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> if you look at the timestamps on those first commits

jnthn churns out great design off the cuff and generates rapid sequences of brilliant and clear commits. I've been following #perl6 for a couple years so I've gotten used to it. (I wasn't surprised when I recently found out he has a first class honors degree in cs from cambridge.)

That said, confirmation bias is an ever present danger so I still investigated a lot more than just the timestamps on the first commits before I posted my prior comment.

Here's the graph of contribution over time:
https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/graphs/contributors

Imo the pacing and content of the repo's early commits (all jnthn) are typical for jnthn.

> Rakudo developers told Parrot hackers not to implement sixmodel

The period you're talking about is early 2011 thru early 2012.

The only two Rakudo devs that are relevant in this context are jnthn and Patrick.

If jnthn was telling Parrot devs not to implement 6model throughout this period, why, on May 31st 2011, did he write several 6model docs in response to a request by lucian? Why didn't he just tell lucian not to implement 6model?

http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrot/2011-05-30#i_3827733
http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrot/2011-05-31#i_3833670

If Patrick was telling Parrot devs not to implement 6model, why, on July 6th, 2011, did he suggest a two month delay of doing so with whiteknight? Why didn't he just tell whiteknight not to implement 6model?

http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrot/2011-07-06#i_4072930

On february 2012, two months before jnthn started the extant MoarVM repo, not_gerd wanted to know some stuff so he could implement 6model. Again, why didn't jnthn just tell him not to implement 6model?

http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2012-02-06#i_5109668

> during the period where it was obvious that those Rakudo developers were in fact {developing} their own VM

If it was obvious that Rakudo devs were developing their own VM in 2011, why did nobody mention it in 2011?
Truecrypt is dead, long live ChipCrypt: a Truecrypt fork with TRESOR and scrypt built in.

TRESOR is a technique that keeps the volume key strictly in the CPU registers and not in RAM. This completely prevents RAM freezing and related attacks. A running computer that is locked cannot be trivially decrypted anymore by dumping it's RAM.

Scrypt is an advanced password derivation function that makes even trivial passwords very hard to bruteforce. A scrypt derived key is 20000 times harder to crack than the equivalent PBKDF2 derived key of the same password.

The TrueCrypt license is not GPL compatible but it allows redistribution in source form as long as the software is not called "TrueCrypt".

Who's up for it ?
The idea that everything more than 2 years old is obsolete is funny to me; itself it's rather 90s, when you really did get big jumps in capability every year.

Pi are dependent on Broadcom's SOC plans. They're also determined to keep the cost low. Onboard wifi or bluetooth is concievable, although incurs extra CE approval work costs and there will be the usual complaining about binary blobs. Onboard GSM would be an approvals nightmare and imposes more constraints on the power supply.
Weird, in the UK I recall seeing (non-obligatory) questionnaires about ethnicity, so that they can make sure they are an "equal opportunity employer".
I thought that shell shock refered to physical damage to the brain (due to some kind of concussion like explosion, impact, etc..) as oposed to PTSD that it's psicological due to the high stress and fear sufered.
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Yes, of course. Use more bashisms, wait for bash to change its behaviour in those bashisms (it already happened and was not that rare) and happy debugging.
Which Broadcom part did you have in mind?

dual core version would serve that much better in a real world usage scenario

Explain how this is significantly more educational, or how lack of CPU is some how debilitating to current use.
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There's a similar split in stand up comedy, where if you wear a costume your "character" can say vile things and people laugh in the knowledge that you don't actually believe them, but if a stand up comedian's "character" looks no different from the actual stand up would off-stage, then people often mistake these things for the person's actual views.
So type "deep web search engine" in to google. Then type in their name on that site? A 6 year old could hack that system. If some records should be private then make them private. Adding 1 step to downloading the records on your browser is hardly worth the time to even discuss this silly idea.
Corporate gateway seems to not like this domain:

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And yet he pipes from ls...
I assume you meant the Google CLA. It's only 8 fields and you only have to sign it once.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual
Indeed, 25 years is a long time and I think if Dre had attacked a reporter from the WSJ for leaking the Beats acquisition the deal would have been off.
Perhaps TrueCrypt was an NSA scam all along, 'retiring' before they're found out? Worse still, a Russian/Chinese scam!
Defining a function for is_file as [[ -f $blah ]]; seems like defining a function for var++ as increment_one() ...
This guy in the crowd finds it very convenient to be able to commit locally so that you can easily get back to an earlier state of the thing when you fuck up or wants to explore another way to do it.

