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The primary value of the Blackphone is that is comes with several hundred dollars of security services.

1. SilentCircle's encrypted messaging and VOIP solution + licenses for close collaborators.

2. Disconnect.Me's VPN

3. Spideroaks encrypted cloud storage

4. Kashmir's wifi finger printing services.

Everything is licensed for 2 years.

The primary market Silent Circle is going after at the moment is journalists, NGO workers, private military contractors etc who need smart phones at an organizational level but want enhanced resistance to surveillance.
Yet you hang out on 'Hacker News' without fear of being associated with black hats?
First off, most of the things you're taking out of the monthly were already factored into the fronted cost in the linked article. Second off, if Verizon does that shitty of a job of cost control compared to foreign government bureaucracies, maybe we should consider nationalizing them.

But back to my actual point -- It costs money to deliver the service? Charge more for the service if you can't deliver it profitably. That's fine, I even suggested that in my comment, charitably allowing for 2 different ways they can do it.

I'm going to pay anyways, whether it's a check to verizon or additional costs on my amazon streaming -- I'd rather pay up front for the service I'm consuming than f-up the marketplace with a bunch of submerged hidden transactions. That's why libertarians are on board with liberals on this, they believe in market transparency.

What's your objection to our actual point? Remember, raising the price for the service they deliver to their customers is ok, we're not arguing they should provide it at a loss. You'd rather the costs of the network were hidden in a bunch of backroom deals? You think that netflix paying comcast won't ultimately come out of consumer pockets anyways?
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I went to the fcc.gov website but couldn't figure out how to "file in support". Any tips?
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The OpenMoko phones (including the (hopefully) upcoming Neo900) run on osmocombb compatible baseband processors.
Or a linux-hosted Samba share that's mounted on Windows machines (e.g. a university computer lab).
This isn't as big of a deal as it seems considering the testing & troubleshooting they went through with existing phones to see what works & what doesn't work. The hardware & shell of the phone is probably an off the shelf, off-brand phone design that nobody decided to use with minor customizations.
THX. We can download the file with this link. :-)
>Humor is humor, nothing more.

What an utterly false, utterly stupid thing to say. If you think humor is removed at all from misogyny and racism you are willfully blind.
Another reader posted this link below: https://vimeo.com/100672072
html5 + mp4 + Firefox don't always play well together.
Your job description has this line "The candidate will work under the guidance of a senior web developer who will assign and monitor their development tasks."

I can't think of any sentence more designed to turn off quality candidates.

Also, please drop a hint about pay scales.
I've tried eliminating wheat, sugar (in case it was fructose malabsorption), dairy, etc. I've tried tons of supplements like fish oil or vitamin D. Interestingly, each of those except dairy had very positive effects on my health in general (weight loss, clearer skin, elimination of seasonal depression) but had little effect on IBS symptoms.

What did improve it (but not eliminate it) was taking an SSRI, which isn't surprising since they have been shown to help in trials. My mother also has both IBS and an anxiety disorder, which is consistent with research showing that there is a genetic factor. I wouldn't be surprised if there are multiple possible underlying causes, but I really think IBS is a legitimate diagnosis.
This phone has an 8 mega pixel camera. At what point do you think manufacturers will stop increasing pixel resolution? 50? 100? It has to top off somewhere otherwise people will need a second hard drive just to store phone pictures.
Total bullshit. People don't replace the wires in their yard every 5 years. Sure, they move (and immediately get replaced by new customers), and they sometimes opt out of the TV service and increasingly opt out of landline phone service, but the only "churn" that's relevant to this discussion is people switching between DSL and Cable, which wouldn't matter if we could get one set of neutral cables installed to get the data to and from the nearest peering points. The rest of the churn you listed and its overhead costs are for the parts of the business that need to be divorced from the actual internet connectivity.
I think it's hard to understand because he's generalizing a set of experiences or insights he's had, but he's only writing about the generalization. You don't know all of the insights and experiences and so the generalization seems too... general. To that end, did you take a deeper look at any of the things he linked?
The STM32F429 Discovery board [1] has 2MB of Flash and 256KB of internal RAM. It also looks like it has 64 Mb of SDRAM which might be what your looking for. We have an engineer where I work who is trying to get mRuby up and running on one. It has tons of memory for a Cortex-M part/board

