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Thank you, so very very much, for HHVM. Between HHVM, Hack, and now Flow, I can write software using the languages I use most often but gain the benefits of better tooling.
It's kind of bizarre to me that people finding bugs in open source software and being able to both patch it and release patches of it themselves indicates a failure of open source.

The claim is not that it is a failure of open source, but that is a failure in the "many eyeballs" claim.

Looking at two fairly famous bug hunters, Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong finding POET, BEAST and CRIME, didn't require open source to find these bugs. BEAST was identified in 2002, but wasn't taken seriously.

Not having source is not much of a speed bump for a bug finder.

This "many eyeballs" is giving us all a false sense of security.
Neither Rand Paul nor Ted Cruz were going to break with the party on the eve of the GOP's assumption of the senate majority, knowing that in a year or so they're going to be on a stage debating other Republicans in front of the GOP base.

In fact: the more "grassroots-friendly" this bill had been, the less tenable a yea vote would have been, particularly for Paul.
Well, asop/cyanogen on a tablet w/o gsm/4g should be pretty safe. About as safe as computing gets these days... now with play services, you obviously add a backdoor to an otherwise reasonably trustworthy system...
I agree, a bottom-up uprising in NK would be difficult to kickstart.

But if Kim Jong Un's brutal execution of his own uncle is any indication, there's plenty of room for infighting within the elites, or even a full-blown civil war if things get desperate enough (more trade sactions, another massive famine, etc).

Sooner or later, one of the factions might realize that their best exit strategy is to hand the country over to SK in exchange for a guarantee of immunity and a comfy retirement in the Caribbean. If I were the leader of SK, I'd accept that deal and, several years later, arrange for their luxury yachts to have an "accident" in shark-infested waters ;)
Wasn't the program created by executive order? Can't it be dismantled the same way?
Storage is the source of the outage, and most of the services rely on it, so they are all impacted.
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I think they just reflect what the people want. In other words, a majority of American population does not want overhaul of NSA program. Right or wrong we will see in the future.
I can audit it if I want to But seriously--do you? Or others that you know working in the field?
Zfs sector size (ashift parameter) is set at vdev creation time. That is, when you get a bunch of drives together, and you want to have some redundancy or striping, you create a vdev that is composed of several drives, for your desired mode of redundancy (and / or striping). A pool is composed of multiple vdevs; zfs file systems all allocate from a common pool. So it's generally only a problem if you are replacing an existing drive in a vdev after it failed.

Zfs doesn't support a bunch of things. It has no defragmentation. Filling a zfs pool much north of 90% tends to kill its performance even after you delete stuff to bring it back down again. The usual answer to these things is "wipe the pool and restore from a backup", or "zfs send <snapshot> | zfs receive <filesystem>". The answer to changing the sector size of a vdev is similar, just like it is for removing a disk from a vdev, or reconfiguring your redundancy in most cases.

This is just how zfs is currently implemented. It was designed for Sun's customers, for whom having backup for the whole pool, or having a whole second pool to stream to, is not a big deal. Using it in a home or small business context consequently requires more care and forethought.
So wait - I downloaded the 64 bit 39.0.2171.65 version. Because of this, I finally updated my Java version (now 8.25). I still can't java applets to run in Chrome. What gives? I still get Verify Java Version32-bit Chrome does not support Java 7 and later versions on Mac OS X. Java runs only on 64-bit browsers.

http://javatester.org/version.html
Gives an error - Java needs your permission to run, but I've already allowed in Java control panel. Ideas?
Yeah, it's the opposite, though there are other mechanisms that could do better than epoll, but they need more refinement.
Both Cruz and Lee are assumed to be in contention for 2016. Neither can reasonably expect the nomination, but both could, with a decent showing in the early primaries, end up with the VP nod. They are very unlikely to buck the party at such a sensitive time (the optics of doing so right before McConnell takes over as majority leader are bad).
Security is a big one. 64-bit address spaces are inherently harder to exploit, plus, IIRC, on OS X in particular, ASLR in 32-bit processes has some weaknesses that were never fixed.
There have been no attempts at replicating the experiment yet, however the study is generally regarded as valid by the scientific community [1]. One study examined the same source data a different way and came up with different conclusions [2].

