skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security is not one project. It is every project that faces the world. A "Manhattan Project" isn't a useful analogy or approach to the security problem.

The problems we have are:

1. High capability attackers (states, corporations) have a high motivation to compromise privacy and security and low motivation to improve privacy and security for users.

2. The tools relied on by users for security and privacy are often built by people with very limited resources (GnuPG, OpenSSL, nearly every other Open Source thing in the world).

Fixing security online requires audits and maintenance across a huge spectrum of projects, and historically there has been very little funding for such things. It's almost dumb luck that we have tools that are as good as they are, and we shouldn't be surprised by bugs like Heartbleed and Ghost and others. They're what happens when there is very little profit in maintaining core infrastructure.
I believe the same is true of other paradigms. Of course complexity is difficult. Do concatenative languages exaggerate the effect?
The trap of the performance sweet spot
You just summed up a big part of silicon valley. Everyone thinks it's written in the stars that they are the next billion dollar company; anything else is given the derogatory "lifestyle business".

It's just a silly game that people way above us are playing. When I left a failing startup (that could have had seen some success had it been less ambitious and raised less debt), the CTO told me: "the VCs have more money than we have time".
Trade secrets are also IP, and favored in the semiconductor industry 1) because you don't have to make the designs public; 2) because process generations are short and patents take too long to get.
Yeah buying space for a restaurant in new york city...doesn't happen.
From a candidate's viewpoint, the NYC job market seems really bad right now. I've been semi-looking for a couple months with no interviews.

If you had a junior candidate and a senior candidate offering to work for the same rate, would you prefer the junior candidate? Why?
Here, have the original article which you should have linked to instead of some clickbait aggregate site: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/06/netflix-is-reported...
The number of times I need to use caps lock is much lower than the number of times I accidentally hit it while doing something else, causing me to have to correct whatever I mistakenly capitalized. This means that it is a net negative in terms of time. That being said, the real issue I think is that it takes such a prominent place on the keyboard that could be used for more important keys.
> each iteration of that attack will (in typical GPG usage) require manual intervention.

How long do you think that will last when everyone encrypts all their email?
These people are rare but they exist. I've seen it happen more than once. They inspire you, give you sound logic, and then you forget to check the facts because you just trust them at their word.
These are usually great leaders that also take great risks. I am personally one of the people who needs this kind of motivation to get stuff done, therefore I try to be around people like that but I learned to always check the facts.
Yeah but those guys don't threaten the US business. They might clone Groupon in Europe, but they're not going to expand out of Europe and take over Groupon in the US.

To try to head them off before you've taken enough profit in the US Is a curious combination of hubris and greed. Especially at that cost.
I just write in lowercase and then type VU to convert the whole line to uppercase. #vim
Err, please consider the context of this discussion, which is Peter Thiel's views on monopoly vs competition. From the article:

>I argue that great companies succeed not by competing with everybody else but by differentiating themselves—by becoming so good at what they do that no other firm can offer a close substitute.

I wasn't addressing people who complain about things like yor points (1) to (4), I was addressing Peter Thiel's argument.
Both this and io.js 1.1.0 are available via nvm now.
If the landlord could get more than twice as much as they currently are, of course they're going to do everything they can to drive the current tenants out. How is that at all surprising?
> In the main online trans community I run in, where this stereotype is endlessly touted as being true (often tongue-in-cheek), most of us start our transitions somewhere between 18-45 and by and large is biased towards people who started in our twenties (I started at 28, myself, and I'm 30 now). People who started before or after that are really rare in that particular community (there are other communities that swing younger or older, by the way -- I'm just talking about the group I run with).

Well, I suspect that there are multiple issues at play that make techies more likely to have the MtF transition:

1) There are simply a lot more males in tech. So the MtF transition is likely to be way more common than the reverse.

2) Techies have money. Gender transition takes quite a bit of time and resource that someone poor is not going to have.

3) Bias to late twenties/early thirties probably makes sense as that's the first point where you have the resources and support to pull off the transition but is still early enough that your social system hasn't hardened into place (Trans-changes when you already have children are very disruptive).
I'm not sure that that makes sense. Have those people never read a newspaper, or a book, or done an assignment in class?
You're completely right. There's probably a much better way of formulating the study; working professionals rather than (just) famous people, perhaps.
> Who does that shaping is important.

Nobody is stopping women from shaping the world. Women need to just fucking change the world and stop asking men for permission.

Bill Burr said it best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pn1RVZu-24
I've thought through this idea a few times (cloud processing in people's homes for heating). It's pretty hard to make the economics work out. You can bring down hardware costs using older processor tech, which is ok since you don't care about efficiency. Alternately you put a shit ton of mobile phone processors on a board. You also need some really advanced software systems if you want to do any real processing and be robust to random failure of nodes. I haven't run the numbers, but I'm skeptical. Cryptomining doesn't seem like a sufficient return these days, and if you're using electricity over gas it's a total no-go.

