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130k salary is absurdly high amount of money for people outside of IT and finance. Stop living in a bubble. It will price out a lot of talent that will be forced to leave the country. Wich is a huge mistake for American society.
Absolutely.

The basics of liberalism as we see it today - rule of law and representative democracy, are young. How many presently-unthinkable violations of liberalism were committed by a Western nation within the lifespan of someone who is 90 today, with full public support? Outright genocide, systematic persecution and disenfranchisement of whole races and genders, violent militarised colonialism, you name it.

Building a just state and society is a slow, delicate, multi-generational project of structural and cultural modification, and we are just at the beginning. We're just now getting to a place where we're moving past barbaric mass violence and mass racist persecution.

It's like people look around, notice that we're not in fact in some enlightened Star Trek utopia, declare the whole edifice rotten, and decide that the best response is to gleefully burn it all down.
Relatively little impact on you perhaps. Many people are impacted, and what particularly scares people is that the order seems deliberately cruel in detaining people who were in transit, has green cards or dual citizenship. There are some 22 million non-citizens in the U.S. and many of them are now very unsure about their future. I bet there are many YC founders among them.
Its known and documented in intelligence reports Saudi government supports terrorists. Here's a quote from one of intelligence reports, "it was well-known in intelligence circles that the Islamic affairs office functioned as the Saudis’ ‘fifth column’ in support of Muslim extremists."

9/11 commission report documented the terrorists meeting with Saudi intelligence officers on US soil and they were partly funded by Saudi royalty. Also lets look at Pakistan. They were harboring Osama Bin Laden.
I think it's a natural comparison to expect, since Rust aims to fix many of C/C++ shortcomings.
I have to disagree that this is "exactly how normal taxis work". Notable differences (many apply to Uber/Lyft also):

1) There's no check to ensure that the vehicle is ensured for commercial rides before they start taking hails.

2) Likewise, no background check.

3) No regulatory body to investigate cases of e.g. scamming passengers out of money or refusal to comply with agreed-upon rates and dropoff. [1]

4) The local PD doesn't stand ready to treat assault on a driver like assault on a police officer, in terms of marshalling resources.

5) No central registry, or even private registry of cars/drivers in operation.

6) Drivers aren't trained in the relevant anti-robbery countermeasures.

7) In NYC, the barrier to prevent the most obvious kinds of robbery.

That makes a big difference in safety of paying cash to a roving operator!

Sadly, I think the "big corp middleman" does add a lot of value that a free app can't replicate without similar investment, scale, and "walled garden"-ness.

[1] I know commenters here like to roll their eyes about the clumsiness and lackadaisical enforcement -- I'm one of them! But it's at least something, which prevents a major scale-up of this behavior.
You could also invalidate all locks from the parent with some kind of generational scheme based on pid or whatever. I believe the Python interpreters do something crazy like this to try and avoid deadlock after forking multithreaded programs.
I don't think I've ever seen a more egregious case of concern trolling.

Here's a tip for you: Complaining about people taking action because you think they should have taken action is stupid. The ACLU is not a be-all end-all shield for everything you don't like and randomly picking your person moral crusades and demanding answers for why the ACLU isn't your personal army is naive and childish.

The ACLU is getting involved now and people are getting involved with the ACLU are doing so because they believe this administration represents an existential threat to the existence of the United States. They don't think that your personal crusades represent as much of a threat.

I'm sorry if you don't like that, but you are contributing the problem of the left. "You want to make the world better? Fuck you, I think this stuff is more important!" is insanity.
How will Trudeau respond? Xiao Jianhua is a Canadian citizen, after all.
I posted the above to prompt explanation from someone with expertise in pdf malware to validate the safety of the linked pdf. I'm concerned that it has open actions and objects that could be used to obfuscate js code. The author of pdf-id flags these attributes as requiring further inspection.

Wouldn't a tech pdf of a popular book that is impossible to obtain legally in digital form be an excellent vector to deliver malware to tech users with probably lots of stored credentials to resources?
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Result of a quick Google for "green card holder detained": https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/green-card-holder-detained...
Usually I've experienced the performance issues with poor event handling (at the control level) on grid-like views...

That said, I like React's component structure... it works with me more than most. Though I tend to dev against react and build against preact-compat for reduced size. Which iirc uses real dom as point of truth.

The main take away from React is flux-like state management (ie Redux)... this is what helps with the real pain of larger apps (especially MVC) and that is cross-cutting concerns and state management. This is why Redux has been adopted, or roughly copied to all the up and coming options.
You don't know how the tech industry will be in 20 years.

