skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaking an IV isn't a problem, but leaking the key would be a problem. If AES could be made to leak the key it would be a huge problem with the cipher itself. Otherwise leaking the key would be restricted to some extremely complex timing level behavior of the CPU, which would be difficult to make it all the way to the network level, without network card cooperation (though many 10gbps network cards are intel made).

Perhaps feasible, but far far less likely than compromising the entropy of a random number generator.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10524024 and marked it off-topic.
Well, getting a compiler to be self-hosting means it has to be good enough to compile a large, complex, real-world application: itself.
Def doing this when one of my friends first has a kid!
>NEVER EVER PAY... you are making the problem larger for others

That's true but for the individual payee it can make sense. Trying to get the ransomers back can work. They'll keep at it till they figure they can get harmed.
This is nearly incoherent… He doesn't order from Sprig because it's too efficient? I mean you are welcome to value whatever you want, but if you're against efficiency you will probably have a problem with nearly every for-profit business; all his complaints are at least as true of any restaurant that hires full time employees.

> In the hypothetical future we can label Full Josephine, many people don’t cook, but some people cook a lot more, and better, than ever before, and all of us, cooks and non-cooks, derive pleasure from that."

Minus rhetorical flourishes, this is identical to the Sprig future, with the difference that in the case of Sprig the cooks are compensated with full-time employment rather than the joy of cooking. It sounds like the author doesn't really value that, but I bet a lot of Sprig employees do!

The actual future: Some people cook for Josephine, some work for Sprig, some work for traditional restaurants, some people eat the above food, lots of people still make their own food.
I know way too much about this subject, some favorites are...

Åland Islands, an autonomous region between Sweden and Finland which belongs to Finland but is Swedish-speaking. What makes it notable is that it's a demilitarized zone. Something that is more usual for conflict zones like in Korea or far away places like Antarctica. It also holds an VAT exception from the EU which makes it possible to buy tax-free goods on the ferries between Sweden and Finland. TLD: .ax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land_Islands

San Marino, a microstate in Italy claiming to be the oldest sovereign state in the world that for some reason enjoy the best visa rules to China of any country. Presumably because China will generally give you the same visa rules as you give its citizens. Like many other microstates it's hard to become a neutralized citizen, requiring having lived there for at least 30 years. TLD: .sm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_microstates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_China

Bir Tawil, an area between Egypt and Sudan that is, because of disagreement over borders, claimed by neither of them. Supposedly the most non-remote unclaimed territory on earth. TLD: not yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
I remember running across the NetPBM format when I was looking at some of the images that are stored in jwz's folder on the CMU AI repository. There's something very nice about storing a bitmap in pure text. (AWK image processing comes to mind.)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/l...
It's not just Europeans. I remember a conversation years ago where people from New York City were making fun of how "unrealistic" the Roseanne TV show was, "because people that poor couldn't possibly afford that house". Never mind that the show was set in a small Midwestern town, and small Midwestern towns are, in fact, chock-full of houses very similar to the one on the show, which are, in fact, occupied by working-class people.

Europeans, New Yorkers, and (increasingly) people from the Bay Area think that paying forty billion dollars a month to live in a closet is normal. It is not.
Your off by at least 2,000 years as Rome for example used gold coins. 200BCE examples on this page : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency. And older gold coins dating back to 600BCE showed up in turkey.

Currency was likely directly created as tax payments. There are several examples where some unit of currency was basicly X food for Y time.
So "spammer." Got it.
Compose.io no longer offer Mongodb sandbox environment for free
Questionable solution but I bet it would help for hackers! Impunity is what fuels this type of criminal behavior.
Likely homage to their aerospace origins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Group
Pancreatic cancer research is far from "glamorous" and is sorely underfunded. Despite having one of the highest mortality rates of any cancer, it has some of the lowest funding.
> How come the choice to keep my sauce secret is less than any other choice?

Because this "choice" restricts freedom of other people. You don't just want it to be a secret (then all you have to do is not to tell anyone), you demand that other people to respect and enforce it to be a secret (restricting other people's choices by restricting information).

If I give you three choices A/B/C, and don't tell you which is which, do you have a choice or not? I would argue that you don't. You need to understand what's behind each choice to be able to "have" a choice.
According to Spam Nation by Krebson Security, Spam works because people can get cheap prescription drugs.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492603236
http://krebsonsecurity.com
"An entrepreneur is someone who starts their own business. But only a tiny fraction of new businesses are startups."

