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Ask HN:  Would you sign up for a sales bootcamp?
I have in mind an 8-10 week program that would turn you into a sales superstar. Content would include:

- Crafting the story for any product
- Creating the pitch deck
- Learning how to sell multiple different product types (SaaS, Packaged Goods, Yourself)
- Presenting in various formats (1-1, in person, to a group, phone, screenshare, Skype, etc.)
- Negotiations
- Prospecting
- Creating a team of virtual assistants to drive inbound sales (which you would take with you from the course)
- Outside Sales
- Social selling skills - content creation, use of Linkedin, Slideshare etc.

Also - I'm curious what other things people would like to see in such a program. The intent is that any Tech, Finance, or Fortune 500 would hire graduates from this program into a mid-level sales role, or that any technical founder could effectively drive the business side of their startup.
What was your solve?
Cable franchise monopolies have been illegal since 1992. I highly doubt the situation in your town is as simple as that.
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It's already like this. The rich fly in private jets that take a fraction of the time that driving does.
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Reminds me of this: http://wondermark.com/519/
Must have crossed paths. Yes, essentially it boils down to the fact that having crypto primitives can be easily done but gives you absolutely nothing in terms of what you can actually do with it. You need a different infrastructure to deliver code/binaries to do that (such as distro packages), and the web, by its definition, is not that.

This has been discussed many a times on here, by tptacek and others. In fact, at one point I had a similar discussion with him on here. It seems like it's something that people have to think through before they see the problem (which speaks to the complexity of the issue here).
Are there actual backup procedures out there that foresee and automate the restoration of wiped drives and partitions ? I might be wrong bu I doubt it should even be considered though.
That can definitely help! I do work with some students who have learning challenges or other issues with writing, physical or otherwise, for whom writing by hand isn't an option. Freewriting is a good idea whether by pencil or by keyboard, though!
Is this supposed to be a reductio?
Ok, it was obvious, and now someone's done it. So what?
Possibly Polynesians might have landed in California earlier than the Vikings:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-ancient-Polynesians-v...

There was a documentary about this too which raised some interesting points.

There is one more potential location they would have sailed to - Chile in South America:

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/storie...
From the comments it seems like as long as only you're only pointing your version of sqlite at your own databases, then there isn't an issue? If so, then when would someone want to open the same database at the same time from two different sqlite engines? I didn't think that was even supported to begin with, and seems highly problematic.
Draft (http://draftin.com) has had a similar "Hemingway Mode" feature for a few months now.

It's potentially more useful, though, because when you're done "no backspace" writing, you can switch to normal mode and get all the features of a full collaborative piece of software.
I'm very reluctant to buy a game if there's no demo, unless it's throwaway-cheap, the reviews and word of mouth are stellar (they're usually not for any but the biggest hits), or the concept immediately clicks for me. It's worth putting a bit of time into making a good demo.
> Earnest automatically saves you writing every 10 seconds

> There's no need to name you text

> Earnest will auto-save you work

your* writing, your* text, your* work

Was the value proposition written in Earnest?

I like the concept though.
This is a great idea. Jacques Matteij did something like this recently. Check out this post and his blog for his experiences.
http://jacquesmattheij.com/journeyman-project-trip-1-united-...
I feel like I'm the only one taking crazy pills whenever this topic comes up.

Granted, tmux has a better configuration language.

However the whole session/window/pane/instance model is bizarre, as evidenced by the secition "Multiple Clients Sharing One Session" under "common problems" in the linked article.

On top of that, the below are all given as points in favor of tmux, but they're either arguably better in screen or else a wash:

> Better redraw model

This is one of the (many) things that drove me back to screen. The two times I tried tmux, it had exactly this kind of issue where it would fail to redraw the screen correctly after SIGWINCH.

> screen contents persisted through full-screen programs

doesn't this depend on whether the program calls curses endwin() function ? why does tmux/screen need to know about this ?

