skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, allow me to retort:

1. SMTP email isn't end-to-end secure with DNSSEC, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. It isn't even close. It is unsafe to authenticate CA certificate requests via email before DNSSEC and remains so after DNSSEC. SMTP is insecure. Making it secure is the biggest problem in Internet cryptography and we aren't anywhere near solving it. If domain-validated certificates scare you, the solution is to eliminate DV certs.

2. The roots control delegations. The keys you store in your zone don't matter if surveillance targets never see them, because the government-controlled roots switch delegations to zones they control. DNSSEC is a PKI controlled by NSA and GCHQ. That is literally what it is is.

3. DNSSEC is 90s cryptography. 90s cryptography has been discredited. The DNSSEC roots use an archaic flavor of RSA. ECC DNSSEC records break zillions of deployed implementations. The flavor of ECC that DNSSEC supports is also archaic. This stuff is in the FAQ for the post they're rebutting.

4. The phrase "good money after bad" comes to mind.

5. Here is a list of major DNSSEC outages. DNSSEC reliability is komedy gold:

http://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html

6. No it's not.

7. 7 years ago, this argument would have been written "DNSSEC reveals hostnames now, but there's something called NSEC3 that's going to make that better".

8. There is a finite amount of money and energy to be spent on cryptographically improving core Internet infrastructure, and the many deficiencies of DNSSEC are why virtually nobody credible in the cryptographic engineering community thinks DNSSEC is a good use of that money. We can't spend tens of millions of dollars forklifting in a baroque new cryptosystem that doesn't actually encrypt anything.

9. The sole important application for DNSSEC is storage of TLS certificates.
This is admittedly reaching a bit, but: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCj9F0gUAAAkio-.jpg:large

In all seriousness, this could well be Apple essentially approaching Microsoft's original Xbox One strategy from the other end: Expanding from a video-on-demand streaming box into home gaming, along with a foray into live TV. And this is where it really gets interesting: By most accounts, Microsoft largely failed with their one-box-to-rule-them-all living room play because an HDMI pass-through and an IR blaster just weren't an elegant solution. But Apple, with their reported TV deals in the works, could offer the vertically-integrated cable experience Microsoft could only hack together. This could be a very interesting WWDC for the cable industry.
For the CEO, success appears to be defined as keeping the minimum wage across the entire pool of job candidates set above $70k. The easiest move is the first shift to raise everyone's existing salaries as this is based on previous staffing behavior. The test will be if they have the discipline to continue hiring as they have previously going forward.

For example, if they were hiring new college grads out of school at $40k, will the continue to do so at the same pace? Will they continue to hire new college grads at all?

I mention this because if they don't, they won't meet the CEO's stated goal -- rather they will slowly shift their workforce to weed out those with market rates below $70k.

The only way to prevent this will be to ask managers to purposefully hire candidates with less experience while simultaneously handing them a larger hiring budget.
Since its demise and revival by Betaworks, Digg has actually been one of my favorite front pages...somewhere between HN/NYT, and Reddit. They have a few clickbait things but mostly a pretty interesting variety of aggregated stories. This was the first time I've seen them publish their own articles (though I think they've been doing videos for some time)

Also, to give credit where it's due: Digg was one of the few places to follow through on the "let's make something better" after Google Reader closed shop...I hadn't used Google Reader in awhile so I've forgotten what features it excelled on, but Digg's reader is the only feed reader I use currently: http://digg.com/reader
I can't find any place where the article claims the work will be for the same employer. It only claims people will not be out of work, so your whole objection is a total straw man as you attack something the article doesn't claim.

If you want to actually attack the position in the article, attack the proposition that there will be as much work available in all total work places in the future. This is definitely a position that is possible to attack, but instead you assumed people have to be employed at the same places as now. Such an attack would have to start with explaining why this time is different from earlier shifts of technology that has not had this effect (in the long term. Some have caused short term unemployment spikes).
I believe that ORTC has been added to the WebRTC 1.1 specification.
When you see this... "Unpaid Internships Available" = RUN!
+1 for Algolia
The list includes "construction equipment operators". Which degree do you need for that?
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Something like SUNY Excelsior (suggested in another reply) would definitely help.

There are also CLEP exams[1], which allow you to take exams for college credit. Most people seem to have never heard of these, though I know they were popular in some homeschooling circles.

[1] https://clep.collegeboard.org/exam
"Vulcan will be partially reusable (eventually)"
Haha what a joke. The whole point of reusability is to be able to land the rocket, refuel it, and send it back up the next or even same day!

