skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course the trait was advantageous either in terms of natural selection, or more likely sexual selection. All the blue eyed people on earth can be traced back to a single ancestor living in the black sea region about 10,000 years ago. It is a recessive trait, but allele frequencies don't magically increase just because a trait is recessive. Without selection pressure, the ratio of blue eyed people would not have kept increasing after the emergence of the mutation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-one-ancestor-h...
Just make a tumblr page for it :)
Seriously, not including setting up a domain it takes about 15 minutes...
> While I am personally largely against extensions

... what? Why in the world? If no browser had extensions I'd probably quit the web altogether.
In addition to this, the open source distribution of Wordpress hashes passwords.
sure. check the embed additional parameters. view source of the index page for ex.
True, but this would imply that the plaintext password would be passed around the application's internal infrastructure. Instead of just going into the frontend server, being hashed and then discarded, it would have to be passed to the email server, probably via some sort of message queue. This means the plaintext passwords would have to reside in some kind of datastore temporarily, possibly for quite some time if there is a backlog of registration emails.

This means you have to encrypt that store, which means you have to decide if you want to force EVERY email sent through the queue to adhere to the same security standards or just registration emails. Then you have to manage the keys for that encryption, and you have to audit it, blah blah blah blah, it quickly adds up to many many man hours of work.

All this just makes the whole thing more insecure, it increases the attack surface, and increases the work needed to secure the system and keep it secure. As it is not really necessary, IMO it shouldn't be done.

This also includes displaying the password back to the user in the browser, the plaintext password should be gone from memory before the templating engine is even invoked. The best way to solve problems is to simply avoid them.

Maybe I'm being unnecessarily paranoid, I like to think of it as a "security mindset" :)
Mailman ...

My LUG uses it and mails me my password in plaintext every month; IIRC it is|was the default setting ... /me-rolls-eyes
Used to think like you, but chrome's network tab (in the developer tools) has really come a long way
Would like to hear more about data-mining and testing process of yours.
Nitpick, they're not necessarily storing it in plaintext, they may just not be salting it. There is a difference.
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What if you log all sent e-mails?
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I stand corrected.

For the uninitiated (as myself):
"“Free software” does not mean “noncommercial.” A free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution. Commercial development of free software is no longer unusual; such free commercial software is very important. You may have paid money to get copies of free software, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies. "

From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Nothing new there! When we setup a new in-house account, we either telephone the user or go to see them with their password. If it's a senior Manager with a corporate phone they get their password texted to them - Ok, not ultimately as secure as possible but a darn sight more secure than a plaintext email.

In my previous job I was asked to FTP our full client list (with financial information) to a third party acting on behalf of the company that had just acquired us. The IT Director of our new owners kicked up a hell of a stink and accused me of being 'unhelpful' because I insisted on the third party signing an NDA and installing AxCrypt so that I could encrypt the data for transmission. In the end I just said that if they insisted I send everying without encryption, I wanted it in writing with a disclaimer that I was acting on their instructions and they would assume responsibility for any possible liabilities arising with respect to UK Data Protection Laws.

By the time the IT Director had deliberated the point, the third party (who fully appreciated my position) had sent me a stock NDA, installed AXCrypt and we'd completed the transfer.
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>There was a failure of communication.

This sentence is not in the passive voice.
I found this chart from the Economist pretty interesting:

http://media.economist.com/images/images-magazine/2010/34/ST...

Aside from the giant spike when China decided to blow up a satellite, it seemed to be leveling out...
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My secure password being sent across the open net in an e-mail is reason enough to shame the company doing that.
I've been wanting to make this for ages. Very pleased to see it made!

Would be awesome to have a notable offenders section. A chrome plugin that hooks into this would also be cool: "This site has rubbish password security. Don't use your usual passwords"
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This is how I hear very talented physicists describe themselves and others in that category. Stephen Hawking did not achieve in spite of his condition, but rather because of it. It forced him to develop a very specific set of visualization skills likely unique to him. Feynman had similar skills. There is a story in which he was once able to calculate something that took a presenter 6 months in a single night due to his better methods. Similarly he was once able to derive a strictly better model of some physical system (liquid hydrogren iirc) simply by going off of the obvious interacting forces.
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There's also Maciej Ceglowski: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
It is quite good, and the hardcover version is beautiful as well -- good enough to be a coffee table book. But yeah, $250 is pretty steep.
Ask HN: What do you think about piracy-thwarting measures in software?
There's an undeniable trade-off between the efficacy of protection, the time it takes to implement, and the impact it has on its users. You can create an absolutely piracy-proof system by installing your software on one computer, and having your customers each take turns flying to and using that computer as if it were some cheap carnival ride... or you can take the alternate approach by investing absolutely nothing in piracy-thwarting measures and relying on the honesty of your users to generate income.

