skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much better, but they're still arguing that somehow, non-EV certificates with identity validation are more valuable than DV certificates because users are going to look up the certificate details.

> We think that validation of a certificate’s owner is an important point that needs to be highlighted and discussed. Recent developments in SSL automation are fantastic from a technical point of view, however, consumers need to be educated on this new security paradigm and the appropriate signals to look for when making a security determination. Looking for ‘https’ and a lock in the browser bar, the traditional indicators that have been messaged as reliable, may not be so reliable anymore when it comes to the consumer definition of security.

This is laughable. It's been hard enough to get users to check for the presence of a security indicator at all. Most don't even know the difference between DV and EV, and EV certificates do have a strong visual indicator. OV certificates don't have any, except

Hell, I might not realize in time that my online banking session only has a DV certificate today instead of EV and I'm a professional.

Sure, I sometimes check which CA a particular site is using, out of curiosity. But no normal user is ever going to do that on a regular basis.

> Additionally, any time we receive a report of abusive activity and/or fraud involving a certificate, Namecheap works with CA’s to investigate the reported sites, and CA’s often take quick action to revoke site certificates as a result. This third-party revocation capability is important; it provides an additional layer of post-issuance protection.

Soo... How does that protect me as a Namecheap customer? Buying from Namecheap doesn't mean that an attacker couldn't request a Let's Encrypt certificate anyway, unless you use cert pinning and you can do that with free certificates. There are some enterprise use cases where you'd just pin the CA instead of single certs, but those only matter at scale.

Namecheap is right about OV certificates being more trustworthy than DV ones, but the thing is - it doesn't really matter.

> Additionally, given recent developments, we strongly believe that additional education is required on the correct signals for consumers to use when making a security determination; browsers must necessarily shoulder some of this responsibility,

Like.... EV certificates? C'mon, browser vendors aren't going to add another security indicator just to protect your revenue.
I wasn't aware that there was a "Steve Jobs era".
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I agree that type hints are basically just "machine-readable documentation" (and human-readable as well!).

I still think that machine-readable documentation can be immensely useful when combined with a static code analysis tool. Not as useful as "real" static types would be, but useful nonetheless.

It is the exact same idea as Microsoft's SAL annotations for C/C++ - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182032.aspx, or Java's @NonNull, @ReadOnly, etc. annotations.
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Yes, well, we could talk about frequentist vs bayesian statistics, but that's hardly the point of the article.

That is what a p-value means, feasibility aside. There are also more intuitive ways to think about it, "false-positive rate" being one.
I doubt that the Apple II was really the first computer to use a switching-mode power supply, but linear supplies were pretty common among hobby computers back then. The Commodore 64 had one, for instance.

None that I've heard of. And when Acorn wanted to put a switched PSU into the BBC Micro four years after the Apple II debuted, apparently switched PSUs were still novel enough that the BBC engineers didn't trust them (they thought that there might be health and safety issues!) and insisted on linear supplies on early models.
Apple's own charger follows safety standards. It might blow up, but it won't take your laptop with it.
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Is that really the best you can do?

> Fucking demolished

Perfectly appropriate informal language that means "You won the argument convincingly"

> It's sad that a bunch of raving lunatic SJWs can have this effect. Useless self-absorbed maniacs with no purpose in life but to pester those that have.

Many SJWs are, in fact, saving lunatics who have no purpose in life but to heckle and protest everything

> Fuck that piece of shit

Very common language when talking about public figures --- and I'd be willing to bet you used similar language about Bush, or Cameron, or Harper, or anyone else on the wrong side.

You're demonstrating exactly the kind of militarized hypersensitivity and craven hypocrisy that's turned colleges (and increasingly, workplaces) into zones for political indoctrination.
There are plenty of people that don't pay for a gym or a sports club. (or phone, I guess, if it's an Obamaphone).
This example is still misleading because you have selected a special case where the frequencies are exactly equal. In any other case the p value will depend on the sample size.
Most citizens never chose to join the country 'club', so there is no moral justification for a membership fee. If I created a club, defined territorial limits (which happen to include your house), and charged you a fee, would you feel obligated to pay? If I asserted that I was giving you a number of benefits, would your obligation increase? If I employed force to extract the fee from you, would that be legitimate? You might argue that the state is entitled to do these things, but what would give them this authority?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Autho...
I regret not downloading the source code while it was available.
Revised: "Dude, you're getting some MITM action!"
I am convinced that the only thing that approaches the designed security level of an operating system is to buy a machine, completely wipe it and install your own paid for copy.

It appears that hardware vendors cannot make enough money merely selling hardware, and so they sell access, data and advertising to third parties (at least Superfish was in that area).

