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No investor says "Well, whoever wrote this script obviously put a lot of effort into it, so here $50 million". But I'm sure hollywood community also encourages each other for their creativity no matter how crazy something sounds. Encouragement and actually putting in $50million are very different things. Everyone outside of silicon valley will react the same way you do, and that's why silicon valley is necessary because it's one of the few places on earth where you can talk about ridiculous stuff and not worry about being judged, which encourages creativity. (For example, most people will think "AirBnB for pets" is an idiotic idea and it probably is, but the fact that people can talk about these things freely is a good thing)
>So to recap: if you never actually prepare a restore, we cannot possibly know what is in your files, but
if you prepare a restore (let's say of a few files) then for the couple minutes they are being prepared and
downloaded they are in "plain text" on a HIGHLY SECURE system in the Backblaze datacenter.

LOL - so you get to choose between having a backup that you can't verify by doing a test restore, or encryption that isn't secure by putting your private key on an un-trusted/non-audited server that you don't control.

> Backblaze focuses on ease of use. It is backup for people who need backup and "pretty good security" and who aren't computer professionals.

At least they acknowledge that "computer professionals" would likely be skeptical of these options; on the other hand, it seems like they are downplaying the lack of security in this scheme to their non-"computer professionals" clients:

>All your files are encrypted before being transmitted over SSL and stored encrypted. [1]

EDIT:
>... even a malicious hacker in our datacenter could not possibly compromise your data.. [2]

That's just false, and I'd bet they know it. I mean, they only use their root keys on an air-gapped (non-networked) host, right? If not, then they should really consider hiring someone who understands security a little better.

Want to convince me your system is really "HIGHLY SECURE"? How about guaranteeing $1,000,000 payout to the user in the event of a breach? I mean it "could not possibly" happen, right? :D

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html

[2] (from the article) https://help.backblaze.com/entries/20926247-Security-Questio...
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If you are trying to make a language that doesn't need a different syntax for logic and layout, do you not end up with a templating language similar to PHP? Is this the right goal?
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If the author of this article were "Bob Smith", the HN readership reaction would be tepid at worst. Instead, everybody has brought political baggage to this discussion.

History will fairly judge Rumsfeld long after he (and most of us) are dead, and not on his app-creation career. That his new venture into a technical field can't be objectively judged (without involving his unrelated past) on a technical site is sad.
> It's not cool to criticize startups in silicon valley because that's what the place stands for.

While I'm not "in" SV I do interact with many who do. I think SV it's more "cool" to give honest and direct feedback above anything else.

Though my observations are purely anecdotal as are yours (I'm assuming). But I don't think it's healthy to encourage if you think the app is stupid. Feel free to refrain from commenting at all but let the people who really like / use the app be the cheerleaders.
With "intellectual property" (patents in this case) it is a zero sum game.
Regarding Nuke alternative, if we're talking about the same software (VFX domain), you have http://natron.fr/

It's still quite young imho, but it's very promising.

Incidentally, it also integrates with GMIC
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Well played. You took a dying app, and managed to bring it back onto the radar by spinning a story that has nothing to do with the app itself.

There must be some sort of pro version of the Hype Cycle circulating in the Valley (http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp...). "Okay marketeers, we need to begin the 'underdog' portion of our marketing campaign. If that doesn't work, then we may need to engineer a scandal to boost traffic".
Well, if you set out to learn React (which this article is about), you are only learning React. Not even V in MVC because probably you're not out after learning MVC. You're out after learning React.
I don't know his reasons, but I also try to avoid third party because 1) Often you can do the same with the standard library with very little extra code. 2) Using lots of third party makes your code less maintainable. A lot of little libraries are not well maintained. 3) You are at the mercy of when the third party library updates to fit say latest language version or standard libraries. 4) Third party libraries can pull in a lot of unwanted complexity. You might only use a tiny tiny part of it. 5) By relying on third party you force other developers to know that library in addition to the standard library.

There is a certain amount of trigger happiness around when it comes to third party libraries. People tend to use third party libs WAY TOO much. Often they don't even check what is in the standard library.

I've thrown out over 50% of the third party libraries used in iOS projects I've taken over while simplifying and reducing the amount of code. The reason why using the third party libs grew the code was that third party libraries are usually quite generic, which requires more code to adapt to them. If your needs are quite simple, custom tailored code can take less space than utilising a third party library.
Could this be a problem that a blockchain could help solve?
I don't expect that the present and future judges presiding over the patent dispute will give any credence to these pieces. Nobel committee members might.
Jonah Salk, the guy who developed the polio vaccine

"When asked who owned the patent to it, Salk said, 'There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?'"
Except this isn't about style. It's about logic. Logic isn't as optional as style, and if you separate the logic into one JS file and the DOM into another HTML file, they are still tied together by the JS binding some action to some named DOM element (by selector, etc).

