skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because developers who refuse to show any responsibility for the code they've written (by staying anonymous and thus not risking their career/credibility in software) are much more trustworthy than "big corporations" right?

It hasn't even been a month since phase 1 of the first truecrypt audit ended. Which means up until now this piece of software was as shady as it could be.
Wonder if Dre will join Apple's Board
Maybe while looking at the code themselves they found a very bad bug which would make previously made encrypted partitions easily crackable, and fixing it would obviously make the world aware to this, and they don't want to endanger or ruin the lives of everybody who has had a truecrypt container with sensitive data taken from them (for example to a malicious government), so the only way to go for them is to tell people their product should not be used any more and is bad.
I think all streaming services have a form of this, heck even iTunes store has celebrity curated and Genius.
That just moves the problem to that remote system.

I think a better example are image-based systems such as Smalltalk, lisp, and Forth do not even need a file system (traditional forth systems are the simplest here; they had one way to read in data: BLOCK (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthBlocks))

And of course, the home computers of the '80s ran their (single) application (typically a Basic interpreter, but in the case of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace, a Forth) from ROM.
Math for Computer Science
Straight from MIT it seems like a complementary course for SICP.
Providing some details from SourceForge:

1. We have had no contact with the TrueCrypt project team (and thus no complaints).

2. We see no indicator of account compromise; current usage is consistent with past usage.

3. Our recent SourceForge forced password change was triggered by infrastructure improvements not a compromise. FMI see http://sourceforge.net/blog/forced-password-change/

Thank you,

The SourceForge Team
communityteam@sourceforge.net
I believe you don't need to do anything along the lines of JRuby where you would sometimes need to bridge libraries from Java-land into Ruby.

This most likely makes the same assumption that you are using a similar kind of project management as in RubyMotion for iOS and using RM specific libraries.
The consumer market believes that Beats and Bose are king though

To be fair, from what I've read Bose has the best noise cancelling system, albeit at a high price.

I'm not incredibly persnickety about audio quality and don't think I can tell the difference among various "good" headphones. But I have a pair of Bose headphones and like them.
At one point they had such an agreement, but according to wikipedia, Apple Inc (the iPhone people) bought the trademark rights to "Apple" outright and relicensed them back to Apple Corps (the record people) as of 2007:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer

Which presumably means they are free to do basically whatever they want with regards to using the Apple name on music-related goods and services.
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We have been working on the site for about a year now and launched 2 weeks ago. We've had some great feedback from our early adopters however we want to iron out any problems (excuse the pun) before we launch on the various mobile platforms.

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> They used a checkbox, blanket argument against GCs, where the discussion was specifically about Go. It is just something I've noticed about the Rust team -- they overwhelmingly hold Go as their foe, and most if not all advocacy seems to be targeted at Go.

> EDIT: I should add that a quick perusal of their comment history finds them engaged in many, many Go threads, always dismissive of Go. Again, to be active in Rust seems to be some sort of call-to-arms against Go.

I've written a ton of Go code and a bit of Rust code and I love both languages.

FWIW, I disagree that the Rust team is dismissive of Go. I've always found their comments to be well balanced and cognizant of the relevant trade offs involved when comparing two languages like Go and Rust.
The elephant in this argument is that "work" means many different things to many different people. Some people actually do like their jobs and don't feel that "working" 40 or 80 or 100 hours means anything good or bad to them.

As an adult, I do feel more accomplished now, but definitely not as fulfilled (and in turn, not as happy) with my career. This is not because I lack recognition, pay, or a cool project - but because day in and day out I’m forced by society to meander with the horrible details of doing business (“going to work”) that what I actually like to do, solving tough problems via technology, is so buried underneath it all that it makes it feel that most of the effort of my life and career has been based mostly around non-sense. There have been golden nuggets of experience and wisdom to cherish here and there, yes, but mostly it’s all been non-sense.

In essence, working is not the problem – but what and how we do it is what is broken.

I’ve always believed this is a problem that needs to be broken down into its more immediate and solvable root causes: monotony, disinterest (lack of learning or doing), no autonomy (middle management can and should be automated by machines), time and money lost commuting, etc.

Everything about modern-day work life violates all the aspects of human nature we all instinctively hold dear. But what do you expect from a system born out of the industrial revolution? It’s like we moved on to being a service-based economy, where the machines handle all the dirty work, but we never thought of evolving the workday and educational systems that support it.

A new world requires new ideas, not old shoehorned ones that keep proving time and time again how broken society is. Minimum wage, for example.

I believe people should only do in life what they actually want to do, not what they have to do because of money and quality of life issues. Humanity needs to be outside enjoying the abstract universe that surrounds us.
Non-sense?

