skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They still need to communicate two way to the cell tower to receive pages. Pages don't get flooded to every cell all over the world!
When I looked at the Minecraft mod scene a few years ago mods were generally monetized through distribution, generally only available for download through ad-laden 'locker' sites. Also, I think that many developers aware of software licensing issues stayed away due to the murky legal issues surrounding Minecraft modding.
This is a pretty bold move, but I like the intent behind it. Hopefully Mozilla can pull it off without causing any problems for normal users.

Presumably it will all be synced with their plans to launch a free CA[1] in the near future.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/
Now that would be a compelling reason to use such an app, and might even be good for restaurants, too. After all, if a restaurant could take all those tiny parties of one or two and group them together into a handful of larger tables, they'd then be able to better maximize the number of guests per table (instead of wasting seats that could otherwise be used for parties of 3/4/5+).

It would also be an interesting social experiment. The potential benefits are pretty substantial for those who have recently moved into a particular city; instead of fumbling around aimlessly for a new social circle, one could instead sign up for this sort of service and be randomly introduced to all sorts of folks on a semi-weekly basis.
Least squares to calculate a circle. How utterly ...

... fitting! :)

<brag>Tried four times; hit 3.5M on third try, then 4.8M, and got bored.</brag>
That's a very interesting perspective that resonates with my own experience growing up. Although for a completely different reason (collapse of the Soviet system and with it the funding for good schools), parents in my neighborhood banded together to create a sort of private alternative to the state run monster that was imploding.

While we still had traditional classrooms and a centralized place of learning, the groups were much smaller (10-15 kids) and the programs studied were very different from the state run schools. We covered all the basics in ~25% of the time and the rest was advanced or very creative. My favorite was a visiting professor from MGU (Moscow State University) teaching 5th graders how to translate Babylonian Cuneiform, including how to infer meaning of writing that no spoken reference exists for. Not really useful right now, but is the very definition of cool when you are a kid!

I've been pondering how to replicate some of these experiences for my future kids and this is definitely interesting.
Let me put this in real numbers. Most folks I know who work those hours make around $300k. That's mean. I know folks who make half that, and I know folks who make several times that.
About time!

Just kidding. It is impressive how the OpenBSD developers manage to stick to their release schedule.
You only have 2 days left to get a refund on bogus charges from AT&T; here’s how
I'm very glad to see this. It's embarrassing to think that, just a few years ago, many major websites used HTTP for all but their login pages, and it took Firesheep to get them into gear.

> For the first of these steps, the community will need to agree on a date, and a definition for what features are considered “new”. For example, one definition of “new” could be “features that cannot be polyfilled”.

I hope that includes WebRTC, since WebRTC can be used to figure out your local IP address, which (when combined with your public IP address) is essentially a unique identifier[0]. WebRTC is a technology that enables some great things (like Firefox Hello!), but it's a MASSIVE privacy hole[1], and one that I can't imagine justifying for non-secure endpoints.

EDIT: Added link to proof-of-concept attack

[0] https://www.browserleaks.com/webrtc

[1] https://github.com/diafygi/webrtc-ips/blob/master/index.html
Ask HN: Corporate monitoring?
It's probably not the first time this has come up. But it's the first time for me. My employer now uses a MITM attack to intercept https traffic bound for mail.google.com (and perhaps other domains as well). It strikes me as an astonishing breach of trust. I could see this coming when they pushed new "<company> internal CA" certs a few weeks ago. I understand the problems that my company is faced with, and I understand why they go to these lengths.

I've worked exclusively for Fortune 50 companies and they typically have a single-egress-via-http-proxy. These connections can be monitored but their corresponding https connections "cannot" be monitored.

I guess I'm not terribly bothered for my sake, I just won't access gmail at work anymore. It would be career suicide for me to publicize this or make noise about it. But I really think my less technical colleagues should be informed.

So is my Fortune 50 company just late to the game and this is what we have come to expect? Or are they pioneers and we should all assume that other companies will follow their lead?

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
If you can port Cyanogenmod, then don't you have a functioning Linux kernel that you can use to run any Linux based OS?
Vo.js: Minimal control flow library for async functions, generators and promises
It's false in the typical case. It's true in the atypical case, where the worker genuinely cares about the job. Earlier in my career, I had sustained 70+ hour work weeks at very high levels of productivity. In the process, I've personally conservative generated tens of millions of dollars of value. That moved me into my current position.

