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The English Civil war 1642–1651, and the pro-parliamentarians led by Cromwell, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and English Bill of Rights of 1689, using the ideas of Locke's Second treatise(same year), were most important for laying the foundations of the ideas of liberal democracy. Of course, the Magna Carta is also a precursor.

The only thing making the U.S. Constitution unique is that the U.S. was the first major country to be explicitly founded as a Republic, and the first country to overthrow a monarchy. The South American revolutions against Spain were pretty explicit copies of this example - Simon Bolivar, for example, loved Thomas Jefferson, and actually sent his nephew to the University of Virginia. (The Monroe Doctrine was originally about preventing re-colonization of the independent Republics. It's too bad the U.S. did so many evil deeds in the Cold War)

The two intellectual groups involved in the founding were the Democratic-Republicans, led by Jefferson, and the Federalists, led by Hamilton. The Federalists basically, more conservative and sought a close emulation of Britain, were slightly elitist and monarchist sympathizing, and of course, wanted a strong central government. They elitism eventually proved unpopular, but they kept a stronghold in the Supreme Court with John Marshall (the Jeffersonians opposed Judicial Review)

The Jeffersonians were more radical, favoring a weaker federal government and individual rights. Thus they were instrumental in the creation of the Bill of Rights. They tended to favor France and had more diplomatic connection with them. The most radical founding father, Tom Paine, went to France to help the revolution, and narrowly escaped execution in the reign of terror for being a "reactionary".
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I had similar motivations for leaving a startup a few years ago. Not because it was easy, the work was quite challenging, but I think more because of the lack of involvement with creative input for the products I was building.

I was "just another dev".

I think this is an important lesson for any company building software, you'll lose top talent if you just treat them as some kind of fungible code churning cog.
Just because you're being altruistic doesn't mean everyone else is.

>No doubt there are some who see tipping as a sexual power trip but probably in no higher percentage than any other endeavor.

I don't follow you. In what other aspect of everyday life is someone forced to converse with you, meet your every whim, and then afterwards you get to decide how much money they take home?
> An experienced developer does not lack for job offers.

I won't suggest that I know whether or not the original poster made a good decision, but assuming that an experienced developer will have job opportunities on tap is naively short-sighted.

The current market in the Bay Area won't last forever. A lot of people today either weren't around in the late 90s or have chosen to forget what happened. In a matter of months, lots of developers went from having a seemingly unlimited number of high-paying jobs to choose from to collecting unemployment.

Even if the next down cycle isn't the same as Bust 1.0, a lot of the angel and VC-backed startups in the Bay Area currently eager to pay six figures for even mediocre talent aren't going to survive, and when they're replaced by fewer and fewer startups, many developers will be ill-prepared.
Why do you assume the schizophrenia was "likely induced by heavy marijuana use"?
Obviously the big issue here is trust, you can't automate it. You can try, but then it's going to come up in court that this was rubber stamped. This makes me think of other situations where "authority" is contracted out to external companies for the government. i.e. privtization of government is going to be a real problem when it comes to proving anything in court.
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Scientists tend to use language in precise and idiosyncratic ways, and when you add to that the language barrier - this seems much ado about nothing.

I remember a German colleague being reprimanded over his usage of "you people" in a mass email - apparently it means something different and more friendly in the German from which he mentally translated it.
Why Can't Science Keep Up With Sports Doping?
That ship has sailed though, unless they really feel like harassing Phil Zimmermann again...
I wholehearteadly agree with your larger point, but as a Brazilian I think Brazil is not a good example in this regard.
People here despise the government because of corruption of the "stealing" kind, and inefficiency. Despite our recent experiment with dictatorship ended in the 80's, We have a long road to travel in terms of awareness about the dangers of tirany.
The government takes the fingerprints of every citizen when we go make our I.D. Cards, for example. No one makes a fuss. Official propaganda is standard practise (how else would one call the government-bought advertisements to raise awareness about its deeds?) Recenty the folks who organize electios are all over the TV with their campaign to take everyone's prints (see "inneficiency") in order to "make our elections even more secure". Though the last president's plans for "social control of the media" were soundly rebutted, it's telling that he even thought he could try.
I'm an optimist regarding the next decades, but it's a long road indeed.
If you like this sort of analysis, try The Last Psychiatrist.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com
Today we launched our open source tool, but we also have a hosted platform that is build on Dropbox. See harp.io for that.

We have hung out with the Backlift guys - they are awesome.
Hold you in contempt for something you did years before the case was filed or the investigation even started? God, that's even worse than contempt of court for failing to say passwords under the fifth amendment.

I'm pretty sure I have some truecrypt containers I've forgotten the passwords to, sure hope I never get arrested!
No, there is no way to see more articles. I never clicked on the next button on HN so i didn't bother to implement that. It should be easy to add it.

