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Decent point.

If you have 5 office buildings with 50-500-500-500-2000 people in them (respectively), then standardising is probably a good idea since now you can use the same company to fix problems in all the builds and not have to take special care with the small building.

However. If you have 30 builds with 5 people in each. Sending a new, preconfigure, router by fedex is so much cheaper.

That is how my phone company treats me. If my home router dies, or has an odd problem that they can't figure. They just send me a new router by mail and I switch it out with the old one and send that one back.
In the recent discussions about Discourse, it was said that on slower connections, it feels way snappier than a server-side solution would be.

Frankly, I'm a server-side guy, so I prefer that kind of development, but there are advantages to SPAs, and like any good engineer, you should use the right tool for the job. Rails is modular enough that you can do whatever you want, Turbolinks is just a gem, so if you don't want to use it, you can just pull it out of the Gemfile.

If be willing to bet that the less dynamic interaction per page, the less an SPA makes sense. ;)

That said, I can also see how something like Ember gives you a nice way to do API-first development, so even if your site is more static, it could make sense.

As always: It Depends. Don't believe anyone who tells you they have a silver bullet.
How did you get to this? I am not seeing it, just the usual dyno sliders.
Corruption is awesome when you're on the nipple end of the government tit. Nice work if you can get it, Cisco.
So, DARPA is ready to write checks for just technical plans just as engineering presented just on paper for very challenging problems. And they intend to evaluate the plans, just from what is on paper. So, the check comes before any prototype, alpha, beta, users, revenue, traction, proof of product/market fit, etc. And the DARPA batting average is not awful. The VC industry might see from this DARPA practice that such things are possible.
When is your launch event (I'm...still finishing my talk for wednesday :( )...but would be really interested in learning more.
I'm Thomas Fuchs. That's interesting. How many apps have you developed?
Breaking Bad is certainly more challenging than Gilligan's Island. And yes, the broadening of television did save it.
The main issue I see with gesture controls is that compared to traditional inputs, you are doing more work and making bigger movements. For certain situations, like gaming, where 1:1 movement can be immersive this makes sense. For others it does not.

I do think a system that allowed you to use small hand and finger movements to control your devices make sense. The large gestures don't seem to be optimal in most cases.
What are possible platforms/businesses that can use the power of crowdfunding?
Recently, I came across a company called The House Crowd. They came up with a crowdfunding idea to raise money from individuals like you and me to buy old, dilapidated houses for renovation. After finishing renovation, the house will be sold at a profit and the profit will be shared.

I honestly think crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter should implement something to do with monetary returns that will encourage users to contribute more.

What do you guys think? Shoot some ideas!
Well now, did I just drop in from an alternate universe? Sure America has lots of problems, some of which we are fixing, some not, and some are being ignored, but I dont feel like I am in the cesspool of the world. It sounds like you made a bunch of mistakes, getting an MBA was one, unless you want to work for large corporations. And there are certainly universities that are diploma mills. But most of us here on HN learned to shift gears and move on when we took a wrong direction.

Rampant discrimination? I'm a white guy so my vision isnt perfect, but I dont think so. My office has more Chinese and Vietnamese than whites. Maybe it's much different if you dont have a college degree, but you arent talking about that case. We do have an immigration problem, but I see signs of a political will to fix it, but expecting an automatic green card is unrealistic.

Thousands of Cuban PhDs driving cabs? I'll check with my Cuban brother-in-law to see if that is the case. Of course a Cuban PhD isnt worth squat nor are many of the others from around the world. And even if you are American, a PhD is no guarantee of a job, especially in a field no-one is willing to pay for.

If I dont sound very sympathetic, it's because I'm not. You blamed all of us for your very problems, without asking if you contributed to any of them. This is not a very good forum for blaming everyone else.
Have you tried the Adonit Jot stylus, it's pretty impressive.

http://adonit.net/jot/
Previous discussion on the issue with a lot of the same arguments that have been rehashed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962029
Paging the Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock guy...
It would kinda be like buying a really expensive 24 port router and then just using 2 ports.....oh wait....that's what they did already.

Dual power supplies is a bit overkill. Although I remember my high school admin got a central router with dual power supply, but when you plugged both in at once (from the same source) they drew too much power on a reboot and flipped the fuse after every blackout.
stop and ask yourself exactly why you think i'm equating anything here.

it's just the first straw-man misinterpretation you could invent to respond in any way, isn't it?

in any case, you've conceded that the reasonableness of the plea deal is the issue here and personal responsibility for entering the server room is irrelevant.
Hey, I'm one of the developers working on the project. The possibility of "Crypton as a Service" is something we've been thinking about since we started working on this. It's coming soon, but we've been busy getting the fundamentals out - watch for the client SDK which will hook up to a SpiderOak-hosted Crypton server.

