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I don't think the argument is "people should do nothing today because they did nothing yesterday." I think the argument is "Just because you're doing something today, doesn't mean your organization doesn't have issues, and the fact that you didn't do something yesterday is useful data about your priorities."
The timing for this is peculiar. I'll give my hypothesis. Liberals didn't care about the Snowden leaks because it was "their guy" in office. This huge revelation that our constitutional rights were being systematically violated didn't register because of cognitive dissonance.

Liberals are finally piecing the puzzle together. The executive branch with dragnet surveillance, infinite military capabilities, the right to detain and torture anyone including US citizens is the recipe for disaster.

As a libertarian I welcome anyone joining the fight for our constitutional rights regardless of what triggers them.
This is the new CNN. On the positive side, at least they didn't use "has a cow".
Great! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you don't have users with screen readers and don't have any issues with search engines parsing your web page, then you do you.
When we're done evaluating the motives of individual Internet commenters and ensuring that the evils of hypocritical rhetoric are forever banished from the fair shores of our message boards, can we acknowledge that children with American citizenship and their green card parents are being detained or even deported at our borders, without access to counsel, in flagrant violation of both the law and standing court orders?

I'm on board for the tribunal where we evaluate everything anyone ever wrote in an Internet comment. Twenty lashes for me, I'm sure. I'll submit willingly, if we can put that aside for a year and a half and work on resisting the current threat to the rule of law.
nobody is freaking out. Infosys and TCS are NOT India's representative companies anymore. They are the Flipkarts and the Olacabs and Paytms now. Or even Freshdesk, Zoho and Helpshift.

I think most people welcome the move - we have lost many good potential employees who were headhunted by outsourcing companies by showing them the American dream and then chained to the yoke in some dreadful job.

The services business is not going to be affected that much - most of the work was happening onshore in India anyway. This is a delta of a billion dollars at worst. In the long run, this is going to be much better for both economies.
If only there existed a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution . Maybe one of these days...
"Thread safety" is more than just protection against data races, which (AFAIK--I am quite happy to acknowledge being wrong here) is the guarantee Rust makes.
This is actually a good step. Eliminate cost arbitrage as motive for hiring foreign workers. Hire to fill genuine gaps in the labor pool. I don't see any downside and I'm an Indian in the US.
It is in the tech section. Tech writers tend to be younger and less traditional.
Kalman filters are important in advanced control systems. One of the things the Apollo computer system did was run Kalman filtering on trajectory data, in order to continuously verify its course.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602287/how-an-inventor-yo...

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b7da/dbff2c53bc30bd910fc0db...
Funny you should ask...

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/29/12314544/uber-ergo-seattle...
Make sure you know about database transactions and the various ways they can be configured and what effects it will have on data consistency. That way you will not make code that seems to work but which randomly corrupts data. That is the most important thing of all.

Beyond that I would go with learning what you need on whatever job you get, just be aware that choice of DB is just as fundamental as what programming language is used to a backend project.
Asking why things were done in the past is unproductive. Asking why more things aren't being done in the present isn't.
I think these are all good questions. I can only answer for myself. The latest spate of racism and bigotry are what finally prompted me to commit to funding the ACLU on a regular basis. Prior to this election season I was more passive in my outlook, especially since neither major political party here in the U.S. aligns with my personal beliefs. Now I realize that was naive, and I don't want to wait, like Martin Niemöller did, to stand with my fellows against injustice and bigotry while we still have a chance to change things for the better.
I'd argue that today neither organization has a view of the 2nd consistent with current case law, which is interesting. They're both advocacy organizations, among other things, so it isn't a shocking situation.
These claims had been debunked many times back in 2015 and it really isn't relevant at all in 2017. The fact is that the F-35 has seen a lot of improvements in the recent block releases and is shaping up to be the central part of the military strategy going forward.

People keep thinking the F-35 is supposed to be a fighter jet when it isn't. That's what the F-22 is for. F-35 is designed to silently collect information about potential targets and relay it to planes that are flying behind.
the puppy mill thing is disgusting. I also knew a pathologist who clued me in on the fact that a lot of the breed characteristics are considered diseases in humans, e.g. the achondroplasia of dachsands and basset hounds.

My thinking- you should breed for performance, health and temperament.
Even if these are marketing moves they'll end up doing some good, which is definitely better than marketing moves which do nothing but market
Not exactly. THe ACLU actually does work in the area being discussed [0]. I believe the criticism is that people did not donate for that reason, not that the ACLU doesn't do anything about it; the ACLU does quite a bit.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice
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> They happen to be in the spotlight at the moment due to the Trump immigration executive order, but it's not as though 100% of the funds raised by YC will go towards fighting the immigration ban. It will support their countless other ongoing legal battles as well

On that note - do we actually know that the YC funds are generally available to the ACLU? Oftentimes when non-profits receive large donations, the donor specifies the usage of the funds (usually by specifying a general area that the non-profit is working on, or donating to a specific fund)[0]. These restrictions are legally binding.

