skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jinja2 and mako are supported, and you can even write your own renderer without much effort if a templating language is not supported.

There's even a renderer for pure python, allowing one to write config files in python for more control and flexibility.

One wonders if you've ever actually tried Salt. It really is OK to have an approach of: "I like Chef and it works for me." More power to you. Everyone should use the tool that works for them.
Check out http://kraken.com/ which is currently in beta.

(Disclaimer: Owned by my employer... but 2+ years development, it should bring something new to the area.)
What your registrar sees when your domain is seized under a sealed warrant
Ultimate Google reader alternative for the hacker.
You can have the same debate about logic and mathematics, or to some extent philosophy and mathematics.
Totally agree, and would love to open source if anyone is interested in helping out.
The page where you can get the button also should have a description of or a link to what PRISM is, even if it's just a link to the Wikipedia article, it would increase the ability of this thing to inform people infinitely :)
I tend to think he knew they would find him and he preferred to be famous and hopefully talked about when they did. He wanted to control what he could of how he might be presented to the public. He probably also did not want to disappear one day with nary a word about him or spoken by him ever again. He wanted change. He risked a lot for it.

I don't think he risked it so he could do a few interviews. The fame and media attention is a tool.
You're right. I'd prefer to call those who allow fear of terrorists to govern their lives (and political decisions) cowards. I would not want to insult those who wet pants by comparing them with such people.
I actually just commented about this same sort of thing. Except I think voice messages would be far more effective, and a rep would actually have to listen, whereas letters can be easily dismissed and thrown away. How about a website that utilizes the computer's mic and instantly sends the voice message to the rep? Wouldn't that be easier, cheaper, and more effective? (Of course, the scope of creating such as website would be much more difficult)
Just a reminder: you probably shouldn't be placing untrusted third-party JavaScript files on your site.

At least audit and mirror the file on your own server.
> Human access should not be allowed unless the data has already been warranted

Access should not be allowed unless the data has already been warranted.

I don't care a fig whether my privacy is being violated by amoral machines or amoral humans.
It sounds like this court is saying:

A. Abstract and not patentable: "Instead of charging your audience for your service, allow others to advertise to them via your service and charge the advertisers."

B. Patentable and not abstract: "Instead of charging website users for the use of your website, allow others to display advertisements on your website and charge the advertisers."

There is something about patents that seems to melt the brains of certain judges.
There's nothing quite like the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

For sufficiently recent dates, web caches can serve a similar purpose. Some of those can be accessed conveniently using the Firefox plugin "Resurrect Pages" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...).

You can preserve the present version of a site for yourself. No tool will work for all sites, but some tools will work well for many sites. WebHTTrack is good. It will record the address and date of each capture.
Lifting barbells allows you to control the weight much more than climbing or punching things.

If you read Starting Strength (Riptoe, mentioned many times on this thread) you'll learn about the recovery and response cycles to stress on the body. You should be regularly increasing the amount you're lifting regardless of your bodyweight (which is what you are always lifting in climbing,) in order to actually increase your strength over time.

Barbells also allow you to start with smaller weights at the beginning of the workout, and then move on to heavier sets when you're warm. AFAIK there's no way to do this with climbing.

Re: barbells not "natural" - firstly, more natural than most of the other equipment in the gym, and secondly it depends what you're doing with them. lifting them over and over, slowly is one way to use them (and builds strength), but speeding up your reps and/or performing power cleans will improve your power (literally rate-of-work) which is what is important in sports like martial arts and ball games. You can train for almost any sport with a barbell, with the right lift, rate, set lengths and intra-workout rest period.
> Since no government provides electronic payments, there is no other convenient way to donate to wikileaks

Do you think the government would allow you to donate to Wikileaks?
Not to mention the fact that they're both from the same political party, so Carter does not have a partisan interest in portraying the current administration as worse.
Tell me that the homeowners who put up the misleading signs get fined, preferably heavily, knowing how wealthy those homeowners likely are.
More growling
Try this search, china credit four winds, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=china+credit+four+winds, to learn about what appears to be a Maoist style top down credit crunch. E.g. from the U.K. Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1c2f126c-d982-11e2-bab1-00144...):

"Echoes of Mao in China cash crunch

By Simon Rabinovitch in Shanghai

©AFP

As China’s credit crunch takes a turn for the worse, the question of why the central bank has permitted market conditions to deteriorate so suddenly and so sharply looms ever larger.

[ Details on the credit crunch and possible causes. ]

But in the midst of the extreme market stress, a statement issued late Wednesday by the central bank raised the possibility that politics are also playing an important role.

[...] the People’s Bank of China ordered a thorough implementation of the new “mass line education” campaign launched this week by President Xi Jinping – a campaign that in its propaganda-style and potential scope carries echoes of the Mao era.

