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Let's be honest: The Thunderbolt ecosystem is tragic.

- We're only now seeing the first docks come available. It only took Belkin an extra year to develop it.

- The hopes and dreams of internal buses being used outside the standard case is still only a dream unless you are willing to pay extreme premiums. Even then there is still no native solution for video.

- I still need a special cord from Apple to run Dual-link. If I want a Thunderbolt display for my Macbook, I still end up with a power cord adapter that's over a year out of date.

- And now Apple wants to convince us that somehow, someway, the forthcoming Mac Pro will somehow usher in a new wave of adoption? What flavor Kool-Aid are they drinking and are they somehow consuming it through FW800?

While USB3 is faring a little better, I still encounter mystical errors any time I use a card that relies on Displaylink drivers. The fact of the matter is that it seems like this latest generation of ports is being hindered less by the underlying technology and more by corporate bullshit that leaves us all frustrated.
So all the government need to do is to prove that someone accidentally got more than the main part of the documentation they want to leak and they are not whistleblowers anymore?

What a peculiar logic.
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That Bradley Manning is in prison while many of the depraved murderers and corrupt officials he blew the whistle on remain free and employed is a disgrace.

It's not a question of law. It's a question of basic morality and humanity. Laws that put people of conscience in prison while protecting murderers are not laws worth following, respecting, or defending.
The UK has a similar privilege with postage stamps. They were the first to use stamps, and because of that they don't need to put the name of their country on their stamps:

"... on May 6, the Penny Black became the world's first postage stamp in use.

The stamp was originally for use only within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as such was in effect initially a local stamp. For this reason the name of the country was not included within the design, a situation which continued by agreement with foreign post offices, provided the sovereign's effigy appeared on the stamp. Envelopes sold with postage paid did not include this, so were marked with the country's name. In 1951, the special commemorative issue for the Festival of Britain included the name "Britain" incidentally. It could therefore be said that the name of the country then appeared for the first time on a stamp of the UK, although the word "British" had appeared on British Empire Exhibition commemorative stamps of 1924."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_hist...
This is radically, shockingly naive.
The question above: Is a 6 month sentence and no jail time plea bargain considered disproportionate?
Well, technically speaking if there isn't anyone signed up with BDUs and a rifle in hand, then your liberty would be in peril. I mean, if the US government and her lands were just up for whoever wanted to call dibs, I'd take it.

That said, it stands to reason that the reason why your liberty isn't imminently in peril is because someone is already signed up and out there defending it.

To restate everything in broad terms: there's lots of people out in the world that don't like us. Your liberty is always in peril.

Do you want a totally anarchistic society, perhaps? I, for one, don't.
I have used both in my startup job and vastly prefer angular to backbone, however I think it's not quite an apples to apples comparison as angular provides a lot more than backbone.

That isn't meant as a criticism of backbone per se, rather I think they are actively going for different things - backbone makes it easy to achieve a client-side rendered single page website with MVC separation but lets you control actual rendering and data binding, i.e. maximal control, whereas angular allows you to do the same thing but provides 2-way data binding, code/html reuse via directives [0], local scoping of data on DOM elements [1], dependency injection [2], vastly improved testability [3] and lots more.

My experience of actually developing websites with both is that angular is a better experience and involves a hell of a lot less boilerplate than backbone and even though, when it doesn't work, it can be infuriating it is net a simply amazing framework.

Obviously I'm very biased and by my own admission my understanding of both is limited and I am certainly not the best developer ever blah, so take this with a pinch of salt. I think if you need maximal fine-grained control over the behaviour of your website while getting help with MVP you're better off with backbone, but in any other situation use angular (or possibly batteries-included alternatives like ember.js or knockout.js - I have no experience with them so can't comment there.)

[0]: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive

[1]: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$rootScope.Scope

[2]: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/di

[3]: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.unit-testing
Why don't they use safety rails? It's actually more comfortable and faster to climb with a vest attached to a roller that is attached to a safety rail in the ladder, since it leaves your hands free.

The roller will keep rolling as long as you pull away from the ladder. If you drop down, the roller will hang. I've done one spring of snow cleaning from roofs and we had a bag full of different rollers (different standards). Only had problems if the rollers were left wet and they froze. Are they not mandated in the US? Time for someone to start a business...
Do a lot of people actually believe that it contributed to it in any significant way?
thanks for the pull request..
The question about frameworks in the original poll was worded like this:

Are you using a client-side MV* framework? (Angular.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js etc) If so, which one?

