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A good idea for some situations. There are some obvious caveats:

* Remember email is not encrypted. The links can be intercepted.

* Consider looking at other factors (like IP, browser data, persistent cookies) that will let you know the user is legit before you green light the auto-login.

* Link to HTTPS, not HTTP. The user might be on a shared computer and you don't want login-able URLs left in the history.

* Force the user to enter their password to access sensitive settings or data (like changing email, passwords, etc.)
This would make a good nethack level editor!
> If two people independently invent something at about the same time, does that mean it's obvious to someone skilled in the art?

No. If it was you would have dozens or hundreds of simultaneous inventors, not just two.
In my experience, most validation on the server is a superset of what's required on the client (or disjoint).

For example, validating a user's name on the client merely checks if the name's length is in a certain range and doesn't contain invalid characters. On the server it requires a query to the database -- possibly more.

I also reject the notion that there is a significant context switch involved in going from one language to the other.
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I definitely agree. That's why I'm interesting in figuring out what exactly that value is, and at what point it's noise. Certain people are adamant supporters of some causes and couldn't care less for others, so it's interesting to play around and figure out the point at which something because noise, and something stands out, even though it costs the user a second of their time to do something "good". Just trying to figure out the conversion on clicks vs. the reach right now.

Ya, I was actually trying to come up with a new name, all of them are so long (beneficiary, non for profit, charitable organizations, etc.)
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Nice, brilliant. I am a fan of Mojolicious, Perl, and ActiveState (everything except the Perl platform bit)
I really urge you to read the book, the first half is a bit slow, but the second half I couldn't put down.

Here's a more succinct way to get (one of) his points across:

http://xkcd.com/605/

My emotional outburst is certainly non-scientific, and should not be taken seriously. But it is equally non-scientific to be blinded by data. A good example would be to reward your programmers based on how many lines of code they check in -- you will find yourself regretting that quite quickly.
Ahhh, see-through aluminum now where could they have possible come up with that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_materials#Met...

And clearly, staring right into the blaring sun at around 9k ft up in the air is going to make for an even greater and more satisfying travel experience!

You know what a truly wonderful vision for 2050 would be? Travel without having to deal with the airlines and without being locked in a crampy seat the size of sardine can and without having to wait through endless and pointless lines of "security checks". I hate those security checks... if only someone would come up with truly smart and efficient security procedures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_International_Airpor...
That doesn't mean it's useful to do so, or that there are significant advantages to be gained from doing so.
Yeah, like ICE.
The "click here to reset your password" links are sent over unencrypted email, too. I guess I am being insufficiently clear about why this is no less secure than what exists today.

> Force the user to enter their password to access sensitive settings or data (like changing email, passwords, etc.)

If they have to enter their password to change their password... then how will the "click here if you forgot your password" feature work?
> The most important thing that columns preserve is readable line lengths.

A single column can give you that.

Multiple columns seem to me to be fundamentally incompatible with (vertical) scrolling. Yes, they make perfect sense when your pages are fixed-size, and the entire page is visible at once, but when you have a single page of potentially unlimited height, where do you break one column and go on to the next?
I think some of those concerns will be addressed by the 2050 model ;).

The "zones" could translate into a sky-light zone and a sleeper zone.
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How can you list 7 things you want in a futuristic airplane and miss:

0) Get to my destination faster.

Where are all those hypersonic planes we were promised?
you can make your profile private where people must request to follow you. do you think more options are necessary?
A little light recruiting (or why you should really consider Cloudera)
I would dislike it more if the decision on partners/ mentors was made based on some kind of gender quota and not merit.
Clearly there is something wrong with me as I found the game throughly enjoyable. I did go in with low expectations after reading a few reviews.

However I also HATE God of War for its violence and misogyny. quite strange.
This.

Also I appreciate you picking up where I left off, I've been making a major lifestyle change and am almost completely sapped of energy.

This has improved my concision considerably wrt code and conversation.

Cheers, let me know if you find yourself in SF, I'll get you a round on me.
Tautologies are also very cheap these days :) It wasn’t meant to be an attack, I’m mostly wondering about the motivations.

