skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We probably are.

> should bear the burden of explaining.

Yes. Indeed, but how many will accept that? How many of us here will bother to look at it and say "he sounds genuine." We should evaluate what things one can do to help people to get out of NSA and still receive some degree of respect/human treatment.

If by punishing is by not giving them a chance because, as some have declared, "I will not trust them at all anymore", these poor souls will have no jobs but NSA jobs.
And let me restate my position: I don't endorse NSA and I believe they are morally responsible for the work they do (everyone should, regardless of whether NSA or Adobe leaking password). But let's focus on what one can do to make the transition easier. What makes them part of us again.

When we say Mr. Foo Bar, NSA cryptographer, publishing a paper for his next talk, sure, the chair will just throw that away and say "fuck it, no one would want to hear bs from NSA." As you can see, even though some people say "I have no problem with individual contribution", some probably left the part "but I will remain skeptical and uncomfortable with them being around, and making changes to Linux kernel." And to some they just never want to see those poor souls on IRC anymore.
I partially agree with you. I think ALL college/uni students must be forced to go through career counselling once a year.

Too many young people are fed "you're a special snowflake, you can be whatever you want to be" bullsh*t for years, and most fall for it.
Thanks for getting involved in the HN community. It can be a little cishet male sometimes. Don't let the bastards grind you down.
That's quite a leap from the information in that article.
Shouldn't this destroy RSA as a company? If your in security, and your security can't be trusted...
> We could do that probably. Would need your own parser

Parser for HTML and XML to generate React components and generate virtual DOM from that? This got me thinking.

> With content editable we can just parse he html. We have an example in the repo.

It must be the weekend denseness setting in... I grepped through React repo, but I just found bits in the core that had something to do with content editable. Could you perhaps point me to right direction? If I understand this correctly, I could parse the entered HTML to virtual DOM.
Try both Tokyo and San Diego, plus consumer electronics. With well over 8000 employees, you will be calling 911 quite a lot. Perhaps notify the police of your complete insanity.
Only smart people.
What I meant was that some people clearly never grow up past highschool. Instead of taking charge of their own lives, they choose to engage in childish games like bullying and name calling. They're still waiting for the teacher to bail them out and advance them to the next grade instead of leaving them behind until they put in the work necessary to pass the class. But there's no teacher waiting on you when you're in your 20s - the assumption is that you've grown up by now.
This is a very reductionist view of human sexuality. Even if you disagree with the GP it can't be right to describe our feelings about gender and sexuality as "neurological medical conditions" that are "treatable". Psychological reductionism of this type has not been good for humanity in general, and I don't see any reason to pick it up for this issue.
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A Speedlink Competition Pro USB looks a bit like this and is available (though not at Amazon anymore).
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Privacy: Pre-internet term(from Latin: privatus "separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government", from privo "to deprive") used to describe the ability for human beings to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively.
If Google would pay their fare share of taxes instead of sheltering them offshore then the bay area could have awesome public transit for everybody.

For all of you bitching about the "burning man" types. The bay area is full of runaways that look just like those kids and are easily radicalized. San Francisco is a "libro-cryt" city. Its very liberal, but they treat the poor like shit.

Apple and Goolge should stop sheltering their taxes.
Either you're insinuating that 'tptacek is a malicious actor, or that he's incompetent. That's a pretty serious allegation to make without providing any evidence whatsoever. Do you have any? I'm sure you can dig up a few examples of things that he said which were incorrect, but very few of those will not have been followed by a correction at some point, and either way your insinuations seem to go beyond "being wrong some of the time".

HN is incredibly fortunate to count members like 'tptacek as part of its community. We should be behaving in ways which encourage more comments and commenters of his ilk, not less.
Many coders out there haven't taken a course that teaches symbolic logic or such. It's a simple article that wasn't aimed at you is all.
Please forgive my ignorance of these kinds of security issues....

I remember at one point, way back when, it was recommended to use RSA keys over DSA, when creating an SSH public key. Is this this the same algorithm, by the same company?

Does this mean that SSH can't be trusted if you're using an RSA key, versus some other type?
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Someone should tackle Squeak on asm.js.
There is a real issue with these buses. In New York City, gentrification tends to be correlated with subway commute time to Manhattan and distances to subway stations.

