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I really hope they pardon him eventually. I could be wrong, but don't most americans support what he did?

EDIT: you are probably all correct, plenty of people don't understand/care who he is or what he stands for. I still wish the government would recognize that the NSA is acting unconstitutionally and he called them out on it.
As someone else noted, "the plane, which passed above the Outer Hebrides, the Highlands and Aberdeenshire, was dispatched from the American east coast on June 24 2013, the day after Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow."
This would be a good analogy if the guy didn't know he worked for a tech company.
The best execution of a sleeper Russian agent in history, cograts KGB.
Just by using it as a regular heat source to boil water, then running the steam through turbines, like any other thermal power plant.

There are schemes to convert charged particle flux directly into electricity, but I'm not aware of any fusion power experiments that use them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion
I agree that many companies are discriminating against men in hiring and promotions, and that many managers are much more lenient toward women than men. I, too, am seeing contradictions of the statistics in many tech workplaces (e.g. 4:1 CS graduation rate, or 99:1 OSS contribution rate, but 2:1 and 1:1 employment rates).

I'm confident that the cause of this discrimination is companies' very rational fear of sex discrimination lawsuits (which only women can successfully wage), and the resulting public-relations shitstorm that results from that (but only when a woman has something to complain about). Anyone following the tech industry's news cycle over the past five years is familiar with this threat.

However, I object to your unease here at newspapers suggesting that there are differences between genders. There are obviously differences between genders -- biological and psychological.

The problem is that we have a culture that requires companies to take precautions (e.g. hiring less-abled women over better-abled men to meet lawyer-recommended quotas) to protect their interests; a culture that suppresses meaningful exploration of the differences between men and women (e.g. you're only allowed to mention possible advantages that women have) and how to handle that.

Our culture is mandating equality in all regards, at all costs, and its enforcers will stop at nothing until that's achieved. The reality is that, on average, certain demographics have innate advantages over others in a capitalist system. Gender can't go away, so the only way to achieve equality in the face of gender differences is to wage cultural-level discrimination against the advantaged.

Our culture needs to change; it's standing in the way of humanity reaching its greatest potential. I'm not sure how much further we can go while slitting our wrists at the altar of equality.

(new account because I would like to remain employed)
trying to dissuade future whistleblowers
To discourage anyone who might try something similar.
Nice app.
Please please add any sort of import capability

(You can look at simplenote export/import csv/json format)
One could make an argument for that, but I am referring specifically to the TIOBE programming language index standings - Java is ranked #1 by a fairly large margin.
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Internal recruiters(which is what I'm talking about) often times are stuck between a variety of competing interests in the company. Being sympathetic to this is only going to help you land a position. Recruiting in general is a more complex issue then just fitting a square plug into a square hole. This complexity combined with the internal politics that are at any company make for a stressed person.

Regarding the technologies other folks answered this already. If you have a candidate that can hit the group running rather then having to get up to speed that can be very valuable. I'd imagine even more so due with a startup where you have a limited runway and a need for agility.
To send a message to others contemplating doing something similar: "If you do this we'll get you".
Just return self, no else, no?
Here's some history: http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html

For years OpenVZ/Virtuozzo people were happy to keep it as a separate patchset. Their business model seems to have been based on their custom software stack, of which OpenVZ was a part. Then suddenly the rest of the world started using cgroups on Linux.
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To prevent copycats.
It's what fuses and diodes are used for. You know how when you write a program you never trust user-input? This should be the same thing, but physically. A well-designed USB port wouldn't fry the computer like it did.
Anecdotal, but I have some friends in government jobs, and they definitely have a less favorable view of him. They view him as failing to respect the proper procedures in place to surface that kind of information, and throw the traitor word around liberally.
Given all the other problems with this cable, it seems to be yet another case of an "entrepreneur" trying to make a quick buck, except this one happened to (probably accidentally) add destruction to fraud.

I still wonder, what's in the minds of people who sell this kind of crap, and where did their conscience go? I wish we'd have a reliable way of getting rid of such vendors.
Go is also better about allocating on the stack (vs heap) and provides a very solid pool implementation (sync.Pool).

Both of these can dramatically reduce GC pressure too.
For those in Europe this is already a solved problem: Europass [1]

A service kindly provided by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training [2] a European Union's agency.

It has a CV builder and outputs an standardized PDF that can even be fed back into the builder for further updates.

It is a joy when going through a pile of CVs to read the ones built by that tool, makes the job a lot easier because it allows the applicant to focus on the relevant data instead of on the layout. Better for the RH, better for the applicant, win win all around.

