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I work for a company in D.C. called Virtru. We write tools which allow users to easily send end-to-end encrypted email in one click from gmail. My comment on the "who's hiring?" thread this month has more details and is reproduced below. Definitely get in touch if what we're working on interests you!

Virtru | https://virtru.com/how-it-works | Washington, D.C. | Fulltime | Javascript fullstack, Android, iOS, .NET

== Who we are ==

Everyone has a right to keep their digital content private and secure. We founded Virtru because we believe that exercising that right should be easy and convenient.

Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email using your existing email address and email provider with the flip of a switch. Our browser extension for Chrome and Firefox allows you to send and receive encrypted email directly from Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook.com. Our Android and iOS mobile apps and Outlook desktop plugin work with any provider that uses IMAP.

Our full time team of 16 is currently 50% engineers. We value automated testing, readable/maintainable code, documentation, and code reviews. We run in 2 week sprints and dedicate about 20% of total capacity to things the dev team thinks are important (technical debt, refactors, exploring a new technology, etc), while the rest goes to feature development and addressing bugs. We are well capitalized with investments from Bessemer Venture Partners [0] and private investors.

== Current positions ==

- Full stack NodeJS/Javascript developer. Our backend runs on NodeJS (with dabbles of Python), our frontend uses Angular and Backbone (looking to consolidate!), and our browser extensions use our internal javascript framework to run in both Chrome and Firefox.

- Android developer

- iOS/Mac OS developer

- .NET developer to support our Outlook desktop plugin

I work on the backend, so I can provide some details on that role. Our client facing API services are built on Express.js. We run in the AWS cloud and are looking for someone with deep experience deploying/maintaining services/infrastructure who can also help add new functionality to the application layer.

Some things we play with on the backend: NodeJS, ExpressJS, PassportJS, AWS (EC2, SQS, ElastiCache), CouchDB, Packer, Salt Stack, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), HAProxy 1.5, PagerDuty.

Some more information is listed here: https://www.virtru.com/careers.

== Get in touch ==

If you care about privacy and are interested in creating security products at a company which thinks that user experience is a first class citizen, please get in touch! Send a secure email (using Virtru!) to feedback@virtru.com with subject “HN who is hiring response” and tell us what interests you about Virtru. It would be great if you can provide some sample code that we can check out (github, bitbucket, etc). If you have any questions, I’ll monitor this thread and/or you can email me directly (email in profile).

[0] http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/virtru
Not trying to be a dick, but he pretty concisely and clearly proved your proposal to be unviable and relatively unsubstantiated. So the "bit much" would literally be the actual reasoning or if it has any empirical backing what-so-ever.

We on "Hacker Digest" (actually curious, do some people call it that?) would kind of appreciate that.
Much of the central Sacramento valley is floodplain which can be, and has been, more of an inland sea or lake during wet winters than a valley.

Before flood control was put in, Sacramento itself was subject to major inundations, though the last of these was in the 1950s as I recall.

During early settler / Indian times, substantially the entire central valley would flood. It's a watershed in which a 300-400 mile long, 50-100 mile wide region drains, all of it flowing out ultimately through the Golden Gate. Water can and does pile up there.

And that's the region where rice is typically grown.

Contrast this with southern California -- the arid southern part of the Sacramento / San Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield is pretty dry, but cross the Tehachapi Mountains to the south and you're in the Mohave desert. That region still gets water, via the California Aqueduct and state water project, and is also home to much agriculture, including alfalfa and cotton cultivation, which demands a lot of water.
You ever tried doing an append only mmap? ;-)
right here! most of my past projects have been in robot design and embedded development.
what specifically are you looking to discuss?
Supply will work to match the demand. The US buying as much as $3 billion would put a huge floor on the demand. The illicit buyers would add more demand on top of that. The resulting higher price would encourage poppy farming yet again. But while production is ramping up it'd work.

I think it is wiser to pay farmers not to grow poppies.
The funny (or scary) thing is that South Park predicted exactly this 100%: An Uber competitor hires a criminal to be a Uber (Timmy) driver to sexually assault the first female passenger it gets[0] and get it really bad press.

BTW, this also happen in taxi cabs, but somehow they don't make the front-page of hacker news[1][2][3], I wonder why that is.

[0]7:40 at http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s18e04-handicar

[1]http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl...

[2]http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/2370444/taxi-drive...

[3]http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/bail-refused-for-t...
I can't tell whether I should agree with you, because I rationally have similar conclusions, or disagree because it's possible you are simply a planted post meant to derail discussion. Mission accomplished either way, I guess.
hi i will def take a look. I am more of a big data engineer so cant find a direct fit. i will keep a watch.thanks
I don't believe cracking down cyberbullying or harassment was the cause.

