skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Ordinary user focus groups re: perception of regular SSL cert vs. EV SSL
Specifically I'm looking for documentation of focus groups or polls conducted of ordinary, non-technical end users, asking them their opinions of the trustworthiness of an ecommerce site with regular SSL certificate (standard lock displayed in browser GUI) vs EV SSL (green bar with lock and company name displayed in browser GUI).

With EV SSL certificates at $99/year now, and the paperwork not too onerous, it seems only logical that any site accepting credit cards online should be EV.

I'm looking for data to support this assertion.
We’ve Launched a Netflix Tracker
Major outage being reported worldwide.

http://downdetector.com/status/netflix

Anything interesting deployed in the last hour?

Something in the CI/CD tool chain, Spinnaker, failed for it to move all the way to Live without being caught.
If that's the way you think people are... then those are the kind of people you'll attract.

It's how the universe works, basically.
ah, but the path less trodden has its own rewards. The purity of the command line, the sparsity of it all it, unpolluted by decadent convenience-cruft, is satisfying in itself. Approach the heart of the machine!
> The 18th amendment was added to the constitution not by some legislative need, but to make a politicized statement where another amendment to the constitution would be required to overturn it (the 21st in this case).

That's not really the case. At the time of the 18th amendment's adoption the prevailing legal interpretation of the Commerce Clause was that Congress lacked the power to regulate intrastate trade. So Congress could have prohibited the sale of alcohol across state lines, but could not prohibit the sale of alcohol within the boundaries of a state, and certainly could not have prohibited its production. It wasn't until 1942, in a reaction to Roosevelt's court packing scheme, when the Supreme Court reversed its interpretation and ruled that Congress does have the power to regulate intrastate economic activity (i.e., the production of a good that is not necessarily sold), giving us the modern legal interpretation of the Commerce Clause.
Your best option is Account Based Marketing. Look into Demandbase.

Facebook does have a brand new ad unit for mobile click to call, and I have seen success with b2b with Facebook ads.

The key is to get your ad unit as native as possible to the atomic consumption unit of the site. So, since facebook is used to share content, inspirational quotes, etc... maybe try promoting a whitepaper, a video or some other strategies.

Bottom line, Facebook right now has by far the most sophisticated targeting of any ad tech that is publicly available (Short of some private DMPs) and their lookalike audience can match over 2000 variables about your audience. There is no better way to find the right people.

Also consider that FB is mostly a mobile product now and that more video is consumed on FB than on Youtube. and they have a broad reach with their audience network.
Since your birth, you have been known as loser-vorg.
The library doesn't make money through directing you to particular books or sell publishers your reading habits.
From the article:

"The Pentagon has publicly posted at least a partial list of the drone missions that have flown in non-military airspace over the United States and explains the use of the aircraft. The site lists nine missions flown between 2011 and 2016, largely to assist with search and rescue, floods, fires or National Guard exercises.

"A senior policy analyst for the ACLU, Jay Stanley, said it is good news no legal violations were found, yet the technology is so advanced that it's possible laws may require revision."

This sounds a lot less dramatic than the article headline, but it's good that this is being reported and discussed publicly.
Yes it does! One of our primary goals is to collect user information such as names / emails so that they can be added to your mailing list in the future.
Or a journalist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...
Congratulations on tackling a big problem. Couple of questions:

Do you have any plans to achieve FairTrade status for international buyers?

Could you imagine making transaction records on the platform available to help smallholders get finance at more affordable rates when needed at some stage in future?
$300k+ in total comp is quite common but usual picture is a much smaller base salary + RSU + bonus + [semi-optional] whatever + [sometimes later maybe] something-else
Now it's back up for me (1746 EST)--but videos aren't loading (Error code M7111-1931-404)

Edit: Back up for me at 1811 EST with videos loading.
Anything related to delay tolerant networking / store-and-forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking

http://ipnsig.org/
Is it more reasonable to try to avoid this problem in the first place, or to accept that it's likely to happen and deal with it then? Both options seem reasonable to me (and I'm trying to get my company to adopt Jenkins).
I found Samsungs implementation very useful on my Galaxy Tab S 10.5. I would read a pdf for example and take notes in the other. I tried using it for simple development as well, running a local dev server. Unfortunately js ides were still lacking on Android last time I tried, but it's clearly something that could be improved.

Definitely super excited for Android itself to have this feature.
Really interesting use of data extraction....

For developers and managers out there, do you prefer to build your own in-house scrapers or use Scrapy or tools like Mozenda instead? What about import.io and kimono?

I'm asking because lot of developers seem to be adamant against using web scraping tools they didn't develop themselves. Which seems counter productive because you are going into technical debt for an already solved problem.

