skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is DropBox Decrypt something we need to worry about?
Aside from probably being a good idea to look at a local alternative which I saw mentioned on here to day or yesterday, I am curious, is this something we need to be concerned about?

http://www.magnetforensics.com/decrypting-the-dropbox-filecache-dbx-file-new-free-tool/

I was looking to find out what the files were, why they are so large, do they need to be backed up, etc. And then, ran into a way to decrypt them.

Suggestions and opinions?
I haven't seen any data to suggest that media coverage causes a net increase in the rate of suicide, nor even a clear claim that this is the case. I don't doubt that coverage would cause clustering of suicide timing and method, or that certain types of coverage would cause a net increase in rate relative to other types of coverage. I'm just skeptical that a complete lack of coverage would be the optimum.
Does this count for technologies like Appcelerator?

Or can I work around the standard way Appcelerator works for example by making more Javascript code available through a webkit Ti.UI.Webview or something?
I applied to Google. They hired me. I worked on Google Talk and Hangouts for many years. WebRTC was related and interesting, so I worked on various parts (such as the data channels) in my 20% time. After a while, I liked it so much I chose to make it my 100% time.
The Shellshock Aftershock for NAS Administrators
Amazon rebooted lots of PV guests. Presumably they collocate HVM and PV guests on the same box. If there were any HVM guests on the box, then there could be the possibility of an attack. (I guess they could forcibly kick off the HVM guests, but that wouldn't be very nice.)

Why shouldn't Netflix be running on HVM?
What if I want to enter buy-milk twice ;)
Please be careful, that's not the conclusion, this from the CDC:

In addition to recognizing the types of news coverage that can promote suicide contagion, the workshop participants strongly agreed that reporting of suicide can have several direct benefits. Specifically, community efforts to address this problem can be strengthened by news coverage that describes the help and support available in a community, explains how to identify persons at high risk for suicide, or presents information about risk factors for suicide. An ongoing dialogue between news media professionals and health and other public officials is the key to facilitating the reporting of this information.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm

We absolutely need to talk about this problem. No one is helped by silence.
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but Chase isn't sending email about this to their customers. If you login there's a notice, and certainly many people get updates via the news, but the lack of direct-to-customer communication is disappointing.
Gotta say, the dorito taco is awesome: http://i.imgur.com/gzSyXlT.png
See what Krugman had to say about Bill Gross (this guy's boss) leaving.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/nobody-could-hav...
so... it sounds like his boss got pushed out because he made the bet that bonds were going to take a beating... and he was wrong.
La radiaciones wifi y la ignorancia de las personas
I'm pretty sure this RFC draft qualifies as defining the SDP for an independent implementation:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-jsep-07#section...
Unless I'm mistaken, two primary restrictions are:

1. script must be downloaded only within UIWebView.
2. script must be excuted only within UIWebView.

Not sure why #1 is important to Apple but #2 makes perfect sense. I'm assuming Meteor is downloading scripts then passing them as 'data' to native-side to be cached somewhere until it needs to be injected back into UIWebView for execution.
Unless you moved, changed your name, and/or used a different email address it won't help too much since they took this months ago. Or are you getting out assuming Chase continues to be negligent?
what are some good places that people get some cheap posters from? especially to get some custom posters printed from an image.
hahahahaha. No.
Documents. Snowden. Good try though...
Even if third world countries represent a meaningful fraction of artists and designers, thinking that they actually buy software is not realistic. Their piracy percentages are >90%.
Why do you think Adobe is switching to a network model.
>Why shouldn't Netflix be running on HVM?

HVM, at least in the past, had a bunch more code that the guest DomU interacts with vs. fully pv guests. This has security implications.

Now, my knowledge of HVM is a few years... or more like half a decade out of date, for example, I don't even know how to force a HVM guest to only use PV drivers (which would solve 90% of the problem.) and i know that more and more of this has moved into hardware, so it's possible that what was true five years ago is not true now, but... yeah, I don't let untrusted users on HVM guests for the same reason I don't let untrusted users use pygrub or load untrusted kernels directly.
Who downvoted you?

