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There are a few applications that use ZRTP, but Silent Circle is the only one with direct involvement by Phil Zimmermann (AFAIK), yeah.
It's different when it's a 5-15 person startup, or a consultancy or other essentially partnership organization like that, vs. a more hierarchical organization.

I'm a big fan of being transparent with financials and other metrics in early-stage tech companies (absolutely in the seed range, and in A; it becomes more debatable in a 50-150 person organization.) Mainly because it is good for people to know what numbers actually matter -- if a company is cashflow-constrained, it does make sense to burn time on building vs. buying certain products, or looking for sales which are lower revenue but paid up-front. If a company has a specific milestone, it might be making otherwise non-optimal decisions (like selling something at negative margin). Management probably should be highlighting these issues, but sometimes it is better to have the raw data.

In Silicon Valley hiring now, particularly for dev/design/devops/product, you actually are competing for people who could start a business on their own, and who are likely to do so in the future, so they value having access to this information and learning about how decisions are made. One of the key things is accepting that you probably will not retain people for 10 years, and maybe not even for 4, but if you can get great work for 1-2 years, that's better than 0 (or mediocre work for 5).
> at least at some points in a startup's life, it's an all-out fight for survival

There are certainly situations where that's true, but it doesn't seem applicable here. They just launched a major new release of their core product, and suddenly found themselves with a bunch of extra money in the bank that they were deciding what to do with. That's not a "fight for survival" situation.
My employer is both realistic and pretty hard nosed as it happens. It is the customers. And their parents. I'm a teacher.

A story: Try Googling "The Naked Violin" (not violinist) and you should find a page with free MP3 downloads put up by Tasmin Little, a fairly well known (and extremely respectable) soloist in the UK. She decided to do her bit for getting kids to listen to classical music. And gave it a name that guarantees every school and college firewall in the UK will block access. So I continue to point students at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's music library (15GB of free classical mp3s).

PS: The Nouveau driver for Nvidia graphic cards under Linux is improving with each release. For almost all of my activity on my old Xeon desktop, it is fine, and the fonts look OK. I'm prepared to cut the coders a bit of slack in their comments...
And that is their choice.
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The time to file a lawsuit was years ago when the programs started. Google and Microsoft are now in the same category of privatized government "partners" as Halliburton and Lockheed.

This goes beyond simple diffusion of responsibility, leaders at Google and Microsoft were complicit in the crimes the NSA committed and did nothing to stop them.

IBM was able to eventually live down its involvement in the holocaust. In today's world there is no excuse for a modern tech company led by wealthy, enlightened people to commit these kinds of wrongs. Ironically, it's as if Google's mantra became "Be Evil".

Such doings (empowering the NSA, IRS, etc. to snoop on innocent people for the express purpose of entrapping them or contriving other evidence) are pretty much the definition of exactly the kind of insidious evil that one would hope to be able to trust its service providers not to engage in.

My prediction is that within a few months as viable open source alternatives for Google and Microsoft services become available, we'll see lots of people leaving their cloud platforms/services.
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The problem with passing success/failure as options is they don't compose well. Try to write the twitter example in the blog post this way. Then try to abstract each step as a reusable piece. And lastly have a mechanism for handling errors at any step. This looks ugly and is hard to follow. Promises (or generators) provide an API for thinking about async code as composable parts, which leads to easier to understand functions.
Yes, plenty. Releasing source code is quite common in the ML community.
I used to wear a t-shirt with the TIA "Total Information Awareness" all-seeing eye logo on the front, and the slogan "Be A Good American. Don't Ask Questions." on the back, when I traveled. It was sometimes good for a few laughs with foreign border agents; but on the US side, never even so much as a smile. OTOH, I never got singled out for "extra screening" because of it (as far as I can tell); but that seems to be more common these days.

TBH, if I thought such a weak form of protest would really draw a response from TSA agents, I am pretty sure I would wear it. Maybe that's part of the reason I avoid flying these days.
> I'm dedicated.

> I think Blog Every Day in August is a prime example of how dedicated I can be.

Sorry. It's not self-evident that blogging every day equals dedication. Some might go so far as to say that blogging can only be a preliminary to productive activity.
Read the thread again, there's only one person trying to have that discussion.
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Paris, London, Tokyo.
You have a point. I'll think about it ;-)
I'm not saying that either is always the case, but that I have seen example of both. I also wouldn't want to agree with the phrase "not worth the effort". It's not that I think anyone's "not worth it" - it's that current methods simply aren't going to work all the time, no matter how much people's attitudes or resources change. The GP comment pointed out personality issues and upbringing, and I think that's spot-on - I don't think we yet understanding issues like that to really be effective at helping people overcome them, and there's certainly work to be done in that area. As I said - I continue my own charitable efforts, and I'm only saying that it's not just an issue of "boo, Silicon Valley, how could you let this happen?"
> misunderstood as editorializing by Greenwald.

