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> The point of this post is that Google isn't serving anyone's interests properly here

I'm not sure about that. When I search for "photo quilts", I find plenty of relevant sites. They seem to be at least as good as www.portraitquilts.com.

I would say Google is doing a fine job serving it's user's interests.

It might just be that www.portraitquilts.com isn't as relevant as the other results.
The reason seems to be making it more editable to the community.
It's kind of funny ESR didn't put on git, or in a wiki, or similar given his open source proclivities.

Among the reason to not like him, but far from the best, but a good reason to pot the thing on github for those who do wish to contribute.
Google does not get its data for free - what do you think the 50,000 people employed there are doing? The vast number of servers, the ridiculous power bill, the research efforts - all these are so they can not only gather the same data that any of us can also gather with a simple bash script, but also present it in such a way that is significantly "better" than the competition that some people are actually willing to pay them money.
Losing money? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/us/post-office-loss-declin...
Gambling in state lotteries and casinos is legal.

Leveraging your residence 95% or more to speculate in your local real-estate market is favored by tax policy.

Equity investing, day-trading, and option investing are all available to non-accredited investors.

In all of these activities, your principal can go to zero very quickly, and will if you're overconfident and misinformed. How is private investment any more irrational or dangerous? Can't 'poor' people sometimes have excellent, inside information on a new business, or are only already-wealthy people informed and rational?

In the case of the Bitcoin Investment Trust, the effect of the accreditation-barrier is even more pernicious and counterproductive. There's no block against the poor owning Bitcoins - they can buy them in many ways. There's just a block against those Bitcoins being professionally secured, and getting the tax-advantages available in IRAs.

How are poor, irrational people protected by making them self-secure their Bitcoins while paying higher taxes on any gains?
Correct. Or, at least, it would not have been "as illegal"; you could still fall afoul of specific state laws targeting the practice directly. But (as usual) where you run into real trouble is in monetizing the practice.
When it comes to publishing nude photos sent in a clearly private context, what is the distinction?
I feel like Snapchat would be the perfect way for flash sales sites like Groupon et al to advertise - Think targeted/exclusive limited-time-only coupons.

It would be Daily Deals 2.0 - Mobile-first and and ultra time-constrained to induce even more impulse purchases.
So what happens when the company exits before you are vested?
This was indeed the conclusion I came to as well though my journey through there was a lot more convoluted.

And then, there are things like: http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunte...
that looks more like the driver was just stopping at the stop sign!
Yep, to be clear I was pointing out that a TPM with remote attestation can't avoid implementing DRM in the true sense of protecting specific content to the extent possible on the device.

I think the permanently gimped system stuff like a key restricted secure boot is really something else. It is in some sense an acknowledgment of the impossibility of DRM actually preventing every single copier and gains more from leveraging its play time monopoly to lower the value of all non-DRM content which may or may not be pirated.

A system that denied all open content with a TPM would indeed be very broken in terms of design and would only start to make sense if the hardware was much more customized than a typical PC platform.
Quite a lot of the IsAnyoneUp pics were perfectly innocent headshots photoshopped onto porn bodies. IIRC, there was also a batch of post-surgery photos from a hacked medical database. To be completely safe from extortion-porn sites you'd need to never allow anyone to take a photo of you, in any context, ever.

If people are getting attacked in the streets, warning everyone to stay indoors only redirects the problem. To really stop it, you need to find and arrest the perpetrators. Saying "it's your own fault for being out after dark" does not cut it.
How does that work when you factor in quotas? What if a malicious user installs every possible package? Do they kill the system? How are versions handled? Can N users install N versions of a package? (Looks like the answer is yes.)

This sounds like a nice system. I'm just wondering how much of the core issue is really addressed.
Curious to know how much of that is spam. Since the advent of email, nearly everything that ends in my own mailbox are bills and statements, government-related correspondence, the occasional e-commerce related package and (shit tons of) spam. If the two former went full electronic, there would be very little point in having a mailbox at all -- unless you actually read your spam.
These are bad examples, because the legality of publishing Snowden and Manning's documents was in fact legally tenuous, and so far the publishers of the documents are protected largely by the enormous public welfare implications of the documents themselves. Especially in Snowden's case, that could change. Wait 6 months and see if the Snowden trove results in operationally relevant serious foreign intelligence disclosures that don't implicate the rights of US citizens, and then we'll see how much "journalism" really is a free pass to publishing "anything".
That’s why I’m standing with Hunter Moore. He’s a great big jerk, but he needs to have the right to post facts that politically powerful people like Charlotte Laws want to keep hidden

What about facts like her home address, home telephone number, and social security number? Does Moore need the right to publish those things if she wants to keep them private?
hey @jypepin you can put companies separated by commas! we'll handle parsing that :) sorry for being unclear.
Why is suggestion caution the same thing as 'blaming the victim'?

