skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. Useful to my burgeoning little community of lifestyle business enthusiasts, so cross-posted here: http://lifestyle.io/stories/362-the-hard-learned-lessons-fro...

I'd be interested to see some less big picture, more in-depth posts on each of the lessons you learned. Get crunchy for me. Get specific.

See, for example https://medium.com/who-what-why/c744d79a6e76. Lots of hard numbers there make me get a clearer sense of what's going on.
The body is a different one every time, and its sourcecode the result of a more or less random process, your version as much as mine.
This article is pretty interesting:

http://www.privacylover.com/encryption/analysis-is-there-a-b...

It claims TrueCrypt is a CIA honeypot.
Anyone refusing a pat down will be detained.

The lowly TSA hourly employee was probably shaking at the thought of having to do that to a US Senator and possible consequences but he had to do it.
What do you think of the current state of Linux media players?
Uhh, whoops! I can't believe that I messed that up. Sorry!
My first internship offered a 401k with company match. The trick for that is to put in exactly as much to get the company "free" money. If they match 100% up to the first 3% of your salary, you just got a 3% raise so long as you agree to put your money in a 401k. If you ever leave, then you'll just roll the account over. Not all of that money could be yours (read the vesting rules), but a good chunk of it probably will be. At worst, did you miss 3% of your salary? You'll get it back in 40 years.

After that point, you're going to get wildly different ideas of how to save your money. Most commonly people will suggest high risk, high return assets (stocks or stock funds, as opposed to bonds or bond-based mutual funds), since even if you lose everything, then you still have the rest of your life ahead of you. Basically what it comes down to is how to compound your earnings combined with the tax burden. Each of these have different rules as to maximum contributions per year, when you can take your money out, etc.

* Traditional 401k or IRA - Pre tax money, lowers your income taxes now in favor of paying tax later (you suspect your tax rate will decrease -- probably not true as a student)

* Roth 401k or IRA - Post tax money. Pay tax now, and none later (you suspect your taxes will go up)

* Brokerage accounts - Pay taxes on gains as income or capital gains (most tax, most liquidity).

Within each of these you can choose how to invest your money for your risk/reward tolerance. Bonds, Funds, and Stocks are how most people invest. Some choose to do real estate. Some choose to do more riskier things like derivatives. Wikipedia has a full list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_market).

So long as you diversify, you should get an overall good return and won't be subject to volatility in one particular investment. However, due to minimum investments for the first few years it's probably best to diversify over time, rather than right from the beginning.

I graduated 2 years ago, so I've had to brush up on all of this stuff, along with supplemental benefits like AD&D, life insurance, etc. If you have any questions my email is in my profile.
I would have thought what is more important than market share in the developed world is good market share in the emerging economies like Latin America.

That would offer more scope for growth.
I saw that, but I still don't see how that works in a trial. Said evidence will need to be introduced in court. When the witness tries to be cute by giving a vague answer, can't the defense just ask the witness to explain further?
And your better suggestion would be?

Also, I think you have pretty low standards for the height of stupidity, and also for being antagonized by minor inconveniences. When I opt out, they just have me stand aside until a screener is free.
That's just it though -- they obviously don't think liquids are potentially dangerous. It's just a sort of cargo cult practice at this point, completely dissociated from the original reason & intent.

Same argument goes for anything verboten, really. If the item actually was dangerous and you actually cared about people not having it, you wouldn't just make them throw it away if and when you caught them with it -- you'd have a real disincentive, like a fine (a good example is fresh fruit & Australian quarantine laws).
*speaking hypothetically of course.
Not completely. How many video files does he have? Where is it stored?

I'm curious now though, do Truecrypt volumes have a magic number, in which case it's still easy to find, or are they fully crypographically random in appearance, making this a known-needle in a large haystack problem?
The difference being, when the VC money runs out and your startup fails, you can go get a job.
That's subjective. My (first edition) Kindle doesn't make for a good experience to me. It's hard to browse the pages, searching is a pain (no real keyboard), the screen contrast isn't so good, etc.