[1] - http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/PF259...
2048 isn't always beatable by the best known bot. I don't know if anyone has proven either way whether 2048 is guaranteed solvable by a perfect bot for all possible random spawns. At the least, no one has found a counterexample like how Tetris has a guaranteed loss with a long enough string of S and Z pieces.
>both hardware and software should be up for the scrutiny

Except they won't ever be made available, since this company is full of crap. They're selling snake-oil, and shouldn't be trusted.
An independent processor with a well-defined communication interface to a proprietary baseband (and ability to kill its power) would suffice. The easiest way to achieve this is probably a small low power "laptop" running GNU/Linux (or similarly free system) coupled with a MiFi hotspot (ideally modded to have a hard switch on its battery).

You can't get out of your location being trivially tracked by your carrier until you can pay for network access with anonymous bearer tokens, or at least significantly supplement with free wifi networks or friends' MiFis.
Some people were asking what the USA graphs looked like during the NED vs. Argentina match. Similar, but a bit less pronounced on the dropoff. I still can't get over that 30 minute lead up to the game. I feel like I'm missing what that actually is.

Here's a link to the tweet / picture of that graph.
https://twitter.com/dustywes/status/488787721960583168
Huge copyright infringement on so many of their designs...
Nobody said anything about not having standardised testing. The problem here is high-stakes standardised testing.

You can know stuff about a system that you can't measure completely (i.e. any system) by sampling it - you'll get a lot of noise and even some systematic biases, but as long as you maintain an awareness of that you will know something.

The problem comes when you want to control things. If you create a feedback loop by attaching strong incentives to the measures you are using to acquire knowledge, then you end up with neither control nor knowledge. You're no longer taking a representative sample, just measuring the gain of your feedback loop.

And if you apply the incentives at a granularity of measurement such that noise overwhelms the signal (by a factor somewhere between 7 and 100, according to the article)...
Anyone else really concerned about this?
because "Crack the Planet" doesn't have the same ring...
invest in a high quality dividend index fund(DVY for example) and retire. You ought to be able to get over 1k EUR a month no problem. Might not sound like a lot in the EU, but you can travel or live very comfortably most places in Asia, Africa, and Central/South America on that and be completely free to pursue your interests.
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Do they actually discuss or mention an algorithm in the movie?
MediaCrush (which I helped make) does this fine:

https://mediacru.sh/H4GxJXvnUosd

It's open source: https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
If you're worried about that, the blackphone website can host (via https) assets for ads, and put ads up on a few ad networks. Soon opening a connection to the blackphone site won't mean much.

Ephemeral DH for PFS, of course.
it hit bloomberg news

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-14/let-me-out-here-one...
Be sure to ask the author first. If you read his back story he's had a hard ride and certainly deserves substantial credit for his blog.
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Does anyone have the old documentation cached anywhere? I'd love to take a stab at writing a client.
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I have one, it's actually surprisingly good. I'd like to somehow get Google Apps on it (which, I know, defeats the purpose), but it's a very snappy phone, and I was really surprised by how light it is.
A Hacker Artist Sent the NSA an 'Uncrackable' Encrypted Mixtape
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AOL employee here after they acquired gdgt.com last year.

Can confirm that we are not required to use AOL Desktop. Don't be ridiculous. Only thing we're required to use is the corporate VPN software.
@prawn, not sure but probably not.
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If you're interested in the Bacteria-autism connection mentioned in the article, here's a great talk by the researcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWT_BLVOASI (The topic is "Mind Altering Microbes")
That makes sense, but I don't think it is as big of a factor as the actual value of education. Our economy is increasingly shifting to skilled labor. If you have the right skill set, opportunities abound.
It does. You can run any version of any OSS programme with or without any custom patches you write. You can obviously import that zip-of-csvs into that programme.
You just have to pay for it yourself, which cuts a lot of people out (kids, low income, etc.)
The business model for ALGORITHM is based on the models of tech startups as described in The Lean Startup. It’s a profit-share agreement, giving everyone who works on the movie a vested interest in the success of the project. All profits get shared by the artist who actually made it happen.

Lots of indie movies are put together this way. It's industry code for 'work for free.' I own a percentage of several feature films, none of which are actually worth anything. That's not an altogether bad thing, it can be a good way to gain experience or burnish your credentials, eg I will sometimes work on a project for free because it creates a connection with a particular actor or gives me the ability to call in a favor in the future.

