skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the headsup. I'm seeing a TLS 1.0 connection in Chrome, is that because SSLv3 is synonymous with early TLS versions? ...or something like that?

Here's the whole message:

Your connection to www.bankofthewest.com is encrypted with 128-bit encryption.

The connection uses TLS 1.0.

The connection is encrypted using RC4_128, with SHA1 for message authentication and RSA as the key exchange mechanism.

The connection had to be retried using an older version of the TLS or SSL protocol. This typically means that the server is using very old software and may have other security issues.

The server does not support the TLS renegotiation extension.
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Streak.com (YC S11) is hiring full time Front End Engineers in San Francisco (no remote, currently). We're looking for someone who is curious, happy, and likes pushing code everyday. We're two technical cofounders growing a small team (<10) to further our mastery of Gmail. Gmail has a billion users, and we're making it better. How do we know? Our (paid) users love us! At Streak, we:

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>> Btw, if you think this project shouldn't exist - welcome to https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/157 - that could be the easiest solution for all of us.

The project should be opt-in or shouldn't exist at all.
Democrats definitely think that Republicans are morally inferior to them, and vice versa. You can't really make jokes in a context like that because there is no distinction between a joke and an actual malignment. I definitely make jokes about Democrats, just not around Democrats, because there is just no point in maligning people to their face.
Speaking as someone who, participating in an online tournament for an AOL-only game, was earnestly assured by the organizer that she knew I wasn't eleven (I was)...

Why do you think you can tell how old someone is by the way they talk?
SIP works with email-like addresses
I met with the head of the Data Science institute at NYU a few years ago (not LeCun). I don't remember the specifics of our conversation, but I remember at one point I mentioned Jeff Hawkins (I had just read his book "On Intelligence") and I remember he responded with some comments that were politely dismissive of Hawkins.

Some of the other comments here seem to share the same sentiment. I really loved his book, but I haven't really followed his work for the past few years. Anyone know what he's been up to in ML/AI lately?
Not terribly uncommon. Landmines and the like are still scattered all around many parts of the planet. And, just a few years ago near where I live in CA, a train exploded due to long buried WW2 munitions (a train had derailed at some point in a rainstorm and a great number of warheads got buried in the mud).
I keep digging (since the site isn't breaking, yay!) but it just keeps not looking good.

On the github, in the last month, a total of four people have committed code eleven times. One committed more than all the others combined.

Also, I originally said:

> Feel free to try and convince me, but I have never seen the point in tying my uptime to the uptime of a third party, and allowing a third party to revoke my users account if they so wish.

How does Persona not fall foul of both of these? Let's say that I implement Persona and someone uses their Gmail to create an account. Gmail goes down. Can they sign into my site or is my site effectively down for all gmail users?

What if that same user is booted off of Gmail or closes their Gmail account for whatever reason? Are they not then booted off of my site by accident?

This person does a good job of explaining what I'm talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243265
They don't charge obviously innocent people. In the wrongful conviction context, you're usually talking about someone who had prior criminal history, was associated with bad people, and was in the area of the crime scene at the wrong time. Obviously they deserve justice, but it's not like police are charging random law-abiding citizens.
I'm with you on that, but I don't know if it's a question of enough/not enough seed-level funding.

I worry that there's an ever-increasing attempt being made to substitute in credentials for careful evaluation of actual ideas. I understand why relying heavily on pedigree is so attractive, but I wonder if startup failure rates would decrease and startups' overall quality would increase if that metric shifted.
Artificial intelligence: machine v man
> Shall we give up and start working on something else?

You'll no doubt be told by a lot of folks that you should ignore the competition and execute against your original plans. In principle, this is the correct advice.

But this "We found competition! What should we do?" question seems to be coming up frequently enough that I'm going to give the opposite advice, however harsh it may seem: yes, you may want to consider giving up.

Here's why.

If you never contemplated the possibility that you'd have competition, and that the competition might be better funded and further along than you, which is almost a given in today's market, you did not start your venture with realistic assumptions.

