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How about- and I know this is shocking- we find a balance.

A balance between nothing and tabloid.

We're dangerously close to tabloid currently. Lots of irrelevant articles, lots of speculation and opinion, and the real stories are hidden in the noise.

I still think about 80% of the Snowden articles are worse than useless -- they're actively hiding the 20% of articles that are worthwhile, that we should all be reading.

But hey, I guess diverting our attention to the pointless bits of the story is an effective diversion tactic /conspiracy
Well...Russia does seem a bit bitter about other spying incidents: http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=425431

So it's not just the spying on citizens, it's also the...uhm...spying in general.
> "Bach is (was) the dance music of yesteryears (follow the 3/4). (Mozart was probably rock)"

Not so much. Bach and Mozart were employed by quite wealthy individuals to compose and perform pieces for nobility and aristocracy. The only way the proletariat population would have heard their work would have been in a church-setting of some sort, probably performed by someone with very little skill or training.

>"we never got to hear Bach's time crap music"

More than you might imagine, actually. While folk songs were rarely written down in any sort of musical-notation there were (and doubtlessly still are) scholars who worked tirelessly at uncovering these old works as best they could and those were the real 'dance music' of the era. Songs written on the same 4-chord pattern we use this very day and age. Songs about love, loss, friends, family, etc. Typically upbeat and always set to a beat that you could sway your hips to. Instrumentation would have been based on either a piano, flute, or that century's particular flavor of stringed instrument.

It's been a good while since I studied this subject, I'll see if I can dig up a source for this info tonight.
I think this guy has a point with:

https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commits/master/ember.jso...

"Ember is released in "revisions", because it's not production ready and not ready to be 1.0. Hence the core team chose to rather call breaking changes a new "revision". Well guess what dudes, that's exactly what versions are for. Why couldn't you just like normal people release 0.4, 0.5? Why do you need to hit 1.0 directly?"
Very good point. If am not mistaken in Denmark you have to have standard white light in front and and red on back. They also must be light enough.
IMO, ansible is even better:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/

It doesn't require any deamon and does all its work over the good old unix fashion way: SSH. And it's python too.
Fair trial impossible in U.S., Snowden tells Ecuador
There you go, a little bit of karma for you ;)
Oh very "touche!"
You need to add normal road bike style brakes and bar tape. Same goes for shifting.
Snowden's past is immaterial. Snowden's future is being watched by potential leakers, and thus is very important.
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Front page stories on HN right now that mention Snowden:

"Edward Snowden is not on the flight from Moscow to Cuba"

and

"Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?"

I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Has there been a bunch of noise/trivial stories about Snowden? No doubt. But I already said that.

Looks like the voting system is working as it should.
No you can't flag stories. Theoretically you can, but if you try to actually flag 25 Snowden stories today, since all of them are off-topic according to HN guidelines, your flag ability will be removed in a matter of minutes.
Wasn't that just tax evasion?
What's tedious is people complaining about what other people up-vote.
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Maybe they know this but perhaps they're just grandstanding in front of their electorate.
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I added this Open Letter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932981

I think that guy has a point with:
https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commits/master/ember.jso....
"Ember is released in "revisions", because it's not production ready and not ready to be 1.0. Hence the core team chose to rather call breaking changes a new "revision". Well guess what dudes, that's exactly what versions are for. Why couldn't you just like normal people release 0.4, 0.5? Why do you need to hit 1.0 directly?"
> Meanwhile there is a smugness that goes along with purely technical training, a certainty that its way is the only valuable way, that calls itself education but whose true name is Philistinism, and I feel sad that that mentality is taking over our society completely.

I'm gonna risk it and sound very smug here, but I hear this a lot from non-technical folks and I completely disagree.

First of all, I'm yet to meet a STEM-educated person, who thinks that this "way is the only valuable way". Moreover, I'm convinced that this whole dichotomy is wrong. There are no different ways. It would be like saying that there is a way of writing on clay tablets using wooden picks vs. using paper and ballpen, and the paper-and-pen people are philistines. There's a reason we're doing the latter instead of the former - this is objectively better tech. Ditto for thinking. Maths is essentially distilled, formalized rational thinking.

Sure art and literature are valuable, we can learn a lot from them about humanity and we can experience a great deal of emotion (which is an important part of our lives). But don't for a second think you can feel the matter into subjection or dream your way to the Moon.

