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> (a) why would I do that?

To charge your phone? Also, some of these IFE systems can play back MP4 files stored on USB mass storage devices. The Singapore Airlines IFE system even has Star Office so you can edit office documents without a computer. http://www.flickr.com/photos/82365211@N00/2473197320/in/phot...
Visa is granted to the foreigner. The employer has to pass some sort of qualifying regulations and job opening must be first offered to residents and citizens. Once the foreigner has the visa , he /she can transfer it to any local qualified job posting.

I would also like to point out that an H1b hire should be the last resort for most employers ; there is very little cost savings and the legal fees eats into that. Not to mention that once you hire an H1B , the native employees often feel ill at ease and will typically demand a raise. Team cohesion will be at risk. The H1B hire must have enough talent to justify all the hassle. If an employer just wants to get work done for cheap, they should simply outsource tasks to Elance or oDesk.
Isn't the first point pretty much the same?

The second one... come to think of it, wouldn't it also have the same effect, but just take a bit longer?
It's a bit more complicated: http://www.hooyou.com/h-1b/h1b_portability.html
1. When I look for work, people expect me to use a particular OS I'm not very found of and it seems natural to them. I'd definitely would like to see more diversification and Linux is by far the best chance for that. So yes, I want it to succeed. I want my next employer to tell me the interfaces they have and let me figure out how to work with it instead of forcing me into their restricted worldview.

2. I'm not an administrator. I'm a software guy. And I want to make money to buy food and shelter and stuff. I want the Linux desktop to succeed because then I have a userbase that has various needs and is willing to spend money to fulfill the needs. Yes, I want to create beautiful "works out of the box" apps that people want to spend money for. Things like the Ubuntu software center and Steam are pointing the way there, but we still have a long way to go. And nobody else seems to be on this path.
Or smacked him and told him to grow the fuck up.
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Yes, he did something stupid. It's not clear that he did anything wrong, but he should have known (and maybe did) that this was a really bad move on his part. It's not worth it to take work code out of its place, especially not in finance where this will be prosecuted.

Unfortunately, engineers fail to account for the fact that image and credibility matter far more than substance. This is a case of a man who really had no intention to do anything wrong, but almost certainly did break the law in a pattern that's a notorious bugbear in finance.
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The article is listed under the Technology & Science heading and deals with exactly those fields and the environment. In addition, the following key trigger words are present : pollution, plastic, research, science, scientists, PCBs, pesticides & money.

Therefore, it matches a Bayesian pattern of interest within the HN community.

Happy?
Why boycott GS? It's their state, country and mostly their world to loot. They have been above the law for over 80 years. They own the current administration, courts and congress. I wouldn't doubt it if someone claimed they had access to much of the NSA collection due to the amount of influence they have...
Also, as opposed to what the map shows, the Netherlands wasn't invaded by England, it was the other way around. William II of England was Dutch (aka William of Orange).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

Also, according to the maps, the Dutch enjoy greater freedom of press and possess larger penises than Americans. Having lived in both countries, it rings true to me. Not sure whether we can chalk it up as a pro for the Dutch though. As for penis size: we all know it’s about girth, not length. As for freedom of speech: the Netherlands has politicians like Geert Wilders, who continues to utter hate speech in public. Dutch courts seemingly have no way to convict him.
The first paragraph of the "recent study" you linked.

"In a poll commissioned by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), 92 percent of 1,000 Americans surveyed agreed that free news, weather, email, blogs and video content was either somewhat or extremely important to the overall value of the Internet."

What kind of category is "somewhat or extremely important" and how is 1000 people of undisclosed circumstances (other than being American) representative of people that use the internet?

The study that is linked from "the majority are not bothered by the static, non-intrusive ads" asks users of Mechanical Turk to look at an ad and rate it on its "annoyingness". Each user was paid 25 cents flat, and 2 cents per ad to a 172 ad maximum - so there's a $3.75 incentive maximum on completing the test will ratings on everything.

How annoying is any ad that you are being paid to stare at? That's missing the point completely.

I don't buy this sentiment that ad-blocking will be the end of the internet. Continued innovation on payment models, and content worth paying for is what we really need.
It's funny that it took the rise of Android to really underscore the difference between "Linux" and "Gnu/Linux"
At 27, I dislike that this post makes me feel both old, and that "the kids" are a little messed up in their history...

The only major gripe I have is that no homage is paid by this history lesson to the dotcom era. 1999-2001 were probably the three most significant years in the history of modern web technology. And then there's the big post-bust open source resurgence you could be talking about! Shoot, now I'm getting all nostalgic...