[1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3812/do-cars-pas...

[2] http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Our VMs and websites on USEast are unreachable, however our storage seems to be working fine. There is something very backwards with how they are communicating this outage.
Yeah, O_ASYNC on Linux kinda sucks.
To paraphrase your comments elsewhere in this thread, you're awfully pessimistic. Do you really imagine the USA lasting that long?
> All R's voted wrong except Cruz, Lee, Heller, Paul, and Murkowski.

The roll-call vote I'm looking at [1] only has Cruz, Lee, Heller, and Murkowski voting to move the bill to a vote on passage; Paul supported the filibuster.

[1] http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...
Chains stretch over time and use. Oil them well and often and they last longer.

Measure your chain with an old style American ruler (with 'inches'). Twenty links should be exactly 10 'inches'. [0] If it's 1/8" 'inch' longer, replace the chain. If it's 3/16 'inch' longer, replace the rear cogs and the chain both. Consider replacing the front chain rings, too, especially if the chain is longer or they're made of aluminium.

A stretched chain ruins gears. Ruined gears will ruin a new chain, too. Proper maintenance fixes both problems. New quality chains cost about US$10-15.

[0] Wikipedia says one 'inch' is 2.54 centimeters, if you believe that.
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I don't think this is a real issue? (64-bit firefox supported 32-bit flash, at least on Linux).
I'm in a similar position to you. LibTLS looks promising, but as you said, it's not tested (and not portable yet?)
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they don't. it's the same stuff everyone else is using.

in fact, in some cases it's cheaper/shittier than the stuff everyone else is using, because individual component failure and performance matter less.
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Not immediately. It's more useful as a "capitulate or else" weapon, at least for now. And immediately changing it upon winning has some petty, triumphalist optics to it. McConnell is a very shrewd politician.
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I don't think you understand what "type errors" means if you are making that assertion; or your multi-contributor codebase has such excellent test coverage that your tests are doing for you what a modern type system can do for you.

In a dynamically-typed codebase, it's near impossible to have rare type-error occurrence because you're off-loading the type system into into the programmers head (which is subject to human fallibility - even when countered with excellent unit testing!)
I'm away from my lists, but some of the new R Senators will vote anti-NSA with Paul / Cruz. I would imagine the Patriot Act reauthorization might be problematic.
I just setup a ssl certificate on my website for the first time and it only took like 10 minutes all together. I don't get any warnings from any browsers and it was only. $10
I doubt most votes are motivated by what's "right" and "wrong" (since we're apparently pretending those are objective for the moment). I suspect most are motivated by the party lines, for members of both parties.
But they did buck the party. This was a mostly dem-supported bill.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...

Note: I deleted my original post because I mistakenly said Paul had voted for the bill. Paul voted with the establishment republicans (McConnell, etc) against (i.e. to keep the NSA as-is)

Edit: Also, Cruz bucks the Republican leadership all the time. That's his thing and they hate him for it. He was the main force behind the government shutdown.
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To him, everything is a system;
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Good lecture. Likely amazing products.

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Paul said it didn't go far enough and had some problems. Cruz has proven he doesn't care what the old guard think.
Yes and no.

The parties have successfully rigged the system such that they only need to cater to lobbyists, and the extremist wings of their respective parties, to maintain power.

It really wouldn't matter what the majority of Americans believed, notwithstanding that a majority of Americans probably would view the NSA programs as, at worst, a necessary evil. You also have to take into account the politics approaching the upcoming presidential election.
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"One of the biggest misconceptions I think people have of North Korea is that they are simple and naive. But I feel that North Koreans as a group of people have gone through a lot of hardship, and their ability to survive in difficult situations are a lot higher that what people think. People think that unification will be a basketcase for North Koreans, but they will definitely be able to manage. People also think North Koreans will have a hard time adjusting to the market economy, but the black market is also growing under the regime’s nose, and people are used to working in this environment. North Koreans are not naive."

