skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two caveats with Cloudflare, not really criticisms, more just that this is the deal:

First, it's a shared certificate (several hundred other domains will share the cert with you). This has occasionally led to some awkwardness and misunderstanding in the non-tech world [1] and a few times has led to a site being blocked as "porn/inappropriate" by content filters as it gets identified with other sites.

Second, in many cases it's not full browser to server encryption.

Browser --(SSL)--> Cloudflare --(Not SSL)--> Server

1 - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/ted-cr...
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In my experience, when layoff times came around, the managers would get rid of those they didn't want any more, and it was always the deadwood, not the high performers. I infer they viewed the deadwood as much more of a threat.
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What's your project mwpmaybe? I'd love to see it.

As far as my project, its getting a little traction with my IG feed (instagram.com/artjutsu_lightbox). That said, there's more improvement that needs to be done on the main site to really see if this can be successful (artjutsu.com).

I believe it will, but man is life ever-so-hard now with all these certs I need for my day job. Studying for those has taken all of my free time unfortunately.
You don't have bitcoin if you just have a balance in Coinbase, so this debit card really has no connection to Bitcoin at all. No transactions will reach the blockchain when you use this card.
The mtgox débâcle springs to mind.

EDIT: My point is that a financial service is more than just the protocols used. Actually the protocols are the least important thing to the average customer. The more important thing is trust. I trust that my money in the bank will stay there and that transactions made using my bank will go to the person I say they should. Part of the reason for my trust is in the regulation around the banking industry. E.g. the savings guarantee here in the UK(/EU?). The bitcoin industry (not the protocol but the services around it) have yet to provide me that level of trust coupled with comparative ease of use.
Quixote did actually win some fights too. FSVO winning.
" in twenty-four States "
I must say, none of what you describe sounds even remotely interesting. It's like one of those articles from the early 90s prognosticating on all the cool stuff the internet would enable, and getting it all terribly wrong. Virtual reality experiences between passengers? Pass.

In-flight internet gets used for exactly the same stuff as internet anywhere else. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but that's what you're going to enable, not these weird new things.
Can't help but notice that NY is not in that list. Oh well.
For some things, yes. But there are a lot of potentially tricksy issues in doing that.

Imagine a queueing library, for instance. You push something onto a queue created with library A, and then you want to read from library B (A and B are different version of the same library). Just about anything could happen (depending on how the library/language are implemented). You might get an error due to library B reading a data structure formatted for library A. Or you might get nothing back, because library B is checking for the queue in its own registry, while it exists in library A's. Etc.

If there is no library-dependent state between calls, or the calls are not being mixed between libraries, you can totally do that, though. A JSON serialization library can totally be supported in that manner, for instance. The queueing library example, if it's only being used to support other libraries or separate functionalities, such that you never have to push onto a queue in library A, and expect to be able to pop it off from a queue in library B, would work, too. But in that latter case, that's not something the library writer can guarantee, it's all about your own usage. So there's a lot of potential issues.
I don't deal with international finance but I do deal with payments within the US and I have to say I really disagree with you on KYC. Our KYC process absolutely prevents fraud from happening, and because we are liable for any transactions we process I can't imagine operating without it.
I originally submitted this link - http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/us-air-force-... - before I noticed that the Daily Mail was the original source.

It's a pity HN doesn't support multiple URLs for the same story.
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200 sq ft is considered small in Europe but still on a scale that IKEA has an example flat in that size.

You're not going to want to live there forever as your main property, but then they might discover the concept of a pied a terre...
Phased array antenna and some feedback system, so that I can track the device?

Anyway, you obviously have something particular in mind; could you give an example of a device, for which an omnidirectional wireless solution would make sense, factoring in inefficiencies?

The only similar-sounding problem I'm familiar with are long-lived devices mounted underwater or otherwise mounted inside a structure. I've seen wireless power via inductive coupling being used to power such devices, because both the device and battery pack can be sealed off from the environment during manufacturing, and replacing the latter doesn't require any disassembly.
Our experiments might support this.
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You should try FreeBSD (2014)
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I think there is already no excuse to not use HTTPs at this moment, no?
> but is only available to US residents

Who live in one of 24 states. New Yorkers need not apply.
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It can be outlawed and as a result prevent access to encryption for a large part of the population. Then only technically capable people and motivated criminals would be in a position to use it. The govt would then conflate all encryption with terrorism. If you were found with encrypted communications you would be compelled to give up the key or face prosecution as a terrorist. In front of a jury with no knowledge of encryption other than what they heard on Fox news would guarantee a long sentence or the usual tactic of forcing you to take a plea regardless of your guilt.
No idea about credibility of the sources used, but I stumbled over this: http://revolution-news.com/us-government-funds-favorite-nsa-...