If the existence of competition worries you enough to consider abandoning your venture before you have even launched and after you have asked others to invest money in it, you must honestly ask yourself whether you will have the stomach to keep going when you encounter real challenges, like technical hurdles that threaten your existence or disagreements with your friends/co-founders.

Bottom line: it's virtually impossible to start a successful business with a weak hand. If the opportunity you're pursuing is not compelling enough to keep you from becoming easily discouraged by the slightest challenge before you are even in the market, wait until you find an opportunity that is.

Good luck!
The 4% Consol is the one being redeemed. Not entirely clear why - they could buy it back cheaper in the market than paying par.
I think that implementing "opt-in" is the natural solution and yet the maintainer writes that it will "brake everything". I don't understand this extreme reluctance of Tip4Commit to acknowledge the right of owners of projects to control things tightly related to the projects they own.
OpenBSD has had downloadable ISO for a long time. It is easily reachable from ftp or http. FreeBSD's site requires for and takes more clicks to get to.
One could argue that the true cost of war can never be repaid.
On paper,the prosectors' job is to seek stice.
Does not work on chromium/linux?
You'll find a lot of love for Pocket Casts for good reason. The interface is slick, things are pretty well laid out, and the instant check for new episodes is awesome. It used to be the app used, and would be the one I still use if they didn't change how they now manage the queued up 'current' playlist. You used to be able to see all unread shows, click on one and it would play that unread queue starting at that show. Now you have to manage that manually. It also has some difficulty handling certain special situations (auto delete listened to podcasts except from this series where it should never delete. The wording on the screens makes you think you can do this but you can't.)

I've tried about a dozen apps and currently use the mostly inferior, but very flexible Doggcatcher because when you listen to as many podcasts as I do, at 2.5x speed, the manual queue management is unfortunate.
There were lots of great articles in the the book Getting Real by 37Signals (now Basecamp). Here are two of my favorites.

What's Your Problem? https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Whats_Your_Problem.ph...

It Shouldn't be Chore.
https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_It_Shouldnt_be_a_Chor...
Tilt (YC W12) Is Hiring an Android Lead
For what it's worth, I don't believe maintainers have a moral or legal right to control what happens between third parties - that is, contributors to their project and those who wish to support them.

I wouldn't be opposed to implementing opt-out at a project level... but it's not my project.
https://github.com/zenorocha/voice-elements/pull/13
Miracle Mastery
There are many nodes and edges missing. It would be great if the underlying graph was on a wiki. Maybe this content could be added to Wikidata (http://www.wikidata.org/).
The point of your service as it stands right now is that people give you money in exchange for a promise to make it reach other people, who have no idea that you are collecting it on their behalf. If you can not reach them, this money remains with you (as the "donation pool" is under your control). You are very likely to run into legal trouble beause of this, sooner rather than later, so IMHO it is in your best interest to stop the service in its current form.

You have to work with the community rather than against it. If there are maintainers out there that really want this, collaborate with them and grow from there.
Tilt (YC W12) Is Hiring an API/Back End Developer
Too bad there's no information, like screenshots, to say what it is. The download link, too, is obfuscated by tracking. Seems really fishy to me. There has been no trust built between them and me.

I was able to find on a cursory internet search, screenshots for the iOS version of this. (Too bad the search is cluttered by games, too.)
NuPIC, the Open Source project upon which Grok (Numenta's commercial product) is built has an active community at http://numenta.org/lists/. We had a workshop and hackathon a few weeks ago, more details can be found at http://numenta.com/learn/ and http://numenta.org/blog/2014/10/30/2014-fall-hackathon-outco..., respectively. See, also, https://github.com/numenta/nupic.research for the latest research efforts, https://github.com/numenta/NAB for forthcoming benchmarks, and of course http://numenta.org/ for overall details about NuPIC and http://numenta.com/ for Numenta, the company.
I agree with number 24 the most...or maybe 19 lol
Because they believe that the accused is guilty.

