skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DNSSEC may have a lot of the same design limitations as HTTPS PKI, but it could still be an improvement if it represented a parallel, redundant piece of security.

But what we see is CAs authenticating cert applicants based on DNS (the ability to receive email verifies your "control" of the domain) and DNSSEC rooting to a Verisign-managed registry, just like the early days of SSL PKI.
When people make comments like this, it makes me think you've never played TF2.

I have never had a problem where a number of people on a server are trading (except on dedicated trading servers).
Great! I'm glad DigiNotar will be punished for this lapse. Too bad it takes a code update to revoke their certificate. This won't be the last CA compromise we see.
I love the ribbon. It briefly brought me back to Word from LaTeX. I am by no means a Word power user, but I found it 2007 much easier to use than 2003.

(I also have a Mac and prefer it to Windows, but I interact with it mainly through the terminal, the browser, and emacs - and I can't be arsed to learn powershell or whatever in order to do the same thing on Windows)
This reminds me of Portal: The Flash Edition
http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/
why haven't you built it yet ? The probability of being accepted as a solo founder would be greater, if you have a product and have traction if its an amazing idea.
Speaking hypothetically, if I were to have sensitive documents on my network they wouldn't be on a computer with access to anything but the LAN. Your definition of sensitive seems to differ wildly from the definitions I've seen from corporations.
For the purposes of knowing assembly as well as filling in gaps where a C compiler cannot produce optimal code, yes.

I exclude C++ or any other language here that hasn't been around for 3+ decades.

Otherwise, doing real world apps in assembly is moronic.
I thought it sounded intriguing until I realized your entire codebase has to be public. Are there actually any popular SaaS products that are 100% open-source? Releasing open-source components and libraries spun off from your app is one thing, but open-sourcing the whole codebase that constitutes the core of your business? Is that done?
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Ask HN: Advice on licensing software code to a company
We (my partner and I) were recently approached by a company that would like to license the code for the raw features of an app we built. They want to build an app that has the same functionality for a market that we are not interested in venturing in. Any HNers have any advice on common pitfalls or situations to be aware of when going into a software license agreement? Thanks!
I have no idea how I might go about arguing with you; it's as if I were to argue "a brief search of the literature suggests that P is definitely NP". Give me something more specific and I'll give you the context behind it; right now, I don't know what you're talking about.

(Sigh). Fiddler pops the browser certificate warning when you use it; it's not breaking TLS.

You must just as productively say "my friend assures me AES is broken; maybe that's what Iran is doing." Just like your competent admin friend, there would be some reason for him to say that; it just wouldn't be relevant.
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Yeah, many users even don't understand the file system metaphor. MS unleashing the full fury of cut/copy/paste/files isn't really helping user experience.

But MS is a highly engineer dominated tribal culture. I don't see how they can overcome that. I guess the windows explorer will survive another decade.
Gah! I'd been wondering how to do that--thanks for the tip!
You predicted that you would be downvoted for your views. Have you considered the alternate explanation that your fellow HN users appreciate a fresh perspective but don't appreciate dragging the tone of the discussion into the gutter with abusive stereotypes like "Apple fanboys?"

It's getting to the point where the use of the word "fanboy" in a thread effectively ends all rational discourse.

https://twitter.com/raganwald/status/108314926933753856
Only if that parallel, redundant piece of security (a) isn't relied upon as a single point of failure by any component of the rest of the system (note how many DNSSEC advocates seem to want DNSSEC as a replacement for the X509 PKI), and (b) doesn't have 15 years of its own security vulnerabilities in store for us.
They really ought to add a search field to that list view.
I'd say recognizing the problem is good. If you don't want to lose confidence I'd spend every waking hour between now and your sit-down finding a passionate mobile developer.

On the other hand, just because your programmer became more excited when funding appeared doesn't mean he's not devoted now. It's not entirely irrational. But that's on your judgement.

In any case. If you don't like your position, improve on it. Unless you literally get bad news on the phone during your meetings with investors the discussion should be about what you've done, and what you are doing to solve the problems you have (and good news, everybody likes good news if you have it).
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So let me get this straight... just because good design is not the deciding factor to success, it makes it OK to settle for mediocrity?

Are you in this to make a quick buck, or to make a truly great product?
That's not a bad thing. The Steam quality control isn't perfect--a lot of more established developers seem to be able to get games through fairly easily, but, and given my tastes in games I consider this more important, there is a remarkable lack of indie shovelware all over the place.
Again, cut/copy/paste are technical terms - the intent a user is likely to form is, I have this word file here, and i need to put it onto this USB drive here. The large copy to button in the ribbon accomplishes that task nicely.

