skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SSL in the casual case relies on all CAs being uncompromised.

Not really, -- it pushes the monitoring into active interception, which is much more costly (and thus does not work as well to hoover up everyone's data) and it is incredibly risky because it is detectable and if detected leaves cryptographic proof of the attack (and which CA was compromised or complicit with it.)

I'm all for other tools as well, which can provide protections that SSL cannot; but shuffling all the readers through Tor isn't practical today while HTTPS _is_ (as demonstrated by most of the other large web properties) and provides pretty decent protection against pervasive surveillance.

> In any case, both technical and legal approaches are appropriate.

Sure. I wanted to litigate about this in the past as well. But I am concerned that the complete failure to take the issue seriously historically weakens the claim of damages here.

> And you know as well as I do that everyone at WMF desperately wants SSL for everything

I don't know what to believe on that front anymore.

There is a simple clear metric for "want" in an institution, whats the funding level? This project has not been raised to a level of importance where its receiving line item disclosed funding, as far as I can tell. There was a plan for deployment in 2013 which hasn't been completed, https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia... ... and in the time since then Wikimedia has received another hundred million in funding from the public-- with fundraising running something like 17% ahead of expenditures.

> but it turns out to be a bit more complicated

Yes, it's complicated. Don't forget that I contributed to making it possible too. I'm not waxing away the technical details.

> But if yesterday was the best day to act, then today is the next-best day.

Similar things were said when I raised a similar complaint when Wikimedia posted denying providing any assistance to prism in 2013. (A position that I consider to be a lie by omission)

Continuing to deny that there is a problem here will not result in the problem being resolved.
If you're feeling ornery,you could fly with one in your hand luggage.

If the TSA or foreign equivalent border security want to scan your devices, it's their look-out.
Why does Oracle want to kill Java so badly?

Buncha fuckin assholes if you ask me...
I think there are parallels both in times and geography. In the west - Cold War / 60's Red Witch-hunts and in the east at roughly the same time - East Germany, KGB etc.

Different technologies, but the actions changed and were addressed via politics mainly. Technologies might be here to stay, but we shouldn't expect that the way we use them as societies stay the same.
I have to wonder if anywhere, in the history of the universe, a sentient being has ever fallen into a black hole.
You could fit one into a portable hard drive case, though. Presumably along with an electric motor to make the appropriate noises when whoever you really don't like tries to plug it into their laptop.
I gave up on my Windows Phone Nokia because it was buggy as hell, but they definitely have Apple beat in terms of design. The Metro UI is gorgeous and more usable than anything Google or Apple have put out
In case anyone's thinking about buying a Mac and was put off by this comment:

I find OS X Yosemite to be fantastic. It works well, it's very stable. I run it on four different macs of different ages. The UX has definitely improved as a result of the redesign.

I'm not sure about the aforementioned apps. Keynote is fantastic, but I don't use those listed very much. iPhoto has always been a basic photo management tool; I use Lightroom.

There are times when a Linux box is preferable. I just run Linux in VirtualBox in those situations.
> The thing is, making money off providing a useful service that benefits society as a whole isn't immoral, so I don't see why it's that big of a deal. Nobody is forcing anyone to participate.

Of course it's not immoral but still, knowing whether "a useful service" or "making money off it" is a top priotity for the company is important. Most of the companies you and I interact with are of the second type, and I guess this is at the root of throwawaymaroon's worry.
Part of the niceness of the UK plug is that if you pull the cable right out of the housing, the internals disconnect in the safest order. The plug comparison sites I've found don't discuss the internals of the plugs much; does anyone know how other plug types approach this (or do they just ignore it)?

Looking at plugs, I suspect that many get round this by making the housing of the plug much more firmly attached to the cable.
An interesting Quora answer by Bret about the status of FriendFeed some weeks ago.

http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-current-status-of-FriendFeed
The sign up form isn't accepting my email address: _@gmail.com

Edit: rather, (9 characters long) @gmail.com
You missed the fact that those emails are from the actual professor who rejected him? This must be the forth time I tell you to read the article. Don't do any speed-reading bullshit, take your time and read every word and screenshot. Slowly.
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I tried and it reported one error under a second. I had to reboot because gcc started to make bash crash, it seems. Then I saw the README (duh!):

Be careful not to run this test on machines that contain important
data. On machines that are susceptible to the rowhammer problem, this
test could cause bit flips that crash the machine, or worse, cause bit
flips in data that gets written back to disc.

**Warning #2:** If you find that a computer is susceptible to the
rowhammer problem, you may want to avoid using it as a multi-user
system. Bit flips caused by row hammering breach the CPU's memory
protection. On a machine that is susceptible to the rowhammer
problem, one process can corrupt pages used by other processes or by
the kernel.

