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Richard Fabian wants to publish his Data-oriented design if 100+ comment on G+.
The nice thing about Helios's GPS is that it's built into the handlebars, whereas BikeSpike mounts externally, making it much easier from a thief to destroy before stealing the bike.

I wonder what technology these use. There's an older stem mounted GPS from a UK company that uses a 2G network, which makes me skeptical about it's useful life. Bikes last for decades, but 2G networks will be replaced much sooner.
> the entire nation (USA) is built upon the bodies of the Natives who's land was stolen or coerced from them and then built by enslaved peoples stolen from Africa

The entire nation? Like 100% of everything that has been accomplished?

Ahhh, the good old - let me attribute all the negative things in the world to the actions of the evil white men that live in the USA, while ignoring every positive thing they did, while white-washing all other colors/races/countries - closet supremacist statement.
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To be honest, I've never had an MCollective deployment Just Work(tm). It's always taken some serious debugging to figure out what the heck went wrong this time.

RabbitMQ works but is slightly problematic since the authors have a morbid penchant for not wanting to support anything but Apache ActiveMQ. Ask a question about MCollective and RabbitMQ and the answer you get is 'switch to ActiveMQ'.
One of the reasons given by Thomas Jefferson for the separation from Great Britain was a desire to rid America of the evil of slavery imposed on them by the British.

And yet Great Britain managed to abolish slavery three decades before it was abolished in the US.
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How is Snowden pulling this off? Can anyone elaborate on the balance of power that has allowed him to stay free and travel? This seems to be quite a feat, but I can't read between the lines enough to sort out why these foreign powers are staying out of his hair.
And then something like Rwanda happens and everyone (quite rightly) asks why there was no intervention when everyone could see what was happening.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. And simple answers to complex questions come with their own problems.
1. You could use that rationale to defend anything e.g. "Children have been raped in every land at every point in history. It is human nature. Deal with it."

1.a. Michelle Knight's family is highly disfunctional and poverty stricken, and might get the help it needs as a result of the attention that her horrific experiences with Ariel Castro brought them from the media. Is that a defense of Ariel Castro?

2. The amount of people who died of natural causes last year in the US dwarfs the number of people who are murdered. Does that mean that murderers should go unpunished?

3. Nobody cares about you personally. We live in a capitalist society in which wealth is passed down to the next generation. An awful lot of that money was made from slavery.

4. America can do both good and bad things. The fact that it does good things is not an excuse for censoring bad things.
So, if articles do not appear here and get lots of upvotes, we are not informed or involved?

Do you think there would be any space left on the front page for startups & tech if the site focused on politics? Many political issues (and there are a lot of them) are objectively far more important than tech & startups, so it would be logical for them to crowd out the former content.
I'm sick of the moral relativism that you see when people point out American's shortfalls. You see words like "undemocratic", "despot", "dictatorship" thrown around by people who have little understanding what those words mean.

There is no doubt that America's past is stained with human rights violations. However, to hold up America as equivalent to the current regimes in China or Russia (to name just two) is laughable by anyone with an understanding of history. It comes from people who benefit from seeing a weaker US and these people chose to be ignorant because it advances their world view.
Do you prefer freedom or order? Do you prefer one way to do a single thing, or a thousand ways to reach the same goal?

(a) Freedom AND order. (b) I guess I prefer maybe three ways, having different characteristics, together with the knowledge of how to convert each of them into the other two.
Yep. For a portable solution there are a number of way of storing the hierarchy so that it's efficient to select a specific subtree.

One way I've done it before is to have a field that contains the path (eg node1/sub_n/sub_n2 etc) and another field containing the ordering (in my case I did it across the whole tree). You can then use simple single selects to get ancestors / descendants / subtrees / siblings / all sorts of things you need (eg where path like '/path/to/subtree/%s'). Obviously not totally efficient but easy to work with and fine for small trees.

The trade-off is that the operations to manipulate the tree are more fiddly - they make for a great little brain teaser though :)
Well in layman terms treason is anything that deliberately weakens your state in favor of those of your enemies. Pointing out specifics of U.S. cyberattacks on Chinese infrastructure might actually be one example.

But then there is also a Constitutional definition that Snowden would not fall under.
Yes, "not guilty".

Would you consider a system just that brought persons to trial without a strong probability that they were guilty as charged? If so, why have grand juries?
>USA was 90% white even up to 1960

This is made up.
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>It's whether the action has the effect of prejudicing the United States or benefiting a foreign government regardless of intent.

