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> If you aren't yet using Puppet or Chef for managing your *nix infrastructure, you should seriously consider it.

Why? I prefer to simply write my own bash deployment scripts. Seems easier.
You cant get leads for your business by sitting and drinking coffee
Tbm: tunnel boring machines
I enjoyed creating a song with it (lyrics/melody), but I didnt understand the gaming mechanics.
I have a genetic disorder. Getting sufficient quantities of good quality (organic) butter has done wonders for me. But this was in conjunction with eliminating fats and oils that I determined from trial and error were a problem and also making lots of other dietary and lifestyle changes. The simplistic nature of this conclusion concerns me. And also the fanboy-ism: "I'll have what he's having" without trying to understand why he does that or what mechanism might make it helpful.
Just a note- that page is very mobile-unfriendly. The ingographic only fills half of my phone screen horizontally and they've somehow disabled zooming. I'm sure its very interesting but I couldn't.read it.
Always be prepared for the best – How I potentially lost $100,000s
Move.js: CSS3 animation framework
Lightyear Wireless Review? Are You Kidding?
It's chips, not one chip. I would guess that A7, A8, and A9 are being designed in parallel.
How Apple Treats The Gift Of Open Source: The OpenBSD PF Example
Do you know whether this is sold only in the U.S. or worldwide as well?
You're right, I'd forgotten that one
Depends on what you mean by deployment. We use puppet for managing our os, packages and basic file structure. We use home-grown bash scripts for deploying new versions of applications.

For keeping track of os-level packages and the like, I find Puppet much better than something I could build myself. It doesn't just take care of the initial setup, but also handles incremental changes. And it does so in a largely declarative language. It all guarantees that the entire installation is documented and replicable.
But let's say you knew your LTCG would be taxed as income. It seems you would've either

1) opted in for a larger salary over the last few years to realize the income under a bracket that you're comfortable with, and drive the sale price of a business down

2) come up with a structure where you can split up the proceeds over several tax years (selling 50% on Dec 31st and 50% on Jan 1st comes to mind, but there're probably better ways to optimize this)
No problem. And depending on the USB midi input controller you get, you might be able to get a free LE (limited edition) copy with it.
I hear perl tried this a decade ago. I don't think it worked out too well.

Also, design a language with features, then think about the runtime. A language is not it's runtime.
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Contagion,Film 2011,Trailer
Contagion,Film 2011,Trailer
When you enter Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow, and the film together, the expectations are certainly high.
The chancellor's press secretary denies that this malware is the Bundestrojaner, claiming that it has never been used by the BKA, the federal crime investigation department [1].

From the wording of the tweet I assume that instead some LKA (crime investigation departments on the state level) had been using the malware.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/RegSprecher/status/123056930888491008
I don't know why this was voted down. The A4 is very similar to the contemporary Samsung SoC and I wouldn't be surprised if the A5 is very similar to Exynos. So far, Apple doesn't appear to be getting any dramatic advantages from having their own chips, especially considering the risk of not being able to switch chip vendors.
Gnus makes Emacs unresponsive while it performs network IO. Threads would solve this problem, and salvage the usability of a really nice piece of software.
I use Chef, but without the server (chef-solo). I have a hard time stomaching the idea of dealing with a Merb application (an abandoned framework) that has some rather complex dependencies (couchdb & rabbitmq). That being said, plenty of peers have told me that they have not experienced any problems with running a Chef server.

Maybe this means I should just fork up the cash for hosted Chef, but I don't see it as a 100$ a month value (I currently have 10 nodes and treat them all as ephemeral).

I do wonder why this is never brought up. Is it not seen as a red flag to anyone else that the core of Chef is built on Merb?
Analyst: Siri more than just speech recognition
I would probably skip china, you don't want internet censorship to get in the way of your work.
I think we actually agree. 'scary' and 'rewarding' can coexist quite happily to my mind.
FWIW: It's making my netbook run slow and not loading well...etc. I thought I would try to find you a more mobile-friendly version but the entire site seems unfriendly, mobile or not.
Am I totally missing some obvious Chef documentation? The entirety of the documentation when I last looked seemed to be the wiki + the one 50-page O'Reilly book.

I ended up literally printing out the wiki. (And the wiki seemed to be in a state of pretty extreme flux and/or disagreement with what blog posts suggested was best practice.)

The business model of the companies promoting Puppet and Chef seems to be to charge for support and/or hosted services. Which is fine. But is it leading to abysmal documentation?
Because it's complicated and largely unnecessary. Emacs already has concurrency (make-<network>-process), what it lacks is multiple Emacs Lisp stacks. But the reality is that having two threads of execution running Lisp is not going to solve any of your performance problems, and it adds a ton of complexity to the rest of Emacs. If you want to do something in the background, fork and talk to it over a pipe. That's concurrent, easy to reason about, and has existed in Emacs for decades.
> Is it because if it was normal income, the 20k/year amount would not be taxed at 33%?