This is ridiculous. A very good solution to the "revenge porn" problem is for people to not cavalierly take naked pictures of themselves.

So, I take a naked picture, share it, sharee shares again, <step>, <step>, revenge porn upload.

I am appropriate in my action, and then the propriety drops as the chain goes on. But why is it unfair to say, don't take the pic in the first place and you can avoid what (may) come next.
Why is OK to humiliate a public figure by publishing sexualized nude photos of them? I'll hazard that it isn't OK, but that we kid ourselves because the cases where that happens, the mere existence of the photos is newsworthy. We conflate two different pieces of information: (a) that the photos exist, are real, were sent as alleged, &c and (b) the visual content of the photos themselves.

(a) is a valid product of journalism; (b) probably isn't.

We think (b) is, though, because one way that media outlets secure power for themselves in the market and elsewhere is by exploiting (b) to inflict punishment on the targets of their stories. They don't like Anthony Weiner (no surprise), so they're happy to torture him to get extra pageviews.
Huh. I totally thought Google would penalize your ranking for trying something like that. Have you heard of that happening at all?
I don't agree with the person you're responding to, but I feel that the Internet has already basically blurred the line between "public figures" and "normal people" to a degree that needs to be addressed by the law.

As a basic example, someone who is a "normal person" might have a photo leak that goes so viral the photo leak itself makes them a "public figure" by the old celebrity definition. What then?
> steam for still sucks in the way requires full control of my box to games.

What? I run Steam as a non-Administrator user on Windows, and a non-root user on Linux. Would you elaborate on your objections?
"So if someone is going through my private things, for example, and gets upset about what they find, then that’s their problem, not mine!” Must agree... until someone makes it your problem, by social standards, laws, or anything else they can use to make your life harder.
If you love IDEA, you may well get the chance to use it for C & C++ soonish, as well, since they're working on a C & C++ IDE now. Hopefully it really will be good for vanilla C - I have an aversion to C++, and little need for that support.

The lack of native development is one of the main things keeping me from giving IDEA a proper try. It may well be better than NetBeans, but NetBeans works well now, and has decent C & C++ support (at least as good as CDT, anyway).

I do have a personal license for IDEA 12, and would have no problem paying for an upgrade to 13 - it's just not worth my time (yet) to do so.

There are a few annoying bugs I've run into in NetBeans 7.4, and Android dev isn't awesome in NetBeans, so maybe there'll be enough impetus for me to give IDEA a real shot soonish.

Or the NetBeans bugs will get fixed, and I'll just stick tight. I'm happy either way!
Minor correction: Trading frequently requires a minimum of $25k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_day_trader
I want to hear veteran RTS and FPS player weigh in on that controller. Bringing PC-style gaming into the living room would be a dream.
> That's why there is rampant CMB theft

Rampant? 4800 issues reported in BC over a 5 year period[1], in a province with over 20,000 community mailboxes. Issues include non-theft things like graffiti and other vandalism. Haven't found more detailed info, would appreciate a link if you have one.

1: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/super-mailbox...
Retroactively calling anything that has ever appeared in the media "journalism" produces a sad and useless definition of the term. It turns out to be just any trash that media outlets know people will consume. An admirable definition would include some sort of discretion about (for example) the private lives of public figures, and not conflate information with journalism.

To the extent that Anthony Weiner's mistakes in his personal life does impact his job, which is in the public interest, that can qualify as journalism and separate him from the common case of a typical victim of these sites.
The problem is that it has nothing to do with this story. Congratulations, we've identified one step (out of many possible) that people can take to avoid revenge porn exposure. Now what? The answer isn't for the victims to be more vigilant; the answer is the public policy step that eliminates revenge porn sites.
This only works for women.
2011?!

He should have seen 5th/6th and mission in the 90s! Not to mentioned the tenderloin during the same period.
new friendships aren't kept away from prying eyes of your friends and family

This is an often overlooked point...even in the many casual interactions that turn into (casual) friendships later on...raising the stakes has little upside and significant downside
History is important.
hey oso2k!

Thanks very much for the feedback! That's actually a pretty awesome idea to add different templates for those things. My question for that is though, how would a user choose this from a UI perspective? Would they say define in config a special template and then use that? Maybe I can come up with ways to change the current templates to work in this manner and provide them as templates that could be swapped out. Or, would you like to have something like that become available from clicking a button? I think I could do that using requireJS.

Thanks again for this feedback and input! This is a really cool idea and a feature that would be pretty awesome to get implemented.

