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Did a bunch of people just learn the term "virtue signaling" in the last few days? I don't recall seeing it spoken on here in ages but it seems I've read it 20 times in just the last few days. It reminds me of a child who learns a new, big word and then porceeds to use it in conversation (to "show off") as often as possible.
Some "left-leaning" stances they take where I'm hard-pressed to see how they are defending civil rights, if not outright violating those of one party for the benefit of another:

affirmative action: https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/affirmative-actio...

voter id (are all the other countries that have this violating their citizens' civil rights?): https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...

religious liberty (an employer engages in voluntary exchange... not much of a stretch to see it as a violation of rights to force them to pay for something which they consider blasphemous): https://action.aclu.org/secure/your-boss-has-no-business-you...

abortion (Roe v Wade federal overreach vs States' Rights... this and other issues like marijuana laws can be left to the States but "leftists" generally prefer a stronger central government over States as "laboratories of democracy"): https://www.aclu.org/issues/reproductive-freedom/abortion

ACA/"Obamacare": I couldn't find anything about their position on this issue but, if they were only defending civil rights rather than also being a "left-leaning political organization", I think they'd actively oppose forcing people to pay corporations for products they don't want.
Isn't the ACLU non-partisan?
The 2nd amendment has the second largest lobbying organization in the country looking out for it. It doesn't need help from the ACLU.
> I get the feeling conservatives may not feel welcome at YC.

Sounds like a personal problem. "Oh no, an organization that defends people's liberties is making me feel uncomfortable!"
I see the ACLU as an organization that isn't blind to all constitutional entitlements, and I don't believe they have any responsibility to be that. I see them as particularly interested in civil rights defense for the powerless against the powerful and untouchable, who are particularly antagonistic at the moment.

Firearms interests have their own highly influential advocacy already from more than one entity, so it puts this argument in the "all lives matter" category of flawed defenses.
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There are per-nation limits on the number of green card holders that can become citizens every year. Maybe they want to be citizens, but aren't allowed to be?

Meanwhile, a lawyer friend of mine had to advise a client of his not to go home to visit his dying father, because he might not be allowed back in. He's lived in the US for twenty years. He owns a business that employs six US citizens. He won't get to see his father again, and a father won't get to see his eldest son on his deathbed.

So yeah, be smug. Enjoy that.
The ACLU doesn't have a problem with 2A, but they see gun ownership as a collective right rather than an individual right. They have stood up for 2A rights in the past, but compared to the NRA and other 2A advocates, they have very limited resources, so they let the NRA / et. al. handle them.
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There is also Storj, MaidSafe, Filecoin, Swarm, and sort-of-but-not-quite IPFS.

Storj and Sia are the front runners for private data like family photos, computer backups, etc. I don't really consider Storj to be decentralized here though.

Swarm I know less about, but I believe their focus is more on file sharing. IPFS is closer to a replacement for http and BitTorrent (both), great for high-demand files or files that are being explicitly hosted on a web server but not so much private data. I think they plan to upgrade this with Filecoin.

MaidSafe is 10 years old and still in alpha. They have huge ambitions but I think too huge, they don't seem capable of publishing things.
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This is how I use my phone. And when it came time to buy a new phone, I wasn't justified in buying an iPhone that I wouldn't use, so I got a cheap Nexus from Google Fi.

I hear about people freaking out about the current state of things but I'm feeling just dandy. It actually kind of feels like an episode of the twilight zone.
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> However this change occurred in such away that it impacted people who were literally in the air. When they boarded a plane they had the right to enter the US (indeed had the right to live their indefinitely and some didn't even have a home anywhere else). When they landed they found this right no longer existed.

This is not correct.

A green card permits someone to live and work in the US indefinitely. It does not and has never entitled the holder to re-enter the country at will.
They don't defend the 2nd amendment because they're left-leaning. Like I said.
In the US, most schools have regular paper printers that kids are not generally allowed to use either mostly due to slim budgets and the cost of materials. They also have copy machines that kids aren't allowed to use and for which teachers have to supply the paper...many US parents are familiar with a ream of paper being on the school supplies list at the start of the year, all of which are collected and used to make copies and print for the entire year...and if they know a public elementary school teacher, they probably know someone who scavenges and scrounges all sorts of paper and other material for use in their classroom.