For a good (though hastily assembled) example of a client-side demo, check out https://github.com/SpiderOak/crypton/tree/master/client/exam...
How is live streaming implemented?
If you really want to sell, you need to improve your Flippa auction. Set your starting bid to $1. Set your reserve price to something realistic; in the low $100's. I know the site was your baby and you put a lot of effort into it, but buyers are mainly concerned with if the site is currently making money or if it has a high ranking and gets a ton of traffic. Your site is a PR-2 and has no income, so that's a factor. Reduce the auction time-length to 5 or 7 days. You'll get most bids in the final 24 hours. That's how you move a site. :)
How do you spot a WiFi Pineapple?
I heard that there were one or more hotspot honeypots running in the wild at the first day of the RSA conference. What methods can be used to quickly spot these man-in-the-middle attacks?
They don't link to anything, they just list URLs.

Their FAQ regarding the legality of hyperlinks (US jurisprudence) can be found here: http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/faq.cgi#QID152
It's absolutely what I meant. I'm not actively looking to start a company or product right now, but I've wondered how more introverted people form those relationships with just the right people.

I'm curious if it usually happens naturally or if there's a lot of people that find cofounders after building the initial product.
If you're referring to the article, then I'd agree. If you're referring to what I wrote, then I'd necessarily question your reading comprehension.
Ask HN: 600 usd coder laptop?
Hello! I am running out of money. And my stuff got destroyed in a flood. I decided to save myself and my startup by coding at night when I arrive home from the office.

I need a laptop ( my room is too small for a desktop ) and I have 21 bitcoin (now about 600 USD ) for now a ThinkPad Edge is winning, but someone has a better idea? No apple please, unless you smuggle one for me, I am in Brazil, and they cost the double here for some reason....

By the way, this is for freelancing. This android browser don't let me edit my text and only allow me to add more text. Stupid thing :(
One of the awesome satellites was BRITE, made by the UTIAS group http://universe.utoronto.ca/BRITE at the University of Toronto!
FYI, our choices for upstream JS crypto libs aren't set in stone. We may ultimately go with SJCL -- we're not fully satisfied with the libs we're using. They need some cleanup in various areas if we do stick with them.
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A friend and I are working on getting a "backpack for cyclists" company off the ground, any tips on how to promote?
It's marketed as a silver bullet.

Here are some snippets from the ember.js Homepage: "Write dramatically less code", "Don't waste time", "Ember.js is built for productivity".
I'd like to see some way to combine public-key crypto (receiving and encrypting incoming unencrypted mail, received over starttls) with periodic mail indexes built on the client, so you could search a server-hosted encrypted mailbox.
I think it's an integral feature of all organizations that reach a certain size without sufficient level of audits at lower levels. And given enough large organizations, there will be problems.

Given the number of large government entities, there's a lot of room for bad oversight.

But on top of that there is also often a lot more openness when the auditors does their jobs in government departments and these things are discovered, and even if not, the press often has a lot more access (e.g. freedom of information requirements).

In a lot of companies, a lot of borderline behaviour will instead just lead to people getting fired, especially when there is no evidence.

A new CTO at a company a friend does work for "decided to part ways" with his company a while back, for example, after migrating a substantial part of their service to a new, totally over-engineered and untested platform that failed spectacularly after they'd very publicly spent a massive amount of money on it. Incompetence or corruption? Probably impossible to prove.

And to the public there was no real sign anything was wrong: The launch was highly publicized by the company, and they never told anyone about the negative effects later. Only people with insight into internal sales numbers until they made emergency changes to revert some of his more harmful decisions would know.

And for him it likely doesn't even matter that he was effectively fired: He's either a useful fool, or a useful accomplice, for someone who will happily make use of their network to help him land somewhere else. And many potential hirers will only remember the positive press attention prior to the launch and will have no way of knowing about the problems.

There are a lot of stories like that in private business too.
My high-school admin bought a Mac Pro with dual CPU. It was powerful enough to run all the school servers at once, yet he only used it to remote desktop into the real servers.
It's certainly why I haven't touched it. I suppose not having ads is nice, but it still seems to have the same fundamental problems that FB/Twitter/G+/et al have.

