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Last year, I have deployed ~20 machines with puppet (some virtual, some physical) which also was my first attempt into automatic configuration (better late than never I guess).

I'm reasonably happy with the outcome and it has certainly paid off the learning effort.

But when I learned about Ansible a few months ago and after reading the documentation, I was blown away when I've seen Ansible practically fixing all my gripes I have with puppet.

Audible really feels like the perfect piece of Software for my use case:

For one, I don't have that many machines and the amount of them changes very rarely, so I don't really get much benefit from the central puppet server. It is however one additional piece if software to maintain.

Then, by being able to push a config from everywhere with Ansible, I could get rid of a few scripts that now update the puppet master from git checkouts and then tell the other machines to fetch the config (the clients are not running the agent in daemon mode because I like to have full control over when the deployment of configs happens)

Next, Ansible has a very cool facility to do one-off things across multiple machines. Yes, that's probably a dangerous shoot-yourself-in-the-foot feature, but sometimes, my feet need shooting at and I'm happy if the tool provides the gun instead of myself having to build the gun myself if you pardon the metaphor.

Next, I love the feature that managed clients practically need nothing installed on them to be able to manage them. And: Ansible brings everything it needs to bootstrap a new client. That' say other script I would not have needed to write.

Finally, I like the much bigger library of included modules as that would keep the repository I have to keep smaller and constrained to just the actual configuration of my machines rather than infrastructure to just be able to express the configuration.

Now if only I had time to convert our puppet setup.
I have a Buffalo Router, it a DD-WRT firmware, I have a new LG tv too, just bought the stupid thing 1 week ago. Anyways, you can block the websites using this router.
Good news is it works.
Fun graphene fact: As the article mentions, graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester using sticky tape. For this discovery, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics... making Andre Geim the first person to be awarded both the Nobel Prize and the Ig Nobel Prize. He was previously awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for magnetically levitating a live frog.
This is ridiculous. Really sounds like a bunch of sniveling losers. I participated in the hack, lost don't regret it at all. Well, a little bit because i hate staying up late. next time will plan ahead.And I'm a former salesforce employee and personally know a bunch of the dev relations team. No leg up there. I thought our submission was pretty good, didn't win, oh well. It's almost as if these commenters believed they were promised the million and have been ripped off. I don't think that is the right way to think about this, if your app is so great keep it going make your own million.
It's been one year since I joined my current employer, and we work in a big open floor. There are around 30 people in this big room, and its very distracting and we have no privacy. It is weird as someone who is setting next to me or walking by can just peep and see what I am doing and read my IMs.
Since this is my first big office, it has been terribly distracting and has really crashed my productivity.
But then again, this is a big company, and office space is pricey. I don't expect them to give us all more personal space of our own.
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How do you anticipate getting the push token from Chrome if not via the Safari-specific JavaScript APIs?
If you want to see an example, check out Redfin:

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2013/10/redfin-introduces-new-in...
> Google security team acted really fast. This issue was fixed in 10 days.

Wow I couldn't imagine how long a 'slower' response cloud be.
Yup, as long as you can get the sending device to trust the invalid certificate. This is how I keep an eye on my iPhone traffic.
Plus PR, and global debate. The mass debate has to be worth 10x that much to the cause.
Will and won't this encourage spam from websites in the form of advertisements etc.? I hope this has some form of authentication barrier. Presently, I prefer desktop notifications from Chrome via Chime on websites I have signed in. - http://chimeapp.com/
So the South Koreans are protectionists too?
Big-O Cheat Sheet
I'm curious, what are you using it for?
i killed myself to get my entry in. it was another version of healthcare.love. i wish i knew what they were doing so we could team up. i checked my analytics this morning. i was the only one who viewed the official video. i was the only one who launched the app. i'd love to collect the stats from everyone to see how many apps even got played.
That's a good point. Then why do they need OS support? Why not run a simple background service when Safari is installed and make it cross-platform.
The article comes off as a bit desperate - they want all developers who want to bill themselves as Meteor experts to list it as a skill & promote it as such, but developers shouldn't be shoehorning themselves like that.

Devs enthusiastic about your tech will be evangelizing it/talking about it without being spurred to. An article like this shouldn't be necessary.
Melinda Gates herself said condoms, in their current state, don't really solve a lot of contraceptive issues in Africa in an article she wrote for Foreign Policy. But any advancement in the technology that encourages greater adoption is a net positive.

