skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a large part of identifying a successful leader in a company is to see if he/she has the potential to lead. A leader should be able to excite others around an idea and convince them to follow and devote their time and energy. This is difficult to do early on, specifically if there is no money involved. In not being able to find a co-founder you are basically saying, you can't or you don't want one/need one. If you can't, that might be identified as a negative trait. If you don't want one or feel you don't need one, I would encourage you to reconsider. There is nothing like having someone beside you, you can fully trust, and talk openly with about your problems and frustrations.

Working on a startup is something like swimming in an ocean with a one mattress that's loosing air. You need to swim to an island which is far far away, and although the mattress might have enough air to help you rest from time to time, there is a big chance everything might go wrong. Sure you can do it alone if you try hard enough, but there is a bigger risk of you getting there to late or not getting there at all. With 2 or more co-founders, you have someone beside you can trust, and that might allow you to rest, or plan out a strategy so you all get to you destination sooner than anyone else. Trust me when I tell you, you aren't the only one swimming in the same direction.

I'm sure you can find a handful of companies that had one founder and succeeded, but the odds of them succeeding are just much much smaller and it is a bigger risk most investors want to avoid.
I think we agree! Of course Assange is innocent until proven guilty.

I find it very annoying when people say the rape accusation is fabricated to smear Assange.
There are certainly providers that have networks you can hide behind which can filter+absorb DDoS traffic for you.
Here's the thing. FC could have received the $150k and then CONTINUED with the extortion. Once he has an irreversible payment, he can expose the lie.... it doesn't matter. He still has user records that are worth extortion money.
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There is no way this is real (the quitting video).

This is viral marketing for the video company.
If your working tree is large it will take a long time to copy it, no way around that.
They are back up for me now.
Please don't diminish the importance of it. This release is unprecedented.

For the first time in history the public can actually see the most of the documents related to such kind of orders. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487986
Hmm, it's scary how much this affects us.

We can't push latest bugfix to GitHub. Azure cannot deploy it. I cannot run bower_install on the project I would be working on in the meantime.
Out of curiosity, to those who prefer Bitbucket to GitHub, how often (if ever) does it (Bitbucket) go down due to DDoS or otherwise?
The ability to reorder commits, split them, squash them, etc in an interactive Rebase is unparalleled in svn, which necessarily means lower quality history. Working with higher quality history when merging, cherry picking, reverting, etc is much more productive. Understanding code with high quality history is easier too.
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They're using Prolexic by the looks of things.. You'd think a company that specializes in mitigating DDoS attacks would be able to mitigate DDoS attacks.
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the word mitigate
That doesn't work in all cases. If you can't distinguish between good and bad traffic or if it isn't specifically targeting an entity it becomes much more difficult to handle.

It also depends on the ingenuity of the DDoS attack, none of which are known to the public so you can't really say anything sensible about it.

If the anti-DDoS mitigating tools they are using aren't working nor is using other services like Prolexic that's usually hint enough that this isn't particularly common or easily filtered out.

You can gripe on all the companies and tools if you will but a good DDoS is quite a bit more complex than 'just filter away the bad crap'.
... although trying to download a zip of a repo is giving me a 500 error.
> We're leaving DNA traces everywhere.

There's a scene from the movie Gattaca where Ethan Hawke is cleaning everything from his desk and keyboard in order not to leave any "DNA traces". First saw that film 10+ years ago but it has always stuck with me.
Hard drives are slow. Copying a huge working tree to make a small branch makes no sense.
great advertising for DDoS protection services.
This is what happens when you try to "hack" the legal system as if it was a simple, deterministic computer program (it comes up here frequently as the "FBI wasn't here"-sign-in-library hack).

When a judge orders you to do something, you have to comply with the substance of the order, not evade it by sort-of technically complying while actually avoiding it.

I have all the respect in the world for Levison, he did the right thing and it takes guts. But trying to "hack" a judge's order is just silly.
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Couldn't they use something like cloudflare to have the IP point to local servers?
Then the traffic is split on location, with each edge server taking only local requests. That should greatly reduce the incoming traffic, at which point they can try to filter out the 'bad'.
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More encrypted data for NSA to churn through!
Start using TFS :D
My bad, I am not very familiar with the guidelines about submitting old pieces.
Bitbucket has had it's own fair share of issues, let alone the "we're pulling Bitbucket offline for 5hrs to move to a new datacenter" debacle not so long ago. I understand why they had to do it but it is indicative of some issues with their architecture.

