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Yeah hate to spoil the party, but this is not 'wage theft'. Wage theft is very specifically the act of withholding wages that an employee is entitled to according to the terms of his or her employment agreement.

What happened here is not even 'price-fixing', it's a fairly weak attempt at 'collusion'. Yes, it seems improper at first blush and the email exchanges are almost comically incriminating, but my guess is that it didn't really have a substantial effect on the engineer salaries write large (or even executive salaries). Agreeing not to cold-call employees is not the same thing as refusing to hire them; that latter would have had a major depressing effect on wages (kind of like if all MLB teams had a handshake agreement to never sign another team's free agent) but that clearly isn't what happened here.

It seems to me like the proof is in the pudding. If big tech companies are colluding to depress engineer wages, they're pretty obviously failing.

Anyway, I have no idea how this lawsuit will shake out, but I know that Pando Daily is doing a shit-ass job of reporting, and I regret clicking on the link and giving them the additional pageview.
> Law enforcement doesn't need to be based on secrecy. I never said you have to broadcast that you're investigating someone, just that the information about who, how, and why you're investigating someone be reasonably public (going through real courts to get warrants and such).

There's a difference between judicial oversight and public oversight. The court may issue a wiretap authorization, yet that will probably remain secret for as long as it's in effect. Otherwise, the wiretap will be largely useless. You can't go to your local courthouse and demand a list of currently active wiretaps. It's not public record.

> The basic idea would be to have redundancy in channel, location, mode, since we're talking about a case in which the chain of command's top has been ripped off leaving many higher-ranking officers at the top of the new chains. An attacker wouldn't be able to take out all (all routes for all modes all over the US) of the communication network simultaneously, especially if we're not talking about superbly massive bombings in which case there would/should be detection.

What you're proposing is maybe practicable today. I doubt it would have been at the time in question. Technology was very primitive then, in comparison to what we have now.

> Also, to be credible, you're assuming the US is telling other's about their system (so that the USSR knows/will think that it can't simply take out the president and there won't be retaliation). Otherwise it's all just based on speculation and in terms of deterrent doesn't matter what the actual system is.

The assumption is that the enemy has some insight into your system. In which case it really does matter what your system is.

> Why must it be external, though. Both you and I are concerned about how the government should operate in a manner that protects the populace; I'm just saying that from the populace's POV, the government is/can be an external threat. Look at Kiev right now.

Again, you're arguing about a different issue than the one I am. I agree that a government can become an enemy of its public. But while that's a plausible scenario, it's not the one I was analyzing. Thus my comment that you're shifting the meaning of the vocabulary to refer to a different concept.
> so $30k of demonstrated public interest would be matched with $3MM of NIH funding.

This sets up a perverse incentive: the researchers who can best pander to a layperson crowd will have the highest chance, regardless of the technical merits of their proposal (which the general public almost certainly isn't qualified to judge).
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Not if you spend bitcoin as part of your business (e.g. paying suppliers)
try the "type cover" keyboard. its not a regular keyboard but really thin and a nice balance.
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NFL players are all members of a union and collectively negotiate those rules.

(I doubt the league especially factors into the terms of the contracts between teams and players, but the non-profit status is probably granted because the team owners extract profits and the league just keeps the wheels turning, there isn't an owner that makes money on the league itself)
It was also a hard requirement for the British involvement in the JSF programme — with the UK meant to be contributing 10% of the original budgeted cost of development.
Well, "nuclear suitcase bombs" are usually envisioned as taking out a city. Wheel one into Times Square, push the button, and boom, millions dead. The Davy Crockett's yield was about 20 tons, so it would be like a really big truck bomb going off. Not a good thing to happen in a crowded city, but we're talking about a couple of city blocks being destroyed. For a sneak attack, you'd probably be better off buying or stealing a tractor trailer and loading it to the gills with ammonium nitrate.
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expectations for the future is the difference. the stock market weights future earnings and dividends.
It's not that H1-B's get paid less than other workers, it is that by having more people available to do the same job it decreases the pay for all people doing said job. That's how the logic would appear to work, supply and demand, etc.
I'm asking you because evidently nobody knows, so all this speculation about the disadvantages of their policy seems to me like smoke and mirrors.
Not to support the princeton conclusion but to initiate your debunk by pointing at "like' trends first is silly.
Windows 8. Touchscreen. It's not altogether unappealing, but I feel like its main selling points are aimed at the casual user who doesn't own a desktop or laptop already (or just have a work laptop).
We haven't vanished. We just don't care anymore--at least, not enough to rehash the same old tired arguments.

