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Ask HN: How do you “stay foolish”?
In Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech, his parting words to graduating students was to “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”

I have been foolish in many ways much to my financial detriment. The most foolish thing I’ve done is buy, fix and sell over 10 houses for $500k profit, getting burned out, and wasting all the profit in the following years chasing foolish investments. I’m burned out from dealing with all the unreliable idiots to the point where I will likely not buy another house again even as a personal residence.

I was also foolish enough to buy early into bitcoins and not lose them. This was probably my most profitable foolish move although it doesn't make up for all my other moves.

Every passing year it’s getting harder and harder to stay foolish.

What have you done to stay foolish?
Full time, took two years.

Well the main one was just learning, know more people and I thought I would learn how to start or make my own company.

Look, the best part was knowing a LOT more people, learning from them, and just getting all that business stuff/crap/insights...
But the single best and most important advice I could give some one that doesn't want to take a full MBA, it's:

1. Learn finances, OMG, just do it. Loan payments, ballon payments, how interest works, credit lines, bonds, leisures, etc. Just LEARN IT, its really usefull, no matter how, just learn it and really well!
It's one of the single most important things you could learn as an adult.

2. Learn Marketing. Not just the social media crap, but the "Emotional Branding" stuff. OMG, GO GO GO. Learn to creat "experiences" with the senses, to manipulate prices, learn the marketing lingo and feel the bliss of learning how to sell your producs.
DO. IT. NOW.

Anyway, I'm getting my degree in about two weeks. It was hard. It was fun, and actually cheap (third world country yey!).

Any more questions? ask away.
If your theory is correct, would we not expect to see the account names be a bit more random? That is to say, these are in alphabetical order and clearly coming from a large list because the letters in each progressive account are similar:

Bille97...
Billel...
Billen...
Billet...
Billew...

Isn't it unlikely that so many alphabetically-similar accounts from the third-party site would use the same password for dropbox?
True, but that cuts the potential user base from {people using either Chrome or Firefox} to {those people, but they also have to have a niche addon already installed}.

Also I wasn't sure if I'd need fancy javascript logic or not to get unsticker.me working. I'm just happy it only took those 8 lines of CSS.
A couple more points about text:

1) In addition to being searchable, text lends itself to other forms of automated processing such as translation and text-to-speech for the vision impaired.

2) I'm prone to debilitating eyestrain headaches when I try to do any kind of graphical work on a computer, yet I can write text without looking at the screen.
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Hello everyone, welcome to git-annex, potentially your new assistant for syncing and storing files privately, distributely and cryptographically, as you wish or not: http://git-annex.branchable.com/
Cranston is the best. He is a fantastic role model for consistently showing up and putting in work, and if he's only a quarter as nice as he's been described, he'd be a fine drinking companion any day.
It appears there has been a response from Dropbox:

http://www.techly.com.au/2014/10/14/dropbox-hacked-seven-mil...

"Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well."
Perfect, thanks for being more observant than I was!
Tracking down the Thiel Fellow and Dartmouth dropout who tried to impersonate me
No, they dont, as of yet at least.

See: http://btc.blockr.io/address/info/1Fw7QqUgzbns7yWHH32UnmMxmM...
It is very likely that they have X million passwords leaked from other sites, and they only chose to release emails that begin with "bi-".
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

Crouton is a install script that uses a chroot to install Ubuntu through the shell on ChromeOS. You still need to enable developer mode, and it uses the ChromeOS kernel, but other than that it looks and feels like a "normal" Ubuntu installation.
So Google says that pipelining is bad, but they never compared to it in any of their published results. One of their results for mobile didn't even include TCP connection setup for SPDY but did for HTTP (I suppose their SPDY implementation kept the connection open to their test server). Google says bad proxies and routers break pipelining, except if you can use SSL to bypass these things for SPDY then this is a solution for pipelining as well.

Meanwhile Microsoft published data showing pipelining to be basically the same speed as SPDY, and one of Google's pages (maps IIRC) loaded much slower with SPDY then plain HTTP because of a priority inversion, so priority codes had to be embedded in the site content.

So there's this much more complicated single connection, with priorities and "TCP-over-TCP" and dubious performance benefits. Why? I wonder how long Google will allow each request to come from a different connection. That seems to be where they are headed with this.
Let's imagine that I have privilege grouping sub-users, something like name.banking, name.work, etc. Now my work files can't see my banking unless a window pops up going "Would you like Experimental Thing for Work to have access to name.banking?"

I think being able to explain to the computer how my data is grouped, and access patterns in it, is more natural for users than most of the security models we have today.

