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FIRE is a higher education focused group that's probably more in line with your sensibilities. They mostly focus on 1a topics, but they do good work.

https://www.thefire.org/

The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them.
There are good motives and bad motives behind every law. I don't find it productive to assert, as fact, that the malicious stuff is only kind, without addressing the good that they're ostensibly accomplishing.

You might as well dismiss all cap-and-trade proposals as being "just another scheme to raise energy prices".
As others have pointed out in this thread, if it's a "Muslim ban", it's a "Muslim ban" that bans less than 5% of the worldwide Muslim population, and leaves untouched the 5 countries with the largest Muslim populations. That doesn't sound like a very effective "Muslim ban" to me.

Logically, when compared with what's actually happened, it makes much more sense to interpret Mr. Trump's comments that specifically mentioned barring Muslims from entering the U.S. as hyperbolic campaign statements.

Whatever intentions you wish to thrust upon American officials, the fact is that the Order makes a valid security-based argument and contains no religious test. Those are the facts. We can't argue over the intentions of someone neither of us has ever met, but we can discuss the text of the Order in question.

It's possible for reasonable people to disagree with the Trump administration's arguments, to be sure. But that's not justification for subverting the law, nor is it justification for the DoJ to undermine the president and prevent the executive branch from making a case for itself in the forthcoming judicial challenges, as Ms. Yates was doing.

In a democracy, we implicitly accept that there will be some successes and some failures, and that we are bound to live under the laws we dislike as much as the laws we favor. If we lose mutual respect sufficient to live with those compromises, we are in big trouble.
Like any bureaucratic form, you just need to check the requirements boxes. There's spirit and practice. Not a whole lot of them get issued but a lot more than intended, though telling people to abuse an O-1 instead of an H-1B seems to be passing the buck.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/02/01/chinese-billionaire-ab...

No-one knows why he's there. The issue is more with Chinese agents operating on Hong Kong soil. They shouldn't be.
> That isn't a proposal to replace capitalism

Put down the Marxism for 5 seconds and follow my original premise all the way to it's logical end.

- Make the slaves as expensive as the natives.

- Why would you need slaves in this scenario?

- You wouldn't.

- If slaves and natives are equal cost, then machines are given incentives to outperform both.

- Western liberalism is completely flipped on its head in a world where humans can never compete against machine labor.

There is your solution. Close the slave/native arbitrage, let machines compete. This is where you opine about protecting your sacred cows.
There's no real route, no, but you can take the EB Green Card path. You just can't leave the country from the period starting when you file for adjustment of status and ending when you get EAD/AP (otherwise you're never coming back in under TN status again and will likely get banned for a few years :P)
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If you read the authors blog post, you would see such fears are more or less due to overthinking and overcomplicating the issue at hand
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I would summarize it as: respect for the employees and treating people as equals rather than subordinates.
Those are almost always No True Scotsman fallacies. Supply-side failed because it wasn't supply-side enough. Etc.
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What process to you use to improve it further? Do you test things out a lot. How do you know what you implement is working?
If I'm going to spend 40+ hours somewhere for a meaningful amount of time (1 year+), the happier I can make myself there the better. I like my co workers, my workplace treats me with respect, they're flexible, we work on interesting projects, nice office locations, a comfortable environment.
Agreed. I love that bit, especially how well it plays to her target audience.
It looks like more recent models have a lower failure rate than WD's.
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What is your goal?

If you want to land a job as fast as you can, you should get a team-enabling language like Java.

If you have some project you want to get done but need backend knowledge for it, go with a mature high productive toolset. Choose either Python+Django or Ruby+Rails and grow from there.

If you want a new area where you can have fun and learn new stuff, go wild with non-mature high learning curve tools like Closure or something even less mainstream.

If you have some very specific requirements like high availability, high concurrency, or whatever, ignore everything above and choose your toolset based on those.
I've come to realize that flexibility is very near the top of the list for me as well, to the point that a pay increase would have to be pretty large for me to give up flexibility.
>Mr. Xiao is a Canadian citizen with an Antiguan diplomatic passport, though he was born in China.

Ah, the Antiguan diplomatic passport. This has tax evasion written all over it.
From what I recall of the "leveraged" financial products I've seen. The magic is that you get leverage*returns if it goes up... but you lose ALL your money if it goes down.

I'm not saying that's how these index funds work, I don't know. Just beware of anything leveraged.
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I UPVOTE you, even though I do not expect to discuss political issues at HN and I think HN was not encouraging that either,it somehow has the power to push its own political views such as ACLU to a developer like me.

