skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone find the link to that recent article / guide on registering a likely-looking address at a webmail provider then scamming a root certificate for that domain?

The article gave the impression that some CA's are a bit too happy to issue root certs, and he mentioned he's been blogging about the whole SSL trust system being broken for quite a few years now.
At 3:38 of the 17:47 video, you can clearly see an AK-47 in one of the mens hands.

So, no one in Baghdad uses bodyguards? All Iraqi policemen must be at all the time in uniform, even for covert entry? I don't think an AK is any convincing ground for believing them to be insurgents. Americans aren't the only ones with rights to carry guns, specially in the most dangerous city on Earth.

At 4:12, it definitely looks like there's an RPG. Even more so at 4:19.

It's a pity you couldn't be bothered to watch thirty seconds more of the video. At 4:49, when the helicopter goes around the house, we see the full group, one second or so before the fire starts. No one is holding an RPG.

What you say that looks like one is actually a glimpse of some sort of tube. I guess construction workers must have a hard time on Baghdad, if that's grounds for use of deadly force.

The helicopter was called in by ground troops who were taking small arms fire from a small group of men in this area.

They seem very relaxed, for insurgents in the middle of a fire fight. They are walking, move in a close group, are calm and walk exposed in the middle of the street. Not exactly standard military procedure.
When I was working on my book O'Reilly sent me a copy of "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser (http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction/...). I read the entire book and I thought it was well worth it. One of his best pieces of advice is to end each paragraph leading the reader to the next one; the reader should want to know more.

It's slightly amusing that the first sentence of the linked article is grammatically incorrect: "How to make engineers write concisely with sentences?" is not a question despite the question mark. The second sentence is overly long and uses three commas to give the reader breathing space.
Thanks for the transcript, it's easier for those of us (supposedly) at work :)

Pretty interesting for those of us that don't follow you that closely :) - I liked the practical advice and examples.
Truth be told, the blog post started as a straight off rant, but over the week it took me to finish it I came to that realization.
I am decided to give Cassandra a shot. It will take some work to get up to speed, but you can count on me for that.
+1 for using a plain text file and not some fancy to-do list/Basecamp-type app to define and triage their week-to-build-and-ship priorities.

More proof that polish and UX is vitally important for iPhone and iPad apps. The average user doesn't care how you wrote the program - they care how it feels to use.

For UX and visual inspiration for good-looking iPhone and iPad apps:

http://wellplacedpixels.com
Torching Your Firewall--On Purpose
How early should a start up starting talking a lawyer?
Does this look like good advice for parents or grandparents of HN participants who aren't at a hacker level of computer savvy?
You are too cruel to poor gcc.

They are no useless, you just have to remember which combination of messages having nothing to do with your code could be caused by what sort of errors.

Gcc makes sure we will remember these rules better by making it painful and thus more vivid in memories.

Also - real fun begins, when you forgot semicolon after the class definition in your header, and error shows in different file.
Additionally, I tend to ignore writing advice from people who use incomplete sentences. That page was a travesty.

edit: I didn't know this was a comment before I posted this, but it does bring up issues with 'blogging in general.
Beautiful inspiring screenshots of iPhone apps
On a slightly more elaborate and potent level, try "The Pyramid Princple" by Barbara Minto:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pyramid-Principle-Logic-Writing-Thin...
Relax, We’ll Be Fine
Ok. if you have a pure web app, will you still use e-junkie? Any advantages in that case?

And a Big Thanks for the transcript! I wish every video interview had transcripts like these.
I agree that Google can do whatever they want. I was pointing out that they will only do this in extremely limited cases, because there most certainly IS a slippery slope here.
I'm proud to say I've done all of these. I think the "drink with co-workers" is a super-good point and I wish more people were more honest about it!
Insofar as it doesn't request the user to do anything unsafe, yes. The ShieldsUP test is a remote test that requires no configuration changes on the local machine.
Living as if they had only one day left
Blunder reveals Gordon Brown's email address
Is the iPad the best netbook on the market?
Schneier on Security : Privacy and Control
it would be helpful if you could make the adding 1 click. i have to leave your site, then come back, then go to back to the other site and copy the next field..etc etc. no one is really going to do that.

you could do a combination of geolocation and screen scraping to do it (or maybe there is a better way, that's just the first thing that came to mind), and it would probably take a bit so you'd have to ask the user to wait or something.
There's a map. Without more information, it looks like maps.google.com.
I don't get this. I don't get the whole "personal branding" movement. Why the fuck can't people be themselves? Explore. Make things. Meet people. Love yourself and others. Continuously be improving yourself, of course, but... this sort of discourse is just robotic and inhuman and tone-deaf to the actual experience of the wonderful universe around us.

