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They defend every part of the Constitution except the Second Amendment. That hypocrisy is why the ACLU will never see a penny from me.
Reddit is a startup in the sense of http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

The ACLU probably isn't, and I think the parent's question is whether YC has funded any other companies of the same type.
Why are you so stupid as to think America will not defend its borders? Why are you so stupid as to not realize America is modeled on individual freedom, which is incompatible with Sharia Jihadis?

Defense of individual freedom and liberty (i.e. preventing the creation a police state and ensuring gun rights) is more important than leftist feelings. There are some bad dudes to remove in the meantime.
Although I think the American Civil Liberties Union is incredibly valuable and I'm glad they have a lot more money now to fight for the American people, I'm questioning all of this.

Where was the outpouring of funding when black people were being gunned down by cops from West Coast organizations? Where has YCombinator been as our own impoverished African-Americans are getting slaughtered in the streets of Chicago? Why weren't we funding the ACLU to help these people? I haven't seen Google talk about this, or AirBnB offer support to widows of veterans whose spouse commits suicide and has left them with nothing.

I feel for immigrants from war-torn countries, especially having been there myself. Maybe I'm too cynical and look at these moves (AirBnB, Uber, Google, etc...) as marketing moves. I wish we cared more about homeless people, people in West Virginia and Kentucky who have lost their jobs and got drenched in opiates without any protests from anybody, or veterans who can't pay their VA bills. Idk.

I know this comment will be unpopular, and that's ok. I tend to care more about those who I feel (whether true or not) are being left behind because that's who I am.
> dual-citizens

To be clear, you mean like Iranian-British, right? If one of the citizenships were American I don't think it applied.
Startups in Portland, etc, are trying to arbitrage their low cost of living, which is great, but the fact that the companies in SF, etc can pay more shows that they're providing a greater economic benefit and should probably get the.immigrants that can justify such a salary.
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Thiel is sycophant and a liar and if he wasn't close friends with Sam and the others he would have been throw out of Y Combinator.
Do you have a source for that claim? Because everything I read indicates that there was little to no legal review of the executive order. In fact, given that the Attorney General would sign of that review (my understanding at least), it seems extremely unlikely that there was one.
She was fired properly and not for political reasons the EO was approved, determined legal, by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Her reasoning reflected the fact she knew she had no legal basis to defend the EO. She should have resigned instead she made matters worse.

The restriction is against seven countries. Presidents Obama and Carter both enacted immigration bans against Muslim dominant countries (Iraq and Iraq). This still leaves over fifty majority Muslim countries unaffected by the EO including the five most populated countries.

It is not any more a Muslim ban than when past Presidents put restrictions on immigration from countries labeled as dangerous.
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left-leaning?

Supporting the Constitution is left-leaning? Sign me up!

And yes they don't defend the 2nd amendment because there are already two large organizations focused on that.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531766 and marked it off-topic.
Im taking this as a statement, that progress for traditional ycombinator startups is under threat from things the ACLU deals with. It isnt a startup, far from it, but the ACLU is someone that you want on speeddial these days.
YC/Sam A hosted a fund raiser for the Democratic party/Obama [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/20/president-obama-will-headl...
Be careful about that enterprise assumption. I've worked for two startups in my career. The first used mainly Java, and the second used mostly .NET.

Heck, lots of companies you'd consider to be enterprise are building cool projects with React and Angular 2 front ends hooked up to Java or .NET on the back end. Projects like those might be a decent way for you to leverage your current experience and work your way toward back end development.
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I am using DayOne to journal. To me the most important feature DayOne has and Note does not have is the searching ability. In addition to regular search which Notes also has, in DayOne you could filter by years, look for journals from the same day from past years, filter by activities (DayOne can also read your activity data like running or walking), and also you can tag your notes and filter with tags.

Some other differentiating factors - you could password protect your journal with a DayOne. DayOne makes it really easy to find and add photos (Activity feed), and it shows thumbnails of the photos when you edit your journal, which makes it easier to edit the text. In notes, photos are displayed in full size all the time. One very useful feature of DayOne is that you could add a photo and quickly set the location and date of the journal to the photo's.

