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ESR is comming hard on FSF to what is actually embracing "open source" movement. His arguments are technical only as a means to hide the politics.

This is not going to happen. I think David Kastrup's reply was pretty clear in that sense.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00178.html
Perhaps change your email on file to

abuse@networksolutions.com

?
Well it's very hard to make it physically impossible for the US to access your data. The most practical thing you can do is store your data somewhere with a solid, well enforced legal system where it would be illegal for anyone to transport it to the US, or for the US to access it.

I mean, it's just as illegal for the US to access private data in Europe if the server it's on is owned by a US company or a European one. So it's not like AWS is especially vulnerable.
The $0.23 definitely doesn't properly value the effect of how few actual chances a person has in a lifetime to make a billion dollars, much less for such a trivial amount of time and effort (average American watches three hours of tv per day).

There have been four $580m+ lottery wins in the US in the last 18 months (powerball & mega millions). $2.4 billion split among eight people. The odds were beyond absurd, and yet these people still won. Granted, I like my odds better in the lottery than Buffett's wager.
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Something tells me that you've been doing this to various abusive/spammy services for a long time. Hats off to you, mate. :-)
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You are definitely not going to beat Warren Buffet in a game of actuarial wits where he's drawing the rules.

However, in this case, it's Quicken taking the loss on the bet (in exchange for promotional value), not the people making the brackets.

That's not to say making the brackets is worth doing since there are other costs associated with it, but you aren't betting against Buffet by doing so.
Each apartment in German has a registration number and is registered with the government. Most tenants, however, are not aware of this number since it is completely irrelevant in everyday life.

And you don't put the apartment number on a letter because you usually don't know it. In addition, mailboxes at building entrances are mandatory, i.e., the postman will usually not have to look for your actual apartment.
is it at least stable across patch levels?
Do people that write languages also have amazing programming capability? In other words wouldn't writing a new language be harder than writing any piece of software?
His point attempts to be that I'm ignorant of the work that went into GCC, a compiler I've been using since about 1997 IIRC on almost every platform it supports, and that I'm generally a bad person.

My point is that a compiler that Just Works is sometimes preferable to one that Does More imperfectly.
HipHop Virtual Machine, it "compiles" PHP into C++. Though it needs to be written in a certain way to work correctly as I understand it.
Use a privacy plugin for your browser e.g. Disconnect ( https://disconnect.me/ ).
Not sure it's related but I know the Bitcoin Tokyo Meetup Group has a meeting tomorrow.
If you want to know enough to donate with confidence, GiveWell has good charity recommendations.

In any case, don't let indecision paralyse you into inaction. Put some proportion of money aside for charity, start doing research, etc. We're not perfect, it's okay to be a bit selfish, and it's good to want to do better. There's any number of options between a spartan life where you donate most of your money, and donating nothing.
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This is not mostly because of the Stasi, which became a hot topic in western germany after the wall came down.

e.g. in 1981, there was a census planned. It met so much opposition that it had to be delayed until 1987, especially because of data protection issues [1].

The main issue is that conflicts with the state have always been common in Germany, so there is a general distrust towards data collection. Also, privacy is a regular debate, keeping the whole topic warm. E.g. during the 90s, there was an attempt to allow acoustic surveillance on a large scale.[2]

BTW: I had to accurately describe where I live. Apartments don't have numbers in germany, so I live "3rd floor, next to the stairs".

Sorry for the german sources, I couldn't find good english ones.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksz%C3%A4hlung_in_der_Bundes...
[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer_Lauschangriff
It really bugs me that the article has 4,294,967,296 as the odds, so I can't help but correct it. They don't have the odds calculated to 10 significant digits. We don't have enough data on the teams to get anywhere close to that level of precision.

They made the naive assumption that all games are independent events and that all games have exactly a 50% chance to go to either team. Then they computed 2^32, which is STILL massively incorrect even with those assumptions because there are 63 games, not 32.
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How aren't you betting against Buffett?

Quicken isn't taking the loss. Berkshire Hathaway is insuring the bet, and will eat the radical majority of the loss should a win occur (minus the kicker Quicken is giving Berkshire to do it).

"Buffett said one of his insurance companies is writing the $1-billion policy in exchange for a premium, which neither he nor Quicken would disclose."

The best quote on all of this so far:

"This will be the most fun. Just imagine if there's one person left [with a perfect bracket] at the last game," Buffett said. "I will go to that final game with him or her and I’ll have a check in my pocket. ... I think we'll be rooting for different teams."

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-warren-buffet...
but on that opther hand, this means added complexity in all the cases where you dont overload it. Whoever reads the program will always have to keep overloading in mind.
Yes, that would be nice. I've heard that PolarSSL has per-protocol suite selection. It's really something the underlying SSL library needs to support.

