skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
even in the case of existing CA model+key pinning (at least before the key is pinned) you are still trusting the governments controlling the TLDs are not going to fuck you.

Id rather trust a handful of cctld nation states, than the nation states + everybody with access to a CA cert.

Also the idea that dnssec tld keys cannot be rotated is pure FUD, the root key signing keys themseves cannot, but they were extremely careful there.

If tampering is detected, do you really think TLD keys are going to be left alone, and not regenerated and the process extremely closely scrutinized?
You take the analogy too literal. The idea is that the actions of the attacker can be agreed to be negative, even if security is lax on the victim's side. You don't say "Welp, they were asking for it!" and call it a day.
Yep. The potentially unconventional people are homogenized the most by surveillance. It's hard to be creative when you don't have the secrecy to play around with ideas unseriously.
FB Purity does a pretty good job of this
Yes it does, from the nightly channel.
I did the same ;-)
I had an appointment at an ophthalmologist clinic. The same day confirmation came through Whatsapp. And this is a high profile clinic in the Paulista Avenue.
Whatsapp won. Most carriers doesn't even count data usage on the app!
This is an anti-fat, anti-meat rant guised as journalism with a noble savage and quasi-scientific tint.
"A step away" = still there. You're just being contrarian.

"Not so." Prove it. Linux still shows your communications on plaintext online by default. They have zero days in popular apps and kernel for Linux. They have attacks below firmware if you get clever with OS security. So, no, using Linux by itself doesn't change anything for bulk collection as proven by the Snowden leaks. It can be an improvement over Windows for targeted collection but will still be hit in default state. And most people hearing "Use Linux" aren't qualified to get it anywhere near bulletproof. So, they'll be easy targets.

Using any standard, mainstream system when nation-states are after you equals much higher chance of getting your box owned. It's just economics: they focus on attacks w/ highest ROI. Windows, Mac, and Linux kernels are highest ROI for desktop. People on an Amiga are probably less likely to get hacked by automated system despite inferior security just because of its obscurity and attackers' focus. It's why my old trick of BSD or UNIX on non-popular ISA's (eg Alpha) stopped so many attacks despite their apparent sophistication.
HN mods repeatedly say that they do not penalise people who post negative stuff about YC or YC companies.

But negative comments tend to get downvotes, (avoid gratuitous negativity) so people posting negative stuff should try to support it.
The second part reminds me of Schopenhauer's "Eristische Dialektik" (discourse stratagems):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right
Ford to join Google with fully autonomous driverless car in just 5 years
I wonder if this app will last longer Mozilla's last iOS effort.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2010/07/15/get-firefox-home-on...

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefo...
Are other browsers not allowed to implement their own rendering engines or is their some other reason that Chrome and Firefox both use the web view?
NATS: Open Source, High-Performance, Lightweight, Cloud Native Infrastructure
I am on the opposite. What my friends like actually come out to be what I am probably going to like and I quite enjoy most of those likes. There are a few spammy one or useless crap, but overall the situation has been much better compare to, say, 2-3 years ago.

I think the way Facebook and Twitter present stream is inconvenient for users who have a lot of friends or following a lot of people. It is simply a long linear scan and it literally takes me ~10 mins to review when I am on at the end of the day, I just want to see what's going on in everyone's world, ya know. I don't think gallery style will work either. I don't know, but linear scan is just not working.
>> Perhaps if cable were referred to as 'a curated platform of best video content, being streaming 24/7', the conception would change?

But the high quality content (when there is any) on cable ends up on extra channels that require you to pay more. IMHO TV was better OTA than on cable. You had a small number of local channels and they had to compete for eyeballs. Content was much better. Cable provides a way to shovel in every little crappy thing to satisfy everyone with something, and yet they still split out the best for extra money. Discovery channel split, even Disney split - which is why ratings dropped for Phinias and Ferb. Great show, but not enough pull for people to pay extra to get it, but they cancelled instead of moving it back.
> It's sad that a university is going black hat.
Yes, Healthy at Any Size, Paula Deen, etc.

Obesity as a result of poor diet is a point of pride for many people in the US.
The X-Gene 1 processor is made on 40nm process, so it is hardly competitive
> That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right?

In my humble opinion, yes, content is not king. But, it's more than just allowing people to put a face to the name. You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority. You have to agree with the taboos of the majority. There's a reason Michael O'Church and Zed Shaw aren't on that leaderboard, despite the quality of the content they posted.
What it describes as the behavior of shills and government agents, though, are also common behaviors on anonymous forums. It seems designed as flamebait for /x/ or Usenet, because if you take it seriously then inevitably you'll see conspiracies everywhere.
Unrelated, but the last time I criticized FB on HN there was a rabid backlash along the lines of "you can't just criticize the biggest name in the valley and expect to get away with it".

