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Well, I've got two main use cases for configuration management tools: 1) managing CI build farms, and 2) managing my home network.

Both of those environments are mixed-OS. The build farms are composed of a Jenkins master with multiple slaves of various OSes: Ubuntu, RHEL, and Windows. My home network is running Kerberos and OpenAFS (amongst many other random things [1]) on Ubuntu and Windows.

> We don't believe in hiding too many OS details from you -- for instance, not only do package names vary between distributions but think about how Apache is managed so very differently between Ubuntu and CentOS -- in fact, we've observed in many cases that trying to pave over those things can make content a lot harder to work on.

I don't know... the Puppet module for Apache [2] seems to do a reasonably good job of managing this. Admittedly, pretty much none of the "main" Puppet modules support Windows, but the underlying resource system absolutely does, so adding that support is just a matter of submitting pull requests to the modules.

[1] Everything's documented here: https://justdavis.com/karl/it/

[2] https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/apache
My thoughts as well. I actually miss Mike as a tech reporter and editor. He wasn't perfect, had his quirks, but still overall I wish he would return to the scene.
Excuse Number 5: I don't have an idea. Everyone loves to tout how 'ideas are shit!'. But, when you spend a lot of your time trying to spot problems, only to find out every one of them has been done already...

Excuse Number 6: Health Insurance. I've saved enough to cover my mortgage & living expenses for a year. What I haven't saved for is an insurance plan that will not bankrupt my family if one of us has the unfortunate timing of getting in a car accident or gets cancer while I'm trying to start a business.
Very nice!! That ESPN one has some real potential.

Alas, you are missing Titshare
There's actually a method that works quite well in dealing with these "jerks." Ironically, it's the same tactic that men need to effectively communicate well with women.

Here's the secret: acknowledge them. Acknowledgement doesn't mean you smile and nod nor does it involve using the sentence structure ..., but... Try to understand their perspective and communicate through that perspective. Instead of asking others to see your perspective, it's much easier to do the reverse. Most arguments and personal qualification of someone being a jerk has to do with communicating from 2 different perspectives with neither side willing to take some time to understand the other perspective.

Most devs are fairly logical creatures. Understanding their perspective shouldn't be hard. However, it does take a bit of practice. If you can't understand where they are coming from, just ask more questions.
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DBVisualizer is an incredible cross-platform and cross-database tool that may fit your requirements. http://www.dbvis.com
Look for Venture Debt (not Venture Capital), which is a cross between a bank loan and a VC. The main advantage is that it is a loan that is paid back over time, albeit at high interest rates, but it doesn't eat equity. If you have the cash flow, and wish to retain control, venture debt is the way to go.
I am certainly giving her whole person my consideration

This app removes the women's ability to participate in the exchange at all. They have no control and are presented in a way that is completely in control of the user. When you remove her ability to decide how her body is being used, you are not considering her as a whole person. It's not about tits.
I have found that the more loudmouth and jerk-like the person is, the more they are covering up the realization that what they have/do is not all that unique, significant, or otherwise difficult yet rather comfortable and lucrative. Thus, they feel compelled to loud mouth barking and posturing to protect their bone. It's probably the same kind of mentality of a dog that snarls at his owner that just put down a bowl of food.
Seconded. I used to use Menlo, then Incosolata. Ubuntu Mono is by far the absolute best available for programming. Love it!
"Social media has created the potential for viral distribution."

In theory, certainly.

In reality, not very likely.

The 'network effect' is one of those things that is devastatingly obvious when it happens, and so powerful that it can carry something like Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare to amazing heights very quickly, that everyone thinks they can copy it. But, as is so often the case, it's very, very rare. If you think your startup is going to get to revenue (let alone profit) on the back of 'virality', think again. As a marketing strategy the probability of 'going viral' is so small it might as well not exist.

If you don't have marketing knowledge, capital to buy marketing knowledge, or the resources to go for a very long time without marketing, your startup will very likely fail..
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I am not sure whether it is exactly what you want, but I have just learned that there is something called postgres-xc.
L2 visas are granted together with L1-A/B visas which are 3+2+2 or 3+2 years respectively, not 1 year initially.

And you cannot get a US visa in Belarus: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to the decision by the Belarusian government in 2008 requiring the U.S. Embassy to reduce its diplomatic staff from 35 Americans to 5, the Embassy was technically forced to suspended full visa processing services indefinitely. Residents of Belarus whose applications do not fall under the above categories should make arrangements to apply for a nonimmigrant visa at another post."
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One difference is flexibility.

