skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may well be "true" in the legal/accounting sense, but just because it's not allowed to be "an investment scheme" that doesn't automatically make it a pre-order, nor does it stop me from giving people money for investment-like-purposes but calling it something different to avoid both SEC shutting it down, and at the same time with the understanding that I'll have none of the redress that an SEC sanctioned investment might give me.

Yeah, there's a no-zero chance that the Kickstarter money might get stuffed in someones pocket without even a token effort to achieve the stated goal. One could also argue there's a lot of subprime mortgage holders and CDO investors who are fundamentally no better off than if every Goldmann Sachs employee was currently living it up in Mexico on stolen, instead of just "irresponsibly but legally paperwork compliant" SEC-approved "investments"
Love the format (especially reading from mobile). Thanks for the free book!
You can care, just don't get delusions of grandeur over boycotting one company for those reasons when you most likely are using the infrastructure of another company that does the exact same thing.
You're right usernames aren't considered privileged, but the list of services and associated usernames is not the kind of information I would want to necessarily make public. The names alone would be more revealing that I care to share.

Yeah, 'pass | grep foo' would work for search. I missed the default behaviour.
I can see the benefits in terms of security but not in terms of space. So what if the application folder uses half a gig more, if I never have to use installers for most applications.

And as far as your example goes: From what I understand most Windows developers just use a fixed library version number to specify what dll to use. When that happens, security updates won't do any good either. IMO as long as APIs can be changed in between library versions, developers will always be responsible themselves to upgrade to the newest libraries. It's a nice idea but it just doesn't reflect the reality in the world of Business application where incompatibility directly result in monetary losses.
Perhaps Apple (or someone) is having them do an investigation:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/26/the-fbi-w...
If you want to unlock on log-in, just have your gpg key unlocked by your login password. Gnome keychain is capable of this. Your request is a definite possibility.

I prefer having the key + passphrase over just a passphrase. It makes it more difficult for the information to leak.

That said, if you'd like a pass with a gpg -c mode, it shouldn't be hard to add. I could do this, or you could send a nice git formatted patch. Let me know.
If you're still looking for a password manager for Ubuntu, I really liked using KeepassX. It has password categories, lots of metadata. However, it doesn't unlock with the system.. :(
Is this similar with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472866 ?
I also use my own homebrew system that stores the password encrypted in the format of:

~/.passdb/username@site.com

I have a number of alises setup that will generate new passwords or retrieve a password for a domain. for eg.

$ p news.ycombinator.com

Will decrypt the password and store it in the clipboard. I don't see any added benefit of having a complete application to manage this process, the ~20 lines of shell script is just fine and I consider having to re-enter the master password a feature.

Edit: I see now that this is just a shell script as well[1]. Nice. I might take some ideas from it such as auto completion

[1] http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/src/password-store....
I mostly read books. There's enough material for the whole life.
It's not as if you're putting the names on the internet. They're still on your hard drive, beside your non-encrypted web browser session and history. For this kind of protection, even though it's leaked in a million places (unencrypted SMTP connections between mail servers when you receive the 'welcome to funworld' email, for example), there's disk encryption.
That's why for these types of archives the password actually contains the credentials.
This is troubling on so many levels. Why did an FBI agent have a document of user and device info on his desktop and the real question is why are the FBI tracking this information in the first place? Surely this is illegal.

By the way, I think AntiSec needs to hire someone to write their releases for them. I struggled at times to make sense of the almost gibberish in their rant-filled sentences and at times some of the things they were saying read like the paranoid ramblings of a crystal meth addict. It wasn't until the end where everything they were saying was put into perspective and I understood what they were talking about.
I like that. From now on I'll tell people I'm both "Patron of the Arts" and "Patron of the Startups" on Kickstarter.
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true, but in this case the password contains "antis3c" [Antisec], the group that is responsible.
One interesting thing I've found is that apparently 190 of those 1000001 people have named their devices "The Titanic", for that iTunes "The Titanic is syncing" pun. I'm curious if there's anything else interesting that might be found in this data.
Yes. Most of the time it comes free from the registrar (NameCheap).
Your system is basically the same. pass is not a "complete application", but it's actually just a tiny shellscript. (RTFA...). You have to reenter the master password if that's the way GPG is setup. Or you don't have to reenter it, if it's set up that way instead.

