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It doesn't stop things like IP ownership clauses which cover all work you do (including work outside of work hours).

It's the reason major open source projects require a waiver from your employer if you're contributing substantial code even if you're doing it in your spare time.
Project loon shouldn't be corporate-based, it should be grassroots.

Give out free plans to build balloon mesh network access points for less than $5-10, and let people of the world build their own.

BONUS POINTS: Implementation runs its own fully decentralized network that could eventually surpass Internet 1.0
I tend to agree. I thought protests were going to be focused in state capitals for that reason. Maybe I need to pay more attention :)
It's caused by an ugly workaround I used to enable Safari. I'll fix it as soon as I get home, thanks for the feedback.
AIUI, both legally and practically, you can!

Legally: a lot of graduate student employment contracts bar any other paid employment with clauses like your graduate student tuition deferment being lifted if it is discovered that you have a side job.

Practically: So, you moonlight for a competitor for a week and if your boss finds out that you added a shipping feature into someone elses product, and you didn't get the job..?
It didn't work in anything but Chrome, now it's fixed.
Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I can't help but think this is the worst idea ever. You have a highly-strung government, watching everyone for signs of domestic terrorism, and then protest, which the government has considered an act of aggression since at least the Dubya administration.

The only remedy we have in this country is lawsuits. Not class-actions, either; individual lawsuits for $500k each, for egregiously prejudicing your individual rights guaranteed by the constitution. ten thousand or so of those, with the president's name in all caps (head of the Unitary Executive) listed as the defendant.

or, you know, you could try to make a well-regulated militia of 3D-printed pea shooters, so you can overthrow the largest and most heavily-armed military in the history of the world. that'll definitely work.

Myself, I appreciate the disclosure I'm being given that Scott McNealy was right all those years ago when he said we have zero privacy anyway. The government has the right to do whatever they want with their property. if you use/are their property (isn't that ARPAnet thing US military property?), expect them to enforce their interest in that property.

TL;DR for the downvoters (+6 to -2 in less than 20 minutes? hilarious): PROTEST BAD. LAWSUITS GOOD.
> A more charitable reading is that Obama didn't lie, he was just an idealist and changed position when he was confronted with the realities of being President.

That's very charitable in my book.. but in no means noble or moral and not sure why you are defending him.

Let's give another example and stretch it a little bit. You are being promised a work of world peace leader, you love the idea you accept the job, the day you come into the work they tell you its all just public outlook, and in reality you are going to manage tanks and bombs factory.

Do you continue because you "changed position when was confronted with the realities" or you simply quit?? Nothing stops Obama from resigning given he was faced with the reality of the office. That's how you recognize a real man. He knows when the job is too big for him, OR when its against his views. If you change them as you go, you don't hold any integrity. But again, Obama changed his point of view and raped constitution too many times for me to expect anything else from him. He is best at entertaining masses at "The View" show or giving high-fives on women's NFL meetings.

> That's not to defend it, but I don't think Obama knowingly and cynically lied his way into office.