(Mine is Kingston Hyper X 2x8GB DDR3 1600MHz)
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9176586
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It's yet another in a LONG long line of articles that tries to shift the blame for stagnating wages on to:

* technological progress

instead of:

* steady de-unionization and

* obfuscated trade policies designed to fuck normal people (NAFTA, CAFTA and now TTIP AND TPP).

tl;dr - "dem robots took 'er jerbs" and "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain writing trade policy".
> With this new macbook, one cannot charge and use a mouse at the same time without an $80 addon.

Can't you just use bluetooth? I prefer a bluetooth mouse anyway. Wires get in the way.
Yes, I just eat things with normal sugar if I want something sweet.

But apparently the commenter I replied to had not considered the potential differences between the substitutes, so I pointed out a way forward.

I was confused about sucralose though, I hadn't realized that it required fillers to use as a 1:1 substitute. The fillers also apparently are not very hydroscopic (which is a major role that sugar plays in baking, in addition to being sweet).
Windows isn't supported, but I'm going to guess that adding Windows support wouldn't be impossible. GTK is definitely cross-platform, I don't think neovim has any changes that would make it any harder to build for Windows than vim, and you can get POSIX calls through cygwin or MinGW. Might actually make a good project for anyone wanting to get into rust on Windows.
Some do well with real content. Economist is well known on HN. But the Economist charges a fee.

In .de, SZ, Zeit and Spiegel appear to do tolerably. (I subscribe to the first of the three.) Two of them charge real money, though, and perhaps the third too, I wouldn't know.

The Germans have a proverb for this. Wer zahlt, schafft an. Liberally translated: Who pays, decides what's paid for.
Prions are not considered alive under any reasonable definition of life. They're infectious, but you can't really call it replication as they just trigger a conformational change in the correctly folded prion protein
I can already see the marketing slogan: "Stick it to the man" :)
Did that. It still sucks and I wasted more hours now.
If any of these very big companies are in the UK, I'm sure they'd pay the Sicily->UK bit in exchance for some of your time or speaking to their devs.
Aim at fast growing startups that don't have strong tech teams. Be a tech team in a box. Have someone in SanFran selling you as that. Take equity from each client.

Your pitch is basically: you (the startup) have funding and product market fit, but don't have a strong tech team. It's gonna take you 3-6 months to build one. We can get you one today. You pay us market + equity.
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Most computer users don't understand or give a damn about managing their file system. It seems like many HN users do, yet clicking on the "go" menu to see options and keyboard shortcuts available when they want to go to a folder is too confusing for them.
I've found earth and live wires mixed in 2 different houses I've lived in.
Programmers are not the only ones that do shoddy work :)
I think they're elegant. The cable points downwards rather than just outwards like most others (US/EU). They have a nice finished edge that's easy to grip rather than a moulded piece of angled plastic.
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There's risk of lawsuits if you accept help like that. Best thing in your case may be to contribute to free (as in speech) software Android apps (perhaps Firefox needs more hands?).
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And FriendFeed would have still be running if not that question. Bret was reminded about FriendFeed and decided to take it down completely.
> There are developers on WIndodws machines, and because they like it!

Looks like there's no obstacles in getting this to run on Windows, GTK and all the other components behind this should run just fine on Windows. It just takes some effort from a Windows dev to set up builds and port whatever minor incompatibilities there are.

The problem with Windows is that non-Windows devs don't find supporting that platform pleasant (to put it mildly) and in my experience, there's a very limited number of Windows devs who actually contribute back to open source projects (this may be a cultural thing coming from a proprietary OS).

Additionally, supporting Windows is a bit painful because there isn't as much free tooling available, e.g. doing automated Windows testing in travis-ci is not an option AFAIK.
> Having to rephrase something because someone already said it that way is an insane waste of time from a bygone era.

Which is precisely why you are not required to do it (and never were), as long as you properly quote and attribute it :).
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This is interesting because ... why? And is SO a bug tracker these days? Why not link to your actual bug report at https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24465 ? And reporting to the Django bug tracker, SO, and HN is excessive promotion for something so minor.

Especially when 20 minutes after you filed the bug, and as I was typing this comment, it was closed, with the comment:

> I can see your point, but the behaviour is correct and intentional. The 200 response means the same form is re-rendered, now including an error message. The user can edit their input and try again. A 403 response would cause the browser to display a much less friendly error, without offering a reasonable way for a user to correct their error.

