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A question: which hosting companies sell container hosting services for specific platforms like Sintra+Postgres, Java+Hybernate+Mysql, etc?

If I understand this correctly, you would want to be able to rent container slices with the specific stack you are going to use, already set up.
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I have the same question on short sales. Banks approve these things but then give buyers the run-around for months until they just give up. Eventually the forclosure goes through and the house is listed for 60% of the short sale price and sells a little higher.

I can't imagine why the bank would throw away 35% of the value and sell a house as a forclosure instead of helping a short sale go through. Has to be messed up incentives but I can't begin to guess how they are set up.
Cool:) just used JQuery and canvas. I built all the draw functions myself just to get more familiar with HTML5
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I don't agree with one of the premises, namely that editorial picks will be more "fair". I work at a company that competes directly with Apple in many areas. The app I worked on was never featured anywhere, despite getting to the top 3 in our category, and top 15 free overall. Being in the top 10 or even top 25 is the only traffic driver anyone competing with Apple will ever have, unless you're competing with something Apple acknowledges as completely broken (ie, you're Google Maps).
Assuming you're aware of the Vagrant AWS provider plug-in, it can be valid as a means for AWS deployment.
Google Asks Secret Court for Permission to Publish NSA Request Data
What do you find preferable about BSD and MIT licenses in this respect?
The only gun bills Obama has signed into law are the ones making it legal to carry guns in national parks and in checked Amtrak baggage.
Or her?
My "odd case", also known as family travel (adults travelling with children), represents 30% of all travel worldwide. Did I mention I used to work for Lonely Planet?

Regarding my apparently plentiful options, can you point me to a business hotel near Tokyo Station which has rooms for four people at a price that's a "bit" more than the standard under-Y10k business hotel cubicle? Go ahead, I'm waiting.

And Airbnb seems to be doing a pretty good job of shaking up that dysfunctional hotel culture...
I would rather say that the mentioned problems are typical of languages that use their own VM instead of basing on an established platform like JVM or CLR.

JVM and CLR are not very different. What would be the reasons to want to avoid JVM, but still consider CLR as an acceptable choice?
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I can understand that but surely one should be able to expect a member of congress to possess sufficient intelligence and moral judgement to be capable of recognising the stark truth of a situation when it's been laid out so unequivocally?

I mean, after watching the USA Today interview, it takes some pretty spectacular mental gymnastics to paint what Snowden has done as anything other than being in the public interest. Her constituents may be ill informed but she's a fucking member of congress for christ's sake.
Author's susceptibility aside :) You are totally right. Now that lightweight virt is broadly available on the server, we are going to see a very, very big change in how computing is done on the server, and all of today's tools (docker included) are going to look cute and primitive compared to what we'll have a in a couple years. I can't wait :)
I'm glad to read that someone took the opportunity to say to their face, what I think daily when I can even talk myself into watching / listening to such apparatchiks, any more.
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Wow... in a few comments, you have gone down a spiral of embarrassment.

First you post an arrogant self-serving "members only jacket" style post that literally does nothing for anyone. You didn't mention how to get into such groups, no tips for finding such groups or anything else remotely useful to anyone.

After that you intentionally go down the nonsense pedantic path of 'The OP didn't say "open".' ... which means you either (1) thought the OP wanted absolutely useless feedback to his question or (2) you are an asshole. Not sure which is worse to be honest.

Then, in a transparent trick to try to dig yourself out of the hole you had dug... you try to act like a victim of the commons. Just cause everyone hates you don't mean you are a victim in any sense, you might just be an jerk.

In a final, desperate pathetic attempt, you drop "Cory Doctorow" into the conversation and try to peer link to borrow his reputation because you have NONE of your own. Another pathetic, transparent, embarrassing tactic.

Realize that you might be the tragedy.
surely one should be able to expect a member of congress to possess sufficient intelligence

Knowing the history of and present state of congress, I don't know why anyone would expect that.
You were dismissive and insulting, saying that I and the vast majority of others have no principles. I think it was completely justified, because you demonstrated what I was claiming right in the message I was replying to.
The most disturbing comment from the article:

> * "We have to learn from these mistakes when they occur,” Representative Charlies Ruppersberger said to Alexander in the hearing. “What system are you or the director of national intelligence administration putting into place to make sure that if another person were to turn against his or her country we would have an alarm system that would not put us in this position?"*

So now the good Representative Ruppersberger is taking part in the automatic branding of Mr. Snowden as one who has turned against his country. For whistleblowing.

This is the wrong path.
I wonder if these conspiracy thoughts would be so prominent if not for the recent NSA news? It seems once trust is lost, everything is questioned.
The parent was referring to a single machine though.

