skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joys of being a hacker – Using Iron MQ for web application monitoring
Clean water tastes better.
Just to address point 2. No. Those who say yes probably do not understand what EV certs actually do.

You get the exact same level of security from EV and non-EV certs. The whole "extended validation" criteria is pretty handwavy and varies from CA to CA. Paying more for that warm, fuzzy feeling isn't worth it.
> Did you misread that?

Thank you, yes. Post edited.
I wouldn't call that support, so much as auctioning it off because they're required to, need to convert it to real currency, or just don't know what the hell else to do with it.

Nothing was ever mentioned about supporting it in any way, shape or form.
A reminder: the petition https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat... has not been responded yet, after more than one and a half years.
More like a protection racket, really.
Google's easing back on G+ sign-ups for new email accounts
> “mental athletes” square off, memorizing decks of cards and reciting 50,000 digits of pi with a stopwatch running. It’s a sweet, slightly Sisyphean impulse, rooted in a desire to reclaim some of our long-ago outsourced mental labor.

Memory-improvement techniques (http://mt.artofmemory.com/wiki/Main_Page) are better used for transdisciplinary creativity, applying specialist knowledge to new usage scenarios.

> A few dedicated hours of dredging the depths, Googling names and then Googling the names those names mentioned led me to a hard clutch of source texts representing the precise gaps in my knowledge I hoped to fill.

Google's search of the public web seems like a magical form of consciousness ... until you use information retrieval software with non-web datasets, e.g. proprietary research, or books.

When collaborating with humans, do we restrict our collaboration to a single human? If not, why restrict our digital collaboration to a single dataset & algorithm?
http://dnsimplestatus.com/incidents/5l4k6wvghy07
> (Another question -- is it only Machiavellian people that think sick people should have a right to their own lives and be allowed assisted suicide?! I call that bravely showing mercy, despite having to face horrible facts about the situation? Or is that what Machiavellian people do?)

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'Machiavellianism (MACH) refers to interpersonal strategies that advocate self-interest, deception and manipulation.'

http://www.academia.edu/157853/The_dark_triad_and_personalit...
It is a very interesting talk. Though it might take a while for some one to connect the dots Joe has sprayed all over.

Somewhat related to this, I have been annoyed by the way apps scatter information and have been working to find a way of managing the mess.

http://productionjava.blogspot.in/2014/07/the-broken-web.htm...

and

http://productionjava.blogspot.in/2014/08/coding-can-be-puni...
Jonathan Blow – Ideas about a new programming language for games
Barrels, gallons, acre-inches, acre-feet. This is why I find the metric system so much preferable: only liters and cubic meters (1000 liters).
I got accepted in NYC, had to turn it down because I'd already decided to go to a conference (ironically also in NYC) since I'd assumed I'd be rejected, emailed my cancellation and was told this wouldn't DQ me for SF, and then got rejected. We should have a meetup for all of the rejects, lol.
See, telling Congress that something is "bribery" and expecting Congress to think that's something bad is just wishful thinking on TBL's part, bless his heart.
Ok, I hate you. I will look into 0install more seriously this time around, because you made a good pitch. Still, two questions:

- The 0install feed for your customized vim install, can you link to it?

- Out of curiosity, have you contributed to the Python and OCaml versions, or only one? If one, which?

UPDATE: For others interested, obviously your 0install feed what onerous to find, haha.

http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/index/
Every word you said is completely accurate, and yet you had me laughing out loud; been a while since I have.
High Performance Python book – review
> having to wait in line

No worries there.
Pick one that can deliver the full certificate chain without using SHA-1.

The faster the web moves away from SHA-1 the better, and rewarding companies that are already abstaining from SHA-1 contributes to our collective security, in the case of HTTPS.

