skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Productive people with real skills are part of that fraction of humankind who make stuff that others want, and don't sponge off their fellows. As such, they tend to be in support of political and economic freedom, and against socialism and redistributions.
I definitely agree with that as well, maybe I'm being a little pedantic, but she or he did make the claim that all discussions are political. It just struck me the wrong way as someone who really enjoys non-political discussions (when I can find them).
Path Axes 20 Percent Of Staff In A ‘Realigning Of The Company’
I have one name for you: Bob Woodward. How many years since Watergate? And he's still there... a bit whored-out, yes, now mostly a megaphone for the rich and powerful class he belongs to... BUT he's still there, and doing fine, despite having a total of zero major scoops since 1973.

The bar for Greenwald is pretty low, in that sense. I'm sure he'll do just fine.
This app is great. It doesn't support the phonetic spelling fields, though. It also needs email and note fields. When clicking a contact from the left-hand menu, it doesn't show the location.
So there is lot's of room for development, but this start is sleek and extremely handy! I have already paid for an app that only does half of this one, and I am willing to pay again to get a fuller set of features!

My personal hack for helping remember people is I use the company field as a tag. So people I meet in a bar will get the bar name in that field, people from school will get the school name, people from work, will get work name, clubs etc.

The nice thing about this is you can search for company name, so I can just type in "study group" and I get all the contacts in my study group up as a result.
I don't think this is intended as negativity, even if it comes across that way from the outside. I'm the founder of a company that meets the criteria you've outlined: we're bootstrapped, profitable, and I pay myself enough to live on a decent level.

Before we hit profitability, I thought "If only we can hit profitability, it will be smooth sailing - all our problems will go away." It's anything but. Two things do change: the type of problem changes (often to bigger, scarier problems), and you start facing more and more problems you can't talk about publicly.

I wish I had heard other entrepreneurs say "It gets harder not easier" when I was in some of my darker times. It would have raised my spirits to know that I wasn't alone in feeling like things kept getting harder when I thought they should keep getting easier.
It's hard to trace who really started it. Before SquirrelFish extreme there was Opera Kestrel that crushed everyone in JS tests:

http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/

and when Safari was still an early beta Opera was marketed as "The Fastest Browser on Earth".
It would be nice if the Brazilian government adopted and helped to improve an existing open source solution (may I recommend Kolab?) instead of falling prey to NIH.

As others have mentioned, PIM is very difficult and if it's done wrong, you end up with metadata leaking across the Internet, security flaws, etc.

If the real issue is with the inability to see the source then open source is better than "Brazilian government"-proprietary, as the NSA could simply hack the source code repository, CIA could plant an insider, the list goes on. You could have someone whose job is to audit the integrity of the archive, but who watches the watchers? With open source the problem is simpler: everyone can watch the source code archive.
I'm sure there's a lot of younger brothers out there that caught savage beatings from one of your "non-abusing" types.

Just another type of leadership I suppose, do as your told.
Hey krrishd, if you’re using a variable as your title, Harp will use the correct one in the correct context: https://gist.github.com/kennethormandy/6834709
Works especially well in asm.js under Firefox. I can't quite get keyboard input to work well under X, but this is really impressive.
He's stated he's forming a new organization "with serious backing":

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/exclusive-glenn-greenwald-w...
I think you are on to something.

My views lie somewhere in the middle, but I lean slightly towards conservatism. I like aspects of libertarianism, but I think capitalist fanaticism is immoral. I like the concept of individual responsibility, but at the same time I feel that helping our fellow citizens is part of being a responsible individual.

I used to read the Drudge report, but I grew weary of the links to sites that seem to be populated entirely by white supremacists and lunatics.

The worst thing about the drudge report, is that the author picks a candidate early on, and then uses his popularity to assassinate the characters of all the other republican candidates in an effort to ensure that his favourite gets the nomination. That's not journalism by any stretch of the imagination.

To be fair though, the republicans have had some pretty shitty candidates in the last decade or so. Its just disingenuous for him to act like his favourite isn't a POS like the others.

EDIT: Looks like someone reads the drudge report. Honestly, have you ever read any of the comments on the articles they link to? Haven't you noticed how he alters headlines to be as inflammatory as possible?
Yeah, GitHub for papers is really hampered in fields that don't regularly use TeX.
With Forward Secrecy disabled when it wasn't before, it only being a quick configuration change to re-enable it (I'm talking two or three lines in Apache or nginx), and no discernible gain in disabling it other than to make it easier for people to look through the traffic after the fact... it's almost the only explanation.

Either that or there's an amount of incompetence here that should might as well amount to the same degree of stay away.

