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The global settings file is the single biggest hurdle, not only in django deployment, but also development. And it's been like this since I can first remember with no visible progress.

It sucks to keep track of dev/prod local files, it makes it hard to setup a simple script inside of a django environment, it makes multi tenant apps unnecessarily complex, app developers usually want to shove every single configuration option inside of it...

If anyone with more than a few hours of django development is doing split settings or something more complex, and even the official docs and best practices recommend doing so, why are we still stuck with it?

There are much saner ways to deal with configuration: Flask's[1] is one nice way, as is Padrino's[2].

As a Django dev, this is one of those things that actually makes me jealous of Rails, where the core devs are not afraid of breaking backwards compatibility for sanity's sake.

In my opinion it should be priority #1 for an overhaul.

[1] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/config/
[2] http://www.padrinorb.com/guides/mounting-applications
Cool! I use Puppet at work currently to do deployment stuff, but I've always been curious about other technologies like Fabric, et al. I'll probably look into them for personal projects or just for fun, eventually. It's on my [long and growing] list of things-to-do.
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That's the principle, but not how it really works. As you said, it's only an analogy, but one that comes close to sounding like the real thing and is as such potentially confusing.

Audio codecs don't try to find functions that describe waves, they sample the waves.

What you get from a microphone or an electric guitar is a changing voltage, a wave of some sort. To digitize that wave (i.e. to save it using numbers and not vinyl discs or magnetic tape) you take samples (i.e. measure the voltage) at regular intervals. You typically might do that 48k times or 96k times per second (i.e. have a sampling frequency of 48kHz or 96kHz).

What you do then with those samples is quantize them, i.e. they get an integer depinding on how high or low the voltage is, for example a 16 Bit number.

That's how an analog-digital converter works on a basic level (you also need an filter to get rid of all the frequencies you don't want to digitize). This process is of course lossy. It's not possible to recontruct the wave that was digitized perfectly, it's only an approximation. All analog-digital converters are lossy (in some sense of the word). If you sample at 48kHz all frequencies higher than half of that (24kHz) are irrevocably lost (look up the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem if you want to know more). Quantization also means that you have to round the voltage you are measuring up or down, the audible effect this has on the sound is that it adds noise.

The parameters are, however, usually chosen in such a way that a human ear can't tell the difference. A healthy and young ear can hear frequencies up to about 20kHz, that's why the music on CDs is sampled at 44.1kHz (40kHz with some safety margin).

But that's only the conversion and it has not much to do with lossy codecs.

A lossless codec takes the result of this digitization (let's say 48k 16Bit numbers for a one second sound) and encodes them in such a way that those exact same 48k 16Bit numbers can be reconstructed after decoding.

Re-encoding a sound file with a lossless codec can consequently still be lossy: If you change the parameters (e.g. you half the sampling rate) you are still losing imformation - but it's at least possible to preserve the result of the original digitization perfectly.

A lossy codec doesn't aim for perfect reconstruction of all the numbers. It uses quirks in human hearing to be more or less precise about how those numbers are reconstructed. For example: A really loud sound masks quieter sounds. It's not possible for humans to hear that quieter sound, so why bother with all that precision for that quiet sound? That's where, for example, MP3 can dynamically decrease the quality. It's quite ingenious, really.

It is of course inevitable that during that process information is lost. It's not possible to get those original 48k numbers back, but at least something that sounds to an human ear more or less like them.
This is of course bullshit. There is however, an interesting paragraph (StGB § 323a) that says you can go to jail for up to 5 years for being intoxicated if you get drunk deliberately and then commit a crime but are deemed criminally incapable.
It makes more sense for 2^3^4 = 2^(3^4). If you meant (2^3)^4, then it would be more efficient to calculate 2^(3*4), because exponentiation takes much longer than multiplication.

