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Show HN: Nearly One Year On with Require.js, Backbone.js, and Marionette.js
To be honest nobody else uses the term... I just made it up! But I've been wanting to further publicly elucidate my thinking in this area for some time... maybe soon I'll get around to more. I would say the responses to this post have been sort of comfirmative (not barking up entirely wrong tree; others can see the logic of my thinking to some extent).

I personally believe that this area is going to expand rapidly, building off of the trajectory begun by present first-generation of cloud infrastructure. Perhaps for someone who wanted to practice thinking in this area, I would a say exercise is to limit yourself purely to third party and cloud based infrastructure but demand high performance and global (multiple cloud provider) availability, and challenge yourself to write a multi-service system including a deployment tool that automates your solution and actually produces maintainable infrastructure. If you follow through, you will understand the problems.
Would say I'm proud of seing a fellow french citizen nail the "nationality pride" idiocy, but I'm scared of creating a paradox that could swallow the universe and make deloreans apear in my living room.

Nationality pride is a refuge, an ego booster, and a few psychologists/sociologists/philosophers have tackled the subject with great insight.

And I believe it is sound to outgrow it, as OP did.

But still, we've got the best cheese, don't we? ;)
There have been a lot of indie shows popping up via Kick starter funding. Here are two off the top of my head:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/freddiew/video-game-high...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pemberleydigital/the-liz...
For C (and Objective-C) I would highly recommend Apple Programming channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AppleProgramming
love the initiative but I have major concerns about the implementation.

assigning $ as an alias for document is totally useless and can kill jquery / prototype running on the user's site.

also please consider moving all variables out of the global scope. you are using variable names such as "link" which could cause major conflicts with 3rd party javascripts
What I'd really like to see is for this behavior to also give a link a second chance on the New page. As it stands, if someone submits something, it falls off New with no upvotes, adding a vote two days later is completely useless.
Perhaps this is their idea of monetization for their app!

:P
I like your point on Scientific inquiry. The main difference is that a scientist might have an intellectual rather than emotional predisposition to what the outcome of the data might prove. Those that cross that line end usually lose credibility and end up on the payroll of a like minded think tank/group.
If you are naturally skinny, I think you ought to take the strength-training only approach until you bulk up.Then you can switch to cardio+strength-training to balance.Unless of course,you want to just stay lean.
Fabric can make for a nice midway point between a pile of scripts and using Chef/Puppet.
> The problem with your hypothesis is that you are making an assumption that what you do is good or even valuable to the human race or whether that is a valid reason to continue.

Ah, but at least I'm trying. And as for those others who have tried, failed, or even done harm - I'm glad that they tried, too. The major pitfall that I see people falling into is not having any real, positive goal that is bigger then themselves. Sure, you can make mistakes attaining that goal - but the biggest mistake of all is to go through life aimlessly.
Didn't Moody's actually upgrade Ecuador's sovereign debt rating shortly after they offered Assange asylum?

I don't have the highest regard for the independence or accuracy of the ratings agencies, but I somehow doubt they care particularly either way about whether a nation's policies on extradition suit US interests. And placing the burden of providing evidence on someone arguing against tinfoilhattery is just silly.
"Popular historical depictions" including such post hoc media portrayals as letters of secession stating "this is totally just about slavery"
Why do you think WebRTC puts too much power in the hands of a few companies? It's completely open source and can do everything you want. You can take all the source code from either webrtc.org or chromium.org and use it to build your own end-to-end full encrypted communication system that no one can hack (as far as we know, and assuming you have secure device and OS).

The implementation at webrtc.org gives you cross-platform, cross-device source code in C++. You can build any API on top of that, in any language you want. It's already really easy to use if you an to use the HTML5 WebRTC API built into Chrome (and the same API in Firefox).

It seems to me that you have everything you want, or at least all the pieces of the puzzle. Someone just needs to do the work of assembling them the way you want them, and then of convincing the people with whom you want to talk (your friends, family, or business associates) to use your securely built communication system. Technology-wise it's possible, even fairly easy if you know what you want. But the social aspect (convincing others to use it) is more difficult.

(Full Disclosure: I work at Google, and I have worked both on Hangouts and WebRTC)
I think a lot of us are working on things that will help, but there's no single silver bullet.

I've been working on a secure, unblockable network, at Tavern.com

It uses GPG to encrypt messages, and passes them along by any means possible - The public internet if possible, Wifi if necessary, or saving to Phones or USB sticks in the worst case.

If you know Python, I'd love to have your help. Send me your Github username, and I'll add you.

