skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is probably a simple mix-up

What basis is there for concluding that?

Also, apparently Rousso has been traveling to the US for years, presumable sometimes in the same circumstances, without a problem.
50 years ago you would have to be MLK or MX to have a whole dossier on you, someone important, notable, or problematic. Today every citizen has a virtual dossier on them that's a click away. The level of intrusion into private lives is excessive and in many ways illegal according to human rights conventions and the Constitution.

Rights routinely infringed:

Article 1	Right to Equality

Article 2	Freedom from Discrimination

Article 3	Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security

Article 5	Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment

Article 9	Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile

Article 10	Right to Fair Public Hearing

Article 11	Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty

Article 12	Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence

Article 13	Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country

Article 14	Right to Asylum in other Countries from Persecution

Article 18	Freedom of Belief and Religion

Article 19	Freedom of Opinion and Information

Article 26	Right to Education

Article 30	Freedom from State or Personal Interference in the above Rights
I have a fair bit of Microchip experience, things to consider:

- You must set the AD1PCFGH or ANSEL bits to enable ADC functionality on a pin.

- There's nothing stopping you from accidentally configuring the pin as a digital output (it might even be helpful for some applications to measure the actual output from a digital output). Check the value of the TRIS register for that pin (and ODC register if it has it)

- Often there is a "Configuring Analog Port" section in the I/O Port section of the chip's datasheet.

Good luck!
Hey instead of speculating, I dunno, why just not listen to what happened from the person it happened to?

He says in the same thread that he was asked 10 questions and only the "wikipedia answers" were acceptable. Americans elected a racist who has empowered racists to act as they see fit. This is the world now.
Unless you had an options for your users to opt out of that kind of email, specifically telling you not to email them, giving an email address for a service assumes the service could email you for reasons pertaining to the product/service.
Well unums in particular (especially the new type 3 "posits" ones) are very interesting and practical for hardware implementation. John Gustafson, the creator of unums, gave the first talk on type 3 unums at Stanford earlier this month, and there are already multiple hardware implementation efforts (one of which I am indirectly overseeing). While many people have recently hyped up low precision floating point for things like machine learning, Posits provide greater dynamic range AND greater accuracy for very few bits (as low as four, but with good ML starting 8 to 10 bits). On top of all of that, it costs less area and power in silicon than IEEE hardware.

Check out the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y
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Saudi Arabia relies on happening to be in control of Mecca for its identity, and appearing to be stable for its survival. A productive (regardless of the sincerity) friendship with the US and oil revenue-supplied treasury support those goals. Prestige is important, and often more important than wealth.

Things like additional human stampedes during the Hajj have the potential to end Saudi rule far faster than any relaxation of US support, or even attacks from powerful neighbors.
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tell her to get a real job - that she can count on. sous chef. turbine maintenance mechanic. accountant.
Maybe. Why not?
Is there any evidence that this guy was specifically singled out for being non-white, or that this has anything to do with Trump at all?

Border guards are allowed to ask you questions to see how you react and to corroborate your story.

If someone (from any country) entered claiming to be a physicist, would it be reasonable to ask him to try to solve some integrals?
It'll just be the standard bicycle "kill all humans" program. :)

But seriously, you bring up a good point. Maybe both cyclists and yourself will come up with ways of gaming the system in their favor.

I can't find a link now, but I'm reminded of an experiment where baby chickens would prefer a ruler with three lines painted on it to their real parents.

Perhaps you could have a design on the back of your seat that tricks the self-driving cars into thinking you were a gas tanker truck or similar large, dangerous vehicle, and get yourself a wide berth.
Visit your local office supply store sometime. Tons of crapola, both imported (mostly from China) and Made in the USA.
This happened to an Australian guy recently. Was asked to code up some stuff in Python.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stori...
Actually, this IKEA Kramfors sofa which cost something like $650 was superior in every way to a $2500 sofa I bought to replace it (we moved and replaced big pieces of furniture): http://www.englishforum.ch/attachments/items-sale/59921d1364...

They discontinued it in the US or I would buy it again and take a loss on the resale of my fancier couch.
The more and more I reflect on it, the greater and greater a mistake JavaScript turns out to have been.

What's a shame is that there is a need for much of what it offers (and, if not a need then at least a desire for much of the rest). If only there were a sane, least-privileged alternative.
> If Intel would let third parties generate microcode for their CPUs...