Correct. If you make 15k taxable income for 4 years (i.e. 60k), you'd pay 10% in taxes filing married = 6k/year. If you make 60k in a single year (after 3 years of no income), you'd pay 10% of 17k, and 15% on 43k. That's over $2k in difference. Double the year, add more risk and zeros to the income/gains figures and you'll see why raising taxes on capital gains will take away the incentive to start a business. So it is fair to give SMBs a break. I just don't want to extend this break to investment bankers and hedge fund managers making $30m/year, regardless of how useful their services are. They should pay the same taxes as anyone with salary of $30m.
"Apparently, he had hepatitis or something and had to get out of India before he died," Alcorn told historian Steven Kent. "I put him to work again. That's when the famous story about Breakout took place."

Hepatitis attacks the liver and was very likely the reason for his needing a liver transplant in 2009. It's also linked to increasing the risk of pancreatic cancer. I wonder if his spiritual trip to India was both a source of enlightenment AND eventual cause of death? =/
They aren't allowed to try?
> "Privacy is not such a big deal because if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of"

Seeing as he didn't say this, is this quote supposed to be a paraphrase of your general sentiment about how they handle privacy? You really shouldn't do that.

If it's supposed to refer to his more famous quote/confession of evil:

"I think judgement matters… If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it’s important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the PATRIOT Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

Say what you will about how they collect and use data, but I think that particular quote remains good advice for posting content on the internet in general, and especially in the US, where companies really can't protect you from the patriot act.
Also, as pg said on The Venture Capital Squeeze[1]:

In fact, letting the founders sell a little stock early would generally be better for the company, because it would cause the founders' attitudes toward risk to be aligned with the VCs'. As things currently work, their attitudes toward risk tend to be diametrically opposed: the founders, who have nothing, would prefer a 100% chance of $1 million to a 20% chance of $10 million, while the VCs can afford to be "rational" and prefer the latter.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html
Was initially planning to take part in YC as a route to internationlize this project. Am from tiny Singapore, and hence the need to get out of our country for this to scale.

Worth a short applying for the round 2013 still?
I think the one big advantage of having their own chips is the marketing angle. It's much cooler to say an Apple iPhone comes with an Apple A5 chip than with a Samsung Exynos chip.
Agreed on all points.

Guaranteeing the entire installation is "documented and replicable" is huge. Chef/Puppet can become a large part of you disaster recovery plan and increases the "bus number" in ops.

The value in this is immediately apparent after the first time you have had to rebuild a server that you inherited.
I agree. Both 1 and 2 are possible. However 1) is unknown because of the inherent risk. You can't give yourself a large salary just in case business sells. 2) is probably possible already (sorry, not a tax accountant) but might be costly/friction.
Great speech. I graduated in 2005 from rival school Berkeley and we had Eric Schmidt. It was fascinating to see how the two of them would duke it out in the 6 years following my graduation. Eric was also a great commencement speaker.
Does anybody else think there's room for a lightweight alternative to these two projects written in server side JavaScript?
Thanks! but there are 5 articles there.. is that it?
Of course they are. How long does it take to get from design to production? Apple takes the long view here.
Keeping Googlebot Happy Revisited
This needs to be an iPad app ASAP. When can we get it?
How does the music business differ from the book business? Authors do not plan on supporting themselves by touring. Why is this more or less expected for musicians?

Are authors worse off for not having a viable touring option?

I'm mainly curious about assorted business models that work well for musicians for whom live performances are not practical. If one person with a pc and some electronics makes an album, live gigs may be nonstarter.
How does the free version of CFEngine http://cfengine.com/ compare to these two?
I was a bit confused by the "excellent reference documentation" regarding Chef, as well. The documentation I have read has been out of sync, occasionally contradictory piece-meal. I have yet to find anything more useful than just reading recipes.

I wonder if the author knows of resources other than that book and the wiki.
People don't stop buying the old stuff just because there's new stuff. See also: horses, bicycles, cars.
e.g., node.js + coffeescript?
1. Yeah I'd say so. "Wrapper" describes how it works (it wraps naked HTTP calls) but not what it is (a client library for the Yipit API / web service)
2. Cool!
London Fashion Week seeks global audience for 2012
2. I don't think it impacts on performance - because it's basically just a user-friendly wrapper around urllib2
really? Its hosted on tumblr, so I guess they might have screwed up. Worrying though, I picked them since I wanted something hasslefree.
Thanks for your comment. Maybe you're right. These YT examples are really nice. Even though I can hum or sign accurately (thus this has clear advantage over playing), I am more inclined in getting track of my melodies early (i.e. what I am actually crafting, is it F#, G or G# scale, etc.), so I don't think voice-way is the right solution (maybe I'm wrong, as it would be more efficient assuming good recording and looping devices, still it's not that good for every kind of music), but definitely interesting one.
Learn to draw clouds in Photoshop
As a PHP developer, I'm less than enamored by this because it seems as though it increases spaghetti code.