From recent Kang Chol Hwan AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2m87gi/i_spent_ten_ye...
That table would be more intelligible if it were triangular, contained the (row, col) difference, and were reordered so that no difference were negative. As it is, the eye is forced to jump back and forth to figure anything out.
This bill was completely watered down and subverted from the original, to the point where even many of its initial champions turned against it. Voting it down was the right choice. The worst thing would have been to have passed it and pretended that "reform" had been made.
Have you heard of the Weimar Republic? A little reading into history and economics would do you a lot of good. Giving people free stuff has never worked in the history of the world. It would be much better if the government stopped regulating wages so homeless people with low skills could actually get a job and develop skills that are employable.

After all, for the gov to give money to homeless people they have to forcibly take it from someone else. If they simply print the money then you're just indirectly stealing from everyone else through inflation. Not to mention, once people catch on that you don't have to work then no one will.

Actually, this is kind of what is happening today with social welfare programs all around the world. Things are progressively going to shit (pun intended) instead of continuing the growth the western world (especially the USA) experienced through the 18th and early 19th century.

Anyways, no matter what you say, there is simply no logical or historical case for what you propose.

Also, F* the banks. They should not have been bailed out. That's simply politicians doing favors and stuffing their own pockets.
So that's it - the net legislative effect of all the "bombshell" disclosures that Ed Snowden made has been what - Nothing, NADA, Zilch.

Proving once again that going thru "Official" Channels was never an option. That in the toxic hyper-partisan environment of Washington the Powerful will find a way to kill any meaningful reform of even the worst abuses.

The solution to this has to be first and foremost Technological.
I't because they are still storing passwords in cleartext... If they were hashing passwords (which is the correct way to do it) there would be no limit.
The postmortem for this should make for a good read. How does storage go down in eleven regions at once?
So what if some herbivores will occasionally eat meat? You're assuming that the organism should look, act, and behave strictly within the boundaries of an English description.

Again, evolution is still unguided and to assume that something will evolve into an open niche is a gambler's fallacy.
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Maybe people should be required to wear a helmet in their car too? A UK study on the effects of cycle helmets found that if pedestrians and motorists wore helmets it would save 12 times more lives than if cyclists wore them.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8799597?dopt=Abstract

From the paper: "CONCLUSIONS: There is no justification for compelling cyclists to wear helmets without taking steps to improve the safety of all road users."
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Encryption doesn't quite solve everything here - the NSA can still demand the encryption keys, or demand direct modifications to the service like logging being installed.

To solve this from a purely technical standpoint we'd need to design services where the service provider is a completely untrusted party - never allowed to see or manipulate user data on the backend, and all processing that requires decrypted user data would need to be moved to the client. We would also need a way to verify client code to ensure that malicious changes haven't been introduced. And finally, we would need a way to anonymize all requests to the backend.

An architecture like this is pretty hard to implement, so it would be nice if we could just get the NSA to stop.
> There are several compiler-only Lisp implementations which can execute source from text.

Why not? I would.
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Personal loans are a great way to bootstrap a startup and can lead to you having more equity later on. But it can be hard to get a lot of capital this way, compared to raising from investors. It can also be riskier - taking out a $5mil loan from a bank is a bit scarier than raising $5m from venture capitalists who understand that 90% of their investments fail.
If you are talking about the Bush executive order congress went and passed laws legitimizing it after it was leaked in the press.
"If H is secure then F is not computable. If they can do a trick like this then their hashing is no good."

Can you point to something more than assertion, here?

"Yeah, you can approach it like a puzzle and figure out what crazy set up they could have, but Occam's Razor has to apply at some point. I'm betting they did the dumb thing, not the strange thing that is mostly pointless."

It's mostly pointless, but it's increasingly common knowledge that the dumb thing is dumb. It's more subtle that the pointless thing is pointless. If I had to bet, I'd also bet that they did the dumb thing, I just think it's marginally less conclusive than had been implied.
> It's pedantic to expect a writer to hedge against every possible interpretation, when their focus should be on communicating clearly in the first place.

Our discipline (computer programming) is, perhaps more than any other, one in which precision of meaning is of paramount importance. I expect people to hedge. Especially when it's easy: "Python is not usually compiled to native code."

In any case, since Python is virtually always compiled, saying it's not is simply false. That's hardly clear communication, I think.

> Obviously python is interpreted by any meaningful definition of interpretation ....

Now, here I'm not sure what you mean. You've already distinguished interpretation from Just-In-Time compilation to Virtual Machine code. Since the latter is pretty much always what happens with Python, would you then say that Python is not interepreted? (Serious question!)

