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> this becomes a gigantic public debate where we scramble to enact legislation that removes this power from the government.

No such thing will happen. The public will forget this ever happened, and politicians will do nothing to prevent the government from doing this again.
I've tried running atom several times over its history - first for go and again for elixir. Both times I've had the base version of atom with one or two plugins (go-plus / language-elixir & autocomplete-elixir). I found that, even with that setup, Atom was noticeably slower for all aspects of text editing (opening, navigating, typing, selecting, etc). I also found that the plugins did not work as well as the sublime text equivalents I'd been using (though that's not really Atom's fault).

I really like the idea of atom, but I've found the practical product less than compelling.
Levison had access to the keys. So, the statement is false.

You can read on pg. 15 [0], for example, that Lavabit informed the FBI that it had the capability to obtain the information the FBI wanted.

Also, read page 100. Levison wanted to give the FBI the information as long as he was compensated for it.

[0] Court documents:
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/801182-redacted-plead...
You can ask to amend the release to get 50/52 of your yearly reward of shares, or 96.15%, and then you'll agree to the rest of the release.

Generally, a company is not allowed to push out employees in order to avoid granting vesting options. This is a "breach of contract," in the sense that you're only supposed to be terminated with cause. "Pushing out," in many circumstances, includes making you miserable and making you want to leave.

Termination with cause is pretty tricky. If you received a "performance improvement plan," then you'll have a weaker case. If your performance was poor, then it was poor. They had to inform you at some point. Otherwise, it doesn't really mean anything if you say you plan to transition out of the company. That doesn't sound like cause, but it may in the state in which you are employed.

You'll notice on the release that you're going to be agreeing that you can't sue about anything that happened under your employment. That clause is there to specifically prevent people from suing about being pushed out.

Absolutely don't sign the release, do not say anything to them. They do not hold any cards, as others have said. Your lawyer will ask to perform discovery on their e-mail. If they have but one text message or e-mail that says, "We need to terminate this guy before he vests," or if any of the employees sign an affidavit indicating anything to the effect of pushing out, they will incur a significantly higher liability.

So what you're betting on is not whether or not they wanted to push you out, or what you said (being unhappy doesn't make you less entitled to your shares). It's whether or not you can prove that they pushed you out.

You're probably not used to being an aggressive person. Expect to pay a good lawyer a $2,500 retainer for the first time in your life. My suggestion is to talk to them first, see what they'll agree to, and then if you don't get 50/52 of a year's grant, talk to a lawyer. Note, if they so much as agree to even 0.01% of granting your shares, your life becomes immensely easier in court--then the argument because not IF you should get a grant, but HOW MUCH. So if you can get a piece of paper that says even 1 share on it, grab a copy and don't sign it. Talk to a lawyer with it. You'll have everything you need.
it gets better and better. I'm in my 2nd year without fb and haven't looked back since. Removing linkedin was great too. I never had instgram or snapchat. I had twitter but found it largely the most useless out of them all.

I use skype for chat. I like reddit and sometimes HN when there are interesting discussions going on.
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If it makes you feel any better, most of us are older and still stupid :-)
That's exactly what I did, though :P

Check my first comment.
you don't want to work for those places..
I don't know about the US, but in Britain a lot of university funding comes from charging foreigners an arm and a leg to study there.
They just released a UWP client for Windows 10.
So. Time to move to ECC by default?
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The trend in the article sounds like it is a bit parochial or patriotic in a bad way: Exploiting foreign students' wealth to subsidize the domestic students' experiences, without necessarily giving the foreigners an experience that matches what they're paying.

It seems to me that these international populations are being used as tools in the financial arms race of colleges.

That doesn't mean to say that this international population is all or even most concerned with entering US schools genuinely for the experience, values, and education (as opposed to the diploma or prestige or so on). Exploitation can go both ways, I guess.
When has Lindsey Graham changed his mind? His Senate homepage still has this statement on it:

".@tim_cook Our nation is at war & this Iphone was used to kill Americans. Protect our homeland, not terrorists. Please cooperate with @FBI."

https://twitter.com/GrahamBlog/status/700348813807063040
http://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/
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It's not clear what "write up your own response" means here, but:

1. You're in lawyer territory now. Stop talking.

2. Lawyers, the good ones anyhow, run about $350/hr minimum in the Bay Area. Quite possibly more. This will likely cost you $5k - $10k to litigate. The more you talk (and the more you tie up your lawyers time, quite probably billed in 15 minute to one hour minimums per contact -- and email or phone calls are contacts -- the more that will be.

