skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he ever took an IQ test and that anecdote he failed math was made up[1]. His estimated IQ was 160[2]:

1.http://physics.about.com/b/2007/09/19/physics-myth-month-ein...

2. http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/mismeasure/genius/resear...
You don't have to have tried building an international drug ring to see fundamental errors in the way he did things though. His alias was sloppy and insufficiently isolated from his real identity. I don't claim I could have done better, I can think of theoretical improvements but won't claim I'd have implemented them in that situation. You're right that nobody can claim to know they wouldn't make mistakes, but I don't think there's anything illegitimate in pointing those mistakes out.
> "we work hard and play hard"

Boy, it'd sure be nice to work for a company that didn't have this attitude (games industry.)
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Perhaps Paleo, but I'm not the parent.
If you 'ls' in the first directory you are dropped into you will see INSTALL.txt. You can use cat, less. more, vim or nano to read the document. You can use ALT+f2 to switch to a second pty and install away.
I interpreted the quotes to call out the probability as extremely small. As in, not probable.
IQ tests are notoriously hard to make. And they don't measure IQ, so much as what the tester considers IQ.

An amusing story. There was an IQ comparisson between rural and urban areas and the finding was that people in rural areas do worse on IQ test. But one psychologist thought that this can't be true.

So he went back to test and realized that IQ test that were given to rural/urban areas were same. The people from rural areas did worse on the written part of exams, because the rural areas lacked schools and children started learning/reading much later. Once he went back and revised the tests, removing most of test that had to do with reading and generally type of thought that rural children have less encounter.

Conclusion - the old IQ test didn't measure intelligence, unless you can increase intelligence by going to a better school, in which case, that isn't intelligence but knowledge.
You're missing the "nation state level adversary" component. I personally, do not know your mobile phone number or the last cell tower that it associated with. But I am not your adversary. A nation state level adversary ipso facto has access to that information.

I suggest that you read the links I have posted and the articles I've written, both on http://grugq.tumblr.com and http://grugq.github.io ... there is a lot of information there about how to operate clandestinely.
Ay, I ken alright t'speak proper like.
Security through obscurity usually isn't a good idea.
clang and gcc don't warn on this because real large codebases have an (unfortunate?) number of assignments inside boolean expressions. Most of them are intentional and at least some significant fraction are correct.

Taking advantage of assignment-as-an-expression is idiomatic in a fair amount of code I've seen, at least.

Stuff like:

/* check_something returns non-zero on error */
if (need_to_check && (status = check_something())) {
handle_error(status);
}

The clang and gcc folk tend to avoid adding default (or even -Weverything) warnings that will trigger on entirely valid, at least marginally common code, even if the style choice is problematic.
Although you might feel motivated to deride the attacker, I think it's safe to say that this person was skilled beyond "script kiddy".
While it may sound interesting this says absolutely nothing about the product.

"Our idea is simple - that anyone on your team should be able to use any iteration of your app or website with zero configuration."

Who is my team and what is an iteration? Zero-configuration what?

"show people the real thing without having to ask someone to run code locally, install dependencies, or configure a staging server"

So....a web hosting platform?

"What Heroku is to back-end development, Awesomebox is to front-end development"

So....a web hosting platform?

"a platform that lets you focus on what you do best"

I'm best at sleeping, drinking beer, and criticizing vague PR statements. In that case I guess they're right!
I'm always uneasy with the idea of (RED) charity: the message is "save the world by buying stuff". It's just consumerism with a bit of karma, no?
Standard rules, never work for free. He had a request he had to comply with, that didn't compromise the security of the service for all users, and decided to make sure he was paid.

Easy way to make sure someone is genuinely committed? Ask them to pay. If i was in his shoes I'd have billed much higher. Much, much higher,
Yes, when I lived on Powell street in SF (right on the cable car tracks) ear plugs were essential but they can become a crutch too. I've also come to the same conclusion as you about having a fan in the room.
This is the title of the actual Guardian article, and the convention on HN is to use the linked article's title.
Drinking excessively makes one smarter. Consider it culling the herd. The weaker slower brain cells die off, leaving the stronger faster brain cells to propell your brain power to peak levels.
That one offended my design sensibilities before I knew enough to be offended in other ways. It looked like some sort of very-early-90s Nickelodeon thing. Then I saw a specially colored version and... yeah.

If you read vertically, turn some letters sideways, and apply liberal amounts of imagination, it looks like "Zion" which was enough to offend the Iranians.
OpenSSL has a GCM implementation which is very fast and I believe is not susceptible to timing attacks due to using vpclmulqdq:
http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blob;f=crypto...

