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I'm working on a CFEngine Tutorial to help people get started. I was inspired by Michael Hartl's "Learn Enough Tutorial Writing To Be Dangerous" talk at LA Ruby Conf to finally turn my CFEngine course materials into a book. It'll be my first commercial product so I'm excited!

Edit: added link to mhartl's tutorial: http://www.learnenough.com/tutorial-writing
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You're right, I haven't heard of actual quotas either. I just got a bit loose with using the parent commenter's terminology.

I agree on the subtle and implicit bias issue as well. I wasn't trying to be exhaustive, but that's a big enough issue that it ought to be specifically mentioned.
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> Women rights are one, with the new wave of feminism you can't really talk about it anymore without risking getting your head cut off in a media shitstorm, but that topic is generally of little consequence. We will eventually figure it out, even if it takes more time than needed, and everyone will be happy.

I think your post illustrated the problem when dealing with feminism: Everyone assumes it is of 'little consequence'.

But I think it is quite the contrary: It is directly and strongly affecting the relations between the genders/sexes. Regardless of whether you think what it proposes/does/wants/... is a good idea or not:

I think it is not a good idea to think it is just a small issue.
Don't forget to also read http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Apple Updates iWork Apps on All Platforms with Major New Features
Speaking of mature, CFEngine has been around since 1993 and is now in its third generation. I just wish they would do a little marketing.
You must have an excellent alternative to this if it's cheaper than 7.5%. I'm curious, what is it?
...only shifted consumption from the rich to the poor...

I didn't claim that believe the rich and poor have equal propensity to spend.

The former implies the latter.

I didn't claim that a BI will increase investment.

... if poor and middle class folks have a higher and more reliable income, they are more likely to save.

Now you seem to be agreeing with me that the article is wrong, and that a BI would increase real consumption and reduce real investment?

Could you state clearly what you think will happen to real (not nominal) consumption/investment under a BI and what the mechanism for that is?
You have the choice to eat some read meal in a packet full of chemical preservatives and flavourings, or you have the choice to buy fresh ingredients and cook your own. I wish I had more control over where my taxes went. I would far rather they were helping the poor rather than bailing out banks.
The hardening argument seems disturbing to me giving the achievements that SpaceX have done in a short time. Apparently SpaceX is using some sort of redundancy system (https://lwn.net/Articles/540368/) to avoid all the hardening stuff enabling them to use more powerful and COTS hardware that NASA or ESA.
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A wishlist.

.

All-in-one robotic kitchen:

1. Automatically orders product from the supermarket to ensure it can prepare a set of food dishes you configure at any time

2. Stores the products once they are delivered

3. Automatically prepares the food that you select

.

All-in-one robotic wardrobe:

1. Washes the clothes (done)

2. Dries the clothes (done)

3. Checks clothes for stains, sends to dry cleaner if present

4. Irons the clothes

5. Folds the clothes

6. Automatically stores the clothes, presents them to you on request

.

All-in-one robotic bathroom:

1. Showers and washes you automatically

2. Cuts your hair, shaves your beard

3. Styles your hair

4. Applies makeup and perfume if desired

5. Cuts your nails

6. Varnishes your nails if desired

7. Removes body hair if desired

.

The only fundamental obstacles to doing all this seem to be having good enough computer vision, and getting to a scale where the products become affordable.
Another arxiv preprint by the same authors has more detail, and seems to be the essentially the same article but fleshed out more: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4443
They added a significant new protocol in a minor upgrade. Is that right?
Just because there're new iterations of well known tech coming each year doesn't mean they're SO much better than the old one and worth the price - that's only what companies want you to believe. It's not in their business to sell you a simple refrigerator that will last 20 years - it's better to either make it last 5 years or make you believe that you're living like a caveman with refrigerator that doesn't have a touch screen and isn't connected to the Internet.
> whereas in Japan things seemed a lot more blurred

or pixelated
Future news: German constitutional court/European court nixes German data retention law. Text of the ruling: "Didn't you hear us last time?"
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Essentially all fiction requires some degree of "suspension of disbelief." We all have different tolerances both in general and in specific genres where we might have more knowledge than the average person. Or we just have trouble buying a particular premise. Certainly there are films I love even though I know they depend on a setting or assumptions that are pure BS. And there are other films or TV shows that I otherwise really like but just can't really get past some particular aspect.
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not defaulted as http2 though.
I'm in two minds about this kerfuffle.