So it's possible that Meteor users didn't feel they could answer. However, it was open ended, so people filled in other frameworks, like Derby.js.
There is a difference between wealthy and financially independent. FI is have about 20 times or more your annual exenses saved up. Except for deep recessions you could live off an income stream from that. If you got a good job and are frugal you might reach that stage in a decade as I did. faster if you start a successful business.

Wealthy means few constraints on lifestyle. travel where you. Buy most of the stuff you want.
This is where we are going next; CoreOS is super young today though.

We want to build an environment where you run and manage all of those servers and databases inside of containers and via APIs. Or even better skip the APIs and just add nodes and have something like etcd help you configure it dynamically

But, we needed to get all of the foundations solid and that is where we are today.
Sendgrid is OK if you don't care about the ethics of the company management.

Everybody remember when they fired a female employee for speaking out about sexual harassment at a conference?

http://mashable.com/2013/03/21/sendgrid-fires-adria-richards...
I still don't get the data binding in your example though. What is it binding to?
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> The main method of interface is also much more sensitive to things taking a long time.

Not sure I understand, what do you mean by that?

> but it is not pleasant, either

Why exactly?
Your point is...?
The problem is perception. Its easy for someone on an iPad to 'get' the fact that it's not a full blown OSX machine where as the line is far more blurry on Microsoft's part.

Of course if Apple has anything to say about it, they want to blur the line just as much (if not moreso).
> Information must always be free --- non-disclosure contracts never take precedence over the First Amendment.

This belief is very naive and unrealistic. There are some kinds of information that should obviously not be free. Credit card numbers, PINs, SSNs, identities of confidential informants, etc. In order for society to function there will be secrets. What we need is a healthy debate over what secrets should be allowed, how they should be kept, and how responsible oversight should be administered without publicly divulging everything. Statements like "information must always be free" provide nothing but straw men for those in favor of minimal oversight to knock down. Making such assertions is counterproductive.
We can debate whether or not MIT is a bully, though I have no interest in doing so. It seems painfully clear to me.

What I think is not debatable, unless you think humans are emotionless automatons who cannot be influenced by the treatment of others (a viewpoint seemingly being espoused by several here), is that bullies can be held partially morally^ accountable for the suicides of their victims.

^ I am not saying legally accountable.
I will definitely take US service over European any day.

It is one area where I believe that the europeans have a lot to learn, perhaps with the exception of Italy and London which I find pretty effective.
Really, leveling such an accusation at the university police is trying to deal with a symptom. Abolishing university police forces won't cause rape instances to decline appreciably, but it will accelerate the implosion of higher education as a whole. Precisely for the reasons you stated.

Perhaps it would be better to look for a solution where universities are less motivated to compete for student head count, so that their police forces are less motivated to cover up incidents that would reduce it.
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As mentioned, you would need "some sort of process" to config the host -- this is Puppet/Chef/etc. Replacing those is not trivial.

Also, not quite sure I understand config "inside vs outside" being the big idea. You can easily include Puppet manifests and have Puppet run in standalone mode from within the container with no outside access to config. That's not new.
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> "You have to admit that people that commit suicide are primarily responsible for their own deaths. "

Perhaps in the same way that we might say someone who dies of cancer is responsible for their own deaths. That is: if we were in the habit of assigning blame to the suffering, for the medical problems they suffer.

Or if we are to outright deny what science has to say about it and instead further the US habit of denying mental health conditions as actual, legitimate medical issues.
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This kind of felony would hardly have been the end of the world.

Why, I bet it's possible that one could even go on to great success in the tech field, even with (or especially with) a CFAA felony.

That's kind of besides the point, because a felony conviction would have been overkill here. But it still would have been much better than the alternative we ended up getting. Let's face it, many hackers have faced felony charges before without killing themselves, and few of them had as much potentially going for them after the trial as Aaron would have.
Why, decapitation definitely rids one of headaches, but why not consider less invasive options beforehand?

A file system might implement `rm` so that it does not lose data outright, but keeps a few recently deleted files intact for undeletion. I suppose every journaling FS already includes everything necessary for it. E.g. http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/ uses ext3/ext4 journals. AFAICT NTFS undelete works the same way.