You should also do it for purely selfish reasons. Chrome is sunsetting SHA-1 for use in certificate signatures, and Chrome will eventually show SHA-1 certificates as insecure. See the link below.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.se/2014/09/gradually-su...
Will anything actually happen if in fact this reaches 25,000 signers? Doubtful, but I signed anyways.
Something similar, which allows you want to extend shell scripts to a remote system transparently is "rpcsh" -- take a look at:
https://gist.github.com/derekp7/9978986

This function allows you to push out local functions, variables, and arrays to a remote system. There is an updated version in the client script for my backup utility (snebu), which also includes getting remote variables returned to the local shell script, and also bouncing through sudo.

Should I move this to a regular project on Github, or keep it in the gist?
Bring global trade into the modern world at Flexport (YC W14)
Th problem with EV (green bar) certs is the Browser usually ends up checking the certificate status via CRL or OCSP (URI is specified in the cert), which can add an additional .5 to 10+ seconds before the page is displayed. More so when the CA servers are down or the connection times out.

So if you do go for an EV cert, go for the one that has the best listed uptime on it's CRL or OCSP servers.

Having said that, I would never spend more than $10 on a cert, and just use the most standard/common "bundled" CA cert. No one will ever know. It will have faster page loads. And those fake stories that EV certs increase conversions are exactly that, fake, and misleading. No one will real world experience has ever claimed to see a positive difference with EV certs.

The only problem with cheaper certs is you have to bundle the intermediary CA certs...

http://www.devside.net/wamp-server/installing-comodo-positiv...
Big banks's IP strategy better than trolls?
The Big Rip Off: Apple's iPhone 6 and 6+ Most Wanted
My startup is actually centered around this. If anyone wants to purchase a certificate through me, I'll happily give you the lowest rates I can. ($25 EV or $40 wildcard)

Our homepage is https://certly.io, shoot me an email at ian@certly.io
Did Tim envision internet bandwidth consumed by Netflix? Is the current mix of content we consume something he approves of?

Instead of staking out absolutist positions it would be helpful to come up practical solutions now. Some form of fast lanes is inevitable over time and just maybe it could improve the situation of people like me who would likely remain on the "normal speed" lanes.
If we don't allow ISPs to throttle things like Netflix, isn't the impact that all other packets might suffer latency? In that case, is NN a subsidy to large content producers?
Yes, and this hairiness is the main reason the abstraction is useful. If you want to add support for e.g. dependencies on source code, cross-compilation, multiple scopes, etc, you can now do so without looking at the hairy code at all, because the type signature tells you everything you need to know about it and is abstract enough to support what you want.

And if you do need to work on it, you don't need to think about the rest of the program at the same time.

e.g. because you want to make it less hairy ;-)
Yes, KVM acceleration works fine with AMD processors.
iOS 8 turned a 16GB iPhone 5s into 32GB one
> Disclaiming liability and such is an important F/OSS norm.

Indeed. So there can be a market for companies that take on liability when serving commercial customers using F/OSS code that they have audited and that they feel exposes no more risks than they can bear. The original authors should definitely not be liable if they label their code as alpha or beta quality and do not wish to be exposed at all. They are doing a service to society. But once you aim your code at being used in production by entities that can suffer vast losses if your code turns out to be defective (in other words, if you sell your stuff to a business or private person) then you should be liable for those damages, or at a minimum you should insure against those damages.

Compare software to for instance the engineering profession to see how strange this software anomaly is.
From Google's official Chrome page[1]:

"Introducing the Chromebook Pixel
A laptop that brings together the best in hardware, software, and design."

"HP Chromebook 11. Made with Google.
Everything you need in one laptop. For $279."

"A new type of computer designed to help you get things done faster and easier."

One click from there is the features page[2]:

"Meet Chromebook
A new type of computer with everything built-in. For everyone. Starting at $199."

"Gets everyday things done
Your favorite apps are built-in and one click away. Find thousands more in the Chrome Web Store."

"Meet the family
Chromebooks are fast, easy to use, and great for everyone in your life who could use a computer."

Laptop. Computer. Everything built in. Thousands of apps in the Chrome Web Store. "For everyone in your life who could use a computer."

Google is absolutely, positively claiming these are computers for everyone.