Being able to mod the software on your car is (I think) recently allowed (by the Librarian of Congress?). But it can be taken away at any revisiting event. I can see the day coming when it will be illegal to wipe a machine, because circumventing.
In that scenario, it should be doable from Twitter not to have new accounts to have the ability to @ at some other account for the first 24 hours after creation or something and maybe after 24 hours to be able to @ at someone the new account must have at least 5 follower which in turn have at least 5 followers or something. Maybe not full-proof but it will weed out quite a bit of new accounts purely created for trolling.

I'm sure Twitter themselves should be able to come up with a more effective method but it seems they simply don't want to...
You can't know that. You can't know that there haven't been house fires caused by a charger, for example.

Here's a recent house fire that killed five people, started by a phone charger.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/10/phone-charger-started-fire-tha...
>On eBay

>say genuine

Having been an eBay buyer/seller for a long time, I would put way less stock in someone on eBay saying a product is "genuine" than you appear to be.
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I lost my copy. Regrets here, too. Minix 3 is fortunately coming along nicely and already resilient against driver faults.
100% agree.. and just as important as ease of starting: ease of finishing. make all of your tests / linters / etc. runnable via a simple npm run.

there's overhead in setting this up, but i can remember several times where i have pulled the code down, made my changes, and gave up when trying to figure out how the maintainer wants my code formatted / tested.
I've had the same problem. That being said, I've never had a pair of headphones that didn't short out, so maybe I'm just not good to my cables.
What exactly is your argument?

If you have strong views, you can express them in private, or you can head an organization that is dedicated to/aligned with those views.

Freedom to say whatever you want, whenever is not justice either.
> I had an ex co-worker who confided in me that he doesn't like gay people. I was very happy that he couldn't say that in public.

He can still talk about it when he's around other like-minded people though. By not being able to say it in public, isn't he basically ensuring that he'll never have a conversation with someone with a dissenting opinion and never be forced to think through it? These things just reinforce his attitude probably.
I doubt that short circuits have never killed anyone. That's not the only way a charger could kill you: DanBC points out the risk of fire, which is also a possibility.
Ask HN: Alternative to Heroku that doesn't enforce 12-factor
Is there a PaaS that is as easy to scale as Heroku but does not enforce 12-factor?

I believe docker has changed some of the things and there is less need to enforce 12-factor for a heroku-like PaaS to work?
When disagreeing with a particular popular liberal thought is so taboo, the people who want to vocalize their dissent will find strange bedfellows. In this case the unabashedly misogynistic.

Without carefully measured responses, the larger moment will steamroll the dissent with guilt by association (the last many years) until it becomes unavoidable (the last year-ish?) when the ideas are presented in non-hitpeices by The Atlantic and Vox.
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The problem is the market at the moment is terrible.

When buy genuine Apple or Samsung you know the quality is good. But when you pay something closer to what it should cost, who knows what you're getting? Could be a decent charger, could be heavily marked up Chinese junk.
I don't? I even use group policy to disable Windows Defender. Then I just apply Windows updates as they come out.

Sorry, but it's hard to give meaningful advice without more details. What threats are you hoping to protect against? Is it for your own machine, or someone else's? How experienced and cautious is the user?
I just logged into my all-but-abandoned yahoo account's webmail in Chrome with Ghostery set to block all, then in Chrome again but with AdBlock at default settings (and Ghostery disabled), then in Safari with uBlock (my default) and none of the sessions prevented me from seeing my mail. In fact, Ghostery and AdBlock in Chrome still displayed a Yahoo sponsored ad at the top of the list of unread messages much like GMail's top-ad. uBlock did not show that Ad.

I call false on this claim, but the sample size here is beyond insufficient to draw a wide conclusion.
This is basically true. A lot of what's going on is a result only of the new ubiquity of recording devices.

After all, the "Yale problem" refers mainly to a short confrontation where an immature student yelled at an administrator over something stupid. That's never been exactly unheard of at any college, the only difference is that it got captured on video and spread around the country.
I suspect you missed the parent comment before it got flagged.
Color me skeptical, but I'm skeptical. We have a woman who's confabulating. She's just very good at it.
No no no. A p-value cannot tell you the probability a coin is fair. This is exactly the misconception that makes p-values a bad tool.

Suppose I have a coin and flip HHHHH. Can you tell me the probability the coin is fair? No, it's fundamentally unknowable. We can say that a fair coin would have a 3% chance of flipping HHHHH (the p-value), but we can't say with what probability our coin is fair.
It is strange to me that the SJW-callers seem to be the most vocal and active group trying to bend speech and criticism to their own idea of "right".
All you white men are so upset that you can't offend people anymore without being told to fuck off. Boo hoo.
"The $160 billion deal to combine Pfizer and Allergan, the maker of Botox, does not appear to be illegal. But it should be. This merger is a tax-dodging maneuver that enriches shareholders and executives while shortchanging the public and robbing the Treasury of money."

