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It's funny, I hold exactly the opposite view for exactly the same reason! I regard a code formatter nowadays as an essential tool for programming productivity, the fourth most important tool after an editor, compiler and web browser. The reason is that the limit on how much I can get done is not so much wall clock time as mental energy. The thing that costs mental energy is making design decisions. Without a code formatter, every few lines provides another invitation to make a design decision about layout.
I get that - but in a majority of cases, isn't "juicy" information going to be held in the DB anyway? Sure, you won't be able to go in through the "front door", but if you can get a copy of the password hash from a database dump is it not pretty much game-over anyway?

If you're able to perform SQL injection against the DB, would you not be able to change the password in order to gain access to the system, or grant admin privileges to your own accoun
Great blog post and super interesting.

My feeling though is the problem is they have a line limit. Maybe they should rethink their style. I'm serious.

Before I worked at Google, in 30 years of programming I never worked at a company that had a line limit. Adding a line limit at Google did not make me more productive. At first I thought "hey, I guess 80 chars makes side by side comparison easier" but then I thought back, hmm. I never had problems comparing code before when I didn't have a line limit.

Instead what I found was that 80 character limit was a giant waste of time. The article just pointed out a year of wasted time. I can point to searching and replacing an identifier and then having to go manually reformat hundreds of lines of code all because of some arbitrary style guide. I also had code generators at google that had to generate code that followed the line limit. I too wasted days futsing with the generator to break the lines at the correct places all because of some arbitrary line limit.

That should be the real takeaway here. Make sure each rule of your style guide actually serves a purpose or that its supposed benefits outway its costs.
You can tear apart the keyboard in two halves you can use with either thumb. Admittedly a well hidden feature.
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I'm wondering why W3C is using some limited declarative "language" instead of the more powerful Javascript to figure out these hints.
As a modality, rails have two upsides: energy cost and passenger density relative to space use(you can run a much longer train than a bus) and a signalling of intent that changes expectations for the area's other investments. Because a rail stop isn't cheap to move and comes with the expectation of a certain level of service and traffic prioritization, the neighborhood grows around the rail line, not the opposite. A BRT line is more easily neglected.

There's a positive feedback loop involved in any transit investment and how it affects the neighborhood, but especially so with rail - unquestionably so as you think at bigger scales. One of the touted benefits of California High Speed Rail, for example, is that it would bring the Central Valley cities into the commuting sphere of the other urban centers.

(The worst thing you could do with a rail stop, from a land-use perspective, is put a big surface parking lot around it. That turns it into a transfer point for a car commute, not a prestigious destination that other transit will naturally run toward. One of the problems with the CHSR plan, the last time I looked, is that the Central Valley alignments are a pretty dodgy package.)

That said, providing better transit at lower cost is always an upside, since the first-order question for trip planning by transit is always the overall level of service - frequency and coverage, as well as speed. I would expect robobuses to usher in a new era for system planners.
I wonder whether they'd like to be called "girl scientists".
It's a lot of C++ today. In fact, they have open-sourced a lot of the in-house tools they use, eg bde: https://github.com/bloomberg/bde
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Can someone explain the benefits of using flocker (on ec2, using ebs) over using an EBS sidekick-type container with fleet?
I still feel Fortran gets a bad rap. Fortran has been a work horse and is extremly fast. (Mind you I learned Assembly on a C64 so Fortran looked so much "nicer" back in the 80s and I don't program in it at all but it seems like everyone treats it like it is some mothballed slow poke.
Just a cool idea
Huh, Firefox works fine, but Chrome doesn't.
If I breach your environment and get access to bcrypt hashes, they are useless to me as-is.

If I have enough processing power to brute-force compare them, I can eventually get the original password back, but that isn't a zero-cost effort in terms of time. As soon as you realise you have been breached, I would expect you would have initiated a lockdown of some kind, either preventing access to accounts until the owner can confirm identity, or forcing a password reset for all users.

If you store passwords in plaintext, I can copy the passwords, and impersonate users even while they continue using their accounts, unknown to them.
So $44600 is considered a low wage? I'm earning 3 times less than that and I have 5 years of experience and graduated from the top university in my country. I'd work for half of this salary if somebody offers me relocation!
If only every company actually hired real designers...
Also "cabals" in the games industry: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131815/the_cabal_valve...

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You'd be surprised how often this happens. I had a similar situation with someone who accidentally used my email when buying a new car.

For a while I was getting emails from the Hyundai dealership that had auto-login links that would have let me do all kinds of things, including requesting a (paid) tow of the car from my house back to the dealership, scheduling (or cancelling) maintenance, ordering extras and part, and more..

