skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with this analysis - "this hole is too big for them to have sat on". Though it just occurred to me - it's possible to pick out exploit of this hole in captured encrypted traffic by examining sizes of inbound vs outbound heartbeat packets, right? In that case, with the NSA eavesdropping on everything they could possibly have been using it themselves while listening for examples of anyone else using it, which I still don't like (in terms of approval or likelihoods) but seems less flagrantly unacceptable than sitting on this and just leaving everyone's traffic and keys exposed to the world.
The US's monetary base is $3.8T. Total outstanding public debt is $17.5T.[1][2]

If the US government were to print $17.5T in cash to cover their liability, it's not even a question that it would hurt every American with exposure to the value of the dollar. Debt is debt, and it has to be paid in the future. Every trillion borrowed today is not only a trillion we will not be able to borrow in the future, but also a trillion*exp(rt) that we will have to put towards paying debt back, rather than spending on our future needs. Printing money may sound like it's some meaningless and magical action, but it's not. Printing takes the money from people who have cash exposure. Taxing takes money from people more directly. Stealing from other countries via war takes the money from another source. But it has to be paid back in some way, Debt is debt, despite how much politicians make you want to believe otherwise so they can spend your future now.

[1] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE

[2] http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current
The pedant in me has to point out that the tetromino sequence is generated randomly, which is not the correct way to do it.

http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Generator
Meditation helps pinpoint neurological differences between two types of love
Good, you dropped "rich, white male" which was my point. Your point still makes sense from both our perspectives, as "straight person" could be called a more privileged position than "gay person."
down for me, this is the google cached version for the lazy:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
I don't get the number 1396891800 - what does it mean?
FreeBSD OpenSSH Hole?
I fail to see how it's a black-list if the means of ejection is extremely public and based on pure market motivation? Conservatives with awful views tend to get "freedom of speech" and "freedom from social and business consequences" mixed up a lot.
Inconsistency or hypocrisy doesn’t make someone wrong. Should people be outraged about more things? Maybe. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t justified in being outraged about any one thing.
The Power of Saying Yes, the Wisdom of Saying No
At first, this Democrat thought this was a joke. I'm prepared to believe it still might be a show of how ridiculous this line of thinking is.

Rice is a huge "get" for Dropbox who I think has a good chance to be a significant asset for Dropbox once all this dust blows over. Rice has demonstrated time and again that she works for her team. In this case, that could mean making Dropbox the strongest, securest offering in the market. She is bright, well-connected and effective. Hardly anyone is mentioning her tenure at Stanford which is obviously a big plus for the company.

I don't see strong parallels to the Mozilla case. Different role, different company, different subject.
My professor at MIT has done some of the most path breaking research on the impact of non-competes on innovation, and what he finds is mostly negative. http://mitsloanexperts.mit.edu/matthew-marx-non-compete-agre...

This is the best example for the impact of policy-driven legislation.
For more on the historical and present-day usage of 'lynch mob': http://rarlindseysmash.com/posts/2013-03-19-you-have-no-idea...
Too bad the graphics only show the lower 48 states.

Sure, some will claim that, "Alaska is always cold, and Hawai'i is always hot," which is a typical fallacy.

People surf in Alaska, and it snows in Hawai'i. (We just had a hailstorm a few weeks ago.)

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25102371/flash-flood-watc...

Back in the 1970's I remember seeing snow fall halfway down the slopes of 13,796 foot Mauna Kea, something we don't see too often anymore.
".. people can hold divergent views on such topics as politics, religion, and society without being punished for their views in a business context."

I think the problem here is that it is more than just holding divergent views. Rice was a major contributor in planning/executing the Iraq War which majority of Americans have opposed in the long run. Not to mention the number of civilian casualty just because we thought they had weapons of mass destruction.

Anyone is free to hold any views they want. But their actions based on those views have consequences.
When I login to github, the repos I've "contributed" to (not even checkin code, but comment on) are on top, while my own are below the fold. What gives? I just wanna access my own repo.
>Rice and Eich are not directly useful and their dismissal would have no effect on the protestors, so there is almost zero sacrifice. There is no sacrifice necessary on behalf of the protestors.

And yet getting them fired has the impact of dissuading similar behavior. If you're a protestor why wouldn't you go for the low-hanging no-cost some-benefit moves?

>Dropping AWS on the other hand could be difficult and expensive for many, so protesting AWS requires either hypocrisy or sacrifice.

So the protestors have prioritized lower cost moves over higher cost moves. Sounds rational.
Right, because nothing encourages open discussion more than blacklisting everyone you disagree with.

I don't think people's hearts are in the wrong place. I think most people try to do good. I also think that the behaviors in question are trading small short term good for catastrophicly massive long term harm.

