skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> This is simply not true. Executive skill is very highly overrated. There is no "magic" these overpaid executives have that uniquely enables them to run large companies.

To some degree I agree with you.

Some of the most profitable companies I've worked for have very shrewd CEO's. I worked at a bike shop when I was still in college (Eriks Bike Shop). The guy started his business when he was 14. When I worked there, he still only had around 10 stores. One of the smartest things he did was get real estate in smaller areas, off the beaten path and grow his customer base. Once he had a big chunk of the market, he'd close those stores and open a bigger shop right off the highway, near the old store. He also had a very close knit group of people at the top. As far as a I know, it's still just him, the VP of sales, the head IT guy and one other guy. Less than 6 guys effectively now run 22 shops in two states and do multi-millions in sales every year. Erik never went to college, and started this right out of high school. A good example of someone without the groomed skills you're talking about.

The other places I've worked, like most of the bigger fortune 500 companies, they usually had Ivy Leaguers who either had PhD's in either business or economics or both. To me, these skills aren't overrated. If you've gone to Yale for 8-10 years and have a PhD in Business Management, then yeah, you have skills which most people will never have. As such, they have certain abilities and insight most other people don't. To me this makes them uniquely qualified to run large businesses. Not just their degree, but also the market and business insight expertise is crucial. Sometimes I don't think you just get that from working in a certain industry for a certain period of time.
(Dj stands for Dhanurjay and not disk jockey.)
Why Make Websites Accessible?
Why on earth are you using ftp in 2015?

rsync over ssh is a much much better solution - and you're not sending data in the clear over the wire.

And why even provision a backup server? Just sync it all to AWS S3 - 2 cents per gig per month...
The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified Invading Iraq
State sponsored cyber warfare is something that happens at a scale that normal private companies and organizations are not well equipped to deal with. I wonder if there's someone you can alert in the government who can consider coordinating a counterattack or pass a backchannel note to the right people to cut it out.
There is no way to know that some remote blackbox is genuine, except to feed all the inputs that you are feeding to that blackbox also to a trusted blackbox, and verify that the outputs are identical. This breaks down as soon as random numbers are involved (session keys, etc).

Also, even this does not assure you that the blackbox isn't doing something bad via a side channel. For instance, if we trust the genuine blackbox not to transmit personal data somewhere, how do we know that the BUT (blacbox-under-test) isn't doing that? We have to isolate the blackbox, and then destroy it at the end of the test (so it can't store something and transmit later). You can't isolate a remote box. A remote box has inputs and outputs unknown to you that you cannot monitor.

Trust is a big problem with the SaaS model. When you're trusting a SaaS application, you're really trusting the provider who is hosting that application. There is no way around that.

I think, however, that there is an intermediate wortwhile goal: to have assurance that you're trusting only the host of the application!

That is to say, that the SaaS application doesn't contain malware which was not intentionally injected by the provider, but somehow got there via an upstream code source or through some exploit or whatever.

If you can provide a way that the SaaS provider itself can check that it's running the code that it thinks it is running, that is valuable. If the SaaS is rogue and customizes the code to do things that the users don't agree with, that's a separate concern.
Daily reminder that anybody who, in C/C++ application code, doesn't hide their atomic ops, integer sizes, and simd directives behind compiler- and system-agnostic defines deserves to die in a motherfucking fire.

EDIT: Downvote away...if you've ever had to migrate over a codebase that did this, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
The hidden fees of 401k plans have been displaced to Wall St firms unbeknownst to most participants because they don't show up on statements, and because the balance that people see on their statements give an inflated sense of how much they have saved, even though they still need to pay taxes when they withdraw.

It also diverts money away from more conservative long term investments in tangible wealth like real estate and into the stock market, so people are less diversified and lose out when the markets go down. 401k's really only let you take long positions, while financial firms can take either side of the trade... you can reason out who the winner will be in that situation.
It's an exciting adventure! I look forward to seeing you somewhere along our journey :)
IMVU Acquires Fur Affinity
Thank you! We'll try our best :)
This is basically what I came here to post. Meeting other founders and having a social and business circle of other successes and work-in-progress companies? Are there any other reasons to join YC? The money is a pittance, relative to the cost of being in SF, but the connections you can make in a month are invaluable.
Yes if you are not concerned with wasting money, it's very easy to not care who takes your money.
I got stumped decoding the tempo. I see in a spoiler that the Hex is 00 00 F0 42 but I don't understand how 120.000 is decoded from that.
Ha. Your writeup basically summarizes my extensive "Why Meteor" article. Curious if you've read it before, or if Meteor just makes developers become great minds ;)

