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When you've convinced people to come to your side and donate money to it, demanding an apology for not coming sooner is a great strategy for revenge, but not a great one for your cause.

From an activist friend:

"Hearing leftists be like "ugh these protesters are so passionate about protesting now but I didn't see them protesting at BLM marches three years ago!" is one of those things that makes me wonder whether the left has been infiltrated by the CIA or whether the death-wish is native."
Perhaps not an absolute right, but a quick read through of this https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-green-card-granted/in... suggests to me that a quick trip abroad would not be expected to cause issues.
Then they get caught and fined I would imagine.
On the long term this will help Indians even more and various US businesses might be willing to outsource even more operations out of USA to India.
Ops. Where did English get East and West from anyway that it became so different from latin languages?
This is an entirely legitimate concern.

We're not meant to sit here stroking our chins and purring about the good deeds of our favorite companies. YC has an incredible position in Silicon Valley, built over a decade with the help and influence of people like us.

To whom much is given, much is required. I'm glad YC is helping ACLU out this winter. But ACLU took in more money in 1 day last week than NILC, the National Immigration Law Center, spends in a year. After they get done patting themselves on the back for the ACLU win, they should start figuring out how to help the smaller organizations that don't have ACLU's built-in advantages.

We're not here to feel sympathy for Y Combinator or Sam Altman. Most of us will never meet any of these people and, candidly, can't fathom the amount of financial success and security their position has brought them. More power to them! But they exist to us as abstractions, and rightly so, and any pressure we can bring to bear to more fully enlist them in the cause of shoring up our institutions and the rule of law is legitimate.

Push harder. Thanks for that comment.
It's about time.

Say what you will about Trump's other policies, but it's high time someone took an ax to the H-1B program. The level of abuse I've witnessed from it over the years is heinous; foreign workers essentially working as indentured servants, with the only beneficiaries being corporations using their cheap labor and the foreign consultancy firms that farm them out.

I'll be interested to see what changes get made to the program to move it back towards its intended purpose.
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An incomplete Muslim ban is still a Muslim ban. He's not banning any other religions as far as I know.
* Much of pg's writing leans libertarian or even conservative.

* Many conservatives do not support Trump's policies. Conservativism is traditionally about preserving stable society and carefully evaluating changes before radically changing society.

I think many took a wait-and-see approach to Trump. Sure, he was bombastic during the campaign and said a lot of bad things, but he's a screwd businessman. Surely he will get some decent advisors and not breaks things.

The last week has made it clear that is not the case. Trump and Bannon are determined to reshape society in their own image, and that is really scary. It is clear Trump's executive orders have not been run past anyone sensible, and they make no attempts to limit unnecessary damage to people's lives.
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I'd like a Chromebook to run Linux on, this will be used for light web dev with node, vim, etc.
Not true. A dual citizen German-Iranian with a valid visa had no "120 day wait". The green card holders on airplanes to the US as the ban was enacted had not waited 120 days before boarding a flight to the US after visiting their relatives.

Despite your best efforts at pretend nuance, this really is an unprecedented step. And it fully justifies the term immigration ban.
I hit 55 next month. I'm a software engineer. I'm in embedded systems, though, not Web programming. Experience seems to be more valued in embedded systems; perhaps there's more to learn there than there is in Web programming.

If you're doing marketing, embedded systems programming may not be the answer you're looking for - you might want something that's more like marketing. Look around, though, for the marketing area that requires and values experience. (I am guessing in ignorance, but maybe account manager at an ad firm?)
It's not useless, it's gonna feed a lot of military contractors and their families for the next 20 years.
> Where was the outpouring of funding [...]

Build the thing that needs funding. Then, seek support and apply.
The profiling and killing of black men by police is most certainly a civil rights issue.

The NYC division of the ACLU has done work on the illegal and racist stop and frisk law that was in place here, for example.
Heh. Depends on which part of India you're referring to. The younger me would have found it more difficult to get foreign assignments that form the foundation for a lot of the house buying and marriage making here, but I think the slightly more experienced folks like present me welcome the change - that is the low end of the salary range I'd expect if I was going to jump countries with a family, and now I don't have to compete in a lottery with tens of thousands of fresh graduates wanting onsite assignments.

The bodyshops like TCS, CTS and Infy will suffer, though. Their exorbitant margins on shipping obedient and freshfaced barely-post-teenagers off to projects where they're mostly expected to punch the clock and do bits and pieces of what the Architect says / tech support are over. They'll survive, though - the Leads, Pricipals and Architects will just have to travel up and down a bit more. I expect they'll lay off a lot of people, though. And the long tail of salaries here will likely go down. But if there is an increase in off-site outsourcing, it'll balance things out. They'll just staff more people at the home base and freeze salary hikes citing this.

