skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"If you stop looking for gender obstacles you will probably see other aspects of your situation with new clarity."

True, but also, you'll get attacked by those people who find their gender/race/looks/weight/height/... as a comfortable excuse for not meeting their own expectations.

I'm not dismissing gender (and other) issues here. It's just that I believe that the OP's approach of seeing herself as a human being in the pursuit of her own happiness is a much better way to live your life than to define yourself as an oppressed victim. (Accordingly, I'm not commenting on gender issues, just giving the props to the OP.)
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
Why do you come to Hacker News and repeatedly remind everyone how insignificant their opinion is, how ostracized they truly are, and how much more right the "churchgoing middle-aged woman" is than the dirty nerds?

If you like it here so much, why don't you stop insulting your audience and start proposing solutions?
Linode wasn't able to disclose information quickly about the case during at least one of the hacks due to the ongoing FBI investigation. They also got bitten by a 0day, so there wasn't really a whole lot they could have done to prepare.
Wow, I disagree with him about the relative security of RSA vs. ECC. First, ignoring any clues from NSA's behavior entirely, RSA attacks have gradually gotten better, and an RSA/DH-based system with 256-bit security would be very slow (3072-bit RSA keys).

Second, I really doubt NSA's recommendations for Suite B algos are head fakes, because the public justification for them makes sense and head faking doesn't. US and allied governments can't use secret algorithms everywhere, and their systems need to talk securely. And they seem to actually be using Suite B, so it would be an expensive, risky head fake to standardize your whole government around something you know can in principle be cracked (even if you think only you can currently do it). On the other hand, I think it doesn't matter to NSA much if Suite B reveals that NSA thinks 521-bit ECDH is OK; notice how it hasn't led to ubiquitous ECDH usage.

2.5th, if all the latest hints mean they're breaking tons of real traffic with a mathematical breakthrough, it's got to be in implementing RSA cracks, because most real traffic isn't using ECC. (Schneier admitted that might be possible when a "crypto breakthrough" claim came out early last year: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/can_the_nsa_br...)

But there is at least one way to deal with an unresolvable uncertainty about which of two algos is badly broken. For secure one-to-one communications, you only need to establish a secure session once, then keep a secret key stashed for secrecy and authentication (auth through MACs or authenticated encryption, not signatures). So just frickin' use both: do two key negotiations, hash the results to get your key, and don't worry how slow it is because chips are fast and you only need to do this once.

Anyway, I do echo Schneier that the math is probably not the weakest point; it's consistent with experience in the world outside, where there are far more bugs and so on than algorithm failures (though algo failures happen, e.g., the 2008 MD5 SSL break). And it's consistent with all the other NSA leaks, which are mostly about non-cryptographic ways to data. Regaining some privacy looks like a long and difficult process.
This. I'm all for differing opinions, but this article doesn't make sense in the context of an industry that's still deeply hostile to women in mid-level jobs, or even women just talking about technology.
Yes, this was the point I was attempting to hit. I interpreted her statement as misguided self-judgement based on poor perceptions. I was hoping to match the nuance, but I guess I didn't do as well.
Where is the link to the evidence?
Thanks for the feedback Sir. I am sure I will improve both the website and myself with time.

I have changed the representation of the name to make it more readable.

The value in my opinion is to discover potential dates rather than search for them, and of course the mutual connection if both parties find each other cute/handsome/attractive.
Thanks for the feedback Sir. I have changed the representation of the name to make it more readable.
This blew me away when I first heard about it. My favorite WTF example of the AU government trampling on freedom of expression? The banning of a TV ad arguing for the legalization of voluntary euthanasia[1], and, even more alarmingly, the "crime" of using a "a telephone, fax, email or the internet to discuss or research assisted suicide."[2]

[1]: http://www.theage.com.au/national/proeuthanasia-tv-ad-ban-a-...

[2]: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/suicide-drug-of-choice-...
> Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

TL;DR Income equality is being redefined as cost cutting through wage suppression. W. T. F.

If you want to define income inequality as the "problem" of different skills demanding different wage premiums based on demand, then sure... If you want to define it, as it has been in almost every report I've seen on the matter, as the widening gap between the rich and everyone else, then that doesn't help at all, it just exacerbates the problem.

STEM work is still a quick, mostly egalitarian way to allow movement from the lower to middle classes. Defining middle to upper-middle class as high-income earners might technically be accurate, especially with a shrinking middle class, but then making decisions based on them being "high-income" when it's so relatively different than it was in the past seems the exact wrong way to go about things.
If you were actually interested in the content, there are countless ways to open a PDF safely.

* Open the PDF in a non-adobe reader such as Foxit and Sumatra w/ JavaScript disabled

* Both FF and Chromes internal PDF viewers ignore JS

* You can preview a PDF in Google drive

* Open the PDF in a sandboxed VM.

