skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that changes the equation from where I'm standing. When you want to keep someone from wasting time but can't/won't explain why, using "hold off"until you can finally explain seem the logical choice since "don't do that" gives away too much.

Again, I'm not addressing the given that information needs to be kept hidden, I don't know the reasoning for that. It just seems odd to me that this gets singled out as a negative when I see it as trying to make the best of a bad situation.

I'm only following up on this because it seems an apt example of the emotionally driven arguments I was referencing before. I see at least several possibilities. 1) There is information I'm don't know or am not inferring correctly, 2) we have some mismatch in values that is causing us to interpret the same situation differently, 3) your emotional context causes you to interpret the situation differently (non-rationally), or finally, I have to admit it's possible 4) my emotional context is causing me to interpret the situation non-rationally.

The outside appearance to me, as stated previously, is #3. That of course in no way makes it the most likely answer. (Sorry if you find this boring, I find it interesting as it mixes two interests of mine).
So far, I have got all my previous jobs through contacts and friends.

However, I am trying to get a remote job now, and since I don't know anyone who works in these organizations, it is turning out to be my first real job search.
Good for you. That doesn't mean people who have other priorities are wrong.
"Amazon is a state-supported monopoly (through a strange tax regime for internet business)"

They're using the same tax regime that's been in effect since the heyday of Sears, Roebuck (and yes, retailers whined about it then, too -- it even went to the Supreme Court).

Amazon pays sales taxes in every state where it has a physical presence. Just like every other business.

Do you think Random Penguin, Hachette, etc. pay taxes in your state? Unless you live in New York, no, they do not.
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Actually you can purchase servers to run within the organization e.g. for banks and other orgs that can't use the cloud: http://www.codenameone.com/corporate-server.html

The architecture is pretty hairy so making this into a local install is just not practical.
Great points! Another great benefit of being outside of SFO/NYC is it's easier to avoid a lot of the time wasting hype and distraction.
They don't have the software engineers specifically, but they have the breakdown of the "Tech" people http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech
True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
In Our Time episode regarding absolute zero : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r113g
Not officially. But you can look at this http://sjhannah.com/blog/?p=228
In a number of countries you are not allowed to ask someone's race, let alone record it on your computers.

In the USA it is compulsory so you can provide these stats and protect yourself against lawsuits.
I believe any movement in favor of a collective attempt to cling to an anachronistic past, in the face of drastic, rapid, broad, sweeping social and economic changes facilitated by modern technology will face an inevitable implosion.

There will always be clusters and enclaves of the orthodox. Amish and Quakers, if you will.

But when we're staring down the barrel of self driving cars that map our cities for us (even the crumbling cities no one wants to live in), privatized corporate rocket ships, quad-copter delivery services, instant/constant/global all-points communication in every language simultaneously, artificially intelligent voice-activated personal helthcare devices, killer robot jet aircraft miles overhead watching us all with baited breath for an air strike, cryptocurrencies few fully understand but many will hurriedly buy drugs with, high frequency autonomous trading no one understands and everyone fears, well gee... the humdrum arguments even from last year barely seem to make sense this year.

Trying to preserve any political inclinations amidst all this, let alone those biased towards standing still or moving backward, is like trying to swim against a tidal wave.

I don't think any political label will survive this kind of tide. Only attitudes and personalities persist in this kind of turbulence.
Then why pour so much work into re-authoring and re-releasing the program for all os's? And why offer such a canned bullshit explanation like the end of the availability of windows xp? All to show the trolls how much they miss truecrypt now that it's gone? I don't think so... anyone can find an old cloned repo/bin. I don't think it's impossible but it doesn't sit right with me that someone who could write/manage a program as objectively beneficial to society as truecrypt could also write such horrid bullshit that stands against every principal of FOSS. That being said, I've witnessed lives torn apart by depression first hand and it can be easy to idealize a person you've never even met so who really knows.
> I'm legitimately glad if they're working to make their hiring pool more representative of the population

What is the benefit of this?
Looks great!

As feedback goes, I'd advise against leaving the lipsum on the home page of a live site.

After all, it's a safe bet that a user may type haskell-lang.org in the browser and get weirded out by what looks like a site with parts in latin.

Maybe a 'site in progress' label at the top may be better. Or simply write whatever comes to mind for each sections and rewrite them over and over as you iterate.
It was a desperation move, not an inspired one. Chicago and the entire state of Illinois are in terrible financial condition.
Bitlocker is block based, too. It uses a diffuser keyed off the sector to serve in lieu of an IV. So block-based sync software should work just as well on it.
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You shouldn't require a degree. Give people interviews. Sometimes the smartest people don't make it through college.

Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Mark Zuckerberg. My boss.

Anyway, the product sounds cool.
I remember when I worked in an auto-industry factory (as part of my training) in Japan, we wore caps with colored bands that denoted rank/category. New employees were dark blue. Equipment/facility maintenance people wore yellow bands. "Management" inside the factory, as well as the white-collar employees had light blue. Outside guests wore red.

Amidst this, workers with disabilities wore caps with green bands. Many were hearing impaired, but there were some with leg issues and others with some form of mental illnesses.

This kind of categorization perhaps wouldn't fly in the States, but it seemed to aid the company's goal of having 5% of their factory workforce composed of people with various forms of disability (iirc).

As knowledge workers, it's easy for us to dismiss bluecollar positions like these, but working at a enormous Toyota group company, receiving a great deal of training and a respectable wage (you can make quite a bit with overtime), and being part of something that produces countless goods into the world is a pretty good deal for people in a country where it's not illegal for potential employers to ask about your existing medical conditions during the interview process.
"ambiguous smears of quantum probabilities"

Oh phlogiston.
Since it is a rails app, yes, that would be the case.
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Fedoras, fedoras everywhere...
I love seeing posts like this that go into the blackhat but executed properly sort of things. The fact you exposed it, went through the bounty program, and shared the knowledge is great. It just continues to give insight into other firms as to how they can prevent such burning issues. Great post, thanks :)
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I overdress once a week (fancy Friday) and people figure it out soon enough.
"[Matthew] Green last year helped spearhead dual crowdfunding efforts to raise money for a full-scale, professional security audit of the software."

"'I think the TrueCrypt team did this,' Green said in a phone interview. 'They decided to quit and this is their signature way of doing it.'"

"I’m a little worried that the fact we were doing an audit of the crypto might have made them decide to call it quits.”
That utopian world sounds very Brave New World dystopian.

Of course having something is better than nothing, but part of me feels like people wasting their life away chasing simple pleasures like games and recreational drugs is dehumanizing in a way. Is that really what we should aspire to?
TrueCrypt, like most other encryption software, has a back door. I'm fine with that. I encrypt to keep my data safe from stolen hardware not government or law enforcement. Obviously I have no proof but I've always believed that TrueCrypt, along with TOR, was developed by a US government agency to create a false sense of security in targets.

There is no electronic privacy, there never has been.

It's perfectly plausible that we're reaching a saturation point and society will start shying away from over-sharing online. A return to offline cash purchasing and face-to-face conversations would be a positive change in my eyes.
This is a truly comical response. To you, the only obvious racial characteristics of the NFL are

(1) Not enough black quarterbacks

(2) Not enough black coaches

and those are issues that need to be addressed?

How is the low proportion of black quarterbacks a bigger problem than the ultra-low proportion of white non-quarterbacks?
It's possible Google has this data internally but haven't released it externally yet. They don't do any breakdown by location.

And yes: I agree that change takes both upstream push and downstream pull.
Ah, cool! Thanks for posting that.
Orkut (developed by a Turkish engineer)...

...and wildly popular in Brazil and Iran.

WhatsApp (developed by a Ukrainian)

...and wildly popular in India, South Africa and Egypt.

Looks like white dudes of assorted nationalities are actually pretty good at building apps used by men and women of totally different nationalities. Maybe the white/asian guys at google can actually do a good job - they certainly have so far...
> And I maintain that your reply was indeed a strawman, because it was not at all answering to the point I raised, no matter how you look at it

No matter how you look at it. When I first read your sentence, I unintentionally read what you said differently than what you intended. If ambiguity in language allows for many interpretations of a statement, responding to one instead of the other is not a strawman.

Again, regardless, the purpose of my question was not about what prison was originally intended to be but instead what it's purpose should be.
When I worked there I thought they did a reasonably good job on gender, religion, and sexual orientation but there were not enough older engineers there. I wonder what the actual numbers are for that.
That's more of an ideal, not really an achievable goal. How does Google measure the diversity of its users? How does Google measure the quality of their service to each people group? Does this mean Google's ideal workforce would be a near 1:1 mapping of employees to the general user population?
Sockets are files.
I find that my need to eat frequently is very well correlated with the percentage of calories that I receive from carbohydrates. I used to eat 4-5 times a day to avoid that low blood sugar feeling (light headed and weak). I have switched to a ketogenic diet and get most of my calories from fat. This has had an enormous impact on when I have to eat. I can now, if I have to, skip a meal and not feel like I might pass out.
For those wondering why this is downvoted, read the "shaming" and the reasons behind it for yourself.

http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
IIRC one of the big things they had to change with the MREs was to add more variety. Troops get low morale eating the same thing over and over.
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Might I suggest you not hijack the "DEBUG" environment variable? It will almost certainly cause issues down the line when you could be using SOCKETIO_DEBUG.
What's wrong with Subway? Get a salad.
The "Tech" stats at the PBS article are just that:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/google-discloses-workfor...
> Lets look at sports.