However, the size, portability and lower price are worth it. It's hard to read thick books on the train, space is at premium in Tokyo, and foreign paper books are significantly more expensive here.
I laugh at 'white hat' prosecution based culture, there is a serious lack of ethics in the computer security profession.
I think it can get better, but it's going to require a collapse of the whole system.
> The container format itself is really just a giant mathematical mess -- there really isn't anything to backdoor there.

The container itself can actually be 'backdoored' by a malicious client by eg saving a duplicate of the master key, or generating a master key using a deliberately weak RNG.
"IMO, the city needs to change the zoning laws to make these sorts of office desk sublets harder to produce."

The only reason these types of facilities exist is due to outrageous real estate prices caused by extreme regulation. The solution to regulation induced issues is rarely more tiers of regulation.
Israel hires pro-government internet commenters, it'll come out that the US does as well soon, just like everything Israel does "first"
Over on reddit[1] a number of steroid users have pointed out that:

1. He actually took unusually high doses for a first-time user.

2. He took none of the additional drugs recommended to prevent or ameliorate the side-effects.

3. That he got every side-effect, even some rare ones, with unusually high severity, seems suspiciously like dramatic license.

Remember: this is a guy who has a novel to sell. He is not acting as a journalist. He is not a scientist. He is under no legal or ethical requirement to be honest. He is a salesman for his own work.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lodxn/til_ca...
http://www.youtube.com/startupbootcamp
The reference to the names "Detective Stu Pitt" and "Detective Laughlin Foo" on the last page has me wondering about this. They both really, really sound like joke names. The similarity to the presenter's name (first slide) from the real North Dakota State Attorney's Association (NDSAA) presentation (http://www.ndsaa.org/Computer_Forensics_for_Prosecutors.pdf) also seems suspicious.

It has the look that somebody took the real NDSAA presentation, tweaked it up, and released it as a hoax.

Edit:

Here's a site that seems to be hosting the same PDF as part of an article dated 1 April 2013: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=770
"How can people "talk to customers" when they're packed in so closely?"

Heheh. They're busy talking to you, potential customer and incidental coworker!

Seriously: hate these places. Hate.
Intel releases new microcode relatively frequently.

There appear to be about 13 microcode updates for the i7 since launch.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&...

If I understand correctly, most of the updates are designed to fix bugs related to surrounding hardware (motherboards, memory).

If you look at the BIOS updates for your computer/motherboard, you might notice notes about microcode updates. The BIOS can apply these just as easily as the OS, and when they are hardware compatibility issues, that is the only way for it to work.

Not every update makes it into a BIOS version for every board, and not every version makes it into a Windows update (AFAIK).
One trick I use for composing messages: Add "compose" as a search engine to chrome. I use the url https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&su= , which means I type "compose", hit `tab`, and then type the subject line of the email I want to send.

Makes for a nice way to get quickly to a distraction-free compose window.
It progressively reduces their control over the products they make and hands that ever more over to Google.
Hackers put a bull's-eye on small business
I'm just guessing that MS would probably want to digest one phone manufacturer before immediately buying another. Integrating one team is more than hard enough.
The issue is that they can't release them all compiled into one thing. Instead the dependencies have to pollute the rest of the operating system. This is one of those things that Java got right and virtually everything else except npm (local node_modules) got wrong out of the gate.

I'd love to have a simple way to package python apps that depend on other python and native libraries without having to install things separately.
"The only reason these types of facilities exist is due to outrageous real estate prices caused by extreme regulation."

Yeah, I was wondering how long it would take before someone corrected me that San Francisco's real estate prices were due to our zoning laws.

Kudos to you for not disappointing me. Now that you mention it, I'm sure that our real estate prices are indeed a byproduct of the evil, evil guv'ment, and have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that this is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
And better still the device you’re buying doesn't even run the Windows Phone OS.
How not to check the validity of an email address
I'll try to state it more clearly. I'm just restating pg.