Anyone using AWS and potentially spinning up N instances should absolutely be using configure management software, or at least professionally contract devops.
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He also discussed some of his ideas in this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2011: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127... .
One of the main reasons I use vim daily is it's ability to let me manipulate text in segments of 'text objects'. Its something that lets me feel like I'm grabbing chunks of code and moving them around like contiguous lego-bricks of logic.

I want there to be a way to do this with touch screens, but I haven't found it yet.

When it happens, though, I may retire my beloved keyboard.
McCarthy happened. So did Nixon. We will elect or appoint people like this again and we don't need to have a nightmare total collapse scenario in recent history to recognize the potential for abuse in a data archive like this.
... which says it's an excerpt from the book.
I though this question was interesting:

“What system are you or the director of national intelligence administration putting into place to make sure that if another person were to turn against his or her country we would have an alarm system that would not put us in this position?”

The thing is, Snowden didn't turn against his country. Snowden turned towards his country...and against the schnooks who were undermining it.

There's a balance here. There is danger in making it too hard for somebody with a conscience to use it to make things better. The fact that it took this long for the truth to get out suggests to me that the controls they already have in place (along with whatever social pressures surround them) might be fine or even a little too strict.
> circumvent HTTPS by compromising the certificate authorities

You cannot decrypt passive monitoring with a CA's key.
Why would they? It's not like traffic cops ever run the licenses of the attractive women they pull over for stalking purposes.

Oh, wait. They totally do that. Nevermind...
A short (5min) talk by Solomon Hykes of dotCloud about how their "docker" tool makes use of containers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xciauwbsuo
Yes, but it can be a patent trap:
https://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29#Mono_and_M...
Very surprised those start-ups don't flick the proposed acquisition terms to one or more competitors of the acquirer and ask them to make an offer. Even a low-ball is better than a liquidation.
And herein lies the issue of "companies exist solely to line the coffers of shareholders", with no responsibility to other stakeholders which is a narrow interpretation which had come about especially in the last 30 years or so. It's not a certain thing, although very common. Thorsten Veblen would call it a problem of remote capital, although other factors have also been at work since the 1960s.
The constitution is a simple majority away from being nullified at all times. Simply elect a president and congress who will do the bidding of the majority, regardless of the constitution, and the judicial branch gets steamrolled.

That's what's terrifying about the surveillance. While it could be genuinely benign right now, it only takes one bad election to put the equipment in the hands of very bad people who could do amazingly bad things with it.
Not really -- there are 1.4 million people in the US with "TOP SECRET" clearance, which means that most stuff flagged as such is far from it.

http://au.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-top-secret-clea...
Traffic doesn't seem to be enabled for me. It's very sparse on information. I'd like to be able to configure other "feeds"
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Now I understand what he means when he said you pick where the next player goes; the highlight is good. Very nice. thx
The root of terrorism isn't terror for no reason. When we smoke we know the repercussions, all manor of cancers. When we pull a trigger, we know that our target will be maimed. However, we do not that when being a certain place at a certain time will cause serious injury to our person or other people, we are taking an incalculable risk, certainly. As as society we can not even begin to contemplate uncertainty. when you confront the average person with uncertainty they crumble and apparently governments are no different.
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Yeah, I got that and appreciated it, but at the same time it's not "poetry news", you know ;-)
Don't forget this classic, relevant to this, and pertinent to other news since the 5th amendment decision is rather current today:
Don't talk to Police (Top Law Prof and Cop tell you why) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
> if you think the US is going to go fascist you're living in a fantasy land.

Snooping on citizen's private business seems quite fascist to me.

> No country with a high GDP has turned authoritarian.

For how long will the US have a high GDP? Every single empire has fallen, even the wealthiest.
I have used MySQL and Oracle and I have found MySQL to be more reliable, more performant, easier to configure, and easier to develop against.

I believe that in 80-90+% of the cases where Oracle is deployed, it is only still being used because business executives are out of touch and don't want to admit that the massive investments they committed their companies to are no longer required.
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youre probably doing it wrong, i can do that in a week with sublime edit. (no offense)

if i had to do this now id go to unheap.com and get that jquery plugin that squishes long text into a div without resizing it, squish-it (? or something), i think itd make it so much easier.

for my next project im planning to use squish it and am ignoring translation sizing in my designs from now on
Only a remote chance?

How often have people on HN mentioned that you're more likely to die in a car accident than in a terrorist attack again?
That is actually vastly incorrect. Your cash can be seized by cops etc with little redress: see as an example http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/police-i...
Love me some haskell. been playing with it for the past month as well. Have a mostly functioning BEP NN on my github. though for a problem like this AI would be simple :)
> Confiscating your cash would need to be done with some kinda of judicial order ...