People who rent can sometimes scale down without too much difficulty. Also, people who rent choose a place that meets their current needs. When people buy, they often buy what they think they need/want in the future, so they are usually paying for more house.
Well, I have said that the big guys at Google, MS, etc should be funding and championing internet and general freedom. So, perhaps include PG in this group.

However, the problem is that as soon as such a campaign becomes strong, and that is assuming all parties agree on a policy or two, the government, especially a US one, will hit the media with fear mongering attack ads that slander such people as terrorist sympathizing, non patriotic, traitors. Witness Snowden's treatment. So, it would take only the strongest and bravest rich people, who are happy to risk all to get involved with such a venture. And such people are in it because the love start-ups and tech, they never signed up for politics. Perhaps circumstances will drag them in?

The other way of course is for such business leaders to fund and lobby existing parties to, well frankly, bribe them in to policies that promote freedom over fear and risk. That for me is playing the existing game. Now, I don't know about others here, but then the likes of the media, oil or industrial military complex do that, I call it corruption.

Frankly, while I sit here aghast at how government now treats people in general, I cannot see a reasonable clam way to solve this satisfactorily. I think, sadly, that it will carry on until there is a snapping point in the population, and some sort of revolution happens. I don't see that happening any time soon, Im not sure it ever will. As others have said, they have their job, mortgage, kids at colleges, and so on. Much easier to just accept it and let government continue to persecute the minority (not necessarily in a racial sense) it chooses to.

In the end, the vast majority of us a comfortable cowards. Who cares if a few people get screwed over. "We" have too much to lose. Yes, me included.
Shouldn't they?
I am building a (free) web interface for Postgres that aims to be fun and easy to use: http://www.teampostgresql.com

It has a lot of user friendly features particularly for data viewing and navigation, such as clicking through foreign key references to referenced rows, and the other way, looking up rows that reference this one, plus a lot of other stuff that I missed from other admin packages.

There's a demo here: http://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com/

Happy to answer any questions.
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I think this is an important start to some serious soul-searching, both for the tech community and the rest of society.

However, I don't think it is enough - and the revelation I suspect that might kick it off, if Snowden has proof, is an attack on the Visa network. I saw earlier the NSA had got into SWIFT, which really stunned me. But NSA watching VISA traffic would be front page across the world. And may well be a good explanation for why they are really trying to find out what snowden has.

Just a thought. But please carry on asking questions Mr Arrington.
Not without central planning and state ownership of enterprise he hasn't. What he's describing is just a somewhat 'Social' Liberalism.
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It is odd. "a file" almost feels less specific than "a single file", even though the latter is technically redundant.
The title of this article, as posted to Hacker News, is "Google is changing its logo." The title of the article linked to by this post is "Is Google revamping its logo?".

This is a significant difference.
Interesting, thanks. Note however that the ZX spectrum also did tokenized input. Each key corresponded to a different basic token: http://fms.komkon.org/Speccy/SpeccyKeys.gif.

In the context of lexing and parsing, I was wondering about this idea. The program entry system is kind of like a potentially context-aware parser. No more syntax error are possible...
How do you deal with this without a %1-%3 international transaction 'tax' in the form of currency exchange or bank wiring / card processing transfer fees being levied every time you want to transfer money between borders? For example, I can't find anything like Schwab's %0 currency exchange fee debit card in Canada, and I don't have $100k to just have sitting around in a bank account to get HSBC Premier with it's %0 international fees. You also get the significantly more complicated tax returns and accountant fees you will occur? Have you done this yourself?

I'm currently living in the USA too.
Intents are useful, but could be better. A standard way to hook into the Facebook app is fine for Facebook but what about when the space is more fragmented? Should app authors have to integrate with every document viewer or Mail App?
I was scared by #6 (being new to America and having a great plan from my former employer), but between COBRA and individual plans, I was surprised how easy it is to be covered. My COBRA was terrifyingly expensive (more than my rent), but I got a very affordable individual plan to cover myself and my spouse despite having a recent accident in my medical history. Or you could move to a country where it isn't a problem ;)
From an ethical standpoint I really hope Group On isn't planning any large scale soylent green or other flavor ad campaigns.
WTF is wrong with Courier New? Haha, just kidding.
The one big improvement happening in 9.3 is that synchronizing with a new master has become much easier. In earlier releases you had to more or less either use file based wal archive logging or you would have to rsync your whole data directory over, now the built-in replication protocol can handle this for you. We also got pg_standby now which is all you need to set up a new slave.

