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There is speculation that he sold off all his assets and moved them all to Belize etc to protect himself from lawsuits, including a wrongful death lawsuit.

http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1615167/print
Headline is total link bait. Should be "how a phishing attack can empty your bank account" or the like, dragging linkedin into the headline is just lame.
Javascript cryptography is breakable by teenagers. The attacks don't require a government.
> A lot of people work because they like to work

Or because they are wired in a way that they dont know what else to do. I would feel like i have been fallen into a trap if I was to spend my next 10 years trying to build the next company. I want to broaden my horizon.
Things a company will ask you to know is a megaframeworks. Else, it's a micro or simply framework.

Obviously, I'm not serious here; but there's some truth in it. I.e. You'll see some companies ask for django or rails developers; not for flask python hacker right ;-)
Thought this might be of interest to some. Descriptive text: Each fall, CS50 offers a number of seminars on topics related to or beyond the scope of the course, some of which are meant to empower students with practical skills (e.g., How to Use Vim), others of which are meant to prepare them for final projects (e.g., How to Build Facebook Apps).
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> If you were standing on the edge of a face, and looked back toward the center, you’d be able to clearly see the round bubble of air and water extending above the flat surface. I strongly suspect that it would be pretty.

Anyone here willing to take on the task of rendering an image of what this would look like?
This sentiment falls victim to the fallacy that something is secure because it should be secure. The commenter is right that the "security software experts" have failed to protect his mom. But Javascript cryptography doesn't care. It's still insecure. Engineering is a spectacular douchebag, but it is in charge nonetheless.
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Dunno how you got your prices but the MBA starts at around 1000E and ends at around 2000+EUR
The Z starts at around 1700 and ends at around 4500EUR
Not sure about the samsung.

Of course, you don't get the same between a MBA and a Z.

The MBA is a pretty nice machine in fact, if you're an OSX user and don't need the best-of-the-best (aka the Z, so far, its so much faster than the MBA it's not even funny)
I don't think it applies here because the focus is on making money and solving problems, not on "how can I spend my fortune?" However, that doesn't mean that some members don't get hassled. It's entirely possible they do but since I don't have money (I have nothing but debt and have said that repeatedly), I really am not someone who can say for sure if the folks who have made it get hassled by people who meet them through HN.
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Or OS X if you learn the shortcuts.
We seem to be on a track now such that in 5 years, all the mainstream browsers will support a set of crypto primitives built into the browser, implemented in C, and exposed via Javascript bindings. And that's fine.

But it means that we're not going to have end-to-end crypto in web applications for another ten years, because these schemes don't degrade gracefully; the majority of users will have to upgrade before they become useful.
A wizard did it.

Actually, I haven't read The Algebraist yet, but if I had to guess, it's a vaguely magical Culture explanation, like artificial suns surrounding the moon, or industrial processes within giving off enough waste heat to keep it warm, like the Puppeteer homeworld.
Absolutely. This explains all -

"Barracuda Networks customers using the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall are protected from these emails."
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It's not obvious from your question which aspects of the MBA are unsatisfactory, and which ones you would like the alternative to have. Can you say more about your needs?
No! Very common misconception!

You cannot verify the integrity of a browser Javascript cryptosystem by checking a SHA2 hash of the Javascript file containing the crypto.

That's because any other piece of content, from Ajax requests and whatnot to, in many browsers, the CSS files, some of them cached and some of them loaded on the spot... any other piece of content that contributed to the page that hosts the crypto code can alter the runtime to trivially intercept secrets or fix keys.

Until browsers provide a primitive to verify the whole runtime, cryptographic hashes won't do anything to ensure integrity for Javascript.
Given the option between his mom sending it unencrypted, and encrypting it with an easy-to-use extension he set up for her, why not encrypt it? Surely it can't _hurt_ an already horrible situation?
Not surprised. It's clear the ones who engage in criminal activity are not the smartest hackers in any given community.
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Good point. On one of the "Startups For the Rest of Us" podcast, Rob essentially said the same thing. Paraphrasing:

"It took me a long time to realize I could go on vacation for a month at a time and not worry. I kept thinking 'Shouldn't I be working? Isn't there something I need to do?'"
Exactly. Or, as the author puts it:

I imagine a different future, where if Alice wants to talk to Bob and
Bob wants to talk to Alice, there’s no unaccountable intermediary that
can interfere with their communication, whether they’re speaking text,
or video, or 3-D models, or simulation.

I never thought I'd live in a society where the value of privacy or anonymity was up for debate. These are real world concepts that I thought everyone took for granted in their routine communications, but are being tossed aside on the Internet merely because finding a technical solution seems too hard (and it is very, very hard).

