skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if it fails, he may end up facing more trouble than he can handle, all due to not having basic checkboxes ticked on the resume

It depends on what he permanently cuts himself off from, which I'd recommend he not do.

He's probably a dream candidate for other hosting companies to hire. If the company fails, he can get a GED and apply to college, even very prestigious ones. (And if he qualifies as independent from his (I'm guessing upper-class) parents, he'll get a free ride.) And he will have plenty of employment while going through college.
"Whats that abeut? Are they not your friends buddy?"
Is the OP sure those were CSIS peeps? Just wondering based on how they bumbled through their attempts at making contact. Thought intelligence agents would be slicker than that.
However I think inbox pro plans to camouflage the link by using an app where the second step will hopefully provide a better user experience. More like an email delivered notification.
I can certainly see how you'd think that, and in the interest of keeping this civil, will just let it be.
Smaller pieces are probably also more dense; less internal air.
This guy should widely distribute the SFTP creds being used by the backdoor agent on his computer. Then we could all be helpful by uploading useful data to the Canadian government's spy server.
So if both sender and recipient are using this, they'll end up demanding increasing classifications from each other in an infinite loop?

I think the actual solution will turn out to be something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Mail_2000

The important difference is that the master copy of the email resides at the sender, which means it is possible for them to update and revise it. With current SMTP the moment send is hit, the message is gone which is why band aids like this inboxpro approach exist.

For example I could imagine adding a header to emails that gives a canonical url for it and some cryptographic information as well as the original body. If the recipient is using regular SMTP and mail clients then things remain as today. If they are using the new system then the recipient client can make requests for updates, give queue time information, ask for tagging etc and automatically reflect those changes in what it shows.
My teachers (with exceptions) are stubborn and unwilling to make such deals. It's also not only the after school assignments that I'm upset about, but the fact that I spent 8+ hours of my day in school with no ability to get any work done.
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Curious how he knew Sabu in the first place
If you feel like having a mirror in an EU country let me know, email in profile.
this depends entirely on what the nanoparticles are composed of.

gold nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes are materials known as being very active and toxic in certain living systems, and the sort of thing that you describe as having very little research.

metal oxide nanoparticles (entirely likely in a superhydrophobic/oleophobic product) on the other hand, we have ample, ample research on, because volcanoes have been spewing them out of millions of years and we've been breathing them in.
I'm somewhat surprised that the cryptocat project has been ruffling so many feathers (assuming that the story is in fact what it appears to be).
The addition that I think would make it scalable and worthwhile is to establish an interoperability standard via mail headers. Broadcast you're using this system with X-UsesMailTickets so that compatible clients can pre-fill their emails with "X-MailTicketType: Yes/No", etc.
Funny picture about school and university
This funny picture will describe you the difference between school and university.
Exactly. I do not feel I am too smart for school, however, as you say, I feel that the system is flawed. And I don't want to waste my time on many things that I know will truly never help me in practical knowledge. However, there is still of course the connections and some vital information that school providers, but I don't think it's worth sitting out all the other useless information that wastes my time.
What a wonderful creature that young man is. Eyes of the hero.
The possibility of non-carbon based life is so remote as to be irrelevant. We'd have to go through many star birth and supernovae cycles to get to the point where silicon is even anywhere near as abundant as carbon is now.

As for microbes from other worlds, who knows. The properties of water are pretty much required for life (as far as we know) and so they'd have 0 trouble interfacing with most organisms. Combine that with the fact that the basic amino acids can form in a wide range of conditions and you've got the recipe for interference. Also, infections happen when organisms invade and multiple, some times the damage is a secondary side effect (i.e. waste or toxic byproducts)
Nice try, CSIS. (Just kidding.)
Speaking as an armchair pilot, I can't believe someone who flew F/A-18s in the Air Force would perpetuate such lies about commercial aviation.

First off, ILS is rarely, and I repeat -- rarely used on most major commercial aircraft. The only true "autoland" is CAT III ILS, and you ONLY use CAT III in weather where visibility is so poor you can barely make out the runway lights. Most landings are performed manually if weather permits (and it usually does.)

Second, like the author of the article says, it is true that there are ZERO, I repeat, ZERO takeoffs that take place autonomously. For sake of safety, all takeoffs must be handled with a live crew, because computers still cannot process all of the variables required to perform a takeoff.

This article offers quite a bit of good insight into commercial aviation and I agree with it completely.
Well probably because you did something wrong. Turn yourself in and reflect on your wrongdoings. Put yourself together and stop causing harm to the society.
The first thing I thought of when I read this title was Paul Graham's essay about startup ideas. I'm glad the title succeeded in that sense, as it's relevant to this article.