Saying "you have a right to your reading list and your library account not being scrutinized and searched through by government" during his 2008 election tour, while becoming President and doing nothing to stop that but heck going in the opposite direction and allowing the massive vacuum of the entire digital traffic channeling through US soil in the name of capturing couple bad guys does indeed prove to me he cynically lied and was never really interested to work in the name of american people. We could continue how horrible president he is but i fell like puking. It doesnt really matter because talking about all this won't change anything. We all need to pray for next 3 years that this man will do as little damage as possible and once done, whomever comes next (please have it NOT be Clinton) will clean up as much mess as possible.
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The tone of the article made me laugh. WaPo seems to expect China to ask "how high?" when the US says "Jump!" The Chinese have to decide how they're going to approach this, and there's no reason for them to take Snowden into custody until they do.
Wow, thanks! It was like the liberal skies over HN cleared when I read you comment. I remember what it was like during the Carter years. The economy was in the toilet. Reagan took the reins, Iran immediately released the hostages which had been a saga played out every day in the news, counting each day they were held. People started to have real hope again. Was he perfect or a perfect president? No, but he did do some real, tangible and historically significant and positive things that liberals (today's liberals, not the real ones from the distant past) dismiss.
The right to protest is Constitutionally protected. If the government is violating that right and treating peaceful protests as aggression against them, that's all the more reason to do it, to reassert our right.
Why? Those accusations would be dependent on whether they were doing them or not. China has been "accusing" the U.S. of cyber warfare activities as well, and anyone who knew what the NSA was before 2013 knew that China was probably being truthful about that in general.
As mentioned in the article, after Google examined the data, they found that technical interviews were worthless at determining employee quality. Instead, they say, "what works well are structured behavioral interviews." This seems pretty damning for the technical interview. Would you just say that Google was doing technical interviews wrong?
No offense here, but how can you judge on Azure utilizing a project, that is not even an officially supported Microsoft product? There are other ways to deploy JBoss or Ruby on Rails on Azure. Give Google a try :) I am using Azure for over a year now, without running into serious issues that could not be solved with Stack Overflow or similar sources. Never had to use the official support. Azure performance is great and solution development is backed by a great set of tools. That's my personal experience.
Same here, and like fragmede I've got click-to-play enabled as well. I'm on Chrome stable, Win 7x64
and the only way to ensure that all hideous perversions are submitted is... total surveillance!
Heh, I've never heard of a "sitting duck" presidency, but the name fits. It was the first post-Watergate Republican one, and the first to which criminalizing of normal politics was applied. The number of high administration official who were prosecuted on totally bogus grounds was appalling, from Department of Labor Secretary Ray "Which office do I go to get my reputation back?" Donovan (a singularly honest man if the prosecutors couldn't make anything stick to a New York City construction firm (!!!)) to the head of NASA, indicted by a team that didn't have a single expert on the subject in dispute (federal contracting by the team that made a working DIVAD; when they asked to dismiss the charges, the judge wouldn't let them do it without prejudice, i.e. they could not try again). In 20/20 hindsight he says he wouldn't have forced the launch of Challenger ... certainly disrupting the leadership of NASA is going to be without consequences.

ADDED: And the press lied through their teeth. E.g. we were constantly regaled with horror stories of vicious budget cuts ... but in the rarefied lingo of the Beltway, a decrease from the automatically rising baseline, even if more nominal or real dollars are spent than last year, is a "cut".

But most of all I think they hated how successful and happy he was, even with the Democrats holding so much power. Of course, back then enough of them realized we were facing existential threats from the two areas I've remarked on; the same in terms of threats is true today, but it's less in your face for the moment. But wait until we can no longer run "trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see" because we can't maintain zero percent interest rates (which by themselves are crushing so many, especially retirees).
Hahaha, I actually just recently started "focusing" on web dev, because of the almost instant gratification haha I've been found out.
> Foreign governments can't oppress me except by invading my country.

In the 21st century, yes they can. If America wants to make some foreign person's life extremely difficult, they can do that without invading that country. Maybe not as easily, but they'll do it. See the Pirate Bay trials, the MegaUpload raid, WikiLeaks, etc.

> This idea that any of this has anything to do with some universal right to privacy is farcical and naive.

Well, obviously to you it doesn't.
Well that is the worst death, isn't it? No one ever even knows what you had said or thought once you pass away, you're just a bunch of cremains in the sea...
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https://diphur.com does this really well.
I should add that: I don't think this idea is bad, it's great! And I certainly appreciate the organizers making the effort and taking the time to do this. I just fear for this cause sharing the same fate as OWS.
Furthermore, it is not clear why he hasn't returned to the US, plead guilty, and thrown himself at the mercy of the courts. As requested.
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It's not typical of the type of business VCs would invest in, but you might be able to find someone interested.

The key questions you should think about are:

1) What's the revenue per student you're making (or could reasonably make) ?

2) How fast can you grow the number of students you serve ?

3) What's the total size of the market ?
>You have a highly-strung government, watching everyone for signs of domestic terrorism, and then protest, which the government has considered an act of aggression since at least the Dubya administration.

That's a terrible justification for not protesting. Free societies require courage.
I agree, it's ridiculous that this is even a petition, given the nature of the issue
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Bush in 2000 ran on a platform of non-interventionist international policy.
PayPal stores card numbers. If an authorization expires they can just re-authorize. Those details are hidden from you.
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This is amazing. This sort of technology may not be sexy enough for TechCrunch, but it's going to be infinitely more valuable to posterity than photo filters. Historiography will continue to evolve at lightspeed for the next several decades, and I'm excited to see how this sort of accumulated data interacts with coming advances in machine learning.
It would be difficult to build a terrestrial mesh network of appreciable power even while plugged in to the wall for $5-10 per node, let alone one on a balloon in the stratosphere with no source of power, etc. The helium alone is over $2.50 per cubic meter (according to[1], others might know better, and maybe you could use hydrogen, but then there's problems with leakage and how long your balloon stays up). The balloons also work much better in places with no power nearby, or with such spread out infrastructure that you'll need much longer line of site than anything on the ground can provide.

