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She was banned from the US because border control are arbitrary, intrusive, judgemental, prejudiced and like the fact that they have power over people who have no rights in that context.
I am not qualified to analyze the rest of the comments, but the last/first sentences strikes dear to me. In succession they were:

> > > The idea that Cloudflare is a public space requiring the protection of the first amendment from a company's policies is laughable. The idea that I'm seeing any of these comments arguing to the contrary means HN is already infiltrated by /pol/ and other Nazi sympathizing groups.

> > The last sentence is the main reason why the world is so fucked up today. "Unless you agree with my radical leftist agenda you are a nazi/racist/<some_imaginary_word>"-mentality and the complete unreasonability of the left is the reason why normal people are fed up with all this crap and are voting for Trump, Brexit etc.

> The [previous citation] is the main reason we are so fucked. There's literally nothing radical or leftist in what I said. Nazism is literally responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths world wide. Fact.

The radical part of your first assertion, Akujin, is that it is hard to interpret your statement as anything else than "person A saying that Cloudflare is a public space requiring the protection of the first amendment from a company's policies implies that A is a Nazi sympathizer". These kind of statements are highly polarizing, hurtful and anger-inducing, because they deny A to have any rationally positive reason for their statement and instead generalize A to belong to an undesirable group. Notice how arguments structured in this way will never convince anyone that is not already of your opinion and will increase the outrage of those readers that are already of your opinion. I would call this radicalizing.

Mildly relevant video from CGP Grey "This Video Will Make You Angry": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Honestly, poor management aside....I cannot believe you are bragging about this. Rather than confront and address the problem, your solution was to actually delete shared knowledge?
"Acting as yes-men to bad upper-management strategy"

Makes me think of "There are two types of managers: shit umbrellas and shit funnels".
This quote is part of a book [1] that has more stories. IIRC the author teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191
My dislike of queues has to do with my own comfort. I can queue to receive money. But I am not going to queue to spend money somewhere!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

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It's normal English usage.
* Zero career direction and zero technical speciality for devs

* Underestimation of difficulty whether through cynicism (burn the devs) or cluelessness

* Inadequate training and expectation devs can just piggy back learning technology x from scratch whilst writing production software using it

* Trying to use one off contracts as a way of building resellable products

* Insistence that all devs time must be billable and trying to defy gravity in ignoring skills rot etc. through lack of investment in training

* Expectation that devs can be swapped between technologies without problems

* Swapping people in and out of projects as if this will not affect progress

* Deliberate hoarding of information as a means of disempowering devs

All of this inevitably leads to a bunch of pissed off devs. The ones that are happy to eat it become the golden boys and get promotions. Those that point out the bullshit leave once they can and are replaced with the desperate at the bottom who sooner or later arrive at the same position of wanting to leave once they realise what's going on. I think tech can be pretty miserable if you are not in the upper echelon of lucky types that can score a position at a Google, Facebook etc.

Oh and a couple more:

* Give no feedback unless things go wrong

* Treat your highly educated, intelligent and motivated devs like children by misusing agile in order to micromanage them
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There's less and less money in journalism nowadays, people with the chops move on to PR or advertising.
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> Nazism is literally responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths world wide. Fact.

Not true. "hundreds of millions" implies >= 200 million. According to wikipedia, total deaths during WW2 were 70-85 million. Not all of these were to do with the actions on Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, so the total bodycount for fascism would be c. 50-60 million.

This is a lot, but considerably less than your overblown claim.
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Only if they are actually being violent, there is no reason to arrest people because they might be violent. Now let's apply your statement more broadly. Islamists successfully destroyed the World Trade Center. They have actually caused more death than those 'neo nazis' in recent times. If you were to apply what you are advocating for fairly, then every Muslims would be arrested in the US. After all it's members have waged war against the US, and some of its members still do. It would be more appropriate. Now I don't agree with arresting every Muslim as I don't agree with arresting every stupid neo nazi. If someone espouses arresting those protesters but not Muslims, then surely they are a hypocrite, who only applies what they preach very selectively.
> If you are concerned about being silenced by a corporate vendor, then choose your partners wisely.

The issue here is more nuanced. It's about any site on the Internet being censored by a mob. That's why the YouTube or Facebook analogies don't hold. You could always host the content yourself. But DDoS can knock out any unprotected host anywhere. And DDoS protection isn't really something you can DIY.

