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This looks very nice. Is there any plan to add support for Ansible? Not sure I'm a fan of having bash scripts in the UI which are not available locally (is that the case?). I'd much rather have an Ansible repo in git that I develop locally and push to Commando.io.

This looks really cool. I'm curious how this compares to something like Couchbase, which also has horizontal scaling abilities. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.

Come on guys, there's a video right on the front page. It's only a couple of minutes. It explains very well what Ethereum is. I almost always prefer that the site be self-explanatory in just a few seconds as well, but if you're not very familiar with Bitcoin, it would be a wall of text to explain what this product is. In this case, I think a video was definitely the way to go.

On another note, this looks like an awesome project. I wonder what implications this could have in net neutrality.

Can't even open spreadsheets in Google Docs. I can open regular docs though.

So are google spreadsheets in google docs.

Looks like spreadsheets in Google Docs as well.

Great explanation, thanks for posting. It cleared up a few things for me.

Pen and paper, using Bullet Journal conventions (http://www.bulletjournal.com/).

Ultimately the problem I have with digital todo lists is todo-creep. Lists become large and unwieldy. Old todos are not automatically deleted. Pen and paper allows you to make a fresh start each day. If there is an important task you didn't finish the day before, you'll remember it and add it to the new day.

Bullet Journal allows you to organize the todo in a way that I find very useful. I've been using it for about six months now and don't think I'll ever switch.

I'm not so sure that it has anything to do with complexity of understanding. Joins make scaling RDMSs horizontally much more difficult, if not impossible in certain situations.

Thanks for the reply. I do have a couple pretty simple projects in mind. This may be the impetus I need to go ahead and get started. Thanks!

Haven't you heard? WolframAlpha's new language!!! http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/29/sentient-code-an-inside-lo...

I'm curious about this as well. From what I've read, it seems like it would be possible to have separate containers for each process, and then combine them together into a single container for deployment. If that works in reality, it could make it easier to mix-and-match to quickly build new applications that share some common dependencies.

That's interesting to hear. I'm a system administrator and would like to learn web development. I was planning on starting with Rails. I know the basics of HTML and CSS and am pretty experienced with SQL. Do you have a route of learning you recommend?

Absolutely love this site. It's incredibly well written, informative, and on point.

Yep, definitely sounds like an appropriate use case. I was just poking a little fun at the possibility of it being used to exploit users.

Aka, extort users to pay for bug fixes :)

For the last one, I see a velociraptor :)

http://s177.photobucket.com/user/p0oki_photo/media/Velocirap...

Looks a bit too similar to Opscode's logo for my taste:

http://www.juliandunn.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/opscode...

Only if you like live music, a beautiful city, wonderful people, and an old guy who rides his bike around town in a thong, usually pink.

Which then translates to, "Amazon Amazon Web Services Web Servies"

Maybe I'm a little more trusting than I should be, but I can totally understand how a program like this would be justified in the minds of agents and agencies trying to do better at their jobs. They probably truly believe that this program is for the greater good of the nation and that it WILL save lives. I can get all of that, and I sympathize.

But power granted is not easily revoked. I'm not as worried about the current administration and their motives. However, the future can be predicted by no man, and where this nation is in 10-30 years, no one knows. This power can easily be used for not just subjugation of this nation, but possibly the world. In the wrong hands, this could be a tool of unfathomable power. And that is something I'm absolutely NOT okay with.

If revoking these programs, we open truly open ourselves to more attacks, so be it. That is the price to be paid for limiting of government power.

Well, I'd probably expect transparency to at least come in two forms:

1. Broad annual reports containing the number of individuals were investigated, or whose 'file' was pulled, and the number of investigations that resulted in some sort of prosecution. Basically, give me the figures that show me the efficiency of the NSA investigations. This would help combat just broad pulling of records without specific cause and purpose. You could go so far as to say that after passing certain thresholds of efficiency, their actions would be audited. Note that I realize this is not ever likely to happen, but just trying to give an example of how increased transparency could be done.

2. Individual notification. This is obviously much more difficult because they wouldn't want to tip off a legitimate threat to the fact they are under investigation. But the general alternative is not acceptable either. The government can't just investigate people and invade their privacy without good reason. So some how, individuals need to know.

