skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note this survey was carried out in America: the conclusions are not valid for adults of other nationalities.
Well, I'm happy to see the downvotes. It suggests that idealism is alive and well on HN. Ironically, I speak from the experience of being the citizen of Canada, in particular, BC that had a number of disagreements with the United States (Air, Water, Lumber Tariffs) over 10 years. Issues that I'm certain 99.99% of the United States has never heard of, were front page news of the Vancouver Sun on-and-off for a decade.

There was a sense of anger, helplessness, and eventually resentment (but, to some degree, acceptance) that when engaging in disputes with much larger countries, you need to avoid going up against them head-on, because you will lose every time.

At least we got NAFTA out of it, which has worked out well for some percentage of the Canadian population.
That is a frakking act of war ... wtf.

Seems like US is writing blank checks to all other countries in the pursuit of Snowden.

How low can this administration go?
As of this morning, the first app mentioned in my blog post is no longer available for purchase, and the second application is now only for sale in Egypt.
Why is this on the frontpage of HN?
Seems like a perfectly reasonable response tbh. The only thing that struck me as bizarre was it taking a month before you realized they were avoiding you. I'd say the conditional distribution of someone avoiding you looks like this:

1 unreturned email/phone call: 70%

2 unreturned emails/calls: 95%

3 unreturned emails/calls: 99.9%

And the first one honestly is probably even higher than 70%
I think -r allows you to select roles IIRC. Not sure if it allows for multiple roles, but you can include roles within roles so you can make a role called 'web' that includes 'db','webserver' etc
My first thought reading this was "Only a month?".

Then I realized that in the real world that's probably quite a while to wait.

I'm accustomed to dealing with government where 4-6+ months is typical and complaining will see you blacklisted. This is part of the reason huge companies are able to rent seek on such work, many small to medium businesses would have a hard time floating 6+ months of payroll continuously.
One could only hope these types of strong arm tactics against a diplomatic mission would lead to repercussions serious enough to make future incidents much less likely.

However, since it seems there is nothing more to be gained by continuing to hold the plane, what will actually happen is that high ranking politicians in the involved countries will apologise profusely, claim this was done by some low ranking bureaucrat that will be appropriately disciplined (sounding familiar?), and everything will go back to normal since no one wants to risk major economic repercussions over a minor incident.

I wonder if this could have a long term impact on how the South Americans view Europe ideologically though.
You act as if Qt isn't already a successful cross-platform toolkit. Qt has been successfully used for years to make native-looking apps for OSX, Windows, and Linux from the same codebase.

How are you saying Qt has not succeeded as a cross-platform GUI system, or that it produces non-native apps on the platforms it has historically supported?

And yes, my customers -do- want my software to run on Android and iOS just like it runs on Windows, Linux, and OSX - and they don't particularly care in what toolkit it is written. I do, however, care about having to re-write the same code in three different languages.
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How does Ansible effectively scale to thousands of hosts using ssh? My experience is that you can only run a few hundred ssh sessions at a time with reasonable performance, and that's on beefy hardware to begin with.
Just out of interest, given the revelation that the UK is tapping underwater fibres, anyone know if they have a plan to stop doing it? Or they just going to carry on?

If they do decide to stop, how do we check?
I'm sorry, but even as fairly smart tech guy this page was not helpful to me. It didn't tell me anything useful about Ansible. I was left wondering ".... how the hell does it work? how do I use it?" and basically had to investigate their homepage to figure out why I should care. If it was a sales pitch to get me interested, it worked, but what the hell are sales pitches doing on HN?
He stated he has learned from this - it was 7 years ago.

> Things have changed since I first started out. I now have systems in place to better protect myself and the client. When I first started out I didn’t have a contract in place or a document outlining deliverables. You live, you learn. It could still happen again but far less likely.
Thanks!

Yes, a lot* of feedback, much of it very useful, for example a suggestion to use photos of people who agreed to publish their testimonials. Took some effort to email everyone etc. but I think it's well worth it.

* ...and had to earn 'credits' for the reviews just like a regular user in case you ask ;)))))
Everything you do is subject to some kind of informational storage by the government. Some day our thoughts might be recordable too.
Especially with Javascript off ... it's white ,empty and beautifull , I learned nothing about what the framework was about.
Don't underestimate what media exposure can do.