I think was a wrong formula packed by hype.

Yik Yak (which I adore) is still doing strong.

IMO, the main issue (as others reported) is that you start with your friends then friends of friends then popular then basically has not anymore sense to me because I don't know anymore anyone.

Remember Yik yak pretty much on the same market is doing really well and IIRC got recently another big amount of investments.
Don't care about TV / movies / books / articles. Nothing you read / watch is going to dramatically change your life

Then what will? How will you escape any local maxima without input from far away - far away in location, far away in time, far away in concept and ideas, far away in political, social, economic, artistic, &c. worldview from where you are?

Why would you skip the lessons other people took decades to learn, to refuse to learn from history and from others outside your immediate contacts, on principle?
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The article author tried to draw a distinction between mere fame and celebrity. Celebrity, as he defined, had no underlying 'reason', the celebrity had no 'claim' to fame, he decided he was going to be famous and managed to conjure up that image of his own accord, using a combination of wily trickery and applied psychology.

The canonical example is Paris Hilton.
You are applying a wildly divergent double standard in how you consider startup security failures. If Uber had a security flaw in their signup form that leaked personal info, no question zero people would be disputing its relevance to HN. But a rape happens because of security flaws in the driver signup process, all of a sudden an army of scholars on the ethics of HN posts emerges defending censorship. Very disturbing.
Is there a better way available for the community to discuss or inquire about issues like this (serious question)? Emailing hn@ (of course) seems very many to one. I'd hope that the thought wouldn't be "The community is no place to discuss peculiar community activity", even if that means shoving it off to someplace else still on the site where those who believe its relevant can discuss.
>Death is the price you pay for
living. Be grateful that you had the
chance. It is truly a miracle that you
are even alive.

Of course, the price you pay for living is not just death at the end of your life but also suffering throughout. Just how much suffering you will experience depends on many random factors the effects of some of which (like genetics and early childhood environment) are either very difficult or impossible to mitigate.

The hardest question to confront is whether the price of living is one worth paying. The antinatalists among us think that the answer to that question is generally a "no".
> Yes, that's a slippery slope. But one that points out the futility of arguments such as yours. Namely, that you've drawn an arbitrary line where you find convenient. And along with it, you've conveniently neglected to acknowledge that other people would have drawn that line further, or closer.

There'a quite a bit of distance between "you're drawing arbitrary lines" and "you have been free-riding due to use not properly including previously externalized costs, which will now be properly accounted for".

The suburbs are predicated on cheap land and petroleum. If you're able to continue the suburbs model while the price of both increase, more power to you. I'd rather have my tax dollars finance public transit vs limited use suburban roads though, thanks.

Its mostly a moot point though; the majority of people around the world continue to move into cities: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=people%20moving%20t...
Here go: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26793&cid=2895270
Just for comparison, recent California ag water rates are $400 - $500 per acre-foot in San Diego -- a historically high cost (2011 article):

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bnelson/price_matters_-_wa...

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California cites rates of about $100 - $300 per acre-foot:

http://www.mwdh2o.com/mwdh2o/pages/finance/finance_03.html

An acre-foot is 1,233 cubic meters, so at $0.75/m^3, that cost would be $925. That's actually not too outrageously much higher then the quoted water rates, and the article discusses ag rates as high as $1,400/acre-foot, which would be higher than the desal rates you quote.

I was expecting desalination to be far less reasonable. It's not cheap, by a long shot, but if the values you're citing are valid, it's not beyond consideration.

Also note that ag water isn't fully treated municipal water supply, which is more expensive.
Any NP problem.
Much of what we do every day is motivated by a fear of death. This is a well established psychological fact (supported by over 500 studies), yet ironically few are aware of it.

It goes by the name of "Terror Management Theory" and a decent review is here: https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.16...

Interesting to note how difficult it was for them to get their idea taken seriously. Let that teach us to beware over-valuing our contemporaries opinions.

Note: a more recent review that's harder to get full text is here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215091914...
> An Uber competitor hires a criminal to be a Uber (Timmy) driver to sexually assault the first female passenger it gets

Really? How very bizarre to come up with weird concepts like sexual assault for hire and sexual assault as a publicity stunt, then call it humor. Shame on them.

Edit: OK, pretty sure I just got down voted for pointing out that sexual assualt isn't at all funny. Oh hn...
My work is as good as it gets. Extremely flexible hours, under 45 hours a week, I choose my own projects, my boss is amazing, the company is brilliant, etc. I would still rather not work given the choice!
HN and Reddit's ranking systems are based on the assumption that the people voting are the ones who are actual genuine readers of the site. And thus for a company to organize a campaign of down votes (which seems the only way to exercise control over such social media) would, I assume, be a violation of the ToS.

