skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably could be considered a competitor. This offers socket.io built-in, but doesn't seem to have the reactive data binding templates like meteor. This looks to be a Ruby on Rails for node.
I'll be at the Utah event, conveniently located directly in front of the new NSA data center. There have been reports that people who stop for pictures have been asked firmly to keep moving -- it'll be interesting to see how a demonstration plays out.
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An exit break-even for investors (money-losing if the funds' cost of capital are considered) and no real return for founders/team.

The hardware-media play is tough.
Seems not a so awesome exit with Launch Date: 2004 and Funding of $26.5M
Yes sky etal including the Guardian actively lobby against the BBC as they can't compete against good services if you have heard UK commercial radio vs the BBC you will understand why.

No one ask why the sky tax is higher than the license fee and sky produces virtually zero high quality programming as that woudl upset that nice Mr Murdoch and we cant have that now can we.

Radio 2 was deliberately hobbled as it was getting to successful.
Have you looked at Auegas? I've used it quite a lot from within puppet to make well-structured changes to Apache config files.
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"non-funny" and "grotesque" are both subjective judgments and are no basis for imprisoning someone. You're suggesting that someone who demonstrated no capability or motive to carry out his "threat" should be imprisoned simply because an unrelated tragic event happened a few weeks before? And it's somehow more deserved because he is a young white male? That is a perverse notion and it is the antithesis of justice and equality under the law.
People that live inside the EU have a normal passport and a EU passport. It seems appropriate.
> No, we've had about 10-15 years to prove, repeatedly, that "write once, run everywhere" UI never works.

Actually, even more than that, given that the first GUIs are from the late 70's.
one word "Murdoch"
I'm a little confused why the Presidents life was put at risk. Is there tensions between Austrian and Bolivia? Or was that bit of the article added for sensationalist reasons?

edit: it looks like the comments about the the Bolivian presidents life being at risk has now been taken off, and in it's place comments about Austrian and Bolivia having good relations. So I guess that answers my question.
And much less hand addressed mail. It's much easier to OCR a printed label.
Nah, i went back to Vim, did not try for very long though, can´t really say gave sublime an honest chance.
What is the source of those listings and how is it different from https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs ?
How are you going to encrypt your snail mail destination data?
Not sails-specific, but

sudo npm -g install sails

Why do so many projects require sudo? Why are we writing to any area which would require root write privileges? Why do we not default to just writing stuff in to user home directories and patching off that?

Possibly naive question, but one which is increasingly bugging me.
Not a laser, but I did make a parabolic reflector: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgfwAPAc4BCwHOATEA/wABygEQAd...

EDIT: this is broken. Here is fixed: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEghQANAekBFwHqAS4A/wAB5wEbAf...
Welcome to 2013, where people want to hold us back with their 90's browsing habits.
The WordPress Supercache plugin automatically sets up a .htaccess with mod_rewrite rules to enable caching. On Apache, it just works. On Nginx without .htaccess support it would have to tell the user to copy-paste a snippet. Ouch, not so friendly. And this is even assuming the user has access to the web server config file.
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Well maybe not for you, but for me it's another piece of a jigsaw which is beginning to show a very ugly picture indeed.

You're a US citizen I see. Well, maybe you don't understand or give a shit, but from the outside, the opinion of your country is being revised dramatically downwards. Very dramatically. All of this human rights, freedom of speech, fourth amendment stuff is being exposed for the bullshit that it is.

The damage to the reputation of the USA from these events is incalculable. Do you have any conception of what it means when normal people are suggesting that a whistleblower on the run from the USA seek refuge in Russia or China?
I'm don't think I agree with laws that can throw people in jail for making non-funny and grotesque comments. I'm not sure what being a young white male has to do with it either.

On the flip side, I would have found it more understandable that the police do a thorough investigation to decide if any laws have been broken. I fail to see the crime committed.
As a counterpoint, Chrome has support for certificate pinning on certain major sites as a way to prevent MITM attacks using certificates from rogue/compromised CAs. I don't believe Firefox does.
How can we take full responsibility for the Evo Morales incident? Do Europeans bear no responsibility for allowing their governments to be US lapdogs? As a US citizen I have to bear the responsibility both for my country and your inability to elect a government with a backbone?
If you need to send an anonymous letter - hopefully for good (say, whistle blowing) and not evil - you can still do so.

Use a fake return address (duh).

Drive to a mailbox far away from your work or home. Pick a mailbox that has no security cameras. Don't go into a Post Office, where there will be security cameras.

