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> (no, it's not EverNote).

Amen! I've run desktop wikis, Evernote, OneNote, plain text files, Markdown files, Workflowy, Delicious, Diigo and more, and not fit exactly. Evernote is so easy to dump things into (esp web page clippings) and oh-so-hard to find/retrieve information. I've come to the conclusion tags don't cut it, as vocab I used 4+ years ago may have changed by now - heck even terms I used 3 weeks ago change as my knowledge improves.

A wiki with structure, like the Leo Literate Programming Editor used IIRC has come closest. But the space of PIM is ripe for a killer product that takes semi-structured data and allows us to run with it.

Filemaker for the web, with a bit more flexibility.
I don't think so but even if it is on the table "caught" and "terrorist" need to be very carefully defined.

If "caught" means convicted and "terrorist" means bomb maker or airline pilot with intent to crash a plane into skyscrapers it may be a discussion worth having. If "caught" means arrested or "terrorist" means gave $5 to an Islamic Medical Charity that turns out to have been shady it isn't even close to worth it on a practical level without even considering the principles and general human rights aspects.

My guess is somewhere in between but with people with as weak grasp of the language as the NSA seem to have I would be very careful.
Local prop taxes pay most of the library budget here, and why yes, they do have free wifi. And it rocks.

I'm usually logged into ancestry and google docs while I do genealogy stuff with the microfilm machines. Although as more "stuff" goes online over the years, there's less need to use the microfilm machines. I like the historical map collection and the local history reference books. They also have almost a century of phone books, which is interesting.
Yes, use HTTPS for everything. It's not a surprise that all the logos in this PowerPoint have since moved large portions of their traffic to SSL. SSL isn't perfect (you can still see what domain someone is requesting), but it does prevent a lot of the snooping outlined in the presentation (without vendor participation, it's always possible that Facebook is siphoning off their messages).
Combined with Jstor's actions, MIT could have stopped this circus at anytime. They didn't.
I think the fact that it's an x86 board makes it an attractive first step from Intel into the super-small form factor market -- not that I'd buy an Atom-based snail when I already have a Raspberry-pi turtle at home.
Stripe needs a logo in the Authy app. Also someone needs to force NameCheap to get 2-factor auth.
'I taste what it looks like'
A high-performant mode would be a feature that would be marketed and lauded by the OEM, not something hidden from view and hardcoded only to benchmark testers.

Also, benchmarks are designed to compare apples to apples, so if, as you suggest, the high-performant mode wouldn't be triggered by benchmark use-cases normally, then hard coding the exception is dishonest, as the only explanation is turning your apple into an orange.
Keep in mind that this was from 2008.
I guess they could tap the fibre at a relay point, maybe somewhere like Hawaii.
It's a distinct possibility. The C-suite is finally starting to understand the flaws in shareholder value theory, and going private/independent allows them to focus on long term value without having shareholders clamoring for their resignation due to poor short-term balance sheet results. Giant conglomerates such as GE or P&G will stay public, but I wouldn't be surprised if more focused technology firms - or even companies in other areas of consumer goods - start following this trend. It could be good for industry to have some variety in this way.
Whose irony tag are you closing? I looked at the page source and couldn't find an opening irony tag.
To butcher Churchill - The US does have the most evil and corrupt government; apart from all the others
Sort of like the Pandaboard. Not as many GPIOs though.

Interesting that Intel is dipping its toe in here, At one level it validates the ARM SoC market that is percolating around the embedded space but its also typical in that this doesn't put any of the 'good stuff' Intel could put out there into the market.

Perhaps most interesting has been the continued fraying around the windows/intel empire, what with Microsoft offering an ARM version of Windows on the RT and Intel building clearly not PC compatible motherboards.
In some industries, governments are monopolies or near-monopolies. Take education. In order to even the negotiation, labor is given a monopoly as well.

Not saying that it does more good than harm, just stating the reason.
Help : I get depressed very easily
I am a teenager I just turned 18.I have a problem wich is that I get depressed very easily : whenever a site I made for a client is down and some feature in some software is not working well I get depressed and I start questioning my technical ability but most of the time it's not my fault.
The Constitution also protects US citizens from execution without trial. And yet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
>Obviously, this was not the case, and nobody was harmed during the SWATing.

Except if you had a dog, in which case it would (routinely) be shot to death.

Also imaging the unsuspecting guy inside the house, say, cleaning his gun or something, or even playing Nerf gun with his child and seen through the window.
Very good experience on the latest iPad. I wish there was a way to delete gears though.