> not possible to remove the visual bell from Screen completely

doesn't this work?

vbell off
bell_msg ""

though I'm not sure why you would want to do such a thing.

> automatic window renaming

last I checked this used a huge amount of cpu. is that no longer the case ? in any case, I name my windows according to what i'm doing in that window, since "bash" or "screen" (I use nested screen sessions) or "emacs" is not a useful window title.

> vertical splits

newish screen does this. I don't see the use. I figure I either have a roughly 80-column screen (default linux virtual terminals) or it's wide enough to have multiple 80-column windows (laptop or desktop running X). If I have enough horizontal space, I'm using a sensible window manager that is better-suited to real estate management.

Also how does tmux handle copy/paste with vertical splits ?

> vi key bindings in copy mode

is this supposed to be a win for tmux over screen ? both basic emacs and vi movement works out of the box in screen.
@DEVOPS_BORAT is actually very insightful in about 1/5 tweets. Snide for sure, but there are quite a few good points in there if you read carefully:

"In devops we have best minds of generation are deal with flaky VPN client."

"Single point of failure in private cloud is of usually Unix guy with neckbeard."

These are gold.

Edit: based on the above advice I once grew out a neckbeard while going through a multi-month rollout of a large product. It itched like crazy, but I did work much faster to get rid of it.
I don't know the exact numbers, but I definitely feel like brain surgery carries a much higher risk with it than a new spoon. Some people might prefer not to take that risk, especially in cases of elderly people who may not be strong enough to survive surgery.
When someone comes through the door and gives me anything but an illustrator file with the proper layers set up, they're going to get charged for someone to sit and weed them out of whatever format Sketch generates.
This is reminiscent of the RIPEM situation ~20 years ago. This was a program that did email encryption using RSA. RSA was implemented using a library from RSA (the company) that was freely distributable but not free software, and because RSA (the encryption method) was patented, there was no way in the US to replace this library with free software.

RIPEM also needed a big integer math library. The two main free software libraries for this were the GNU one and the the BSD one, which had different interfaces. RIPEM could be built to use either. This was an option you could set when you ran the build script.

The FSF said that distributing the RIPEM source code was a GPL violation, even though they did not claim copyright on any code in the RIPEM distribution. In particular, they were adamant that they were not claiming a copyright on the GNU mp library interface.

Their claim was that since RIPEM contained code (the conditional code that used the GNU mp interface) that was only useful with GNU mp, distributing that source code would lead to some people downloading GNU mp, which they would then link with RIPEM and the non-free RSA library, and that this meant that the RIPEM people had effectively distributed GNU mp with non-free software. See note [1].

The RIPEM people finally put an end to this nonsense by making a "new" mp library that had the same interface as the GNU mp library and was either (memory is hazy) just a thin wrapper for the BSD mp library, or was just a quick and dirty implementation of the simple, classical mp algorithms that any decent programmer can knock out from Knuth fairly quickly.

This meant that people receiving the RIPEM source and choosing to build using the GNU mp interface might not actually build with GNU mp. They might instead build with this new library. Now induced distribution can no longer be inferred. This satisfied FSF.

This was pretty astounding. If X is written first, and Y is written second, the answer to the question of whether or not Y infringes the copyright of X does not change if a third thing, Z, comes along AFTER X and Y. Copyright law obeys the arrow of time. :-)

[1] I may not be remembering their theory exactly correctly. The general outline (RIPEM not distributing any GPL code, but FSF thought they were liable anyway if someone downloaded RIPEM source, downloaded GNU mp source, and linked them together) is right.
Haha, you've got Apple and their no-hire cartel, Google dodging their taxes, Intel working people to death... The tech industry doesn't have clean hands either.
We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked
Heh, I just knew I would put a typo on the landing page somewhere - I checked and double-checked it...

But, yeah, it was written using Earnest and the first draft of it looked much worse.
You conflated two things.

