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..was just thinking out loud :-)

But one advantage is that this is immediately viewable on any device, because otherwise you would need a WARC viewer, which are not so easy to setup.
The NSA used to certify systems as highly assured by exhaustively analyzing and pentesting them for years. Had to beat their pentesters to be approved. Then, they'd try to restrict their export. It was a whole system process that applied from bottom to top to minimize complexity, reduce leaks, and enforce security policies. Here's a description of a superset of that I used in private work:

http://pastebin.com/y3PufJ0V

So, let's just compare the author's email to that list. A strong TCB at OS/firmware/trusted-component level like with EROS, INTEGRITY-178B, or GenodeOS? Nope. Components or apps made in a manner to reduce complexity, be type/memory safe, use static analysis, analyzed for covert channels, and so on? Probably not given names I saw. Do the underlying projects use a subversion-resistant development process and SCM security that assumes a number of them are malicious w/ independent auditing? Virtually nobody does that despite Myers (1980) showing subversion the most powerful attack. Has the crypto and its implementation been tested by experts in that? Don't know. Has the overall system and configuration been pentested by TAO-grade hackers? No.

So, it's far from NSA-proof as the underlying properties necessary for NSA-proof operation don't exist here. They exist only in a handful of defense-oriented products with some traits existing in other security-focused projects (esp in academia). This, at best, will slow down nation state attackers who are probably uninterested in his system anyway. A good configuration and 0-day mitigation tech might make this build survive typical blackhats and snoops. A real, threat profile along with more reasonable goal.

Won't stop the NSA, though. You can put money on that. Assume it's true every time you hear it, too. You can't stop nation-state attackers until you know how (see framework) then apply that to every level and user/machine interfaces. Even then, it might work and might just be an obstacle. So, include monitoring & logging on top of it.
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Yes, agreed. The recent drop in oil prices has caused Canada's economy to plummet, due to mismanagement, for example.

http://credbc.ca/norways-oil-gas-policy/
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I like the guy's writing style and use of English.
There's risks and there's bankruptcy. If you feel like gambling then be my guest. What's the risk of your house catching fire? Are you insured? What are the risks of getting burgled? Your car stolen, a car accident? Are you insured?

What are the risks of having a bad health issue happen to you? Are you insured?

I'll bet that you don't know the answers to any of those questions, and yet, you are probably insured against all of them.

As for your question in more detail: it happens often enough that for me if you operate your business 'in the cloud' and you don't have a back-up of your data outside of the cloud to guard against catastrophic data loss due to either malice or accident that I'll happily fail you. Think 'sysadmin was depressive, wiped out company' (or maybe you let him/her go and they took revenge or any one of a number of other scenarios that would instantly terminate your existence online if you had not guarded against it).

Risk management is consequences * incidence versus cost to mitigate. If the cost to mitigate is negligible, the risk is measureable and the consequences are terminal then it is a no-brainer to protect yourself against this. At least one of my customers wished they had set up a backup facility for their critical data (too bad, end of story for them) and there is one published case that we all know about. That's two that you can count on and most likely other trouble shooters have similar stories.

I see catastrophic cloud data loss as having a much higher chance of happening than many other items on the list of stuff that I verify before greenlighting an investment.
This is a really, really interesting, well-written, accessible article even if you don't know the GHC or Racket internals. Thanks!
I think it's more he (the article) is saying fuck to an idea, not a flesh and blood person (as when responding to a comment).

Also, it is possible to have civil debate around a profanity riddled article. That's what this site is trying to achieve.
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Wow! Want to do a full disclosure?

Your papers were very valuable while doing my undergraduate study. Is Hoard neck and neck with jemalloc and lockless' allocator nowadays?

http://locklessinc.com/benchmarks_allocator.shtml
I think that your interpretation of the results is very wrong.

Studies on criminality show a significant genetic component -- not that it is the most significant factor. The IQ studies indeed show that a much stronger correlation with the biological parents, but IQ variation has not been found to be a major cause of social inequality, AFAIK. I.e. to draw your conclusions you'd need another missing element, which is to show that low IQ is a major cause of poverty, and other causes don't play as significant a role. I am not aware of any such claims. Indeed, in the famous twin-adoption studies, heredity was found to explains only ~20% of the variation in earnings in men and ~10% in women -- certainly significant, but far from being the determining cause.

