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A great example to others who have success because of open source. It should be a common thing that once you find the coveted golden parachute in the sprawling game of life, you give a percentage back to OSS as a tradition to others on the adventure.
Quite a bit of critical software comes from BSD, such as OpenSSH. During the era of OpenSSL vulnerabilities, a lot of people/companies realized how much they depend on software like that and how little (nothing) they pay for it and began to... actually pay for it, or at least contribute developer time to it.

--OpenSSL, not SSH.
We changed it to try to make the title less baity. But let's please stay on topic.
Seems like this is laying the groundwork for them to begin offering flash sales. Now they can send you a picture/video of a product and give you a limited amount of time to purchase it at a special price. This won't work without having payment methods on file though, and they won't be able to move worthwhile product without getting a base of cards on file first. That's the only logical business I see evolving from this move.
This is the best looking OS X, imo.

I've been using it since 10.1, and the only time I thought they took a step back was with Mavericks. I attribute that to major UI changes needing a version to sort out.
Who is it you think was cutting corners here? I mean, it's not good, but we seem to be talking about some wells that were incrrectly permitted back during the Reagan/Bush41 era. I didn't get the sense of anyone deliberately flouting regulations here.
What's sad is that this was half the point of bitcoins; they can't be easily seized. I hope the other DPRs are smart enough to have a system which moves their coins before the gov breaks the encryption on the wallets they seize in person.
Yeah, we had to limit that because it is first and foremost a noise isolation device for sleep and we had to have 10 hours of sound generation to be able to get through the night :( We're considering in V2 to let it be an option to stream audio for like an hour or so and then autoshutoff! This is our "MVP"
You can find their last two budget reports on the foundation's website. This looks like a huge cash injection and if they put it aside it will pretty much double their assets.
I don't know their hosting costs or if they have any need for more. But that money (or the investment returns) could be well spent on marketing for the project.
This whole thing has made for some interesting people watching opportunities. I think the only people who were completely unsurprised by all this are those who:

1) Understood the technical requirements to pull this level of surveillance off.

2) Understood that the government does not love them.

You combine the two to arrive at the conclusion that if something is within the government's ability, and it furthers its own interests, it will do it. The reaction from the folks in group 1 have been the most entertaining, as it is apparently easier for people in group 2 to adapt to changes in technology.
> You claimed in the previous thread you linked to that CALEA (or, charitably, some other law) required US companies to backdoor their encryption schemes.

As a customer, encryption provided by a third party (especially in situations where it is difficult or impossible to provide my own encryption - like how would I provide my own encryption that goes over Skype?) which is designed to be removed upon request by the government is backdoored.

> I asked you to cite any authority anywhere backing that argument up. Your response is to cite examples of crappy software security, and then to sneakily reformulate your argument so that it applies only to encryption that isn't "end-to-end".

Neither Blackberry nor Skype were crappy software security solutions until they were subverted. They were subverted on purpose. It's disingenuous to call them crappy without digesting the context by which they came to remove strong security garuntees. Like the case with Apple (you didn't reply to that) either this subversion was done voluntarily or it was compelled.

My thesis is that the constellation of laws and their interpretation are such that the any products which become leading communication services will be subverted. Through mandatory data ecrow and the TPD as we spoke about earlier, and through financial and political pressures, incentives and (as we know in extreme cases from the Snowden docs) sabotage.

So perhaps it's a vocabulary issue? Companies that will sell in-transit encryption but remove it or store plaintext I would call a backdoor. We agree that this is required by law.

Where we seem to disagree most is the canonical case of Skype. Skype was purposefully subverted and I argue that the constellation of laws we've been discussing were used to do it. I can imagine two other stories one could tell:

1) E2E encryption was removed voluntarily; no compulsion (I would need a lot of convincing)

2) E2E encryption removal was a silly regression that has been noted but not fixed for years (I would need even more convincing)

I would agree wholeheartedly that when it comes to the Skype case there are technically, by letter of law, no laws that force companies to remove or backdoor E2E.

I think here is where we disagree: I think in practice, by the examples we've been able to witness, that broad interpretations of these laws, in conjunction with financial and political pressure are in fact used to leverage changes law enforcement and intelligence community members need.
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There's so much competition for people's eyeballs these days, so it could take some time for your game to gain traction. I thought it looked good and handled well though.

