skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but why would you? If you have control of all your clients to push such a change, why not just set up a private CA instead of opening yourself up to the whims of a proven cheating CA?
Most people wouldn't even recognize the name, even among the tech crowd. The exact date of his death wasn't published when I got to know about it in 2011. The year 2011 was a sad one of losing some highly esteemed luminaries in the tech world - Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy.

When the news of Dennis Ritchie's death came out almost silently in 2011, I had posted a photo [1] of him and Ken Thompson working on a PDP-11 on a social platform and stated that he had touched and created the foundations for almost everything we use today (related to computing). It's difficult to describe the significance of the contributions of stalwarts like Dennis Ritchie, who worked on the UNIX system, the tools, C, etc., and how that continues to impact our lives and our way of thinking positively today (and will continue to do so for decades to come).

His bio on the Bell Labs site [2] is worth a read.

Curiously, I found that the link on his bio page about the book he's most known for, "The C Programming Language" (K&R), is on an Amazon AWS site. [3] I never knew it was translated into several languages, the covers of which are also seen on the same page. :)

[1]: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kd14.jpg

[2]: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/

[3]: http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/belllabs-microsite-dritchi...
There are more unbelievable things taking place on Earth.
Harvard Corporation's charter[0] contains some restrictions, but yes, it can attempt pretty much whatever it wants.

[0] http://library.harvard.edu/university-archives/using-the-col...
They could track frequent flyers who usually buy stuff and make sure they are disbursed throughout the plane.
CNNs can actually be used for audio tasks too, on spectrograms
> it predates Trump by quite a long way

Are you suggesting history existed before I was born?
How is Tcp/ip stack, MAC addresses and low level linux commands are "up to date codong skills".

Not saying they are not important, but you could have asked the same questions 20 years ago.
If only there was some website where we could go and enter a name to search for information. I would call it Goggle for it would be like the goggles a diver wears while searching for treasure in the ocean's depths.
I hear a whooshing sound. Reductio ad Trumperum or something similar (I'm not real 'up' on my Latin grammar) would presumably mean "reduce to Trump." You know, like summing up a complex & nuanced issue in terms of how it supposedly relates to Trump. You're saying people have been doing this -- as a -strategy- mind you -- since before Trump existed?
Those institutions have money. Elementary schools may or may not have money, depending on whether they're in a rich neighborhood or not.
Obama is just an mechanism. In case of Iraq war I think Bush and a large part of his administration must be jailed.
My wife is friends with her daughter Mia. Really nice people, down to earth for being the direct descendants of a royal family.
I remember the secret StartCom change of ownership came up very early in these discussions (I even saw random forum posts, on HN and elsewhere, almost a year earlier, when people noticed the StartCom servers mysteriously switched to Chinese IP addresses, and switched all my certs away as a precaution before there was any talk about CA mismanagement). But until now I've only seen talk of actually kicking out WoSign. Good riddance either way. Wonder what happened to the StartCom people, they seemed to be clued in back in the days. Shame.
When you really look at Google's offerings, however, they suck. Their UI is terrible and their branding is worse.

We have dozens or hundreds of essentially proprietary versions of Android running around, which can't be updated. The great "open-source" OS that would save us all from vendor and telco tyranny most certainly DID NOT. The failure to create a proper hardware abstraction layer and driver model is just embarrassing.

Ugh, even Google's Web offerings suffer from UI incompetence and hypocrisy: Google declared that they'd "punish" Web sites that aren't "mobile-friendly," so what does Google do? DISABLE ZOOMING on mobile browsers on ITS OWN site.
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You can be a Hillary apologist for the sake of political arguments. The thing is if I had done the exact same thing I would be termed a traitor and put in jail.
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Sounds about right, but one thing to keep in mind is that "Removal of root" is only one possible route Mozilla can go for. They could also revoke (root or intermediate) certificate(s) through OneCRL, and while I haven't tried this, my guess would be that OneCRL trumps locally-added roots.

That being said, the current plan is not to remove any of the roots (at least until all active certificates chaining up to those roots have expired), but rather not to trust certificates chaining to those roots with a notBefore date > October 21, 2016.
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This is going to get hilariously legal. A certificate from GlobalSign or anybody else is the product of the chain, if the chain isn't there and the cert isn't valid it's no more valid than a self-signed one.

Tell me again, anybody, why we trust these people?
If that's true (and I would love to know if it is), then Google should know that is a big no-no in a lot of cultures, and there are much better ways to test for it. Some still hold the broken word to be an indication of people you don't want to deal with, ever.
The problem with Google's interview methods is that they all select for a very specific type of programmer: heavily math oriented, deep knowledge of obscure Computer Science theory, but not one test on knowledge of languages, architecture, design, or actual real-world problem solving. I walked into an interview with one guy and he literally did not even say hello: he just jumped straight into some problem I had to solve on the whiteboard.

