skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people trust StartCom? Just curious ... I always wondered why you have all these very expensive cert providers who charge a lot for SSL certs, and then this mysterious company with ties to Israel is handing them out for free?

I know it's pure paranoia, but this would seem to be an excellent way to compromise a lot of SSL traffic if you were into that, and the Israelis are pretty famous for all kinds of spying activity that makes PRISM look tame. Just curious what others think about this?
Live blogger: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7368/amd-gpu-product-showcase-...
There are $BIGNUM PC configurations, which Valve currently provides games and gaming platform services for.

I'm gonna say "Yes, they do know better".
Resizing-as-image rather than resizing-as-text is how mobile browsers have always worked. At least, ever since the iPhone, which the other OSs copied the browser model of. The zoom behavior you are describing happens on every page in those browsers, and has nothing to do with flexbox or the holy grail layout.

If you want to change text size without cropping text, in Chrome for Android, go to Settings > Accessibility and drag the “Text scaling” slider. And in Firefox for Android, go to Settings and open “Text size”. It’s not as convenient as pinch-to-zoom, but it’s worth adjusting that slider for the current page if you’ll be reading it for a while.
Why do you prefer LESS over SASS? I prefer the latter, only because of how well it plays with Compass and the command line watch/compile it provides. I have tried all of the Less GUIs, but they only disappoint, and I have not yet found any similar command line tool.
Yeah, I'm a little worried that I'm going to have a demarcation problem when I do the 5-year followup - where Trends will have changed so much that I won't know whether I should consider it alive or dead. Even while I was researching it for its entry, I was coming across all sorts of complaints from different time periods about how the functionality was being constantly chopped down.
http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/6244689/il_570xN.233278800....
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They basically killed the killer, 1gbit udp probably killed the website or servers of someone else.
I currently use nezumi to access heroku on the go. But, this looks like it might be worth a try.
This is my thoughts exactly.... Cue Conspiracy Theory
Given that Redhat is beginning to backport a larger number of newer platforms [1], I'd expect them to eventually include newer Apache & mod_ssl editions. Hopefully the CentOS folks will be able to pick this stuff up, or duplicate the functionality if RH isn't open-sourcing the bits that make it work.

1: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/17/shared-dev-rhscl/
According to http://www.techspot.com/news/54134-amd-launches-mantle-api-t...: "We've been told at the GPU14 Tech Day event that the Mantle API is open, so theoretically Nvidia could purpose the technology in their GPUs."

How feasible that is in reality is of course up for question. And I doubt that nVidia would be willing to implement an AMD-controlled API.
And how do they guarantee identity for zero cost to them? To actually meet all the CA requirements to be a default trusted root isn't easy.
First, I applaud the "rugged individualist" style of netizenship that the OP is advocating. Hear hear.

But (and you knew that "but" was coming) github is particularly useful and not amenable to the kind of gaming that Facebook and Google have indulged in. Git is truly distributed, and if github ever tried to block or manipulate repos there are full copies all over the place. It would be very easy (and dare I say such action would come swiftly) to react to any such wayward behavior on the part of github, mainly because of the nature of git.

So: definitely host your own git repo, but if you use github for collaborating on public open source projects, you really aren't running any kind of risk that github will ever hinder your access or control in anyway.
> OpenGL has very low overhead

Not at all. OpenGL for a start is a huge state machine still. Far from how you program graphics on a gaming console.
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well CUDA is really for general purpose development on GPUs and to be fair if i recall correctly CUDA appeared before there were standard ways to to GPGPU (like openCL and directcompute).

the idea i got from the video is that mantle is a replacement for opengl and directx for "performance reasons".

i still agree with you though, this is just pure marketing to make people develop/buy AMD GPUs instead of something else.
those who are to be bottom of piled

You can call it humanity, but this is the government: it's not the FBI's job to exercise this kind of discrimination. In fact, anything other than FIFO should be illegal, or at least cause for firing for corruption. These agencies simply should not be able to do this, and if the employee doesn't like it, they can get another job. Petty tyranny is highly distasteful.
The method for getting rid of the metal ones is stunningly simple. Presumably you could use the same trick to blow stuff like encryption keys or specific finite state machines into the actual chip.
GNOME Shell on Wayland has released before Canonical's Unity releases on Wayland (or whatever else they plan to release on, e.g. their own Mir etc.). Big win for the GNOME community against its detractors from Canonical.
the <button> issue is a valid feedback, I think it's a trivial enough issue that the author would happily accept the change
The problem is that the new API doesn't seem to allow access to the console - if you point me up to the relevant docs, we'll definitely get it in for the next release! I am not really up for using an older version of API as it might (or might not) be deprecated soon :)

Can you please show me what do you mean by "the hamburger menu"? We have tried to stay away from complex gestures as we don't have an intro "tutorial", but we'll definitely listen to your suggestions.

