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by siculars 13y ago
> FUD. Fud or not, this is what happens when you shake the public's trust in... anything. In this case it happens to be government, the internet and technology. The NSA scandal will have wide reaching and unpredictable implications.
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by siculars 13y ago
What I get out of this and, by proxy, a lot of successful crowd funding is that it is a market validator. This guy will no doubt make some money on selling Soylent, but what will also happen is that a large multinational will swoop in with
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by siculars 13y ago
$50 inbound. USA Agitator watch list here I come!
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[discussion] Distributed everything against multiple jurisdictions
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by siculars 13y ago
Distributed cryptography/services in multiple jurisdictions is the only permanent solution or as a delaying tactic at a minimum. Where keys or parts of data or multiple onion style encryption rests in a chain of services distributed gl
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by siculars 13y ago
Yokozuna is a replacement for Riak's current search implementation. It brings full Solr search functionality to Riak.
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Riak's Yokozuna 0.8.0 Release Notes(github.com)
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by siculars 13y ago
You have a surprising amount of hope, my friend.
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As Work Habits Change, Software Makers Rush to Innovate(nytimes.com)
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by siculars 13y ago
Whereas traditional EAV is a triple - entity, attribute, value - Datomic is a quad. Datomic adds a timestamp and treats every value as an immutable fact at a point in time. Which is exceptionally valuable for highly regulated systems like f
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by siculars 13y ago
Twitter can handle north of 4k tweets per second on virtually entirely open source software and these morons can't record phone calls. If this is not a glaring example of government mismanagement and waste I don't know what is. Wh
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by siculars 13y ago
But more prone to fire, flooding and other general destruction.
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Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Billionaire joins battle for NASA launch pad(cnbc.com)
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by siculars 13y ago
I often say, tongue firmly in cheek, that if Google doesn't know something it is not meant to be known - or exist. Obviously this is not true. I would hate to think that in the future if "intelligence" does not exist in an NS
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by siculars 13y ago
Does anyone know how these companies, et al., actually differentiate US Citizens from Non-US Citizens? I don't remember clicking the "I'm a US Citizen box" on any website.
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by siculars 13y ago
So when do we get to read about The Machine in Person of Interest? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)
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by siculars 13y ago
There seems to be three things they are doing to reach their higher performance: 1. Multi-threaded synchronized write ordering. I'm interested in the internal synchronization mechanism... "LevelDB uses very coarse-grained synchronization wh
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Markov.sql: Higher Order Markov Chains(ef.gy)
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by siculars 13y ago
So is Google a carrier in these locales? Net net this is a Good Thing™ for access in Africa. Unfortunately soon Google and other carriers like them will be asked to implement all sorts of nasty filtering, censoring and generally anti-privac
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Concert Industry Struggles With ‘Bots’ That Siphon Off Tickets(nytimes.com)
4 points by siculars 13y ago|1 comments
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by siculars 13y ago
I said "basically one reason" because I thought it may engender pedantry. Ya, sure, people may get into law enforcement for ideologically pure reasons but I am of the opinion that with great power comes great responsibility and there are ju
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by siculars 13y ago
There are many ways "to do good for the world." I am incredibly suspect of law enforcement, especially at a national level. Not to say that local law enforcement is any less corrupt but it's the nationals that can influence laws like "show
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by siculars 13y ago
I say all of the above. There's basically one reason to work for law enforcement: Authority and its slutty sister, Power. People who are attracted to these things are susceptible to logic failures in pursuit of their interest in exerting Au
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by siculars 13y ago
posthaven!
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by siculars 13y ago
I consulted for Clipboard very early on. Gary Flake is a really smart, talented and drive engineer. I'm glad he got a chance to see this through. Sorry it didn't gain the kind of traction I'm sure the team was looking for. I hope some of th
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Riak, Protocol Buffer Encoding, and You(blog.andyet.com)
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Fighting Words Against Big Data(nytimes.com)
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Winter is Coming(arxiv.org)
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by siculars 13y ago
How about naming it for Aaron Swartz? As I noted in a commend on github I would not conflate this issue of privacy and ethics as it relates to user information collected by applications with things like war crimes and crimes against humanit

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