Did you accidentally use the wrong word?

The quote Greenwald was using:

> "PRISM: Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: [...]"

Greenwald's interpretation:

> "The Prism program allows the NSA, the world’s largest surveillance organisation, to obtain targeted communications without having to request them from the service providers and without having to obtain individual court orders."
Here's just 1 example regarding Microsoft and Skype: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

> Another newsletter entry stated that NSA already had pre-encryption access to Outlook email. "For Prism collection against Hotmail, Live, and Outlook.com emails will be unaffected because Prism collects this data prior to encryption."

> Microsoft's co-operation was not limited to Outlook.com. An entry dated 8 April 2013 describes how the company worked "for many months" with the FBI – which acts as the liaison between the intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley on Prism – to allow Prism access without separate authorization to its cloud storage service SkyDrive.

Would you honestly believe the NSA would want that from a company like Microsoft but not from a company like Google (whose main activity consists of the collection of data in order to build the most precise user profiles to advance the targeting of their ads = ROI)?

The installations were also mentioned in the slides published by the Guardian, you should read all of them.
Question seconded. The OP strongly implies that, and if it's not the case then the description of the process is oversimplified.
Ubiquitous access to food that causes disease does not make 'The poor of today better of than the middle class of the past'.
Okay, so agreed that the US is being hypocritical here. My point was only ever that regardless of morality, the use of force is always legal, and synonymous with establishing law, unless there is a greater force making it illegal. There is nobody that will punish the US for punishing Syria, so therefore the US gets to make the law.
> most of the people who have had long-term welfare dependencies, have not shown any initiative or drive to seize opportunities. They have rejected job offers for silly reasons, they have soured their relationships with those willing to help them over silly issues, and they have in some cases outright rejected offers of assistance.

It's not always so easy to make the right decisions when you're poor: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976.abstract
True! But I like to use lots of the type extensions that ghc has! :-)
I think volatility is more of a short-term/medium term problem, due to the fact that each new Bitcoin user can have a pretty large impact on the value of the Bitcoin, and it's still early days.

But I also think deflation may present a problem in the long term, and this is why instead of all the slightly different Bitcoin clones, I'd like to see one like Bitcoin that is inflationary, instead of deflationary.

But whoever will be making this needs to think long and hard about what the inflation rate should be, or if it can be modified by the market/community down the road (or start with a high inflation early on, to boost the numbers, and lower it after after a while).
Like it or not, there are also plenty of people who have no ethical dilemma with NSA's conduct.
But god forbid we let people live in their cars. Or for that matter anything less than a single family ranch home.

Housing costs are crazy in the bay area because people refuse to allow more dense housing. With the homeless problem the way it is in the bay area we should be doing everything to decrease the cost of rent. Instead municipalities do everything in their power to prevent more housing from being built.

I don't see homelessness in the bay area as some kind of tragedy. I see it as a crime.
Yes, that's right, they just collect everything and don't analyze it properly. And you know this, how? Of course they do analysis, it's just of the "needle in a haystack" variety because of the sheer volume they collect. The most intelectually demanding type of analysis.

On the basis of that contribution alone, you've proved you're not smart enough to work for the NSA.
There is a part of the homeless population that will not stay in free housing, damages it when it's given to them, or is severely disruptive to neighbors, and refuses addiction treatment or returns to drugs immediately after leaving treatment. Improving the circumstances of these people is an unsolved problem, and one many consider not worth solving when these people actively resist all "solutions" offered to them.
It always amuses me when, in the "Why aren't there more female coders?" debate, people try to push the notion that women aren't genetically suited for programming. Programming isn't the Navy SEALS, where no woman has yet been admitted into the club for any variety of reasons...women were among programming's pioneers.
You and the IEEE are sampling different universes. Specific parts of the universe of "devs and related trades" currently have high demand and rising wages.

However, as a Ph.D. holder in quantum optics and semiconductor manufacturing, I would be happy to introduce you to a dozen physicists and EEs who are unemployed or who work for half my salary. There is no apparent shortage of physicists. My impression is that the biologists have it even worse.