Certainly worth a read:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/why_birth_c...
Considering all the time we spent trying to defeat pop-ups, this is just a step back for many more advertisements. The push notifications on the mobile is already bad, especially on Android, it can get much more worse on a web browser.
the prize structure was simply so that one company could eventually say "1 million dollar hackathon". no other reason. it's more reasonable to even it. every other company does that in the tech hackathons.
Presumably you at least need to visit the site with Safari initially to enable the notifications.
Chrome apps do work on android

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/03/newest-chrome-beta-integrates-w...
I don't know about others, but for me, it just doesn't make any conceptual sense. Would you use Excel as a word processor? Would you use Lightroom for mapping? The modern operating system offers so many amazing frameworks and features; why throw that all away and start anew on a shaky foundation of Javascript, HTML, and insanely complicated rendering code, all originally designed for a completely different purpose?

I prefer my software to adhere to the single responsibility principle as much as possible.

EDIT: Why are you downvoting me? If you disagree, that's what the reply button is for. I'd like to think that HN is better than Reddit.
The comment didn't say "I wish I could dictate the profit model for this market", it said "I wish artists earned more money when I consumed their product."
1. You have fewer root operators than missile launchers or whatever. This allows you to extend the circle of people who can do X (change a DNS entry), but only by cooperating.

2. You need to do that in advance. root can't just wake up one day and decide to go crazy.
> You, the founder, keep a % of the company throughout this time, but you'd only see it translate to real money in the case of an acquisition/IPO/sell off

If Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy weren't taking $10 million+ off the table during funding rounds they'd probably be far less likely to turn down a $3 billion offer. It is fairly common for founders to trade personal stock for cash during a funding round.

Perhaps you mean during initial funding? It is absolutely possible - and common - for founders to take money of the table during secondary funding rounds.
Germany threatens to jail Carl Malamud for making the law available for free
I'm not familiar with the scripted installer or if it would have fit our needs.

No, the script is a python one using PySphere to interface with the vSphere server. It creates a new vm with appropriate disk, ram, vcpu and networking to the right networks. The script also creates a PXELinux config file so when the system boots it gets a custom PXE configuration with directs it to boot the CentOS installer with a kickstart file that has been created for it. This kickstart file specifies the hostname, network configuration, default packages, system password and Salt configuration. The system does an unattended install.

Once the system boots it binds to the Salt Master and pulls down its configuration which configures the server to its role (App server, database, redis, etc).

It was done this way mostly because I was familiar with it from my days as a red hatter, but there also was a bit of a desire to not get too tied into VMWare. We are relatively small (though run ~ 50 servers), and only afforded VMware through the Essentials Plus package. We are not a VMware shop by any measure, and will be looking for the best option (be it physical systems, virtual infrastructure or cloud providers) when our hardware support & software licenses expire.
>Serious question... Is it not a normal thing to hardcore analyze your offerings against your competitors?

Yes, but not to this level. This is a guide book to imitating another platform.

>And if so is it a bad faith to do these types of analysis inside your company on your products since it exposes you in court?

No. I'd suggest that Samsung did go over the top with this.

>How has the auto industry get getting along so long without suing each other into the ground?

They haven't. The automotive industry is extremely litigious, it just doesn't get page views, dead-tree or internet.
> Secure? When did OS+browser became more secure than just OS?

You can't get a virus from visiting a web page.

You don't give a web page access to all your files just by visiting it.

Running a native app requires significantly more trust than running a web app. Web apps are significantly more sandboxed.
Same here -- graphite lubricant was the standard stuff.
From the "Notification Programming Guide for Websites"[1]:

> Opting In to Notifications
>
> Users must opt in to receive notifications. The opt-in process only occurs
> once per domain. The presentation of asking for permission is identical
> for all website notifications. In fact, the permission policy that
> a user chooses for push notifications applies to local notifications.

It goes on to say that "users can adjust their notification preferences in Safari preferences and System Preferences".

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Networ...
Twitch mass-bans users, including partners, doesn't respond to questions
Misses definitely cost something. PPI (pay per install) affiliate programs have a floor price (iirc about $0.10 - $0.50 per install last i checked). Its higher than e-mail spam, but even that has a price. Targeted traffic costs more, but has higher conversion ratios. I don't think bitcoin wallets are so generic that you'd get a measurable number of wallets on generic traffic. You'd have to get many thousands of installs to even get one.
So, you're trying to twist my words into saying "this is what is happening and I am claiming it to be true" - however what I'm saying is that it's a reasonable possibility - I am not saying there is proof behind it or that it's a real occurrence.
I started out with MATLAB, played around enough with Python to realize that it wasn't enough better than MATLAB to be worth switching. (My impression was that Python was almost flexible enough as a language to make writing code that uses NumPy/SciPy feel natural, but it didn't quite achieve that.) I finally switched to Julia, which is both faster and (IMO) more enjoyable to write than either MATLAB or Python, although the current package ecosystem is pretty small. I think the main difficulty in creating a new programming language for numerical computing is that you need knowledgeable people to do it, and most of those people are more interested in analyzing their data than building a programming language (or core packages for a programming language) to do it better.

