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I don't understand this whole never reuse passwords nonsense.

I have unique passwords for my email accounts, github, facebook, twitter and bank accounts. I only need to remember about 8 passwords. They are all pretty memorable. I usually write them down gasp. I then manually type them in until I remember them. I then rip the paper in two putting half in recycling and half in the trash.

For every other site I use 1 of 3 passwords. Why? Why not? I mean seriously, if a site contains no personal information apart from your email why do you need a separate password for it?

I only use unique 10+ character long passwords to guard things that are worth protecting. If a forum account, stack overflow account etc gets hacked.. oh well. I will make another. It really doesn't matter.

I would use 1 password for all non-critical sites but password restrictions means I need 3.
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> First you must stop making offensive blanket generalizations about techies. Even if you're a techie yourself, that doesn't give you license.
But honestly, to me it doesn't sound like you're a techie.

I started programming in 1979. Prior to that people used to beat me up big style. I can techie-you up anyway you like.

What we had here was a group of people beating up Rachel By The Bay, and I don't like it because I was a bullied nerd.
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Tonight I will tell the mother of our child that if I reason in any way that resembles this article she should slap me in face and tell me to fight for my life. For my daughter and my own sake.

In Sweden medical care is free. I can fight as long as I want without them getting in trouble. I also suspect I should fight so hard as if the illnes is truly terminal I will end sooner in flames, not later.

I want all the tubing. I want the cracked ribs and surgeons transform me to a piece of blubber and then anlyze the hell out of it so anyone else don't have to go through the same thing.

Telling people to give up because of money or some sort of gentleness to yourself or your family is alien to me. Maybe it's our harsh climate uphere. Swedes seems very in tune with our suffering.
I have an elaborate system using text-files and tags/subtags, evolved over the last 5-6 years.

I keep track of a lot of things:

-expenses

-gym sessions

-leads for my magazine

-startup ideas

-personal development insights

-diary entries

-brainstorms

-quotes (see this: http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-for-some-tiny-web-softw...)

-stuff I should read later (but almost never get around to)

-ideas for lyrics

-fragments for various novels I am working on

-various biometric data (morning weight, stuff like that)

-TODO

-plans (I do try to aggregate all of these into a standalone "plan file" since it's such a crucial function of my administrative system)

-and a bunch of other things I can't recall right now. Let's just say I generate a relatively huge amount of notes every single day.

So a typical temp file might contain some thing like this:

itm: IT9: recruit: foobar foobarsson

itm: todo: find logo designer

todo: buy anal lube

planfile: BHAGs: $big_hairy_audacious_goal

planfile: schemes: $insert_greasy_scheme

diary: 5/12 2011: went to Footown today, got wasted

expenses: 5/12 2011: cat food 10 kr | alcohol 300 kr | anal lube 49 kr

lyrics: $lyrics / $more_lyrics / $even_more_lyrics

idea: business: hamburger earmuffs

read: http://reddit.com/r/foo/whatever

insight: $deep_insight

brainstorm: what topics should I learn in 2012?

I dump all of this piecemeal into temporary text files which I then transfer periodically to a central place. I used to go through them and sort everything into separate piles, but at this point that would probably be a full time job.

If I need to find something these days, pretty much the only way is to use grep and hope that I tagged something the right way (sometimes I am too lazy and just dump crap in there untagged).

If you think it sounds like I run my life like a gigantic byzantine bureacracy, you would be right. But at the same time, it's probably a huge net-win for me in the long run as it allows me to keep track of stuff on a scale that would be impossible otherwise.

I would like to write some software that could parse my notes and make my life easier. Anyone else in the same boat?
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Public key cryptography. I don't know if it's the simplest solution, but it does fix the problem. You have a private key, which you keep SUPER safe (e.g. encrypted with a strong passphrase), and you distribute your public key to anyone who wants to be able to verify your identity.
So are others like KeePass, LastPass etc.
Oh, interesting. Here's a screenshot:

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I would think he doesn't have the resources of a techcrunch for one and the focus that local news can give is valuable.
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> You know those SSL certificate warnings? You know how you always ignore them? Yeah, you shouldn't do that. They're the only warning you get that someone might have hijacked the connection to your bank or whatever. It's a shame that browsers have trained most of us to ignore the warnings, because they're the only thing making SSL useful.

