skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the SuperGenPass Password Generator bookmarklet. It generates site-specific passwords by hashing the site's domain name with your master password. You can save bookmarklet offline or host in on your own web server so you can generate passwords when you are away from your home computer.

http://supergenpass.com/

The only problem is when SuperGenPass's generated passwords are not compatible with some site's unusual password restrictions. They I have write down a one-off password. A cool idea: a password generator bookmarklet that knows the site-specific password formats. The formats could be extensible (by bookmarklet developer and end users), analyze HTML5 form validation rules, or websites could publish a machine-readable password description microformat.
Further more, how would you get your Apple (and non-apple) products without oil? Like or dislike, we have to accept that the current energy paradigm has created much of the wealth in the world today.

Though we look at oil as a bad product, so was the newton, but it served a purpose. The current product of oil companies might not end up being the last. I suspect in 100 years we may see an ExxonMobile providing clean efficient energy from an infrastructure they were able to develop because of the vast trillions they made in the days of oil.
I agree. Most people are already Exxon customers. Most people aren't Apple customers.
Anonymous vows to destroy Facebook
It's been posted here several times over the last 2 months: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22...
I am working from the assumption that aluminum bats would hit a person in much the same manner as they would hit a baseball. Aluminum bats are banned from major league baseball because the spring effect of the metal causes balls to go faster and farther. I imagine the same spring effect would cause more damage to a person hit with an aluminum bat.

But yes, I agree that whether the person is hit with a wooden or aluminum bat there is a chance of them dying.
For window resizing, I can recommend http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ - there's a free demo, and a full license is cheap. No affiliation with the author: just a happy user.
That is not extrapolating. Mac OS X Lion already implements it for applications.

If you double-click a file named "test.hn", the Finder gives you the option to cancel opening, to choose an application, or to search the Mac App Store.

It turns out you can do searches like "extension:hn" or "uti:com.adobe.pdf" in the app store application.

(and yes, when reading about is, I thought of OpenDoc, too. I guess this scheme may fail for the same reason OpenDoc failed, that is: because engrained parties have no interest in making it easier for their customers to move elsewhere)
Shameless plug/seizing the moment: Ping Brigade (https://www.pingbrigade.com/) does everything over HTTPS, stores passwords using bcrypt and never emails them to you.

Moreover, because I really love HN, I'm going to run a 50% off discount at https://www.pingbrigade.com/signup/hn.

Edit: Wow, that was a quick downvote. Just wondering since when is building a better product than the giant of the industry and showing it off on HN compels people to click the downvote button?
How do they figure out who participated in a torrent or not? If they joined the swarm, isn't that entrapment?
Equifax stores your password and emails it to you in plain text
It doesn't help that America has bastardized the meaning of Libertarian to mean pro-Capitalist neo-liberal whilst the original meaning (and today's meaning in the rest of the world) is equivalent to anarchism or Libertarian Socialism.
Because anybody who works remotely knows what a titanic, epic, massive, planet-sized pain in the ass it is to do remote code editing.

And this product does it out of the box. I've worked for four years remotely, and with OSS projects, and this has always been a niche that needed to be filled. I've tried subethaedit (requires someone to have open ports to host), coda (which uses subethaedit's libs under the hood), vim + screen (requires having a server + logins), etherpad (no code highlighting), and git+tight sync times, or just ever more towering pages of gists.

Having a websocket based collaborative code editor with line numbers and syntax highlighting is 95% of the way there, where as everything else is at best 75% there.

So, yeah. I would pay money for this.
Ask HN: What CDN do you use?
I'm currently using Rackspace Cloud Files for my web app's CDN. I'm wondering if I'm missing out on a better CDN. What are you using?
Yikes, that completely custom, non-standard UI is pretty jarring for me.
Lion's TextEdit also takes > 10 seconds to pop up on my brand new mac with an SSD. Fortunately, Snow Leopard's TextEdit.app still works, and is just as snappy as ever, if you still have a copy. Hopefully they'll fix this in the .1 update...
There are plenty of poor people in London, the vast majority of whom aren't looting shops. While I'd agree that the looters aren't likely ordering much from Amazon, I see no reason to think they lack homes or are 'on the farthest margins of society'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424
I don't know what qaexl's using but I'm going to guess VirtualBox with http://vagrantup.com/ - it's a setup that's worked well for me.

