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They're very much using PHP (the language) ...they just made their own runtime. They still sit down and write PHP. They don't sit down and write HHVM code.

That's like saying a company no longer uses Ruby because they use JRuby now.
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Thanks Jxnathan
I mentioned this treaty in another comment, but are the advantages of the E-2 similar in nature for non-Americans to the those afforded to Americans by the DAFT[1]? Is the E-2 only applicable for citizens of countries that have a specific treaty in place?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT_(treaty)
Thanks for the feedback! Demoing a log management product is a bit tricky, because it's hard to come up with a representative data set that isn't sensitive. FWIW, we have put together a demo based on data scraped from the Github API -- it's not a typical server log data set, but it can be fun to explore:

https://www.scalyr.com/login?prefillEmail=demo-account%40sca...
Always wondered about these types of systems. If you are filtering certain content then wouldn't you at some point have to of had the content yourselves to hash it for checking against later?
When you say your 1 BTC is on your hard drive, do you mean it's on the hard drive of a running Internet-connected computer? If so, how do you address the threat of malware that searches for wallet files?
You're still hung up on messaging.

As far as preparation.. I'm sure, if necessary, we have an extensively prepared joint military plan with our allies to fight over the Black Sea. I'm also sure we're not going to do that. What else do you want? You think different messaging would change those facts? I'm prepared to snort and chuckle.
Well, let's say I own a successful business in the UK, want to expand to the US and expect significant growth within the first year - does a L-1 visa allow me to open a new office in the US, if I hire someone competent to take over UK operations?
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The alternative to diworsification would be share buybacks. That's a way to increase your EPS without having to grow your earnings numbers.

Intel's diversification probably has more to do with internalization of the mantra "if you're not growing, you're dying" than pressure from Wall Street.
I just set it up last week to push data to Graphite. It took a little bit of time to understand how to configure it and the docs have conflicting information in some places. Also, you will need to build it yourself or get a PPA if you're on Ubuntu 12.04 and want to use it with Graphite since the version that Ubuntu ships with doesn't support graphite.

I haven't tried to write plugins for it but it comes with a lot out of the box and it's working well.
Misleading title of the day award goes to Yahoo.
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Why isn't that the most important selling point of most languages?

The cases where PHP is not appropriate seems to often be known before going into it (with notable exceptions like Facebook of course) but thats a success problem not a fundamental problem with PHP.

In 95% of the cases PHP seems to be exactly the best possible, easiest to get up and running, versatile for web based programming.
If they secured their servers (from hacking), they could theoretically leave everything in hot storage (although it's not necessary for normal operations as others have stated).
I think they were. You have to look at the situation the US was in a the time. Long quagmires are politically untenable in the US and Afghanistan is the most tactically difficult terrain in the history of the world. Additionally my enemies really aren't states so much as a political movement who survives largely through the tacit support of the surrounding population. I need an easy war and I need a place to kill terrorists and expose the indifferent to the effects of their violence. Whether or not that was the stated purpose that was the effect of the Iraq war. I would argue that excluding the real dollar cost it was probably one of the most successful wars in American history.

As for Libya well to be honest it is no longer in America's interest to ensure stability in the middle east. In fact given the long reach of unhappy middle eastern people its our job to make sure they express that unhappiness right at home. The Libyan people are doing that right now.
This is what the Mt. Gox website said on its front page until last week:

You can quickly and securely trade bitcoins with other people around the world with your local currency!

Sadly, I think many people trust such marketing claims, partially because they assume the people behind the site know what they are doing, they assume the laws of a developed host economy like Japan are strong enough to prevent companies from making false claims (even while the market itself is unregulated), and, most importantly, they want to believe it will benefit them.
I can't find the config to make in-place auto-tagging and renaming for singletons. At the moment I'm setting move: yes, singleton: <path to some temp directory>, running an import with -s and then manually move the renamed tracks back to the original directory. Is there a simpler way?
He is also increasing the local velocity of money. That 2.5 rupees is re-spent locally, aside from the cost of imported cellulose boards. 4 rupees spent on an import would exit, aside from the shopkeeper markup, and would not return, except as payment for exports.

The velocity of money effectively increases the availability of money. It isn't so much how many coins you have, but how often each one gets spent. If you buy from someone who hires and spends locally, that money is more likely to come back around to you faster than if you buy from someone who spends or saves it somewhere else. And that distance isn't just as the crow flies, but also psychological distance. Thus, as a software writer, I should prefer to buy from companies that spend a lot on software, even if they don't ever pay me directly. It makes more sense for me to shop at Amazon or Wal*Mart than somewhere that figures the sales excise with a desk calculator, and better for me to patronize such a business in my own town than one just like it 500 miles away.