There's politics and business behind the donation of 3D printers to schools, but it stops at ongoing support and maintenance and free supplies...or providing enough printers that 500 students have reasonable access. The mathematics of ten hour builds is such that one or two printers isn't enough.
This is very timely. In particular, I was happy to see the appeal for help from engineers. I've been brainstorming for the last couple of days about what more I can do to defend the America I want to live in, now that it seems clear that such defense will be necessary. But as a programmer, it's not obvious to me what is the best way for me to do so in the immediate term.

One of the things that's appealing to me about the ACLU in particular is the bipartisan nature of their mission. I'm sure that there are other such organizations out there looking for engineers to help out. Does anyone have such a list?

EDIT: here are some, from brandonb's response elsewhere in this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13532281
I don't know the statistics to agree or disagree.

I can only convey that the current system is shady and is rife with abuse. Reform is necessary, preferably nonpartisan.
> Trump is a bad guy

That's your political opinion. Half the country disagrees (or at least found him less-bad than the alternative).
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It's also not consistent with binding caselaw offered by the Supreme Court. But whatever.
Not to SPLC please. I have no idea what they are thinking with regard to criticism of Salafism.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/maa...
Can you (or others) elaborate here?
There's networking overhead, hand-shaking, latency etc that I don't think is included in that.
Didn't even know they eventually replaced AI with a KS10--I had left MIT by 1980-ish (was sysadmin for MIT-EECS and the EE dept LispMs) and didn't keep up much with the goings-on there.
The ACLU, in the past week, received as much $ in online donation as it has over the past six years.

Cash talks and bullshit walks. Tell me, if you're a free-market conservative, why YC or the ACLU should disregard such a resonating and clear message from the market.
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You're going all over the place here. I understand your opinion that Mr. Trump's EO is illegal. That's fine, but it's not relevant, unless you're a federal judge who likes to post on HN in his free time? And even then, it's irrelevant until this case comes before the bench and gets a fair hearing.

In the Saturday Night Massacre, the two AGs in question did resign rather than carry out Mr. Nixon's order. They didn't claim a fundamental constitutional conflict that would justify defiance; rather, they claimed personal reservations and recognized that those reservations made it impossible to observe the established chain of command, so they stepped aside.

The issue here is whether it's appropriate for the acting AG to hijack the DoJ based on their private opinion on matters of nuanced legal interpretation, of which reasonable people can be on either side, and which have not yet been given a fair hearing in a court of law. That is absolutely not the convention and the oath of office does not require it (and indeed, Ms. Yates does not claim it does). Until such time as the constitutional violation becomes blatant, the DoJ has a constitutional obligation to serve the people's elected chief executive.

Ms. Yates was actively involved in blocking such fair hearings based on nothing but her personal proclivities. Following the precedent of SNM, she should've resigned over personal reservations. In this instance, there is no justification for defiance.

Ms. Yates's behavior looks very questionable and unprofessional to me. She stayed on board for Obama's EOs, which everyone knew were illegal at the time of signing, and was happy to allow the judiciary to make its call there, but is not willing to do so in Mr. Trump's case, where the legal justification appears much more sound.
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Honestly if you want to get out of your comfort zone and really start thinking like a backend developer, I would recommend using a solid, proven platform like Java. Specifically you could start with Java 8 & Spring Boot.

The differences between frontend & backend: frontend code tends to be more loosey-goosey, less robust. Generally the goal of the frontend coder is to write lots of features in a short amount of time. Backend development is more "slow", you still want lots of features, but they need to be robust and work correctly 99.99% of the time.

For that reason, I think the best way to think like a backend developer is pick a language that doesn't have dynamic objects (like Python). I'm not saying that Python can't work, I'm saying that using a static-type language will help you outgrow any sloppy thinking habits that people tend to get when they spend too much time in Javascript.

Hiring wise, Java is still a very in-demand skill. Tech wise, Java is an extremely stable and proven platform that will serve any project well. It's "boring" technology (which is a good thing). If you really want to change your thinking, then try to stop gravitating towards shiny things and instead use a "boring" platform.
We do not need more entry level candidates. By allowing the importation of entry level workers you deny graduates the chance to receive training and obtain valuable experience. There's then little incentive for employers to train fresh grads.
Yes I agree the ACLU should be (and IMHO is) non-partisan. It's just that if YC appears to fund and partner with the ACLU only when conservatives gain power, that will be negative for YC.
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Maybe because the ACLU is about American civil liberties.
To be clear, I'm not arguing in favor of any of these blanket bans. But yes, that is a question that someone who is in favor of them would have to answer.
How is it an increased wait? This ban is not an increased time to wait until you get a Visa. It invalidates already issued visas and green cards.

