skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on Chrome 52 on Mac and I don't see the "i" icon when using plain http. All I see is a very plain looking 'blank page' icon to the left of the URL.
I seem to recall that one of the drags on the Shuttle's performance was the Air Force insistence on a larger cargo bay and requirement that it be able to reach polar orbit.
This is already the first election in which millenials and gen-Xers (terrible name, btw) outnumber them as far as eligible voters. The problem is eligibility isn't enough - old people vote far, far more reliably than young people, so the (often idiotic) preferences of their demographic still win out.

Automatic national voter registration when turning 18 would be a step in the right direction, but I'm not sure it would convince people to actually go to the polls. In certain states just registering to vote in the first place can be a real hassle, and having to do it every time you move punishes the more mobile generations.
The issue here is win rate. Ask any lawyer or prosecutor and they take pride in that win rate and how many people they have "put away". To get that rate up, they often go after the poor and people who have committed petty crimes while ignoring real white-color and blue-collar crime because it is laborious to prosecute.

If you want to lower the rate, you have to lower the industry incentives for this type of thinking.
To be fair, a lot of people have been misled by the media. San Franciscans believe that everything is tech's fault, and that voting millionaire landlords into office will make housing affordable, for the same reason Londoners in the 1940s believed Stalin's Russia was a glorious worker's paradise. The media lied, and most people are busy and don't have hours and hours to dig down to the truth.
Mike here. You can easily verify the current behavior by installing Chrome 53 on Windows or 52 on Mac.

Everything else is (eg, https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http...) is directly linked in the post. There's nothing you can't easily verify.
My head explodes at this comment. You want to determine if people live or die just based on the charity they can get. How fucking barbaric is that? What do we live in, the 15th century?
A9, etc.

https://www.a9.com/about-us/locations/
The issue with that approach is that it allows man-in-the-middle attacks, because all of the characteristics you are suggesting the browser validate can be faked if the root is untrusted.
If you'd like a lot more detail on the process described here by which the Shuttle program went from what it could have been to what it ended up being, I've found NASA's own history, "The Space Shuttle Decision", to be quite thorough and comprehensive. You can find it here: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/contents.htm
Grassroots campaigns (Sanders, Trump) this election cycle raised general awareness of a lot of important issues. I'm not sure the fundamental issues are any more complicated today than they were yesterday.

We need more grassroots activism, not cynicism.
My understanding (I talked to them about it a year ago) was they have to do some work on making a big SNI-based load balancer that works with their current network setup.
Is urban cycling worth the risk?
This was the final straw on StartSSL for me. :(

I have now dropped my ongoing EV verification with them (has taken 7 months so far!) in favor of CertSimple, and we've also moved all non-EV to LetsEncrypt/AWS.
Driverless taxis' human problem
We have no evidence that surgeons scrubbing before donning gloves makes sense either. In fact, there's an undergraduate experiment where people scrub for up to 3-4 minutes and swab after every 10 seconds and plate the swab. The plates actually show more colony-forming units until about 3 minutes, which is much longer than most surgeons scrub. Which suggests that the scrubbing actually liberates bacteria found at the margin of the stratum corneum.
When has Trump ever mentioned anything negative about 'minorities'?
Wrong.

You know that no party other than the sender has read or altered the resource in transit.

Do you really not see the difference there?

I have a blog. If I link to it here with HTTPS, you still have no idea who I am. A third party's assurance that I am who I say I am doesn't help you, because you still don't know who I am. What you care to know is that nobody has read or altered the contents of the transmission (yes: it's possible you're being phished, but that was true before -- now you know this phishing attempt is not also being eavesdropped or itself altered). Which untrusted SSL provides.

Why people ignore such an obvious point is beyond me.
This is why direct democracy doesn't work, and it is also why representative democracy is good.

We have just gotten ourselves into a position where decades of "let the people decide" has led to your ballot including a dozen citizen choices you do not care about.

In a saner world, we would be focusing on the representative part of the republic - why am I directly electing judges, magistrates, and prosecutors when it would be significantly better to select representatives to make all these electoral choices for me?

Political parties have become a bad proxy for true representation. People just start voting party line and the powers that be love that kind of model - it means great persons cannot rise independent of them, and it means you can blame the bad on the individuals but the success on the party as a whole. And party affiliation has always been a horrible proxy for effective leadership.

Instead, we are in a situation where our "representatives" are representing millions of people individually, while we vote for dozens of esoteric local elections for things that aren't particularly representative. What we should have is much more localized elections of representatives that then make such bureaucratic appointment decisions themselves, including for the higher levels of government beyond them. IE, you can have a representative for every 3 thousand rather than 3 million people, and that representative will join a local council that appoints the judges, city council, higher level reps, etc.
Yes; and Boeing does do that (the 747 that ships today is almost an entirely new plane from the one that shipped in 1969), but the limiting factor is the 4-engine design. We don't have engines available that would let you build a 2-engine 747, and as long as we don't, they're going to guzzle a lot more fuel than 2-engine designs.

