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I've read about https://github.com/tthieman/dagobah recently, but I haven't used it...also, if you think celery is too heavy, you'll probably think this is too. I've also heard good things about https://github.com/binarydud/pyres.

Despite all that, I usually just find myself running celery. I'll usually have a redis instance going anyways that I can use as a sub-optimal queue, and if it's a small enough site, I'll run a single worker instance on the same machine as the host.
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So, at this point, are you saying unspecified Lockheed employees should be brought up on criminal charges for doing their work in a manner approved and even directed by the US government?

Or do you just not have any idea how government contracting works?

Edit: Perhaps I should be more clear. There are multiple companies working on these projects. Some of them are in multiple countries. The US government has awarded contracts for various parts of the F-35 project to these various companies and told them to work together. The government knows this will involve communicating between multiple sites around the world.

Even within the US, the government knows different companies are in different states, and does not expect the entire workforce of every company to relocate to one place. These contracts are awarded to geographically diverse companies for political reasons, which you might not like, but that's how it is.

You can't charge people with a crime for executing on a government contract in exactly the manner they are supposed to.
I wonder if we will see a non-corrupt America within our lifetime.
The top ten subreddits(excluding NSFW ones), based on the number of subscribers, are chosen to be the default ones.

New accounts do not increase the default subscription count, until they subscribe or unsubscribe to any other subreddit.

You can find some good comments on the matter here http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1dtvwz/i_belie...
Now r/adviceanimals users are clamouring for a quickmeme alternative, because the present meme sites (eg: livememe.com) suck. Opportunity for anyone that wants to clone quickmeme.com in the next ~6 hours.
Tools might have got better but.. it hasn't got any easier to develop for the web. To be a web developer today you need to know the ever changing HTML/CSS Specifications, have a good understanding of Javascript, be fairly good with the backend platform you use, have some design aesthetics, know the HCI basics for UI design, be up to date with the mobile browsers, have knowledge of a couple of SQL or NoSQL data stores, knowledge of web security and maybe even have knowledge of cloud hosting services.

Of course in big projects developers/designers only take up one of the above tasks but in most down to earth projects handled by smaller companies and startups you need to be an all-around expert to keep things running.
Woah, you are assuming too much from my post. Where in my post did I say that the United States is a champion of democracy? Or perhaps a beacon of civil rights? If the context somehow suggested that's what I meant, then I apologise, that was not my intent. I merely wanted people not to make rash positive judgement about either Venezuela and Ecuador merely because they are supporting Snowden and Assange.

And besides, I am not American.
Unless the guy is a Russian "businessman", then he lost nothing.
You're confused and likely misguided.
My aunt just went on a 3 month hiking trip through the country.
This is the single most important question I had. It can't be much worse than running voice memo all the time, which isn't that bad.
Interesting. It seems Chrome doesn't support X-Frame-Options
I absolutely agree with you.
NSA got it covered. They save everything these days.
You seem to be implying that a tax strike would be inevitable, and that enough people would participate for it to matter. But most of the country doesn't agree with the Tea Party's revolutionary ideals. Lots of people don't consider it a 'scandal' at all. I don't believe the vast unrest and civil revolt the Tea Party wants would actually manifest.

Consider that the Republicans have had their share of scandals, illegal wars, and their own turn at the wheel using the IRS to investigate their political opponents. They're still around.
http://packetstormsecurity.com/news/view/22713/Facebook-Wher...
You do know the US Government set up a (sorta) fake vaccination centre to catch Osama Bin Laden? The original post we're commenting on is how the US can't really be trusted. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccina...
Red dit bans the posting of personal info. They didn't know.
Litvinenko was pretty public IIRC. Still dead. Still radioactive.
The homepage is a bit dry, but for a look at what Numba is already capable of, this blog post shows that Numba-translated Python code runs about as fast as optimised Cython code (the current tool the SciPy world uses for fast code):

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/06/15/numba-vs-cython-tak...

The downside is that Numba can't yet translate any old function you give it, especially if it involves string manipulation (as the name suggests, the focus is numeric). But it's still quite a young tool, and I'm optimistic that that will improve.
Bad idea. I personally know a guy who was illegally kidnapped by the US government from Ecuador with the assistance of local police. Snowden will regret this decision.
I wonder if Mr. Teveia Barnes (correction: Mrs) is aware of her place in history: One of the brightest minds of our generation spent years of his life developing a technology that has essentially no other purpose but to make her C&D (which we knew would come one day) completely ineffective.

