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You have to log in after a couple of tries so.. no thanks.

EDIT: After rereading, that seems a little harsh. I like the idea and it works well but I don't want to sign up for something I probably won't use again.
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credit for the leak went to Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for Donald Rumsfeld

How is this not "state secrets" ?

If they do not prosecute him for the leak, it's a double-standard.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676

One helicopter was lost due to "technical failure". The team destroyed it and left in its other aircraft.
> Stop wasting your time, and do something that will make a difference.

Any suggestions?

I see your problem appears not to be with the candidates you can vote on themselves, but with the process of electing them by vote. I agree some parts of the system can be broken, but I don't think representative democracies are so bad, specially when compared to the alternatives in current use.
One US helicopter went down. Probably the one tweeted about.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2011/05/201152619612164...
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Live coverage is only valuable if it is live. For most, this only came in the clear in the aftermath.

Twitter is more akin to a real time, universal log + interactions, but it doesn't come with a central studio that sifts through the materials and gives you the good stuff. If you don't know where to look, for most it will always be a hindsight experience.
He's a friend of mine and he's also into CS. Sometime back he tried startup stuff but now he is into consultanct.

I've been doing a startup for years and I never made it to front page of HackerNews, TechCrunch, NY Observer and many other hot places at the same time.

I've advised him to launch a product ASAP. Its gonna be hot and I'm definitely gonna invest :P
On the flip side, banks tend to be at least somewhat competent. We don't know much about this particular hack, but some things are just embarrassing - plaintext passwords ;-), but also stuff like putting AT&T putting iPhone subscribers' data on publicly-accessible incrementing URLs (e.g. http://security.goatse.fr/hypocrites-and-pharisees - keep your salt shaker handy.)
Yes, you look smarter because it's as if you're saying "Hey, I'm good at this stuff, and I still don't understand it, so there is something that is not obvious here". Most people don't ask questions because they aren't confident enough in their own capabilities. They feel that the thing they don't understand should have been obvious, and don't want to admit thet they don't know. It's another example of the Imposter Syndrome...

On the other hand, I have often noticed that once one person in a group starts asking questions, it opens the flood gates and everyone else starts to get involved. I have a theory that once one person asks a question, it signals everyone else in the group about the skill level of at least one other person in the group, and if they can understand the question and the answer, they now feel that they are at the same level as everyone else - they no longer feel like an imposter.
> I've read reports that Osama was in fact killed days ago.

Interesting. Can you provide links?
the irony is that he has been buried without any autopsy/DNA test in sea.and moreover, there is no sea around Abbottabad and in Afghanistan either maybe they took him to Karachi or somewhere and As a pakistani and Muslim i want to clear that we have no tradition to bury a body in sea.
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Anything that has been re-submitted is atemporal. That doesn't catch nearly everything, but...
"I've seen Python programs that ended up faster than C".

Yeah, there is nothing in c that makes it significant faster per se than python, remember python is pre-compiled.

C gives you control, it is "portable assembler" if you are used to assembler it is trivial to know exactly what the CPU does, if you can take advantage of it it will be faster, if you can't it wont.

With control you can make something run 100-1000 times faster because you know what the computer does, with a high level language you can not control it, period, it is abstracted.

That is the use of C or specific hardware(100-1000 less power usage).

Low level optimizations for a 10% speed up?. IMHO, Non sense.
Also, the Laundry series.
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Was that in the news before the tweets were found?

And even if they really destroyed it themselves at the end, that also speaks a lot about the circumstances there. Pakistan government is supposed to support U.S. but the helicopter has to be destroyed, obviously to keep it from failing in the hands of Al Quaeda. It's more than interesting.
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yes because we all know that relationship was over after '91
ahem folks raid happened at least 7 days ago..its fake
Since you appear to be knowledgeable in these matters, perhaps you could point out to such a source :)

FWIW I did mention 'tcc' in the article, the "tiny c compiler" with rather compact and clean source code, probably smaller than the code for Bison
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Hmm, isn't the naked-body-scanner thing the most visible/egregious, though? I agree that seized domains are just as important, if not more, but almost every single person is affected by the absurdity the body scanners are.

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that people asking to photograph you naked so you can get on a plane is outrageous, though, because nobody else at the airport seemed to mind...
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Paint me surprised. This supposedly common meaning is absent from the main online dictionaries (Merriam-Webster, Word Reference, Free Online Dictionary) and my paper one (Harrap's).
Yeah, if you could purely lexically distinguish dereferencing from multiplication, either because they used a different symbol, or had different mandatory whitespace rules, then there'd be no ambiguity, at least in this example.

That's basically what C++ did by requiring the space in:

Foo<Bar<Baz> > var;

to make it easy to lexically distinguish the '>>' right-shift operator from the '> >' sequence of two successive template-parameter closing symbols.

