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Yes this is somewhat dangerous for YC. I would like to see that this was planned before November and their support was not determined by who the president turned out to be. Combined with the outspoken politics of Paul Graham1, I get the feeling people who identify as conservatives may not feel welcome at YC.

1 http://twitter.com/paulg

EDIT: I changed "conservatives" to "people who identify as conservatives" to clarify. Some replies below referred to the philosophical conservatism, which is somewhat different.
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my T450s has coil whine but you have to be in a dead silent room to hear it, I assume it would be the same for the Dells
Mr. Obama's infamous EO package known as "DAPA" (an acronym obviously selected to try to give it a more "actual law"-ish feel) was struck down by the Supreme Court last June in a 4-4 vote. [0] The Court's opinion was one sentence long, merely stating that because it was evenly tied, the appellate court ruling was automatically affirmed.

However, the 5th Circuit's ruling [1] includes this language:

>the INA flatly does not permit the reclassification of millions of illegal aliens as lawfully present and thereby make them newly eligible for a host of federal and state benefits, including work authorization.

DAPA was, from its inception, widely recognized as illegal and it lost at every stage of the judicial process. Obama signed it knowing it would probably get struck down. Yet, Ms. Yates did not see a constitutional obligation to assume the judiciary's function to interpret constitutionality and legality as it related to these orders. Curious that.

[0] http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-t...

[1] http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/15/15-40238-CV0.pdf
I am disappointed by these kind of comments. Being contrarian just for the sake of it doesn't get us anywhere. We cannot anytime someone does something good ask why something we consider better wasn't previously done.
Nope. Just riding the bandwagon.
Uber dispatched nobody. The drivers dispatched themselves. You're saying it was Uber's responsibility to side with the strikers (who are their competition) against the wishes of their own drivers? Seriously?

If Uber had forced a strike on its drivers (without a vote no less) people would have been pissed that they were left stranded.

If enough Uber drivers wanted to strike, they would have. They didn't. Maybe they are a different demograph with different concerns. Who knows.

You know the last time Uber had surge pricing during a huge surge in demand in Australia they got a lot of shit. They said they wouldn't do it again. They kept their word.

And why must Uber be on the side of the strikers or face punishment? What about all the people hailing cabs, Ubers, or Lyfts? They are exempt from morality? Lyft picked up people too. The fact that Uber chose not to price gouge is not a support of the ban.
I've got a UN40JU6500 (40" 4K Samsung) on my MBP (15" late 2013) but it doesn't do @60, as far as I know.

Are you driving this from a Mac or from a PC? What kind of cable are you using exactly?
Consider:

(1) this could be just a trial balloon

(2) there are no other war torn countries on the list (and there are many)

(3) many of the stated reasons for this ban appear to be total nonsense, so people will start looking for alternative explanations.
Time is definitely huge. I've got one of the knock-off fidget cubes on my desk right now, a Christmas gift, but my kickstarter-backed one doesn't arrive until later today. I expect the real one to be higher quality, but it seriously got scooped.
Apple designated this monitor as the successor to the discontinued Thunderbolt Display, and they sell it alongside Macs in the Apple Store.
Because Saudi Arabia and Egypt have kept a lid on their populace by maintaining adequate internal security within their borders and providing valuable counter-terrorism intelligence to to the US, meanwhile the seven "countries of concern" have not.

Six of the seven countries are failed states and the other openly calls for the US' destruction.
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Great job! I am Canadian and donated to ACLU this weekend. Fantastic decision, guys.
> to distance themselves from the stodgy image

or, ya'know, regulatory laws.
> Maybe I'm too cynical and look at these moves (AirBnB, Uber, Google, etc...) as marketing moves.

I strongly disagree that this is purely for marketing. As someone working for one of the aforementioned companies, we are all aghast at how quickly this administration has jumped to eroding everything we believe in. These companies' moves are motivated by very real horror at the US going down a dark path.

The worst you could say about these actions is that they are self-interested, as the Muslim ban affects a lot of my coworkers in a very negative way that, say, inner city violence in Chicago does not. But it's definitely not so cynical as to be mere marketing moves.
That's not a win!

A win is having a decent quality camera, audio player and mapping device in one slim and light unit in my pocket, rather than having to make a mental effort to remember which one I need when, and have more pockets, charge more devices etc etc
How will they deal with the issues of ADA compliance, ensuring that the drivers and vehicles are safe, and compliance with local T&LC regulations like medallions, etc?
And another man's "funding startups" is another man's politics.
This logic (people should do nothing today because they did nothing yesterday) doesn't make any sense, and I don't get why it keeps coming up every time something related to Trump's policy comes up.
I don't know, but the list of countries was inherited from the previous administration.