Wow. The Wall Street Journal editorial board sounds like Bernie Sanders. If the WSJ is writing editorials like that, cracking down on offshore tax avoidance is no longer acceptable to the business community. This is forward progress.
Because if you choose not to pay for your country club, the country club doesn't bust your door down, shoot your dog, taze you, and throw you in jail until you do pay.
Except this is a NYT editorial, not WSJ.
I can sympathize with someone distressed that their tax dollars get used in ways they may not agree with, voting ostensibly is a measure to somewhat ensure your interests in taxes are represented (without getting into an endlessly caveat-laden debate about the virtues of democratic societies).

But I think, personally my level of sympathizing with that incredulity ends with the understanding that taxes are signatures on a social contract and taxes aren't a zero-sum affair. I fully understand that my taxes might go to fund a war or might go into the landing gear of a bomber plane or a bomb itself. I get that.

I wish I had the answers on how to get this through the minds of other voters "Yes, your tax money might be spent on x, it also might be spent on y. If you want to see more money going into y, vote accordingly, but remember you exist in a society with more than one viewpoint so someone 500 miles away might vote for x. Thems the breaks".

As to your question of why people refuse to pay their country's membership fees...the cynic in me wants to blame ideological dogmatism that perpetuates "my party good, your party bad" and limits the scope of understanding a fuller picture of what being in a diverse society actually looks like (i.e. people value things differently than you)
I view HN as a forum for professionals so I don't make comments that could negatively impact my professional life here. In that way I think self censure is fine. If you don't agree with my assessment thats fine as well of course.

Of course most of the sparse comments I make here are dumb jokes...
I do. It has to do with value, not with price. Anything with a high price, whether it's a good or a service, has a negotiable price tag. Not so much with tax.

Say I make $25k a year, and I pay $5k in tax. I'm probably getting that back in value (health insurance, roads, safety, etc).

Now say I make $100k a year. I'd probably be paying $30-45k a year in tax (depending on the country). This is getting to the point where you're no longer getting enough value for your $/€.

Third option, say you make $1M a year. On average, you now need to pay $400-500k a year to the treasury of your country in tax. No way you're getting that in value. Alternative: you structure things through a tax friendly jurisdiction, and at the end of the road you only have to pay $150k instead of $400k, legally.

Honestly, why would I pay $400k in tax if I can pay $150k? Tax aside, I'm obviously still spending money in the country where I live (-> creating income for businesses, increasing the taxable base of those businesses, who in turn will pay full corporate tax).
Wrap it and unwrap it multiple times per day. Simply having two and keeping one at the office and one at home will 4X the lifespan of your charger, since you aren't wrapping it daily.

I also Sugru mine like this on both ends of the cable: http://d1u2s20mo6at4b.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/appl...

I'm considering making a mold so the Sugru looks nice when done and selling robustified chargers on Shopify. I already have a shipping business (MonthlyBoxer.com) so that part is easy. Thinking perhaps about offering a discount for returning the broken charger to us for refurbishing, so we can offer both new and refurb chargers.

Anecdotally the Sugru doubles the life of the charger cables (and makes your charger much more identifiable). I'd need to charge $99 to make it work, but it's fairly cheap to throw together a site and reply to the myriad forum posts saying "where can I buy a better Macbook charger" with a link to gauge interest.
Pretty sure Dart has it's own VM. It just also happens to compile to Javascript.
I do hope rents start falling. In this economic environment of prolonged super low interest rates we shouldn't have shortage of housing.
I guess that's something I don't grok. How are his personal beliefs some reason to not work at Mozilla? He is not Mozilla. Do you refuse to work for companies where someone has differing opinions? You must not work then. Now, if he was using his position to proselytize to his fellow Mozilla employees, then I could see the point. But he wasn't.
This man's experience and attitude towards life is amazing. Very inspiring. Props to him. 44 years is ridiculous amount of time for an assault when others are getting away with a few years for an actual murder or slavery.

Don't prisons have common areas with TVs, radios, or magazines? It worries me that inmates don't have access to basic development as a human/society.
I don't think legally but more politically and PR wise. There a difference between firing someone for making donations to pro-X groups and firing someone for being X. In this hypothetical scenario, Eich would have to prove he was fired for being gay instead of for making a public donation that support a group and leads to potential blowback against the company. It's bad either way. Mozilla had a no win situation here. They got bad PR from both sides.
In case you missed the flagged comment, my case was with the way that comment was presented, in which the parent commenter's request was dismissed as political correctness without any consideration to context. Therefore, trivializing.
Leaving a loop before wrapping the small end largely fixes the problem with the cables. Like so [1]. Though I shouldn't have to do it the first place.

