skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how are you quantifying this? The metric that you've set up: skill level vs. popularity/success, is not easy to measure. Because for the most part, the examples that will easily come to mind of good and bad people will also be the popular ones...

So when you go into this with the expectation that success/popularity should be directly related to skill, you are going to naturally remember the many examples of when bad people somehow have success. And so you conclude: success is not correlated enough to popularity, or else Person XYZ would not be famous/rich.

But let's say I, on the other hand, think there's a strong correlation between success and skill...and I can think of lots of successful people who also happen to be skillful...but I suffer from the same confirmation bias as you do.

So who's right here? I don't know, but I'm just pointing out that your assertion may not fit the actual facts (if we could ever quantify it).
Pull up https://play.google.com/store in a browser and look at the TLS certificate chain.

Equifax Secure CA is the root CA for the certificate chain.

The intermediate CA (Google Internet Authority) issues the certificate for the end entity. Its CRL distribution point is http://crl.geotrust.com/crls/secureca.crl. There is no OCSP resource.

The end-entity certificate is wild-carded for a number of Google sites. Its CRL distribution point is http://www.gstatic.com/GoogleInternetAuthority/GoogleInterne.... There is no OCSP resource.

The relying party would validate the end-entity and intermediate CA certificates using CRLs (as no OCSP is available). These requests would be the only "data" sent as part of the certificate validation.

As the root CA is explicitly trusted (since it is present in the trust anchor compilation), it (Equifax Secure CA) is not contacted.

Explicitly removing trust for arbitrary root CAs (which can be prudent) will of course remove trust for end-entity certificates traceable to those CAs. Thus, if one removes trust for Equifax Secure Certificate Authority, one will no longer trust certificates issued by Google Internet Authority, such as the one used by https://play.google.com/store.

Trust via contemporary CA compilations and relying party PKI implementations is quite coarse. One essentially trusts all all CAs and subordinate certificates for a variety of purposes. Implementations vary in precision (or even presence) of revocation and constraint checking.
This is double-edged sword!
While USA/NSA does not want Snowden dead to keep secrets for as long as possible - suddenly half of the world might become more interested in exactly that to happen rather sooner than later.
Wait, what? This dudes gay?
well done, great stuff
Quick chart showing wavelength for typical bands: http://www.hottconsultants.com/techtips/freq-wavelength.html
Well, Im 41 today, and I genuinely wish I had never been born. I don't understand or feel part my own species, or understand the world I exist in. Im simply waiting to die off.
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The fact that the facebook API is broken in that manner does not make giving them that permission something I want to do.
The fall I turned 30, I ran in three marathons and one slightly longer run. (Nothing elite, but the times were respectable for a recreational runner--three or four times that would qualify me for Boston now, and one that did then.) That I ran only two more marathons after had more to do with increased responsibilities than any immediate falling off in strength or health.

As for the OP, I applaud the author's attitude, even if I smile a bit at his surprise.

At a skosh over 27 * 2, I will leave you with Byron's words in a letter to Tom Moore: "Damn your nel mezzo camin--'the prime of one's life' is a much consoling expression."
Actually, the existence of the person is inferred only by the presence of the text.

As an aside, if this were a dream the inference would still work, but the conclusion would be false (as the poster obviously has no existence independent of the dreamer). But, unfortunately, you will be able to provide no conclusive evidences that this world is not as illusory as the dream world is, as your only sources of evidence are your senses, which are also apparently available to you in the dream state (which you are not able to perceive as illusory whilst dreaming).

Reality? lol.
I'm 41 and life is not peachy for me now either, my friend. I bet if we took a look at each other's lives we wouldn't mind trading for a bit. Make a change, if you can. Some of us don't have that luxury.
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How come ?! This is blatantly illegal in Europe !
I genuinely really don't see how they could get passive consent unless FB and Twitter themselves give them access. Or they just scrap public profiles ?
I am 27. I feel older though. I have two kids. Stable family. Don't party much. I think I am bit boring but in a good way. My favorite thing is my family.

I don't get people who are scared of hitting 30. Perhaps it is more for people who haven't settled down yet. The clock is ticking. For me I am not bothered.

> I can party until 10am and drink all night without getting a hangover (I would puke all the time when I was younger).

One of the few things that makes me sad. When I was young I consumed an epic amount of alcohol. Never got hungover. Woke up drunk a few times but it was fine.

Now alcohol makes me sleepy. 2 ciders gives me a headache. I rarely get past gentle buzz because I fear the consequences. I never drink after 8pm because I get the worst hangovers from fairly minor alcohol consumption.