Luckily through that logged-in area I was able to find the individual's phone number and we texted back and forth until he understood the problem and called his dealership to update his info.
Apparently the ultimate way now to show off how you have money to throw away (or other people's money to throw away) is to run for president.

It is the ultimate conspicuous consumption item.
The Guardian's coverage of this contains a fair amount of scepticism:

Christoph Zollikofer, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich, said that many of the bone characteristics used to claim the creature as a new species are seen in more primitive animals, and by definition cannot be used to define a new species.

“The few ‘unique’ features that potentially define the new species need further scrutiny, as they may represent individual variation, or variation at the population level,” he said.

Tim White, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, goes further. “From what is presented here, they belong to a primitive Homo erectus, a species named in the 1800s.”

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“Intentional disposal of rotting corpses by fellow pinheads makes a nice headline, but seems like a stretch to me,” said Jungers. Zollikofer agrees. “The ‘new species’ and ‘dump-the-dead’ claims are clearly for the media. None of them is substantiated by the data presented in the publications,” he said. Hawks is open to other explanations, but said that disposal made sense. “The evidence really tends to exclude the idea that they entered the chamber one at a time, alive, over some time, because we have infants, small children, and very old adults who would almost certainly not have managed to get into this chamber without being deposited there.”

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/10/new-species-o...
>While much of the press gushed ecstatically over every minor update, at The Memo we questioned the company’s future.

How original. Only the 10.000th press article to do so since 1999. Clearly Apple is doomed.

>Watch customers are selling up in their thousands. Take a look on eBay and count the number for sale. This is not normal behaviour for a new product from the world’s most valuable company.

Yeah, "numbers of sale on eBay" sounds a very scientific metric. Probably he's too young or uniformed to remember that iPod and iPhone have been (and are) HUGE sellers in eBay (new models included):

Also nevermind that:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/20/at-97-apple-watch-...

Then they complain how Adobe showed retouching a woman's picture on stage with their app and the new Stylus, saying, "You know, maybe that would be seen as the embodiment of all that’s wrong with Silicon Valley?".

Do the people on The Memo know that retouching model photographs happens in tons of magazines millions of women love like Vogue, Cosmopolitan, etc? Or that it also happens for male models in magazines like GQ, Men's Health etc?

>The patronising positioning of women continued. The next woman on stage was from online retailer GILT, America’s answer to Net a Porter, showing off a new app for the TV. As many noted on the night, her elevator pitch was carefully slotted between men talking about manly pursuits like sports and computer games, because it appears that in Apple’s world, women are best left talking about shopping.

That's a new kind of BS spin, where you're damned even when you do show a woman on stage, because she's "no true scotsch-woman". She should have been a game designer or a sports. But not bad sports, like Beach Volley, because then it would be sexism again.

They forgot to tell us what women do in Amazon's and Netflix's world, btw.

>Except as we reported days before, Apple had been pipped to the post by a Chinese challenger, as most of these ‘exciting’ new innovations are already found in Huawei’s Mate S, a device that costs a mere fraction of the new iPhone.

Ughhh, the age old "competitor product has more features and is cheaper" (never mind execution, coherence, build quality, ecosystem, etc).
I don't think the author had a single good thing to say about the Apple event.

I on the other hand, thought the event went over really well - most (all?) the demos went off without a hitch and a lot of things got refreshed.

Anyone that thinks a $100 stylus is a consumer product is out of their minds. It's a pro product with pro's in mind. Dad won't be buying a $100 stylus to click around the screen.

And it just seems like the author was trying to find any reason why more women weren't on stage.

I'm all for women in tech, but I'm more for the right person for the job. Maybe more women weren't on stage because more women weren't capable of producing the kind of "performance" Apple and it's customers expect from this event. Just because a women might work in a department as a programmer or a designer or whatever, doesn't mean their capable of spending 10-20 minutes on stage explaining a product.

And the author neglected to mention that it was a women who presented the features of the new Apple TV - which IMO and a lot of others also, was the best product to be released yesterday. Her presentation was almost perfect (couldn't tell if she was crossing her fingers because she wanted her team to win, or she wanted the feature to work hahah) - she was very well composed, spoke clearly and barely stumbled - absolutely on par with most of the men on stage.

Title is complete clickbait.
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There could be any number of incentives, i.e. health benefits. Apes, just like birds, builds nests and this "ritualistic" behaviour could be seen as an extension of cleaning.

