skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'm parsing your post correctly, but as I understand it you're talking about third party websites accepting responsibility to protect you over an insecure network connection. If that's the case, then I think you're mistaken.

Certainly SSL is not required on every page, and MITM tools have been around for some time (including fairly friendly ones like Cain - http://www.oxid.it/). At the end of the day companies such as Facebook, Twitter et al have a moral (and in some cases legal) obligation to protect the information assets you uploaded to their systems from compromise. Likewise it is not unreasonable that you take certain steps to protect yourself.

The current version of FireSheep is a real known threat. We don't know what might be in future versions. For protecting against Session ID theft, SSL and the secure flag on cookies are the way to go. Certainly for data that doesn't need to be secure (such as static publicly available graphics), there's no need to use SSL for the majority of use cases.

The use of SSL for delivering dynamic client side code (such as HTML or Javascript) is an interesting issue, but ultimately the user has to bear some responsiblity for their own actions somewhere along the line. Not every network is insecure, not every browser has to support a zillion and one insecure means of using Javascript.

Rather than using SSL on every page and expecting the web sites to do the heavy lifting, consider not using insecure bearer networks, or some sort of means of securing insecure Internet links such as a VPN or SSH tunnel.
If you're using nginx, check out [1] for instructions on how to get it working.

[1]: http://blog.dembowski.net/2010/02/25/startssl-and-nginx/
I think calling him out publicly by name was too much, and that she should have filed a restraining order or charges against him if she thought it was that traumatic.

Again, not excusing what he did, it was stupid as all get-up, but he was probably plastered and thought he was being adventurous.

Also, if a woman did this to a man, he would have said "whoa whoa whoa, now... no thank you" and walked away, and nothing would have been said.
No problem. Happy to help!

Hmm, this probably sounds very simple, but how long do clients generally take to decide? And maybe it's also better to think of it in terms of how long it takes to attach your design, photo, etc to an email, for the client to open the files from that email and align it on his screen...

I'd imagine that must take at least 5 minutes? I'm not particularly familiar with the area compversions is operating in, but you get the idea.

I like "Faster decision making".

Unfortunately, I don't have a link. I saw him give this speech in Toronto.
Debt Saturation Chart
I like it but can't see it taking off until QR readers are standard on mobile OS'. I imagine the percentage of users with both smart phones and QR applications installed on them is pretty small.
> The problem is the impact that the unreality of the Internet has on people's psychology, and what happens when Internet psychology crashes into cold, hard reality.

I am not sure you can call it unreality anymore, except maybe for people above a certain age.

> So you've got people talking about "innocent until proven guilty full stop" […], and other people saying "she wasn't actually injured so what's the big deal"

I think you misrepresent the ratios of "some people" (and omitting all the e-hug responses). Unfortunately this played out as I thought. "Innocent until proven guilty" is brought up because of the name and it will continue to be a distraction.

Well, perhaps there shall be a trite apology come Monday.
For the wallet and metro pass they just use a separate RFID card (pasmo or suica). Which is actually pretty normal, you don't really see that many people using their phones for the gates at the metro.
I was being vague on purpose. :)

An otherwise completely normal European country.
Ask HN: What do you use?
Inspired by the usesthis.com link, I thought it would be fun to see what hardware/software/etc. HN uses.
Accusing someone of sexual assault is defamatory. This would be a clear cut case.
Hence my follow-up statement about the impracticality of playing catch-up with every single social network simultaneously. Just keeping on top of changes to Facebook's APIs takes up way more of my startup's time than I'd like.
> Tcpcrypt is opportunistic encryption. If the other end speaks Tcpcrypt, then your traffic will be encrypted; otherwise it will be in clear text.

I like that, as opposed to requiring users to have to install some plugin before they can even talk to the server.
The entire faq is very very long.
Here's a tl;dr high level list of rules and philosophies: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html
You can also SSH tunnel out to a secure server, which is what you should do on any public network that isnt under your control.

It won't protect you from man in the middle attacks on the general internet, or fix the underlying issue with most websites, but it will stop firesheep.
I've literally never heard of this (live in Japan, know lots of Japanese people, see a _lot_ of iPhones out and about), and I basically don't buy it whatsoever. Maybe it's something from a couple of years ago?
'Old fogies' obsession: Turning waves into power
So true. I lost ~3h of work because I screwed up my hg repo with msc dissertation somehow... on the hand-in day. Then in a panic, tried to restore it - of course I made a mistake in rsync source and destination and overwrote my backups before I could stop the sync (also ignored modification times - yay).

Fortunately I had another copy on bitbucket. Not the latest version, so I needed another day to finish all document formatting.... but I'm not sure how this would end otherwise.
I really just don't understand how you can hold this idealistic view of mankind that a member of one sex should enflame the passion of the opposite sex, through activities and clothing with deliberate, intentional sexual overtones and then expect people to overcome their natural, biological response to that kind of show.

