skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that Trump actually can't do much. The Executive branch has the most visible power is at border crossings, particularly at airports. It's the fundamental power of group leadership (ownership?): "Who's in, and who's out." Trump is intoxicated on the prospect of wielding that power.

"How things might go". Hmm. There are three ways things could go rotten. Some all or none could happen: a) Muslim registration, internment, expulsion, b) "Trump resistance" is redefined as "treason" and the NSA and FBI given full reign to detect, disrupt, and prosecute individuals based on digital evidence (or no evidence), c) new war, or multiple wars, started purely because it's one of Trump's biggest powers as Commander-in-Chief (although it shouldn't be, since Congress is supposed to be the only part of government that can declare war).

What disgusts (and frankly, surprises) me is the number of Americans who would shrug (or cheer) at all of these outcomes.

Sorry, I was going to argue that you're better off staying, and fighting, but anyone of good conscience has got to start thinking of themselves as Jews in Germany in 1936. Your conscience won't let you shut up, and your talk will get you in trouble. New Zealand is nice.
Well, you're not doing much for the discussion.

But the strategy of defining disagreement as evil, and then stating that the other person is so morally below you as to be not worth communicating with, is a great way to ensure you'll never have to question or change your beliefs. Cognitive dissonance: solved!

So I guess you got that.
Combined with Expa Labs opening an office in Vancouver, it seems that President Trump is the best thing that could ever happen to Vancouver's tech scene. Our anchors historically have been companies like IBM, HSBC, Nokia, and Ericsson, which are all shells of their former selves and have long since closed down their presences in Vancouver. The few existing long-term anchors include MDA and Vision Critical, and SAP's BI division (SAP BusinessObjects and BusinessObjects Cloud, which originated from a local startup called Crystal Decisions which was purchased by SAP in 2008 by way of some Seagate M&As), along with gamedev and film/TV VFX studios which are all feast-or-famine. Just look at the fate of Radical, Roadhouse Interactive, United Front Games, Pixar's office in Vancouver. Sony Imageworks, A Thinking Ape and Animal Logic might go the same way if the loonie increases in value. HootSuite is set to go under eventually as CRM suites integrate social media management; they waited too late to IPO. So this might be the kick in the ass the Vancouver tech scene needs in the eventual post-HootSuite landscape.

So, I say, with all sincerity, "thanks, Trump."
Lucky ducky.
>Reviews are a problem, but not for novels.

Hmm. I'm willing to accept that the average reader is a more sophisticated and thoughtful consumer than for some other product categories. And there may be less overt tribalism and fanboyism in book reviews.

But, in my experience, there's still a lot of people who will almost unthinkingly give 5 stars to a favorite author or genre. (And I know some of those people who are pretty uncritical about SF books or whatever.)
I use PushBullet to send SMS from my computer. It get's the job done.
https://www.pushbullet.com/
More than likely Google Meet is trying to take market segment away from Slack with the major advantage of offering video meetings.

I can't imagine it will be free. Not that I suggest it should be.

edit: Nope. https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html
What search function? Do you mean going to gmail.com and searching "in:chat blah"? Even that is terrible.
Humor: Computers vs. Humans
Before emoji, fonts and colors were independent. Combining the two creates a mess. Try using emoji in an editor with syntax coloring. We got into this because some people thought that single-color emoji were racist.[1] So now there are five skin tone options. The no-option case is usually rendered as bright yellow, which comes from the old AOL client. They got it from the happy-face icon of the 1970s.

