skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GoDaddy Acquiring Media Temple: The Good, The Bad and The Business
Lavabit was not set up like that because Lavabit could not be set up like that. You cannot have webmail that works like that; at best, you have a client that is delivered via the web, but then why not just run the client locally?

Basically, if you want encryption to be local, then you do not want an encryption service. Which is exactly what you should be doing anyway; privacy and security are not services.
I remember running into this as well - there doesn't seem to be any better software on Windows to route audio like this (AFAICR the DSD decoder software expects a "sound card" input).
I doubt these days you can go too wrong if you stick to the popular ones. Personally I use Xubuntu. It feels a little lighter weight than Ubuntu/Kubuntu and has all the desktop features I want plus ability to tweak the things that bothered me.

Also, fyi, http://askubuntu.com/ is an incredibly helpful resource if you choose any of the Ubuntu distros.
While not arguing that your counter-example is possible – I strongly reject the implication that businesses therefore are required to build that extra infrastructure, on the off-chance that some legal request might at some point in the future ask for sensitive customer data.

If a business chooses not to develop that, because they've decided that disallowing insider access is a better choice for their business, that's an entirely sensible and legal choice to make. If a court later decides they're not happy with that - the court must be the one who bears the cost of implementing a properly auditable and secured system, not the business who has no need for it. (And I note that Levison offered to build such a system for only $3500, which seems to be to be a _very_ reasonable price, and instead the government chose to play hardball. And to Levisons great credit, lost.)

Note too, that there are many instances where not having customer data available is exactly the right way to build things. Any court in the land can come and ask me to tell them which credit card got used at any of my client's ecommerce sites – I'll say "Sorry, never even saw the CC number. Absolutely no way I can disclose that to you. If you want me to implement a system that allows me to gather that data for you, speak to my bank and Visa/Mastercard/AMEX et al, and provide me with written court-backed absolvement from my PCI obligations, and I'll have my people prepare you a quote for costs on modifying the software.
Ugh, I don't like the sound of this. But he is one of the people I respect most on the planet so I suppose that means I should have faith that he's doing the right thing. Call me unimaginative but I thought it was an extremely good thing to have someone with his views at a respected, establishment media organization.
Will shoot you an email now!
haha - switching it over as we speak!
If you think this is the beginning of that phase you haven't been paying any attention at all. Just look up Endurance International Group. They own many (most?) of the major consumer brands and snag up new ones regularly. I can think of two big purchases this year already: DirectI ($110m) and A Small Orange (not sure on sale price)
Definitely. Speaker is an amazing book. In my opinion, it's much better than Ender's Game but you need Ender's Game to understand it.
This right here is the real story, I'm guessing. Can't say I blame them either. They probably wanted to move on and needed a soft landing spot for (mt). So after months of shopping around, GoDaddy perhaps made the sweetest deal.

Congrats to Virb and the founders next chapter there! This is the first I've heard of it and it sounds like a pretty neat service.

And good luck the team left at (mt) for managing what is going to be quite a storm of negative sentiment and customer departures.
or they just haven't updated their website :)
> How hard is it to write an email client?

Not much, but unnecessary. There are open-source solutions that can be security audited, fortified and improved.

> With some calendar?

Devilishly hard.
It's more intuitive if you think of what a much tighter spring (i.e. higher spring constant) would do. First, you'd have to hold it open because gravity wouldn't be sufficient to stretch it out. If you released both ends simultaneously, it would fully contract in much less time than it would take to hit the ground. As a result, the bottom would move up fast before moving down as the fully contracted spring falls.

The interesting thing worth noting is that you don't have to carefully choose a spring such that the force of contraction is equal to the force of gravity to observe a stationary bottom end, as in the gif. You just have to let any spring hang freely. Prior to release, the upwards force from the spring on it's own bottom exactly balances the downwards force from gravity. For a few moments after release, until the point when the spring contracts enough that it no longer applies the same upwards force to it's own bottom end, the forces on the bottom of the spring will remain balanced and no acceleration will be observed. This is, of course, much easier for the human eye to observe in slow motion and with a relatively large spring with a low spring constant, such as a slinky!
I was "rocking it" in secondary education, to the point that I was opted into a engineering-oriented college track despite declining to take the aptitude test. When I looked back on the time I spent working on my Computer Science degree I regret not taking time off. Even more so now that I've been working for a while (and re-entering eduction on my own terms).

But I went straight into college after high school because a) I was "college bound" and that's what college bound kids did, and b) I would not be eligible for my scholarship if I took time off. I was pretty broke at the time so I needed the scholarship (and couldn't afford a backpacking trip anyways).

