skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The old-guard of Democratic Party hails from these hyper liberal areas (Fienstein, Schumer, Pelosi), and based on what we have seen so far, they aren't even showing a slightest hint of resistance to Trump.

What exactly do you want them to do (serious, not provocative question)? All three have spoken up (in varying volume) about the nastier executive orders / memoranda / proclamations, all three argued against several of the more controversial senate approved cabinet posts.

Nearly all the senate confirmable posts can't be filibustered under the current rules. I'd even call it surprising how many of them haven't yet made it out of the respective committees due to the republican majorities. All that's holding them back seems to be those arcane "collegiality" rules that the senate has, and the reticence of some republican MoC.

Except for filibusterable stuff, the democrats are largely powerless for the moment.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not particularly happy with how Democratic "leadership" is working, but it's far from clear to me what should be done.
I just found my agreement for the relocation. I was moving from NYC to DC several years ago, after about a year of travelling to the DC location M-R each week.

Looks like they covered $10,111 + a tax gross-up. That included two months of rent at my NYC apartment, plus the lost deposit, for terminating my lease early. They paid the application, reservation, move-in and pet fees at my new apartment. They covered movers and a car rental.

Since I was already travelling to the site regularly, they didn't need to cover a special trip to look at places, but they did have me expense some extra train tickets so my wife could come look at apartments.
The ACLU is also reporting that the stay was granted: https://twitter.com/dale_e_ho/status/825520404777287680.

Many of you are probably watching the horror show unfold and wondering what tangible thing you can do. Joining or contributing to the ACLU is one small but important, specific way to help: https://action.aclu.org/secure/become-freedom-fighter-join-a....

https://twitter.com/seligerj/status/825529092414046208
My dad mentioned that he almost died from a wall heater in college. He was 'sick with the flu' and getting worse. One night laying in bed the wall heater fired up. He saw the light from the flame flickering on the floor and he thought 'that's odd it's orange not blue'

The exhaust was blocked with soot.

I also had a friend and his GF that died from an improperly installed furnace.

I also wonder about cyanide from cutting plastic as well as carbon monoxide. No idea, but they both seem about as toxic.
Powerful quote, but father/son is a stretch. He hated his gambling/drinking/bigamist/criminal father who left his mother when he was 12.
Well that's the tricky part. The branches all sort of rock paper scissor each other to keep everyone in check. I guess a judge could order CBP to not enforce the order, and if they do enforce it he could potentially hold someone very senior from that department in contempt of court. Additionally previous administrations would be afraid of impeachment by congress. Which is another remedy, but it seems unlikely with the republican majority in the house and senate.

But there is a twist, since the executive branch runs all the prisons, if the executive branch at the federal level is ignoring the rules it is unlikely that they will hold someone in custody for contempt.

And that is why people think it could become a constitutional crisis.
If the ban goes to the Supreme Court and is struck down because Trump didn't wait to fill the vacancy with a loyalist first, he'll have essentially failed the marshmallow test.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2V-XWcVIAAoel4.jpg
Donated to the ACLU for the first time today. I also plan to call my representative on Monday.
The discussion is often not as good as here.
You can use OptionParser for most basic CLI apps.
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.4.0/libdoc/optparse/rdoc/Option...

There are lots more options here: http://www.awesomecommandlineapps.com/gems.html
Does literally every non-political website needs to talk about Trump? I go to SO for answers, not stands.
>Witzel comes across as a deeply racist person. I am told that he told an Indian person that "Hindus cant get a chair professorship to study Indology because they will be biased!".

That's not racism.
The text of Trump's temporary order is mostly copy-pasted from temporary orders enacted by Obama that have withstood scrutiny, so I wouldn't get hopes up for a full reversal.
I have no love for Comcast.

But I don't see how Century Link is any better.
You're right: A monopolist that unleashes economic bounty for the American consumer with always increasingly lower prices for the principle input to the new world economy. Quite worrisome. Could be bad.

We'll ignore the saving the whales thing, because it was purely an incidental side effect.
There's always rz!
I think it's fairly unclear for the moment. Some ACLU affiliated account twittered "stay is national": https://twitter.com/dale_e_ho/status/825521534383095809
OK the inter-vehicle communication and crowd sourcing and AI sound like they will manage it. I'm assuming though that we'll eventually want AV-aware sensors attached to every light and every stop sign and every intersection. UHF RFID or some such that is cheap to deploy.
If you get a prescription for heroin that would probably lead to addiction right?