However, the server is probably not actively compromised, because if it was they could use PFS and still listen in. It is still required, however, that they'll need either to own this key pair being used at some point to listen in to the traffic.

But that would mean that they can likely change the key pair on the server but for some reason they can't enable PFS, even though once they have access to the server in production, PFS is useless... so... who knows on that part.

tl;dr: If they get the key pair later (even if years later through brute forcing or whatnot) and don't have access to the server, then PFS disabled is a bad thing. If they have control over the server or the server logs all the session keys and they receive these at some point in time, then PFS enabled is, of course, a useless thing. If they don't get the key pair at any point, then it's fine, but I'd consider that unlikely.

Edit: The proper way forward is to estimate the chance they will get the key, which might as well call at 50-50, multiply that by the losses you would incur where they to gain access to these emails (and that's likely to amount to $0 for the vast majority, sorry if I'm being presumptuous and devaluing privacy) and compare that to the losses incurred if you didn't have access to these emails. Counter-intuitively arising from that, for some it might even make sense to connect assuming that traffic is intercepted, to show that they are boring and are using Lavabit for very mundane reasons.
I can't wait to find out what it is and what kind of participation is available. GG has been doing some of the best reporting on a variety of issues for at least a few years.
Just dreaming here:

1) DHH is a huge fan of Greenwald and very political.

2) Peter Thiel likes to make bold bets in the future of our culture (e.g. Ron Paul donation).
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Exitround is a marketplace for startups to discreetly explore acquisition opportunities. Having a private, anonymous marketplace is a huge opportunity for both the startups, and the acquiring company.
Can't say enough about ASmallOrange's service. Independent company, green, prompt responses, never had a problem. They've even led me by the hand to fix a couple issues I overlooked. I've switched many of my customers to them over the years. As shared hosts go, I haven't had a better experience.
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In my experience most people are bad at both, it's just that they think they are one or the other.

Also I would suggest another approach at becoming better: Instead of mastering both styles (which is impossible for most people) it might be better to focus on one style and look for ways to drag the problems that are better solved with the other style back to solutions you already can apply. Stupid example I created just now: Instead of trying to go more with the flow when meeting friends a planner could spent more time before meeting friends to plan and prepare different options. The solution is still not as optimal as for a go-flow-guy, but it is possible to get around it without your friends realizing. On the other hand a go-flow-guy that is writing a master thesis might be better to plan for a very small topic and go for more iterations with the professor to get to a decent paper in the end. In both example I probably fail to show that the guy is actually applying his own style to a problem that is not meant for this style, just that he is more creative and willing to put in more energy to get to the same end result then the person with the other talent.

If you look closely at medium level chess players and kungfu arts then you see that they are also doing something like this. They learn a small set of skills that all focus on very few basic concepts and try to solve other problems by moving the situation back to their comfort zone or putting in more effort.
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There is no general consensus, but there's no rule that say you can only have one central watchdog. Collect errors one place, watch over you db somewhere else, watch over your watchdogs somewhere else still. This is basic sysadmin CYA.
Just an up-vote didn't seem sufficient. To both you and the writer of that first response; cheers for sharing.

Amazing what a diverse audience ends up at HN, and how much you can learn by reading comments to an article.

Appreciated.
I personally find the following lovely:

«Meeting people: use go-with-the-flow when possible, i.e. unless you really do need to judge/understand them.»
How do you know that all that data isn't being collected by the state and and passed up to the federal government?
if you find it irritating, when why are you trying to share things anyhow?

The alternative is iPhone style, where you copy-and-paste things from app-to-app...
Breaking news. Everyone is nervous for a long while. Not just at first. But it is OK. No regrets. You have to put it out there and try.
I agree.

Which is why I keep a single GPG encrypted text file with all the login stuff to things that matter. Only one password to remember and everything is backed up regularly.
I am. I have experience with most of the technologies we would need (including native code and building browser extensions if we want to build an "auto scraper").

Email in profile.
Whether you have someone's attention is obvious regardless of what they're holding, so I don't care about that. If someone is rude enough to give only partial attention while they tweet through a conversation, that's fine and I'll deal with it as appropriate.

That said, I have noticed a high correlation between taking notes on a phone and taking really shitty notes - a few characters instead of a sentence, no connections between related ideas that came up at different times, no drawings, interruptions for futzing with the lackluster select/editing tools on touch devices.

But maybe all that doesn't matter and it's not the tool at all. Maybe it's that the only people who try it don't know how to take notes while being engaged in a conversation.
$1 or a survey. I didn't see what a survey was worth though. At $143 eCPM wouldn't that be about $0.143 per survey?
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Believe it or not, in this day and age creating a news org from scratch is incredibly cheap: you don't have to deal with legacy tech, expensive manpower and flashy offices in downtown NYC...

