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This looks pretty neat actually. A ton of effort clearly went into it and it looks like the code is really well written with pretty well thought out interfaces

"Its main goals are security.."

Is it actually?

I also don't really see an advantage of using something like this over something like the Go net/http package.

Web-type API stuff is usually high enough level that something like C doesn't make sense. Go has nice enough standard packages for system things that even if I was doing a lot of system-y stuff I would be alright. I don't really see the type of work I would be doing where I want to use this.
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The australian people don't fear home invasions as much as citizens of some other countries. It's not a rational fear in the scheme of things. My risk of getting killed by someone because of high gun ownership in the community is much higher than my risk of getting a home invasions.

My front door doesn't even lock, and i'm happy that way.
Robert Baer's take on this (a former CIA case officer, Time.com's intelligence columnist) is:

"Abbottabad, I'll say it again, you cannot hide a foreigner in Abbottabad, for any length of time, without coming to the attention of the intelligence bureau first of all, which is Pakistani intelligence, and then ISI. [ISI is not a rogue element]. If in fact he was a prisoner there, [then] he was in fact a prisoner of the Pakistani Government, not ISI. So they knew he was there, certainly. Can you go, what was it, 7 years and hide in Abbottabad and [have them] not know?

Anybody who's lived in Pakistan will tell you that every day there's sort of a knock on the door, it's the police, they talk to the chokidar about the foreigners, what are they doing, you know and the rest of it. You simply don't set up a compound as you would in, I don't know, the desert in Nevada and not have people notice. Impossible, totally impossible."

Ref: Podcast linked from the article - http://ianmasters.com/sites/default/files/bbriefing_2015_05_...) at 09:55
It would be good this early in the development cycle to devote to Material Design. This will simplify the work later on. Also, making use of Android's accounts/credentials system is probably a good idea for streamlined and simplified login.
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Has anyone done any performance testing on kore? Yes I know I can do this myself, but why invent the wheel.
GPLv3 give you full permission to put apps in the app Store, so long you hack the App Store upload system so apple do not add their own code and license to the app. For example, you could bundle a GPLv3 app with a shim that allow users to install and run any program of their choice. The license would be perfectly fine with this, but apple would block it with the full force of their legal team.
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Just remember that anecdote != data and all that.
My ff gets restarted in two cases - ff or kernel gets security patch. That sometimes means a month of no restarts. (With maybe 30+ tabs in different groups open)
>> Without labeling, any flag could be from almost anywhere until you're told otherwise

> Isn't that true of almost every flag?

According to the parent comment, yes.
Chrome also groups multiple tabs on single process, based on a number of factors: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process...
My strategy is to periodically close Firefox and reopen it, to "hibernate" the tabs I'm not currently using.

Between lazy tab restore and Chrome's process per tab memory overhead, Firefox is currently waaay better than Chrome for those of us coping with RAM Deficit Disorder and O(e^x) tab syndrome; I hope when the Fox gets process-per-tab they don't close that gap.
A major reason why I'm for uniforms. Take all that petty cool clothes envy out of the equation.
Doing any kind of web research for work is effectively a breadth-first tree traversal. Remembering all the higher level nodes, when you're ready to go the next level deep, would be a nightmare. My brain couldn't handle that, but tabs solve it effortlessly.

So I'd say that I keep many tabs open for the exact opposite reason. It enhances what I can do, due to the limitations of my brain.

Within a few decades, I expect for the concept of open tabs and bookmarks to merge. We'll be keeping far more tabs open, and flipping between them effortlessly, or scrolling back to that snapshot in time effortlessly.

I imagine closing tabs will be being like closing Emacs buffers. In practice, you practically never have the need to close an Emacs buffer, for anything you might have a small chance of wanting to work on again soon.
As a universal, parent's claim is patently false. I have an Lenovo X1 Carbon that is a testament to how crappy a trackpad can get. I have had a few PC laptops in the last 5 years (HP, Lenovo) but have never found one with an adequate trackpad. So, if could you please tell me which laptop I should try? This is quite easy to test.

I've heard good things about the new XPS trackpad, but haven't been able to try one in the wild yet.
Pricing is a very inexact science and this list is quite helpful to educate startups. Thanks for writing this.

