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> "I don't know if you can claim as facts that Trump represents American workers over the elites or that Rubio was bought by Disney."

I didn't say that Rubio was bought by Disney, but that 'Rubio was "bought" by Disney', the quotes are operative to suggest a strong implication without in fact true evidence which might be illegal. The point is that Rubio accepted $2 million from Disney to increase from 85,000 to 250,000 the number of H1-B visas that only serves to replace American STEM workers with immigrants who are cheaper and who don't have job mobility. Rubio ignored his own constituents, 250 of whom had their jobs replaced by Disney using immigrants. Increasing the number of H1-B visas by 165,000 fewer American STEM workers get jobs each year or 1.65 million over a decade.

What is clear about Trump is that he has spoken out against Disney's use of H1-B visas to replace American STEM jobs. He has spoken out and intervened with Carrier which wanted to send 2000 Indiana factory jobs to Mexico. About 1000 of those jobs will be saved.

Sanders agreed with Trump about Carrier, Disney, etc., but Hilary was silent as were all of the other Republican candidates. I can only speak of Rubio's actions (accepting $2 million from Disney which wanted to put more American STEM workers on unemployment and sponsoring a bill to increase H1-B Visas) compared with Trump who spoke out against these actions and who did not receive one cent from Disney or probably most SV and Wall Street firms.

Most of the SV and Wall Street firms hate Trump precisely because he won't allow them to import cheap STEM labor so now the firms will have to pay market rates to retain STEM employees.

HP chief Meg Whitman, a Republican, said she was voting for Hilary because

'“Trump’s reckless and uninformed positions” on immigration...' [1]. Trump's reckless and uninformed position on immigration is stopping illegal immigration and ensuring H1-B visas are issued according to law -- only for those STEM jobs for which no Americans are qualified. HP like Disney and other firms that hire STEM workers want to depress STEM job income using immigrants (e.g., H1-B Visas). Trump will have nothing of it and that makes them very, very angry.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/08/02/hewlett-packard-enterprise-meg...
I'm amazed with Snapchat's staying power.

I was utterly bewildered by them turning down a reported 3 billion offer (and so was most everyone else), but it seems it wasn't so wrong after all.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/03/12/snapchat_valu...
This whole thing would have been avoided easily, if the batteries were removable.
In tandem with the gag order, though, there's the angle of entirely halting the work of government agencies.

'Virtue signaling' is a criticism of people who put social approval before productive work. Someone who 'virtue signals' isn't opposed to a cause, though they exploit it out of narcissism.

But in this case, the entire point of these EOs is that they are specifically crafted to interfere with gov't agencies, while appearing to cut through red tape. It's red meat for the base, but that's just a bonus.
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Funnily enough, most companies I have worked at has much better frontend code than backend...but maybe that's a problem that tends to come with smaller companies if they're not hiring the right engineers, and not so much a frontend vs. backend thing.

As for advice, find a company hiring for full stack engineers and bill yourself as someone able to learn on the backend. The company also has to be one willing to take that chance. Do not get sucked into the debates of x vs y language, and be willing to adapt to what you're working with. If your credentials are strong, you may have more wiggle room to be opinionated.

Edit: Just to add, I also transitioned from frontend to fullstack, although now I'm in the hybrid land of engineering management with coding being a bonus tool for assisting with management. My company has helped multiple engineers with primarily frontend experience transition to fullstack work (or in the case of some, even exclusively backend work). I honestly think it's not worth fussing about languages, as those can be learned - even SQL. Understand your fundamentals, and make sure you present yourself as a flexible person willing to put in the time and effort to learn and you will likely succeed in a transition.

Also I recommend avoiding being desperate to switch when job searching in such a transition - few things smell worse than the stench of desperation, which will affect your pay & negotiating wiggle room.
Then not about seven middle-eastern countries civil liberties?
I don't have 768 machines, but considering one writes a hypothetical bug report, what would be the instructions to trigger or reproduce the bug?
> And here's where I'm torn. Airbnb can no more take legal liability for individual hosts following local tax and zoning regulations than eBay can take liability for sellers hawking children's toys with lead-based paint or Craigslist to ensure the safety of their personal ads.

