skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the Introduction verbatim:

"This ban, when first promulgated,
included individuals on immigrant visas and returning lawful permanent residents."

So why is it ok for returning lawful permanent residents to be banned ? To become a permanent resident, you have to go through tons of paperwork and background checks already. It takes anywhere from 9-12 months to even years to get a green card. The point is that this executive order completely ignored lawful PRs and that is totally unfair and probably unconstitutional. Whats next ? Naturalized citizens ? Then who is next ?

I can understand banning non-americans. But lawful Permanent Residents are considered "US Persons" as per definition which means they have all the rights as a citizen except the right to vote and run for office. If I was PR who was treated like this, I will be furious. Period. And I love America.
Flint still doesn't have clean water. Let's see how NYC responds.
It's a weird situation here in Arizona (or at least, it used to be - I haven't checked lately what the current story is):

Historically, AZ has been conservative at the State level, but relatively liberal in our "major cities" (Phoenix, Tuscon and Flagstaff).

Phoenix, though, is the seat of the State government. So you have in Phoenix a liberal city in a conservative State, with a conservative capitol (State government) inside the city.

It makes for interesting local politics, that's for sure.
You should know, nobody takes the NYT seriously anymore.
This particular story is new to me but when I was in high school, a teacher once presented me with the idea that this is the origin of many if not most cultural/religious taboos.

It made perfect sense to me.

Don't eat pork. They didn't know about trichinosis but they did notice that people who ate pork got sick and sometimes died.

Don't sleep around. They didn't understand what syphilis was but they did notice that people who had lots of indiscriminate sex got sick and sometimes died.
>By serving ads laden with malware, critics say, websites and digital publishers are breaking an unwritten pact with users, many of which are turning to ad blockers to protect themselves.

If they want to pretend this unwritten contract exists (I don't think it does) then they need to uphold their part of the deal: don't infect users with malware.
I'm afraid that is likely an underestimated number of affected people/lives because it does not include the number of people with valid, legal visas who are refused boarding by airlines across the world. Those people never make it to the US to have their visas revoked.
When I've looked at salaries in London they seem relatively low compared to the States. Perhaps higher isn't high enough?
So after the death of a parent, an old, close childhood friend that lives far away sends you a message saying "your mom was a second mother to me" and it means nothing...?

It means something to me. So I continue to use the service.
Right now that's a plus.
I had a really rough time finding practical/real world examples of this stuff. After digging around and piecing together a bunch of tips/guides/pointers, I managed to get what I wanted working.

If you're looking for some real world examples of using multiprocessing (v3), check here: https://github.com/dpgailey/asteria/blob/master/asteria-v3/c...
Eliminate Your Back Pain, Command Your Posture
I've had audio problems with OSS and ALSA too, in the past. Mostly with ALSA. Overall, PA is an improvement over those, but of course every change can bring new breakage, which was the original point.
especiallt when the type system is so weak that you'll have to use interface{} everywhere.

This library sums up a lot of the language's problem : channels aren't the final word on concurrency, and go needs at least some way of making reusable code in a type safe manner.
> A lot of people like to say they're paying "market wages", but most qualified people are already making that or more.

The other thing to consider is that current market price of something is the price at which everyone willing to sell at or below that price has already sold.

The next person to buy is going to have to pay incrementally more. If you define a "shortage" as " no more for sale without paying more than the current market price", then the normal shape of supply curves would mean that markets are usually in "shortage".
I dislike Trump. But more than seeing him lose, I want to see justice prevail. If it's within his power to do this, so be it. But if it isn't, I hope this binds the rest of us together to deliver a significant defeat to him. It's great to see our justice system work together to challenge this order.
Have you tried offering internationally competitive salaries?
Isn't it also pretty tough to get citizenship in NZ? I looked into it years ago, and while both my wife and I are skilled professionals (Physical Therapist and Programmer, respectively), we weren't eligible. Though part/most of that was being overweight.
Even as an immigrant to the US, I agree with this. A large part of the shortage is self-inflicted.

Did we see a shortage of American workers who could do the job right away?

YES. Not many people work in the same area of technology. There really aren't many people working in some areas of tech.

Did the employer try to compromise on their requirement of "rockstar coder with 1000 wpm typing speed, PhD in app programming, merge k-sorted arrays in 15 mins with good syntax and no compiler?"

NO. And this is why there is no shortage. It's their demand for rockstars when reality is most companies are mediocre (at best). It's not shortage, your company sucks, interviews suck and nobody wants to work there.
And in 188 years the Earth may be a neutron star of about 1.2 solar masses, at last delivering on the ancient promise of a geocentric solar system.
Sure, which means there's no "the terrorists". It's all different people.
> What is your interpretation of this? Who would turn down the chance of cheap labor even without a shortage?