Also, that genetics may have a significant influence on future earnings does not mean that no action is possible to counter that effect -- if we choose to take it. Choosing to take it or not is a value-based choice. Genetics also prevents us from flying or some people born with deformities from walking, yet we have built airplanes and prosthetics.
Care to share?
There was a time when heart attack symptoms in women were misunderstood, too. It seems to be a recurring pattern in medicine.
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Do you have a write up on running your own email server?
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Their current plans are still $100 to $150 a week for 30 weeks. Thats about three times what jusdicious grocery shopping could get you. Same ratio as when I attended decades ago.
In a way it isn't insane to try and break current RSA encryption. We know if you throw enough cpu cycles at it you will eventually succeed. What is more interesting is if we come up with a new method to break it and I would totally be behind that.
Guess what the NSA is already doing.
My personal experience, however, despite discussions and requests not to be disturbed other than at predefined times, I still get interrupted far too often. Other people will place their "need" to get something from you over your productivity almost always.

That's an issue of:

1. Office environment.
2. Work culture.

Put folks in an open office space where they're free to "collaborate", and no great surprise folks get interrupted all the time.

My own work environment gives every engineer two person offices with a door they can shut, and we've all taken
advantage of that on many occasions.

To retain some productivity and sanity, I try to work from home 2 days per week. It is telling that on those days I often feel mentally fatigued before the end of the day.

And that's a reasonable compromise. You're not totally prioritizing your own productivity to the exclusion of all else, but you're also arranging some "flow time".

My problem is with engineers who are chronically out of sync with the rest of their team all the time. I've personally seen how detrimental that can be to team gel and productivity.
If your data is truly valuable to you, then yes, you host it (encrypted, I hope) in a cloud service to protect you from onsite issues; you host it live locally, to work with it — and you have a hard drive in a safe deposit box somewhere, as well, in case something goes wrong with the cloud copy.
Apples and oranges - Phoenix is too new to compare with Rails as far as bloat. I am optimistic Phoenix can do a great job of fighting bloat because of the community's learnings from Rails. But at the same time I would not be surprised if in 10 years Phoenix has order of magnitude same amount of bloat as Rails 5. Phoenix's promise (last time I heard José speak) is "productivity of Rails, plus high performance"; the high performance mostly comes from the Elixir-based architecture, not from less bloat.

The whole issue of bloat in Rails is overblown because Rails has been quite modular since version 3.
No advantage hosting in Iceland. Why not just encrypt all data on the VPS? If the VPS provider was required to provide a copy of the VPS, it would be useless to requestor.
The question I have: What is the actual cost of having a student at a university in the US per year?
Bank shutdowns are not orderly because banks are important; they're orderly because banks are heavily regulated. If Amazon has an orderly shutdown, it would be because of the selflessness of its owners and managers, which is a pretty fickle thing to bet on.
You're entirely free to play fast and loose with your customers data.

It is interesting that even today there are still people arguing against having back-ups because 'the cloud', you'd think that we ITers learn from our mistakes but for some this has to be personal experience before the lessons are learned. Good luck if and when it happens to you, please re-read your comments here at that time. There isn't an IT person that I know that has not been saved by a back-up at some point in their career, the fact that you are lucky so far is not a reason to think you are exempt.

And no, nobody is advocating storing your money in a mattress because you 'don't trust the banks', the point is that you can keep a copy of your critical data for very little money to safeguard against an eventuality that seems to hit the IT world with alarming regularity, even if they use 'the cloud'. Fuck-ups, hacks, disgruntled employees and failures all happen, every day.
It's just that "anonymous" is such a loaded word. And many users still have magical faith in Internet anonymity.

I would warn people about the need to obfuscate IP address. Maybe point them to https://www.privacytools.io/.
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I really don't like to marginalize others by what type of personality they are. This is yet another way of putting people into buckets so that you can more easily go about your day without thinking about it much. Before facebook people would keep large collections of photo books so that when family and friends came over they could easily share them. It doesn't mean they valued those pictures any less because they were extroverted vs. introverted. People still keep hard copies of the pictures they cherish the most, like a wedding album. People value all sorts of things, but maybe they see cloud storage as perfectly secure, for the moment. Maybe personality plays into that, but I think its more about your approximate knowledge of the underlying technology that keeps people up at night.
It's even funnier that it seems someone hooked up the account to a social game and is playing with it broadcasting their score ;p
I was the dev, checking if this was actually possible. And - much to my surprise I might add - it was.
It sounds like racket generics are at least partway on the road to a type system. And those placeholder values seem a bit greenspunny - I'm not sure how they'd interact with native racket features (e.g. macros). (I mean, you are right, but in a degenerate sense you could implement typeclasses in any dynamic language by having your program construct strings and writing a Haskell compiler in that language that executed those strings at runtime. So the more relevant question is whether monad techniques can be used effectively in an idiomatic program).
Not really. It doesn't matter that Haskell is lazy by default, so long as you called the function on a lazy stream data structure. Clojure is strict but it can do this efficiently as well, I think.
We have a Manhattan-like project already, is it called the NSA. They have had pretty much a mirror image budget to NASA over the same lifetime. Encryption is a red herring. Terrorism is a red herring. We are spending ourselves into a depression chasing ghosts.
The problem with the "once in "thousands of years"." argument is that you never know when that once happens and it may well be... tomorrow and never more in the next couple of thousands of years.