When you introduce private busing, you plop gentrification down in strange places that may lack public transportation and you're giving the gentry exclusive access to an incredible convenience.

This convenience is conspicuously not shared by their neighbors who have long walks, bike rides, buses to other buses to trains, to take them to their often much less remunerative work.

The convenience also allows a certain economic class to enjoy more geographic options while not forcing the city to have appropriate taxation to build real infrastructure that can be shared by everyone.

It does kinda suck.

Someone very dear to me takes a Google bus daily and I fear for their happiness.
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"Why not extend the light rail system into the valley?"

NIMBYs, that's why.
Look at the pictures. Those buses typically don't have a "back" window (the very back panel of the bus is not a window). It is not very clear in the photo of this article but others show very clearly that the smashed window was on the side, near the back, just above the rear wheels. Driving at freeway speed with that side window smashed out would be very windy and cold in that bus.
To answer the “what kind of printer does it require?” part of the question;
Here's the Circuit Scribe pen being used in a pen plotter, in this case to draw an arduino-compatible circuit:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Paperduino-20-with-Circuit-S...
This is the key. Shunning.

NSA/GCHQ employees need to learn working for these agencies is a one-way street. No one on the outside will ever trust them or employ them again.
I'd love to see a class-action lawsuit.

This shit must be punished.
Google shelters a great deal of tax money outside of the us...
I'm angry too, but that does not stand to reason.
Since nobody has said that, I presume you don't really have an answer.

Edit: I see that you've edited your earlier comments since I replied to muddy things and make it look as though your straw man was part of the dialog all along.
I wouldn't know... I suspect not... probably just the people that don't leave those buildings combine units. And then, of course, there are the foreigners who just buy apartments and never live in them. It's just a couple of guesses, but I think that's probably how that space is reallocated in those areas.

I seriously doubt the displaced techies and hospital administrators can afford to go buy in those areas. I think it's off to Brooklyn (or maybe queens???) with them... at least until the bankers show up there.
> art, history, women studies and other (financially) useless stuff

The average salary expectation for someone who does calligraphy for four years is much lower than a CS major. On the other hand, I can name several large companies in the area that succeeded by not dismissing the humanities as useless.

http://stratechery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Apple-Tech...
Either don't join the military, or don't violate military law. Because it's not the same as civilian law and never was.
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I think there is a lot of truth to this, even though you seem off base in some of your other statements in this thread.

I (obviously) support equal rights and access to life saving hormones and surgery for transsexual people - since I am one myself. Yet, from my elementary knowledge of evolutionary biology, it's long been my suspicion that there is some sort of deeply rooted antipathy towards trans people that is not completely socially constructed. After all, having sex with a trans (pre or post op) person in modern times, or an intersex person (modern or historical times) would seem to work against propagation of someone's genes.

Still, the bigger causal factors in transphobic sentiments are, I believe, socially constructed and rooted in patriarchal misogyny. There are way more (cis) men with violent, transphobic attitudes against trans women than there are (cis) women with violent, transphobic attitudes against trans men.
I'm pretty certain that anyone doing that would face some harsh legal opposition, to say it mildly. This falls in the "How could you possibly think this would be legal?" category, especially given how the guy who ran Silk Road got arrested. Even if it had been legal in other countries, we would still have arrested him and charged him.
Seriously. I live in Harlem (Hamilton Heights) and tech/bankers/celebrities are not extant anywhere near me.
NSA paid $10 million for a backdoor into RSA encryption
Think of it from the executives perspective:

Option A: keep mouth shut, make a shit ton of money

Option B: become a martyr, face prison time

People like Snowden are rare.
I tried Jifty, but Django documentation is way better for a beginner to web frameworks.
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Ask HN: What are some top-shelf statistics textbooks?
Undergrad is too many years ago, and I really want to create a great foundation for myself with statistics. Any bibles of stats that should be on every hacker's book shelf?
TPM uses 2048-bit rsa keypairs that are hardwired into the hardware. gee, i wonder if someone can get into them...

derp
Terrorists don't, but the banks that they use probably do. You've gotta break into a lot of systems before you get to the information you want.
And we still need to resolve how to help people getting out of NSA and somehow get a job match their skill and experience. It is hard and it is hard for two reasons: 1) people don't trust them and 2) it is hard to justify their work outside NSA.