Maybe, but striving for ideals and perfection is also in our nature.
Some code samples already available on Github: https://github.com/HipByte/RubyMotionSamples/tree/master/and...
This is the quote you're referring to:
An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.

I couldn't agree more. It's our languages that are wrong, not this statement.
If it was company X that was doing the acquisition, no one would care too much. It's the Apple involvement that makes it confounding, since Apple doesn't do acquisitions of this sort. They don't buy brands, they buy tech or people.
Quoting @ValdikSS on Reddit[0]:

TL;DR: The website is presumed hacked, the keys are presumed compromised,
the binary on the website is capable only to decode crypted data,
not encode, and may contain trojan. The binary is signed with the valid (old) key.
All old versions are wiped, the repository is wiped too.

Please do not download or run it. And please don't switch to bitlocker.

Latest version is 7.1a. Version 7.2 is a hoax.

TrueCrypt Setup 7.1a.exe:
sha1: 7689d038c76bd1df695d295c026961e50e4a62ea
md5: 7a23ac83a0856c352025a6f7c9cc1526

TrueCrypt 7.1a Mac OS X.dmg:
sha1: 16e6d7675d63fba9bb75a9983397e3fb610459a1
md5: 89affdc42966ae5739f673ba5fb4b7c5

truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x86.tar.gz:
sha1: 0e77b220dbbc6f14101f3f913966f2c818b0f588
md5: 09355fb2e43cf51697a15421816899be

truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x64.tar.gz:
sha1: 086cf24fad36c2c99a6ac32774833c74091acc4d
md5: bb355096348383987447151eecd6dc0e

Diff between latest version and the hoax one: https://github.com/warewolf/truecrypt/compare/master...7.2
Screenshot: http://habrastorage.org/getpro/habr/post_images/da1/1bf/6a5/da11bf6a5225fa718987ba4e54038fc1.png

-----------

Also, Kenn White, who is involved with the Truecrypt audit, asserts this is probably a compromise[1].

[0]: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/26pxol/truecrypt_i...

[1]: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/471740840478797824
Maybe it wasn't someone's account being compromised, maybe some of the developers got into a huge disagreement and one of them did this as a kind of "fuck you, I'm done" to the rest of the team.
I think the key to this deal was the Beats brand. Apple was facing a very difficult task in trying to modernize/redefine the iTunes Store. They attempted to bolt on various new things like Ping, iTunes Match, iTunes Radio, etc but it ended up being a convoluted mess. Too much legacy baggage there. I suspect Apple will preserve the Beats brand and use it as the launching pad for all their next-generation media services/products. iTunes Store will continue on as the place you go to buy things while Beats will clearly be the place you go to stream things.
I begin to question whether you understand what "alternative" means in the context of the interaction between hardware and software. It's a somewhat gray area, sure, but it's not that gray. There are many, many, many different mobile devices which one can use non-Apple software and non-Apple OSes on. Real, actual, genuine alternatives to Apple mobile devices exist in literally every sense of the word "alternative". In that context, that one cannot install an alternative OS on an Apple product is irrelevant and doesn't mean, at all, by any rational measure, that therefore "alternatives don't exist." It's simply facile to suggest otherwise.
Apple made 170 Billion dollars last year. They are insane not to try to spend chump change on the music industry. The own the delivery of sound from that industry INTO a vast % of the consumers of it.

Apple is going to own the entire experience of media consumption for some % of their customer base.

They will be the label, the distribution, the hardware and the content. A 100% apple audio feed, all wrapped up in a tight little box tied directly to your bank account. Every click costs you something.
> This is a thread about Rust and people hijacked it with Go comparison, saying server are better suited for Go, etc.

Umm, no, they didn't. This thread started with someone whining about Go's type system.

> I wouldn't trust anyone that has dabbled in Java/Go/.Net and made various servers/web-applications to look upon schematics of a real-time nuclear power plant controller, let alone be in same room with the code.

How deliciously condescending of you!

And I guess, C++ people are somehow more competent for this particular task of working on nuclear power plants?

Count me skeptical.
Related: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/auditing_true...
I've never had the opportunity to bridge Java-to-Ruby for JRuby. But when I read "the runtime uses JNI", I read that as a bridge.

And when they start off with "Ruby classes are Java classes", then later say "everything is compiled to native" that seems like more double-speak.
Or the NSA was maintaining it the whole time, and they've just sent everyone to the next best thing for them, because of the coming audit.
It hadn't occurred to me until I've been reading through these postings, but it's true: high-end, expensive headphones have traditionally be tragically ugly, almost as though it was a badge of honor to suffer the ugly headphones, because one knew they were getting superior sound quality.

While I'm still such a fan of sound quality that I will continue purchasing terrible-looking headphones, I can't deny that Beats are sexy as hell.
Show up with a friend or two.

