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I wasn't calling out the ACLU. I am rather skeptical of the commitment of certain folks who are just now finding their voice.

This is from long experience, at least on the left end of the pond, where the mainstream Democratic partisans attempt to shout down any protest when Democratic politicians do something but encourage it when Republicans do equivalent things.
A boss who can push me technically and is always helping me advance my career was huge for me. I know that has been the case with many people I have talked to. If you are not helping your team or co-workers to better themselves than they are not going to feel motivation from you.
Many conservatives, from traditional big government conservatives like John McCain and Dick Cheney to small government advocates like the Koch brothers are coming out against this change. It is not a clean partisan divide.

Don't let the people kissing up because they have to work with him fool you. This is broadly alarming in many conservative circles too.

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id...

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4652905/koch...
That's how I do deployments, but they take a while to start/stop. Whereas, with uwsgi, for example, deployments are zero-downtime, since uwsgi loads a new interpreter and uses that for new connections from that point on, without interrupting any old connections.
I don't yet know if I'm leaving, but I am extraordinarily disappointed. I sat down and did the math a while ago and came to the conclusion that, with the benefit of the taxable/tax-deferred tax management and tax loss harvesting, 15% was a reasonable amount to pay. After I do it again, it may turn out that .25% still puts me ahead, but this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. How long before they eliminate the digital plan and put me in the .4% plan?
I thought the Canadian citizen part was more in line with money laundering and being a safe haven.

I'm sure he's part of the contributing force on real estate increases in major cities across Canada (Vancouver/Toronto) mainly due (to my understanding) to being able to move money out of China and into something more stable, like Canadian real estate.

It really pains me that people use Canada as a crutch to do their dirty deeds or even to have "as a backup".
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Oh man! My very first job, I worked for the studio that made the Club Penguin DS game. Cut my teeth on assembly (for a profiler) and a FLC video decoder (void * cast to structs, anyone?). Good times!

Also, my immediate boss / mentor was the spouse of EA Spouse. Dude was (and almost certainly still is) a ridiculously amazing engineer.
Well, RES is physical memory, it's just some places where it gets reported don't account for physical memory that is being shared between multiple processes.

If I have a process that says it's using 1GB of RES, then you can guarantee there is at least 1GB of physical memory in use. It just might also be in use by other things also reporting their own RES usage.
I worked at a company that had a great work culture. My manager was awesome, there were tons of side benefits, in general everybody worked reasonable hours and got to leave work at work. But they were bleeding talent because they weren't keeping up with market rates for salaries.

The side benefits and the extra motivations are important, particularly for long term satisfaction and sustainability, but those things alone won't cut it if you're paying 70% of the market rate in the area.
> In reality it's abused to import cheap labor and undercut average American workers doing common work like building applications or administering systems.

Really? How much should it cost to do common work like building crud applications or administering systems? Right now, (based on all the H1-B, and similar visa holders I know, which is a good amount) it's ~2X the median household income to pay one visa holder to do it.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to make $200-300K to sling crud apps and keep the lights on in a datacenter.
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If the minority wants a Constitutionally limited government founded on equality replaced with a racist, religiously-biased authoritarianism, and manages to elect a government with that intent over the wishes of the majority, that doesn't make that governments steps to implement it's authoritarianism any less of a crisis.
Wrong.

How many are from these 7 countries and do not have a green card? Now how many have been killed in Libya, Syria, or Iraq?
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I have. If I truly believe in the "product" and am treated like I am an owner and not a minion than it is different.

edit

by owner, I don't mean of the company; rather the product. I find developers spend most of their time in the app and know when something works or doesn't. They can have a "hunch" when a feature is off, or the experience is wrong. being empowered to make decisions and tweaks without someone else getting upset is invaluable
But that's the most important issue here I think. This might be appropriate, at the most, for SFO and possibly NYC. But what about the rest of the country where the cost of living is much lower? I (an Indian H1B holder) worked in WI, where I made 73K as a fresher and was able to have a nice apartment and a good life in general and save half of my salary. I think, while the current 60K minimum pay may be too low, 130K is too high for most of the country. 100K might be more practical. Even better would be a process which takes the local cost of living into account, instead of an absolute minimum (which might get too complicated, I guess).
What about self-advancement aka learning :)
This was my first thought. 1 minute driver hiring sounds like something a serial murderer would love.
Considering that foreign counties are providing free tuition to qualifying students and then sending them here to get better paying jobs, I can only be supportive. Although, in the long run I'd prefer to see tuition be free at public schools here as well.