> Sprints: The ACTN3 gene[1] is associated with the fast-twitch muscles, and is more prevalent in people of West African descent. Out of the last 7 Olympic 100m mens finals all 56 finalists have been of West African descent. Only 2 out of the top 500 100m race times are by people without African descent.

> Case closed? No. The proportion of sprint wins by West Africans is much higher than the prevalence of the ACTN3 gene would explain, and other power sports (notably weight lifting) are dominated by other ethnic groups with a more average distribution of the gene.

It's hard not to conclude that you're purposefully trying to fool someone here. It never occurred to you that more than one gene might be involved in sprinting?
GetSafe was discussed a few times on HN. A potentially interesting thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7588497

It is not full disk encryption, so not a direct alternative for a product like TrueCrypt. I believe it uses a RAM disk for the files so you're limited in size, too - something like that.

Personally I'm not a big fan of using WebDAV to expose the encrypted file system - it seems like a large liability. But I'm not a real security expert at all, just saying it sounds complicated to get right (caching could keep a unencrypted copy) and exposes an even larger attack surface.
Or Google Play store, for that matter.
This is a near-dupe of the discussion of this PBS article, which has more data, including the tech vs non-tech breakdown:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/google-discloses-workfor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813310
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I would try not to judge companies like that. I had an internship at a place that was consistently rated the best place to work in the area, interesting work, great development environment, etc., but they used this source control product called AccuRev. It was this slow GUI-based thing with it's own unique vocabulary, nobody really liked it, but it was still a great place to work.

If they don't use source control at all, that's obviously a problem, but don't discount a company just because they don't use your favorite software.
And what is your follow-up when they say they don't because they need more centralized control/auditing due to the sensitivity of their work?
Apparently I've never cooked any of those properly! Anyway, I'm sure everyone has a few least-favorite veggies that would clear up that sentence (unless they really dislike pancake batter).
Hey dangersilv, Matt here, co-founder of sendwithus. Get in touch (Matt at sendwithus dot com) and I'm more than happy to have an honest conversation about what you're trying to do, and what the right fit is.

I've told folks to use other products before (ask Grace at Watsi).
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'..' starts with '.', but I wouldn't have expected it to go more than one level up. I guess it saw ../.., then ../../.. ...

These days, any time I do an rm with a wildcard, I always prepend with a directory, no matter how trivial, just to keep in the habit. 'rm ../mydir/.*'
Definitely. They're not required to put a "Cancel" button on the web interface. If they wanted to raise the bar on work required to cancel they could easily force people to email support rather than putting a (..fake?) button up.
I would recommend against getting too many calories for too long from something like Soylent. One issue people are missing is Wolf's law: bone grows into stress. You want strong knees and ankles? Run. If you don't chew you will end up with a glass jaw and no teeth. This is a common problem in the elderly: they start loosing a couple teeth and they're quickly all gone because they modify their eating choices to avoid foods that have become difficult to chew.
I'll wager most Linux users don't even use TrueCrypt, since we've had FDE in the form of LUKS/DMcrypt since forever, and could not give a damn about being able to read those partitions from other OSes (as if! Since when do Windows and OSX support Linux filesystems? it's always been the other way around).
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Apple using Private API is cheating?

Are these Dev Apple new comers? Apple has a history of dogfooding its own API internally until it think it is good enough before releasing it to the public.
Interesting to listen to, wish there was more.

Is the hissing in the background an oxygen machine?
Looks incredible. As logical and self-aware as we developers presume to be, we are as susceptible to branding as anyone else. I've been wanting to dive into Haskell for awhile. Partly I need a project to focus on. Another lacking piece is an active (or obviously, vocally active) community (Ruby and Node excel at these, IMO). Thirdly, and perhaps sadly, is branding. You've got a great start. If the final site can deliver both the aesthetics plus community and beginner resources, I think you'll lower the perceived barrier of entry to a lot of people, myself included.
Had some fun with this. It is kind of annoying that if the speech recognition has an error that you're thrown all the way back to the beginning of a level. The "pronounce the word" puzzles seem to be the most susceptible to issues. For example, the word was "ancillary" and it recognized my pronunciation as "play," not even close.
Git is remarkably deep in its functionality that its possible to learn something new about it on a weekly or even daily basis: if you have the time. Whenever you are trying to manipulate code, there is usually a clean way of doing it in git if one takes the time to master its power. Next time you have such a problem, if you have the time, take the opportunity and you'll probably pleased at learning something new instead of using what you currently know about git plus a workaround or two.
That's the Joyent side explaining that they would have fired him over it. Here is a news outlet report of it saying that it was mainly a language barrier issue.