3. Let your lawyer talk for you.

4. We've already established that you're an idiot and you were working for assholes. That's no real insult, most employees in the tech world are idiots when it comes to dealing with employment stuff. I certainly am. There's far too little training on this anywhere, and the law changes both quickly and regionally.

5. Just shut the fuck up already.

6. The fact that most employers are assholes and the law is the shits (among many other faults) are why I'm as far the fuck as I can get from tech these days. Watching my garden grow is both more rewarding and remarkably less stressful. Some plants are assholes, but I can burn them with fire, legally.
Boston's Big Dig tunnels used bolts glued with epoxy to hang the heavy roof panels that hung over the roadway. The epoxy failed catastrophically and the panels fell on a car, killing the driver.

Analysis of the accident blamed the workers who installed the bolts, but I think the big lesson is that construction sites are messy, and don't provide the best environment for the delicate chemical reactions needed to set adhesives properly.
He still blogs about Apple at http://www.mondaynote.com/
Oh well, Bitcoin's dead.

And this thing doesn't say what a "satoshi" is.
> I mentioned that I would like to transition out of the company

put simply, you shouldn't have done that.
Thanks, and hopefully it wasn't sugary. Keyboards that stick suck. ;)

I used to feel that way, then I settled on a simple set of rules. My comment should be serious and make sense to the parent (and if it is I don't really care how on-topic it is, some of the best conversations are tangents), or if it's not that serious, it needs to attempt to be a little insightful (humor is great for bypassing people's preconceptions). If I have something that's neither of those, I'll only submit it if I can contribute something additionally along with it that follows the prior guidelines. Every few days I'll erase the comment I've typed into the box (sometimes multiple paragraphs worth) after reflecting because it's either not relevant enough, too inflammatory, or will likely start a conversation I really don't feel like participating in. Different people have different criteria, but this helps me feel like I'm contributing, which matters to me, since I get so much pleasure out of HN.
The real reform would be to unshackle H1B's. Sadly, in today's political climate, I don't think that's likely.
Pretty sure life is already pay-to-win :/
Correct. That comes down to $5M per employee, which is still pretty damn good by my standards
I suspect the project was created in preparation for the SIGBOVIK conference[1] or similar.
It's sort of a satirical or mock conference; these guys have created a number of ingenious projects over the years[2], but this one might be their masterpiece.
Certainly it's going to give my own entry[3] a run for its money.

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1. http://sigbovik.org/

2. http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com

3. A sort of analog neural net using a biological substrate to perform communication and learning. Basically, I've trained some wild dogs I found in the alley behind my apartment for function approximation. Originally I had intended to use a pretty standard hill-climbing approach, but they kept wandering away when I ran out of treats. My new method arranges them in a series of layers for PAC (provably all canine) learning, with the gradients transmitted by bark-propagation. I've not figured out how to implement convolutional operations in this framework yet, so I might hold off on publishing anything this year.
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> 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.

How this isn't considered a horror story is beyond me. I'd consider that sort of latency over a the network to be awful, let alone for a local editor.
The ACM has a code of ethics that I like a lot:

http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics/

Nothing is stopping you from just affirming yourself to live by them without paying the dues, if you want.
> This isn't correct. More precisely, it does not address obtaining court orders.

Please explain how the FBI could legally compel Apple to do something without a court order. If it's the only way it can happen then it's kind of implied.

> If the EPA tells you that you can't dump in the river, and you dump in a river, then they can prosecute you and send you to jail. But this is very different then getting a court order to do something as part of an investigation.

The primary difference apparently being that in that case there is something the law says you can't do, whereas in this case there is something the law says the government can't do.
> the poster is not wrong to point out that college towns often have better/more authentic food (both American and not)

But he is wrong to say that "authentic" food is superior to Americanized food. Vendors in America Americanize their food for reasons of audience demand (for example, I hate biting into meat and getting a big chunk of bone) -- and I don't believe he's actually aware of which aspects of the food are "authentic" and which are Americanized. A greater variety of dishes offered doesn't mean those dishes are prepared the way they would be at home.
Because their interests are not hurt by illegal immigrants from South America, but hurt by legal immigrants on H-1B visas.
It's much more fun for a human to win with a small force against seemingly overwhelming number of enemy mooks.

If computer games had awesome AI trying to beat you, you'd need the overwhelming superiority of numbers just to stay alive.

That applies to the computer competing with you, though. There are games, like eg RPGs, with more space for cooperative AI.
So is Facebook. So is anything with users.
Atom is (almost) like any normal web app from a performance standpoint. Runs on electron.

