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Better to do a `SSL client compatibility test` before we choose it.
http://www.ssltest.net/compare/runtest.php
The street fighter xbox 360 controller. It has a different d-pad.
"Then comes the hardware, you know the part Intel does. It sucks too. Why? Because for the last 5 or so generations it doesn’t actually do anything noticeably better for the user. Sure the CPU performance goes up 10% or so every generation, battery life gets better at a slightly faster pace, and graphics improving extra-linearly but that is irrelevant if you aren’t benchmarking."

In a sane world, this would be a feature, not a bug. PCs are now mature enough that you can buy a decent machine and expect that it will not be hopelessly outdated in two years. This is a good thing.

The problem is that hardware and software manufacturers have a mutually beneficial relationship whereby new software just won't function without that extra 10% hardware capacity you get from a new computer. Even if it's a word processor or a not-terribly-impressive game. (Remember "DirectX 10 requires the power of Vista", which requires a much faster computer that XP?)

And the other problem is that doofuses like the article writer have been so thoroughly gulled by the planned-obsolence treadmill that they actually think that's how it's supposed to be, and throw tantrums if this year's hardware isn't at least 10 times shinier and more sparkly than last year's.
Same on a Mac. Command+Space to pop open spotlight. Applications are matched first. (Or use Alfred/Quicksilver)
I tend to take people that have a running douchey commentary with a grain of salt.

Plus he was going for validation, which isn't free and is a pretty obnoxious process regardless of who you go with.
We're not discussing whether or not you should have SSL at all. We're discussing whether it's worth getting Extended Validation, displayed as a green bar in browsers. E.g. currently at https://twitter.com you get a lock icon and a green bar that says "Twitter, Inc. (US)" — that's EV. At https://www.facebook.com you only get the lock icon — no EV.
There are mathematical descriptions of universes like this, but their predictions don't match our observations of the actual universe. For example, the Godel universe contains closed timelike curves through every event, but it predicts that we should see distant galaxies rotating with respect to nearer stars, with the rotation getting faster the farther away the galaxies are. We don't observe that.
I was a bit disappointed that the guide didn't include cipher suite strings/openssl config strings for the recommendations given (or did I miss it?).

I'd like to see the minimal strings needed for a) only tls 1.2 with RSA keys, b) like a, with DSA -- with only forward secrecy enabled -- and a' and b' with fall back to no forward secrecy.

I don't suppose there's any reason to allow eg: EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM if you only have certificates based on RSA?
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ah great...thanks. that seems like a huge time commitment to play through them all...the 1st 2 already too me months!
Given the 2% annual fee and the statement:

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An article that was on HN 8 months ago puts forth evidence to support that the rise and fall in violent crime follows the introduction and elimination of leaded gasoline. It sounds strange but every single country the researchers have studied exhibited the same phenomenon. Even matching lead contamination at the neighborhood level fits with crime maps.

Article: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006368
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/...

Very neatly.
Total Apple fanboy rant. The latest Ultrabooks are superior to the Macbook Air IMO. They are faster with better battery life and cost less. I prefer Windows 8 and 8.1 over Mac OS X ML and over IOS 7. I will never buy another iPad or iPhone ( I have an I iPad 3 and iPhone 5 atm) as I prefer the flexibility of my Ultrabook and Android phones have leapfrogged iPhones in almost all aspects.
Why does that matter if bar.org doesn't and isn't supposed to support HTTPS, and if there are no links to bar.org via HTTPS? In either scenario if someone manually types in https:// bar.org it's not going to work.
GPU innovation is happening in PC's, because they can dictate the power budget and space isn't an issue.

Multicore is also bigger in PC's than smaller devices, but that's mostly trickle-down from server-space.
Is it really 2013 and I am pretty much scraping away at dead trees with a piece of metal dipped in ink like a caveman!?

I'm the opposite. I love tech but I have an a4 sized sketchpad and a good pencil I take everywhere with me. I use it for everything from meeting notes to drawings/ideas. I'll use it to demonstrate ideas/concepts to a client or just to hlep me work out something (I'm very visual)

I can't see myself ever parting with it. I love the feel - there's something about using real pencil and paper digital can never replace, and I have a draw full of old notbooks I can look back through which is kind of nice.

As far as search/organisation etc well... a notepad's not so good for that but my drawings tend to be write-only. I use them as a tool to help me think and to clarify ideas.
Same. My 2003 Athlon Barton XP with 1.5GB of RAM is rocking in my loft as a handy Mageia Linux Minecraft Server.
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3558

We finally have H264 hardware decoding on Mac. That's the single largest missing feature that prevented me from completely switching to VLC. I used to open H264 videos with QuickTime.

