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I found Waffles (https://github.com/wffls/waffles) after an extensive search & comparison of Software Configuration Management for my Raspberry Pi projects and CHiP/PocketCHiP commuters.

Waffles adheres to what I call "Stupid Simple" as K.I.S.S. implies a complexity challenge.

It's so perfectly sized, it would work nearly any embedded Linux system that can run Bash or even an Enterprise size environment.

And, don't forget, because it's truly Shell Scripts, you can run it on any architecture Bash is compiled on.

Need to distribute your waffle across hosts? Easy, your choices are: git (or ilk), rsync, scp, nfs export, and more - what works on your network to transfer files.

The author's blog post walks the reader through their process of simplifying their waffles solution as SCMs like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible and others are simply Too Much and Too Big - when you should being small, simple and pretty much universal. Most of the have things like agents, separate databases, or even 0MQ.

Even FSS ( https://github.com/brandonhilkert/fucking_shell_scripts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401803) is written in Ruby. Wha? So shouldn't it be call FSSwR cause it's not exclusively & completely Shell Scripts ?

If you have found or used any other amazingly simple Shell-based only FOSS solutions for Server Administration, please share. Even though other scripting languages are available on the smaller systems, sometimes they take up precious space (well, except maybe Lua.)

Cheers, M.
By the end of his career Robert Byrd was a repentant, former KKK member.

Trump is being embraced by current, active KKK members.

It is obtuse to pretend there's no difference between the two.

From your own Wikipedia link:
"In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook — seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions."[23] Byrd also said, in 2005, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."[13]"
there will be also microcontrollers from ST incorporating LoRa soon
Great description. You remind me of Joe Grand (L0pht Heavy Industries), Joe FitzPatrick (NSAPlayset), Hector Martin (fail0verflow) and Micah Scott (scanlime). All are brilliant Electric Engineers with a security background. Do you have an EE degree too? Anyways, thanks for the detailed explanation. :)
In 1989 he reportedly said "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."

He spent 5 years pushing the birther conspiracy even after Obama produced his birth certificate. He also implied that Obama was a Muslim despite his claims to the contrary.

He's implied several times that Obama sides with terrorists because of his upbringing.

He said a judge was unqualified to preside over a Trump University lawsuit because he was Mexican (turns out he was born in the US 60 years ago.)
Paul Ryan called it a "textbook definition of racism".

He started his campaign with this quote: "When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Despite the fact that studies show first generation immigrants don't commit more crimes than native born citizens.

He uses language like "My African American", "The Muslims", and "The Hispanics" when talking about minority groups.

He refused to disavow David Duke on air until he "researched him more." He said he didn't know who he was, but it turns out there are numerous example of him mentioning David Duke in the past. He had primaries in southern states coming up, so publicly disavowing David Duke would have likely hurt him. Especially since David Duke has been campaigning for him. He did eventually disavow him after the media made a huge deal about it.

He repeatedly refers to Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas".

He said "They don’t look like Indians to me" about a Native American tribe that ran a competing casino.

He said "Maybe [the protester] should have been roughed up,” he mused. “It was absolutely disgusting what he was doing." about a Black Lives matter protester at his rally.

He said "I will say that people who are following me are very passionate,” Trump said. “They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate." when asked about supporters who beat a homeless Latino man because "they all need to be deported."
Pascal and Ada don't usually use their arrays as matrices in mathematical expressions. Julia is targeted at people using Matlab.

How do you multiply two matrices that use different indexing? Ignore the indexing differences?

It's also problematic when different libraries use different conventions (0-based vs 1-based). Can you use the output of one such library to feed another?
Housing is the root of quality of live.

Not only housing afford ability is important but also quality of housing. Social housings in Vienna come sometimes with pools on the flat roof or saunas. They built Gemeindebauten [1] (social housings) in posh areas. They made exceptional architecture for the people. (for example Hundertwasserhaus) [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindebau
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasserhaus
868 MHz band in Europe
That's just it, I heard it was training for SF, so I thought he had literally broken his legs, their training isn't just doing a bunch of running so it would certainly be plausible to break a leg doing something like fast-roping out of a helo or a parachute jump.

I haven't gone through anything close to SF training but wash-outs happen all the time; you heal up and generally get to try again, since it's not like you can just stay with your class, and the military services need SOF-quality forces bad enough that if you're otherwise qualified to get into that pipeline then it's beneficial for them to give you that opportunity.

On the other hand in a basic training environment, if you get shin splints you may get a medical profile or light duty chit saying not to do certain types of exercise (or even to wear different shoes) to give your lower legs time to heal. But if it's bad enough you can be pulled out of training completely and put in a holding company to heal up properly and then roll back into a class.

