skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, damn my misreading of initials.

But to your more specific scenario...we are still talking about a much different level of evidence. OK, let's agree that RSA has not been found "guilty" by any authority.

But the allegations do not come from just...well, whoever we might call the original accuser (Snowden? Greenwald?). Independent reports have alleged substantial claims and findings. For example, this is via Reuters, who is also sourcing reports to a group of academics:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-usa-security-ns...

> (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers.

Reuters reported in December that the NSA had paid RSA $10 million to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of Internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption.

A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability

Even more importantly, RSA did not issue a denial (though I concede that they may have later on, I just haven't googled it yet)...they refused to comment even on the possibility that the NSA made a payment to them regarding the controversial issue.

> We could have been more skeptical of NSA's intentions," RSA Chief Technologist Sam Curry told Reuters. "We trusted them because they are charged with security for the U.S. government and U.S. critical infrastructure."

Curry declined to say if the government had paid RSA to incorporate Extended Random in its BSafe security kit, which also housed Dual Elliptic Curve.

This is quite different than Github. Github not only commented (and took the obvious stance that harassment is wrong) on the allegations a day or so after they were public, but they have launched an independent investigation, and they have asserted that the investigation did not uncover anything for them to cop to. Now you may say that their investigation was a farce...but this, again, is where things stand until more accusers/evidence come out. And it is at this state of uncertainty that Ada Initiative has decided to take a strong position.
> I've been exploring this space since 2010 and always wondered what it would look like if a tech co-op got as big as Facebook, Amazon, Google, or Apple.

For a science fiction exploration of this, see Bruce Sterling's 1988 novel _Islands in the Net_, which features a global democratically owned and controlled tech corporation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islands_in_the_Net
Predicting the future is hard without great historical and demographic data. I'd be shocked if you weren't right for young, educated, tech-savvy people, but it's too soon to say what will happen on a larger scale, especially not knowing how cable companies adaptations will play out.

Regardless, it is silly to argue right now that Netflix/Hulu are the primary causes.
How do you kick out underperformers in a co-op?
I am going to try this out and see if it still works. If it does I will be sacrificing a goat in your honour when the next full moon comes around :)
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Actually the "might not be compatible with medical research" is the great part about it. Life sciences research often tends to be short-sighted, plagued by the egos of scientists, the politics of scientific publishing and the fight for government funding. I hope YC chooses the "incompatible" route.
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Hardly anybody teaches all that boring, infrastructure stuff, and it's a shame. Most web programmers I know can't provision a Unix server, and that's a shame too.

Some people call this stuff "system administration," "operations," or what-have-you. To me though, it's all programming. It's a decidedly more annoying and less glamorous aspect of programming. But it's so essential.

As the parent commenter said, HTML, CSS, and JS are useless without a place for them to live. That place consists of a properly configured Unix server, pointed to by a domain name. It takes a while to understand how it all works together. But at the very least, you need to be able to cargo cult it just to get your project off the ground.
> You first need a computer, a high speed Internet connection, torrent software, a good/reliable/safe torrent site and then the knowledge to install said software and initiate a download.

So the barrier to entry is free knowledge, if you already have the same requirements to watch Netflix/Hulu.
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Seeing as how they seem to be going out of their
way to mention Open Content and public domain in
one sentence, I would venture to guess that there's
nothing standing in the way of compiling a torrent
archive.

Redistribution is not adressed explicitly, though
(as far as I can see).
Well, historically people have turned to politics and more fundamental ideals, but I realise that with the superficial politics of today this may not seem like an alternative. A shame really.
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Ada initiative received various resources from Github on multiple occasions so the outcome is that they have less resources now.
Compliance is needed just so that you can get it checked off on a list. It does not necessarily mean that you are safer. It could mean better safety but does not guarantee it.

What it does provide is that in the wake of an incident, the ability to say: "Hey! But I was PCI, FIPS, HIPAA, FedRamp etc. compliant!"
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When I was in college, both SICP and Knuth's books were on the recommended reading lists. I didn't buy the former until years later, but did buy Knuth's books (individually and at a time when I could ill afford them) and read them through. They are hard and it was very slow going. There's still a lot I don't understand. But I learned a huge amount, continue to do so and would absolutely recommend them to anyone with enough interest in the field. Similarly, when I finally bought and read SICP, I wondered why I hadn't read it sooner. I still read both books, along with many other "hard" books and enjoy them. I don't think I would be the programmer I am today if I had not read those books.