1) https://www.google.com/chrome/devices/index.html

2) https://www.google.com/chrome/devices/features/
Scientists aren't idiots. Well, except for evolutionary biologists as described by Gould. :-)

It is a hypothesis, to be tested. (I already wrote a comment arguing it is an unlikely hypothesis.)

Edit: I might add, evol biologists routinely generate and test if e.g. genetic drift can be involved when they write papers.
I can't tell if this is defeatist or just insane. Who cares if he envisioned Netflix in the past, his comments are in the light of the present. So yeah, I'm sure bandwidth needs of today - and he's pretty smart, so I'm gonna go with tomorrow - are probably considered in his statement.

But we're not talking about consumption, we're talking about the speed at which I can consume. If you pay for 1G/m and I pay for 1TB/m at 100mbps, I expect all content, no matter it's nature, be delivered at the same maximum capacity reaching 100mbps to you and me equally, no matter the content. I already pay more to be able to stream a mass of content but we still should enjoy equality of delivery of the content we choose to engage in, without a middle party deciding which of that is more important for us.
Hi, what would you think should be a fair pricing model for a customer success solution? I assume you are looking at a starter package?
Guy - founder & CEO of Totango
Windows Me also used a DOS bootloader, but it was more discrete than it's predecessors.
Historical neighborhoods too, think brownstones.
Indeed, I remember signing this back then. White House seems to be dodging responses to certain petitions that have received enough signatures: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/13...
No. This is like a library giving me an approved book all at once while taking anything on the non-approved list and giving me one page a week. That's all.
> Scientists aren't idiots.

You'd be amazed at how little most practicing scientists are versed in rational thinking, statistical rigorousness, and the scientific method. Maybe a lack of proper math and statistics education?

I've since long lost count of the neuropsychology and biology papers I've come across that not only presented as fact results that did not really disprove the null hypothesis at all, but even advanced convoluted, ridiculous causal explanation for the (as likely inexistent) correlations they found.
>It irks me when people, sometimes even scientists, try to map ridiculous evolutionary causality schemes over what is really just correlation.

I also don't understand how the corollary (night time chronotypes will be tired in the morning when others are alert) doesn't disqualify that aspect of their theory.
I'd like to see another table normalized by serving size. Eating 100g of watercress is a lot different from 100g of sweet potato.
I don't know if we should really laugh at them, sometimes it's real science, it's just that the context or the subject makes it funny or disgusting. It's also I think a way to release some pressure from the shitty stuff you have to do to get some knowledge.
The Great Lakes region is a whole other thing. In fifty or a hundred years, it's cities like Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Ottawa, and even Detroit that will be booming---because they will still have bountiful access to clean freshwater.
Start calling it PhpScript or LispScript; there would be no loss of accuracy.
The evolution of iPhone in one hypnotizing GIF
More information about the support for SHA-2 certificates from various purchase avenues at: https://shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/#sha2-certificate
> I would say returning regular pointers is more C++-esque

In C++98 maybe ...
It's more like the ISP's oversold bandwidth and now they are being dinged for it.
That's not a good reason to skip over them. Unless you expect multiple Heartbleed-severity bugs to be exposed in two years you are still way ahead. Just don't lose your private key.
Wow, many comments about a prototype being ugly. It is as ugly as you or your baby as a fetus. That does not mean you are ugly, does it?
Exactly!

When I was a kid in the 1970s we had pop on Friday nights a 750ml bottle and a large bag of potato chips shared between my family of four.

Now you see people who drink pop for every meal and for a snack between meals and a huge drink at that 750ml or even a liter for one person is normal. People complain about HFCS and acid, weight gain as if their human rights were being violated! Well excuse me for pointing out the elephant in the room people but stop drinking so much pop! It's a dessert like cake or a candy bar it's not a substitute for water.

