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Not to speak for the OP, but at least for me, I'm seeing a lot of my friends all of a sudden up in arms over policies that Obama (and Bush, and in some cases earlier than that even) got crickets for.

Admittedly, I'm not trying to compare apples to apples, and I'm the furthest thing from a Trump supporter, and it's absolutely amazing that the media have finally grown into their role of a check and balance against the government, but all too often, that means that they do so with carelessly chosen words that misrepresent the issue, and they act like it's new.

The problem with acting like it's new and giving a pass to handsomer / more liked / partisan presidents of yore is that once Trump is out of office, everyone will start to be complacent again.

Standing up for your rights is the job of the citizenry no matter who is president, and holding our elected officials' collective feet to the fire is what we're supposed to be doing all the time. If it took electing Trump to get people engaged, so be it, but let's not pretend that passing what effectively amounts to law with "a pen and a phone" is Trump's idea, or that people weren't cheering on the last president when he chose to do so, or that it's in any way a good thing to remove the checks and balances branches of the government are supposed to be providing against their co-equal branches.
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"Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do" - simply treat it as evidence that yes, really, despite what some people might want, large parts of the society actually do care more about immigrants like the tech industry green card holders who got stuck in the airports than local homeless people or "people in West Virginia and Kentucky who have lost their jobs and got drenched in opiates".

It's obvious that this is the case. It's also obvious that some people are angry at this, they want America to clearly put their interests above the interests of immigrants, and that's part of why they voted for Trump.
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well, it's been reported on quite heavily that we're constantly being bombarded with fake news. Some just don't recognise that it's an issue across the political spectrum.
The most disseminated example is TrueCrypt's hidden volumes.
And how is that making it better than CSS? It looks more complicated and still has to use all the same attributes.
No, I don't think you are right. Even a brief perusal of the history of the ACLU is one of liberals defending the Constitution. The Scopes trial, Pentagon Papers, Japanese internment, segregation, interracial marriage, McCarthyism, Patriot Act, etc. So liberals have supported the ACLU to defend the Constitution throughout its history, and not just for liberal issues. ACLU supports Citizens United and defended Rush Limbaugh's right to privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union
FWIW that's also a Bible verse, from Matthew 7:5[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_7:5
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You may be confusing my posts with someone else's (yes, it appears there are several of us here taking the crater to our karma!). I haven't quoted any laws that portend to give the President authority to make such an EO. I have asserted that based on my understanding of the Constitution, it's reasonable for such orders to fall under the purview of the executive branch and that historically, executive orders are given respect and force of law.

But the consistent thread through all of my posts is that Ms. Yates' refusal to uphold her constitutional obligation to support the duly-elected chief executive based on her vague, non-specific claim that the order may be illegal and that the DoJ must "always seek justice" is improper. That's what this topic is about. I'm not a lawyer and I can't argue the intricacies or details of the legality of Mr. Trump's order and I make no attempt to do so.
uh, going outside? I thought that was a 'sky is blue' level of common knowledge.
He's inarticulate, boorish and crude - but he's not stupid.
Untrue. I have one and works just fine with my mouse, keyboard, sdcard reader, external hard drives, etc.
You're constructing a strawman. Nobody has said they don't care about black people. The absence of protest attendance or action does not mean people don't care – it may mean they've judged that their talents are best suited to another cause, or that their potential to do good in a different arena is greater.

It is a sad cynical state of affairs when people attempting to do good for one cause are berated for not participating in every other cause under the sun. People have finite resources and differing abilities.

What have you done to combat heroin addiction? What have you done to reduce environmental destruction? What have you done for Jewish causes? What have you done to improve oversight at the FDA? One could play this game forever.
I was a student (on an F-1 visa)

Note that during the F-1 visa application, you needed to prove that you had no intent to stay. This is a current requirement for the F-1 visa.

While there are problems with the proposed legislation, at a minimum, it does allow for dual-intent for F-1 visas, and allows for a bridge from F-1 status to legal permanent resident. This means that an F-1 visa petitioner doesn't have to lie on their application, and there is no incentive to use the H1-B program in a way it wasn't intended.

This small piece, seems like a attempt at solving this student-to-resident pathway issues.
This is the smartest path of science, using government funds to buy drugs and music. I think the search for meaning would be increased with adding easy going, sparsely dressed, party minded, but well paid girls.
Aww. Too bad.
> 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?

What answer are you looking for?
Why are you posting on here instead of getting out and doing something then?
Are you sure? Seems to be pointless if it just means that it will not be irrecovably damaged.
It's also the case that not wanting to have political discussions is itself a political agenda.

