gistfile1.txt

This fix is from torey_rocketreferrals in the comments on here:
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-certificate-is-no-more 
(apologies for being unable to permalink directly to the comment)

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For you AWS Opsworks people. Create a recipe with the following 
and add it to the setup event on your layer. That will let you launch new servers.

execute 'npm config set ca ""' do
end

execute 'npm install npm -g' do
end