I disagree with the author. I certainly understand that reading "hard" books takes a lot of effort that may not seem worthwhile, but would not say they are overrated.
However, like anything else, they aren't for everyone. Just those who are ready for them.
Sure!

This is actually something I could use - I have a few different half-baked API endpoints in front of my DB. Before I would provide my email addr, though, I would need to know more:

1. closed or open source?

2. free or paid / how paid?

funny - I had literally this exact same idea in 2001 when I was considering what the next company I started was going to do. Back then it was XML in both directions, though. I'm pretty sure it would have failed back then, but the world is a different place today - best of luck!
What should they do instead? Make a hedge fund with the money? Yeah, that worked out well..
I'm sure they do, too. It isn't that simple.
Are we really “killing” cable – or even cable TV – when we sign up for a cable internet package which includes cable-only TV channels?

Yes, internet delivered services are killing "cable-only TV" when "cable-only TV" starts becoming something else. If HBO is now letting Comcast subscribers watch HBO-Go episodes of Game of Thrones, then HBO is no longer "cable-only TV!" In fact, I'd say that with piracy, many "cable" content producers are no longer in the business of cable-only TV! They are now in the digital content producing business.

If traditional cable subscribers are declining at the same rate that people are dying of old age, then this suggests that young people are not becoming new cable subscribers and this does spell the end.
Just looking at the wholesale cleanup [1] makes me shudder to think about how tough the code was to maintain in the past.

Kudos to the libssl team for injecting some much-needed energy into such a critical library.

If only this were available on GitHub, we could more easily browse the code and learn about patterns and anti-patterns in writing secure code.

[1] http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=file.name:libss...
Quite interesting - they have effectively hacked the marriage system in Massachusetts.

>Kitten, Brynn and Doll had to work with the legalities of the state to get married to each other. As being married to more than one person is not currently legal, they had to combine handfasting, legally binding documents and legal marriage.

A family lawyer drew up paperwork - in terms of assets, wills and legal rights to children - to bind them all together as much as they could without an actual three way marriage.

Will there be repercussions?

For example, will they will be allowed to live together under one roof? A polygamous mormon family who have a TV show have to live in houses next door to each other as the law does not allow them to all live in the same house.

Also since the women are in a de facto three-way marriage, perhaps the campaign for marriage equality should support them?
I've found it useful in storing and querying JSON documents. Basically, scraping an API (for me it was an OpenTripPlanner instance I had set up) and then being able to query any property in the data very easily.

But I didn't use joins, nor was this anywhere near a production server. From my understanding, if you have a heavy requirement for joins then you just shouldn't be using MongoDB in the first place. It isn't a traditional relational database.
...no? To my understanding the American Dream is based on the idea that anybody from any background can come to America, build something, and become successful; the freedom and opportunity to start small and build up. It's not about pulling money from nowhere, it's about turning sweat into capital.
...if only financial institutions actually adhered to the NACHA specification :(
If you have the financial buffer, I'd recommend taking some time completely off work. Sometimes that's a "sabbatical", maybe doing an extended period of WorkFromHome, sometimes it's quitting and just re-evaluating life in general.

Taking time off often lets me appreciate my work for the benefits it provides (association with friendly coworkers, the challenge of meeting goals, the recognition of effort taken) after I've had a chance to spend that time off on myself or family.

Anything in excess can be toxic, even if convince yourself you can handle or prefer it (addiction?).
Well said, I thought HN were only for geeks, but you clearly have a solid biology background.

I agree that faulty mitochondria will break homeostasis and from this point on, the problem is unsolvable.

But homeostasis will break because:

1. Plain vanilla energy deficit. Not enough energy. Babies die within the first days after birth.
or
2. Inefficient - but normal - energy production. This will produce an excess of free radicals, "emitting" all kinds of weird signals to the rest of the cell/tissue/body. Most of mitochondrial diseases and diseases that cause a secondary mitochondrial dysfunction fall in this category. "The threshold effect" - mutant mitochondria outnumber healthy mitochondria as you grow older - will eventually take you to point 1.

