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I don't know, that's why I asked. What is FBA and how are they different from Shipwire?
> If you read the article again, notice how the fast majority of those millions of dollars have gone to private companies who failed to deliver working systems. Each of those companies passed multiple rounds of competitive bidding, too.

Those companies didn't fail of course, they were wildly successful at raking in millions of dollars. It's the government that's responsible for spending that money well, and it's the government that's failing at it.

> The solution is easy... but that's politically dicey.

Which is another way of saying the solution is not easy.
I hope my tor bridge relay is helping:
Mar 23 13:44:08.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 9 days 17:59 hours, with 2 circuits open. I've sent 894.13 MB and received 1.04 GB.
According to the developer, Chris Lacy[1], Link Bubble was in development before Facebook's Messenger was released.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454918
Release to npm, bower, component, PyPI, GitHub, and anywhere else in one swoop
You forget that this is a community that threatens violence over this sort of bullshit.
Just so you're aware, safegov appears to be a Microsoft astrotufing site:
http://readwrite.com/2013/01/03/googles-ftc-settlement-is-an...
though you can pretty much tell if you just look at their list of articles.

In any case, the article is wrong, on a number of fronts, actually. e.g. the DoubleClick and Google account cookies are never mixed (Google agreed to this in the wake of concerns over the merger, and it's called out explicitly in the Google privacy policy), the statement on Enterprise privacy policies and that testimony about the University of Hawaii don't contradict each other at all, and it's ridiculous to base a whole article on an entry on the University of Alaska's email FAQ. The entry is wrong anyway. Check out the "Data Processing Amendment"[1] that comes with Enterprise/Education accounts, which prohibits processing data in ways that aren't explicitly enumerated in that document. Advertising profiling is not included.

[1] https://www.google.com/intx/en/enterprise/apps/terms/dpa_ter...
Um, it says right there in the headline that Sergey was complicit in this too.
Watch talk by Lawrence Lessig SCALE 12x:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3O1MC1AqvM
This may be heresy on HN but this actually proves the engineer shortage. If there wasn't a shortage, they wouldn't need non-poaching agreements.
What concerns me with lifelogging is the ability for 1) a one off event to detriment your life ongoing, as most of us have done or said something stupid or out-of-character at some point. 2) We create this society of bland interactions as people are afraid something they do or say being 'wrong' and made public 3) Having blanket coverage at the personal level it would be easier for people to grab/create moments that take things out of context.

There is definitely some benefit there for the right environment, but always on blanket recording across the populations to me seems the downside would outweigh the positives.
I wrote an article about this having lived through it for a shilled called Why a hammer costs $5000? And it really all comes down to motivations being very badly lined up trying versus just doing the same. The link is: http://www.followsteph.com/2011/11/22/why-does-a-hammer-cost...
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It's not so different, conceptually, from the pardon power.
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Not sure why this is ruffling so many feathers. There are thousands of great tech companys to work for that aren't on any Google, Apple or EBay "no-hire" list and vice versa. I fail to see how a few big companys agreeing not to poach talent from each other artificially reduces the total compensation ceiling industry wide.
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This is how I imagine this department operates:

http://youtu.be/fKRV40LZSuY (Brazil)
I am finishing my last year at Uni of Manchester (UK), and coming from a poor family in Eastern Europe.

On one hand, it really sucks that I can't really afford to focus mainly on education because I have no plan B regarding money and have spent enough time being totally broke. It was a bit crushing experience when I knew I could do much better, if I could spend more time on it.

But on other hand, that experience of working my up definitely helped me to grow up as a person. Which maybe is much more valuable, then the technical skills and the degree?
Eh it's not about perjury, it's about due process and assymetry of power. The police have the means to record everything at little cost and with no reasonable excuse to not do it. The absence of recordings is a reasonable indicator that the cops are hiding things.

We expect the state to follow processes strictly. The penalty for failure to do so isn't personal incarceration for the prosecutors or police, but rather failure of their case. This seems like a tradeoff that works in practice.
> What illegally driven-down wages mean is that the shortage is more acute that previously thought. That's because the main way to measure the relationship of supply and demand is through price; i.e. the more the salaries grow, the less supply there is relative to demand. So if salaries have been held down, some of that evidence was masked.

Not really, price ceilings have a well-known effect of causing shortages because purchasers who should have been priced out of the market use up some of the supply. If the price had been allowed to rise naturally, those willing to pay the higher price would get what they need.
> Those companies didn't fail of course, they were wildly successful at raking in millions of dollars.