I think the difference in my mind is that eBay, CL, etc. are second-hand markets. They're just a digital version of the classified ads in the newspaper or a bulletin board at a coffee shop, and there's no permit required to list your old car in the newspaper.

Uber & Airbnb also have analog analogues, but they are rooted in the service industries. As this article touched on, Airbnb hosts are basically just independent Bed & Breakfast hosts. Uber drivers are just independent cabbies. In both cases, cities have had laws in place for years to address issues of safety, taxation, and oversight. The only difference now is that online booking services have popped up that will allow anyone to sign up as a provider.

I think the best approach is two-pronged. On one side, drivers and hosts should be legally required to get the necessary permits the same as any non-digital provider. They should be required to visibly post their permits and should be subject to the possibility of audit. Maybe the current laws on the books could be revised to streamline the permitting process or lower some hurdles to make it easier for part-timers, but to me that's a separate issue.

On the flip side, Uber & Airbnb should be strongly incentivized to build some checks in their system to prevent individuals from blatantly breaking these laws. Sites like the Pirate Bay have been repeatedly subject to take-downs and legal action for simply facilitating peer-to-peer sharing despite not hosting any infringing content on their own servers. It's hard to see why Uber or Airbnb are any different.
One of the great accomplishments of the internet age is allowing everyone to have a voice, therefore allowing society to realize that everyone is in fact stupid.
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Brian Beckman works for Amazon Prime Air (drone delivery service)[1]. I submit the video "First Prime Air Delivery"[2] as circumstantial evidence that it does indeed work.

[1] https://twitter.com/lorentzframe
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Prime-Air/b?ie=UTF8&node=80377...
As a side note: I have a hackintosh, with an i7 skylake, a Titian Black, 32 GB of ram running macOS Sierra and I am having an issue with sound and USB 3.0 drivers. Every time my computer goes to sleep, USB and sound stop working.

Loving the Hackintosh, but I lose a lot of my life anytime I want to change something.
Just because somebody or an organization failed to do something charitable in the past is no reason to criticize them for doing it in the future. I see this argument everywhere these days. Business change and their priorities change, just like people.
While I probably wouldn't want to go from writing code to working at a factory doing non-code jobs, I could see the advantages in programming robots for a factory in Iowa: what a two bedroom appartment cost in SF is probably what you pay for a large house or ranch in Iowa. Plus the ability to have backyard chicken and a couple free roaming dogs.
> Likely there should be some path for immigrant students to stay, but H-1B shouldn't be that path.

Perhaps they should create an exception that allows immigrant student to work for entry-level market wages for a few years after they graduate.

I mean, immigrants students will need some kind of visa that lets them work to stay here after school. It could be the H-1B, or something else.

But the only way they can stay is if that visa requires only paying what new graduates normally make.
Muninn_ You are obviously misinformed and looking to divert. I am grateful for your comment.
In that case, I fully expect to see continued activity on this front even after the next Democratic adminstration and congress continues the Bush-Obama-Trump programs that are (finally) meeting resistance.

I won't hold my breath waiting for that, though. Usually what happens is that when one's favored party regains power the criticism suddenly disappears.
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> 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

Yes, I agree . I'm pretty sure the ACLU matched donation offers I saw flying around Twitter yesterday already exceed the amount YC gives to nonprofits.

I'm more just curious if YC specified their intended target with this decision, or if they decided to leave the allocation decisions up to the ACLU. My guess is the latter, because the nonprofits YC normally funds are much younger and smaller, but maybe YC had a specific goal in mind.

> 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.

That I did not know - thanks for mentioning this!
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Your concern/question is akin to a fallacy of relative privation. Another name for this style of argument is the "not as bad as"-argument.

To answer/satisfy your concern/question is impossible without inaction. The cases you mentioned already happened and are in the past. In essence you are proposing that YC does not act to help solve this current issue, because worse issues happened in the past, and YC did not act then, so it does not deserve to act now (at least, without being accused of hypocrisy and selective outrage). This mode of argumentation results in nothing happening to solve the current issue, just by virtue of there existing past worse issues. I don't think you are really in favor of this.

