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I see some decent potential here for domain typos. Domain parkers would love to be able to locate some high volume unregistered domains. It doesn't look like you have a page just for the most common typo'd domains across all domains. Is that a pro feature? If not, it should be.

Also, Good shit, Chris!
Why can't you use tabs over ssh? `gt`, `gT`, and `<n>gt` cycle forward through tabs, backwards, and go to the `n`th tab.
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Sounds like the open-sourcing of http://swagger.wordnik.com is well timed and can help with this
>Yes, though the number of additional bits you get from increasing the size of the dictionary decreases fast.

Well, sure -- but once you're at around two or three languages, you get to imagine that the attacker doesn't know what languages you're using. If I use English, Japanese, and Spanish, I can figure on the attacker needing to check the Germanic (English, Dutch, German), Romance (Spanish, French, Italian), and Asian (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) languages at a minimum.

Jargon helps too, and proper names. "dijkstra bicycle entonces boojum daihinmin"
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Different details in an alternative article submitted here:
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This still creates a false sense of security since it seems (and I stress seems) to implicitly suggest you can use the same password on every site (I assume this since the argument for its use is the ease of remembering). If one site you visit handles passwords in plain text and it has your email, upon a breach all your accounts are effectively compromised.
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This is an important point. Raising taxes is not a static game either. There are a lot of ways people with money avoid taxes now.

I think Cuban was right that we do have a spending problem. We spend too much on things that are not important. We should cut debt, but the debate around this issue has been framed as a false and confusing dichotomy by the two major political parties.
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> I have just over 70 tabs open...

I'm really curious about this as once I get to about 10 tabs my brain starts wanting to close them to get back to something it can manage. This is either because I'm dumb (highly likely) or because you have a different usage style than I (also likely).

So if you don't mind elaborating, how do you get to where you have that many tabs open?
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Not really Iron Man's suit - it's more like Ripley's mechanical suit from Alien, used primarily to move heavy crates in a loading bay.

Get your references right, HN
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This article is math true, however, hackers no longer use brute force attacks and the most popular method is to attack a weak website like for example a not very popular blog, then if they succesfully broke it they have a password and a email account from you and if they are very lucky you have the same password for the email account, so, they got you.
Therefore, nowadays it is safer to have different passwords for every site.
Personally, I love to use lastpasss for my personal use and keepass for the office to store and manage passwords. Obviously, the weakest link of the chain is my password for the password manager application.
Any of you use a different password manager?
First I would like to see him try. second If he does this then people will have a genuine reason to protest, not a good idea at all.
Google Brad Feld's term sheet series.

Edit: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/05/term-sheet-vesting.h...
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Thats what I meant by pernicious, not all women are like that. Some certainly are like that, but not all. I have had girlfriends who wouldn't tell me about what they were wanting, and in fact my current girlfriend is perfectly able to tell me how to provide the feeling she wants most of the time.
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Since when has Firefox/Mozilla NOT promised that their next release will manage memory better?
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When picking a password, you don't just care about the entropy. You also care how far down the password guessing order it is.

People who want to guess a password don't just brute force at random. They use a guessing order that goes through more common classes of password first. So if correct horse battery staple becomes a popular password scheme, these will end up attacked before other password schemes.
(See http://www.schneier.com/essay-148.html)

Unless you're going to use a password safe full of nasty passwords, you should pick your passwords using an unpopular method.
I believe it's called a "homograph attack", or at least that's one name for it. Wikipedia has an article on the internationalized-domain-name version of the attack, and the various attempts by registrars and browsers to mitigate it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Thank god someone is actually thinking about it in an informed way and fighting back against a dogmatic (and frequently extremely poorly informed) abolitionist position.
Keynes wanted governments to save in good times so that they could spend in bad times. We just spend more all the time. It can't work.
Which is not what they always do. Microsoft got some nice fines from the EU, I think more than once even.
Absolutely this. I must be one of the few who cannot stand movement in my line-of-sight, but it breaks my concentration every time. I share an office with one other person and I resort to positioning my head behind my double monitors so that he's out of my field of vision. The same goes for sound actually. I just cannot filter out extraneous signals. I'm fine with "white noise" though, more than most even. I wonder if this is a recognized condition.
The link posted on the article merits a submission by itself:

"The science of password selection" (a breakdown of common passwords by selection practices, as taken from public leaks)

http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/07/science-of-password-selectio...