With OpenSSL, the best we can do right now is prioritize suites so that SHA2 ones are on top. By doing that, you know that TLS 1.2 capable clients are going to use good suites. The rest will fall back to whatever is below.
The expectation of a higher level of privacy in Germany and other European countries is usually based on a common misunderstand:

Privacy does not protect against state surveillance, on the contrary: State Surveillance is always excluded from privacy laws. All European countries, in particular Germany, cooperate with the US in surveillance.

And while the data privacy regulation in Europa is without any doubt much stricter in Europe than in the US, it is also very ineffective since there are usually no direct sanctions except for political cases like Google's collection of WLAN data. In addition, most start-up companies rely on American services providers. The advantage of using American service providers is simply to great to be ignored, and data privacy is rarely an issue. American service providers are usually much better at offering superior functionality at a better price.
This is beautiful. AFAIK, the alternatives are either a self-hosted blog (not ideal, strips out EXIF data etc.) or something hideous like Piwigo.

Awesome!
I have used a similar service while preparing a lab assignment for a CS course this semester in my uni. But this one, whooa, just generate random users for your newest service and maybe with a little AI you can overcome the famous coldstart problem.
There's a reply to esr by Alexandre Oliva which touches this point. I'll quote what he says:

"That GCC plugin interface is not sufficiently stable for major uncoordinated developments by third-parties is just as true as that Linux's module interface is constantly changing, and complaints about its lack of stability in it are often responded with such phrases as contribute your driver and we'll even help you keep it up-to-date".

I don't know about the subject but it seems a quite reasonable stand and it certainly doesn't hinder the Linux kernel development, I don't see why it wouldn't work in GCC.
Why not just use a box number?

This system makes it impossible to receive mail for friends and family. I'm the mailing address for a transigent family member so I have to put his name on our box, in addition to mine, my wife's, and her unmarried name.

I've had mail returned because of a name misspelling or illegible handwriting. But a postcode, street number and name, and apt/box # will always hit the mark.
It doesn't need to be written in a certain way, there may be new features in recent releases of PHP that don't work on HHVM but the HHVM folks are pretty quick to add in support for those features. Here is a little library[0] I wrote in PHP and this is tested on HHVM using Travis (see .travis.yml). I haven't had to write the PHP any differently, it just works (although it's an incredibly small library).

Edit: The speaker in the video also mentions that they have taken the test suites from the top twenty PHP projects and they test them against new releases of HHVM, further confirming that the syntax requires no special attention except for new language constructs.

[0] https://github.com/unfunco/bijective
Not sure about other countries but here, in India, we can download free apps on Android without having to setup an account with credit card.
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There's been some dude broadcasting a BTC transaction out of North Korea... but I don't believe this would cause a spark of interest in Japan.
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I've left the country exactly a year ago.

There's no legal way of leaving the country with your savings. You're unable to exchange your savings legally as the only concept that the AFIP (local IRS) accepts for exchanging is exports. I know, I checked every possible avenue. The people you talk to's attitude ranges from apologetic, passing through not-give-a-shit reaching abuse.

Luckily for me, I didn't have any big savings, not really, but if you have a house/car/anything (IE, have roots) and you sell it you're royally fucked. Even if you exchange in the black market you cannot leave the country with more than USD 10K per person, and if you do and get caught in either Argentina or destination country, it'll get confiscated in its entirety. And once you've arrived to a country with USD 10K, you have to exchange it to the local currency (let's say EUR). But now you have EUR 7380 in cash that no bank will touch with a 10 foot pole because almost no other country in the world disallows it's citizens from doing bank transfers, so that money is suspected of being laundered.

On top of all this, you can use your credit card outside of the country, with a 35% tax to every purchase, with a monthly top, so if you're left with pesos, as I was, you can start chipping away at the meager pesos savings bit by bit. But then you have to keep in mind the incredible inflation rate that the peso has[1][2] of over 28% for 2014[3](3.38% in a month!).

[1]: http://imgur.com/va1o1C1

[2]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuNh4LTzbqXMdFJ...

[3]: http://www.infobae.com/2014/01/14/1537019-la-inflacion-congr...
Cool. Might want to show the actual results (who chose what) instead of just telling you whether you won or lost.

Naturally, you can deduce that on your own, but in real life part of the fun is seeing the hands in their final state.
Please don't vote for this unless you would actually use it.

If a lot of well intentioned but not actually Unity developers upvote this it will only serve to take their time away from doing features that will benefit their real userbase.
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You're mistaking HHVM with HPHPc.