I really want something like tent.io to succeed (and when my time frees up shortly I'm considering playing around in that space) but I don't quite think anyone's figured out how to make these open frameworks be as user friendly and seemless as these convenient friendly silos.

App.net seems like the answer to a question, just not a question many people are asking.
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I am probably the only person here but I do not think it has much to do with keeping alternative browsers off the platform or preventing people from using UIWebViews.

They already have a clause for third party browsers in the submission/review guidelines so there is no need for the existence of a technical reason to enforce that.

I truly think the real reason is security. The problem with allowing rwx pages in an iOS process via WebKit is that they can be used by the native app to load rogue code in.

This is a really difficult problem to solve and I honestly think Apple chose the easy way out: disallow it all.

I do think a solution is coming though. Already in iOS6 a bunch of ViewControllers are running out of process. See the link below. I think this will lead to out of process, and fully JITted WebKit in a future release.

Many times people think Apple is making some weird technical decision on purpose to annoy developers it is really just a pragmatic decision to get a product out of the door on time. This happens all the time and everywhere. At Google, Mozilla, Apple, Blackberry and Canonical.

http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...
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That's nonsense the article shows pretty convincing evidence that even the largest IT department in the state, the state legislature, didn't need equipment this powerful. Even if they did want to standardize on one device across the state to gain administrative efficiency they should have picked something cheaper.
Censoring eCommerce = Censoring Speech?
Right on the money. The problem is backbone not client side apps.
Right now. https://spideroak.com/blog/20130221160525-announcing-penetra...

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Don't leave us hanging! b^)

I suppose when I say, "they could have" I mean that some appropriately-empowered decision maker who had an interest in making the right decision could have either assigned his own network engineers to do the work, or could have assigned such an engineer to hire someone else to do the work. I probably shouldn't assume that such a decision maker does exist.
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Cisco: "the criticism of the State is misplaced and fails to recognize the forward-looking nature of their vision"

My sarcastic retort would be: "no, you fail to recognize the forward-looking nature of their vision because you did not recommend this other even more expensive and more powerful router!"
Why would someone pay $90 when they can get a video made for $5 on fiverr?
Finally, a way to know what stupid portfolios have automatic music so I can close them without even looking and thus jot being tempted to hire people that do that.
Speed reading meets its match: 默會文言文認識論 (the tacit epistemology of Classical Chinese)
ISRO has been delivering tangible output with limited resources. They are also profitable.
I don't know whether I should comment on this, for fear popularity will cause Adobe to change it (for the worse).

I have long, and other people recommend, downloading and installing from the full installers. Adobe has made these progressively more difficult to find via their own page structure, but they are still there.

They don't -- or haven't, so far -- contain the crapware. They also don't go through that annoying two part install: Shim that runs and then in turn downloads and runs the full installer (perhaps with crapware).

I take, and have seen recommended, a similar approach with Oracle's Java -- if you happen to be forced to live with it, as well.
The one thing that this post completely overlooks is that storing knowledge, even Googleable knowledge, can be very beneficial.

Knowledge can help develop intuition, to know which pieces connect to each other. For example, in a programming competition you could google various algorithms to determine solutions. But Google won't tell you "which" algorithms to look for, or give you the intuition you need to piece the correct solution together.

A good analogy is chess. Before computers could beat humans, it was a pure game of human mind vs. human mind.

Then the computer was able to dominate humans.

And now, we're discovering that a human paired with a computer, can beat either alone. But that human still needs to have the intuition, experience, and knowledge to know how to work with the computer.
Also, most business get the video made only once. Very rarely..they would get another video made. So, I do not see a recurring subscription model here!
A lot of the time people also think they can get away with a lot less than they can, because they assume that "someone" must be looking after these things. It's when you get insight into how things are run and see the boss rubber stamping expenses it starts to get scary. And someone decides to take advantage.

I went with a friend a few years back, to get a helicopter ride with someone he did consulting with in the forestry industry. He told me about how the people he worked for expensed a helicopter to go for coffee sometimes... Just for the heck of it. Nobody asked.

The assumption was that if they chartered a helicopter, it was for surveying, so any helicopter expenses were pretty much by default evidence they were doing their job, rather than slacking off and costing the company a fortune.
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:
border-box;

...is a great alternative to the calc example - ie Set your width to 100% and your padding to 100px.

Edit: code is a little mangled, just Google it.
It also means employees at Meldium, Heroku, and AWS (and someone who can compromise the security of any of these) has access to your passwords.