You can debate whether it's a "software implementation" since it's using AESNI and PCLMULQDQ.
Is this in all of Atlanta and the suburbs too? I've heard it's a nice place to live and this makes it sound even better!
Just boot up a new vagrant machine running Ubuntu 12.04, wow, cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail shows 143. Why is it so low (according to article below 200 is low).
Not really - setting up a mail server is actually pretty easy if you ignore spam detection algorithms.

Email/SMTP is a very fault-tolerant protocol, which means it's very forgiving to a whole number of different errors that you can make while setting it up.

The problem comes when you account for the facts such as (1) some ISPs block ports commonly used for email; (2) some email providers will mark email from self-hosted email servers as spam.

But none of that is about email/SMTP specifically (and could theoretically apply to any P2P solution that catches on).
And this is why privacy advocates try to push for pervasive cryptography. If everyone's traffic is encrypted, then use of crypto doesn't bring suspicion on you.

This is why I'm somewhat dubious about Tor. While it can be a valuable tool, by it's nature it routes you between 3 other machines, which may be spread all over the world, thus substantially impacting performance. It can't really be used by the general population, as opposed to, say, encrypted email which if implemented well would have negligible impact.
Gerrymandering creates a point of weakness
There was no shortage of non-proft, non-nation-state actors engaging in backdooring open source and commercial codebases during this time. No reason to believe this was related to the NSA.
But, how about creativity? it seems much difficult to measure than IQ and with it you can achieve results that are beyound your IQ.

What do you think?

pd: strange that this is the first time creativity is mentioned in this thread.
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It's tough to catch up with Mathematica when you guys keep putting out such awesome stuff with each new version. It's been great to see Wolfram innovate so much – versions 6, 7, 8 and 9 were all amazing releases (especially after the four-year gap following 5). I found the new symbolic discrete calculus work in 7 and the symbolic statistics capabilities that built on that in 8 to be particularly mind blowing [1][2]. This seems like it was the fruit of a focused, long-term R&D agenda.

Regarding Julia, although the syntax is superficially similar to Matlab and we've intentionally made many things compatible, Julia isn't really modeled on Matlab. Julia is much more influenced by Lisp – much like Mathematica via Macsyma and Maclisp. Julia's dynamic multiple dispatch is somewhat reminiscent of Mathematica's pattern matching dispatch system too, although, of course, the evaluation semantics are radically different.

I hate to quibble, but having a web frontend for Mathematica that you don't charge people to use does not make it "effectively" open. Mathematica is a shining example of excellence in closed-source software and I have no problem with it as such, but calling it "open" because there is a web version is just disingenuous b.s.

[1] http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin7/content/D...

[2] http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-8/probability-and-...
I wish my brain had a switch.

Monday: follow crazy ideas, absorb everything, novelty hunting. Tuesday - Friday: focus.
Bench presses are measuring your ability to bench press. Iq tests are measuring your ability to do IQ tests (and not your IQ)

Edit: just to clarify, the fact that you can train to improve an IQ score means that it is not a very good measure of innate ability. You can't really talk about "having an IQ", all you can say is that you got 130 on your last IQ test, a bit like how you might tell someone what you got for your SATs.
Yes, exactly. It's inefficient, that's the point of it.

He didn't have the same control over things as a dictator would. You can do these things in business more safely because it's less likely to kill large numbers of people.
> Spread facts, not "myths"

I think this guy [1], with his PhD thesis on the topic, would beg to differ.

Also, I don't think the website's sole purpose is to destroy them (misconceptions/people?). Some of us lay people who are knowledgeable, but have learnt the wrong factoid, for one reason or another, could still benefit from it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY_o4A1wzsg
tru that.
There is actually a series of these automatons he built : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata

I think the movie 'Hugo' was inspired by this.

Other fascinating automatons : http://mentalfloss.com/article/28800/8-amazing-automatons-mi...

The complete 1 hour BBC documentary on automatons : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a683OObwLk4 ( BBC Mechanical Marvels Clockwork Dreams )
Love it when I go to lunch, just to find out that someone posts my site to Hacker News and it gets crushed.

It will be back up and running shortly!
So cache timing attacks increasing with table size? I thought the table was only for the authentication section. I guess that would be reversible to the key. Are there any papers on this?
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How else is IQ defined?
I generally consume reddit. I participate on HN.
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Good to know! I still hold that it would be helpful if there was some indication that the file was there. Neither the Installation Guide nor the download page mention it at all.
"Here I am wasting time/procrastinating."