Guessing for your history of spammming 1 line pointless comments, you probably already know this.
tomogachi no tomogachi means - 'friend of friend'
We don't care what you look like. But here's what we like.
Imagine you could vote for separate Presidents and legislators in each of the departments of the Treasury, Defense, Education, et al and make them negotiate equally amongst themselves when their purviews intersect.

This is something I would also like to see. There are many conceivable ways of partitioning responsibility; geographical partitioning has historical momentum, but there's no reason it has to be the only way.
The "lean in" thing bothers me because the whole point seems to be to gain acceptance and approval from people with "power."

I respect people a lot more who have an intrinsic internal motivation to do something great, and damn what other people think.

I should add: even if that means that those people aren't as financially successful as a "lean in" person.
A Japanese Social App Contacts New Shores
Your point is valid Sir. But as P. Omidyar says - "People are basically good."
> Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they can.

When I read this, I realized that I can't recall Schneier ever saying anything positive about switching to ECC. (Although that's more or less off the top of my head.)

Along those lines, he had a recent post[1] regarding the Blackhat Cryptopocalypse presentation (that you helped with ^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D were credited on) where he spoke optimistically about the ability of classic number-theoretic ciphers to choose key lengths that out-pace mathematical breakthroughs.

So, it doesn't surprise me to hear him say that.

[1]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/the_cryptopoc...
> I love this line. I'm a guy, and I find it disturbing how much weight some women put into their looks.

To be fair the trend seems to be for men to also take as much care about their looks, leveling a bit the field.

Some of my coworkers might take half an hour or more every morning to properly groom and prepare. Some took it as time they spent caring about themself, and the time in front of the mirror is less than the 2 hours you might spend in front of the TV at some other time. 'Wasting' time on looks seems to ignore that looks is not just some chore that is pushed on you by the society, looking good can be a hobby in itself.
Comrades:

Either get lean, or seize the means of production.

Which, mirabile dictu, is yourself.
According to Wikipedia, between 2003 to 2006 the FBI sent out >200 National Security Letters (secret information demands) per day.

In addition, Anti Money Laundering (AML) compliance requires significant expense, process, staff and training investment from financial service providers. Know Your Customer (KYC) rules also increase the overheads.

Any large business such as PayPal is essentially between a rock and a hard place: eiter allow government spying and perform proactive account seizures and lock-outs which create these issues, or wind up targeted for removal and find partner relationships pressured away and severed.

The problem is US dot gov and their existing 'regulation'. While I agree that better consumer-protection laws in financial services might help here, ultimately the government's right hand will cut off their left to maintain spy and seizure capabilities. As Schneier said: we're the technologists, we made the problems, and we have to fix things.
Thanks for the feedback Sir. I appreciate that you took the time out for this.

All points well taken and implemented. Please have a look at it, and provide another round of feedback if possible.

I found this font attractive though. Is it just me? I am bored of the regular fonts anyways. Can you suggest a font to go well with the theme, please.
I don't like posts like this. "Beautiful in your own way" doesn't cut it. Instead of telling women that men don't care about those things (which, for most men, is false), be honest about it and encourage them to find a way to circumvent that problem altogether. Trying to impress men with your looks in order to get places is an uphill battle that should be avoided altogether, but let's not be naive and pretend it doesn't exist.

Younger people are generally more attractive than older people, all else being equal. This is okay to say. It's not sexist. Don't encourage people, whatever their gender, to compete in that arena with people younger than them as if they're on equal footing. Tell them to accept that and find a way to get the attention they deserve without desperately driving down their self-esteem.
How is being successful negative? If anything it's neutral, being successful is clearly good, having exposure to larger risk is negative, a net neutral.
RE: #3, I feel compelled to repeat myself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138515

In a nutshell -- resorting to technical fixes treats the symptom and not the disease, and leaves behind the majority of the population.
Adversary in security means anyone you don't want reading your data.
Everyone in tech I know wants it, but the problem is also the speed of rollout - it would be several years on their current schedule before most people would get it. Probably a moot point too, given the likely outcome of the election.
Point taken, Sir. I am not in US, so I might not have the entire context, though.

I would say that the two ways I am adding value here:
1) To discover potential dates rather than search for them
2) Mutual connection if both parties find each other cute/handsome/attractive.

Please let me know if I am wrong somewhere. Thanks
It's maddening to see a such a shortsighted attempt to cut costs by essentially un-future-proofing brand new infrastructure. Heck, why not replace the last leg with a couple of cans and a piece of string? It'd be even cheaper then! >.<

It's such a false economy!
Thanks for the feedback Sir. I am sure I will improve both the website and myself with time.
I have changed the representation of the name to make it more readable.
Yeah, silly me, interpreting a direct follow-on sentence as referencing the sentence before it. I like how you call me lazy for this breakdown in communication; it apparently never occurring to you that perhaps there was actually a connection there, intentional or not. Did you bother to even consider that you had written ambiguously?

