skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system doesn't have to be fair for it to be better. So Symantec and Verisign can use their clout to get around the rules. Fine. Let the system be unfair to the smaller CAs, and better for end-users.
I benefit from library's near me that I have never been to. They among other things reduce crime in my area which then reduces the need for shops in my area to protect themselves at night, which allows for both lower prices and longer hours. Could other things provide the same benefit, of course video games also reduce crime.

But, the choice is not to eliminate these library's and watching identical private ones pop up, it's between having them and not, and by having them I benefit more than it costs me for them to be there.
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Wow, excellent tip. Thanks! I used http://www.google.com/#q=new+york+times+shopping+habits and it was the top result.
It is what governments are for, but given the current spectacular failures of government, quasi-monopolistic corporations that can afford it might as well take on some of their functions.

There's a tradition of plutocrats contributing in this way [1], and like the commenter said, it actually would help Google's business.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
I think we agree more than we disagree, but I'm not fatalistic about browser CA roots; I think there are basic tactical things they can do today without breaking thousands of sites.

I agree with the world view you have, though: of the 3 most important organizations that control CA policy (I'm guessing that's Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft), you have 2 companies for whom CA policy is small-ball that they're just not going to fight hard over, and the third is easily pushed around.

So, calling it like I see it: Mozilla isn't standing up for anything here, so much as they're getting rolled by abusive companies.
> Installing organization-specific self-signed roots in all company devices is more than just 'a pain'; it's fundamentally impractical for any organization that wants to let employee-owned or public devices onto its network. So just don't do that?

Yes, just don't do that. There are sufficient mechanisms to distribute security policy configuration to company devices.

Silently sniffing traffic from external, personal devices is unequivocally unacceptable. I would be livid to know that a company was silent pretending to be my bank, my e-mail provider, or even just Amazon without my prior consent. Having to explicitly trust their internal CA is exactly how that consent is supposed to be provided.

The CA system's trustworthiness is fundamentally broken. I am austounded that Mozilla did not immediately remove the CA certificate from the trusted set.
I had attended college for three years and realized that wasn't where I wanted to be at that time. I didn't have a job offer. In 1999, I quit school and moved to DC for a summer job. After that, I worked as an office temp for two months before I landed a job working on web pages.

In order to make up for my lack of degree, I really busted my butt learning everything I needed to know to build web applications, how to make them scale, build and manage databases and mange servers. After 13 years, I haven't gone back. I'm still learning. Every day.

Going to college, you get an education. You learn how to learn. Afterwards, you start learning for real.

Granted, you're in a good place having tuition covered. I didn't. I walked away with student loans that I've since paid off. In college, you'll form friendships that last a lifetime. That's important. It's an experience worth living. You'll be lucky if the people you work with at your first job will remember who you are in 10 years (1 or 2 of them will). You'll have other opportunities later.

Leaving college early to get a job, I'd do it again. I wouldn't do it right out of high school.
I am earnestly surprised by the collective HN reaction to this story. While at first glance it may seem as though there are commenters on very opposite ends of the geopolitical spectrum, they all have one thing in common. The distinct belief that this is someone else's fault other than their own.

No matter your stance on public vs private services, what good does it do to argue on the internet about how other people are running things. What happened to the government formed of the people and by the people, and the intrinsic responsibility in these types of matters that we all should bear? When will we all grow tired of commenting from the sidelines and begin to get in the game?

This group as a whole consists of some very smart, creative people, with a heavy lean towards entrepreneurialism. I would be willing to bet that if we all put our heads together we could come up with a solution that would not only put these libraries back in the black, but could generate extra revenue for our companies as well.

To kick things off I will throw out the first idea. Obviously, companies producing web applications have a vested interest in the universal access of technology. What if we could fund some of these training classes by offering these public libraries referral programs that would allow them to profit from teaching customers how to use our applications and services? Citizens learn new technology critical to their well being, we receive new signups for our services, libraries make a cut. Obviously this is very general and ripe with logistical complexities. It is meant to spark the minds of people much smarter than I am.

