skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does the EV certification process put any requirements on the CA, such as mandatory independent audits or some other overwatch mechanism?

CAs are audited (to reiterate) for compliance every year on three audit standards:

- WebTrust for CAs

- WebTrust for CAs EV

- CA/B Baseline Requirements

There is another standard, used by some in the EU, ETSI TS 102 042, which replaces WebTrust. The auditors are always independent of the CA. Unfortunately, the audit reports are not public but management attestations are.

https://certly.io/audits.php has links to GlobalSign and Comodo statements if you're curious.
Those are some pretty heavy reading recommendations for a fairly simple exercise in Python. I wouldn't generally go from making a calculator to working on a compiler. If one were to read a book on compiler theory and design with the intention of writing a compiler, I would recommend the book Engineering a Compiler, however. The book is based on a course taught at Rice University that is fairly comprehensive.
Sure its easier now, but it wasn't that much of a problem before. Just get an A-Z map of the town you are going. When I was travelling I always had a Lonely Planet guide. It had most of the information you would be likely to find with online searches, and organised in a helpful way.
Probably want to choose a better name seeing as plex.tv is pretty well known. Or maybe it's named to be confusing, "I built Plex", i dunno
It means they were present on the internet before the vast majority of its current population.
I'm not wishing that the law works differently. I'm presenting an opinion. The court will decide based on the law. May the right one win.
Maybe that they'll have to meet in person many people that are reading these news now and be asked about it. Many embarrassing conversations will follow.

Or that an Internet native should not do this.
Lotus 1-2-3 is the textbook example of the benefits and costs of the speed / feature trade-off curve.

A major reason for 1-2-3 becoming dominant was its speed and memory efficiency; it was written in assembler. If you had a 640K machine, 1-2-3 let you write bigger spreadsheets than anybody else could.

But 1-2-3 was killed by Excel because it lost the feature race. It's origins in assembly language gave it a significant disadvantage in this race.
Scala is getting big in the enterprise. This list http://www.quora.com/What-startups-or-tech-companies-are-usi... gives a small overview
What compiler settings were you using? In my experience, C is faster than Java if you turn on full optimization settings.
Can someone explain or lead me to a reason that this is a good idea? I understand that React is solving a problem, but I don't see how inlining your css like so contributes or improves the solution that React brings.
> Apple serves its Users not Developers, most of whom appreciate there's only 1 icon they need to click on to access the Internet. Only developers think that having multiple browsers to choose from is a value-add - for most users it just adds unnecessary confusion and complexity.

And Apple's restriction has nothing to do with "only 1 icon"; you can ship competing browsers, and in fact Google ships a "Chrome" on iOS.

The restriction is on the rendering engine.

And note that this restriction does not "serve the users". Users who want a faster, or safer, or more compatible browser with some favorite site of theirs that is pushing the envelope on mobile apps via the web are not able to use a better browsers with a better rendering engine.

Look at how many people run Chrome and Firefox on Windows and OS X, when there is an existing browser available. They are not all "developers"; they are users looking for faster rendering, more compatibility with services that are pushing the envelope of web apps, a safer experience, and the like.
That's not what the article says at all:

"Mehta made it clear he was interested only in the name and Kneen reconsidered briefly, even proposing some restrictions including a required payment if Mehta resold the domain. Ultimately, however, Kneen refused to sell."
Except you cannot do fractional reserve banking with actual BTC. Fractional reserve works by "saying" people have money in the bank that is not actually there. You could have a fractional reserve BTC bank but then every user could trace every coin they put in it and how it was loaned out, and how much money the bank has at any given time. For better or worse that kind of perfect transparency would mean its impossible to hide a failing bank.

Note that some BTC enterprises today like Coinbase actually defer blockchain transactions when users are exchanging in their network. That way they can aggregate small transactions and enable temporary chargebacks. But that really is all a bank can do at most - delay doing the final transactions - because they have to commit them to the global blockchain or you never actually made a transaction.
A blockchain could be a lot quicker and cheaper to set up and get running than a centralised system.
The biggest problem with mass testing are the false positives. When you're testing 100 million people even a low false positive rate of 0.1% will still mean that 100 000 people will think they're sick when they're not. I once even saw an example where they calculated that when everybody did an HIV test most positives actually would be false positives.
do you have evidence that SO has trouble monetizing?
A robot killed a factory worker in Germany. So who should go on trial?
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The problem with bitcoin is inevitably the monetary base starts contracting irreversibly whenever coin generation is eclipsed by lost wallets.

It is actually a great place to store value, buy BTC, and over time there is just less BTC so BTC becomes more valuable.