The masses have spoken and they want git.
Are there any decent alternatives to TrueCrypt for Windows that aren't Bitlocker?

http://superuser.com/questions/760091/windows-encrypted-virt...
> E.g. in Tel Aviv, it would be interesting to know how many Palestinians are employed

Why would there be Palestinians in Tel Aviv? That's like asking how many Canadians are in Tuscon. Unless they are citizens or residents they couldn't work there anyway.

Maybe you meant to say how many Muslims? Or how many Arabs? That at least makes sense.

But in any case, the actual "race" distinction in Israel is Ashkenazim vs Sefardim.
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Agreed. As someone who wears a fedora regularly (actually a black Akubra Hampton), it gets a very different reaction depending on the context. I've been stopped on the street once by someone who said "Cool hat! So you're a Bronie right?" You don't want that.

But when I'm travelling overseas, it gets a much more positive and inquisitive reaction. Many times people have used the hat as an ice-breaker to start an interesting conversation with me. And if you're the only person with a hat in a group, it can be helpful branding so people recognize & remember you.
What technique would they have used to measure the temperatures?
Sorry, but I'm the only one here who thinks that this kind of things doesn't really matter? I honestly don't care about code samples/try it for on-line on the main page, especially with language of that kind, where grasping and fully understanding for example, list comprehension is going to take some time, and can't be though by simple sieving example. Maybe I'm getting old and tired of this webdesing/responsive thing...
These two (TRESOR and scrypt) are incompatible, unless you allow for some time period where keys can be extracted. The point of scrypt is to be sequentially memory-hard: it mixes password and salt in a huge amount of RAM and makes it impossible to not use RAM for this operation.
And during that degree, you learned the pro's and con's of every VCS and when to use which, I guess? I'm soon graduating myself, and I would never dream of believing that I know better than those with more experience than me.
I have to say I've been really impressed by the Cubox-i products. It's the first one I've used consistently and easily for several things.

(Mostly using it as a media streamer, where on-board wifi is a real plus.)
Cool visualizations! I wonder if the title of this page could be less condemnatory, however.
When I first saw Google Glass, my first thoughts weren't of how it could be used to improve my life, but how it could be used to improve the lives of those with behavioural problems and/or disabilities.

While a lot of people think Glass will be largely underwhelming I sincerely hope that it becomes an essential tool for helping people feel more comfortable with integrating into society. If a tool like Glass can accomplish this then I think Google can call the project a success.
He also doesn't set -eu or -o pipefail.
Sure.

I wish it could be quicker and I hope it will.

In the meantime I contribute as best I can.
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> Maybe the developers were Americans and they decided to bail before they get caught for exporting cryptographic software.

...or shutting down TrueCrypt was part of the plea-bargain. Either that or gitmo one way from the land of the formerly free.

alt.conspiracy.
AS far as I am aware - there isn't one offering the same functionality.

Which is what makes it scary, because people all over the world are now left with much less user-friendly choices for encryption.
After reading that my conclusion is that every city I've ever been in desperately needs an Emperor as benevolent as Norton.
And here's an interesting demographics map of the Bay Area from 2010: http://minus.com/i/bgqCzuSwvcAi1

I wonder the extent to which Googlers' lives at work are affected by Google's new-found focus on diversity.

When a company's culture shifts, so will its output. It's inevitable.
> Step 2 would be having a tutorial that wasn't a university course. :)

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters :)
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I don't know - naval warfare in WW2 could be pretty grim.

I can recommend Nicholas Monsarrat's "Three Corvettes" on his wartime naval experiences - I happened to buy this without knowing much about the book in Heathrow before a flight over the North Atlantic to the US. One of the relatively small number of books that has moved me to tears.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Monsarrat

He also wrote the novel "The Cruel Sea" which was made into one of the best naval war movies of WW2.
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Using a Microsoft account for login is not mandatory on Windows 8.
Interesting, but probably unrelated:

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_dev... says:

> I asked around and apparently Visual Studio switched from generating "U.S." to "United States" in VS2010. Hence it is probably just the author having upgraded their VS at some point recently.
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> I'd don't quite understand how you can get away with not breaking the 'parent' grammar when you drop an arbitrary child grammar inside of it, but quite looking forward to finding out~

Rakudo, which is built on NQP, is one of the largest of modern langs, but it's technically built out of a series of sub-languages ("slangs") that recursively reference each other. Thus there's a language for grammars, another for strings, another for closures, and all of these work seamlessly together.
Am I the only one who sees this as an extremely stupid move? I begin to think all this "pollitical correct" crap got into the heads of most english speaking people.

