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You missed two points. How did you create that first image? Exactly what versions of packages, packages, configurations, etc were installed? Being unable to answer that question will hurt you more in the long run than you might expect.

Second, if you should move from AWS to (as an example of a second popular PAAS provider) Rackspace, how do you recreate that image? If you want to create a local VM to perform development on, how do you do that?

Now, if I were limited to just using one CMS, I might agree with you. There are some really obtuse ones out there that require a lot of learning. I don't think Ansible falls into this category. You're not writing python, you're not writing in some tool specific DSL, you're writing lists of packages, to be installed in-order. Simple and straightforward.

- yum: name=nginx

Versus

sudo yum -y install nginx
Why do you even share your phone number with Google?
before i sign friends up for this, i need to know: is there an unsubscribe option?
I wonder if it's possible for browsers to start implementing this natively.

Have the browser make a shallow copy of the DOM and allow developers to manipulate the shallow copy. Then have a update() function that will take care finding the diffs and update the actual DOM. Seems like it would be much faster than a javascript implementation also.
"People will start switching to Google+"

I expect Google will continue to strongly push Google+ on as many users as it can. Whether it will actually persuade users to join or actively use the service is another matter.

Social networking will be very important to Google in 2014, so says Eric Schmidt in his 2014 predictions (2 min video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzKM8oyCsUg

I'd like to believe that we'll be more privacy-conscious in 2014, but I don't actually think that will be the case. I'd like to see more scrutiny of the data companies collect about users, particularly because they are now collecting more data than ever before. Some companies like Google have staggering amounts of user data. They're probably salivating at the prospect of capturing even more precise user behaviour through an OS (Chrome) that potentailly captures everything you do online.

Far from the tech community (who you might hope would be most informed about this) actually raising concerns about the privacy implications of this, I think Google (and other companies) will continue to get away with barely any scrutiny at all.
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Fuck, misclicked downvote (wanted to upvote). Really great how HN does not allow changing votes at least once. Sorry for that, but yeah good point.

Nowadays one or a few phone numbers are unique to you, which makes it linkable to other things. Linkability is something that breaks privacy, so if you don't want your full name to be known somewhere, it is important to be able to keep things separate. When your phone number goes public (e.g. resumé and snapchat), that anonymity is broken.
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Might have been wiser to use helium instead of hydrogen. Great experiment, would have liked to have seen a video though
I'm hoping coding will enter the mainstream and more people will learn to create software that helps them in their lives and work.
Lying to border agents is probably a bad idea. Even when they're doing evil stupid things like this.
The scheme you are describing (a lot of vaguely integrated layers from different suppliers/standards) has never worked in my memory. It inflicted tons of pain and suffering and then never delivered anything usable.

You really need common functional denominator in order this to fly.
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Big data, in my opinion, technically should be data that's atleast 5-10 TBs. But that hasn't stopped people from calling data that's an order of magnitude smaller to be "big data".

Example of big data could involve transactions, logs, click stream, sales data, or even GPS data (say in telecom).

If you're looking for some opportunities here, a good safe bet would be Hadoop and HBase. You can treat them as open source implementations of the original Google papers on Map Reduce and Big Table respectively.

Today so many companies are realizing that they have data locked up in logs and other largely static databases that they can analyze using map reduce jobs. You can generate reports, trends, patterns and more from these analysis and can use them to guide business decisions.
top 100 books deserve more time.
Probably the closest you come to an image-based push notification.
Anyone know of any open source alternatives?
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For example it might become different from other algorithms because it will be working and solving users' problems instead of just existing in abstract algorithm-land?
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Silly analogy is silly. How about "I want to run a nuclear factory but I don't have a PhD in nuclear physics", is it also as ridiculous?
ET was green in the game, I'm guessing, because Howard wrote it (completed it!) before the movie was released. The whole thing was on a punishing deadline, which is why it may seem rough and strange to lots of folks. Howard was tremendously proud of finishing a whole Atari 2600 game in just a few weeks; not a single other Atari programmer was willing to take on the challenge. In fact, Howard had to do it against management's wishes.
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Move some picture files from one folder to another with preview item on and watch the finder hang after about twenty files. It is damn near unusable at this point. I gave up for big sorting and just have a button on the finder toolbar that opens a terminal in the folder the window is showing and do copies that way.
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> Oh, and whats this assumption about running a safe PC from home? You have read the Snowden stuff, right? And even if you cant go with all that, if you are at the US border, while your PC is in , er, Berlin, who says that as you stand there spooks are at your house raiding all the data they like? You know, if you are of that much interest to the authorities. And if you are not, SD card type thing.

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Encrypt files with a suitably long pass-phrase, upload to some random server somewhere, set home computer to keep over-writing its HD & memory/whatever data-destroying activity you favour.