Some file systems have explicit snapshots and other tools that facilitate rolling back changes: xfs, ext3, ext4 all support snapshotting on Linux when run under LVM. It's even better than undelete.
In america, if a waiter doesn't come to your table within the first 15 min of you sitting down, then there is something wrong.

It shouldn't take more than a min or two for the waiter to come over, give you some water, and introduce themselves.
Let's not play that game. As a former cook, I can tell that yes, there are lots of immigrants. Most of them work unbelievably hard, and really, really depend on these jobs to survive.

There are also a _lot_ of addicts, psychopaths, morons and other assorted human detritus, of ever conceivable hue competing for these jobs, which also depresses wages.

Furthermore, restaurants don't have any damn money. Restaurants are on razor thin margins always. Usually a bad week or two from going under.

Qualifications for working in the kitchen consist of:

1. will you work for very little money?
2. can you work ok when you're high and/or drunk?
For fancy places:
3. can you safely handle a knife?
4. will you toil endlessly for no apparent reason?

That's pretty much it.
Does an abusive father have no moral responsibility for his children falling into alcoholism?
As someone who has worked a fair amount of overtime, that extra pay is more than deserved. Working overtime drives up the cost to the employee of most things related to maintaining employment. Laundry? no time, send it to the cleaners. Lunch? No time to brown bag it, have to eat out. Supper? Same thing sometimes. Got a lawn? Better find someone to mow it. A lot of mundane things come unraveled when sustained overtime becomes a requirement.
I think it won't. That would basically mean that the singularity will happen in 5 years.
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"Aaron would be alive today if MIT had acted as JSTOR did. MIT had a moral imperative to do so."

It's natural to look for someone to blame. Should we lay the blame on MIT? If they had called off an overzealous D.A. from throwing the book at him, he might be alive today. Why not blame the D.A.? Or JSTOR? In any case, aiding in prosecution did not cause his death directly.

The decision to commit suicide was ultimately his own. Of all the options he had available to him, he consciously chose that option. I'm reminded of a quote by Viktor Frankl:

"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."

Aaron had the power to choose right until his last choice. Why do some people survive terrible hardships, and others don't?

According to his close friends' personal accounts, Aaron suffered from suicidal thoughts and depression for many years. Long before the JSTOR case, and long before MIT ever got involved. As long as we're speculating about things we can't know for sure, I'm guessing depression was really to blame for his suicide. That won't satisfy everyone, since it doesn't give them a powerful organization to rage against. But reality doesn't always work that way.
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Thanks for the question. I'll update the article to explain that more indepth later today. It's 'binding' the value to the model of that DOM element in the view.

We go in-depth into the model component on the next article.
Well it's a "life sentence" that somehow one of YC's founders managed to survive. Not just survive, but become very successful and an MIT professor.

I'm not trying to downplay the significance of a felony conviction, but it shouldn't be overplayed either.
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If that's the case then you're only examining a subset of the probability distribution, which means you're getting skewed results.
The code situation definitely isn't secure. I was at a hacker con, in a remote location, and someone locked themselves out of their car. Folks were able to create a key, on site, using the code. I'm not sure if it was a Ford, but it does show it's a significant security issue in the automotive industry.
"There's almost no excuse not to use Scala if you're deploying on the JVM."

There's a good reason, actually - library maturity, especially when trying to get data in and out. Try and do some inner joins with typesafe slick and you'll know what I mean when you see the SQL it generates.

Or try and use Play Framework's json de/serialization, and be prepared to punch your monitor in the face.

I think these critical libraries can get there, but the lack of resources on these projects has me thinking we'll be waiting awhile.
I'm not willing to die because I think drug laws are too harsh (largely because I no longer use them), so obviously random people getting shot by mistake isn't a problem!

Never mind that I am willing to participate in less violent activism for that cause, I'm not a true scotsman.. er I mean activist.

Also, since I don't see you lining up to die for your stance on Snowden and Manning, you must not actually mean it - by your definition of course. Why should anyone care about it?
What you're saying is exactly what I said in the first paragraph. Containers discover the config and configure themselves. But where do those containers come from in the first place and how to you build them? Where does that container, containing your in-house app, come from? That is where Chef/Puppet may come in.
A Ford dealer must be able to service any Ford vehicle, including replacing lost keys. The dealers have access to the central database.