http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/Why_Meteor
what is the grid of numbers on the last page in the bottom right? (above Fib numbers)
Benchmark: MongoDB 3.0 (with WiredTiger) vs. Couchbase Server 3.0.2 [pdf]
I was just using speeding as an example of an interaction that most of us have probably had at some point. No, you probably won't end up with anything worse than a fine. But just like with more serious matters, you might be getting yourself in trouble unnecessarily. Sometimes police will stop someone they believe to have been speeding, without any evidence to that fact. (They saw you zip by, but don't have you on radar, and didn't get a chance to pace you, for instance.) If you say, "Yes, sorry I was speeding," or, "I thought I was only about 5 over," or whatever, now they can ticket you.
Magic Leap Demo: Just Another Day in the Office at Magic Leap
That was why I brought up RHEL: they're not pushing it on users, they're pushing it on distros whose users care about binary driver compatibility.
How effective would this solution be:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/back-dead-simple-bash-co...
Linux and the open source movement pretty much disproves that theory. Better (or "at least as good") quality kernels than the two biggest software companies and biggest defenders of intellectual property rights on the planet could manage.

We should really look at the evidence rather than repeating the mantra.
The problem is that the process is so opaque that it's hard to get rid of the nagging question of, "Am I being screwed somehow?"

You say you should know the value of the car and what you're willing to pay. How can you be sure that what you're willing to pay is reasonable? What if what you're willing to pay is a thousand dollars too high because you screwed something up? You can mitigate this with more research, but it's a lot of work compared to buying most things.

You're right that the buyer ultimately has the power (as long as the buyer doesn't need a car right now and has a reasonable choice of dealers in his area), but you have to wield it. This is not true in most areas. I don't need to do research and look up tips for getting the best deal out of my local Safeway. I just go buy stuff (after getting a loyalty card). My power works invisibly to ensure I get a reasonably good deal on almost everything. To the extent that there are tricks, it's simple stuff like "when there are two identical items from different brands, buy the cheaper one." When buying a car, you still have the power, but you have to go out of your way to wield it, or else you'll get screwed.

People want an experience where they just go in, pay, and walk out with a good deal. You can get a good deal from car dealers if you put in the work, but it's that very fact that you have to put in the work that people don't like.
As to 'Putin-Versteher' and RT shill Udo Ulfkotte:

I've written about the "journalist" Udo Ulfkotte over the years and was pleased that he seemed to have faded from view, disappearing into the pages of the 9/11 Truther Site of Kopp Verlag. Ulfkotte distinguished himself as a racist and anti-Islam hatemonger, demanding that all Muslims be deported from Germany in order to create more Lebensraum for ethnic Germans. For years he has been publishing articles and books that distort the truth, or are outright lies. A few examples: Ulfkotte claimed that Muslims were waging a "fecal Jihad" against Germans"because Turkish women were allegedly defecating in fields of strawberries that were exported to Germany. He warned Germans to stay away from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, since black African "savages" were planning to rape and murder European visitors. Of course, President Obama is one those black African savages - or at least a 'half-breed" - whom he hates. He lied that Obama was persecuting Christians in the United States, and had given orders to burn Bibles. I could go on and on. Actually, I cannot identify any examples where the "journalist" Udo Ulfkotte reported truthfully about anything.

http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2015...
CRTC reforms to include $25 basic cable or satellite package
Some tried that, I told them I was busy and didn't have the time to visit dealers. I never indicated I was desperate to get a car RIGHT NOW. Play it cool and all the power is in your hands imo.
To be exact, he probably means 64 GiB¹ of RAM (see IEEE 1541-2002²).

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¹ — http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%20GiB%20to%20MiB%20an...

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541-2002
Defaulting is actually harder.

Right now Grease gets more new loans / year than they pay out in interest payments. So their debt keeps growing until their next default / restructuring. It’s a vicious cycle.

On the other hand if they defaulted and did not need to make interest payments, but could not make new loans their cash flow would be worse off. But, they would have a reasonable path to long term prosperity by simply keeping their books balanced.

Of course there is always the 3rd option of defaulting and then trying to make new loans and default again. But their already getting free money from the EU so there is little point in doing this now.
Couldn't you go back in and change it at any time though?
Not sure if it can handle the load...
With online democracy, would this make it extremely easy for NSA/GCHQ to manipulate the votes? GCHQ is already known to manipulate online voting and mass install malware.
Been running a game server on OVH that has been repeatedly DDOS'd by random people. It may take a moment or two to kick in and cause some wonky connectivity around the times of the attacks, but their service has been able to take some attacks in the several GBps range without a problem while we have used them.
Most people can't afford a Tesla... so thats a moot point.
As someone that has had a CAC, it does work on non-IE browsers (including on non-Windows OSes) for most government sites.
Open Sourcing Digital Medical Devices
NetApps numbers appear to be based on a small number of corporate sites, which are skewed towards US media companies. They weight the numbers by the CIA World Factbook data for internet usage in a country but they've never given a reason to believe this approach doesn't exaggerate the distortions present in their sample of data.

