skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
calm down and let them have some fun mr. security expert.

Bruce Schneier is not God. stop kissing his butt. ;)

By the way....

"3. Contest Prizes are rarely good incentives..."

meanwhile...

"Our Twofish cryptanalysis contest offers a $10K prize..."

"2. The analysis is not controlled..."

meanwhile....

"..There are no arbitrary definitions of what a winning analysis is...We are simply rewarding the most successful cryptanalysis research result, whatever it may be and however successful it is..."

LMAO...this is from the same article!

"The above three reasons are generalizations. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between. The RSA challenges, both their factoring challenges and their symmetric brute-force challenges, are fair and good contests. These contests are successful not because the prize money is an incentive to factor numbers or build brute-force cracking machines, but because researchers are already interested in factoring and brute-force cracking. The contests simply provide a spotlight for what was already an interesting endeavor. The AES contest, although more a competition than a cryptanalysis contest, is also fair.

Our Twofish cryptanalysis contest offers a $10K prize for the best negative comments on Twofish that aren't written by the authors. There are no arbitrary definitions of what a winning analysis is. There is no ciphertext to break or keys to recover. We are simply rewarding the most successful cryptanalysis research result, whatever it may be and however successful it is (or is not). Again, the contest is fair because 1) the algorithm is completely specified, 2) there are no arbitrary definition of what winning means, and 3) the algorithm is public domain."
Wow, way to completely miss the point.

It's not about the acts themselves. First of all bullying can range from light to severe just like nerdrage can range from light to severe, so right away you're comparison is nonsensical in the general sense.

More importantly, the point is that when one experiences hurt, the healthy thing is to understand where those feelings come from and allow yourself to release the hatred rather than holding it into our core being and reflecting it back out to others in the future. I'm not saying this easy, it's not easy for anybody (and it's not just nerds that experience abuse btw), but if you don't do this it will rot and wither your soul and it will be you who ultimately suffers the most.
I think these MScs are bullshit and I did one.

However equally bullshit is the idea that you can't write software without a Bachelors in CS. As far as I'm concerned my MSc is a halfway house. It gets you passed HR and let's you talk to people who know these MSc aren't worth anything but only really care if you can make things.
As Marco has sold his businesses, I can't help but think of the line from Office Space "What would you say you do here Bob?"
So try to articulate why you wouldn't be comfortable just doing a "curl foo.com | bash" every time you SSH'd to a site. Obviously, very few people would be comfortable doing this.
I'm a heavy user of filters and labels, but I've fallen in love with Gmail's smart labels, which seems to be the early beta version of this.

Creating and managing more and more filters for every single new sender of email gets to be a pain. Every time a new one comes in, you have to go through multiple steps to create one, and then if you unsubscribe, you have to remember to remove the filter, if you don't want your filter list to just get unmanageable.

I find the smart labels do a pretty good job of capturing the main categories I want filtered into particular labels and hidden from my main inbox -- without any extra effort on my part. In my mind, anything that works well and saves me from tedious work is well worth it.
Why didn't this happen long ago?

Even before Twitter released their verified accounts Facebook was scrambling with groups, profiles, and business profiles claiming to be authentic when they were - in fact - not. Seems like a long-time coming for a much needed feature.

e.g. try searching for "Steve Jobs" on Facebook and identifying any authentic page.
I wonder if a company culture that is heavy on blame when things go poorly is conversely liberal with praise/rewards when things go well? Might not be that bad of a place to work if so.
I use filters, labels and important extensively but I still get flooded by mails (receive like a hundred spam everyday).

I don't know what to do anymore. I'm expecting a lot from this new gmail UI
Servora is at the final stages of beta testing their second generation product, which includes only accounting and CRM (with collaboration tools coming soon) - geared towards small businesses. There are only a limited number of invitations left so sign up while there is still a chance and take your company a step forward.
The "geology" applications briefly mentioned in the article include, I've been told, possibly lucrative techniques for identifying good sites for mining and drilling.
The most awesome license ever.
I mostly like the article, but the author and I have a different perspective on a basic assumption that is taken as axiomatic in the third paragraph: Let’s say that all the jobs in tech are in a room on the second floor of a building. There are a limited number of people that can fit in that room.

I don't personally believe there are a fixed number of spots. I believe that when you find a way to cram more people into the second floor, it expands.

A company may seem like it is only hiring five engineers today, but companies that hire good people, grow. Companies operating in an environment where more people are working, can sell more of their products and services.

Overall, more people being more productive expands the number of "spots on the second floor" for everyone.