I can see Intel add Altera FPGA features into some future generation CPUs.
I'm going to wait for more information before believing this. There have been so many cases of fake twitter outrage that it makes sense to wait a day or two before taking out the pitchforks.

What's sad is that in this climate it's not completely unbelievable that something like this could happen.
Pretty much everything that's not a diesel truck, oil tanker, or jet.
> This is what happens when you have a populist president, people start disregarding the law and listen to the President even if he/she is wrong.

Where are you getting this from? You're linking the questions supposedly asked to someone entering the US to the president that was inaugurated a little more than 30 days ago, who has not passed any kind of legislation or EOs that would have any impact on what border control agents ask their clients.

> The point I'm getting at is that this lawlessness started because a populist president and other leaders started shooting from the hip, making inflammatory statement and playing political football with our lives.

Zuma has been in power since 2009. Ah yes, I remember the SA of 2008, such a peaceful, strife-free wonderland.
Disclaimer: not a expert in food science, but an avid learner of all its dimensions.

A lot of that list/document seem good, a lot of it is pseudo-science, which makes me think that I should take the rest with a pinch of salt (pun intended).

Juicing is typically the easiest way to remove all the good stuff from fruits and vegetable (fibers) and only keep 1. the stuff you need in very small amount (minerals, vitamin, ...) 2. the sugar.

"Acid forming": see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_diet

The whole thing reads more like some new-age "cleansing" diet and has no place here imho.
> we should just keep them small and out of the way

Large businesses also cause colossal problems when unregulated. Consider the Great Depression and Great Recession, the two greatest economic calamities of the last century.

The answer to the problem of large institutions isn't to give some unfettered power.
I scanned in all my books with a DIY Book Scanner and threw them away. No more bookshelves!
I'm not sure if by "microchip" OP means MicroChip the manufacturer, or just micro-chip in the more generic sense.
You certainly lend a lot of credulity to something which is essentially a series of tweets right now. I'm not sure how this story could be confirmed, but it seems like you've already made up your mind as to the what, how and why of what happened.
repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656319
Sauder is the only other one I know of. Their stuff seems to be pretty well designed and of good quality, though I wish they were more unapologetic about being fiberboard, as I'm not a huge fan of fake wood textures.
There are various websites dedicated to Ikea hacks, such as [1]. I've always wanted to try one, but they often seem to be more work than they're worth.

[1](http://www.ikeahackers.net/)
HN is in the list? I'm here all the time and I don't see a red HN dot.
Many years ago a friend of a friend complained as to how she was denied for a tourist visa to the U.S. She then proceeded to have apply for a U.K. Tourist visa and did her shopping there instead. No NPR storyline or anything. No one cared before no one cares now. Just this is the new "it" topic to talk about till the next hot thing.
Ah, it seemed so simple back then. I took McCarthy's "Epistemological problems in artificial intelligence" at Stanford in the 1980s. Once, he described the missionary and cannibals problem. Then he set it up in a form where his circumscription approach would work, turned the crank on the formalism, and the answer came out. As he was setting up the problem in the correct form, I thought "This is where the miracle occurs".

The mid-1980s were the high point of trying to hammer the real world into first order logic. This was the era of "expert systems", followed by the "AI Winter". It turns out that expert systems are just another way to program. They're a domain specific language for a modest class of problems, mostly trouble-shooting and rule-driven decision making. The expert systems crowd was talking "strong AI real soon now", which was never going to happen with that technology.

Today, we may be going too far in the other direction, with model-less machine learning. Some of that is scary, such as self-driving using imagery only, trained from data recorded by human drivers. There's no geometric model there, just recognition of known objects.[1] This works great, until it fails badly.

That's what led Tesla's version of Mobileye into three crashes. It recognizes "car ahead". It recognizes road lines. It ignores objects, including cars, alongside the road. But it also ignores "car partially projecting into road ahead". Not good.[2]

You need to map obstacles geometrically, then classify them. "Car", "Pedestrian", "Bicycle", "Moving thing not unclassified". If it can't be classified, it's still an obstacle, and if it's moving, you have to assume its movements are not very predictable. This may result in annoyingly conservative driving around bicycles, skateboards, and deer. That's a good failure mode. Google/Waymo seems to do that.

[1] http://www.princeton.edu/~alaink/Orf467F14/Deep%20Driving.pd...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0yYJ8-Dyo
Something being plausible doesn't have any bearing on whether something is true or not.