I have been using Awesome Notes to journal for about 3 years. Only until recently I started using DayOne. Awesome Notes is great, but DayOne is so much better.
So if hypothetically we went to war with country X tomorrow, the president would not be able to suspend entry of X nationals without an act of Congress?
It does. American Civil Liberties Union.
The future nation of California, whose independence campaign is supported by part-time YC partner and New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel.
This is a double-edged sword, though, as it may hurt you once you try to switch jobs again.
I should have put it in quotes "immigration ban".
I think this makes sense strategically for multiple reasons:

- YC would undoubtedly like to ensure there are no barriers to immigrant founded startups that they would like to invest in

- ensuring that there are fewer barriers to employment by immigrants in invested startups

- generally trying to build a better more open world (which is in line with the UBI initiative [0] as well as the stated interest in investigating new concepts for city design [1])

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/31/y-combinator-announces-bas...

[1] - https://www.wired.com/2016/07/y-combinators-plan-build-new-c...
what favors is it due? how would you promote it?
flagged? why? Did the alt-riech get their feelies hurt?
It's not just Peter Thiel but anyone of sound mind -- the top 5 countries by Muslim-majority population are not included.

* Indonesia 204,847,000 (87.2%)

* Pakistan 178,097,000 (96.4%)

* India 172,245,158 (14.2%)

* Bangladesh 145,312,000 (90%)

* Nigeria 75,728,000 (47.9%)

If Indonesia suddenly became plagued by radical Islamic terrorism then it would be on the list too.

The seven countries targeted by the immigration ban have been either failed states or antagonistic to the US for the past 30 years, it is quite plain to say that it makes sense for Trump's companies -- and various other companies across a wide swath of industries -- to refrain from conducting business there. To say that other Muslim-majority countries aren't on the list due to conflict of interest is to deny this simple logic.

Plenty of other Muslim-majority countries have kept a lid on their populace by maintaining adequate internal security within their borders and providing valuable counter-terrorism intelligence to to the US, meanwhile the seven "countries of concern" have not.
I believe they may be making an oblique reference to the ACLU acting on behalf of immigrants this past weekend.

Of course, it's perfectly consistent to believe that the government of the United States of America does not sufficiently respect the civil liberties of non citizens.
I think Uber accepts cash in Argetina too. At least in Buenos Aires.
How are your rights 'trendy'?

I tend to stay out of politics, and don't really label people as such, but Trump is a bad guy. I'm happy to donate engineering time to the ACLU.
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It will eventually rejoin the US. But for now it is politically vastly different. The EC served its purpose in containing CA.
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You have a right to free speech, and these websites have a right to publish whatever they want. You are free to type things or to say things, there's no obligation for anyone else to host them or transmit them for you.
I see an error message. But it's actually interesting enough:
"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"

This is all widely outdated. OpenSSL 1.0.0 support has ended in 2014. Running mod_fcgid and mod_fastcgi in the same server process doesn't seem to make any sense (as they are basically competitioners for the same functionality).
This is true, but on the whole immigrant college graduates are typically a boon to an economy, not a drag. It's in our best interest to keep these people here, rather than shipping them back home.
The ACLU tends to not pick political sides.
You forgot to mention the lack of a period at the end of the sentance
I think the choice of actions matters too. If people aren't going to think seriously about the consequences of their actions instead of just going along for fear of being branded strikebreakers, I'd rather they limited themselves to words. At least that way they won't cause that much damage.

No opinion on the specific case, I just find your proposal overbroad.
No, they asked about funding organizations involved in politics. I wondered if they believed reddit to be apolitical, not whether they believed it fit some definition of some other concept.
No, it hasn't. The rule has been the same for years: most politics are off topic. Check it out: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The difference between "most" and "all" is significant. HN can't be immune to what's going on in the outside world and we've learned from years of experience that it doesn't make sense to try. At the same time, we're not going to let politics overwhelm the site, since that would kill it.

The concern about HN becoming too political or not political enough is as old as HN. There are at least as many users complaining that we're suppressing all the political stories and what not. I wrote more about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522433 if anyone's interested.
No route to permanent residency via the TN visa. With the status of NAFTA up in the air now that Trump's in power, that's potentially a pretty big deal.
You say what you've mentioned is a reminder of how Clinton wasn't a great candidate as though that's simply a fact that we must recall. However, I (and, I think, others here) have felt that the main criticisms of her were at worst based in complete falsehoods and at best strongly influenced by an overall public mood which was forged by fake news and demagoguery. The weakness of Clinton's candidacy is not an established fact is is definitely up for debate.
Free speech, not free from other people's disagreement. The color of your previous comment pretty much speaks for itself.
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You think Indonesia doesn't have problems with terrorism? (Edit: also, Pakistan?). The idea that this is a reasonable counterterrorism measure by any means is a farce that doesn't stand up to the lightest of scrutiny. It's a test of executive power, perhaps for something more sinister [1].