That said, apparently Airbus doesn't agree that 4-engined planes are going extinct, because they just recently finished a brand-new jet, the A-380, which requires 4 engines to fly. Go figure. Time will tell if that was a wise move on their part. But I'm guessing: no.
> The blinkard refusal of parts of the security community to understand this is appalling. An untrusted certificate means I know I am communicating with one and exactly one agent, whose identity I may later negotiate by other means.

All you're doing, then, is attempting to replace a heavily vetted, non-MITMable identity-verification scheme with your own ad-hoc version of the same, and what the security community understands is that you're incredibly likely to fuck this up in a way that makes it trivial for your attacker to forge their identity.
There are no perfect countries, just less dysfunctional. If you move from DPRK to China, you'll be impressed with the freedom and open information you have.

I think most of our beefs with China is that it was moving in a nice direction before 2008...it was becoming more open, more transparent, a nicer place to live and a nicer country to do business with. Then...after 2008...they seem to have thrown it all in the pooper. It really was heartbreaking.
From what I have seen Federal is less corrupt than state, and state is less corrupt than Local. So, in terms of justice we are probably better off centralizing it.

Honestly, I suspect the only reason for local cops is they will actually enforce the little rules like what time of day people can put out their trash cans.
That one time we scanned 1.09 Petabytes in 4 minutes Live
The pain transformed from "there's a hole in my stomach" to "I have a painful lump under my belly button". It was easy to miss, and initially the doctors were just like "Oh it's your belly button". But then one doctor took a closer look with the CT scan and BAM.
Voting for judges is also in conflict with the notion that they are supposed to be impartial. Maybe we should change the system so that judges aren't elected by the public, but they can be ousted by the public.
You already see this with Medicare. For some treatments, they reimburse less than the doctor's direct costs. But if you try to do that with all the doctor's customers, it doesn't work.
Could you do HTTPS as default then offer to bump people to HTTP (and a slimmer site) if they want it? Do people with strong requirements for fast pages tend to use proxies that lighten the page (Opera used to have this built in) by reducing image sizes and such - presumably then it wouldn't matter if the original connection was HTTPS??

Would you mind sharing the site in question and the modal (ie most common) specs of your users devices?
Corporate office with a MITM proxy? Could be worth looking at who signed the cert.
They definitely don't visually check every cert any more. They're issued instantly.
Leave it to the Canadians to ruin BBQ.

J/K, the real trick it to clean it after you're doing using it and not let the solids cool. I use a foil ball most of the time.
Historically, no, immigration has been fairly open as compared to much of the world. The laws and influx have changed from time-to-time, but it hasn't seemed coming to America was that difficult. Recently it's tightened up, but I only say historically as to relate to the comment you are responding to. America has the highest number of immigrants by a large factor, depending upon the source you trust.

Although, becoming a citizen has become a chore because it takes too freaking long for so many.

Of course, this is from the viewpoint of a citizen so take that into account as I don't see it from the other side.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384237
Teaching center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHqPFbxmOU
I'm saying that it is harder to measure and that the measurement is inherently noisier for teachers. We measure teachers by how their students perform on standardized tests, which has all sorts of problems.

The more important factor is the value placed on differential performance. A 10% difference in teacher performance is lost in the noise. It likely wouldn't mean more money even if it could be measured easily. Whereas a 10% difference in football might mean being #1 in the draft versus going undrafted.
Producer Metro Boomin Calls Out Exclusives and 'the Streaming War'
The might ban putting them in luggage. Most people carry theirs.
Yup. I see no reason why this could not be implemented as a WebExtension (which will be compatible with Chrome/FF/Edge). Perhaps performance would suffer a bit relative to native. Having a synced history between Chrome devices, is enough reason for me to not switch browsers, let alone stored form inputs.

Having a general purpose wallet built into the browser would be quite interesting. Think 1 cent Bitcoin paywalls.
The only xray given were CT scans. How it was missed I don't know. It could have to do with the orientation of the wire.
I originally posted it in July for the Mac changes, then updated it today when they hit on Windows. I've changed the link to the Windows 53 release.
Probably the most substantial difference is iteration. A footballer gets many games per year with many moments per game to potentially shine or fail publicly, with stats that can be evaluated year after year. Your success as a teacher can somewhat be evaluated via testing, but that seldom tracks something close to what you're really supposed to be doing: making a difference in your kids' lives. At best that's an evaluation that has to be made by the now-grown child themselves, several years after the interactions which occurred.
I'm excited when people leave my company
That was the problem before it became an Apache project. It should not be a problem anymore.
We love SpaceX and we hope it reaches Mars. But we need SpaceX to focus
Yeah, I agree. For the record, I'm on Linux and I noticed the change yesterday. According to my package manager's log, I upgraded Chrome from 52 to 53 yesterday around 10am (8am UTC).
I wonder what impact these will have on cryptography when it will be available to a few actors, but not the rest of the world yet...
What nonsense.

