skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and worthless when it actually comes to running a business.

They may or may not be worthless, but I don't see how Bob Parson can even know this.

How many times has he become a billionaire that he (or anyone) can extract just those behaviors that in fact make a difference from those that are mere coincidence.

How do these "rules" stack up when examined in the context of people who don't become billionaires, or even reasonably successful?

As an example, I bet there are at least a few people who did quite well by sticking to what they knew and what they felt comfortable with and who would have not succeeded had they stepped out of their comfort zone.

The book The Halo Effect covers this fairly well.

http://www.the-halo-effect.com/
GLegos. Glass LEGO made from sand and printed out.

The machine needs to be scaled and cheapened - but it MUST be made to make bricks - over time, the bricks will be refined and they will be available for sale in the Organic or Fair Trade aisle of Home Depot.

A smaller version shall be made and refined to allow girls in west africa to make beads and cups and such.
50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue
At audio frequencies, characteristic impedance is almost always irrelevant.

hi-Z is a crystal mic, guitar pickup or crystal phono pickup source.lo-Z is a dynamic or condenser mic source. Obviously, a preamp may be used as an impedance converter to lower hi-Z to loZ. There's such a preamp in the condenser mic.

The cables are hiZ or loZ only in that they're generally used with one source or the other. But that's by convention. loZ is usually a balanced XLR connection; hiZ is generally an unbalanced 1/4" connection.

hiZ is generally at around 1 megohm. loZ is archetypally 600 ohm. Line is neither; it's 10,000 to 50 or 100k ohm.
So there's no evidence, then.
OK, drinking alcohol is bad. I don't. What now?
Cool, a birthday gift from Space. :)
Unfortunately given the scope of that paper, it doesn't sound like typing patterns can be used just yet. A sample size of 36 participants doesn't handle the scale involved when going against 'The Internet'.

Also, the paper collected timestamps of each keystroke, something that'd need to done on suspects; however, if they are already suspecting you, they probably have other ways to identify you.

Finally, how in the world does a paper like this get away with having 'nowadays' in it? I know its a legit word, but, just seems awkward.
That's programming. I'm hoping these CS videos are more about data structures, algorithms, theory of computation, introduction to machine learning, language compilation, etc.
got any screen grabs of the old design? This site looks neat but would like to see where it came from. archive.org seems a bit spotty.
You're offering to work for free anyway so what's it matter if you don't make money?

If you happen to make something awesome then you own all the opportunity if it's yours, which is way better than some guy you hand it over to for free or fall into dispute with over it.
Looks like they were a getting a bit anxious that they were going to be outed, which will ultimately still happen anyway. Regardless, it was a fun reading their Pastebins and Twitter feeds every few days making a mockery of multiple corporations information security.
> Why screw that up by letting the browser width determine column width?

Because I choose browser width, and I set it where I like. That's why the web is better than paper.
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It would be great if one of our resident HN functional geeks could give a short review of the book and why it and lambda are still relevant (more relevant?) now.
Ticketmaster runs tons of stuff that isn't arena scale. Warfield/Grand Regency Ballroom/Fillmore in SF come to mind.
The human element is clearly the weak point, but it's also the easiest to overcome. The cracker who speaks to no one is secure beyond reproach. That they inevitably speak to others in search of recognition and respect is a flaw in the operators, not the system.
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<aol>I second this.</aol> Khan Academy already has sections on finance, history, etc. why not CS? That way you could stand on the shoulders of the infrastructure and focus on you content.
I have an interview Monday with some randoms and I am a bit worried; non-paid, equity only. Is it even worth the drive? Should I be wasting my time? Will they even be successful?

Well I'm unemployed, can't find work- I'm even in Google Security Hall of Fame, interned at the District Attorney's office and two classes shy of my CJ degree- and really need something to get me started... so why not? Not saying this path is for everyone, but you have to risk something if you ever want to gain anything.
@benologist: He recommended that I try to sell stuff.
Lulzsec/gn0sis/AnonOps dox'd
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I'm going to start a store that sells only stolen goods at ridiculously low prices. Rather than judge it right away, please wait and see how the public reacts. Let them decide. Then we will know if it is wrong.

This line of thinking makes no sense.
Amazon Kills Alexa SOAP API Due To Security
quote:
Positional arguments require mentally lining up the 7th argument in your function call with the 7th argument in the function signature, and so on.

If your function has 7 arguments, consider refactoring
So what I want to know is whether the ActiveX control is actually doing anything necessary [1] to automate the install process. Is it telnetting to the modem or something like that?