Turn off your phone before going anywhere near the drop location.

(This is all coming from a PBS documentary about how they went about the 2001 anthrax attack investigation.)
How would I feel if a client didn't pay me because some reason?

I wouldn't care. Contracts are binding, so fuck you, pay me.
But.. Socket.io is built in sooo realtime ... Right?
It'd be more interesting if they captured the address the package is sent to; the return address (if any); and the post mark.

As I understand it postal mail is traditionally given much stronger protections than other forms of communication, especially in the US.

I'd be very surprised if postal mail was being intercepted and contents were read without very strong warrants.

EDIT: It does sound like a fascinating system though. All that mechanical stuff; all those different sizes; all that paper dust! Postal mail is amazing.
No, I don't think there is. They are all still broadly on the same topic. Imagine if I made each sentence here a separate reply. I mean, they are separate sentences and could conceivably be responded to individually, but it would still be pretty silly, wouldn't it?

The only case I can see for doing multiple sibling comments is if you have several truly unrelated thoughts that each deserve a deep treatment. But that's not what's going on here. As cheery noted elsewhere, he/she simply didn't know you could edit comments.
It would also likely be taken as suspicious in its own right.
Well I didn't notice any performance issues, but based on the other comment I checked out perfmon, and yeah, its pegging a core.

Maybe less sprites on the demo page?
"Photorealistic" is a big, big stretch here. Why is the shadow the colour of the object that is shadowing it? Why doesn't the softness of the shadow relate to the distance to the light source? Why don't adjacent objects affect each other shadow colours? Also, the inset shadow doesn't seem to work - the cursor can hover directly over shadow area.

It mostly seems to be a css shape-repeater to give a 'shadow-like' visual appearance in a dynamic direction.

I mean, I'm not trying to put down the writers js/css skills, but when I read "Photorealistic shadows", I think of something like LuxRender. So, probably, just marketing skills.
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Curious to see why the financial numbers don't look so great for Boxee, but if this is true, I think it's a super smart move for Samsung. They're trying to push smart TVs in the living room, but those haven't taken off yet. Grabbing a company that's making some of the best living room hardware makes a lot of sense.
How? This is like telling someone who stole your car that you expect it back or you'll call the cops...
Whiskers - it seems I can't reply to you, but according to the top-rated comment on this page:

The majority of the operation is a taxpayer-funded public broadcaster with a remit to produce high quality programming for free; but there's a unit called BBC Worldwide whose job it is to battle it out in the red-in-tooth-and-claw world of commercial TV programming, selling BBC programmes overseas and minting money that can then be used to subsidize the public broadcasting component.

That would imply that BBC Worldwide profits do impact the license fee (assuming the BBC don't just spend the profits, but use it to drive down license fee costs).
I don't disagree - simply stated the crossed the line. I would expect someone to look into a bomb threat followed by "jk" as well.
You shouldn't stop using your LAMP stack. The differences between how the two behave really only come into play when you're talking about thousands upon thousands of concurrent users.
That's extraordinarily obvious considering Fedex and UPS have advertised tracking for years. They even let you use the system.
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"I just have to change my habit of having it constantly on while working. Turn Dropbox on and sync before starting to work and then turn it off."

Hohoho. Allow me to suggest a solution. Suppose that you would be ok with having Dropbox sync files every five minutes. Let's suppose that 10 seconds is usually more than enough to do whatever syncing is necessary. Well, then:

$ while :; do killall -STOP Dropbox; sleep 300; killall -CONT Dropbox; sleep 10; done

I do things like this to throttle the CPU usage and, in some cases, the power consumption of applications that really don't need what they're using. This really should be a feature provided by the operating system, but in the meantime, I resort to ridiculous hacks of this sort. (Note that, if you ^C the above loop, Dropbox will likely be still STOPped and you'll have to CONT it again. It is possible to write a more sophisticated program to address this problem.)
One approach that may work that is less disruptive is to require a legally mandated warning on all communications that pass through US and UK servers, like "This message passed through US and UK servers via company XXX here in the EU. It may be subject to collection by the NSA and CIA. Contact this company to request routing through EU only servers."

Something like this is not unreasonable. After all we are already putting warning labels on things that are a threat to safety and health. What is happening is a threat to personal freedom and political sovereignty.
The full code is FAB-001.
Ok lets assume you're right and the US manages to splice into fiber optic cables in the country they target and for some absurd reason no human being ever checks the fiber optic cables which are easily accessible over land how would they send all that data back for processing?

