skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The IRA

Indeed, Pete King, one of the group assembled to work on the "Muslim Ban" has been a long-standing supporter of the IRA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_...
I just did about 25 per day for what seemed like forever but I wasn't about to let it win!
The conclusions of the actual study don't support your claims. From Scott Alexander's review of it:

A non-peer-reviewed paper shows that women get more requests accepted than men. In one subgroup, unblinding gender gives women a bigger advantage; in another subgroup, unblinding gender gives men a bigger advantage. When gender is unblinded, both men and women do worse; it’s unclear if there are statistically significant differences in this regard. Only one of the study’s subgroups showed lower acceptance for women than men, and the size of the difference was 63% vs. 64%, which may or may not be statistically significant. This may or may not be related to the fact, demonstrated in the study, that women propose bigger and less-immediately-useful changes on average; no attempt was made to control for this. This tiny amount of discrimination against women seems to be mostly from other women, not from men.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exci...

Most of the results of that study suggest open source is friendlier to women than to men. But the study isn't really that high quality, and the results aren't that strong, so I wouldn't draw a very strong conclusion from this.

When that study came out I asked the authors for their data set and analysis scripts. They categorically refused. Also not a strong indication of quality.
If you like this, be sure to check out Qubes OS[1], which uses Whonix as a VM to route all traffic over Tor.

[1]: http://www.qubes-os.org/
Irish, italians, russians, jews, chinese, japanese... is there a group that america hasnt at some time feared? Did canadians get thier turn?

Having a guilty and irrational fear of some group, whatever the group, seems almost part of american identity. I cannot think of any period of american history that wasnt steeped in such fears.
Does this require a separate data source (e.g. a message queue) to ingest and log the events before reacting to them? Or could you retroactively use the mongodb oplog? I imagine there is way too much data for the oplog to be feasible in this case. And if you didn't design the system from day 1 around an event model, wouldn't it be difficult to retroactively introduce this new architecture?
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Isn't it GGAutoBlocker?

https://github.com/freebsdgirl/ggautoblocker
I'd say it's important to distinguish between "ways I could use lots more energy" and "ways I might actually use lots more energy".

The former is easy. I could decide to let my house's insulation just rot and heat it with electricity. But even that probably won't even get me to 10x. I could suddenly decide I want lots more "stuff" that takes lots of energy to manufacture. But I honestly can't tell you what stuff that would be, especially since "stuff" is actually trending down for a lot of us, replaced by bits. I could want a bigger house in general, but even the relatively wealthy people I know are not generally upgrading to houses that take 100 times the energy to build and maintain as mine. That would literally be somehow stuffing a decent-sized subdivision into a single residence.

Ways I'm actually going to use 10x the energy are, IMHO, in short supply. And 100x is just mind-boggling.

The assumption about how the future is going to use more energy are generally based either on the idea that we're going to continue exploding in population (increasingly poorly supported by the evidence), or possibly in some post-Rapture-of-the-Nerds civilization start burning energy doing some sort of calculations the likes of which we mostly can't imagine. I say we can't imagine the calculations because merely "fully simulating a human and their environment" is probably already less energy that you use now in this environment; someday our great-great-to-the-X grandchildren may be horrified by the way we pumped gas into our gas tanks not because of the environmental damage for an environment they don't really care about, but because each tank of gas could have provided enough energy for 10 or 100 or whoknows how many human-equivalent life simulations.

At the moment, I just don't see very many reasons why an HN reader is likely to use 10x the power that they do now.
Possibly related is last week's purge of State Department personnel[1]. With State iced out by the Administration and CBP let off the reins, it makes sense that there would be miscommunication there.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/state-depart...
I may be wrong, but I actually think the current move towards codes of conduct and clarity about expected social behaviour should help with these cases.

Being socially dysfunctional (as opposed to being malicious, which is a different problem) is often linked to an inability to pick up the social cues and clues that most people take for granted. A document which clearly explains and gives examples of unwelcome behaviour should help in these cases - assuming people actually read it!
Soviet dentists didn't use anesthesia either. I experienced quite a few visits that would probably be considered war crimes if they were done to captured combatants. It took a long time for me to be able to visit the dentist regularly.

I'm sorry what you went through, and I agree - let the kids have anaesthesia.
This looks really cool! I love Redis and it's nice to see that family of datastores growing.

