skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't you get a "certificate revocation" banner of some kind though, as apposed to "certificate unknown"?

edit: read the update at the top of the linked article, which clarified that it is not just revocation, but also the inclusion of a new root cert for turktrust that has been suspended.
Very much yes. I need more up votes to give. Why on earth are comments first, maybe comments first AFTER the first viewing, but not first time.
Its an open spec that can be implemented on any other platform that cares. Mono is available on many platforms btw
Experience is everything
In case anybody is interested, the blond singer is Raffaella Carrà.

EDIT: I just noticed that it is mentioned in the origival YouTube page. Anyway I am not removing the comment, because she was really a sex symbol, for all southern Europe in the '70s!
So when a user types '-webkit-', and doesn't type '-ms-,-o-,-moz', when they all work, that's laziness on the vendor's part? Or better yet, when the syntax 'linear-gradient' works and you don't need a prefix at all, and you don't bother because you can't be bothered, that's laziness on the browser vendor's part? The vendors have bent over backwards to be fully compatible on gradients, animations, transition, border radii, box shadows, keyframes, and boat loads more every day. Every vendor makes compromises, the prefixes get removed and the whole web moves forward as one unified. But you'd never know it because hack developers can't be arsed to at least open one other browser to see whether it even worked. But yes, the vendors are lazy.
you should sell it.
Except this isn't a crash, it's something that Google is explicitly doing on their end from the reports.

I too can't help but feel like I'm missing some context, seems like Google would at least warn the user.
I do agree that it seems to make easier to learn (and get better at something) if you experience the subject.

But it doesn't mean that one should take his/her own experience (usually quite limited) as THE truth. Which is too common a mistake, especially when discussing scientific/technical subjects. :-/
Automotive race fuels are leaded as well. I'm not sure what the regulations on them are.
Thoughts on the Olive ONE?
I've been very tempted to contribute to its crowdsourced program, but wanted to know if anyone here had any experiences with Olive's products before, and what people's thoughts are on this project.

Specs: http://www.myoliveone.com/Ones/tech_specs
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They're just trying to avoid having a single company, Microsoft, dominate the industry again.
"Though I had a Stanford MBA and regularly consulted on multimillion-dollar projects, I didn't know the first thing about starting a business."

This guy was awarded a Stanford MBA and didn't know that you had to have paperwork to import goods from Thailand? Am I missing something?
Which coursera course? For Scala, or functional programming, or something else? Do you have a link to it?
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Can someone who knows more explain how java will do gpgpu? Is it going to make the jvm runnable on a gpu, or are they going to do something like compiling jvm byte-code to C/++/assembler code that will handle all the memory management it takes to run code on the gpu?
I'm a sys admin too, just one with a CS degree. I don't think you need a degree to do well but it certainly does help. You were right in that many companies have strict education requirements. It may not limit you now at a younger age but once you are in your 30's or above and you start to be considered for management that's when the education requirements really kick in. In many cases you may be in line for the management position but they simply cannot hire you due to internal policy. That royally sucks. It's a reason why many CS classes are occupied with older students, they are coming back due to that limitation.

You're only young once. College is fun, especially if you go to a big school and live on or near campus. Yes it's expensive and a lot of potential income is lost but the experiences you can have are really priceless. I say can have instead of will have because it's what you make of it. If you go and are a hermit you will have some good times but not the full package.

Some people like myself didn't come from families who could afford college. I had to take loans. Some people who took loans hate paying them back and regret going. I happened to get a good job out of it doing something I really enjoy (I get paid to play with linux all day). I don't mind paying off my loans. I am very grateful that I was able to take the loans and when I pay them I know it was for one hell of a good time. It really made me who I am today. I was challenged in class, met a few professors who changed how I learned, was exposed to all sorts of new ideas and met a bunch of friends who were actually smart. I found it well worth it.
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...but doesn't this sort of argument reduce to "you can't disprove the existence of unicorns?". Eventually this cutting-edge stuff has to come out from under NDA, so we should at least know of major advances from the 90s which were only revealed later.
This is a possible approach:

1. Install a Scheme interpreter (Gambit Scheme, Chicken Scheme, DrRacket ...) and a editor that is able to highlight Scheme (Sublime Text 2, Notepad++ ...).

2. Read a chapter of the book, do the exercises. If in trouble, Google is your friend.

3. Repeat 2 til the end of the book.

Optionally, you can watch the video lectures of the authors (recorded in the '80s). Another good source - video lectures for a SICP course by Brian Harvey (available on Youtube).