So developers, what is the perfect web scraping tool you envision?

And it's always a fine balance between people who want to scrape Linkedin to spam people, others looking to do good with the data they scrape, and website owners who get aggressive and threatening when they realize they are getting scraped.

It seems like web scraping is a really shitty business to be in and nobody really wants to pay for it.
it's a pattern that "moves forward", i.e. recreates itself at another position.
Making them illegal hasn't stopped anyone.
Weird... what were they thinking?

But thanks. Another data point added to what others have been saying about their hiring process.
"Hillary and Trump have received the lion's share of attention in media, social media, and such. Google searches SHOULD show them prominently."

I'm not sure I agree with this.

An alternative is easy to conceive, that all candidates that meet some external criteria (such as being on a ballot) are randomized to be favored equally in results.

I'm not convinced that it's inherently better to favor candidates with a lot of media coverage over just equally favoring them all. Sure, that's how it works now, but that doesn't mean it should be that way. There is a choice to make.
Taking this at face value, were any of the techniques you use in these tasks directly addressed during your interview there?
It's Amazon so I assume they'll be independent contractors being horribly over-worked for minimal compensation.
We fought the copy+paste drift for a while. Most jobs were very similar, but just different enough that debugging things when something went wrong was often both time consuming and frustrating.

Ultimately, we took an approach similar to Travis CI, or Gitlab CI [1], only using shell scripts since that plugs into Jenkins easily enough. Every project has a CI script and a release script in a common location relative to the project root that takes care of everything needed to take a fresh clone of a repository, run the tests, and deploy the project (depending on a few environment variables) if the tests pass.

We have 1-click operation to set up a new job in Jenkins, and it handles all the configuration based on an XML template. Everyone understands that they're not supposed to make manual tweaks to the jobs once they're set up, and a year later, things are working pretty smooth.

[1]: http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ci/quick_start/README.html
Maybe this is where a hyperloop can shine? Direct point to point transport at massive speeds, without people in the cargo to go and get themselves killed
same here (Chrome 48 on Win 10)
A better way of creating controlled forms in React
Benchmarks please, thank you!
Yep. There are plenty of sites that have already brute-forced hashes for arbitrary n-length alphanumeric strings.

https://md5hashing.net/hash/sha256/5fc38436ec295b0049f186651...
FWIW, if you live in the U.S., then you benefit from having such data in great quantity, though I don't think it's sliced-and-diced to near the potential that it has:

Lobbyists have to follow registration procedures, and their official interactions and contributions are posted to an official database that can be downloaded as bulk XML:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/lobbyingdisc.htm#lobbyingd...

Could they lie? Sure, but in the basic analysis that I've done, they generally don't feel the need to...or rather, things that I would have thought that lobbyists/causes would hide, they don't. Perhaps the consequences of getting caught (e.g. in an investigation that discovers a coverup) far outweigh the annoyance of filing the proper paperwork...having it recorded in a XML database that few people take the time to parse is probably enough obscurity for most situations.

There's also the White House visitor database, which does have some outright admissions, but still contains valuable information if you know how to filter the columns:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor...

But it's also a case (as it is with most data) where having some political knowledge is almost as important as being good at data-wrangling. For example, it's trivial to discover that Rahm Emanuel had few visitors despite is key role, so you'd have to be able to notice than and then take the extra step to find out his workaround:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/us/politics/25caribou.html

And then there are the many bespoke systems and logs you can find if you do a little research. The FDA, for example, has a calendar of FDA officials' contacts with outside people...again, it might not contain everything but it's difficult enough to parse that being able to mine it (and having some domain knowledge) will still yield interesting insights: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/MeetingsConferencesWorkshops/P...

There's also OIRA, which I haven't ever looked at but seems to have the same potential of finding underreported links if you have the patience to parse and text mine it: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/oira_0910_meetings/

And of course, there's just the good ol FEC contributions database, which at least shows you individuals (and who they work for): https://github.com/datahoarder/fec_individual_donors

This is not to undermine what's described in the OP...but just to show how lucky you are if you're in the U.S. when it comes to dealing with official records. They don't contain everything perhaps but there's definitely enough (nevermind what you can obtain through FOIA by being the first person to ask for things) out there to explore influence and politics without as many technical hurdles.
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That's for the other department to decide, not your current boss.
That's not what the OP said. He didn't say anything about downgrades. All he said was rooting and presumably, messing with the system. Neither qualifies as criminal negligence in my mind. I'm not sure I want to live in a society where gaining access to hardware I own gets me thrown in jail? I would also like to emphasize that this has never happened and is totally hypothetical.
While other pop stars make albums, Kanye is making entertainment software
That's how image resizing should behave. But I guess this will only happen when AIs take over ^^
After Kimono got shut down, I think a self-hosted open source version would be extremely popular. I want to build my own solution, but the API functionality and pagination / AJAX loaded data would be too difficult.
I like a command line environment.