If you want reliable numbers, nothing beats direct measurement for a comparable site. I've never worked on a site where traffic was anywhere near NetApps’ but I've found Akamai’s numbers to be reasonably close for sites which target a general audience:

http://www.akamai.com/html/io/io_dataset_v2.html
"It is bittersweet for me, the opportunity lost to keep funding NASA at a reasonable level could have a lot of useful data in the 'bank' as it were, but by and large much of the stuff that makes what SpaceX does possible is relatively new."

Minimally, the pintle engine technology came out of NASA work and I suspect much of their technical knowledge comes either directly or indirectly from NASA funding.

" Clearly nobody in the "old guard" really cared about space, they just wanted to keep the money flowing. I am profoundly glad that they are being shaken up."

I think many of their engineers cared. But their corporate culture doesn't seem that interested in spaceflight, or at least spaceflight beyond the status quo.
Which type of fully homomorphic encryption are you using?

Edit: Ah, found your patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US20130329883
Look up how we usually encode IEEE 754 floating point numbers and then also think about endianess (little or big).
Sounds like your bike shop friend as an incredibly rare skill-set to pull that off. Out of a million people how many of them could start a successful chain while still a teenager, even with great luck?
dealerships are the reason I've only ever owned 3 cars in over 20 years of driving. My last car was a mitsubishi bought from a Chevy dealership, I think I got reamed on that one. My current car is a Toyota from a no-haggle dealership. Went there, they brought up Edmunds.com "true car value," we walked through it together, and they knocked $1000 off that price. I walked away happy. And that Toyota has been going on 6 years now. The only major service it's needed was to clean out a nest that some pack rats created in the engine bay (before chewing some spark plug wires and electrocuting themselves)
Everything patio11 said, but with an addendum:

If you're trying to evade a behavioral Intrusion Detection System while exfiltrating the data, sending a small trickle over a long period of time is less obvious than sending 2 TB overnight and increases your odds of success.
I thought maybe this had changed, since Tesla's "Find Us" map has a "Coming Soon" service center in Albuquerque. Upon further research, it looks like that's just an expression of desire and optimism on Tesla's part, and they're still not actually legally permitted to build one.
My experience with them was exactly the same as OP. Wanted us to bring buckets of cash for 10-100TB of bandwidth. Went with CacheFly, super satisfied.
It must be nice to have a division of unicorn cavalry at your command.

We will never be able to abolish war until we have first defeated fear. Until then, violence and the threat of violence will be an effective way to influence human behavior.
iOS 8.2 Jailbreak Release will be Soon
Maybe you know one already.

I think it goes both ways. Makes some things a lot easier and others a lot harder. Django's admin for example, can often give you 90% of what you are looking for with very little effort. It doesn't take a lot of effort to learn it. The again, if your application falls outside that model, no point in trying to shoehorn it in.

I would also say that frameworks keep things consistent(I know Django well, so based on that). I recently added Django-rest-framework to my application. It took very little to learn that as they have tried to keep the coding style the same as the class based views. Using them is almost the same, so after the initial half day or so in the docs, everything just clicked into place.
I'm (obviously) not the person you're replying to, but information security, financial analyst, systems analyst (ok, some basic programming skill required), systems architect, IT audit all come to mind. That's just within the scope of the jobs I've been asked to interview for within the last 3-4 months. I'm a CISSP with a couple years of infosec consulting & audit experience; I can read/write SQL, and that's about it, in terms of programming.

That said, I understand large-scale organizational infrastructure and am current on the organizational concepts associated with building & mainaining a large-scale IT environment, so that's what I bring to the table as an employee. I work 40-45 hours in an average week, and the glassdoor box charts for positions with my skill set are typically between $80k and $130k, depending on experience and the company you choose to work for in my region.
Why Some of Google's Coolest Projects Flop Badly
The wiki definition you quote is essentially what I was going off of. There are still terms that need to be defined, like "natural opportunities" and "contrived exclusivity," and that gets you right back to property rights.
TubeList – A ProductHunt/Reddit for YouTube Channels
From the FAQ:

> Due to the sensitive nature of the content on our web sites we prefer to remain anonymous at this point

If they want help they need to be transparent about who they are and what their objective is. One man's tool of diplomacy is anothet man's... etc.
Call http://equalit.ie/ - they have a free open source tool for exactly this!
I think I just fell in love with Erlang.
There is a testnet that works right now, but should not be used in production yet (I think it gets reset regularly? Not sure.). Within a few months, it is expected that the first version of "the real thing" will be up, but I don't think putting things on it quite then would necessarily be a good idea (probably depends on what things one is considering putting on it), because it is set up so that after a certain time, there will be a change to a new version, and while all balances will be carried over across that change to the new version, other parts of the state of the system won't be, so anything built on it would have to be set up again.
(which could just be a matter of sending the same message again, so it might not be that much of a problem to set it up before the change I guess.)