The pawn shop in my town getting robbed last night sounds plausible. But it didn't get robbed. And we don't even have a pawn shop in my town.

Also, about 50% of the comments in this thread are some how relating this persons supposed treatment by border patrol to Trump. It kind of feels like people will just take any dubious, unsourced(and perhaps unsourecable) claims when they can even tangentially link them to the big bad man they hate, but can't stop thinking about.
The notion that regions where government is poorly funded or barely present perform better in terms of due process is so counterfactual that it's hard to know what to say about it.
Girl, five, died of asthma attack after GP turned her away
Everyone would have to agree to publish their rough notes (on the web). If this was the norm, then no one would be singled out for criticism. Of course, norms would have to change.
Maybe better phrasing would be you expect investments to appreciate in value. Although student loans could be viewed this way as investments they certainly not investments in the typical sense.

You take out a car loan because you expect to extract more value from the car than its price plus interest. You take out a student loan for the same reason.

If student loans were buying a some percentage of your monetary worth or income then I could see investment angle but that's basically owning a person which I couldn't support.
> The lay public thinks "peer reviewed" means that others have tried it and validated the results. What it really tends to mean is that a peer looked at the procedures and results and that it passes the "sniff test" and generally doesn't have any glaring errors.
> The more subtle problem is that in some circles, it isn't even that. Since fewer and fewer people want to be the person who damaged someone else's work and/or career, it's a blanket pass.

From my experience in the biomedical review process, I would characterize the process as brutal, at least for top venues and federal grants.

> We're drifting away from scientific study and critical thinking to "reasonable" approaches and not upsetting doctrine and/or your superiors. That looks less and less like science and more like religion.

I mostly agree that there is friction with established doctrine/superiors, but hasn't this always been there? It seems hard to find a major scientific discovery that didn't have some established concept (and proponents) to push against.
I think it's better if we don't determine the veracity of the account, and we just jump to blaming Donald Trump instead. That is what a reasonable, non-racist person would do.
There's a network effect. You have to be on the same annotation service as the people whose annotations you want to see. This leads to centralization.
hmmm... fair enough. I did not give them an option to opt out of emails. I never said anything about emailing them though.
Important to note, Saudi Arabia has basically the lowest cost of extraction in the world. While other places need to perform complex engineering and invest huge amounts of capital to extract oil, Saudi Arabia can basically just stick straws in the ground and watch it flow.

So if oil prices decline, Saudi Arabia will be one of the last profitable producers.

http://graphics.wsj.com/oil-barrel-breakdown/

https://knoema.com/rqaebad/cost-of-producing-a-barrel-of-cru...
Do you actually have some other interpretation or take on this event? Or are you just desperately looking for any reason to not admit how incredibly fucked up this is?
It's quickly turning into the new "Thanks Obama!".
Boy, do I have a new processor architecture for you. For the past 3 years my company (REX Computing), has been working on a new architecture that not only covers both of your points, but removes hardware managed caching entirely and replaces it with software managed (physically addressed) scratchpad memory. By removing all of the unnecessary logic (MMU, TLB, everything required for virtual addressing, prefetching, coherency, etc) associated with the onchip memory system, we can fit more memory on the chip itself, have lower latency to that memory, and use a lot less power. As we fully expose the memory system to our software tools, we can make very good decisions at compile time that replicate most of the features you get in having a hardware managed caching system.

We have silicon back, and are now working with early customers in showing a 10 to 25x energy efficiency improvement for high performance workloads.

I gave a talk at Stanford last week that covers the hardware architecture and shows off our development hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6jVXZM2XU
> This is what happens when you have a populist president

Spare me. This stuff was happening pre-Trump, and it will happen post-Trump.
Unfortunate to see this not being in front-page right now.

I feel posts like this are necessary for people to have more perspective into things, and also raising issues that might be not obvious and easily dismissed in our current FLOSS praxis.
True. Happened a few years ago with a Jordanian PhD candidate on the eve of his PhD defense. Here is the HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5867829

It looks like he was later granted entrance. So maybe the previous adminstration was at least accessible and open to reason.
Once (also in JFK) I was quizzed a bit by the CBP officer. I told him I was a math grad student, he said "well, then tell me about the Euler problem". I explained that Euler was a fairly prolific guy, and asked if he could be more specific. He didn't relent, apparently he had seen some documentary that was all about the "Euler problem".

Eventually, we moved on to my background, and I mentioned I had done a masters in computational neuroscience. He said something like "oh neuroscience, my great aunt had that", I think he thought it was an illness? Was sort of expecting the reality TV cameras to be busted out at that point...