Its not good for a daily currency to run an economy on. Something like dogecoin would do that better, albeit even doge is kinda doing it wrong because they just linearly increase the monetary base by 5 billion a year forever.
See the seminal presentation on the subject. https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js
I also liked the Fermatesque "exercise 223 is also currently unsolved, although I've rated it only '40' because I once thought of an answer (which I have since forgotten!)".
Former admin gives inside info about current turmoil at Reddit
Maybe. But it is a legit chance someone wants a software engineer but doesn't want to teach an entire stack to someome.

If you coded in C for your business and two identicAL in every way people applied.. one only knew ruby and one only knew C.. which do you hire?
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I think he's probably smart enough to have thought of this aspect...!

But you are of course absolutely right. And it's not a bad idea to add PWM sounds, and would be an absolutely interesting thing to see someone do for a project.

Point is it's more about a method or a way of thinking than a "practical" proposal. It's about learning how to think. If you don't like that line of thinking, you might also critique the Long Now Clock for its pointlessness. Maybe valid.

But I've used this even as a programming puzzle; to get people to write encoders and decoders for it. It's kind of more in that spirit than anything.
Good to know. Android shows green URL, not EV.
Yep, I still write several checks a month too (almost exclusively for rent, utilities, and the occasional donation).
Very little has changed in the fundamental ways we write software in the past decades.
While I agree they're all attacking the same problems, ultimately they all have exactly the same problem when it comes to code: no designs, no docs, and no tooling.

The point you make about Linux systems being bags of Lego is interesting. That's exactly how it is supposed to be. Unfortunately, the projects we're talking about don't compose well -- they're more like Duplo than Lego because often times they subsume whole feature sets into one huge monolithic block. Huge lumps of code exist in GNOME and KDE and systemd and dbus that just simply have no business being in there.

Dbus and systemd especially fail at the whole design angle.
OK.. let's check that. here's the HN post for it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880522

Let's look at some of the comments:

- Finally, I don't think this owner, nor Justintv.com, are cybersquatters since they owned their domains since the 90's.

- I agree with you, but in this case the original owner wasn't a squatter.

- note that I don't like squatters either, but who can tell that he wasn't legitimate when he registered it first?

- Not to mention that he registered it in the 90's! How does that possibly count as squatting?

Nope.. not really seeing any "nasty comments"
They wanted to force a response from the admins since they weren't getting anything from them.
Yeah, and then we could see how small the differences would actually be.

A 15" Macbook Pro has a 99.5Wh battery and lasts about 8h; that's 12.5W. A program that decreases battery life by 20% would only mean an increase of 2-3W. Even if the machine and program are running 24/7 and all the energy comes from coal, that means an increase of less than 0.03T of CO2 per year. For comparison, the average carbon footprint of an US citizen is 20 Tons per year.
I agree. Every single example in this article makes perfect sense to me.
BTC price stabilized to an exchange rate of around 1 BTC to $250 USD after an insane bubble two years ago. Its variability is way down, its daily transaction volume is higher on average than ever.

If you look at the longer run of BTCs valuation you see bubbles and the price gravitates back to reasonable appreciations for its market size.

I'm still wondering if this whole Eurozone crisis will cause another bitcoin bubble, though. I have 10 BTC I'd like to see make me some free USD =P
>most of whom appreciate there's only 1 icon they need to click on to access the Internet.

That's clearly bs though. Most of those could continue to have one icon they can click. Nobody is forcing two more icons on them. A page from Windows history - for a long time even though alternative browsers were always available people continued to click on the one blue e icon until IE languished more each passing day and alternatives got better and better. Apple could keep safari top notch and most will not realize that alternatives exist. But if they don't (as current status quo implies they're slower to catch up with standards and fix bugs) people switch and progress continues.
Indeed. I much prefer .txt.
> It isn't about the firing. It is about subverting posts, subverting ideologies

It is political. See r/UkrainianConflict for an example.

I followed that sub from its creation to what it has become - it is USAs own propaganda channel. I find it fascinating how it has become that way.
Which unfortunately costs time and money. Whilst yes, they should be up to date and secure, banks are pretty big businesses and require more time.

One day they'll catch up.
Are there any real examples of how this could be used to do something malicious?
I think he wants to bring to peoples attention that if you give someone sudo rights for a specific program chances are that they will be able to elevate their privilegies.
He has a domain (land) that the startup (property developer) wants but refuses to sell. He's trying to use domain squatting laws (eminent domain laws) to force an ownership transfer.
I am a Chinese and here most websites don't even use TLS to encrypt the login page, let alone the whole websites. No one bats an eye. Every time I raise the issue it was just met with indifference.

At least browsing Facebook in open wifi (several years ago) leaked only the cookies not the password.
Thoughts on https://github.com/pluralsight/react-styleable ?