Also, its probably important to note that a contract is run by every miner (or, every miner on a certain part of the network, depending on how the scalability thing ends up being done?), and that as such, you will want to keep any computation done by a contract to be computationally cheap, so that it will be cheap to use. Instead of having the computation do the computation that needs to be done, it may in some cases work better to just have the contract verify the accuracy of computations that have been done.

However, now that I think of it, I'm not sure that Ethereum would solve all of the problems OP gives, because one of the problems OP wanted to solve was that they wanted to demonstrate that they were not storing information that they shouldn't be. But with Ethereum, because the contracts are executed by "everyone", everyone has to have access to the data the contracts are using to run, and there is no way to insure that they don't hold onto that data.

One way to solve this could maybe be doing computations on shared secrets (as talked about in one of the Ethereum blog posts, but which is not something Ethereum is to have), but this might require more messages to be sent over the network than one is willing to use. Still much more practical than homeomorphic encryption though I think. (If one was using the shared secret thing, I'm not sure one would do it with Ethereum.)

Ethereum could/would solve the problem of ensuring that the program being run is exactly as claimed, but it might not keep certain information private.
Depending on the specific problem at hand, there might be ways around that though?

EDIT:
ok, so, something suggested that homeomorphic encryption might have gotten an improvement to the point of practicality recently? I wasn't aware of that. May make this post slightly out of date.
Meh. Knowing people active in most bigger German political parties and the inside scoop they talk about, they pretty much all have the same amount of cranks. Just varying levels of PR budget to cover it up, plus better structures to prevent them from getting relevant.
Lying to the police, even by intentionally misinterpreting the question, is probably a bad idea.
Sounds about right! And very cool about them coming to your house - nice of the dealer to do that.
Well I can't other than agree with you. When I was doing research on this particular use case I was surprised that GMail APIs are open like this.

It was my priority to ensure that we are looking just for specific filter and I touch only emails from Uber and Lyft.

GMail API developers should definitely consider adding this kind of granularity to the system. I think it would allow to build much more sophisticated and trustworthy application.
I would have guessed much higher for IE (closer to 50%). I'm glad that it is ~30%, as that means we have a relatively competitive market with a diverse array of quality products to choose from (and yes, that includes recent versions of IE).
Rethink Robotics, Home of Baxter, Brings a New Robot Arm to the Party
I thought I recognized this. I wanted to work for Matasano at one point but found the CTF environment incredibly difficult if you come from a Web Dev side of things. Hopefully starfighter is different.
Growth Hacking Can Give a Startup the Required Boost
Erin Ptacek is a co-founder of the company, with Thomas and myself. We're the only people formally working on Starfighter at the moment.
I think the reason they can offer it so cheap is a combination of scale, cheap electricity, and tax breaks. iWeb is also in Quebec, so I figured there must be some tax break. Lo and behold there is one heck of a tax break:

http://www.investquebec.com/quebec/en/financial-products/smb...

Basically the Quebec government pays 24% of your company's wages, up to $83,333 per employee!
Understanding Rack Apps and Middleware
Is not amazon deforested to make place for biofuel plantations?
Windows has wget. Well technically it has Powershell alias for Invoke-WebRequest, however if you type "wget example.com/file.exe -OutFile file.exe" it will do what you expect. It also has Invoke-RestMethod and System.Net.WebClient.UploadFile( 'http://example.com/submit', $filename ).

> In general for TCP/IP there is still just almost nothing.

No clue what that means or what it is in reference to.
Not ironic. Instructors allow cheat sheets for this reason as much as for actually looking stuff up.

Instructors were students too. We don't forget.
Good stuff, but I'll nitpick on this part:

If you've gone to Yale for 8-10 years and have a PhD in Business Management, then yeah, you have skills which most people will never have. As such, they have certain abilities and insight most other people don't.

I don't think that this is relevant to their ability as an executive. In the same way, I generally don't see PhDs being good developers or engineers. In some cases it denotes passion, but more and more these advanced degrees seem to only signal a desperation to get a piece of paper and an inability to escape from a fairly exploitative and abusive system.
Thank you. I feel better prepared to lookup binary formats now. I should have played with Synalize a bit more.
According to the EIA [1] Peak demand (in New England, which I imagine is similar to the UK) appears to be around 7PM, which is well past the time significant solar production is occurring.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=830