1. Pg says forced ui consistency tends to be bad.
2. Maaaybe a skilled design genius like jobs could do it (maybe), but most people shouldn't try.

His argument didn't turn on Jobs. It was a rhetorical flourish to bolster the idea. If even the best in the field (according to pg) couldn't do it well, then others should be wary.
Great, so what should I use instead?
They also said image-analyzed. This person uploaded photographs he took himself to his private Skydrive, and got his account flagged, so what does that tell you:

http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-monitoring-censoring-skydri...
If you find this interesting you might like http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/Drug-Test.html, which documents a journalist's use of EPO, Human Growth Hormone (HGH) and testosterone while training for the amateur Paris-Brest-Paris bike race.
I've never used steroids (I don't even lift and haven't for years), but I had the same thought as well. Incredibly dishonest article.
Sublime will do fine if you are't headed to Hogwarts. It's an awesome piece of software.
Similarly, I often have errands to run and 4-5 locations and it's not immediately obvious which route and order I should go to each of them.
Tell the truth. What would you say if the "fence" was electrified?
Magazines are not a credible source of information. Their job is to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Whatever it takes to get you to pick up the magazine is what will go on the cover, whether it is true or false.
I think it would actually be harder to quit than steroids. I can't imagine being in some lucid state where you could solve almost any problem and then having to come back to down to some foggy haze where you can barely comprehend anything.

Vernor Vinge wrote about something called "Focus" in A Deepness in the Sky which explores that concept. People voluntarily become "focused" so they can have extreme concentration to solve difficult problems, but at the cost of neglecting everything else.
> - Other people don't get distracted by your accent, and give you more credit than you're due. Think of a Russian speaking English - I might have negative cultural perceptions (eg. because of movie bad guys) but I also think of Dostoyevsky. You might be from the worst council estate in Russia, but I'll think you're a philosopher because of the accent.

That's why I was told to keep my German accent when I was in Britain. Foreign accents keep you out of the British class system.
The current downvotes on your comment are why I didn't say "This really doesn't sound legit." instead of what I did (that and there is a genuine possibility for the commenter to have a real reason for using a throwaway).
Is your Internet provider eavesdropping on your secure connections?
Explains a common tactic used by organisations to snoop your SSL traffic with self signed certificates (MITM )and how to detect them.
Men's Health and the like have to come up with new content to fill a magazine every month. Fitness isn't complicated; sound fundamental principles have been known for decades. There's a lot of money in making people think it's complicated though, so we have exercise fads and fancy/expensive weight machines. Look up the Starting Strength program to learn the basic building blocks of lifting.
As a semi-technical small business user of AWS I really wonder why so few resources seem to be put to the AWS GUI. For example, why is autoscaling not part of the GUI/AWS console? It's one of the most basic functions and it beggars belief that in this day and age it is done through the command line only. I'd rather not have to pay extra for Ylastic or some other hack when I'm sure Amazon can throw together even the most basic UI in a few weeks.
The Hub has a better community because it has set criteria on who gets to rent desks there, which seem to generally boil down to "do good".

This doesn't describe most startups. Most startups wouldn't be able to work out of the Hub unless rules were bent so far you'd risk creating a black hole.

I worked out of RocketSpace for a while while the company I worked for was still shopping for offices in SF. Nice space, good location, lots of room. I trialed some other coworking spaces and found them wanting - extremely short supply of dedicated desks or poor locations (two were in the glorious section of SOMA where you'd get to play dodge-the-crackhead at all hours of the day).

Space was good, amenities were good, location was convenient, just pricey.

Culturally though somewhat wanting, but that seems par for the course when is comes to modern startups, coworking space or no. A lot of people who are perennially there but you never see them launch anything. A lot of parties after hours where you'd meet hear the most disingenuous pitches known to mankind.