I still monitor Bitcoin news. Nothing surprising. Bitcoin is still a greedy rotten fruit, and only time will prove anyone wrong.
Interestingly enough if you work for a financial firm (doing their software) you'll likely get paid significantly better than many tech jobs. Largely due to bonuses based off how much money you bring to the company.

Further, 240k for a data scientist isn't necessarily low, they are one of a team and the person who "made" Siri likely is paid much better (I could be wrong, as I do not know for certain).
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Too bad we don't have an example of this to look at. I, regretfully, agree with the OP. It would probably seem kind of weird, and then male presenter would seem more than a bit childish.
When do you think we'll get to the point where the blog header will link to the actual product. I know there's a lil button up there in the corner but I intuitively just click that header.
these teams also have minimums they must spend on players and minimum salaries per player. in the MLB and NBA the player's unions are very powerful and salaries would likely fall without them (NFL is a different story)
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Unlike its rivals, Tesla will sell cars in China for the same price as in the US
90k USD ist just shy of 66k Euro, which is by no means unheard of for an experienced developer.

I know personal anecdotes doesn't count for much, but I turned down several 80k offers in Berlin. I would expect salaries in Munich to be 10-15% higher due to cost of living.
Sadly, I'm old enough to remember the architectural beauty of the System/38, which is not to say I regard the AS/400 as new fangled rubbish. I treasure my copy of The Silverlake Project.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Silverlake-Project-Transformation-...
Just in case anybody took parent seriously, you shouldn't do this for the same reason you shouldn't flood their email inboxes about this. They will just mark your calendar invitation as spam.
Depends on how you interpret "probable cause."

What if they hear this guy's name uttered by multiple mafia thugs on the street, as a top hitman? And they find the guy is friends with some mafia members? That doesn't warrant real evidence he killed anyone (random hearsay + just being friends), but it definitely creates some suspicion.
If big tech companies are colluding to depress engineer wages, they're pretty obviously failing.

How do you conclude that they're failing?
Um, you know that Julia has type annotations, right? They are optional, but if you are a shop that really really wants type safety, you can get it.
the leaders of Apple and Google are greedy crooks...they are just way better at PR than most other corporate bigwigs
In addition to Functional Javascript, Javascript Allonge is a great text focusing on the functional aspects as well.
Never knew, do you a have a source on this? Not that I don't believe you, I just want to read more about it. A Chrome extension that shows you if STARTTLS is being used would be really neat.
theyre so major i never heard of em
I see where you're coming from here. But my conclusion was that Emacs with Evil is just as good an editor as Vim. And as a bonus I get the complete customizability of Emacs.

So when you say "I will pick Vim since it's the better editor," what Vim features in particular (beyond modeful editing, which Evil provides) make you say that?
I decided I wanted to get into independent software development. I found a company ($1mm revenue) I'd done a little bit of business with (unrelated)

I sent them a mockup of what I thought their web-page should be (4 hours of work?), one meeting later I'd locked down a nice 5 figure contract to develop an internal app (they decided they didn't want a web page) and it looks to become an ongoing relationship.

The web page, I later found out, is what really hooked them, despite them not wanting it ultimately.
Nobody GPU mines for bitcoin anymore (ASICs killed that long ago). My 2 year old ATI card makes $4/day mining litecoin or even $8/day mining dogecoin. If you want bitcoin you simply send the alt currency to an exchange and trade for bitcoin.
The prime failure of the criminalisation of drugs is that it defines someone who is smoking a joint as a criminal.

This scenario is closer to what happened to Robert Morris. Apparently the worm wasn't intended to be malicious, unlike the actions of Matthew Keys.
Also, fruitmachine (Github)- Financial Times - Graphics Lab. They say it handles multiple pages better then React. They also claim to have had the React concept first.
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> I hate going back to my home country and I love the intellectual, rational environment here.

The US is an intellectual, rational environment? What are you from Borat's country?
Maybe it goes back further than that - maybe in the late '80s lobby Congress to get the "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1990" - a.k.a. the H-1B - to get some cheap immigrant headcount up, then maybe come up with the Java programming language to get a simplified base point where they would be at equal state, or something like that, maybe ship some of them back home to train more, and then recurse. Maybe. Maybe people other than engineers do engineering.
I've heard of git-annex being used for this. It doesn't do the crypto on it's own but with EncFS and the like I think it works fairly well.
Alas, last time I checked this was still on the todo list. With sufficient annotations and type inference, there is no reason this would not be possible, but they way it sounded it would take rewriting or creating large chunks of core code and algorithms.
I totally understand where you're coming from, typically with software projects canceling the whole thing is not the answer. However, military aircraft are a fundamentally different proposition.

