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> Perhaps, if you like the thing so much, you could explain why

I am an avid Atom user who acknowledges how slow the thing can be. None of the slowness on my end approaches any of the horror stores in these threads, but for me, opening the program from a cold boot takes long enough for the wait to irritate me, the first time I save any file after opening the program takes a second or two, and opening a new window takes a second or two.

However, I stick with Atom for a few reasons.

First, Atom is like Sublime Text, but nicer. It has real settings pages! It has a built-in package manager! And although you might consider the fact that it's written in what is essentially a web browser to be a downside, there is a huge upside in that packages can create interfaces with that flexibility that Sublime Text simply can't match - compare something like this https://atom.io/packages/php-debug with Sublime Text's best-effort https://github.com/martomo/SublimeTextXdebug . Not only is trying to assemble an interface out of text buffers not as flexible as a webpage, they also tend to be brittle and break in odd ways if you do any window manipulation on your own - this is actually a complaint I have about Emacs and Vim as well. Also, it just feels like Atom's plugin API is more complete in general - I remember there being a Sublime Text package that required making a copy of your theme so it could add its own styles, and I haven't seen anything similarly hacky in Atom yet.

Second, Atom is open source. I had bought both Textmate and Sublime Text and both of those editors had updates slow to an absolute crawl to the point where it felt like the developer had abandoned them. I feel like Atom being open source makes it less likely to be abandoned completely, especially considering how vibrant the community that has sprung up around the editor.
> which is a bad idea for other reasons that I hope will become clearer later this year

You're speaking with two people involved with the project, so if you're able/comfortable with talking in more depth about it, my PGP ID: 0x4D4C724C4BFB3E3F
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It's not just javascript, it's also CSS (well, actually less). I disagreed with where atom put some of its controls, and I just put some CSS in to move them. It was easy.

I understand the question about "why use atom when st3 is perfectly fine?" (or for that matter, vim, emacs, etc). For me, it's primarily the plugin ecosystem. ST3's is good, atom's is better (and feels like it's growing faster but that's anecdotal, not data-based).

Also, in my situation (plugin-wise), atom is super-fast. My source files are usually less than 100kb, usually significantly so, though.
Disable JS and try it...
Isn't this Blogs + Link Aggregator/Forum ?
I know what you mean. I've stopped reading Google news almost entirely.
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There's nothing quite like neutering the Secretary of State to improve National Security.
You make great points. I'm not 100% sure about what will happen if Apple loses this case, or if Congress manages to pass anti-encryption laws in 2016.

All the more reason to educate the public now about how encryption works.
Indeed.

Let's say Apple is forced to bake a back door into their devices.

Criminals and people who care about privacy will use their own encryption tech (they probably do anyway) and life goes on for them.

Eventually the govt's backdoor is abused or cracked. The people grow fretful. A truly secure device from somewhere outside the US gains market traction. The US tech industry's shrieks gather volume.

The govt realises the game is up and allows Apple devices to be secured again.

This issue is not one that demands that anyone fall on their sword. Even if the govt gets its way, no-one will be killed or even harmed. Eventually the natural order of things will be restored.
Yea! There is a weekly newsletter to curate popular/interesting papers that come out. (The form is at bottom of the page)
Seems to me like you're suffering from "I can't replicate it therefore it does not exist and everybody else is either lying to me or a complete idiot."

You haven't actually called anyone out as liars or idiots, but your lack of belief of what they are communicating to you and the tone (from what I can gather) of your responses speaks for itself (whether or not that was your actual intention).
SF wants Airbnb hosts to pay taxes on beds, stoves and cutlery
They could do with a startup founder visa really. Maybe allow people to hang out and launch companies for a year or 2 and allow conversion to a long term visa if they employ a few Americans. Bit like a relaxed version of the E2 visa.

Edit - I read to the bottom of the article and see they tried to bring something like that in with the "EB-JOBS Act of 2015" which didn't get through the political system.
I've seen speculation that this is related to tls, possibly an upgrade to support tls 1.0 or sha2 keys.
Most computer games these days have terrible AI. I'm starting to think that it's intentional. Otherwise I would fare much worse in the game.
Sure, they can, but this entire case is about precedent. If Apple can't win this kind of fight, what do you think will happen to the developers of those encrypted communications tools; or encryption products across the board.

Remember Truecrypt, Hushmail, Lavabit, etc? Too small to fight back.

That's why so much rests in the outcome of the fight with Apple.
> Cross-platform
They can make refusal to decrypt a federal felony.
LOL. Where did you get that?
that's totally fair, but you are dependent on transport layer security implementation no matter what.
Because many of them came to the US to study because of being able to work here through the OPT/H1/GreenCard/citizen route. Same with many top professors, researchers and tech execs like Nadella, Gundotra, Pichai etc.And many people on this list too like the inventor of USB etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_Americans
Ah, I overlooked that.