Also having the play button toggle pause/play would be nice.
When I look Alioth I really don't see this, particularly the "slowest but JRuby" claim. What is your methodology?

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Edit:
What I do see is all the fastest test program for the interpreted languages, ruby, python, etc are all trading places for the slowest language - the differences seem to be completely minimal. (As there seem to be more perl test programs per benchmark the slowest of them is often near the bottom - perhaps that was your methodology.)
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You got two things wrong there:

> weird sub signatures

No core signatures, but modules on CPAN that make signatures available.

> faked OO

The OO in Perl works almost identically to the one in Python, and i assume Ruby is similar too. The difference is that OO syntax sugar is implemented in core in Python and Ruby, while in Perl it is implemented in Perl directly and available on CPAN but in core.

There's nothing fake about it.

As for your conclusion: I have the strong suspicion that the difference lies less in the language itself [1], but more in the fact that with tryruby you had a modern learning resource available that taught a good coding style; while pretty much all Perl learning written before February 2012 are mainly based on material originating in the early 90ies. [2]

[1] The main Ruby implementation doesn't even have multi-core-capable threads, but uses something that's basically a VM-level event system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads

[2] http://perl-tutorial.org/
Well authors from the 80's are mostly still alive and would like to be able to feed themselves, their partner and cats
Did you read the notes under the slides?
> none of my desktop computers have bluetooth

USB based bluetooth dongles are dirt cheap, so this should not be an expensive or otherwise overly inconvenient issue to resolve.
You often hear "What, I should go darknet? Are you crazy?!".

But that's actually the one thing that makes the most sense now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29
Very true and I commend those who continue to inform others. It seems when I try to talk about it though, too many(all) won't listen, so I've given up. I'm sorry.
Emphasis on the "FEEL" is needed here.
Look, I know this is not what you asked about but I have to say this: For your sake I hope that the prosecution does not stumble across this posting. Given the gravity of your situation your decision to add the gratuitous "my government and the majority mob" to your posting it makes your public apology seem disingenuous.
I also hope that before you post anything else on the Internet in any forum that you run in by your lawyer first.
Human rights issues aside, I have to confess that I did not have much sympathy for your plight before as your initial posting was obviously going to get you in trouble with the law, as unjust as that law might be. You need to stop and take stock of your situation and consider carefully your behaviour going forward, you need to take this more seriously.

As for your startup, if the thing is not really profitable in the first place why are you worried about it? Let it die and move on, it might very well be holding you back from trying something else that will actually be successful.
Do they conduct body cavity search yet? I think Americans can very well adapt to it.
> You can be completely correct and still be a crackpot.

This is very important. What do you mean by "crackpot"?
It seems like working for the NSA is more like working at Inintech than it is like Minority Report. I've been more embarrassed by how Office Space retarded this seems than I have about the privacy abuses. I'm skeptical any of these supposed systems work, or even exist. It reminds me of Iran's pretend fighter jet.
Businesses collect personal data without explicit consent all the time. Think of records when you buy something by card, for example. Not only is the subject of the data not required to give explicit consent for keeping a record of this transaction, but they also have no right in law to have such data deleted, and indeed businesses may not be able to delete it within the law given their obligations to maintain adequate tax records. If you pay for something by card, it's implicit that you agree to this.

For something closer to the tracking we're talking about, it is normal to maintain server logs that show visits to your site, and to record various information that is voluntarily sent by browsers as part of HTTP requests. There's obviously some debate about how much IP addresses represent personal identification, but clearly in practice they can identify individuals under some circumstances. That doesn't mean someone has to ask you for permission to see your IP address when you visit their site, because obviously that would make no sense technically.

Obviously there are implications to keeping some of this data or using it for other purposes, but as I said, this is where things aren't always clear even in theory. Some issues really are black and white, but you quickly get into what is fair or reasonable or implicitly permitted by data subjects and what is crossing that line and should require explicit consent.

In practice, it's even worse, because we have silly things like the infamous EU cookie rules that are almost universally disliked by users (they make the experience of using web sites worse), almost universally ignored by business (who don't want the overheads of implementation and don't want their users' experience to be worse), and as far as I know universally unenforced by regulators (who would in many cases have to start by going after their own governments for flagrant violation). While possibly well-intentioned, such poorly conceived rules just bring data protection law into disrepute while alienating almost everyone. They also demonstrate that realistically there are few risks to flagrantly ignoring the rules as a business, which is hardly going to help with promoting good practice.
I thought for a second this was Vivendi buying Blizzard out of Activision, not the other way round. Blizzard games have definitely gone downhill since the activision merge
maybe he thinks he could be more useful trying to fix the problem at its root rather than just treat one of the symptoms?
Imagine what Nixon would have got up to with this capability. He would probably still be in power!
I think the '80s are a bad example, for that reason, as a relatively recent decade. The '30s are much more problematic: the material is mostly still in copyright, but the original authors are rarely alive, and in many cases even close heirs (like their children) are no longer alive. It's common for works from that era end up being either orphan works with the copyright holder unfindable, or else owned by someone very distantly related to the person who wrote the book.