Other commenters mentioned you can call them to activate your account. What info do you have to give them that's not collectible via a web form?

[1] I'm assuming the whole ActiveX thing is to push a download of IE8 because the code whatever tool they used to build the signup form only works in IE8. But it just boggles.
The downside of a loan is that it will require a personal guarantee, which means you're personally liable to pay it back. If the business fails (or more specifically the business is unable to make the loan payments and defaults on the loan), it will negatively affect your credit. Ruining your credit isn't as bad as most people make it out to be, especially if you're young and can endure 7 years with only paying cash for everything (it's a good lesson to learn young).

Assuming your venture is successful, the huge upside to a loan is that it's the cheapest money you can possibly get. Even at something like a crazy 16% interest rate on hard money leg-breaker type loans, it's way cheaper than giving away 10-40% of your company to get VC money.

The other upside to a loan is that you have WAY more flexibility in the direction of your company, especially in terms of exit timelines. Everybody (i.e. those in the VC bubble) bashes 'lifestyle' businesses, but it's hard to turn your nose up at $10-50K per month in passive income. With VC money, you are forced into pursuing very fast and hard growth which generally sucks (from a founder perspective). With a loan, you can grow nice and slow and comfortably or you can go balls to the wall...it's your choice.

With that said, the absolute best investors are customers. Leave yourself a 35-50% financial buffer, but only borrow enough to get to profitability through revenue. If you can hit that magical moment, it's as close to nirvana as most of us will ever get. :)
I agree that it's not the free music aspect that drives Turntable. It's that social recognition for a good song. I was using it with another member of my startup on Friday (before it was banned in Canada) and we created our own room. Literally just the two of us rocking out trading songs. If someone's song sucked, we'd chirp the other person. It makes listening to music fun, which was previously lacking.

Definitely agree on the legal problem here. The whole non-US shutdown doesn't look promising.
There are lots of other ways to get good advice besides raising VC money.

I'd even argue that VC investors are generally too biased towards huge growth that they will push you in a direction that doesn't necessary align with your goals, but it aligns with their goals.
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I don't understand why Paul thinks so highly of Sam Altman, supposedly a guy with a 40 year old soul [1], that he even made him partner at yc.

I saw plenty of writhing away from the blame (It's a bug!), instead of admitting his mistake and apologizing publicly.

I saw a lame joke written by Sam in this thread (shortly pulled after by the author) that was something to the effects of "I wouldn't help clean his house, he clearly doesn't like me".

If I saw all this and I was on the board, I would've already called a quick board meeting to replace the current CEO.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Here you go: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team

There is an email address for 'Feature Requests'.
If they were serious about the investigation they'd probably get a sneak and peak warrant to install a keylogger/etc. (either electronically or physically) instead of just a smash and grab. That way they'd have some good trial evidence, because as you say relying on forensics for computer crime is quite dicey - something the bureau is all too familiar with. If they can beat the system electronically this also gives them a chance to see whether there is anything that'd make a quick seizure worth it.

The law enforcement exposure they just did undoubtedly made it much easier to get warrants or FISA approval if they did have some targets.
Look for local city/county business development loans. They generally have a requirement that 'you get turned down by a traditional lender'. Damn near anybody can qualify for that one!

The key with most of the local BD loans is they are looking for local job growth. Get some local insider advice on how to structure your application, play up how many local jobs you'll create and it's actually pretty easy to snag some cheap money.
Harvard's CS50 is a good course too.
Because if they ever got caught the company would be sued out of existence (probably bought by competitors at that point). They have too much to lose in most cases.
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Classic text on implementing typed Haskell/ML-like languages circa late 80s. Many of the terms and concepts remain relevant, though state of the art of runtime systems has advanced a lot.
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I wish they had the new 107 on there. It's a very different course now (all C and assembly). Unfortunately the Stanford Center for Professional Development does most of the video taping now and is very resistive to putting videos online because they make something like $1k from people who pay just to watch the videos and $5k from people who are officially enrolled and get exams and assignments and such.

Luckily, there are some newer recordings at http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php

I hear 161 (Algorithms) is a great class. 229 (Machine Learning) is supposed to be pretty good too.
> you know at least some of the exit nodes are controlled by the US gov't

http://www.google.com/search?q=high+traffic+colluding+tor+ro...
Japan was quite rich before the war. They were powerful enough to take on the US in the sea and air, and China on the ground, at once; and bounced back after the bombs stopped falling.
Yup, you use a compromised Windows machine or Linux server in a third world country as a proxy. When you're done, you wipe the disk.
Well, I'd like to take this time to recommend Brown Paper Tickets (out of Seattle). They do a fantastic job, and it's very common to see them used in Seattle. A great, ethical service with minimal fees. Especially for small, local events. Even cooler: if your event is free, their service is free.
> Shenanigans. Unless you have the password of the logged in user, you can't read stuff belonging to other users

Their home directory defaults to world readable, and the default umask is set so documents created are world readable, so you can read things in their home directories.

