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>It just didn't occur to me that one of my responsibilities (?) would be to keep up with current immigration legislation

Unfortunately, you do have to do that. As a green card holder, I try to keep in touch with any potential changes in legislation. Incredibly boring since most often nothing new, but for example the Patriot Act added a bunch of new requirements for non-citizens.

>just in case the rights I was initially awarded indefinitely would suddenly be changed in a way which is disruptive to my life.

This can happen, and is not limited to immigration. Someone can build a business and face issues years later when the government adds new regulations. Couples adopt kids from abroad and then see the rules change and face a lot of troubles (happened to one of my friends who adopted from Russia). Laws change.
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I'm going to have to disagree with your points:

> First, as the top 10 chart in the article shows, the gaming money in Kickstarter is mainly in miniatures not in board or card games.

That non-mini board games don't dominate gaming money on kickstarter is irrelevant to whether kickstarter is pushing the current market in board games. About board game dominance on kickstarter, though: it seems to me that kickstarter funds more card and board games than any other class of things.

> Second, a large proportion of the games that get funded are traditional publishers using Kickstarter as an alternate preorder and marketing system, usually with absolutely tiny goals.

Those traditional publishers seem to be publishing 2-3x as many games as they were publishing pre-kickstarter, and/or have moved to an entirely kickstarted model, basically becoming kickstarter companies (Queen, Eagle/Gryphon, etc.) It's not the preorders that are so important, but the free, instant crowdfunded credit.

> A third decent sized chunk are reprints for old games, which while nice to have are hardly a sign of a renaissance.

When many of the classics of gaming were only available from 20-year-old German 2000 game print runs for so long, this can seem like the definition of renaissance. Virtually all of the bgg.com top 100 are in print. 5 years ago, a lot of those games (the ones that existed) would have cost a small fortune. With every passing day my collection becomes less valuable, but more people fall in love with the board games I like.

> What's left tends to not have much impact, or even be any good.

Agreed, but within class that are buried amazing designers like Martin Wallace and Phil Eklund, who have used kickstarter to become largely independent of the big publishers.
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>> If you've built software that generates constant support escalations when deployed, you need to fix that software so it does not do so!

It has been my observation that this is a conscious decision. If you can build a culture where you can have people being willing to show up for work at all the odd hours as the norm then you can afford poor software practices. In places like these rushed software that has bugs but meets the majority of the use cases well enough is what is expected. And you ARE expected to show up at odd times to fix what breaks.

I mean, its not as if it costs the company more to have you come in late or have you working at all the odd hours. They still pay you only what they pay you. To hell with your work life balance - it's not as if doing this as had any blowback in terms of attrition.

This person seems to have remained in Amazon for over 6 years - where they likely created millions of dollars in value in return for whatever money they made.

If you grow a backbone and turn down the calls at odd hours, you can expect to receive blowback and unreasonable treatment from a direction you didn't expect.
> It sounds like this vendor is chasing CERN though, despite it being the fault of an individual not employed by them.

The student was working on a CERN project from "within" CERN (how would the software vendor have known to contact CERN otherwise?)
If you have Italian or Spanish grandparents it would've been easier to apply for either of those passports and then you're granted to work and live in the UK forever.

In the UK, voting aside, it's easier to live with a EU passport than with a UK one. And cheaper, by the way; renewing your UK passport is prohibitive.
You missed the entire point of the article. You know how the banknotes say "I promise to pay the bearer on demand", which basically means that the Bank of England promises to always pay you the amount stated on the banknote,no matter how old it is?

Yeah, that's basically what her visa was supposed to be - when she was issued one by the UK government the government made a promise to grant her an indefinite right to stay in the UK and not require any further permissions. Except that they did. They introduced this new mechanism for all immigrants which means that she effectively lost what was given her by the government once, even though the government promised to never take it away. That's the problem.
Total tangent but the color cells reminded me of Fair Isle knitting, in which some of the most colorful knitted sweaters you've likely seen are done using only two colors on any given row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Isle_(technique)
CERN licensed the software exactly that way. They aren't Joe Random User. They have a purchasing department that can negotiate back with the vendor.[1] Then the student wanted to override CERN's negotiation with the vendor.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
This type of thing is called speculative invoicing in the UK.

CERN is throwing the student directly to the company. The student will probably be unable (financially) to fight the speculative invoice in court.
> Why don't research organizations and international conventions have strict policies of using only free (as in freedom) software?

