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You can't expect a closed-source crypto software vendor to hand the source to a 3rd party, but you have no problems handing that vendor's software the keys to your life. I'm not going to debate the merits of that decision, but it's a choice you make based on your individual, hard-to-quantify perception of 'trust'.

I have ample factual evidence that both KeePass and 1Pass authors had made multiple crypto blunders. Both score low on my trustworthiness scale.

It's extremely difficult to prove crypto correct, but it's very easy to discover that it's wrong. Open-source software allows one to discover crypto mistakes. It does not allow one to prove crypto correctness.

On the other hand, if you use closed-source software like 1Password, you cannot discover crypto mistakes regardless of your level of crypto expertise.

Once we start making crypto choices based on tptacek's, schneier's, or anyone else's feelings about someone seeming to know what they are doing and getting a 'good vibe', the dark age of crypto will truly be upon us. Many folks trust & use PasswordSafe not because Schneier wrote it (I hope) but because it is open-sourced. Many folks trust & use Tarsnap not because Percival wrote it, but because the client is open-sourced.
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Oh, come on, people. Projecting is a pun, and the article is obviously political. Grow a sense of humor. Downvoters: if you want to see an asshole, find a mirror.
This is the funny math that got Groupon in trouble when it IPO'd. You can't count revenue as the main metric. You have to look at costs & profits.

Any bootstrapped business will tell you this - but somehow everyone forgets it when it's VC money.
Uh. Is this apropos of anything? It seems unrelated to the comment you're responding to. Are you a bot?
Tanenbaum cited QNX in Round 2 of the microkernel debate between he and Linus. It's had all sorts of great traits for a long time. It also had plenty of development time and a rip-off open source model to give it capabilities. Like Tanenbaum said in his paper, Minix 3 has had a small amount of core developers working on it for a relatively short amount of time. There's no way Minix 3 will trump QNX with such small resources and I doubt they planned to. It's more a start on building something using better engineering principles that might eventually become a great alternative to other UNIX's and Linux.
She's the CEO, it happened under her watch.

> What planet are you from that you think a company is run that way?

Well, not a planet where I try to persuade people of my views by sarcastically asking what planet they're from. That is not an argument and it's devoid of intellectual content.

> Ellen

So you are on a first-name basis with her? Maybe you can tell us the inside story. Otherwise, calling someone by a first name alone is vulgar.
$5 says you're wrong and AT&T does indeed pay a cash fine.
To be fair, most of those benefits were there early on. Everyone in the industry definitely knew about YC already when I started (S07). All major angels/VCs were reachable through the network already. Valuations were good (for back then).

But the network effect does make the club worth more.
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I dislike Pao, the lawsuit, and the surrounding politics but I agree that this is unacceptable.
My big question is: are we ever going to get past this crap? Or is this the enlightened future of discourse. I guess I'm just getting old -- the gish gallop isn't new, but this form feels more terrible and insidious.
When is bing the right choice and google the right choice? I figure with their market shares that it would be pretty normalized. Just curious why there's a big difference between the two search engines in terms of users.
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It is disgusting that you think it's acceptable to tar someone with the alleged crimes of their spouse.
I don't think the Yubikey is able to generate TOTPs, unless all it is doing is passing the secret to the computer which is then generating them.
"You're a mortal lock on raising a round subsequent to Demo Day at a valuation which will make angels weep while happily investing."

While I concede your greater point, you're really overstating this part of it.
Reporting in with my own anecdote: I have totally opposite experiences.

I was at a medically-oriented place where there were a few pure EE engineers, and there was a lot of frustration by higher-ups for the EE's being clueless about medical things. The biomedical engineers were okay.
I think of books/knowledge as an experience accelerant. One could set a log on fire and it will burn, but it will burn a 'hek of a lot faster when liquid oxygen is poured onto it. Books do the same thing for practice. You'll get there one day with practice but you'll get there much faster when you're practicing under the influence of performance enhancing books.

One example from my own experience is Estimating.

It's something we all do, week in, week out. Yet there are still plenty of developers with years of experiences who delivery poor estimates week in, week out. I was one of these poor souls when I started developing. I would spend countless nights up late trying to finish a feature I promised someone else would be delivered yesterday.

So I did what my grandpa always recommended and I picked up a book, Steve McConnell's Software Estimation : The Black Art. And it taught me all types of tricks like making sure to break tasks into the smallest possible pieces.(Along with many other things. Seriously by this book, and every book Steve McConnell has written)

Maybe I would have eventually figured out tips like these on my own. But instead of having to wait to practice breaking up tasks into smaller more estimatable chunks, I got a 5 year head start and quickly was able to surpass many coworkers who had more years of experience but had spent less time in a book.