As for the marketing argument, sure, I can agree this playing a minor role in this decision. But not a major one. There is not much evidence I am aware of, or that you pointed out, signaling that YC does not act in good faith. Though absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence, this alone is not a solid basis for posing that any action that YC takes is purely profit/PR-driven.

Likely, this decision was not instigated out of marketing motives, but like any good decision for a for-profit company: it aligns with marketing motives.

Another angle to look at motives for problem solving: Is the crime of having a less than glamorous motive worse than the outcome of solving the problem? Donating to non-profits makes me feel good. Is this egocentrism worse enough to stop donating?
> And who is reading the source? Your developers and a web spider.

Or blind people using a screenreader?

DIVs aren't entirely semantic, but table is semantically wrong for how it's being used. It'd be like if I asked you to "get me the pencil off that thingie" and pointed at a chair with a pencil on it. As opposed to "get me the pencil off that table" while pointing at the same chair with a pencil on it.
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Nominally, but so are other organizations that are clearly partisan in practice. I don't think anyone disputes that members of the ACLU are overwhelmingly democrats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...

It's hard to imagine this doesn't have real-world consequences, e.g., strategically choosing to not defend right-leaning speech as vigorously as left-leaning speech.
I feel like you haven't spent much time in rural America. As someone who grew up in South Carolina, it's not someplace you want to be. No one opens offices in the heartland because the cheap land doesn't offset the difficulty in attracting talent (at least for software where office costs even in SF or NYC are dwarfed by personal costs). Intelligent people want to congregate, and the regressive policies of the American south and midwest (anti lgbt, anti women's rights, rampant racism, religious cultism, and strong currents of anti-intellectualism) give people no reason to reject the call to shinnier shores. At this point the only thing that can save these communities are universal basic income and you know the republicans they insist on electing won't provide that.

Repeal the House member cap passed in 1912 and let the representatives actually proportionally represent the population (and the Electoral college too) and all of the social issues caused by a gross minority of backwater states goes away.
It's definitely a change in policy, without question. My point is that the pre-existing policy was in fact already based on the whims of one man, and that all this really represents is him changing his mind.

FWIW, I'm 100% in favor of reducing the power of the executive. Previous decisions by other executive agencies have declared things that I possess a felony without warning.
USB 3.0 has been known to interfere with WiFi for quite a while. I think Intel mentioned it when they announced USB 3.

Of course, this is a slightly different signalling mechanism (Thunderbolt 3), but basically, you have to put the spurious emissions somewhere that doesn't interfere with licensed radio services, which basically means 900MHz, 2.4GHz or 5GHz, and they picked 2.4GHz.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/universal-serial-b...
Most of the older (50+) programmers I've worked with can code up a storm and are virtually drama free. Not sure what all the shade is about!
> FreeBSD libc does similar with getenv, in that the returned environment is a snapshot of that point in time.

How does FreeBSD's libc know when to free that snapshot? (Since there is no "free the env snapshot you gave me" call.) If thread B calls getenv, how does that not invalidate the snapshot that thread A has?
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It is not contrarian. It's a valuable reminder.

A bit of historical context: America was founded in white supremacy. [1] It did better after the Civil War in the Reconstruction [2], and then things got worse again, with Jim Crow [3] in the south and ethnic cleansing everywhere else [4]. The Civil Rights Act [5] marked an era of improvement (sometimes called the Second Reconstruction [6]), but things have recently gotten worse, to the extent that many see us as needing a third Reconstruction [7].

This does not happen mostly through planned racial injustice. It mainly happens through ignorance and a convenient blindness to uncomfortable facts. We help people familiar and dear to us, and ignore the ones who aren't.

I think it's great that Silicon Valley came out strongly in favor of immigrants. They're familiar to us, and we'd be monsters to ignore our neighbors, our co-workers, our ancestors. But muninn_'s right, we have been ignoring some other pretty big injustices. And the ones muninn_ mentioned are groups historically underrepresented in tech. It's no coincidence that we started here.