Maybe we should reframe the debate around the concept of intimacy instead. There are a lot of activities that are perfectly innocent, but I still wouldn't want to do them in a crowded room or in my boss's office. The Internet is becoming the primary medium of electronic communication. I should be able to use it to have an intimate discussion without it being data mined by anyone. There's no reason any third party should be able to detect the conversation is even taking place, and anonymity should be at my discretion, subject to the acceptance of the party I'm communicating with.
But is taking a while for Erlang to come to terms with it...see Joe Armstrong "Why OO sucks"
(http://www.sics.se/~joe/bluetail/vol1/v1_oo.html)
What do you think about the low resolution of the screen? for that reason alone i am considering the vaio z instead.
Hah, looks almost exactly like mine: jKey ( http://oscargodson.com/labs/jkey/ ) && ( https://github.com/OscarGodson/jKey ). Nice having a micro library tho I guess to throw into your existing projects.
"he could have been fulfilling his passions."

and given his talents and interests those passions could have helped us all by creating new and awesome products. Paradoxically, if he spent more time following his passion instead of consuming he'd probably have a lot more money too.
Interesting article, except for the fact that you can't read any of the formulas because his LaTeX plugin is broken.
Beautiful. This is one project I'd like to grow big (so that there is always enough supply of story books.) appstore reviews suggest that it is making few people very happy. :)
I like the idea but if I ever use it, the reason would be backwards: to show how many hackers already upvoted the entry.

Most articles hit the front page on HN and in a good case stay there for a day, but rarely more. The votes after that point are so distributed over time the entry would disappear anyway from the most visited page.

I'd rather link back to the proper page on HN (where I'd want to read the comments anyway, I think I'm not alone with this).

If there was a way to link back and upvote with a single click, I'd raise my hat.

Nonetheless, really nice work for a weekend.
The current crisis is going to destroy that nostrum, and reduce real estate to what it is: a depreciating liability/consumable that produces no wealth and that has high transaction costs. Leverage has been the name of the game for 30 years, and the mortgage has been the only way that the little guys could play that in a major way.

There was a thread a while back talking about how to rationally buy a house, and bunch of people mentioned what a great hedge real estate is against inflation. But no one talked about deflation.

Look at the BONES, man:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/japa...
I would argue that rot13 is better than unencrypted, and that this is a step up from rot13. Sure, it's imperfect, but it's still better than nothing, and while I'm only a mediocre programmer, it appears to be easy-to-use, to boot. Better-than-nothing and easy-to-use seems like something more useful than "for demonstration purposes only", don't you think?
It looks like a sorting algorithm visualization.
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Seemingly the new feature introduced by Facebook is not only useful but also addictive as it streamlines the friends activities in a box. One can say its just a small twitter that you can see and use in your Facebook.
Here is a link that has some information on the Ultrabook:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20067411-64.html
Oh, you mean like how Wikileaks shut itself down for a few weeks until its donation ransom was met?
Both of these options are worse than not mailing banking information at all. Both of them are worse than encrypting properly, which, in this mom's case, means installing PGP.

Yes, in this case, bad crypto can make a bad situation worse: it can create a false sense of security.

And in the general case, bad crypto does much worse things than that. Logging in without a password. Flipping bits in a cookie to become any user on the system. Gaining admin privileges. Spoofing authorities to collect secrets from users.

Bad crypto does not care how horrible your mom has it. Engineering says, bad crypto is going to be bad no matter how hurt your feelings are.
Really good stuff. Well done.
Brilliant suggestion. If HN needs anything it's more ruthless culling.
I am fine with stipulating that Javascript cryptography is approximately as good as rot13, and so we can move on.
It's impressive how lossy-compressed that PNG image is. The button artwork really needs some love...
I hate when that happens ... It's almost as bad as losing that loving feeling ;)
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I'm glad Node works on Windows - it'll make for more eyes on the code.

The "Why would I want node.js to run on Windows and IIS" bullets, if they're meant to compel you in the context of other platforms, I don't get:

* Process management - Upstart is standard in Ubuntu now and will manage your processes (respawn pragma).

* Scalability on multi-core servers - Nginx will load balance over as many or as few processes as you like with minimum configuration.

* Auto-update - great for development but count me out for production use. On unix needs a third-party app.

* Access to logs over HTTP - not sure why this is good? Anyway, easy win with Nginx.

The last time I tried to do any admin on Windows it was just an exercise in frustration. No decent shell (I've not used powershell - correct me if it's any good), clunky terminal, awful guis forced on the user and suppression of debugging information (including source code!).
Python and JavaScript - difference in handing newlines and semicolons?
I have been using a Series 9 since the week it was released. It is an awesome computer. I run Windows 7 on it and use Ubuntu in VirtualBox for *nix development work. My only reservation is the SSD is only 128GB, but there's apparently a newer iteration that has 256GB: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-NP900X3A-B02-13-3-Inch-Noteboo...