Under what circumstances do you think doctors would be prescribing heroin? Because a person wants to give it a try? For recreational use? Doctors already prescribe (under heavy regulation) narcotics for pain relief. If they were to prescribe heroin, I can't imagine it would be cavalierly prescribed for anything, other to address existing addiction, not unlike methadone treatments today.
Would "feel welcome" make it better for you?
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Or 2015, when the administration put into place the law [1] that the President is using now. If you read the EO [2], you'll note it doesn't actually list the countries. The list was already in place.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158

[2] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3431228/Extreme-V...
Just signed up with a monthly donation.

I think this is the only time I've left the "you may contact me" box ticked on a signup form.
Don't forget to thank the nice, kind people from the banned countries who helped you do your work, make money, and contribute to the overall economy so you can take care of your family.
And even if you want a PIN for your card, the credit card company doesn't know how to give it to you. Last summer, before I went to a conference in Canada, I called all 3 of my credit cards's customer service departments trying to get a PIN (American Express, Discover, MasterCard), and none of them would issue a PIN for my chip'ed card. I don't think any of the CSRs even knew what I was talking about. One even told me that PIN's were "just for debit cards". Sigh.
Like all movements, the act that makes the most difference is the one that takes most courage. A willingness to do, a willingness to lead, not just wait for/on a leader.

Mass rallies/sit-ins (non-violent ones) is the only real way the people of the United States of America can let their government know how they feel.

Call me a cynic, but calling your senator wont help. Trump has shown that he moves much faster than government is wont to do.
I don't think there's a very good direct corollary with historical fascist regimes; comparing the Trump administration and the complicit GOP Senate and House to Nazi Germany doesn't feel quite right. I feel like the GOP is more comparable to the Vichy regime in France: Collaborating with a monster for the sake of personal gain, not because they believe in the values Trump espouses.

Any comparison to Nazi Germany and the events that led to the rise of fascism is prone to be reaching; and prone to be dismissed by someone because there are many gaps in the comparison. Likewise, while there are certainly similarities to Italy's Mussolini and Spain's Franco, that's also a stretch. The world we live in is very different from that time and place. Fascism looks different today.

So...it's an imperfect metaphor. I merely wanted to poke fun at the craven GOP who have fallen in line behind a man they spent months criticizing and calling out for his fascist traits. Now that he's in a position of power they kowtow to him. More worrying, law enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and significant sections of the civilian and military government seem to be falling into line behind him rather than pushing back on his unconstitutional and illegal orders, even when I don't think they share his ideals. That's where my Vichy comparison comes from.

It's a stretch, I know. But, every comparison to historic fascists is. It doesn't make it less true that our new president is behaving like a fascist, and seems to have significant support.

Also, Putin's Russia probably had a hand in putting our new president into office.
Are you any less likely or more likely to support policies based on what you see in digital media? Do the owners of these websites owe it to you to not talk about their opinions? I understand that you may not wish to deal with this. But I suspect many of the people affected by this ban also do not wish to deal with it, and that creating lots of public pressure is the best way to effect change.
My thought on this is that if CEOs of traditionally non-political platforms are compelled to post political content, there might be something significant/concerning happening.

More directly: did you find this browsing SO?
Let's wait for that to happen. Seriously, if this occurs (and we are all damn well aware Trump is capable of it), this will approach a whole new level of madness.
> When we tried that, that's where the insurgency turned into what we know as ISIS.

We did not try that; we never had fewer than 40,000 troops in "the region." We shifted a large number from Iraq to Afghanistan but we were still very active in counter-terrorism within Iraqi borders the whole time.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R40682.pdf

If we had kept more troops in Iraq at constant levels, would ISIS exist? Perhaps not as a 'country' with semi-permanent settlements, but certainly as another terrorist organization, which is not much different from the perspective of our national security interests. And of course we can't afford it, not that it matters to anyone.

> How do you suppose "trying to wrap up our initial two as cleanly and quickly as possible" should have happened?

It's a difficult question, no doubt. I'm not disappointed that Obama didn't make everything perfect -- it's the fact that he didn't try anything at all. He just stuck to the playbook and expanded things we know are bad, like providing weapons and training to everyone and their mother in war-zones: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/08/2-us-backed-g...

