skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started this journey 3 years ago. Information security consulting, but the challenges are largely the same.

I could write a book about this. You can find me pretty easily (search my hn handle in Google, find my company, mail info@, and we can exchange other contact info), and I will happily talk with you via voice chat, my time is limited to get this out.

3. is hard, if you are primarily a technology person do not assume that because you are good at tech you can just figure all this business stuff (you can, but ... it is non-trivial)

4. This is a beautiful idea, but much harder than it sounds. I have seen it done successfully and can tell you how I have been a part of a team that made this happen

5. See 4.

Sales: Another book-worthy topic. Basically, you need to talk to people and be at every event vaguely related to technology to network with people. Go to mainframe user groups. Go to toastmasters. Network. Also if you are good at what you do you might be surprised at when and how work will magically end up in your lap once the world knows you are for hire (don't expect this to get you started, but it is neat to see in effect).

Partnering with other firms never worked for us.

Mentors/coaches... heavens yes. Find /good/ business consultants. People that can help you crystallize the outcomes you want and help you keep your eye on the ball. If you want to do more than just a one man shop, this is really helpful.

Hire a sales person? Technical sales of development and infosec consulting services is /hard/. The good ones are really expensive. Part time sales and referral type relationships rarely work (though they can some of the time, it has rarely worked for us).

That is all I have time for, will chat more later if you track me down.

edit: welcome to the big show. I can't ever imagine going back to working for anyone other than myself and my employees. It is a weird inversion to finally truly get how special and important running a business is. I do it for me, but I also do it for my employees and our freedom to live in a world with minimal red tape.
Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addicts in the U.S
Yes at the cost of not allowing you do to many things.

In that sense, a prison is safer than being outside, too. Should I live in a prison instead then?

I am not trying to bash iOS here, but it is very clear that security in iOS comes at the cost of freedom and not being able to do a lot of things. For example, you can only install apps through the App Store. You cannot mount USB drives and so on.

Security is always a tradeoff.
A great resource for burning through your idea and getting your business setup/organized -> startuprocket.com. Free, too.
Que: people who deprive themselves of sleep and then fall into depression because that's what happens when you don't get enough sleep over a long enough period
I'm once again amazed at how "routine" this stuff seems to be. In the top solution go to the life simulator and paste in a copy of the gist and then click 'fit pattern' and run. Amazing stuff.
$100 a year is too costly?
I know the answer without even reading the article. NO.
Right. Security threats are never eliminated, only mitigated, relative to the cost of mitigation.
It's fairly difficult to do anything useful with ultra-secret magic decryption tools. You can passively observe, but taking any action, even subtle indirect action, means you're eventually going to alert a target to your capabilities.

Anyway, these are extraordinarily difficult problems which may not have good solutions outside of quantum computing. You can throw all the smart people and computing power in the world at a problem and still come up with almost nothing.
Why say "over 280" when you could just say 288?
"In the past, there were two types of beer yeast: ale yeast (the "top-fermenting" type, Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and lager yeast (the "bottom-fermenting" type, Saccharomyces uvarum, formerly known as Saccharomyces carlsbergensis). Today, as a result of recent reclassification of Saccharomyces species, both ale and lager yeast strains are considered to be members of S. cerevisiae. "

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/101/yeast/
Write a business plan to focus your energy. It doesnt have to be long or fancy. Include your resources, your market, your one-year and five-year goals. There are guides and samples on the web. You may revise on an annual basis.
It was also puzzling me. I think a link posted below [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/magazine/14syrians-t.html] explains it. They are a closed ethnic community. Reporting it would be like betraying not just your employer, but also your people.

The article is really excellent. It is really a closed community. There is an religious edict that bans everyone who marry a non Syrian Jew.

From the article:
"Seventy years after the promulgation of the Edict, it seems fair to say that, taken on its own terms, it has been an almost uniquely successful tool of social engineering. The enclave grows and thrives beyond the dreams of its founders. It offers a secure economic future and a sweet family life to those who remain within its confines."

BTW, is it offensive to use the word Jew? If so, how should I have called them?
I was recently considering creating an IDE specifically for WordPress with built-in completion, tips and mapping for people who are skilled at programming but new to WP development. Would anyone use it?
The pricing for all of Gsuite($5) or O365($10) seems about on par with just paying for Slack($8), unless you're using the free tier, and those businesses don't really matter to anyone by definition.
As an accountant, 1/3rd of the auditing class I took in college was just reading about how different companies perpetuated fraud. It made an otherwise boring class, pretty fun.
I still currently work in public, and a couple of the partners are incredibly jaded because they worked on clients at some point in their careers who were committing fraud.
Meh... evil == Republicans

Here is the bill info.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1313...