But yeah - if you need automatic failover and master election, you still need third-party tools. Some have had success with pgPool as a out-of-the-box solution (I haven't. I had severe reliability issues with pgPool. You might be more lucky), others produce their own scripts.

The process isn't complicated, it just requires you reading a lot of manpages and thinking ahead, but once you got the process down, postgres itself is reliable enough that its (admittedly limited) tools just work (which is a very good thing).

As long as Postgres doesn't do master-master replication, failover will always be a complicated topic to deal with.
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This is amazing. Well done, GoDaddy. :)
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If you restrict your survey of the condition of the working class to those who have published autobiographies and memoirs, you will have a distorted view of the condition of most workers during the period.
I'm late to this discussion, but as a "real pro" VHDL coder, I can at least sate your curiosity.

At my company, we abstract the vendor specific implementations to have a common interface that we can then use to keep the rest of our code vendor neutral.

For example, within the "Dual Port RAM" section of our revision control system, we have separate files that instanciate memory control blocks for Xilinx Spartan and Altera's Cyclone FPGAs, and generalize the interfaces so that all I see when creating a design is a vendor agnostic "dpram" component interface. When I need to use one in our design, I just need to import the correct file into my build corresponding to the actual FPGA that will be used. Migrating to another vendor involves changing which file gets during synthesis.

Cheers.
I don't think you'll be hiding assets, but putting it in another country so you don't get caught by surprise that something like Argentina's capital controls that happened nearly overnight.
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We think that the key is to provide a limited and controlled interface between the apps (which is what we're trying to do). We'll see how it goes :-)
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A guaranteed minimum income may heighten the importance of citizenship. Rather than a state being little more than a place to make money for any and all that arrive within a state's borders - in other words, a global free market - the state's prosperity would be tied to an individual's well being through ties of relation. Proof of citizenship would be of paramount in a guaranteed minimum income scheme, and yet the concept of citizenship seems to have been discarded for the notion of global citizenship in recent decades. It will be interesting to see how a guaranteed basic income survives in the age of border-less states.
Doesn't mean I have to put up with it, though.

In the same vein as a post linked here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6346933 ) I refuse to play audience to someone insisting on being mean. Maybe that's just the way that person is, I can't change that, but I can change who I choose to interact with.

If negative and mean people are happy being just so, they can be that way by themselves.
Picture a herd of elephants crossing the savannah. Each elephant carries 50 monkeys on its back.

A sudden mutation makes it so that each elephant can now only carry 30 monkeys, but also doubles the number of elephants in the herd.

This is terrible news for two-fifths of the monkeys currently riding. Some may never be able to climb back up an elephant and a few unfortunates may find themselves trampled underfoot.

On the other hand, the monkey-carrying capacity of the herd is now 20% greater than it was before. Assuming we can sort out the logistics properly, there is enough room for all current monkeys and their offspring, plus maybe a few monkeys from outside who hadn't had a chance to ride yet.

KEY:
Fewer monkeys per elephant = displaced jobs due to automation.
More elephants in the herd = economic growth due to automation.
Monkeys = workers.
Elephants = "the economy" or "the means of production".

People who tell you that automation is going to lead to long-term net job losses from are betting on something that has a very drastic job-displacement effect (WAY fewer monkeys per elephant) while having a very small effect on economic growth (few if any additional elephants). That doesn't make sense to me. The implausibly perfect technologies they tend to talk about would create a massive amount of new value in the economy, i.e. a great deal more elephants for us monkeys to ride on, even if only four abreast.

It's much easier to predict the jobs that will be displaced than the new jobs that will be created, so it's cognitively simpler to take the pessimist's side.
Peripheral to what they do 90% of the time.

That depends on the doctor. But generally doctors spend ~20% of their day doing data entry. The rest of the time, in general practice, family, etc. clinics, doctors need an EHR at their fingertips when talking to patients and other care providers and carrying an iPad around with an EHR designed for the iPad from the ground up is easier than most desktop-based EHR software.

Could do the same almost as well on their laptop.

Misunderstands why a person uses an iPad instead of a laptop.
> The problem is that we all have so much to lose

The Silicon Valley mythology is largely based around the idea of founders/early employees who do what they do because they have nothing to lose. I don't know whether that was ever actually true, but you're right: we all have a lot to lose now, and that affects how we act. Not just in terms of standing up to the government, but every time we face a risky decision.