It's likely that the age bands will shift as people age.
The fact that there are larger and more specialized organizations doesn't prevent the ACLU from making a simple statement in favor of advances in this particular civil liberty.
Every single thing you touched (And every single thing connected to what you touched) to type that statement was made overseas.

Welcome to the international system of currency and labor arbitrage, a core prerequisite for any democratic experiment. Democracy has ALWAYS and WILL always require slaves.
> Japronto is written almost entirely in C.

??????
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Is not it too enterprise'y? Is it possible to find small (~100 devs) company using .Net and C#?

And also, how much it will take to achieve some decent level (to be able to work as a middle dev)? I think with Python 1year should be fine, what about .Net?
Actually, green card applications are completely separate from whatever visa (TN or H-1B) you have. The H-1B does not give you a path to the green card.

The only benefit of an H-1B over TN is that it is a dual-intent visa, and you are guaranteed to not have "immigrant intent"-related trouble at the border. However, there was a guideline issued by the CBP back in 2008 that stated that a pending employment-based green card application (I-140) would not alone be considered as immigrant intent: https://www.hooyou.com/news/news021709tn.html Quoted:

"A recently published authoritative letter from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) addressing the TN nonimmigrant visa category offers new and definite insight on the CBP’s policy for determining immigrant intent. In the letter, dated April 2008, the Executive Director of Admissibility and Passenger Protection Programs details clearly that filing an immigrant petition (I-140) alone is not automatically considered a demonstration of immigrant intent, and aliens with pending I-140s may still be admitted into US with a TN visa."

I don't know if that policy is still in effect, but if it is, then you have nothing to fear, and your employer can apply for your green card. The programmer from Mexico on TN that I knew actually had USCIS approval of his TN status. For TN status, USCIS approval isn't necessary, but it helps avoid problems at the border even further: https://www.tnvisabulletin.com/nafta-tn-blog/2012/4/12/cbp-m...
Of course they would! Why would you think that a background check would work everytime? And how about a change in behavior long after the checks?

But you cannot deny that some kind of check is better than no checks at all.
Article is not quite clear but it appears it was $345K in sales not net.

The guy's edge is marketing which has been always been the great differentiator.

Of course, it could be just luck as there must be thousands of people attempting the same type of "business".

Reminds of that Ipod clone kid in Australia which HN had an article about a few years ago. Made some 100K from selling iPod clones in late 200Xs.
You said it perfectly before I had a chance to answer.

The fact is, Apple did it right and Microsoft did it wrong.
> I believe that their reticence to litigate Heller was for their own self-preservation.

As I recall, it's because they didn't believe a priori that it was the strongest case. They definitely do support the decision and defend it in subsequent cases. It's not unusual for an advocacy group to pick and choose its legal battles based on what it thinks is most likely to advance its long-term agenda - each case is a legal risk, and with a it's possible to end up losing ground instead of gaining it. There's a lot of strategic calculation that goes into it, which doesn't mean that it's always successful or correct, but it's not unusual or suspicious when it happens.

This is similar to how Rosa Parks was chosen as the figurehead for the legal battles surrounding bus boycotts, even though she was not the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat (and she wasn't even the one whose case made it to the Supreme Court). She was believed to be the most sympathetic and favorable candidate for challenging the law. (Ultimately, Claudette Colvin's case was the one that was actually upheld by the Supreme Court.)

> I believe that their reticence to litigate Heller was for their own self-preservation. They can make a better case for donation when they're able to sow FUD about taking away our guns. Having a definitive answer to the question from Heller (and later McDonald, to get it incorporated under the 14th Amendment) impairs how much fear they can inspire in gun owners.

There are a lot of criticisms I could enumerate about the NRA's inconsistency with how it pursues Second Amendment battles, but if you're concerned with the broad right to self-defense, I don't think they apply. I definitely would not say that they oppose clear constitutional protections for gun ownership (such as the Heller outcome) simply to line their own pockets, which is what you are implying.
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Does this affect existing H1B visa holders working in USA?
I've never heard someone say that they are motivated by their company's vision and/or mission.
Green cards holders are basically citizens. You can revoke their lawful permanent residence for well-specified (legally) reasons, but while they hold it they are entitled to the full protection of all US law.

People that should have had that protection had their right of habeas corpus violated, one of the most fundamental rights that exists in this country. It was done without the consulation of the legislative branch. It was (and is) continued after it was ruled illegal by the judicial branch.

There isn't any hyperbole here. This is facially fascist. Hopefully it marks a low point and they learn from it.
> The best I can think of is financial planning.