Being this calculated about this seemingly arduous task obviously hints at something more advanced than cleaning (i.e. spiritual reasons), I'm just trying to bridge the gap between "calculated rituals" and "random rituals".
I use https://github.com/jamessan/vim-gnupg
You can get a password hash from other sources besides a full DB dump. SQL injection, poorly generated tokens in URLs or cookies, etc.

If you're able to perform SQL injection against the DB, would you not be able to change the password in order to gain access to the system, or grant admin privileges to your own account

Often it's easier to do an injection against a SELECT, just forcing it to read an extra field, particularly now with ORMs that won't pass straight SQL through.
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I just posted a comment with a few quotes from the Guardian's article, and you can read more here:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/10/new-species-o...
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This kind of remind me of Israel. I traveled and worked with folks there a few times.

When go to/from/thru the airport, if I was with Hebrew speaking Jewish co-workers, everything would get thru in a few seconds.

There was one time I (Asian) was with Indian co-workers without the company issue security letter, we were search for 3 hours at the airport. Both of our laptop were completely disassembled and Xray multiple times. We were questioned for a long time separately by multiple people.

They must have our previous trip history base on passport record, etc. But ...

Anyway, later I asked a Jewish co-worker about is there any law in Israel about anti-discrimination base on race, color of skin, language spoken, etc. He said we always / must discriminated base on those info!

A different way for thinking compare the "official PC" view of US.
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The question is, why do we allow it? If you took the behaviour that is standard-pracitce for marketers and journalists and tried that with a friend, you'd get punched in the face. Somehow we shielded a few areas of our lives (like advertising, journalism, politics) and decided that it's ok to be deceitful in those areas.
This is cryptographically insecure.

I think the industry should come up with a better solution for managing passwords.
The same concept applies to animal (and plant, building, structure, etc.) size: weight varies with the cube of the "size", while the cross-section of the supporting structures (trunk, legs, etc.) varies with the square.

So the relationship "weight/supported weight" increases with size, to the point where it won't support itself.
I'm really just an outside observer like everyone else :). But the Surface Pro 3 and even the Surface 3 (S3) aren't really competing with the iPad, they really have different use cases (I do work on my S3, but I'm typing this post in bed on my iPad Air!). So Apple definitely leads in the tablet market by far, but I think we could be more competitive in the prosumer tablet space that they are entering with the iPad pro. More to the point: Apple is basically validating this market, which can only be good for us as long as we can provide a decent alternative (which I think we do). What is clear is that android tablets are in a bit of trouble at all ends...they really need to do some rethinking.
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Here is the new link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10197486
When I say "mmo" + smartphone + official pokemon game, I was beyond happy. But then it felt... off. Maybe it is the ad with too much of this happy beautiful young people that is so painfully obviously pandering to us mid-20s with nostalgia.
This is perfect for the one-man-band programmers amongst us, myself included! While programmers can build great tech, we rarely have the marketing/PR knowhow to actually get it out there into people's hands (lord knows I'm useless at selling my products).

Are you going to be posting this on the marketing version of HN, and other such places. I wouldn't mind knocking out a Rails site for a batch of cookies!
Amazing fly-through video of the Rising Star cave where these discoveries were made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI-JF28T44U
Using a type of subterraneous mapping lasers I imagine as you see some kind of globular markers dotted around the cave as you pass through.
Unable to find exactly what tech they used for this. Would be interesting to hear any more info on this!
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I prefer McAfee to the other front-runners in the U.S. election. That's for sure.
Worst case, there will be no difference between plaintext and hashed passwords.

Typical case, there may be differences depending on what the attacker is after, whether the dump is publicly released, etc.
Right, and his running mate will be Hans Reiser? Seriously, last I heard, the guy is pretty clearly a murderer. Or lunatic. Or both. http://memeburn.com/2013/01/john-mccafee-anti-virus-pioneer-... etc. etc.
How long is "a long time"? Because over the year or so I gave sitename-passwords a try it popped up as an issue way more than 3 times, even after I started ignoring subdomains and instituted rules about always trying to use the main domain for big companies. There are tons of systems out there that use cross-domain (notably both of my banks and both of my schools), hidden-domain (i.e. log into an app or device where the parent domain isn't immediately obvious), or changing domains. Of course, these issues were nothing compared to trying to remember all of the variations I added to sate the enormous variety of conflicting password requirements (especially novelty requirements and passwords you don't get to choose).

I was in complete denial about how bad the situation was until I encountered some light teasing from acquaintances who didn't even know me that well -- just well enough to know I couldn't ever remember my passwords. I started keeping tick marks on my calendar and found a ~75% success rate, although the 75% was composed of the handful of logins I used every day and the 25% was "everything else" so the reality was that the password derivation system was failing for a strong majority of passwords.

