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Something doesn't have to be "impossible to read" to make it inaccessible. Something written in Russian is inaccessible to me, as I don't read Russian. But it's not "impossible to read" - I can learn Russian; I can ask a friend; or most easily, I can use a translation tool to convert it to English. None of these are absurd hyperbole, but the content would be inaccessible without putting effort into it. When it comes to design, you generally want to avoid barriers to the user experience - and given that this is an article on a design topic concerning approachability and accessibility, my opinion is that it's fair game. Also, not everyone has 'normal' vision, which is another point to remember - text that is 'a little off' can be much worse for someone who is already near the boundaries.

In any case, it looks like the author has gone back and darkened the text (or am I imagining things?)
Yeah, that's where the "compromised" is from. STS was killed in the cradle by politics, and operated its whole life as a zombie. A nearly impossible and quite capable zombie, but still a zombie. An amazing feat to be sure, but it would have been better to let it go once it became clear it could meet nothing like its original goals. An STS2 might have been a decent system, but running the original so long seems to have damaged the very concept of reusability in NASA and other space agencies.

But even the best possible government-designed-and-operated system just doesn't have the right incentives to be really efficient like the SpaceX system is aiming for. The incentives being "making money" and "Elon really wants to go to Mars".
My ancestors went to the United States in the days of Ellis Island and had just enough education to work as bakers and butchers. Many other Asians, Irish, and Jews worked as outright laborers, often in hazardous conditions. Many died as a result of the way society treated them.

The immigration system of the old days wasn't meritocratic; it was simply exploitative.

And really, so is the immigration system today, except that it exploits largely by keeping the threat of deportation hanging over the immigrant's head (including, yes, under the H1-B program for white-collar workers).
I draw my slides in Xournal on slide sized pages, and then export to PDF to present them. I roll a few patches to the software to make it easier to make build slides, but otherwise it's pretty self-explanatory. (https://github.com/ezyang/xournal) I do the same thing for diagrams too. (http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/04/diagramming-in-xournal-and-gi...)
Are you talking about the imagined letter that is, uh, not actually from the Truecrypt devs?
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Original site archived here > http://archive.today/www.truecrypt.org
Perhaps they believe that, without them at the helm, any new people who take up the project won't know the code or crypto well enough, creating new security holes.
This is not throttling but degraded peering, though the effect for the end user is identical.
Previous discussion [1] [2], including LA Clippys jokes [3] [4].

Bonus LA Clippys humour [5].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819188

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7820039

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819293

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7820334

[5] http://t.co/LbPyPcRgd8
> An Asian student from a family earning $0-10k has a higher average SAT math score than a black student from a family earning $70k+.

This is true but heres something to consider, my feeling is that Asian Americans are what I consider newer immigrants to America. My understanding is that they actually started to come here in large numbers after 1965 when the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments eliminated racial/nationality-based discrimination in immigration quotas.

Why is this important?

I think that you'll find that if you compare the SAT scores of Asian Americans to recent black immigrants to the United States (Nigerians, Ghanaians and jamaicans for example), you might find that their scores are much closer than your initial comparison.

The reason for that is what I call the immigrant effect ... explained by this quote from a David Brooks NY Times article

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/what-drives...

"Group success in America often tends to dissipate after two generations. Thus while Asian-American kids overall had SAT scores 143 points above average in 2012 — including a 63-point edge over whites — a 2005 study of over 20,000 adolescents found that third-generation Asian-American students performed no better academically than white students"
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Perhaps they look at their 10-year old code and think that it would be better if someone re-wrote it from scratch.
I believe you are referring to the "imaginary letter" linked to in that post. As stated, that link is speculation, not an actual response from the devs.
I did the same screenshot. Blown away by how simple the controls look. Everything is on the UI.

Endeavor spacecraft controls: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4f803e53ecad04f5620...

I understand these are two different machines, but now it feels like we are in the future.
This really doesn't feel satisfying. What about the bizarre way the project was taken down? They really recommend Bitlocker? They literally think you should just grep for "crypt" and use the result for your needs?

I guess I can buy that declaring it insecure because the dev team is no longer maintaining it makes sense.

Assuming this is legit, I wonder if the move toward cloud storage and mobile devices made them feel that they were slipping into a niche need. I disagree (to some extent), but maybe they felt the bulk of their usefulness was behind them.
I'd probably stop calling Women "Girls".