But you should know that it's kind of an indie/student film marketing trick. It's much easier to find talented folk than the money to pay them.
Agreed. I work in a salary job now, and find myself not pushing to do the extra work as much, just since I know that I will be paid my salary almost regardless, and that there is close to no incentive to finish a project fast. People like independent contractors or consultants that get paid by the project do their work FAST and WELL. I've worked with many.
fasting can cause an increase in the blood sugar levels in the blood of a diabetic.
I didn't get it until I watched the kickstarter video, and even then not until the scene of actually building the mosaic out of logos.

At first I thought it was just a cheesy low quality image filter. I also didn't notice the image was 3d movable.

A simple way to convey the idea might be to show the count of each logo color used in the image on the side. Or maybe animate the building of the mosaic?

Neat idea though, I think kids would have a lot of fun with this.
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This is the HD version: http://pdl.vimeocdn.com/44915/609/269043775.mp4?token2=14053...
I'm pretty sure THE hacker movie will be released under pretty dramatically different terms. I dunno, straight to torrent?

Maybe this is A hacker movie?
Out of curiosity, how hard is it to program them? Do you need to be proficient with C? or as long as you can understand OpenMPI and such you are good to go?

How do you program the FPGA? I' asking this because I have a heavy OO background and even when C is not entirely strange to me, I'm not sure if it's as easy as to make a weekend project with that or not so much.

Your thoughts on this? Did you chain together more than one?

Thanks for your comments!
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• Work with development groups to architect solutions for new and existing projects
• Utilize configuration management and custom scripts to deploy and manage systems
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• Migrate applications off of legacy environments with minimal downtime
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• Advanced knowledge and experience creating and executing shell scripts
• Advanced knowledge of load balancing administration and tuning – BigIP LTM, Squid, Nginx, Varnish
• The ideal candidate will be comfortable in “non-silo’d” environments and have an appetite to research, test, and implement new technologies.
Ask HN: Has your company ever hired a self-taught programmer?
Like one from Coursera, or from some complete no-brand school. Did they work out?

Also a follow-up. How did they/you get your foot in the door? (I'm trying to get my first job as a programmer after teaching myself and building things over the last year to year and a half.)
Thanks! It's always interesting to hear the thought process behind entrepreneurs choosing a path that isn't the norm (since SaaS does seem to be the default path for better or worse).
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If it were 20 years old I wouldn't expect to see the 1gb RAM recommendation. How much did a gig of RAM cost 20 years ago? I'm guessing about as much as a used Volkswagen :)
It's up on https://web.archive.org/web/20140626101055/http://developer....

Also, the download links to S3 still work and https://github.com/RadiusNetworks/android-ibeacon-service still contains the old commits (HEAD~2) ... guess not everybody there supports the decision.
The industrial revolution starting in Britain as opposed to China is almost certainly completely unrelated to farming methods, and much more related to politics. China during the industrial revolution was in the grip of a very weak, corrupt, and financially mismanaged dynasty. This set the stage for the Opium Wars and continued decline for the next 200 years, a period which has only recently ended. Prior to that, China was one of the most advanced civilisations in the world for most of its history.

Also note that the staple food of most of Northern China (including Xian, Beijing, and huge amounts of the population) is and has historically been, wheat based.
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CrossBox is also somehow related to First Rate Boxing, which sells speedbags, so the synergy is obvious: dating + green products + boxing = environmentally friendly speedbags for first date boxing matches?
Is it a good idea to go through life thinking you're going to spend the rest of it doing inconsequential things in just a few short years? Ken Thompson seems to have stayed productive. So has pg. Maybe people stop being productive because they start to buy into the idea that they can't be.
Looking for a technical cofounder (not a husband for once)
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> First off, most of the things you're taking out of the monthly were already factored into the fronted cost in the linked article.

No they're not. They cover, e.g., marketing to get you to hook up in the first place, but not, e.g., marketing to keep you from switching to Comcast a year later. They account for the cost of hookup, but not, e.g., ongoing maintenance.

As to your other point, charging up front is not the same as charging services that operate on top. The former effectively creates a cross-subsidy: my parents who just want fast-loading web pages end up subsidizing Netflix junkies. Now you can charge per-GB, but Netflix really doesn't want to go in that direction. They're quite happy with this implicit cross-subsidy.