In short, passwords are chosen from:

People names: this includes a list of about 26,000 common first and last names.

Place names: this is everything from towns to states to countries and includes about 32,000 entries.

English dictionary

The most common passwords by group:

Name:

1. maggie
2. michael
3. jennifer

Place:

1. dallas
2. canada
3. boston

Dictionary Words:

1. password (oh dear)
2. monkey
3. dragon

Numbers:

1. 123456
2. 12345678
3. 123456789
Declaring opposing opinions to be knee-jerk must be the oldest trick in the world.

Phrases like these infuriate me: "lazy conventional wisdom that the patent system is broken beyond repair". No, it's not lazy. Smart people have devoted a lot of thought to this, and while some arrive at the conclusion that patents are a net benefit, that is far from the only conclusion that thinking people would be able to reach.
Reminds me of when Homer takes a second job at the Kwik-E-Mart to pay for Lisa's pony.

I'll work from midnight to eight, come home, sleep for five minutes, eat breakfast, sleep six more minutes, shower, then I have ten minutes to bask in Lisa's love, then I'm off to the power plant fresh as a daisy.
Unbelievable. Why is it that the Government never consults groups which know about internet privacy and freedom like the Open Rights Group but consult "Consumer rights groups" which usually work on retail issues.

I'm not sure if any UK political party has got the grasp of this issue. I hope it's a case of not understanding technology enough or the reason old media and new media rare very different in terms of freedom and not that they actually feel you can just block sites/users. This wouldn't make any kind of difference and i'd rather have these people posting in the public view than via the thousands of other means of communications they have to choose from.

If this is how they feel why hasn't every Criminal in the UK been banned from having a landline or buying a mobile phone.
What a great article! I'm changing all my passwords to
"correct horse battery staple" today!
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I prefer to use stock configuration as much as practical. For instance, if I learn the stock Eclipse shortcuts, I can use any vanilla Eclipse installation and be productive. If I modify some, or write extensive macros or code templates, I'm more productive on my machine but (possibly substantially) less productive elsewhere.
You could get about 8 bits per animal, and 5 bits per hand-written verb / adjective / place (32 choices per category). So that's about 7-10 words you need in the frame.

You could get decent entropy with: the {adj} {adj} {animal} {verbed} the {adj} {adj} {animal} from in {place}. That's 5+5+8+5+5+8+5 = 41 bits.

I'm just wondering if it's worth it.
I wonder why you say it was hard to find - it's always been under the View tab in Folder Options.

Maybe because of the Control Panel revamp, or the fact that the menu-bar is hidden by default in Explorer windows?
I don't. I generally leave that off, especially on my mac. If I want to see hidden files, I launch a terminal and list all files.
I don't see why it's necessary to make this complicated: "friendlyrobot" is the filtration system. As you said, it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful.
yeah thats correct
In that case, I highly recommend you take hours and hours and hours and read and learn everything you can find about startup options, payouts, and historical stories of how people got screwed!

Don't walk in there unprepared.
This was/is a widely reported "bug" (since early last year) and is actually the main problem. If I have you in my phone's address book, and you are not on Facebook, how is it I can give permission for your phone number to be uploaded to their servers?

This was changed in updates to the app, however the fallout continues to rain down.
It's a feature that I've considered, but I don't have the computing resources on this server to do that many whois lookups to determine registered vs. unregistered domains yet. It's high on my list of v2 changes though.
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as a potentially different use case, I use my tabs as a stack for reading things (where I push a link when I see it), and will then read through them all in a serial fashion, closing things I'm 'done' with. this generally leads to me having reference and 'to read' tabs open, in addition to things I like to have on hand (i.e. emails, workflowy, HN). this generally adds up to 15-20 tabs in my main window on average, going up to as much as 30-40.
Thanks, I was very careful with that one.
One issue, companies that meet your requirements really aren't innovating or releasing new products. If they are, a overwhelming majority will be investing in short-term micro growth, like building a new bridge.

We actually have this system in place, VC's, Incubators and Angels. They verify opportunities and fund them. Startups are our future, whether you like it or not. And yes many will fail, but those that don't will provide long-term macro growth.

The biggest winner in about 10 years will be DST, they get it.