We know the NSA and GHCQ really do get involved in forums like this to push their propaganda. I would have thought that was a seriously paranoid conspiracy theory a year ago but it isn't is it?
It's on my TODO list to try and make Go bindings for WebRTC :).
That would be news to me. They aren't listed in the AUTHORS file:

https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/source/browse/trunk/AUTHORS
Chagan - Soviet underground nuclear test
I think tho that Markdown hasnt won the plain text battle - plain text has. Only a very small percentage of plain text docs are markdown...so small it wouldn't even count...
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That's a brilliant document! Very thorough!
There are a few different layers to the WebRTC stack. I believe they use the lower layer which does the video and audio processing. But they don't use the higher layers from which do ICE, SCTP, and SDP.
I haven't seen any data to suggest that media coverage causes a net increase in the rate of suicide, nor even a clear claim that this is the case.

"The suicides that follow these stories are excess deaths. After the initial spurt, the suicide rates do not drop
below traditional levels but only return to those levels."

https://fc.deltasd.bc.ca/~dmatthews/FOV2-00074762/S02DB0598....

The studies Cialdini writes about in that chapter are older, because his book is older. If anyone can report on more recent work, please do. This is worrisome stuff.
Nearly half a century ago when I was there, suicide was a major and undiscussed issue. Sorry to hear things haven't improved, glad your girlfriend made it.
You acknowledge your random number generator not being cryptographically secure. (https://github.com/prettymuchbryce/hellobitcoin/blob/20af54c...) Reseeding the generator every time is wrong as well.

Why not just use crypto/rand instead, which is suitable for this kind of job?
And nowhere in the instructions was the word "Xcode" used. Odd.
Aaargh! I wish incredibly annoying things weren't so successful.
Kim Dotcom parts ways with Baboom: 'The music industry hates me'
>Who are we to make such decisions?

Answer: decent, thinking people who can spot that we want our government to consider us to have moral weight, and therefore vote in favor of considering all citizens to hold equal moral weight before the State. Or, as certain textbooks on insurance or law teach: when we "refuse for moral reasons" to put a finite price on a human life, what we are actually de facto doing is setting a surprisingly low price on human life. The trade-offs don't go away just because we feel uncomfortable making them!
> So regardless of our startup’s position on raising VC, we were obligating ourselves to months of preparation for the pitch.

This is also a big one. Your time as a founder, especially in a new start-up is invaluable.
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I guess one of the biggest questions here would be authentication and reputation. You want to make sure the device is what you think it is. So they will need to have cryptographically signed messages, ie MAC, and you need to obtain a certificate as well from their server on the web in order to interact with them.

But once you have those, you WON'T need the internet in order to communicate. The vending machine could be in a basement and bluetooth would be enough.

I'm a big proponent of re-decentralizing the internet again, and the web (and physical web) is a big part of that. There's no reason why people in an african village MUST have all their cell signals travel up to a balloon and to Facebook's servers just to communicate with each other. Mesh networking and distributed power generation will bring about a revolution.
Ask HN: I want to make a web app: What problem do you need solved?
I want to make a web app so am interested to hear what problems you'd like me to try and solve :)
...and this is the reason why there's been a proliferation of SSD use especially in the area of database servers.

Each table has a btree, made up of interior and leaf nodes. Leaf nodes contain all the data, and data nodes contain, well, data :)

Anyone else find this paragraph a little confusing? Is she saying interior nodes contain all the data of the tree, or that leaf nodes are data nodes?
While we don't provide a build target for compiling the data channel without the audio and video parts, it's not that hard to remove from the build. It's just some build file hacking (basically remove webrtcvideoengine.cc and webrtcvoiceengine.cc).

Would you mind filing an issue at https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/issues/list to ask us to make a nicer build target? It won't be top priority, but we get around to it. Or better yet, if you get it working, send a patch. We'd probably include such a build target.
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No offense meant, but your blog seems like a punchbag you use whenever you're mad with a technology or it doesn't fit your use cases. Going through some random articles feels like hearing someone bitching about random things when in bad mood. I don't see much value in that:
[1] http://www.adamhyde.net/why-github-is-bad-for-open-source/
[2] http://www.adamhyde.net/markdown-ugh/

I'd suggest some things here:

* Do not post; wait. I don't know what was going on when you wrote [2], but you were clearly not in a mood to write anything constructive. Maybe you should have skipped [2] and only write your second article about markdown (not that I really agree with it either (see below), but at least it is developed).

* I don't really see the point in complaining alone. Maybe you should look for alternatives, and post them along with your complains. Or if you don't know any and don't want/have time to look for one, ask people (I don't know if you can easily add things like discuss on Ghost). For [1], I think you would like GitLab, for example.