So it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, exactly. But trying to adjust the numbers to gauge the true economic impact of this invention would take about 3 more economists than I currently keep in my back pocket.
@patio11 - I dont understand. From what you wrote about matching-settlement vs hot-cold it seems there are still two systems at play there. I don't understand why there is a difference in security unless there is a time element in play (settlement at EOD).

Doesn't that violate the real time nature of bitcoin then? I have built e-commerce settlement systems in the past and I thought that the big challenge with bitcoin was always the instantaneous element.
huh. i have ms and run. i have not noticed this, although i do have problems "restarting" (when you stop and then need to start running again, it's hard when you're tired). i admit i've never pushed myself to the point where i collapse when finishing - that must take some will-power because it gets progressively harder to control what your damn body is doing.

unfortunately the disease is very unpredictable. in a sense, it's just random "deleting" of nerves. so each person has different symptoms.

anyway, good on her; i hope she's stable enough (things don't get worse) for this to continue (on the other hand, if it were me, and re-mylinization (recovery of damaged nerves) improved my control, i'd take that over running fast...)
My main gripe with this article is the clickbait title, in all caps. I personally disagree with the author's categorical dismissal of speed reading in the article, but that's neither here nor there. I just can't take articles seriously when they appear to be quickly dashed out, opportunistic responses to garner a few views without actually providing thoughtful commentary.
I bought mine as a single-person business, and verification was indeed a huge hassle. However, I purchased it through a reseller (KSoftware: http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/ ) who acted as support and escalated issues with Comodo on my behalf. They also have a free Windows app that makes code signing easier, though I think I still use the X2Net Code Signing tool in my build chain.

If you want a reason to be wary of Comodo, there's the Comodo security breach incident to consider:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/authentication/weaknesses-in-ssl-...
Wrong. You have a choice between .NET and Java.
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There need to be prohibitions that don't discriminate on the basis of age. If someone's being abused, against their will, that's the same thing. It doesn't matter if they've crossed the magical line where they're an adult.

If you're going to make a stand, at least make a principled one ("We're trying to prevent abuse") and not one on emotional basis ("Think of the children!")
Maybe there's scientific evidence that paedophiles who look at cartoon images are more likely to become sex offenders than those who avoid all pornography? Even then, not sure it's the right approach... but who knows.

Or maybe there's evidence that looking at any type of pornography decreases illegal behavior and the people making the laws don't give a crap about real data?[1]

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/04/porn-and-rape-the-debate-...
Agreed, and I think that's when a (good) CS education makes the difference, by helping you grasp how t design and code for security, which are fundamental concepts that a lot of "junior" developers have no clue about. And then you see the same basic attack vectors creeping up all the time...
Nathan For You had this idea last year:

http://m.comedycentral.com/videos/video.rbml?id=p707vf
20 words of that manual were dedicated to letting people know its not for use in production. Un-highlighted and buried at the end of a paragraph that I initially skimmed over and didn't even read. No attention is directed at it in any way.

So the server outputs a message. Great. Is it huge, red and says "do not use me in production"? No. Its a standard version banner.
Bitcoin developers haven't quite cottoned onto the wisdom of separating these functions architecturally.

I'm not sure this is true. Any off blockchain transaction is basically an unsettled (and therefore reversible) bitcoin transaction. So for example, trades on bitcoin exchanges and payments between web wallets will have separate and distinct settlement phases. Generally bitcoin enthusiasts gloss over this though, because they don't like the idea of reversible transactions.

The current maximum transaction rate for the bitcoin networks is something like seven transactions per second. So either they'll have to figure out how to increase that or move to a more conventional clearing and settlement system if bitcoin-as-a-payment-network ever takes off in real size.
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Our complete inability to even suggest trying to think rationally about these issues is much worse than that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/4949555/Harr...
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A 3rd party escrow I have to trust. Also without regulation. Likely, consumers wouldn't trust such an entity unless it was rather large, already known, and otherwise regulated. Like a bank. Consumers can trust those. Of course, the bank would want an escrow fee. Probably on par with the standard credit card fees.
In the video on that page he specifically says that if you're writing software at Facebook you're probably doing it in PHP or C++.
BTC is not Cash period. Cash can be held in your hand in the form on Notes or Coins. There is no where around where I live that you could walk in a buy things with BTC.
Presentations like this always reminds me why "DevOps" is very different from system administration.
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Because the majority of BTC owners at the moment are speculators without technical savvy to create their own wallets. Storing BTC on these free online wallets is easier and humans will usually take the easier path.
I also wish they had interviewed the runner more deeply. I'd speculate that her advantage is almost entirely mental. Middle-distance races inflict pain on the whole body - guts, arms, neck, everywhere - the legs are by no means the only part under stress. The quote about not knowing how much time she had left was also telling: not many high school runners have that kind of motivation, and motivation to train and race is 90% of the competition at that level.
Sure, the fact that people taking pictures of UFOs can't hold a camera still to save their life has nothing to do with it.

