skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barring a fair market salary I would argue an even split is appropriate. If this is a tech company, the other party doesn't need you for a series A, they need you to run the company... which at this inflection point is fundraising.

Just spitballing here:
In exchange I would be generous on the vesting side of the equation. I'd ask for half the company over 6 years where you get ~75% of your shares in the first 2 years of the relationship. The company will probably be dead by that time anyway (based on how these things go). If not, you've earned your keep.

You'd definitely be wise to consult an attorney about how to execute whatever deal you agree to do. They'd probably be able to give you better advice.
Worth noting that https://www.kabbage.com/ is a startup focused on providing this as a stand alone service. They've raised good sums of money so seem to be doing well. Have a partnership with Stripe etc.
Yes. See the sibling poster's image link. I also installed 7.2 in a VM and received the same warning. It also looks like I can't encrypt anything, just decrypt.
Perhaps it's time for a fork.
Looks like a great game
The undoubtable mention of SockJS will appear multiple times in this thread. Socket.io has been plagued with scalability issues since its original release (can't speak on the new version) and Engine.io is suppose to be fix that. The main difference between SockJS & Socket.io is their connection establishment. SockJS begins by attempting to use Websockets and regress to long polling while Engine.io starts with long polling and slowly works its way up to Websockets.

For a good debate on this with the creator of SockJS: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sockjs/lgzxVnlth54
I've heard multiple rumors that the NSA has a backdoor in Bitlocker. I don't trust any of this.
I am likewise confused by this, I would think that something like universal income would be the logical response to this but removing minimum wage just seems like a way for the poor to get poorer and the rich to get richer. I'm just a developer so I don't know if removing the minimum wage would be good for the economy in fact IIRC raising the minimum wage helps the economy (Again I am not an economist). Could someone smarter in these areas expand on this?
I do not predict a utopia.

People in the bottom 50% survive because they are an economically valuable resource - the elite can profit off of them from labor and taxes, while giving them barely enough money to purchase food and shelter to survive.

Once people are entirely useless, and machines can do everything better and cheaper, there will be economic pressure to purchase and/or take any assets the poor folks might have (to create more machines), and to let them waste away and starve.

Revolution will be out of the question, because machines fight your wars for you.
A big issue I have with this "middleware as operating system" approach is that it invites, somewhat perversely in my opinion, throwing out your existing tools and replacing them with very, very, very similar ones that are better fits your new the middleware's paradigms. The whole "never have to leave Smalltalk", "never have to leave Emacs" etc. mentality means that everything has to be rewritten in your new middleware of choice... just so that you never have to leave it.
The Yahoo article reads like it was yanked from the Onion
The first high-level (meaning higher level than assembly) language, Fortran, took total control of the computer when the "Fortran programming system" was loaded to run a Fortran program. There was no operating system. This was in the early 1950s.
I knew things were changing in 1.0, but there are a lot of things mentioned in that blog post that seriously make me giddy. I'm really, really excited to play with this tonight.

Also, incredible job on the new website. Seriously love it. All around great work, if there was a Gittip button on the website I would have already clicked it.
I tried sending a message to their contact email PGP-encrypted to their public key, asking them for a PGP-signed confirmation. And it came back:

550 5.1.1 <contact@truecrypt.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local

If they got hacked, it's not just their sourceforge account.
It's kind of funny. In some ways the good news for Square is people think this is innovative. The downside are comments like this "Seems super risky/weird" The good news for Square is it's really fairly common stuff (see other examples like PayPal and Kabbage) but therefore it's less likely to move the needle all that much.
RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
I generally want an almost complete TRM too. In my experience there are many more SoCs with an available TRM than with complete support in the mainline kernel. By the way, there some WIP work for getting RK3188 support in mainline. It can boot but only a small part of the peripherals are supported.

You can never get a complete TRM for high performance ARM SoCs because they all license some IP for which they can't publish the documentation, usually for 3D accelerators and video decoders. You can find leaked Allwinner and Rockchip TRMs, at least for Allwinner A20 (the one used by Cubieboard for example) and RK3066 (which is quite similar to RK3188), so it's a compromise I've accepted in a few cases.
This is legit and I am willing to bet.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e5791d5703325b9cf6d1

The entire source has been modified to reflect the Sourceforge page its contents. Encryption process is disabled. The current binaries can only be used to "migrate". You can deface a webpage but the effort it takes to rewrite the entire source code, compromise the GPG, compromise domain, compromise mail servers et cetera is not minimal.