[1] https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e...
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They* introduced non-profit funding a while ago.
Linux needs a benevolent dictator, like Steve Jobs, to tell people, "no, your code is shit, your idea is shit, fuck off" instead of a community that indulges every contribution no matter how lame, stupid, confusing and non-functional it is.

Someone like Linus maybe?
Can you explain specifically how the ACLU is a left-leaning political organization, rather than an apolitical nonprofit?
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Independent investment? Is this a trick question?
Honest question: are you sure you mean sycophant? He strikes me as a kind of abrasive character, not what I would associate with a sycophant.
> I would expect Uber to ensure drivers are organized and informed about strikes

That seems absurd. Uber is not a union. There is a dangerous conflict of incentive in relying on the people harmed by a strike to be organizing them.
I'm with you 100%.

By coincidence I made a site to direct people to various charities on HN when this post came up - it went nowhere of course.

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Bannon is smart enough to do this in degrees. Accelerated degrees, but degrees nonetheless.
One man's "protecting civil liberties" is another man's politics.
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I never said what they're doing was similar. I was merely pointing out that the list of countries they're doing the new, non-similar, horrible things to, was inherited from the previous administration.

Hence your "nations without Trump hotels" comment seemed strange to me.
Final rulings have come down in China and South Korea. Other jurisdictions with active investigations include Europe, Taiwan and the US.
Those can both be true simultaneously - the president asked for something, and ended up implementing something slightly different - because what he originally asked for was likely unconsitutional.
The best time to plant a tree was yesterday. I can personally forgive them, but we need to hold these players accountable in the future. If marketing moves is what incentives them, we need to make it impossible to move us without extended action.

Edit: Ya'll are cynical Jedis.
Not the above poster, but every time I mention problems I'm having with Linux to a Linux fan all I get is a mix of:

"Oh well yeah, that's a little broken but that's a 5 minute fix!" x 100;

"Yeah, that sucks but there next version of (Gnome/Wayland/switching distros/getting less problematic hardware) should fix that" x 50;

And "I'm not saying PEBKAC... but maybe PEBKAC".

So I don't bother anymore.
Why were Saudi Arabia and Egypt left off the list? That's where most of the 9/11 hijackers and planners hailed from.

I think you're hearing echoes in your "sound mind."
I have been using mine for decades and they're truly excellent. 10/10, would recommend. I really hope they continue to kick out more good products.
Or Nigeria?
Also shameless shill for upvotes --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531669
I share your sentiment.
It seems to me (I'm European) that bashing Trump is just a fancy, hipster thing to do.
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"at least in much of the USA, and certainly in NYC"

Here in Kenya, and much of the developing world, things are quite different. Traditionally, people would save known and trusted drivers in their phonebook, and call them when needing a taxi. If you're somewhere far from your drivers, you might call a friend who lives there and ask them.

That's how we got started on our own app (http://maramoja.co.ke): we let people favourite drivers, and let them choose the driver for their ride. We show them who's their favourite, who's their friend's (e.g. from Facebook, phonebook, referrals) favourite etc.

Although other apps have now made an inroad here (Nairobi), particularly Uber, whose marketing budget we of course cannot match, there's still quite a number of people who won't use their "just any driver" approach.
> Where was the outpouring of funding when black people were being gunned down by cops..
You can't compare apples to oranges.
I don't know that much about biotech startups. Maybe you can tell me who pays for them?
reddit has political post on their website but I wouldn't say reddit itself is involved in politics.
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Except diversity-based hiring is no more than farcical politicking, building a better and more open world is an empty slogan, and barriers to employing immigrants are important to prevent the same violent demographic change we have seen in Europe.
"Uber's service and fares maps"

Are you referring to a literal service and fares map that exists somewhere on Uber's website? If so, I'd love to see it.
> The part about Department of Education ensuring a competent workfore doesn't jive with haphazardly turning back permanent residents with PhDs and valid green card from reentering the country where they live.

