skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people took TC recommending Bitlocker as a joke (myself included), because it's a closed-source proprietary encryption method made by Microsoft, which is the ethic that TrueCrypt has represented in the decade that it existed, but even if that's a bit too subtle humor, if you look at the options they give for encryption on other platforms [1], you can see that it's obviously not a serious security-based recommendation.

For Linux, they recommend:
>Use any integrated support for encryption. Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and follow its documentation.

Does that seem serious to you?

For Mac OSX, here is the configuration they recommend for creating an encrypted volume: http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/OSXNewImage.png

Note where under Encryption they've selected "None".

1. http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/OtherPlatforms.html
I'm still holding out for the ThinkVision 28:

http://news.lenovo.com/images/20034/ThinkVision%20Spec%20She...
From an economic standpoint, the rest of the world is a big enough market so that it's worth supporting too. And everybody gains when markets join.

About tooling, yeah that's bad. But everybody has 2 sets of tools all over the world, because both US and rest of the world are big markets. A transition won't change a thing, the only thing that changes is that a few decades from now, everybody will stop needing one of those sets.

Paper is also already a nightmare. All equipment supports both ISO and US standard, and is more expensive because of that.

Constuction aparell is always weird. Your 36" doors are certainly not exactly 36" wide, as metric 90cm doors are not exactly 90cm wide. At least here (at Brazil, thus metric) there are several different sets of sizes to choose from, because some people want bigger doors and windows, other people want smaller ones.

I think you overestimate the costs at the US, and underestimate the benefits.
> Then again, these people wantonly killed others

No, some of these people wantonly killed others. Some did not.

> Where are the last words of their victims?

We don't make entertainment of those.
Same as regular chips: in a grid on a wafer, then cut and pick&placed.

Don't forget: yield goes up when the die shrinks because the defects are typically small spots. The smaller the die the better you pixelate the defects.

The wafers are only 2 inch diameter to avoid yield loss due to edge effects: at the edge of the wafer you have lowest quality components (optical ring effects)
It partially depends on how you choose to deploy. If you are compiling your site locally and then pushing the static HTML to a server, you might experience some delay in generating the site. If you use GitHub pages, you just git push and the changes show up almost instantly. I've never run into the case where I felt like it took too long to go from my git push to seeing the post live in the browser - by the time I switch to the browser and refresh the page, the post is there.

I do think that most of the static site generators focus on the wrong thing. The main appeal of a SSG to me is that you can focus solely on the content and none of the other crap typically associated with blogging (updating wordpress/security issues, trying to write in some stupid WYSIWYG web form, dicking around with formatting tags, setting up caching plugins because my blog falls over when it's on HN) - all I do is write some Markdown and I'm done.
It seems you could become a member for 35 Swiss Francs (~40 USD) per year. http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/en/association/membership.ht...
The height of the engines compared to the center of mass doesn't actually influence stability. The thrust vector turns with the vessel, so it's neutrally stable whether the engines are above or below. This is called the pendulum rocket fallacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy

But don't feel bad, as you're in good company: Robert Goddard made the same mistake.
"I don’t think the world will be a better or safer place without me."

If they aren't executed, they will spend the rest of their life in jail. So by executing them our gains are two fold.

1. save tax dollars over keeping them in jail long term

2. give victims families peace

Something to think about.
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It's good idea, thanks.
Would be neat to see a mesh-network of these running on old phones of which most people have 1 or 2 of at their house with a REALLY simple installer.

A few of these sprout up organically in locales and it would be like the BBS days of yore - ultimately it could lead to a larger geographical footprint of a "side-net".
Regardless of how horrific their crimes were we can never really be certain enough of their guilt to kill them. Nor should we give our government power to kill its citizens. I don't know how anyone can believe the death penalty to be a good idea.

1. Look at the countries America is in company with in allowing capital punishment - it's not a list any country should want to be a part of.

2. Imagine yourself as an innocent person on death row. It's very likely there have been people in that situation[1]. Do you still think it should be allowed?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution
There's been a lot of hand-wringing about the license, but if the TrueCrypt devs want to be anonymous and/or go away, who's going to complain if someone puts out another version?
thank you, especially for the first point about his observation not being misogyny.
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if perhaps he suggested how one might change things to make it better, then maybe his arguments would have merit.

right now, all this is, is a list of his personal complaints of the API. and hence, it's aimed at the users of OpenGL. i.e, we're already aware of the crap that's in the standard. this is not news to us. upvoting and supporting this sort of article is a bee's dick away from a programmers circle-jerk.

