skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Brother is WWWatching You - feat. George Orwell
>It doesn't require any deamon and does all its work over the good old unix fashion way: SSH. And it's python too

Salt is all of these things as well.
I use SaltStack for managing a render farm consisting of 73 Ubuntu nodes. My requirements are rather simple, really: most states just install some packages, put configuration files into place (sometimes using a template) and enable/start services. However, I can't recall a single problem when setting everything up. SaltStack is clean, simple, and just works.
This comment's a great example of what he's talking about. You're not even worried about Farmville, you're worried about extremely pedantic grammar corrections that most of us got over by the 3rd grade or so.
I'm not trying to have it both ways. I used to be in the WTC on a weekly basis (although I wasn't there on 9/11). I don't expect anything from others that I don't expect from myself.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here

those who don't like working in skyscrapers with inbound aircraft "pants-wetters"

obviously if terrorists have hijacked planes and are in the air, and you work in a potential target, it's reasonable to get out. That's what happened on 9/11.

I'd note that IMO, airplanes flying into buildings can never happen again. 9/11 was a one-time shot which only happened because prior to 9/11 the consensus advice for how to deal with a terrorist hijacking was to 'not be a hero'. As you saw from United 93, that's a one-time window that lasted about 60 mins. Outside of reinforced cockpits and air marshals, I'm confident that we've got plenty of American heros who will die fighting before they let another terrorist fly a plane into a building.

So if your claim is that everyone who works in a skyscraper is justified in sacrificing our most cherished American ideals because they're scared of a terrorist flying a plane into the building, we'll have to agree to disagree.
These media providers may have to pay licensing fees to show ads. The margins are so slim, some media could become paid content or just stop being produced.
The administration granted a license to Royal Dutch Shell to drill in Alaska, Shell just royally screwed up and had to suspend operations.

I expect drilling to restart eventually but probably under a different operator (Exxon being my bet).
That's why it's so good the vast majority of web technologies are open/open source. I can't imagine an Internet where most of the technologies would be proprietary. It's for the same reason why I'm so up in arms against proprietary video codecs, and why I hope we'll move to an open source one sometimes soon.
I like it; it makes it easier to read in a web browser.

But if you want a full copy:

1. DownThemAll to pull down all of the .pdf links,

2. pdftk to merge them all into one file
"neither allows one to rely on a recent version of OpenGL..?" Erp, where are you from?

Suppose I had GL 4.3 capable hardware.

Closed Source Drivers on Windows = OpenGL 4.3

Closed Source Drivers on Linux = OpenGL 4.3

Open Source Drivers on Linux = OpenGL 3.1 [best case]

Closed Source Drivers on MacOS = OpenGL 3.2

My Game Engine Requires = OpenGL 3.3

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As you can imagine, that means:

If you're running Linux on open source -> no

If you're running Mac at all -> no

In fact, what is ironic is the ONLY systems in the ENTIRE PLANET that can run this game are ones using proprietary drivers, specifically Windows and *NIX (but not MacOS)
Missing savings in Georgia Tech's MOOC
I sincerely hope that Ecuador denies his request and he is deported back to the United States. In his Q&A, Snowden said the United States was worth dying for. If he truly wants things changed, he certainly won't achieve it hiding in Ecuador. He has the opportunity to present his case to the citizens of the United States through the proper avenues: our justice system, our legislature (through Congressional hearings), and our press.

To allege he won't receive a fair trial in the United States is completely ridiculous. What he's really trying to say is he knows he is guilty.

Could you imagine if Daniel Ellsberg had fled to a foreign country and sought asylum there? The entire premise of a whistleblower would probably not exist if he had done that.
I think the holy grail of P2P networks will be when we have something like Bluetooth that has a significantly better range. So we can really exempt ourselves from private infrastructure.
I've found Pedro Texeria's NodeTuts to be quite good.
("technically-inclined folks" ∪ "libertarian-type weirdos")
Why grouping students by ability makes sense
Then we are in deep trouble. We'd
have lots of demonstrations in the
streets, put new people into Congress,
and eventually hold a Constitutional
Convention to patch up the Constitution.
It would take a long time and might
be bloody and might even ruin the US.

But I believe that the founding fathers
saw this possibility and designed the
system to keep this from happening.
In particular, the SCOTUS is darned
serious; they understand with crystal
clarity the threats to the Constitution
and the US. Their main job is to
defend the Constitution. To this
end, they are plenty bright, are
awash in power and independence,
have plenty of resources, and do
have the respect of the citizens.
So, I believe that the SCOTUS
will do the right things.
You should probably forget about the salt modules for now. Just look at the states.