I mean seriously, your criticisms of the game are just generic whines because you've encountered a hard one. Finding a boss hard? Go do something else in the game, because there's plenty else to do. There's only a couple of points where the gameplay bottlenecks, and even then you have to try hard to get it to the point where there's 'only one boss/area to do'.
That's what's doubly ridiculous -- if you didn't do fiber on the last leg (to the residence) then it will be obsolete before it's even finished being built!

Besides, the asbestos in the pits* would have to have been cleaned up some time anyway.

* (was NOT unforseen, my mistake)
Gut Reaction: Do non-STEM workers do anything useful?
Agree. The notion that they can break ECC but not RSA

1) means they're suggesting insecure algos for protecting top-secret data and know it

2) doesn't fit with the hints that maybe lots of traffic is being decrypted through some mathematical breakthrough[1], because for that you'd want to break RSA, not ECC

3) just seems odd, since knowing only the public attacks, a) RSA often has the narrowest security margin of any link in the chain in deplaoyed systems (e.g., RSA using a 1024-bit key thought to be worth ~80 bits vs. the symmetric algo using 128/256-bit keys) and b) RSA attacks, and not ECC attacks, have slowly gotten better.

[1] Not sure I believe those hints, but let's roll with the assumption.
DS plays just fine with a controller on PC, and as an added bonus, with the graphics fix you get the high res graphics - something that was already there but the consoles never got to see.
I hope the irony of calling agency programs to break cryptography and spy on communications, much of which is undoubtedly local, after US and UK civil war battles is not lost on those who read this.
:) I am sure you understand the intent Sir. My intentions are clean and good. My approach is good. That is just meant for the lawyers.
I enjoyed it! To each their own, I guess.
"Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" also covers flow control using similar methods IIRC. They use the dataflow variables of Oz which act like channels.
I had a similar thought when I read the texts.
The first (b&w) text was just harder to comprehend due to esoteric words, lack of thought direction, and several personas. I couldn't understand what author was trying to say.
The second (colored) text was about a female teacher and had a common vocabulary and a straight-forward theme with one character.

According to them I read 11% faster. Although I guessed on 2 out 3 questions, compared to knowing all 3 from b&w text.

Thus, I call BS on their testing experience. These two texts are way too different. And picking an easier one for beeline text does a disservice to this hopefully legit fast reading method.
> I've been that person myself (fuck a handout, screw someone helping me get over).

I don't think she was saying that at all. Her perspective seemed very rationalist-consequentialist. I think it was something vaguely like this:

> Woman in a room of 200 men? Use it to your advantage! Handouts? Use those to your advantage too! Use every possible advantage, and don't limit yourself to only taking the help-outs reserved for "women."

> Identifying with a label only serves to limit which others you'll think of banding with to achieve greater things: to look specifically to women for camaraderie is to pit men as implicit adversaries, unable to be considered for use in any Egalitarian mutually-beneficial way.

> Every human being is another potential ally on your way to the top; don't prejudice yourself against putting in the work on anyone! (They might be prejudiced against you, but as long as you have a set limit on how much goodwill you're willing to spend on someone, they either convert or they don't; it doesn't matter whether they were biased one way or the other to begin with.)
Games sold on PC usually work fine with kb/mouse, and even shitty console ports are bearable. DS's conversion was particularly bad - and it's not like it's an unusual genre with a new movement paradigm.
You have got to be joking.
Thanks a lot danso. Really appreciate your feedback. I appreciate that you took the time out for this.

All points well taken and implemented. Please have a look at it, and provide another round of feedback if possible.
I hope that was sarcasm. ;)

'cause they do.
That user appears to claim he has a valid license to your software (third e-mail). Is that wrong?
They really should have picked a different title and hinted at the conclusion which was STEM workers are suffering the same wage stagnation as everyone else and the only companies with hiring problems want STEM workers on the cheap. :/
Alan Greenspan made approximately $180,000/year as Chairman of the Fed. Perhaps Presidential-appointee salaries could be made equal to non-Presidential-appointees by opening up those positions to foreigners.
Could this be a Sybil attack? Can the anonymity of users be compromised by an attacker that owns some great portion of the nodes?
my encrypted xmpp is safe too, because I'm the only user of it.
How come Daft Punk was able to write the song 3 years before this guy released the video?
I did not mean to offend you. I am saying 80k users are in the network. That does not mean 80k people registered. Its a "friend of friend" website. So, your degree 2 is also reachable. So, with 200 registrations, my network is 80k users. I am sorry if I misled you.