But! Grassroots mesh networking is still very possible, and very important, especially as an internet alternative in places where internet access has been censored or shut down (or even just cell access has been shut down...which happens more than it should here in the US).

For anyone interested, the EFF just put out a plea for helping invalidate some bullshit patents on mesh networking to ensure that grassroot efforts to actually help people can move forward. More here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-o...

Edit: just submitted the EFF story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5924690
weird that it hasn't been submitted before. I feel a bit like advocacy on HN has about the same motivations as what makes the top stories on crappy tech blogs these days...

[1] http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/helium/mcs-...
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I'll always wonder what the balance was between him being dishonest for the purpose of getting elected, and his views actually having shifted once he got into office and learned about how it all actually works (like how entrenched the surveillance program is, the limits of the president's power, etc.)
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The irony, Snowden being charged with espionage by the country that spies everyone...
> Honest question: Does the president really have that much more access to classified information than US senators?

I, too, would really like to have an answer to that. My assumption based on very little evidence is that the Chief Executive should have access to all classified information held by the executive branch's agencies. That seems to be logical. I seriously doubt that the President would accept an answer from one of his chiefs that "that information is classified." Now, a more nuanced and interesting answer might be found by digging into not whether the President has access to all classified information, but whether the President chooses to interrogate that classified information. There, I assume a President should, because if s/he does not, that raises serious doubts about a President making thoroughly informed decisions.

The only way forward for solving this problem is for the People to collectively say, with full knowledge of the potential consequences, that they are absolutely not willing to compromise, and want their government to trade security for inviolable protection of their freedom.
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Could you add disqus or some comment system? Some of these diffs are really notable, and it'd be cool to discuss them.
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I didn't say "standard", I said "standardized".

A standardized interview process is one where every candidate receives (roughly) the same set of questions, so that the company can look over the last 18 months of interviews, compare every candidate regardless of who gave the interview, and make observations across candidates.

A rigorous interview (for lack of a better term) is one where questions have either correct answers or quantifiable answers. "Best algorithmic approach" to a problem is usually not a rigorous question (unless the problem domain is very well defined and very well studied). But "number of valid algorithmic approaches offered" is, as would be "validated time complexity of best offered approach".

The idea that a tech interview should be digging deep into a candidate's background to assess their experience and derive intelligent questions that reveal depth is, I believe, the pervasive myth underlying all bad technical hiring. The people who conduct technical interviews are developers, not trained psychologists. Developers have a pronounced tendency to overestimate their own confidence in things like interviews. For lack of a more eloquent way to put this: developers suck at interviewing.

There's no better way I know of to interview devs than to have devs do interviews, because it takes a trained developer brain to accurately classify answers to useful tech questions (ie, "is this unexpected response incorrect, or is it a correct response that uses a more clever approach than the one we expected, or is it a correct response phrased in different terminology than we're used to", &c). You have to have devs doing interviews.

So the next best thing is to stop pretending that devs are capable of doing something that they're mostly not capable of doing. To me, that says "take a couple weeks to come up with a standardized interview that every developer will give".† Watch the responses to those interviews. Look at who those interviews select; if those people seem to be working out, stick with it, else adjust.

† One indicator I'm playing with: if anyone on your team looks forward to doing interviews, you're doing something wrong; for the interviewer, the process should be mostly very boring.
I think he is well past that point. He might have done a big service to his constitution, but he certainly broke the laws and all sorts of oaths.
No, what Google said was that brain-teasers were useless. Which is of course something many people have been saying for years.
exactly, in the US treason carries a very specific definition.

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

If the US decides to characterize Snowden's actions as treason, that means they are also CHOOSING to characterize civilians of, say, China, as enemies.
If you're gonna go the crazy route, leading you to dishonor and all that, at least serve the President individual notice of the rights you are reasserting before setting foot in that march, otherwise, you aren't giving him due process, and are actually prejudicing _his_ rights, giving him even more authority to treat you like an enemy.

Thanks for the downvotes. perhaps you could combine them with a reply of why I'm wrong in my reasoning?
I'm quite happy as a craftsman myself. The problem is the many and diverse meanings of the word "art". At the start of Knuth's speech he quotes some ACM worthy as saying that programming needs to transition from an art to a disciplined science. Here, "art" is used to mean something that involves guesswork and holding one's finger in the air. In the title of TAOCP, on the other hand, Knuth seems to be using the word to mean "craft", as in the Art of Fly Fishing. Neither meaning refers to the practice of fine art. AFAIK no one compares engineering to musical composition or poetry, and engineers don't seem to lose much sleep over it.