On a related note, in Excel, -1^2 = 1 because they are calculating (-1)^2 instead of the more standard interpretation, -(1^2).
Great project, but notice that the license is CC-BY-NC, which is neither FSF-compliant nor OSI-compliant because it fobids commercial use of the work.

https://github.com/ornicar/lichess/blob/master/LICENSE

Interestingly, the license used to be MIT: https://github.com/ornicar/lichess/commits/master/LICENSE
Nope. To me, London has a separate problem with cyclists who think central London is a velodrome. Not to blame all cyclists, because most of them are fine - but there are some idiots out there with a complete disregard for safety..
> Do people really think a company whose engineers wrote a PHP-to-C++ compiler because PHP is slow as balls are incapable of solving this engineering problem?

Please don't make this about PHP and technical competence :-( This is clearly not a technical problem (deleting a file is pretty easy in PHP to, y'know?).
Is there anything from the post you'd like more detail on? Email me at <myusername>@gmail.com and I'd be happy to go over everything I've done so far regarding deployment and source code management via git.
We've used Comodo certs for our projects, given out for free by our provider SSD Nodes (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1122631). I think the certs by themselves are $9-10/year if you decided to get them on your own.
> In terms of speed increase, I didn’t measure my typing
> speed before switching so I can’t compare objectively,
> but I know I type way faster now.

Not exactly convincing, to be honest.
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That's besides the point. It wasn't Google's money to give to the advertiser, it was the publisher's. If there's fraud going on, it's reasonable to withhold that money and return it to the advertiser. But if you have unpaid funds from months back when Google did NOT suspect any fraud, Google takes that and gives it back to the advertisers too -- that's plain theft.
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You can do it with AJAX requests, but not with links or regular forms (as far as I am aware... I'd love to hear otherwise)
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Using this codec would probably be illegal in some countries. I guess it is all right to play with it, but don't incorporate it in your applications.
It makes me wonder who they'll be pardoning in 50 years time from now. Assange, Manning, David Kelly, McKinnon etc.

There's no excuse to get it wrong in the first place and I'm sure for the people concerned, a pardon is probably virtually irrelevant by the time they have issued it. Either the people are dead or their life is wrecked.
There is always meat in looking at the tradeoffs necessary for language/platform design, but the problem is that this particular argument is completely specious.

For instance, 256b.net demos aren't 256 bytes of assembly, they're 256 byte executables. If you download a demo, you can see that the ASM files, even with comments removed, are typically 1 or 2 kilobytes.

So now we have less functionality and worse performance in the same or half as much space, and that's still ignoring the fact that the mapping of source code bytes to actual instructions don't in any way resemble each other. If you included some measure of information density, you should probably be allowed at least another kilobyte of Javascript.

Then we get to functionality and performance. We all (hopefully) know the tradeoffs inherent in dynamic and JIT-compiled languages running in a browser that's trying its best to be an entire OS with all the intervening cruft between code and hardware that that implies. On the other hand, the 256b demos require DOSBox because they use extremely specific hacks, so should js1k demos be allowed to use one specific version of a browser, with (for instance) a known math and canvas object key order so it never has to refer to anything by name? Should it be allowed to use WebGL? The actual competition requires them to work in all "current browsers", including IE, but if you could get the WebGL syntax overhead to work in 1k, you could kick the crap out of the 256 byte demos...but what would that even mean?

In other words, it's an important consideration but this is a terrible comparison :)
Is there a chance you could elaborate on this some? What would some example "bells and whistles" be with regards to SSL certs?
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Verisign EV certs get the green text along with the name of the company in the browser (ex: https://paypal.com)

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If pg is sitting off in the background trying to convince people to click buttons with zero thought being exercised, then yes, Hacker News should be voluntarily time-limited. Until then, it is an apples-and-oranges comparison. Video games and TV have always been pretty pointless, but at least you were exercising some skill. These games are no better than slot machines, which are regulated in many places for good reasons.
It's very meta to have such a discussion here, a non-place where reputations meet to discuss.