I did fine in college but not as good as I could/should have. Like you, I thought a _lot_ about why and in particular I thought about why some people were doing better than me. This is what stood out to me:

When the professors introduced a new data structure these classmates would talk about how they wish they knew about it for a previous project or how it got them thinking about a different way to build something they were working on. The people who were doing better than me had a reason to learn.

I was just learning what the professors told me to learn. If they talked about a new data structure I learned about a new data structure. If they talked about when to use a data structure I learned when to use the data structure.

I was "gifted", "college bound", and all sorts of other labels that presumably light the path to success. But I didn't understand my "gift" and I figure most my early educators didn't either, because they just kept encouraging me to keep doing what I was doing. Which was basically nothing.

Moral of the story is don't let your kids' success blind you to the fact that they really need opportunities to explore themselves and their world. Whether they are "rocking it" or not, you should encourage them to seek these opportunities and help them get to them as much as possible.
SpaceX Next Gen Falcon 9 Demonstration Flight [video]
" … because those are the threats they see themselves facing."

Or perhaps "because those were the threats they saw themselves facing before Snowden's revelations"
Is housing a good investment? Nobel prize winner says NO.
Rental car keys are too bulky
I spent a long while in the hosting sector. Let me explain:

Their support is top-notch. It really is. They have some cool technology going on that's developed in-house that you're hard-pressed to find anywhere else. They really are a different breed of host.

Me though? I've never been a fan of them. I see them all as pretty colors and fancy marketing. But at the end of the day, they probably have some of the best support out there. ASmallOrange is up there too (as is their price): a premium-ish service with the premium-ish price. Can you get the same stuff elsewhere? Sure, but it my take some significant effort to get everything setup.
haha i noticed the same
>It's still largely used to write web stuff and nothing else.

Vagrant? Homebrew? Jekyll?
I'm surprised they haven't taken down the Facebook comments yet.
http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr has probably everything you are looking for, and more.
Method of recording brain activity could lead to mind-reading devices
Civil Beat is a really incredible news source that has done some really deep reporting on Honolulu's local politics. If Glenn Greenwald will be joining CB then it's likely the website will grow out of its regional roots into a more national news site. I'd love to see the same investigative reporting done at a national level.
or you might just use Linux
I think it was more a sign of the times and the fact that it was a B round. You can elaborate a bit at the B stage.
You eat too much
Ha. But you're not paying $5 a month for a static site, you're paying for a sustainable business to be behind your website when things go awry.

$5 a month is cheap, too cheap in fact.
I don't know the full story, but from what I've heard, it probably involves things like 1) Oracle owns it 2) It requires a non-free compiler to build the BIOS
The fact that you're labeling the only alternative you can think of "a poor example" seems significant. Edit: and I agree that nagios is a poor example, and welcome newcomers.
V8's 'interpreter equivalent' mode is non-crankshaft JIT. It's not interpreted in the slightest.
Square launches Square Cash
> Since then, the application has gone through an extensive security audit led by a team at the University of Washington, which also included input from noted information security experts Bruce Schneier and Jacob Appelbaum.

I bet this is like that time Jake was in the room when a bunch of Europeans cracked the PKI and he made sure to get his name on the list.

Seeing him listed next to people who actually know what they're doing is a sad testament to his ability to play the media.
Review of Square Cash: The Money Is in the Email
Congratulations. But basically, I wouldn't sweat it -- you wouldn't be likely to get more than 10k added to your salary, and since Amazon is very much a late-stage company, I wouldn't expect much from any equity slice offered.

It's your first (bigcorp) job, after all -- just grab it for the spending money + experience. Then "flip it" into a much higher paying (and probably more interesting) job 1-2 years from now.

That said, it's always good form to delay the acceptance process ever so slightly: get everything in writing, and ask if you can have a few days to think about it (specifically asking by when they need a response), rather than just agreeing to everything outright over the phone.

But if it's in another city and you'll have to move, then by all means do ask for "relo" expenses (not sure how much, but it could easily cost you $6k+ out of pocket, when everything is factored in -- so keep that in mind).

Have fun!
> and the newer Rackspace Cloud stuff

We've used Rackspace Cloud and Linode for several years and found Rackspace Cloud performance to be significantly worse than Linode for CPU and IO. Like, not even close. Prices are about the same. Support experiences are also similar (quick, competent responses from both sides).

The only reason we keep the Rackspace stuff around is because we want to have a relatively wide separation between our production webservices and our website / monitoring so that if one goes down that we can announce / detect that from a wholly separate network.
They also supported SOPA: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
It's a new venture.
Drudge and Alex Jones are not libertarian. Drudge is a heavily-conservative pundit that preaches holier-than-thou morals in his biased reporting. Alex Jones spreads "we-are-all-going-to-die" fear porn to his terrorized audience.

