt.rb

I've used the Python version with great success.
As a resident of Capitol Hill, I want this right near me. And I want to see another one in Belltown. And another near the waterfront. And another on Aurora. And then another twenty throughout the city.

There are junkies shooting up around me every day. They deserve safety and dignity, just like everyone else.
Do me a favor, please delete my account. I'm done here. Thanks!
Haha yep! I'm not sure what the processes is getting it from a vendor.
One of the best times in my life was when I was in such a college environment, but instead of going through the grad school and corporate recruiting gauntlet, I opted out and planned on joining the military. I ended up in a software job I found on Craigslist instead, but not giving a fuck is still one of my best decisions.
Your impression is that people who sign a pledge to leave their jobs before helping mass deportation or a Muslim registry have less moral authority than those that don't? That's, uh, quite the contrarian take.
Well it depends.. if you vote someone for his current stance towards something I would expect he keep it whether he personally has changed view or not . If you vote for someone on their ability to think and act , for thier character I would expect them to change.

Usually it a combination of both so there is no simple answer
At a few thousand Euro each instance, vs., say, EUR50k to EUR500k for a full re-specification and implementation of all hotel security systems, that's a bargain price.

(Of course, they're also a piggy bank every time the hackers need cash.)

(This assumes the hackers aren't, say, hotel management or employees skimming the operation themselves via hack threats, say, for money laundering purposes.)
He's an American citizen so he can't be denied entry.
I think overall this is a good idea, but it's important to consider the temporary nature of it as an executive order. And of course the use of exceptions.

My question, that I have not seen discussed and am too lazy to do the math on, is this: In the next four years, how many democrats vs republicans are likely to retire / leave office? Will this have any partisan benefit?

This goes for term limits as well, which I think also could be a good idea pending execution.
The price is quoted in GB-months right on the home page. All the picodollar pricing does is eliminate any uncertainty over rounding.
I know if I were a comcast engineer having to read these posts continually I'd likely end up having a coronary.

You do understand the "XFinity wifi crap" has absolutely zero affect on you whatsoever, with the exception of the 50mw or whatever power draw that extra SSID takes right?

If so, why do you hate it so much? It's an amazing idea - on Comcast owned CPE create a network-wide wifi network before you hand off to the customer. It affects that customer's traffic in absolutely no what whatsoever any more than anyone else on the neighborhood cable segment would. In exchange for $.50 worth of power a year, I now gain access to a city-wide network of rather surprising density. I fail to see a downside.

I'm very curious why you think this is remotely a problem. I hate on Comcast more than the average guy, but the absolutely incorrect FUD they get on this product even on HN where folks should know better is beyond puzzling to me.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13509087 and marked it off-topic.
I drove in Grand Rapids and Chicago today. I'd take bad weather in GR than here at home any time. More snow more often doesn't mean more difficult to drive, more population and smaller streets here make it way riskier. Ice and sliding are easy problems to account for in code, bad manners are not.
Teaching a lesson is always unnecessary and is often conflated with teaching itself. Some of the bad team leads I work with do this. Some people are simply incapable of teaching and have to rationalize it by enforcing protocols about how one programmer has to approach another. I have always found it inhuman.
A few weeks ago I agreed completely with this "be pacific, be understanding, be calm, be kind" strategy. And yes, it's nice to be all those things.

All your statements about trying to make people understand, to make them feel equal and not defensive, I was 100% on board with such an approach. And then you realise it's futile.

India did not become independent because Gandhi won; India became independent because it became unfashionable to have colonies, and the British were pressured into letting their empire dissolve.
Thanks for the quick fix!
That is a good point. Thank you for pointing that out! It's way too easy to lose perspective and often control these dayes.
I have to get better at what I actually set out to do and ignore politics and news for the next years and just donate s bunch to ACLU. That's really all one can do. I don't think there is anything one could say that would make this situation better either way.
Someone should start a campaign similar to wirecutters.

ABC - Anyone But Comcast
How does one distinguish between a person acting from genuine good intentions and a person who is merely "virtue signalling"?

(I say "merely virtue signalling" because there's nothing intrinsically wrong with virtue signalling if it's accompanied by consistently virtuous actions)

I'd suggest consistency as a heuristic. Is the person consistently "good". Are their actions and speech inconsistent or hypocritical? Brin, I think, would pass that test.
Ok, we replaced the US with Seattle above.
> "Given that the author showed sarcasm and hostility towards anyone perceived to be less technically literate from the very start,"

The author mentions that his usual tactic is sarcasm, but that during this encounter he was polite.

> "You're expecting the user to be familiar with PowerPoint's feature set, and in my experience the linking/referencing feature is used rarely."

The user has just been told that PowerPoint was trying to stream the video. At this point, she no longer needs specific prior knowledge that PowerPoint has a linking/referencing feature. She has been presented with enough information to infer that the feature exists, if she has enough technical knowledge to recognize the general concept of a link. But instead of rethinking her situation, she patronizingly rejects the author's explanation—the first occasion in the encounter where she engaged in any discussion of the technical details.
Again, that happened in a far away land to people I don't know. The issue at hand is about people with green cards and H1Bs not being able to enter the country because Trump had a bad hair day. Completely different, I work with the latter people, while the former I don't know.
Not sure if it's welche here, but I wrote a Seminar lib for PHP:

https://github.com/grothkopp/PHPCliWrapper
Not good enough.

"I see numerous emerging synergies..."

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/PtsQrhF8...
blast from the past ! just looked at the page, kind of surprised to see this:

'Numerical Recipes in Java™!'

i was/am under the impression that it was either FORTRAN or C++ in HPC/scientific computing arena :)

edit-001 : slight clarification.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512265 and marked it off-topic.
There is nothing wrong in pointing out hypocrisy. It is a pretty reasonable rhetoric technique.

I think his point stands, these refugees didn't appear in a vacuum. It is not a natural disaster or act of God. It was mostly due to destabilization efforts from the West. Wonder what the historical record is of these CEOs lobbying Obama to stop bombing or supporting "rebels" in those parts. I think it is worth having that discussion...

Now I think it a pretty bad decision to prevent Green Card holders to re-enter. I was one for many years, I can imagine how it feel being denied entry.
Actually that machine looks great—but where do I buy one? I searched for the product number of that NUC on Amazon and only find different (older) versions? There's something to be said for Apple's naming scheme versus "NUC Kit NUC7i5BNK" !
> those people who man the gas chambers in Nazi Germany

Please don't make the thread even worse.
Right, those evil tech CEOs with their underpaid, poor immigrants. /s

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Google - Median salary: $127,000

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Microsoft - Median salary: $119,000

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=facebook - Median salary: $138,000

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=apple - Median salary: $120,000

Most of the people in America make a quarter of that. For a family of three or four. Compare the above to:

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=infosys - $76,000

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=tata - $66,000
What happened if somebody used this hack against a Trump hotel?
GP didn't say that.

Not: Google employees who sign the pledge have less moral authority than those who don't.

Rather: Google employees who sign the pledge have less moral authority than people who aren't helping collect data on anyone.