Yes, having full source code is a sufficient condition for security. But you also implied that the hypothetical browser crypto primitives would allow one to do anything they want with the decrypted data, which might be too loose of an assumption.

For example, you could make the browser crypto primitives work so that you can only display unencrypted data (or a private key) but not be allowed to ship them off to servers.

The key idea is that you are still in control of the browser core, and that core has more control over the code shipped by the server. So you can make that core stricter than Javascript.

For example, about the problem of "other dom elements mucking with your dom elements that control the code" you can make the browser disallow this.

If I'm missing something, it's something related to these primitives. Can anyone help figure those out?

What exactly is theoretically impossible about browser crypto?
True, but so do the big ISP's business models.
lots of great suggestions here! I'll reach out to local schools, bootcamps, etc. to get some feedback
Too smug, did not read.
This is exactly what I object to: they present themselves as privacy campaigners on their front pages, but when push comes to shove they roll in favour of Google and against the individual's right to privacy.

This harms privacy campaigning.
> I don't think NAT piercing works if both of the endpoints are behind NAT

It does, in many cases even without on any third party. That is a (mostly) solved issue for at least 5 years or maybe even more. Here are examples of such tools: http://samy.pl/chownat/ and http://samy.pl/pwnat/

There are cases such tricks won't work (like overly conscious connection tracking engine and all ICMP traffic blocked - but without ICMP one would have PMTU issues and those ain't fun), but there're always STUN and TURN. The distinction is, those is not middleman, but just a NAT piercing helpers. They don't pass your traffic through and they're generic and useable with any service.
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You can easily get to $200B from the spectrum value alone.

In 2008, as part of the digital transition, 52 MHz in the 700-band were auctioned off for $19B. The telcos were gifted 295mhz of spectrum for the digital expansion when they agreed to invest in broadband. Even if it's only half as valuable as that 52 MHz allotment, simple math indicates a value of over $400B.

LA Times article from the era making the same point (valuing the spectrum at $70B at the time) -- http://articles.latimes.com/1998/dec/07/local/me-51464
> You really think it'd get bicyclists to take the small streets?

Yes, as I bicyclist who doesn't own a car, I do think that. I take back/small streets wherever the stop sign density is low enough (long blocks, lots of two way stops) and doesn't take me off course. It is far more safe and relaxing than blocking a lane of traffic on a high volume road.

> They use the "big streets" because they're the most efficient,

To a certain degree, yes. But that efficiency has a lot to do with having to stop at stop signs.

> they don't give a shit about road laws regardless of the size of the street.

Now you are just over-generalizing and projecting.
I'm pretty proficient in a ton of other languages, so I'm hoping I have a pretty good head start and will be able to follow the book, but I'll read Thinking in C++ in the meantime until my order arrives. Thanks for the suggestion!
Just to be clear, inb.tw has no XSS issues, retichess does.
Browser zoom (Ctrl + +) works fine for me.
It's less than a foot wide. You'd probably be more likely to trip over the rim.
Sure, if you want to break JS the language. JS doesn't have a concept of "here have a variable with data inside of it but you cannot touch it". Ask yourself: "what does 'display' unencrypted data mean?"You are describing a different system entirely from what an HTML renderer + JavasScript engine can do.
Not a tax subsidy, a spectrum subsidy. We gifted the digital TV spectrum to the telcos, 300MHz of public property.

In 2008, 52MHz of adjacent spectrum was auctioned for $19B, so do the math on what 300MHz would be worth.
Coincidentally, I am currently reading that book, but had not gotten to that part yet. Thanks!
Ensuring universal service is something that governments try to do for things considered "essential": electricity, water, postal service, and broadband Internet.

The reason that Verizon signs contracts to serve all of a city like Wilmington, DE is that there are enough households who can afford it to make it worth their while. If Google comes and picks off the highest-value customers, the mix of remaining customers may not be worth serving from Verizon's perspective, and they may exit the market. (And even if Google is blocked by municipal governments, alternatives like WiMAX and its successors are much harder to block).

