skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd be interested in reading that discussion if you have it handy.

Sure. It was a discussion [0] of an article by Troy Hunt entitled "On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt" [1].

(There have been a few other recent discussions [2,3] that also mentioned EV that you might be interested in.)

> I've been looking into SSL recently for some personal sites and the easiest method has been a combination of GitHub pages / Cloudflare.

That seems to be a pretty common setup (for "easy"), as well as static sites on AWS S3, etc.

Most of my sites run WordPress on my own (physical) servers so I can't personally comment on those methods.

> ...aren't EV certs just a cash grab by the issuing authorities?

That seems to be the popular opinion (at least here on HN), though I can understand the desire to use EV over DV in certain situations.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14805233

[1]: https://www.troyhunt.com/on-the-perceived-value-ev-certs-cas...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14749565

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15221119
Seems like part of uber's moat is the driver network -- having drivers available everywhere.

But at least that part of the moat disappears when you no longer need drivers.
Bias Suit Could Boost Pay, Open Promotions for Women at Google
With Google's warchest? Without a doubt. Google could run these guys over with their unsold inventory alone. Though I imagine that's probably used to prop up the CPAs of their big buyers. They could also snap their fingers and add a taxi app to all devices with Google Play Services.
The price you're quoting from your utility likely includes water treatment, transport of the water to your home, transport of wastewater from your home, and wastewater treatment. I would be surprised if you're paying anything significant for the water itself.

It very well may be that Nestle (and many other companies) are under-paying for their water rights, but I don't think you're comparing apples to apples.
I guess in that case you could explore other options - sports, cadets/scouts, martial arts etc could all potentially help a child develop discipline and willpower to some extent.
Google sued by women for pay discrimination in potential class action suit
> It was one example, not every single free thing on the Internet that I find highly valuable. Open source would be another, which is mostly supported by volunteers and straight-up paying customers

Paying customers receive more value in most cases, it's not the same content. A good reference is a paywall in this case.
I love open source, but how many people get a wage out of it? You only see success stories here and not that much I'm afraid.

+ I don't know any newspaper online that earns money without ads or subscriptions. For now, there are only 2 business models and currently subscriptions gain importance -> paywalls

>if no one can use spying ads anymore, that'll mean the end of online media? Or even just online news?

My guess is more paywall. Interesting articles will be found less on HN

>I'd not be a bit surprised if eliminating tracking gave bigger players enough of an advantage that those days came back.

Not sure if I agree. You mean that, people will have to choose for paying for subscriptions, so the best quality articles after a paywall will get the money by creating better articles. But it leaves less space for everyone else. I'm not sure if that is a good thing, but I understand the reasoning
That makes sense. To be fair I wouldn't call myself an Android or iPhone fan but it is the only thing that has Applications. Ok sounds like postmarketOS is your best option.
Really? Uber is still the only app that I can almost frictionlessly use when flying over different cities.
...and then the facilities manager threw up their hands, sighed, said "yeah, but what can you do..." flipped through a couple of emails on the old smart phone, then went and sat down and watched some crap on youtube for a few more hours, until oh... 4:35 PM, close enough, and clocked out for the day, with the wall still unpainted. C'est la vie.
Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot (2016)
Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank [video] (2014)
> that would either mean a lot of new taxes or cannibalizing other important programs

Like the state of Endless War? https://theintercept.com/2017/09/13/the-clinton-book-tour-is...

If I had my druthers I'd like to see the "defense" budget halved--I don't understand what $600 billion of military spending gets us over $300 billion, and Ron Paul, a libertarian, ran on that very platform. It's okay to say that $300B isn't enough to cover the costs of UBI, but it's a damn sight closer to meeting that threshold, and in my opinion it would result in a lot less blowback (read: future excuses for more military spending). This is something that is still essentially off the table amongst mainstream political discourse, and that is a problem.
Often humorous and witty comments are my favorite parts of HN. They are far better than posts on a topic where people seem not to have read the article.
> User-settable keys also compromise the security of the device.