I'm not opining on the use of funds here - I'm just curious if YC donated to a specific fund in the ACLU.

[0] Those who went to colleges will know this firsthand - the donation solicitations you receive usually give options like "for financial aid", or "for the $BUILDING_NAME construction project"
That is called fraud, it is already illegal.
Most of the excitement that I've seen in the HPC scientific world has been around Singularity [1] containers. In particular, the main advantage seems to be keeping processes running as non-privileged users. This lets these containers get integrated with existing HPC clusters much easier.

[1] http://singularity.lbl.gov/
you were misimformed obviously Turing_Machine. You should try harder next time to feel the truth
They'd sue the police department. The ACLU sues police departments for violations of civil rights constantly.
Yes, I play KSP and Orbiter.

In my study project, I learned thoroughly how to solve different two body problems (initial value, boundary value, closest approach) and wrote a C library [0] that's got all the orbital mechanics code you need to write your own Kerbal Space Program clone (but I don't intend to do that). During the process, I read 3-4 books and an inch thick pile of research papers.

[0] https://github.com/rikusalminen/twobody
I've seen you post 10 times in this thread alone with just "Oh, you can't be serious. What BS!" or something along those lines to anyone who has criticized Linux or has said that they just haven't had luck getting it to work. If you can legitimately see the problems with Linux to the average user, then maybe you need to take a few steps back and actually watch someone use it.
Taxi driver is more dangerous than being a Police Officer because being a Police Officer is a very safe job.
This article in the set definitely ought to read:

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-inve...
You are lucky. I have an LG 5K, and I have experienced every symptom (excepting the "no nearby wireless" bit, as I'm not sure if there is wireless nearby) described here:

> kernel panics on the host machine, random flickering […], and USB devices not being reliably detected when plugged into the monitor.

I'll have to check where my APs are, now that I know about this association. But it's been a damn struggle; I feel like 50% of the times I connect to it, I have to disconnect & reconnect USB devices to get them to be detected on the host.
Not just fined, that would come under criminal law.
Yates didn't resign. She was fired.
Sure, that's all normal. Note that she says it's their obligation to give legal advice to the president and follow the law and Constitution. The Constitution provides that the president is the chief executive and oversees the DoJ. Right now, the minor potential legal arguments that have been put forth by commentators (not Ms. Yates herself; she provides no legal argument or justification) do not rise to the level of constitutional violations or anything that may imperil her oath of office.

Why is Ms. Yates comfortable allowing the judiciary to make its decisions on Mr. Obama's illegal EOs but not comfortable allowing it to do so on Mr. Trump's EOs? There's a reason we have a legal system with strict procedures and rules regarding argumentation, standards of evidence, etc. In ordinary conditions, a fair decision cannot be rendered by an attorney sitting alone in a room, and, barring a blatant constitutional violation, it's improper to redirect the resources of the DoJ based on such decisions.
No, it's not appropriate, but it's what happens when an organization caters to the lowest common denominator for too long.
GM should have been allowed to fail.

Because, of course, no sensible capitalist would have stood by and watched all those assests disappear. Toyota would have bought a factory here, Nissan a factory there. Robots would have been sold off, etc.

Ford and Hyundai would have ramped up production and would have needed additional employees. And somebody would have stepped in to buy what was left of GM for 10 cents on the dollar.

It would have been very disruptive, yes. But within two years or so, the market would have adjusted. And there would be some incentive to not have anyone get too big to fail. As it stands, the incentive is to not let anyone be punished too much no matter how bad they act.

Wells Fargo should have gone out of business when thousands of employees were caught stealing from customers. Every shareholder should have lost everything. Of course the shareholders didn't commit the offence, but it would teach a lesson to be more responsible in investments, and make sure that the companies you invest in play square.

It might give Boards a different set of priorities when they negotiate the contracts of CEOs.
(Emphasis mine)

> I think many took a wait-and-see approach to Trump. Sure, he was bombastic during the campaign and said a lot of bad things, but he's a screwed businessman. Surely he will get some decent advisors and not breaks things.

Intentional, typo ("shrewd"), or Freudian slip?
What would HN recommend for a news source that is worth paying for lately?
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Women live longer and are therefore at higher risk of Alzheimer's and dementia. This makes it easier to find results that influence dementia risk. Ex. Pollution raises dementia risk 50% it's simpler to detect that dementia in women goes from 50/1000(people) to 75/1000 than to notice men go from 10/1000 to 15/1000.
a bit sexist/condescending here? you're implying s 17 year old boy wouldn't say that? why refer to gender?
Can you elaborate on why that position excludes the ACLU from receiving your support? I don't understand your position.
I don't mind critiques of language formality or effectiveness, etc, but no need to police or denigrate young women. Keep misogyny out of it.
> Not a peep out of the ACLU when the Obama administration permanently ended the Cuban refugee program...

