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The idea of a National Security Letter, a device which strips the recipient of several basic human rights, is so blatantly unconstitutional that it should have never been allowed to exist at all, let alone persist as long as it has. It's a device straight out of the Cold War east bloc.
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So, a court already declared it illegal, and one of the things he leaked was information about illegal things NSA admitted it has done...

How it is not illegal?
Foreign governments already know this.
It's not a moral calculus, Dan.
Have U.S.A attacked Syria yet? (Hebrew)
Best example I know of something like this is Carpathia's conundrum in the Megaupload case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload#Data_retention
This.

Related: It's incredibly galling when someone wants you to sign an NDA to talk about something on which they have a bullshit patent. Really?? Trade secret XOR patent, please choose.
I think this is something where the perception of utility is far different in the startup world that big enterprise. In the enterprise world, where there are too many people with too many complex business relationships to keep track of everything, and too diverse a group of meeting participants to know everything about them, and where you may not be discussing your IP or your business deals but the situations of your own customers or suppliers, an NDA is a no-brainer. It amounts to much the same thing as doctor/patient or attorney/client confidentiality principles and allows free, assumed-secure speech in any environment where all parties present may not otherwise have an appropriate level of trust to be comfortable engaging that way. In my business of contract engineering & manufacturing, we don't create nearly as much internal IP as we handle the IP of our customers. However, we apply our unique processes & systems to achieve the goals of our customers and if we want to discuss how we do that when engaging with potential new customers, we absolutely require NDAs. It doesn't help things that in the EMS industry almost all the big OEMs have contracts with several competing EMS companies (just look at Apple with Foxconn, Samsung and Pegatron, for example... or Dell/HP using both Quanta & Compal... but also using Flextronics, Sanmina, Jabil and Celestica.). It gets messy fast and ensuring legal recourse for accidental or intentional leaks is a necessity.
Independent of all the visa advice, keep yourself safe!
So you as an anecdote trumps multiple people in the sample for the research?
The Germain embassy in Syria has closed long time ago. the closest alternative now to seek the German embassy in Beirut (Lebanon) or Dubai (UAE)

in Beirut, it is extremely difficult if not impossible, the media reported cases where they hit people with a whip on borders: http://bit.ly/17ohTMP

for Dubai you chances are either:

1. a visit visa (need a good job and a letter from your employer)

2. Student visa (need around 8000 Euros in a German bank account - no bank will give you that, especially from outside germany)
A lot of this seems like mis-communication between a lawyer and a client. It sounds like people have talked to a lawyer. The lawyer says, "you need an NDA to talk with people about your business." The lawyer means for real negotiations about partnerships, etc. He never intends for it to be about semi-casual discussions about ideas. He is not in the tech business. "Talking about your business" to him means specific business strategies, pricing, bid and proposals, etc. And he crafted the NDA to cover these items.

A good alternative to "I'll never sign an NDA" is to counter with your own NDA that properly excludes the obvious. A good NDA, including ones that I have signed from major corporations, exclude information that has been made public in any way or that you hear from a third party. Or material that can be derived from public information.
doesn't work on 10.8.4 for me
Who said anything about giving 10% of your income to the government? He _explicitly_ stated charities. The ones you give to are your own choice.

I'm sort of missing the part of the article where he states only to give to charities who are aligned with the US government. No one said anything about giving to a charity that gives Porsches to US Senators.
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Whoa, slow down there chief.

"Poor" can also encompass all the nice middle-class folks who are heavily leveraged in assets, with credit-card debt and student loans and mortgages and the like.

We're not just talking about Crazy Joe Hobo.
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the same thing happens in the US:

http://muninetworks.org/tags/tags/rural-electric-coop
An NSL simply cannot be included in any due diligence.

That's absolutely brilliant and insightful - there are 192,499 (1) NSL's issued - which either will represent a huge and uncountable liability during due diligence or a massive impact on M&A work in the future.

(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
Definitely. Although there is a bit of hn effect too :)
Several months ago that tone would have sounded conspiracy crazed nutty. But post-Snowden and given that it's schneier, it's sad to realize we've come to realize how bad the situation is. I'm still inclined to not change any actions on my part because I'm not worried about being under surveillance. I'm neither interesting, nor engaged in anything interesting. However, I would like it if the spying were reduced to remove the bulk tapping of the internet.
Have you ever tried to push code after not eating for three days because paying taxes wiped you out?