(This is assuming Mrs. Teveia believes that the bitcoin foundation runs the servers that make up the bitcoin network, which I think is what this is all about.)
http://screenqueri.es is the much better choice (if you really want to skip the test in an actual emulator)
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I use rsync with a local commit hook. I wrote it up here: http://blog.markwatson.com/2013/06/automating-clojure-web-ap... for Clojure auto deployments and I am starting to use something similar for Meteor deployments.
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You could call it SPQR, for something like Super pretty quick R if you want to. I'd say not calling it SPQR is an opportunity missed anyway.
I think Reddit (and HN) should make votes and ip addresses transparent for external analysis. The spammers hide behind these.

They could also be more brutal with punishments, route every single link to the offending site through a page that says they were spamming so it's an inconvenience for people and a wall for search engines.
What are the potential downsides? I've been deploying with Git for over a year and am interested in learning why it's not a good idea.
> And if you're seriously suggesting that we need even more access and control over information, ...

We are rapidly approaching the day when anybody who wants a nuclear bomb can have one. I don't mean states, I mean disgruntled individuals. If a person can 3-D print one pistol, they can 3-D print a million pistols. If they can 3-D print a million pistols, they can 3-D print a million isotope separators.

The total obsolescence of privacy is a given. Soon Total Information Awareness will not be a shadowy government conspiracy, it will be a mandate written into the Constitution.

The only domestic intel question is whether it will be written by the planners or by the survivors.
Do i really need to explicitly flag my remark as sarcastic? Apparently so.
Thanks for asking. I keep it running in the background regularly and get 12 hrs easily and 15hrs normal with my iPhone 5 ...

Compared to something like navigation which drains it in ~4 hrs.

So the extra battery drain will not be a deal breaker for many ... but it still might be for some.... Totally depends on the user's situation in my opinion.
This kind of attitude has a very chilling effect on free and unrestricted speech and thought. It puts people back in to silos of thought, blanches their speech, and really works against the kind of free information sharing within globally distributed networks of like-minded individuals that's been enabled by the internet. Perhaps preventing the stifling and free-flow of ideas by way of fear of being watched is one of the major reasons for privacy.

Bizarrely, the Snowden leaks may well have the same effect albeit a likely unintended effect.
Can't they just upload the quickmeme generated images to imgur?
> _why_ you would want to use git-push

Faster deployment.

As I said you shouldn't use this for critical services, but it works great for quick hacking. It's also very convenient for non-production (i.e. testing/staging) machines, to automate continuous integration.
Note that delay-updates is not actually atomic [but it's closer] =)
Within a month, an extradition request was made official for Snowden. But in 2 years time, no such thing for Assange.
> I'm still waiting on Snowden to provide evidence of the NSA breaking the 4th amendment and illegally spying on the American people.

Recording meta-data of phone calls and certainly the phone calls themselves, is a gross violation of the 4th amendment and the people's right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures".

And that is true regardless of what a pack of jackasses appointed to some court have decided and it is still true regardless of what a pack of jackasses elected to congress think. I'll even include the president, just for you.

I'll even go so far as to say that this right isn't even dependent on what a bunch of jackasses happen to think on the Internet. Crazy, I know.

My right is absolute and independent of what anyone else thinks. It is a right given to all human beings by God himself. A natural right recognized in any civilized country.
Great idea, but aren't there some laws that prohibit recording people without consent?
It's true that the beer situation in the US is just fine these days.
Exactly what I feel. California is known for incubating tech and embracing new methods.

This is about as disappointing as when I heard that Nevada was first to legalize automated vehicles before us and it took lobbying from Google to push the approval here.
Oh they might have procrastinated but the decision should have been made around that time. It's not an excuse to say you wasted so much time deciding how to shut down the service that people need to get out out now now now.
And add some directives to your http server to not serve your .git directory, too!
I should have said ... the variability is b/c of what else I happen to be doing with my phone that day...
I'm trying to understand the viability of the use case for Vagrant. It seems to me that if the developer does not do "vagrant destroy" at the end of the day and chooses to customize their VM; then it will dialy diverge from the specified starting point of the Vagrantfile. If on the other hand, the developer does "vagrant up", code some stuff, check it in, do "vagrant destroy" and follows this use case daily then I'd see where Vagrant makes sense.
Maybe something along those lines but what I envisage is more like (CAVEAT: what follows is highly conceptual, I am describing things I have seen in my imagination...) a reduction in the distance between an interface and the data generated by it or that it manipulates.

