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> Basic auth is insecure

When used over HTTPS it is about as secure as any other web auth method.

> Force users to reauthenticate after a certain period of time.

With basic auth, there is no session. Authentication credentials are sent with each request.

> Allow user to logout without closing their browser.

There is no session. Only authenticated requests.

It's not for everyone, but I find that stateless APIs are much easier to work with.
'Why not let the customer choose' can also be a generic argument against almost any kind of regulation. Why not have less strict regulations for food safety, or airlines, so various competitors can offer differing levels of safety - and if it matters enpugh to people, they'll choose the (more expensive) options with more safety. Is that freedom or is it capitalist anarchy?

I would argue (as many do) that government regulations have a place in enforcing basic guarantees of safety and fairness. And net neutrality strikes me as very important to guarantee fairness, both in terms of freedom of speech and a level playing field for innovation.
Uh, I don't know. This font is, well, artsy, but I find it honestly hard to read. It's just too unusual. I'm not a fan of some other decorations here as well (like these blurry raster pencils, for instance).

As for your question, usual answer would be LaTeX + (maybe) some specific plugins (like TikZ for diagrams, or tufte-latex for specific layout, or whatever), but due to some irregularities here I suspect that this particular book is actually hand-made in something like Microsoft Office. I well might be wrong, I'm not sure, it just seems like that.
And my point is, people who are here, posting against FB's initiative, obviously have Internet, which the poor don't even have, let alone Internet freedom. So what they're basically saying is, the poor should not have the same facilities that I am enjoying, because I am worried about them being locked-in and I know better than them what they want.
> The nature of Nakamoto consensus is such that consensus parameters are not up to vote

"The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making. If the majority were based on one-IP-address-one-vote, it could be subverted by anyone able to allocate many IPs. Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote." - Nakamoto
It's problematic looking at salaries college students vs. non-college students, as if the single choice of going to school or not makes the difference, and getting the degree assures the good pay. Too many recent graduates know better.

Obviously college students would make more than non-college. Just for the fact that supply and demand in the job market - less people will go further in their education and so the college grad, masters, PhD is going to be less supply.

Looking at salary as a return on investment of tuition however, that is shoddy. The very smart person will make more money (if they decide that is important to them), but not because they went to college - other personal characteristics will determine that.
I wish people would stop referring to Toyota vehicles as cars. Only Ferrari make real cars.
I seem to have all of Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.5 installed on my server just from APT. I happen to only use 2.7, but I certainly don't see what use I would have for some crazy tool to manage versions of Python for me... if the project needs Python exactly 3.2 for some specific reason I can just run python3.2 instead of python3.5 or python3.
Bug trackers aren't a good place to express advocacy, because there are other forums for that. What's wrong with removing advocacy, off topic, and abusive comments?

There are comments in that bug that are clearly from people who were against the change that were not removed.
1) This was in response to firasd's alarmist argument about ISPs charging differently based on what sites you access, not the Internet.org thing.

2) There are free VPNs out there. I am not sure how trustworthy they are, but people I know have been using them for ages.
As an old perl 5 hack it is worth looking at as a new language. Like if you thought rust was worth exploring. It's not related to perl historically at all except by name.
Depends on what your needs are. I think Rust is ready for certain Web apps. crates.io runs on Rust, for example, and it's a modern Ember-based web app running right now.

I think that the situation is a lot better than that site indicates.
And it only took a decade of promises. On to Perl 7.
Lmao. That's perfect.
No, it's cassettes too. Reel to reel has "better sound" than vinyl for some people. I'm sure there's some metric or science to back up the argument.

And other enjoy the nostalgia of cassettes and eight tracks. You can hardly walk down my block without seeing someone listening to a 30 year old walkman. That's probably more of a style thing.
Demonstrably? Curious, has this ever happened in a relatively free market without a full-access competitor showing up?
This album shows the kind of things Facebook is doing to push Free Basics.

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/dnAFg
There was also a way to automate actions to occur on login. My PC motherboard or RAM went flaky and started crashing after a few minutes in Windows. Not enough time to do much. So I wrote a login script that would go to my email and each of my message boards and newsgroups, downloading any new messages quickly enough before it crashed. Then I'd boot to DOS and take my time reading and preparing responses. Then reboot to Windows and hope the responses all got sent before the system crashed.
Maybe in the US, where there is a duopoly for the last-mile access for a large number of markets. Highly doubt it will happen in India because of the very rich, competitive Internet access market, as TFA points out.
Ask HN: Why has online directory assistance (phone lookup) become useless?
If you've tried to look up a residential phone number on the web in the last few years, you've surely noticed that it has been useless. You get no information or spammy/scamly results even though a physical telephone book--assuming you still receive such a thing--still does have correct information for landlines.