The problem with that approach is you end up with a very homogenous team of really smart, logical people, but without the balance of more creative, empathic types. Ideally, a well-functioning team will have both, and will have people from many different backgrounds and educations, because that's when you get true collaboration and innovation: by mixing unrelated disciplines.
Is it correct to say that the majority of HN users are astrophysics "laypersons"?
I'm guessing they are.
This is a downright character assassination attempt. The way apple is treating this developer is pathetic.
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I don't think that even LEO Spy Satellites have that resolving power. Of course, that information would be classified. Does any HN reader know what a reasonable guess at their resolving power would be? I would love to know.
I don't have the length of a MAC address memorized (because why would I need to?), but I know what one looks like, so I can pretty quickly work it out in my head. A hex digit is four bits...

Maybe 10 years from now I'll have forgotten everything about the hex/binary/octal representations of numbers, but I certainly hope not!
Musical covers are allowed under mechanical copyrights.

For live performances, the venue carries an ASCAP license, I believe on an annual rate. I don't know how royalties are attributed to individual songwriters.

For recordings, the recording company is, as I understand, responsible for paying royalties to the songwriter.

Note that songwriters and composers get royalties, but recording artists are typically only compensated for their studio time. This bit of legal context for revenues is a reason for the difference between recording artists (much better deal for the studio) and singer-songwriters (much savvier for the artist).
It seems to me parent's answer only reflects the general attitude at Google: they don't question anything they do, they don't do "customer support" and they don't display humility

Yes, I'm not expecting the conversation to have been exactly that, but it shows problems regardless.
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Yes! Propositional logic and conditional/indirect proof strategies should be taught before any kinds of "proofs" are taught to students (I'm looking at you, trigonometry).
Discovered it couple of weeks ago myself too. Anyone does have any experience with it?
> Actually, I make a point in my iOS projects to avoid third party libraries wherever possible.

Thats not a bragging point.
Hobby use would be a pain: LN2 could be used, but it boils off so a dewar would need to be constantly refilled. For sensor applications where cold matters but a Peltier TEC is insufficient, a Stirling/Joule-Thomson/turbo-Brayton/Gifford–McMahon cryocooler can be used to remove heat, but they're expensive (this is how the Hubble Space Telescope does sensor cooling). They often have high-pressure LN2, neon, or helium as the working fluid, with a cold head attached to the sensor and a remote compressor. Cryocoolers are also used to chill superconducting RF filters (of the sort that may be used in cell phone towers). They're also used to cool MWIR sensors, and thus are often ITAR-controlled. Sometimes higher-temp cryocoolers pop up on eBay...
Classic. "Think of the children"!
Totally off topic (except for the fact that "correctness" of an answer can be a deeper problem than checking against a list) but when you look at how the cones in your eyes are connected to the brain to actually transfer color information it's indeed closer to Red-Green/Yellow-Blue (as described in Lab*). That's why we intuitively include yellow as a "primary color" even though you can just use RGB to describe it.
Yes, you're right, my mistake!
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For the Stones, specifically the blues.
Yes, I actually used to have a copy of it posted on my wall until too many "managers" mocked me for it. In my experience, those who are not "makers" truly truly truly do not comprehend in the smallest way what concentration, interruptions, meetings, etc. mean from a developers standpoint.
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That's Michael Milkin, the ex-con who invented junk bonds and went to jail for violating securities laws. Looks like he went into junk education.
When you block quote the text like that it is a pain in the kidney to read on mobile.

Just use asterisks around text. Block quote is intended for code to retain formatting.
The Tohono O'odham people lived happily straddling the border drawn as a straight line in Washington.

That is until 1980.

Strange that "progress" makes a human system that worked happily for 10,000 years suddenly an unthinkable conduit to crime in some people's minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham_people
Who would know just how long a MAC address is? Jeez man, these things are literally written as 6 bytes separated by colons. Asking a network engineer this question is about like asking a postman how long a zipcode is.
I think Ubuntu 16.04 is on Plasma 5.7 or older. (That's where I experienced this).
> What you think might be mainstream in a computer science class are rarely used in application.

