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Show HN: Weekend Hack - Abstract Recipes
I've been cooking at home a lot and am doing more experimenting. I take a common dish and try out variations on it to see what I like best, so I created Abstract Recipes to help me out. The idea is that you create a common dish called an 'Abstract' that you and others can contribute recipes against. You can even take someone's recipe as a base and make your own tweaks to it. It's pretty barebones right now (didn't have as much time this weekend as I thought), but there are lot of things I want to add - voting, images, recipe templates for abstracts, and lots more recipes.

This was a combination of solving a problem and forcing myself to launch, so I'm up for any feedback you guys have.

http://www.abstractrecipes.com
anyone else noted the connection between the UK's Guardian newspaper ("a charitable foundation existing between 1936 and 2008, which aimed to ensure the paper's editorial independence in perpetuity, maintaining its financial health to ensure it did not become vulnerable to take overs by for-profit media groups") and the role of the fourth estate lately? begs the question - can a govt be scutinised with a profit-seeking structure? implications for how the IT industry has cannibilised their revenue model is left as an exercise for the reader.
clickable link: http://www.abstractrecipes.com
No method_missing please. The lack of it is one of the things I appreciate about JavaScript in contrast to Ruby. It's used similar to macros, but it tends to be used by those who forget that the first rule of macros is Don't Write Macros.
I respectfully have to say that I think you're missing the point. If you'll forgive how ridiculous this sounds, I'll use your analogy to illustrate the difference.

It's not about what you build with the hammer that matters to this person. It's that he consistently uses the hammer regardless of what is built or how efficiently it is accomplished, because he believes using the hammer to be the true way of life and far more important than the product being created. By using a more suitable tool he believes that he has already lost.

It's a zen thing.
I wasn't aware that this controversy was about the government publishing citizens' most private personal secrets on the internet. You're right, this is a whole lot different!
Oh, sure, wasn't meant as a reference, but just some evidence that it's not totally implausible.
Except, what about the double standard that the police can lie to you?
Thanks for your insights. What you say makes a lot of sense, and you're right--you only read about the success stories, not the failures. As someone who has never tried the startup thing, on the surface it seems like a more straightforward path to employment, particularly in today's challenging job market. Clearly there are many factors, including luck.
The problem is doing meaningful processing on the data without exposure to the server, including indexing, search, etc.
This is how it works. The prosecutors identify a person they want to target and then they work out what charges they can bring against them. Not the other way around.
If I make an article about 224 with the only property that it's the lowest natural number currently lacking an wikipedia article, will it get deleted or will it stay wrong?
Hah, you are really feeling quite insulted aren't you!

I suppose I should clarify; a camera I can use. I didn't mean to say "interchangeable lenses", although I like those too. Certainly other people get by with smartphone cameras, but they do not meet my needs. Is that so hard for you to accept?
"I would have gone to NSA/DOD IG, Congress, or a federal judge"

He might as well have destroyed all the incriminating data and admitted himself to Guantanamo of his own accord for all the good that would do.
BenSchaechter, you've been hellbanned for at least 506 days, probably because of your submissions. Normally I don't tell people that they've been hellbanned, but since this is your post that has been linked to I thought you should know that not everyone can see your response to their comments.

Edit: @coolsunglasses, thanks for the follow up. I can see why a YC moderator would think that his posts are linkbait.
It gets a bit scary when one consider the number of lawyers, priests, medical professionals, judges, or even complete political parties who's have their every email sent over to the US for data processing and maybe NSA for copying. Today I read an article about just such political party in Sweden. I can only hope that at least diplomats knows better, but even there I doubt that everyone is aware enough to always use secure email.
I should probably have been more clear about that. When you indicate that you want to do something else, it will only pick from your "WANT" items - so if you only have one, it will keep coming up with the same item.

This is actually intentional; I've noticed that I got tempted to move aside a fun project to get more 'work' stuff done. The idea of only giving you a "MUST" after finishing the current "WANT" is that you'll have to take a break from work, before you can start with it again.

Another reason for doing this is that it would be quite unfair to give you a 'work' item when you don't feel like the 'play' suggestion it's making and just want to relax with something else - it would defeat the point of the 'play' part, and would make you afraid of clicking "something else", because it might come up with a 'work' item. It's all part of the "balance between work and play" thing :)

I'll change around the sidebar text in a few minutes, to clarify on this.

EDIT: I've updated the sidebar.
The NSA may have had such a database for a very long time indeed. The earliest documents I can find mentioning Dayton go back to 1994, but I think I recall hearing about Daytona much earlier.
OS X plays really nicely with the largely Unix based scientific computing stuff I do (R, Python and the like) that exist alongside nicely polished commercial programs for everyday in-and-out stuff.