What's the catch? Are there any success/horror stories with large datasets or heavy load?
I would not count your example as one of moving fast and breaking things. What was really broken by changing the VCS? If you still prefer CVS over git for lame super-conservative reasons that's your choice.

Speaking as a python user, I guess your way of development is then to still code everything in C and sh? No thanks. I'm willing to update my code to newer, less insane, versions of a language - if the benefits outweigh the pain of course.
Right, it's "bashing" when people say things about C# the author doesn't like, but slagging off other languages as "hipster" apparently doesn't count as bashing.
It's °C for me with EN-GB
The purpose of the article was certainly not to try to change your mind. I saw a talk by a FreeBSD core team member that I thought was interesting, so I wrote about it. Are you saying LWN should not venture into *BSD space?
Just to make sure I have this right, this has to do with the _amount_ of files in their repo and not the _size_ of the files? So projects like git annex and LFS would not help the speed of the git repos?
You stopped using python because they changed the VCS they used for the language? If you're not working on python itself, the language, why does the VCS they use matter to you?

Python is usually considered the one language that moves slowly, exactly to preserve compatibility. Can you explain why you "never went back to it"?
Note that Amazon is not on your list. They did not adopt the mono-repo approach. Their tools have their own advantages and disadvantages, to be sure, but mono-repo is not the only way.
In the early 20th century people feared that Italians were all anarchists.

There's nothing particularly novel about modern fears that Muslims are all terrorists. It's just another case of othering.
I'm aware that the US/NATO was involved in the Arab Spring. But again, I think the reality was far more complex - Mohamed Bouazizi didn't immolate himself because the CIA/MI6 told him to. There were videos from the time of people marching and being shot by their governments - those governments could have chosen to bring meaningful reform but instead chose violence. Likewise with Assad in Syria - the CIA/MI6 aren't making him drop barrel bombs or use chemical weapons.

Even outside of internal pressures, geopolitics are at play as well - Iran and Russia are playing "the great game" as much as the US/NATO are in the fight against terrorism.
In addition to providing confirmatory evidence, MACs are essentially serial numbers in a can. Every batch of chips sold can be traced to an OEM. If that was a laptop OEM then the manufacturer will know the serial number of the device with that MAC, and CPU ID etc. There is a good chance they can trace who initially purchased the laptop.

Also, if it is a WiFi MAC then your laptop is blasting that out constantly, and many services collect that info. Fortunately we are slowly seeing a move to randomisation of the MAC used when scanning. Unfortunately an active probe can pierce the veil by causing the true MAC to be used. Lots of venues (shopping malls) offer free Wifi because it causes the phone to reveal its true address when it connects, allowing tracking (lots of other entropy in Wifi apart from the MAC though).

There is no reason random MACs shouldn't be used for all transmissions in modern systems except for software inertia.
My take. I have been using FB since 2007 I was a sophomore in high school. A couple years ago I didn't use FB as often as I did, but just this past year I started to use FB more frequently.

The change has to do with the people I actually network with on FB. I always have friends, real life friends on my FB, but most of them aren't very active on Facebook. This past year I met a bunch of new friends and they are the social bunch. I started to post more of my social life on Facebook. It's been fun to actually see what's happening in everyone's life. With the recent political shit storm in America, FB is becoming more active.

I also started to follow a bunch of pages ranging from food to inspiration quotes to news page. They have been helpful to get me through my day, learning new perspectives and finding more interesting things.

I've used other products such as quora, flipboard, etc but they don't provide the same conveniences as FB does. I have family members actively on FB (my father and my sister in particular), and I enjoy sharing my moments with them.

I know there's a lot of privacy concerns with using FB but I simply try to accommodate it. I believe in controlling my privacy but I also enjoy using the product. As far as I am concerned, if I am not leaking my social security number or talking shit about my work on FB, I am not too concerned.

But in the future when I become a parent, I would certainly be concerned of the safety and the privacy more and more, specifically how it is easy for someone to look at another person's profile for as long as the profile is shared with friends and friends. Fake news and the left/right war on Facebook are also quite problematic.
This is heavily stereotypical, but you can judge the loyalty of an Italian-American with just two questions:

Where does your mother live?
What's your favorite [sports] team?

