skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "single - for single-letter -- for fullname" option style was popularized by gnu getopt, by far the most popular style. Find has been around for a while and probably doesn't update to that style because of the huge amount of stuff already using find.

It's inconsistent in comparison to most utilities, for sure.

It's consistent internally, and POSIX-compliant, at least. (iirc)
Zach, I was responding to rvann's statement, not yours. The "reply" button wasn't available on his for some reason.
I really hate when "X is dead; long live X!" is misused like this. The original phrase is "The king is dead; long live the king!", used when the OLD king died and the NEW king takes over.

Googling around, I see tons of misuse:
Example of bad usage: "White Stripes are dead (long live white stripes)"

Example of proper usage: "Palm is dead; long live Palm!" (this would mean that Palm got acquired or reformed)
"Paper is dead; long live paper!" (could be proper if used in an article about how paper for PRINTING is dead but paper lives on in other forms)

REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_is_dead._Long_live_the....
Ah, thanks for the clarification G3P.
So wouldn't Apple essentially be able to sue any smart phone company with this?
College provides the greatest benefit for specialized fields like engineering, for example, in which the college education is effectively the job training.
Seattle's downtown areas are nice, but living here for a few months gives you more of a balanced perspective. The whole area is filled with vagrants and crackheads.[1] Businesses don't often stay open late. Much of downtown is overrun by tourists, so you have fewer shops that are actually useful to people living there and more shops for the tourists. Groceries are not easy or affordable to come by without driving to one of the surrounding neighborhoods. (Yes, Pike Place Market has a lot of decent produce, fish, and meat, but if you work during the day you never have the chance to shop there.)

As aaronbrethorst pointed out, Capitol Hill is closer to what you're talking about.

[1] Much of Seattle has some style of beggar, but the downtown ones are the worst. There's a bit of a crackhead-hippie continuum, and the downtown beggars definitely fall more on the crackhead side.
"Zone, Atkins, Paleo, South Beach, Mayo - hell, even Weight Watchers/Jenny Craig"

Seems there's a lot of money to be made in dieting.
Agreed. He lost me when he quoted, with obvious approval, a source calling LulzSec "terrorists".
My impression is that these hackers would have much of the scamming process automated. Maybe it was a real person filling out the recovery form, but I doubt the initial scheme (set up redirecting, send spam mail) was performed by a human. Perhaps the hackers had saved every email in the account and were able to extract the necessary information to do the recovery. But the author admits the Gmail account isn't valuable - the marginal gain from recovering the hacked account seems negligible for the hacker to intervene himself.

It seems more plausible that the recovery form has been gamed. The initial hack was programmed to extract the information in advance and possibly even perform the account recovery if necessary. They know exactly what and how much information is needed for Gmail to accept the recovery, whereas the author had to call his s.o. to fill out all the fields.

Either way, it sounds like the Gmail recovery form should be revised. The author argues recovery is already difficult for the true owner to perform. Google could, while keeping the automated process, make it harder for an algorithm to recover the account than the real owner.
Every study I've seen like this is indicating that they're faster to learn for the average joe, and possibly faster for certain types of tasks (stretching an image), not that they're faster in general -- I'm not even sure what exactly that would mean.
I enjoy automobiles. I love to drive, and work at it: toe heel, left foot brake, etc. I moved and started walking to work last year, and was worried I would miss driving every day. Not at all, not even a little. My commute was not quality driving time, even if I did find a few moments of excitement each day. It means a LOT more to me to have extra free time, not worry about traffic, and (surprisingly to me) feel in touch with nature. I've grown to feel that living inside your house, your car, your office, it's very isolating. Spending a few minutes outside, every day, definitely good for my mental health.
> Unfortunately there's no real atomicity in spoken language ...

Bullshit.

START TRANSACTION;

KING = null;
KING = new KING();

END TRANSACTION;

just say it.
I bet signups for Gmail's 2-factor auth spikes when stories like this start circulating. It's awesome that they provide it. I fear it might be too much to ask for my mom, grandmother, etc, who are probably more vulnerable to being attacked in the first place (weaker, duplicated passwords for sure).
No, it means that he invented treatment regiments that weren't supported by any scientific evidence, and did so while failing to document or properly control any of his "studies," some of which were repeated and found to be not only no better than placebo, but actually harmful to patients.