More to the point, I like this idea. I like that it focuses on the perspective of those who send you emails. I feel that many people trying to solve this idea would look to changing how inboxes handle messages or look to changing the user interface of email systems.

But instead, this solution actually helps reduce email by responding to senders. That's a unique approach. Very out of the box.

But it's true that it's "frighteningly ambitious" to try and tackle this problem on the sender's side. I could see this failing if the majority of senders are the type to simply send off an email and not check for a while, which would ignore the automated message query. However, if a majority of users do pay attention to it, they can edit their email options and hopefully make life easier for the receiver.

Excellent idea. I hope it develops into a full startup.
The problem is Jonsen, I'm not exactly sure what I want. I don't 100% think that dropping out is the best option. What I want is some kind of reform, I want a system that works for me. Not a system that 'works' for everyone or keeps kids off the streets.
Selling widely-trusted sub-CAs to 3rd parties, with or without name constraints, does absolutely nothing to make HTTPS more secure for me or the vast majority of relying users.

Nevertheless, if you want to sell sub-CAs with critical name constraints to 3rd parties from your widely-trusted root, fine. That's been a defined feature of PKI for a long time.

If you want to sell sub-CAs with noncritical name constraints to 3rd parties, that's fine too. Just do it from a different set of roots than the ones that we all agreed to rely upon, precisely because we had our expectations set that they would not do that sort of thing.
In other news, Canada's internal security agency is using "PG" to entrap people...(read the article for context)

I guess they read HN too.
You'll be OK :-) Keep calm and carry on.
That's all the advice I have.
No, I would just fire the artist and hire someone who is not found on making thinks that look like GIFs, like: http://72dpi.cn/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ryohei-Hase-599x6...
While it is inexcusable to do this as a web developer, there is a layout bug in Mobile Safari to which this is the easiest and sometimes only solution. The designers aren't disabling zooming because they hate people who zoom, just because they're inconsiderate of them.
Can I not learn "math" wiring from doing other activities that ACTUALLY benefit me, such as programming? The very act of owning a business and such is giving me the PRACTICAL knowledge while still building the wiring. It's win win.
It still doesn't sound very impressive if you translate it to plain English:

A computer-implemented method for providing recurring delivery of products,
the method comprising performing instructions under the control of a computer
system for:

Create a list on a computer.

receiving at the computer system a designation of a delivery slot and
a recurring delivery list comprising one or more list items, each of
the one or more list items identifying a product, a
quantity to deliver, and a frequency of delivery;

Listing where, what and how often to deliver.

periodically generating, by the computer system, an order having
a date and time for delivery based on a next occurrence of the
delivery slot, the order being generated in advance of the date
and time for delivery such that the order has a period of time of
pendency prior to the delivery;

Each day, create a list of the deliveries to be made today

creating, by the computer system, one or more order items for the order
based on a last delivery date and the frequency of delivery of each
list item in the recurring delivery list;

For each delivery, list which items to deliver.

receiving at the computer system a change made to a first list item
of the recurring delivery list during the period of time of pendency
of the order;

If the customer updates their order, change the delivery.

in response to receiving the change, determining, by the computer system,
whether the order includes an order item corresponding to the first
list item;

Compare the customer update to the delivery stored in the system.

in response to determining that the order includes an order item
corresponding to the first list item, modifying, by the computer
system, the order item corresponding to the first list item based
on the change made to the first list item of the recurring
delivery list; and

Change the deliverly list in the system to reflect the customer update.

providing, by the computer system, the order to an order fulfillment
system capable of causing the one or more order items to be delivered
substantially on the date and time for delivery.

Give the list of "today's deliveries" to someone who can actually make the delivery.

I still fail to see how this differs dramatically from pretty much every delivery service ever. The delivery guys may not create these lists themselves, but their dispatchers do.

The only thing that differs from say UPS is the 'recurring order' part - say "send me three lettuce every Friday". But grocery deliveries have worked like this for quite a while.
You could use something like Motion ( http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome ) it only records when there is activity.
Very curious to look at your logs. Pastebin?
I don't know what temporal means? It means that something is time sensitive I.E. my computer is temporal, because it will only exist in it's current working state for a certain period of time.

And I would agree that I'm not the best writer, but are there not people who are far worse at constructing a proper sentence that have graduated high-school AND college?

I don't think that I won't benefit from further instruction. What I'm saying is it's MORE beneficial to focus my efforts in more practical learning. I WANT to learn, but I don't want to learn stuff that will waste my time. I have nothing wrong with the subject, the problem is that we're not seeing how to apply it. I can learn math all I want through doing complex programming and creation of algorithms, however, sitting in class isn't getting me the same practical knowledge that that would.
I didn't say you can't -- I was simply adding to this:

> That said, for most people the purpose of school is to prepare them to be able to support themselves and their families, and it sounds like he's basically able to do that now.

