skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step 1: Add support to Firefox for encryption when connecting on port 80. Call this HTTP, but have the protocol identical to HTTPS with self-signed cert. You negotiate that when you connect to the web server.

Step 2: Advertise to the community you'll be deprecating unencrypted on port 80 after 2 years time. Ideally, make patches to nginx and apache such that it's a small config change.

Step 3: Change behavior such that:

1. Port 80+old http+no encryption: Show a small warning

2. Port 80+encryption+self-signed cert: No warning. Also, unlocked padlock. "HTTP" in URL. Behavior as for current unencrypted web sites.

3. Port 443+encryption+self-signed cert: BIG SCARY WARNING.

4. Port 443+encryption+cert without identity: No padlock. HTTPS in the URL, but grey, and unlocked padlock.

5. Port 443+encryption+cert with identity: Padlock. Green. Name of organization. Indicated as trusted.

One of the problems with a push like this is that, aside from preventing open web, it also undermines the meaning of a cert. With initiatives like https://letsencrypt.org/, I a cert means I actually don't know who I'm talking to (at least in a legal sense -- I can identify the entity, and take them to court if they rob me).

To answer your question: I'm actually not too unhappy with the current state of affairs. I'd be more happy with the state of affairs I proposed above. I'm very unhappy with the state of affairs Mozilla proposes. I value an open web more than I do an arguably more secure one.

This stuff ain't rocket science. Mozilla has smart people. If it's being done a dumb way, there's a reason for it.
> Anyway, at the end of this I said "so what do you think about the law now, seems pretty stupid huh?" and she said that no, she still thought it should be illegal because it was just bad, regardless. Facts just don't work on some people.

I understand your point here but I don't think that's the case. I think what we're seeing here is someone who has legitimately been brainwashed. To be clear as I do not intend to offend, I'm coming to this conclusion from personal experience with myself.

All throughout gradeschool (I grew up in southern America) I was told all the lies about drugs and I swallowed them whole. It took me years to break past this. Similar to your mom, I knew many drugs were essentially harmless but still had this resistance to try them - even just once - for whatever reason I would come up with. At this point, I was all for legalization and decriminalization but I still had this mental block that kept me from trying it even just once. I'm talking a puff of a joint here.

Well a few years ago, I eventually decided to try a few things just to see what it was all about and it was only after these personal experiences that I realized how deep those lies were internalized years ago. I knew some substances were much less harmful to my body than alcohol yet I would drink after work and continue to avoid anything else that was "one of those other drugs". I knew all the facts but still resisted. I think facts do work on people. You just have to be patient and give them time to break past that level of brainwashing. Again, I'm just talking from personal experience here because I've been there before. So I can empathize with her even if it is frustrating from my POV today.
Minetest is a Minecraft clone.

TrueCraft is a Minecraft implementation.
I wasn't implying that I predicted the future. I'm commenting on how this brings their product mission more in line with their company name.
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tl;dr: A competitor to Virgin Galactic (space tourism) using what appears to be a more traditional booster rocket / parachute pod arrangement - except that the booster rocket self-lands after separation. Interesting to see another competitor in the space industry!
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As a programmer I really appreciate these kinds of things as a rough howto and source of inspiration. It would've been cool if they showed how those roughs translated into finished UIs though!
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Pinegrow Web Editor (http://pinegrow.com) is our desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that lets web developers and designers work with HTML and CSS visually. Pinegrow also has a WordPress theme builder that is used to convert static HTML pages into WordPress themes. WordPress themes can also be build from scratch: http://pinegrow.com/wordpress-theme-builder.html

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Unfortunately, HIPAA and FERPA overlap and cancel out in some weird ways when it's the university running the counseling service.
I think you mean they rarely beat the market index their fund is compared against, which is true. But that is usually (long-run) mid to high single digit percentage growth nominally depending on where you look. Inflation eats some of that, obviously, but not anywhere close to all of it.
Has this reduced other related crime as well? Is there a general perception that things are safer?
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Show HN: Meet Your Harvard Co-Founder
Mobile web client was seriously the buggiest piece of shit ever. Every week it introduced new little things that you had to find ways around. But I still battled it every time I got in my car so I could listen to exactly wtf I wanted to listen to. That will be missed greatly.
Clever (YC S12) - Full Stack Engineer - San Francisco - $100k-$150k+, plus above-average equity

At Clever, we’re building a distributed platform for educational software. There are a lot of great learning applications that schools want to use, but they have some constraints that make using software difficult: for example, picture a teacher getting 30 first-graders to log in at once. Our API and single sign-on solutions help schools solve those problems. Schools are on board, and we’re now in 25% of schools in America.

