skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the poster you replied to but I've worked with a couple recruiters. A good recruiter is a useful tool in your job hunt. They have a lot more info than you will. At most you'll be looking for work every few years. They're constantly dealing with the recruiting process at different companies. They can help time things to get you multiple offers at the same time. This puts you in a good negotiating position. They can also do the negotiating for you. They usually get paid a percentage based on your salary so it's in their interest to get you a good rate.

You should also continue to look for work on your own. I wouldn't just use a recruiter. Keep them informed about where you're applying. They should always ask before sending your résumé out but this helps them know where to focus their efforts. If you don't like working with them or lose trust in them just stop working with them. Good recruiters get a lot of business from referrals (that's how they got your business) so they want to get a deal that'll make you happy even if it doesn't make them quite as much money as another position would. In my last job hunt I ended up taking the lowest paying offer I received because it was a better fit in other ways. That cost the recruiter money in the short term but I'd recommend him to people I know if they're looking.
Also what is it with the people who suddenly seem to believe Switzerland is a cypherpunk haven? It _really_ isn't.
the devs themselves are anon

no one is going to come after anyone for licensing fees
> When White people succeed, White people feel shame and guilt.

I think that's an exaggeration. When's the last time whites felt shame about Buffett's or Gate's success?

The problem for minorities or women is that it seems like every time race or gender is brought up in tech, the majority comes out in droves to steer the conversation into a discussion of white male hardship while also completely avoiding or the dismissing the original issues brought up about minorities and women in the workforce.
I disagree. TrueCrypt (for better or for worse) made encryption available to the masses in an easy to use application. Without it, similar level of encryption requires knowledge of unix command line or expensive commercial products. The events that have unfolded do certainly raise the stakes for the TrueCrypt audit, but at present, I am still better off using TrueCrypt, than nothing at all.
Of all the subsets of the software development world, crypto is the one to be taken most seriously. TrueCrypt was always developed in the shadows, and the recent controversy takes the nails they've set and hammers them firmly into the coffin.

Audits aren't perfect.
The Arch Linux wiki page has an excellent overview: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Encryption
Yes it is very similar, it sets the value at that grid point to its maximum height. This causes the neighboring grid cells to react accordingly (Laplacian in space), giving the rippling effect.
Mojolicious is more tightly integrated, and yet if anything -less- opinionated about how you structure your controllers etc.

Plus it's focused on adding cutting edge features and cleaning cruft out the codebase regularly, which means it tends to be shinier but less backwards compatible.

"better" is relative; if you want to be able to pick up an app you last worked on three years ago and upgrade its dependencies under it and expect everything to still work, you'll do better with Catalyst. If you want to be able to write code to elegantly support the sort of push-based async code that wasn't really even a thing three years ago, you'll do better with Mojolicious.

For everything else ... it mostly depends on if you need the wider ecosystem and full-Moose-OO that Catalyst offers, which I consider pretty much necessary for large scale projects ... but if don't already understand why you want that, I'd say either is a pretty good choice.
The thing I've always found funny about job interviews is that they're always "looking for candidates who can hit the ground running," so they'll reject anyone missing one out of the ten required buzzwords. But I've rarely ever worked on the same tech stack more than once or twice per company. My job is to learn almost every day, and to perpetually be hitting the ground running...
This is an unexpected response. Shadowbanning a person is ok but talking about it is wrong and grotesque? Talking about things is drama and spectacle that needs to be censored? Public opinion doesn't matter at all?

It's not really contrived. The majority of users don't have showdead on or may not even be aware of the issue. And I did suggest a third option; manually approving good comments but not the spam and conspiracy rants.
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It's code. There are no secrets.

Problems come up when nobody reads the code. Right now, there's an awful lot of people reading this code (Given the strange warning's posted on the TC site).
I'm speaking to developers who would work on something like maintaining a TrueCrypt fork. Instead, improve the usability of the alternatives to solve the problems you've raised.
Agreed, but they've been marketing Keyshot at the animation space lately (it's all over their website) and I've heard it labeled as 'poor man's Pixar'.
tweet was deleted for some reason. Here's another from the thread:
https://twitter.com/stevebarnhart/status/472192457145597952
I would argue that most complex software is subsidized the same way books are. That is, the occasional block buster subsidizes the rest.
> There will be no security problems un-turned when they are through.

I really really doubt this is a claim the folks doing the audit would make.
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In this case, we started dissecting this particular spammy guest blog posting network in November of 2013, and Google didn't acquire of Nest until January of 2014. So Vivint was link spamming (and was caught by the webspam team for spamming) before Google even acquired Nest.
Googling turns up a few fantasy name generators that seem to work decently enough: https://www.google.com/search?q=fantasy+name+generator
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I actually find the Lacy, etc articles to be the good ones.

