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I've always believed (and have understood to be the consensus from legal references I've seen in the past) that the definition of taking up arms was related to their use to defend oneself against an oppressive opponent. Is that not how it is seen in the courts?
It's not so bad. You pick three colors for the whole screen, then one unique color per character square.

Sprites are handled separately (in hardware) and get their own individual color selections, which makes things a lot easier--you don't have to worry about your sprites stomping on the background elements.

(The line you quote is a bit confusing--he's describing both of the available display modes, even though the game only uses the first.)
If they require one to send an email outside of the company network, then should supply the equipment. I would never give my employer control of any personal device. If they don't give employee equipment to send the email on, then I don't see how they can reasonably require one to send an email. What happens if one does not have a smart phone? Do they require one to purchase one?

Also, if one is stuck in traffic one most definitely should not be sending email or a text message because that is dangerous to you and others on the road; it also gives the impression that the company does not care about the safety of people.

If I could not call my boss (or coworker) when I hit bad traffic and have said person send the email for me, I think that there is something wrong with the company or group. What exactly is the problem? Do they think your boss or co-worker are lying?

Anyway, sounds like a company that I would leave and save them the trouble of firing me.
You gotta remember you aren't reading one guys' everlasting fame but a long series of average Joe programmers' 15 minutes of fame one after another. If they are lucky they pop up again a time or two more but between those is a lot of work and struggle.

Hang in there, do what you can now, and plan on what you can't right now.

Reading HN does that, mainly because all the shiny stories float to the top. Also stuff you work on never seems as shiny as something new you hear about (even if if yours really is cooler) mainly because you live your stuff 24/7 and all you see most of the time are the bugs you have yet to squash.
We're talking theses United States right?! So unless you're talking 'bout Native Americans then 99%+ of all companies since 1776 have been created by Immigrants. Think about folks!
I remember getting pulled into Facebook because classmates tagged me in photos. Then when I signed up, it was extremely useful because you could see and meet other people in classes for study groups, etc.

It was also great at delivering status updates, well at least until people started saying "John Smith is." lol.

The other powerful thing Facebook did that no other social network did was handle growth. Friendster and Orkut, they were painfully slow to use even in their early days.
Your comment made me spit all over my laptop. I'm just letting you know because I think I'd appreciate knowing if something I wrote caused such a reaction.

I actually worry a lot about whether or not a comment I make or want to make is "HN enough" or "too much like a reddit comment", what with the emphasis on comments contributing to the conversation. Maybe "a lot" is too strong for what I feel. It feels like a lot for internet comments.

I hope expressing this anxiety somehow contributes. :P
So stagnant salaries have nothing to do with global and national economic factors like recessions ect.

It just purely H1B's. A little simplistic don't you think?
I think the bigger point is that high school is a bigger influence on how 'assimilated' people are. College is definitely a time of personal growth, but I think high school is even more so a time of growth.

Maybe at 14, your friends aren't locked into FB/WeChat/etc, and the network effect isn't as strong to attract you to one cultural set or another. The other theory I have is that with how much larger colleges are, and in particular how many more international students there are at the collegiate level, there is less pressure to 'assimilate' and find 'American' friends. I've definitely noticed that international students hang out with other internationals a lot in college. It's really common to hear Portugese or Korean in my library, for example. Having some support base probably makes it easier to hang out only with those who are super similar to you.
It's worth to note this is one of a couple of promising vaccines, one of them is already approved in a couple of countries, as of December 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_vaccine#CYD .

Not "100% efficient" but nothing really is, nor is that really needed, it's not a boolean thing but a continuum and having any kind of antibody response is better than none; it reduces the chances of more severe disease at least, if not prevent disease all-together.
There are several factors that must be satisfied for the AWA to apply, even in the FBIs interpretations.

One of them is that they have to be closely connected to the case. The arguments for Apple not being far removed are that they license the software, that they designed created and sold the phone, and so on. Most of the don't apply to the individual engineers, so they probably can't be compelled even if the court finds that Apple can.

Another is that it can be too burdensome, and part of the burdensome analysis is if it is "offensive" to them. Considering they quit their jobs over this the court would almost certainly find that it was too burdensome, even if the court doesn't find it is too burdensome to compel Apple.
Correct. Many don't come right away to make a startup, they work, get contacts&experience and then the startup appears.
Don't compare what you know about your life to what you know about other people's lives -- because you only know about their successes. While you know both the good and bad about your own.

Baby steps.

Don't try to do big things. Do small things completely and with great care -- and celebrate those tiny victories.

You see, you never know where those tiny projects are going to eventually lead.