I suspect Facebook censors things for various despotic governments in the fashion that Google does (in order to comply with local guidelines would be the excuse used here). It's also possible that Facebook has deals with advertisers and blocks some content that may reflect poorly on them as well, but it's nebulous.
It has to use some form of Webkit. Mozilla is not allowed to use any renderer except for the ones Apple provides.
Yeah but you are using the wrong example since twitter is not a search engine.
Apps are doing much more to kill the open web than is any browser-based service.
To add to that, I would say that we can't actually remember smells all that well, if at all. Its a pretty big stretch to remember the smell of hamburger, yet we can all recognize it in an instant.

Without the ability to remember something specific, its hard to effectively define it so that others can know exactly what you mean.
Rebuild or Refactor?
My Java library, which does some of the things described in the article (DAWGS, perfect hashing, Levenshtein automata):

https://github.com/danieldk/dictomaton
Revenue Funded Startups
I am making a list of revenue funded startups. Onces that have taken no outside funding. With all the fuss about valuations and funding rounds, I think this would be a refreshing change / list.

I made one at:
https://github.com/jimmyislive/RevenueFunded

If you know of any, please send in a pull request.
Bitly Alternative Cred Rewards Social Sharers with Bitcoin
I would think that the budgets show that NASA doesn't quite have the funding.

https://leadingspace.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/budget1.png

What strikes me is the area under this curve: funding was very high in the space race, but total dollars spent from 1980-2010 are huge too even after inflation.

However, % of federal budget paints a grimmer picture on what the feds value. http://c85c7a.medialib.glogster.com/paulsoma/media/e8/e87670...
utorrent 2.2 doesn't have ads or spyware.
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I'm just a gamer. I play everything from Metal Gear Solid V on my PC to Final Fantasy Tactics on literally every platform its ever been released for to weird puzzle games [0] in my browser and on my Android phone.

[0] maybe calling some of these things games is an over aggrandizement. They're probably more "graphical amusements."
Hear, hear!

I hope this next bubble bursting will finally kill the misnomer "tech sector" or "tech industry". Call it the website industry or telecomputer sector or something. I mean seriously, I get to work with particle accelerators and software that does Monte Carlo calculations of the way radiation moves through the human body, but that's not "tech". Those guys building hypersonic aircraft, they aren't in "tech". Doctors crafting artificial organs, that's not "high tech" at all. No, some website/app that shows ads alongside cat pictures, that's what high tech is all about.

Sadly, I think the name will probably stick until the Next Big Thing comes along, and then telecomp will stop being "high tech" just like all the other high tech industries that don't have every wannabe on the planet trying to squeeze money out of them while the getting is good.

/rant
About Mozilla - I have an impression that they put their own interests (product popularity) somewhat above user interests.

Yet, as long as everything doesn't end up with some Mozilla-specific partnerships or highly proprietary (in a sense of uniqueness, not source code availability) solutions that are hard to use for anything but FirefoxOS, I think you're right.

Add/Edit: although - in reference to your original comment up the thread - I'd wont say "instead". I think it's what felt wrong to me and got me confused with what you had suggested.
burntsushi: thanks for the great write-up! Now I know where to point people who have an interest in this :) (besides Jan Daciuk's thesis).
Yes, there's a rule which prohibits anyone from implementing their own renderer.
Monads, who's afraid of Monads (and C++)?
It's not allowed. From Apple's guidelines:

> Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript
This is why I dumped cable in 2008.

"Hour long" American TV shows are some of the shortest in the world, and are filled with redundancy as viewers "forget" where they are in the show after a stack of ads every 6-8 minutes. This degrades the quality of the programming to the point it is not worth watching.

PBS programs are 50+ minutes long, and BBC are 58-59 minutes long. The local PBS station has been showing short
ads in the last 10 minute segment of the hour. That's acceptable and much better than interrupting the programming.

In the future Broadcasters will not need transmitters, and Cable TV won't exist. All programming will be delivered over the Internet. Instead of tuning to channel 10 on your TV, your TV connects to the channel 10 website and you can choose what you want to watch. If you pay extra, you can see shows without ads.
The link to the paper provide more detail. The basic idea is to use the FM radio RDS sub-channel as a sort of control plane or control channel. One of the things that differentiates LTE for example from 802.11 (WiFi) is that LTE has a control channel that coordinates the activities, when to transmit an on which channel via a control plane and hence achieves a higher spectral efficiency. Wifi uses CSMA/CD to sense and detect collisions. But sensing when they happen is not as good as just avoiding it all together. But to do that you need a control channel. The idea of using something as ubiquitous as the RDS sub-channel as a control channel has a lot of potential applications beyond Wifi, it could also be used for white space control to open up vast amounts of un-used spectrum potentially.
Home was always weird. It wasn't actually a browser but sitll tried to sync your bookmarks, opening up Safari to view them. It was an experimental project, and it was no surprise that it ended.

