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> You really aren't going to sit in an armchair and design up a system that'll work.

A lot of the engineers at these companies could do that just as well as I could and succeed at it too. Just because they're technically gifted doesn't mean they'll climb to management and be given enough resources to see a hare-brained project through. I know they're smart; I worked with a lot of them when we were in grad school. Many of the people in my research group went on to work for NASA, Lockheed, and especially Raytheon.

> I've seen far more professional, intelligent, and pragmatic engineers in that work than what I've seen pass for engineering in Silicon Valley.

I would tend to agree that the breadth of technological prowess necessary to succeed at defense stuff is higher than in the valley. But don't confuse the incredibly smart and talented engineers with the often less smart and talented management. Defense contractors are often risk-averse and people trying to ensure long careers can be as well.

When things move as slowly as they do in the military expectations of what can be done by folks not necessarily in the know set the pace of development more than the actual technology does. If something isn't believable it won't get funded. And without that funding the feasibility can't be proven.

I appreciate your insight and honesty about the whole situation. I think if I could get over the moral aspect of making weapons the bureaucracy involved working with/for the military would still drive me insane.

I've made a pretty decent career of tackling projects that a lot of people wouldn't want to touch. Because I have a pretty decent grasp of what's technologically achievable and I'm too stubborn to admit defeat it usually works out OK. I could tell you that I could make something like that work but even with my track record would you believe me? Highly unlikely. I can't say that I would blame you, either.

Ultimately though you're judging the ideas I'm putting forth on US military standards. Someone trying to wipe the US military out would be incredibly foolish to try to win at symmetric warfare. The F-35 is designed to try and win those kinds of battles but because things are so uneven no intelligent enemy would fight us that way. Just look at the whole Iraq/Afghanistan IED situation. Someone is going to build the aerial equivalent of IEDs at some point and when that happens you're going to want survivable airframes over fancy ones in a BIG way.
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The thing that perplexes me about this whole debate is that some seem to think there's no inherent trust between parties exchanging encrypted messages.

That seems to be the first important thing to establish here. Alice sends public key to Bob, Bob encrypts the data using said public key and returns the encrypted data to Alice. What guarantee does Alice have that Bob didn't turn around and also post the plain text of Alice's request to [name your favorite social network here]? By the same token, what guarantee does Bob have that Alice won't turn around and post the plain text of the response on [name your favorite social network here]?

So it seems that inherently, even in the most secure of communications, there has to be trust between the parties exchanging the messages.

Please forgive me if this is already being discussed. The thread is rather long at this point so admittedly I didn't read every part before posting this.

EDIT: for correctness, cleaned up references to bob / alice.
Hey Guys, I wrote the post.

Here's my take, after researching them for so long. LinkedIn is definitely aggressive with their growth tactics. From the endorsements product, which has some questionable value, to the gimmicks like the "You're in the top 1% of profile views" emails, they definitely push the limits on growth and driving sustainable engagement. There's definitely an argument to be made that they cross the line too often for many people's tastes.

But what I think the most important takeaway from their success is that even after a decade they are constantly pushing the growth envelope. They are launching new products, new tests, new features, many focused on creating repeat visits and new growth, all the time. It doesn't stop.

To innovate on the growth engine for a decade straight? That's impressive. Sure they get things wrong, but they don't stop trying. Even as a public company. Even with 225 million users they keep trying new things.

I think that's a great lesson for companies to learn from, regardless of how hard you decide to personally push tactics for growth. So many companies lament their lack of growth, but what did they really try? What have they shipped that is actually focused on driving growth? PR, AdWords and a referral program does not make for a sustainable startup growth engine. I think the focus on the need to grow and the constant iteration and learning is something that has certainly given me a new perspective on how to think about startup growth.
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@deciplex - you are right if you live in a country with an income tax.

If you live in a country with no income tax then your US income tax is a net cost to you -- making you poorer compared to that British coworker who makes the same salary as you but pays no UK tax. Look around Dubai. Count Americans and count British people. Tax is part of the reason.
I'd like a job please at a recruiter that earns a 25% fee. I've never heard of one. Certainly recruiters might ask for that but no employer I know of would ever pay it.
A family friend ran into this. She lived in Canada nearly all her working life and only heard about having to file paperwork with the US when it was being announced there was going to be a crackdown due to the recession.