Decades of intervention and breeding dependence and hatred cannot be so easily solved -- so please do not dismiss this answer because it does not result in a perfect scenario. President lend0 would cut off all drone strikes. Get the US troops out. Lift all economic sanctions. Recognize one government per country, and return ownership of resources such as oil rights to said government. Then, let organic self-government/revolution arise. Do not try to prop up any government, even the one we originally recognized. It will not be easy, and probably not fast, but we already know that occupations do not work, and it is absolutely not a long-term option financially regardless.

But the most obvious thing is: do not get into any NEW conflicts. We did not need to get into Syria. We could have let Russia deal with propping up the dictator we originally supported.

> On top of the above, platitudes such as this without really much concrete supporting points force to me to disregard your whole point.

Were you expecting Wikipedia-style citations for every point? Which part are you having trouble with -- I will elaborate with evidence. Anyway, this could be said about your entire comment, which provided much less evidence/counter-evidence than mine. I dislike these comments that are purely arguments for the sake of argument, and I have a bad habit of responding to them.
Yes, we want to talk about it, but does it need to be in StackOverflow? Is there a StackExchange for politics?

Edit: there is http://politics.stackexchange.com/
This is about the blanket ban on immigration from 7 countries, not refugees. This ban includes highly skilled workers who already have visas to work in the USA and will have a measurable impact on the economy and future of the USA.
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First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
FYI, Chris Sacca is matching grants to ALCU up to $150K...

https://twitter.com/sacca/status/825475296614707200
This is a horrible idea.

Any mayor who "shuts down economic activity" in their city is essentially holding their own constituents' well-being hostage and would only further polarize the country and further empower Trump to take extreme actions.
More precisely, it only blocks part of Trump's order:

"Judge Ann Donnelly of the US District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from the ACLU to stay deportations of those detained on entry to the United States following President Trump's executive order."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/refugees-...
Depends on the President currently in power. The judiciary has no real authority to enforce anything. The Obama administration and the Bush administration before basically made up the law as it went along in some cases.

In the US you can find a federal judge to block anything. You just shop around for a circuit with a politically friendly judge and file your suit there.

I don't actually think the ACLU has any real standing here, to be honest. You can't sue in US federal court on behalf of non-citizens. They have no standing.
Which party establishment? What if UKIP were to win a general election? Unlikely to happen, surely-but almost everyone said the same thing about President Trump.
The only way it goes to SCOTUS is if the government appeals.
> There are 0 Trump supporting search engines or Facebook equivalents.

Given that I, a not very well networked person, know of people supporting Trump at both google and facebook, I'm afraid that that's wishful thinking. It's not a large percentage, but they're there.

But even if so, what'd be the way to use that fact? I don't think the way to deal with Trump is to go blow-by-blow with Trump (he'll drag you down to his level, and beat you with experience, and all that).
No, you don't.
I think you're using the incorrect mental model of addicts popularized by DARE, etc.

I mean first -

> If you get a prescription for heroin that would probably lead to addiction right?

Decently sure OP is suggesting replacing obtaining heroin from the street with obtaining it through a doctor. As such, only existing (and new) addicts are effected; you would not create addicts.

Alternatively, this story you have told is already the case with other prescription opiates.

> Now as an addict you want more

> continually up the dosages prescribed, no?

I mean, do alcoholics do this? Or gamblers? Adrenaline junkies? Yes and no.

Basically, most of what you know about drugs is inaccurate, and addiction (and escalation of addiction) is complicated. For instance, the rat park experiments indicate that addiction is a coping mechanism - rats in individual cages experience addiction; rats in group cages, not so much. Simply by obtaining the drugs from a sympathetic ear, you can reduce the dependence on the drugs.

Here's a thing:

https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decr...
Good call. I just set up monthly contributions and would urge others to as well.
See comment about Thor
I started a github page where we can pool resources together:

https://stoptrump.github.io/

Feel free to contribute PRs for more resources: https://github.com/stoptrump/stoptrump.github.io
Contrary to (common?) belief, I'm not convinced that someone like Scalia would have let the ban stay.
Link to the current stay:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3TahZ_WEAAzGAK.jpg:large

EDIT: better link

https://www.scribd.com/document/337807824/Darweesh-v-Trump
Double their chances? I seriously doubt that many MIT students are from Trump's list of countries, or that the "chilling effect" on other foreign applicants will be that great.

