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Might be slow because of the HN effect. Saving a place is a great idea, but that means creating accounts, and that complicates everything. You might just "like" the place on facebook.
Padlock thing a metaphor, or do you have a reference for that? If its a metaphor, my apologies, but that's actually happened before where governments mandated bypasses be built into locks produced in their country.
"Cut anyone who’s English (or whatever your chosen 5/5 language is) is terrible and very difficult to read"

Oh the irony!
The next two paragraphs have examples with some context.
> Absolutely.

So the US should be the only major nation with no spy agency?

> We have yet to see any evidence that these dangerous and provocative technical programs have actually resulted in anything used to thwart attacks or other justifications from the usual defenders of the status quo.

It may have accomplished nothing. It also may have accomplish something that is still undisclosed.

I'm partially playing devil's advocate here. I do agree with the sentiment that the US should stop behaving like the World Police. However, the idea that the US should have no spy agency in 2014 is ridiculous. All the major nations are spying on each other..
IMO the reason why Americans prefer Farenheit to Celsius is that the 0 and 100 points correspond to roughly the limits of common outdoor temperatures, rather than water's state changes.

Pretty much the same argument for miles per hour vs kilometers per hour - 100 mph is all anyone's ever going to go during a normal day.

That's an interesting point about being able to divide by half more than once for feet/inches, though - I hadn't thought of that before.

(From another American with a physics background)
Another seeeeeeeriously cool workplace in an old bank vault
> 'have information' 'which may be of use to anyone planning a terrorist offence'

Just wow! Does that include engineering books?
I second this. I read the other comments about the flaws in the article, and I'll take them as valid. Even barring them, I understand a lot more about the different types of python and, the different layers in the stack, and even a bit about compilation, JIT, etc. etc. Imperfect? Maybe. Extremely helpful to me? Definitely. Thanks!
IsaacSchlueter: Your NPM & Node made this possible btw: http://facebook.com/Exocortex http://clara.io

Thank you!

(And yeah we do an "npm install" from the NPM servers during production deploys, I guess we like to live dangerously. We should probably fix that.)
> How would you treat your RAM contents as precious?

For one, don't let anyone get physical access to the computer while it is running and the volume is mounted (even if the screen is locked). This may even apply for several minutes after the machine is turned off: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/new-research-resul...

> Can other unrelated processes access the key from RAM?

Processes running as the root user can.
How about the 200k Nodejitsu crowdfunded not long ago for npm? Also, how the npm revenue model is going to affect packages distribution? To whoever may concern: I expect some clear answers. There's simply too much money going around Node at the moment and while it might eventually be a good thing (as involved companies will push node adoption among devs), it's also scaring and quite weird.

[EDIT: Isaac already partially replied, see other answer]
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In all fairness, these are tactics to get people with no data plan to start using these services. Data is ridiculously cheap (1GB/month is ~ $4). People with data plans don't really care about google or facebook's data usage. Youtube and streaming music services are a big deal though. So yeah, the incumbents have a bigger addressable market in India, but data consumption is not the differentiator for the vast majority of apps.
Thread summary: the Linux kernel and PostgreSQL
Only a matter of time before Google steps in, what with their robotics and iphone designer purchases.
Like this?

"But it is not just journalists who fall for the mistake: I recall seeing official documents from the department of commerce and the Federal Reserve partaking of the conflation, even regulators in statements on market volatility. What is worse, Goldstein and I found that a high number of data scientists (many with PhDs) also get confused in real life."

It doesn't tell us what happened, it just asserts that it did in certain contexts. It doesn't cite the paper he presumably wrote with Goldstein (which Goldstein?) about it. I feel like I'm getting a summary of an abstract with all the citations missing.
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You have a point. We need a subset of the interpreted languages. Maybe something to do with ease of use?
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Have you considered operating as a non-profit?
5% of farms in the U.S. are using Farmlogs! That's insane!

Congratulations to two of the nicest founders I have met and their team :)
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Question: This, and many other posts, suggest that PyPy is the way to go (as a user). Faster and compatible - what's not to like? But elsewhere I read, 'hold on'. It actually isn't faster with things that use a lot of C optimizations (like numpy and pandas, which I use extensively). I don't mind small startup JIT penalties, but I don't want to have my core code run more slowly, or fail. Is there a simple direction? (ie: Use standard cPython or use PyPy) Or is it, as always, 'it depends'?
I run Windows 8.1 on a 15" MBP/r and it looks great.

