skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out the "Congress" app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sunlightla...
YC is a business. They're a tech company, really. And like most tech companies, they employ a lot of immigrants. It's not hard to imagine they've been impacted by the president's recent policies. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Reddit, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Slack, Facebook, and a ton more have directly spoken out against Trump's order. It has a pretty major impact. Are all of those companies shameless liberals, too? Just playing politics? Or are they speaking out against something that will directly hurt their business?

Donald Trump's order is not conservative, and opposing it is not liberal. The order is authoritarian. This is not a conservative vs liberal fight in any way and the ACLU is not a liberal organization. If you want to be cynical about it, this is a business move. They didn't stand up in the past because Obama's policies didn't threaten their business model like Trump's do.
Not outdated (it's always been the same WebKit version as used by Safari), but security restrictions on iOS (specifically, third-party iOS apps can't JIT-- the OS won't let apps without a specific entitlement execute from a writable section of memory) prevented in-app web views from using the same Javascript engine as Safari.

iOS 9 eliminated that performance penalty-- it introduced a new kind of web view backed by an out-of-process renderer and JS engine, which, since it's Apple-blessed, doesn't have the JIT restriction. Third-party browsers updated to use the new framework can get the same performance as Safari.
I don't care how easy they are to uninstall. Why is my start menu a suitable place for ads?
The thing that is needed most is a laboratory of ideas for what will replace the neoliberal order. A corporate democracy that increases inequality and only panders to justice by gestures towards identity politics is seemingly over. What we're faced with now is either devolving into an Ethnic Nationalist state on par with Russia, or something entirely new that has yet to be described.

What needs to be recaptured is a vision of the future based on science, health, the arts, and shared prosperity. And it has to be described in actionable political terms.

We can do this. We have the majority of scientists, engineers, philosophers, and artists behind us. But we have to move quickly because returning to the kind of managed democracy we had before is no longer possible.
atop gives me everything htop does, with io information inline.
For one thing, if the rest of the representation of the document (the HTML and script part) was in the same language, maybe the CSS could be condensed with macros, or otherwise procedurally generated on the client side, all in the same syntax.
I'm glad you're not this man's counsel.
The anti-corruption campaign is the official reasoning to clean up high positions of competing groups to the current leadership. Common practice when a new leader starts.

Thus, if people think the reason is not yet known, then they are probably correct.
David Nolan and Rich Hickey. Hilariously enough, I've probably written less than 100 lines of Clojure in my life.
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Head of Let's Encrypt here. They did, but did not mention it in the article.
There is a linked, related article within this article released 10 days ago [1]. The article linked in this post is about multiple things, noting that Trump is drafting an order concerning H-1B visas along with 3 separate bills that have or are expected to enter the legislature.

The bills were or will be introduced by the following (from [1]):

1) Republican from Iowa, Democrat from Illinois

2) Republican from California

3) Democrat from California

I believe the parent may have cherry-picked, but is not completely incorrect.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/technology/h1b-reform-bill-g...
There's a large difference between XPS 13 models. The 9343 was brilliant for what it was, the 9350 was a bit of a lemon, and the 9360 is the best yet.
I've been having this argument for decades and I've been called every name in the book, been doxexd, and have had my livelihood threatened multiple times by your fellow sacred cow worshippers.

My aggression is preemptive because I know how the conversation always ends, no matter what tone is taken: The sacred cow worshippers swarms, and the heretic is destroyed. This is how this conversation ALWAYS pans out.

Always. Without exception.

So, If I'm going to get destroyed no matter how this plays out, consider my aggression an indicator that I firmly intend to attack back if you engage in mimetic hostility.

Now, with that said: here's how you end the slave/native arbitrage:

- Set minimum wage between $25-$40 an hour.

- Fix the H1B system so it stops acting as corporate welfare in the form of the cheapest labor of least resistance.

- Allow farm workers to unionize

- Loosen up commercial/industrial restrictions on housing projects and poor areas in proximity of gentrified areas and allow them to produce and manufacture goods and services to sell directly to the newly gentrified locations.

- Raise taxes on corporations who rely on an external workforce.

- Raise interest rates and force the popping of the Silicon Valley bubble AND give incentive for municipal bonds to experiment with binding autonomous labor to harvesting, mining, and construction, forcing Silicon Valley to chase actual profits in the countryside instead of filter bubble valuation within the SV circlejerk. (AKA take off the training wheels)

The order and timing of these events is a matter of political theatre, but each one of these will inevitably make cheap brown people just as expensive as natives, which will end the ridiculous moral conflations Western liberalism heavily relies on... moral conflations that cause and exacerbate modern resentment.