Imagine this headline was "Hiring boys is difficult (because very few work in the space)" I would think you'd be having a hard time because kids ("boys"/"girls") aren't usually into coding coding in Kindergarten. Look at your words - they convey a lot.

Ask yourself if you would ever work for a company that was looking for "boys" (not Men). It seems quite disrespectful to women and I'm just a "boy".
Sorry - completely missed that. The title of the HN post at the moment is "One of the TrueCrypt Devs Responded".
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It's not irrelevant, you're just not getting the point in the first place. You (still) seem to be conflating the profitability of the VC versus the profitability of each individual venture he invests in. They are not at all equivalent, as I've helpfully pointed out for you.

As such, they can 'disrupt' stable markets that are largely profitable and efficient, and that basically do not need disruption, by throwing tons of cash at them. Most of the time these ventures are not profitable (though they still disrupt the market - negatively!), but the occasional hit makes up for that and makes the strategy net profitable for the VC, even as 90% of what he invests in flames out.
Thanks for the recommendation and the information. I didn't know any of that, looking forward to getting through the book!
I don't want to belittle the work of Mr Kane, but your pdf mainly refers to him as having an administrative role, less so am technical one.

But then the original article about Easton mentions him having received an award as part of the 'GPS team'.

Truth is, projects the size of GPS spanning that many disciplines will have dozens of people that rightfully can be called father of (parts of) the whole. And while some minions might have been easily replaced, a few grest minds will have significantly advanced their field of research while making the project fly.
They're a minority in the US, just like Americans would probably be a minority in China. make sense?
Three months after my high school graduation, I moved to Silicon Valley. It was one of the best choices I could have made.

I grew up in a small desert town with not much room to grow. The opportunities there were limited for what I wanted to do, and I knew that if I was still living in that town when I was 40, or even 30, I wouldn't be happy.

Being the procrastinator that I am, I knew that I had to take action immediately, or I would inevitably fall into a lull of complacence: a mediocre job, a girlfriend, a dog? And then I would be stuck; eternally glued to this town that I hated by second-rate obligations. (Not entirely true, people make drastic changes even with other obligations all the time, but it's not common.)

I was (and still am) young, and I believe that you should take as many calculated risks as possible when you're young. Do it before you have a mortgage, a spouse, a kid. It's so much easier then, because failing doesn't mean letting your child go hungry, or losing your home and living on the streets. Worst case, you have to move back in with your parents (assuming they're supportive).

When I'm laying on my deathbed and analyzing my life, I would rather regret trying and failing to achieve my dreams than regret not trying at all. When it gets right down to it, I don't think I would regret failing one bit. Failure is part of life, and since I've moved here I've failed plenty of times. Probably more times than I've succeeded. But the value of my few successes outweighs my many failures, and that's the key.

I've gotten a good job, learned and grown more than I would have imagined possible, met dozens of amazing people, made lifelong friends, co-founded an organization, and I'm happier than I've ever been. Not only that, but I'm excited for the future.

I've still got a long way to go, but I'm so glad that I had the courage and drive to go out of my comfort zone, into a completely foreign situation, all alone, and just do it. Granted, I was extremely lucky to have the full support of my parents and family, but even if I hadn't I think I still would have gone out and done it.

Of course, this is not advice for everyone. It's not really advice at all, just my own experience. Yours may vary. Best of luck.
I always felt a donation to Newark with Oakland in your backyard was bizarre.

CMD-F for Oakland in this article... nothing.
My cousin is a carpenter in Germany, and he sure constructs a lot of houses. Often just parts, mainly the roof, but complete wooden houses are gaining popularity as well.
... "if it was open source" ? I assumed it was, and indeed from the page:

Our software is :
* Completely open and open-source; free for all
The Bay Area is bigger than the HN bubble. There are some desperately poor school districts.
I know I have the aptitude... drive would be my problem. I just find it difficult to actually want to work on something.
That's not really abnormal is it?...
:¬)
I personally know teachers in the SJ school district who are truly passionate about helping their students succeed, but alas, the way in which these funds will be used I imagine will largely be determined by forces outside of the control the teachers of the frontlines.

While I, like many others here, do not expect these funds to make a noticeable difference in the under-served schools in the Bay Area, I do sincerely hope that our expectations are proven wrong.
How do submarines get online?
You might want to take a look at http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazons-tactics-con...

It certainly seems like Amazon is beginning to exercise their strength as a monopsony to gain unfair advantages and extend their business into new areas without actually competing on merits.
OWASP is fantastic organisation of Web Application Professionals. Some of their early work was the publication of the OWASP Top Ten, which went a long way to highlighting the importance web application security to organisations.

