skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NSS has enough server code that it was possible to implement mod_nss, a replacement for mod_ssl in Apache:

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mod_nss#What_feature...
> With Eich, we have someone who made a donation 6+ years ago and has never sought to give context to it or explain it or give further reflection to it, which means he either holds those anti-gay marriage views just as strongly today, or believes that apologies, or evolving viewpoints is a sign of weakness. Not really strong signs of confidence in a CEO, quite frankly.

And having a CEO that panders to the public opinion is better ... how?
> I also wonder how much in the end the big institutions care about this stuff.

Well, if they did care more, you'd see engineers from Intel, IBM, et. al., contributing to the project in droves like they do with the Linux kernel.
No, but that's one removed from the matter at hand. The concerns were with Eich, not with people who thought Eich would be a good CEO.
Read my post I gave two examples and you were not specific.

> has never given money to a church.

I am doubtful, because even if you managed to never go to any church and never give a cent at any age, you can still give money to churches through institutions which seem secular. The Salvation Army is anti-gay and collects money every year from most popular store fronts. Never given them a cent? Never purchased Purina brand dog food? Never paid for anything related to Exxon? You can't know what money you give to someone or pay for something which which ultimately doesn't fuel anti-gay agenda. That's my point.
How to come up with ideas
totally off topic, but programmers, I need your help...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7559067
Compared to that, the movie Gravity's budget was $100 million.
Growing up in a fishing port we had the chance to study Navigation and Seamanship at high school - the school building even had a bridge and radar, even though there wasn't much chance of it going anywhere.

I was deeply unhappy when I had to choose French rather than Navigation and Seamanship on the (mistaken!) belief that I needed it to get into University.
Eliminating Global Locks in Ruby through Hardware Transactional Memory
Running a commercial CA is not for amateurs or those with a weak stomach. It's a LOT of work, and costs a LOT of money. The operational security requirements are VERY high in order gain the trust of your customers. The physical security alone is prohibitively expensive for most companies. Man traps, secure server rooms (REALLY secure), biometrics, etc. Additionally, there are the technical security requirements. Smartcards, hardware security modules (HSMs) for key storage, and so on.

In order to gain the trust of the browser manufacturers, your PKI has to be certified by a recognized standards body. This is not easy, and it is not cheap. Every aspect of your operation and infrastructure needs to be documented, and you have to stick to it. No relaxing on the rules.

Practically speaking, you're talking about an expense on the order of a 7-figure expense to get things up and running, with additional costs for certification, etc.

SOURCE: I've worked on the largest PKI in the world (Fed. Gov't) as well as the largest commercial CAs for the last 14 years.
> Don't think I've seen Obama apologizing for his past stances on gay marriage.

I don't know if he formally apologised, but he talked about his own change of heart and he did things and directed his administration towards gay marriage[0]. And even before his final shift, Obama definitely presented supportive stances towards LGBT groups.

And AFAIK he never went and gave money to actively remove LGBT civil rights.

> What's the difference again?

Er… one changed his mind and stance, the other not?

[0] his case is significantly complicated by his support for gay marriage during his original 1996 Illinois Senate run, moving to indecision in 1998, support for civil unions in 2004 (senate) and 2008 (presidential) before snapping back rapidly to support — as early as 2008 he called for the repeal of DOMA, voted against the federal marriage amendment and publicly opposed Prop 8, giving support to "fully equal rights and benefits to same-sex couples under both state and federal law."
so apple is wrong when they say the strongest demand is coming from larger screens?
I hope the frugal engineering works out for them. In 1990 I spent a semester working at GE AstroSpace as an intern, and one of my tasks was a small role on the Mars Observer(1) probe. It was also a frugal, based on an Earth-orbiting satellite design that was repurposed for a deep-space mission to Mars orbit. It apparently blew up when it got there, likely due to a failure in the fuel system. That's where I come in.