Maybe somebody should ask Obama's DHS head?
It would be really nice if there was a stable, maintained, and officially supported virtual machine implementation for OS X. I have an insane desktop running Linux that can do anything and everything I need. However, if my needs suddenly expanded to include occasional Photoshop use (for example) I'd have to pull out my Macbook Pro. Yes, in my case I also have a Windows 10 VM for occasional use (probably Photoshop, don't know) but I'd much prefer OS X.

I understand why a Mac OS X virtual machine might not be completely compatible with Apple's overall business model but perhaps something available through the Apple developer program? Something, anything, would be nice.
Before November 2016 it was easy to be complacent- there was a sense that people with more power than us were doing the right thing to fix any given problem, so our own contribution felt less urgent. We don't have that now.
Nvidia drivers making the display go black on boot still happens every time
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I think the really important thing (that people seem to have glossed over) is the nature of this change.

The validity of a blanket immigration ban on any country is debatable (although not something I would generally support). However this change occurred in such away that it impacted people who were literally in the air. When they boarded a plane they had the right to enter the US (indeed had the right to live their indefinitely and some didn't even have a home anywhere else). When they landed they found this right no longer existed.

That is not a sustainable way to make policy - people need to have confidence when the US says something they mean it and it won't just change on the whims of one man.

If a nation tells me I have an indefinite right to remain that can't just become a thing that disappears over night. It is a thing that tells me I can invest my time, money and expertise building a life in America - taking that away with zero notice is both immoral and massively undermining to confidence in the system of government.
The travel ban disproportionally impacts the tech community, including "startups."

From the hundreds of Big 4 employees who now can't return home or travel overseas, to the 110,000 answers submitted to StackOverflow from the now banned countries, this affects the industry.
In fairness, they are an advocacy group whose activities include political lobbying.

No idea how accurate these figures are, but: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00003147...
One theory: the curiously missing countries have Trump properties.

It's entirely possible for a leader to be simultaneously corrupt and motivated by hate.
My take on this: I'm glad that the "right thing" to do is the popular thing to do. In the past, there have been trends of conspicuous consumption, bigger as better, etc., to convey social status and desirability. Mainstream culture has been moving in a direction where inconspicuous consumption, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility, and companies have been following.

Whether we do things because it looks good or is right is an interesting question. But to me, it is similar to the question of "are we kind because it makes us feel better? or because its right?".
Happy to hear this! I just became an ACLU member yesterday and I'm grateful to have an organization like them around in our current frightening times. The amount of support they've been getting is pretty awesome! :)
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Kafka is backed by spinning disks though. Am I missing something?
want a 4g dumbphone with tethering and maybe qwerty.
You can be cynical about us bringing in the ACLU, but in the words of Maya Angelou: “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
It really doesn't. It has a monetary agenda, which is not bad or good but they are doing things for the best interest of YC.
>> I'm not opposed to immigration if it's done the old fashioned way like my dad did it. Come here, apply, wait your tenure for green card, and eventual citizenship.

How exactly do you envision for this to work? "come here" how? as a tourist? "apply for a green card" based on what grounds? etc etc.

>> hire Americans first and then consider foreigners ONLY if no qualified Americans can be found in the 50 US states.

sure, sounds good in theory. in reality though, how do you propose this actually happens? hire more gov-t bureaucrats to harass companies to make sure they went from Jacksonville to Anchorage looking for candidates lol ? what if they did happen to find someone but they don't want to relocate? etc etc. It's easy to be throwing slogans out there but reality is a bit more complex.

That said - I do agree with the fundamental intent of the proposed bill as the rampant abuse of the system by big time consulting shops is very real and needs to be addressed, but again it has to be done in a way that doesn't hurt businesses they are supposedly are trying to help.
I find this sort of thing chilling when Steve Bannon talks about the alt-right being in power for 50 years and has been (pre election) doing 3 small town speeches per week telling people (by my guess including border control, the police, the Sarah Palin supporters of this world) that they are the thin blue line as society falls apart.

Watch: https://youtu.be/7nTd2ZAX_tc
And don't solely rely on node.js as a backend. It can be a gateway to backend dev but not the best option out there.
Tech firms aren't biggest users of H-1B visas
So if you used a library in a webapp, you'd have to release the changes to that library to your users, but not the rest of the app? Ok, that makes sense.
Yes, adequate internal security like with Metrojet Flight 9268, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrojet_Flight_9268
Well intentioned but misses the mark.

If this had been in place when I came to the US, me and many of my friends (petroleum, chemical, electrical and software engineers and possibly nurses, doctors, anesthesiologists and doctors) would have had to have left the US after getting STEM degrees here. Instead of this, just ban skilled immigration to the US and be upfront about not wanting immigrant skilled labor. Everyone will understand. It's your country.