It's the sort of idea that my physics background loves (why the hell are we turning so much energy straight into entropy all the time instead of doing useful work first?) but pragmatically it doesn't seem to work out.

As a side note, if you want to be fun at parties talk about your computer as your new 100% efficient space heater :)
Or used for domestic hot water, which is done in some data centers.
I personally think this whole concept is amazing. Especially for big data companies, like Google.
I have used TaxACT for several years now. I haven't used turbo tax so I can't compare. But I have been very happy with TaxACT.
One of my favourite technical talks is by Jonathan Blow: http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/how-to-program-independe...
Did mine? Pretty close to it, at least when Bitcoin was high. Would they today? Certainly not. I bought my ASICs and within a couple of months had recouped about 80% of the cost, and probably another 5% in the following couple of months before I turned them off due to heat. The GPU miners continued to make a reasonable amount of money by using currency hopping pools. But, they probably reached only about 65% of being recouped. Now, it would take a couple of winters to make another 5% back (but, since I'd be running heaters anyway, it might still work out OK...or, I may still be better off selling the GPUs, since they are still roughly current generation technology (I have a mix of R270, R280, and R290). I bought before the demand drove prices up, but still it was a pretty big chunk of change compared to the four or five space heaters they could replace.

I certainly don't recommend mining. I got involved partly for the experience, as I was writing a novel that included Bitcoin oriented stuff, and partly for the GPU (I wanted a better gaming system anyway, so one 290 was getting purchased, no matter what), and partly for the gold rush (knowing it was probably a poor investment).

But, it seems like there ought to be a system that pays people for their GPU cycles. Though what they'd be doing is up in the air. I can't think of much that doesn't also require fast communication. Folding@Home and SETI@Home are cool, but don't pay, which is unfortunate, since I don't run these things without something offsetting the electrical cost.
If we're nitpicking, it's the result of a transaction. Granted it's a transaction you're not opting out of, but it's still an exchange of service for payment.

By any other measure in a transaction that money ceases to be yours and becomes theirs. We can argue the merits of income tax or taxation in general, but in our (and many similar) systems, it's not your money if you wish to live in the country and thus partake in this transaction.
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This class of startup is a chicken run. "Fab would feature and sell third-party items from small design shops all over the world" is not exactly a novel idea. There are hundreds of catalog houses in that space. Some of their glossy catalogs are probably in your recycling bin right now.
So there's an expectation that growing too fast to get a predominant marketing position is a winning strategy. Only one company wins that game. The others die.
The title is very misleading... it's not an $11,185 connector, that's the price of setting up custom tooling for this component. After-which the factory quoted a very reasonable $0.13 per piece.

The author went into this stating he'd be willing to pay for their tooling... then is sticker-shocked when they quote him for so. It's like the author went into this thinking they'd pay a few hundred bucks (for the custom tooling) and get a short fab run (< 100) back out. These factories aren't going to tool-up unless they're about to produce thousands... it doesn't matter if it's PCB's, connectors, action figures, jewelry display stands, etc. It's not worth their time at small scale.

The reason these connectors are difficult to find (if possible at all) is people aren't buying them... so you have to make it worth the factory's time to custom fab them for you. And if they think you're going to be a one-time-run, then you aren't going to get as good of a price as if you signed some long-term production agreement (10,000 a month for 12 months, etc...),

He also didn't go about finding a fab in the best way.. he went to Alibaba which is essentially the Amazon of factories... definitely not the "best price" you can get.
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Talk to Sullins Connector Corp directly.
http://www.sullinscorp.com/

The last time I had a connector I needed, they took something they had off the shelf, milled it, stuffed it with different pins, and charged me $100 for 5.

I was stunned. I haven't had customer service that good in decades.

Really. Call them. Even better, take a factory tour.

They may not be able to do it, but they have 30 years of designs archived. One of them will probably work.
I'm trying to parse your second paragraph.

You are saying that governments "literally" sell our children. The reason you give is that young people are paying taxes that support Medicare, i.e., health care for senior citizens?

I think your argument is that these taxes (1.45%, currently) are "literally" the equivalent of slavery?
For that vulnerability to matter, you have to suppose a system that rigorously constrains the runtime to block system calls, containerize I/O, shut off the "unsafe" APIs, and somehow fence off state for crypto. Nothing does that.

Google AppEngine does exactly that.
AFAIK, classic (1.4) and stable (2.0) use a different format/layout for ~/.gnupg than modern (2.1).

Edit: see quoted text above.
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Yeah this happens more than just with Turbo Tax.