I figured the Firefox problem might have been related to one of my security add-ons, so I tried it in safe mode (add-ons disabled) as well, but it still didn't work.
Installed it, none of my coworkers can figure out how to actually send cash, or send anything. Right now it looks like a 'take a picture and add a dollar amount' photo app, except you can't export, can't send, can't do anything but take more app-only picture-expenditure receipts.

e: Looks like it's not actually snapcash -- but another so-named app. Looks like someone is getting a ton of unintentional downloads today.
The "US Marshalls" part.
I occasionally need to turn wifi off and on again, so I wrote a script to do it: https://gist.github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/d2f2b97540e8c3ff73...

Open that in Script Editor and then export is as an application. Then just run that application whenever your wifi stops working for no reason.
You can keep learning, just slowly. But it works: I decided a while ago to go back and learn the parts of CS that I skipped that felt unreachably wizardly to me. I'm currently working, very slowly, through the excellent Coursera compilers class, 25 minutes at a time on the bus to and from work. I say go for it :-)
"Did I say that gcc has the better infrastructure, the more modern code base, better modularity? I don't think so. "

Your reply certainly implied you thought GCC was fine along the same axises your parent said clang was better.

"But I hope that it is still allowed to say that GCC has made progress the past few years."
You are talking to a guy who helped make some of this progress (for example, I helped build the tree-ssa project that brought a language independent middle IR and SSA optimizers to GCC).
It's certainly made progress, but that progress had been fought about for the 5 years before that. At the same time, GCC lost good developers during these fights due to wanting to get stuff done and not deal with politics.

"Also, there's the license/freedom thingy, which might not interest you, but others do care about such things."

Actually, it interests me immensely. I helped with things like the libstdc++ exception, etc.
Besides being a compiler guy, i'm an open source lawyer.

But in the end, I choose stuff based on technical merits first, freedom second.
You are of course, welcome to do as you please.
I'm guessing the parent meant critical as in "important to" the Linux ecosystem.
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Well you wouldn't want to do it before the bids are in. However, there was a gap between when bids are placed and when the winner is announced, that would be a good time.

edit: Of course, any time after the bids were completed would be a good time. After the auction ends would be just as good for you.
Yes, though for the record OpenSSH comes from the OpenBSD team[0] (which is separate from the FreeBSD team, the recipient of the donation at hand).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH
When anything you say may be used against you, would you make any such public statement before the matter comes up in court?
A route in would be to find a company to work with remotely or maybe multiple contracts. I think it's often hard to get companies to make the leap for an unknown candidate unless you have outstanding experience or rare skills. Best way round this is to keep searching for additional work as an intro to the companies you want to work for in the places you want to relocate to.
If you are going to study this you should also read the Lion's Commentary of the Unix 6th Edition (kernel)[0]. It provides a line by line commentary of the whole kernel (minus some of the hardware specific drivers). Xv6 is a port of the edition 6 kernel to x86 (with some minor changes).

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/15739801...
There are many DPR-related bitcoins that they were unable to access. Fear not.

This was not "half the point of bitcoins" - the intent of the bitcoin release is only hinted at by Satoshi. Any point you are asserting here is pure speculation.

However, if you think this is a valuable property, a so-called "brainwallet" provides exactly this safety. They've been around for ages. No moving of coins required.
I think you might have misunderstood the GP (or I misunderstood your reply). The GP comment was saying that the BSD programmers are critical _to_ the linux ecosystem, not that they are critical _of_ the linux ecosystem.

Like I said, sorry if I misunderstood your post.
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in my opinion, (although the counter-argument is clear), the reason to donate to the FOS movement in the short term instead of long term endowments is because it feels like we are at a critical turning point in the history of technology with respect to its role as an equalizer or a way for the powerful to become more powerful. A large push now is worth more than a small push every year for infinity.
Hum.
As someone who's fooled around here... this is the long way around for pandoc.

The 'proper' way would be to get the latest Haskell Platform in a RPM (I think?), and then using that, install pandoc.

It's the case that anything I depend on for up to date software is, as a rule, compiled from source, using the latest tag. The distro maintainers are years out of date, always. Sometimes this matters... usually it doesn't.
Or pushing the 'cash for pics / videos' .. industry? further. It already exists, now it's even easier.
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Be aware this script (and Trim Enabler) require you to turn off kext signature validation. This feature was added in 10.9 but it only raised warnings on missing or invalid signatures. It didn't actually prevent the kext loading. 10.10 now raises an exception whenever you load an unsigned or invalidly signed kext.