They're both Facebook projects and one grew inspired by another, but they use different approaches.
This all seems to be a bit beside the point -- but does the apartment register you allude to also contain information about the current occupants and/or the person paying the rent? I assume it does not.
It`s a jit-compiler for PHP. Code is compiled once to an intermediate representation (like Java) which makes execution faster on subsequent request.

Code does not have to be written in a certain way most of the time because hhvm is 98% compatible to all major PHP-Frameworks[1]. It also features a built-in webserver alltough static performance is lower than nginx.

[1] http://www.hhvm.com/blog/2813/we-are-the-98-5-and-the-16
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1. If the image is to tall/wide it will be scaled to fit into your browser. This happens via CSS. Photos won't be compressed or scaled, Lychee keeps their original quality and dimensions. You can click the 'Full Photo' button on the top right to see the file.

2. Nope. Not at the moment.

3. Does this happen only sometimes or always? Which browser and OS are you using?
I'm personally quite excited about this space. If the Internet of Things is going to happen, we need better languages than C/C++.
Somehow an asm.php
Thanks , looks like a great product , but at the moment I will go with open source and free steps
I like it very much; both the code and interface seem clean and lightweight.

You should use mysqli prepared statements though, after a quick glance over the code I can't quite shake the feeling that there might be some sql injections lurking.
>The $0.23 definitely doesn't properly value the effect of how few actual chances a person has in a lifetime to make a billion dollars

You're right, it probably over values it due to the marginal utility[1] of money and the non-zero value of the risk premium[2]

You have as many chances at winning a billion dollars as you want. All you have to do is make lots of smaller bets strung together. It may seem impossible to string 30 winning red/black roulette bets (starting with a dollar), but actually the odds of winning a billion dollars that way are roughly the same. Technically speaking Casinos don't have the capital to support the super large bets, but you could easily transition into 50/50 bets in the equities markets. There is enough capital there to give you a shot at a trillion dollars. All you have to do is take it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_premium
Yeah that was enough for me to close that tab.

Meow.
The definition of "unemployment" everywhere is a joke. The best number is the prime-age (25-54) employment rate.
if I remember correctly the Wikipedia article on EcmaScript included a bunch on ActionScript
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Then I think you either missed the word "most" or have bought into the lie that "poor" and "drug addict" are synonymous.
It's an alternative PHP runtime. It no longer compiles PHP to C++ (it's predecessor hphpc), instead it uses a JIT compiler which gives it better performance over standard PHP, without requiring a compilation step. It's mostly compatible with the standard PHP syntax/stdlib.

It offers an alternative syntax that allows you to give return types of functions, which can give you further speed improvements. There's also a few additional features (for example, it supports similar hinting to the recent ArrayOf RFC).

It's worth checking out, but probably not worth using in production yet - they're working on getting the top 20 frameworks to pass their unit tests in HHVM[0], so there's a good chance your existing apps will run.

[0]: http://www.hhvm.com/blog/2813/we-are-the-98-5-and-the-16
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It's possible in some cases. For example, most sites continue to support SSL v3, even though only very old clients do not support TLS v1. So now would be a good time to tell those clients that they need to upgrade. If we don't do it now, SSL v3 might become too insecure for error messages. (Like, for example, SSL v2 is today.)

With regards to BEAST, the problem is that a server has no way of telling if a client implements the mitigation technique. The only 100% safe assumption you can make is that the client negotiating TLS 1.0 is vulnerable.
English does not discriminate well between the universal quantification (∀; all men are) and existential quantification (∃; some men are) when quantification is indefinite (men are). It's often unambiguous; saying "men are well-represented in the boardrooms of US companies" would not be taken as implying that a number of men close to 165 million (or 3.5 billion) crammed into American boardrooms. Where it's not, it's far better to assume that the speaker is using the existential qualifier, as universal quantification is usually spelt out as a rhetorical feature ("ALL MEN benefit from the patriarchy" is far stronger than "MEN benefit from the patriarchy").
No, it does not compile to C++, but to bytecode.
HHVM's predecessor converted PHP to C++, though.
Founders? Plural? You're making it sound like an epidemic rather than one person getting in a tizzy.
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Ok this is just going to be a semantics argument because I see your point and think it's a valid interpretation.

But what I meant is that it's not a bet against Buffet since you don't have to pay Buffet anything if you lose. The real bet that Buffet is making is with Quicken, where the stakes are probably $10 million to $1 billion, with 1:2000 odds in Buffet's favor.
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Do you know that what is considered unemployment in Europe is what in Argentina is called unemployment and underemployment[2]? The sum of unemployment and underemployment in Argentina is 15.57% [1].

