skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: A new twist: How do developers find viable business-y co-founders?
I know the reverse of this question gets asked all the time, but it's also pretty hard for developers to meet other potential founders that are more on the business side. I'm a jack-of-all-trades developer, so I don't really feel the need to find a co-founder that's technical -- I think it'd be more useful to get someone with the people/sales/marketing skill-set. Unfortunately it's really hard to separate "idea people" from people with real skills that will actually work hard enough to make something happen, until after you've actually worked with them. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that there are a lot of people out there that just want to ride coattails.

(I'm not looking for offers through here... I'm just wondering how other developers have done it)
That would be correct.. And in related news, the Feds have banned me from cleaning the bathroom at home. Woot.
After signing up, MEGA suggested that I download Google Chrome to use the service (I was using Safari). I was expecting some affiliate link there, but there wasn't any.
Wonderful slick and clean interface. Hate him, Love him but you just can't ignore him.
Not sure if you meant 'definitely', but that works even better :)
The thing is, CAPTCHAs are used to validate it's a human operating the interface, not a robot.

That's a stupid idea, based on some weird assumption that it's somehow safe to give access to your system for a user, but not for a robot. If the only thing stopping people from messing your system is automation, you should rethink it from the get go.
I'm getting a paid account. Help the brother out.
On the Road to Recovery
Cool looking product.

Having done shows in the past, I know how much energy they can suck out of everyone, and cost. Good that it was such a success for you.
I have also noticed this with search terms I follow on twitter.

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=Record+time+from+home+...

My theory is that almost every account linked to one of these accounts is fake. If you take any of their tweets you'll see them repeating the same tweets across a large web.
Well, why do you use Safari?
I saw that too and read the Standard Law Review article. He is not credited it in. He may have helped a law student write a Python script, which she then used. The article does mention that a Python script was used to collect some data.
Prosecutors charge aggressively for a reason: statistically, most of the accused that they deal with are in fact guilty, and the cost of a jury trial is tremendous. Pundits are fond of wagging a finger at the fact that 9x% of convicted offenders never had a jury trial while overlooking the fact that for the overwhelming majority of those cases, a jury trial would have been pointless. No court system in the world could handle the volume of cases that would result from a majority of charges being heard by a jury.

I submit that the real culprit here isn't misconduct stemming from overcharging, but rather from our careless and illogical sentencing guidelines. Swartz's prosecution could have huffed and puffed all they wanted, but if the facts they had at their disposal supported a maximum of 6-9 months custody even at trial, it would have been a different story.

Instead, Heymann had at his disposal a set of sentencing guidelines that scaled up with "damages", which is a standard that makes no sense in a computer crime case. The difference between $500 and $1000000 in damages in a CFAA case is a number in the middle of a for() loop. This isn't a novel challenge for the criminal code; other offenses have more reasonable sentencing and "aggravation" elements as well. Swartz's sentence should have involved the extent to which his intentions were commercial, how many co-conspirators he roped in, how much of a challenge he made it for the prosecution to investigate him, how much damage he caused, how recklessly that damage was caused. These are familiar elements of criminal and civil cases and could apply in CFAA cases too, had the law been written more carefully.
>Not so, Bell labs was a special place at the time and provided significant advantages (like access to computers for one). If the likes of Thompson and Ritchie came about 15 years later where they could develop Unix independently and the aforementioned advantages had melted away, why wouldn't they? At that point AT&T would offer nothing but constraints.

I call BS. People also do stuff for the mere fun of it, especially geeks.

For example Thompson and Ritchie had no problem developing Plan 9 for Lucent (AT & T) "15 years later" after the "advantages had melted away".

Not to mention that the example of advantage you provide ("access to computers for one") is insignificant in any case. Thompson and Ritchie could get work anywhere they wanted with computers available. At least the other commenter meant huge deals of money by "advantage", not standard job perks.
Why does doing things in screen space muck with stereoscopic 3d? That makes little to no sense IMO
Did they have access to this, or did they have access to "show my ad to everyone who matches this query" ?

I don't see why Facebook would allow advertisers to build databases of people when they can just force them to go through their own tool and keep people anonymous, like Google does.

Also, this is free, as opposed to advertising tools, which broadens the audience quite a lot.
> You'd think anyone would quit after a FBI raid and being sued into oblivion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigat...
Strange article. I don't think its an innate geek property to feel almighty and infallible. The author seems to be conufsing geek with silicon valley megalomaniac/serial entrepremanur.
Why are we trying to benchmark PI? Give up on using Pi as a real server. Even if EC2 sucks, you still can't beat its the ability to fall over and scale. The first thing about hosting is picking bandwidth. Serving 500 heavy requests per second in your home network will probably mean dying router at some pointer.
Use of a funny word is wildly offputting?