I don't think there's an easy solution to this problem. If you just let the market do its thing, then fewer people will have access to Internet overall. The tradeoff isn't easy.
I remap Control-A that way also -- it's a holdover from my 'screen' days.
This is actually exactly how we model API tokens: https://docs.balancedpayments.com/1.1/api/api-keys/#create-a...
> What would make you think that foreign governments would be any better?

The vast majority of them don't have even 1% of the NSA's budget for spying.
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Thanks. Changed from http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/05/08/kola_sup...

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> And the SQLite instance built-in to iOS and Android is plain, with no support for encryption.

This is misleading when it comes to iOS. SQLite may not have encryption, but iOS has what are called data protection classes, which allow you to ensure the SQLite file is encrypted on-disk with varying levels of security (i.e. accessible only while unlocked, accessible any time after the device has been unlocked once after a reboot, etc).
The counterbalance is that Google offers free plans after install for "Basic Speeds". IIRC they also threw in free internet for municipal buildings such as libraries.

Nothing Verizon, Comcast, or Time Warner offers compares to 5 Mbps/1 Mbps for a one-time $300 install cost.

[1] https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/
> Also how does tmux handle copy/paste with vertical splits ?

It doesn't. If I want to copy some text and it's in a vertical split, well... shit. Time to break out the tmux manual and see if I can figure out how to move this pane above the other one. You know what, screw it. I'll just open a new window entirely, and re-run the test there so I can copy the output.

That's how tmux handles copy/paste with vertical splits.
Many local governments have given exclusive rights to a single private company. I wish that opinion editorial had some data to backup it's assertions.
In my experience with campus networks, home directories are never stored locally on any remotely-administered machines. Any specially-configured researcher's machine that stored data locally would not have been subscribed to get the automatically deployed OS images.
Folk psychology is precisely the way I see this supposed link between self-awareness and mirror recognition.

Ascribing intelligence and self-awareness only to those species that share specific superficial traits with us is the kind of thinking that allowed us to think one sex is inferior than the other, or that one race is inferior than the other.

But while all intellects start from the same place (nothing), they are not all necessarily going in the same direction. A monkey is not a less evolved human and a cat is not a less evolved mammal.

Many animals have abilities, including intellectual, that we can't match (and some we can only crudely replicate with tools). Species have the traits they needed in nature to survive and be efficient. So those that didn't need the circuitry for dealing with mirrors, simply didn't evolve that ability.

You can't prove self awareness or disprove it. Even science has limits. Hell, I can't even prove anyone except me is self-aware. But I don't have the arrogance to claim everyone but me will be presumed not self-aware until proven otherwise.

So as a species, it'd be best for humans not to cast the animal kingdom as not self-aware "until they prove otherwise" (in silly arbitrary tests).
How much does it cost to book your favorite band?
How many of these companies have made key exchange and Web of trust easy to use and have put your data completely out of reach of snoops?

I know of one that makes the use of private keys and encrypted payload easy: Carbonite. Anyone else? Anyone? Bueller?
Well, the feature that you're suggesting be removed is pretty much the only thing that distinguishes this from low-end text editors.

It's perfectly sensible and appropriate that such a request would be rejected. It's really no different than, say, requesting that the directory listing functionality of the ls command be removed. Yeah, it is a suggestion, but it's surely not a viable one.
Sounds kind of like how Kodak died out. It failed to anticipate the speed at which the market would shift into digital imaging and did a crappy job at entering other non-film markets (printers, cameras, etc). It's cash cow rapidly shrank to the point it couldn't fund viable entrants into new markets.
InfiniBand needs to die, rather than continue being the walking corpse it is today.

Ethernet won.