They probably haven't gone offline through a DDoS yet because they're just not that popular to warrant an attack but I wouldn't bet on it that Bitbucket would fare any better.
I used to read NTK, until it stopped. I think there's room for a new form of NTK.

(http://www.ntk.net/)
Has anyone used the 23andMe service? I'd like to know how accurate the results are.

Can they say you definitely carry a gene for diabetes or lactose intolerance, for example, or do they just say you're at a higher chance of developing this? The website example given for carrier diseases looks so vague it's not worth bothering with ("You are a carrier of one or more infected conditions"... great, which ones!)

If they can give me a list of things I need to be mindful of in the future and, more importantly, why, I'd happily pay $99 for that. I.e; you've got this and that gene which leaves you susceptible to this condition which may lead to heart disease, etc. and we're %xx certain.

Does anyone have any experience of this kind of thing?
- Freedom Hosting is down

- SilkRoad is down

- the Atlantis drug store is down

...all of that leads me to believe Tor hidden services are very, very unsafe to use, since all bigger illegal services that used them have been brought down eventually.
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I saw this at proggit[1].

The gccXllvm competition have been good for both parts, IMO.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1nn6p3/libgccjitso_an_embeddable_jitcompiler_based_on_gcc/
And this is impressive. No "we're not that bad". No trying to take down the original with DCMA / whatever unsuitable method. Just riding the popularity and advertising on their own. I wish this way was a more frequent for companies to react to things...
I've heard about organised crime doing this sort of thing and asking for payment to stop.
bitbucket goes down just as much, if not more than github. still love em though.

but they arent entirely honest about downtime.

sometimes they are down, ppl are tweeting it and status page is all green lights.

but still love em.
While I agree he needs more money, it's not like he's going to have to pay $800/hr to get the world's best lawyers on his team. Since he appears to be the poster child for a test case on this, I think the money will mostly only need to be spent on expenses (travel, etc.), vs. lawyer time, and there will probably be in-kind donations of services.

Lader is the kind of person you want to bring to a case before SCOTUS, not weev.
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Is there some way I can donate money via Amazon payments? It would be vastly more comfortable.
I also agree, not only was remembering concussionjs hard, but it's also too long and confusing. The project is really really awesome though!!

I'd suggest to implement an abstraction allow implementation of more flexible models by using: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design
Looks like she got a new job on a TV show called "The Queen Latifah Show"

https://twitter.com/MARINAvsTweets/status/385622403201515522
The NSA is not a law-enforcement agency. Unless we find credible evidence otherwise, I'm going to continue operating under the assumption that there is no click-here-to-send-this-person-to-jail button at the NSA. To be handed a jail sentence as a result of NSA spying, the process looks more like this:
- NSA analyst stumbles across you, most likely in the course of pursuing a foreign intelligence target, but maybe as part of a vast domestic spying program as some believe (I haven't seen enough credible evidence to believe this)

- NSA analyst finds credible evidence within that collection to suggest that you were engaged in criminal activity

- NSA is able to convince the FBI (or other legitimate law enforcement agency) that you were engaged in criminal activty

- The FBI opens an investigation into you; if preliminary investigation yields suspicion, they request a warrant from a judge to gather more information

- If the FBI finds sufficient evidence of a crime, they obtain a warrant for your arrest and detain you for trial

- Evidence independently obtained by the FBI is presented to a jury of your peers. As of yet, there's no precedent for admitting evidence by the NSA. To the court it's the equivalent of an anonymous tip, and the NSA has a history of not wanting to reveal its sources and methods anyways.

- A jury of your peers decides whether or not you are guilty of a crime. A judge sentences you.

So yes, you can get sent to prison based on NSA spying. It's a long process with independent review by multiple parties. I'll be very concerned regarding this process if the first step is broken, which is what everyone is up in arms over. I don't see the evidence yet that this step is broken, or even applicable in most cases [1].

Why am I afraid of people getting my addresses, phone numbers, etc.? My wife testified to put a violent man in prison some years ago. As a result, I have more concern than most that there are people who would want to do my family harm. I don't like that $15 will tell you where my wife, kids and I sleep at night or give contact information to harass us. Old information would allow someone to take out a line of credit in my name, leaving me to sort out the financial mess. Other people I know in legal and law enforcement positions are accutely aware of the threat of being retaliated against outside the courts for perceived wrongs.