C++0x is changing that though, due to the unpopularity of making programmers accomodate what looks like a parser-implementation hack.
No, and I admit that it might very well be wrong. I read this on Slashdot and reddit (I can find some specific comments if you'd like), which obviously are not very reliable sources. But the articles I've read haven't mentioned when he died at all (unless I've somehow missed it), which obviously generates rumours.

Edit: According to harshpotatoes I am wrong, so please disregard this.
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Agreed. I fancy though that he's imagining, or rather betting, the reliability of SSDs will improve. I bet that if his new purchase also fails after 12 months (or less) he'll be pretty pissed.
1. You can backup entire partition

2. Restoring of Windows machine with lot of software very annoying and takes a lot of time (clicking dumb "I agree", and reboot the computer now, entering serials etc...) but with ubuntu or os x it's less annoying experience. Good package manager calculate dependencies for software. The only exception is when you need to install some proprietary software (less frequently than on windows) or you need edge version.
NYTimes:

"Muslim tradition requires burial within 24 hours, but by doing it at sea, American authorities presumably were trying to avoid creating a shrine for his followers."
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden...]

"It was 3:50 on Sunday afternoon when President Obama received the news that Bin Laden had tentatively been identified, most likely after a series of DNA tests."
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/02reconstruct-c...]
You don't have to install from scratch with a decent backup.

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I think that one is a lot more likely because it matches the known elements of the location more closely than the other location

* Surrounded with very high walls with a single entrance

* The compound was eight times larger than other houses in the area

* When it was built it was only accessible via a dirt road

* It has a field and grassy area to the side of it, which is what is shown in the Pakistan TV footage

* The compound had a clear view of anybody approaching by road, and escape routes out the back

It is amazing that they built this place only 5 years ago for the purpose of housing bin laden, and nobody in the area really asked any questions. It seems that the compound didn't have a cover story either - it had no phone or internet connection

It would have been a lot smarter to find a rich arab and his family to use as a cover. Say that it is his holiday home and get all the regular services hooked up. Having such a big building with high walls that doesn't have a phone or internet service must stand out so much that it only further leads me to believe that some in Pakistan knew what it was for and who was there.

Apparently there were ISI agents on the scene at the time of the gun battle, even though the USA didn't tip anybody off in pakistan about the compound or about the operation

I think the official US line of the pakistan government helping is just a way of placating skeptics. All the official statements from the government talk about a foreign operation and they seem to be distancing themselves from it
It actually is made with flash memory:

http://www51.honeywell.com/aero/common/documents/Flight_Data...

You shouldn't trust major media outlets with getting the technical details right...
Did the New York Times paywall cause downtime after the Osama story broke?
Extremists can use anything to incite more violence.

But I'm pretty sure that capturing him and putting him on trial (or even keeping his body) would be more inflammatory, since we might have seen kidnappings and ransoms to get him back.
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> without any autopsy/DNA test

where did you get that from? Every story mentions DNA samples being taken, measurements, photos, video etc. while the body was in Afghanistan
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But "XX XX;" (the example was given in the article) is valid, and the parser needs to know the difference.

The article says that this code is "evil", but I disagree. There is a valid pattern that I use quite often (I described it in an article for ACCU a few years ago, too). It's an example from C++ but I think I could apply it to C as well. Consider (with a modification of the example I used in that article):

struct PirateShip {
struct Cannons {
char* cannon1;
char* cannon2;
} Cannons;
}

Now you can use

PirateShip s;
printf("Name of the first cannon: %s\n", s.Cannons.cannon1);

which is very readable and idiomatic (once you get used to it ;) )

More abstract, it provides an idiomatic way to group collections of objects/structs at the source code/syntactic level.

(one could name the struct and the member differently, I realize; the benefit of using the same name is when you define constant members in the inner struct, that way you can reference constants and properties with the same name and you never have to think about which one to use.)

(also again I use this from C++, there may be things that are different in C, but afaik this part is the same).
If anyone remember, his death was announced by an Egyptian newspaper in late 2001. Since then, all published "Osama messages" were fake: he even was obviously younger in the latest videos. This guy was very sick and needed regular dialysis; staying alive for ten years while hiding away would have been tremendously difficult. So yes, I'm with you : unless they release some serious evidence, I'll stay suspicious.
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Do we know what's killing them? Writes? Heat? Random loss of magic smoke?
are you suggesting that the US military thought 'some guy on twitter mentioned the helicopter we lost, so we should address that in our press statement' ?

the carcass of the helicopter is sitting out in a field all blown up. it is on pakistani tv. i doubt they would have even thought about trying to cover that up
If Osama Bin Laden had Twitter, he might well have sneaked away in time. Seriously.
I want to upvote you twice, esp. for your EDIT
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There is intended to be no end user impact whatsoever. Releasing behind config flags means that feature rollouts are decoupled from deploying code. New code runs "dark" for a long time in production. There we can log and graph and adjust its performance before it is ever visible to the user.