> there are languages that people hate, then there are languages that do not get used.

replace language with API.
Concerning "wantonly killed others", look at this link, the concept has completely changed the way I judge behavior of others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Actually it goes like that:

You own a website, I own a website. I pay you $100 to show your visitors a link to my website. The link is presented as an organic, non paid link.
=BAD

You own a website, I own a website. I pay you $100 to show your visitors a link to my website. The link is presented as a paid link, with a no follow attribute.
=GOOD

On a side note, your breakdown of the Ad Revenue using Google as a middleman is wrong.
If you pay Google 100$ (via Adwords) to decide to show ad on my site, I will get 68% of that 100$ and Google will get 32%

Adense revenue share: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en
I rather enjoy the much lower administrative overhead that comes with sole proprietorship (in the UK, this may differ elsewhere) compared to setting up a company and try to cling to it for as long as reasonable.
I signed up for it but I'm still some power of 10th in the queue, if you have extras, thanks in advance!

my username here at nbi.com please
One really starts to wonder at NASA's obsession with solid rockets for manned launchers. I get it for the Space Shuttle, they were cornered and gave it a shot, but surely it's obvious now that it's a bad idea.
Interesting point. Although you'd probably get similar evasive responses, the host saying "Now answer more clearly", and a different (but equally evasive) response. They'd have time to concoct a seemingly informative but ultimately useless response.

This happens in a lot of Reddit AMAs...
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> Then again, these people wantonly killed others (as judged by juries and appeals judges and governors).

Did they? Or did they have the misfortune of, say, being black?

Attempting to excuse the barbarism of the state and its documented tendency to murder and imprison-for-life people who are Not White just for the fun of it by appealing to those monsters under the bed is fucked.
Coroutines also share process space, they're just deterministic so you don't need locks as frequently. The real benefit is lower overhead in terms of memory use, creation and task switching.
"Ugly" is in the title of the article, not in my Slideshare presentation. I just posted the title of the article here.

And I think you are over-interpreting things by seeing irony everywhere.
Relevancy: Many people believe that minorities are disproportionately sentenced to death.
It's software that's used to turn specific devices into PirateBoxes. So, no, they don't sell a device. But they provide free and open source software you can load onto a bunch of different devices to build your own PirateBox device.
No it's my normal look :)
The bigger problem is a failing of the ecosystem at large; there's an insufficiently toothful agency policing the vendors and a lack of gold-seal certification that matters, leaving space for vendors to do whatever gets the card out the door before the competition. OpenGL's breadth as an API definitely doesn't help ("now that you've implemented direct-buffer rendering, let's go implement all that glVertex crap that lets you do the exact same thing, only slower! Your library coders have infinite time, right?"). But I doubt it's the root cause of the frustration; the "hit the benchmarks and beat ATI out the door this Christmas" ecosystem is my biggest gripe.

I've had to deal with cards that explicitly lie to the software about the capabilities by specifying they support a shader feature that's implemented in software without acceleration (!!!). There's no way to tell via the software that the driver is emulating the feature besides enabling it and noticing your engine now performs in the seconds-per-frame range. So we blacklist the card from that feature set and move on, because that's what you do when you're a game engine developer.
I watched this and thought, "If this guy had Robert Downey Jr's presentation as Tony Stark, he could rule the world."
Pluggable Type Systems: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/annotations/type...
Doesn't mention imho the best feature of Go html templating, from the docs (http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/):

This package understands HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and URIs. It adds sanitizing functions to each simple action pipeline, so given the excerpt

<a href="/search?q={{.}}">{{.}}</a>

At parse time each {{.}} is overwritten to add escaping functions as necessary. In this case it becomes

<a href="/search?q={{. | urlquery}}">{{. | html}}</a>

.
if perhaps he suggested how one might change things to make it better, then maybe his arguments would have merit.

right now, all this is, is a list of his personal complaints of the API. and hence, it's aimed at the users of OpenGL. i.e, we're already aware of the crap that's in the standard. this is not news to us. upvoting and supporting this sort of article is a hairs width away from a programmers circle-jerk.

> there are languages that people hate, then there are languages that do not get used.

replace language with API.

edit: so, my comments are dead. i wasn't aware dissent was so strongly discouraged.
Hectare == hectameter == 10,000 m^2 (while we are at it, could we standardaze the world in comma and dot usage?)

It is metric, is just uses an older name.
Not an answer, but I was surprised to note that Erlang also requires you to explicitly choose the parallel version of a function. Might be interesting to see what Guy Steel did with this issue in Fortress.

If you did it often, I guess the JIT could work out what was best the last time few times. Trial and error. :-)
> But everybody has 2 sets of tools all over the world

Do they?
I'm not a big DIY guy but I own a toolbox and I didn't even realize until now that a different set of tools may exist.