What have you found is the best way to balance these factors? To what degree does the honesty and integrity of your market affect these factors? Is it even fair to make assumptions as to their honesty and integrity?

What I typically do in programs is provide a single authorization code that unlocks the program. It's something that can easily be cracked, but I do auth checks in pretty obscure areas of the program; it'd take at least an hour or two for a pro to crack. I also do some tricks with by adding "useless" instructions to the compiled form to create a de facto signature for each copy of the program that's downloaded. That way, if a copy leaks, I have at least some idea as to the origin of the leak.
"... I've been waiting for someone to bring the tech to market for a decade now and decided not to wait anymore. ..."

I wish you the best with this because nobody is commercially doing anything as exciting as Mediated Reality ~ http://eyetap.org/research/eyetap.html
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Clear writing is difficult because it requires clear thought. This makes it worthwhile, even if no one reads it, because it shows the writer whether he or she understands the subject matter.

Muddy writing, by contrast, is generally meant to impress and not convey information. The intended reaction is "I don't understand what you said, so you must be smart." This, unfortunately, seems to work for businesspeople and academics. But I hope that geeks can see through it.
Whether it is stored plaintext, or in an encrypted format:

1) They are sending it in plaintext

2) Encrypted passwords are a factor less secure than hashed (and salted) passwords

I am not sure how salting the password comes into it in the context you describe - can you explain?
http://passwordfail.com/ lets people register the offenders.
If you have the passwordfail chrome extension installed, you will get a warning whenever you visit an offender. Highly recommended.
Thirty or forty sheets of correlations sounds like too much work however you slice it. If they were grouped in some logical way I agree you could make them palatable with 'plot' or with the magnificent ggplot; the latter is one of the few things that I can happily play with all day...

Not sure of the poster's original context. Just thought I'd air my statistical opinion out of sheer orneriness.
I'll make the obligatory mention of countless audio programs with linear volume control (Grrrrrrr). Probably NOT made by former sound engineers.
Is there an effective difference between storing it in plaintext and with storing it with a trivially reversible algorithm?
This subject reminds me of a quote by CS Lewis about students being afraid to read classic works, and going instead to modern, unintelligible commentaries on them.

"But if [the student] only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire."

The rest of his essay: http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incar...
It's already planned :) Stay tuned!
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A story about an interesting use of a technology is interesting to everyone and not just the users of the technology. Plus there's value in the HN discussions.

Minor release announcements of Firefox, Ubuntu, Python, Node.js have no place here.

If you're relying on HN to get updated when software on your production server has security vulnerabilities, then you're doing it wrong. You should be on the security mailing for any public facing software on your server.

The Rails security mailing list for those who aren't on it:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security?pli=1
I was thinking "moons" as a period of time, so a lunar month : [time][volume]/[volume]

As in "We'll see 3 more moons before yon mountain dons his snowy cape." or some such yokel-ese.
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But.. I wasn't talking about ranking here. I'm aware that flagging a comment probably pushes it further down the thread, but as far as I know, it has no impact on karma, right?
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The Mitchell book is definitely showing its age these days. It's not terrible, but anyone thinking of buying it should be aware that it is a broad but shallow tour of machine learning as it stood 15 years ago, and machine learning as a field has changed significantly since then. Most notably, there has been something of a Bayesian revolution that Mitchell basically ignores (understandable since the book predates it).

Don't take this as a recommendation, because I haven't read it, but Stephen Marsland's Machine Learning book appears from a glance at the table of contents to be a much more modern attempt to provide the same type of coverage as Mitchell. But again, I can't speak to its quality.

Chris Bishop's Pattern Recognition book is also very good, but it's not the same sort of book. Bishop is exhaustively deep on the narrower range of ML that he covers, but you won't get the same sort of coverage of the wider view of the field.
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Yes they do - just like lawyer owns his skills and can take them elsewhere and continue his work.

A factory worker on the other hand, can't (legally) take the machines with him.
The is barely readable in the act of make it look elegantly crap.
This data structure abstraction can leak if you're not careful with how your implementation matches the intended usage.

I remember ASP.NET used a weird collection class to store javascript snippets that were to be included in the page being generated. The class internally used an array and then switched to a hashtable once the number of items in the collection went beyond some pre-tuned limit.
As a result, if you tried to register too many javascript blocks to be included on the page, you found that they got included out of order, because the internal storage was now a hashtable with a non-deterministic order for keys.