The problem in this conversation is the notion that (e.g.) "web and mobile software development" is a subspecies of STEM. This premise gets sillier by the year, as more and more babies grow up teething on their parents old iPhones. Many of the best developers I know have no training in science or engineering: They're musicians or historians or artists, or they have no formal schooling beyond high school. Web development is as much about project management, self-direction, self-education, patience, consistency, pattern recognition, memory, design sense, decisiveness, experience, practice, persistence in the absence of immediate positive feedback, equanimity when faced with a thousand distractions, and – above all – communication as it is about scientific or mathematical knowledge.

And, while the combination of skills that make a great developer is evidently rare – or so the market conditions seem to say – it doesn't serve anyone to pretend that this represents a shortage of physicists or biologists or even of computer scientists. [1] It's a shortage of developers, and a particular subspecies of developer at that.

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[1] Well, anyone who doesn't run a school for STEM, anyway.
I don't know why you were downvoted. You are exactly right. Until SV makes the connection between forcing everyone to live in ranch homes and homelessness the problem will never go away.

The best way to reduce homelessness is to reduce rent costs. The best way to reduce rent costs is to create more supply of rental homes.
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Hello Hackernews,

I'm slowly getting better and better with my PHP skills and slowly searching for PHP internship positions in London, and why not, the world.

I've noticed a distinct difficulty in getting jobs as a majority of jobs I've found listed require a couple of years experience in the field.
Fair enough, training inexperienced people can be tough.

To help me in my quest for employment in the PHP development field I have a question,

How did you get your first job in programming?
The reason stated for why trickle down economics isn't working is a non-sequitur, kind of undermines the credibility of the rest of the article. As to the main premise, I mean, open source is obviously a huge bonus to all the freelancers and startups and indie devs, not to mention the proliferation of Android smart phones. I think it clearly is 'trickling down', maybe just not as totally as the author would like.
Sure, that's an arguable defense, but it's not like they're wrong in what they said.

You have to go to court to say, "fair use!"
> As I've posted before, there is this sort of inherent imperialist bias people have with someone who does not have a good command or English.

I think that's true in any language. I see this in myself sometimes, and I have to consciously correct myself that one's accent or grasp of a foreign language has nothing to do with intelligence or any other quality other than time spent practicing.

> I personally have several accents in English and I subconsciously switch from one to another depending on whom I'm speaking with.

Not being a native English speaker, I do this too. My American accent is just as fake as my English one, but I think people are used to you speaking a certain accent, and switching seems fake to them. I'll have to start talking to the next Englishman I meet with an English accent, and see how they react when I switch to an American one, which is what I usually use.
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How is this anyone who lives in Silicon Valley's fault?

Some people will always be homeless.

Your reaction just seems... extreme.
Regulatory capture and anti-competitive regulations seem like they would have a much bigger impact on wealth disparity than tax rates.
> are you saying that there is simply no way to improve the circumstances of these people, or that they're just not worth the effort because they refuse to help themselves?

The issue is deeper than you're acknowledging. Evolution by natural selection works only because of perpetual shortage, and because nature doesn't waste anything. If we artificially remove any appearance of shortage, of a need to struggle, we remove the incentive to work. So we need to imitate nature at least in some respects. But that goal cannot be achieved if we "improve the circumstances" of everyone in need.

In short, if we try to fix the problem of poverty, we will make everyone poor. That's history's lesson.
Afaik, credit cards are always issued by a bank.
Only people with no ethics or morals would take an NSA job now, no matter how bad the economy is.
That's an interesting comparison. I think you could extend the analogy as well.

There are strategies a company, or country, should abandon when survival is in jeopardy, but there are also values which are core to your identity. Abandoning those values when you come under pressure has a pragmatic effect on perceptions and ethical ramifications.

I also agree with you that being sure of what exactly your core values are is very important.

However, our example appears to be a company in peacetime. Our example experiment also appears to be very low cost. It isn't useful data to judge if non-survival core values for a company are worth defending in wartime.

For a country, defending non-survival core values during wartime is clearly worthwhile. This is where the analogy breaks down. For a company, there is clearly less moral obligation and practical costs to abandoning these values.

We can't say without doubt that defending values in a wartime company is the wrong priority. A combination of personal ethics and potential damage make that a case by case decision.
Seems like a clear case for Hanlon's Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
If the Bay Area were the entire world, I would agree, but most of the country is very cheap.
These look an awful lot like homes to be calling the people living in them "homeless". I wonder what it would look like if the city didn't keep bulldozing them?
I just merged an awesome PR that does exactly this [0]. It doesn't take over the forward/back buttons, which is a good thing in my opinion.