And for the record, the ability of your sacred cows to kill heretics is ending.
It's a prominent link in the article: Related: Bipartisan bill aims to reform H1-B visa system.

I doubt Trump can use executive order to change the H1B system like he did for his immigration order. If he does, he can expect a constitutional crisis soon.
That's not my point, at all.

The fact of the matter is that in political situations, there is a calculated risk taken by both states in a diplomatic conflict. At the end of the day it is about power and what resources are required to fight this. China has the upper hand here.

On the Chinese side, they have renditioned a Chinese-born, Chinese-made, PRC-living billionaire from a Chinese SAR that's more "one country, one and a half systems" and slipping further as China can get away with it. This man's rendition is likely part of an anticorruption initiative that started a few years back, given that it was done by Chinese security services. He pissed off the wrong people in the Party and now he is having to deal with it.

As the man is a Canadian citizen, the Canadian government now has to decide how much to protest this action. Protesting actions against their citizens requires political will and/or capability of enforcement. China has already stepped over the usual line and stolen him away anyway; will the Canadian state act? This is where I am skeptical. I don't believe that the Canadian state will find that this man is worth burning more than a little diplomacy on, maybe a protest or two.

Fighting this action requires burning political capital. There is a province in which these people have become woefully unpopular; unless a lot of Canadians get really angry, there is little reason for the Canadian state to do more than informally protest through an ambassador and at best a back room dealing or two to free him (e.g. we will share financial data on Chinese-Canadian citizens if you give us our citizen back.) Either way, by making the first move China has extracted something from Canada.

To add: I also believe that the UK will not do anything regarding this rendition. They have enough international issues to deal with re: EU/Brexit and I doubt they will feel that Hong Kong is important enough to their shrinking empire to push back on China with this.
About news: Back in the day, Groklaw did a phenomenal job covering the SCO v. world court cases (and, more broadly, the intersection of law and technology). It was run by a semi-anonymous paralegal who really cared about the cases, about the law, and about technology. ("Semi-anonymous", because her name was known, but it was a fairly common name, and her city and state were not known.)

Groklaw became the source of authoritative reporting about the SCO cases. It had analysis from lawyers, paralegals, and technologists. It had (voluntary, amateur) reporters attending hearings and giving in-depth reports, and then thorough analysis from a wide variety of people. People cared enough to voluntarily take vacation days to go to the courthouse and attend hearings, and then spend the next 2+ hours writing it all up and posting it. People voluntarily gave money to keep it all going. It was amazing.

It also was subject to significant attack, both from SCO and from trolls. It consumed the life of the paralegal running it for a decade. It was probably not sustainable.

I think that moderation is essential for any online community that isn't going to fall to the lowest common denominator, but sustainability is an issue. (HN at least has multiple moderators, so hopefully they won't burn out.) For news, multiple reporters are needed (Groklaw didn't report on a hearing until multiple reports came in, because sometimes trolls sent in false reports.)

I think the answer may be multiple small sites that each care about a focused area, and attract enough of a following that there are multiple reporters available when needed. (This probably won't work for something like foreign policy. I can attend a court hearing in my town and write up a report, but I can't get an interview with the Secretary of State and start asking uncomfortable questions.)

This isn't really a firm idea, just some thoughts and observations...
What about a new media organization focused on covering politics in a way that contributes to strengthening democracy? Is that something YC would be interested in?

I'm exploring this idea and trying to figure out how to make it work.
First point, yes on propaganda, but the failure of the Soviet Union had more to do with the inherent limitations of central planning than Marxist communism. That doesn't mean communism is a broken ideology, but rather that by attempting to refine the designs of failed communist states risks going back on the same path, instead of envisioning a new model for a community-focused ideology (in a way different from capitalist overthrow->authoritarianism->"communism").

Capitalism lends itself more towards authoritarianism, in my opinion, as the compound interest function of accumulated wealth works similarly with power. For example, wealthy Republicans support Republican politicians who lower their donors' taxes and entrench their party's power through gerrymandering and voter suppression (such as purged voter rolls, or deliberately understaffed polling places in areas with more opposition party voters).
This would be very useful, giving how easy it is nowadays to forge things. It's still a huge risk if discovered - that's why I think it doesn't happen that often - but from the technical point, every other kid knows enough Photoshop to make a convincing fake these days.