Dowries will also likely go down. There's going to be a sudden dearth of grooms with the cachet of foreign work experience and a cache of saved dollars. It's also possible that if this sticks a lot of the shady engineering colleges that have sprung up here like weeds will see reduced demand. Entry fees at medical colleges will probably spike.
Over here there is an old say which roughly translates into "you can get an idea of a person by seeing the ones he/she chooses to have near or work with him/her".
I have notice this behaviour in the corporate world as well, ie hiring incompetent but easy to herd yesmen, and usually is a sign of some sort of corruption.
Agreed. So why is the former acting AG's conduct justified?
The point was that "just get better at your job" is an impractical advice if your competitors are much better than you for a cheaper price. Consider some entity with the same level of expertise as you but paid half as much. How are you going to suddenly become twice as good to keep your current position? So yeah, when that happens the solution is to become expert in another game entirely.
(The parent comment has been edited: at the time of this comment it claimed that there was no Muslim ban, citing the absence of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc. from the list.)

Who's doing the "virtue signaling"? I thought that would be Trump's lackeys who keep insisting to their xenophobic fans that this is what they got when Trump asked for a Muslim ban that might pass legal muster.[0] Of course, that being what they're going for doesn't make it legal, or even likely legal: certainly Bush, and even Obama sometimes struggled to do "national security" in a manner consistent with the constitution.[1]

[0] http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316726-giuliani-t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama
That's an unfortunate implementation. posix_spawn() is much faster in large applications because it doesn't need to make all MAP_PRIVATE mappings read-only for CoW purposes.

Rust could hand-roll it by calling clone() directly, but the code is a bit tricky.
I just leave the remote on my desk and turn the eco auto-off to 8hrs so it doesn't turn off in the middle of my day. The TV controls the on/off of my receiver via CEC.
Yes, they are. The thing that really put them on the map was decades ago, when they defended the right of Nazis to march in the heavily Jewish community of Skokie, IL.
No, critically it comes with an off switch for when you find it's been compromised.

If you didn't want that, there were cheaper phones - even counterfeit.
Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. Staying true to initial intentions with a growing startup is a tough job.
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The value of execution. Being able to get something done is a powerful thing and this is one way it can be monetized. Reminds me of the German startup knockoff company that made its mark doing successful US startups in Europe.
Rather than adjusting for inflation, try adjusting for productivity instead:

http://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
Oh, yeah there is, and you can donate here: https://action.aclu.org/secure/donate-to-aclu
A book excerpt is not an advert.
Because the temporary restriction on new people entering the US affects his company's ability to get lots of cheap labor.
Truecrypt is a (now discontinued) encryption program that allowed you to nest encrypted containers within one another in a way that if you provided Password1, it would open Container1, and if you provided Password2, it would open Container2.

Since the Container's full size was allocated at creation, and the size of the contents cannot be determined without the key, this gave plausible deniability. You could keep your real sensitive information in an encrypted volume, and put something that could plausibly be sensitive but that you didn't really care about someone getting in a nested volume, and when forced by the law/rubber hose to decrypt, provide the password to the volume you don't care about, and there's no way for anyone to prove that you didn't fully decrypt the contents.
So what "extreme left" positions does the ACLU endorse?
I had great respect for them when they were doing that kind of thing and standing up for everyone's right to speech. Do they still engage in that? If I recall correctly they haven't had cases like that in decades.

All their recent cases in my memory are left-leaning at least, which, while they do represent many good goals in my opinion, is understandably a political slant.
Who repays the loan if the housing market crashes and the tenants walk away?
Cool. Is Trump's get-rid-of-two-regulations executive order "virtue signaling"?
They do, its call Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) Codec. Expect worldwide deployment start in 2017.
It also reeks of hypocrisy of the highest order.
>> Having read Gartners Magic Quadrants on Cloud, I really question Gartners competency on understanding

I think you can replace "Cloud" with whatever technology Gartner or most analysts write about.

These firms are little more than uninformed hype producers that fuel the enterprise software spend cycle through marketing (webinars, "research", tap-my-back-events and 3k€ "reports") that tell CIOs/CTOs what they should already know, by definition of their function: what technologies to consider for their business problems, why and how.

On the other hand, they provide a nice scapegoat when someone needs to offload responsibility, a bit like the "no one ever got fired for buying recommended by Gartner".

PS: wish I could find Zed Shaw's video on "calling bullshit" (or related), as it includes a nice anecdote on dealing with industry analysts.
Consider the EFF. They're more narrowly focused, and unlikely to come in conflict with your beliefs. And, with a battle over Net Neutrality being almost inevitable, they could use our help, too.
>the large number of authoritarians here.

