skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reluctantly stopped all usage and recommendation of StartSSL last year after concerning information came up about a shift to Chinese ownership/control due to their hosting by Qihoo 360 (previous discussed on HN [1]), which went poorly in the context of both their lack of transparency and their long standing insistence that certain keys be generated in the browser rather then a user supplied CSR. But it really was reluctant because their actual model was fantastic and how I desperately wish other CAs operated. They charged only for the actions that actually take human time: manual identity verification. Machine verification was always free, but then there was the option to get basic identity verified for a reasonable price (getting a level 2 cert), then an organization, and then a more extensive organization verification. At each step once you had a given level of verification done you could then get certs without further payment for the validity period, in stark contrast to the artificial expense CAs normally add. In an ideal world cryptographic authentication would be part of the standard services offered by government, and in fact authentication should be a core function of government period, but that is not the case.

And no, Let's Encrypt is not a full substitute unfortunately, as it offers only SSL certs. GPG has poor mobile and native platform support compared S/MIME. So I do think it's a bummer that StartCom is toast.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11107740

Edited to add: just to be clear, they absolutely had their flaws all along too, primarily in terms of charging for revocations which rightly earned criticism. But I still wish a better organization would take the good bits and improve rather then the entire thing vanishing into the annals of history. I feel like we're really treading water when it comes to authentication, despite it being an ever more critical part of life. All the math and basic tech needed to solve it correctly and in a user friendly way has been around for at least a decade or two at this point, yet most people and organizations still send messages with no real authentication (which in turn is the direct root of much spam and scams), password use (and resultant problems) is still near universal standard practice, etc.
(conveniently including a "fire alarm" and a "KO" key)
If you're going to recommend emailed 'magic links', then might as well use Google/Facebook/etc as an SSO indentity provider
> (or tried to handhold a less-than-technical colleague through getting a StartSSL account?)

I tried getting one myself a few years ago, and I couldn't. The process was too obtuse and obscure for me to follow along the entire way.
Google reader was uncontested king of web rss readers and where is it now?
Ghana has had some issues recently related to electricity, but you have a point with Benin, Botswana, especially, the latter.
One case in which Brave does not want to replace website ads is for sites that run their own ad networks, or ones which have a contract with an ad network expressing that they will not resell user data.

A large part of their motivation hinges on ad networks routinely reselling user data without express consent. The business opportunity assumes users will pay (in this case by viewing ads to benefit Brave, the website owner, and themselves) for the privilege of not having their browsing habits tracked. If the net result of this experiment is that websites move toward non-tracking ad networks with legal protections against reselling user data, users no longer have incentive to use Brave, but it's a net win for user and website owner.
> but that's just a money related trend imo

It's _much_ more insidious, but I'll leave it at that.
We use bacon to grease the grate before using a steel brush. Maybe the chemicals in the onion do help, but substituting a steel brush for an onion seems rather curious.
I was following a giant wind generator blade down the highway on a windy day. Seen from the back (following the rig) I saw the thing twisting and bobbing constantly. Its like it was made of rubber!

Not an airplane wing, I know, but similar.
Why not wash grills just like regular dishes? My grills come off and once I'm done cooking, I rinse and put them in dishwasher.
Startup Sense Raises $14M for Super-Accurate Home Energy Disaggregation
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It depends if you have static or adaptive coder.

Static is much cheaper, uses the same probabilities for the entire data block (e.g. 30 kB), probabilities are stored in the header - practically all Huffman and tANS compressors (however, there are considered exceptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Huffman_coding ).

Adaptive can start with e.g. uniform probability (no need to store in header) and learns on the way - it is more costly but gives better compression, used with arithmetic coding or rANS. See
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/models-for-adaptive...
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/rans-in-practice/
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It's actually pretty hard to stop the delivery of those free ad newspapers that they throw in your driveway (like the penny saver)... it took me about a year to completely stop them (they kept restarting delivery after a few weeks)
Actually, you _can_ patent a plant. It's called a plant patent.

35 USC 161 specifically governs plants.
What options are available to connect to the internet, if your ISP is forced to shutdown in circumstances like this?