https://gigaom.com/2013/12/02/slap-fight-in-node-js-land/

Either way, it was just shocking to see how quickly they were willing to throw a contributor under the bus who put more than all of Joyent combined into libuv without even trying to understand the his reasoning.
As long as I don't have to use a windows GUI, and can use the terminal to commit changes, then I could be in.
@bane is right. I had similar experiences. Is it something you can get over? Sure. Is it something you want to get over? Maybe not. I still feel "numb" in day to day life.
Statically verifying stack sizes is a hard problem, and I've never heard of a programming language that does it (Ada might?).

In any case, it wouldn't obviate the need for bounds checking. It's possible to index into an array given information known only at runtime, which means that the check for whether that index is valid needs to happen at runtime.
It would be cool if it was a product they sold though to big conference like settings. I am sure it would be easy to "game" but I bet people would still be thankful for the opportunity to engage strangers. Even if it would be only to show them how to "cheat"!
I just hope that light will be shed on this sometime soon so the speculation will stop. If you guys have looked at the audits you can see that if there are any ones that can cause harm you need administrator level access, and by that point why try to break into truecrypt by screwing with volume headers when you could just install a bloody ASM keylogger and call it a day.

I honestly think that the government is behind this fiasco, nobody just ups and leaves a massive project used by millions without leaving a valid note.
I second the sentiment. But honestly that dangerous (drugs) and violent imagery is what entertain and excites our imaginations our most base desires.
Perhaps it would be worth looking at who Naomi Gleit's peers would be at Google+ and Twitter.
Put it this way. There's no proof that BitLocker is any more effective than rot13.
I dislike books. There are better mediums, like games, for conveying knowledge.
The one thing I have to add. Maybe by taking this route, the author(s) hope to inspire others to see the obvious need for a project like truecryp more dramatically. It's not like old bin/source repos aren't available in 100 different locations across the net; if you need the program you can get it. But this action does send a strong message and it's that there is no adequate existing cross-platform solution to this problem outside of trusting your os or using (not so plausibly deniable) file archives. I'd like to think that the author(s) are trying to highlight the necessity while secretly cheering on the next generation of trucrypt.
Probably a very small part considering that Foxconn actually builds most Apple hardware.

Apple mostly a marketing company.
Fellow Canadian here - sorry, but did you just compare NYC - the greatest city in the world - to 'Cleveland of The North'?
Only in San Francisco ;) Now, talking about some real power, if there was a real emperor in the U.S., it was a New York's public servant - Robert Moses.
Do you seriously think they don't have a surfeit of volunteers? C'mon.
Telnet?
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"..as every current Windows version comes with Bitlocker."

It's only available in Ultimate and Enterprise Vista/Win7 and Pro/Enterprise versions of Win8. Lots of machines ship(ped) with only Win7 Home Premium or vanilla Win8.
If you have a copy of the source that you've vetted, and you can compile it in such a way that the resulting binary is a bit-for-bit match of the developer released binary, then you know that either there is no future-activation code or you missed it in your review or your compiler was itself compiled maliciously with the intent of inserting malicious code into that exact version of truecrypt every time it was compiled. Or there is no future activation code.
PhantomJS: Extremely popular (10k+ stars!) with a comparative trickle of commits. The major flaws might be excusable, but the number of small issues and unmerged pull requests is not.

phantomjs-node: Popular but badly structured and documented. Many small ignored issues.
#1 was not an "embedded an unexamined assumption", it was the explicit condition of the stated conditional. ("If they have reasons to prefer a diverse workforce...")

#2 is, insofar as it appears to be an "embedded and unexamined assumption", simply a result of brevity in omitting "...insofar as doing so is practical without costs that make it a net loss" at the end. Obvious qualification is obvious.

> I would also question the premise of the posting, that "diversity" in terms of race and sex is a highly desirable thing.

"Desirable" is subjective. Google expressly claims to value that kind of diversity. Obviously, you might have different values, which, to the extent that the means you choose to pursue them are not themselves illegal, you are free to pursue in your own company.

> The evidence for this is very thin

The evidence is actually very strong that its a thing that some people value independently of whether it contributes to any other thing that they value.