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> ... instant dismissal and black-listing (from pretty much the entire computer security industry)

I'm not sure where you got that from. A large percentage of the security industry is made up of people who got their start as blackhats.
Yeah, whatever invention is, playing with it seems to be the first wish. Quidditch should be so much nicer with this robot.
It's a brilliant hack, they pay exactly zero for this.

You get a licence from Cisco, and they pay royalties to the MPEG LA for that licence. Now, the H.264 licence fees are per copy distributed, but there's a cap on the fees, and Cisco's own usage puts them _way_ over the cap anyhow, so distributing this thing freely for Mozilla to use costs them literally nothing at all. Plus, they're apparently really distributing binaries for any and all platforms you can think of (someone mentioned S/360).
They may as well have named it "Mobster Mail"
Mozilla has been resisting Googles libre codecs even
though they come with full source code and a patent
pledge. Google has already even paid to eliminate
potential threat from the evil MPEG LA. It is as
free(libre) as you can get in this space.

Source? As far as I can tell Firefox implements WebM for <video> and VP8 for WebRTC. In what way is Firefox resisting Google's libre codecs?
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I certainly can't blame them for being upset. But for a NATO country to expel the US embassy would be a very dramatic act with uncertain consequences. There's a lot of fallout to accept there, and the impact would be broader than US-German relations.
Reddit has been compromised. Just look at what happened on r/worldnews with the u/douglasmacarther and the RT censorship thing, or how the NSA-Israel Memorandum submissions were purposely 'buried'

http://rt.com/news/rt-reddit-ban-censorship-169/
I'm really interested in their solution for solving metadata leakage. I just looked over the SCIMP white paper, and it didn't mention anything about metadata.
See Bitmessage. It has two options. Either senders can spend a significant amount of time (~30 seconds) doing a proof-of-work calculation and send a message to a single person, or they can spend the same amount of time and send a message to an arbitrary number of people, but only if those people are subscribed to the person sending the message.
Maybe they are going to require "Proof of work" - https://bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work
...Also - stop sending repeated bulk emails because you're are "sorry" that a "mistake" was made in the link in previous email.

These "apologies" becoming a new epidemic in attempt to boost emails open rates
Well, if people used a decent editor to start with . . . but that's not a flame war I want to start (at least not today). I've been tempted to turn on checks in Jenkins that would automatically reject certain "broken" changesets: whitespace at EOL (easy enough to check by using the already provided .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample), reduction in number of unit/regression tests (can be overridden by hand, after conferring with at least one other developer), etc.

We have these awesomely powerful systems, with this awesomely powerful software, that oftentimes I'm depressed by people doing things by hand. Heck, if I was really not willing to deal with whitespace retards, I'd just make a hook on the server auto indent and whitespace cleanup all changes before commit.
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True. One other interesting point about the
"trial de novo" mechanism, in states that have it,
is that the judge in a de novo trial can sometimes
(in the case of a conviction) impose a harsher
sentence than what would have been possible in
the original trial. So invoking that right, even when
you have it, does entail some additional risk as well.

That, along with the sheer inconvenience, cost, etc., is probably why few people bother doing this for traffic citations. It's easier to just pay your fine, accept the increase in your insurance premiums and go on your merry way. :-(
Actually, this may be very good news for Kurzweil. In his last book "How to Create a Mind", he lays out a theory centered around a "pattern-recognizer" unit that is repeated throughout the columns and regions of the neocortex. In his book, he assumed it to be made up of several neurons wired in a specific manner, but if each neuron can do some hierarchical processing of its own then the pattern-recognizer might be reducible to a single neuron.
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The name "Dark Mail" is going to automatically be associated with the "Dark Net" which brings up thoughts of drug dealing and child pornography. This is their first problem.

The second is their approach. Overcoming the install base of current email, no matter how much better your new offering, is practically impossible. So instead secure layers on top of existing email is your only feasible option.
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Not even close, I'm afraid. We must have looked at different pages.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Goldman-Sachs-Analyst-Salari...

