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The content at opsschool.org has the potential to be a great resource - http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/security_101.html - but there's not a lot of "there" there. Maybe you'll like it more than I do.
That's why you get someone who is capable of understanding it.

You wouldn't hire some high school kid who's just about taught themselves HTML by reading a book for a week, and get them to write your web application from ground up. You'd hire someone who knows what they're doing.
Why is it seen as any different for Operations work? There is a reason systems administration is a skilled field, and a reason they're paid on a par with developers.
I haven't tried this myself. However, there are various threads (eg. [1][2]) on the Kryoflux support forum where people have reported success, and others ([3][4]) that are more mixed. The Kryoflux manual [5] also says its works with an 8" Shugart 851 drive, and that there are firmware options to support 8" drive timings.

According to an answer on [3] an 8" drive needs to be "Shugart compliant", and in [4] it is mentioned that an adapter made by DBIT is needed to convert the 34-pin floppy cable to the 50-pin interface apparently used by 8" drives. The Kryoflux I have wasn't supplied with a 50-pin cable, so that would need to be sourced.

So, probably doable with some moderate effort...

[1] http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?t=159

[2] http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?t=887

[3] http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?t=706

[4] http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?t=56

[5] http://www.kryoflux.com/?page=download#docs
You could also use hosted solutions such as Pusher, Pubnub or Fanout which plays really well with frameworks
> “The message Europe is sending its entrepreneurs now is: stay at home”
As an european, working remotely with various US companies, my response is: Completely not! There is no reason to stay and create IP in Europe right now. At least not in my opinion. Both Asia and the US are better alternatives for starting up than doing so here.

I honestly think that a change in mindset is needed for attracting entrepreneurs or making them stay. This goes from the said entrepreneurs themselves to VCs and whatnot.

If they don't change their methods, I'm afraid in some time, things will start to go downhill for the entrepreneurial environment here.
So it sounds like "being friendly to terrorists" is actually code for securing user data and ensuring privacy. Yes, it's possible that terrorists could use these services. However, I don't think the global population should give up liberty and privacy for the negligible amount of safety that removing this encryption would provide.
Is this just a really polite, introspective take on (Rails|Ruby) is a Ghetto? I can't point out one really valid critique in this entire rant. While I imagine that you've had enough kool-aid to actually believe the things you said, I think you should probably do a few google searches to find out how many shops are hiring Rails devs versus Clojure or Elixir. You can do more experimenting by seeing who else is actually working those jobs, what kind of professional experience they have, and if you're really lucky figure out what they get paid.

Rails needs websockets, just like years ago when it needed a better way to handle organizing and deploying assets. The modern application demands it, and if you've ever had the pleasure of trying to build a websocket application in Ruby you'd understand why it's actually really exciting that we're going to get the Rails community to build this for all of us.

If you want to be disenchanted about some aspect of Rails then pick the fact that the need for diversity at RailsConf this year has yielded some of the worst presentations I've ever seen (like, literally, the presenter spoke poor/broken english and the Docker oriented talks were about 6 months behind).

Rails moves the way it does and absorbs the ideas it does because they become popular. It's much easier to add a feature that everyone wants, instead of inventing a feature that makes a solved problem that much easier/faster/what-have-you. DHH seems to have to explain this every few years, but go back in time when Rails adopted sprockets and you'll see posts not unlike the one you just wrote.

Realistically, Ruby and Rails jobs are still among the highest paying in the industry. Startups and other more established companies still choose Rails as their platform, and not just for bullshit brochure sites. Certainly there remains a "best tool for the job" mentality but, right now, the alternatives are to: build it yourself, hop on a less "mature" framework -- Pheonix? I don't even know what you pick when you adopt Elixir as your platform language and need to build an API or front end apps but Pheonix won the google -- or choose from one of the popular technologies like Express.js, Laravel(?), or Django. That part of building technology (and business) didn't change, and there are still hundreds of thousands of Ruby and Rails engineers out there.
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It's right there in the article, if you'd read it:

Although AdBlock Plus states that "no one can buy their way onto the white list", it does charge fees for what it terms "support services", the details of which are not made public.

In February, the Financial Times reported that one unnamed media company had said it had been asked to pass on the equivalent of 30% of the extra revenues it would have made by having ads on its platform unblocked.

That has led some critics to claim that the Eyeo is engaged in a "racket".
Very much so and case of being something joe-public can spot and report https://business.sky.com/fighting-fraud

Now if they were to offer a token reward of even £50 then they would still be ahead as they would catch them all pretty much.

