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The ability to interoperate with Skype as one of the participants in a call has little to do with the ability to intercept and decrypt Skype calls as a non-participant in a call, unless Skype uses broken crypto (a very real possibility).
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The easiest way to is to restrict the right to reverse-engineer in the Terms of Service of the Skype client (which he needs to use, in order to have something to reverse engineer.)
Don't bother posting such comments here, HN is known for having a whole bunch of Apple fanboys who will mercilessly mod down any valid criticism so that it's grayed out while fawning posts and posts critical of other companies get modded up to the sky. Notice how there is no other analysis of this news on the front page. They HAVE to feel justified about their choice and Gruber just tells them what they want to hear. There have been a few HN'ers who quit HN in disgust because of this cavaliier attitude. (bye bye karma)
You are totally in the wrong frame of mind here. With this sort of question, you might as well be looking at average salaries so that you can just pick up a job with someone. You aren't looking for a job, you are trying to price out the services of a business, your business.

Assuming your business has only one person to pay (you) then it's likely that expense is going to be the largest of the company. How much you should be paid is a personal question. How much do you require for your lifestyle? How much would you be able to make if you were to simply leave your business and work for someone else (this assumes that this is a readily available option.) You don't want to be taking a salary cut while slaving away on your business. Additional considerations are things like adjusting for vacation pay, sick days, insurance and all those other things an employer might pay for. Once you have decided how much to pay yourself, you then need to add business expenses such as accounting services, rent for an office (if needed,) cost of business tools, etc.

At this point you have an idea of how much your business is going to cost to operate (which includes paying you.) Now you simply figure out how many billable hours you can get within x period and do the math. However, you need to keep in mind that if you decide you will work an 8 hour day, not all of those hours will be billable. You will also likely have downtime between projects.

Again, do the math. Now you have a basic idea of what you should be charging per hour to make your business work and to provide reasonable pay to you. One great way to break outside the hourly rate straight jacket is to give a fixed cost. Sometimes you can "crush it" on a fixed project and bring in the equivalent of a much higher hourly rate.

Last step, go sell! If you get this last step right, then your hourly rate may be meaningless. Double your rate and still get the clients rolling in then you are a natural!
>I suspect it goes the other way, too: touch friendly apps won't feel right with a mouse.

That's the angle I'm looking at it from too. Why should I install this on my non-touchscreen Thinkpad? Will I need to constantly 'flick' and scroll things with my Trackpoint?

From the video: "[The apps] are designed for touch... but of course they work well with mouse and keyboard as well if that's what you have."

Sorry, but that's not how it works. Microsoft needs to realize this. Everything he was doing there would be terrible with a mouse.
I think it's fair to surmise that those intelligence agencies that care have probably had the algorithm for a long time and searched for weaknesses. Bear in mind that at one time they were complaining about it's use by criminals to avoid phonetaps.
Phishing != hacking the weakness here is gullible humans not a system breach. The post is optimized for max bait-ability.
Actually, as I've said elsewhere, one easy way of protecting a protocol is to explicitly restrict the right to reverse engineer in in the Terms of Service of the client that implements the protocol. Without that client, there's nothing to reverse engineer.
On the off chance you were NOT being snarky, yes. PowerShell is actually pretty great. A lot of bash-e-ness (I can 'ls' for example), and it's a really powerful programming enviornment.

I guess the easiest one-liner to describe it is: In bash, you can build tiny apps and pipe textual output from one to another.

In PowerShell, you can pipe objects.
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For example, ask your parents about map, then the comprehension, which one will they be able to understand?

It's about usability: the most ingenious programmer will be more efficient using a simpler, straight-forward interface as long as it accomplishes the task. You're a user of a language's interface/syntax.

But we are drifting off here. I'll avoid using "expressive" the next time around :)
I don't know where Web2.0 has gone wrong in recent years, but I thought a key ethos was usability.

I don't read techcrunch anymore because pageloads on my netbook have hit 20 seconds before I can scroll the page. Hacker news IIRC is still less than 250ms. Facebook is about 2 seconds till usability, but is still loading shit in the background, which hits it on par with MSN and Yahoo.

