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I agree. From the article:

> I can take a pretty obvious guess as of the external manifestations of their new motto: it means they break fewer APIs on their platform.

I found this absurd. The idea that "move fast and break things" referred to a reduced level of API compatibility seems much too narrow. Yes, it's understood as a license to break parts of the site in the interest of advancing the product.

Facebook did much more than that: it broke/disrupted/redefined our social fabric, the way we understand each other. Along the way it broke promises, expectations, trust, fears, introversion, and boundaries. And it did this very, very quickly--ten years of Facebook and we are all different.

Imagine if the Manhattan Project used the same slogan. It's good for some, bad for others, but developed quickly, taken to market, and damn the consequences we're going to figure out what this thing can do.
> The problem here is that nobody wants Bolívars

how do you pay your taxes?
What would be the better security model?
I think there are two sides to this, but for the most part neither side will admit the negative aspects of their stance. Any "golden key" backdoor that is implemented, no matter how emphatic the promises, will be abused. On the other hand, having truly inaccessible data, no matter how much it enables the our valid right to privacy, will also make communication between criminals, including terrorists, easier.
Putting the snark aside for a second, if this app works as well as it's claimed to, then I actually think it's an awesome idea. I really dislike handing my phone over to other people, even to show them a photo or video, and if I'm wanting to show something to 3+ people at once there's no truly convenient way to do that anyway. I've already installed this and will definitely be trying it out at the next opportunity.
1) there is still no explanatation for the rational of doing so, and the origin of the black out !
2) there is still no valid reason to add a useless point of failure.
3) talking about security, the continuity of service is AS important as anything else (imagine you had two belkins set up for redundancy and multihoming, because internet is used to check credentials, you have a loss of a critical services. A useless SPOF IS a security risk! )
4) It is not Belkin role to make sure «internet» is available and take measure when not working. A router needs an IP connectivity including a DNS resolver, these are clearly checks that are the ISPs responsability.
5) there is no arm in letting a router not being able to resolve a DNS server (they can be statically configured on the hosts or by a DHCPd server, routers at best acts as a DNS cache and they are less efficient than tons of other solution even a stupid dnsmasq).
6) it means blackholing the IP to the cloud of Belkin is an efficient way to disconnect any user from the internet using their router. Is it a feature made for Russia, China and USA (I mean any place where privacy is considered a crime)?

Clearly Belkin has been bricking their gears when they are not connected to internet. Why? Why have a killswitch of the internet?

I cannot see any good reason for spending THAT much money in terms of investment and recurring cost.
Someone planned this feature, and found smart to spend recuring money on obviously unneeded feature.

Facts don't add up. Companies are here to make money. They spent a hell lot of money to insert and plan and release this feature in their equipment. What do they gain of bricking any devices not able to contact their «cloud»?
In America, almost every store has its own loyalty card. Some places (God bless 'em) just let you use your phone number but most require you to have the card. There's 10 right there, easy. Everyone shops at a couple different grocery stores, a drug store, home good store, etc. Clothing, restaurants, gym. It adds up.

Then there's your driver's license. Health insurance. Car insurance.

On top of that credit cards. You're a fool if you don't have a few different ones, because they have rotating reward categories that give you bonuses. I bet a get a few grand a year that most people don't. But even still, I only have 3. And 1 ATM card on the off chance I ever need cash.

Plus gift cards. On the one hand, you don't want to carry those on you all the time. On the other, you'd often use them impulsively so you can't just leave them at home.

It adds up quite easily. It isn't that I want to carry all those cards. It's that I get substantial rewards for doing so.
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Actually the throughput of integer instructions isn't that much lower than floating point operations, at least for arithmetic and bitwise operations.

http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/#maximi...
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You can bet Madagascar will be the first to close their borders.
Believing that housing should be a natural right may be a reasonable position (even if I disagree that it is practical), but surely you don't believe that everybody is entitled to indefinite ownership of an arbitrarily expensive house. I don't have statistics, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think most people whose houses are foreclosed end up paying rent for an apartment, rather than living on the street.
> Now instead of one layer with hardware contact, you have two (assuming you want performance too).

Could you expand on that statement? By definition, only one layer can own each hardware component.
Everyone should have at least 3. If you aren't fully taking advantage of credit card rewards you are subsidizing people like me who do.
Ben Franklin (allegedly) said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

The old guy is seeming more and more prescient nowadays. Pretty clear that BF wouldn't have supported backdoors (especially not with the grim Orwellian doublespeak name "Golden Key.")
> There's my quick solution. Feel free to further the discussion by critiquing or improving it rather than downvoting to oblivion.

