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> A criminal operating through their own exit node, or even running an exit node at all, is a nonsense misunderstanding of how TOR works.

I assure you there is no misunderstanding on my part.

> Combined with your jumping to the "think of the children!" example of a child pornographer, and your framing your argument in the form of concern trolling

Umm, this was from the article, not me:)

> it's hard to assume good faith of any kind on your part.

Wow, I have no words..... just wow...
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This comment has motivated me to join in and give it a shot - I was fairly pessimistic that I wouldn't really know how/where to find projects to work with.

Thanks for the idea and best of luck in having it move forward.
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Sounds like a happy ending for all parties. Congratulations!

As a side note, is "jack" a new domain name trope (like omitting vowels, or sticking the letter 'r' after some verb)? This month I've been introduced to CraftJack.com, SweetJack.com, and JackThreads.com, and I don't completely understand the significance.
Powatom,

We're pulling APIs from Foursquare but for the most part we really want to crowdsource original content from people who can provide value in the industry we're in. We just need enough info to get the ball rolling.
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That also happened to be the time when people REALLY wanted to use DVCS but Google Code lacks private repo ability and BitBucket was also getting really unstable. BitBucket was far more stable than Github the years prior to 2010. Mercurial also had a whole lot more GUIs to choose from and worked great on Windows.

For the longest time Github just wouldn't send a tar ball when you clicked the download button. And then around 2010, BitBucket was doing a lot of stuff behind the scene and the service was down a lot. A lot of basic features just wouldn't work. They were probably getting ready to sell to Atlassian.

I think that's the main #1 reason Git and Github took off.

Another one is Linus' diatribe on SVN. That video on youtube's been viewed millions of times. The video really got the Linux fanboys jumping around all excited even though its command line interface sucks and didn't work quite well on Windows.
I love this idea and have been thinking about contributing to a project. It's just the incentive I needed to go do it.

When selecting a project, should I evaluate the # of pull requests or issues to determine which projects could use the most help? For the OSS pros out there, does it matter?
> Sadly, many professions are not well-evaluated by standardized testing.

1) This isn't really true. Bar exams, and medical and accounting equivalents do quite well.

2) It's just as arguable that many professions are not well-evaluated by university accreditation.
The hoisting yes. I didn't say it's confusing. I said I don't like it. And more particular I don't see why it's powerful and why the logical result (being that it takes the global i until the local is defined) would be less powerful.
I'm not a great node developer, but I personally don't like CoffeeScript for the same reason I don't like UI interfaces for Git. I'm never sure what it's going to do.

Yes, I could go look at the output, or go really learn it, but if my goal is to produce javascript then it's just another leaky abstraction on top of something that isn't that hard to do by hand. If my choices were CoffeeScript or ASM, then I'd choose CoffeeScript in a heart beat.
1 per day for projects I am unfamiliar with seems aggressive. I wonder if I would even be able to add any value with such a shallow understanding of the projects. I think 1/week is probably more reasonable if you are trying to get people who don't contribute to get involved.
Because github is backed by $100+ million of venture capital and they have been virally marketing their tool.
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I think the poster just has the general idea that having the same platform (Windows in this case) on both PCs and phones will make the platform vendor more likely to rely on proprietary integration between them, rather than be forced to use open standards for communication.
Same here. Apple changed the AFP protocol in Lion and netatalk had trouble keeping up. But since my last update to netatalk 3.0.1 a month ago I have had no corruption. (I hope they finally got it right!) The initial backup and indexing is very painful indeed, but after that it works smoothly. (and without fan for my MacBook Air)
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Like most (all?) digital products, the price of SSL certificates will converge to zero with higher usage. So mass adoption might be beneficial after all.
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Doubt it.

Today, Apple can't even power themselves, iCloud runs on Amazon Cloud Services and Windows Azure.

In terms of language, can't see Apple wanting to take on the additional responsibility of supporting the Objective-C runtime and foundation frameworks on Linux and Windows. They can't even keep up with RADAR bug reports from existing developers.
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If choice of mate is influenced by genes, and there's a difference in fitness level due to those genes, then it would be natural selection. That is, if Alice-Bob have more kids than Claire-Dave for genetic reasons, natural selection is favoring AB over CD.

