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Yep, that's one of the improvements we're working on. We made a lib that wraps libgit2 (git2go) and knierem/hgo at https://github.com/sourcegraph/go-vcs that we'll push to our live site soon. Initially we shelled out to git/hg for simplicity.
Will Rust really be that much more "convenient" than Java with all its tooling, libraries stack overflow examples etc? It seems to me it would be in the same class as Java at best when it comes to convenience with the likes of python and ruby being in a different class.
This is such a non-story. The content of those emails is really really tame. Go read totalsororitymove.com or totalfratmove.com and you'll find equal levels of college drunk hookup culture openly displayed. Or go read textsfromlastnight. Young people say things in some contexts that they wouldn't in others. I bet you can find old usenet posts from currently respected senior people in all sorts of fields that are equally troubling, and these posts weren't written for public consumption.

More importantly the email leaker is quite the jerk for releasing them. There is no smoking gun here, just some moderate embarrassment for a moderately famous person.
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Apple paid ~10% of its $35b 2013 free cash flow* for Beats, a company with a software-side growth story and actual positive free cash flow of its own driving investment in the software piece.

Apple: spinning off cash, buying companies that themselves spin off cash.

A delight to see P. Oppenheimer's conservative approach thriving. Financially, Apple is a thrilling company to watch.

* N.B. That's actual GAAP free cash flow. It is pure cream. What better than to accrete to FCF while acquiring, as noted by @onedev, some terrific assets, personnel, and goodwill. This is a smart and cheap move.
I agree - I think of "high-end" as indicative of price.
So you get a ton of code that tries to shoehorn some subset of file operations and similarities into a block structure, effectively recreating a file system. A file is a 'series of blocks' after all (that's what your inode table does it, it remembers which files start where, and a series of indirections then access the actual data blocks).

Operating systems abstract out all that common stuff, present a (somewhat) reasonable interface to it, handle multiple users if the system has those and then get out of the way as much as possible.

Operating systems that try to do more invariably fail(ed) and operating systems that try to do less end up being great for embedded work but in general not much beyond that.
Assuming no basic income, you're right.
I don't see why Time Warner would want to sell its cash cow. Especially for that price.
> Code can speak for itself.

The constant open source mantra of "code speaks for itself" strikes again.. except that none of the competent eyeballs have looked at truecrypt up until very recently (phase 1 audit ended in April 2014 which is ten years after the first truecrypt release).
A lot of good did it do with OpenSSL too.

But surely, code written by anonymous, untrustworthy developers that hasn't been looked at much for ten years is worth more than code written by a corporation that has a public image to uphold.

As for "being targeted by government" that's called conspiracy theories. Unless you live in a place like Russia or Saudi Arabia you don't have anything to fear just because you wrote encryption software.
I agree 100% You get people listening to Beats headphones that pump so much bass that they destroy the mid and high end. It's stupid to pay that much money for a decidedly low-end product. Just because it's loud doesn't mean it's good. And beyond that, the actual physical quality of Beats headphones is absolute rubbish. I unfortunately bought into the hype my first year of college and picked up a pair and returned them a week later as they were falling apart and sounded like dirt. Bowers and Wilkins are far superior in basically every way.
Apple has never been one to nickle and dime their customers. While I have little doubt the model will have some component of "you pay for what you use", you can be sure it will be done in such a way that 1) much of the cost is buried in the cost of the hardware and 2) if doesn't feel like every click is costing you something.
Yes! This is very important to us in dealing with transactional email.

Our Z-Test Method in Confidence.js pinpoints when results become statistically significant by calculating the required sample size at any given time using the standard error, zScore, and margin of error. If we have more samples than required, we can stop our test with confidence that we have statistically significant results.

We're still working out a way to do this with the new method - we have a hunch it might have to do with identifying when the confidence level becomes stable (as it does with more samples over time).
That's a serious question which deserves a serious answer. Let me think about this and I'll get back to you (I see you have your email in your profile). I like your definition and I think I see at least a few points where the current privacy policy does not meet my standard for 'narrow enough to mean something' so I'll concentrate on that.

Thanks!
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If I'd steal a phone, first thing I'd do is take the battery out. Right after the job. Second, do a full wipe using Odin or similar tools. Third, reflash the firmware.

