skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speakeasy/ferguson-everytown-usa

https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-response-ferguson

Ferguson and related issues are important and the ACLU did respond in important ways I referenced above.

However, we're now seeing an umbrella of issues targeting an even larger number of groups of people.
That's the saddest tweet I've ever seen.

(https://twitter.com/hopewell828/status/425777540624424960?re...)
I'd say lots of these entrepreneurs are designers or engineers who were passionate about an idea they had and began crowdsourcing their idea, without much business experience. They are gonna learn the hard way that time to market is a bfd.

A product is absolutely useless until its in the hands of the consumer.
It's flags that kill comments, not downvotes.

None of the flagged comments (at the moment) are constructive. There's one other dead comment that hit another filter, it hasn't been flagged.
By your reckoning everybody that was standing by the sidelines should forever do so. Better to turn late than not at all, and YC and immigration policies are quite strongly linked, YC and people being gunned down in the streets less so.
> ... and would like a picture ... get an urge to listen to a podcast about the history ... In the sake of being minimal and less distracted.

That sound like you are distracted pretty often.
Debating with sophomores is about as fruitful as debating with holocaust deniers.
Parse Is Gone: A Few Secrets About Their Infrastructure
Austria here: Pretty standard model. Uber driver gets a share of the profit. So that is not the same all over the EU.

Spain (I know this from a Friend): Pretty harsh regulations, no Uber at all.
> And yes they don't defend the 2nd amendment because there are already two large organizations focused on that.

I think it's accurate to say that the lawyers at ACLU have a position on the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment (viewable on their website) which is not consistent with the views commonly offered by the NRA. The ACLU would only go to court to help fight a 2nd Amendment violation where they believed one existed, so that's part of the difference.
I really really miss the Blackberry keyboard, but not a lot of other things about BB. :(
Thank you, YC! Hopefully your contribution outweighs the money Peter Thiel has made from his investments at YC so that there's a net gain for human rights and civil liberties.
> innovation, disruption, or something a little less than ethical

¿Por qué no los tres?
I would say Node, Ruby, Python should be the easier for you to get started.

Node: you already now JS, the ecosystem, and the idiomatic ways to do stuff. You can focus on the differences between FE/BE

Ruby: It's easy to learn, also dynamic typed, and Rails it's a very good technology to start with backend/MVC

Python: Also easy to learn, also dynamic typed. I never played with Django..
The other problems still exist and in my opinion are far worse. My argument is that we should prioritize problems like those over the current outcry.
If the demand for other types of workers isn't high enough to warrant that level of pay, why do they need to bring in foreign workers?
Being indifferent and taking our (US) liberties for granted have landed us in a tough spot. While it isn't ideal for YC to have to get involved, it's going to be a knock-down-drag-out to prevent as much damage as we can. This is probably going to be annoying to a subset of the users here that don't care or who support the current administration. There is no pleasing everyone. But YC is an org in the US, and will be affected by what is happening.

I was very happy to see YC do their part in what will be a 4-8 year (at least) battle of attrition and will. The ACLU is one of the best advocates for the people, in a country where corporate and religious lobbying trumps most.
This has been decreasingly true in recent years, in fairness. They've still been standing up for the principles of a liberal society consistently, but it's gotten polarized like everything else.
>I don't believe there was ever a golden age of media but I do think they had more integrity in the past.

I disagree. The bullshit was just harder to discover in the past - without internet and 10,000 independent sources stating contrary to whatever the media was trying to peddle.

Media's job isn't to educate people. It's to educate people to see things "their" way which is where media bias, however major or slight, comes into play.
Because it's a rhetorical tactic, not an argument based on logic. And it's tailored directly towards getting the Left to "sit down and shut up".
And signed by Obama himself.
The abuse of h1b program by IT firms is the issue that has to be separated out and resolved on its own.

There is no reason why we should send a freshly graduated physics scientist back to Uganda or whatever because he can't find an employer willing to pay him/her some abstract 130k salary straight out of school (which is A LOT OF MONEY).

Again, when I hire - I do it strictly based on skills and experience. If I have to do a bit more paper work to get this talented guy work for us I'll do it - but there is a limit. And at 130k limit a lot of these brains will flow back overseas. It would be a huge mistake for USA to get rid of willing to work just talent like that.
Hopefully, people are setting up recurring payments that continue to show support for organizations like the ACLU. Then when the next travesty inevitably occurs, they are already supporting the good fight.
Pakistan and Indonesia maintain good relations with the US and they are able to provide reassurances that radical members of their Muslim populace won't try to spread Jihad across the world.
Not the OP, but since I have the attention of someone who seems confident, here is the problem I have with Linux GPU drivers.