Not if a physical modification to the hardware, a set of button presses, a hardware token or a fuse is needed to set said keys.

> And in general it's risky to introduce stuff like this because the potential for unforeseen security compromises is very high

There is little to no risk if physical interaction with the hardware is required for setting keys. If you have physical access and enough time, all bets are off anyway.

> ...and the upside is very low (the number of people who'd actually take advantage of this is extremely low relative to the number of iPhone users).

There are many people who dream of having the freedom to roll their own firmware on a particular device and it can be done without compromising the security of said device. This was not just about iThing users (who might/not take advantage of this), this was about people spreading FUD about the tivoization part of the GPLv3. Root signing keys don't need to be shared and the only requirement is that the user can take the sources, compile them and then run the result on the target device. As long as the OEM distributing the GPLv3'ed program gives a clear path for running the compiled code on the target device, then it is not a problem.
It's too bad that this particular point has become an issue with so many good open source projects. I still think that the risk, even for startups considering acquisition exits, is low (see this great post from a patent/IP attorney [1]), but the fact that it's enough to cause players like the ASF and WordPress to move away from it just means fewer players and less innovation in the ecosystem.

IANAL, but I wish the lawyers at Facebook would take one for the team and relax a bit on this (hey, more work for them, a plus!). If you're going to sue Facebook over patent infringement, you're probably going to spend a lot more on the suit itself than the eng costs rewriting a view layer.

[1] https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...
Hamas launches the equivalent of sugar rockets with an explosive attached and lacks any precision.

North Korea is tinkering with a delivery system capable of placing nuclear weapons in the exact position necessary for optimal damage.

These things aren't equivalent, it's like comparing a rudimentary wooden wagon to an F1 car in terms of technology.
Microparticles created by new 3-D fabrication method release drugs or vaccines
As a Detroit resident, I would love to see this happen. Detroit doesn't have the resources to invest in infrastructure and Michigan doesn't have the will to do so.
In the 60s Russia and the US manufactured thousands with 60s technology. North Korea has access to enough ore to make good enough metals and knowledge from history of what works.

The difficult part for them is propellants. Historically they’ve used kerosene and nitric acid but the newer rockets use hydrazine compounds and dinitrogen tetroxide oxidiser, which means either they’ve advanced their chemical industry a lot or they’ve found a supplier.
Seems if you say anything negative about China even if completely accurate on HN you get downvoted. Yes China has assisted NK:

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-sold-trucks-us...
Polari has some common English words.

According to a table in the Wikipedia, for instance cottage, a standard English dictionary word, denotes a "public lavatory used for sexual encounters" and handbag stands for "money".
XRP Is a Cryptocurrency Like the USS Zumwalt Is a Boat
I know what you mean. Hell, I've even used arch wiki for freebsd!
brm hits the nail on the head. Their infant formula practices alone are horrible enough to boycott their entire business. For anyone that isn't familiar, they convince people in developing nations to switch to free infant formula so they stop breastfeeding long enough that they stop lactating and must purchase expensive formula instead. The mothers often can't make the formula hygienically either due to poor quality water or other unsanitary conditions so it can lead to many problems.

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott#Baby_milk_issue

RIP Blue Bottle and long live Philz, Four Barrel, etc.
Where is Chuck Moore now? He used to write a blog that was sometimes quite educational.
Facebook removes feature that let ads reach 'Jew haters'
I can't wait for them to be split them up. It could be the EU or the Republican party that succeeds in making this happen.
That water would cost you $300K because your utility has to source it, store it for year-round availability, pipe it from remote mountain streams to your house, maintain all of that pipe, keep it clean, bill you, occasionally collect past-due balances from your neighbors, maitain a customer service center, employ unionized pipeline maintenance crews, buy the heavy equipment used by those crews, maintain that equipment, pay the unionized mechanics who maintain that heavy equipment, employ a security team to protect the safety of the system, etc., etc., etc. Running a public utility and running a bottling plant aren't the same sport.
Kaspersky Lab co-founder accepts invitation to testify to U.S. Congress
> Which service I use just depends on which app I feel like opening.