I know a few people who say things like "programmers think in binary code, and they fail because world is not black and white". But it is them who think black and white. The math you (are supposed to) learn on a technical training track actually gives you necessary framework to reason about uncertainty and fuzziness; I'd say programmers and engineers are better equipped to reason about the world correctly - because getting the right answers is the part of their training and jobs. The point is, technical training gives you (or is supposed to give) the precision of thinking, lack of which is - in my opinion - one of the reasons mainstream philosophy is so mostly useless pandering nowdays.

One does not have to choose either-or between arts and sciences. Just don't pretend you can reason about the world correctly without the latter, because the sciences is what humanity created to understand the world.
Dead-end. Use ansible.
The poor do not have the means or capabilities to "fight" a war, because it isn't a war in the traditional sense. Its more like boiling a frog alive - little things slowly happen, and at every step, most people don't think much of the laws being passed. Until one day, they wake up and see that the world they live in no longer gives them the freedom they remembered having, and any efforts to organize change is quickly stamped out by those who rule.

Things like information gathering and surveillance is the first step. In the name of fighting "terrorism". I predict in 2100, fighters who revolt against greed/riches of the elite will be called terrorists.
Kerry has spent the recent month advocating to send weapons into a conflict zone (Syria)...
Good lord, there was something up here this morning that talked about the pizza and fried chicken Snowden had for his birthday. Before that, it was 'his girlfriend's a pole dancer and here's the cache of her deleted blog'.

This guy stabbed his own cause in the back by going public, doing press interviews, and doing whatever else he could to make the story all about him, and for some inexplicable reason y'all want to shove the knife in deeper and twist.
American citizens’ being targeted for assassination or indefinite detention, recent laws have canceled the restraints in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to allow unprecedented violations of our rights to privacy through warrantless wiretapping and government mining of our electronic communications. Popular state laws permit detaining individuals because of their appearance, where they worship or with whom they associate.

Are you just highlighting that the article was written in 2012 or suggesting that because the article was written in 2012 it is not relevant or current? Or that the issues themselves, as mentioned above, are not current (ie. citizen target assassinations or NSA mining of electronic communications...that is so...2012)?
Isn't it more likely that you don't understand their views and the process by which they plan to enact them than that you fully understand them, better than they understand themselves?

Perhaps their driving motive is not politics at all, but something else (such as social change or well-being) and the politics required are simple a means to an end? Perhaps it's just that you don't understand their motives, or any number of other possibilities?

Your off-hand dismissal does nobody any good.
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And what would be left, of the HN we already have? No idealizing the past...
It could also be BI's First Frontier. Check out this (dated) history. http://www.scholarosity.net/documents/dw_family_tree.pdf P&G and Unilever were very early adopters of Data Analytics. For a long time P&G and Wal-mart were the largest customers of Teradata. Life and business are circles.
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Doing that wouldn't provide access to the history. Unless they always do this for every single device, there is no mountain of data to analyze.

The point we are discussing is not whether iMessage provides perfect security. The point is that iMessage doesn't give Apple a stockpile of personal data that can be indiscriminately targeted at any time the way GMail can.

I'm not saying it's a panacea or arguing in favor of Apple. iMessage proves that Google could engineer a system to protect users privacy by not stockpiling data if they wanted to, which you have incorrectly denied.
Which is REALLY GOOD.

We end up with divisive topics that only half of us is interested in on the first page. The other half might completely hate it, even!
And if you don't like Python, you usually don't have to touch it. The tasks you run on the server can be any kind of executable. They read some JSON from stdin, do their action and write some JSON to stdout. Whether that program is a Python/Perl/Ruby/LUA script or go binary doesn't matter.
You're taking Kerry's words WAY to literally. The US wanted Snowden and Russia said no, therefore the US had to respond. Kerry wasn't literally thinking "Oh my god! They said no! How dare they? What do you do now???"

The US knew what the answer was going to be before they even asked the question.
From the article:

"Chef works atop ssh, which – while the gold standard for cryptographically secure systems management – is computationally expensive to the point where most master servers fall over under the weight of 700-1500 clients. Salt’s approach was far simpler."

Does that assertion about Chef somehow don't apply to Ansible?