Remember, its not that user's cant remember right clicking, its that they shouldn't have to. Why should you need two different types of clicks, and 2 sub menus to Send a file to a drive, when you can accomplish it with a single click and a single sub-menu (as is demonstrated in the ribbon)

Making the initial learning curve simple will have implications on the overall feel & appeal of the operating system, but this is something that is difficult to quantify with simple software metrics.
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There are a ton of benefits to the model - it won't be for everyone, but it'll be for a lot more people once we get going at full speed. Open source is, in general, just more practical.

And yeah, there are a handful of SaaS products that are open-sourced, but most aren't maintained to a high-enough quality for our tastes. We'll work with developers to up the standard.
But iOS is only 18% of all mobile devices. Windows is 90% of all laptops/desktops. You are not comparing oranges with oranges.
PayPal is very simpel to use. Another suggestion is Stripe (I have no affiliation with them but our team just got an invite to try out their product and it is great), ask for an invite, their solution is very simple to use both for you and for the users - https://stripe.com/
So you really think you’re an entrepreneur? Let’s find out.
(full video) "The World According to Monsanto"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH4OwBYDQe8

Article on US State Dept Protecting Them
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/08/25/us-sought-talkin...
Just to bring some resolution to this, I received a response from Twitter today and, as I suspected, the namesquatting policy does not apply in my situation.

Disappointing (since I have a small group of useless domains now, .com, .net and .org) but a useful lesson.
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"This won't be the last CA compromise we see."

Indeed. I strongly suspect too that it's only "the first one we've seen", and not "the first one".

I have very little doubt that most nation-state sized adversaries have the ability to forge whatever certs they want. It's only careful use of those forged certs (or dumb luck) by the agencies using them that have kept them out of the blogosphere...
I think the author misses the point of what a really good web designer does. Most of the websites you visit probably don't exhibit award winning visual design, but I bet a lot of thought still went into the design of the user experience.

Certainly Google's no winning any awards for the visual design of their homepage, but they released it in a time when every other search engine had a 'Portal' on their homepage. On yahoo, lycos, excite, etc. search was one of like 200 modules on the page. It actually probably took some unique thinking and design for google to say "Let's make search the only the on the page."

You can certainly buy a theme for $500, but that theme isn't going to be designed for the optimal user experience for interacting with whatever it is that makes your site unique.
There seem to be enough of them to clog up I-5 on a daily basis.
Was there ever any shred of evidence that the actions of SCO were influenced or directed by MS? I'm legitimately curious.
True, but for reasons closely related to this discussion. Back in the day, the benefits of Macs were mostly invisible to novices when making a purchase decision. PCs looked cheaper and safer.

Apple has learned a lesson here. They are now heavily optimized for ease and comfort of purchase.
Azizam, unless you actually know the players involved in every hop of the loop, do not put your precious life in danger. If you are looking to organize, like a smart bache Terani you should go asymmetric on the the goons. Think sneaker nets, etc. I further suggest that you do not put your trust in superficially maintained hostilities between the west and the flea ridden mullahs. Remember those two brothers handed to Iran from US embassy. In one of those Persian Gulf states. They were hanged if you recall. Stenography, never signaling overt use of crypt, etc. are recommended. Qorbanat.
Because Microsoft gave Mojang an incentive, eg money?
Because all PC gamers can already get Minecraft but XBOX gamers cannot?
Since we're having a bit of fun, my suggestion would be to horizontally flip the level entirely. I suspect it would rapidly become more intuitive than you'd think; a shock the first couple of times, but just "how it works" after that.

Further edit: I have no idea why, but in my head the color palette shifts when the screen is reversed, like all the colors get 20% darker. (Perhaps I'm analogizing with A Link to the Past's "Dark World", which isn't really the same thing, but you are welcome to explain that to my subconscious at your leisure.) It doesn't seem like there's a good reason for that from a Portal point of view, but it would offer a subtle hint that you're supposed to be going the other way now.
I think the point you're missing is that most people only manipulate data that clearly belongs to some application. So, for most people, the relevant application managing their data and abstracting away the underlying file system is a valid option.

If that doesn't work for you, then okay. You're not most people.
MobileWorks (YC S11) offers APIs for crowdsourced intelligence
That's what I admire about John Carmack. He wants people to hack his games and do stuff with them. He pushes to release old engines as GPL (soon the Doom 3 engine will be released, offering some real game code to study for people wanting to get into game development)
We don't have to work verbally only. As I said, the "Contact" scenario is perfectly plausible and you can send diagrams just fine. Also recall as I said we're not talking worst-case scenarios where the intelligence is utterly incomprehensible, which frankly I'm pretty down on anyhow (I don't think "utterly incomprehensible" and "able to survive in our universe" work together, personally), we're talking about some reasonable alien that we actually can communicate with. And the idea that they might not have a concept of diagrams isn't the point, the point is that they might today.