It's not just browsers - here's an example of a budget web / email host telling users to ignore the warning:

(http://www.purplecloud.com/webmail/)

> When logging in your browser may warn about an invalid or untrusted SSL certificate. This is normal and can safely be ignored - the communication is fully encrypted despite this warning.

People only using one computer (that no-one else uses) have nice browser based password managers. Software like Keepass or Password Safe are handy, but not great if you use more than one computer (especially if you use more than one OS.) Keeping databases both synchronised and backed-up becomes tricky. And some companies / public computers won't allow you to use such software.

Trusting my passwords to the cloud just feels weird and unsafe.
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I use KeePass myself and because of its awesome auto-type/global hotkey I rarely need to go open it and look up credentials myself. Just add the windows' title to the auto-type list of the corresponding entry and you're off the hook.
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But what happens if one of those sites lose their user database? Your other accounts would be compromised and you would have to change your passwords in every site you registered with the same password.
Interesting. I found myself responding to the article in much the same way as you. Also Swedish. The question is: are we being rational or deluded?

I have friends who are medical professionals and I don't recognize them in this either: I highly doubt any of them have NO CODE tattoos or anything equivalent. I suspect society shouldering most of the cost might be a factor: with a privatized payment system, there are perhaps incentives to go too far that aren't there when there's no profit to be made? That's pure conjecture, though.
Mozilla made BrowserID, is this something similar to what you suggested?
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It is a replacement to sending passwords over the wire. There are no viable replacements to passwords, which are really just secrets, memorized or not--short of issuing secure tokens or installing high-grade optical sensors in all laptops and getting all services on the Internet to add support for those authentication methods, anyway. This is why we're still using them.

Even public-key authentication isn't secure if you're storing the private key on a regular machine, and are not protecting it with a password. Getting the regular Joe to actually use certificates is difficult enough, too.
I use an iPhone 4; I find that the Retina Display makes it easier to read small text. I guess experiences differ.
..as against internet in China, with which I was comparing India to.
I'd really like a portable device / managed service I can carry around that encodes my biometrics in a private key. I don't know if fingerprints or iris scanning would cut it, though as you'd want something that would hash reliably.

Maybe something more simple - a 2-step thing like Google's on my iPhone, except one that logs into multiple sites. That, or get 'Google login' widespread and have it as the auth middleware on other sites out there.
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That's an interesting idea. Unfortunately it looks like you can comply with all the rules in his banks section by having an 8-digit password, which is conveniently the number of digits in a birth date.

So presumably they don't currently optimise for mutual incompatibility. Quick, file a patent. :)
Passwords are not ideal, but they seem to be the best compromise available. An alternative might be for everyone to carry around a USB dongle containing a private key, along with physical keys. There's always some tradeoff between security and convenience.
I've been using PassPack for a few years. It allows you to generate random passwords with your choice of # of characters and type. My default setting is 14 chars of a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and punctuation. Then if the site complains I scale back, no punctuation, less chars, etc.

This does mean that 90% of the time I need to go to PassPack before I can login anywhere. Recently I've also wondered if a public key solution could work in a browser. That would be fantastic.
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Zendesk CEO was stupid for paying them attention.

Freshdesk is SCUM. This kind of strategy, of generating controversy and creating "noise" around your company is rooted in the "there is no such thing as bad publicity" belief. It's immoral, and ungentlemanly.

And yes, it is very common with 3rd world companies. I've seen it before. Very often their products ARE rip-off of established market products as well (no idea if this is true in this case though). I suppose it comes from the social corruption and "everything goes" that surrounds life around there. Basically lack of civilization.

It would be very sad if the market rewards them instead of the companies focused on developing a good product, improving it and keeping an atmosphere of cooperation and civility in the industry.
>But I'm interested to understand why people think a robotised taxi service would be much cheaper than human-driven taxi service.

The overall cost of the system would be cheaper because you don't need as many cars. A human taxi service has tons of taxis sitting around doing nothing for some amount of time, parked somewhere when not in use, etc. If taxi were just an automated service you would just need enough cars to cover peak usage and you'd have more cheaper options on parking (e.g. parking can be LIFO, no need for each car to have exit access at all times).

>Oh, and your desire to ban manual driving is never going to fly.