No asm.js magic here.
Thanks for the reference!
Surprised about the down vote, Koch brothers fund voter suppression of minorities and democratic voters, could've sworn we've had articles about this on hn.
The Innovator's Dilemma:

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Chang...
There's probably no advantage; to do business in the U.S., a company must comport with U.S. laws. If Apple moved their HQ to the Sovereign Island of SteveJobistan, they would still have to follow U.S. court orders if they wanted to sell products to Americans within the borders of the U.S.
If I receive plain text and then encrypt it with the public key of the receiver I can no longer decrypt it myself.

I have no idea about how Lavabit operated but that's the service I would offer.

With SSL only on the incoming port then interception is in the hands of the sender (modulo errors in SSL).
Yeah just go on and make up shit as long as it makes you feel better. The foreigner that can "afford" elite credentials is actually a foreigner from a humble background who came through the most competitive process in the world and managed to get scholarship in a US graduate school.

It's obvious that whoever you are, you haven't actually tried to get to know anything about these pesky foreigners'(who probably work with you on a daily basis) personal life and background. If you had, you'd know that a profile like this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3195384/Pictured-pai...

is actually a rule rather than an exception.
> These are wealthy upper class people coming to the most logical place

They usually need to get an H-1B visa as part of the immigration process. You are insinuating that "wealthy upper class" can immigrate without obeying visa rules. That is ridiculous.

> A foreigner that can afford elite credentials

Many of their families probably can barely afford to pay for college in the U.S., but they scoop up the money to do so, in hope of a better life for their offspring. The United States however subjects them to an arbitrary H-1B lottery that decides if they get to stay in the country after graduation (and OPT).

> far more likely to get funding than a poor local.

Are you seriously suggesting that investors in Silicon Valley discriminate in favor of people with college degrees over poor uneducated people?
Any ideas on how the assumptions about consumer/vendor behavior could have been tested sooner?
> Do limited features along the stack to get the whole toolchain in place before adding more features.

This is the kind of codebase I like to take on. Limited features = less code = less to refactor, and what is there is probably better tested and has fewer bugs. I get to writing new features myself instead of just fixing someone else's work.
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In California, building codes are tightly integrated with fire code. For example, residential roofs cannot be entirely covered with solar panels because a firefighter may have to punch a hole in the roof to vent a fire.

Has anyone ever witnessed a glue lam beam burn? How would glue fasteners in a skyscraper perform in a fire? The relevant industry needs to conduct studies and show proof that it's safe.

Safety is a big bandwagon in the CA Leg., so plenty of good data would be needed to push innovation into building codes.

Based on my knowledge of how the CA State Fire Marshal works, it'll be 2040 or later for glue welds make it into CA building codes, if the tech proves to be viable.
The OP listed a number of social-justice related goals that s/he felt Google should strive for. That seems like an even greater non-sequitur to me; wouldn't you agree?

I responded by pointing out that Google was formed here, in the USA. The US is a country in which those values don't generally prevail and -- in any event -- where corporations are not responsible for upholding them.

I asked, more or less rhetorically, if there was perhaps a reason for that.

The OP responded by citing some counterexamples that more or less agree with my point, which I thought was an interesting way to argue. Skype was purchased by Microsoft (and let's not talk about Nokia, right?), while the founder of Mojang is living like a king of old Arabia in one of the most expensive homes ever sold in the US. We're apparently doing something right that those other countries are not.
Yeah, but where do those loophole savings go? They flow to shareholders in the form of earnings, which get taxed again, or to consumers in the form of lower costs. You really need to look at total tax revenue per GDP, and we're at the low end of that, but when you consider our high GDP per capita (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/03/taxes-per-person.html), we're in the middle of the pack.

We're actually not that stingy on education either:
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
I don't plan to let that happen. Do you?

I'll fight this as long as it's under discussion. Talk to your friends and family, contact your representatives and let them know you care.

If we as technologists, the only ones who understand the tech side of things, are silent, then yes this defeatist attitude will win.

We need not be silent.
from TFA

The researchers were also able to flip the bits inside DDR3 DIMMs installed on an enterprise-grade server. The tests succeeded even though all of the DDR3 modules included a protection known as ECC, the servers completely locked up or spontaneously rebooted, usually within three minutes of the tests commencing.
A place I ate lunch at for most of a year had a big bowl of duck heads on display. They were for sale, if you wanted to eat one.

And I don't understand your implication that Kung Pao chicken isn't "authentic" chinese food.
While it's not as good as being able to attach to a remote/headless instance of the editor, something like Nuclide's remote project feature would be a step up from SSHFS... if it actually worked consistently.