On the one hand, you have a mediagenic, celebrity CEO with little relevant qualifications or experience (and a penchant for posing for photographs in Steve Jobs-style turtlenecks) who raised millions at a stratospheric valuation on the promise of revolutionising healthcare and disrupting the lab testing industry, while making lofty claims about "scientific advancement", but has ultimately failed to deliver on that promise, while appearing to erect a facade designed to conceal the fact that the service they're offering isn't all that different from the incumbents', and deflecting questions about the technology they (claim to) have developed. The suggestion that they broke federal rules by fudging proficiency-testing is the icing on the cake.

On the other hand, the suggestion that they broke the rules is merely an allegation. On the topic of the company's progress towards it's stated goals, science is hard and a ten-plus-year time horizon doesn't appear unreasonable for achieving the objective Theranos is aiming for. Plus, they have successfully rolled out the HSV1 test. It's seems reasonable to expect that more will follow.

I am instinctively skeptical of founders who seem to focus more on cultivating their media profile than on getting their heads down and actually delivering. There are people whose overriding motivation is maximising media exposure but who completely lack the ability to deliver what they promise. Sometimes their behaviour is down to naiveté, over-confidence, self-delusion or a deep-rooted desire for celebrity, fame or recognition (such people seem to wear the CEO "brand" in the same way that others wear Dolce & Gabbana or Prada). Othertimes, they're simply con-artists, looking to fleece gullible customers or investors.

Given that Theranos has gained FDA approval for the HSV1 test, and the suggestion that they broke federal rules is unproven, I think Holmes deserves the benefit of the doubt. Her principal crime appears to be that she was a bit naive in making overly optimistic promises and embracing the celebrity CEO role, which has made her a target for schadenfreude.
Still with regards to books,on Amazon alot of books get a relatively high score(4+) and it's hard to filter good vs bad books using the score.
If all it does is add new functionality, and doesn't modify or break any existing functionality, then that seems to be good software engineering to do in a minor upgrade doesn't it?
Ask HN: My Kickstarter failing? What's special about the US?
Our product is a presence-aware power outlet (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dobots/crownstone). It went like crazy in the first few days! However, we didn't get traction in the US for now.

It might be just the fact that we got unlucky about our media coverage on the big American tech sites.

However, perhaps you have better ideas about the mechanisms that make an open-source product like this go viral.

Any insights will be really appreciated!
I have always read it as "did not respond to requests for comment, but we didn't give them much time."
Man, that english is bad. Proofreading was obviously skipped. Reading the outcome is no fun. Also, I can't find no screenshot with no zoom icon.
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My experience with Ansible has not been so pleasant. Especially performance is a jobstopper. In my environment it takes 20 min for 12 Servers to be setup with some Redis, Elasticsearch stuff. Quite some become_user directives, but 20 min for this kind of stuff is just not acceptable. After all, application settings needs to be tuned and iterated over, too.

My idea was to develop the infrastructure with Ansible, e.g. no ssh to change some httpd settings at all. Everything via Ansible. It worked very well as long as the playbooks and number of servers was very small.
Ask HN: Advice between an iOS programming job and a C/C++ one?
I have been doing iOS programming for about 3 years now. I looked for an opportunity to work on C++/Golang. I got it.

As things stand, from a purely language standpoint, and not much to do with any particular domain, there is this C++/Golang job. It definitely sounds exciting. And I also have another iOS offer open to me.

Although I think that I should move on with whatever is my calling, I would like to look at this option from an objective/outsider perspective, and ask what factors would/should I consider, and make a more informed choice.
I think there are startups that are working to solve environmental issues. For example, Makani that later got acquired by Google, then Tesla, Solar Road, Gravity Light and then there are few more also.

There are lots of startups that work to solve such issues. Even AirBnb solves an environmental problem. For example, to an extent it reduce the chances of building new hotels and make use of already existing infrastructure for people to stay.
Ah... Media these days. I can't trust anyone, anymore.

I guess, best thing to do is not to have opinion at all.

I'm having a GPS in my pocket, I can browse most of the cities from my computer through Google Earth. I can talk to my watch, which replies and sends messages for me, but not a single country can provide a satellite image of the exact location of a fired rocket or any other evidence, like radar logs of some sort.

Sometimes I really think I'm living in a multi-country-conspiracy and Snowden is only the top of the iceberg.
> Black cab drivers argue that the app poses a risk to public safety and customers being overcharged, with no opportunity to challenge fares before the money is automatically taken out of their bank accounts.

Personally, I'd rather be overcharged in an Uber where I have a GPS trace of the route and an ability to challenge the fare, than a black cab where you only have a driver telling you to pay a certain amount.
>After all, settings needs to be tuned and iterated over, too.