Mix that with excellent quality hardware, and you've got a loyal Macbook Pro user.
As others have noted: there are very few countries in the world which have been established as long as the US, with the same governmental structures and (substantially) similar borders.

There are cultures which are older, but many of these have existed under multiple different governments. Nations such as Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Czecheslovakia (since rendered into the states of Slovakia and the Czech Republic), much of the Balkans and Baltic countries, etc., simply didn't exist as national entities at the beginning of the 19th Century. Neither did the states of the Middle East (Ottoman Empire), Africa (colonies, prior to which: native tribal regions not structured as we'd consider modern nations), the Americas, etc.

Yes, you'll find England, Spain, and France in much their modern form dating to ~ 1000 - 1400 AD, but only just.

There are a few modern countries which have occupied much the same area (though with different governmental forms) more or less continuously: Persia/Iran, Vietnam, Japan, and China, with as I recall Vietnam being the oldest as I recall.

But no, "nations" as such really aren't all that permanent.
The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Battery life, it's light, the trackpad is so good you won't need a mouse (though I do miss it sometimes). I also don't worry about viruses--although Macs can get infected if you're really careless about the sites you visit and things you download, but I am. Always been a Windows user, even Ubuntu for a brief period, switched just August last year and I'm never coming back. Ubuntu is the only other OS I'd like to use, but my Mac is pretty good already.
The standards were actually stricter.
I'm incredibly sad reading this, but I feel it's a pretty accurate glimpse into the future. People can't be bothered to care. Outside of libertarians, most people on the right are totally OK with this kind of wholesale spying on the population (since they've "done nothing wrong"). Outside of civil libertarians, most on the left are also OK with this, because "their guy" is in the White House (the fact that they pilloried Bush for the same behavior doesn't seem to occur to them).

But the scariest thing of all is that all of these people in aggregate are a small portion of the population -- the vast majority just don't care enough about "politics" to inform themselves.
For 40 Years This Russian Family Was Cut Off From Human Contact, Unaware of WWII
Pretty amazing
No, that came through loud and clear to me. I disagree with him; picking the best tool for the job is more important than remaining pure in your tool use. I think that his belief that "using the hammer to be the true way of life and far more important than the product being created" is selfish. It is better to sacrifice your purity to save others. There is nothing noble about being trampled.

Had the French Resistance decided that the principles of nonviolence and noncompliance were more important than killing german officers and blowing up trains, then I would think far less of them. If he thinks that they lost the moment they used violence and sabotage, then I think he is wrong.

Edit: I disagree with Gandhi, not him.
That's my point: It's not a very vivid example of industrial espionage if the only consequence was that ScanSoft bought L&H assets.

There are, however other examples that make it difficult to not be the pot calling the Chinese kettle black.
Government Spying: Should We Be Shocked?
He's been told this several times before, that he hasn't noticed is amusingly symptomatic of why he got hellbanned to begin with. (Spamming/saying his piece, then never returning)
Ah, I see. Well, in that case my disagreement is with Gandhi.
I only run ubuntu on my macbook. I see it as best of both worlds.
Cyphrd.com is working on these very types of services.
Only for work. That's what everyone seems to use around Silly Valley now so I just go with the flow. I tried at Groupon to use Linux for a bit and gave it up.
① Don't be so lazy about your own privacy. You are the source of most of their data from where you ate last night to what movie you're watching tomorrow. So stop doing that.

② Populate the surveillance database with junk data by being unpredictable each and every day. Make it more difficult and expensive to build a profile about you.

③ Use TOR for your web browsing.

④ Make everybody aware of the issues and why they are important and get them to spread the message further.
It doesn't look like he was retried. The 10th Circuit is an appeals court. They overturned his conviction, evaluated some new evidence, then reinstated the conviction.
Ask HN: What does the NSA leaks mean for a start up releasing an app?
Though data surveillance wasn't surprising, its magnitude and the framework in which it was done have got us all spooked. Everyone wants to secure their data, or make their data transactions secure.

Having read through blogs that are detailing security measures, I'm afraid that most are missing the point that NSA goes in far deeper. Denying NSA of our data, is not only making us cut ourselves off most of the goodies of internet, but also deny people we know, to do the same.

All things considered, how does one put forth their start up idea with the current data holes? Why/How should a user who is completely spooked with the NSA data surveillance be compelled to use my/your app when you are taking in their data?
However, when the president of the United States issues a pardon, even one that is of questionable legality, it's still a powerful statement: Ford placed the power and influence of the Oval Office in between Nixon and any prosecutor.

