skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually a subtle difference in YC's criteria. YC selects against false positives rather than against false negatives. This means that YC selects with the knowing that some rejected companies are likely to succeed. YC also selects against companies that do not fit it's model, e.g. the recent thread where the founder wanted to organize as a UK LTD rather than a Delaware corporation.

To put it another way, even though asshole founders can succeed, YC purportedly selects against possible asshole founders when they are identifable. Part of this I suspect is general principle. Part, I suspect, is that asshole founders create additional work.

Finally, most entrepreneurs in most cities are not founding the sort of businesses that YC and the rest of Silicon Valley would classify as startups. Outside the bubble, an LLC that opens a restaurant gets called "a startup". While there are people in most markets doing businesses that take rocket fuel and either blow up or reach orbit, that model is much rarer out in the regular world.
Some boardgamers know this as "analysis paralysis", and for such individuals it often points us towards games that have fewer, grander choices as opposed to a thousand minor choices that add up to a grand choice.
I think they just want the bar to be high enough to avoid arousing the suspicion of casual snoopers. Single DES is enough to do that.
Aren't Refs STM? I haven't seen any clojure project use or leverage Refs, do you know of any? The feeling I get from community is that they are nice in theory but not so in practice.
I didn't apply can I be in too?
You can have a private, public among friends or completely public transaction if you choose. The ones you can see in this are only the ones that the person who initiated the transaction has choose to share publicly with the world.
If I remember right, when you use Cloud Files you don't get access to all of Akamai's PoPs
Java (not Swift) will be THE language for cross-platform mobile app development
So basically Chinese production has been expanding to meet world demand. Eventually world demand will be met and China will stop expanding.
Isn't it more important to focus on the concepts like discrete math, data structures/algorithm, OS, etc? Is it really beneficial for there to be a surplus of programmers who only learned how to use libraries?
Cascalog isn't really datalog.

It is a datalog like fragment without recursion but with added negation. Which makes it more like a pretty syntax for conjunctive queries with negation and thus equivalent in power to SQL.

The tree example of the article would thus not be possible in cascalog.
Sounds very interesting Paul!
I'm not puzzled, at all. In fact, I'm puzzled that your puzzled.

What's hard to understand about maintaining radio silence?

Does no one understand that keeping your mouth shut, and not accidentally blabbing packets across the network is ALSO a security posture?

Anyone between you and The Mother Ship now has a shiney new target to MITM payloads at.

Why do you hate freedom?
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Calling someone an asshole is not a personal attack. A personal attack is attacking someone's character instead of their argument. I'm not saying he's wrong because he's an asshole, I'm saying he's wrong and he's an asshole.
These requests are trivial to detect and block with a proper gateway firewall like pfsense or others. Consumer grade firewalls just don't have enough options, or resources to support those options.

Trust, but verify.
Identity does not require consensus, naming does.

If you want to have a decentralized DNS, a blockchain might make sense. However, a global consensus on who controls what name isn't as relevant as one would think. As more and more interactions are initiated online, the SSH model of accepting the key on the first connection becomes better suited.

How do I know I am connecting to my bank's website and not some phishing website? Because it presents me with a proof that it controls the identity of the website where I initially opened my account.

My point is that decentralized identity does not require a blockchain. This is the result of people thinking: "hey, what can I do with a blockchain?" rather than "How do I build a decentralized identity system".

The supreme irony is that Satoshi Nakamoto is the perfect proof that a secure online identity needs not depend on a central authority, or a blockchain.
I am skeptical of "Developer Boot Camps". I think they over promise people that they will be skilled developers when they are done. If you go in with a degree in Computer Science or something that teaches you how to program properly sure you will probably be able to get a job. But the idea to take someone that has never been a programmer and make them suitable for a job is laughable to me. It does a disservice to everyone. And to me are just a scam.
They didn't. You can still enable it in 32-bit Win10 I think.
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Haha, I'm flattered. Also, thinking to myself that you must have gotten very lucky in which source file you chose to read first :-)
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>Are you seriously claiming that ROP isn't "that much harder" than injecting arbitrary code?

Yes I am.
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Not blabbing packets across the network to a security provider, while blabbing packets across the network to many other hosts, is not a security posture.

If you want radio silence, exit the program
Back before WSGI really took off, mod_python made Apache fairly prolific, but most Python apps these days are using Gunicorn (or some other Python-based WSGI server), or Nginx in front of uWSGI, so yes, to some degree, you are the only one using Apache.