If you voted for any of the sponsors, do something about it. Call them and complain.
It's actually called singlespotify. Post title is misleading.
On the flipside, it's kind of crazy that there are people who are able to function consistently with very little sleep. A friend of mine says that if she gets eight hours of sleep, she feels incredibly groggy. But five hours? Perfect. She's been like that her entire life. I was astounded. She directed me to Ying-Hui Fu's study of DEC2.
I'd rather go entirely opposite.

1. Get clients and start working for them. If you don't have more than one clear customer who already wants you, you're not ready for anything further in this list.

2. Incorporate and handle the core legal and financial stuff (only when #1 is solidly working!)

3. Setup the business processes and workflow;

4. Start aggressively looking for more projects - not online, though. The projects available there are not the projects you want.

5. "Prepare the basement in form of a site with portfolio, our focus, expertise and articles." - this is fluff that can wait, it's a bit useful for marketing but not strictly necessary. You won't get clients from cold sales or random advertising anyway, you'll get them by personal contacts and word of mouth where this won't matter much; and if you won't get clients from personal contacts and word of mouth, then you'll fail anyway and this won't help you. The connections and reputation to get offline clients is your primary competency as a consulting team, so work hard on that. The technical skills of your team are important but clearly in the second place, they're necessary but not sufficient for success; there's a good reason why successful consulting businesses usually are started only after a decade or two in the industry as that's one of the few ways how a new company can get the required reputation to get started on decent contracts.

6. Hire a salesperson to look for projects when your existing projects can cover multiple full-time developers, i.e. when your business is working and you've decided that you want to scale to a larger volume. Before that, you'll have to do the sales yourself, as your own personal reputation and expertise will be the main reason why others hire your company; you'll have to convince customers that you/your company has expert skills and that you can do things that they can't do in-house and a salesperson can't really do that until you have a solid reputation and lots of prior clients.
As an interesting anecdatum, I've noticed that when I binge-sleep, i.e. for more than 8.5 hours, I feel depressed.
This is very interesting. I hope to see treatments that not only uses melatonin and environmental light, but one that also modifies artificial light (indoor/computer/phone/TV/etc...) to optimize wellness. Kind of a F.lux of Things.
I use markdown for blog posts and presentations, pandoc and/or hakyll (jekyll for haskell) suits me fine. What am I missing that org mode would provide?
Could be.

A user that knows about malicious code (which you would have to in order to trigger it to go silent) in a binary just shouldn't use the binary at all though.

The broader point is more important: compiled software isn't a black box, treating it like a black box is not the only or best way to analyze it.
Meanwhile, this person did a digital clock out of Conway's Life:

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a-di...
Data structure problems solved using Hashing
Diet and global climate change
The dreaded “why should we hire you”
This is not uncommon. This is taking tradecraft and applying it in a useful and valuable way (for society as a whole). Frank Abagnale is one such example.

American security consultant known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, and impostor between the ages of 15 and 21.

Abagnale also continues to advise the FBI, with whom he has associated for over 40 years, by teaching at the FBI Academy and lecturing for FBI field offices throughout the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/
I find it hard to tell the difference between between "just expressions" and things that are just accidentally inaccurate.

I hope you'll forgive me saying it sounds like you're having a rough day, and that maybe taking a break might do you some good. Venting on Hacker News might feel better in the short term but I don't think it's good for you or for the discussion.
The average reaction time for humans is 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus (SRC g?=human reaction time)

I think you might have some leeway on the 1ms. :)
sshfs

It's very nice to be able to interact with files on remote computers just like normal files on your local filesystem.
I can think of over 1 reason
I have no idea, the title changed after I posted it and it was "288". It was also originally a "Show HN:" but someone removed it (maybe I was using it wrong, I don't know).
My experience is sleep deprivation increases depression
There is even a genetic component to it, at least for a small portion of people.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetic-mutation-...
Eating More – Or Less – Of 10 Foods May Cut Risk of Early Death
The parent comment is factual. Your comment presumes motive.
Admittedly I didn't put a lot of time into making my point but there was a point: it's disingenuous to portray offenders as hapless victims of cruel cruel prison, when the real victims they f'd over, don't get to choose or buy better treatment.
I wrote a post about a Serverless CMS architecture that is a good follow up to this article: https://www.aerobatic.com/blog/a-serverless-cms-architecture...
Ask HN: Open-source projects opened for beginners?
Hey guys and girls! I'm learning programming for some time now, I have job as Designer/Front-End Developer in small company, but I want to learn more by contributing to some open source projects.
An ideas where should I start this journey? What are some good initiatives opened for beginners?

I'm mostly coding in Ruby and JS, but I'm not afraid to Python and I'm mainly interested in frontend things.
If you trust a one-time pad---which no one actually uses---you can trust stream ciphers, which are actually practical.
You can use something called a data diode. These are used in high security networks to provide secure one way communication (insecure->secure). The idea is that if there _is_ communication it's not possible to exclude compromise completely. However if you do get compromised no information can escape a network with one way traffic, so an attacker might only destroy your information.

