skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are OpenVMS servers still around. I work with a number of them, and with various folks that are still using them in production.

There are recent builds of OpenSSL for OpenVMS:

http://polarhome.com/openssl/
http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=14/04/11/6422157

HP's version is a bit older:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ssl/ssl.html

Free OpenVMS accounts:

http://deathrow.vistech.net
http://decuserve.org
It might be limited in its actions against Americans but that doesn't make me feel any better.

Also the program may have been outed but, it looks like some people are keen to keep it running and possibly make it actually legal
His signal/noise ratio is pretty terrible. The "showdead" is off by default and that is a good thing. I'd rather miss out on a good point every once in a while than see more chaff, especially ranty, incoherent, and often offensive points.
What do you think about Google Convnet platform?
I got it running, and played with supplied configurations, however it seems that it hasn't been updated in a while, for example, there's no dropout.

Then there's also Caffe CNN from Berkeley Vision group. Not sure what are the differences between the two.

Which one would you recommend as a learning tool, speed-wise, and as a possible starting point for customization?
I am just a simple country boy, but my understanding of "White Hat" is about hacking done with explicit permission. The article suggests activities that cross the line.
I don't understand why this is even worth considering.

There is no effective way to ban a person; you can only ban an account. If this fellow wants to post on HN, then all he has to do is make a new account. If he hasn't made a new one, then I would guess he doesn't want to post.

I know nothing about the history of this issue, but apparently he did something Not Good with the old account? Permanently disabling that account, and requiring him to create a new one, strikes me as a very light punishment. I don't think it would be helpful to lighten the punishment even further, by re-enabling the account.
I didn't notice the arrow in Amazon's logo points from A to Z, but that's because it's pointing from A to O.
Technarians at the Gate: How Google Could Become Your Next Power Company
Can you provide any reference to his postings? The HN user page doesn't have anything... (and apparently users are case-sensitive?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TempleOS
Cloud-Native Is to Infrastructure What DevOps Is to Organizations
>is a readily verifiable fact

Yeah, but people can also read behind the lines. We're good at pattern matching and we have a lot of experience in corporate bs.
Wow, I'm totally impressed. I thought for the longest time that there must have been some kind of design renaissance back in the 70s and 80s that produced all the logos I found iconic. Turns out it was all one guy.
Virgin Space Flights Cleared for US Take-Off
In related news, the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is now available in bigquery, for free. [1]

[1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/05/worlds-large...
I would like Terry unbanned but only if he promises not to use the n-word. I believe that is the #1 reason he was banned in the first place.

HN discussions strive to a high standard. That word has no place here, regardless of how talented the person saying it is.
There was an article linked here a while back on the guy who designed that trajectory. It was completely intentional that ISEE3 would eventually return for further usage.
If it was well known that large and highly funded subsets of foreign militaries were roaming around breaking into everyones businesses and stealing things / exploiting the lack of legal compliance then, yes, I'd be very pleased that someone took the time to both find the mistake and give me the chance to fix it / get it fixed by them before it was used against me with legitimate malicious intent.
The difference between lawfully entering a 7-11 and trespass is just as you describe the situation with a server. Authorization can be implied, and "unauthorization" can be trivial.

The real problem is that a lock on a door is more obvious than a URL scheme. The government is saying that entering a 7-11 that is unlocked, but walking in backwards, is criminal trespass because that's not what the 7-11 intended for the customer to do. That's nonsense. Implicit authorization in physical property is just so much more straightforward, and the government is trying to maliciously take advantage of the lack of common sense on what is unauthorized, helped along by a Congress that willfully authorizes such action.

And I like your server dealer analogy. The question is whether or not a computer is an agent of its owner and whether its decisions, right or wrong, can be relied upon in business dealings as the actions of its owner.