Fortunately between her and her husband they had enough money to get a good lawyer and get it sorted out before they tried to nail her for all the tax she owed.

I think the biggest issue with the "tax by citizenship" is that it turns US citizenship into a commodity to be traded for personal benefit.

It's noble to try to chase the tax dodgers, but it's a lot more practical to tax the people who stay and ensure anybody who wants to flee is going to be losing sizeable amounts of their property.

Canada has investment rules based on nationality/citizenship and the owners of those shares can't just elope and expect to keep their controlling interests. In fact most of the big companies that face these rules have their foreign investments near maximum, so that anyone fleeing would be forced to sell all their stake and selling a big stake of any company means selling at a sizeable loss.
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Those are really passive techniques. Cults have active, planned techniques of mind control. Try this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/514598/How-Cults-Seduce
It would have been neater to reverse-engineer the (apparently quite messy) protocol used by the stateful IR remote controls for ACs, IMO.
What you are describing is prison workshops.
Great, another social photo sharing app that is not available on Windows Phone. I guess that is life as a second class phone OS citizen.
> Most readers of binary file formats can be made to read memory outside the buffer by corrupting the data

I'm pretty sure that would be considered a serious security bug for any format likely to be displayed in a web browser. For instance, an image format with such a bug would allow you to implement a heartbleed-like attack on a user's browser by displaying a malicious image and then reading back the pixel values. That would be very, very bad.

But I can believe that your statement applies to formats used by games for their own assets, where those assets come directly from the game developer.
The income tax treaty can reduce US tax on income paid to Canadians down to zero, depending on the type of income. That's what you are seeing with the W-8BEN.

For selling stuff across borders, source of income is where ownership changes hands from seller to buyer. If the buyer owns the item as soon as it goes into a DHL pouch in Canada, then it is Canadian-source income and the US can't tax it.
For me, deleting my LinkedIn account was one of the best things I've done. I only ever recieved spam from recruiters, endorsements for skills I don't have from people who don't really know and invites to connect with people that I worked with and are in a different industry. None of this meant anything to me so it was just an annoyance.

Couple all that with LinkedIn's constant use of dark patterns and general bad practices, I think I'm way better off without it.

Unfortunately they are in a position where a lot of people signed up and won't move to an alternative unless their contacts are there too, much like Facebook. It's embedded.

Since deleting my LinkedIn profile, I've mainly used twitter for networking. Within the development community it seems to be a great place for people to share all the stuff that people would share on LinkedIn anyway.
Hi Patrick, wasn't expecting you to respond. But here it goes.

I have a service which identifies which accounts will pay for accounts receivable. IE: collections agencies. Numbers
show it can move the needle double to triple digits depending on the account mix.

Right now, I'm planning on a per seat monthly subscription.
Customers know how much they'll be charged each month, and I think it lets me focus on the value rather than community unit costs.

EDIT: Just a note, unfortunately, this is a very high touch environment. The upshot being that once a customer chooses you, they never leave. Even if they're being outright abused. (I have stories!)
Look at Dominica.

Scam artists have been known to exist in selling citizenship in Central America. Be wary. Don't try clever stunts.
Ember has been amazing. It makes managing a growing application a lot easier. There was a steep learning curve for me personally, especially because at the time I was starting out the documentation wasn't very good. (It is amazing now, though!)

I also like React a lot but it only deals with the view layer, it doesn't give you any structure for the bigger picture of things. I guess this is something that Flux addresses but I haven't looked into it.

I did briefly look into integrating React to be used as Ember's view layer but decided to drop it since HTMLbars looked like it was around the corner (hah). It is still pretty easy to use React with Ember now, though it feels hacky because you end up having to call forceUpdate a lot. I wrote a post about how it works here: http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/can-reactjs-be-used-as-a-view-w...
We discussed dropping Torii's simple session manager in favor of recommending Simple Auth, but after discussing it with @marcoow decided we had slightly different goals. Torii's session manager imposes structure and terminology on your code, but had no specific conventions around how to pass request authorization to API calls, how to store a session, etc.

Torii's providers are designed to be re-usable without the session manager though, and they work just great with Simple Auth. Check this out: https://github.com/Vestorly/torii/blob/master/example/simple...
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> What other countries use drone warfare?