A higher-order React Component that:

- Makes defining and using css styles in React Components consistent.

- Makes your styles portable with your reusable components.

- Makes overriding styles easy and predictable.

Uses CSS modules.
I think many of us have been looking for an available domain for a site and found all of them registered years before and parked since then.

The normal way to proceed is look for another name and try again. Mehta is doing it wrong.

However I don't like the general idea of squatting, also on domains. I'd be happy if there was an easy way to prevent it. Somebody suggested incremental renewal fees for unused domains, but how to tell if a domain is unused? It won't be difficult to automate some "working" site for parked domains (think of those blogs that are populated with content automatically scraped from real sites.) Other ideas?
And now for something completely different: dracmacoin !! :O
The (excellent) video is actually from 2012.
Command execution is overrated. How about having tar download an arbitrary tar file over the network, from a server you control? http://bugs.debian.org/290435
as if greece was a-ok when it had the drachma. exposes the underlying problem that the greek economy in itself is pretty useless, hence all the drama right now is focused on financial shenanigans.

the EU expansion to the east broke greece's neck. a well educated, motivated workforce entered the EU, but smartly like Poland did not join the Euro. Amazing growth in Poland throughout the crisis of the last 7-8 years, catastrophe in Greece.

See comments from Lithuania's prime minister and others who are getting fed up with Greece.

Interestingely enough this fits Samuel P. Huntington's predictions of the Clash of Cultures. He had Greece as part of the orthodox area, separated from catholic/protestant Europe which spanned from UK to Poland. He got a lot of shit for his theories at the time, was quite prescient in hindsight.
merely that F# apps are not usually massive distributed systems.

That's not really true, there's quite a lot of F# use for "big data"/"data science" stuff going on, and one of the other big sells is use for financial analysis (hell, even one of the official tutorials centers around processing raw stock price data).

I would also say that it does appear Clojure is getting some strong uptake in web dev on the JVM, thanks largely to the quality of some of the APIs and libraries for both Clojure and Clojurescript. It's quite possible and even easy to develop your entire web stack in Clojure (I'm currently doing just that at work right now). Heck, if you want to shell out for it, you can even use Datomic and have a database that's built in it ...
Not to be confused with the media server.

Come on, pick a better name.
I guess the author's point is don't ever, ever, ever mix shells and unsanitized user inputs, even if you think it can't possibly be harmful.

In other words, even if it's not obvious, doing this creates a security vulnerability:

tar bla bla ${user input}
Same argument can be made against property owners that refuse to developer their land.
A lot. Some of my searches from yesterday:

suppress STDOUT print ruby backticks

mechanize user agent alias list

git gc garbage collect source

There is no shame in googling. While I would heavily recommend reading and learning documentation, once you get a passing familiarity (not memorize it) you at least understand what you are using and googling it simply can save time. If you need specifics on the implementation the docs will always be there.

There is a reason we have SO and google is so great at finding things on it. Have no shame :) It doesn't make you a poor programmer to be thinking things out enough you are googling alternatives, how the innards of something works, etc.

Obviously this is all just my opinion, though. I could be a moron and not know it.
Knuth is a mathematician, and these are, mainly, books discussing mathematical results. Math is eternal - only the notation changes. You can, and, until recently, many did, learn geometry directly from Euclid.
Then why are we seeing market demand for his service?
Can you or is there anything more to say about that Clojure service/Walmart? That sounds fascinating.
Deep dream as a service
Probably strictfp's example above of allowing someone to run specific commands with sudo.

In the past there were also various implementations of a "restricted shell"; it's conceivable that some of these could bypass a restricted shell's restrictions, depending on how they were implemented.
That is like telling that most of a billionaire's billions are not really worthwhile to them and that they are uselessly "squatting" on them when instead they could be put to good use by someone else. One's possessions legally acquired are one's own to do what one wishes with it! Including sitting uselessly on them.
Not just "Harsh", but "Harsh Mehta".

Now if you're going to tell me that Harsh Meta isn't the best computer-game supervillian name ever, I don't know what is.

What's particularly sad to see is that in the process of publishing the court filings, they've also very obviously published the defendants home address too (whois not withstanding).
I had to look up the current reddit debacle:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

I'm still not sure what's going on, though.
Two firefox profiles? One for work and one for personal?