Just like we've seen layers of metaphor removed in the journey from mouse and pointer to touch of the finger - I imagine interfaces that leap a similar gap, interfaces that more directly represent the underlying data structures they are built upon.

Imagine a volume control for instance, but without a silly virtual silver knob controlling it, instead of that: a visual representation of the value the volume is set to much like a graphic equalizer but you directly control the graphic, without a proxy like a pointer and mouse or a proxy on top of a proxy like a pointer and a mouse controlling a virtual knob that then controls the volume.

That's what I mean about layers of metaphor. It's built up like cruft around the modern interface. That's why it's correct to look at skeumorphism with renewed skepticism but wrong to simply ape off into the opposite direction.

A lot of time is spent taking the data resultant of great number of interfaces, quantifying them and then presenting them in some way, often visually... I am saying that those visualisations and those interfaces needn't live on either side of an invisible fence, that they should commune to form something intuitive and elegant and modern.
I thought that the Verizon warrant came out due to some EFF actions sending FOIA requests to the FISA court regarding a specific proceeding.
> Install with native package tool

I'm sad that so few people seem to build native OS packages for deployments. My build system creates a release package and sticks it in an apt repo, then puppet installs latest version of package when it runs.
Sorry if I read too much into your post. And thanks for being ginger with the correction.
Not worth the risk. While the micro instances can handle the load and have good burst performance, they aren't good if the load is sustained. So if you get a sudden burst, and load average jumps, expect EC2 to penalize you.

See steal time and stolen CPU - http://www.newvem.com/whats-cpu-steal-time.

I have seen a micro instance become unaccessible to even ssh after a prolonged activity.
The idea for HEARD was born one evening as my wife and I sat at the dinner table and she described to me some funny thing my 2 yr old son had said earlier that day... I wondered out loud: "How great would it be to have an app that lets you save such cute little things (that usually came as a surprise)... but AFTER you had already heard them..." and she said: "that would be an amazing thing to have ... but how is that possible ?"

Well, by that time I already knew I had to build something like that, and a precursor to HEARD was born.... It has made us feel surprisingly empowered over the past several months we have been using it ....

Now HEARD is available for everyone to enjoy as an iPhone app available on the App Store ... Please check it out and share with people who you think might benefit from it. In particular any parents with young kids that want to preserve these wonderful moments with their children. Thanks guys!
Strangely, Venezuela is deemed undemocratic in right-wing newspapers and democratic in left-wing ones. As far as I can judge by myself, it's certainly as democratic as the US or any European country. I mean at least there were real ideological differences between the two last presidential candidates. Whereas Obama's simply going on with the Bush policies, while in Europe people aren't allowed to choose their economic policy through vote.
And that's only the more optimistic scenario.
No, there wasn't any alternate way to do it.

Watch the three guys who tried to do it via official channels, explain why it doesnt work and why they think he did the right thing.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...
To make it even more fun, as it fades, close up on the President handing the leaker his plane ticket to Hong Kong.
It would be hard to reconcile the design sense of HNers and the...deliberately bad design of memes.

Believe me, I've tried long, long ago. http://i.imgur.com/KSrJg.png
I think somewhat related is the RPythonic project (https://code.google.com/p/rpythonic/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927769). It uses RPython to be able to statically compile Python code to C and that way creates CPython extension modules - so you end up with something similar to Numba.

I'm not sure which approach is better.

Some core PyPy people suggest against using RPython for anything else than what they intended it to use (like writing an interpreter). See:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2013-June/011498.h...

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2013-June/011503.h...
How long before we see a video equivalent for Google Glass? Creepy.
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I don't think looking bad matters to these people at this point.
For a long time I've admired Silicon Valley and America as a whole. It had been my dream to work and create a sartup there but after all of this. After seeing how free Americans really are I am now unsure about moving there. Although America has great opportunities for people like me, it doesn't seem worth it especially since I've found out how some people get blacklisted for no reason.

PS. I hope I didn't offend anyone
People regularly steal catalytic converters with a sawzall; common targets are Toyota trucks/SUVs.

With batteries for a Tesla, I bet there are more than a few people with screwdrivers and three portable car jacks that would be very happy to make >$5k/night. If the Tesla design becomes a commodity, theft may become a problem.
Windows just makes it difficult for developers. Or at least difficult for developers not using microsoft stacks.

