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A lot of people believe that we are in the midst of a fascist takeover of the United States government. The most terrifying part is that this can't simply be dismissed as a conspiracy theory, given the actions that have taken place so far.

I don't see how "the current outcry" can possibly be dismissed in this context, or how anything else could be more important.
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I wrote about my pivoting story in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13532415

tl;dr: was 28 sales manager in Mexico, no English. Today I'm 33, frontend lead developer in US.

Sorry for the link, I don't want to write everything in here again.
> The ACLU doesn't have a problem with 2A, but they see gun ownership as a collective right rather than an individual right

To be specific - they disagree with one specific SCOTUS ruling that is less than a decade old (DC v. Heller). They do agree with the pro-gun arguments put forth by US v. Miller.

They have devoted (to my knowledge) no material resources towards fighting DC v. Heller despite their disagreement with it, and they explicitly leave most 2nd Amendment cases to other advocacy groups (namely the NRA) because those are much more well-funded and focused solely on the 2nd Amendment. The ACLU prefers to spend its much smaller and limited budget on cases which aren't really supported by many (if any) other advocacy groups.

This seems to keep coming up, and it's a rather tiresome argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511964
People keep bringing up the Obama thing in response to the immigration ban.

Obama suspended visas from Iraq for six months, and gave plenty of warning beforehand so people could prepare.

Trump suspended all immigration from seven countries on a Friday without warning, ordered the detention of people from those countries at the border, prevented them from seeking legal representation, and deported some of them. Including green card holders.

If you don't understand the massive difference between these two things than I don't know what to tell you.
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The Apple monitors that these LGs are replacing had built-in Ethernet ports.
Time for conservatives to sack up, speak out, and vote their conscious, then. They've been extremely quiet so far.
Right, I understand some of the arguments in favor or against. But I haven't researched enough to develop a firm opinion. Do you expect these one-sentence summaries of the liberal position to change that?
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Also, supported the nifty drive... great idea, by the time I got it, I didn't need it anymore.
Does this require a sim card and a monthly sim charge in order to use this?
Not defending the 2nd amendment is different than opposing it. You could consider donating to the ACLU and also to an organization that defends the 2nd amendment; assuming there's no blanket organization to your liking. There are many organizations specializing in the 2nd amendment, so it makes some amount of sense for the ACLU to let them do that work, while it's more of a generalist.
The kernel panics and lockups are not LG's fault.

I somewhat agree with you, but the manner in which Apple is promoting this display combined with the utter lack of ports on the MBP (hooking up my previous two displays would have been a dongle nightmare) make me less willing to excuse them.
How does you prevent axe murders in your home?

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2016/08/accused_citr...
Unfortunately this article doesn't penetrate this extremelly important topic. It doesn't arrive anywhere.

> Ceaseless change gave birth to liberalism, which, for all the mistakes made in its name, continues to adapt. Despite those mistakes, it remains the best response today.

I mean, seriously? That's proof by assertion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13525405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528999
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Well, that can change, especially if the "equity" is in a worthless employing subsidiary that never turns a profit or has a liquidity event.
The Justice Department, I suppose? http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/two-indian-americans-arre...
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We know the whole safety thing is a fear monger.
I have this 5k monitor. It sits around 30cm from my ASUS 2.4 and 5ghz router. It's connected to my Macbook Pro 2016 15". I connect one USB hub via a USB A to USB C adapter. This hub powers a MIDI keyboard, Native Instruments Maschine, FocusRite Scarlett audio interface, SD cards when I put them in, USB hard drives when I plug them in. The hub hides behind the monitor. I personally love sitting down to work with this monitor each day and I don't understand the arguments against it. There is nothing better on the market today for the spec you get.
> The problem is that H1B visa holders are essentially indentured servants. Say you're a foreigner who applies for an H1B job. Your employer does a bunch of paperwork, gets you an H1B visa, and imports you. Now you can't quit because you can't get a new job. Of course you get underpaid, and of course companies love their H1B workers.

Actually, the program dictates that people are paid above prevailing wage for their position.

But... people get miscategorized all the time. And they also get into big company loans from contractors like TCS for their travel to the US that they couldn't hope to pay without continued employment through them. They also get into bad contracts that include substantial financial penalties for leaving. And just because a company in the US is paying above prevailing wage, that doesn't mean that the employee doing the work is getting it. All of that leads to an environment that is very disappointing.