I think it's interesting that you have so many responses to your comment and none of them propose that possibility. Yes, there are corrupt prosecutors, or prosecutors who just don't care. But I think most of them do care, and think they're doing the right thing. The police won't arrest you unless they think you're probably guilty. The prosecutor won't go after you unless they think you're probably guilty. The evidence points in that direction, or else they wouldn't get far. You may be innocent, but they're not working on that angle. From where they sit, you look guilty, and things like exonerating evidence will be seen through that lens, as a way for a guilty person to go free, not a way for an innocent person to avoid punishment for a crime he didn't commit.

This is simultaneously reassuring (these are regular, good people) and terrifying (how do you fix the system then?).
There is a tendency among new entrepreneurs that a startup should be based on a unique ´idea´ to be successful.

There are tons of real world examples out there that this is not the case.

Just look at Slack. Before them, there were tens of startups worked on chat/collaboration apps for years, most of them failing. They entered the market when there were already established competitors (Hipchat, Flowdock, Campfire), and yet they took the market by storm, and raised $120m, with a valuation of $1.12b.

As always, your success depends on lots of different things, and having competitors is rarely one of them.

On the contrary, it helps you to prove there is market for the idea.

And, as entering a market with existing competitors is pretty common scenario, you can find lots of great advice about what you can do to gain upper hand.

Some things to consider: targeting different markets/difference in execution/providing greater value/having stronger partnerships...
>>much of the latency is simply the direct result of the finite speed of light.<<

This should be in bold: besides the 6 transistors per bit for L1, there is so much space to fit on a die that's close enough to the core.
> You could see what he's done whilst at work.

It is the same person. If somebody wears a hooded sheet for evening rallies but a suit in the office, it is not unreasonable for black people to say, "Gosh, maybe I should work elsewhere." White people who are anti-racist might feel similarly. Freedom of association is also a right, and one you seem to be giving less weight. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

> The reason I'm uncomfortable with it is what happens if we switch the positions: Joe Bloggs makes a private donation to a bill supporting gay marriage.

That is not switching the positions. An equivalent position is, say, supporting a bill to strip Baptists of the right to worship. The sole point of Prop 8 was to remove a constitutionally guaranteed right, equal protection under the law, from gay people. If somebody was trying to strip a civil right from some right-leaning group, I'd say they also should not be running a large company containing those people.

> While Eich's views are repugnant he should have been judged on what he did in the workplace.

That might be another interesting world, but here people are judged on their out-of-work behavior all the time. Especially when that out-of-work behavior indicates something possibly relevant to work performance. Like, e.g., believing that a significant fraction of your employees are literally second-class citizens.
Exploiting mechanical weaknesses in Master dial padlocks to reduce the search space from 64,000 to 100: http://www.markedwardcampos.com/files/gimgs/13_mcamposfinal....
It was only 100 years ago. Countries are still issuing 100 year bonds today. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/mexico-said-to-sell...
no better read than "Debt, the first 5,000 years" to realize you can't possibly be cynical enough about the nature of debt.

http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years-ebook/dp/B00513...
This list is awesome!!

In addition to several of these, I listen to The Open Apple Podcast.
35Afternoons, 35Technologies – 4 Docker
"They still accept Bitcoin, no scare quotes needed."

They accept fiat currency, not Bitcoin. The quotes were for accuracy, not "scare".
It's different than most other foreign currencies in the sense that it's variance in value is MUCH higher than your usual currency. I would consider storing my personal fortune in CHF, JPY, USD, or even EUR but never in BTC.
Just install a newer bash with homebrew ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's what I did, before Apple even released a patch for Mavericks.
It seems fairly obvious? Your seems-obvious meter went off when you ran it over the screen?

Own your opinions. Cloaking them in false objectivity makes you look ridiculous and removes the opportunity for discussion. You think it's obvious. I don't. I do think it's obvious that you're playing the game on easy [1], though, which is why your seems-obvious meter is poorly calibrated.