Some years ago, one could use phone lines and dial up modems. Are these still viable? What about Ham radio?
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I didn't say "merge". Being a library or framework which can be consumed, either in whole or in part, by another entity is in no way a "merge".
One option is setting up a passive Twitter account to follow a handful of very well reputed analysts in the fields you like. No friends, no general media, no noise. Shameless plug as an example: https://mobile.twitter.com/NuclResearchNet.
One of the tricks I have found for Postgres to manage analytics and unstructured data is using its inheritance with check constraints aka partitioning features. I mention it because not many people seem to know about this bad ass feature of postgres.

We use inheritance (with check constraints) [1] for both time partitioning as well as for custom (aka unstructured) events. Most events have several (100s in our case) common columns. When you see a new custom event with custom fields you want to separate out you can create a subtable and have it inherit from the base event table.

Now querying for those custom events is extremely fast and you can query from the base event type or the subtable directly.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ddl-partition...
sounds a little like mdma , but less hyper
A happy ending to the Visual Studio story: Microsoft team steps in to help
> There's a site that indexes reddit's most downvoted posts

Link?
CHIPSEC: Platform Security Assessment Framework
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This is my attitude regarding Red camera's lauded modularity.

Ok so you can keep your handle and grip, and the little viewfinder. The sum of Those useless pieces doesn't mean you've "upgraded" your camera
I would love to see the implementation of this. In the article doesn't say anything about the implementation details or the space tradeoffs.
The thing about making a NES/Famicom cartridge
See, I disagree. I think scrobbling is Last.fm's biggest feature and it's important for them to keep it accurate. I would be devastated if someone messed up my scrobbles, I've been scrolling for 10 years and have amassed very nice statistics about my listening habits. On top of that I have to imagine they sell this data to record companies and the less accurate the data the less valuable.
Silicon Valley, where "free" means "don't get used to this because we're selling to google and shutting it down in three months"
Creating the V in MVC (Golang)
I go to one of these sites:

* https://www.meetup.com/

* https://creativemornings.com/

Then I find an event and then I go to that event.

The internet just is not conducive to civil discussion because regardless of the site, OP is always a faggot. (=
I thought LO was some flavor of GPL? I'm not sure that would fly with Apache, as it would make the situation even more confusing.
People would flip their shit if their microwaves didn't rotate anymore, for example. But what "Value Add" features are you talking about that are non-trivial to implement?
just file a complaint to Apple (assuming it's an iOS app) with the details and they'll put you guys in touch to resolve it.
Or a little more still: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
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We use AWS heavily, employing most of the "Hashistack" (eg Packer, Consul, Terraform, Atlas) as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. See, for example, http://tech.octopus.energy/2016/05/05/django-elb-health-chec...

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Unveiling interesting numbers about VLC downloads
I see and appreciate your point, and yeah, you might get a little dead, but they can turn a Walmart roast into a tender and delicious cut of meat with the right cooking strategy.

Like anything, it's a trade-off, and a good test of your evolutionary worthiness as a human. Pay attention to what you're doing or die.
> Almost all of the popular communities online lean left, take your pick.

Like Reddit where /r/TheDonald is consistently at the top of /r/all, and stories about terrorism on /r/WorldNews devolve into xenophobic rants that stop just short of containing phrases like "the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim?" That's not too "left leaning" to me.
If you are asking a place online that equates to in-person discussions, I would say there isn't any.

As I told my kid when I showed him mosaic, the screen is not a human. Humans have kindness and compassion. The screen is to get things. To some it is a way to make a living. The screen can never be generous; that is learned at the home.

Ann Landers and Dear Abby. Ever hear of them? Newspaper columnists who answered readers questions. I always asked, " Why would anybody seek help or advice from a newspaper person? " Plus, you have never met them.

Why would I seek advice or opinion from a person I never met?

Google any ailment and the results are astounding. Ask your mom or dad if it is something to worry about and you are likely to get a trusted answer
The problem with places like Reddit is that they rely on users to moderate.

The obvious problem with that is now stories are filtered based on populist mass appeal, instead of insightful or expert appeal.

Populist content is very different from expert content. Clickbait headline is populist content. A peer-reviewed journal headline is expert content.

