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> I won't go into too much detail

Actually, can you? I don't mean can you give me an exact lay of the land, but what kinds of problems in this arena are you facing? I presently work in gov't contracting and so far you've defined my exact deployment scenario. That is, infrastructure architecture requirements (hardware/network config) are ever changing, and won't stabilize for some time.

If you can't be more specific as to your problems, maybe you could at least let me know what about Ansible has made this easier to deal with?
>If some percent of stories that make the government look good are misleading / planted / etc, then logically, some percent of those which make them look bad are likely wrong too.

That doesn't follow at all. If the government is actively trying to ensure stories make them look good, they certainly wouldn't want any to make them look bad. They certainly wouldn't be creating/planting/whatever stories to do that unless they were provably false and would be used to advantage later (e.g. "look at this bias reporting!").
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Unfortunately, we were forced to toss out Ansible immediately in our tool selection process because it did not support Windows OS clients without Cygwin.

Also, none of the "VM lifecycle management" tools we needed like Foreman or its commercial equivalents had any integrations with Ansible.

These concerns left Ansible dead on arrival for us. It sounds like a decent tool if it matches your needs.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use

> You automatically grant and assign to CL, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant and assign to CL, a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, fully paid, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide license to copy, perform, display, distribute, prepare derivative works from (including, without limitation, incorporating into other works) and otherwise use any content that you post.

Note, it's not exclusive. If you post it to Craigslist they get to use it how they see fit, but you can post it other places.
Nonsense. Some counter-examples:

* Sherlock

* Top Gear

* Luther

* Life On Mars

* Doctor Who

* The Thick Of It

* In The Flesh

* Being Human

* Africa

I could go on...
That's what you find unsettling?!

Half of the top (over $200k) jobs are police.
Presidential planes should be relatively free from interference, but they're not sacrosanct.

For example, the US Sec'y of State warned Iraq to deny access to airspace to any sovereign countries wishing to aid President Assad. In addition, several congressmen (both houses) have asked for the military destruction of the Syrian presidential plane.

Hussein, Gaddafi, Ceaușescu, etc., would have been treated similarly had they made a diplomatic attempt to fly over many countries during the times they were openly perceived as being international criminals.

I imagine this would be more than about Snowden. This is one of the first moves to show Morales that he is not in as strong a position now that Chavez is dead.
The website should have a webcam of one running for Smiirl's facebook page!
Same here. I'd pay money for something like FireGPG that worked with gmail.
Definitely about making Snowden an example. It's in the gov't's interest to make the cost of leaking high to discourage future leakers.
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> this is one of the most ridiculously vacuous, self-aggrandising pieces of nonsense I have ever seen submitted to HN.

You must be new to Hacker News then. Welcome!
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> They have to make a browser that beats every other browser in it's standards compliance, stability and performance. They have to create the greatest browser that has ever been and ever will be.

I will add one more thing. They have to make the browser not just for Windows platform, but for all major platforms (Mac and Linux).
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What's inverse about it?
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Well, it's related to game theory, but in game theory you're only logical move is the one that gives you the middle result. In this case the options are "pay a fair amount of money now and hopefully never again" or "keep paying small amounts indefinitely", and that for all possible players. You don't come out ahead if you "screw" other players as in game theory and you don't come out further in the hole if another player screws you as in game theory (well, aside from more litigation coming but they have that consequence as well).
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when was the last time when a country's foreign policy was actually influenced by its people in a democratic way? besides go / don't go to war or foreign investments policies, I doubt most people have any clue about their "democratic" country's fp ... I know I don't, and if I'd dig into it more, I'd probably get so disgusted by the international ass kissing networks that I'd wanna puke...
Exactly how effective will an offline protest be on a day that so many people will spend online, still using their computers and devices?

http://www.restorethefourth.net/

Do not assume one precludes the other.
I've been using Ansible in an EC2 environment and it's been fantastic. It's powerful enough, but its requirements are slight and you don't end up fussing with bootstrapping it into being. A server with Python (and a few little things that can be installed via Ansible/Python) will get you to a place where your instances are being populated.
But as always the true power in a relationship is from the subordinate party, they can always say "no"; i.e. take their ball and go home. Authority comes from submission. Maybe this is why Cuba is still hounded even worse than the USSR ever was, they refused to play along.