With ACTA, Europeans were already warm because of SOPA / the Internet blackout - and because the blackout was a big thing that impacted regular people, it was all over the news, yes in Europe.
Have a look here: https://starthq.com/apps/?category=collaboration

We just added the country where each SaaS app is hosted, so you should be able to find some EU based alternatives to Box quickly.
I also assume that Fedex and UPS et all are required to record your data as well?
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Couldn't they pick a more sympathetic guy to talk about:

"Mr. Pickering said that although he was arrested two dozen times for acts of civil disobedience and convicted of a handful of misdemeanors, he was never involved in the arson attacks the Earth Liberation Front carried out."

Gee, this guy was a member of a group that conducted arson attacks and the government is keeping track of the mail he gives to the government to deliver? I'm shocked, really...

That said, this is a great article, and the second page gives a good description of what I think is the legal theory behind the NSA programs:

1) Don't need a warrant to keep track of meta-data (whatever is readable on the outside of the mail).

2) Don't need a warrant to access contents (opening the mail) in foreign intelligence cases (i.e. where the target is a non-U.S. person).

3) Need a warrant to access contents otherwise.
Nope. They can show _with a high certainty_ that the image is not quite usual; that's still a pretty long shot from _proving_ the irregularity is actually steganography (but that's where we leave the un/certainties of crypto and enter the realm of law).
I am pretty sure that if you don't provide a door key police will break door so same logic should follow that they have burden of enforcing entry
Living outside the US as an American is pretty hard. It's one of two countries on earth that expects you to keep filing, and paying taxes even if you have never set foot inside the country (e.g. born in Spain to one American parent), you have to report any bank account you control to the US every year. That includes company accounts you have signing rights over, so forget being a stock trader in a "tax haven" country, etc. It's a lot of trouble and it gets worse every year since we're one of the few groups the politicians can demonize and exploit with no consequence at all. Anyone rich enough to have power isn't affected by these laws, practically speaking.
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A major chunk of PHP based applications would be doing these, else it would be standalone Nginx serving static files for the most part of the servers..
If you want to find out more, perhaps you want to read http://ansibleworks.com/docs instead?
> Also allowing people to get so much power make it almost impossible to later revoke that power when they switch their goals or abuse it. Who can guarant you that nobody uses PRISM for personal benefit? Like people betting on stock exchange because they read that some company is going to default in private emails, and all other people on stock lose their money to these assholes? That's just the first example that came to my mind. Do you trust every person in NSA that they won't do such stuff? Or are you OK with it?

I agree with this statement,

I would like to add: That this nation was built on a very powerful constitution. What makes America different than most nations is that the Constitution amendments are like Axioms. Unlike many places these rules cannot be changed, shifted or broken. Yes I am saying that the US constitution is stronger than any other constitution out there today.

The forefathers lived in a very different age but were bright people. Technology changes, times change but human nature and instinct does not. If we do not stand for the constitution and what it means you will be accepting a different reality and a different America. We will die time will continue but to ensure that America is what it was intended to be we must show our presence today and protect the basic civil rights of Americans.

>Their goal is protect the US. Do you think there are no threats within our borders? Seriously Americans, what's wrong with you?

There were always threats within our borders. Thats why we have the DEA, FBI, ATF, Homeland Sec., etc.

Billions of dollars of data and wire tapping is not going to protect you. A person with will an intent to do evil will and can do it no matter what.

However, if the solution is to give up our civil liberties which makes this country the best place on earth in panic, distrust and spying on our own people; then we have already lost and they (evil) have won.
Yeah. If Google/AWS/AWS-hosted companies/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook know what's good for them, they'll quickly do literally everything they can to force the US government to stop this foolish bullshit. They have far more non-US-citizen customers than they do US-citizen customers.
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Hi,

Yes, it's taken me (now 'us') a while to launch the new version because I had had a day job I needed to quit in order to focus on it and I really finalised everything in May.

But now we're on the way to becoming the next facebook. ;D

The team: www.criticue.com/about_us (I esp. adore the youngest member.)
First off, Qt is native for quite a few Linux GUI desktops. So there's no "port" for those.

But even beyond that, the toolkit you're referring to (QtWidgets) is only one part of Qt itself. In fact I rather doubt you'd ever use it for an Android application, preferring instead QtCore plus the declarative U/I handling.