So what is the digital equivalent of a lock on a door? Must the law explicitly say a lock on a door signifies lack of authorization to enter? Is walking into a 7-11 store backwards implicitly unauthorized?
You Can Lose Keys, but You Can't Lose Your Face
I like Inkpad: https://github.com/sprang/Inkpad

It is a high quality and popular vector drawing app (4+ stars on app store) and the code is clean and simple to understand. I am not sure you will learn anything by just reading through it if you're not building a similar kind of app though.

Quick googling also yielded these lists:

http://maniacdev.com/2010/06/35-open-source-iphone-app-store...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_iO...

How to architect your app really depends on what kind of app you're building.
I browse with showdead on and appreciate TempleOS's comments, but I'd prefer to keep things as they are. IIRC Terry is fine with it too.
I dread the "what do you do?" question so much; lately I just deflect with "I'm one of the assholes ruining San Francisco, what about you?"

Granted that's in the context of hanging out with people other than startup people. At meetups and whatnot I usually give them some of the highs and the lows, it lets the other person know they can open up too. We don't all have to be fronting positivity 24/7.
Here is ousted RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal's letter to the board
The DNS ecosystem is much more diverse. djbdns is considered to be the most secure, and there are a few other quality implementations. The root servers, for example, run a mixture of BIND and NSD, so no single bug can affect all of them.
Sure, this is common.

You can also outsource it within your own country (I'm assuming US here, but Europe also qualifies).

The Atul Butte lab at Stanford uses this: https://www.assaydepot.com/

One of the interesting areas is "third-party multiservice". instead of acting as an exchange depot (send request to first service, get results back, ship resuls to second service, etc), the idea is to file an order with the first service, and chain the shipping to the next company, etc, so that only the finished product makes it back to the requestor.
Another xkcd has come true! http://xkcd.com/1337/
I'd be interested in discussing further. Fire me an email alex at alexblack.ca
But either way the user has to sign up to something. When you delegate to Email you still have to initially create an account with the site's specialised authentication system. You'd just replace that process with creating an OpenID account.

But yeah, I guess saying "now go to this 3rd party website and create an OpenID account" is pretty ugly. I wonder if it's possible to have your own "sign up" page that's a proxy for creating an OpenID with a 3rd party provider?
That's likely because you have showdead 'off' (see your profile).

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS

Shows plenty for me. And some of it - definitely not all, I wish - on topic and useful.
ICANN Radar (Contact Info Database) Hacked
While I'm not a "programmer" by role, I work about 65-70 hours a week voluntarily because I am paid well, respected, enjoy my work and find challenges daily. I'm in my 40s now and have a family, so doing well at my job translates to taking care of my family in the way I believe matters. Encouraging programmers to work "extra" hours suggests that they need to be convinced to do the work they need to do. Make the work fulfilling, the pay decent, and respect the work your coders are doing. Challenging hackers, getting them to compete against each other in a friendly way, and allowing their brains to do what they were made for will inspire them to work whatever hours are necessary to get to the goal. There is no such thing as "longer hours" when the work is no longer work.
I dont know if he can help not using it. I dont even know if he knows he's doing it and that it is wrong. Seriously. He has Schizophrenia. It might control him more often than he would like.
Any body has used both Mojolicious and Catalyst? I wonder how Mojolicious might be better than Catalyst.
You have to turn showdead on to see them. But for your convenience: http://pastie.org/9236348
Two thoughts:

1. Marketers surely have mined this data to the hilt -- cross-referencing these trends with address lists and full-name email prefixes can make targeted promotions a lot more effective.