I know a number of other folks like me. I'm not unique here. It's that sort of person that you want to hire.
CERT: Securing End-To-End Communications
Correct. That is probably why pagers are so popular with drug dealers.

The downside of a one way pager is that there is no way to know if the message got through. If you are in an elevator (or wherever) you simply never know of the page.
One thing I've never been able to figure out from Let's Encrypt's website - will you be able to get a certificate, without hosting your own instance? Or will it be limited to servers you can actually install their program on? Also, I assume they'll get the root CA included by all major vendors/browsers?
I like Kavrayskiy VII as a good compromise projection fit for a rectangular print - just cut out the South Pole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavrayskiy_VII_projection
I've been a daily timely user since August 1 2014. At the moment, they're still recovering from a major update that shipped with tons of bugs, and core functionality is still missing. (Most of all, there's no visual planning anymore.)

Timely has been one of my most important tools for managing time and tasks as a freelancer, but right now it's barely functional.

I hope to someday use it on my wrist, but I need the core app features working.
The article we're responding to references the $43M they lost this quarter

Having missed their last forecast, they're now forecasting earnings of $1.90 per share this year. They'll need to keep that rate of making money up for another ~130 years to justify their post-slide share price even at a zero discount rate. To put things into perspective, 130 years ago, electric light bulbs were a novelty.

As you hinted, they're far more aggressive than most companies in the Valley about actually trying to make money, but that just underlines how hideously overvalued they are.
got it, thanks for the explanation. I figured it was something like that, but wanted to be sure :)
Really? It appears that's not the case, and "competition" means those with leverage (both with capital and technology) are able to capture an ever increasing amount of wealth compared to the rest of the working class.

Funny how "competition" is great as long as you're on the "winning" side.
It's so weird to see one of my programs on the packages FTP. Feels pretty awesome!
It opens with:
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle & Environs."

and ends:

"A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun,”

and in between:
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnth
unntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!

I’ve been waiting for a good translation. maybe burgess??
One way pagers only work in a particular area of the world. In that area all the transmitters send all the pages. Such systems do not scale all that well and as a result getting pager service over a wide area can be fairly expensive.
But that makes sense. If people draw a circle by overlaying multiple approximations, it gets better.

If there were a contest out of this, it could be disqualified: i.e. you start and finish on approximately the same point.
I said I use it to communicate with my friends. Never said it was my sole method of communication. Thanks, genius.
"Turn phones off"

The only truly "off phone", is one without batteries or in a microwave, sans the power cord.
Can you please try a npm install at the root folder level?
For various reasons, the mainstream regard homeschooling as
a niche approach suitable only for the weird or the wealthy.
That’s a prejudice that doesn’t reflect the reality of the
growing movement I've observed in the Bay Area.

I'd like to see the author back this claim up, rather than ask us to trust him. Homeschooling is a feasible choice for families where one parent does not have to work full time, which rules out many poorer families.

This is a roundabout way of saying that the idea that homeschooling (or "outschooling") is the future is, frankly, a pipe dream. It is and always will be a niche option.
FOAM is built by five Google engineers who are paid by Google to work on it full time. It is a Google "project" but not a Google "product".

I lead the FOAM team at Google.
Comcast brings fiber to city that it sued 7 years ago to stop fiber rollout
Kudos to Amir in explaining the outshooling movement so well. I always had a negative view of home-schooling, but his explanations of why more parents are doing it today made sense. In many cases, kids can learn a lot more and remain creative. The big drawback still is that one parent would need to stay home, but Amir did mention that this could be changing.
Wow, this was a pleasure to read.

Things sure have changed! In high school I did a ton of hiking in the California mountains in the early 90s, including several week-long Sierra trips ending with Mt. Whitney. I would love to hike the PCT someday. I had no idea it required 20-25 miles a day. With elevation change that's a tough day hike, let alone a sustained average with a full overnight pack. OTOH, when I was hiking more, a week-long pack was more like 50 pounds, and now 25 is heavy?
Amazing. I have always been somewhat obsessed with maps since I was a kid. My light up and quite massive globe was one of my most prized possessions when other kids were more concerned with their Gameboy's and lego.