But they have become less and less relevant in recent years, rather than more relevant. Their previous work on the OWASP Testing Guide, and OWASP Developer Guide are excellent, but are becoming dated now; there are several efforts to bring this up to date.
Who's ready to be a cyborg?
The guy has a track record of making his designs survive encounters with reality...
Because then spammers would become more effective at not being caught.
I use Avangate - and I love it. They act as Merchant of Record, take care of all sales tax headache, and with just one integration, I can accept payments in every country I have customers in, including the "difficult ones" like Brazil, India or China. Good service, too. Granted their API documentation and general user experience is a but sucky but if you start working with them, you will see why they are successful. If they were a public company I would buy their stock!
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The domain is registered to Joseph Doekbrijder [1] who does seem to be working in the area. You might be much more knowledgeable about were to look for his crypto background than I am.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-doekbrijder/2b/384/43a
The Bell System Logo is actually still being used by Verizon on payphones and hard hats (depending on region), it was used by Bell South until 2006, and currently all of the former RBOC's have the rights to use the logo, meaning SBC, CenturyLink and Verizon. Even the Saul Bass AT&T 'Deathstar' logo evolved subtly over time.

I'd also love to see a mention of Paul Rand too, he did the IBM, UPS, Westinghouse, NeXT, and ABC logos for example.
> publicly available law

If you have a business in America, you signed the Patriot Act. That's probably the law they are using for coöperation :)
Misunderstanding aside, these two statements are not really incompatible:

-"As far as we know, TrueCrypt is utterly uncrackable"

-"WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"

It makes sense to post such a warning to a product with no known vulnerabilities, if it's to remain unsupported. What if a bug becomes public tomorrow? Are you going to keep current with the news and analyze allegations, despite having given up supporting the tool? These crypto attacks are often pretty hard to understand...
There's no one I know in between, except of course the DNS servers set up by providers like AT&T, Comcast etc., which are locked to their customers only.
This is the worst analogy I've ever read about hiring.

Carpentry is much different from programming. If you're building a subdivision, you're not building 500 unique houses. You build one, then you build an almost-exact copy. But here's where it diverges from programming: you don't get to copy it, you have to follow the exact same steps again. You're not building a machine to build houses and then have it build 500 houses. You're just repeating the exact same thing 500 times.

So for hiring a carpenter, a lot of things that don't make sense when hiring programmers makes sense. For example, if you like house 1 of 500, you can probably hire the same team sight unseen to build house 2 of 500. All they're going to do is the exact same thing they did on the first house, leaving very little room to mess something up unexpectedly. They'll probably do a better job, just from having done it before.

Programming is not like that, because we can reuse code, we almost never solve the exact same problem over and over. We are always coming up with a more abstract problem to solve, because the foundation exists for doing so. (Say you're making two websites. You write the first one. What do you do for the second one? Cut-n-paste-and-modify? I hope not. What you probably end up with is a mini web framework and two things that use that. This makes website 3 even easier than website 2, and website 4 easier than that. That's why we call it engineering and not carpentry.)

Another factor that comes into play with programming is deciding when to build a machine to build houses and when to just build a house. That's "experience".

(A more appropriate analogy might be civil engineering. Civil engineers don't build machines to build bridges, they build bridges, because while a lot of things are similar between individual bridges, a lot of things are different too. Civil engineers abstract the components of the bridge, of course; they're not milling I beams or fasteners or developing new types of concretes from scratch for every bridge. That's like libraries that programmers use. But they are also doing engineering -- what's the right material and right type of structure for the given design constraints? Similarly, it would not be strange to ask a civil engineer if she's ever used concrete when you're planning on building an interstate highway. It would also not be strange to set up an example structure and do some load and material calculations on the whiteboard. While being able to do those calculations doesn't mean she's a good engineer, not being able to do those calculations would be pretty strange. I don't know much about civil engineering, but I hope this analogy at least makes a little sense to other laymen.)
Only if you write those patches without referring to the 7.1a source, which would be difficult since thousands of lines have been removed.
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Finally made ​​it all levels ;). http://rawgit.com/ was helpful
One good workaround is to highlight all the text by selecting it (ctrl-a).
I'll offer some counter points, but my view point is skewed.

- The best programmers come from all over the world. While it'd be great if they can attend these parties, it's not practical, even if they are within the same country.

