skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that the thread about is kinda interesting, too. https://heml.is/
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Totally possible the imaging equipment retains data in an insecure fashion.

However, milspec != NSA, and its highly likely the Russians would help the Iranians in such an endeavor in exchange for intelligence sharing.
Background: the FISA Court made a public docket only just last month. It's at http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/index.html, and is a tiny flat page with links to scanned PDFs. They clearly update it by hand, whenever something becomes public.

I wrote a Ruby script to watch the page every 5 minutes. When there's a change, it texts me, emails me, and tweets as @FISACourt with a link to a diff of the changes.

When I get notified, I read the new documents and follow up the automatic tweet with a hand-written one that explains the update, usually within just a few minutes of the posting.

Simple, but it breaks news faster than the blogs and papers do. The code is here:
https://github.com/konklone/fisa

And I have some further explanation on my blog:
http://konklone.com/post/following-the-fisa-court-the-advanc...
This comment in linux/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c claims:

/*
* Force a reseed cycle; we are architecturally guaranteed a reseed
* after no more than 512 128-bit chunks of random data. This also
* acts as a test of the CPU capability.
*/
Microsoft admits Internet Explorer flaw 'targeted' by hackers
Yes! You are right! I am either incredibly new at reading, or maybe I was just careless. You win a prize! Congratulations!
Right, so why is nobody instead saying that exploit sales should be regulated? Why are most people drawing such stark distinctions between exploit weapons and meatspace weapons?
In my vim doesn't show the 0 instead it shows the line number you're currently on. Seems somewhat what you suggested.
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He said it's already all leaked. After all, that's what Greenwald mentioned after Putin mentioned the requirement that Snowden knock it off when the topic of Russian asylum was first broached. The delay now is up to news outlets to maximize the news value, not Snowden himself.
Exploits are not weapons, and these are very very strictly regulated.

Do you think you should be able to disclaim any responsibility after you sold information about faulty material used in bridges all over the world to third-parties with unknown intentions?
It's a reasonable point. Given the vast array of jQuery versioning across just the top thousand web sites, it's very plausible a user will not have each one of those cached, and then a lot of sites vary on what cdn (if not local) they're using.

I would be willing to bet that among just the top 1,000 sites, a user would be required to have 25 to 30 copies of jQuery cached to cover all the sites.
Meatspace weapons are easy to detect since most/all modes of transportation between nations is monitored and recorded, meanwhile exploit weapons are quite impossible to manage in the same fashion.

Decentralized and obfuscated means of communication make it easy to engage in this behavior at scale, for example Tor and Bitcoin.

Meatspace weapons of significant destructive capabilities are also large and bulky, too.
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Hi Ben,

First, I can completely appreciate your mentality. When the software company I founded was at about $650,000 in annual revenue, I was convinced that it was time to bring in a seasoned leader who knew how to take the business to the next level because I, as a first-time entrepreneur, had certainly not done it before.

In retrospect, that mentality was a mistake. The truth is that you understand the business better than anyone else and there is no magical skill or talent that someone else can bring to the table that will so fundamentally improve things.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that if you transfer responsibility to "better" executive that they can do a better job. That person will bring their own strengths/weaknesses to the table. They will need to rely on a team to make up for their handicaps just as you are looking to do.

In this situation, I recommend the following:

- First, clearly identify exactly what issues are vexing you. If it seems like "everything" or "things are just overwhelming" then make a list of just the most important issues.

- Then pick 1 or 2 or 3 that you can actually focus on solving. You can't do more than that at once, but imagine how much impact fixing your top 3 issues will make on the business! In fact, you should try to quantify how much money you are losing or missing out on by not resolving these issues to give yourself a sense of what you should budget to solve them

- Then block out or delegate everything else, and focus 100% of your creative energies on how you can resolve these issues. Use any and all resources available to you, including friends, consultants, or even Hacker News ;-) If you don't even know where to begin on an issue, then find an expert for THAT ISSUE (which is different than finding a new CEO).

- Then keep at it, keep refining your ideas, listen to your intuition, and push through until you make progress.

I made the mistake of thinking other businesspeople were "better" than me or more talented than I am. The truth is you just need to know what your strengths/weaknesses are. Then lean on the team around you or new people to help you fill in the weaknesses.

Hope this helps,

Josh
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I've seen something similar done with the Mako templating library which allows mixing html and Python. We jokingly dubbed it PHPython, and it had grown into horrible spaghetti.

I think what happened was it started out as a quick and dirty thing that just grew and grew.
I would love to take feature requests, but it's honestly not maintained. Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't be hard to reintegrate it with the current release, but I believe the idea should be at least approximated with vimscripts rather than making someone build a custom vim release to support this feature alone. Plus, now :rnu sort-of mimics this functionality by showing the current line number on the 0th row, instead of '0'.