I am using icomoon.io for icon font.
There's no actual evidence you're less likely to be arrested if you're white.
> " I've long been more afraid, in general, of computer hackers than government."

Seriously?
If you are on android, you can download this as a native app from here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn
Yep. Now I naturally have to e-mail all my friends and work contacts (from my throwaway Gmail address), not to mention the person I know who opened a personal Lavabit account on my recommendation, announcing to all that my e-mail address is changing - and such a message wouldn't be complete without mentioning the reason why, venting a little of my shock and disappointment, and perhaps dropping in a little potted history of the recent developments in government net snooping leading up to this with newspaper article links. Messages that I wouldn't have otherwise sent without this justification, for fear of boring my dear friends, having assumed that any of them who are likely to care about this stuff, will already have read about it themselves without me telling them.

Despite the annoyance of not being able to use my e-mail the past couple of days, and the possibility that the US Gov may have some copies of my e-mail (which I imagine will be perfectly useless to them) I am immensely gratified at the stand Lavabit's owner appears to have taken, and having chosen them in the first place due to these values which I am in broad alignment with, I feel it confirms that it was a good choice, despite the fact that I now have to find another provider. I am sorry for the guy that he's effectively had his business - perhaps his livelihood - pulled out from under him, and I will be donating to his defense fund out of sympathy, though I am not an American.
Solution: don't depend on a provider
U.S. Surveillance Programs Spur EU Efforts to Tighten Data Protection Rules
I guess we'll never know, will we? :)

That said, I don't think my unhappiness working for others has anything to do with other people making me feel that way or with my competence or the competence of others. Heck, I'm VP of Engineering right now at a company doing 10s of millions in revenue and growing like crazy and I still feel like something is missing.

My realization is that it needs to my skin in the game to not feel like I'm "just another dev" or perhaps more generally, "just another cog in the machine".

Working for someone else, I don't see how I could ever reach the level of personal risk, reward and gratification that it has taken me a long time to realize I need.

I can't escape it at someone else's startup or someone else's big company. I bounced from job to job, year after year, thinking it was just culture or not enough responsibilities, or too many responsibilities, not enough money, or too much money. These were all wrong.
I've noticed that there are definitely people who think ideas — even unimplemented ones — are valuable IP and patents are a reasonable way to monetize ideas. It's sometimes expressed as a business model for those who can't afford to execute their ideas. I guess the line between that philosophy and patent trolling is when the inventor starts going after companies that independently reinvented their idea.
The first amendment issue is the most important part of this, and is in my opinion the strongest vector of attack in a potential litigation.
Most liberal democracies don't have anything like First Amendment or Second Amendment (at the level of protections they provide) and the rights guaranteed to US people by those are routinely violated in other liberal democracies.
Good argument not to do anything you really care about on the web. Plain old email clients still work just fine, after all.
You hit the nail on the head with kan.so. I'm not using pouchDB, want to but haven't needed it. As a couchApp I can do a lot of the heavy lifting on the backend through good use of lists, shows, and views. Then I sync large collections through dynamic queries and long polling. I will be bringing in backbone for this soon. The data we are dealing with is a good fit for the eventual consistency model so we do not have to worry about realtime mobile syncing. We do have a AWS server setup though that syncs with Cloudant and allows us to put a ELB in front with our Node service talking directly to couch on the AWS network. This allows us to install our own ssl cert and pass credentials.
Those patent trolls are the same as computer hackers. They hack the legal system. But the government is too occupied with more important issues to fix this, rather complicated "bug". I wonder if it would be possible to design a legal system that would work similarly to an open-source project, where anyone could contribute, just not all contributions accepted, etc.
We haven't changed. We are just launching our open source server / APF first, building a little more community around that and then we will launch Harp.io.
Parallel construction gives pause. It goes like this:

1) Find list of people who you don't like (in this case, for legally donating).

2) Perform illegal searches to find things they have done which are illegal.

3) Find another excuse to perform a nominally legal search ("His tail-light was out. I smelled pot, and when I searched him I discovered a large amount of cash in his wallet.")

4) Arrest him for the activities discovered in 2, but allegedly discovered during 3.

tl;dr: Parallel construction allows for politically motivated searches which can lead to 'unrelated' convictions. You will never even know it happened, you'll just be cursing your bad luck.
s/some/all/
Plus associates, of course.
At least in the case of some Olympic athletes when new testing techniques become available WADA can go back and retest samples with these techniques.

This has recently caught a number of cheats from 2008 at the Beijing Olympics. Some 4+ years later. Not ideal but better late than never.
You do realize that we just got past the heatwave here, and we also got quite low temperatures in December? The Polish winter is a bit harsher, but not that much.

