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> the LibreSSL team refused the invite to the exclusive OpenSSL security list

As I understand it, they refused to accept embargoes (or guarantee that they wouldn't just go and scream "FIRE!" if one broke out, even before they could put it out) -- or patch ahead of other's etc.

The "responsible" vs "full" disclosure thing. There are arguments on both sides, but from the perspective of being a developer, I can understand the whish to just be able to say: "Oh, shit. Turn off your SSL services now, this and this has been seen in the wild. We're working on a fix" -- rather than let some small number of juicy targets be compromised because someone had an exploit, but hardly anyone knew about it.

At any rate, if one was happy with openssl, one can just stick to openssl. Probably a pretty bad idea, though.
Yes, but who's watching the screen?
I think this applies all over, not just to PHP.

You read plenty of comments about always "write tests first" or 100% test coverage, ignoring the fact that many businesses don't have the resources, and just want something quickly. Even if it is a bit buggy, the something that works for 98% of the cases today is better than something that works for 100% of cases in two months time.

I stared filling in an application form the other day:

do you prefer
A) I prefer "standard" solutions because they work and are easier to implement and maintain.
B) I prefer to create from scratch because it fits better the needs and offers better performance.

Without a context this question is entirely pointless to me.
And I will be judged on it? There people obviously have their ideals and I am going to be judged on them. There is no "it depends" in the answers.
TIL programmers evolved from being secretaries to bricklayers.
I have never heard anyone in real life tell a woman that she "codes like a girl.", as if that would be a diss anyway?

Given that anyone with even a basic understanding of history would be awed by some of the women in the industry (ada and grace anyone), you would have to pretty stupid to come to the conclusion that women cant code.
I'd recommend you read this article: http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2012/05/27/corny_econ...

And to point you to this comment in the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205724

It's fully possible for one person in the chain to get positive utility from employing someone while society as a whole gets negative utility, considering negative externalities and race to the bottom-style situations, or a way less than optimal utility if you consider opportunity costs.
In my city (Nuremberg, Germany) Google seems to ignore the very fact the subway is operating in the city (and it's 40+ years there).
The stations are not on the map, and that's it.
I've seen this more often, i think its because girls can be acting like adults/grown ups. And boys… well that sounds (and generally is correct) like they are immature, not grown up.

Just my penny.
I was hoping there would be something about medicine that is now completely inaccurate. The best I could find was lead as a critical ingredient in making the best white paint.
Normally I'd agree with you, except if ANYONE could stand up to Apple's "strong arm" tactics, it'd be freaking Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
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I've heard You punch like a girl, You drive like a girl and similar before, but never You code like a girl. Which is good, I guess.
Confused: a definition is unrelated to what we 'want' consciousness to mean. I define it like this: we know what it is to be 'unconscious'. Conscious is the opposite of that, which is simply responsive to stimuli.

If we want to describe that other idea with a word, then perhaps self-aware is closer.
Another thing is that preference for getting results fast over the code being maintainable in future leads to preference of dynamic scripting languages over static safe languages.
Not as detailled as a manual one, but here is a good start : https://www.dareboost.com/en/report/550828b4e4b074fd5732f006
A good read. Although I was surprised the grandmother of programming, Ada Lovelace, wasn't mentioned.

Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
As a consumer I'm dead against the use of 'beacons' in a public space. If you want to tell me something in the right place, put up a sign. I probably know what I want in the shop when I get there and don't want to be manipulated into considering cross-sells and up-sells.

It's all very dystopian. As with any of these things (short of facial recognition) however, it is easy to abstain via the good old BT and Wifi kill switches.
Not boys, not men either though, but guys. Guys and girls tends to be the informal nomenclature for men and women. Why not guys and gals? Gal sounds so antiquated yet guy does not.
#7 is arguably even the most important.

If only administrators and those above them would be made to understand that there is more to child development than standardized test scores.
A city shouldn't have to deal with Google. Google is a company and should provide a reasonable service or no service at all.
Say, somebody allocated one of the strings with malloc or strdup and put a free(), but mixed up when to call free() and when not.
The opposite effect always feel like magic. I have fond memories to see one CGI software making my old Pentium2 350 do real time physics simulation over nurbs surfaces while the other couldn't even pull correct ones in batch mode (at 3 times the cost).

The first Mac OS X upgrades were similar, they made your old iMac do things faster.

I don't know how to make devs create non bloated programs, I often think we should give them really old systems to write on. Constraint drives creativity etc etc.
Women often refer to each other as girls. Men don't usually to each other as boys.
Actually it's just one <script> header, and a single (ugly) <button> tag duct-taped right into the page template.