Everybody who has a different viewpoint than me is a <insert label>!
I think it's assuming that Kafka caches a lot more than your local machine, and therefore is less likely to need to access disk.

Note that it also assumes low network latency, though; if you have congestion within the data center, things change.
Top tech companies are paying lots of money for world-class talent. It is absolutely not "cheap labor".
Are you using the ledger as a wallet? Doesn't plugging the device into an untrusted PC worry you at all? Leaving all that aside, the biggest issue for me an u2f is the mobile problem I have a yubikey neo, but u2f does not work over nfc, so I'm still stuck creating application passwords for things.
First off, when you're fifty, things won't be as they are now, so that makes recommending a specific future career choice somewhat fruitless.

Note that your "financial planning" idea will probably be replaced by AI within that time frame (maybe you'll be the one to do it).

When I was your age, Apple was on its death bed, there was no Google, and OJ was running through airports high-fiving old ladies.

At the time, I was working as a pre-press technician, doing Photoshop work for ad agencies and the like. That profession is all but gone nowadays (it still exists, but jobs are harder to come by).

I gravitated towards this whole Internet thing as a career, hoping I would one day be dating Sandra Bullock, but I missed out on all the big trends of the last 20 years -- the first bubble came and went, I pooh-poohed the rise of "Social", and I am now a mid-level "Senior" developer at a gov agency. The work is not taxing, but also not rewarding in any way, shape, or form. I keep busy writing toy apps and studying any new tech I'm interested in. The money's decent, but not life changing -- especially in CA.

My first piece of advice to my younger self would be to become financially independent through passive income. Probably in real estate, but that would be 20-20 hindsight.

My other advice would be to strive for some kind of autonomy in your work. Being in control of your fate is a big component in job satisfaction, I believe, as well as having a sense of achievement and purpose.

Also, make sure your life/work balance is adequately, er, balanced. Cultivate relationships outside of work; spend quality time with your kids, etc.
maybe that's possible if you manage to stay current in a sane niche, frontend js is not, and build your own base of clients.
it will be hard to allow for a consumeristic life-style.
I'm in my 30's doing marketing and am starting to feel like the old man of the teams I work with.

Ha Ha, you'd be a baby on my team. I'm 61, on a team of 20 people in a department of 100 people. Age range 21 to 72. I find little or no correlation between age and anything that really matters. Like quality of work, deliverance of value, or wanting to be on the same team.

I look around and there is hardly anyone over 40 and no-one 50+ unless they hit executive level.

That's just where you're at. I know hundreds of people in their 50s and 60s doing great work who are not executives. Lots of them are programmers, too. The happiest and most successful are doing stuff they love (or have learned to love).

The industry is about new technology and working

No. Any industry is about satisfying customers. Don't confuse what's in front of your face every day with what really matters.

..so as someone that likes to plan ahead. What do you think are good career options for the 50+?

Exactly the same as for 49-. Whatever's best for you. (More below)

I've been trying to think of jobs were age is an advantage.

I can't think of a single job where age would be an advantage. Experience maybe, but not age. I can think of a few where it would be a disadvantage: pro basketball player is one. But that belies the point: You should be thinking about a job where what you bring is an advantage: your skills, education, passion, etc. Forget age and focus on this.

The best I can think of is financial planning. Most people visit their planner when retirement is on their mind, so you'll likely be meeting people of a similar group and mindset.

Not sure I understand what you're trying to say here. If you love financial planning, by all means do it. But if you don't, finding a reason to do it doesn't make any sense. You're unlikely to find much success in any field you don't love, no matter what the other co-factors are.

Whereas in this industry being 21 and enthusiastic wont go far with many older people.

Oh yes it does! I have 18 people on my team under age 26 and I love working with them!

What does HN think are good options?

I don't know what the rest of HN thinks, but here's what I think:

Find what you love, what you're good at, and what puts food on the table and do it! Pour your heart and soul into it, get better at it, and it would be hard for you to NOT make the world a better place by doing it. Forget the rest, what others think, what's trendy, what you think may be important (but probably isn't).

I've been programming professionally for 38 years and can't imagine doing anything else. I hope I go another 38, no matter where the industry takes me.

My best advice of all: Take care of yourself now or you may not be able to do much of anything in your 50s.
Then why is US bombing them?
Both. For my mid-2014 15" MBP I had to get an active MiniDP-HDMI adapter. Looks like your MBP is limited to 30Hz...

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Theoretically, yes. However, the ACLU has historically been perceived (especially by the right-wing) as a left-wing organization, since it stood for things like racial equality, religious equality, and most importantly the end to (mostly anti-Communist) restrictions on political expression.

Hence the attacks on Dukakis for being a member of the ACLU during his election campaign, and his joking self-labeling as a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" (in reference to McCarthy's references to "card-carrying Communists").