Google started off with a guy thinking "hey, what if you were to think of the world wide web like a graph -- I bet you could get better search results by ranking pages by the degree of incoming arcs".

It was actually a relatively small idea.

So just take some baby steps and see where they lead. And don't worry about stumbling and falling -- babies suck at walking.

Even the ones who will eventually win marathons.
Yes, you should reply. What's the risk? The protocol is that they disclose their discovery to you first and then you reward them.

If you honestly tell them that you plan to offer them no reward, then you and they can feel comfortable continuing the transaction knowing the terms have been made clear to all parties.
borrowing money means you need credit which lot of young adults don't have.

don't assume everyone else has the same options as you.
I've been living in Bali for the past year; the past couple months I've had multiple friends come down with Dengue - It's not fun!
> I too am very smart.

Intelligence, "smartness", and ignorance are all orthogonal.

Even very intelligent and very smart people can approach an issue with extreme bias and blatantly ignore (get it ;) news, facts, etc. that contradicts that bias.

I would argue that William Dembski[1] is both smart and intelligent, but I would also call him ignorant.

[Edit: my point being that people who choose to ignore the things that contradict their bias are happier as a result of their ignorance]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Dembski
I would say brazing is closer.
I'm glad dynamic languages are dead. I was getting so tired of fixing bugs.
This is not about async in general. This is about twisted's approach to async. For instance, there are numerous other languages that handle async elegantly and all the libraries work and there are no special snowflakes. Go comes to mind. Asyncio in python is a better answer for Python. But twisted is not asyncio. Twisted remains it's own separate thing.
They can always go the FCC route and enforce a lock down on any general computing device sold within the border; Submit your source code to our automated build and signing service or your software will simply not run.

Remember that all that is required is that the majority of people comply.
"I'm sorry, we gave your loved one a treatment that's actually harmful, because we didn't compare to the right group".
And how far still from editing bad experiences out from memory, replacing them with pleasant ones that never happened, and freely moving that memory across customized bodies?

In other words, the future depicted in this weirdly charming and underrated anime: http://myanimelist.net/anime/3701/Kaiba

Good stuff, just be wary of spoilers.
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The thing that is really screwing the Venezuelan economy is the weird exchange rate system which is not exactly corruption or socialism. The ft had "A foreign exchange rate at 10 and 200 versus a 1,000 black market rate is not effective" which I think means you can change at 10 or 200 pesos to the dollar depending on who you know or bribe and the real rate is 1000. Completely Alice in Wonderland mad. I think it's because president Maduro is a former bus conductor who has roughly zero understanding of economics.

Interestingly I see some Venezuelans are turning to bitcoin against the the wishes of their government.
Edward Snowden Interview on Apple vs. FBI, Privacy, the NSA, and More
I want to note a similar sentiment, esp. with my above comment. I'm totally in favor of allowing (and encouraging) international students to come to American universities.

But I also think international students can be victims if they don't have the language skills to engage with the rest of the school. At least with Chinese students, many come to America because they can't get into good Chinese universities but are still rich. I think students who spend 4 years drifting in a school, not making friends outside of other rich international students, and not engaging with professors or courses, are seriously disserved by the university. Imagine doing 4 years of college in, say, France, without speaking the language - how much could you have benefited vs attending a school in your home country?
But rather they did what we did in the UK - massive internal spending which caused huge instability in the economy.

Unfortunately not all countries are as intelligent as Norway.
Welding?
I suspect he never got an H1-B; his brother was in the US without a visa.
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I'm convinced it has something to do with the syntax highlighting.

Disable that, and it runs flawlessly on 10+GB files.

I looked into it a bit a few weeks ago but got distracted. It uses regex and many of the statements could be improved. Plus they use a fairly off the wall regex engine that has pretty poor performance but they use it because it supports every damn encoding under the sun.

I think if that can be figured out, the only "sluggish" part left will be startup (which IMO is acceptable at this point, but improvements would always be welcome)
The contents of the article is invisible to anyone who blocks outgoing connections to domains ending in "d.com" as well. That doesn't mean that people discussing the article need to hear about how you can't read it.
At this point I'm rooting for one of these existential threats to actually come through. Let's start over fresh with a government that isn't thoroughly corrupted and useless.
The problem with State-run police is that they live under a different set of laws than the rest of us. We need to start treating all equally under the law, rather than having two classes of people: the State-connected, and the commoners.
Thanks to AnimalMuppet and thanks for confirming that this is what you meant.

I understand what you are saying, and it's a good point for the current case, for a discussion with the general (non-techie) public. I'll keep that in mind.