It is happening. Whether they are being forced to do so is a whole different story.
Even if this is not real, it reduces my trust in the TrueCrypt team (since they were able to get hacked).
Yes, it was PTC. I couldn't remember it. Thanks.
I agree with Bill Gates on what will happen.

I disagree very strongly with his solution. Governments begging corporations to employ people doing very little and paying the minimum wage (oh wait, minimum wage gets eliminated...so presumably paying them less than minimum wage)? When have corporations responded to begging? Why is this good for anyone?

Who is going to buy the stuff produced when people are bringing home less than minimum wage huh Bill? You? How many plastic spaghetti strainers do you need in all your many houses? Hmm?

No, the answer is not corporations in full control and paying whatever they wish. That will never work. The system will break down all together. It must stay balanced. The balance can be achieved by corporations and individuals paying their fair share. My opinion is that land/resource taxes are the way to achieve this. Not payroll or corporate taxes which serve to punish innovation and hard work.
what about the enterprise-class ecryptfs? it works at the filesystem level instead of block(hard-drive partition) level though.
* That's a lot of wasted effort for a defacement with seemingly no motive except some (uncredited) lulz.

* Possible, but once again I see no motive that would produce this brand of outburst.

* And it's unfixable? That would be a world first.

I think it's much more plausible this is some powerful entity forcing a hand. We know by now there's plenty of motive and candidates to fit that shoe.
In another thread a user argued that "technology is what drives society to a more mature state". I wish that was true, but to me technology and society's advancement at social/human level are disconnected.

I really hope that the decline of the average working hours per week in the "western world" becomes a central point of discussion, the next decade. We don't need to work many hours to get the essentials to live a comfortable life.

We have all the technology we need to produce food and shelter at extremely LOW prices.

Of course if someone wants to be Elon Musk ( I wish I was), he should be free to pursue his interests, but average Joe who only wants to support his family and enjoy friends and baseball, should be working a lot less when we will have robots, not feel threatened by unemployment.
Suspicion this could be related to the NBC News Snowden interview to be aired tonight?
I wrote a short essay about this the other day -- Robots are taking our jobs, so what... http://softwarebyjoe.com/essays/robots-are-taking-our-jobs-s...
Good point.

If true, I'd much rather have them post a countdown clock and say "If we don't reach X funding goal in donations by date Y, then we will be forced to close the project". Funds would come in then... a lot of people depend on truecrypt.
Rereading it, it is ambiguous, but their wording ("I awoke to a deluge of user emails alerting us to this fact, and we quickly identified the culprit: Apple’s forward geocoding service was returning a 500 error code") gave me the impression that their app does not put up an informative error message, but instead "just didn't work", thus forcing the developer to spend time to figure out what was wrong.

If my original impression is correct, there is something they could have done: code more defensively, and give precise error messages ("the server is there, but..."). It is a little thing, but it can mean the difference between a deluge and 'just' a large flow of emails.
Time to call in the underhanded C contest (http://underhanded.xcott.com/) participants on a special bugfinding challenge :)
That sounds interesting. Do you have a source about him supporting basic income?
Just did a quick search and came across this:

http://archive.today/h68Xb

I find it very odd that this person also mentions BitLocker... Anyone know who this Peter Kleissner is?
Not meant to be blogspam. Apologies if that's how you interpreted it.
For the same reason we in America force people to buy private health insurance rather than having a national health service, which all the evidence suggests would be both more cost-effective and provide an overall better quality of service: it allows The System to adapt to changing times without anybody having to admit that anything has actually changed.

People fear change -- a lot. So proposals that start with "first, admit that sweeping change is necessary" tend to get less support than do those that let the old forms be preserved, even if they've become completely meaningless.
Their mail server is on the same IP as truecrypt.org, and it's now rejecting mail.
While in some ways quite different from Mongo, it's also used for many of the same purposes. Hence my comment, and hence the article I referenced. The goal of my comment, btw, was to provide some context for the top link, which didn't really describe what the product was; I didn't intend to have anyone think I was disparaging either product.

OrientDB can do some things that Mongo cannot (as you mention, SQL access, and the great linking), but when I have seen Orient used, it's in an almost interchangeable way to how one would use Mongo (ie, folks not using the linking and leveraging the SQL just to ease querying). So, variant may not be the right word, but it's an open source NoSQL document oriented datastore, like Mongo, with the additional features you refer to which, for some use cases, make it a superior offering.
~$8b yearly revenue -- the business would be worth substantially more. 30 years is a long time, though. I'm curious now to find out how many years in it took to have a $1b valuation.
Doesn't answer directly, but it does say:

And partly because tech looks just as, if not more, lucrative.
That's the exact path I've taken in another language (Nimrod).