So the issue here is not about being silenced by a corporate vendor. It's about being silenced, period, wherever you host.
Well, a semiconductor company can design a general purpose processor and sell millions or billions of units.

Or, it can design a safety critical and rad-hard chip and sell you maybe a couple thousand? :-)

At least, there is now the option to get defense-grade FPGAs and throw some radiation hardening techniques (triple-modular-redundancy, scrubbing, etc) on it.
Fastmail is also terribly expensive if someone wants multiple mailboxes (with separate user credentials) rather than aliases to a single mailbox. With what would cost me several hundred dollars on Fastmail, I can have that and more on Mailbox.org and Posteo.de (the latter without custom domain support).

The disappointment you've felt here is the same I felt with Fastmail. So I decided to move to Posteo instead and save money.
I completely disagree with you.

I don't know whether the "square of the number of feature" claim is true, but we have certainly made our system huge for no reason—besides perhaps making it more convenient for programmers.

I go to http://artelabonline.com/home/ every once in a while—which will crash if many people click on this because there are only 128MB of RAM—which I built in 2009. With the worse PHP one can think of, no CDN, etc., it's lightning fast. Websites nowadays are over 10MB, and most of that crap are JavaScript libraries and frameworks. Most apps I use daily are Electron apps, which contain a whole copy of a browser even though I already have one installed, and routinely take up 700MB of RAM to show me an app that is actually a web page.

I believe that the problem is that programmers are doing things for themselves, and not users—which is eventually who will use the product. Electron is a great example. That, mixed with this idea that a little control panel for a client who has to check 10-20 orders for his store should be built with the same framework used by the most visited website in the world.
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Yes, this. I'd add that you end up losing a probably (as he/she's been promoted) skilled engineer as well. Promotion via management is what forces people who might not have the "people-skills" to accept management jobs because they want to be valued.

This reminds me of an article from Rands in Repose:

As I wrote about in Being Geek, the Curse of the Silicon Valley is that great engineers are often promoted to leadership for their hard work. While many succeed in this role, an equal part fails because the skills required to lead are vastly different than the ones required to be an engineer. The Curse is that we’re often placing our most valuable engineers in a role where they’re predisposed to fail.

Think of it like this: there’s a large population of immensely talented engineers that should not be leaders. There is no amount of training that would make up for the talent we’d extinguish by teaching them how to write annual reviews.

But everyone wants to grow.

Unfortunately, in many companies the only perceived growth path is via management.

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/dna/

I also believe that management should be about facilitating your team's work, rather than endorsing your team's responsibility.
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CEO here. It's not that micro-transactions will replace macro-transactions, but that micro-transactions provide a new type of behavior for people to choose from. Rather than give a value that is network-specific (like a "like"), you give and receive currencies that have actual value outside of the network you are in.
proof of law breaking, yes but the snooping is worrying
The bar at King's College Cambridge used to have a hammer-and-sicle on the wall for years. If the authorities removed it the students would repaint it. All good clean fun.

It eventually got taken down for good after increasing numbers of students from eastern Europe came to the college and pointed out that, to them, it was just as oppressive a symbol as the swastika.

Really this all should have got sorted out around the time of the Spanish Civil War; actual capital-C Communism is too tied up in Stalinism to be trusted any more.

Of course, plenty of people are happy to label their enemies as "communist" for supporting basic reasonable non-Stalinist things like universal healthcare. So the fact that someone is labelled a communist by their enemies, especially in America, means almost nothing.
Those concepts are extremely important, as long as they don´t interfere with profits.
I work 10 hours days six days a week with power tools and overhead cranes and individual steel work pieces that are guaranteed to kill or serious injury you if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Anyway safety feature that can be implemented without getting in my way, or any safety feature that forces me to work more safely is very welcome.

Just the other day someone nearly lost their fingers due to inattentiveness.
I don't know what his source was, but Googling "right wing terrorism" turns up this Politifact article [1], which cites this GAO report to Congress [2].

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/16/...

[2] http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf
It's bloody common sense. If you don't respect my rights, there will come a time, as history has shown time and again, when I will gather enough power to be able to not respect yours. And so, slavery was abolished.
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It would still be simpler than figuring out how biological machines work but biologist are trying with some success.
My experience is that the long term effects are more than 10x.

I heard a joke once : Complicated problems requires complicated solutions. Unfortunately, all problems are a bit complicated if you are a bit thick.

The gist is that complexity grows faster than it needs.