EDIT: And for yet more historical background - it was originally founded (as the Civil Liberties Bureau) to defend anti-war speech and conscientious objection during World War I, which were mostly left-wing and far-left-wing phenomena. Post-war, in addition to serving as an ethnically-neutral counterpart to ethnic civil-liberties organizations such as the ADL (Jewish) and the NAACP (African-American), it spent a lot of time defending free political speech. And the free political speech that was most under attack through its seminal period in the 1920s was labor organizing and socialist politics. (Because of the phenomenon of white-supremacist Southern Democrats, minority-rights issues did not necessarily line up with party politics, but they were indeed perceived as left-right issues in the sense that racial equality was considered a far-left position.)
Peter Thiel is as usual, a snake. He knows he's spreading lies but his support for this administration trumps any dedication to the truth.
So is paying 5000 people to dig holes in the dessert and another 5000 to later fill in those holes.

I lived through something similar to that in Eastern Europe in the 1990's. Spoiler alert: doesn't end well.
The ACLU excels at mounting a legal defense.

I think when bad cops get off, it's because of bad (or absent) legal prosecution.
Biotech products are seen as harder to copy (me too drugs), require an expensive-to-validate pipeline (like vaccines), and look very attractive as a novel mechanism of action (as compared to traditional small molecule drugs). Most pharmas are inexpert in large bio-molecule mechanisms and drug design, and the fact that small molecule high-throughput-screening infrastructure cannot compete in that space makes it attractive as a game changer. (Since HTS has not shown the ROI that was hoped.) Many also see RNA-based or immune-based therapies as the next revolution in drugs.
This seems irrelevant to me. What's stopping them from doing that today?
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Exactly.

And those are also issues that everybody agreed are issues; it's the solutions where there was disagreement.

Trump's platform was that bribing corporations to keep jobs in America, loosening environmental regulation and tearing up TPP & NAFTA were the solutions for lost factory jobs.

Clinton's platform was that education, a social safety net and withdrawing from the TPP were the best solutions.

Fighting to build awareness of problems is a lot easier than agreeing on a solution.
The vast majority of developers are not engineers even if they like calling themselves Software Engineers.
wasn't aware of this but will look it up.
that depends entirely on whether you view a global job market as intrinsic to libertarianism. For nationalist libertarians, Trump's economic focus would presumably be a good thing.

as far as I've seen, a global job market has resulted in more exploitation than prosperity. Most of the profit seems to go to international businesses that have little interest in giving back to their host nation in the form of jobs or taxes.
This, old guys don't get enough respect. When I was a young coder I had several over 50 co workers who showed me the ropes. Now that I have gotten old myself I have come to realize that there is a wisdom in age.

The only thing thats stopping you from writing code is you, pick up a book, take a class (think community college don't spend a ton of money on it) -- if you have made it this far in business your probably fairly pragmatic already a skill most young coders have to learn.
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Wrong.

It's entirely irrational to give this level of attention and resource to an issue with such relatively little impact, particularly when noting the contributing events that led up to this issue were largely ignored (and directed by the same presidential candidate many of these organizations openly supported). Virtue signalling is the correct description. This is more about image than substantive change.
My, disregarding all external political input is an awfully conservative viewpoint, don't you think?
The ACLU didn't have $24m burning a hole in their pocket four months ago.

Also, conservatives need to get off their "persecuted" high horse for a second and take a look around themselves. Donald Trump is the one butt-fumbling his way into empowering organizations like the ACLU by scaring the shit out of right-minded people. As these groups experience spikes in popularity and cash, they're going to reach out and start working on new initiatives.
It's just a start but I've coded it completely myself, so thought to show someone! If anyone needs a website for her/his game, it will always be free, or as long I can afford to maintain it and it's pretty much production ready... Your website will be multi-page, responsive, mobile friendly and you can use your own domain...
Huh, what a weird point to make. If he were to actually look at the ACLU's mission, though, he'd see that there's nothing in it about only working to protect the rights of American citizens.
I won't let go of my Just For Men until they pry it from my cold, dead hands!
Do you have any idea what's involved in an immigrant from a Muslim country becoming a citizen? Without some sense of the requirements, you're assuming he doesn't want to be a citizen, when it's quite possible that he does, but hasn't been able to due to quotas.
It isn't bipartisan, but ProgCode was mentioned elsewhere in the thread. They build open-source tools for progressive political organizations.

If you aren't a progressive, you might still consider getting involved and employing those same tools to help your preferred party/organizations. The ideal of higher political involvement through digital tools is very bipartisan in my opinion - notwithstanding disenfranchisement efforts by the right, which I like to view separately from conservatism itself.

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