Yes. These contracts essentially amount to paying a company to work on a problem. There's no incentive for the contractor to finish. When they finish, the money stops. The most profitable activity is to drag the project out as long as possible until the government kills it.
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Bitstamp is domiciled in the UK. https://www.bitstamp.net/about_us/

UK law prohibits handling stolen goods. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/22
Our society also endorses torture by imprisoning the people who exposed it and letting the ones who did it be free...and there are more examples of worse things than this that "our society endorses".
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How did you do assignments? I was given about 2hrs work per lecture, and usually a long term project as well so would do around 5-6hrs of after school work often longer if I was stuck on some essay writing. Phil essay/argument to write, 2 chapters in Phys to do, 2 Math chapters, write a polisci essay and read 3 chapters, then churning out a small program while working on the midterm larger program was a typical night.
This isn't mentioned in the description but do they feedback edited text into the machine translator?
The client needs to actively manage the projects for risk so that the do succeed and don't pretend to "succeed." In other words, doing a good job making sure a good job is being actually done.
Sport or recreation I suppose. I don't own any firearms but I have gone out 'shooting' with friends that do and it's quite fun.
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After ragequitting the builtins manpage, created a hack/bash script that checks the type of the command and alternates between manpage, help <cmd> or alias.
Go for it then. Hope its worth your money.
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It works for me =/

I know the www prefix doesn't work. Perhaps there's some sort of filtering being done at your location?
I need a "do you think I should see a doctor about this?" Server.
>Let the Indians keep their talented engineers -- let them improve India

It's all about the choice, isn't it?

Me staying in my home country doesn't improve it anyhow.

Those who try hard to improve it somehow tend to end up in jail.
Why JVM when you have HHVM?
> Bear in mind that this is the same sort of analysis that attributed large amounts of the initially mined coins to "Satoshi", when they were in fact core developer Gregory Maxwell's.

Citation or redaction, please.

If Gregory Maxwell owns a life-changing sum of early bitcoins, it is certainly news to me. If he does not, then you are making claims that could endanger the life and well being of someone who has worked very hard in service of the bitcoin community.
I like "weapons grade stupid" as an adjective but I would not use it with regard to Eric. Eric is actually quite smart and also quite politically savvy. The other folks in this equation made a few missteps.

You can be sued over lots of things, whether or not they have merit, and keeping things verbal is one of the "standard" techniques of defending against that. In this case, were this the only document in the pile, Eric would be in a position to either not recall the conversation he had with Omid, or deny its content. Further he would argue that it is a general state of mind for a CEO that they don't want to create paper trails over anything that could be construed by a litigious opponent as evidence if misdeeds.

The problem in this case is that there is a bunch of other circumstantial evidence that makes it pretty clear that everyone on Google's EMG was on the same page with respect to this particular policy. I note however that Google has yet to settle in the class action, so they may still believe they can defend their position.

That said, the "valley" has always been a really small place with regard to hiring. If you work here for any length of time a tapestry of opinions about you will be formed and those opinions will affect to a larger or smaller degree who offers you work and who doesn't. Is that legal? I don't know. There are folks I have decided to never work with again, and people for whom I would change jobs in a heartbeat. Is my private 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' of good and bad co-workers legal? As a generic engineer? What about now that I'm a VP and perhaps these folks are trying to get a job at my company? Do you know how many people are sued each year because someone suspects (or knows) that they told a potential employer that they personally wouldn't hire them? My point is that people and employment and fuzzy criteria is a fertile ground for lawsuits, so paper trails are always bad.
Do you remember what he said to justify Google's privacy policies?

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

The irony must be pretty painful.
Sorry, I assumed 3 comments = 3 downvotes. Anyway, I was just pointing out that it doesn't match any definition of 'cartel' that I can see. However it's still illegal (but not because it's a cartel).
This is the best thing to show to the "Google Maps is better" crowd. It's a poster child for the importance of open-data sources. Kudos to this.
Try doing that with Google's data. Even if you worked in the right department, you would have to pass this through management. With open data you just have to do it!
I think at the end it came down to price. No one else was offering SSDs at the time for that cheap. Sure you get what you pay for but for a lot of people I guess it's good enough.
I see they are offering the "Ability to use java libraries in PHP". But there aren't many Java libs that meet needs unfulfilled by PHP libs, that I know of. And you would have to cross languages to modify the Java libs.
Maybe this will bring end-to-end encrypted e-mails to Gmail, so that when they do discuss such things in the future, it's all encrypted properly?

