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How a root CA goes into the trust store? I know Firefox embed them, so older versions of it will not include it. OS minor updates (Windows, OS X, ...) ever updates the trust store?

How much time actually takes it before I can safely use it and be sure that the majority of browsers accept it?
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Uber is buying up robotics departments and pushing into autonomous vehicles. They're definitely furthering the technological front. Also, I think you'll find plenty of criticism of Uber around here, it's not one of the most well-regarded companies.
Why don't people use KeePass ?
About iOS fingerprint- while a judge can not compel you to type in a password, I have heard that they can compel you to swipe your fingerprint. Something to consider when deciding whether to enable fingerprint access to your smart phone login or other sensitive credentials (e.g. Password manager keychain credentials).

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/telecommunications/court-...

(Fwiw - I use LP, no master password saved, no iOS finger print access)
True, though this is closer to OpenDoc which was document-centric: a document would contain widgets from a variety of components, in contrast to an app being a silo for data it created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
You totally can. One restriction (that you might be confused with) is that Relay currently only supports root fields with a single argument (which would typically be an ID).

But arbitrary arguments on any other field are totally supported.
> Microsoft Edge shows a hollowed out, grey padlock for DV certificates.

Firefox does the same. Luckily, Chrome is unlikely to do the same, since google.com itself is "only" domain validated.
I use "pass": http://www.passwordstore.org/

Everything in GPG-encrypted files, in a git repo that I sync with my server. The GPG key is kept unlocked for an hour or so with gpg-agent, meaning I only type my key password a few times a day.

All passwords copied and pasted from the shell, though I use Conkeror so there's no reason I couldn't write a little bit of integration to have the passwords pasted directly into the web forms.
Ask HN: Mobile app to ask me to log a data point daily
I'm looking for a simple app that will ping me once daily ( or some other interval ) and ask for a number.. or maybe a multiple choice question. Optionally view graph over time, or export the data.
Any ideas?

thanks!
You're right. Can't edit it anymore. Would have deleted the second paragraph.
I've got two kids in school (grades 8 and 10, relatively affluent district in the US), and I'm not shocked by this result. Anecdotally, whatever the possible upsides of computer use are, they are mitigated by some severe downsides:

* While promising the potential to be a learning tool, the computer is also an addiction. I've observed that it's almost impossible for some kids to manage their time, and to maintain their focus, while doing lessons on the computer. This has been a huge setback for one of my kids. Fortunately, math is still done on paper, so he gets something out of that.

* I've looked at the online lessons. My impression is that the effort of programming the interactive environment for online lessons tends to limit the breadth and depth of those lessons. Math instruction has abandoned proofs. A huge amount of the computerized lessons are busywork.

* There's no limit to the amount of homework that can be pushed on kids.

This is nothing new. Roughly 30 years ago I had an internship at an educational computing center that had almost every kind of computer and educational software title in a demo lab, for teachers to try out. The vast amount of apps amounted to glorified flash cards.

How great it could actually be is lost on the teachers. Instead of working through canned lessons, or surfing for stuff to paste into a report, kids could explore "real" software such as (just listing some of my favorites), Scratch, iPython Notebook, Arduino, etc.
I would assume users retain full rights to their comments. I wasn't aware I had agreed to anything else.
I thought the same thing, so I wrote the comment below (I downloaded it using https and checked it against earlier posted copies of the cert):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218774
SourceTree is a great VCS tool, but why this seemingly basic feature request is ignored for nearly 3 years is beyond me. I'm hoping posting it here will at least get someone from Atlassian to comment on the issue.
> "The plugin is more secure than the webapp anyway"

Can you explain how this is correct? Because i use only webclient thinking that the plugins may be more vulnerable because other plugins may read what lp plug in does.
Well, obviously it's the former. Perhaps calling out groupthink in a parent comment is unnecessary. However I have seen many, many instances where a zero/negative growth anti-capital mindset, complete with student -level slogans dominates discussions. I didn't expect to start a conversation, to be honest. But there are some good replies here.
Presumably each comment is copyrighted by its individual author and all rights are reserved unless they tell you differently. Sites like SO that explicitly require comments to be licensed CC are the exception.
It's interesting to me that last week I saw an article on HN that bascially asked the question "Is it ok for men to cry?" And now this article asking "What happened to the noble art of the manly cry?" It's interesting to me because I used to be a young man who didn't cry, and now I am older (late 50's) and I cry. I feel no shame at all and think it's a sign of sanity. What happened? Life happened. The older you get, the more things that make you want to cry happen. Speaking in general terms, parents pass away, you get divorced, you lose your house, you get fired or layed off, your best friend dies of a heart attack, your kid OD's on drugs; any number of things can and often do go wrong. I think Joe Biden is currently a great example of a man who cries. If I could send a message to my younger self I'd say go ahead and cry, because you will and you'll be better off for it.
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> My argument is that Morality/Rationality is equivalent with "our beliefs about right and wrong". My feeling is that the author would now say that I am retreating to the Motte.