- Embedded sql in the fashion of php.reboot is dirty.

- No open/close tags and using brackets sounds error prone.

- I'm also personally a fan of the dollar sign.

It appears as though what you really want is Ruby.
مشاهدة مباراة الزمالك وانبي اليوم 11/10/2011 بث مباشر نهائي كأس مصر
Most Wanted Features of cell phone
Most likely. Kind of like how WSJ spat out an obituary 19 minutes after Jobs' death.
Amen to that.

I'm currently going through that & it's been a hell of a ride.

I'm (barely) profitable and things are really looking up, but there were (and still are) some pretty dismal moments while bootstrapping with my life's savings.
Climate Change and the End of Australia
The main gripe the authors of the paper have is not that this trojan exists - there are indeed German laws that allow for such a trojan - but that it has been so insecurely implemented, and also collects information that cannot be identified as "communication" (which is a requirement for this German law).

Any data received from the command and control server is sent unencrypted and unchecked. Additionally, the trojan contains a "backdoor within a backdoor", which allows any code to be attached to the trojan and executed unchecked!

Moral issues of computer surveillance aside, this trojan is a shocking example of the German government's (if indeed this is a government effort) incompetence regarding the internet.
This really interests me, being a musician as well. The idea of coding music (and not just programming a synth or whatever) has never occurred to me before and I really fancy spending an evening or two with this to see what happens.

My only dislike with increasingly virtual instruments, however, is that I don't really get the same sort of involvement out of using them. I can bang out some fairly decent beats with my PadKontrol but it makes me long for my old, battered drum kit, and the band practices where I'd lay down a beat and just let myself get lost in it all as the guitarists and bassist improvised over it.

What you gain in technology (and all the amazing things you can do with it) you lose in that sense of physicality.
The new iPhone portfolio and implications on ASP
I don't think that the web would have even been patentable. HTTP is essentially FTP without persistent sessions. HTML was based on SGML. And hypertext existed before it was used in HTML (1960s). So there seems to be too much prior art there for it to be patentable.

Also, the demise of Gopher, an early competitor of the web, gives us a hint of what might have happened if the web had been patented. From Wikipedia's Gopher article:

"In February 1993, the University of Minnesota announced that it would charge licensing fees for the use of its implementation of the Gopher server. As a consequence of this, some users were concerned that a licensing fee would also be charged for independent implementations. Users were scared away from Gopher technology, to the advantage of the Web, which CERN disclaimed ownership of. The University of Minnesota later re-licensed its Gopher software under the GNU GPL."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
Example: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Divide-and-Conquer
That code sounds pretty interesting, especially if it's adaptable to arbitrary open/close sequences

if (.*?) {

vs

#ifdef .* ... #else ... #endif

I'd be interested in seeing it, even if it's a pastebin/gist dump that needs some cleanup.
Whitepaper on virtualized databases
Here's a direct link to the infographic:
http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Disruptive-Co...
Having been through the Director, Flash and now HTML5 fads, I dream of a day when this title would suffice on HN:

"Plink, a multiplayer music game"

This is just to say - I enjoyed Plink very much and would have just the same regardless of the technology.
Swisstrains (realtime train visualization) now on github
> Far too many silly, derivative and pointless companies are cranked out in the desperate hope that they can secure just enough press attention and VC love to make the founders a few million bucks.

So in summary: We're partying like it's 1999 again.
Thanks. Substantially better.
The art of investment banking has been around for centuries, and by no means started with Wall Street. If you look back many hundred years, the Church had outlawed usury (charging interest on loans), effectively meaning lenders had no more incentive to lend to people who needed it.

To solve this problems, some of the first derivatives were invented (yes, some derivatives have a purpose). A lender would trade money to a farmer in exchange for, say, a flock of sheep (although the farmer would keep the sheep). Their repurchase agreement would state that after a year, the farmer would buy the sheep back from the lender, but any baby sheep would still belong to the lender because they were born while the sheep were in the lender's possession.

SV might do fine with WS, but I really do believe finance and tech work well, hand in hand.
Rdio has Arcade Fire. Strange that Spotify doesn't....

But yeah, I agree, subscription music services are the future. The holdouts (Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC, etc.) will eventually license their stuff, otherwise their fan base will erode. I already think that their tardiness to the digital download party has hurt them already.
I guess you didn't read the book. It's pretty clear they are in fact not real people. For one thing they can only live a day or two before decaying. (If a clone can live longer, does that make it a person?)

For two, to the people living in that world such clones are temporary copies, and their flesh has little value - but their memories are real. In that world preventing a clone from reuploading memories back to the host is akin to murder. But killing the clone is nothing. (Is memory a person, or is flesh?)