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it is an interesting article along these lines: http://www.economist.com/node/14299496

A few quotes:

"Countries with 'hunter-killer' drones include America, Britain and Israel."

"'Almost all' IDF [Israeli Defense Force] ground operations now have drone support."

"...Estimates that America will spend about 60% of the total [global sales of drones]."

"Following the United States, Israel ranks second in the development and possession of drones, according to those in the industry. The European leaders, trailing Israel, are roughly matched: Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Russia and Spain are not far behind, and nor, say some experts, is China... In total, more than three dozen countries operate UAVs, including Belarus, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Georgia. Some analysts say Georgian armed forces, equipped with Israeli drones, outperformed Russia in aerial intelligence during their brief war in August 2008. (Russia also buys Israeli drones.)"

"Iran builds drones, one of which was shot down over Iraq by American forces in February... Iran has supplied Hizbullah militants in Lebanon with a small fleet of drones, though their usefulness is limited."
This is not very good code. Here's a little better refactor - https://github.com/realpython/interview-questions/blob/maste...
Definitely, though in that case since the local tax is 0 the principle still holds.

Thanks for this, by the way, very informative.
Really? Would you care to elaborate on your position, as it seems a touch sophomoric.

We're talking about American expats who permanently live abroad, do not utilize taxpayer-funded services, and aren't planning on returning home. Hell, they aren't even utilizing what one might call the privilege of American citizenship. From the government's perspective, there's really no difference between an expat and a corpse (excluding the IRS, naturally).

In that context, how can choosing to renounce their citizenship be considered immoral? Particularly when that citizenship comes with the rather significant problems that are the result of a federal tax code that taxes overseas income for taxpayers abroad whose income will never see the United States (nor, for that matter, will the taxpayer). If we're going to argue about ethical codes, how do you taxing worldwide income and the onerous penalties that disproportionately affect the lower quintiles?
And what's your explanation for Uber's $17bil evaluation in a $11bil taxi market?
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I would agree, but the problem is that many of the individuals don't want to be reallocated and refuse to the leave their homes.
>The best way to express your approval of a submission? Upvote it. //

Except with hidden vote scores it doesn't express anything at all (except changing a number on the OP's interface; the OP doesn't even know that you upvoted them).

If you want to express your approval to anyone other than the parent/OP or have anyone know who is expressing approval [that is occasionally relevant] then you have to comment.
CIA could at least spare us its snarky tweets
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Auction takes too long / is too heavy. The whole point of a convenience app is that it is supposed to be "just take care of this for me", not "let's spend time figuring out the bid/accept process".
I guess my question was: is a return required on US source income that has been reduced to zero? e.g. royalty payments, where the receiver is in Canada, and sales of products were made in USA.

Assume the income is from licensing, and the license was granted from a Canadian source.

Thanks for answering all these, I should have been more precise with my earlier questions.
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Almost like we are a peripheral for the software. Go there, pick that up, take it over there

Marshall Brain (founder of http://www.howstuffworks.com/) described this around 10 years ago in his book, Manna (free to read online[1]) looking at how automation could change things in the not-too-distant future:

Manna told employees what to do simply by talking to them. Employees each put on a headset when they punched in. Manna had a voice synthesizer, and with its synthesized voice Manna told everyone exactly what to do through their headsets. Constantly. Manna micro-managed minimum wage employees to create perfect performance.

The software would speak to the employees individually and tell each one exactly what to do. For example, "Bob, we need to load more patties. Please walk toward the freezer."

[1] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Works fine for me in Chrome.

Have you tried disabling the plugins or Incognito mode?
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My big problem with IT recruiters at the moments is the constant calls. Come on guys, send me a damn email. I am at a work, not I don't have time to talk to you now. Put your stupid questions, which are the same questions every time, in an email, and I will copy and paste from the last time someone did it.
hah, that would make the MAL devs competent, not going to happen
Engineer at Hired here -- so the answer is 15% of the first year salary with a 100% money back gaurentee or 1% per month for 24 months.
http://mundialonline.com.uy it is a free service from an Uruguayan cable operator, it has only 2 non-intrusive ads (you don't see them if you go full screen).