Interesting times to shift into Financial Planning, evidently 'humans' are still in demand. Betterment Adds Human Advisors, Casting Doubt On Pure-Play "Robo" Investment Models > https://www.fastcompany.com/3067717/new-money/betterment-add...
Especially if you can get a new main monitor that is exactly as tall as the old screen was wide. I've seen a couple people pull that off and it works really really well, better still if you do a color calibration.
But that's not really the point. SSDP and DPA, as specialized, wide-reaching, grassroots organizations, are more effective at drug policy reform, but this doesn't stop the ACLU from recognizing the threats that drug prohibition poses to civil liberties.

Similarly, the fact that there are larger and more specialized organizations doesn't prevent the ACLU from making statements in favor of advances in the rights guaranteed by the second amendment.
I am sure this is a good thing, but I can't help but feel that YC is overcompensating for the fact that one of their partners played a pivotal role in Trump's victory and they did nothing to oppose it.

But then again, maybe I am just cynical.
> Is it irrational to hate those who find your religion, race, gender, education level, employment, state of residence and political affiliation to be "deplorable"? After all, the Democrats started it.

No they did not "start" anything. And lets not even get into the whole business of who started what. Its true that liberals do find racist xenophobes deplorable. Its true that liberals do find people who try to impose restrictions on the rights of anyone in the community for their reproductive rights, sexual preferences and gender identification to be deplorable.

> A near perfect consensus of legacy media self admittedly being politically aligned with the Democrat party doesn't mean their propaganda is true and any other political spin is fake news, it just means its dominant in the legacy media, which is rapidly losing influence, leading to people not under single party control gaining leadership positions...

They are NOT aligned with Democratic party. They are aligned with reason and facts and are pretty fearless about reporting on those.
IMO, the hype over them is because Google, Facebook, et al are trying to gain developer mindshare. Their modus operandi is to hoard as much webdev talent as possible to limit the possibility of a startup usurping them. With front-end development being trendy, this buys them massive brand recognition.

The technology itself doesn't need to be new, exciting or practical. All you need is sufficient marketing $$$$$$ backing it.
Attending events and networking is a great way for people to get out and change up the pace of work life and learn something new. I think that this is not done nearly as often as I would like it to happen. Especially in the tech world where things are changing at such a fast rate.
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it's a book review.
me too. I wonder if there is a cycle where companies have a terrible reputation then overcompensate, presumably they'll slowly get worse reliability from here on as they focus on costs instead of failure rates.
In the USA just because your a non profit doesn't mean you cannot charge money for your product.

As an example, there are lots of non profit hospitals that charge for a product but don't seek to make a profit.

Would people pay for your product?
Why Thursday for a WFH day instead of Friday? Just curious.
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This would be a lot easier for me to digest if YC could ask their companies going forward to pledge to treat all user data as PII.
Do you ever wish to work on something that hits more personally for you? Would that motivate you more than just the pay?
These Indian body shops are the bane of my existence but I know a bunch of H1B holders that were FTEs and I would be horrified to lose them. I don't know what they get paid, but I know it's below the rate for non-Visa holders. If you're an architect in NYC (which a bunch of them are) they probably top the $130K margin, but a bunch definitely won't.
Minor updates, security patches etc. via the App Store usually work just fine. Major OS updates (like going from El Capitan to Sierra) are a pain in the a. But there is no guarantee for any of this, as a rule of thumb: the closer you are to "original" hardware, the less problems you will experience.
In my perspective, the issue is less that the critics decline to offer alternative realistic solutions, but rather that they seek to repackage discredited and harmful solutions (like supply-side economics) as being the correct fix if only it gets implemented correctly and without opposition meddling.

This line of argument is also often used to whitewash Communism by saying things along the line of: "Communism would work just fine if it wasn't implemented poorly like the way China or the Soviet Union did."

It's rather troubling that in such a connected and technologically advanced age, we can't seem help ourselves from looking to the past to organize ourselves for the future.
Given that the leftist death-wish showed up in revolutionary Russia, revolutionary France, and civil war Spain... we should seriously consider that it might be native.
received one of the most expensive educations in the world that effectively requires working in a first-world country to pay off after.
> is in police custody in China, where he apparently is safe

My understanding is that this is a contradiction in terms.
Here's a good article on the legal fine points:

http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/trump-exceeds-his-plenary-...
I am extremely proud to see YC support the ACLU.

Of all of the things I've seen YC do, this is by far the greatest.
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Flexible work (I can work from anywhere where I can access the internet reliably...sometimes even when not reliable, i.e. while flying), and the ability to take PTO whenever I request it without issues, even 2 1/2 weeks at a time!