As a side note: I've run copious tests against Nginx -> uWSGI setups and Gunicorn, etc. setups, and Nginx -> uWSGI is in a whole different league (way faster, way more requests per second, way less memory, and you CAN (despite what I'm reading herein), very EASILY with uWSGI, deploy without losing a single request). However, I still use Gunicorn, because it's quick and easy, it works well, and I don't have to sys admin the thing.
> Some extensions (notably NoScript and Ghostery) ping the mothership.

could you explain what this means? Been using uBlockOrigin+NoScript+Ghostery combo for quite a some time now and never realized how NoScript might be unsafe
Still it is pretty interesting that NIST P-224 has weaknesses that the other ones don't. I wonder why?
Fully agree. Learning the syntax of a programming language (which is about all you can hope to learn in a bootcamp) is just the first step in becoming a programmer.
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How so? He just says: this seems like it'll be hard to track down and I don't have much time to dedicate to it. I don't see how that says anything about (1) packaging and distributing specifically or (2) modern web browsers specifically. It just says that complex pieces of software can require a lot of work to debug. What am I missing?
If the owner of the "mom and pop" had a net worth of $48.7b[1], based on Jeff's toilings, I'd say his death would be very article-worthy.

[1] http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/t...
> In fact, I'm puzzled that your puzzled.

Obligatory *you're :)
I'm going to guess they use lists of exceptions (NoScript) or of trackers (Ghostery) that need to be updated.
Pigoons!
Right, exactly. I experience great ennui when people discuss this stuff via popularizations.

Let's start a thread where we talk about how tcp/ip works ... but with a twist. The only admissible references in the discussion are color pictures aimed at non-programmers. Anybody tries to talk about what actually works, we label them the "shut up and program" crowd and decry their lack of imagination.
Thanks for the feedback. Definitely the Free sign up could be more obvious. At the moment its below the fold on the homepage.

If anyone is interested here is the direct link to sign up for API key:
https://market.mashape.com/optimalsoftware/freeprobeapi

(also that's where the documentation is and ability to query API without coding)
If it makes feel you better, it doesn't matter. Last day I was comparing the ingredients of the whitening vs non-whitening of another brand (don't remember which), and not only the active ingredient was the same, it was also present in the exact same quantity. It was literally the same toothpaste. I'd assume Colgate does the same.
I think the process of applying is useful for some people At least for me, it took me outside my comfort zone. I've always just operated under my own name and spokesmodelling "a company" instead for the video created a cognitive shift that I didn't know existed.

This article is probably a reasonable way to look at not getting accepted: http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/09/30/why-ive-stopped-do...
I use CMUS under byobu.
I use beets for tagging, and it has no trouble with OSTs. It sets a different tag for Album artist and Track artist, and cmus uses the Album artist. Most soundtracks of the type you mention are under <Various Artists>.

I'm different from most people in that nearly all of my music collection is complete albums, so if that's not the case, then I could see how a file/folder layout would work better, and the artist/album view is more full-featured than the file-browser view.

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Also as far as I can tell, there's no way to filter based off of path (only filename) which might also be a good way if you prefer directory based organization.
That unfortunately doesn't make it easy to see where those requests are coming from, especially given that the vast majority of Chrome(ium) developers are from Google.
Could be it is pinging home for synchronization and not actual browsing data.
Chromium is an open source branch of chrome, offered as a convenience. It is not a standalone product with its own goals. Shouldn't there be a "Chromium-Privacy" project that branches Chromium and reviews code changes, to keep it aligned with such goals?
Thanks for your concern, but I will keep my religion.
Yeah hold on let me fire up Opera. No. What do you suggest? Compile Chromium from source?
I'm curious if this is common knowledge or not. A quick look at the wikipedia page for acetylcystine does not mention using it as a chelating agent, although it does seem to have a variety of other uses. Is this an oversight of the Wikipedia editors, or is this not a common recommendation?
I guess it's a cost benefit. Does noscript block more than it leaks? Given the noscript is integrated into the tor browser bundle it can't be that bad... Right? We hope...
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I have always thought that OpenID would be wildly more successful if:

1. User puts in their email address

2. Website does a lookup on DNS for the email to find an OpenID endpoint (via SRV or TXT or whatever else)

3. If OpenID connector is found, user gets redirected to authenticate

4. If not, generic create account method.
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> Shouldn't there be a "Chromium-Privacy" project that branches Chromium and reviews code changes, to keep it aligned with such goals?

Maybe Iridium is what you're looking for. From their fp:

> Iridium is a free, open, and libre browser modification of the Chromium code base, with privacy being enhanced in several key areas. Automatic transmission of partial queries, keywords, metrics to central services inhibited and only occurs with consent. In addition, all our builds are reproducible, and modifications are auditable, setting the project ahead of other secure browser providers.

https://iridiumbrowser.de/
16-bit compatibility only exists in the 32-bit version, no longer in the 64-bit one. Same as every x64 version since XP64.
And here is part of the problem - you believe that the word hustle has been appropriated, yet the word has had the same meaning and connotation in these circles for nearly 200 years.