Type "man firefox" into your terminal and you will see the relevant options and can set up aliases and shortcuts appropriate for your separated browsing needs.
It isn't much different from something like

echo `somescript.sh`
Why hasn't haskell become popular?
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Haskell usage by enterprises can be found here:
https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
Purchasing domain names is the most frustrating experience. Why there is no transparent market is beyond me. Mehta's tactics are clearly abusive, but if someone was holding onto a domain name for 16 years and not doing anything with it is more infuriating to me. There really needs to be a use it or lose it policy.
Would you argue that the guy who has owned the beautiful un developed downtown property for 16 (or 60) years should be forced to sell it to build a W hotel because it's a "better use" of the land? How about building an orphanage? To me it's the very definition of property rights. I get to do what I want with my property, including doing nothing (as long as I don't otherwise break the law).
Hey HN! I'm the creator of this project, would love to get some feedback or suggestions for it. Adding Objective-C to the site soon and then after that, I'll be writing an API!

Cheers,
Anthony
Society does not need to "benefit". His domain is is property, and some idiotic "start-up" certainly does not need to steal it. If their business relies on a name, then it's a worthless business.
Congrats to the Solar Impulse team. Surprised this isn't being commented on more here.
Remember to link the abstract:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00604
I think you misunderstand. The parent was asking for examples of bloated code. I was providing examples.

I actually /do/ use other browsers like Midori, w3m, and surf. The problem doesn't disappear, though, because it's up to all of us writing code to be better at it.
Could you convince this SAT expert to review Knuth's fascicle and send his comments to Knuth? or blog about it for everyone's benefit?
While I agree that the ability to fall back on stateful imperative code makes it not a pure functional language, once you get into an immutable pattern it becomes less and less convenient or desirable to fall back on mutable data structures. I can't remember the last time I was even tempted to make something mutable. Also, in my experience it's required very little effort to convince new hires that are new to Scala to adopt this pattern.
Exactly. And then when your company starts to do better, you throw $xx,xxx at the owner of the .com version and getdropbox.com becomes dropbox.com.
Firefox peaked at like 40% market share back in 2007 / 2008, before Chrome was even a thing.

The case against IE was not that Microsoft bundled it with the OS. Its completely different from what Safari on iOS is. The problem with IE back in 2000 was that Microsoft was:

1. Bundling their browser with their OS.
2. Had 90% of the browser market share as a result of (1).
3. Using that market share to break web standards and implement proprietary IE only features that broke html for everyone else and made it impossible to compete, because if you made a standards compliant web browser in 2002 it would not render pages properly that were designed for IE.

I don't exactly know what made the US fed care so much about preserving web standards over a lot of other violated standards by monopolistic entrenched interests, but their suit was entirely about Microsoft using its position as an overwhelming market dominator of web browsers to usurp web standards.

Apple really can't do that. Safari's market share, even as the only iOS browser engine, is peanuts. All they are doing is making their own platform irrelevant, and since they are not doing the whole "proprietary web that cannot render right in Chrome" thing, they aren't an antitrust case for being incompetent.
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What other property rights should be under your "use it or lose it proposal"? Land? Housing?
It's squatting because:

Workbetter.com

Try going to the domain.
It was mentioned in passing at Clojure/West a few months ago. I wish I remembered more...this video might have more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av9Xi6CNqq4&list=PLZdCLR02gr...
css tends to be used with global name spacing

this becomes very quickly hard to manage

the core idea is to do what react did in js (global namespace => components) but for css

that being said i believe stuff like https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules will be a more correct solution (you can also use scss to precompile eg)
Well, you can disable front running with your own exchange which is what he is doing. And it seems to be working (he is getting liquidity, their average market share has tripled from .4% to 1.1%)

This is much better than the government stepping in, so I am very glad he is doing it. We'll see if he can keep up the growth.
Why should one provide a patch for Google's browser. Google are rich they can do it themselves? The day that Chrome is a verified build of Chromium with all the Google centric stuff as optional add ons is the day sending Chromium patches makes sense.
While thinking about this as a consumer, I didn't quite get it, as I don't remember wanting article recommendations, let alone news article recommendations or wanting them enough to install an extension to provide such. But once I saw the Buffer integration, I realized that this may work well for content marketers. It was only after that that I noticed the "Follow the story" feature, which is much more useful for consumers.
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> I'm not subscribed to any of the subreddits that were affected, and I wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for this thread

While that might have been true when you posted this comment, I have trouble believing that it could be true for anybody right now. At least a half dozen defaults have gone private an the majority of posts on the signed-out home page are about this story.
Sure: any attempt to build a "sandboxed" command line interface with a shell, or any web app that shells out to one of these commands and passes user input as an argument.
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This might be related to another article about OLE execution, to cast a shadow of doubt that it is not an isolated habit. Having outside stuff executed when not meaning to is always bad. I for one would be badly disappointed, if tar xvf unexpectedly run some code. Luckily, that is not the case.

UNIX got battle-hardened during its college years, the cases of unexpected execution are few and far between. One of them is post-install, never run dpkg -i unless you trust the packager.
They were born in Internet and have since relocated elsewhere but still journey back to Internet from time to time.