And for three the actual clone does not consider itself a real person, clones created for menial purposes sometimes chose not to upload their boring memories back to the host, but are willing to do their menial work anyway to benefit their host. Since the clone is an extension of the host it's willing to act to benefit the host without benefit to itself, like a cell in a greater organism. Or a bee that will suicide to protect the hive. (What if the clone refuses to help the host?)

Notice how all my arguments are in the context of the book (was the reasoning in the book contorted?), not the real world. It doesn't exist in the real world and the context of how such clones are created and live matters a lot, so I won't want to argue from infinite possibilities.

And finally the entire philosophical part of the plot in the book revolves around "are clones real people", with considerably more detail and nuance than I can possibly list here, but I added a few in parenthesis near each paragraph.
Thanks for comment. Tracker evolution is a good thing, but somehow recent works from trackers sounding like from DAWs/sequencers, with MBs of samples per instrument, etc. are not what I am looking in them. Back then you had .xm, several KBs total, with 4 tracks and listening experience could be ecstatic. Now you can have quality-wise perfect tune, more complex with dozen tracks, but the spirit is not there IMO. I am not saying that you cannot use trackers for some serious stuff, but for me they will be mostly only tools for old school projects.

Renoise is not a tracker, or pure-tracker-alone software, so it is kind of different beast.
The secret to Steve Jobs' "imagination... feelings and abstract ideas.."?
Jerry Yang Is Looking To Take Yahoo Private
Give them Design Patterns and hook them up to a car battery that shocks them if they try to fall asleep.
I just want to frame the discussion a bit by differentiating “purchasing” from “subcontracting.” If a company uses a part from a supplier, there’s a continuum from “We picked this part form the supplier’s existing catalog” through “We designed this part in partnership with the supplier, but they sell it to anyone” to “We designed this part and our supplier makes it exclusively for us and no-one else.”

Apple obviously subcontracts a lot of its manufacturing, and that is very similar to what most automobile companies do with parts: The parts are manufactured for them, but they are specific to that car and not sold to other manufacturers. OTOH, a tyre is a tyre is a trye in most cases, just as most of Intel’s chips are sold to anybody who is prepared to place an order.

I’m not making any specific point, just suggesting we be clear about what we mean when drawing comparisons between designing CPUs and outsourcing part or all of the manufacture of an automobile.
The Zen of Steve Jobs « EVALINUX
If this is true, I have to start wondering whether Apple plans to port OS X to ARM. Granted, they’d probably have to evolve ARM into a 64-bit architecture, but the power savings would be incredible. A MacBook Air with the battery life of an iPad 2.

(We already know Apple is more than capable of executing CPU transitions on the Mac. I suppose the only other question is how much people value Parallels and Boot Camp.)
Microsoft passed another hurdle in Skype acquisition, gets EU approval
It made safari freeze on my iPad.
Intellectual property resources for start-ups
Intellectual property law resources for start-ups:

http://www.pinskylaw.ca/Resources/intellecrual_property_law_resources.htm
First Google result is the winner :-)

http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/
Poor flower doesn't get it -- Node.js is a cancer, and Ruby is dead.
I tried out both Puppet and Chef a while ago, and was also a bit confused by the Chef documentation when trying to do anything beyond the basics.

While not brilliant, the Puppet docs seemed better and when added to the Pro Puppet book ( http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Puppet-James-Turnbull/dp/143023057... ) are more than adequate, so I just picked Puppet on that basis alone, and have not had any issues.

Another useful tool , in conjunction with Puppet/Chef is Blueprint which lets you build configurations from existing servers , http://devstructure.com/ .
SpyEye Banking Trojan – Now with SMS Hijacking Capability
Good to know. Thanks for this remark, but USB MIDI controller with Ableton LE won't be cheap either. :)

Also quoting wikipedia:

As of version 6, Ableton also offers a stripped-down version of Live targeted at the non-professional market. It has limitations on the number of audio channels and effects and does not feature some of the synchronization (MIDI Clock, ReWire) utilities the full version has to offer. The current Live LE version is 8.1.4.

As part of the Able10 celebrations, Ableton introduced Live Intro as an effective replacement to LE. Registered users of Live LE can now receive a free upgrade to Live Intro. The current version is 8.2.2.
I don't have a portfolio of companies but I agree with Fred. Stakeholders _do_ care and, more importantly, they want to help. The board, investors and employees may well have ideas or insight that haven't occurred to the CEO. The board and investors, in particular, often have a perspective that the CEO doesn't have because he's too close to the situation.

Instead of, as Ben seems to suggest, putting his head down and powering through the adverse situation, a CEO should reach out to the people he claims "don't care" because, in failing to do so, he'll almost certainly miss out on some great advice and support.