On a side note, to your second request of left-side/right-side splits for line numbers: my first experimentation was to do just that. Left side was rnu and right side was nu, but the way vim's buffers work out, it wasn't very practical. It also caused headaches for rtl text and so on if I remember correctly.
Zimmerman Found Not Guilty
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>you are being intellectually dishonest with yourself, and possibly being disingenuous to your audience here.

Or lying.
I just recently decided that I wanted an in-house solution to inbound email handling (the user can send emails into the server containing commands to run) as I didn't like the expense or having to rely on an external service to do it for me. In the space of about half a day I had a working test bed:

* Vanilla Postfix

* A user with a .forward file, calling curl to post the email to my receiver route on my app

* A receiver in my Go app using the inbuilt mail package

* Logic to recursively parse multipart emails to extract plain text where possible, or strip tags from HTML when there is no text/plain version

I've been amazed at the performance and the reliability of it even in staging. It automatically emails back a confirmation of the commands and the confirmation comes back lightning quick, back through the Postfix server.

Anyone considering creating their own inbound email handler shouldn't be scared to have a crack, I was amazed at how simple and rewarding it was.
Three billion devices run Java. Yeah, but do they like it?
Zimmerman jury reaches a not guilty verdict
This is the worst video I've seen this century. Is it even 320px? You can barely make out the tailplanes aboard the giant floating airport. Ain't nobody gonna end up in Gitmo for watching that crap. BUT The music makes me tense - that ain't no terrorist electronica. This is noise.
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Help me understand how someone who believes rdrand might be backdoored could trust any HSM?
> Entangled particles can't communicate information any better than classical methods.

Actually, with the aid of entangled particles, there's also superdense coding, which allows for two-bits-per-qubit coding (i.e. information density well beyond the classical limit).

Though I'm not sure what your metric for "better" is here, coding density seems to be mildly reasonable. OTOH, this isn't related at all to the article at hand, just a fun application of entanglement :D
Can you explain how the supposed implications of the evidence has anything to do with Martin being black?

It's my opinion that if a white person had those photos on their phone, it would count negatively against a claimed peaceful character as well.

Unfortunately whether Martin was peaceful or not is absolutely not irrelevant. An important part of a trial like this is character construction / deconstruction by the prosecution and defense.
Suppose we learn that the guy responsible in the NSA for internet surveillance is named John Smith. What would it change? This is surveillance on US soil, not covert ops in some country in Latin America, how the names would change anything?
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Go George!
Have you ever considered a "pay-per-build" option?

I am a single developer, but would love to have continuous integration tests on my personal projects. I have a lot of small projects (10), and $49 is too much for me to consider.

When I think about it, that might keep people from upgrading to your top-tiers, never mind me :-)
What on boarding service did you use? Fantastic Job!
Maxthon Is A Cloud-Based Browser For Power Users
If it's useful to other people--and obviously it is--it was worth writing, so congratulations on shipping.

That said, put me in the category of crotchety old Vim users (even though I'm only 20) who really don't have a use for this. Potential use cases:

Scrolling: If it's a few lines, I tap j a few times--or guesstimate a number prefix. It's just scrolling--no precision needed. If it's more than a few lines, I use C-d/C-u. If I need to teleport to a line I know about, :<absolute linenum> is fine.

Yanking/Deleting/Changing/Indenting: I turn on visual line mode (V), and proceed as above. Or, depending on the language I'm in, I'll do, for example, yi{ to yank everything in the current block. Or use () judiciously.

So...what's the actual use case for this? Not trying to be critical--I just want to understand how I'd integrate it into my workflow.
Especially in the photo printing business!! I don't know exactly what part OP's in, but 4x6 prints are about as profitable as airlines...

Disclaimers: 1. I work for Vistaprint, so possibly a competitor though we shuttered our photo printing business years ago as not profitable and without a clear path to profit. 2. Your site is constantly crashing Safari on an iPad original. (not complaining, just explaining why I don't know what you actually do) 3. All content and opinion in this post is mine. I don't speak for my employer.
I'd avoid 37signals. While they have bootstrapped, they haven't grown very fast, at all. 10M in 2 years is really fast, so they'd need someone who could deal with that kind of quick scale.
I call bullshit. There are numerous "funny bits" in this thread, number one, they display the info page for a "UAV Imager system" which in no way offers control of a drone. Second, the very generalized schematic for a nuclear power station, most likely a mid-60's design BWR, means nothing to anyone.
Do your tech-brethren stand up their wheel-reinventions behind multiple IP infringements against an owner with many fewer resources?

http://spumko.github.io/

Just an innocent mistake, I'm sure. I mean, they do redirect to this site from multiple endpoints, but maybe the name and trade dress just occurred to them in a dream or something. Convergent evolution.