If I can count the number of times I've been pitched to join someone's hot startup that's going to be "worth $1bn a year from now!" while I was working out of that space...

Now that I think of it, I have a pretty cynical view about startup culture that probably traces mostly back to that place. Ah well, the offices were genuinely pretty nice, we got a lot of work done there before the actual office firmed up.
> while yes the declensions and conjugations have since disappeared in English (and most of the West European languages)

Which languages are you talking about?
Yep...

I was thinking... "Wow... why is this guy worried about Dropbox?"

The Dropbox problem is solvable... just don't use Dropbox.

But how are you going to use a phone without using iOS or Android. (All of the other mobile OSes are probably backdoored as well)
I was going to add that you can link directly to the page like this: http://cryptome.org/2013/09/computer-forensics-2013.pdf#page...

Works in FF and Chrome in-browser readers.

Then I realized you should really skim every single page, rather than going straight to 15.
Almost none of those are good ideas.

You're right; riding in the back of a pickup truck is not a good idea. It's either a great idea and lots of fun for short distances on low-traffic roads at low speeds, or the only way to get work done because getting into and out of the cab takes too long.

it's very easy for one momentary lapse to cause death or permanent damage in any of the others.

As it is when swimming, hiking, driving, swallowing food, shaving, etc. Everything that's worth doing carries risk.

One of mother's best friends died riding in the back of a pickup truck; car accidents are common, but all that happened in her case was that the road had a pothole, she fell, and happened to hit her head too hard and in the wrong spot.

Just so I'm clear, I'm sorry to hear that. But that doesn't mean that nobody should ever do anything fun, ever, just that they should be mindful of the risks and take appropriate, measured, noninvasive precautions.
With regards to FileVault for Mac, some friends who used to work as Geniuses at the Apple Store have mentioned having to request special software from corporate that would fix or recover FileVault in some way - they weren't clear and said it was not something they were supposed to talk about. Obviously I'd take the info with a grain of salt, but based on the news lately...
A trick I use when I change quality is immediately clicking on the time bar, it enforce the change right away.

I agree with all the annoying points above!
Facebook Launched Internet.org To Connect The Unconnected World To Internet
That's what hammer ownership does to the world's appearance.
So there's a few possible ways to interpret this..

* There is an actual hereto-unknown flaw in TrueCrypt's algorithms or implementations of algorithms that can be exploited.

* They are referring to the only known attack, wherein keys can be recovered from RAM if the volume isn't unmounted correctly.

* This is FUD designed to push people away from less-breakable encryption and onto software which actually /does/ have backdoors.

* This is a hoax (pay special attention to the detective's names on the slide)

I'm not sure what to make of it.
If you operate in the bitcoin economy, you don't have to wait until you're 18.
I personally suspect that he made up some or all of it. I compete in a WADA-regulated sport and I take my promise to not use PEDs seriously. But I train some of the time alongside people in untested sports who use steroids. They are in pretty good nick.

If this article had been about the time the author smoked weed and woke up in bed with dead kittens, would it be considered a credible PSA?
Simple hack to save upto 70% on Kindle books (region-switcharoo)
I thought this was really clever, and interestingly desperate. Maybe I've been around too long but there is always a warning twitch I get when tech companies get too cute. Sort of a "you're really trying too hard here."

I enjoyed the parody, I agree with others here that it was totally planned by the Google team ahead of time, but the shift in pure marketroidness, well it was just kinda "eww."
>Invest in me, not my ideas

why is it any better just throwing money in a window
I dug a little further. Not only is there "Detective Stu Pitt", there's also "Laughlin Foo" for the next day's presentation, and the link at the bottom is for the North Dakota State Attorney's Association, though the only state mentioned (and whose seal is used) is Oregon. This is phony.
Anybody ever heard of the "zSearch" software mentioned in the pdf?