I'm afraid I can't be more pointed in my criticism because I can't fathom the mindset of a person who would ever find this advice useful.
Actually, the main reason for putting the important parts first is to give the newspaper editor flexibility for fitting stories onto the page. The end of a story can be left off if there's not enough room.
why dont you get my location(from IP) and speed automatically and make adding simple one-click process?
Seeking Emotional Clues Without Facial Cues
This was a curious piece to read, since so much of computing usability is about getting a device to meet the expectations within its users' mental model.

The DropBox comment and Xmarks comment, the "my writing tools" comment, and the "two desktops" comment, suggest the author's mental model doesn't match the iPad's approach and that proved a stumbling block.

But the author is Dave Winer, "the father of blogging and RSS", who knows a thing or two about how things work. So is the problem that his preconceptions are well informed and defined?
Ask HN: Feedback on our startup (LabApp.com)
Hey HN, I’ve been working with an active HackerNews member on LabApp for the past several months. We are building a marketplace for research and university software. Right now, distribution and commercialization of software from university labs is difficult due to university licensing restrictions and the lack of a centralized marketplace. Thus, a lot of software is being re-built each time it is needed for a specific research application.

This is a huge waste of developers’ time and valuable research dollars.

We are partnering with leading universities (Cornell, Columbia, Yale and others) to enable this marketplace. Software creators can distribute any software with applications (in any field) for free, or set their own price and we’ll handle the e-commerce and distribute the revenue.

http://www.labapp.com

We just launched in beta, and I’d love to hear feedback from the HN community! Here are some elements of the site that won’t be visible now, but are on our plates:

- Detailed analytics for sellers and tech transfer officers

- Search

- Categories (e.g., genomics, neuroscience, etc.)

- Some static content (e.g., “Learn More”)

Also, if you have anything that you’d like to distribute via LabApp, don’t hesitate to upload it.
Holly non-cleartype fonts, my eyes are bleeding!

Why, oh why are people so cruel, so uncaring, so unkind?
Nice work, but if I understand the article correctly, they basically modified the iPhone app with the similar functionality, not created the app from scratch (as the title might suggest).
Once I got to the part in the article where they started combining the terms like `Independently innovative' I thought that this is ripe for a `personal leadership brand generator' site.
Should have used the PC term: "Personal Culinary Services Director."
IBM: Broken Promises and Patent Enforcement
The standard AK-47 weighs 9.3 pounds. It's not exactly heavy. There is also a lighter version weighing in at 6.8lbs. The way shown in the video is a plausible, common way to carry that type of weapon. There were AK-47's found at the scene. Those are AK-47s.

You think it looks like a camera now. Keep in mind that the helicopter was called in to look for a group of men that were firing at troops on the ground that are down the street from where the "camera" is pointing at 4:15. Again, an RPG isn't quite heavy. The standard RPG-7 weighs 15 pounds.
This is often very inaccurate.
Tuition-free colleges stand their ground against costs
Why save it? Why commit yourself to a software program if you can do a superset of what it does with another, more robust, one?
Haskore Music Tutorial
Yes, he's talking about sex and it's pretty sad to see how a nerd sees sex. He's missing SO many aspects and simplifying everything to a button. "Engineering" at its finest.
It talks about how the made the app, but not how they made the #27 app, which would be more interesting.

The iPad store has so much stuff in it that I don't now how you would get noticed. Once you are in the leader board, it's a different story, but getting there is hard. Did they get a link on some high profile website? Or is it just that "free books" is a pretty good title (even though it really costs $2).
The Innovation of Common Sense
I also made an app just to see what would happen, and the app performance was pretty bad. The equivalent of this app sells at a reasonable rate on the iPhone (perhaps $15 a day). The iPad version has sold so far at about $2 a day. So the iPad market at the moment is still populated with early adopters who care about design and looks, and the mums don't seem to haven't really arrived yet.

If anyone else has other iPad numbers, I think it would be interesting to extrapolate these numbers and see what the top apps are earning.
So, no one in Baghdad uses bodyguards? All Iraqi policemen must be at all the time in uniform, even for covert entry? I don't think an AK is any convincing ground for believing them to be insurgents. Americans aren't the only ones with rights to carry guns, specially in the most dangerous city on Earth.

It's unwise to approach an active combat zone with weapons.

It's a pity you couldn't be bothered to watch thirty seconds more of the video. At 4:49, when the helicopter goes around the house, we see the full group, one second or so before the fire starts. No one is holding an RPG.

I see a crowd of people at that point. It's difficult to tell what the people in the back are doing. Presumably, there could still be someone peaking around the corner at the Humvee down the road. Further, I already saw several guns, and so did the apache crew. The decision to fire had already been made.

They seem very relaxed, for insurgents in the middle of a fire fight. They are walking, move in a close group, are calm and walk exposed in the middle of the street. Not exactly standard military procedure.