- Companies do throw/host a lot of meetups to attract top coders. Top coders are usually kept very happy by their current employers and not looking to leave so they don't usually attend recruiting functions unless they are the ones recruiting.

- If you want to see parties thrown as recruiting events, go to Uncubed in SF. It's a wonderful time, but most people are just entering into the industry, so not many senior level guys.

- * Most programmers I meet at my workplace thought the interview was pretty easy, to which I say "Of course you did, you're here, but think about the 30-40 candidates before you that failed miserably." I meet a lot of skilled programmers that hate coding tests/interviews, the reason? They already know they can do the job, they know they're gonna ace the interview because they're awesome. But guess what? A lot, and I mean a lot, of people that fail thought the same.

- Don't discount social skills. Some roles are more client facing than others, or working with non-technical folks. Communication is key to projects.

I think any programmer that's been a hiring manager will agree there are many senior level people that just can't code,entry level grads with CS degrees that can't write algorithms or figure out time complexity.

Just my point of view.
I have had serious issues with Hulu, YouTube, and Netflix with Comcast in the past (about a year ago most recently). After a year with a spotty WISP, I'm on Comcast again, and the performance seems to be better now.
It's unfortunate that this mantra is repeated again and again whenever the discussion of Soylent is brought up. At minimum, last September they publicly discuss the fact that they are working directly with nutritionist:

http://blog.soylent.me/post/61556254347/9-15-weekly-recap
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Since Sweden is essentially a big forest, most houses here are built of wood.
In 2003 our school still had a class with old machines what should boot from a ROM into some BASIC environment. I was actively reading books on computers at that moment, however, without any access to the hardware, so I was using any available option to walk into that room and to fix errors in someone's code. Then we started learning graphics, and I actually tried to draw something on a sheet of paper with 1x1 mm cells and then code it by putting points in these places. Other folks did strange things too --- the pixels in the displays were not exactly square, so someone tried to make a circle out of points, adjusting them so that it looked more round than the standard one.

A year after the school bought about a dozen Windows machines and the fun was over (just until we figured out some ways of obtaining admin rights there and doing strange things like renaming all computers to what look like "COMP-12" (all these letters are present in the Russian locale, so unique same-looking names are possible)).
Why do these things never have syntax highlighting? It's like nobody cares about collaboration among hackers
only covers 25 years? That's a long programming career! From what I can gather, the more one steps outside the silicon valley bubble the more these types of interviews are common place.
My only point is that parental income is not driving force behind racial achievement gaps.

Perhaps immigrant status is the driving force behind the Asian/Black and Asian/White gaps. But then what causes the Asian/Mexican gap? Also, if you have data showing Nigerian/Ghanaian/Jamaican immigrants do as well as Asians, or the original source for Amy Chua's data, I'd love to see it.
Search "opendns vs google dns" https://www.google.com/webhp?q=opendns+vs+google+dns#q=opend...

One of the top links is titled "OpenDNS vs. Google Public DNS" and points to : http://www.opendns.com/about/global-dns-infrastructure

There's no mention of Google on that page. How do I trust a company that's tricking users with misleading titles?
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I don't know why, but this creeps me out. This seems like such a hard balance to get right and also too much of a burden for search engines. Also, there is potential for abuse.
This is largely the same goal that I've set for myself. I spend a good amount of time doing each (less marketing lately, more towards coding/design), and find that while I outpace most people in these fields, there's always people who specialize even further and know way more about them than I do. The trick is to spend as much time learning from these people as you can. I talk with my direct superiors at work a lot, because they're both insanely knowledgeable engineers. I also have some buddies that do full-time marketing, copywriting, design, etc, and each of them are constantly teaching me things. Make a point to regularly associate with a wide variety of deeply specialized people, and as a result, while you'll probably never be as effective as any of them in their given fields, you'll certainly be way more effective than most people. From there, pick one or two fields to use as anchors for your T (or W) shape, and then leverage that in your dealings with other fields.

Think of yourself as a pupa. Right now you're just incubating, you don't have to do anything fantastic, just learn and grow. Then, when you're ready, you'll break out of your shell and spread your wings :)
Maybe the sudden, big, red "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure" from someone who is in the best position to know and who has been trusted for 10 years to make decisions about what is and is not secure?

Without anything else to go on, it seems the most responsible assumption (for now) is that the software is in some way dangerous.
> was made years ago

We still use many stuff that was invented hundreds if not thousands of years ago. What is this hunger for monstrously quick cycles of change in everything?