If mom lives in the US, and the team plays baseball, NFL or NCAA football, or NBA or NCAA basketball, you could probably hand over the nuclear launch codes. If mom lives in Naples, and the team plays Euro-soccer, you'd better keep an eye on that guy. If mom lives in Windsor, Ontario, and the team is the Blue Jays, the test is inconclusive.
On one hand all those enforcement agencies were a bunch of jerks to begin with. It's hard to make sense of how much of this crap is a result of the "muslim ban" and how much of it is business as usual that's being reported on as a result of the "Muslim ban."
They give back with pollution and poverty
What impedes readability here is that you don't simply have an async function `getProfiles({ userId })` that gives you a list of profiles, either taking a callback or returning a promise.

A lot of that is pointless noise. You don't need to set the status code to 200 or call end(). `res.json(profiles)` will do.

And these days, Coffeescript is just Javascript with some optional parens. Can't think of many upsides in 2017 to not just using ES6.
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Do you mean general anesthesia, or local, or just the nitrous oxide?

If the cavity doesn't reach the nerve, it's probably painless. But if any serious dental work needs to be done that's going to hurt, telling jokes isn't going to do it.

Signed, someone who grew up under the soviet dental system that didn't use anesthesia, and consequently suffered what would amounts to torture during several visits.
And full of down votes for the negative comments. This website is very pro successful business, not pro tech.
The original post was more directed at the individual human FB member.

One problem with FB sites for businesses is loss if identity since the platform looks the same.

I get that small physical shops that don't want to pay for a webmaster etc may have problems updating their sites. But I do miss seeing their original sites.

Twitter and Instagram are ok channels. The problem with FB is the privacy of its individual real person members and their families and friends. When did we sign up to get directed ads etc?

Zuckerberg probably had that idea early on, but the FB members had to accept new terms several times to continue using the platform.
The USA banned the European Champion in Taekwondo from entering (he's originally from Iran), thereby barring him from the US Open.

(It's an interesting story: his brother was actually a suicide bomber. Nevertheless he himself did get cleared for entry after vetting. The new Trump rules caught him as collateral last week.)
> I used Python around 2004 and 2005, and never went back to it for my personal projects.

How does the choice of VCS make a difference for your personal projects using Python?
It helps that employee costs in India are competitive with China... (92¢, compared with $3.52 in China)

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2014-11-06/india...
Fun fact: the vast majority of North American terrorism is committed by white men. No other group since 9/11 has contributed more to terror than disgruntled white dudes in North America. Refugees are trying to escspe the same horrors you are describing. The situation is similar to the US turning away Jews under the banner of "America First" during WW2 because they feared Nazis sneaking in with the Jews. The "safe" countries you describe haven't been rocked by war, their national identities not torn down and confused by decades of installed dictators, foreign resource exploitation, and post-cold-war rebel group armings. Remember, we created the Taliban to fight the Russians. That one sure had some long lasting effects. Now we're empowering neo-nazis domestically to fight this perceived threat of Muslim people. How do you think this is going to play out when we're done being afraid of Muslims?

It's easy to be scared right now, but turning to racist rhetoric instead of finding parallels in history is what allows fascism to take hold. Read up, educate yourself, and come back tomorrow better ready for building a better tommorrow.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/01/31/most-te...
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> a council of tech advisors that all hold views counter to his own.

That's an odd characterization. Regarding views, I'm sure each of them disagrees with him on something (because they're all different human beings) but several of them endorsed him. Regarding "tech", that's not how I would label Pepsi, JP Morgan, the Cleveland Clinic, Walmart, BlackRock... Tech is less represented on the forum than financial services.
For explaining to business, it's generally better to describe a problem and then show how your thing solves it. This is a gentler approach than the 'hard sell' and draws people in, not least because it shows that you do understand their world and their challenges.
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It could be the change in Admin has prompted them to simply be more diligent about enforcement.

Also detaining the former Norwegian PM would make it look less like they're targeting specific groups.
"I read the manual on all the DOS, where's the book with all the DON'TS?"
>Has he visited the US between that law passing and before Trumps ban without any issues?

Doesn't say much, as it only takes a random border idiot to get into that situation -- so you might, or might not, even if before you were coming in without issue.
Protectionism also caused India to fall behind in most major sectors for the 60 years after independence. Protectionism generally juices an economy in the short term but leaves it behind in the long term when the trade barriers make it costly to import innovation. Trade barriers are a tool, protectionism is an ideology.
you just made my blood pressure go up a few points. The "killer feature" in PA is it's "uninstall" button. I've literally had my sound not work after an ubuntu installation, uninstalled PA, and it immediately worked fine.
Benefits of android app in companies
I call complete BS.