I don't get why a tech site like techcrunch would think it's acceptable to have such an absurdly long load time. Facebook lost me when page loads for every page took too long and they were only seconds. 1/3 of a minute back when I was learning to make my own websites was considered death, you wouldn't expect anyone to sit through the load.
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If the goal is to open up Skype, this isn't the way.

Even if some insane insomniac de-twiddles the pages upon pages of optimized indirection in this code (which I seriously doubt), all Skype has to do is tweak the protocol or encryption and the researcher is back to square one. It's a losing battle. And that's not even getting into the legality of it it all.

How about instead of trying to fruitlessly crack Skype, we spend the time making something that's both open and better?
A simple Google search turns up this: http://www.hex-rays.com/decompiler.shtml
How easy is it for skype to change the protocol?
A good deed rarely goes unpunished. I bet that 90% of newspaper headlines on this matter made the same intentional choice of making it sound like a failure on Google's part. So it turns out that the standard large company instinct of covering up anything even vaguely security related is exactly the right thing, and disclosing this stuff is just for idealistic fools who want to be torn apart by the press.
The US Navy was actively fighting the Kriegsmarine on the North Atlantic as early as late 1940, and even before that, US had started providing armaments to bolster the British war effort, and took over the defense of various British holdings to free up forces. They also provided entire cohesive units of equipped volunteers to fight against the Germans on the British Isles, and the Japanese in China. None of these actions were neutral under international law -- the United States was in a state of undeclared war against the axis powers for nearly two years before Pearl Harbor. This all can be found in any reasonably comprehensive history of the second world war, including the wikipedia articles on the Atlantic War and the Sino-Japanese war.

The reason USA didn't join outright was that there was serious domestic opposition to the war, and Roosevelt understood well that he needed his Lusitania to be able to bring America fully into the war. The Germans took all pains to avoid this, and USA only managed to declare war after the Pearl Harbor.

In reality, history rarely contains black-and-white narratives where the one side is the clear aggressor. Had the USA not been actively engaging in combat operations against the Germans and the Japanese, they never would have been stupid enough to pick a fight with the Americans.
His arguments are valid to some extent. They may not be fatal though. Taking each one in turn:

1) Seeding Initial Wealth

This isn't really a problem. It's not very fair, but I
don't think he argues that is actually a problem.

2) Built in Deflation

This is a big, big problem. It seems the creators of Bitcoin have a philosophical disagreement with conventional economic theories that state that increases in money supply (and some limited inflation) are outcomes of a healthy economy. Unconventional thinking is fine, but the outcomes he predicts here are real problems.

3) Lack of Convertibility

Yes, there is a problem here. It could actually be worse than the author suggests, because if state actors move against Bitcoin they could easily introduce high penalties for Bitcoin conversion. Even without that state actors, the dependability and predictability of convertibility is currently unacceptable.

At the same time, it's possible this could be overcome. It is basically a matter of trust, and modern fiat currencies all rely on trust. Usually that is trust in a government (or system of governments in the case of the euro), but it isn't inconceivable that "the internet" could be as trustworthy as a government. People trust billions of dollars or transactions to operating systems and databases that were built by "the internet", so it is possible this could be the same.

4) When Something Goes Wrong, It Will Die

This is the trust issue again.

However, there is one additional point - if someone wanted to deliberately attack the currency it would be fairly easy to buy a large number of Bitcoins, then deliberately destroy them. Once that occurs, they disappear from circulation, which causes instant deflation.
I'm not sure that's necessarily enforceable everywhere; it can be interpreted as an illegal barrier to competition.
If someone tricks you into letting them into your house, beats you and steals your stuff that does not mean they broke in.
I think that's exactly what I thought when I read his comment. I'm not sure why anyone else thinks it's a bad idea, though.

Let me clarify it a bit: Just like a rotary telephone, the numbers are in a circle. To open the lock, you drag your finger in a circle around the ring, alternating left and right like a combination lock.

But to make sure the smudges are meaningless, the device rotates the rings randomly before each attempt.