I'd love to give it a security review before a public release - There are some rough spots, but I think that having people like us stand up, and do what we can, is important.
Forget, for a moment, what this does for Snowden's credibility. If this is true, this is a huge blow to the NSA!

In college I had a friend who wanted to intern with the NSA. He was extremely smart, knew his way around a computer and then some, and was a model student. He was one of the few classmates of mine who never smoked and only occasionally drank, and even then only in moderation. He was exactly the sort of person who you'd expect to get the job (well, internship) with the NSA.

Following some initial interviews, he went for a polygraph at a facility near campus. Then, he was called to the DC area to undergo more interviews and another polygraph. Finally, he was called back for a third polygraph...and didn't get the job.

My impression at the time was that the NSA was doing such a thorough job screening candidates that they were likely discarding a large number of false positives from their screenings. This changes that impression completely...

What's worse than a government agency that has access to all of your secret information? A government agency that has access to all of your secret information and can't even determine if the people it's hiring and giving access to that information are trustworthy.

Not good...
There is no entropy generation here, it is based on the Mersenne Twister, so it is pseudo-random only at this point. If none is provided, the seed is just the current timestamp.

I discuss this a bit more in the docs: http://chancejs.com/#todo

This is good for repeatability, bad if "true random" is needed.

Problem is, this is very tricky. I'd like to add it at some point, but finding a way to add entropy that works both in the browser and in Node would be quite difficult. For example, I could use mouse/keyboard in browser, but not in some server app running on node.

I could use an external service (like random.org) as the underlying random (I built it in such a way that this was easily swappable/replaceable), but then I'm adding network latency. I show an example like this in the docs: http://chancejs.com/#browser

So for now I'm punting on it, with a plan to revisit later.
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about!
Why then do you think this is unfortunate for him?
Why should you love your family unconditionally? Arguably, you shouldn't. But something is wrong if your family has a number of merits, is fairly normal as a family, and yet all you do is dwell on its flaws - let alone exaggerate, guess, or make up flaws; let alone badmouth it to everyone else at little provocation, suggest it should be destroyed, or believe fervently that anyone working against it is right and good.

We are being manipulated not just by US propaganda and partisan propaganda but also by propaganda of other countries such as Russia, China, Iran... it's ridiculous to ignore this as if it were impossible, assume everything you are told is correct if it is anti-US, and tell yourself that an uncritically contrarian or hostile view is "honest criticism".

I wish this would ever be acknowledged, and I wish that contrarian and hostile claims were held to the same standard of evidence as patriotic claims. The reality is that here on HN, they aren't. Gossip is as good as truth as long as it cuts in the right direction.
Wait? I thought patents required a working prototype. If that's not the case I'm going to patent everything, but with quantum computers. And then everything, but with nanotechnology.
Hardly? I'm still paying hundreds of pounds to get plumbers and electricians and roofers to fix things in my house.

Compare the £3500 I paid to have a new boiler fitted[1][2] to what £3500 would buy you in technology these days.

[1] Can't DIY it: I'm legally required to have a Gas Safe fitter to touch anything related to the gas supply.

[2] Replacement of open vented system with combi. Replacing like-for-like would be much cheaper, I know.
The no parking sign is clearly in the middle of a patch of bushes. Willing to be bet they figured out exactly what the city easement is and positioned accordingly.
They do that now in California, but there are a lot of areas with existing housing and no access. Often when a renovation or rebuild happens, they can add access, but then the owners try to mask the access as much as possible.
Trading feature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_trading

Thing to be traded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund

Place to trade with said feature on arbitrary things: http://kraken.com/
Funding for ALS patient Aaron Winborn’s cryopreservation meets goal
I spend a lot of idle time thinking about death and how I feel in relation to it. I hope to be among the first generation of immortal humans, and yet I have no particular reason for wanting to live forever or even wanting to live until tomorrow. Life is good, but frankly, it's bad in equal measure.

In the end, though, it's all I have -- it's all I am. As feeble, uncomfortable, and tenuous as the single, lonesome life may be, that is the only thing I'll ever know. How could I throw it away -- throw myself away -- the only thing of me that might possibly have any value?
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5893505
Which might be relevant if recent revelations hadn't reclassified this from noble ideal to hilarious parody and/or epitome of hypocrisy.
Are there any Manning supporters who don't have to resort to misleading people or to outright lying?

I think you answered that yourself:

His treatment was bad enough that it's not as if you have to lie about it to make your point.
The high tide point isn't the same every day, but the public beach line is. On a typical day there's a decent amount of public beach left even at high tide.
> or do anything usefull with them

O'rly?

>They only serve as a symbol that allows more convenient trade of real goods.

That sounds pretty fucking useful.

>Thinking about money the way you think is a main reason of the current economical crysis.