I am from Warsaw, and biked there, and the difference in infrastructure quality and planner priorities is huge. I mean, people still think it's a good idea to build elevated highways in the cities there.
tl;dr, "make up" data means either put together or fake.
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PRISM: an idea for fighting back
Create a web service that provides 1px tracking gifs that webmasters can voluntarily embed in their pages.
Said service has a community maintained list of ip blocks belonging to pro-surveillance organisations e.g. congress, intelligence orgs, military, contractors, general gov, etc.
Any time the tracking image is requested by someone with a matching ip, automatically publish details of that request (referring page, ip, time, etc) to a public repository.
If we can't have privacy, I don't see why they should.
> it does implement TCP and UDP on both IPv4 and IPv6

I thought this sort of thing was usually handled by the OS. Can you even get raw sockets on most systems? Or by "implemented TCP", do they mean they can give you back a Unix TCP/UDP socket?
You're right about that. To make a more correct analogy, I should have said that the main target has always been C, which RPython "transpiles" into. So the original and primary target has always been portable C, but there have also been experimental JVM, CLR, and JavaScript targets.
Done - http://harpjs.com/docs/environment/lib
To provide a small anecdote; on my 10 minute commute to work each morning, I pass no fewer than 6 speeding cameras, potentially more that I haven't noticed, and frankly, the sheer prevalence and "sneakyness" by which they are deployed convinced me long ago that the goal here was to rack up tickets rather than to prevent speeding. (Cameras hidden in bushes/behind trees, 2 cameras on the same block, within ~20 seconds of each other, both hidden behind shrubbery on the right hand side of a right hand turn). In writing this I admit I have second guesses of whether I'm being too tin foil hat with the suspicions, but it's basically a checklist of "where would I put cameras if I wanted to accumulate the maximum # of violations", with no regard to where the most dangerous roads on this commute are.

Let's even take a step back here and look at the program itself. It's not really "news" that behavioral modification (which, in a perfect world, is the end goal of ticketing, getting speeders to stop speeding) doesn't really work well when the punishment is long after the action that it is reinforcing. One could make a very hand wavy argument about the flash, but it's a weak reinforcer (the monetary punishment being very delayed), and the swapping with infrared is the nail in the coffin of that argument.
This is new; it didn't do it when I had originally posted.
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With "Parallel Construction", we see an explicit attempt to avoid Judicial Review, with the DEA mysteriously dropping charges whenever a case goes to court. Which is bad, as we've now trusted the constitution entirely to Judicial Review - congress has washed their hands of a responsibility to uphold it.

I suppose you could argue that the DEA knows it's unconstitutional and is willfully violating, and that raises even more troubling questions.

I also wish the constitutionality of FISC court itself could be challenged, as I think it clearly doesn't fall under article 3. But I have no idea how this would be done.

Some countries, like Germany, have Supreme Courts with more interventionist abilities, and more recourse against willful violations.
It would probably have been caught by the duplicate checker.
off-topic: how did Blogspot break the history back button so hard?
"if I say I don't have budget now, you asking me every week is not going to change that."

That's exactly the reason #2 is such a good idea (I do a version of the same in some cases).

You keep your name in front of the prospect w/o being annoying and requiring them to do anything. Along those lines though any contact if excessive can be annoying.
There are plenty of human rights violations that the US commits as a matter of policy, due to its "War on Terror" - drone strikes and Guantanamo Bay are two major ones.
People usually go to the weed doctor after they've exhausted other avenues. For one thing, if you have insurance it's going to be a lot cheaper to take standard pharma products than weed.
Privacy-aware services
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It is: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
Yup, nothing new, even in Europe (Finland).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer
Thanks for the recommendations, all. Just got my copy delivered yesterday and I'm looking forward to digging into it.
I have 3 GB of ram in my Thinkpad T60 and that seems to handle about everything I need to do. Why would I need more?
Maybe if you use Yandex Mail the US government will at least have to do the proper procedures in a Russian court, to get your data.
The rewrite was essentially to facilitate using libuv more. To paraphrase Brian Anderson: "we needed to rewrite io, and we've just taken a detour to port the runtime."
I believe Nexus 4 is one of the supported devices for the Ubuntu phone variant, and will have a similar OS as the Edge.
Use OpenPGP software on your local device (GnuPG). Never copy your private key into the could. Set a super strong password on the private key. You now can have point to point encryption that is "military grade" (per Bruce Schneier) and no one but you has access to the private key.

It's not that hard to do either. Nice point and click convenient web interface or true privacy. Pick one.
Here's the question as far as I am concerned.. are the medical risks associated with chronic use of marijuana greater than, or less than other less than universally beneficial and completely legal substances (tobacco, alcohol, trans-fats, hfcs, etc)?