Reminds me of an ancient bit on HBO's "Not Necessarily the News"... guy in the dark complaining bitterly at the TV, they rush him out the door into the front yard, limping in bathrobe, his eyes squinting in the sunlight, narrator loudly proclaims "GO OUTSIDE!". ;)
Thanks! And amazing it really is hidden like that.
If you don't hold the copyright over the files, who cares?
So, it generated a key... which is being stored where? I can't seem to download it?
There are a million cloud drives out there (some with advanced privacy features), what's different about Mega?
It was definitely exhausting, but also exhilarating :) Thanks!
How simple psychology can help increase brand engagement
Guys, any idea if they have an iOS app?
Convert Javascript Data to a Latex Table
No Noise ... 5 billions in Exit Last year
13 top mobile apps for entrepreneurs on the go
My first upload: https://mega.co.nz/#!jFlzGQiZ!CL2dMi5IAYLUp3ZQ5JS7nmW0sYtudf...
Kim Dotcom's Mega Receiving Thousands of Registrations Per Minute
Perhaps he should have launched it like Gmail: Gradual launch with invites. Launching a file sharing site with this much media attention is surely going to crash it.
Congressmen Markey's Letter on High Frequency Tradin
Yes! I agree! This is a great attitude. Good luck with your project! :)
His theory appears to be that by sharing keys via links to access encrypted files, instead of before which was exactly the same except to access unencrypted files, he will somehow be immune from persecution this time even though he still has the ability to identify infringing material by the traffic sources and bandwidth usage of individual files.

The tie in with web hosting companies adds an ounce of legitimacy to the affiliate program that originally led sites like the defunct tv-links.co.uk etc to throw traffic at their paywall last time but it won't be even close to enough if tomorrow there's millions of mega links on all the streaming and download indexing sites.

This will be very interesting to watch unfold.
A lot of people say that megaupload is back, but if I'm not wrong this is totally something different then megaupload or do I make a mistake?

You can't share a link with the public anymore, only with an emailadres.
I find your commentary on this case to be sort of astringent and challenging, but in a largely helpful way.

Regarding both what you've written and what Kerr has written, I think it's worth pointing out that "sympathy" isn't a prerequisite for discussing the legal issues involved in the Swartz case. It's annoying that everyone who writes about the CFAA needs to provide a benediction. The Swartz tragedy does not want for sympathy, emotion, or action-spurring anger. But we can always use more (respectful) critical thinking.

It's especially annoying in critiques of Kerr's writing. Kerr's goals were to answer some basic questions. Did the prosecution stretch the CFAA to make a case against Swartz where none was warranted? Was the prosecution's conduct towards Swartz unusually cruel? Is there any legitimate public policy purpose animating the CFAA and wire fraud statutes? In discussing these questions, Kerr more or less stipulates that Swartz did what prosecutors alleged he did. But that's all it is: a stipulation. "Assuming", Kerr asks, "that Swartz did all this stuff --- and it looks like he did --- let us take a clear-eyed look at whether and how any miscarriage of justice occurred."

To berate Kerr for not adequately addressing the question of Swartz's innocence is to miss the point of the two articles.
How exactly does this work, if they don't have access to the original?

> 8. Our service may automatically delete a piece of data you upload or give someone else access to where it determines that that data is an exact duplicate of original data already on our service. In that case, you will access that original data.
The Surface Rt is prefect when using RDP and Citrix.. It could use a higher resolution screen and maybe go down in price a bit... But it works pretty well as a thin client.
If you could download it, what use would it have. ;)
I use Safari because in my experience Chrome is rather buggy on a Mac. Particularly with regard to Spaces. E.g., if I move a Chrome window to a different Space, all of my other Chrome windows will tag along for the ride. It makes using Chrome rather unbearable. Additionally, Safari's interface for managing bookmarks is much nicer.
Does anyone understand how their implementation of client-side encryption is actually supposed to make my data safer? After logging in for the first time, a 2048-bit RSA key pair was generated, but it seems that every time I log in I just use a username (email) and password. Does that mean the RSA private key is stored on MEGA's servers? If so, doesn't that render the whole "client side encryption" bit moot? If MEGA has the private key, they can decrypt the data or am I missing something?

The service seems to have ground to a halt, and I am not able to upload anything, so perhaps this all becomes clear once one starts using the service, but I'm curious about how the encryption is used in practice.

Edit: Found a bit more detail in the developer documentation: https://mega.co.nz/#developers
According to this, they use the symmetrical AES-128 to encrypt files, so why do I need an (asymmetrical) RSA key pair? It also says there that the private part of the RSA key is stored encrypted with the symmetrical AES key, but MEGA has that key, so what good does that do in case of an FBI raid?