It's also much easier to have two copies of the browser load, depending on if I'm invoking it through name.banking or name.general. And much easier to explain to grandma you do banking when you use name.banking and you look at cat photos in general.

Grandma isn't stupid, she doesn't understand how technology work. Making permissions based around how she categorizes her information and how she divvies up tasks is more natural for her than insisting security only work if she understand how computers work.
No, the article is right, "set distance" means that the eye focuses on a distance that is fixed, namely the distance to screens. It can have full stereoscopic 3D and still force the human eye to focus at a given distance. This is a big change from real life, where the eye is continuously changing the focus based on the depth of objects of interest.

Other, non-screen based technologies, such as DLP [1] would allow the rendered field of depth to adjust based on the eye's focus, allowing the scene to be more realistic, and reducing mental fatigue. I think there was a different company using someting like this. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing

[2] http://kotaku.com/people-really-want-that-other-scary-cool-v...
Dropbox response:

"Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well."
Just in case you aren't using one already: https://agilebits.com/onepassword

It's ridiculously easy and worthwhile.
Title is a bit inflammatory. No proof, simply a few short lists of usernames and passwords that (at the time of release) were valid to login to Dropbox.

Did they come from Dropbox? Not necessarily. Not everyone uses a unique username+password combination for each site.

A more accurate title would be something like: Dropbox accounts potentially compromised
Somebody should compare these against previous major breaches (Adobe etc.). If there was a new one you would think that they would directly name the service. Otherwise they might just be seeking attention / BTC by reposting a previous breach.
Nanopunk
I've been following this company for about a month now, and following this technology (light field displays) for a few years. I think this technology will basically replace all forms of screens eventually; it's just a question of timing. I'm annoyed I didn't hear about this company earlier, because they're based in my home town, but I just moved to California.
Yeah, I work on VR and know of alternatives to stereoscopic displays. I still maintain that the writer is wrong and doesn't understand what they're describing:

"On Oculus Rift and pretty much every other virtual and augmented reality experience, what the viewer sees is flat and floating in space at a set distance. What Magic Leap purports to do is make you think you’re seeing a real 3-D object on top of the real world."

Good stereoscopic 3D does not give a sensation of seeing something flat and floating in space at a set distance.
By "not everyone" you actually mean "no one except a few hackers that have the means to do so by using an installed program".
I put a money back guarantee that half of the users who do encrypt with a passphrase use the same password that logs into their dropbox account... ha
> My view of weight loss is simple: eat less. I eat anything I want, don't eat until noon each day, do essentially no cardio, and lift weights for less than 30 minutes 2-3 times/week.

As someone who lost nearly a third of his body weight and has kept it off for more than half a decade and running, I would provide the following constructive criticism of your approach: weight loss in and of itself is a red herring.

What gets lost in so many weight loss discussions is that we're really talking about health. Losing weight, especially when you're overweight or obese, is comparitvely easy; getting healthy is much more difficult. We treat our weight as a proxy for health, but it's not the only one, and once you reach a certain point, it actually ceases to be one of the better measures of one's health. There are plenty of slender people walking around with high cholesterol and high blood pressure, and who can't lift a modest amount of weight or engage in moderate aerobic exertion. They're not healthy by any stretch of the imagination.

When you overly restrict calories, you are far more likely to lose significant amounts of muscle. When you regularly skip meals, you mess with your metabolism and blood sugar levels, and there's some evidence you might even increase your odds of developing diabetes. When you fail to consider what you eat, you are less likely to get adequate nutrition. When you avoid sufficient aerobic activity, you put your cardiovascular health (not to mention sustained weight loss) at risk.

Obviously, you can lose weight in any number of ways, healthy and unhealthy, but the diet you describe rarely produces sustained weight loss over the long haul and, more importantly, it's not healthy. When you're overweight and want to get in shape, food seems like the enemy, but food is actually your body's fuel and diets that simply reduce its intake and little else are at odds with what we know is conducive to health.
Do you have to worry about this if you have 2-factor auth enabled?
If the technology is as significant as it appears to be, doesn't it reach into enough billion (and trillion?) dollar industries? The investment in this kind of technology isn't just about gaming or Hollywood.
I've worked with Wordpress for the last 7 years myself, and some of these points aren't too far off the mark. I'm of the belief that I shouldn't have to install a million plugins for stuff that should be built in, and I'm sick of the global loop. On the other hand the module system and Laravel integration I've built at work makes Wordpress rather nice to use for heavy development; clients can build new pages from scratch with all the structure content they want, and have the design never break and always match the rest of the page. I love ACF ;)
How rarely would you say you log in to Dropbox? I use it quite frequently to access the website to access files when not on a computer with my full dropbox synced locally.
I backed Joey's campaign for this and made earnest attempts to use it. It's very, very difficult to use for say, backing up MP3s from main machine A to NAS and external drives. Especially on Windows, the sheer number of tiny files it creates causes most tools to grind to a halt.
Step 1. Enable 2 factor authentication

Step 2. Change password
His articles addresses your comments about the market: that they're being irrational by viewing their purchasing decisions without considering the impact it has on the portfolio - going full government bonds.