Funnily enough, someone else thought to use a raspberry pi for this purpose too: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=58957&p=5...
I don't know about sleep and depression. My Mom was bipolar and the topic never came up, other than her being up to all hours when she was manic.

But I recently read an interesting article about vitamin D and that lead me to supplement magnesium and vitamins D, A and K. I only do it once every three days to be conservative.

http://www.precisionnutrition.com/stop-vitamin-d

And I've found I'm much more decisive and likely to take action. In fact, last December I became a morning person using early morning light and exercise. Instead of getting to the office after 10, I now get in by 8 most days. I keep to it on weekends too and go to a coffee shop.

I also recently changed my evening routine during the week, cutting out TV and stopped eating chips after dinner.

For the morning and the evening changes, I devised a routine of things I do that make doing the hard parts easier. In the morning, I turn the light on, use the restroom, drink some water, set a timer for ten minutes, relax until it goes off, exercise, shower, dress and get out the door. I try to stick to this every day.
The submitter is the creator.
The first rule to reduce technical debt
I'm not much of a FB user myself, but my wife's auntie (70yo, Filipino, living with us in the US).

- Saw the first pictures of her grandkids on FB

- Organized a school reunion in NY with people flying in from all over the world on FB

- Chats weekly with her daughter working on Singapore over FB messenger

- Writes crazy long prayers for sick friends on FB

- Found former students living locally on FB that she socializes with.

Whether or not FB makes you lonelier or not seems to really be situational and at least for auntie (and many others) they consider it a tremendous positive thing in their lives.
This is an irrational argument.
"Diversity of opinion? For starters, American newsrooms are not very diverse along racial or gender lines, ..."

They're just categorically unable to see what's staring them right in the face, aren't they? Stop. Equating. Race. And. Gender. With. Diversity. Of. Opinion. It's. A. Non. Starter.
More from the article about how they are a really closed community:

“Never accept a convert or a child born of a convert,” Kassin told me by phone, summarizing the message. “Push them away with strong hands from our community. Why? Because we don’t want gentile characteristics.”
The image you've linked to doesn't really imply that iOS' dialogs are a bad idea because, as you said, Apple's dialogs ask very clear questions. They don't intimidate the user with tech voodoo.

http://nshipster.s3.amazonaws.com/core-location-always-autho...

Anecdotally, my tech-adverse friends choose Don't Allow when in doubt.
The section in the article on jet lag mitigation was extremely confusing -- the author wrote of evening light and morning light but was unclear which time zone he was referring to.

Can someone explain a bit more clearly? If someone is traveling from SF to Europe or SF to Asia, when should melatonin and light be used optimally?
> But this assumes that the person profiting from the mining is also paying for the electricity.

Otherwise it doesn't make sense. You cannot steal electricity forever.
According to these people's clock, it is always the same time.

For instance, they don't mention that the Russians not only have silo-based missiles, but also truck-based missiles that are mobile and can't be targeted as effectively with Minuteman and Trident, "super fuse" or not. No mention that the Russians are doing a major upgrade of their silo-based and truck-based ICBMs that is far more threatening than improved fusing.
I would love to maintain our websites with a static site generator and manage updates via pull requests to our version control system.

I don't have a single user who would understand that sentence. That's why we use WordPress.
Neat! To convert more visitors you'll want to show more examples. I found myself thinking "but what does it look like?"
Bitcoin Casinos Recorded US$4,000 Being Wagered Every Minute in Feb of 2017
Living Above the Store
> This does not mean that it's "inherently" insecure.

It's a pretty strong indicator though.
Considering DH is often used along with AES, I'd assume many encrypted communication streams implementing these that have been captured will likely be broken when this becomes a reality. Anyone care to shed some light on this? As far as ECDH goes... (afaik) most ECC implementations are vulnerable to quantum computing attacks...are there any decent post-quantum key exchange algorithms / protocols?

EDIT: nevermind, i've now read through the thread more and have found answers. :)
10 Most Common Modules of Linux PAM
I had a user once request that I add VoiceOver support to my app. I was surprised by how easy and simple it was to add it. If I recall correctly, it was just a few fields you have to fill out on your UI components. So once I learned how to use them, I always fill out to fields on future projects.
Your stance on web programming doesn't make a JS-free web reality.
Which is still true, there's no stylus for the iPhone. You can buy one for the iPad Pro, which is a completely different product, just like you can buy a Wacom tablet for your Mac.
Reaching new records in speech recognition
FYI, we have a mobile app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drift-messaging-for-sales/id... and a two-way Slack integration at Drift. http://www.drift.com/
It's not really laryngitis.