It might not be a secret or pernicious agenda, but it seems people forget what agenda means.
I got some when I launched, but I haven't really found a use for them. Sad to see so many products sharing the fate of the Apple watch.
That's hardly their main focus. Go to https://www.aclu.org/ and click Issues. LGBT Rights are just one of 18 top level issues (many broken down into many more related issues).

I love the EFF, but they don't cover voting rights, disability rights, immigration rights, racial justice, etc.
>half the people on these boards step over a homeless person to get to work every morning.

But don't you think half the people on these boards would also support a vast overhaul of the tax system that prioritizes the military/war over services for the homeless? Currently 60+% of our taxes go towards the military. That's unbelievable. Why not chop that in half and redirect it towards welfare services? Or is that too hard? What possibly can 1 X HN-user do when passing said homeless person? Create a homeless shelter? OR: better to demand the government to stop _squandering_ the thousands in taxes he gives a year and to redirect it to the poor man she/has passes every weekday morning?

I think the issue is more complex than you make it out to be, IMHO.
I would say that best for drawing diagrams in html pages would be to use a DSL like plantuml or dot and some javascript library to transform it into a SVG image.
I suggest looking into the stats on sexual assault. The "OMG did you hear..." stories we tell each other aren't reflective of underlying reality.
> selling cheap knockoffs

I'm not sure how you define a cheap knockoff, but in this case it seems like he's using the same supply chain that the kickstarter campaigners did

> before the original designers

I fear that you reveal you didn't read the article. The first product he ordered and sold was five years old, paraphrasing the article "the only thing new was the buzz from the indiegogo campaign"

> launch a patent lawsuit

Woah now there skipper. You're assuming that the people creating the campaigns are the original inventors, that their inventions are patent eligible, that they have filed a patent, and that they can afford to protect them.
I have no idea how supporting the ACLU or the ACLU's actions this weekend could ever be considered Trump bashing or 'hipster'.
I'll go against the grain here, and say that Vagrant + Ansible (or your favorite config management tool) will be easier to handle. It's well understood, simple, and you can try out any config changes in your local Vagrant environment before running the same changes on production.

At least in my mind, it's much more simple to say "OK, I installed these packages, let me add that to Ansible" than it is to get a production-ready Docker setup going.
So when did YC decide to do this? Was it in the works for a while or purely knee jerk response to the past week?
I think that's not an accurate portrayal of their position. They're not saying one should continue doing nothing, they're instead trying to be gatekeepers of virtue. They're saying "You shouldn't get to have good publicity from this when it's convenient for you."

Which is open to a completely different criticism, but is emphatically not saying people should continue doing nothing.
They can show their intentions by not just stopping with their support of the ACLU. They can move to support other organizations, like the Southern Poverty Law Center, Earth Justice, Planned Parenthood, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, National Immigration Law Center, EFF, RAINN, and so many more.
>I get the feeling conservatives may not feel welcome at YC.

Among most people with an education conservatives are not really welcome right now. If you feel welcome, people are being polite, but we are all really really mad at you right now.

-honest feelings.

-Honest feelings, sorry.
Here are a few efforts from the Y Combinator and broader tech communities that help with those goals.

On veterans, several YC alumni, after working on the healthcare.gov rescue team, went on to help start the US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/) and Nava (navahq.com), which are working on the VA backlog. Both organizations are hiring.

Within the broader tech community, companies like Nuna are working on Medicaid and the VA backlog. On policing, DJ Patil--former Greylock Data Scientist and one of the founders of Color, FFS--launched an initiative around police data and criminal justice during his time at the White House: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/dj-patil-criminal-justice/

And, of course, Code for America in SOMA does lots of work with local governments and you can apply to be a Fellow: https://www.codeforamerica.org/

There's a lot more to do, and not all of these efforts are as well-known as they should be. But if you're looking to help, people in tech are working on these problems.
This confuses me, but "only donations to the 501(c)(3) foundation are tax deductible, and only the 501(c)(4) group can engage in unlimited political lobbying. The two organizations share office space and employees." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union
Looking through last year's class, it's fairly easy to see a political bent to 50% of the groups or more.

Increasingly - and assuringly IMO - it's difficult to coherently distinguish "groups involved in politics" from other groups (ie, there is no other type of group).
It might be better to find users first...Talk to people and figure out what problems they have and then try to solve one of them with machine learning...then show them what you are making and learn if it solves their problems by asking them for money. If they won't pay, then it's either the wrong users, the wrong problem, or the wrong solution.
Sounds like it's going above and beyond the regulations by not just accepting the interference, but it's inviting it with open arms.
The ACLU was founded in 1920. It seems wierd to include it in a YC batch.
There are many loopholes with this logic, although I can see how the "free market will fixit!" philosophy is so common.

