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> Afterwards data is sent AES-encrypted, which relatively simple.

It's simple to encrypt using AES, but that doesn't mean it is simple to encrypt in a secure way (i'm looking at you ECB mode). There are too many ways to accidentally mess up.
sorry to be the guy that gets picky about words, but i think you mean contention rather than paradox
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I look at it from the standpoint of trust. How can we trust that no foul play was invloved. I'm not saying take it as the gospel... Best just to keep an opened mind at this point.
The benefit I get out of these stories is gaining a new perspective, motivation, insight etc. 99% of the time its inconsequential whether the story is bullshit or not. Spending mental energy trying to determine veracity is utterly useless for everyone involved. You win no points for determining its fake and yet you miss an opportunity for self-reflection and growth.
From a comment above, I think you'll be able to put
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in your .profile (or .bashrc or whatever) and ctrl+s/q won't be a problem anymore.
Cool idea. Initially I thought you just meant usernames with swears in them, etc, but I can see the value of such a list!

Another possible use is as a filter email addresses for actual human beings. For example, sales@example.com is probably not a human, while neya@example.com probably is.
Yes, like having a job...
>> a terribly vague term, meaningless without knowledge of the specific comparisons being made <<

otoh http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test...

otoh http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test...

:-)
> I'll just build another fixed width extract with this day. It will run in 1/16th of the time of the original. People will not notice or care until it breaks again. Ad absurdum.

Life of the corporate drone. And yet... in exchange for forfeited dreams and ambitions you get a nearly assured nice retirement someday and little need to think or work hard.
It doesn't supplant core.async -- it extends it. Pulsar includes a compatible implementation of the core.async API (http://puniverse.github.io/pulsar/manual/async.html).

We like core.async because it can be used in ClojureScript, but Quasar/Pulsar can be used by any JVM language. You can use the Pulsar implementation of core.async to communicate with Java or Ruby code. Plus, it's much more performant than core.async when there's a lot of interaction between go blocks. It also works in a cluster.

So, core.async for the browser, and Pulsar's compatible core.async for the JVM. core.async is also just a small part of Pulsar (Quasar/Pulsar have what we call fiber-blocking IO, a full Erlang-like actor system and more[1]). We promise to keep our core.async implementation fully compatible with the API, so you don't have to change APIs if you don't want to.

[1] One of the most exciting differences is that Pulsar fibers (each go block runs in a fiber) are not limited to a single Clojure expression. This means that you can run a complete ring handler inside a go block.
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This is very, very wrongheaded.

The internet as a transmission protocol is robust and redundant. And if it were used as a sort of replacement for the telephone system then that would be enough. But the architecture of the way the internet is today used in practice is far more centralized. If the web worked the way bittorrent does then perhaps your comment would be accurate, but it doesn't, so we have a "web" that is not strong due to its massive interconnectivity but rather weak because each part of it, content-wise, lives in comparative isolation and is easy to cut off (for now).
The American government can already kill it's own citizens without due process[1]. That's not very far from the NSA killing citizens.

EDIT: One intelligence agency, CIA, has already killed an American citizen[2].

1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-ki...
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01...
This doesn't seem to actually play chess.
Other than banks, creditors, and credit-score companies? I imagine there are far more businesses with access to view our financial accounts than we realize day-to-day.
I have never understood why many companies have executive and managers doing administrative tasks. They should get administrative assistants tracking time, projects, resources, etc. It is a waste of their executive and technical talents.

There are many great things that a CIO can do without having to spend a lot of their time tracking things.
I wonder... I reckon you could implement a totem inside GNU screen that kept track of how many ssh-sessions deep you were.
I find the title of this article to be unsettling. The title almost makes it sound like he died to avoid going to the conference.

While I guess that feeds into the much beloved past time of conspiracy theory, I can't help but think it could have been worded significantly better.
@glanch you appear to be hellbanned, not sure why. I don't know what the offer was, but it wasn't just "job offer," they bought his business and are integrating it into their fantasy sports apps.
You don't have to be a single developer to build an app that does this. You can be a sales guy, marketing guy, etc. The power is in knowing how and when to delegate. In the soloprenuer world this is done through outsourcing. Many folks have businesses that they pay for through a suite of products. None of which generate enough revenue to pay for their salary, but the sum of all do and more. One major advantage of this is a risk diversification. IF market X falls out, then only one small income stream falls through and doesnt bring the business owner with it. Multiple income streams via a portfolio of apps is what a lot of folks do. However, there are many folks who have one app and they do great.