Stop whinging about non-existent problems.
I totally agree that adding privacy features to what is essentially a tracking device isn't addressing the right issues. Why not start out with simply a free, private laptop? Something that uses Coreboot and doesn't require any firmware driver blobs. This is something that so far, only one Chinese company has been able to do, albeit producing only a rather underpowered model [1]. Where are the private laptops that rival the Macbook Pro?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemote#Netbook_computers
Wherein the author makes the suspect claim that newspapers discussing the stock market always define standard deviation using the definition for mean deviation.
I personally think the biggest problem with current file systems is lack of ACID semantics. It is a tragedy that you can't rollback a set of file system changes if a shell script fails halfway. Why should I have to bring out SQLite if I want transactions, but don't need relations?

(Also I agree--yes MIME types in filesystem please)
Chrome Update on Android and iOS Brings Bandwidth Management and More
"There is nothing inherent in the technology that prevents them from giving better service to the big company that is willing to pay a lot of money than to the start-up that can't afford to pay a lot of money."

No, but the technology is also not designed to facilitate such discrimination, and everything about the design of the Internet assumes net neutrality. There is nothing in TCP/IP that uniquely identifies services, nor anything that facilitates a notion of classes of service. One service may have multiple hosts and multiple IP addresses. One IP address may be shared by multiple services. It may or may not be possible to inspect packets to determine which service they belong to; nowhere is any promise of "inspectability" made.

So while nothing prevents it, imposing such fees does require substantial new infrastructure to be deployed and new protocols to be developed. In other words, the Internet itself has to change to accommodate such a system -- because as designed, the Internet assumes neutrality.
I don't think the rural telephone surcharge is a necessary component of common carrier. For example railroads are all common carriers and they are under no duty to run rail lines to every single community in the U.S.

My understanding of common carrier is that is simply mandates that the provider must publish a single public rate card with objective criteria for the rates, and then charge everyone equally by those criteria. It's to prevent UPS (which I believe is regulated as a common carrier) from taking extra money from Amazon to slow down or lose shipments from Walmart.
I remember using gmail and having a mixed warning (telling me it would use both http and https). It doesn't anymore.
While there are ways to create private registries [0], having a new packaged way to do it would be very useful to some orgs.

[0] https://npmjs.org/doc/registry.html#Can-I-run-my-own-private...
The blog places its argument on the basis that data plan cost is going to be high. Would this be the case in the future? What if data plan costs are that negligible that it does not matter?

Secondly, compare this to TV networks, consumers watch TV and pay for them too, a part of the cost is subsidized by advertisers who are willing to pay the network to reach the audience. The consumers are in that network only because of the content, remove the content providers or reduce the quality of the content then the consumer vanishes. An empty network is worth nothing.

Would telcos, not harm themselves and their whole data plan business by attempting to charge the content providers (Google et al) and would the content providers 'advertising model' margins justify paying out to the telcos just to get through their infrastructure?
Bit worrying not to see a single mention of ECC memory when discussing protection from bitrot, especially with filesystems which depend on correctly functioning memory to provide the protections people expect from them.

People sneer at me for being a stickler for it, but between 50GB of memory and 26TB of ZFS-protected storage, I see ECC corrections about as often as I see disk checksum errors - maybe half a dozen of each in the past year or two. Frankly I think it's idiotic it's not more common and better supported.
"The peacekeeping budget for the 2013–14 fiscal year was $7.54 billion" - this is from the Wikipedia UN page

I'm not saying that npm is like, that important, but - take 0.01% (one ten thousandth) and npm would have an annual budget of 3/4 million bucks.

Will we get to a place where core software distribution to devices not humans is deemed as critical infrastructure?

It would be great to know that npm (and github and every other package distribution tool) were somehow too big to fail like banks have shown to be.

Meanwhile - everyone who has worked hard to make npm and node brilliant - thank you!
Caffeine helps you nail down memories
Congrats to Jesse and Brad and the rest of FarmLogs!
any other options for the 27" IPS monitor that has mini-DP or full DisplayPort built in?
Sooo... the next logical step would be to add to pypy the ability to produce a natively executable file? Or has that already been done? (Disclaimer: I know relatively little about the python ecosystem).
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When I use google for geocoding most the addresses still seem to be returned as 'RANGE_INTERPOLATED' so it doesn't look like that part has advanced much.
I think pretty much all modern file systems (including ntrfs and ZFS) have the facility to support this but it's more a matter of applications and operating systems taking advantage of it.

