skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, extending is super-common. Once you're in a country it's really easy to extend your visa, even if was hard to get in the first place.

I extended in Angola when getting a visa there was hard, I extended it in Mali, Zimbabwe, just looked into it in Ethiopia, etc.

Of course, as Overlanders we have our own vehicles are I'd say 50% of us are not time limited [1], so we just stay as long as we want in countries we like.

[1] NOTE: Many of us - me included - are money limited, not time limited.
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On the other hand the regime supports destabilizing groups throughout the middle east. They want to contend to be the main influence there along with Saudi.

They also from time to time threaten oil supplies and threaten Europe with restarting their missile programme. They’ve been quite nettlesome.

However, with more energy independence the present US administration seems to be disengaging from the ME, in contrast to the last two admins,
Even if the other 37% takes up no space at all, it still doesn’t come close to adding up.
Microsoft's vendor lock-in is still very dominant, and a lot of sysadmins don't really have a deep understanding of anything else. Facebook's social network effects are analogous to Microsoft's vendor lock-in, but they aren't as deeply entrenched.
It's Switzerland.
To be completely fair about the last point, immigrants you meet in the US are not a representative sample. I say this as an immigrant myself. The Bangladeshis and Pakistanis I’ve met in the US are educated and relatively liberal, having gotten through our immigration filters. But the beliefs and attitudes of people back in the country are totally different. For example, American muslims are slightly more liberal than americans as a whole on homosexuality, and 60% of Americans say society should accept homosexuality. In Pakistan it’s 2%: http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/06/04/the-global-divide-on-hom...)

Also relevant: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiM...
My point is not a legal one, it's a moral point. If they've complied with the GDPR it means they even have processes and systems to give users their data but didn't have the decency to respect their customer and at least close their account in a much better way. The export law says you are banned to serve Iranian companies (!), Fine, but it definitely doesn't force you to f* your users in Iran!
This is not a fight over being an Iranian or an American or any other country. It does not have anything to do with politics. I'm just a service user, I used free and paid services and I have the right to download "my data" before closing my account.
Most americans would be surprised that the situation for womens' rights, while not ideal, is significantly better in Iran than in the nation of our "good friends" Saudi Arabia. By very nearly any metric: Number of women with professional educated jobs, number of women with bachelors degrees or masters degrees from large, recognized universities, number of women who drive their own vehicles independently around their home cities without male accompaniment, etc.
Let me guess you code in ruby and use a macbook air.
No one goes to see a movie just because it features 1 song.
Welcome to the brave new world of the "cloud": you data, business, money, most intimate secrets and livelihood is at the whims of a foreign corporation that will stop at nothing if it means 2 cents more on their bottom line, or gets them on the good side of a government entity.

You have no rights, you have no intrinsic human valuu and you have no means to fight for yourself.
Sorry. I have never heard of this. I switched to VB earlier this year for simple home use testing apps and working with large data sets. VMWare Fusion just caused me to many problems.

Can you explain how I need to protect myself?
Thanks for the info, here and below.
This "ED is too expensive" situation has been going on for decades.

Is it possible the fairly new walk-in clinics could help?

Could there be a big red sign on the ED door saying, "Hey we are very expensive and if your condition isn't serious you will wait a long time! Consider using the walk-in clinic at 123 Main Street."
Is all business exploitation? And capitalism is the problem?

Businesses have to have customers and users to survive, even tobacco companies provide value to users even if their product kills them.

If Facebook provides 0 value, stop using them and all the other rational people will too. If they provide a modicum of value, then people will use them if the value delivered is below the cost (cost includes privacy violation and bad trust).
Its quite simple: don't use Slack. Its a walled garden and there will always be incidents like this for as long as people don't appreciate that these companies don't have any commitment to you, for as long as you are just using their services for free.

Use IRC. Its not nearly as walled off.
cough AIPAC cough

You just have to see those anti-Israel boycott clauses that people have been talking about recently. And on the other hand, no problems with Saudi Arabia because they are friends with Israel. America is Israel's whore. It's sad when you come to think of it.
No, it's because of export controls on everything.
Or maybe that was a joke ;)
This. It's sad how much influence they have on American foreign policy.
You are still reliant on your isp however.
> if your IP matches any of these countries, we cannot allow you on our services

That's misleading. It might be more accurate to say "if any IP you have ever used matches these countries..." but there seem to be other cases where even that doesn't explain the bans.
I like how it looks on Windows. It looks cleaner, more modern, Not super modern with those animated gradients but nicer than it was.
This kind of treating user accounts and data like a Recycle Bin should be abandoned.
If you , Slack , could do whatever u like with the things you don't create, you're a trash, too.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I read it as saying "We're going to get hacked via this other vector, anyway, so why bother?" I see your point, now.
The information around Alzheimers seems to be heading the direction that the beta-amyloid plaques are an immune response to the HSV1 herpes virus that help prevent the spread of the virus.[1]

I suppose it can't be ruled out yet that this immune response could still cause damage, but it does make me wonder if the plaques are actually responsible at all for the symptoms seen, since like you said, other drugs reduce the plaques with no improvement in symptoms.