You still enter the same code, in the same pattern, but the rotation of the device changes each time.
While copyright wouldn't apply to an independent reimplementation, the article included links to decompiled versions of the Skype binaries, which would definitely fall under Skype's copyrights. Nothing wrong with using those decompiled binaries to reverse-engineer and document the Skype protocol, and I hope this produces useful results there, but that doesn't make it OK to directly redistribute the decompiled binaries.
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Terms of Service don't necessarily have any legal force, and many jurisdictions have legal protections for the right to reverse-engineer, particularly for interoperability purposes.
I like it. It actually got me thinking, staring at their page, "Why don't I sign up, we have free office space in our office." But they need an option "I don't feel like thinking about this right now."
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I risked it an installed it. It didn't seem to work (Galaxy S), and then my phone started running very, very slowly even after I closed it.

I uninstalled. I wouldn't recommend this app at all, and I'm pretty suspicion about what it was doing.
It is also an important demonstration to business users and developers that their billions of dollars invested in keyboard+mouse oriented applications won't be made obsolete over night.
It takes just a few keystrokes to type "fundamentally flawed", but people seems to not agree whether that's really the case. So why do you think it is flawed?
Unlike Gnutella, in this case, there are people with a strong financial interest in keeping it massively overhyped, for the reasons described in the OP.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that at some point Bitcoin will stop its deflation. Once Bitcoin has mainstream success, if that ever happens, the value of a Bitcoin will stop growing and people will start spending Bitcoin. At some point, the value of a Bitcoin lost through hoarding will equal the value gained by new adapters.
"possession of stolen property" requires the recipient to knowingly accept stolen property; if the recipient didn't know, then they haven't committed any crime (though they will lose the property in question, and have to hope they can get their money back from the seller).
Perhaps I'm being paranoid, but I don't see how the following two statements are easily resolved.

I was an intern on the windows user experience team last summer, so I saw a lot of this new ui.
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Of course, I still don't like microsoft, but I have to give them this one. They are absolutely killing it.

Also, I don't understand what great distinction you're making between a potential Windows 8 tablet and an iOS device. An iOS device needs to be plugged into a PC precisely once, in order to be setup. After that it can be used happily as an entirely independent device if you choose. Also, iOS and the MacOS have far more in common than they have different. The principal difference is the interface related APIs.

Your post seems to be making the usual mistake of comparing something that doesn't exist to products that Apple are selling right now.
My first thoughts after showing the old windows desktop is... as a PC user (non tablet) that Metro UI is gonna get really irritating with a mouse; so you'll end up just using the Win7 looking part.... what's changed?!
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Actually, both of my parents are programmers of the old school, so they even understand the difference between foldr and foldl.

I am actually in favor of having both options, so we might be on the same page actually. What I am opposed to, is the notion of adding a positive label to the less specialized version and a negative to the other.
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I'm not quite clear in all of this whether clicking +1 will only tend to promote that content in the search results of your friends (Buzz connections) or whether it may have a wider SEO effect.

Can anyone clue me in?
Both seem quite valuable. Long-term, we want an open peer-to-peer encrypted communication system. Short-term, until Skype dies, it would help to have the ability to interoperate with people who use it. Similarly, while XMPP represents the right open standard for chat, existing Open Source chat programs still need to know how to interoperate with MSN, AIM, and Yahoo
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I agree with you 100%. It seems as though the UI team came up with this concept, which is a cool prototype, but naively misses a lot of the functionality that the standard interface has evolved over time. As such, it either needs to be better integrated (e.g. just an active desktop + widgets all over again with some flashier task switching) or purely for mobile devices (say a special edition you can install). As it stands it's an ugly hybrid of both UIs that just screams "we don't know how to make this work well for regular daily operations (e.g. file management)".
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If the system can successfully masquerade as an older Skype version it stands a chance. That is unless Skype has a baked-in not yet understood mechanism for pushing protocol changes to its clients. Skype would have to find discerning features, implement it on their servers and possibly even push it to their client updates. Whenever such discerning features were found it's a simple matter of arms race, i.e. a difficult but fair chance. Alternatively Skype can start blocking older versions which is rather unlikely.

Concerning the open and better issue; There definitely are open alternatives. None of them have quite the firewall-defying capabilities of Skype. Nor the user base for that matter. Building any kind of social network is fraught with chicken&egg problems and those first to reach mass have it made. Just check how one of the richest and most powerful technology companies Google is struggling to get a foot in Facebook's market.
For UI backwards compatibility, maybe? It sounds good if you think of it this way.
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Fast movements definitely mess it up, with things not lining up properly, or being completely duplicated.