My impression on two small bits of this article:

Python is also somewhat restrictive with what you can say on a single line. In Matlab you would often load some data, start editing the functions and build you data analysis step by step, while in Python you tend to have files which you start from the command line (or at least that’s how I tend to do it).

I actually find that this kind of analysis is more conveniently done in IPython (or IJulia) Notebook than in MATLAB.

I still have dreams of a plotting library where the type of visualization is decoupled from the data (such that you can say “plot this matrix as a scatter plot, or as an image”).

This is the design goal of both R's ggplot2 and Julia's Gadfly.jl.
Interesting editorializing on the title...
Apple does not consider cross-platform features to be in their interest: they make money on hardware, and consider quality software to be a feature of that hardware. Safari itself is not cross-platform: it was temporarily distributed for Windows, but it has not been updated in a year and a half; you can't add a cross-platform background service to a web browser that is only distributed bundled with an operating system ;P. (As far as I understand, Safari for Windows mostly existed just to get web developers to support Safari better, but as they've now gained so much marketshare they discontinued that project.)
Apple Not Involved in Google Lawsuit Decision
Facilitating the sale of drugs is quite different than if he's accused of trying to (successfully or unsuccessfully) kill 6 people - which is much more extreme, no?
11 days? Two weeks? A month? Never?

Not every company values this sort of feedback from their users. Some go out of their way to prosecute those that break their services this way.
1) Nope, that's not what I'm imagining at all. In fact I love the Winamp interface just the way it is. No gamification. No points. Only extensions to the product without changing it. I don't want to list them here because I emailed them to the poster who wanted to pitch into a fund to buy Winamp from AOL and we decided to keep them a secret.

2) That's because you're negative & disdainful.

3) If you're not growing you're dying. Keeping Winamp the same without changing anything is exactly what has led AOL to sell the property in the first place.

I understand where you're coming from, I've read through some of your past comments. The reason why you've become negative and disdainful is because you're wasting your time arguing with "stupid people" (you know who I'm talking about). Stop doing that because it will destroy you and suck you dry of all your energy. I only had to skim 3 pages into your comment history to see you've been arguing with "people who cannot be changed" (aka "______ fans" and "what's wrong with destroying privacy" type folks) and you have a history of trying to talk them out of their stupidity. Don't do it. Just stop. I stopped and I'm a much happier person.
It's under debate in the same way that other well established scientific ideas are under debate.

That there are essential fatty acids for humans could certainly be disproven, but "going long periods with zero fat intake" is not sufficient evidence to disprove established biochemistry.
no.
Huge red flag.
I had a great time too. But it unfortunately does look they started Upshot (their startup) way before the hackathon was even announced.. pretty messed up: http://www.meetup.com/Salesforce-com-Integration-Analytics/e...
I'm pretty sure I work in the same place. It's impossible to get a focus booth or enclave (is that what they call the small group rooms?) unless you get there early. Fortunately, they told me I would be mobile, then assigned me a desk in a lab space. Not being able to have food at my desk is a small price to pay for having a desk.
If you're basket of features is full, then add easter eggs. It's all about expected value. Most adults don't care about things like easter eggs, they just want a high quality product/service that ~tickles~ them well.

Relatively speaking, easter eggs go better and are more par for the course with less serious products like games, google Carmack easter eggs for some good reading :-)
How A Dynamic Group of 3 Friends Build A Successful Company?
What we loved about this video is how candidly the three friends turned business partner talks about their journey to build a successful company. There are some valuable lessons to be learned in collaborative work culture and business management from their story.
Except for the hackathon, but that kind of ended up being a little sketchy IMO. Otherwise, they didn't do much other than throw out cheesy marketing phrases "at the speed of sales" "internet of customers" etc etc
Nut consumption reduces risk of death
I agree that they are the same in concept. In my limited experience, the college study rooms were used pretty much exclusively in the week or so leading up to finals. Where I work now, the same types of spaces are constantly filled. It could just be a matter of balancing the need with the availability of those kinds of rooms.
The possibilities of graphene are vast and many and exciting but this is kind of scary. For all intents and purposes, graphene is nanotechnology and in certain forms can act like asbestos and has a lot of other unknown behaviors in the body [1]. Unfortunately the field of nanotoxicology hasn't really organized itself and caught up to the widespread use of nanocoating and other material science in industry[2]. I hope they find ways to make it extremely inert in the human body but there's much work to be done.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n7/full/nnano.2008.11... (CNTs are rolled up graphene and are formed in many graphene production methods as a byproduct)