I have a desktop that's been running strong for over half a decade with Windows 7: core i7-920, dual GeForce GTS 250 graphics card (identical, no SLI bridge). It's hooked up to 3 monitors with 2 on the first card, and 1 on the second. On Windows, this works completely fine.

On Linux however, I only have one ancient version of Linux Mint Debian Edition with an old version of the Nvidia drivers working. But only in a configuration where each screen is a separate X session, so no moving windows across monitors. That's fine by me, but I don't use this install anymore because everything is out of date.

On any recent distro of Linux, the default is to use Nouveau drivers which can get all screens to activate after messing with the configurations. BUT, I either run into screen flickering, invisible mouse cursor, instability, or poor performance. That is issue #1. My thinking is ok, back to Nvidia drivers. They install fine, but I cannot get any combination of settings to activate all 3 screens either as one X session (third screen never works) or as separate X sessions like in my old install (depending on the DE I choose, either no DE is launched on the other monitors, or they do launch but the only way to run programs on the other X sessions is to manually configure the DISPLAY value to those screens and launch the program in a terminal).

Ignoring the fact that I had to give up on using the GUI configuration programs and edit xorg files like I was back in the 2000s, can you figure out a way to get my environment working in a sane manner?
I used to be an ACLU supporter, but stopped after their main objectives switched to more of what I describe as matters of feelings, E.g., whether a man who identifies as a women can use a women's bathroom in Georgia, or whether the term man or women can ever be used at all. In my opinion most the ACLU LGBT agenda has been a useless war on words, yet it's taking on a greater and greater importance in the organization.

Meanwhile constitutionally-guaranteed personal liberties, such as protection against unreasonable search and seizure, seemed to be getting less and less important.

Instead I've switched to funding the EFF, which really does seem at the forefront of constitutional freedoms because it's operating in an area where they are seriously under attack. In the grand scheme of things the EFF seems to be doing much more important and historically relevant work.
Because although many terrible things occur every day, President Trump/Bannon are the most serious internal threats to the freedoms, safety, and security of Americans since WWII, and perhaps even earlier. Moreover, the threats they pose extend far beyond America's borders. The possibility of autocracy, illiberalism, and kleptocracy are real, and the many donors understand this. Liberal democracy is the foundation of human freedoms. I normally disagree with some prominent positions of the ACLU, but we're in an "all hands on deck" situation. It's different.
I don't understand your claim of hypocrisy. What is America saying is bad, but also doing?

And what suing are you talking about?
The issues affecting the tech community seem to have gotten a lot more political in the past year as well. Immigration issues, net neutrality, surveillance, women and diversity issues have all been particularly politicized recently.
Recommendations on where to get started with both in manageable chunks of time?
https://helpsavetheusa.com/

A small site I made which randomly displays organizations that are or help those under threat in the USA in 2017 and beyond.

Basically, I got so frustrated watching the news all the time, I wanted something as close to an easy button in terms of listing ways I can support groups that need our help.

Github is here, open to contributions and group additions: https://github.com/sankho/HelpSaveTheUSA
I went front recruiting w/an MBA to backend, so I'm pretty sure you can do it, too :). Not sure I have any generically useful tips beyond spending more time doing backend stuff. Write an API that a frontend can talk, figure out how to deploy a Docker container, learn SQL, etc. Backend is a pretty broad term that just means "not frontend".

Happy to chat 1 on 1 if you like. Email in profile.
Most of the countries banned by the president were determined by the Department of Homeland Security. Read the order itself: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/execu...

Your ad hominem attacks are not welcome here.
Please re-read my post.

I say explicitly that both sides in the civil war were being supported by US/UK and Russia respectively, with soldiers and equipment. However, this does not mean the USA invaded Ukraine, nor did Russia invade Ukraine.

Perhaps you guys are all using the word "invasion" to mean something different to what I'm using it to mean, but in my book a country can't quietly invade another. Especially not countries with wildly superior militaries. Invasions are kind of hard to miss. Nobody in Iraq or Afghanistan was in any doubt that their countries had been invaded by the USA.
Nothing to comment about in terms of radiation but I'm curious about the microbiome.

Given the ISS is a closed environment, I think gut bacteria samples from other astronauts on board at the same time would be valuable to compare. Also cultures from skin and mouth.

There has been work showing we have unique personal microbiomes that follow us around. When we live with other people for long enough, there's a lot of merging between them.
There's no mandatory participation in any thread. You don't even need to click on it.
Reading all those comments how a life without a phone isn't possible makes me feel real old.
> To my impression as a relatively apolitical person, the site has become MUCH more political in the past year. I may be wrong in that though.