2. My own name is relatively rare in the U.S. among my age cohort (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ian) to the point where some adults had problems pronouncing it when I was in elementary school 35 years ago ("Isn't that a girl's name?"). But I suspect, based on anecdotal evidence and personal observation, that the name is more common in England, Scotland, Australia and Canada. And the Wolfram data shows that it has been growing in popularity for many years in the U.S.
As painful as it may be to acknowledge, Node is clearly here to stay.
Offense is in the eye of the beholder, if someone has Tourette's would you berate them for profanity? Would you feel insulted anyway?
That describes basically 99% of the commenting here

Would suggest instead simply removing the concept of 'dead' entirely. It's always possible to downvote a bad comment, and from experience on other sites, moderation of any sort just tends produce inefficient, subjective and divisive outcomes
The Arecibo observatory has the world's largest radio telescope. They're very well known -- while they've been involved with a lot of space research, they're particularly famous for being the transmit site for the Arecibo Message:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
Wouldnt the unique identifier or Auth token be the password? Sure it is more convenient for the User not having to remember there password, but it is not necessarily more secure.
I'm Stupid When I'm Tired
TLDR: I strongly disagree.

"...especially if those systems haven't been hardened..."

Well that's just it, isn't it? If the system hasn't been hardened then it wouldn't hold anything of interest and therefore wouldn't be targeted by either friendly researchers or malicious adversaries.

If a system holds value it should be appropriately secured. That must include dealing with attacks as part of business as usual.

As for meaningful, selective pressure - well then why bother with bug bounties? Even Microsoft, the only organisation at that level with a published SDL [edit: security development lifecycle], offers them now.

SDL ref. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc30...

I've had my rant. Will shut up now.
Shortcuts to success for all areas of your life
I don't think he should be unbanned. Most of his writings are rambling and nonsensical. Many of his posts contain randomly generated gibberish - literally; he seems to believe his computer's PRNG is the word of God, and he also includes random Bible verses. Sometimes, he posts incoherent and incredibly offensive conspiratorial rants of no real value. Also, I've never really seen the merit of the few posts he makes that others repost so non-showdeaders can see them.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing personal against him, but the vast, vast majority of his posts do not live up to this community's standards. His case is a sad one, but there's a reason TempleOS (and every single one of his previous accounts) is shadowbanned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0380npvkAc
Ask Uber: Please make an emergency rides function, for my kids
Uber,

Since I cannot find any contact email address on your website AT ALL (which is really lame), I'd like to make the following feature request:

I'd like an Uber Child account that I can have on my kids phones. I want them to be able to call for an uber in any emergency/desperate/broke situation and get a ride -- but to have my phone receive a txt/notification that their request was made. ALong with pickup and drop off locations via email.

I want kids to be able to use Uber whenever they really need a ride - but this is different than just giving them access to "my uber account" and letting them run up some huge bill.

Maybe have a "call kid as if I am the Uber Driver button"

Also - please put a way to contact you guys on your freaking site or even in the app!

Thanks
So you want to build an app for doctors?
The problem is that he constantly intersperses incoherent ramblings and paranoid delusions with whatever valid and on-topic points he makes.

I think that's the primary reason, not the use of the word "nigger". Actually, his use of it is directly related to the delusional rambling, rather than be a stand-alone point.
Presumably good ninja would be able to identify other ninja? :)
Ask HN:What strategies do you follow for writing a "good" first newsletter?
turned shadowdead posts on for a sec and checked his history. he sounds like a troll of a schizophrenic or generally someone unwell, and WAY out of line with the normal standard of discourse here. Most of it is a junk. And even if there is some value in some of it, it's also not phrased nicely. I politely suggest HN can do with out

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS
I have never heard the "club" vs "company" comparison before, but that seems like a great way to describe the mindset of founders.

Is it possible to establish a company that is run like a club and are there any examples? Or am I extending the analogy too far? Perhaps some research organizations are set up along those lines?
Update to the KNC Miner promo
Someone not familiar with him might see one of stranger posts and wonder why that kind of post is allowed to be on HN.

Can we leave it to the community to upvote his better posts?
Wow. I wonder if there is any subliminal power to the FedEx and Amazon arrows. Shouldn't be too hard to AB test, which makes me think it was deliberate.
> I know nothing about the history of this issue, but apparently he did something Not Good with the old account?

