skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning on using their TOS: They include this sentence:

> If you’re actually reading this, here’s a treat. https://wordpress.com/tos/treat/

I failed to notice it (but had Find-and-replaced the domain), and got an agitated email from a user complaining that my "treat" link was broken. Needless to say, I was confused.
I love the work this company produces (especially Wolfram Alpha), but jeez, can't this guy give his employees some credit? People thought Jobs had an ego...
I guess they screw it to the rest of the skull as this large picture shows http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/26/3d-printed-sk...
Sounds like my upgrade path. I went launch Kindle (for $400!) to Kindle 3 (before it was renamed to Kindle Keyboard) and then to the Paperwhite.

For me, the reasons went: "new," "screen contrast + first-party lighted case," "built-in light + size" in that order.

I've pre-ordered a Voyage. That's in part because of increased clarity and even thinner form factor, and in part because it frees up my PW for my gf, who honestly uses e-paper Kindles more than I do.
I don't think this is particularly nutty, but I don't see it as a root cause.

LTG pointed out some real problems. If we were in the 50s-60s can-do mindset we'd have reacted with "well let's roll up our sleeves and fix it then!" But that wasn't the reaction at all. The reaction was doom and gloom and futility with a hefty helping of thinly veiled racism and classism. Gotta stop those poor and brown people from overrunning the country club!

I think LTG was an example of something that hit at just the right time to capture a dominant zeitgeist that was already shifting toward conservatism and pessimism. It was a lightning rod.
I'm sad about the game, but at the same time happy that he'll have more time to write now.
I wonder what are all the holes for.
Not to dwelve too far into Oracle hagiography but,

>During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation. His projects included a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle". Ellison was inspired by a paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks".[10] In 1977, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL) with two partners and an investment of $2,000; $1,200 of the money was his.

It's really not clear from the first few hits off Google what his role was in developing Oracle, the application, but he's not like, _untechnical_.
That's just PC sales. In April this year XBox 360 sales reached 12M and PS3 sales were 1.5M.

That aside, the real money is in merchandising and tie-ups
The top 50 science stars of Twitter
To try to be fair, life is often more about obeying arbitrary rules than mastering certain subjects. Many of the things named in the article are important life skills that should be taught and encouraged.
It's been a while since I was in high school, but looking back I would say that this was true. It doesn't surprise me when you factor in puberty and maturity (girls at that age tend to be more mature at least when it comes to school work). Boys also spend more of their time on extracurricular activities (sports).
Version 0.2.1 supports non-DNS proxy solution with custom ACL rules.

https://github.com/QubitProducts/bamboo/releases/tag/v0.2.1
> So unlike our measures of distance, weight, etc, our divisions of time have been fixed (mod a factor of two) for over five thousand years.

Our measures of distance were more-or-less fixed too. Decimilisation of time is as bad an idea as decimilisation of distance, weight and volume.

Really, we should convert to a different default base. I suggest twelve: it has more factors and more repeating decimals are non-repeating duodecimals.
For some reason (maybe environmental factors), I understood this article much better than Rich Hickeys initial post. However, I suppose I should now go back and re-read it.

Thanks for the great library and explanation.
But the former now leads to further erosion in the latter as well as reinforcing the misconceptions and fear tacticts that lead to greater and greater incursions on the privste sphere. Those "annoying" mass media articles have led Congres to enact laws, a court to seize the operations of a private company and hand it to a competitor, as well as forming tighter public-private partnerships that provide end-runs around due process.

These things can happen because the public is uninformed, disinterested, and subjected to carefully coordinated messaging by security companies selling solutions, "credit monitoring" companies that package insurance, and the mass media that doesn't have a deep commitment to getting the facys right when it comes to this topic.
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Here is an example of how it could be used (in my TLS terminator):

https://github.com/indutny/bud/compare/master...feature/asyn...

Basically, if you have ever used async SSL API, you should be
aware of things like:

SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ
SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE

In addition to these two, my patch adds:

SSL_ERROR_WANT_SIGN
SSL_ERROR_WANT_RSA_DECRYPT

If one of these is returned - you may get the data that should
be signed/decrypted with:

SSL_get_key_ex_data()
SSL_get_key_ex_len()

Get the key type (in case of SIGN):

SSL_get_key_ex_type()
// Returns EVP_PKEY_RSA, EVP_PKEY_ECC

And get signature digest nid with:

SSL_get_key_ex_md()

Please be aware of the fact that `md` could be `NID_md5_sha1`,
take a look at bud's code to figure out what should be done in
this case (basically, you'll need to use raw
`RSA_decrypt_private()`).

After performing sign/decrypt (which could happen in other
thread, or on a different server) you should call:

SSL_supply_key_ex()

to supply the result and continue handshake process. At
this point `SSL_read()`/`SSL_write()` will start returning
proper values.