If I'm on an unsecured wireless network at the local Starbucks, untrusted TLS means I know nobody else in the coffee shop is snooping on it or injecting anything into it.

Why is this so difficult for people to grasp?
There are so many misconceptions about pay

'Altheltes' and 'actors' are not homogeneous. Most actors and pre-pro athletes make significantly less than their pro counterparts.

Pro athlete pay, with the exception of top stars, is not as lucrative as it may seem. Careers tend to be short due to injuries and other factors, so while athlete may earn a lot when they play, they may only play a few years. A solid 6-figure job that pays for many decades will earn more moeny in the end.

The pension for pro athletes is not that great either. And then there are the injuries , which the leagues tend to do a poor job of covering. Many players struggle with expenses due to heath issues but also poor money management and short careers.

Firefighters and teachers may not make much salary (at least compared to a pro athlete) but their careers are much longer and they get very good pensions.

You just have to put things in perceptive.
Which can all be handled using an (automated) whitelist, à la CORS.

Too many things run on localhost (or intranet) and assume that localhost=safe. I know, "that's wrong" and "don't listen on 127.0.0.1" and all that, but that horse has left the barn, emigrated, founded a family and died happy. We can't put the 127/192/10 genie back in the bottle.

Prevent access to all private resources from the outside and whitelist on a need-to-access basis. Or be ready to keep monkey patching your system against these exploits forever.
Well, some would say that based on available evidence that government-based price controls doesn't always turn out well. Especially for people trying to obtain the product or service under said price control.
Thanks, that's clearer.
I call Hyperbole. Its lots more complicated than that.

There likely will never be endless free healthcare for everybody. Until then its rationed. How do you do that?
As my old minister used to say, we can have all the morals we can afford.

I'm also in favor of reasonable free healthcare for everybody, to a point. Because, enlightened self-interest. Its cheaper to have a healthy populace, for everybody.

So some middle ground is necessary, between blue-sky endless free healthcare, and a free market.
English is way worse than French. It's just that more people are used to it.
I think the Apache Software Foundation allowed themselves to be 'used' by allowing Oracle to dump a dying AOO into their hands.

"Used" how? Apache taking on AOO has been a win for Open Source in the general sense regardless of what happens to the project going forward. A large base of code which was previously locked up under Oracle's copyright is now licensed under the ALv2 for perpetuity.

At the time, it was clear that LibreOffice had won the the war that started in the OOO-patchset days,

There's no "war". Maybe the LO people see it that way, but we don't. AOO is for people who want AOO. The people who prefer LO (or something else) are not our enemies. They're just people with different preferences.

I don't know what the ASF thought would happen, but I hope they learn something from it.

What did happen? IBM donated a bunch of code, volunteers have contributed more, and AOO is a better product today than what it was when Oracle handed over the code. That's a Good Thing. None of which is to try and compare AOO to LO, and none of which is to say that AOO doesn't have flaws. But it's a product that has been used by a ton of people for productive ends over the past few years.
Look at the funds a specific "vintage" year, then look at:

1) Realized Returns/ Total Size of Fund
2) compare above to prior vintage years of same partnership/ similar funds
3) Look at unrealized returns as a percentage for this vintage across funds and for same partnership for prior funds for same years out.

The bulk (like 80%) of unrealized gains can disappear in a quarter if you have a large market correction.

Some of the variance is going to just be market conditions but in general the weaker those numbers that's a pretty bad sign.
On the flip side, it has never been easier to research the issues. If you want to be an educated voter, it isn't that hard of a process. The problem is that very few are motivated because on average we all have pretty nice lives. That doesn't mean there is nothing to be improved upon, just that we all have lots to lose by joining political movements like the ones that existed in the past.
If you have better schools the district's property values go up which increases the tax base. Families can and do move across districts to access better schools, so there is competition in that sense. Same with many city services. Firefighters and teachers in Palo Alto for instance are paid well compared to other districts, the schools are some of the "best" in the nation, and property values are high as hell.
Another:

> You know you're in trouble when the Russians are adding safety features to your design.
We have been working on Blackberry 10 support for a while. While we can't commit to a date yet, we have good reason to believe that your issue will be solved with a software update soon.
exactly. pediatric neurosurgeons for example make a lot. same for oncologists , and unlike athletes they have long careers
The current system is bad in many ways, all right? I think we can agree on that.