I do agree that doubling the salary requirement will not fix the real problems, but I don't see it as a problem either. If anything, people close to the edge will end up with a pay bump.
ex-H1B Indian here, now permanent resident of Canada. Left US for good, because I was being exploited by tech firms taking advantage of my H1B status.

This is a welcome change in my opinion. H1B workers were exploited by the Indian body shops as well as American employers. Raising the minimum wages will prune the bad apples and make H1B a visa system for the truly skilled candidates.

Quirks:

1. Find & shutdown fake employers running fake payrolls to match the increased wages. A search for *consulting.com will bring up many 'one-room' body shops in the US.

2. Stop the lottery process and award visa to truly skilled candidates who can provide proofs for their skills.

3. H1B LCA process should be changed and made similar to the PERM process, so that it will be a true test of the market.

4. Giving preference to Master degree holders is not a good idea, having a Masters degree from an American University is not an indicator for "highly skilled". Most of the students from India obtain these Masters degree just for the purpose of getting an OPT visa to improve their chances of getting selected in the lottery for H1B.

Many of these 'master' degree holders show fake experiences & do 'proxy' interviews to get into companies. These fake experiences are backed up by experience letters from bogus companies setup for this purpose from India. Many of them also provide 'bonus' services like proxy candidate interview services on Skype.

5. Stop 'future GC'. Many body shops in US do this by taking a huge deposit from the candidates for their 'future GC services'.
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"Your honor clearly BigCorp offered me 150k, the H1B filing proves as much, but I have only received 40k."
I agree, but it's not just a vague sense of unease that bothers me. It's actually very real and very concrete.

I am probably in the very far left-wing on this website in many regards, and what I see in a lot of this effusive and reflexive anti-Trumpism, is a lot of dubious and easily rolled-back gains. At climax radical right-wing activity, the GOP can just throw Donald Trump under the bus, and I think this would completely destroy any of the coalitions currently being built up against him, because the agreement on everything else is vague.

A lot of people really and deeply want to believe that the problem is Donald Trump himself, not the entire institution that props him up. I've seen numerous liberals (as opposed to leftists) on the internet openly and effusively embrace John McCain in his fashionable and phony role of maverick, the man who sang "Bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys. It's bewildering.

Another example is the Women's March. A friend of mine mentioned to a fellow protestor how important it was for her to fight for reproductive rights, and this woman's response was that it wasn't even about that, it's mostly just about Trump's disrespect towards women. And if you go on the movement's website, it's true. It doesn't mention planned parenthood or reproductive rights at all. Some people see it as a virtue, I think it is a strategic error.

Moreover, I think everyone on the broad left clearly understood Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" as a dogwhistle for bygone years largely characterized by white supremacy and a vision of the ideal normal nuclear family. The real surprising thing is that a lot of the impassioned, patriotic rallying cries against Trump today, by celebrities who describe themselves as patriots who were proud up until yesterday, are exactly the same: "Make America Great Again". It's just that they pine for the great Obama years instead.

There is almost zero mea-culpa about how it was possible that Trump got elected in the first place, and it's become so important to "stop Trump" that criticizing allies is a huge faux-pas. I don't see this building into a healthy strong movement.
Though one issue with most leveraged ETF/ETNs is how they aim to replicate the daily return of the index. So by holding it longer than a day, your returns are path dependent.

So if you are holding the leveraged ETF for a month and the index has a positive return, it is still possible for you to have a negative return.
Do I understand correctly from reading the comments here that he just found the 'knock-offs' on alibaba and ordered them?

The article made it seem as if he actually created the knock-offs himself and then found a factory to make them for him. Which is it?

Also, if I had an idea for a small little toy/gadget, how would I have to go about finding someone in the world who can make it for me in a factory?
The amount of money the ACLU would get as a consequence of being accepted into a YC batch is a triviality compared to the amount of money they pull in from direct fundraising. Presumably, the benefit to ACLU of being directly engaged with YC is acceleration of their technical and outreach work, and perhaps improved access to wealthy donors in Silicon Valley.

Equally worth knowing: individual ACLU chapters receive funding from the national ACLU, but are also on the hook for raising some of their own funding.
130k is indeed too high. To fight the most egregious abusers 100k would have been enough.
Not everybody works in Silicon Valley IT, and even there the indian bodyshops offered only <50K for the H1-B abusers.