Even slow movements often leave the last few rows of Einstein hanging off the top of the Right side.
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With sufficient heavy artillery, while you might not be able to breach into the fortifications, you can certainly mess it up enough to stop it from shooting back.

It would not have been necessary to actually take Gibraltar -- only to silence it's guns, and place enough artillery west of it to block the strait.
There has been some speculation about a backdoor in Skype which it has shared with intelligence agencies. Never confirmed by Skype of course. But this could allow anyone to decrypt a Skype conversation stream. All you need is a Skype supernode to get started. Or some kind of spyware on the subject's computer which stores/transmits the data stream.
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I think having dual modes makes a lot of sense. Being able to dock your tablet and then have a keyboard/mouse with full Windows is a superior experience to docking your tablet and still have a touch device. The iPad docking experience is not very good, compared to a computer.
Two major issues:
http://skype-open-source.blogspot.com/2011/06/skype-under-rc...
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The project is using existing code, and "All rights reserved" is not an approved OSI license I believe ;)

And things like compression algorithm are patented, and that's very likely skype is using some of it. Reminds me of a project by Intel of providing an implementation of g729 (a voice codec). The source was available, but it was "non commercial usage only" because of the patents mostly.

An interesting project, but doubt we'll see any usable implementation anytime soon IMO. And even if it does, skype will probably alter a bit the protocol to make it fail if it reaches a critical mass.
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If you've got spyware installed on one of the endpoints you don't need any backdoor in Skype. Just dump the audio output and input directly from the audio card.
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This reminds me of the "right to read" short story by stallman. Who knew it would be so prescient!
It's not that easy to clone a user base though which is the leverage of most niche sites. Not saying Amazon can't do it, it is Amazon so anything is possible but it's not a general rule. For example, if I was the one doing a clone of Groupon I would most probably fail since I lack the resources (sales people) to do better than them.
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The current design of Bitcoin is obviously not correct for the long term, and I am sure it will be supplanted by more evolved crypto-currency systems. There is absolutely nothing preventing people from taking the open-source code and creating an alternative "Bittoken" currency which changes problematic design elements such as the minting/issuance model.

Given the rewards that have already accrued to Bitcoin early adopters, I am surprised other competing cryptocurrency networks have not yet already been created. Lots of people who wish they had started mining coins back in the days before GPU mining would be eager to get in on the ground floor of an alternative.

Most problems with the critiques of Bitcoin like those in the linked Quora post is that they are debunking a straw man - the idea that Bitcoin is intended as a universal replacement for all other currency systems. By those standards of course it will fail. Looked at in another way, think of Bitcoin as something more like MMORPG loot. If people are willing to spend vast amounts of "real money" on items for their WoW character, spending that money on Bitcoins instead makes it seem like a sane investment rather than just flushing it away.

I've mentioned before that I think governmental action to criminalize Bitcoin and analogous technology is an even more serious threat to long-term value. If there is one thing that really might make the world's governments team up to completely ban strong encryption, it is a potential threat to governmental control over taxation and currencies.
I would love to see a currency like this work, and I would be interested in using one, but the major issue for bitcoin, for me, is that deflation is built into its core. Inflation is a good thing.

Inflation encourages holders of capital to use it to invest in other things. That is, inflation encourages productivity. The inflation has to be relatively low, of course. Probably low enough to allow someone to retire without worry.
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map is an easy and powerful concept, but a comprehension resembles natural language better. I agree though that map is more _expressive_ (a more concise and comprehensive way of communicating).
Microsoft's marketing department never seems to have been able to make anything that didn't look completely stupid.
I'm not sure how they manage to do it so consistently.
"God knows how the computer industry makes money when if i hold my $$$ just a little longer, i can buy an even better machine"

Not really. Because if you expect the value of your cash to rise, you would probably hold onto your cash. The liquidity of the system would drop as people hoard their cash (what happened during the Great Depression), depressing an economy.

"bank run"

He's talking about the need to inject cash into the system during economic shocks (the reason for the Fed injecting money into the system). This, again, happened during the Great Depression, as perfectly sound and profitable banks toppled left and right because of the bank runs, taking down the rest of the economy.
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