And now I can spend those late night posting on hacker news and not writing code trying to catch up for work :P.

TL;DR : Books are awesome. I read one once and I am a better estimator for it. And being a better estimator lets me spend more time on Hacker News. So if you wanna spend more time on hacker news, read a book.
Absolutely. Once you raise, you're practically praying for the economy to tank. All of your poorly funded competitors go away and everything gets way cheaper (primarily, labor).
Post Sarbanes-Oxley, it never makes sense to IPO, ever. You incur costs of several million dollars for compliance. Meanwhile, the ostensible purposes of an IPO (to provide liquidity for shareholders, and to provide access to public capital markets for the company) have had other solutions crop up. There's now an active secondary market for employee stock of private companies, and the vast majority of the money that would go into the public markets is now managed by the same large investment firms that do these late-stage private rounds.

I remember back when I was a countercultural libertarian hacker, we had a saying: "The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it." Well, the financial markets treat regulation as damage and route around it.
What interview question to ask when hiring an Experience Developer?
I think it would be worth stepping back and taking a higher level view of your skills, in order to see where you are best suited and can provide value.

For example, I know that I am only an average programmer when it comes to detailed systems level work. I would fail at a Google style interview because I do not know the Big O values for common algorithms. I cannot tell you how a Red-Black tree works without having to look it up. But I discovered that I was very fast at writing software of average difficulty that has few bugs. So I work at a small company and crank out lots of software that saves the company money by automating manual processes. By aligning my best skills with a company that needs them it becomes a win/win.

Maybe in your case you are very detailed orientated and so software testing would be a good fit. Maybe you are great at translating users needs into requirements and so should be a business analyst. Maybe you have a wide range of skills but lack depth in one area, so work as a jack-of-all trades in a small company. Stop thinking only about your ability to write some code and look at the wider context and where you best fit in.
I use a Yubikey for my Google accounts. They did a great job integrating it as a multi-factor auth option. It's a lot easier than punching in numbers from an SMS/Google Authenticator.

My Yubikey feels like a natural member of my key ring! I love it.
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What is the total amount of time you spent during those few times, although including the amount of time to learn what happened, and how many thousands of times larger is that amount than the sum total of the time saved by caching bytecode compilation every single time you loaded a pyc for every file you ever wrote?
Sounds like you support censorship. Did you even read the article?
How did US-French relations go from "We're donating this huge statue" to we-can't-even-call-it-french-fries ?
Much like 4th page retractions on stories in newspapers, headlines will always win out in terms of the influence on the readers.

That said, the author of KeePass responded to all the discussions here over on the project forum at SourceForge.

Since a lot of people aren't willing to even visit SF anymore, his notable responses were:

The header validation was fixed as of 2.20 in 2012

The singleton safety he was aware of, and it was only instanced prior to any threading of the application, so there could never be a thread safety issue. He has fixed this anyhow as the performance impact was minimal as of 2.30

The installers available via SF mirroring are signed by the author, so SF can not ever mess with them. They have no concerns about SF doing anything to their project.
It's not a "court". It's a non-binding opinion from one state's pro-employee commission in one person's situation. It's very close to meaningless.
That's why it has an arbitration clause. The Federal Arbitration Act trumps state law and allows such waivers.
Completely agree. I never truly understood discrete math until I had to teach it. I didn't understand sales until I ran a vendor booth for my wife's sci-fi novel. I didn't understand ballistics until I built model rockets and potato cannons from scratch. I didn't understand cooking until my coworkers at Waffle House marooned me at the grill during a Sunday morning rush. I didn't understand linear algebra until I had to write a software rasterizer and a best-fit modeling function. I didn't understand money management until I was poor. I didn't understand relational algebra and database systems until I wrote an ORM. I didn't understand digital electronics until I had to build a kiosk system from scratch (for a client!). I didn't understand analog electronics until I had to build a music synthesizer. I didn't (really) understand AC until I had to rewire my house!

Maybe some people can read a book and just know how to do things based on that. I used to be very caught up into thinking I needed a book to learn things. But that's not really me. I have to do. Most books aren't written in that regard. The authors want to pontificate on minutia. Now, I know I just need to jump in the deep end of making something and--somehow, be it through Wikipedia or Wolfram Alpha or StackOverflow or MSDN or MDN or what have you--I will learn what I need to get it done. Give me a cheat-sheet, some pliers, and a bail of wire any day. Until then, it's all just noise.