> Basically, login errors are handled the same way as any other form error, in the typical case: return a 200 response, display the form again, prefilled with any non-secret data the user already entered, and the appropriate error message. The user adjusts their input and submits the form again.
Glenn Greenwald is the "Co-founding Editor" and the source for the story were the Snowden documents.
So, you're saying that stating Betteridge's Law is a way of making an empty, contentless comment that doesn't look like an empty, contentless comment? We can do without either. If you think something is nonsense, say so, and give a reason. Don't just make a useless comment.
> doesn't preview anything like Finder does

View -> Preview Pane.

Adds a pane in Windows Explorer that shows a preview of the file. I believe it was on by default back in the XP days, but since then it's just defaulted off.

EDIT: Huh. I knew it was there, but I never turned it on. It...actually looks pretty awesome. You can read an entire PDF in the preview pane.
Young and inexperienced, at the time of the first wave aka the .com boom, would be the main reason. I did have a little equity in the start-up that we exited to Hotels.com on but honestly I did not know my value or the advantage I hade in negotiations at the time. Knowledge like the stuff shared on HN was locked away and not readily available so each member was going thru start-ups on their own. The second reason would be that after that wave start-ups started to centralize in the Vally so we see a lot less start-up opportunities now. We do have a few guys out in the Vally but they are the younger guys that we have worked with who took the older guys in our groups advices and headed out there while their life situation allowed for it.
10 years ago, if you were able to watch high quality TV and use the commode at the same time, odds are you were in a household with an income in the top 98% of any given developed economy.

Today, I know inner-city kids that can do this with Netflix and a tablet.

So I absolutely agree that we can't predict what kind of change is coming, which is why I disagree with this statement:

Creativity, subjective cultural judgment and empathy would still be there, but we can’t all become entertainers, art critics and psychologists.

Entertainers and therapists have historically only had the affluent as their clients, but distribution technology and efficiencies in other realms makes hiring these professionals more accessible all the time. Seeing a therapist or discovering a new pop star is no longer something relegated to the wealthy.

And I've always made my biggest earnings gains by making entrepreneurial moves. Automation and globalization absolutely benefit the entrepreneur. A person flipping burgers for $8/hr could buy a grill and 5x their income and easily run the administrative part of their new venture from a smart phone. If you're living in an economy that gives an advantage to the owners of the means of production, then the means of production is a good investment.

Plus you could also use it to watch TV on the commode.
I have done that, when I was young and stupid and didn't have a UK compatible plug. I have also witnessed a many people doing it.

You can also trick it by doing a sort of dance with te plug where you partially force in the ground, then one live, then you spin it and put the other one in.

The day we have USB wall sockets can't come soon enough.
I would very much like a phone, tablet and laptop that are just different views into the same computing environment (obviously with accommodations for the different interfaces), but I don't see any reason why I would want them to snap together.

It would be sort of handy to be able to borrow larger devices, but plugging in a cable and having the phone "take over" doesn't have a whole lot of disadvantages compared to having them snap together.
I really enjoyed it though I thought it ran a bit long. Your point on the plot is valid but he did such a great job developing the characters that I didn't care.

Disclaimer: his books are like crack to me. Once I start one I can't put it down and now have carefully choose when to pick one up. Quicksilver is next up over the summer.
It is a fact that the internet - designed to be de-centralised - is becoming more and more centralised, evolving around service providers.

> Almost all of our communication protocols and technologies are built on trust on those who run various services.

That is why we need to build and use de-centralized systems like Bitcoin, Tor and physical mesh networks to share and communicate. These evolve around people, not service providers. Of course, there's a huge difference between trusting people and trusting corporations.

> It would be great to start from scratch and build things without the expectation of any trustability from anyone, but I don't see that happening ever!

Too bad that you're not too bright about the future. A lot of people are working on fixing it. Maybe these links will inspire you to think about it differently?

https://bitcoin.org/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking

https://ssd.eff.org
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My collegues like http://www.codingame.com/ which is more game oriented than security and you can use various languages (Haskell,bash,Clojure,C,...)
Its a customer retention scheme. If you're a customer of bank A and you're being flooded with ads from bank B, C, and D about greenwashing and being where the cool kids hang out, the simplest way for bank A to compete with B C and D is spam their own customers with greenwashing and aspirational stuff.

Put another way, I don't know who your banks competitors are, and you might not, but your bank thinks its competitors spam campaigns currently revolve around greenwashing and aspirational, so thats the kind of retention spam they send.
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It is, thanks - I didn't know about the additional leeway of the ground cable thats there by design, simple but smart.
I think what he means is that transfers wouldn't be concurrent but sequential - quable. For example - you start transfer from A to B (in KDE and Dolphin it goes to background), then you would like to do a transfer from C to B - in reality they would be transferred simultaneously, but what the author above wants is queue - that transfer from C to B would start automatically AFTER A to B finishes.