As long as the device I stole is not an iPhone, the phone is now completely under my control. And for what its worth, to avoid tracking it is iirc possible to put in fake IMEI, BT MAC and WiFi MAC addresses. No one compares these anyway, and e.g. a swap of the 3rd and 4th char would escape many people.
What I was saying with that "combining" is that your router is now essentially the vip, in the sense that it is the load balancer and the peers are chosen and routed to from it. As opposed to a normal router which is merely passing routed traffic into the network and letting a different device handle load balancing. The idea being that different devices are used for different purposes, and separation of their functions may improve overall stability and increase flexibility of your network services.

One downside here is ECMP assumes all paths cost the same, which is ridiculous in real-world load balancing. One of your haproxies is going to get overloaded and then traffic to your site is going to intermittently suck balls as sessions stream in to both under-loaded and over-loaded boxes.

Of course, you have the same problem with round-robin DNS to load balancers, but in the case of a DR LVS load balancer for example, at least it's just starting the connection and handing it off to the appropriate proxy instead of randomly pinning sessions to specific interfaces. With DR it's the backend proxy that determines its return path; the LVS VIP isn't in the path. With LVS it can pick a destination path based on real-world load.

The other downside that you seem to gloss over with regard to scaling is the maximum of 16 ECMP addresses in the forwarding table. I'm sure we'll never need more than 16 of those, though....... (For reference: the company I used to work for had up to 23 proxies just for one application... might cause some hiccups with this set-up)

Doing maintenance on a vip address and doing maintenance on one of these bgp peers work about the same. You stop accepting new connections, let old connections expire, then take down the vip. As far as changing DNS records, instead of that you can either add a hot-spare vip with the IP of the one you want to maintain, or add the ip of that vip to an existing load balancer.
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An Apple flip phone from 1984 and a tablet from 1979
This is a good read on the whole situation - http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/amazon-v-hache...

Suggests Hachette may not be as innocent as they would have us believe
In my view, there are two commons being affected by AirBnB: first the community and sense of place where you live (building, neighborhood, town, city, etc.), and second a stable and accessible housing market.

Community can have many facets: security, friendship, socialization, child-raising, and even intangibles such as feeling integrated and belonging (not for everybody, but important to many).

Market stability is important for financial security, financial planning, schools for children, sense of home, reduced stress (not having to move often, or even needing to think about it).

Now, neither of these things is a resource per se, but I believe both are sought-after and generally preferred when people are given a choice. There are many laws and regulations made to help preserve these commons and prevent their erosion. For example, Prop. 13 in CA helps with financial stability in rising markets. Further, people actively work (invest effort) into maintaining these two commons and most people recognize that localities where either or both of these exist are more desirable.

Of course, that makes them also more desirable for investment property, and AirBnB facilitates the monetization of such investments, often to the point of enabling the investment altogether (the people who buy extra properties for the sole purpose of short-term rental). And I think it's pretty clear that those cases are profiting from the commons and not contributing anything back--net withdrawals that undermine the commons.

The "change is inevitable" argument gets tossed around for a lot of things, but often by the people who are profiting the most by change, and the faster things change, the more money they make. I think that in the domain of housing and community, fast change is disruptful to people. A landlord with 4 investment properties may think nothing of flipping them or kicking out tenants to remodel and rent on AirBnB, but the people involved have several months of stress and uncertainty in their lives, not to mention changing schools and sometimes jobs as a result.

I think city governments need to regulate AirBnB and the like so that the investment potential they create does not overwhelm the community and stability of residents. This applies anywhere the housing market is saturated or nearly so and visitors are plentiful: SF, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Honolulu, and much of the east coast probably as well. I advocate for an annual limit of 30-40 day short-term rental for any given residential property. That covers the situation where you go on vacation and rent out your house/flat, and where there's a convention/concert in town and all regular hotels are booked (and you have a spare bedroom to rent). The booking site should enforce this limit and collect all hotel and sales taxes on the transaction.
First thought C64 Basic :)
How did you arrive at the 15% margin figure?
Are mobile apps written with RubyMotion on par with the native equivalent? For example, I've heard a lot of people dislike PhoneGap, AppAccelerator, etc because the final app isn't as polished as something that is built natively.
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None of those options you listed are cross platform. I have many TrueCrypt volumes that I use on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Being able to mount them on all of of the OSes is very important.
I agree that this really looks like it is legit. It looks like, for some reason (we don't believe in the legend version, do we?) they abruptly (the diff contains many normal changes also) stopped the development and are burning all the bridges. They also slightly changed the license so now the forks are free to not mention that they are based on TrueCrypt, they are not allowed to link to truecrypt.org site or mention the TrueCrypt name in their product's domain name. They also removed all the links to their site from the source code (even the donation page).
It's hands-only, so there's a limited range of movements it can track.