I think you are confusing the author's examples of motte and bailey doctrines, with his description of the phenomenon itself?

He's trying to describe a thing that is larger than a logical fallacy, a system of argumentation when someone asserts two things, A and B, where A is a bold statement that is hard to defend, B is a boring statement that is easy to defend, and the person claims they are interchangeable, and moves from one to the other depending on the level of scrutiny.
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I would expect this kind of article to start with numbers showing that Erlang's GC has shorter GC pauses than, say, Java or Go and then explain why this is so.

Instead it merely states that Erlang GC has better latency than other system and we're supposed to just believe it.

It's fine as a description of how Erlang GC works but totally useless as an argument that Erlang has short GC pauses.
There will be no "easy" ways of doing that, ICE and initially ring0 debuggers will still be able to defeat that.

If the bits are in your hardware you'll be able to read them no matter how hard it might be it will still be possible.

A good example will be security tokens, there are quite a few labs that can extract the keys from most common security tokens through various means.
This process will cost you anywhere from couple of 1000's of dollars for tokens that are vulnerable to side-channel attacks to hundredths of thousands for tokens that require you to dismantle the IC and probe it directly but for the most part it's still possible.
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In the short term, Let's Encrypt will be primarily trusted through an IdenTrust cross-signature, which should be created in the near future (and before Let's Encrypt certs are available to the general public).

The cross-signature is a delegation of authority from an existing root CA to Let's Encrypt's intermediate CA, saying that Let's Encrypt should also be trusted to issue certificates. Browsers that accept IdenTrust's root, which is widely accepted today, will then also accept the Let's Encrypt certificates as long as the services that present them also present the certificate chain (which includes the cross-signature certificate).

This will happen in parallel to Let's Encrypt's efforts to be accepted as a root CA, and is not dependent on it. For example, if Mozilla decided not to allow Let's Encrypt to be trusted as a root yet, past, current, and future Mozilla browsers would still accept Let's Encrypt end-entity certificates (with the proper chain) because of the cross-signature.

This is discussed in

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/frequently-asked-questio...

and is also described in more detail at

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/06/04/isrg-ca-certs.html
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Kentaro Toyama talks about education and the failed promise of the OLPC program and other technological endeavors in education in Geek Heresy. His thesis is that technology "amplifies" the characteristics in society and self. If you have an underperforming school with ill-equipped or overwhelmed instructors, technology won't fix these issues. But in education research, where studies very carefully select a field site, you don't see experiments involving problem schools; you find experimental deployments in idyllic settings, with instructors who are extremely competent, and the researchers might even take a relatively hands-on role to ensure the technology gets used as desired by the protocol of the study.

In one chapter he points out that studies such as the OECD's tend to find middling results (as this one seems to, although I see more explicitly negative conclusions, like that students do worse with technology in some circumstances) mainly because you're studying students from across all schools; look at the successful schools and see how technology affects them, and he seems to argue that you'll find those students make even greater leaps over the underprivileged students.

His bigger point is that technology's benefit is contextually determined by human factors, and that we need to understand the cultures in which we hope to use technology to benefit the members of that culture. Throwing tablets, laptops, or smartphones at everyone won't magically make the world a better place. It's a good read (so far, at least).

Also, I'm getting more and more annoyed seeing news outlets publishing summaries of third party studies without linking to anything. The BBC don't even link to the OECD's homepage, let alone the study they ostensibly published.
GraphQL is underwhelming and half-baked. Am I missing something? There's nothing stopping people from creating endpoints that serve exactly what the client needs, and you have to implement everything in your application logic anyway to make graphQL work.

Implementing API-specific functions in the query? That looks an awful lot like adhoc RPC endpoints, because the functionality is application-specific.

I just don't get the hype. Poor documentation, no robust reference implementation... nothing novel about the query language itself. Function calls in queries is pretty much just RPC (even if you say "declarative" a lot). And if it's about graph data it's incredibly limited compared to SPARQL.
I assume -
Easier to secure crops.
Easier and more accurate to grow, less pesticides etc.

I'd imagine in a prison it'd be very valuable.