Many other industries rely on foreign talent, and many cannot pay 130k, but 100k would be fine IMHO.
It's worth noting here that if your plan is to buy and hold, it's probably not in your interest to buy leveraged index funds. The high expense ratios combined with far below-market returns in the case of volatility make them a poor choice (http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-advisors/0825...).
Trump will find that that support dwindles day by day. The country has always been split roughly down the middle between conservatives and liberals, and liberals are generally united against Trump.

What happens when his conservative base starts dwindling as he institutes more and more measures which run counter to both conscience and conservative principles?
It is fundamentally different, because it targets equity, not operating capital.

Fines can be mitigated by raising prices so that equity-holders shift pain to consumers. Stripping equity on the other hand means that you change who profits from sales.
I actually have similar need for a secondary phone. but Whatsapp instead of Facebook messenger.

Edit: As a matter of fact, I have been wondering why we still have old SMS and not something like SMS 2.0 messenger worldwide.

Not sure if Multiple Numbers is a thing in US or EU. My guess is that most company are sane / clever enough to have a mobile number for their Employees. But here in Asia, it is common to have more then one mobile numbers, 1 for Work and 1 for Personal. ( Hence the Dual Sim phone popularity in China )

And it should be as slim as possible.
It should be Appliance like Dump Phone and iPod instead of Smartphone or iPod touch.
You obviously need a bigger screen
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And yet taxi drivers still murder, rape and rob passengers every year. It's like the whole "background checks" thing is just a sop for fear mongers.
In the case of the main example (fidget cube) that's pretty much what's happening, from what I've seen.

As their kickstarter campaign went viral, several clones started being offered on aliexpress and the like. They are flat out clones, look just like the original and (AFAIK) there's not some common ancestor here that they're both copying, it's a case of Antsy labs had the original design and that got cloned.

Antsy labs have been aware of the knockoffs and have actively been trying to prevent them (to little effect from what I've seen) and as it mentions in the article there is a patent pending on Fidget cube.

The problem for the Kickstarter creators is that they're basically slower to market than the clones, and in many cases the consumer doesn't really recognise the difference (if you look at twitter etc you can see quite a few people angry about "bad quality" fidget cubes they've received which turn out to be knockoffs)
This combines the advantages of Device Mapper (granularity) and AUFS/overlay (page cache re-use), and doesn't require new kernel code. Promising!
Come on YC, glad you're funding the ACLU and it's much needed, but where is the response to the homelessness in San Francisco for example? We care more about refugees than people who already live here?! Too many companies are taking advantage of a bad situation for PR and marketing!
I wrote about this earlier:

http://fightthefuture.org/articles/hr-170-will-all-large-com...

Basically bills like this will allow Tata, Wipro and others to just absorb all the talent within the industry. Some versions I've seen do restrict the wage increase to companies that have n% of their workers being H1-B employees, which seems a bit more reasonable.
If Uber or Airbnb counsel refused to defend some of the dubiously legal practices that both companies practice, they'd be fired that minute.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511759
> Maybe they aren't purely marketing moves, but I just have a hard time with it.

You have a hard time with companies supporting worthy causes because they don't support enough of them to the extent that you demand them to? That's what's generally known as cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Learn how is composed a request, how to build it and how you read it. Iterate on architecture rather than on features. Try out all of them, take only what you need from them.

Check out and learn how to use Docker and the docker-composer ; Check Python & Ruby, choose to one you prefer. To me they are really great for database management (migrations) and administration; Lot of big websites use it in production.

Learn how to use a cache and understand why it is useful.

Check out GoLang and build your self a simple server. (Auth is great for a first approach of golang, i've been on it this week and everything is pretty much worked out by public libs) ;

Get back to SQL
The problem, and a reason why AGPL almost has to be considered toxic to date, is that we don't know whether or not the "infection" rules "jump" over the network connection. A big reason for this is that the AGPL hasn't yet been tested in a court of law. As a developer you don't want to have to explain to a jury of "peers" than may be less than technical how or why your software should not be "infected".