[1] https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/home

[2] http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/
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FYI, the plane was "Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream V" flying above 45000ft. Impressive plane.
Most Americans probably do not even know who he is.

Of those who do, I'd say roughly half support him and half think he should go to jail.
Half in my spare time, half at work I'm working on a Go web framework that tries to turn the web "default deny", and to do so with good API design that makes the default safe (so, it's a lot harder than just "write a middleware that slaps some headers on top"). I'm willing to be a bit of a jerk about cookies (if you want the client to be able to read it, say so, etc.), I'm willing to make you say "Look, just turn off CSP" if that's how you're going to roll... but even as much of a jerk as I'm being, I'm shying away from defaulting HSTS to on. I'm currently thinking of making it simply not defaulted; take a stand one way or the other, but just defaulting it to on is a bit scary.
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> Maybe at some companies. Where I work, Engineering Managers and PMs are totally separate. So Engineers have much more representation.

Exactly!
"There is a connection to offensive meanings even if it's not strictly a slur."

Honi soit qui mal y pense.
The craft was used in controversial US ‘rendition’ missions

This is apparently true, but misleading. The specific plane we're discussing was used by the CIA, but by this point had been transferred to DOJ for some time.

It's also misleading to use the word "rendition" as a shorthand for "extraordinary rendition" (which is itself newspeak for "kidnapping"). "Rendition" itself is simply the process of effectuating extradition. The term "extraordinary rendition" is doubly Orwellian, because "rendition" is the word for what a host jurisdiction does. A government cooperating in extradition renders subjects. The CIA kidnapped people, apparently without engaging any process of the host government.

To make matters worse, the CIA's kidnapping program sent terrorism subjects to foreign jurisdictions, allegedly (and almost certainly) to enable them to be interrogated by the norms of countries that weren't squeamish about coercive, torturous interrogations. The USG wanted Snowden back on US soil.

I suppose there's a coherent argument to be made that the US should have destroyed the CIA's torture charter jet, and that any further use of that particular piece of equipment is tainted by its history. To me, it's just a plane, and if we're going to do something drastic in response to the CIA's complicity (and participation) in torture, that thing should probably be a series of criminal prosecutions.

Either way, the implication that Snowden was targeted for extrajudicial kidnapping isn't supported by any evidence presented so far. So far, the facts we know about support a pretty boring narrative: the USG knew it was going to charge Snowden with crimes for which most of Europe would comply with extradition, and sent a DOJ plane to streamline that process.

It's hard to blame media outlets for reporting like this, because the story of how we came to know that this particular plane had participated in the CIA's kidnapping scheme makes for really good reading. But it's still important to know the whole story.

And this particular headline is pretty silly. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom, proprietors of GCHQ, the west's most unhinged signals intelligence agency. A DOJ plane flying over Scotland to fetch a SIGINT leaker isn't particularly newsworthy.
Most "tech savvy" people support him and how he made us aware of the NSA bs, but a lot of normal people who just watch the news view him as a "traitor" to 'Murica (America).

Sadly, people think "I have nothing to hide, so I don't care if the government/NSA monitors my internet usage/history/etc".

Personally, I think the terrorists have won in a small sense. TSA is a joke (American airport security), NSA monitors everything so nothing is really secure, backdoors are built into all devices, encryption across several companies is being questioned because "terrorists" use it (even though the Paris attacks communication were over SMS).

Edit: typos
What are the results? I've read they were going to keep the plasma stable for half an hour, have they been able to do that?
This is interesting, I'm not sure how digital ocean would be a good fit for a startup.
The video is in English. You can skip to about 38:00 and watch the ignition sequence and listen to some explanations from the speaker.
Congratulations on shipping your app. Did you consider developing smartphone-friendly version.

I dream about usable mindmapping app for ~5" touchscreens :)
If you are interested in huge bonuses up to 400k-1M a year for being a developer, then I suggest to you high frequency trading development. The problem is you'll have to move close to an exchange, but the finance industry rewards you handsomely and takes care of it's employees.
If you ask most Americans who Edward Snowden is they won't know.

Those that do know seem to largely support what he did even if the way he went about it wasn't the best.
No. Mostly. Some support him, but most polls show that Americans don't like him.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=snowden%20polls

Foreigners seem to support Snowden; however.
To your credit, the feature you're adding is far more important to me than any of the minor Evernote features the parent mentions. So don't sell yourself short.

I currently find myself stuck syncing text files using SyncThing or ownCloud or making notes in my KeePass database just to get the level of privacy I want in this.

I saw Turtl before and this makes Turtl highly appealing to me, I'll definitely be trying it out more thoroughly as it looks like mobile support has matured since last I tried it.