Great for home growers as well, I'd image easier and more accurate THC delivery.
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I remember when this came out I found it less than satisfying. Quantum mechanics is a theory of physics, and those axioms are not physical.
Rovelli's earlier ideas are mathematically equivalent, far more physical and come closer to answering some real questions.
http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002
From last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008198
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The client has a checkpointing mechanism that does back up old configuration versions and can revert them. (This client feature is called the "reverter", in case you care to look at some of the code or issues related to it on our GitHub page.)

I still haven't figured out how that interacts with the automated renewal features (probably not well right now!) but the ability to revert configurations exists.

Also, please don't try the client with a live site right now, because we don't have general public availability (nobody outside of Let's Encrypt can get a cert issued from the Let's Encrypt intermediate -- you'll get one from "happy hacker fake CA" instead), and we don't have the cross-signature. We're not even quite at the beta-test stage yet, let alone the "please use our certificates on your popular public services" stage. :-)

The main exception would be if you currently don't have HTTPS enabled at all and you're in the mood to experiment to learn more about Let's Encrypt.
Every note taker I've found gets the building block unit wrong. The building block unit shouldn't be stylized text with media - it should be content that is digested and summarized. Quotes from books. Summarized web pages - either automatically or through a clean UI experience. Snippets of video. Wikipedia/dictionary snippets.

Stylized text marries content with design. Having the content be rich objects makes your primary work to summarize instead of stylize, which makes much more sense in research driven contexts (which is pretty much everywhere).
> In September 2007, Prince released statements that he intended to "reclaim his art on the internet."

Hey Prince, do us a favor and take it all away and keep it for yourself. If we can't film our babies dancing to music that we listen to with them, and share it with others, that's a world I don't want to live in. Better you just mosey on along by yourself.
Wouldn't it be problematic to takeoff from an uneven surface? It seems like it would generate more lift from the side with higher ground and end up taking off diagonally, perhaps crashing in the process. Is there a way to compensate for that?
This would seem to be rather weak, so at least they're saying this only as dicta. We've already seen cases where people use public domain content and then end up using such algorithms to claim the content away from other people, which would seem not to be covered by the above, though perhaps in that case they would say that they should have known of their lack of ownership before turning the bots loose.

And it would seem to spell trouble for the people who just grab the top X results for certain search keywords and then DMCA them without even looking at the sites.

At the very least, I would like to see them put the burden of proof on the person filing the DMCA takedown as to precisely where and how they formed their belief in good faith whenever the takedown is wrongly filed. It's not like anybody else is in a position to testify as to their state of mind and if they're truly responsible parties, they should have no trouble in accounting for what factors somehow mislead them. The courts can also request details on their accuracy: how many such notices have they filed, how many of those have been putback, etc. to decide whether or not they're actually behaving responsibly.

Naturally, I would presume that any party unwilling or incapable of providing such details was, by that very fact, irresponsible. Anyone not watching what they're doing is being careless.
- You can determine the platform with React.Platform -- eg:

var React = require('react-native');

var { Platform } = React;

if (Platform.OS === 'ios') {

// lol steve jobs

} else {

// lol robutts

}

Android also has a `Version` property on `Platform`.

- Certain features are not idiomatic on both platforms: where you might use TabBar on iOS you are going to use a Drawer on Android. NavigatorIOS is a wrapper around UINavigationController that is not maintained as part of the core React Native project, but is a community effort -- nobody at Facebook uses it, and nobody who makes any serious apps with React Native use it either; instead, they use the cross-platform Navigator component, written entirely in JS. Similarly, if you really want to use a TabBar on Android, there exists at least one excellent JS implementations of this that you can use: https://github.com/exponentjs/react-native-tab-navigator

- This is still a very early release! In fact, it is the first day it is released. There are plans to bring the APIs together where it makes sense. For example, SwitchAndroid and SwitchIOS will be brought together under a Switch component that has the same API on both platforms but uses their underlying native implementations.
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That would take all the "im" out of meeting the impossible, wouldn't it?
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It says what it does in the linked article with examples like refinement types. The comments section had these two videos from them as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEJKKquyngk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em_tDc1Gc40
No attempt to protect a copyright means no rights.
A lot of folks might not have thought through the weakest-link aspect of the current system: they feel like they're safer because they chose to use a reputable or trustworthy CA. But misissuance events that I've heard of have never involved CAs that the victims had any business relationship with at all.
As an employee of a similarly large company with similar demographics, please allow me a rant:

No surfing the internet.

No candy fucking crush or whatever it is you sociopathic mouthbreathers play on the commode WITH THE SOUND ON.

No texting your grandmother/spouse/lover/gerbil.