The labor is not cheap. I have already explained this.

> Demand is high. Why is the population count relevant? People are choosing other career paths, which means there isn't enough incentive to choose IT.

It isn't. I bring it up because the parent brought it up. I think we are in agreement here.

> You could, and why not? Are you implying India is incapable of producing gold-medal winning athletes?

Most certainly not.

> Not overnight, might it might in the long run. Why wouldn't it?

I have already explained this. Please don't ask the same question for me to give the same answer. The only reason I am replying is because you seem to be genuinely interested in an open-minded discussion about this issue.

> You mean the bodyshop abuse? Won't a minimum wage requirement fix it?

No, I don't mean the bodyshop abuse. The problem: not enough Americans to fill vacancies in tech sector. That is the problem that this solution won't fix.
Have you been asleep this past week?

The courts already ruled to put a stop to this executive order. Who do you think is supposed to enforce the ruling of the courts?
Copper kills bacteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect
Alright, I wasn't quite accurate on the specifics. But I'm criticizing the decreased color fidelity. I don't know how much a RGBW subpixel panel increases brightness, but I really don't think it's worth 25% of the panel losing the ability to display color.
I'll add some anecdotal evidence as to why I don't think Walmart isn't capable of giving Amazon any hard times.

When I got my first iPhone I was recommended a Zagg screen protector. I found that Walmart online had the best deal so I ordered it for in-store pickup. I was notified the day it arrived and headed back to the Layaway area. Nobody was there, but there was a little kiosk where I could enter my info and someone would fetch my item for me. Seemed like a very efficient setup. Walk in, get my thing, and leave.

After putting my info into the kiosk and being told my item was on its way, I waited. And waited. And waited. About 15 minutes in, after entering the info into the kiosk again and not getting a response, I called the store and asked for a manager. It took me a minute to get them to understand that I was calling from inside their store to get my item. But finally, they got it and assured me that someone would be bringing out my item shortly.

Another 15 minutes of waiting and I HAD TO CALL THEM AGAIN! And explain, again, that, "Yes, I'm standing inside your store, waiting for the thing I purchased. We talked about this already."

All told, I was probably there for 45 minutes before I got my item. That was the last time I bought something from Walmart.

Now, I'll concede that this was almost 10 years ago and maybe they've changed. But Walmart has never been known for the best customer service, and Amazon is always fantastic when I have to deal with them. So I'm placing my bet on Amazon in this particular race.
Whether anyone wiped evidence was not a fact that Zenimax had to prove. That data was deleted from Carmack's hard drive after he received a litigation notice is simply a piece of evidence the jury considered alongside all the other evidence (including testimony about alternative explanations for why data was deleted). From that evidence, Zenimax just had to prove that it was more likely than not code had been copied.
I wonder, if I were trying to put my family the furthest from a Trump-initiated nuclear war, is New Zealand basically the best place to be? Or would somewhere like Chile be a better idea? I suppose I need to also factor in the quality of life difference vs. the probability that one is safer, and how the local economies would handle a world-wide collapse. It's a plus that New Zealand exports so much food, I imagine.
I simply can not understand how there can be a confusion on such a number. Can not one simply document this? The US does this as well. For example, "Stop-and-frisk" in NYC requires that when police officers make stops - they fill out the form explaining the situation and details of the stop [0]. The next step would be to analayze the nature of this stops and I won't find it surprising if there was/is racial profiling. Even the Stop-And-Frisk NYC policy discriminated against persons of Hispanics and African descent [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

[1] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/01621450600000104...
I'm an engineer, and my 1x1 meetings all feel useless to me. It is 100% a meeting for managers and I'd skip every single one if I could.

I would vastly prefer an ad hoc meeting when I actually have something to talk about instead of 30 minutes every week where I'm constantly struggling to find material for this useless meeting.
Well, it's a shortage in the sense that there is a shortage of brand-new Ferraris for $15,000.
Same here. I've been looking at every other vendor that I can before Amazon.

So far I've had success with finding other vendors. I've been using Target, Walmart, third party retailers, the manufacturer, and AliExpress as an alternative. Heck I've been shopping locally more.
Ground Control to Major Tom: How NASA Uses Node.js
>> jet.com reached their 1B revenue target by losing money on every transaction

First, they ship 30% of their orders from their own warehouse.