Firefox for iOS is not just an experimental project. It's part of our core products now.
Ask HN: Minimum legal setup to do software consulting
I am about to write code remotely for a couple of companies, and wondering what the simplest way to incorporate is. It would be a one-person thing, so no partners or investors. The only reason for incorporation is to expense buying hardware, but tell me if there are other perks. So LLC or SCorp or CCorp (I am in Colorado) ? I'm also unclear on the financial side. Do I set up a new bank account ? Can I use my personal credit cards to pay for company expenses ?

I appreciate any advice!
Here's the browser agent (iPhone 6, iOS 9.1):

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/1.1 Mobile/13B143 Safari/601.1.46

Default search is Yahoo
GNU and links like those consistently miss the point when the discussion is about security. OSS or FOSS don't matter as much as review by qualified, trusted party with trustworthy distribution. As explained here:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/friday_squid_...

Might explained why a few closed source products achieved high assurance security (B3/A1/EAL6/EAL7) that survived years of NSA pentesting while FOSS... see Snowden leaks. You can get those freedoms with proprietary models via contracts, esp with non-profits. Most just are about money though. Likewise, FOSS communities rarely deliver high-quality, maintained software and never deliver highly assured software.

So all this philosophical crap serves nobody if we're talking about making software trustworthy. For that, we need capable people building it while utilizing every security-enhancing method we know, trustworthy people reviewing it whether closed or open, ability to know you possess what was reviewed in that configuration, and continual maintenance esp of bugfixes. That's the baseline we need to push whether FOSS or a proprietary version of open-source.
Really? Facebook likely is a huge target for spam, and it's not unreasonable to think there would be false positives in an effective spam killer at scale.
I think that it shines as a "consider the following when assessing other forum users". Knowing the tricks of deception attunes you to people's witting or unwitting attempts to use them, which will improve your ability to form good arguments and also argue against ideas which you disagree with.
I'm not unfamiliar with Tor, and I would not be surprised to hear that the NSA, with all their resources, was able to pierce its anonymity.

I am very surprised that a couple of guys at a university could do so. That's definitely within the realm of attacks that Tor was supposed to be secure against.
Just like cable and CB radio, we need the government to reserve a section of the internet for non-commercial open access.
Wizard of Oz experiment
This might be new to you, but PC users that run linux have been dealing with this reality since 1996.

my first PC had a winmodem and an OPTi OPL-3SA sound card. traded the winmodem for a rockwell 33.6Kbps, and opted for a Yamaha sound card (because paying for OpenSound drivers was stupid, and the free trial gave you 30 minutes of working sound drivers).
An app that will allow you to save your spare change to help you finance trips
> I've been told from my Chinese friends they find our penchant for salads and raw food to be barbaric

I'm no expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that they need to cook their vegetables in China to make sure they are safe to eat. Tap water isn't generally potable there, or is that just in cities?
Now THAT's a clickbaitey title.
Is this some kind of hipster humble-bragging along the lines of "I play old games, so old, they could even run on the TVs build-in SoC and honestly, HONESTLY, do not understand why would anybody bother with anything newer!"?

The reason big game companies make hardware is exactly the same why the big non-game companies (Apple, Tesla, Boeing etc) make hardware - it fucking sells.
Spotify Turns Its Recommendation Engine to Concerts
Yep, I'll take a 3/4 acre lot and an attached 2-car garage in a low-crime area over city living any day of the week. And I know there are a lot of people who are really bothered by the fact that there are a lot of people like me. It's fun to watch city dwellers brood and obsess over the existence of suburbs.
I think that corporate PR constitutes a larger (maybe even the largest) source of deceit/propaganda like in the OP. It's no secret that on reddit there are a large corpus of Monsanto shills (people who sit around and respond to Monsanto-related topics to defuse critcicism).
Is there a reason neither Chrome, Safari, and now Firefox for iOS have a qrcode reader built in? It seems like to me that would be a no brainer. Is there something technical I'm missing?
When you think that Microsoft was accused of abusing its monopoly when they shipped IE with Windows. You cannot even install another true browser on iOS, just some sort of chrome around safari/Webkit.
Only the iOS webview is allowed to render web content.

