skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be the difference in using WoSign vs any other? If you use a CSR and not let them generate the private key I would think their certificates are identical to any other providers.
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GMail or Google Apps?

Are you aware they have different terms of use?

> and thus I will be subject to their data fracking techniques against my will

To the data you present there, which is mostly your company data.

> I'd really like to see some federal level intervention on the topic of employers strong-arming employees into legally binding agreements with third parties.

Like when an employer requires a background check? (done via a website, for example?) Been there done that, didn't like it. I agree, there might be a need for regulation

But I'm much more bothered by the background check than a Google Apps account.
There's various simple clients springing up already which do that

https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/letsencrypt_simpleclient
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Browsing could never be slower than what we had without modern CSS/JS: desktop applications. If you think we've lost anything (speed, convenience, whatever) with CSS/JS, then you don't remember (or willfully forgot) what the web was like in the 90s.
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> How to build a reputation for not sending spam when they're already flagging, bouncing, or deleting my mail was unclear."

- Have people click 'not spam' on the email in GMail/Outlook

- Have people send email from those domains to yours
That was my initial impression, too.

However, as far as I understood, there is an API that will just hand out the certificate.

I guess they don't want it to be accessed by a web browser because they want us to regenerate and include a newer cert automatically.

So you have a somewhat higher setup cost (setup automatic cert update rather than one-time download of your cert), but then you can't forget to update your cert over the years.

I believe they also want this is be a fast desaster recovery. So if their main intermediate certficate is compromised, they can revoke it and hand out new certificates (using the backup intermediate cert) for all domains within a very short amount of time.

Nevertheless, I would have preferred a good explaination about how to setup this process manually, rather then depending solely on their tool.

(In case this process it too cumbersome without their tool, they should simplify it rather than hiding this in their tool.)
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Using Apple software in the last few years, all I can think about is how little care didn't go into it.

Also, that quote at the top about how Jony Ive wants to please JJ Abrams is one of the douchiest things I've ever read. The average user isn't JJ Abrams, and it also makes Abrams sound like some sort of all-judging God that decides what is good or what isn't.
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IANAL.

The EuGH court made it's decision that safe harbor is no longer considered lawful (triggered by a law suit by an Austrian against Facebook in Ireland). It basically says that EU data protection agencies can investigate companies for data protection issues even if the EU company uses an US company that is Safe Harbor certified.

This is due to the fact that the EuGH considers NSA snooping unlawful, especially that EU citizizens do not know about the spying and have no legal way in the US.

Beside Safe Harbor US companies provide data protection for EU companies based on EU model clauses. US enterprises share information about their employees back into the US based on 'corporate bindings'.

The 29 Working Group of EU data protection agencies issued their opinion last week on the EuGH decision

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/press...

Interesting parts:

- Safe Harbor is unlawful for EU companies ("In any case, transfers that are still taking place under the Safe Harbour decision after the CJEU judgment are unlawful.")

- Model clauses and corporate bindings can only be used until the end of January 2016

"In the meantime, the Working Party will continue its analysis on the impact of the CJEU judgment on other transfer tools. During this period, data protection authorities consider that Standard Contractual Clauses and Binding Corporate Rules can still be used [...]

If by the end of January 2016, no appropriate solution is found with the US authorities and depending on the assessment of the transfer tools by the Working Party, EU data protection authorities are committed to take all necessary and appropriate actions, which may include coordinated enforcement actions."

Most unlikely those will be extended beyond January 2016 if one reads the opinion of different national agencies.

PS: Gmail is based on these legal frameworks.
An encrypted communication channel specifically doesn’t say that you trust the person at the other end with your secrets. It means that you both agree that the secrets being transferred are safe from 3rd parties.
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While I applaud competition, I fear that more browsers will make it ever more difficult to develop working code that doesn't break at the next update. I guess the middle ground is that developers are supposed to follow the major browsers, while the small browsers have to follow them too. This could work in practice (I suppose users have gotten used to things breaking on the web), but somehow it still feels like a failure of the field of Software Engineering.
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I think I would prefer to stick with the traditional meaning --- it makes HN's headlines more entertainingly surreal.

> How to Build a Unicorn and Walk Away with Nothing

> GitHub's Unicorn Setup

> Tell HN: Unicorns aren't ad-supported

> In Search of Uber’s Unicorn

And nobody is going to tell me neigh.
Apple may make 92% of the profit of the phone industry, but without Android competition they would be making a lot more money

Apple set the world record for the largest quarterly profit ever—$18 billion—during last year's holiday quarter when they sold 74.5 million iPhones, which is more smartphones than any company has ever sold in a single quarter.[1]

And given this year's iPhone 6s weekend launch surpassed last year's opening weekend (13 million vs. 10 million phones), they could break their own unit and profitability records.