There are so many super-RICH Muslim countries nearby, why don't they take in refugees who share the same ideology first?
free Thanksgiving lunch (where we have to listen to executives talk)
free Christmas lunch (where we have to listen to executives talk)
free Years of Service Lunch (where we have to listen to executives talk)
free Company Picnic (where we have to listen to executives talk)
free ice cream at I.T. All Hands Meetings (where we have to listen to the VP of I.T. talk)
free "Skip Over Your Boss" lunches with VP of I.T. where he gives the same answer to any question asked
free "Start, Stop, Continue" lunches with VP of I.T. where no suggestions are implemented
free "Value Stream Mapping" lunches where we plan big processes that will never be implemented
free "Operational Excellence" lunches where we plan little processes that will never be implemented
free breakfast at every layoff (where the VP of I.T. tries to explain why he laid off the best programmers)
free breakfast where Big 5 consultants explain what they will try to implement that can't possibly work
free week at Caribbean resort (but for executives only)

Oh wait, I don't work there anymore. Never mind.
Not much actually. The pay is excellent, but it's difficult to put yourself in a situation where you can actually work on something interesting. There's not much in terms of career development, training, or autonomy. That kind of stuff happens, but it happens because you find the right people. The company has nothing to do with it.
You are conflating economic neoliberalism (which is neither new nor contemporarily liberal) with social liberalism. They are not the same and nobody is pretending that they are.

I still fail to see your connection:

1: Slaves

2: Democracy

3: ????

4: Profit(?)

Could you explain with links or examples how exactly slavery (or economic peonage, depending on your definition), is required to maintain a democracy?
They would probably be flagged in the IRS database, and if they owed the IRS money, that money would be deducted from upcoming paychecks.
Does anyone have any insight into why they don't have any 10TB drives running?
glibc is a library that is used by countless programming languages. The question of "how do languages with a focus on safety deal with the unsafety of glibc" is a perfectly valid question.
Thanks, but I think that classifies under discriminatory practice. Not exactly an immigration issue.
Apologies for being off-hand or derisive, it wasn't meant in that spirit, nor to shame you, it was in the context of your claim of neutrality further downthread. My side certainly is not Clinton/Obama/Democrats, but I don't agree with Trump and am concerned about him as president after the first week.
You and some other folks seem to be oblivious on how H1-B works and this bill itself. You need to have 12 years of working experience OR bachelors degree OR a mix of both for H1-B eligibility.

Regarding students (PhDs or anyone on F-1 visa), they will get straight path to permanent residence.
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Moreover, it's been reported in several places that Steve Bannon overruled DHS to ensure that green card holders would be impacted by the ban. In addition to being flagrantly unconstitutional, that was an act of distilled cruelty.
I think this is going to drive more jobs out of US. Corporations will seek out opening new off-shore offices, in Asia, Canada and EU.

This doesn't change the fact that we don't produce enough skilled workers to meet our demands. And in Trump's America it's not going to get any better.

Not all speciality occupations pay as high as tech, and it's going to affect them 'biggly'.

Immigrant hate is what this is cultivating.
I'm actually pretty interested in the same questions.

It's sort of like seeing high frequency trading arbitrage happening. Reacting to market demands faster than others leading to reduced margins for late entrants.

I have no idea on what grounds they would try to shut it down if it was just an alibaba product the guy ordered and marked up.
Back when I cared about POSIX (early 2000's) the difference between what POSIX stated and what UNIX systems offered wasn't always the same.

I guess the situation might have improved.
Their position is not simple, but they have a statement: https://www.aclu.org/other/second-amendment
Tasks = user threads, user processes, kernel threads

If you have their display enabled htop will divide them down as well.
I really like IBM's Business Conduct Guidelines [1]. I think they help to creat a culture of doing things "above board" which can avoid some major motivation killers.

Bayond that, I enjoy quite a lot of autonomy in deciding how I complete my work, and often even what work I perform. Starting a new project that I want to do is obviously more motivating than one I don't care about.

Code reviews help me stay motivated to write code that I'll be proud of rather than cheap hacks. Open Source work is kind of an extension of this.

I know you asked for "other than pay" but unexpected bonuses and raises are also nice motivation boosters in my experience.

[1]: http://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/BCG_C_2016.pdf (PDF)
Heh, sick burn.
"the need for unskilled labor has dropped precipitously"

here, the need for unskilled labor has dropped precipitously here
Dropbox is too expensive
No reason in particular, but I like it because it breaks the work-from-work week up.