The results of a reverse phone lookup are worse than useless because of a recent trend of bizarre sites that list completely false names and addresses for every 10-digit US/Canadian phone number. They don't even have ads, so I don't understand what they're getting out of listing fake information, and why Google doesn't push down their rank.

So my question is Why happened to online phone info? Are landline phone companies no longer making directory information available? I've heard that cellular companies do not publish any directory information (is that right?), but there are still millions of residential landlines. What happened to that data?
Mine too - ETH with Gutknecht? Can't emphasize enough how great the "interclick" mess was.
I reread it, and there isn't so much snarkiness against AOL itself as much as the 90s culture AOL brings.

To someone who didn't experience it first hand, a lot of 90s trends seem utterly ridiculous, and unlike the silly trends of the 60s/70s... 90s trends are well preserved and available for everyone to see and poke fun at.
Not over the consensus parameters. You could have infinite hash power, but if your blocks are invalid they will be ignored.
Best practice authentication is client-side SSL certificates.
Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden
But does his gambling real ruin people's lives? How direct is that connection?
Because there is a lot of evidence that teenage pregnancies lead to worse outcomes for the teen mothers as well as the newborn children.
> Alford is described as half-black, half-Filipino

This is one of those cases where "African American" is correct and "black" is not. Some Filipinos are black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito
I would imagine that the social network one builds in college can help later on, too, if only for internal referrals. I would be interested to see what percentage of Google employees attended Stanford vs. other schools vs. started professionally programming without a college degree.
There's a lot of reasons, but the most significant one is that Ruby successfully and recently made a compatibility break between versions (1.8 and 1.9), which made the ability to run multiple Ruby versions on a single machine extremely important to a large group of people. Toss in alternate implementations like JRuby and Rubinius and it's almost indispensable.

The Ruby dev team tends to prefer encouraging the community to implement competing solutions rather than adopting any of them as official. Ruby devs in general tend to be members of the "there is more than one way to do it" camp.

There isn't really much of a "war". The different version managers came to an agreement on certain things like the format of .ruby-version files, so at this point it's a personal choice akin to which text editor you use.
Let's not pretend that most aid given by governments is altruistic.
It's not really a problem per say. It's just taste really. There are multiple good options for managing ruby versions and environments. (as well as other languages like Phython, see pyenv). I don't necessarily switch to ruby versions between projects or with frequency. That being said, ruby is in active development and with new versions there are many improvements to performance and security. So developers like to try the latest and test out their apps, libraries and frameworks.
If your sample size is your coworkers, there's a giant selection bias.

You're ignoring the countless developers who didn't graduate from college but also can't get a good job. I know plenty of them and they're basically stuck on a treadmill of making crappy WordPress sites.

While it's true that great developers will probably do well degree or no degree, it's definitely a boon for average developers.

Also consider that even for good developers the additional offers which might come from a degree can drive up their salary. Even if you have no intention of working in finance, a $300k offer from Goldman (which generally requires a degree) can help to empower your negotiations elsewhere.
I wasn't around for all of the last 300 years of US history as you were it seems, but I suspect the current aversion to doing work and things that seem hard would make many prior generations of Americans cry or potentially laugh at us.

I was born here in the 70s and even I see a massive attitude shift. I wonder what folks a generation ahead of me think.

Actual American. Ha ha. That's rich.
That's a bit of selective remembering.

Jobs wanted Pixar to be a hardware company. Not a terrible idea as NVidia has shown us, but definitely the wrong time, and he did not foresee the brand that Pixar Animation Studios would become.

NeXT was a 2nd attempt at the overpriced workstation that was Lisa. Both were market failures.
It is a solved problem. Good can be come better.
Hasn't SpaceX been doing this for a few years?
This method is basically just fuzzing with a really efficient method to do it quickly. But in theory you could try every possible set of inputs into the human eye, and it's quite possible you would find images like this, where only slight changes to the inputs cause entirely different outputs.

But we can't try every possible set of inputs to human eyes. So we don't actually know how fragile human brains are. I suspect that brains use similar tricks to artificial neural networks, and learn similar functions.
I don't think anyone who can cut it as a top maths/eng graduate should consider a trade. It's a gross misuse of their skills and will definitely lead to lower returns over their lifetime.