What are they to do when no such "free software" package exists? Stop research? Spend years trying to build one when there's a known industrial package available off the shelf?
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Yep. Actually you can even self-sign certificates and you'll probably be fine as long as it's not a production launch. For better or worse most users are just click through the browser warnings anyway.
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Galeos, you might be hellbanned? Your previous comments look fine, but your CUDA comment is dead. It could have just been downvoted or flagged to oblivion, but that would be surprising for what seems like a pleasant and useful recommendation.
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Well, if the troublemaker is allowed to show the code from his own laptop, you might not see the problem.

Normally, when we do code reviews, I just ask for the repository location and branch or tag name. I check it out myself to review before we meet as a group.
Is there some version of the article that names the student that 4 or 5 people have read? Or are people just seeing the name of the Licensing Officer at CERN and confusing it with the student's name?
> I've seen many photographers who ended up with the exact same behaviour

Total different scale. One photographer vs thousands of infringers is different from team of lawyers vs one casual infringer which is also a good customer.

> A 3~5x infringement surcharge isn't outrageous.

We'll have to disagree there. The copyright industry is the only industry on earth using multiplicators as liberally as this, for "damages" that are very hard to prove in the first place.

> CERN suffered no damages, they forwarded the invoice to the student.

Yeah, and that's a dick move as well. The student clearly did wrong, but CERN might have had a responsibility by not monitoring what this student was doing (why did he have to install the software himself? Where was the sysadmin? Why is he allowed to use his own laptop? etc etc). They acted like Pilate, and that's not good in my book.
As a UK citizen (but no longer resident) it really baffles me how expensive and complicated it is to get documentation from the government for seemingly common place things.

Last year I had my passport stolen while I was travelling in Italy. Getting a passport issued when you are living outside the UK can take months, so I decided to go back to my parents. As the UK is outside the schengen-area I wasn't able to travel there without a passport, so had to book an appointment at the British Consulate in Milano. Three days later I turned up and they issued me an 'Emergency Passport', this is pretty much the same as a normal passport except smaller as it is for a single trip, and costs £95 [0].

When I got back to the UK I booked an appointment, the earliest they had was 4 weeks later (you can't get a replacement for a lost or stolen passport under the 1-day service). On the day I travelled up to London (~£50 by train), paid another £103, came home and waited a week for it to be delivered.

Earlier this year I got married (outside the UK and my current home country) and needed to get a "Certificate of no impediment" to say I am legally able to get married. On the gov.uk website it says I can do this at the consulate nearest to where I live, but they said I needed to do it at the consulate nearest to where I intended to get married.

So off I went there, handed in the form and paid the £65 fee. This then got displayed somewhere for a week so people can oppose it if needed (not that anyone in this country knew me...), and then I went back, paid another £65 and got the certificate. I also needed to get my birth certificate legalised - which can only be done by sending it back to the UK...

[0] In the local currency at a rather poor exchange rate.
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Yep I got dinged for coming into work at 11am when I had stayed till 11pm the night before and had done weekend work. Fuck exploitation.
Honestly, it doesn't matter what SV people think. If they want to claim this isn't true, they're essentially claiming a mass employee conspiracy. Let's see, a mass employee conspiracy against Amazon or Amazon, a large company, treating its workers like shit? Gee, I wonder which one is more plausible.
> The proper way to handle this would've been to say "Hey! Your site license doesn't cover this. Please don't do it again, as we depend on that license revenue to pay our bills to write great software."

That's mostly the proper way to get people to not care and end up killing your business anyway.
...and that's not to mention their systematic tax evasion. I agree that the human cost is the bigger problem at the moment, but i really get worked up about the multinationals earning massive profit and paying single-digit percent taxes. That's another rant, though.
Not exactly:

http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/#addendum
Agree absolutely with your sentiment. However, CERN's kind reaction is not atypical and is usually extremely self-serving.

This kind of minor stuff is often seized upon to demonstrate self-righteousness and establish a defense for future claims. For example, in a large company in which I worked (tens of thousands of people), someone at my site installed some unlicensed utility, which I think was worth like $200, on his laptop, just to check it out - it was something he didn't even need. The utility phoned home, the author company wrote a letter - not even a rude or threatening letter, just an FYI - to the large company. The next day, the large company made a huge show of having security meet this guy at the entrance with a box of his belongings, and sending a mail to everyone about how they just fired someone for unlicensed use of software, filled with some of the same sanctimony used by CERN. Everyone thought this was ridiculous, and that there were better applications for the high-mindedness.
>And now he might die, because of the leak.

