skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing, though. They work. It's far easier for a low to mid-tier bundleware company to build a basic browser extension that inserts ads or takes over the homepage/search engine using basic off-the-shelf components than it is for them to install a system-level networking component that intercepts and changes browser networking calls without breaking things. Google Chrome took a dual pronged approach to disallow all extensions except those in their online store an disallow third party changes to browser settings. So, bundleware can't easily install into Chrome. It can easily install into Firefox because you or anyone else on the PC can install whatever you want.

Just because this practice doesn't apply to or benefit you doesn't mean it doesn't apply to and benefit the majority of browser users. Remember, the majority of Firefox users don't even use extensions at all. Closing this hole would increase their security browser-wise.

Ironic Note: Google Chrome, while attempting to block bundleware from interfering with its own operation, is one of the most widely distributed bundleware apps. Installers that use dark patterns (tricking users to not notice they're installing a new default browser) from Oracle's Java to Adobe Flash to Avast to Antivir all are used to install Chrome onto systems (hopefully) without the user noticing.
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Since no one else has explicitly brought this up: https://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto (also see Matasano's "JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful", etc.). There is nothing that a service like this will protect you from that you don't already get while using TLS in just about every insecure/non-E2EE chat service.

If you're looking for actually secure communication that runs as a Web app, my startup Cyph (cyph.com) is the only option that exists. This is because we put in the time to build it correctly; the root page of our application is a permanently pinned (TOFU) bootstrap that validates/executes signed application packages, and the scheme to accomplish this was rigorously vetted in a 12-day audit.

Edits:

* Here's how it works: https://www.reddit.com/r/encryption/comments/4027ci/how_2_sp...

* Here's Cure53's audit report: http://cyph.team/cure53report
It might seem insane, but from the limited and prejudiced perspective of these Disney executives, it makes sense. They won't be Star Wars fans, or consumers of their own company's output in general. They'll be business people, who are probably privately ignorant or contemptuous of Star Wars and science fiction in general as an art form, and who think of it only as a franchise from which the maximum profit should be extracted.

Their conception of the Star Wars fanbase will be based on the worst cliches you can imagine — a homogenous mass of awkward, nerdy, unsophisticated adolescent white boys and young adults — and be informed by a crude and cynical view of marketing psychology. Basically, they have no intuition whatsoever for what Star Wars fans want or think, so will fill in the gap in their knowledge by assuming the very worst.

All the above leads the executives to believe that the nerdy white boys who are dumb enough love this Star Wars crap cannot and will not identify with any character except the one who most resembles themselves. A moody, caucasian man-child with a cool mask and superpowers? How could they not love him? Any objections about him being a rather unsympathetic villain will be waved away as so much noise. “After all, Vader was a villain or something, and we sell a shit-ton of merch with his face on it, right?”

To these same execs, the characters of Finn and Rey won't be viewed as anything other than a bone thrown to potential black and female fans. A way of expanding the franchise's appeal beyond its typical demographic. But they will still look at that homogenous mass of white nerds and say “These losers are the target of our marketing and merchandising efforts, and they will never identify with a female character, or buy merchandise containing one. We don't need to prove this, because we're top execs and our success demonstrates that our intuition is correct.”
Well, I'm not even a millionaire and I would very gladly sell my house to go to the space, even for a few minutes.

Best thing is: with that money, I can go twice!
it could be great to have a camera with no tripod and which one do not afraid to drop. Awesome!
I give author credit how to break down MVP process easy enough to execute fast. Folks startup isn't academia. Please do not discuss purity of this article against lean.
Yes, I'm claiming that it's not true now and that MWI, while it may not be captial-T Truth, is a concise and deterministic explanation of experimental results.
This scene from the movie "kaspar hauser"

https://youtu.be/ITq02n7y2fI?t=12

is clearly an homage to this picture on the right:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
It's synced to the Google servers, but the hashes are within the settings file itself. I'm unsure if the code is public, though, as it is not part of Chromium.

The downside is that an unaware user that prefers not to sync their stuff to Google and fastidiously backs up all their user settings in Windows is going to lose everything they have stored in Chrome except their bookmarks and passwords if their computer dies or they try to move to a new one.
I still read stuff, but it's usually when I'm in the "how" stage and focused on what I've written rather than just generally reading.
My code is on github with test harnesses for doing benchmarking on it. Yours is... some files on a hard drive that likely show something completely different than you think it does.