It's interesting that this treatment seems to work when others do not- when they seem to be accomplishing the same thing (reduction of beta-amyloid plaques)

[1] http://www.virology.ws/2018/11/08/herpes-simplex-virus-and-a...
>On the other hand the regime supports destabilizing groups throughout the middle east. They want to contend to be the main influence there along with Saudi.

As does the USA. So?
GDPR holds that you own your data and are entitled to be provided a download of it. Not sure what the Canadian equivalent is, if any.
(Maybe this a stupid question) Why should they be entitled if you are a paying customer? Do they give you a backup of your activity on their platform before closing the account?
As an insider, I have no hostility towards Iran, and would prefer that our government ally itself with them instead of Saudi Arabia (if it has to choose at all). However, our government is a representative government, meaning it favors those whom it profits most to represent. Sometimes this works in favor of the common American, sometimes it doesn't.
There is an unofficial solution called matterbridge but it's not great. I would just recommend taking regular backups of your slack data, you can export it to Mattermost.
That's easy enough to solve, simply ban advertising on vehicles. We ban billboards or regulate signage in many communities, so there's certainly precident.
Moving from tech for women to women in tech
It is hard to take the article seriously given the nature of the site.
"The Grey Enlightenment represents republicans and libertarians that don’t think the world is doomed and like things the way they are (but with some improvements like lower taxes and no more Obama). In other words, we’re pragmatic, empirically minded people."

The above is from the site's "why/who are we" sort of page. It continues on in a Fox news fashion about how liberal welfare is dead and how obama voters were lied to etc..
Don't forget the covert funding of the SCO trial, the press coverage of which absolutely did its job in frustrating my efforts to get Linux more widely adopted in my Fortune 250.

I don't apologize for my "ill will" and suspicion. You lie down with dogs; you wake up with fleas. I get it: in some cases, you play the hand you're dealt. But don't expect me to make or infer some distinction about which side you're on.

I think a lot of the apologists for Microsoft here on HN just didn't grow up with the Microsoft of the 90's, and didn't see them buy, steal, or destroy every interesting technology to come along in the late 90's and 2000's. (Shall I go through THAT list?) I suppose they can be forgiven for having rose-tinted lenses that only see back about 5 years. To them I say, just let us have our bitterness. It's been earned.
Also glass vibrations from random ambient noise.
This! Open source helps protect users' freedoms.

However, I am sympathetic when you're talking about software that needs to be run server side. Because in that case, you almost always have to deploy and manage the infrastructure yourself (or know somebody to do it that you trust), which is just too much for most people.

With chat specifically, you might be able to avoid self-hosting by using something that supports federation. Personally I'm rooting for Matrix to establish itself here.
Then don't create an API token with full access?
This. It's funny that the West is blaming Iran 24/7 for terrorism while 3/4 of terrorist attacks are just Sunni against Shia mainly in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and the other 1/4 is Sunni against non-muslims.
Top 5 best gifts for a programmer
I too had the joy of looking after a fairly large internet facing Classic ASP system which had code dating back to the late 90's. There were some parts of the codebase that I never ever got around to completely understanding. It was a horrific sprawl of deeply nested #include's and with markup and server side script intermingled. Some of these "pages" were up to 2000 lines long and you just wanted rip your eyeballs out any time you needed to go near it.
You pay for the people that are not insured, can or do not pay, and also for the profit margin.
Oh God. Is the ebook converter that can take the proprietary LIT formate done for too? It's call clit.

http://www.convertlit.com/index.php
Whats wrong with this world, this makes me so sad
Whoops, I forgot.
I think the important point is that it's bound by laws, and nations will (and must) enforce their laws.

Right now, it means revendicating parts of that place that is internet as waving their flags, and holding accountable individuals and companies powering those parts.

You can argue that there are no nationalities on the internet, bust most nations beg to differ.
Switzerland?
I am not sure where you live, but in many places you can't host your own servers from your room because of ISP restrictions.

Also, there are not a lot of places where you can find data centers that rent servers out for personal uses.
Throwing out an idea for one reason this could happen: Perhaps Slack received a legal order that only specified names (such as some kind of watchlist), and they had no choice but to comply.
>> The only people that lose with socialized medicine are admin and insurance.

