skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know! That's annoying me as well! ;)
Freeview refers to a television service these days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(UK)
I knew all from both lists, oddly with about the same level of certainty -- e.g., each list had 1-2 words I've probably never spoken before, and am fuzzy about the definition (decoupage I recognize as French more than English, and don't know the domain; I can't identify a peony though I know it's a flower and have used the word; a solenoid is a little electronic -- what, switch?, a dreadnought is an acoustic guitar shape plus some kind of war boat I wouldn't be able to identify).

Most I know well, though -- I have a bottlebrush at home, and I clean bottles with it. My neighbor's house is almost consumed by an enormous wisteria vine (so I know it's "glissine" in French, and my French vocab is pretty limited!).

I suspect a lot of this is a function of age -- as you get older, you come into contact with more vocabulary naturally. I started fixing up my house and that came with a slew of vocab. Having a child did the same; ditto working with medical data for work.

Or if you read widely, you accelerate the process massively, because vicarious lives are rather faster than real ones. I'm less of a bookworm these days, but I did little else for chunks of my life.
I feel iOS 7 was a mix of Metro and Holo. And Material/Paper is now a mix of iOS7 and Holo.
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That was actually the one word out of the male and female lists I wasn't confident about. Probably could have guessed, but wouldn't bet the house on it.
The CA's are legally compelled to issue 'global certificates' that always return as valid so they can do MITM attacks at will.

It's fairly well documented if you google around.

And note, while it may seem like a terrible thing, it really isn't. The issue isn't that they're able to do it, the issue is how rigorous they are with their process of deciding to do it.

There is absolutely a valid reason for the government to want to do this.
The dialer and call apps are often vendor specific. Even Google is not using the open source version of the dialer and call app. That said, since so many different vendors have this issue, the problem probably exists upstream. Thing is, this could get (or already be) fixed upstream and none of the people complaining will ever see the fix on their handset because of lazy, slow patching strategies and myriad of forks among vendors.

Android phones are, unfortunately, a lot like windows laptops. The manufacturer uses proprietary drivers and hardware when it shouldn't, MAYBE releases an update within the first six months after release, and then the device is as good as abandonware.
You can always `git bisect skip` when you hit a commit that doesn't build or you can't identify whether the bug of interest is present.
Well, the joke was about how useless is to start a new CA. The first member is going to be the government through a cover agency. Remember, making you believe that SSL makes your service secure is cheaper and better from the NSA point of view than having a huge cluster to crack the encrypted traffic.
Would you not just skip those? Skipping non-compiling code is the canonical example of "git bisect skip".

You could also have a little script that does something like:

# Usage gbisect_prs bad good
git bisect start
for commit in "git log --since good --until bad"
if not commit.message.startswith("Merge pull request #"):
git bisect skip commit.hash

Turned into real code, obviously, but it'd tell git to ignore any commit that's not a PR merge.

You could also just include this into your bisect script if you're not doing it by hand, return 125 if it's not a commit you want to test.
Because if SWIFT were replaced with a decentralized system the US wouldn't be able to exert control via embargo.

(an example: http://www.ianwelsh.net/have-sanction-threats-brought-russia...)
The IRA, INLA and their equivalents on the other side of the sectarian line such as the UVF were always considered terrorists here in the UK.

[NB That's not to say I can't understand the violent reaction of the members of the Nationalist community - even if I am appalled by what they often chose to do]
The difference is that no one from HN is asking you to write something. It's not the same "I wrote this thing because I wanted to and I'm letting HN/HuffPo link/mirror on their site" and "You asked me to write something for you, so you can win more money, and I'm doing it for free". One is an article for you, the other one is work for another person.
A "low" of current online physics is "tracking makes money".

That's what this fixes. By pushing back against tracking, we will force websites to use other ways to make money.
The non-words threw me off the first time because I wasn't expecting them to be there. By the end of the test I felt like I didn't know enough English; scored 89%.
This doesn't matter now. People don't (and sometimes cannot) upgrade quickly. Also, documentation for the latest version still says peer_verify defaults to false and CN_match doesn't mention being computed automatically.

Effectively if you write any code you're not going to deploy yourself, you have to specify the CN_match and verify_peer. Others will not know about the limitations, so this function is messed up until after 5.5 is EOLed.

Designing APIs is hard and bad defaults can hurt for many major versions after they're changed.
I'm not exactly sure how HuffPo works, but my understanding was that they host, display, and provide the content as their own. Which is completely different from HN, which simply LINKS to the content itself. So the author/whoever is free to generate their own ad revenue or whatever else they'd like from their content. And HN does none of that.

How is that even remotely the same?