I don't think it is either upstream-ready or especially advantageous for the project. Am I wrong?
Aks HN:I'm searching for new clients for a WEB-Dev Company
Hello,
I started working in a WEB-Development company as an account manager. To be honest I don't have experience in this field. My mission is to find clients for the company but I'm stuck. I will be happy if you lead me to some places or give me advice how to find and interact with new customers.
Thanks in advance,
Koprivarov
The voice on the video is slightly depressing.
In Australia (or maybe it was just me?!) we called it "hash" not "sharp"... so #! was "hashbang". The beauty of this system is that #| is "hashpipe", so it _must_ be correct.
Sometimes I get a little happy - maybe even proud - when I read about the achievements of women who pioneered this field (especially the awesome Admiral Hopper.)

Then I stop smiling and remind myself that, even in praise, it's not relevant.
I don't think of guys as gender specific any more, but I suppose it is now that you mention it.
Ex-NSA researcher proves that DLL-style attacks work just fine on OS X
If you put in 5 years at Google, Apple, etc. you will find it to be much easier to start (or to get hired at) a start-up than if you had joined a start-up right away.

Like Zuck? Drew Houston? It's easy to rattle off a dozen names who wouldn't have started their company if they'd worked at a big company for 5 years.

The correct answer is "figure out what works for you." And stop being cynical. It's really crummy to see Sam Altman, one of the nicest and most genuine people, dumped on here just because nobody here knows him.

I know him. Or I did, once. He's not the type of person you describe. Just the opposite: what sets Sam apart is how much he believes in you. You generally don't find it elsewhere in the world. It's rare for your own parents to believe in you in the way Sam does. So why go to a big company where they definitely won't believe in you or let you forge your own opportunities? And yes, you're right, you can spend years climbing the modern equivalent of the corporate ladder in order to get people to believe in you and let you take a risk. But:

in my experience nothing opens doors for you like having solid experience at a well known and well respected company.

Empirically, you're wrong about that. There are now over a thousand YC alums who prove you don't need it.

Sam is saying, "If you want to do a startup, here's what works on average." Nothing more.
That's the problem with expert systems - they have no reason to train on outliers like you (and me). They get far better statistics by suggesting the most common solution to everybody - occams razor.

So every search engine gives me links to buy a ticket or check a flight, when I search for keywords about aeronautics. Want to find a motherboard spec sheet? Get 100 links to where to buy motherboards. And guess what I see when I search for mathematical models?
FYI the "slanty thing" is called an acute accent.
Vaguely related:

From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]:

HASH, x. There is no definition for this word --
nobody knows what hash is.
Yes, development for apps for content partners was started in early November and were being tested in small batches in mid December.
PHP's past frameworkless mode of programming (though even goto's were shunned, if I think back a decade to when I was writing that sort of PHP).

You are right though, that it can get messy very quickly. But there is a case to be made for it in some circumstances; at least in terms of being able to render a page server-side as well as having it available as an API. I don't know enough about Erlang to say whether this is a good way of doing so, however, but it can be nice to have your templates with the interpolation points and small bits of display "logic" (if, then, etc.) all separate from your proper API written in a proper style.
If one uses the entity* notation, they must always declare each variable with a separate declaration, that is:

thing_t* ptr1;
thing_t* ptr2;

not

thing_t* ptr1, ptr2 /* <= oops */;
It's really simple, you need to convince the people holding the purse strings it's worth their money to spend inordinate amount of time on a problem affecting a small portion of their desired demographic. Getting Devs to work on antiquated machines will just make their lives miserable.
Not trying to be antagonizing but it doesn't seem to work on my nexus tablet. Screenshot with version info : https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B423NJPhUeLbVEJ5TVg2OWlYOEE/...
Google needs timetable data, and since they're a company, they can't just go and scrap the timetables from the official website and call it a day. They have to arrange for whoever runs the public transport system to provide this data, and sometimes the city refuses.
You see it in self reference as well. I hear women talk about their girlfriends all the time, but I never hear men mention their boyfriends. It is often the guys.
Please don't say "#n is adjective..." without specifying what #n actually is. This is a clickbait trend that has ripped through social media spam lately and it's vastly annoying imo. If you're going to talk about the article, talk about it like a normal person, not a spammer trying to trick people into following the links.

#7 in this article is "well-being".
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In-depth article (with comments by Edison) from Scientific American November 1921. See page 16

https://books.google.com/books?id=rYQ3AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA181&ots...
Mostly about applying ethics to the system in which a smart machine is deployed. Which is good, I guess. But I thought it'd be about the three laws of robotics or something.