Me, I don't have a problem with these concepts overlapping (and I don't see why many people do). Python is interpreted. The usual mechanism for this is JIT compilation to virtual-machine code, which is then -- in the case of CPython -- interpreted as-is. In contrast, something like "C" is traditionally Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compiled to native code. Interpreted: no. Compiled: yes. And then there are languages whose interpreters do not involve a compilation step -- although they are becoming rare.
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This is a really great read. I'm very excited about all the work that's being done in Haskell and all the steam its been picking up. And I'm especially excited by the work being done on the strict-by-default GHC extension, as well as everything with Cloud Haskell.
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Maybe they unknowingly upgraded to Intel's latest SSDs in their storage array. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8626928
The issue with all of this isn't the North Korea people. They are well aware of life in South Korea and elsewhere courtesy of all the black market DVDs that have been finding their way there.

It's the government filled with old socialist-era guys who surely aren't going to be so willing to just give up their power.
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Have they fixed the "Google Chrome Helper: CoreText CopyFontsForRequest received mig IPC error (FFFFFECC) from font server" error that has been around forever?
Apple's TOS specifically states they should only be used for development of Watch apps.

Distributing it on Github & using it for non-development purposes (i.e. as a system font) is probably against the TOS, but not sure Apple will care enough to do anything about it.
If I had to guess speed is pretty close to C, right.

Nim is pretty awesome and has been around for a while. I wish one of big entities out there Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple would have adopted Nim and ran with it instead of inventing their own langauges.
I think this is kind of backwards? I.e. a CA that implements name constraints for one of its sub-CAs does limit the certs that sub-CA may sign. However, name constraints do not allow one to say "for this domain, only this sub-CA may sign certs", which is more what I feel we're looking for here?
One reason for its appeal is that the earliest fossils / signs we have of life on earth are pretty close to the ground not longer being molten lava. An origin of life in comets would give more time.
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I think one of my favorite sayings applies:

'The Perfect' is the enemy of 'The Good'.

Google, MSFT, Apple, the EFF all supported this bill. Obviously there are further improvements that could be made, but instead of starting from a better platform, we're at ground zero with an incoming congress that has no interest in curbing the 'military' power of the US.

The EFF's case for supporting the bill that was just killed is very clear about this:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/understanding-new-usa-...
The go compiler is based on the plan9 c compiler, not gcc. I'm not quite sure what the story is with gccgo (who initiated it, why) - but i think it was for interfacing with c on non-plan9 architectures, and not really about leveraging gcc optimizations.
Matt Taibbi is a good writer to read in regards to how Washington really works. I can't remember which of his books had the best example, but the system is broke.
I just installed it including all its Python dependencies, and tried it on my Apache server, but it throws me tons of Python errors.
We have lots of rats and roaches. Not directly feeding off our bodies, but on our extended phenotype.
first impression:

i spent about 30 seconds scanning around the page looking for the search bar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory
A better way to do this would have been:

* hash current passwords with a salt, unique to each password entry, and throw away the plaintext entries.

* keep a history of hashes per user, to prevent changing to a past password

* ensure fair complexity of the incoming password

* once the deadline has been reached, force users who have not yet changed their password to do a password reset via an online form

* never, ever again think that doubling a password is a proper way to fix a security issue, ever...
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The authentication provided by the extant PKI system is much weaker than the encryption provided. Any CA can do anything it wants, and browsers trust lots of them.
A little bit familiarity with the US ways of congress tells me that this comment is most probably right about this and that the voters need to be categorized qualitatively ("Why did you vote against?) rather than quantitatively ("Did you vote against?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8627770
You can add a map to your own app as well
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This is (arguably) a lame excuse.

Half-measures are often incoherent and worse

than the status quo.

See: banking & healthcare

You just lock yourself into a disaster.

Obama can update the EO's for the NSA without congress[+].

[+] EFF: "Future reform must include significant changes to ... Executive Order 12333, and to the broken classification system that the executive branch counts on to hide unconstitutional surveillance from the public."

He just doesn't want to stick his neck out.

So this bill was a distant 3rd choice for the country.

1) pass a good law

2) administrate the NSA into compliance

3) pass muddled legislation in a lame duck session