It is in spanish, and I'm not sure if it has any kind of geo-filtering (I tried with Tor without problems). It claims to be hd, but IMHO it isn't.
I'm not too worried about a rebrand. Very happy customer here :).

Let me search something other than CC stuff. Just straight up enable Google images (or gasp, even Bing images).
It's a lot easier to say you will do anything to
succeed, and act the part and struggle, and listen
to your investors like they're bosses, and let your
startup die out, while going through the motions,
than it is to be relentlessly resourceful.

Well said. The rest reads like the ten (well, maybe four) commandments of Please Fuck Off And Die with your bullshit-as-a-service, viral social mobile app.

- platitudes about there being lots of talented teams

- a founder or two, not that dedicated but there because
he/she isn't sure what else to be doing

- startup vanity projects

- lack of modesty to actually sell

To that last one, I'd also append "a peacock's hubris that their shit is so hot it doesn't need a pathetic and grovelling or disingenuous sales pitch."

That's a double edged sword, though. Everyone knows that a shitty deal is always preceeded by a hard sell, or cold call, even though not all hard-sell sales pitches/cold calls necessarily package dog shit.

This is the MBA shit list though. There's also a version for developers which invloves being an aloof, detached, aimless, defensive coder constructing an opaque fortress of code out of a want for job security, or over-engineering out of a cryptic brand of obstinate vanity or morbid curiosity.

And then there's the ivory tower developer that sows the seeds of confusion into every meeting, phone call and conversation because more often than not, the developer possesses a keen awareness of the total technical ineptitude of the stakeholders, who may in fact suffer actual intellectual disabilities, or might just be completely out of their depth in a field far more complicated than they bargained for.

Coming up against evil developers is like fighting a lich king commanding a pack of tarrasques. You will be bled dry by them, and transmogrified into a ghoul.

Consider it a situation not unlike being brought to a police station for questioning without a lawyer. Retain an expert, who is assuredly on your side and knows the law. Even if you are a lawyer, don't default to the idea of representing yourself (especially considering security concerns and crypto). A second pair of eyes, formal QA and testing, and sometimes an entire community is required to professionalize the fruits of many technical disciplines.
Years ago, I actually saw a story describing a warehouse run like this and sent it to Marshall Brain, having read this from Manna a while earlier. Sadly, I can't find that story just now, but, looking for it now, I just found out that "Voice-directed Warehousing" is a thing -- it has a Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice-directed_warehousing
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Powering electronics with body heat is really tough, but at least
there's some research being done on this front.

http://www.cnet.com/news/arm-band-technology-converts-body-h...

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/ee/c4ee00...

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/07/nanotech-body-heat-technolo...

Vaguely Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7811023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7876160

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7771777
That would require there to actually be MAL devs. Last I heard, they're down to one guy and he's AWOL.
If you liked the iOS XCom, you may like Shadowrun Returns.

XCom on iPad is pretty good though. I love touch interfaces for turn based games.
There is not a single country that exports its latest and greatest technology.

Even if an ally can be trusted with modern aircraft, often their pilots cannot be. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cold_War_pilot_defectio...
So to frame the question in this light, the parties exchanging encrypted messages via javascript (on top of SSL) trust that they're doing everything in their power to maintain the integrity of their systems. Do they increase the surface area where attacks could take place? Sure. But in what way is sending encrypted messages on top of SSL any less secure than sending unencrypted messages on top of SSL.

One argument seems to be that there's no need for the added layer on top of SSL. Then I would ask, so why have passwords at all? After all it's guaranteed that the communications are secure. It looks like the disconnect here is that encrypted messages on top of SSL are behaving as a mechanism to help authenticate the recipient of the messages, like a password, and not trying to act in the same way that SSL behaves as a way to secure communications between 2 parties.
I've built iOS and android dev teams at way below market costs by doing one thing. Going to meetups and community events, showing intense passion for building great products and being a strong pitchman for working on my team.

Most people want to work on exciting projects with energetic and curious people. It's infectious.
The point is it is not ambiguous. I think the hardest part with video content is trying to figure out the boundary line. But like I said, whether or not you have copyright assignment rights is really straightforward.
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Often people don't like the truth in their face. :) I'm sure most of the richest techies didn't have money as their primary driver. Money always comes as a bonus for a job well done.