In my province for many years cans were banned and all pop came in 355ml bottles, sure you could buy a 750ml but it was a big heavy glass bottle. There weren't any big 2 liter bottles and nothing larger than 355ml for single-serve size. Then one day the ban was lifted and cans were allowed but cans were not put in the pop machine 600ml single-serve plastic bottles were. At first people couldn't drink it all and the break room fridge was full of 1/2 filled bottles of pop, then slowly people learned to drink a full 600ml bottle in one sitting.
How does Swish compare with Regain/lucene (http://regain.sourceforge.net/) and Recoll/xapian (http://recoll.org)?
I find it interesting that you say that, because my first thought was that this would be a step down from git pulling my dotfiles. All you need is to have a simple script that goes ln -s .zshrc ../.zshrc in your .dotfiles repo and getting a new shell up and running is as simple as running git pull && .dotfiles/setup.sh.

I like the idea of this in theory if you have machines that are frequently touched/overwritten, though, if you just want to have a baseline of sanity on them automatically when you log in.
Yea, I wouldn't get too bent out of shape. The original idea is posted in multiple places, so if he didn't pick the one you particularly care about, you might just want to get down from the pedestal, because you're being attributed everywhere else.
Artificial sweeteners found to induce glucose intolerance
yes but read the parent (no pun intended)
Just one of several threads on the issue, but this is massive with over 1.3 million views and heading towards nearly 9,000 replies so far:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/26643423?tstart=0#2664...

There's also media worldwide that's covering the issue. Apple needs to stop ignoring this defect and offer a recall and replacement program before his escalates further.
Too close to Eichmann.
an aesthetic osmosis !

"The result of this struggle is a difference between the intention and its realization, a difference which the artist is not [aware] of." this i am not so sure...

Duchamp's art coefficient = gap, good or bad,

So is it possible art coefficient=0 but esthetic scale = ∞
We had controlled rolling grid outages in the United states when an combination of poorly thought out deregulation and the machinations of Enron (who organized for the shut down plans in the middle of peak usage) drove the wholesale cost of electricity into the stratosphere.

There is a pretty major water crisis in the western states, particularly California, but very little in the way of "electric grid failures."
The point is that your ISP already sells you data allowance and bandwidth, that is they are looking to charge Netflix and other companies for something the consumer has already effectively paid for -
I think we should the same thing with the retina "gohsting" issues that is occuring in the first macbook pro retina sold.
Has Obama's White House ever responded significantly to any petition made through that system?

It's a pressure valve designed to bleed off discontent, not an actual channel for affecting change.
I've seen tool after tool that tries to make SSH'ing into a remote machine more "comfortable", but I honestly don't do enough remote work over SSH to make it worth the time required to set it up. I probably spend an hour or two over SSH per week, and Ubuntu's minimalist shell defaults are perfectly fine for the little work I do.
iPhone 6 and Apple Watch seen boosting NFC technology
Where do you see an option for an EV at $27.85 on that site? I'm seeing prices that start at $110 a year for 2 years. https://www.gogetssl.com/extended-validation/
Wait, were the case files for Aaron Swartz classified or just never made public? What would be the reasoning for classifying his case? How was he a threat to national security?
Depends on how the alleged siphoning occurred. Something like a dividend payout is most likely not a crime and in my humble opinion it should not be a crime, because it may set a very dangerous presidence.

Not saying that the panent troll may have not been in the wrong. The correct legal way of doing this would be to get an injunction and get the court to freeze the companies assets. Then if the patent troll did what the OP says, it would be a crime.
"Asked whether NXP supplies Apple with its NFC chips for the new iPhone, the company declined to comment. Apple suppliers are sworn to secrecy."

From: http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/r...

"Having now depotted the 65V10 device, we can positively identify the NFC controller as the PN548, a previously unannounced variant of the PN544 and PN547 devices by NXP. Industry sources identify this as a design that was tweaked specifically for Apple by NXP. If this is true, Apple has had access to this chip for over 18 months, since the mask date (the date appearing on the die itself and indicating the year the design was finalized) is 2012. Indeed, the die markings of the PN548 vary only slightly from those of the PN54"
You find bad papers in every area. To criticize a paper's hypothesis which the authors explicitly show they didn't get good correlation for (and was surprised by), seems... well, a bit weird.