If the government wants to solve this issue lend capital to startups directly or via VC's, Incubators, Angels, or whatever. Maybe only lend it to those seeking C rounds to verify a companies stability and to prevent a bubble.
If you're bi-lingual in a non-european language, transliterating obscure phrases from the other language could work well. For example, the poetic title திரிகூடராசப்பகவிராயர் would transliterate to thirikUdarAsappaKavirAyar. Add some subs & punctuations and I'm done - very rememberable (at least for me) :).
What you did is expressly against the terms of use of Facebook. It's for real people, real businesses, etc.. They were just trying to verify you're a real person, possibly your account was reported by someone as being fake.
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Hrm, might do that. It already works in wine as well, just a bit buggy.
I've got six virtual desktops with two monitors. When I'm doing web development, I have one window per screen, which usually means one window of tabs connected to my dev server, and one window of tabs for each framework/language I'm working with. For example, I was working on a WordPress plugin with JQuery, so I had a dozen tabs open on the WordPress function reference, and another dozen tabs open with JQuery stuff. Then I've got a virtual desktop with my email on one screen and Hacker News, etc. on the other one.

Finally I have two blank desktops that tend to get eaten up by tabs that I use when people come into my office asking questions that I don't know the precise answer to off the top of my head.

But yes, on a single desktop about 12 tabs is my limit. And when I get over 4 full browser windows I start to get antsy and know that I can't possibly keep focused on everything I'm doing.
django-compress, while a little older than django-compressor, supports versioning based on a hash of the file contents. I've been pretty happy with it. https://github.com/pelme/django-compress
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Airbnb's traffic stats were interesting last month. See if you can guess when news of the incident became viral:
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hey it was an honest typo
Maybe you could. Anyway you could do it right now as well.

I doubt there is an acceptable non-heuristic solution.
This is a rubbish article. It attempts to paper over obvious, horrible problems by blaming the people who try to game the system. It also attempts to marginalize objections to the current patent system by blaming people.

For starters, the anti-patent (or even anti-"Intellectual Property") position is not a default mindset, even today. The anti-patent viewpoint is not an "intellectual cheat", if the arguers back up the position with research, facts and examples, which, oddly, this article even gives.

Secondarily, the article even raises the basis for patents in the USA: to promote progress in science and engineering. If the patent system doesn't do that, then what is it's purpose? If the patent system just ends up giving incumbents in the market ways to limit competition,the it is indeed well and truly broken.
Somewhat related to this is the ability to change 'l" and "I" around when they both look the same, basically a straight line.

This was very common in Yahoo Chat Rooms when folks would pretend to be someone else by registering their name with the opposite of what they had (assuming it had an "i" or "l" in it).

They would then take a screen shot of their font and copy that exactly so they could appear to be the other person. I'll let you imagine the chaos that could occur because of this!
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There are also some other sphinx templates that look a bit better than what Django ships with, IMO.
You want to get some SEO traffic and linking going on. After the guy says he's satisfied with an answer, ask him if he wants to make the answer public for others to benefit from. (You can also offer for it to be edited to take out any extra detail)
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real complex passwords are more like '"^vmds!w*é$sé550µW"'-à the point of the post was to show the maximum theorical possibilities for both.
As many pointed out not all 255 are usually printable and not all 171K words are used
then that's for english only and not counting old english and not taking care of possible punctuation
I make less typing mistakes with shorter, complicated passwords.

Long passwords are typing-error prone. With mobile devices, it gets worse, as typing is really painful.
I, for one, find the phone number integration in the mobile app (iPhone) to be very useful.

But my privacy settings are very restrictive, and I only friend people I've met.
Entropy would take a serious hit if you did that.
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The HTML standard specifies that changes in text direction are bounded to the block they occur in: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/dirlan...

I discovered this as I was writing a paranoid HTML cleanup library and wanted to prevent the attack where a user sticks a text-direction-change character into the page and reverses the whole thing. As we've all just witnessed, that can't happen in a conforming browser.

But when viewing the page as a text stream, yup, it reverses and then never really unsticks. Everything's working as designed!

(Maybe my library should still restore the page flow after all... I never thought of how it could mess up view source. As attacks go, it's weak sauce... but like I said, it's meant to be really, really paranoid.)
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od -h -- I used to run into this problem a lot when I was writing grammars against different locales
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You can add equivalent entropy just by adding a few random special characters, a number, and a letter.