We have recorded usage of it meaning "bustle, work busily, move quickly" dating back to 1821. "to get in a quick, illegal manner"? 1840. "to sell goods aggressively"? 1887. "pushing activity; activity in the interest of success"? 1891.

"The key-note and countersign of life in these cities [of the U.S. West] is the word "hustle." We have caught it in the East. but we use it humorously, just as we once used the Southern word "skedaddle," but out West the word hustle is not only a serious term, it is the most serious in the language." [Julian Ralph, "Our Great West," N.Y., 1893]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hustle

If we look at where the word came from, it's taken from a white European language - meaning that it's use for you in Oakland growing up was appropriated from elsewhere. And that's perfectly okay.
This is cool! I was working on something similar but more specifically for my office to democratise our office music with voting and so on, after Soundrop disappeared off the face of the earth. It only supports Spotify at the moment, but the plan was to eventually add soundcloud support as well as file uploads.
I dunno, that tabs to spaces problem makes me pretty angry too, particularly if your tooling is weak.

Tab wars can drive your version control system crazy managing changes that don't matter unless they are using python.
My thoughts exactly!

Last year I wrote a paper on Oryx and Crake and found a case of using slightly modified pig membranes/ligaments to repair human ones...We're just getting closer to OrganInc.
Being open source doesn't mean the source code is easy or quick to read.
IC, many thanks for the clarification!
It drives me nuts that none of their competitors learn this lesson.

So you want to buy an Asus wifi router?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus/asus-routers/pcmcat29320005...

Enjoy your paralysis.
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I wonder if Solaris ABI compat is actually older than the Windows stuff. Solaris to this day maintains binary compat with older releases and, for example, a 32-bit fopen() will fail once you open 255 streams because that was the limit in the ancient ABI. Everyone using Solaris at one point or another has probably hit this and it caused some issue, but Sun^H^H^HOracle refuses to make modern operation the default, all in the name of ancient binary compat. That's a bit more hardcore than optional support you can enable.
Not 100% unbreakable in general, but I think it does pretty well in the real world. There are plenty of messages that Eve simply can't decrypt with complete confidence. For example, she can't tell ATTACK WILL AT DAWN from ATTACK DAWN AT WILL. She'd have to resort to priors to guess which of those was intended.
>Because it can present a proof it controls the identity

Which proof are you referring to?

As far as I know, there is no way to prove that someone else doesn't have the same number as you (they may have even pilfered the number from you without your knowledge).
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> The idea that you can have a language which is portable/reimplementable on any platform is fundamentally flawed.

On the other hand, Clojure runs on a platform that is supposedly implementable anywhere.
Being a software developer in the modern world (web, mobile) has little to do with computer science.

These skills can be taught but aren't in most modern universities.

Mostly, there is argument that university is not vocational training. At the same time, most people implicitly feel the need to go to university to get a job.

These developer boot camps create a new path. It's a good thing.
Does plex finally support reading files from network shares?

Plex is based on XBMC (aka Kodi), which supports reading from the network natively, which leads me to believe they disabled this on purpose and I've never understood the rationale behind it. It makes plex almost useless to me and anyone else who uses a nas or similar to store files. Expecting that I will run plex itself from my nas because they disabled network access is laughable.

Also their UI has consistently been going downhill for the last several versions.
The UK Home Office published data in 2014 about phone thefts [0], it's pretty interesting. Over 50% of thefts in London were iPhones, they were the only ones with a higher share of thefts than of the market (by miles - their market share was <15%) (page 13).

I can't find a newer analysis, but probably worth pointing out that they mention manufacturer security improvements reducing thefts, and iOS has obviously had some of those since 2014.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
I did similar, but I did it Excel. It was cool, not an experiment, and it was done quickly, as Excel is the ultimate Agile tool in finance.
Lost in all the complaining about FRP's etymology is that the real FRP meets a basic principle that Rx doesn't - it's purely functional. Deterministic, referential transparency, etc. That's why it's useful, and that's also why there aren't many libraries for it, it's apparently extremely hard to implement.

I really like Rx and I am using it in projects I'm currently working on, but there's still that basic discomfort that it's not purely functional.
Thanks! Haskell's had a special place in my heart for a few years, but I only ever used it in toy contexts (stuff like project euler). I wanted to do something a little more practical with it to see how it held up.

Big thanks to Miëtek Bak for his work on Haskell on Heroku (https://haskellonheroku.com/) and halcyon.sh. I don't know if I could have figured out deploying to heroku without it.
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Are you happier with the state of symmetric crypto, which, despite relying on conjectures (like the existence of pseudo-random functions) tends not to rely on _algebraic_ ones?