It's difficult to imagine Apple making more money than they do now.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-beats-world-record-in-quarter...
Of course I'm taking on an average behaviour
The shifting of the scale on the axes gives you insider information...got to $1B after a few tries :)
But that was because we were all using dial up, now the problem is the processing power required to crunch the overly-abstracted CSS/js output of our huge and complex toolchains.
I'm not so sure that it's a simple matter of fashion.

Wearing glasses is, for lack of a better term, 'normal'. I don't know the statistics but probably a quarter of the population has impaired sight (I'm one of them). Additionally in the majority of cases it presents no handicap at all once corrected - often it results in acuity above the average.
Noticed odd ranking changes as well.
After about 30% of one round you can see from the previous trades if you are more on the low or more on the high side though. And the moment you see (or rather "feel") the scale change you can make a decision.

I couldn't pinpoint it as well as the comment above yours but I also feel the interface helped a lot in making good decisions.
What is relationship between free will and ethics/morality?
I'm British, and while most people who are clued up on what the EU does for Britain do not want to leave; other people do not have the time in their life to make an informed opinion and must rely on what friends/family say.

Because the media is manipulated completely, this causes a few people to just 'take' the information from the media and think it's close to real, and those people spread the same message forward, making it more respectable to believe in until you fill up minds of 90% of the people.

so, 90% of people believe the EU community is 'the big bad' who 'steals all the money' and imposes stuff on us.

and there's no way to change that really.
Also, Luakit: http://luakit.org/

It has lots of extensions, like Adblock and Noscript, written in highly-readable Lua, also making it very hacker friendly and very fast.
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I really wish there were an implementation of SML that got some traction. It's a lovely language, but has very few libraries for actually getting anything done.
Isn't this what standards are for? If everyone follows them then no worries..
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Fun game, but real life trading is probably not that easy!

"Your returns were 2950.1%, against the stock’s -75.3% and the S&P’s 57.1%.
You outperformed 97.1% of players, ranking #48."
Ask HN: Why HN website still uses center tag and tables?
Is it a better approach? <center> tag was deprecated with HTML5 and tables don't seem to be recommended.

By the other hand HN is probably the fastest website I visit..
The major concepts are still the same.
Which for everyone that has written code across UNIX systems knows it has quite some issues across systems that are supposed to share some kind of common architecture.

Even worse when the architecture is completely different.
> These three ideas just don't fit with the facts. If an entity was powerful enough to create everything, what created IT?

That's exactly the same argument as "what happened before big bang created time and space".

The right argument is "big bang theory requires less assumptions than God, and gives better predictions, so let's use it (until we find even better theory)".

> Finally, if you accept that the universe follows certain predictable, immutable laws then you must agree that with enough information any future or past state could be predicted or recreated

According to our best understanding these laws have random generator in them, so for example we cannot predict exactly when a radioactive decay of an atom will happen. And it's not because our lack of knowledge, that uncertainity is a state of universe, it's inherent to the quantum mechanics. At best we can calculate the probability distribution.
Yes. This is the theory. But haven't you ever seen browser-support tables? For instance, this one: http://caniuse.com/
If we don't have free will then we have no control over what we do. Consequently we can't be held to account over our actions if they weren't a choice.
I asked this question the last time LetsEncrypt came up, and got a very good answer:

M2Ys4U 35 days ago

According to their 31C3 talk, they will use multiple
connections from multiple locations (possibly including
Tor?) to mitigate against these attacks.

So they validate it fairly extensively to make sure it really is the domain.
The difference is in who the legal agreement is between, from googles (and the courts) perspective.

For example, I do, in my professional capacity, use perforce. However, the agreement that perforce has is with my company. I'm just a number on the sheet of "how many users".

A gmail account is a privately held account. The agreement is between me and google. Any liability is mine, and google invests heavy effort into continuing to track my via a plethora of cookies, fingerprinting techniques and other methods even after I log out. They do that on the basis that I personally have agreed to submit to it, my employer isn't involved.

It's on the same level as if an employer mandated which phone company you could use. I don't mind my employer insisting on me using a specific provider, if he is providing the phone and paying for the plan. I might choose to leave that phone at work when I'm not on call though. But if it's my phone and I'm paying for the plan, I should have the right to choose who I give my support to.