Libertarians are socially liberal, and fiscally conservative. Since the republican party co-opted the Tea Party via Glen Beck, there is no longer a viable voice for the political belief.

This nitpick aside, you're totally correct about the polarization of the news figures.
It's a very cool project I've thought about gettinng involved with. My company has a number of complex flash games that will not initialize in shumway, but for toys and small apps it works about half the time -- and that's cool! So far, when it works, performance is about 3x slower.
"M as in marshmallow"
Is there a Mac alternative? Otherwise i'll have to stick with my Bearcat.
I've been happy with server289.com for my personal site for several years now. The one time I had an issue (which turned out to be pilot error on my part) they were quite responsive and very helpful.
Shared hosting is tricky. There are a million brands and lots of flavors of the week. The really small guys, some of them are probably great. It's really hard to tell though, they are 1-2 person operations that last for who knows how long. The scaling/growth problems causes a lot of pain for the owners/operators and customers. Scaling up takes a lot of skill, and then many of them get bought out by a bigger company. And then your service and experience change, especially if it was a couple person operation.

All those unscalable things they did for you to get and keep your business? They don't last forever.

So you decide to use a bigger company. And it's not the same, but it's generally more reliable. And some of those companies do a much better job than others. Some are actually pretty good. You like RackSpace, there are a few companies out there that people like as much if not more too. A few even compete in the shared hosting space.

I track most of these big companies and dreamhost is middle of the pack. Better than GoDaddy but below some other brands.

Take a look for yourself: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

Maybe next time someone asks you about it, you can let them figure out what they need. No company is perfect, but some are definitely better liked by their customers than others.
Only percentages matter, not absolute values. It's hard to find a currency that fluctuates 50% relative to USD, but it's not completely unheard of either.
Yes, that is why I said 'interpreter equivalent' and not 'interpreter'. What matters is that the performance is awful because it's the lowest common denominator :) It is faster than an interpreter!
I remember seeing this talked about a while back and not thinking much of it, but the details look slick. Sending money with no signup required seems pretty awesome.
If you provided sources, I would maybe think this was something beyond a personal axe you have to grind.

Seeing as how you've fit the classic "respond to every post" argumentative style.
It doesn't have retina support, so everything looks pixelated.
What I found most interesting about this was the the concept of success changed over time. Success seems to be deeply personal and is perhaps a reflection of a deeply personal fear.

In our society the fear of not having enough money seems to be very prevalent thus often success is tied directly to the concept of having enough money because it is a fear a lot of people share.

In this light perhaps the path to success is just a way of working through our fears.

The interesting question then becomes what does success look like to the person who no longer has any fears. Perhaps then success is motivated by compassion?
Note that this isn't available everywhere: https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5136-troubleshoot-sq...

(Would have been nice to see this on the actual page rather than hidden in "Troubleshooting")
Free. I bite, What's the catch ? I presume recruit users to use the Wallet app ?
Investor here. This seems like an unusual arrangement for Salesforce, any idea why they didn't try to acquire Veeva a few years ago? Any idea what will happen in 2015 when the deal comes up for renewal? Thanks
This was discussed on HN a few weeks ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6481319
It sounds great, but I'm always left wondering what the angle is for free services. Will they make their money off of float? Is it something to do with the way debit cards are charged?
>Free. Actually Free.

Ok now I'm confused. I realize it's probably a marketing ploy, but how could the fees on this not eat them alive?
WOW, those demos run super smooth. This is really cool, I'll be trying the extension out
NSA will start to deposit the cash you send, its just "Metadata"
If the deal doesn't renew in 2015, then there is a five year wind down period where Veeva can sell a limited number new licenses but still use the platform. Presumably if this happens, they'll have to rebuild it. It's addressed in the S1.
I think they've done something quite clever by (I infer) getting people to join up when they receive money. Venmo puts up an unnecessary wall by requiring that the payee sign up before they can be paid.
The Money Is in the Email: A Square cash review
I think thats an awesome idea, in the current world where the cash is not used as often as before and its hard to just send money to your friend or relative without dealing with long forms, swift codes, routing numbers etc...I am just wondering how did they manage to make it free? Any ideas?
Stackoverflow runs Microsoft?!? I feel like I was just punched in the gut by a best friend. Throwing up...
This is similar to competing services on venmo and paypal. I believe they make money on:

1. The "float". The interest that they make from the period that people have cash in their accounts. If an ACH takes 4 days to complete, they may take 5 days to complete it, and collect a day's worth of interest

2. The halo effect. Now you're a Paypal/venmo/square user, and therefore more accessible to vendors using them as a payment processor. Those vendors pay the service transaction fees.
Vbox's "api" is kind of an abomination. Vagrant succeeds because it parses sometimes non-machine friendly command line executable output.
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You ought to kick in a little disclaimer that you run Reviewsginal. :)
I think linking accounts to debit cards is pretty valuable on it's own. It opens the door to making payments for a lot of people much easier down the road.
Ah! My mistake.. I was a little too excited when I saw Civil Beat in the article.
Since fending off legal hackers and inside jobbers is too difficult...