Good job guys!
Any benefits over "just" xmonad + xmobar?
> You, like a real rich person, start to attribute success to your own individual skills and talents, and you become less attuned to all of the other things that contributed to you being in the position that you're in.

Rather than hammer an obvious point about the general bias against social services by the wealthy, I think it's more useful to point out the other side of the coin, which is that many poor people are poor not because of a direct lack of talent or skill but because of all the other things that contributed to them being in the position that they're in. There was another post recently on HN that compared poverty to a rogue background process that drains willpower, and yet another one about how entrepreneurs are disproportionally from well-to-do backgrounds. You can't take risks when you're poor, you don't have mobility, you can't pay for childcare, you spend time clipping coupons instead of reading... the list goes on.
I'm not sure what your point is, but the one I went to was pretty intimate (<200 third party developers but dozens of developers employed by Apple) which made it a unique experience for me, vs WWDC. I'd love to go to another Apple event with that ratio 3rd party devs to Apple devs.

I’d definitely like for Apple to include the Netherlands again. Since the one I took part in, they haven’t included it in their World Tours. I might go to Berlin, but it’s not exactly close to where I live and I’d risk Apple sending German speaking devs.
Yep, and I'd put them at #2. I'm pragmatic, I don't necessarily think the best solution will triumph. One thing Ubuntu phone is doing wrong is dismissing Android. Dual booting is absurd, it doesn't promote sharing app data or a seemless user experience.
Really ya'll? This is hinted at in the first sentence and explained fully in the second paragraph. Not to mention the photo is of the original Rick Ross.
When did you last hear of a large island appearing in the space of 30 minutes?
Chrome Updates: Shows Google with search box in browser.
Google. stop loading the google logo and search box on browser default. i want to just see my visited websites and not yours.

if i need, i will use it. dont force me.
VLC is one the most impressive pieces of multi-platform open source software out there. you guys and girls are doing a heck of a job. congrats on all the work.
This doesn't keep track of my cursor when I'm outside the boundary of the canvas. Are you listening to mousemove on the canvas element? If so, you might want to move that to the window or document, so you can keep track of the user's mouse even when its not moving in the canvas.
> The FUD surrounding Win8 is kind of crazy. You want to know the easiest, fastest way to launch an application? Hit Windows key, type application name. Same on Win7, same on Win8...hell, it's the same on Ubuntu.

Its actually, IME, noticeably slower than mousing in most cases on Windows 7.
i just finished watching it in firefox on a freshly-installed linux mint 15
I believe they already do something like this. In some declassified documents, each sentence or paragraph is labelled with its classification level.

I think this makes it easier for the FOIA processors to redact.

This pertains to word documents.
Wait, what? I don't feel the Apple experience is a lot better than the PC one, and I say that as someone who fully bought into the dream (I used a MBP as my main machine for 2 years, and an iMac as a desktop for that same two years). After those two years where up, I totally went back to PC, built my own desktop, bought a nice Lenovo laptop and called it a day.

However, I guess I really don't understand why everyone's getting so uptight about. What we're seeing is not everyone in the world suddenly making a change to mobile for no discernible reason. It's not as though suddenly the winds changed and now PC is mysteriously dying.

No, what happened is what always happens: someone made a better tool for the mass market to do what they want to do, which is to consume content and be entertained. Magic wireless Netflix screens that fit in their pockets are just better at that than PC's are and there's nothing wrong with that. It's evolution, and even as a PC enthusiast and power user, I'm more than glad to see people better able to do what they enjoy.

That's not to say I'll be giving up my hand picked keyboard, large screen, and heavy tower, but I'm not to worried. There's always going to be money in serving the needs of people who get work done on computers, even if it's not quite as much money as it used to be.
I thought I was reading a bad mafia joke... (am not trying to be funny here)
The law requires intent and a crime. If you cannot tell me which specific crime, your argument is invalid.

Why you are having a hard time understanding that "we put him in jail because we don't like what he did" is wrong I have no idea. You must be a troll disagreeing on purpose.
The "Linux userland"? Really? I wasn't aware Android had a hard dependency on systemd.

I'm all for opinionated design, but I hope we don't end up with a "Linux userland" in the sense we have a GNU userland -- that would be going towards too tight coupling of things that really shouldn't be coupled at all.
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I don't think PCs are dying. I think computing consumption is increasing so desktop productivity looks like it is declining.

I think when a dock for tablets or phone finally happens for consumers, they'll just get it. Desktop mode is not intended for using your fat fingers on a touch screen. "Metro" mode is for that. Windows 8 is all about for when you get off the bus in consumption tablet mode and dock into your desk and your dual monitor with keyboard and mouse lights up and you go into productivity mode.
Probably ~80% of the videos VLC plays are pornographic.
The APIs are LGPL? As opposed to the implementation of the APIs?
Corruption by the middle-men, the worst part is fellow Indians/Nepalis run such recruitment rackets and fake certificates and stuff.