This petition suggests a similar maneuver with Obama and Snowden.
More security conscientious setups use things like automatic password vaults requiring multiple admins to access. Sysadmin also doesn't mean defacto data access without forcing them to patch the software maliciously (you don't want your admins accidentally or intentionally accessing data covered under HIPAA!)

Which isn't to say you're incorrect when you say how much damage a junior sysadmin could do in most places. It is to say that there are options that make this kind of thing a lot harder, to limit the scope and damage rogue admins can cause, and to raise the bar in terms of knowledge required. One would hope the NSA would be employing some of them.
1. Most of the people I know who complain about boredom are not bored because of their location. Some of them have moved to "exciting" cities and they are just as unhappy. Location is just a convenient excuse.

2. Trying to compare cities on a relative basis is a pointless exercise. You could easily find people living in major cities outside of the Bay Area who would suggest that San Francisco is boring. That doesn't mean that if you live in San Francisco, you should lock yourself in your room and wait until you can move to Miami or Las Vegas to have fun.

3. The idea is that you can't have a life and work hard and improve your skills is asinine.

4. The sad truth is that "I'll do x when y" is usually just an intellectually dishonest rationale for convincing oneself not to do y.
This is what Mount Rushmore looked like before the faces were carven on it
No.

Because most people don't care about privacy that much. See TSA scanners, foursquare, hell GMail scans your data everytime you read mails, Facebook doesn't even pretend there is a privacy. Damn, first thing any Apple computer do is taking your picture, getting your details and sending it all to Cupertino, before you even load the OS. Android tries to track all your phones under one account you have to add before starting up.

People don't really care about privacy. (Disclaimer: I am no better.)

There will be some anti NSA rallies, sure. Photos of those rallies will be geotagged with EXIF data and posted on tumblr, facebook and twitter from iphones and androids.
Don't let it bother you.

Maybe the OP built it for himself, and didn't need or want to use js.

I like it. A great little app. One that can only get better (perhaps with a sprinkling of ajax and js templating?)
Your own secure crypto:

Assume everything popular is attacked, assume vast
libraries of primitive and proprietary cryptanalysis routines.

Of their thousands of hires with security clearance, the cipher newbies are likely given exercises attacking odds-and-ends with massive (old?) Cray orchards.

OTP - is always secure but inadequate for large plaintext. Pad transport is vulnerable.

Naive stream ciphers are seductive but weak.

Brits, MI5(?) had RSA a decade and a half(?) before RSA.

Factorization is RH(`assume Riemann Hypothesis'), perhaps new unpublished vulnerabilities to probable primes?

Better amateur practicing crypto analysts than me can likely offer good points here.

Wikipedia has terrific crypto intro. eg:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_cryptography

and ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
I am not sure if any of these are taken, but they might be after I post them:

topchef.com

coolchef.com

hailtothechef.com

magiciankitchen.com

uberchef.com

terrifickettle.com

chefnomads.com

I would avoid the name 'popup' as it is associated with virus infections. Try cart instead.

chefcart.com

artistchef.com

topcartchef.com

chef4u.com

travelingchef.com

chefvenue4u.com
If what you say is true...

These Congresspeople should be removed from office. They are obviously not doing their jobs. That's the one thing McCain said this morning that was correct. Congresspeople were informed... and are now feigning righteous indignation. He pointed out that there was only one vote against the Patriot Act... and that member is no longer in office.
A Few Thoughts on the NSA Scandal
Because it's a fad. It's stylish, trendy and cool ... minimalistic and such.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, member of parliament in Iceland and the woman extending this offer (edit: she doesn't have authority to offer asylum, so reaching out to offer assistance is more accurate), was previously the subject of these secret orders, which were served on all of the major tech companies. The only reason she knows is because Twitter actually challenged the gag order and managed to get it unsealed (MAJOR respect to twitter, they deserve credit for this), which is the only time that has happened. Several others who were supporters of Wikileaks had these served as well.

"The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present"

This is why the "protecting the country from terrorists" rhetoric is bullshit and should be ignored. They'll sweep up anything from anyone who has any success in opposing or embarrassing them. That's why this cannot be allowed to happen in secret. Once they have your entire life, it doesn't matter who you are, they'll find something. If not, they'll harass you for years.

While only five people were individually named, according to lawyer Mark Stephens the order effectively entailed the collection in relation to criminal prosecution of the personal identifying information of over six hundred thousand Twitter users, namely those who were "followers" of WikiLeaks.