I think it ties in naturally to the Lean Startup ideology, i.e. the whole "release early, release often" thing. Using the example of chess, if you're just reading books on chess and are not playing games, then you're no better off than a startup who is working out of someone's basement, no marketing plan, no market feedback, just coding away based on some blue-sky ideology. "Release early, release often" isn't so much about success as it is about getting out of the basement, seeing the flow of things, and opening your eyes to reality.
Zed's said on twitter that he's been messing with Go. It might be somewhere on his work queue to write about it.
What warrants the outrage here? An announcement doesn't create a binding obligation with a rigid timetable. The sense of entitlement is unreal.
The 2FA interaction from Duo is superior here.
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Sidecar does this and it worsens the user experience for the most part. If this really is the key, I wonder how much lee-way Uber would need to offer to get over the hurdle. There are obviously ways it can offer pricing control but effectively get everyone at or near the desired price. Which I suspect would not fly.
If someone were to do a C-based API server, does Postgres have an API to interface with it at the PLAN or EXECUTE level, to save from long query processing? Say, a query with dozens of joins and columns, and you want to shave off 500 microseconds? Libpq doesn't seem to have something like that.
Your whole premise is, and I quote, "H1B is supposed to have skills that the local workers don't and thus should be worth the extra money."

That's false. I think you are mistaken about what an H1-B visa is: it's a temporary, non-immigrant visa that allows people with specialty occupations (and thus in high demand) to work for 6 years in the States.

The skill condition (as determined by a LCA application) to get one is not that you should have extraordinary skills the locals don't (That would be an O-1 visa, or an EB-1), but rather that you have the skills and the degree, and that your employer is willing to compensate you as well as they would compensate a local.

If you don't believe me, here's a link to USCIS: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupatio...

I won't deny that there's abuse by big corporations using H1-Bs to hire people that look like seniors but are really junior in skill, but it's cause they skirt the law and have gotten away with it so far. I see no sanctions to Infosys or Tata for selling people with say, Junior Engineer skill as Seniors, but what I see lots of hate towards the H1-B workers. If Disney fired the senior IT guys and replaced them with recent graduates, told them to train them, it would be the exact same situation, only we wouldn't be hearing "they took our jobs".

So as with everything in this country, the suits fuck the little guy over and the little guy blames the neighbor.
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Have you considered Google Bigquery? It's a managed data warehouse with a SQL-like query language. Easy to load in your data, run queries, then drop the database when you're done with it.
> the stock they bought must be worth a fortune today, though

I dont have the source to back me up but I read MS sold the stock long time back even before the iphone.
For people questioning the valuation,

There is already a public company that is very similar to airbnb called Homeaway. They are profitable with a 3 billion dollar market cap. It doesn't seem far fetched to me to say airbnb is an order of magnitude more valuable than homeaway based on number of listings and mindshare I see online.
The sad statement about the level of discourse is that you apparently care about it but still think granparent comment qualifies. It even breaks the first two rules of HN commenting guidelines: be civil, don't call people names.
This has nothing to do with exceptions. If some function updates half of some structure and then just returns due to a bug then you have an inconsistent state and no exceptions were involved at all. And your application keeps running in an inconsistent state.
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This appears to be the source of the mysterious image that showed up on Reddit's /r/machinelearning the other day too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3a1ebc/ima...
The have a NFC version. I wish Apple would be on board...
I'd be really careful in assuming malice.
I'm cool with calling sexists names, HN guidelines notwithstanding.
> If there was no standard API, then sites would have a different API they had to use for each browser. Then we're back to the `UserAgent` days.

You would need an API to send and receive messages between NaCl and JavaScript, but otherwise you could get away with just a sandbox that runs native code. Everything else could be incremental.
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He is "I feel like eating a bullet would make the world a better place." even joking about life ending events can show visualization and ideation and the fact that he/she feel like the world would be a better place clearly shows long term self devaluation. A person that has overcome depression can clearly spot the signs in another person, it's very strange you don't see them in yourself when you are in it, but once you overcome it you instantly see the tell tail signs in others. The OP clearly exhibits signs of depression, whether it situational or long term is unknown but they clearly need professional help. I understand that depression is way over-diagnosed much like ADD but this is not a case of the blues the OP has every tell tail sign of depression. I don't mean this to come off rude but if you have never suffered from it, then there is no way for you to comprehend the hell of depression, what seems so trivial to the normal person can seem insurmountable to the depressed a task as simple as paying the bills can seem insurmountable you literally cant figure out where to start or how to get yourself to start.

