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Hi, I'm q's creator, Harel.

There are obviously lots of other software which can provide a similar capability, and while I haven't checked all of them out, I'm really believe that most of them do a great job. However, my rationale for creating this tool was to provide a seamless addition to the Linux command line toolset - A tool as most Linux commands are, and not a capability. The distinction I'm doing here is that tools are reusable, composable and such, vs a capability which is usually less reusable in different contexts. I'm sure that some of the above are definitely tools. I just hope that the tool I have created provides value to people and helps them with their tasks.

As I posted here elsewhere, my complete rationale for creating the tool is available on the README of the github project. Comments and issues are most welcome.

Harel Ben-Attia
That is true, and why to the solution to the US's slow internet providers isn't "get Google fiber to everyone". It should be "make it easy for new companies to provide service, even if another fast service is already available".
Nonsense. Leftists conflate "state capitalism", cronyism or corporatism with real, free-market capitalism. Internet monopolies like Comcast or TWC enjoy are state-granted monopolies, not "natural monopolies" (which have never existed).
Yes it would make them susceptible...if, like Lavabit, they actually held private keys that secured your communications. They don't.

While I have the utmost admiration for Levison's stand, the fact that Lavabit held centralized private keys for its users was a very bad technical and security decision. Moxie has more about this here [1].

Now some may be wondering, what's to stop Whisper Systems from backdooring TextSecure by court order? In a word, this: [2]. The TextSecure client is open source. Not only can the community scan the source for something suspicious, but we can build and verify the binaries ourselves.

[1] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/

[2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/
That doesn't explain why internet speeds suck in NYC.
The followup question, of course, is: how did those people discover 'view source'?
Could somebody explain why it was tied to SMS in the first place? And given that, why it's trying to undo its connection to SMS?

Separately, what's the difference between this and OTR? Is it just trying to just be a better OTR (and I support this endeavor, competing OTR connections over one chat channel creates a hassle). And as such, why is it only on Android, you could just as well write a Pidgin plugin right?
A bit of a chicken and egg there though. Who's going to build services that use >20mbps in bandwidth if almost no one has that much?
It is also part of CyanogenMod, and it is open source https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure so you can build it on your own https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/
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right now we do facebook ads, post on job boards, try the usual things. We have some interesting ideas on how to tap to the bilingual community, which hopefully will do soon. So far our clients have been really happy with the results. I would love to know more about it. Shoot me an email @ vasco [at] unbabel [dot] com, I would love to discuss.
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Beautiful work. In only 64K of RAM and probably more fun than the phone version! :) Makes me so envious of people that actually have a working C64 to try this on!
Which is nice.
The sad part is that both dtrace and ZFS originally did not end up in the kernel purely because of licensing reasons :-(
LOL I've seen them work (or not) for a couple decades, and I'm observant. Boss has no idea whats going on = best polish up the resume, everyone will be needing a job soon.
How to build an OS like Android but for an e-ink based e-reader?
I am trying to develop an operating system for hardware manufacturers who might want to use it to for an e-book device.

At the moment I have a prototype built using Raspberry Pi and a small 2.7 inch e-ink display.

I am able to write python programs that can parse a book in text file and write to the e-ink display using a python library that comes with the e-ink manufacturer.

My goal is write a simple GUI so that users can select books they want to read. I have looked into existing GUI library for python but they are too complicated for e-ink display. And, usually these programs are not written for an embedded system in mind. I'd like to write an OS that can go to sleep mode easily when the book is close. The OS also should have low memory, CPU requirement.

I think the Android OS is a good model to follow but maybe an overkill for what I am intend to do with my project. I am looking for suggestions on the approach. I also welcome any recommendations on existing framework, Linux distribution to look into.

Here is more info about my project on Github. Thanks.
https://github.com/obicho/ebook
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Too little, too late.
My thoughts: http://ashishb.net/tech/nokia-working-on-android-phone/
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Please include comments on why you do/don't use each one.
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Politicians listening to their voters? What a strange concept...
Main problem is graphics; there's no specification about that in the language, so you'd need to be writing to video memory, or do something funky with the print statements
I was commenting on your enthusiasm for wishing WhatsApp success.
A while back I read an article using Groundhog Day as an example how we can never have perfect information in an economic system.