One of my favourite articles on this is
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
I know it from the inside. You presume to much.
They don't even give trials for American citizens abroad. Seems unlikely they'd do it for terrorist #1.
They're trying KSH - why not?
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I think this used to be the case. But think about what the internet has done for "reputation" tracking. I think deregulation would open the "potential" for scammers, but at the same time would open a market for websites like a "Yelp for investors".
You're not missing anything. It's kind of intrinsic to the system-- when you have VC that wants really high rates of growth then they will require/force the startup to take a path that may be much higher risk but also much higher reward.

When you are building a business, you have to make decisions that keep you alive.

In the process you may have less likelihood of becoming unicorn but much higher likelihood of surviving.

EG: I think VCs want you to take a 1 in 10,000 chance at being a billion dollar company, vs a 1 in 1 chance of being a $100M company.
> Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.

This is meaningless. Insofar as many models in economics are based on the rational choice model, the definition of a rational actor is one who acts to maximize their experienced utility with perfect knowledge of how their actions will affect their experience utility.

Anything that will affect a persons happiness would affect the decisions of a rational actor.

Now, its true that, even so, reality is known not to comply with the rational actor model, but this article misses most of them and attacks a giant strawman. And I wonder why, because as a professor of economics, the author has to know that, its not plausibly a mistake of ignorance.
> Without labeling, any flag could be from almost anywhere until you're told otherwise.

True. But the flag of Illinois is rather less distinctive than many.

The Illinois flag is basically the state seal centered on a while background. And the seal is a conglomeration of standard symbols. A very similar description covers the flags of 19 other states (background color varies, and often it's a shield instead of a seal): Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Because of the generic appearance, even people from the state who have some idea what the flag looks like might have trouble picking it out in a collection of U.S. state flags. So Kansas, Montana, Oregon, and Wisconsin took the same route as Illinois, adding the name of the state in large letters to the official flag design.

Now compare the state flag of Texas (pic: http://www.50states.com/images/redesign/flags/tx-largeflag.p...). The design does not exactly scream "Texas" -- although there is that nickname: "the Lone Star State". But once you have a rough idea what it looks like, you can easily pick it out from a collection of flags from the U.S. and all over the world.

The same holds for the flags of Maryland (pic: http://www.50states.com/images/redesign/flags/md-largeflag.p...), Arizona (pic: http://www.50states.com/images/redesign/flags/az-largeflag.p...), Colorado (pic: http://www.50states.com/images/redesign/flags/co-largeflag.p...), and Alaska (pic: http://www.50states.com/images/redesign/flags/ak-largeflag.p...), to name a few.
You'd invent the wheel to get you places. You wouldn't reinvent the wheel when someone's already done a perfectly good job.
Yea I am with you, I love Chrome and I love that its basically my little mini xplat OS. That of course comes with a price of being a battery hog, if you don't want to use all the benefits Google is cramming into their browser, then I can see the allure of FF. I imagine that represents a fair number of FireFox's users as well. I imagine they won't abandon you friend. :)
> Not to mention the fact that there wasn't a disruption in the relationship with Saudi Arabia comparable to the disruption in the relationship with Pakistan.

That's simple: US needs Saudi cooperation wrt oil prices. Saudi Arabia and the other OPEC states always can either dump a shitload of oil on the market to crash prices at no real cost for them (but huge cost losses for Western oil companies, esp. fracking - we're seeing this right now) or decide to artificially limit or stop their oil production, again at no cost for them but another oil crisis in the Western societies.
I like Latin as much as the next would-be classicist, but sic semper tyrannis is a bit spoiled, given who gave it its fullest voice.
Same stuff goes with Google Cloud which Google advertises as “business oriented”. We had a $20/month project that for some reason its billing account became invalid.
It was the first week of the month, billing is at the end of the month, they could just ask us to fix the issue.

Instead they chose to suspend all our projects on Saturday morning, despite paying them more than $10,000/month for the rest of the projects —which had no billing issues.

We found out when all our external service monitors went crazy. Google emailed us a couple hours later and didn't restore our projects until Tuesday.

Extra credit should be given for when they informed me that they turned my personal, non-commercial / developer account to a business account because “google cloud should only be used for business”.
Yes. Exactly like that. Firefox is damn near a full decade behind the curve.
I was operating under the assumption that you were either lying or really dumb, but you've been fairly effective in convincing me of the latter, so... congratulations?
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You don't have anything to feel guilty about. Every company is out there to make money. None of us, individually, are as cruel as a group of people making a consensus decision.

My first job was writing code for a company that took advantage of poor and desperate people. I didn't see that for a few years. But, it was a good veneer -- help people who wanted to go to school to improve their lot in life. I genuinely thought I was doing something good.