If anything I am looking forward to 43. My kids will be 18. I can semi-retire from parenting and go traveling. I think I am one of the few people looking forward to my big 4-0.
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That doesn't really explain anything.
:(

My sympathies dude. I prescribe more of what you like and less of what you hate, if that's possible. I'm 41 too, and that's what works for me. That and trying not to think about it
...Says the guy with 14 social network 'clicky' buttons :)
> Come on, I know I've only been here for nearly four years, but there's no need to be quite so patronising.

I wasn't being patronising. I was trying to make a point (though, I'll admit, it wasn't obvious). I admit that attempt was clumsy. Sorry for making you feel like you were being patronized. My intent was 100% honest though.

I was trying to show what could happen if association was removed. If context was removed. If I don't know who you are, how can I quantify your advice. After all, I'm much more inclined to appreciate people's opinions on the state of HN year over year if they've been participating longer than that.

> the conventional expectation that one can be identified as the author of one's work, for one; the tendency of people to be more civil, for another.

And context. Advice is cheap. Everyone can offer advice. And context helps us rate that advice. Just because something sounds good doesn't mean it should be followed, or even listened to.

And it's fairly easy to make a mistake in authoring what you say to the point that people misunderstand you, even if it's not what you meant.
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How do you check without login in ?
Is there a way to adjust the size/res of the final gif?
They don't need to develop the next Crysis on Haskell to make it accepted.

The plain fact that important personalities in the AAA games industry are willing to spend their valuable time coding something in Haskell instead of doing something else, means a lot.

For example, are you aware that quite a few studios are now using Erlang for their MMO servers?
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Keep paying attention. It doesn't stop getting better.

I can honestly say that every year since age 19 has been better than the previous one. 27-year-old me thought things were great. 30-year-old me would have laughed at him because clearly now things were truly going well. Then 33-year-old Jason with his laptop on the beach knew better than that. But he didn't know it all.

Things keep changing, but as you get older you have more control over where your life is headed. As long as you're always steering towards where you want to be, you'll find that things just keep getting better and better.

Enjoy the ride!
This is a good intro and overview of security issues: http://embedded.communities.intel.com/community/en/applicati...

If you want to just hack around on CAN bus, check this project out: http://www.gadgetgangster.com/news/54/556

To get at actual firmware, you'll want to identify the ROM chips and wire up an appropriate reader. You might be able to get by with a bus pirate. Once you have the actual firmware, you should be able to identify the processor (get ready to learn old obscure Motorola instruction sets) and you're off to the races. If you luck out with an x86 or ARM processor I highly recommend the Hex Rays Decompiler.

I was working as a generalist on the team, so the HN expert collective may be able to give you better pointers on specific items.
Are there any other bigger summaries of adult websites?
Anyone have other ideas of any adult websites collections other than what http://k-cam.com has ?
If so please list the url below.

... it seems that using sites like this will get you off of having your adult terms being sniffed / profiled by search engines.
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He's probably an INTP.
And thus we (I) infer the existence of the big G in the infinity of intelligent designers required to keep going down that rabbit hole.
Off hand, It sounds like your project manager was talking without really thinking about it. These expectations sound kinda unprofessional. It's his job as a product manager to motivate you, but that doesn't mean he knows how to actually do that.

Personally I think being 100% into your job indicates a lack of a healthy balance. It's called overtime for a reason, and repeated studies have shown that a 40 hour work week is optimal, and that hours above that may create a temporary increase in productivity, but a long term decrease if maintained.

I'd broach the topic with a friendly coworker and get a read on the situation, and use that in your dealing with your product manager.

I'd take a look at Andrew Carnegie's how to make friends and influence people. It's a bit dated, but an easy read that will give you some suggestions as to how to think about dealing with your manager.

You need to figure out, why is your project manager saying these things? What are his/her ultimate goals, beyond the intermediate things you mentioned? What does he/she value, as a person?

Maybe he's/she's saying these things because he/she wants to feel useful. Maybe he/she is under pressure from his boss to improve productivity, and he/she is going about it in a backwards way. Maybe they are squeezing you because your new, and they thinks they can get more out of you.

Ultimately, you may have to figure out if you want to take on additional responsibilities, and if so, what do you feel is fair compensation for such efforts, and if not, how to deal with these suggestions. But if you have an issue with them, it's better to say something sooner rather than later.