In early 1990, there was a weight problem with the spacecraft, and the engineers were looking for ways to eliminate mass. I was working with the propulsion team, and my task was to go through all of the blueprints, count components, and document their mass. The team was going to use that to determine which components were redundant (for safety) and how much mass could be eliminated by removing them.

I did my task, and went on to something else so I don't know how the system was modified. But from what I've read about the loss of the spacecraft, a leading theory is that one of the valves in the propulsion system failed and that led to the explosion. The valves were designed to be opened very soon after launch, once the satellite reached Earth orbit; they weren't designed for the deep-freeze of a two-year trip to Mars before being opened. I beleive that not only did the valve malfunction, but its redundant backup had also been removed based, in part, on the task I performed. If there hadn't been a weight problem (which may also have been to frugal engineering to reduce fuel requirements), the explosion might not have happened.

I've never felt any responsibilty; my task was to provide information, not decisions. But it would have been nice if I was involved with a more successful mission.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Observer
It just depends. I personally use a Mac but I see almost as many hackers using PC laptops out and about. They're usually at the tables next to the AC outlets.
Everything is on default from Blogspot. I only put the Gist source code displayer and the LaTeX math javascript.
If anyone is offering a new design, I would gladly take it... As long as I can concentrate on the content and not the container.
Yes, this program started a long time ago.

Unfortunately, I was under the impression that it stopped not so long ago (~1year)?
Totally off topic, but programmers, I REALLY need your help...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7559067
Oh, that's neat... I assume this was the predecessor to EGATrek?
No, if you're not using OpenSSL your site will not be vulnerable to an OpenSSL bug.

But if your site transmits or receives anything that a third party shouldn't see (hint: it probably does), you should start using SSL.
Not mentioning that the nautical mile is essentially 1 minute of arc on any meridian, which is the key fact. Once you have the distance of nautical mile, then it's reasonable to measure your speed with respect to something fixed relative to the water around you.

("Why is a nautical mile 1 MOA and a statute mile something else" is the more interesting question, IMO)
http://www.sherpadesk.com
I was wondering about this myself. They must have though AWS was too big and it would be leaked?
Hadoop on IBM Mainframe, what do you think?
Totally off topic, but programmers, I REALLY need your help...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7559067
It's not just the number of apps. It's the cumulative hours spent in them. As Gruber pointed out, Facebook is winning big here, and their apps are webby.

As a category, games are used a lot and non webby. That would be the main counterpoint.
Don't make shit up. It'd very easy to write totally strict code in Haskell. It's even possible to write code that won't yield to the run time system for a constant time op.
Congrats BlockCypher! This is very exciting news :)

Marie-Lynn
circonference.ca
I need a good hardware running Unix and possibility of using Windows.

They really shouldn't sit on those benches and chairs if they care about health.
That is the exact goal of the post. I arrived to the algorithm through evolution with random initialization. I enforced absolutely no heuristic to make it converge to this equation.
I saw the first author of this paper present this work in my building a month ago. Myself and others were impressed with both their results, and the rigor in their analysis. They experiment on multiple hardware platforms, and even compare against other VMs. In short, this is what good systems research looks like.

Note that this page links to both the full paper and the slides from their conference talk. I should also disclose that I also work for IBM Research, so I may have some bias in liking this paper.
Preventing users from pasting their passwords is quite irritating. I don't even understand the idea behind it. Most likely some developer saw a non-technical user copying/pasting from a plain-text password file, and "had a great idea" to discourage that kind of behavior.

To get around sites that do this, I inspect the HTML and add my password via the value="" attribute on the input element.
It doesn't take a very complicated reading of the Christian bible to figure out that homosexuality can be justifiably "ok."

First... the so called "Old Testament" or Old Covenant (animals being cut in half and god passing through them in a rather creepy passage) was made obsolete by the "New Testament" or New Covenant (i.e. Jesus dying, granting forgiveness to all believers so they could join him in the afterlife). That means all the old prohibitions, from men-laying-with-men to shellfish to mixed fabrics are no longer necessarily valid. "Man was not created for the Law; the Law was created for Man," as Jesus told a Pharisee or Sadducee or one of the other old Jews he upset badly.