What is hard to get is brand recognition and mainstream credibility, which you can't get unless you break something extraordinary like CNN did in Gulf War I and Al-Jazeera in the post-2001 invasions. Greenwald's name should help in that regard.
Interesting article and good point! It makes me wonder why there isn't more proactive scientific effort put into optimizing traffic and traffic instructional courses. If people were taught to drive more effectively in school, that would be a good starting point to improving the overall traffic situation.
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It's not clear what the "opportunity" Greenwald's been presented with is. It could be his own news agency or it could be something different. It's a bit premature to be dismissive.
Philanthropy is one of the few credible models left for good journalism. (The other being pay-for niche, like the Economist).

So I like that another really excellent philanthropically funded news organisation is starting (Pro Publica has been good).
And that someone who doesn't like you can black ball your promotion efforts anonymously.
Amazingly, the slinky can also time travel.
Demoscene is a fine example where people already continue a tradition as the article suggests, even if not gushing but still trickling. I don't claim computing tech faces such a danger yet. I only tried to put a more familiar spin on what the article says for mechanics.

You went on a tangent and were overly pedantic for some reason. I won't address every single thing I think you are wrong about but I agree with your depiction of our tech bubble and I disagree with your sentiment that nobody who is not american and willing to work for 25K can write BIOS/driver level software.

Your bubble is a threat itself. Pop it or face irrelevance by extinction.
What should one use? FMDB or similar?
Sorry, lately it's been hard to distinguish whether people are being sarcastic or are just idiots.

My apologies.
Nigger posts this shit he doesn't understand and what does he want?

I asked my little brother if the chairs would float if we removed all the air in the room. LOL

I got a new question. If a helium balloon didn't pop, would it float or sink if you removed all the air in the room.

Heavy objects do, in fact, hit the Earth sooner. F=Gm1m2/r^2. (applied to object AND to Earth)
Would sites behind cloudflare fall into this 16% figure since the headers are cloudflare-nginx? Either way, cf powers a lot of sites.
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Build a version 1. If you can't do that, go convince a prospective customer to give you a check in advance. Either of these will greatly increase your odds. If you can't do either, why would anyone invest?
Google's new gesture patents could let Glass users 'heart' things in real life
I'd recommend you spend your time strengthening all the areas which you identified as weaknesses right now. The YC application takes time to do right, and is in and of itself a learning exercise in really understanding what your business is and conveying it concisely. Until you cover all your bases there's much better places to spend your time.
I'm welcome to my own thoughts as well as to point out where you were wrong. It's funny that you talk about things being aggressive for your taste, when the tone of condescension could not be more clear in your original post. But then, I notice many nerds can dish it out but can't take it, especially those nerds so eager when online to act superior in some way.

What you did not catch in the short Forbes article is by no means a footnote. It is the scrubbing of previous references to Ross Ulbricht by the University of Texas at Dallas.

This "memory hole" treatment is further written about here http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/10/ut-dallas...
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Your ability to speak 'stoned' is amazing.
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I'm certainly novice in C, but as I was reading, I wondered about this

{"get",getCommand,2,"r",0,NULL,1,1,1,0,0},

"The fourth field, set to "r", is specifying that the
command is read only and doesn’t modify any keys’ value
or state. There are a whole bunch of one letter flags
that you can specify in this string that are explained
in detail in the nearby block comment. The field
following this string should always be set to zero, and
will be computed later. It’s simply a bitmask
representation of the information implied by the string."

Why would you opt for this, when you could specify some constants and bitwise or them together? Isn't that a more common thing to do, than to calculate a bitwise flags at run time?

COMMAND_READONLY | COMMAND_RANDOM | COMMAND_NOSIDEEFFECTS

ect ect ect.

I'm sure there's a good reason, but this style seems strange to me.

Maybe redis makes use of the string later? but I can't help but feel it should build the string based on the flags, rather than build the flags based on the string.
Honestly, the fact that the change is under NDA seems like reason enough for them to not bother yet. Who knows what NDA violation an open source project could make in discussing how they are going to implement it.
http://chunkhost.com recently bumped up their plans and lowered their prices. $9/month gets you a gig of ram on a 30 gig SSD, and I'm only paying $6.75/month with a discount they gave me as a beta member.

I've been incredibly happy with them.
Buzzfeed apparently: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/exclusive-glenn-greenwald-w...
Curious. I went ahead and updated, as my use of VirtualBox isn't critical to my workflow.