Here's the current list of valid emoji, including upcoming ones being added in the next revision.[2]

A reasonable test for passwords is to run them through an IDNA checker, which checks whether a string is acceptable as a domain name component. This catches most weird stuff, such as mixed left-to-right and right-to-left symbols, zero-width markers, homoglyphs, and emoji.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02...
[2] http://unicode.org/emoji/charts-beta/full-emoji-list.html
Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in Wireless IP Camera (P2P) WIFICAM Cameras
New app by Dallas' RewardStyle takes you from screenshot to shopping cart
Americans Are Having Less Sex Then Before
I think a red government will let a blue state leave (permanent electoral majority). I don't think the same would be true the other way around, because progressive values are more, shall we say, evangelical than those of the nationalists.
You can easily get a job without a mailing address nowadays, but it is really really hard to get one without a phone and/or email.
Messanger which got renamed to Android Messages a few weeks ago
And where are the sex emoji? The dirtiest thing I've been able to text is a heart and a pair of handcuffs ;-)
SNAP has a market cap of 29 billion USD, and does not support XMPP.
My thought exactly. How long could I use this for, before it was ripped away from me? How much would I invest into this, only to get told I have two months to migrate?

Sorry Google, your search is great, your email services easy to use, but everything from your Apps for business panel through to your plethora of half-baked products are messy and inaccessible.
Calexit is a dead in the water idea. It's a waste of breath to even comment on it.
I feel that you are being intentionally obtuse. The article is about sail theory, and as such it is entirely reasonable to consider the sail in isolation.
Hangouts Chat does indeed have powerful search functionality built-in, as shown in the demo.

Screenshot from TC: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/664cd61...
If you think being able to live without a smartphone is bragging then the problem really isn't with me, it's with you.
Does it work with Gmail chat?
If you look at Trump's ACTUAL actions (denying re-entry to "permanent resident" green card holders, etc.), you'll see that even Trump makes this conflation himself.

It's important to judge someone the most by what they do, and not just by what they say.
Anyone have any experience with this service yet? Do you have to re-encode your videos? Curious since some MKV's i ripped a while ago are transcoded and can be CPU heavy to play. Anyone know how plex cloud handles this when played on Xbox One app or Mobile phone?
Do you have more information on that? I assumed the keel was for balancing the torque that the forces on the sail generate so one doesn't capsize.

I guess this is part of the reason.

As for why it isn't the full reason, think if the boat was a hovercraft or somehow otherwise had zero friction. When the wind hit the sails it would just move the vehicle in the direction of the wind (possibly turning it sideways in the process).

In land sailing or ice yachting you don't have two medium with different densities and still achieve forward movement using a sail.

In land sailing or ice sailing you can steer against a hard surface.

I'm not a specialist in fluid dynamics but this should count for something, IMO it should even get better results.
"why on earth"

Safety vs Cost.
Scheduled lightrail vs Traffic.
I think you might find this interesting:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-media-busted...

A few logical fallacies to your point:

- People without healthcare are charged more for healthcare as they are unable to negotiate bulk rates for care and medication.

- The system is setup in a way that people who live day-to-day are unable to respond to life-events such as a car accident or a death of a income generating family member. They live hanging by a thread.

- It costs more to be a poor person. You can't buy things in bulk or pay by the quarter/year for things at a discount.

- poor people eat less-healthily, and have less free time to excercise. This leads to poorly health outcomes (the aggregate stats don't lie).

- "poor decisions" often come from education. poor people live in neighborhoods where their ability to learn other life skills but surviving is limited a(critical thinking, long term planning etc) and the public education on offer leads to poorer outcomes.
Strictly speaking, it means "new account." The above is speculation.
The ice or earth still provides the same function vis-a-vis whatever part of the vehicle is touching it; it's that contact that allows for the force differential between the air & the medium to be exploited.
Doesn't Google+ have its' own chat system?
While the headline makes it sound like they've cracked PGP encryption, the story suggests that they may have just discovered the keys that were being stored on the server:

"The Dutch authorities also discovered that the 'keys' for the PGP encryption system were generated by the server, rather than by the device. As a result, the Dutch authorities came to believe that the keys to decrypt the PGP encrypted information, on the Ennetcom PGP BlackBerry devices, are stored on Ennetcom's BlackBerry Enterprise Servers."
That transitioned over to Hangouts in 2013, and the final GChat app (Windows) stopped working 2 years ago.
Google Cloud Next '17... introducing products that will go live in '18 and be shuttered in '20.

