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I own a startup in menlo park, looking for a web developer. Would love your help! email me, jrandall@scu.edu for info.

thanks
SEEKING FREELANCER:
Menlo Park, CA, No Remote work.

Menlo Park early early stage startup seeking a web developer... very well connected to VC world, interned with VC for two years, student here. email: jrandall@scu.edu
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Sure, he has an interest in self-promotion, positioning Space-X as a cool company etc. But maybe, just maybe, they built something just because it's cool, and they're sharing it because it's awesome!

If you had built something like that, wouldn't you tell people about it? If some random hacker had posted this to Show HN, wouldn't we be showering him with praise?
Great, phonegap for the desktop :(
But now we can all crack it safely from the trial version.
The NSA, I'm sure is able to break *encryption schemes. That is, in deed their job.

For my friend, The pig is about to roost in the henhouse.
Feds Beg NYT & Pro Publica Not To Reveal Backdoors Inserted Into Encryption
The NSA isn't some faceless villain. They are an organization that has been consistently 10-20 years ahead of the world in many math disciplines.
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So funny: "this is not the internet its creatoes envisioned". Umm ... Bruce: the internet was created at DARPa, who obviously have a lot of connections to the NSA. Maybe they were ... like ... planning this all along, dude (cue: dorm room bong hit).
Are STEM Workers Overpaid?
There are true common-rail direct cylinder injection gasoline engines out there. They're not so common though, since there aren't as many advantages to it compared to a diesel engine.

Cars marketed as GDI, such as the Ford EcoBoost, inject directly in the cylinder.
I like owning books, too, until I had to move continents and sell my entire library.

I think folks are missing one aspect of the Netflix-style experience; discovery. Sure, the joy of flipping through the sci-fi/fantasy section in the local bookstore or library is an unparallelled experience -- but I've found book discovery via Amazon to provide me with far more than simply gazing at shelves.

It's not only the product consumption experience that is changing, but how we interact with books in general. And while I'm a big fan of libraries, we're all getting used to metadata, social annotations, reviews and suggestions -- add that to the ease of access an 'all you can eat' approach provides, and I for one am looking forward to where it leads. (mind you, I read anything from 10 to 20 books a month, so I'd definitely benefit from this kind of service!)
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Considering http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ I wouldn't bet on "deep encryption" either ...
The NSA has cracked the secure internet: 3 things to know
Sure, but not "as fast as I can read them". Also, I'd have to think.
...while the version distributed to just your computer* could be backdoored.*

They would have to get the base distribution signing key, which is probably a shared secret that requires multiple people to unlock.

Have there been any hints of NSLs or FISC orders requiring the disclosure of private Linux distribution keys, some of which may not even be held in the US?
Are darknets a thing yet?
Someone's insecurity is showing; might wanna hide it buddy

I'm not exactly a Musk fan boy, but it's clear he's just showing off a setup that they're working on over there. He says in the video, in case you're hard of hearing, that they put together existing technology to experiment with this UI. I didn't here him even insinuate that they're inventing it let a lone claim it.

Your mal-a-tete with people like Jobs and Musk isn't that they're taking all the credit - can't say the same for Jobs, but Musk seems to big up his team whenever he can. Your problem is that they demonstrate that the engineering isn't everything. At the end of the day you still have to attract people and people don't just drop their panties at the sight of new tech without the nuances of good presentation. Rather than PMS on hacker news, may I suggest some life coaching, sir?
Sorry, I never seen a guy spend over an hour putting on makeup in front of the mirror.

The point is not "specifying women" so much as specifying how many women think and responding to the very line written in the article. It was a post of support for what I think are words of wisdom.

I'm guessing you read the article, who's subject so happened to be about women, therefore, I don't see you can take my post as an attack when it was clearly complimentary to the spirit of the post.

Why talk about what my friends and I think? Why the hell not? Maybe people's perceptions are screwed up and it helps to set the record straight.
The U6 unemployment rate is more indicative of the current state of the economy: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE
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In theory, could NIST, with NSA's help, have used the "parallel construction" approach and generated "bad" parameters using a supposedly benign process?
Why the NBN needs to go the full way
The concept of an event loop and event loop 'turns' is backed into ES promises the last time I read the draft spec and kept up with the spec discussions. It's not something you can polyfill in older versions of JS, it's a platform feature designed around how browsers work.
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Let's say it this way: If you actually profit from a 20% increase in reading speed, then you read way too much.
Not a problem. You are going to want to tackle your fundamentals first.

This includes things like linear algebra and basic matrix operations, statistical inference (correlation, p tests, sampling,probability,..), and then start working your way up the tree for algorithms.