Which one do you think is going to be upvoted in a place like Reddit?
Every strongly moderated place turns to the bias of the moderators. Any discussion outside their allowance gets censored.
Also, 85% of statistics are made up on the spot based upon anecdotal data.
http://notreddit.top

Not much political stuff on the past day right now but if you look at the past month's posts about the US presidential candidates you'll see what I'm talking about.
Indeed, but I'm pleased to say they got it sorted: http://www.bartread.com/2016/09/02/a-happy-ending-to-the-vis.... A bunch of Microsoft people stepped in to help.
/. used to have a "friends and foes" feature, which is more or less as described.

I think you could set +1 or -1 for

friends
foes
friends-of-friends
friends-of-foes
foes-of-friends
foes-of-foes

I had a few "foes" set to -1, to attempt to filter out some frequent, crazy commenters. But I stopped reading the site when extreme opinions became the only opinions.
The experience you are talking about wouldn't really jive with the real world scenario which this would be deployed in.

I'm a small business owner and you are my client. You and I have a relationship. You aren't a random BadGuy. The likelihood of you purposefully bouncing a check or committing fraud is next to nil. In this scenario, similar to what Duet is doing (facilitating communications and payments between known vendor-client relationships) the SaaS that processes the payments is pretty safe from fraud.

Now, I would never roll this out on any of our SEO services. When we had credit card payments on the earliest version of Linklicious, we fought over $1200/mo in charge backs from fraud or "fraud." After nearly 3 months of our mailbox filled with chargebacks and complaints, we switched to PayPal and only once did we have an obscene amount of fraud (hundreds of signups from stolen French PayPal accounts) at which point we blocked the country of origin for a week and the problem disappeared.

You have to be intelligent no mater what payment method you chose. There are negatives on both fronts.
Just ran across this and found it compelling, namely because of how it seems to respect employees. Does anyone else know of others operating in this space?
Why Dropbox's passwords are still secure
> At some point or another, everyone has been persecuted (e.g. even whites living Europe because of religious persecution) but not all persecution is the same, and not all has hold for the same period, and not all took the same form.

I acknowledge that may very well be so, although now we are in the realm of some subjectivity.

The only thing I've left to say is that with some imagination and creativity e.g. genetic manipulation, changes to legal codes, the development of new frontiers, it may be possible to improve the circumstances of all including the marginalized. A lot of legacy problems just drain away when you have economic growth and a clear vision of a better future. Absent that, old wounds tend to materialize to be the scapegoat for further conflict. It's not great, but it is human.

One observation I've made recently is that when people have a common overriding identity e.g. geeks in a hackerspace, other potential sources of conflict such as identifying as transvestite while others may identify as christian tend to fade away. That is the essence of tribalism and I'm convinced it has a lot to do with the future and the Net.

In one related example; consider 'African-Americans' stopping identification with Africa and instead black but America first i.e. a black American, not an African American. That in of itself would help enormously but not without some controversy.

A second but negative example is the Europeans and the recent migration issue. All manner of Europeans are feeling more 'European' purely by virtue of the other being not plus a potential common enemy in their midst. Ironic but true.
IPv6 still has the whole IPv4-mapped range at ::ffff:127.0.0.0/104
I'd wager that most of LibreOffice's brand recognition is by people who are aware of the fork
That's where I'm getting a little hazy. The paper says the attacker can "induce bit flips over arbitrary physical memory in a fully controlled way." Sounds a little more advanced than "largely random" to me, and based on the article it sounds like FFS is a step up from "vanilla" Rowhammer...am I missing something?
The Art of Ruthless Chase
To look at it another way - assume you want to hire somebody and you have no idea what they do. How do you trust the picture of disaster that they're painting if you fire them?

The answer is nearly always you have some (poor) rules of thumb and you're skeptical of the ones who say that they're 10x better than the rest.
THE IMPLICIT EXISTENTIAL DRAMA IN NO MAN’S SKY REVIEWS
You to realize the irony that in a discussion about constructive / objective / considerate discussion, you have posted something that is not very constructive.
That is certainly a possibility! I didn't mean to imply it wasn't. I did a some quick looking and if your in the US, the USDA guarantees livestock insurance, this likely results in a distortion of the risk and perhaps shifts the incentives towards this sort of behavior.