It's the lesser-known writers churning out several articles a day on the site that are consistently laughably wrong about nearly everything. It's hard not to come to the conclusion that's because they churn out several a day.

Lacy's interviews are pretty decent quality, and I like the monthly in-depth interviews with the high-profile tech ceos.

I think Pando's obsession with "speaking truth to power" has led them to make some poor choices in desperate attempts to create controversy. It's a seductive path for a journalist, but you've got to learn to do it right, and I don't think they have yet.
Furtive.ly: super anonymous, fleetingly temporary chatroom.
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IIRC Chris Hadfield recently noted in a Reddit IMA that power isn't an enormously constrained resource for them on the ISS. The hassle of saving and installing them might not be worth it.
It's clearly a ploy to get everyone backdoored. Just look at Crypto AG.
> In science, we call out qualitative reasoning as being biased and unscientific.

Ha! I'm a scientist by training, and your claim makes me smile. Most of Science starts by qualitative reasoning and observation. It's because you notice phenomena that you emit hypotheses as to why they occur, and then you design experiments to generate data and verify your hypothesis (i.e. whether your qualitative understanding is correct or not).
I've read plenty of older books in ebook form; they're riddled with obvious OCR errors but perfectly intelligible. Making an ebook from a paper book, as far as I know, involves no more than putting it into a special-purpose shredder that separates and scans the pages, and since those already exist, the cost of doing so is extremely low.

IP issues are something else again.
Hmm, it doesn't appear that any of the options there work on Linux, OS X, and Windows?
More like 'ironic mustache.'
Hm. Is that Websters definition of "clearly", meaning "easy to perceive, understand, or interpret", or HN's definition, as in "it's clear someone or some agency got to the developers and they just pulled the ejection seat for their own legal protection"?
> However the biggest issue I have with Soylent is that I cannot trust it. It hasn't been tested long term and it doesn't sound like it's being developed by people who know what they are doing.

Totally valid point, but look at the alternatives for people without the time and money to buy nice ingredients and cook for themselves. I used to eat fast food nearly every day out of convenience and because I didn't know how to eat better. Frozen dinners are no better.

It's not that I think food executives don't know what they are doing. In fact, I believe they are knowingly lowering the nutritional quality of affordable food.

So while they might not have experience in the food industry, at least the soylent folks are focusing on the nutrition of their customers as opposed to pure profit.
In Europe, there are many white people who are the subject of racism. In the UK there's racism towards Eastern Europeans and Irish Travellers.

On a personal level, many of my (white) relatives were racially purged.

That is why I find the term "white male" to be wholly disgusting.

I can't speak for America's problems, only to say that if racism is your weapon to fight racism, then all you will achieve is to ensure its continuing existence.
Would you trust it more if they used Comic Sans instead of bootstrap?
It looks like it was deleted because they were concerned about accidentally outing the developer. Which seems like a legitimate thing to be concerned about.
> Even if we eliminated 100% of all racial discrimination from society, fewer African Americans would attend college because fewer of their parents can afford to send them, and those type of consequences would carry down for generations completely regardless of continuing racism.

Precisely. The issue with numbers is that people will focus on numbers and make the conclusions that "as long as it's not 50/50, it means there is some RACISM at work somewhere" without understanding the underlying causes.

It's ALWAYS the same issue with numbers and statistics: used in the wrong context, you can manipulate them to say what you want to say, instead of using numbers to explain the truth.

That's pseudo science at best.
You are correct. These options are not very portable. My point here is not that the alternatives are ready for non-technical users, but that developers should focus on realizing that future instead of maintaining and advocating a fork of dangerous software.

Edit: I was wrong, dm-crypt is supposedly accessible on Windows and maybe accessible on OS X. Non-FDE methods have decent spread. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Encryption#compatibilit...
It's not "our own" government, for any "our own" that purports to include me. It is a junta with enough guns to have their way with people across a continent. Pretending otherwise may sound "non extremist" and "responsible", but it's still ridiculously naive and bound to lead to nothing but disappointment. In ever increasing doses.

Practically, a good start is to recognize that not all valuable communication mechanisms benefit all that much from minimizing latency of packet delivery. IOW, not all, in fact not even most, means of communication really need the kind of "apparently real time" performance that telephony requires.

Moving services that don't, to a protocol where the focus is on making mixing and anonymizing simple, reliable and robust; rather than simply max throughput and min latency, would make end user security and anonymity guarantees much easier to make. And, for many types of channels, this can be done without much at all in the way of negative side effects, given how fast the underlying switching infrastructure has gotten.