But don't let me discourage you, sonny. Please do keep writing. I promise I won't shake my cane at you too hard!
Regulatory capture refers to the effect, not the motivation. Even if done with the best of intentions (and even at the protest of the industry), regulation almost always has the effect of increasing barrier to entry, therefore causing regulatory capture if there is enough of it.
yeah, was actually refering more to Ruby, learning a language takes time.
UX will become the next frontier in software development
The standard for claiming someone aided the enemy should be naming the enemy. Which enemy did Bradley Manning aid? Who are our enemies? Why are you talking about censoring the press during times of war when we are not officially at war?
It is a matter of semantics. Once you have an H1B, the new employer does need to make a petition. In immigrant speak, this is usually called a transfer.

The transfer does not usually fall under the quotas that the original application falls under. It is also slightly cheaper and is processed more quickly. So an employee can move freely any time they want if the new company is willing to spend a thousand dollars or so.
There is no first amendment in the UK.
I have tried it, it just takes a week to install, while Ubuntu takes some hours (I test several configurations until I'm happy with one).
Just symbolic politics, as our Foreign Minister himself stated:

"He said the move was largely symbolic since the agreement had not been invoked since the end of the Cold War[...]"

So, as there are upcoming elections, I believe, that they try to appear doing something at least/at all, while not ping off the Americans, or the Brits.
This makes me angry. Not just the story itself, but the way VF goes about telling it, which commits the same sins (albeit with better intent) as Goldman Sachs. "So-called 'subversion repository'?" Why don't we just accuse him of summoning demons while we're at it?
TL;DR

A German official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cancellation would have no practical consequences.

He said the move was largely symbolic since the agreement had not been invoked since the end of the Cold War and would have no impact on current intelligence cooperation between Germany and its NATO allies.
You should list your phone number as the support hotline for those users of Ubuntu that take your word for it, and change to Gentoo to improve in usability. :)
1. H1B salaries are supposed to be competitive and typically posted in your workplace. So you can figure out if you are being undercut by the dirty immigrant coming in.

2. A huge percentage of H1B engineers you will probably interact with went to school here, typically with Masters degrees etc. So I am not convinced their talents as far as writing ruby/$foo language applications are any worse than an equivalent undergrad. In the bay area at least, the term local is a farce. A majority of citizens move here from the rest of the country. As far as a native is concerned, we are all techies driving up the market.

Of course, I think the H1B is exploitative in other ways than money. It is indentured labor. I may pay Johnny American and the immigrant the same salaries, but the immigrant once fired needs to find a job the next day or is out of status. The American can go on unemployment etc. The two weeks when my company decided to dither on whether they wanted to layoff people or not was stressful for all. However, the immigrants were the ones who had to decide whether to pack their bags after spending 4-5 years building roots in this country.

Also, sure a huge percentage of H1Bs are utilized by software shops based offshore to bring people here on short term projects. This is startup world though. How much of your work are you going to outsource to India?
This isn't harmless. It puts them at risk of expensive legal prosecution if the ATF decides to pursue this matter.
This theme has been around for decades and only underlines the inability of decision makers to make rational decisions on things they lack a fundamental understanding of.

I suppose the lesson here is: honor and honesty gets you in hot water when you deal with people who have lots of money. Better to make the devices in your garage and sell them to criminals. I'm sure this paper isn't the thing holding criminals back from making them anyway... anyone who's looked at their key-fobs knows they aren't exactly high security RSA encrypted signals. ( http://hackaday.com/2010/07/13/key-fob-programming/ )
Go Hurd!
One of my takes on it is that it has to be some sort of land/underground interconnection between cities.

My reasoning behind this is that he is open sourcing the designs. My guess behind this is that if it is a ground based system that requires right of way/property access etc. then there is tons of transaction costs & government regulation that would prevent copy cats from destroying the first mover's capital investments that would normally be protected via IP law.

If it didn't have these high transaction costs associated with it, then any actor could come and undercut your system after the tech behind the open source designs becomes cheaper. Traditionally this would be protected because of IP laws. However, he's dismissing this route & letting anyone up to the challenge take on the construction challenge with him. I'm guessing this is likely because the government won't eminent domain/allow/permit etc. extra routes between SF & LA etc. if there's already a hyperloop.
Thinkpads. Thinkpads have good build quality - they pass more military toughness tests than 'toughbooks' do, and they're generally 'just work' when it comes to linux (sometimes you'll need a broadcom driver or similar if you're using Debian)
So how did examining the hardware allow them to unlock any car? Ideally, shouldn't each car have its own secret key, and no amount of examination of one car or its ignition key would reveal the secret key of another one?

