nhayden

Well that sucks.

Pretty sure they just trimmed the branches a bit for the box to drop.

Do you have an example of a bad idea in Wordpress that has a real-world impact on a sizable portion of its userbase?

I agree they are not exclusive, but I can see how my comment suggests they are. There's no harm in people doing both, and I agree they're more likely to vote if they participate, but mostly only due to correlation and not causation.

This is why when I vote, I put a lot of weight on those who advocate campaign reform and voting reform.

Having access to every communication made by most of the population is a hugely powerful tool. People in power want to stay in power. They know they can run these surveillance programs with impunity, so why not do it? It doesn't cost them anything.

If you gave anyone the ability to get insider information on something deeply important to them, they would almost certainly take it.

I think you are taking my post too literally, but please feel free to explain further.

The issue is not a lack of awareness. The vast majority of the voting-capable population has heard, to at least some extent, that the NSA/others are surveilling communications. The issue is either they don't care, they agree with the surveillance, or they are too lazy to become informed and vote to change it.

There is literally nothing on this site about being involved in voting or the politicians supporting or fighting this type of activity. If they at the very least gave visitors some way to continue their participation and become informed, I would be fine with it. Right now it's just attention for the sake of attention. It needs to be channeled into something useful.

Are you concerned about privacy in your own country? You should be voting for leaders who don't allow the US to put their fingers in your pie. As an individual you should be taking steps to protecting your online activity and data.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to do. You're showing a congress a list of people who disapprove of privacy violations. Then what? Congress knows people disapprove and they don't seem to care.

I dislike slacktivism like this. I feel that it's damaging because it wastes attention and effort that could be put to good use. Instead of taking a photo of yourself and writing a hashtag, become an informed and educated voter who actually votes, votes for people who represent the majority of your beliefs (don't be a single issue voter), and votes for someone who has a track record of governing as they promised they would. Encourage others to do the same. It's literally the only thing that will fix these problems.

This is a really unproductive way to respond to someone and is discouraged on HN.

They're really selling the ability to draw on pages. Who needs that?

TrueCrypt doesn't support EUFI which pretty much all laptops use these days.

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is pretty cool. I like his transparency. He writes really useful things. His writing about salary negotiation is probably the single most useful thing I've ever read. Lots of other stuff he's covered I hope will be relevant to me in the coming years (B2B sales).

Don't tell me what to do! I'm clicking it!!!

I'm surprised there are not more people on HN who don't use Dropbox due to NSA/privacy concerns. Do you really want to worry about all your files, which are probably your most valuable ones, being out in the open to any Dropbox, NSA, or other law enforcement employee? Do you really trust Dropbox to not have a repeat of accidentally allowing your files to be publicly viewable by anyone? When there are encrypted alternatives that are as easy to use, there is seemingly no point of using Dropbox.

Paypal got $3MM in VC in 1999, which is really what the OP should have said instead of "sold".

I should have said the flat part before an exponential. Like a hockey stick.

Any thoughts on why getmagicnow got such an insane amount of upvotes? Especially when there was so much negativity in the comments.

No growth could mean you're still at the flat part of exponential. Linear means it's definitely not exponential.

You can opt out and this won't be a problem. Tell them you can't lift your arms over your head and they won't even pat you down.

I would imagine the majority of people tithing do not exceed their standard deduction and therefore don't include their donations on their tax return anyway.

I wonder if the pilot gets charged expenses for stuff like this - either by the coast guard or the cruise ship that picked him up.

Not sure there's enough drama to really make this a good movie. There is some drama and bickering and Romero leaving when he got bored but that's about it.

This is probably one of my favorite books, but I'm not much of a reader. It's just really cool to see two really enthusiastic guys doing what they loved back in the wild west era of game development and becoming extremely successful at it. It's amazing that one guy (Carmack) single-handedly created the technology needed to have such a revolutionary experience on PCs. It's doubly cool that he's about to do the same thing twice in one lifetime (with Oculus).

Unless you put huge bars over your windows and have a reinforced door frame/door/lock, it takes all of 30 seconds to break your way into a home anyway. Deadbolts are false security, even if electronic.

He's given what is in my opinion a very reasonable work load. I say that because I have the same job and work on the same sorts of projects.

excessive attention to detail (perfectionism) are causing him to take much longer.

He has self professed OCD and says this is often why he takes so long. I do offer a lot help in his work but being somewhat new myself I am not always able to tell him how the systems here work.

I'm not trying to change behavior by telling manager, but more trying to have the manager pay attention to the hours he's working and maybe set an upper limit and make him go home after? I don't think his manager wants him hospitalized or burning out any more than I do.

I have suggested searching for other jobs but I think a combination of depression and helplessness prevents him from doing this. He has really low self esteem.

Did you wind up having to pay?

That's some biased journalism there, shameful for engadget.