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I've been dabbling with three of the four for the past year. My needs are modest: 4-8 servers, plus a few dev environments. Something to simplify management, and have a replicable environment in the case of a server crash, migration, upgrades, etc.

I had similar experiences with Puppet and Chef. First and foremost, a steep learning curve. You spend several days learning a new DSL, concepts, available recipes, and understanding all the magic that happens behind the scenes.

The server side is also a pain. Opscode's Chef Server (free till 5 nodes) is painfully slow, and Puppet Server is rather heavy (it requires a medium EC2 instance). I tried also running only with chef-solo, but it defeats the purpose of using Chef.

Authentication can be also confusing, particularly for Puppet, with host-specific certificates, cache, etc.

I just started using Ansible last month, and it has been a pleasant surprise so far. Very easy to learn, even easier to maintain, no DSL (it's just YAML files), and extensible via Python or Bash modules. The key management is also a piece of cake: SSH keys, instead of the pain of custom certificates like Puppet.

Ansible probably isn't the best option for someone with hundreds or thousands of nodes (that's the primary market for Puppet/Chef), but seems perfect for someone that has outgrown ssh and shell scripts.

Haven't played with Salt much, but seems closer to Ansible than to Chef/Pupper.
There is not an iota of honesty in SV. Sooner the world realizes it is better. Don't feed this fat cats that include google, salesforce and other billion $ startups.
The first couple days are rough. "Keto flu". After that, you shed pounds like crazy. I'm 31 (on Saturday), 5'6" and 173lbs (currently). I consume ~2000 calories a day, almost all protein and fat. I endeavour to keep my carbs under 20g/day. 4 protein shakes a day (170 calories/35g protein/1g sugars), plus sensible keto lunches and dinner.

With no exercise (I sit 8-10 hours/day at a desk) I lose about 1 pound every 2-3 days. Your body literally sheds fat on a low/no carb diet.

EDIT: After I'm down to my goal weight (150-155lbs), I plan on powerlifting. With large amounts of exercise, anaerobic or aerobic, you need to start consuming carbs to have the energy required. You're no longer at an energy surplus; based on your exercise level, you're shooting for coming out energy neutral.
Doesn't graphite (a close relative of graphene) have lubricative properties?
Isn't it not recommended to put Teflon inside of yourself or am I misremembering something?
Both Ansible and Chef combined. Ansible for provisioning/orchestration of Chef cookbooks/recipes.
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Carbs also trigger an insulin response, which commands the body to store excess glucose not currently being burned as fat:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=carbohydrates+insulin+fa...
Any pros/cons you're willing to share?
Ansible is probably the best configuration management tool out there. But there is always room for improvement. Better docs would be great. I would like to see jinja2 templates replaced with something much, much better. And there is still more work to do for cloud applications.
"oh no I have so many amazing tools to choose from?", I use puppet at the moment.

Any of them will make your deploy/config life great.
> We literally can't live without fat

I don't think that's true of fat. Your body can synthesize the fat it needs from sugars. There is a bit of a debate about whether there are really "essential fatty acids" that people can't synthesize, but if they exist the quantities required are very small.
(not the kind of answer OP is looking for, but...)

I was trying to figure out which of these is best for me, by asking users and looking online. Consensus seems to be that:

Ansible is the easiest to grok/deploy unless you're a Ruby person. All the users are happy with what it provides, only complaints I could find were about its speed in large-y deplyoments (>500) - and that seemed to be addressed by Fireball mode in the past, and the new daemon mode in newer versions - though I haven't actually found testaments for that.

Salt seems to click for some people, is too complicated for others. Had a couple of security issues (e.g. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/01/1 since addressed - but it is a smell when people who shouldn't roll their own crypto)

Chef and Puppet seem to work great, and you can find lots of support for them, but are heavier and seem to require more setup (e.g. chef "minions" which are agents on the managed machines, even though there's some kind of no-setup-needed mode)

Windows seems to be an outcast as far as management servers go. Some people get it to work, non recommend it. But I don't care about provisioning Windows, so I didn't delve into what's actually possible.

relevant: http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D21968B0-EE1C-1249-85D672B3...
I may very well be wrong (I'm far from an expert on SELinux) but I believe that the kernel would prevent that, assuming MCS.
In his "Functional Database" talk he shows many examples of Datomic's snapshot feature. He keeps saying how the changes hasn't been committed yet, and is only available to the local client.

When you take these snapshots, are you still touching the database? Or is the data held in memory in the application?

It seems like the former makes a lot more sense, but he makes it seem like he's only working with a cloned, local copy.
Wow, that is quite simple and clean for a first time design.

The only thing I might add is that the kerning between the "c" and the "o" just seems a little off.
That's because "calories make you fat" is effectively a tautology. "You are fat" and "you are over consuming calories" may be two different English sentences, but they say the same thing. People get confused because of the English and think they can use one sentence to explain the other, but it doesn't make any sense.