The important thing is that the whole team is WFH the same day so we can depend on other days for meetings and whatnot, and nobody feels left out when they are WFH.
Embracing open-source. The vast majority of the code I write at resin.io isn't just disappearing into some black hole to make the company money, tied to the companies decisions and destiny. It's public, so others can find and use and learn from it, it's part of tools that will be useful for a long way into the future, even if our startup disappears, and it's transparent to all our customers and users too. If I ever want to show some future company my past work, I directly can.

It all creates a sense that my work isn't a temporary thing to solve some business problem of ours - I'm creating more-permanent and broader value, not just to resin, but also to me, and our customers, and the open-source community as a whole.
Indeed, support is quite good. http://caniuse.com/#search=es5
He should denounce President Trump and then ask for help.
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From my first comment:

|I don't like the restrictions placed on people who were already determined to be legal residents via green cards / visas whatever.

Why argue with me about it if I agree with you that it's bad? Also, as I understand, it's been removed anyway.

|There isn't any hyperbole here. This is facially fascist.

I know this is just another way of saying 'literally Hitler', but it clearly doesn't mean what you think it means.[0]

[0]: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html
I am. I work for a small fitness company and my main motivation is the product we're building, and what we want to do with it. That was my whole reason for joining in the first place, and it remains the most motivating thing for me.
I'm all for doing what's right now, but let's try and address the root of the problem instead of continuing to have partisan, knee-jerk reactions. There's way too many Democrats calling out Trump who have STILL not said a peep about the weapons we funnel into these civil wars or the bombs we drop ourselves, or the rest of the screwed up immigration process, none of which Obama did much to slow down. I began and finished the process of immigration to the US under well-established Democrat presidencies, and all of the things that people are saying is evil on principle about Trump's plan are things I had to go through. My citizenship interview was almost entirely an ignorant interrogation about my religious and reproductive choices. There's a lot of things in my documentation that should be a yellow flag to someone screening immigrants, and none of it got brought up. Only my religion and number of kids. My family members had to return back to our country and retry multiple times because of ridiculous bureaucracy, also fleeing a civil war. But now that Trump does it, we're marching? Great. But when a Democrat gets back into office I'll be pissed if everyone forgets their principles and keeps funneling power to the executive because it suits them at the time.
Crisis? Oh you mean the change his voters elected him into office for.
You say "css fans" like we have a choice in the matter :)

I am a fan of building websites, and css is the only way to achieve that. Yeah it sucks, but it's all we got. Grid spec solves a LOT of problems so even if the syntax is ugly, it's existence in the world is beautiful.
If you used to pay $50k for low-end tech jobs, you can probably find someone in the US to do it for $70k. The H1B is meant to fill skill gaps, NOT save money on those skills.

If a company can't operate by paying market rates, that's a business model problem.
Exactly this, I always know in the back of my mind that even if I drank the company kool-aid, they would drop me in a heartbeat if it benefited them.
A long history of internal conflicts turned into messy proxy wars.
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>> Where was the outpouring of funding when...

I'm getting tired of seeing this sentiment. It's popped up constantly over the last few days. Just because people don't protest or support every single cause doesn't take anything away from support of this cause. In fact, people getting outraged enough to get involved for a change may be a good thing for other causes as if people see results they will be more likely to mobilise for other causes in the future.
The video states that he just ordered copies off of alibaba, and then sold them in the canadian market. The article later talks about him ordering stuff off of alibaba.
No doubt, and I wasn't intending to ding the docs. Rust docs are a paradigm to be emulated in almost every case in my opinion.
This happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
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Likely because people are emboldened to action when they see themselves in those who are being unjustly treated. It's no secret that Silicon Valley is not terribly representative of black people, veterans, and so on. If this is a fault of the folks at YC, I'd wager it's a fault of many many other people as well--so while I feel it is valuable to point out that issues, I don't think it's constructive at all to point at a good deed and ask, "Why not sooner?"
Yes, that's what he did. The title makes it seem a bit like he designed the products himself, but the article/video make it pretty clear that he just ordered knock-offs from Alibaba.