edit: atm. 111 points and I love that. Wish pg could fix my karma, I really like even numbers and I feel that the karma crave is addictive..

btw. I agree with you. It's clever and the tools intelligence services have created for these purposes are fascinating
~Desperation and learned helplessness is good! It's part of the plan!~

~I was thinking the other day, and I think I figured out the government's plan for ending terrorism. (Yes, I was wearing my foil hat. Thank you for asking.)~

~What is the goal of terrorism? To make people afraid.~

~How do you end terrorism? Option 1 is to stop the things that make people afraid from happening. But there is an option 2. You can just stop people from being afraid.~

~So who is not afraid of terrorism? Who doesn't even feel a twinge of anxiety about being attacked by terrorists? That's right--terrorists.~

~To stop terrorism, all we have to do is turn everybody into terrorists. Now we don't know how to actually turn an ordinary person into a terrorist, even though the federal TLAs are doing research experiments, but we do know how to treat everyone like they already are terrorists. Do it long enough, and people will eventually get the hint.~

~So it all makes sense now. They want everyone to become a terrorist, so that nobody will be afraid of terrorists, which will destroy terrorism utterly, and so nobody can ever be a terrorist again. Brilliant!~

~I'm sure the EFF means well, but if we stop treating everyone like terrorists, the terrorists win.~
If impractical to redistribute free software, it's not free software in practice
> NO. You are misunderstanding my point. If we had no such high tech weapons (jets, drones, tanks), we'd be reduced to maintaining large armies, requiring service of fit males.

The US has a fleet of drones and still maintains a large army.
And it'll happen frequently, because if you're just trying to test out `ok = foo()` and you're not sure if it'll work, then you've got to write four lines of awful boilerplate and go read an API reference just to get it to compile. Checked exceptions are supposed to encourage correctness, but there's no fudge room for playing around, so they are very not fun.

As an aside, I once tried using a crypto library to do something fairly simple (encrypt a file I'm writing to disk), and I had to handle a whole stack of exceptions that I had no clue how to handle. So what can you do? You should be able to write code that provides sensible default behavior, but checked exceptions make you work to just get that behavior, which is not how default behavior is supposed to work.
Security apparatus position in a nutshell:

"If you give up your freedoms, we'll protect you next time."

Great, thanks. Pricks.
>to get blackmail material on 100% of people

Nonsense.
And complimentary, 18 ways to tie your shoelaces: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm, Ian's Shoelace Site.
Any idea why only 24 states? Is coinbase following FINCEN regulations by filing as a money transmitter in each eligible state?
> employment is usually a deal that is unfair and weighted heavily towards the employer

I agree with most of your comment, but the sentence above is a bit of a fallacy. Sure, the employer isn't paying you the whole of the value you generate, but it works the same in reverse - you're getting paid much more than you would be if you were working on your own.

Math:

X = what you can produce on your own
Y = what your employer can produce without you
Z = what you and your employer can produce together

employment only makes sense if Z > X + Y. In that case, your split of Z is > X, and the employer's split of Z is > Y.
The author seems a bit focused on trolls and general obnoxiousness, but for me the real problem with such widespread, constant communication is something else. That lends itself to two of the most dominant features of current human culture: the suffocating smallness (or, more properly, sameness) with which it imbues our world, leaving the probably accurate sense that there's nowhere to run to or hide if you don't like what you see, and the vicious "outrage cycle" that reinforces a particular and very narrow ideology. If you don't happen to agree with that ideology, and there's nowhere you could go instead that's any different (and certainly not any that's better), what's left to you?

It's not entirely fair to blame "the Internet" for this; as Tom Standage has described, earlier forms of communication started these trends. But it really hasn't been until the last 30 or 40 years that communication has been both universal and instantaneous, and those attributes are essential to the kind of feedback loop that creates what we have now. And the worst part of it is that checking out of it yourself doesn't help. The author of this article is absolutely correct on one thing at least: the abandonment will have to occur en masse to make much of a difference.
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There's a shift happening in the browser space as well to "downgrade" the UI for DV certs, much less green locks and bars and more gray and no red security warnings.

We're entering a world where every site has a DV cert (most likely for free with registering a domain) but that all of the things for which we now consider "needing SSL" will require an EV cert.
what you can see about rails and ruby when we have javascript. I mean, on js, every 2 weeks we have new frameworks, new libraries. And don;t forget go :)
Does anyone know who the two CAs this post mentions are?
Well, life is certainly more interesting when you love what you excel at.
I've actually convinced my 13 year old niece and 11 year old nephew to learn to code. I know there are a lot of financial benefits to doing so, but I'm trying my best to have them focus on just making things that solves some of their problems.

