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"Thousand of servers, thousand of employees that could be bribed"

A great point but I would argue that there might be enough "n" at a company with only, say, 500 employees.

On a different note, I'm not sure the best angle of attack is to bribe anyone. After all someone bribed is also someone who can disclose info. Or could even get hacked themselves whereby someone else would discover that they are cooperating and release or expose that fact. For many reasons. Could be a roommate, an angry spouse or girlfriend etc. And after all a bribe is also money so there is a money trail if large enough and/or not paid in cash. And some people just like to talk and brag.

Secrecy wise, the less people that they were to involve the less chance of a leak. At least one reason that top secret programs have limited people that even know they are going on, right?
> [...] but because its authors and community is incapable of admitting problems when they see them.

What evidence did you see to make this conclusion? I can only find from their FAQ[0]:

"Generics may well be added at some point. We don't feel an urgency for them, although we understand some programmers do.

Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it. Meanwhile, Go's built-in maps and slices, plus the ability to use the empty interface to construct containers (with explicit unboxing) mean in many cases it is possible to write code that does what generics would enable, if less smoothly.

This remains an open issue."

[0] http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
Ghost blogs are automatically deployed and provisioned as separate node apps. They are then separated from each other, chroot'd and ran with pm2 (Node.js management software). The user then gets a system user which is given FTP access to their content directory where they can change themes, add images and backup their database. It is all running on SSDs in RAID for optimal performance. The client area also offers the ability to restart the Ghost blog.
For those who can't access it: It uses an emulator written in javascript that has been modified. It runs the entire pokemon red game as normal but layers on other users allowing you to play them, using ram hacks to force the game AI you are actually playing to be identical to the person who you want to play with. If you log in to facebook it will let you play exclusively with your fb friends. It was made at PennApps, I happened to have seen one of the people on their team saying he was sure their server could take the load they might get, turns out he was pretty wrong.
It might be sort of like switching from hardware rendering of video to software rendering.
Want to put it up on Sideprojectors? http://sideprojectors.com - I'm sure there will be plenty of people who would be interested in your project!
I've found that replacing a fancy dashboard of key stats with a simple daily email with 5-10 key numbers is far more valuable.

The dirty little secret of the business intelligence / dashboard industry is that no one logs into them.

A daily email helps with this problem, as people tend to read emails, even if its only a glance.
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Why just "Android phone location history"? Every phone location history. And pictures from that phone, and audio recordings too.
So... I can't advise you about selling. I've bought tiny companies, but have never successfully sold them, and... yeah.

However... I do have a suggestion for your sanity now and in the future that doesn't involve selling the company, or at least, not all of the company.

Assuming you want to keep releasing stuff direct to the public, I suggest finding a friend that you can interact with, that can interact with the public and other business partners. There are a lot of different ways to structure that relationship; some people get a "business partner" and when the relationship is described that way, usually the partner gets some control over you. This relationship can also be structured as "hiring a secretary" - if that's what you call them, you are implying your partner has less power, and often that you will compensate said partner regardless of revenue, but compensate them less.

On your end, I think, the fact that this person can deal with your quirks and protect you from the parts of the limelight you find unpleasant might be more important than their raw talent as a business person, especially if you retain more control over the business side of things. (Note, if I'm reading your personality correctly, and I might not be, you probably want someone who is willing to at least act in public like they made the decision in question. Someone willing to take the blame even if it was actually your decision. These people exist, but you need to be clear, if that is in fact what you need.)

I mean, you and your partner need to decide what your relationship looks like, how the power dynamic works, and how remuneration works, and it doesn't have to conform to either one of those models, but I've worked with people that were really, really uncomfortable with social situations; I've been that "human interface" person, and if you find a compatible person, I think it can generate a whole lot of value for both people.
If there are any metal fans here who think you just couldn't like orchestral music, permit me to recommend Rachmaninoff's Symphony no. 1. It's dramatic, it's bombastic -- it rocks!

The symphony was not well received when first performed, and his later symphonies were not as adventurous. I like the Third very much too, but not in the same way.

I'm having more trouble coming up with recommendations for classical fans who don't think they could like metal, though Stairway to Heaven, if you've really never heard it (?!), would be a fine place to start. Anyone care to offer any other suggestions?
The technology is outdated, but here's a story of an NGO successfully keeping their comms secret and achieving their political aims: http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=4693
Uhm, no. Inflation is a given; these numbers aren't very useful without adjusting for inflation and population and/or GDP growth.
Unless they drive the thing across the frozen Arctic Ocean, then there is an ocean between Afghanistan and San Diego for them to drop it into.