That's why it has tags. So you can run just the settings states rather than running the whole 20 minute thing over and over again.
Damn straight! THere are a lot of things in medical science where people say "Oh, this is obvious. X causes Y, so if we eliminate X, Y will go away." Running careful experiments with proper controls and randomization is the only way to come to the appropriate knowledge required to make good policy. This is just as true in economics and every other science as well.
Notice how the M stands for "Markup" and not "Programming"
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Here is the judgment [1] it seems very sensible, and shows how laws should react to tech.

[1] https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/transport-for-london-...
Take the time to learn a tool like Ansible. It is not about replaying a simple sequence of commands (imperative). It is more about declaring what you want your system to look like, and letting the tool decide which pieces need to run based on the current state of the system.

It's like make vs a shell script. If you use scripts to build your programs, you either have to write your own checks to test whether every step is necessary or not (cumbersome, error prone, and quite complex) or you just script it to build from scratch every time (inefficient).

But for systems management, rebuilding from scratch can be worse than just inefficient. Imagine if your script reinstalled MySQL from scratch every time you ran it...
As a former user of puppet and chef, I would say cfengine has a higher entrance brier. It pays the efforts thought.
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...my boss holds a temporary monopoly on my income, whether I eat or not.

The former is not the latter. Google "savings account".

Transaction costs are, economically, only a monopsony in the regime of small price changes compared to switching costs. I.e., if the cost of finding a new job is $2,000 then your boss can only underpay you by $2,000.

So I guess what surprises me is they both should be arguing for trials, surely?

I have no objection to trials. Unfortunately, a lot of BI "trials" are not really trials of BI at all - they are experiments in transferring wealth from outside the trial area into it. E.g., Mincome, the Uganda experiment. These trials certainly show that imperialism makes the empire richer.
To be honest, I preferred the martian to 2001. Might have just been the mindset that I watched 2001 in, but it felt the like 3 or 4 films in one and sort of dragged.

Although I would rate Blade Runner higher than the martian. Your mileage may vary, one size does not fit all etc etc.
What is a fair fee to you think? How do you think that could be achieved?
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thanks for putting these together
If you post your complete submission and their response I would be happy to help you decide whether you were being a bigot, but without that it's really hard to tell if you were mis-labeled, or if you just didn't understand the point they were making.
If you follow semantic versioning, the third number should only be used for bugfixes. They don't.
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Oracle Publishes Report on the State of Java’s Module System
TL;DR I don't like that people can say mean things on twitter
The software seems kind of irrelevant to me. They recently arrested the main opposition and threw them in jail on trumped up charges. You don't need software for that.

>Police arrested the country’s main opposition leader and a dozen other officials from his party in dawn raids on Thursday, as President Yoweri Museveni scaled up efforts to thwart a mounting challenge to his three-decade rule.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ugandan-opposition-leader-kizza-...
I think the original mechanical analogy is due to Cohen and Horowitz: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v352/n6337/abs/352699a0...

In this setup, cutting the link essentially converts the two springs from being in series to parallel: http://ibin.co/2JEsCKEYRisb

If the central string was elastic, this would cause the weight to initially hang lower, but have no effect on the position reached after it is cut (assuming that it does not stretch so much that the other strings stop being slack). The effect would thus appear larger.
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Here's the individual votes: https://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/plenum/abstimmung/grafik
About what you'd expect sadly. And of course quite a few didn't bother to vote.
This style of problem is probably the most common sort used to demonstrate genetic algorithms. It is also not a very good use for GAs.

When GAs are applied in this way--i.e. generating a goal state directly, with a known goal state to which they are compared directly, generating a fitness value that is nothing more than progress towards the goal state--then the GA is no longer a GA. It becomes not much more than an inefficient hill climbing with a smattering of random walk thrown in.

These sorts of problems get used in demonstrations because they are simple to understand. We get to spend more effort on the mechanics of annealing, breeding, running generations, etc, without having to spend significant effort on the fitness function. But the fitness function is where most of the real work of applying GA to novel problems actually lies (after figuring out how to model solutions as genes without a linear dependency between alleles). It's also a fundamental component of neural networks (the ability to evaluate not just whether a solution is right or wrong, but to give a value for how much right or wrong). So personally, I find such demos to be woefully incomplete.
That's not true, we hear about the misconstruals but when someone listens charitably that never makes the news. This otherwise innocuous property of news reporting has led you to believe that a rare thing is common.
Can I avoid to incorporate in US if I get accepted in YC?
Hello!
YC is getting more and more powerful in helping companies, so for my next venture I plan to apply. I don't plan although to stay in US long term.