Interesting though that there is no data with regards to how much time people spend on HN and whether it results in success or not. Or just adds to entertainment, knowledge, or enjoyment.

Even anecdotal although I do know there are some outliers like tpatcek and patio11 that have benefited. But we don't know how that compares to time that they spent.
I changed an OS (before Linux) to sync when idle. So by the time you could type a shutdown command, it was already sync'd. I don't know why more OSs don't do that.
One benefit is that it allows rent control. Without this, the arguments in favor of rent control go out the window - if the tenant can make significantly more renting out the apartment than they are currently paying, there's no legitimate reason to force their landlord to charge below market rents.
Even worse is the speed of escalation -- organizations didn't used to go right to the feds, and when they did then the feds didn't immediately use 4am SWAT teams.

Nowadays the rate at which you'll get fucked hard is pretty fast, and they won't waste their time washing you through the legal system instead of letting you stew in a holding cell. Sure you'll get your plea bargain, but you won't like the part where you're forced to work as an informant immediately.
> Also, I have to laugh at your indignation at someone mowing their lawn at 7am because they are awake but you aren't right after complaining about an empty street at 3am because everyone is asleep.

I'm not sure what you mean here? I was saying I don't think emergency vehicles need to use their sirens on a quiet street at 3 am in the morning. I was also bemoaning the use of leaf blowers at 7am on a Sunday. Both of those things are annoying yet "technically" I'd say 7am is probably a good time to consider as the start of the day and therefore removal of any noise restrictions. In fact, I think in the UK noise pollution restrictions apply from 11pm - 7am most nights.
Thanks for the update! I do believe that there may be diminishing returns to focusing on intellectual improvement (a genius that can't get a date won't be happy) but it's clear that our minds are indeed malleable.
Love the project! And of course, for those side projects that do get abandoned, you can find them at http://sideprojectors.com
You forgot luck.
Should I bootstrap my company, crowdfund it, or raise a seed round?
Which specific laptops? I haven't required specific hacks since the Dell Mini 9, but I don't doubt you had platform specific issues.
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> not in the source code, where they would be more easily found.

Why do you say that? Compiling the source with the same compiler and flags, plus diffing the binaries would quickly show where the differences lie, and if they're hostile. Any half-decent reverse engineer could do this.

That would stand out more than if the source itself was backdoored in a non-glaring way. Open source has taught us that nobody ever reads the source.
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I don't know. But for the fifteen years I've been doing it, every weekend when I go out with my friends I can feel my IQ dropping down with every drink. And don't even ask me to solve the simplest crossword puzzle on a Sunday morning. Not necessarily bad, though. It's fun and releases a lot of stress...
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This sounds awesome, please make a linux version. Or maybe use a format that wouldn't require a specific client for advanced users that already have a favorite client.
It's very important for a lot of people, particularly people who can't do what Jack/Ev/Noah can do and did, to believe that it's all luck.
"Please only vote if you are really active on both."
So only vote if you are going to say yes?
[edit: as pointed out in comments, the link below is now going to a different fund. as is the original link. wtf?!]

should the link be changed to http://fundfill.com/fund/TrueCryptAudited ? NO - SEE EDIT ABOVE

it's not clear what this link is, but the page requests using the link above for public sharing. it might possibly be the source of errors people are having donating...
There's some question about if the government can legally make you do work for free, except as a punishment for a crime.
Thinking like that leads down the same rabbit hole where autoconf/automake disappeared, only using bourne and m4 (!). Just in case you want to compile your code on a decade-old copy of HP-UX. Or I suppose some shiny new distro that is using zsh as /bin/sh.
Coming up on 4 years. Much happier commentary over there.
He edited his post and my reply doesn't make sense in context now
If you compiled the source and obtained exactly the same binary as is offered for download, would that prove the binary was unmolested? I'm guessing there are many reasons why the binary might turn out to be different for non-suspicious reasons (different compiler versions/flags/environment...?), in which case would it be hard to enumerate all those reasons and rule them all out as the cause of a difference?
I agree that Adobe's ColdFusion is deadend but not Open Source Railo which is more of a Java Framework. At the end of the day there's no logical reason against CFML any more than there is against PHP, Rails, etc.
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The key to making reddit a bearable experience, and I think most people on HN will agree with this, is honing into specific subreddits that you believe are worth participating in and using them exclusive to the rest of the site. For me it's askhistorians, a relatively small community with ruthless moderation that stomps quickly and decisively on anything that isn't properly cited and maintains a healthy base of experts.
And what is "Use other" supposed to mean? Other what?
Same here. Reddit is television that I can consume on the toilet (note to self - never use the words "consume on the toilet" again). Does it help me? Not really. Does it demand my active participation? Nope. Is it entertaining? Certainly. It's no different than the hundreds of hours of Russian dash cam videos of wacky car accidents.

