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Admittedly, its all off record hearsay as it's not to smart to talk badly about your C-levels in public discussion. Though I must say, as a user its hard to sincerely distinguish the business motives of Firefox from other parts of the org. Especially in the recent push of the browser.

Now if only it all wasn't spent on the current massive expansion of the Marketing team and their new executive's salaries. The new CMO has a very checkered history with questionable results. Very much the nepotist who manages to pack his team with former colleagues.

Its a big and divisive internal issue right now. :(

I don't keep up too much, so what basic civic engagement issues have they acted on since the one highly publicized incident? A browser like Mozilla, and its place in the market, is overtly political in itself. It always has been; open source is politics. Heck, dozens of major OSS projects have the "don't donate to us, donate to our sponsored charity" thing going on. Those projects focus on very liberal, social justice issues too though with a more global focus.

But, what's happened since the one incident?

They have an itemized list of all countries relating to leaks on their wiki, which includes (the remaining few) Russian allies.

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Countries

Wikileaks has released a number of Syrian leaks in particular, both before and during the current situation.

https://wikileaks.org/syria-files/

Actually, effective and reliable communication is the number one thing most all companies are looking for in engineers. No one wants a developer that is resistant to daily peer cooperation. A developer that can't clearly explain their decisions to their stakeholders is just about useless. A line item about communication is almost always present on a dev job listing's requirements, much more common than any stack/language flavor of the month.

Code is easy, being able to communicate is not. We engineers love to loathe non-tech people who talk too much while producing nothing tangible. Even more though, effective engineers loathe their peers that don't talk enough.

Well, expect to find the non-clown engineers to be found enjoying beer and pizza with friends rather than random meetups. That is engineer networking. That is how devs find their next job. No one should expect to find them at the equivalent of a an AA meeting for Idea Guys, which is how these networking events tend to go.

Well before the VC pitch, the real epiphanies and ideas get written on the back of a bar napkin. This has been the case for generations of engineers, just like the wearing of beards, not just wave of the startup gold-rush.

Well, if you need a central source to store and provide the state or content then it's not distributed anyway. The notion of developing on a distributed system is a whole different paradigm than traditional web development.

Otherwise, JS is JS no matter how its received.

Take note that about 20% of the country lives in Earthquake Country, where just about all residential dwellings tend to be built of wood.

> What's the problem with public toilets????

The Public.

Still SF, and more than ever.

... yet none of it matters without discipline.

Something tells me there's a lot more Surge Pricing in our futures. And just when you thought the modifiers were high enough, or that surge hours already have become any-waking-hours...

Rather than the bait and switch, why not just raise the price rather than feign at lowering it? Kill the lie that the Surge Pricing brand has become. Just be honest.

Or, at least not have to listen to the guys one pod over "spontaneously" discussing last night's sports statistics for a half hour block on the daily. Perhaps they're "doing it wrong" but they have their right to "spontaneous fun" things too. We're all adults and only have so much say, even one's manager. All it takes is one conflict and the concept eats itself alive.

To answer part of your question, the high-income/education zip codes are residential neighborhoods in the hills and more northern neighborhoods. This has been the case for a century. The zips on the lower end are also residential neighborhoods, but in the flats of the East and West parts of town. This area has been in stagnation since the early post-war years. Neither interact with each other almost at all, rarely even sharing schools.

Neither are areas where any business would establish itself, because most all of Oakland are old fashioned post-war neighborhoods. Downtown Oakland, and the meat of the city's desk & cubicle type of office spaces are in the center near the lake and the bridge. This is a very small area without a whole lot of commercial development starts, current or planned. A surprising amount of high density residential real estate priced for upper-middle class types are slowly appearing. These projects are eating away at the old retail/warehouse space that would typically be turned into new commercial development. There is an alternate universe where Twitter moved to Oakland/Emeryville and brought the mid-Market/Castro-East craziness with it...

[Also, there is plenty of violent crime throughout the Valley. It doesn't show up very well in crime statistics and reports because how closely intertwined it is with the poor, semi-homeless and meth. Nobody likes to talk about it, and it is very good at hiding in the bushes (literally).]

Probably in a very drab, anonymous office park just like most companies in the Valley.

Why would Uber, a company who's entire business is based on location data and the analysis, sign such a deal?