I've now done this three times (once for me, twice for other friends), with good results each :)

Cops won't do anything? Well, I sure as hell will!

Edit: Obviously keep in mind your safety, not all situations are created equal. Most will simply hand you the phone the second they understand what is happening and that you are not going to leave.
California and the SF Bay Area decline to accept money to teach coding to kids
One of the three existing Rust deployments is a Ruby gem written in Rust. Technically, it's a Ruby gem written in C, which calls out to Rust. So yes, it's very possible, today.
The amount of people in this thread who are unable to understand the brilliance of this deal is astounding.

What they bought is not one thing, but all the components that came together in the right way, at the right time.

* Beats Music, a music service that is truly different from the others and is in my opinion better in many ways.

* Legendary founder of Interscope records Jimmy Iovine (who then ran it for 25 years) as part of Apple management.

* Dr. Dre, enough said.

* The amazing people behind the curation of the playlists on Beats Music.

* A powerful brand, though this part is still a grey area for me. It remains to be seen how they handle the brand.

* A strong command of the market. In 2012, NPD Group reported that Beats had a market share of 64% in the U.S for headphones priced higher than $100. It's likely even higher now.

* Hardware that's flying off the shelves as noted above. They have the opportunity to improve the engineering of this hardware to make a truly great product while retaining the amazing branding.

All of those things came together into one place in one deal. It's incredibly smart.
Apple confirms it's buying Beats for $3 billion
Sure, the author may of had the right intentions, but in the end after everyone has read that statement there will be plenty of people that take away from it that Apple invented digital music. Wording is important.
What about for the Mac?
I was able to find every book on the first page of the ordinary certificate list for about 300 total. Most of them could be bought for a price between 1-30 dollars. Only a couple were expensive even when purchased used.
Apple made 170 Billion dollars last year. They are insane not to try to spend chump change on the music industry. The own the delivery of sound from that industry INTO a vast % of the consumers of it.
Apple is going to own the entire experience of media consumption for some % of their customer base.
They will be the label, the distribution, the hardware and the content. A 100% apple audio feed, all wrapped up in a tight little box tied directly to your bank account. Every click costs you something.
I just want to go on record with an entirely different idea as to why Apple is buying beats. They're going to make a label.

Why Apple doesn't do streaming: Apple hates committing to something unless it's absolutely perfect. There are numerous examples, but NFC technology is a good one that comes to mind. Granted, they've made mistakes, like Mobile Me, but that was due to poor implementation, rather than immature technology and infrastructure.
A similar problem has been in their way as far music streaming goes. The obstacle in their path to connecting consumers to content are labels (the same applies to cable companies and iTV, but that's a different story). Labels are greedy, difficult to deal with, and a general nuisance who provide little or no value. Meanwhile, the actual content providers, i.e. songwriters and performers, view labels as a necessary evil, but no one believes for a second that needing them is ideal.

The vision: The idea is that Apple is looking to buy Beats to start their own label so they can cut out the label, who is an unnecessary middleman. My reasoning behind this is that Beats is a very strong brand, mainly because it's been run by two very savvy music industry veterans who know how to "produce", in every sense of the word. They're more of a household name than any other headphone maker can claim. If any company had the power, skill, and recognition to pull off disrupting the record industry, it would be beats. The only problem is they don't have enough money, do you know who does? Boom. It's as simple as that.
Just take a look at this http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2014/05/beats-royalty-s.... and tell me, from Apple's perspective, what the problem is with a music streaming service? The labels get all the money and the artists get none. All Beats has to do is say, "Boom, we're starting a label and we own the streaming service, so you can have a 30% cut per play and we'll keep 70%". If you were an artist and you could literally improve your earnings by 10x wouldn't you? $248K vs $22K is criminal.

Just imagine, from Apple's perspective, what this would open up? Essentially, it's total vertical integration, a pipe from artist to audience, unadulterated by stupid bullshit. For example they could have complete coordination of everything from the original recording quality of an album to specialized super high end digital to analog converters in the hardware - from lossless media formats that were recorded especially for that format to headphones that are tuned to provide optimal performance.
This is a complete bargain and no ones talking about it. It will serve as a prototype for what Apple would love to do to the television industry (think Apple acquires HBO, a win win for both), and they're doing right under everyone's noses because no one can think big enough. Apple would never, in a million years, purchase a company like that for so much money if they didn't have a very good idea of how it would pay off 10x.