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Daniel King's daily reports on several elite tournaments over the past few years are excellent. For anyone interested in chess, I highly recommending watching his archived videos on youtube.
Looks like the who.is site has patched the exploit up a few minutes ago.
I wonder if this has anything to with the massive decline in male teacher population.
Should I use JSON to log my data?
Now you know how many women feel every day of their lives.
One of the articles I read said it could be configured. Hopefully you can just turn it off.
You made a factual claim with out any supporting facts. I pointed out that your claim was not established fact. I am aware that "I'm only asking questions" can be used to cast unwarranted doubts, but in this case the accusers are reputable and numerous enough that I think we should not pretend they don't exist. For example:

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2012/08/16/think-yelp-i...
Address displayed publicly is Now mandatory in GPlay if you sell paid/IAP Apps
SO MANY APPS. SO LITTLE TIME.
The entire point of the article is that the way schools grade may discriminate against boys. There are lots of articles about things that may discriminate against women. Society isn't perfect, writing articles that raise awareness is not sexist or discriminatory towards either sex.
Aircraft Boneyards
"Academics" are a small biased sample of "K-12" or event college-level students.
Ask HN: Simple way to draw boxes on a map of the world?
I am not a coder. I know bash pretty well, and some simple Python. But that's about it.

I have an idea for a very simple website, but I need to be able to draw boxes in specific locations based on coordinates, on a map of the world (equirectangular projection).

I have no idea where to start. Any suggestions?
It's not sexist to point out a fact: "Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys". This is almost universally true where statistics can be found, internationally and across all subjects. It's factual that girls perform better in school: you can decide what the reason for that is, but there must be a reason. It's the essential purpose of science to try and figure out the reasons - as they have here.

You then ask: Why are there just as many male academics as there are female? I would ask: Why do males fill out almost all highly skilled and/or highly paid fields, despite poorer school results on average.

This is a very important question which points out the true scale and direction of the problem.
The userland would be harder to write a long lasting book on. It's prone to change between major version numbers.. for instance clang/c++ RT/etc. It would be cool to see a volume on this stuff, but it would probably need a ton of authors and be more like a series of exposes (thinking a book like Architecture of Open Source Applications)
Mark - It's natural for us to assume people are "talking their book" when they give advice. (How many CEOs talk about "Working for passion" as an excuse to underpay?)

Thank you anyway for joining us here to share your contrarian view. If everyone agreed with each other, this would be a very boring place.
Yes, I agree. "Self-restraint" in particular was emphasized in the article, and it's one I (a male) feel that I lack compared to female peers. So in my anecdata, sample size 1, it seemingly adds up.

My question would be: "why do females have a head-start in self-restraint, and why do males fail to catch up quickly?"

I suspect much of the answer could be cultural.
And badly lost. He's not even a sparring partner for Thiel.
> However, $17bn is a pretty big window of error

Is it? Sell everything else at accounting value and realize a little under half price on the combined Y! Japan and Alibaba stock, and suddenly you are merely breaking even.

> and this isn't even taking into account the crazy notion that you could keep running the actual business. It has revenues of $1bn a quarter, nothing to sneeze at.

Revenues aren't profits. And Yahoo's net income is all over the map ($1.37B in 2013, $3.95B in 2012, $1.05 in 2011) -- there's no clear trend in the value of running the business, and I think one of the reasons Yahoo stock is so apparently undervalued given a simplistic look at assets and liabilities is the market doesn't really think Yahoo! has much of a roadmap for running the actual business.
Good job, but I suggest you add more flair. For example, you could certify that a person is appropriate for a work environment, for example checking their political views and browsing history. Also great for health insurance, making the process of risk assessment more transparent, with verifiable drug use history, eating and exercise habits and even DNA testing. This is a grow market.
Progress in physical things hasn't slowed since the 1970s, we just don't have the same low hanging fruit, especially in the realm of going from nothing to something.

The automobile has changed as much in the last 20 years as in the previous 100. Ubiquitous embedded computing has transformed essentially everything, especially manufacturing. Hell, there's even a new flurry of innovation in spaceflight, with a very high chance that we'll see Martian colonies in the next few decades. That alone is nothing to sneeze at.

But let me take a moment to drill down on one specific thing: pollution. In the mid-20th century pollution and abuse of the environment in the developed world was becoming a very serious, even existential problem. Ocean dumping was ubiquitous. Millions of deaths per year were occurring due to the sad state of air quality in major cities like LA, Pittsburgh, London, etc. There were disastrous individual events like the great smog of London in 1952. Many people aren't aware that that event killed more people than 9/11, that's how serious it was. It also made over 100k people seriously ill, aside from the impact it had on quality of life for people living in London in general. Since then there has been a massive uptick in the population of Los Angeles, there has been a massive increase in car ownership and total vehicle-miles driven, a massive increase in freight volumes on railroads and trucks. And yet, despite all that there has been an even more massive improvement in air quality, enabled by technological innovation.