The separation that scales is the one that pairs a small piece of DOM (like a piece of text on the page that updates with the current stock price) to the JS that goes with it, and put that into a single file. Now, build your web page out of components instead.
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> When we win, we try for more; when we fail, we cut back.

Thanks for sharing this book, OP. I've personally seen this range of ambition in my own life. I can very much relate to this. When I was younger I was always seeking more out of life. Now becoming an adult and struggling as sole-provider of my family and spending many years attending university while trying to help my wife through severe depression and my special-needs child I am now careful about finding new commitments and I'm trying to greatly simplify my life.
Quorum

http://quorumlanguage.com/
This is such a simple but beautiful idea. I love it! As a Swift developer I am really envious of these tagged fields on Go and how they simplify e.g. JSON parsing. And now I realise they can simplify regexp parsing as well. Dam!!
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That's not generally true. React is specifically designed to support progressive enhancement. It lets you render your pages on the server, and then the client-side JavaScript will work smoothly with the existing DOM. Redux is a popular state management library for React and it is also specifically engineered to make server rendering painless. All you need to do on the server is load the relevant JSON state for the given URL and give it to React.
Locally or even during download in the browser mega.nz sends you encrypted blobs which are decrypted using the download auth key after the download is verified they use html5 storage and JavaScript to achieve this.
Oh no! Not at all. They modulate amplitude, frequency, phase. They have recharge times and duty cycles and limits and hysteresis. Each neuron is like some FM radio station. Not remotely like binary.
> According to Billy Anderson, the recording engineer, the guitar tracks were recorded three separate times to thicken the sound, using custom-built amps so powerful that it wasn’t possible to stand in the same room with them. Each amp was recorded with seven or eight microphones, which gives you a sense of the dedication required to create something so loud.

[facepalm] The triumph of hype over signal analysis.
what bothers us is not the "right" people who have access to the tracking info but the wrong people

for example if the police wanted to be sure to stop all teslas that cross their jurisdiction so they could seize whatever you happen to have with you (or even the car itself) under civil forfeiture without arrest, warrants or even proof of crime, all they have to is program their stingrays to ping them when a tesla cell connection that the car uses for data comes into contact

I have other scenarios in my head too but I don't want to give them ideas for abuse
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In my experience, people give direct feedback in terms of how they should execute (in constructive manner), but rarely criticizes and discourages the idea itself as being crazy. Over time people learn to cope with the fact that they really never know what will happen tomorrow to a guy they thought had the stupidest idea, so people are very open to crazy ideas.
> They just see the X11 driver allowing them to define their own areas etc on a touchpad, while libinput does not.

That's one specific X11 driver for a few specific touchpad devices and with no user interface to configure.

I doubt if more than a handful of users ever bothered to read the manpages to find out about this functionality, much less actually define their own touchpad regions. I'm sure there are a few exceptions, but the vast majority of the users just use the defaults or tweak whatever settings Gnome/KDE exposes in their UI.

In fact, the mere fact that an X11 touchpad driver provides this functionality is actually proof of why X11 has outlived its usefulness. Touchpad regions do not belong to the touchpad driver. They belong to the layer that interprets touchpad input above that - it should be a desktop-environment feature that works with all touchpads, not a driver feature that works with a single touchpad make.

Libinput is correct in not providing a kitchensink.
I'll counter that, I read a couple of Go books and I'm still not clear of when the game ends or how you count points, go is very elegant but let's not pretend all its rules are simple and clear.
The opening strawman weakens the essay because it is unthoughtful compared to what follows. It's just a rant and the rest isn't.
Exactly. I'm only able to write such powerful React components by having a full programming language (JS) in my view (the React render method). The logic-less template approach would have been crippling for me.
Sure, but your access to the books is (at least currently) highly restricted, legally. I'd say it's much more likely I'm going to have some issue with accessing my kindle books (who knows, maybe I break my kindle) than I am having a fire.
This is simply not true. Ignoring the fact that "real application on the web" has no definition... very useful web pages can be created without JavaScript, and they can (quite easily) interact with the user by taking input and updating what they display.

Why is something like that useful? Accessibility, security, backward compatibility, ...
Marshall McLuhan has an alternate but related theory for the difference between "close talkers" and those who like to be able to see the whole person when talking.

In The Gutenberg Galaxy, McLuhan infers that "close talkers" are often tribal cultures who rely primarily on the spoken word for means of communication whereas highly literate cultures like to be able to see the whole person because of the stress the print medium has on the eye.
Empirically, I didn't notice and that almost screwed up the experiment; see the part where a driver change broke Redshift and I didn't notice for a month.