You could say the same thing about search engines, it's just a matter of which search engine you open. I'm sure you'll say 'but they give different results, and one is faster, and one doesn't track me, etcetera' - but you could make the same argument about Uber vs Lyft. At one point only one service offered tipping (although that's since changed). Initially Lyft drivers tended to fist bump their riders and would encourage them to sit in the front seat, although that seems to be less common. They do seem to be getting more and more similar, but it's not hard for them to differentiate themselves beyond price.
Because someone found it interesting :)
>People love to pay money to vote on things. Who would have thought?

Anyone who's active in virtual worlds knows people love to buy content and tip creators and performers.

>Why didn’t micropayments ever take off? No one ever tried.

Except virtual worlds, which have whole economies based on micropayments.
Would you like some code review to improve your Python?
The IPv6 Adoption Curve
I work in advertising.

I've even worked literally trafficking ads.

Targeting any more specific than a good contextual match is usually a waste and not any more effective. Advertisers do not need this information and should not be given it.
The agreement is that they show an ad in return for you seeing the page, that does not (and should not) mean that they get access to any more information than is absolutely necessary to display said ad.

If I go onto a site about bikes, I expect to see bike ads. If I go on a tech/programming site, I expect to see tech/programming ads. I don't like going somewhere and seeing random ads for something unrelated to where I am because some advertiser thought I might like Caribbean holidays or something. The solution is not to give them more of your information just so they can "serve you a better ad" (a trade that they benefit off far more than you do), the solution is for them to advertise contextually.
With small companies, it's much easier to hop to another small company than it is if you work at the only car plant in town.

And I'm sure there are restaurant owners out there who aren't complete assholes.
What does FreeBSD use? IIRC they've been trying hard to avoid the GPL
A couple of years back I learned how to use IDA in a binary and malware analysis class. If you happen to study in The Netherlands, the VU University Amsterdam is where that class is at!

I'm fuzzy on my memory, but man! This was so much cooler and better than disassembling stuff on the commandline! The cool thing about IDA that I found out are:

- its scripting language (we used Python)

- its ability to show loops and branches by drawing arrows to other pieces of assembly (it's a special view you can use)

- really good search and code labeling features: if you change on register name somewhere, then that's propagated to where that register is used in the rest of the relevant code

- the ability to patch programs: you can overwrite processor instructions, mostly I used instruction 90 which is the nop instruction (meaning: no operation).

These features are not unique to IDA, but from a beginner perspective: I thought they were awesome! We used some kind of demo version for IDA.
if they do anything to advantage installation and usage of their own app over the existing alternatives, they are going to be doing the exact same anti-competitive thing as Microsoft did with Internet Explorer.
We started charging 10¢ to post content on our social network. Our users didn’t leave. In fact, they are posting more than ever, and the quality of content has improved. Our experiment seems to be working. People are willing to pay to post content.

Neat concept (and good domain), but your top post has $2.28. The entire site has 20 new posts ($2?) over the last 24 hours. You don't gotta exaggerate to sell, it just makes me less inclined to trust you and your service.

Seems to be competing roughly with Steem. These services have a problem where the initial adopters are Bitcoin users or fanatical unpopular views (voat), which biases and ruins the community early. Interested to see if this avoids it.

Also, does anyone know what kind of regulatory upkeep a project like this requires? If a site like this operates with multiple currencies, it's essentially an exchange and probably has to register as such (they've outsourced this). However, if it just keeps user balances (not really a bank, but similar), does it have to register with any particular authorities?

edit: your site allows a blank password, the title is "Yours | undefined" on profile pages and the menu controls to the left of the message input are very unintuitive. How do they work? Also, the profile ids are from hell:

/90b5a6c4bfb6530398c8c5aa27e2b60e3a4611ddb2184c366b7d3ad41f0e9f16/

Don't men to be too picky, it's just very rough around the edges.
> If you replace a computer with a piece of paper with a different name on the account, it doesn't make it any easier for a service representative to override.