But it's not so bad that it can't get much worse. Getting worse is not abstract - it translates into people dying needlessly. (So does the current system being bad.) "Just change something" is only good advice if you're currently at a local minimum. And "iterate rapidly to improve" doesn't work when each change takes an act of Congress.

In particular: The last change was, what, six years ago? And the last change before that was, what, in the 1970s? You may only get one or two more chance to change this in your lifetime.
Not really.

Given an estimate of the mean; for each data point, Mean shift defines a window around it and computes a new estimated mean weighting each point by the probability density at the previous estimated mean calculated using the window

The (weighted) 'mean of the data points within the window' makes sense if you use the other perspective of looking at the window around the current estimated mean - you'll get the same answer, and to me this explanation is easier to grasp - the PDF only depends on the distance between the point and the estimated mean so you can think of either as the 'center'. But saying you calculate the mean of the data points within the window for each data point mixes up two perspectives and makes no sense.
"[...] why am I directly electing judges, magistrates, and prosecutors when it would be significantly better to select representatives to make all these electoral choices for me?"

Yes, exactly.
> And party affiliation has always been a horrible proxy for effective leadership.

Very true - isn't that the fascist/communist model? Party affiliation trumps independence & ability?
Right, so you can conclude three things. She isn't currently in a relationship, and isn't actually interested in one, or she is looking for something "better".

So, he should be figuring out how to keep these girls in his social circle, rather than considering it a rejection. Guys have time on their side, and maintaining contact with people has a way of moving them closer. Sadly, like anything else "playing the game" is how you win. Getting to know people has a way of overriding the initial physical attraction. Of course, it can go the other way too, physically attractive women can frequently be socially disgusting princesses.
For a little while my kid had a circus performer (Belgian not Argentinian) for a nanny. He was just a kid who needed some extra money. Turns out he was realy mountain unicyclng too, which I had not ever heard of before.

It turns out they make cute little unicycles for four year olds. Amazing! All he really learned was unicycling, biking, some inappropriate language in English, and general irresponsibility. All of which have served him well.
What works for one doesn't always work for the other. I think it would be quite easy to do such comparisons to determine that. It worked for that area of 10 million people so surely it should work just as nicely with that area of 300 million people.
How about providing a fresh (produced within the last year) replacement (needs to be user serviceable) battery (that is proven to be original)?

Have to say my 2 year old moto-g (1st gen) is holding up quite well. (far far far better than my asus laptop which basically just falls apart after 4 years)
head against desk

BUT PLAINTEXT ALSO ALLOWS THAT, and in addition allows eavesdropping and alteration by another middleman.
This is actually a big deal in America and a fundamental change in how our government operates. Your idea is right, but since the 1960s judicial authority has grown in a way that increases their responsibility to the point where they're almost legislators themselves.
Think Before You Parallelize: A tour of parallel abstractions
Nice job defusing.
> Convicts have absolutely no disincentive to file these suits

What if there were a disincentive, such as an increase in sentence if they lose?
I'm really disappointed that the author didn't even try to analyze why these people weren't working and instead just went into a rant about how they're destroying society by living lives of pure pleasure.

How many are stay-at-home dads? How many are living with wealthy parents vs. how many are on welfare? How many of them were looking for work but eventually gave up after their efforts proved fruitless? How many of them have actual, legitimate disabilities?

These are all interesting questions. And for actual disabilities, I don't think living with cystic fibrosis and being unable to work is the life of pleasure the author thinks it is.
1. I love how this bilthely leads with, "The electoral process is thoroughly corrupt, here's George Soros pushing money through the system to pursue his agenda," and then jumps aboard the train of said agenda with no further questions asked. Good lord, you want us to participate in THIS? Par for the course for Vox.

2. As the article itself makes clear, prosecutors are actors who will respond to whatever incentives we create for them. The evidence and arguments in THIS VERY ARTICLE undercut the notion that we should focus on the role of the local prosecutor, who is basically just a law enforcement officer, and rather focus on changing the laws to reflect the already-shifted moral substrate.

3. Why doesn't Vox ask us to focus on changing the laws? Our only role in their vision is as fodder - herd voters responding to the signals of a billionaire-funded campaign to harry local prosecutors (to what end? who should we elect instead, and why would they act differently?). This, again, is in line with my (limited) understanding of the Vox perspective - "Trust the experts to figure it out, just nod and sign your name here." We, the vox populi, would obviously never be involved in the actual construction or framing of laws. Just vote.
Actually, read that one 2nd. Start here: https://ujjwalkarn.me/2016/08/11/intuitive-explanation-convn...
Douglas Crockford Out as Keynote Speaker at Nodevember
Ask HN: Which CRM do you use? Any open source / self-hosted?
Douglas Crockford has been removed as a keynote speaker at the Nodevember conference due to making other speakers feel uncomfortable.