The Communist party cadres that run the central bank were told to attack the "four winds" of “formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance”, as demanded by Mr Xi...."

It appears the purge of Bo Xilai and company did not signal this sort of thing would stay in the past.

ADDED: Mass Line according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_line):

"The Mass Line (from the Chinese qunzhong luxian) is the political, organizational and leadership method developed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese revolution. As described in a Revolutionary Communist Party USA pamphlet, it is the "concentrate[d] .. correct ideas that the masses gain in everyday life", as gathered and published by the party. Mao developed it into a coherent organizing methodology that encompasses philosophy, strategy, tactics, leadership and organizational theory that has been applied by many Communists subsequent to the Chinese revolution. Chinese communist leaders generally attribute their conquest of power to the faithful pursuit of effective "mass line" tactics, and a "correct" mass line is supposed to be the essential prerequisite for the full consolidation of power.

According to Frederick Teiwes, Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, the "mass line" was related to the CCP's mass organizations. "Fundamentally, for all the CCP rhetoric concerning the 'mass line,' the unions and other mass organizations functioned more as Stalinist "transmission belts" in laying down the party line and extending the reach of the state," he wrote."

New leaders, new party line ... we'll see.
Indeed, Naughty Dog copy protects its work, it should respect others. There's a lot of speculation be it: interns, lazy artists, bad production managers etc. What I'd like to know is if any other work is directly derivative in the game.
eh? From your own quote: >>The word "defeatist", for example, has no particular political connotations now.

"Defeatist" has nothing to do with no one 'getting to ask' a question.
My olds have no idea what they are doing and have to relearn it every time it gets turned on anyway.

From experience working with end users over the last 20 years this is normal whatever your age for non-technical users. Discoverability is more important than absolute consistency.
Zinc is an api that could be pretty useful for this. It let's you write code to ship stuff. Pretty slick - https://zinc.io/
Do you have any resources where one might learn about CSIEs? Where to get started, available tools, best practices, etc.
Wow, this looks great. I've got a talk proposal submitted for DjangoCon this fall and might just integrate this into the presentation, should it get accepted.
I haven't read newspapers or magazines in a long, long time, and TV shows I could easily live without (don't watch any in close to a year), especially if we had indie shows with interesting business models to replace them. I'd gladly pay for my content, but I think there's other models to be explored without appealing to ads. Ads are everywhere because they're easy to put to work, and the payout is potentially really high (if you're ok with helping big corps, their investors, and the centralization of wealth.)
This is great. One day I was exploring Malibu and found one of these small narrow entranceways. They had a "guard" (guy in a yellow t-shirt) sitting on a foldable chair telling people it was a private beach. Pay these people no regard. Walk on to any beach you want. If the sand really belongs to the homeowner, they would have a fence surrounding it. Even if it happens to be private, the public should still have an easement to pass through. Remember, if they want to kick you out of their private beach, they need to call the police. They can't eject you with force.
> I don’t want to be alone, but I want to be left alone.

I have always suffered from this as well. Perhaps it is just a touch of introversion? I have a happy marriage and family but I often need time all to myself or I just get overwhelmed by the constant stimulus of...other people. I don't even necessarily do anything different than I would with my family, though I generally try to work on my own projects or study something interesting.
The S&P pissed off Washington with a downgrade (shortly after which they got charged with fraud and sued for $5 billion by the Feds), but I'm not aware that Moody's has done anything to really piss off Washington.
This is a non-solution to a non-problem, invented by a non-cyclist.

The first and most obvious issue is that it isn't an effective anti-theft solution. Professional bicycle thieves use vans and target components as well as whole bikes. It takes them about fifteen seconds to remove a set of handlebars - today they do this to quickly steal the STI brake/gear levers (which are often worth several hundred dollars). A GPS tracker would only be effective if it was hidden or permanently attached to the frame.

The line "Imagine gauging your speed without having to read a display or pull out your phone!" seems farcical, given that handlebar-mounted bicycle speedometers have been around for decades and cost less than $20.

Using non-red rear lights is illegal in most jurisdictions and not wise anywhere.

The stated battery life is just seven hours.