This isn't Mission Impossible. When the bullets aren't flying and there is no enemy in sight, there isn't a reason to expect people to move like there are.
The flip side of this is that a problem can haunt you such that you aren't willing to let it go. This is great when the problem aligns with your goals, but can be destructive in other cases.
What To Do When A Hard Drive Fails
That was one of the best hours of my life I've spent all year. I've been researching adwords and online advertising for about six months now and I've learned more in that sixty minutes. Thank you!
What I can't tell from his research is:

How much are his findings affected by the content-organization of the pages his subjects viewed.

His summary:

"Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. A conventional layout is thus more likely to make sites profitable."

I have to wonder also about the prior experience of his subjects: were they (like me) accustomed to surfing many sites where they are accustomed to the right sight of page being filled with ads? I know that I am conditioned to mostly ignore what is on the right because so often it is filled with ads that have little interest to me.
Can't you see the little pink icons with speeds on them?
Actually, This says nothing.

You can bundle a runtime and a bunch of source (or intermediate code) into a single executable and call it a standalone application.

I had a BASIC compiler for my Apple II that parsed the in-memory source, turned it into sequences of calls to the BASIC in ROM plus a small bunch of "bridge" code and saved the resulting blob as a binary file that could be called from the BASIC prompt. It made my programs up to 5 times faster.

If you really want a standalone app, you have to look into stuff that runs without an OS.
"Don’t ask for help from others on how to solve a problem. Solve it yourself first then ask for opinions on your solution."

If this means don't constantly pester the programmer in the next cubicle, I agree.

If this means re-invent the wheel instead of searching for how the problem may have been solved in the past, I strongly disagree.

In my experience, the "best" programmers are the ones most adept at searching for an existing solution. This appears to help them solve typical problems faster, and all the approaches they're exposed to while searching make them personally able to more quickly solve a broader array of problems than those who beat their heads against the wall till the wall bleeds a solution.
Just to be fair, one of those certificates is shipped with Internet Explorer too.
The same RSA 1024 certificate is in Mac OS X. Perhaps they kept a record of where it came from.
Objective-C Tuesdays: local variables and functions parameters
> The implication, and what makes this scary

You can always remove certificates from CAs you don't trust. If you don't trust Verisign, how can you tell Amazon is really Amazon?
HP UK staff suspend strike
Is your Passenger App hung?  Here's how to SIGABRT it and investigate
I guess hyperbole comes easy when you are investing $100 million in something. I found the slide with Mouse on one side and Magic on the other pretty humorous as well.

Referring to Steve Jobs as "Supreme Commander of the Rebel Forces" is doublespeak that would make Big Brother blush.
If one only could read the other pages besides "Introduction"...
He's certainly much nicer than me, I'm doing well if my cast-offs end up at goodwill.

I decided to respond to this because of the speed reading comment. I spent a lot of time doing "metawork" on my text processing speed. I rewrote this paragraph like 5 times trying to properly express this idea, so bear with me...

I find I can read very quickly and get a certain impression of the text, sort of like an impressionist painting version of the content That's the fastest and it's the most useful for quick scanning - a stupid example of the usefulness of this is when I was recently rereading stranger in a strange land, I scanned through Heinlein's political diatribes looking for the bits I actually want to read. Next, if I slow down a bit I can read every word and get most of the ideas at an intellectual level, but I'm not bothering to call up a mental image of what the author is trying to convey, so there's no enjoyment in it. Finally, I can read and reread every word, try to picture everything the author is saying in my head and really grok it, which takes much longer still.

I guess I'm trying to make a point that reading speed is like a throttle and learning to speed read is very useful in terms of becoming aware of how much attention you are paying.
If a public discussion on what could be a massive internet authentication breakdown does not constitute "greater scrutiny and security", I wonder what does.
> Whoops! So much for open source allowing for greater scrutiny and security.

There are two certificates from the same CA. Microsoft ships one of them. Are you willing to vouch for every certificate Microsoft ships with Windows? Are you sure their process is flawless? Are you absolutely sure their code shows all certificates they trust and there is no sneaky unlisted CA in their whole HTTPS stack?
Good feedback. I don't take everything I read at face value. In fact, for this article I didn't focus on the personal branding. I liked the idea of defining what you want to be in 12 months (for me: being able to execute on beautiful and functional mobile apps). Didn't really give much thought to where they say once you define your brand, share it with others. Nothing is black and white - all advice is biased, take from it what you will.
The difference in benefit I'm talking about is qualitative, not quantitative. I'd rather have a cure for cancer than a thousand years of narrower bond spreads. And when I'm on my death bed, I hope I can look back on my life and say that I contributed to something more meaningful than the bond market.
after thinking a bit about it for a while, ipad to me, seems to be more of a media consumption device than either a computer or a phone. i can read books, play video-games etc on it, and it seems to be of the just right form-factor for such activities.

given that, i don't think i would be interested in running any arbitrary program on it. i would prefer my computer for doing that. apple store thus becomes more of a alternate clearing-house of published information. i am probably more concerned about some fundamental erosion of fair-use-rights here than anything else, as building strict copyright controls on such a device is probably much simpler .

if content-providers/distributors find ipad to be a viable platform for disseminating media, then copyright would be back with a vengeance. libraries / physical books might then be passe...
Seems to be a technical version of "How To Write A Five-Paragraph Essay."