The order in [1] is a good order and will get you familiar with the fundamentals in a fairly easy way. Use [1] for the overviews of different topics as well. Note that [1] isn't a good in depth practice though.

It's a fairly hand holding introduction to machine learning in general. After you get the brief overview down, start looking in to different problems that might interest you.

Depending on how you learn, since you know R, put some things in to practice with R. It has fantastic support for most learning algorithms as direct libraries.

Other than that, depending on what you're interested in (finance, so I'm assuming forecasting?) start looking in to domain specific problems that you're comfortable with.

One thing I've seen people do is use kaggle [2] for the "Knowledge" competitions. Those are essentially tutorials with test datasets.

Since you're in finance, you maybe interested in the signal processing based math that goes in to guessing when something happens within a certain time period.

See [3] for finance specific and [4] for the more general engineering math.

I hope that helps. Independent study is largely based on how you learn and just leveraging resources available coupled with practice in subjects you find interesting to maintain motivation.

Now keep in mind everyone is different. Some like the courses and homework approach, others just like experimenting on something they're interested in to accomplish concrete goals.

[1] https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview

[2] http://www.kaggle.com/competitions

[3] https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1

[4] https://www.coursera.org/course/scientificcomp
DOA, no one will buy them.

The only real value would have been entry level $99 smart phone with stripped down features, or medical device to track your heart beat. It is just redundant otherwise. I need something on my wrist to tell me to get my phone from my pocket? Talking to a watch is just ridiculous.

Overpriced, oversold, just over. Dead on arrival.

It is ironic because the smartphone killed the wrist watch; in the modern age you know what time it is every time you look at your phone.

waste of time, money and talent if you ask me
If you need me, I'll be off changing every password that I've ever stored in LastPass (incidentally enough, I just realized that their Corporate HQ is just outside Washington, D.C.).
That's why I am of a firm belief that if you are going to pirate software, at least have the common decency to crack it your self and NOT REDISTRIBUTE.

On a side note I am amazed that more developers do not sign their own code with checksums and alteration verification routines. Sign your software, then do a runtime check if the code has been altered. If so, after few hours of use, present the user with a nice message:

"Congratulations, you have a cracked copy of our software. We find it sad that you did not want to buy it from us. It's possible that we may starve as a result. In any case, we would like you to stop using this copy. To encourage you to do so we are going to begin now uploading the contents of your hard drive to our servers. You may stop this process at any time by closing the program and removing it from your computer. Thank you."
Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD? (2010)
On Fedora 18 it most certainly can. I did it yesterday with some service files under /usr/lib/systemd/system for some service files I created
Amazing, it had the exact polar opposite effect for my eyes. I often have trouble keeping my place in black and white text. I find it like trying to focus on a single conversation in a pub but I end up hearing everyone at once.

If you don't mind me postulating, I wonder whether this difference is something intrinsic to the focussing effect of binocular vision, or if your field of view has maybe trained your brain to be more urgently perceptive to peripheral vision?

then again, maybe its just colour perception.. or different strokes (and thanks, I just learnt about binocular summation.. fascinating)
Thanks—the bookmarklet is just a first step. We are looking forward to integrating with lots of platforms, including medium.com, which we read all the time!
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I can understand the desire to not be stereotyped for being male as caring overly about looks, but the paragraph you quote from doesn't suggest this. The VCs or angels being met with don't have to be male. The suggestion is that caring about looks is low on the scale of factors that determine the success or failure of business decisions.

This article is very good—and probably takes particular care—to not frame any concerns in the context of how men consider women, only how women (and men) consider themselves.
So all we have to is publicly shame PayPal every single time they do this nonsense.

What about the smaller groups that cannot get this attention.

PayPal needs some serious government scrutiny, the kind corporations fear.
It's iOS 7 for text!

Seriously though, it would be interesting to see this as a feature in new e-readers. I have a feeling that if the e-ink could support it, the effect could be better than books.
Get in touch with me through the email link on the website. We have code that makes this easy.
Yeah, it blew my mind when I first encountered it. The basic idea is looking at compilers as both data and deterministic (for the individual compiler) transformations of data.
I just downloaded and installed the Tor Browser Bundle from the Tor Project site, and am disappointed that the version I was provided is 0.2.3.25. (Linux)
How Not To Be Paralyzed By NSA Revelations
Do you know of a perhaps new video in our era? thanks though.
CAs do not ever see their client's encryption keys. If a CA was compromised someone could only create authentication keys for websites. This type of an attack could work on a single person. It would not work for a large group of people because this type of attack is very easy to detect (by someone who is looking for it) and very traceable.
Finally I can learn how a car works and become a real man, thanks!
They use AES when dealing with "outsiders", but I have trouble believing that they use it internally (and instead use the Suite A ciphers -- it's impossible for others to break them if they don't know anything about them, right?)
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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I wonder if you could handle backpressure this way, somewhat analogously to a thread-per-connection with a bounded number of threads. I don't think node.js API exposes the necessary functionality, but the point is that it's possible with callbacks:

var MAX = 100,
connections = 0;

function continue() {
server.once('connection', function(c) {
if (++connections < MAX) continue();
process(c, function() {
if (--connections == MAX - 1) continue();
});
});
}

continue();