Uh actually my classes didn't teach me that. Side projects did.
Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rPrtrh1...
Wow, thanks for the post @gro_us. CloudRail team here... happy to answer any questions.
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That's what Rod Brooks claimed when he started Rethink Robotics. It hasn't worked out well.
"And then, the world developed robust, well-maintained, open source libraries that do all of that for you. Now, in 99% of commercial software engineering, you don't actually need to know any of those details.."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we ended up with npm.
This quote from Lawrence Osborne is apt:

> Thailand is a unique society in the modern world: a Theravada Buddhist monarchy with a parliamentary system. The clarinet-playing king, believed to be a living incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, presides via lèse majesté laws over a hedonistic and technology-obsessed Asian Tiger economy, centered in one of the most sophisticated urban cultures on earth. No one has ever been able to understand how it all holds together.

The mystery behind that last sentence may just about to be revealed.
Not the output. Making several single connections from intermediate layers from the different nets.
This reminds me of Kloudless: https://kloudless.com/

It's interesting though that CloudRail is library-only; I like that you don't need to worry about CloudRail uptime. However, doesn't this mean I need to upgrade my dependency when a downstream API changes? With Kloudless or other gateways, the gateway can update independently of my application, so the strategy is a trade off
I'm out of school. But I can't help but think there is a better way. I always get the answer "When you understand it enough you'll have it memorized." I hate this answer because it is easily provable as false. Like my example in the other comment, the Laplacian is an easy concept, but remember it in spherical coordinates isn't trivial like it is in Cartesian. If I can memorize a list of 20 random items for years with minimal repetition I don't see why I can't do this with equations. It isn't about memorizing everything, it is about memorizing what is useful so I don't have to look it up on google every few weeks when I need it.

As for testing, when I was in school most classes didn't allow me to have a formula sheet. And anyone that does the physics GRE knows how much has to be remembered. But to me it is more about quick and easy access. Motivation isn't about some test.
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Tons of experience (CloudRail team here) :-) Happy to answer any questions you might have.
I sub to these three:

computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/computerphile

leveluptuts: https://www.youtube.com/user/leveluptuts

google chrome developers: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChromeDevelopers
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Do you recall the question? Site's down. I recall thinking the right answer was to use POPCNT but maybe I'm misremembering the question.
To be fair, in comparison to most other DEs, it is still rather heavyweight. Definitely more heavyweight than LXDE and Xfce, and Unity is pretty well-optimised at this point, too.

But yeah, for what KDE is capable off, especially in comparison to GNOME or the Windows-world, it's actually incredibly lightweight.

I run it on a 4 year old mid-range laptop with 4 GB of RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4000, and as long as my system isn't under heavy load, it's buttery smooth, even with many of the bells and whistles enabled.
What did I miss? Last I heard about this, the plan was to ban them from issuing new certificates for a year. Did something change?
I just updated HSS as it is my primary VPN when I don't use my work VPN. I have a lifetime subscription. Should I be worried?
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...Which is why LibreSSL was started in the first place: Trusting OSSL is fundamentally insane.
For Unity apps I like "Makin' Stuff Look Good": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEklP9iLcpExB8vp_fWQseg
I'm American and there are people from all over the world casually weighing in about America on HN. That's totally OK. Let's not have a double standard and let's be free to have opinions about other peoples' royals.
"Now, in 99% of commercial software engineering"

Whatever this thing... this... stringing together a 100 random github projects to get a webpage that kinda of works about 80% of the time is called -- please let's agree not to call it "software engineering".
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I was asked similar questions when I was hired as an SRE nine years ago. The recruiter stopped after a few correct answers, iirc. There was probably at least one I didn't know / guessed wrong on, but I don't remember. They also asked me to rank my knowledge in several areas on a scale of 1-10, and I think the questions focused on areas in which I'd chosen higher grades. Following conversations with engineers also focused on those areas.

As I understand it, this is meant to be a shibboleth a non-technical recruiter can use to spot an experienced software engineer / sysadmin in a quick conversation ("pre-screen"). That's a hard thing to pull off. They can't ask someone to design a system, diagnose a problem, or write code because they're unqualified to grade the answer. Instead, they ask some simple canned questions. The questions may not test essential, first principles sorts of knowledge, but if someone can't answer any of them it's a bad sign. The questions should have a small family of correct answers that recruiters can recognize, and the recruiter should just see that a candidate can get some of them right before scheduling a phone screen with a Google engineer. If the transcript is accurate, this process failed.
Did you even bother reading the story? Here's a summary:

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-says-1-000-fraudul...
You are right, in the end it is a trade off. CloudRail has no down times, can't touch your data and is as performant as a native implementation. But yes, in case of an API change you have to update the SDK. We have a notification system though. You will get an email if you are affected by a change.
I definitely didn't say anything remotely like that, so I'm really not sure how to respond to this. I'm really tired of the one-off pedantic and disingenuous posts people seem to be okay with posting on these topics.