Which are nonsense. Ethics have little to do with the fundamental circuits that a mechanism is built with. What is an ethical sensor? An ethical ALU? Its silly.

Ethics has to do with empathy. I'm not sure an AI is ever going to be very empathetic with me, a dumb piece of meat that thinks at 10 hz.
It's not a far stretch that laymen conflate "code" with "statistical learning algorithms."
tl;dr version:

Slightly vague article on how sharing threats among the ICS community and reducing attack surfaces through obfuscation and active defense can protect critical infrastructure.

Seems like the start of a false sense of security if 'normal' network activity would remain unchallenged, based on the assumption that only welcome users would create a 'normal' fingerprint.
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Also for Now developers, pushing a card to a user is only the intent for that user to get a card (and the intent to show it in certain contexts, like on their commute, at work, leisure time and location based). There is still the Now API black box between you and the end user (plus the end user can just ignore all cards from you if they want with a single swipe).

The bigger problem really was that content in the cards sent then gets fed into the Now content "context" algorithm. So for example if you receive content from something about recipes you might find you get spammed with information about restaurants around you at lunch times for example. It really doesn't all feel that great in some regards.
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Does this mean that more apps will not work without Google Apps installed on the phone?
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Like, in "going out with the boys" or "my boys have my back" or "boys will be boys"?
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In some ways I like Google Now. It can organize things on my phone utilizing Google's vast knowledge about my activities online.

But the same thing bothers me deeply. Our lives have become subjects to these machine learning algorithms. They feed us meaningless click-baity titles, advertisements and notifications that aren't all that important. That's how their huge business operations roll after all. We've become a generation that subconsciously write to feed the machines, not humans; and there's no easy way out in sight.
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As interesting as Ada Lovelace's and Charles Babbage's story is, their efforts have had little (if any) influence on the computer we know today. In a sense, they are not completely relevant when talking about modern computing. I also feel Lovelace tend to distract the subject on women in computing.
Ask HN: Did you or someone you know drop out of college to work on a startup?
I am currently a senior in college, and I will be graduating next January. I love to learn, but I hate school and the process of grading, and how some of our classes we are taught to pass a test. I think it is a waste of time. I have a couple solid ideas for start-ups that I could pursue, but school is keeping me from diving deeper into the ideas. So if you have dropped out to pursue a start-up or know someone that has, what was your/their experience like?

tl;dr - I am a technical business student who could use some advice on college or start-ups
Boring old two-ply is considered "luxury"? I buy two-ply and figure it's actually cheaper than one-ply because I end up using less. (But I don't have data. I'm not devoted enough to this cause to collect it.)
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I would recommend visiting local businesses who do not currently have a web presence or have a very bad portal.

Bring along some samples of work and show them what your firm is able to do. Perhaps client testamonials or stats showing how it will ultimately benefit them.
I recently bought a New 3DS on a whim and have been amazed by the experience developers can create on hardware that's probably somewhere in the league of the first iPhone. I've been rooting mobile gaming on and trying out the most critically acclaimed iOS games for going on 6 years but I feel confident saying that nothing's been remotely in the league of Mario Land 3D or Monster Hunter 4. Purpose-built hardware (specifically, the nicely calibrated buttons and the new eye-tracking 3D) is a wonderful thing.

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I looked up DeNa and they look like nothing more than a competent freemium game factory. So I'm pretty much reading this as a play at spreading N's IP far and wide on the hottest mediums. It would be interesting if Nintendo found a way to actually extend gameplay to when you're not on the system, but I'm not getting my hopes up and expect more along the lines of Candy Crush clones dressed as Dr. Mario.
Google knows that what you really need Now are coupons for laundry detergent in aisle 5 (when you're in aisle 4 you get cookie coupons), and an ad for a pet-washing service on rainy, muddy days. Ads for taxi services showing up 120 minutes before your flight? There's no limit to what you need Now!