Another two things to focus on:

- a better way to get an overview of a story and its evolution - something to collate news reports in order to easy see what's the current aggregate knowledge (trivial example: see how causalty rates tend to fluctuate for the first few hours/days of a disaster, and how the blame gets shifted around before appropriate investigations conclude)

- a better way to follow redactions and corrections - it's too easy to read an outraging story that later turns out to be completely false, but to never get the memo that the story was invalidated
Finding a job as a software engineering manager is actually pretty easy assuming you can still build software. At least it is in my experience. Most great engineers don't want to be a manager...
I wasn't making a value judgement when I called it marketing genius. I see the donation as cynical manipulation. But there's no denying that as marketing it was extremely effective at generating app installs.
> to account of the law

This is a fairly generous interpretation. The more realistic view is that this is part of an on-going purge of Xi Jinping's foes. I don't think history is going to see this as anything other and this kind of thing is fairly common in China. The strict "anti-corruption" legislation gives the PRC leadership quite the leeway to punish those who they deem their enemies. This is a typical ploy in autocratic regimes.
> Hate to break it to you but someone with a PhD is not a 'new grad'

Then they'll have no problem to get a 130k jobs.

Looks like a good thing. Companies won't be able to pretend that they are fresh inexperienced workers and pay them peanuts.
Trump administration circulates more draft immigration restrictions
If you'd like to start looking at three-body problems, you might be interested in studying the Kozai-Lidov mechanism. It's a really fascinating subject, so much so that I did my dissertation on it! Here's a really good paper (one of my all time favorites) to get you started: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5244
Would this allow for better ad blocking software (no internal vpn tricks, etc), or would Apple likely reject a forked Chrome with adblocking from their app store?
You can add his blog to your RSS feed, or bookmark the articles you like and tag them (I do both).

In fact I think bookmarks are underrated, I tried various other ways of organizing information (Zim, Org, etc.) and bookmarks are by far the simplest and most effective. For example just tag this blogpost with 'math, concepts'. Then you just type 'math concepts ' in your Firefox address bar and see all related pages. If you setup firefox sync then you can bookmark pages (even from other apps by sharing the URL with firefox and using the 'add bookmark' action), and tag it later on the desktop.
You currently cannot file for an adjustment of status to legal permanent resident while on a F-1 visa.

This also includes employment-based Greencard. Currently you would need to obtain a H-1B before you could apply for employment-based permanent residency as EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 etc (assuming you reside in the US).

My understanding is that this removes the common pattern of having to get a H-1B before being eligible for employment-based immigration petitions. Additionally experience obtained during university and on the F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) would count towards the experience requirements for EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, etc.
Good. There isn't a clear and immediate consumer benefit for this regulation on a dying technology.

Quote from Ajit Pai - “the Commission should focus on ways to ditch the set-top box and embrace the video marketplace of the future.”

reductio ad absurdum - We might as well regulate music too and have the FCC tell Apple and Spotify how to build their apps and for which platforms
You could understand it as Civil Liberties in America. When the USA grants you permission to live here, and then takes it away midflight, then that's a problem with America, even if it is not a problem for "Americans".
You can oy exercise 83b if you have cash on hand in advance. Hence my comment: only wealthy founders tend to get a good deal.

And for Engineers and Designers it's even harder.

It is very wrong to treat employees as investors when they're invariably taking major income hits to be there.
The people who wrote this clearly think adherents to Islam are more dangerous than other believers.

I think it would be more exact to say that the writers believe some self-identified Muslims are sufficiently dangerous that it justifies temporarily banning anyone associated with certain Muslim-majority countries from coming into the US until we can distinguish those who wish to cause harm from those who do not. And since it's difficult to imagine how one could ever distinguish between these groups perfectly, and since other countries can be added to the list, it seems possible that this will lead to a permanent ban on Muslims entering the US.

I find their precept reasonable: there are individuals from these countries who claim to be Muslim and who intend to enter the US and cause us harm --- possibly because we bombed their cousin's wedding, killing half their relatives and maiming half the rest. It seems likely that our current approach to immigration is not sufficient to prevent these harmful individuals from entering the US.

So what should we do? Personally, I think we should stop killing people with drones, since I can't see how this is actually helping the situation. But given that previous administrations have killed a lot of people, and given that some of their surviving relatives are likely to seek revenge, is there anything we can do to protect ourselves? Or is the threat overblown, and any attempt at mitigation is worse than the damage the these (potentially non-existent) terrorists can do to us?
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Guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

I think this counts as an interesting new phenomenon.
I'm not as convinced about these cost of living arguments. One could argue that pay is higher in SF and NY because developers create more value in these locations, not because these locations are more expensive.