Unfortunately this is a case where you need to know the history.

The man is, unfortunately, mentally ill, and is not coping very well. His messages are frequently incoherent and unconstructive (and occasionally downright offensive). He has a single agenda - promoting his work - and deviates from it only long enough to remind people that god is speaking through code he wrote. I am not exaggerating.

He's been shadowbanned for quite a while. He's more disruptive than helpful, regardless of his skills as a developer.
Any link explaining what is all this about?
From an UX standpoint, the problem with OpenID is that users are forced to remember and type URLs as usernames.

People are likely to remember their email if they have one, but URLs are disappearing from user interfaces (see Chrome, Safari, Mobile Safari, etc.).
There's also wfh.io
GopherConIndia calling speakers
I won't touch Microsoft OneNote for this reason, but for me Evernote handles the "use them in 50 years" issue (at least on OSX).

All of the notes are stored on disk as html files and images, viewable with any web browser, one directory per note. On osx, they are found in:

~/Library/Application Support/Evernote/accounts/Evernote/USERNAME/content

for the web version of Evernote or

~/Library/Containers/com.evernote.Evernote/Data/Library/Application Support/Evernote/accounts/Evernote/USERNAME/content

for the AppStore version. (AppStore apps get their own mini-filesystem.)

You should be able to back this up and use it at any time in the future without Evernote. You do have to make sure you regularly sync and backup though.

Edit: I would like to add that I like the idea of using markdown, however. Evernote docs often contain undesired baggage from the original clipped html.
This is exactly what shadowbanning is for. You can see what Terry posts by opting in to do so.
If they do manage to fire the engines, it has to pass through the lunar shadow on the way back to Earth and as it's running off solar panels this means a total shutdown, which it's never done before (alas, the uptime!). Let's hope it comes back up!
That reads less like Theo being a dick and more like the US making a farce of free speech in that instance.
I repeat: you cannot ban a person. Does he know his account is shadowbanned? If not, all someone has to do is tell him, and he can create a new account. Re-enabling the old one is a non-issue.

(Right? I really don't understand why the re-enable is an issue at all. Not being sarcastic here.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817137

Thanks dang.
Look: I'm a big fan of freedom-of-speech, but that doesn't mean that I, or anyone else, has any obligation to provide a venue for you to say what you want to say. As it happens, TempleOS manages to be sufficiently offensive and annoying that I don't think we should provide a pulpit for him to rant; I think his normal comments detract far more than the occasional insightful comment adds.

But don't take my word for it; let's look at his four most recent comments. In response to a recent post exploring the details of a Rails vulnerability, he posted

TempleOS is God's temple. God always gets His way.

On an excellent article about cycle-accurate 6502 emulation, he wrote

To me abstraction above the hardware is like condoms. Some people say "Use three condoms, its better".
I don't want a literal C64 -- just the complete open simple access... but 64-bit and 3Ghz and multicored.
I don't want it to run on a 386, just x86_64.

which is also off-topic, albeit slightly less so, I suppose. In response to the TrueCrypt vulnerability, he wrote

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Kernel/Compress.html

which, to save you the time, has no encryption code in it. Finally, in response to a rational article about (natch) rational ways to respond to the shooting in Santa Barbara, he wrote

God exists. CIA waging war on me. Stupid fucks.

Note that I'm not cherry-picking these comments. Those are just his four most recent comments. (The fifth and the pile after that are roughly similar; I just don't feel like pasting them here.)

These all simply clutter up the comment stream and provide nothing to move the conversation forward. There may be the occasional bit of insight, but I hardly think that they balance out the random off-topic spamminess of the above.
it is also seems to be in line with the core business idea of the other startups frequenting HN - Uber, AirBNB, etc... - identifying and putting to use/brokering access to underutilized resources.