As we boldly support immigrants, it's a good time to ask, "Oh, who might we have forgotten?" Companies are communities, embedded in a society. This week, we are stepping up to that responsibility. There's nothing wrong with thinking a little about what that really means.

[1] e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Era

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Reconstruction

[7] https://thinkprogress.org/rev-barber-moral-change-1ad2776df7...
> Maybe I'm too cynical and look at these moves (AirBnB, Uber, Google, etc...) as marketing moves.

Of course they're marketing moves. Corporations, especially the three you listed, do not do anything that doesn't generate profit or open the window to future profit.
Just playing devil advocate here but:

If there's at least 2 business doing this, why don't you just go to the other side and vice versa? There should be new openings everywhere everytime, and you could demonstrate that you're worth the 35% pay increase.
Right-wing trolls all hang out in the same subreddits and /pol/ threads, so they have a common set of talking points which inevitably take on a "flavor of the week".
What CSS really needs is a canonical standard, and a tool for generating CSS compatible styles for ALL browsers down to IE8. Until then, I'm more than happy to skip these new layout techniques.
Considering that the magic 8-ball has a patient, why not? (Granted it is actually an interesting patent since it solved the problem of air bubbles obscuring the answers on the answer die)
https://www.google.com/patents/US3119621
My point was that they would not have been impossible without CGI. All four of those movies could have been made prior to the mid-80s, with different technology. I chose Rogue One and Jungle Book because one comes from a family of movies that excelled in practical effects, optical compositing, and modeling and the other has a version which was made in the 1940s.

Decades ago, Finding Dory would have been hand animated (though, even that had moved begun moving to computers in the late 80s). I haven't seen Captain America, but I would guess similar types of movies existed before hand (the 80s and early 90s are full of over the top action movies and practical effects; some of which still hold up today).

Visual story telling doesn't require CGI. It might be the most pragmatic way to do things now (due to time, cost, complexity, etc.), but it's not the _only_ way.
As an Indian who spent a lot of years on H1-B visa, I welcome this move. Though while talking about this subject, one should bear in mind that "Indians on H1-B" are not a homogeneous group.

There are those, employed by the likes of AmaGooFaceSoft / Unicorns or graduating from mid-top tier universities, who will benefit by the proposed changes and who were indeed the "target audience" in mind when H1-B was linked to "getting high skilled immigrants in the US".

Then there are those who are transferred here in bulk by TCS/Wipro/Infosys/TechMahindra, who are paid the minimum H1-B wage possible, who jump from client to client across different states every now and then (true first hand accounts of my close friends) - these people are still mostly happy (cannot generalize though) to have the opportunity to work in the US for a few years and save, considering Indian salaries back home. While the individuals in this category might be getting a better deal, overall they become a pawn in "gaming of H1-B system" by Indian outsourcing companies.

Auctioning H1-B visas based on salary is a step in generally right direction. It may hurt low-paying industries relying on H1-B, but we can assess the impact on them and implement targeted fixes later if needed.
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All areas of brain research are vital to have a complete understanding of humanity. The brain is clearly a major part of how we function.
> Liberals didn't care about the Snowden leaks

Yes, lots of them did. In fact, it was liberals that organized around the information in the leaks, liberal groups that sponsors the lawsuits based on the leaks that got at least one program revealed by the leaks ruled to be illegal by the courts, liberals who kept calling for a pardon, and liberal media personalities that reached out to Snowden in Russia and broadcast his views to the positive reception from their liberal audiences.

Quite a lot of liberals criticized Obama throughout his Presidency on national security and civil liberties, and equal rights issues, including Guantanamo (even though the closure was blocked by Congress), surveillance, drone strikes, the treatment of Manning and Snowden, the initial feet dragging on DADT, the administration's failure to intervene as timely as critics on the left would have liked in various state and local law enforcement issues, issues surrounding the DAPL protests, etc.
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