Plus:

> Ignoring the fact that HN makes no money;

Isn't that kind of a huge point?
I "know" most words on both. That is to say, I know that a solenoid is a kind of switch (a common failure point in the ignitions of 1960s cars), and I know that "taffeta" is a kind of fabric. But if you sent me into an auto parts store with the labels in an script I don't know (Chinese, Arabic, etc.) my chances of coming out with a solenoid would be not much better than my chances of getting taffeta in a fabric store so labeled. Likewise "paladin" fits somewhere in a medieval warfare context, but can I define it? I think that Roland and Oliver might have been paladins.

The good news is that I can identify wisteria for several weeks every year...
What are Huffington Post's intellectual property terms? That could be a big distinction between Huffington Post and HN.

On HN, nobody signs over any IP, nor does the copyright holder necessarily grant a license of any sort. (If you doubt that, consider the fact that I can submit anyone's URL to HN. So submitters aren't assumed to have any authority over the IP.)

With periodicals, though, there usually is a contract with writers where rights are assigned to the publisher. Maybe the copyright, maybe just a license. There's usually something along those lines.

So the difference between HN and such periodicals (which may or may not include HuffPo) is the difference between merely sharing a link and signing over IP rights.
this writer has a real axe to grind with people trying to make money from rent, sheesh
Exactly the same result here, not a native speaker either. :-) (Except the only female word I knew was progesterone.)
> Presto/2.8.119

Wow. I'm surprised that Mini is still that far behind Desktop (2.12.388), but I guess updating Presto isn't exactly a high priority compared with moving to Blink.
Confidence comes with experience. Good read.
Generally, when you see abuse on HN, the right thing to do is send an
email to hn@ycombinator.com rather than post it publicly.

I've recently been trying to work out simple but useful heuristics to
just detect this kind of abuse without creating too much load. Since I
don't have access to all of the data, it's mostly been observation and
keeping notes.

Automating just detection of the most obvious abuses is feasible and
fairly straight forward, but automating action is somewhere between
difficult and nigh impossible.

The reason is simple; there are many great HN users who will regularly
submit links to their own work, like blog posts. In fact, a few of the
folks on the HN leader board [1] will share their own work fairly
regularly (ColinWright, DanielBMarkham, jgrahamc, ..., and in years long
past, also patio11, jacquesm, ...). Of course, when they submit their
own stuff, it's usually really interesting, and they also submit other
interesting stuff from other sites (not their own).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
>in areas with poor data (Edge connection or even GPRS) this would be a life-saver.

I have had Opera Mini installed on my iPhone since it was released for exactly this reason—it performs noticeably better than Safari when at the very fringes of data service coverage. It's not really a situation I'm in terribly often, but it has saved the day a handful of times.
It's easy to blame him, but he had surprisingly little power to stop it. The President (then, as now) could point it at any target he wished, but could do little to shut it down.

Congress is where the true power lies. They could, with a single vote, shut down any and all of it. Blame them.

Or, if you rather, blame yourself for voting the wrong people into Congress.
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Well, if the Russian's are targeting terrorists (those people who attack civilians) then we should applaud their efforts for saving civilian lives.
True. I could also walk over to the place and tell them in person (after a flight and a drive etc). My thoughts are that if you are asking people to volunteer to contribute, expecting people to sign up to a third party in order to communicate is not "frictionless". After all, there is thing called email that's been around for a while and is used by, pretty much, everyone. Also post forms. The main reason for using Twitter (my belief) is to get your users to promote you for free.
Ghent is the English translation of the Belgian city Gent.
Codec is a porn word???? it would have taken you longer to write that comment that look it up the right answer.

Codec are how your video and audio is encoded over the internet but I enjoy that you defaulted to a male word must be about porn. Flac/G711/g729/h323 are codec's (audio), infact here is a list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_codecs

I was going to explain to you why boys and girls focus on different words. Its to do with world perceptive that is shaped in early childhood but I really cannot be assed to start a chatter with someone that makes pointless observations, and then proceeds to make random comments based of their interruption of basic internet terminology without even looking something up.
Somehow, in my head, I heard it as "Call Me Maybe".

You can `git clone git@github.com:Wiredcraft/Moleskin.git` and then open the example in `examples/angular/index.html`.
"If the contribution is a single commit, I’ll do a git commit --amend and just smoosh my changes right into the original commit."

that is right, editing history is the way to go, or is it? :)
Are you sure about that? [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufortia_(plant)
I can not stress this enough: NEVER work for free. Don't do unpaid internships. Also try to avoid selling yourself under value (hint: you are probably worth at least twice you could imagine). Ever had someone accept your demanded rate without negotiating? You know you must ask for more next time.