Perhaps most grievously, the handlebar-stem assembly is completely non-adjustable and one-size-fits-none. Existing handlebars with an integrated stem are marketed solely for racing, but are available in many different sizes. To cover the entire range of road bikes, you'd need thirty or forty different sizes.
Love it! This is the kind of initiatives we should be working towards.
>It's a thorny issue. On the one hand, Snowden clearly committed treason

Nope http://lmgtfy.com/?q=treason

>the US have a much fairer process of trial than most other countries,

Really? I'm skeptical.
Firefox OS would seem to be the most "real" open-source attempt at an OS with a fully (superset of) HTML5 UI-layer.
Did you say that even public beaches require a key, which I assume only residents of the 'allowed' neighborhoods are able to attain?
While that’s true, over half of Munich’s consumers are aged 45 or higher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_Growth_of_Munich#Age...
It has. It's also the reason why alternative ways of financing the content aren't being widely explored. And it's not like you're not still paying for those TV shows and magazine's, indirectly and inefficiently and fueling the brainscrambling agencies along the way. TANSTAAFL.
Cartoon Meeting Objective
Awesome. I've never been to Malibu, but I can definitely see this as a useful app if I ever do decide to go. If the locals have trouble finding the public beaches, I can't imagine I'd be able to do it without some help.
This app was led in part by an LA journalist and lover of Malibu beaches, Jenny Price. She had been reporting on these public beaches in a series that ran on laobserved.com, a popular LA blog.

Here's the first such piece, which I notice ran in 2006:

http://www.laobserved.com/intell/2006/08/guide_to_malibus_hi...

Here's a link to the announcement of the kickstarter campaign:

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/05/time_ticking_for_j...

which contains pointers to some of her other articles.

It was a genius idea on someone's part to get her to build an app around this knowledge. She's a journalist, not a computer nerd.
All I see is html, javascript,ruby,etc..

Is there any c/c++ ?
Since when is the US "handing over" anyone?
"some beaches are private" is actually incorrect - all beaches in California are public from the water to the high tide line.
First of all, you need a trial. Go ask the people at Guantanamo.

Then it needs to be fair. Which means that both parties (the State and the individual, in this case) abide by the same laws. This is what is tricky, but in this case, Snowden could point out that (simplifying a lot):

* The law he is abiding by is the Constitution.

* The prosecutors will claim that he has broken other laws which have not been deemed unconstitutional.

* While those laws are reviewed (if they are, upon his appeal), he will not be treated justly (which to him probably seems quite likely).
Well, make no mistake: the 5-paragraph structure is a crutch. It's like a coloring book: all the lines are drawn for you and you fill it in. That's not a bad thing, though, because you're learning about muscle control and coloration and texture... but it's completely different from drawing your own picture.

At the point you've learned how to construct an argument and substantiate it with supporting claims, you're ready to leave it behind for longer (or shorter!), less structured forms... or to pull it back out when you feel it's appropriate.
You may have missed the part where he said he was looking at Dropbox (which you may remember as being widely reported being mentioned in PRISM slides as "coming soon").

So, I think the assumption that he is trying to dodge the NSA is a bad one.
> I think the most critical thing we could do is to make a small app that handles direct P2P communication.

Agreed. In order to actually solve the problems we face though, this p2p app needs to always encrypt messages -- even for indirect messaging. It needs to solve the authentication problem. And it needs to be opensource for perpetuity.

Forward secrecy ("I threw away the key") and repudiability ("You can't prove I sent that") would also be nice. OTR has these and I highly recommend reading the OTR papers [1] [2].

All in all this is a tall order. Heck, authentication alone is a tall order. The OTR Pidgin plugin has you enter a shared secret in order to authenticate a new buddy. I'm not sure this is ideal. Normal users will agree on that shared secret through an insecure channel like phone or text, or just use a guessable one, opening the door to a MITM attack at the most critical stage.

I'd rather see a web of trust [3] solution to the authentication problem. Bootstrapping the trust network is of necessity harder because it requires more careful interactions, usually f2f, but it does enjoy a viral property: the more users in the trust network, the easier it is to fill out your authenticated contacts list, since you'll be getting many of their identities through WoT introduction.

Maybe the existing GPG web of trust could be used as the base -- ie, offer import of GPG keys and trust database, or just reuse the GPG code straight up.

[1] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/otr-wpes.pdf

[2] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/impauth.pdf

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Trust
How many people have reviewed Paramiko? In particular, how about that ecdsa patch[1] to Paramiko that you'll need to be accessing modern Ubuntu or Fedora (and before long, RHEL/CentOS). What about the python-ecdsa[2] (that paramiko's provisional support for modern Fedora and Ubuntu's default configs is based on)? This entry from its README seems pretty frightening:

This library does not protect against timing attacks.
Do not allow attackers to measure how long it takes you
to generate a keypair or sign a message. This library
depends upon a strong source of random numbers. Do not
use it on a system where os.urandom() is weak.

I'm not saying Paramiko (or its patch sets) are insecure, just pointing out that the same arguments can be made against the libraries and code that Ansible is based on.

[1] - https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/pull/152

[2] - https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa
Strong eventual consistency
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I think you're right that Salt/Puppet and to a lesser extent Chef take the wrong approach, but you make some confusing comments that make me suspect you might not understand what these existing approaches are about.