If choice of mate is influenced by genes, but there's no difference in fitness level, then you're looking at a natural drift scenario. That is, if Alice-Bob have more kids than Claire-Dave due to some random effect like happening to meet much earlier in life, AB's gains over CD are classified as drift.

Both effects are usually present, but sometimes one is much more significant than the other.
I question the premise.
And here I will quote Tool's Eulogy, which was about Bill Hicks, if you didn't know:

Eulogy was about L. Ron Hubbard.
I never thought about it from that angle. You are right, it makes no sense for browser vendors to display a big fat warning page because someone signed a certificate himself while they never let you know that 90% of the websites you use are transferred in plain-text over a wholly untrusted network.
awesome, my comment was in jest.
His point is that we (as a society) definitely consider works by Michelangelo (e.g. the Sistine Chapel) to be _definitive_ works of art, despite the fact that they were sponsored. It's a direct refutation of the standpoint that art and commercially-motivated work are entirely separate.
I don't get it. Look at Jade, Stylus ... pythonesque isn't it. The same arguments that are made against CoffeeScript certainly can be argued for those sugar syntax alternatives of HTML and CSS respectively. Some will argue ad nauseum for not using semicolons and then hate on CoffeeScript.

I've had no problems debugging or understanding CoffeeScript and while I'm not at the level of a Jon Resig, I can more than hold my own with Javascript. CoffeeScript is just syntax and generally safer than plain Javascript. It will declare vars for you if your forget. It will use an optimized for loop. It will put a wrapper around code to minimize leaks ...
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I agree. Like I said, I really enjoy the community and they're pushing hard for innovation -- since I moved away from AS3 and started focusing on JS, I feel like I've become a much better programmer -- but there are just too many variables to account for when it comes to a robust immersive, experiential solution in browser. Once Webkit takes 80% of the user-base I'll change my mind, but not until then; the difficulties absorb and complicate seemingly simple ideas.

That said, I've started playing with Three.js lately and it's impressively straight forward and filled with capability.
Totally valid point. One of my housemates loves Haskell for very much the same reasons, and all other things being equal I'd prefer that as well (who wouldn't?).

But of course, anyone who's worked on production systems knows that all the mathematical ideals in the world doesn't stop bugfixes from becoming a giant hairy mess. It's more your culture, skill, and process that allow or prevent that from getting refactored into a better solution and how long that takes. Any language can be a part of a clean or messy codebase, although some tend to skew towards one side or another - but I'd wager that's as much a factor of barrier to entry as anything else.
>>TFS for large scale enterprise, hands-down.

Real big enterprise cannot use TFS without being in a mess with merge. You always have to merge to a parent which require a lot of organisation. Also, it's not the fastest source control when the code base is over few gigs per branches. With over 50 developers/testers (in the same project) we had reach a bottleneck with TFS.
I work for some of the said vendor (and I'm being vague on purpose here). I took part of the discussion. I made the same point you did. People don't care. The argument was quickly dismissed by a "go get a cert for free at startssl". Seriously.

I think the Internet is a social change, and transforms people into idiots indeed. People in groups have always been more stupid than single persons. And Internet makes us all one freaking huge group of people.

Apparently if you don't share the popular idea you must be destroyed (you'll see this happen often in HN comments too).

Otherwise, here's another project, that works on the same principles as perspectives, but has a better back-end (albeit WAY less marketing) IMO http://web.monkeysphere.info/
>Using it in your own ivory tower isn't going to impress anyone for the simple reason that no one sees it

Using loaded terms to put down people who use the tool they prefer isn't going to convince anyone that your argument has merit.
It's both.

The world 'eating software' is what is fuelling growth around the world.

Software eating the world is what is causing huge accumulations of capital in the world's largest tech firms, even though the total share of revenue by software companies is tiny.
"It's all a big game, and most people have to play to some degree to be able to do what they love."

Sure.. but then don't go mixing those two things up. There is work (entertainment or otherwise), and there is art. That some people cry unfair because they want their pie and eat it isn't really my concern.

I didn't argue that the game creator is somehow evil, I just actually feel my brain hurting from dumbness intruding when I read people talk about "artistical merit" in the context of this "game" (the gameplay mechanics are a bit limited to call it that, but that's a whole other can of worms). The response to that? "Yeah, but" and downmoderation. Oh well, oh lol. What else is new.
Where are all the Mckinsey Consultants that MIT produced? None of you can help a fellow beaver out? sheesh ...