Ignoring people that can't make things over a certain threshold, there is a large group of programmers that can make things work, but are not able to build things clean enough or put in the effort required to build testable and maintainable code, simplify support and reduce runtime costs.

Knowing when to stop and what to spend some extra time on is also important.

I'll hesitate to add reducing future development costs, because I've seen too much overly complex code written in a misguided attempt to handle unknown future requirements.

All these costs can easily build up to 10x over time.

A factor is that a team probably smoothes over the effects of one or two bad coders in a way that it's not noticeable at short term - the code is delivered and the worst bits are plastered over, but the long term performance is reduced.
Most ISIS content is already illegal for things like inciting violence. If the Daily Stormer is breaking the law by inciting violence, then it should be dealt with the same way. There is an existing legal process and it doesn't require the discretion of Cloudflare's CEO.
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What part of "the Nazi party has already waged war against the US" do you not understand?

We literally declared war against them, and killed them wholesale. Are you saying we should stop declaring war against Nazis?
I used to work as a DJ and club promoter and we worked our asses off to make sure there was a line when we opened. Whatever we could do to get people to show up, which was mostly free admission and free drinks. If you don't have a line when you open, people will just walk in, hang out for a few minutes and leave. And your whole party is dead. Clubs don't give you a second chance if that happens.

When you're throwing a party, the product is not the music or the drink specials, it's the crowd. If the crowd isn't there, you have nothing to sell.
Exactly. We see this as a new type of income source for many people. You provide cognitive value to the network and the network rewards you financially.
The linked article says "The bot received incentives for winning and basic metrics like health and last hits". So apart from losing/winning, losing health is bad, last hitting is good. You could add more, but apparently that's all OpenAI used.
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I think (hope) you missed a sarcasm tag there?

I spend 90% of my time manipulating data to try to build bigger, better datasets, and only 5% modelling.
False equivalence. Your sexual orientation is not a choice. Your political orientation is.
I decided to never even attempt to enter the US somewhere after 2001. Not until a bunch of things change (well, they did change; for the worse). What's the use of flying across the big pond if you can get turned away that nilly willy?
>Those aren't your friends buddy.

Maybe sometimes I want to go see acquintances though, not just people who are already good friends and will remember to invite me via my preferred way of communication?
a perl book. (and yes, modern perl[1] is still a good, viable candidate for up-to-date-best-practices development. the only downside is it takes a certain amount of discipline to get it right. The other possible downside is that perl is currently not trendy, on the other hand it's proven to be a very good performer in the long game).

[1] http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/ - not my book, mine was more specialised, and I'm not going to transparently disclose my identity here :).
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Actually, it is that simple. The grandparent made a false equivalence. Sexual orientation, color of skin, race etc. is not a choice that someone makes. Your political orientation is a choice you make. One of them is not the same as the other.
Would you argue the same for the takedown of a marihuana promoting enthusiast website?
Far too many factors playing together, really.

Failure of the war in the Middle East? Economic hollowing out of rural/middle America? Property prices? Russian influence? Far-right propaganda media organisations?

Some of today's issues are simply re-opening of issues that were never really properly settled at the civil war. Black people have never really been given the same level of equality and freedom that nonblack people have in America, and every generation has a go at doing something about it.

One of my childhood memories is (from the UK) watching a burning city on TV with the sound off, assuming it somewhere in the middle east, and later getting home and discovering that it was Los Angeles. Rodney King riots.
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We have come to the point where comments in here is accusing an other HN commenter of being a shill and doing Whataboutism. Maybe we should take a step back and focus on what, if anything, the disagreement is about?

How would you formulate a general law which forbids only neo-nazi organizations and neo-nazi demonstrations? The first thing that comes to my mind is a law against organizations that write that they intend to use violence, but then you just end up with organizations that don't explicitly write that down anywhere but still practice it. If you applied it more flexible, like for example that any organization which members ever express an intention of violence, you would very fast find that doing a test run on history would catch a much large number of organizations than intended.