We seem to have gotten things all around ass backwards these days. We get high-end candidates from Asia and low-end candidates from Mexico, so Americans are being squeezed on both ends.
There's both a religious test and no valid security argument. Absolutely none.

https://twitter.com/FT/status/826470867945283584
The creepiest part of that incident is that after weeks of no communication, the bookseller "wrote" an email to his daughter saying that he is alright and not to worry about him.
So that change in business model will likely mean more outsourcing of jobs. The fundamental goal of any company is to save money.
Is it better to be TN?
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All proprietary know how, guidelines howto, real world experiences with solutions, approaches, process...what doesnt work at all and what is working fine and why.
I think this article is glossing over an important part of the discussion. Biometric Information is good for user identification it is not good for passwords and AFAIK this is a widely shared-opinion across security professionals. Don't use fingerprints as passwords to protect sensitive data.
Have you asked your employer to set a new project, something challenging for you in the future? Maybe they are willing to switch things up to keep you happy?
I think by safe they mean he is alive.
I'm outraged, but like .. this is not hacker news at all.
Thread local storage would let you store a snapshot for thread A until thread A itself re-invokes getenv.

Other comments seem to imply this isn't what FreeBSD is doing however.
Industry analyst is a great role for 50+. I joined Gartner at 40 and it felt like the beginning of my career. I am 57 now.

The big analyst firms like to hire people with expertise and a thirst for knowledge. The job requires speaking and writing skills as well as expertise. But I can attest that you can pick those up along the way.

I am writing a book on how to succeed as an analyst. Short version: pick a space (has to have vendors in it), write about it, speak about it, be the expert.
Where were you when all these things were happening? Were you asking YCombinator to address these issues? Are they supposed to address every social justice issue by anyone who thinks it should be addressed?

Be glad they're addressing anything, because they're a tech blog that should focus on tech issues, not every social justice issue on the planet, which there are already many blogs and campaigns and donation sites for.
In a past life in spent a couple years in an auto tech program and was an equipment mechanic in college to pay for books (beer) so I am familiar with the process of bleeding my brakes.

You are right to be concerned about moisture, that's actually why they need bled. BMW suggests bleeding them roughly every other oil change because no system is perfectly water/moisture tight.

The nice thing about having my mechanic do it is they already have a place to do it and they deal with the waste fluid plus they also inspect the rest of the car and have a lot more experience with what to look for than I do. Preventative maintenance is a big deal on these cars so having an experienced mechanic look at it regularly puts my mind at ease.

I just recently started renting a friend's garage so I could rebuild my motorcycle so now that I have my tools and a space to do work I am much more likely to do this kind of thing myself.
It's easy to forget that what we understand now as a liberal democracy with free press, rule of law and the right for everyone to vote is extremely young.

Just look at the time when women were granted voting rights (1).

The US, by some seen as the 'holy grail' of modern democracy, officially allowed women to vote in 1919 (ironically many of the Democratic party were opposed), had extensive voter supression such as literacy tests until the 60ies and arguably still does today.

Many European countries were not real Democracies until after WW2, or event until the fall of the soviet union.

60-70, or even 100 years is basically nothing. That's one long lifespan.

Let's see if we see it all go down in flames in our lifetimes. (Probably not. Let's hope not).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage
They are; the party loyals use softer language (like John McCain), but there are plenty who owe trump nothing and are a bit louder (like the Koch Brothers)
That's exactly what happened. Uber wasn't under any obligation to do a time- or money-wasting exercise started by third parties that didn't give a damn about them. It's not even likely to change what's going on given that starts in Washington with support of powerful people and the man's voters. So, no reason to take part in it for achieving a political goal.

Now, on business side, image management is so important it's a huge industry. Many businesses have gone under or lost substantial money when their brands were tarnished by what potential buyers thought of them. Looks like they made another bad move on this front. Most Fortune 500 companies would at least pretend to care more than Uber does. Also in a way highly visible to customers.
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Why do these bills make so much noise ? Isn't it the case that any senator, congressman can introduce the bill they want ? Shouldn't we take them seriously only after they have passed committee review ? This is probably 4th such bill in last 2 weeks I suppose.

This bill has even affected stock markets in India!
Don't know about the 6p, but on both my old 2013 Moto X and my current Nexus 5x, I've had to manually reboot the phone an additional time after completing an update. Until I do this, some Google service consumes an inordinate amount of battery -- dropping the battery charge 10% or so an hour while the phone is idling.