"The movie Groundhog Day (1993) illustrates the importance of the Mises-Hayek paradigm as an alternative to equilibrium economics by illustrating the unreal nature of equilibrium theorizing."

http://archive.mises.org/5546/the-economics-of-groundhog-day...
Really interesting use case. To be honest I don't know if it would work well, I don't think anyone has used for that purpose, but I would certainly love to try. If you are not satisfied, we can always return your money :)

Also, please check your spam / trash, etc. We have had cases of emails going to the wrong bin. In any case, if you shoot me an email @ vasco [at] unbabel [dot] com I would be happy to make sure that everything is running smoothly for you.
I disagree in terms of regulation: there is plenty of regulation on broadband internet, except it tends to discourage competition against broadband providers.

This isn't a problem that is going to be solved by placing regulations on the industry. Your example of past subsidies provides an excellent argument for this: given the political clout these entities hold and have in the past used to stilt legislation in their favor, what leads us to believe we're going to do any better with new regulations?

At the end of the day, the market is demanding better internet service. While telecommunications providers are certain to wage war against the injection against honest competition into their sector, things are actually looking pretty good in my mind. The FCC sees market demand and is working to tear down anti-competitive legislative barriers [1]. Smaller efforts such as Google Fiber are doing the hard work of convincing the public that better service is within reach.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/20/fcc_s_pla...
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OTR doesn't work with asynchronous chat.
You can read the entire thread here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/clearskies-dev/sTlXzBO...

For the sync app itself GPL would have worked great, but we want to have an easy-to-integrate sync library. Hopefully this will reduce the number of apps that require a cloud service to be able to synchronize the user data between devices.
One of the biggest missed opportunities of the 2009 government stimulus was a failure to heavily invest in new infrastructure that would pay dividends for the next 50-100 years. A government project to connect every household in America to gigabit Internet connection is more than doable, and would pay enormous benefits for individuals and corporations alike. It's not too late, although it would be much much harder today.
It is released and 100% open source, unlike Hemlis, which is still under development behind closed doors and will be opened "as much as possible" (which tells us nothing about implementations, code quality, privacy features, openness or license).
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We are combining a lot of technology with human work and we think we can make this so efficient that even if we charge this kind of prices we will be able to pay editors a decent amount per hour. We might need to raises prices, but right now it is your gain, take advantage of the prices while you can, if we raise the prices, we will grandfather current clients.
The creator of this is Sos, the developer of the game "McPixel". He is well known in the Ludum Dare community.
Are all of the silent circle applications free software? Do any of these applications depend on proprietary software to run?
I was using Mt.Gox but then I got burned. I now use CoinMKT.com. BTC-E was fine but I pulled from there once Mt.Gox happened.
You should build it yourself if you actually care about privacy. This is excellent practice, instead of encouraging you to trust some third-party website like their own.
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USP?
But yeah, first we do machine and then the crowd edits the output to fix any mistakes.
You could do that on an enemy controlled line, without anywhere near the expense.
Awesome, thanks, Vasco, I look forward to trying it out this weekend when I have some time to go through old sources.

Also - just on the UX part, when I was able to confirm the account, my balance read as 0, I refreshed, still 0, so I went to top up again, added 5 Euro, on the confirmation screen it said my current balance was still 0, but then when I went into my dashboard it revealed I had a 10 Euro balance.

I don't at all mind, 5 or 10 are both fine for me, only mentioning in case that order of events is at all useful to you in debugging things.

Congrats on the launch, and good luck. I can't wait to use it :)
They are just showing their matured character, companies have to evolve and compete differently once they become whales.
Segment.io is looking for a lead mobile engineer
We're looking for an extremely good mobile engineer to help us change the way people approach mobile analytics.

This is a perfect position for someone who loves building clean APIs for others to use. You enjoy not only building mobile apps, but writing the libraries that power those apps. You're fluent in everything to do with iOS as a platform, and if you have Android chops that's a huge bonus, but definitely not a requirement.

You'd be working on current and new features of the mobile SDKs themselves, as well as helping to write code for where they touch our Node.js backend, where we process tens of millions of events per day. And you'd be in charge of our entire mobile offering, which is used in product by lots of big companies like Live Nation, Nest Labs and The Knot.

You'd be joining a team of very talented engineers that are in love with open-source. Both of those SDKs are open-source, as is tons of our codebase[1]. So if you enjoy working with smart people and getting to make a name for yourself releasing the things you work on to other developers, you've found the right place.