[0]: https://github.com/jdan/cleaver/pull/25
Does it surprise anyone that Troy the carpenter did not know how to spell? Pic: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5204f8736bb3f7b3300...
From wikipedia:

> In North America, Japanese instant noodles were imported starting in the 1970s bearing the name "ramen", causing the term "ramen" to be often used in North America to refer to instant noodles.

So there you go. I'm sure it will disappear in time, as awareness of asian cuisine develops.
you can buy your way to a meeting with Presidents, silicon valley types are puny in comparison.

Ah, but how do you know who to talk to? What presidents of companies, what SV types?
Sales are up, so everyone gets raises.

What happens when sales decline? By giving everyone an increase in salary, you're committing to pay that amount for the foreseeable future. If you can't ... then layoffs will happen.

So what if you used a salary + bonus structure? The problem is that firms have been abusing this for years, and employees are wise to it now. "Bonus? Never seen anyone pay on it, so doesn't matter."
There's an easy solution to this - electric robo-cars. With self-driving cars that can roam around, and thus not violate city ordinances against parking, there would be no homeless. Electric charging is fairly cheap and the city could even pay it for those deemed destitute.

A robo-car with shower, kitchenette, bedroom would radically transform the situation for poor people worldwide.
Waiting until everything is "easier to solve" sounds more like an excuse than anything else.

I never said we should wait until everything is "easier to solve", only that solving big problems make easier problems easier to deal with. This mean we should prioritize the hungriest of individuals in this world, rather than just feeding the local homeless.
How would you, given the total resources devoted to the problem today, improve how homeless and poor people in the Bay Area are treated? I believe per capita there are more resources spent in the Bay Area than in a lot of other places, but either it is less effective here, or the problem is just more visible -- I don't notice the same level of problems in most other parts of the US.

Is the problem mainly with people who fall from working class and could easily be pushed back up, or with long term hardcore homeless (with drug, alcohol, or mental illness issues?). Is it mainly single men (who I notice on the street the most), children, families?

Why is it so hard to get good data? Would a charity focused on collecting that data be more effective per marginal dollar than marginal dollars spent directly on naive solutions?
Using the toxicologists' maxim ""All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison." (normally "The dose makes the poison"), is there any food that does not/can not cause disease?
The premise of trickle down economics is that a rising tide lifts all boats, which has occurred.

I don't think this is correct. "A rising tide lifts all boats" is a metaphor to say that an improving economy benefits everybody, and most people agree on the general idea. But nothing is trickling down with this metaphor, all boats are lifted together. Trickle down economy is the idea that helping the rich get richer will eventually benefit the poor (under the assumptions that the rich know best how to improve the economy, and that they will use the money to do it). Here many people disagree.
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Lets not forget that many NSA "employees" are actually contractors from companies like Booz Allen Hamilton. Also Palantir doesn't seem to be hurting finding people to build surveillance technology.
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Short answer: No

Longer answer: The Dart VM would need to be adapted to battery powered devices as thoroughly as Dalvik. Android's runtime is not just for apps. Android's middleware layer runs mostly in the Dalvik VM. Implementers have multiple options for performance-critical code, including native code, relying on the Dalvik JIT compiler, and Renderscript.

Not impossible, but I don't see efforts in that direction. Then there are lesser details like adapting Dart to Android's security and IPC model, etc.

Until then, WAGs like this have the same credibility as predictions that Android will go JavaScript.
One of the core contributor to Rails (Yehuda Katz) is a core contributor in EmberJS. I bet the two will integrate nicely (using the ActiveModel::Serializer gem).
Sorry if I was being unclear. I wasn't trying to say craigslist does a disservice to the economy in general; it's clearly beneficial and I don't want to diminish that. Rather, I think that its attitude of being barebones and avoiding profit is doing a disservice, by holding it back from becoming a better, more useful service.
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It's completely unreasonable to ask someone to change their website because you disable JavaScript.
Potti was a researcher. His misconduct was faking research. Faking research is something you do in private, with no witnesses other than those helping you fake the research.

When fake research gets published, it is generally not immediately evident something is wrong. Eventually someone might notice that the purported experimental data is too ideal to be from a real experiment, or other researchers will fail to replicate the results.

The Texas doctor, on the other hand, was a practicing neurosurgeon. Other surgeons were actually witnessing his surgeries and directly observing his incompetence. He was leaving behind a trail of dead and crippled patients at an alarming rate.

I don't see how the two are even remotely comparable.
To be fair I think those are hints that improve performance rather than required syntax. The question I guess is whether these are "optional" in the sense that you get horrendous performance without them or truly optional and you get ok performance without them.
Nigel Searle, not Clive Sinclair, as it says in the 3rd paragraph.