It's a very different sort of distraction.
The user has to be an admin and have executed sudo previously for this to work. I hope that anybody who's smart enough to have access to this command (and admin membership) is equally qualified to parse scripts that may exploit this vulnerability...
Sure I'll sign your NDA. But then you sign MY NDA before I give you any feedback on your genius idea. Seriously people, WTF?
Bad move. It creates an extra step in the installation process. It forces users to then reset it back to Google search, which most everyone will do. Just like when you reset Bing in IE to Google.
I never read anything I disagreed with in PP, and it's worth going through, but as you allude to it did reflect its times. There was an undertone throughout that programmers exist to server the capricious whims of their suit-wearing overlords, and a lot of the advice was centered around that. Relative to the times it was good advice, but perhaps doesn't apply as much in today's startup world where "the suits" often don't exist.
Found it without hesitation. I don't see a better place to put it. It's not a setting, it's an action, related to the Privacy settings.
Remove It Permanently

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-it-per...

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Yeah, but looking at Atlassian is easy, for pete's sake they gave us shitty software like JIRA, Confluence and others... and I say that with a HUGE dislike of those products due to how obtuse they can be.
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Did you read the article? The author is talking about NDA's from people who want to discuss startup ideas with him, not NDA's from clients or potential clients.
Again, it seems you either didn't read the article, or something -- he's not saying to give another 10% in taxes, he's saying to give your income to charity. Just because 30% of your income is spent in taxes, doesn't mean you can't give 10% of the rest of your charity who isn't aligned with the federal or state government. You could give it to a foreign nonprofit. It doesn't matter, just as long as you give.

I guess I'm just not understanding your argument. It's like going up to a kid's lemonade stand and refusing to buy on the grounds that you give 30% of your income in taxes. Spending your money on taxes and giving 10% of your disposable income to charity is mutually exclusive, except for the obvious fact that you receive tax benefits from giving to charity.
No one ever sues over an NDA. The point of an NDA is to set up an expectation of confidentiality. It's easier than having the conversation that you expect the discussions to go no further which leaves the possibility of ambiguity.

Absolutely problems arise where an NDA is overly broad, the duration is excessive or there are circumstances where it is inappropriate but the idea of the NDA itself is not bad per se.
The first edition of CC appeared before the mainstream boom of OOP, C++ was beginning to get adopted, Java wasn't released yet. The 2nd edition addresses OOP a little more but doesn't really goes too deep on it. I'd argue that the book is more worried about modularization, a concept from structured programming that in OOP would be translated into "loose coupling/strong cohesion".
Yes its true that neural nets are not used in commercial systems because its computation intensive and also needs huge infrastructure even for things like finding cat images out of youtube videos but the results are far more accurate then any of the statistical methods used in commercial systems. There is time-performance trade-off when it comes to choosing statistical methods over neural nets and also it's a field yet to be explored. I will be writing a series of article on neural nets for beginners and advanced programmers . Please stay tuned.
That makes sense. But then you're into back and forth contracts in relation to your free gift of time and expertise. And once official rules are involved, relationship dynamics change.
That'd be awesome. Feel free to keep me in the loop.
> I'm still inclined to not change any actions on my part because I'm not worried about being under surveillance. I'm neither interesting, nor engaged in anything interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Yeap... you are right... this is why I shouldn't never post from my phone :)
That's why the government is paying the companies to access the data. So it's much easier for companies to just comply with the order. The carrot and the stick.
"If you're financially stable you are like someone programming in a high level language who has tedious tasks like memory management taken care of for you. "

This is exactly the correct metaphor.

I had to, at one point, stop using my coworking space and start working from home because I couldn't deal with the occasional overhead of "Huh, shit, I forget to bring lunch--can I afford to eat out today? Do I have enough gas to commute?".

Money is this magical barrier to all sorts of annoying daily minutiae--even a little bit is enough to let you shrug off the effects of suboptimal decisions. Being able to simply buy a lunch when you forgot to bring one can change your whole afternoon of productivity.
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Thanks to the author for including RyanAir's awful booking reservation website. This piece of garbage is filled with traps and puzzles in order to sneak additional costs onto you. God I hate this carrier a well as the world's "cheaper is better" attitude.
Arguably the collection of large amounts of private data is a fundamental property of the internet and impossible to avoid. In a world of government back doors into hardware and software the difference between cloud and local is an increasingly mute point for most people; making privacy a technical improbability. If any connected device can be accessed how can invalid conduct ever be avoided?
The same reason they consider bitcoin worthy of ridicule.
There was a recent article on LinkedIn that talked (anecdotally) about the same taxing on the brain for people that have limited time (http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130627224702-13...)
Because the margin is obviously higher on ebooks than print books. I imagine that more profit is made on an ebook sale at 50% off than a print book at full price.
cool. just bought the book on Amazon! i know some small amount about neural networks (i was able to skim the article), but the book as a whole looks stellar.
The GNU GPL.