It takes a huge amount of work to make such a game, even if everything goes perfectly well. I know there are interesting technical challenges in the game and there’s potentially a lot of money and other motivation, but I simply can’t image myself working hard several years to create a virtual environment where you can throw shit around and watch women explode because of alien insemination. (This is a simplification indeed, but the point should be clear.)

Would you invest the time and effort? If yes, why do you feel it’s worth it?
Wow, so much negativity in the comments! Who spat in your kool-aid today?...

Where's your innovating spirit, people?

Yes it's a PR thing, yes it's very likely off by more than a thin margin, yes it's prospective because, guess what, 2050 is in the future. That doesn't mean it's not interesting.

Just because it isn't a teenager in his californian basement "inventing" new ways to ruin my twitter stream with childish gamification scheme doesn't make it evil.
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Why not combine these into something like:

<div style="columns:4;columnpadding:0.5em;">your content</div>
Do what? Create database driven sites that can't handle the load? I get error messages or timeouts when trying to reach the site.
If I recall correctly, Clarke's Law originally applied to fiction.

There it makes perfect sense.
You can just make the link go to a page "Do you really want to reset your password?" with a POST form
It looks to me like all this debate has no observable consequence on the respective programming communities. Node folks will program the Node way and love it and Erlang folks will program the Erlang way and love it. The creators of neither are trying to woo the other and they perfectly well understand operationally where each system stands.
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I didnt look on the content, just the design. I like it how simple it is, but the background annoyed me a bit. I got distracted from it.
Gotcha. I guess I'm glad it's not straight up malicious spam (woohoo! I'm doing my job!), but rather an (admittedly tougher-to-solve) quality issue.

That being said, I think the folks working on feed ranking have done quite a lot of awesome stuff over the last couple years (most of which shouldn't require any explicit work on your part other than using the site) - I'd be curious what you thought if your account was still around and you gave it another shot for a few weeks.
I believe scrolling is not ideal. You van break your text on viewport-height and then put as many columns on the screen as possible. This drastically reduces the amount of scrolling required.
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An interesting thought, but if I can't go back at least sevreal hundred years it's a lot less fun :-)
if governments can detect even the passive reception of signals (http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/...), I don't think it would be too difficult to pick up who is talking to these devices. Or, even if they can't, fear of detection would probably keep a large chunk of the populace compliant.

Which isn't to say that such devices wouldn't be useful. Just that they'd be far more effective in situations like Egypt or Libya than in ones like Iran or China. I think they'd be even more useful in the hands of someone like the Red Cross.
I'm not sure if he's correct. Neo-liberal mainstream economists take it as an article of faith that "everything will be OK in a free market". If we don't innovate early enough, society can collapse. Look at Easter Island.

Nuclear is there as an option, but it's not a pretty one. There's a big lead time on reactors.

As an Australian, I'm very proud of our imminent carbon tax. Businesses will find a way to cut energy use, or generate "green" power before any crisis hits. OK, a carbon cap and trade might do the same, but businesses won't be able to invest as they will be afraid carbon prices will increase or decrease too much. Speculative bubbles, fraud, and the weather would make prices fluctuate too much.
Perhaps a bit off-topic:

The world will change in the coming years. Not only in Egypt & Co. but also in the west. Curious to see how the governments & elites will react. A sense of enlightenment might propagate throughout the masses. For example: Tomorrow people might no longer tolerate their government's corruption. The day after they might decide that they don't really need all the stuff they buy. How would that effect everything?

If anything, people vastly underestimate the change that the Internet represents.
"And so we're back in the magical world of risk perception, where science can become the tool of bias—conscious or not."

I just cannot wrap my head around that one.
We had this problem some years ago with JSP which compiles all code into one service() method.
I think the idea of supersonic, let alone hypersonic airliners went away when everyone realized the price of oil isn't going to go down anytime soon.
We need the same thing for companies. I'd love to know which companies to avoid without having to work there first.
Yes, more details would be great. You could write it as a blog post and submit it to HN again.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out over time. Used to be a generation of kids you were all free-love and pro-dope who then seemed to have gone 180 on all that. Maybe not the best comparison, but the interests and needs of people change as they get older. OTOH I really don't see people raised without a land-line ever deciding they're missing very much, so it goes both ways.