And of course, we can see dark features in production before they're released or even complete. This means that at Etsy we've been using and tweaking our features long before they are made public.

Since we've been closely monitoring and recording the performance of each new feature since its inception, we are highly aware of how that changes once the code is live to a known, small number of our users. Gather data, make adjustments, rinse and repeat until eventually the feature is live to 100% of users.

See also

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/04/how-does-etsy-manage-...

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/12/08/track-every-release/

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-meas...
Please don't be a pedantic nitpicker, it lowers the general level of the discussion (I realize the irony in this very comment doing the same). It's quite obvious that he meant 'compatriot' as 'co-conspirator' or something in that vein, not as in 'everybody who happens to live in the same country'. And even if he did, he'd be such an extremist that you wouldn't be able to reason with him anyway; in which case just ignoring that part would be best.
he found out from a news producer because the press corps were being readied (they were literally sent an email with 'get ready')

http://twitter.com/keithurbahn/status/64989522378764288

it wasn't a 'state secret' at that point

besides, i thought most people here supported government leaks of this kind not being treason/state secrets/whatever
"Can I at least bring a tube of toothpaste with me when I travel now?"

Only toothpaste, what about your shaving gear?
Maybe we shouldn't have any security at all, it's so inconvenient.
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2. I have to set up Firefox manually (downloading extensions etc)
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Note: the above comment should probably be a reply to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505673 by orblivion, which links to

> The news that Osama bin Laden had been killed (...) was broken via Twitter (...).

> (...) credit for the leak went to Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for Donald Rumsfeld (...)
Because the whole thing is a farce. It is called security theater.
True, a partition restore would be faster.
I never intended to imply that lack of effect segregation imposition means that there can be no Monads in SML, I was just replying to that particular tidbit of his.

While there may very well be monads in SML, he still haven't made it clear the Monad abstraction is possible, because he hasn't actually written any code that's generalized to any monad (e.g: Haskell's sequence, liftM2, and so forth).
I wonder when photographic proof will be available?
If it appeared that Facebook had developed a portal for government agencies to access and monitor people then it would be a big deal.

If they have implemented a way of looking up or monitoring things by themselves (and they obviously have and need to) and just give that information when the government comes knocking.. that's less bad.
Not letting military hardware get into other nations' hands is standard practice. Really, "not trusting the Pakistanis that much" is a sufficient explanation.
I've often wondered about this stuff. MLC SSDs are good for 10000 writes per 250k (iirc?) block. When you think about using an SSD for virtual memory, even with wear levelling, that's really not very much at all. Add in programs that do lots of small file writes to logs and so on, and I can imagine losing a lot of blocks fairly quickly - particularly because wear levelling will cause you to lose all of the blocks in a relatively small time space, as opposed to gradual failure.

I wonder if, as flash memory gets cheaper, we'll see SLC SSDs getting more popular.
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Here is his compound on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=osama+bin+laden+&hl=en&...

BONUS: Click "Search Nearby" and enter "PMA Kakul" -- you will see that the Pakistan Military Academy was just a short trip up the road from his house!

PMA on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Military_Academy
Despite the article's linkbait title, Assange does have some legitimate points.

It's all kind of frightening, actually.
Yes. Use SuperDuper to clone occasionally to a laptop-sized HD and you can probably get the restore time down to "how long will it take me to open up the machine and slide in this backup HD".

Such a backup might not be especially fresh, but once it's up you can sync over files from a fresher, automated backup.
Can you send me a screenshot? There shouldn't be anything that comes between the spread:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/bearwithclaws/3t...
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is he aware of what is fake an real anymore? can we say HBGary..ah yes we can
One of the cool things about SSDs will be the huge amount of random I/O we can throw at them without noticeable responsiveness slowdown. SSDs will probably increase peoples' desire to backup because it will no longer be such a drain on I/O responsiveness.
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More likely we'll just continue to see the firmware get smarter. SandForce controllers compress a lot of redundant data and only make writes when absolutely necessary.

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Having a personal infrastructure chaos monkey is maybe not a bad thing (apart from the expense etc).
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Sorry to say, but you've been duped.

I checked out the wikipedia article you linked to. Shocking reading, surely. But then I examined the two references to the dolphin 'rapes'...

The latter reference was this article: http://www.altx.com/io/zoo.html - see any mention of 'dolphin'? Me neither. I edited it out of the wikipedia article.

The former reference only went as far as this: 'although what happens once the males have herded in a female, and whether she goes for one or all of them, is not yet known: the researchers have yet to witness a dolphin copulation.'

This is not rape. Read the rest of the article. Fascinating, if only for the realization that we (humans) really don't understand the subtleties of being a dolphin. So, let's just say the issue is indeterminate.
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Or if his birth certificate will be shown.
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