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How do you think every data center in the world is backed up for power? Diesel generators. You'd have to quit using the internet until a different power backup method is adopted.
$ gcc -o test test.c mill.c
mill.c:221:13: error: conflicting types for 'wait'
static void wait(int fd, short events) {
^
In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:65:0,
from mill.c:33:
/usr/include/sys/wait.h:248:7: note: previous declaration of 'wait' was here
pid_t wait(int *) __DARWIN_ALIAS_C(wait);
^
Designer with Frontend skills

Budapest, Hungary - Full time

How a Car Works [0] is growing rapidly and has huge potential - traffic has grown steadily for two years and what began as a side-project is now a sustainable business with more to come.

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Send an email with details of some things you have created to alex@cogniso.com.

We'll be hiring a ruby developer in the next month too - drop me an email if that's your thing.

[0] http://www.howacarworks.com
Oh it's in C#? I may actually contribute now!
That's great and it's entirely your choice. I have no problem communicating with strangers on the Internet.
The differences are significant when it comes to the security of the underlying protocol, and the downgrade is why it's important you refuse to support SSL entirely. SSL of any version (v2 or v3.. the v1 you refer to was never publicly in use) comes with security problems that are resolved in TLS.

I won't bore you with the details, they're well explained at http://disablessl3.com/ among other places. All major browsers have ended support for SSL, and more secure alternatives have been available for years.

It's not a high risk; attacks require scenarios that may not be common, but it remains true that there's no reason to deploy SSL today.
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

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Experienced Rails developer (9 years).

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Other non-rails stuff:

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How many decades is the ROI on that?
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When the power outages lasts more than a couple hours.
My garage door faces the southwest meaning it gets hit by the sun for a good chunk of the day. It easily gets to 120F during a Houston summer in there.
I think it might be useful to distinguish between playing video games and breaking drug laws.
Ruby Network Programming
MethodExists - REMOTE - Based in Calgary, Canada

We are building out our engineering team from our startup roots. We need developers with initiative, self-starting attitude, and willingness to work in a high performing team solving challenging problems in the enterprise space.

We collect complex data sets from the field, build meaningful visualizations, and are growing in the areas of machine learning and data science. We have built a modern organization around a disruptive platform in what is an old-school space. We are happy to shake things up.

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During hurricane Sandy our family was without power for 12 days. What's the longest you've gone?
> I have zero idea what he meant, and so does everybody else who has only those words to go on.

Again, incorrect. You know what we all have to go on? The meaning of those words, and their collective meaning when put together in a sentence. We all have a very good idea what he meant. Well, except for you obviously because willful ignorance seems to be your strong suit in this discussion.

What I think is the real interesting question is why are you taking up the position of Zuckerberg public relations evangelist on HN?
Debian 8: Linux’s most reliable distro makes its biggest change since 1993
Opsee | Frontend Application Developer | SF, Full Time, Early Stage

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Mesosphere - [mesosphere.io] - San Francisco

We're hiring for a number of positions in both our Hamburg, Germany and our San Francisco, CA offices:

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We've raised 40m in less than 2 years, are visa friendly, contribute extensively to open source (we're building products and services around the Apache Mesos project) and have great investors, advisors and engineers.

Work ranges from Javascript to Python to Go to Scala to C++, depending on the layer of the stack and application to hand. Get in touch!
Wealthsimple - https://www.wealthsimple.com - Toronto

We're on a mission to make investing smarter and simpler for everyone. We develop algorithms to track, manage, and rebalance client portfolios.

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We push code (after review!) to production several times a day and are working on some cool technical challenges like building a scalable trade execution platform, automating portfolio rebalancing, and automated tax-loss harvesting. We use modern technologies like: Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, SASS, PostgreSQL running on Heroku.

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I hope Twitter doesn't go away.

I was a very late adopter of Twitter because I always thought that Twitter and Facebook were the same. They are not. Twitter is slowly replacing my RSS and news reader. Twitter is not a community thing, it's about broadcasting (in real-time, if you need it, most people don't, they are just addicted). That's why I don't tweet and I'm just following 11 accounts. I don't even follow friends, I just follow who has something to broadcast. Twitter is great for that.