I have much younger nieces, perhaps this can be a little Xmas gift for them.
HEPA stands for "high-efficiency particulate arrestance", not "high-energy particulate arresting"
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studying is probably one of the easier tasks for an illegal immigrant.

states don't want to have much illiterate and skilless people around and don't want to block those who want to get educated so usually they have all kind of exemptions to enable people get education. also, because the education on the planet is not uniform things like maths tests can go long way instead of paper work.
Get the drone's ID (assuming there's such a thing) and report it to the police.
I don't think it is common, unless you work with pretty bad code base. You simply don't ignore errors like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8 (wait 30 seconds)
They can't "steal" your electricity. The output from the Wi-Fi is constant, and range limited. If they are getting any power from your signal, its power that you'd be casting off outside your house anyways. Net change in power would be 0.
That's because (smart)phones are portable general-purpose computers. I see two ways of reducing power use.

1) Go back to small, low-power screens and physical keypads for data input.

2) Heavily optimize the stack. You could put less power-hungry parts in a smartphone, but then it wouldn't boot up. Even top phones have trouble keeping up with software bloat, being somewhat-usable when you buy them, and barely-usable after a year or two. And let's not talk about the cheap phones, which have barely enough power to run the OS.
It's been some time I don't use OSX on non-HFS+ filesystems (or case-sensitive HFS+). Would anyone with such experience like to comment?
> Never be really, really good at something that your don't want to do. Otherwise people will keep asking you to do it.

This is how I was able to avoid getting roped into the IT help desk role. I did that job for a year at another company, I'm really good at it. But when someone comes around looking for help and the guy they hired isn't there, I do not offer to help. No way am I going back to that, I didn't develop Rails skills for nothing.
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I can get the same "privacy" and not be subject to arbitrary Bitcoin/Dollar price fluctuations by simply buying Visa debit "gift cards" for cash.
What's the terminal velocity and mass of one of these things? I'd like to see the math on this for the actual force such a thing would induce.
It won't stop encryption but it does matter because it has the potential to stifle speech and cause serious harm to the innocent.
it's difficult to be self-aware about it

I don't have any difficulties myself with being self-aware about it at all, on the contrary. The major difficulty for me is using that knowledge to do something with it. Not sure what is worse: being depressed, or being depressed and knowing that you are and realizing all your thoughts are going downwards into the wrong spiral and not being able to do shit about it. Well, except hard exercise or meditation or long walks etc, but pure mindcontrol doesn't work :]
This. So much this. The actual work, while important, is of less importance than your manager. Yes, find interesting work, but prioritize them, and consider outright declining them, if the manager does not seem like someone you can work with and can trust to be dealt fairly by.
Personally, I'm looking forward to Backblaze's cloud storage, which is being advertised at $0.005/GB/month. Cheaper than glacier, without all of the transaction fees.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
Even smaller, I commend their ability to offer new services but it should make it clear that this is a very limited offer.
It's free, but not the same as what's described in the article. The article is talking about free certs you can use with your own servers.
I think you're correct. The cost for an SSL certificate is trivial for any legitimate company, and the processing overhead to encrypt every request hasn't been a concern for years.
True, I don't understand how setting up CloudFlare and getting a cert are the same. They are not.
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Pardon my lack of knowledge but wasn't the whole point of bitcoins being anonymous? How are you anonymous with a card connected to an account?

I'm not trolling I really don't see what I'm missing.
It wouldn't run 24/7. And the incandescent light ban was very specific, no reason to think devices like this would be instantly banned, and this theoretical worst-case device still no worse than an incandescent bulb.

See my other reply, I don't need anywhere near 1 watt average for my phone.

When I see a report from MIT of a 1 foot receiving coil running at 20% efficiency at 7 feet, I don't see what's unreasonable about a phone receiver beating 2%. I said at the start I wasn't talking about using undirected transmission.
Let's see: where is my 'x' (tools, keys, shoes, glasses etc), data acquisition (temp in any room in the house for instance), various scada applications that now require a large amount of wiring (alarm systems for instance) and so on. It'd be quite the wave of new technology. Imagine, nothing would ever be 'lost' again once you knew it was yours before.

The possibilities for use and abuse are just about endless.
> Encryption simply can't be stopped by governments.

They can try, and they can make your life hell for using it. It won't work, of course, but that has never stopped frightened people or those with an agenda.

This is why it is incredibly important that we not only use encryption pervasively, but that we also educate[1] the general public about encryption. Unless encryption is normalized into the popular culture, it will always be possible to harass "those troublemakers" that use encryption and the general public won't care. This crap will end only after people understand that "banning encryption" is as stupid as "banning envelopes/locks".