This needs a context: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

Because Paul Graham (and probably Silicon Valley in large) clearly has different definition for a term 'startup' than the rest of the world. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/start-up)
And here on the internet.
> A harried courier extracts your meal from a fat insulated bag; you say “thank you,” close the door, and feel bad for a moment about the differences between your lives.

People have been delivering food since before tech startups ~~~disrupted~~~ delivery, but enjoy that self-congratulatory pity
I can see from your link that you're the kind of person who cares deeply about the plight of the unprivileged. Here I was concerned about the ability of local populations to control their destiny even if that includes choices contrary to the aesthetics of the NYT, but I see now that that just leads to bad corporations making money.
Sadly, I'm guessing Josephine is illegal (well, the home cook part) in many cities in the US. It's in the same grouping as paid dinner parties.
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Huh? I literally live at the end of the line and my commute is 30 minutes...
I think his point is that Josephine has a sense of community, that the people behind the cooking are fully visible, whereas in Sprig the people are just cogs in a system.
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Might have been autocorrect on my phone but I'm leaving it now.
I have no idea how to verify the statements, but I found some comments on the blockchain.info page for the bitcoin address regarding the DoS. It is supposedly from the blackmailers: https://blockchain.info/address/1FxHcZzW3z9NRSUnQ9Pcp58ddYaS...

"Somebody with great power, who wants ProtonMail dead, jumped in after our initial attack!"
"We have no such power to crash data center and no reason to attack ProtonMail any more!"
"WE DO NOT HAVE THAT POWER! NOT EVEN CLOSE!"
"We are not attacking ProtonMail! Our attack was small, directed at their IP only and lasted 15 minutes only!"

I don't believe Protonmail have said they have received any more requests for money, so that would go along with the above. I agree that it was silly to pay the blackmailers, but there is some reason to believe that these are two separate attacks.
another article here:
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/new-clues-poin...
Trying way, way too hard.

On demand food businesses are just catering companies. Catering companies have always existed. Bolt on pizza delivery magic, paired with remote-button access from your little black mirror that constantly tracks your coordinates/altitude and now it's a daily faustian dilemma weighing too heavy?

Do you want another app to help you with that too?

From the article the author's main point is this:

Sprig-type operations drain agency and expertise out of the world. They centralize, aiming to build huge hubs with small spokes; their innermost mechanisms are hidden. They depend on humans behaving as interchangeable units of labor.

He just doesn't like that a store exists to cater to his demand. How gauche to have to interact with a store that's not a store!

He then wax romantically about some weird hippie future where it's much more fun to have your neighbors cooking for each other like one big timeless block party.

That's called a marketplace. An unregulated, cottage protected, open marketplace! That must be better better than a store but as lovely as that sounds to mingle with a range of people to get a bowl of pho or some sandwich one has to face the fact that every marketplace ends up centralized.

Every one.

An open marketplace is a winners take all video game.

Look at eBay and its class of power-sellers that dropship or flip their Alibaba account. Look at Fiverr and its class of power-users that end up dominating the search results.

You just end up dealing with the most polished store for the sake of what being a store brings to the table. The consistency, quality, and ease.

So wait, really what's the point here? What are we really trying to discover and realize about ourselves today? That treating people as interchangeable economic units is bad but this hippie fuzzy feeling way is less bad? As opposed to just cooking yourself or going to a restaurant?

Maybe this is just a promoted native post. Who knows. But it notches up another line about how frustrating annoying Berkeley and its residents are.

For extra credit contrast this piece to another post today by New York Times on the culture of GoFundMe community and a response by nostrademons

Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526447

On the whole, I think this is a good trend - it makes the economy more efficient, it encourages people to celebrate diversity instead of shunning it, and it's how the upper classes have operated for a long time, which is the source of a major power imbalance where corporations & rich people feel entitled to ask for anything and then working-class people feel ashamed to refuse.

I hope you take that, stuff it in your pipe and smoke it, guy.
I just checked my router; at over 130 GB D/L for less than 5 days worth of usage, our household is on track to use 800+GB D/L this month.

I think it's streaming video, more than anything else. Netflix seems to use somewhere between 600 to 1000 kb a second, depending on the available quality and connection (I just checked a couple of shows that we watch regularly). Assuming 0.7 MB/sec, you'd hit 27 GB a day with only 11 hours of Netflix streaming.