I wonder if there is a precedent supporting successful use of that charge. That's very broad wording. Taken literally, nearly anything you say that isn't puppies and rainbows could qualify.
Awesome. How many people have reviewed it for flaws? How many people have reviewed OpenSSH?
I love the sentiment, except for one thing. You say "I will upvote every one of them." Please don't. Instead, if you care so deeply about this issue, read all the submissions and then upvote only the GOOD ones. That way, those who are less interested and only see the stuff that makes the "front page" will see the good articles and their time will be better spent.

In short: if you think this is important stuff hackers will care about, vote it up, but smartly, not blindly.
1992 - a world without Java...

And, you know, the book about foundations is... SICP.)
OK, this is C Edition.
Without the option key, Cmd-C/Cmd-V just copies and pastes. Cmd-C/Cmd+Opt-V cuts and pastes.
Agreed. I work with Chef and it is my tool of choice but don't think that Puppet sucks.

The important thing is someone uses some form of Configuration Management. If people find Salt easier than Chef/Puppet/CFEngine/Ansible then great. At least they have something to build/scale their infrastructure.
Whole article about SaltStack winning the award, and not a link back to SaltStack website.
Ha - it gets a second chance! I think the main problem is that Medium can have multiple URLs for the same article. So it got picked up as an editor's pick and so has a different URL. Doesn't HN usually give a vote to the previous posting if the URL matches?
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What on earth are you talking about? I'm not ignoring any of it.
Interestingly this was not the book we used in Al Aho's CS Theory course in 2011.
>He's a CIA burner, used to attack the increasing dominance of the NSA within the US intelligence apparatus. This is an internal battle.

Close. He's actually a stooge for the Illuminati. That's why the media is focusing on him instead of the NSA programs.

Actually he's a double agent working for Russia. That's why he wasn't on the plane.

Actually... he was slated to do this by the Bilderberg organization to create a new world order. I know this because he hasn't been apprehended yet.

How am I doing at creating baseless conspiracy theories based on circumstantial evidence?
Like you, I'm opposed to bringing charges against Snowden. But that first statement you quoted is completely reasonable.

The United States is just saying, in fewer words:

> The United States and Hong Kong have a treaty—an agreement under international law. We are confident that our request for Snowden is covered by the treaty. If Hong Kong doesn't uphold its side of the treaty by complying with our request, it will raise questions about their commitment to the rule of law—international law, in particular.
The development of Linux Kernel 3.9
I doubt it was a bug. The developers will have set either a time limit on each decal or will have a maximum number of decals that can exist in any level.
Ask HN: Who is recruiting UX Designers in London?
There is the usual post in the beginning of the month asking which companies are recruiting Engineers around the world.

I guess it would be interesting to know which companies are recruiting typical UX/Web designers in London. (typical UX/Web designers == Design + HTML + CSS + (low JS level))

My interest is to build a list of potential targets for some skilled friends that are currently interested in relocating to London. So if you are recruiting it would be wonderful if you could reply on a comment.
I think that "limit" is just FUD - can anyone explain where it comes from? With persistent SSH connections, the overhead of SSH encryption should be comparable to other encryption methods.
I'm sick of so-called patriots who can't be bothered to actually serve.
Can we get the ability to change our usernames?
I make heavy use of SQL in my daily work. A lot of our business logic lives in the database as views, triggers and various functions.

I actually find that taking this logic away from the app code and into the database is one of the best architectural decisions we took.

I think the primary issue some people have with doing that is that they don't know working with databases well enough, and consider them a dumb place to store data, and nothing more. This is what makes it difficult to maintain.

One thing that I do agree with is that the SQL code isn't portable - but its the same as your Ruby/PHP/NodeJs/whatever code not being portable. I don't see that as an issue.
I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. Control and being able to confiscate are hardly the same thing.
The strangeness he's referring to is on Snowden, not Ecuador. Of course Ecuador is doing this to spite the US. However, Snowden shouldn't be surprised when it becomes convenient for Ecuador to change its mind once he is no longer useful.
For context you should mention that total historical portfolio of Accel and Greylock includes hundreds of companies. So the conspiracy theory would have to map to Diapers.com or Rovio.
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It's definitely designed that way (in Halo 1 on my Mac, you could watch while shooting at something, and see the old damage go away in real time after a couple magazines of ammo were expended).

Modern games on modern systems are getting better, but there's always a limit as to how much data will fit into RAM during a given scenario/level while still keeping everything else running smoothly.
Your strawmen-burning and turning this into a race issue only proves you wrong.
At one point in time ZeroMQ was not hardened and direct exposure to the internet wasn't a good thing. It appears they have fixed it, but it hasn't proved it self so the perception lingers on.

http://www.zeromq.org/area:faq#toc8
I think the most critical thing we could do is to make a small app that handles direct P2P communication. Let's take the internet where it was built to go.