[2] Nature has a whole series on this: http://www.nature.com/nnano/focus/nanotoxicology/index.html
She is Inspiring. She is Successful. She Is An Entrepreneur With a Purpose.
A business is successful if it has a strong purpose behind it. A purpose beyond achieving the yearly financial target. This entrepreneur not only makes a good point on how to launch a successful startup but also how your business can help to change the world
We've developed a WebRTC PeerConnection video chat, and it is not so great just yet. It barely works in Firefox, and is all around buggy and constantly changing.
Does anyone have any references for the Clark GC? I'm writing a toy lisp compiler and would find it interesting to read about it.
Neurocam Uses Brainwaves To Trigger Hands-Free Photos, Straps iPhone To Head
I wasn't either until someone told me. Most startups and businesses fail. The released failure numbers are way too low because they don't take into account that most small business owners don't even bother registering their business so when they close them down there's no paper trail to add to the statistic.

Think of how gullible the average American is (look at all the things infomercials convince them to buy) If it weren't for that rule a lot of innocent people would lose their life savings because a lot of them 1) believe in the goodness of people and 2) don't understand finance or investing.

Those rules were created to prevent your old folks from investing in a miracle snake oil business or a new hair growth tonic business from a traveling salesman.
> But we don't need carbs.

Do you have any science to back up this bold claim?

And what are you claiming carbohydrates are? Simplex and complex carbohydrates - sugars and starches?

It seems like you're saying that we don't need carbs, but that eating a diet with no carbs means we lose out on all those foods that have other useful nutrients (ie green vegetables). So, we tend to eat diets that have carbs to get the other benefits. Is that right?
- Thank you so much rodw for that link. I really appreciate it. I'll check it out.
This is utter baloney. For you who think systematic oppression of groups of people isn't a real thing, think again. Take, for instance, the poor literacy rate in the middle east. averaging 17%, now, are we to say "People of Arab decent obviously have a biological disadvantage when it comes to reading and writing, statistically it's clear!" um... no.
How about Africans? Do we say "They had a biological tendency to become slaves and not slave owners, because, like 95% of slaves are from Africa, it's obvious"?

You can keep going back in history. How about those lowborn people during the dark ages? they must have been real dunces.

The advancement of people has been a long slow march that builds achievement upon achievement, with each achievement advancement can accelerate, but set-backs can and do happen.

Don't fool yourself into thinking you'd have anywhere near the mental ability you do today if it wasn't for all the work people did before you and the society you were raised in and given encouragement, opportunities and protections to pursue your goals. There are millions of techniques you use and benefit from that other people worked out before you. If you didn't have them, you'd be groveling in the dirt or likely gravely suffering or dead.

Women, it hasn't even been a hundred years since they've had the right to vote in the U.S. Religious and cultural attitudes have kept them oppressed and discouraged. Christian men(among others) have been encouraged to keep their wives in line with physical abuse and the women pressured to accept it.

As a society, we've figured out ways to encourage and protect things to let them advance and grow, things that wouldn't have gotten there without it and we know it. Let's call it systematic freedom. People have fought and died and worked their asses off for it. We do this. Let us(Society(men, women and institutions)) do this for women. protect, defend, encourage. We are all humans.
Datomic is like git. You are working with a heavily lazy cloned copy, where only the parts that matter are cached locally. This "perfect" caching is enabled by an append-only data model, like git; queries don't touch network, like git. This has huge ramifications across the board, both obvious (omg free queries, horizontal read scalability) and subtle (no object relational impedance mismatch).
Do you have any recommendations wrt getting started with Julia? It's a language I've wanted to explore a bit, but I haven't been able to find any good community resources or jumping-off points.
Dude, you write that one of your desirable qualities is you're "well off". Yet you won't pay. Lol
Also, my LG TV's WiFi password text box doesn't accept anything other than letters and numbers and not more than 8 chars long. What is this? A 10th grade programming assignment?!

Having to change my router's password to something insecure just to accommodate LG's retarded software sealed the deal : I will never buy anything LG again.
Isn't Windows 8.1 logging local filenames, too, thanks to the integrated Bing search and advertising platform, so then it can serve you ads based on your local files?
The unlawful imprisonment of my mind
People really like googling angular

That could also be because angular has horrible documentation!
Thanks, Brandon.