In the context of facebook "censoring" conservative media outlets, there's an observable trend that major conservative news sources are more apt to post false or misleading content that tickle's their audiences expectations, than it is for major liberal sources.

This is an observable trend. Take something as scientifically sound as global warming or evolution. Fox News or Breitbart will consistently misreport on these issues, just to be in harmony with the overall conservative narrative in the U.S. It is highly unlikely you will find equivalent liberal sources that do anything remotely like that. Liberal sources are not perfect nor are they immune from criticism. It's just _more_ likely that an editor will find reason to deny a story from a conservative source than a liberal one. Again, this doesn't seem like a problem for facebook to solve by removing editors, it seems like a problem conservatives should strive to fix.

No news source is going to be perfect. They're never going to report everything accurately, and sometimes they might jump the gun to just get a story out. But there is a line when you can consistently observe a set of news sources being dishonest, or even worse, malevolent.

With all this mind, keep in mind the stories that were falsely trending. It's coming from the same set of sources, with the same political idealogies that Facebook got lambasted for "censoring." You have to be blatantly ignoring what's going on at this point to admit that maybe, just maybe, the problem wasn't with the editors.

And as a side note, I really have never labeled myself one way or another, but I've found over the years I'm consistently labeled as a "liberal" so I've picked it up. The only thing I've ever done is looked at the evidence, been skeptical about claims, and tried my best to form opinions around an ever revolving set of information. If that means my opinions happen to be more consistently liberal than conservative then so be it, but screaming "bias" just because one side of the U.S. political spectrum consistently has absurdly low standards is the worst kind of false equivalency.
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>Attributing any of that "progress" to Bob Dylan is a huge reach.

While that's true, Bob Dylan was most likely the reason behind Hurricane's retrial, so that's something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_(Bob_Dylan_song)
Right. It's briefly introduced in geometry (or used to be) in the typical US high school curriculum, but not thoroughly and not as a distinct concept from geometry. It deserves its own sequence of material, and it should be applied to multiple areas so students can see the value of it more easily.

When the only application is geometry, and they hate geometry, they won't care about the "tool" being used.
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Usually you don't want to give any attackers the ability to destroy all your backups of the server they hacked.

S3's "upload-only" API keys are a solution here: you send the backups into a black hole but the attacker can't delete them.

Looks like Dropbox might not have something like that, giving the attacker read-write access to backups if they can get that API key.
It depends on what I am trying to improve on. Currently it is the CMU Database Group https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA because I have never taken any DB courses in school and I felt the need to shore up my skills there.
That's not really true. Tino Sanandaji explains in detail:

If the Hispanic vote share would have been what it was in 2000, let alone 1992. Romney would have won. Romney however would not have won with the vote share Bush got among Hispanics with the current composition of the electorate.

http://tino.us/2012/11/why-hispanics-are-natural-democrats-a...

Voting habits have little to do with either philosophy or policy. Black Americans are socially conservative too. It's mostly just tribalism; Democrats are on the same team as Mexicans/Blacks, Trump is on the team of American Vaisya's (see http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes-... to understand the terminology), etc.

To be clear, regardless of your political stance or your views on immigration, not giving illegal immigrants the right to vote is not the same as disenfranchisement or reduced democracy.

If we legalized them (which I favor), and allowed them to move to the US permanently, it would be disenfranchisement to prevent them and their children from voting.

Note: This article explains nicely why I don't consider disenfranchisement to be a dirty word: http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2016/09/expressive-mean...
However it still isn't exactly that new or revolutionary... CentralDS has been doing this with Canon cameras for a while now and it looks like P.L.L. has just taken the cooler and retrofitted it to a Nikon this time. Still went with the ASI 1600MM-Cool and MC-Cool based on their prices still being lower together than what they're charging.
> This guy is super popular. ... Not out of compulsion.

Making it a crime to criticize the royal family with punishments up to 15 years tends to make it look like uncoerced love.
Dont forget Gord Downie, he could probably win a nobel for is poetry also!
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A bit disappointing that you left them out of your comment as well.
(Same disclaimer)

If you interview frequently, at least for SWE, this is certainly not how we go about things. ghire guidelines for SWE don't allow for questions like this, or behavior like this.

Is it possible this was an SRE interview? I guess, but it really sounds ungoogly and these questions sound like they don't give great signal. I'd be ashamed if this is how we hire SREs.

Is there really an "avalanche" of reports like this? Most negative reports I hear have to do with our SWE questions which tend to be difficult.
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I really like what Scott Adams says: it's something like "People aren't idiots, they just experience bouts of idiocy (some more often than others)."
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