OP, if you do not already take it start a course of vitamin D, you will be surprised at how fast it clears your head and gives you motivation to move ahead again. Personally I believe you need to seek help, if you have tried SSRI's and they have not worked (I personally think they are ineffective and cause more harm than good) you may want to see if your doctor will try a course of Gabapentin it has had very good results in stemming both situational and long term depression. If you do go on meds look at as being akin to antibiotics a medicine to get you thru a sickness develop a plan with you doctor to phase out of medicine but use it to break the cycle once depression has a hold on you as you know it can be very hard to break. Getting momentum is the most crucial part and medicine can help you gain that momentum.

My contact info is in my profile if you want to talk one on one. I have been where you are, it has been a long time ago but I still know how it felt. You are not alone and there are people that will help.

Please do me a favor tomorrow first thing in the morning please go and get a bottle of vitamin D at least 2000 IU preferably 4000 and take it in the morning. Do not take it at night because it can interfere with melatonin production. Give it about 3 days and see if you start to feel better.
Perhaps the line where you make thinly veiled references to the man who architected the deaths of tens of millions of people?
I thought we were talking about whether or not MINIX was using FreeBSD userland before moving to NetBSD for 3.2.0.
/r/KotakuInAction, which I believe is one of the main forums and rallying/coordination points for GamgerGate or like minded individuals.
Trustee report: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/1127fletche...

Token paragraph at the end of page 13:

"Based on the Trustee’s investigation, the answer to the question of why FILB had no meaningful assets at the time of the bankruptcy filing is principally that the Funds were victims of a fraud defined by the extensive use of wildly inflated valuations, the existence of fictitious assets under management (“AUM”) numbers, the improper payment of excessive fees, the misuse of investor money, and efforts wrongly to deny the Louisiana Pension Funds a key benefit of their investment agreement – mandatory redemption of their investment under certain circumstances. The Funds were also victims of an environment where self-interest all too often trumped fiduciary obligations."
What you describe sounds like prepared statements. PQprepare/PQexecPrepared would be the relevant libpq functions.
Ask HN: Why are there no good happy hour apps?
Happy hour is a frequent event in many of our lives, and yet I can't for the life of me understand why it's so difficult to find an app or website that has aggregated data about happy hours nearby, including place, time, and happy hour menu and prices. Yelp provides very limited data (basically a yes or no but no hours or menu for HH) and the first result on the App Store is an app that hasn't been updated since the iPhone 5 was released!

Of the millions of apps in the App Store, you'd think there would be dozens but there aren't. I scratch my head wondering how something like this hasn't been built yet.
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You only need 1 investor - so long as they have enough cash for your needs and fall under the "good/adds value" category. To me, that should equal a hurrah rather than a sigh.
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An AIX admin claimed it could do a live update of even kernel code without a reboot. The solution for most others is clustering, needed to deal with hardware risk anyway. OpenVMS clusters have reportedly gone 20+ years without system downtime. Individual instances needed reboots so little that admins occasionally forgot how to do that. So, yes, there's precedents in other operating systems according to their users.

Note: And as far as OpenVMS, I believe it because those designers built it like their job depended on it not failing. A cluster of that OS shouldn't experience any significant downtime given about everything I've ever read on it.
So you agree that she is a terrible employee, venture capitalist, and person?
I don't see anything in here about a conviction, and also nothing about Pao being the alleged perpetrator, and thus remain in a state of appalled disgust at what you have written.
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What happens if you lose or break this thing and you have it configured on lastpass or google login?
Thanks for clarifying - this is much more likely a sign that "dropbox doesn't have their shit together, and acquiring things is hard" than "dropbox is trying to be evil".

But I would expect a company at their stage to communicate clearly and consistently about promises they make to the community, execute against them, and then issue prompt apologies with explanations and timelines when they don't follow through.
I've never heard of a rule like that. Is it common in other states to have a similar 'catch' on making settlement offers?

What's the rational? I could see it as a way to try to prevent SLAPP type suits with quick settlements, but it seems like an awfully sharp double edged sword.
Looks like it's up @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w
Personally? Yes. I could not kill someone.
Revenue, not bookings. These numbers (if correct) would represent 15% of bookings.
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