"ULA says it's going to try to capture only the most valuable parts of a rocket"

So... how about when we fly NY -> LA in our 777 we only bother to land the passengers in the remaining "valuable" parts of the airplane? See the point ULA? We're trying to make spaceflight just like commercial airline traffic. That's the ONLY way to make it commercially viable. Your cost-plus methods of building expensive as possible single use bottle rockets are over man!!
> "ditching built-in streams and replacing them with something decent"

What have you found sufficient for this?
Can't give you a complete answer on this, although I believe the correct way to evolve on this list (and other questions of importance to society) could be something like (for example):

* a) open period of public discussion (media info and debates), and invite proposals to be sent and received before a fixed deadline-A. This expects the contribution from anyone, both {government, social, private} entities which work around the context but also from anyone else who has a valid opinion or contribution to make (journalists, individuals, teachers, etc).

* b) let the discussion of arguments and solutions breed during the period of public discussion, and when deadline-A is reached identify key-arguments-and-participants who surfaced as dominant contributions and with them constitute a "task-team". (make available to them some gov-special-temp-permission to work on this)

* c) Ask the "task-team" to try to elaborate a joint proposal, with their different contributions taken into account, and explaining the pros/cons of the decisions proposed (this could serve also as an historical-explanation-of-why-those-decisions-were-proposed-at-that-time). If it is not possible to make a joint proposal (arguments too different) then the task-team would elaborate multiple proposals and take them to an online voting to let the public decide which proposals should be discarded at this point.

* d) At this point, there should already be public conscience of the problem and the different tradeoffs around proposed solutions (from a)). Also there should be a proposal elaborated by the "task-force" (from c)), so in this phase the proposal should be gradually implemented, with much communication and transparency of the whys-and-hows.

These are just some sparse ideas... I believe that society could be led to participate much further and generate greater/better contributions towards the well-being of the nation...
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Ok. You first.

Go on...

You see now why this is not a viable solution. At least, it isn't until planetary emigration becomes possible.
"up to 4-way calling" .. If it said up to 16 that would be more of a game changer.
There are no use cases where HTTP is more capable than HTTPS. There are some hurdles in dropping HTTP, but HTTPS is a strict improvement for almost all cases. The only argument I can see for plain HTTP is legacy devices that no longer receive updates. For these, a UI similar to the self-signed cert warning will work.

My problem is that we still allow plain HTTP. That should never be the case, just like we should not use telnet for remote server access.

DNS hijacking is a problem. It is a problem at a different layer of the system. Just because that layer is vulnerable, does not mean that we should leave a gaping security hole at a different layer. I don't buy the argument that we must have perfect security or no security. Besides, there are ways to mitigate the DNS hijacking issue, such as the HSTS header.
It is not a bloated NLP library. Instead, it focuses on basic stuffs such as sentence splitter and tokenizer, bigram statistical test, phrase extractor, keyword extractor, stemmer, POS tagging, relevance ranking. Combined with various machine learning algorithms e.g. HMM, maxent, CRF, etc., you can work out advanced applications such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, etc.
Yeah "won't launch until 2019" means that bird will never fly. Just like SLS.
Why India is Most Interesting country in the world?
WWDC 2015
It happens rarely, but it happened to me already. Imagine you saved a file and backed it up. At some point (which is basically a question of time) your file gets corrupted. You don't notice it since you don't touch that file very often. After a year or so, you try to open it and it fails. Then you go to your backup only to notice that the corrupted file has been overwriting your original file and the deletion of older backups resulted in your original file being long gone.

Maybe you have a second backup? Have you ever had the opportunity to see a "slightly" broken hard drive continuously changing all your stuff by just a little bit?

Somebody's to blame, right? Well, yeah, basically it's the file system's highest priority not to break your data. And, of course, to tell you when your data broke. HFS+ is just not capable of doing that.

Then there's such things as RAID mirroring which really only makes sense if you know which blocks are the correct ones and which are the broken ones.

The second major thing I'd really like to have are Snapshots. There's not much to be said here except that I'd really like to easily create a snapshot of the state of a disk. Roll back easily, setup your new computer without hassle. Time Machine Backups kind of tries to do that, but it's (in my opinion) a real pain, although it does some things that are useful. What Time Machine tries to do, is essentially to emulate a feature that should really be part of the file system.

There's been a lot of progress on file systems but HFS+ is kind of stuck. HFS+ is basically an age-old thing that doesn't really have any more capabilities than back in the glorious Mac OS 8 days (Journaling was added sometime later), except that ever more stuff is put on top of it instead of improving the file system itself. Also, I really dislike the default being case-insensitive and case-preserving (apparently things break if you make it case-sensitive) but maybe that's just me.