[1] http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
Well, the vocal majority of EVERYONE has a very naive view of most basic economic concepts.
I don't get the auto-downloading. Why aren't podcsts simply streamed like spotify and Netflix/hulu? I actually think that's what might be continuing to hold podcasting back. I don't want to subscribe, I just want to listen.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who preferred that WM. I should try and get it running in my ubuntu instance again...
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Speech recognition is nice, but all of this is going through Google's servers. Besides not working offline, do we really want Google listening in on every thing on the Internet?
>So the solution to this was brokered by the future US vice-president Charles Dawe, who in 1924 proposed that the US lend money to Germany to fund its reparation payments to France and the UK, who in turn would use the money to repay their war debts. The solution was so good that Dawes won the Nobel Peace Prize the next year in recognition. And the plan worked.

Wow.
Sorry about that we use mobileapptracking to know where in the world our engagement is coming from I assume everyone uses this.

Our landing page is so due to Conversion rates currently in Asia. As it converts better without offering additional information ( one pager ) we are working on a slider/more robust landing page which is coming soon.

Along with a video.

Thanks for your comment cptmashek ;)
Show HN: Learn how to dance
How to Win Friends and Influence people is a classic for good reason. While the title makes it sound like the most horrible, shallow thing, the actual content is really positive and helpful.
That depends. The difference here is that they are doing the bitcoin equivalent of leaving money on the table after you did unrelated work. Yea you have to reach down to the table and take it. But the IRS is saying until you do something about it, it counts as income because you effectively own it.

But again, lawyers haven't finished discussing all the legal ramifications of crypto-currencies or for that matter the internet in general.
Its evangelists do remind me of Herbalife, at least.
The Wayback machine honors robots.txt retroactively. Which is really unfortunate when a domain lapses and ends up owned by a completely different entity.
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Taking on debt is also necessary for a functioning financial system with the US gov playing an important role as global debtor of last resort. Money has no intrinsic value, and the only way to save it is for someone else to borrow and spend it!

Inflation is basically a tax on savings, which is not that bad when you consider again that money has no value. A low inflation rate then creates subtle pressure for people to invest money productively (or just spend it) as they lose out if they just hide it under their mattress. A high inflationary rate is not good, of course, as you basically can't save at all, while deflation is also bad because it rewards saving and causes value to evaporate (since money has no intrinsic value, things produced have to be bought and used...).
> I don't understand why my ernest comment was down voted.

FYI, unless you were talking about Ernest Brewster, you probably meant earnest.
Virgin Galactic Is Rattled, but Undeterred, by Deadly Space Plane Crash
Or just target someone who you don't think will be able to adequately defend themselves, either in court or the press. Disproportionately, this means, poor people, minorities, immigrants, etc.
That's the whole point of the system. Prosecutors are supposed to prosecute those they believe are guilty (of course that doesn't mean negligently or willfully ignoring evidence that points toward innocence). While the system is supposed to presume innocence until proven guilty, it's the job of the prosecutor to prove guilt.
A Mathematical Thriller and an Exhibition of What Could Go Wrong
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My favorite computer scientist is "et al."

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4f4s6au5dcshef8/Screenshot%202014-...
Mandatory minimums seems rather cruel. In my country - Denmark - sentences are usually limited to 15 years (life in prison, actually means that after 16 years, your case will be reheard by the judicial system; in serious crimes, these verdicts are usually predictable (i.e. keeping the convicted in prison)).

The fact that a state can demand a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years for selling heroin is outrageous. That's not to say, that there aren't convictions here that don't have the appearance of mandatory minimums, but not by law, merely by practice.

(Also, I find no evidence to suggest that mandatory minimums have done anything to reduce crime in the US.)
Very versatile -- It can also be applied to drug R&D organizations (one Dr. Jeffrey Low has proposed such an analysis)
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