Thus, I do not consider this an issue of choosing which people make it up the escalator, but rather a problem in trying to grow the size of the building. When looked at it in terms of growing the size of the building, we arrive at a completely different view of how we should handle escalators and the purpose of getting people to the second floor.
The limited number of spots in the tech world is the biggest flaw in the analogy. Life is not a zero sum game. You can create a new business and create great value for yourself without others "losing". The flawed analogy makes it difficult to follow the arguments being made.
The idea is that by observing people (and their businesses), you'll see choke points that software would solve. For a taco truck, maybe the owner is writing down quantities of ingredients (shells, salsa, meat, etc.) on a physical piece of paper. Once he's low, he calls up the supplier to order more.

A software solution might keep let him keep track of this on an iPad, and perhaps even integrate order forms (so he can order stuff immediately from the iPad).
I haven't had the problem, but the mailing-lists I've come across are more often than not ran on mailing-list systems that let me pick the emails I want to receive (e.g. Google Groups). I typically go for none or just replies to my own posts. If I want to see what's up I check the site.

But if your filter archives, labels and marks as read the emails, you're fine because your inbox is cleared of them but you still have the ability to check the activity.
I kept asking myself similar questions while reading this article.

I also asked myself, what does it mean to say "Men should give up their privilege"? I'm not saying men aren't privileged, but at least spell out what that privilege is before embarking on a confusing metaphor that doesn't actually explain a whole lot.
I though persona by Mozilla was basically this.
Good point about your prediction, especially since in one of their blog posts (aka, how to move to a new domain), this is exactly how they recommend doing it for the fastest SEO-juice transition.
This is a real thing in certain areas, it is called gender bias. Keep in mind that gender bias doesn't guarantee favorable treatment for every member of a gender.
This is a horrible analogy. It sounds really pretty at first glance, but the question is never addressed as to why that's the situation to begin with. In real life, everybody can equally use an escalator. Does the up escalator have a sign saying "Men only?" No. Are men pushing women down? No. What is preventing women from using the up escalator?

Maybe the real question is why her analogous women are looking for elevators and going up the wrong escalator instead of just doing it the way everyone else is?
The article is about the difficultly of breaking in the tech industry as a woman vs a man. I'm not sure how the mention of 'white men' adds to this argument.
as somebody who saw ugly side of human nature (war) I can guarantee you that social norms are way weaker than any aspect of human nature. I wish it is different but I have rather big statistical sample to draw upon
I'm inclined to agree with the original poster. If it's really as deeply insecure as you claim it is, you should be able to crack it in less than the 3 hours of time (that you also claim the proposed prize is worth). The OP even offered to increased the prize money if you think it'll take longer than that.

In other words, sometimes, you have to put your money where your mouth is. The OP is doing that. You're not.
Dis dress or dat dress?
I'd expect them to propose a scenario that could be tested either with software or a miniature. You're under no obligation to but examples are persuasive. Feynman's ice water demonstration convinced far more people than his well-reasoned appendix.

I'm attempting to give those who believe that JS crypto should never be used a way to make a clear public demonstration. What better target could you ask for? A web application hacked together in a few hours by someone with no training in computer security who isn't even a professional software engineer and who is willing to arrange scenarios favorable to the attacker.

I'm not aggrieved by the negative reaction. I have no skin in this game. I don't earn anything if people walk away believing this idea is more secure. I just wish you wouldn't keep repeating the same canard about having to bootstrap the crypto on every use while attacking the messenger and the manner in which the message is being delivered.
The company has several taco trucks they operate in the greater metro area. Each is run as a franchise, with the parent company as the main vendor of ingredients. They want a software program to track sales, inventory, locations of each truck at which time, providing a accounting and inventory management to each franchisee, without them seeing any other truck's information. The parent owner wants to see all of them, of course.

Managing the maintenance schedule on each truck would be a nice feature, also.
49 minutes old, and no longer on the front page.

I can't find it in the first 200 submissions, even.
Most software companies in silicone valley. There are parts of the world that are not California and in which the hunger for talent is less severe.

Companies don't have problem hiring - if they had they would have just hire people directly in other countries without all the H1B quotas bullshit. There is nothing you cannot do remotely by VPN and some collaborative tools. I have worked 6 years with half my team in Moscow. It worked wonders. When we had heated discussions we just closed skype instead of beating each other if we were in the same room.

They have problem hiring local talent to warm the chairs.
If we're talking about preferential treatment based on gender, I think the escalator is a poor analogy.
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"It's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy." - Elon Musk.

the author should have stated the first principles that are fundamentally true and then state her hypothesis of the employment market and justify them. she makes far too much assumptions without justifying them.
Some famous contests: RSA_Factoring_Challenge[1], RSA_Secret-Key_Challenge[2], Pwn2Own[3]. In fact, the RSA Secret-Key Challenge was organised "with the intent of helping to demonstrate the relative security of different encryption algorithms." Now they are providing way more money, but overall I think that while contests dont prove anything, they certainly help improve consumer confidence and potentially help fix non-critical security bugs.