I didn't mean to interrupt. Please go on.
The Fourier transform itself is an exact mathematical transformation with an exact inverse transform. There's nothing lossy about it.
It's an idea I've kicked around for a long time too. Building a simple Bayesian system would be neat; as you read, you should be able to tag items easily, and in a way that doesn't pigeonhole you into only seeing one side of an argument (I'd like to still see the opposition's view in, say, a political discourse for instance).

I've got too much else to work on currently, but I'd love to see what you come up with :).
I notice that nobody mentions the much higher risk involved in early state investments - that's why early stage investors require higher rates of return.
>We're still in the infancy here in learning how to harness mobile devices to make better products.

What this unpacks to: Let's make some money before people realise what's up.
Mostly, they are the same. There are some "addons" that are possible with SSL certificats. For example wildcard certificats which are valid on all subdomains, included support, encryption strength, browser support and others.
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Not to be confused with mitm-proxy[1], which is java-based.

For diagnostics I'd prefer something like Paros[2], Burp[3] or WebScarab[4], which has a graphical interface, but this one seems to offer a quite nice scripting API which I'll have to take a closer look at.

[1] http://crypto.stanford.edu/ssl-mitm/

[2] http://www.parosproxy.org/

[3] http://www.portswigger.net/burp/proxy.html

[4] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Pro...
Alan Turing is one of my hero's. His conviction was from an earlier, less enlightened time and is a prime example of political expediency over common sense.

The headline is slightly sensationalist because as the article points out, he was given a full, unreserved apology by the British Government in 2009.
You also seem to ignore the fact that many tech companies are now far more interested in your personal website/portfolio and GitHub page than the degree listed on your resume.

Isn't that just a SV thing, though?

Even if you find a potential employer who values an expensive piece of paper more than your actual ability, would your really want to work for them anyway?

For many or even most people, the answer is a resounding yes. They just see the college degree as a painful/expensive ticket to gain entry. The skills necessary to do the job will be learned in the first 6 months of working, and the degree is just the shit-sandwich/iq-test-by-proxy you have to endure to get your foot in the door in the first place.

This is even more so the case where I live, due to the Scandinavian tradition to defer to experts and promote based on seniority and credentials. Oh, and having free college helps too, I guess.
During the Nazi regime in Germany, lots of people were sentenced to death under a jurisdiction that today is considered inhumane and criminal (and was by other nations at the time, too). I'm not convinced by the whole "...but it was the law at that time!" rationale.

(That said, and before anyone unfairly cites Godwin's law, I'm of course not saying that the current British government compares in any way to the Nazi dictatorship.)
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No I do not mean copyright should be abolished. No It's fundamental security guard for producers. But as you mention current situation with copyright handling is a mess.

File sharing must be a right and this desire should be fulfilled via content producers. Making people ache for buying content and going after people making it easier is not a way to make consumers happy.

Nobody wants to watch 15 minutes of undesired videos and adds. Instead they go pirate. Nobody wants to buy physical media anymore. Nobody likes DRM content which disables them even using two different players for their enjoyment. Even yet, Hollywood and Music producers are making more and more money.

This is where the producers are making the wrong. They believe they have the every sole right to put their consumers to agony. And if someone tries to lower this pain, it's in no way can be rightful. They just try to punish them for their efforts. As we have seen with Hulu.com, Groveshark.com or last.fm. The producers are greedy. If these sites pay royalties or not, they are not happy and they do want more. They want them to make their way of restriction for their customers. In the first place these sites are here for not using that restrictions.

So everytime the consumers lose. Government and producers could sit on a table with piratebay or btjunkie and think how could the situation be solved by working together. Everybody could win.

For the SOPA side of the story,
I'm living in Turkey. And I do know what could SOPA do to Internet. Because we have 5651 and BTK and living in agony. Turkish government department for information security mails websites to do self-censorship. They do hijack dns without court orders and without reasoning. SOPA is not about filesharing. It's about Governments and Producers right for censorship.

And by the way these two subjects are really not related.
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So... the layer of science is one of the layers of science? That makes no sense.