> This kind of thing doesn't matter.

Encryption doesn't protect you from traffic analysis. It is important to remember that so-called metadata is often more revealing[2] than the content, especially when you 0wn3d the backbone and can map[3] who everybody you talk to.

[1] specifically, we need to educate people to a similar level that people understand physical locks: "what is does" and "when/how it should be used" are key; the details can be left to professionals (i.e. like locksmiths).

[2] http://labs.rs/en/metadata/

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/world/how-the-nsa...
Did CF follow up after that?
I would love to read an updated version of this. The fundamentals won't have changed much. But the details are changing and Urlich went into a lot of detail in this doc.

Great Read.
Not quite on topic, but what the heck is with the bar graph at the bottom of the page?

https://certsimple.com/images/blog/compare.svg

The vertical axis isn't labeled and I can't tell what the bars are supposed to represent from the context? Is the vertical axis pain? Cost? Customer base?
because bitcoin!!!
Wow, on the order of 10 million dead - half the population. That's Hitler-level genocide right there.
> Think window break and door lock sensors, etc.

A fun tech I had in my hands once that I haven't seen being use anywhere is turning kinetic energy into power. I've played with a light switch that can generate enough energy from you just pressing them, that they can boot up an internal uC, a radio, and then send a signal. The device had a typical home-automation range of several meters. I've been told that there are versions mounted into window handles, etc.
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$120k in SF or 40k€ where I currently live get me both the same standard of living. I don't think comparing absolute wages/salaries has ever been meaningful.
I'm curious what the exchange rate looks like when purchasing stuff that's not in USD. If the conversion is the same as that of Bitcoin<->USD, then it would make this card super useful for people who travel a lot.

What I mean is, it'd be cool if the card would do:

- Bitcoin<->CAD
- Bitcoin<->EUR
- Bitcoin<->BHT
- Bitcoin<->HKD
- Bitcoin<->AUD

So that we wouldn't need to do:

- Bitcoin<->USD<->CAD
- Bitcoin<->USD<->EUR
- Bitcoin<->USD<->BHT
- Bitcoin<->USD<->HKD
- Bitcoin<->USD<->AUD
It's always going to be around in some form, it's a clbuttic problem.
By the same logic you could say if only I'd done X I'd earn an extra $15k, $20k or even $50k a year but would you have followed a path in life that was balanced and happy? Not every decision can be reduced to a number
so how does this relates to bitcoin?
It's not unnecessary, though. In Go, a string cannot be nil, as you know; it is initialized to the value of an empty string. That's not true in any other languages, and even the Go AWS library cannot use that as a signal of intent, because you may have intended to use an empty string.

Granted, I don't know if there are any calls where an empty string is an actual valid parameter. But it seems Amazon is erring on the side of explicitness here.

I agree that the AWS library isn't ergonomic. But Go is forcing their hand, in my opinion.
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As long as browsers don't start popping up scary warnings about submitting forms to a site that only has DV certs, I think it'll be fine.
Why? If laws are so complex that at any given time anyone is breaking at least one, then a surveillance dragnet gives you cause to indict anyone at any time.
As someone who first bought bitcoin at 8 USD, I'm quite enamored of the price fluctuations. Considering that it will be heading into the four and five digits relatively soon, I'm not sure this is a negative.
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> by mandating the abandonment of all online anonymity

So instead of "Troll 001", you have "John Smith" or any number of a million other common names shared among millions of people. When you're talking to folks who don't live near you, there's no real accountability.

Abandoning anonymity has another side effect - it makes the minorities with defining names easier to pick out and harass. Jessica, Abdul, Monique, Bo and Priyanka would love to have their identities immediately made available to the masses.
While I am not the OP (and support all of their agenda) - any organization that is payed to hold certain position becomes cynical because it is literally their job to spin any event into something that fits their agenda. It is the nature of the beast.
> absolutely prevents fraud from happening

I'm trying to find a generous reading for this. Perhaps, "sometimes reduces the amount of fraud that impacts customers"?
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> Just write your Java code without a try/catch block anywhere

You can't. I don't think you understand how checked exceptions work.
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What do you need it for? Civilian uses of this tool seem pretty limited. It might help you open a locked door, but at the expense of the door, whatever's behind it, and maybe even the entire building. A regular oxy-acetylene torch or a thermal lance are probably better tools for any sort of practical civilian application.
Sure, but don't for one second pretend its ever for the convenience of the customer or any of that sort of nonsense. It's very clearly for your bottom line and for the government's ability to track financial movement.
I uses static types and it compiles natively (via LLVM).