This policy is still an injustice, of course. And maybe I'm wrong about the chilling effect; we'll find out, unless the courts step in and thoroughly block or cripple this short-sighted executive order.
I am skeptical of the 16 metrics used to rank harm on a 0 to 100 scale.
The key phrases there are "until we can figure out what is going on" (suggesting temporary until congress can come up with a new immigration policy) and "entering the country" (not affecting current residents) also his campaign made it clear that this would not apply to all Muslims but only those from regions undergoing conflict which was half true, it doesn't apply to all Muslim countries but the inclusion of nations like Iran which have no current conflicts is also problematic
https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decr...
> Food devilery

Exactly.
> I don't actually think the ACLU has any real standing here, to be honest. You can't sue in US federal court on behalf of non-citizens. They have no standing.

You should refrain from talking about things you clearly know nothing about.
Some part of me wants Trump to make this mistake, and make more big mistakes of the non-lethal variety quickly so that there is grounds to impeach him before he starts a war.
You just need to support Trump.What he doing is right.

What you believe is wrong.
Looks promising -- definitely a lot of work went into it. The closest other gem I know of is Ruby ANSI (http://rubyworks.github.io/ansi/#)
Hmmm, that's an interesting thought exercise. I wonder what would happen in FB/Google blocked access in states that voted Trump, or in the future for states of X candidate but not Y and the impact that would have. What happens if they're blocked for a day, week, month, etc? Interesting.
Pretty sure you could have guessed what it was going to be about, given what's going on today, and just not clicked on it. "Change the channel" is what we used to say.

Or do you click on every SO link?
The odds of that seem fairly high. Maybe not on this particular decision (I think he'd have a hard time convincing all immigration officials to break the law), but we're heading in that direction very rapidly.
But the problem has to explicitly exclude altruistic behavior; since if both subjects view the consequences to the other subject as being roughly as serious as consequences to themselves, there's no dilemma at all. They both shut up and help each other. The whole point is to show a situation exists in which two purely rational, purely selfish actors get an outcome that's actually worse for them from a selfish point of view than the outcome that two altruistic or irrational players would get. That they are criminals "establishes", to use the story-telling term, that these subjects are (unusually) not altruistic at all - the punchline is that being self-serving turns out not so well for them.
The US isn't. The City of Seattle is. This is an important distinction.
Summary from http://hntop.org

The federal court for the Eastern District of New York has issued an emergency stay halting President Trump's executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S, The Verge reported Saturday night. The court ruled on a habeas corpus petition filed by the ACLU on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday after Trump's ban. Admission will resume only after vetting has been deemed "adequate" by the secretary of State, the secretary of Homeland Security and Director of National Intelligence. The order also denies entry for 90 days for individuals from seven predominantly Muslims countries: Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Yemen. –This breaking news report will be updated
These people have standing because the executive order is causing an adverse effect on them directly. Non-citizens may certainly file lawsuits in the United States.

I'm no lawyer, but I do think that these are some basics in civics that even I am qualified to comment on.
The only way a union can survive economically is through authoritarian prohibitions against firing people for joining unions. This is because unions provide nothing that has market value. Historically they survived and flourished through illegal trespassing (blocking the company from operating), violence (beating up replacement workers), and eventually by getting legislation passed that imposed authoritarian prohibitions against employers exercising their contracting rights and ending employment contracts with unionized workers or negotiating with non-unionized workers individually (instead of through the mandated collective bargaining track).

>Saying that an employer worth billions of dollars and a potential employee worth many orders of magnitudes less than that have the same negotiating powers is ludicrous.

That's like saying consumers are helpless against Samsung because Samsung is a multibillion dollar company and consumers are individually worth much less. It's one of those thought-terminating clichés that distills the world into a simplistic class-war narrative.

In reality a consumer in a free market has the power to walk away, and choose any better offer that is available to them, and that is all the power they need. Similarly, a person will only continue driving for Uber if no better options are available on the market.

And if no better options are available, that means they're getting the market price for their labour. Using price controls to give them above-market wages has harmful second and third order consequences that reduce long-term wage growth.
As we get to 100% autonomy, traffic will probably look like this but 100x faster and safer.
507 points, 1 signature. What's wrong with this picture?
It's not just a bunch of people setting cm.swappieness to 0 is it? That behaviour changed and now prevents going into swap /ever/ where it used to mean go into swap as a last resort. Changing it to 1 fixes the issue and will act like the old behaviour or only swapping as a last result.

Regardless, it's things like this why we never recommend people use Ubuntu - years of poorly packaged and tested software. If you want a Debian based system use Debian (and accept that there's now a lot of missing packages are barely any proper SELinux or clustering support) or use RHEL/CentOS for a more complete district and add in repos like epel and elrepo as required.