skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I agree that there's been a frustrating lack of response to those issues, I think at least part of that muted response was a sense that these incidents were an aberration from a general trend of progress.

The reality that many people are waking up to is that social progress is not guaranteed and a passive approach is not enough.

I share your cynicism regarding many of the marketing moves by the companies you mentioned. At the same time, the fact that doing the right thing builds goodwill with a hopefully-majority highlights the importance of making our views and voices heard.

I might wish for a more high-minded motive form these companies. I also wish that it hadn't taken shock events to make the loss of rights feel real for most of America (though to be honest, I'm guilty of this too.)

But I'm excited to see people mobilizing, and will take the good outcomes where I can find them these days. Progress here could require an uneasy coalition.
Your point stands, I just wanted to note that the wage level was established in 1998, not 1989. There is a typo in this article, possibly misread from the bill summary https://lofgren.house.gov/uploadedfiles/high_skilled_bill_sx...
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It's a list inherited from the Obama administration. The best time to argue about whether this list stands up to scrutiny or not was years ago.

Edit: I'm not making comments about Trump's actions (specifically, I'm not defending what he did). As for whether this particular list stands up to scrutiny, that question should have been asked a long time ago.
It's not hypocrisy, it's just their point of view on the 2nd amendment differs from your view.

ACLU position:
Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free State," the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right.
I thought "virtue signaling" meant loudly expressing sentiments to enhance your perceived moral standing. If you actually put your money where you mouth is, a) is it still virtue signaling, and b) what's wrong with it?
Exactly how i use it for last two years :P
Authoritarians are very possibly not welcome. Non-authoritarian members of the religious right, cultural conservatives, etc. are very likely welcome. (And of course any variety of libertarian.)
Virtue signalling.
My win 10 machine bluescreens several times a week with different errors.
The ACLU has been fighting the good fight for impoverished black people as well. 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.

They are an unqualified, categorically "good" organization that is deserving of your donations. I'm personally of the opinion that a charitable act should not be diminished or castigated because one picked this time to donate and not other times.

Put another way, if a guy shows up to volunteer at a soup kitchen, I'm going to thank him for his time, not shout at him, "Where were you when we had the flood of Katrina refugees to feed!"
This is one of the things that frustrated me about the web world. Stuff that you could do in 2000 with real UI kits is finally making its way to the browser. Java/Swing and Qt could do this years ago, and more elegantly.

I don't suppose there is any momentum for starting over with something not based on a simple word-processing model, but with a real UI foundation.
Well I was in two minds when I ordered it.
Since I wanted the i7 and 3200x1800 screen that only came with a touch screen.

Initially I worried about how clean the screen was. But in the end using the laptop with a touch screen is really convenient.

Pause a video by tapping on the screen.

Quit an application by tapping the X.

Scrolling through web pages.

Also I often want to make a quick recording with voice recorder, tapping the record and stop button is really convenient.

Fingerprints show up in sunlight but in normal usage it isn't as visible, but I do keep a micro fibre cloth to wipe the screen every once in a while.

I'd recommend giving it a go with Windows 10 for a while, it'll grow on you, you'll just have to get over the initial desire to keep the screen pristine.
So you can get a green card and thus aren't tied to the company?
ITT : A circle-jerk of wishful utopic hippie community with freedom for everyone - except the corporations and individuals who bankroll them and diminishing middle class who pay the bill.
Dude! I had so forgot about making those 1px by however long/high images, over and over as size of things changed.

CSS/HTML is a complicated mess. But anyone who thinks it used to be better needs to take off the rose tint glasses.
There is a lot of utility with a basic camera. Taking a picture of a poster/whiteboard/whatever for example let's you capture that information without much effort or fear of writing the wrong thing down. I started doing this with my old flip phone with a terrible camera.

Further, the form factor for a ultra tiny phone does not really work out. A cellphones the size of a pencil is easy to build, but they would be far less user friendly when making phone calls.

Finally, you can get a smartphone for 60$ with all this stuff so I don't see the advantage to skipping it as you want something around that size anyway.
Keep in mind that $130k is also total comp. including bonuses that you are elegible for, but might not actually get, and even if you do, might not be in a form actually worth the face value.
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I don't know where you got that impression. I have this LG 5K display and I'm typing on a keyboard connected to it right now...
"This temporary hold on people entering the country from one of 7 countries for 90 days affects a lot of my coworkers"

And then "I don't care about the dozens of black people gunned down every day"

Seems a little selfish no? This is exactly the same mentality that Trump supporters had, just exchange Americans with coworkers and refugees with black people.

