It sure was. I’ve been on HN for more than 10 years with my real name.
I know it sounds silly that I’d use a throwaway to say I want to work for Twitter now.
But if I do end up working there I have a feeling some in my network may not be so happy about this. I’d have to come to terms with that and plan some things out.
Maybe I’m overreacting, maybe not. But it’s on my mind these days when I say I support free speech within the confines of existing US law.
It’s a fun league to play in. There’s a range of age and talent, but still competitive. They have open play days in the late fall for people to try it and fill empty team slots.
The gloves (think gardening glove) take some getting use to, so be aware and prepare for some banged up fingers while getting used to catching :)
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson attempts to chronicle this in detail. The narrative has UC/Doudna making the fundamental contributions. And that the leap to human cells was "trivial" made by Broad/Zhang.
Anyone have any perspective on how they were characterized?
While informative, I think it was mentioned in the book that Doudna was the one who asked him to write it about her, so I think it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I thought isaacson did a pretty good job in trying to make it objective, but it does read a bit like PR at times which is kind of unfortunate for a topic on science. I guess it's been the same way for other historical discoveries as well, especially given the economic stakes involved. I find self promotion a bit debasing but it seems to be important of society like it or not.
That's a generous way of putting it. Just the first chapter nearly had me putting the book down as it read like a press release written on behalf of the scientist. It gets less painful and I understand that authors choose to write books about subjects that interest them but it feels like there's a definite difference in objectivity from his previous works.
this is the first book by isaacson that i read and i doubt i'd like to read any other. the bias in the narration, while duly acknowledged, forces him to paint other people (aka other side) so monstrously—at times—that it's impossible to take his criticisms seriously. that said i liked quite a few people aside from doudna (for example i think emmanuelle charpentier is badass and quite rightly the sort of hero we need—working with elegance and loads of fun).
It’s very unfortunate to read such a statement - Isaacson’s “The Innovators” is an amazing book that never lost its objectivity throughout my readings.
The chapters on Watson are super interesting. If Isaacson had written the book primarily about Watson, it likely would've been at the same level of Steve Jobs.
That book is so annoying. Disjointed towards the end and no doubt rushed out because of COVID. Doudna alone on the cover. A real disappointment and woefully little explanation of how CRISPR works.
Those were pretty well publicized CVEs when they were patched.
On the assumption that this data breach was caused by those CVEs (which I think were even publicized by the US CISO / NSA, how does the average website-hosting company find out about CVEs that apply to their stack in a timely manner? (note: I'm playing as devil's advocate, but would seriously like to hear realistic answers)
My answer is probably a bit cynical, but I believe it's accurate. The average when it comes to security and patching is pretty low, so on average, a hosting company probably doesn't find out about it, or patch it.
The majority of companies I've seen operations at didn't have people trawling the web looking for these kinds of issues. In theory you can sign up to get CVE notifications, and hopefully the software vendor will put a message on a mailing list. Whether anyone subscribed to that list is another question, and whether anyone reacts to it is another matter.
The challenge for most orgs I've seen would be even determining what tools (and versions) they need to keep on top of updates for. In a case like Salt however, I imagine short of being on their list (if they have one), most people's best hope is that one of their team sits on hacker news all day, and monitors relevant security resources, and knows salt is used.
Even big CAs don't get it right - the Salt attack was used against one of the certificate transparency servers. Clearly there's a gap between the theory and practice here.
Yes, that would probably work. This would then need to tie in with versioning support on the client side, so that people can "listen" for particular versions of dependencies.
As a user it would also need to support team or shared accounts, so that a whole team can get alerted to any issues in components of their stack.
Then need to get everyone to support yet another standard(!), and companies need to hunt through their existing stack and identify all the critical components - I imagine lots of people will forget their dependency on things like OpenSSL/OpenSSH and ensuring they track bulletins for their relevant version.
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A small group health plan isn't likely to be much less expensive, if any, and the small business health exchange SHOP (CoveredCA, Healthcare.gov, etc), the plans are pretty much the same individual plans.
The Affordable Care Act defined Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) which are basically a way to ensure that common and critical types of health care are guaranteed to be covered, along with a variety of other market making aspects (individual mandate, pre-existing conditions, etc). Prior to this, people could sell "health insurance" which covered few services, had strict amount limits, and could deny claims for various unclear reasons.
If you're going to earn less than $50k in 2017, then you'll qualify for a subsidy on your plan. If not, your options are going uninsured (potentially getting a tax fine at the end of the year), or enrolling in an individual market plan.
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> potentially getting a tax fine at the end of the year
A couple of years ago a snafu caused my insurance to go unpaid. When it got cancelled, I couldn't pay for a policy anywhere due to enrollment rules, and I think the monthly penalty on my taxes ended up being $230 or so per month my wife and I were uncovered.
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