"Sam Antar, generally not short of opinion, has suddenly developed laryngitis."

That's a metaphor. It means that Antar is suddenly not talking when the subject changes to Barry Minkow, and the author's opinion is that this is because they are or were in a criminal conspiracy.
And I'd rather work 10-6...but I'd be happy either way, if we just did away with the time shift.
That's great, thank you. If I get time I'll check it out later when I have "proper" internet.
Yeah that happens to me too. It's almost like a sleep hangover. Very weird.
Maybe with a pre-configured, cross-platform App - It might be "easier", but then you'd have to have it auto-update as well.

While with any dynamic CMS, it's just - go to this site and login.
High-intensity interval training may have anti-aging benefits, study finds
Not sure what is optimal, but I find melatonin 30min before the normal bedtime in a new country helps a lot (3mg day one, 1-2mg days two and three; 3 days total).
Do you want to create your own product or do you want to consult?

My customers are sick of consultants who are really just pitch men for products, products they probably do not need. When i consult i openly say that i am not tied to any product, that while i do suggest and evaluate products i never accept comissions. That's pure consulting. The client comes first.

The other type of consulting is to offer consulting services as a way of getting your foot in the door. These are the people that bid low (or free) with the goal of selling product later. I dislike this approach. I find it dishonest and so do my clients.
You could actually be living in a dream with Drift. https://www.drift.com/slack/
I read the 40 Knot Sailboat in the 1960s. An American Bernard Smith had the same idea and attraction to proas.
wonder how one does a static e-commerce site.
Is writing ℅ instead of % some kind of meme? I'm seeing it everywhere all of a sudden, but I can't imagine you can type such an obscure character by accident and so frequently. Wondering if I'm not getting the joke, or if it's some kind of obtuse political or technical statement about something.
Just one. I have an old gmail.com account from when they first started, but all of the newer accounts I get are google apps or gsuite or whatever they're calling it now. Those don't require a unique phone number.
A few years ago Disney were working on simulating bumpmaps on touch-screens [1] using dynamic variation of friction achieved using electrovibration [2], but I've not heard anything about it recently. I wonder what happened to the research.

[1] https://www.disneyresearch.com/project/3d-touch-surfaces/

[2] http://www.olivierbau.com/teslatouch.php
There is another proposed ETF being ruled on in a couple weeks:

>"The Commission, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,9 designates March 30, 2017 as the date by which the Commission should either approve or disapprove the proposed rule change."

https://news.bitcoin.com/sec-delays-decision-solidx-bitcoin-...
American Fuzzy Lop v0.07b – about 1k LoC, oldest version released
Arguably the 1940s were worse.
Me too. I tend to be more depressed when I don't sleep as well, although this could be correlation rather than causation.
It does matter to Netflix. They don't publish their numbers and just use them for internal metrics so you can bet that they are honest with themselves about their numbers.
At one ton of CO2 per megawatt hour, we could be looking at 2 million tons CO2 a year.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=74&t=11

100 gallons of gasoline also creates a ton of CO2 for context.
But it defaults to on which means that's where it is for most people.
No, the more developers the better is usually the case.

Any app that is large and complex at it's core with a very wide API that is continuously expanded on and occasionally refactored will get new bugs and vulnerabilities along the way.

Couple that with many developers that are exchanged now and then and you have a nice unavoidable mess to handle whether you want to or not.

Also, a majority of the vulnerabilities are in abandoned and badly coded plugins:

https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/wordpress-security/statistic... (2014)
Indeed, yes, sorry.
> The justice system is screwed up, no doubt, but is this really a problem with the justice system?

Yes. It's not a simple problem, but it literally means the justice system is failing to deliver justice to society. It's failing at its only function.
I thought this was interesting until I saw the author was a psychiatrist, and psychiatry has zero scientific validity. And his article is just referencing a bunch of tiny sample size studies of dubious merit.
Thought on HTTPS and caching
California paves way to self-driving car tests without humans
Whether you’re a person or a business, you need to give to get
The logical pricing would be per font? and you could modify each font you bought indefinitely (except maybe not upload new templates after the first month, to possibly prevent people from creating new fonts out of just one).
Mood yes. Ask the kids who rave all night. But cognition? Im not convinced. I find my memory and problem solving abilities really drop after 30+ hours without sleep. Maybe it is a good tool for the depressed, but i would not suggest it to those looking to boost otherwise healthy/normal minds.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13843532.
Psychiatrists hold a medical doctorate, so unless you are claiming that medical science has no scientific validity I believe you are thinking of Psychology, which is an entirely different field.
If you use Jekyll, there's https://staticman.net/. An open-source solution for static comments.
There's an iOS accessibility engineer who's blind [1]. It's amazing how dedicated they are on accessibility features

[1] http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-innovation-blind-engine...