Personally, I prefer to type my passwords until I remember them. Therefore, my metric is "easy to type and hard to guess." If it's easy to type, I remember it via muscle memory, which is unbelievably better than trying to remember abstract symbols.
I prefer using a digital key that's always going to beat the entropy of the memorable passwords
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Isn't the real issue that in order to be vulnerable to this, you have to be running as a user who has permission to diddle with the hosts file? Or that your hosts file has too-liberal write permissions?

Hosts file attacks are well-known enough that on windows I always set them to read-only, so that even administrators can't change them without first clearing the read-only flag.
I've had the opposite experience, where I'm more likely to mistype passwords with mixed case letters and symbols holding the shift key down too long. With mobile devices, it gets worse, as common words are easy to type, but symbols and mixed case are a pain.

It is a good point, though, that for frequently typed passwords on a good keyboard, you can engage your muscle memory. That allows you to type short passwords very quickly, and even remember passwords with your fingers that you've lost from your conscious memory!
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this reminds me of IDN domains, a few weeks ago I purchased fácebook.com and góogle.com. I get a few hundred visits every day. I posted about it here https://plus.google.com/110362380602139255131/posts/NPS3VNyD...
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Clueless question: I'm transitioning over from Big Co to a startup (series c, so pretty established and not early stage), and they're offering some stock options. I asked the recruiter what % of outstanding shares my options would represent, and he says they legally can't disclose that info. Does that make any sense? Shouldn't they actually be legally bound to let me know how much my compensation is worth? For all I know there could be a trillion shares and my compensation is worth peanuts, right?
The answer apparently is 'because the US legal system doesn't work'.

>In practice, therefore, an issued patent is a valid patent //

Well no. An invalid patent is still invalid even if you use it to badger someone in to paying for a license. If that person knows that it's invalid, eg because they know of certain publicly available prior art, then it is their choice whether to pay for a license or follow a legal remedy.

If a legal remedy is uninviting because of problems with the legal system this does not mean that "software patents are not fixable" it means that the legal system in general is poor.
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Yea, to bad there isn't an compiler for english that could break on syntax errors.
you shouldn't restrict anything - just give the users enough hints to be more informed.

I would highlite the background of any character that is not from the users codepage in red.

for eg. if your local settings are us-en, any character not from that codepage will have a red background (or even in italics, some way to signify that the character is 'foreign')
On the same page. You can call them "Homograph Spoofing Attacks"
can anyone tell me what are repercussions of simply disallowing selling of patents?

I mean if they just allow only inventors themselves to license their patents and don't allow IV/Lodsys kind of companies to own patents they didn't invent.

Won't that solve half of the problems?
But you _can_ put _arbitrary_ marks on your straightedge. I haven't seen proofs needing or even using them, but you are free to place a new point at an arbitrary distance from a point A. You can then use the compass to transfer that distance to any line segment.

What you cannot do is put specific points on it, say three equidistant ones, or two at a distance of PI. If you allowed such constructs, the 'game' would become extraordinarily dull.
This is how I come up with passwords; I find a phrase that I can remember without too much trouble then I use the first letter of each word to make a password.

Phrase: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone

Password: 3RftE-kuts,7ftD-lithos

Easy to remember and highly secure. I have been using this method for years.

Bonus example: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty

4sasyaofbfotc,ann,ciL

Less secure then the last example but still strong. Especially if you use uncommon strings like the words to a song by a local band or a phrase from the newspaper or an unpopular book. That way even an attack targeting this method will take a long long time.
Good point. It is probably the right thing to do technically, since the source view can't rely on parsing the markup. I think I'd prefer such non-printable characters to be simply escaped though.
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> Patents are a good idea.

That is overstating it. They are a reasonable idea, but it does not seem at all clear that anyone has ever proven them to be actually a good idea -- i.e. that they have a net benefit, even if they were properly realised and enforced.
or use pwgen , apg, etc
Tl;dr version: Look at all this useful math disclosed thanks to software patents.
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Doing more of what you want to be good at has never been a bad idea. My wife, who trained as an actor, has always coveted the idea of being on a soap opera. Not that they are high quality gigs, but the actors are the work horses of the acting industry. You can spend hours a day acting, more then any other job in the industry.
by that metric commercial airliners are not HC (human controlled) planes either as they do >90% of their flying while on autopilot.