The 1980s example is mostly interesting for seeing just how quickly almost everything drops out of print.
What cool projects could someone build with this besides scan radio waves?
What do you think they are doing with the confiscated $100 perfume bottle you bought at the duty free ?
This sentiment was also echoed by Snowden in the original video interview. He supposedly had greater insight as to how civil rights at large were being violated, only because as a sysdmin he (and not others) had a broader picture of what was going on, and at what scale it was going on.

So, it's easy to imagine NSA recruiters coaxing potential hires with convincing lines like "we have internal courts, procedures, and checks and balances systems to prevent abuse of citizens' privacy".
> Gmail messages must only be captured when they leave the Google network. They are the only provider to support server-to-server TLS

We should start lobbying for broader support for server-to-server TLS with perfect forward secrecy. While it alone is not sufficient to prevent the wiretapping of targeted individuals, it still makes fishing expeditions or "Big Data" level surveillance much harder. It would help keeping ordinary users' emails protected on the wire and secure the meta data of PGP emails.
Is there no difference between specifically targeting a suspect and gaining physical access to their hardware vs. any number of government employees/contractors sitting at their desk browsing through anybody's data with little to no technical limits and little to no oversight?

One of the slides literally says that users must be careful to and their query with another parameter to avoid running afoul of the law.
it takes a different type of person to get analyzed in person than it does via the Internet

Can you elaborate on that?
I had a large check from a client lifted from my bag at a TSA checkpoint at JFK. New York area airports have also been in the news for theft rings operating in the checked baggage areas.

They need to streamline the passenger security checks so that you can keep your bag under observation and reduce the time the TSA has access to it, and reduce the TSA workforce so they can implement higher standards.
If you call it "my government", then you should obey him. Even if you disagree. Or you can question it in appropriate instances. That's how things work here in the west. If you think the government is treating you unjustly, you can 1) stand your ground, keep your inner freedom (lots of people have done that in Communist and Nazi Germany countries in the past); 2) Run, hide.
I've used a number of static site generators and have stuck with http://ruhoh.com/. It's easy to use and customize for those who want/need an easy solution.

Meanwhile, it's still young enough that I can hack away at it to meet my specific needs. Love it.

"Ruhoh’s goal is to offer a universal, platform-agnostic static blog API. I like how it uses mustache templating and incorporates tag-based blogging without plugins."
A year of Linux desktop at Westcliff High School
So, down-voter, you're saying he is a hacker? Would you care to back up your claim?

No, of course not, if you had any intelligence whatsoever you would have already stated your case rather than down-voting.
Drawing a slash through a gear seems to delete it. I'm not sure whether or not that is intentional
10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you
Yes and no. Remember, it's not a silver bullet or a secret security sauce.
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The government looks really angry:

"Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday, "The insolent and impudent act by the young couple who insulted Islam showed that freedom of expression and irresponsible opinion can jeopardise the community," according to The Star."

Doesn't sound like a very tolerant place at all.
Pick the right tool for the right job. For a product team Kanban does not make much sense. I agree with your comments in general. But for a PS or Custom Development team, where most projects are integration type projects or custom reports and tend to take 2-3 days to complete, it is a good way to go.
How many of these "terrorists" were just young men suffering typical teenage angst, and happened to be of the wrong religion?
There is of course a spectrum of "indieness". You seem to be subscribing to the small indie theory, where the team is comprised of just a handful of people; the perpetual underdog.

On the other side are those who define indie as your level of freedom to do what you please with your product. In that case, even though they may be large and successful, being privately owned and without a 3rd party (ie. publisher) gives them the freedom to take their games in whatever direction they choose.
Preserving saved-game compatibility in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
The question isn't how many endpoints the NSA has, it is how much bandwidth they have at the endpoints (actually, it is more about how many unique users use their endpoints). But, assume that 1% of Tor connections goes through an NSA exit node. 1% of that 1% would go through both an NSA exit node at both ends, and is therefore comprimised.
Tor tries to mitigate this by always using the same exit nodes for your connection (reducing the chance of ever being compromised, but if you are compromised, it is for much longer). However, inevitably you occasionally do need to change your exit nodes, which gives the NSA another roll of the dice. Additionally, when talking about drag-net surveillance, 1% of 1% is still a lot.