That is what happened (once again) to John Meriwether and Long-Term Capital Management... A "once every 10.000 years event" which took place... today.
I was maybe expecting some blockchain analysis ;)
Has anyone seem "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?" by the same author?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817287
...You ruined it. It was so perfect and you ruined it.
> You know how it goes: one moment you're reading or driving, the next you're off in a daze, thinking about what you should have for lunch, or running through to-do lists in your head.

There must be a word for this moment, when the primary focus of attention shifts from the near physical environment to thoughts that are "mentally near". I certainly know the subjective experience of what is being described, but I lack the words to express it. It superficially resembles a context switch.
Most of the article is about his host in iceland. That can't be working out very well for him these days:

https://www.greenqloud.com/greenqlouds-public-cloud-services...

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I couldn't say. Honestly, I wouldn't think that it would be much. A lot of the courses haven't changed much year-over-year.

The question I have is with modern technology, why isn't there a startup that had figured out how to remedy this issue.

Surely there's a way to provide top notch education without having to break the bank doing so.
Totally agree that this is not optimal, but bear in mind that the goal is to get letsencrypt shipped through your package manager, where it can just specify dependencies and the package manager will resolve them. With that, this will essentially become a non-issue.
Assuming the rest of your data isn't in the cloud, yes. Otherwise reverse the situation. But you got it perfectly.
This is a big design mistake:

> Do you really not have 10 minutes per month to review your transaction history?

You're asking a loaded question here, with the intent of shaming people into giving dishonest answers.

The correct question to ask is: how many people carefully look through their credit card statements every single month?

My guess is that ~25% will say that they do and ~10% actually would catch inserted mistakes the first month.

To build successful products, you have to design for people as they are, not at as you think they should be in some ideal world where people are smarter, more virtuous, more rigorous, or have more time.
This is amazing:

I have no idea how Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G character sneaked through my gate to ask Noam outrageous things like, "How many words does you know?" and "What is some of them?" I do remember that Noam came to me afterward looking dazed. "No more men in gold suits," he said, sighing.
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> everyone else can take a hike.

More like: if anybody else wants to make GTK work better with other platforms, they're welcome to do it.

It may have been a universal toolkit, but if the people that made it so disappear, it's unlikely it will continue to be universal in the future; that's just the way it is.
I understand that Chomsky's defensiveness / crotchety behavior can be very off-putting, but I highly suggest ignoring his eccentricities and focusing on the content of his writings. Chomsky is a deeply sensitive person whose mind is a paragon of receptive and careful attention to word choice, tone, and message-- that's why he's one of the best. The factual analytical power that Chomsky has is absolutely mind-opening, and his methodical explanations lend themselves to increasing your understanding of the issues being discussed, even if you don't agree with his interpretation.
Still is. In my friends case it was misinterpreted as toothache.
That's a terrible argument that I've never heard an actual policy-maker or politician make. Besides, unsecured debts are all around us, credit cards being the most common.
I think that saying that m "equals infinity" is probably a bit of a simplification.

One can say that some values are infinite, such as omega in the ordinal numbers and the surreal numbers, but neither of those values are what is meant in the examples you gave, which are both limits.

If you plugged in omega (from the surreals) for those expressions instead of taking the limit, I think you would get a value which is off by around epsilon (i.e. 1/omega). I'm not sure of that but I think that's how it tends to work out.

In the surreals one can indeed have a continuously increasing infinite value. But I'm not sure that that is a proper way to describe the "total volume of the universe"? Maybe it is, but idk.
As a C programmer who "tried" Python, I feel offended. I wrote substantial OO code using list comperhensions and other things pythonic. I am also a functional programming affectionado, though a realist, not a fan. Don't label people. Speak against companies mismanaging people by driving them to write low quality code. Be open and promote useful programming concepts and tools.