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

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Secret-Key_Challenge

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own
I'm something of a libertarian myself, but this is really stupid. Taking advantage of the infrastructure, market, and support of one country only to flee to a tax haven abroad is neither moral nor respectable.

If this happens, it's going to infuriate people and ultimately hurt the cause he's trying to promote. Headlines: "rich business people, calling themselves oppressed, flee to central Chile to avoid paying taxes."
The 20,000 connection limit was removed in 2.5: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-8943
This Robot Learns to Pour Beer by Predicting Your Future
But what I'm saying is the public can just get a 200mm telescope on the ground themselves. No need to launch it into space.
Our Twofish cryptanalysis contest offers a $10K prize for the best negative comments on Twofish that aren't written by the authors. There are no arbitrary definitions of what a winning analysis is. There is no ciphertext to break or keys to recover. We are simply rewarding the most successful cryptanalysis research result, whatever it may be and however successful it is (or is not). Again, the contest is fair because 1) the algorithm is completely specified, 2) there are no arbitrary definition of what winning means, and 3) the algorithm is public domain."

This contest encrypted something with AES, stuck it in a database, attached a web app to it, stapled SJCL to the web app, and then said "decrypt the encrypted data in the database and I'll give you $1000".
I was really impressed by elm, but I strongly prefer working with a library that provides some of the features without transpiling. If anyone else is interested, I'm looking for some help with my project: https://github.com/jlatt/frp.js
Django developers wanted to help change healthcare
Cool! Great start for such kind of website!
I learned RoR and launched a website in 10 days. If you want to see the tutorials I used I wrote a blog post about it here: http://aschuenemann.com/i-went-from-knowing-nothing-about-ra...
Do you really think that they will be able to upload a picture, display it on a LCD, snap picture of their setup and send it back to Earth and do it hundred of times with a prototype full of untested tech?
Are you denying men have ever benefited from privilege?

- Owning possessions

- Owning land

- Owning people

- Running a business

- Being owned by family

- Being owned by spouse

- Being actively selected against

- Being discriminated against, in general

- Going to school

- Going to university

- Housekeeping

- Working

- Raising children

- Being pregnant / giving birth / after

- Voting

I'm sure others could think of more.
Personally, I don't like "login with facebook" everywhere, because every site wants permission to "post to your wall" even when not logged in, etc... Personally, I find this unconscionable. I find the same thing happens with Google these days for single-signon... I'd much rather have a common/popular oauth provider that does NOT have a social integration piece. I don't want invites to every game you play, and don't want them sent out to my friends.

Google was really close to this for me before the Google+ thing. At least with amazon, acting as a purchase gateway is an additional bonus.
I'm wondering if we need a different testing approach for these new wave "functional programming languages".
1. Because of institutional sexism. Things that exist that discourage or push women off the path to working in technology.

2. It's not that only men can ride it, it's that it's already full men, which is the current situation. Most people trying to get jobs in the technology area are men.

3. The elevator would be policies that help women in the technology areas. Be it affirmative action, or programs designed to help women in the area.

4. Because if you allow everyone in the elevator it would be full of men once again, and a line would form, with the same situation that it's happening in the escalator. If you could manage to make a line where people all queue correctly, and cancel both escalators, you would lose the current situation where people more skilled get to the second floor first.

I thought it was pretty clear. Did I manage to explain it better?
With modern sequencing, are a large quantity of 'DNA fragments' sufficient for full nuclear genome replication?

edit: Make that two questions: one for 'full nuclear genome replication' and one for 'full nuclear genome sequencing'.
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Unlike manual laborers, to my knowledge there is no precedent for knowledge workers being obsoleted.
This.
I feel like clapping somewhat like this:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/7e5dfa0b74481478ee0953944bbc502f/...
Because it's not Facebook.
But medicine and law used to be male dominated.
You seem to be saying the same things as I did. My point was that is very unusual for a small business owner, to sell a profitable business because it's not taking up enough of your time.
I couldn't even get search results to show up until I turned off blocking of Google Analytics in Ghostery. Then I could see what search results turn up, which is always my first test of any search engine.
No, the author explicitly states that the escalator is separated by gender specifically, not by speed:

> The escalator moving up is full of men. There is no room for women on this escalator.

The implication is that the men and women in the analogy both have the same average speed on their own. The men, purely by virtue of being male, then get a positive bonus applied to their speed by the up escalator. The woman get a negative speed penalty from the down escalator.