Even if those countries wanted to do better, these middle-men would gobble up the benefits and pass the hardwork to uneducated/naive migrant workers.
Probably that a couple of orders of magnitude more people will get to see them.
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I imagine Comic Sans fits, but you may want to include a fallback to sans-serif for non-Windows users. I'm getting the default serif font, which is not a great match.
You would be surprised - many people try to shoot themselves in the head and fail. Talk to a homicide cop or forensics investigator sometime - they often get called to scene like this because it looks like there was a shootout, except that when they analyse the blood spatter etc., it turns out the person shot themselves, then lurched around trying to pick up the gun they dropped to finish it off. I'm not making light of this - some of the stories I've heard about this phenomenon are quite horrific.
Yeah, what exactly are we comparing this against? Because if you know of something that has a nice screen, a long battery life, an excellent keyboard, and the ability to run decades of software aimed at helping me develop and get work done, then please let me know.

However, if you're saying that ultrabooks suck at consuming content compared to tablets, all I have to say is "well duh."
This is an environment where people borrow $1000 at 36% interest to get placed in a job overseas.

In such an environment, I don't know there's a lot of practical room for, "Nah, I don't want that one; what else you got?!"
Yes, this is awful, but what more can you expect from the Middle East? On a more political note, did Al Jazeera, report on this ?
What's actually happening is that the PC market is basically saturated with machines that pretty much do whatever anybody asks of them.

The market has pretty much plateaued. Pretty much everybody has a PC at home and work. Most households already have multiple computers. Heck, I know entirely non-technical powerwasher/gutter cleaner guys who have 2 or 3 computers. In fact, I don't know a single person older than 10 years old who doesn't have at least one Personal Computer of some kind.

Any commodity off-the-shelf PC will pretty much do whatever you ask of it (at least for most consumers). I used to replace my computer every year or two just so I could run modern software. I haven't felt compelled to do so for the last 6 years and even then I'm 50/50 on doing it. The rMBP my work issued to me is fantastic for virtualization, but unbelievable overkill for everything else I do (mostly email, word and web).

There's just not much of a reason to buy more machines outside of regular replacement rates due to failure and total obsolescence and new humans buying them as they get old enough.

It's not that PCs aren't coming back, it's that the constant growth in the market has plateaued.

Everybody was hoping China, India and Africa would explode 3/5s of the world's humanity moved into the middle-class and needed computers, but the growth has been far slower than was hoped and these first time computer buyers won't really be constantly upgrading like previous markets did -- the market characteristics are such that it won't be a simple repeat of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.

Smartphones and Tablets are an entirely new segment and still growing (though showing some signs of flattening out as well). That's why they're exciting, because those markets are still building out and upgrading. But there are signs that those segments are flattening as well.

Tablets and phones are awesome, but they're definitely not a replacement for a general purpose PC. Even my mother and father, who're quite the luddites, regularly needs capabilities that don't work well on a tablet -- like doing taxes. Even if those things were magically fixed and working awesomely tomorrow, they'd still want a bigger screen than a tablet afford.

PCs aren't going anywhere, it's just that the market has to shift to sustaining the market not growing it (which is infinitely more expensive, meaning loads more money sloshing around in the secondary markets). This is fundamentally the problem that both Intel and Microsoft are dealing with. Apple escaped it largely because they created new segments to grow into.

Heck, the one new market segment that PC makers did manage to get into, netbooks, they managed to screw up so bad that the entire segment was dead within just a few years. (If you think of where netbooks needed to go as a segment, the Surface Pro would probably be a reasonable outcome, except that market is totally hosed now and Microsoft has to rebuild it).
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Apparently, that is also true of farmers in India. If only the government can bring in better policies to improve logistics; oh how poverty corrodes the soul of a society.
I mean the font, not the overall design. While I admit I can't rule out the possibility that the design on the left side of the image unconsciously influenced my reaction, I tried hard to only look at the font.
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Except that there were plenty of videogames in the 80s, when crime was still going up...which is a glaring hole in the theory. Sure, the graph shows that claims of videogames leading to increased violence are probably bogus, but there's no evidence that they reduce violence either.
In a sane world, this would be a feature, not a bug.

Being able to get use out of older hardware is a feature. New hardware not providing any new possibilities is a bug, and that's where we've been for the last 5 years at least.