Edit: Yes, also downvote people you disagree with. This will also encourage more open discussion.
This is insane. All that's done here is seeking a scapegoat that can be hold responsible for everything. This is nonsense, the American people are responsible for the decisions of the very same people they voted for, and nobody else. She never has held a democratically elected office you say? That doesn't matter either, the system which allowed this to happen was.

Now I'm not saying dropping dropbox is an unreasonable decision, privacy concerns come to mind, but what's one of the options the article suggests as replacement? Ah yes Microsoft, one of the most "evil" companies in existence. So we trade one evil for another, but wait there is more! What's about the companies that made you mobile phone, clothing, car and the other thousand things you use in your daily life? Well, if you finished checking every single one of them, and dropping products from the "evil" ones then please send me an email with a list of goodies that can be considered ethical. Or wait, you'll not have a computer any more at this point.
Are those free 100 gigs permanent or only for X amount of time? Microsoft has a similar program when you get a Surface 2, but the extra space only lasts for 2 years :\
...too true :(
Yeah, that is an interesting point and highlights the difference between "weather" and "climate" - it also brings up a tension between two different objectives of the chart: to visualize weather patterns over time intuitively, and to draw general conclusions about climate trends. In the context of the first intention, climatic oscillations like El Niño are interesting signals - you can see how they affect weather throughout the country in unexpected ways. But in the context of the latter goal, they are noise which should be filtered out/corrected for.
Is it okay if I intensely disapprove of that war, but also have absolutely no affiliation with or appreciation for any political party, major or otherwise?
So who decides when voicing your opinion is bullying or "blackballing" and when it's just exercising your free speech?
When I worked for a defense contractor (with many older employees), I really enjoyed the occasional social outing. People at different stages in their life often have different perspectives, and have access to that perspective is a gift.

But I don't understood the trend of working with people for 10 hours, and then hitting the bar/bowling alley/movie theater/beer fridge to hang out more. As an occasional event, it's great. But as a regular event, it feels like the company is just insinuating itself further into your non-work life, breaking down the boundary until you have no non-work life. No thanks.
This would be so easy for the NSA etc. to do that I think we have to consider it as inevitably having occurred.

All they would have had to do is take a close look at any new changes committed to OpenSSL and other critical infrastructure software. Surely they have people doing that -- they would be remiss not to.
Click and drag to pan the map - Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico all have data :)
Pretty neat game. I liked the gravity mechanics and slingshotting around from planet to planet to conserve energy. Is there a greater goal than just seeding the planets? I only spent about ten minutes on it, so I only had enough time to seed about three planets.
Now, if we can only get doctors to prescribe stopping at stop signs.
>over certain political views

A misrepresentation.

Dropbox is being held accountable for associating with a person who has committed certain political actions that had immediate and far-reaching negative consequences on local and global scale.
Your comment and the fact that it's the top-voted one are disturbing in what they imply about the moral attitudes of this community.

Everything you've so passionately stated with such deep concern can be summarized as, "Let's not persecute people in the startup world for their political beliefs."

I would agree with that statement, however it is entirely irrelevant in this case-- the first three items in that article were entirely non-political. Inciting a war on false pretenses, aiding the administration in violating the Geneva convention, and violating civil liberties via warrantless wiretap have nothing to do with Democrats vs. Republicans.

These things aren't controversial political stances, they are international crimes. People are outraged at her appointment to Dropbox because there's a large body of evidence suggesting that she's a war criminal, not because she's a Republican.

Domestically, we've somehow decided that the Iraq war is a moot point, something better left in the past. But internationally, where our former president has actually been convicted of war crimes in absentia, you can't just lamely pretend that this is just a matter of "different strokes for different folks."

It's comforting to frame this as a political issue rather than a criminal one, because the alternative is too exhausting and frightening to grapple with. Unfortunately, none of the perpetrators of these war crimes are ever likely to face charges and be tried in court. But at the very least, we can prevent these international suspects and convicted criminals from enjoying high-paying careers in the private sector.

For the record, even though I am staunchly in favor of marriage equality, I did not agree with the witch hunt surrounding Brendan Eich. That was a political issue; it should be easy for you to tell the difference.
WE ARE SAD FROM THE REAL LIFE
inspired by lana del rey (opposite of Pharrell Williams)
> Since DC made the argument that Hussein should have been removed because of his WMD use ....

I'm not making that argument. I cite his WMD use as a factor that went into the thinking of the political leaders back then.
The Bush administration advocated for war by hyping the case ("smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud") and feeding the public selective information. They knew that a lot of these claims (including the 16 words) were from questionable sources, but they pushed them on the public anyway, while downplaying the evidence to the contrary. Perhaps that's not literally a "lie," but its certainly dishonest, especially given that those claims, in fact, ended up being untrue.
Understandable move, but in solving one problem they've simply created another.
I don't think your citing / invoking Tabata -- as the "inventor" of this workout -- is quite right. The original study, as you say using speedskaters, was very different than doing jumping jacks for 20 seconds or running in place.