The whole "But they might be incomprehensible and we might have zero common reference frames" is not really applicable here, just a fashionable knee-jerk reaction to "the alien question". As a possible outcome, sure, as the only outcome, no way.
Of all the Linux distributions, Arch is my current favorite. I especially like its init system and Pacman. It also has an incredible wiki.
Let's say I have an iOS device and wish to install a non-App Store app using it. Setting aside jailbreaking for the moment, what is the barrier to doing so? $500 or so for a new Android phone + all the time spent looking for replacements etc. The iOS platform is bundled with the App Store and there isn't much you can do about it.

Now let's say I have a Windows or Mac PC and I'd like to install a non-Steam game on it. What is the barrier to doing so? Pretty much zero, since there are a ton of other digital and retail options. Steam isn't the only way of downloading PC games, so there's plenty you can do about it.
Ask HN: Would you like to get a daily email digest of the top HN stories? 
I'm just wondering if anyone on HN would be interested in a service that delivers to your inbox, twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, the top links/stories that were submitted that day to HN.<p>I was thinking of building this for myself because I want to read the top stories without having to visit HN during the day. I know it's possible to get the top posts sent to my instapaper account via http://instapaperfeed.com/ which is great, but I realized that the 1 thing that I absolutey check every day multiple times a day is my e-mail and so that is where I want this delivered - preferably as I am leaving work and early in the morning when I am about to get started.<p>Wanted to know if anyone else feels like this would be useful to them.
You aren't locked into Steam for all game purchases.
Unfortunate coincidence. WebObjects was created a good decade before your average programmer thought of REST being related to the web and not a nap. Similarly, template generation in WebObjects relied on layout tables, because it was created in a time before CSS. Ultimately, this is what did it in, but Enterprise Objects...oh, man! I still haven't met an ORM as capable or well designed as Enterprise Objects!
I think the name is supposed to invoke “quirky made-up singular form of crustacean + mustache”, not “crusty mustache”.
They definitely built it for you and them.
I admittedly subscribe to the minimalist newsletter, but in my mind there is no better decoration than sunlight on a white wall, especially if it meets wood-coloured floor.
Yup.
a) a rare opportunity missed
b) I'd like to think we know more than we did 15 years ago, but compatibility with the existing DNS brings new challenges too
I am not a Randroid or very libertarian but I like Howard Roark's way of dealing with clients: you ask me to build X, and I will do it the best way I know how. If you want so damn much control over the how then you build it.

It irks me when clients tell me how I should do the thing they're paying me to do. It seems counterproductive and is insulting.
NodeSocket; A node.js hosting platform is looking for co-founders
NodeSocket is building a node.js hosting platform and community for developers. We are located in San Francisco and looking for co-founders to help develop and grow the company.

We are launching our beta September 1st so we need all hands on deck. Read an article on VentureBeat about us: http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/10/nodesocket/

If you have any of the skills below, shoot us an e-mail hello@nodesocket.com. Sorry must be local (San Francisco).

var nodejs = {description: 'Bad-mofo node.js hacker; npm, socket.io, express.'};

var sysadmin = {description: 'Linux system administrator. You live your life attached to an SSH session. CentOS, Xen, Nginx, Lighttpd, MongoDB.'};

var design = {description: 'Designer. Should be able to make layouts in photoshop and chop them up into HTML and CSS while taking shots of patron.'};
Great database! Glad somebody finally built an API around grocery
Yeah, if NSA doesn't have at least one root CA key they're not doing their jobs. What we need is an alternative to the centralized CA system, like TOFU POP MONK.
Actually, every time I have to use the ribbon (my institute's laptop has office 2010) I start imaging an addon which "learns" what are the most used commands and configures the "Home" (or another) ribbon tab showing icons to access those commands. Surely, someone must have already thought of that no?

This is similar to what MS did with pulldown menus in the pre-Ribbon days. It sounds like a great idea but it turns out to be a terrible one in practice. During the critical "newbie" phase, as a user begins to work with the program, the UI never seems to look the same twice. Tasks that should become reflexive never lose their dependence on the brain. At the same time, more advanced users are left wondering what interesting features they might be missing.

You really, really do not want a UI that changes behind your back, or in ways that aren't explicitly commanded. Resorting to discrete novice / expert modes is a venial sin in UI design, but "personalized menus" is a mortal one. It's about the worst thing you can do, and IMO there's no reason to think it would be any better in a ribbon-oriented model than in a menu-driven one.

(Edit: I do agree that restricting the adaptive menu scheme to a specific ribbon tab might be a more promising approach than monkeying with the structure and layout of the standard tabs.)
That's a good idea. I would still feel dirty though. ;)

Edit: Would definitely participate if there were an active equivalent based on the HN code (tweaked to have expertise tags, etc).
The current leaders are way overpriced IMO ($9 to $49 per month per agent–are you serious?)