Much appreciated! :)
That's not really "flat" in the sense that the OP is describing it. What he's talking about is restructuring a company to look more like an FOSS project. You have the project maintainers (c-level team) that set the goals. They sign off on all subprojects that are aligned with those goals and have enough people who want to work on them. The subprojects are run the same way, with people deciding what to hack on, in a way that is aligned with the goals, plus has support of the other team members.

The situation you described has all the crappiness of a corporate hierarchy, but none of the promises of meritocracy ("work hard and advance"). From the programmer’s perspective, he’s stuck both in rank and in skill.

Contrast this with the FOSS model, which creates the feeling that he’s working on something, versus working for someone. He can work on whatever project he’s interested in, or create a new one if it has enough traction. Since he’s not going into management, that leaves him with advancing in either depth or breadth. He can advance in depth by choosing to work on something that challenges his skill level. Or he can advance in depth by working on new technology or in a new area (e.g. frontend vs. backend).
Naked pictures of me have leaked three times - once from hacking and twice from people spreading them. Why should I stop having my fun just because there are bullies out there? They can bite me, my ass, and the picture of my ass that's all over the internet.
> Is it possible...

Probably? It'd be best to wait until we get the hardware and software in hand before specing out the task, though. ;)
Would you mind dropping the titles of those books. I think I found the P Halmos (http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Problem-Dolciani-Mathematical-...), but I'm having some trouble finding the Nearing.

Also, what background do you think is necessary for these texts?
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Interesting read, thank you. Still I can't help but to feel that the most sad part of this is all the commotion over an exposed left boob. That's actually a big deal? Don't get me wrong - I can totally relate to her feeling violated as it should be in nobody else's power to decide how her personal photos should be handled. I just can't let go of the feeling that perhaps if we had a more relaxed perception of the human body, this would be no more than a shrug and a would spare a lot of trauma.

We will never get rid of assholes, but that apparently her job was in jeopardy because of this - and that this is seemingly accepted as okay as it isn't even questioned - was the real WTF realization for me. That is not the work of an asshole, it is the work of a truly degenerate society.
For any one else wondering:

>The result of package build functions is cached in the file system, in a special directory called the store (see The Store). Each package is installed in a directory of its own, in the store—by default under /nix/store. The directory name contains a hash of all the inputs used to build that package; thus, changing an input yields a different directory name.

>This approach is the foundation of Guix’s salient features: support for transactional package upgrade and rollback, per-user installation, and garbage collection of packages (see Features).

http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Features
If schemes don't lie about what they are, aren't they similar in their payouts - some win, some lose - to legally-sanctioned (and in some case, state-run) gambling?

The potential crime would be fraud - pretending a ponzi is a non-ponzi. With accurate disclosure, it's just an odd form of gambling where some late-entrants are still paying in, when there's no more chance to win.
And here is one of his books, the Lilavati:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilavati

I noticed this at that page:

"Bhaskara II gives the value of pi as 22/7 in the book but suggest a more accurate ratio of 3927/1250 for use in astronomical calculations."

I also remembered reading somewhere that some ancient Indians had a simple formula for pi that was somewhat accurate; take the first 3 odd positive integers, twice each, as one single number, split it down the middle, and divide the right half by the left half, i.e. 113355 => 355/113 = ~pi.

So I checked, using Python:

$ python
>>> from math import pi
>>> pi
3.141592653589793

>>> print 3927.0/1250
3.1416

>>> print 355.0/113
3.14159292035

The approximation that uses 113355 matches pi (from Python) upto 6 decimal places.
Great resource, thanks a lot!
I'd hate to re-design your app in an off-the-cuff remark… but… hey-ho!…

My thinking was that editing columns would be a rare even - you'd set your board up once and then use it with perhaps an occasional decision to add or delete a column.

Your real-estate is valuable and should remain uncluttered - a UI element (be it label, icon, button) must earn it's place especially in prominent positions - the top right of a column is (in the western world) a valuable place plus each column has a limit to how many UI elements they can support before getting confusing.

Thus, the decision you have to make each time you place a UI element is where are the prominent positions where UI can go? What are my most common interactions? Where can I put my less common, yet still essential, interactions?

So - here the obvious thing to do is to concentrate on the cards - creating new ones, moving them from column to column, deleting them. I'd give prominence to these interactions as their buttons are the ones that will be consistently pressed.

Then you are left with what to do with the ui for setting up a board. You generally have two options - chuck the UI into a lesser-used area of the scene (generally a lazy idea) or (my preferred option) add a mode.

Modes get a bad rap as they are considered to be 'non-discoverable' but I find that a good mode is often a simpler solution - you get a clean slate and all your good UI positions are available for reuse.