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that these self-reported numbers don't agree with you at all. I'm curious what your explanation would be for the huge discrepancy.
What's missing? I was very skeptical about Bitmessage, but it totally surpassed my expectations when I tried it.
At the moment:
-Baseball
-Basketball
-Cycling
-Disc Golf
-Football
-Golf
-Hockey
-Lacrosse
-Running
-Soccer
-Swimming
-Table Tennis
-Tennis

But we are open to suggestions for adding in other support.
Seems like the "reimplemented" portions are bits that need to interact directly with the script environment -- String is implemented in terms of V8's native strings, etc... That seems like a feature, not a bug -- you wouldn't want the interpreter needlessly doing bytewise diddling of an abstraction that is already very robust in the host environment.
>Bankers do their best to make sure average people can't participate in IPOs

Please, elaborate on that for the rest of us. How exactly is it that "bankers" prevent you from participating, and why would that even be in their interest to do so?
Is this a "promotion" along the lines of what happened at Twitter? I wonder if it's an issue of VC/Early employees wanting to direct the company towards an exit vs. setting up as an institution for the long haul? Or is it just a more artistically minded co-founder moving on?
We need a new one for security measures, they are bound to become more popular because of NSA.
These intuitive guides are great for those of us who've built an intuitive understanding of higher math through practical application on computers instead of formal, academic means.
In some cultures 32 or even 35 is the age when a person is started to be considered mature. Why so much fuss about the age? 'Start when ready and don't procrastinate' is the moto I like.
How where they false? The PRISM program is real. There is a way for the NSA to automatically access Google's databases, with Google's knowledge under secret blanket (not case-by-case) court orders. They where clearly lying when they denied any "direct access".
> The last men claim to have discovered happiness, but blink every time they say so.
> Jeez, that's way too paranoid

Of course it is, it's ridiculous. What the NSA is doing is despicable but why would that keep you from creating a user account or viewing a webpage from your computer?
would really like to know more about this as well.
What originally pushed me toward Recurly was that they support VAT (and I run a french company) - plus Stripe wasn't available back then in France either :-) Currently adding VAT support to Stripe is fairly complex (based on what people who implemented it told me), you basically have to do everything yourself and add custom line items via invoice callbacks.

I hope they will support more VAT at some point!

I will try to make a more educated comparison later on though.

Really wanted to thank you for the link to the Koudoku gem and for sharing more online; the more we have information on how to implement SaaS services, the more developers will be empowered to start businesses.
PDF: http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/tutorfinal.pdf

At the bottom of the page.
Agree. It could be very useful at events and a good addition to Twitter's nearby feature, because of the intention to actually meet people.
There are already too many of these services that don't interoperate with each other, or sources of data in an open way.

http://activitystrea.ms/ is a good first step in opening some of this stuff up for consumption.

The way it is now, each front-end service has to do a ton of work for each data source they want to integrate with. There should be services that translate data into a shared format. And then front-end services can focus on their idea instead of having to parse all the data.
AFAICT, we (Mozilla) are trying to solve TWO problems:

1. We need a video codec that everybody agrees on for WebRTC.

2. We need a way to play H.264 on Windows XP and other operating systems that don't provide native H.264 playback, for compatibility with almost all HTML5 <video> content on the web.

If it weren't for problem #2, then I would agree with you more. But, really what Mozilla seems to have said is "Hey, if you provide a free H.264 decoder without field-of-use restrictions, then we'll compromise on WebRTC so we can make sure everybody on every platform can play all the HTML5 video content available on the web."

I don't have an opinion on VP9. But, there's no VP9 content on the web now. There's tons of H.264 content on the web. Mozilla got burned waiting for other players to help with WebM adoption before. Waiting for VP9 would probably just end up with us getting burned again.

FWIW, I work at Mozilla but not on this stuff, and I learned all I know on this topic from Brendan Eich's blog post.
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Wow https://github.com/andrewculver/koudoku is amazing. Thanks.
In interviews and in general, it usually is a good idea to get a correct yet inefficient solution and then try to optimize it. This usually yields better insights in my experience. Here is a quadratic solution:

https://gist.github.com/isbo/7239007
>i think this is an interesting sign that we may actually not be in a massive tech bubble.

Multi-billion dollar valuation, zero profits?

I don't know if we are or are not in a tech bubble, but this is definitely not evidence that we aren't.
Not sure I understand. Both SilentCircle and Lavabit have ceased offering their services. Are they now combined in an advocacy group to design a new email protocol and get it adopted by the IETF?
Like everyone else (with any common marketing sense), it seems like something like "security" or "privacy" would be much more positive connotations than "dark."

A quick search shows SecureMail and PrivateMail are commercially used, but LockedMail and SignedMail aren't.

I don't think it'd be too late to (eventually?) do a rebrand/cobrand for the product, especially if someone comes up w/ something particularly good. I think something that even a slight bit of spitballing would turn up something much better.