"The 1909 murder of Elsie Sigel in New York, of which a Chinese person was suspected, was blamed on the Chinese in general and led to physical violence. "The murder of Elsie Sigel immediately grabbed the front pages of newspapers, which portrayed Chinese men as dangerous to "innocent" and "virtuous" young white women. This murder led to a surge in the harassment of Chinese in communities across the United States."" - from the Wikipedia article "Anti-Chinese Sentiment in the United States"

The article goes on to talk about the "yellow peril" theory, in which scholars believed that "China, India, Japan and Korea were attacking England and the U.S., but that Jesus Christ would stop them"

Here's a pretty thorough argument on the characterization of the Irish as terrorists: http://inthepastlane.com/when-americans-saw-irish-immigrants...

I'll also point out that one of the final pardons of President Obama was of a Puerto Rican nationalist who led the FALN, a group that executed multiple bombings in major US cities in the 1970's.

So your allegation that the linkage of Muslims to terrorist extremism is unique is provably untrue.
1984 especially ;)
They call it 'Muslim ban' because that term is used by Trump and his team [1]. He basically wanted to demonstrate to his voter base "I promised Muslim ban and I delivered it".

[1]"Trump asked for a ‘Muslim ban,’ Giuliani says — and ordered a commission to do it ‘legally’"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/tr...
At least half of the groups you listed are well known as not exactly being tolerant to others, even today. Put in historical perspective and pretty much all of them were part of the world that "engage in bigotry and hatred of others".
I think you're missing the point of my argument. I was complaining that the ST and Amiga did not ship as easily programmable, nuts-and-bolts-visible, platforms like the C64 and Apple II etc. did. I too learned a lot on my VIC-20. But when I got my Atari ST I had to wait a while til I got a compiler (Personal Pascal and then later GFA BASIC and Modula-2) so I could do anything interesting with it.

As for 6502 being an evolutionary dead end -- it's still being made, and still being used in actual products. You'd be surprised what still has a 6502 or 6502-based core in it. It is a wonderful chip - simple easy to learn ISA, absolutely stellar interrupt responsiveness, and easy to interface.
Intelligent and nuanced import regulations and taxes are of course good for a nation. Radicalized ideological import regulations and taxes are likely to disrupt healthy trade.

If you've ever been to India, you'd understand why their decisions and ours are and should be very different due to radically different circumstances.
If India were to ban the use of microchips wouldn't that create "a lot of new, local jobs"?

It seems to me that technology and free trade have similar effects. If you like one you should like the other.
I don't keep up with node end ES version compliance but is there a scheduled release that'll target all ES6 features?
Both Q and bluebird promises optionally support long stack traces, albeit at a performance hit. And in practice even old style callbacks often (usually?) empty the stack.
There are indeed many questions. But a lot of people have spent a lot of time thinking about these things. The answers are out there...

I think if we take a step back and don't try to invent all the wheels ourselves, we'll find that almost all of these questions have established answers from the world of business and human resources.

We do have to get past the first step though, which is agreeing that these are problems we care to solve. The wider community is still divided on that, as illustrated by this thread and the comments on the OP.
This is just more of their embrace, extend, extinguish campaign. This is the extend part.
So you mean that terrorists just need to create officially looking Norwegian diplomatic passports?
The problem is installing always takes at least two steps: Add repo, install package. Maybe even a third: Verify/add key.
State run eugenics programs continued in the US into the 1960s and 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilizati...
If they achieved a gain on their team by migrating to SVN, why shouldn't they have ?

If they achieved another gain by migrating to HG, why shouldn't they have ?

If they achieved further gains by migrating to git, why shouldn't they have ?
What is this “GitHub” of which you all speak?
Yeah, the Irish never did any terrorism worldwide; no gun-running, dealing in explosives, managing international supply networks from Palestine to the US... none of that, totally. Same for the Germans and absolutely my fellow Italians - if we ever did that, there would be books and movies all over! The Japanese absolutely never moved to mainland Asia with bellicose intents, and the Swedes never imposed themselves over their Baltic neighbours, and of course there was never any violence by the zionist movement that brought about Israel.

Oh and you should totally compare local ethnicities with a worldwide religious community of billions, that's totally the right thing to do.