Or if they do it locally how the hell do they get all that equipment in without being noticed?

When you're doing surveillance in a foreign country you can't be extravagant you have to choose your targets carefully.

I'm against mass surveillance for the hell of it I know there will always be a certain degree of surveillance i just want them out of average peoples lives they have no business being there.
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I would have thought that policies and procedures for producing good programming content are unrelated to whether it is OK to cover up child abuse or not. You could run a perfect news organisation, for instance, but still have a bad record on child protection. The two are unrelated.
Not possible in software, but you can do it in hardware.
I wouldn't be surprised if modern domain specific OCR can give you an error rate that beats that of a time-constrained human reader.
Similarly, http://www.pcg.org.uk/SCJ is pretty useful for any UK freelancer.
>"I wish my apps were written using a poorly integrated non-native toolkit" said no actual user, ever.

Said the guy who's only had to write single platform, toy apps. Try dealing with complex cross platform apps some day and you will understand why Qt is a great solution at least on the desktop where complexity is much higher than mobile apps which are for the most part toys.

On mobile you have a choice - if your app is more about funky UI than complex functionality - go wild and write straight to native or limit yourself to one platform. But on the desktop - a well designed Toolkit like Qt is godsend and you would be crazy not to use it even for single platform app.
Could just as easily drop a file in conf.d in a typical distro nginx install too.
I've seldom seen a better timed or more appropriate quote offered in reply.
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the QT team in the past constantly improves their codebase, so i believe the numbers will be better. i use qt since 3.1 and see the improvements in general.
I do not see how they have made it difficult to remove Google. One setting in about:config does the trick.
Nothing is difficult to justify when you can just say "but... but... terrorists!" and get away with everything.
The best analogy re: address info on mail is to garbage that you leave on the curb for the trash collector. You probably don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in that garbage because you exposed it to the public by leaving it out on the curb. There is case law to back this up. Similarly, if you hand over a letter to a postal carrier, you arguably wouldn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the info on the envelope since that info can be gleaned by anybody who looks at the letter. Email would be different since that is presumably store on your computer or a server or some other place or thing that would fall under the 4th Amendment protections (and require a warrant).
Also note the inverted shape of the trends: Apache is much more popular among less visited sites, but gets less so as you go up. nginx is unpopular with the masses, but more so with the most popular sites.

I can see at least two ways to interpret this:

1. nginx is just strictly better, and the sites at the top need that performance/capability and employ the top/best-informed architects to maintain their systems, so they're the early adopters. Everyone else is still on Apache by virtue of inertia, but will slowly move over as time goes on.

2. nginx is faster for high concurrency, and mostly gets used as a front-lines layer in front of something else, maybe even Apache itself. In this case, the charts will stay about like they are now, because only the most stressed sites need that much engineering.

I don't know that there's an easy way to differentiate between the two without either waiting and watching for change or knowing more about the internals of the top few thousand sites.
I'm planning to go tomorrow, but I'm confused why they're doing it on the fourth. Nobody is going to be in the building we're gathering around. And lots of people are going to be out of town.
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Express isn't really much of a client side MVC framework. It is still a very clean and simple framework.

If you want to drink the cool aid of single page apps, 'rich' client side etc, you have to invest into some MVVC/MVC frameworks like Angular, Ember or now Sails, which works well with Node.js apparently.
You can do that with Salt via the Salt Mine: http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/mine/index.html

I haven't used it myself, but I've been reading up on Salt quite a bit in hopes that I can replace Chef with it soon.
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It's laggy as hell for me on a i5-3427U. Not a beefy machine, but unless your target audience is gamers with tricked out PCs...
I had this exact problem awhile back with an iOS app. Luckily, Apple has a nice form available for submitting a copyright dispute[1]. Long story short, I got paid. Just remember, you retain any code you own until it is signed over to the client. Especially for iOS dev, when someone gets an email from Apple legal, they tend to pay up.

[1] http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore...
That is a fair point, they can show it was altered and "likely" to have concealed data but not that it does. Which would leave a reasonable doubt one would hope. I joked with Peter Honeyman once that perhaps I should just add 'bite me nsa' as a secret steganagraphic message in all my images so that they would have something to read. He suggested that the people who make a habit of taunting the bears in the circus are the ones who show up in the stories about bear attacks :-)
That's mostly just sales talk. The reality is that chef-solo works just fine for a lot of use cases, and that set of use cases has significant overlap with the use cases for ansible.
In a normal world, authorities would look at whether he has a motive to commit a crime, means to do it such as having illicit firearms, and plans to do it such as written statements.