Though imagine what would happen if traffic parking enforcement offered a commision to the public who reports such violations they see. Traffic wardens would be out of jobs and everybody would park much better in the long-run and many people without jobs and spare time would have a better quality of income.
I fail to see how this matters. As it stands it's perfectly legal to lie to you about the consequences of not consenting to a search, and even outright cold blooded murder on a police officer's part is extremely difficult to seek justice for.

It is a tiny step in the right direction though, hopefully followed by more.
> it costs £700 a month to see Premier League matches

Wow, that's ridiculous. I can see why people are trying to find ways to get it cheaper.
Sometimes I feel shame being a programmer in europe.
Somebody has to build the containers and/or images, and it's on them to make that an automated, repeatable process.
It's a great word but it's not one I've heard often in person, usually people just say landlord.

(I live in Southern England, and this comment is only from my experience.)
No database can "achieve both consistency and availability" during a partition.

Also, if you follow the rest of the twitter conversation you may realize, as they did, that only requests to the minority partition are unsuccessful - which is exactly what you want from CP.
I also learned from a place with good practices, which used daemontools to run services and a custom deploy system in bash and python which actually did the right kinds of things. (and I was fully-manually admin-ing my own linux systems for years before that)

As an early employee at a new place, I'm now using ansible and docker because nowadays people want to use that stuff, and it is a lot faster to get started with than writing a new proper deploy system from scratch.

But I build all the docker images we use and version them with the date. I also don't use ansible roles from ansible-galaxy, and I don't even organize tasks into roles, just into task-include files. Our ansible tasks use bash helper scripts wherever necessary to do things the right way, because the built-in modules are often too granular / not connected enough to fully check state. I also replaced the docker plugin for ansible, to manage state a bit better. So overall it's not too bad.

I guess my point is that, having done it all from-scratch first, using some of the modern automation stuff isn't too bad. But you have to know what not to use. People new to "devops", using all the fancy stuff now available, who didn't have the introduction I did... it's not surprising they end up in a mess and don't even recognize it.
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I love it when debate gets reduced to someone creating a troll account ( 'railsbadruby' account is 48 min old as I write this ) and badmouthing.

Is this what HN discourse has come to?
This is a fantastic book. I recommend both the section on Google Chrome [1] and GHC [2]. Regardless of your level of interest in web browsers or compilers, they are both really educational and interesting reads.

[1] http://aosabook.org/en/posa/high-performance-networking-in-c...
[2] http://aosabook.org/en/ghc.html
FWIW I did write a bunch of documentation on sibling resolution in Riak: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/using/conflict-resolut...
I'm Portuguese so maybe I'm biased, but seems Lisbon is becoming quite an attractive startup hub where the cost of living isn't too high (compared to London/Paris/etc) and you have nice weather, people, good quality of life and lots to do.

If you are thinking of starting something and need investment, London is hard to beat, with Berlin coming up second.
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I'm all for trying to understand what one is doing (and I wholeheartedly agree with TFA's point), but the reality is that very few people in the world really understand all intricacies of one's operating system.

One of the problems (as I tried to argue) is that most Unices have become far more complex. The question is if the extra complexity is warranted on a server system, especially if bare Unix (OpenBSD serves as a good example here) was not that hard to understand.

Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that we should look back. Another possibility would be to deploy services as unikernels (see Mirage OS) that use a small, thin, well-understood library layer on top of e.g. Xen, so that there isn't really an exploitable operating system underneath.
I've always wondered why the Ruhr Valley isn't marketed/established as a techhub of sorts. Well connected infrastructure means it's essentially one big city and there are a few universities with decent tech departments. Berlin makes sense but come on...Valley in the title already ;P
Could you elaborate on the nature of European VC's (as compared to American ones)? I'm genuinely curious.
"It[technology] can be set up in a way which is friendly to terrorists and helps them ... and creates challenges for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Or it can be set up in a way which doesn't do that."

"We all love the benefit of the internet and all the rest of it, but we need their support in making sure that they're doing everything possible to stop their technology being exploited by terrorists. I'm saying that needs to be front and centre of their thinking and for some it is and some it isn't."

-- Unsurprisingly, the main argument here is that creating more surveillance-proof software is essentially the same as being friendly with terrorists.
I beg to differ on that.
The news publishers are, of course, free to detect adblock or its effects, and refuse to deliver content to adblocker users.

Publishers and content creators say "If you don't like what you hear from someone on the TV or radio, change the channel." It's free speech, after all.