That is, I do the update. The phone restarts as part of the update, yada-yada... Ok, I'm officially all done with the update. No more reboots. But this service is eating battery like crazy. Manually power the phone all the way off, once more, and then restart. Finally, battery use goes back to normal, and in Settings this Google service no longer headlines as the primary power consumer.
Well, part of the problem is that even if value is calculated right, there's no adjustment for liquidity. Calculating compensation for H1-B purposes based on 409A is a bit silly if there's no way to cash out. That's made all the more true by the possibility of destroying that value later, for instance by agreeing to a high-multiplier preference in later funding.

I would accept 409A as a reasonable assessment of a company's value, but that's somewhat different than an assessment of what compensation an H1-B worker is getting.
If you're referring to this specific immigration issue, the National Immigration Law Center is a good one: https://www.nilc.org/
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Which is the reason that even if we would write an UNIX OS in something like Ada or Rust instead of C, we wouldn't get away from security exploits caused by the UNIX API.

Hence why in parallel with better systems languages, we really need tagged architectures for pointers, like what SPARC V8, Intel MPX, Cherry offer, to become widespread, for better security.
> reducing the power and scope of government at all levels

Well, you need some level of government

> by maintaining the weapons and skills necessary to effectively resist

That's for the most part an illusion that may give you some comfort but that will likely not be of much practical use if and when tshtf.
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Nearly every country has an expat neighborhood somewhere. Lonely Planet will probably have the info. There's a cost vs safety tradeoff. Figure out the risk/reward you're looking for.
unsolicited - I mailed you my CV too.
there's plenty of room for nuance in politics.
You sir have a lot of patience. I read the "arguments" as "the children don't want to be bothered". That thing about order x justice sums it up. They don't give a shit.
On US news? Sure. Canadian news? Maybe. Hong Kong news? No way, this is a big issue.
Don't do it anytime soon - we're heading into a down market.
> It's also the case that not wanting to have political discussions is itself a political agenda.

Yes, that's an excellent point. It amounts to a denial of service attack on informed discourse.
Cash is liquid whereas Bitcoin is a collectible that can't be used to pay all debts. My last two points about Bitcoin's instability do not apply to cash. Cash doesn't have a few slow gatekeepers that also game the system in their favor when you go to convert your cash into a more liquid form.
> I know this comment will be unpopular, and that's ok.

I would just like to say this kind of bait is agains the guidelines
And here is the challenge of that suggestion; what mechanism do you propose to "make them equally expensive" ? There are many things you can 'say' but not 'do', for example 'write the largest integer on this piece of paper'. That is easy to say, and it sounds easy, just put a number down on a piece of paper, but the number requested is not representable and so the suggestion is actually impossible.

Your statement "Make the slaves as expensive as the natives" has exactly this quality. And so any follow on argument is moot. Tell us how to accomplish that and we can debate what policy would make that real.
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> Sure, we can close our ears

Eh? I read new in plenty of other places. This is supposed to be news kept to tech topics.
Yes, somebody other than him made the products. He didn't actually make blueprints and make a Chinese factory make them. The real genius is some forgotten guy in China. He made at least 50'000 USD which I suppose buys you a lot more status in China.

I really don't like being negative but this article feels has the same feeling as the Taboola ads at the bottom of the page. This guy made a smart deal sure, but really he didn't create anything new so I'm a bit disappointed with the article since it's not about someone who managed to complete an engineering project in record time or something really cool... but just a $ sign to spark interest.

If you want to manufacture something I guess that you go about basically the same way as you would if you wanted to find a company that creates a software product.
I want to change my current development role and put myself into different position to the end of the year. I want new challenges and I want to try to work in different environment – from sandboxed browser to real servers (or containers), with different security model in my head, to work with databases, and I'd like to work with distributed system as well.
Please don't create throwaway accounts just to criticize others. I've flagged your comment.
While that works it's a good idea to always bleed the excess fluid out because it doesn't last forever. Brake fluid is lighter than water so any moisture will make its way to your calipers then start rusting them from the inside. That's why manufacturers suggest flushing the system regularly. Brake fluid is pretty cheap relative to calipers so you may as well just bleed it out.
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Yev from Backblaze here w/ some insight -> Yes! They are expensive. We are looking to test some in our environment very soon, but may not have enough to (we want at least 45) to truly test them. Once they drop further in price and we can afford to drop them in some of our pods we'll be all over it!
> You are conflating economic neoliberalism with social liberalism.