Presumably they too need healthcare, so even they win, in the long run.
There seems to be two approaches to sporting activities: the intramural kind where you’re kknd of just having gun olaying games and the more competitive type where it’s about besting the competition as the main goal. I hope one day we get back to tje more collegial attitude toward sport: bonding, teamwork, fitness and fun.
The (broken) market for sponsored lets play videos on YouTube
The US, UK, and EU.

I wound be careful of you or your company reside here. The company I used to work for was fined for continuing services in Syria.

I think your are in Germany and the EU might have lifted restrictions based on certain industries.

https://www.ajc.com/business/investigation-into-syria-accusa...
Wow the Twitter thread and the experiences which are mentioned here sound so extreme and crazy that I am seriously confused to what believe.

- Is this all made up to prove some point?

- Is this just how the US ticks right now?

- Is Slack just completely gone mad?

- Is this what companies believes is acceptable nowadays?

- Is this the future of the web?

The fact that I am not sure what to believe and that I wouldn't be surprised if this is all true or equally all made up is what really scares me. Ten years ago I would have had a lot more confidence and faith in the world that this must be either a big mistake or something fishy, but today I feel like anything goes and in a week's time nobody will care again :(
> Sure, so your option is "uninstall app"

The problem is "which app?". Short of a factory reset on both my phone, laptop and kindle it seems I would be in danger of tripping a switch somewhere.
Gravitational lensing? Planet-sized objects arent massive enought for that to be useful.
Okay, but technically you're storing the energy in the environment, not in the cold reservoir. Maybe a distinction not worth making.
Analysis of some of The Shadow Brokers speech patterns
> You would get the copyright for the first year for free. Then it would cost more each year to maintain the copyright for one more year.

I have a major problem with this. The problem is that if I purchase an item and it says 'Copyright (c) 1990' for instance, I would have no way of knowing when or if the copyright had expired. A fixed term would mean that I would know the date I could reproduce that work based on the work itself, which I held in my hand.

A fixed term seems to me the best of worlds. Probably something like 10 years would be enough.

My reasoning is that the vast majority of works would have exhausted their cashflow potential at that point. That a vanishing minority which had made lots of money would lose the opportunity to make vastly more is uninteresting to me. The work would still be fresh enough in the mind of society that a derivative work would be useful. If the work was successful then the creators name would still be fresh in the mind of society that they would have an inherent advantage when they created more. I personally don't see any reason why we should care that the grandchildren of a successful artist would not have a guaranteed income stream. My father is a civil engineer and has worked on infrastructure projects all over the world that will be used by millions for a hundred years or more and I will inherit what he leaves me in his will (yeah, he was paid for his time). I don't see any reason that the users of his bridge would be beholden to my descendants in 50 years time. My mother was a teacher and the thousands of children who passed through her classroom will grow up and live their lives and some will be successful and some will die in poverty and I don't have a single claim on any of their future income streams and thats the way it should be. I myself have created many works and I don't see that my claim on the future is in any way greater than my parents.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
It’s probably not a database if I had to guess, given the volume of event stream data. At my current company we store event streams as time organized flat files in HDFS for analytics. Our site isn’t as big as facebooks but it measures into the low petabytes across all time.

So how you store the data is important in a post-sql world.
Opensourcing Oculus DeepFocus: The AI Rendering System Powering Half Dome
Getting started with Prometheus
Russia’s Carnivora is designed for a drone-eat-drone world
I wouldn't call "reputation" nothing or less valuable than money.
>> I talked with other people in London about my experience that the medical system is severely understaffed, and all agreed.

That is because NHS spending is being slashed viciously. Obviously, if socialised medicine is being dismantled, it can't be expected to work all that well anymore.
As a Canadian, familiar with the markets in the mentioned cities I'm going to have to ask you to be more specific than that. What specific companies, industries etc?
Agreed that sshuttle is probably the easiest VPN I've ever seen, but from my experience its performance leaves a lot to be desired. WG is a little bit more involved to set up, but is extremely high performance.
During the past year, I’ve been getting a photograph on my front porch of the package sitting there along with the delivery notification (I live in Washington county Oregon). I assumed everyone was getting these notifications.
It's partly because of a more complex version of that, partly because of evolutionary drift.

Mammals can still be incredibly distinct when you get down to specific biological pathway behavior. Or they can be exactly the same. Depends on how the mutation dice came up.

For example, the different ways various mammal species metabolize theobromine [1] (aka, the "dangerous" thing in chocolate).

Dogs and humans are similarly allergic, but because we metabolize it differently it's eliminated from our bodies much more quickly, which keeps it from building up to dangerous levels.

As my dad (vet / path / drug development) would say, 'Mother Nature is lazy before anything else. She'd rather repurpose an already evolved system than create something new in almost every circumstance.'