The future is awesome!
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all those phrases are used by the immature referring to the immature.

those _are_ boys.
I highly recommend "21st Century C" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do) as a tour of modern C programming, including use of C99 features. It goes over C tooling (profiling, debugging, testing, cross-platform deployment), and explores C99.
For what it's worth, some actual intelligence tests from the period were remarkably similar, if a little easier. For example this group of (supposedly) actual questions from an Army IQ test ca WWI: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5293
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Thanks for the feedback. I will try out their App and see how we can differentiate ours.
I'm looking forward to the year they stop putting up signs, because everybody will depend on a HUD/GPS or wireless glasses or contacts or something. The freeways will look like some post-apocalyptic wasteland with rusted eroded signs hanging lopsided off of weathered poles. While the travelers are reading and eating and playing games as they're whisked along in transport pods at 200 miles an hour.
I've literally never said any of those and would feel uncomfortable doing so.
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title casing (and sentence casing) is one of these problems that is easy for humans to perform on a case by case basis, but hard to solve in an automated and generic way.

Not only is it language dependent (and any solution baked into css needs to work for all languages where it is relevant), and do various publishers have slightly differing rules about it, but it also depends on the meaning, as this example shows. Whether "Now" is part of the "Google Now" name, or works as an adverb influences the casing.

CSS has become quite a bit more complicated these days, but it is still quite far form being sentient.

TL;DR: Proper title casing is AI-complete
Agreed. There is a place to be gentle towards others' code, but security is one of the areas where we shouldn't care a mote about developers' feelings, only about the quality of the code.
Aside: if you disagree with this philosophy and do not want GIFs to auto-play, there's a very handy Firefox extension to accomplish just that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

I find it makes reading the web a much more pleasant experience.
Although that 6% figure is completely unsourced, unverified, and comes from someone employed by a competitor. So...
I'm not someone that drinks the startup koolaid by any means, but I agree with them that working for a large company has very limited value if your goal is to start your own company.

I worked for one of the biggest tech companies as a developer, and I learned no real skills in my tenure there. My responsibilities were just so narrowly focused and any knowledge I gained was specific to that codebase, which is not useful at all to potential future work.

The sad thing is, the best way to increase efficiency at that job was knowing the existing codebase better. I chose to quit instead.
For Google Maps, they used satellite imaging and cars with cameras. They didn't ask the government to give them the information / data besides the necessary permits.

A company can't just expect that the data holders will blindly comply with them because the result would be an improvement over the current solution.
Thanks! I'll forward that to my Director.
Theo has a reputation for this attitude. He's not entirely unlike Linus in that he's brilliant and people don't want to deal with him.
You seem to have completely missed my (and Asimov's) point about how there are degrees of wrongness.

Newtonian mechanics may not be 100% accurate but it's extremely accurate for a wide range of real-world, useful scenarios, to the extent that any discrepancy with reality is often beyond what can be measured. For example, the Pioneer Anomaly was a discrepancy of a few thousand kilometers in distance, over a total distance of more than a billion kilometers. This was still enough to prompt a lot of investigation, and the problem was finally solved by properly accounting for photon pressure from thermal emissions from the spacecraft itself. This is a discrepancy on the order of parts per million that could not only be detected but was considered extremely significant.

I get the impression that economists, on the other hand, are ecstatic if their theories are within even 1% of reality. That's a whole different class of wrongness.
How many different songs can there be?
interestingly this might be because girls like to retain some semblance of youth.

anecdotally my girlfriend (Russian if that makes any difference) absolutely hates when I refer to her as a young woman, or use the word "woman" at all. She much prefers to be referred to as a girl.

I have no issues with being called a man.. not saying that this pattern is everywhere but it's very apparent with her and her family.
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Ars Technica did a good article on this very thing. While the cooling is nice in some aspects, down there it's a bit too much, as components become brittle and easily damaged at temperatures that low. Static electricity is a larger concern with air that dry. (moisture is frozen out, and Antarctica is literally a desert.) Not the place to simply set your PC outside and go for the overclocking record.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/coolest-jobs-in-tech...
Then these computer scientists wouldn't be able to design their own system and, honestly, where's the fun in that? How are people going to take an international standards committee and software vendors seriously if they don't prove that they are able to come up with their own algebra for linear transformations?

No no, the stuff from the mathematicians probably wouldn't work and we'd be left with a dent in our egos.
Was pleasantly surprised by the article. Turns out there's some excellent guidance for the new parent there, given that very few of us can expect these lifeskills to be taught at school; folks can at least take a stab at teaching these at home.
Not really looking to get into a debate here, but for those being critical of Sam, PG more or less said the same thing (to an MIT audience): http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html
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This doesn't seem like a worthwhile or valuable product. The processing power of the device on your wrist won't be good enough for a "laptop" interface with the machine, and then you have the issue of battery life. Even in this video, that device looks like a tank on his wrist. The only way I see this being successful is if the screens are incredibly cheap, and the device itself isn't too expensive.
Likewise Leibniz was the first computer scientist. As if anyone cares.