It used to be a scam that prisoners did by requesting 1040 forms and having some help on the outside to make bank accounts to direct deposit the money for refunds into it. They would get fake W2 forms and make them from fictitious companies and enter a large withholding tax on them. File the 1040EZ form with the standard deduction and file a state form too for extra money. Everything was done via postal mail before Turbo Tax and others provided e-filing.

A friend of our family had someone file taxes as her, and we think the SSN got stolen from the church we go to by ex-employees because they need it for donation tracking. She hadn't filed taxes in a while and Turbo Tax would not help and she was seeking an accountant to find out someone else already filed taxes as her.

I buy the desktop Turbo Tax edition and I try to file early before anyone else can file as me. I am disabled and don't make a lot, but there have been many data breaches that include SSNs over the past decade or so. When I had a student loan, someone stole a laptop with a harddrive on it that had SSNs and other info on it from the company that managed my student loan.

Actually if people are getting SSNs from outside of Turbo Tax they can e-file with the other tax filing software as well.
"But, if it takes you $1.10 to make $1 and there's a clear path to efficiencies/economies of scale, then maybe you're on to something."

I agree with everything you've said, but the latter part of that sentence is easily overlooked when the money is flowing freely: there are a lot of big-name startups right now who sure seem to have business models that are the equivalent of selling dollars for 95 cents. You hear a lot of things that sound like "if only we can solve this NP-complete problem and/or ultra-efficiently operationalize labor-intensive tasks that have been the bane of much larger companies for decades, we'll print money!" If only...

In particular, you can hand-deliver low-margin things (that people clearly want) and goose your revenue like crazy...but can you do it profitably in the long run? I'll bet you a Kozmo messenger bag that you can't.

This is more of a problem in the valley than elsewhere. People so techno-utopian that they sometimes forget to ask basic questions of feasibility, because revenue growth.

That said, I have no idea how you get to hundreds of millions of dollars in funding without someone taking a step back and saying: "hey, wait a second...are there unit economics here?" That's just nuts.
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I did pretty much exactly this a few weeks ago to make a DB-23 video cable for an Amiga :]
I would just like to point out people are running production stuff on v0.x of something..
I like the concept, but it seems... expensive.

Maybe I'm just spoiled by the Raspberry Pi, but I'm having trouble swallowing a $60 machine (and that's without any of the other gizmos that attach to it) when there are examples of products in the same niche that come out to a bit more than half that. Does the fancy low-power radio really cost that much?

On the other hand, I don't think the Arduino or the various other prototyping/microcontroller boards like this are any less-ridiculously priced, so maybe this is actually competitive and sane relatively-speaking. It still seems strange, however.

On the third hand, I suppose I could just download the schematics, source everything out, and figure out how to build it by hand. I have a feeling it would end up cheaper, even without being able to take advantage of bulk rates on the components.
I have a bet with a friend that this will be the ultimate destination for iOS/OS X.
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That statement shouldn't be read as Braid being the first indie game (it wasn't by a long shot). But as Braid making indie games popular.

Before Braid, the average (console) gamer did not know what an indie game was. Or if they did, generally considered indie games to be terrible.
Just curious, why do they need a radiology setup?
A month of good sleep in a bottle
Every English style guide that I've read stresses the importance of consistency. If you want to use "setup", "login", etc., go right ahead. But be consistent: use the words "setupping" and "loginning", rather than "setting up" and "logging in".
I think you've hit the nail on the head: "it really depends on the attitudes, philosophy, and ethics of the leadership". Having seen what being in the red does to people, I'd prefer to start small, grow slow and steady and win the long game; yet I understand that's not everybody's philosophy or preference and that doesn't fit every type of company or product.
Mesosphere's Marathon Is on Fire – Mesosphere
Well, "most" programmers are not good. So, its probably true, but for a different reason.
Debunking the paleo diet
Specifications and annotations on construction drawings are typically all caps, as well. In that context, it looks more official and also more legible at various magnification levels.
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Doesn't matter how badly the study was constructed, the mission has been accomplished. Coming soon to a recommended article on Medium near you.
For a few years, I dated a girl whose parents lived in Houston, so I got to spend some time there. Now as a European coming from a well developed city with millennia of history, I am rarely impressed by any US city, but man was Houston bad.

First of all, the city itself is huge and sprawling. Her parents lived in a nice suburb where all houses looked the same. You had to drive 10 minutes within the suburb on twisted roads with a 5mph speed limit to get out of it, at which point you'd be on the highway and had to drive at least another 5-10 minutes to get anywhere. Forget walking anywhere - without a car, you wouldn't go anywhere. The highways were quite shocking as well - I've never seen so many lanes on a single road, nor so many stretches of road going over and under each other. Perhaps my memory serves me poorly, but I remember exits with three or four layers of highways going all over one another.