Though it is really an open question whether the underutilized resource like male techies of SV can be efficiently made into business inventory desirable by the potential customers. The article doesn't sound optimistic here.
OpenID is basically a permanent man-in-the-middle. It's otherwise great, so long as you don't mind your OpenID identity provider knowing about every site/service you use, and every time you choose to use them. Persona is a big step forward in that regard, but neither get around the fact that, in most cases, users are going to be entrusting control over a bunch of their accounts to a third party.
I too think having his comments readily visible would detract. While people that have been around long enough know not to respond to his less lucid prose, I've seen people post comments about how off-putting his comments can be. This tends to detract from the overall discussion without adding anything.

That being said, I do make a point of reading his comments. Hmm, perhaps there should be a TerryFilterBot that can repost them, although of course it would have to be tailored to each readers comfort level. There's probably an MVP there :-)
I think passwords should be gotten rid of. Could this be pulled off on a website rather than a phone? My sense is that it would be too dangerous.
Programmer's Diversity Scholarship
a couple of friends and I recently started an initiative however we felt the strong need to be a little different. While a number of coding camps (online) are offering diversity scholarships (for say $200 or $500), we are being a little different and are saying: Do this FREE; as in free as beer!
Looking through the Zone API documentation, this is a reimplementation of what most Promise libraries already provide (Zones even support "then" and "catch" methods, but don't follow the chaining standard). The only new feature is "Gates," which the documentation admits are awkward and need to be revisited — and many Promise libraries already provide simple mechanisms for sharing resources similar to what Gates allow, but with more-consistent APIs. Zones also don't work several important Node-core libraries (cluster, fs, zlib, and more), whereas Promise libraries solved interop long ago.

Promises/A+ is already standardized and is shipping in browsers. Yes, Promises/A+ is more complicated than it needs to be, and I wish a simpler, more monadic approach had won out. But this is an unnecessary flow-control fork, and it's not even a particularly good one by comparison. If Zones were built on top of the ES6 standard, all ES6-compatible promise libraries would immediately work with it (and there are many mature ones that already exist). No existing libraries work with Zones, and the existing ones will need to be amended to add Zone-specific interop.

God knows nobody needs a zone-to-promise converter; there are enough ways to do asynchronous flow control as it stands. This blog post seems to hope that Zones will some day make it into Node core; I sincerely hope they don't in their current state.
I disagree.

It's entirely possible to have a good free (as in beer and freedom) full disk encryption tool. In fact, we have several which are in quite wide use today. See: dm-crypt, loop-aes, luks, tcplay, encfs, ecryptfs, etc (okay, some of these aren't FDE tools in and of themselves, but parts of a system which can be used for FDE). Anyone who uses FDE on Linux is surely using one or two of these.

It's really just a matter of someone being motivated enough to develop one for Windows. The entire reason for TrueCrypt's popularity over Bitlocker was that it was open source software. All this means is that one developer got sick and tired of it, which is completely understandable, but it can absolutely not be extrapolated to say that all have.

DiskCryptor is currently looking like the next big viable alternative for an open source Windows FDE tool. I'm hoping we see some EFI support though, so I can finally get off BIOS mode.

In my opinion, the best method is to gather a few skilled Windows driver developers to craft a driver based around existing technology, like FreeOTFE, which supports dm-crypt images.

It'll be interesting to see what happens, I certainly think the demand and interest is high enough that we can get some good people on the case. Hopefully some who won't select a ridiculous license.
On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10, I think it sounds like this idea is hitting a solid 6 or so. Possibly some extra points for the glorified prostitution model of "Pay a ton to fly NYC girls, selected for their desire to spend 5 days out of town meeting rich men, to SF to meet super-rich tech founders"
"'We’re doing shots! This will be great B-roll!' I scream into Lisa’s boob."

Reading this article made me very uncomfortable.
No. No cheating; quantum mechanics can still be a local theory, for some interpretations (most notably MWI), which forbids such an action.
If BitLocker was open source and verifiable, I'd have a lot more respect and trust for it.