1: http://www.tested.com/tech/5480-how-to-properly-coil-a-macbo...
I wish it would. I'm Canadian and want better weather Vancouver is basically the only place for it. But I wouldn't even try at the state of the market.
While I agree with most of the article, the author tries to politicize it at points, which I think is a mistake. This is not an issue of liberals trying to silence opposition, indeed when we see the most vehement efforts at shaming differing views the language is not ideological but personal: "X was hurtful" "He/she felt threatened".

I'm a true blue leftist not long out of a famously liberal liberal university and I would have raised my hands on the eggshells questions. I vividly recall a student proposing a test on candidates' general positions at polls and being literally shouted down before he could finish speaking. Despite its ugly history in the US it's not of liberals vs conservatives, at least not in the way we use those terms in the US.

We have a problem with limiting discourse in schools but trying to shoehorn it into the usual political framework frankly alienates those of us in the left who are having to choose between apologizing for zealots on our side of the spectrum or aligning with groups that seem to inevitably take on repulsive undertones of intolerance and a whole other host of positions that have nothing to do with our own beyond being marginalized by the same extremely vocal group.
None of these tech-focused innovators ever mention their plan to counter the incumbents most potent weapon: lobbyists. The same way they dodged liability in ACH, etc issues all these years is the same way they'll likely counter startups.

Alternatively, they can just buy up the best-of-breed, patent their technologies, and use that to force costs up. So many ways they can play it. And they're good at eliminating threats to their profitable, predictable, status quo.
>You might argue that the state is entitled to do these things, but what would give them this authority?[1]

In the case of the United States, doesn't the Sixteenth Amendment give the State (meaning government, the entity, not State as in Utah specifically) this authority?
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personally I wouldn't, but that's because I can get the news via 1000 other sites for free. I freely admit it's not fair, but I'm not sure what the answer is
I forget where I heard this but one reason I heard was to discourage the posting of old pictures since chances are that pictures on your computer are older than those on your phone. When you use the app, you're most likely uploading pictures you recently took.
Well yes, they're learning by example. People are getting fired or ostracised by mobs on sites like Twitter based on things like this. It's an unfortunate pattern where instead of countering arguments or having a debate, a lot of people (especially in these SJW groups) tend to try and destroy someone's livelihood instead.

And because a lot of companies seem to care more about their 'reputation' then any sort of principles, you end up in a situation where people are too scared to talk out in case a social media mob destroys their life.
This is a very common, but dangerously wrong, interpretation of p-values. Others in this thread have expressed the same misconception, see the paper linked here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628860
True, but what I'm trying to convey is that if someone just wants to generally understand what a p-value is from no knowledge, understanding how to read a specific number isn't important. At first, I wasn't even going to include a specific number, but I realized not having one would be confusing in its own way.

Looking at a specific p-value and understanding its significance is only useful once they're actually looking at a study. But first they just want to know how it's derived and what it's good for.
> "Schools that value freedom of thought should therefore actively seek out non-leftist faculty."

Any argument that can be made in favor of cultural diversity should necessarily extend to left-right diversity as well.

FWIW, as I stated earlier, Haidt is leftist. Perhaps less so now than 7-8 years ago, but he is indeed a leftist, but one who appreciates that non-leftists are not evil, but who have different gradients of right/wrong, and different associations with which to be entrenched.

If you want children to have freedom of thought, then you should try to accurately present a range of ideas to students wherever possible. Students learn that 2+2=4, at least in some small part, because teachers say that it does. They later learn how and why 2+2=4, which mitigates the need for teacher acceptance as canon, but regardless, they learn that teachers ideas are to be given weight at the least, and that their expressions, even not necessarily strictly academic ones, are right.

Would you find fault with your children's education if every teacher were a Rush Limbaugh clone, or would you prefer them be exposed to a variety of thoughts and given the tools and knowledge to inform themselves and form their own viewpoints? If the answer is the latter, then you should reject the notion of your children being subscribed to any narrow ideological view, and adding non-leftist ideologies can only broaden it.

Edit: And yes, I would agree that if the comments are as you say they are, that is disappointing. I caught this article shortly after it was posted, and there weren't any other comments at the time, so I thankfully did not have those comments color my opinion of the article itself.
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Look into the gender paradox.
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My point was that humans can pass acquired knowledge to future generations. Given enough time, we can figure out things that would take too long for any one generation to understand on their own.