[1]: http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/4/sh_eph_continua...

[2]: http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/4/metempleo1.pdf
I'm in the same boat: I think this has huge potential but with my skill set it would not be wise for my company to be a trailblazer on ops.

@shykes: What would convince me is one or two blog posts from respected members of the community (patio11 comes to mind :-) where they detail a successful transition to use Docker in their infrastructure.
Take the lump sum every time.

The dollar has lost an immense amount of real value in the prior 25 years (tracked against almost anything of consequential value), and the Feds / Fed weren't being anywhere near as irresponsible as they have been lately. Taking annual payments puts you up against having to match that devaluation just to stay even. I don't like what might happen to the dollar in just 25 years, particularly in the era of massively heightened currency competition likely to put even more downward pressure on it (eg bitcoin and whatever comes next).

Also, while it's possible tax rates will be lower in the future, I'd bet against that strongly given the bills we have coming due. I'd lock in today's tolerable tax rates, versus potentially ending up with Carter era 70% rates or 79% to 94% (1930s-1950s era).

The only scenario I've seen that makes any sense, in which you shouldn't take the lump sum, is if you have some personal circumstances that go beyond the sheer math of the situation (eg you have an intense lack of personal control over spending, and think you would manage smaller annual sums better, although you can still borrow against annual payments and bury yourself; or perhaps if you have an estate that you want annual payments to go through to your kids, to prevent fighting over a larger lump sum; or if you actually think you can significantly beat inflation).
Over the past two or three decades it has become increasingly common for large and institutional investors to regularly hold meetings with the senior leadership (and investor relations) teams of the companies with which they have (or are looking to have) significant holdings.

After all, the investor needs to understand the business strategy, the operating conditions, and the particular risks and opportunities available to that business. The company and (particularly) it's management have an interest in increasing demand for the stock, so they normally oblige.

The conversation is not one-way. Stock options mean that the personal financial interests of the senior leadership team are normally well-aligned with that of the investors, so all the parties to these discussions have a mutual interest in the performance of the stock.

Investors have a mandate to maximise return and minimise risk. They have a limited ability to predict the future; an ability which drops precipitously the longer into the future they look. Investing client funds based on unreliable long-term predictions would be an irresponsible dereliction of duty on the part of the fund manager. In addition, measuring the performance of fund managers is also notoriously difficult, so there is a very human need to get as much feedback on performance as possible as quickly as possible. All of these factors combine to exert incredible pressure on the institutional investor to focus on gains in price over shorter time-spans (months rather than years).

This interest and short-term focus will naturally come across in discussions between the investor (=owner) and the senior management in the company. It takes an unusually self-aware, self-confident and self-assured management team to recognize (let alone resist) this inexorable pressure.
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He's giving you 1.4 cents if the games are random. If they aren't random, like with match fixing, then he's giving you $1 billion. That leaves plenty of money to bribe the relevant refs and players.
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It is time we had a donotcall.gov equivalent for junk mails.

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicit...
I think that was a really cool hack and nerdy as hell :).
With 25K DAU und 400K MAU you have 6% DAU/MAU which is the worst engagement rate i have ever seen (25% might be acceptable). Yet he says "Retention and engagement are great"

Using 3.6 Million $ to build a simple drawing app probably worth about 3.600 $. "Our most recent product, DrawQuest, is by all accounts a success".
Awesome. Certainly one of the most elegants solutions. Any plans to add video support?
This is so awesome. The 'average face' is simply terrifying
Unless you are running something custom/unsupported, if you are using nginx/php-fpm you can just replace it with the HHVM FastCGI and get it to run your code really really fast.

It's great as it makes everything run a lot quicker for clients who use PHP, especially if you have code that needs to be run in PHP on the command line.

Just run it and see :).
Koken might be an other alternative. http://koken.me
"It’s not business income. Well, probably not. There are folks who enter games, contests and sweepstakes for a living (remember that Julianne Moore movie?) but that’s some serious dedication to the cause. Assuming that you did enough research and really dedicated yourself to winning, you could possibly treat it as your business (or more likely, a hobby). If you did, you would report your winnings (of course) but could also deduct any reasonable expenses associated with winning."

Well, it's a shame 1 billion probably wouldn't be enough to buy up all the 63 teams - and leave some winnings for the effort...
What exactly IS "Germany's Privacy Stance"? I'm not sure there's any real consensus on this question. Or have you all already forgotten about this story here:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-is-a-both-...
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Anyone else think this is silly?
Dude, you could've easily made money out it. I for one would've definitely bought it. Your product is superb, simple and gives us capability to add stuff on top of it like authentication