As many disasters around the world have proven, when crazy things are actually happening people can get really good video with a simple mobile phone. It doesn't take any particular talent.
similar things just happened in germany.

> Edathy announced his resignation from parliament "for health reasons" on February 7, 2014. Just two days after his resignation went public, his home and offices were searched by authorities; media outlets asserted that the searches were made on allegations of possession of child pornography.[] 14 February 2014, Hans-Peter Friedrich, resigned from the ruling CDU–SPD grand coalition government reacting to imminent legal investigations into incidents during his tenure as Federal Minister of the Interior. Friedrich was accused of betraying state secrets about legal investigations to SPD party heads during the coalition negotiations after the federal elections in 2013 about information showing Edathy's link to a globally-operating child pornography syndicate and plans to take up an investigation against Edathy on suspicion of possessing such material. "The SPD's top leaders, who received the intelligence information from Friedrich, said they have not given any tip-off to Edathy and they kept the information secret."[] They are Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who is also Merkel's deputy; Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier; and the party's parliamentary leader, Thomas Oppermann.

what i didn't know until recently was that edathy was overseeing an investigation on the verfassungschutz (a german intelligence gathering institution to fight threats concerning democratic order etc.) [2]

essentially a few police informants essentially ran a terrorism cell targeted at immigrants. when investigations happened a lot of the official records were destroyed. [3]

according to the news edathy bought pictures of naked children. he might have, but who knows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Edathy

[2] http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Bundesamt+f%c3%bcr...

[3] http://www.news.ch/Behoerde+vernichtet+Akten+von+Zwickauer+T...
I actually believe that the opposite makes more sense -- make it free for consumers, but charge the OEMs a small(er) fee, since the OEMs are where all the sales are at.

I'm pretty sure almost all the Windows revenues nowadays come from the OEMs, not from the boxed sales.
The DM broke this story too. Defo an interesting timeline of events.
> You underestimate England and have a very recent view of history

Ok, I'll bite:

1. It was a joke.

2. I'm British. UK or Britain, but not "England". Please. We don't have an English Army. We have an English football team, but that is a different story, and "the Germans always win".

3. The British Armed Forces strength (especially its navy) has been severely depleted in the last 20 years. They currently only have two aircraft carriers, HMS Illustrious and HMS Ocean. Illustrious was refitted to cover for Ocean whilst in refit (still ongoing), and then would be decommissioned afterwards (sometime this year). The Royal Navy decommissioned the awesome but expensive Harriers [ii]. They (we) have no fixed wing aircraft carriers anymore [iv]. This is all due to the Strategic Defence and Security Review [i] in 2010 in order to save £38 billion. David Cameron went to town and stripped the British Armed Forces to its bare naked minimum as part of this review and stated that:

"From a strategy over-reliant on military intervention to a
higher priority for conflict prevention. From concentrating
on conventional threats to a new focus on unconventional threats.
And from armed forces that are overstretched, under-equipped and
deployed too often without appropriate planning to the most professional
and most flexible modern forces in the world, fully equipped for the
challenges of the future."

So, in summary, Britain doesn't have the capability to defend itself without the US backing it. It can't even service its own Vanguard submarine Trident II missiles. The UK is a mouth piece. It is that little child that repeats everything the teacher says - in that annoying "I told you so" voice. However, out in the playground he gets bullied and has the seven shades of shit knocked out of him until the teacher steps in.

Amusingly Margaret Thatcher (another Tory) stripped the Navy back in 1980/1981, only to find out that she needed them after all. When they needed to go to the Falklands, she didn't have ships. The fascinating story from behind the scenes can be read in full here:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/01/falklands-war-that...

This would have been a very different tale without US support [v].

[i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defence_and_Security_...

[ii] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15876745

[iii] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/oct/19/uk-can-no-lo...