Multiply that by ~95 million years (last common dog-human ancestor), and you get a lot of quirky genetic code debt. ;)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/6144479/
Right. So they say we’re bad, we say they’re bad. I’m all for letting them work things out on their own and stay out of their local disputes so long as they keep it local.

But unfortunately with the weapons they’re willing to use against each other it may be hard to just sit on the sidelines.

Any case OP was painting them as being “innocent”.
There's plenty of difficult places to train the robocars and I see them there often.

I rarely (if ever) see them on the westside where the roads are nice, logical grids but mostly Tempe, Scottsdale and Chandler where they aren't so nice and neat. Nothing like driving around SF admittedly.
IANAL but cutting you off your everyday job and crucial documents (causing stress, money problems, hopefully not: unemployment) only because you happened to open an account in a random country seems like a reason good enough for a lawsuit. What to gain: compensation, and that damn' account.
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Unrolled version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075376106033827840.html
Yeah but my laptop is more problematic. I'm responsible for a dozen client websites so I need to take my work environment on holiday with me in case of emergency. I guess I could take a Chromebook or something and rely on ssh but I really hate coding without my pet IDE and I've never got the hang of Vim.
This is why we all should not be using these kinds of services, at least in a production setting. We should run our own services based on open source software, federate them, share and improve them, and never depend on any third party.
I think the real issue here is not the kids doing the hacking but the parents who know what they’re doing and let them continue - even help them bank their earning in some instances. That makes the parents just as responsible in my opinion.

We’ve all taken stupid risks as kids. I’d done my fair share of hacking too when I was younger. But I tread a very fine line because I knew my parents would have gone mental if I was caught. Just as I would if I found out my kids were doing something reckless and illegal. So to endorse such behaviour in their own children really doesn’t cast them in a good light.

Sorry if this sounds high and mighty. I know comments about parenting often can sound “holier than thou”, but the parents in that article have crossed the line by in my personal opinion.
It was that way in Afghanistan in the 70s as well.

Yeah -- agree, most Americans simply aren't able to identify the differences between the ME countries.

SA is a marriage of convenience, nobody likes them even though we have a somewhat tenuous alliance.
FYI US export controls generally apply to nationals of an embargoed country even when they are outside of that country. Is the person in question an Iranian national or does slack have reason to believe? Then they are required to not provide their export controlled product, service or knowledge. The us government does not offer a “graceful” stoppage of service allowance.

Yes this is annoying but probably not slacks fault.
“The term reward has no consistent meaning”
Don Knuth – Constraint Based Composition [video]
This is event steam data, at what large tech company do you work for where you can possibly store that in a SQL database? At my current company our clickstream data is in the petabytes, Facebook has orders of magnitude more. It’s probably stored in HDFS or something, not too far from chronological flat files.
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My Girlfriend managed to stick her finger in a blender in January. We went to a London hospital, got seen by a doctor within 1 hour (she had stitches within 20 minutes of arriving) and she had plastic surgery on her finger that evening. For free.

Different A&E departments have different problems. The NHS is the largest employer in Europe, and it's reductive to say "all London hospitals are understaffed". They are not. Part of the problem is seasonal and even daily shifts in A&E visits, you can't staff for the worst case all the time. And January/Feb is known to be a busy couple of months.
To some extent, yes. But the term pattern is more apt because it also teaches users to expect a certain behaviour from a website. For example: the GDPR laws result in a lot of these 'We use cookies for FOO' popups; and users are now 'trained' or even 'conditioned' to just click on them as fast as possible to get to the article.

This is problematic from a UX point of view because whenever you _do_ show relevant information, it might get lost in the noise.
Don’t forget your electricity provider as well. Of course you could run a solar system and mesh WiFi.
American healthcare is basically massive legalized fraud.
> I know they're private companies and they _can_ do it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Actually, if you look at the image, Slack is beholden to US law, export regulations and economic sanctions - companies doing business with countries they shouldn't are in big trouble. See also: Huawei, who despite sanctions continued to do business with Iran, which caused the US to give them a huge fine. I don't know how that works given how Huawei is a Chinese company, but there you go.

To clarify: private companies are not and should not be above the law.
Link to demo -> https://youtu.be/Xp6OlfJEmAo

Link to ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 paper -> https://research.fb.com/publications/deepfocus-siggraph-asia...

Github repo -> https://github.com/facebookresearch/DeepFocus
I think that's a very dim view of democracy. Instead, I would argue that a democracy thrives on small debates between citizens.

Democracy isn't established with a voting ballot, the ballot is the end result of a democratic process.
Trump reimposes sanctions: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Trump's "muslim ban" nations includes Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13780

Active US involvement in the war in Yemen continues. The only difference of having Trump in power is that the news is full of his twitter remarks and news about prosecution of his accomplices, rather than what's actually happening elsewhere.