Given this, repairing the mitochondria will bring homeostasis back. Currently, there are 3 lines of thought:
1. Repair the faulty mitochondria
2. Allotopic expression (literally, make backup copies of mitochondria DNA in the nuclear DNA and let them "express" from here instead of from mtDNA)
3. Kill faulty mitochondria. Given that mitochondria go through a fusion/fission cycles every few days, killing faulty mitochondria will restore a healthy mitochondria population in a very short period. The underlying genetic defect is still there, but it causes no harm at all.

I am for 3.; much simpler both technically and legally. The latest in this regards is http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/emmm.201303672/ab...

Thanks for your concert. I didn´t want to be tragic in my original post. My life depends on my mitochondria, but I am doing relatively well considering my disease.

For the curious, I have CPEO + myopathy, common mtDNA deletion, 35% mutation load.
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> Even more importantly, RSA did not issue a denial (though I concede that they may have later on, I just haven't googled it yet):

Here is RSA's denial (emphasis added):

"RSA, as a security company, never divulges details of customer engagements, but we also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products, or introducing potential ‘backdoors’ into our products for anyone’s use."

https://blogs.rsa.com/news-media/rsa-response/

Yes, this leaves leeway for "oh, we just didn't know that they were backdooring us". But do you have proof that RSA was actually aware of the consequences of implementing the NSA's "suggestions" (and did it anyway for the $$$), and not just really naïve about it?
Good point!

I agree and I think we were looking at different dimensions: the consistency/partition tolerance story (the "distributed system" bits) seem more thought out in Sirius while the variety of data structures and connectors look more built up in HazelCast.

This may be an issue of documentation as well: Because it's built more "vertically" with a large consumer-facing cross-section (lots of data structures stacked over each other), the HazelCast documentation seems to be very use-oriented while the Sirius documentation focuses on the fundamentals.
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How often to you go to job interviews? If you have lots of them and take MDMA before each one, I think it might not be as helpful as you feel it is.
I'd love to hear you argument against Github here? How did they incorrectly handle this situation in your eyes? Also when you get a chance, might wanna check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
I disagree somewhat, dealing marijuana is still quite profitable, even in west coast USA where ubiquitous medical/legal marijuana has driven down prices a lot. As for east coast? From what I hear, the markup is still huge, with retail prices roughly double of west coast.

The only people I know of making a living exclusively selling marijuana (on the west coast) are small-time growers, though.

You're definitely right about crack/molly, the profit margins on those are ridiculous - because what's truly valuable there are the connections.
> We see him, time and time again, sniping at people who outgrow those patterns but still want to use Rails.

To me it seems more like the pattern proponents who are sniping at those who find MVC to be sufficient. Take for example the recent discussion that dhh participated in:

* The post's title: "Rails - The Missing Parts". Good start - establish your position by claiming that Rails is defective in that crucial parts that everyone requires are just missing.

* "We’re solving these problems with 3 concepts we believe should be part of any “Advanced” Rails deployment". Now try to convince people that if they aspire to anything 'advanced' then they simply must be adding in these additional bits, no questions asked, no two ways about it.

dhh's "sniping" response?

"Whatever floats your boat, though. If this is what you prefer, great. But please hold the "beginner's version" crap. Plenty of large apps are built with vanilla Rails."

So all he's saying is "if you want to do that, go ahead. Just don't try to make out that Rails is defective because it doesn't do it by default".
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Louis CK used "cunt", what a guy. I would love to hear his version of "the aristocrats".

The thing is I'm from the UK, and I get the impression that "cunt" is considered a severe taboo in the US (I might be mistaken). Where I live it is heard so often that after a while you don't even notice it, it becomes bland.

> That's the thing. If all you say is "fuck", then there's no problem, but you also have no range in your profanity.

Some non-English expletives that I am fond of:

"puta" (Spanish): literal translation "whore", but is often used semantically more like "fuck", so "puta madre" can be parsed as "motherfucker".