The way I interpret this, the manufacturer has thrown a backdoor into the system, allowing access to anyone who knows the backdoor key - and the researchers have managed to extract the backdoor key.
Even still. Quite amazing what they were able to do with just a handful of clues.
As far as the article has it, it wasn't a match of love. It was just two Russians getting together through the ex-pat community, she got security and money to spend, and he just did it because it was the thing to do.
I wonder exactly what skills this gentleman had that were unobtainable from citizens in the Boston area...
Rather presumptuous to assume the employer is saving "tens of thousands of dollars" by hiring H-1B. Hiring top talent usually means you hire people smart enough to know the difference. Employers pay market rate. If they don't, then there must be some other consideration at play.

We live in a global economy.
It's a Michael Lewis piece—it's worth reading the whole thing. (And when you're done, then The Big Short, Moneyball, and Liar's Poker.)
Of course it's already being used. When Average Joe thinks about a criminal he thinks some thug hood with a brick.

The professional criminals are affiliated with syndicates and mafias have money and resources. They can hire the talent able to figure out decoding these trivial radio signals.
Espionage means nothing more or less than trying to gain unauthorized access to national security information. There's no requirement you deliver it to an enemy personally (otherwise how would you have charged Soviet spies if you caught them before they delivered the information to the USSR), and it doesn't even matter that you have "good intent" (just ask that Israeli spy who is still in prison despite spying for an 'ally').

Manning's case will be appealed to Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (there might be an Army-specific appeals court before that too, the Navy/Marines have something like that but I'm not sure if Army does).

After the CAAF it can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but other than that it's final.
Yes, all persons on US soil are to be protected by the constitution. (Not withstanding specific incidents of abuse, the fact that one is, or isn't a citizen is not intended to have any effect on the constitutional rights available.)
Now I'm wondering if I can accomplish what I want with iChat Server on OS X Server. I have an old mini laying around.
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Have any of your customers used the metrics they gleaned to size up an ad-blocker white-listing offer themselves?
Nice, clear and simple. This is great.
The exact details (which aren't disputed) are covered in:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/021110aleyn...

Basically he'd written a backup program which was specifically designed to compress both his home directory and propriety code from elsewhere on the system into a file (which it would do depended on parameters passed).

On his last day of employment he ran it several times with different parameters which including copying propriety code. He then encrypted the file and then uploaded it to a SVN hosting service before deleting the encryption program and his bash history. Because it was encrypted it bypassed GS's automated scanners.

He then downloaded the source files to both his laptop and external flash drive and took them to work at his new employer.

Given the (undisputed) facts, he clearly broke several laws, the question is whether he was doing it innocently and just being stupid or if he did it with serious criminal intent.
yes there are such environments. Never denied that. But as I said, I consider them only perfectly usable for computer savvy users who are able to fix what they break and configure what they buy and spend time on it. That last part kills it for me.
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Broadening the terms adds a few percentage points, but less than I expected. (I added backbone too, for comparison.)

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=emberjs%2C%20angular...
Who are you to tell me it's okay to compromise my privacy?
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Of course it's focused: they almost certainly used their web traffic to pre-screen.

We already know from the slides that they do searches of their ill-gotten web traffic against a laundry list of keywords. Probably, every single remotely terrorist-sounding keyword.

I'd imagine "Ruby Ridge" and "fertilizer bomb" and "jihad" are in there as well. But the agents only need to mention "pressure cooker bombs" because that's what they'd actually gotten hits on.

The question is whether it makes more sense for this visit to have been the result of google alone (unlikely-to-implausible) or was the result of being pre-targetted for other reasons, which then brought their web activity under scrutiny (which fits everything we already know about the NSA's processes and policies and the facts in this case).
Yeah, I can definitely see where you're coming from here. This particular charge might even be a better poster child for CFAA reform than Swartz or weev's cases, since in Manning's case this is essentially a wide-area LAN access and not going to an external third-party's network. (edited WLAN to be what I meant)
ugh, the emerge hell :] I'll take plain debian over that any day.
Yeah, those dirty immigrant bastards that pay US taxes in the highest rate and don't have any tax allowances. Those spoiled brats whose wives can't legally work. But they are lucky to be allowed to work 80-100 hours a week in order to keep their job and visa status, and to pack up the next day if they get fired.

Yeah, you should disallow that. If you push them out, then Joe SixPack would be able to make much more money for writing JS and Ruby code and bring US economy forward.
Skills are just one component. Possibly team dynamics, prior knowledge, attitude, passion and intellect played a role. These are characteristics that are hard to find anywhere, not just Boston.
Okay. I just find the originality of the vulnerability exaggerated (e.g. giving the process some special name (mactans) when all it is is a dev account installing an app on a device).
Only change, try RethinkDB instead mongo. Doesn't sound quite as nice with REAN though. NEAR? EARN? NARE? :)
I seriously hope voters will punish them for pulling this one off.
It's welcoming to foreigners? I thought the Scandinavian countries were famously xenophobic.
You could make an argument that the government can direct usage of a certain end-user app (which is why I'm sitting here on f'in IE 7 instead of something decent).