In the US your assets can be seized by the police before you are convicted. This is especially the case with drug related matters. This website has details (and advocacy) http://www.fear.org
I don't believe this was nefarious and I do respect you tptacek, but cutting the break line is not an unknown way to attempt to off someone. It was even in the wheelhouse of these gomers http://5newsonline.com/2013/03/06/moms-brake-line-cut-over-c...
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Withings Scale
To be fair, traditionally there weren't a lot of events where you needed to figure out the number of farthings in a pound. I also read somewhere that loans were generally set at 5% (one shilling interest per pound loaned) because working out any other number was a pain in the neck. No idea of the date or veracity of that little nugget though.

I always thought the guinea was particularly funny, given that it doesn't really add much in the way of demarcation.
At first I thought you meant the Red Wedding (Game of Thrones), then realized this was not a typo, but both are still 100% applicable.
The flash disk on the MBP w/ Retina and MBA is not soldered in. It's a little gumstick module held in with one Torx 5 screw. (The RAM is soldered to the logic board.) They have changed the connector each for rev, though, so I wouldn't plan on upgrading it.
That seems to be the ebook.
IT's a chain of 4 pubs in 4 cities, as is apparent if you oh so cunningly go to the root URL
Clearance does not equate to access, or with "need to know". It simply means someone has been screened to a certain degree of trustworthiness to properly handle classified material.
So, in the "Bomb Wall Street," case cited today, does the fact that nobody was charged for planning to bomb Wall Street speak to reasonableness?
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> but it would be interesting to consider a more scaled up "opt out" program whereby you go through a one-time deep check and might be granted less monitoring

No, that would not be interesting, that would be treason.
It'd be one of those things that's 40 lines of Java, 15 lines of Ruby, 2 lines of Haskell... :) if you do it, post it! I'll hack on it tomorrow with my Haskell guru/mentor (I am not strong in functional languages yet)
Although they aren't designed for impact mitigation, there are also airbag vests for snowboarders and skiers in case they get caught in an avalanche. The vest inflates large enough and helps you "float" to the top of the snow wave that engulfs you.
And yet we have had more Pearl Harbors than we've had actual Gestapos, so maybe that "risk analysis" can be re-evaluated on all sides of the issue?
Any cases where anyone murdered a reporter by sabotaging their car, or where the US government murdered a reporter by any means at all would be fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Sleeper_Cell

My details were slightly off, but close enough.
No? It has no bearing either way on the reasonableness of the search, right?
I guess Chrome's built-in popup blocker is not as powerful.
Well, I say "remote chance" because when you get involved knee deep into confronting people with Power, there's no limit as to what they can do to make it up to you. Just like some people "commit suicide" with the help of a third person.
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As a ten year old I played a game like this one but where you chose a fixed grid, and took turns filling in the edges of the component small squares. The winner enclosed the most squares, I think! As a chorister in a C11th cathedral there was a lot of time to be spent not listening to sermons, so we devised (or learned from someone's dad) these fun games. I think we usually used an 8x8 grid.

Edit: here we are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes
How much are you making for a Wordpress site on Elance nowadays? edit: I don't mean you specifically, I mean people in general. Thanks.
Haha it would be a fun haskell algorithm to write:)
I like the way Alan Weiss has on his book The Consulting Bible. It basically says that half the fee is due on acceptance, with the balance due in x days. Alternatively, offer a 10 percent professional discount when the full fee is paid on acceptance. Make it non-cancelable and that the agreed-upon payment terms are due as described. Let the client postpone or delay any part of the work as they think it's necessary. Guarantee the quality of your work and offer them a full-refund if it doesn't.
Binney's comment on the serial number of the Verizon order was great. I never caught the number when studying the doc. By his logic there were as many as 79 other orders to other companies this year.

It is the second video down on your link and about 4 min in.
this is cool - thanks for sharing. However - re-captcha is beautiful b/c it helps digitize goog books.
It would be ironic if you typed that on a mac or iphone.
Robot 5 times out of 5 for me.
I think the act of storing both names is bad, because you multiply the amount of data that could possibly become wrong by 2.

With lower(), we can expect we'll get the right transformation of string A each time. If instead, we store string A, and then store string B as A.lower() and copy it... A.lower() will always be A.lower, but it's much easier for someone to come along, screw with the database, and change B.
Like many office buildings, it is of pretty good size and houses a goodly number of workers. What sets it apart from almost all other buildings its that it is symbolic. The financial reporters are still frequently "on location" there, it is in downtown Manhattan, and there is an enormous American flag covering the Broad St side of the building.
Though I'll believe it when I see it in (user) action, this would make a huge difference, IMHO, in the usability of the car. It would make it truly feasible to drive to Tahoe from the Bay Area, for example. That's something I'd pay for.
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The trouble is that, at the moment, asm.js is not a garbage collected environment, whereas TypeScript is much closer to JS than it is to C.

