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What is the target user group of this project?

People that value their internet security and are disappointed by the current SSL trust system.

I'm sure it will have to see a lot of testing by interested power users first, before it is ready for prime time / default integration into browsers.

Nevertheless, I think it is a very interesting development as it is much more realistic than the current trust system. Trust is no longer something absolute, eternal, dealt out by somehow globally fully trusted entities.
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This kind of fell apart for me when he kept strawmanning vim (and emacs I don't know it as well, but it is the same for purposes of htis argument) as a pure CLI. Given the rest of his argument about good keyboard access and visibility, vim falls pretty far on the GUI side of things. Yes, it is designed to run from the command line, yes it is a text based interface, but, it isn't the same as classic CLI stuff he is talking about like the unix shells.

Visibility: there are split windows, syntax and error highlighting, quickfix windows (use similar to dialogs in a lot of cases), file navigation, help windows, clipboard integration and so on that are so touted for the GUI in the article. (not to mention the status bar...) The gui is text/character based rather than pixel based, but that isn't such a bad thing when text and characters are the entire focus of the program anyway.

Speed: vim (and emacs) are well liked because they are very fast and have keyboard usability++.

From a different angle, an awful lot of well loved GUIs actually put a command line into the program. Many CAD programs do this, as do mathmatica (and other mathy softwares matlab, sass and so on), various repl programming environments, high end graphics packages, GIS software and so on. In fact a lot of those "best of" programs feel like they took the best of CLI and GUI and said "why does it have to be one or the other?", and instead smashed them together.
I was cringing all the way down through this article. Thank god for the last paragraph.
New project. Get involved on GitHub. Write the Safari/Chrome version. Until browsers ship this with their main product, users will have to install plug-ins.
Sorry, same sort of normative ideas + Reductio ad absurdum = what you said.

Clearly, there are cultural differences. However, name one country that’s military is made up of significantly more women than men. Far more women in the US go to college today than men do, go back 50 years and the ratios was very different. So clearly cultural norms change, yet there is less cultural diversity than you would expect if biology was not significant.

Edit: Another vary important thing to realize is that these biological traits are not universal. For example there is a huge amount of individual diversity in the amount of hormones produced at various stages of development. Some of these produce noticeable external changes and other impact the brain far more than the rest of the body. Multiply those differences with different developmental experences and the average says very little about the individual.
This is actually quite old already. It used to be "I have an idea for a website."
Moxie Marlinspike is the creator of Convergence. I highly recommend watching his Blackhat 2011 talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA) covering authenticity on the web and Convergence.
I'm not sure I like this solution very well. It's tied to a particular device and browser (unless you authenticate to the cloud or something, which means you have to deal with passwords anyway), and if someone sits at your computer they can log into all your stuff.

However, here's an interesting authentication solution I've been reading about lately[1] proposed by an actual security researcher. That blog post links to his peer-reviewed paper and to a talk that he gave.

The idea is basically to have a specific identity manager device he calls a "pico", with a little camera on it. Web sites can display a QR-code or something with its public key in it, you point the pico at it, and the pico authenticates with the site on its own. His proposal also includes weird "pico siblings" and stuff like that, which seems unfeasible to me, but some version of it as a mobile app might be interesting.

[1] http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/03/27/pico-no-more-p...
I don't know this factually for this specific instance, but often times, the big moves seen in "hostnames hosted" are caused by domain name registrars changing platforms. For exaple, GoDaddy serves an ad billboard page for every expiered or un-configured domain registered with them. This results in a huge number of these pages, so when/if someone like GoDaddy moves from, say, IIS to Apache (just an example), you'll see a big swing in the charts.

These kinds of statistics are interesting to look at, but they don't mean much to me. I select a web server based on suitability to my needs, not "what are all the cool kids using".
You explain the situation to them, and ask them if they'd be ok with 5% for the idea, expanding to more if they take an active role and actually help execute the idea. If they're not OK with that, explain that it just isn't worth it to you.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, it's not like that's the one and only Great Idea out there and it's certainly not worth ruining a friendship over.
Here is a link to a previous discussion on HN about Convergence, with some contributions by Moxie Marlinspike, the creator. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949199
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Vernor Vinge is also the person that came up with the idea of the singularity. Prescient more than your average author, it seems.
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If you know of some cool webapps, I would like to review them for part 2.
Or, "It's sure to make millions of dollars, but the idea is so revolutionary and so top secret that I can't tell you anything about it until you agree to do all the work." Oy.
Thanks!