If I call Dr. X a fraud because he claims coffee enemas are a great way to clear the body of cancer (Such as, say... Max Gerson did), yet Dr. X also believes that drinking water is necessary to sustain life, it doesn't follow that I don't believe drinking water is a great way to stay alive.
I could care less about your opinion. I value it very highly.
Max Gerson believed that cancer was a result of an individual lacking production of "cancer digesting" pancreatic enzymes - aka he was a complete quack.
As a medical student dedicating the overwhelming majority of my spare time fighting conflict of interest infringement in the Pharma/Device-physician relationship, and in addition attempting to permanently establish evidence-based standards for patient care, its advice like yours that take the whole fucking thing two steps back.
Do sick people a favor, and keep your ignorant statements to yourself.
The biggest problem with online passwords is not how many characters you have or anything like that. It is password redundancy. If you use one password (or small variants on that password) for every site you use, then if one account is compromised, then all of your accounts are compromised. You want to have as many different passwords as possible.
If you feel your machine is well-secured and your passwords are properly encrypted, you might want to set up a device-specific password for yout machine, with limited access somewhat as suggested in the top post. Then you'll only need two factors to access your account settings.

The downside, like I pointed out in another comment [1], is that even with (hypothetical) read-only access to your email account, a malicious party could arguably steal your accounts elsewhere on the net — that being the main reason why you'd want to have 2-factor authentication whenever possible.

But the trading the 2-factor auth for Google's disposable, device-specific passwords is not at all unreasonable.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699867
The sarcastic interpretation makes even less sense. Is the sarcastic interpretation 'I could care more' or 'I could not care less'? At any rate, it is definitely not interpreted as sarcasm today, nor is it spoken with any kind of inflection to denote sarcasm.

It's just a pointless statement that has been echoed enough times that we've become accustom to the sound it makes, much like a parrot that mimics 'Polly wants a cracker'.
Needs a (2001) tag, but this is a great thing to read about.

Western society is at odds with itself in the way it handles drugs, and aside from incremental progress on marijuana, it doesn't seem to be getting any better. People need to accept that these substances exist and that kids and adults alike will want to experiment with them or even use them on a regular basis.
published in NYT .. who within NYT has vested interests in the college market?
That doesn't make sense. He changed the passwords, as well as using Gmail's ability to end all other sessions. Unless he was giving his SO (he never calls her his wife) the password and she was logging in on that computer, there should have been no way for a trojan on it to access the account.
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"I'm 42, I've been involved with two major medical systems for 30+ years, both in Canada and the United States (Kaiser) - for one reason or another, I've been to a doctor maybe a dozen times. For about 15-20 years I was either on the cusp of obesity, was always overweight - and certainly was never in the slightest bit of good physical shape. In that 30+ years, I solemnly swear no medical official has ever made any recommendations about diet and/or exercise"

I'm 36, I was a physician for 8 years (no longer practicing). I recommended diet and exercise to many many patients for general prevention and certainly for anyone with type 2 diabetes. And this was considered standard of care. I was not the exception.
http://www.duosecurity.com/

https://github.com/duosecurity/duo_unix
I like the A/B testing idea to narrow down to an industry where this concept would make sense. Weddings are just one industry to whom this would appeal (albeit a large one), however the concept could apply to other events as well, e.g. birthdays, house warmings, christmas gifts, etc.
My bank is even worst, it only let's me use 6 alphanumeric characters...it's like saying: Come and hack me bro!
This isn't really a condemnation of science as much as its a condemnation of scientific journals and the human process surrounding the scientific method, both of which are well known problems to anyone who follows science at all. This seems like the kind of article that gets written and stashed away to use on a slow news day.
Thanks for that link.

It walks through many of the same issues as the OP, but with more sophistication.

It also explains "+", which is used in place of the traditional ";" to essentially get xargs type argument accumulation, but within find.

That is,

find . -name '*~' -exec rm {} \+

I did not know about that. It's in Mac OS 10.6 find, for one.
The possibility of a site getting hacked or being attacked may be low but not unexpected. Many of these services don't know your actual passwords, they just have a file that's cryptographically secure with your passwords in there which in the case of an actual breach, only you (the owner/creator of said password list) has the keys to get into it. You just have to be responsible enough to know where your keys are to get at that list or it's lost for good. The likelihood of someone actually cracking into those password files without knowing the password is actually much lower than the site storing them getting compromised. And in the event of 1password, if and when they become aware of a breach they're usually upfront about it and require you to reset your master password before you can use the service again for the sake of security.
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The key part of the blog post for me is this: "To mitigate the risk, Google recently launched two-factor authentication, a mechanism that requires you to input, on top of your password, a code generated by an application installed on your phone (iPhone, Android and maybe some others). I have activated this today."