However, if you apply the same question to a Kinect 2 or, say, another full-body mocap suit, then the answer is definitely.

One of these days when I have free time (no time soon, then) I shall write a routine for my mocap suits to track and give realtime feedback on various martial arts techniques.
More of my personal philosophy has been shaped by Weird Al Yankovic's song "Patterns" (first seen on Square One) than I should probably admit. ;)
For security software, deprecation is effectively a security issue since there are no plans for fixing future bugs.
> The element that does not square with any theories that suggest benevolent intent behind the change is the recommendation that users switch to Bitlocker.

I realize we are firmly in conspiracy theory territory here, but perhaps the suggestion that users switch to Bitlocker is intended to be so patently absurd as to be a signal that the developers are under duress?
Agreed on the language/vitriol interpretation. I was thinking the same when I listed rogue content maintainer.
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If that's the motivation then in 5 years' time, who's to say the new version will work as well (assuming that it also won't be updated)? That doesn't make any sense.
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What if they were given an opportunity and the complete responsibility to build a record label under Apple?

Total end-to-end control of music from creation to consumer listening.

Of course we can keep playing the what-if game, but I think there's a bit more to this deal than meets the eye.
Was Meeker ever taken seriously? Her predictions were so bad that they got her and Morgan Stanley sued.
one thing's for sure - bitlocker isn't it.
I'll leave others more knowledgeable in such things to comment on the legitimacy of this, but one practical thing I'll note: the assertion on the site that Windows Vista/7/8 has support for encrypted disks is only half true. Quoting from Wikipedia [1] "BitLocker is available in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is also available in the Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows 8."

Since a lot of domestic users will be using Home or Home Premium versions of Windows, and as one of those users who uses Truecrypt for full disk encryption, this does not leave us with as easy a migration path as this site now suggests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker_Drive_Encryption
I looked at your other comments but couldn't see anything enlightening. I really enjoy Scala's type system and would love an excuse to learn Rust; what can Rust's type system do that Scala's can't? (I saw you mention an ORM; what additional safety could Slick gain if it were using Rust's type system?)
does this work on all android versions?
Yes, it says that in the announcement:

> The object model of RubyMotion for Android is based on Java. Ruby classes, objects, methods and exceptions are Java classes, objects, methods and exceptions, and vice-versa. No bridge is involved.

You're still coding to the same native APIs, but you're doing it in Ruby. That's how RubyMotion works on iOS/OSX as well as Android now.
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The first time around you curled "www.trucrypt.org" (note the missing "e") and it went to a domain parking service (findingresult.com).

The second time you went to the real "www.truecrypt.org", which is the real domain that now redirects to SF.
Of course, if you read the article, the headline is misleading:

1) California wasn't being offered free money, it was being lobbied to let computer science substitute for existing math and/or science requirements, and

2) San Francisco and Oakland are both in discussion with Code.org but haven't adopted their program for the coming year, looking at doing it later -- we don't know the details in SF because the short-notice call for comments wasn't returned, but in Oakland's case its at least in part because they already have grants for teaching code to kids from other private entities involved in a different program with overlapping objectives to Code.org.
I tell you why "we" stopped striving to work less. The industrial revolution and the productivity it brought with it, allowed more people to get richer faster than ever before and that is a good thing but this led to a snowball effect: more and more people than ever were and are professionally chasing the richness and the surplus of wealth that is generated by the increase in productivity, innovation or work hours is directed predominantly to this class of people and they have no incentive to slow down the rhythm of economy. No matter how much you work or how much more productive you get, there will always be someone to pocket the surplus.
I know the Rust team doesn't have any animosity toward Go, at least not those that I have talked to. And the Go team certainly doesn't have anything against Rust. But I must say that I do notice you being overwhelmingly negative about Go a lot on HN and I wonder why you do that. Technically, yes, you are adding to the discussion in some ways but to me it seems unnecessary.
The simplicity is probably going to drive their adoption. Typically securing a loan for a business is a lot of paperwork, back-and-forth, etc. In other words, time away from your business. If Square removes all of that, they're leagues above any offering from typical lenders
Consulting is basically getting someone to figure out how to do something for you.

CEOs like consulting (primarily big name) because if it fails, they can say they got the best.
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An OS controls access to common resources.

Otherwise, our processes are just collaborating and if one screws up we get Windows 95.
Not only already written, but usable on [some] iOS devices. When developers can be affected by things that Apple might do in the future, that affects their behavior in the present.

As for myself, the terms for Apple's developer program and its App Store alone are enough for me to prefer to develop in HTML5+javascript or in Android-flavored Java over Objective C for iOS. When you have only one route between you and your money, and one person standing on it, you're going to have issues eventually.