(I'm beginning to think we need to watch middle-aged women to get a real sense of the future.)

I still buy a lot of physical books, but not very often in a physical store. I only buy a few CDs, but those too I get online. That's just where I can find them. CD's, though, are not interesting as objects and do nothing to enhance the interaction with the content. A book, however, offers a set physical, spatial, 3D cues about the content (e.g., that interesting quote was at about the middle of the book, or five pages back).

In a way, vinyl beats digital in that regard; it's been a while, but I recall the way one would interact (so to speak) with a record. Side A; side B; getting up to flip the record. It offered a different kind of connection than a CD or MP3.

I'd like to see the printed page use e-ink or something so that I can get the best of both worlds in a morphing bundle of bound flippable pages holding everything I want to read.
The article itself it just as bad.
...to breach security by focusing on the vulnerability in the browser

This sounds like the was a specific browser bug or is the address bar now a vulnerability?

“It would have been hard to prepare for this type of vulnerability,”
Hard to prepare against people changing &acctno=1234567 to &acctno=1234568 ?
That's a very fair point. Overall the deeper answers are probably more in the books or at conferences, not in blogs and online forums.
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An interesting metric to look at would be how many borderline rejected founders are going on to achieve valuation x compared with companies funded. Of course though the YC program itself introduces another variable into a measure like this.
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Estimate is 26 seconds on an average per person "wasted" on this doodle. Also, a possibly incorrect assumption that all google visitors on that day played with it.

What exactly is the point being put across here with such stats?

I wonder if it never ever occurs to them that on the flip side, google has saved time for a lot of people over a long time? Where is the math on that you awesome spark-in-my-brain reporter?
A quick google shows someone wrote a plugin called drawit.vim. Personally, I think this is one case where I'd rather use the mouse.
Cached copy: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

(If you use chrome, just prepend any URL with "cache:" instead of posting snarky comments about it :)
I wonder what they'd do if the dissidents they were trying to help used it for copyright infringement as well as all their normal communications?
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Change your environment. Get a job working for a really demanding (but intelligent/thoughtful) person.

Someone who's sort of Steve Jobs meets the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket.

Someone who will demand you push yourself and get out of your comfort zone.

Even a few months of working for someone like this can have an amazing effect on a person. Kind of like when you see someone come back from a military boot camp.

Definitely not the only way, but it really does work.
Just needed this the other day and found this application: http://www.jave.de/ More features, but also feels more complex.

Screenshot: http://www.jave.de/screenshots/60rc2_screenshot.png
Hopefully this will catch on. If NYT wins this round then it sets a good precedent for the Apple cases.
How about this?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/reviews/3541-Top...

The game has a 50% on Metacritic, so I'm personally reluctant to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Just wanted to comment the exact same thing. And netbooks still have a big screen compared to many phones.
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I for one will not be adding this feature to my web app. However, might it be possible to kick in a login process using OAuth/OpenID? The onus isn't then on you to validate the user.
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They're nice when they work and when they're appropriate.

Spoilers: that's not always.
> It's bad enough when someone opens the tiny windows we have right now.

I really like looking out of the plane, especially when flying over amazing places like the arctic tundra, the Sahara, chains of islands and the like. I feel that air travel, and the sense of wonder than many people still manage to feel from it, would be greatly diminished if there were no windows. Have you tried a quality third-party eye mask? I bought a good quality one, and find it much more comfortable than the free airline one.

Of course, I have never been able to fall asleep on an aeroplane (even on > 15 hour flights), so I don't have much sympathy for your plight.

> Increase the air humidity so my throat and eyes don't dry out.
Boeing claim the 787 will be much more comfortable because of raised humidity.

> Get rid of the ridiculously loud engine drone.
Have you been on an A380? Amazingly quiet, especially compared to old MD80-era planes.

> Free internet and power outlet in coach.
This would be excellent, except for the very important guy having a very important business conversation (with his mom) in a loud voice to try impress the ladies.