Our company is evaluating team collaboration products right now. I told them not to even look at hangouts because you couldn't trust Google to keep a product alive. This was two days ago...
The original version of Unicode was primarily intended to unify all existing character sets as opposed to designing a character database from fundamental writing script principles. That's why most of the Latin accented characters (e.g., à) come in precomposed form.

It is worth noting that precomposed Hangul syllables decompose to the Jamo characters under NFD (and vice versa for NFC). However, most data is sent and used with NFC normalization.
You can install and use the hacker's keyboard.

Helm autocompletion also makes working with onscreen keyboards easier
SelFly hits $1m in funding BUT will be the next Zano
I don't think I will move any substantial business communication to Google Chat. I'm happy there is competition but Slack nailed it and now google is playing catchup.
The causes of individuals' poverty can be complex and varied. Large factors are often oppression and disenfranchisement. People also make bad choices, sometimes copying actions they witness in others. I acknowledge both facets, and I've made my own poor economic choices. It's not always 100% the system's fault.
Android works practically the same as iOS. Neither is particularly intuitive, but they're also not hard to learn.

One learning experience that sticks out to me was googling how to turn off my iPhone the first time I went to a movie with it.
Thank you very much for adding some useful experience here.

Obviously there are poor who really don't want to be.

And there are some who really do just refuse to do the basic things one needs to do to not be poor.

Too many people act like one of these groups can't possibly exist. So many people seem to think it's evil or unthinkable to even suggest what you're saying is real to any degree.

It's really just a question of how many.

Considering how well some refugee groups (e.g. Viet boat people) have done starting from absolutely nothing in America, I'm willing to believe there is a path up for people willing to take the basic actions required to climb it.
Google, Microsoft, Netflix & Facebook benefit directly from H1B visas and are most certainly not "sweatshops". Even when you consider companies that pay less than the top tech companies, no one would consider them sweatshops. So hyperbole aside, and keeping in mind that H1B also brings academic talent to universities, the hate towards the H1B program seems more rooted in a hate of immigration than a worry of the program not realizing its "original intent".

If you don't want 85,000 of the best talent in the world per year to power US companies' and academia's growth, that's fine. Go ahead and limit the visa program and risk that talent going elsewhere.
What about people with mental health issues? Why are Republicans always in favor of cutting mental-health programs? Oh, that's right. It's because they really don't care at all about poor people. And, only schmucks believe that they're ever being earnest when they present their boot-strap, trickle-down bullshit.
What problematic data format transformations are opportunities in your industry?
I'm trying to determine whether there is a market for building tools to transform data between different industry formats; for example between XBRL and OFX in the financial space, between various LEDES formats in the legal space, and HL7 in the medical space.
> I guess you missed the part of the article where it explained that the largest group of poor people are children. Do you think they made poor financial choices?
And you also missed "Rates of intergenerational income mobility are, in fact, higher in France, Spain, Germany, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and other countries in the world than they are here in the United States."

Are you suggesting that I am not acknowledging bad-luck (the sole reason for childhood poverty) as a factor? Because, I do.

As to Germany, Japan, etc. there are many reasons why those countries are better off. "Germany does this, their poverty is lower, so America should do this," isn't a valid argument for anything.

> Blaming them isn't one of them.

Blaming them (i.e. chiding them) doesn't serve any purpose. But helping them modify behavior, educating them, etc. does. The Government should acknowledge this.
It's not about downloading the CP, it's about distributing it. Sending a link may not be distribution, while sending the image itself is.
they where explicitly barred until relatively recently
You didn't start it in good faith so I haven't seen any reason to try to steer it in that direction.

You argued that bits on a hard drive could never hurt anyone. I provided examples showing the opposite. You responded by saying that those examples can only hurt someone if they're being used, to which I reminded you that any weapon can only hurt someone if it's being used.