I'm sorry, but I don't have time to comment on this thread anymore.
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Once you understand that, you've accepted MWI.
I'm not sure if those are the meassures that guide the decision: Searching in linked lists is suboptimal (was it O(n)?), as is their cache performance. Sure, with small lists, that doesn;t matter, but how small is small enough?
I think "Humans of New York" http://www.humansofnewyork.com/
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That's not really the case in the US: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-113...

Gen Y is more than 1 quarter of the US population and outnumber the baby-boomers. We're the children of the baby boomers, hence the alternative name for Gen Y: 'echo boomers'.
Yeah, because if there's one thing we need, it's MORE systemd integration.

At this point, they should just rename it svchost.exe.
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If you really enjoy reading the WSJ, you could just pay for it, you know. Then no "hacks" are necessary.
I don't argue it makes sense, but Germany also got a few years of interest on those loans. Could they have gotten the same interest elsewhere for significantly less risk? I doubt it.

There also are claims Germany made lots of money on the crisis itself because it made it cheaper for them to borrow money (http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/08/10/study-germany-ma...)
Part of the EU rules is that it is a single market. However the Irish deal treats it as individual markets from the point of view of the Irish government and soobpy collects taxes on the Irish generated part.
> the scheme to accomplish this was rigorously vetted in a 12-day audit.

Vetted by whom? It would help build trust if there was a public report on the strength of your implementation available somewhere.
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Question: if i google search (from chrome url box) google shopping or google calculator or gmail should you just redirect me to it? i did each of these this week.

Also can we get a cookie or a max 5 posts or something for the recaptcha? i fill out the captcha 100x per day. im obviously a human and the ~30 messages per day i post on a single forum thread (one page page/url) per day are not really spam for as much as i read and post, i'm just chatting with someone. (it didnt figure out im human even though i solved it 100 times and am logged in?)

also having us type peoples addresses into the captcha is shady as fuck and i dont approve of it. especially when mitnick said what snowden said 20 years ago and the same crowd of downvoters that runs HN called him crazy.

also fuck TLS thats a certificate MITM preinstalled into SSH and HTTPS and IRC
As a fellow european, I share your pragmatic and non-alarmist views.
Does this solve the centralization problem of Bitcoin (Chinese miners etc.)?
I have to agree with the other commenters, the logic is super muddled here. Building an MVP is a process, and determining when you have an MVP and can now launch is a process. But an MVP itself is emphatically a product.
I agree with your description of the situation but on the other hand it can't be the solution for an economy to engage in currency wars.

Greek labour SHOULD be priced lower than labour in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria or the UK because it is less productive.

Once its labour is priced correctly it should cause foreign investors to invest there, which would in turn increase productivity.

I think austerity is not the issue, the problem is that the EU forces Greece to take on larger credits and even larger credits after that instead of letting dysfunctional parts of the Greek economy go bankrupt.
No builds are not easy to reproduce bit by bit as there are much more factors as the actual source.

For example:

- compiler version used
- date / timestamps at the time of compile
- build id's

A good article on this can be found here:
https://blogs.kde.org/2013/06/19/really-source-code-software
Is there a limit to your principle?

Should people be able to live at university forever, with a living wage from the public purse? What if they were enrolled but didn't ever attend?

Should the government even be involved in education? Were it not for government protection, what kind of disruption would we have seen to the education sector by now?

Given that university-educated people earn more than other taxpayers, why is it unreasonable to expect that they should be responsible for covering the cost of their education?

Consider the deferred payment system of the Australian model.

The Swiss model is interesting as well. In Switzerland, each university has to take whoever wants to go. But there's no rules about the conditions that they give you when you get there. So if 200 people applied and they were only set up for 50 places, they could give aptitude tests to them all, and then put seats and books in the gym for the remaining 150 with instruction to submit one difficult major project for pass-fail assessment each per semester.
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Cure53. The report is public on both their website and ours: http://cyph.team/cure53report.

(That link contains a page of additional context to explain the findings, e.g. some were pre-production.)
Here's a cartoon that explains the list of stuff he did (he didn't just say "Vaccines cause autism").

http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html
Which wasn't illegal at that point, though.
I don't know what you mean by, "permanently pinned (TOFU) bootstrap", but the fact that it "validates/executes signed application packages" doesn't sound like it protects the end user from you sending them a "signed application package" which contains something to steal their keys/messages...

If you could post a link explaining how this tech works, I would be very interested in reading about it...
Absolutely. And it's not obvious, but you can move around with WSAD keys, and QE for up/down.