One thing I seem to remember having an issue with was DPI scaling support, I use 4k screens at home and at work, but everything was blurry as the apps didn't support DPI scaling - any chance this has been addressed?

Another issue I seem to remember was self-hosting, I'd most likely self-host it (though I'll definitely chip you a donation if it's all working), but I didn't see any way to configure the server used - did I miss something or has this been added now or would I need to recompile to do this?

Thanks for all your hard work.

EDIT: Just tried it again - DPI scaling on Windows is now working and there appears to be a button to change the server. Sweet. I'll be moving in to this tonight if all goes well. Thank you again. This looks like an excellent product.

I noticed your page doesn't have a donation link though and since I intend to self-host I can't send you anything, any chance you can put one up?

EDIT2:
Hmm, noticing something strange here - I thought the DPI scaling was working when I saw the notes in the main screen looked very sharp, http://i.imgur.com/BfSDcca.png but when I view notes expanded it seems to lose its sharpness. See http://i.imgur.com/gpJ7zsC.png

I'm not sure what the reason for this is but I've noticed similar problems with Atom and other browser based solutions so perhaps this is unavoidable for now, in any case it's much better than it was before.
Because it works for what people are doing. No need to be the coolest kid of the block.
I don't think most American's support what he did, because he's been painted a traitor by the government and media. It's a matter of perception and a lack of understanding.
If you use Hiawatha you get A+ with out of the box settings.

Just plugging it because it constantly outperforms my expectations and PolarSSL (now mbed owned by Arm), has avoided many of the recent openssl issues making my life less worrisome, but the dev doesn't really advertise or push it and relies on word of mouth more than anything.

It's worth checking out.

https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org
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I had a similarly dragged experience, but with mushrooms (5g dry cubensis, chopped and boiled, solo).

At first I felt that I was perceiving the chaotic source of the projection that is our reality, which was interesting. This turned into a super vivid nightmare in which I went through previous points in my life in which I had in fact died and all the following memories were just imaginations made up in the moment of death. After this I regained some awareness of where I was but was convinced I had stabbed myself in the stomach for quite a while.

The dose was quite high, but I didn't feel that I had control over any of this at the time. I wouldn't trip without a sitter again (or a long playlist queued up - only had one CD which ran out).

Afterwards I noticed that other tryptamines I tried (DMT, LSD) risked flashbacks to that experience, although this could have been placebo. I have since had positive trips :)
Sounds like you might need to unfollow a few people
The double suicide happened about 1986-1988 in Brantford Ontario. The Toronto Sun called it a "Death Party". It made the front page. I searched but my Google fu has failed me (or the news was never archived online in the first place).

I'm not going to share the name of the other friend, for obvious privacy reasons.
So I'm not really a 'recruiter' but I play one on TV so to speak. My answer is going to be wicked unhelpful: both.

Put the skill you used in the description of the job:

- Developed integrated reporting tool using CouchDB.

then in you list what your proficient at. I hate the skills section too, but its definitely helpful.
If I was building a framework, I'd probably force users to select an option, rather than providing a silent default either way.

The right option name for this is probably "Protect against HTTPS-stripping".
If only that kind of money and research was put into properly exploiting the nice big yellow fusion reactor that's already in the sky... No need to worry about plasma abrasion of Tokamak walls and magnetic confinement if that happened.
Well, it's likely it was a jet airplane as the altitude of the flight was 45,000. I suppose in this usage it was implied to be fighter-jets.
"What would be the result of that? "

(Let's ignore the obvious point - not everyone is malicious, some companies really do want to try to make sure people get correct ratings and get rid of discrimination, and aren't worried about the cost of lawsuits. These companies exist, i've worked at them)

Again, i think you missed the point (I guess i'll be more explicit when it's a touchy subject like this). If you read the allegation, women were allowed to appeal, men were not.

Someone tried to say that this was okay, because gender bias affects women more.

But it's not okay. It makes no sense. Either you believe some people are getting terminated wrongly, in which case both women and men should be able to appeal, or you don't, in which case nobody should get to appeal :)
Java is just finally recovering from the 2008 recession. Look at this graph[0] instead. You can see that Java is very slowly going down before 2008 but generally flat, then suddenly in 2008 it loses pace extremely quickly, only to then recover as the economy recovers.

Java is about as enterprisey as programming languages comes. When a recession hits a lot of organisations tighten their belts, and a lot of programming projects get put into "maintenance mode" for a few years (with programmers and managers often being laid off).

After the economy improves companies start paying for new feature development again, fix bugs that had been ignored, and in some cases migrate TO Java from something worse (You'd be surprised how old some large well-known corporation's internal software is, we're talking 1980s mainframe age).