This is an odd complaint. The Obama administration ended Cuba's special, weird immigration status where touching land magically bypassed most of the immigration process. Cuban refugees now have to go through the same process as any other refugee - they have the same rights as any other asylum seeker would.
Interesting! So it's not the monitor (TV), it's the MBP.

Oh well, will have to wait for the next MBP 15" refresh--don't see any real reason to upgrade yet to the latest TB MBP.

Plus, the @30 doesn't normally bother me, unless there's a solid large gray-ish color, which definitely shimmies.

These 40" Samsungs 4Ks really hit the sweet spot for Retina displays, at least for my old eyes. "Only" 1080P logically, but oh, so large and sharp!
Not only that, with a large group of people you can't trust everyone to have the judgement to tell exceptions to the rule. So it works better to just have everyone learn a simple rule like "don't move anything"
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Yeah, I supported the so-called NiftyDrive(a micro-sd adapter that fits within your SD card port in a macbook) because it was such a cool idea at a time - but they had several delays, and in that time, I could just get an identical adapter off ebay, delivered next day, for 1/3 of the price.
I believe that a green card and eventual citizenship is still available through a similar path today. You just have to want it bad enough to sign up for the American military and followup with proper paperwork.

Not many immigrants want to sign up for that duty though.
I mean, yea, it would be great if tech CEOs started showing up at a Black Lives Matter marches. America's institutional racism is certainly an issue no less deserving of attention and work towards alleviating it.

But the reason for the differential in responses is pretty clear to me: American racism didn't just get instituted with the stroke of a pen last week, nor could it be reversed as easily (or struck down in court). It sucks, but it's a kind of cruelty we're accustomed to (victims, active perpetrators and passive perpetrators alike), and have been living with for centuries. The immigration order, on the other hand, is a newly instituted policy of cruelty, which can potentially be defeated directly with sufficiently urgent action.
There are not. By the time you graduate with a masters or PhD you often accomplish a body of research work in a SPECIFIC field, have publications, patents. So yes you are a "fresh" grad but with 5-10 published scientific papers to your name. High tech scientific companies often don't have a luxury of choosing between multiple qualified candidates. Often you have 1-2 qualified applicants ( which takes a long time to find) who are a good fit and often they have foreign backgrounds. Why? I don't know, may be it has something to do with poor American education system? Which noone is interested in fixing it seems.
Charging for support incentivizes you to provide poor documentation and frustrates the customer.
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Why doesn't she qualify for naturalization (married to a u.s. citizen?)
Politics are involved in everything. Each business decision made by a company the size and scale of YC has political ramifications. Even something 'innocuous' as funding Scribd is a political move - why? Think about copyrights, the lawyers needed to handle trademark laws and to challenge them. Or Soylent - they circumvent the FDA and do direct food testing on people, resulting in contamination outbreaks. Are these not political moves, this policy of 'disruption' i.e. grey-area skirting of existing so-called 'burdensome' regulation(s)?

There are no vacuums anymore, if there ever were (which I doubt). If something is 'about' startups then it is by necessity also about the politics those companies are involved in, especially considering in the US companies are persons with certain rights of expression.

Thanks to the intertwining of capitalism with our representative democracy by way of lobbying, our everyday lives are politicized. Should we suppress these notions or engage with them?
Thanks, I was hoping someone would come along with some real data!
I feel like you could have a good argument about most of those, but the affirmative action one is pretty damning. That's blatantly political and in no way related to constitutional protections.

There are plenty of good civil liberties related ways to look at race, but affirmative action is not one of them.
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It doesn't even mean it won't be irrecoverably damaged, it just means the manufacturer of the damaged hardware can't sue the manufacturer of the interfering hardware.

They must accept the interference in a philosophical manner more than a technical one.
I'm in the process of trying to get a makerspace in my area off the ground - any chance you can give some insight as to how you approached companies for donations? We've got dues-paying members who want to get this thing going, and are working with a local tech school to try to get some space on their campus, but I feel like large-donations is what we're really lacking and we're just not sure of who to approach or how to do so.
"Terribly dangerous" == not dangerous at all.

Criminals aren't liable to want to leave an electronic trail driving a taxi just to rob someone. It's likely to be nearly as safe as riding Uber or Taxis in general, which is to say extremely safe.