Listen to Startups For The Rest of Us, Bootstrapped with Kids, Lifestyle Business Podcast, Product People, etc etc. Go to conferences like Microconf, Baconbiz, etc. There's tons of us out there.

ONe additional thing to note is, alot of us that fit this category (I heard a number on Bootstrapped with Kids where its almost 60%) are people with a family to support (kids, wife, etc). A lot of us cannot get up and move to SOMA and work at Startup Company X while stuffing our family into a shoebox sized apartment in the Tenderloin district. Sure there are options, but sometimes you CANT move. Medical conditions, ailing family, a support system that you cannot leave, etc.

When its time like these, people start to bootstrap and build portfolio of products to get back the most important resource they have: time. Your kids are only young, ONCE. Spending that time working 80 hour weeks at a startup that is not yours where you get .000125 of a percent of a company IIF they go big (acquired, IPO, etc) usually isn't worth the trade off considering that the vast majority of startups fail.
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Actually I think the stretch was the other way around. We already knew, from a long history, that the US intelligence establishment kills people. We only recently found out that they ALSO record all our phone calls. Just sayin...
Good to know. I think the last time I tried it was iOS 4 or so.
This project needs a better example on the homepage, I think.

This one is interesting: http://chessboardjs.com/examples#3004
Nothing related but see: http://lichess.org/ (source code https://github.com/ornicar/lila)
It's both funny and sad to see every thread about Snowden's potential asylum outside the US turn into the good/evil dichotomy.
You could find a smaller problem to solve. Get up an hour early and work for yourself.
This is a great service :)

Are "Popular releases" based on the browser's geographic location, or should we be concerned with our privacy here? "My" popular releases have a lot of national bands, hence my question ;)
The NSA is recording phone calls? We wish. The NSA is capturing all (most?) data going in and out of America and frequently cooperates with other countries by exchanging data, thus having access to a large chunk of worldwide communications. It also cooperates closely with the CIA, to catch or kill 'terrorists'.

How is it a bit of a stretch to think an organization that powerful might kill someone?
I'm not sure if politeness is the motivator. Imagine if you had done that, for all hotlinks to your script. Then, it turns out a children's website is hotlinking your script.

Some idiot at Company X decides that it's actually your fault, since its your script that did it. To save face, they get an expensive lawyer to sue you. Next thing you know, you're a registered sex offender.
How many really odd deaths of people who had information the NSA wouldn't like getting out before we consider the possibility?
Travel doesn't really change things. The issue is sovereignty

I don't know how meaningful "sovereignty" is any more, though. We live in very literally a global community today. People visit each other's countries for work and pleasure, some for a short time, some making a relatively permanent move. Even without physical presence, in the age of the Internet and easy international shipping, everyone's economy depends deeply on those outside their own country.

The kind of "us and them" mentality we've seen in recent debates about privacy and security is an anachronism, a work of fiction based on romantic notions from a different time and place. The key difference between political vs. financial influences reigning in that mentality is that the established ruling class in each "us" group can still exert considerable control over the political landscape, but the financial landscape is shaped by reality and has therefore adapted faster to modern life. You can spin your surveys showing that 99.97% of $YOUR_COUNTRY's citizens have no problem with $ABUSE, but if the reality is that the abuse is unpleasant and people don't like it, the money is still going to show it. Ask anyone in the air travel industry who has the option of using various controversial security measures or not.
It's been in place a while (but I'm not sure it's government imposed). I've moaned about it a bunch - I have no idea why O2 feel the need to block http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ for instance. Is it because there's a 'fuck' in the URL? Ridiculous.
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1. were made by single hackers (or verry small teams)

2. make money

If possible add a short description.

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I don't think it's meant to play chess, it's just to show chess positions (see the example page: http://chessboardjs.com/examples).

It is in a similar vein to this: http://andrewphoy.github.io/chess-replayer/. (Which is more full-featured.)
The phone does not need to be unlocked to go out of airplane mode.
What among the "web 3.0" series of sites/applications do you think is really changing the world?

I think what we do in development is cool and all, and most importantly profitable, but I don't know if it changes the world much.

Google changed the world. Lotus 1-2-3 changed the world. DOS and Linux changed the world.

But any new application? I think we're just offering luxury items. I don't see anything wrong with that (see "profitability" above).
I'm guessing it must be covered - either it won't escalate to the account login or something similar.
Extraordinarily well said.
Do you have any source for this? Google shows nothing and Duck Duck Go only points me to a reddit thread with that exact same comment and no source.

