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That's what I was thinking. We are going to ship two versions. One being a simple dongle where the application used to interface with it is the users phone.

We're also selling a premium package, where the device is much bigger but includes a physical display and keyboard, with a transfer mechanism of the final encrypted message.

We're marking up the higher end model so we can fund the lower end model, being 2 replacements of the dongle for 1 purchase, as the dongle will have a one time authentication and will be locked to the device.

We're also trying to figure out how to have the device self destruct if not used by any approved devices, meaning whipe itself clean and POSSIBLY break the hardware that does the processing/houses any data.
Wow, how trendy is that humanist sans-serif font and lack of capital letters?

Edit: I mean on the announcement at the bottom of the article.
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"So why post this diatribe here? Because without knowing a thing about the gentleman in the video, I can almost guarantee he never worked a day of retail, food-service, or manufacturing in his life..."

Your rant really doesn't raise any point. So what if he hasn't had a shitty job? That really is irrelevant.
Well, that is something at least. Fair enough.

I still can't shake the feeling that the "everyone must learn some coding" thing is a meme with unusually high coverage. I had not read it until I saw it linked in this thread, but I think this hits the nail on the head: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-t...
I am guessing it's going to get substantially easier to program going forward. Look at amount of tools and technologies we have access to. Communities, Github, Refactoring, Intellisense. So many things just out of the box. Many ready made, battle tested libraries and frameworks. It's going to get a lot easier for a non computer science person to do some end level programming. Like dragging some blocks (just thinking out loud). Or encouraging youngsters to learn to code now will unfold a future which we can't even fully fathom now (AI, robotics, drones, medicinal advancements)
Does everything in life need to be controlled by laws. I'm sure I don't succeed all the time, but I always try to just be considerate of the other people around me, even if there is no law preventing the thing that I want to do.
I think I've mentioned it before, but I'll say it again: I'm pretty happy not to live in that area any more. I loved the weather, but everything else just seems so... bonkers.
The computer scientist, or mechanic, is the builder of the human extension. But if the user of this extension understands core rules of telling things what to do and how to do them, then the extension is more powerful. The user can adjust the extension to fit more complex needs. So i guess my argument is that learning to code is more like being a better, more capable driver of a more dynamic car. You don't need to make a business of building the dynamic cars.

And since this extends to much more than just driving cars, it just means for a higher bandwidth interaction between each other and our environment. More like speaking a better language that packs a much greater punch. Maybe one example: if i can quickly release to consciousness an interactive system to express an idea i've had or discovery i've made, it just disseminates faster than if i were to use back and forth conversation, write a book, lecture, make a video. The packets are denser. Sure, i could wait for someone else to write the interactive system for me, but i'd have to communicate it to them. If they don't get it right then there's more back and forth, more latency. Wouldn't it be better if we were all just more capable?
If you are a passenger in a vehicle that stops in a lane of traffic long enough to cause a traffic pileup, you speak up and fix it.

That's what you do.

Is the parent commenter suggesting that nobody riding the google bus has the gumption and the decency to sanity check an obviously ungracious and impolite behavior ?
Ironically people rant on Manning for just "dumping" a whole lot of documents wholesale. But if you release them slowly people are cynical about that as well.

To me it makes sense to do it slowly, apart from other considerations, to judge the effect, impact, ensure your actions aren't hurting people you don't intend, give opportunty for consultation with authorities if they want to come to the party and if it's appropriate.

How would you propose it be done?
You know, you're right...I half didn't add that paragraph and I'm half tempted to remove it...but I'll let it stand. Anyone who knows me personally would know that I am not typically one to generalize in this fashion. I don't do so lightly.

We all have bad days, sure. Yes, this could just be someone having a bad day. Maybe he broke up with his girlfriend/boyfriend yesterday. Maybe he, himself, is having trouble with rent and is merely projecting. Any of these scenarios and a million more could be true.

What manufacturing taught me is that, even when all you can feel is pain and exhaustion, if there is still work to do the only solution is to do it, not complain. What retail taught me is that even on your shittiest day, when your girlfriend has left you for your best friend, that person looking for just the right pair of headphones still expects, deserves even, your grace and kindness.

You know what? I really hope I'm wrong and someone tracks this fellow down and finds out that he has a story of a long hard slog through menial jobs to make it to where he is today. If that turns out to be the case, I'll have learned something. As it is, thinking back on all the people that I worked with in manufacturing and in retail, I can't think of one that would both behave in the way this gentleman did and say the things that he said.
kinda depressing that all the money that companies pay for these buses couldn't simply be used to offer better service in the public system.