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

For nginx you just need a package: nginx installed state and a few states for the conf files.

uswgi will need something similar.
My favorite little trick of these was that the bushes and the clouds in Super Mario Bros. were the same shape (presumably to save space): http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/the-clouds-a...

I would never want to enter the game development industry but I would love to shadow them for a few weeks. It sounds like a culture of required innovation (and, you know, eternal crunch time).
Ask HN: is there any demand for old software maintenance/renewal?
We are the team of skilled programmers from offshore (Russia) and would like to start a business to maintain/sustain the old software that U.S. companies possibly have to date. Our proposal is to get full ownership of this software (NDA is a must), including creating new maintenance releases, patches, fixing existing bugs, and making the old software run on the newer OSes like Win 8.
How do you feel if there is a demand in such a service? Will you consider to outsource your maintenance tasks for the old software to us to allow your team to focus on newest and greatest tech?
> 3. I didn't fucking enslave anyone. nobody alive today in the US killed any native americans or owned any slaves.

When people talk about privilege (though often in a gender context), this is exactly what they are talking about. Or th joke about George Bush being born on third base, thinking he hit a triple.

Those past actions by other people put you in a position of wealth and power >90% of the world's people, and you didn't do any of it, you just received the benefits, and (probably, I don't know you personally), haven't returned ill-gotten gains that came to you. As such, non-Americans have every reason to be displeased with modern Americans.
Salt has jinja2 templates.
As a product of the American public school system, I assure you that American slavery is something that is very present in the national consciousness.
On the last page:

HR hacks -- Ben Burbank -- When I used to work for a very big company, one of the employees figured out that the best way to advance his career was to write negative performance reviews for as many co-workers as possible. This resulted in him receiving a higher annual staff ranking, which in turn led to larger bonuses and stock grants. It eventually becomes difficult, he told me, because you need to make sure to only review people with different managers, so nobody can catch on to your ruse. My trick for avoiding this cycle was to quit and go work someplace much smaller and awesome

Wow. Just wow. So far I have avoided working anywhere with a culture that evil.
Fully agree, I still remember the days I had to pay for every single piece of software I was using.

Nowadays there seems to exist a trend developers should work for free.
OK thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out, but I worry people will resist bringing in a *nix machine. It's unfamiliar and therefore must be feared!
http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/tutorials/quickstart.html
This will be followed in 2 months by "why does the US have such a short attention span? Our news cycle is too short for anything to every happen."

I'm very happy to have my sacred tech news site "cluttered" with Snowden stories because it means that enough people, like me, still care about them.
> I wonder how many Americans are afraid to speak out for the same reason. I guarantee every one of those 110,000 people who signed that petition are now being closely watched.

My inclination is that this is mostly a paranoid fantasy on your part, rather than anything resembling reality.

In any event, how can you "guarantee" it?
Troops storming Normandy on D-Day felt it was a cause worth dying for, too, but that didn't mean they were going to run up to a German machine gun nest unarmed and ask them to fire.
| He's afraid of disappearing into a secret dungeon
| and tortured for decades.

Or spending decades in solitary confinement, which is akin to torture.
Very awesome book!
It's basically already been done. You can't make a site without violating dozens of patents.
That driver was shelved a long time ago. :(
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
From the article: The flight from [Moscow] was packed with journalists who had purchased tickets believing that Snowden would be on the flight.

It would be hilarious if Snowden and his companions tried to get seats on that flight, but could not, because it was already fully booked by these proactive journalists.
Most standards are not set by the government, they're set by professional organizations. See ANSI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Ins...

Safety standards ARE often set by the government, but more general standards mostly are not.

By the way, the position you're arguing for is literally the opposite of innovation. Imagine if, after Apple unveiled the iPhone, the government had discouraged its adoption because it removed people's hard-won knowledge of using Motorola flip phones. I guess Motorola would have been happy!
Sadly, that's the exception rather than the rule for libertarians (I say this as a left libertarian). Far too many self-styled libertarians are convinced they'd be rich if they weren't being held down by taxes and regulation. Sigh.

What I've started telling every single one who parrots this nonsense - "Show me an onerous regulation that causes real pain for individuals and businesses, and I'll show you an opportunity for a REAL entrepreneur to get rich by making their lives easier." For all the talk of entrepreneurial spirit among right-libertarians, they have shockingly little faith in the capabilities of entrepreneurs to turn other people's problems into business opportunities.
Guys, you should do something with the design, because the game is actually quite fun to play...

