skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would bet there are many, many load-balancers terminating SSL and then proxying plain HTTP to web servers over a VLAN.
Hong Kong People
I really like the average points tracking in Hacker news.

Its interesting to note that some people got on the leader board via only commenting when their posts were relevant, the avg. 5+ points people and some got on their through just making sure their voice was heard, even if they didn't have anything relevant to say, the people with an avg below 3 points.

I've always treated HN's a bit differently from other message boards in that I only comment when I think I have something relevant to say, which is probably driven from the average point tracking system.

I'm actually surprised at the number of leaders with avg scores under 2. I'm guessing these people treat HN's like a regular message board and just comment on everything.
The average of the top 100 seems to be 4.3 so it looks like
I just got the popup, clicked "okay" and when I go to "Cloudflare settings", it's still only available to select SSL options for the paid plans.

For those who haven't yet seen the popup there's a bit more info here:
https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl#universal_ssl

It's a pity that I got the message saying it was available on my account, when the setting is not yet activated :)
Strategic or random? How the brain chooses
I respectfully disagree. I find the title to be accurate to the question being posed. It doesn't feel that the article was about that direct incident so much as an exploration of the way we choose providers and whether something as vague as company's "morals" should and could drive those decisions. We're currently in a fascinating time where companies like AirBnb, Uber and others are innovating faster than the law can keep up. At some point it's up to us as a society to self regulate even if its just at an individual level.
And despite all these problems, wikipedia is extremely useful.
Maybe the reason MENSA's tests are reliable is that not many people are interested in joining MENSA - I am not denying that MENSA can be of interest, but its admittance would not be worth preparing IQ tests like crazy.

On the other hand, if IQ tests were used for admissions in prestigious universities, you can bet some students will train specifically for IQ tests.
Interestingly, I just tried to visit one of my CloudFlare protected sites. Shoving https in front of the URL results in this error in Firefox & Chrome.

dabr.eu uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: ssl2000.cloudflare.com, .redpitt.mobi, redpitt.mobi, cloudflare.com, .cloudflare.com

So I assume it isn't quite as seamless / automated as it makes out?

edit ah - a little further reading says it will roll out over the next few days.
Human genome was shaped by an evolutionary arms race with itself
PGP is a thing, that makes your mail mathematically impossible to open by brute force.

And you can self host your own XMPP servers or use any other peer to peer chat client like SIP.
That guy calls the police.

The manager answer the door and tells the police that the employee misunderstood, and he'd merely hired dancers for the night. That guy doesn't have a job anymore, and no one is going to get in trouble with the cops.

The only way to be sure that they're prostitutes is to actually have a transaction with one, which if you go to the police about, are more likely to get arrested for than anyone else, since you're the only proven john.

You can be fairly direct with later deniability, and there's an incredibly high cost to being the guy that called the cops.

Why do you think drug use at start-ups is so common, even at work sponsored events?
Timeline of computer viruses and worms
You know owning a business is work, right?
How to Find Pivotal at JavaOne
I'm a customer of a local bank in the village where I grew up (in Germany). They offer of course online banking etc like any decent bank, but the really good thing is: they know me and my familiy quite well and vice versa. So, when travelling, and when Internet and everything fails, it's easy to get the right people on the phone to find a solution. Also, it's easier to negotiate with them if you know them on a personal level (e.g. for reductions on all kind of fees etc). It's funny, but I found my village's bank a reliable fallback, no matter in which country or city I had lived.
Don’t judge a company by its job ad: a Sugar intern shares his experience
For the love of (insert small thing here). NoSQL is not necessarily about throwing data integrity out the window. It's about re-organizing your data so that the things you care to be integrated are, such as a document with a sub-document or list. Pretty much every data store promotes some kind of data integrity.

It might not be ACID data integrity. It might not care to enforce referential integrity outside of the document, or value, or whatever the modeling paradigm is. There is still integrity. If you don't like that, fine. Fair enough. Some might be okay with such a system. Name calling is of little benefit. It is a form of violence. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" - Isaac Asimov.