Next, looking to the New Testament, you'll find that Jesus never speaks about homosexuality; it's just Paul in his letters to the churches. Paul calls himself a disciple of Jesus and says that he doesn't mean to extend or conflict with Jesus' teachings. A contextual reading of his target audience when he condemns homosexuality (which isn't the word he uses, since that word/concept didn't quite exist yet) shows that he was critiquing the Greek church's practice of pederasty, aka "Platonic love." The reason for Paul's disdain of the practice was that elders were taking advantage of young boys for their own sexual gratification. I don't think there is widespread support for pederasty (or other, more hetero-normative but still frowned upon forms of ephebophilia), but I may be wrong on that count.

In short, not all Christians believe fervently the beliefs you're prescribing to them. Please don't straw man an entire faith because of your own misunderstanding of the beliefs of some.

/not a Christian but raised by them
Well, I don't think it's a bad idea to have specific shortcuts which disable the normal behaviour of a browser, and improve the UX of a website. If they exists:

* they should be explicitly enabled (i.e. RES for reddit)

* you should be notified if they are changing browser behaviour, and an option to disable shall be provided.
There's a difference between having a stance and doing something about it. AFAIK Obama never actively fought gay's rights, he just had a negative opinion of it. Mozilla's CEO took action against homosexuals and donated money to a cause seeking to deny them rights. The difference is the difference between thinking something and acting on it.

But that's just how I view it.
Wasn't that the FBI? If there were other means (blank-cheque warrants) to achieve their goals, it seems unlikely that the NSA would loop those agents in.

Plus, would evidence obtained that way, without a warrant, even be admissible in any court? I mean, I guess this all went down after Snowden had left the country? So I'm not sure a court date was the end goal anyway. I'm fuzzy on the details/chronology.
Twilio Customer Security Notice on Heartbleed Disclosure
Many eyes worked in this case.. It just took a long time to find. The question now is what will it find next and when?
Seems down to me. Does anyone have a cached version?
That's a rather naïve point of view. Try to replace "space program" with something else that isn't immediately saving lives - such as any kind of art.
Show HN: Startup Sticker Packs
This question is getting tiresome. ISRO gathers data on crop yields, irrigation, forest cover, and weather, all of which benefit regular Indians. ISRO is why India is on the verge of launching it's own GPS system. ISRO is one of the cheaper options for satellite launches worldwide. ISRO is profitable. None of that was visible when India's space program started. The same criticisms would have applied even back then, so perhaps you should cut them a little slack on this project, which costs all of $75MM by the way.
The perfect use-case for this is freelance work on Elance/oDesk. Installing our application on the freelancers PC takes to much time, and using ssh/ftp is cumbersome.

Are there any other good file sync tools that work on Win/Linux/Mac? Something like rsync+inotify but with a permanent connection between client <=> Server?

FYI: A short readelf on bowery shows that it is written in Go.
"With page files, all of those are treated the same by the programmer."

In many cases we just don't care, because a CPU hooked up to RAM is still pretty fast for many use cases. When you do care, this abstraction is actually a huge problem!

I think this demonstrates my point, not refutes it.
That chart is out of date. For example, NSS now supports TLS 1.2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementati...
Blog spam; look at his submission history
Better yet what's the point of doing that anyway a pasted password is likely to be more complex (read as secure) than a regular one.
The Power Of AppVeyor – Build using the cloud
Heartbleed XKCD
LV 20
Math.random = function() {return 1;}
map.getPlayer().hasItem = function() {return true;}
How we patched Heartbleed for 60,000+ sites in 12 hours
> I was an Ubuntu user for over 10 years

That's impossible. The first Ubuntu release was on October 20th, 2004 - less than 10 years ago.
Leviticus

Homosexual acts are an abomination to God. 18:22
If a man has sex with another man, kill them both. 20:13

Something about wanting their cake and eating it too.

