skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, it's never too early to start building relationships with Investors. However, actively trying to fundraise might be a different story. From my experience, Investors want to see Traction because it demonstrates both Execution and Market Interest. Without Traction, the Investor is forced to fall back on other metrics, which may or may not be good indications of a good Investment (which does not help your cause).

My recommendation would be to work on getting some Traction before approaching Investors, but this is all relative, and only you know when you're "Ready". Considering that you do need money, maybe you could cut down on your overhead? Or maybe you could barrow from Friends/Family? I would consider approaching Investors without first demonstrating Traction as being a last resort; Mainly because you are "taking a chance" and with many Investors, you run the risk of a bad impression, or missing out on your "one shot".

In terms of your product, it seems like you're suffering from the 'Chicken Before the Egg' problem, where you need to attract two different groups of Users/Customers that rely on eachother to generate a Network Effect. In this sense, it may be worthwhile to brainstorm and find an angle (however small) that will allow you to build Traction. You need to get people excited. You need to get your potential Users/Customers to realize the benefits of this hot upcoming Service. You need to generate incentives and get people to "Sign Up" for your product. Products that provide inherent value and solve real world pain points are usually inherently effective in these scenarios. Point out the pain points you will be solving, show the potential for growth, and the Network Effect that you need will start to unfold; And it will grow exponentially, from potential Users/Customers, to Potential Investors, and finally to actual Users/Customers, and actual Investors.

Good Luck!
Agreed, this is why I prefer desktop rendering on my phone, because most 'mobile' sites feel like 2003 blackberry sites. iPhones and other modern smartphones can read read regular html pages fine.
Maybe this is the new guy, and it's his first assignment. Maybe it's not CSIS, but some other interested party. Seriously though, they're gov't employees, the hiring process does not guarantee the highest quality in every case.
http://iaftp.org/2012/03/is-technology-eroding-pilot-skills/
spend half an hour you will get good accuracy.
One, PayPal does make their rules very clear. It isn't PayPal's fault that its users don't bother to read the rules.

Two, these rules do not come from PayPal; they come from the US Federal Government.

Three, the thing you're saying they should make clear is something someone else guessed about, and it's not correct. As long as the number is under $600 a year, there's no paperwork required.

I don't understand why we're all panicking so hard about a set of guesses that people have made. If you just think the situation over a little bit, it's pretty obvious that what's really going on is OP hasn't finished his free tax paperwork, and that PayPal can't hand out money until the tax situation is made legal.

And when you look at it that way, PayPal is actually doing exactly the right thing.
Track My Email allows anyone to see when an email is opened.
Aren't social networks just sort of like... blog networks?
Sorry, did you just suggest that a payment processor should not be required to ensure that when they hand money out, it's done legally?
Any thoughts?

Total smokescreen, but definitely about to build this out!
Law enforcement officers come to you with a correctly formed legal document - a court order, or a warrant, or somesuch - and ask you to serve a malformed client to some cryptocat users. This malformed client will give the impression of encrypted communication, but will actually allow the law enforcement officers full access to the plain text (but only for the specified users). What do you do?

This is the Hushmail attack, and it seems like Cryptocat is vulnerable to it.
Absolutely hilarious: http://imgur.com/UogN3lU
It should be his choice, who are we as humans who make our own decisions to decide whether he should stay somewhere simply because our bais and opinions in regard to this differ. Whether I can sympathize or not, logically speaking he is going to learn a lot more outside of school than in it, especially running a business with employees, financial responsibility, and time management. On top of this, he seems to already know what field he wishes to be in and through this logic, he can always attend a college to further his schooling if he sees it beneficial to him and his life choices.

Personally, this is how it should be. Let him be his own man or woman. Don't take his freedom simply because you cannot see the logical reasoning or benefits in it, and by preventing his freedom you are preventing the future freedom and partially your own.
Do note that this article dates from September 2011.
We are watching. Everything.
I feel like so much of this discussion is way too general. It's impossible to debate how/how much math is needed for "programming" without speaking about a particular (programming) domain and the subset of math, if any, needed for it.

In other words, "no math is needed" and "you need proofs" are probably both true. There's some realm of programming in which no math is needed, ever. And then there's other programming that requires lots of math. But the math required, might be linear algebra in some cases and some other specific branch of math in another area. This fact is a just a reflection of the fact that "programming" is an extremely wide area. There are some realms of programming, where the "programming" aspect of it is virtually subsidiary to the math. The programming is just automating or systemizing some math which is the real work is taking place.