But I would caution against taking rumor and gossip as strong supporting evidence.
bogleheads.org is a forum for conservative investing, but it ends up tying into proactive and insightful discussion about all sorts of lifestyle issues. I enjoy it a lot!
It was a gift from Oracle, so it should have been immediately obvious that it would turn into a gigantic pooch screw.

It was clear developers were going to flee whether Oracle kept it, or whether Oracle gave it away. It was toxic coming from Oracle, just as if it had been a 'gift' from Microsoft.

(PowerShell on Linux. Need .NET on Linux. Clippy on Linux: it looks like you're trying to get useful work done. Would you like me to help you install Windows 10 on your Linux PC? If you would like Windows 10 installed, then click Yes, or click No, or click Cancel, or click the X in the title bar, or pull the power cord out of the electrical socket to have Windows 10 conveniently installed for you on the next reboot.)
I'm guessing one that large would simply pull any metallic objects straight out of the meat, even if it were on the other side. Seriously, they sell smaller ones than that coated in epoxy for pulling up boat anchors when the anchor chain has broken. The ones I have are tiny, watch battery size and I can barely pull them apart. It simply isn't possible to hook your fingernail under one and lift it from a metal surface. You have to slide it to a corner and grab it. Hard to describe, but when you first handle them it's like "how the hell is this possible?".
The problem with GNU/Linux is that they just replaced the UNIX wars with Linux wars.

For a long time, starting with Slackware 2.0 and for around 10 years, I wanted to use fully use GNU/Linux and used most of the distributions until eventually settling on Ubuntu. Which I only use on a travel netbook anyway.

As someone that is focused on UX and the whole desktop stack, never found a UNIX that cared about the user desktop experience.

Compared to Atari, Amiga, BeOS or even Windows.

NextSTEP was probably the closest to it, but even its UNIX underpinnings were more a side effect to speed up its development and make it easy to port software than anything else.

So my daily OSes have become Windows, OS X and Android. The fact that Apple and Google have a UNIX kernel is totally irrelevant for the programming languages I make use of.
5 Lessons to Be Learned from Washio’s Shutting Down
Wasn't OpenOffice own by Sunacle at some point?

I think that's when a lot of users moves to LibreOffice.
Is it truly a flight from work? I think most of those men would work jobs if they A) existed and B) paid better than disability.
The OP asked if it was possible that the government sabotaged the launch because the national company behind the payload was in the process of selling itself to a foreign company and rival power.

There was no hint or insinuation of racism, you chose to see what wasn't there. You talk about paranoid rationale of countries killing birds thought to be Israeli spies as absurd, your rant trumps that paranoia.

The question itself is quite valid because, on the international stage, Israel is known for playing hardball and not above making attacks against allies or on foreign soil. However it's clear that other countries, particularly the US, have a far greater interest in that deal falling through. In any case it's not unreasonable to suspect sabotage though Israel isn't the most likely suspect.
Muni Broadband Roadblocks: 25 State Laws That Impede Competition
bogleheads.org is a forum for the discussion of conservative investing approaches, but it ends up tying into proactive and insightful discussions about all sorts of lifestyle issues. I enjoy it a lot!
Google link to get around the paywall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
> I logged in, a chat box would open with some first-name-basis employee asking me if I'm happy with the product and whether I'd be interested in upgrading.

Oh my god, those damn chat boxes! I work for a company that uses one of those chat box providers. They seem to be actively used and i haven't gotten many complaints.

With that said, our chat icon just sits in the bottom. However, often when i login to the icon provider (to check messages, reply to customers, etc) they have a 6th of my screen taken up by some fake non-replyable chat announcing some faq item, new feature, etc.

I've downvoted every one, and they just keep coming. The activity of it is quite annoying. Especially since we're already a paying customer for them. I hope to god my company doesn't decide to push any of these fake messages out.
Some of the Stack Exchanges do well here. It's not 'discussion' in a free-form sense, but in general I've found the focus of each SX and the Q-and-A format to provide a good way to talk about topics without going off the rails.
I use a coarse sea salt that is a little larger than kosher salt. It works out better with fish and meat.
AirFrance does coach on the upper deck -- you might need to pay a tiny bit more to get them, but definitely not the same as a business class ticket.

I highly recommend trying to get a seat up there as well. It has less seats than a regional jet in a coach config, and you feel completely isolated from the chaos below.