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I thought this was a good post, but I wasn't impressed with the criticisms of other blog posts. Okay, perhaps I'm biased, because I wrote one of them, but how about I try to defend the other?

The Matasano post is here:

http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

Perhaps the most objectionable thing about the Matasano article is title. Otherwise it does a very good job of criticizing a particular way of engineering web cryptography that is, for lack of a better term, total bullshit. But is the approach criticized in the Matasano post used in the real world?

Let's try an experiment! Go to google.com and type in "encrypted chat"

If your results are similar to mine, one of the top 3 results will be "chatcrypt.com". Let's read the "How It Works?" page:

> Most people thinks that if a website uses a HTTPS connection (especially with the green address bar) then their "typed-in" informations are transmitted and stored securely. This is only partially true. The transmission is encrypted well, so no third party can sniff those informations, but there is no proof that the website owners will handle them with maximum care, not mentioning that the suitable laws can enforce anyone to serve stored data for the local authorities.

Okay, so this site attempts to implement end-to-end encryption in a web browser. Except... what's the problem? Oh, it looks like chatcrypt.com isn't served over HTTPS. In fact, if we try to visit the site over HTTPS, it doesn't work at all.

chatcrypt.com claims to keep your traffic secure using end-to-end cryptography implemented in JavaScript, except the JavaScript is being served in plaintext and is therefore easily MitMable.

Top 3 Google result for "encrypted chat"

Is the Matasano post that unreasonable? (besides the title) It pretty much describes that sort of site to a tee.
>"Of course, scientists once thought that humans had 48 chromosomes. That partially hydrogenated vegetable oil was healthy. That egg yolks were bad for you."

Scientists still do think egg yolks are bad for you.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021915012...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=egg+yolk+consumpti...
One of their biggest competitors is going to be AutoTrader.com and maybe even similar sites that already have a massive audience on the buying side. AutoTrader offers a VIP service for selling cars where they talk to people and take care of some of the stuff you don't want to mess with. I have not used it myself. But it is about $150-$300.

https://sell.autotrader.com/syc/vip/package_selection.jsf?zi...

I don't think very many people even know you can do this with AutoTrader
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Parent is in order.
"A tribute to doing it wrong" That's classic. It could have just as easily been called "Over-acting Theater" or "Solutions for everything except ineptitude"
The key part is third party products, most of the ads you see on your iPad is served from Google's infrastructure. Google makes money on all platforms.
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I'm a PhD student, so I use LaTeX on a daily basis, and it makes me very sad that there's no viable alternative. LaTeX is a horrid mess of language design, mostly due to not being a language, but rather a set of macros on top of TeX, with all the problems you can imagine, esp. the error messages that makes a C++ template error read like Shakespeare in comparison.

The core pain of LaTeX may be summarized in only two words: poor composability. Anything (package) can break anything else. The environments offered by many package cannot be composed.

To top it off, almost no-one has an understanding of the underlying semantics of LaTeX. Few people even know how LaTeX macros work (and I'll include myself in that). LaTeX lives off cut and paste more than PHP and Javascript ever did. This is made more tragic by the fact that the people using LaTeX (in many cases academics, not script kiddies) should know better.

I really think there is a market in providing a clean replacement to LaTeX by the way. Seen the prevalence of LaTeX in large institutions, it wouldn't be hard to get them to pay for a better solution if you could get the users on your side.
Instead of adding random shit this shit should just be opened up so that people can register whatever the fuck they want.
I don't get this assumption. All three same basically the same content at presumably roughly the same margins.
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Unfortunately, I can imagine militarized police departments all over the U.S. getting excited about these kinds of anti-crowd weapons.
> How many consumers do you honestly expect to know, recognize, and understand?

Not many, but more than would understand or care about the "man in the middle attack browser" argument.
But you are talking about a $199 phone vs. a $650 phone. The features on those phones are going to be wildly different.
I can already see on the cover of the magazine that it's the Elle of April 2014.
You aren't a soccer mom who loves Amazon and buys everything on there because it still saves them time (even if its 4 day free shipping). Amazon Mom says there's a huge market for this sort of stuff. These Mom's have phones.

Imagine the point in time where anyone with a fire phone firefly's EVERYTHING they buy, before they buy it. Cheaper from Amazon, and free "2" day shipping? Killer feature. Never pay more again.

Fairly powerful for price conscious customers. Add in Spotify at $10 a month, Netflix at $10 a month ($240 a year, over $500 over the life of a 2 year contract), and you are getting the entire phone for FREE if you already have Prime.