> If you want a different shell install one and if you wan't a different editor, again install a different one.

I didn't want to customize the FreeBSD environment because I was only using to to maintain a port of a specific program. I wanted that to build in the vanilla environment and not have any dependency on some customizations.

Dealing with FreeBSD was just a hassle, even for the three or four minutes once in a while (at release time) to fire it up, pick up new code, build and go through the regression suite, then roll binaries.

The last straw was when I switched some parsing to reentrant mode, requiring a newer version of Flex than the ancient version on FreeBSD. There was no obvious way to just upgrade to a newer version without building that from sources. That's okay, but it means anyone else wanting to reproduce my steps would be forced to do the same. Everyone else has newer flex: no problem with the GNU-based toolchains on Mac OS, Solaris, and elsewhere. MinGW, Cygwin, you name it. On Ubuntu, old flex is in a package called flex-old, which is mutually exclusive with a package called flex.

I just said to heck with it; I'm just not going to actively support that platform.

Actually, that was the second to last straw. The BSD people also don't understand how compiler command line feature selection macros (cc -D_WHATEVER) are supposed to work.

If you don't have any feature selection, then you get all the symbols. The presence of feature selection macros acts in a restrictive way: intersection rather than union semantics. If you say -D_POSIX_SOURCE it means "don't give me anything but POSIX source", and so if you combine that with another such option, you get the set intersection, which is useless. I ended up using -D__BSD_VISIBLE, which is something internal that you aren't supposed to use (hence the double underscore) which has the effect of making traditional BSD functions visible even though _POSIX_SOURCE is in effect.

On GNU and some other systems, you just add -D_BSD_SOURCE and you're done: those identifiers are added to what you already selected.

This is how POSIX says feature selection works: see here:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2...

"Additional symbols not required or explicitly permitted by POSIX.1-2008 to be in that header shall not be made visible [by _POSIX_C_SOURCE], except when enabled by another feature test macro."

Except when enabled by another feature test macro: they are additive, damn it!

The BSD stance is that "just don't put anything on the command line and you get all the library symbols. What's the problem?" (Like, some of them are specific to your OS and they clash with some of mine?)
It also helps that we GoL comes with the capacity to instantiate the universe in any configuration we wish, rather than being forced to coerce it into that state from scratch.
Power buys presence. Whether that power is national and the presence armed excursions, or the power is political and the presence is your ideas being heard from your pulpit. Money is just a proxy for other types of power. This has never changed.
Money is absolutely part of the formulation of relevance. It's just not the whole equation. Nor is word-matching (altavista), nor is popularity (google). But each is relevant.

Someone (advertiser) is paying money because they believe they have information relevant to you. How is that categorically different than the blogger/webmaster who's paying money (time/hosting) because they believe they have information relevant to you?

All information has a cost associated with it. And that cost bears some significance on the value of the information. Measuring and weighing that significance relative to other inputs is the beauty of an effective system.
Cdbiff: Notify you of mail arrival using a CD-ROM drive (2001)
It's the old problem that is also evident in public (as in state-owned) tv broadcasting. Should the news programs and journalists take sides and endorse the viewpoint that they believe best reflects facts? Or should they just report the various viewpoints that are present in society regardless of their value?

In the first case, you run the risk of having a journalist using a public resource to advance his own point of view. In the second case you just end up being an echo chamber for what the politicians (who each represent a share of public opinion) want to say. Moreover, if you adopt the second approach, how much space do you give to each opinion, to avoid over or under-representing some? Proportional to the share of votes of the politician expressing it?

I'm not saying there is a solution. But the idea that the value of opinions can be established objectively- or even determined by an algorithm- is a bit naive.
I miss AltaVista as well. I'm a rebel and I despise Google, however effective they are. I feel like they have way too much negative influence on the web.
Linux came before BSD?

Please become better informed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars#BSD_and_the_rise_of_...

"BSD purged copyrighted AT&T code from 1989 to 1994. During this time various open-source BSD x86 derivatives took shape, starting with 386BSD, which was soon succeeded by FreeBSD and NetBSD."

BSD was an OS long before 1989; the open-source BSD's weren't new projects written from scratch, but made possible by purging AT&T copyrighted code from the code base.