I spent an entire night debugging this issue.
Sadly many students will ask - "give my code away? For free!?"
This will also probably lead to "Heck, the code is free, let me copy it."

Also on the point of getting interviewed - most companies just want someone who can learn, and has good enough grades and a workable grasp of English.
Once you pass the tests, you are sent to their training centers where they will teach you whatever skills you required. The Tata training campus and is course is considered to be the equivalent of a 2 year Comp Sci. education in India.

Having a good grasp of code, is not necessarily an asset to get you into those jobs.If you want to strike out on your own and jump ahead of the curve, then I can see the merits of the suggestion.
India follows the "Sheep Herd" mentality.
The whole country's economy is based on people getting into "Profitable" domains mostly following the success of a pioneer in the field.
The most recent example of this ideology is the "Business Process Outsourcing" industry.

New BPO units are propping up here and there at a dime a dozen leading to a quality deterioration in the final deliverable.
This process will continue till a saturation level is reached and then they will wait till another "Killer" domain picks up momentum.

Till then India will be in a so called "Calm Period" where nothing great and major takes place.
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No, not as as far as I know. The reason I was talking about ranking is because that is the only real outcome of karma.

Obviously karma is publicly displayed, but posting just for the dopamine buzz of numbers ticking up should surely be discouraged. That's what WoW is for. Or even better, the gym :)
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Maybe you can submit twice, but it costs you 10 karma or something the second time you submit...
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PS: your default tweet sharing texts need to be funnier and more in line with the coupon's tone.
To be fair the Mailman registration page explicitly tells you not to use a secure password as it'll be mailed back to you in plain text.
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Nowadays, more and more Indian parents seem to be receptive of "unconventional" career choices. Not saying that it's common, or that most don't push their kids towards engineering/medicine, but the situation seems to have improved over the last decade or two. However, you still hear tragic tales of kids who were forced into a field in which they hold no interest.
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I agree. A lot of blame lies with the educational system which promotes rote learning and at times, even penalizes thinking out of the box.
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From the site:

A website storing a password in plain text means that your password is there, waiting for someone to come and take it. It doesn’t even matter if you’ve created the strongest possible password. It’s just there.

...We’re tired of websites abusing our trust and storing our passwords in plain text, exposing us to danger. Here we put these websites to shame.

That is possibly a libellous allegation. It is not necessarily true.

The password is not necessarily stored in plaintext, it may still be encrypted.

The website owner does not understand encryption.

Understand my point now?
I'd considered doing something like this the other day, good work for getting the bad news out there! Hopefully this can help lift the expected minimum of security on the web a little.
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Yeah, that could work too.
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what i have from my own experience is every one treats technical courses like a mathematical function.
Go through course Y and you will be more smarter than people from course X.I always keep hearing stuff like "Brigding the gap between industry and acedemia" which i never seem to understand. Trying to do something other then mentioned in your ciricullum is considered taboo. Most of my friends have "outsourced" thier final semester academic projects to a institute which prepares it for them. Dont trust me? have a look at this http://goaltechnologies.in/new/?page_id=13
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I don't bother submitting stuff any more because:

1) There's too much noise on the new page.

2) It matters which at what time of day you submit an article.

3) There's too much chance about whether it'll been seen or not.

4) Someone else will post it with a slightly different URL (see above), and that's the one which will be noticed.

I am, of course, very grateful for everyone else who posts stuff. There's usually a good article or two on the front page.

I suppose the question we should ask is if it matters if decent articles are missed? There's lots of text out there on the internet.

[edit: Removed three trivial ways to defeat the dup detector.]
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Does the ranking algorithm considers the amount of discussion on each submission?
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Its by Cliff Click, from Azul Systems. (the "pauseless GC" guy :)
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The one tweak I'd say to this one is to make it "Be aware that you set the tone".

The senior people in any organisation set the tone for it whether they're trying to or not. If it's not something they're actively doing then the tone goes either to their default (which may well be perfectly good if they're naturally inspiring and engaging) or to some level of disinterest or disengagement.

So for me setting the tone isn't something you can choose to do or not do - what you do get to pick is what the tone you're setting is.
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Generally speaking, I think users are better served by uncrippled products. Preferably open source. All the time spent building copy protection, is time NOT spent on useful features, tech support or bug-fixes.

But I'm a free software zealot and my own startup is not cash-flow positive yet, so what do I know? ;-)
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