But these for-profit schools ended up abusing government regulations and guarantees around student loans, which has largely led to the student loan crisis. However, I thought that I was buying stuff in my community, it bought my family a house and a reliable car, and we were paying a lot of taxes.

Every company has some variation on this. Starbucks has been great for coffee growers around the world and has exposed many people to boutique/single-origin coffee, but like you said, it's built on addiction. But any restaurant is doing the same -- they're doing whatever they can to bring you in and have you pay money for food. I mean, you have to eat, right? And restaurants are all about flavor and presentation and unique ingredients -- they're triggering your dopamine, which they hope will entice the diner to spend more money. Car salesmen are the same way -- everybody kinda needs a car, but they try to take advantage of our lack of information, and try to cover it with dopamine-based ideas: smooth leather, new car smell, perfect paintjob, fast car, get a bunch of chicks, people will really know you've done well in life, etc.

Everything in live is built on dopamine though -- it's why we do anything. To reduce it to dopamine trigger = bad for humanity is not fair.
It does seem like if your goal was security than perhaps Rust would be a better choice.
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> Without labeling, any flag could be from almost anywhere until you're told otherwise.

That's not the complaint against the Illinois flag; the complaint is that, even after being shown it, and being told what it is, you'd still have trouble picking it out from a row of state flags 24 hours later.

There are worse offenders than Illinois, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Idaho.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Kansas.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Kentucky.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Maine.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Minnesota.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Michigan.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Montana.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Nebraska.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_New_York.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Utah_(enhanced_var...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Vermont.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Virginia.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg

By contrast, once you learn one of these flags, you'll be able to identify it easily, even from a distance, and never mistake it for another one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Maryland.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Quebec.svg
You might be right. However, anedoctally, most of my friends are paying for Spotify Premium and Netflix even when torrent downloads are just around the corner. And these are not rich people with money to spare; these are grad students or a few recent graduates on a budget like myself.

So I still believe that people would rather go legal and support the artists when they have the option.
Agreed.

You can't rule out conspiracy theories automatically, because conspiracies do happen.

Conspiracy theories are right, some of the time.

edit: In fact, it's good if we have a paranoid part of the populace that constantly looks for conspiracies. Makes it more likely we'll find the real ones. Kind of like how science works!
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I agree both approaches have merit. I would just say I think the market deserves to have both approaches to experiment with.

I think if the infrastructure existed to make it just as easy to bootstrap a company w/o VC funding, there would be more people taking that approach. After all, if both approaches (to startups) were comparable in terms of effort to set up, I would probably opt to keep my equity.
You can go to vegas and blow $100,000 in a weekend, but you think it's too dangerous to let people put that in 10 seed stage startups? Because they might lose the money?

Further, I'm a sophisticated investor, I've done very well with complex derivative investments. I knew there was going to be a housing bubble in 2001 and profited from it until 2007. How many people were saying there was no bubble at that time?

I'm the very definition of a successful sophisticated investor, but I've been kept out of investing in startups-- the industry where I've worked for nearly 30 years-- because people like you think its "dangerous"?

Requiring me to have $1M in assets does not measure ones sophistication. Make it a $50k a year salary and a swear-under-penalty-of-perjury type form to cover the startup's butt and I'm ok with "accreditation".

Until then, it's just yet another way regulations give rich people better opportunities than regular people.
The author is not necessarily wrong, however he provides absolutely no data short of personal antecedents to back up his claims about the inefficiency of "Crunch Mode." I'm sure punctuated periods of stress have been extensively studied, and I wonder if these studies align with what the author is saying. It seems to me that being able to cope and be more productive in sudden high stress situations would be evolutionarily advantageous. "Crunch Mode" is not unique to the software industry, as a trip to a college dorm during exam season will clearly point out.
Or, alternatively, you aren't living in a democracy.
You can see the same relationship more clearly in the word since, where the causal sense is much further along.
Or perhaps I'm just attempting to justify my bad habits.
To be fair, the author does say that modern economists don't claim to believe the simplistic Homo economicus model:

> Of course, most economists know that the people with whom they interact do not resemble Econs. In fact, in private moments, economists are often happy to admit that most of the people they know are clueless about economic matters. But for decades, this realization did not affect the way most economists did their work. They had a justification: markets. To defenders of economics orthodoxy, markets are thought to have magic powers.