[1] I have to run to work, and I'd be insulting your argument if I just left it at that - I'll write up an explanation of my views on the Section 215 collect when I get home. I appreciate the discussion - thank you for actually giving thoughtful answer rather than just a snide remark dismissing me.
Keeping code in sync with your colleagues should not be a major problem, given how you should be able to sync with each other (distributed CVS, etc). Azure... I don't know how that works. Heroku would work without github being online, since you'd push to github - maybe that'd be an idea?

bower_install is annoying, yeah; it should allow for a backup location (s) to resolve dependencies. Maven allows people to configure multiple repositories, which are often mirrored against each other while hosted by vastly different parties; if one repo mirror is offline, there's a dozen others available, in a lot of cases.

For those components, github is a single point of failure.
Interesting that the bitcoin price has slumped on this news.
And here we all are, using "git", a "decentralised" source code management tool.
Hardware ASICs are specialised for bitcoin. They wouldn't be useful for hash cracking unless they were modified.
I would prefer just signing up to your service or using OpenID or GitHub instead.
Going 7 pages into it: "Wait...which line was I at again?!"
It should have a better name. More pronounceable and more strong against typos :)

Other than that, why open source it now? Is it a race against docker and lxc? Or is it just simply Google's paying back to FLOSS?
I never get the, even if you're treated badly by the company your should suck up to them upon leaving thing.

I guess to me minimising the need for employment (ie not living beyond my means) is more important than letting people treat you badly.

But each to their own, but I don't get why some people don't get that some of us don't want to be tied to the system even when it gets crappy.
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I don't know. It might've been worth a shot to send it in PDF format the second time, after he asked to deliver it digitally, just as a sign of protest. Didn't Twitter refuse to comply with a judge's order once, too?
On the plus side, I get to email my project manager. Sorry github is down can't do work! "Compiling" :D
Levison's response was a courageous form of protest. Your response is smug and naive. You have no clue what he went through.

It's easy to call the right game plays from your armchair.
last time I checked, the bitcoin protocol was doing exactly as it was supposed to.
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I disagree. If the judge wanted an electronic copy then he or she could ask for that, which is indeed what the judge later did. Levison would have known that his initial 'compliance' wouldn't make the problem go away, but it did buy him some time while the judge figured out what to do next (or the FBI figured out that they needed to be more precise in what they were asking for). He didn't refuse to comply at any point - he complied with the original request, at which point the judge gave him fresh instructions and ordered him to comply with those or face a fine.

Consider it from another perspective - people often request data from governments or large corporations and, when ordered or pressured into providing it they often do so in the least helpful format available. They are rarely punished for this because the law doesn't really have a position on whether CSV is a better document format than PDFs of scanned printouts, or whether a 50-page printout is more useful than a CD-ROM or USB stick. Why should the rules be any different for someone like Levison?
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Sure, but why is that smaller incentive not the right amount of incentive? You can create incentives for a lot of things, but generally those are distortionary. What economic justification is there for the idea that there needs to be a bigger incentive than the market provides?
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Looks like end-point security, the (usually PHP) applications the server is running at, is a weak point in the Tor ecosystem.

Generally, I would rant on PHP for this, but seriously now, had they been on jvm, a complicated application like a forum talk with avatars and all other fancy features, would probably still have holes in it.
Interestingly, the letter states he's received over 150k in support. The rally.org campaign now states over 50k has been pledged. I'm not finding the campaign for support to be terribly transparent.

When receiving the link to the rally.org campaign yesterday (through pinbord on twitter or gruber) I thought it represented the entire universe of assistance Lavar had received. On top of that, the upper limit of the rally campaign keeps changing. Originally I saw 40k, then last nigth 50k, now this morning 96k.

I'm not saying that they're trying to be misleading, but as someone who is interested in this and is considering a donation, I was disquieted by the moving target at rally.org and the lack of transparency until this morning about how much had truly been raised.
> I have all the respect in the world for Levison, he did the right thing and it takes guts. But trying to "hack" a judge's order is just silly.

Perhaps he knew it was silly but just wanted something to show he's trying to resist the order. It's been a very popular move with people, and probably caused people to remember who he is, increasing customers for his next business.

It's a shame he's still got so little in the legal defence fund. $20,000 is nothing for a legal case.
offtopic: scrolling through the printout by dragging the scrollbar handle slowly (~3 pages per sec) crashes the chrome renderer (tried on 2 win7-32 boxes)
I agree. I can't install/update plugins for Vim using Vundle.

I heard that Go language can import packages directly from GitHub. So it means that they can't compile?
It doesn't matter that you haven't seen some other figure on rally.org (just one of the sources). It doesn't change the fact that Levison will almost certainly need the orders of magnitude more legal funds than what he received up to now.

Even having a case with the copyright trolls costs around a million. You bother about the thousands and about the totals which nobody claimed. And Levison had to shut down his own company.
inb4 "GIT is distributed".