Can you SHOW they are incompetent idiots? [Edit: At least that the paper is garbage, as you write?] You must have gotten that really quick, without reading their references?

This is the end of the paper's discussion: "We proposed and tested a relatively new hypothesis to account for the presence of the Dark Triad as indicators of an evolved psychosocial strategy directed towards [...] We have provided a unique test, arguing and showing that those high on the Dark Triad may be characterized by cognitive biases that [..]"

I agree that the paper is likely wrong -- but I see no proof the authors are a pack of incompetent f-ckwits, as you describe them as. As I wrote, they put forward a hypothesis and tried to test it.
This is why companies that really need good code have internal developers.
This reminds me of fucking_shell_scripts[1] but this looks a lot simpler and less angry. I love the idea of truly having no dependencies, since I thought f_s_s was actually written in Bash but turns out to be written in Ruby. BashBooster on the other hand just relies on Bash (no gems, no Ruby) and looks easy to set up. I will definitely be trying it out.

[1]: https://github.com/brandonhilkert/fucking_shell_scripts

EDIT: BashBooster says it's developed to be used with Vagrant, whereas f_s_s is stand-alone. So it doesn't quite require nothing.
I honestly don't think it matter much where you buy your certificates. In the end it the same product, plus or minus some service you may of may not care about.

Should your certificate provider do something stupid you can switch to a new provider in 30 minutes, assuming you don't pick EV.

The EV certificates look good, but that's about it. They do come with at least two disadvantages:

1. If your company name is different from the domain name it's going to look weird. We dropped having a EV because we're not interested in having the name of our parent/holding company in the address bar.

2. If you later switch back to a regular SSL certificate is going to look suspicious to your regular customers.

That being said, we use Trustzone (http://www.trustzone.com). They provide GlobalSign SSL certificates at a reasonable price. I like that they email us, or call if we don't react, a few months before our certificates expire. We also have our own account manager who helps with new certificates and renewals. It's extremely nice just be able to call someone.
Graph DB and Full Text Search DB as a Service
Moon-landing conspiracy claim refuted by video game graphics
I'm not sure offhand. Even if your language lacks it, however, you can usually get away without it. The following works

Transducer r a b = (r -> b -> r) -> (r -> a -> r)

but if you even accidentally specialize the `r` while constructing Transducers then you will have reduced their ability to generalize over input and output containers. In other words, it'll be up to you to maintain the universality of `r`.
That assumes we do live in a free market economy and that our individual liberties are protected by the constitution. However, it looks like from the disclosures of people like Snowden, that that is not the case.

The line gets blurred when the government meddles in the affairs of businesses (like wire tapping) and when businesses lobby enforcement laws into place. Over time, as entropy increases, things may become hard to distinguish.
I see: https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX/issues/43

:)
Weak random number generator vulnerability in WPS External PIN protocol
I had this problem on my MBP from 2008. I spent $175 with a 3rd party fixit shop and am happy to say it's still kicking as I'm writing this. I was pretty bummed when it happened but I'm happy to say I have a computer from 2008 that is still useful in 2014 and runs the latest software just fine.
I think classified is the wrong word. These are investigative documents released after a FOIA request, but I don't see any indication that they were ever classified.
I don't quite understand what this is. Is it a Web browser that runs Npm?

Is it a server side html renderer?
Just noticed that it's using BitBucket to host the source code. Really wish the author chose GitHub instead, since network effect is a real thing and this will definitely make it harder for people like me to contribute back, not having a BB account nor willing to make one just to support a one-off project. Plus I just feel more comfortable navigating GitHub projects.
There's a bazilion project management apps out there. But Taskulu is very polished! Color me impressed.
Why I prefer the iPhone 6 over the 6 Plus
I ported the five examples from an IBM Developerworks article on x86 assembler [0] and they all worked fine, but didn't fool around much beyond that.

[0] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-gas-nasm/
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