Activity Monitor tells me my single VM running in the background is taking up less CPU time than Skype (which is also idling in the background).
Should read or a VM -- I still don't entirely understand how HN determines when you can still edit a post, pretty sure I've edited posts this old before.
I'm really impressed by the dedication of this guy. Kudos.
Linking one of my other replies in this subthread is better than trying to come up with a unique answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865270
Needed: A better language for embedded systems programming
I think mkr-hn's point, though, is that Reddit may have joke chains, but HN has "tell-people-why-they-should-not-joke" chains. They're probably both equally time-wasting (this whole thread is a good example, and yes I'm aware of the irony of adding to it. Shit happens.)
What happened in this case is something like the EFF's form for emailing your representatives when there's some important bill that's up for voting. The EFF makes their members aware of that fact and then the individual members send email to their Congress-critters. That's not a DoS, though, that's "a lot of people with the same thing to say".

In this case, it seems like a bunch of employees were all upset about the same issue, and they all emailed the same person about it. The court ruled this a computer crime.
There is one for Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ockgeenjbijlgilppf...
I think the problem that most people have who are upset about this change is that they're actually using the dock and cmd-tab to switch between applications. Using an app launcher like alfred makes the concern trivial, as switching to an app and launching it use essentially the same action. In that sense, this auto quitting feature is actually a nice compliment to that type of workflow.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

Can we please take the rhetoric back to reddit.
CERN Needs Your Help to Discover the Elusive God Particle
Walmart, unable to compete with iTunes, is shuttering its MP3 store
Funny, but I live in Texas, and I was just pricing aluminum baseball bats on Amazon yesterday.
I hope it wasn't you that downvoted me.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865719

You'll have to take my word I think though... the password blacked out is my password.
Yes. And if the autosave/autorestore of state is done right, nobody should be able to tell.
> "you're trying to copy us to confuse customers and this is a real problem."

Who is this a "problem" for? The multi-national corporation looking for a legal monopoly, or the consumer? Are consumers do dumb they won't notice that their tablet says SAMSUNG instead of APPLE? Doubt it.
Hey... If you want to be secure that what you need to do. The keys must not be easily accessible.

Anyway application which need to be secure are not the one you also would like to be restarted automatically or unattended: automatically restart can in many cases just make situation worse (i.e., data corruption)

You can always pay big bucks and use Oracle Database with Transparent Data Encryption: in that case, you need to enter password to open the wallet only on startup of a database.
Computer Scientists Speed Up Hadoop 1000x For Graph Problems
No, in fact, they don't even 'need' an assistant. It can be valuable, but spending time looking for the right one can be wasting time that could be used to just get stuff done.
Ah yes, completely agree there.
Let me know if this is too pedantic, because I might just not be familiar with this particular usage, but calling this behavior "non-deterministic" seems like an abuse of the term.
It's definitely possible that the "fundamentals of business are effected by the short-term economy." Good point. I just didn't see that point being established in the VC post, at least not well. It seemed much more focused on opportunities in equities. Maybe I need to read it more closely.

It just seems to me that if you a product that can produce the sort of returns VCs are interested in, it should be valuable enough to customers that it could do well in virtually any macroeconomy. Google, for example, launched its cash cow AdWords just after the first dot-com meltdown.
Yes, See my response above to saulrh about intent. If they were encouraged to each send one message to petition, it should be legal. If they were encouraged to bombard with more than one message it's probably abuse.
Coby,
Excellent synopsis of your experience starting Devotee, and congratulations on moving forward. Why was development held hostage by revenue, though? These are not mutually dependent.
A lot of companies exist that make various components. BUT few with the quality and volume of Samsung.

Apple is often supply-side constrained. So they could cut Samsung out the mix, but this just makes Apple more vulnerable to supply shortages.

Furthermore, by selecting their way out of one of the biggest screen, CPU, and memory manufacturers in the world and probably having to fund new factories for smaller manufacturers -- this volume is open up to other companies. The end result is cheaper components for Samsung mobile, HTC, Sony, LG, etc...
I think this explains it - http://twitter.com/#!/bwalkin/status/101012800406683648
I don't see any advantages for founders listed other than that having an apprentice frees up some time. It basically sounds like having an assistant that you also have to teach.
Why doesn't StringIO count as a string buffer?
Mac's battery life is not exactly stellar. It used to be pretty good in the PPC days, but now?
I wholeheartedly recommend MacOS for people like my mom, who certainly doesn't need to fire up something like Emacs.

However, for those who like to explore technology in creative ways (hackers, in other words), and want to deeply understand the systems they use, the freedom involved with a system like Linux is still the place to be, IMO.

And for when you're just getting stuff done, I don't think it poses any major challenges these days; or at least it doesn't for me. If you're a graphics guy and need Photoshop, clearly things are different.

Edit:

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2011/08/09/Upgrade-Unavaila...
I thought that was in Lion? I'm still running Snow Leopard, and the white dot is still definitely there.
I complain about apple a lot - even though I keep buying their stuff, but this is definitely a case of apple doing the right thing for its developers.
Bears repeating:

Lodsys acquired its four patents from former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures patent holding company. It turns out that Apple already has a license to those patents by virtue of an investment deal in Intellectual Ventures.
> I would assume we would need more information about the license to know for sure.

