skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unstated assumption in this blog post is that any [ethical] idea that makes money is worthy.

I would hope that persons of talent aspire to higher goals. A better measuring cup is of trivial benefit to humanity. A new dessert is actually a detractor.

If all you can do is make new measuring cups and new desserts then, by all means, do it and support your family. But if you think you bring something special to the world, try to improve it in a significant way. If that means investing a few years of your life to go to nursing school (for example) and learn a profession of value, then make the investment. You will then find ample opportunities to innovate, and bring benefit to your fellow man.
It's also annoying as hell being around a group of people interested in nothing more than documenting the fact that they're at said place, instead of actually just enjoying the moment.

There's hundreds of photos of the crap you're taking photos off. Just enjoy the moment and make it less touristy for everyone around you as well.
What would lead you to believe that nobody's heard of Hy?
> So, if math isn't about getting the right answer, it's been broken a long time.

There is a problem where children just learn algorithms. But they don't really understand numbers or how this algorithm works. And the bang numbers in and hope for the best.

Show them "speed = distance / time", and give them distances and times and they're fine. Now given them some speeds and times and ask them to find distance and they're stumped.

Math should be teaching children how to think, not just how to put numbers into a calculator.
The documentation still discourages a dist-upgrade but at least includes it as an option.

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
So only 1 week notice? Bit harsh. Seems 30 days would be more standard when shutting a service or feature.
Thanks for answering. Yes, I'm considering software development. I expect to complete my MSc (major: software engineering, minor: computer science) in sep 2014 but I have no idea what to do next. What kind of company to work for, how to plan my career, etc. Any help would be awesome.

Thanks a lot for the book recommendation. I will be reading it for sure!
I doubt anyone even thought about 3rd parties using email addresses as primary index keys when they dropped the dot. Its not arrogance so much as overlooking an issue.

People need to stop with this histrionic bs when it comes to engineering mistakes. Its not the end of the world. This guy needs to take a chill pill and calm down.
I never wrote that the factors were based on metric. ISO paper sizes are based off of an A0 sheet having an area of 1m². That's it.

The 1:sqrt(2) ratio has to do with subdivision. An A0 sheet subdivides into two A1 sheets, which subdivides into two A2 sheets, and so on. 1:sqrt(2) width/height ratio used in ISO pages sizes allows this, which makes dealing with paper significantly easier when it comes to slicing up pages, folding, packing, &c.
Pencils have a bad habit of smearing if you put sheets together.
Tablets Are Not Killing Laptops
> If you are careful when generating your certificate (that is, careful to generate a subject certificate, and not a CA certificate) and can reliably distribute your certificate to all clients you are interested in, then self-signed certificates are usually much better than the public CA system.

Indeed, and the blockchain (combined with a proxy like DNSChain), can be used to do this securely and for free at-scale.

> Encrypted, authenticated: little padlock.

Neither self-signed nor CA-signed certificates are securely authenticated, so the padlock is completely misleading.

See this comment for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826443
I second the recommendation of Into Thin Air. If you're at all interested in Everest and mountain climbing, get it. It's a page-turner and I could hardly put it down. ISTR I read it in one sitting.
In re: Jim Jones. That isn't cute.
I wonder what it would take to transload them all to youtube.
Why? Because students today are focused on "doing well". That means getting good grades. Look at your tests, be them locally-created or standardized. How are they graded? Do students get good grades for debate or mechanically computing the right answer?

Who? An American culture that constantly enforces a science v. arts dichotomy. I say American because in no other country is this split enshrined in language: Metric units for the scientists and English for everyone else. I say American because few other countries produce so many millionaires with zero science education. Look at your student's role models. Athletes. Celebs. Seth McFarlin. Politicians. Donald Trump. The American system does not reward scientific creativity in the same way it does social aptitude.

Change would be painful, so painful that it cannot happen for a generation or two Just try suggesting highway signs be changed from mph to kph. And that's easy part.
I find this post incredibly off.

You are basically saying that it is pointless to be a pastry chef, and that joy in food is not significant.

I would be very, very, careful about judging what is significant to humanity and what is not.
You have a point here. Perhaps the real solution is that we should make the browser throw a fit when someone tries to input a "password" into a page/authdialog that has no security as well.
Perhaps more than a week?
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Twitch.tv has offered this service for ages, but maybe it started offering it after splitting from the Justin codebase?
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To me, math is a skill involving the manipulation of abstract symbols. It doesn't involve sharing, being nice to other kids, helping each other out, or any of that. Those things are great, but they ain't math.