If you ever get the chance, try reading up on ZFS (or give it a try with, say, FreeBSD on a server). ZFS basically shows the capability of a modern file system.
You make a good point. This might be more of a UI issue: perhaps self-signed certificates could use a different browser icon that lets people know traffic is encrypted, but the identity of the site is not verified. Use a large "E" in the icon?

I don't mind at all visiting someone's personal site that has a self signed certificate but a UI change to avoid the glaring waring dialog would be nice.

There are large advantages of having almost all traffic encrypted.
I don't discount that there EXISTS an average but I don't think it would line up at all with their numbers. I fully understand the meaning of "average" and I also understand that there are a LARGE number of times that the average is completely useless due to the input data. In most of those cases it's better to use the MEDIAN not the MEAN (average). For example if you are looking at the following data set:

$20,000
$30,000
$25,000
$35,000
$100,000

The mean is $42,000 but the median is $30,000 which is a better representation of the data IMHO. Same with servers, you have servers that are massive for storing data and small <10GB App servers that sit behind a LB. What I'm trying to say is the numbers don't make sense and it's a BAD comparison. It would be a little better if they gave numbers for either laptops or servers but they way they have it phrased they just as well could have said "They seized 35 apples that is equivalent to 100 oranges". Lastly while there EXISTS averages no doubt I challenge you to FIND these averages, a quick couple google searches produces no such knowledge. Not to mention that while an average exists I believe it to be incalculable unless you want to use sampling due to the fact that the VAST majority of companies do not share that type of information.
A stack overflow poll isn't a reliable source of data about enginners, fwiw.
Their browser.
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The real net neutrality lawsuits are finally here
(Disclosure: I am the CTO of Joyent.)

We are not and have not been the stewards of node.js to convert node.js developers into paying Joyent customers; rather, we became the stewards because we employed Ryan Dahl at the time (summer 2010), we were (and are) avid and early users of node.js ourselves, and we saw that node.js needed corporate stewardship. The node.js community has come a long way since then, of course, and earlier this year we announced our intention of moving node.js into a foundation -- which is now well underway.

In terms of how node.js fits into our business, we have always been upfront that we have never monetized node.js directly: to the extent we have monetized it, it has been by offering complementary products like an IaaS platform that was designed to run node.js in production[1] and via support and services[2].

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/node-summit2013

[2] https://www.joyent.com/nodejs-support
A better non-paywall source is here:

http://www.lightreading.com/business-employment/how-do-nokia...?

Includes discussion of how such a merger would affect Juniper. Juniper is ALU's IP routing partner.
Doing similar things for C/C++/Python would be helpful!
True. But the screen.
Looks nice, I really like Slim Framework, this looks a lot like Slim from what I could tell. Gonna be interesting to see how (if at all) this will effect some performance focus from the Slim developers.
The CPU mark scores seem to be pretty good. (I wonder whether the turbo boost improves benchmark scores.) For something bursty like compilation, it should be perfectly usable, particularly when combined with the SSD.

Not sure about the RAM though... RAM requirements are climbing slowly enough that 8GBytes is probably fine, but it's still a bit stingy.
This show re-kindled my love for 80's music - if you haven't check it out already, and love the soundtrack, there's an AMC playlist for the show on Spotify .. worth using!
I worked at a company that did remote energy monitoring (circuit by circuit, minute by minute for thousands of monitors). We did all the math in PHP, preping, summarizing data and sending it down to web services. It wasn't fast, but it couldn't be considered slow by any stretch.

Plus php has a large library of components (Zend, symfony) and a package manager (composer) that make web development significantly easier.
Well, for one I'd like to be able to publish the game on my own site if I want; what if NovelSphere eventually goes down -- would my game disappear with it?

In addition, as far as I can tell the "NovelSphere" site seems to be Japanese only, which I would imagine is a major roadblock if I want to release an English-language game.
indent(1) or equivalent would solve that problem.
Question: was the URL sent through Facebook chat an HTTPS URL? If it was, that would imply Facebook's involvement. But if it wasn't, it's possible that Facebook's scan was sniffed in transit and the URL was then sent over to the third party for scanning.

I also assume from the timezone in your log that your server is outside the US. It would be interesting to test this with a link to a server located inside the US, to try to determine where the interception is taking place.
I'm not directly exposing my life, but I have been running a site that streams photos taken within 250 meters of my cell phone's current location every three minutes. Check it out: www.instagrampostsnear.me

Side note: If anyone that has art world connections could hook me with the possibility of exhibiting some of the best photos, it would be very much appreciated.
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All those tax dollars, bought for around $100M/year[1]. I wonder if they are seeing exponential returns on their lobbying investment, and that's why it went from $25M to $100M in less than a decade, or if it is an attempt to staunch the losses brought about by file sharing. I'm guessing the latter.