If the military goes forward with the JSF, they are going to be stuck with a fundamentally poor platform for at least 20 to 30 years. This thing is wildly over budget, and will be wildy more expensive to operate than projected. This plane is supposed to be the backbone of US air power for decades.

If you scrap this program and start over, maybe it'll take 7-10 years to come up with 3 new aircraft for the 3 different roles. You sacrifice a decade to get something that will be far better for decades.

The military basically did exactly that when the F-111 program got off the rails in basically the same manner. It was supposed to be a fighter bomber for the Air Force and fleet air defense aircraft for the Navy but the Navy version ended up being too heavy and poor performing so they scrapped it, and ended up developing the F-14.

Honestly I would scrap the Marine Corps variant altogether. The USMC never goes where the Navy is not going to be so they could rely on close air support from the Naval variant. Sure a VSTOL aircraft could take off from a field somewhere but that capability simply doesn't provide enough benefit to offset the cost.
What exactly are you proposing? An alternative credo for hackers to ascribe to? Please specifically mention whether you are pro- or anti-union and whether you live and work in the US or not.

Edit: I see you're using Windows, so would you mind also listing your tech experience?
If you are a student, I would still recommend moving to SV. It's probably the best place in the world right now to be a software developer. This wage-theft stuff is for very experienced echelons of engineers.
If big tech companies are colluding to depress engineer wages, they're pretty obviously failing.

If crooks are trying to rob retailers, I don't see empty shelves at walmart so the crooks are obviously failing.

(I don't think it matters if Jobs failed or succeeded. The appalling thing here is that Steve Jobs attempted an extremely scummy and potentially illegal move.)
The article claims that a "no-poach" agreement constitutes "wage theft". I lost count at how many times that phrase was used in the article, but it was probably fifteen times. It's completely incorrect, dishonest, and overdramatic to the point of being insulting.

I accuse pandodaily of brain theft.

HN needs a kill file, I have truly never read an intelligent article from them.
The USMC's requirements also kinda effed up the V-22 Osprey. Because of the space constraints for operating from amphibious carriers the rotors were undersized for the flight profile they wanted in the V-22, so they compensated by putting in more powerful engines. This caused heat problems that may have contributed to some of the fatal crashes the Osprey has had.
They already make servers: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/servers/
It's just my socialist Utopianism showing. I'm saying that I hope that there's an alternative path to innovation that isn't innovation by the rich for the rich only. It's probably working about as well as can be expected under the current parameters, but damn it has some ugly warts now and again.
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> Just curious -- what patterns bothered you the most with R btw?

It's mostly around the multitude of subtly different types and the ways you convert between them. I think I also remember strange things like lists having named attributes in addition to list members that just seemed totally wrong and confusing to me.

I wish I could give you better specifics but it's been several years since I've done anything with R.
I will stand partially corrected on the issue of you changing your name for the purpose of the suit.

However - you are amazingly cagey, and very specifically wordy around the issue of your birth name.

“My name is legally Violet Blue.”

You make claims of having never changed your name.

You post (redacted) pictures of your passport on your blog (http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2008/08/about-those-...) as “proof” of your name (certainly, currently), but the idea of posting similarly redacted birth certificates “is really a scary thought”.

"My name is Violet Blue. As I have proven, provided evidence, and provided plentiful witness testimony (and have had legally acknowledged) to and by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Court of the 9th Circuit, I have been using my name Violet Blue related to the goods and services of my brand, “(…) since 1999, “

which, if you actually read, does nothing to bolster your claim that it’s your birth name.

Also funny that your birth place and year are redacted everywhere, including Wikipedia.

The irony of all this is that it doesn’t really matter what your birth name was or is, and whether it’s really anyone’s business is highly doubtful. But to pretend it’s all on other people, and act as though you’re this entirely victimized person, and not fanning the flames is a little disingenuous.

Sadly, my access to LN is unavailable at the moment - but I’m curious, of all the filings you could link to, why only a preliminary injunction - you talk of Court findings and acknowledgments, but you settled. Courts don’t issue findings unless they issue a judgment, not when there’s a settlement.
I totally agree with jnardiello.

I've had enough with people complaining about their own situation. The best way to change how you feel is to change how you think about what's bothering you.

As a developer I'll apply the "divide et impera" technique. In this case I see two options:

1. Leave Italy ASAP. Choose a country you feel comfortable with and -just- GO. Netherlands, UK, Germany are good options; but I've some friends of mine who left Italy for Spain, and they're in love with that country in spite of its financial situation. It's up to you.

2. Start something. Start studying on your own, for example; University is important, but your preparation would not be complete. Take online courses, coursera.org offers ~600 courses, most of them are free. Write your own code and start working as consultant even while studying; it's feasible, and it will give you experience. Attend events! You'll have the chance to meet other great developers.