I've unfortunately found it to be really flaky. About half the time I try to add a folder I get a "certificate not ready" error. And I get a lot of random error messages when I save files. With large projects, watchman exhausts the number of filesystem watches that can be created (though maybe I could fix this if there's a way to configure it to not recursively watch node_modules folders).

I also don't like the fact that Facebook stuffs all of its Atom improvements into one extremely heavy, monolithic plugin. It practically doubles Atom startup time for me. :-(
>> My mother didn't "sacrifice" everything for us, she worked hard; became a programmer; and didn't allow my sibling and I to work less then her.

That's what parent means by self-selecting, which is being used in the sense described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias - a perfectly innocuous meaning.

(I say this as someone who has no pony in this race - I'm neither a resident, nor citizen, nor etc of the US)
By those standard I am only 40% American (Midwestern born and raised man).
Ghandi got away with his stunts because because he was up against the British, and they had comparatively okay ethics. Try that shit on someone who's actually bad and at best you'll just end up digging your own grave at gunpoint, then being "shot while escaping".

While publicly the U.S. government probably wants to keep on the good side of popular opinion, they've proved time and again that in private they have little to no compunction about doing "whatever it takes" to get their way.
> washer/dryer that automatically washes, folds, and stores my clothes

This would sell like hotcakes. Perhaps clothes would need some sort of an RFID tag built in to identify their specs (not sure the cost on that) but I would gladly pay a couple grand for a dryer that folds clothes.
trick's on me, i thought it would be a React application. Cool nevertheless!
> does that mean that it allows their ads/tracking?

No.

> how is that better?

Why ask the question at all if you already made up your mind about the answer?
Python isn't about types, it is about protocols. If you are thinking about the type of something while writing the code, then you are transcoding C++ or Java into Python. The important thing about a Python instance is not the type, but the protocols that the instance supplies.

Switching gears and thinking about code validation for a minute, I agree, protocol conformance checking is a much more difficult problem to resolve at compile time, at least they way Python duck types support protocol definitions.
He's not referring to H1Bs.

http://goldsea.com/Text/index.php?id=6205

Sehat Sutardja. One of many such examples.

All you needed to do was fly your pregnant wife over to get American citizenship...but that's changing now.
I was thinking about noise from the factory, not pollution. We generally don't live in soundproof houses and even if you have some high-tech envelope building, you still might want to enjoy your backyard.

With a functioning justice system, trust between members of society is something that can be outsourced.

It's fiction. First, it doesn't happen. In reality outsourcing means third-world elites using western courts like Russian oligarchs settling their disputes in Britain or Latin American countries borrowing under US law. Second, because the justice system is too slow and expensive to be used in any significant number of transactions. Finally, rampant corruption renders it all moot in low-trust countries.

I take issue with your "no Mexicans" policy when you threaten me with violence

What about a private company? Should its owners be allowed to institute a "no Mexicans" hiring policy?
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I was downvoted for this comment. I don't even know what to think about that.
Don't underestimate how completely incompetent a five person startup can be.
Yes we did. It can also lead to really surprising security issues in protocol-land where such "liberalism" interacts badly with security-sensitive portions of protocols.

(Security is non-trivial and mostly there are very good reasons that things are exactly as they are in such protocols.)
You're right, I should look into it. Thanks.
"Immigrants Stealing 51% of Best Paying Jobs"

This game is fun!
You don't need to get the RDS box on a VPN. Instead, you get your server in your data center into the AWS VPC via the AWS Gateway VPN thing. From there you tell your data center server that it's master is the RDS box and you should be all good (assuming you can do the usual song and dance with the full DB dump and replication coordinates).
> infiltrating popular open source projects

As PHK pointed out, the NSA (and other large SIGINT agencies) obviously already have some amount of influence on popular free and open source software.

If anybody find this at all surprising, watch PHK's "Operation Orchestra"[1] asap.

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/nsa_operation...
Bill Gates famously "turned the battleship" at Microsoft in 1995 to focus the entire organization on the Internet. They actually did it quickly and succeeded (although more recently have lost their lead). So the right captain can make it happen.

https://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/arti...
I think you're being downvoted because you seem to disagree with the comment to which you're responding, but I think you probably just accidentally misunderstood it?
Yes; Locking up or rebooting seems like a reasonable thing to do if the memory has multiple unrecoverable errors. It certainly beats silent corruption.
There is no place to go.

We need to fix here because we actually have a shot of fixing it here.
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You're right, let's also perpetuate the stereotype of the idealistic stoner and assume that the person you don't agree with is out of touch with the injustices of reality.
She has shown she can not be trusted to listen when told "What you are doing is not secure".

Not having what you want, even when you have a right to it, is not an excuse to do it anyway.