So, my take away from seeing this discussion and similar comments so many times is that everyone can agree that math is an enriching subject. However, from the standpoint of its relationship with your programming, going really deep into one particular area of math without a clear idea of if/how it's going to help you accomplish something previously unattainable is probably not the best use of your time.
- Startup Mentor

- Marketing Guru

So why do you have a widget on your website that charges $3.33/min to "request a call" with you and within the blurb of that you advertise:

"Distribution, developers, marketing, brand, metrics, customer satisfaction, operations, scaling the business, raising seed investment."

Might be time to either remove that widget or update it to coincide with your newfound resolution(s), since all those things you list scream startups and marketing.
Ah, that explains it. I didn't use agencies when I was a junior and aim for lead dev/senior positions these days.
"We" are consumers who rely upon HTTPS to protect our $50 liability limited credit card transactions.

"We" are citizens living in repressive regimes who rely upon HTTPS to protect our emails arranging our family's emigration and escape from persecution.

"We" are software developers relying on HTTPS to secure our connections to Github to prevent attackers from inserting backdoors in our codebase.

"We" are the servers who rely upon the HTTPS client to do a thorough job of proving the absence of an active attacker on the network between us.

"We" are the relying parties.
You are handling things exceptionally well under the circumstances. If anything, I find it incredulous how eminently sensible you are being. You have my respect.

Some people are fanatics who will never believe. Perhaps there wasn't enough hacking in terminals with falling green letters or he doesn't think crypto software can possibly be easy for non-security professionals.

Again, you are doing the right thing. I'm only sorry the only thing I can give you is my support.
I'm not sure what the point of this exercise is. If the virus is as sophisticated as stuxnet it will only brick the Samsung laptops at that location, and it will have to do so only after spreading.
>I think in 2013 and beyond we will see social media spending go up, but we will also see a big shift from Facebook and Twitter back towards blogs as influencers

I'm not convinced that blogs ever stopped being "influencers," especially given how much Google traffic goes to blogs. I suspect that whatever metrics dendory.net and others are using, however, have understated the impact of blogs and probably have for a long time.

I do think we've seen blogs shift: people with long-form aspirations write them. People who just want to post links and one-liners that are only likely to be of interest to a small circle of people use Facebook and so on.

Certainly I've spent a LOT more time writing blog posts than I've spent on Facebook, but I'm also anomalous in this respect.

EDIT: I should've just written, "I think companies are catching up to what most of us already know about the differences in purpose in both readership and writership between blogs and Facebook."
Lifetime varies, but yes the goal is to re-issue them once criticality is viable -- customers are contractually obligated to support that migration also.

Said migration would ave no cost from us on the customer, I can't speak to what the other CAs do.
Two bits of advice for what to do after backing up evidence:

1. If you suspect the machine was tampered with, do not use it again. There are a lot of places a backdoor could be hiding, even after you reinstall the OS.

2. If you do not do so already, use smartcards for crypto. Don't store keys on your machine. It is easier to carry a card around than a computer, and smartcards are harder to brute force.
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What did Wave do that addressed email's shortcomings? Any examples? I remember when Wave came out, I couldn't figure out what it actually was or what problem it was trying to solve... it was as vexing to this email user as Haskell's zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms to a Java programmer.
definitely. Working on it! If you are in doubt though, just put in in Miscellaneous and I'll clean it up later :)
Imposing limits (low resolution, few colors) on your work can amplify your creativity.
Man, who could imagine such skullduggery in such a boring place as Conscordia's Reggies. Secret agents and illegal break ins oh my!

Although, I did have a palestinian friend swear that the Tim Horton's on Guy was a hotbead for the Jordanian security service.
10 minutes by air but the on-ground transit time difference from SFO and SJC to the Googleplex is significant.
Telnet to this url for some starwars fun
Fitting additive manufacturing to the trajectory of books or CDs is mis-guided as the latter are ultimately vehicles for intangible goods. The recordable CD had an insignificant share next to commercially produced CDs when Napster and mp3 players made their debuts in 1999, shattering CDs and CD-Rs alike. Demand for physical and print-on-demand books is similarly crimped by digital books. Physical products have no equivalent - I can't sit on a CAD chair.
Maybe add Typehead for search form http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#typeahea...
Unless the other participants only think the problem is resolved, and you have some additional knowledge which would be relevant.
I don't feel safe at all. The same way goverments could ask Microsoft to have a builtin backdoor for Windows, they could ask for a signed rootkit.
More like sharecropping networks.
It's not at all clear that advertising on a blog will increase sales just because blogs are influential in the buying process. If I read a blog post that is an honest, unbiased review of a product it will likely contribute greatly to a decision to buy that product. But the power of the blog's suggestion had little to do with the fact that it was a blog and a lot to do with the fact that they were not paid to review.