Rather than critiquing your specific solution, allow me to explain why no solution is possible in general.

0. Because this is Apple, people are assuming Apple's model, but it is not acceptable to enshrine that model into legislation for all of the reasons I could go into if they don't seem sufficiently obvious to anyone. And if Cyanogen on a Nexus device or Debian on a PC doesn't support the backdoor (or does but the device owner has the power to remove it), it is clearly unreasonable to hold Apple to a different standard, and in any event would be ineffective because the "criminals" (or anyone desiring privacy) could just use non-Apple devices.

1. Even if you are willing to pass a law against general purpose computing, if you have a backdoor that can't be updated you have both a security vulnerability (because flaws can't be fixed) and an ineffective backdoor (because if someone e.g. loses their keys there is nothing you can do about it).

2. If you have a backdoor that can be updated, whatever process is used for updating the backdoor is now a security vulnerability. Having the updates signed by the Director of the FBI and the Pope provides no security because the Director of the FBI and the Pope have neither the expertise nor the time to understand what it is they're signing, and a rubber stamp enforced by digital signatures is still a rubber stamp.
I think the point is that your phone is a proxy for the internet/cloud where your information is encrypted and stored, able to be reached from any other internet accessible device through the use of a key/password. (at least in theory/ideally)

This isn't true of physical keys/ID/money/currency, where it's completely possible to physically lose all of them, permanently.
Here they are much more commonly plastic. They look like a credit card and are on display at stores. It is just a much nicer presentation for a gift than a piece of paper you printed. It's also more convenient to hang onto. It doesn't have to be folded and get beaten up in your wallet when you don't use it for 2 months.

The only time you have something printed on paper is if you got it off a credit card rewards site for the most part.
But what is there to sell? Every industry has received incredible shock from the economic situation, there are no dollars to import material goods from the outside so that they can support themselves. Besides, I can't think of anything other than oil that others would be interested in buying.

Not sure if I understood your question correctly, sorry if this doesn't answer it!
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After reading this thread I'm starting to think European companies use plastic far less than American ones. All I can say is live here for a year and you'll understand.
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Where are the violent neo-Nazis? Where are the Baptists going out gaybashing after Sunday service? I don't see it. You said a lot of airy, high-minded things without actually supporting your position.
I have the opposite problem. I have more than I can carry on me, so they all end up in a heap in my dresser drawer. Then they never get used.
Or the series of small steps between primordial sludge and a man on the moon.
My own children are a very clever at this. My kids make me angry quite often (it is so much fun to wind dad up), but they are pretty good at not crossing the line that will make me totally furious (like poking objects into power points).
Technical info: http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/xen-14203926
There are apps, like KeyRing, which I use. The problem is unless the merchant has an optical scanner (many are still on laser) they can't scan your phone. So now you or the cashier has to type in a 12 digit number. If it's the cashier, you have to hand them your phone. It's annoying.
But they want to find out about both kinds of knowledge, your sound judgement on problems and your ability to prepare designs by reasoning about data structures and such. If they only asked questions where the correct answer in production is to come up with a new design, they'd have to ask pretty difficult interview questions. Instead, they ask questions that are simpler and common enough to be implemented by libraries to test your design skills, and your ability to determine when to use off the shelf components should be tested somewhere else. It's quite common to ask more general questions about problem solving and evaluation to get at those sorts of things.
No. Terrible idea: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
While NYC definitely has nice public transit coverage, parts of the city are kind of a mess (cough cough G train cough cough). Hell, even travelling from Astoria to upper Manhattan can be a mess, or crosstown, or whatever. I def had a shorter commute from San Jose to Mountain View than I did within NYC. That said, if you are wealthy enough to live in Manhattan or off one of the nice train lines in Brooklyn, life can be pretty good.
Congrats - this is a great service.
This WAPO Piece was not written for and not meant to be taken seriously by those that know cryptography or know even the basics of the internet.

The op-ed is quite unsophisticated (especially from a technical point of view). It is an opinion and technical solution that is as doomed for failure as it is comically simplistic.

This op-ed Is really meant to be a public service message to the "law makers" (pols, old white guys etc) who still read the WAPO publication, using words that appear to be reasonable and balanced in an astroturf-consensus way, while at the same time, worded to make the Googles/Apples and even smaller players sweat a little.

