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> In practice when it's big enough to demonstrate with a test case, the reports look like this:

I would like to note that unfortunately there does not seem to be a single V8 person on that bug. I highly recommend filing all JavaScript related issues (including performance ones) directly on V8 bug tracker at http://code.google.com/p/v8. This guarantees that these issues will be immediately seen by the V8 team.

[to be completely precise anything that is related to correctness or performance of the language described in ECMA-262 can go directly to V8 issue tracker. On the other hand things like DOM APIs are implemented in Blink bindings so it should go into Chromium one. If highly in doubt file Chromium issue :-)]

Do you still observe performance issues reported in that bug? If so I will undo WontFix and CC relevant folks.

> for some reason at that time X.apply() and X.call() were special-cased to always assume that they were Function.apply or Function.call

To the best of my knowledge there was never an assumption like this in V8. Optimizer would detect Function.prototype.apply using a token attached to the closure value itself. Optimizer still does not optimize Function.prototype.call in any special way.

It would be quite interesting to figure out what was going wrong for you and whether it is fixed or not. One possibility is clash of the CONSTANT map transitions, but honestly I don't see how it can occur.
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Except, you didn't state that PNaCl subsets a specification of a compiler IR, well designed and meant to be compiled.

asm.js subsets a language never meant for this, and tries to come up with something that will compile well.
This approach certainly can work, but will have significantly more limitations 5 years from now than the other one.

Not to mention, LLVM, and it's IR, certainly has more traction than "asm.js".
I've heard that at Google, the team votes for the person they would like to see promoted. This seems to be a pretty good idea from the outside - can someone comment on this? There must be some Googlers lurking...
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Same here. We're on their catalyst program.
I didnt get that at all. He could just be joining a venture with other journalists? Similar to propublica.org.
yeah but it will still be chrome only.
asm.js stuff runs anywhere. just happens to run faster on firefox right now/for now.
1) No competition could mean no market

2) You could just think you have no competition but just be uninformed

3) You could think you have no competition but have tons of non-obvious competition.

Either way if the need exists people are solving it somehow currently even if it's a kludge. That kludge is your competition.

If there is no kludge exists and no real competition exists, then does the need even exist? (Probably not)

FWIW most of these lessons I learned the hard way so try not to take them as saintly advice delivered from on high. I just screwed up and wrote down how I screwed up and then later read the notes.
> Banks are dinosaurs

That didn't stop Yodlee or Intuit.

> Users don't want to give you their username and password for their bank

That just isn't true. Millions of people give them out to Mint.com, and that was before it was ever purchased by Intuit.
I'm curious why you find FMDB cumbersome? I've always found it pretty easy to work with.
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What scale are we talking about here, a home server or an enterprise deployment?
If you are coding against a well documented and thorough API, why should the year matter?
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We host our couple of boxes in hetzner.
California is very far from me--I actually ended up on the other coast looking for cheaper college (CUNY system, which I feel is similar in some ways). It looks like out of state tuition at community college is about $5000 in California, which isn't so bad, but most places require you to live there a year without taking any classes in order to become a resident for college purposes (so you'd have to take a year off between community college and the four year, possibly), and finding a way to survive without a degree or any social network would have been quite difficult. I wouldn't really have had the money to move out there when I was younger; it's taken me this long to get to the east coast, which is a lot closer compared to California.

I think it's a really great system for people who live in state, though! (or states close to California) I've heard some things about impacted classes, but it sounds like California has their CC -> 4 year transfer system set up much better than a lot of places. The regent scholarship sounds great, but it'd have been a huge gamble to try to move out there for it, since you won't know until you're applying to the four year school if you'll get it or not. There are so many unknowns, when tuition is this high. The CoA for Berkeley for example is $33,000 for in state and over $50,000 for out of state.

Why is paying for college so much harder than getting accepted to one? Ugh.
Do they listen to anything other than accidental F bombs?
Their discounted pricing has since expired, but Azure has great, stupid-simple UX that a complete novice could figure out
online.net. Very cheap dedi servers, very happy with them. I have used Linode before, a little pricey, but support was outstanding.
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A couple important notes about this:

* Vagrant is being updated to work with 4.3 now. A release should be out today or at the latest tomorrow. (UPDATE: Vagrant 1.3.5 is now out and supports VirtualBox 4.3)

* VirtualBox 4.3 doesn't run at all on Mavericks (10.9) because their kernel extensions aren't signed. OS X 10.9 requires signed kexts now. So the changelog where they said "limited" Mavericks support they actually should've said "no support". (UPDATE: Some people are reporting it is working for them on Mavericks. I can't get it to work. YMMV)

Based on these two bullet points, I would stick with VirtualBox 4.2 for the time being. The bullet point that says "rewritten VT-x and AMD-V code" is especially vague and could be "super unstable virtual machine manager" just as easily as it can mean "slight performance improvements." So be careful.