If I'm reviewing simply to advertise then I lose a great deal of credibility and influence as far as the consumer is concerned. Advertising on blogs will simply shift them from the blog category to the retail or brand site category which may cost them influence.
All the replies seemed to dismiss the issue as not a problem, because who would want to brick a computer?!

I'm just trying to highlight the many problems that appear when computers can be maliciously (or even accidentally) bricked by regular software.
Suppose a doctor is paid by the visit - his incentive is to keep you alive for as long as the insurance will allow him to (which could have minus points as well as plus points). Watson's recommendations could be aligned more directly to the insurance company's bottom line : Keep you healthy as long as possible, but kill you quickly when things turn south.

Of course, it may be that Watson's choices are more optimal for the patient, but there's an ethical debate in there somewhere, I'm sure.
Using social network data in fraud prevention - by Ohad Samet
Yea, the search system right now is a very basic iteration (I really just wanted to get this launched) but I definitely have plans for making it better. Typeahead is definitely one of the first things I'm going to add.
Utterly hilarious.
It looks like enabling Versioning on the S3 bucket might be enough. When you want to generate a file's public-facing URL, GET its metadata and then append the oldest version from the returned list.

This may help: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTBucketGET...
biscarch* ;)

"If you were that smart you would've just finished it next to all your other stuff."

It's not about being that smart, it's about the best use of your time. You could be the smartest person in the world, but doing hundreds of single-variable derivatives isn't going to teach you as much as moving on to multivariate calc (if you're capable of moving on).

School in the US locks you into a specific speed. If you learn more, you're punished with busywork below your current level, if you learn less, you get left behind.

The quote I'd prefer to hear your friend say is "If you were that smart why didn't you test out?" or "If you were that smart why didn't you just finish everything in a couple months?" But these are impossibilities in the current system.

The school system is akin to having a giant pile of rocks.

Which is a better use of your time if you're capable of building a crane:

A) You can either carry them one by one to where they need to go (finish hs)

B) You can build a crane that moves them faster (drop out and pursue more).
That's a rousing speech, but, again, and to a first approximation, there's only 4 organizations in the world who need to agree on TLS PKI policy. You work for one of them, don't you? Go yell at them.
Interesting. The font tags appear to have been closed with </font color>. What's weirder is that there are no line breaks so it kind of seems as if an IDE did this.
The beauty of a collaborative system!
I hate to point you back to OP's link but if you read the headline, it's in response to the exploits that have taken place at the New York Times and others.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22515730/malware-warn...
As interesting as several pages of graphs are, it'd be cooler to read an explanation as to why. Superpages support in FreeBSD? Linux 2.6.38 should have supported it too (as of that version), but perhaps less well?

Also, why did they use different motherboards? For that matter, what the hell is the purpose of providing the page two table of system details if you're going to crop half of it away???
> Your crab-in-a-bucket mentality will not be welcomed warmly here.

Excuse me?

All I said was "you shouldn't be taking for granted that PHP is terrible, when you don't know other languages, just because a bunch of people have told you so."

I have actually been here quite a bit longer than you have; years before I created my account. I've also been a professional developer for more than 20 years.

Just because you disagree with my position doesn't mean you get to insult me and announce that a community which has received me better than it has received you (take a look at our score averages, please) is not going to like me.

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> You might consider encouraging other people to learn new things

Maybe you should calm down and re-read what you're arguing with. That's exactly what I did.

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> instead of being a sour asshole to somebody asking the community for advice.

I think maybe you should also consider whether you're speaking to yourself by accident. I didn't curse, or make any personal attacks.

What I did was say "if you make this assumption, and choose not to learn directly, it will cost you."

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> Please go back to lurking.

I would appreciate it if you don't speak to anyone in this fashion anymore. Your tone is far beyond appropriate, you don't appear to have taken the time to figure out what I was actually saying, and you have been really quite unacceptably aggressive.

If anything, your tone encourages me to speak out more often, because I find this sort of lynchpin "anyone who disagrees with the herd is just being a crabby asshole" nonsense to be one of the most direct ways to challenge people's intent to grow.

I mean, yes, you've managed to quote a blub article. Very nice.

But I don't think you've received the impact you were going for. I was not an asshole by saying "don't take for granted what the crowd tells you; learn for yourself." And I don't need to be told, in response, that I should be encouraging learning.

The next time you feel like being this severely critical in public, it may help for you to take a few hour breather, and then come back and make sure the person really actually did say the thing you thought, and that your tone in response is at least somewhat appropriate.