In any case, I don't see any "layers" to science except metaphorically and as a simplification; how do you know that you can "abstract the layers of science"?
The figures aren't just for the US. So they include many countries where bundling phones and contracts is either illegal (some Nordic countries) or dying fast (e.g. France since Free)
Even Martin Luther was pardoned after death ..oh come on now..
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If you're not living in Apple's wallen garden, it seems so:

http://litchie.com/blog/?page_id=123
> You aren't expected to actually get that drunk

I'm pretty sure I've read stories about korean, japanese dying on the road after a meeting. Also stories about people throwing up at meetings, but it is seen as a good thing because they show they're trying their best.
I think the point that the government is making here is not "...but it was the law at that time!" but rather "we will let our mistakes of the past stand, and rather than hide from them we will learn from them". There is perhaps the danger that by 'fixing' the past you can then forget about it.
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Mathematically, you are correct. Practically you are not if you consider the transform source.
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> These jobs are both extremely difficult for completely
> different reasons, and neither person can do the other
> persons job. What is good practice for one is an
> abhorration for the other. We are both programmers.

This applies to pretty much any job description in the world. You're always generalizing at some level; that's a fairly straightforward necessity. Depending on the requirements, you adjust your description. No two accountants do the exact same thing; doesn't mean they're not accountants. Neither does the fact that everybody's doing some accounting make them anything other than accountants.

Stating that "programmer" is too broad a term means drawing an utterly arbitrary line. Because for the all the same reasons and at some level, "AI researcher" is too broad. So is "graphics programmer". So is "HLSL shader coder". Etc.
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wouldn't this be susceptible to leak if someone finds out your pseudonym, how about system that keep your current reputation rankings (encrypted). and only you know it. system gives your current rep (of some activity) only to people of similair reputation. and that you are making deals with.
No no no.

My idea of wisdom is that it comes with age, higher-level patterns one finds out for themselves. What you call wisdom is simply obedience to a set of norms set by others.

There are many claiming that their words are wisdom, so you can only make that call for yourself, from life experience.

After you gain wisdom you can use that to teach others to live "good" lives, but that does not imply any static absolute. A good life for you might be a sucky life for someone else.
Here's a link to the excellent documentary "Britain's greatest codebreaker" that tells Alan Turing's story.
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and before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3541996
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"Trash, Donate, Maybe" - This is great because the Maybe pile can be used for all the hard choices and allows you to take action when the choice is easy.

You can sort your mail this way into Toss, File, Recycle, Read Later. Make all the easy choices when you get your mail and most of the choices are handled right away.

Instead of one big pile of Undone, you have a small pile of Undone with very little work.

Or maybe you just kept going and got it all done because you got momentum and that pile of actual work got small enough.
I agree with the majority of this post. It would benefit everyone involved if those who produce content would get up to speed with technology.

However!

> This is where the producers are making the wrong. They believe they have the every sole right to put their consumers to agony.

They are not putting us through agony by producing content and then fumbling the delivery. They have no obligation to us to produce the content we want in the way we want to consume it: At worst they are not affecting us at all. We can simply not consume the content. If you consume content in a way that agonizes you, that is your own decision.

> And by the way these two subjects are really not related.

Presumably you mean SOPA and btjunkie are not related?

This discussion thread is stemming from the claim that they are related. I assumed that was where you were coming from.
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The gist of the issue is that a pardon would have opened the legal gates to compensation claims from other victims. Turing was used as a wedge here.
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Heh. I guess chess has been scripted, but it took long enough that I'd probably consider it to still be an interesting game.
Thanks for pointing out fpm. It looks really neat. Also with the Homebrew example, you made me realize that I don't need the bash installer at all ( It's extremely hard to maintain and extend, but that's the default convention - one line Unix installers have to be in bash script). Python and Ruby are perfect scripting languages, so the next installer will be in one of those languages with more options for the user.
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Of course not - I am talking about covering up the naked breast. Why can Asian women do it?
There are two more actually: off by one errors.