If you would like to learn more about the new data stores, see my short book, New Data: a Field Guide. https://leanpub.com/NewDataAFieldGuide. It's target at managers and other with little time to get a good idea.
Not really, subreddits do not have easy cross-posts.

Tags allow a submission to exist across different pseudo-subs.

So a link may be buried under one popular tag but more prominent under another.
This is sort of interesting to look at, but not too reliable: it only shows users whose profiles happen to be swapped in to the in-memory Arc data structures whenever the list is regenerated. So from day to day, depending on post and caching and HN restart activity, different people are included or omitted. For example, at the moment raganwald isn't on the leaderboard, even though he has >40k karma, presumably because he hasn't posted in a bit, so his profile is swapped out of memory. I filed a bug about that but it got a WONTFIX [1].

I ran into that while putting together a profile of prolific HN posters [2]. I put it together a bit at a time over several days, and noticed that people were appearing and disappearing from the list, which seemed odd. I ended up finding a third-party list on Heroku that was more stable day-to-day [3]. However it seems not to be updating any more– the numbers are now a few months old.

[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/49

[2] http://www.kmjn.org/notes/hacker_news_posters.html

[3] http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/overall
Circle opens doors to global audience
You can't see why oblivion would be preferable to anything other than, say, extreme chronic pain? I can't imagine that anyone could be so blind.

The yardstick is simple, does continuing to exist seem like something of higher net value than oblivion. The reality of daily existence barely meets that criteria for me, and I can only imagine I have far fewer troubles than most of the world's population.

I often wonder if the majority of people only continue to exist because of social obligations and cultural attitudes. Or maybe they just enjoy more things (such as the exploration you mention) :)
This is true in most of social science. Metrics work when people don't know they're being measured. Once people learn they're being measured on something, they optimize to it.

On another note... If a metric is being used properly, it might not seem like it's working. For example... Harvard saw that GMATs didn't correlate with their MBA's success, so they dropped it as admission criteria. Years later they checked the GMAT scores for the classes where they weren't required. What happened? GMATs correlated to performance. What's the cause? Earlier on they were properly weighting in. (Higher GPA? GMAT doesn't matter much. Lower GPA? It matter mores. Grad degree in stats? Lower undergrad GPA and GMAT don't matter as much, etc.) If you're weighting it properly, the importance won't show. (In essence, a 780 is the right marginal score to let one person in, a 680 on another)

All that said, in a way, the perfect measure is an unfair one, because you don't know what you're being measured on so you can't change it.
A big part of the xiaomi experience is decent (if somewhat copied) industrial design and UX, otherwise many cheap android Chinese phones can be bought with decent specs.
Your cert hasn't been issued yet. We are in the processing of issuing 2 million certs. You got a default cert that's sort of a 'catch all'. When that goes away your domain will have been issued a real cert.
Name and shame or name so you can send them your resumè?
Any idea on the non-native/native English speaker ratio of that list? US / Rest of the world?
The article is not just about the one thing you mentioned. The first example in the article of why we should question whether to trust Uber is the corporate attacks that Uber allegedly waged against Lyft.
This reminds me of those lists middle school boys and girls would make within their social circles. "Cutest Boy" or "Nicest Clothes" ... all pointless when looked upon as an older person, but at the time it was all that mattered.
Unless you stripped the DRM from the files, yes, they are encrypted. At least according to the Wikipedia page on FairPlay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay], all the iTunes files are encrypted.

Also, wouldn't proving it doesn't work by setting up a deliberately flawed scenario amount to a bit of blogsturbation? Should I write an article about "finding out whether my computer will turn on even if it's unplugged"? Answer: no. But read my article about me TRYING it just to be sure.