As a side note, you can view a Postscript (.ps) file using GSview:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
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"Free and open web" doesn't mean unfettered access to private parties' services, it means unfettered access to the internet itself. I.e. access to the services on the internet that private parties are willing to let you use.
They didn't, it's fully featured. In some ways it's even better than the Android app, more beautifully designed. They mentioned in their blog they'll be bringing much the same to Android soon.
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As of four years ago (last time I had any meaningful contact with search quality people at Google), it was a very convoluted layer cake of diverse signals and carefully tuned heuristics.
I, for one, would like to have more passwords in iOS. Like password-protecting my email app, file sharing app, and others.
If you look at the TODO list, it looks like they want to replicate PyPy's approach. I wonder, have they considered writing an rjavascript to rpython compiler and just using the pypy infrastructure as is?
Also if i recall correctly with Windows it was much easier to make OS images (modifying straight from the master gold images), while RedHat and OpenSUSE merely came with a long list of configurations to perform on the PC in meeting the requirements in DoD 8500-2. Granted full deployment would probably change this, however to be used software gets checked out for 'networthiness', and unfortunately there isn't a lot of COTS software for linux. Switching from anything but Windows would be overly expensive - just isn't worth it as long as Windows maintains a good level of backward compatibility (unlike Apple).
Another maxim that applies: Show don't tell.

In other words, if something is a fraud, that should be made self evident after you've proven the case that mistakes were made. No need to label it as "fraud"...in the same way that a funny joke should not be prefaced with "This following joke is very funny"
It's totally reasonable for Google to decide they don't want to spend the resources to support WP8 due to low usage. But here they were taking an apparently already working (even if not officially supported) site and breaking it. That's a bit less reasonable, but it could admittedly still be a technical issue.

But that clearly can't be the case for the GMail and Youtube issues. Google still continues supporting the Exchange sync protocols for business users, so there's little technical benefit in disabling it for another class of users. Likewise Google is under no obligation to make a native WP8 Youtube app -- but given they've given partners API access to Youtube in the past, clearly there's no technical reason why they couldn't also open up the API for MS to use. In either case there's no plausible way the low market share of WP8 could be the explanation.

Now, of course both of these cases could have totally benign explanations. Maybe the licensing terms of ActiveSync make it undesirable for Google to support it for free users in the future. Perhaps MS and Google can't come to a reasonable agreement about Youtube API licensing terms, and the real villain of the story is MS for trying to now score cheap publicity points with it. Or maybe Google is trying its best to smother WP8 in the cradle. And you can't ignore these other data points when looking at the motivations for these petty Maps changes.
The idea of creating a website where employees could go to rate their employer came to me out of the blue not too long ago, and I filed it away as something I could make once I finally taught myself how to program. Turns out it already exists, and is going strong. Good idea, a little late. I really need to get on the ball...
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Songwriters do use their version of lorem ipsum.

That said, they cannot use one and only set of lyrics (such as the above) for all songs they write, because the appropriate "lorem ipsum" for each song depends on its form (melody, rhythm, number of verses, etc).

They (well, we) use those "lorem ipsum" placeholder lyrics when they first compose the music, to mark the phrasing they want to achieve. It can be either gibberish or meaningless rhymes.

In one famous example, Paul McCartney famously wrote Yesterday's lyrics based on the placeholder: "Scrambled eggs. Oh my baby how I love your legs.".
This is exactly the reasoning that pisses me off. If MS pulled the same shit, we would be out with pitchforks ready to bury them. Have some consistency. Any corporation using their monopoly product to provide a bad experience for competitive products is evil.
How would you propose we do that? Write mathematical equivalents that are equal to patented algorithms then claim we didn't infringe on a patent but instead implemented the mathematical formula we wrote?
Looks like they are a Groupon for moms and kids
"Then Google discovered it because of some Chrome users behind the checkpoint."

And cue the banning of Chrome on government networks in 3. 2. 1...
Since the original data includes the year of publication, it would be interesting to see trends in these datasets over time, eg which words are becoming more/less popular, is average word length reducing over time, is the variety of words in common use increasing or decreasing, etc.
I guess that's what they needed Go (golang) for.
I must say, it reminds me too much of Windows 8..
Where's the repro? What's the mechanism? Header redirect? Meta tag? JavaScript? Magic? Can this effect be replicated without a Windows Phone?

I tried setting my User-Agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; ARM; Trident/6.0)" and could not repro.
I believe Kevin Drum is one of the more broadly respected bloggers in the blogosphere. He is liberal, yes, but is famously cautious, thoughtful, and considerate. In fact, it's a bit odd for him to be at Mother Jones now: his temperament seems more apropos for his previous post, on the front page of Washington Monthly.
Is the same true of LLVM?
This is true, but Mono has always lacked implementations of a bunch of APIs and had not quite as nice dev tools.