Thus, it's not moral opposition, I just don't see any indication that Walmart has avoided the cancerous behaviors that have characterized sociopathic organizations throughout history. Node.js is just a latest plea for legitimacy.

But yeah, if you zoom in close enough, it's just a place with a bunch of people tryna get by in this workaday world. Puppies! Doesn't mean they're disassociated.
George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty
So this is my baby, I've spent the last 2 years or so working on it, and I've written every line of code myself. When I started the site, I had rusty technical skills; it had been over 7 years since I'd written anything besides a SQL statement. I've developed something that has really resonated with passionate college basketball fans. I get about 100k unique visitors per month at this point.

I would love any feedback you have on the site if you see anything that jumps out at you.

I would love to find someone who shares a passion for college recruiting to help with the technical work in exchange for equity. The site is written in Ruby on Rails, hosted by Heroku with Postgres DB. If you're interested please let me know, I've got a feature list with some cool ideas on that I need help to develop.
Hell, even I would agree that prolonged solitary confinement probably counts as torture. That is the kind of thing that really should be reserved for those who simply cannot safely be around anyone.

However, if it were possible to do this without the subsequent mental trauma that would follow then that might be a different story. E.g. virtual social interaction (with other prisoners/guards) might be feasible, we certainly seem to get a lot of people who wall themselves away from others IRL so that they can play their online video games.

But even with that I don't see how that would be a more resource-efficient way to handle the task of rehabilitation where possible and humane segregation from society for the rest.

I think we have to figure that at some point almost any 'stick' in a carrot/stick system can, with overuse, become more dangerous to mental health than useful as a behavior modifier.
There's no mention of security, or the trust involved in outsourcing email workflow handling to you.

The interest for attackers isn't as high as something like LastPass, but at a bare minimum a successful hack will come back with a big list of valid email addresses and companies they have relationships with -- which would be very valuable to someone interested in spoofing, for example.

And that's assuming that the people/person behind mailparser.io are honest.

It depends on what kind of data your clients might want to handle in email workflow, but I imagine most businesses will be wary of passing off potentially sensitive material to an outside party that they don't trust. Things like "first month free" don't address this -- the fear isn't "we'll try this service and it won't work for us, and our money will be wasted", it's "we'll try this service, and an employee or hacker will sell our data to competitors, spam/upsell our customers, sell our contact lists...".

Obviously these aren't the most likely scenarios, but it's a bit like hiring a new employee who will be working completely without oversight with your company data... You'd want to put serious time into interviews, checking references, etc..

The site as-is: as far as I can tell, there are no human beings behind the site, or any established company. There's no phone number or address. It's not even clear what country (and hence legal jurisdiction) the business is operating in.

I don't mean to come off as too negative -- there are still companies that will not have a problem with the risks (and/or for whom the risks will be minimal), but you'll cast a wider net with a more solid presence.
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Welcome another Python dummer.
TL;DR

your assertion about "perl" is also applies to all laguages.

Don't repeat pythonista's propaganda pattern as plain as day. :)

" I used perl(or other lang.) enough. -> but it is sucks and blah blah... -> I switch to Python"

FED UP!
Google Glass Let Dogs Talk To A Human
I just read up some more and it seems that 'inbound marketing' is big, and writing good essays/blog posts to attract traffic is a great strategy.
Before people get into heated arguments, remember that this was a high case trial with tons of media input in an attempt to get ratings and neither side was reported without bias.

The jurors who reached their decision know a lot more about the details than people who occasionally read the headlines, so while you're entitled to your opinion, keep it civil please.
Indeed it does! However, that didn't come around until vim 7.3.787 was introduced. That was on 30-Jan-2013. I wrote this patch back in 2011.
This is why I show preference towards AMD chips even when they have the competitive disadvantage. Any sufficiently large company ends up, through their will or the gov'ts, wrapped up in politics. Which is the one of the larger issues of our age.
>anything other than utter paranoia.

I want hackers, cypherpunks, and cryptographers to be utterly paranoid.
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But I suspect the "writers" market is a relatively small and spends very little on tools and services.
There was no proof to say it wasn't self-defense. The Verdict was accurate.

That being said, Tragic situation.
Given that the entire trial was televised gavel-to-gavel, how do the jurors know a lot more about the details than anyone else?
That shouldn't happen unless you've mapped "j" to "gj" (which is fairly common for people who use line wrapping): http://vimdoc.sf.net/htmldoc/motion.html#gj
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YC's 6% equity cut isn't a big hit when you're at the "we have an idea" stage, but if they're a $10M company already that's a lot to pay for advice...
Pyhon and Ruby should have explicitly-declared real lexical scoped variable and strict mode.