Thanks for the compliments and comments btw, you guys are amazing!
I know the team and recommend them highly. If you're in San Francisco and are looking for work, it's a pretty great option.
Yes, the link itself is just to the request/response info so it is presented without comment. But in the last few months, how many submissions to HN about the FBI, NSA, etc have been of the "cool... look at all the good these people are doing" variety? Not (m)any. While I did make the assumption that this submission was of the "holy shit look what they're up to now" type... I don't think it was too presumptuous to think the submitter was expecting people to be outraged about it (but not calling for people to throw eggs, per se).

I am curious what they use the list for. If it was used to set their future requests to a lower priority, I'm fine with that as long as the request gets fulfilled according to the requirements. If they just dust binned their future requests then I'd have issue with that. If they sent SWAT to their houses for no other reason than "excessive" FOIA requests then we'd have a real big problem. It kind of looks like it is for collecting fees... which is kind of boring.
In Sublime Text, there's this plugin that automatically converts less to css on file save: https://github.com/timdouglas/sublime-less2css

I'm sure similar tools exist for the emacs/vim communities.
"They came to the realization that just being a number inside a corporation doesn’t work for them, and they break out."

Some of us who work in larger corporations are not "just a number". Just like you people in startups, we make a significant difference to the company, work on challenging problems, get along well with our coworkers, and have a pretty good time while doing it. And we don't need to take some mythical red pill to understand what it's like to work at a startup; by following HN for a few months, anyone can read many first-hand accounts from startup founders and employees, and I've read enough to decide that, at least for the time being, neither of those options appeals to me. (I also personally know some people who have started companies.)

Also, startups are corporations too, and any really successful startup will quickly grow into a larger corporation with all the same kinds of politics and nonsense as any other corporation: the founders may be fired by the board and replaced with MBAs, the developers may find themselves under a couple of layers of management, old code will need to be maintained for years, the company may go public and have to justify its decisions to Wall Street, etc.
So this is a pretty good result, I've been waiting for a full carbon circuit design. The use of tubes rather than something like ion implantation of graphene seems to make it harder than it might otherwise be, but I continue to believe that carbon will end up supplanting silicon as the computation base unit.

Of course if we build a computer out of carbon circuits that achieves sentience it will be a 'carbon based lifeform' :-)
Two years old article basically talking about this:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/16/farewel...
Part of the wayland integration as well.
Wayland won't support middle-click to paste, nor will it provide the X copy buffers. This means that middle mouse paste + mark-to-copy has to be provided by toolkits, in some kind of way.
That also means that the toolkits need to figure out a way to do "copy on mark" without breaking the buffer already in clipboard. I somehow doubt that middle click to paste will survive the transition to Wayland.
At the top of the site, you should see a red banner saying “Your browser does not support Flexbox. Parts of this site may not appear as expected.” But it’s easy to overlook. Ironically, the banner is easy to overlook because the broken styles make the banner the same width as the rest of the page, making it blend in. The styles are so broken you don’t even see the warning message about the styles being broken.

Open the site in Chrome and it should look normal.
Isn't this specific thing being done using regular Bluetooth?
Projectors tend to put out a lot of heat. I would worry that my head would get hot wearing it. I would also be concerned about the weight.

While HUDs are cool; there is a reason that most major automobile manufacturers haven't put them in a car yet and the reason is not to do with new technology because HUDs have been around for a long time. The reason is that anything that goes between you and the windshield will obstruct your view. Any coating that is required to reflect the light from the projector to your eyes will interfere with light from the road even with the projector turned off. You have one fatal crash wearing this helmet and the insurance companies will make mincemeat out of this company. I'm guessing that $2000 doesn't include much for the company to put towards an insurance premium.

Also, no integrated cameras ? Rear facing camera ?
This is not horrible. The architecture is pretty decent, and it seems a lot of thought went into categorizing the different aspects of the library. I, especially, like how each item is broken down into types, groups, states, and variation.

The UI makes some interesting choices, but I'm sure this could be skinned with a bit of elbow grease.

