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> Excactly right - plus on remote hypervisors too.

Things get crazy here (in a good way). You could create federation where you allow remote hypervisor management from a central authority (your app). #ArchiveTeam needs their VM running for the latest web property shutdown? Here, have access to my overpowered home router to run a few tiny VMs to help the cause.

Knocked it out of the park here guys (and/or gals)! Awesome job.
One of my friends had an interesting thought concerning the new syntax. He suggested the changes from the old syntax are based primarily around making it nearly impossible to work with jquery. E.G. how do you even make a jquery selector for something like "(click)="?
Too Big to Tax: Settlements Are Tax Write-Offs for Banks
seems the backend is python, and the web app is ruby. Curious as to why you decided to use 2 different languages.
Another for you :)

http://themes.laborator.co/#theme=neon
I clicked the 'No' button and got kicked out to Google. But... I'd still quite like a good admin template, but not as a PSD file. A PSD is entirely the wrong format. It's fine if you think people want a picture of the template, but most will want the template itself eg the HTML.

Of course, that no longer includes me. I'll not be going back because the site essentially told me to &*^% off.
Python 3 String-Processing Causing Problems?
I bounce ideas with my friends - and I don't have to give them 50% of my business!
> One time, all it took to unblock access was to show up at a meeting and get yelled at by a police captain for 30 minutes. Our retort started with "In the interest of public safety, ..."

I'd like to hear more about your example.
>The best way would be to contribute. :)

Of course, I was just wondering where a ticket could be created so that it's on the record as a feature request.

>We currently have virtkick-starter, a bunch of scripts that set everything up.

Perfect. I'll have a look. Thanks!

Edit: I think we have a misunderstanding. I would like to use VirtKick to provision Guix VMs, not just install VirtKick on Guix.
Couldn't that new protocol just be html subset?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacefiller
I feel as though this is one step above just a web page with an email box. Aside from listing a suite of popular OSS, you haven't explained what this app does. Is it similar to Panamax in that it offers you a UI, but only for one box / Flynn or Deis which is trying to create an open source Heroku / something completely different?
I had the same mistaken first impression.
Serverlove Servers Are Down
FYI... Serverlove, Manchester, UK-based cloud VPS provider has been down almost 3 hours.
I think the difference we're talking about here between #1 and #3 is that #3 makes it much easier/cheaper to (for example) predict when you'll be out of town if they want to break into your house (router)...potentially even without ever traveling past it.

Just because this information is legal to collect, doesn't mean people think a nonprofit that claims to be committed to user privacy should be moving the center of gravity closer to your third scenario.

But maybe more importantly, we're not talking about "someone else" recording the information or just a few "people" "monitoring" an SSID. We're questioning the wisdom of an organization building software to systematically collect, store, and make an SSID far more readily available to far larger numbers of people.
Apparently not from the current latest (0.30.0) version on f-droid. I just went through the MozStumbler menus and did not see anything about (auto-)updating.
This table strongly suggests that there's something like a "slice of pie" pricing scheme in the government's contract with the service provider. That's a very common arrangement where the per-subscriber pricing is very high for few subscribers and drops as more are added.

At the limit, the slice of pie pricing is completely continuous and each incremental subscriber lowers the cost for everyone. This one may be coarser grained.

Nothing inherently shady or anticompetitive about such a scheme. It also tends to arise where governments (like SEC, or like county clerk offices) have a dual mission of providing public access while offsetting costs, and need/want to outsource it to a for profit service provider.
MIAOW Open Source GPU
Our intention is that you share code back to the project if you modified it and added some new great features. :) If I'm not wrong, it only applies to the modified source code, and not the data/machines that you work with. http://stackoverflow.com/a/18406382/504845
All infra code needs to carry the MIT license or similar, IMHO. It's infrastructure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8524230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8523993
Buffer's Actual Revenue Metrics Live
It seems we have HN'ed the service; after creating a Debian image: "internal error: pool 'HDD' has asynchronous jobs running."
Yes, and in many countries it is _perfectly legal_. In Poland for example its even legal to make copies of movies and music for your closest family and friends. Only commercial distribution is prohibited.
> the FBI provided two blank CDs, claiming the recording devices malfunctioned

The levels of day-to-day corruption within the US judicial system are almost comical at times, scary at others...

Between the police constantly getting away with committing crimes, prosecutors essentially blackmailing innocent people into pleas, and judges often ignoring the rule of law (with VERY shaky justifications), it seems like the entire system is fubar.

The US system is just corrupt through and through. I see nothing redeeming about it. The only people who seem to [sometimes] receive justice are the rich, and while that is the case on other countries, in many of those countries that is a "scandal" in the US it is "working as intended."
These FBI agents are criminals, pure and simple.

Not that I think they'll be held accountable for their crimes, much like they weren't for the other lies that they've brazenly told in court related to parallel construction.