>As with Cozy Bag, Chinese manufacturers on Alibaba had been offering comparable products since shortly after the Kickstarter appeared. Thanks to their experience, Jack and his partners were able to pivot quickly and use WordPress and its sales plugin WooComerce to launch their Stress Cube site by the end of November. They spent less than $5,000 on start-up costs, mostly on a bulk order of 1,000 plastic cubes at $3.65 apiece. The plan was to turn around and sell each for $19.99.
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Does it make a difference? It seems more relevant now, not last week.
Taking time during the day or when you want can be a huge improvement over a 9-5 job. Sometimes I will work late at night if I need to get things done, otherwise I don't sweat when the work is done. This also allows me to not waste time when I know I wont be able to focus. I would rather be efficient and work when I know I am going to get stuff done and do it well.
Yep, that's another good idea.
My best advice:
1. Never stop learning. This doesn't include the workplace. If you depend on your job to train you, you will quickly fall behind. Find new and exciting technologies and think - Would I want to work on this in the future?

2. Find roles that are outside your comfort zone. If you're a developer, try sales engineering - a great mix of technology, sales and public presenting. At the very least get a role that requires presentation skills (such as consulting)

3. Network, Network, Network... If you don't go out on a limb to start something new, maybe your friends will. This will open up new opportunities. As you grow in your career your professional network is what will open up opportunities for you. Whether you start your own thing, or get poached to work on new projects it will depend on who you meet and your personal interactions with them. IF you don't interact with your peers you'll find yourself stuck in the same role with few options to change.

4. As an employee you are important, but not as important as the business as a whole. So you possibly will find yourself in a position where you need to change or leave. Embrace this opportunity to grow.

Go broad, then specialize!
And I prefer a link that's readable.

Ergo, the desktop site on a desktop display.
> nationalist libertarians

Now there is a term I never expected to see.
See Soneil's response. She does qualify for it, but it's not instant. You have to be on a conditional green card for two years, then on a regular green card(which lasts ten years). We have to wait another year before we can have the conditional aspect of her green card removed. But with USCIS allegedly pausing it, even if we try to get it removed, nothing will move forward, but the clock will keep ticking till it expires.
https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income/

https://blog.ycombinator.com/new-story-yc-s15-crowdfunds-hou...
There's a difference between "Change" and complete chaos. One is an orderly transition from one state to another.

The second is the devolution of order into entropy, with the attendant waste and loss of information.

I wonder which better describes the policies of the current US administration.
Money is pretty much main thing. Unless you are Basecamp and have that kind of fantastic treatment of employees, anything else is just pay and let me do my job, so control.
Probably so it's not treated as a weekend, and so that any issues that arise can be discussed on Friday.
Haha, that's too light, I think :) I'm planning on having articles on how to do things that you're currently using libraries for with vanilla JS, though.
"As for your suggestion to work with bounds of reality it should apply to Trump."

That makes no sense. Our existing structure we're working in will let him do about whatever he wants with his voters supporting him. If you want to change that, try to get some amendments to the Constitution through that will. If you're not changing it, then he'll do whatever he wants. Then, anyone trying to change that has to work within the constraints. His if appealing to Executive Branch. Giving him something better for you that also appears to accomplish his goals is one way to do it.

I'm not pushing any specific ideas on that. I'm just saying that it's ridiculous act with assumption the villains shouldn't be villains or some other utopia should happen. Instead, gotta work with what we have.
Kalman filters (unless you get into really esoteric modifications) are just one tool and are related to stochastic processes. It's more like learning an algorithm than learning a whole field of math.
May also lead to diabetes
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Yes there are not a lot of jobs because the airline sector doesn't have much growth in the US. Compare that with the the economies of developing countries, they are growing rapidly. Another example from India is Indigo (which is a major domestic airline) recently ordered close to 200 A320 airplanes which a massive bet on growth.

I would think the same thing will happen to the tech sector in the longer term where the demand and growth will go to Asia.
I did, there are often yesman who would say things like that.
This is all correct -- Notably, you can't spend 501(c)(3) dollars on (c)(4) activities. All of those employees that work for both entities have to accurately record their time and expenses the (c)(3) must charge the (c)(4) for any support that they give it. It's a big pain in the ass but worth it to keep the IRS off your case.
12/17/2015 “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.”

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...

1/28/16/ Spicer: “Trump is doing what he said he would do”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316730-spicer-tru...

(also, Trump retweeting various people saying he's keeping all his promises in this regard)

1/29/16 Trump: “This is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting.”

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/29/14432362/tr...

Sure, it's not targeted at Muslims, it's a ban for people from certain Muslim-majority countries with exceptions for non-Muslims.

And then you have Giuliani saying Trump asked him how to do a Muslim ban legally, and Flynn Jr. calling it a necessary Muslim ban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9GKL6i38pI

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michael-g-flynn-delete...

Gonna go out on a limb and say anyone 'of sound mind' as you say would say, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...