It allows you to share your code with other people who share their code, but not people who don't. Afterall, why would you want to share your work with someone who doesn't share theirs?

Great work, thouGh. Seriously, nice job!
Rather than ask - build a landing page with a gumroad subscription button and GET users rather than ASK users.
e.g. http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...

I also think - $50/month is a hard sell to have clients "pre-pay" as I can do the same thing just charge them ahead of time (e.g. 50% down to start then 50% when complete or some % of).

I would rather see a service that charges $50/month or flat rate $25 to go AFTER clients who haven't paid on time/etc.

my 2 cents
Ah, sorry, in a late-night stupor, I mis-read your "paper version" as literally paper version.

I totally agree with you personally, but I think videos are more useful for lots of people.
I'm worried about all that stuff too, particularly the unified database they were talking about under ID cards, with hundreds of thousands of busybodies having access.

I'm just saying that while I knew it was trivially easy to read email just by sniffing the wire, while I knew that they could do this and probably were, that doesn't mean that I expect that sort of behaviour from a democratic government or that that expectation amounts to a sort of implicit permission to treat the data as public.

For a counterpoint - email from government departments comes with footer text claiming it private and confidential!

I think we are probably using expect in slightly different, nuanced ways. I may expect that they do it (in the sense I think it's likely) because I'm a realist and also a cynic. But in other ways I don't expect it (in the sense I don't think it's reasonable behaviour).
That's the secondary reason.
Real reason: because I'm too lazy, and frankly don't really care.
Other branches of government can, relying on NSA intelligence.

Just to be clear that example you offer is a case of an employer monitoring employee activity on company equipment, which is another can of worms: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/pressure-cooker/

Also it's not an account of action taken against consumers or users, nor is it any example of a "large database".
For freelance service providers, this already exists. I do it with everyone who wants to hire me. No prepayment = no work. It took a long time to get there. It also took multiple times of forgetting this rule (and getting burned once again). Most recent write-off? Last month. :-(

Just ask. It is astonishing what the universe will deliver to you if you just ask.

Also, if the answer comes back "no" too many times, that is valuable intelligence gleaned from the marketplace. What you do with that information is up to you. Personally, I interpret that information as "I am attempting to compete in a commodity business; how can I reconfigure my services so I am not a commodity service provider?"
The armed services as a whole is large... continue breaking it down into finer line items and soon... it's just a bunch of "drops in the bucket".

ADD: interest payments is probably large too and more difficult to break into smaller lines... so let's quickly scrutinize that item... "Yeah, we probably should continue to make those payments unless we want everyone to lose trust in the U.S. backed dollar."
I'd take issue with arguing that there isn't much innovation in the PHP community.

It might not be the best language for every application (I find myself using it less and less these days), but there have been a whole ton of recent developments that have made it much nicer to work with.

PHP 5.4 made some pretty significant improvements, and Laravel is one of the nicest full-stack frameworks I've ever worked with. PHP now has good/sane dependency management via Composer, and many of Laravel and Symfony's components can now be used outside of the main framework. Microframeworks are a pleasure to work with in PHP, which is especially nice for smaller one-off webapps.

Many of the recent improvements have been (very) late to the game, but they're nevertheless welcome. I could do without the Java-esque levels of verbosity that PSR-0 encourages, but it does seem to result in highly-maintainable code.

"New PHP" projects (written from scratch, targeting 5.3 and above) tend to be of surprisingly high quality. As I've mentioned before, Laravel emerged from nowhere as a lightweight and very high-quality framework, long after the PHP community had been declared moribund.
Your VPN doesn't work on your phone?
Do you have a citation for the 100 deaths? The number seems rather high - from the three events you cite there were "only" five deaths (killed in a fire).
It's a good-looking site, and I like the idea, but it doesn't really seem "minimally viable" without any content. I'm digging the blog, though, and look forward to following along!
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There are plenty of good reasons not to sign someone else's NDA, but there's usually a very good reason not to ask someone to sign yours: without the willingness and ability to try to enforce it, your NDA isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

In reality only a fraction of the people who enter into agreements actually have the wherewithal to enforce them. This is particularly true when dealing with individuals (especially "entrepreneurs") and small business owners.
One UI thing that's bugging me: the "Browse Patterns" dropdown has a text cursor instead of a pointer.
On the other hand, as an established business, if you needed the sort of consultation this guy is providing for free to would-be startups, you'd pay for it. Not only does this drastically change the risk/reward tradeoffs for the consultant, your issues are likely to be a lot more concrete and specific than pie-in-the-sky I've got a revolutionary idea startup stuff.
Many of Laravel's components can also be stripped out and used as microframeworks. Their database ORM is particularly nice, and I use it alongside Slim on a few projects.