SO - a good column editing mode would involve an option to switch into a mode where you can no longer edit cards but instead manipulate the board - add/delete columns, move things around.

There are various possibilities for entering the mode - the most obvious of which is a button. However you could play around with clicking the area between columns - as its a large unused target area. The downside might be that it isn't obvious what you'd have to do to discover it - the temptation then is to add instructions.

Have a play - I suspect it might work.
Also that price in the Houston, TX area.
Libel too presumably, in the cases of the photoshops^Wimages manipulated by Adobe Photoshop(R)
> Single mothers are, in many cases, that way because of making bad life choices.

I'd be very interested to see a citation for this. You seem to be very knowledgeable on the topic, could you provide one?
This is such bullshit - poorly formulated hippy dribble.

If he was really interested in such ideas, he would know and use GPL/AGPL/MIT/Apache licences already for his code, and CC for his writings.

Instead he makes everyone hippy dippy stupid about secrecy and privacy. It might all be fine when you are rich, cis-straight and white, but a single non friendly idea and you are a threat to the state.

People that cheapen our privacy and secrecy rights shouldn't be allowed this much airtime.

Ridiculous. -1
>"I was surprised it was all meaningless to me. These pages meant the world to her, but to me they meant no more than any non-secret conversation we’d ever had. It was the same stuff that we all think."

Uh - yeah this is completely naive. Here is why; the informatin is meaningless to you only if you are not looking to manipulate, exploit, blackmail or have the upper hand of the person holding the secrets.

This is why the dragnet is insidious. Because it may be insignificant to the rural farmer; but valuable aagainst the urban lawyer seeking office, the corp exec or other heeled/monied power wielders...
> Quite a lot of the IsAnyoneUp pics were perfectly innocent headshots photoshopped onto porn bodies. IIRC, there was also a batch of post-surgery photos from a hacked medical database. To be completely safe from extortion-porn sites you'd need to never allow anyone to take a photo of you, in any context, ever.

Did I ever say anything condoning revenge porn? No, just a bit of social commentary and a suggestion that sexting has gotten out of hand. And at least in a photoshop scenario, you have deniability to protect your reputation.

Extortion of course is a crime, and those who engage in it should be prosecuted.

> If people are getting attacked in the streets, warning everyone to stay indoors only redirects the problem. To really stop it, you need to find and arrest the perpetrators. Saying "it's your own fault for being out after dark" does not cut it.

I've spent time in countries where I've had to hide in the back of vehicles at police checkpoints, and where I couldn't let anyone know where I was staying, or go out after dark.

Where people were shot dead in the streets by police 2 blocks away from the house at which I was staying during a blackout.

While it's nice to say that you should be able to go anywhere you want at any time you want, when it's actually your life on the line you take the safe route...
His name is "Giulani." Reasonably good character acting skills at certain moments (like after the 9/11 attacks) but outside of that, a notorious windbag and cronyist.

That some in the tech aristocracy in SF might consider him a viable candidate wouldn't surprise me in the least. And if you can enough people to join you at the polls, well, you more than deserve to have him.
Author here - this has been my side project for some time, and I decided it was about time I actually released something :-). If anyone has comments, suggestions, or criticisms I'd be happy to hear them.
Live migration from a container is pretty close to working (ie works if you are careful). Linux live migration is not whole-kernel it is per resource so you can migrate just a containers resource.

I still do not understand the use case of live migration though...
It's also good to start amending laws so that obvious bad actions are punished and simple ones like 'two 14 year olds with pictures of each other' are not.
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I know tons of people who are more well off who are assholes and/or have a poor work ethic. But since they get lucky in life and got dealt a good hand (say, upper class parents and private school, for example), then they count as contributing members of society in your eyes, while those who grew up poor are useless. To me, that says a lot more about the effect of society on people's situation than on their own personal merit or lack thereof.
When has the media ever had a good handle on what "hacking" means and how prevalent it is?

Why would someone with the ability to "hack" a large number of gmail accounts choose nude photos to make their money with? I can't imagine the payoff is comparatively good and large-scale blackmail is a pretty good way to get targeted for prosecution.

Further, aren't these pictures in their email because they were sent to someone? How would the average person distinguish between their account being "hacked" for the purpose of retrieving the picture opposed to the receiver sharing it? It sounds more like the instinctual "my account was hacked!" response to something embarrassing.
Congrats! Though I'm curious to know what you mean by "real" startup. What's a fake one?

One of the most important questions to ask is how they're funded. Most startups fail, and funding is the most accurate proxy for stability. At the very least you'll know if it'll be around long enough for you to learn something while working there.

Also, if you're getting stock options, I suggest you read this article (tells you what questions to ask so that you understand what they're worth):

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-optio...