Coincidentally the math stack exchanges are regarded as the most toxic parts of that community.
You appear not to understand the actual utility behind the page width/height ratio used in ISO/DIN page sizes.

Also, the word "metric" has a very precise meaning: that of being part of the internationally agreed system of decimal measurements. The thing you've mentioned don't fit that definition, and US customary units are simply defined in _terms_ of metric units, but are not metric units themselves.
"A better measuring cup is of trivial benefit to humanity. A new dessert is actually a detractor."

Disagree in both cases. A "better" measuring cup would be one that either saved time (freeing it for other productive uses) or provided more accurate measurements (reducing the number of ruined recipes and food waste).

A new dessert provides pleasure. And no, pleasure is not bad. Gluttony can be.
StartSSL has worked on Android since version 2.2, which was released 4 years ago.
Unauthenticated SSL does provide security against passive attackers, which is what mass surveillance in developed countries is. If the NSA ever insists on widespread MITM of connections, we have much bigger problems.

I agree the UI needs to be properly worked out so that eg a bank can't be downgraded to an unauthenticated certificate.
Well, the visibility API is only of very limited use. The document will report itself to be still shown even if the window is minimized or in the background (or on iOS if I switched to another App!). It only reports the document as hidden if you switch to another tab. So if you want to use it to e.g. pause animation if the window isn't shown you will still burn unnecessary CPU cycles (ok, on iOS any timer is paused automatically if you switch to another App, so it kinda works out there - but not on the Desktop).
Is it justified for IT organizations to fund Maoist Militant groups?
A leading Agile software consulting company founder is hiring and funding Maoists in India. The top management of India was not on board with it. They have left the company and have started a new consulting company in Bengalooru.

The founder justifies his stance by saying the Maoists are the oppressed people by the democratic government and need support. The leading Agile software consulting company has also started a new office closer to the Naxal base, in a Southern Indian city.
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>We found that more than half of our VODs are unwatched (with 0 or 1 total views), while the vast majority are rarely watched (with 10 or less views).

Isn't this the standard for content? Anyone know similar statistics for image hoster, url minifiers, youtube, appstore etc?
If you're using it to measure solids like flour, you're actually using it incorrectly. The OXO cup is really for measuring liquids. To measure out solids (flour, sugar, etc.) you should be using solid measuring cups.
I'm a recent grad with my MS in CS. I mostly focus on information security and cryptography. I want to know everything about the two subjects.

I'm about to start working at a SaaS startup security company.
Not sure I agree. I changed /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list to use qiana and trusty (coming from petra), fired off apt-get update and dist-upgrade, hit "Y" every time it asked if a config file should be replaced, and ended up with a great system.

It just doesn't seem like a very hard problem to solve.

And, despite what the Mint guys claim, Ubuntu appears to have solved it just fine.

EDIT: upgraded from petra, not olivia
An upgrade to attoparsec, Haskell parsing library: more speed, more power
Then the altered page just specifies that it is not a password field, and emulates it with javascript or whatever. So that could only work for sites where a password manager was used, assuming the user doesn't just go ahead and type it in themselves.
Plus, adding HTTP auth would totally fudge every tunneled app using HTTP auth for itself.
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In the US, the price varies state by state, and reflects a variety of subsidies used to encourage the switch over from incandescents. Thus for certain bulbs (like this one) the production cost is often higher than the selling price. Some details for California here: http://www.designingwithleds.com/rebated-cree-philips-led-bu...
Learn You a Haskell is on my to do list and new books have appeared
http://learnyouahaskell.com/

This hard-core type theory appears in the Univalent Foundations stuff from IAS this year.
http://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
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It could mean they're more intelligent and more creative too, just perhaps not having the patience or mental structure for learning and applying mathematics, chemistry, whatever. So that makes comparisons a bit of a moot point, and so the focus should be a) getting people into activities where they're learning things they're motivated and interested in learning about, and b) treating everyone kindly, which means having compassion which means having understanding about how intelligences work, how people work, and not using language that tells a person what they're be or not be if they do one thing versus another. If you tell someone that they'll do well at something, they'll do better at it than if you tell them they'll do badly.
Here's their github for ORCHID (tor on Java?) and VEGA.