However, it's apparent that they don't actually care what the law is, and are perfectly willing to violate it when they feel like they want something that the law forbids them.

Disgusting.
Normally these discussions get framed in terms of "rights" and how the FBI are violating them, but the average person doesn't care a lot about their abstract rights. It doesn't register. The real issue, and what bothers me, and I think the FBI here don't "get", is that when they pull these stunts, they are helping the real criminals. In court, when someone who is actually guilty of a crime can show that the FBI did this sort of stunt, they can often appeal and nullify the entire sentence. Criminals can end up going free because the law enforcement felt it had a right to do whatever they wanted. When law enforcement acts in disregard to the law, they are not only breaking it, but aiding the real criminals escape justice.
I understand you want to build your mailing list, but I'd expect this to happen when i try to download the fucking thing, not before being even able to check it out.

You dun goof'd, UX guy -- all the best
Video does not play on safari.
If it is true the FBI tried to cover their asses, heads should roll. This kind of stuff is so despicable. If it is inconvenient to get a warrant, then that's where your job ends.

My civil liberties should not be crumbling because of overzealous FBI agents going after some silly illegal gambling.
I have no idea why Closure doesn't get more publicity. You never hear about it on Reddit/Slashdot/HN, but in the real world it's the foundation for virtually EVERYTHING Google does on the client-side, save for a handful of things still using GWT. Like GWT... Closure has been around awhile, has gentle-to-nonexistant migration issues, and will be around for at least a decade to come. Unlike GWT, and virtually everything else Google does... Closure is pure JavaScript, rather than a trans-compiling mess that tries (and fails) to replace JavaScript.

In client-side land, it's like there's inverse relationship between "blog chatter" and "real-world use in large projects". The tools that get all the attention are only used for personal tinkering, or by startups that mostly won't exist in a few years. Over the past several years, if something seems popular then that's a sign it's probably a children's toy for which you shouldn't stick your neck out within your company.
There's always a catch! Still, that's quite a good deal if you live where they expect you to live. Good roaming while traveling abroad would be great to have. AT&T is definitely not good in that respect.
How the Oligarchs Ruined Greece
That, and maybe some sort of way to scan the care tag inside my clothing to auto-set the washer/dryer to the right setting.
I think Paul MacCready really solved a different problem. Earlier man powered aircraft (SUMPAC, Toucan, Puffin etc.) had been based on glider (sailplane) technology that emphasised the highest possible lift/drag ratio achieved by large span high aspect ratio wings and careful control of the aerofoil shape. The span and aspect ratio make the aircraft complex and comparatively heavy. MacCready realised that if the aircraft was made much simpler and lighter it could fly at a lower speed and although the L/D ratio was poorer (all those bracing wires!) the drag would be lower (V2) and the power required (V3) much lower, within human range. The quick to fail, quick to rebuild was a consequence of this simplicity.

Incidentally the photo showing the "speed ring" is nothing of the sort. Speed to fly rings are about 80mm in diameter to fit on an instrument face.
I still can't tell what Sprout is.
Angular is actually used by a growing number of teams within Google, although most, if not all, use Angular with Closure.
Same in FF.

Edit: Only primary Call to Action doesn't load the video. I got it to load when I randomly clicked on something. Here is a link: http://bcove.me/gqbyor0d
The worst case scenario for the FBI is that the evidence gets thrown out in this one case. No one will lose their job. No one will get seriously punished. As such, I fully expect the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to continue to come up with creative ways to perform unreasonable searches without probable cause.
Yup, same here. Video doesn't load, and I'm not gonna take N minutes just to figure out what am I looking at.
German group rebuilds tech in Afghanistan
Interesting -- it played fine for me on FF.
I know that you know it, I was talking about your hypothetical user.

Except for the color of the icon and the lack of support by default for AAC, H.264 and MP3 (I have support for those 3 in Chromium in Arch), do you find anything relevant that will make some non-expert notice they are using Chromium and not Chrome?
I've been waiting for something like this. Most other location services I know about also crowd source data (after initially seeding it), but don't give the data back to the user.

Kudos for giving back what people gave you.
I gave this a cursory scroll but by the time I got to the bottom I didn't know what the product was. I was also annoyed by the overcooked design so I gave up. Sorry.
I hadn't heard about that. That's awesome that the police chief is taking them on about this. It's becoming rare to hear about police chiefs doing the right thing when it comes to abuse of power.
> I cannot develop a mobile app on a mobile device.

You can develop an Android app on an Android device.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
As you said, that's not a privacy issue but a security one. Also, in your example I'd argue it would just be easier to attack every single IP address and/or WAP rather than attempt to figure out which ones are Linksys and running a vulnerable firmware. It would take less time and also solves the case of non-default SSID names.