There are so many gray areas. Does a SPA JS application communicating with a REST API of an AGPL application count as "linked"? We don't know. To a jury that sure might look like the same application. Say that it does, does something then like a AWS Lambda "serverless" pipeline that utilizes that same REST API count as linked? We don't know. Maybe, maybe that counts as "mere aggregation" and at this point for the GPL there's a sort of well understood DMZ around that weasel term, because there have been enough "mere aggregation" situations over a couple decades, some of which were even litigated in a court of law, to sort of set up some fences of what that possibly means. For the AGPL no such DMZ has been established, at least not in a well-understood, applicable to every use of the license, manner.

The way the AGPL is directly written, in order to be as infectious as possible, as an intentional goal of its writing, we as a developer community have absolutely no idea how far the infection rabbit hole goes. The concern that the AGPL is toxic is as much the fear that we can't explain that infection rabbit hole to a jury in a court of law. We mostly know this because as developers a lot of us have already had a very hard time even explaining this rabbit hole to software company lawyers that may even be technically versed on both sides of the fence.
Is the sky blue?
HackerNews loves to pat itself on the back about what a great community it is, but when it comes to politics (and other specific topics) the bullying and one-sidedness is as bad as anywhere on the internet.

But this is exactly why half of America is in utter shock about what's happening: their discussion circles involve one "side", and the other isn't acceptable.
"Why were Saudi Arabia and Egypt left off the list? "

The nations on the list have vast regions of lawlessness and they've lost control of their populations.

Egypt, Tunisia, Kuwait etc. have functioning governments that are very actively engaged against terrorism.

Remember that ISIS/AlQueda wants to take out the House of Saud before they go after the USA :)

The 'Islamic countries not on the list' are much more afraid of terrorism than the US is.

Just today a Saudi ship was hit by a missile from Iranian backed terrorists in Yemen, off the coast.

The only country that is on the list that has a 'sound government' is Iran - but they are state-sponsors of terror, and are actively trying to destabilize the region - and pushing hard to topple Saudi, as well as supporting Assad. I suggest that one is a little more political because Iran does not itself produce terrorists of the kind we are afraid are going to come and 'bomb America'.

I don't agree with Trumps policy - but 'the list' is quite rational.
Additionally people from other countries will see that and might decide not to come to the US. There's now a lot of opportunities for well educated people other than the US and the actions of Trump make the US seem like a risky choice.
Yes, you can contact someone who won't give a crap. That's what you get for paying the monopoly price for taxi services.
That all seems pretty clear to me. It's not up to you to interpret the 2nd Amendment for them.

Not to mention that orgs like the NRA have many times more funding than the ACLU and dedicate every action to that one issue.

Or the fact that you're dealing with a organization that has been one of the biggest and best defenders of oppressed groups in recent history and you're cranky that they're not gonna help you own a handgun like most of congress is.
I had similar feelings about my Palm Pre, though they missed a trick on that one by not letting you pick up and disconnect from calls by sliding the keyboard open and closed. That seemed like such a natural extension of the flip-phone paradigm that I was amazed they didn't go for it.
This will be nice for the product companies, but expect salaries to go down a bit all around - all the (few) good programmers at the consulting companies no longer have their primary incentive to stay there - if they can't earn dollars any more they will start looking to the higher base salaries perks at the product companies. More competition will probably drive rates down.
I turned 50 last year. I am still working as a developer, and I am still loving it. As long as you stay reasonably up to date with the shifting technology I think there will always be opportunities. For example, I started coding in a proprietary language (PLEX from Ericsson), switched to C++, then Java, now Python with a bit of ClojureScript. I get contacted by recruiters at least once a month (mostly on LinkedIn) about other job opportunities, so there is definitely strong demand.

A lot of people make the mistake of staying too long in the same place, and gradually getting less and less "hireable". It is easy to just stay doing the same thing, but you are hurting your future chances of finding a job if you have to.

Also, becoming a manager seems worse to me from an employability perspective. There is always a greater need for developers than for managers.

I also wrote about why developer is a good career here (applies to older people as well): https://henrikwarne.com/2014/12/08/5-reasons-why-software-de...
I'd second this and throw the idea of jumping into C# and .NET. The .NET platform is about as common as Java in back-ends, and seems to be evolving at a more aggressive pace. C# is pretty great, and once you become familiar with .NET as a whole it's pretty easy to gain skills in VB.NET and F# if those interest you.