Anyway, perhaps this is appealing to you:
alias p="pass"

Check out the source of pass -- it's probably pretty similar to your bash aliases. In fact, pass for me used to be a bash alias too.
The filename refers to NCFTA, which might seem in context to be http://www.ncfta.net — perhaps some bit of intel that's widely-traded in NCFTA circles for various uses? I mean, hey, pretty useful if you're tracking down pretty much anything in which an Apple device is used, right?
If it's related to data crunching / classification / recommendation / ml , do take a look at http://kaggle.com
> the kind of data people can acquire by digging through your trash when you bring it out to the curb, for example

There's the difference, I think; I shred all my personally identifiable trash (well, recycling, actually).
congra, proudn00b !
Keepass is exactly the bloated overweight system I was trying to avoid. pass is available for Ubuntu.
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Have no idea how this site hasn't been shut down by the SEC. Absolute violation of regulations wrt accredited investors.
Very interesting site. Keep up the good work!
Patrick is speaking of his client WPEngine. I've used them as well at work (likely the same $199/month Business plan for multiple site hosting) and they're pretty good, though according to our Nagios monitoring a site hosted there has had a total of 43 minutes of outages for August which is still 99.9% reliability. WPEngine hosts on Linode and in my experience their magic bullet is, well... no magic bullet. It's still way way better than doing it yourself though and the price you pay for peace of mind is worth it if your site is connected to a revenue-generating activity.

If you want really serious uptime, use something like Jekyll and generate a static site which you host on S3/CloudFront and regenrate only as content changes. You obviously lose some flexibility, but an S3-hosted site is relatively inexpensive for the bandwidth (and do your own math to see if it's worth it for you on the time/money scale) and will handle any load you can throw at it. You can even maintain a crappy unoptimized WordPress installation as the origin server and serve everything up statically from Amazon CloudFront with no load impact to your site.
Anything is possible... but a program has to make it easy for us, i.e. anticipate potentially popular use-cases and cater to them. Otherwise non-techies will ignore the program and techies will roll our own simple solution instead of taking the time to explore and customize someone else's--just like I already have :)

(Although as a CLI program I suppose the argument could be made that non-techies will ignore it on principle anyway...)
In the Aerospace industry, special applicator guns exist to zip bundles of wire in a specified tension. [1] But the use of butchers twine and wax line in still rather common.

A few more points:

- Zip ties are also made of ABS plastic - which has a Tg of <200*F...things start uncoupling around there.

- Kapton gets brittle, and most of these cable bundles are covered in the stuff.

- Mass. There are plenty of lightweight fibers (Aramid/Kevlar, carbonfiber, nanofibers, etc) whose tensile strength is greater than steel.

- Lastly, I'm biased against zip ties after multiple recabling projects while in IT...

[1] http://tools.tycoelectronics.com/cabletiegun.html
Wow, I'll be the first to admit that after reading lots about Kickstarter's business, and even funding a few projects myself, I still had no idea there was language that required refunds. Even if it is fuzzy language (a creator can claim to be "willing" to fulfill a reward...just as "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak").
Then you should also be using disk encryption, for your browser history and whatever else.
#32 is great. It would also be easy to remove details and still retain the feel.
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Sorry, I should have written more clearly: the functionality you want -- gpg unlocked by login password -- is already available, implemented, and easy to use. Look around on your distribution. It exists.
I for one never thought Google Chrome would win the "browser wars". I used Opera and Firefox regularly and I was very much satisfied with them. But I have to admit Google Chrome team has outstanding job and Chrome is my primary browser.

Any idea how many people working on Chrome team? And why Mozilla remained so indifferent speed when Chrome was beating big time?
As a Flashpoint alum, I can certainly say that the resources that area limited are not those of the school. The most limited resources are those of appropriate mentors and advisors, and the time of the members of each team during group gatherings.

Much the same case here. The availability of suitable mentors and coaches is limited, and you don't want spend too much time in very large group gatherings.
So download it, decrypt it, and pick a different password. Takes a couple minutes, tops. And if your 'release' gets more attention than the original, how does the original prove that's what happened, or even get heard?
@cdoxsey - Nice work, but you might link to an installer that doesn't include a text editor. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the target audience already has their preferred text editor installed.

Edit: After reading the first few chapters, I made a false assumption. It looks like the book is aimed at people new to computing (or, at least, it doesn't make the assumption that the reader has programmed before).
I was skeptical on if this was something I'd actually want delivered on a daily basis.

Because you already had some archives to peek through, I discovered several interesting libraries before even signing up!