They are, but there is a near bottomless pool of people ready to take their seat.

If there is any constant to the Valley over the decades it's the old fashioned American pioneer success story; strike it rich and take the money home.

OK, so yes. We agree that it is unsustainable if the effort is put forth to make your product actually convenient for the volunteers whose shoulders you sit on.

Meanwhile you insult us by simply saying "fork it." That doesn't get money donated on my behalf out of your Bitcoin wallet. I suggest y'all stop bickering and actually start helping. The burden to clean up your oversights is on no one but yourself.

We know you built the project in good faith, but it needs serious tweaks. At this point you're being a nuisance, at best, to the very creators of projects your site is deployed upon! If they were in your situation they would have fixed this, shipped it, and have written a detailed postmortem by now.

Could you add a few more words to explain your interpretations of those terms in practice here?

The rest of the folks in the thread and on the Github issue are exploring what those terms mean. I'm not seeing you provide much insight or rationale into your interpretations beyond a simple "No, we are not."

Firstly, you need to make abundantly obvious and clear promises as to what happens to money left it accounts. There is no reason to trust your escrow, let alone your ability to manage or secure it. I honestly still can't find it spelled out clearly, and even then it'd be hard to trust.

I suggest you pull your site before this PR gets even further out of hand, then reboot. If you continue to pursue your project, partner with a couple projects that opt-in (free publicity for you both) and work to their needs. Once you have things in order, then you can think about something more automated.

Would the project be sustainable, or more fair, if it allowed project maintainers to whitelist currencies, and manage that integration for them? That seems more appropriate and follows the the spirit of giving that the project encourages.

People have legitimate reasons to avoid messing with BTC or others. Some people don't even want to hassle with currencies beyond their own.

Even if they oblige in accepting BTC and just convert it to their preferred currency, they'd be forced to go through the process of signing up and verifying with some sort of exchange. What if they don't want to do business with those institutions, or share their financial details to yet another third-party? Cryptocurrencies will succeed, thankfully, but some people don't want to put their toes in those legal waters yet. They will also have to spend more time administering to local laws and taxes regarding donations, which eats away the time they have for other much more fun things.

Texture, glossy-plastic feel, size, two or three bulky protruding buttons in between your keyboard and the pad, and being very distinctly sub par in regard to multi touch functions or detection (though OS integration seems to be the main factor). Size and an offet layout (some are unfriendly to lefties) relative to the rest of the case is a factor on most of their line as well.

... and we devolve into the same old debate over the definition of metadata

I find it adorable how people buy into the rhetoric and trust that Apple doesn't leverage and track your data. They are a hardware and content company, and they absolutely leverage all the data they can in order to better market you the content they think you might want. Its not just business, its personal. Even with the lions' share of their money coming from hardware sales, so what? Without deep, targeted tracking and mining of user data for market research their entire mobile platform would implode along with the business models of their content partners and app makers.

Meanwhile, I show nor imply any support for Google on the subject. They are no better, perhaps worse.

Apple's devotion to privacy ends at phone unlock; the easiest attack vector to social engineer or forensically determine. Today's announcement is not much more than a PR stunt to cover their ass and distract from their own repeated failings to secure their platform or networks.

Most likely because they are the office of government in charge of administering the roads...

You sincerely think that most cyclists in NYC make more than even the average HN reader? You must tip really well! ;)

Stay in that bubble, and tell me more about the rich and entitled bicyclists that slow down your Uber.

So the police and state must suddenly take on this effort? At what cost? Where do the police resources come from? Even then, what if the cyclist still can't afford it? They have to walk? Do they need insurance if they are late and have to run, maybe jay-walk a couple times?

A working bicycle can be found for under $50 in even the most expensive cities, have $0 in operating costs, and will last for decades. There are likely no other personal transportation options which offer that.

Get out of our bubble. Some people have $0 and literally can't afford anything in their budget or to plan more than a few weeks ahead... They can't account for unknown events, and frankly don't need to worry about going bankrupt because of an accident.

Poverty is fucked up.

OK, now tell us how to police it. "Just do it" doesn't count.

And then there's the fact that a large number of cyclists ride because they can't afford a car, let alone the insurance. How do millions of American's get around if you take their bike away, their only means of individual transportation?