Node.js doesn't have threads so you wouldn't need atomics or locking. I don't think it's fair to say this is spaghetti, but it has some complexity, yes.
Hmmm. Is it possible to try this: Make a version that creates a black to grey gradient for every sentence. The beginning of every sentence starts out black and gradually turns grey at the end of the sentence. Then try it switched. Make it start grey and turn black. Test both.

Just wondering what the result would be. Out of curiosity.
It sounds like Mr. Lerdorf isn't really qualified to do what he was doing. Not a good example of an NSA plot.
Schneier told people to use Tor to avoid the NSA[0]. Telling people to use Tor when Tor offers almost no anonymity guarantees against a global passive adversary (which the NSA almost certainly is), is not good advice at all. In fact, it's actively harmful since it both gives people a false sense of security and instructs the to wave a giant red flag saying I HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-rema...
WHY on God's Green Earth does Paypal keep repeating this seize and release?

If you're going to make the decision to SEIZE $45,000 of a vocal entrepreneur's hard earned cash - you are much better off keeping it and justifying your actions, then not acting so aggressively next time.

The word for this is INEPT.
How NSA access was built into Windows (1999)
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I did not mean outdated. npm outdated can do that. See https://npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-outdated.html I was looking insecure version of the same through a public repo.
You still have to download the library at some point, and the library has to end up in your app's private libs folder. Android doesn't do dependencies or inter-app shared libraries outside of those that are part of the platform.
Privacy could potentially be engineered to some degree. Someone could devise a way to do business in which we simply aren't capable of spying on our customers. It wouldn't be easy, laws would definitely help, but it could be possible.

Freedom is another matter. The government would be useless without sufficient force to compel anyone (or corporation) to adhere to the laws. To remedy abuse of that force against freedom, as you say, we do need laws. Something like a contract that says "you can have plenty of force to compel any one of us, but if you consistently violate these agreements, then we may join together with enough force to overpower you". Maybe it could be done with some amendments to the constitution. We could call it something like a 'bill of rights' or something...
There's one problem I have with it.
This afternoon it triggered a migraine.

I just came back just now, just in case it was a co-incidence, and yep, it was not a co-incidence.
But in that case you're both drawing attention to the fact that your app is HTML5 (which thanks to Facebook is associated with a low quality experience) and also that the user has to download a separate library in order to run it. You'll likely get a significant portion of bad reviews solely motivated by this, just as with apps that require the user to download Adobe AIR separately.

For example:
https://www.google.com/search?q="requires+adobe+air"+bloatwa...
You're missing the point of that statement, and using your misinterpretation to launch into a rant that is not related to the post at all.
SSH extremely insecure. I highly suggest you install these patches on your computer:

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configura...
Does it pull from AT&T invoices? Comcast? Centerpoint?
Is the founding team of braintree still in control of the company?
That's odd. I wrote an RSVP reader in the exact same timeframe in RealBASIC, for a Cornell Psych class (I got an A).

I am still annoyed that things like the Kindle don't have that mode.
"Well it is true that a fair trial is only possible with an unbiased jury"

I'm pretty sure that 99% of the U.S. population isn't following this story at all, so finding a dozen jurors who have never heard of the case shouldn't be too difficult, even if the media were allowed to write about it without any limitations.

And when it's time to select the jury, I'm sure the prosecution will summarily reject any potential jurors who know anything about the internet (like what a URL is), since such a person could never be convinced that linking to a publicly available document is a crime.
I've always wondered about people's reactions (or lack thereof) when this was first put into practice. It seems to me that the results can only be negative. It just encourages lazy & uninformed voting and perpetuates the problem of money in politics -- the more $$ you have, the more signs with your name on them you can buy; the more signs you have, the more people have heard of you, and the more blind votes you get.

If you do know the names of the members that comprise a party, then you can just as easily vote for the members specifically by name (and if you're too lazy to do this then how did you manage to haul your carcass to the polling booth?) If you're so ignorant that you don't know the names of the members that comprise a party, maybe you shouldn't be blindly casting a vote for them.
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This would be a neat idea if it's free considering I can read as many books as I want for free at the library "paperback" might I add. Sorry but the library deserves my support more than your service.
I think that "our = {NSA,U.S. government}, adversaries = !our" is more accurate nowadays.