Anyone savvy enough to hang out on HN probably has a fair amount of valuable info in their Gmail account (domain registration info, passwords/access to shopping sites, etc.) and should activate two-factor authentication: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-secu...

Is it a little more hassle? A bit. But when someone else tries to log in from a new IP address in the Ivory Coast, or China, or wherever--they'll be prompted for a PIN and won't be able to log in.

I activated two-factor authentication as soon as I could on my Gmail. I think everyone reading this comment should too.
Facebook has several features requesting users to add not only their username but passwords to other websites, to add friends. The same can not be said of Facebook [0]. The CEO is allegedly said to take advantage of journalists who provided their details to access journalists' private emails [1].

[0] http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/google-facebook-data/

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-in...
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I guess the question then becomes "why is xargs with a pipe easier?", or "why do you view xargs with a pipe as easier?".
I've been on it since the first day they would let me, and I couldn't be a larger fan. I know how vulnerable I would be if I lost control of my email account, and it's scary. I don't trust the recovery options with google because they're useless if someone gets your password and changes it.

I lost my phone skiing, used an application to find it, and realized someone else had the phone already. Without two factor authentication I would have had to change my gmail password, update it everywhere, and type the wrong password in for the next 2 weeks. Revoking the application was simple and made me feel better about the situation. This was huge for me.

I would recommend everyone who keeps a fancy phone with them nearly 24/7 to enable 2 factor authentication.

What it's like to use:
-Once every 30 days I have to put the code in.
-I keep a paper copy of the 10 backup codes on me. I've had to use 2 of these for when my phone was dead or lost and I was logging on to a new browser.
-I've also emailed these codes to an account that is totally unaffiliated and has no link to my google account.
-I have about 3 other applications I had to set up the application passwords for. This was less painful than I expected.

The real risk is when you're in a worst case scenario - without your wallet, without your phone, and every online email you have is compromised.

Even if someone does manage to get through the 2 factor authentication, there's a pretty good chance they won't disable it or clear out the emergency codes.
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Fair enough! :0)
Backblaze enforces a limit to password length as well. Not as short as 16 characters, but still -- in Backblaze's case, we're talking about a backup of all your personal data and keys to said data.
You obviously don't live in Minnesota.
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It isn't being applied to "everything [people] think is bad"; it is being applied to situations where the form "bad" takes is a reliance on continuous growth/investment/new-rubes to prevent collapse/disaster. It may cheapen the technical use of the term, but it most certainly conveys "the point [people are] trying to get across". Apparently, people find that of more general use than preserving a term-of-art of limited audience.
I guess some people have found more sustainable healthier ways of living inside a city:

"Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands) III" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5M
An option to unmask is, IMO, the best option. Please never show passwords in cleartext by default. My thoughts on the matter: http://alanhogan.com/password-masking
I bet this kind of thing is happening ALL the time on Wall Street. This is just one particular case, one particular set of guys that got caught. I also believe that one unofficial purpose of the existence of many CxO roles (at large companies) and more especially Board seats, advisor roles, "strategic consultants", and both banking and legal advice is to help make this kind of insider info and quasi-legal information flow around to parasitic folks so they can make profitable bets on it. Especially the modern de facto aristocracy that exists.

There are just way too many people, pursuing their own self-interest, trying to maximize the money they make, with too many easy ways for folks to communicate or collude without a damning document trail, for this not to be the case. It's human nature. Particularly the kind attracted to the Wall Street kind of lifestyle and career.

The situation is complicated by the fact that the line is sometimes blurry between a case where you can make an ethical bet versus an unethical one. A legal bet versus an illegal one. Even supposedly ethical/legal investment is a form of betting.

I'll also go on record as saying I think the true purpose of some IPO's is to serve as a veiled excuse to induce an event that will enable people within that parasitic class to earn bucks from insider info bets. Not truly, and especially not solely, to raise investment money from the public.

For any pedants who may come back with criticisms: note my use of qualifiers like the word "some". I don't think it happens all the time, in all cases, and I don't think everyone involved in Wall Street or on a corporate board or at a consulting firm is necessarily unethical or doing these kinds of activities. But I've seen tons of evidence over the years that suggests that it is both common and by design.