In the fucked-up US of A, a sarcastic Facebook comment is enought to terrorize people enough to send him to jail.
They should go one step farther. I would love to see Germany set up a program to woo American tech talent to Germany to work on anti-surveillance systems.

Make it a no strings attached program. All you need to do is move to Germany and work with software/hardware that ensures secrecy. You would be given assistance to either join an existing company or set a new one up. Your choice. Financing would also be made available to build anti-surveillance startups.
> The data gets to Krrb on the volition of the user who posted to Craigslist.

How does Krrb verify this? How does Krrb ensure that it's the post's author, and not some random bot hitting executing their javascript in an effort to scam users?

> Craigslist owns the copyright to them as soon as I submit the ad and thus I cannot post that content elsewhere?

You absolutely have that right. It's your data, you can re-post it wherever you like. However, Krrb does not have the right to scrape data from Craigslist, on your say-so.

The content was posted to Craigslist with a license for Craigslist to publish it, not for Krrb. Much like a book author gives up certain rights to distribute a book through a publisher (including where and when it's published), the user is giving up certain rights to post the content on Craigslist. Whether this is a bad thing or not is up to the author of the content, not a 3rd party to decide.
Sure thing -- Jesse Keating has been working on a side project called 'ansibox', which is effectively about taking boxen like ideas and applying them to Ansible. He's 'jlk' in #ansible and you should stop by and say hey. It's new, but it has the same kind of 'choose what you want and we'll make it for you' kind of workflow.
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The unfortunate reality today is that we are living in a country where you really have to be afraid of the consequences of exercising your Constitutional right of free speech and assembly.

I never thought I'd have this thoughts in the US. Never. We often referred to banana republic dictatorships enslaving their people. Never in the US, right?

Today you have to be afraid to stick your neck out because the government is watching and recording as much of your life as possible. And there's a likelihood they will use what they have on you to exercise their ability to take revenge against anything you say or do, legality and constitutionality be damned. What the IRS did to Tea Party groups is probably just the tip of a very large iceberg.

The uncomfortable reality is that the only peaceful way to fix the problem is to expose yourself to the potential of government retaliation by, ironically, exercising your right to free speech and assembly.

And so we have to participate in these demonstrations with full acceptance of the potential risks.

Ultimately it will boil down to the political process. And that means really giving our reality some thought when it comes time to choose your representatives.

If you are a hard-core Liberal it is time you wake up and realize the monster your party has created. They are intent in growing government and taking control over as much of your life as possible. Time to apply the same passion and energy you had in voting-in Obama to let him know that this has to stop.

If you are a hard-core Republican and keep voting-in these religious assholes bent on world domination and delusional social control (gays, abortion, etc.). Wake up and think. You are just as guilty as Liberals of voting as a tribe rather than as an independent thinker.

If you are a Libertarian, wake up and make sure other's understand why this is the best path forward for our country. Less government. Less intrusion. Less control. More freedom.

THIS IS NOT THE COUNTRY WE WANT TO LEAVE TO OUR CHILDREN.

Think about that for a moment. Don't be so fucking selfish.

They, the government, politicians, agencies, work for us. They don't own us.

I still believe we can fix this within the legal and political framework already in place. Next election be very careful about who you vote for. Don't fall pray to pandering. We need adults in the room who can fix problems and stop us form sliding into the abyss.

The problems are tough and not everyone is going to get their freebies. Don't let them pander to your needs or to your group (religious, union, whatever) and buy your votes. Every fucked South American regime has a foundation in buying popular votes by pandering, giveaways and pitting the masses against intellectual or business leaders. If you want the US to be like them, continue voting like sheep. If you don't, let the ruling class know it. They work for us. They do not get to do as they please with our country.

Think.
It crashes pretty much every time I switch branches. The previous versions did not. This is a pretty bad regression :(
Of course modphp would be faster as php becomes part of Apache with this approach. The problem is that not every Apache process is going to serve php. Most of them will be serving static files but will have the overhead of the embedded php library. The real overhead though comes due to that you can't control how many Apache processes serve php and how many static files. Processing php eats a lot of RAM and you can quickly bring you server down to its knees. You could opt for less Apache processes but then you would end up serving much less visitors.

Anyway, Apache these days is mostly set-up with fastcgi or php-fpm due to these issues and this has the added good that you can use the worker or event mpm, though most benchmarks are still with the older prefork mpm.
Why do they have it in their hands if you don't have the money in yours?
Start an illegible letter writing campaign?