I was briefly in a holding company for something else; there were recruits there who had been out of training due to shin splints for months, usually when they refused to go to medical when they first started noticing symptoms and tried to tough it out.
Underground People of Beijing
RDD: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing
not to troll or anything but I find it utterly stupid that this is done. Also is it a big deal to have 1000 stars on a github project you run? I am curious because I do not know what the general perception is of github projects, I mean how much do they matter? I do not have a formal training on algorithms and I am studying machine learning now. Also I have a project having 200 something stars and one having 1000+ stars
>By the end of his career Robert Byrd was a repentant, former KKK member.

So is David Duke, that didn't stop them from trying to get Trump to "denounce" him, and he didn't even know the guy.

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Thank you for Correcting The Record.
I learned programming in flash with as2 a little and then as3, and I feel that is still the easiest way to learn programming, you convert your symbols into classes and bam, in two seconds you're doing OOP, setting properties and calling methods (like play() stop()), it even helped me find the use of sines and cosines because it wasn't clear how trigonometry was useful back in school.
I find it easier to learn the concrete stuff first, and then go to the abstract.
Our food production is driven by fossil fuels. Everything from the farm equipment to the fertilizers we spread to the trucks we ship it in are powered by fossil fuels. When we run out of fossil fuels, we better have a back up energy source (or sources) ready, because our food production will plummet if not. So will basically every industry, since they all depend on cheap transport and automation at this time. So we'll all starve while the economy collapses around us and our infrastructure falls apart as we have neither the money nor the energy supplies to fix it.

Yeah, our dependence on fossil fuels is a huge problem, and not just because of climate change (which might also kill us).
You know who else eulogized Robert Byrd? The NAACP.

He was a repentant former racist who spent the later years of his life apologizing for his past.
Somewhat related, if you or someone else knows: is there any special process for transferring or handling large amounts of money? For example, if you're buying a $5m private jet, how would you pay for it? A regular check or bank transfer?

Also, do the banks keep any security checks in place? e.g. If I had $10m and there was a request to transfer out $5m, I'd definitely like the bank to run it by me.
Ha! You think that's bad, you should try having a Chinese domain name.

None of the major webmail platforms would even acknowledge that it was a valid email address https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/poor-idn-support-from-major...

That was 2 years ago, time for an update!
Trello is an amazing tool for vacation planning. I like to have each column be a day in the itinerary, with cards for each event or mode of transportation. The app lets you download boards offline, so you can store relevant reservation info under each card.
>there's no chance of any third party winning this year.

There's really never a chance for third parties to rise in the US because we use a crappy voting system (first past the post). We should change our voting system to Range Voting [1].

[1] http://rangevoting.org/
what SF and bandwidth were you using for the range tests? what packet lengths?
Improving D3 Path Animation
See http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/space/linear/
Export 3D Files to Collada Format and Detect Format of Any Supported 3D File .NET
Yeah, have to agree here. Further, sometimes after a long week I don't have any creative energy for even thinking of side project ideas, and games are the only way I can recharge.

I used to be fine with that. Now as I get older I see it as a vice which causes major cognitive dissonance since it is my main way to recharge.
We should start pushing to get private workspaces by seeing ADHD as a disability
Delinkage of R&D Costs from Product Prices
Can you name a few (besides like Operator or Magic, which I don't even know would qualify since they're more hybrid)? I've done some explorations into bots for a project I worked on, and most of it just seems to be glorified menus.
this is the correct answer. potus get to enforce (or not) the laws. meaning he can let hrc skate on this if he chooses.
60% chance is not really much different from a coin flip. Plus they might have some inside info that the public hasn't had a chance to react to yet.
Way to give the half 'truth' there, it's a supreme irony that DT supporters are ready to call anyone a shill but are just fine parading lies because they feel repeating it often enough makes it true.

> Meanwhile there is a picture of Hillary embracing a KKK member

actually

> Meanwhile there is a picture of Hillary embracing a FORMER KKK member who said that joining the KKK was "the greatest mistake I ever made."
I agree somewhat, but even though more devices are electrical or electronic and attached to the grid, they are more efficient. My 42" LED TV is using 95W, less than a 100W light bulb, whereas my old 19" tube color TV in 1978 used more.

Mobile phones didn't exist when I was young, and there are certainly a lot of them now even if they are low power devices, so it would be interesting to see electrical usage patterns pre-mobile phones vs. today.

The same goes for cars. Cars were using leaded gasoline in the US and getting 8 to 12 mpg, and now 30 to 35 mpg or greater on the highway, but do people drive more frequently, and with single riders?