To sum up my take overall: Entrepreneurship and business good. Parasitic financial shenanigans and aristocracy bad.
First, there is no confirmation that people's lives were just as fulfilling before the development of now-modern US communities. There is evidence that people did not like their living situation, and pursued other living situations. That's how this all happened. There are storylines that assume that all those people are stupid rubes conned into something they didn't really want, but I find those offensive to my democratic sensibilities. Well... it'd be okay if they were offensive, but they also are far-fetched.

But more important right now: we can't just undo this. Metropolitan areas have become much larger than they were before, and you can't squeeze all that development into old boundaries or even old forms. There can't be one center to a metropolitan area.

And even the idea of local centers supposes that there are no useful decisions to make, that all providers of a service are equivalent except for their location. There will be a Catholic church in your neighborhood, but will there be a Baha'i temple? Can you get your kid to the daycare you want, then get yourself to the job you want, and get home, and have your partner do much the same, all within your local center or the limited mass transit connections you might find between centers? Is the entire concept of Costco wrong? Because there can't be Costco without decentralized multi-use transportation methods.

There's lots of smaller (single-center) towns with a nice downtown, and a crappy strip area elsewhere. In those towns everyone shops in the crappy strip, because they want a nice big grocery store with good prices, and you just don't get that with a local/small grocery store. And businesses that provide real value want to build new buildings, and it's damn hard to build the right building in built-up cores. Maybe resolvable, but it's hard, and regressing to older forms won't do it.
And we're using shillings because...?
To my great astonishment, Ruby's performance was much closer to bash than Python in my own test: 0.572sec for 101 runs in Ruby, versus 4.276sec with Python and 0.318sec with bash. I now feel slightly less bad for all those shell scripts I've written in Ruby instead of bash.
I'm only not paying the cost of living if you isolate the suburbs from the city.

Example:

In Atlanta (my home town) there are about half a million people living in the city. Though there are poor areas, the economy as a whole is much bigger than that, but the infrastructure isn't - even if you removed the cars. Here's where it gets tricky. Add in the population of the surrounding suburbs and the number jumps from half a million of over 6 million. If all of us lived in the city, not only would it be even more overcrowded, but it would collapse. If we somehow managed to make it work, it would cease to be small connected communities and become one giant urban sprawl. Look at NYC or LA for example. Riding a bike from one end to the other doesn't work so well.

At the same time, if you removed the city from the suburbs they would go broke. Suburbs without cities are just small towns, which don't usually have bustling economies and are often poor (relative to a city).

Suburbs are the natural growth/overflow of cities. When a city gets too big to sustain itself it either spreads the population out with suburbs or becomes an overpopulated, overcrowded urban area that's big enough to need to drive everywhere anyway (or take a cab). All those people have to go somewhere.

If my cost of living went up 10x, I couldn't afford to live this way. If it happened to everyone in the suburbs here and we all had to live in the city, the city would fall apart.

Instead of the historically traditional city with surrounding small towns, we connected the towns to each other and to the city with cars. It's one big culture, and one big economy.

What I think will be the most interesting, long term, is what will happen when the need to commute starts to drop. Remote working already has a lot of growing traction in the tech industry, but I can see it spreading to lots of other industries as well. Most jobs that aren't transportation or retail can be done, at least most of the time, from a home office. A 20% increase in remote working would have a huge impact on how everything fits together.
Does your university have a mathematics department? … sigh
Very true. The main benefit is seeing them yourself, not the fact that everyone else can see them. If you search for comments on hnsearch.com, you can still see the points. So a browser extension could easily be made to do what you're saying.
Adding the -S option to python (to skip 'import site') as seen in another post here brings python's time down to 1.229sec.
i use this one on firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mobile-barcod...
Absolutely agreed. Rush hour sucks. I work remotely, but I do end up working from coffee shops around town a lot. I enjoy getting out and being part of society. Best of both worlds.

Edit: I know that won't work for everyone, but that's why we have choices.
That solution is New York City, especially the outer boroughs.
I've only visited for real once, about 5 years ago. We borrowed a friend's apartment near the center for about a week. I don't think I've seen anywhere else where people live so well.
Perhaps a happy medium (between security and practicality) would be to have the option to only apply two-factor lock-down to "admin" type functions(i.e. to change cell phone, change secondary email, etc). This would allow a hacker to perhaps gain access to your email, however would not be able to completely hi-jack your account.
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