(Please spare me the technical dissertation on IB's advantages; I've worked on large systems that simultaneously used IB and Ethernet, and IB was/is continually nightmare.)
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That probably means nobody is using the servers you maintain and your department should be eliminated completely.
I think it would be a good thing because if I have a hankering to play a game I don't have installed, I wouldn't need to wait for an hour for it to download.

I need to worry about ISPs and bandwidth before, it's just that now I can be more frivolous with what I have installed on my machine (no sense leaving something installed "just in case").
This is reminiscent of author George R. R. Martin writing GoT on is DOS machine.
Why do you keep trying to detail the conversation, beta?

Let's recap.

1. You asked for some other examples of disturbing BJP policies. You didn't qualify that in any way.
2. You get provided with an example
3. You're then all "Oh, but other people do that too, why single out my guy?"
4. Your attempts to move the goalpost is called out.
5. You then decide to use the word "fallacy" incorrectly and continue to try to derail.

I think Gandhi was a shit. I think Modi is a shit. I think people like you, who continue to prop up the corrupt power structures in India are directly responsible for the mess that India is in. And I think it's reprehensible that all you can do is try to protect a corrupt, bigoted shit with the defence that someone else was a shit too.

In future, choose your words and questions more carefully, and don't cry when you get an answer that you specifically asked for.
Just to be clear, I am now in Silicon Valley after spending a couple of years in Ottawa.
Miss:
1) Close to friends & family
2) Really great activities/camps for younger kids
3) Lots of parks, green space
4) Canadians are really more polite, and the pace is more relaxed.
5) People lead healthier lives, many more people outside (this does not stop me from doing same in SV, but culture is more work and convenience/car oriented).
6) Cost of living

Don't miss:
1) Tech scene is anemic. Tech companies (even the shiny new ones that are moderately successful) are conservative and can be a little arrogant when it comes to hiring. It doesn't matter how capable you are, as an employee you have little leverage.
1.5) Investors don't know much beyond telecommunications.
2) After the valley, Ottawa seems really small.
3) Um yeah, winter (although I surprisingly enjoyed taking my son to hockey on early mornings)
4) Not a lot of ambitious people.

Silicon Valley:
Likes:
1) Much greater depth of talent, not just in new technologies, but in product, strategy, business development, etc.
2) More going on culturally.
3) More wealth.
4) Weather.
5) Environment which seems to germinate most new ideas in tech, probably due to employee mobility which has a cross-pollination effect as they move from org to org.
No new Nexus devices?
Combine with http://www.hemingwayapp.com/? I wonder what that would do to a persons writing?
120 miles per hour is terminal velocity of a falling human being.

120/60 = 2 miles per minute

Skydive fall from 15K feet is over a minute free fall.
Yup. There's reason for some initial amusement but much respect for openly taking care of the problem.
This will win them appreciation and confidence in the aftermath of this disaster.
Small SBC fw and router hack on OpenBSD 5.5
I'm fan of PCEngine and hope to get the new APU soon, found this little fw and router that just upgraded to OpenBSD: http://www.halon.se/blog/security-router-3-3-based-on-openbsd-5-5/

http://pcengines.ch/apu.htm
drop me an email please paul@quantisan.com

I'd love to hear of your experience.
> The Ivy League - and other high-prestige schools like Stanford - are primarily useful for the connections you make and the status they convey to others.

I emphatically disagree.

I taught math at Stanford for three years as a postdoc, and got a permanent job at a second-tier state school. The Stanford students are getting a WAAAAY better education.

A lot of students here are weakly prepared, uninterested in academics, and/or have burdensome part time jobs. (I was amazed at how many full-time students here also work 30 hours a week.) This means the expectations are lower, the peer pressure to succeed is not there, and teachers can't get very far in their syllabi. We do okay, but we sure as heck don't compare to Stanford.

For me as an undergrad the choice of schools would have made a major difference. I always depended at least a little on being pushed by others -- those lucky few that do not can probably thrive anywhere.