Not to sound too ridiculous here, but I for one still believe that we can fix this country if we ditch the someone else's problem attitude and start focusing on solutions.
Has anyone seen Something Ventured?

http://www.somethingventuredthemovie.com/
Please use metric. It's the 21st century now.
I hate replying to my own post, but it's done already!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b9_1329576173
Company's network, no privacy, full stop. Pick your battles. The problem isn't that a company wanted to MITM SSL traffic on its corporate network. The problem is that a CA was willing to allow them to hijack the whole CA system so they could do it on the cheap.
The documentary was funny but also interesting to learn and remind about the methods that documentaries use to make audience believe what they are saying. It uses many similar methods that can be seen in modern documentaries too: scientist verification, undermining the opposing sides research data, being against status quo and introducing relatable humble normal person trying to prove the view (and suffering doing that).

It was fun to notice that although I knew it was wrong, some part of me wanted to believe it :).
been on CM since WiMAX/4g was added for the original Evo. $25 in, well deserved.
I'd upvote this many times, if I could. I got in the habit of doing several hours of work a week at the library while my kids were doing various activities, and I loved it. At first, I did have that "gee, am I just taking space" moment, but just as Thomas points out, this is actually what libraries are for--they provide knowledge services (that is, books and internet access) for free.

I'd also recommend that if you do use your local library, support it, too. I don't necessarily mean monetarily (which we do, via, uh, late fees), but if someone in power is considering cutting funding, tell them they really shouldn't do that.
We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

Be careful when generalizing from your own personal preferences and cognitive biases to what is easier for humans in general.
This was really funny. I couldn't figure out if it was very very dry humor mixed with people that believed what they were saying or if everyone believed it. LOL
You know where all the public money has gone for libraries? War.

I'm glad someone pointed this out, because I came here to do this. But that money has actually gone two places: war and welfare transfer payments, as Alex Tabarrok describes in Launching the Innovation Renaissance, where he says that "the big four of defense, Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security eat up $2.2 trillion, or nearly two-thirds of the U.S. federal budget."

We—collectively, as a society—have elected to spend steadily more money on war and transfer payments. A lot of library funding comes from the local and state level, but local taxing abilities are partially contingent on how much the federal government is taking, and what the federal government is spending that money on.
Loving everything about this!
The tax system in the US works exactly as you describe the Indonesian tax system.

Moving up a tax bracket only taxes the additional income at a higher rate. This is the definition of a progressive tax.
Macros are a method to do programmatically what read can do lexically. Using macros avoids having to load strings into sexps and modify them and build callable constructs out of the modifications. With macros, you just define the modification as a transform on s-expressions and let the macro facility do the rest. The point is to modify the AST and while read can be abused to do that macros are designed to do just that.
I appreciate the insight. Money isn't really the issue for me, and I don't plan to skip college altogether. I feel that with one year part time, and one year full time experience, when I do graduate I'll be much more marketable and my job prospects will be better. I also expect that I'll be more focused in college given that I've seen how what I'm learning applies in the real world.
Either way - having more options can't hurt.
It's funny how you can look at one mostly-benign comment that just happens to bring up politics (and mostly as a tangent to the point it wants to make) and see how it drives the whole thread off the rails. Just eyeball the torrent of BS political posturing this set off. I'm not blaming the author or anything; it just seems like a miniaturized version of a problem that hurts the whole site.
Why hackathons are such great events, both for coders and entrepreneurs
isnt every language that takes string homoiconic? because code is string and , string is also valid data type in that language? (by wikipedia definition)
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How many paying users does basecamp have?
I found this 37signals SVN article celebrating the 1,000,000th customer back in 2006 http://37signals.com/svn/posts/106-basecamp-turns-1000000

Does anyone know of any more recent estimates?

Thanks
What do they mean with "New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2." ? It's not the "android" or "ios" version they are talking about, since those are still in development, right?
This is why I use SMPlayer. It has all the features of VLC and is less resource-intensive, to boot.

Edit: also displays subtitles a lot better.
It doesn't matter how simple, boring, bland and dependable your product is, your logo should not be bland, especially if you're marketing to the general public.
One thing that might not obvious to people moving here is most of silicon valley is very suburban, and if you work in the south bay, most of your coworkers are going to be married with families in their 30s at the very least. Even in the startups. If your single, try to live and work in SF proper. Far more of your coworkers will be in your age range and the gender ratio will be somewhat more balanced. The commute from SF to the South Bay is a frustrating hour minimum.

Rent wise, SF and Palo Alto have about the same rent, even though half of Palo Alto and Mountain View is 1930s craftsman track houses.
Does anybody have a link to the source? It's giving a 404 from the website right now.
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What are you quoting? The picture you post says "Give us a FIVE-STAR rating! Higher ratings mean more features!" I take this to mean they will develop their higher-rated games more than their lower-rated ones. Where does it say you can have more features in exchange for a high rating?
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People write TLDRs for their comments whenever they feel they expended more words on the topic than they feel were necessary, it doesn't imply an expectation that no one else would read it.