Another question is would any cooling of the total Earth's heat energy be offset by global warming? The thermal differential would be less thereby slowing the migration of heat to the surface?
Many Interstates share numbering with US Routes. It's a way to keep around some US Routes that share some of their path with an Interstate but then diverge sharply in other areas without having to maintain two roads in parallel

Head over to Google Maps and zoom in on some random Interstates; you'll see the dual numbering. A good example is I-10 and Route 90 in southeast Texas. Everything between roughly Columbus and Vinton (including the whole Houston area), I-10 and Route 90 are the same road, but they go their separate ways on both sides. Or for a north-south example, I-35E and Route 77 in the Dallas area; they're joined between Denton and Waxahachie.
Thanks for taking the time to give a clear view of what's happened. Lots of us spend time trying to make a point (on one side or the other), and not enough spend time trying to clarify what's actually going on.
Tiny $2.10 WiFi module taps ESP8285 WiFi SoC
From what I've seen, people with PhDs in CS are less competent as devs than devs without PhDs.
Leave the poor guy alone :-( it's not his e-mail account.
What's the industry term for depositing via debit cards like this? And how, exactly, does it work?
Arctic sea ice shrinks to second lowest level on record
Hey Nostrademons,

I appreciate your thoughtful responses so I was wondering what your thoughts are on importance and corresponding compensation of the 1st employee at a company.

If the first employee is important enough that in your mind, it's possible that with depending on the first employee they may or may not be a billion dollar company, do you think the first employee compensation is commensurate with that? Aston also mentions specifically the commitment he has as a first employee, and how he feels "you're basically a founder" in terms of responsibility.

In my opinion, he made off about as well as any first employee could reasonably expect (even unreasonably I'd argue).

I don't have the perspective of either a startup founder or the first employee anywhere so I'm not trying to slight the Dropbox founders in any way.

I guess my question boils down to two parts
1. What do you think a reasonable level of compensation is for a first employee
2. Given the success rates of startups (low), why would someone want to be the first employee somewhere versus either their own startup, or a later stage company that could pay them a much higher salary then the typical startup compensation. My unstated assumption here, which you might disagree with, is that someone who could have the impact of Aston, could become a staff engineer at somewhere like facebook/google/microsoft/etc and pull total compensation of 300/400k with a significantly higher chance.
Without getting into too much detail, it is end-point driven. The user says "I want to continue doing this thing" and it proceeds in a more secure manner completely segregated from your desktop. If you had a generic mechanism to be able to open, say, a browser or Acrobat, or whatever else you felt like in this manner you could dream of the ways you might integrate it into the end-point.
'Ladies' Is Gender Neutral
A History of Haskell: Being Lazy with Class (2007) [pdf]
Both of those examples strike me as political rather than legal actions - that is, I question the legality but political considerations moot the issue - but your point is well made.
So what is the point? A discussion about what could be possible? He could dress up as Osama bin Laden and crash his car through the White House gate but that doesn't mean that it's something that Secretary Clinton believes is necessary for her campaign.

Similarly, yes, he could delete the emails after being told they were part of an investigation, but that would lead to unwanted consequences. Could he have deleted them before any investigation started? Sure, then it would just be a cloud of suspicion, but no legal ramifications.

My original point was that as soon as Clinton agreed to turn over the emails, it was in the State Department's ballpark to determine which were eligible for disclosure, as the emails were written during her time at State and ostensibly dealt with State business. Not sure why you felt you had to argue that she had the capability of just destroying her servers. If she had done that, we wouldn't be having this discussion because she likely wouldn't be in the race.
When the Interstate Highway System was first created, AASHTO had a rule that no Interstate and US Route with the same numbers could coexist in a state. Since with both numbering schemes, 50 and 60 would fall in roughly the same part of the country, I-50 and I-60 had to be skipped so they wouldn't share any states with Route 50 and Route 60.

AASHTO has since relaxed that rule, and there are now a few exceptions to it, but it's too late to shoehorn in two major interstates.
FYI: A free course from the University of Glasgow just started today as well.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-h...
Bringing D3.JS to Jupyter Notebook with Py-D3
I am terribly sorry. While looking up information about the company to be able to answer the reply, I couldn't find any news about its acquisition by Google. It was shuttered by its parent company and I presume a portion of the company must have been sold to Google if my colleague was being accurate. I can't edit or delete the comment. If I'm unvoted/downvoted then I certainly understand and agree!