Maybe they aren't purely marketing moves, but I just have a hard time with it. Why can't Sergey show solidarity with our black community, who make up a large percentage of Americans, but can show up to protest in person for a temporary restriction on new people entering the US on top of the 120 day restriction that already exists?
Not the one you asked, and purely for historic reasons, but DSSSL, the precursor of XSLT and CSS, was Scheme:

; rule associated to document's element class
(element (section header)
(make paragraph
font-family-name: "Helvetica"
font-weight: 'bold
font-posture: 'oblique
(process-children)
)
)

; rule associated to a particular element uniquely identified with an id:
(id ("ref34")
(make paragraph
font-family-name: "Helvetica"
font-weight: 'bold
font-posture: 'oblique
(process-children)
)
)

[1]: http://dsssl.netfolder.com/DSSSL-markup-Rules.htm
I was lucky enough to inherit some so I try and help the ACLU spread the love to others who might not.
Your personal opinion is fine, but if there's a legitimate interpretative question here, is it not the duty of the DoJ to allow the judiciary to do its job and support the chief executive until he/she loses in court, fair and square? Such accommodations were afforded by Mr. Obama's DoJ, of which Ms. Yates was a part, in light of his actually-decided-by-SCOTUS-to-be-illegal set of EOs. Ms. Yates is refusing to allow the DoJ to compile arguments in favor of Mr. Trump's order.

The oath of office should only be invoked for the most facially plain constitutional violations. If there's a question, we have a judicial system established to settle that. We can't just have random people arbitrarily declaring their opinion that X and Y are "probably invalid" and then redirecting the nation's legal apparatus based on that.
The unfortunate thing is that the ACLU should be non-partisan and only fighting for those who are having their rights threatened. It just so happens that in the last week or so, it was Conservatives doing the threatening. There aren't a lot of incidents in recent memory of liberals taking away rights from folks, so you get a slant of ACLU vs Conservatives. The irony of wanting a small government I guess.
I can confirm that.
I wish I had the time to gather the data. Someone please do this. Make sure to normalize against total activity.

I'm a hn user since at least 9.8 years ago (my first HN handle was different than current, which is 7 years old).

To my impression as a relatively apolitical person, the site has become MUCH more political in the past year. I may be wrong in that though.
"Trump is a bad guy". Well OK but the ACLU does more than just fight Trump. It's possible that people have mixed feelings about those various things.
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That's a great quote.

Also, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
If Trump had found a way to ban muslims from those countries, he would have.

Trump tried to find a way to institute this ban such that it wasn't blatantly a muslim ban. He decided that if he used a country list from the Obama administration, he could use that as a defense. This is generally how people try to create racist laws in modern times. The Voting Rights Act wasn't created because states created laws saying "minorities should be discouraged from voting". It was created because politicians came up with laws that targeted minorities without explicitly naming them.

Thiel went to Stanford Law, he knows this, he is just trying to recover because he still doesn't know what to do about the fact that Trump was talking literally, despite Thiel's insistence repeatedly that Trump was talking symbolically. If this isn't a muslim ban, Thiel can continue to insist that Trump's promise of such a ban was not literal.
Here's why not: Everyone has a different features sweet spot and smartphone with a few apps can cover almost all of those cases.

No fixed-function phone will gain enough market share to compete.
You misspelled "true scotsman".
While I think white bias is still an issue - seems like this is what you're pointing at exclusively, right? - I think a possibly bigger issue here - and the answer you're looking for - is that Obama was a classy face for progressives to look at when these government encroachments (and - in many cases - outright killings) came up.

Now that Trump is the face of this disease, there is no pretense. The face lines up with the actions. This allows everyone to freely mobilize on their issues without feeling like they are stepping on toes. Classy, wingtip toes, that is.

Now, I'm not a Trump hater - I don't think he's Hitler. In fact, I do thank him - he did drop the pretense on his own. But I also am enjoying seeing America radicalized in a way that I hoped would happen with the Snowden disclosures fell.
It's crazy how addictive our media has become.
From one (or more) of the comments here you can see that the reasoning for rust in topics about C is "everybody should write rust instead of C". At least for some people.

One other comment got it right, it is annoying to have multiple rust comments in every thread about C.

But you are right, best way to deal with these kinds of... i don't want to be rude, is ignoring.

PS Thank you for addressing the rest of the comment, not just the part you made personal.
> You don't even have to go that far; half the people on these boards step over a homeless person to get to work every morning.

This is a spot on comment.
A stopped clock is right twice a day. A clock that mistimes a second will be right far less often, and a mis-set clock is never right. Likewise a Widlarized clock is never right, and that's as broken as you can get.