I'm all for removing them from Afghanistan; I just don't want them brought back into the states.
> I'm curious to know if these are expected to develop into normal retinae

I don't think so. My life is working in US on stem cell regeneration of limbs. As far as I understand the development of macro structures requires an inter cell grid, than no one so far has managed to artificially create.
It seems excessive; tor traffic already goes through 3 different nodes. And if the ISP is banning tor there is no reason they wouldn't/couldn't ban VPNs.
Both of which are actually useful for something other than fulfilling the violent war fantasies of power-tripping bureaucrats.
the option right below it mentions "This year.."
> After all someone bribed is also someone who can disclose info. Or could even get hacked themselves whereby someone else would discover that they are cooperating and release or expose that fact. For many reasons. Could be a roommate, an angry spouse or girlfriend etc. And after all a bribe is also money so there is a money trail if large enough and/or not paid in cash. And some people just like to talk and brag.

The NSA/FBI/DEA can and have used tactics like extortion (e.g. for planted drugs, money laundering charges etc.) to make people cooperate. It's like a bribe just without the risk of exposing.
Mostly, but perhaps we'll see wristbands that don't look like watches that can be worn on the other wrist?
That really depends on what you mean by "most of the time". After all, you only write a generics based library once, and you reuse it many times - therefore on the outside it appears that you don't really use generics all that much.

In my opinion, depriving a "normal" language user of generics is like depriving a Lisp user of macros. Whatever it is, its definitely not just "bold".
There is a bit of contradiction in your definition then. I don't think anyone using Go understands how the compiler does all the transformations necessary to get from Go to machine code. In that sense Go as a whole is pretty magical but you seem perfectly happy with that.

Modern application programmers and even system programmers by your definition rely on a lot of "magic". Even the machine code these days is a layer or two removed from the actual metal with all the caching and microcode that reside on the CPU.
From what I've read about these things, the maintenance costs if they're used for anything but sitting in a parking lot are insane, especially in the civilian world. There's no established supply chain for special tools and spare parts like there are for normal, mass-market vehicles, so they have to pay through the nose and wait forever for them, or do without. Making this an especially strange purchase. Any cost saved on getting the vehicle will soon be eaten up by fuel and maintenance costs - I'm sure the gas mileage is terrible too.
True, true.

The only difference is that somehow Google still maintains a straight face telling people they are not guinea pigs in their next study. Zuck never had that option in the first place, their only strategy is to maintain grip on the population at all costs, and no means are too sleazy.

What you want to try is to shut down your Facebook account and check some e-mails they will be sending you for months to come... Prepare for the drama. They will be showing you the cutest photos of your family and closest friends, saying they're all devastated because you've gone antisocial.

Zuck broke our hearts.
I thought this too and dig a little looking around, as it turns out it's too distracting (even for an experienced rider) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFq0TYgeB_k
I've gotten a lot of mileage from Mint's dashboards when trying to identify where I'm wasting money. I appreciate their email, but the dashboard is actually tremendously useful.
It doesn't "prevent" "magic", but it "highly discourages" it.

And again, I think it is a feature and not a bug.

I didn't always think that way, I had a really rough start with Go because I was using it as if I were programming in a slightly different dialect of C++ which it isn't. When I write Go as if it is Go, I just don't see these "missing features" as problems at all.

But this debate has been going back and forth since Go was first made public, so anyone who has tried Go and dismissed it based on these lack of features is unlikely to be persuaded otherwise here and they should continue to use other languages until such a time as Go supports what they want (if ever). That's the beauty of having so many languages to choose from.
Inflation itself is a fact. The exact amount of inflation in any given time period is subject to differing points of view.

The choice of "which inflation measure" can be viewed as a political choice because it could be carefully chosen to tell the story you prefer. (choice A might yield "Look how much worse measure X was during party Y's tenure" which choice B could tell an even-handed or even opposing story)
Yes, I think web developers are inundated with bootstrap sites but if I am making a site for non-tech people, the odds of them having any clue what bootstrap is, let alone being able to identify its use is very unlikely. At least, that is my calculation.
I agree with you and I find this

> There is a third kind who have Facebook accounts, but those are just the nature's way of saying that Darwin got it right.

really amusing. But it is really wrong and bad to talk like this. We need those people to understand the issues of surveillance. We won't go nowhere without them, and even if you get ultra-secure, they will always be potential attack vectors. Don't trash them like that, but teach them, instead, how to behave, how to communicate in the post-Snowden era.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the current state of affairs (using Interface{}) have all the downsides of Java's boxing but without any of the type safety?
> most designers and developers don't use :focus selectors when using :hover selectors because they only think about mouse-based navigation.