After some more digging, found this document: http://www.ndsaa.org/Computer_Forensics_for_Prosecutors.pdf

Which states:

Free product by SA Eric Zimmerman

Random Access Memory Analysis:

* FBI - Salt Lake City, UT

* Distribution - eric[at]feeble-industries.com

* Plug-in live triage via USB

* Virtualization, encryption, mass storage, P2P, Gigatribe, picture & video preview, password gathering, and MORE!

Looks LE agents can request a copy by registering for the guy's phpbb form here (judging by the registration terms, it's not open to the public):

https://feeble-industries.com/forums/ucp.php?mode=register
They messed up my "back" button. Party foul.
I'm powerful for having $100 and the ability to fill out paperwork? Cool!
http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/assets/sound/music.mp3
In most of North America, at least, it would be something like por'trit (the second syllable is much de-emphasized, but the vowel is closer to a short i than a schwa).
Yes the graph appears to have been updated at
September 3, 2013 6:47:17 PM

It used to be 3.42+1.73+1.76+0.53
the idea of 'five concepts' is interesting as it's related to the level you're pitching at. The idea is that you get people up and running with the initial working code, and if they manage that, then they can follow what you're doing subsequently, and you can keep a feel of their levels of consolidated knowledge.
It is a shame that the Firewire backdoor is still out there. Particularly in Ubuntu.

https://github.com/carmaa/inception
I'm not sure what you mean by that.
Are we all just going to take this seriously? It's pretty obviously a fake. Just look at the names at the end. Detective Laughlin Foo? Stu Pitt? Neither of which, incidentally, return anything in google aside from this presentation. There's also a clear divergence in style on the backdoor slides, and it reads like a parody.

But the most obvious problem: if the NSA or whoever had a backdoor to truecrypt and Android and iOS, they would not send that information to a local DA office to be leaked.

Please don't set aside critical thinking just because something confirms your biases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

There's more ways to harness solar energy than photovoltaics.
This is really awesome, and you made some especially good choices with GitHub and Thoughtbot. I wish you could analyze private repos, because that would be even more telling than the OSS stuff.
I wonder if my next pone should be Mozila-based.
Boston's a poor example. It's possibly the most socially-conservative place on earth I've ever lived in other than a Muslim country.
"My rationale is simple. If one wants to succeed, one will succeed. If one does not succeed, one did not want to succeed enough. Consequently, one was not willing to make the proper sacrifices required to succeed. Success is a function of desire. That's it."

I admire your ambition, but if you really believe the above you have a lot to learn about life. Best of luck with your endeavors!
Believe it, it's possible to not succeed yet want to succeed more than anyone else on the planet. Go to college. Take 4 years to earn a qualification as something to lean back on just in case anything goes wrong.

You'll still be 18 in college. You can still do things on the side. You are 17 years old, and have no experience dealing with other people. The fact you are willing to let anyone invest in you without knowing them speaks volumes about how little you know how hard it is to succeed. Despite wanting to.

Edit: s/no\ /very\ little\ /g
A couple years ago, I was exactly like you. (I'm from the Champlain Valley myself.)

But in the 3 years since, I learned that people are infinitely more important than my technical abilities will ever be. My hubris brought me down.

Things like this just aren't going to win you friends. If you want people to invest in you, not your ideas, (a statement which is itself filled with hubris), you have to grow up and realize the world around is a lot more than code.
Yes. Because there are many, many 17 year olds just like you, or better than you. There are very few who are "successes", at age 17.

To invest in you is like putting money in the lottery. In fact, if I were you, I would distrust any offers you DO get, because those people are probably not good with their own money and would not have YOUR best interests in mind.
This is of course, completely false in every way.
No prosecutor would ever be dumb enough to say any of this.
The new AWS CLI supports tab completion. You need to configure it using the info found at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-get...
Have you thought of using something besides uclibc? uclibc has all kinds of corner cases of non-conformity, musl would be a somewhat better alternative. Can this work on shared libraries as well if given a header?