I and a friend would consider buying the bookstore from you. Can we chat? adeas.cardozo@gmail.com
Ha ha ha! Very funny.

Why did the West Midlands Police release this particular video, and not the video that shows someone making rude gestures at the cameras for a very long time indeed, and then hailing a cab and riding away?

My point is that this particular video is very funny, and the rude person in question does get his/her comeuppance. But the fact that it exists at all is questionable. How many sequences of large chested women sauntering down the street exist on West Midlands Police PC's? How many sequences of knee-tremblers after pub closings get captured and "reviewed" many, many time? Clearly, the West Midlands police are reviewing the video in person, and can save and retain and post videos on the general internet.

This video just presages a release of many videos that abuse the privacy of, and demonstrate contempt for the West Midlands general populace.
It's not the tool, it's the platform. GitHub is a better platform than Bitbucket, in almost every way.
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The first step towards an alternative to the multiple- single- points- of- failure CA model is already underway: it's Trevor Perrin and Moxie Marlinspike's TACK project (currently an Internet Draft). TACK allows sites to cache certificate pins, typically after first contact, so that any site on the Internet can have the same protection that Google's properties have today by virtue of the hardcoded pins in Chrome.

As Moxie Marlinspike has said, on HN even, TACK is a sensible and achievable first step towards a substrate that we can build notaries or other trust models on top of. It doesn't require years of study and consideration; it merely extends something that browser vendors already do for their preferred sites.

Meanwhile, browsers can't simply treat sites under self-signed certificates as normal plaintext HTTP sites. The user reached the site through an HTTPS URL, which promised them security. When the browser detects and warns about a self-signed certificate, it is telling the user "this site is lying about its security". The simple way to understand this: start by asking what a browser should do when the Citibank Online Banking Login presents a broken cert, and then ask how the browser should know when it's OK for a site to present as merely "not encrypted" (ie, HN login) and when it's not OK (ie, online banking). It can't. The browser has to assume that HTTPS sites with broken certificates are sensitive.

Remember also, the "broken certificate" case is exactly what happens when an attacker intercepts a TLS connection for a MITM attack.
It's about the same price as a domain unless you're doing wildcard certs.
What's with the "word-break: break-all" in the CSS? It's really weird to wrap English text that way; and removing that doesn't seem to affect how the Japanese text is wrapped.
stretchy rubber bedsheets?
You said you haven't used Mercurial much to really compare, and then you compared, and said git is more flexible, and the CLI difference are negligible. So I think you definitely have a bias towards git.

I use Mercurial and Git every day, and I can tell you there's a marked difference between the usability of Mercurial and Git. Git would become totally unusable if it weren't for stackoverflow and google, while I can figure everything out just from Mercurial's short and sweet help manuals.
Because Larry McVoy is a money-grubbing prick who dug his own fucking grave?
So you "know" "Mercurial people", yet speak of others as coming from an "ivory tower"? Given that you seem to be in possession of special knowledge, why don't you tell us precisely what "SCM is for"?
And then make add-commit-push a single operation.
Not exactly. The fat warning is there so that you don't get a false sense of security by seeing a little lock.

But then again, we're now moving to a "if its self signed, you can't access the site, you can't bypass the check even".

I wonder how much verisign pays some of us.
Congrats! You must be on cloud 9. I think you made the right choice.

Any advice to someone trying to setup this kind of platform in another country? I've been trying to do this in a market that lags far behind in this type of lead generation. I don't have the skills/resources to build a backend from the ground up. Is there a solid, basic software package out there? Would CraftJack ever license its platform to other markets (countries)?
Yeah, it's fighting with "Let's reimplement Emacs in Common Lisp" for most often tried, yet ultimately unsuccessful project. I think there was a GSoC project recently, but haven't heard anything about its results.
Great node.js developers are writing libraries, not application code, and they see a difference: libraries are abstractions that try to build upon as little abstraction as possible, and attempt to integrate with as many 'things' as possible.

CoffeeScript's advantages - clarity and concise code - are outweighed by the feeling of building on an abstraction, and narrowing your contributor base. This feeling may be increasingly inaccurate: a lot of people write coffeescript, it's pretty well integrated nowadays.
Because it's awesome?

I personally started using git because github made setting up hosted version control so darned easy and nice. Also, I hated using SVN from my work life experience, so I knew I didn't want to use that on my own projects.