And finally, for the love of all that is holy, leave the laptop at your goddamned desk, you fucking savages.

Sit. Shit. Split. That's it
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The parent post was comparing fractional reserve banking to privately issued money, and I interpreted that to be excluding bank-issued currency.

That would still include stuff like payroll scrip redeemable only at the company store.
https://github.com/WalnutiQ/wAlnut
That is incorrect. You are thinking of trademarks and patents.
His argument in the paper linked by hug above is:

>>Many of the philosophical doctrines purveyed by postmodernists have been roundly refuted, yet people continue to be taken in by a set of dishonest devices used in proselytizing for postmodernism. It is getting tiring to repeat refutations of the same type for each new appearance of these various manoeuvres. For this reason, then, rather than yet another set of specific refutations, I offer you instead my little museum of their rhetorical manoeuvres, each exhibit neatly labelled, each label inscribed with a name,each name adding to a vocabulary of dismissal.

I don't think he has really separated his examples from the philosophy they are criticizing. If I was to more broadly use his characterization of the phenomena, I could say that arguments about postmodernism are for the author the "bailey" and the A and B statment distinctions are the easy to defend and boring "motte". Of course, a statement that is a lie is intuitively wrong to most people!!!

However, for me to say that is also an easy way for me to accuse you of being disingenuous, of masking falsehoods with truisms. I'd prefer to say I respect your perspective and the very human context surrounding it, and perhaps through imperfect discourse and the sharing of our "logos" we can come to a greater understanding of each other's positions. For me to dismiss something out of hand with an unexamined claim of fallacy is shutting the gate on our discussion.
Uber hasn't done anything meaningful to further the technological front yet -- certainly nothing that is or will affect all of humanity. And we are literally talking about Rocket Science here...
Ah, cool! Yes, I completely agree. I'm actually working on something a bit like this which puts blocks of content as the building block.

It's ideal in an educational authoring platform - since you can have some people crafting the content and others curating it by linking groups of content together. It's important to cater to both needs, I think.
Please excuse my bluntness, but who are you trying to troll?

a) You ask for somebody to marry you (your words) but don't tell anything about yourself.

b) You don't present a single hint of your ideas but ask what your potential significant other can offer (to stick to your metaphor).

c) Every "exceptional programmer" is good at analysis - my analysis of your post lead to a) and b).

Edit: By no means I want to deter you from pursuing your goal, I'm really just trying to give useful feedback wrt your post.
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Nope, you're thinking of trademarks. Your copyright exists at the exact moment you create a copyrighted work, and you needn't do anything else to retain that right [1].

1. http://web.law.columbia.edu/keep-your-copyrights/copyrights
Here is a semi-recent benchmark for Phoenix, which is written in Elixir (runs on the Erlang VM, BEAM). I think it will give you a decent idea of the differences: https://gist.github.com/omnibs/e5e72b31e6bd25caf39a

I would like to see this run with the latest versions of the various platforms, as a lot has changed since Phoenix 0.13, and I'm sure it has for the other platforms that were benchmarked as well. Initially, it seems like there is not a lot of difference between most of the platforms, but when you're working with variances of 1-2 ms on 180k rps is pretty substantial.
Figure out how to make burritos and a proper salsa bar?
The closest is ckeditor, I think. But that's still a long shot away.

Notion is actually really well constructed (as somebody who's been in the space building tools kinda like it for a while, it's quite impressive). But I agree, the space needs an open source notion...
Actually, you don't just dump it somewhere underground.

Germany has been searching for a suitable place for many decades now, though I'll admit that politics is getting in the way.

And you still need to contain the waste. Think Asse. Everyone assured us it was perfectly safe, then we found out the barrels were rusted through, falling over one another and leaking.

And then you need to make sure nobody just digs it up. Tomorrow. In a hundred years. In ten thousand years. Have fun designing the universally understood signage.
Hit it a 100x, see what happens
I understand that's the way it is. I think it's a problem; the most important issues should have the best attorneys.
It's almost the opposite of bait and switch.

In the motte and bailey, the "bailey" is put front and center and only abandoned when a more defensible position when under attack ("everything is subjective").

In "bait and switch" the bait is put front and center, but it isn't the position that you want to take, it's one that's used to lure in new recruits ("learn how to learn!").

In some cases, the "motte" and the "bait" might be the same thing - a good bait can also be easy to defend, but not all philosophically defensible positions are particularly attractive.
Yes, cyclic control alters the lift distribution within the rotor disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_flight_controls#Cyc.... The pilot would apply force to the cyclic to negate any non-uniform ground effect force.