Isn't this akin to blaming Snowden/Manning for diplomatic fallout instead of blaming those who were engaging in the wrongful practices that led to the fallout.
Oh they are not telling us her name. They must be telling the company if they are to extract the payment from her though.
> It just didn't occur to me that one of my responsibilities (?) would be to keep up with current immigration legislation, just in case the rights I was initially awarded indefinitely would suddenly be changed in a way which is disruptive to my life. It kind of scares me to think that things like this can be changed on a whim. I don't really know what to think.

Life involves keeping a lot of different paperwork up to date: driver's licenses, passports, tax filings, car registration, etc. If you're an immigrant, keeping up those documents is a part of that too. I'm a naturalized citizen in the U.S., so I know dealing with the paperwork can be a pain. But the U.K. didn't pull a fast one on you. The BRP doesn't change your right to work--it's just a document you need proving your right to work. There are also other documents you can use: https://www.kent.ac.uk/hr-managementinformation/documents/el... (page 4).

And the BRP is not new. They've been rolling them out since 2008: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm.... All the U.K. changed this year was the policy of accepting an ILR stamp on an expired passport as an acceptable proof of work authorization. You can still transfer that stamp to a new passport and use that as acceptable proof, without getting a BRP.

Note: In the U.S., and probably in the U.K., even citizens have to have some sort of work authorization documents: http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf. Usually a passport, or drivers license + social security card.
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Its possible I misunderstood. Pointing out the word "you" does bring out a different context for me.

Thank you for showing me that.
I've got to strongly disagree with your stance about not discussing this in text form. Nuance is even more subjective than text. I'll go much further and say that if you can't express your view in text, you need to think about your view more because it isn't well formed.
I think the problem is that complex ideas can't always be expressed in soundbite form. HN is better than Twitter but it's just not the forum for rational debate.
I'm think disagreement is not about privacy per se, but rather the absolute moral correctness of our legal principals. E.g. other people in this article have commented that people who have affairs deserve to be punched in the face (which is also illegal).

I think engineers tend to place higher values in legal principals, because (a) we tend to prefer rule based solutions and (b) the tendency to allow exceptions to the law also results in school bullying, which nerds have a greater experience with.
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CERN did a grown-up negotiation with the vendor to come to an agreement. The student then violated that agreement.

If I get caught taking a $5 item from a store in my pocket, should I just be able to pay the $5 and say "hey, we're all even now."?
I doubt he's specifically looking for Angular jobs or likely any job at all. It's likely he's getting contacted by recruiters or just seeing job ads. The current trend is react but I run across node+angular postings regularly.
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>marital infidelity is unethical even if it isn't illegal

Marital infidelity is illegal in 21 states in the US, and many other countries as well. For many individuals this is not just an ethical concern, but a legal one as well.
"I don't mind if the government can read my emails, I have nothing to hide."
Why not? They spam this place every week or so.
As opposed to "Fuck these guys"? Even if their software isn't replaced with an open source alternative, this buys enough bad will to have someone patch their binaries to prevent them from calling home and distributing them via torrents. That seems far more likely to kill their business.
It's a bad thing if you wanted to minimise environmental impact (and space requirement is a part of that) or maximise transport security. You are free to make any tradeoff you want, but in this case the environment has to suffer the consequences of your choice. Externalising costs doesn't make them go away.
>so that his managers would not worry that his home life was impacting his work ethic

It isn't on the employee/spouse; this is why you have managers that sometimes have to tell employees to go home. We're so fearful of losing our jobs that we bend over backwards for employers. This is what happens when employers have an advantage.

>I know some upper management probably look down on this

So your boss is fine with it but your boss's boss may not be. At least you aren't living in fear of losing your job.

>I realize keeping this balance may disqualify me from ever becoming VP of engineering

Why should it keep you from becoming VP of engineering? That's messed up.
I'd say the EV provider should reject such a wildcard.

CertSimple argues (https://certsimple.com/blog/wildcard-ev-certificate) the EV restriction on wildcards is to prevent google.com.fraud.ru from getting an EV certificate. The single-level wildcard restriction already prevents that.
Impact Team are being disingenuous - if you want to punish a liar you don't attack those who were fooled by the lie. More importantly, we don't know why a particular user was registered with the site - there are legitimate reasons why they may have used it including checking whether their partner was active on the site or using it at a time they were single for hook-ups. This leak will potentially destroy or taint innocent peoples relationships.
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Why are the actions of CERN and the University cowardly? Neither institution decided to use unlicensed software, the student did. He, as an adult, should be held accountable for his choices and his actions. I do agree that "AllSIM" are being heavy handed...
since she gave consent I don't believe this is cheating. In fact he could go on any dating site and check off "married" or "open marriage" status wherever available.
Are you planning to support smartphones / tablets?