On the use case:

"I have this command I want to run across 1,000 servers. I want the command to run on all of those systems within a five second window. It failed on three of them, and I need to know which three."
It's interesting that the Washington Post is now going to educate us on journalism. Is suppressing information for the government considered journalism these days? I thought the entire idea behind freedom of the press was to act as a check to government power. I don't call what they do journalism, I call it state sponsored propaganda.
What this thread shows is exactly how many over exaggerating drama queens inhabit the HN comment system.
Agreed! The ability to both push and pull is beautiful. Push for most things, pull for deploys via git.
Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

If the guidelines state that you shouldn't complain in comments about submissions, then certainly you shouldn't post whole Ask HN submissions. And the irony of this comment hasn't escaped me.
Because dogs simply will not sit down and take a written test. Unruly bastards.
I don't know Ruby, but does Benchmark.ms clear buffers and flush cache? If no, the second query has a large advantage, sometimes you can get similar performance improvements without changing query...
All the random entries I got were either SF or crime... I think the source list of books may have some bias torwards those genres
I think salt is neato, but I also find it very frustrating to use! (Possibly through no fault of salt itself - I feel like I must be missing something.)

I am generally able to SSH into a box and get things configured the way I need. However, I have huge amounts of trouble translating that into salt scripts.

Consider logrotate. Here is the only documentation I can find on the topic [1]. From this, I have no idea what to put in init.sls to make sure a given log file is being rotated correctly. It seems this would work on the cmdline, but not necessarily in a salt script.

And that's just for logrotate! My uswgi + nginx configuration - translating that into salt - I don't know where to begin.

How do I make sure things get installed in a certain order? (Answer seems to be having 10 directives, for 10 packages, each depending on another, to enforce order.)

Is there anything that more closely mirrors what I actually do when configuring the box? SSH in, set certain values, etc? I guess I could write a shell script (or use fabric) but then I seem to have lost the point of configuration management.

[1] http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.logro...
And even if I were from the US. When I started visiting hackernews, nearly all stories were about tech, startups, or research results (like whether there is a correlation between years of experience and code quality, such things). In the last few weeks it's all about privacy and, worse, politics.

I'm a huge privacy fan, really. But after months of news about it, I'm quite through with it. We all know Gmail gets wiretapped, we all know how to encrypt data, and whether you do something about it is up to you. End of story if you ask me.

Politics too to an extent. It's important to know what's going on in the world. But I don't find it important to know where Snowden is going by the minute.
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Really it's somewhere between 250 and 300, but I chose 270 because 1) it's in the middle near where average-weight men would be and 2) starting strength just keep being good right up to around 300 pound squats.
Whether that comma should or not be there is actually not universally agreed. This punctuation is known as "Serial comma"[1], and some style guides require its use.

On that sentence though, I think it's different. The first part of the sentence is long enough that the comma is welcome as a natural stop (and breather) before delivering the second half.

By the way: I'm not a native speaker either.

[1] Also better known as "Oxford comma": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
Basic income is an interesting idea but the argument that automation and robots will replace all our jobs is no more true now than it was when I started my career as an engineer 20 years ago or when the Luddites smashed the power looms. Anybody who has worked in manufacturing knows that introducing robotics is expensive and a lot less flexible than you would hope. I guess it would be a scary prospect for believers of the singularity.
I've used Fabric, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, and have settled on Ansible; it's a sort of middle ground between Fabric and Chef that does more than just run commands on servers but doesn't require me to buy into a whole elaborate universe of configuration management servers and whatnots. Ansible is great.

The ZeroMQ stuff makes sense if you're pushing configurations inside a data center, but it's a dealbreaker for us having things hosted externally.
The argument is that as more work gets automated, the rate at which new roles get created slowly decreases (indefinitely - as i m sure theres an infinite amount of roles out there). But population increases at a rate faster than new roles come out, and so the logical conclusion would be that there are going to be displaced people that have no roles for them.
That's cute and all, but you probably--deep down--don't actually want that open standard to be OpenGL. OGL is a crufty, messy API, and even now support is spotty for the different versions.

For a very long time, for example, OGL 2.1 was the only thing supported by Apple, despite numerous extensions to bring it up to feature-parity with modern OGL. Vendor extensions made programming code a mess, and many of the core concepts as embodied in the API are minefields for developers.

Don't hate on DX just because it's from Microsoft--an open re-implementation would actually help everyone.
I don't understand your objection. My point was that US businesses are likely to be highly aware of the possibilities of PRISM now, after the Snowden leaks. That most US congressmen weren't aware of PRISM before the Snowden leak is neither here nor there.

And while it's certainly possible that they will all simply be told to shoo (and I didn't assert otherwise), a large number of big, clouty US companies (not individuals) hinting that they would like to see some more results from PRISM aggregates to the kind of political pressure that I'm not certain Congress will simply ignore.
> [Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)] added: “These are countries that violate press freedoms every day. And yet [Snowden]’s seeking political asylum in those very countries where . . . if he were to pull a Snowden in these countries, they’d jail him immediately.”