Very different pools of money.
I'm surprised there isn't a slideshare + video service out there. Using YouTube + Slideshare seems reasonable here, but I would love to have a self contained talk with audio and video to keep it in sync.
Google Employee to Protestor: "You can't afford it? You can leave"
These are not "citizens arguing", it's professional protesting 101.
Funny, I've actually installed Circle the other day, after receiving multiple requests from friends over facebook - and hated it. Initial problem was, the options of logging in where through Facebook, twitter, or email - but the email option said it would take up to 24 hours to approve... really? and it didn't seem functional - so i had to choose between twitter or Facebook. The user interface kept jumping from one style to another between login options, making it look non-legitimate. It also got my location wrong, with no option to change it (I'm on the border between two cities) showing me events that where too far. I was so frustrated with it, I un-installed it within 10 minutes - so I still think theres a market for an app like this, Circle is doing it wrong.
At least they utilize mass transit. You, in your car, do not. Cars are an inefficient burden on the city and the economy. Would you rather the entire company drove?
+1000. Nothing is gained in this discourse by injecting a "I've worked harder than you for less" contest.
Why not everyone go buy a Nexus 5? It looks open as phones go, you can just root it with adb[0]. As long as you can root the phone and swap in your own OS I think Google's phone is as good as any other.

[0] http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_hammerhead

Edit: I didn't read your post carefully enough. Yes, it would be wise to assume that Google will eventually become malicious and try to future-proof by supporting entities making comparably liberated phones.
That's what we're trying to tackle. See my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876655

Can anyone see this as viable? My co founder and I are very very passionate about this project, and the last thing we want to do is poor in years into something that won't see the light of day!
I'm not seeing any proof there that he is a plant. Just some people speculating.
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This was a project for a client so that code is proprietary. I wrote the compiler in OCaml and generate Erlang code that targets my DynamoDB wrapper [1].

The benefit is automatically enforcing referential integrity, documenting the "schema" and eliminating a boatload of boilerplate.

Is there commercial potential here?

I already have triggers and could add "REST endpoints" with SQL code and callouts to external functions written in the code that the compiler targets.

Would this be something you would pay for, e.g. if I generated nodejs or some other code?

[1] https://github.com/wagerlabs/ddb
Coding Is Great, but Maybe Everyone Should Learn to Read
My parents forced me to work in a grocery store job at the age of 16. I was very resistant. Looking back, I am so very glad that they made me do it.

I also worked in a grocery store when I was 16 and it was a ridiculously cushy job. I did everything from bagging to grocery return to cart collection to being a checker.

My dishwasher job at 14 was easy peasy too. Scrape off plates, rinse them off, put them in the dishwasher. Came home filthy but the work was definitely not hard.

My work wasn't part of a character building exercise given to me by my parents though. The amount of work I did directly controlled how many holes my clothes had when I went to school.
"it must be said that the female protester should have thought twice about putting holes in her face"

Must that be said?
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Double parking for commercial delivery is already authorized by SF city ordinance. If the city decided that enabling Peninsula tech workers to live in the city is a good thing (and there are many reasons in favor and against doing so), then they could similarly authorize private buses. Until they do so, these buses are breaking the law and should be fined.
For the vast majority of people, their startups/side projects are vastly diff. than their day job.
Dating is absolutely horrible for men in the south bay. That 1 hour barrier puts many brakes on even getting a date with all the single women live in SF and the north east bay area. SF is where all the other young people are. The south bay is suburban families.
Yeah that part is a pain in the ass in LA. But I am pretty sure Google has the chops to tackle that. And if they shame Apple and the rest of the Valley into it and they could lobby the hell out of the city. It works for the feds it will work on the local level.
Oh good point, Apple had the "change the world" message long before anyone else. But any startup that came out today and said "we're the next Apple!" would probably not get much traction.
- Sorry about that easong. I never meant it to seem that way.
If there is one constant, it's that cities will change. You change the demographics, ethnicity, nationality, or language distribution, you get change. Where is it written that people have a right to live in an unchanging world?

The same things these people are complaining about are the same thing old Southern white racists complain about -- this becoming a minority majority country. These people wanted America to be a Ollie and Harriet whitebread nuclear family country, and diversity increased and changed the culture.

"Poor culture" is not intrinsically more valuable than "rich tech culture", it's just different, and there's no a priori justification that one groups has a set of preferences and rights that supercedes the others.