The correct question is, why do people over consume calories? And for that you get two very different answers. One is an external answer about how food has been made very available and appealing and is manufactured to be overconsumed (and often more than a faint whiff of Puritan moralism, indeed, often a great deal more than a faint whiff), and the other is about the biochemistry of consuming food and what happens to the satiety mechanisms and your blood sugar and where the blood sugar goes and why and how it comes back out again.

There's a real difference at that level.
I had read in another source that it would be a mixture of graphene and latex. Surely it will have some kind of lubricant.
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Not particularly good at chess, but could the difference be likened to the following:

Tactics - winning pieces or losing fewer than your opponent
Strategy - putting yourself in a position where the above is more likely to happen or be possible

?
Here's my write-up watching Nintendo Wii traffic, but using ethernet port. What I do for wireless devices, is I have an extra router. I connect the secondary router to my laptop's ethernet port then my primary-router(the one connected to the modem) I join with my laptop's wifi. Then, any devices connected to the secondary-router, wired-or-wifi, will have its traffic sniffed by my laptop's wireshark/ngrep.

http://blog.sanriotown.com/minusworld:hellokitty.com/2011/02...
IMO, it would be better for the general public to think of them as "bad" rather than "good" as we do now. Most people shouldn't be consuming carbs, nearly at all. In general, the average person should be high fat, mod protein, low carb (very low) and they would be in much better overall health.

I think the problem is that carbs, much more than either of the other 2 macros, have more complex mechanisms at play.

For instance, carbs in the morning or at night? Most people know that you are burning fat when you wakeup from your overnight fast. But what most people don't know is that the first time you eat carbs, the fat burning stops.

6 meals or 2? Smaller insulin spikes over time lead (it appears) to insulin resistance moreso than one or two big spikes. The jury is a bit out on this, but the data is leaning this way (last I looked).

The meal frequency doesn't really matter with protein and fat, just carbs it seems.

Those are just some examples, but I think you get the idea. My mother (65) recently asked me what she should do for her diet in old age. Simple, I told her, eat lots of fish, meat, veggies, cream and some nuts. Avoid grains, bread, over doing it on fruit etc. She's worried about living a long time, heart health and cancer. No reason she should be anywhere near carbs.
Google: '2299 Brazilian Real equals 997.31 US Dollar'

https://www.google.com.br/search?q=BRL+2299+in+USD
A locksmith tried to fix our sticking front door lock with a bit of graphite spray, which I hadn't seen before.
That is why this topic keeps attracting the terrible pseudo-science and cults, the overbearing media reporting.. we already know the simple principle by which you can lose weight. Turns out people are terrible at making changes in their routine.

Instead of discussing some paleo nonsense or how carbs are evil, we should tell people to find a sport they enjoy and join a local club..
I thought that was only true when processed over the debit network? That is, when using pin transacations. In my experience debit cards processed over Visa or MC network have identical fees to the merchant.

On the money-sender side, debit cards have far fewer consumer protections so will result in fewer successful chargebacks. Whether that had anything to do with it, I have no idea.
Conemu with powershell and PSReadline [1] has made things a lot nicer.

[1] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
I'm extremely interested in who this 'redandwhite' guy is. It's still unclear if the murders even occurred, but if no one got killed then this might be one of the most effective cons (against DPR) I've ever seen.
OpenWRT (and dd-wrt, and I'm sure most other wrt variations) let you set up another "virtual" HotSpot. If your AV equipment can do wireless, that's an option.

Also, I just bought my mom a TP-Link device capable of running openWRT for $25 (don't recall the model). If you care about privacy, it's relatively cheap in enabling hardware - it's your time that is going to be expensive.
As far as I know this is still some preliminary research, but there is some evidence that chronic high blood sugar can cause cancer to grow more rapidly than a steady and lower level of blood sugar. The working theory seems to be that because the cancer is growing more rapidly, it requires more energy. By feeding it (literally) a steady supply of higher blood sugar levels, you are allowing it to grow faster than it would otherwise. I believe this is still all only working theory at the moment, though, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the whole idea in general get walked back at some point (even if it does sound plausible). It's fairly new stuff, on the time scale of cancer studies.
It's not the material that's the problem in many places, but the cost. There are reports of people using post-exposure prophylaxis drugs over condoms because they're cheaper!

More info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24942903
Totally off-topic: Based on your nick, I may know you. Live in Northern Illinois by chance? With a short stint at a place near Oak Brook?
> Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Ah yes, the Tautology Diet.
Yeah, that's a fair expectation of what a date is, you drive and you pay. Anything else is just two people hanging out. (Source: I dated and eventually got married.)