I agree it appears I'm making this conflation. But

> nobody is pretending that they are:

Is not an honest statement. Any attempt to make cheap brown labor more expensive through legislation (See the Trump protests) or even by IMPROVING their quality of life (See gentrification) is instantly fought off as racist. The powers that be have deeply merged international currency flow with Western liberal morality after the 1940s and use their sacred cows as hostages to stifle any threats to their power.
The low-skill parts will just be automated. We will source a grouping of high-skill work to someone that deserves a higher salary, and now we have a financial incentive to automate work that should have been automated already.
Another thing which is quite important is to prevent the creation of systems that enable people to abstract away other people's humanity. One of the main reasons why the nazis established this complex system of bureaucracies, secrecy, many points from defamation, registration, exclusion, deportation, degradation to finally extinction and disposal is that the early versions (grab men, women and children from a village, dig a hole and let soldiers shoot them in the head) was, even for tough people, hard to deal with. Having a complex bureaucracy with many small steps towards extinction allows for big-level atrocities. So checking for small things is just as important as preventing the big crime.
Thanks for the heads up, wasn't aware of that particular case. Surprised to hear about that, they typically have done good work over the decades.
Peter Thiel also said that we shouldn't take Trump's words literally. Unfortunately nobody told the border guards enforcing his executive order.
It took me a while to realize most happy people don't love their work, but nearly all happy people love their family and friends.
I think as usual there needs to be a compromise. Insurance for catastrophic stuff like ER visits and chronic illness. Then pay cash for routine stuff like doctor's visits and prescriptions. For the indigent we can set up publicly funded HSAs and catastrophic coverage.

This way the medical profession will not have to deal with the insurance companies nearly so much. In addition this will increase competition between generic drug manufacturers since they will be dealing with millions of customers rather than a couple hundred insurance companies.

Although I do admit I love my HMO. If I didn't have access to quality health insurance through my employer I would definitely follow the plan above.
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You posted that directly in response to a message that reminded you about the principle of charity.
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The point was that yesterday and/or today isn't always the best choice. In the case of sama/YC, it feels like one knee jerk reaction after another without any connective thought:

"Hey the ACLU is suing Trump ... let's add them as a non-profit in the next batch!"

"Yah that'll show em'!"

I don't agree with most of sama's election related comments and am unabashedly pro-Trump, but I mean this objectively: If you're going to pick a battle at least put some thought into it first.

Otherwise this all just looks a silly excuse to demonstrate YC (and particularly sama's) political biases.
>. Do they still engage in that? If I recall correctly they haven't had cases like that in decades.

From: https://www.aclu.org/defending-our-rights/court-battles

Some recent cases;

* The ACLU filed a motion in Michigan state court challenging the constitutionality of a subpoena issued to the website PubPeer demanding that it turn over the identities of anonymous commenters

* The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s mass interception and searching of Americans’ international communications.

* Whether a cause of action is available under the Constitution for violations of prisoners’ due process and equal protection rights when the prisoners were abused in immigration custody and when the government.

* Whether North Carolina can prohibit individuals who are registered sex offenders from “accessing” any social media websites.

* In a Freedom of Information Act request filed on January 13, 2010, the ACLU asked the government to disclose the legal and factual basis for its use of predator drones to conduct "targeted killings" overseas.

They do a lot of good work.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it has been, and is until very recently this very 'umbrella' that the US wishes to spread around the world, as she sees it as advantageous.

Post WW2, both the German and Japanese military were greatly limited, or outright abolished.

The numerous bases of the US around the globe in any country and climate imaginable are not only selfless bastions of people in need - they serve very concrete functions, namely protecting trade routes and political stability in systems that are beneficial to the economy of the US.
I think that this is great and you are valuing trust between you and the company. We are all adults and it is first and foremost your life and time that you have decided to spend with the company. Expectation that it is the company's time is an aggressive way to think about a salary based employment. I am befuddled by some companies that do not understand that respect and trust goes a long way towards employees life, health, and productivity too!
Don't WFH days feel the best when they're in the middle of the week? That way they break up the 'daily grind' feeling and give you the opportunity for deep work right in the middle of a weekly sprint.
The media coverage plays a good part in this. At least here in Brazil it's very common for them to evade the motivation of the protesters 'bigly' and put a big focus on how it's disturbing others and etc... The result is predicable.
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Nice shortcut. Looks like the same result as Ctrl-Click > Duplicate Tab.
> nationalist libertarians

That's not entirely a coherent combination of labels; the closest thing in the real USA to that seems to be bog-standard conservatives who selectively deploy libertarian rhetoric against programs they oppose.