At total value, if you wanted to have a "similar" phone with similar streaming services and content providing, you'd be paying more than if you bought this $200 phone, with a data plan you most likely will already have.

Looking at it that way, Amazon is paying you to use their phone. Understanding how the Prime model works, this makes a shit load of sense.
You're saying that Amazon will be the big winner in the long run because they can control the phone, and the products you buy on Amazon?

If they can leverage that to reduce buying friction, then yes, that's exactly the right move!
The use of UAVs for commercial use, including this application, is at present illegal in South Africa. So it's not at all certain that the client is a South African mining company.

You're oversimplifying the events at Marikana, which were somewhat more complex.

The shooting itself was preceded by days of violence in which striking miners armed themselves with pangas (machetes) and guns and massacred two police officers, two mine security officers and six other miners accused of not participating in the strike.

It was the South African Police Service, not the mine, which shot 34 miners on that horrible day. They did so after an operation to remove the miners from the hilltop went horribly wrong, causing armed miners to run towards a line of policemen who panicked and opened fire.

It also does not appear that the miners' union involved, AMCU, is negotiating in good faith. Their non-negotiable salary demand of approximately US$1170 in base pay plus another US$470 in benefits takes them into the upper percentile of all South Africans and is more than a software developer with a three-year degree earns on entering the workplace.

Moreover, each time the government and the mines reach an agreement with AMCU on wages, AMCU has added additional demands not previously mentioned. It's clear their main desire is to extend the strike, already the longest in South Africa's history and responsible for two successive quarterly declines in GDP this year.

Those types of wages aren't sustainable, so we're starting to see the mining companies adopt the same techniques used in Australia and elsewhere which are more automated and require far fewer workers.

In the end those who suffer will be the miners and their families, most of whom live in dirt-poor rural areas and have no other income options. They've been abused by the mining companies and their own union in equal measure and let down by an incompetent government. There's no good outcome for them now.
in UK it's almost unfathomable to be paying anything for the phone if you are getting a contract

Here's EE's page for a 16GB iPhone 5s. Prices range from 9.99 to 149.99 depending on the plan chosen:

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/iphone-5s-16g...

Look at the next model up, 32GB, and the up-front cost increases significantly:

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/iphone-5s-32g...
This is one of those instances where you might want to splurge the extra $3.99 to make it overnight.

Or else just use their "Subscribe and Save" system on this item.
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The large companies are much more likely to have the protection of the state for their drones, while the worker's drones are more likely to be ruled illegal and confiscated etc.
Took me a moment to realize this is the rebrand that freshmeat.net did so long ago.
Hmm.. This makes sense. So they would offer suggestions on what to buy based on what your general interests are.
For an AngulaJS flavor of this, there is angular-autolayout: http://thenikso.github.io/angular-autolayout/
"Like you said, strong AI would change everything. The richest will be the first to utilize them. Things get scary from that point on."

Warrants repeating / highlighting.
It's been done before. Instapaper on iOS has had tilt scrolling for years. It works fine, it's just not a very useful feature.
Eye tracking that works will be useful for yet-unimagined augmented reality apps. Or at least Mission Impossible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydIPKkjBlMw
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> What is the pay I can expect as a freelancer?

This depends on where you are, and how well you can communicate the value of what you deliver. Commodity hourly freelancing might be $10-40 an hour. Business-savvy consulting might be $60-80 an hour. High-end consultants will pitch and deliver projects in the $X0,000 range, which when divided by time spent can easily equal $X00 an hour.

Note that all of these people may be doing functionally the same thing: defining projects with customers, building websites/apps, and delivering them.

> What language will land me projects and clients soon?

Programming languages will not land you projects or clients. Nobody hires a photographer because of the brand of camera they use. Nobody goes to a restaurant based on where they buy their groceries. Anyone with purchasing power will generally just want something that meets their need, or removes their pain point/bottleneck/problem.

Your goal is to communicate that you can do this, in words and in actions. Not to communicate that you use HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS. [0]

> Where do I begin my career as a freelancer?

yen223's advice is good. Build a website or simple app that you like, that could solve a realistic business need. Feature it as a demo or just keep it in your back pocket as proof you can solve problems. Then the hard part: convince someone that you are able to solve problem X for $Y dollars. Start small, within your network: maybe your brother-in-law is a caterer without a website. Maybe your aunt is a real estate agent always complaining about keeping in touch with her leads. Maybe your dentist keeps all their files on paper instead of in a computer. Discuss problems with people, brainstorm solutions, communicate that you can solve their problems with technology, put together a proposal, and deliver.