I received warning during install of the unsigned kexts, but the warning stated that they would be loaded anyway. I'm now running vbox 4.3 just fine on Mavericks GM.
This has got to be an FBI orchestrated trap!
He just can't help himself.
My friend writes this blog and I edit it, so if people have questions, feel free to ask.

More explorations of falling slinkys:

* http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/modeling-a-falling... - a different way to model it.

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-XgSYLxDk - video analysis.

* http://wamc.org/post/dr-mike-wheatland-university-sydney-phy... + http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~wheat/slinky/ - more experimenting and a formal paper.
Fine, but that is not relevant to the question about who would provide the most incompetent leadership.
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Destroying everything is kind of permanent. Even if he wins the court battle, he loses.
Oh whoa, this is fantastic! You should send a pull request to https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew to build this into the page.
Congrats to the virtualbox team!

I still wish they'd consider adding retina support on OS X; that's the one thing keeping me from using it 24/7 :(.
This isn't tracking right and wrong, it's tracking liability.

There is no assertion of moral position here.
I built a prototype myself, as I am learning to code. But that wasn't good enough to offer to a customer, so I outsource it. Now I am working with a freelance developer on it, hoping we work well together so one day he can be my co-founder.

Before that I already sold it to two clients, but sounded strange to me "ask the check" in advance. They agreeded to pay for it, but didn't pay yet. But now that is built, I will deliver, and if they aprove, they will pay.

Not the perfect answers to your advices, but I thinks it is good enough.
I agree, it's not all your activity you want to keep secret (in which case move to the forest), it's the secret activity. It's not secret when you walk to the store, and it's not secret when you post a photo online or check into a location. However, there must always be a method for secret communication, and of course there is now, it's just not as convenient as the non-secure methods.
Just because you're already on a .NET stack, or is there another reason?
he was right there too
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Well, it's not there, it's a known problem, and you have passion for it. So I'd encourage you to work up a business case and figure out how to make banking tech "just work". :-)
You're most welcome! I was, in fact, surprised nobody had submitted it. I love what you've done here and hope you'll be able to push it forward. If I had one request, it would be french diacritical marks, but I will definitely find uses for the font as-is.

Thanks for the hard work!
At least, that's an excuse to ditch proprietary solutions. I could back that up. But the source will probably be closed (as the voting machines, for instance), so I don't see any gains there, other than jurisdiction.

It probably won't do much for security though. If anything, vulnerabilities will be more likely. The only thing they've got for it is securing the physical comms. But even if the US (or any other superpower) doesn't compromise them, there are other ways of extracting the data.

And this being SERPRO, they'll likely use cutting edge technologies such as MD5 and DES.
Even if you paid cash for that house, the tax records can be public.

The short version:

(1) Hire someone to create a New Mexico LLC, there are lots of companies out there that will do this for you.

(2) Transfer ownership of the NM LLC to you - there are no requirements for filing transfer of ownership with any public entity. Just make sure you don't lose the paperwork. If there is no taxable income to the LLC there are no filing requirements beyond paying the yearly registration fee.

(3) Purchase house with cash in the name of the NM LLC. Hire a nominee to sign the paperwork, fire the nominee afterwards.

You now own a house with no public records of your ownership. If you need to sell you can sell the NM LLC instead of the house and there won't even be a public record of the sale, the deed will still show the NM LLC as the owner. There may be tax implications for such a sale depending on the local state's laws (california for one).
I doubt it, because Google doesn't use nginx for anything public facing, and I'm pretty sure Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't either. That already counts for a huge chunk of internet traffic.

Nginx is good for relatively high traffic sites, but not so high traffic that you have entire teams of engineers rolling your own load balancing!
Is he looking to fill that huge hole left from the shuttering of Current TV?
Funny, my concerns about the social climate here are rather different. But I suspect writing this type of article is probably not the way to fix things. When people feel attacked, they get defensive and tend to become more entrenched, not less, due to trying to justify their behavior.
> The arms race never ends, and keeping up with it is a full-time job. asm.js fixes this, by precisely specifying the 'sweet spot' and giving you a guarantee that if you satisfy its requirements, all your code will be optimized, unless the VM is broken.

I'm not convinced that 'use asm' helps with that at all. Static compilation of the sort that asm.js gives you is also full of heuristics. Even in C, you've got that sort of effect.

Tweak the inlining cost model, and suddenly your frequently called accessor function now has function call overhead, slowing everything down. Or maybe it decides that the cost of padding vectors is too high, and autovectorization shouldn't be applied now. Or other dozens of similar heuristics.

It doesn't matter if you have a 'use asm'; tweaking the compiler will change the heuristics and boot you out of the sweet spot.
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