While GIT is distributed, working collaboratively with others still requires a central platform where everybody working on that GIT repo can connect. GitHub is a very convenient central platform.

To GITs credit; you can, with a little server know-how, set up your own git server and give all previous contributors access. However for a small downtime this could be overkill.
>>He didn't refuse to comply at any point - he complied with the original request

Just like the parent said, while he kind of technically complied. But, again, it's more than obvious to everyone that it's not what was expected/demanded from him.

>>Why should the rules be any different for someone like Levison?

Because it's related to Snowden. Again, it's quite obvious to everyone, that it's a hot issue and the government might go far to solve it.

Like it was said above, while I really support and respect Levison, it's not something you should be trying to fool - it's not a computer program...
It works. I've used pgAdmin's ssh support for years.

It can be used to connect to heroku instances also, which is useful.
Conscientious objections aren't silly. He's risking further abuse.

It takes guts, just as you say. It takes guts specifically because he's unwilling to gracefully comply. "Monkey-wrenching" usually appears silly to people who are defeatist or subservient to a particular order/agenda. I'm not saying you are. I appreciate your comment otherwise. I'm only suggesting that you reconsider your view on his tactic, if only a delaying tactic, as an act of courage rather than silliness.
...nor do we have any plans to do so.

Until such time as there's a new owner or we're bought by Evil Co., etc.

Every time I read a best intentions phrase like that it reminds me of the company that promised, "Never to share your email with anyone. Ever."

Until they went bankrupt and one of the assets sold off was their customer database.
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Have these investors forgotten that they sit behind several thousand explosions a day in their ICE vehicles? Remember when vehicles actually used to explode in a massive fireball in real life instead of just the movies? They echo the same fears of yesteryear when the ICE automobile first debuted, and now no one even thinks about it.
GitHub was also offline for a not inconsiderable period of time fairly recently for a datacentre move.
The irony would be using the same software/format for this as was used to export the PGP Source Code legally in the 1900s.
Future employers don't care how your previous employers treated you. They care how you react to bad situations. If you react with grace you're a better bet than if you burn your bridges.
Or use one of those Xerox copiers that randomly change numbers...
About your first point: I think that rally.org is not the only source of revenue for the defense fund. There is also a direct Paypal link (linked in the Facebook post).
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Can't upvote this enough.

This is a real opportunity to fight for user privacy and support the only company that openly defied the government's unconstitutional demands. A virtue we all longed for just a couple of months ago at the height of the NSA scandal. But here it is now and instead we see comments picking on Lavabit and questioning their moral qualities...

People just can't get past character debate. Bickering while their rights are gradually stripped off under their noses.
you don't need server know how, you can just use another of the available git hosting (e.g. bitbucket)
Security companies are all snakeoil.

They never deliver from experience. They always bill though.
Really you are saying "spend $1000 worth of time on this".

Which might be a really great deal or not depending on how OP values their time.

Out of interest, how many hours would you expect to spend on this kind of project?
Alternatively: Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by breathing air.
Perfect forward secrecy, bitches.
This is really a cool way to quit your job...:-)
Tired of just building features?
There are a lot of hacker schools for newbies. Yet to be seen the quality of developers they crank out. However, for existing programmers, there aren't a lot of options to learn new technologies aside from watching a bunch of tutorials and reading books. There needs to be a way to provide an integrated approach, especially for those who are constrained on time, like new hires who are looking to ramp up quickly.
Yet if it was the other way around, companies would react quite strongly.
Ugh, java... Really?

I really don't want to have to run a java server just to host this.
I'm surprised there's only one "git is distributed" comment thread so far, but as a reminder: http://rubygems.org/gems/deus_ex may help with getting deploys running during a GitHub outage. Usage instructions are at http://rubydoc.info/gems/deus_ex/0.0.2/frames.
They would use OCR.
When you have lost, the best you can do is to lose with dignity: he had lost (either by complying, whereby he would be failing to his clients or by not complying, whereby he would suffer a penalty). He took what looks to me the better option: comply "formally".

So that he cannot be said to have not obeyed the mandate and at the same time making it clear that he did not want to comply.

Against the Leviathan the only possible defense is foolishness. This gives you publicity (in a '''''free''''' society and the conscience of your own freedom).
You can even spin up gitlab from turnkeylinux in a few minutes or so wherever you want it.
That's not karama though. That's bad things on top of bad things.

Quiting your job like this, because they treated you badly is not a morally bad thing. So what is there to correct?

Real karma would be something bad happening the employer, because they treated her badly.
what would you use Cubbox-I for? there are many useful way to use it