So it doesn't really make sense to incorporate in US if then I will run the company from abroad its entire lifetime.

Is it possible to avoid incorporating in US if accepted in YC?

I usually incorporate as a UK's LTD, since I live in UK and it's a common choice for EU tech companies.

Thanks
I think what makes a product like ansible catch on is its use of a simple scripting language like python. This makes project participation more accessible.

Ordinary sysadmins can write their own ansible modules with ease. It's possible that cfengine has that now but ask sendmail about repairing an old reputation.
I know that FAQs say I have to, but I was wondering if there was flexibility when it make sense otherwise.
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Threads. I can't find any example that shows you how to do more than printf in a thread.
I have plenty of books and CD's in my house, but I don't think they are my main household work bottleneck at all... I spend much more time hanging and unhanging clothes, ironing clothes and cleaning the bathroom than what I spend dusting the books and CD's, which is only needed maybe once or twice a month... perhaps I'm not the cleanest person on the planet though.
Apache version numbering is similar to what the linux kernel used before 2.6.

In a.b.c, odd b indicates the unstable or experimental branch, and even b's are used for major and backwards-compatibility breaking changes.
Backwards-compatibility preserving changed can be introduced in c.

So 2.2 and 2.4 are pretty different versions, while 2.3 and 2.4 are closer except 2.3 is unstable. 2.4.0 is theoretically compatible with 2.4.17, except the latter has a lot more functionality and features.
This looks really cool! It's also the first thing like this I've seen which includes a nix installation section, double points!!
"Put another way: Propaganda works. Putin has understood that from Day"

We can be only glad that Western media (including the NY Times) has never been used for propaganda and all information is absolutely objective, reproducible, and a hundred percent trustworthy.

Has anybody already found the WMDs in Iraq?
A merger of two "in trouble" companies isn't an idea with a great track record.
If you are messing with virtualization setups, hypervisors and low level os/kernel things you often can't (or at least don't want to for speed, stability etc) be in a virtualized environment as your base layer.
Someone probably spent a lot of effort to slightly modify it so that the arguments used don't apply exactly anymore, but I sure hope that's the result.
... or the COTS hardware is reliable enough in Low Earth Orbit.
Yeah, OpenStack support will be a big thing for them I think.

Ansible is growing its OpenStack support, and they might see an opportunity for the RDO product.
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The configuration outside of VMs (e.g. routing) is slightly different.
Apart from the obvious fact that - depending on the the hardware used - you can get more computing power than from one machine.
Seems valid: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, with the minimum changes being increment "patch" for backwards compatible bug fixes, "minor" for new/improved functionality that does not break backwards compatibility, and "major" for any API/feature change that is not backwards compatible. They could of course chosen to increment MAJOR instead, but they don't have to in this case.

(I'm assuming they are following "standard" semver rules here)
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Why did this comment get downvoted? Is it because other people like Jack Dorsey, or because other people still don't like him? :)
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Major kudos. These look awesome.
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I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think it's good that there is competition, but they are still working as a taxi system. Metering is metering, and somewhere, a fare is calculated based upon certain factors. I don't know how that fare is calculated, but realistically both services are offering a ride in exchange for money. There either needs to be some regulation in place for Uber, or regulations loosened on Black cab companies.
Sounds to me like it's them that use propaganda and we are the truly informed.

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
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That's sort of the way it already works...

It's never going to make economic sense to put gigabit fiber out to rural areas, unless it is heavily subsidized. If there were some business location that required high speed, people lucky enough to live along the trunk line to that location might get service - that's the only reason I had cable TV as a child.
That's great news! I look forward to test this. I saw that the Ubuntu apache ppa at https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/apache2 already has packages for this version (not tested by me).

What's sad is that this is yet another github page with #777 colored text on white background. The resulting contrast is too low to read comfortably!
Reading the page it seems like it is still in quite an early state, I expect they have higher priorities.
To put the two in the same category is a bit much:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/04/russia-s-pr...
That is not technological determinism. Technological determinism would suggest that this happens WITHOUT OUR SOCIAL WORLDS BEING ABLE TO INTERVENE. I don't subscribe to this.

Read this by Sally Wyatt - https://prezi.com/x06bsuq4an_o/technological-determinism-is-...
It seems like parsing is becoming a lost art.

Maybe because it can't be easily approached by the iterative development style that is in fashion these days.
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