Facebook is more noisy by concept. Their focus in communities and friends makes broadcasting side noisy. I had to turn off almost all my friends/likes wall notifications, I don't have the time or will to read that one friend that I meet once a year went to the restaurant or played a game. It's just too much noise. That's why FB is nowadays mostly a chat/email friends app (and FB knows it: they bought whatsapp).
The Importance of Commit Messages
Square, New York City (NYC)

Square! In 2013 we opened an office in NYC in SoHo. We've grown to nearly a hundred people across all disciplines and are working on building two of the highest impact products at Square.

In NYC we're looking for:

* Fullstack Engineers: work across Square's systems, from the money moving infrastructure that touched tens of billions of dollars last year, to one of the largest Ember.js apps in the world.

* Product managers: Help shape a product used by millions of businesses of all sizes.

* Product designers: We are one of the most design driven tech companies building consumer and merchant applications today.

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I felt the 'area needed in the US' to be a bit disingenuous. I very much recommend David Mackay's Without the Hot Air, a great talk he did at Harvard on area required can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE

Beyond that, very glad to see this happen. It's one of the factors necessary to push a sustainable electrified future forward.
>> Where do we draw the line?

Always a tough question :)

>> Say you buy a drug that comes from a cartel that uses kidnapping, rape, and murder to hold their power. It is possible for the drug to have been produced safely, but it wasn't in this case and you are feeding the market.

There are indeed lots of moral questions here. As someone who tends to buy things that are free-range, organic, fair trade etc. I fully agree that one cannot divorce the action of purchase from the background process. This is one (of many) reasons I'm not going to be buying any cocaine or heroin any time soon.

The argument put forward above is that stopping the war on drugs just because we can't win is equivalent to stopping the 'war' on (for example) burglary. Burglary by its very nature, in the commission of the act itself, creates victims. People whose house was broken into and whose stuff is gone. Drug taking does not create these victims in the act of taking drugs itself.

So I would argue that yes, the government preventing the drug from being created and sold openly is very relevant - it is the government regulations that support the extremely lucrative black market as well as the consumers. The cartels, the violence, they could not exist without our laws propping them up.

This is where the comparison with Burglary really breaks down - legalising burglary leads to a world where there is no deterrent to breaking in to someone's house and taking their stuff. A worse world, I hope you'll agree.

Legalising cocaine, for example, would make most of those horrible side-effects go away at the expense of (probably) increased drug-related healthcare costs in the developed world. I think that's a better place to be.

>> What happens if, given a safe production option, those purchasing it do not do their due diligence in checking the source.

What happens with, say, coffee? Some people choose ethical brands. One hopes that there are minimum standards of human rights applied to workers on any product coming in to the country (no slave labour, no blood-diamonds...), and AFAICT there are no coffee cartels using kidnap, rape or murder to protect their hold on the coffee market.
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DirtJockey | http://dirtjockey.com | Greenville, SC (see details) | Full Stack & Intern Devs

DirtJockey is a CRM and inventory management tool for heavy equipment dealers (think bulldozers, excavators, etc). We bring the messy, offline workflows of dealers and their sales staff online into a central, easy to use platform. We have just launched our MVP and closed our seed round of $625k from well known angels. Our users are passionate about the problems we are solving and provide excellent insight into our antiquated industry. We’re charging head first into some really interesting problems, the solutions of which will completely disrupt the industry - and we need your help!

Stack:

Backend: Ruby (Rails), PostgreSQL, Redis (Sidekiq), AWS

Frontend: AngularJS, Bootstrap, Sass

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Lead level Developer | Tubular Labs | Mountain View, CA

Principal Engineer | Tubular Labs | Canada

https://tubularlabs.com/jobs/

Tubular is about online video, we're not ad-tech or streaming. We empower creators, media companies and brands to make better content, partnership, and promotion decisions. We've reaised $20M in funding and have long list of customers.

-- Tech Stack:

* Python
* ElasticSearch, Cassandra, RabbitMQ
* AngularJS, MySQL

-- Looking for:

We're looking for folks to help us in Mountain View to be part of the core team building our SAAS application. We're also looking at starting Canadian operations (Toronto/Montreal) and looking for a key first hire.

If you're interested feel free to reach out, either via our job postings or send me email: david@tubularlabs.com
I think a more accurate title would be "So you want to be a web developer". I'm not sure much of that is accurate for other software disciplines.
Just make sure you prepare your evening meal at noon in the Winter... Solar ovens are not a practical means of cooking unless you've dedicated your life to being off-grid and have few other obligations.