1. https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B02
Does private modules increase the SLA of NPM?

The biggest issue we face with using github and npm for deploys is the intermittent service outtages.
These studies seem so prevalent in today's age, maybe the participants know they are being studied, know what the outcome the study is looking for, and might overcompensate their behavior to make sure they "pass" the test.

I mean what kind of administrative academic can you show a set of "hypothetical resumes", and they don't say hmmm I think I've heard this one before.
as someone who has dyn dns through them for my home network .. I definitely noticed the slow down in response time.. takes 45 seconds to login to my teamspeak server now. Most of that time is caught up in resolving the domain.
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Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing?

How is RethinkDB licensed?

The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
http://rethinkdb.com/faq/
That's an interesting angle. Nice work.
Check. Good feedback.
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>Whenever there is a thread about Apple development someone pipes up and says that HFS+ is horrible. Can you explain why it's so problematic?

It's because of herd mentality.

Other people say it, so they must indulge too.

Besides they've heard about this ZFS and how awesome it is, so it should be used everywhere, even in laptops where it has no real business purpose (as an enterprise FS), and will consume CPU and thus battery life and eat into the valuabe SSD space.

It's like when fresh CS students learn about this assembly thing and how it's the lowest and faster layer, and then want to have whole OSes written in hand-rolled assembly because that will be the "fastest OS ever".
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Doesn't CliqMeet do much of this? But it can go to 100+ because it provides an MCU service (multiplexing node), plus auditorium models as well.

Is the difference that this is SaaS, and CliqMeet was an app?
> Some alternatives to socialism:
> basic income

You may want to check the definition of "socialism" that you're using, as basic income (along with group healthcare) is one of the canonical examples of socialism. Which is a good thing, as long as we remember to regulate it properly (just like how we need to regulate capital-focused ideas - any pure ideology will eventually cause problems if left unchecked)
Well, I'm sure there were a number of key factors involved.

I'm currently porting a rails app to Laravel and the speed boost has been pretty remarkable, not to mention not ever having to install gems whose only purpose is to reboot unicorn when the memory leaks hit a certain threshold.

I didn't choose Laravel because I like PHP (I don't), I chose it because of the need to balance ease of development with speed with having less skilled developers be able to maintain it with a modicum of safety. Not to mention how ridiculously easy it is to horizontally scale PHP.

I'd like PHP more if they dropped the f*cking $ sign though.

It's a good tool if you need to get shit done.
Well, dropbox, uber etc. are called startups too. Maybe there is a massive word abuse, but it's not only about france :-)
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That same reasoning would also say that π! is 6, which is not really a useful result, so we are probably best looking for a different definition.

There's also some controversy about whether "there are no natural numbers <= 0"...
Notorious implies he did something bad. In this case, the definition of bad means different things to different people.
In the beginning, sure, but it is reasonable to expect they'll iron out the kinks and the engines will eventually have < 1 day maintenance delay.
The $5B race to build a better battery
that would be easy to check and restrict on the client side.
I think people just didn't realize that nokia wasn't just a company that made phones (I didn't know that until just now at least).
> Right now you can point to a repo or specific branch / tag but it doesn't read any of the versioning like bower does, so it can't handle versioning properly.

You can even point to a specific commit hash. But no, it doesn't read any of the versioning. What if two different branches have the same version number? The publish step is pretty important, because ...

> If they updated the use of GIT you could completely eliminate the need for this feature.

... You'd still miss out on the prepublish hook - one of the major reasons I've looked into using NPM Enterprise.

Sometimes your package needs to do some housekeeping _before_ you publish, and the files generated by that should be distributed -- but not checked into source control.
Congratulations, been looking forward to this release for a while!
A dime for your thought process...
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Why was this comment downvoted? The NSA has built custom hardware to crack 1024 bit DH in a few days[1], so the site owner really should regenerate the DH parameters and use 2048 bits.

It would also be nice to disable 3DES ciphers and only allow ciphers with forward secrecy.

[1] http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/tor-is-still-dhe-1024-nsa-...
MVP, got to start somewhere right?
I think there's a more fundamental cryptographic principle. Don't implement cryptography, unless you are an absolute top expert. Even then, think twice, and get another absolute top cryptography expert to check your working. Use a pre-existing cryptography package that has been written properly instead.
https://mega.co.nz/ seems to be perfectly fine.
Daniel @ RethinkDB here.
As you mention, RethinkDB is fully open source so RethinkDB is always going to remain freely available.
Selling support is a great non-intrusive business model.