All the other men she was hanging out with were able to do it. Speaking for myself only, maybe you are different: raping a woman has never crossed my mind, even when my "passions were enflamed". It's not something I have had to overcome.
One of my favorite passages:

"We were sitting around saying we can't understand why America isn't doing better in renewable energy," says Fred Lightfoot, 82, an allegedly retired electrical engineer from Bremerton. "And then we thought: 'Hey, we're engineers. Instead of complaining, as we usually do, why don't we come up with something?' "
Was just a failed attempt at humour.
He says "value", but he seems to mean "lightness". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV for a discussion (and neat graphs) of the differences between the two. I really like using HSL to choose colors since it is very intuitive (much more than RGB) and it's really nice to programmatically choose similar colors by just tweaking the saturation and lightness parameters.
It's not a FAQ but a book!
How to Make the Front Page of HN Without Even Trying
The logistics of the story as written didn't make much sense to me, either.
Is any basic piece of interactivity done in canvas/html5/something-not-flash worthy of an upvote?!? Do we have to go through seeing every bit of graphics code anyone ever ran on an Apple II get ported to HTML5?
Interesting, looks like businesses can 'claim' their 'places'. Wonder if it's just a 'list' feature for their already implemented location service? Or is there something bigger going on here?
>MCAT arguement

The USMLE exams (Step I: basic science, Step IICK: clinical knowledge, Step IICS: clinical skills, and Step III: clinical problem solving) are more like the bar exams.

> this is a specious comparison because the exams you cite are professional vocational exams which correspond to a specific career path/domain.

Well, you're throwing in the MCAT, which is an aptitude test based on Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, more like the GRE than the USMLE or bar exams.

> there are so many different ways that things like literacy and numeracy manifest

Literacy and numeracy can't be measured? You sure you want to hang your hat on that?

Look, to quote Allah, I mean, pg, himself, (http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html)

> To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.

We can easily modify this paragraph to most if not all domains and industries. I leave as an exercise to the reader to modify it for "improving education".
Plus he's using the default theme of wordpress.
works for me - shows an image of twitter hq plus tweets that apparently originated there.
Giving up your weekend to learn to contribute to open source does require motivation. Whether you do it through instruction or self-study is a matter of preference. That some people are not good enough to contribute to open source because of their learning style is a poisonous attitude.
I do think websites should try to protect their users over an insecure network connection, yes.
My first thought was the bboying scene. I was ready to break out the tapes and a card-board (I bet you don't even know what the last one is for, huh? It's like a yoga mat, for people who eat meat.)
Do we need a social browser? RockMelt debuts
> First, the author says "Touching someone without their consent is assault." I hope that's just a not-so-well-thought-out sentence.

Me too. Technically, it's battery. Assault is making someone afraid of battery. (Common law definitions. Many states have codified somewhat different terminology. There's also distinctions in what's required between the tort of battery, and the crime.)

> I hope we don't end up in a place where just touching someone (like a hand on someone's shoulder) is actually bad.

It's not actually bad. It's bad if you do it when they don't want you to. When they don't mind, it's fine. When they welcome it, it's good.[1]

Keeping one's hands to one's self is something everybody should have learned in kindergarten.

[1] Note that verbal consent before hand need not be the gold standard. But if they intend to sue or press charges, it's damn good evidence that the touching was not welcome. If they shrink away, it's not welcome. If they lean into it, it is. It's really not that hard.
I'm not necessarily against fixed bid work; I do a bit of both depending on the situation. However, fear of being stuck at a particular rate isn't a good reason to avoid hourly billing.

I've raised my rates at least a dozen times over the past decade, and not a single client has complained. It just requires clear communication and a reasonable ~month's warning.
Richard Feynman distilled
Phrases like 'has to convince the market' always turn me off an article. Especially when dealing with FREE stuff. What exactly IS the market for 'free'?

People will use Ubuntu as long as it is good, and Canonical will make money supporting it as long as people use it.

Personally, I prefer Kubuntu... But that doesn't really make much difference, does it?

I've used other distros in the past, but they all came up short in ways I couldn't deal with. Slackware always seemed to be needing something hand-compiled... Debian always seemed to be years in the past, which generally meant I had to hand-compile things there, too. RedHat and I just never got along.

Then along comes Kubuntu and improves Debian in the one way that mattered to me: It was current.

I like that Ubuntu stays edgy and always uses new things as soon as they are ready for use. (I will admit, sometimes they do it a bit -before- they are ready.) Seeing them move away from X, I actually considered trying it instead of KDE for the next release. We'll see how it goes when it's here.