Static typing alone is not sufficient to make asm.js a good target for a language, I think.
On Scala
The Lisp of the past two or three decades is
fully multi-paradigmatic. It supports a
functional style...

Then, by your definition, it's not dishonest to say that "Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp."

I don't understand. What's the problem?
Let's hope they don't resort to bombing a major city in an effort to whip up fear and xenophobia..
thats pretty cool

edit: oops, stuck http://i.imgur.com/nTOJq1F.png
That poor horse.
http://collateralmurder.com/
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I don't think battery swapping is a great idea. The problem is that the battery is such a huge part of the car's cost. I can only guess, but I would estimate $15,000-20,000. Getting someone else's poorly treated battery could drastically effect the resale value of the car. The other company in the article tried to mitigate this problem by actually owning the batteries, but that isn't Tesla's model.
I guess the repo's you look at don't write very good commit messages?

If you find the number of days since last change useful... why wouldn't you also find it useful to know what was changed in that last change? That's what the commit message tells you, right?

(and the commit message is also the place you click on in the github ui to see the full commit with diff etc)
Technically a game of tic tac toe is comprised of two matches, one each player starting
Also, two of David Foster Wallace's best non-fiction pieces were for Rolling Stone. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace#Non-fictio...
My favorite example of why the government shouldn't be allowed to keep that many secrets is the Supreme Court case which established the concept of "National Security" (secrets). It was a wrongful death lawsuit regarding a plane crash just after WWII (if I recall correctly). The government said, "we can't release any details of the crash because it's a matter of National Security". SCOTUS said fine and the families of the men killed in the crash were told to pound sand.

Jump forward to the modern day, when the details of the crash are accidentally released with a bunch of other declassified information. It turns out that the flight had absolutely nothing to do with "National Security", it was just a routine flight in a plane with a poor maintenance history. The government was just covering their asses to avoid paying out for wrongful deaths, and bullshit so hard they created a legal precedent.
All software is accepted as is.. Etc etc haha jk thanks! I'll check what happened!
No I don't. I mean there's no point in extending a protection if you're just going to take it right back.

> To clarify...

I recommend not doing this again.
That's a good point, but we are a long way away from an automated general object recognition system. This discounts occasional outliers such as obvious objects which take up the whole page, or ones that are clearly visible against a gradient-less background (both of which can be pruned).

Currently, we are validating inputs from a human written database, which is continuously being expanded with new user inputs and new images. One image is used for validation, and the other is used for expanding the pool.
Yeah, it seems to me there is some tradeoff that could likely be expressed in a mathematical equation between distracting the public and therefore in theory not jeopardizing the status quo of intelligence gathering, and the cost of a too-large distraction. Not that it would necessarily be a simple equation (what's the cost of jeopardizing the status quo of intelligence gathering? No clear way to say for certain that a specific capability would necessarily head off future calamity, with the possible exception of really clear cases, which I think must exist at times. And what's the true cost of, say, military action? There's the direct. There's the fallout (literal and figurative - benefit to weapons manufacturing, damage/benefit to trade, injured veterans, reduced/increased spending from a scared public...)). But I think I would love to see that equation.

Edit: Closed parentheses.
I don' necessarily believe this is nefarious. I just believe we should remember that it's possible. Proof is hard when it's the CIA. They're professionals at covering things up. I'm far from an Alex Jones on such things, but I like to be highly sceptical of everything, and keep an open mind.

Here is a historical maybe: I don't have time to trawl through for good ones, as there are a lot of more, er.. unusual sites out there who'll believe anything. However, there are some aspersions cast over the deaths of some former white house aides too.

http://spartacus-educational.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/did-cia-...
I just played out this scenario, at this point player O must select any empty space.
That's... not very fair. Apple contributes a fair amount to many random open source projects and also runs a number of important ones (Webkit, Clang, LLVM, ...)

The kernel to OS X/iOS is open source but this is not of any serious utility as far as I know :P
You're right I guess. I just found it shocking to see it so nakedly on display.
For Perfect Bot's strategy to work, yeah, but the environment is very open to configuration. Set xIsComputer to false and yIsComputer to "monte" for a fun challenge in which you go first.
Just to be clear: no black kid, and a malicious witness trying to weasel out of multiple felony charges. :)