Violating the ToS is a violation of the right to access-- specifically, it is "unlawful access", and while I doubt you could get a prosecutor to press charges, it feels to me that this crosses the line.
> Much of what we do every day is motivated by a fear of death.

Everything we do is motivated by reproduction. Avoidance of death increases the probability of it.
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I work in customer service (telco) and let me say, you could sort the wheat from the chaff, but there is a lot of chaff.
The fact that they're all dead is why this was submitted.
If we're all going to post about vote conspiracies, maybe let's hypothesize that it was pushed by Lyft PR.
It was barely gecko being ported. It had nothing close to a usable mobile UI.
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It also relates to how Uber's business practice of keeping drivers at arms length when compared to taxis may impact the quality of the experience (this is a crazy extreme example).

I don't see why, do you think taxi drivers don't rape their customers? Just last month a taxi driver raped, robbed and threw two people over a cliff[1].

This story shows that Uber hires dangerous people, but not that they're any worse than taxis.

I dislike Uber businesses practices, and I don't use the service, but this particular story is just tabloid content.

[1] http://m.ibnlive.com/news/taxi-driver-rapes-delhibased-woman...
ha I like the phrasing. Instead of "Uber Driver rapes Woman" you have this.

Let me try. "Policeman shoots unarmed teenager" vs
"The policeman who shot a teenager in Ferguson is co-operating with the investigation, his attorney says"

PS:This exact news item was submitted some time ago and flagkilled

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711222
It's entirely on topic - the diagram and summary you linked to, along with the EFF's motion all describe 702 Upstream collection[1]. As described in the PCLOB report and reiterated in the government opinion that I linked to, 702 is for targeted collection of non-US persons. From the PCLOB report:

As noted above, however, all upstream collection — of which “about” collection is a subset — is “selector-based, i.e., based on . . . things like phone numbers or emails.” Just as in PRISM collection, a selector used as a basis for upstream collection “is not a ‘keyword’ or particular term (e.g., ‘nuclear’ or ‘bomb’) but must be a specific communications identifier (e.g., email address).” In other words, the government’s collection devices are not searching for references to particular topics or ideas, but only for references to specific communications selectors used by people who have been targeted under Section 702.

The EFF says in their motion that they have no problem with the final results of the filtering - they instead consider the act of putting a packet filter on the line to begin with to be illegal[2]. They argue that the packet filter itself constitutes bulk collection, even if it is only pulling out communications that match specific, targeted identifiers.

If the court were to side with the EFF's definition of collection, the NSA would be legally prohibited from collecting on any network connection unless it could show that the only communications that would pass over it were ones that match those specific identifiers because (getting back to my analogy) you can't implement a variant of grep that only reads in the lines that match.

[1] https://www.eff.org/document/plaintiffs-jewel-knutzen-and-wa... (p. 14/9)

[2] Ibid (p. 13-14/8-9)
I'm fairly certain the reason this one made it to the front page of HN is because it happened in an Uber car.
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Just a curiosity

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=faith%2Clove%2Ccharity%2Cjustice%2Ckindness%2Ccourage%2Chonor%2Cloyalty%2Cwisdom%2Cknowledge%2Corder
Here is a link to the discussion on HN about a renter's home on AirBnB getting trashed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813956 I don't see anyone raising any of the issues you've pointed out here. Perhaps the rules of moderation have changed. Would the AirBnB story be judged similarly if posted today?

> ... volatile mixture of rubbernecking and outrage ...
That doesn't even make sense. Gender issues and schadenfreude, I at least understand what you mean. There might be a rush to judgement here.

My worry here is that subverting established process is all well and good... until someone gets raped. So I'll be watching to see if Uber's background check process failed. If so why?
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It should be kept in mind that standard memory (e.g. DDR3) doesn't actually support concurrent accesses (and at least on x86, one or two cores at most can easily saturate the full bandwidth), so anytime you have shared data accessed by multiple threads it's actually serialised and that part does not perform any better than the single-threaded case; the biggest speedup occurs when the majority of the time the multiple threads are running in their own caches and not sharing any data.
I always just comment with links as clickables (if someone else hasn't already) to save everyone else the keystrokes.. in this case, they're all dead. Unfortunately, HN only links hyperlinks from comments.
Glad I could be of help. :-) Thanks for asking the question.
I like your approach, but let me see if I can get you to question some of your beliefs. First, Watts is actually only the author of your second link, the other two are guest posts by two other authors. I won't try to rehabilitate Watts, as he's likely already too tainted in your mind, but I'll guess that you don't yet have strong opinions about the other two. Please consider how well they fit the image that you have of them based on the articles you read.