I'm still interested in seeing an example of how linking SSIDs to physical locations is a violation of privacy. Especially compared to, say, linking my full legal name to my house address which is already treated as public knowledge.
How about this: "This issue is too complex for a tweet: <link to article/blog post>"
I disagree - OpenStack scales down perfectly to two-machine or even (one-machine) deployments (if you don't want HA).

It is a pain to configure, but that's the price you pay for flexibility, future-proofing (scalability) and its' true community development model.
I am sure any ambiguous licensing can be covered by some explicit statements, like what it applies to exactly and to what it doesn't. Good point though!
Although there's nothing stopping anyone from implementing those on a web forum, almost almost no one seems to.
Ask HN: Crowd Sourced Localization Database?
I started this app localization spreadsheet a while ago.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArVkFagUZg7bdHB0MTNuMDJySGpnazFpWVZMVUVVNmc&usp=sharing#gid=0

I was wondering if there's any interest in crowdsourcing the rest of it? If so, please email me (see spreadsheet). Of course, it would be nice to add a few hundred more common words and expressions.
I'm all for rooting out criminals, but someone needs to start telling these people you need to do it within the guidelines of the law.

The funny thing is they could've easily written up a warrant and had it signed by a judge in the span of an hour and then properly searched the room. Instead, In their haste, they violated several local laws including the fourth amendment, which most judges don't look kindly on.

Not a good day for law enforcement.
Their detection rates have been pretty low lately. http://www.av-test.org/en/ I've been using Bitdefender at home. It's kinda annoying but seems to work fine.
That's really not true. I run it on small deployments all the time: http://www.stackgeek.com/guides/gettingstarted.html
It's actually pretty cool, too bad they leave the punchline at the end of the too long video talking about hands.
I think the product looks like one of those shitty toy computers from shoprite.
I suppose that would depend on if I am allowed to invite repairmen into my home under the pretense that I have a broken utility and then shoot them for trespassing.
What if you want to switch keyboard layout dynamically?

I normally use a Dvorak layout, but I toggle between that and a UK layout when pairing.

I'd hate to have to bring along my keyboard every time I visit a co-worker's PC, just so I could type in Dvorak on their machine too.

Your way seems like it would also require me to buy an expensive specific Dvorak keyboard just to be able to type in Dvorak. Whereas I get by with a moderately expensive keyboard - with custom unmarked keycaps.
It just sounded too good to be true. I'll definitely contribute.
this is great! once i free up some coding time I'm going to leverage our apps API for our customers, so that their brand identity is the first thing that comes up on duckduckgo when someone searches for them.
Why not search for some keyword?
Slightly off topic here but I still think a large part of that is due to hostility from more traditional content providers. The promise of GoogleTV (that was mostly squashed before it had a chance to mature) was that it provided a front-end for content on more traditional satellite/cable services as well as for finding all of the free streams available on network websites and newer platforms like Youtube and Vimeo.

I think the real disruptive potential of GoogleTV was that it allowed you to search for something and have results from all of these disparate feeds show up in a single list. It put content from the web (including independent and user-generated content) on par with network programming or programming delivered via the web instead of a cable subscription.

When networks blocked GoogleTV from accessing their streams without tinkering with user agent strings, etc. it really put a dent in the whole strategy. The point was to show you everything that was available on the big screen in your living room. Networks wanted you to watch on the TV via the more lucrative cable and rental options and only use free web streams as an alternative when you're at your computer in the office or the hotel.

In this way, current tablet-to-TV options like Chromecast and AppleTV are less disruptive since they don't put web content on the same level as cable content. To watch TV you just flip through the channels. To watch web stuff you need to connect some device and push content to the TV. It's a small thing but I think it's a legitimate difference. Firing up YouTube to push a video to your TV isn't the same as searching for "video games" on your Google/Apple TV and seeing TotalBiscuit come up in the same search results as something from Viacom.
The privacy concern as I understand it is about access points moving in time, not about the snapshot of the data at a certain point.

So you can use my access point to find your location, but if I bring it to my next home, please don't record that in public data.
Well, having your curtains open also broadcasts an image of your living room on EM spectrum for hundreds of meters for anyone with optics... Same for eavesdropping (laser mic). Easy to listen maybe but you will still get convicted in both cases.
Flynn, Deis, Heroku are PaaS - they are focused on applications.

VirtKick is like DigitalOcean or Linode - they are focused on machines (and containers, that you think of as machines). You install it on your Linux desktop (for localhost hacking), or home or dedicated server (for something more).

Will try to express it a little bit better. Thanks for your feedback.
Same here... iPhone 6+ maybe they are on top of it.
"designed around" - great way to put a positive spin on "solving the problems that you created".