Though - without checking the original questions - that still suggests an element of "came for JS; stayed for Node".
I'm not a U.S. citizen, and obviously one day I hope to be one of those U.S. Billion-Dollar startup founders and I would appreciate a VISA if it would help me achieve that, but there's something shaky with the premise here.

Why does the U.S. need to depend on the ~80.000 odd first order immigrants per year to generate that amount of wealth. Couldn't the U.S. somehow draw those ambitious out of its current population?

What if people could 'emigrate' from Detroit to California? They'd basically be refugees from a low-opportunity environment as well.

Or is it not the fact that they came from a low-opportunity environment, but rather that they came like Bill Gates from the tender love and care of rich/succesful parents, and being born abroad was just a small hurdle?
They are more like upper-middle classes (not upper classes).
My bias is my personal relationship with engineers abroad who are paid fractions of what we are. I am completely aware of my own bias and do not consider my position to be the "universally correct" position. I don't think such a thing exists.

Having a bias is the same thing as having an opinion. We are each free to have our own opinions and preferences. Disagreeing is part of this, and even if we disagree about our own preferences, I hope that we can empathize with where the other party is coming from and what the basis of their opinion is. To have an opinion is not to be a hypocrite, to borrow your words.

What I do find to be self-contradictory, is when many Bay Area tech workers support protectionism for their own interests (immigration) but oppose protectionism that oppose their own interests (housing development). There is a glaring lack of empathy for why someone could reasonably and justifiably hold an anti development position (anyone who opposes development is automatically a NIMBY, just as you pointed out that I have generalized all tech workers who oppose immigration to be doing so out of their personal self interest -- which is a gross simplification that I apologize for making). Similarly, when they demand empathy for their housing plight, they do not share the same empathy for their fellow engineers who similarly want to have access to greener pastures. But despite the lack of consistency, I can understand why they would take each of their positions.
The huge problem with your analogy is that what you're describing is saying 'no' to a feature that can't exist or else it is inherently a security backdoor.

The feature that Clinton wanted was not inherently a backdoor. The feature even existed and Obama was given the solution. Obama's blackberry proves that a legitimate need existed and there was a secure solution to it. But Clinton was told 'No' and this is the kind of situation where it leads users to simply bypassing the security.

You can't justify the 'No' response to Clinton on the basis of your 'No' response to a diagnostic backdoor. The fact that you can't see the difference in the two circumstances is why the security industry has a credibility problem, and why you've probably got a credibility problem.

Unlike your example, a secure solution existed to the problem. Obama used it every day. Clinton was told 'No' and she chose, like many users do, to view it as a broken policy rather than as a legitimate security concern--because it probably was.

Some users are dumb and want stupid broken things and have to be told why they can't have it. Other users are pretty smart and know when the reason they're being told 'No' has more to do with petty government feuds and bureaucratic infighting.

Your post sounds like a well-rehearsed speech, and I suspect that you've used this a lot to say 'No' to requests--are you certain that all of those cases have been as legitimate as the case in your speech? I tend to doubt it or you wouldn't have posted it here in a case that shares little of the same circumstances.
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Considering how well-paid developers are on average, $70 hardly "crushes" anyone's wallet.
It just doesn't work this way, the bad code stays there.

I read this differently. I didn't feel the author is saying the code is bad or "fast and dirty" to be cleaned up later so much as limited in features. Do limited features along the stack to get the whole toolchain in place before adding more features.

There's recent image with respect to UX which I think is relevant here
https://twitter.com/jopas/status/515301088660959233
Not quite so sure. I was a startup cofounder (never made it to billion dollar though :), and came to the US via grad school on an F1 visa, which then morphed into an H1B, and am now in the process of getting a green card.

I know this is a very common path.

Regarding the class thing: my grandparents were blue collar workers who never went to high school, my parents were engineers.
Then it looks like the components of proper job allocation are competency and need, subject to whatever regulations (if any) a democratically elected government imposes.

It's not hard to imagine situations where someone who is the most competent person for a job would not get the job because someone who needs the job more should get it.

And, come to think of it, the government would probably be involved in the definition of "need" too. So that's a new regulation I guess. Elected lawmakers would be subjected to the will of the voters on that issue too.
ha, ha:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueseed
We already use glue extensively in glue lam products, basically huge beams that are a bunch of small wooden beams glued together. No reason that we couldn't glue the connections together as well.
The WSJ article specifically mentions H-1B visas. The Wall Street Journal often editorializes in support of more guest workers.