You're as much strawmanning his article as you're accusing him of strawmanning other points.

It's possible lots of people did put a lot of work in to styling on the web, and that it's still bad and we could do better if we started over. Of course it's going to take a lot of effort to get back to where a current project is, but that's the point: people who are using current projects should also be looking at their future costs (total cost of ownership over company/product lifetime), and take on a couple high risk investments if their projected long term cost is lowered by it. They're not doing that, because people like you show up and say "Hey, it'll never get done because it's a lot of work, so let's just keep hacking on a complexity explosion."

Of course a CSS replacement isn't going to immediately replace it. That's nonsense. Rather, the author is saying that if we started now, in 5-10 years, our choice to reduce complexity would have paid off, and we'll now pull ahead of where the hackpile that is CSS would have us at that time.

But if we never start, we're never going to get that growth, and have to keep hacking away at a mess forever.
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Because it makes up 10 percent of the user base in my country.
In Python, it’s all about the attributes
Light field displays literally show a different image to one part of your retina than another. It is not incorrect to explain that technologies like the rift are 'flat', as, while they may show two images, they are simply flat images on a display. Light field tech combines an array of images that recreates the way light works in reality.

Light field displays are to the Rift like the Rift is to a 3DTV.
You can read more about the motivations for this tool and the process of building it here: https://danvk.github.io/2014/10/13/filtering-json-with-pyjso...
So far, it appears not. Though if you reused your Dropbox password anywhere else, resetting both would be a good idea.
Most templating languages have binding syntax, and most people want them to have some.

That said, I too find the documentation too brief, especially on things like ng-repeat's filters.
Am I mis-remembering or didn't we see this same list before?
easy: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
They already raised $50mil Series A in February, it doesn't seem that unrealistic. Remember, a typical film budget for these guys easily breaks into the hundreds of millions.
For that reason, clone(2) always felt like an overgenerality -- an attempt to decompose something into orthogonal parts, most combinations of which actually don't make sense.
Too vague and open-ended to admit of a meaningful answer. Everyone has an individual utility possibility frontier and your app will sit somewhere different relative to that. Your aim as a commercial entity is to sit along the median.
While that may be true, it is easy to see how they might have come from there, and it's easy to see how in multiple places around the world that "word" could come to mean the same thing all on its own.

"Huh?" is simply the onomatopoeia of a quick, burst of air across the neutral state of mouth, tongue and lips, maybe with the opening of one's mouth following it.

If someone didn't hear something, or if someone wanted to acknowledge their presence and attentiveness, what simpler way than making a quick sound, without even trying to define it in any direction. That sound happens to be what we call 'huh?' or 'hm?' or 'eh?'
Could be another big service that didn't have any connection to Dropbox. People re-use passwords a lot.

LinkedIn leaked 6.5 Million hashed but not salted passwords back in 2012, for example.
I think the point was that many people reuse their passwords, so if Google et al were proactive about it, they would force reset passwords for the emails in this leak. But I agree, that may be over-protective/paranoid in some sense...
I saw this come across twitter and just used the title of the pastebin. Thought it would be of interest to HN, looks like I was right.
Saving someone in immediate peril of death is a bit different to alerting someone that there's been a privacy breach, which they can then deal with themselves.
Dropbox has responded to Ars Technia (not sure if elsewhere) http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/7-million-dropbox-us...

The update from Dropbox:

Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We'd previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.
Using http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7803135/1_million_email_list to give the relative frequency of email addresses I'd estimate they have a total of around 30k addresses

-> % cat 1000000\ email\ list.txt | sed 's/, */\n/g' | grep "@"| sort | uniq | wc -l
835694
-> % cat 1000000\ email\ list.txt | sed 's/, */\n/g' | grep "@"| sort | uniq | grep -i "^b[e-i]" | wc -l
11160
irb(main):001:0> (835694.0 / 11160) * 400
=> 29953.189964157707
Maybe, but it could definitely be illegal. Anyone could have the right intentions, but make a mistake during an act of Good Samaritan-ship and get sued.
Front-end is the new back-end
Vice Prez of Project Manager
Sounds as if that requires retiring systems when the developer leaves the company.
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If you read the post you'll see a link to benchmark scores
VeraCrypt a Worthy TrueCrypt Alternative
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I gave it a quick spin and it seems like it needs more work to behave like a spreadsheet.