Second, if jet.com was a "bubble" company, with nothing to back themselves up, i'm not sure Walmart would have ackuired them for $3B.
Ask HN: Why only three filters (newest, news, best) rather than a sliding scale?
I think it would improve HN greatly if one could specify to see the best items from the past n hours/days, rather than just best/news/off.

So rather than have best (best from this week-ish), news (best from today-ish) and newest (show all), we could specify a time period, which would show the most upvoted items for the past, e.g. 3 days, or for however long you've been away from HN.

I find myself needing the same feature for Reddit all the time. I'm not sure why it must be 3-4 presets, rather than a sliding scale.
Walmart is catching up to Amazon on tech, Amazon is catching up to Walmart on reputation
On a related topic, most of the unfilled "STEM" jobs can't be filled by pushing college students into STEM fields.

Usually a scientist, programmer, engineer, or mathematician is made in elementary school.
Acquaintances? FOAFs? Former colleagues? A DJ you used to go see 20 years ago? In the US, all of these people get swept under the rug of "friends" in the FB era, and it's in this way that they are less granular if "friend" can mean just about anybody you've ever come across.
> rather than have inventory, they relist competitor's inventory at lower prices

Wow. No wonder Wal-Mart bought them, they're cut from the same cloth.
I think it all comes down to the big difference between having a degree and being productive at a company, along with how free the labor market is.

I have worked at a few places that just didn't take people out of school at all, because they saw that the amount of time the typical graduate they got was a net negative to productivity, compared to how long people stayed at the company, didn't add up. They figured out that in their case, given their relative inability to tell the highly productive recent grads from those that would not be productive in a year, that it was better for them to spend resources paying experienced people really well, and letting other companies sort out the good and the bad. Thinking like that leads to some kind of farm system: People that are just body shops, where the good people manage to go to a next tier of company quality.

A shortcut for this is a degree from a nice enough university, as there are many companies out there that will interview anyone coming from a prestigious university, but would not give the time of the day to a recent graduate from, say, Missouri Rolla.

And let's not forget the madness that is interviewing in big tech companies. All of that 'optimizing to avoid false positives' idea is really saying that people that don't have a specific interviewing shape, but are very good when at a job, don't have a chance. I have a job at one of those tech companies, but some of my favorite developers from earlier in my career just can't pass the interviews, even though I think they are, in practice, better than your averaged hip company employee.

So it all comes down to how we are terrible at figuring out good performance, and how training people just isn't a good economic decision when they can just leave to a place with a bigger budget in a year or two.
Amazon, however, is run by a white dude, so it's going to be lower on Bannon's list.

> Trump himself has told foreign born, but now legal citizens, to "get out of his country."

In the video that circulated yesterday, I think that was a security guard, not Trump himself.
VSTs draw their own graphics. They're basically separate applications that have an audio/MIDI pipe to the host.
I've just switched to firefox mobile and uBlock origin and self destructing cookies work perfectly. Previously I had used a hosts file which helped but broke some sites and let some ads through.

It's marginally slower than chrome but otherwise I couldn't be happier.
Damn you, Tinder.
I'm somehow reminded of The Scream. Beautiful site, though.
uBlock is more useful than full-blown antivirus software, and the fact that my parents too have not had viruses since forcing them to use Chrome/uBlockOrigin just proves that point. Antivirus is good once you've already been screwed. The point to me, though, is to not get screwed in the first place. uBlock is amazing.

Interestingly, I think this is why Google is now cracking down hard on bad websites. They're trying to justify people not using adblockers. It's a losing game.
Walmart can be a distant second to Amazon the way Bing is to Google unless Walmart comes up with something really interesting and innovative.
As a initial disclaimer, being European I'm totally in favour of gun control... which of course would solve all of these toddler's acidental killings and many of the mass shootings.

That being said, your argument is intellectually deceiving. Toddlers neither carry out acts of terrorism, neither they kill or hurt in the name of any ideology.

Terrorism by definition means to terrorise the population, not kill the greatest amount of people. Besides that, when you carry out a terrorist act in the name of some ideology, be that radical islam, white supremacy, national separatism, etc., society is called not to act upon the results of your actions but on the ideology committing the terrorist act itself. The answer to why toddlers accidentally kill people with guns is easy: they have guns available and they aren't old enough to understand what they are doing. But the answer to why do radical islamists or white supremacists kill people is all but simple.

Also as a final thought. Even inside terrorism there are degrees on morality. Sure it's bad to carry out terrorism even in the name of national identity and freedom (i.e. IRA, ETA), but at least you have a clear message on what are the terrorists' demands and how to stop it. Radical Islam (and others) don't even have these demands - unless the submission of all the western world to radical islam can be considered a valid demand.
> What is this supposed to mean? That there is no market clearing price where the supply curve and the demand curve intersect, such that at any wage level demand exceeds supply? Or just that the politically (because also economically) powerful buyers prefer lower prices than that market-clearing price, and so want government action to lower the price?