It would be nice to make rendered animations in this, I don't think that's a feature of the web app. Maybe there's some other way to make animations? Would make a great background for an alien ship flying through an alien cityscape.
Yeah, I wondered about that because I thought VC's C99 implementation is _relatively_ useful but again C11 might never arrive there.
As far as I understand, 5G will require IPv6 support. That will drive IPv6 adoption.
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> Call me a sceptic, but this is probably why use of these protocols and principals is limited to security experts and software developers who understand these principals

OpenPGP is impossible for most email users to get working correctly.

Remember that most people don't even know the difference between CC and BCC.

Here's an example of de-anonymising anonymous messages, supossedly from clueful users: https://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html
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It has a common point with systemd : the lead is Lennart Poettering.

Sound on linux is a mess. And pulse audio is vastly blamed for it. Complex circonvoluted architecture that overpromised and under delivered..

The guy loves to brag about how he is the messiah of a problem and will fixt it, make galaxy like software that are unstable and leave a mess after his doing saying my job is done, let's work on another project where my genius is needed.

But, after utterly messing up once, notably at the (lack of) design level, he has been entrusted to no overpromise again and make the ultimate revolution for the init process. A lot of coders did not believe in his repentance for the mess in pulse audio : he may be as arrogant as linus torvalds he is as smart and a good coder as rasmus lerdorf.

The PID1 on linux is now known as a solar system of processes with nice chaotic trajectories and astronomers are seriously planning to use systemd alone as a nth body interaction simulator.. unexpected .
Oh, and what about the fact that they have total control on the location and time of the launch ? Meaning they basically control weather to an accuracy no one launching anything useful into space has.

This is precisely what you want for space tourism, though: control over variables to ensure high margins of safety.

Even the format of the video itself screams "vaporware" to me. It looks like a trailer for a bad action movie, where some spacey something goes to space, separates and lands back in 15 seconds.

Maybe what you want for space tourism, though. You want as wide an audience as possible. Most folks don't know the difference between BO and Falcon 9. Most don't know the difference between a suborbital hop and achieving full orbital velocity. People keep buying tickets to Michael Bay movies. If we can get some of that money for reusable space vehicle development, seems good to me.
It doesn't protect users from that yet (neither does Signal or any other alternative), but we are about to implement reproducible builds to help mitigate that by allowing users to independently verify that the deployed production build matches up with our source code on GitHub.

That having been said, my cofounder and I are the only two people with the keys to sign releases (and as long Cyph exists they'll only ever be held by either ourselves or an equally small set of individuals deemed worthy to trust with our lives) — so you shouldn't ever expect that kind of deliberate backdoor, even if I end up in prison for refusing. We're also maintaining a strong focus on OpSec of these keys, e.g. we're about to migrate the release signing off of our (full disk encrypted) personal laptops to a dedicated air gapped environment.

As far as how the tech works, we don't have a great explanation on the website yet, so this reddit comment will have to do for now: https://www.reddit.com/r/encryption/comments/4027ci/how_2_sp.... There's also a visualisation in http://cyph.team/producthandout, if that's helpful.
I'd say more difference than connection. China is facing a terrifying 'demographic cliff' due to the previous 1 child policy, much more so than western nations. This also skewed gender towards males in the Chinese Gen Y cohort (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8957256...).

Similar story is rural India; lots of 'missing women' from the population. In both cases, the first born son is/was culturally expected to be the 'old age pension fund' of the parents, whereas girls were considered financial liabilities until they could be married off (i.e. someone else's problem).

The very disturbing implication being: if you can only have 1 child, and you believe only boys can support you in retirement, what do you do when you give birth and find out it's a girl?
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It is a good idea. SBB started to electify very early (1920s) because they never had a reliable access to oil (especially not in the war times) but lots of hydroelectric power.

Also there is a lot higher traffic densitiy in main lines in Europe which also justifies the cost for building and keeping the infrastructure.
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And the original, for anyone who wants it straight from Cure53: https://cure53.de/pentest-report_cyph.pdf
Personally I don't like this. Often enough there's includes in headers, which are an implementation detail for the functionality in the originally included header. Iwyu will just include that, increasing coupling between components.
"voting to cut taxes".

What? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser's_law

Actual tax situation is this : In the United States, federal tax revenues since World War II have always been approximately equal to 19.5% of GDP, regardless of wide fluctuations in the marginal tax rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser's_law

I'll agree with you if your saying that growing government spending is a big problem, though.