Other than that, it is good to see VirtualBox have some sort of big release. This is their first major ("4.x") release in over a year.

I also want to note that if you are on Mavericks, VMware Fusion works perfectly. As a disclaimer to this sentence though: I make money from Vagrant + VMware users. I'm not trying to advertise that, I just want to state that Vagrant _itself_ is fine. VirtualBox 4.3 doesn't work. VirtualBox 4.2 does. VMware Fusion 5 and 6 does.
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Nitpick: it is not the certificate that offers Forward Secrecy or not, it is the server's SSL cipher-suite settings.
He could crowdfund it by selling yearly subscriptions. I'd easily pay $60 a year for a investigative-minded digital magazine with Greenwald as Editor-in-Chief.
I'm using an EDIS[1] KVM and am quite happy with their small offering (I don't really need a whole lot of disk space). Speed is good, reliability/uptime is good, support is quick and friendly, and they have good locations all over Europe (I'm using the Frankfurt/Germany DC).

[1]: http://www.edis.at
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Servint has been excellent for me, as a MediaTemple and GoDaddy exile. www.servint.com
If you are looking at the other extreme - i.e extremely cheap VPS - check out http://lowendbox.com/ - you can get some pretty decent ones for $10 a year
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I haven't done it yet, but I could. This also depends on what your goal is, and how long the campaign last, but it is quite easy to extract such probabilities of success. For instance, this plot shows the estimated probability of success as a function of time and the proportion of the goal that was pledged: http://imgur.com/hoTzBEW. From it, you can see that you need to be at about 25% or more of your goal in the middle for your campaign if you want to have more chances of success than failure. Similar plots could be done by including more factors.
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Bezos bought the Post - the other newspaper thats been a big part of the NSA leaks - perhaps its Bezos?
Until you start getting denied treatment for "risky behavior." Oh, and the ad hominem makes you look like an idiot.
Yeah, I agree that V8 is probably the right tracker to go with. It's a mess since most of my test cases are not 'just JS' that can run in the d8 shell; they are applications and the perf issues appear when running the complete application. I'll take a look at the bug again and see if there's still a regression; I haven't checked in a while. I don't really have a way to pull out old Chrome builds, though...

The apply/call thing is from an old email thread with you, so I must have misunderstood. My understanding still led to performance improvements though, so that's quite mysterious :)
Argh. When I hear the word 'bank' I automatically put my head in my hands. I had yodlee wired up to import into xero but there was a manual auth step in between. It was so slow that while distrated, waiting for it to run, I burnt my toast and set off the fire alarm in my building. I have a python script for converting Barclay's PDF statements to csvs and js for ripping my data from HSBC. This is not the wonderful new world I was promised.
PocketPanda is a brand-new company so they're still ramping up their sales side - the fill rate should improve soon.

Given the amount of interest in companies like Survata and Google - mobile consumer research is the logical next-step.

In the end, putting surveys in game seems like the best logical choice with most traffic going there and incentives being aligned well.
It may all be moot when(if) Google glass get popular.

I expect an info-bubble will appear when you see someone through the glasses and tilt your head in an inquiring manner.
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PHP is robust enough to create webpages and scripts, that's what it was designed for.

I think nobody is claiming "they are an elite developer because they can code a bit PHP" , that's what you said.

It would be far more interesting to talk about what you use and how , rather than bashing PHP.
Home servers and hobby projects. So scale is tiny.
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I can definitely see that working. The mainstream-critical news field seems very populated by extremely polarizing figures. On the libertarian side there is very little between full blown conspiracy theory mongers (ala Axel Jones) and those more affiliated with one political who pick up the stories that advances their viewpoints (Drudge, Mother Jones). Greenwald brings the right level of mainstream credibility to carve out a new brand in that space.
Is it GUI based ?

If so, are there screenshots ?
Sure, many factors can explain the initial "surge" in pledges: pre-launch marketing, featuring on recently launched, novelty, first spread on social medias, etc. I did not really try to explain the causes of the different phases, but merely to use the raw data to predict the state at the end (successful or failed).
They still end up in the general bucket.

At the moment, the design is such that there is a single "master" public key for each Securedrop installation that all submissions are encrypted with. The journalists are advised to download the encrypted submissions, transfer them to the airgapped Viewing Station, decrypt them with the "master" private key (which is only stored there), and then optionally re-encrypt them to their personal public key if they want to transfer them to their personal workstations.