There is also a lot of respect for each other, and genuine listening to what people recommend & action based on feedback.
I'm an engineer at a massive media and technology company. What keeps me motivated is the freedom to experiment and develop ideas on my own, outside of the iteration's expected deliverables. We have a very open culture, where engineers can spin up production servers with the click of a button, deploy things, and tear it all down without interacting with a single approval chain or ticketing system. So that's really it outside of pay... Freedom to learn and experiment on your own is a really powerful motivator for me.
No, probably not. They're really not aligned with the type of work I'm trying to get back into. I'm wanting to get back into mobile or move into VR space, and they're making web and phone apps for healthcare and insurance companies. I don't see that getting aligned ever.

I am actually learning new things and working on new projects right now, that might keep me a bit longer, but not too long. I'm not in a hurry to leave, but I'm starting to reboot and refresh my knowledge in the other fields again.
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Totally agreed. The Tacoma is bloated and expensive relative to its older siblings but not it's current day competition. More of a commment on all vehicles getting bigger and having more buttons added over the years. Time will tell but I don't think a 2017 Tacoma will hold up as well after 20 years as a 1997 Tacoma. That's not necessarily a bad thing either I just distrust all the gadgets from a long-term reliability standpoint.
He neglected to finish his thought: "...and on the rare occasion conservatives do offer a counter-proposal it's so laughably naive, so completely devoid of any understanding of nuance or unintended consequences, as to beggar belief".

You think alternative proposals are a game of whack-a-mole. While liberals are trying to knit a fabric of policy and government conservatives run around yanking on loose threads saying "see! see! we told you this was bullshit!".

Thread-yanking is not alternatives, if anything your suggestion gives a good indication of how little you understand the subject.
cheap labour certainly feeds into the modern capitalist/globalist system and often leads to horrendous exploitation, but your focus on those people being brown is odd. People from LEDC countries of every colour have been exploited.
Not much... Fear of homelessness and not being able to pay my bills keeps me motivated.
It doesn't. Western liberalism has, at times, relied on cheap white people, too.

But the need for unskilled labor has dropped precipitously, while demand for skilled labor has spiked. See, for example, the IT industry's need for "cheap brown people" (from India, Pakistan, and elsewhere in Asia). They're only marginally cheaper than white citizen labor, and a lot more expensive than unskilled labor. This has been offset some by outsourcing, so the labor can have a lower cost of living in their native country, but still.

Brown labor is always, always an act of desperation. A racist society would rather not have brown people at all, and only employs them if whites cannot or will not do the job.
Supporting civil rights is not taking a "highly liberal stand". Just because American politics has shifted to the extreme right doesn't mean everyone needs to shift with it or that people who were moderates yesterday are now extreme liberals.

I would be very afraid of anyone who thinks that protecting the rights guaranteed by the Constitution is "highly liberal". You do realize that the ACUL has been known to defend the rights of KKK and Nazi party members too, right? They stand up for everyone's rights, not just liberals.
I got into a discussion on Reddit the other day on the topic of gun control and mentioned that I'm a gun owner who is in favor of some restrictions (like assault weapons bans). The responses were:

"how can you exercise this right if you support its infringement?"

"you should just give up your guns"

"don't expect anyone to stick up for you"

"you're a hypocrite who thinks 'screw everyone else because I already got mine.'"

That's a microcosm of what discourse is like if you have a moderate opinion these days. There is no middle ground.
I've heard fedora 25 does a good job of applying different scales to different monitors out of the box.

> 16.10 applies the scale factor from the 4k display to the secondary display as well

Though not surfaced in the UI, easy enough to fix with this with xrandr. This SO question solves a similar problem http://askubuntu.com/questions/393400/is-it-possible-to-have...
This is because of the seniority system put in place by the unions. They pilots fly over seas as there are not a lot of jobs at major airlines flying the big planes domestically.
The part of the country that votes is the only one of any consequence to any elected official.
"I disagree. The bullshit was just harder to discover in the past - without internet and 10,000 independent sources stating contrary to whatever the media was trying to peddle."

I think it's the opposite. The headlines, style, and bias made the bullshit more obvious in the past. Now, there can be 10,000 "independent" sources peddling the same person's bullshit. Media consolidation means many of the news sources all come from the same few dozen companies that consistently bullshit. False information also travels fast in waves across social media but debunks don't per Facebook. There are also firms specializing in doing this with propaganda teams.

It's golden age of media disinformation. Also, with so many sources of low integrity, it's harder than ever for the average person to figure out what's true. Smart people can pull it off for many things but it's a lot of work. More work than many will spend vs turning to favorite channel, station, or friend feed.
Seriously, if these people don't have credit cards, and are paid mostly in cash, how do you expect them to have "magic internet money"?
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