In the end sovereign relations is little different from playground antics; pleading your case from the stance of rationality and/or fairness doesn't get you very far, only once someone is seriously hurt do things change (sometimes not ever then; Stubenville anyone?).
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Does it matter that they are using Craigslist infrastructure to automate the process? Consuming bandwidth that Craigslist pays for and taking advantage of the hosting Craigslist is offering their paying customers? Sure, facts are not copyrightable, but if you took a stack of phonebooks from a recycling bin and starting selling them as your own, I think the company that printed the phones books might have an issue with that.
If by 'system' you mean the one the user is authenticating to, then yes, afaik. For one to have data encryption, it'd have to be coupled together with a data encryption solution.

If 'system' (in your last sentence) means 'user system' ('has' -> keylogger etc), it's not that simple afaik. There's no way for any eavesdropper (between client and server) to know (from the auth game data the server sends) which parts of the data/exchange signify the password. I think they partly addressed possible password/data correlation attacks over multiple logins -> sets of data, but not sure if in this paper, it's been a while. It's not that trivial as far as I take it.
I think you are assuming I hold positions that I do not. I agree with you that foul play is sufficiently likely to warrant some consideration. I said as much in my own reply to skwirl's comment.

"First, I didn't assign a probability. I said we should be asking questions."

"We should be asking questions about X" is a claim that probabilities are sufficiently high that it's not a complete waste of time to be asking questions about X. You also said it was plausible, which is assigning some bounds on probability. Neither of those were what I was objecting to, however.

I was objecting to what I saw as your rejection of the sort of argument skwirl was making ("This is sufficiently unlikely that it doesn't make sense to be talking about it") in the face of lack of evidence, rather than simple rejection of the particular claim skwirl made (which I reject as well).
The BBC has been out of control for a while now. They bought Lonely Planet and sold it at an £80m loss, they claim to provide impartial news coverage but clearly don't, and they have presided over a paedophile scandal that would make the Catholic Church blush.
Why don't you enlighten us all as to the workings of "basic probabilities", since you have clearly applied them in arriving at your conclusions.

Perhaps you can start by identifying all of the variables that you considered in assessing the probability of each scenario, then move on to providing us with the statistical probability that you calculated for each of those variables.
Whereas the tons of articles of US propaganda are OK, right? Including stuff that is said "matter of factly" but are blatant BS.

If you think it has "argentinian government propaganda" point to it.

Not to the obvious fact (that it was written by the argentinian president).

Specifics. What is propaganda in it, what is bad about it, etc.

Even more appreciated would be n extra line or two, of why "argentinean government propaganda", even if it DID exist in the article, would be of any concern to us (as if Argentina is some powerful country that messes up with our own or something).
So if I post something on Facebook or on Stack Overflow, I have no right to repost that same content elsewhere on the internet? At what point did I assign copyright?
how dreamy. I love it

Reminds me of Zdzislaw Beksinski

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Isn't the text's introduction slightly glorifiyng? It tells the story of the noble settlers who had to fight troubles and sometimes even lost their lives - it leaves out that they actually have slayn all the indigenous people whose country they invaded. Colonialization of North America isn't just some exiting bunch of tales about adventurous pioneers, but actually a quite cruel story of suppression and murder. So maybe you should consider some other entry point for your text.
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That's the one I used, and if I recall correctly they sent me an email with a link for me to download the cert. This suggests to me that it was generated server-side and that therefore they could have kept a copy for themselves. But I might be totally wrong on how it works.
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Mailvelope is excellent. It was the first time that I'm able to convince my non-geek friends to use PGP encrypted emails.
Its pretty much Intellij Community edition customized for Android development. Intellij is AWESOME, hands down better then eclipse. Android Studios being based on Intellij is pretty awesome also, the android integration only makes it better.

I had issues where it constantly crashed on one build, but the next update fixed that. Beyond that one issue it has be great. If your using eclipse it will take a day or two to transition over, but after that you will ask why you ever used eclipse in the first place.
That's my point though: just because a retired product is heavily tied to Google's infrastructure doesn't mean that they couldn't release something useful out of it.
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Rap Genius has come a long way: we've launched separate sites for news, poetry, and rock (http://newsgenius.com, http://poetrygenius.com, http://rockgenius.com). We've verified everyone from Sheryl Sandberg (http://goo.gl/HbN6U) to Teju Cole (http://goo.gl/MH3dW) to the ACLU (http://goo.gl/PofXg). But we still have no mobile apps!

Which is crazy because our mobile presence is arguably the most important part of the product. Someday, for the majority of our users, Rap Genius will literally BE "that app".. and many of those users will be famous musicians and authors!