That's a rather silly thing to say. You need to step your game up when posting on HN.

>Billionaires usually don't spend much on consumption, neither they keep their resources unused.

Did you miss the part where I mention land?

>Most of every billionaire wealth is his company, or companies, in which they employ thousands of people (giving them opportunity to earn for their living) and produce things that fulfill needs of millions.

You don't have a clue what you're talking about. This is the case for billionaires that you see on HN because that's what we're interested in. There are plenty of billionaires who don't work and don't have businesses. "Old money" families.
This isn't going to help the perception of him in the general public or possibly in any eventual trial. What he did sounds a lot closer to espionage if you know that his whole plan was premeditated and he spent months putting it into action and gathering classified material.
Ask HN: what alternative to Google Reader have you chosen?
Google Reader is retiring in one week and I haven't chosen a new feed reader yet. Apart from Feedly and NewsBlur, I haven't heard of many alternatives, so I can't even list a few of them.

I'm looking for something very similar to Google Reader in terms of features and usability: quick, reliable, easy to use and with a high density of information. I was wondering which reader HN users would recommend.
Automatically compress your images and concatinate/minify your scripts
I'm not sure if it says more about Snowden or the NSA that he could successfully receive access to this information if he had such an intent.
a 4-digit pin? brute force in 10,000 tries? this is secure, how?
> Sure, you can make mistakes attaining that goal - but the biggest mistake of all is to go through life aimlessly.

Why? I am not antagonistic; I am merely curious.
How Your Cat is Making You Crazy - Literally
Well, while I agree with the spirit of what your saying, 100%, I do disagree with his argument not making sense.

Everything you're suggesting would be illegal, because the person would be defacing public property. There's a clear line between repainting a city owned curb or a posting a sign on a city owned streetside.

It's not -exactly- the same as painting a curb on your own property, or putting a sign on your own lawn.

Again. I agree that these Malibu owners are being crappy, but there's a difference.
My Ansible learning curve was 5 minutes.
Whoever initially decided to repurpose McDonald's sales language, I passed the downvotes to them. Coincidentally, my girlfriend/classmate worked at McDonald's through college. She took no student loans. (Her father was kicked out of our school for clearing the dean's desk in response to "Poor boys like you don't belong here.") I expected to make six-figures as a digital artist (somewhere like ILM) straight out of college and the economy was thriving. Maybe that's why I blew off the basketweaving jabs. But as this thread demonstrates, maybe those were missed opportunities to discuss artistic ideals, why potential suffering would be worth it. At that point I had no idea some writers literally ate dog food to survive while working on their books or that an artist like DeKooning nearly lost his teeth from starvation. What was the real intent behind "Would you like fries with that?" I don't know. But it has a ring to it ;-)
>I don't see death as innately undesirable (though the period immediately before it can be painful)

Ironically, I was under the impression that dying itself is strangely pleasant and comfortable, while being dead and done forever is the scary part.

Not that I ever bothered to ask a dead person or anything.
"Most things have been tried" <-- but the idea is that 'new things to try' are popping up all the time. My read on the article is that low margins show things have been optimized already, so new things that further optimize it will be welcome (to some players).
Looks like many of these tricks steems directly from the lack of good debugging tools (paired with tight deadlines). Is console game development really that bad? The guy debugging with colored screens is a real WTF.
Métodos para dejar de fumar
Most people don't even know who Bradley Manning is, and the news organizations have all but moved on at this point. If he got more coverage, or if people knew him, he might have a better shake, but as it is, he's probably sitting in the place where he'll die.

I'd say Snowden has given his decisions considerable thought, and he's taking the only course of action that doesn't cause him to disappear into a dark hole, as he asserts.
Recursive CTEs are a portable solution; they are part of the SQL:1999 standard and are supported by current versions of Postgres, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Firebird, etc.

The only two widely used SQL-using relational databases I can think of off the top of my head that don't support them are SQLite and MySQL.

(PostgreSQL arrays aren't portable, though in other DBs I've seen strings used for similar purposes, though that is truly an abomination.)
Things get a little wonky on a few of the more elite private beaches in Malibu: Broad Beach and Carbon Beach, among others. On these beaches, erosion has basically eliminated 50% of the beachfront, such that the entire public strip is underwater at mid to high tide. It's exposed only at low tide. Hence, the beaches are de facto private for much of the day. This isn't intentional; it's just the result of environmental changes over the last few decades.
Writing well is one of the only ways to scale your impact beyond face-to-face, but you don't have to be writing about literature. Pomona taught me to write, even though I was a computer science major.
I'm assuming you'd want to link an answer to a particular question. And have referential integrity.