I think the core point of the article is valid. It's ridiculous that my $230 tablet has a better resolution than nearly every "high end" laptop. And apparently nobody has any ideas for using our tremendously powerful multicore CPUs and near-teraflop GPUs other than rendering increasingly bloated websites.
If you're serious about art, you'll probably want a Wacom. If you're a professional you'll want a mac too, as there's the (almost standardised) software ecosystem with the creative types. There are Wacom Interactive Pen Displays for those who want to see their art digitised straight away.

Gabe's requirements are quite niche, though if tool suits you there's nothing wrong with that. Though why bother to fork out $700 for a tablet when you can get a second hand tablet on ebay for less than $100?
Right on. Things are bad for people in much of the world, not just South Asia. A Nepali girl who is a friend of a friend of ours is basically homeless, penniless and stranded after a romantic overseas trip ended up with her being mistreated by her boyfriend. She is staying with us for the next week until a flight home. In the same week, a young boy we know's father was attacked by thieves with knives who slit his throat and hands to make off with minor cash. He was so deeply psychologically shocked that he has turned so far on to hard drugs he is completely ignoring his own family. After seeing the financial and emotional stress caring for the boy is placing on other people I promised to go and try to discuss him out of it: that's crisis #2 to solve this afternoon! The developing world sure is amazing, but poverty and pain can be hard to escape.
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Ouch. Here I was hoping the flood of (multi)touch screens would make things like the ACME editor more attractive, by having some set of gestures that allowed for universal "three (or more) button" GUIs. Or even Smalltalk, for that matter. Now in applications one can of course do whatever one wants -- but select to copy always seemed like a much better idea than the alternative (and as someone else alluded to, it's a big burden to drop on toolkit/app developers -- it really should be service the "system" provides).
There may be a real finding here: If you perceive yourself as rich, you act more confidently, other things being equal.

However, behaving more confidently does not necessarily make you less ethical. This work is constructing false ethical standards, and then "crying wolf" when people don't reach them. For instance:

(a) There is no moral reason that one person should go through the crosswalk before the other. One has to go through before the other. (I hate the feeling of making cars stop for me because it wastes the car's momentum.)

(b) If a moderator tells you that you can eat the candy, presumably there is surplus candy. Otherwise, they wouldn't tell you that you could eat it! Unless they're a dick. That lady did not come off as being a dick.

Frankly, there are lots of highly ethical and highly unethical people across all "class" boundaries. I know that from personal experience and observation.

I could keep going, but hopefully I've given some evidence that this video is not science. It's blatantly irrational. Maybe the paper is better than the video, but I'd be surprised.
Yes, they did. A quick search turns this:

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2012/06/2012...

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2012/06/2012612647...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/02/20132714263...
If you don't have a dedicated IP for each domain, and if you need to support clients who can't use SNI (IE on Windows XP, Android 2.x, etc.), here's a simple solution:

Use a different port number.

https://example-domain.com:12345/ is a completely different website from https://another-domain-on-same-ip:32412/.

No need for a dedicated IP address. No need for wildcard certs, SNI, or any of that fancy stuff. Sure, it's ugly. But it works with every browser (even IE6), and it's not like anybody is actually going to type that into an address bar. You'll be redirecting your HTTP website to your HTTPS website anyway, aren't you?

You can only have two of the following three: (1) shared IP, (2) pretty URLs, and (3) legacy client support. Choose which two you want to have.
All the normal gnome widgets and launchers on the bar (I have one at the bottom of the screen) for stuff I don't do enough to have keybindings for, mostly.
Wow, that's very nice; thank you for making up for my laziness.
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> I think the reality of Ghost being a serious contender in the blogging space forced Automattic's hand here.

I don't think you understand how well entrenched Wordpress is.

> Could we potentially be seeing a Node.JS powered version of Wordpress in the coming months as well?

In case you were wondering, ShitHNSays was shut down by Twitter. So there's no point trying to get syndicated, sorry.
OTOH, you want to know the easiest, fastest way to relaunch a recently used document? You can't, because they got rid of that.
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I wish more attention would also apply to the bland Windows interface. It still feels like windows 95 :(
Kinda makes sense, since he sold the company 19 years ago.

(You didn't RTFA (obviously) or you'd know that "McAfee" is referring to John McAfee -- not McAfee, Inc., owned by Intel -- but don't let that stop you from making a disparaging remark.)
This is fascinating. I am curious as to why the only way to attach it was with the "nose" upward, it seems like this could be inconvenient when showering.
It doesn't matter whether it's ignorance or malice. I don't have to imagine anything, because what I care about is whether changes that affect me are in the changelogs.
Funny, it is for me: any wikipedia page redirects to its https counterpart.

E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News .
For a single machine. Yes, but for distributed data center scale computing, which accounts for the majority of compute power, this is not the case.