If there had been a true first party (i.e provided by MS .Net CLR) for other platforms it would probably have had massive traction.
I suggest different login options other than FB.
Along with the obvious question, how this is different from pinterest, I have one constructive comment, please don't use images for fonts, use a web-font, it will look better, load faster and will be a little bit more up to date generally.

Also the video loads slowly and gets stuck, and has no narration, and doesn't really show what the product does.
Meh, only Facebook login. I never use facebook and I hate logging in with it, so its a no-go for me until they add more OAuth services, or their own login system.

You would think its hard to add more than 1 OAuth, but its not, I absolutely hate how everyone only does facebook. Add a few others. I personally would prefer to use Twitter, others might prefer Google or Live.

Its not hard to add them people.
That's also not exactly true. If you purchase a reserved instance, you pay the up front price, and then the reduced hourly price for whenever the instance is running.
It's rubbish though.

Not the mono runtime; the fact that there are two runtimes.

The official MS one, and the Mono one, and although they're kind of compatible, in that your C# can be compiled to run on either of them (mostly, sometimes, if you haven't done anything fancy, if you're not using MVC, if you're not using a UI layer that isn't portable, if the version of mono you're using from A is the same as from B ( >_> unity...) ), this is FAR away from the java JVM, where you can ship an application that just runs on all the platforms.

Don't get me wrong, you can do that with C# too... if you use Mono only, and flip off the official M$oft .Net runtime.

...but the mono runtime is behind the curve, always playing catchup to the 'official' runtime, supporting a subset of the features, and everywhere runs different versions of the mono runtime. It's a mess.

You've got to admit, the JVM is 100% superior in this regard.
I am a European, and it depends on the country (and the age).

In a lot of European countries young people (up to 30+) have been taught English and they can follow an English song quite easily. Even in France, despite never admitting it in public. (This is especially true for music fans).

They might have some trouble with heavy stuff, like some lyric heavy Dylan songs or 500-wpm rap, but they can get most pop/dance songs alright.
It is not unreasonable to claim that the fish actively pump the caffeine out of their system. In many ways fish are hermetically sealed.
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Mono supports everything under the sun.
That's correct. However, somewhat problematically, Felix considers the tuple int * int to actually be an array int ^ 2. It's not entirely clear this "automatically applied isomorphism" is a good idea though. However it means arrays "drop out" of the notion of a tuple as a special case.

Internally such arrays have a special representation which allows arrays of 100,000 values, something which could never be represented by a tuple type (and still get reasonable compile times :)
It's unfortunately a bit harder to do this sort of thing in 2013.
Grossly exaggerated physics in movies are nothing new though. Before CGI, explosions were still silly puffy balls of fire, and people still survived them by jumping away from them in slow motion.

And before CGI, hoaxes were still terrible, yet people bought into them. I mean, look at the Cottingley Fairies from the early 20th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies. The bar for fooling laymen just isn't that high, and never has been.

As for Hollywood blockbusters, it really varies a lot from movie to movie. Also, the Star Wars prequels are nearly 8-14 years old, so they're not the greatest examples of modern CGI.
Congrats! I think we all want the same thing to some degree
I'm sure it's a decent language. It's that I have only so much learning time available and Ruby/JRuby , JS and ObjC seem like they would be a more practical use of it.

If I wanted to learn something for personal interest I would probably want to do Scheme,Haskell or Go.
The food you eat has a lot more intimate interaction with your body than the cellphone that you are using. While we know a great deal about human physiology, it's still an equation that we have yet to solve. The systems of a cellphone (and the battery) are probably better understood, with less variables to account for.

Also, when the food at your local grocery store is completely replaced with GMO foods, you don't really end up with a choice in the matter. On the other hand, you still have a choice to get a cellphone or not (even in today's world).

| Bananas didn't evolve with "being good for you 20 or
| 30 years from now" ethos. That doesn't help the spread
| of their seeds. They just needed to taste sweet, so you
| would eat them now and spit out their seed somewhere else.

Yes, but people have been eating them for a long time, and thus far we haven't found any correlations between them and negative outcomes.

| Is there even a plant out there that has harmful side-effects
| two decades after you eat it? If we make one, that would be one
| hell of an achievement.