The anti - gentrification people are cultural conservatives and don't realize it.
This is madness. The tech companies are not the issue. The supply and demand imbalance is the issue. If development regulations were relaxed more, then more housing could be developed. The same protestors would probably object to further development.

In addition it is counter productive protesting around mass transit. Would they prefer the employees drove, putting immense burden on the already stressed transport infrastructure?

The whole argument is terribly misguided.
My cable provider finally got rid of data caps, only to reinstate them when netflix started making waves about coming to my country. I suspect the only reason data caps exist at all at this point is to avoid online vod services from completely replacing traditional cable tv.
I think the nut of the article is "and then walked off." If he was a Googler why didn't he get on the bus? Probably just some guy acting.
Parking lots? In SF? Surely you're joking.
People aren't allowed on the bus in the first place if they're not employees or at least contractors. So how much verification do you need?

Edit: whoops

UPDATE 12:32pm: Various tips have streamed in that this shout-out was staged. Protest organizer Leslie Dreyer talked to us on the phone and verified that this person's identity was Max Bell Alper, a union organizer from Oakland. This person was not a Google employee, and Dreyer was not able to verify if Alper was there in the morning with the group of 20-30 protesters. The Guardian is attempting to contact Alper for comment. Dreyer said she, as an organizer, was unaware that the "performance" had been planned. We are following this as it develops.
Regardless of team size, the best tool is the one your team members are productive with.

If you believe the HN hype the whole world runs on rails apps developed on GitHub. Reality is a little different
I don't live in SF, and I really don't fully understand the issues at hand here. But from what I've seen, writing checks to public transit systems (like the MBTA here in Boston) is a sure way to make sure that nothing ever happens.

Case in point, the "Green Line Extension" has been talked about for dozens of years now, and funded many times. They keep losing/wasting the money. I don't think Google wants to wait 10-30 years for the Bart system to catch up with their needs (if ever at all).

But I also don't understand why a company providing private shuttles is such a polarizing idea. No one gets bent about hotel shuttles or ones at convention centers, and putting more people in a shuttle is far better than each of them individually driving.
> If you agree that teaching people to code will result in more professional software developers, which seems reasonable to me, we'll have more of them and the cost of any one of them will be reduced.

I'm not sure I can agree with that, though. The barrier to entry is already really damn low -- the kids who are seriously interested in programming are already learning to program anyway, because it only costs them their time. The net effect will probably just be that the average student will become a bit more knowledgeable about how software works, which is pretty undisputably a good thing. If you go into a high school district and make a home economics class mandatory, are half of your graduates going to become chefs? Of course not -- only a few are going to do that, and they were probably going to do it before you even made the class mandatory. The only difference is that now everyone knows how to cook for themselves.

> And again, the skill thing is diminished because we all suck at figuring out who the talented developers are.

On the contrary, I think giving everybody a baseline knowledge of programming could have the opposite effect. If you study English at a liberal arts college and blast through the Codecademy Javascript tutorial over the weekend, you can see why you might think that a career as a programmer would be good for you -- you don't have any technical friends to talk to about what you've learned, and Codecademy says you learned everything there is to know about Javascript, so obviously you must be ready for a web development position, right? You have to know what you don't know, and the problem with unqualified developers is that they don't know what they don't know. If everyone learns how to write functions in high school, then you're acutely aware that there's a whole world of stuff you won't know unless you study independently.

> I'm not saying we should hoard the coding knowledge or whatever -- that cat is already out of the bag.

To be honest, most of the objections to the "everyone should learn to code" suggestion sound like that. It seems like everyone is extremely concerned with protecting the value of their own education, no matter what the cost.

> But if the president is saying nice things about coders, maybe think about what reasons he could have for that besides the goodness of his heart.

What are you suggesting here? The president has an evil plan to destroy your livelihood?
When coca cola tells me to smile in an advertisement I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart for their advertising team that agonized for weeks over just the right kind of generic appeal to get me to drink more sugar water.
Why not wait until the identity of this person is verified before piling on?
That's because you're a person. Companies do not act with such civility -- they're not structured to do so. That's why companies need to be regulated far more than individuals -- basic human decency reduces the need for a lot of laws.
Indeed. I've been the happiest when I've felt a part of an obvious team, and the unhappiest when it was just individuals working on their todo lists. In a really large organization a team can be project-based. I'm not very sociable, but I definitely gain energy from "sharing a foxhole" with team mates, and looking back on something and saying "we did that."