Skilled trades are a great option for a mediocre student with no real interests, but it's not really an ideal alternative to tech.
It mostly kicks in when you are a developer that supports 4 or 5 different ruby-on-rails sites, each of which require different versions of ruby. Rails, in particular, seems to be very intolerant of running on different ruby versions, so if you have been less than scrupulous in keeping all your rails apps up to date, you will be juggling different ruby versions. Using Debian "alternatives" is one way of dealing with it, but you also need to be hyper sensitive about the gem versions, so you will be using bundler in most cases. Rbenv, et all, just deals with the complexity so that it is hard to make a mistake. It's not impossible to do it other ways, but it is much harder.
Just find some way to get yourself into the "in network." That can be attending a prestigious university, but you can also get it from the right internships or hackathon connections.

I didn't attend a traditionally top-ranked university, but it turns out that the majority of my useful connections did.
It's frustrating that Wikipedia editors ignore sig figs. [7] is a wired.com source which quotes 458F (3 sig figs) and thus should be converted to 272C. The quoted 300F is even more suspect, since it's a nicely rounded number.
Yes, they have.[1]

[1] http://www.spacex.com/press/2014/05/27/spacex-completes-qual...
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Aol is still around, you know. It's mostly an advertising company now, though. BTW, if any one with AWS or devops experience wants a job at Aol, let me know, we're hiring like mad right now.
Extensive discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601626
That DRAM thing is getting headlined on the danger of boxing if there's a source. Source?
These drafts are very different; I am not sure which I prefer :(.
Technology does not advance in a vacuum (pun intended). When you say that you are ignoring that the technology advanced because some of those trillions were spent in research, even though the research has more goals than enabling a manned mission to Mars.
Facebook is a foreign entity going into a less developed market. It is overpowered, using its power to influence local government, and also has the power to destroy the local markets with their "free" option much like handing out free shoes to impoverished African countries.

Competition is good, but Facebook has the power to completely destroy and monopolize local industries if unchecked (in less developed economies at least).
One huge factor that this study apparently left out is that more prestigious universities can generally offer much better financial aid, and hence offer a much better ROI for middle and low income students.

MIT and Podunk U might have the same effect on your salary, but if MIT is charging you only $5,000 a year (including room & board), it's going to be an order of magnitude better ROI.
Interestingly, the rates of vaginal intercourse among teens don't seem to have been explored as part of the study. Don't see that mentioned in the discussion here either.

Seems an important question. Are they actually getting pregnant less per occurrence of vaginal intercourse, or are they simply having less vaginal intercourse?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/be9a9a3d2253ceccf123...
It was called AOHell. There were a few variations under different names. Just found a box of floppies at my folks house. Cant wait to see what the time capsule holds
You can redirect all dns requests to your dns server form your router.
"Manipulate their tax rates" --- how very callous! VCs pay very little taxes on their take (carried interest), CEO walks away with 6+ million, and employees who have spent a big chunk of their most valuable resource --- their time --- try to set their long term capital gains clock ticking, taking on a huge tax risk in the process. Calling that tax manipulation is just outrageous.
Nevada has two big minuses - Las Vegas and the amount of planes going in and out plus the Air Force has a rather large base in the state that is a bit more... secure than anything in ND.

The extreme weather (hot, cold, windy, etc.) is a bonus for drone testing since they have to operate in those conditions in the real world.
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Am I the only one that found this headline confusing?
Um, I'm not sure why you are pointing to that? ISM is used for soft-fork upgrades, which do not revert existing consensus rules. You can have a ISM vote over a new block size, but old clients will still reject the bigger blocks.
Big data problems today traced to social ordering practices of the 19th century
Then install ChromiumOS, which doesn't include the botnet.

Or GalliumOS, which is even better.

Then replace/restore the write-protection.
First let's keep affordability aside and think about this.

Internet is built on principles of neutrality. It is built on public property (airways, land) that government leases to companies on our behalf.
Internet is what it is today because of this neutrality principle. It has given rise to so many companies out of nothingness and created so much opportunity for disruption and growth. So any

We do not want to turn Internet into something useless and backwards (like cable/tv networks). That is what Facebook is trying to do here by lobbying the government to change policy. This has to be stopped no question.

Now let's talk about affordability.
Government should look into programs that will lower the overall cost of Internet by reforming how they license spectrum.

They can also provide free access to Internet in public places - like public schools, public libraries, train/bus stations, agri markets etc where most information hungry people who cannot afford are already there. They can also encourage large city/town center operators to provide free wifi.

All said, most poor people in India who don't have Internet are in tier-2/3 cities and villages where there is no connectivity at all today. So, it is not a question of affordability but connectivity.