For example: Each person stores encrypted their contacts routing information. You can direct-message (server-less) if the person is online, or if not, send it encrypted to others who are online, and when the person logs in, it's routed on to them. You could do micro-blogging like this, where messages pulse out to two or three degrees of separation, and only if they are validated (i.e. liked), do they push on further. This lets spam die soon (or sooner if it's marked as such) but important messages will make their way through the system.
I support Ruby apps so Ruby is on every server anyways.

With that said you can use Omnibus Chef Installer now which includes a copy of Ruby just for Chef. Good for servers where you don't need Ruby or small servers that would take awhile to compile a newer Ruby.
The +- thing comes from objective-C IIRC
I think this diagram I created for you may clarify things: http://i.imgur.com/o870mrh.png
I'm not familiar with JSON in Postgres, but thanks for the tip. Definitely something we can look into.
I'm curious if this is going to happen with every country he visits. I really wouldn't be surprised if he has documents for transgressions made by the NSA against every country on his list of places to go. For every alliance we have won with diplomacy, it only takes an act of espionage to act as the fire that burns it down.

I'm all in favor of espionage, but only against companies we are actively hostile with.

I'm really curious if he is going to produce damning evidence of deep, active, ongoing espionage against any of the other four of the five eyes (Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
Everyone writes with a bias. The difference is whether or not they are honest and open about what their biases are.

No, the difference is whether or not the approach their writing aware of, and compensating for, their biases.
Yep. And most other countries - with little bloodshed.
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> This is made up.

Look it up youself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_de...
I hope you're having as much fun with it as I did mine.

Fortunately mine is actually plausible. US Government agencies fight with each other 24/7 for funding and power.
> 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

Really? Because I don't think "the goal" is to get detailed articles written up in blogs that will show up on Hacker News, I think "the goal" is to get the story out to as many people as possible and raise its profile in hopes of influencing governments.

And you have to understand the way that the press works. They've already WRITTEN a story about PRISM... so they can't write another one, because it's not "new". However, they CAN report on the daily movements of this guy, Snowden. And they can publish every interview he gives. And each time they can (will!) review just what it is that he revealed.

I think that, intentional or not, Snowden has successfully managed to bring media attention to this issue in a way that previous efforts had not.
I don't think this is strategic intent as you're reading it. There's a world market and world price for oil. The US dips into their strategic reserve when prices get too high. This isn't consistent with "hoarding" oil in Alaska. It's environmental concerns that hold off on drilling in Alaska. Similarly, the issues with Shale isn't hoarding, it's environmental. In general it's citizen groups pushing back against drilling (Alaska or Shale) not on the US government.
Perhaps we can have a button - purely tech articles, and everything else. Readers can turn off/on this button and the links appear/disappear accordingly?
And the author weights in on the current NSA controversy: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/06/23/the-ruling-class-co...

The author is an old school Cold Warrior, so I'm not dismissing his dismissal of e.g. traffic analysis and the general utility of the NSA's current methods out of hand, I'll have to read it carefully.
In general I'm in agreement with the OP.

The majority of the stories, even those where Snowden is claiming something, are just that: stories. There is little deeply interesting or worthwhile here.

They spark serious discussion for sure, but one thing I've seen is that many of us on HN are taking Snowden's claims at face value.

This disturbs me. We should be sitting down and asking ourselves "what information here is valid? How can we even trust this guy? Can we analyze the source, the data and the conclusions to find inconsistency and think through what is really going on here?"

Ask any veteran spook and they'll tell you to trust your instincts. My (non-spook) instincts - and those of many people I know - are screaming "there is something really, really wrong with this story."
> the entire nation (USA) is built upon the bodies of the Natives who's land was stolen or coerced from them and then built by enslaved peoples stolen from Africa

The OP decided to bring race into this. And I know exactly were he is going with this. I'm just responding.
This has changed a bit now.

The only PCIe expansion capability available on any mac (including the new mac pro) is thunderbolt. The new mac pro does not have any internal expansion.

You can however, use something like [this](http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresschassis.html), as long as you realize that you only have access to PCIe x4 bandwidth.

I've also not seen any posts of anyone actually doing this yet.
Tablets, like mobiles generally sufferer from planned obsolescence. They are not meant to be used and receive updates for years and years, like people used XP.

I want my grandma to not have to relearn to yet another UI every two years. Canonical has commited to support the LTS releases for half a decade, which, while not coparable to XP, is for older folks still a better bet than anything the mobile world has to offer.
> I think this has something to do with the tactics used in federal cases

Yes, and that tactic is not wasting resources bringing a case unless it's a slam-dunk. Say what you want about the Schwartz prosecution, but it was a slam-dunk case. The debate was political: whether his actions merited such harsh punishment, not legal: it was clear and undisputed that he entered the closet, downloaded the articles, changed his MAC address to evade the ban, etc, and those actions were almost certainly crimes within the letter of the law.