https://github.com/subgraph
But you are aware that tests on math, particularly for school kids, generally do have a correct sequence of steps, right? The point isn't the answer, but rather to demonstrate mastery of a particular technique. In this case, the test should present problems where one particular set of steps is arguably the best or most obvious one. If the student uses a different set of steps but gets the correct answer, then perhaps the question needs to be asked in a different way (e.g. "Use Euler's Method to determine...").
While I'm skeptical of drawing conclusions about a really complex system from such sparse data, This is consistent with some other findings. Researchers have found differences in stress hormones based on status in animals (hyaena's I think?). And there is a famous British study that correlates work status with health (however that correlation might be better explained as health causes -> status).
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Here's some video from the recording session for my next CD, to be released in early 2015.
I have to wonder if it's not just that the rest of the culture has washed away and this is all that's left now. There is a big hole in Houston where That Company used to be...

The cable channels now have to live on a treadmill of serialized movies cast in the Deadwood/Sopranos style or it will also wash away.
It is absolutely not a Common Core hit piece! The teacher talks about how providing context (teaching!) allowed Common Core material to provide a very worthwhile lesson.

"If we are to truly make progress in getting our students to understand the concepts presented in the Common Core to the depth intended we must help them learn to stop looking for a right answer and start looking for a right reason."

Talking to a lot of teachers it is often not the provided Core material that is the issue, but not having enough time to actually provide the structure and context to help the kids internalize why any of it is important. It's also not a surprise that is the case, given that at least where I live (California) the school year is measurably shorter and class sizes are measurably bigger than they were when I was in the same grades.
The Business and Technology of Zero-Knowledge Software
A little too rose-coloured, this article.

If you want to slog it, really give all you got to someone else's project, a startup is the way to go. You're likely to learn a lot, and your decisions will have direct impact on the well-being of the company.

If you want a stable job that you can put out of your mind when you're not at the office, forget about startups.
Slack's onboarding is one of the best I've seen.
> A better measuring cup is of trivial benefit to humanity

Oh, so it is of benefit, is it? What, exactly, is the minimal amount of positive benefit to humanity I must exert in my work to be deemed worthy in your optics?

What, exactly, is it about nursing, as a whole, that makes the field universally superior to the measuring cup industry? Is all of nursing equally deserving? What if you, as a nurse, spend your entire career caring for the morbidly obese, extending their lives so then can eat more smores? Is it OK to care for the obese, but not to feed them better desserts?

Human development is a long, hard trudge of incremental improvements, with a few leaps here and there. If you insist on sitting around waiting to be part of a leap, resisting the temptation to incrementally bringing benefit to your fellow man, you're missing the forest for all the trees.

PS:

> A new dessert is actually a detractor

Bullshit.

EDIT: Try not to be provocative.
It seems like they asked the wrong question. It's not about how many people want to watch archived video, it's about how many people want to make an archive of a video. That said, I wonder if the amount of money they save is enough to offset the users they lose to other services.
> while this device is on another floor

Where did another floor come in?
Ask HN: Why was 'How bad [are] self signed SSL [certs]' removed?
What was the reason this question was removed from the front page so quickly after getting so many upvotes and comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826258

I know the guidelines ask that such questions be sent to hn@ycombinator.com, but I think that's a bad policy to apply universally, as in this case.

When a legitimate question like the above gains so many upvotes and responses, moderators should publicly state the reason for removing it. It's in the mod's favor to do so iff they have a legitimate reason for doing so, as it helps the community understand what mistakes to avoid.
Ask HN: Are Startups Exploiting Freelancers?
As a freelancer I've had many small clients delay payments, it's part and parcel. However, over the past few years I've been involved with a few startups and am now owed over $100K. Each startup led me on for far too long, and now it seems none have the ability to cover the costs owed. I'm stuck and at a massive loss.

Just wondering if anyone out there has a similar story?
In an ideal world all computers would ship with a native programming language, a big fat manual for users, and a set of software that's core design allows for and is meant to be programmed for everyday usage.

AppleScript?

In practice it's kind of awful — glaring omissions and nasty ambiguities abound — but it is on a lot of computers, and the ambition is pretty much in line with your request.

And with a bit of persistence it does let you automate a load of stuff pretty well (e.g. I have a part-AppleScript, part-Ruby script to back up my iPhoto library to Flickr).