The bigger protection is the ease with which the NSA can mount this attack on TOR. I have no doubt that they could do it, however I do question if they can do it on a massive scale.
Thanks. I just redesigned my site. I'll be sure to change that.
Change the dom without requiring a round-trip to the server and a full-page refresh :)
wait, left or right sidebar?
They do in Mountain View.
You're completely missing the point -- it's unfeasible, unpractical, and unproductive hitting millions of people on the head with $5 wrenches. This is the entire point -- they can do it easily with everyone now, they're not hitting people with wrenches -- that would invoke suspicion and retaliatory response that would curtail their legal powers to snoop around.
Simply arresting all of the TSA employees would go a long way toward making air travel safer.

Why aren't TSA employees required to register as sex offenders?
draw a slash though the gear to delete.

I learned a bunch by watching the demo (big ? on the right)
Why would we assume that TLS is safe? The NSA could just as easily compromise the CAs and get all the certificates they need.
Hey fellow Purdue grad!
One thing I can't help but noticing is that the majority of discussions regarding this talk are focusing on the examples presented.

I thought it was pretty clear that the talk wasn't about whether constraint-based solvers and visual programming environments were the "future of programming." It was a talk about dogma. Brent points out that none of the examples he's mentioned are inherently important to what he was trying to get across: they were just examples. The point he was trying to elucidate was that our collective body of knowledge limits our ability to see new ways of thinking about the problems we face.

It is at least somewhat related to the adage, when you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail. He's just taking a historical view and using irony to illustrate his point. When computer technology reached a certain level of power there was a blossoming garden of innovative ideas because the majority of people didn't know what you cannot do.

What I think he was trying to say, and this is partly coloured by my own beliefs, is that beginner's mind is important. Dogma has a way of narrowing your view of the world. Innovation is slow and incremental but there's also a very real need to be wild and creative as well. There's room for both and we've just been focusing on one rather than the other for the last 40 years.
Aside from the standard "customer service" jadedness, there's a class stratification at play: people who have to take a TSA screener job to pay the bills, versus people with enough income to fly. When you put an underclass in control of the overclass, don't be surprised when they try to wield whatever power they can, regardless of how disproportionate.

It would be an interesting experiment to staff a TSA gate with frequent fliers selected "jury pool" style (say, one day of service for every 100k miles flown annually), and see if both passenger and agent job ratings are any different.
I really don't like giving out my phone number to a small company with no apparent revenue model, no matter what they are saying they are going to do or not do with that number.

Sorry for being cynical, but judging from all these services coming and going all over the place, any of the following is going to happen within a year: 1) authy gets bought by $COMPANY. With some likelihood it's not a company I want to have my phone number. 2) authy runs out of money and needs a revenue stream. Thus it changes the TOS and starts selling phone numbers. 3) authy shuts down. Who knows what's going to happen with my phone number then.

No. I'd rather use any other HOTP app that doesn't require any personal data (which is one of the basic ideas behind HOTP).

Authentication and my phone number are the two things you have to really prove you have got your act together before I trust you with them.
Are there any existing reliable alternatives?
Not mentioned in this story: Chinese internet giant Tencent is part of the "investment group" Kotick has put together. Basically, the company is switching ownership from one conglomerate to a diffusion of others. I'd hardly call that "independent" in any sense of the word.

This story is less about independence, and more about allowing Vivendi to cash out on its 2007 merger of Activision and Blizzard. Basically, Vivendi transferred Blizzard to Activision in exchange for 52% of the combined entity (Activision Blizzard). While A-B has been doing well over the years, Vivendi has not fared as well. It wants some to capture some of the upside through the buyback.
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Has anyone here used both Authy and Duo Mobile and would like to recommend one over the other?
Let me leave this here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/alvin-and-vivian-ja...
Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately I didn't think to copy my question - I was just typing into a help form, and they didn't copy it in their response. Basically something very vague about working on a crowdfunding site like kickstarter, and I asked what was the maximum allowable payment authorization window (for example, kickstarter doesn't actually bill for up to 60 days - I wanted to see how many months beyond that they would allow). I hadn't even applied to Amazon Payments yet, but I was signed in to my personal amazon account in order to access the help form. This was their response:

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