Honestly, after reading your article about markdown (the long one), I don't feel like reading any other of your articles. Not that it's bad, but I waited the whole article for some things that never came[], and ended up feeling like I wasted my time there: I just listened to someone complaining about something (mainly about being bad for doing things it's not really meant to do), and nothing else. So now I expect to experience the same with any of your articles (and I'm probably wrong), and I may be missing some great things.
[] I was expecting some kind of "solution". Alternatives? Anything?

~

About the article:

You complain about markdown, but use Ghost for your blog (or can you write blog posts with something else on Ghost? Didn't see any from their home page). You never mention any alternative.

Maybe because there isn't many that are:

* easy to read without being parsed, with most of the syntax being somewhat explicit

* can be used to produce "clean" html

* widely used (with some flavors but mainly the same syntax)

And that's markdown (to me at least). It's not here to replace html, MS Word, etc. More like replacing bbcode and other ugly syntaxes. You sound like you'd rather use plain html, but do you? Would anyone rather use plain html than markdown (when available) for writing simple formatted text? (well yes, some would.. xD)

Markdown could greatly benefit from standardization, though. That was the one valid point in your article, imho. It's sad but I haven't seen many big differences anyway, except:
* some space differences (line breakings, etc.), but no change in the meaning of the syntax
* lists must be preceded by an empty line on some parsers
* custom syntax for additional parsing (images, etc.) but well, that's not really a problem with markdown, more like a problem with ghost-flavored (or anythingelse-flavored) markdown

It's not perfect, and still wouldn't be even if standardized (but would be much closer); but I see no better alternative. And neither do you, seemingly. (so no, I did not find your "numerous articles on better alternatives" =/)
I guess this is because the technology only solves one of the problems (getting a very narrow writing beam/point) and not the others, like: making the disk so stable that it doesn't wobble for more than a few nanometers during rotation; keeping the laser beam focused on the disk; figuring what kind of rotational and seek speeds (=read/write speeds) you can handle with these limitations; making everything small and ready for market.
How to get investor attention: 1. Write about a controversial topic relevant to Hacker News 2. Show off traction 3. Say you are not looking for $$$ (Bonus: get more customers)
I like Erdos's interpretation of death, and probably suicide as well. It's an action of "leaving". I'm OK with that, and I hope one day to leave with assisted suicide rather than be forced the burden of staying despite my will.

If we want to make this life an enjoyable experience for as many people as possible, we should be looking at trends in suicide and trying to figure out what's wrong. I hope you all stay because the best part is ahead of us, but it's OK to me if you decide to leave, too.

That said, I can imagine how bad it must be to be a founder in Las Vegas. I think the place is phony, hot, unsustainable, and lacking in genuine purpose and liveliness.
Location: San Francisco

Willing to work remote: Yes

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Technologies: Haskell, ML, Rust, C, react.js.

Email: ben+hn@benjaminsummers.net

Resume: http://bsummer4.github.io

I'm a generalist who is working for a couple of years to save money
before graduate school. I'm looking for an opportunity to work with the
technologies that I specialize in: functional programming and high-performance
systems programming.

My long-term goal is to work on Haskell compilers, so I specialized hard
in functional programming and in optimizing low-level code. I'm hoping to find companies that have taken
a risk by using up-and-coming technologies (Haskell/Rust/react.js/etc) and are
looking for developers that can work effectively with those technologies. I'd
also be happy to work with a team that uses functional programming with
more mainstream languages, or with a team that writes a lot of low-level,
performance-critical code.

In graduate school, I want to work on whole-program-optimizing compilers for
Haskell that target Javascript/Java/LLVM. I want to make Haskell practical
for real-world development of web and mobile applications. I've spend a lot
of time studying Stalin and Mlton, and I think they make a strong case for
the potential of whole program optimization.
How about hiring engineer #1 for your upcoming company? ;)
You can't have video chat with audio, video, codecs, p2p, the whole thing. The only piece you can remove from the whole and still have video chat work is the data channel.

If all you want is the data channel, then you can ignore the audio/video part, and just use the data channel separately. It doesn't do you any harm.
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Too big question.
haha :) yeah, the last few weeks scratched a few itches, thats for sure! But on the whole Im a positive chap and the posts are positive or (gasp) tongue in cheek :) Don't take it so personally! Thanks for your points, hope you do read some more of the blog but no worries if not.
Decryption helps.
> They are derided as slow and inefficient but when you consider how long those Mars rovers are lasting, well bring on more of whatever NASA is on.