I spent some time downtown, which was a bit better - they had a nice museum, some trees, and even a tramway to get around. Sadly, the downtown area was minuscule, and had no personality. Things emptied out early in the evenings - it was mostly businesses or day entertainment.

Overall, I hold a very poor memory of Houston and one could never pay me enough to live there. I hope for the US's sake that this is not the model of urban development they herald as the future, like the article implies.
ARM just introduced the processors that'll power smartphones in 2016
Doesn't this result is similar income disparity that this idea is trying to avoid? So instead of expressing itself between intra corp hierarchy it's expressed extra-corp hierarchy... So basically its exported but still exists...
None of the low-end 3D printers could hold the tolerances needed. Even a Form 1 isn't that precise.

Connector tolerances are very tight. That's why intermittent electrical connections are mostly a thing of the past.
Good story, but I flagged it for the misleading title. Perhaps a less sensational one would be, "Making new DB-19 cables is expensive."
What We've Got Here Is an Error to Communicate
I used to rent a two-room "suite" on the top floor of a shop house. On the middle floor were three bedrooms, each half the size of my own. One had a waitress in it, one had two guys who used to work opposite shifts at a car factory, and the third one had two sisters, their mother, their brother, and the brother's girlfriend living in it. This was in Oxford, England, and all the rest of the inhabitants were Polish.

A great article, definitely, but I'm sure people can find cramped immigrants closer to home if they look...
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WAT

Ok, seriously. How is putting Home and End there helping anyone? (Also, it just makes it that much harder for me to remap the key to Control, because now I have to remap two keys. Argh.)
Right the fix was submitted a few days ago. I couldn't get meteor to work on iojs
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A quick search suggests that they're still made:

http://www.connectworld.net/cgi-bin/rrdata/DB19FS (female)

http://www.connectworld.net/cgi-bin/rrdata/DB19MS (male)
Do you need to support older hardware? Or is there a particular reason you can't use DB-25 and just use 19 pins?
One of the many reasons that Chicago, and companies there, should not be taken seriously.
People are unbelievably obnoxious about this. You really think the person is yelling and has no idea how to communicate? If so, consider that you may be stupider than the people whose intelligence you're insulting. Patrice O'Neal had a great bit about this.
I used to think it wasn't a problem at all. There were several reasons for that but two stand out.

1. I'm a white male. I kinda don't have to worry about it.

2. I came from somewhere where this was less of a problem. Ironically, "lack of diversity" wasn't as much of an issue in the bigger corporations I worked for in Houston. The "boys club" thing is just worse in Silicon Valley than in Texas, from what I remember. I know it's probably tough for some Californians to hear this, but I'm just going to lay it out there from a Texan: between the frat-like feeling of some startups and the amount of cat calling I see on the streets of SF (that I never saw in Texas), y'all have a sexism problem.

Ultimately, though, the women in tech in SF with whom I work say it is a problem and they tell me (and other men) that they work in tech because they love it, but that it certainly isn't easy. I'm choosing to take them at their word.

You hear about it more in this field because - in part - there's a belief that diversity of origin and diversity of life experience leads to more creative solutions, products, and ways of working. I'm not quite sold on this idea, yet, but I'm open to the concept.

I still get angry at the suggestions that people sometimes make that amount to affirmative action or quotas for hiring, but that's why I think the ultimate solution is to stop pigeon-holing children from birth. We wouldn't have to jump through all these hoops in the first place.
Nota bene, for anyone having trouble parsing Homunculiheaded's description of each algorithm: s/interrupt/interpret
I imagine if they had data, they wouldn't have trotted out tired gripes and stereotypes in the first place...
I also worked for a company that got very serious acquisition interest in mid 8 figures, but the founders wanted a 9 figure company (and 1-2 weren't the first digits they had in mind either.) We swung for the bleachers, and went out of business.
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Since you seem to be familiar with this sort of thing, what is the best way to find a fab if not going to Alibaba?
Nope. The ability to diagnose it is pretty new; it went undiagnosed in my oldest sibling until age 12 or so. Not for lack of trying; they just couldn't figure out what it was until then. The effects vary wildly based on where the "bad" mitochondria are distributed throughout your organs, so there's no one thing to look for. Even though she carries it, my mother didn't develop any symptoms herself until well after her children did.

She once told me she wouldn't have had children if she'd known she carried it. I'd make the same choice if I were female.
Secure system design history: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/friday_squid_...
I agree with you entirely. Honestly I have to think that people with this logic don't truly believe it, the cognitive dissonance would be too high. Rather they are trying to exploit naive workers who have an idealistic understanding of the world. Meanwhile you and I will continue to be paid fairly by so called "exploitative" companies.