My GF usually works from home, and generally keeps a streaming show on a secondary monitor as background noise. With a bit of overlap in viewing, it really doesn't take much to hit big numbers.
The author isn't against efficiency. The author wants a human touch and doesn't believe Sprig provides that. This is a "oh, the humanity" article.
Brutalism is anti-totalitarian. It was a utopian movement using the latest technologies to rebuild accommodation and social environments with incredibly constrained postwar budgets after the devastation of the air war in Europe.
Or you know, if you want western capital, clean up your government.
No evidence given for it, but my first thought was to wonder is it was a government not liking ProtonMail's encrypted email service,and taking them down.
Dangling things attract fish. If he was wiggling his fingers, fish might well come to investigate.

Tickling trout is a well-established (though generally highly illegal) freshwater fishing method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_tickling
featured in the 2008 underhanded C contest with some interesting tricks: http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html
I laud his reasons as well, and I defend to the death his right to speak them.
Oldest Animal-Built Reef Found in Namibia
I see a future where a much smaller percentage of people cook. Roughly equivalent in percentage and frequency as adults that would play a musical instrument or tend to a garden.

Right now a lot of people cook meals not just because they enjoy to do so, but because having someone else cook healthy meals for you all the time is too expensive. A "Full Sprig" society can hopefully leverage specialization and economies of scale the same way that people no longer keep hens for eggs.

Yes, the feel-good-local-farm(kitchen)-to-table aspect is lost, but most people don't care about that.
Ship Docker at Docker
Phone Manufacturers: Focus on the battery
from last year, but never posted on HN before
If victims need to be consistent. When terrorists are shown that they'll either get a bomb through the roof or nothing, but never payment, then they'll change their business plan.
The basic issue is the intrusion of the MBA.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/the-scourge-of-manage...

These MBAs have latched onto article reference rates as a way to measure "productivity", and negative results rarely gets referenced, thus producing a classic perverse incentive that is distorting the scientific method.
From their blog: https://protonmaildotcom.wordpress.com/

At around 2PM, the attackers began directly attacking the infrastructure of our upstream providers and the datacenter itself. The coordinated assault on our ISP exceeded 100Gbps and attacked not only the datacenter, but also routers in Zurich, Frankfurt, and other locations where our ISP has nodes. This coordinated assault on key infrastructure eventually managed to bring down both the datacenter and the ISP, which impacted hundreds of other companies, not just ProtonMail.

At this point, we were placed under a lot of pressure by third parties to just pay the ransom, which we grudgingly agreed to do at 3:30PM Geneva time to the bitcoin address 1FxHcZzW3z9NRSUnQ9Pcp58ddYaSuN1T2y. This was a collective decision taken by all impacted companies, and while we disagree with it, we nevertheless respected it taking into the consideration the hundreds of thousands of Swiss Francs in damages suffered by other companies caught up in the attack against us. We hoped that by paying, we could spare the other companies impacted by the attack against us, but the attacks continued nevertheless. This was clearly a wrong decision so let us be clear to all future attackers – ProtonMail will NEVER pay another ransom.
Certainly, it's not great. But it's not the case that you can run an electric car off the energy needed simply to refine gasoline for a normal car. I'm all for a full accounting of all the energy used in the whole process, certainly.
Most software developers love to deliver. If the overseas contractors have slowed down to a crawl, it's probably not that they aren't "aligned" or willing, but that they can't.

If they had the ability to fix the project themselves or their process, they would have.

The usual non-technical customer approach would be to demand or plead for the developers to work harder. I've never seen this turn a problem overseas project into a successful one.

To unstick, you've got to first is to figure what is wrong, and secondly fix that.

But at this point, you don't know what is wrong, and developers don't know what is wrong or find it culturally impossible to communicate the problem.

I'd recommend getting some skilled local technical talent to take a look at the code and the recent commits to get a feel for what the underlying problem is.

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Off the top of my head, the four mostly likely problems would be:

1. Frameworkitis - Many frameworks, when doing something the framework is not designed to do, require far more code than would normally be require. This even ends up hitting harder since often these overrides must be done in ways that either can't be reused, or must be done in one place, tangling everything together.

2. Overwhelming technical debt - Spaghetti code, untested business logic, the usual.

3. Too much business complexity in the code - Given that the cofounders are not technical, they may have been asking for things that make for a lot of complexity, and the development team may not have pushed back. This can kill later development, since adding new features to complex systems is usually much more difficulty. Alternately, since this is a new business, it's possible that the requirements have been changing, leaving the system more complicated than it needs to be.

4. The developers could simply not have the skills required - A company had me see if I could speed up their application. It was days away from launch. The home page took EIGHT MINUTES to load. (with no customers using the site, only 50,000 records in the database, and static data that only changed every couple months.) Eight minutes to generate a single page!