However, if you want to fix the problem, however, let h1b workers move companies as freely as green card holders without having to "transfer" the visa from company to company, and let holders apply for a green card on their own after a year or two. Simple.

Solves the supply problem and balances the relationship between the employer and h1b holder to more closely match a normal employment relationship, not one where they hold all the cards and can literally decide your fate at a moments notice, forcing you to work for lower wages just so they can maybe .. eventually ... sponsor your green card or make you do more work than you should for the same reason.
I think the ACLU is going to experience a lot of growth over the next four years.
the rational is that the ban is for places where its hard to do background checks

so its places where there are currently insurgent wars going on

or places that are considered state sponsors of terrorism

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both situations complicate the ability to do background checks,

neither situation applies to most of the countries brought up when wondering why those places were left off the list
I agree. Most of the HTML I write is to create structure for CSS to use. For example, a `div` is a container, but we put it on the content side.

What would have been better would be a flat map identifier -> binary (or string or whatever, your choice) as the content, and then "CSS" (quotes because it wouldn't be the CSS we know now) would declare the layout/look and would read the content map for insertion into placeholders declared in the "CSS". I've omitted programmable considerations cause this is a HN comment and not intended to be formal proposal. Not surprisingly, the web has kinda already shifted towards this, through the use of JSON APIs in JS.
Really? Apple says, "And three downstream USB-C ports (5 Gbps) offer additional connectivity and power to compatible devices and accessories." What makes mice and keyboards incompatible?

Edit: according to this random internet stranger, it works fine: http://www.apple.com/shop/question/answers/product/HKN62LL/A...
The countries that were banned also do not have terrorism problems affecting the US.
Liberals don't actually care about anyone. How many of those protesting the refugee ban donated even $1 to their cause in the prior year? This is liberalism 101 -- cultivation of the /appearance/ of sweet, sweet, ego-stroking self righteousness. The PR stunt aspect is just the icing on the cake.
Do your own company. Hire people. Do projects for clients. I did this and I'm pretty happy. Most projects have been interesting. Some clients have been difficult, some are great and with those we stick. The team is happy. We hire young and old; finally hiring without discrimination (or so I hope) and happy about the results. Now we're in a stage where we can be picky about which projects to accept. We start having some time for our own ideas as well.

Just expect a very tough first year :-)
> Why not just have the self control to not use the phone 24/7

I completely agree that turning of notifications is incredibly valuable, and I do this myself. That being said, it's not that easy for many people who are tied to email or Slack or anything else.

If self control were as simple as throwing a switch, we'd all be Olympian heroes of might and mind, and apps/smart phones are just another example of a "utility" that preys on human weaknesses.
" It has explicit exceptions for "religious minorities"."

That doesn't make his EO illegal, and doesn't contradict the commenters statement.

The exception for religious minorities is clear: they are targeted in genocidal acts.

Christians, Yazidis and others face acutely disproportionate and targeted violence because of their religion - so in this case, it's warranted.

The Yazidis in particular, faced outright genocide - ISIS came for them, killed the men, took the women and children into slavery, those that could flee, fled.

The are a persecuted minority group, and I don't think anyone would question the need there.

Governments around the world including the US make special arrangements for persecuted minority groups - I don't think anyone has a problem with this.
> retarded

Quit it.
No, as you can see, that's just a way to get your own comments flagged. If someone writes something so bad you can't respond to it, that's what the "flag" button is for.
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I am very interested in option 4 or 5. Any ideas for a good location?
I agree with you that we should all cast a wider net WRT the charities we pick, but I'll play devils advocate because that's what I do.

There are too many worthy issues. An organization like ycombinator or like its investments (Airbnb, Uber, etc) aren't altruistic by design, but can choose to be when they see fit. That's not bad. Right now it fits because there's either some PR to be gained (like Lyft) or some looming threat to fight (H1B visas and immigration). A tactical move like this is still good for everyone even if its motivation isn't philanthropic. It's a win-win. We should look at it more as a strategic investment for the common good.
Sure. But a picture is worth a thousand words. Visual explanations are cool.
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So explain Pakistan and Saudi Arabia being left out?
And have the taxi company report it immediately to the cops when you weren't the proper operator of the vehicle on the radio. The cops and the company would then use the vehicle's GPS system to track you down and find you in record time - as I've seen and heard happen in NYC.
I'm not an expert, but I thought safe rust had guaranteed thread safety?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/concurrency.html
It looks like you posted the Bloomberg link again the second time, not the Vanity Fair link
You might want to ask Obama why he left them out in 2011.

But considering the existing bullshit rollercoaster, you ask why MORE countries weren't banned ?