The unavailability of required talent does not magically make it economically feasible to pay more for that talent. Especially the process of hiring new employees is an expensive and slow process. The vitality of American businesses depends critically on the availability of great talent at a reasonable cost. And 130k seems like a really really huge expense, especially to non-silicon valley businesses.

> You can find plenty of that talent already in the country.

No you cannot. Sure the H1B is abused horse gets beat a lot and sure there is a lot of abuse. But what shouldn't be missed is that the H1B gives American companies access to a market of the best talent in the world, to allow them to hire that talent for themselves.

History has shown how diversity and pluralism, along with dynamic markets have contributed to the blooming of civilizations. It has also shown how jingoism and trade wars have led to their fall.
They sue anything that looks like Christianity, that makes them "left-leaning".
I'm not familiar with Kafka specifically, but I reckon caching in memory is the way to work around that.
Second thought on this: outrage fatigue, empathy fatigue, and activism fatigue are all real things.

Having places that aren't politicised may be very important in keeping up resistance to horrible politics and policies beyond a month or so.
> One implication of genetics is that life is proved to be a "mechanical process" - in other words, there is nothing "extra" to it. God is proved to be dead.

Not at all. God is proved to not be needed to explain certain things that are explained by genetics. That's all.

> As long as we have established that the mind is what the brain does...

You haven't. Nobody has. We have assumed, but that's not the same thing.
>In a report issued in February, the Texas affiliate of the National Rifle Association joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition “to spotlight unlawful, unnecessary governmental encroachment on average law-abiding citizens.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/us/politics/05guns.html
People often support the ACLU because they believe that threats to free speech and free assembly are systemic and have potentially catastrophic future consequences. Doing so does not imply an absence of action in other arenas, and IMO it's dangerous to assume that.
I haven't had any issues with the 5K monitor and it's about 3 feet from the router. At least for me it works incredibly well.
There are plenty of people who are trying to become American, as well. My wife came here from Iran to study at an American University, and her conditional green card is set to expire next year. We want her to get her citizenship as fast as possible. Now it seems that USCIS has put all that on pause though, so we're sweating bullets over whether they'll actually let us file the petition to have the conditional aspect removed in a year's time. If they don't, we're fucked and all of the work and money(read: thousands of dollars) we put into putting her through the system properly will have been all for nothing. FYI I'm an American citizen.
How much money do non-profits get?
Yes, there is a problem paying 130k. For a masters or even phd straight out of school that's a lot. (I'm excluding you living in bubbles like SF).
It does sensor fusion. The google term you want is "optimal estimation".

A Kalman filter isnt really a filter. It keeps a state estimate of a system. The system state is updated on a regular basis using control inputs. That runs open loop, with a model of the drift gradually reducing your confidence in the open loop estimate. As sensor inputs arrive, they are incorporated in the state to refine the state estimate. The sensor noise model is your confidence in the measurement.

The Baysian arithmetic comes into play when incorporating measurements. The confidence in current estimate and confidence sensor are used to decide how much of each to average into the new estimate.
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There's plenty of evidence pointing towards liberal opposition to Trump's policies being purely contrarian despite their merit. Will you speak up then? Will you point out the hypocrisy and double-standards?
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Would it be your "feelings" telling you that the ACLU, by standing up for transgender rights, has pushed aside the fight for the personal liberties that "normal" people get to exercise? Because most of the cases my local ACLU is taking on are the classic standing up to police and ensuring that poor kids get an equal education.

https://www.aclusocal.org/en/cases
> This is like if Coca Cola workers went on strike, and problem blamed Pespi Co of breaking strike by not sending their workers home??

Consumers could still vote with their dollars, as they should. If you think Uber did nothing wrong then feel free to continue using them.
One of the best hires I ever had was someone that was 50+ about 10+ years ago. He didn't have a technical background but wanted to be a programmer. It was a big risk but in two years time he became my top developer out performing those with 10+ years more experience. Now I primarily look to hire those with a few white hairs as they are much more stable and cause a lot less personal issues than those right out of school. If I was hiring and you really wanted to be a programmer I would certainly give you a shot at it. If you want to be in technology I don't see anything stopping you.
Combined with the blanket ban that includes even GC holders, and a clause that due preference is given to one religion over another, along with the way its being implemented (grandmothers detained for 13 - 24 hours on valid visas) with the dark context of the candidate's campaign promise and his administration admission that they "made it legal", yes it is a Muslim ban.
Ask HN: Which Sysadmins do you closely follow?
Yesterday krptos asked which developers do you closely follow? I'd love to see a list for Systems Administrators & SREs... or whatever you want to call us.

krptos said it best... The one thing that keeps me inspired, more than anything, is following up with the activities of people whom I consider as masters.
When it comes to systems, which sysadmins/SREs do you closely follow?