(As well, I would note that you may be overestimating placebo or expectancy effects here. In the meta-analyses I've seen, randomization is much more important than placebo controls.)
This has to be answered empirically. No doubt there is value in giving doctors or teachers the freedom to do what they think best - especially the best ones. But there is also a lot of value in standardization, accountability, and ensuring we know what went on. A patient may think they care more about how kind the doctor was, but if better notes make the difference in spotting a rare condition or simply catching a mistake - or, more subtly, enable data analytics that let us spot new correlations and develop improved treatments - then (with a limited amount of doctor's time available) that's a lot more important.

What has the overall effect of these paperwork changes been on healthcare outcomes?
I have zero affiliation with Peach, if that is what you are implying.

"Any publicity is good publicity" is another fallacy I'd like to take a closer look at.
I agree, particularly with Elastic Tabstops

http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
I know dudes in they late 90s developing.

I myself plan to develop well into my 100s (currently 97)
For context here, and for people like me who don't follow the development of Mercurial closely enough to realize, mpm is not just some random contributor to Mercurial, but is in fact Matt Mackall, the original author of Mercurial.
Agree. I am from Denmark free healthcare and same problem.

The issue is as you say New Public Management.
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Flexibility. With G'Mic it's easy to implement a new feature or a plugin. With ImageMagick, I wouldn't even know where to start. Esoteric command line input is not my definition of a user interface designed for artists.

Plus it comes bundled in with Krita and Gimp.

Just as a sidenote, if you like playing around with G'Mic, you might absolutely love Python+OpenCV+Numpy combination. It's crazy powerful for tiny amounts of code required.
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My point is that PHP renders text first and foremost, writing code in PHP is "opt-in" somehow. An HTML file for instance is a valid PHP file. AFAIK an HTML file isn't a valid Ruby or Python file. You don't need to tell the interpreter to kick in at first place. But that's not the main idea I tried to convey in my comment.
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I did interviewing for my alma mater for a few years, but I don't anymore. Some of these "public service" things I used as a negative signal. If the student started talking about the week they spent in Honduras building houses and how it changed his life, or how much of a difference she made by starting a recycling club for example. All of that seemed cynically calculated for exactly the purpose it was being deployed for. What really impressed me were the one or two kids I interviewed that had worked real jobs -- not internships.

I don't know about other interviewers or the professional admissions staff, but that was my impression.
Lander wrote an article in "Cell" about the history as he saw it of the invention of the Crispr technique. It covered the bases but was flawed, but it did include a lot of scientists that weren't included before. The article basically tries to discredit it. It wasn't a great argument and frankly the authors not a impartial (Friends with one of the scientist, and works at one of the universities) I'm surprised it made it this far on Hacker News.

There is a patent dispute about who owns the patent on this technique. Lots of money is potentially at stake. This article was written from one of the parties (Broad institute and UC Berkely) being one of them.
Oddly the Lander article supports the notion that this invention is evolution not revolutionary.

Broad has been working to move from from CRISPR/CAS9 to CRISPR/Something else better). The UC Berkley seems to have come up with it first, but is it obvious or obvious to use in editing is the question. The UC [2]team has pulled all there patent claims and resubmitted them twice, presumably to broaden the scope and cover any use. Add some east coast/west coast rivalry and some other biases and you have a powder keg of science.

Anyway lots of blame to go around.

siyer posted this in a previous article which puts the patent dispute in context and if the patent is only cas9:

[1]http://www.ipscell.com/2016/01/patent-expert-weighs-in-on-cr...

and the strange patent application by UC and :

[2]https://law.stanford.edu/2015/12/29/the-crispr-patent-interf...
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I'll try to avoid ranting here, but anything is a legal email address per the RFC (even an @ sign in a username, or an email address without any @ sign).

RFC 821 is the original and 2821 summarizes it plus the few that came after to add and clarify.

The only true "RFC email validity check" is to send an email to whatever address they provide.
It kind of sounds like Firefox OS is being put on the back burner like SeaMonkey and Thunderbird were in the days when they were still supported but clearly not as important as Firefox.

So being created by a nonprofit organization didn't in fact save FFOS from having to achieve market success in order to keep it going.