...exactly as the US has attempted to do, on trumped-up espionage charges no less? The _only_ reason that didn't happen in this case is because he learned from previous leakers and was smart enough to protect himself by fleeing the country beforehand.
There is an extreme case of the availability heuristic at work here. There are a ton of incredibly successful companies that use little or no OSS.
This is ironic.

Snowden is able to pass through Russian territory because, according to the law of Russia, it is allowed. This, says Mr Kerry, is deeply troubling.

However, blanket monitoring of internet activity, which according to the law of the US, is allowed, is not deeply troubling?
Thanks, very sobering. I am struggling with this recently. I have been trying to make people like me online and its been a losing battle. I believe you are correct about your suggestions. I am going to abandon my quest for recognition and do things help people instead. That is such a better use of time, yet it never occurred to me as plainly as you put it. Thank you
A License to Kill
Or you could get a job where you can bring your dog to the office. That's what I do - he likes going to work more than I do, since he gets to see all of his friends at the office.
Could you possibly link to the script, I'm having trouble finding it for some reason.
Sounds exactly like my friend is doing his work. I thought that it's inefficient to plan your day every morning, but he's extremly productive this way.
Furthermore, extrapolating from artificial load tests is also not "scaling"
I'd really like to see topic-based threads of submissions here, or tag-based grouping. Even if this lives at the top of the active topics list, it would consolidate and give other topics room on the front page.

I believe there are ways to both accommodate extensive discussion on the breaking / on-going news as well as keeping space for the core HN topics (hacking, CS, entrepreneurship, etc).
Snowden's past, which has admittedly received quite a bit of attention, is not the story.

Snowden's future is showing future whistle-blowers what they can expect, and is therefor hugely important. I urge any who still haven't to sign the pardon petition (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snow... - it already has enough that it should officially be responded to, but the more signatures the more likely a real response of some sort). Whistle-blowers are the only check we have against abuses in secret programs, unless you expect our representatives to prefer the public good over that of private companies when only those private companies know enough to make campaign donations based on it.
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But he technically did not enter Russian soil right? He was in transit and did not step foot outside of the terminal building.
Also used this book during university. We all had to print it out on a printer.
Lubuntu is a fantastic choice, I install it on all of my friends' old, crapped up, virus infested Windows XP computers and it has them running like new. The interface requires almost no adjusting to coming from XP, much less so than unity or xfce or even windows 8 for that matter. Throwing away old but functioning hardware should be a crime.
Personally, I don't think puppet sucks
if you hadn't posted this there'd be 50% less stories about him on the front page right now.
At least give us the important details when we have them. Right now it's just cranking out any and all details we can find about his current whereabouts, which are of no value as far as I can see. Do a writeup two days later about where he is, how he went there, and why. That'd be totally fine. All it takes is one story, not a filled homepage like we had for the past few days.
People have been throwing hyperbole around liberally in this issue, so again: powerpoint slides or mundane documents, none of it proves what you're claiming it proves. Edward Snowden has not shown he had any of the capability or access he is claiming. The fact it's marked "Top Secret" does not prove this - confidential information is always "need-to-know" - you can have Top Secret clearance but you don't get to just go and ask for all the Top Secret documents in the archive unless you have a provable reason to have them. It was perfectly clear what I was saying, if you want to get pedantic then its certainly too early to wildly speculate on Edward Snowden's secret NSA leaking team (as in the parent of this thread).

You may consider the phone records a huge infringement but again: this program was public knowledge. There were articles written about it. In fact it was public as early as 2006:
[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-ns...]. Edward Snowden releasing anything on it is thus mundane except for the fact Edward Snowden is doing it, and again - doesn't prove that he actually knows anything significant or had the type of access he claims to have.

Which is the point here: not what you personally find invasive, but the idea that Edward Snowden has the goldmine of data and knowledge people are wildly speculating he does, despite scant evidence in that direction.
It's also fatalistic, I might add.
No they will be hitting the duty free booze - you obviously haven't been around many Journalists :-)

And probably trying to persuade their editors that they should stay on Cuba for a few days just in case nudge nudge
Great book. It's amazing that after all these years the content is still relevant.
Ansible can use SSH or ZeroMQ, which is much faster.
Haha thanks. This isn't a karma grab though.