Some thoughts on naming:

* If the first word ends in e like securemail/privatemail you actually get email in the word

* something that could be shortened like email, but will connote secure sending - "send me that via pmail/smail"

* something that has familiar connotations of privacy/sealed delivery (registered mail?) or something might work as well
Sounds like a perfect use case for driving goggles.
That's one thing I never understood. The law was passed 3.5 years before they had to go live. Seems like they should have had plenty of time but it seems like almost all of the coding was done in the past year with little testing along the way.
Unfortunately, not only do a lot of US citizens still support such practices (I think around 40 percent - as long as they mention "to protect you from terrorists"), but most of the rest who don't agree with the practices, can't be bothered to do much about it, like even calling their representative, let alone going out and protesting.

I do believe this is very true:

> All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing - Burke, Edmund

So, yes, I'd say most Americans are responsible for this yes, by doing nothing to stop it. So don't blame the rest of the world if they start "hating Americans" or "hating America". You are part of it, you are responsible to change the America you want the world to love, too.

Blaming only the government, that you probably voted in, too, does not cut it.
IPO shares are a carrot to reward lucrative existing clients
Well...

given the game the leakers are playing with these documents...

I would wait before I made any definitive statements about who is a victim and who is a villain.

The release of these documents seem to be carefully timed and calculated to give the government, corporations and people involved in the surveillance state the time and latitude to incriminate themselves.

Not only are the Government, the corporations and the people involved trying to tell a story... clearly the leakers are trying to tell a story as well.

Are we at the climax of the leakers' plot? or are we still building?

I think it might be best to get a look at all the cards first... and then decide what happened.
Really cool hack, and yet I can't help but think that the mile-high software stack between the developer and the CPU continues to grow meaning we're stuck in a perpetual game of filling up spare CPU cycles with nothing in particular.

I'm sure I'll see a demo showing off something that barely runs on modern hardware that we were more than capable of running with good performance in 1990.

sigh I feel like I'm being such a Debbie-downer even if this is a really cool hack.
Isn't contacting the author the natural thing to do? Some googling found a user profile for him: http://www.embedded.com/user/JackCrens
You've misinterpreted the law. It's not telling you where to put your GPS; it's telling you what manner of device you may mount on top of the dash.
I think not sending all of the data in cleartext will still be a huge improvement.
Is there a list of accounts affected somewhere?
As far as I can tell (given that they haven't actually released anything yet, I can't verify), they will release the source under a BSD style license, which grants you copyright rights to modify and use the source as you like. A BSD style license grants you no patent rights, however. They will furthermore release a binary blob that grants you patent rights, but only if you use that specific binary blob obtained from them and don't redistribute it.

That's as open as you can get with a patent-encumbered codec. I'm not sure what else they could do.
That's how mobile radios have always worked... CB, FRS, GMRS, etc. Definitely not a new problem. Repeaters can mitigate the problem somewhat.
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Hotcorner screensaver?
By building and supplying those blobs to users?
Flashback to 2005 and the Security DR 90105 00 PC DEFENDER Wireless Screen Lock Data Protection. Hope Sesame put more effort into wireless security and the client software!

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Coding4FunSomeAssemblyRequired...

http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/PC-Defender-Wireless-PC...
Just mark them as Spam and you'll do good for yourself and for the world at large.
Email providers do honor these actions and deliver less of that stuff next time not only to you but to other users.
The chicken and egg problem can be pretty frustrating with an app like this. There needs to be a critical mass of users in a certain area for it to be reliable, which is easier in some places than others. Best of luck though.
The problem is that our knowledge is limited. Once we have a better understanding of certain biological processes, we may be able to find the right abstractions.
I submit, "Envelope." It's a good analogy, since now we're essentially sending all of our email on postcards.
China's Lanxiang vocational school is innocent .
蓝翔技校是清白的
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jun/02/chinese-sc...
IETF adoption is a red herring. The IETF does not matter. What matters is market uptake. Reputable providers will need to offer the protocol as a service, and popular client software will need to integrate it into their applications.
USSID18 is what should be talked about regarding these violations. The sooner people become more familiar with the laws in place to prevent this the better the outcome for all involved.
Once the JVM emits machine code for the bytecode, it doesn't matter what language the JVM is coded in.
why make a bash function, when git has it's own alias feature?

Also, you're only accepting one argument, where there could be many depending on your refspec and path.
Soviet Union had lots of drawbacks, no doubt, but they did a lot of good stuff like rope roads, railroad, undergrounds etc. It's cheaper to maintain the heritage than build something from scratch, why is it neglected?
It doesn't really matter. It's easily available distraction and people will end up looking on movies instead of the road all the time.
It's like with TV in your car. It's not obstructing your view on the road, it's too easy to focus attention on it thus it's illegal to have one (unless it's switched off over some speed or w/e details various countries/states implement).

>I imagine a responsible Glass user could do the same.