At the very least users that bought a FFOS phone are to be without any kind of support ever appearing and at worst users of the code (Panasonic, H5OS and probably some Routers, HDMI Sticks, etc.) are becoming second class citizens which will lead to them lagging behind Firefox like Thunderbird and K-meleon have.
I think one of the most notable cases is the Prince of Liechtensteins (former) estates in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic. Here is an overview of that story: http://www.minorsights.com/2014/09/Czech-Lednice-Valtice.htm...
This reminds me of that ASCII Star Wars telnet thing. How long has that been around for?
Naw, I just meant it in the same vein of your article :) Being critical of people being critical by being critical.
As a single _example_ of one (of many) possible interfaces for it? Seems to hardly qualify as 'billing' as much as one example of how it might be used...
Of the many examples of science getting nasty in the past, one could hardly do better than to revisit the "invention" of calculus. One which raged for at least two decades, and involved names now rightfully known to nearly the entire human race[1]. Then there's the still unresolved mess of who discovered the structure of DNA and the question of whether the Nobel prize partly went to someone who 'stole' the data 'over the shoulder' of someone who should have received far more credit[2]. So over its long history I think we've been very consistent in our discreditable behavior of granting scientific credit; and notice that the business notions of IP are a very recent addition to this struggle. When the treasure is seen as vast, and there's clearly enough for all, that's exactly when sharing is likely to be at a nadir; such is lamentable human nature -sigh-

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin#Contribution...
+1 for the Stallman pun, so true
He's sorta correct while regulations are binding they do have a (usually fairly long) grace period and also quite often some generic complete opt-out mechanism.
^---- from Western NY

How about they put some money into the surrounding area and build restaurants / hotels / gardens and attractions? Or - god forbid - a casino!

We went to the american side last year and it's amazing how night and day different it is from the Canadian side / Clifton Hill - I'm not saying Clifton Hill is great - it's very touristy - but theres a ton of stuff to do there from getting cheap pizza / ice cream to some nicer sit down restaurants / rides for kids, the casinos, etc...

The American side has always been neglected. Look what has been done with Canal Side downtown Buffalo - and it gets better by the year. Theres actually reason to go downtown by Sabres arena winter and summer. The wife and I took a bike ride there last year along the water front, stopped for lunch and a drink - we spent the day there - something we'd never do in years prior.

Takes just as long to get downtown as it would to Niagara Falls... and to stop and watch the falls / take pictures would be better then just looking at a lake.
Nicely put. I like Valley for the same reason, it is a safe space to try out stuff and see what sticks. Uber saved my ass in London when I got stuck as the public transportation doessn't accept cash or credit (only the special Oyster Card). The hype needs to be taken with a grain of salt but there are some really valuable and useful startups out there.
P.S. I too made ~ $6K last quarter on AirBnB.
No doubt. Unfortunately this is one of those cases where identifying the root of the problem doesn't necessarily help you solve it.
> No, because PHP still work that way (hypertext pre-processor)

I think what the commenter is saying is no one builds like this anymore in PHP, regardless of whether or not you're using a framework.
Assuming that doesn't go the way of the host of other things that Microsoft has rolled out, spun their wheels on, and abandoned when it didn't take off.

WinAPI abides...
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Incidentally, one of the reasons I started commenting on TechCrunch was because the authors were being too soft on startup shennanigans.
I would imagine that many in Silicon Valley has pushed the issue of hyper valuation into a deep dark pit inside of themselves. They don't want to consider what would happen to them if this turns out to be a bubble that may one day pop. You'll make these people insecure if you start questioning the way the system currently operates.
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Yes. What you're seeing is how our community deals with charlatans. It has absolutely nothing to do with the CEO being a woman.
Fair enough. There have certainly been plenty of ideas that seemed stupid then all of a sudden make it big.
One of the outcomes is that doctors spend up to 50% of their time making notes instead of seeing patients. Another issue is that by making these overly controlled environments you are basically being forced to higher more control people.

I.e. you are getting more "cold hands" (administrators, controlllants, bureaucrats) than "warm hands" (doctors, nurses, caregivers)

This at least has been one of the main issues in Denmark. Can't speak for Norway but my guess is the issue is the same.

Denmark has fallen far down the list of the places with most effective care. It is however (mostly) "free".

There is a real groundbreaking business hiding there. How to ensure control of whats going on without burdening the wrong people.
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Regardless of scientific truth, it still has colloquial value.
It would be interesting to see how a Usenet/Torrent adapter may work to at least supplement loss
Fantastic article, in the past 9 months you've hit on nearly all of my discoveries.

Something I do now every time I create a new react app is to create a base class that extends React.Component that uses `PureRenderMixin`. When doing this I can prevent unnecessary renders from props changes. A killer of this would be passing an prop to a child that always changes its identity, like passing a function that calls `bind`, Because bind create a new method every time its call the identity always changes and the method will always be re-rendered. Knowing gotchas like these can help really speed up apps!