And it's not like this affects Ubuntu servers at all, either. They don't even use X.
"I hope that's just a not-so-well-thought-out sentence."

This was at ApacheCon, which was in Georgia. A quick Google says that what she said is probably the truth, albeit maybe a bit oversimplified. The only difference is that touching would be considered battery, not assault:

"Simple battery is defined under Georgia law as intentionally causing harm to another person or touching them in an insulting or provoking nature."

http://www.mygeorgiadefenselawyer.com/georgia-criminal-offen...

Regardless, I think that what the author actually said (touching without consent) isn't a bad way to think about what not to do. If I put my hand on someone's shoulder, do I have reason to believe they won't consent? Not at all.
> if a woman did this to a man,

If some women did this to some men, ...

Your sense of outrage should not rule her bodily autonomy.
So in exchange for what they say is making my life easier, faster and more social ... they get to log everything I search for, index everything I share, watch everywhere I browse, earn revenue off of my searches, and store it all in their cloud?

Yeah ... I'll pass.
Be extremely clear about requirements - to the point of overdoing it. We've had some success with outsourcing but when it's failed, it's been due to us not giving specific enough requirements and "assuming" certain things are obvious.

Nothing is obvious.
What is this?

a brand new account doing offer HN?

a throwaway account doing offer HN?

I'm all for offer HN, but this is just plain silly...
Is it safe? I recently learned that a CAT scan has 400x the amount of radiation as an x-ray and that it's speculated that a nontrivial number of cancer cases are caused by CAT scans.
Do you believe art has value? If so, do you believe it is valuable for artists to understand their craft so as to make better art?
Formulating for terseness, I think the responsibilities fall as follows:

1. The community to ensure that such things do not happen[1]; and

2. The police to ensure that a specific person does not do such things.

Dunno how useful the proposals are. At first glance, they strike me as things that only involve the people who already are not a problem.

[1] Inasmuch we can. In the near-to-mid future, I think it must be expected that some number of predators still exist.
Seems to be a lot of spam, at least in the Java bugs
It's a tiny detail on an otherwise cool site, but the 10 character maximum on the password when you create an account is really annoying.
My son is gay
> put an appropriate price on the value you're providing to clients

My point exactly...

Actually, my whole point was that I try to bill:

(value to client) div (my willingness to do this particular project)
That's really horrible victim-blaming site. It also presents men as out-of-control animals. Sort of rape-robots who have to be placated at all times so as not to lose their thin veneer of civility.
No, they offer a list of linux games, a forum for the discussion of linux games, and a store for buying linux games.
The only reliable way to consistently improve conversion rates is A/B testing. Take two (or more) options, put both of them up redirecting a percentage of your traffic to each, and measure how they perform. Then iterate.

Don't neglect marketing, including SEO, paid marketing, guerrilla marketing, and more. It doesn't matter if your conversion rate is 100% if you only get 1 visitor a day.
"My sons picture should not even be taken and put on this page with out my consent!"

In an age when almost everyone has a camera and Internet access in their pocket, I'm amazed at how ignorant people still are regarding photo/privacy rights ... and I'm not one to have high expectations of society.
I regret nothing!
Crappy MSNBC-Fires Olbermann
First Conan, then Olbermann, watch the MSNBC fine print contracts....contd.
I may be biased towards high-end consulting, but my response to this is "1 billable day, minimum". Flexibility is something that is valued by clients, which means it has a price.

Strong relationships are something that has value to me, so if I reasonably can, I'll tend to just do stuff that takes an hour or so for free. Every consulting proposal I write takes 2-4 hours from my life, minimally. The last one I wrote required a 3 person research project over several days. We'd never charge for a proposal, so I'm not going to freak out over 1-2 hours.

(Dave, Jeremy, and Cory might disagree with this assessment.)

If you're ever wondering why I have zero sympathy for designers complaining about "spec work", there you go.
Nancy Pelosi Still Wears the Pants in the House
Nancy's got the pants to fight the right wing agenda-dismantling health care for Americans...contd.
You're not following. The intent must be malicious. That the impact is defamatory is, at least to some extent, besides the point. What's he's saying is that she could even be mistaken and still not be liable.
They were all thwarted... but the water and cargo bombs were thwarted by intelligence work, not by security screening, and the underwear guy really should have been.
The impact on short-term climate change is negligible. If the timeframe you're looking at is the next 50 years, it makes almost no difference to climate change because climate change is affected so greatly by natural cyclic factors such as solar flare activity.