However in this case I think it would be more equivalent to charging Manning with using a handtruck to move paper files instead of carrying them one-by-one; i.e. a pretty lame excuse for a charge.
I really applaud the companies' commitment to phasing out the plastic beads within a few years time.
Though the prosecution's closing argument was pretty bad, he did manage to name one of the enemies concerned: OBL himself.
This sounds great until some parser uses the comment definition instead of the value. Is it defined in the spec that parsers need to use the last defined value for a key?
That's inaccurate. I just read the Lewis article and there are plenty of facts recited there contradict your summary; none of those facts support it.

He deleted his bash history, which many programmers do every day, indeed, that's what the justice department used as evidence that he "deleted the audit trail"

Once you look at the details of this case--in fact, even just the details as recited in the public documents filed by the Justice Department--a completely different story emerges. A few facts just for context:

the person arrested and later set free by a Federal Appeals Court, Sergei Alienikov, is an accomplished programmer with a long history of open source contribution, for instance, he is the author of the (original?) ZeroMQ Erlang bindings. (http://zeromq.github.io/erlzmq/)

The code that Goldman claims that Alienikov "stole" was code that he had written while employed by them; indeed, according to Goldman SA was hired to build their HFT rig, which he did. According to the Justice Dept documents, he only took a small portion of the total codebase (~ 2%) and he took that on the last day, six weeks after he had resigned from Goldman.

SA claimed that code comprised his revisions to an open source library he used to build Goldman's HFT system. Combined with the fact that he took that on his last day in the office (he had resigned six weeks before (at Goldman's request, he stayed an additional month) and was open about his plans to work for a competitor, (and which his employment agreement did not forbid). Clearly a smart guy, but a pretty dumb criminal, which pretty strongly suggests he's no criminal at all. If his plan was to steal this codebase (the one he had in fact spent the previous two years writing) he would have, to begin with, actually taken all of it, not just a small fraction, and second he would not wait until his last day. These circumstances were relevant in that case because SA was on trial for committing a felony, and to prove guilt requires proving some criminal state of mind ("intent to steal", the complaint calls it.)

What's more, Goldman had absolutely no evidence that SA used any of this code or gave it to anyone. The government's complaint is astonishingly frank about that. My understanding is that trade secret theft requires some unlawful use to actually constitute an IP theft.
I don't like this thread. It implies that if you aren't a slavish worker, with impervious metal discipline, you are /worthless/.

It's really hard binary thinking, which I guess is what I expect from here. You guys are implying that I am worthless. Completely worthless. That the OP is worthless. And so, what now? Shall we all just jump off a cliff then?

I don't think so.

maybe there is more to life than being the hardest worker.
Maybe it is okay to have an internal mental life that is rich and varied.

AND MAYBE FRETTING ABOUT NOT GETTING STUFF DONE IS JUST GOING TO MAKE YOUR PROCRASTINATION THINGS WORSE.

That's the trick. It's the mental chinese finger trap. You have to really truly accept who you are and what you limits are, what you can accomplish, and stop worrying so much about it. It is only once you have done this that you can let yourself get things done. It is only once you can accept that it is okay to not get things done, that you stop fearing the failure, and getting started doesn't feel like such a chore.

Failure is okay.

It is okay for other people to think you are worthless.

Just don't pay attention to it, stay in the now, put one foot in front of the other, trudge on and on and on, you'll find your pace, you'll find how to keep going, you'll get through the mental blocks. and you may never be as "good" as /those other people/. And that's okay.
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So how many happy Samsung customers does that translate to, when the rest of their phones are not doing so well and GS3/GN2 are hardly as numerous as any model of iPhone?
He is a bright college kid from Boston area. What more would you want to see ?
You could just cut the data wires of the USB cable you wish to use. Simple, cheap and effective.
11,000 years is a long time, especially when we're hypothesizing a future in which apparently once the fossil fuels disappeared, nothing else was a viable energy source. (It's possible. They aren't the only energy source, nor even the only dense energy source, but it's possible that long-term, the other ones can not be economically maintained. Fission reactors aren't trivial, and we still don't know how to build fusion reactors.) One could imagine a long-term, slow-burn conflict between a culture located in what is now Spain and one in what is now Turkey, and Spain deciding that building the dam would be worth it to cut them off at a point in which they are on the ascendent and Turkey is on the decline, so as to make the decline permanent, or who knows what crazy thing like that. 11,000 years is a long time for human history.