I'd say my only real complaint is the validation on forms - it seems specifically inefficient to declare an object in JS and pass in each form field and set it's rule as "empty". I would consider utilizing a data attribute and doing something like data-validate="empty". You could even accept a list of them with something like "data-validate="empty email" etc. The only downside would be figuring out a way to still accept custom messages - something like data-message="Please enter your first name." would be fine for one validation check, but passing in a multiple messages for multiple validation rules would get ugly fast.
It looks like Gnome has come a long way since the early 3.x releases.

I especially like the menu bar being used fully, not having that space wasted is a small detail that has a big impact. I will definitely be giving this a try.
With StartCom, you just send them a CSR and they sign it. They don't get access to your key.

StartCom passed an outside audit and is included in most modern browsers by default, indicating that they at least trust StartCom.

They charge for the work they have to do. So, EV and identity validation cost money. Most "domain validated" certs are basically no work, as you can see from the incredibly cheap prices other SSL vendors offer them at.
Velocity is a vector.
You're generalizing the controversy to include your viewpoint, which is normal, but AFAIK at the end of the day the US doesn't really have any kind of law that would cover the right of publicity for publicly available information. It's simply not a mass surveillance question.
I'd saved this link of an interactive "Learn Git" training program:
http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching
The only thing who feel insecure here is your vps.
making certs doesn't take money. verifying you own the domain (lowest level cert) doesnt take money. all this is fully automated, everywhere. Being an SSL provider is a juicy business once you get things rolling.

Now then again, it dosn't matter if you trust them or not, because your browser trust them for you. using another provider will not make you have a better trust in the sites you browse.
Any of the providers can compromise everyone elses trust, as long as they're trusted by the browser.

And thats why the current SSL trust scheme sucks, by the way.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works
I rushed home to comment on this project.

I got fired the next day.

I am basing my project on this.

Wish me luck.
We appreciate your kind words, Ozzie -- Happy hacking!
Probably about as feasible as Intel implementing AMD64 CPU extensions.
Do you mean something like http://wikimapia.org/ ?
It has a hard dependency on Logind.
Logind was merged into systemd after the Gnome integration ( replacing ConsoleKit with logind ) happened.
This means that Gnome became retroactively dependent on systemd-logind.
Could this be fixed with some of those iPad cases with built-in keyboards (except, of course, made for Surface)?
Why not hire more people? Same reason regulatory and public defender agencies are kept underfunded and (consequently) understaffed: it's by design.
There's a few things I would need to see before I'm more convinced.

I believe one of the times that boarding cards have a smaller departure time than boarding time is because people are looking for something that looks like a time. If the largest, most visible number is the boarding time, then it's much more likely that they will be there on time. Especially if the gate closes 5-10 minutes before the actual departure time. But the examples have the boarding time in color, while the departure time is in black, so I suspect more people will look towards the departure time, and end up delaying the flight more often.

The concept of "boarding priority" depends on flight. I've been on many flights where we all load into a bus, which takes us to the plane. There is no priority for that case, so I assume that that would be missing for those. Will the [1|2|3|4] be on every boarding card, as part of the pre-printed background, or will it only be printed for those flights with distinct boarding groups?

The depiction of the seat location needs some additional iconography for wide-body (which middle seat? which side of the aisle? which aisle), and for the 747 and 380 with double decks. Since the number of seats per row can change, will this have to be coded to the specific row and configuration of airplane? Since if it shows the aisle of 3 seats but there are only 2 then it could be confusing.

Why does it say "Where's my seat?" but also "Your flight"? Why the change in person?

The boarding cards are designed with color printers in mind. For example, the KLM boarding time is in blue as is the start/end airport codes. For Lufthansa it's in yellow. Currently the airlines can use black ink printers. How much more expensive will it be to print color, and is the extra cost worthwhile?
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If you do go through with the sleeve gastrectomy, AVOID ALL EXPOSURE TO ALCOHOL POST OPERATION! (Not even an occasional beer or glass of wine with dinner) I forget the biological mechanism, but it's extremely easy to become an alcoholic after portions of your stomach have been removed. This is something you should keep in mind when considering whether to go through with it.
Bootstrap trades initial learning curve for huge expressibility. The column 'hieroglyphics' allow responsive behavior and column size to be declared in a single token. Semantic UI looks great, but the mud flinging tastes sour.
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I have Fedora 19 with 3.8 on one of my machines as well. Can you, or anyone, tell me what's the deal with crappy font? I'm comparing it to what is in CentOS 6.4 and in RHEL 6.4. Does anyone know where this can be changed to look, er, better?
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Indeed, never though a $5 provider would go that far for a noob on their network. Looks like their monitoring system is good too, took them only a couple of minute to take him down, which is good.
There's more to a web app than the UI.
That was brought up a lot the first time this was posted, but I think it's a good description for how he uses CSS class names with inheritance to structure things.
The key question here is the ergonomics. It takes time to adjust you focus near-far and you can't just stick a GPS on your shield and make it work. It is distracting and dangerous. Cockpit HUDs have different spatial relationships with your eyes.
Was Cloudup a spin-off servic? LearnBoost still seems to be available (https://www.learnboost.com/)
So, this is our new major release, and I'm going to share some stuff that should fit better the audience here on HN, and that are not part of the main announcement :)