However, it will most likely have a devastating effect on long-term climate change, because any damage to the ecology is cumulative and symbiotic. We do depend on plants to turn the carbon dioxide we exhale into the oxygen we need to respirate, after all.
Anything is easy if you ignore the hard parts.
Pretty sure that it's legal to comment on the law in any "normal European country". Even France.
- Laptop: 13-inch Dell XPS, 4GB RAM. My original model (XPS M1330) literally went up in smoke and Dell kindly sent me an updated and upgraded version (Studio XPS 13) for free. I like the size, but it runs very hot and has some terrible design features like the air vents which are half blocked when the screen is open. Next time I'm getting a Thinkpad.

- OS: Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. Rock solid. Launcher/dock: Gnome-Do, Browser: Chrome, Editor: Vim, Version Control: Git (though my Git skills are still a bit shaky), Music: Songird.

- Special mention goes to Redshift (http://jonls.dk/redshift/), which is one of those colour temperature programs. Recommend you try it or f.lux for a few days. If I turn it off at night I can barely look at the screen it's so bright.

- Second OS: Windows Vista 64. This was pre-installed. I can't stand using it (not sure which of the home/business/ultimate editions it is), but I've kept it around for occasional Sky Player (for watching Premier League games - needs Silverlight), Photoshop and Portal.

Other electronics:

- I had a pair of Ultimate Ears Super-fi 5 Pro headphones
and they were incredible: Total isolation and excellent clarity, even on the tube, but they have gone missing. I'm going to order another pair soon.

- Nikon D300 Digital SLR with a few manual primes. I love the heavy, solid feel of these lenses. There's no going back to a kit zoom lens with a plastic mount after you've learned to focus quickly, which doesn't take long. My favourite lens by far is the 105mm f/2.5: http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkore...

- Mesa/Boogie Nomad 100 guitar amp, was going cheap in the local classifieds. Weighs a ton, is impressively loud, keeps blowing fuses and even doubles as an extra seat. In front of it sits a Crybaby wah, and I need to get a delay pedal to put in the loop.

- A battered up HTC Magic phone.
> Let's consider just the kissing portion and nothing beyond that.

I did not get that she had a problem with the just kissing part: everyone might get the wrong impression in some situation, it is somewhat understandable (plus movies make spontaneous kisses appear romantic). Heck, maybe he even had a crush on her? Anyway, in a normal encounter, she says "no", embarrassment all around but no real harm done. The problem was that, apparently, he did not take "no" for an answer.

…

There are obviously biological differences between the sexes and it would be a disservice to pretend there are none when trying to establish codes of behaviour. In this particular case it is rather irrelevant, though.
Please, no. Keep Atom for feeds please. I really don't like people shoving everything into Atom feeds. For a todo list, damn, either plain text (OrgMode or something similar) or HTML.
"Do you believe art has value?"

Yes. But in a less practical way than other things people do (including, in some cases, programming.) And no, I can't really define "less practical" rigorously, but I think most people will understand what I mean.

And that's not to diminish anything from art, by the way. I'm not saying that more practical is better or worse, just different and worth considering. I love mathematics, for example, a lot of which also has no practical application. And it even resonates with less people than art.

"Do you believe it is valuable for artists to understand their craft so as to make better art?"

Yes. But from what I've heard of literary criticism, it usually doesn't have much to do with "studying the craft in order to make art better". I could be wrong - I'm certainly basing this opinion mostly on things I've heard/read second-hand (by, for example, Orson Scott Card, my favorite author.)
You know, creationism and demon possession are both quite crappy. But I'm not impressed with biology out of academia either. I don't care about your evolution or fancy germ theory...
Very common misconception, but it's still a problem. Any client with the network password can capture the initial key negotiation, and then decrypt the client's subsequent traffic. You can enter the network password in Wireshark: http://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11 .
I clicked through to the link where the people in the town meeting call him a pedophile. I really enjoy watching the town meeting -- 15 minutes of chaos and whining for no reason. People continue to amuse me.

BTW, why is it OK to use "pedophile" as an insult? If you used other mental diseases as insults, it's considered offensive. ("You're a retard!")

(Incidentally, I am not sure what insult to use for someone that thinks there's a link between wanting to have sex with undeveloped children and videotaping developed teenagers committing crimes.)
Five bucks says you'd be attacked as a terrorist supporter.

Damn good idea, though.
Open Source became "magic pixie dust" right from the beginning of the term with the Mozilla Project. At least in The Cathedral and the Bazaar someone found reason to refute it. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...
I don't know what "jamming his hand into my underwear and fumbling" even means

Is there any context/interpretation/way of which some dude jamming his hand into your underwear and fumbling after being told you weren't interested in such a thing wouldn't be considered highly invasive?

Jesus H. Christ, only in the geek community can people be outraged at backscatter machines and TSA patdowns, and then try in rationalize sticking your hand down a woman's pants despite her protests.

Disgusting.
Student machine learning competition site launches with Stanford's Stats202