The alternative road takes us down a dodgy path of corporate alliances, where companies agree to have each others employees scratch their backs, and to hell with consumer rights. We're already seeing it with companies in the US paying wages on pre-paid visa/AA/mastercard cards. Inevitably, the employee ends up paying all the fees. $5 to check your balance, $10 to transfer it elsewhere etc.
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Additional resources:

https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml

(via: https://twitter.com/ocamlmooc ).
NetSurf includes multiple framebuffer front ends, including: the Linux framebuffer, SDL, X and VNC.

The VNC server surface uses the libvncserver library to provide a straightforward unsecured VNC server. Multiple clients may connect.
Connectomics has been using graph theory for a while, but this is cool. Seems like more algebraic topology methods will percolate in (hah!) over time.
interactions between particles is a deterministic process

But this isn't even deterministic on its own terms. Particle decay is stochastic. Quantum tunneling is stochastic. There's a constant, silent rain of neutrinos that don't interact nearly all the time.

Fully deterministic analog electronic computing is impossible because we cannot eliminate Johnson noise and shot noise. Why do people then think that neural computing would be noise-free?
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Just like in real life.
Yeah, their movement smoothing filter seems to be not causal.
By the same argument other people have no choice but to hold them to account.
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Another WebKit-based option (for OS X) is OmniWeb (it’s still alive!):

http://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omniweb/
Not necessarily. For all we know, abiogenesis may have occurred many times on the early Earth, it's just that the lineage that lead to extant organisms is the only one that survived.
No, I remember the web from the modem days, and I'd be quite happy with pages from the modem era but loaded over 100Mbit Ethernet.
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As far as we know, time began 13.8 billion years ago. Talking about events before that is not meaningful.
What sector are you in? Does it look like a huge fluctuation your end?
Good point. I should give Dillo a try.
I am often installing whole new email servers (author of https://poste.io here)... And thats not true, at least from my experience - well unless your first email is not "super promo whatever"...
> Really? You feel that strongly that the people of the UK will vote to leave? Whilst there is vocal support for leaving, there are also a lot of level headed people who understand the benefits of being part of the EU.

Or the EU might just kick out Britain for good. British "special rules" are holding the EU back everywhere - the EU doesn't have a Foreign Minister just because of British proudness, and don't get me started on how Britain evades any responsibility for the refugees.

Either Britain becomes a FULL member of the EU with ALL responsibilities and rights or GET THE FUCK OUT. Rest of EU has had enough of them.
I didn't really want to flag a specific e-reader. And was hinting at something more general. As you say I'm sure you could bolt something together, like I have been meaning to.

At the moment it's as boring as a readability bookmarklet. That then sends the parsed html to a free kindle address. Readability will accept urls to process in emails. But this doesn't work for me. I forget why. Also readability sometimes borks and I never get the page. And sometimes readability can't read something. It just comes out blank. Probably a JS heavy page or something. Managing readability archives and searching through them isn't that great. I'm not really a fan of the readability web browser interface. I haven't tried the apps. But it does the job for free so I mustn't grumble.

I'd rather email/bookmark links, to process later, to then read at my leisure. And also text index them. Something to improve searching. Also the ability to rate or summarise what I've read.

I get articles that upon reading, I don't like. So chaff does get through. I could do with applying feedback. Flagging bad (as in I don't like) sites, bad authors etc. One problem is that I can't do the feedback there and then from my e-reader when I'm in the moment. But actually it might be a good re-enforcment tactic to come back and evaluate later. It would be nice to then share good reads.

An email address for reads is good, as you can always ask others to send you stuff. Or perhaps forward an email containing a link to your reading address.

I have cognitive difficulty reading from a browser, but am fine with e-ink. Plus it doesn't require an internet connection. It's comfortable. I do tend to neglect my book reading though, which is a bit of a shame. Oh and I have a mountain of articles to read, currently about 1200.

With what comes through with readability, sometimes the author is missing. Probably meta data missing. And not having dates and other meta data available can be annoying. Having a datestamp of when I bookmarked it for reading might be nice.
Actually, pretty sure most linux distributions don't ship with the whois binary.

(This is entirely based on the fact that I find myself installing it far too often)
Maybe Rossberg's 1ML will become a reality.

Barring that, "Successor" ML is cleaning up some deficiencies in the original standard, and ML implementations are starting to integrate the changes.

But yeah, a strict ML with the pristine syntax of SML; the modular implicits coming to OCaml; the innovative ideas in 1ML -- now that would be a great language.