[iv] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/oct/19/david-camero...

[v] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_Falklands...
I must confess, I used the Spreed chrome extension to read this.
So use Shinken http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/, the Nagios rewrite in Python.
What a bloody mess !
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We've been hearing that loud and clear. :)

FWIW, the price actually works quite well for a lot of people. On a GB-for-GB basis, we're actually much cheaper than other hosted log management solutions -- we work hard on backend efficiency and we pass that along. But yes, if you're using small virtual servers then the pricing model breaks down. We originally went with this model to provide more predictability; log volume is often more volatile than server count. We've heard enough complaints that we've decided to move to more volume-based pricing model, we're just working out the details.
> The other very serious issue is that most package builds are not deterministic.

It's virtually impossible to create deterministic builds of common software. There's random sources of data and variables all over the place. And more importantly, deterministic software != secure software. You could make a perfectly deterministic piece of code, compile it, run it, all the same on all hosts. It can still be rife with security holes.

I don't know what you mean by 'functional package managers'. There's plenty of 'functional' package management software out there used by millions of people every day. If you just mean easier to use, there's that too.

You can already install software without being root, very easily in fact. It just won't work very well because a lot of software is designed to operate with varying levels of user and group permissions, and varying system capabilities. And again, more importantly, there are plenty of privilege escalation exploits released all the time that could get to root from your user. Malware doesn't even need to be root if all it wants is control over your browser sessions or to siphon off your data. Root-installed software is as big a deal to a single user system as a vuln in your copy of Adobe Flash.
I'll only address distributed monitoring. Use NSCA instead of NRPE. That bypasses the limitations of the Nagios active check scheduling. I have a wrapper that I use for that:

http://rbcarleton.com/send_nsca_service_check.shtml

Use some kind of automation system like CFEngine for the distributed scheduling. Some assembly required ;)
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totally, I call my GP for a non-emergency and I may have to wait until the next day to get seen.

Nothing like the states, where, in a similar part of the country (city/rural wise) I needed to make non-emergency appointments 4 months in advance.
PHP already kinda did that once, for the PHP6 effort, which was abandoned after many years of being in development. So it's probably not the way to go.
I'd be interested to hear about that too - often Nagios can spend much of its time being reconfigured than actually monitoring…
I posted some details as to why Windows is inherently insecure at a fundamental, architecture level in the thread above this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7338118

Also consider for a moment that everything is executable by default in Windows. Meaning, you download a binary from wherever, double-click on it, and it will execute.

Here's how that works on a Linux workstation: You download something, explicitly set the execute bit on the file, then you can double-click on it to execute (assuming it is statically compiled for the correct architecture).

The average user does not know or care how to set the execute bit on a downloaded file. This alone is a huge hurdle for attackers to overcome.
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Maybe I'm missing something but this just looks like log analysis (akin to Splunk) and not actually server monitoring? (active health checks, notifications, snmp, etc)
Pricing seems wonky too...is it cheating the licensing model to aggregate logs on a single syslog server and submit from a single agent?
I agree on the point of frameworks. I don't like any that exist so I made my own Rails-inspired one. Unfortunately this means I prefer not to do consulting jobs in PHP because it's considered bad practice to use a framework that no one else knows.

(Mine has dynamic ORM (reads db schema), a console (REPL that loads project config and autoloader file), and similar project layout. Recently added REST API system that generates MD and HTML documentation at /path/to/project/help/.)

Anyway, I would say the main selling point is ubiquity. Every cheap host I've seen people (clients and semi-technical friends) use supports PHP. It often takes more work to get a Ruby project running on those hosts. Or worse for a Node project.
In Germany if you are hired by a company you join the public health system (through a "public" health insurance company), you can pick a private insurer if you earn more than 5k€ per month if I'm not mistaken
Are you ready to touch, feel and smell an image?
It seems then that touch is beginning to play just as important a part in our interactions with digital technology as sight and sound. The next logical step is to incorporate our sense of smell and taste. If that can be accomplished, it might make it impossible to tell the difference between the real and virtual worlds, which is a frightening thought.
Why use washable rags when you can use a diva cup?

I suspect the answer is the same in both cases: lack of clean water and effective sterilization methods. If you wash your rags in dirty water and do not expose them to the sterilizing UV rays of direct sunlight, you're giving yourself infections. The machine uses a UV light to sterlize, and does not require a reliable water supply.

When every village in India has access to ample amounts of clean-from-the-tap water, they may choose to revisit their current solution.