Other possibilities exist, but you shouldn't be surprised by the generally-accepted standards or you're going to continue having "bad experiences."
People also complaining that their apps didn't get any hits during the evaluation period [1]. If this is true, which it seems like to be, it is pretty shameful business from Salesforce given that people clearly used a decent part of their week in order to participate. I feel bad for Heroku employees who promoted this.

Edit: According to one of the judges [2], they only saw and evaluated the 5 Salesforce selected apps. Also the app gallery only shows the five winners [3]. No matter how the finalists were chosen, this is not how you run a hackathon.

[1]: http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/forum_topics/264...
[2]: https://twitter.com/alexwilliams/status/403723331007832064
[3]: http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions
Wait, are you saying that carbs are or are not a prime cause of obesity?
The proposition that carbohydrates cause obesity may be true even if it is not the case that insulin plays a primary role in that process as Taubes claims. Since it is only the latter proposition that Guyenet debunks, he makes an obvious logical error in claiming that the broader carbohydrate hypothesis has been refuted.
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so, just to be clear, is this still vaporware, a prototype condom has not been made yet?
I can't find my original study link atm :/ some quick googling brought up this one, but it wasn't the study I was thinking about: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130605190158.ht...

basic theory goes like this: the body doesn't need carbs to live, but cancer cells do. You are starving the cancer by not ingesting carbs. It seems the cancer cells lack the ability to derive energy from ketones and fatty acids, which is where humans would get the energy on a low-carb diet.
Zero fat diets work just as well. People lose weight if you force them to get most of their calories from sugar syrup, or potatoes, or bananas. The mechanism is the same: food reward, as explained in the whole health source link. People stop overeating because monotonous food is less rewarding.

There's no magical obesogenic property of "carbs."
Great idea, but it's too bad there's even a need for this in the first place. I'm curious why Dropbox's own client has text editing facilities on Andriod, but not on ios.
"we would do just fine with out carbs" - Intuition leads me to want to disagree with this. How would the body handle not having ANY fiber? I'm curious. Fiber helps digestion, feeds the happy parts of your internal biome, makes your colon happy, etc. I can't imagine that eliminating all carbs is good for your body.
The grant has just been made. I think it will be a couple of years before this becomes real.
The human body cannot live without ingested fatty acids. These are called "essential fatty acids" and include linoleic and linolenic acids.
I am curious why is this engine noteworthy... three.js seems far more mature and advanced than this.
It's no coincidence that the modern Western diet is based on carbohydrates and hydrogenated oils. While an individual can choose to eat a high fat, low carbohydrate diet, our entire society cannot. This is a problem of scale.

Our politicians made a deal with the agri-business devil to ensure (most) everyone is fed relatively cheaply. The toll for this deal is that some people end up fat and sick. I'm convinced this is known and understood; nothing will be done about it.

It's left to the individual to adjust their lifestyle to suit their biology.
When it comes to human life, things aren't binary. A 1% increase in condom usage can have massive impact on the health and safety of millions of people. It's another straw we can add to the camel's back.
In some cases "underlying" problems (eg misinformation campaigns and cultural leftovers) are really just used as excuses by men who don't like how condoms feel. Fix that, and many will be happy to ignore those thing.

As an aside: don't forget the largest major anti-condom propagandists is not African at all (ie, the Catholic church).
I'll believe it when I see it. Energy harvesting chips were also the next big thing when I finished grad school in chip design. That was back in 2000.
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Physical exercise is largely irrelevant when it comes to losing weight. In the grand scheme of wellbeing it's a crucial element, but strictly for weight loss it's of little importance.

It pretty much all comes down to properly adjusted eating habits.
I moved to NoVA for more space and ended up paying more than I was in DC but I wasn't looking for the cheapest place possible. Anywhere on the outskirts of the Metro will be less expensive than downtown. If you plan on having a car, than off-Metro might work for you. NoVA, DC, and MD all have entrepreneurial support etc. but my unscientific observation is that MD and DC have more than VA.. but it will depend on your sector and need. You can contact me via my HN profile if you want to chat. I mostly dabble in the health IT sector.
From the comments (Silk Road Tales) http://antilop.cc/sr/
As I said, that's debated. People have experimentally gone long periods with zero fat intake without ill effect.
Why not just blocking traffic originating from the device in question?
The link from his bookmarks bar.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/why-hackers-should-...
When you up the fat, things flow very well in the colon front. Particularly if that fat is MCT based (coconut, mct oil).
Ansible.

We know Python, we don't know Ruby, and we have waaaay less than a dozen servers all up, including staging and dev environments. We don't need anything too complex or over-engineered, but we do need something that'll work, is quick to get started with, and is at least better than the mess of fabric scripts we had before. And ideally it should integrate well with what we already have, and scale as far as we need it to.