Professor Norm Matloff presents a detailed critique of the H-1B visa : http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html ...
"The H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap, de facto indentured labor."

I'm not sure how lean, garage startups feel about Venture Capital's special access to guest workers for their competing "Billion Dollar Startups".
I would guess that their views are little more nuanced than the Wall Street Journal's take on it.

The biggest H1-B employers , are in fact, outsourcing firms : http://www.businessweek.com/table/08/0305_h1b.htm . Their frequent editorials often fail to mention this.
Most of the delays, problems and incompatibilities do not happen in C code.

It happens because nobody stopped to think about an interface, or because a configuration file or shell script does not handle an error correctly, or because, since nobody wanted to create a sane error handling system, an script has no option but just keep trying and trying.

I do agree that most of the software on one's computer shouldn't be written in C, but those are not the problems this migration would solve.
According to a supplier of sensors, OEMs are currently lining up electrical resistance sensors for their next smartphone models. Skin temperature is still too hard for smartphones, on account of the device's temp fluctuations.

Look out for fun lie-detector apps coming to your app-store-of-choice.
Dude read the change log, this is explicitly added in the new 1.7 beta.
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This already exists in the EB-5 visa[0] assuming you start with .5 million funding. You get to stay forever too.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
The second amendment applies to arms, not to munitions directly. At the time of its authoring, "arms" was understood to mean devices used by one person for the purpose of targeting one person or thing.

It have never, for example, applied to ordnance. (hence, the asinine argument "where does it end - should we allow everyone to have nukes?!" does make any sense, at least politically)
This is getting really off topic but this is a potential solution: https://www.quora.com/If-someone-were-to-build-an-artificial...

And there's only a handful of companies large enough to do this: http://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-co...
I use middle mouse click: same thing.
Then there is only 1 Python framework? Dumb comment. I was talking about architectures not syntax.
Even putting the engineers in the position to have to make a choice to resist means that you damage their career prospects whichever way they choose. To be known as 'that guy' who {supported a corrupt government/supported terrorism} polarizes future job choices. There's no real upside. As someone asked to do this, I'd be asking for all future earnings up front from the FBI, so the economic worth of this is really 8 or 9 figures.
So here is what I don't understand about the supply demand argument in the context of workers. When Disney hired their IT division it was clearly because their was a need and benefit from having them. If paying the wages of that division was prohibitively expensive wouldn't they have gone out of business before they had the opportunity to outsource? So clearly on that front I think we can assume that a company similar to disney would outsource simply for profit.

Now another argument in favor of immigration is that it brings down the costs of good for everybody. Chicken will be cheaper of course when you have people working for 5 dollars an hour to produce it. Well the reality is that only 5 to 6% of the cost of producing chicken comes from wages. I'm sure if we looked at the software industry we would have the same finding.

Now what is the cost of targeting a specific field for immigration? For native workers the loss in wages is half a trillion dollars. The immigrants create a 50 billion dollar surplus. Almost all of the increase in GDP from immigrants comes from their wages at 2,053.8 billion out of the 2,104.0 billion total increase in GDP from immigrants.

So American citizens see a 50 billion dollar net increase in GDP (that is relevant to them) from increased immigration. (page 9 in the link below)

So we are taking half a trillion dollars from targeted workers for a 50 billion dollar increase to the overall population.

The 50 billion dollar surplus seems like a lot thinking as a normal person but 50 billion is nothing when talking about GDP. So from what I see, the only purpose targeted immigration at a specific field serves is to divert money from workers to employers

In the same chart on page 9 it shows that the surplus is received by the native businesses that benefit from the cheaper workers.

also consider this, do we want to create an america where we have a clear divide between workers and owners because we constantly artificially inflate the supply of workers using immigration?

also I think it's a little hypocritical that we aren't bringing in other white collar workers, we should have A-1B for attorneys and B-1Bs for bankers, I'm sure people in other countries will clamor to learn american law and finance for a chance to come here

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03-16-16%20Bo...
Thanks for commenting, in any case, from a position of expertise!

Just curious, in such experiments, how does the 'blue light' reach interior cells? Is it simply of such intensity, from an external source, that it penetrates deeply through tissue into the mice skulls? (A bit like a flashlight-through-a-hand?)

Or, is the light source somehow inserted to be close to the cells (even under the skull)?
Hey! Thanks for the response - great example of the kind of employee interaction I was talking about.

Here are the calculators that show S3 is cheaper than GCS - hopefully I didn't type anything in wrong. I used 1 TB of storage, 10 million get operations and 10 million post operations, and 200 GB egress.

S3 monthly: $102.63

GCS monthly: $160.62 (about 56.5% more expensive)

GCS: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=cddb4e9a-f2...