The easiest way to get started writing plugins is by:

* Writing little functions and mappings in your .vimrc.

* Looking at the code for a relatively small plugin someone else has made.

Give it a try! Vimscript is awful but making plugins is still fun.
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>> Besides, you don't even need to install Vista to get an upgrade copy of Windows 7 working. A Google search would have told you that.

Win 7 won't accept my product code because it is an upgrade code. I googled it.
What did your anthropology professors tell you?

I'm talking about the very basic level, where women generally have nurturing roles: raising children, caring for the sick and dying, preparing food/clothing.

Obviously there are examples of cultures where men cook or women hunt, but I can't find any culture around the world where women don't traditionally have nurturing roles.
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> i would like to work in PHP command line code

Just, just no. PHP has many uses, but the command line isn't one of them.

Also I don't think pulling in a script over HTTP is such a great idea, I know it was done for simplicity but why not tell people to download the script first and save it alongside their main script, then just use an 'import filename'.

Now what would be useful, and could probably justify pulling in a module from remote, is if it kept up with Facebook API changes.
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One of the main security risks is social engineering.

The only reason why my mum won't be tricked into adding a rogue CA root is because it's too complicated to do for her, even if she wanted to.

* If it was as easy as installing a fake Flash plugin Trojan, she'd have installed plenty of rogue CAs already;
* If it remains hard to do, she'll stick to the default config, which is what she does already.

So, the main change wrt the current PKI system is that by default, her browser would probably check a certificate validity against a couple of top authorities, rather than a single one. I guess it would make getting a certificate a couple of times more complicated, hence a couple of times more expensive (if the process of trust propagation is fully automated, then I'm no safer than with a single CA signature).

To sum up, I don't see how this would improve the situation for average Joes and Janes. Since Paypal, Amazon, Google etc. primarily care about average Joes, I don't see why they would adopt that kind of cyberpunk technology.
Yup, this has happened to me several times back in high school, when all the shitty bands used to approach me asking to make a website. At first I was like "yeah, cool!" and then they automatically expected me to update it consistently and do things like handle merchandise sales. LOL. Yeah right. Then they get mad at me for not maintaining it. I'm like "I made the thing, you update it".

That was my lesson. I don't make websites anymore for people without charging thousands of dollars and an hourly fee for any future work.
Doubly recommended. Moxie Marlinspike is a great communicator and I suspect watching that talk will answer many questions people are likely to have.
Nice article. I don't agree on the version numbering scheme though. In vim, version numbers are major.minor. Each plugin should define a variable g:loaded_PLUGIN_NAME that is set to the version number as integer (= 100 * major + minor). I.e. 0.1 is 1, 1.2 is 102, 2.12 is 212. This is important for dependency management or when users put code into after/plugin/name.vim that patches a specific version of a plugin.
There are lots of statistics in the survey. They do talk about "Active" sites. I just thought that this one particular comment was the most surprising, so stuck it in the title. It's still a pretty impressive statistic, even if it does include parked pages.
I think the fundamental issue is that the powers-that-be at AOL that helped bring the fund into existence wanted to do it IN ORDER TO leverage the TechCrunch name.

AOL didn't know that, and apparently either didn't care or wished for a conflict of interest.

Arrington knew there would be no conflict of interest from his own actions, but has stayed 'blind' to this conflict in approach from his major LP. For whatever reason, he went ahead with this plan, causing significant agitation at TC, and also indicating to the TC staff how much influence AOL has right now; on paper maybe not so much; with only a few 10s of millions of dollars, though, they can rule Michael's roost.

This isn't going to finish well, but I think we all knew that.
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been doin it for a long time already.. so why not.
I once heard or read "competing with a rival gets you nowhere at best you're equal, to succeed you have to be better you have to excel beyond what they do."
You have to understand three things:

1. Not all the hacks require ninja skills, there's plenty of big targets with really low security that you can hack just by using publicly available automated tools. Also you need to consider that lots of crackers don't carry out targeted attacks. They need to hack a CA, there's plenty CAs in the world, all you need to find is one with bad security. You don't need to go after a big one, you don't need to go after the most protected application/infrastructure of them.