It's not reduction to absurdity, it's the exact and obvious truth. Stuxnet is completely harmless until it blows up a centrifuge in an Iranian nuclear facility. Which is its only designed purpose it has. And there is no way to argue that you weren't planning to commit a crime with those bits and bytes. We used a cyber weapon to physically stop someone from developing a nuclear weapon and it worked. How's that for "bits on a hard drive"?

Now tell me: how many times have we used a nuclear weapon against another human in the past 50 years? Even though we have thousands of them scattered across the country, and thousands more across the world, they haven't hurt a single soul since WWII. Sounds pretty god-damn inert to me. Meanwhile people are using "just bits on a hard drive" as weapons constantly. Not just being used by the military like with nuclear weapons. Civilians attacking governments, civilians attacking civilians, governments attacking civilians, governments attacking governments. Every single day.

So no, I'm not arguing that information on a hard drive is equivalent to a nuclear fucking bomb. I'm saying it's worse.
You realize there's actually a severe gender imbalance in tech and most high paying careers, right?

You realize you are privileged, in so many ways, whether or not you want to recognize it, right?
Poles, for instance. But even when Canada, as the US, requires visas for most nationalities, it is extremely simple to apply for one (just scan your passport, fill out the online form and pay $7 CAD). On the other hand, applying for a visa to visit the US is a stressful and relatively expensive (~$180 USD) long process with a high chance of getting rejected. This is not new though.
Starting my funemployment
Poor organization structure, I'd guess
I've used both Nanobox and Hyper and they seem to be set up for two different use cases with some overlap. Nanobox seems to be focused on the deployment of your custom application while Hyper is focused on letting you deploy whatever container to the cloud quickly and easily.
People say the right things but there is so much anti-immigrant sentiment right now. Immigrants have literally been getting shot and killed.
Thanks—moved comments there.
...and then file for bankruptcy?
I have held enough different jobs to know that for some types of job posting, the listed requirements have almost nothing to do with the actual job duties and everything to do with imposing an arbitrary cutoff on the number of applicants to screen for it.

Job advertisement: Immediate requirement for an illusionist/escapist. Must have 15 years experience in inverted underwater lockpicking. Nice to have some experience in juggling chainsaws.

Job reality: You do coin and card tricks at children's birthday parties.

Even if the job does require something you don't know, it is very likely that--no matter what it is--you could spend a few hours on the Internet learning how to fake it well enough to fool anyone short of an actual expert until you get the real on-the-job experience.
Everyone's body is different, and there's so many variables: age, fitness level, etc., so the sugar thing may work for some people and not be noticeable to you. Personally, FWIW, I had a bit of a weight problem ~12 years ago, and I was drinking soda a lot every day. I cut out the soda, among other things, and no longer have a weight problem. I attribute much of it to the sodas; there's a lot of calories there, and no fiber (as in fruit) to help you moderate it.

The gluten free diet isn't likely to help you at all unless you have a problem with gluten. Gluten-free foods are NOT healthier (in fact, quite possible the opposite, to a small extent, according to recent research). The only reason to eat GF food is because you have Crohn's disease or some other gluten intolerance, which affects I believe about 5% of the population or so. If you don't have any of these problems, then stick with gluten.

Vegan diets are not healthier. The main reason people adopt these is because they don't believe animals should be used for food, including animal products (eggs, milk, cheese, etc.). It's not for health. Of course, too many eggs isn't healthy either, so you might get some side-effect here, depending on what animal products you were eating before and how much, but this isn't the goal of veganism, it's all about an extreme view of using animals and their products as human food. If you think that meat is bad for you (which again isn't scientifically supported; we're omnivores), you can always just adopt a vegetarian diet. Or, if you think you're eating too much red meat (which is a common problem with Americans), you can always just eat less of it, instead of adopting an extreme diet.