Are you saying that it's impossible for plants to end up having a cumulative effect on your body? For example, checkout this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494083. Summary: Broccoli has mutagenic and anti-mutagenic properties, and in one study of fruit flies the mutagenic properties won out. What happens when GMO broccoli ends up further tipping this balance towards mutagenic? What happens when another food is engineered and tips the balance from the anti-mutagenic side (to the mutagenic side)?
Right, because Microsoft invented it all (OS-tech) and nobody else would have been able to produce a graphical OS in it’s place… there is a difference between actually innovating and making a difference and simply being there because you were able to dominate the market trough shady practices. As I pointed out these things rather happened despite Microsoft than because of it.
Can Play 2 be made to work well with hibernate+JPA?

I know many people don't like it , but I invested a fair amount of time into understanding hibernate and if I stick with the JVM I would want to be able to apply that.
You're thinking of "Skwerl": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
"My love affair with my product soon began to fade. The key chains would not come clean. No matter how much I scrubbed, they still felt as though a posse of banana slugs had just oozed over them."

Not a stanford chemist I take it?
Indeed, I meant the one time somebody consciously considered it, rather than the plethora of times it passes by unremarked.
Waking up computer at a particular time
How to wake up your arch linux installation at a particular time.
Debugging the OpenBSD kernel via QEMU
I know you don't need to sync but buying an app in itunes automatically starts downloading it to the computer. That's how I remember it. Has it changed?
Well there is a pretty large amateur rocketry group in the Bay Area [1] that goes out to the Blackrock desert and launches rockets. Generally such clubs are great resources for understanding the regulations and if pursuing things professionally the requisite licensing. I was related a story about how the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) stopped one team from launching because they had used a solar tracker attached to steerable fins to keep the rocket on track, the story went that once you had it tracking a heat signature with steerable fins it went from being a model rocket to a munition. I can't vouch for accuracy of the story but the teller was someone I respect and is quite an enthusiast so I give it a good chance of being basically true.

So generally one considers the various elements of creating a rocket propelled munition and if you got too close to describing how someone could build one, I would not be surprised in the least if that person was approached by the BATF or the FBI asking you to limit what you publish. Or approached by people seeking to build such a device from 'scratch.'

Even doing something as simple as hobby robotics I've had folks email me out of the blue on how to create a circuit that would let you activate a switch remotely but was hard to jam. It can conceivably be used for robotics sure, it can also be used for ill. I generally point people to Horowitz and Hill's Art of Electronics and tell them its all in there (which it is, but you have learn it to use it) but perhaps out of a surplus of caution I don't design such things for folks.

[1] http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/amateur-rocketeers-reach...
I suppose you've never had a problem with two JVMs that ran a package but didn't behave quite the same way, to disastrous effect? Or dealt with software that only worked with one very specific version of the JRE that was exclusive from the equally specific JRE required by another bit of software?

To compare Mono to the MSFT CLR and call it rubbish by way of contrast to Java-land strikes me as hilarious. I'll choose .NET every time given that choice...
Interesting to know about Tesla and Edison. I've always seen somewhat similar parallel between Jobs and Wozniak. For all his greatness, I always see Jobs as an overrated CEO and Wozniak as underrated geek.
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What is Biometric Identification?
Biometric technologies use physical characteristics, such as voice tone or hand shape, to identify people automatically. Behaviors, such as handwriting style, can also be used by computers in this way. The term “identify” is used here quite loosely. There is actually nothing in your voice, hand shape or any biometric measure to tell the computer your name, age or citizenship, or to establish your eligibility to vote.
IMO, its an extremely average redesign.

Major problem is responsive design, its not scalable for content heavy sites. Same code scaling for different screens, makes sense in theory but is nightmare in practice. I've been part of couple of projects where-in we learnt the hard way. Hence, you don't see any big site use responsive design in major way. Almost all sites (Facebook, Amazon, Flipkart) go with a different sites for mobile & desktop.

Also the use of white text on dark background is extremely hard to read. Hence you see pretty much every content-rich site uses white or light background with dark/grey text. An exception might be Myspace which went with dark background approach and failed miserably in engagement.

When using any site, we like consistency. By incorporating panels which open up from both left and right side, it provides an inconsistent feel while using the site. My usage might be completely different from yours. It is important to keep the overall layout consistent with content personalized based on users needs.
Or as his resume states: his shrink-wrap app business was wrecked by an incursion of trojans.
Or at least restrict oneself to saying "The preceding data raise very serious questions about aspect x of y." Even in the most plaintiff-friendly environment it would seem difficult to mount a case for libel... But is the message then diluted? I suppose it depends on the audience.
I'm following a group called SICPBBC and you can find all information to get you started here https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/sicpbbc