What is the strategy of the AI?
Manning was kept for 3 years in prison, half of that in solitary, with sleep deprivation and all that - with no charge. It would almost be against the law, if only Obama hadn't signed the indefinite detention clause within NDAA a couple of years ago (which he promised it won't be abused).

Obviously it's still against human rights and the Constitution, but the US government cares less and less about its own Constitution and even less about international laws lately.
Jimmy Carter is like fine wine -- he has improved with age. Not a great president, but he has turned into one of the greatest ex-presidents with his concerns for global human rights and humanity in general. Not for him a jetsetting life palling around with plutocrats and dictators, or smiling on the golf course with one of the Bushes.
Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign
Funny, that's how I feel about salt compared to ansible.
Parents argument is different.
Can you please tone down the aggression and swearing in the future? It just promotes hostility. Take that to Reddit.
Ok. I'll admit that I got a little ahead of myself with the response.

But how can you tell me that race does not stand behind the curtains of that quoted and emphasized statement?

America was predominantly white, 90% up to 1960. If you make a statement about it being built by stolen black slaves, while not giving any credit to the other people, it becomes a race thing.
1. 30 years as basically 0 on a historical time scale. In the 19th Century, Sending a letter from Europe to the US took weeks.

2. The US is comprised many states, and Federal power was weaker than. Some states banned slavery earlier.

3. Slavery was hugely economically impactful in North America. Once USA left the British Empire, slavery became less relevant, and pushing for worldwide abolishing of slavery may even have been economically strategic against USA competition.
> Given that,the only remaining ways to become rich are to be competent and intelligent.

Inheritance is another possibility. Do you intend to rule that out too? And, again, if the "smart, successful" are the ones making the rules, you can bet none of them will ever be caught cheating.

> Most people are just mentally incapable of questioning rules that were imposed on them

> Moreover, provided that the "rulers" are really intelligent they will know how much they can push their minions without causing resentment.

Sigh...
Good point. My apologies To Mr Markham.
Hong Kong Banking System Outlook Cut by Moody’s on China Risks
| To allege he won't receive a fair trial in the
| United States is completely ridiculous

Would you, as a whistleblower, trust your former employer, on whom you blew the whistle, to be your judge, jury and executioner? I'm thinking not.
One thing I don't like about the new design is the search. The old version allowed you to enter a function name and press enter, and then be taken to the function page. Now you have to enter the function name and wait for it to appear in the search completion list and click on it. Else you get taken to a results page, that opens links in a new window.
It's like Christmas has come for PHP developers.

Finally a big step forward, maybe PHP will be catch some support on the Web 2.0 bndwgn now
No, you can't get OpenGL 4.x on Linux. You can't even get GL 3.3 -- geometry shader support is in it infancy. A quick look at mesa3d-dev or phoronix will show you that.
Ah yes, the President runs the military industrial complex. Sure he does. Tell me another fairytale about American Democracy. And the government operates within the bounds of the US Constitution too.

You're wrong about the USPS. The Post Office is almost completely self-funded. Historically it has been forced to operate within budget constraints based on revenue that it takes in, and it will be contracted in size to match its inflows. It is not funded like the CIA, not even remotely similar. Maybe you'd like a chance to come up with a replacement sarcastic paragraph that actually works?

"Few Americans know it, but the post office gets no tax dollars; it is entirely self-funded."

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-12/opinions/37048...

The CIA and NSA are funded out of a specific intelligence budget pool. Thus they compete directly with each other for money.

"Funding for the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies will see a $4.4 billion decrease under President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget request, even as those agencies deal with the across-the-board spending cuts imposed last month. Obama is seeking $48.2 billion for U.S. spy agencies, an 8 percent drop from the president’s $52.6 billion request for fiscal 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported. In 2012, funding was even higher, with the agencies receiving $53.9 billion."

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-budget-cuts-cia/2013/...

It's not the NSA or Cyber Command that is seeing budget cutting.

And I think what you meant is, the Executive is legally supposed to be more powerful than the DoD or NSA. That only applies if our government actually follows Constitutional law, which it does not. Reality is a lot different than 8th grade social studies. See: J Edgar Hoover, more powerful than most Presidents we've had.
Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...

We walk a dangerous line when we start playing around with the idea that Greenwald, a journalist, is something other than a journalist. A journalist is allowed to have opinions and causes.

A journalist can engage in activism. There's nothing wrong with performing your work with passion, so why should it be any different for journalists? I get the creeps when I hear people suggest that Greenwald is just an activist and not a journalist. That usually means someone is being staged for oppression (ala Assange).