And I am interested in #1 how companies, particularly, big companies handle these issues, and do you as co-worker evaluate your new co-worker.
> The iphone costs more or less the same all over Europe as does the music and movies on it.

It's supposed to, the European single market laws require that it costs the same in each country.
I'm not sure if you edited your post I replied to but yes, it seems we agree. I may have misread earlier.
I've worked with them on a chip and PIN* port from Java to the .Net Micro Framework. Very talented bunch of guys.

* My preference anyway to RSA.
People will go back. They may make promises, but then find justifications to soften their resolve. It happens every day.

Target is just too large to really be impacted in the long run - however it's going to have a nice impact on their current holiday season.
Apparently PGP was scary enough for NSA to sabotage any commercialization of capable solutions. Internet security isn't as far away as you might think.
Businesses use RSA VPN dongles, and the stories that are starting to surface now are more about economic espionage.

"Follow the money" is a slippery slope.
Check this out: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/667
That might be, but it's young yet. Just seeing its ideas (or general functional programming in general) getting more widespread, like React here, feels good to me. I have more pain points with JS. I'd rather deal with build difficulties than have to handle DOM state, evented programming and JS quirks.
Not "might." Absent face pressure, the tunnel would definitely be filled with water. This is precisely why they've gone to the trouble of inventing slurry face TBM's and building a recirculating slurry plant on the topside. Hard rock TBM's are much cheaper because they can get away without doing any of that.
Well NSA do have highly regarded crypto guys. And they do back the technology.
Simple: "enemy of my enemy...".
> Aside from root access, we were not forced to make any compromises in terms of features or functionality

from the link posted in the comments here. Can someone with more knowledge of the Android ecosystem explain this? I guess the phone cannot come with root access out of the box, but since Google's own devices come with unlocked bootloaders, why would it care about that?
Simulating brains just around the corner
I am a satisfied Firefox user. Google just has too much power these days.
Okay, I might be crazy, but this reads like a clever satire on the tendency of gaming companies to release sequels with new "features" at the expense of game-play.
>With respect, I think you are drinking too much of the cool-aid.

With respect, anyone that has ever said "its not an idea, its an opportunity" shouldn't be accusing others of "drinking too much of the cool aid."

I wish you luck, but I think you will find it difficult to attract attention when you have given virtually no information at all about either of your ideas. Then again, I'm not a VC so what do I know?
Game? Of course.

Chilling? That's bad for business.
Ok, I apparently have a lot of time on my hands right now. No, it's completely non-standard to place quotes around just one word from an original source. Also, context is everything.
What I've found myself doing in such cases is adding a function that processes multiple commands and indicates an error if any one of the commands failed (sdio_batch could be a varargs function):

struct sdio_cmd {
enum { SDIO_SELECT, SDIO_COMMAND } cmd;
int reg; // Guesses at suitable names without
int val; // knowing anything about SDIO
}

int sdio_batch(int count, ...);

err = sdio_batch(3,
&(struct sdio_cmd){ SDIO_SELECT, .val = rca },
&(struct sdio_cmd){ SDIO_COMMAND, 55, rca << 16 },
&(struct sdio_cmd){ SDIO_COMMAND, 6, 2 },
);

I've been doing it in Ruby with network remote procedure calls, where it's not quite as ugly to use inline lists and variable argument counts as it is in C, and where branch count isn't quite as important.

The sample code I first looked at was doing Goto's to the exit code (deselect/return error) which was unacceptable :-).

What's so bad about a little goto between friends?
You are making an assumption that the primary target of SIGINT is terrorists, but in reality it's actually nation states. I think another story just came out today about GCHQ targeting EU officials and embassies.
djb, for the entertainment value if nothing else. =)

Matt Green, I've been impressed with his writing.