Ford failed to monitor access to the database. The whole problem would have been avoided if they just emailed the service manager every time a database lookup is made. Unfortunately he is in Texas, so Ford needs to be 51% at fault for a judgement. The lawyers are playing this out in the press so Ford will pay to make it go away, even though they would likely prevail in a Texas court.

Ford needs to cut this kid a check for $500k, and implement some better auditing of access to the database.
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Taking a knee is the opposite of casual.
Yes, once you switch to ALL XaaS and ditch your IT staff, you are forever at the mercy of your existing XaaS vendor. You don't own the software, the vendor actually has your data somewhere in the cloud, and you have no one who can even make a credible recommendation on an alternative. They got you by the balls, and BTW, the XaaS pricing is tripling next month. Muahaha !
We're really excited about this, and so is the Angular team. It's gonna be sweet.
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If you want to prevent the next gifted hacker from hanging themselves...

Is that what we're doing here? I thought it was more about MIT administration being absolute shits to important, creative, contributing members of the community, and how they might stop doing that. Swartz's suicide is not the only thing that makes MIT's behavior shameful. Ideally, next time the administration will correct their craven, copsucking behavior before it gets to that point.
Reductio ad absurdum, a perfectly legitimate form of proof, begs to differ with Mr. Godwin.

Anyone can leak anything, as anyone can say anything. This is the law as per the First Amendment. You could lose your job contract for leaking information, but you could also lose your job for no reason at all. Those that would argue that only criminality should be leaked --- who is to determine that criminality if no one knows about it in the first place? Evidence of the act before judgment of the act. And to those who say leaking information can lead to soldier casualties --- so can lying to a public about the motivations for countless aggressive wars, and then assuming the public "can't handle the truth". Jessup went to prison for that, thanks to a few good men. Unfortunately, Americans don't listen to their movies, only watch them.
Puppet could indeed be that process, and certainly replacing it isn't trivial. But I'm excited by the idea that we could replace it, by being able to rely on the configuration being directly available (provided by the OS). We'll have to see what gets created!
"He killed himself, therefore he was responsible for his own death."

Would you say the same thing about a war veteran who has PTSD and commits suicide?
Or a rape victim who commits suicide?
Or a middle school kid who commits suicide after months of cyberbullying?

I doubt it.
> If they had called off an overzealous D.A. from throwing the book at him, he might be alive today. Why not blame the D.A.?

False dilemma. I am capable of blaming both.
This is something I think people really don't appreciate about the Snowden case: He's been extremely shrewd about the tiny amounts he's leaked. It's all gold and no dross, so is pretty damn credible, and very possibly legal. He may be a free and clear, able to come home, free man, by his 40th birthday.
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Ach, come on, the Guardian's incredibly left-wing. Or at least was until recently (less than 5 years).

When I used to buy papers a few times a week, I rotated the Guardian, The Independent and the Telegraph.

If you went outside the news articles the Guardian was foaming at its mouth, agenda crazy leftie. The editors, opinions and letters pages were filled with rubbish. Far more than the Telegraph was politely right wing.

Perhaps they've toned it down since focusing online, but though I don't read the site I still come across op pieces linked in various places that show otherwise.
You're right directly it wouldn't break scripts; a whole bunch of stuff starts breaking once the disk fills though.
I think you're looking at power problems. That page says that it has a 100W or 150W power supply. High end cards often top out above 200W[1].

[1] - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/279391-28-power-requiremen...
The problem is a security model where all trust is exclusivity and irrevocably granted to a single external entity. An entity that an owner of property has to go through to access their own property.

This kind of security model has both pros and cons. This is one of the cons and all the internal process in the world at the external authority doesn't change the weakness. The best they can do is push to limit the number of abuses of the authority (for all definitions of abuse as defined by the external power, not product owner).
These were the exact points raised at #lisp. They also tried to explain the CL idiom to a recursive problem which I don't really recall except the fact that I didn't understand it...
We share a field. In what ways does that field demand that you surrender your rights?

I don't have much of a problem with the idea that contributing infosec work to the government requires you to become a part of something that is bigger than you or your individual rights, and have resolved that conflict by simply not working for the government; that also eliminates some other moral hazards of working for/with the military/industrial complex.
He had no choice but he was responsible, right. Or are you implying that the should-be-deprecated-by-now idea of compatibilism has some hold?