I hope you will consider the possibility that you're just yelling at your own imagination. I'm kind of mortified by what just happened here.

I don't know how to walk away from this supportively. I realize you're trying to defend someone, but it's from an attack that didn't exist, and in response, you've gotten just astoundingly vulgar.
Their professional interaction is not what I find unnerving, but rather Florian's insistence that she reveal herself personally, as well as the rest of his general interaction with her. It puts off seriously creepy vibes.

So maybe you are right. Maybe this isn't always about money to him, and is some other sort of obsession.
They already paid for it. The service is value added, which the taxpayer didn't pay for.
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Sorry. I am very stressed and am knocked into full self-defense/damage control mode. Not sure I am in a state to meet people IRL at the moment.
The generator is listed as frontpage 5.0.
I of course feel a little singled out here but as has been called out by Adam many (if not all) trusted roots have this same offering.

It is allowed by all the root programs.

The practices (both technological and procedural) we put around our program are some of the best in the industry, we take this responsibility very seriously.

More over we very rarely do it and instead work with customers to utilize our managed PKI offerings where we operate the infrastructure on behalf of the customer.
Cryptocat is a browser plugin. You need to download it like everything else. The source code is on Github.

I swear upon my father's grave I will never do something so dishonest and evil towards everyone who has supported Cryptocat, the most meaningful thing I have made with my life.
And this one too:
http://www.lua.org/pil/
(prior Lua versions are free online)
Could you... elaborate more on this, perhaps?
I think that the reason you are seeing this response towards your project is that it's not entirely clear what it is intended for. As in who cares about security enough to encrypt their messages but not enough to install a standalone client, which has a stricter security model.

That being said, I think it's a cool project and it seems to be pissing off all the right people, so keep it up. And I'm not a lawyer but I don't think that the gov't has a case against you (or am I missing something). In fact, it would appear that this might be warrantless wiretapping so you might have a case against them, but I'm not sure if that is something you want to pursue.
Based on what's been said here, and on twitter (i.e. https://twitter.com/rmhrisk/status/300351604715057154 ), doesn't it appear that they are in violation of that requirement? Unless contracts and audits meet the requirement for "cannot."
I think this happened because people started copy/pasting the following meta tag in to their HTML, thinking they were adding better support for mobile safari, and not fully understanding what it does.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

Really you should only consider adding this element if your site is optimised for mobile, either through a responsive design or with a dedicated mobile site, and even then maximum-scale=1 is usually a bad idea.
I feel the browser is trying to tell me something about my afternoon: http://imgur.com/UzgATO1
She's the CEO of a YC startup now.
well, part of shifting the liability to machines is also beneficial. in a machine, u can find the fault and fix it, improving on the system so such a mistake never happens again in the future. as for enforcing reliability in humans, all you can really do is get out your whip and dish out negative reinforcement.
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If "happiness" is at the root of our actions, then how does Grocery Shopping make us happy?
The root programs all allow for technical and procedural controls to meet the this criteria. There are technical controls beyond name constraints as well.

Again GlobalSign's policies do not allow the use of certificates that chain to our roots to be used for MiTM purposes (or other malicious use cases for that matter) and we have controls in place that protect against such things occurring.
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Hey HN

What are some of your fav. spots for hanging out, working and meeting with likeminded hackers in the valley? Is the Creamery still a fav. hangout spot in SoMa?
I am suggesting pissing off CSIS, or any law enforcement body, is not a good idea. I doubt you will be outright killed on purpose, but arrested, detained and interrogated is a reasonable risk. Worst (reasonable) case is being jailed for "interfering in an investigation" or "unauthorised access to computers" or such like.

Magikarp is doing everything right so far. He doesn't need to cross a line by exposing CSIS servers to attack. And nobody else needs to play with CSIS servers either.

Protest and demonstration is one thing, but playing with law enforcement servers is like throwing bottles at police cars for the lulz and is just asking for the book to be thrown back at you.
But the packets aren't addressed to the intermediate routers. All of the packets are addressed to the endpoint, with a TTL value too low to make it there. The intermediate routers just reply with an ICMP Time Exceeded packet.

The real problem is that an ICMP Time Exceeded packet coming from behind NAT would presumably either be blocked by the NAT or else have its address changed to the routable public interface of the NAT device. If the packets are dropped, that would obviously be a problem. If the IP address were changed to that of the NAT box, then all of the reverse DNS lookups would have the same result.

By the way, some traceroute implementations use ICMP Echo Request packets instead of UDP.

Edit: punctuation
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