Not only that, but you'd be working on a few of our still-secret mobile projects that we're pretty confident are going to change the way people integrate third party code into every mobile app they write afterwards.

[0]: https://segment.io

[1]: https://github.com/segmentio

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To apply, email us at jobs@segment.io with:

1. a description of an app you've worked on (code is a bonus)
2. a description of a mobile library you've built (code is a bonus)
3. a link to your GitHub if you have one
4. the most interesting mobile SDK you've worked with and why
There is also BRICS cable, and I don't know how it relates to this.

http://www.bricscable.com/
What propaganda? You are the one that started this thread propagandizing your position that the man was not a hypocrite regardless of him being an energy company CEO and the case was not about fracking since it involves a company that just happens to provide services for fracking.

As others have pointed out, the CEO is a hypocrite for wanting to hinder the health of his local economy since he is in a position that directly profits off such ventures. That his luxury home wouldn't be if not for the eminent domain of infrastructural energy works next to residents across the globe. Residents who don't have the money or time to fight his and his company's legion of lawyers.

The heinous act of editing comments to be more grammatically correct or readable is worthy of this type of reaction from you? Of course this isn't Reddit, no one referenced it aside from you. Try to engage the topic instead of pounding sand about unsubstantial edits.
That is Whisper Systems, not Open Whisper Systems. They are different.
How did any of us discover it? Presumably they saw an interesting button and clicked on it. That's how I first discovered that pages had source like that.
Not a SMS pricing issue. I believe it's the fact that it costs anything at all. When wifi is free, and you have a method that enables communication without a phone plan.. that's goodness.
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You're absolutely correct. Population density is a red herring in this issue. The broadband situation is no better in the major cities of the U.S than it is in the rest of the country. Major cities in the rest of the developed world have much better connections somehow.

One of the first deployments of gigabit fiber in the U.S. was in Chatanooga TN, with a population density of 471.9/km2. New York City has a population density of 10,640/km2. Romania's third largest city, Timișoara, with population density of only 2,446.58/km2 is considered the city with the fastest internet in the world.

http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-city-comes-out-first...
Sweden here: 15 years ago we were happily renting a 1.5Mbps internet connection in a very small village in the desolate areas of northern sweden. The network was fiber though and was quickly upgraded to 10 and 100 Mbps. Cost was about $60 per month in the start, now it is $38 per month. No limits the last 10 years.
When people are looking for solutions, there is always someone who is willing to provide them. Its interesting that this guys was not only the president but also a customer :-)
CoinMKT's the best if you want to trade BTC and additional alts (or if you're based in the US, which I am). Their UI is also the most intuitive.

I use Bitfinex to short.

Kraken trades XRP so that's a non-starter for me.

Gox and BTC-E aren't safe or reliable.
Lol at you thinking that being able to import your PS4 is priority #1. I too hate the import tax, but this priority is way down the list of what the government should be tackling.
Population density is a complete red herring in this context. It is the excuse that telecom and cable companies rely on for their lack of investment. See my comment below for the hard numbers of how this is simply not true.
Although as I'm sure you're already aware, they'll be offering the option of installing Sailfish on a range of Android devices too.

I for one am quite looking forward to trying it on my Nexus 5..

- ed

Mentions of this capability are liberally peppered around the rest of the comments on this page already, I now see!
Funny enough, another commenter mentioned a similar project in Go called "TextQL."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7290739

https://github.com/dinedal/textql
Thanks for the feedback. It's not my place to make commitments for the company, but I can tell you an engineer's answer:

I've yet to see a logical model for multi-master replicated documents that beats what Damien chose when he created CouchDB. So I'd be very surprised if that changed, and as long as that stays the same, interop at the transport layer isn't hard to maintain.

However, there are lots of ways the transport / wire-protocol that we use to transmit the logical model could be improved. So in my perfect world there would be many alternative transports, and the various couches could implement pluggable handlers for them. In the end this would preserve interoperability but also make room to experiment with the details. If you are interested in those conversations they are happening here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-replication...
> Nonsense. Leftists conflate "state capitalism", cronyism or corporatism with real, free-market capitalism.

Leftists -- specifically, socialists -- created the name "capitalism" as a name for a real system which existed in the developed world in the 19th Century, in which the economic order was actively managed to favor the interest of the capital-holding class. The idea that this was system had something to do with "free markets" was part of the propaganda of defenders of that real, very much crony, system in response to that critique.