It's probably a reasonable trade for a lot of services -- I'd probably use it for an analytics dashboard, etc., but probably not for admin interfaces to do stuff to customer data (which you presumably could set up with individual user accounts and group/role management, anyway). This seems to be aimed at the ~bunch of low security passwords which are either the same across your whole business, or stored in a google docs spreadsheet now, not the most important credentials for your users.
Your reply is about as good as his comment.
just curious, how long have you been on the warrior diet? been doing all the time? What sort of gains.

I did the warrior diet this summer and lost all sorts of bodyfat/weight. I stopped and forgot about it, then I had the revelation that the last time I made progress was with the warrior diet. Now I am including it two to three times/week with slow carb diet and a cheat day for the others. It is good stuff and not worrying about food has increased! my mental focus. There are points in the day where I literally have felt like I was on adderall. Anyways, just curious about the endorsement...
Which sounds like OneLogin (unless I'm recalling wrong), one of the options I suggested.
I'd argue with a few points made in this article. Subvocalization can most definitely be minimized - Not removed completely, but minimized. The article brought out a study from NASA stating that there were minute muscle movements, which I would believe - but if you can minimize it to a dull effect, can drastically improve your speed of reading.

As with "fancy eye movements" as some have claimed it - Whether they have much of a help, I'm not sure. Personally I generally read with my right eye, and my left eye tails a fraction of a second behind which generally helps pick up a few details I may have missed - But I notice I have trouble with this if a page's width is too large (HN has a fairly large width and I will read much faster if I make the window smaller). Anything more than that seems as if it would be fairly difficult - But I haven't read into the various techniques.

Can you learn to read at the crazy speeds mentioned in the article? Probably not. Speeding your reading up though seems definitely plausible - At least it seems to work for me, but I can't draw a very good conclusion from just myself in the sample.
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Cisco may not have anything to do with it. It may be down to a salesman in the middle who is on commission. I once saw CCTV cameras deployed with Jena lenses, I guess for similar reasons. The auditors (if there were any) weren't knowledgeable enough to know better.

edit: After further reading, Cisco did in fact shamelessly participate in this gigantic boondoggle.
Something I thought I'd understood, but now clearly don't: Does Spideroak roll its own cryptography code, or does it leverage an existing, accepted, and open library?
We DID build Charm with client-side MVC from the get-go. That's exactly the experience Thomas wrote about as being a problem.

Note that Charm was not "read heavy" -- it was totally interactive and doing a lot of real work; we did live (email) thread locking and all kinds of crazy stuff. If we were to start from scratch, you can bet your ass we would keep the client-side as dumb as possible.
All these issues would be solved if you work in the same language on the server and client with an integrated framework. The reason RJS and Turbolinks are so nice to develop with is because it allows you to do exactly that, though in a very limited way. For many applications you want to have a more featureless client-side framework. Ideally you'd share models and templates on the server and the client side; models on the client synchronized with models on the server, and templates automatically updating as models on the client side get changed (as you already have in many JS frameworks).
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Powerful? I gave up using my ipad 1 to surf the web. From "the next web" to blogger.com, every website is miserably slow and simply opening tabs causes memory warnings and the eventual safari crash.

Also, those frameworks do way more than just 'UI rendering', they are full applications which are usually REST clients, UI is just a part of it.

My company is writing an application that requires the use of some framework. We are evaluating both ember and angular for some time and will definitely use it. There are heavy downsides and we had many meetings, built demos and hacked together until we were sure using a framework at all was a good decision.
Nothing wrong with standardizing, so standardize on a $100-$500 router instead of a $20,000 router. The point is that some guy made a killing selling gear only a place with 10,000 users needs.
One of my favorite anecdotes along the rubber-stamping lines is that due to a miscoding in the software that auto-pre-filled expense reports (it pre-populated fields from company credit-card statements), my dad once accidentally filed an expense report with a 2-week hotel stay put down under meals, as a single $2500 dinner on the check-in date. He didn't notice the mistake until after submitting, and assumed someone would flag it, but he got the reimbursement and nobody ever asked. It's possible it did get flagged, and someone manually reviewed and realized that it was really a hotel stay, but it seems at least as likely that it just got rubber stamped, and he could've gotten away with $2500 dinners (at least occasionally) if he had been the type of person to do so.
Its funny these comments go through but my website address does not pass through. Is it marked for spam or something?
Not when you consider the original blog post, which addressed the question of "Why not let the server be the data store?" Among the other "points"[1] jacquesc raised.

[1] anyone who wants to pretend to have a serious, rational discussion -- don't start it by calling the person a zealot. Bam! Insta-noncredibility.
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