Besides owing it to yourself, working for less than your right wage will harm your industry.
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So Heroshima and Nagasaki were terrorist attacks?
I expect people to keep their promises for as long as they say. If he meant for the next two years, he should have said so. He could fudge it and say "for the foreseeable future" (that might tip his hand, however).

But I don't buy "but's it's just business" as an excuse for bad behavior, and in truth it bothers me that it's becoming more and more acceptable to not hold people socially accountable for their business behavior.
But how much of that is Java, and how much is Hadoop?

Spark runs on the JVM, and much, much faster than Hadoop on similar workloads (Yes, I understand it isn't just doing Map/Reduce, but the point is that Java doesn't seem to be a performance limitation in itself).
Most versions have --preserve-root (fail if the target is /) on by default, so you have to use --no-preserve-root , although rm -rf /* will still work.
I got 84% (none of the fakes, like you). Had a fair idea as to the rough meaning of all at worst, but a few I wouldn't have been keen to define in public and a gun to my head! Fun little test.
I did not see that. That definitely helps accuracy, but doesn't eliminate the words that you have heard, but don't know the meaning or usage. I guess for a simple internet test and analysis it is probably good enough.
I'd be far more impressed with a sentance using the womanly words. I don't know what 90 percent of them mean!
Most of the contributions I'm merging in are 10 lines, but a lot of them (half?) take two or more (sometimes many more) commits to converge on those 10 lines, and none of those intermediate commits has useful information in them. The other half of contributions are only a single commit already.

If someone contributes a true 1000+ line contribution that I'm even willing to take (yikes!) then you better believe I want that in multiple, logical commits, and it may even be me that ends up doing the splitting.

I'm sure a lot of it just has to do with what types of contributions a given OSS project receives, so YMMV.
His answer there on this topic boils down to “tell the patch author that they made a mistake, and steadfastly refuse to do anything with it yourself until the patch author does fix it”. This is the whole point of this article—that is simply not pragmatic; you can have changes made that aren’t quite perfect but where the original user is not willing to make the changes you require. It being abandoned in imperfect state, Linus’s answer is actually ignore it.
Perhaps. But this founder (OP) doesn't seem to fall into that category to me, given how she writes.

Also, note that I said "while doing" - not "while trying to". Imposter syndrome does indeed require a moderate success, a total failure does not suffer from it.
Ahem... Some days ago I went to a live show and the actor started to interact with the public. At some point he asked women to raise the hand if they knew the meaning of "bukake". Almost no women raise her hand.

When it was men's turn, most did, and probably some who didn't raise his hand knew it too, but were ashamed to admit it in front of their girl friends of wifes(this could be the case for some women, too).

If you don't what it means, don't search for it at work.

So, I bet that's a way more discriminative word that any of that list.

Edit: the "live show" was just a monologue show, in case you were wondering.
I agree. But that's a difference use-case to what HDFS is designed for.
the current epidemic of narcissism making people willing to write for free to stroke their ego as he aptly noted

To be fair, some people write for free to learn things, share things, and spread knowledge. That's why I started a blog. And virtually all professors, who produce work for journals, don't get paid directly via their writing, but rather via their home institution, and sometimes other means (like grants).

Universities are different than the HuffPo, but the point is still important.
I have adblock installed on every machine I use, and I have that unchecked. Google 'unobtrusive' ads still appear.
The trouble is, for most of the population over there, they feel like they could easily be the (mistaken/accidental) target of one of these. Living with a drone circling one's life inspires fear in both civilians and terrorists.
The primary hallmark of terrorism is targeting civilians (as opposed to military or infrastructure targets such as trains or refineries or factories). If a drone is used to attack a factory or a military target that is not terrorism. If a drone is intentionally used to attack a civilian, non-infrastructure target (eg, a wedding) then that is terrorism.
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IIRC both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because it would hurt japanese military the most. Back in those days a plenty of civilians died anyway during regular bomb raids.

But yeah, to some extent is probably was a terrorist attack.
If it's an armed conflict between two groups of people who both consider themselves "citizens" of their locale and another country steps in, is it their right to decide which are the citizens and which are the terrorists?
"risks a war without end" -- I'm sure many in the Pentagon would gladly take that "risk" :)
> the default is now to verify