Its kind of weird to call the real thing which actually existed that "capitalism" was coined to refer to as anything other than real capitalism, while referring to amorphous, ill-defined, fantasy as "real capitalism".

"State capitalism" is a different thing entirely -- it usually shows up in critiques by leftists, particularly non-Leninist socialists, of Leninist(incl. Stalinist/Maoist)-style "Communism".
Agreed; the difference between downloading a movie in 10 minutes and 1 minute is rather miniscule.

Additionally, I don't think even streaming sites would generally require more than 50 mbps to watch comfortably. Not even talking about regular apps/static content.
If you're fighting an advanced adversary, you use every countermeasure available to you.

Also, the more physical diversity the internet has, the better.
When I looked at it (which is already a couple of months ago), federation wasn't “just works™”. A new server needed to be explicitly permitted into the federated network by WhisperSystems. Every server has a full copy of the list of clients and on which server they are and servers trust other severs completely when they claim “we serve the user with phone number 555-123456”.
This made my day :D
Of course Ruby and Python are influenced by Java (there is hardly a maintained language that has not been). Not the initial release perhaps, but don't you think that Ruby has evolved over the 19 years since Java was released? This release alone has been influenced by Java (Generational garbage collection enhancing performance by as much as 100% in some cases)

A question for you is why do you care? If a Java programmer tries to rib you saying that Java is better because x feature was influenced or 'stolen' from Java, just laugh at them and tell them then C++ must be 'better' than Java huh?
Also, it's not clear what "Google Fiber 76.43%" means. Is that meant to be the percentage of subscribers with IPv6 access? I was under the impression that all Google Fiber customers had IPv6.
I don't think they retain keys, but aren't all the messages (encrypted) routed through their servers, giving them access to metadata?
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The guy in the video is saying "mais ou menos", that means "more or less"
This article should explain why it's better than OTR:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
I guess they'll need to add on proper regular surveillance of the line(s) then too. And I wonder, is it an act of war? What would the U.S. do if it was found that Obama's lines were being listened to?
Given that network effects and economies of scale are real things, on what grounds to you claim that natural monopolies don't exist?
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If you're really paranoid then you should build the code yourself from github, not just install the version on the play store.
Pretty mind-blowing. Would be cool if it uses your camera and you can see how other people see you in their eyeballs.
MRI has native threads a GIL, but you can already release the GIL and run freely in native extensions.

And this is _not_ a property of native vs. green threading. (And shows how shallow the comparison is, given the number of languages that implement green threads mapped to native threads nowadays.)
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Adobe InDesign certainly does support this. Commercial newspapers are usually using some archaic program though.
What a bummer. It's nearly impossible to overstate his impact on modern Hollywood comedy.

Groundhog Day blew my mind. There was something so dark about the idea that Bill Murray's character couldn't even kill himself to escape the cycle, and also the idea of how lonely it would be to have eternity but no one to share it with. I can't think of another comedy that was so thought provoking.
Clamps are the way to go! http://www.amazon.com/Denali-14-Piece-Spring-Clamp-Assortmen...
> Does the padlock mean our messages are already encrypted?

If so, why is the padlock open? :)
As rasur mentions, illumos has inherited the Solaris heritage -- and added quite a bit to it besides.[1][2] There are now several vibrant variants of illumos, including SmartOS[3][4], OmniOS[5][6] and DelphixOS[7] -- all of which are open source, and all of which feature advancements in the core differentiators of the system including ZFS, DTrace and zones. Because we collectively have been entirely separate from our Solaris legacy for over three years now (and because we are entirely open source where Solaris is entirely closed source), the differences are actually substantial -- and I don't really think of our system as "Solaris" any more than I think of it as "System V" or "7th Edition" or anything else in our long and complicated ancestry...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YN6_eRIWWc

[3] http://smartos.org/

[4] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent

[5] http://omnios.omniti.com/

[6] http://omnios.omniti.com/browse.php

[7] https://github.com/delphix/delphix-os
I don't know what it is about that meme, but I find it so annoying and off-putting whenever I see it used. It immediately makes me think much less of whatever it is that I'm reading. I've never had that reaction to a meme before.
Thanks. Yes that was the goal...just built something we wanted to use.