The problem is many users won't be responsible. Good driver who doesn't use phone when driving is focused and well trained could responsibly break speed limit very often and still drive safer than 99% of people out there. Unfortunately it's impossible to fit the law to such cases so people who pay attention are hold to the same standards as texting-while-driving morons.
Same with glass - banning it is better for everybody.
Taking on EDI projects are the the most difficult jobs I've had as a dev or as an admin. Interacting with someone else's database schema is like trying to put yourself in its designer's head, and it's on a good day when you have a standard protocol or database format. I've mostly worked in the auto-industry as end-user support and currently employed by a wholesaler - the connection between parts manufacturers overseas and dealerships, body shops and others. The business is more complicated than that, but the auto industry is one with many standards, lots of vendor lock in, and proprietary formats and coding schemes for everything.

With EDI you don't get to dictate standards, you can't demand JSON/web interfaces, you usually have to deal with flat text files (good luck) or schemaless XML (you're doomed) if that. Some vendors just provide XLS files to an FTP endpoint and call it a day. Some vendors send pricing information exclusively in PDF format over email. The manufacturers never maintain a format for more than a month, and downstream consumers of data can never decide how they want it.

Finally, you'd think that once you get all of that mess sorted out you're golden. The only problem is that the auto industry is the land that time and UPC codes forgot, and there are multiple inconsistent standards for labeling parts, and data services that claim to have a mapping between them are selling snake oil at prices several orders of magnitude higher than what you'd think fair.

Also no one in this industry believes in using software developed in the last ten years and I think I'll be near retirement age before my successors will first receive vendor data in JSON over HTTP/1.0.
How does FlyWheel differentiate from other apps such as, HailACab in Austin, that seem to offer the same three primary benefits?

You mention the experience for cab drivers. Do they have some sort of smarter queuing or other benefits?

It seems all these apps address the consumer facing side of things, but to truly address the driver side, wouldn't it make sense to leverage data to try and better predict needs or routes so that there is less time lost waiting or traveling between fares?
The project almost certainly had thousands (multiple) working on it.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nifty little app.

I'm just pointing out that I heard an idea a few months ago that was nearly identical. Our advice to the folks was "Yeah, this is cool--go code it!".

These toy campus apps are really great for building experience and learning; that said, they're still just that: toy campus apps.

The obligatory "but but but facebook" rebuttal is that it was a matter of timing more than anything else.
It is always funny to see the arguments of modularity age. Consider, the idea that a car is this somewhat perfect modular thing. While there is certainly something to it having some obvious discrete parts. Typically along the lines of what wears at a different rate from other items, the idea that it is modular for the 99% consumer is laughable. And I say this as someone that changes my own brake pads. Speaking of, the "components" of most computers are more universal than the average car part. Unless you are simply talking about things which plug in what used to be cigarette lighter.
Another angle: the PCA is given by computing the SVD (a more general analog of eigenvalue/eigenvector decomposition) of a whitened representation of the data. Some idiosyncrasies of PCA them become obvious: we can't determine if a computed result is actually a sought result or its reflection/negative, because the SVD is only unique up to sign variance.

This is also closer to it's actual implementation: while it's true that you do technically need the eigenbasis of the covariance matrix, you should not actually form the covariance matrix to get there...
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I am not sure how different is this from a service like www.rocketlawyer.com which I tried using once and had a crappy experience. They tried to sign me up for a recurring subscription and claimed to have unlimited access to lawyers. But the lawyer I spoke to said that the unlimited access is limited to basic consultation only. Anything custom will cost you the usual lawyer money.
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I doubt they own all of the links they use worldwide, but Google did go on a buying binge a few years ago, acquiring large amounts of "dark fiber". There's some discussion about that whole topic here:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/tech-myths/5-myths-about-google...

http://news.cnet.com/Google-wants-dark-fiber/2100-1034_3-553...

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=633236
That's one way of seeing it... Usually when I am at work or work with my Mac most likely my phone is either with some decent battery % or being charged.
So if I leave for a few min, my phone usually always goes with me thus will work fine without another device.

I just scan around and there is another app in the Mac AppStore:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keycard/id578513438?mt=12

And some tutorial:
http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/use-your-phone-to...

which reference another open source project -which seems left in the water for the past few years.

Anyway the concept overall is good but I think I am not the target market: not really interested to add one more BT devices that I need to carry.

Good luck to the team
I'm not sure I agree, but if I'm wrong, it even further explains why GS is doing what they do.

My impression is that the analysts can make 100K in year 1, and 200+K by year 3 or 4, but no equity. I would think that folks at Google making 200K after 3 or 4 years are outliers. Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm a little out of touch for what large tech firms pay.
That's a really great question, my curiosity is also piqued.
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