The real question you have to ask is whether you can do both (impractical and practical) -- if you can do both, then it is clearly better than doing one.

You may not realize it now, but a lot of things that seem impractical can become very useful (or at the very least, fascinating) when provided with the right context. For example, if you ever want to learn about how your computer works on the inside, knowing basic physics will give you better perspective on what's happening. More obscure stuff like Quantum Tunneling starts appearing in technologies like NAND flash memory -- it's not necessarily practical to know all that, but I'm very happy that I know it.
In addition to the header, the content can be in a mime/alternative so compliant readers can display it.
I'm not trying to be stubborn. I WANT to see how the school system can benefit me. I WANT something custom tailored to help me. I WANT to learn, but right now I'm not seeing that. I WANT someone to show me HOW the knowledge and skills I'm getting at school are MORE beneficial than the knowledge and skills I'm gaining at home applying to my business.
Oh dude, make my day! :-)
If this is true - we live in a scary world.
If not, the guy has talent in marketing.
It bugged me that I didn't have a better answer, so I tracked down the applicable 2012 sentencing guidelines:

https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/sentencing-guidelines/s...

... and in the interpretation most generous to the DoJ I came up with a sentencing grade of 27, which works out to 7 years for a first-time offender.

I think if you read through the guidelines (they're interesting!) you'll see right away that there was no way he could have gotten 35 years. I stand by "the DOJ lied about the sentence in the press release".
i know the author (nadim) is in here and this is all a bit fantastic. cryptocat is one of many crypto snake-oil products that i would never consider using for any kind of secure communication.

using defective crypto products is much riskier than not using any crypto at all and exercising caution. cryptocat has always seemed a poorly disguised honeypot to me.
Their default text size isn't that small, it's just that they render pages to a larger surface than then display by default, in order to avoid breaking old sites. This can be avoided by adding the appropriate meta tag to the site, but that has to be done by the developer.
I appreciate the comment and agree with it. I have addressed the first matter you spoke of in some of my various other comments. In addition as you stated, I can return to "high-school" or other higher education if [my hosting company] failed.
Thank you, I'm using this to restore my server.
FOSSPatents == Florian

And sources: http://www.dailytech.com/Top+AntiAndroid+Blogger+Florian+Mue... http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57440902-94/microsoft-legal...

As fair as I am concerned, anything he says he is saying because he is being paid, wants to be paid to continue saying it, or wants to be paid to stop saying it. Well, that or because he is bored and hasn't harassed PJ recently; his obsession with Pamela Jones is rather unnerving.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Florian+dis...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428809

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428141
If you have not shut down the machine, I would do a memory acquisition (http://code.google.com/p/lime-forensics/, can be analyzed with Volatility) and a raw disk acquisition (you can use dd) and get to someone for forensic investigation to look for rootkits and other evidence of tampering.
Yes and no -- learning calculus (which is offered in many high schools) or advanced physics (he's in a private high school, so I'm assuming their classes and lab activities are well-funded) is still different. The real question in all this: is this a false dilemma? Is it really impossible for him to pursue both?

If possible, learning physics and managing a Minecraft hosting company is clearly better than just the latter.
No, this seems like overload. To be fair, HN isn't exactly gentle on WordPress sites to begin with, especially if they're not aggressively being cached.
> absolutely nothing qualifies me to run a lean/entrepreneurial workshop. except our workshops kick fucking ass.

If your advice isn't proven, by what possible standard can the workshops kick ass?

> what qualifies you to start a business? what qualifies anyone to do anything?

Starting a business isn't giving advice, it's doing the work to know what advice to give, and unless one succeeds at doing so, one doesn't have advice worth being heard.

If I want to be a successful entrepreneur, I'm not taking advice from someone who hasn't been a successful entrepreneur; I'm amazed anyone would. One shouldn't teach what one can't do.
it still seems to me to describe trivial stuff

It is patent number 8,370,271. With numbers that large, it probably has to allow trivial stuff.

I'm just glad that on November 2nd, 2029, society will be able to use a computer system to manage a list of items to be delivered. We have only to thank the brilliant minds at Amazon and the framers of our Constitution, otherwise such an important contribution to science and the useful arts may have been lost for generations.
Also, wouldn't all those hundreds of "box of the month"-style subscription sites where you can pick a product to send and get it periodically be prior art?
This is an interesting way to coax contextual metadata from senders. However, for certain senders I will always respond promptly and thoughtfully, regardless of message formatting. Senders such as friends, family, clients, etc. Which makes the auto-reply a bit tricky:

Thank you "motherpowers" for sending the email titled "Happy Birthday" to "leepowers". For a faster response time please re-formulate your birthday greeting as a series of yes/no questions and re-send.