Facebook is being irresponsible and evil in this case and exploiting the situation and not doing anything to help. In contrast, google recently launched a program to provide high-speed Internet free wifi in 400 train stations in India. This is the largest public wifi program in the world that will actually help poor people.
First let's keep affordability aside and think about this.

Internet is built on principles of neutrality. It is built on public property (airways, land) that government leases to companies on our behalf.
Internet is what it is today because of this neutrality principle. It has given rise to so many companies out of nothingness and created so much opportunity for disruption and growth. So any

We do not want to turn Internet into something useless and backwards (like cable/tv networks). That is what Facebook is trying to do here by lobbying the government to change policy. This has to be stopped no question.

Now let's talk about affordability.
Government should look into programs that will lower the overall cost of Internet by reforming how they license spectrum.

They can also provide free access to Internet in public places - like public schools, public libraries, train/bus stations, agri markets etc where most information hungry people who cannot afford are already there. They can also encourage large city/town center operators to provide free wifi.

All said, most poor people in India who don't have Internet are in tier-2/3 cities and villages where there is no connectivity at all today. So, it is not a question of affordability but connectivity.

Facebook is being irresponsible and evil in this case and exploiting the situation and not doing anything to help. In contrast, google recently launched a program to provide high-speed Internet free wifi in 400 train stations in India. This is the largest public wifi program in the world.
The fundamental driver behind Moore's Law is shrinking the circuits. The problem is that the circuits are made up of atoms that deliver electrons, and electrical circuits fundamentally cannot go smaller than a single atom, because electricity is movement of electrons between atoms.

We could, in theory, use other technology (some sort of photon-based computer?) to get smaller (and therefore faster) computers, but that wouldn't have the Moore's law mechanism.
A pseudo-live count of e-mails sent to TRAI in support of #NetNeutrality

https://twitter.com/bulletinbabu
I use Ruby often, not sure if I quite "get it" either, and maybe I don't really understand what you're saying but I think using rbenv is easier than writing a three line shell script to build aliases or symlinks. ```rbenv global 2.3.0```, and you're set.
We have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENS_Research_Foundation, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR, and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning.

Btw Elon Musk/spacex is trying to to make humans an interplanetary species.
Handbook of Constraint Programming (2006) [pdf]
"I can't really think of somewhere in Silicon Valley (or near by) that has the lack of population, lack of airspace traffic, and lack of local / state / federal ordinances that would allow this degree of freedom."

Southern California has Mojave Air and Space Port, which is, among other things, a flight test center for civilian aircraft. Scaled Composites flies from there, and SpaceShip One was launched from there for the X-Prize. They have a test pilot school. Lots of exotic aircraft activity takes place there. Read their "Why Test Here" section.[1] Three of their features: "Welcoming attitude toward imagination and experimentation", "Huge airspace away from populated urban areas", and "Should you ever need it, a sophisticated Aerospace Rescue and FireFighting operation". This is useful for larger or longer-ranged drones. QF-4 drones, converted from F-4 fighters, are built and tested there.

[1] http://www.mojaveairport.com/why-test-here.html
Sorry, I'm not questioning that they almost met. I'm just not seeing what difference it would have made to the Web.

NeXT, for all its technical merit, was a repeated commercial failure. It failed as hardware, it failed as an OS for other people's hardware, and then it failed as developer tools of other people's OSes. The Jobs of 2007, at the helm of a successful company, perhaps could take an obscure technolog7 and get it widely adopted. The Jobs of 1992 had no leverage. The NeXT was full of amazing tech but he couldn't get anybody but a few koolaid-drinkers, myself included, to use it.

So if he'd adopted the WWW into the NeXT OS a year or two earlier than everybody else, I think it would have been another cool technology on the NeXT platform that everybody ignored. Mosaic and Navigator made a difference not really for what they were, but because they were available to a large audience of Windows users.

If anything, I think the later history of Apple suggests that Jobs's talent wasn't in cutting-edge technology, but in taking established technology, making it user friendly, and marketing the hell out of it. The iPod wasn't the first music player and the iPhone wasn't the first smartphone. They were just the first ones built for and marketed to the broad consumer market. There was never really a consumer market for browsers, which is part of what killed Netscape.
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This article was co-written by Watson. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about the risks of a superhuman autonomous self-improving AI. Everything is going extremely well.
private incognito searching? I'd agree. I'd never have looked up something like that when we had a "shared" computer in our living room. But if I'd had my own device? absolutely