I think you should write a follow-up article where you splice together raw video files and include a similar segment in all the different files. Then, put that through the dedup test. I would actually be interested to see the ability of ZFS implementations to find worthwhile anchor points within files and do smart byte-level deduplication.
Spy Agencies Urge Caution on Phone Deal
Not really. Go back and look on archive.org, I had 6 in January and it is just 2 now.

Submissions get buried quickly now because of the sheer volume.

Points are silly though. People who join today are never, ever going to catch up to someone who joined five years ago.
SriPraPhai?
I'm convinced that talking about CPAN as a unique thing just makes Perl programmers appear out of touch with regard to other languages. I am impressed with CPANTS, but saying "we have CPAN" isn't enough anymore.
Can We Really Trust the Public Sector with Our Private Data?
I hate to admit it, but this is true. In a sense, I would be less likely to hire me if I saw too high a karma score. :-)
In what way am I imposing my values on anyone? I'm simply asking a question. Has this comment somehow deprived you of the ability to have your own opinion?
Whatever the other merits of San Francisco, it does have the best Asian food in the continental U.S. (Hawaii has better).

Nowhere else (and I've looked), comes close.

"Better" here means: the largest number of good options, the highest mean among the better-than-average, and (somewhat aggregate of the previous) the most likely that any not-obviously-bad choice will be good.
The old (STL based) C++ looks like this:

// circle and shape are user-defined types
circle* p = new circle( 42 );
vector<shape*> v = load_shapes();

for( vector<circle*>::iterator i = v.begin(); i != v.end(); ++i ) {
if( *i && **i == *p )
cout << **i << “ is a match\n”;
}

for( vector<circle*>::iterator i = v.begin();
i != v.end(); ++i ) {
delete *i; // not exception safe
}

delete p;

The new modern C++ looks like this:

#include <memory>
#include <vector>
// ...
// circle and shape are user-defined types
auto p = make_shared<circle>( 42 );
vector<shared_ptr<shape>> v = load_shapes();

for_each( begin(v), end(v), [&]( const shared_ptr<shape>& s ) {
if( s && *s == *p )
cout << *s << " is a match\n";
} );

To be honest, as a C++ programmer who dates back to the days of Turbo C++ (i.e. before the days of STL), I can honestly say I no longer have any time for the old or new STL based C++.

The modern day C++ language is just too full of noise!

To remain relevant C++ needs to try to become a nice, easy to use language without the massive level of noise.

To be honest, as a 10 year+ veteran of C++, I have to say I don't miss it one bit.
I disagree with you. I read a story of a middle aged man that jumped off a bridge and survived. What I recall was that the moment he jumped, he regretted it as he knew he couldn't undo the jump, and realized that he could fix things in his life. He later did succeed in killing himself later. Suicide might be the "ultimate choice", but sometimes, it's the "ultimate irrational choice" because someone is suffering from an illness.
Perhaps they could be used as voting rights to changes on the site?
Hong Kong's protesters are using the “hands up, don't shoot” gesture
Expect a further announcement down the line. We are working on solutions similar to those that you propose.
startssl is convenient but they force you to pay to revoke your certificates. I've heard rumors of startssl being close to getting on blacklists due to this behavior -- tons of certs were never revoked after heartbleed, for example.
Show HN: fancyfocus – a JavaScript library that animates your focus rings
Wouldn't it be more interesting if it is captured by a low level fly by with drone?
Show HN: Stackeo – Product Hunt for developers
The service is useful at a usually-fair price. If it works, use it.

Hopefully we can agree that Uber doing things like corporate attacks against Lyft might say something about their character that should give you pause on dealing with them. For example, someone willing to unfairly attack a competitor might also think nothing of disclosing a customer's location in real time without permission for promotional purposes. Oh, they reportedly did that too. With a pattern of poor judgment, it only makes sense to question whether you should use them even if it generally just works.
Alter bridge Broken wings
That's a circular definition. It's "worth" it because it has "value". Value for what? To whom? Why does it need to have a value? Does a tree or a mountain or a zebra or anything else need a value to justify its existence?
They also don't have releasing standards to adhere to. As was mentioned earlier, most fansub viewers are watching on their computers, which can cope with newer codecs, subtitle formats and container features with ease, where-as western TV rips are targeted at viewers using lowest common denominator hardware (and encoded according to a set of standards agreed between groups).