Maybe it's time for publishers and creators to live that credo, and not deliver to consumers that they don't like.
I suppose one could argue that it's one line actually doing 3 things... but anyway. Not a big deal, at the end of the day.
The change goes in both directions.
This is why you have a strong passphrase on your ssh private key.... right?
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There are 7.3 billion people on the planet, all consuming, reproducing, driving and expelling, burning, cutting, killing, clearing, digging, and searching for the American dream. The very existence of humankind is now completely outside of the natural food cycle. Most everything humans eat is farmed in numbers by weight that you or I simply can not imagine. Our economy is based on the processing and consumption of planetary resources multiplied by a rate of exponential growth. There are over 1 billion cars on the planet, and 2,300 coal power plants. 1.3 billion cows bred almost solely for human consumption, each cow eats about 4 tons of food per year. Humans are killing all the animals, burning all the fossil fuels, and toxifying all the potable water. We give back to the natural cycle; plastic garbage, VOCs, heavy metals, radioactive waste, trillions of tons of carbon bonded to oxygen. The only other organism that functions with such destruction and haste is a virus.

There is no mistake and scientists are not confused. This is the 6 major extinction the planet has ever seen in its 4.5 billion years of existence. This extinction is occurring faster than the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. If humans all disappeared today, it would take the planet 12 million years to repair the damage we have done. In human terms, that 12 million years longer than human existence itself.

This guy wants to reshape the discussion but he can't remove the fact that extreme irreversible damage is being done. The damage we see is only a canary in the coal mine for the damage we don't see. There is a reason no one celibrates Earth day. It's a reminder of our failure to recognize the facts of our current situation.
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I was talking about this to someone behind the bar once, and he also said that the reason they chose a pint glass over some other icon was that it made people more willing to buy a drink while watching the game. They'd occasionally glance at the pint glass and think "better have a pint".

Not sure whether this is true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if it had this effect. It'd be interesting if someone else had heard this, or knew whether this was true.
The Rails team, including DHH, owes us nothing. They aren't required to give us a framework of our choosing, they're the ones building it! Just like we don't owe anything to Rails!

DHH uses Rails for Basecamp, so it makes sense that he'll lead the project towards the goals of BC.
I must admit, I always feel like I am missing something in these discussions. Like I didn't get some memo... I just don't expect a DB like MongoDB to guarantee consistency. The whole story around NoSQL and the likes was to enable crazy horizontal scaling needed for the web. Phrases like "eventual consistency" flew around. It seems so logical - you lose consistency, gain scalability.

But somehow, people simply started using them everywhere? Assuming that these DBs are just like any other? And now, we're all bashing on MongoDB because it is - not consistent? What happened here? :)

NB that I do not wish to attack the OP - if MongoDB now claims to be consistent in any way, that deserves scrutiny. And these analyses are always a really interesting read. But the general tone in the developer community about MongoDB seems a bit irrational.
It seems rather easy and effective, for NSA-like agencies, to hide crude exploits in complex projects. An unintended effect of Snowden's whistle blowing is that it has become easier, because it has let them know that they don't need plausible deniability requirement anymore.

Until Snowden, they were very cautious not to be caught, because, you know, what might happen if public opinion knew what a bunch of crooks they were? Now, they know that public opinion doesn't really care, and that if they're caught, they can mostly shrug it off, with politicians' complicity.

So, shoving a rather crude and detectable exploit in a messy product has become practically doable. If I were in charge of subsidies distribution for some 3-letters agency, I'd pour more money on Docker, Maven etc. than on TLS.
Do you have any examples? In my opinion the DOM API only sucked pre-IE9 because of all the inconsistencies and incompatibilities.

I have dropped jQuery completely except for when I need some of its plugins because I end up having to access the internal DOM objects too often and using $el.get(0) all over the place is ugly and a PITA.
No, the existing laws do not always force you to pay VAT for customers in other countries in the EU. This, according to the article, would. It's adding additional taxation.

> I prefer medium sized ones anyway

Infuriating, short sighted, but typical line of thinking.
I think you are conflating purely functional, reproducible environments with the (for lack of a better term) Docker way of managing containers where you just make full disk image for everything with lots of duplication. It is very possible to have the former while avoiding the latter. Both the Nix and GNU Guix projects succeed at this. I recommend taking a look at them to see if they address your concerns.
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I would love to see that archive, especially of the text adventures.
> Given this background and the Go designers focus on Google's internal needs

Does it mean the community isn't a priority? this vertical relationship between the Go team and the community could doom the language as fast as it was made popular, that's my opinion.That's a real issue.
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Also amusing, these inspectors are paid to go to pubs to watch football matches. Not a bad job.
John McPhee write an excellent article about this: "The Ships of Port Revel" by John McPhee. It was an atlantic article and is included in his book "Uncommon Carriers".