Maybe agl? Probably more because he's got good perspective from the implementation side.
`AndAlso` short circuits.
And what if it were very common to take jobs just to hack the internal network, scour it for sensitive-looking data, and dump it all publicly for the sake of fame? I am pretty sure most "executives" would not be happy with that norm
No, it doesn't mean that at all. RSA is the same algorithm based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28cryptosystem%29 as it always was, and it and its use in openssh have received lots of scrutiny. That the company has the same name is immaterial.
So as I understand, you do agree that moxie's mock protocol ( http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/ ), which he designed to be as awful as possible, is as secure as Telegram's mtproto? There's no exact way to break it either, it's just as new, it doesn't use 'limited set of tools' too, both don't have any mathematical proofs. By your logic, I can't see how is it different to mtproto then? How do we know you don't have a protocol just like his?
Math is hard, let's discuss what new blah.js is there, or how that new company abandoned managers and uses github to order vegan lunches.
Unsurprisingly you're already being down-voted. For a community that prides itself on being rational and home to spirited debate, when it comes to the NSA, any contrarian opinions (or even alternative perspectives) tend to be quickly attacked and silenced.

If you read some of the first threads when the NSA revelations broke out, there are heated discussions with various viewpoints and arguments. Now, it appears that most of these users have become tired of being instantly downvoted, and instead avoid these subjects entirely.

I hope that tptacek continues to participate in these security policy discussions, not only for his extensive domain knowledge, but also because he is not afraid to voice beliefs that disagree with prevailing opinion. And right or wrong, its very refreshing.
UCSF magazine recently published a series of interesting articles on this...

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/11/110281/harnessing-power-pre...

I know you asked specifically for examples from people who used CS in a medical career (rather than general advice), so I do apologize for not really answering your question and giving general advice. But you might want to look into data science. Coursera had a good data science course that will probably be repeated - it didn't have anything specifically about medicine, but you would get introduced to Python in a data science context. My guess is that you'd be able to use your domain knowledge in Medicine to take this in an interesting direction.
Typo; they left out "door".
Excited to try this out. I showed my designer your blog post on how you used Quartz Composer to sketch out your iOS app redesign. By itself, the Quartz Composer is pretty intimidating.

One nitpick, the .pkg isn't signed and Gatekeeper is blocking it from running.
Authy was already on its way to doing it anyway. Glad to see it sped it up for a YC alum.
Truth in advertising, that.
and we should expect them to!
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Yes. But the location or equipment aren't relevant.

cdibona has a good writeup here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970191
This is a worthwhile article, and it makes some good points.

But I must say that, as usual in her writing, Dziura rubs me the wrong way with her assumptions--implicit, but obvious--that sexism is only about men harming women, only whites are racist, and so on. Am I not allowed to feel rage, too, when I go to pick up my son at his school, and I watch mothers breeze past the "All Visitors Must Check In" sign, while I'm the one who gets a wary "May I help you sir?"
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Those already exist. They're Visa cards or Mastercards and you can purchase them at most major retailers. You load them with moneys at the retailer, then you can use them anywhere, like you would a debit or credit card. They've existed for the better part of 10 years in the general public. I honestly thought that was common knowledge.

Or was that just a sales pitch for BTC?
Current economics and regulations are encouraging part-time and contract work. If these trends start affecting office careers as much as they affect low-skill jobs, I can see remote work becoming extremely popular.
Fuller made such a file, look up the Dymaxion Chronofile. Or, check out Stanford's online collection: http://collections.stanford.edu/bucky/bin/page?forward=home
I'm going to give you an alternate perspective. I'm in my 40s. I "had some inclinations that way" too. I listened to everyone who told me that people like that are disgusting freaks, and I tried to keep it suppressed for a long time now, denying it to myself and trying to act "normal," like society expects me to be.

Now it's way later and I'm kind of at the end of my rope with long-term clinical depression. I'm pretty sure that within the next few years it's going to come down to a choice between killing myself and transitioning. Only now, my transition options are way worse and I picked up some dependents along the way who are going to be incredibly hurt either way.

Maybe I can keep it going like this somehow until I reach the natural end of my miserable life, and for the sake of the people depending on me, I will keep trying. But every year it gets harder and harder to make myself get out of bed and face life hiding inside the shell of a person I'm pretending to be.

So, in my considered opinion, no, I don't think anyone would be better off if there were more people like me.