He let me through though! Usually I clear immigration in Ireland (one of the few places you can do the immigration before you leave), and those folks are always much more pleasant.
Ah there we go, the anti-racists are the REAL intolerant ones.
If I was going to use a std::set of float, I'd also implement my own comparison operator for the set in order to avoid these problems.
The series that this is from '50 Thing that Made the Modern Economy' is really excellent. There is a podcast for it. I can't recommend it highly enough. Harford is also going to write a book on the subject.

It even had a pretty decent episode on compilers.
There are still critical holes in the extension API that they haven't plugged, e.g. filesystem access (super duper important if you want to make an app that can edit / create images, for instance, and not want to shove everything into the downloads folder or force a chooser every time). I'm not sure how they're going to shut things down while crippling the ecosystem so severely (though to be fair, Firefox is doing a similar crippling-move (but for solid reasons, IMO)).
Someone I know closely was banned from the US on the tail end of their H1B, because they had the bad luck of getting their phone searched, with text messages joking about marrying an ex to get an American citizenship. This was during Obama's term.

So about privacy, when ignorant people say "You should have nothing to hide" it's not about hiding things, it's about the government taking your statements out of context and using them against you with very real consequences.
>I feel guilty continuing to charge for the many, many
>hours of investigation without producing anything....it's
>just making me feel incompetent and thieving.

Continue billing, be transparent, tell them you are doing work on a substantial, non-trivial issue
If you don't understand how SELinux works why do you have access to a production environment that utilizes it?
When applying and asking me for more details from each company, it would be great if I could remove certain jobs from the application. ie after I see that company wants me to write 4 paragraphs of info and I no longer want to apply at that moment, I could remove them from my application.
> This is probably a simple mix-up that escalated because of a clash of cultures (both national and educational).

Twenty minutes would be indicative of a simple mix-up. 10 hours is honestly just kind of strange (think of how many people in the escalation process didn't understand the rules or didn't care) and IMO indicates a pretty serious problem.
> The risk of death in a vehicle far exceeds that of gun violence.

Per the CDC:

* Motor vehicle traffic deaths: 33,804

* Firearm deaths: 33,736

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm

> If you're talking about injuries perpetrated by a stranger, that disparity grows more yet.

I'm not sure where to find this data, but it seems likely to me that most motor vehicle deaths are self-inflicted (if not intentionally). Of course, because motor vehicle deaths are much more often due to accident than intention, I suspect strangers are more commonly involved (the person who shoots you has a good chance of being someone who knows and dislikes you).
Revenge of the Bean Counters
Support Grows for a Seattle to Vancouver Bullet Train
Here's a 2001 article about the interaction of private and public billing in Canada:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC80881/

My personal medical advice to get get some ice on that burn.
Being allowed in over 2 years later is considered "open to reason"? I think that's a terrible inference to draw from that situation.
If you stick to the items they sell made out of actual wood instead of particle board it's a good value and as durable as anything. Where it gets shoddy is the accessories and furniture made out of particle board / MDF etc. You have to be good at spotting the the real wood though because they use a lot of faux wood veneers over particle board that are hard to spot if you aren't looking closely.
What about misguided anti-racists who are so sure in their belief and understanding of the world, that they see racism in things which are not racist?
Yeah, I mean it's not like they did the same thing two weeks ago:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stori...

Or harassed and intimidated a 70-year old children's book author:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/australian-c...

Or almost deported a visiting Holocaust scholar:

http://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-almost-deports-visiting-Holoc...

Or maybe, just maybe, I come from a family of immigrants who has seen people around him treated this way even before we elected a racist reality tv star as POTUS.
I'll believe Trump is brining back coal mining jobs before I believe the he is the victim in this Trump University embarrassment.
This is what happens when you have a president you don't like. Everything you don't like around you becomes their fault.
Wait - Pure functional languages making lots of copies and lacking side effects is supposed to be a bad thing from a hardware perspective? As I understand it, synchronising shared memory is a massive source of complexity and stalls in modern processors. You get better performance in multithreaded code when you churn through new memory rather than mutate what you've already got, and even better in a stream processor where you know that is what is going to happen. Still, I suppose that's not a great argument for custom hardware because code that would benefit could most likely be shoehorned onto a GPU. Or maybe that's an argument that GPUs are already pretty close to being the custom hardware that we need.
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