My guess is that this person has no idea that you are this bothered by what he/she said, and that you feel disrespected. They may not care or may take offense if you approach the issue in those terms, hence the Carnegie book, so you can use what they actually care about to get them to see where you are coming from and try to resolve things in a mutually satisfactory manner.
My original question was: let's say I'm a well-known person in my field, somebody created a Wikipedia profile page for me, and the page has been there for years. Is there anyway to have it deleted?
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I just turned 27 and it does feel like a weird age, suddenly you are no longer mid 20s and feel like a bit more like a grown up. Kind of feels like time speeds up the older you get.
It shows that the active guidance works as expected. Active guidance is extremely difficult. The hardware is difficult because you need to design jetvanes that work under extreme pressure, and in a 3000 degree jet exhaust. The software is difficult because it needs to be extremely reliable while still compensating for a lot of factors such as wind, spin, air density, etc. and you can't test it, so there is no space for bugs.

No amateurs have ever even attempted active guidance before, and getting it right in the first go is a huge accomplishment.
What is the legality of selling this as opposed to using it? I assume it's legal?
As far as I'm concerned, all of this airport security--the cameras, the questions, the screenings, the searches--is just one more way of reducing your liberty and reminding you that they can fuck with you anytime they want. Because that's the way Americans are now. They're willing to trade away a little of their freedom in exchange for the feeling---the illusion---of security.

-- George Carlin (who said that before the TSA, before watchlists and no-fly lists)

By the way, are the ports still wide open? They sure were for years after 9/11, and I guess that nobody smuggled in a container of nukes was mostly because nobody cared to do that. Kinda like why the big guy in the supermarket queue doesn't just start bashing everyone to death with the cash register, even though they could.

Human decency prevents terrorism for the most part, not security. The actual good you could do with the TSA budget, bleh. New scanners just make that worse. So now the rapist is using your money to buy condoms. I admit that is better than non-protected rape. But other than that...
Had to vote twice, Clojure and Other (CoffeeScript)
Let's say I'm a well-known person in my field, somebody created a Wikipedia profile page for me, the page does meet their criteria for a biography of a living person and the page has been there for years. Is there anyway to have it deleted?
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You can. [1]

[1] http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
"I can party until 10am and drink all night without getting a hangover (I would puke all the time when I was younger).

I can function perfectly after having slept for just a few hours."

I'm 27 too but don't think this is reflective of most people our age. I don't get hungover often but my friends complain about it quite frequently. And I simply don't function without enough sleep so no partying till 10am, I can survive on 6 hours of sleep but prefer 8 for optimal effectiveness.
It was unmanned. Their final goal is to launch a human into space.
CoffeeScript alleviates the issue. Seriously. I don't really like Ruby/Python (which CS seems to be heavily inspired on) but it's WAAAY better than JS.

It's seamlessly integrated with Node.js. I don't even notice I'm doing coffee, even my files are auto-compiled and minified to JS via express-coffee-script without me or the user noticing.

Or try one of the many alternatives: LiveScript, Coco...
Delphi developer here as well! :)
What this means is that the major obstacles for going into space have been cleared (reliable engine, logistics around sea launch, active guidance) so the next launch will be Heat2x, which has the potential to reach an altitude of 130 km. Space starts at 100 km.

Disclaimer: I'm involved with Copenhagen Suborbitals, and managed the livestreaming of the event.
I have never cared out Klout. The day my employer cares about it is the day I move on to bigger and better things.

Regarding the guys website. When did it become a thing to make all content bold? I have been seeing this more and more. It's horrible. Recently The Guardian mobile website started using a bold font and I haven't used it since..
I find that trying not to think about something increases rather than decreases stress about that area. Only by thinking and thinking about it head on can I eventually come to peace with it. Otherwise I try to go into escapism and end up just feeling more crappy and tire to boot.
I have a friend who's two years older than me. We were roommates in college and I remember him telling me about how your body starts falling apart once you hit 20.

Then "once you hit the real world and have to get a real job that college metabolism of yours will shut down and you'll pack on the pounds like everybody else."

Then "just wait 'til you're 25 like me and your hair starts falling out".

Then "When 30 hits and you don't have any energy anymore then you'll understand"

... And so forth. But thus far none of it has ever happened. I think that people let themselves fall apart, then notice the date and assume that must be the reason. But if you don't wan't to have that happen, you can make a point of staying in good shape for a long time.

That said, I'm sure there's some new inevitable milestone waiting for me when I hit 44. It's definitely going to suck.
Ipython is a REPL.
Hence why I wrote 'would' and not 'does'. My question is if it counts once they actually manage.
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This is pretty big news. I've known some small businesses that have had a need to virtualize, but didn't want to get into everything KVM/OpenVZ, etc entailed. The VMware Essentials bundle (I believe that is what it is called) made decent inroads in this arena, but with everything all the enterprise features being free, I will probably have to start recommending this.

I have been looking into breaking in to a specialized segment of lower-end hosting (VPS, etc) and was looking to base my platform on VMware (rather than OpenVZ/KVM which seems to be the norm) but I am going to take a serious look at this now.