The first piece was written by Robert Moore (http://www.nrdc.org/about/staff/rob-moore). Personally, having looked at the actual paper, I thought his article was more accurate than most of the media coverage. Moore does not "oppose efforts to deal with climate change". To the contrary, he's an analyst with the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which is one of the largest, staunchest and most effective environmental groups in the US, and lists "Curbing Global Warming" on the top of it's list of priorities. If you look at Moore's credentials, I think you'll be positively surprised -- he's legitimately an expert, and unquestionably an environmentalist.

The paper uses a very specific definition of "worst drought". It's a reasonable and defensible one (cumulative deficit on the PDSI scale), but it's probably not what most people would guess. As Moore says, the paper does not say that it's the longest dry spell, or the period of least rain. Would you have guessed from the other media coverage that despite the phrase "worst drought", there have been two other years with less rain just in the last 100 years? That there have been longer droughts?

I think Moore believes what he says in the piece: "Do these facts mean that we are in good shape re California’s water supply? No! But we shouldn’t be framing the search for a stable California water supply by starting from a wildly incorrect statement that seems focused on creating public panic." He's bothered (as I am) about the level of hyperbole and inaccuracy in the media reports of climate change, and wrote the piece to counter that. Neither he, nor Watts, nor Tim Ball (the author of the third link) believes "that recent showers are proof that the alarm over the drought is just part of the global warming conspiracy".

While I fear that some of the kookier commenters at WUWT might believe that (I don't read the site, although I highly recommend Steve McIntyre's climateaudit.org) many of those you demonize care a lot about the environment and climate change, but disagree on the causes and the approach that should be taken to deal with it. For example, try reading this piece on Urban Forests by Tim Ball to see if he matches the pathological business-comes-first stereotype often associated with "climate deniers": http://drtimball.com/2012/importance-of-urban-trees/
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Now that the Germans have been firmly put in their place as the footstools of the Anglo-Saxons, it's safe and trendy to orientalise aspects of their culture and language.
This happens all the time in today's 'journalism', more prominently it happens to much worse incidents like when a white person does a terrorist act, he's labeled mentally ill, but not so much if it were a colored person.
The title in your analogy should be "The police department is cooperating with the investigation."
Yeah Flux is great, have used it for years, but dark mode it much different, basically inverts the colors 100%, HN for me has a black background, and grey text. Super easy on the eyes. I do this in all my IDEs, reddit, HN, stackoverflow, etc....
It's most likely for the Gopher protocol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
f.lux work in linux these days too.
Sure. it wasn't meant as an exact analogy. More just an exercise in weaselly slanted phrasing. Point taken.
Yes, and it hasn't worked anywhere that it has been tried in modern times.

A Republic is the ideal formulation, balancing representative systems with checks & balances, an independent judiciary capable of striking down attempts at authoritarianism and protecting individual rights via a sound constitution, and a moderate executive office.
Interesting experiment, but I can't think of an incentive for anyone to post interesting secrets when they know others can pay to reveal their identity.
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Flurry and MessageMe acquisitions were first revealed on Secret. Maybe in an attempt to see what happens when SEC subpoenas somebody.
because not on topic for HN

rapes occur all the time, not relevant if someone just happens to be employed by Uber

if a Microsoft employee beat his wife should that be on HN? no. nor would it if he instead worked at a Texaco gas station
Ask HN: How do I go about audio background noise removal?
I'm looking for suggestions from you folks on the following audio processing problem: After recording a speech, is it possible to remove background environmental noise (mostly vehicle engine and horning noise) from it?

Can I isolate just the voice somehow from a single sample?

Or can I isolate the voice by using an additional microphone placed outside to record the external noise, and then somehow "subtracting" the noise recording from the voice?

I'm more interested in understanding audio processing from first principles, understanding the math, reading relevant papers, exploring signal processing algorithms and implementing them, than in buying suitable microphones or using available software.

What approaches do you suggest and what topics do you think I should explore?
So he dismissed the question with some hand-waving and mumbling about food trucks?
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No matter. This story seems to have been removed from the front page, although it's not dead.
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I don't understand the point here either.

The code that generated the resource you're viewing, regardless of script content, may not be Free. The code running the server may not be Free, and that might not be part of the details of the transmission. There is probably plenty of nonFree code in the hardware that got your packets there and back.

How the Hell does Stallman even use the Internet?
Interestingly it had been climbing for years, and reached 0.8% in 2011, but has been falling since then:

http://www.janes.com/article/32167/nigerian-defence-spending...

Given Nigeria's security challenges, I would have expected greater military spending. At 0.5% it's among the lowest on earth.
Reading from uninitialized memory in C seems to be a bad idea:

http://blog.frama-c.com/index.php?post/2013/03/13/indetermin...