Demand and supply curves don't work well when the thing in demand is skilled people. You cannot ramp up the number of skilled engineers immediately when demand shoots up.

edit: missed a "don't"
When I read "counterfactual regret minimization", I thought this would be about Kellyanne Conway.
Yeah, I not only have to install ublock origin, but reek's anti-adblock killer so they don't turn it off on the machines of friends and family just to prevent the constant stream of malware infections that otherwise happen.

Eugh.
The American press under Trump
A few years ago Bluecross Blueshield in Chattanooga would hire almost anyone that wanted to learn Cobol and train them, I have a friend that got in on this. I also have a relative making insane amounts of $ as a Cobol developer, but honestly Cobol is no fun (for me) and I wouldn't do it. There are a lot of Cobol devs retiring now and in the next few years and not many people want to replace them.

I can't think of anything that is Web Dev, Remote, $100 hour, and less than 5 years of experience.
> AND YET! Mysteriously! Japanese were specifically targeted for the harshest treatment, Italians the second most, and the fewest German Americans ended up in concentration camps.

Practically speaking, it would be difficult to round up all German-Americans and put them into concentration camps in WW2. They had basically interbred with other people with dissimilar European ancestry, did not retain any unique accent, or group themselves into ethnic communes.

Additionally, many believed that by fighting against Germany in World War 1, all German-American's had proved their loyalty beyond any more doubt.

Lastly, Germany had its greatest waves of immigration to the America's either before the US was even a nation, or during its infancy.

Italians were a 'new' wave of immigration, pushed into ghettos due to existing social bigotry, and easily differentiated from the normal phenotypic blend of older immigrant populations that became the white American norm.

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Personally, I believe that this is better stated as ethnic discrimination. In Europe, Africa, and Asia---all 'old world' continents---there is less of a tendency to trumpet ones own race. Rather people have the view that their ethnicity is the best, their bloodline lineage is the best, their family heritage is the best. Discrimination there takes the form of Germany believing that anyone who isn't german is low-class---which includes Spaniards, Italians, British, Russians, Poles, Finns, etc.

In the US today, ethnicity has been de-emphasized with a greater focus being put on race and religion, which is to our detriment in understanding both historical treatment of immigrants, and also current day treatment of immigrants.

For example: why are so many people against Syrians, but view Saudi's as tolerable? Why is Yemen seen less favourable than Oman?
> The courts already ruled to put a stop to this executive order

The courts have partially stopped this EO.

> The judge’s ruling blocked part of the president’s actions, preventing the government from deporting some arrivals who found themselves ensnared by the presidential order. But it stopped short of letting them into the country or issuing a broader ruling on the constitutionality of Mr. Trump’s actions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-u...
Except those people did not have any immigrant visas issued to them, or indeed any sort of visa or invitation.
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"I guess this week it's React, but some say that Vue may surpass it in terms of popularity by next Wednesday."

haha thanks for the laugh!
I strongly disagree that ads will be here forever. Although the amount of money generated through ads year upon year is increasing, that's mostly due to the increase in people using the internet, and the amount of time they spend on it.

The amount of people using adblockers has increased _dramatically_. In fact, one of the top HN comments is about the rising use of Ad-blockers [0].

There will eventually be a limit where the increasing use of technology is outweighed by the amount of people using adblockers, and I'd wager it's within the next 5 years. Then the ad ecosystem will just fall and fall.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/technology/ad-blocking-in...
If you need multi-core for performance, first you should rewrite in a compiled language instead of Python. Java/C/C++/Go/FORTRAN/whatever will run 10 to 20 times faster before even worrying about running multi-core.
Federal Government is defying court orders.
I know who Moshe Arens is. I agree the story carries some weight but it's not conclusive. Arens has/had his own interests and even ministers do not always get the entire picture. At the time he was a "minister without portfolio" which means he was probably excluded from some of the meetings.

WikiPedia says this:
"On 30 August 1987, Israel's cabinet conducted a decisive vote on whether to continue the development of the Lavi; this development was influenced by considerable lobbying by the U.S., who made several compensatory proposals in exchange for the cancellation" and provides 3 references as support which I didn't pursue in detail though the ynet article is fairly recent and has some interesting tidbids: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4695739,00.html

How can there be doubt that the US aid and influence was a factor? Would the same decision have been made otherwise? Who knows.