I disagree. Once automated cars start gaining traction it will be pretty easy to make commercials of crying mothers talking about how they wish their star football player son had only taken an automated car, coupled with real traffic statistics. In a 100 years people are going to find the fact that we used to manually drive cars insane.
Maybe the driver does add a significant cost from your example. I suspect this varies from city to city, as some cities have strict driver requirements (ie, London) while some others seem to just employ anyone with a pulse.

Another cost the car2go scheme is missing is the taxi licensing scheme, which most local governments use as a cash-cow by restricting supply and charging high recurring fees.

Add the fact that most robotic-trips are not going to be two-way and you're probably getting closer to $10 dollars for that trip, which, undoubtedly is still cheaper than with 'wetware' behind the wheel - but some people seem to be thinking this would be as cheap as mass transit, which to me is just wishful thinking.
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Medical research benefits hugely from terminally ill patients who are willing to try anything for even two more months of painful life. There are a lot of of experimental, highly dangerous cancer treatments that could never be justified if not for the fact that even without them, the patient would have about two months to live.

That said, there will always be enough patients who want to fight for their life no matter the cost (see other comments on this page for evidence) that if you'd prefer to die in peace, you certainly shouldn't feel obliged to play the guinea pig for science.
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It has nothing to do with turing completeness.

More complexity leading to bigger surface area for potential attacks, yes. GPU and file access, yes. But nothing to do with turing completeness.

Here's a non turing complete language I wouldn't like to be able to run in a web context. It has a single command: rm {path}

On the other hand a turing complete language that has no access to any IO, DOM manipulation etc. I would be perfectly happy to let run.

It isn't the power that comes from turing completeness that makes javascript a potential security vulnerability, it's the interactions it can have outside of computation.
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Probably most of us belong into "Dum spiro, spero" category, but I have known some non-doctors who have taken option no.1 (painless death) and even accelerated it.
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Anyone who implements this might want to bear in mind that you will have created a very chatty backend based on JSON calls.

It should be fairly obvious that you're quite likely to now have pain points in serialising and deserialising that much JSON.

It seems to me that you now have 2 choices:

1) You forget this approach and instead perform REST composition and aggregation by adding a datastore in the composition/aggregation service to reduce the number of calls to the back end.

2) You ditch the internal REST services and change to using protocol buffers or something else to remove the JSON bottle neck internally.

Either of which will make ql.io redundent.

ql.io appears to be trying to solve REST as the language of enterprise services, without using a service bus or BPEL to aid with composition or aggregation.

I agree there is a problem space here, and whilst I have an immense amount of respect for Subbu (worked on ql.io, authored REST book) I'm unconvinced that this approach is the solution to the problem.
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oh come on, you know that's not why they have these rules.

What you say may be true, but the banks only enjoy this 'feature' by coincidence.
'Google login' is widespread as the auth middleware on other sites. At least the sites worth trusting your data too ;)

There's http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/ for SSH, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-authenticator/ for wordpress, http://helpdesk.lastpass.com/security-options/google-authent... for lastpass etc.
You can use all these implementations with the very same iPhone/Android/Blackberry authenticator app you use for Google
You could get rid of passenger trains and just have the cars drive right in when they chose a train route.

Also, for parking, we can take advantage of LIFO. Today, every single car has to be able to get out independent of the others. With robot cars only the last one of a given type (e.g. van, pickup, sedan).
> Post something about how Git's the shit? You'll get a bunch of responses about how crummy Git's error messages are, or about how user-hostile the interface is.

Critical comments about Git, indeed.

> Post something about how Jave programmers suck balls? You'll get a bunch of comments about how bad Lisp-lifers perform when they're thrust into situations where they have to code Java.

Critical comments about Java, indeed.

> Post about NoSQL, and you'll get a bunch of people telling you that you're an idiot for even considering MongoDB when PostgreSQL would do just fine.

Finally critical comments about you the poster.

I return to my original question:

Kindly find me on Hacker News a single discussion thread which contains comments like this about a male writer of a blog post.

A respected technical author writes a blog post and the response is a stream of ad hominem attacks on them with no supporting evidence.
Science doesn't work like that.

To get meaningful results you need a large sample size, with a control group, with patients not knowing whether they're getting the new medicine or the old medicine[1] and with doctors not knowing either. Then you need to write that up and analyse it.

Many patients are happy to take part in such trials, but it's hard to get ethics panel approval.