It certainly does:
* Before computers, most of the roles of the computer were not fulfilled by pieces of paper. It was the teller-of-the-past who was the human front-end and identity verifier/calculator/UI/running policykit instance/etc.

* teller-of-the-past was necessarily trusted to use their discretion to a greater degree than teller-of-the-present

* teller-of-the-past could cache the results of an identity verification on Tuesday to use as the identity verification on Wednesday

* supervisor could bless teller-of-the-past to teach teller-of-the-past2 how to do an end-run around policy foo for edge case bar, where edge case bar involves a specific human or category of humans. (As an aside, the supervisor could do this more quickly than a team of third-party software developers can code, test, and deploy an interface for the same human or small category of humans)

* piece of paper could not lock teller-of-the-past out of completing a transaction with the customer

* even if teller-of-the-past decided not to fulfill the transaction, the equivalent of the computer's identity verification algorithm was probably someone else standing in the same physical bank location who could be asked to help complete the task

> This isn't a computer problem. It has always been inconvenient to change your name.

I think what the author is trying to describe is a problem of lack of human discretion, which is something that wouldn't exist at the scale that it currently does without over-reliance on computers. Gmail and plenty of other services don't degrade to humans at all, so I don't think this is subtle stuff.
My treatment for cataplexy/narcolepsy. Only available in the US and Canada. It's also available in Italy, but not approved for cataplexy/narcolepsy.

Without the US, it wouldn't exist as a treatment option in Canada.

https://www.quora.com/Which-country-develops-the-most-effect...
Apparently that was for only 3 users.

It does however set a precedent, and if someone could take further evidence of this to court, on a much larger scale, those fines would stack up very quickly (as they ought to).
Behind all the drama with the Waymo lawsuit and the tornado that was Anthony Levandowski blowing through, Uber's advanced technology group has been quietly and doggedly plugging away at the self driving problem.

They announced today that they've logged their 1 millionth test mile, and completed over 30,000 passenger rides in Pittsburgh and Tempe.

I have no idea how good their cars are compared to their competitors, but, with 200 test cars, their operation is supassed in scale only by Waymo.

They're hard at work digging their moat. Clearly Lyft has some tricks up it's sleeve as well.
Powershell can convert JSON objects to .NET objects with ConvertFrom-Json. And it outputs decent JSON by piping objects to ConvertTo-Json. I think few people know about these cmdlets, but combined with Invoke-WebRequest, they offer access to any JSON API.

Since .NET objects can't be copied from one session and pasted through RDP into another, I'll often take an array or other object, and pipe it through ConvertTo-Json into clip.exe, which throws the JSON onto my clipboard. In the RDP session, I'll pipe Get-Clipboard into ConvertFrom-Json, all written into a variable.

Piping ( | ) sends objects from one cmdlet to another. Many cmdlets and functions have a preset parameter for pipeline input, and it's easy to specify this when making your own functions. Foreach-Object ( % ) can have cmdlets act against each item in the pipeline, with $_ being the "this" character. Just remember to wrap them in curly brackets, as this marks them as as the script block being invoked.

Additionally, Powershell can interoperate with CSV just as easily, with ConvertFrom-CSV and ConvertTo-CSV.

Want a simple API? Here's a one-liner - just host the output with IIS:

While ($true) {Get-Process | ConvertTo-Json > C:\www\ApiFile.html; sleep 60}

For a more interactive API, the .NET HTTPListener class can easily be called and built upon.