Not necessarily. There are limitations on patents that prevent you as a patent holder from successfully suing the customers who buy widgets from me for patent infringement if I have a valid license for that patent from you.

In this case, since the Intellectual Ventures ("Lodsys") patents cover both client and server mechanisms, and Apple owns and makes the server side processes, and Apple has a valid license, the argument is that the same principle applies.
I'm 90% sure I read this is an new API feature of Lion. I'm sure I read this when looking into how the sandboxing was designed to work.

If I remembering correctly you can choose to make available an autokill flag for the system. From (my) memory you can control it programmatically... so if you say "no windows open and been alive for 10 minutes with no state change" then kill me.
Apple’s current implementation certainly is dodgy but I think the ultimate goal is very desirable. Whenever I explain the difference between quitting and closing a window on OS X to someone their eyes glaze over (even when I ignore all the inconsistencies). It’s just something no casual user understands. Nobody has the same problem when using iOS.

The transition period will be rocky and the UI in OS X is currently still very much optimized for the old model but I think Apple is walking in the right direction.
If the site has control over my money or my public persona, then I very much need to care how they handle my password.

It is not uncommon for databases to be stolen via lost laptops, human error, or sloppy security. When this happens, I would prefer that the database not contain my plaintext password.

If someone obtains my password through such a leak, it won't help me that I've used a distinct password for that website.

It's bad news when a bank leaks their customer list. It's catastrophic news when a bank leaks their customer passwords.

If you don't store the passwords in the first place, they can't be leaked.
Twitter needs to wake up and start working with businesses
AOL drops 25-33% of market cap in a day
> For goodness sake, marketers typically have query access to the DB.

That's a bit of a straw man, don't you think? Even if marketers have access to the database, they shouldn't have read access to the passwords table in a properly configured system. If they do, it's time to fire your DBA.

> The problem there is that if I gain access to your email account, I can quickly search "password" to discover your private passwords

Sometimes it's worse than that. I recently had to do a password recovery on a site, and they sent the password not only in plain text but also as the very beginning of the email. As such, gmail helpfully showed "example.com" as the sender, with "Password: P@ssword1" right in the body preview snippet. You could see it without even having to open the email.

It may not be a common exploit, but if I was checking my gmail at work, a coworker that knew I had an account on this website could just send a recovery request and glance over my shoulder at just the right time and grab my password without my knowledge. Not good.

I wish Google would implement some sort of algorithm that could determine password-looking text and a) not show it in the preview, and b) require user interaction to display it when viewing the actual email body.
I'm under the impression that each Virtual Console download includes an instance of an emulator. If that's the case, they may tweak the emulator for compatibility with each game (or hack the game itself). If you want to look into it some more, the guys who do 'Virtual Console WAD injection' might have an idea. ROM Hacking and (NES/SNES) console development sites/forums might have some information, too.

I vaguely remember hearing of instances where games weren't emulated accurately (or even as well as on other emulators), particularly with regard to slowdown on PAL consoles.
Time travel back to 1984. If you quit MacWrite, it takes ten seconds or more before the Finder appears (the Finder, of course, wasn't running; there simply wasn't enough RAM to do that) If you now double-click a document, it takes ten seconds or more before MacWrite has started and opened your document.

MacWrite, being a marvel of tight engineering, manages to handle documents of a whopping two to three pages in the 40 kB or so of RAM available to it. So, if you want to write a huge document of say four pages, you have to split it into smaller parts.

If MacWrite quit when you closed its only window, moving from part 1 to part 2 of your document would take over a minute. That is why document-based Mac applications do not quit when you close the last document.

Back in 2011, many people will expect that command-W, command-N will close the current document, then create a blank new one. If Mac OS X Lion quit applications as soon as the user closed the last window, that would no longer work. That, I guess, is the reason that the OS waits for a while before doing that.

Is that a good idea? I think quitting apps is a good idea, as long as the OS manages to completely hide it from the user. Apparently, the current behavior isn't good enough, as it annoys some people a lot. On the other hand, it may just be a matter of getting used to the change.
Cloud platforms are adopting a broader view
Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs In Antarctica
Facebook and Google have very real revenues and very strong growth. I have a hard time seeing how you can be correct that they somehow need Greater Fools to "propel" them. Consider: Those companies could produce a very strong return for their investors if the stock market never existed. Because they make loads of profits they could pay out to owners.