Personally, I don't have particular worries about the hardness assumptions of asymmetric crypto, and I think of them a bit like I think of bitcoin (hear me out). Yes, it is certain that eventually someone will solve the discrete log problem for any given algebraic structure (either by rendering all crypto that relies on it broken, or (less likely) proving it fundamentally secure), but for now, we know that this is hard (since it has been open for a while), and we're also incentivizing people to make mathematical discoveries.

I'd also claim that the "crypto community" (at least the academic side of it) and the "technology community" are not the same, and (at least to me) often feel opposed. Cryptologists write papers filled to the brim with dense and precise mathematical assumptions and reductions; technologists skim the papers, ignore the assumptions, and implement half-assed, unaudited versions of the systems in question and claim them secure (pardon my cynicism).

As to what the community thinks about mathematical public key crypto, they hail it as the greatest innovation since sliced bread and the herald of modern cryptography. Prior to modernity, cryptography was very ad-hoc and depended on what the author's intuitions; modernity introduced precise definitions of what it meant for a system to be secure and raised the bar. It also relies heavily on the concept of a hardness reduction, i.e. a proof that breaking a cryptogrpahic primitive is at least as hard as solving a yet-unsolved math problem.

Specifically about algebraic problems, I have a (low confidence) intuition that they are unavoidable in public-key crypto precisely because of the need for an algebraic structure relating the public and private keys. With this in mind, I'd rather have algorithms which rely on known hard to solve problems (demonstrated hard by having years of mathematical effort poured into them with minimal result) to those which rely on problems no one has ever bothered to look at.

A final question: you are unhappy with public key crypto that relies on algebra; would you be happier if it relied on some other branch of mathematics? Analysis? Topology (okay, so that's still algebra)? Complexity theory (a secure cryptosystem that relied only on P!=NP would be a holy grail for several reasons, but I don't know of any attempts to find one)? Would you feel safe using a cryptosystem that was secure if and only if the Riemann Hypothesis were true? If the RH were false? The Collatz Conjecture?
A fairly common practice is shipping applications utilizing Citrix to have end users remote into a citrix server to minimize the various configurations of a desktop application. Personally I dislike the architecture in that the user experience is compromised (glitchy/laggy/hacks for interfacing with the client) but it does return some of the control back to those managing the host
Using the venmo api you can get an entire friends list of any user, all you need is their ID.

I was hoping this demo would have crawled all of venmo but it looks like it is querying the api in real time. Mine only got to 3 degrees
> Why do you hate freedom?

Um, this isn't reddit. Out of all of the snark you posted you had one, tiny, possible point about creating a vector for MITM attacks but since the connection is over TLS it's not much of a concern at least at the moment plus I'd imagine they would sign such things (but I don't know for certain).

So I guess good job at taking your only point and surrounding it with nonsense which is always downvoted on HN.
Which is funny, as those exact Computer Sciencey type questions are what Google likes to throw at candidates.
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> But the idea to take someone that has never been a programmer and make them suitable for a job is laughable to me.

To be fair it seems like the people that go to the "top" bootcamps are not like this. I mean, App Academy has graduated Googlers, but a lot already had degrees or some industry experience.
Depends what "job". In this OP, they jobs are front-end internship-level jobs, writing boilerplate Android front-ends to websites. This isn't "inventing a replacement for React" or "distributed systems design" stuff.
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Even if you reduced every variant of an item in a supermarket from the 80s down to its essence, a supermarket would still cream a Soviet-era food market in selection, and most especially, reliability. I tried to find a "fair" picture of a Soviet-era market for you to see in Google images, but, all I could find were pictures of empty shelves. While this is not 100% representative, it does say something real.

If it is an "illusion", it's still built on a solid base of real choice that centralized government management completely failed to produce.
See PUP [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_Universal_Packet
The paper discusses the quantum case:

> However, it will require major advances in physics and engineering before quantum computing can scale significantly. When that happens, of course P-256 and P-384 will fall first. But, as the head of cybersecurity research at a major corporation put it, “after that it’s just a matter of money” before RSA-3072 is broken. At the point when P-384 is broken it would be unwise to use either ECC or RSA. It is not likely that the gap between quantum cryptanalysis of a 384-bit key and a 3072-bit key will be great enough to serve as a basis for a cryptographic strategy.
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>What's hard to understand about maintaining radio silence?

What's hard to understand about the fact that "radio silence" is a desirable trait in war (and that in certain circumstances only) -- not in desktop software, and even less so in one whose PRIMARY PURPOSE is connecting to thousands of addresses everyday?

And that, being up-to-date with the latest security patches, including for users who would otherwise wouldn't bother to install is better for everyone involved?
I was actually hosting on Linode (UK). My hunch was that they would be one of the more reputable networks; I've run small mail servers on them before (2+ years ago) without any problems.

It's a pity there's no easy way (that I know of) to look up the reputation for an entire network block. I'm glad to hear your experience with Linode matches mine.