The Desktop, Documents, and so on directories are 700, so things in those should be unreadable.
He spends a lot of time on the syntactic ambiguities of keyword arguments in Ruby when calling without parens. I understand how that's annoying, but how hard would it be to just put the parentheses back? He seems to be making a mountain of a molehill on that point.
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In their defense, the problem with U-deals is no where near as obvious as the problem with spamming.

If they just offered a white label U-deal (get 20% off ice cream) without saying the brand, even if they had the particular brand in mind, that would be another possible fix.

Also, let's retain a sense of perspective. Napster was initially ethically shady, but because everyone did it ethics changed. Same with Youtube or Kazaa. Same with using Google or Bugmenot to bypass NYT or WSJ paywalls. Same with using Adblock or the Pirate Bay, or internet porn.

What was really bad and weird and out there became normalized and useful. Startups won't always get this right but it's better to have some mischief than total hidebound obedience to convention.
you're, not your.

edit: desides? How old is the author, I wonder? It all sounds very 'schoolyard'.
>The assumption that ATT needs to do it, is like assuming that a website needs to use cookies - it doesn't follow the money. The article implies that this process costs ATT millions, whereas logic would make the continued existence of such a practice unlikely and analysis of ATT's cost and revenue structure would indicate that it probably has the opposite effect on their bottom line.

Well, that's one way of interpreting it. Another way is to say that AT&T is a monopoly provider and therefore has no incentive to cut costs. The fact that the setup process is baroque doesn't cost AT&T anything - its not like customers have a plethora of alternatives for their broadband access. So, what AT&T optimizes for is cost of development, and I can assure you it was cheaper to develop this "solution" using half-trained consultants than it would have been to develop a well-designed setup page using experienced software engineers.
I find it even stranger that they don't simply raise the price of the ticket and hide the cost of the fee that way. If a ticket is $25 and then it has a $5 fee I would be upset, but I wouldn't notice if it was just a $30 ticket.
It was only a matter of time until they pissed someone off who has the power to do something with their anger
I've never found a situation where keyword arguments are a better choice than setters. Setters are dynamic, you can override their implementation. Keyword args only let you override the method that receives them, which provides less granularity and leads to duplication (assuming there is more than one method that accepts a shared arg).
Uh, no. I spoke of positive spiritual and mental effects of things like running and surfing, not their well-documented health benefits.
Very good comment with some really good observations, thanks!
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with
ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a
large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing
and transaction printing.

So perhaps, printer is a device which does printing.
> It all sounds very 'schoolyard'.

Welcome to "hacking."
i think you are a bit naive - more likely that skype and microsoft competitors make sure that all the skype users and programmers know how bad skype is ,

or after the deal - how bad is microsoft
I am currently imagining the icy thrill running down their spines if these guys fingered them properly...
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don't get me stared on the lamefest that is OpenBSD
single page link instead of 12 parts.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/27/110627fa_fact_...
there is no "lead developer".

Shall we discuss why pfSense is based on FreeBSD, not OpenBSD?
Don't over-think it. Unless there's some particular thing that only a certain operating system can run/do then there's really not much difference.
People just have that inherent need to rationalize everything they do, so they will be saying how they're using this or that system because it's faster, more stable or whatever else. When in fact the biggest reason is that simply they are used to it.

I'm a Windows guy and couldn't care less to switch. I don't know where those crazy stories of Windows crashing everyday etc. come from. An OS just like all the rest, if you have to actively look for a reason to switch then there's probably none.