The checks and balances of Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches is an effective mode of government, but there is a second 'check': the one by the people. If I don't know my rights are being violated, how can I hold the government responsible?

So, yes, some form of individual notification is necessary. Maybe the notification happens after the investigation is finished. Maybe I'm notified a year late. But one way or another, I have a right to face my accuser.

Those are my thoughts on it anyhow.

I think instead of trying to fight the increased levels of surveillance by both governments and corporations, we need to focus on increasing the levels of transparency. I personally don't really care that governments and other organizations have information about me. There is always an inevitable paper (or electronic) trail associated with using the internet and various services.

But I do care about the fact that the FBI can pull up information about me and I have no knowledge of it. If they collect information to combat terrorism, fine. But the 99.999 percent of innecent people being tracked have a right to be notified (and given a course of action for recourse) when they've been wrongly targeted, for whatever reason.

I know, it's an idealistic dream, but it is more realistic than combating the inevitable surveillance practices that are just now coming to light.

Wow, this is great information. Yes, I'm in the Denver area. As for my position, I was hired as a Senior System Administrator and definitely have the responsibilities of one. I have about 5 years experience in Linux administration, but obviously less experience in the contracting/business/taxes side of things.

You're right on the risk compensation, though this company is known for hiring contractors for long periods of time (some contractors here have been here longer than 5 years). So though it is a very real risk, I'm not as worried about it as I would be otherwise.

Please bear with me for any misunderstandings of the situation, as I'm new to contracting, and only recently took this position.

I'm in Colorado and I do not get any benefits. The company I'm contracted to only works with this recruitment agency, so to get hired at all, I had to go through them. The agency obviously takes a cut, and from what I've gathered from some of the employees, the agency is taking around $80+/hour while my bill rate is $55/hour.

As I stated, there are no benefits, I pay my self-employment tax and have to cover my own medical expenses. There is no paid time off, holidays or otherwise.

I'm not sure if this is considered normal or not. But I don't really like the situation and have been working towards permanent employment with the company.

As a side note, this is a great company to work for, and employees have great benefits. But it does sound like contractors may be getting shafted.

Recruiters. I had a salaried job and was contacted by recruiters. They were recruiting for a company that is about 50/50 salaried/contracting. Other than that, nothing special.

One thing that I didn't see being brought up in the thread you mentioned is the fact that a recruitment agency bills a rate different to what I get payed. For example, my agency is likely billing out at $80/hour or more, yet I only get $55/hour.

So I'm curious if others were entering amounts that agencies were billing out, rather than what they were being payed.

What? I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Might want to edit it to make it clearer.

Anyway, I think you are wondering why this news is on Hackernews. I'd say it's because there are a lot of politically conscience people here, who care about what's going on in the world.

One point I think people miss is that the content of this site does not necessarily have to be related to tech (though usually is). I personally come here for the discussion that results from the submissions, and world news like this is important to me. And I'd like to be able to discuss the news/situation with other people of similar educations, vocations and mindsets.

Sounds a lot like Dwight Shrute from 'The Office'. At least, I found myself reading this in Dwight's voice.

Sounds like we are on the same page exactly. That process sounds good. And if you are able to clearly lay out how all the various tools integrate in to a cohesive whole, you'll have solved a very big problem in the Chef community.

Thanks for the response. While I haven't read the book yet and only briefly looked through it, I think the most important areas to cover are 'development process/workflow' and 'testing'. Opscode does a pretty good job of explaining how to actually write cookbooks and things like LWRPs, but the two areas I mentioned are rather fragmented on the web.

I've also heard about the idea of 'Library Cookbooks', and the idea of having a generic cookbook that you can include in an organization-specific cookbook seems very intriguing. If you are familiar with this concept, including it the book would be quite worthwhile.

Another area I would be very interested in is Chef Best Practices. I've gotten myself into quite a bit of trouble by putting way too much information in my roles, only to run into all sorts of trouble with versioning when working in multiple environments i.e, 'dev', 'test', 'prod'.

Anyway, thanks for putting in the effort to get a book out. Chef is a little starved in the way of accessible information (I shouldn't have to resort to IIRC multiple times per day to get questions answered). This is badly needed.