Travel to other country, buy a laptop from a store selected by fair dice throw, download file and decrypt it.
1. Further nurture being my MDMA-self without actually being on MDMA.

2. gain a more fundamental understanding of CS/programming, beyond just the webdev stuff and disjointed snippets of knowledge.

3. Find a partner, to ground me somewhat and keep me from getting lost in my thoughts too much (and forget basic good habits like eating, sleeping, working out, and socializing).

4. Make more friends, and broaden my network. The past year's been (intentionally) quiet, but I feel I'm missing out on what Berlin has to offer.

5. Simplify my life even more, lose more of my ego, practice empathy.
I am looking forward to the 'The Verge' moment.
My bad, no ideas what I was thinking.
Is there something special about "newness" when determining what our response should be to a particular "bad thing" (generically: evil)?

It almost seems like posts like yours–something tptacek is perhaps the master of–are saying, perhaps subtly or even inadvertently, "this evil is not new, and therefore you should not oppose it".

My take is this: just because some humans who were born before me were unable to recognize, or if they were, oppose, a particular bad thing makes no difference whatsoever. There is no statute of limitations on opposing evil and doing good. Wrongs can—and should—be corrected no matter how much time has passed since the discovery and the subsequent correction.
Uh you have to accept whatever account it's coming from from your phone (e.g. the friend you send it to) before they actually receive them.
8080s aren't working, but jlgaddis's downloads are...
Border guards are federal agents, not TSA agents, right? I'm thinking the education requirements are greater.
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What about the screeching Baboons?

Of all of those, seem to be the one with the highest hilarity possibilities :)
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I have this (it's available in Kindle format from Amazon), it's fantastic.
computer power is deflationary, tablet i bought for 200 euros 2 years ago, oday i can buy same specs for 59 euros... still noone waits and holds till stuff get cheaper, same with bitcoin it will only help environment for massive stockpiling of goods will be bad.

You are not getting wealthy for nothing, you get wealthy for restraining your consumption, which is major problem of todays world, trust me im homeless(for proof can check me on youtube channel AngriestCat) and amounts of good food i find in supermarket trash is ridiculous.
See his website too http://www.bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator.shtml
This is exactly why that amendment exists. Instead, the vast majority of the individuals with the guns are far more upset that about protecting bigotry than protecting their rights. And the liberals on the side of rights, are generally less inclined to actually use guns.
The problem with MOOC forums are that they bring together students with very different expectations and attitudes toward education and learning.

During the courses I took, I noticed certain trends. Students with Indian-looking names were often most concerned about the certificate of achievement given out after the course. In each course I'd see students asking if it were available yet well before the end of the course! I suspect that this may be due to the high importance that Indian society today places on the possession of credentials, even if there's insufficient knowledge and experience to back up those credentials.

Likewise, questions about the marking scheme and grading were often coming from students with Asian-looking names. I suspect that this is due to the high degree of emphasis in many Asian societies that is placed upon obtaining extremely high grades in academic studies, even if these grades don't truly reflect understanding.

And questions asking about exact midterm or exam content tended to come from students with Western European or American names. These societies tend to place a lot of emphasis on getting work done with minimal effort, including getting exam questions in advance to avoid unnecessary, from a grading perspective, studying.

Bring together all of those students, and those types of questions can easily take up 70% or more of the discussion. That doesn't leave much room for other discussion. Even that discussion was usually lacking, due to many students not having a good grasp of the course's language of instruction. Bringing together students with different backgrounds may be a good thing, but too much difference is just as bad as extreme uniformity, if not worse. At least in the case of uniformity there is the similarity that the students have in common.

- Pacabel
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Ironically, if citizens actually did that then the government officials would classify it as terrorism and use it as an excuse to crack down and demand new powers.

And politicians need to learn not to be so pusillanimous. What do you think would happen if a politician came to the media and revealed that some spook had tried to blackmail him for proposing an anti-surveillance bill? It would cause the bill to pass and the politician to be reelected. It would be like surviving an assassination attempt -- and if you could prove it you would become practically beyond reproach, because anything anyone ever said bad about you again could be attributed to the blackmailers.
idk, I'd be afraid of screeching Baboons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4hudgUt1fQ
but these windows at least stop their sound, so there's no problem ;)
Your assumption is incorrect. Wsj decided not to renew its contract with allthingsd. Wsj has launched a new technology section today which replaces the old stale section.
Yeah, but it's still easy to do mistakes this way. For instance, the keyspace of phonenumbers isn't really large, so just hashing wouldn't help much against someone trying to get phone numbers. With e-mail addresses it's a bit better I guess.

A client-side, bloom-filter based solution would be nice IMHO. You would get either a definitive "No, your data wasn't leaked" or a "Your data was very likely (xx% possibility) leaked."