EDIT:
I am not arguing it's not true, I am honestly asking
Open-Source Whole-Disk Encryption System TrueCrypt Leaves Users High And Dry
Am moving from No to Yes (side projects), but in order to fund them, I desperately need higher income and more freedom.

So, yes, I'm for hire. :)
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Hey! Yeah, for now that would work. I can also add in editing if you think it would be useful? Shouldn't take long. If you have any more feedback or feature requests ping me on leo@kivo.com. Cheers!
I have two business and both have legal protection. I have ownership in our IT Services company (S-Corp) and have an LLC for a Food Truck/BBQ business. (Although our CPA has advised us we may want to convert the LLC to a S-Corp).

Unless it is just the occasional side project there isn't much reason to NOT form some sort of legal entity to protect yourself.
I find it profoundly dissonant that, while reporting the last words of people who were then legally murdered by the state (an inexcusable, brutal injustice, to my mind), the functionaries responsible yet found prissiness enough to cut out the swear words.

State-sanctioned murder? No problemo! A couple of swear words in the victim's dying breaths? Woah, hold it right there - there might be children present.

Unbelievable.
Heck yeah. I thought I might be the oldest at 10 years but you got me beat.

Congrats on the long haul success.
I believe the approach would be to look for sub-critical failures, not testing to destruction (or lack thereof).

For example, there were a lot of O-ring leak incidents in the years leading up to Challenger. Almost every flight had a problem with it to some degree. It just wasn't bad enough to destroy the craft until various factors came together.

Similarly, leading-edge damage from debris was a problem throughout the Shuttle program, but it wasn't severe enough to lead to disaster until Columbia got unlucky.

Once you were confident in the cause of the disasters, it would be reasonable to mitigate them, then fly a couple and look for any sign of these smaller failures, which should also be stopped by the fixes.
I absolutely disagree. It is far, far easier to be evasive by text - especially when you have time to compose a reply. Face to face, real time interviews show you when the interviewee doesn't want to answer a question, when they're bluffing, etc.
In Scala Option[T] works great, as in libraries people stopped using nulls to represent optional values. And it actually works out when enough people are using it. Plus, if you're unsure about a value you receive (whether it's nullable or not), you can always assume the worst and wrap it in an Optional.
that's.. oddly haunting.
Why so US centric? In my country the corporate forms are completely different.
We have a fairly new bunch of technologies with the internet. We're still at the point where people are exploring the problem space, what our technology can solve, what it can't solve and suggesting future directions. We're looking at the "adjacent possible" to quote Stuart Kauffman.

To put it another way, we have a new tool, all of this is just testing this new tool against the world to see where it works and where it doesn't.
> You aren't forced into sharing memory across parts of your program that have no business sharing memory.

I think you are confused (but I didn't downvote you, someone did and then also downvoted my post, was it you ;-) )

Anyway. Unless you use Erlang or fork OS processes you will be sharing memory between your concurrency units.

So learn Erlang it will do you good

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content

You can build java threads with queues and that works fine. You can shoot yourself in the foot with Go or node.js (probably more so).
Yes - I have an INC or LLC for my consulting or independent contractor work and side projects - including http://HockeyBias.com .
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That's why I said semi-relevant. I think the renewed interest in finding alternatives in TrueCrypt is clearly due to the devs stepping out, which is unrelated to its removal from Tails. It doesn't even seem implausible that in the (in my opinion, incredibly likely) event of a fork, the new fork will be a strong candidate for inclusion in Tails, assuming it has active development, a FOSS-compatible license and a more open development process (again, all of which may be possible). The reason I wanted to post here was to hopefully convince some people in kneejerk mode to just give the dust a bit of time to settle, since I imagine many people would be using this list to help them migrate.
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And so this makes an interesting point, LED shapes are controlled by the mold makers, but when do we get just a flat thin LED and you can 3D print the shape you want on top? :-)
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Is your phone a device or an app?
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I could do this in my basement!

Years ago I answered a "for sale" newspaper ad for used office desks and some test equipment. I showed up at the address and it was a small dingy old building and most of the employees seemed to be 55+ year-old women. When I asked what they did and was told they made diodes, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Like he did, I assumed that all electronics parts manufacturing was high-tech, cleanroom work, etc. But here were little old ladies putting pieces together.

I had a similar epiphany years later when a friend told me he was buying a thermocouple manufacturing business for $20,000!!! The business consisted of two senior citizens who wanted to retire. No high-speed pick&place robots working in inert argon atmospheres, just two old people putting wire in jigs and spot-welding them together (probably in an inert atmosphere, though).