More info: he is a director for a well-used standard in the IETF, so he's no slouch.
4 Creative Ways to Market Your Startup Story to the World
Feds announce unprecedented autonomous car guidelines
There are quite a few interestingly designed cities in the UK. I used to work in Bracknell which is similar to what you suggest with walking paths and basically parks around many of the houses, especially in an estate called Great Hollands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hollands). They also have small roads that are dedicated to buses, with underpasses so that they avoid intersections. I didn't live there so I don't know a lot about it, but it did look really good and I used to go for runs along the paths there.

Another interesting one to visit is Milton Keynes. This city has a large grid layout with roundabouts at the intersections, and smaller communities inside each grid block. The grid layout is intended to allow for large flows of traffic.
Closing in on high-temperature superconductivity
A New Terror-Alert System
I know this was a hyperbolic rant, but it's deplorable how this author literally dehumanizes men. The essay may be interesting, but it's mostly just monstrous.
I believe the device data is encrypted with a built-in hardware key and the passcode, so you'd need some way to read the key out of the CPU.
What’s in your bot stack? Survey results of people building bots today\
Hmm, the "non-official" nature of the power relationship lead me to think otherwise, but I now see your position. (I do still think that Guanxi manifests itself in more "officially connected" ways -- but maybe I just don't know the Mafia hierarchy well enough!)

Thanks for clarifying.
Obviously the outcome won't literally be exactly the same. Whether we consider them to be "the same" in a practical sense depends on what we care about. Different people care about different things, so different people will disagree about how different the candidates are.
true but few books are awesome like Python Programming by Mark Lutz ((I forgot author's exact surname, sorry)
Almost all economists agree that a CO₂ tax is the best way to minimise those emissions.

According to something I read that seemed credible (I know...), this is politically impossible to get through congress without exempting most major CO₂ producers.
He also said 'it wasn't shin splints' when the conceit to this thread appears to be that 'shin splints are just a different way of saying bone fractures in your legs'.

We have Barton Gellman defending Snowden by saying that he was diagnosed with 'bilateral tibial stress fractures'. But, this is consistent with shin splints (albeit more severe) and could be the result of trying to maintain the exercise regimen that gave you shin splints in the first place. But nor are bilateral tibial stress fractures something you get in a training accident or other single event -- it's a repetitive injury that you get when your body cannot sustain the level of demand being placed on it over time.

It still hurts like a bitch if you let it get to that point, and Snowden would not be anywhere near the first or the last to wash out of a military training pipeline due to that. But he sells it like he broke his legs in some sort of accident at a single SF training event, not like the exact same type of repetitive stress injury that has been a common cause of medical washouts in many other men and women attempting the same training (even for ceremonial duties! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807419/).
Finally, pg's original startup vision of putting art museums online is achieved!
Product Design Sprint
It's the direct drive motors that make it work. As someone from GE said a century ago, "You can't strip the teeth of a magnetic field". Direct drive robot arms have been built; Adept SCARA arms were direct drive. But they used to be too heavy for mobile robots.

What makes direct drive motors work are today's really good power FETs. You can do things with FETs, capacitors, and switching power supplies to get whatever voltage and current you need, at least briefly. Motors can be overloaded by huge amounts if you monitor the temperature, and you can build up a charge in supercapacitors for the next time you need to hit the motor really hard. Putting a computer in charge of a power supply is normal today, and may even reduce the parts count.

This, and Schaft, probably spells the end of Boston Dynamics' hydraulic monsters. That approach is just too bulky for anything below mule size.
When I was young I visited our city's traffic department, they had a map on the wall of all the traffic accidents. In the city I lived in the older parts were a very regular grid, and the new parts were cul-de-sacs. Almost all the traffic accidents were at intersections in the grid parts of town.
While he should have known, I actually think that asking that question was more admirable than attempting to BS his way through something he didn't know about.
Have a look at the brushless camera gimbals quadcopters use these days.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__91046__Tarot_T_2D...

Is a typical example. The same gyro/accelerometer/compass 6 or 9 dof sensors from phones that the quadcopter controllers themselves use, but re-purposed into keeping the camera stable. They're really fast.
I just want to hear your answer with one of those...

How did you do type checking before TypeScript (or the like) in JS? give me a real answer.......
Good answer. That's pretty sound strategy, and clarifies the market for me.
The bridge is a hybrid model where you can have humans responding and an AI in the back learning. With enough training data the hope is that the AI would take over and be able to do the tasks.

That being said, I actually haven't seen a successful implementation of a full transition from a hybrid to a chatbot example (maybe like x.ai or something, but nothing on a large scale). Think there is really good opportunity there for some basic tasks, but still see bots as glorified menu options for the time being.

Having worked at 2 of the firms you listed above and doing some deep V1 bot explorations for one of them, the immediate idea for bots in the short-term is to replace apps (which is not the best UI interaction model for tail-end apps)