> Make the seats/legroom bigger.
Not really legroom, but people over 6'4" can actually stand up in the washrooms on the A380 (unlike the 777). I hate going 12 hours without being able to stand up.
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How about two states for authentication: "light" and "fully authenticated"

If I click to the site via link in email, I get to "light" mode. This allows me to see things. Other actions can require "fully authenticated" mode and the transition light => fully requires me to enter my password.

With password reset emails I'd like to have a basic security question (one that I can pick myself).
Sounds like Dalrymple is also a dick and thus falls subject to the same criticism as before.

The author noted this through sarcasm when he said "Someone made you feel stupid in public? How awful."
I write a porn site more secure than this... Not only that but the fact they blame the browser is absurd, they have some crazy incompetent web developers there.
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So, iCloud sounds cool and all, but how come no one talks about privacy? It was the one single thing that I was waiting to hear at WWDC but no word. It is clear that all the big boyz like Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. want to move us to the cloud, and tomorrow even start selling us machines without own storage capacity. All will be streamed and stored "somewhere else". Like if what's happening on facebook and elsewhere is not enough, we are now heading to a norm where we won't "own" our data. I'm not comfortable at all with this idea, and I fear that soon "switching off" the iCloud (or any cloud) won't be optional.
The funny thing is that CAN-SPAM mandates 1-click opt-out, and requiring login to unsubscribe is specifically prohibited.[1] So most websites already have code to include and verify auth tokens in emailed links, which they utilize when they are mandated to.

But somehow they haven't figured out that it is in their own interest to do so the rest of the time.

[1] http://blogs.boomerang.com/blog/2009/06/16/can-spam-2008-uns...
I've not heard complaints from iPhone-using friends about that, all complaints are about aspects that my father won't use, so when he asked my advice I didn't steer him away from it, and he hasn't had any issues with it.

And again, it comes down to "what would be better, a nice looking rolex or a military grade watch that guarantees to keep time a fraction of a second better than the rolex" - if he doesn't need the product that's technically best in the aspects he cares about, and doesn't care whether he spends $70 or $700, why not get the shiniest one that he'll enjoy the most.
Regarding: "The day after they might decide that they don't really need all the stuff they buy."

I would like to add that it is also easy to underestimate the inherent desire to consume, purchase, and obtain material wealth- even among an informed population.
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> But we’re making it harder and harder for anyone to join the club from scratch.

That's a brilliant point. Some time ago I wanted to try out RoR to create a fast prototype. It turned out, that if you need just one prototype and if you don't know RoR, you'd be way faster if you use things you already know or just read the short Sinatra manual instead of spending weeks of learning only to be able to START the development.
For those interested in why it took over a decade to develop it before it crashed: Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/

The downfall was perfectionism.
What's the safest way to do an instant login like this?

First thought would be to encrypt a query param with necessary info and add a few day expiration on the link.

Any good articles on doing this as intelligently as possible?
Huh, I was just thinking about this the other day, and wanted to rant about it but never got around to doing so. It's extremely annoying when I land on a login page from an email when I clicked to take a specific action. ESPECIALLY when logging in takes me to the home page, and not even to my intended destination.
Is there a way to exclude values from search results in the ThriftDB API? i.e., say I want to,

[filter][domain]=nytimes.com&[filter][username]!=ausername

...is there a way to do that? I tried the "exclude" operator after [username] and get an "internal server error" every time.
> No they don't. They usually just have some sort of password reset token as part of the query string for a standard GET. AFAIK there isn't any good way to POST from the body of an email - do mail readers even do JavaScript?

I think you misunderstood what I was saying. "Forgot your password" requests, as in requests that will lead to the user receiving a new password/ability to reset their password, are usually POST, and are usually on a webpage, not in an email.

Besides, POST requests aren't Javascript. It's perfectly possible to use from inside an HTML email. Usually, though, the most you'll provide in an email is a link (GET request) with a param identifying the user, e.g. the UID, that will lead to a form that asks at least one security question.

Sending out links that essentially unlock the user's account via email by default seems incredibly risky to me, and only provides a minimally better user experience. Just do better session persistence -- then the worst thing that can happen is you need to log in once via your mobile phone.
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