Once you login, you will see that there are a lot of potential dates for you, if you have even 2 friends on tomonotomo. That's the beauty of the website, imho.

The intent was never to cheat you. Since apologies if I got you offended.
It's like that short story, Harrison Bergeron, where everyone has the mental inhibitors. It's much easier to drag everyone down to the same level, than lift them up to the same level.
Ok but lets be real. We encourage men to move fast and break things. We tell them if you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. Then we tell women to lean in. Um I will pass on that last one.
Paypal is complying with laws in a way that is often hostile to users. The answer is not more regulation.

The free market will kick in here and decide if Paypal's service is no longer acceptable.
Cool. Interesting stuff.
I think this would be considered satire:

Jar files are complex. So complex, a major conference carried a talk on how to reverse engineer them in early 2012.
Yes, I was rushing and didn't read all that clearly.
Wouldn't go as far to say as the US will implode, but Fed QE has greatly distorted financial and real estate markets. The Fed has pumped over $3 trillion into the bond markets since the financial crisis and are currently buying at a pace of $1.02 trillion per year. Since the US govt has never done this before, no one knows the consequences of these actions. There are dissenters within the Fed itself over QE, notably Fisher, and he has recently talked about this, um, predicament.
http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2013/fs130805....
Woman run over by city truck in San Francisco dies
First person shooter games work better with the precision of kb/mouse. First person melee games work better with the movement and directional actions of a controller.
I am sorry to disappoint you. Its a social dating website. It has to be built on facebook.

You do not share anything that is not required. We do not post anything on your wall. Facebook login is just to understand your network. I hope you will trust us, and become our user. Thanks
Could work. Look at how kids read initally, they use a ruler to keep track of what line they are at. Even some teenagers do this or adults with dyslexia.

I wonder if it would hamper your normal reading abilities if you start reading like this most of the time from young age.
Thanks for the feedback Sir. There was a minor bug. I would love to talk about it. It was too deep in the system.

I am sorry. I hope you will be forgiving and let us serve you. Thanks
Asbestos problems were mentioned in 2011 in the Senate:

http://safedesign.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/nbn-asbestos-rais...

Beyond that anyone who had looked at plans from the 1940s to 1970s would have known it was there:

http://safedesign.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/nbn-asbestos-know...

Either the NBN people were completely incompetent, which is highly unlikely, or the Asbestos problem was raised much earlier internally, probably as soon as people became serious about the project.
this article was previously posted and discussed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6338291
Thanks for the feedback. I addded spaces instead. Please let me know if that works better for you Sir. Thanks a ton.
You're right, I was confusing savings accounts with merchant accounts. So given your experience, why do you think people make so much noise about PayPal if this kind of behavior is par for the course with banks?
Maybe Georgia's chain gangs?
@valleyer: He "signed up" for a trial and emailed me for help. But, when he asked for help, he provided the tar command he typed and the output of the tar command.

He changed the tar command he typed to make it look like he was trying to install my trial.

The output of tar told a different story though. The cracked trial was distributed as a .tgz with a space in it. Because this guy didn't know to put quotes around the filename, tar gave him an error he didn't know how to interpret.

He left the output untouched, and I was able to determine the name of the file he was trying to extract, google it, and strongly conclude he was asking for support for a cracked version of my software.
I don't agree with the article, and I think articles like this coming from women are a part of the problem that we face. When women come along and say that these barriers talked about aren't real, and that the only obstacle is your own lack of self confidence, I suspect that people who are already skeptical about the topic will just have their old opinions reinforced.

This woman sounds extremely fortunate to have either somehow avoided the well documented, shared barriers that many women face. Maybe she's just completely oblivious. But it cuts deeper when a woman (especially one in an apparent position of power, though I've never heard of her company before) comes out and essentially betrays all of us by essentially saying that the issues aren't real.

I know that it's an unpopular opinion to say that women can be and are a part of the problem, but I really see these types of articles as being quite damaging.
I always thought it was a silly argument until I was using my laptop in London. Getting 20 meg downloads just blew my mind away.

For me, it changed everything. (Non technical) friends just didn't bother with torrents anymore. It was easier for them to download a movie legitimately instead of all the mucking around...
After 64 comments and great feedback, I have made all the changes and the website is up again. Thanks a ton everyone.

http://www.tomonotomo.com/
That's completely pointless. If a cracker is able to remove the license check he will also be able to remove your checksum verification.

Putting yourself in a difficult legal position on top of it helps no one.
Nice. Even if it's not the NSA, I'm surprised people aren't curious about who it is that's running these bot nets.
Random access memories: My time at a singularity conference