There are many, many more amazing stories along the same lines, with the cornerstone in every case being technology developed in the late 20th century as an enabling factor.

One of the downsides of technology that works so well and so smoothly (which late 20th/early 21st century automobiles would fall in the category of) is that it can be difficult to garner the attention it deserves. Smooth functioning is the absence of problems, so it becomes too easy to simply set the baseline at the point where the technology is working (taking it for granted). But these amazing technologies (automobiles, the internet, etc.) are the product of herculean amounts of effort from an enormous number of incredibly skilled people. It should be amazing that we have handheld computers with wireless internet connectivity at broadband speeds, yet this is just the normal state of being in the developed world these days.
Becoming an acceptably rewarded cubicle drone requires obeying a lot of arbitrary rules for many years. I wouldn't say life is about that.

School sucks and boys feel that more acutely, is the long and short of it in my view. Girls tend to tolerate or even like it because subservience is more in their nature. Women also tend to like moderate status corporate drone jobs that make a lot of men want to blow their brains out.
Let's be honest about it, this patch hasn't got any attention from OpenSSL team yet, but I heard that some people from the team are interested in it. Never got a response, but it looks correct to me.
That's really cool, thanks for responding. I imagined that possibility but never heard of anyone actually doing it(not to say they don't). Maybe I'll need to experiment around with Golang's TLS package :)
If you were to raise Priced Seed Round, you will get a lower valuation than the cap. The Notes need to be structured right, I agree with Mark on this.

If you do not have a cap, you are screwing your investors = this is very bad. You should treat your investors well and with respect. They will help you to grow the company.

If you have a cap that is too high, it will look bad in later rounds. Set the cap with current market.

If you have any control, liquidation terms in your Note = this is insane. The whole point is not to negotiate these terms when your company is just getting started. The Note should convert into the future Preferred Stock with all the rights that will be negotiated later by the VCs on angel investors' behalf. This is only fair for angel investors.

The Convertible Notes can cause all sorts of problems, sure. But the biggest point is that taking money is never free. I don't think Convertible Notes will cause more problems that Priced Seed Rounds. I actually think they cause less problems. Witness YC financing = version of Convertible Notes.
I second the recommendation. That book is fantastic
Lots actually. MMS is hard - multiple devices with no consistency, different interconnect gateways that can mangle messages along the way. An easy to use, reliable and pervasive MMS gateway isn't as easy to implement as some might think and the carriers haven't made it a priority. In fact the US carriers completely messed up their early MMS implementations with Washington-style regulation that made the user experience beyond horrible. Here's hoping Twilio makes some progress with this and I wish them much success.

EDIT: I realized that I didn't actually answer your question. MMS can be supported by carriers in different ways but the most typical interface is MM7 which is SOAP over HTTP. There are many MM7 gateway vendors and they all handle MIME boundaries, payloads, transcoding, etc different - subtle differences, but enough to make testing against a large matrix of devices very, very hard.
>See any gods in there?

I see billions.
So should I buy some Yahoo stock?
You can do this in Safari 7.1 on Mavericks, too. (And Yosemite, obviously.)
I respect and admire agl, his and very important work on EC; but i must respectively disagree with his analysis of bitcoin and other blockchain based technologies.

This paper was written in 2011, and a lot has changed since then. Today, we have an infrastructure similar to what Certificate Transparency is said to produce -- without collusion or support from the CAs. Bitcoin and other blockchain based technologies have an economic incentive to continue to propagate. I fail to see why anyone other than the CA's would have an incentive for the Certificate Transparency blockchain to propagate.

I proposed an alternative model which i called 'UTXOC'. I wrote a paper and published some python scripts to generate certificates based on a prior bitcoin transaction.
A certificate validity can be determined by some bitcoin-like value left unspent. If the value is spent, the cert if invalid.
If the private key is compromised, the attacker has an economic advantage in 'cashing out' the value; thus invalidating the certificate.
I propose that also adds to the cost of key substitution attacks on TLS; an active MiTM would need to spend at least as much cryptocurrency in order to successfully fake a certificate, even with a trusted root in the client.

It could go either way -- with CA support for such things, or a self-signed 'cryptocurrency bond' style model where TLS operators hold cryptocurrency in order to maintain the validity of their certs.