2. A person can have great skills and publicly brag about his hacks (Kevin Mitnick is a good example)

3. Another version of this, someone can have ninja skills and can be an ass at the same time (quite common in security industry)
Perhaps some nice and intelligent women don't care to battle their wits against others to prove their intelligence. Such arguments are often tedious, use baseless arguments, and leave others out of the conversation.
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The rule that "ideas are nothing, execution is everything" fails to properly acknowledge the class of ideas that come from genuine domain experts. In this situation (and presuming the idea does not require an absurd level of technical specialism and they can bring distribution to the party) then it can even end up being reversed.
Thanks for pointing me to that. I wasn't able to determine the real-world impact of the limited BIOS support.

Anyway, I use Windows for exactly one thing: accessing (horrible) web apps that require IE. My original point was that the installation process is a mess from the perspective of a licensed user – Apple hardware or not.
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I'm on my phone, so I can't quite properly. But to your first point, if it's as easy as "don't look at it", then you're saying there's no reason to not up as much information on-screen as Possible. In the file browser how about we show inode and sector/block information for every file? Add a button for every possible action?

Having too much on your screen is not solvable by "don't look at it". Suggesting otherwise flies in the face of everything we know about interface design.

As to saying that changing programs being equivalent to typing "cd", I don't see how that makes any sense. When you change programs you need to remember how that program operates, it's shortcuts, its features, and so on. Does this Program autocomplete or not? What's the shortcut for "send email" again? It's a heavy context switch. "cd" is not. And since this post is advocating GUIs, that means specialized programs with guis for different tasks. Email, editing code, vcs, file manipulation, and on, and on. That's a context switch for every task and a new environment to work with.
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The problems of certificate forgery and CA's that are too big to fail, can be fixed by extending the current system, to require certificates to be signed by multiple CA's, who do not fall under the same jurisdiction or influences. I wrote about this idea yesterday:

https://grepular.com/Solving_the_SSL_CA_Debacle_Using_Multi-...
"To all the people in this thread who seem so absolutely sure that the gender differences are strictly biological, do you fancy telling us what exactly makes you so sure?"

I don't believe gender differences are strictly biological, but I think the balance of evidence points to biology being a factor:

1) The differences in the prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders. E.g. .1% of women are diagnoses with autism, vs .7% of men. Similarly, 5.4% of girls and 14.1% of boys age 11 - 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD. And 12.3% of boys and 7.1% of girls have been diagnosed with a learning disability.

2) Different psychoactive drugs tend to effect the sexes in different ways, suggesting that there is something in the chemical makeup of men and women that effects consciousness that is different to begin with. We can see this both qualitatively and by looking at the differences in the statistics for usage patterns.

3) The fact that certain drugs can make a person more or less empathic, or can make flowers more or less pretty (brighter colors), or whatever, shows that it's definitely possible that many of the purported differences in gender are attributable to biology.

4) Cognitive development research that can find cognitive differences between the sexes as early as a few weeks in age.

5) The fact that women tend to become more like men in their late 40s when their sex hormones are fading away. And the other way around. And how this effects people's behavior, e.g. this tends to be the age that most women start businesses.

6) The fact that sexual orientation seems to be determined be prenatal hormone exposure, combined with the fact that SSRIs and other serotonergic drugs can temporarily make people attracted to the 'wrong' gender. (E.g. make straight people gay, make gay people straight, etc.) I think it's telling that these drugs that alter our consciousness also impact/determine our sexual orientation. It strikes me that sexual orientation is probably profoundly connected with sensory perception, emotional processing, and consciousness in general.

It would presumably only take a few tiny differences in consciousness at birth to produce fairly large differences in twenty or thirty years. We tend to work at things we're already good at, and neural nets can be strengthened like any other muscle, especially if there is social encouragement pushing in one direction or the other.
Let me try and think back to the last manager I had that actually had more than a 2-day leadership course in management training... (and the last guy was confident enough to say that it was a waste of his time going to the leadership course, 1.5 months before his best employee moved to a different job working for his rival).