I hope all this crap will not become the norm.
Decent documentation should include an example.
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> Diversity [...] is good for public relations.

That's pretty much the only reason tech companies are interested in diversity.
I only know a little about the gentrification going on in SF, mostly from stories I've run across here on HN. Is it bad that a new culture is taking hold in SF, and why? (given that at some point in the past, a new culture had to take over in SF for the now disappearing culture to exist in the first place)
Microsoft storing your key is opt-in and optional.

Whether or not they superstitiously store it anyway is a different question.
France never passed such a law... But we did pass a 35 hour work-week law though.
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I get why that seems silly, and I write shell all day (for provisioning Vagrant machines where I don't need Puppet. I'm still yet to work Ansible properly...), so I know exactly what that command does.

But to some of my coworkers who don't write shell very often at all, it would make the script far clearer (which is useful as they need to be able to edit it on the fly) to those who don't know shell
I love Couple, I was looking at this map earlier this week actually. Very interesting to read how you made it work, thanks for sharing.
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I would say "complementary" not "incompatible". Once you have derived the key you can clear the RAM and keep the key on the CPU chip only. So there's a vulnerability window of a few seconds during which the key (or key related material) is stored in RAM, after which it can no longer be recovered.

In sharp contrast with regular TrueCrypt where the master volume key is stored in RAM all the time. It's already standard operating procedure for law enforcement to time raids when the computers are in use and make a dump of the machine RAM.
A screenshot that says "We have the recovery key", but zero indication of how they got it? The previous slide could not possibly be something related to dumping RAM, could it?

Or perhaps an optional Microsoft-account feature to back up your encryption keys. Something that most normal users would want, just like they want it on Apple devices? Because a lot of common users aren't going to want FDE if it means "oh and lose your key and say goodbye to your data".

As far as I know, there's only been speculation on what PRISM is. Nothing that suggests it couldn't be a frontend to CALEA or warrant-based systems.
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I see what you mean now on old is gold and yes I agree. Corporations love old proven tech for all the obvious reasons. Not officially deprecated but that's just semantics. The underlying point is that the Python leaders are trying to turn a superhighway into a dead end, and force a long and winding detour for most people onto another highway which is only marginally better. Being forced to take that detour simply encourages the exploration of other alternatives as well. By the way if they really had balls, they would've killed Python 2.7 in 18 months. Not 5 years. Force the choice. Clearly they themselves are not confident enough in 3.
Maybe Microsoft asks or somehow prompts the user to back up their encryption keys? I mean, a user-focused OS certainly wouldn't include such a feature, right?
If this is called "analysis" then there is no hope.
Most of the united states has the same bland culture. San Francisco's was special, comparable to New Orleans in uniqueness I think. Though a lot of the rest of the country sees SF as being too liberal and would gladly see it fall in line with the bland sameness of everywhere else. Especially the flood of libertarian minded young white males.
I'm not familiar with VCR, but it looks like it's a little similar to https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngMock/service/$httpBackend

There's a lot of value in coarse-grained mocks like this for testing the system; I also find value in finer grained mocks for testing smaller components in isolation. But neither of these techniques is the only valid one.

And neither of them forces you to write things upfront that you don't need later; which is what the original article seems to imply.
Even if there isn't one, I guess you can run Linux in a VM, mount encrypted volumes from it and export the unit.
> Over my dead body.

> Well, maybe not literally---I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet

So, in short he's written 8 years ago that in principle he was totally against backdoors. Times have changed so much that a statement of that tone is almost entirely useless IMHO.
I'm tempted to try this with our TFS setup [1] (VSS in all but name [2] with lots of "features" unrelated to version control)...

1: Yes, I know that TFS supports git repositories. But I have the same issue: Convincing management that this might be a good idea.

2: Actually I consider TFS's source control part worse than VSS. While VSS was a hack, TFS is sold as 'enterprise' software. And it's unbelievably bad (again, only talking about the source control part and leaving out all the other things it can do. Maybe some are less half-assed than the source control part is?). Given the choice I'd pick CVS over TFS.
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It's not mandatory to use a Microsoft account for login, but they've been hiding the option not to in increasingly obscure locations in the installer. At one point, the easiest way to do it was apparently to just unplug your internet connection!
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I see, although that is still about 20x larger than the normal equivalent. What I'm saying is two-fold; with this technique, simply checking the image's metadata and comparing to the size gives you an easy way to identify interesting images, the ones likely to contain a hidden messages. And second, this kind of "low signal to noise" ratio seems to be applicable to most steganography techniques. If I need to send 50MB of junk (and convincing junk at that) to get 1MB of message through, I'm going to have to question the value the stego provides (since it provides even more data and evidence that there's something to hide, especially if it's easily identifyable, as in this case). Still interesting, just not quite as awesome as everyone seems to think.
I'd be interested how they classify someone who is mixed between black and white. How about the people who have mixed blood for 3-4 generations and who do not fall in any category anymore ?