The same thing repeats itself over and over: a huge amount of what we think of as sophisticated technology is being done by hand, or by ancient machinery, in dirty, poorly lit corners of the US.
It makes for cool videos, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2X2kaqYatI

If you don't know what's going on, it looks like the thing explodes on impact.
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Who hadn't updated their code in 2 years. It's stable software that's likely more secure than most things you'd switch to, whether or not it has active development. I'm not saying you don't want to keep an eye out for a new alternative, but you may want to wait for the dust to settle, since in response to this, it seems likely that we'll see a TC fork.
On the flip side (and I haven't used this site on iOS, so can't weigh in) the fact that Apple decided to turn over 50px of usable space at the bottom of the page to their UI and effectively make it unusable for touch events is really, utterly infuriating.
There's a strange sense of morality in being able to execute someone but not show their full last words due to swearing. The US media seems to view the world in a similar way.
Funny, my impression is that he's running through his head, "I wonder how much it would hurt our efforts if I insisted on taking a seat for our first launch?"
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Good for him. I'd like to see more stories like this.
How would you generalize the poll to work for many countries?
Make a trip to your local Michael's or other art/craft store and you can do it today. Silicon sealant to make a mold + liquid molding acrylic and you're off.
I use Pelican[1] (Python) SSG and they are adding (have added?) a feature to skip articles that have not been touched. That makes compilation really fast.

[1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
I think you can be aggressive (heck look at Linus) but it has to be substantiate by in detail knowledge and arguments. If you are aggressive then make wrong statements (co-routines not sharing memory) then well you'll get downvoted. I guess take that as life advice in general.
I agree with the difficulty in using SSG and the friction that deploying them creates (especially when you have to update something on all posts). Having used a few SSG in the past, I have now been using Ghost regularly and greatly enjoy it (the live-view next to "markdown"-view is very well done).

The hosted version of Ghost is amazingly simply to use. Sign up and publish. Done. The download and self-host is a bit more difficult, but nothing any tech-savy person shouldn't be able to figure out.

To me, the simplicity of Ghost is the best feature and trumps any missing features.
Every time I read the words "The extension," I cringe a little. In my experience, "There's an OpenGL extension for it" translates almost directly to "This will not work on a critical percentage of your customer's machines, and will work in a way that violates the extension's documentation in another critical percentage."

If key parts of the API that you need live in "the extensions," then the API itself is not a properly-tuned abstraction to serve your needs well.
// The registrar notes several more specific domains available in each state,
// such as state.*.us, dst.*.us, etc., but resolution of these is somewhat
// haphazard; in some states these domains resolve as addresses, while in others
// only subdomains are available, or even nothing at all. We include the
// most common ones where it's clear that different sites are different
// entities.
But not like gmail. Remember that gmail was a gamechanger too: AJAX + Threaded Inbox including your sent e-mails.
Pinterest is about the ideas and projects that are being pinned more than just about the act of pinning.

A needle and thread is a nice way to represent those ideas that are being shared.
> even when an astronaut is 'manually' controlling the space shuttle, they are only providing inputs to the outer loop of a very complex feedback control system.

That's pretty much how the human brain works, with the astronauts in this case being the cortex.
Everyone else has moved on to 0402-sized surface mount LEDs a long time ago. Could this manual process just be because nobody is building the old through-hole LEDs in massive quantities?
Sadly though, for us Canadians there is no LegalZoom or RocketLawyer (although I might be totally wrong on this one!)

So its either like a few thousand to setup an INC (LLC's don't exist here) or go the cheap but high liability route with a sole proprietorship.
Too bad there's no alternatives.
I wonder if anyone with experience with Spark can comment / rebut this post: http://blog.explainmydata.com/2014/05/spark-should-be-better...
Not the typical HN material, but Cenk Uygur was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently [1] giving some interesting insight into the dumbing down of TV journalism and the history / decisions behind his online focus with The Young Turks.

1: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/cenk-uygur
> If you are aggressive then make wrong statements (co-routines not sharing memory) then well you'll get downvoted.

My point was that a programmer shouldn't need to share memory to write concurrent code. That statement is not wrong.
Maybe "high growth" captures more than how I read the poll author's intent, but 91 of you are chasing funding/VC/big exit and 0 of you are building a profitable business that can fund its own growth that you enjoy and want to keep control over?

I interpreted the options such that "high growth" includes any company that's intended to eventually IPO - regardless of how long it takes to get there. In that model, these two options are really blurry.

We're bootstrapping, haven't raised any outside funding yet, and it's an open question if/when we will. We definitely want to rely on organic growth as much as possible, but we also intend to build a Really Big Company. We just intend to do it our way, on our timeframe.

I picked the first option. shrug