When I write a fervent wall of text I think is worthy of reading in full, I don't put on a TLDR, I just pity the fool who doesn't take the time to partake of dense knowledge.

So, TLDR, it is the author feeling the content is lacking in a dense section of text more than the reader having a limited attention span that leads to TLDR's. I think.
If someone thinks libraries are antiquated and are no longer useful then they are just plain ignorant. They really have no idea.

I'm home and I'm using online resources from my library at this very moment. I use online library resources about 20-30 hours per week.

I regularly send off emails and notes of appreciation for their services they offer. I've also established a relationship with IT in several libraries as a go to person when they need an external check on a service that I regularly use (EZProxy issues usually). Why do I do that? It's actually completely selfish of me. I want them to know that the esoteric and underused databases that they are subscribing to are in fact being used and offering aid diagnosing helps uptime. I was actually told that they were going to unsubscribe to my favourite portion of a database because they didn't think anyone was using it!

I made a random comment to a librarian about a year ago. She started showing me their subscription databases and in 10 minutes I was hooked.

Librarians are so god damn helpful.
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"IE3, the first version with CSS support was also released in 1996"

I'm pretty sure that while IE3 and even IE4 had some CSS support they didn't implement the box model yet, padding-inside or padding-outside.

(But I wasn't sure enough to put it in the post.)

It's also likely that Microsoft knew what was in the spec before it was finalized and officially published.
Never give up. You should use affiliate links to sell the products that are getting reviewed.
There was a script provided with the OS X .dmg (at Goodies/Delete VLC Preferences)
Syntax is the vietnam of programming languages.
I may sound a bit extremist here but, when talking of scientific literature, the results must be published. All modern science bases itself on results being distributed, so other researches can validate or dismiss them.

May the terrorists du jour use those results? Of course, as they can also fund its own research and duplicate them. Someone researching a vaccine or treatment will depend on the publication of the results too, but the chance if them being able to proceed their work without the publication is lower.
I leans heavily toward the libertarian side, but I think libraries are one of the most important social services provided by local governments. Unlike other programs, absolutely everyone can get some direct benefit from the library - no matter what age or income level.

Libraries, in my opinion, are a model of what social services should look like: universally beneficial, only practical at the community level, little chance of moral hazard or conflict of interest by any party involved (don't return a book, you lose check out privileges - the only one hurt is the perp).

Next time you think of buying a book, seriously check out your local library system.
Symantec and Verisign

Nitpick: Verisign isn't in the CA business anymore, Symantec bought it.

Let the system be unfair to the smaller CAs, and better for end-users.

But how is the system better for end-users? If a big CA fucks up, they're either at the risk of being MITMed or of having half their secure sites stop working. If no CA had more than, say, 10% of the market, a fuck up would only affect a small number of the sites they use.
> I suspect that any correlation might actually be negative.

How so? Is your suspicion based on the possibility that fame changes people for the worse?
Just curious, I clicked through a lot of those startups, then landed on ThinkNear.

Initially, this led me to the conclusion that this article was actually a load of balls, since this startup made the cut. I say this after struggling to figure out what their startup actually does... yet seem to say that they have been featured on TechCrunch, gigaom, mashable etc.

After Googling, I saw that yes they had actually been featured on TC and the like, but in July 26th, 2011.

How can I startup which says they are backed by Google Ventures, Qualcomm etc, based on http://www.thinknear.com/aboutus.html and clearly have gotten substantial press coverage, not have done anything in the last 7 months?

Their entire website, is just a .jpg. (Right click on something), and then the "Learn More" is a mailto:.).

I agree by the way, the original blog did list some pretty cool startups, and I clicked and read quite a lot of them. But then this one just confused the hell out of me.

http://www.thinknear.com/index.html
I just want to mention as an extention to this thought bubble, a better phrasing would be "this is what small, local, regionally influenced and funded governments are for".

If boroughs and counties had more relevance in society they could easily do things like this if they feel it would be beneficial (IE, they are a rural community with little techie knowledge, so offer training and info sessions to the populace at the local library!)
As masklinn put it, it's really about the homoiconicity of Lisp. But with that said, I'm not convinced at how great that is. While macros in general can be useful, is homoiconicity generally a good thing?