This video presents all points of hypocrisy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNu4xU9qOEM
Yes - good point. I think the wrapper approach can still make sense for CLOEXEC sometimes, but you should absolutely always ignore what I said about using it for the environment ;)

Never having needed to do exactly this myself in practice, I'd quite forgotten about the ...e functions.
In Zen training, one of the fundamental thought-patterns (if you want to call it that) is examination of the self. To be more explicit, it is sometimes posed as the question "who is it that is doing the thinking?" "who is the observer and who is the observed?"
I thought that this changed recently? It's now, at least theoretically, quite easy for spouses of H1B visa holders to apply for permission to work.
Not trolling, but I don't think those required the same magnitude of capital. Your examples didn't involve going up against the federal government. The ACLU got something like 24 million dollars in the last week, but the Koch brothers pledged to spend $300-400 million in the run-up to the 2018 elections. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/jan/28/koch-political-netw... (Worth noting the Koch network actually disagrees with Trump over the immigration ban https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01...)
I also wonder where they were when the Snowdon revelations of of the massive NSA spying campaign under Obama were released.
...and this, in a nutshell, is why a lot of people voted for Trump.
I bet he would.
the countries chosen were done so by the Obama Administration and already had travel restrictions in place since 2015. Trump's EO merely put a 90 day ban on such travel.
>but I gotta give a shout-out to descriptivism: if you can understand what's meant, maybe it's not incorrect!

I can understand what is meant from 8-bit recordings of a voice. But I'd rather have 16 or 24-bit recordings and even more nuance and information.
There is a great graphic on this page that shows that the 5 biggest tech firms together would only be the third biggest user of H1-B visas.
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Is the server part (clickbait-detector.herokuapp.com) open source as well?
They already can, in the current system.
The seven countries have been either failed states or antagonistic to the US for the past 30 years, it is quite plain to say that it makes sense for Trump's companies -- and various other companies across a wide swath of industries -- to refrain from conducting business.
> "eroding everything we believe in."

> "the Muslim ban"

This sort of exaggeration probably doesn't help anyone.
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> I remember when HN did not have a political agenda.

Discussing politics is not the same as having an agenda.

> Right or wrong, this used to be mainly about startups.

I don't recall such a time and I've been here quite long.

> Now its become a highly political message board

This is most likely a reaction to real world developments involving a large number of HN participants.

Just like HN isn't a San Francisco local affair and yet when BART has issues you can expect it to be upvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7774764
Y'all are spot on with the moderation. Good job.
Actually, no - every medallion cab in NYC is required to have the driver's name, license number, and picture posted where the passenger can see it. I can, in theory, check any cabbie's license before I set foot in the taxi.
Furthermore, you can easily use JSX in Mithril the way you do in React, and in React you can also use the JavaScript syntax instead of JSX (e.g. React.DOM.div).

Reference: http://mithril.js.org/jsx.html
The ACLU sued to protect the rights of neo-nazis.

That's not how most "just a left-leaning political organization"s behave.
I think the point is not being a slave to your impulses in general, and not just to the mindless ones.
This is an interesting point. As an outsider to all of it, I'm curious if the open source work Pixar started and Disney has continued in standardizing various asset pipelines is helping, or at least might eventually help the landscape here.

Again as a relatively pure outsider, it is interesting to watch the internal competition between Disney Feature Animation's renderer [Hyperion] and Pixar's RenderMan, and similarly have been curious about how much of that externally visible open source standardizing work on at least the pipelines leading to the renderers contributes and/or constrains the friendly seeming internal rivalry. Similarly with Disney now owning ILM, if ILM has or has not been building on top of some of the same production pipeline standards...

Historically, a lot of the benefit to the Hollywood studio system was that a lot of the parts were standardized and interchangeable between studios. While a lot of studios did experiment with innovations in camera technology, very few studios had to reinvent the camera from scratch.

Given how many special effects houses work on a blockbuster level film these days, I would imagine that the efficiencies in shared asset pipelines between corporate boundaries would eventually win out. It seems silly (at least as an industry outsider) that every company working on, for one example, an Iron Man film would have a different set of models/textures/shaders for Iron Man. (I get that on the one hand it's a bit like stunt work in that you don't need your A-list actor in every stunt or B-roll shot, but on the other hand, digital "actors" don't get fatigued or injured and can be in multiple places at once, they don't need body doubles/stunt actors...)
Because hacking your attention works. It's like saying "I'm not susceptible to cigarettes so all that anti-smoking stuff is unnecessary."
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.

>Why weren't we funding the ACLU to help these people?

Well, I think that's easy to answer. People care more about causes when it affects them personally.

For better or for worse, few of us are strict utilitarian maximizers. I haven't quite settled how I think about it, myself.
So, is it like error compensation in interpreting sensor data?
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