Plus, of course, there's Automator, for the real non-programmers. :)
"You could add them to a settings dialog but then features risk being missed by non-techie users."

Well, at least in that case the addition is a strict improvement: some users will find it useful, and some won't, but no one will find it harmful. With any other solution that exposes the functionality, there's the possibility that some users will find it confusing or offputting.
Yes, schools train and select for obedience. Certainly not intellectual excellence. (Such as contradicting what the fool in front of the class says; or deciding for yourself whether attending one day is an effective use for your time, compared to reading an engrossing book.) If intellectual excellence were the goal, the institution would look very different.

Those who succeeded in such a system tend to enjoy thinking it's a meritocracy, and implicitly consider themselves bright. Others obviously have a different perspective.
The parents might be afraid that their child could "fail" such an assignment, even if it's elementary school and the children aren't graded.
> Maybe I'm naieve, but I think perhaps the problems with OpenSSL had come to light a little bit sooner if all dangerous code had clearly been marked 'unsafe'.

After listening to Bob Beck's talk[1], I think people did know how unsafe that code was but no one wanted to take a shot at fixing it until it all went bad. At 2:12 into the video (the Jon Snow slide), he explains why nobody looked (or admitted they looked)[2]. Code can be so bad in any language to discourage people from even attempting to figure out how it works.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU

2) quotes "Why did WE not look" & "It is your parents talking about how you got made horrible"
The release candidate or something had a note that it wasn't compatible yet with NVidia Optimus cards. I no longer see a note about that - does anyone know if it's been fixed? I had some problems with that when I installed Mint last time.
I dont understand how domains appear..
So I entered a word `resume` - no relevant domains popped up..
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I like to measure solids like flour and sugar by weight whenever possible. Especially with flour, the packing density introduces too much variation to get a good measurement by volume (or so my experience has indicated).
So does mine. My thought before this PirateBox thing was to just plug an old router in, yeah, maybe flash it to openwrt. If anything, this gives me a reason to pause and think harder about what some of the issues are that they may have thought of but I haven't.
The fact Snowden had the conviction and courage to challenge the NSA on fundamental issues, both verbally and in writing, is remarkable.

This was Snowden's employer and the source of his income. Evidently, the preservation of civil liberties was more important to him.
A 1% difference is not likely to be statistically significant.
The only good alternative I have found is documented on this thread: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/tutorial-windows-syst... and there is a video that demonstrates it being used so people can see it in action before they try it.
To measure out solids, you should be using a kitchen scale, but Fannie Farmer's legacy lives on: http://roadside-attraction.com/why-i-hate-measuring-cups-and...
I'm a cs student in Europe (France), and I'm still struggling to find my road.

I have competence in IA, Machine Learning, Python, JS (node, express, meteor), Angular but also Design (mockup, wireframe, bootstrap, css).

I don't see myself as a front-end engineer, nor a back-end engineer, nor data science man.

So, I'm a full-stack engineer but without a deep knowledge in anything. I have a hard time to feel confident enough to work for someone else, as they might realize that I am an impostor (I know about the syndrome, but how can you be sure not be one ?).

I would really like to have a mentor that could show me where I can evaluate myself and where I should make progress.

Thanks !

benderville[at]gmail.com
That is why you have good contracts in place.
Finally the Apple Magic Trackpad works everywhere. Even offers battery warnings. Nice!

Mint+Cinnamon is a great desktop. It's saving me from being 100% Mac.
> No relevant domains popped up

The algorithm sometimes finds very distant relationships to the word you give it. It depends somewhat on the word and whether or not more closely-related words are available. Since "resume" may be seen as both the noun and the verb, related words may be quite distant.

To be quite honest, I was tired of other domain suggestion tools using only the exact word(s) I give, so some degree of distant word relationships is intentional (I considered making it completely random, but I like the idea of choosing a "seed" word as a starting point).
Did you know that apostrophes "'" are allowed in email addresses for the name ? I saw one on a business card once and said: That can't work ! But, it does. At least it did back in 2007...
Are you planning on providing possibility to connect other accounts, e.g. Bitbucket?
I was going to signup with Fastmail.

But the Terms is pretty strict, i.e. they can terminate you without notice, not a warning, also they don't really care about refunds, no matter whatever the reason is?

I'm hesitated again. Is the hosting-your-own-mail-server the only way out?

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