knotty66

That line could be straight out of "The Thick of It".

If a system evolved where a significant proportion of communications were difficult for the security services to monitor, encryption would be criminalized and it's users vilified as unpatriotic.

Tempora in the UK stores all internet data for 3 days and metadata for 30 days too. Wouldn't surprise me if most western governments use XKeyscore along with data sharing agreements with each other.

I'd like a distro with ZFS/BTRFS, LXC and KVM, with a user friendly configuration layer on top. Not necessarily a GUI.

Really, a Linux version of SmartOS. I really like SmartOS but I like to get as much running in Zones as possible and there would be less friction doing this with a Linux kernel.

Anecdotally, Using NFS with Vagrant / Virtualbox instead of the default Virtualbox shared folder speeds up things drastically. Add the following line in your Vagrantfile to test it out:

config.vm.share_folder "/vagrant", "/vagrant", "./", :nfs => true

Also, tweaking the DNS settings seems to help:

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "off"]

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "off"]

That's a predictable smear that's aimed at every whistleblower.

Of course not - he's far too busy being Satoshi.

Ha ha, no worries. I'm sure my lazy English contributed with the 'see also', too.

The sources don't contradict each other? 1.1 is several times faster then 1.03 in both benchmarks.

Uh? They are two separate benchmarks, that's why I said 'See also'.

It was a basic newly generated Revel app running in production mode.

Not hitting a DB. Benchmarked with 'ab -n 10000 -c 30 http://localhost:9000/some_action.

See also: https://github.com/davecheney/autobench BenchmarkHTTPClientServer 373216, 52646 -85.89%

FWIW, I benchmarked a basic Revel web app. Go 1.0.3 = 2850 req/sec ... 1.1 = 10928 req/sec.

I see it fairly often in Rails controllers, e.g.

render :action => "some_action" and return

I think you may need the caret at the end if you are using apt-get rather than tasksel directly:

$ apt-get install lamp-server^

Is it really that difficult? The last time I had to install LAMP stack was on Ubuntu and it was something like:

$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Maybe on OS X, on Linux I always end up rolling my own ...

That's actually a lot better than the deal the UK got on the ARM Chromebook released last week, which was priced at $249 in the USA and £229 in the UK.

After taking 20% VAT into consideration, that's only a x1.07 premium compared to the US price as compared to a x1.23 premium on the Chromebook, which is actually unusually good. Often we see dollars converted directly to pounds.

Strange that the conversion is not consistent - can anybody speculate why?

I think it will be great for deaf / hearing impaired people. Just an arrow pointing in the direction of the sound / speech + some text indicating a best guess at what was said. Google's voice recognition is getting much better recently.

Initially thought this referred to 'Jetpac' - the 8-bit game by Ultimate Play The Game. This looks cool though too. Good luck!

So, LinkedIn down. Reddit currently down too. Also StumbleUpon, Yelp. Also down early today Heroku, Netflix, Instagram, Rapportive, Pinterest ...

Not a good day for the Internet.

Are these all EC2 issues ? Leap second issues ?

Nathan Barley has aged so well, hasn't it?

With things like Google Glass on the horizon, it's just going to get worse ..

"fair and balanced extradition arrangements with the US"

I'm sorry, what? These extradition arrangements are completely lopsided and need to be reformed.

Good trolling, almost got me.

Question: If I host the domain for my UK business on one of these (and say it is a generic .com - not a .co.uk domain), will it influence my google.co.uk SERP ranking massively ?

How would Google know my .com site is UK based?

This wouldn't bother me at all if I didn't think they still had the data. The transient nature of tweets is one of my favourite features of Twitter.

MDMA (if that is what you mean, as street 'Ecstasy' can contain any number of other ingredients) is by most metrics one of the safer recreational drugs out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210

The Spine documentation is fantastic.

http://spinejs.com/

I don't know for sure but maybe Hex Rays ?

http://www.hex-rays.com/products/decompiler/index.shtml

Christ alive, I thought HP would struggle to offload to a more stale and boring company than themselves but they might just manage to pull it off.

Most Rubyists install Ruby & RubyGems through RVM nowadays anyway so it will make no difference.