This all still doesn't help non-technical people decide whether a site can be trusted though :)
So then why don't startups hire based on the results of IQ tests, isn't this a meritocracy?

That specifically is illegal in the United States.

Corporations are forced to use proxies instead, such as SAT or ACT scores, or things keyed to that, like college admissions.
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yeah, that would be a dream and it would feel really surreal, while it's actually possible. I hope those windows aren't too expensive. I would definitely order some
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Do you REALLY think childporn is the reason? Really? I don't believe a single word that comes out of these blowhards' mouths anymore.
Signed up for this. Fantastic idea.
You ignore the damage Stalin did to the Russian armed forces with his paranoid purges. Russian defences would have been stronger, and fewer would have died, if Stalin had died a few decades earlier.
Wait, it lets air through. So its not a window; its a screen?
OP here - it's just an idea that I had at work following GibSec's full disclosure [1] of Snapchat's (ostensibly) private API.

Pugs are a favourite and long-running meme, and Snapchat is very much a part of current internet culture, so combining the two in a new way seemed like an interesting thing to do.

[1] http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/
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hmm.. you could use solar energy to heat the air coming through, otherwise the building would cool down right?

Also is it possible to let the air pass through into one direction only? I think strategically placing incoming/outgoing air-pass through windows, could make a decent air-flow (+heating) system.
OP here. At the moment, there isn't such an option built in, but removing the friend "pugomatic" on Snapchat directly will do the job.

If anyone has any concerns along these lines, or any other comments, feel free to drop me an email at tim@pug-o-matic.me.
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Yes, this I'm hoping this will happen over the next few years... this is how us web developers are going to escape DOM manipulation hell.
It would seem advantageous to partition discussion into threads. You give an excellent starting point.
I've been playing with Facebook's React to make an internal interactive resource scheduling system for our company. So far I think I'm getting it... and am thrilled with how it works.

React eschews the attempt to split the View / ModelView that are the hallmark of most full-service frameworks. Instead of this separation, React applications are built by defining reusable, nested components, each having a render() method that mixes binding and logic to build sub-parts of a web page using their custom DOM. Each component has an internal mutable state and a set of read-only properties it gets from its parent context. In React, "data binding" is just part of rendering.

Since React owns the DOM, it's incompatible with JQuery; or rather, if you use JQuery, you could do it in a leaf node and manage the boundary carefully. React tracks things by using a hierarchical identifier, each key unique within each level of the structure. It then has a predictable/fast algorithem for detecting changes and updating the DOM. Unless you provide your own component keys (used to build the DOM id) all the way down, you need to use CSS classes (rather than IDs).

Finally, I'd say, React really seems like a library -- and one that has a low API to functionality ratio. That is, it really does something substantial with relatively few things you need to learn. If you have your own in-house framework, it might be something you could weave in gradually rather than do a wholesale adoption of a larger (measured via API surface) framework.
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Less visible to people, though the way gsm works means that every call and text you receive entails a lookup to your number's original provider. Prefix allocations to mobile networks are static and they are required to return a new route if you've ported. Which means if a company leaves the market, someone has to take on their allocations or even non-current customers will lose connectivity. Or at least that was true last time a checked, 4 or so years ago. Kind of crazy.
Mozilla owe it to themselves to get as many users of Rust as possible, especially if they intend to use it seriously at some point for their own software. Only languages with strong adoption truly survive and provide an ecosystem rich with effective libraries and development tools necessary for them to flourish.

While programming languages may "last forever", their viability for real software development is very impacted by their adoption. Languages with limited or minimal adoption will not be usable for anything beyond trivial software systems. Just look at the Modulas, Lisp, and even Haskell.

- Pacabel
"Drug Warriors and Their Prey" examines the process by which the WoSD started to corrode civil liberties and how those tactics paralleled those used in the rise of the Nazis. Co-opting the judiciary to ensure those with the appropriate mindset or judicial philosophy was a key tactic - thus judges were able to make rulings supporting the bad policies of the executive branch, and so it all snowballs. Terrorists are only a revamp of "drug lord"; it's as if the WoSD could only take the authoritarians so far, so they switched to a new bogeyman. Given the advances in legalizing marijuana, the WoSD seems to be ending, but when will the war on terror ever end? It's going to be generations, because every innocent person killed by drones in the Middle East will be remembered by their family for generations - and they will never stop hating the US government.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drug-Warriors-Their-Prey-Police/dp/0...

Everything this book discusses is going on now, under the guise of combating terrorism. It is like there is a general blueprint for creating an authoritarian state, and it doesn't require a grand conspiracy, only the repeated short sighted actions of corrupt people with the same flawed worldview. It's like an unconscious conspiracy.
The gray area for that is sharing a business phone number of your friend that they share widely through business cards or their website. Though typically it ends up being an email introduction if you really care to connect someone with your friend.
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