Sigh, back to Scala...
> The theory goes that, on an atomic level, interactions between particles is a deterministic process - it's wholly and completely predictable because the outcome is determined by a knowable set of rules.

That is not true. The quantum mechanics doesn't disprove determinism, but is clearly states the result can not be predicted, because an act of measurement changes the outcome.

That means it's not magic, but uncertainty that makes exact outcome of a system unpredictable. We can just know probability of the outcome.

Of course this unpredictability doesn't mean there's free will, it just means that we will never be able to find out with a 100% certainty what we will think even if we measured every little detail about the brain.

And if the argument is "But let's imagine we knew every little detail about a brain to atomic level, then we would surely know what he will think in the future" then we are talking about imaginary things. Magic knowledge doesn't exist.
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Also, encrypted storage adds a risk that if you ever forget your password or lose the key, your data is effectively gone.
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> Or just auction of the visas to the highest bidders.

Yes, let's have money decide who gets or doesn't get into the country, who can and cannot get hired from abroad. Isn't legal bribery great...

> Or let in anyone who surpasses the average native in education

And how do you determine that?
Dillo by default doesn't show pages if they're being served up using SSL:

http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q12

> First of all, beware that this is a prototype in alpha state. It will only provide for very basic web page retrievals, POST and GET. There is no certificate caching and NO AUTHENTICATION performed.

> It's disabled by default.

In my mind that's a pretty big defect.
> Take those techCity funds, and rent out corrotated iron sheds in country lanes all over the land, and hand them to young idiots with an idea.

You may think that everyone outside the M25 has straw in their hair but things are not quite that bad, I have running water and an inside toilet at my house.
Indeed. And that totally sucks. Something needs to be done so that Internet Archive doesn't have to retroactively apply robots.txt or deletion requests (sans criminally illegal content).
You clearly never run your company's mail server. It needs regular attention, and 1 hour is not enough to jump in.
I have the same issue. I'm particularly partial to this edition:

https://github.com/unixcharles/acme-client
"You can get certificates for $10/year nowadays."

As a service to the community, could you name some places where you can do that?
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You can't do anything in case of an hardware backdoor but software backdoors are more likely than hw ones and you can prevent them using a trusted custom ROM.
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I really like using a calendar for this. I use Google Calendar and iCloud in Sunrise, on my MacBook, iPhone, and iPad.

Events get a title that provide the project. They then get more detailed in the description. I also have a Google Apps Script that pulls this information into a spreadsheet so it's easy for me to report on my time.

What I like about this system is that it's pretty universal, fits into my current workflow, and it's flexible. Every platform has a calendar app, I don't have to do anything fancy to get my time tracker up and running on a new device. I'm already using my calendar to tell me what things I'm doing today, now I'm also using it to tell me what I did yesterday. Changing dates, times, and descriptions is easy, you just edit a calendar event, you can even do it on the train home when you realise that you've forgotten to update.
Also it doesn't support HTML5.
Ya buy and hold is the way to go in real life.
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In practice, there is pretty much zero chance you'd have any problems with Google. But I support your stance as a general rule - an employee should not force you to enter into personal commitments as a part of the job.
3) What about all the things you don't want found? Old contracts, xgirlfriend notes, company transcripts, etc. Welp, I hope you remembered to encrypt your disks, well, that would mess up 1) & 2). Whatever.

Well you're dead so how does that matter? :D
At one point I "inherited" an email system that had ~120 different domains hundreds of servers worldwide and pretty much every email program known (including Lotus Notes) - migrating that to one email system while keeping the whole thing running was no fun at all - largely as nobody cares that much about email until it doesn't work then they get very upset and shouty.
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Very interesting, the silicon equivalent is a power saving measure, the brain seems to have other uses for local reduction of activity.
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The end result is, you need to invest significant amount of time and know-how into setting it up and then even more for maintenance if you want your e-mails to be ever read by anyone. Because spam is really god damn annoying.
Outlook.com discarded his e-mails completely. The corporate systems bounced it. You can't train the system that rejects the e-mails completely. There's nothing where "not spam" can be clicked.
Running a mail server isn't a black art. With projects like sovereign (on github), it's even easier.

Companies and people throw away their privacy so lightly - it shows a puzzling negligence.

The internet is at its strongest when it's decentralized. Stop using proprietary services when decentralized alternatives are readily available!

PS: I think Hillary Clinton did the right thing by running her own mail server, she shouldn't have used it for classified documents (if she did), however.