Beside this, my point is that even if people join this church, they have undoubtedly donated money to an anti-gay church in the past, which makes them forever unworthy apparently.
Those documents do not say they can break SSL. They say they focus on SSL, and can break some specific SSL-using services.
A tower that pulls up to 25 gallons of drinking water from condensation
By your standards Mozilla is a bunch of racist bigots

70% of blacks people voted for prop 8

This is why it is illegal to litmus test political beliefs under california employment law.

So, somebody has to pick their poison on this.

Its not an easy issue...
IIS doesn't use OpenSSL though; it uses CredSSP http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755284(WS.10).a....
VIDEO: Epidemic of illegal immigrant children dying in the desert
In Snowden's TED talk he said that the best reporting is yet to come.

http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_snowden_here_s_how_we_take_b...
Or he believes that this is a private matter and doesn't want to discuss his private opinions in public. Which is a good sign in a CEO for a company whose main concern is protecting privacy (and free speech and education, etc.).
Pitfall pattern when building and deploying software for the enterprise
Like Google? http://is.gd/DBCmag
I remember when the antivirus companies would fight about who gets to name what. Didn't one try to name Slammer "Sapphire" after a stripper an engineer had seen the previous night?

I don't look fondly on those days.
Likewise slash. I appreciate the nod to vim, but Firefox is already nodding there.
Call scheduling for freelancers
For now, just a survey:
https://trakmeet.wufoo.com/forms/call-schedule-pain-points-survey/
Ask HN: A middle ground for backup services
I have a non technical friend that needs to back up some private documents (passport scans, paystubs, etc). Is there something client-side encrypted, close to transparent for the end-user?

I would normally recommend tarsnap for a case like this but there is no way he will be able to figure that out.
Financial Times hails Fitbay.com as the "Innovation to watch"
"If I voted for Mitt Romney because of his tax proposals, does that mean I support...well, his likely use of wanton drone attacks?"

I take it you didn't bother to study Gov. Romney's position versus the President's current wanton use of drones. Much it seems like your lack of looking at the views the candidate supported by OKCupid's CEO has continually stated.

OKCupid's CEO is a hypocrite who did not apologize prior to throwing stones at other. He only "apologized" under pressure.
Congratulations for the App of The Month award!
FTC gives Facebook the Green Light for Whatsapp
Homage to the Man behind the Mountain
Show HN: XLForm – Powerful and flexible forms on iOS
How Flappy Bird Is Ruffling Feathers in the Gaming Industry
To my knowledge the fastest (in ghz) commercial processor is an Power 7 at 5.5 ghz.

I wonder how it compares to a x86, but benchmarks are hard to come by.
Should probably mention somewhere in the link that this is iOS only.
There is a bug. If you are traveling right, then quickly press down, release down, then press left, and release left, you will die. This is not snake behavior.
Yes but look at all that HD footage of space they got...very impressive....
Even the full cached version hangs. Text-only works though.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bGSHA2K...
Windows doesn't use OpenSSL, and Schneier's host is using Apache. I assume that he must not have direct control of his host or for some other reason cannot immediately upgrade/restart.
Obama campaigned in california in 2008

2008 was a presidential year

2008 prop 8 was on the ballot

He is on record -- in california -- supporting a definition of marriage

that excluded same-sex couples

While speaking to "special interest groups" who supported prop8

=== That is "action" with intent...it is cut and dry.
We need a “/heartbleed.txt” standard, and we need it ASAP
Does look cool. Love the idea! BI is a tough market, but if you can really provide insights there is real value there.
Great tips, appreciate it.
Looks like a really useful service if I can get Clojure running in it simply. In order to ever deploy this to production, I'd need a lot more detail on how it works. It would also be helpful to have a path for moving to standard services.
Nothing is let go due to an apology. It's let go because he was not in any way, shape or form supporting anti-gay laws and his apology is about not having done enough research on the guy.