/pedantry
A lot of people love Obama because of his personality, not because of his policies.
They haven't been a startup in really long time.
Wow! I can't decide if this is innovation, disruption, or something a little less than ethical. I also wonder what the IP issues about this might be.
There are quite a few comments by presumably more right wing people marked as dead here. Excluding these people from debate this way makes hacker news less useful IMO. Why not make constructive criticism instead of downvoting, I realise it's easier...
Ask HN: How to minimize internet tracking
I don't feel comfortable any more using number of services that crawl into my digital life unasked, track my behavior, put me in a bubble and suggest various mumbo jumbo that I should do or demand my atention on random basis or based on some suspicious AI algorythm which is probably using 80% of the data I don't fit in.

I already switched from Google search engine to DuckDuckGo and deleted and disabled its Web History. Now I would like to generally minimize my exposure to such services, particularly for most private stuff such as mail or storage.

I am not unhappy about specific other online services such as Reddit, Github, StackOverflow, Trello, to name a few, which I don't find intrusive, and after all, I used them to get or share knowledge in what I percieve to be acceptable manner. I also find platforms such as SoundCloud convenient although I don't like its interface or the fact that you can't export your data (probably the only such service I use).

I wonder what others have found in this regard - tips about good services or some general advices are welcome. I am not counting the ultimate control of hosting your own everything, which is fine for few services but I would like to minimize the maintenance to some sane level (for example alternative to DDG would perhaps be YaCy, Gitlab over Github, Redmine over Jira, TTRSS over Feedly etc. but you get what I aim at).
My personal opinion is that the proper level is whatever ensures there's safety and control over both T&LC drivers and their vehicles - including limiting the number of said vehicles on the road at any one time. On the more personal level, requiring a percentage of the fleet to be ADA-compliant vehicles (i.e. wheelchair accessible), as well as a clear identification of the driver's identity and license number, are absolute necessities. If we could put speed and range limiters on the cars, I'd be even happier.
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I'm not 100% sure what all the ACLU does so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought they were a bunch of lawyers? What can they do for Chicago or people shot by police? Who could they sue and for what to fix those problems?

Isn't this like complaining about Habitat for Humanity not doing enough to prevent forest fires?
Hypothetically, wouldn't the Act of Congress constitutionally required to declare war probably include a suspension of immigration itself? ;)
You dont need to fine Tata, you need to make it not a lottery, reduce restrictions and then let anyone who wants to do it do it.
You never had a modern Latitude/XPS laptop in your hands then - every mac person I showed my laptops touchpad admitted that they are equally good.

Gestures work perfectly, the cursor never jumps around either - unlike other laptops with crappy touchpads.
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I would love any and all feedback!
I think it's pretty easy to see the answer to your question. Black people and cops violence don't hurt their interests. If black people will be killed then the effect on Google/AirBnB/Ycombinator will be low. However seeing that the ban on foreign countries visa (I expect a lot more countries to be added). It would be harder for tech companies that rely basically on technical talent from outside US.
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So basically this kid made money by selling cheap knockoffs before the original designers could launch a patent lawsuit? Seems like the moral of the story is that you can make some money before the slow gears of our patent system kick in.

Also, links to those stupid inflatable bags on alibaba were everywhere once the kickstarter went viral. The article makes it sound like the kid magically found it.
> I've done this, learning advanced orbital mechanics on my spare time.

Sooo...... you play KSP? ;)
You will always be able to come up with another problem to use in a "where were you all when..." scenario, because any given organization's resources are finite and cannot address all problems.

Further, the ACLU is a civil liberties advocacy organization and is not well-equipped to handle complex socioeconomic issues such as gun violence or homelessness or health care. It is outside the stated mission.
They're not suing people unless they try and sell things.

Also they aren't sending Cease and Desist or DMCA notices.

Softwarewise it's only designed to run on Mac hardware and it is in breach of the licence to run a hackingtosh
Very interesting post. In it, I learned that Apple automatically blacklists Apple IDs who log into iMessage using a Hackintosh -- Apple is not "anti-Hackintosh" but spammers apparently try to create lots of accounts, calling customer support you can get yourself un-blacklisted by answering some security questions.

The instructions basically avoid the blacklist.
No, they're not exempt, and I already said as much before in other comments on this post.

Saying the didn't dispatch drivers is just another cavillous circumlocution. They created, maintain, and profit from the platform through which the scabs were sent to break a strike. People see through these kind of dodges, although they could do a better job of seeing through Lyft's PR.
It's generally not founders who get screwed by AMT related consequences. Founders should have 83-b'd shares, not vesting options.
The trick is to put some of your monitors in portrait orientation. It's a game changer for reading text and for writing code (aka 95% of my computer use).
Is the a data on why skilled immigrants on H1-B accept lower wages?
Accusing someone of "virtue signalling" instantly ends any possibility for reasonable discussion, because it's a stark violation of the Principle of Charity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

On a meta-level, invoking "virtue signalling" is itself a signal that you want to ad-hominem the human subject rather than discuss and resolve the issues.