I gave up and started using lastpass. No regrets, but many positive surprises: that time their network was breached but it didn't matter because they didn't use shit encryption, the automated password reset feature for big-profile leaks (they give you a "todo" list which is often as simple as clicking a single button next to each item), the ability to easily store serial numbers, "verification questions", and other nonsense, a general lack of guessing passwords several times before success, and an ability to dramatically up the cross-entropy of my passwords.

I might move from lastpass to a physical repository some time. But I am never, ever going back to a password derivation scheme.

I wish you luck. Or an eidetic memory. You'll need it.
The article seems to assume that there is something "wrong" with running on 25M lines oF Fortran. It does not provide any technical reason why Fortran is not the right tool for the job. Why does this need to be "Web 2.0"?
Just a formatting note: if you could remove the verbatim space before the url, HN would recognize it as one.
Most people speak English to bridge the gaps. At work, in the shops, etc.
I found the wattle and daub hut video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKkHqlx9dE] (the first one uploaded by this guy) to be the most mesmerizing because it doesn't jump-cut through time so fast. If you have 11 minutes of adolescent curiosity laying around, it's really fun to watch.
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is this the same module thing that's coming up in c++17( or later, it it doesn't make on time.)
I'd rather vote for Frank Zappa if he were still around.
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Are there more websites like producthunt to feature and promote app and get a huge traffic ?
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Wait, THIS John McAfee?

[NSFW, Rated "R"] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRvaQsGIY8
that is a ridiculous assumption that only leads to really silly "if the 8 planets are aligned just so" kind of justifications that make people feel fine with awful security practices.
That's not crazy, this is crazy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
A little Wikipedia information:

Market share has grown since this was written in 2006.

Market share in 2007 26% and 2011 30%

Money:
315,000 Bloomberg Terminal subscribers (2 year subscriptions) worldwide at $20,000 per user = 6.3 BILLION dollars a year!

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Sure - in this specific case I was referring to "any attacker who snags the server's database" - I was taking snags the server's database to mean "has full DB dump", which perhaps was not sillysaurus3's intention.

I agree that if the only information you have is a users password hash then your options beyond attempting to brute-force the hash are limited (unless the system was vulnerable to a pass-the-hash attack, of course).
I have to disagree with having a company actually coming in and taking out everything that bloomberg has been building the past years.
This is an extremely hard market to get it. Bloomberg is extremely dedicated at what they do and they do not take competition lightly. They do use there massive power to make the life of competition as hard as they can.

As for Bloomberg there terminal and all of the services that they provide is top notch. I have a lot of friction with all of there data, and this is by far the best i have worked with.
Some previous thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10068591
AFAIK he was never really under suspicion. But being possibly paranoid he thought he was, and he didn't trust Belize justice system (and is possibly right about that).
Fixed as of Maxwell to the best of my knowledge. But even then, I found them more efficient for reduction operations in global memory than any other method (using fixed-point math for places where a deterministic sum was required).
What's stopping a future anthropologist from declaring siberians and pygmies to be different species? It's not done now for political reasons, but the future has no reason to be concerned with the past's special sensitivities.

Consider that "spanish" and "italian" are officially separate languages, while the US and Scotland both officially speak "english". The terminology won't help you predict which pair has an easier time communicating. It's political.
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Sanity reasons, I suppose. One does not need to run a program in Turing-complete language just to express something as simple as few weighted sets.
For a non-native speaker, could you please confirm or invalidate my understanding of this interesting text:

1. They attacked some login/api-token unrelated to bcrypt.

2. If I use bcrypt-validate for logins and only temporarily associate rotating, random login/api-tokens with an account, I should not be prone to such attacks.

Thank you very much for your help.
I have stayed on Mavericks for this reason. I likely will move to El Capitan, but I'll wait until the release and see what people say.
What about if burn the head a bit?
We do have incorrect reports as part of the the "As it Happened" experience. The reports of a car bomb at the State Dept is a great example and is included.

A lot of 9/11 commemoration now is all done in hindsight, but like you said, in reality it was very confusing, little information, conflicting and erroneous reports, and most of the information came from TV news. Websites weren't as social or robust.

So to actually "replay" that day by getting realtime texts on your own phone throws you back to that day more than commemoration programs do IMO.

There is also a "Hindsight" perspective on the site you can choose which will notify you when Flight 11 takes off, when Cheney left to go to the bunker, etc. which gives another interesting perspective of the events.

There's something different about getting the events realtime that is just "new." We typically read summaries or view edited clips. Realtime info, over the day, is really something that hasn't been done before.
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