One of the things that I was most curious about regarding MEGA was to see how they would manage to make encrypted file storage safe but user friendly. It seems like this is user friendly, but not safe at all, or am I wrong?
I'm still pissed off at them for not allowing me to upgrade or even purchase a standalone version of Windows 8. I live in Bolivia, why can't I purchase a DIGITAL GOOD using something like Paypal.

Every other online business accepts my hard earned money, Microsoft doesn't. Fuck 'em. (Pardon my french)

I really really wanted to go legit and buy myself a copy of Windows 8 but not legal paths are provided for me.
Gizmodo says you can share them with a link

http://gizmodo.com/5977265/how-megas-encryption-will-protect...

which makes it no different to before, except this time they're hoping deniability is better than openly facilating piracy in their internal communications.
I'm using firefox because of the same reason, google chrome is using a lot of memory on mac...
Huh? If I were keeping it truly completely private then only I would have the private key. So presumably it generated one with Javascript stored in my session so I would need to back it up in order to login later and access my data.

However, that's not how Mega works. They're still storing a symmetric key on their server. They're just encrypting before storing for deniability reasons. https://mega.co.nz/#developers
"wildly" might be overstating it, but I find it gross. Same way some people just don't like the word "moist", I guess. I was curious where the word came from.

Anyhow, back to our regular discussions of what Fondleslabs are going to conquer the market in 2013.
> TAI is completely perfect down to the picosecond level and further.

I may have worded it badly, let's try again: TAI is "completely perfect" for the approximation it is: time elapsed at the geoid, which is a theoretical construct. That's an approximation for both "experienced time" and for anything which could be called "absolute time"
Trying to access from Germany: http://i.imgur.com/Iw70r1U.png
It says,
Temporarily unavailable
Thank you! Yes, we are just using the data from pressureNET to draw the graphs. We have other ideas for that data in the near future, such as to provide it to atmospheric scientists, and to analyze it ourselves. We also plan on incorporating other outside data sources like radar imagery in order to enhance the experience using pressureNET.
I use it because it supports proper continuous zooming with pinch-to-zoom on a trackpad (exactly like Safari on iOS devices). Chrome does a weird step-by-step increment that seems to involve re-laying out the page at each step. The multi-touch interaction with Safari is just better in general, IMO.
I just found a weird things on they ToS [1] ...

8. Our service may automatically delete a piece of data you upload or give someone else access to where it determines that that data is an exact duplicate of original data already on our service. In that case, you will access that original data.

Duplicate check, I get that. But, how do they do it? They say the files are encrypted on the browser, so if I upload file X and other user uploads X too, they can't know they're the same because both uploads are encrypted. So, they can check only for duplicates of the encrypted outcome of each file. But, wouldn't that be inefficient? Probability of collision in encrypted files is (AFAIK) really low, something like 2^(-N), N being the size of the file on bits... If I did it well, it'd be a collision probability of 7.458E-155 for a file of 1MB.

[1] https://mega.co.nz/#terms

EDIT: Added example.
I tried the WinXP thing but Bootcamp doesn't support XP anymore and it all starts getting difficult without a optical drive (find drive, rip, copy image to usb,...). I ended up just pirating it out of sheer annoyance and since it was the only way I could get Win7 working.
I added support for packages (you might have to refresh your browser's cache).

The first package supported is geometry. If you want to add another, append the required files to the supported_packages array.

This is what it looks like for the geometry package:
https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/website/ma...
Do you feel lonely as a solo?
The luddites could not care less about technological progress, succeeding or not.
What they tried to do is keep their jobs to be able to feed their families.

This really is so true, on a broad scale. We (humanity) love to demonize people, make them out to be zealots hell-bent on destroying civilization. In reality, they are usually normal people with normal people problems.
What's wrong with "This is the first we've heard of this. We'll go talk to him and get back to you once we understand what's going on better; we have no further comment at this time"?

It's unreasonable for MIT's lawyers to be aware of every single research project, but they know that. They should be willing to tell other people "we're not aware yet, but we'll make ourselves aware".
According to the help page, no keys (except the public key) ever leave the client [1].

[1] https://mega.co.nz/#help_security

EDIT: The senario in the posts above sound more likely. The exact text of the help is "No usable encryption keys ever leave the client computers (with the exception of RSA public keys)." So they probably store an encrypted version of the keys server side.
This is exactly how megaupload used to work. They use file hashes, i heard reports of some hash collisions meaning entirely different files were identified as duplicates...that was gamed though i believe, real life collisions less likely
There are any number of cloud storage options (SpikerOak, Crashplan, Backblaze, Tarsnap, Amazon, Wuala, etc.) which offer client side encryption using a key you control. I would consider any of those before I trusted important files to this new service.
> Computers tend not to.

Computers can be made to represent vagueness rather precisely.

> You should be able to represent in your data model, date-time library etc. vague dates and relative dates.