From my experience using it, Laravel also feels a lot "lighter" than the other big frameworks of the past. It's a bit less opinionated, and it's much easier to get set up and running.
I think it's important to note that these are two very different examples. The OP is specifically discussing the experience and approach for a skilled worker in a job search situation where a country is actively seeking that type of worker. That's entirely different to wanting to move somewhere for further your education in a highly competitive field like medicine.
You read where companies cannot divulge that fact that they have received a NSL? What if they all started reporting that they did NOT receive a NSL? Then when the reporting stopped, you could draw your own conclusions. Wouldn't work for large companies that might get them frequently, but would be an option for the smaller ones like Lavabit.
That's a pretty shallow analysis of Apple's products.
Not at all a safe assumption. Most importantly, it's not that uncommon for even less experienced Mac users to copy and paste Terminal commands to solve one problem or another. A lot of those "Just type this!" solutions I've seen involve sudo somewhere.

But on top of that, maybe I don't understand your meaning here, but do you do a security audit on every line of every script that you ever run? Especially scripts that you run without sudo? I know that I don't.
Viewing in daylight, for one, and text is still easier to read on it than on LED.

And I think you understate the battery life aspect of it. Getting it from one to two days is of limited value, but right now people's behavior is driven by the pattern of charging the phone at night. They want to use their phone more, except they don't want it to have run out by 2 PM, so they moderate their usage. If they knew they could use it with abandon and have it last until they went to bed, they would. Or so goes my theory.
It is on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/2jtvgfG4XLPmr0BR6p1mk5
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Yep. NDA = pay me. Non-compete = pay me. Anything that reduces my ability to make money means you compensate me for it or I don't agree.
> Might not be
doable in FreeBSD (incompatible with
the branding)

Perhaps something more in line with BSD would be a sacrifice(2) syscall? It would pick a random process and...
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Hmmm - right now, instead of a "super duper barely MVP", I see a "website designed around an idea". I think you're "more than a little early" in promoting this right now but I wish you luck. The site design is "good enough" so focus on building the content.
are you sure???
How does it compare to Godaddy checkout?
This is pretty unnecessary here.
A few points:

- The default user created at setup of OSX is in the admin group.

- Certainly the 'has run sudo' is a bit of a restriction, but even running something like the Homebrew install script runs sudo. (Maybe 'users that run Homebrew without understanding sudo' is an even smaller restriction, but a few members of my research group live in exactly this intersection!)

- Do you habitually read every line of source code your computer would execute before you run that code?
That's one hell of a horror story.
I have changed my behavior a bit. There is something about feeling a big brother presence looking over your shoulder when you type. This is particularly present in private conversations.

With comments to HN or public comments on blog posts, etc. I think that the government could have gotten it anyway. If the government wants to snoop on things I say publically there isn't much I can do about it. But with private emails, it's a different matter. The question is, "what will someone think if they read this?" And so those emails end up self-censored, not discussing big controversies, and I put the political thoughts out there front and center for all to see.

So it means that for HN, no difference. I will say what i would say before. Same for any other public comment area. But there are things now that I would say in public that I am not sure I would say in private.
Maybe they did...
I agree that Scene7 is a good product, but really overpriced, though my company was happy to pay for it because it was like a magic patch applied on their shitty worflow.
Although in all fairness that could say a great deal about the passion the English have for disco that was previously untapped until this group was formed (is it wrong to joke about such a serious topic?)
Deep learning generally involves neural networks or very similar models. Do you want me to list some of the many tasks for which deep learning is state of the art?

Search engines could use neural networks (and possibly have better search results), but the research was just done a few years ago (ie 3-4 years ago) and search engines are much older than that.

As for the commercial aircraft point: I'm trying to find the youtube video I've seen before about this. The video is of a plane simulation where the plane has lost control of both of the wing flaps (or both of some other important steering element) and a person was unable to stabilize the plane but a neural network could. This doesn't mean a neural network should be used for autopilot all the time, but they can be useful for certain situations.

Edit: found the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aObBHXsc_iw&t=3m50s