After a few gigs, if it's working out for you, formalize the whole process. Look into contracts, incorporation and proper accounting, etc. There's a million Ask HN's about these topics.

> By the way I'm familiar with some languages and frameworks but not an expert or anything.

If you can make a website that says "Hello world, welcome to our site, here is a brochure of information on our products," then you are basically a wizard in the eyes of many many people. 80% of the world's professionals would say, "I'm not an expert at this, I can just get things done." My plumber is probably not an expert on bleeding-edge state-of-the-art industrial water treatment. But he makes the faucets run and the toilets flush, and I am happy to exchange money for this service.

[0]: http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
Not browse sites like that on your work computer/have file sharing software installed in the first place. I mean they already know you did it - that's confirmed. All you can do now is plea and try to explain the mistake you made. Probably better to own up to it and apologize.
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Great video, but I'm wondering what's going on with this page. There is a giant (700px tall) div with only white text (on a white background) and the video all the way at the bottom.
Yipes, I don't want to discourage anyone from applying. I think I was a special case of desperate/underqualified. That's why the process took me so long - I had to catch up big-time, and was extra paranoid about giving this my best shot (crossing my t's and dotting my i's). That meant spacing out my interviews so I had more time to prepare and improve between them.

Also, just wanted to note that the interview process has been greatly improved since we were able to allocate a person full-time to handling recruiting, scheduling interviews, etc. I don't know stats on our current turnaround time from application submission to offer, but I'm pretty sure it's much better (maybe a couple weeks to a month).
The website makes it sound like it's relatively simple to move there for work, and permanent residence seems to be granted after 4 years working there. Can someone confirm that it is really that simple? What is the situation like for software developers who already have experience abroad (my case, I'm from Brazil but currently working in the US)?
Personally, I think it's wholly inappropriate to put an employee in that situation, especially since new employees can't speak up as freely as those with a longer tenure at the organization. You can't just show up and start rocking the boat.
I couldn't get past the "preamble." This writing style is just impenetrable. Wordy for no reason, with pointless pop culture references and annoying clipart & captions that fail to amuse.
If you look at the other pages there is a photograph that fills this space. Just not loading on that page.
See, I'm not interested in what Flash could do. I'm interested in what Ableton, Garageband, etc. can do.

With Web Audio, you can't ask for mic permissions without listening indefinitely, using up battery. You can't process audio offline with the exact same API, you have to send a 0 gain signal to the speakers and do it slowly, real-time. Want complex-valued FFTs for adaptive frequency domain filters? Sorry, all you get is a toy magnitude spectrum with shitty exponential smoothing. This isn't envelope pushing in the slightest, and I don't understand why people are impressed by this. Except of course that web developers are easily amused.

In all this HTML5 malarkey, WebGL is the only API that managed to avoid "not invented here" syndrome, and even that is years behind what is considered normal on mobile, with essential extensions still waiting for approval.

Are we supposed to be impressed by the audio capabilities of 15-20 years ago simply because now you get to do them in single-threaded JavaScript, with annoying black box async APIs, shitty number types and no serious high resolution timing control? Go build a web audio API based audio player with real-time effects that can play skip-free for hours on a busy mobile device. Then I'll be impressed.
> I see far more ads on my iPad and iPad Touch than I ever have on my Nexus 5

Aside from web content and occasional visits to the app store I don't think that I can ever recall seeing an advertisement on any of my iOS devices.

That said, it may be the case that web-based advertisements are targeted at and/or tailored for iOS/Mobile Safari.
Yeah those example really don't sound appealing. Basically instead of hiding additional options in a slide-out menu you can now tuck them to the side of your app and make users tilt their head or hand to find them.
Yeah, even collecting the "intent and time of contact" with those involved can be used when paired with other metadata about both people.
I enjoy the levity of this thread; HN sometimes takes itself too seriously!
Sadly, spamming backlinks still works fine. You just have to know what you're doing.
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>If I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, this will probably be a novelty, like Windows Phone, for a while to come.

Agreed. I'm having trouble visualizing how it moves from being novelty to being ubiquitous. I purchased one of the original Kindles back when it was a novelty, but I understand why it became the dominant eInk device since it was a novelty item with little to no competition. For the Fire, it's a novelty with stiff competition from the beginning.

As someone who rarely shops on Amazon and doesn't want a Prime subscription, why would I chose this phone?