Disabling this check returns you to 10.9-level security and removes barrier to malware installing its own kernel modules.
I have faced WiFi issues on my iPhone and iPad for sure. These comments like yours are doing to make me stay with Mavericks for a while. :-/
The _real_ problem is that Pandoc is written in Haskell.
"well Apple dumped GCC because they wanted to be able to do things without legally being required to publish source."

Apple dumped GCC because they wanted control over their own destiny. They could not get GCC to go in the direction they wanted, and it was just a much larger amount of engineering effort to accomplish their goal.

Apple gave not a crap about publishing source to their GCC changes. In fact, they wished they could get more changes into GCC.

The licensing stuff is tangential. Yes, it's their stated reason, but it's a cover story. Do you really think lawyers run Apple?
It's a lot better than windows support. They just now got a way to a start menu on each screen.
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> a big loophole for the government to just go and steal whatever they want from you, before you've been proven guilty

That's exactly what it is. It's truly terrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
I could see this with physical bitcoins, but the fact that these are virtual bitcoins is certainly worrisome.
Do note that the plaintiff bringing the evidence is a private citizen, rather than the insurance company (ab)using someone's Fitbit data.
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I was surprised to come here and see all the positives for Venmo. I have zero interest in a payment service that is going to hold my money until I request a cash out. Here in the midwest, I've been able to convince suburban parents to use Square Cash via the email cc feature. It's about as painless as it can get, particularly when they still send checks around to each other all the time.
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It's usually not that simple. If you already have passed the learning curve of knowing intimately how to maintain packages for your distro, it's a "simple" matter of updating the old .spec files with the newer versions and sending the distro maintainers your newer .spec. But there's no guarantee they'll incorporate your new package in a timely manner (and it will go into an -UNSTABLE tree anyway, which his Centos 6 install isn't using)
The Foundation's financials are open, so you can see how the money has been used in the past. The short version is that our 2014 budget was on track to spend about half that amount (i.e., approaching half a million) on funded project development, through permanent staff and development contracts. The other portion goes into supporting conferences, hardware purchases for the FreeBSD cluster, and staff time to support the FreeBSD project.

Keep in mind that this donation won't be spent in one year; we'll be able to find qualified uses for this money.
Recently I have been taking the approach of "I sent you $15 for XYZ on Venmo if you want it you need to signup" because it's one of the few ways I can get them to do it. I hate to hold their money hostage like that but if I don't there isn't a great way for me to give them money other than paying for them up to what I owe them the next time we hang out (which I am bound to forget).

I agree, I feel like Snapchat/cash will kill in this space due to ease of use.
"Not completely. Proprietary modules and forks of both exist, so in the broadest sense they are not (in the sense of, if I'm ever handed a copy of something calling itself LLVM, I do not know that it is libre software)."

Proprietary forks and modules of GCC exist too.
Shocking, I know.
No, it's a bog-standard Western Digital that's about a year old.
This seems like a fantastic tool, and I would love to try this out. And, it's free!

My personal obstacle in using a tool like bup is the back-up space. I could definitely use this for on-site/external storage devices, but I also like to keep online/cloud copies. I currently use CrashPlan for that which affords me unlimited space. If CrashPlan would let me use their cloud with bup, wow, I would switch in a heartbeat. Perhaps cloud backup tools could learn some tricks from bup.
From the announcement:

>>"This marks the largest single donation to the Foundation since its inception almost 15 years ago"

First, I'm extremely excited to see this announcement. FreeBSD is fantastic and extremely underrated.

Secondly though, isn't it sad to hear that in FreeBSD existence - this is the largest donation ever ... given that Yahoo use to run it's entire company on it, OS X is based on it, Juniper is based on it, Netflix deploys on it, NetApp, EMC, etc.

Edit: typo
I'd like to see a secure blockchain-based online voting system. What are the best options right now and how secure are they?
> All in all: Yes, both releases were shit if you ask me and that's coming from someone who loves Apple products and owns quite a few of them.

Thanks! I have similar thought and I have not even updated to Yosemite! Just the sheer amount of issues I read about online and my iOS disasters lead me to believe that Apple's entire update across the suite of products was not what it used to be. I left the Windows land to get the stable and tested products and updates. If I have to be locked down tremendously and face the issues I used to face with Windows, I might as well just use something where most of my development is - Linux.
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I read this title and thought that Aeron had come out with a massage chair.
Somehow I would expect something else from premium brands.
None of the tiny self-compiling C compilers could possibly used to compile xv6, as none of them implement structures (arguably the hardest part of compiling C code).
For anyone who sleeps on their side, earplugs with plastic extending outside the ear canal is a very uncomfortable experience. How is this an improvement over soft foam inserts?