"harami" (Arabic): literally means thief, but when I first came across it I knew it as "bastard", which is how it is used in some Asian languages like Urdu.
The major cost of IPs is routing table bloat. Every time I announce a new block, every router on the internet (that carries a full table) needs more (very expensive) memory.

The size of the routing table has been growing faster than the cost of fast router memory has been falling for some time now.

I mean, if you are only pushing a gigabit of traffic (and /maybe/ 10 gigabits, especially if the packets are large.) it's not that big of a deal; you can use dram and CPUs with large caches, and it's fast enough. But if you own a real pipe and have to push 40 gigs, or really, even 10gigs of small packets, my pair of vyatta routers on Xeons just isn't going to cut the mustard.

It's kind of a 'tragedy of the commons' because when I buy IPs, that money goes to ARIN (or to the previous owner of those IPs) - none of that money goes to all the router owners who have to pay for more fast router memory - even though I'm costing those people money.

The problem with runout intersects with this. If I need, say, 4000 IPs, I can get one /20, and occupy only one routing slot, or I can get 16 /24s and occupy 16 routing slots. From my point of view, from the point of view of the person who owns the IPs, there really isn't much difference between one /20 and 16 /24s. But the rest of the internet has to pay 16x as much if I get 16 /24s.
From my reading of the article, it described three types of burnout because they result from three different coping mechanisms to stress. The article didn't mention where the stress came from. I think you're right about the organization and employee friction being a source, but it was beyond the scope of the paper.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, there are also a reasonable number of abrasive people who tend not to be right, so I'm not sure it's a good marker either way. There's a whole rock-star persona around people who make consulting careers out of trying to position themselves as security badasses, and not all of them are.
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In how many countries is the latest series of Game of Thrones available for purchase? In how many countries are people watching the latest Game of Throne series? There's a huge gap.

Content providers matching their sales model to viewing habits seems to be an inevitable future. It's going to be painful process getting there though.
Great news, especially after the "biotech is dead" chants from Wall St. for the last couple of weeks.
I hope to see some posts like "XYZ Company (YC ##) hiring bioinformatics developer" sometime soon!
I used java, node and .net, this question it's because i love mongodb,I like mongodb and many of its features but I have not found a use for my projects and so far I'm only seeing mongodb for small projects or simple queries. I have not used mongoose because i do not like ORM, but I'll do some testing on it
Honestly I'd love to know what tech they used to print the images out back in 1967.
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> I was under the impression that every business decision was put to a vote by the entire cooperative.

Depends on the co-op.

I lived in a student co-op in college. Every Sunday night we had a group meeting. Every major decision was made by a consensus making process. Other decisions were delegated to committees or individuals in a particular position: food manager, garden manager etc.

I also worked at a student composting/waste disposal co-op that operated the same. Everyone has a voice in either the actual decision or in electing someone to make a decision.

This type of decision making basically requires lots of communication between members and usually at least one long meeting a week. It also demands that people have mutual respect for each other and the group decision making process.

In both instances it definitely helped me learn to relate with, communicate with and respect others and their opinions.
Outstanding!

Although, at first glance, the image-by-image mode of distribution seems
obstructive to widespread dissemination (as is the case with similiar
publications of the same kind and magnitude[0]), the generous licensing makes
more than up for it.

Nothing seems to prevent the Internet Archive from
providing additional backbone, possibly outlasting
this web presence[1]. (Odd, archive.org
has no separate category for images.)

The thought of a comprehensive, high-resolution, Gutenberg-esque archive for
Images clean boggles and delights the mind (mine at least).

[0] The BBC's image and British Pathé's video archives come to mind. HN discussion about the last publication of this nature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604459

[1] http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html
It may be that it's different in the UK (where I am), apart from anything weed generally travels much shorter distances here. I heard from friends in one region here that after the police busted a local farm with a few million £ of weed grown there, there were a couple of months where every dealer had incredibly limited supplies, mostly coming in from Holland rather than elsewhere in the UK. There definitely isn't as much growth here as west coast USA.

Of course it's also possible that there are dealers making good money off weed here and I just haven't come across them. But my anecdotal data points are at least reasonably varied, from well off people in good jobs to a couple living off benefits in council estates.
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