One can hope.
But disabled veterans are a voting block and they vote themselves extra services on campus and those services come with administrator. Repeat this process with every disadvantaged group and you have tremendous bloat.
Reminds me of Aud which turns your server logs into audio so that you can analyze them the way you listen to a car engine for healthy and unhealthy patterns.

http://dzello.com/blog/2014/01/10/listen-to-your-log-files-w...
Google isn't trying to predict actual flu cases. They're trying to predict the CDC estimates.
It's certainly something to be complaining about. It may enable a career, but not always, and the career may be enough to pay off a loan, but not always. At the very least, $30K of debt is a lot to have hanging over one's head for years.

Consider also those who are 3 years into the degree and decide that field isn't for them, and they want to leave school - that's nearly $20k down the toilet which will be hard to pay back.

BTW, your logic applies equally well to indentured servants. (Years of labor enables free passage to the US and the chance for one's own farm at the end.) Since I don't like the concept of debt bondage, I distrust logic which supports it.
This is an interesting fight to watch from here on the sidelines, given that many employees were colluding to drive up wages - here on HN, we had people boasting about having a stable job, then hearing about a job at another BigNameCo, and applying for it just to drive up their own wage. No intention of leaving their own company, and that it was turning into a routine process rather than the odd here-and-there.

I'm sure there will be apologetics, but it's not like one side was behaving ethically.

They conspire illegally to drive down wages, then whine that not enough people want to work in this field where wages have been artificially and illegally deflated.

This field where wages are still significantly above mean values? Where are these engineers going to go en masse for better wages? Into medicine? Hello for another 10 years training. Law? Already overstaffed, and wages are similar for most anyway. Finance gets some, but isn't going to hold them all. If the engineers are in the career for the dollar, restarting in another career that will pay more is going to be difficult as a group.
> The few times where I would have benefited from using such devices I know the other people would have really really hated me using it [...] I don't care about breaking surveillance laws

It seems to me that those two statements are very much at odds with each other, unless the 'benefit' you're getting from life-logging is simply personal or emotional satisfaction. What 'benefit' are we talking about here?
"Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving salaries up across the board." "I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later"

It's evil collusion to keep salaries down.

Not discussing your compensation is another example of something we've been sold on as "common sense and civility" though it's illegal to restrict it.
At least which schemes like Reed-Solomon, the "ECC bits" conceptually are not a separate piece of data that is computed and then added to the data to be protected, despite that being how it is usually implemented. The algorithm really "expands" the data, so the redundancy is spread out across all the bits. Thus any bit errors anywhere in the whole encoded "codeword" can be corrected, up to the limits of the code.
Anecdotally, I think I remember that incident, but unfortunately I don't remember precisely where I heard it.

There have been a lot of very-wrong analyses of the blockchain which have gotten people riled up about one thing or another and then turned out to be bogus. The whole process has sometimes shown unsettling parallels with numerology. It's good that nwh is reminding everyone to try to be as skeptical as possible.

It'll be interesting to see whether the evidence turns out to match the story.
Self diagnosis of symptoms has me concerned as well, but in both directions. Some people may always assume that their symptoms are 'normal' and not seek care while others will always assume their symptoms are 'problematic' nullifying the benefit.

Unless the information is tailored to each patient (prior history, current medication, family history) I think it would be very difficult to provide useful advice in either case. Also, the first person that dies because they listened to a flash card and didn't call their physician would be catastrophic.

More practical advice like 'if something doesn't feel right, give us a call' backed by a phone number with nurses on call that had your full medical history to review would seem to be more useful. I've always been grateful that my medical coverage includes a toll free number where I can get sound advice about changes in my health.
It is owned by a single corporate entity who is also its primary sponsor, Typesafe. This is similar to how Joyent owns node, and how they sponsor it's development, along with NodeJitsu, Microsoft, Heroku and others.
Hobby? Many people collect guns, just as others collect baseball cards, model trains, or sports cars.

I suppose you dismiss those people as obviously insecure though...
Your chipset is a little computer. It can execute programs in parallel and independently from the main CPU!

So, basically, the "trusting trust" extends to even your chipset. Basically, the majority of people are doomed to be the subjects of those controlling the means of production. Most of those few who have the wherewithal to peer past the curtain can easily be bribed and intimidated into cooperating.