> IMHO, the overwhelming problem with salt/cfengine/puppet style solutions (which I will refer to as 'post-facto configuration tinkerers', or PFCT's) is that they potentially accrue vast amounts of undocumented/invisible state

I think you mean "post-facto" as in: "run after everything is done"? This is not the way that people would advocate Puppet should be used. Puppet should be used from the start, not added as an afterthought once you are done.

> IMHO, a cleaner solution is to deploy configuration changes from scratch, by deploying clean-slate instances with those changes made

This isn't a cleaner solution, this is almost the solution you get when you use Puppet. With puppet the development workflow is like this:

- Span up a vagrant VM

- Run your manifests against this VM to test them

- To check in, run your manifests against your staging environment

- To deploy, spin up new clean production VMs and run puppet manifest against them

- Use a reverse proxy to route all traffic to new production VMs. Terminate old production VMs

> PFCT's deployment paradigm tends to be relative slow and error prone.

This much is true. Puppet's slow speed is particularly galling, but maybe that's just because I use it at work.
The CoA for Federal Circuit operates very much like the FISC for patents.
Honestly I prefer to die.
The thirteen colonies were only a small part of what made up the United States. Anyone else was not counted in the Census which is basically 80% of the rest of what became the USA. And the many of the people in that 80% were wiped out by disease, warfare, etc...

Basically, the Americans conquered the whole country. Its like the French declaring anything west of the Mississipi theirs. What happened to the people living there? I bet they didn't say, yes France, you own us.
Probably not. It's INTENDED to be an exclusive neighborhood. The city government is probably rigged to maximum effectiveness at protecting the interests of the wealthy and exclusive. So doing things that impede the rabble is probably rewarded, not punished.
HoTT even more than that. Type theory does what you describe without the "homotopy".

See: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2013/06/the_hott_book.ht...
You know, it's entirely possible they were just mistaken.

Chill.
The four winds is being invoked because China allowed their economy to get too juiced on leverage, and imbalanced from uneven stimulus measures. It's little more than a useful prop for the party to try to squeeze froth out of the system before it ends in an even worse crash.
> you care about network security, why are you exposing ssh ports in public anyhow? Put them behind a VPN.

You don't need to do this. SSH is secure enough. Require key-based authentication and leave SSH on port 22.
I don't understand your point. The US is arguing that treaties that have been agreed to between HK and US should be honored because they are "the law" between those two countries. The US has not signed the ICC treaty, as you stated, so that is not "the law" binding the US. You have no point here unless the US had signed the treaty but failed to respect its terms.
I realize this may not be a popular opinion, but I think Snowden should turn himself in. There is a wider America then the one we get here on HN. The wider America is the same one which voted for Bush and don't own passports. To that America it is easy to see Snowden as a traitor and running to China and Russia isn't helping.

I realize that Manning has had it pretty rough while in custody, but:
1. Snowden is a civilian. He has not submitted himself to military law. As far as I am aware, everything that has happened to Manning is (unfortunately) in line with military law.
2. Manning leaked GBs of confidential documents seemingly at random. Snowden is pointing out a particular problem which he finds morally repulsive. These are two different issues.

In short, the more Snowden acts like a criminal, the more he will be perceived to be a criminal. Monitoring citizens is one thing. The failure of the criminal justice system / law and order is another. Furthermore, it is difficult to support him when he is in hiding.

Snowden is acting like he did something wrong. He should own it.
That the court doesn't find these claims any more broad or abstract than any other is more a condemnation of the status quo for these kinds of patents.

Because, truly, this one isn't egregiously bad in its phrasing. It's at least as well-defined as any number of such patents that have held up under re-examination.

And therein lies the larger problem.
Back in the game? Wikileaks is as at the forefront of global human rights protection. Along with the Pirate Party, Wikileaks are the only group proposing political change that is remotely in line with the technical reality that the world's youth are already familiar with. They are at once daring, unceasingly active and morally reasoned.

By contrast, individual old-world political or journalistic entities that may be said to share even one of the above properties are few and far between.

A more appropriate title would be NY Times Journalists Stick Heads Back in the Sand.
This would have a whole lot more credibility if you had actually done something yourself, rather than doing the same as everybody else, which is to say nothing at all except writing a bit of indignant text on a website.
That isn't what the article says, though: 'As patent scholar Mark Lemley put it on Twitter, “we’ve got two Federal Circuits on this issue, and it seems to depend on the luck of the draw"'. Mark Lemley is a high profile (sceptical) patent scholar. If he is correct, then there are some voices of sanity on the Federal Circuit. The question is, is the influence of the voice of sanity increasing or decreasing?
Especially since he had to deal with the fallout of his predecessors' human rights violations, especially in the "abets our enemies and alienates our friends" department.
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Just the clouds you say? I count 12 distinct tiles on that screen. They were incredibly efficient with space-- the rom for that game is 40kb.. less than two uncompressed htmls of the front page of HN!