Sorry, but I strongly believe infinite scrolling creates more problems than it solves - and I'm not entirely sure it solves much of a problem in the first place; the "consume, consume, consume" mentality that it's oriented towards is great for things like news agencies trying to push as many stories as it can to its readers, but this is an archive of content to be browsed in a more... thoughtful manner.
I would humbly suggest that you are far too emotionally invested in something as trivial as the business landscape of software.
How to Install Puppet on a DigitalOcean VPS
Show HN: Find companies that use the technology you love
">>> Desktop (including laptops of course) is where 99% of the world's actual office, accounting, design, writing, programming, editing etc, computing based work is happening."

Agreed. Try typing out a dissertation on a tablet (no external keyboard or mouse to compensate) which has an approaching deadline.
I learned that the author hasn't checked out their web site from a phone. A big subscription window pops up, overhangs the right half of the screen and can't be closed because you can't reach the button. Couldn't read article.
Wow, Are we supposed to feel sorry for the person posting the yelp review? They made themselves seem like a big baby expecting a restaurant to appease their every whim. These are very few reviews that yelp should remove, but this is definitely one of them.
How Hardware Marketplace Tindie Recruits & Motivates Engineers
Where do billionaires go to university?
Found myself in the exact same situation. Copying the image address gives you an actual preview.

http://pixelcave.com/img/content/upanel_preview.png
This comes just after the allegations that the FBI used the Seattle Times email format to trick a bomb threat suspect into clicking on a link that installed spyware.

If this plus the FBI impersonating respected Press members doesn't cause some kind of shake-up, I think we are doomed at every solving the problem of the law enforcement overreach.
In my daily life, I use strenght more often than I use endurance. And typing takes care of my fine motor skills.
The video works for me, but I have to agree with the other comments - I needed to work very hard to figure out what exactly this actually was.

The first 40! seconds of the video didn't show the product in action, the first image of it was from such an odd angle that I didn't even know it was an image of it at first, and the later images don't actually show the camera that seems to be an important part of it.

Part of me thinks this is a solution in want of a problem, designed by the kind of person who uses a spoon for soup and a fork for their main course and thinks "If only I had a combination fork-spoon, my life would be so much simpler".
But the point is that they are. This is what the market demands.

If you don't like it, you need a non-capitalist alternative i.e. municipal broadband.
The moral of the story should be a warning against analysis based on insufficient understanding. MacCready was working on exactly the same problem, in the same way, as everyone else. He just figured out a way to speed up the experimental phase.
Why we took our whole company to Iceland and Costa Rica
Quite different from Facebook, which claims to use React for all new UI code.
Some of his gripes about Docker (particularly the networking) are valid, but the rest are part of any chroot environment. And honestly, for someone so "experienced", you'd think someone would tell him re-building his infrastructure 10 times a day might not be the most efficient way to update live production services.
Pressure gauge: The future of weather is in your back pocket
Browsers change a lot in three years. I'm sure there will be plenty of bugs introduced as they evolve.
"Pain to configure" is a blocker here, though. That's why we sacrifice flexibility for simplicity. OpenStack is great for environments that need it - VirtKick won't fit them.
linux is not package manager
Most page loads will experience the 99%'ile server response
you're kind of missing the problem here - who should be the master?

The choice of master is a static configuration set by the user.

Redis itself has no failover or promotion ability. There's an additional thing called Sentinel that can failover and promote individual Redis instances, but it is designed to recover complete instance failures (without immediately restarting), so a quick restart means no failover happens [an improvement to the "quick restart" scenario is showing up soon].

Redis made a really dumb choice of which node should be master,

(see previously; master is static, defined by the user)

pointed out well known and fairly simple solutions to the selection problem

(redis doesn't select things)

Also, this issue showed up last week. Last week. People are making it sound like this issue has been ignored for years. Nobody ran into this (and reported it) until recently. This use case is already being adapted into SOP Redis capabilities soon.

Try running into a big problem with any other DB and getting both attention and a concrete fix within two weeks. For free. The entire progress of the project has paused to address these immediate user issues.

because that's well defined, well documented, and well known behavior.

The Redis behavior is: always be a copy of a statically configured master. When the master has an empty dataset, all the replicas replicate an empty dataset. Pretty simple. :)

No spec or doc precluded choosing a different master and preserving data instead of discarding it.

Yup, specs and documentation did exactly that. Redis has no failover capability on its own.

preserving data should always be the default.

Ooops, you just re-invented the Mac trashcan.

How can it be user error when the user did nothing?

The user disabled persistence, enabled replication, restarted the process with zero data, then the replication recovered and stayed in sync with the newly zero-data master.

something was missed in its implementation, not because of any rational or deliberate choice.

nopers. more a lack of thinking it through from the user's point of view. an exact copy of nothing ends up being nothing.
So, the alphabet agencies have done it before but there's zero probability that they'll do it again right?

Yeah, makes perfect sense.