The functions of art include philosophical enquiry and invoking a sense of immanence in the receiver, and so on; creating a program might cause some of these things to happen in the programmer, but only as a coincidence. In his poem called The Scent of the Real, Alvin Pang writes "to bear clear witness/to your longing alone/[is] the only art/there is." Software doesn't do it either, other than as a potential medium for visual art or other forms. It seems likely that new, distinctively digital art forms will evolve, but even then it won't be "the programming" that corresponds to "the art".
So... send my vital data to some website I know nothing about, based on a promise that they won't inspect or save it. Got it.
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You're very welcome.

For those of you who weren't of political age during the '70s and especially the Carter Administration, it really was a time of losing hope. I don't know of anyone including myself who thought Reagan could put the nation out of its tailspin, and while the medicine was plenty bitter (helped by the idiots in the Congress insisting on phasing in the tax rate cuts), he truly did save the nation.

Another way of looking at it is to ask which recent president Obama compares himself to: it's Reagan, the most recent who was significantly consequential, just like Obama has been consequential (I mean, the Democrats have been trying to achieve government health care since Truman (that's 1945-52), and Bill and Hillary! famously flamed out on it). Obama does not dismiss Reagan ... I guess he is smarter than the average bear....
I'm not saying that freelancing is bad. For a bunch of reasons, I'm very positive about freelancing and consulting.

You sound like someone who'd rather be consulting than working full-time jobs. Great! You'll probably also make more money and get more professional experience faster than people who take the less-risky full-time job path.

What I object to is the notion of temporarily converting full-time workers into consultants so that companies can mitigate their concerns about how inept their own technical interviews are. Consultants and full-timers are two very different things, and they aren't easily convertible.
Hastings was not a stunt man for jackass. Was a smart man, a published author, an intellectual if you wish. He believed FBI was guarding him at every move and I am sure he was aware that even a speed ticket or a DUI could cost him a lot in terms of career.
silent circle is closed source and everything goes through their server. Sure they can claim not to store much logs, but when some government entity puts some secret orders on them, who knows what will happen. Remember that having the metadata, who calls who, is already a big win for surveillance entities. RedPhone is owned by twitter, same story, but the client is open source, and maybe they have plans to release the server too, but you would have to compile your clients too since apparently the servers are hardcoded into the client. Both of these are thus not federated.

Ostel is open source client and server side, you can easily set up your own server, and if I understand it correctly it's also federated.

Some reading: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/63

https://guardianproject.info/2012/07/05/a-network-analysis-o...
I think hes talking about 4D in his link. You appear to have no way to monetize such a thing due to that clause. Its really beautiful though, good job!
> And it's not even a free choice to make.

The citizens are free to remain unconnected. The countries are free to build their own infrastructure.

Perhaps the choice isn't "free" because the incentives are too compelling, but that says something in itself about the benefits (even if we just assume the hypothetical risk of spying is real, as you did).
That is not the same thing as the comment to which I responded. Moreover, this isn't a simple matter of violating NDAs and TS clearance by mentioning classified information to some random persons. The situation is more profound and nuanced. He violated the NDAs and TS clearance to call the People's attention to unconstitutional programs that violate our rights and laws as a whistleblower. There is "some type of exceptional legal protection" to be evaluated there.
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By tech savvy people, yes. To many people who are not well-versed in cryptography, substitution ciphers and the like are both the only obvious solution, and seemingly difficult to break. This will include a fair number of terrorists (see gwern's comment above), and so is a worthwhile avenue for a security agency to pursue.
Not wanting to be in harmony with the 800lb gorilla is a terrible justification for not being in harmony with the 800lb gorilla.

As for being courageous in a free society: Let me know when you find one. we can both move there and be courageous together. In the interim, I'm going to play by the rules of the game, as I'm stuck in the system.

Perhaps you guys don't understand this: they have _really_ big guns. waaaay bigger than anything we have. and they have the authority to use them when they're threatened by acts of mass protest. the Executive's powers used at Kent State ages ago have only gotten stronger. Don't be like those poor bastards. or the Seattle WTO protesters. or the DNC/RNC protesters.

Seriously, they _want_ you to sue them. Just do it.