It would certainly be possible for this process to be automated with some additions to the journalist backend, and in that case once a journalist had taken responsibility for a particular source's communications, further communications could be restricted for their eyes only.
This is great. If service providers lose business because of cooperation with the NSA, then it's just a matter of time until those service providers have a compelling reason (Capitalism) that Congress, etc. can get behind.
Thanks a lot for this comment. After upgrading to Mavericks I had to ditch my hacked together and hand-compiled PHP setup, so I converted to Vagrant+Virtualbox. I'd have hated to break that with the upgrade to 4.3 haha.
Logic is a PART OF THE PATRIARCHY.

/s
Nothing wrong with it per se, like I said I wish them well, I just feel that their motivation going forward is going to be towards enterprise features.

For example Nginx currently has bad WebDAV support (only a 3rd party plugin that is a version behind). I don't see them doing anything to fix this in the future, and I'm not suggesting that they should, just that Nginx Plus is a signal to me that they aren't going to be serving my needs.
Who leaked the news that he was leaving?
Well, it depends on the length of the project. 0.2% for 1 month work equals to a 2.4% raise by the end of the year (12*0.2).

The thought would be like this: You give impacting projects to your best talent. Higher the impact, higher the % after the completion. So your less efficient talent would have a salary that follows inflation while people thriving could get very nice salary increase.

If you want to step up, you request bigger responsibilities. Management test you out by giving you 1. You get better % on it. If you fail, you go back to step-1. If not, you just open the door for bigger salary increase and more interesting projects.
> Very few people are really skilled at both. But as I mentioned in the introduction, you can be one of them if you practice with new experiences, and reflect on when you over- vs under-think through decisions.

So he suggests you should use structured thinking to be good at "going with the flow". With that implying that someone that is good at going with the flow to start won't be able to be good on both.

I don't think this is true, but only his own mental model playing games with his writings. But otherwise, very interesting thoughts.
Except that doesn't work for:

* 100's of people over long timespans.

* Remembering what that person you met at the bar last night was called.

Figuring out who "insert random name you stumbled upon in your phonebook" is.

Modern humans have networks way bigger than we can handle in just our mind and we need written records (contact books, diaries, letters, business cards, whatever) in order to be able to handle large quantities of data, such as these social and professional networks we tend to keep.
>The mainstream-critical news field seems very populated by extremely polarizing figures

Do you think that Greenwald is any different? He's been a polarizing figure for years, even before becoming a focal point of the Snowden/NSA story.
It's not so much manager doesn't want to promote you as manager has no role to promote you into. Sometimes you can create a role and demonstrate to your manager that you are willing and responsible to manage that topic, and perhaps it needs added investment to grow that topic (more money and more people) which you will manage ... in other words don't wait for your manager to create the role to promote you into. Most managers are happy to team leads with this kind of initiative and will support them.

If you create the role but still your manager is unsupportive about it then you're probably in a team with a very narrow scope and there's just no further room to grow in that team, so time to move on.
DigitalOcean has private networks now, no?

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/introducing-private-...
aws, softlayer, serverbeach/peer1, networkredux
Or some other creative solution for supplying power. I mean, it's a shame these devices don't regularly experience some kind of predictable motion that could be used to generate electricity.
We have a non-YC exit. It was not an acquihire based on size of transaction. Our YC company is still very much alive.
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> The article says they are living off the map, which they certainly aren't.

No, it doesn't.

'“It’s basically impossible for you and I to decide, as of tomorrow, I’m going to remain off the radar and to survive for a month or 12 months,” says Gunter Ollmann, the CTO of security firm IOActive'
I have used http://www.fotolia.com/ and find them to be the cheapest stock photo websites out there.

http://www.istockphoto.com/ has a much larger collection, but they are a lot costlier.
Ghost is the best idea in blogging for a very long time, and it deserves a lot of love. Back to the real roots of free speech and the best of hackers. Hack for Halloween is an awesome idea.
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Here is a list of free programming books on GitHub: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books

I hope it will help you and other developers write better code.
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I tried googling for mac os x signed kernel extensions, but couldn't find anything useful.

Is this an easy issue to fix (get free key, slap a signature on), or could this be a more serious issue?
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you'd probably want to zero the length in the list structure and remove the dangling pointer to the first element otherwise you run the risk of a double-free.
The warrant that was given to him only asked for the ssl keys.

The court records were just unseal on October 2nd.

>He could have done this a while ago, but he didn't.

Maybe he's been working on it since the 2nd?

>He could have relaunched fully, under a new entity, but he didn't.

Why would that change anything? This would only serve to hurt his existing customers.