Current protocols were necessary for any kind of usability when hardware was slow and expensive. And good enough privacy and security vise, when even the NSA didn't really have the means to do much wide net spying at the network level. But neither of those realities of the original internet is true anymore. Instead, sorry for the pompousness, the new environment is so different as to require, or at least recommend, something almost akin to a "new internet." Built with the "new" threats to communication in mind.

I'm not working anywhere, at a startup nor anywhere else, that could conceivably "profit" from any of the above ramble. If what I'm saying makes no sense, it's because I'm a moron (or at least misinformed), not because I'm a scumbag.
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I would love to see it live on with no new unneeded features, no changes made unless they are to fix bugs. Keep a stable long-term product and get as many people as possible looking over that code for flaws.
Also interesting: Hacker News itself (a YC "product/service" if not exactly a YC company) would come in at #6.
> That's assuming there are any to begin with (Personally, I think not)

They already found a few flaws. Nothing major though: https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/iSec_Final_Open_Crypto_A...
> We are living in a time of Great Change, and also a time of Not-So-Great Change. The tidal wave of innovation that has swept out from Silicon Valley, transforming the way we communicate, read, shop, and travel, has carried along with it an epic shit-ton of digital flotsam. Looking around at the newly minted billionaires behind the enjoyable but wholly unnecessary Facebook and WhatsApp, Uber and Nest, the brightest minds of a generation, the high test-scorers and mathematically inclined, have taken the knowledge acquired at our most august institutions and applied themselves to solving increasingly minor First World problems. The marketplace of ideas has become one long late-night infomercial. Want a blazer embedded with GPS technology? A Bluetooth-controlled necklace? A hair dryer big enough for your entire body? They can be yours! In the rush to disrupt everything we have ever known, not even the humble crostini has been spared.

This. It feels like we are just trying to solve the smallest problems that will make us millionaires. With the resources available, why not tackle something a bit more fundamental than laundry?
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Probably not at all - his article is a play on the title of a fairly recent book, How the Irish became white. As an Irish person (from Ireland) I was amused when I arrived in the US 20 years ago that people were still asking questions like whether I had grown up with electricity.
My experience, which only covers 25 years or so, is nothing like that. It's vaguely funny, but maybe the author has applied for a lot of jobs for which he or she didn't possess qualifications.

Sure, interviewers ask irritating questions. But come on. At Google no one asks you how much Spring 4.x you've used. They ask you very difficult programming problems.
I would be way interested in your course!
Already covered, but again: even if the strategy is only successful 10% of the time, if that successful 10% more than makes up for the 90% failure rate, the strategy will be attractive.
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Can't seem to find a single city with both Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
How important is the "idea" part of your startup?
"The states" are not the Bay Area.
The CII is not funding the OpenSSL Foundation; it is directly funding two OpenSSL developers, so they can work on whatever is best for OpenSSL, instead of whatever feature improvements contracted by the OpenSSL Foundation.

As a result, the people behind the OpenSSL Foundation are NOT taking a cut of the monies from the CII.
Truce.
This should really direct to the http instead of https version to avoid the mixed content error for problem 6.
Right, we use qualitative reasoning at the beginning and try to temper our biases separately, but how can you do unbiased evaluation without numbers? Even the social sciences has to rely at numbers and statistics eventually.
Thank you Matt. Right from the man himself. I think we can put this so-called controversy behind us.
Matt,

I have tried reporting a website that buys 100% of its links (I used to work for them and have tons of proof) and is being rewarded with 2.5-3mil hits a day from google and yet no one seems to care! Is there a way to get my point across or do I have to write a blog post that gets picked up by HN to get any action taken?
No brown is the colour the wood was painted afterwards. In the context of this story, I'd say your platform is walnut.
You might like org-mode especially if you're an emacs user.
I think you misunderstood me. I meant the age of your account + your recent activity (as in, visits to the page) would account for something in the formula.
But since profitability is better thought of in terms of averages or expectations, it makes no difference if the companies in question are all moderately profitable, or a few extremely profitable companies, and some non-profitable ones.

If the business fails, then it has disrupted existing businesses for no gain. But if it becomes extremely profitable, then presumably it has made some cost savings in order to be able to do so, and so deserves these profits.

If the average business is profitable, then the investment is justified, both for the investors, and from the point of view of society as a whole.
> instead of maintaining and advocating a fork of dangerous software.

This smells of hyperbole. Why do you consider TC to be _dangerous_ software? Lack of maintenance? Speculative possibilities regarding recent events?