I'm not a pot head, and for that matter, I only have a drink a handful of times a year.. that said, I don't think that marijuana should be illegal for recreational use, let alone medical use.
This seems well done but the menu bar at the top takes a bunch of screen real estate for little use. Not really sure of the benefit of this website over HN. HN is one of the rare sites that actually renders fine on mobile just the way it is. Everything is there, and it loads quickly.
Did you read the article, which talks about the two options that Hushmail offers? The server side (weak) encryption and the client side Java option?

And the fact that even Hushmail said that they could be forced to serve malformed Java applets to targets.
Poor choice for funding a good cause.
Not trying to troll or anything, but how do we know Mozilla won't be evil in the future? I'm sure you could find people who thought that about Google back in the day, they seem to now be routinely called out for questionable evils.
I don't consider there to be a government contribution at all: in reality, they are permitting you to pay income tax at a later date (at a rate we don't yet know).

Assuming you have covered your debts and housing costs and have decided to forego luxuries and still have enough spare cash to save in a pension, then:

This situation can benefit you, yes, but only under the assumption that you will have a lower percentage income tax liability in retirement compared to your liability now.

This is typically true under the current system for present-day retirees, but is not guaranteed to continue. If you do end up paying the same percentage income tax after retirement, having a pension agreement or not will make little difference to your wealth. With a pension, we are now taking a risk that depends on the future of the political system. I understand if you think that's a fair enough risk, but there's more:

A pension is legally locked up until age 55, a pressure point that may prevent you from accessing accounts with properly competitive fees in the future (since you won't have access to accounts outside the pension system, you may also have to suffer the worst of the financial industry).

If there's any reason you need the saved money prior to 55 - you can't access it and will have to make expensive decisions to cover this. This is the final nail in the coffin for me: unless you have a whole bunch of rainy day savings, on top of your house ideally with no debts attached, a pension becomes a poor risk compared to non-pension savings IMHO.

In the example where you quote numbers, you seem to have double-counted the tax relief for a basic rate payer (your numbers are wrong; though they seem correct for a 40% payer - high earners may benefit more from a pension).

Best of luck with your investment decisions.
CentOS6. Partly just expressing frustration on my part, but definitely sours my view on basing things on Python for something where stability is a priority. On the otherhand, virtualenv is a god send ....
On proof, lies and expecting the worst from the surveillance state
I thought France disavowed that involvement? Wasn't it just Austria bloviating, or was it hasty ass-covering by France?
>Not to mention that there is no US equivalent to the rampant human rights violations and censorship in China.

So that makes it okay for them to systematically spy on their own citizens and violate their own constitution?

Saying "this country is worse" doesn't make it okay in the US.

Bad logic.
So guarantee you will be regarded as a "terrorist" and then put yourself somewhere in the middle of international waters?

At least when the ship disappeared off the face of the earth it would be easy to figure out what happened.
Crypto AG, who made "secure" telex machines, were revealed to have cooperated in an NSA exploit in the '80s, and are still in business: http://www.crypto.ch/

Lot's of people who should be locking down their email are now pretending nothing is wrong. Denial can be very strong.
Works skippingly for identifying users' reasons for app failures.
Interesting, except surveillance doesn't usually involve pageloads. Look at Lavabit -- how would this have helped in their case?
Along the lines of what you said you gave "branded kazoos" I think that's the key point.

If you give someone branded swag it doesn't seem like a bribe and most likely wouldn't seem to be something that should get someone fired.

They typically have these types of things at tradeshows. And people try to grab so they have enough for all their kids.

Young Kids get excited with some of the lamest things it doesn't take much to make them happy. And when kids are excited because mom/dad walk in with something for them the parents are happy and it rubs off on the person who gave them the item for their kids.
Mission Presidents are reimbursed for ALL of their reasonable and typical expenses. They don't pay their own way like the missionaries do.
You cannot trust the code. You cannot trust the code because the supplier could be forced to include a backdoor, and thus you have to audit the code before every session.
The Pirate Bay team are implementing something like that, i believe.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Pirate-Bay-Orbit-Serves-Spa...
I'm curious: did you release the server first because the harp.io bits aren't quite ready yet? Or is building a community for the backend server intended to eventually drive customers to the hosted service?
Do you have any citations for this? I'm genuinely interested.
Peter Thiel’s CS183 Class Notes: If You Build It, Will They Come?
Very well written Class notes from Peter Thiel's class - CS183: Startup. Credit goes to Blake Masters who wrote the essay.
Sure it renders fine, but it isn't particularly suited for small screens and touch interactions.
Oh, I'm aware. I always have very specific stipulations put into my employment contracts.

Regardless, I never write anything of worth for those side projects -- mostly experimental things, or using new languages/frameworks I had never tried.