P.S. Long live static typing. Down with EcmaScript.
I understand why people are upset about the word. It's misused.

But I remember what it was like before "the cloud"... You had to provision machines one by one, often via email or phone. It took hours or days. Billing was usually done by the day. It sucked.

Now you can just send a POST request to a machine and in a few seconds you have access to a new instance. You can send 1000 requests and get access to 1000 instances. And then you can send some more requests and only get charged for a few minutes of time. When this transition happened, we called it "the cloud" because it's a big undifferentiated mass of computers. We could've called it "the soup" but we didn't.

That's what it has always meant to me. I don't understand why people want to eradicate the word just because it's misused. People misuse the word "internet" all the time, but I don't think we should strike it from our vocabulary.
What a bunch of bollocks. There is no connection between countries trying to improve their research facilities and the privitisation of undergraduate education.

The latter is just more profitable and goes along with the trend to privitise all state services which has been going on for a while.
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If sound isolation became a feature that people wanted, with the initial push provided by building codes, then apartments could compete on isolation and both noisy and noise-sensitive individuals would move there. Then landlords would start providing more isolation to attract tenants.

Of course, that's moot if supply is artificially restricted to the point where renters have no choice where to live, but not all cities have that problem.
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One can be "mind-wandering", but still mindful. One meditation technique is to let yourself think random thoughts, notice the thought, and let it go.
What evidence do you have for your assertion that public schools would cost $50k a year?
Yes, I enjoyed it very much. (Any questions I can help answer?)

The author's different though: Michel Gondry, well known for his music videos and films.
To be fair, I don't think I could have an email dialogue with Sam Harris without oozing contempt and becoming uncivil.

Civility is overrated. It is also the usually first complaint at hand to dismiss people, rather than their arguments.
Here's the video of that interview - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro
To me, "backdoor" and "government can crack it if they try" differ only in degree, not in kind.
They can't be written in Lisp well, or at all. Strong typing with inference can't be bolted on. Monads that take advantage of this typing can't be bolted on. Changing Lisp to have lazy semantics across the board ain't gonna happen.

You might be able to write a Haskell interpreter from scratch that interacts with the Lisp environment, but you can't feasibly transform Lisp itself.
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>you cannot trust your own sense of what is inherently easier to read, it will be biased by experience.

Funny you should say that, when basically every person in the world going through a basic mathematics curriculum will be experienced with infix notation, and completely unfamiliar with RPN.

True, maybe you for some reason have more experience with RPN. So use Forth.

But there is a clearly superior notation when you're talking about "which one will most people understand." HP calculators notwithstanding.
People also remember things that never happened. For example, eye witness testimonials.

I used to think I could recall conversations, but how do I know they actually happened?
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I disagree. I clean my home because I like it that way. I work better in a clean, organized environment. I exercise because it makes me feel better and stronger, and is just a good idea for long-term health. I work on personal projects because I want the results of those projects to exist. About the only thing I do for other people is my actual job, which pays the bills for the larger home and more involved lifestyle that comes along with a wife and children. (Well, I guess the whole raising of children and participating in a marriage is done for other people. And charity work. But hopefully you get the larger point.)
I think the MOOC thing is a game changer, but only for actually learning stuff (as opposed to prestige), and mostly for stuff where it can be proven that you've learned it.

What I mean is you now have a huge variety of ways to learn STEM type stuff. When I was an undergrad, you had some topic like transistors to learn about. You had maybe 3 or 4 books with explanations, not all good. You had a lecturer, and a tutor, and your fellow students. If combined they didn't lead you to understand the secret to transistors, you were buggered.

Nowadays, you have forums like stackexchange where you can get a well informed answer to some pretty obscure questions. You have a whole load of lectures from various universities as well, and you can also get a variety of books delivered wirelessly. So really if you're ignorant about something, it's not because you couldn't have found a good explanation.

The reason I mention provable stuff is that you have certain subjects where, let's face it, it's easy to BS. Sure, there's agreement that some people are better at discussing history or politics than others, but it's just not the same as a STEM subject. There's an xkcd about this.

For those subjects, I reckon no matter how smart you sound, people will give you more credit if you went to a big name school.

I'm still waiting for the MOOCs to have credible exams. I mean in the eyes of the public, of course. Once that happens, and I believe it can happen quickly, there will not be quite so much pressure to do a specific, old fashioned residential college education.