It's an election year.

Some of the policies and statements on display are extremely divisive.

Divisiveness breeds discontent at all levels, discussion, intimidation, outright violence.
Curious what methods others use for handling secrets at build time (using docker-compose). I'm currently installing (private) dependencies at runtime by mounting my secrets as a volume. I couldn't find a method that didn't seem to have some risk of inadvertently exposing them.
My favorite Ultima-related story is "The Assassination of Lord British":

http://massivelyop.com/2015/10/03/the-game-archaeologist-the...
After using Bootstrap I found myself in a nested div situation. Row + Column + Content/Cell.
For some reason, people like to ignore the 25,000 infosys H1Bs to talk about a hypothetical startup H1B. Can you please name one of those Boulder or Portland startups? Maybe point me to the "who is hiring" post where they are trying to pay the required wage but nobody wants to work for them?
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Wr9fuA...
100% - conservative in US means bugging homeless people to get away, vs liberal in US means letting homeless people rot on the street in peace.

As a Russian saying goes, "it's easy to notice a little chip in someone else's eye, but you won't even notice a log in your own".
But the full desktop website has better UX.

Modern browsers have JavaScript support.
The ACLU has a foundation that can accept tax-deductible contributions, but it's limited in what it can do. Donations to the main ACLU, like my monthly contribution, are not tax-deductible. YC, did you give to the foundation or to the main ACLU?
This is how I use my smartphones! My iPhone 5S lasts around 4 days with that kind of usage. Whenever I need the occasional email, photo or GPS app, I know it's there..
Conservatives of a libertarian bent are likely to feel quite welcome, and AFAICT have always been well-represented.
What wasn't said in the article/video is that Chinese mfgs are scooping kickstarter.

One of many stress cube listings on Alibaba https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Hottest-stress-cube-i...
What violent demographic change have you seen in Europe? I've lived here all my life (London/Amsterdam) and the only people I hear talking about the "terrible state of Europe" are Americans who have never been here.
And now a 500 error. Still haven't managed to read it.
I'm unaware of an existing legal framework for this. But if 10s of millions of Americans withhold their taxes that likely means there's an active revolt happening.

Are you moreso asking about what such a hypothetical scenario would look like?
Remember back in the days you had to use rounded corners images and JS hacks to get a result that border-radius does today. Nightmares.
So when we were dropping bombs on them it wasn't worth making an official statement, but now that they get held up at the border for a few hours it's suddenly worth talking about?

I can't think of a case where the term "Virtue Signaling" is more apt.
I seriously wish it'd survived and been enhanced. Much AJAX in practice is used to replicate the effect of <frame>s, but slower, buggier, and with more battery drain.
I once worked at a very small defense contractor. The company was about 12 people plus the owner.

I joined when I was 30, and I was the third-youngest employee. The second-youngest was born in the same month of the same year as me, and I never got to really interact with the youngest. Everyone else was in their 30s to 50s. Unfortunately, I (along with a third of the company) got laid off a year and a quarter in, but working there was an interesting experience. I had so many interesting conversations with my coworkers.

And the owner of that company is a university professor (full professor, not an associate) with two PhDs and a very impressive academic background.
It does. What do you mean by your comment?
Thanks, this is the way I should have phrased what I meant to say.
Slightly less than half the country _that voted_* this past election. That's not close to half the country
The ACLU has defended the rights of neo-nazis and pedophiles. They defend people that no one wants to defend including democrats.
I can second this. I have started my own company (twice), worked for start ups, mid size companies and now large companies. I turned 50 this year and can tell you larger companies are where it is at as you age. It's forty hours a week with great benefits and mostly static responsibilities. They value your experience and have no issue with the fact that they are just a job. If there is a new skill I need they are happy to pay me to learn it.

You don't work on the new and exciting stuff but as you get older you will find exciting is more tiring than it used to be.
Rich guys, speculators, VCs
And as I learned when I typed the word "KLOTZ" into Terrapin Logo on the Apple ][ [1] :

KLOTZ IS A LOGO PRIMITIVE! (BEEP BEEP BEEP)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1pt77c/who_rem...
Web and mobile prototyping, wireframing, UX: January’s best posts
Yes. That's because Uber ISN'T a neutral platform for ride sharing, it's a taxi service with employees.
The second best time is today.
How Robots Will Help You Get Your Next Job
Who repays the loan if the index crashes?
Saudi Arabia and Egypt are allies in that region with functioning governments that we don't have emigration issues with and can vet anyone coming over from.

Of the 7 nations on the list, Iran has the only functioning government, but is a huge state sponsor of terrorism against our allies in the region and we are not allied with them.