A full-scale wall map has always crossed my mind, not making one, but buying one. I did try and find one once and came up empty handed. I am probably in the minority here, but I like the Mercator projection and I think it looks great on a wall in that size (at least North is always up) even if it isn't exactly well-loved by that many.
I don't know anyone who can sustain 80 hour work weeks if they're not passionate about what they're doing and enjoy it. People who try to do it just for the money do it for a while, and then either turn into cheaters (as the article documents), or burn out and move onto more fulfilling careers.

Doing something you're passionate about and having an impact on the world is living. It is much more living than going to a job you don't give an f- about for 40 hours per week so you can buy a house in the suburbs and an SUV, retire after 40 years, and then die having left no impact on the world.
I contributed the fix for the high-ranking array support.

The main reason for the fix was because F# pre-4.0 can't reference overloaded methods where one or more of the overloads has one or more parameters which is an array of rank 5 or more. I had a 3rd party DLL I wanted to reference, where a class had generic overloads for all of the array ranks, e.g.,:

MyClass.Foo(T[])
MyClass.Foo(T[,])
...
MyClass.Foo(T[,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,])

Even though I was only trying to use MyClass.Foo(T[]), the F# compiler's overload resolution failed due to the presence of the higher-ranked array types.

I'm not planning to use such arrays any time soon, but I wanted to make sure that if other code was using these arrays I could reference it from F#.
Google thinking of killing off spacebar, says new patent
Custom Cross-Browser CSS Properties – Yearofmoo.com
Write the book first. The rewrite it, then shop it around. Ideas are great but only established authors get paid for treatments. It's not so much the idea (although that certainly matters) as whether you can use it to engage the readers' emotions. One of the neat things about writing a book (as opposed to writing for the screen, which is where I work) is that you don't have to keep your imagination on a budget, because words work for free - so take advantage of that.

Of course I have no idea what sort of book you have in mind - it could be Malbolge for Dummies or Harry Potter in Outer Space. The usual deal with publishers is to to identify a dozen or so who publish in the relevant field and have already put out books from authors you like, and then send query letters. You can do something similar for agents - authors often thank them on the Acknowledgements page, so hit a bookstore or start looking inside a lot of books on Amazon and build up your target list. Find their submission guidelines, by calling their secretaries if necessary, and work on short engaging query letters that tell them why you contacted them, something of what your book is about, and which create a desire to read it. You have to be able to do this within a couple of sentences, regardless of the subject matter and tone of your book. Expect to get rejected a lot.

You're welcome to drop me a line with or without an NDA, although I can't give you any particular contact names - the only time I talk to literary agents is if I'm inquiring about buying the rights to something.
Grow up? I have no issue with its penile nature. I'm just commenting on it. It's so much more penis like than other things it's worth noting.

Maybe you have issues with penises. By telling others to grow up, perhaps it is you who are uncomfortable with penises, since you'd prefer this be ignored?
Somebody do this: Uber/TaskRabbit for homeschool teachers. I'd love to get together with ~10 sets of parents, have everyone kick in $15-20k/year each year, and maybe a place to host classes, and hire a bright, motivated teacher. The company would provide the core logistics/materials for passing the Common Core tests, and the teachers and parents would have the flexibility to design around that. It'd be cheaper than private school and less child abuse than subjecting your kids to the public school system.
WebRTC uses DTLS as it's protocol which is encrypted.
Imagine the roar if he'd used Comic Sans as the typeface for all place names. And made the frame out of re-purposed shipping pallets.
I really enjoyed reading this account of the "chosen ones", I have to admit that manybaspects of the gasoline car will sound rediculous in a couple hundred years.

I expect the next series to go along the lines of: "Dear god, we went to a local business where we had to cut our own food, unlike our charging station we sit on at home, where we have the food delivered directly to our large intestine. How can these poor souls spend so much time and energy breaking down their own food before ingesting it, let alone have to remeber to feed themselves when we, the chosen ones, simply have to charge our feeding pack once a day and have it pumped in-and-out automatically via the same conduit throughout the day."
I wasn't really thinking of source access because I don't think the vast majority of their customers need it. I was thinking more from an enterprise point of view where you're a large customer who wants confidence that Red Hat has done a bunch of testing and validation on new kernels for their particular environments.
> will you be able to get a certificate, without hosting your own instance

> limited to servers you can actually install their program on

They did a bit of Q&A on HN or Reddit a while back, and it seems like you can use them in various capacities, but you'll certainly be able to get your certs signed without using their suite (and use them with the software of your choosing).

> Also, I assume they'll get the root CA included by all major vendors/browsers?