At least I'd like this feature..
Lawsuits from people seeking help?
Yes, open source is always an option, but there are a lot of people out there who need help on small things, specially startups. Where do they usually go?
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There are $25 Bluetooth-OBDII dongles. They aren't necessarily 100% capable, but they are $25.
>If you look at average wages in China, I think they have a long way to go to mop up labour slack.

Average wages in the Pearl River Delta don't seem to reflect this. Skilled wages are skyrocketing and even unskilled wages have upward pressure on them. The seemingly endless flow of cheap migrant labor is drying up.
I used to work in a school where students reported electric shocks from the laptop computers. The "electrician" came and unbelievably, wrapped a wire round the earth pin of a plug, and bolted the other end to a desk. Apparently it solved the electric shock problem which I guess was static.
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right - that's sort of the point I was getting at, but not very well. There's a certain nuance to successful teaching that takes time to master, regardless of the subject material. Not everyone gets it, of course, but most of the instructors I've had who were really good at it were, in fact, older and more practiced instructors (across all disciplines). Using adjuncts to supplement gaps now and then is OK, but when a large portion of your staff is temp adjuncts, the quality of instruction has to be lower.
Yes, that's true. I should not have included the word 'self' with regard to prions.

Are viruses considered 'alive'?
The EFF is surprisingly absent from this coalition. The other organizations listed as participating are:

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, Pen American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and Washington Office on Latin America.

From: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/#cite_...
The solution should be technical: You don't want to NSA to read your communications: encrypt them (eg: HTTPS everywhere, encryption built-in everywhere). And that's us, builders of technologies, that need to make that happen.

Basically securing against the NSA is the same as securing against hackers, it should be treated as a security threat like any other.
And the response from Seagate:

https://beyondbinary.io/opinion/seagate-nas-rce-response-ana...
If a company came out and made a dedicated Linux distro for its own brand of computers a la Apple, took care of the video and WiFi drivers while keeping them up to date and also sold me a printer I would be all over it.

I guess the closest thing to a problem-free Linux experience would be the Dell developer edition laptops or maybe the Thinkpads, as Lenovo usually Ubuntu certifies them.
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OP clearly doesn't know India and our gold obsession. Wealthy Indians will lap it up. We are still the largest consumer of gold by a huge margin.
I'm actually a huge fan of Dr Dobbs, been reading it since I was 10 and would go to a lot of trouble to track down issues. My disagreement isn't with the magazine, it is with the thesis that online media advertising is dying.

There isn't a single cite in this entire thread to back that claim up outside of the anecdotal examples. The numbers for online ad sales and media revenue are all growing. The fact that the numbers haven't propagated through to Google's results is further proof of that.

Edit: some stats. The IAB report for last quarter shows 6% quarterly growth:

http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press...

Google ARPU for USA increased 7% last year:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/306570/google-annualized-...

Facebook ARPU is increasing 80% :

http://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average-...

Mobile ad growth up 83%:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/mobile-ad-spending-leaps-but-tra...

So where is this reported decline? It doesn't show up in numbers anywhere. There are profitable and well-run media businesses with both low and premium content in all sectors. I understand the tendency to want to blame this on some meta trend, but it just isn't there and can't be backed up outside of stories and feelings.
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It's really fun, but I got kind of lost since all the puzzles reset when you leave so I never had any idea whether I had completed a puzzle or not. Is there a good way to do that? The map helps a bit, but if there are four puzzles in a region and I know I haven't done one of them, I have a 3/4 chance of trying to solve one I've already solved. This is definitely a problem now that I haven't touched it in months but have most (but not quite all) of the game solved. And some of the problems are clear what to do but still take a long time to complete!
Seems the URL is down.
Looks to be this one though; https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/theca
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There is no reason not to take the legal approach as well. Technologies take effect inside a society.
I'm somewhat amazed to see this coming from greg k-h, who is one of the most condescending and combative people I've ever encountered.
Thing is, what would be the numbers behind that? Would HBO make more money if they sold each episode separately to everyone all around the globe than it does now (= licensing the series to individual networks in every country)?

Because, an extra cost, for example, would be the subtitling. Right now it's done either from the networks that HBO sells the show rights to or from the torrent scene. HBO would have to hire people to do this job per episode, per show, etc.
If you are familiar with source control, add that in, many grads are not. Made a project that followed a few design patterns? Toss that in.