They claim this type of activity is only for specific, targeted individuals, but apparently to them, that means things like "anyone following @wikileaks on twitter".
Maybe you're forgetting, but this is the real world. Ideally, the government should be afraid of its people, but the US is in a far from ideal situation right now.
No, because only those who were on the fence were swayed either way. As of right now, the Poll on how the HN community will respond ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846564 ) is at :

No, I'm ok with it	66

I'd like to do something but it's too difficult to avoid using cloud services	195

I'm going to try to use services from non-US companies hosted outside the US	99

I'm only going to use services that allow client side encryption.	37

I'm going to host all my own services.	47

I'm not changing anything because I already assumed all of my data was being
monitored anyway. 151

A quick glance at what the rest of the public is thinking is quite illuminating as well.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0609/How-do-Ame...

Summary: People think in terms of "Privacy is a bit like oil. It's getting pricey, but I still like my SUV."

If anything, it may give a much needed boost to an existing sector of internet industry, privacy and security. I see several companies springing up (some already have) that delivery end-to-end encrypted communication and storage over different media (of course, there would be plenty of Snake Oil as well).

The real frontier of communication is the transmission of anonymized and encrypted data with services bought and paid for anonymously as well with no repercussions for the service providers.
Don't create the app to begin with. If you want to create a company, pick one of many problems that don't require your users to hand over their data to you.
Booz Allen -- one of my personal most hated companies. They are known for being incompetent, wasteful and for getting contracts by being in bed with everyone else in the government. Not unlike other military industrial contractors but they do take it up a couple of notches. They put "butts in seats" and then charge up the nose for it. Those butts in seats don't know how to finish the project, so they put more butts in seats and charge even more.

If it wasn't for all the red tape and the good ol boys network, just going around and re-doing all the mega-expensive and broken Booz Allen contracts behind them at the fraction of a cost would be a good start-up idea.
http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/tech-fun/wp-cont...
Ad hominem attacks are when you imply that someone's argument is invalid because of their background. That's what makes it a fallacy -- the validity of someone's argument is completely unrelated to their personal qualities.

http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

In contrast, when someone offers an anecdote about their experiences, or in general offers their subjective judgement, then knowing something about them is damn important! For instance, if I knew MOC was a compulsive liar, that would certainly be relevant. Likewise, if MOC was in general an optimist who was loath to ever say anything negative, that would lend extra weight to their comments on grad school.
The author is full of stupid snark. Clearly Snowden is an exceptional individual; learning that he used to be a janitor, or whatever, shouldn't cause us to throw away all the evidence we have about him and double-take "they promoted a janitor?".

Perhaps the quality of his work matched his obviously high character, regardless of his initial lack of formal credential. This is IT we're talking about - classes are a joke.
No I don't think Obama did anything.
I don't even care if she straight up runs a "gay conversion therapy" business if she does the right thing in this situation. I cannot object to a bad politician doing the right thing (though of course that does not mean I would vote for them).
Slightly off-topic question, but why did he not just go to Iceland in the first place? Hong Kong does not seem like the best destination here.
Huh, so can you "branch" a VM with vagrant? Like say I want to make some incompatible/lossy changes to my database schema, can I fork my dev environment, do my migrations to the new schema, and then go back if I don't like it?
ok...I will bite. TOR power initiate...7 proxies now!
Chef and Puppet are quite different, in my opinion.

Based on my exposure, Chef ultimately boils down to being a complex remote execution framework. Puppet makes detect-and-correct more central to its model.

http://chester.id.au/2012/06/27/a-not-sobrief-aside-on-reign...
That's what forks are for. If there are issues outstanding, and you can fix them, and you've sent patches / pull requests upstream and heard nothing, then get promoting your own branch. Who knows, the maintainer might welcome the chance to hand over the reigns.
I have a Macbook Air and a Zenbook Prime. I also have an iPad Mini and a Nexus 7 and like to be familiar with all of the major OSes.

1) The Macbook Air's trackpad + keyboard just works for me. I've tried other ultrabooks, but always end up with accidental clicks and zooms or the keyboard is a little off. The Zenbook Prime is solid and looks nice, but I don't use it as much due to the trackpad and keyboard (and this is a newer Zenbook that supposedly addressed those issues). It's nice not needing a trackball or mouse.

2) The 1440x900 resolution of the Air is fine for me. The Zenbook has 1920x1080, but I don't find that resolution very usable on a 13 inch screen. And I dislike the other cheap laptops that have 1366 x 768 or 1200 x 800.

3) I like OS X, a nice terminal, Photoshop, and a simple editor. I like being able to work on native iPhone projects. I'm not going to buy a machine with Windows 8. I run Parallels and spin up a Windows or Linux VM when needed. Very easy to slide my fingers to the right and be in Windows or Linux.