So being able to whitelist senders would be a requirement.

My dream is that in a few months I will open my Inbox Pro app in the morning and answer 20 Yes/No questions using just my left thumb...

I'm not sure what this would accomplish. Reading and comprehending email is not difficult. The difficult part is thinking through an inquiry and responding intelligently. "Can we move up the launch date a week?" This is a yes/no question that anyone can understand. But actually exploring an answer to this question can require considerable mental effort. There's very little utility in having this message display in a slightly different format with a checkbox.
EA Has No Intention of Patching the Dead Space 3 Loot Exploit
this whole account sounds patently ridiculous considering the nature of cryptocat.

i would like to think that "CSIS" had better things to do.
Since all the answers are yes in here, I might as well post since my answer is "no". I don't meditate because

1) That time is better spent doing something else

2) It's boring

The only time I have trouble concentrating on code is the after lunch slump.
maybe needs some more categories. where to put markdown libs?
He's using much more than a /27

Each hop is using a /30. There's 47 useless hops in the mix before reaching the end.

That's 188 IP addresses just wasted. Much, much more than a /27. In fact that's 6 times the waste of a /27.
Ohh, thank you so much. I knew of the upcoming viewport-dimension-relative units, but I never heard of rem.. I already use em wherever I can, but that sometimes can get a bit hairy when nesting lots of things, so I often wished something like this existed without realizing it does. Thanks again!
transmit can be scripted so it could be anything running on the machine that is backdoored.

i assume they had connection for sending commands that was separate because the sftp sounds like it was blocked but the uploading stopped apparently in response to external stimuli. seems kind of lame to have some kind of connection sending commands and then using transmit to upload files.
You've made good points and it is something I'm worried about, however, I do think that as the other commented below this one pointed out. I'm a prime candidate for many other hosting companies and with a little work I can re-secure those "check-boxes"
I love Crockford, but I can't stand the railroad diagrams used throughout the whole book. Something in my head just doesn't click with them.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. If you were right, this lawsuit wouldn't have been filed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_...

>A lawsuit was filed January 13, 2012 against the Obama Administration and Members of the U.S. Congress by a group including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges challenging the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012[62] The plaintiffs contend that Section 1021(b)(2) of the law allows for __detention of citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S.__ on “suspicion of providing substantial support to groups engaged in hostilities against the U.S. such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban.[62]
I'm sure you know very well how to record and preserve data, so I won't advise you on that note.

But you should try to script something quickly which will automate these actions for you. And you should also try to make a bot to investigate the "backdoor" more.

Aside from your evidence, is there anything that has happened in the past that would lead you to being a target for the NCIS?
This system by itself can be frustrating... as the problem is that they tend to challenge-response everyone.

I would love to see a system that does automatic spam classification (like gmail), but if you get auto-classified as spam, then you get the challenge-response, as a last ditch effort to get through the spam filter.
Do you backup the information stored on the laptop? Are you worried about being "mugged"?
It seems ridiculous that an "intelligence" organization would upload files to a server that identified themselves so blatantly like that. Could it be that it is some ruse of some sort? I don't doubt that someone broke in, but would it really be CSIS?
It still suggests not to trust them
I think a statement like that needs a little more in the way of support.

Cryptocat has been fairly well reviewed by a number of fairly smart people. While flaws have certainly been found, they've mostly been addressed, AFAIK.

"Snake oil" has been a popular term to throw around ever since the original PGP user's guide, but simply labeling something "snake oil" without any actual proof is a dangerous thing to do (especially when it's an open source product, and you should be able to point to any defects specifically).

Edit: I realize the term 'snake oil' predates PGP, I was referring to the crypto community's penchant for it.
Honest question: how old are you?
The fact that he's young, brilliant, and identifies as a hacktivist make it more feasible. He's a future threat.
With physical access, one could at least theoretically backdoor the boot partition and then "rootkit" ("bootkit"?) the rest of the machine.
They are both high profile (for activists/hackers). Public twitter accounts, etc.
Indiana soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach US supreme court
HN isn't that bad on it. It's a crappy design, but it's readable.
The Best Way to Make Consumer Internet Products
Let us know how it goes! What's the website?
Is it just me, or is john very very slow? I remember trying MD5 once, but the tries per second were in the thousands (whereas GPU-accelerated crackers do billions).

Maybe I'm misunderstanding and it was a few thousand rounds of MD5, though.
This is a good joke.