This is published here:
https://github.com/MiWCryptoCurrency/UTXOC

Very interested to hear opinions on this, its a work in progress. Yes, support for secp256k1 is limited in mainstream OS's -- it only works with openssl s_client and s_server currently.
Given time I hope that the secp256k1 curve is added to browsers and operating systems, and this or similar blockchain based record architectures are adopted.

thanks all ;-)
If a sample is biased, it is often interesting to ask "Why?"
Ideas:

1. To allow liquid/air-bubbles past for easier installation, to be covered-over by another layer later.

2. For attaching the Meninges?

3. Screw holes?
I'm in two minds about binpress. I think the direct sales model seems more consumer / SME orientated whereas I feel all the money in dual licensing lies in large companies wanting to cover themselves for licensing audits.

So there are (IIRC) a few companies offering approved reviewed versions of OSS code (ie Firefox built by them and they checked it is properly signed source code etc). But I don't know of anyone doing this approach

It should be interesting - but their python offering - oh dear. Really oh dear. If that's indicative then I would suggest they start to niche down for a while. Focus on medical OSS or Govt OSS instead of everyone and everything. Attract specifics

I wish them well, I just am worried.
> [women] like it because subservience is more in their nature

Wow, I agreed with the first half of what you said, but you really started going off the rails here.

1 No citations given.

2 "Subservience" is unlikely to be a genetic trait, which would mean you're engaging in negative reinforcement of a culturally-imposed patriarchal "value" for women to hold.

Even if subservience is a genetic trait, it's hardly reasonable to accuse someone of possessing it.
Banning lead paint and fuel?
> I suspect much of the answer could be cultural.

I suspect much of the answer could be genetic. Males in primate species tend to be more aggressive and have less "self-restraint".
> Lets crank out a simple ToDo CRUD application. Any bet who will finish faster?

Well I haven't done much web programming in Go, so I would not be very fast. I have done a lot in Python, and I usually finish prototype apps within days while the Java teams are still stuck in meetings with the Oracle DBAs trying to work out why Hibernate is generating shitty SQL again. And I believe Go is comparable to Python as far as productivity is concerned, but with type-safety and speed.

I think there is a lot to commend of Java, well at least the JVM, and the tooling and libraries are great, as is the performance. But I rarely hear anyone argue it is a fast, agile language to develop in.
It's a different sample though. People that do Harvard and MIT moocs are usually people that want to learn the subject and are self motivating whereas school is forced upon everyone. Willing or unwilling.

Basically your post confirms the theory of the person above. That grades aren't measuring mastery of knowledge but the skill to obey arbitrary rules.
There are lots of syntactically valid addresses at the bottom of Lake Washington in Seattle: useful if you want to avoid spamming random people with postal mail in case that contact information later gets sold on.
False. IP fragmentation allows the size of a single UDP DNS response to be up to 65535 bytes, regardless of the network MTU.
There's a reason good PR people get paid well..
It seems like it would be the first time someone has done it properly. What is so beautiful about Twilio is their attention to detail for developers - amazing documentation, samples, etc so I am assuming their MMS implementation will be as clean. Here's hoping.

mBlox, OpenMarket, Mobile365 all tried to implement the half assed MMS implementation forced on them by the carrier market and it was an absolutely nightmare. I'm surprised noone in the tech press ever did a deep dive expose on just how archaic the whole certification process was, and the user experience was terrible.

Summary: this is not the first time the carriers have opened up MMS. Hopefully it will be the first time developers can leverage MMS the way it was intended.
I think you've confused "intensional" and "extensional".

("Intensional" means "identity determined by structure"; "extensional" means "identity determined by behavior". You seem to use them in the exact opposite sense.)
However, England is vastly more right-wing than Scotland. The only Scot I know supports yes simply because since WW2, Scotland has been under a Tory-ruled Westminster and having to implement their policies for roughly half the time, while never actually voting for them. As far as he's considered if Cameron and all his kind simply went away he'd be happy to be part of the UK.
I think you've got a mistake with how you've figured in liabilities. They should be subtracted from assets, not market cap. So, using your numbers, the difference is closer to $10b, not $17b.
You mean falsely victimizing themselves?
> Though it did not claim the title of biggest initial public offering ever, Alibaba will still lay claim to having held one of the biggest stock sales on record, surpassing offerings from Facebook and General Motors.

If you're curious (I was), Wikipedia puts the Agricultural Bank of China as the largest IPO, with Facebook at number 6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering#Largest...
I was reminded of this as well.
Home Depot: 56M Cards Impacted, Malware Contained
Why would that follow?
Sexism is about power relations. Like racism and capitalism. Men dominate society. Doesn't matter how meritorious women are. Women can be tacitly competent and men buffoonish, yet incompetents routinely triumph.

After all, they're gatekeepers and enforcers.

Since society ridiculously built a massive infrastructure based on gender, women and men are trained differently. To the intellectual destruction of men.