Mongrel2 is a really good way to have all the nitty-gritty of http handled while you worry exclusively about two ZeroMQ sockets (from and to Mongrel2). It makes it a whole lot easier and safer.
The cold logic behind Elon Musk’s $5 billion gigafactory gamble
I had the good fortune to see Levar Burton receive award for children's media at my university. At the end of the ceremony, he brought two dozen children from an associated preschool up on stage and read them a story (I think it was called "Enemy Pie".)

I can say without exaggeration that it was the best public reading of anything I've seen in my life. Watching children so deeply engage with an icon that they probably don't even recognize was a wonder.
Nice to see someone questioning old statistical methods and then bringing new methods to the masses.
Is there any market where Android apps make more money than iOS apps?
I don't think governments will have to beg for anything. The less people businesses employ, the less power they will have. So either they'll employ people or they'll have to put up with whatever solution governments come up with (higher taxes, guaranteed minimum income, etc.). Either way, they'll still need customers, right?

This reminds me of a story about a new Ford factory full of robots. The manager invites the union boss for a guided tour then asks him if he can convince the robots to join the union. The union guy then asks if the manager can get the robots to buy Fords.
Sourceforge seems to have recently updated their password hashing algorithm, so that might hint at the cause of a compromise.
Here's the body of the email sent to me on the 22nd:

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The point in the video when he talks about labor and automation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qYS9l...
I agree -
He is right that robots will take over jobs, but it is ridiculous to suggest that we should go backwards and beg employers to choose humans over robots. Instead, automation will bring about a new standard of wealth and living - people won't have to focus on the "boring" jobs anymore. This has already happened with farming - the US used to be 50 percent farmers, now it is less than 2 percent. With enough automation, food and housing could be "free" - at least for the basic standard of living (I'm not preaching communism). The real problem will be how to control population growth once food and housing are taken for granted. At least, thats the only feasible solution I see moving forward, I have no idea how else you would cater to "unskilled" workers without moving backwards.
Is source still available? Can we check the commit tree for anything suspicious lately? Can someone compile it and check the hash against the 7.2 binary being offered?
Startups against patent trolls
I kind of agree, but providing a poverty threshold was probably the worst thing to happen to our welfare system. It's a completely exploitable concept and is much less equitable than other (perhaps more invasive) quality standards.
I think a little bit of wisdom from one of my favorite writers might be appreciated here:

"""We have created a lifestyle that makes injustice permanent and inescapable.

We have created a world where robots produce robots. Where capital breeds capital with very little need for the Eastenders of the world.

Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous.

At the same time rebellious with hunger and economically unimportant.

What will then stop a final solution of the world problem?

In People of the Abyss the Eastenders already saw it coming.

They are, Jack London wrote, “encumbrances”, of no use to anyone, not even to themselves. “They clutter the earth with their presence and are better out of the way”."""

Taken from http://www.svenlindqvist.net/text_only.asp?cat=1&lang=2&id=2...
The Internet of Nothings
> damning results

They didn't seem that severe to me, they seemed pretty minor actually. Especially if your attack vector is solely a read attack rather than a read-write attack.

Which one got you worried?
I think are more accurate quote would be "Technology is what allows a society to achieve a mature state."

Just like freedom and basic human rights don't necessary make one happy, they do set the conditions to allow happiness to exist. I think technology has a similar "enabling but not guaranteeing" property for various societal metrics.

The challenge, perhaps, is to make sure technology serve the majority, not just further the select few whole control and horde it.
Lovely. Reminds me of the posters on the wall at Shiro's Saimin Heaven in Oahu:

"Dear Hearts,

Marriage has its troubles

like so many broken marbles.

It can get broken, chipped and smashed.

Don't ever get involved in other couples' squabbles,

you can get yelled at, spit at,

and even get your head bashed.

- Shiro."
It doesn't matter why. If "we are now insecure" then the last thing you say is, "so please download these new versions, used only to decrypt your old files and nothing else." No we won't tell you what, if anything, was wrong, so you can make an informed decision.
Am I the only one thinking that begging business to keep employing people will, if anything, only worsen the social issues caused by this change?
Scraping the minimum wage? Cheap labour? Is that what we're developing machines for? Is that civilisational progress? What next?