A system where a trials didn't result in a high conviction rate would be supremely broken. It would mean that prosecutors were bringing cases without enough evidence to make them a likely win.
It might be plausible, but that doesn't make it fact. Literally the only evidence you provided for this assertion is that the NSA is more powerful than the CIA.
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Some of the primary things people use computers for are watching flash videos and listening to mp3s and I would rather people use 99% Free software and 1% proprietary software than the other way around because someone zelously recommended to them a 100% Free Distro, which they found unusable and then switched back to windows. One of my worst experiences when starting out with Linux was installing Debian on a laptop, when I was without ethernet, because it didn't come with the proprietary wifi driver I needed, I don't wish to subject a non-technical person to that.
>That doesn't seem like it would be nearly as awkward nor as difficult to prove as is implied here.

That goes double if they can declare him an "enemy combatant" and try in in a secret military tribunal, as opposed to normal kangaroo court.

>I would think secret details of spy programs would almost always harm national security (insofar as you believe spying can aide national security).

How could it be any other way?

>The whole point of spying on communications depends on the targets not knowing they're being listened to.

In that case, I think there is little doubt as to whether the foreign targets were previously aware of our activities.
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why not just import from your new reader? much simpler!

1. login to new reader of your choice... whatever it may be

2. import from google reader (they ALL offer this)

3. profit!
If the URL matches (or is "similar enough" under some secret metric) then a submission acts as an upvote for the original. In this case the URL is no "similar enough" so it's a new submission.
Browsing around ansible's website, I found the "quickstart" link. From that page[0]:

> We’ve recorded a free 2-hour presentation designed to ...

Wait. The quickstart presentation is 2 hours?!

Looking for an easier way to get started...

[0]: http://www.ansibleworks.com/quickstart/
rthomas6's is just as plausible if you believe that the Illuminati exist. And we're already talking about things that have no evidence to back them up, so why not?
In simple terms, yes. Or if she
is really sick, just show up at the
emergency room of any Hill-Burton
hospital. The US healthcare
system is a patchwork with problems,
but broadly for people with
serious, e.g., life threatening,
medical problems, we don't turn
them away -- first cut, broadly,
with holes in the cloth.

But in the case in the Obama
town hall, supposedly the woman
could pay a reasonable amount
for health insurance. In that case,
just move to a community rated
state, wait whatever waiting period
if any, get medical insurance
at the same rate as everyone else
in that 'community rated' state,
and be fine.

Could argue that in part Obamacare is a
path to 'community rating' for
all the states. But some of the
states don't want community rating --
as far as I can tell, really only
the richest states want that.

My view, in brief, is that Obamacare
was not about healthcare. Instead,
Obama wanted to play politics and, generally,
just wanted a bigger Federal Government
to have still more ability to play politics.
Nancy wanted a big case of 'socialism' --
Nancy just dreams of socialism,
in particular
of Big Daddy Big Federal Government taking
care of everyone and making everything
'all right',
especially for
insecure, single women with
small children. Really Nancy
wants to use the Federal Government
to establish a lot of
'social and cultural values'
that would conflict with
'limited government'. Nancy
wants a big, security blanket,
socialistic
government providing a
basic level of material
support and quality of life
for everyone.

I could agree with Nancy except
I fear that her hands on the
economy would make the economy
so sick it couldn't provide
what she wants, that is,
she will choke the goose
that lays the golden eggs.
If Nancy could actually do a good
job, then we have something
to discuss; I just fear that
Nancy will make a mess,
a disaster. To me it's first
mostly a matter of simple
competence at execution
and not 'political principles'
or 'social philosophy'.
I just think her boat
will leak and not float.

And, yes, even if in simple
terms the execution is good,
there will be the issue of
motivation -- if the 'floor'
provided by the Federal Government
is high enough, then a lot of
people will try less hard
and the goose will lay fewer
golden eggs.
Greenwald has written a New York Times bestselling book on executive authority, broken a story on his blog about wiretapping that led to front-page stories on most major newspapers in the country, and Russ Feingold read from his blog during the Censure hearings. What have you done?
OK, "proximate" rather than interlocking. I did understand the geometry of it, I just chose the wrong word. Thanks for your explanations! :)
I totally understand the strategy and absolutely don't rule out the fact that it may have saved more life than it brutally took. But it doesn't change the fact that one nation can make the decision to murder thousand of civilians in hope that it'll save (allies mostly) lives.
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