IIRC they're having another CA cross-sign.
Choosing a Collection Library in Java
Really sorry about that. Our blog platform is a crap. You can directly go to www.vorlonjs.com for more info and better web site:)
Just wanted to commend you on game design. It feels really balanced, and somehow it keeps the game interesting even after a _long_ time playing.

What I didn't understand is why it would disconnect me sometimes out of nowhere and reconnect me into another realm. It happened twice or thrice when I was on the leaderboard.

What dev stack did you use? Do you have a blog post with your math models for growing, speed, zoom, etc?
New Age of SASS Competition
Q2 is generally a slow quarter for a lot of businesses, so many of them have lower outlooks.
Indeed, I was imagining recently that an HTTP2 server, properly configured, should actually rewrite pages that refer to third-party assets by first retrieving those assets, and then sending its local cache version.

This would also work pretty well for a multi-site reverse-proxy like Cloudflare, where it could hit cache for commonly-used asset URLs even if your site in particular was evicted. Hey, wait a minute...
I agree with trying to phase out HTTP, but I think their method is "annoying." What do features have to do with HTTP Vs. HTTPS? It just seems like an arbitrary punishment.

Wouldn't it just be significantly easier to simply change the URL art style to make clear that HTTP is "insecure." Like a red broken padlock on every HTTP page?

That has the following advantages:

- HTTP remains fully working for internal/development/localhost/appliance usage (no broken features).

- Users are reminded that HTTP is not secure.

- Webmasters are "embarrassed" into upgrading to HTTPS.

- Fully backwards compatible.

Seems like a perfect solution where everyone wins.
> Have everyone kick in $15-20k/year each year
> It'd be cheaper than private school

That's comparable to the most expensive private schools
I agree completely.

The internet has really empowered me to get out and maximise my time on the trail.

It's also allowed me to maximise my dollar...

I built a tool [1] to help people find cheap used (lightweight) gear purely out of my passion for the trail and the people.

1. https://lwhiker.com
But shouldn't that have been priced into expectations or previous outlooks?
"It should be noted that this plan still allows for usage of the “http” URI scheme in legacy content."

This is an important qualifier to the headline, and means that Firefox will remain workable with things that won't implement https for a decade.
Tesla to expand battery technology to homes, businesses
Never dismiss advice from something that potentially may not be an outlier.
If you read the article it lists the things he took. Maps etc didn't appear to be a part of it. I would say his phone did the majority of the navigation.
The servers restart periodically to apply updates.

I've already answered somewhere in here what it's written in.

I didn't write any math model, I just wrote whatever felt right.
A sensible, easy thing to do here seems to be to just find the centroid of the cluster points. Then convert all the points into polar coordinates around that centre, and average the R's. The R's could be weighted rather than taken at face value.
obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OM...
>And even if all the per-unit costs are correct, the fact that they leave out R&D and logistics costs is very misleading,

That would mean Apple has a small profit margin out of the total price of the product. I guess you don't read their financial statements. Apple is ALL about high profit margins.

At this point, for almost every Apple product you purchase, a large chunk of your money is never going to be used for any kind of R&D, logistics, or even used to compensate their brilliant designers. It simply ends up in a pile of cash.
Hopefully they will also introduce a standard and free way to get SSL certificates. I do not like the idea of having to buy new certificates every year (and all the hassle that comes with installing the certificates) just to maintain a very basic website.
"In what world should customers feel "entitled to know everything" about a business"

Even you are confusing customers with backers. That's the point and the problem with KS. Even the wording in the pledge suggests it's not a matter of if, but when:

"For a $200 pledge, you’re pre-ordering one of our very first machines, a $400 retail value! It can be hard to be one of the first to brave new frontiers, but don’t worry - there’s no river-crossings or dysentery in store for you, just awesome home-brewed espresso."

"Estimated delivery: Mar 2012"
Seems to me that writing using Emojis requires significantly more effort than writing it using just words. Besides the comical factor, I just do not see the advantage here. Correct me if I am wrong, but there would be certain phrases that you could not say in Emoji, it would struggle with slang and other made up words. I probably would not back this, but I cannot deny this is not cool and unique, I will be keeping my eyes on this to see if it goes anywhere.
Yeah I just added it :)
Hence 'deprecating': they're not getting rid of HTTP, it's just that HTTPS will be preferred, with HTTP sticking around for legacy purposes.