Additionally only Apple's JavaScript engine is allowed to use a JIT compiler.

The only benefit is whatever extra features they might offer, like bookmark synchronization.
Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf]
As a comment on git setup. I've never once had a problem by using Github for windows, and then summarily completely ignoring the UI. It adds `git` to your PATH.
Facebook Restricts More Content in India Than Anywhere Else
No, not at all. Smell is the least synesthetically described sense.

Generally with smell we call a smell for exactly what produces that smell: "oak-y", "fecal", "flowery", "smokey" and so on.

That is profoundly less synesthetic than our descriptors for the other senses, which are almost always described in metaphor -- bright sounds, loud colors.

The very idea we have less smell words is nonsense. We just have less abstract smell words. Consider if we used crayola color names to describe the colors, would that mean we had less color words because we're more specific with our language?
Of note, Firefox accounts are not secure, because one way to log in using them relies on JavaScript served by Mozilla, which means that one's password (which is used to encrypt the keys encrypting all 'secure' data) is potentially exposed to Mozilla.

I can't recommend using a Firefox account to store any private information, to include passwords and browsing history.
In my mind, these correspond with a sign (good/bad) and magnitude, but leave out the direction of the vector. For example, we frequently say that "my dog came home reeking OF [skunk, deer poop, ...]". So "reeking" is communicating high intensity of something unpleasant, and we leave it to the "of" to specify what that strong unpleasant smell is.
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Graphite Software Releases a New Android ROM for Nexus 5
We used Intel DC drives exclusively until one of them mysteriously failed, thereafter we used Samsung 845DC for new builds. So far they've performed well.
Did you read the article? They're basically A/B testing their notifications and forms. It's nearly costless and they quickly scrap what doesn't work.
These projects are pretty interesting: "News from people like you." It seems like these kinds of apps further the isolation people develop from reading mostly articles recommended by like-minded friends.

I wonder if anyone is building an app that recommends articles that provide a variety of perspectives different from your own. "News from people who think differently than you do", or something like that.

But I think that's what newspapers are supposed to be.
Chrome on iOS embeds its own network stack, which it touts as being faster and more fully-featured than Safari’s.
Here's another explanation: every year the TV audience gets older [1]. Advertisers notoriously chase the coveted 18-49 demographic. Younger viewers are increasingly not watching traditional TV.

So, you can view Time Warner's move to cut ads in prime time as simply a way of raising prices by reducing supply (inventory).

As for cable companies shoving TV packages down customers throats, well that's easy to explain. The bargaining power a cable company has with media companies is directly proportional to how many TV subscribers they have. So every Internet-only customer a cable company has marginally raises the per-customer cost of TV.

This is also why Comcast wanted to merge with Time Warner. It's simply about reducing TV costs.

This business model really has to die.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/t...
NVidia gave me a Titan X for my learning experiments, and after all these years, I'm really excited about finish building a PC again.
What browser do you recommend then for real security?
nVidia's Tesla processors and high-end GPUs are really stellar. We recently bought a machine with a Tesla K20c with some colleagues and the speed-up for neural net training has been tremendous.

E.g. for some of my nets (NLP tasks) training time has gone from hours to 15-30 minutes. This is great when you are just experimenting with different approaches to a problem and want to iterate quickly.

It's also great that nVidia hasn't been sitting on their laurels and released a library (cuDNN) of NN primitives that nearly everyone has been rebasing their packages on.
This also has Hidden Space Apps available from the Google Play store ... create a hidden virtual phone on your Nexus 5
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=graphitesoftware&c=ap...
Bus-only lanes make a lot of sense in high traffic areas. The time has definitely come for this sort of thing in many California cities. They should put some on the 405 through the Sepulveda corridor in Los Angeles.
Savory metaphorically had its chance, but whiffed it due to decades of being left out of lists of all taste buds produced by people in the west that listed sweet/sour/bitter/salty. This is the same set of lists that also showed the now-discredited "zones" of where each taste bud lives. Savory also means more than just "the flavor detected by the taste buds in question". For all I know "umami" means more things in Japanese too, but in English the new foreign import word had a chance to get nailed to the exact right concept with no previous baggage, so it won out in this narrow usage. Note it gets used nowhere else, while savory continues to lead the rich, complicated life of a "full" English word.
By that logic all cloud synced password managers are insecure. They could, after all, just update the software and steal your password(s).

JavaScript or not, you either trust the browser vendor, or you do not. If you do not then you shouldn't be using them regardless of the technologic stack.
In the event that DNSSEC is adopted, what would the best course of action be to protect sites?
25 years for this seems a bit harsh.