Linux (the kernel) only started in 1991, from scratch. The GNU parts that go into a "GNU/Linux" --- the GNU C compiler and utilities from the GNU project --- started in 1984. But that is still later than BSD. 1BSD was released in 1978: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution...]
If you can afford a Tesla, you can probably buy a new one before the warranty wears out. And you probably/definitely have roadside service.
This is really awesome. At first I was going to write a comment about how this completely ruins pixel art by changing the pixels which are hand placed by the artists. But then after viewing a few images I realized that this is hand tooled changed, not just compression. Bravo.
> A bunch of plugins have been installed, and lots of manual configuration has been put into jobs so that everybody has what they need to build their software.

Could use something like this if you are using github
https://github.com/groupon/DotCi

Job configurations can be version controlled and reviewed like everything else.

Also, the plugin does other optimizations like storing job/build data in a db so jenkins doesn't slow down as you create more builds/jobs. So you don't need "25 Jenkins masters".

For multijob pipelines checkout https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Plugin
As lobster_johnson says, verbatim mode is key. I wish it was the default - I'm always using specific phrases the google re-interprets into something more popular. A big pet peeve given my line of work: I know autocad is more popular, but please google, I really do want results about draftsight!
This is why you need a counter balance to monopolistic tendencies of the free market. Be it in the form of regulations or making companies liable for their greedy actions.

It has been proven time and time again that systematically removing "common sense" [0] regulations only harms society in the long run.

[0] Please don't start a mundane discussion about what "common sense" means.
Ask HN: Any coding workflow for using the repl?
There are times when I want to play around with some idea and I want to write some potentially throwaway code. There is no requirements, I'm just playing with some lib to see what is it capable of. The repl makes it really nice to explore.

One of my current workflow is for node.

1. go to the terminal and open node.

2. require some random library and play around with it.

3. export the command history to a file with '.save'

4. modify the file with a text editor.

5. load the new file with '.load'

6. Repeat and iterate till I have some proof of concept code.

I was previously tried using LightTable but it was kinda buggy. I'm kinda happy with this workflow except that I can't rerun a multiline command while in the repl which makes typos more painful.

Does anyone have a similar workflow, better editor or suggestions on how to improve it?
There is such a thing as criminal negligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence

In your case, the person was being reckless. I don't think gaining access to hardware you own can be considered reckless, regardless of the unlikely circumstances that may result. Your death-by-rooting example is entirely hypothetical and has never happened.
You call it "a freshly plowed field ripe for planting Donald J Trump"

If you are inclined to speak in metaphors, that is.
Well, not quite. The Constitution is set up to delimit the powers of the federal government. As the 10th amendment states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." So if a particular law exceeds the power granted to Congress by the Constitution, it is unconstitutional. It's not that the Constitution prohibits Congress from doing certain things and everything else is by default allowed. The Constitution allows Congress to do certain things and everything else is by default not allowed.
UPS is a miracle in motion, go to a bit distribution center sometime.
It doesn't scale very well, unless you have a lot of patience...but I've had immense success using the importxml() function in Google sheets to compile raw election data while I did some freelance work for the Texas Libertarian party a couple of years ago.

Outside of that, I did often find myself building my own tools with a combination of ruby, nokogiri and mechanize. Partly out of a desire to learn something new, and partly many of my use scenarios didn't require anything more complex than "Go to these pages, get the data within these elements and throw a CSV file over there".
Aye, but using a well-designed program allows you to use both the keyboard and mouse simultaneously. Especially something like visual studio, you can create keybindings for damn near everything, set up macros, etc, plus still use the mouse for quick and dirty stuff. So a visual interface may be more like a two-necked guitar, where some think it's a gimmick, and there's admittedly a bit of lost flexibility from both sides, but you gain more overall.
Currently, we haven't started looking at international buyers. So unfortunately, I can't answer that as of today.

The second aspect is something we have definitely thought about and which does hold a lot of value as we move forward. Great to see that you mentioned it as this is a problem many farmers do face.
Nas' Investment Portfolio Is Straight Nasty
True. I guess you'd have to go even further back.
Yes, quite some people seem to be affected: http://downdetector.com/status/netflix
That's because the library is funded by taxpayers – it doesn't need the money.

How would you feel about a government-sponsored search engine? I think China has one of those.
It is. Someone discovered that if you start with that initial pattern you get a "spaceship" that moves. I gather that it is an impressive find both because of how small it is (you'd expect someone or a computer to have already discovered it) and how slow it moves.
interesting, how would a self-hosted open source version make money tho in order to support itself and continue to upgrade?

Is this even a realistic business model? Seems like this is what Scrapy is doing and what Import.io is doing. Make the tool free in order to get free marketing and then charge people willing to pay money to extract data.

Meanwhile I see Mozenda charging like 5 cents for each page extracted, do you think this is a fair model or does it not matter?
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