I evaluated Picnic CSS just now, and it doesn't use :focus selectors. This is what I'm talking about.

In my experience, usually when developers release a solution (e.g., a framework) that's advertised as a lightweight alternative to Solution X, the lightweight alternative isn't really an alternative for developers who understand why Solution X isn't lightweight.
Yes.

The idea is that these are all startups that have failed and now their domains are available to purchase, hence the "bring back to life".
I wanted to hate on it but I dunno, I might give it a spin. :) I'm mainly interested in your grid naming conventions, as the become very cumbersome in bootstrap.

One thing I didn't see was the ability to add offsets to a grid item?
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into this. I haven't done web development in 1.5+ years so might take me some time.

I am also thinking about adding a search functionality.
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Yeah, that could have been stated better. I guess I meant to say we're not handing out on GH the indicators of compromise for stuff that's currently giving us problems. But we do, in the README and when we talk to folks about OSXCollector, try to share how we do analysis. I'm hoping to release some related tools over the next few weeks that do some amount of parsing and analysis of the output.

There's some neat stuff we've played with (though nothing short of manual analysis is giving really high confidence at this point). Some of the ideas we played with but haven't written about yet:
* Feed the output through a parser that finds domains, URLs, and IPs. Feed those into threat feeds and passive DNS APIs. Occasionally this surfaces interesting stuff.
* Feed all the hashes to VirusTotal, cymru, or known lists of nasty stuff. Hits are generally nasty.
* We've got some known indicators of commodity malware persistence in launch agents. We grep for those cause we know they've hit us before.

One of the recent things we did add to OSXCollector was pulling xattr's from downloads. This allows us to find the source URL - sometimes even the redirect chain - for a download by reading extended attributes of the file. This has been helpful.
A strong belief in the sense that it's a fact. Read about operation Dark Star [1]. The cia was complicit in Rick Ross selling several metric tons of cocaine (earning himself inflation adjusted $0.85B [2]). Every American should read Dark Star [3] to know what cia and republicans get up to when a central american country exercises a little too much democracy or our pet dictator is overthrown. That is, while the cia is not busy encouraging rape, torture, indiscriminate killings of civilians, etc.

In his affidavit to the World Court, former contra Edgar Chamorro testified
that "The CIA did not discourage such tactics. To the contrary, the Agency
severely criticized me when I admitted to the press that the FDN had
regularly kidnapped and executed agrarian reform workers and civilians. We
were told that the only way to defeat the Sandinistas was to...kill, kidnap,
rob and torture..." [4]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_traffic...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross

[3] http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras#Human_rights_violations
Also, and mind you this is JUST my opinion but I don't think the buttons look very attractive. That might be something worth "sprucing up"? Anyway, definitely a cool project and I hope to give it a try.
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I agree with you, but like most IT people, you're limiting your scope to technology problems -- the people are the biggest threat.

Frankly, you don't have a chance if you're in a business that is valuable to a three letter agency. Even if you do the right things, you have to assume your colleagues are compromised. Look at those Sysadmins in that video -- chances are one or more of them is not only under surveillance, but actively collaborating with NSA or some NSA front.
That has been studied and seems to have been verified:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552125/Revis...

> The students taking notes the old fashioned way took fewer of them with less verbatim recording, but remembered more facts and understood more concepts from the lecture, according to the study, which is published in the journal Psychological Science.
Oh, another thing - if punishment needs to be carried out, please don't penalize DoubleMalt. The post didn't have the offending bits in it when he posted the link, I added those later. Penalize me, it's my project and I'm the one who made the mistake. :-)
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I believe that this is evidence enough that they're downplaying the importance of generics.

Specifically, the claim that "maps and slices" can replace the ability to write abstractions such as futures, promises, observables as well as generic function such as map, reduce etc comes off as either naive or disingenuous

Furthermore, the "cost" of these features seems overstated to me. A lot of languages and runtimes already implement generics without significant compile-time or run-time overhead - why is it that hard for Go to do that?
If it truly is not worth the automation, you still don't need real time dashboards, you just need an alarm.
If NYT specializes in the production of content, others would have to value their content over others. I think that's part of the problem. The kind of content the NYT produces is not that valuable. Investigative journalism, which is the hardest and most expensive part of what they do, is valued only by a very small number of people.
In my opinion, the only great thing about Bootstrap is the grid system and form styling, the rest is just useless cruft. As a front-end developer, I see the value in Bootstrap and I have used it before, but when installing it as a Bower component, it makes it harder to filter out the crap you don't need like button styling, header styling and other stuff Bootstrap includes that just bloats your CSS. To me, I find Bootstrap TOO opinionated, I spend a lot of my time overriding styles than I do setting them. In the real world unless it is your own project, you are being given designs and fitting the style of a PSD file into Bootstrap can be more trouble than it is worth.