Nice idea, and good call on having archives to preview before committing. Many newsletters would benefit similarly if they had a "View our last newsletter!" link.
I'm a PhD student in a brain-machine interface lab at Stanford. This particular demonstration is not all that interesting since EEG control is extremely low bandwidth and particularly high noise.

Getting one or two degrees of freedom of control to turn a quadrotor is possible, but will never become a robust or fast method of control. The information content required from these EEG signals simply isn't there, and what is there is frequently swamped by any muscle movements like blinking, turning your head, etc.

It's possible to get much higher bandwidth and robustness with a cortical implant [1]. These provide single-neuron sensitivity and make it possible to record from several hundred neurons simultaneously, and achieve bitrates of 6-7 bps.

[1] http://www.blackrockmicro.com/
No,

Taking risks increases your chances of being successful. Not the only way of being successful.

You will be surprised how many people are rich working in big corporates by just saving and investing well.
Since there are no skilled persons on Mars, they have to do better than "fine."
Could you please elaborate?

While the service being free means that there is no barrier for usage, this is not itself a reason to use it.

The OP stated that he - hypothetically - does not mind his name attached publicly to the domain. Can you please provide some reasons as to why he should care and, thus, why "yes", he should use it?
OpenBeam was delivered on time. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ttstam/openbeam-an-open-...
As a matter of fact, the article goes into some detail about both why zip ties aren't used and what the lacing might be made of.
Can this be used to store a bootable copy of say Windows 7?
Yes, the linked article (which I discovered before this one) is a subpage of the site in question.

The home page describes the project and uses, while the mailing list is an application of the project.
Can't help it, but it needs some more padding:

#container { padding:60px }

Btw, great resource, the more the merrier.
The TIOBE programming community index rates Go as not being in the top fifty languages used today. That seems strange since it was the "language of the year" in 2009.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

I like Go, and it gets a lot of good press. Is TIOBE not accurately portraying Go's popularity?, or is there some other explanation as to why few people use it?

Sorry, not related to the book (which looks cool, btw).
There are definitely occasional stories about people running old binary apps.

But I think the real reason for this policy is its simplicity. I don't know if Linux developers are disciplined enough to follow Solaris-like deprecation schedules. When you allow exceptions, there is a tendency to allow more and more of them.
Can I suggest that if you're spending money on Kickstarter where if things didn't go according to plan you'd "go to sue the person who has your money", then "you're doing it wrong".

(It's entirely possible that _I'm_ "doing it wrong", and that everybody who's treating Kickstarter as a contractually binding pre-sale offer is somehow not as insane as they appear to me. But I'll take quite a bit of convincing on that point…)
It doesn't matter that someone is doing it or not, only that there is a market for it. It's up to you to find that market (or to help it along by creating a market for your services.)

So, you need to start doing some research into connecting with clients.

Setup some social networking scrapers / alerts to look for keywords which might indicate someone is looking for something you can help with. A lot of people use these services as lazy ways to troll for talent.

Look through the jobs boards like Authenticjobs and all the others like it. Some jobs are full time, others are freelance positions. Either way, you could reach out to good matches and see if they would be willing to pick you up for freelancing.

Find communities which are targeted towards people with your skill set. These are great for general discussions, but also for people who go there looking for hired guns.

Look through Elance and Odesk (these are the only two worth bothering with) to look for job and service providers which might be matches for your skills. Look through the service providers history to see what sort of hits / rates they have been getting. Look at the companies they were being hired by. Obviously if there are jobs posted, then you could apply for those. These places are hit and miss for getting work, but they are decent for research (maybe you could contact some of these places directly.) Sometimes people post crap jobs, but sometimes good potential clients post there because they don't know where else to look.

Build up an online presence for the services you can offer. Find competitors and copy them until you can beat them. If you are in a large market (NYC) then target local.

Go niche by building your own market or by specializing. Build a service and then market that service to people who don't know how much you could really help them. Pivot based on feedback.

Apply your skills to your own business ideas (and ship!) Your skills can give you a competitive advantage if leveraged properly and people will notice / respect your success. Also, if you are able to build an income stream outside of client work, then you don't have to worry so much about landing gigs. Properly applied, your skills become far more valuable and you can charge whatever you like.

I use these tips mostly for web development, but they should apply to anyone looking for freelance work.
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While this is certainly exciting, this is most likely an end of the road for EEG due to the bandwidth limits you describe, as well as pollution in the signal from EMG from muscle activity.

The prosthetics community is on track to deliver some amazing new capabilities in the relatively near future, but this will almost certainly require microelectrode or potentially Ecog.