It is the opposite of rationality, and it's a bit weird that so many People Who Think They Are Rational are into the idea.
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The broadcom wireless cards are garbage even on windows. My 9350 came with one, and it caused issues with the thunderbolt dock and other type c devices.
Yes - that was my assumption too, after reading how they did it. I've installed it, launch first command (tcpdump) to sniff traffic and got error message. Second command "ip", another error. Got back to Linux :)
I'm not sure that the comparison to stack ranking is apt, I am not saying we only want x% of grads, but I think it is reasonable to say that the US wants to bring in people in high demand as evidenced by their salary.
well priebus said on mtp on sunday that they used those countries because obama selected the list and so they thought it would be more likely to pass muster. He then said, other countries may be added in the future (when he was asked why saudi arabia, etc werent on the list).

So this is just the starting point.
One thing I still like about dumb phones is how rugged they are. I have an old Nokia (circa 2004) in a drawer at home that feels like I could drop it from twice my height without it suffering significant damage. I can't say the same about any smartphone, when I can drop one from hip-height and its cover, battery, and body slide on the ground all in different directions.
Well sure but you're making my point. Silicon Valley has non-tech businesses too like Survey Monkey which is about as high tech as Yelp, i.e. not much higher tech than a Cheesecake Factory (who has a lot of computerized supply chain).

The point isn't to have a pissing match. I'm simply pointing out that the heavyweight tech region is the San Francisco Bay area but within it the tech influence is unevenly distributed which should hardly be remarkable.

It's easier to find marketing, PR, non-B2B sales folks, web designers, ruby developers etc in SF than down here. It's way easier to find people down here who understand interrupt latency on 32-bit arm cores, oddities of device physics below .14 nm, B2B BD folks and the like. Does one diminish the other? No.

Reporters from outside of course go to SF to report because, frankly, what's to see in Palo Alto? I have lived in Palo Alto for decades and yes, apart from the work (which is awesome) it's dull compared to SF, or even to many places lamer than SF.
I bought this monitor the other week after hearing things like this but I couldn't get over two things:

1) It doesn't power off or on automatically. I need the remote
2) The viewing angle made seeing the corners difficult on my admittedly shallower then probably needed desk with no scaling, (40" seemed like the sweet spot for PPI without scaling).

How do you cope with (1)? I'm amazed that Intel, Nvidia and AMD haven't thrown a HDMI-CEC IP code into their GPUs and made it trivially to turn on and off displays over HDMI.
If my mom arrives at the airport and needs a ride, am I supposed to refuse because of the strike? Will the union let me vote on the strike on that basis?
At this point, I think we should just upvote all new incoming political threads. Either allow the angry people to get it out of their system, or clearly illustrate that this stuff doesn't belong on HN.
Be very careful with calling any software more than a few hundred lines "almost perfect".

The case here is that you have gotten used to the workarounds of macOS, because I'm pretty certain that most people that are not fanboys will agree that all operating systems have a lot of really ugly parts and it's just a matter of choosing the one that has the least downsides for your use case. Operating systems are way too big to be able to be even close to perfection.
whatever works for you
> We're talking about two bans of 120 and 90 days respectively

Proponents say they are temporary measures, so that there is time to 'figure out what is going on'. No matter how you feel about this EO it was implemented in sloppy and unprofessional manner. It was poorly written, Agencies were not notified or instructed on the exact intent, there was no time for review from Legal Council. How am I supposed to extrapolate that this farce will produce better immigration enforcement than the already stringent vetting that was in place? When they have no better alternative I have to predict that these blanket bans get extended for 'safety reasons'.

> due to the 'persecuted religious minority' aspect of the EO, a Sunni in a predominantly Shia nation and vice versa would still qualify. It also lays out being open to reviews on an individual basis.

This is great conjecture, but it is unclear, at this time, if as implemented a Sunni qualifies for this status. You have frontline DHS agents deciding these case by case reviews without clear orders. I don't believe they will err on the side of possibly getting it wrong. Denying will always be the default.

> It's also not a Muslim ban.

It's obviously not a muslim ban, but that is who will be disproportionally affected.
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Of course you know the answer: The ACLU is a political organization.

Edit: Not a peep out of the ACLU when the Obama administration permanently ended the Cuban refugee program and many refugees in Mexico are now being deported back to Cuba because there is no chance of them being accepted in the US. 60 day pause on refugees from seven middle-eastern countries identified and signed into law by the Obama administration? MELTDOWN.