I mean just about the specific case, I know that the Tiananmen square incident is unknown to almost all Chinese.
>Yes.

> Let's not forget that it's Russia.

USA has death penalty, Russia hasn't had it for about two decades.
When I originally saw this I posted it with the title as it was on the article. The article itself has been updated with a lot more information than was originally on there and also the title has changed.
Whoops -- yep, you're right! (In my defense, it's very early and I'm very bad at words.)
That's a great reason to go into management. I also was in a position where I felt there was nothing else to learn as I could just build the same thing over and over. I moved into a different technical area instead.
> Obviously money talks!

You make it sound like Halliburton just wrote a check to the DOJ to make the problem go away. Big companies don't need to write checks--they have hostages.

Put yourself in a DOJ prosecutor's shoes. You've got evidence of illegal conduct. You can't pin it on anyone specific, but you know the company overall engaged in the conduct. What do you do?

Do you randomly prosecute the CEO, simply by virtue of his position, for activity you can't directly pin on him? If you do this, watch every multi-national rush to re-incorporate in Switzerland.

Do you shut down the company, in the process putting tens of thousands of innocent people out of work in the midst of a shitty economy, punishing shareholders who had nothing to do with the illegal activity, and destroying a local economy?[1] All for what? To prove a point?

No, you don't do any of these things. You do exactly what the DOJ did in this case: force them to make a $55 million "donation" to the National Wildlife Fund, pay a token $200k fine, and let them go on with a stern warning. That's just the nature of law enforcement in a globalized economy, where multi-national corporations can "vote with their pocketbooks" and have countries compete to see who can be the most lax about law enforcement.

[1] E.g. consider the criminal indictment and subsequent dissolution of Arthur Andersen, and its impact on Chicago. While most of the personnel moved to other accounting firms in the city, losing the global headquarters of a $10 billion/year giant in the industry was not a good thing for the local economy.
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I can only interpret this as a power grab. This is not a sensible solution, it's an opportunistic solution.

I think many people in modern society don't understand the power of data. The NSA scandal has shown how much people underestimate the power companies can have when they own everyone's data. And similarly, they underestimate the power that a government can have when it owns everyone's data.

We need to do a better job of showing the lay person how much they're underestimating the value of their data, and how much power the data aggregators have.
Where is your threshold that marks the point where the exercise of gov't authority becomes tyrannical?
What a crock. I get that some of this may be tongue in cheek but I really despise this attitude. There's this sort of weird pseudo-religious belief that by virtue of being involved in a startup you're somehow doing the world some great good.

Your new social/local/mobile app isn't world changing no matter what kind of hustler you are, no matter how much hype you put out, no matter how much money you raise. Anyone can be a capitalist for good or bad whether its exploiting a niche market segment on your own or with a startup.

I believe that regardless of whether you're on your own or do a startup, if your motivation is purely financial you can still do the world great good. Similarly, do-gooders with a grand vision can harm the world. Your stupid little messaging app can connect people from around the world and change the way people communicate (throw in some good crypto and you've done even more good for private comms) or your energy startup that's supposed to change the way we fuel our vehicles and provide clean cheap energy forever can end up doing great harm to the environment or put millions out of jobs as a side effect. These are obviously very hypothetical examples but the point is that there's no "motivation + execution = ethical/unethical success" formula.

There's way too many shades of gray to even be able to consider generalizing like this post does.
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>Worst of all, PIH is probably not trying to make the world a better place through technology. He's basically exploiting a narrow arbitrage opportunity and is probably either unethical or lazy.

Is this supposed to be what "startup guy" thinks, or is it also the opinion of the author? Seems like a pretty jarring assumption, if you ask me.
Anyone know if Tim Berners-Lee has come out to say anything about this?

I believe he's expressed views in favour of net neutrality and against censorship in the past. With his participation in the Olympic ceremony perhaps, if he were to get in the news, the public would pay some attention.
Passive income != affiliate income. That may come from the internet marketing guru "buy my course" crew being very vocal about selling a certain dream. Some succeed, but there's more money reliable money in building a real business.
That seems excessive. Can we trust that the government isn't setting up an elaborate "Truman Show"? I'd just go with the Occam's Razor test: it doesn't really seem to make sense and seems like a much higher risk than whatever "they" are trying to cover up. Manning -- not dead. Snowden -- not dead. If the US really wanted them dead, they would be dead.
You can do IP over DNS today:

http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
To be fair, it's been a while since I've looked at it, so it could have matured quite a while. I should give it more of a chance. My impression was probably also coloured by not liking Python... Other than that, the main objection I had was that it seemed on one hand that writing charms seemed over-complicated (might have been coloured by the Pyhthon examples..) , and that there seemed to be too much "magic" in the examples. But I looked right after it was released, so it's definitively time for another look.