The scare message is simplistic. Do what we say. You don't refuse us. We make the rules.

If this is their message to 2 of the largest company's in the planets history, you can imagine the contempt that they hold the little players who just use their products.

Google, Apple, and everyone else just needs to stand firm on this. Its that simple.

And indeed The bigger choice is simple, will the Securocrat's ruin the 21st century's largest companies in the name of the "Security state" or will they learn to just deal with it?

As a CEO of one of these Corps, or just a humble user of their product, to find "consensus" and "compromise" on this issue, is to create a western world where we are all chinese/russian/subversive by our very being. And who in the west wants to live in that world?
I agree that this would be very difficult to test in children, but it should be possible to test in animals.
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> This Golden Key idea is one of those classic "I'm just an idea man, I don't have to figure out the nitty gritty
details!" claims.

Most definitely. And even the way it was proposed at the end of the original WaPo editorial was very nonchalant:

> However, with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant.

Let's all be sure to remind the "non-technical" public that there is no wizardry involved here. It's logic, mathematics, and science and some things are possible and some things just are not. Encryption in this sense is very black and white: either your data can be decrypted by a 3rd party or it can't. And if it can be decrypted by one 3rd party, you must assume it can be decrypted by any 3rd party.
I know you're probably just making a joke here but if not I believe he meant to say "bribes".
Understanding the entire stack is in general a good thing but you're looking at it wrong. These guys are good programmers but they have spent decades doing this stuff so comparing yourself to them is a completely unfair comparison. Plus, like everyone else they are not objective observers and have a bias when it comes to expressing their opinions on this stuff. If all you do day in day out is optimize low level code then of course you are going to attach more value to low level optimizations and machine level understanding.

Now contrast this with the likes of Alan Kay, Bob Harper, Benjamin Pierce, etc. and you notice the same pattern. These people couldn't care less about the low level details and instead espouse the benefit of high level theoretical understanding and how such knowledge advances the field.

Both viewpoints are correct and balancing those two viewpoints is where the engineering aspects of software engineering come into play.
I do agree that we(humans from other countries) should all just dump resources on the people there -

but I think the legitimate concern here is that while we squabble about resources and their cost, the virus spreads and mutates - and if it makes the jump to airborne, I think it will make the average Joe Smith pretty vulnerable.
They're presumably not MITMing SSL, so they have access to every host you visit, e.g. foo.com, via DNS. On SSL they cannot see the URL - e.g. https://foo.com/secret
I think a "corporate micro-city" might be the solution for poverty in the 3rd world. I think a joint venture with google, facebook, apple, and 1st world governments etc to build a "hong kong/singapore styled city" next to a 3rd world capital could be the catalyst for transforming the country. I don't think providing internet access is enough. You need to break the cycle of poverty from birth to college. And you need a vehicle/brand that the 1st world can invest in/trust. I think you can avoid the obvious pitfalls by creating multiple independent neighboring "corporate mirco-cities" so there is competition for residents.
I don't get why they don't just play on grass? Surely it doesn't cost that much to maintain. When the grass gets too worn in England, you know what we play on? Mud.

Given that I know of amateur playing fields that have a dozen matches every weekend with absolutely no maintenance done at all, I find it weird that artificial turf is so common in the US. Even if it were a watering problem, there's nothing too bad with playing on dry grass.
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Why is it the only time I hear about Kathy Sierra is when she's talking about being harassed?

The world is full of all types of people who get their kicks in all types of ways. Unless you propose monitoring everybody so that any offensive speech can be punished, there is always going to be a contingent that will capitalize on any chink in psychological armor just to get someone's ire up. When someone's image primarily consists of being a victim, it's not terribly surprising that they're going to serve as a lightning rod for all sorts of harassment - it's known to work after all!

Frankly, what's sickening is seeing otherwise reasonable people proposing that the solution might be taking away anonymity, perhaps even at the protocol level! If you'd like to be so mollycoddled, then stick to your "web 2.0" VC-gardens. Please leave the Internet alone with your misguided surveillance wet dream "solutions."

And finally, if this article itself is about harassment and speaking truth to power, then why do I feel compelled to use a throwaway account to post this comment?