But in both cases please stop being "italian" and start being Italian.
Loook forward :)

PS: join us @ Appsterdam Milan, we'll be happy to give you some good advices to start from.
Lost in the news that they accept bitcoin is the "Coming Soon" under Butterfly Labs hardware mentioned on that landing page. First I've heard of a mainstream electronics store selling ASIC mining hardware.
1. Absolutely, they do target these people, particularly through internships which are essentially recruiting tools. The BigCo advantage is that any decent salary will seem like a lot to people who've never had one before.

However, they are not the only players in the game, particularly recently. Y-Combinator itself started as a recognition of this paradox: while recent grads may be "struggling" to make rent (and in need of income), they are good at struggling (scrappy, risk-tolerant etc) and therefore ideally suited to starting a startup.

That said, I believe this particular lawsuit is more relevant to "proven" talent than students.

2. I think "hackers" will generally retain the "hacker" ethos, which I don't think is particularly tied to how they behave as founders or executives. I don't see "hackers" as any more or less benevolent or idealistic than the general population in the long run. In the short run, however, they are more likely to feel empathy since they were in the same shoes as their early employees more recently. From a more pragmatic standpoint, they realize more acutely that it will take a lot to get the best people to stay and contribute to someone else's dream.

Finally until they are formidable enough to engage in strategic discourse with the likes of Google and Apple, they don't have the ability to attempt such collusion.

3. Perhaps, but not necessarily. Acquihires might be a particularly good tool for talent discovery. There's also the potential threat that acquihires represent (if you treat us (engineers) too badly we'll just leave and you will have to buy us back 10x).

Your argument here is a good one, acquihires may reduce information available to all parties. However, this information asymmetry may work against the acquirer more than the acquired (or vice versa). I don't think there is enough data to confirm either possibility.

4. It depends on what you mean by compensation. In many cases (not all), the work may be more interesting and more importantly you (may) have more freedom in choosing what to work on. I qualify these statements because to get all the way to this utopia you need to get tenure, which is hard.

Regardless, you get to work with the best and most interesting people, which is a form of compensation. Also, plenty of startups come out of academia simply because it's like an extension of student life* (particularly grad students, post-docs and other non-tenured people).

* discussed in #1
Absolutely not, nor was I drawing any definitive legal conclusions. I have run through bar flash cards on the UCC so I have some idea of what I don't know and that there can be a lot of complexity. For example, I vaguely recall an ad in a newspaper is not an offer, but an 'invitation to an offer.'
People have done far crazier things than that for money.
True, but I was using "unemployment" to refer to a condition in which a person is unable to find employment offering subsistence wages.

This is an important distinction. So far, technology has not made it impossible for most members of society to earn subsistence wages. But what if that changed? That, to me, is the fascinating question.
WhatsApp is really big in some European countries, especially Spain. But apps provide a non-exclusive messaging market, so I suspect people can fairly easily switch to alternatives.
For a throwaway, you are remarkable.
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Excellent catch! I quite agree.
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it's a fairly weak attempt at 'collusion'.

What form of success here qualifies as "weak?"

If big tech companies are colluding to depress engineer wages, they're pretty obviously failing.

You're going to have to show your work here.
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More importantly, they're going to deter a potential burglar. They'll just move on to an easier target.
I'm sure you can find PST in a standard somewhere too, but the point is that by using UTC+x everyone can instantly determine their local time.

Okay quick quiz: What time is it currently in Europe/Zaporozhye? ... Time up! Alright next question. What time is it currently in UTC-3? ... Time up! Final question: What time is it currently in the GST timezone? ... Time up!

All of them used standard formats. Which one was the easiest?
That's why I specifically referred to the original signatories.

And it's far more complex than that. Germany faces severe demographic trends that have caused a labor shortage, and also has an economy that's highly dependent on manufacturing exports. Having an open door policy at that point makes an awful lot of sense.

The US is headed towards a similar situation, but will have a better labor pool in Mexico, and–Internet wisdom notwithstanding–the US is much better at integrating immigrant labor than Europe is.
Orthogonal literally means "perpendiular" - it refers to two things that aren't related at all. So, non-mutually-exclusive is part of it, but not the whole picture.

FYI
> So would people pay that? I don't know.

I know. People would not pay that.
If you allow for the possibility that the military is actually in charge of determining US foreign policy, we can conclude that Romney would have done the same thing.
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How do the stats look when you include health care and other social security?
I cringed when I read that in the blog. I came across the benchmarks on the home page and I was thinking there was no way that it was possible to write a language that looks that good and performs that well without being a "language nerd."