There is no "increase" here.
Innocent people are already being harmed. Here, refugees and Muslims. The protest is to call attention to that harm.

But let's run with your notion. Suppose there is somebody who says: "I guess I didn't know about the civil rights violations and the deaths that this policy will result in. And I guess it's terrible that these refugees have been waiting years in limbo trying to rebuild their lives. But what's really important is that I expected to be home on time for dinner, so now I won't help them."

I don't think a person like that was every going to be sympathetic to the cause. They weren't going to do anything. They were going to ignore it.

And that's exactly the point of MLK's style of protest. It is to make a problem for some into a problem for all. It is to make it impossible for comfortable people to keep ignoring the problem.
I think a large part of this outrage is about the scale of the Trump admin's actions in recent days. We know this policy is just the tip of iceberg. It's just the start of horrible policies that will start to affect us all. People need to protest now - early, while they can. Because first they came for the immigrants...
I think this is the entirely wrong solution because it misunderstands the problem.

The problem isn't that the H1B requirements are off a bit. The problem is that H1B visa holders are essentially indentured servants. Say you're a foreigner who applies for an H1B job. Your employer does a bunch of paperwork, gets you an H1B visa, and imports you. Now you can't quit because you can't get a new job. Of course you get underpaid, and of course companies love their H1B workers.

The US should scrap the whole system and replace it with some kind of merit- or point-based visa system for skilled foreigners. The replacement system should have portable visas so that the foreigners aren't inherently cheaper to employ than citizens, permanent residents, and holders of less broken visas.

(Frankly, I agree a bit with the anti-immigrant save-our-job perspective right now. Citizens, permanent residents, etc do have an unfair disadvantage to H1B workers because of the broken structure of the H1B visa.)
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It only looks that way from an extreme-left perspective.
Is it sad that none of those options appeal to me at all?

I just want to be a 9-5 mid-level software engineer until the day I die.
I don't advocate using it, I just posted it for historical reference (actually I'm hesitating to post anything LISP here because that will easily derail a thread into becoming off-topic).

But what the snippet shows is how eg. the DOM is traversed explicitly, as opposed to CSS's multiple implicit measurement and layout passes over the DOM. CSS sure is more compact, but doesn't begin to reveal anything like the above snippet.
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the scientists that got laid off, and then found funding elsewhere.
Not sure why this was flagged as it's a historical page, and in that sense no different from, say, the Atlas Obscura pages that make it to the HN front page from time to time.
Where are you seeing ad hominem attacks?

And if that's true, either the DHS is doing a spectacularly awful job, or we're not hearing the full story of what they did and did not recommend.
I think neither PG's tweets nor this ACLU post are actually against the broad ideas of conservatism.

If you believe in individual freedom, small government, low taxes, and heavy use of market solutions, I haven't seen anything from YC that runs against those ideas.

The issues YC seems to oppose are nativism/xenophobia and authoritarianism. Opposition to the former is a wholly rational decision to preserve YC's access to the best international founders, and authoritarianism presents slightly more round-about problems for YC in reduced press freedom and tighter relationships between large corporations and government, both of which make life more difficult for startups.

Lastly, there exists a wing of American conservatism which is significantly more racist, sexist, and homophobic than the national average. I think you're right, that group would not feel welcome at YC nor should they. Their exclusion is based on their personal views, which they are capable of changing. Their inclusion would make others feel excluded on the basis of immutable traits, which is far worse in my opinion.
So I shouldn't dye my hair before running the interview gauntlet?
Re-read what I wrote. The 24 yr old is good at marketing..not doing anything special.

The interesting aspect is that Chinese mfgs are all over Kickstarter. As others have written, makes it a more difficult proposition going forward.
"With the axe about to fall on military spending" oh, those heady days.... :(
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"Preference given to H1-Bs that pay the most".

Sounds like a win for workers all around.
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OK, I'm going to try and keep this simple, rather than a rant.

Big expensive cities (like NYC) usually have inexpensive areas inside them. SF basically has the Tenderloin, and rents there are still nuts.

Edited to add: BTW, aside from the fact that Beverly Hills has less expensive neighborhoods within city limits (south of Wilshire? I forget) there are other even less expensive areas practically next door (just go downhill to where nobody has a view).
I applaud anyone supporting the ACLU, but perhaps it would send a less partisan message if the YC also supported the NRA.