Changes to those standards can cause significant upheaval, as happened when the standard def TV groups multilaterally agreed to switch from XviD in AVI to h.264 in MP4 container.

AIUI, the tertiary anime groups, who take h.264/MKV/ASS releases and re-encode as MP4 with burned in subtitles, cater to those using lower spec hardware but who still want high def video.
I'm truly impressed by the cognitive dissonance here. On the one hand, this is a wildly popular platitude for intellectuals to endorse, and Terry Tao would certainly suffer some social penalties if he strongly opposed it. On the other hand, if this claim were actually true, it would invalidate basically the entire field of mathematical optimization and decision theory.

It's also strange that proponents of this view rarely apply it uniformly. There are many metrics that are quite popular among proponents of Goodhart's law - for instance, CO2 emissions, capital reserve requirements, etc.

(Also SAT prep barely works http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124278685697537839?mg=... - it's the "well rounded" portion of college applications that people spend the most time gaming.)
"Show HN" is for stuff you've made yourself.
My fairly worthless opinions as an NYC Startup Programmer:

1) 'Disruption' is just a code-word for skimming margins in legal grey areas

2) The founder of Uber's twitter avatar used to be the cover of "Atlas Shrugged" (update: it's now a picture of Thomas Jefferson.)

3) Only tourists and transplants believe using an app is in any way better than simply hailing a cab (with exception for storms, bad times, and bad locations)

No idea why this company ever deserved my trust in the first place.
I'm not sure if you're asking whether this library performs well or are picking on the use of the made-up-for-engineer's-use word "performant." I'm going to assume the latter. I think it's an OK word to use. It's a succinct way of saying something performs well. We programmers tend to have a deep history in stealing terms from other industries and butchering their meaning (orthogonal, impedance mismatch), it's about time we make up some of our own!
A good way to push the chromebook
Faster man! Faster! :-)

Thanks for doing this - such an excellent initiative.
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I do not think this is a fair characterization. Lots of valuable comments don't get a lot of votes.

Giving feedback on a less popular "Show HN" is a good example. In most cases, you'll just get one vote, from the person who posted the story. Sometimes they don't even bother giving a vote, so you'll get nothing. If they ask a follow-up question and you reply, you probably won't get any votes at all because your comment won't be generally useful, just useful to the person with the question. For example, this series of comments, for which I received not a single vote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009176

It also goes the other way... here's a comment where I received 13 points for doing arithmetic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7720950 (Actually, I didn't even do the arithmetic, Wolfram Alpha did.)
The language is more flexible than other languages because you can use it to create a wide range of apps

As someone who uses Lisp as well as C++, i disagree.
"Datacoup is lining up data purchasers to sustainably purchase data on the platform. However, to get the ball rolling, Datacoup is the primary purchaser of your data."

Uhm...
Aw, I hoped they got a camera on a glacier walk. That would be really neat.

It's not quite glacier, but as far as remote places on Street View go, Iqaluit is pretty neat: http://goo.gl/maps/JxEQw
Since you ask so nicely I had your domain bumped up in the queue.
The current network hash rate is ~240e15 hashes/second (240 million gigahashes/sec). So 54282 hashes/second as a fraction of the current network hash rate is 226e-15, which would yield approximately 5.65e-12 bitcoins every 10 minutes or 814e-12 per day which at current prices (~$400) would be 325e-9 dollars.