Quoting AnimalMuppet:

>If you remove the last part ... then all you're left with is that people should be able to conceal the evidence of crimes.

OK, that is precisely why I did NOT remove the last part, and it's precisely why the last part is important. The part about other jurisdictions having (sometimes) laws we might not all approve of.

So, what I think I'm getting from you (you two) is that most people will just snip that last part off in their minds, and they'll be left with something they would never agree with. OK, fair enough, and thanks for pointing it out.

Sometimes I think the general public wonders what the hell Apple's problem is, and why would they place SUCH a high value on (what is perceived as simply) privacy.

My point about other jurisdictions is also just my own speculation on what kind of issues Apple is thinking about, in addition to the fundamental insecurity of effectively having a back door. It may not be a large part of their thinking, or maybe it is, I can see it both ways... On the one hand Tim is a corporate man, and on the other hand he's also running a company that goes out on limbs for corporate [edit: and social] responsibility.
A small point of information, it is also problematic (in a highly sensitive enviornment) to let people arbitrarily decide to take gigabytes of information out the door with them.
You are free to create a FB group for more serious enthusiasts.
Getting started with Shapeless
Biggest questions I have are: how reliably can this be done in the harsh environment of a job site, and is it obvious when the application has failed/or is deteriorating?
GoButler is pivoting to automated travel booking
Regardless of the veracity, it reads like a revenge fantasy written by a high-school student. The dialog is cartoonish:

> Amazingly, he thought that would make me want to back down.

> "OK. Do it."

> The three of them were mid-stance, not yet fully risen from their seats, and they froze.

> "Beg pardon?" asked the superintendent.

> "I said, do it. As in, make it happen. As in, execute that course of action."
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It may be time for that hippocratic oath for engineers idea to become a reality. I'd take it and live by it.
All 3

The crucial difference is that an amateur can provide a meaningful contribution to an open-source software project while the same is
unlikely in (modern) science.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/meet-the-amateur-comet-hunt...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5841287/the-story-of-the-woman-who-di...

You need years of intense studying even to understand the current state of the art in a chosen scientific field.

From personal experience, this isn't the case. But you'll complain about citations, so: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-disco...

Experiments require more money too.

See the examples provided above.
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Which is useful for today, but not necessarily tomorrow.
Feeling slighted is fine, but it's best to keep the reaction off the site unless you want more downvotes.
I thought of that, but then the arrows don't hide immediately after you click them as on HN - they'd still be visible until the request completes. So you'd end up with the same problem: hiding both arrows when either is clicked without using JS.

(I assume you mean putting each pair of arrows in an <iframe>, rather than each individual arrow.)
First, I resent your caricature of Chinese food. The most 'exotic' dish commonly eaten might be eggplant and chicken over rice - certainly not 'fish eyes and scorpions'! Heck, only Hong Kong-style dim sum places offer chicken feet, the most common dish that you named.

Second, you completely miss the intent of the parent poster. Having more Chinese from the mainland/HK/TW means more authentic food. It doesn't necessarily mean less Kung Pao or General Tso's, it just means you'll have more competition for 'authentic/specialty' foods.
Their profits are still in the dozens of millions, per day. Will people please stop splitting hairs?
I would give you a count if I could. My guess is on the order of thousands, but not tens of thousands. Seems like the browsers are trying to download every single note I've ever created at once (from looking at the network requests and seeing the huge amounts of data being transferred).

Also, just tried loading the site on a much faster internet connection and everything worked, although text entry was slightly laggy on a new note. Still couldn't figure out how to get a count of my notes though.
Isn't it possible that the Americans sabotaged the factory on their way out?
> LavaBit had done this in the past for FBI on other cases.

Citation needed.
So, what's next? Does the government round up coders they think are capable and force them to program?
> I'm going to disagree with you here. Didn't we think, back in 2001, that we'd only have to live with pat-downs on every plane flight for so long? That the government would eventually realize that terrorists couldn't hijack planes once passengers knew that the proper response was to storm the cockpit rather than waiting for the usual ransom demand to be acquiesced to? That the terrorists would find other ways to cause terror?

Thank you for bringing this into the picture.

The thing is that once you give up a bit of your liberty to the state, you never get it back.

The TSA is an abomination. You can basically shred the whole Bill of Rights as soon as you step into an airport.

> You will get to choose between using paper and having some random police officer [1] decide that it's time for you to go down and he's absolutely sure he can find something you've done wrong [2].