I don't care about my todo list type projects other than to do a good job and keep my job.
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Looking at my 2012 tax return: my taxable income last year was $x and the sum of my federal and state taxes (including all FICA, or in my case, "self-employment tax") was $0.39x. Including local taxes and fees it would definitely be 40%+.

That's a bit of a cheat, though, since "taxable income" is the number you get after accounting for all the politically contrived deductions and exemptions. As a percentage of my total income it's more like 25%, and if I also don't include FICA (since that's just the government holding onto my money for me until I'm old, right?) it goes all the way down to 12%.

That said, 25% is the reality, although it does feel like 40% sometimes.
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And they take my money to ... pay someone for IT support?

Homelessness is a complex problem but if you want to help that child, the second best bet is to help her parents. Help with whatever problems they have, help with overcoming racial bias, mental illness, drug addiction, poor cv, whatever.

The first best bet is of course to pay for her scholarship to a boarding school. which rather stuffs her baby sister. Complicated.
> Java I/O is far form perfect

The API certainly isn't perfect, but what do you find lacking about the performance of Java I/O?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/channels/p...
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"Lightning-plug guru"? Is that supposed to be impressive?

It's just the opposite. The Lightning plug is a sorry piece of shit, and a step backward from even the hacked, overextended 30-pin connector. No one with common sense would REMOVE the audio line out from an entire line of devices that focus heavily on media playback. WTF? Now that even cheap rental cars have auxiliary audio jacks, Apple decides to REMOVE the line out from the dock connector?

And no one with common sense would DEGRADE the video output by recompressing it into a mottled hash of artifacts. But that's what Apple has done with the vaunted Lightning connector. Read about it: http://www.panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-s...
All I'm imagining is a group of folks snickering that their project proposal went through as now they'll get paid to play World of Warcraft all day.
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I wished more people would understand this. A good example is Pixar, before everything else they concentrate on building teams that can execute.
You're right -- it's entirely possible that the fellow in the video has worked foodservice/retail/labor in the past, and learned absolutely nothing about hard work and the human experience from it.

There's certainly some ambiguity to it, but for the most part it's pretty easy to tell who's never had to work hard, particularly when they're interacting with people who do. In my opinion, it's one of the best reasons to go out to an interview lunch with a candidate -- to see how they behave towards the waitstaff.
Caltrain is actually faster than the G-Bus with recent Bay Area traffic - it's not unusual to sit on 101 for 2 hours for the SF -> Google commute. A number of Googlers have recently switched from shuttle to Caltrain, eating the cost out of pocket, which may be more sustainable in the long run but in the short run is putting a strain on Caltrain capacity.
Public transportation starts looking a lot better if you have to pay for parking. It would take me roughly $12 in gas for the round trip in my car, so if I have to pay $10 for parking for the day (which would be cheap by SF standards, though I don't know how it would rate in Mountain View), I come out ahead monetarily taking Caltrain. It still might not be worth it in light of other inconveniences, though.
>Sure, except we talk all the time about how bad hiring practices are in our industry, how bad we all are at discerning talent. So I don't really see this being a positive thing for existing developers

This only applies if there's no way hiring practices could possibly improve, which given the existence of some data on the subject seems unlikely. In particular, it's not too far-fetched that people with some coding literacy may make better hiring decisions than Muggles.

>Large employers in this company would like to have labor costs reduced, especially for costly positions like software development. I'm not saying that is necessarily a sinister thing, but things like this should be thought of in the context of reducing labor costs.

Reducing labor costs in the long run reduces average prices and increases real incomes. Historically, it's not usually a bad thing; in this case, real incomes[1] go up whenever cost savings are passed to consumers.

The market may not be perfect, but it's usually better than fiat and ignorance.

[1]: cost-adjusted income, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_income
Those aren't the two possible outcomes. The third outcome is that without the buses, the employees choose to live closer to work, not in the city. I don't had an opinion on whether that's a better or worse outcome.
Without extra info, one can only speculate.

I think most people who've had to hold a pretty "sticky" job would not have this sort of attitude towards people complaining about these sorts or issues. Especially considering that you'd realize that people in lower income brackets would have an even harder time just moving somewhere else. The state of the economy doesn't help much with that either.

Considering this person's reaction, and the fact that working in a minimum wage job can pretty easily reveal the facts above, and that this guy is at google, so probably not that dumb, you could meander a guess that he's either without sympathy or simply ignorant(as in: he isn't aware of the facts). Going for the latter is in his favor
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