I'm excited to try building the platform around XenServer, and excited to contribute to the project as well -- I hope we see a lot of contributions now that this is open-source. I would love to see a Linux or OS X version of the management client, which is wholly possible now.

I'm installing a test instance of 6.2 now (within ESXi, ironically) to play around with it!
Everyone says that at every age. The other day I heard a 10 year old say "Man, I was so stupid when I was younger, I'm glad that I'm not 6 anymore!"
didn't google open source their in house solution? Protocol buffers? It's late/early, so I may be misremembering, and I'm on my phone.

I wouldn't necessarily assume OP is choosing JSON over other choices. He may be getting data from an API and need to deal with it, or using a C application to do calculations that he then wants to display online.
klout.com/<your twitter username>
Aging sux.
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Why is it illegal in Europe? Klout analyses your Twitter interactions which are publicly visible.
All the comments so far are about opting in because we're concerned the boss thinks we're not visible enough online. What if it's a little more nefarious.... Companies want to use it to see who is wasting time online?
I wonder how he was able to amass thousands of documents within two months of being in his current position while still screening them for information beyond the scope of what he was trying to leak. The possibility that there is confidential information about foreign operations outside of the internet surveillance makes me lose a great deal of respect for him. I also don't trust someone who wasn't even able to manage a GED to read through thousands of intelligence documents... just putting that out there. I feel like many have been too quick to give this guy a free pass.
I guess not everyone posts cat pictures.

If people really want to avoid having their social media activities catching up with them, then make sure that you give [potential] employers completely different contact details. Ideally, have a separate email address for each social media service and never link them together.
Yes, I'm sure he needs your help in deciding to be positive about the taxes he pays in a country that you're not aware of.
And as a shareholder he's effectively on the committee that is her boss. Take two steps forward and one step back.
The late 20s were a great time for my social and professional development. The beauty is you get to keep all that even after you hit 30.
turning 40 sooner or later as well, for me a wakeup call did change a lot. changed job, workout again, walking whenever i can, avoiding sugar, being realistic about death, losing fears, etc.. sometimes i wonder, though, where the last ten years went...

so, good luck everyone.
There are many things which in my opinion set Nimrod apart. Its syntax is python-like with a mix of Pascal which I prefer over Go's C-like syntax. Nimrod has a very powerful type system with generics, it also has AST macros and templates which Go does not have, it has exceptions which are not discouraged from being used (and gives you a nice stack trace when things go wrong), it also has first class iterators and it compiles to C, C++, Objective C and JavaScript. By compiling to C it makes wrapping C libraries very easy and a tool called c2nim makes this process even easier. Oh, and it has exception tracking and a very cool effects system.
Hmm. Evidently I didn't explain that very well. In ipython you're working in a REPL. Say you have a good many classes loaded up with data but some function deep inside one of them isn't producing the correct output. You can debug as you normally would inside the REPL. Use a debugger, deconstruct the function etc. When you get to the end you now have a fix for your function. Make that change in your file and, thanks to auto reload all of the objects in memory are immediately running the fixed function. You can then carry on working with the objects as though the bug was never there.

Depending on your scenario this can be a major win. On my project it's not uncommon for it to take 10 minutes to load and process that data from disk to get it into objects in memory. For me I can do that once and then carry on working with my data an code all in unison.

Whatever works for you. I'm pleased with my current environment on the server-side. It works very well for me.
This would be a good template for an Onion article, starting with "Area man..."
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No, it's very much illegal in the US. But the government has to show results for all this irrational fear they've inspired so they're not above breaking their own laws and imprisoning mentally unstable people to accomplish their goals.
Why is 'email' not an option? Which is by FAR the most commonly used internal communication system - although I do NOT recommend it!

http://teamstinct.com/but-whats-wrong-with-email
"especially by 1943"

Which was roughly 10 years too late. By 1934, Hitler had all the laws he needed to do whatever. Also consider that the Nazis are a example of hybris and self-destruction, I wouldn't expect anything to follow that pattern again, other than in the third world. Steady does it.

On the other hand, Dr. Bronner, the magic soap guy, emigrated 1929 to the US, changed his name from Heilbronner to Bronner, and urged his parents to follow him (you can find that on his wikipedia page). So at least when it came to Antisemitism, it was possible to sense it. But on the other hand, there were even Jews who fell for Hitler at first, and were sorely disappointed when their home country turned against them.

So while Hitler never fooled some, he did fool many enough for long enough. And compared today, those times were utterly low tech. Even the propaganda was just brutish. Which is why I like to use them as an example, they were still clearly recognizable for what they were; it got so much murkier after that. You could say it metastasized and got debugged.
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