JSON is great if you don't need foreign keys to catch integrity problems.
I believe you are going in the right
direction.

More generally, you are correct because
you are trying actually to think about
it. If we think about it carefully,
we might actually get something both
better and quite good. E.g., along the
lines you said, if some Hollywood actress
wants her nose again to look like it
did when she was five years old, then
she can pay a top Beverly Hills plastic
surgeon. If some poor guy in a ghetto
has a badly swollen foot and can't
even pay taxi fare to the hospital,
then he gets the basic work on his
foot for free. Fine. That's like
a 20 second, free hand, rough sketch
of a Boeing 747 -- making it fly
like a real 747 is a lot of
hard work yet to do.

I wish we'd done that work. I
can't believe we did.
this one is an exception

Just like the last hundred, right? The problem with this is that it never ends, because every asshole with an itchy mouse finger thinks it's his job to keep people informed by mindlessly upvoting increasingly trivial details about allegedly important stories. The site just sinks under a sea of exceptions. Nothing important actually happens as a result, but everybody feels empowered because they're "raising awareness" of things everybody who didn't abandon ship has already turned fanatical about. All you're accomplishing is the sustainment and amplification of your established convictions.

Wake. Up. Sheeple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotizing_dysfunction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_minutes_hate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade
Apple Seeds iOS 7 Beta 2 to Developers with iPad and iPad Mini Support
Which is sort of my point. There's so much we haven't explored in the compiled world, but we're busy reinventing all the same things in a slow fragile sandbox.
Of course keys aren't the only things that open locks. Back in the early 80's the "locks" on these gates were pretty basic 3 pin convenience locks and you could pick them very easily.
I'm not tptacek, but note that IP addresses are not exactly cryptographically secured. If you only restrict access by IP address, you tend to lose your whole intranet as soon as one host falls.

(Then again, that's how it usually goes anyway.)
Yeah - the "own it" advice seems crazy in this situation. I mean, the guy already put his face on it, blew the whistle. He "owned" it. Now he's trying to avoid a life of constant suffering for doing what he saw as the right thing.

From the standpoint of his welfare, yeah, he had to move.

This isn't a startup with a PR problem after making a tough but principled decision. This is a guy who worked within government, pulled a Bradley Manning, and is still at large.

Startup marketing slash public relations 101 advice just isn't very realistic in this situation.

Now, if you're talking about the Greater Good, and making him even more of a sacrificial lamb -- if you're arguing that he should come back here, take his lumps, 'take the argument to the people' (as if he'd be allowed to ... we haven't heard much from Manning, right?) so as to sway public opinion a few more points ...

Well, that's a valid point of view, but if you want to prevail on other people to sacrifice more for the sake of the blown whistle, who pick on one of the few people who are already sacrificing? I don't know if Snowden counts as a "good guy" or not, but as a whistleblower it looks like he did a bang-up job, so instead of griping, just come to Ecuador and buy him a beer or something.
The purpose of the beach being public isn't really sunbathers. It's a very old principle based on the idea that the waters and the land under them belong to the public, and that they should be accessible to people doing the fundamental things that require access to the water: fishing, washing clothes, etc.
I read this as Malibu homeowners scammed by $30K Kickstarter campaign.
Except that they only checked HTTPS URLs, and most malicious URLs are on HTTP, which they apparently not checked.
Mathematics existed long before logic came to explain it, and most practicing mathematicians don't care that much about formal logic or think about it in their day-to-day work. The incompleteness theorems add a further disconnect.
IOS 7 Beta 2 Available For Developers
Sorry, but this is a load of disgusting hogwash.

Life is not about sacrificing for the good of the collective.

People who tell you that do NOT have your best interests in mind.
What I wish puppet and salt would do
Worth remembering: The Whistleblower Protection Act covers Federal employees only, not private contractors. Moreover, efforts to expand the law to protect contractors as well have been repeatedly rebuffed in Congress.
We're actually a Windows-centric shop and have been actively evaluating configuration management solutions for Windows-based virtual machines. Initially, we were only looking at Puppet, Chef, and a commercial product called uProvision along with Vagrant. I was surprised to find that Salt had a real community behind it.

Our greatest challenge has been coming up with a tool which can manage images for both VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V. This article introduced a web integration between Salt and libvirt called Salt-virt. Has anyone tried this interface for managing images? Does it work better than the young integration between Vagrant and libvirt?
I mean, kind of, but not really. Math textbooks from the 60's are still relevant today, so why would computer science be sufficiently different? I can see that there are new concepts and whatnot, but there hasn't been any kind of fundamental change in thinking. I wouldn't expect there to be.