Thankfully, the ability to write well never loses favor.
Uh... thats not good... and our gov-CA is hanging in the cert approval proces since... about a year now. strange world
Open-source Arq restore utility released
I understand the logic about the strategic importance of drinking with coworkers but I have always felt it imposed some kind of obligation that I was somewhat uncomfortable about while I was single but much more so since I got married. The burden of the obligation for me is such that it outweighs any benefits I feel it could have in relation to my happiness. Those times when I have gone out with coworkers it has produced rigid conversations bound by convention and politics - not much different from what happens in the office. So I would say that piece of advice should be examined on a case-by-case basis.
I went to a talk about meditation and neuroscience from the prof up at stanford last year. There was talk about how we have an instinctive and emotional part of our brain and how we also have an executive control center. One of the points of the talk was how meditation changes the functioning of the braining and reinforces the ability of the executive control center to subjugate the emotional part. Perhaps the years of making efforts regarding this issue strengthened the wiring in your brain until you were able to overcome it?
Maybe you're seeing something that isn't there because you've got a political agenda, kind of like Wikileaks.
It looks like the certificate can easily be deleted manually: Preferences > Advanced > View Certificates.
I think the basic advice offered in the article is solid. It's not in the most aesthetically pleasing style, but what are you gonna do. I guess I just don't hate minor sentences as much as you do.
I remember the company from another article. One that claimed a clever app icon was a fundamental secret to their $350/day in app sales.

http://spreadsong.com/icon_driven_development_on_the_app_sto...
WANdisco Delivers Certified Subversion Binaries With Enterprise-Class Support
You regret not using something like ZFS's RAID-Z? You blame whoever convinced you to have a single drive inside your machine?
I do see them using chrome on Win 7.
I (author of multiple-database support for django) am extremely uncomfortable with the approach these guys are taking. The proper approach would be to work with Django itself to make things more flexible (when you're subclassing something named SQLCompiler for a non-SQL backend it should be a hint you've done something wrong).
"They dream to be Rockefellers, Jobs's, Brins, and so on."

In other words:

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/president/players/sc...
yes this sould not be the core of the problem. its important to know _who_ owns the debatable CA.

This gives a great Mitm Vector if i'ts a malicious CA
Here is a great article about the inner workings of Wikileaks: http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/...
That last part was a joke.
Lightning strikes Cupertino again: the Xconomy iPad review
What about that troops on the ground that were being shot at by insurgents in the area that the armed camera crew was in? Do you think that the helicopter crew might have been thinking that they, the troops on the ground, were in danger. They did call in the gunship because they were getting shot at from that area. How about a little less hyperbole.
If someone (with a malicious background) owns a Root CA wich is embedded into the Mozilla Cert Storage he could sign SSL Certs sites as he wants to... and clearly the user won't be warned that the connection isn't secure because the Root CA is there.

Basically it's a Secure Connection to a malicious Site. Got it?
I've always written similar to this. In college, I always spent most of my writing time on the opening paragraph. Then I just turned each sentence into a paragraph (if it isn't important enough to warrant a paragraph, why is it in the opening paragraph?) and added a conclusion. Admittedly, this doesn't work for large papers (I think 5 pages is probably a reasonable limit), but I try to avoid writing large papers whenever possible.
It'd better be. It's the slowest, least expandable, least compatible, least spacious and more expensive machine in the category.
Hide your email and make it questionably suspicious - ShadyEmail.com
Jay Adelson Steps Down as CEO of Digg.com
A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap
Maybe that's indicative of a larger culture problem at your company. I can't really see people at a bar talking about politics - are you sure you drank enough?
+1

I would apreciate this article too! issueing a root cert at mozilla isn't as easy as it looks... they changed a lot in the process i think
Creative thinking in the bathroom is probably less an effect of being naked as it is being in a private space with nothing better to think about. Otherwise, you could write another article about all the ideas people have on the toilet, titled "The Benefit of Pooping."
Should have named it "C Tuesdays" since there's basically nothing related to Objective-C in the article...
Not positive yet. Really interested in the green/sustainability space, trying to determine the best point of entry.
This'll be the second free Droid I've gotten from Google. The first one I ended up selling, the profits from which paid for my trip to GoogleIO. I'll be selling this one too, and using the proceeds to buy a Nexus my damn self :)
Click it.
http://www.labapp.com