If you are not the U.S. government, you are their adversary (even if you are a U.S. business or citizen).
Completely off-base. The US has, by longstanding tradition, had a more expansive attitude towards free speech than Europe. Consider blasphemy laws in the UK, which were only abolished in 2008 but would never have been constitutional in the US. Consider laws against Holocaust denial or displaying Nazi symbols in continental Europe that would be unconstitutional in the US. In Germany you can be arrested for displaying a swastika. In the United States, the courts (in National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie) allowed a Nazi group to march through a neighborhood populated largely by Jewish Holocaust survivors. None of these have to do with controlling networks. They have to do with the first amendment and with both jurisprudence and attitudes towards freedom of speech that are different in the US than in many other countries.
What I'm saying is that the blog using this as a marketing platform is crass and offensive to me. The video was on YouTube - bound to get far more traffic than any promotion they'd compel, and could have been produced without their promotion.

And we're supposed to be impressed that this idiot has now decided to take responsibility for his actions? You're supposed to - it's part of the social contract you enter into with the world when you decide to drink.

Take a look at their twitter feed. They're reaching out to media outlets boasting that they "made the video" and that it's "going viral". To them, this isn't about awareness, or honoring the guy that got killed ... it's about themselves.
That's the right question to ask. The absolute values are important but not as important as the trends.
Are you attending ISVCon 2013 at the end of this month? If so, I'd love to meet up with you.
I agree, owning books after I'm done reading them gives me a sense of accomplishment it's like a treasure.
Scheneir says: "Prefer symmetric cryptography over public-key cryptography."

If I were to use only symmetric encryption then how do I prevent man in the middle attacks?
Or, download the trial, and crack it from there? No malicious backdoors there.
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It sounds like the OP is thinking the GGP suggested carrying around two power cords so that if the OP forgets one, then they at least aren't stuck without a power cord (although they likely would want to retrieve the old cord at some point.)
You read 10-20 books a month? interesting, either you have a lot of time or your a really fast reader I can do maybe 7. What's your secret? teach me Obi-Wan Kenobi.
I slowed down considerably as well. I found myself rereading the same lines over and over for no apparent reason. After a very short time I started to get a mild headache as well. Of course, that could also be the fact that it's getting late but I usually read for 30 minutes before going to bed.
I don't really think this is an outlandish claim, especially as it already happened with public key cryptography:
http://www.zdnet.com/gchq-pioneers-on-birth-of-public-key-cr...
From my understanding, Sheryl is not against the idea of "standing up". She simply realizes that the world is not perfect, and no matter the amount of "personal power" or "self confidence" a woman has, sometimes the cards are just unfairly stacked against women.

That sucks.

Lean In is just as much for men to read as it is for women. Gender is a component in nearly every interaction in today's business world. Race still is too.

Sheryl does not attempt to say that women cannot overcome these challenges, but instead she simply takes a no bullshit approach by admitting that those challenges do exist. Why kid ourselves and pretend they don't? Recognizing that those challenges exist is our biggest hurdle as a society, eliminating them is much easier from that point forward.
The definition of what anonymity means for the average user is pretty vague and I doubt it'd be of primarily technical nature.
A withering brilliance shows through this casually abusive headline.

I feel like this is a few steps away from some sort of revolutionary political speech. Did Greenspan really say that shit while representing the country I'm supposed to love?
We can only pray that conquered will conquer the conqueror.
the use of the wiki forces you out of the game and that it is clearly designed to be used in conjunction with a wiki.

Are you aware that this is a console game, and was for quite some time before it was ported to PC? It really isn't 'designed for use with a wiki', let alone 'clearly' so. Yes, for competitive PvP you need to know as much as possible, but that's the same with any game.

So tell me: how do you figure out that for the Demon Firesage - located in a fiery area, covered in fire - the weakness is.. fire?

You seem intent on min/maxing. I don't use fire weapons and every time I've beaten the fire sage, I've done it by reading its actions and responding appropriately - and this in particular is the absolute strength of the game. You really do not need to use a fire weapon to fight it; it's a matter of interacting with the game rather than just going "boss fight, wail away at it with $bigweapon".

What reason would you have to think Gwyn can be parried, when no other boss in the game can be?

You don't need to parry Gwyn to defeat him, same argument as above.

I relished the challenge that the game provided, a game that rewards skilful play more than decking your character (and I'm not particularly dextrous). You evidently don't like that, and prefer min/maxing and decking things. That's fine, each to their own, but it doesn't make it a shit game because you didn't like developing that skill.