Even simple circular references are not detected right now. For example, I put some numbers from A1 through A5 and then put a SUM(A1:A6) into A6. It added everything up (including the sum itself) and keeps updating A6 with the sum of A1:A5 every time I move from one cell to another using Enter or Tab. You can see this at https://ethersheet.org/s/IsThisAwesomeNow

And also, as @binarymax stated, arrow keys to navigate (along with F2 to edit a cell instead of the default of putting a cell in edit mode), usage of arrow keys within formulas to get cell references (instead of typing the cell reference), easy ways to format cells, easy way to extend the width or height of columns/rows...I presume there's a large backlog of features to implement. :)

Right now, this is far behind EtherCalc in terms of features and usability.
Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail each have ~300MM uniques per month. Gmail only became the leader, by a percentage point or so, at the end of 2012. You would expect roughly the same number of addresses from each provider.
Will what you're doing now lead to where/what you want to be after 10-20 years?
I'm puzzled at why it seems strange to you. I find the differences between cultures interesting, and I am led to believe this is a fairly common fascination.
Or perhaps person-distance/time or mass-distance/time of capacity?
Looks to me like a completely useless claim considering you give zero explanation for it.
DROPBOX.COM Hacked Second Teaser – Pastebin.com
Yeah, I feel the same way, even though I know one of the guys working on this. That said, I do think they have a great product, just wish there was a better way for them to get the information without needing all those permissions.
Just got back from Logan, what a blast. In Chicago for the weekend and wouldn't have known to check for it if it weren't for your comment!
It's about gaming and entertainment because that is by far the biggest, most visible market with the most ROI in hardware and software. The upfront investment and man power required to push a technology from early adopters to widespread adoption isn't usually trivial. Just like gaming pushed scientific research to new heights by commoditizing GPUs, VR gaming will be just a big a boon for all industries.
This story has the best and worst of the current SV environment in one.

On one hand, it's amazing to see that the boundaries of technology are moving so fast that someone could come along a year after Oculus makes big news with something that might blow them out of the water (according to marketing hype).

On the other hand, $500M for an unlaunched startup with no users is crazy. That money could be stretched so far in so many ways and it's being dumped into a company without a dime in revenue. There is clearly no attempt to be 'lean'. It's hard to believe that they really 'need' $500M to develop this new tech, they're not flying to space and they're not pushing a medical device through FDA trials.

I guess the best thing to do is sit back and watch.
I thought Newsweek shut down and sold their name a whole back. So Newswrek isn't really Newsweek.
More info on PEEK here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEEK
I said it's not going to reach 100%, probably whatever we do. Probably there are ways to improve on the Android and iOS permission models - there was talk in another thread about "deny this permission but fake it" options, there are probably ways things can be presented better, there might be ways permissions can be divided better, &c... Manifestly, there exist plenty of users that don't pay enough attention to what permissions they're granting. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it's an improvement over user behavior patterns on user-account-only permission systems, though.
True. The real problem is if you use a hash that's not designed for protecting passwords and can be computed at a rate of millions/billions per second on commodity hardware - versus s-crypt & friends which should only allow for 10s-100s guesses per second on the same hardware.
> 20 or so years until upload and cloned bodies become accessible

That's an... optimistic time frame.
What drives writers to drink?
Any good password manager (eg: 1Password) has a mobile app for easy access as well. Worth the investment.
Two(!) days ago Snowden warned:
http://rt.com/news/195244-snowden-rid-dropbox-privacy/
no single industry is in the trillion dollar range, not even oil
My first foray into Dependent types in Haskell is going to involve this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26027765/using-types-to-p...

So, that propellor, my configuration management system written and configured in haskell, will reject at compile time configurations for systems where there would be a port conflict amoung the configured services. Which is ever so much nicer than noticing that at runtime.

Still wrapping my head fully around dependent types, but the community's great, to the extent of writing the code for me when I ask a simple question. ;)
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"Your eyes may have to swivel in and out to align the images, but they don't have to refocus."

how is this different from refocusing?
The 1s used between 100kW and 150kW. So a small substation. The XMP used 200-300kW. The 2 used 150-200kW.

There was a YMP model (the EL) that could be power off normal mains (220v).

Energy efficient was different back then.