This EO is ordering a review and report, while the immigration EO is ordering actions to address a perceived immediate need. Note also that they are only in effect for 60 and 90 days respectively - this administration is in the "organization" phase still.
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Just curious, what compels you to move off V8? I'm always interested in scrutinizing the platforms I use.
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As far as I have observed, the only thing people consistently respond to is pain. This can be done through the introduction / removal / or threat of pain. It'd be nice if we all empathized more with other people's pain, but that doesn't appear to be the culture that we live in. Maybe there are cultures that do elsewhere, but I am unaware of them.

But I do have a question for you, when the interests of those with influence align with the ignored, why would your initial reaction be a negative one?
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Honestly, my Linux DE experience has been just fine too: Everything just works, it gets out of my way & lets me get to an editor to write code or fire up a web browser & has a ton of productivity apps a mouse click away if I need them.

I just don’t spend any time fiddling with Gnome; sure, it’s a bit opinionated about how it wants you to work with it, but so was macOS. I don’t spend any mental cycles worrying about the DE on either macOS or Gnome & that’s exactly the way it should be.

I’ll freely admit that the possibility of going down the rabbit hole of fiddling with your DE until you’ve got it just so is always there under Linux, whilst you have to to be a lot more committed to customisation on macOS if you want to mess around with that kind of stuff. But I decided long ago that so long as the DE got out of my way & let me get on with doing stuff then I wasn’t going to care about it.

It’s possible that I’m missing out on some amazing experience that would transform my computing life, but having tried both I’m really just not seeing it personally.
if you're meditating _only_ when you have circumstances of forced confinement or limited options you won't really be able to get into the meditative state. that's just time filling. you'll probably end up day-dreaming rather than meditating. just read a book or something instead.

the purpose of meditation is to develop an awareness of the processes of your mind. doing so requires you to temporarily suspend your grasping consciousness. for a little while, you will have absolutely no goals and objectives. when you observe your mind under those conditions you will see your self in a new light.
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So your argument is that if you didn't do what was right before, you shouldn't do what's right now?
> Pakistan

They were the homes for Osama bin Laden(s), weren't they?
It's good to be skeptical and this may very well be a good marketing strategy. But at the moment, we're facing an fast-moving onslaught of authoritarianism, and the ACLU is one of the only legal defenses we have against it. If YCombinator, right now, wants to help stop it, I support them in doing so. We can cross other bridges of criticism when we come to them.
Just because ACLU is late along with most of the communities and people in realizing things they could have done better that does not mean we need to question their every future step for the betterment of the society. Along with your positive critique, you can donate to them or any other org. of your choice and make sure your voice is heard. Oh btw ACLU was always active with whatever limited funds they had. . Please try researching on them.
Too soft, too passive. Trump wont listen to predictions (it will create ...). You need declarations. It creates obstructions to business. And if you really want to cut at him, call it a "regulation" impacting daily business decisions. Tell him how this is costing businesses money. That he cares about.
Get rid of twitter, facebook and anything else that pings and demands attention (possible exception of non-facebook messenger apps that IRL people use to contact you, probably just SMS or textsecure). Switch email to notify in the bar only, not ping or wake up the phone.

Voila, a device with as many notifications as a dumb phone but the capability of being a gps, music player and camera. You'll be calmer and happier.
Been using a dumb phone for 5 years since giving up my iphone 3. Never looked back. My wife has a smart phone which is great for Yelp, maps and other modern necessities.
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The best time to plant a tree was yesterday, the second best time to plant a tree is today. Being proactive is better than being reactive, but we shouldn't poohoo the value of being at least reactive now and maybe proactive in the future.
Not terrorism problems affecting the US - only Indonesia and Australia.
Maybe the ACLU wants to support innocent people in warn-torn countries more than black gangsters and anti-police anarchists/terrorists?
Because it's virtue signalling. Nevermind that Chicago had more murders in 2016 than New York and Los Angeles combined, or that there's a rampant opiate epidemic across wide swaths of the country - this is a cause with visibility among the well heeled coastal elites. Where were these same people when we undermined and bombed the governments of the countries these immigrants are fleeing from?