That said, I find the OP a bit unclear. If you need a computer that runs Mac OSX, your choices are clear, though fairly limited. The discussion in that case is about what form-factor you prefer (ultra-mobile, portable, desktop).

If you don't care about operating system, but are looking for a computer with a similar design aesthetic and form factor, there are several choices. The Samsung Series 9 is the closest match, in my opinion, for being metal, thin, light, and lacking a optical drive. With an optical drive, I would suggest the Toshiba Portege (R835) or so, which runs Ubuntu well.
Of course you and I configure tons of hotkeys, but we're hackers here and can't expect normal people to do that!

What I found interesting is the potential of LCD keys to make program features more discoverable for first time users and more accessible to the masses.
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I actually prefer the Thinkpad design.
Also, the text beside the button could well be center aligned vertically.
LOESS is fairly simple to do in Python, or you can find an implementation via Google e.g. http://www.koders.com/python/fid5A91A606E15507B6823DEC7A0594...

I'd be curious to see an updated comparison with LOESS added to the Python code!
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I’m more interested in Python for it’s real-time capabilities. With Python running statistics, I can do more user-facing things with the data, whereas R can do more statistical things with the data. Plus, an arduino-based sensor array interfacing with R sounds shaky.

And since Python does web easily: http://rapache.net/
ACM uses Postini.
The upcoming Amazon’s Android tablet to eclipse the iPhone App Store.
You bet! Let's think of the current version as a mock-up :)
If a CS department is using it, they'd have it available through the university wide licence.

Also, 80beans is using it and they only have a team of 6.
Yep, the lack of transparency just made me think "next" - I'll be looking into Stanford's free AI courses. Or the many other free courses out there. I couldn't figure out what FU's value prop is that makes it worth $495.

Maybe "FU" is an appropriate name after all.
If I have money, I will fund your startup. You are doing a great job!
Awk is incredibly readable in a shell script. It's a proper scripting language that actually looks cleaner than the Bourne shell.
It's not illegal to bribe people inside private institutions.
I think that the strongest indicator for the choice of C++ as language for a new project is the prior existence of a C++ project in the development organization.
I think there is also a bit of "I work too much to learn new things" going on.
> basically eliminating email altogether, where a small cabal of whitelisted services are only able to pass messages to each other.

Arguably, that's exactly what Facebook is. Users whitelist each other and use that channel to communicate, skipping email.
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Let me subscribe to an ad-free version of your online magazine for $0.50 to $2 a month, please.
"Possessions only tend to stick around for short periods of time. Experiences stay with you forever."

Absolutely.

My parents bought me lots of presents for birthdays and Christmas.

When I was about 12 they took me to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. I played that sucker hard that day.

I don't remember any of the presents. I still remember that day. I'm over 50.

Think about that, when you want to do something for your kids, or your spouse. Or yourself.
Did you read my blog post on the topic? I was wondering if I didn't do a good job explaining my pain point well. Just like you have mentioned, I also wanted to let my readers know that the content has received some HN love.

So would you be interested if I came-up with a version of the button that displayed the HN Points and Comment count for the content sans the 'like' call for action?
Is a system that has Windows Update switched on, i.e. is up to date with security patches, at risk? That might be a cheaper way than to buy their software...

It seems to me that if you use up to date versions of the MS software stack there are numerous defenses built in that would render this attack completely moot. The fact that they don't say anything about which software versions are at risk makes this look like one of the typical sales promotion efforts of security firms rather than good info.
OK, I'm having a lot of fun reading this.

One little nitpick:

> What systems programming functionality does Javascript lack?

Here's a starting point: a secure random number generator.

Chrome has actually implemented one (http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu...). It's a part of WebKit (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-Feb...).

Firefox has an unimplemented (as of Firefox 6) secure RNG API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_crypto, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440046).
Congrats on the launch. Wondering why you decided to put a big flash animation on the homepage while your target audience is iPad owning parents. It showed up fine on my touchpad but it was blank on my iPhone. Is there a JS fallback for the cuber slide animation on the ipad?

I do understand that it has nothing to do with the iOS app but considering that the website is the intro face of the app, i was just curious!
I don't think the everyman views them as separate concepts.

People honestly believe that if you're using a pen name, then you're anonymous to those who you haven't told your real name to. Note even the terminology used here "Real Name", as in anything that isn't your government ID name is not actually a name. Pseudonyms in formal language are 'names', but not so in informal language.
I simply disagree on practical terms. If I have the choice between the two, I am going to make my mom encrypt it with this library. That doesn't mean I feel perfectly safe and secure about it, but I feel better than not having encrypted it at all. Much like using a car alarm - I know it cannot ultimately prevent someone from stealing my car, but it certainly weeds out all but the most persistent attackers.