It's rarely the case that I want a single representation for all my data -- and if we treat code as data, do I want a representation that is indistinguisable from all my other data?

For example, the distinction between data that specifies layout (html, xaml, etc...) and that which performs logically computation (javascript, c#, etc...) seems like a useful distinction to have.

While I can appreciate the AST form of s-exprs I also do like the richness of many standard languages -- and the semantic richness of their ASTs.

Lastly, treating code as data (and vice-versa) has been the bane of many programmers of days past. Go back 40 years and you can find many developers who did treat code as data (it was all actually viewed as sequence of bits by many) and this caused no end of problems. In most modern systems there are often safeguards to specify data and code segments and ensure that you don't treat one as the other. While not completely analogous to Lisp macros, it does show that you tread dangerous ground when you attempt to treat all forms of data as indistinguishable.

Given the special purpose nature of code, I don't mind (and actually appreciate) a well thought through syntax, and a special set of functionality to interact with it -- as I do most special purpose forms of data.
I like the idea of these aspects of the library being somewhat replaced by the coworking space.

Where I work out of we have a lot of space for random drop ins, currently these people though are mostly highly technical. Government could provide funding for a place like this to hire someone to assist people getting started with technology.

While most of us working there are busy, we can usually take a small amount of time out of our day to meet someone new and give them a hand.
I'm an ultra-libertarian because I'm fairly certain that giving more revenue to the CA general fund will result in more money given to pensions of 55-year old state employee retirees, and not useful public services like libraries. The large bureaucracies in this country (CA, NY, and national governments) are incredibly dysfunctional and captured by special interest.
Researchers create on/off switch for credit cards to prevent RFID theft
goowhat? arent they the ones wanting to hack the dns protocol with those opendns spammers some month ago?
and now they flood the net with bogus dns because the decided to implement a search feature for idiots inside the url bar? please die google asap.
I don't see why you would. Can you shoot a car that invades your space?
Totally forgot about kids! We took our kids to the library all the time when we were working out of it. Now we have nice offices downtown and our kids get to the library... never. Yet another benefit of working from the local library at least some of the time.
Ah, shit, you're right about SYMC (I was actually scratching my head about how they were so dominant), thanks for pointing that out.

My logic is simple: fewer CAs selling the whole Internet trust scheme to the highest bidder = safer Internet.

If SYMC's CA is going to be above the law, so be it. We don't have to solve every problem simultaneously.
A lot of engineering in the US (especially civil) still uses standard. Believe me, I would prefer metric because it makes calculations 100x easier, but there's a lot of legacy stuff out there.
The situation in Detroit is dire with the most frequently used libraries being closed. There's strong community support to keep the libraries open but the city is broke.

http://michigancitizen.com/neighbors-refuse-to-give-up-east-...

The Detroit library houses the second greatest collection in the world of baseball memorabilia which was given to them by the late Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell. Access is limited, items are being stolen and the collection isn't being well preserved. This collection could be a tourist attraction as a separate museum that would be self sustaining but the city lacks the seed capital to build it.

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/06/report_e...

I know it's popular in the tech world to say that libraries will disappear with the digitization of books. But what you don't understand is that libraries are the heart and soul of the communities that they serve and no software program can replace the function they serve.
I think the last part of your comment is true for white suburbanites, but it is generally new that you have options to change your race and gender to something that can match your own. It's easy to not realise the difference in immersion if you're white (as I am) and the main character in games is the same as you. In ME1 I ended up going with an Indian main character, simply because I've never played a game which had an Indian protaganist. So it's not so much about stretching the suburbanites as allowing non-white-suburbanites to feel like it's accessible to them.

I also wonder how long it will be before main character voices can have their accents tailored - the Australian female lead in ME2 kept popping out like a sore thumb to me. Here in Aus it's weird to mix Australian and American accents in media. When watching US media, the accent is filtered out a bit and you can get immersed. When you get a mix like in ME2, I find it breaks immersion a bit. Hard to explain, but it's sort of like "these characters are speaking in 'movie' voice, except this one which is speaking 'natural'". A friend of mine was talking to an English teacher relating a story in a drama class in high school, where the kids had to write up some dialogue and present it. Halfway through, she asked "Why are you all doing this with American accents?", the response being "That's the voice you use when you're acting" :)
Even if it's not available in the App Store, you can get it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
I just stumbled upon this xkcd and thought it was somewhat on topic: http://xkcd.com/974/