It simply uses the same 20/10, repeat eight times math.

All of the work was done cycling on a stationary bike to a VO2max of 170%. True Tabata will and should kick your a.
Oh, god I do these exact same things. Also don't have a formal computer science education (went with journalism). While I'm confident in my abilities and knowledge, I always hedge because I'm 99% sure that I can't be 100% sure on anything.

Trying to figure out the right balance between deference and confidence is hard
Gmail thinks WWDC email is spam.
There is also the argument to be made that Condi is unlikely to add much value to a tech company like Dropbox in reality, which means Dropbox is autopunishing itself here.

And if the opposite is true, and she will add alot of value, then who can blame Dropbox for making this call?
My thoughts as I read this article:

"She helped start the Iraq War"
Ok, that was a costly war with a lousy outcome.

"She was involved in the creation of the Bush administration's torture program"
Ok, torture and no due process seems pretty antithetical to a free society.

"Rice not only supports warrantless wiretaps, she authorized several"
Ok, I like the 4th amendment and that weakened it even more.

"Rice was on the Board of Directors at Chevron"
Omg, what did Chevron do on the same order as torture and warrantless wiretapping??? Oh, turns out nothing. Or at least this article offers no evidence. Kinda weakens the whole argument.
Comparing this voicing of disapproval to Mc Carthyism is completely disingenuous, and I'm surprised that you do not know better.

In the 1950s it was the government who harassed innocent citizens. You cannot escape the government, because it has absolute power.

What we are seeing here on the other hand is a peaceful protest of free citizens exercising their right to free speech.
> Yeah, many of us did exactly that back in 2007/2008. We nominated and worked hard to promote and to get elected a politician we believed -- based on our candidate's deeply-persuasive statements -- who would be "different". We did much more than vote. We built amazing software systems for our candidate, went door-to-door in places that almost got us shot, worked 80 hour weeks at the grass roots level, and in some cases estranged ourselves from our families. And of course we voted for him.

I think the "more than vote" really means "more than getting a candidate elected". (Or, to use Obama's own campaign catchphrase, "Be the Change".)

There may have been people who didn't understand that a bottom-to-top transformation of society with constant engagement was going to be required to realize the vision presented by the campaign even if Obama was entirely truthful on every point (a point on which I do not wish to comment either way at the moment, since its irrelevant to the point I'm making), but anyone that wasn't aware of that wasn't paying much attention to the campaign itself.
>Ok, not saying that Obama has been 100% perfect in his presidency so far, but are you really implying that he's been an awful president?

Yes, yes I am. And if I thought I had any chance of convincing someone who still promotes Obama's "wins" at this point in his presidency, I'd argue it with you. But I don't.

I will leave you with one thought, which is that it's not even the blanket surveillance of the American people that's been Obama's most horrific failure, it's this:

1. http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/

2. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/obama-assassin...

Finally, I'd like to point out that I'm not the one downvoting you (since you're making points I disagree with in good faith).
I don't want cronyism in my data storage.
One of the main reasons SICP is still relevant today is _because_ it uses a timeless language like lisp(scheme).

If it was written using the flavour of the month language then, it would have disappeared into obscurity by now.
You should try to start from scratch somewhere else in the US without using your tech/management knowledge, your current money and current friends. I bet you would change your views about the relevance of your skin color.

Is not hard to also see it in statistics: Men are 68% vs Women; and between races White (non-hispanic) is the largest one: http://homeless.samhsa.gov/ResourceFiles/hrc_factsheet.pdf
> "why should geographic location dictate my salary relative to my peers?"

It doesn't. Your unwillingness to relocate does.

Everyone has their own reasons for where they're willing to look for work and why. But those reasons, your reasons, have a price tag attached. To you, your reasons + your salary is equivalent to a SV salary. (Else you'd relocate.)

Similarly, companies who are unwilling to allow remote workers and/or choose not to build remote teams aren't paying more because of their location. They're paying more because they value having their employees at their location and that value is greater (to them) than the difference in SV salaries vs the midwest.
no kidding - a refreshingly different read from the usual range of topics
That is correct. We wrote the script and had a native English speaker reading it for us ;-)

Even if we have some colleagues who are from New England, we are a pretty multi-cultural Norwegian headquartered company as you can see in our site:
https://www.varnish-software.com/about-us

Try the "What's coming in Varnish 4.0?" Hangout on Air video for a change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=St...

You will then heard our amazing mix of accents :-)
That I can apprecieate, but that was in her political role and would be like working for company X and promoting company X's interest and products in many ways.