But still sometimes perhaps it's nice to just change the environment. Makes life more interesting.
I take that back, they have the old design under the 'old' subdomain. Cool.
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What is a busy box?
Last time I tried it (default browser on Nexus One with 2.3) I couldn't; this meant I couldn't read about Android on Google's site about Android.
That supports my theory that TicketMaster's primary reason for existence is to be a scapegoat. Venues want to charge market-clearing prices, but don't want to be accused of "gouging" customers. So they bring in TicketMaster to take the reputation hit, in exchange for splitting the profits.
I read the whole thing, for some lulz search laurelai then incremental search fbi lol
http://busybox.net/

Used in some consumer embedded gear running linux.

or maybe not?
What's the point of the VPN? A place to store data that is in a country that isn't US friendly?
I think it's funny how someone who's been here for a month is welcoming someone who's been here for 1100+ days to "hacking". I agree though, it does sound quite schoolyard. The spelling and grammar mistakes don't help with the pathos of whoever 'A Team' is. I just posted this since I thought it was interesting how quickly Lulzsec has said bye bye after declaring war and more dumps every week with 'a big one' coming just this upcoming Monday. Saw this floating on /r/netsec so I thought to share it here.
I'm just guessing, but I think it's probably an installation of http://www.busybox.net/, which includes a standalone sshd. This would make it very easy to allow remote access once you're in a system.
This Hubbard guy sounds really smart. My favorite quote was "If we don't disrupt ourselves, someone else will." It seems like a lot of big business failures would have been prevented if the companies had the courage to disrupt their own business model. Microsoft and their foot-dragging on the web comes to mind. Obviously they haven't failed yet, but wouldn't they be healthier if they had embraced the change and pushed it forward instead of trying to hold their position against it?

Anyway, I hope Hubbard has what it takes to pull off his vision.
How would they verify it really is the business?
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I'm rather fond of the fork of it named "Textual". It's $5 in the App Store, but he's got public source and you can build it yourself. Very clean, very nice.
If the app is going to built similar to Khan, my guess is there will be videos (with progressions) for several languages and dialects. I have no inside info - and stand to be corrected - but Khan offers a wide web (not as in interwebs) of sub-categories that branch out to a sizable spectrum, so I am guessing hackercs.com will too (within the field of 'CS').
I started with MIT's [Open Courseware] Intro to Programming... got me very interested in learning more about CS.
Hmm

* mentions HBGary a lot
* focuses on people who have been previously associated with the HBGary hack
* shows special disdain for kayla and sabu & seems to be personally offended
* likes to link people to their social networking profiles
* only non-skiddie name mentioned is Barr's
* obviously works (worked?) in infosec
* previously in the military? (ALPHA MIKE FOXTROT = Adios Mother Fuckers)

Gee, I wonder who the author might be...
A compromised box someone proxies attacks from.

more mentions here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/24/lulzsec-irc...
Why would you think it was a metaphor? It is a physical place and when you see in it mentioned in the press, they quite literally mean this particular location. Also, having grown up in Silicon Valley, I can tell you that Mountain View is in SV.

When I was a kid, San Jose was the "gateway to Silicon Valley" which basically was anywhere in Santa Clara county (at that time, mostly the 415 area code).
> I think it's funny how someone who's been here for a month is welcoming someone who's been here for 1100+ days to "hacking".

Cause the age of your HN account = "hacker cred", right? How dare he talk back to an elder!

Regardless, xtal's statement about hacker culture is accurate.
Tl;dr: The article documents "the largest insider-trading case in history" where a hedge fund set up kick backs to individuals who provided the hedge fund insider trading tips.
>I think it's funny how someone who's been here for a month is welcoming someone who's been here for 1100+ days to "hacking".

Some day you'll discover alt accounts, and on that day you will feel like a god.
Microsoft Xenix, 1980.
> 20:25 <Laurelai> want me to be an informant on account im everywhere and iwas in the army

No honour amongst thieves eh.
Ignoring conventions cannot be mainstream by design.

Of course what can happen (and has been going on for some time already) is that people will want to feel that they are. A lot of people do things that are very common and conventional but give them a feeling of being a rebel.

"Hackers" fall for that too. They can be waking up everyday with the feeling that they're right on their path to building an amazing thing when in fact they're doing nothing innovative.
Just because people will have read essays by PG etc. will not make people suddenly building useful things and ignoring conventions. We'll just see (and are seeing) the convention shift.

The so called hacker community seems to have as many taboos as other communities.
I don't see how anyone can actually trust this leak though. How can we verify if this information is legitimate?
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They aren't proof, but they might be enough (I am not a lawyer) for a search warrant for email addresses, person's homes, and phone/ISP records of the people named in the "d0x."
For lack of a better explanation, is it crazy to consider the possibility lulzsec released this themselves? Hack innocents, preferably script kiddies from 4chan, install evidence on their systems, and walk away through the smoke.
Yeah, I never heard of it. If the only people who know about a Google service are Google fans, it will fail.
Most importantly, if a random group posting to pastebin can find them, the FBI has got to be able to, too.