First, this is a release that fixes some important architecture mistakes we've done in 2.0.x branch of VLC. I'm notably speaking of the lag in reactivity, notably on volume change (that was shared on the mpv thread) and seeking, but also some grave video settings propagation. I wish we could have fixed and shipped that earlier, but we couldn't (long release cycle).

Then, this is the first official release of libVLC that is LGPL for most of what you need as a developer, including the right modules. SDKs for Win32/64, MacOSX, iOS and Android are getting ready.

If you are a web developer, our VLC plugin now supports Windowless, to fill the gap between Flash and HTML5 (it should work on IE6,7,8 without too much work).

If you are on Mac OS, the interface is finally polished after the major changes of 2.0.0 :)

Finally, we decided, as a community that we will accelerate the major release cycle of VLC. The fact that we needed 1,5 year to get the fix to some critical audio core and video settings issues out is way too much. We will move towards a 6-months schedule with LTS.

Sure, there are other very good players on each platform, but we are doing our best so that you can play everything everywhere for free, using open source technologies :)
The benefit of BT LE is that the pairing process is supposed to take at most 6ms. Thus the requirement for 4S or later iOS devices.

Pretty sweet. I wonder if this was supposed to be part of the new AppleTV reveal in Oct?
Did you read the link? Anyone can request and receive that identical information. If you want to complain about its contents, you will have to complain about the original source.

Bizarrely, it has the names of filers of FOIA requests, but not the FBI personnel. So the names of private citizens exercising their rights can be freely released, with associations even (employer), but the sworn officers of the executive branch must be protected?

Something here is very much upside down.
Actually, I've talked quite a bit with folks who were at NASA an building next generation heads up displays that were 'constant field of view', their conclusion (and they design stuff for Attack Helicopter pilots) was that the display has to put things into the environment rather than having it display static things, this allows the pilot to look at the environment rather than look at the display.

An example of how that worked in the military sense, the eye piece would put a targeting diamond over a target while you were looking at it and would be either clear, or light up a single pixel on the edge of the screen where you would have to look to see the diamond(s).

On fighter yets the hud is fixed over the cockpit 'dash' and doesn't move relative to your head, so when you look out of the cockpit it isn't in front of your eyes.

The conclusions NASA came to was that locating stuff and anchoring it in space around the pilot was essential in keeping the pilot from losing situational awareness and instead looking at the display on the glass.

In the Russian helmet, they would need some way to combine your GPS location, and head orientation, to perhaps put virtual cones in the road in front of you showing you where to go.
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Some anecdotes from a military pilot friend: Pilots transitioning back to civilian life sometimes get into accidents on the road because they're so used to being "heads down" on their instruments. When you're flying a jet in the sky, there's not really anything you can run into, so you get used to that sort of behavior.
Still, having #1 is still better than neither. Instead of the NSA (sorry for beating a dead horse) simply siphoning your plaintext off the wire, isn't it more secure if you force them to have to actively fudge every single key exchange in order to read your traffic?

(The "locks on doors" argument.)
That's why no free mail servers allow you to do that.
Some of the Bootstrap v3 changes, like using class="glyphicon glyphicon-..." vs. just "icon-..." are things that seem inferior from a pure HTML standpoint, but were motivated by performance differences, especially on mobile devices. There's some hard learned lessons in the existing frameworks that shouldn't be thrown away lightly. (In static site it may just be a search & replace to change, but in a single page app such things could be much more complicated to change after the fact...)
They don't provide that anymore, even if you're on HTTPS.

I had this same question on a yesterday's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438992
The previous World Cup in South Africa was also held during their winter. I believe the weather was similar to what Australia would have.
Why not generate a redacted version at the same time as you compile the official version.

In fact, why not label the report with verious levels of security clearance so information can be selectively revealed to those who have cleareance?