Much of Qt is code you would otherwise be writing /anyways/, only they did it for you, did it right, and even documented it with examples of how to use properly. For instance, event loops, abstract I/O, Unicode string handling, concurrency, atomics primitives, networking support (including integration into aforementioned event loops and abstract I/O), and much more.

As a side effect of coding to a thoughtful, high-level API you happen to make cross-platform development easier, but that's hardly the only reason to use Qt.

Either way the fact that you don't instantly recognize Qt apps when you see them is proof positive, as they are out there in much higher numbers than you seem to realize...
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Also worth mentioning Qt Creator itself I would say.
Yeah, the last one[0] really had a crappy turnout. We only got enough people together here to fill two buses and travel ~800 miles one way to attend.

It wasn't just Reddit, of course, and obviously it had a couple of fairly well-known media personalities promoting it but the majority of the organizing and attendees I saw was because of Reddit.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_to_Restore_Sanity_and/or_...
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In the end everyone's looking out for themselves.
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Yeah, the reality is it's about 3 additional commands to get going (over any other normal volume)...and a very short chef cookbook to automate it.

# create a key file
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/mykeyfile.key bs=512 count=1
# create the luks container
cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdf1 /etc/mykeyfile.key
# open the luks container
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdf1 myluksvolume --key-file /etc/mykeyfile.key
# format the volume
mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/myluksvolume
# mount the disk
mount /dev/mapper/myluksvolume /mnt/mymountpoint
What would the asking rate be ?
>that you fucked up by not having a clear agreement and payment plan in place prior to starting work

Clients can ignore payment even when there's a clear agreement and payment plan place in place prior to starting work. How? Not paying.
It doesn't seem to include node storage, so for example you'll need to include a mysql password because if it generates a random one, you won't be able to retrieve it.

(This may have changed since last time I tried it.)
Ansible can trade data between machines using 'hostvars' as a variable, so you don't even need the analog of Puppet storeconfigs to assemble facts. (Sorry, don't now the Chef term).

Stop by the list if you'd like more info, but it's easy to generate nagios configs from templates this way.
Goddamnit this is NOT OK. This is the dark side of the technological improvements to "productivity": we have enabled a level of productivity that allows the few to track the many.

It's time we technologists all sat down and though about ways to turn the tide - they are using technology to track us, how can we use technology to thwart them?

My best answer is: data flak. We should all start building system that include extra data. Browser components that load other pages in the background. Phones that text at random. Snail mail to nowhere.

You're gonna snoop on all my data? Take it ALL and choke on it.
No asking rate really, just wanted to see what (if anything) people might offer. I'm willing to consider anything.
> Replace everything from HTML up to HTTP with closed source software built by EU governments.

The new boss looks surprisingly like the old boss, don't you think?

Also, you sort of lost me at closed-source, or are you being hyperbolic for sarcasm's sake?
I really do truly believe that. It's true that Russia or China would try to take their place but they'd have a much harder time because they don't have anything like the US military, the technical infrastructure, etc., etc. and the rest of the world has been so skeptical of them for so long they'd likely never achieve any of those things (well, perhaps military might).
Then turn it on. Why are you browsing the web with JS off in 2013? Do you want web developers to make _two_ sites, one for the 99% using JS and another for the Stallman's out there using lynx for browsing? /rant
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2012045

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I have a hard time taking Mozilla serious in this case.

If Mozilla where really against the NSA spying they would all their users to easily remove any Google ( and other third party ) services from Firefox. I understand why they won't, it would mean taking a financial hit, if I understand they business model.

It's not that it is "Googles fault", they are force to work with the NSA. However having services from a company known to work with the NSA so deeply embedded into your product weakness the impact of your resistance to the NSA surveillance program.
Stop using Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and Apple?

And how's that Baidu filter working for ya?
I don't know what's the opinion of other people, but for me chef-solo is not even a product on its own. If you use chef, but need to either bootstrap the server or prepare some system image - then going the way of stripped down / hacked chef is what you're looking for. And that's what chef-solo does.

But maybe it's more of a standalone tool for others?
I think you can think of these tools on a spectrum from pull-based to push-based. I say spectrum, because many of them are in reality hybrid. Tools running agents are naturally pull-based, where as with push you don't necessarily need an agent (consider sand blasting ssh commands).

CFEngine is by far the most pull-based tool as it is underpinned by a theory mandating this behavior. Puppet is pull-based but with more push, Chef is even more push based, and Ansible and Salt are (I guess) mostly push.