Why not have a bash compatible shell or at least built-in common programs like ssh and tar?? Even the "power shell" is pretty garbage and has a lot of legacy cmd.exe stuff in it. Where are the tabs!!!
The appointment of Eric Holder as the head of DOJ could be the defining moment of Obama's presidency. Everything Eric Holder is involved in is turning into a huge pile of shit.
> inside the cable's shield

There are no shield in Unshielded Twisted Pair cables used by most 100 Mbit/s networks and on photos in the article. Twisted pair by itself filters most of the noise because on every twist polarity of noise changes so it subtract itself.
Honestly, China and Russia fare extremely bad. Cuba has been better these last few years, but still is a single party undemocratic regime. Venezuela OTOH seems quite reasonable.
If you violate money transmission laws because you pay a salary to someone (without being a licensed money transmitter) there would be lots of people violating those laws in California.
Given the online ads included in the letter, it appears they googled for "bitcoin" and used a screen grabber to copy/paste the law text. It's sad how messed up the CA gov't has gotten.
Some people have been upset for awhile, and many of them now see the potential for change given the increased visibility of the issues. Personally, I'm not angry because of what the media tells me. If anything, I'm more frustrated with what they don't report. But mostly I'm frustrated because our government seems comfortable disregarding our rights at will. That's not a partisan issue, nor is it the media hype factory at work. Framing it as such is deeply counterproductive.
I couldn't agree more.

My solution was to run Windows and a very lightweight VM (~512Mb RAM) with a minimal development setup (Arch + emacs + Xmonad) which can be deployed anywhere. RAM can be expanded anytime to allow running heavy servers (such as MongoDB) but the light VM is usually just fine.

I also tried VPS servers on demand (Digital Ocean) + PuTTy on Windows to do remote development, but it isn't nearly as comfortable. Dealing with network waits (e.g. sending large file transfers) was awful, so I don't do that anymore.

I did this because I mostly use Linux for development and Windows for everyday tasks (maintaining a Linux system is tiring even with Ubuntu).

I thought about setting a dev server like you, but I don't want yet another machine in my room wasting space and generating heat. Light ARM systems (e.g. RasPI) might be a good alternative, but I don't feel like dealing with proprietary platforms right now.
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Celery can use a database backend, such as Postgres. Maybe it can work with sqlite?
And of course NEVER put your config in version-control ;)

I'm not sure I'd make that blanket statement. Version control seems like a great place for configuration. It allows you to centrally manage configuration details and provides an audit trail for debugging. You just want to make sure it is in a separate, secure repository and not mixed in with your app development.
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> Former spy, fugitive and convicted traitor, Christopher Boyce sold U.S. secrets to the former Soviet Union and dodged U.S. authorities for almost two years until his arrest in 1977 at the age of just 22.

Christopher Boyce was convicted of espionage, not treason.
I skim hacker news on my iPhone and I couldn't see anything in the emulation. I'll have try later on my desktop. Thanks for sharing.
What about the pocket? Does the recording still come through okay?
It's a cool app because I have a goofy friend whose daily banter rivals Karl Pilkington. "I wish someone was recording this" is said daily regarding his routine.

That said, I personally would hate this app being used on myself. The thought of having to re-hear anything I said as a small child makes me cringe. My Facebook feed is now dominated by baby pics and I often wonder what the kids will think about having everything in their life since infancy logged on the internet without any say in the matter.
Anyone want to chime in on why Python threads and subprocesses can't be used?
I think quickmeme's (and its ilk) success (well, besides the part based on vote-manipulation) is a great example of how smoothing a couple of steps in an otherwise mundane and everyone-knows-how-to-do-it process can be a real product. Having to make an image via quickmeme, then copy-paste and click over to imgur, and then upload it to Reddit is a trivial set of steps...yet, those steps add up...and for many users, it's just a matter of time before the labor of the steps outweighs the impulse to post a meme...and then, the volume of memes will be dampened

(OTOH, if it takes more work to post a meme, then maybe only the good ones that people make the effort to post will be seen)
I agree, I'm just speculating on California's justification for the C&D, assuming it isn't simply a result of ignorance of how bitcoin works and the role of the Bitcoin Foundation.
She says the crime is contracting, but a) that won't change, and b) it's misdirecting. The problem is not who specifically is doing the spying, it's the extent. It's a dragnet, and that's certainly violating our 4th Amendment rights.
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