It sounds to me like you're young (under 30) and healthy, so of course you're not going to notice any difference with various diets unless they're cutting out something you really need or not supplying you enough calories.
I've bought quite a few cheap Android phones and they have been uniformly terrible.

The last < £50 Android phone I bought as our flats have a doorbell that goes to a phone number.

Trying to use the browser or anything in it was a bad experience, it was just way too slow for the OS on it.
I'm more concerned that they would abruptly drop it in a couple of years.
Yes, but you get healthcare and being non-white isn't illegal, so that helps.

That made me chuckle. You think Canada doesn't have racists? Good lord.

And sure, if you just look at the income tax rates BC looks reasonable. Of course, if you look closer at the actual income brackets for each rate, it looks very different. That doesn't even include the sales tax (up to 15% in some provinces), taxes on alcohol, gas, etc.
Another example that I'm fond of:

Central authentication service that authenticates on user login and passes back and API token to be used to access other services. With something like a JWT you don't need to check the User database for every API call.
I understand this post is more startup-visa focused, but generally the US employment based visa and permanent residency system is fucked. I'm in the US on a work visa, but due to my nationality am looking at over a decade of wait time for getting permanent residency. This means I've to stay in the country at fear of losing my job, pay top of the line taxes and still not get any rights during my best years. Which is highly unfair. Canada is a culturally similar first world country where I can get to a citizenship quickly. The only thing preventing me from moving tomorrow is the large difference in tech industry size. If more and more companies set up shop in Canada, I'm ready to go.

You could say that things are how they are, and if I don't like it, I should go back to my home country, but I _want_ to be American/Canadian. I identify with the outdoor, adventurous culture of the American West more than anything else. I am willing to pay my dues and become a well integrated citizen, but this country doesn't want me to, because it continues to conflate people like me with immigrants who don't pay taxes or commit crimes. Or because it has weird laws that cause these delays and a government unwilling to change that because indentured labor is better for existing companies. I already see Canada being a much better choice in a few years.

So the problems for highly-skilled people who want to to become a part of the US are more widespread than just having difficulty getting a visa. If this YC experiment is an indicator of things to come, and more tech companies lead to better salaries in Vancouver, I can see many engineers taking their taxes and skills north of the border.
btw, ennetcom is cited on this Hackingteam leaked email https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/117056 where the email start with a

"la GDF ci chiede se siamo in grado di catturare dati di BB che hanno a bordo l'applicazione PGP di Ennetcom. http://www.ennetcom.com/"

which means: "the Italian Financial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardia_di_Finanza is asking if we are able to get data from BlackBerry with Ennetcom installed"

So apparently the dutch way seams different then the italian one

~~~

btw: Dutch Police claims in its statement the devices are used “extensively” by criminals.
what about ...guns?
For starters, there used to be a phone booth on every corner.
Yeah not including Mirzakhani is just wtf
US citizens pay taxes, contribute to US companies and make the US more powerful. US citizens also contribute a higher percentage of their income to local communities than immigrants do. It is a myth that their is an infinite supply of jobs, and that supply/demand somehow doesn't apply to immigration. You aren't really making an argument either.
> A lot of "illegal immigrants" are an absolutely essential part of the economy, performing jobs like picking oranges in the Florida heat/humidity, doing roofing work, washing dishes, etc

This is what kind of gets me though. Supporting illegal immigration is supporting indentured servitude. I've especially noticed it in NYC, it boils down to "I'll support your right to stay here as long as I can still find a $6 burrito and a cheap nanny".
No argument there. But the response is typically not to what they publish, it's to the combination of the data and their added spin. It's not 'video from an already widely reported incident' it's 'Collateral murder'. And onwards.
>These will all be true regardless of the immigrants status and background.

Are you seriously suggesting that immigrants of all backgrounds are equally likely to be beneficial to this country?
facepalm Anarcho-syndicalism is absolutely an economic as well as a political model. Cheers.