You see, right now is a very special time to be a Rap Genius iOS developer. You get to build the first version of a highly-anticipated app that will be advertised to millions of people every month on our mobile website (12M+ monthly mobile uniques), we're lavishly funded (http://goo.gl/tm73s) so you'll eat a ton of sushi, ANDDD since our engineering team is only 6 people you'll still have the chance to experience the "small team" vibe and help pick everyone else who works here / "define the culture"

So if you're a really talented iOS developer and you're interested, hit up jobs@rapgenius.com with:

1. Your name and online identity – i.e., your Twitter, Github, Blog, Stackoverflow account, personal website, etc. The more info the better.

2. Location – only apply if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate (our office is in Williamsburg: http://goo.gl/nnkez)

3. Educational background and most recent job (or just send your resume or whatever)

4. A little bit about your technical background, including something brief about what you like and dislike about the technologies you’ve used.

5. If you come in for an interview, you’ll start by making a short technical presentation to the team and taking their questions. Generally this takes the form of “throw up a screenful of code and explain what it does / why it’s cool”, tho I’m down for whatever as long as it’s technical. What will you present?

6. THE MOST IMPORTANT: What have you built online that you’re proud of? Any cool designs to show off? Maybe send some code?

More deets on the job – it has some pretty serious bennies!:

- SICK salary & equity. You won’t be taking a pay cut to work here (unless you're an MD at a hedge fund..)

- Free bomb health insurance

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- Gym in the building

- Whatever computer setup you want

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- We pay your phone bill and when you join we’ll upgrade you to the newest iPhone (or, IF YOU INSIST, Droid)

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Last night there were a bunch of RSA-encoded tweets from @cryptomeorg apparently directed toward Manning, Jonsdottir, and maybe Assange/Snowden.

Now they've been deleted. Really spooky stuff going on.
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So, are UK residents prevented from looking at bbc.com URLs in case we see/click on any advertising?
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Interesting; the way non westerners thought about this was the Nuremberg trials as victors' justice. From that perspective, nothing America has been doing since then has been contradictory.
Your 'this is all a tautology' point is neither interesting nor moves the conversation forward.

This is like making the point that the sky isn't really blue it just looks blue - technically correct, but unless you are answering the question of why it is blue, correcting somebody on this is boorish, not interesting.

In this case we are talking about Dwarf Fortress, near universally reviled for its interface, so yes, arguing that some people may theoretically prefer it is both hard to believe and makes it seem like you are just being contrarian.
Very true! Awesome expression.
Most learning curves I've seen actually imply the reverse, with time on the y-axis and knowledge on the x-axis.

In that case, a learning curve is a sort of visual hill with a steepness indicating difficulty of progression.
I thought "Tragedy of the commons" referred to people over-harvesting limited resource in an unsustainable fashion knowing it is wrong because it wont matter if "just they" do it. And then everyone does it, and the resource dries up and everyone starves.

This would be inverse in the sense that there is no limited resource being depleted, but bad seeds being sown, choking the environment and making it unsustainable.

To me it seems like the same category of problem, but with the opposite kind of adversary and feedback loop, so I assumed it wasn't covered by that term.

But it's also very likely that this is just the sort of unproductive, needlessly detailed nitpicking which geeks are so very much famous for. I've been known to go down that road before :)
This is definitely cool but the real hard problem isn't in these simple easily scripted cases. The real hard to solve problem is managing all the complexity of similar-but-different hosts.

This article could just as easily have taken the complete opposite view of Ansible by saying things like "parallel ssh sessions don't scale, strong encryption costs too much CPU time; push can never work reliably therefore pull is the only viable model; etc. etc."

I feel one of Ansible's strongest points to champion is the low barrier to entry. It takes minimal understanding to get going, compare that with at least 1 month hands on with cfengine or perhaps 2 weeks puppet before you would consider yourself proficient enough. With Ansible it's 20 mins or so.
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It's interesting that the article conflates right to silence and self-incrimination, I thought they were kept separate. It mentions the exception for encryption but doesn't mention any exception for safe codes which is what my line of thinking was based on. That being said, I can't find a reference to that either...
How do you let jenkins install packages and make changes to the machine? Passwordless sudo?
The US government creating a secret law that authorizes a secret court to order Google to siphon all of its cleartext data to the NSA is also a bit pessimistic. The value proposition of the featured plugin is that it protects you from Google snooping on what you do through the means of technology. While I am very glad there is a discussion of the subject, I am saying that the technology the plugin uses is fundamentally flawed and can never be fixed. Because of that, it provides no real security. It is in the same league as setting the root password on your server to "root" and changing the sshd port: obscure but not secure.
We are talking about a person who responded "LOL" to questions about whether his magazine's articles would be able to be sent to competing read it later services (he has since just changed that to "No"). There is a definite disconnect between what is being said and what has been done.
A camera phone is your best protection against police abuse.