If you want it in pseudo-code:

human_speed = rand(min, max)
male_bonus = some_positive_number
female_bonus = some_negative_number
male_speed = human_speed + male_bonus
female_speed = human_speed + female_bonus

The point of the article is to refute all of the arguments made that presume a simpler model than the above.
A feature that I wish Gmail would copy from Outlook.com is the ability to auto delete emails after a certain time. I have all email tagged with the intelligent Social updates category delete after three days.

I use Gmail and Outlook to manage different email accounts. The Outlook.com inbox has smart categories which are similar to these new Gmail categories/tabs. Instead of tabs across the top like Gmail, Outlook.com has Quick Views on the left hand side which activate the category filter.

Hopefully Gmail will allow you to customize what is filtered by their smart categories like Outlook.com does today.
I can only see myself every buying one pico-projector for myself.

I can see myself buying several of these - both projectors and discs - as presents and gifts.

I bet these folk will get a way bigger profit margin on my purchases than the projector peeps will too.
> 2. What is the reason only men can ride the up escalator?

I never got past this. I would imagine that in a two-story building full of analytical people, someone would have questioned this immediately.
So when are Amazon payments coming?
From the very article you provided:

"Such marriages are still relatively rare, though, even if their share is growing. Of all married couples, 24 percent include a wife who earns more, versus 6.2 percent in 1960."

"Demographically and socioeconomically, single mothers and married mothers are different from each others. The median family income for single mothers — who are disproportionately younger, black or Hispanic, and less educated — is $23,000. The median household income for married women who earn more than their husbands — more often white, slightly older and college-educated — is $80,000."

I'm not really sure what point you were trying to make, but it sounds like sexism along with classism and racism still have an impact on women's lives.
Gun Deaths Outpace Motor Vehicle Deaths in 12 States
As someone who has been in IT for over 20 years and makes multiples of the highest salary used as an example in the article, I can state that I agree with all the advice given.

The post does a good job of walking the fine line between getting what you're worth and coming off like a conceited jerk.

There are more advanced salary negotiating techniques and ways to get into positions to negotiate your salary but those tend to be situation specific.
> The world seems to be intent on writing mountains of code to avoid writing javascript, and usually ending up with a system that compiles to more javascript than if they just wrote javascript.

Does it really matter how much javascript gets created? That statement could be made for any higher level language where X lines of the higher level language compiles into 5X lines of the target language. Maybe you could hand write your program in the target language using only 4X lines, but the point of the higher level language is to make it easier for the programmer to avoid mistakes as well as reduce source code size, not necessarily compiled code size.
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>> redis

Thanks for this pointer. We also tend to be more organic in modularity. Start with a big chunk of code and split it when the time is right.

>> Toyboy, "insanely modular"

I haven't read the toybox code (so maybe it's not that bad) but we've had some folks go to extreme in the modularity/code-reuse direction. Their code is NOT easy to read.
Backbone CollectionView Plus Plus
So you are using backbone.js and need to render a collection. What about when people click on your models? They should get selected right?? What about when they drag them around, the collection should reorder itself right? This collection view class will help you, check out the demo page.
aka Richard Windsor http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/may...
It seems to me to be a paraphrasing of all the complaints against affirmative action.
I assume this is about getting Google Promotions better airtime in people's inboxes.

One more reason to remove the google flow from your critical path. We always knew there was going to be a time that they needed to please shareholders over users, and that time has come.
Fake it 'til you make it? YouTube Fame
Elm is the future and I'm glad to see it now has some good company's support.
Interesting metaphor, but the author could've substituted "women" with "blacks", "hispanics", or any non-white male demographic and the article would've had the same effect.

Look, as a black male startup founder I recognize I face a steeper uphill battle than my white counterparts. I get that. But I also understand that anytime anyone tries to break into an industry dominated by people unlike them, they're going to face resistance.

For example, white rappers have a far more difficult time breaking into hip hop. Its almost a requirement that their talent surpasses that of black rappers by leaps and bounds. They diligently practice their craft, writing witty punchlines and metaphors, using complex wordplay, (i.e. running up the 'down' elevator) while many black rappers lazily write nursery rhymes about the same tired subjects, (i.e. standing still on the 'up' elevator). I'm certain there are many white guys who get to the lobby, and upon seeing a sea of blacks riding the 'up' elevator, simply say, "Forget this, I'm gonna go learn some Python"

The fact is when you're a minority of any kind, (and I don't mean in terms of race, I mean in terms of any characteristic that makes you outside the majority) you should be prepared to fight for every inch.

Besides, when faced with the choice, I usually choose to take the stairs anyway. :-)