It isn't just true for Apple. When PayPal locks your account, you don't want that to bring your business to a screaming halt, so you open up alternate payment processors, like Stripe, Google, Amazon, Rixty, etc. But unlike that competitive market, there is no alternative to Apple's App Store available to non-jailbroken devices. That is a chokepoint that gives the one holding it dangerous amounts of power over you. Any solo coder or dev shop that gets their revenue exclusively from Apple's ecosystem has a banhammer of Damocles hanging over them at all times. They can't afford to take any risks like that, so they have to dance to Apple's tune, even when there is no strict obligation to do so.

The extra revenue from Apple's customers might be worth it to them. I'd rather have more freedom of choice.
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No, with good fortune the data is directly transcribed by a machine. Babbage included a printer in his designs to avoid human transcription error.
Are you sure about the domain www.trucrypt.org ? there's a typo there, no?
Yea i got you... that example is a super basic one... But when creating a whole tree, would you want to do the same??? That is alot of createElement and appendingChild you would have to do...

daffl/dform is pretty much the same idea but exclusive to forms... I aim to enable a user to create anything...

And your right, it doesnt add a benefit that would make anyone decide on it... and technically it isnt really syntactical sugar due to the fact that this isnt exclusive to this framework... this is literally the same attributes/properties that creating elements via js gives you... in a way you are more extending if anything...

Although, I would add one thing and that is that the other reason I created such is so everything can be 100% js(trying to think maybe too OO). But I do like that I can create partials in node to include elsewhere if need be...

Also anything still pegged to jquery is kinda ehh in my opinion...

But Thank you very much krapp for the comment...
This is true, but Patrick does pop up on a lot of Go threads saying negative things. If the Rust team doesn't want to be perceived as critical of Go then they shouldn't be so vocal about it.
You can't use both.
In Primus you can select only one transformer, listed above by V1, but if something doesn't work, you can just switch it with a single line of code. No rewrites, no need to learn a new API.
> would Steve Jobs have done this?

I think so. Apple built the iPod and purchased SoundJam because they realized the world had changed. Buying CDs in stores and feeding them into your CD player was inevitably going to be replaced by digital media players/sales. iPod/iTunes filled this demand for many years but now the world has changed again. People don't spend $200 on iPods anymore but they will spend $200 on Beats headphones. They don't like feeding digital media files into their digital media players -- streaming is much easier. They also don't care much about owning music anymore or understand why a song costs 99 cents when they can goto YouTube and listen to it for free.
Pretty damn cool.
I hope you see the irony in your complaint about "some guy trying to shift the definitions or morality" when we're discussing a primitive tribe in the Amazon that thinks marriage to 13 year olds is perfectly OK.

You're saying that the moral rules of your culture are the absolute correct ones that apply globally? What else might this apply to? There are cultures who lay out their dead for the vultures to eat; we don't do this, so do you have a problem with that too?
What was the strength of your eye prescription before that?
Looks like it's the same key as before (F0D6B1E0)
Ugh. This sounds too much like "Intel Inside" - although to be fair, the 20th Anniversary Macintosh (late 1990s) featured a sound system by Bose.
You had posted this yesterday, mentioning it was a part of a Hackathon project. You should't be deleting/resubmitting links.
($3 billion purchase price [1] / 14.9x AAPL P/E ratio [2]) / $1.3 billion 2013 Beats headphone sales [3].

We are asking how much in earnings (E) would Beats need to earn to give a $3 billion price (P) no more than a 14.9x P/E ratio. We then turn those minimum earnings E and turn them into a quick-and-dirty margin by dividing E by sales.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/technology/apple-confirms-...

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?q=aapl&ei=_0qGU5C_BabzsgeenYH...

[3] http://nypost.com/2014/05/27/apple-cuts-purchase-price-of-be...
"It’s going to be accretive in fiscal year 2015" Damn, http://recode.net/2014/05/28/tim-cook-explains-why-apple-is-...
Go Gators ;-) As long as we're off on a tangent, this made me realize downvotes here are (pretty much) anonymous, but comments are not. I think it would be interesting if anonymous notes could be attached to downvotes. It would also be interesting if those anonymous notes were either public or private. So hypothetically, if you had 10 downvotes, you could hover that and read why people downvoted. Another approach (I like this idea better) the downvote could trigger a menu of tags like [Nonsense] [Rude] [Grammar] etc. Anonymous or not, constructive criticism is a good thing, in my opinion.