And remember, this is the same company that seriously considered becoming a carrier, in order to launch the iPhone.
The headphones are crap, way too much bass and the build quality is pretty bad even for low-end headphone. But they have fooled people into thinking they are a premium product, somehow. Is that why Apple bought them? I hope we don't start getting "iPad with Beats audio" gimmicks.
Paging BlackMagic, loan an ATEM Video Switcher to these guys and boom, drivers for BSD will be created :)
I've received a 9K working capital from PayPal a year ago, repaid it already. Just saw your message and tried to apply at kabbage, added my PayPal account, business checking account and it still asks for more to qualify...
It presumably isn't impossible to design phones with hardware designed to transmit their identity as soon as connectivity is restored even after the SIM and firmware is replaced, the credible threat of which would be enough to eliminate black markets in that type of mobile phone.

The cynic in me suspects that carriers and OEMs long ago estimated the marketing benefit from an "unstealable" phone to be rather less than the revenue from more marketable overpriced phone insurance and increased replacement rates.
The one where Rakudo developers told Parrot hackers not to implement sixmodel to replace Parrot's default object system (the one which one of those Rakudo developers had, in fact, actually implemented) during the period where it was obvious that those Rakudo developers were in fact designing their own VM?

Hmm, I read that as Rakudo devs trying to keep Parrot devs from starting a project that they may not want to continue in the future (given your statement it was obvious they were looking into developing their own VM). If the decision has been made, trying to reduce fallout seems wise to me, given also that they weren't public on the new direction, which I don't know the details of why.
Such cache line will (because it is adjancent to the refcounted data) almost always be in cache anyway. Rust's refcounting is much cheaper than C++'s refcounting because it doesn't need to be atomic. (There is a separate type for atomic RC, and it is enforced by the compiler that you use it when needed.)
Photonic crystals used to make optical RAM
Yeah, make news out of no news... If I was them, I'd rather ask people to link Twitter and use the Twitter ID, and not reinvent yet another ID system! I'm tired of companies using cheap tricks like this to attract some temporary attention.
It is most likely all included in one product. If it is a separate product it would not use --template
`motion create --template=android Hello`
The element that does not square with any theories that suggest benevolent intent behind the change is the recommendation that users switch to Bitlocker. Surely, a Truecrypt developer who got served a gagging order to build in a backdoor would realise that a big and compliant target such as Microsoft would have been subject to the same measure long ago, and likewise that if a pre-existing vulnerability on a sufficient scale to justify this went unnoticed in an open-source project even after a proper audit, the situation is unlikely to look that much better in a closed-source solution (that only the makers and government agencies have access to).

While this might be reading a tad much into it, the language of the announcement, specifically the "...as it may contain unfixed security issues" bit, sounds like what somebody who just came out on the losing end of a heated debate about whether some bug-feature should or should not be considered the former would say. Knowing the vitriol and determination with which software developer arguments are often carried out, this would explain the observed combination of remarkable dedication and haphazard execution.
Reminds me of some long-early post when hackers gf begged him to buy her a new iPhone5. Instead the hacker somehow skinned and make her old iPhone4 to look like iPhone5 and she didn't even noticed.

Consumers, right? :)
Most repl based environments that allow compilation do something like this.
To me this chart is the most telling - http://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/data-and-statistics/employ...

The tech sector employment has more than doubled since 2006 while the other sectors are roughly flat or, in the case of Finance, falling.
As a home schooler it is shocking to me how technology is systematically devalued by the official curriculum, and I don't mean just "computers and stuff" but things like how to sew a garmet or grow meat animals or how to wire up an electric outlet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133
Exactly. You're absolutely right. They will try to control the flow right from the time artists make the sounds to the time the audio hits the listener's ear.

Just as they control an app from the time it's written to the time the user uses the app on their phone (while taking a nice 30% cut of proceeds).
Probably better to call them luxury headphones. That doesn't carry the same connotation of quality that "high-end" does.
People who create security software are always targeted by governments, and a lesser extent hackers. Truecrypt devs who remain anonymous can produce software in a much safer environment. Just like Satoshi. Code can speak for itself.
You have to remember the difference between your perception and the public's perception. The public has no idea what good audio sounds like. They've probably never heard of The Wirecutter. They are not audiophiles.

Beats, _regardless of its actual quality_, is perceived as high quality. That's why people pay for the headphones. That's why they make so much money. That's why Apple bought them.

They are considered fashionable and high-end. It's the perception that counts.
>Do people really consider Beats to be high end?

People who buy them do and that's what matters.
Evidon is an interesting company, they sort of screw with both of their customers:
* Users - the main thrust of this article, potentially misleading tracking
* Advertisers - holding them hostage via being one of the sole providers of certification to the legislation they support (I have witnessed instances where a company turned down their services, were reportedly threatened by an evidon sales rep, and then were shortly thereafter reported as not serving the ad choices banner. Not a smoking gun, but suspicious).
Yes, but what's the over/under on how long either of them stay? Seems a bit like Michael Ovitz at Disney: he lasted a year.