But yes your spot on about what you should store in the cloud and how. That does nail it but still leaves the unfetted tramplement of rights issue leaving a bad taste for the customer base. So I get that. Was just hard to cut thru everything as so many tangents going on that it was hard to get to the real issue at hand, which has people up in arms.

Thank you.
Are you joking? If not please report what error you're getting in Chrome.
Hmm, that's odd - it was developed in Chrome and I haven't seen any Chrome-related issues after testing on several computers. Could be due to a badly-behaving browser extension? Let me know if you see any JS errors on the console, or if you figure out what was causing this...
NinetyPlus Geisha Coffee
Oh please.

The CIA operative Valery Plame was crucified because her husband (a diplomat) that investigated the yellow cake claim in Africa wrote about how it was a sham drummed up for the war.

"He didn't technically lie" - Sure he did. They knew what the truth was. They knew they needed an event to galvanize American support for action in the middle east. They knew what they were doing with how they worded the "War on Terror" lumping in Saddam with fucking Osama. When 75% of Americans think Saddam had something to do with 911, we are way past just cherry picking stats. We had psychopaths that were concurrently trying to extend American power and their own gain invade a country that had very high strategic interest.

I'm not even partisan about this. Most of the American politicians that I like are Republicans. This is complete horse shit.
There's a broken reference in the site:
<a href="www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/22/bush-adviser-rice-gave-ok-waterboard/">lied about the extent to which she was involved</a>

Fix:
Add http:// to the link.
Now, if we can only get doctors to prescribe not speeding. #replacebikewithcar
Don’t hire for brains or personality alone in early-stage startups
I agree. Google Docs/Drive can do all these things and more. If they compare themselves to Google Docs they will lose. Makes more sense to compare itself to other Latex editors.

# Writing Scientific Content

Docs is perfectly capable of doing that. I did the same formula easily in 2 minutes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r6gmCkQrWLU7W9lt2AsSuqeJ...

# Export options

I think this is the only one I would agree with. I'm not specially familiar with academic paper formats. I suppose Authorea does Latex exports which is nice.

# Version Control

Google Docs have that as well. Not as Git repositories, but with a proper interface that is more user friendly. Maybe you could argue that they are more developer friendly but I wonder if that will resonate with their target audience.

# Collaboration

I don't see how locking a paragraph is a good thing. Anything here I think it's a point to Google.

# Data-driven articles

Google Docs is part of Drive and integrate Spreadsheets. They both can be scripted using Apps Script. Plus you can use other applications to handle any kind of data you through at it.
Free Market Communism
I think I have a way to cure poverty. What if we created a national auction system for low wage labor. The person is paid $11.15 an hour(poverty rate). Their time is auctioned off. They can refuse an offer but the difference between an offer they take and the highest offer is subtracted off their pay. They can work less than 40 hr a week but again subtracted off. And it's paid for by a national sales tax. So how much would cost? To pay the 10.5M unemployed cost 234.3B. Subtract unemployement benefits 116B. Bring Minimum wage and lower to $11.15/hr. 3.6M cost 28.8B The rest of the people in proverty 31.9M assuming avg pay at 9.15 hr. 127.8B.

Total of 275B.

National Sales tax of 3.05% on 9T personal consumption(assumes not taxing unprepared food, housing etc.)

feedback?
"Politics" is a hobby that can only be done in private between 5:39 and 5:43.
Interesting...

If you don't mind me asking the question I always ask people when helping with their security (both cyber and physical) and eliminating an element of potential paranoia:

Would your work/life make you a worthwhile legitimate target? (don't mean to sound rude but I guess it differentiates between random attacks and targeted ones)
Others are reporting that there is a box to state your reason when you close your account. You may be able to do exactly what you want without having another item on your to-do list (and without paying, if that's what you're doing).

If you want to, that is. I'm not advocating anything.
Snapdeal – a popular Indian site is vulnerable to XSS attack
Take this[1] for example. That's a regular Mathematica notebook. You can insert images (like drag & drop them from your desktop) directly into notebooks. It's actually very convenient for image processing. The same thing holds true for things like the graphical output of plotting functions, which retain their underlying vector data.

The symbolic paradigm isn't necessary for this, but it makes it easier. Implementation-wise these things requires less "special case-ing" than you would think because the symbolic paradigm in essence encourages your representations to be naked. Thus images, plots, etc are not "black box" items. They're structured data represented in the same language, but which the frontend happens to display in visual forms.

(Code itself is also data, except that if a symbol in the data has an associated transformation rule, that transformation rule is applied. This mechanism is how you make data do 'variables' and 'functions'. These variables and functions work more or less the same as they would in a common programming language, but the underlying mechanism is nothing but data transformations.)

[1] http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/EdgeDetect.html