In the end it depends on what is more practical for your situation. If you have a few machines, then more push will be practical, but the more machines you have, pull-based solutions scale better.
I think Reader was a great, if neglected product, but I don't think it matters that Google maintains it.

What moved the needle for google 5 years ago is not what will move the needle today. Google will focus more on search, g+, android, apps, cloud, because those things can make an impact relative to Google's current scale.
No reason to use Apache for PHP - I run all of my PHP sites on nginx with php-fpm or fastcgi. It has been much easier for me to manage performance, especially on low-memory VPSs with php running in a separate process. I suppose it would work just as well with Apache behind nginx, but I don't see any good reason to have it in the way unless you rely on htaccess files.
It's funny that the US has twice the amount of guns per capita compared to Switzerland, when Switzerland is the country that demands that all conscpripts in their militia keep a gun at their home.
I guess that the government's legal justification for this is that people have no reasonable expectation of privacy under the 4th Amendment re: the info on the outside of the mail (name, address, etc.). That is why the need a warrant to actually open the mail.
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I think people are taking my assessment of how "serious" this is to the United States as a indication of my belief as to how just/unjust or reasonable their behavior is. Over twenty or so years, I learned that when it suits their purpose/needs, the US is willing to step on much more important and strategically important countries than Bolivia. And, in this situation, apparently all they were asking for was countries (presumably friendly to the United States) to request a passenger/manifest inspection in return for over-flight privileges.

I wonder how many people here are aware that the United States requires this of every single flight from Canada that passes over the united states, in particular, " requires airline carriers to hand over the names, birth dates and gender of all passengers travelling through American air space." regardless of whether they are landing in the US.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/pr...
If you'd get your news from other sources but boingboing, you'd be aware that we actually don't know if he was targeted or collateral damage.

Once again, I'm not debating the morality of the drone program, or the ludicrousness of writing off killings as "collateral damage". I debate the deliberate use of misinformation to score a point. We all need to stop distorting the truth to suit our purpose, so we can see what's actually happening - which is bad enough and doesn't require conspiracy theories.
Really good ideas, we do have a few more and will be implementing them starting sometime soon but our focus is anyway more on increasing the retention and the referral rate at this stage.

Experiments with revenue are very important too though.

What do you think? Should we do revenue right away or retention/viral aspects first? I sometimes have doubts about this.
Glad you said thanks to all who helped you. Shows class. Congrats.
> As long as the US has enemies within it's own borders, tying the hands of people who can help us is going to be a pretty bad idea.

A constant state of fear, always at war, our enemies are about to attack us.

Isn't this what North Korea fuels the fire with?

I will be protesting and the point is that a multibillion dollar infringement of the constitution is not whats going to stop domestic "enemies". Its stemming hate and spreading peace that will ultimately matter. If someone is willing to attack you, if they are smart, and if they have nothing to loose and are willing to die for it then NOTHING, NOTHING can stop them. Not even Minority Report.

We whom will protest will protest because there are other ways to attain these goals, without breaking the constitution.
Thank you!

Me too BTW. ;)
Nginx works very well with PHP-FPM through FastCGI, and there is about zero configuration needed as everything is up and running after an apt-get (minus some commented configuration regarding php in Nginx).

I think more and more php-based app are powered by this kind of stack.
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I don't really get the comparison with CPUs though. Pipelines, even software pipelines, have existed long before CPUs used them.
It's not just Google. It's anything running Apple OSes (iPhones/iPads), Microsoft OSes, Google OSes (Android!), gmail users, AWS, any company _hosted_ on AWS, but, most importantly, any US company built _in the future_.

We've now learned that any US-based company can be secretly forced to spy on their users at the behest of the military. And then in a stroke of genius, Obama went on tv to explain that it's not cause for alarm because it only targets foreigners.

Because we have FISA, because we have secret courts, because we have PATRIOT NSLs, because we have gag orders, every single American internet company now has a permanent credibility problem in the global market.

We're capital-F Fucked.
Heterotopia
What "should be" the first result is a very subjective exercise.
now enter the first 72 characters of that password in the bcrypt verification function and it'll still say it's correct. bcrypt is a valid technical reason to limit passwords to 72 characters.
Several sites I have insight into, use nginx in front of Tomcat, Jetty, Netty, so I agree this might be the main purpose of nginx, and it excels there.
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