Depends on the cost. If someone can make a Mars Rover that costs 1% as much but lasts 10% as long, that's progress.
If you're concerned about this sort of thing (which I think we all should be) you can use something like boxcryptor.
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How I Accidentally Became an Android Developer
My observation from years of experience teaching calculus and mechanics is that every student has a different learning style. In particular, there are "theory people" who need to understand the reasoning behind the concepts first and "practice people" who best understand concepts by looking at worked examples. There may be other subdivisions, but these are the main types.

I had two cases when my students showed no signs of progress after hours of theory-style training, and then became Einsteins after solving some practice problems. I was like... why did we waste so much time with the theory???

I don't necessarily agree with the OP that rote memorization is for everyone. Ultimately both the theoretical/symbolic understanding and the "doing"-experience are necessary, but the order in which students acquire these skills is up to them.

Here's a nice quote:

不闻不若闻之， Not having heard is not as good as having heard,
闻之不若见之， having heard is not as good as having seen,
见之不若知之， having seen is not as good as mentally knowing,
知之不若行之； mentally knowing is not as good as putting into action;
学至于行之而止矣 true learning is complete only when action has been put forth
-- 荀子 -- Xunzi
Netflix has a couple talks about this, but it mostly comes down to for their specific use case, their users don't care about consistency.

For example, for your viewing history you might not entirely care that it is 100% up to date and the last video you watched isn't available. And for the times you do care, most users will simply usually refresh the page (and since, in almost all cases eventual consistency means resolution in seconds rather than instantly, most users will have the correct info after a page refresh).

I can't find them right now, but Christos Kalantzis (@chriskalan) has a number of talks on using Cassandra at Netflix w.r.t eventual consistency.
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I got a similar experience from a different accelerator (which we didn't go to for approximately the same reasons).

What I think happens is that the people sending this are not completely aware of how their role has shifted. They primary see themselves as "startup helpers" while the legal documents makes them look like an investment fund. I'd say they should pick one and stick with it - I don't mind either, but you can't pretend you're investing, and manage paperwork like a naive non profit...at least that tend to rub some people the wrong way.
"My kids are little, but I can imagine what I'd tell them about startups if they were in college, and that's what I'm going to tell you."

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I made my first money at 8. I bought a Honda 50 for $60 and sold it for $180 after painting it and fixing some little things. My father guided the whole process of course, but it was my money and my work that got the result. Now I am 45 and I have 4 boys. My oldest is 10 and has been working on his "startup" for two years. He is making his own version of Pokemon, and he has sold some of his characters on T-shirts. Total revenue so far - $120.00 (1)

It is not much. But it is something. At 10, my kid is outsourcing graphic work overseas, he has sent out 30 projects on Fiverr. He is using outside vendors to make shirts, and having to deal with customers asking about shirt orders (he took some money, but forgot to order the shirt. Then he has to deal with upset people). While the dollar amounts are trivial, my purpose it to get him exposed to how business and making money works. So far he has been doing it for 2 years and his quality of work and detail have grown so much that you would probably not believe it. My main job is to ask him if the work is as good as he can make it (most of the time he makes it better, some times he decides that he is done)

The interesting follow on effect for me is that his younger brothers are now wanting to do the same. The 7 year old has been bugging me to get his website done, and has done his first few drawings. His project is very similar to his older brother;s , but we have made sure that they are distinct. Last week the 4 year old decided that he needed a company too (so far it is only a declaration, he has not decided on a concept).

So I guess I am doing it different. I can't imagine waiting until college for them to start. They see what I do, and want to do similar things. So they are. To me it is amazing what they can accomplish, and how "making a company" for them is more interesting than watching TV. This weekend we have a giant vat of playdough waiting to be made. My oldest is going to model the racetrack for his Android game in real life, then translate it to digitial . All of this was his plan, I merely drove to the store to get the materials.

It is not a startup of course, more like a complicated hobby. The kids are having fun, and so am I ,

Maybe in another 10 years my son will be ready for a real startup. By then he will have 10 years into customer service, colabortaing with an international team, product development. Mostly I hope he enjoys himself and learns some things about business. It beats a lemonade stand.

1 https://www.facebook.com/legimon?ref=hl
Ecomom could be one. They sold below cost and essentially just bled money, if I remember correctly.
yeah, that is what I noticed.
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I've had the pleasure of working with Benjamin and he's an extremely talented developer who'll be a valuable asset to any team. I highly recommend him.