You mean in the version that's not properly released or anywhere close to production ready? 5.5 still defaults to not verifying according to the documentation.
I know the words are old, but who nowadays gets exposed to both unless they're playing videogames? Military history buffs? And that's most men?
Well, quoting from that message, "If it's not ready, you send patches around". I think the big difference is that I'm willing to take patches that aren't ready and get them ready, whereas I'm sure Linus usually pushes back on the contributor to clean up their stuff. And I do think merges are super useful in a lot of cases, but Linus added `git am` too, and I like using all the tools at my disposal when they fit.
Also for a "Who's Who" or a "Poetry Collection." Here is Dave Barry's classic on when he got offered to be part of the latter: http://www.miamiherald.com/2007/07/22/165002/poetic-license-... from 1994, despite the URL
To be clear, this is Robert Harper's definition. I just like it :)
You're probably more likely to get familiar with the term "codec" trying to get torrented videos playing in various media players than anything to do with porn.
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OpenXC effectively just moves "proprietary vehicle knowledge" into firmware from client software - it's not a standard interface for cars, but rather a standard interface for car interfaces.

That's a neat idea since it prevents every app from needing to handle CANbus and whatever other proprietary signaling each vehicle uses, but it doesn't really expand vehicle support because the CAN and other messages still need to be documented officially (as Ford have done) or reverse-engineered.

The current implementation of OpenXC actually makes the setup more expensive, as well - an OpenXC module, since it does more, requires more hardware than a simple CAN-to-UART/Bluetooth gateway like an ELM327 clone.
I think mseebach means that men people are probably exposed to the word due to the need to watch porn videos and thus learn about codecs, not that it's a word exclusive to porn.

I don't think it's about porn, though, I find the torrented movies explanation more plausible.
Yes, Ghostery has multiple different Facebook trackers in it's database.

This doesn't seem like anything new, just a reaction to the news that Facebook is going to expand what they do with the data they collect.

(I'm a Ghostery developer)
Around here, we dig a trench when we want to set a pipe or a box culvert. Sometimes it's a deep trench, but it's never a tunnel. (I was on a road job where a culvert trench wasn't a trench but rather a valley.) The tunneling I see is that of the "gas line under the highway" variety, which if that's what we're talking about, makes sense -- it takes two guys a few hours. It's not multiple lanes of traffic through a mountain.

But thanks for answering the (ignorant, obviously...) question!
Cool, so OBML remains on Presto until it is phased out completely?

Can you point to any papers/specs/sources concerning OBML or the likes?

I was always fascinated by it (and have been trying to do something similar for my own amusement, most recently with webkit), but while getting a serialised render tree to display is trivial, making something half as usable as Opera Mini has always been seems impossible.

I believe there is still a huge market for smaller devices (probably smaller than feature phones) on which this style of web access is much thought after.
Actually, a solenoid is just a coil [1], which in electronics can be used to turn a current into a magnetic field. It is used to implement switches, but has other applications as well. For example, the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) [2] experiment uses theirs to generate a strong magnetic field to bend the tracks high-energy charged particles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid
I think a lot of it depends on context. In a private repo I'm right there with you. But when I look at a public repo with a lot of contributors, I want to know what the "logical" history is a lot more than I want to know about the three steps it took to get a feature ready for public consumption.
Eta Carinae
I'm not sure they qualify as that, but there are certainly people that believe that Robert McNamara was a war criminal [0]:

"""
“We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo — men, women and children,” Mr. McNamara recalled; some 900,000 Japanese civilians died in all. “LeMay said, ‘If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.’ And I think he’s right. He — and I’d say I — were behaving as war criminals.”

“What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” he asked. He found the question impossible to answer.
"""

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?pagewan...
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Quiffiness looks like a perfectly cromulent word.
Even if you make the assumptions that killing terrorists is always a good thing, that it is possible to accurately identify terrorists, that it is possible to kill them without collateral damage, etc... How do you know if they are honest about their intentions? Just take Putin's word for it?
The flouncing flouncy bottlebrush... I give up.
The same guy contacted me and I've submitted a couple of pieces since. He was very upfront and clear about what was being offered, i.e. submit the things you're writing anyway to us, and subject to editorial discretion they may be featured on some hugely-trafficked section, else just archived on "the blog".

For doing this they offer you a small profile with various links: to your amazon books, your website, twitter, an RSS feed as well as the "exposure" and (ever decreasing in value) bragging rights of writing (well, blogging) for the Huffington Post. You give them doctored versions of the blog posts you're writing anyway with a slight risk of hurting your own SEO.

I think everyone is privy to their business model but IMO it's win-win unless you're in a position where others are already keen to pay for your work.
This sort of thing comes up if you play Cards Against Humanity and end up having to explain bukkake, gloryhole and so on to a mixed group of people who didn't previously think of you as perverted.
> Isn't that kind of a huge point?

Yes; but the point is that HN has value. They just choose not to monetize it through ads. It's not noble or anything; it just means that YC feels HN is more valuable as a platform for getting out info about their companies without ads.