We won't REALLY know if Java is gaining or losing pace for a few more years (assuming there isn't another recession due to Chinese-related market issues).

[0] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/Java.h...
Parse is shutting down, shall I migrate to another BaaS or Parse OSS offering?
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Are we sure that he didn't leak anything else to the Russians?
Definitely not. He's very popular abroad, but most Americans don't like what he did.
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> But that doesn't mean the government loses the ability to regulate the operation of a product just because the operation is implemented using code rather than electronic circuits.

Maybe it helps to better define what you mean as the product whose operation is to be regulated. If it's the hardware, it's a general purpose computer that can run any software. We quickly go to a bad place if you can't buy such a thing, e.g. side-loading on Android is prohibited, Raspberry Pi and RISC-V are prohibited, every device must prevent you from compiling a custom program and running it, etc.

But if it's the software then you're banning the publication of encryption code.

Obviously the confusion stems from Apple being the go-to example and Apple not only providing both the hardware and the software but also actually enforcing the kind of restrictions on what software the user can run that would be unreasonable as a requirement imposed by the government on the entire market. Apple could [try to] prevent you from using encryption software on an iPhone, but it makes little sense to require only them to do that if anyone can still run it on an Android phone or PC. But the alternative is that nobody can buy anything capable of running Debian or OpenBSD (or even Windows).

Moreover, the operation of the product is the thing carried out by the owner, not the manufacturer. Apple makes a nice machine and a big detailed list of things you can do with it but the user is the one choosing which buttons to press.

> As to your printing press hypothetical, I don't think it applies. Say the back door is something like "must keep the decryption key around in case a warrant comes in." That doesn't entail any modification to the "speech" coming out of the device, does it? So how does it restrict speech?

So there are two questions here: One is, can I have the code that doesn't keep the encryption key? If not then it restricts the speech you can receive and that of other people who want to give you that code (perhaps so you can use it to communicate more sensitive information with them).

Then there is the key itself. Keeping the key (or sending it to Apple or Uncle Sam) is compelling speech. The key is also information and the key + ciphertext is equivalent to the plaintext. It's equivalent to a requirement that you keep the plaintext of all your communications.

It would effectively be compelled written testimony before the fact. Either you keep everything written down or go to jail for not having it.
Is there anyone naive enough to think that the US government would turn the other cheek after getting egg all over its face? Of course they made extraordinary efforts to capture Snowden before he got away.
Can you give examples of what kind of low-touch reasonable-return investments you've benefited from?
Four reasons off the top of my head:

1. There's no guarantee that he acted alone and or without outside sponsorship.

2. There's no guarantee that all the information that he took was released publicly. It would be helpful to know the extent of what was taken, and who else knows it.

3. It would be helpful to know what other intelligence services have asked him/taken from him.

4 "To encourage the others"
Interesting that the promotional quote for Tradework is by Clark Dinnison,Founder of Noon Pacific, and the share url on the Tradework entry form directs to https://noonpacific.typeform.com/to/hcWhV7
The GPL only requires you to distribute the source if you distribute the binary. It does not require to open the source if you built something you're only using internally. So while distributing the binary kernel module without the source would be a violation of the GPL, just using it internally on your own servers would not be.

(IANAL, ...)
I can care about doing a good job and keeping a tight ship without having to care about company politics. A job is what you make of it. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not breaking rocks apart with a hammer for 16 hours a day, and I have some bargaining power to make my lifestyle better, so why complain? I don't understand people that have to turn work into some grand quest to make the world better. I think these sorts end up making more unhappiness than they do happiness.

A job you love is a great thing. But that job is only going to last as long as the economics work, or the company wants it to last, or if you're doing the business end as well as the technical end. Once it's gone, just find another job and work out ways to love it.
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Most Americans don't understand what he did, in my experience.

That is, I'm an American and I work with technology and from conversations with fellow Americans who don't work with technology, they have formed an impression based on media sound bites.
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Obligatory post about how the WTFPL is a poor license choice.
They (cloudlinux) do distribute the binary.
That is the issue. Not only is it essentially a magic mix made of meat, but it's also extraordinarily (and irreducibly) expensive compared to every other component/process. Whoever fixes the 'FBS Problem' will do well - but until then, these unfortunately seem to be fancy, expensive experiments.
Unfortunately the got lumped in with PVT Manning.
On-demand proxies that you spin up in 1 second.

I can spin out cloud servers in an instant.. but I have to wait days for my proxies to be activated.
The article isn't very clear on an important point: What evidence is there to indicate that the flight was made for the purpose of capturing Snowden?