Once I understood the power of git branching there is no way I could ever go back. Also, I tried mercurial and it always felt slower and "worse". Git commands might be cryptic, but it's always felt faster and had a community around it that makes better tools for it.
I didn't really get it either until I went to a club and danced to it. I didn't even know how, I just copied what people were doing, picking up on the ambiance of the place and what fun people were having. By the time the place closed, I was having so much fun I didn't want it to end. It's probably true with all types of music, that the context in which you experience it will create the associations that determine whether you will like it or not.
If an individual disagrees with that view of "society", and I agree with that individual, then just repeating that view of society doesn't really refute anything. It does however explain this deluge of people making themselves known to disagree with something they don't even understand.
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Superb! Thanks so much for clarifying that.
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Shocking. I know him because he was an investor in one of my previous companies. While I won't say he always comported himself in the most ethical manner in business matters and I would not let him take a board seat in the future for this reason, like everyone else I thought of him as a good person of high moral character.

The chorus of people defending him in the article comments because he is otherwise so charming worries me. Sure, he has a winning personality and is fun to hang out with but that should not give him a free ticket to assaulting women and this was not an isolated incident. I understand that cool guys tend to be given a bit more leeway but this goes too far.
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I never found actually doing branches and merges in SVN any more difficult than git, not sure what the big differences are?

OTOH not having to do the merges on the shared repo is much better and avoids the "don't checkout HEAD just yet 'cos it's all manor of fucked up right now" problem.
Sure, but that's not really a contention point. Even Google, the biggest advertiser, lets you install AdBlock from their own "Web store": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiob...
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Fair enough. Referencing back to your original comment, if you don't believe any of work from the above names to have artistic value, then we're sufficiently far apart on the definition of the term that there's not really much more point discussing.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss certifications. Having an A+ cert at least reasonably signifies someone could format a hard drive and install ram.

These tests do not have to be on paper alone, either. Look at the CCIE from Cisco. That has an extremely difficult lab component that no amount of "teaching to the test" is going to help you overcome (which is why having one pretty much guarantees a six figure income).
That is not the definition of abuse. Per DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse addiciton:

"One of the following must be present within a 12 month period: (1) recurrent use resulting in a failure to fulfill major obligations at work, school, or home; (2) recurrent use in situations which are physically hazardous (e.g., driving while intoxicated); (3) legal problems resulting from recurrent use; or (4) continued use despite significant social or interpersonal problems caused by the substance use."
What does this do that a dedicated failover tool like MySQL High Availability [1] does not do?

[1] https://code.google.com/p/mysql-master-ha/
Where are you getting $170 for a 2TB disk? Amazon has 3TB disks for $130.
We write out the cluster config and update the script using Chef.

In an emergency situation, chef-client is a wee bit slow ;)

Also we like having the script standalone so there's just one moving part.
Interesting. I bought the domain almost 2 years ago so I'd like to think I started the trend! ;)
You're suggesting that dramatically shortening the lifetime of my SSD through needless writes is better than simply adding more memory?

And what if my working set is incapable of fitting into that measly 4G of memory (which likely will only be 3GB at most once the OS and Visual Studio is loaded) even with swapping? I can tell you right now that's easy to do with Visual Studio with even "relatively" small applications once you start loading debug symbols.
"A college or university that says to the world, "Our graduates who obtain our diplomas demonstrate their competence with work-sample tests, the results of which we list on their official academic records" would rapidly gain notice from companies with research-based hiring procedures. (And why would anyone want to work for a company with hiring procedures that are contrary to the best research?)"

This is exactly the line of reasoning that ITT Technical College takes [1] and yet few, if any, of those graduates go to work for Google or Microsoft or Apple in their engineering programs. (all companies that pride themselves on having 'enlightened' hiring practices)

What this means for the entrepreneur is that you can hire top technical talent that these other guys won't touch because that talent either graduated from a more 'trade' oriented school than an Ivy League school, or if that talent trained themselves differently (online/self taught/Etc).

[1] "At ITT Technical Institutes, we are committed to helping men and women develop skills and knowledge to pursue opportunities in many of today's promising career fields, including electronics, drafting and design, criminal justice, business, information technology, health sciences and nursing." - http://www.itt-tech.edu/
It's time for industries to wake up and to ditch all kind of content DRM altogether.