If you missed it, here's the developers list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520891

(I'd be willing to build an OPML file if this gets many responses, does anyone else still use a feed reader?)
Thank you YC. Thank you all so much. On this particular issue, I do not think it is worth engaging with people about its merit or timing. This is a critical moment in history and you are doing something. The velocity of decision-making in the oval office means we literally don't have time to sit down with the cynics right now.
Technical issue with the Wufoo form [0]: on iOS Chrome, the input fields somehow end up triggering autofill with first name / last name. The second field is for email address, not last name, however.

Looking at the source, the best I can come up with is that the email field's 'id' attribute is set to 'title2', and maybe that's used elsewhere on the internet in a context where I've entered a last name?

Also, when I hit 'back' and corrected the name, the submit button became a (clickable) no-op. Reloading the form and re-submitting worked fine.

[0] https://ycombinatorevents.wufoo.com/forms/q42uszl19i1mu6/
Trump's use of this measure, unlike his predecessor, signals an intent that wasn't there in the prior administration. That's why people are concerned.
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I think that's a great insight. At the very least, it gives us more points of comparison. I'll try to pass it along to those who might be able to do something with it! (And now I'm going to go down the rabbit hole to find out if there's been anything like that done before)

Okay the rabbit hole wasn't that deep. At the very least it appears that this [1] is ongoing.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...
Saving democracy isn't Pitchfork; nobody should be looking down on people just because they liked this band before it was cool. Just welcome them to the fan club -- and do what you can to make sure they keep their membership current after this rush of buzz wears off.
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> They are an unqualified, categorically "good" organization

The ACLU is wonderful, no doubt about that. But I think some people do put an asterisk next to the group because of their (obviously somewhat strange) categorization of the protections of the 2nd amendment as outside the scope of American civil liberties.
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China certainly is doing a great job at this and Trump's dismissal of the TPP means China just get a major leg up in its regional ambitions.

The US still is an 800lbs gorilla, but it got there by making a lot of aggressive globalization, immigration, military, and investment moves. Now we have an administration that is against all those things and is run by a man who has a cult of personality behind him and can do 'not wrong' to his base. We're on a completely new path that, historically, has not ended well for modern economies. Isolationism and protectionism in a globalized economy simply does not work. Ask Hugo Chavez how well his Venezuelan experiment worked.

>We've been drifting in this direction for decades now...

This is untrue. Ignoring Bush's recession, we've been on a non-stop upwards path in almost any metric that matters: gdp, gdp per capita, military power, science publishing, space, tech innovations, environment regulations, social progress, healthcare access, etc. We are hard to beat when managed correctly. The current administration is going against all the things that have given us a leg up over the years. That is something to be concerned about. US supremacy is not a given. Its hard fought and Trump is giving up the global fight for bizarre reasons like trying to bring coal and manufacturing jobs back, neither of which is even feasible considering natural gas/renewable competition and what automation is doing to manufacturing right now.
Perhaps it is, to some extent. Unfortunately, it sometimes it takes a direct threat to get people motivated.

But that's human nature. Trump has done an awful lot to raise the ACLU's profile recently and ultimately this will be for a better good.

The ACLU has long been a strong advocate against police abuse (one web link of many: https://action.aclu.org/secure/stop-police-killing-communiti...), and the ACLU is participated in combating opiate abuse that emphasize treatment over jail (example: http://www.aclu-wa.org/story/task-force-issues-ground-breaki...). So while Silicon Valley may be reacting mainly to the executive order, support for the ACLU will help address these issues as well.

One other comment: I'll add that criticism of Trump is not just coming from the "hipster" left. I've noticed, for instance, that the Cato Institute, a very well notable libertarian think tank, is taking a hostile stance towards the Trump EO (https://www.cato.org/). This isn't a surprising stance frankly, but in a nation where politics is often thought of as binary (Cato is sometimes incorrectly generalized in this binary as "right wing"), sometimes the subtle nuances are missed.
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