"Market transparency" is a red herring. You pay $10 per month to Netflix, because that's the value of that content to you. You don't care if some of that money goes to Verizon any more than you care that some of it goes to the studios that own the content. Indeed, the "backroom deals" ultimately have the effect of allowing Verizon to capture the costs from the people who derive the most value from the infrastructure, because the consumer value represented by one GB is not equal across services.
> For most businesses that aren't about massive scaling,

Most business should care about distributed systems because they (often) need some form of high availability. Sure, you're not scaling to Google or New York Times levels here, but if you want to survive any of the random crap that can happen to you, you can't have a single host per role.

Yes, sure, you may not be worried about concurrent writes to multiple replicas, but what about reads from multiple replicas, or a read to a slave after a write to a master (lets say master just died in a horrible manner, and slave is now being hit with reads and writes)?

PS: TCL is awesome.
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To some degree that's still begging the question of whether "education" in the traditional sense is the best way to acquire those skills. In the case of (a good school, a typical person) I think the answer is yes for an important chunk of those skills (while other important chunks are not learned well in that setting). As you move further from that case, more questions are raised, and of course partisans in the pro/anti ("traditional") education camps tend to ignore one or the other of the chunks I mentioned.
Hawaii has a long sad history in mis-funding tech startups.

Recall ACT 221, which provide 100% state tax credits for investors, resulting in massive wastes and various floundering startups.

In Hawaii, many of the 'leaders' in the tech sector believe that they are just as talented and smart as Silicon Valley, that all they need is the money to prove it. And then, over and over again, the State hands over money, just to end in more embarrassing results.
The name "server", "desktop", and "embedded" are marketing terms. They're all the same CPU.

Uh, no. The embedded version features the Zynq 7020, the others use the Zynq 7010.

The server version is cheaper because it leaves off the HDMI port and associated circuitry.
Flikdate.com has been unavailable since at least Friday, but it's back up today... but the headline says, "coming very very soon"
No I don't think they are overestimating, the graph just doesn't say what you said it does. It does not count the residences that have access to 2+ options, it only counts the number of houses that lie within census tracts that have 2+ broadband options available anywhere in said tract.

This means that even a residence with literally 0 options would be counted as a "2+ broadband options available" house if there were 2+ broadband options available anywhere in the census tract it lies within.

The numbers don't have to be refuted, they simply aren't numbers that indicate whether there is a problem or not because they answer a different. But unfortunately no, I don't have any data other than this report. I was super disappointed when it came out because I don't know of anything else.
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Nazi-ism is a bit of a bad example, because it's a master plan that, once adopted, went mostly as planned. It was evil, very obviously, but if anything it speaks against the idea that High Modernism is always doomed to fail in implementing its abstract designs.

To your main point: I would go a step further, and say that governments and organizations "bite off more than they can chew" because it's fundamentally impossible for individual leadership to fully comprehend a larger system to enforce a policy on. Abstractions always obliterate local knowledge; worse off, it's usually impossible to even know the unknowns that are being blown away. Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns.

Hayek had it on the mark, but if anything he (and, to a larger extent, his loudest followers) didn't apply his observations thoroughly enough, and instead think you can blindly apply governmental regimentation through universalistic property rights that are somehow immune to the weaknesses of global rules. Smart, technical-minded people are especially prone to this fallacy: see the everlasting temptation to shove waterfall processes into Agile rhetoric.

I'm taking some time to digest this article, but I like it a lot, and I think it might fit in with some thoughts I've been trying to solidify for awhile. Going back to Rumsfeld, he had a trio of the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns. I want to argue there's a forth category, however: the unknown knowns. In other words, institutions and networks of individuals may be isomorphic to real data and the algorithms that work on it, even though no individual needs to know about the data or algorithms actually being implemented, any more than a register would need to know what bits lies inside it. We thus embed knowledge into society: we've created an emergent social computation through unplanned collective activity. The parallels to Elinor Ostrom and James Scott should be easy to build to from there.
They hired him to create an open source driver, not to open source the current one.
"then we do licensing / design work"

I would guess by that the person means they work out arrangements on licensing and or decide if any licensing is necessary.
Good write up, especially the concurrency stuff. SQLite is great, I've used it in read heavy production environments for years.