~8 year HN member.
Reminds me of a fictional conversation involving a kid who has locked himself in a bathroom:

> "Mm, but kids only dare defy those whom they really trust. The fact that I'm still mostly a stranger to him gives me an advantage, which I invite you to use."
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>> There is a serious risk that Ebola will mutate to become more infectious.

Not likely. Survival of the fittest for a virus usually means allowing the host to live longer - in other words LESS lethal. It is not likely to become airborne, and if it did it would not be ebola any more. The symptoms of most diseases are not an accident, they are tied to the means of transmission:
Colds make you cough and sneeze.
Flu makes you cough, sneeze, barf and sweat.
Rabies makes you crazy and want to bite.
STDs some think may make people horny.
Ebola makes you barf, shit, bleed, sweat.

The one scary thing is I once read that a single gene make Ebola hemoragic, and if that were to transfer to a flu, that would be very deadly. But it would also be less virulent due to that same deadliness and so would be selected against as our response to related flu vidii would wipe it out.

None of that is helpful short term, but this notion of the virus getting more horrible than it already is, I don't think so.
They also know the volume of data being moved and the times it occurred, which could be useful information.
All of those were government projects. And two were either completely or largely secret at that, because they were intended to address an "existential threat" on the horizon.

Good luck getting the government behind anything like that anymore. Unless we have some otherworldly threat or something that MIGHT challenge US dominance in short order I don't see any big projects coming out of the U.S. government.
> I categorically reject the notion that any city which has the longest commute times in the entire country as having a good transportation system

By how much? What's the variance like compared to other cities? Are we comparing NYC commute times to cities that don't have public transportation systems used en masse? If I live in Houston and drive 15 minutes to work, is it really fair to compare it to spending 30 minutes on a subway?

"Average commute time" isn't extremely relevant if we're including cities where most people don't commute by public transportation, given the subject of the article.

> I had a friend who was born and raised in the New York City area...

I spend 15 minutes commuting to work each day in NYC, compared to 45 when I was in SF. Based on that fact, I can conclusively say that SF's transportation system is 3x worse than NYC's based on my personal anecdote.
This is really cool. I've already shown your site to my mom, who loves it.

However, I can't seem to find a way to display the recipes that I "crave" - seems like this would be a good way to save tasty meals for later cooking.
Whether it's rational to not trust either the US or German government because of what happened in the past, the actual situation is that such actions are not easily forgotten. There are plenty of people who still carry suspicions against Germany for what happened 70 years ago.
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Although, it is entirely possible that what Ben Franklin actually meant was not what many believe[0]...

But who knows? I think it's a bit silly to presume what the Founding Fathers would have thought about modern concepts like cryptographic backdoors, when they[1] would have probably been far more appalled by all of the black people and women running around unattended than at the existence of a standing army or laws governing interstate commerce or whatever.

[0]http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/07/what-ben-franklin-really-...

[1]generally speaking... i'm not implying all of the Founding Fathers supported slavery, obviously, just that their political and social priorities would not necessarily be what we might expect.
Really nice looking editor. I don't cook, but if I was going to use this I would want an option to turn off automatic parsing of the ingredient list (did not check to see if you had that).

Also, if it's something you care about, you mis-spelled 'consistency' in your intro video as 'consistecny' on the 1st step of the recipe.
Have you ever tried to buy bitcoins with our annual internet allowance ($300 per year on online purchases with credit card)? That's one way to get an instant 1000% profit (the official rate is Bs.11 per $ and the black market rate has been swinging between Bs.98-100 per dollar.)

I think holding USD in Venezuela is much more valuable. Most people wouldn't know what to do with bitcoins in the country. With USD, you can sell them in the black market and get bolivares instantly. You can live pretty comfortably here with $200 per month.

It's worth noting that the president, Maduro, had the brilliant idea that by blocking all the sites that report the value of the dollar (like dolartoday, posted by fellow venezuelan climber_mac) in the black market, he would somehow solve all our economic problems. Now you can see why our economy is gone to hell.
Here's why it wouldn't work: Non-US consumers, let alone companies, (which is to say, the majority of the smartphone market) have no interest in purchasing devices that can be rooted by the US government.

Correction: it could work, in theory, if US companies were willing to sacrifice massive amounts of revenue for no reward.
Many are either east coast persons or west coast persons. I know many easterners who hate living on the west coast, and vice versa. The question should really be: are many techies living on the west coast willing to become east coasters? I know many aren't native west coasters, but I still think a lot of them just like living on the west coast.