On Linux for example you can set the user.mime_type xattr and it's possible to have Apache use that for it's mime-type.
"Open-Source Democracy 101"... 3 Leaders in less than five years: Ryan Dahl(2009-2012) -> Isaac Z. Schlueter(2012-2013) -> Timothy J Fontaine(2014-2016?)
a sexagesimal base has some advantages.

you can divide it by 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, etc.
Good point. I've never traveled with anything psycho-active, but I can see that some nations have tighter restrictions on such meds.

I hope it never gets to the point where I can get in trouble for my motion sickness pills.
Let's face it -- people have a strong preference for whatever system they are used to. There's extremely strong inertia, and efforts to try and justify one system over the other are not especially effective.
Not sure why the filesystems are getting blamed for this, many filesystems on Linux support xattrs for storing related data about the file. But the applications and the tools need to support storing and reading and doing something with that (meta)data.
Sorry but I don't see the use of relying on Twitter for requesting other APIs !
I would personally be interested if they would provide security updates over a long period of time.
Well, in theory, let's say you've got a laptop encrypted with Truecrypt. You put it in sleep mode instead of switching it completely off or hibernating,because you are just nipping out for a coffee. An attacker could then steal it, lower its temperature(let's say they put it in a freezer for a while), and then extract - literally take out - the RAM from that machine and plug it into a specially prepared station which would then be used to extract the contents of that memory. In low temperatures, RAM data retention is measured in minutes, so all data you had in your system would be preserved, including the encryption key.

Unlikely? Quite, unless someone like NSA or FBI want your data. Possible? Yes, with the right resources.
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> Is X an interpreted language, a compiled language, or something else?

Both. You can take in consideration a real example: Scheme is interpreted in all its implementations and compiled in a relevant number of them.

Languages and implementations are different things, but being interpreted, compiled, JIT-ed, translated, etc. is a property of the language implemented in the... implementation.
More. I feel better buying one because I know a big company is funding the development. Also I expect the prices to fall as they take advantage of the economies of scale with better brand recognition.
Yea, there are tons of ideas around this. Things like rate limiting, templates for all kinds of CMS, plenty of VMOD ideas, etc. Hopefully we get there :)
I would recommend Boards of Canada[1] and Thievery Corporation[2] most of all. But really anything in the vein of what has been dubbed "chill" music works great for me due to the awesome atmospheres and driving beats. Here[3] is a list I made of some of the best albums IMO in that genre.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Boards-Of-Canada/e/B000APHPF8/

[2]http://www.amazon.com/Thievery-Corporation/e/B000APFP6E/

[3]http://www.amazon.com/Top-10-Chill-Out-Albums/lm/R32Q5RHQR51...
I agree. 9/11 was indeed very sad.

And it had about as much to do with this announcement as Ben's departure from Node last year.
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- Strips a statement of context, examples, and citations.

- Claims it is useless therewithout.
This just seems like a good way to annoy your followers.
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Since I lack the ability to downvote I felt compelled to write that this response is quite distasteful. This exacerbates the gendered-pronoun incident and serves to divide the community. I expect better from a community leader.
This could easily be implemented on top of any existing filesystem, why would it benefit to be implemented at the fs level?

Versioning makes sense for performance but adding metadata sounds like a huge can of worms with no obvious benefits for a low level implementation IMHO.

Besides your metadata wouldn't carry well to other filesystems (most USB drives still use FAT...) so it would be a bit of a headache to get right. Look at the mess that are file permissions and ACL already.
Even if such a thing were to exist, it would probably by necessity be built on some lower-level system that doesn't provide such guarantees… like a filesystem.
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I agree and it's one of the reasons it's much easier to go with AMD for cheap home servers/NAS (HP Microserver line is great for example) as Intel tends to reserve ECC for very expensive parts.

What doesn't seem easy is to get ECC in laptops. I don't think even traditionally business-focused lines have it (e.g., Thinkpads).
There can be reasons where the termination was "for cause". In those cases, you may not be able to get the straight story from the manager for legal reasons. You also may well not get the straight story from the former coworker.