S3: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#r=IAD&s=S3&ke...
As stated in the article, those conjectures were made in 1923. The recent quanta article https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-disco... involves a new correlation discovered in the primes, which means that the statistical model is more interesting than we previously thought.

For a mathematician's perspective on the recent breakthrough, I recommend https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/biases-between-con....
I dunno. My perception of facebook users in the US is it's mostly suburban moms. So I guess if you target that demo, then FB is your Excel.

Away from that demo, I think you can still build a service for a community.
I have used Notepad++, Sublime, Vim, Spacemacs and the Jetbrains suite.

If I want to do a large enough project, the Jetbrains suite really can't be beaten in terms of just getting things done IMO.
That's right.

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” - W. Churchill
While it's important to not overload C with features, not adding features to it because C++ already has it isn't very practical.
I plan to submit my next paper to peerj https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerJ
Trying to organize anything, even a meeting, over Facebook is a huge pain. Facebook is not a collaboration system. It's just not designed for that.
The problem with this story isn't that USB drives were used and caused a vulnerability, it's that USB drives could be used to cause a vulnerability.

Let's say the Russians did the same thing dumping a bunch of USB devices whilst the USB drive ban was in place. Almost certainly someone is going to sneak in a USB drive at the risk of getting caught, just so they can do their job more effectively. There is still a good chance that this USB drive hack might have worked, just not as likely.

I really feel that your friend wasn't looking at things from the right perspective. The reason that USB drives were the vector that allowed the Russian hack to work was because they allow the execution of arbitrary code once the drive is mounted. If you prevent the execution of that code, then the issue would largely have gone away.

Instead of only banning USB drives, why not investigate ways of preventing code execution on drive insertion from occurring in the first place? Then you could have the policy of no USB drives, but if someone did sneak one in then it would have removed the vulnerability completely.
It might also be partly explained by selection bias among SO's audience. At my first real job there was no other developer there below 40, and a few approaching retirement age (indeed, I was brought on to replace a developer who had retired). But I was the only one who used SO, and really the only one who turned to the internet for answers at all rather than reaching for the books on their shelves.

(And also, our proportion of female developers was way, way higher than 5%.)

Older developers are certainly out there, but they're woefully underrepresented in open source.
I think Facebook is the new Internet [for many people]. The worst thing about this is not the competition with other companies but the competition with core Internet protocols and its meaning. All this while they have an embedded search engine that sucks!
Not sure. Perhaps that was a low priority because it is already running/can be deployed on Kubernetes fairly easily.
That's a little over 91 million in fines over a year. Apple has over 200 billion in cash on hand. They can ride those fines for quite awhile.

Also, there won't be any anti-encryption laws. The risk is backdoor encryption across the board, which could have very similar outcome but isn't what's at stake here.
Like the doctor said, if it hurts when you do that, don't do that.

I use Atom for reading source code because there's a language-specific plugin I like (for Dart). I also use Sublime for looking at output logs when I don't care about IDE-like features, and occasionally emacs or vi from the terminal.
The three people you listed are not known for founding billion dollar startups. They are known as employees of Google and Microsoft (unless you meant somebody else with the same last names as Google and Microsoft CEO and Google's former VP of engineering).
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Funnily, due to country quotas that 7-9 yr wait on employment-based green cards is almost exclusively Indian problem.
Like this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tp-lin...

If they can't quite do that, then they bring back the whole "export-grade cryptography" thing, except they call it "terrorist-grade cryptography" this time around. Then they start monitoring every crypto-capable open-source project's responsible disclosure system. When they see a vulnerability good enough to subvert that open-source project, they shut down that project before the bug can be fixed. And then they suppress all knowledge of the bug.

Or they infiltrate popular open-source projects in plain view. Wouldn't be hard at all to get that one bug they need in some peripherally relevant subsystem that nevertheless breaks the entire thing.
EB-5 visa requires $1 million funding. .5 million is for "Targeted Employment Area", which is basically area with bad economy, you really don't want to start a startup there.
Aww too bad I have a Microsoft Band2 not an Apple watch.

I'm watching my heart rate like crazy since I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism last Friday and my metamorphosis back to being human again since I started taking synthroid it's interesting to see but especially my heart rate.

My resting heart rate which was around 70 bpm (yeah I'm a slug) but now it's about 85 bpm.

The Microsoft Health website to view Band2 data is OK but not really detailed e.g. my heart rate last night https://i.imgur.com/E4Y8IzZ.png

I only wish I had the Band2 or any fitness tracker sooner to get more of a baseline or better yet before my thyroid decided to go on it's five year death spiral and take me with it.
Excellent. That was my one barrier to giving it a try. If I make it far enough, I'll definitely send a PR.
Elon Musk was an H1-B.