See: http://www.nature.com/news/mind-controlled-robot-arms-show-p...
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Is there any evidence that this data comes from the source they claim?

And is there some way to validate these are real UDIDs?
MTP does not work fine in Linux (specifically, Ubuntu 12.04). You can read the files but not write arbitrary files into arbitrary folders.
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Perhaps because that would be an absolutely horrific example of government overreach. When you put money into a kickstarter project, you know the risks - stop looking for big daddy to look after you.
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The fact that there is a column for APNS (Apple Push Notifications) suggests that this is a database dump from an iPhone app that supports push notifications. APNS tokens are generally tied to a specific app so it may be possible to figure out what app leaked their database.

The "NCFTA" seems to deal with identity theft. (Ironic)
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because you wouldn't know the password before the public announcement, and after the announcement it doesn't matter.
This reminds me of Derek Sivers' excellent "There's no speed limit": http://sivers.org/kimo
That's a great quote, and it is definitely true that often times users don't know what they want until they've been shown it.

However, we still use horses as transport. Sure, it's often just for pleasure, but the Police still use them, and rural people still use them, or people in mountains etc, because in those situations they are still better than anything Ford came up with.

So I don't think that quote is relevant here. People have accepted 'post-pcs' into their lives and they are good at lots of things. There are things that larger 'real' computers are better at though, and I don't see any evidence that will change.
Scanned the article twice and it wasn't until I read the source that I saw that it was a shell script.

That is the headline feature IMO (rather than 'standard')

edit: I should add that what gave me the impression of this being an application rather than something I would really use was the way it was presented with 'install', makefiles etc. rather than 'here are 30 lines of bash you can dump into your rc file'
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This is very disturbing. How did the FBI gain access to all this information? It should be locked up in Apple.

From what I see, the NCFTA in "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" looks like it stands for the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance, which "functions as a conduit between private industry and law enforcement." (http://www.ncfta.net/)

Is Apple willingly sharing personal information with the FBI through the NCFTA?
I heard once from someone whose parents lived through the Third Reich that for those years, you never had to lock your door or chain your bike. One presumes this only applied if you had the correct allegiance.
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Cool! Hmm yea - maybe I should highlight that it's just a shell script somewhere.

I already say " It is a very short and simple shell script. " in the first paragraph. Maybe I should say something else too. Thinking...

Edit: responding to your edit: Yea, there's a lot of cruft that gets added to a source directory when you try and make anything on Linux into something suitable for /usr/bin and /usr/share/man. C'est la vie.
I saw this via @textfiles on Twitter earlier today:

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Probably a little weird to run a kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1386333480/manhattan-lul... and then a 18 months later run an Indiegogo. http://www.indiegogo.com/manhattanlullaby

Admittedly, the Kickstarter project which got him $8k in Jan 2011 claimed: "These next few months of production are crucial to get the film to the next stage of presenting to grantmakers and broadcasters", and the current Indigogo one is also saying "I am trying to raise 50,000 which will get me through 30 days of shooting and 8 weeks of editing with a full crew and basic expenses covered. I will have to raise more money to get this film finished but if I can raise 50,000 in the next 8 weeks I can at least be secure in the knowlege that we can all work as hard as we need to to finish shooting the film before the store closes and not have to constantly worry about the next credit card bill or not being able to book people because they already have paid work."
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TM 1 and 2 can be installed side by side. It's not like you have to switch immediately. So you can just try it out for yourself.
This is awesome. I'm going to lace all my cables now.

In these kinds of applications, what do they use to attach the cables to something? It looks like on the rover they have special tie points built onto the rover surface -- is that what is done in other applications too?
> From TFA, the password generation is via pwgen.

Seems strange to have the password generation "on the inside", though. That essentially means that `pwgen` is a strict dependency. Instead of writing something like

pass generate Email/jasondonenfeld.com 15

the user should just type something like

pwgen 15 1 | pass insert Email/jasondonenfeld.com

That way they don't need `pwgen` to install `pass`. It also means that all of the options to `pwgen` can be used without special effort or documentation.

I'd say the same thing about `xclip`, but it's probably not worth having to write something like

pass -c Email/zx2c4.com | xclip -selection clipboard -l 1

(or however xclip is supposed to work).
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Putting a file of user data on a laptop is a fireable offense at at any reputable organization. Sad that the FBI is less careful about user data protection than consumer Internet companies.
Sure, but if you're simply downloading a shell script (whose source code you can see) from github (a site you can trust), I don't see the issue.