The race classification in a country where people move around the whole time should really be depreciated.
Well it is. You can make branching as complex or as simple as you want. Where I work the developers are only ever exposed to the feature branch they are working on, which is even created automagically for each Jira ticket from the correct release/integration/dev branch. So for a developer it really couldn't be any simpler.
See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Niemeyer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Costa

and their work on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
RDP: Is there anything freerdp cannot do that you need from day to day? I'm working with Windows, but run Linux without any issues so far.
How many categories they have for ethnicity ? I'm asking because the whole concept of Race came from White anthropologists in the 18-19th century who wanted to demonstrate that the white man was above every other race around. So it seems very backward to use the same kind of criteria.
Thank you. Your Google skills beat mine ;-)
Encouraging coworkers to learn the proper syntax seems a better choice than hiding it with personally chosen abstractions (albeit more readable).
No, it shouldn't; if the rules about taximeters include "fixed to the vehicle" and it's not fixed to the vehicle, then it's not a taximeter. Maybe the rules should be updated, maybe not, but that's not for the High Court to do!
As long as you track it, you make it matter. That's the point. The observer always has an impact on what is measured. That's a very well know principle.
By the way, in Germany, they don't track your race, but they ask you for your religion when you move there. And it's actually a trap ! If you answer that you have any, suddenly you'll see a religion tax (deducted from your salary every month) going to your religion of choice. In Germany is literally "pays" to be agnostic.
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Previous poster's confirmation is misleading -- it does not appear to be mandatory. I just went through the process on my Windows 8 machine, and you can choose to save to the recovery key to a file or print it out in lieu of storing it with your Microsoft Account (http://imgur.com/J0zk6I5).

Two caveats:

(1) It's possible Microsoft could choose to store the keys online regardless of what the user picks, but it's certainly not their official stance.

(2) Microsoft does automatically store keys online if you're using "Device Encryption" in Windows 8.1 (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/window...). This uses Bitlocker code but is distinct from using Bitlocker itself though -- i.e. if you do a vanilla Bitlocker encryption, your system should not send the keys to MS without a user (or admin) explicitly telling it to.
Is this a warrant canary?
There's an RDP client under Linux, and you can use nx as a server, it's nearly as efficient as RDP.
First I though that people should give X more of a chance in hiring, because they shouldn't assume anything about X's background just because they are X.

Now, at the same time, people say that we should hire X because they have a different background. That sounds like a fun backroom conversation in cases where the diversity-part doesn't work out - "We hired that black guy because we wanted more diversity on the team. It turns out, though, that he has a very, um, non-black background, by which I mean that he isn't really like a stereotypical black person at all. In fact, he grew up mostly with group Y, which we already have a majority of, anyway. So I had to let him go and find some other black people, in the name of diversity."
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In light of yesterday's events, a lot of average tech people online are going to be scrambling to find a way to encrypt their data again. The people who might not

Regardless, of whether you believe that TrueCrypt is insecure or not, the fact it won't be actively developed leads it open to future exploits.

So what cross-platform, alternatives are there? It should be able to create a hidden volume (as Truecrypt did) too.
Are all of their headphone models awful or just the lower end models? I know that most of the reviews I've heard are of the lower end models and they are pretty much universally panned as a fashion accessory. However, the high end Beats headphones seem to be pretty good; well built with a flat response curve.
First impressions are much more about feeling than information. The current design of haskell.org conveys a utilitarian feeling that Haskell's existing community is perhaps comfortable with, but it lacks much in the way of emotional enticement for potential newcomers. I'm not sure if Haskell as a community cares much about appealing to new segments, but if it does, a 'friendlier' design like the OP's could definitely help.
For those interested in XSS challenges, there's also http://escape.alf.nu , which I think has a slightly better UI.
> "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abdominal word 'Frisco,' which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor."

I suppose he meant abominable?
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so basically outdated rules shouldn't be considered only when they are inconvenient to us?

We complain so much about all these laws that "didn't keep up with the times", but the instant it's in favor of the technologists we should just be like "that's cool"?
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