Tinfoil hat on: I wonder if such vulnerabilities might have been concocted as a means of sneaking backdoors into the technical projects of non-US countries?
> I know privacy advocates hate this, but it seems like a net win to me

As far as I know, many privacy advocacy groups are in favor of police body cameras (I know the ACLU is, if they're accompanied with a suitable framework and process).
Same in Firefox on OS X
Is probably the only method you could use to get people at the NSA to read correspondence from Jimmy Carter anyway. Hell, it may even do them some good, they might quit the day job and go take up disease eradication, or something.
It supports the idea that the cost of finding someone of similar criteria among the unemployed, or taking a less skilled programmer and investing in them, exceeds the cost of finding them among one's peers.

That's not necessarily a consequence of there being an engineer shortage. You'd expect much the same behaviour if most people who emerged from uni, or worked commonly in IT, didn't have the criteria they were interested in.
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> there are no jobs above MW.

I'm not sure that the math works out. 4% of those with high school educations, but not a degree, work a minimum wage job. That works out to about 8M people. At the same time, there are ~14M people enrolled in college. So even if we assume every single one of those 8M minimum wage jobs are filled by people who are in college, that still leaves 6M people who are either unemployed or making more. And if we make that assumption, that also means everyone who is not enrolled in college and has a high school education is making more than minimum wage.
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Haha, yes that quote is hilariously fitting.
> Secondly, it means that non-giant companies could be competitive in making job offers, whereas perhaps in a more free labor market they might not be able to compete salarywise with Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Thus, as seen from say, a startup's vantage point, this check on the upward price pressure actually kept the supply of affordable engineers up.

Actually, it just gave the non-engineers more leverage. If the engineering rates where higher, there would be more engineers who would be founders. Engineers would have a larger % of the startup, since non-cash compensation would have to be offered.

Also, the artificial deflation caused some engineers to be stuck in a bad job.

That's why I won't be anyone's employee. It's a bad deal for me. It's a bad deal for many engineers who are employees right now.

Unfortunately, it took me a while to learn the game. There's a business side to being an engineer. You don't learn that being an employee. It's against the interest of the management to have their employed engineers think that way.
The lower price will further reduce supply, by encouraging potential employees to move to better paying alternatives, outside the domains in which salaries are being fixed.
I guess so. But also it doesn't seem that companies are artificially keeping wages low. I mean if an engineer at a tech company isn't happy with his salary then he wouldn't have taken it in the first place, right? It's not the same as a person taking a job at a grocery store because they simply don't have other options. Top talent gets head hunted all the time. So if they want a better salary couldn't they just go somewhere else that pays it, as long as it's not a company that's part of the agreement?
"The Circle" by Dave Eggers [1] is a good exploration of this future.

[1] http://amzn.com/0385351399
I disclaimed that I don't care one way or the other about Bitcoin up-front specifically to preclude predictable knee-jerk defensive replies like this.

Uh, yeah. I'm not a knee-jerk defender of Bitcoin, and my statement is not a defense of Bitcoin so much as a balanced evaluation of the weaknesses of all sorts of payment systems.
The answer to that could very well be "Yes".

I've found that most practices that make for visionary, distinctive companies are both highly effective and cause large problems. For example, Google has a massive shared codebase, does promotion & performance reviews via peer feedback, and shares information very widely inside the company at the expense of being a black box externally. Fog Creek makes all salary data public within the company. Palantir, I've heard, pays all engineers the same (relatively low) salary but doubles down on perks and work environment. Apple under Steve Jobs let the CEO berate any employee over the slightest product detail. Facebook releases new software via IRC chatroom.

All of these practices cause major problems, but they also fix major problems. Moreover, they're distinctive. They draw a certain type of employee, one who's willing to give up convenience in some dimension to gain autonomy, or excellence, or collaboration. It's often better to be differentiated than good.
You're right, I forgot. It's a real concern, and preventing witch hunts from forming should probably be the highest priority.
> What isn't understandable is why it's here at HN, why it's within the top 10 front page submissions

It's not your sole place to decide this. That's why there is a community here.

PS - I know how you feel, I've had the same reactions before and the best thing to do is flag it and move on.
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This is where I'm reminded of my disconnect: City College of NY was my "safety school." Back then it was $800/semester and I would have been commuting from our apartment in Brooklyn, so no meals/residency costs.

This situation has gotten insane.
You also can't look at the market statically. Higher wages will create incentives for new people to enter the profession, increasing overall supply (and eventually putting some downward pressure on salaries once again).
Interestingly, in Scotland (but not the rest of the UK) there's still the third choice of 'Not proven' which indicates that there is not enough evidence (or a problem with the evidence) to prove guilt, whereas acquittal is seen to be a finding of innocence.