These days I actually use Foundation by Zurb which I think is arguably one of the best front-end CSS libraries out there, it allows greater control and offers some awesome Javascript components. Not only that, it has a great grid system like Bootstrap, but it is by far, the least opinionated and most powerful front-end library out there.

Cudos for trimming the fat and offering an alternative for those who use Bootstrap. My only nitpick is those bevelled buttons don't look very nice and the classes for the grid system using fractions might be a little confusion for some who are bad at maths and fractions (like me). I prefer having the option of putting the number in the class like in Bootstrap: col-md-6 as opposed to using a class called "half"
> Where do you get this idea of lithium making people "docile"? It does not; you may be confusing it with antipsychotic medication.

that is the statement i was responding to.

> Even at therapeutic doses I think you are generalizing too much, as many people do not experience such side effects.

that's cool and all, but that's just, like, your opinion, man. if you're going to accuse me of generalizing, you could at least do so with something other than a sweeping, unqualified generalization. i find it amusing that this thread is full of people who don't actually take this medication telling people who actually have what its effects are. in fact, lithium has been documented both anecdotally and in research[2] to have measurable effects on cognition, and a dulling effect on mood.

[2]: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=lithium+cognitive+effect...
Inserting the assertions by hand is annoying and error prone - even if you want the assertions to be checked at runtime its still very helpful if the programming language inserts the type checking automatically for you.

Another thing is that assertions can only check primitive type. To check if a function pointer or object respects an interface you need to add an extra wrapper around it to check all its return values (and this is so annoying to do by hand that noone bothers to do it)
I am not a lawyer, but https://www.nsa.gov/about/faqs/oversight.shtml mentions Executive Order 12333 and other legal mechanisms.
A lot of people work in the cafe at Google Campus which is free, apart from the coffee.

http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-Campus-London-a-good-place-to...
This should be obvious to anybody who knows about geometric growth. The only time you can really stop Ebola without a cheap and easily-available cure is now while it's small. As it grows, its rate of growth will increase, and it will quickly spread to every vulnerable area.
Minor nitpick with your comments regarding the use of classes for the grid system making your mark-up non-semantic. If you use the LESS or SASS version of Bootstrap and not the pre-compiled version of Bootstrap, you can use the internal grid system functions in place of classes on elements instead, thus making your markup semantic.

I like the intent behind the Semantic UI project, but I feel like CSS preprocessors like LESS and SASS allow for semantic markup through the use of mixin functions out of the box without needing to use anything else.
The most ridiculous thing about this, apart from it being ridiculous in every way, is that these are purpose built machines of war good for only one thing, being resistant to mines. They would have no advantage in use over nearly any other vehicle, police cruiser, ambulance, segway, bicycle, in the extreme situations cited as potential use cases.

I don't know what the fuck the dipshits at OSU are thinking when they say they'll use it in conjunction with football games. Maybe somebody got drunk one night and a little too into an academic paper on college football as pseudo warring tribes or something.

I guess these things are good for a couple other things besides being resistant to mines. Namely burning a fuckton of oil and accelerating the deterioration of roads. All the more reason to produce more machines of war to commandeer the resources of hostile foreign nations to have the raw materials to refine gasoline and produce asphalt.

Well that's probably not good thing, after all.
How well do these digital pens work out in practice? Are they better than simply snapping photos of letter or A4 size pages with my iPhone or passing loose papers through a auto-feed scanner? How about the software that comes with the pens? Can they produce file formats that are easy to work with (pdf or plain text) without difficulty on different systems (Mac OS X or Linux).

I've never really been completely satisfied with any system of note taking (from pens to org-mode) but this is probably more of a poor craftsman blaming his tools.
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Interesting question. :-)

I think the biggest issue may be the fundamental fact that Mailpile is software that has to run on a computer somewhere - people are getting so accustomed to just getting service for free on the web, that many will balk at having to install an app locally. Folks who value their privacy enough will, but not everyone does.

This will be a problem even assuming we solve the two hard problems and major benefits provided by cloudy solutions: backups and "always on, always available" remote access.
I love that this story is trending on Hacker News. The author, Paul Hoffman, is a close friend.

It's nice when good work gets rediscovered here.