If it is needed. Often it is not needed. Or rather for most applications there is an implicit hard coded resolution, or error interval.

The library case is special and then why not just have an additional byte specifying the confidence interval. You only need a small enumerated type of 20 distinct values to encode confidence intervals from a nanosecond up to a millennium. Heck you can do it with bits if you want to.
I'm guessing you changed it since this feedback, but I really like the current color scheme. The lighter-grey bubbles around the actual code do a nice job directing focus to the important bits.
Don't worry, outside is a lot bigger. :-)
Something doesn't smell right regarding the browser-based private key encryption. What I think is happening is that they could theoretically decrypt all your content, but the fact that they dont, and would have to jump through some technical hoops to do so, is maybe enough for them to argue that they don't know what is being uploaded?
Could someone explain the general idea behind using FFT in these situations (excusing my ignorance)? I recall it from my university days but that was completely out of context. I know you can use it to decompose audio signals into frequency components, I don't understand how it applies to images though.
He's claiming 100K registered users in less than one hour. That's nothing?
I was also disappointed with the Part 2 review Orin Kerr posted. This post by James Boyle touches on areas that should've had more consideration by the prosecutors. When I encountered this next article(excerpt below) on Jan18th, it became obvious, how Ortiz's office used Aaron for their own publicity and name making:

"Last Friday, on the same day that Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment, prosecutors from Ortiz’s office stood in a Boston courtroom and allowed a former state representative named ­Stephen “Stat” Smith to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for rigging absentee ballots in three elections. Swartz’s lawyers asked for the same consideration, that Swartz be allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. Prosecutors refused.

So, given that Ortiz will not explain herself, we’ll just have to presume she believes that illegally manipulating the outcome of elections, which are the essence of our democracy, is less serious an ­offense than downloading an online archive of obscure academic articles." (Excerpt fm article by Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe). http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/18/taking-heat/L1rfSF47...
In that case if I log in with a different browser, how do I access my stuff?

How do other people access my stuff?

Doesn't work...
It appears you can upload a file without creating an account. So without generating a key first. Or at least without generating a key that is somehow protected by a password.
Anecdote 1: I see iPads on trains to London as often as I see Thinkpads (and the odd Dell) now. That was not the case a few years ago. Trains to London arriving before 9am are pure business I can assure you (£130 return second class). A few Mac laptops in first class, solid Thinkpad/iPad and blue shirt territory in 2nd.

Anecdote 2: The middle managers where I work all have iPads and shared access to desktop PCs. They are using an rdp client on the iPads for access to some business applications. This has happened over the last two years.

Anecdote 3: Most people visiting my place of work to specify systems (heating; photocopying; interior decoration; networking; compliance with various standards) now have iPads. That has happened in the last 18 months.

No hard stats but I have noticed this change.
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Well as Anechoic said, in the post he keeps referencing programmers. This may refer more closely to the silicon valley types. But I know there are many outside silicon valley, and many within silicon valley who don't call themselves entrepreneurs but have an entrepreneurial mindset. I think if you look at the content and context of the article you can get a pretty good idea of what he means by "geek".
I am working on a project and Railyo's functionality is perfect for what I am looking for. Do you mind open sourcing it?
When young people risk it all, it would be nice if there were people who understood what they're going through, who could offer some perspective. Even better, if there was an oldtimer around when the world is telling you you're a god and can do no wrong, to tell you that's bullshit, to kick you in the butt, in a friendly way, tell you you're a mortal human being, and you need to understand that life has its ups and downs, and you're going to be around for a long time, and this is just the beginning, part of the learning process, and while it looks like everything is great now, or falling apart, or whatever emotion is driving you at this moment, let's go for a walk, get a burger, see a movie and hang out for a bit, watch a game, and notice all the other stuff that's going on.

This seems appropriate: http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
Funny, but for those who don't get the joke https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059806
The user's javascript that encrypted the file can also make a hash send it to mega, and then they check if they already have that.

EDIT:
They never get to see your key or what is in the file.
I use iCloud to sync bookmarks and open tabs between my Mac and iDevices (Chrome is not nearly as good as Safari yet on iOS).
Right, I just don't get why Facebook had a huge rollout for a feature that provides very little, if any value to users, and tons of value to advertisers. It really says a lot about where they are as a company IMO.
"Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome."

is this a joke? I'm on FF19
> it's too think of the human costs behind progress, not just the benefits for the factory owner or "future generations".

The changes they fought against were demonstrably beneficial immediately, not to future generations, and to a very wide segment of society (particularly the poor, who are most sensitive to the cost of goods).

They were just a special interest group like any other, fighting a losing battle against the market preferences of their entire society. If they had better government connections, maybe they would have won and extracted a subsidy from everyone else in the form of higher-priced goods.