In short, why should someone in Wisconsin get to pay only 100k when someone in NY or SF would pay $130k, or $200k? In fact, why should an employer get to hire anyone at all, even at "market rate"? Normally, we let labor markets work freely - if you can't hire a lawyer or financial analyst to work for 100k, we don't normally say there's a shortage, we say the employer needs o increase salary and work conditions to compete properly for skilled and educated workers who have the freedom to choose where they will work. We don't say, normally "oh, ok, we'll allow you to determine the circumstances under which someone is allowed to come to the US, which you can use to get them to accept less money than they'd earn if they were free to choose a different profession or employer." That goes for most immigrants to the US as well, who arrive with the right to freely choose their profession in response to personal interests and market signals.

I'm not strictly opposed to these visas, but to me, this needs to be a slam dunk case. It should be very obvious that this is a highly skilled worker. 73k, even in a low cost place, doesn't come close to this threshold. At 73k, I think employers can go ahead and compete for the people who are free to choose their employment and career (including, of course the 1.2 million immigrants who come here every year as free and full members of the work force).

If you can't convince people to write code for you for 73k a year, I'd say it's pretty clear you need to increase the salary. You aren't anywhere close to "critical employee in severe shortage" pay and work conditions. People smart enough to write complicated code have all kinds of options to earn more than 73k a year, provided they are free to do so.
> and often done in northern climates.

In the US you often have to ask for it because the Vitamin D test is expensive and not done as a matter of course.
> If folks can get their stability, hope and pride back, they'll be less likely to turn to fake news, placing blame on outsiders and divisive politics.

Hear, hear, I think this is the key. Happy people tend toward stability for the societies they're in. I'm all for education, for anyone who wants it, as much as they want it (price and payer to be negotiated). That said, I suspect that education by itself will not fill the job supply-demand gap, nor that those educated jobs will be well-matched to the places where people live. And, if there's more to life than jobs, then maybe the jobs need to move to where people are, rather than making people move to where the jobs are. I think answers that will work will have to work for, say, everybody in the 'Rust Belt' as they are today, not as they might be if they jump through all the right hoops. For an example some people will dislike, a government run single payer health care system would take the financial burden off of employers as well as being cheaper for employees, supporting small business growth and entrepreneurship. Don't like that example? Fine. Bring on your favorites.
I use cash as often as possible at small and local businesses, because then they don't have to pay the 3-5% fee to the debit/credit card processing company.
Figures Schemers would put the colon on the wrong end just so that the property indicators wouldn't translate to Lisp keyword symbols.
Here's where software people find "loopholes" like they're looking for edge case bugs in code.

Suppose Tata pulls exactly what you describe. Do you think that stands a half a chance in hell of standing up to scrutiny by DoL?
> News: We’re facing two major issues with news. The first is fake news. The business model for online media rewards the people who get the greatest number of page views, clicks and likes. That results in a system that prizes virality over truth.

This is insanely difficult as interpersonal trust is expensive and getting first-hand information/data is extremely non-trivial. I agree that "mainstream media" (quotes because that phrase makes my mouth taste like ash) has happily devolved into BuzzFeed-style clickbait, but another parrot of AP isn't progress.

Paul Graham suggests that the best way to come into a good startup idea is to become the sort of person that has them, which I think applies to informing the public at large -- I don't think it's realistic to expect to build a revenue model off of people that will only give you their eyeballs for 20 minutes a day in the hopes of finding something to have an opinion on. I think this is a much larger, nearly intractable, problem of making societies into the types that are interested in nuance and dry detail.
Yeah ... these measures don't really address the underlying issue of scumbag executives. They're just going to find another way to pay for cheap labor, e.g., shifting revenue to countries with cheap labor. This move may actually expedite a major shift of software engineering to other countries. In turn, it could help improve other countries' infrastructure creating a positive feedback loop for outsourcing.

Unintended consequences caused by government regulation.
Paywall... =P
Given the cold shoulder he's given Taiwan's president, who is also the first female leader democratically elected in Asia, and how he barely responded to Wang Yi's belligerent behavior in Canada, I'd say Trudeau will do nothing.

When it comes to might vs right, Canada generally sides with might. To be honest, other than the US, the only country I can even imagine standing up to China for the well-being of a 3rd party is Japan.
Yeah. I'd seen that. I'm more curious about what people love/hate about it after using it, and what surprises they found (e.g. "We used Clojure in production, and here's a brief retrospective.") Thanks!
> I am rather skeptical of the commitment of certain folks who are just now finding their voice.

Who cares. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now".
It's related to both Oracle's investigation by the Labor Dept. and H1Bs in general.
His fork of the Swift repo dates back to August 29, 2016. Maybe he was hired to replace Chris Lattner?
I ran OS X on a Dell Mini 9 laptop as my primary machine for a few years. It was fantastic and I loved it.

That being said, the more I used it, the more it made me want Apple hardware. The keyboard, trackpad, screen, magsafe, etc.

I'm now using a MBA 12" and could not be happier.