What's more likely is the driver will get robbed, but even then that's not going to happen very often.
I've been hearing a lot about the F-35's inferior kinematics, but its all been hearsay. I think it is reasonable to assume it is inferior to the F-16, but I think the big question is - how do the new information-based tech and the new strategies hold up in the real world? i.e., is the sacrifice in kinematics worth the gain the decreased detection, sensor fusion, etc?

The other question, I think is - how well does the supercruise make up for the F-35's deficiencies?

The rough balance equation in my mind is: F-35 - designed to be able to supercruise to the area where needed quicker than current gen aircraft and deliver payload/weaponry (air to air, air to ground, etc) and get out, while integrated to the DoD's battle network. They have sacrificed/are not designed for a dogfight (F-16's area of expertise) as a trade off to achieve this
So because this didn't happen earlier, when you wish it did, it can't be celebrated as a step in the right direction? Progress, by its very nature, takes time and is incremental. By this logic, no one should ever bother with anything like this, because it will just be seen as cynical "marketing."
> One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay thousands in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack their electronic key system, locking hundreds of guests out of their rooms until the money was paid.

If I were a ransomware writer, I would immediately target them.
Ha I get this sentiment. My dad was a barber. He didn't love it, but it was just a stable part of life for 30+ years. It was a means to pay bills, and enjoyment came from elsewhere.

I'm coming to the conclusion that while work can contribute to happiness, it can also siphon so much willpower that I've got nothing left for kids, other pursuits, etc.
wow, 768 cores is a lot of cores! you can try posting an issue here? https://github.com/hishamhm/htop
I agree. Java might not be sexy but there is a huge marketplace for java devs. The nice thing is that you don't have to learn a new framework every week. I learned Java in 1998 and spring in 2005 and I still rely on that knowledge today.
How can an Indian or Chinese immigrate to USA under the current system?

Legally there is simply no way besides marriage. These people who are actually very skilled have a very good history of assimilating in the mainstream and being successful in USA are discriminated against.

As a student you have to lie that you will return to India, as a H1B you have to lie that you intend to return back. As H4 you have to sit quietly at home like an obedient biblical wife.

At the root of H1B is the a deep systemic hatred and racism against Asians.
Also, did you have to do any SwitchResX hackery? That's the only way I could get macOS to recognize the monitor as a Retina display.
How many days do you do this per week? for me, everyday would totally wear me out and be unsustainable.
that company is called Rocket Internet, for anyone who wants to look into this story.
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...yet a large number of people here seem to support a UBI.

I'm not saying I agree with wasting money, but I feel like this very same argument usually gets shunned when it comes up in UBI debates. Maybe shunned isn't the right word...perhaps "less well received". I also don't mean to imply that you support a UBI.
I don't see any reason why h1b visa holders shouldn't have a high bar to reach. The whole point of the program is to bring the best of the best, not the average or mediocre, which could likely be filled by an American somewhere.
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They do this constantly. See: Trump's tweet about imprisoning flag burners for a year and fining up to $100,000.

That was taken directly from a bill Hillary Clinton co-sponsored years earlier (though obviously with far less context or nuance).

They're very mindful to use some sort of liberal precedent when fanning their flames, giving them (and their flock) plenty of retaliatory talking points.
> The AG ignored the legality of the order

Just because legal counsel says its legal does not mean it is legal, or that the AG "ignored its legality". Different attorneys will have different frameworks and theories on whether it will hold up in court.
>while his senior counselor and strategist thinks there are too many asians in Silicon Valley

The idea that you can have "too many" of any type of person is about an un-american as one can be. Somehow Trump has no problem with 'too many' chubby white supremacists in the white house. Oh right, whites get a pass on everything. Its only non-whites that have to worry about being too high profile or too successful as to not upset whites. Or dating/marrying white women.

This is straight up racism, open and direct from the white house. I'm not sure how anyone is tolerating this and why there isn't more of an uproar.
Yes, thanks. :-) But I recall at the time looking at multiple definitions in Urban Dictionary, and definitions elsewhere, and they varied significantly.

It seems to be one of those terms that depends significantly on the specific context within / to which it is applied. Yet people will just say "baller" -- like my acquaintance -- and leave you to fill in the background. In other words, you have to be in the know, to know what they are really saying.

Which, IIRC, per some of the definitions I encountered, is actually part of its definition. :-/
Right here: https://www.aclu.org/other/second-amendment

It's well established that the ACLU refuses to defend the individual civil right to armed self defense.
I agree that "a good argument" can be made about some of them but it appears to me that ACLU always goes "left" with such nuanced issues. If I knew of examples of them going "right" to balance things out, I'd see them differently.

For example, I tried to find out if they took a position in Kelo v City of New London to defend property rights but my searches came up empty.
...I'm not sure you replied to the right comment.