You could define it as "anything classified as a terrorist group by the state", but again many groups has been classified as such in the past, the state has occasionally change their mind, and animal right activists is an famous example that the FBI classified as "serious domestic terrorist threat". That leaves the system that Germany currently have, and leaves the details to the legal system to figure out what is nazi and what isn't.
NVDIMMs are about to change this, addressed like memory but with around 10 times as much data, so address space is about to jump.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question:

In modern vernacular usage, "to beg the question" frequently appears to mean "to raise the question" (as in, "This begs the question, whether...") or "to dodge a question"
> People can't discriminate on properties that the person they are doing business with can't pick or change [...] but can discriminate on properties that the person in question did choose or could change

Religious beliefs seem to fall squarely in the latter category (at least to the extent that political views do). Are you really comfortable with people discriminating on that basis?
Would you read an emphasis on gender if it had said "Man Banned from US" rather than "Woman"? I think this might simply be a case of the mind erroneously assuming male is the default gender.
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I guess you're single? A family of N makes that 100/N trips.
> Can a bar refuse entry to children?

If it's legal for children to enter a bar, I don't see why a bar should be able to refuse entry to children.

> Can a cinema kick someone out for talking during a movie?

If they're causing a problem for other people in the cinema and refuse to stop, sure. A right to be access a product or service shouldn't override other people's right to get what they paid for.

So for "lawful manner" in my above post: "lawful manner, or manner that doesn't negatively impact other customers".

> Can a dance club have a dress code?

If a club wants to only allow a specific type of member then it should be a private club.
So not respecting rights leads to the abolishment of slavery? That sounds pretty good.
I think for the starkest contrast, play games from 10-20 years ago. If the difference in graphics, animation, physics and world size doesn't amaze you, then the changes in user interface should. It is so much easier to play modern games, especially for the disabled.
Yes it does. In fact, in classical logic, A->B is equivalent to !B->!A. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition
Honestly you could just lack the awareness to notice. That's not a slight against you, acute awareness in the dream state is not an innate ability and must be practiced frequently in order to be successful with it.

In any dream state, you can test the rules of the world around you and see that your brain doesn't quite build the world to completeness. Light switches will not work, text will morph and shift either in front of your eyes or when you look away and turn back, the people around you will spontaneously morph into others, you can breathe through your nose when it's plugged, etc.

What happened to you is referred to as a false awakening. Testing the reality of your situation by checking clocks, breathing through your nose, counting your fingers, etc. will all quickly put you into a more lucid and aware state. From there you either continue or, more commonly, you wake up.
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> Neonazis are spoiled rich kids that get everything they want

They aren't. They are what was once the middle class, which has been chipped away at for the past 40+ years.

There's systems of misdirection that have been set up to convince them they are coming up short not because of how the rules are constructed by those in power, but because of a dis-empowered scapegoat.

This redirection trick away from the powerful to the unfamiliar outsider is literally (and literarily) from antiquity. It's part of an ancient bagful of common political slight of hand tricks used to fool people.

It doesn't work on everyone, but those it does work on...well we've seen what that looks like yet again.

So just as we wouldn't allow people to go around and seriously promote say smoking in front of infants for the health of the baby, we should think twice about allowing dangerous political nonsense to be spread and entertained as if it's true - especially ideas with a history of inciting mass murder.
Are there any FOSS tools for capturing custom HRTFs? With photogrammetry for instance? I found a paper using a Leap Motion for a custom HRTF capture, but they didn't publish any code

https://home.deib.polimi.it/antonacc/pubs/ICASSP_16_2.pdf
> "Just like how people would opt to not go to the cinema because they've pirated the film already."

Overall movie attendances are down slightly and can largely be explained by other factors than piracy (ticket prices, confectionery prices, saturated market, movie quality, movie series (Rocky 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... 9999), etc).

Piracy is a grey area in terms of negative impact, especially in the area of entertainment. Company bosses like to see every instance of piracy as a loss of a ticket sale, but in reality it is far more nuanced than that. In some cases, arguably, film piracy can be a positive effect, in other cases there is no guarantee that the type of person that pirates heavily is the type of person who would pay to see a film in the first place. I can go on, but sufficient to say it is a complicated issue.

Disclaimer: I am in no way encouraging piracy or supporting it, but neither do I think it is nearly as evil as often depicted.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/movie-theater-attendance-is-de...
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Holocaust denial is a pro-genocide ideology. To deny the holocaust of the past is part of denying violence in the present day. It also implies that Jews are liars - it's a very strong piece of anti-semitism.
Well, I like the idea, but I don't think it will stop those telemarketers and spammers. I personally choose to ignore them now. Or, if you have time, I just read a good information at http://www.whycall.me/news/my-4500-payday-from-a-telemarkete... about a woman who sued a company and won, because of multiple robocalls that she got from this company. I think it's worth a try.