The customer had been telling the overseas developers that this was a problem for weeks. The overseas developers were unable to figure out why, for weeks. After tracking down the problem, I added a cache in front of one piece of code, and took the site from an eight minute page generate time down to under a second.

The speed problem was not just due to a terrible architecture, nor a complete ignorance of what the frameworks involved were doing under hood, but mostly that not one person on the overseas team - even the "senior" developer - know that it was possible to find out which parts of code are slow.

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To summarize again, probably the contractors cannot fix whatever is currently wrong, and outside eyes are needed.
>I am really interested for Paul Graham and others to define term 'startup'.

Here you go:
http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
That would be cool if Fisker made an electric car and not just a hybrid ...
> anti-humanist modernists

And yet the totalitarian dictator types alway seem to prefer classicism
...and here I type you an answer. I can't really use video yet.

Larger percentage of humans are literate than ever before. Larger body of knowledge is in written form than ever before. I think we are going to rely more on text in the future, not less. Even with video content, you search, tag and label them with text. That is not going away.
The undisclosed podcast follows on from Serial, and has a lot of background as to how this came to be. http://undisclosed-podcast.com/

You can read the latest judgement here (PDF: http://cjbrownlawcom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/... ), but I'd recommend listening to both serial, then undisclosed for the background.
Working for a large American company in China, our company takes FCPA (and anti-corruption in general) very very seriously. We also emphasize non-retaliation in reporting compliance issues.
For instance, Apple's fingerprint reader is not secure because with enough work you can make a mold of somebody's print and fool it. Except now virtually everybody with an iPhone has it set up so that in practice nobody else can access their phone.

Another thing is key generation. Encryption people demand perfect randomness for the key generation, and that means the key is this crucial piece of data that must be perfectly protected and copied about. That's unusable for most people. Instead, pick the key from 1 billion derived from a user's password. If they use a different computer, or reinstall their OS, or whatever reason then the software just takes a while to try each billion until it finds the one that works.

Or encrypted email. For perfect security you need a safe way to exchange keys beforehand and all kinds of trouble. No. Just have software attach your public key in unencrypted email to recipients. If you receive an email with somebody else's public key then the software starts encrypting to them using it. It's insecure in so many ways, but it would mean the majority of email being encrypted and if done right with almost no impact to the user (password-derived keys, password change automatically sending yourself a new-key-encrypted email with the old key, etc).

Security people need to stop seeing things in black and white. Something can be insecure and "broken", yet still raise the overall level security.
Except that it seems when it comes to Azure everyone feels safe then also backing up to Azure (specifically talking about SQL database here). Sigh...
It's time to stop pre-ordering games
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In case anyone associated with Sprig reads this, I had written you guys off a while ago because I can't stand landing pages that do weird/ annoying scrolling. I just checked and it's still like that... please just make it a natural-scrolling page and I promise I'll give you a shot (instead of SpoonRocket which also does healthy).
Agreed. Whenever I hear a self important IT person saying "this place WILL go under without me" I know I'm dealing with someone delusional or inexperienced.

A company of any size can continue on even if severely crippled with nobody left who understands how anything works. I've seen it time and again - also even where I've felt I was important.

Minimal viable product and vendor lock ins are powerful real world things.
thanks, I found that right before you posted reply and already changed my comment before seeing yours :)
First time I started reading about quantum computers and the idea of entangled particles I immediately thought it would be a neat way to solve long distance space Comms. Anyone with a better brain than me care to explain if it could be a possibility?
Exactly, that's a perfect analogy. If someone kidnapped your child, paying the ransom isn't such a bad idea.
Electrek offers up their own analysis of the fact soup:

http://electrek.co/2015/10/26/teslas-biggest-competition-for...
Ask HN: How to write a good executive summary?
We are writing an executive summary for an angel round.

1. What are some good practices one should follow?

2. Good examples of early days summaries from successful companies?

3. Articles from notable people on the matter?

P.S. I know that usually it's done at a later stage, but I feel like it would make it easier to warm up angels that we can't meet in person.
He has no proof what's going on behind the scenes, and jumped into conclusion and project a holier than thou attitude just because.

People that write such articles should realize that they can cause a lot of damage to businesses. If you don't have significant evidence that people working for such companies are not treated well and are unhappy then go do your homework first, otherwise it's just unethical and irresponsible to publish your intuitions and project them as facts.
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I don't see your point. Whether you pre order or not you never know if you will like something until you try it. What solves that is demos, which are available with most major pre ordered games.