Members of the US government will suggest anything to get the scandal spotlight off of them and sweep this issue under the rug. To these criminals, the US Constitution has truly become a historical document. They pass secret rulings and laws to justify these constitutional violations in their minds.
How does criticizing America ever, or at all, equal "blame America first"?

every land has been invaded/occupied/taken over at some point in history. it is human nature. deal with it.

It's human nature to be a country and invade other countries? How come all that living in peace with neighbours stuff? How come America is so warlike?

Oh, maybe because it was never invaded/occupied/taken over. Maybe because you haven't got the faintest fucking idea what it's like to have done to you what you do to others. Not really, and not at scale.

3. I didn't fucking enslave anyone. nobody alive today in the US killed any native americans or owned any slaves.

Oh, don't worry, otherwise you could just claim it's "human nature", huh? If anyone needs further confirmation for George Carlin's claim that "Germany lost WW2, fascism won it", then one doesn't need look further than this whole "being a fearful aggressor with nothing but BS for arguments is human nature" thing. That's one straight copy if I ever saw one.

America despite its many faults has been an overwhelming force for freedom and wealth throughout the world. A thorough cataloging of such good deeds could take years to compile.

Yeah, it's literally impossible to resist being free and wealthy when the saints come marching in. Nevermind that even in America itself anyone but the rich has been stagnating, if not declining for the last 30 years, much less the rest of the world. All those free trade agreements, all those credits which only serve to undermine American power and give away free opportunities.
And by the way, here's my idea I've been throwing around. It's just an idea and I'm not sure if it would even work or be worthwhile, but:

A decentralized personal information protocol. Instead of joining a social network or other online service and putting all your personal information into their database, you run your own server (either truly on your own server if you want the most privacy or through a hosting service for this protocol if you want ease of setup) that contains a certain set of information which services can request (but you must authorize, like with OAuth). Information generated within those services is then saved to your server rather than their own. Thus if you cancel your account, you have sole control of the data. If they don't allow you to cancel your account, you can just revoke their access to your server.

Problems:

- Trust: You can't trust everyone to not save their own copies of the data themselves. Perhaps this could be semi-solved by having a machine readable license agreement for your data that the services agree to by connecting to it, giving you the ability to sue if they violate those terms.

- Performance: Presumably there would be performance issues in something like a highly-interconnected social network if each person's data is on its own server. Some servers would be more reliable than others, too, leading to instability for the greater service using the data.

- Public exposure: If the services using your data are, for example, Facebook-like in nature, where a large amount of the data is publicly displayed anyway, there is nothing stopping anyone from scraping it off the public-facing webpage and archiving it.
I much prefer the immutable server model [1] to the puppet model. Build a new tested server with the new config and roll that out.

[1] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html
These tools allow you to specify a state and then specify which servers should have that state. A 'state', loosely speaking, is a collection of definitions of 'X should be Y'.

For example:

Package 'libapache2-mod-php' should be installed. File '/etc/apache2/sites-available/customersite' should be the contents of this file we have on the master server. File '/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/customersite' should be a symlink to above. Directory '/var/www/customersite' should be the contents of this git repository. Command 'apache2ctl graceful' should be run if any of the above change.

With these five rules, you can turn a default install of Ubuntu into a webserver providing client files in a matter of seconds.

Once you have those rules written, you then apply them. You can wildcard, so that hosts matching 'www*.yourhostingco.com' get these rules.

Now, when you want to add a new webserver to your cluster, you install a new Ubuntu instance, you register it with the Salt master server, and then trigger a state update, and you're done. No SCP'ing files, no manual git checkouts, no copy-paste-edit configuration management.

Then, once you've got all that, you can get into templating. You can do templating both on the contents of files (e.g. for memcached config, insert the machine's internal IP address instead of having one config per server) as well as the rules themselves to avoid having a ton of boilerplate (for module in 'list','of','python','modules', install the module via pip with these rules).

One of my favourite benefits of something like Salt is that if you use Salt to do all of your configuration, then just back up your salt config to github or wherever, then you always have a record of how you did things. You don't get the incomplete documentation or missing steps that happen with most approaches.

As a sysadmin managing a cluster of systems, it can be life-changing.
MariaDB’s Sequence Storage Engine
If you think being in the military is just about being 'paid to kill and be killed', you have a childlike sense of morality.
Regardless, I don't side with advertising models, they're what got us into this whole collecting data as a business hole, so if these scumbags can prevent companies from getting revenue from ads and thus encourage them to seek actual decent business models (as a non-intended adaptative collateral effect), I'd think it's one evil doing us good.
I just downloaded the entire book using ' wget -mkp http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html#pdfs ' (Should work from any *nix systems having wget utility; I tried from mac)
(explained here http://opstribe.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/a-simpler-backup-me... )