I'm assuming these services are targeting companies with people working full time on support, where that $9 to $49 is a drop in a bucket compared to their salary.
Since you are posting from Iran, can you verify this certificate is indeed being presented?

Also, how are people sure this is being perpetuated by the Iranian government? I'm asking because I see no evidence in the pastebin dumps, yet many people here seem sure the Iranian government is behind this.

There was another indecent earlier this year for which Iran was assumed responsible. This turned out to be false (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215245/Solo_Iranian_...)
I have an OCZ from a while back, not sure on the exact model but it has been running fine for over 2 years.
Even when pacman gets confused the steps required to fix it are very simple - because the developers don't believe in allowing magic anywhere in the system. It's as minimalist and elegant as freebsd and slackware were 15 years ago, but it's as feature complete and very nearly as easy to use as Ubuntu.
If you think that design is just about making a layout pretty you're missing a large chunk of what designers do.

Go ask Happy Cog what went into the redesign of Zappos and how much of it was just making the site "pretty" compared to the amount of time making it easy to find products and convert customers.

BTW linking to the websites of what are primarily mobile apps is pretty weak sauce.
"partisan bile? Sounds more like the poster is an independent who's tired of Big-C vs. Big-L politics and really wants pragmatic change, not partisan line-toeing."

I think I'm an independent, but it's probably objectively possible to look at my position here, and claim that I'm siding with the Democrats. So be it: if the Democrats want single-payer health care, then I'm on their side, and I guess it makes me "partisan" in the eyes of people who disagree.

There's nothing inherently wrong with being partisan -- the problem comes when people are partisan without reasons beyond party affiliation. Demonizing "partisanship" is a rhetorical trick that dresses up ad hominem attacks as legitimate debate.
I'm probably the only one to think that it's good that MS keeps buttons that are less used.
Cause you see less used does not mean NOT used.
Sure cut&paste is going to be like 80% of the use, but when you make a new dir you're going to have that working and in front of you.

Here's the key sentence,take note:

It's not how OFTEN you use it that matters most but how USEFUL it is.

Browser makers, please take note when you remove 99% of the UI. Thanks.

Beside I know most "noobs" look for these functions in menus and will love the buttons. Even on OSX many just don't know how to move/copy. They can do it in iPhoto or iMovie, but when it comes to the finder they're lost.
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+1 on the wiki. It seems that when I'm searching for general Linux problems the Arch wiki comes up as a top hit with greater-than-average frequency.

+1 on Arch for that matter. :-)
Did you consider that you haven't missed these things because you aren't used to using them?
Zappos needs Happy Cog. Most YC companies do not.
I agree but what would happen if your son had to navigate Windows Explorer on a touchscreen? He may never have to but if older users are experiencing similar difficulties with the filesystem, little can be done with the command bar to completely fix this issue.

I have no doubt that this UI, though cluttered, will help users out but I question whether this is ultimately the best solution.
I might be biased, but I disagree that it's "just hacks". Certainly hacks are involved, but there are a number of best practices and methodologies involved in proper third-party scripting. Which are covered in the book.
"...write code..." Congratulations, you are part of the less than one percent of the world workforce that are developers. As a developer, even I only need full filesystem access when I am developing, which is a fraction of my time. Having full filesystem access is an important use case, you can have it. For the rest of the world, it is a usability barrier.
Respectfully, every designer in the world says this, and if you believe it without question you are setting yourself up to pay whatever they say your problem is worth, despite the fact that you are the best judge of how big an issue design is or how out of whack your UX is.
I haven't looked at Minus yet, but is the "but, but ... Dropbox!" argument going to be brought up every time some form of online storage is advertised? I, perosnally, decided Dropbox was not the right solution for me at this time. I don't need the starving man's repository; I need my crap backed up. Without having to move everything under one folder(some commercial software doesn't cotton to you just choosing where you want to store your data). I don't play musical chairs with multiple computers. On the off chance I was using my laptop away from home and needed to access something, web access is sufficient for me.
Learn how computers work. Assembly is great but it's only the interface to the vehicle.
"you and I may understand [the importance of design], it doesn’t mean others do. Especially when they can point out success everywhere around them that goes against what we believe in."

That's a great point. I think the article ignores a lot and may even be a textbook example of confirmation bias, and I don't think the author understands what good designers do, or more worryingly, why an off the shelf theme couldn't have worked for say, Facebook or Google Maps.

But that one point above is worth taking away, and something designers should think long and hard about.

My own personal opinion is that you can't polish a turd. But when you polish a diamond, it's makes quartz look like shit.

Full disclosure: I'm a designer.
Great idea, now I just need to learn some RoR ...

Seriously, this is something that can have the same effect on application as the web had on publishing. "Just write it and place it out there ...".
This looks awesome. Nice work.