And of course you'll find wide disagreement on whether we need to cut spending or raise taxes to deal with it.
Oh! I wasn't expecting this to get onto HN :-)

If anyone wants to contribute to LibreOffice, hope onto Freenode #libreoffice-dev and say hi :-) it's a massive project, but there are bite sized projects that you can tackle, and even if you struggle at first nobody will mind. It's a fun project, so give it a try!

Any Australians in Sydney who might be interested in hacking at LO, let me know!
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You might want to reconsider after reading this article[1] about his 200.000 euro investment in 'Stem voor Nederland' to get the Dutch people to vote yes in the Ukraine referendum in april.

[1]: http://nos.nl/artikel/2082091-amerikaanse-miljardair-sponsor...
if you buy a cert for the main domain it will also work for www. automatically.
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sorry, should have put quotation marks, I meant it a bit facetiously. Usually articles about America's decline have that sort of bent to it ("Emperor has no cloths", etc.)

I do think that the US gets away with much more stuff than it would in another universe. Especially in the financial domain (American sanctions work so well because of the virality of the regulations and the ubiquity of the dollar). But hey, Russia annexed a part of Ukrain, so they're not the only one.
There was no WM store back then. The store was added in WP7.
If SpaceX get their launch cost per Falcon 9 down to the close order of $1M, and succeed in re-using Dragon 2 for multiple flights, then that's a price on the order of $100-200K per seat to orbit.

If Bigelow then have an inflatastation on orbit -- made a whole lot more plausible with Falcon Heavy on-stream and semi-reusable -- then there's a plausible market for real space tourism (as in, stay in a hotel for multiple nights in orbit) for under $1M, possibly considerably less.

What's the next step? Some kind of Earth Departure Stage and a lunar fly-by?

Just speculating here, but Blue Origin's current rocket is purely sub-orbital. It'll tap out the $100K space tourism market really fast. While SpaceX is building a commercial launch manifest and the infrastructure to support orbital and trans-lunar space tourism as a hobby on the side (I'd expect Musk to go this route with free rides for billionaire potential investors when he's gearing up for Mars).

Oh, I'll bet National Geographic is already thinking about ways and means of recording and monetizing a "Return to the Moon" mega-documentary before 2030. It'd probably be do-able by 2022 for on the order of $1Bn with Apollo-levels of risk and the equivalent of a Block 1 LEM (two astronauts to surface, 24-48 hour excursion, no rover); assume half the money goes on developing the LEM and the rest on Falcon Heavy launches. By 2030 it'll be the same price, but a whole lot more comprehensive (a 4-6 body crew, multi-week excursion).

Utility of Blue Origin's current platform in developing such a "real" space tourism market? Approximately zip.
>Just be excited for the positive direction of spaceflight in general.

How about don't tell people in the comments section of HN how to feel about a story posted here?
The Falcon 9 first stage accounts for only 3/4th of the launch cost[1]. Given the $60M+ [2] total current launch cost, that still leaves $15M even if booster reuse is free.

SpaceX no longer has plans to develop second stage reusability for the Falcon[3].

[1] http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/spacex-press-conference-s... section "Question on the changes to the Falcon 9"

[2] http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

[3] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10391/how-does-spac...
Even S60 had a pretty decent open market.
Fair call on the gimbaling at the end, in that instance it does impart a moment around the CoM and will invoke a torque, though that's really only at the end once much of the vertical velocity is cancelled. As a result it does represent the inverted pendulum right before landing.

Interestingly, because the CoM is so low due to the low volume of fuel by the time of landing, it's likely not as big a torque as you'd first expect (all the mass is down the base where the engines are). In that case, rocket height isn't going to have as a big an impact because it's not like it's equally dense up the entire rocket structure. I'd argue he's likely overstating the effect of rocket size on how difficult it is to achieve.
I think they are referring to war reparations which Greece claims Germany still owes them[1]. I don't know anything about this really, but the article suggests Germany's standpoint was something to the effect that Greece should've brought this up earlier (in negotiations before joining the EU, for instance) and failing to do so should mean they aren't entitled to any recompense. An odd argument, if indeed I've understood it correctly, since I guess it would suggest Germany acknowledges there may indeed be debt owed to Greece.

Regardless, it makes for more interesting reality tv than catching up with the Khlardäshiäns[2].

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31849430

[2]: https://youtu.be/Ol3KuDTiZtY?t=2m20s
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