I hope Bill Gates is as right about this as he was about the "famous"[1] 640KB, but can't we, as a civilisation, think of better solutions? Like e.g. not working and using automated means in order to provide a minimum of food/resources to everyone? Am I dreaming,does this idea seem as unreasonable as a self-driving car did a century ago?

[1]: and possibly apocryphal
Do you have some examples of low paying jobs you think are hard to replace? There are definitely some service jobs that aren't paid a very high wage, but are in some intangible way preferred to be performed by a human, but they tend to just be the customer facing tip of a business that employs a lot of low wage people behind the scenes as well.

Ie. the person on the till at McD's might last longer than the person who listens for a beep and then raises the burger griller (they don't even flip burgers anymore, they just cook both sides at the same time in a contraption) and moves them to the warming tray, but that's only about 3 people in a 10 person shift.
I agree, if it's only a small site, why mess with all the other crap
That's a glaring error of selection. Because with basic income, the idea of removing the minimum wage makes complete sense. Without it, what he says sounds completely insane.
The solution to this problem may be a massive increase in insurance salespeople and HR department employees. And lawyers. Stuff like that.

I can hardly wait.
I hear ya. And that's where I think some people have gotten lulled by the Raspberry Pi when it comes to these boards.

IMO there's a difference between true eval/dev boards and the (for lack of a better word) devices that are following along the lines of the RPi.

Dev boards used to be large expensive things that did require NDAs and a healthy business relationship with a chipmaker and local FAE. Could you afford the $4K for an OMAP1 eval board? I couldn't.

I'm glad to see some of that stuff come back down to earth, especially now that the big players are cooperating with more-open projects like Beagle/Panda and SABRE. And they're at least following it up with a more open attitude when it comes to documentation, drivers/kernel branches, and online support.
The closest I found in the transcript of the talk was this piece:

MR. BROOKS: So something like a guaranteed minimum income for people who
are working full time through an expansion on the EITC or a wage subsidy seems like the
right way to go.

MR. GATES: Yeah, one of my favorite AEI papers – I didn’t get time to look it
up last night

Source: http://www.aei.org/files/2014/03/14/-bill-gates-event-transc...

Edit: after re-reading it, I think this has nothing to do with basic income since it's for people who are working full time.
Thank you for posting these!

Reading the transcript, Gates is really talking about a very similar concept to what the "helicopter" reference Ben Bernanke made talks about - maintaining demand and levels of consumption.

The idea of a universal income has been widely discussed on HN in the past. Gates is simply proposing to start rolling this out via a larger earned income credit, while funding it via a progressive consumption tax.

It's less controversial than the universal income, but personally, I'm not sure that creating useless work just to make sure consumption is propped up makes sense. If we are reaching the end of scarcity in basic needs, it seems to be more efficient to provide a baseline and then let people truly compete for the extra-ordinary lifestyle.
I saw a post in the past that suggested a minimum income where the amount of assistance reduce as you got paid more. So if the minimum was $40k a year and you made $20k working some job you'd get $20k in subsidies. This help give some incentive to people to get jobs. In some cases if you stay on welfare you'll make more money than if you get a minimum wage job. If you made $60k you'd get no subsidy. We're definitely going to have to change the model we have now once we get to a point where a large number of people don't need to work. I'd say we're close to that now. If everyone in the US wanted to work would we have enough jobs to support that?
That's not what the message says, though.

> WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

That is a perfectly reasonable thing to say if you are abandoning security software. Any issues discovered will not be fixed, so you should stop relying on this software for security.
> And it’s not just “low-skilled” workers who will have to worry about automation.

If it weren't for some political ideology, automation would be a blessing for every one and not something to worry about.
Pft, I'll get concerned when robots can act as surly, smarmy and as entitled as I can. Until then my job is safe.
A centralized system could (on paper) be cheaper, but I don't trust the federal government not to screw it up. I'm not even saying I like the current system - or the pre-ACA system either - but I am not convinced that our government is corruption-free enough to be any good at handling that much money.
*Gates
Apple’s Austin campus brings the Cupertino feeling to Texas
I love the recent one on piketty.

Step 1: Decide on ideological argument and proposed policy remedies; Step 2: Manipulate data as needed to justify; Step 3: Publish book...
Step 4: Ideological allies receive book rapturously, say it cannot be challenged due to quantitative rigor of underlying data analysis...
Step 5: Data analysis carved up by outside analysts; Step 6: Response from allies = "Data & analysis don't matter -- we KNOW the truth."
Could it be related to this announcement from yesterday: "just yesterday we added the ability to extract cached Truecrypt passphrases from Linux memory dumps."

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.de/2014/05/volatility-update...