[1] you tend to test against current best treatment, not placebo, because almost anything works better than nothing and by the time you test the treatment in humans you need to know if this is better than what you're already doing.

Ethics panels have some weird effects -

(http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-ethics-committees-kil...)
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Or the bank could just issue a secure password (or better yet, a list of one-time passwords) for the user. No need for silly rules, and probably much more secure than letting sixpack joe pick his own password.
How's passwords an unsolved problem for any power-user? There's a ton of password management software out there that does /not/ require you to copy-paste passwords around†.

For me, kwallet & ssh public keys all the way. Kwallet makes passwords available to all programs I authorize. Authorize either on case-by-case basis, or once forever. If you really don't want to bother with KDE and/or want to be easily portable across everything POSIX, go for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factotum_(software) -- it has a simple protocol.

I remember literally 5 passwords:
home computer, work computer, home wallet, work wallet, auxilliary bank account (just in case something happened to all of my computers at once).

Actually, scratch that, I can /type/ those passwords, but I don't really know their content.

† using ^C^V on passwords is a bad idea anyway; (depending on browser) websites can read contents of your clipboard. And check your recent browsing history. 2+2=...?
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> Techies really buy into the 'we are pure', 'we only deal with evidence',
> 'we are the best', blah-blah. All the great myth of meritocracy and guff
> like that.

This whole thing seems like a strawman. You're stating that all (or most)
'techies' believe that we're in some sort of utopia where it's impossible for
another 'techie' to do any wrong? Really?

So no one that qualifies as a 'techie':

* Hates Bill Gates and rails against proprietary software?

* Hates Steve Jobs and rails against propietary/close platforms?

* Trolls online forums just for the 'lulz?'

* Has every commited a 'morally wrong' crime (dodging the "hacking shouldn't be
a crime if I don't really mean it"-type arguments)?

> Anything that points out this is not true and that Joe Coder might not be
> perfect and it just kicks off. Oh, yeah and plain sexism as well.

Again, really? Who here thinks that 'Joe the Coder' is perfect? Aren't we as a
tech community filled with 'colorful' personalities? Don't we constantly have
people bickering to the point of ridiculousness over the most trivial thing
possible in forums/mailing lists?

Personally, I think that the reactions here boil down to:

1) Nothing in that post comes off as out-right sexism. None of the dialog even
refers directly to the fact that she's a woman.

2) Posts like this rail against 'males in the tech community' as a group.

If you're a male in the tech community, you read a post like this. Maybe you
see some dialog in the post. Dialog that is claimed to be sexist. Dialog that
you could see yourself saying to a woman, while in no way trying to be sexist
(e.g. "you're being a little hard on person A"). You feel the need to push back
against this becuase it seems like it could just be a mis-understanding.

This seems likely to be the simplest (and more probably right) explanation of
the behaviour.
What if she is wrong?

The problem with this discussion, and the reason I'm not otherwise participating in it, is that because I have a penis I'll automatically be accused of sexism if I do not agree with the author's claims.

This isn't about getting at what happened, this is about everyone needing to tip-toe on eggshells because whenever this topic is raised, everyone is automatically wrong. If you're a woman who brings up sexism, you're automatically too emotional or oversensitive. If you're a man who dares question a particular case of alleged sexism, you're sexist, but you're just too sexist to know that you're sexist.

I dislike your insinuation that someone who claims sexism can't be wrong. I also dislike the amount of psychoanalysis that's going on in this whole thread, including yours.

Everything in this thread eventually boils down to: you're a woman, you're emotional. You're a man, you're pig-headed. The whole thing is a gigantic exercise in absurd extremes that have little basis in reality.
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What's the message here? That people shouldn't have chemotherapy? That we shouldn't do resuscitation? That all advanced cancers should just receive palliative care?

This seems to be a rant ie. the author has a strongly held notion that he has disguised as an argument devoid of any nuance. The support for his argument is that doctors secretly run a mile away from hospital whenever they get sick. This is not true and a gross generalisation.

Cause guess what, not everyone has a loving family or a house in the hills or a cousin with a big screen TV to go to when they are dying from a terminal illness. Some people want to try and fight their disease, and they are tenacious and brave and admirable and that's dignifying to them and to those that try and help them.

This article is an attempted justification from someone who has lost faith in what they do, nothing more.
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