Anyway -- Generally, our points are orthogonal. I am talking about the way things Should Be, based on my subjective opinions of what makes for sustainable business growth. I think this boom bust bubble pattern is Bad (capital b to signify squishy concept) for the tech sector. You, on the other hand, are talking about What Is. (Aside from the Google/Facebook misfire.) You have here a four year chart showing tech sector/stock market correlation. I do not dispute that. In fact, my whole point is that maybe not much has changed on the financial side tech industry in the last 10 years. For all the smart people in tech it is still as vulnerable to bubble meltdowns (the crater in your chart) as anyone else. I think that's too bad - tech should be above it.
Too little information spread over too many places on that page--I have no idea what they are trying to do.
I believe there is law that states that a baseball bat with no ball can be considered an offensive weapon.
Because if Stypi can become one of the top 4 companies on that list...

The question is why do you or anyone else believe that this is a distinct possibility -- i.e. given this team, this product and this vision, why does someone with money believe that this represents a good bet?

I agree with your assessment of the VC's challenge. However, VCs don't put money into every long bet that comes their way. The different between a 1:2 bet and a 1:10 bet is obvious -- distinguishing a 1:10 bet and a 1:10000 bet is where the art comes in. (That is distinguishing a long but feasible proposition from bullshit.)
These Mac/iOS apps are great but making their site mobile compatible would benefit more people immediately IMHO.
I thought Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both stole their GUI's from Xerox (?)
Weird, takes sub-second first time here on my iMac with no SSD.
How many people are subrcribed to mobile plans in the U.S?
Just too bad 2011 OS X is hurting even more than ever for a competent programmers editor. TextMate is dying by inches and it never really had the powers of the Unix ones anyway. As for BBedit, it's pretty much a HTML editor with syntax highlighting for some other things. You might as well use Dashcode.

Yeah, Emacs blah Vim bleh, but those are not really OS X editors. I do be using Emacs, but I crave real Mac-iness and integration.
A lovely login screen. Followed by a not very well explained request for my mobile phone number, so they can send me a text that has a link to Facebook that makes me login again.

All to log in to my Facebook account, which I am already logged in to in the Facebook app on the same phone.
Ask HN: Is anyone else having significult difficulty posting right now?
I just spent a few minutes trying to submit a comment. After submitting, I would end up on news.ycombinator.com/r with a blank page. I assume there is some post-POST redirect that is failing to be sent, but the comment doesn't even seem to be being submitted. Similarly, I tried to edit the same post, and got sent to news.yc.com/x without updating the post.

I've noticed the whole site is a bit slow today. Are there significant server issues occurring?

(Sorry for the meta post.)
SuperGenPass uses a one-way hash algorithm (base-64 MD5) to generate passwords.

Bah.

Here's mine https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hegbhhpocfhlnjmemk...
To me, the odd thing is that it doesn't mention the one thing Scala drops for which I haven't a workaround: static final fields. Now, from a pure coding standpoint, I don't actually need a static final field. However, Android requires such creatures if you want to create a new Parcelable, Android's lightweight alternative to Serializable.
Ask HN: Is there a site where you can list+propose fun activities to...
Is there a site where you can list+propose fun activities you want to do and friends can view & vote on them?

I feel like there must be something like this already. For example:

Short term: Check out Outside Lands this weekend!
Medium term: I want to camp in Yosemite
Long term: Go to the Cannes Film Festival!
That's why I specifically called out OS X. In 1984, that model made a lot of sense. But sometime during the next 17 years, computers got powerful enough that the reason doesn't really make sense anymore, and we fall back to "because people are used to it".

But it's clear from Lion that Apple doesn't really care what you're used to. We've had scrolling mice for about as long as we've had OS X, yet they chose to reverse it's function in Lion because, after entering the age of touch-screen devices, they realized the old model was wrong.

I just think it's a little odd for them to implement a half-way solution like this.
> http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg

Please, not this again.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_f700-1849.php

http://androidcommunity.com/who-was-really-first-apple-vs-sa...
New Employment Phishing Scam
Saw another post on HN talking about an employment scam. Since we're talking about employment scams, just a note to everyone. There is also another scam going around where the company runs a fake ad, the ad says they background check, and for you to be considered you must submit a background check with your resume. They ask you to go to anysitenamehere.com and get a copy of your background check. The so called background check site is just a phishing site set up by the people running the fake employment ads.

We're in the public records industry and have heard about this numerous times very recently. They even gotten bold enough to offer you a choice of several background check sites, all of which they control of course.
Serious question!
Please no flippant answers like, "Yes, Facebook" or "Email."

Thanks!
Personally I use Parallels with PC and Linux VMs on OSX. It's not perfect...but good enough to cover the bases.
Are they shutting down the DRM server as well?
I didn't count the number of words, but I'd guess it is less than 100 ( my bad, wc says 338 words---sorry )and I didn't find any problem at all figuring out what the basic thrust was. I did find the title a little odd, but one of the notes towards the bottom explains that. I'm sure I might well screw it up, but as I understand it, this is an effort to implement 'civil' standards for conferences, chats, communication in general. I think that it's a good idea.