Moreover, for noncritical things, like my example of fantasy football plans, this appears to be a perfectly reasonable solution.
I agree that real estate suffers cycles like anything, but how is it a consumable?
Really? You can't concede that an implementation like this is better than rot13?
this isn't surprising at all -- latin america boxes are extremely cheap to buy -- the only ones that are cheaper are asian ones

BUT, the reason people still buy them (the computers) is because if you are trying to sell something (rather than just DDOS someone) it is easier to convert someone from say Brazil rather than China through say a dating offer to match.com from a popup
> Python 3 support

Will come eventually. Right now the topic comes rarely up and it requires a ton of work on the Werkzeug side to make it work in a way that is user friendly. That being said, Flask and Jinja2 are not the problem here. The former easily works on Python 3 and the latter already does (just that we don't have any users on Python 3 yet).
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I have no idea how the LOC numbers of Flask come together though. Flask itself is 1.4KLOC, Jinja2 is 6.5KLOC and Werkzeug is 10KLOC (all measured without tests). Even if you add them up you don't end up with 32KLOC.
Re: the edit (since that was me), I do think the luxury-consumption trap is qualitatively different, and one that applies to both experiences and stuff. Some of it does overlap with the general being-owned-by-things problem, which can be a problem at various levels of spending. But there's a different kind of paralysis that can come from "now I'm rich, I can do rich people stuff!". For some people that's great, but for other people it leads to them doing what they think $100m-net-worth people should be doing, whether that's yacht purchases or globe-hopping or $200/plate restaurants, even if they personally would be happier coding, starting businesses, or eating burgers.

At least, it doesn't seem too uncommon for people in tech who had successful exits to live a high-spending retire-in-luxury lifestyle for 2-3 years, then "burn out" on that in one way or another.
This is a life-long training and you do not need to be a millionaire to do it. Look around your apartment, house, bedroom or closet. I guarantee you 75% of what is there you haven't used more than twice in the past month. In my case I just bag stuff I do not find myself using and take a trip to Goodwill. Ah, sometimes it feels so good to have less things.
> The alternative is encrypting your emails and letting GMail store that. The problem with that is that they still know when you sent an email, and who you sent it to. Just the fact that your email is encrypted can be taken as sign of guilt by law enforcement.

Does this actually have precedent?
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ADDED IN EDIT: I'd like more HNers to see this, but they won't if it doesn't get more upvotes. I don't care about the karma - feel free to find some of my comments and down-vote them, but I'd appreciate it if you'd upvote this question.

========

I know that there are several sites and services for making contact with other HNers, or plotting where they are. Having said that, I'm building another.

I know, I know: http://xkcd.com/927/

I have an itch to scratch, though, and it's not just finding HNers. It's actually independent of that, there doesn't seem to be anything else like it, it's something I need, and maybe other people will find it useful too.

But here's my question:

If you know of an existing "Map these users" type of application, site or service, can you let me know in the comments? Commentary on what you think of it would also be nice.

Thanks.

ADDED IN EDIT:

Here are the ones I know of, although I have no idea how current or active they are, that's why I'd appreciate comments:

http://hndir.com/

http://hnhackers.com/

http://hackrtrackr.com/

http://www.hackernewsers.com/

http://cofoundergoogledocs.com/

There are also these spreadsheets:

https://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?key=tk7rUIb-2aPdk_5gFJE...

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tFgepUuuBHSgfeuKPKccx...

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dE...

http://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?key=tJ4MdE7OPPucXtJAAKda...
and just to show how prevalent this is:

http://installsmarket.biz/index.php?lang=en

there are hundreds of markets like this, it's cheap, it's easy, and I could name TONS of companies that do NOT CARE that their affiliates use them
I'm fairly familiar with Python, somewhat familiar with R, and fairly familiar with Stata. The scenarios where you're doing OLS analysis can generally be broken in to two categories:

1) Exploration of a given data set.

2) Automatic collection and analysis of data.

In most academic uses of data (1) is the case. Here, if the data is already rectangular, and in a nice format, I would actually prefer Stata. However, as soon as any sort of manipulation is required, or graphing something more difficult than a scatterplot is required I shift to R.

R really shines through when you need to do complicated analysis on a fixed data set. I've found that Hadely Wickham's `reshape` and `ggplot` packages are invaluable. They easily produce graphics that are more informative and better looking than any other graphics package I've seen. Additionally R has packages for essentially any statistical analysis that you could want to do.

While R is able to pull data from a database, or other places, as soon as you have more dynamic data, you enter into case (2). This is when it might make sense to start using python. But even then I've found python is mostly useful for curating the data so that it can be used by R.

[1] http://had.co.nz/ggplot/
Ok, I wouldn't spend $100,000 for that.
For my eyesight I find 1366x768 more comfortable for a 12.5" screen. But otherwise 1440x900 or above would be better for screen real estate.