Any thoughts on what we can do to make up for that?
Especially since the answer, as always, is no.
And some devs have the idea that they are Better Than You, no matter what your skill level or expertise. I'm a web dev and worked on a project recently with a lead who had just enough experience with web dev of the 90's to be dangerous. For example, he fought with me repeatedly about md5 being good enough for password hashing, while I wanted to use bcrypt (or at the very least, SHA1, even though it's almost as bad as md5). It took weeks before he relented, and only after I sent him several articles about how broken md5 is. In the end we wound up removing encryption entirely because it made his deployment process harder.

I've got a new job.
Still prefer inconsolata at the moment, any particular feature of ubuntu mono that you feel puts it far ahead of others?
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Startups are not the answer here. Privacy is not something you can buy as a service; Hushmail should have proved this beyond any doubt. Privacy protecting technologies hamper typical startup revenue models based on targeted advertising, and would necessarily have to do so in order to provide the privacy we actually need in the face of the NSA. There is also the matter of the NSA maliciously sabotaging privacy protecting technologies.

Really what we need is something like GnuPG, but easier to audit, easier to use, and with a standard that is not constrained by a need for backward compatibility (and which clearly follows constructions given by researchers, rather than using ad-hoc techniques).
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Standard way to hook into the Facebook app is a "Share Intent" which can be picked up by any other social network application; such as Google+, my text messaging app, Google Hangouts, and so many others. Even allowing "copy to clipboard" and "Pin" and whatever else. Almost every Android app creates a Share Intent listener to pull in data.

If there's a document viewer, it'll listen in for the file types it supports when you try to open a file (I think its a VIEW intent). It's all very impressive and very, very useful.
in any case, the guys at Hacker News have now hidden this thread & the other one about TitStare, so we can all pretend the problem's gone away.
I actually find the difference noticeable when using Chrome on iOS. Only Safari can JIT Javascript for instance. At least with Chrome it also seems to run out of memory faster (it has access to less?).
This is funny
HN headline: google is changing its logo
Source Headline: Is google changing its logo?
Source conclusion: No, google is not changing its logo.
it's the misogyny, not the pornography, that's problematic here.
I'm not sure it's as easy to do as you suggest. Moving large amounts of money internationally is difficult to do depending on the receiving country, and impossible to do without having it tracked. If you fly, you have to declare cash amounts > $10,000 and that puts you at the caprice of customs officials.

One could create shell corporations and try arranging some kind of complex loophole-based scheme, but that's not only difficult, but also traceable in most cases. There's a reason druglords deal in warehouses full of cash--because if the government wants you bad enough, there's no scheme you can arrange to escape, and even moreso with the NSA watching and storing all of your past and future online activity.
"Hahaha, they can't even fake documents in proper way" - what kind of documents was he looking at? As far as I know the only document required for L2 visa is a marriage certificate and in my case no one actually looked at it. So I really doubt the described situation actually happened.
In most proposals, basic income is covered by dropping the programs it replaces (social security, disability, etc.) and raising income taxes in all brackets.

Basic income is something you get regardless of whether you work, so there is still incentive to work - if you want anything other than what basic income (which should cover little more than food + shelter in a relatively inexpensive area) can get you.

Because this gives low-income people more power over their employers than before (they don't need to work), it probably allows you to repeal minimum wage laws, and let the wage fall somewhere reasonable.
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If you implement encryption client-side, have a web-of-trust to catch compromised keys, and have an open source client, how is that going to happen?

That's what "zero knowledge" means: You don't have to trust your own infrastructure. Your mail server could be in Fort Meade. The user's data is still protected.

Perhaps they could be ordered to shut down. But that wouldn't result in your data being compromised.
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Not every startup is in a retail product space. Some are doing things that only make sense in the context of a larger company and their only realistic exit is acquisition or having one or a very few 'partner' customers. These startups might talk game about being big enough to be viable on their own but that's probably more a negotiating tactic than an actual plan.
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Very true. Distribution is still the #1 problem facing startups and not thinking seriously about it is a recipe for disaster. "I will get the word out on social media" =/= thinking seriously about it.

It has never been so easy to start a company - the author is right about that. Because of that, however, there have never been so many companies starting. As a result, it has never been so difficult to rise above the noise.
The default is determined by initdb, but was capped at 32MB due to the above issue. With this change, the cap's been bumped to 128MB.
People compare the colors of the 5C to the iMac or iPod mini, but the difference is that people already put colored cases on their iPhones all the time. Provides little incentive to upgrade from a current iPhone. Plus, people will just put a (different?) color case on the 5C anyway!