Seriously.
Ever tried the "Metro" version of Outlook Web Access, the one used with Office 365? It hijacks "Ctrl/Command + R" as a shortcut to "Reply". How oblivious is this?
Because so many of them work at the NSA.
You're going to have to stretch thin on this one to ensnare me.

No, I've never purchased anything Purina. No, I've never given money to the Salvation Army (not that I agree with your claims, I've never researched their supposed anti-gay position). You might have to dig down to where I buy my shoe laces.

Your position proclaims that if all things apply, then nothing applies (that is your point, right? that everyone is guilty, and thus anyone pointing fingers are just hypocrites). In reality, all actions and beliefs are not created equal. Even in a world of glass houses, some stones are dramatically more destructive than others when thrown.

A very large portion of morality is based on intent + knowledge / awareness. Someone that buys shoe laces from an anti-gay business, while not knowing that fact, is not morally guilty of supporting the anti-gay movement, even if they are financially guilty.
Wow, that sort of ad is inexcusable.
Isn't that what a CEO is supposed to do?

Left hand: Complains that CEOs/politicians don't listen and are out of touch
Right hand: Complains that CEOs are pandering

...what?
The first thing I thought about this whole thing when I saw the name was "this is a great name for this bug, and will help ensure everyone hears about it - and panics, which is the goal". I think the logo helped amplify that, so great work by the people who thought this up.
Is that supported by the majority of the population? Naively I would expect that people would prefer immediate improvements over long term benefits.
If it's a shared whiteboard with embedded video chat how it it tied to a particular book? They indicate that they are starting with two books for now.
OnetimeDNS: free DynDNS alternative
You had to Godwin this, didn't you!

But I wouldn't hurry to pile on Hitler before I know if he apologized. What if he had apologized? That really changes things.
I experienced the same bug. It makes quickly turning to get a 'food' block in an adjacent cell very difficult.
>was made obsolete

No, Jesus said himself that all of the old laws still hold true.

http://www.evilbible.com/do_not_ignore_ot.htm

>Please don't straw man an entire faith because of your own misunderstanding of the beliefs of some.

It's hard to read their holy book which they claim is the word of god and not judge them as awful people.

Again my point is that no one knows what money they give or spend is used to fuel anti-gay agenda, and so everyone is unfit. This is where the witch hunt will go.
Too bad I don't have an iPad, I would love to try out this app :/

Are you planning to develop an android version anytime soon?
Would be nice if "About" page worked - just to clear some stuff about framework.

Also, something's not quite right with menu background on Android (Chrome) disappears after a bit. Although, if you click on "menu" button, it's visible, but only until you close it.
E: Unable to locate package haskell-platform

The package seems unavailable for Ubuntu 13.04. I think it's time to install 14.04 for me.
so you call it a BS?
It's not amateurish, it was just poor communication in a situation that they've (fortunately) not had to deal with. Which happens from time to time; and good companies recognize their failures and fix them. One thing I know about Amazon from friends who work there is that they don't tolerate failure. They have a culture of owning your mistakes and fixing them; anyone who doesn't buy into that attitude will get fired pretty quickly (and Amazon fires a lot of people.)

It's pretty fucking professional to update the infrastructure that runs half the internet in under 48 hours with no issues. But again, communication can be a problem when you have as many customers as they do.

OP raised some legitimate concerns, but his credibility was undercut by attacking Amazon and calling them names. Ironically, his post was a much more amateur move as his concerns would likely be taken more seriously if he had stuck to the issues and not resorted to name-calling. The essence of professionalism is sticking to the issues at hand and not being sidetracked by extraneous factors.
It's tough, because there is a morale issue at stake, but if we all become 1 issue voters, the political system breaks down. We have to support the candidates who on balance do enough for what we believe in.

To your point - there's also a difference between supporting an issue, versus a candidate.
Sign up bait, Keep away!
And here's the theo fortune file: https://plan9front.googlecode.com/hg/lib/theo
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Or spoof a disassociation frame, then impersonate the access point so the victim connects to your computer instead.