My favorite part of the language is the type system, where you just put the .NET type in square brackets before the variable. [string]$myString = "Hello World"
Equifax and the Apostrophe
Same things you do if someone puts the wrong business hours in the Google maps databases.
I honestly have no reason to prefer Uber over Lyft except if maybe one is surging and the other isn't. As an end-user the experience is indistinguishable, especially since most drivers drive for both services. At least with Bing I'm a little annoyed at worse results or that the videos don't go direct to YouTube.
This is quite inaccurate. From Philz' website:

"Here at Philz, we roast our own coffees at our roasting plant in Oakland, California."

https://www.philzcoffee.com/our-coffee

They obviously don't do espresso drinks but there are about 1,000 places in San Francisco that do (Four Barrel, Ritual, Stanza, etc. etc.)
I didn't see knockout.js - might be worth adding (speaking as a maintainer )
> I entirely fail to see why Nestle should get a huge discount for water that is then sold to American citizens at $1.79 a gallon, for a 122,976% markup.

Well, when you phrase it that way it sounds terrible, but it's a completely bogus comparison. A retail water user is paying not just for the water but more importantly for it's storage and delivery to their doorstep. That increasers the price. You also are not buying in bulk. If you were, you would only be paying $50-200 an acre foot as most California farmers do to have water stored and delivered to their farms. Nestle is only paying for access to a water source. Is $524 too low a fee for a permit? Yeah, probably, but the company isn't "stealing" water, and compared to what farmers pay for similar amounts of water isn't not that that different.
Getting that high has a couple of advantages:

1) You conserve fuel by following a specfiic flight path and it has the added benefit of also getting out of the atmosphere. The ballistic trajectory that they follow is the minimum-energy trajectory. Putting this another way, you maximise payload for a given amount of fuel, and so can deliver a bigger warhead for a given rocket.
Additionally, why plough through half a sphere of air when you can get up and out? The advantage of their extreme range is that they escape the atmosphere and so don't deal with atmospheric drag the whole way.

2) Intercepting something coming down from above is far harder than intercepting something coming at you from down low, so it has that added benefit.

I'm sure there's other advantages, but they're the ones that spring to mind immediately.
Everyone is welcome to a preference of course, but I wonder why you assert Four Barrel is "much better" than Philz. If we're talking about non-espresso drinks, I know many people who prefer Philz. They have a huge variety of custom roasts and make remarkable ice coffee with cream. I like Four Barrel too, just surprised to see Philz dismissed out of hand. Most people who come to visit me in San Francisco end up going home with a bag of Philz' beans after trying a bunch of the third wave shops.
I don't suppose you have a link to the Chuck Moore interview; I would love to take a look at it.

(Alan Kay and co. also argued that point.)
I agree that the risk of running into legal trouble with Facebook is pretty low for many companies. However, that doesn't make it feel any less dirty. It would be nice if the lawyers at Facebook would take a chill pill on this one but that will never happen. It will be interesting to see where OSS projects from Facebook go moving forward given that the noise surrounding their patent clause seems to get louder and louder.

On a side note - I'll bet WordPress get's rewritten in Vue.js
Maybe for posting, but 10c to consume or upvote content might be too high. Think about how many pieces of content you consume on a Facebook feed or on your reddit homepage. And 1k upvotes would translate to $100...sounds rich to me. Wonder how they intend on preventing spamming posts / content farming / gaming the system in that kind of environment.
> That would be true only if you assumed around a huge number of top tech company hires were those prime developers.

I do assume that. Yes, there is a distribution of abilities at top tech companies—but virtually everyone I've worked with at a good company could easily get other offers.

If you actually worked at a top tech company, your bubble should be similar to mine—I have a hard time imaging that many of your FANG colleagues are having trouble getting good employment offers.
They're pre-aliased to curl and get. ls works too. Most of the options won't work of course.
There's a lot of comments here about Powershell, but this podcast (with a transcription, yes!) has a lot of other great discussion on MS's transition from waterfall and how it's effected the people.