>He chose NOW, to relaunch for only 72 hours. Why?

Again, maybe he's been working on it since the 2nd?
This is exactly the problem I have with any "federal sales tax" program: the airgap between what I'm buying and automated governmental analysis thereof shrinks to sparking distance, thanks to instant rendering of tax coupled with inevitable "requirement" to adjust that tax based on arbitrary legislated factors. Buy a six pack? healthcare premium increases. Buy health products? get a tax credit. Buy fertilizer? auto-crosscheck your recent contacts against known terrorists. Made your purchase sooner than speed limits make possible from your last known freeway location? pay your fine first.
I don't know you or your situation, but have you considered polishing your rant and then applying to YC with the rant as proposal?
Yep.

Here are the screenshots from out Velocity Presentation: http://imgur.com/a/dawwf
Homework for YC Startup School 2013
Other: SegPub.

I do not recommend them. I can't get in touch via ticket, twitter, email, phone, and they let my domains expire while charging for them.
He managed to do just fine before Snowden.
I'm also a ramnode user, though more for smaller projects.
Why? I work at a company with a similar business model, and it's benefited our open source product tremendously.
I keep expecting someone else to do it and it still hasn't happened, so perhaps I should.
Digital Ocean has one private network shared amongst all of it's customers.

I believe that you can have a software defined network private to only your servers with Rackspace.
The TiM board needs very precise timing to control, I do not think this would be possible with a Raspberry Pi.
This is something that striked me as missing in the Lavabit key warrant discussion: was Forward Secrecy merely an option on the server before the shutdown, or was it enforced on all connections, regardless of client support?

If not all connections used it, FBI / NSA are probably now in the position to decrypt earlier recordings of user sessions, thus recovering the passwords, email contents etc...

From reading the ssllabs report, it looks like even with the current setup, sessions by IE and Safari (also Android?) users can be recovered once the new key is obtained via court order.
The change is still under NDA. If you sign into your Apple dev account and look up the WWDC talk on OS X kernel extension development, you'll find it within that slide deck.

Deep, I know.

I also reported the issue to the VirtualBox team many weeks ago and they confirmed the bug and know it exists. It just seems like it wasn't important enough for them to fix prior to release.
I suspect there's space in the news sphere for something with the transparency of wikileaks and the mainstream credibility of the guardian / al jazeera / NYT
I wouldn't pay 60. But I might cough up 30 for some sort of digital edition so long as the reporting is high quality.
[Speaking as a contributor to the project] We tried to fix as many of the security issues in that audit as we could before the 0.1 release, but we think that the project could be redesigned to be more usable. Pull requests are welcome! You can see some of the more pressing issues at https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues?mileston....

One interesting question is: can we have the same level of security if we use one server instead of three? https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/85
Hey, if you don't mind, would you take a look at this http://www.beaconreader.com and let me know what your thoughts are?

Readers pay a single $5 a month fee, but get access to everything on platform (Over 40 professional journalists). Example of an article http://www.beaconreader.com/eric-randolph/what-one-refugee-s...
wiredtree.com is a good one IMO
A lower risk insurer can afford to offer lower prices. Similar things happen in the credit market, where risk is more easily predicted. High risk credit is very expensive, often pricing people clean out of the market - door to door credit is declining in popularity as credit agencies find their margins getting slimmer.

Even today, some people are to all intents and purposes uninsurable. Perfection isn't required. Just knowledge of a significant disparity.
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HostVirtual - http://www.vr.org

Fast support, starts at $10, Xen PV
While that uptime looks good, I don't think that's difficult to achieve on a box doing essentially nothing......
This really doesn't address your larger concerns, but have you tried Plex or Subsonic for streaming media? They're quite popular.
I use rimuhosting. Been with them 8 years and love their customer support (they're not afraid to dig in and help you with technical issues). Best of all, you can order their VPS and scale that out to a full dedicated server with minimal downtime. I recommend them to everyone I can.
If he intended to give the government access to your email, wouldn't there be much easier to implement and harder to detect ways of accomplishing it than a wonky cipher suite setting?
It's a trap?
That's a good point about master keys. The state is pretty bad with Apache for example, and I'm not sure its much better with nginx at least by default.

I think that what he means is that you terminate SSL on the load balancers (= single termination endpoint), then have your cluster beneath it (non-SSL/TLS, or new SSL/TLS connection, thus different tickets)
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Hetzner. Great price and hardware, but disks failures are a joke though.
Rich Hickey is another one worth reading (/listening to) for more examples of breaking things down to core principles, and potentially coming up with a new approach based off them. For example datomic, which breaks a database into the core components of storage, query, and transactions.
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