y0ghur7_xxx

I also love Veil¹. A lot of applications I write are LOB apps with a lot of contorted ACLs on rows.

For example a user with role "Secretary" can view all calendar entries of her department, but not those of other departments, and a user with role "User" can only see the calendar entries of his office mates.

With Veil I can implement those access rules on the database once, and they are applied to all frontends for the data (web apps, desktop apps and mobile apps)

¹http://veil.projects.postgresql.org/curdocs/index.html

How does this compare to jQuery validate¹? I use that a lot and it works great. Did you write this because you didn't wart the dependency with jQuery?

¹http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validatio...

> Are there lots of people who like JavaScriptMVC?

count me one of them. i am really a fan of it. it gives my apps structure, it has fixtures build in, and when i want to go to production it compiles my app down to one css file, one js file and one html file. and all that in a nice package, with no need for me to get all this stuff done by hand (thinking about some directory structure for my app, setting up fixtures, downloading google closure compiler, setting all up, ...).

I posted it because I used it for a few apps and I really like it.

Changelog:

https://github.com/jupiterjs/javascriptmvc/blob/c53ddc4edcbd...

"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone."

This means to me that Stallman is glad that Jobs is no more a malign influence on people's computing.

But he is not glad that he is dead.

That is exactly the same thing the poster says about Stallman:

"While I'd love it if Stallman would retire, or at the very least improve his social skills, I hope he lives to be 120. As long as he's alive, there's hope he might change. I'd never be glad that he's gone. And I'm certainly not glad that Steve is."

Saying that you'd love it if Stallman would retire means that you would be glad if he's gone.

Would be nice if the difference between IE and the other browsers was handled in $.ajax(). Maybe one day I'll submit a patch..

Sinatra is awesome. I used it as backend api for a JavascriptMVC¹ application, and it worked great. It's just impressive how productive you can become with a good dsl that covers your needs.

¹http://javascriptmvc.com/

> lbrandy has it right here. If your definition of

> "tracking" is "web server log analysis," then nearly every

> web site you visit is tracking you.

Of course. The "problem" is that the FB widget is all over the web, giving them the the possibility to track users not only on a single page, but on (almost) the whole web. I put "problem" in quotes because it's only really a problem if users don't know that. And I think the vast majority of FB users don't know that FB knows almost every page they visit on the web. The same is true for google as well of course.

> That's pretty much the definition of "cookieless tracking", isn't it?

Yes, it is.

"We will keep aggregated and anonymized data (not associated with specific users) [...]"

Ok. So you partially confirm my point. You DO track users. But you say you don't keep the information associated with "y0ghur7_xxx", but with user_id:389472984. At least on the FAQ. The privacy policy is not so clear.

I am not the GP, but from the top of my head, at the moment, I would like

- a self hosted dropbox

- a phone that does not send data to google or apple without my consent, and where I can be absolutely sure it does not

- a self hosted sync server for my phone (contacts and calendar)

- a very fast internet connection to my home (I self host almost everything...)

that's it. I am sure once I have those I will need more :)

> all of this data is standard stuff that every browser

> sends to every server of any site on every request.

Come on lbrandy, let's be honest. Are you telling me and to the HN audience that you don't use the data "that every browser sends to every server", analyze it, try to get unique users out of it, try to gather interest, browsing behavior, a lot of other stuff and sell it to advertisers? Because that would contradict what you state in your privacy policy.

>> If that's not "tracking" I don't know what is...

> I believe the word I'd use is "http".

http is the protocol you gather the data with. Once you got it, you gather your stats from it. And thus track users with it. And you state so explicitly in your privacy policy. And there is IMHO nothing wrong with it. I adblock it anyway.

I am such a person. You completely got me! But it's difficult to target ads at me, I adblock, because I don't want to be tracked.

And, to the DDG example, I would add Funambol¹, one of a very few Italian startups.

¹https://www.forge.funambol.org/

No. FB does not just log the data without using it. And they state so explicitly:

"We use the information we receive about you in connection with the services and features we provide to you and other users like your friends, the advertisers that purchase ads on the site..."

http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#howweuse

So you don't track users with the "like" widgets? Even when they don't click on them? That would contraddict everything I read from FB until now.

> I suppose you guys can line up to say I'm lying

I never sad you lied. I just sad what you explicitly state on your privacy policy:

"We receive data whenever you visit a game, application, or website that uses Facebook Platform or visit a site with a Facebook feature (such as a social plugin). This may include the date and time you visit the site; the web address, or URL, you're on; technical information about the IP address, browser and the operating system you use; and, if you are logged in to Facebook, your User ID."

http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#inforeceived

If that's not "tracking" I don't know what is...

They don't need the cookie to track you anyway. Cookie-less tracking is no problem. Not deleting the cookie was making the tracking just a little bit easier, but I am sure they track users anyway, as long as they download the like widgets that webmasters put on their pages.

I wanted to implement the sleep sort algorithm, but I can't use

  VA = [4, 2, 5, 7];
  for(x=0; x<VA.length; x++) {
      var y = VA[x];
      setTimeout('console.log(' + y + ')', y*1000);
  }

it tells me I can't use "var". And when I remove that I get some syntax error. Any nice alternative way to implement a sleep sort in coffescript?

I tried to look at what chrome sends to google with wireshark, and there are quite a lot of connections made to google servers, but it's all encrypted (ssl). So I actually have no way to know what is sent to google.

Did someone make a detailed analysis of what info gets sent to google on a default install of chrome?

Why should I read this on your blog instead of the original source?

Reminds me of this previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450972

Maybe Randall was inspired by that post.

Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626305

It obviosuly depends: if it's really interesting to me I read it in full. If it's interesting, but not really so much, then I read the first paragraphs and then skip over the rest. It also depends how the articles are written.

I've read EJs blog posts in full for example.

Quest TOAD

http://www.quest.com/toad/

> So why would anybody "accept the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement for Java SE"?

Anybody who wants Oracle commercial support:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/open...

Oracle's Commercial Distribution of the JDK

People who want the benefits of commercial support and predictability can choose to use Oracle's commercial distribution of the Java SE JDK or JRE. Oracle's commercial JDK releases will be built from the open-source code, for the most part. Since there's some encumbered code in the JDK, Oracle will continue to use that code in commercial releases until it is replaced by fully-functional open-source alternatives. To learn more about development and deployment support options, visit the Java Support site.

Link to manifesto http://pastebin.com/KudE4bWr for people who don't have access to the pirate bay.

There is also a tsunami warning.

More info: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/06/22/general-as-japan-e...

what's wrong with a 3000 line js file? if the code is organized well, a good editor with an outline view makes jumping around 3000 lines no problem. actually I would prefer it over multiple files if I feel the code I wrote belongs to that "module".

Thanks. I've read his post a few months ago and completely forgot that paragraph.

I would like to know what Nate Lawson thinks about this, as he wrote a really long post explaining why (his words¹) "client-side JS crypto is a bad idea"².

¹ http://rdist.root.org/2011/05/09/encrypted-google-docs-done-...

² http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-cr...

Am I the only one that thinks this will be the biggest spyware since BonziBUDDY? Googles business is logging data about you and sell targeted ads. I am not sure I am ready to hand over my os to them.

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

The language specification is only in docx[1].

Microsoft, just put an HTML page with the spec online. There is no need for a docx file for a language specification.

[1]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...