Make a 50% mixture of Malox ant-acid and water. If you get hit with OC (not CS), have a friend pour a little into each eye. Spraying it with a squirt bottle on exposed skin offers some relief also.

3M painter's masks make excellent and cheap gas masks. Have it assembled and fit to your head before you leave the house. The OC floats around and often is invisible. DO NOT WEAR CONTACT LENSES!

Put a newspaper in your backpack. If the police start shooting their paint balls, flip your backpack around and wear it on your chest like a breast plate.

Never, ever touch the police as this is a felony assault.

If asked if you have a permit, say yes it is in my pocket and it is a copy of the Constitution.

Solidaridad!!!
I used it for a couple of years (2009 - 2010) after getting frustrated with Zend Framework's Java-envy and enjoyed it; it was the last straw that pushed me over to Ruby and Rails, though, given Yii's attempt at bizarro-Rails with CActiveRecord, and the problems with getting testing working properly.

I really wish they would stop using statics so much, though (eg. CHtml::activeTextField()); it's really inflexible, particularly when statics call other private statics with self::... making subclassing really tough.
You can be middle class and live paycheck-to-paycheck. There is nothing about that arrangement that prevents some folks from having assets, there is a reason the term "house poor" exists and there is a reason why foreclosure rates shot up for middle class people in the 2009 housing collapse.
Disturbing results since I so frequently have used Sinatra for hosting REST APIs for customer projects. Rethink needed.

For my own projects I use Clojure + Compojure and more recently added Node.js (often with Meteor) and was pleased to see that they benchmark well. One thing I especially like about Compojure with the Hiccup HTML generating library is that I see syntax errors immediately in the editor. I suppose that Scalatra with embedded HTML would provide the same benefit.
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Is it an act of war to search a diplomatic pouch or not? And isn't the entirety of the plane, essentially a diplomatic pouch?
>We're exercising our right to peacefully assemble and protest the government.

Like the Occupy movement?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-w...
I've heard some of their executives explain it as a social layer for Google, but you're right that the messaging is predominantly about the actual Plus website/apps.
I'd argue these are examples of bad habits rather than outright mistakes (and yes, there is a difference).
I like to think they do this intentionally as a way of drawing attention to how absurd some of these rules are.
(note: Ansible creator here)

Yeah, there's no Windows now. If we do it, I'd want it to push powershell over native means. I'm still not 100% convinced it's something Windows admins want to do in a large enough number to focus on it, but input is always good and would be interested in hearing more about use cases folks want.

As for lifecycle, Ansible has significantly less provisioning integration required than some of the other systems because all you need to do is get your SSH keys in there -- less bootstrapping. It also has a pluggable inventory system so you can get your list of hosts/variables from things like EC2 or OpenStack, so with things like cloud-init, that is usually what folks need. And there are some modules for spinning up new guests in various systems. (I'd like to see a vcenter inventory plugin too).

I'm also the original author of Cobbler and there's integration with that on the provisioning side, and for something else similar, it's largely the case of writing an inventory plugin and making sure the key is installed.
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.....Well, fuck them, and fuck that.....

Amen.
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"Sometimes, the code you are copying may be so large that you don't have time to understand it completely. If you copy any code this way, there is a risk of making your applications vulnerable and buggy."

This used to be a big one for me. About 6 months ago, I saw a presentation on hacking CMS' and how vulnerable they are. One of the main points was to make sure you pen test third party applications before you install and use them. It was a big eye opener for me.

I'm no longer just assuming the authors did their due diligence and made sure their apps or plugins are secure before releasing them.
I think it depends on the type of business. Our model was retail so didn't require a critical mass of users or a repeat behaviour. We knew customers loved our product so the challenge was to finding ways of reaching more IG users. If you have a risky and expensive to test hypothesis, I imagine big growth will be something you'll look for to validate whether it's a worthwhile pursuit.

That said, most startups experience plateaus and dips. These are the moments that truly test the fortitude and resolve of the team.
Not sure why everybody is downvoting you, especially sicne you don't claim to be happy about the facts, just stating them.

Bolivia is, well, unimportant, and their complaints to the US will amount to nothing. There are exactly 2 countries in the world that the US cannot mess with. If it was a Russian or a Chinese plane, do you all think it would be denied airspace entry? (And EVEN IF it was denied entry and still decided to go through, do you think anything would happen to it?)

What should be downvoted is the state of affairs when a US whistleblower has to be escorted around the world by Putin himself to guarantee his safety.
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