What is the current state of the art on homomorphic encryption? Does it still cost an 'ARM and a leg' of CPU cycles?
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I am starting to think that eating less and exercising more isn't enough either. I've done that and it doesn't seem to help. I've come to believe that one has to eat an all organic diet to actually loose weight. I believe the problem is that any amount of high fructose corn syrup, anti-biotic ridden meat and other such ingredients simply make it impossible to loose weight.
Note that it takes 1-2 days for the deposit. They must be using ACH to do this. The 'free' part is great. Even with Square, I'd be hesitant to enter my debit card number.

Planet Money recently did a great episode all about the US's ACH system and why it works the way it does.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...
That sounds like another reason to move to Greece.
Echoing the other commenters: this is really great, but I'm a little weirded out because it's free. I'd like for them to be upfront about why it's free, since all the alternatives aren't.
And composing an email to send someone money is secure how?

What stops someone from spoofing my email address, CC'ing it to cash@square.com, and clearing me out? And if someone does get in to my email account I'm toast?
Another possibility is to split the keys and include external keyholders, like famous security researchers and lawyers. And give everybody 2 keypairs. One keypair slowly corrupts the database while the other is legit.
Do Android, iOS and Other Mobile Operating Systems No Longer Matter in Mobile?
is this font legit?
it looks like it was build based on some other font, and there are still original/unchanged characters left.
f.e. try to render A, Á and notice the difference in font-weight and also the char differences.
or am i missing something?
Sorry if that wasn't clear. I thought saying I was tracking this data made it obvious. Apologies if that caused any confusion.
Hmm neat, however what benefits do I get using this when it's also built into Gmail and provided directly by Google Wallet?

http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/
Thanks, that's a relief. I was afraid there were other reasons to push the system. It's great that I was wrong :)
I want to continuously monitor for 10-codes and record incidents in a DB. Any ideas for the speech recognition portion? I figure it should be easier than full blown text-to-speech because I'm just looking for a small set of 10-codes: 10-4, 10-55, etc.
Like how Paypal encourages you to tie your bank account to your Paypal account; they get to charge merchants the credit card interchange rate while taking advantage of the low ACH funding risk on the buyer/purchaser side.
Glad they changed it from 50 cents to free. Smart move.

They solve this problem with the least amount of friction.
ACH transfers are stupid cheap compared to credit card transactions.
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Amazon sued over 20-minute, unpaid, daily security searches of workers
Hopefully this new venture is a bigger version of CB though.
What are they using to do the animations on the demo site?
Yes, there are many business problems I'd want to solve with data. For instance, I'd love to know trending Twitter topics specific to a core group of people interested in X.
There may be some fees for them here, but it's not like they are paying 2.7% per transaction. It only uses debit (not credit) cards.
Because sending money is free using a debit card? GW and bank accounts are free, but there's a 2.9% transaction fee for debit cards.

Source: http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/
Because you don't use gmail? Because your target doesn't use gmail? Because you're already a square user and not a Google Wallet user? Because you'd like to use a debit card without paying a fee? Because you like the letter S better than you like the letter G?
Would this still work if someone used a fake email script?
Ok, maybe I should rephrase that.

Who would do an audit?

Because the obvious candidate is Serpro, but they are already developing it. Anyway, it's open source, so if any part of the government (military maybe, ABIN, or some university) thinks that it deserves an audit, it can simply do it, no need for formalization.
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Apparently, for suspicious activity, they'll send you an email back confirming the transaction. I would hope that most large-scale modern email services somehow sign emails to vouch for their authenticity to avoid email spoofing. I'd be curious how they handle dumb senders (I'd assume with a verification every time).
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I work at a big company and we use ruby all the time. It's a powerful scripting language that we can rapidly develop in for the 1000s (literally) of small programs that need to work with our legacy unix systems.
This is my favorite type of product. Here's why:

- Take an existing known medium (in this case email) and makes it way more useful.

- They didn't try to build a bunch of new UI for connecting your Facebook so you can find and invite and pay your friends, paying out to your card, etc.

- It magically hides the messiness of an enormously complex problem (fraud, different types of debit cards & banks all over the world) behind a very simple interface.

- Unlike every other P2P payment system, I can actually sign up and receive money (or convince my friend to) using only what's in my pocket (debit card)... not hunting down ACH/wire details.