Also, how is this different from using in-ear headphones with Comply tips? http://www.complyfoam.com/
Haven't we all frowned upon picking on females in tech industry just yesterday?! It is NOT okay to wildly imply that the author of this code is of certain age and gender.

EDIT: it was shown by the comment below that it was actually written by someone with a popular Polish female name. I was shaken by the article yesterday and thus oversensitive. Sorry about that.
In cases where I need later versions of applications than what comes with my distro (Ubuntu 12.04 ATM), using the original source packages is very helpful as they already correctly list all the dpendencies and they will install perfectly into the existing system.

So you grab the source package, update the version of the upstream ounces, update the changelog and build an updated package, with as much original OS dependencies as possible.

I don't know about RPM sources, but for debs, this is what I had the most success with.
> That assumes their users actually ever encounter such music.

Not "their users", any users. FLAC is the only lossless format that's being actively used commercially (and not commercially) by various services and stores. So, their users encounter it as well when they deal with lossless audio.

> Anyone who gets FLAC music is choosing to do so

Yep, since it's the only practical lossless format offered as above. And Apple chose not to support it to screw their users.

> and it's pretty trivial to reencode.

Yep, it's not hard to reencode. Supporting it isn't hard either - all decent players do it (like VLC and etc.). Apple's one isn't decent though, it's crippled by design, with excuse that "it's easy to reencode". User friendliness just shines there.
not always = many times?
No, they aren't. I was responding to the implied meaning that you only have one choice, that being professionally trained medical/scientific experts.
Apple somewhat gutted the FreeBSD team to build Darwin, too.
What Guix and Nix offer over puppet et al is a greater reliability in reproducing an environment - by eliminating the side effects that could lead to errors, or possible configurations and package combinations which have not been tested.

The fun part is that configurations can be treated exactly like packages and vice-versa. A "package" can depend on a specific configuration too. After you realize that package management and configuration management are not really disjoint ideas, it's the only sane way to think about reproducing software reliably.
Horrible click-bait headline. Totally not supported by the article.

No social network that charges money will ever outmaneuver a social network with a free tier.

Also, it's quite a stretch to call it a social network. (Or a least if it's a social network, it's one that comes with "Discounts on healthcare, web hosting, travel and more" which puts it in a different class.)
There's also "smart with a somewhat traditional key" as in http://www.iloq.com. Doesn't talk to your smartphone; actually, doesn't talk at all until a key is inserted. That removes many privacy/security concerns. Open question for me is how easy this is to crack and how reliable it will be (if you have a valid key, will you be able to get in, even after a few years of wear and tear?)
"but their development has been heavily sponsored by Apple, whose interest in the project stems from their interest in excising the GPL (and specifically the GPLv3) from their entire development stack."

This is not accurate in any respect.
It would be accurate if you said "early development" (original development was sponsored by UIUC).

Their interest in the project was not at all in excising the GPL. They didn't care. That was a political position they took once on a GCC mailing list. But lawyers do not run Apple. If they wanted to keep using GCC, they would have kept using GCC.

They wanted faster build times, a better infrastructure, and something they felt they could invest in and not have this amazing uncertainty about where it was going and what it's goals were.
They also didn't want to have engineering stymied by the politics of GCC (it is less political now, it was very political then).
Isn't the expression "golden parachute" typically reserved for excessive payouts when an employee gets fired/made redundant/laid off/etc? As far as I know Jan Koum still works as CEO for WhatsApp, so this isn't from a "golden parachute" payment.
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It would be more interesting to get a write up of your kickstarter fiasco. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-o...
I believe we in Denmark are very lucky to have one of the best banking systems in regards to keeping up with technological development.[1][2]

Snapcash seems to be the first app that approaches what we've had for a while now:
http://danskebank.dk/en-dk/personal/ways-to-bank/pages/mobil...

[1]Except for Japan and all their NFC stuff...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID has been WILDLY debated though.
I actually am in the same boat. Primary machine, both personal and projects on it. It is a lot of work to do a fresh install. It eats up a day and I do not have that. I was paying big bucks to Apple to solve this for me. Don't you think so?