Do I view reddit? Yes. Do I participate in reddit? I used to, until I realized that participating lowered my perceived value of the entertainment.
> The camera took 85 days and more than 735 hours to manufacture. During that time more than 550 models and 1,000 prototype parts were made and tested; 55 engineers worked on the process.

And

> It is expected to fetch between $500,000 (£312,000) and $750,000.

If they took the cost of that time and work and donated it directly to the charity how much would it have been?
I think maybe they mean "please vote only if you're active on HN".
Thanks for the feedback - this is really more a case of "two hackers trying to describe what we're building" than a "vague PR statement".

I think where we're struggling is narrowing down exactly what we do, without being pigeonholed into "just another hosting platform". We're really excited to talk to the many people who did signup and learn more from them, so that we can get better at this overtime. Thanks for being a "BS filter" and telling us where we're wrong - if you have more thoughts to share, we'd love to hear from you. contact@awesomebox.es
AFAIK the newer versions of Outlook still use the same format. And the PST password is just as useless too.
> 85 days and more than 735 hours

> more than 550 models and 1,000 prototype parts were made and tested... 55 engineers worked on the process.

Uhh... I think they spent more developing this than what it will fetch. Wouldn't it have been better to just donate the money?

A 500k donation at the expense of that many resources...
Hear, hear. I'm getting kinda desperate in my non existing pursuit of being able to focus / getting things done. I am considering meditation but I'm not sure there's actual evidence that it actually makes it easier to focus.
There is a realpolitik at work here; if your charge for handling a subpoena/warrant is higher than the FBI's cost to install a Carnivore/Omnivore box, guess what they're going to do.
When I was in primary school they sent the kids home with a questionnaire to let the students' parents vote on some rule changes. They options were "Yes", "No" and "I choose to have my vote count with the majority"

To this day I'm convinced that was their way of covertly stacking the deck in whatever direction they saw fit.
Fine. Change this to a "membership fee" for your private club and walk away.
I don't comment much on HN that much.

I was here before I found reddit 2 years ago I just never made an account until I wanted to promote my project
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If you turn it a little more then it says exactly what it is...: http://www.theroar.com.au/2007/06/14/london-2012-the-logo/

Haha, ok, not quite but defo describes it :)
Can we please stop citing the Guinness Book for anything, ever? I know everyone is thinking of that lovely, thick, authoritative tome you had when you were younger. It no longer exists. The company was sold in 1995, and now the "book" is a glossy picture book with only a few hundred of the most photogenic records from the previous year. You can't use it to settle bar bets (the original purpose) because they can't be arsed to even put their historical records online, and every time some big cool new media darling arrives they make up half a dozen new records that apply to it so they can get free advertising. "Most viewed trailer for an action-adventure videogame," fucking really?
I use Google. Does that count?
That would require a deterministic/reproducible build process. Such things tend to need the same host-OS, library versions, dependency versions etc that AFAIK Truecrypt haven't got documented anywhere. See the efforts of Tor Project, Debian et al to start doing reproducible builds - It's not easy. And this is without things inherently producing non-deterministic builds - embedding timestamps is quite common for example.

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
I could see throwing a fit, too, depending on how the weighting is handled for partially incorrect answers. If the question is "What shape is the Earth?", if a student answers "A cube", I can see taking off points. However, if they answer "A sphere", do they also lose points? Do they lose just as many points as the person who said sphere or do they get partial credit for being closer to the correct answer of "oblate spheroid"

To put it differently, would I get a better score in OS design than Linus Torvalds? After all, he wrote an operating system that contains bugs, while I wrote no operating system as all.
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That's a technical issue. There are voting systems with points, and you can vote against someone rather than just for them. And you can vote for many people. I've said it once and I'll say it again, FPTP is a tyrant's idea of democracy.
I would agree with that statement. I just run multiple accounts (One for tech, one just for laughs, etc). I did this before the changes where you can have multiple front pages or streams (I'll admit I haven't played with them much) but I still like my approach as I like the separation.
It definitely is an awesome hack, and I will also be dogfooding the site, for growthomatic.com, and a designer t-shirt site that I have, at the least they should make for some interesting blog posts.
> in an effort to appease the authorities.

That is really naive.
I was not talking about biceps size, but about who is stronger in a fight. The bigger guy has an advantage. See the other child comment as it explains that it can work the other way around (bigger being a disadvantage)