Or, the boss could just be a psychopath who likes firing people for no reason. The boss and coworker may say the very same things they said in the "for cause" scenario.

Bottom line: You may not be able to get a straight answer from anyone. If you do, you may not be able to tell that it was a straight answer.
"Why, oh why, do we still not have a file-type metadata field?"

Because you haven't added it. Extended attributes can store arbitrary data. Propose something, experiment, see how it works, and maybe you'll come to something we can standardize on.
I'm usually coding while listening to Drum and Bass. But for example, today I've been listening to Stax (Soul/Funk). Other days I'm listening to Punk, Ska, Reggae, Hip-Hop [...] At least twice a week I listen to roots Blue music!

It's up to you, I don't think there's such thing as "music" made for programming, if so, I would say late night and silence...really...!
Normally a good User Story, with 5 - 20 lines of acceptance criteria are optimal size for change/feature request.
It's a 12 characters passowd, for most crypto algorithms, it's slightly bigger than what one can crack with his GPU in a sane amount of time. They didn't spend that much.
> why doesn't my browser sandbox cookies for each website?

You can do that with Fluid.app (http://fluidapp.com/ only for MacOSX) It is a Single-Site-Browser-Generator with the option to have a separate cookie store for each SSB.

I have one instance for facebook, one for Google+ etc.
I suspect that the ecosystems forming around node will find more success by emulating what Ubuntu has done vs RedHat.
And this is where metric really shines: at Autobahn speed (130 kph), 90 miles is only some 66 minutes -- 24 minutes saved over imperial.
:)
Since the acquisition was a 100% stock transaction (and the acquirer is still a private company), this is more of a "let's join forces" type deal than an exit arrangement.
TrueCrypt offers a volume-within-a-volume option. The free space of a volume normally contains random data, and the hidden volume is presumably headerless. The idea is then to put something that you might want to hide in the outer volume (freaky porn, for example), then put your actual secrets (evidence of your criminal enterprise, for example) in the hidden volume. If forced to disclose the password, then only the outer volume is apparent and you can disclose that under duress.
Depends on what style of music you favor. What music is best depends on who you are.

It also depends on what you're coding. "Put your head down and crank" music is different from "I need to be able to think deeply for a couple of hours" music.
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OS X has a native port - http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Distributions#ZFS-OSX

Windows has ReFS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS
Most of the democracies in the world have those same rights. But not the warnings, that's a US idea, and they universal, not conditional on a cop giving them to you.
This article is based on paper Taleb published in 2007.
If you want to test yourself, submit yourself to experiment in page 3:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=970480
Hahahaha! Great question, you should've a pool for this!
Whenever you try to describe a large data set with a single number, you lose a lot of information, like you said. Having more measurements helps, but I think the larger point is that we don't have to do this anymore, we could publish the entire data set instead.

Without computers, this would be a waste of paper, but transmitting the data electronically is cheap.

So why argue over the measurements? Publish the data and my software can give me any measurement I'm interested in.
Taleb has a good point about people mistakenly interpreting standard deviation (sigma) as Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD). I like that he gives some conversions (sigma ~= 1.25 * MAD, for Normal distribution).

I think it's rather silly to talk about "retiring" standard deviation, but we can't blame Taleb - the publication itself posed the question "2014: What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?" to various scientific personalities.

What Taleb failed to mention is that, once properly understood, standard deviation has distribution interpretations that can be much more useful than MAD. For example, if the data is approximately normally distributed, then there is approximately a 99.99% probability that the next data observation will be <= 4 * sigma.

Not everything is approximately normally distributed, but a lot of phenomena ARE normally distributed. It's a well known fact that the phenomena which Taleb is most interested in (namely, financial return time-series) are not normally distributed. But I would like to know how Taleb proposes to "retire" volatility (sigma) from financial theory and replace it with MAD? Standard deviation is so central in finance that even the prices of some financial instruments (options) are quoted in terms of standard deviation (e.g. "That put option is currently selling at 30% vol"). How do we rewrite Black-Scholes option pricing theory and Markowitz portfolio theory in terms of MAD and remove all the sigmas everywhere? Surely Taleb has already written that paper for us so that we can retire standard deviation?