So your estimate of 30 cents a day is wildly optimistic.
"You had one job" :-/
I can still remember the McDonalds home delivery number in Shanghai and I never called it, purely from hearing it on TV a few times two years ago:

4008517517
si ling ling ba wu yao chi wu yao chi "我要吃我要吃“
Test preparation does not do much to increase SAT scores:

"For students that have taken the test before and would like to boost their scores, coaching
seems to help, but by a rather small amount. After controlling for group differences, the
average coaching boost on the math section of the SAT is 14 to 15 points. The boost is
smaller on the verbal section of the test, just 6 to 8 points. The combined effect of
coaching on the SAT for the NELS sample is about 20 points."

http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/Briggs_Theeffectofadmissionst...
I get that stuff - their transparency report is, of course, also very encouraging and another boost to their reputation. (I'll mention that they have more "warrant canaries" than I was aware of previously, which IS a good sign, though the utility of such statements is somewhat uncertain)

My concern is that the single point of failure still exists. CloudFlare may have the best of intentions, but they aren't going to be able to stop a national security letter or other threat. Also, attitudes (and CEO/BoD) can change. From a purely engineering point of view, one good hack is what stands between those valuable logs or ssl certs and the various parties that would love to have them. Contrast this with the old manufacturing practice of always requiring a second source for key parts or services, though the analogy isn't perfect.
I'm not totally sure what you are getting at, but are you suggesting that the business rules described in the example (that salesmen are limited to selling certain products for certain brands) is not realistic in a real-world car dealership? That might be true, since it is just a simple example intended to demonstrate a concept.

If everybody can sell every product, obviously there is no reason to keep a list of who can sell what. You just keep a list of actual sales. But that is a question of designing the database to correspond to the business.

It has nothing to do with the merits of any of the normal forms. The normal forms does put any requirements on your business rules.
Short answer: No.

If faced with a choice between money and doing the right thing, corporations are legally obligated (c.f. Dodge v. Ford) to pick money every single time.
> Having the Applicant demonstrate practical control over the FQDN by making an agreed-upon change to information found on an online Web page identified by a uniform resource identifier containing the FQDN

CloudFlare arguably has the consent of the domain holder (gray area but probably in CF's favor) and can pass the required validation.

I do partially agree that the domain holder (CloudFlare's customer) should have been sent an opt-in email, but I think the positives outweigh the negatives.
I've seen this problem and I think what's going on is that the service that's keeping the data is having problems catching up.

I noticed yesterday that the data was missing. But it reappeared later (though the dashboard was missing). When checking the data manually (getting to somewhere that has data, like Walking + Running distance) and trying to get all the data, it seems to try to load data, but doesn't get it (spinning wheel)

Given that the data was available later the same day, I'm guessing that the problem is related to services that are not as available as they should, probably due scale after all the devices using iOS 8.

This is all speculation, of course.
The Fjallsárlón glacier lagoon:

https://maps.google.fi/maps?ll=64.015888,-16.371174&spn=0.02...

And the perhaps more famous Jökulsárlón:

https://maps.google.fi/maps?ll=64.047847,-16.179498&spn=0.00...

Both look spectacular in the satellite view as well.
Why? Oh, why?

Because, like Everest, it was there :-)

My time on HN has not been as negative as I infer yours has been though. It benefits me and I enjoy it. That back-handed airy-fairy malarky about what "really successful" people do sounds like a load of preachy cobblers to me though.
Pc's All in One Computers at Digital Devices Ltd
https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup
>> Name calling is of little benefit. It is a form of violence. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" - Isaac Asimov.

I hope you saw the irony in that.
I wouldn't suggest focusing on qualifying exam topics unless you need to pass a math qualifying exam.

In modern mathematics, particularly applied mathematics, these are NOT the most useful topics. That's just how things have always been done, and no one wants to argue about changing them in faculty meetings. See also the language exam:
http://web.math.princeton.edu/~templier/language-exam.txt

In my former career I never once used topics covered in "abstract algebra" (note that I'm distinguishing linear algebra from abstract), a common situation among analysts. Most people outside of analysis never use complex variables.

The only common core of topics I can identify that nearly every mathematician I know uses is:

Measure theoretic probability (this intersects with real analysis)

Linear Algebra

Algorithms and optimization (this is less common than the above two).
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