A single attack button would be very useful on these devices, not sure how you are going to handle directional attacks though.
I lived in Berlin and knew many Indian and African software professionals who moved to Berlin for a specific job and very much considered themselves (and were considered by others) to be expats. I understand what you're saying, but in practice the usage of these terms doesn't break down in the way that the Guardian article would lead you to believe.
That's a legitimate point and is best solved by more EV capable CAs entering the market. Which we're working towards.

We're also doing some future work to make EV more affordable. I'll have more to announce in the next month.

In the meantime, EV works out to be around $20 a month, which is not significantly different to what you pay for GitHub Enterprise or Trello.
Let me guess: 3-5 years from hitting the market?
>Who are you to judge how people live and should their lifes?

S/he is just like all the other people who engage in electing law makers that create laws that control how we live. Part of being in a democracy like government is that everyone gets a little say in how we all live our lives with a majority rule. Things like constitutions might mean a super majority is needed for some things instead of a simple majority, but the right to have a say is still there.
EV requirements reject all wildcards: the EV applicant must specifically list all domain names.

Re: your edit: as the other poster notes, the DV cert would have to be for '*.com.fraud.ph'. That's entirely possible though.
> CERN suffered no damages

Well their own blog post will damage their reputation quite a lot.
> Depending how the original license cost

Since the student had access to the software with a more restrictive license, they should have charged only the price difference between the two licenses (or some reasonable surcharge of that, as you suggested). Also I assume these licenses are multiuser licenses, charging the full license price is kind of unfair.

In the end what is the intention of the software company? They probably only want to enforce the license so nobody uses their software illegally. It's irrational to get a revenue from these cases. 1000 CHF from a student I think is a big enough hit to discourage the illegal usage of their software among students, really, and they wouldn't send a student to deep dept.
What about those who were on the site with the consent of their partner (swingers, poly, etc)? People who were single and on the site looking for a short-term fling? People just there out of curiosity, or signed up impulsively one night and deleted ("deleted") their account the next day? I would guess the number of married people who signed up, contacted someone, and had an affair through the site are actually in the minority (given the typical funnels for this sort of site, and all the hidden fees involved)

There are going to be a lot of very embarrassed people who committed no adultery.
From my understanding you're not "working illegally", but you need this new card, that's it

Other countries, such as Ireland have a similar card (it's called the GNIB card - it's not as expensive as the UK but not cheap as well - also delivered much faster)

"just in case the rights I was initially awarded indefinitely would suddenly be changed in a way which is disruptive to my life"

This happens to citizens as well in several ways.
Yes, that sounds reasonable to me. No harm done, literally.
Yep, and that should be minimum wage, not "good working conditions for highly-paid white collar workers". [Edit: sorry if the tone sounds bad, no intend to offend]

Disclaimer: I'm a highly-paid white collar worker.

There's enough competition in the tech industry that this isn't a problem, let the market regulate itself in this case, it's working. I wouldn't work at Amazon under those conditions, but if some people would, let them.
> You can still transfer that stamp to a new passport and use that as acceptable proof, without getting a BRP.

Only if you are outside of the country:

> You’re in the UK: You can’t transfer your visa to your new passport. Instead, you’ll need to apply for a biometric residence permit (BRP)

https://www.gov.uk/transfer-visa
Thanks for your comment, and my sympathies to you. As someone who is not even comfortable with my own country's passport requirements (fingerprints to be taken in Netherlands, processed in France by a US company), I can only imagine what it's like to live as an immigrant in modern-day Europe (I have no illusion that the mainland fares any better in this regard).
On the other hand, small companies waste $$$ hiring people to spin up landing pages and build small widgets that could have been bought off the shelf (email forms, payment forms, payment integration are all plugins).
I honestly believe that one of the CTOs at my previous employer has followed that guide to ensure the security of his job.

He wrote an entire custom framework for their SaaS platform. I couldn't believe my eyes when I started work on it. I think I lasted 4 weeks before I gave them my 2 weeks notice.
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They haven't named the student concerned. RTFA.