But I think this criticism is invalid as well, based on what I have read of economics. It seems like few economists believe markets solve all societal problems, even among the notoriously pro-market schools, like Chicago and the very heterodox Austrian.
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>I thought Hersh made a great point when he was on On the Media last week. If he's even partly right it means that the main media got the story very wrong and didn't do any real research into verifying the administration claims.

I don't think this is entirely fair, if he's referring to media coverage in the years before his piece. Only a small number of intelligence and military officials across the world know the truth about the operation. Any US, or likely even Pakistani, officials interviewed by the media would likely have corroborated the Obama administraiton's original story. Without a high-level leaker, there isn't a lot the media could have done.

It's a different story for how the media handles things in the face of Hersh's expose, though.
I can see this being useful for embedded systems where Go is not suitable. I'm not super familiar with that whole world, though.
Bringing Osama to trial might have been embarassing.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/afghanistan.ter...

And then there's the possibility that Osama was long dead before the raid (which former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto stated a month before she was killed).
There's no inherent reason why multiprocess would have a significant impact on energy, it just adds a relatively small amount of extra context switching and marshalling to what is already a huge pile of the same (your desktop OS). When the system is idle, or a page is rendered, the difference shouldn't be measurable.
No, he is making different points. Similarly, this is where I stopped reading the article:

> Barrels of ink have been spilled ripping apart Hersh’s character, while barely any follow-up reporting has been done to corroborate or refute his claims

The original poster's point isn't "this doesn't make sense to me." It's that the facts do not comport with reality.

One of the things that those who defend this kind of reporting love to trot out is the idea that any criticism is fallacious, and is "ad hominem."

Of course, there is plenty of ad hominem response out there, but cherry-picking these responses as representative, rather than engaging with substantive refutation, and then claiming that there is no such refutation is argument in bad faith.

In fact, there is a name for that particular kind of argument: a straw man.
Chrome crashes and freezes all the time too.
Is NoScript really at risk? That would be a big deal.
> The idea is that the right government policy can nudge the individual to perform the obviously rational self-interested choice.

I would be concerned with any discussion of that idea that is unaccompanied by a discussion of public choice. Discussing the "right government policy" is interesting, but not very useful without also discussing whether we're more like to get the right government policy than the wrong one.
I emailed Fedor awhile back about some tips on diving into C++ and he was nothing but an amazing help on resources and places to start looking. This article is great and written buy an awesome person. Thanks Fedor!
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What point is the poster making? That the anonymous sources have their own agendas? - “How are we to believe his anonymous sources?”.

Can you tell me what other points there are to be found in there?

> It's that the facts do not comport with reality.

Which facts, specifically? There are certainly none mentioned in that post.
Multiprocess isn't some magical panacea, its use is essentially to contain buggy code which shouldn't exist in the first place (this is true for its use as introducing extra security context for page content as well as its improvements to robustness against hangs). In both instances, a safer implementation language, or moving rendering and JS interpretation off the UI thread could be said to be far more elegant solutions. Mozilla is about a decade ahead of the curve here, with Rust and Servo providing both.
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It may have less performance for various reasons, but it can't be less concurrent by definition. Previously there was no concurrency.
It's been a week since I listen to the piece but I remember him making some good points. I seem to remember him pointing out that the compound was heavily guarded, but no one shot at the choppers. There's also something about repelling down the ropes from the choppers instead of taking it by land.

Sorry my memory is failing me. The basic point is he did make it seem like they were threads the media could've pulled at to at least give the administration story a bit more of a skeptical eye.
"Currently in the San Francisco Bay Area."
Does not pick up in Palo Alto, Mountain View or Foster City. That's the just few addresses I've tried. A service area map would be helpful.
I was on a continuous death march project at my last job. Constant crisis mode got old real fast. When I was asked for a time estimate, it would generally go like this:

Lead: "How long do you think this will take you?"

Me: "Two months"

Lead: "I already promised the customer we would have it to them in 3 weeks."

Actually meeting a deadline happened so rarely I'm surprised people weren't constantly getting fired (no one got fired that I know of. Well, except our CFO for some undisclosed malfeasance). In reality, people just got burned out and quit. One especially smart guy left after only a month on the project.

After my first few failed attempts to meet an impossible deadline, I just gave up trying. I worked a straight 8-hours and left at the end of the day, waving at the missed deadlines as they sailed by. Still couldn't get fired. Damn, guess I'll have to quit. Got a new job for a small pay cut (though in a lower COL city).

I don't mind the very occasional crunch. Stuff happens. But my tolerance level for "constant crisis mode" BS is just about nil nowadays. I must be getting old.