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0865477396
Your name is right in your profile, so pdx could have easily got your gender from it. Maybe pdx even opened your site, where you have a photo clearly showing your gender.

It's also possible that English is not pdx mother tongue, maybe pdx tongue is one of those where the male pronoun is used to refer to people when the sex is unknown. Also, while it's usage as this has been fading, "he" is defined as "Used to refer to a person or animal of unspecified sex" in many dictionaries, and someone could have been tough that in school (I have been).
> Data by the commission shows that 41% of these EU enterprises don’t make use of any digital technology.

Technologies for these industries are everywhere, if they don't want them, will a digital European market change this? I don't think so...

> The first pillar of the plan: breaking down barriers in cross-border online activity. Differences between contract law, taxes, consumer protection and copyright laws among member states inhibit trade, the strategy says.

This is a good move, but still there are barriers in scaling: different languages and cultures.

> The commission also says it will work to remove the technical and legislative barriers that hinder the free flow of data within the EU.

This is interesting, I would really see how they will manage to achieve this without annoying France and other countries with mass-surveillance systems.

> Another pillar of the strategy: regulate a level playing field for companies and services in the same market.

In a nutshell: instead of promote European startups offering similar services, they want to fight AirBnB, Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook. We need step forwards, not fights.

It's a kind of half-baked program, still no better opportunities for investments, no better regulations for acquisitions (best exit strategy possible driving to more investors) and no program to motivate investors in putting money in the Hi-Tech market, but instead, EU will fight American companies.
I'd recommend My Philosophy on Alerting by Rob Ewaschuk - https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa... as a good approach to take.

We've fleshed this out a bit more in the Prometheus best practices at http://prometheus.io/docs/practices/alerting/

Taking this approach at our company greatly reduced the alert count and improved responsiveness with no degradation in service.
Sounds pretty Web-scale.
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I played with SMS, SMS reply, and MMS. All worked well and as expected (I used a Google-Voice account for testing). Probably one of the easiest out-of-band login solutions I've used. For SMS a "link-or-reply" feature would be nice. Depending on the particular use-case it might be easier for me to press a link in the message versus typing something. Also perhaps eventually an app (swiping notification is enough to complete login)
With prices of a monthly Sky subscription for venues ranging from 449 EUR to 1449 EUR [1], you can understand why Sky are keen to prevent the home subscription being misused.

Notably, it is also not in their interests to have too many venues showing the football games. That results in less home subscribers.

I often watch Champions League and Bundesliga football games in these sports bars. I see no reason for a home Sky subscription. It is a complete rip-off.

[1] http://business.sky.de/sbs/cms/static/img/Einleger_Gastro_St...
Is it really a 'structure' if there's nothing in it?
There is similar competition among states in the US. The states get very little revenue from the Federal government and when they do it's for specific programs (ie Highways or education). Often times they are mandated to institute programs by the Feds with no funds to finance the programs (assistive telephony).

For example, Applebees is well known restaurant chain here. Their corporate headquarters is near the border of Kansas and Missouri. Every few years they physically move back and forth across the border depending on which state gives them the best tax break.
Sky is a satellite system, not cable; it's trivial to take the receiver and smartcard from one address to another and plug it into the dish there.
> What's not to like ?

When I tried it several years ago:

- All the documentation assumed you knew and understood the Java world. You were supposed to know about the classpath, how com.this.that.foo.bar works, how Maven works, etc.

- Difficulty communicating with C libraries. This was an intentional choice of the Java creators. Not Clojure's fault, but still a problem nonetheless.

- The error messages made it hard for me to get work done and there was no way I'd expect someone else to use a language with error messages like that.

- Somewhat unstable tools. There would be major changes to the tools, like the Eclipse plugin, and they would not be documented. The contrib libraries changed dramatically with Clojure 1.3. While I'm sure it was fun making the new system, I wasn't happy being unable to use the contrib libraries, because they either didn't work or the documentation didn't exist. A language that introduces major breaking changes without a solid transition plan in place is not one that I want to use.

- The documentation was limited in places. This was a major issue with new releases. It felt to me as though there was a team of core developers that were in the inner circle, so they got to use all the features, but the rest of us got what they decided to share.
Good for AdBlock Plus! Even if they lost, what's to stop hundreds of (potentially untrackable) clones suddenly popping up to continue helping users block ads? I guess it is easier for big press to push/bully to maintain the status quo, rather than think through a new online revenue model.