Maybe the answer is Amazon doesn't expect this product to take off fast. Maybe it's a much longer term play initially targeted just to those already comfortably engaged in its ecosystem.
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In theory you just need an interposer to use SATA drives in a SAS enclosure: http://www.dataonstorage.com/dataon-products/6g-sas-to-sata-... But that still doesn't solve the problem of the JBOD itself costing more than the disks (less so with SSD) or ZFS costing more than hardware RAID, etc.

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If you have an offer of full-time employment, it's relatively easy (especially in the technology sector, since "in-demand" areas have some extra deference). This is sometimes called "sponsorship", but unlike the U.S. H1B process, the company doesn't really have to do anything besides offering you a job. But, it's not easy to move there without a job offer.
Hi Theodores. We are in the process of finding and obtaining sponsors from other companies. As mentioned in the Kickstarter story, the total cost for this project is actually around $120K, and we are only using Kickstarter to cover a portion of that cost. Also, the amount of space available for advertisement is not as large as you think - adding stickers to the front portion of the fairing would increase the drag. (Notice the location of the stickers in the photo of Bluenose in the Kickstarter story)
I've never used Pingdom (or any service like it), but I've considered building a monitoring service for a number of years. The ability to configure monitoring and/or alerting by geographic region (if not specific nodes) has always been in the top 5 list of features.
And more generic cult checklists apply to a lot of groups. My favorite remains "Is the NIH a cult?" http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1217
I bet if you went and talked to people if they were comfortable with all of their online banking being routed through Amazon...I suspect most would say No. Just a guess.

If you put it in terms they understand, they care.
Very cool video for what is indeed a wonderful city. Yet it is also a very, very, very expensive city. I remember the last time I returned home from a trip to Stockholm, the relief I felt as the wheels hit the runway: "Aaaahhh... finally back in the land where things are affordable!"

(As a point of reference: I live in central London.)
Amazon hardly takes all the blame when something goes wrong - they mostly just discretely recoup from the vendor all while looking like a benevolent company.
Try and come up with a plausible reason you were looking at torrent sites, and that those torrent sites were porn. This is probably not possible, unless your job routinely involves downloading mysterious torrents.

So I guess try and be honest, and hope for the best, if you are lucky enough to encounter someone who finds honesty refreshing they may just suspend you or make you take a training course or something.

I would not try and frame someone else, although it could absolve you it could also quickly make your problems much worse. Also its a generally shitty thing to do.
I'd be interested to hear how you plan on reducing the mining variance with a nonoutsourceable proof of work.

Without a scheme to reduce the variance, nonoutsourceable puzzles would almost certainly lead to increased centralization (smaller miners effectively never solve the puzzle without collusion).

(I notice you're not calling for an immediate hard fork of bitcoin like Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer are)
Eliminating pools entirely is the intended effect. We need to avoid pooling in order to prevent centralized parties like GHash from emerging.
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> but the website references FISA 702, but doesn't understand it:

One of the very first Snowden leaks was a complete misunderstanding of the leaked program (PRISM), so why should it be shocking that FISA 702 is misunderstood here?
I have a friend who moved to Sweden from the US (US Citizen) about two years ago, if you have a job offer or a contract i believe it to be fairly easy to get over here.
Cities are a consumer good.
I'm not sure what's up with the "Dear USA" bit. The US has a long history of trolleybus systems [1], including 5 still in operation (vs. just Vancouver for Canada)[2]. Are you trying to say that the tech to move to a system that doesn't require the overhead wires and other infrastructure spread along the route isn't impressive or am I missing your point?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_t...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_C...
Finding the hash for the next block is fundamental to the entire blockchain concept. It sounds difficult to think of a scheme where the discreet payoff does not enter the equation.
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Bubble has already popped IMO. Been making indie games since 2007 myself. This years PAX East was just insane at least 120+ indies all showing off their games. Compare this to the first PAX where it was barley 30 indies. Couple this with the insane amount of games released on Steam every day now (10+ indie games just today). There is just too much competition and not enough of the pie to go around.

We are seeing small sect of the indie community starting to pull away from everyone else in terms of media coverage and awareness. (Klei, Vlambeer, Capy) They are amazing developers and deserve the recognition its just becoming a deeper and deeper pool every day.
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Stockholm's startup community has really blossomed in recent years. I think two reasons behind it are:
1. A more competitive tax policy (http://forumblog.org/2014/06/europes-top-ten-competitive-eco...).
2. More VC and Angel captial available as a result of previous Swedish unicorns such as Skype, Spotify and King.

If you happen to visit Stockholm you should check out STHLM Tech Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/STHLM-Tech-Meetup/) and SUP46: http://sup46.com/.
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