Of course, YC may intend to send a partisan message. In that case I guess it's better to only defend the rights that <ingroup> are interested in defending.
> racial justice

According to https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/affirmative-actio... they support discrimination against white people:

> Affirmative action is one of the most effective tools for redressing the injustices caused by our nation’s historic discrimination against people of color and women, and for leveling what has long been an uneven playing field.

This is bad for two reasons

1. is is immoral in principle

2. it is bad politics; attitudes like this make it more likely that Trump will win a 2nd term
I don't disagree with anything you've said here, it's pretty spot on in my estimation, I just don't think it's a sky is falling kind of situation. I was trying to answer the question: 'What would it take for his supporters to turn away from him?' and keep it in the context of why this thing just isn't an abandon ship situation, though it is certainly a fumble in a number of ways.

|Proponents say they are temporary measures, so that there is time to 'figure out what is going on'

Wasn't there a report from DHS in 2015 or so saying that it was the case ISIS was looking to take advantage of refugee programs to get agents into various Western nations? And further, that dept. heads felt some concern about the efficacy of our vetting processes?

Whether such a vetting process could ever exist is unlikely, but it would seem this is kind of a 'get your bearings' order. Your criticisms still stand, of course, I'm just pointing out it's not a totally baseless idea.
Thanks thats some good insight. Will definitely take them into consideration as I move forward.
I dunno, I see this more as an Instagram marketing play than a 'knock-off' play. The fidget cube is little significance, it could have been anything. He found a trend, got supply, and marketed it on the right channels.
Well that's because he's publicly backed Trump, who is as un-libertarian as you can get.
An organization can be simultaneously a 501(c)3 and a 501(c)4 - often this is managed by having two separate legal entities with a mutual relationship, but it's possible for the same organization to be classified both ways.

Separately, a 501(c)3 is allowed to engage in lobbying - they are just subject to restrictions on how much time and money than can spend (last I checked, it's up to 10% of time and 10% of money).
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When you start being cynical and think democratic processes are a joke, then yes, they won't work. But I refuse to give in to cynicism. These agencies are to operate for the public benefit.
>why do they need to halt immigration in this way while they review?

Their theory is that travel needs to be temporarily halted to ensure that insufficient vetting procedures do not allow any terrorists to sneak in while the review is ongoing. You may agree or disagree that that's a real/substantial threat, but there is valid reasoning behind suspending travel.
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glad to see this guy on here again. I hadn't seen him on HN in a while and I forgot his name so I couldn't google. he's great at explaining advanced math concepts.
> Where was [...]

In politics, I believe it's important to use the philosophy of "better late than never". Memes take time to diffuse into the population. It is better to encourage more participation in the future by accepting late arrivals. Attacking people that finally decided to participate can easily drive them away.
Those three almost always go hand in hand in hand.
Is "freaks out" really appropriate for a news piece title? Did a seventeen year old girl write this? Yikes.
What happens when the employers run a fake payroll to pay more money on paper but low in reality ?
I think the major difference is this a new, chilling shift of civil liberties enacted by a political administration - whereas the issues surrounding race/homelessness in this country are pre-existing are having an increasing light shown on them.
The article is short of details and I am curious what ycombinator will contribute to the ACLU other than capital (networking? , constructive criticism ) ? It doesn't fit the previous nonprofits since it is well established.
I usually just base it on whether or not an element is a direct child of some other element. For example, the header of the page itself will usually have a different style than the header of an article or aside or something, so I can use CSS' child selectors for that.

This often does indeed result in a bowl of spaghetti, but said bowl is in CSS rather than HTML. Things like SASS/SCSS help tremendously.
Two possible (partial?) solutions mentioned on this thread were:

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- Two OS's on the same phone; you have the innocent one booted up, and the other encrypted.

What are your thoughts on these?
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It's a newer form of calling people "SJW's" or "White Knights", thereby reducing their opposition to caricatures and removing any realistic and reasonable discussion.
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A big thing that is missing is dropped packets. Our IT director moved everything offsite with the same justification, and now we constantly have issues because our front-end software does not handle dropped packets well.

Edit: Also, in 10,000 ns, light travels about 3 km in a vacuum. I know latency is addressed a bit in there, but our closest DC is about 70 km away from our main office. That's a pretty substantial hit on latency, especially considering our servers still have spinning discs in them.