Ansible works for this very well. Install it on the machine you want to control everything (my laptop, right now), add all your servers to a manifest, hack together some simple playbooks using a very clear YAML-based DSL, and...you're done. It works via SSL, so no crazy issues with certificates, no complicated server infrastructure, nothing to install on the clients. The barriers to entry are vastly lower than they are for Chef or Puppet; even Chef Solo is kind of overkill. And being in Python is nice; I can hack on a Ansible module if I need to. People love the fact that Chef cookbooks are "just Ruby!" but if you don't know Ruby that's not a good thing; it's much easier to learn Ansible's DSL than Ruby.

At the moment we're using DO, so the process right now is to log in to DOs control panel, create a new droplet, add the IP address to the Ansible inventory, and then hit go, and Ansible will configure everything magically.

Deployment we're still ironing the kinks out of. We're using Dokku for one part of our stack, which is working...okay. Another part is using an Ansible playbook to grab a custom docker image and deploy it, which is a bit nicer. I'm still trying to decide how useful a role Docker is playing; I know it's the new hotness but it's not 100% clear to me that cloning a git repo locally, building docker image, pushing it to a docker repo, pulling it back out of a docker repo on a remote server, and firing it up is that much better than just, you know, cloning a git repo and building the app.

Anyhow, out of Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, etc. we're using Ansible 'cause it solves our problems quickly and easily. If you've ever growled to yourself "christ, I could write a shell script to solve this so easily, why is this HARD?!", well, with Ansible it's not hard, but it still solves stuff you could never do with shell scripts or Fabric.
> The point is that the markets are doing well, despite all the negative coverage it gets from the media and so called pundits.

I've seen negative coverage of the economy more than the (commodity and equity) markets. The two aren't the same thing.
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But that is also nonsense. The amount of time you have to spend exercising to spend significant calories is enormous. Far beyond what most people can allocate to the activity.
Yep, I thought it was weird. The foundation gem is using this repository https://github.com/zurb/bower-foundation though (not tagged, but 5.0 nonetheless)
Normally if you follow a low-carb diet, you get your fiber from greens. I believe the statement was targeted more towards carbs like bread, pasta, rice, etc.
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> This is insane.

Really? Why on earth would you care? What if they were to indent their code with 3 spaces? Would that be "insane", too? What if they don't like putting in unnecessary braces around one line "if" statements? Insane?

It's a (very common) stylistic choice. It's hardly insane.
These are not exclusive, you can have both. In fact, last time I had to visit an administrative office they had an open office for the employee workspaces with numbered desks and a traditional waiting area with a take-a-number queue system (well, actually an online appointment booking system) that directs to you a specific desk if it's your turn.
I would not say it is naive. I wonder if it is an itch Stallman has had for 25 years, but it is certainly an itch I have. Not for me, I would do perfectly well without word processed documents, but for customers and coworkers, they like PDF if not powerpoint or MSWord documents.

For now, I have edited and generated them with reStructured Text, but the workflow is not entirely satisfactory (and I don't feel like dipping into python to improve things there, I would rather write rst document preprocessors in lisp when possible).

Another aspect is that if we improve the graphic abilities of emacs, it may be easier and faster to implement chrome like lighttable to attract newbies. Sublime Text probably has capted a percentage of users who would have chosen emacs, if it could have competed in the esthetic plane. Also, it is a little regretable to be limited to ascii art for the few diagrams that are sometimes needed in the documentations we write as programmers. If we could edit vectorial graphics in emacs, it would be great (we can already render svg, but perhaps thru an external program).

So I would not say naive, but on the contrary, it may condensate a critical mass of itches to motivate some scratches.
Seems like he wants to eradicate diseases, which is a pretty great plan. Polio, malaria, and now presumably AIDS and other STDs.
Well this is an interesting result of marketing.

Fruits and vegetables offer fiber. For example, dark greens offer 6.4g of fiber per serving while whole grains offer 2.4g.
He made his mission pretty clear. He believes every human life has equal value. He wants to make basic services and liberties the developed world takes for granted available to every human being on planet Earth. He's applying his wealth and expertise to high impact projects that can make that a reality.
I will be fair and the answer is no, but at least for the last 2-3 years we have a little stable environment. If it's ruby app we know it's rail, if it's Python we know it's either Django or Flask (or Pyramid). When we think about client side we think of jQuery and pure Javascript. I know there are coffee script lovers and I admit it's great that people coming up with new tools, but we have too much to digest.

There is a certain degree of peer pressure coming from our co-workers and our webdev community - if you are programming in PHP you are doing it wrong or if you are still doing MVC and not single-page app or node.js you are behind the trend. I have little knowledge about what Dart does but from multiple sources people seem to think Dart is Google's alternative to Javascript, which makes me uncomfortable because I start to feel like I am at the second Web/browser war where large organizations like Google is pushing their own version of "Javascript" (back then we got what? javascript, active script? etc?).