I can't understand they insist we are modern language than perl without such features. :)
And even with that in mind, there's no actual right of the government to 'torture' military servicemembers accused of crimes either.

For that reason once the trial judge determined that Manning should not have been held under Prevention of Injury Status after the psychiatrist deemed that he was not actually a suicide risk, she ended up reducing whatever his eventual sentence happens to be due to the fault of the military in that case.

Mind, he's still kind of stupid for 'joking' about killing himself with his soldier/Marine guards (who are not trained psychiatrists and are therefore trained to take no chances).

But even Manning being in the military wouldn't completely excuse his treatment in his first stages of pre-trial confinement.
Agree with everything that is being said here regarding the executive seats, don't give those out and keep control.

In addition to some executive coaches, who will help you grow personally, it seems you need some good advisors who can help you with the problems that you're facing. Some of these could have experience with technical issues you're facing, while others could have managerial and supply chain experience.
It wasn't clear from your website if you have any advisory board or not.

NOTE: there is a very big difference between board of directors and advisory board, what you need at the moment is advisory board, don't give out board of director seats unnecessarily unless you raise a VC round of funding or go IPO :).

By getting a good set of advisors you will be able to fill the immediate gap in your skills/experience that you're facing and may even decide if any of those (or their referrals) need to be hired, if at all, for executive positions.

Now how you find advisors is non-trivial so I will advise you to look for people with experience in your industry and domain, and contact them. Even if their companies seem to be mildly competing at times, you'll be surprised how many people will meet with you over coffee and might have recommendations.
If you decide to have a person come on as an advisor, don't give them any compensation till they start providing value. If someone comes on very strongly and will only help if compensated, then perhaps that is not the right person.

Good Luck!!!
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I would be surprised by Guido Van Rossum left Google to work on "some Python duct tape" at Dropbox ; ).
I'm saying the majority of people arguing will have unlikely watched the entire trial from start to finish, and even those that did will likely have already had an opinion from before the trial started
Just as a matter of interest, re: the new bitcoin boxes like the butterfly http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/06/how-a-total-n00b-mine...

Do these put a different slant on the whole "current-day computation" angle? Not necessarily these machines, but isn't it feasible that custom hardware could be manufactured using current tech, that upsets the notion of AES brute force feasibility?

Edit:

No. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121264.0
Aliens are as likely an explanation as anything found so far. Given that no other examples of this language have been found it's hard to imagine it could be any real human one.
Having worked there, I can say with 100% confidence that you underestimate the problem space.

Why such negativity?
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the verdict, it's pretty clear that the prosecution really botched their case. For their closing arguments they were virtually relying on emotional appeals.
FTR, that limit is also mentioned in the Intel manual [1, 3.2.3], and in the Cryptography Inc report [2, 2.4.2].

[1] http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-rando...

[2] http://www.cryptography.com/public/pdf/Intel_TRNG_Report_201...
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That doesn't explain why they need to be completely outlawed rather than more strictly controlled, or some other medium.

Also, if exploits are "quite impossible" to manage like regular weapons(and I agree that is probably the case, see how crypto export controls worked out), it goes both ways - any laws passed outlawing trafficking in weapons will be impossible to enforce.
Hi! Thanks for the compliment. We build out own onboarding service with some help from external JS libraries. It's still a little glitch but I hope it was helpful.
Well, yes, but I picked CGI for a reason. Zed says in one of the other comments that the inspiration for this was "What if PHP got it right?" PHP came out of a long tradition of CGI apps, as a way to make templating dead-simple and still provide a bunch of programming language tools.

The brilliant idea behind CGI is that you set a directory as your cgi-bin, drop an executable file, and then the webserver will run that executable and pass in a bunch of data from the request as environment variables and on STDIN, and then send STDOUT back to the browser. It's an incredibly powerful idea with a really simple implementation. You can write your scripts in any language, they can do anything, they can present further abstractions and run other scripts, they can embed other languages like Python or PHP or Haskell, and they can embed other frameworks like Django or Rails. And all you have to do is drop a file in a directory and make it executable. All because of the power of plain text: CGI "speaks" a uniform interface that any computer language can understand.

When I saw FuqIt, I thought of CGI because the brilliant idea behind FuqIt seems to be "Drop a Python file or Jinja template in a directory, and we'll call it via a uniform interface". Kinda like CGI, huh, except it's restricted to Python? (Actually, there's another standard - WSGI - that's built around the same principles as CGI but restricted to Python.)