I, also, if I'm really honest with myself, just want to build cool shit with my time.
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Haha... I will say "mock up" from now on. Thanks! (My dragon would probably end up looking like a fire breathing cow anyway) Great advice about securing customers first. If you can't do that it's probably not worth either of your time.
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The vast majority of people who are aware of a single great idea probably either heard it from some other party or just got incredibly lucky. People who can consistently come up with good ideas are a tiny minority compared to the amount of people who are aware of a good idea.
For engineering-heavy work (I work in telecoms where a fair bit of work goes into reliability), the choice of language is still pretty low in the importance compared to other decisions.

The language can make things easier (and quicker) to do things the right way, but it'll always be possible to do the wrong thing.
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You are talking about fraud, though, for Bernie, scam artists, and possibly spammers. In those cases they are supposed to add value.

Magnetic healing bracelets, well, we all know they work.
The author used those because they are more likely to convince the median reader than scientific studies. If you want those, Google Scholar is just a click away.
> Your default assumption about an unknown person seems to be that he or she is not intelligent and doesn't have anything worthwhile to say.

My default assumption is that the person is of average intelligence. Jobs is of substantially above average intelligence, as demonstrated by having founded and run an extremely successful technology company. That puts him ahead.

> why should I be interested in convincing you that I have something worthwhile to say? What is in it for me?

I've addressed this before as well, when I said "if you want to be taken seriously". If you don't care about the opinions of people who read your posts, that's fine. If you do care, cite your sources so people can tell that what you're saying corresponds to reality. Still, if you really aren't concerned about what people think when they read your comments, why not just write them in a text file? Why publish things on the net if you don't want people to think you're saying something worthwhile?
Show HN: A music chart generated by mining artist relationships on SoundCloud
I use soundcloud.com for listening to new music. There are lot's of producers sharing their music & it's a great site.

They have an API which I used to mine the relationships between users (who follows who) and so by using a PageRank style algorithm (UserRank) I scored each user in terms of how influential they are. I then used this to chart the 100 hottest tracks on soundcloud each month (based on an aggregate score of who created, favourited and commented on a track).

You can play each of the tracks directly from the page, either sequentially or randomly, so it's like a single page playlist of the best of that month (a little like an old style independent record shop, think the Rough Trade wall in London).

As UserRank is a function of influence and not pure 'numbers' it means that unlike a traditional chart top ranking tracks do not necessarily need a large number of people favouriting/commenting on them.

Note - doesn't play tracks on iPad as it requires flash.

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I saw this documentary once about a man who was half bat, half man. He implemented something like this using mobile phones in the area he wanted to look at.

I think he must not have gotten the sonar parts in his half bat bits.
Thanks for the advice. I honestly hadn't thought of securing commitments prior to developing a prototype. But it's definitely better to find out if people are willing to buy prior to investing a substantial amount, if possible.
Congrats!

Incidentally, anyone have an idea how I can profile my Node app to see where I'm using up memory and CPU resources?
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There really isn't that much C# in commercial software, even from Microsoft. You might find an accounting package here or there, but first-tier apps are almost entirely C and C++ under the hood.

For example, MS Office and IE are still used primarily in 32-bit mode on 64-bit systems.
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wouldn't some sort of public-key auth largely solve the problem of authenticating a user? I mean, I could give every site I use the same public key without worrying that they could then impersonate me to other sites.

Assuming I give them the public key rather than relying on some sort of CA system, we've also removed the problems inherent to authenticating through a third party.

As far as I can tell, the only problem with this approach is poor browser support. To my knowledge, the only public key systems that have wide browser support are tied up with certificate authorities and other stuff for actually verifying a real identity, which is a separate (and much more difficult) problem. It seems to me that if we just had something that worked like OpenSSH public keys that worked in a web browser, we'd at least have solved the problem of coming up with secure passwords for every site.
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I suspect that a) the vast majority of womenfolk simply don't exist - that some are outliers doesn't mean that the majority are alike, because give it what you like, b) social conditions are changing, for both men and women there are very contradictory expectations - so it may very well be that there is no way to be (culturally) satisfied, and thus c) the vast majority isn't happy. Add to that d), even if we are all up to making choices where we are truly existentially alone, many will for a big part of their life choose as their environment does, because choosing what you want is scary, and doing as others do gives - cold - comfort.

I think there are big changes coming up everywhere.

There are so many games one can play, which at least give a thrill, but that doesn't mean it's satisfying for life. It's like junk food. I suppose that's what much marketing does.

Society is not an intentional result - it's the unintentional result of sometimes (mostly not) intentional actions.