If the rumors are true that the TrueCrypt devs are throwing in the towel, that discounts a couple of dangerous scenarios I can think of leaving only lax maintenance.
>> "and to pass a difficult examination."

Well, I wouldn't call it difficult. If you paid attention at all in those years of school and apprenticeship, you'll waltz through the exam without even studying.
Well, I know plenty of poor Chinese...but then again I live in China. From that perspective, this discussion is all very American biased anyways.
I was hoping the italics spoke for themselves, but I'd better clarify it's the latter. It seems to be an Internet-wide phenomenon to jump to the most bombastic possible conclusion given a limited set of facts.
But without grumpy elders, we'll never know we fuck up! Chicken > Egg < Chicken?
> but how can you do unbiased evaluation without numbers?

First, collecting data must be made to answer a question. The current way of asking ethnicity based on unvalidated criteria (basically what you identify yourself as) does not mean anything. It's rubbish as data, because there are almost no "pure" individuals in the US anymore, people have been mixed for generations.

The way the current data is used is to reach a political agenda to say that we are in a state of inequality between races and sexes and that the government has to step in to fix things, hence you need the government to spend money and resources on this, etc... It's NOT a scientific study at work, it's data used for political purposes.

Plus, it's not unbiased either because it's not in an observational state. Individuals and companies are aware of these ratios in these companies and know that they are expected to do something about it. That's not science at work, it's social pressure at work.
Hmm sorry to say so but Vivint does have several court orders for missleading information.

I also don't see how vivint makes the same products as nest or even making em a competitor... Nest is something that is coming from the future and I can assure you that vivint is not even close in that.

Also I don't get how Google is supposed to contact every website that puts on a banlist for innapropriate or missleading content...
What NPR learned from turning its Twitter account from a bot into a human
Main takeaway: humans work best but NPR can't use them full-time. Very interesting as I've built a social-media-as-a-service startup based on this premise.[1]

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Option 1: Split a few hundred developers into groups of 5-10 each, and throw money at them until you generate a few hits (we'll assume hardware costs are negligible because for this group they are). Offer low salaries and 'equity' in return, putting as much risk on the shoulders of your employees as you can - after all, for the successful ones you can always screw them out of their shares later. For now, if you do this at scale, you can be reasonably certain of profitability.

Option 2: Form a single company where you have to manage that entire group toward a single goal, take all the risk, probably pay some non-negligible hardware costs if the problem is interesting enough, etc. Then you either solve the problem or you fail utterly, and even then you still get to find out if anyone really wanted the problem solved in the first place, so you can still fail utterly. Then once you get past that, you can deal with patent trolls and copycats, and for each case you have about 50% probability at best of getting any kind of justice at all.

Option 3: Do the first to fund the second. Sadly there is only one Elon Musk, though.
Sorry - I was conflating Hispanic & Latino, which of course is inaccurate.

Google's only development office in South or Central America is in Brazil (who presumably don't self classify as Hispanic either?)
Main takeaway: humans work best but even an organization like NPR can't use them fully. Very interesting to me as a founder of a social media-as-a-service startup that solves this problem. [1]

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Crypto-racism from the left is a problem, but in fairness the legacy of slavery and civil rights abridgement is much more recent here in the US than it is in European countries. Slavery hasn't been institutionalized to the same degree in mainland Europe as it was in the US since Roman times - of course it wasn't absent because of colonialism, but nor was it ever so prevalent as to dominate local economies the way it did in the US. Class, gender, and property ownership were greater legal barriers to suffrage in most European countries than ethnic origin, and over a much longer timeframe - the Third Reich being the major exception to this trend.

By contrast, in the US you had people systematically excluded from exercising the vote within the last 50 years, which is comparatively recent. I think the politicization of race has resulted in a great many misconceptions all across the political spectrum, but that doesn't mean you can just pay it some lip service and call the problem solved.

I can find you equally obnoxious casual racism from the right, or you could just read the comments on American newspaper articles. I read a story this morning about some tourists visiting Chicago's Willis Tower who were frightened by superficial-but-not-obviously-so cracks in the building's observation deck, which is famous for having a glass floor. More than half the comments on the article consisted of suggestions that the tourists in question being Latinos from California, the cracks must have been caused by weapons in their pockets. WTF.
Or, instead of making it so those with disposable income no longer have to do laundry, innovate laundry itself so that no one is burdened by laundry.

Making it easier for someone else to do your laundry so you don't have to is not moon-shot innovation. It's not worth doing.
The "Cryptography Guide" under the "Build" section of this work is truly a work of... some sort.

https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/blob/master/DevGuide3.0/03...