"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."
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Engineers refusing to do the work might be counter-productive. It'd allow the FBI and its supporters to change the narrative to one potentially more favorable to them. Instead of a debate about encryption and privacy, they'd try to change it to a debate about respecting the courts that plays right into the "law and order" mindset. I don't know how it'd play out, but I'd hate to give the government yet another advantage, however slim it might be.

That said, there's probably one benefit to being forced to do the work: the engineers involved will be extremely motivated to stick it to the government by designing systems that can't be circumvented like this again. "Too bad, so sad - we can't do that any more. We're very, very sorry for the inconvenience."
I've given ShiftIt (https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt) a go for window management. So far its been stable and works for 99% of applications (Adobe products being a very notable exception).

Also, it's very minor, but I wish the "Go to folder" shortcut (⇧⌘+G) would show me a list. I use that shortcut to jump around folders a lot and it'd be great if I could use the arrow keys to jump back in history in the same way you would "cd" commands in Bash.
> I was unlucky enough to be with one of the ISPs who didn't provision enough backhaul connectivity on the other network cables, so my 100mbit fibre internet now looks something like a 1998 dialup connection

Shouldn't this be handled by the NBN? I thought fibre was supposed to be run by NBNco so we wouldn't have to deal with these issues ever again.
Tons of people who emigrated are poor but are more motivated to take on risk and work on things. Because immigration is taking on risk and because you have to work on documents and push your way through to leave.
They were doing a study and were going to give it out. I just don't believe that we don't already have the dataset of the control group.
In particular reference to HN:

I read a comment somewhere (I think it was here, or perhaps another site) that Snowden was to HN what the SCO case was to Slashdot back in the day. That is - times were happier until it seemed like politics took over.

I'm not trying to knock either site. What I'm trying to get at is that there's a certain amount of group-think (group-angst in this case?) and if you immerse yourself exclusively in that, you start taking on that view. This 'existential angst' (I really can't think of a better term, though I know this isn't wholly adequate for what I'm trying to describe) is contagious.

HN became my daily news source when I finally got tired of Slashdot's political bent. After Snowden, HN has taken on a somewhat similar flavor. Don't get me wrong - I agree with a lot of it. I also know that sometimes I just have to step away from it, for my own happiness.

It's not about willful ignorance - it's about picking your battles and guarding your own interpretation and mood against the thoughts and mood of the group.
The reason "it doesn't matter what technologies you use" is because successful software gets rewritten multiple times anyway.

It matters a lot eventually, but having an "eventually" to worry about is a nice problem to have.

(There's also a big perspective difference between being an entrepreneur writing initial code for a project vs. an engineer hired to maintain & grow that code. Code quality, architecture, and technology choice matters a lot to an engineer who will be working with it directly. It matters a lot less to a business that can swap out engineers until they find ones who enjoy working on that codebase. The fact that you even have money to hire engineers usually indicates that the existing code is getting the job done. The business only gets screwed when the code quality is so bad that nobody can make sense of it, and the environment changes in a way that requires modifications.)
Ask HN: Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff – thoughts?
Details hidden to provide anonymity to both parties.

I am being terminated from a startup 2 weeks before reaching my one year cliff. The other day I was asked to sign a release form noting the date of termination and that I would receive no stake in the startup.

To provide some background, I was visiting the company at their new out of state location for a few weeks. Historically, the company started in SF and moved. We also worked remotely for a better part of a year. I was asked about my future with the company, and I mentioned that I would like to transition out of the company. My flight back home was scheduled for next week, but it was pushed up to two days after the discussion when a new ticket was purchased for me.

The following weeks progressed with my permissions to various websites were being revoked, and my receipt of a release form.

The company was bootstrapped, less than 5 people, and everyone worked for more than half a year without salary.

I saw a similar situation here on another Ask HN thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962292

What are your thoughts and advice about the situation above?

Thank you for taking the time
I read one book by jin yong that was translated to English and loved it! Unfortunately only a couple have been translated.

If you happen to make it your life goal to translate the rest, I am forever in your debt! ;-)
Avoid subjecting yourself to the tyranny of false dichotomies. It's vastly superior to either alone.
Don't we actually have enough data on the dengue fever to tell exactly what will happen to the control group? I don't think this is an actual unknown anymore.
This sounds like turf fighting gone bad. The immediate revenue generation is just an excuse. Google has many other research projects that won't be profitable for a long time, like self driving.
Haven't there been situations in which government fines can increase exponentially? If something like that applied to Apple it could drive them to bankruptcy very quickly. In theory at least; not sure if the government would actually do that.
Naw, it's still here, it's just soaked into the fabric now so you don't see it.