(EDIT: It actually does look vastly improved over last time; not least the documentation)

Specifically, I run a private cloud at work across a few dozen servers and a bit over a hundred VMs currently, and we very much need control over which physical servers we deploy to because the age and capabilities varies a lot - ranging from ancient single CPU servers to 32 core monstrosities stuffed full of SSDs. They're also in two data centres.

When I last looked at juju it seemed to lack a simple way to specify machines or data centres. I just looked at the site again and it has a "set-constraint" command now that seems to do that.

The second issue is/was deployment. OpenStack or EC2 used to be the only options for deploying other than locally. Local deployment was possible via LXC. EC2 is ludicrously expensive, and OpenStack is ridiculous overkill to us compared to our current system (which is OpenVz - our stack predates LXC - managed via a few hundred lines of Ruby script) .

I don't know if that has changed (will look, though, when I get time away from an annoying IP renumbering exercise...), but we'd need either a lighter option ("bare" LXC or something like Docker on each host would both be ok) or an easy way to hook in our own provisioning script.

(EDIT: I see they've added support for deployment via MAAS at least, which is a great)
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I always thought this tip was common sense... Although my entry to the programming world wasn't through the normal means.
http://mirror.seize.it/report.html

That report is quite old though and just compares compilers with the nofib benchmark.

JHC can't compile repa as repa requires multi-parameter type classes which JHC doesn't support unfortunately.
It absolutely is a stretch. You're comparing apples & oranges. To me it seems like saying "A soldier kills militants in XYZ country. Therefore it's not a stretch to say he kills his family if he's mad."
As someone whose Twitter account has been suspended as a result of using the OP's "Passive Income" hack, I wish he would spend more time thinking the project.
Ok, that's an interesting point. I'd argue that local storage hasn't really taken hold yet, i.e. the large majority of sites and apps don't work offline, but yeah, it already stretches the notion of a thin client (hence my beef about using this term on where we're headed in the future).
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> Maybe thats why most non-technical / non-design founders I have known seem to really just be about the money.

Not to pick nits, but I think the dichotomy you're setting up here is silly. Business administration or leadership are skills as technical as coding or design, and if done correctly, can be more so.

With that in mind, there's an art to making money. Just churning over cash in the short term doesn't have that. Building a brand that can last for a century takes a genius.
I'm not a law expert, but in this case Chevron is the prosecuter. It's a civil case.
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Are you referring to the whole Vlingo thing from a couple years ago?
I'm just getting started with Haskell and there will soon come a time where I need to jump in the deep end. When I'm ready to learn Category theory, what background will I need? Is elementary calculus and a little linear algebra enough? Or am I going to need some more advanced math concepts? Once I've got the right background, where should I go to learn Category theory?
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Well said in general but I have 2 fundamental disagreements

re: #2 - this assumes that the quality of workflow/creation tools have peaked. Part of what drives the growth in tablets as a work device is simply that an office filled with tablets is an order of magnitude cheaper to supply than an office filled with workstations. I'll admit some category of activities (eg programming, architecture, anything precision related) will resist the shift to mobile/tablets harder than others, but many white collar jobs don't actually require desktop grade computing, it just happens to be the case that desktops/laptops were all that was available and that is where the tools were. (even this is being pushed - look at the Binary App for development and Plangrid for architecture)

Re: #3 - Marco argues this point re: HTML5 (and Android) really well. With the hardware accelerated graphics made possible by iOS 7 (and the better hardware coming with the next gen iOS devices), you're going to have to work REALLY hard to create HTML5 apps that "wow" like native ones can.
All of the examples of aeson I've seen have been for very simple, flat, json objects. What happens when you have json with nested objects. Do you have to create types for each intermediate json object or can you pull the values out into the top level type? If so how?
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My long term bet is Haskell, but boy do the examples look ugly. And most of Haskell really is ugly. My mind just can't get around type names like "M a p f b c => (a -> p) -> b -> c -> a" just yet. I know it's not hard to understand, but it is hard to parse and build up context.

Looking forward to having 5+ years of experience in this brilliant language.
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