To claim this is a bigoted move by Trump because of Islam is a simple and narrow minded view and shows a clear lack of factual information and first rate thinking.
> Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) mod_hive/5.5 mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_fcgid/2.3.6 Server at blog.ycombinator.com Port 443

Should probably hide this...
I can't even get updates for my original iPad any longer. It's stuck at 5.1 or something like that.

I installed iOS 7 on my iPhone 4 and the code is so unsuited for that device that many UI elements don't respond to touches and gestures made at normal human speed. You have to slow down by a factor of two or more for things to register. Trying to double-click the home button is an exercise in frustration.

It's definitely not FUD that apple releases OS upgrades that don't do well on older hardware.
This is very welcome news, even if it won't go over well with the large number of authoritarians here.
https://www.netlify.com/ is fantastic and offers both custom domains and let's encrypt for free
Definitely aware of this, however the TN visa doesn't have a path to a green card. A common strategy for Canadians is to come in on a TN visa and then repeatedly apply for an H1-B and hope to win the lottery while you are there. It basically just allows you to start work immediately instead of having to wait for an H1-B.
Note your definition of socially liberal does not mention anything having to do with economic inequality, how do you feel about that?

The "locate offices in the swing states" answer is about the only one that can work given the structure of voting at a national level. Economic despair, desperation, drug addiction and all that in the heartland caused by Adam Smith "liberal" policies drive people to vote Republican as the Democrats don't offer an alternative. That's what's the matter with Kansas.

Also any kind of "brain drain" from the middle of the country to New York and California disempowers those who move politically. The tech industry has to stop siding with Comcast and Verizon and stop making excuses against rolling our sleeves up and getting rural broadband in.
Glad that's working nicely for your needs. Are you happy with the display overall?

I agree for the low bandwidth devices you've mentioned it's fine to hang everything off the one line. There is of course a speed hit for higher bandwidth needs[1] e.g. RAID arrays but that was true for the previous gen too.[2]

Nevertheless I still find it a shame we lost the variety of integrated ports from the previous gen. If we have to buy extra dongles anyway I'm equally ready to check out competitor panels.

AFAIK the LG 5k is the only panel offering 87W power output, right?

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/01/07/review-lg-ultrafin...

[2] http://www.macworld.com/article/1163773/storage/thunderbolt-...
This is not the only issue people are protesting.
Dear International Student(Startup Launch Letter)
Actually the rm command won't let you remove the root filesystem.

Also, when ran in bash but also supported by other shells, it supports regular expressions and extended pattern matching letting you for example specify not which files you want deleted, but which files you want not.
My guess is that up until now, the cause for these events has been hard to quantify and identify. Like your example of people in West Virginia and Kentucky who have lost their jobs and got drenched in opiates. Who do we rally against for that? You could argue that it's caused by automation, outsourcing, globalism, capitalism, local policy, state policy, federal policy, and at least a dozen other things. People don't band together against something that has just happened. Boiling the frog and all that.

Companies are throwing their hat into the ring on this issue because there is a clear and present threat with an immense amount of power. You can point to it and say "look, this is going to cause things that I'm not okay with, and I will stand against it". It's finally cut and dry. Evil exists and it can be fought.

Screw cynicism, that's the easy way to deal with these events.
Just switched to a dumb phone a couple of weeks ago. The only online stuff I do now is from a laptop.

At first I felt some Internet withdrawal symptoms, but those are dissipating rapidly. I'm hoping to get to a state of existence by spring where the only time I go online is when I absolutely must (for email or to pay certain paperless bills, for example).

I am already feeling much calmer and more focused. I do not feel as though I am missing out on anything. Family and friends can still reach me with a phone call or an SMS text (no multimedia on this phone!).

I highly recommend it for anyone who is feeling the urge to unclutter their mind.
? Did you read the article? They literally say that and show a screenshot.

"As with Cozy Bag, Chinese manufacturers on Alibaba had been offering comparable products since shortly after the Kickstarter appeared."
And the Supreme Court has ruled, again and again, that it is an individual right. How is it that the ACLU is an originalist when it comes to every amendment except the Second?
Understanding Responsible Disclosures
I don't like Trump, but I also think there is too much hysteria ...

But don't be calling people stupid here (i.e. don't be a victim of all this hysteria).
I don't think he is being contrarian just for the sake of it. He is just using the platform to raise awareness about issues which are serious but don't make the same impact into public discussions and don't get similar levels of support. There is nothing bad in bringing more issues to light, and now seems the perfect time for this when the public appetite is ready for such issues.
Am Russian, so I can tell you that the saying not exclusive to Russian culture, seeing how it is from the Bible.