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Horses were more dangerous than cars, but you're still allowed to ride horses on the road. A total ban on manual driving is just not feasible in a democratic country. I agree that it's possible some roads would be automatic-only, but you're not going to get a ban on cars being driven by people.

You would need just as many robotic cars as you would current taxis. The demand shape isn't going to change just because you remove the driver. Yes, parking and other things will improve but it's going to be a small improvement, not an order-of-magnitude jump.
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I have to admit, the following thought is pretty scary:

You have some coworkers who were shaped by society, their parents and friends for most of their lives and now work with/for you. One of them says something that could maybe be a tiny little bit sexist, in a private email of all places (where you can't even intervene) and the women scream "Sexist" and run away.

Makes you with the women weren't so bloody sensitive, right? It is not the picture rachelbythebay is painting, however.

Her point is that by the time this happened, she was expecting her coworkers to use the "you're too emotional". So over the weekend she prepared the most matter-of-fact way to describe the weekend incident, and still the accusation came.

There are two explanations for this:
a) She was paranoid/oversensitive and overreacted, or
b) There was an established pattern of such accusations, used to disregard her opinion no matter what she said and how she said it.

She called the incident the last straw. I know how I would interpret that.

If I have one gripe with what she wrote, it's that she only hints at what this pattern looked like, making it difficult to see unless you already know it's there...
It's the same for me. If I look at it head on I can just see it, but if I tilt my monitor just a little , the links literally vanish, I only see black (and this is 5° max). It's actually bad enough for me to stop poking around the site any further.
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Keepass is cross platform. Not sure about iOS devices but I use it across windows, linux and my 2 android devices. Put the kbdx file in dropbox (you also have dropbox on all platforms), set keepass to autosave on every DB change, job done.

[i guess you are still keeping your passwords in the cloud if you keep it in dbox, but the password DB is encrypted).
This is not a question of being "rational", and there's no right or wrong answer. People make trade-offs between quality and quantity of life every day. Do I want to quit smoking, drinking, drugs, and take up sports, etc for a chance at a longer, healthier life? Or do I grab all the fun I can, and if it costs me ten years, oh well? The right decision will look different for every person - and it's not black or white, but a continuum.

The choice of how much pain is worth it for how much of a chance at a longer life is going to look different depending on your religion, your responsibilities, your age, your experiences with pain, your family, your culture, etc. And yes, of course the cost of treatment will factor into that decision for both the doctors and the patient.
I'm an american and for me, it's not an issue of cost. The issue is how do you want to end your life on this earth. My father died of lymphoma when I was 17; he got it twice. The survivorship rates if the first set of treatments didn't work were not awesome. In his case, he died after multiple rounds of chemo and radiation and surgeries, incisions that didn't heal for multiple months, collapsed veins leading to a shunt installed in his chest, persistent nausea for half a year, so much pain that if properly medicated he was barely lucid, being forced into a wheelchair, having to wear a diaper, bleeding from his eyes and mucous membranes, etc.

Having seen his tour of the medical system, I desperately hope that if I were ever in that position, I'd have the strength to say no: treat the pain and I'll die in peace.
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Not enough people have read an understood pg's essay on ID. People are making the gadget a part of themselves so they behave irrationally about it.
For what it's worth Utrecht has a high student population.
Rather than weather, I suspect that flat terrain has the biggest positive effect on bicycle use, especially for commuting. On flat ground you don't have to work up a sweat.
My girlfriend is a health visitor and a nurse with 30 years experience. Let me give you a quote from her, solicited over breakfast:

"Men, like shit, rise to the top".

The NHS is largely a female institution - the managers are overwhelmingly men.

I worked in Direct/Call Centre banking. The overwhelming majority of the staff were women, the senior staff were overwhelmingly men.
Yep, I use the exact same strategy as VonLipwig and recognize that many of my accounts could be compromised. However, without having a central email account compromised, the ability of attackers to find other sites or extract meaningful value from them is quite limited, IMO. In fact, I'm not sure that there is anything meaningful to be extracted outside of email / dropbox / bank accounts / lastpass / github.
"And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.

from The Book of Mozilla, 8:20"

OK I can see how that is similar to Genesis 1:31:

"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good."
Thanks for the discussion, ladies and gentlemen. I responded on behalf of TechCrunch here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/going-too-far-the-techcrunc...

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LastPass also contains such a password generator. Even better, it remembers the passwords for you!
Not to mention that at least where I'm from a tattoo will not and cannot be accepted by EMS personnel as a valid order. Here is the relevant part from our Medical Control treatment protocols on what can be accepted as a valid do not resuscitate order:

"Patient is wearing a do-not-resuscitate identification bracelet which is clearly imprinted wit the words “Do-Not-Resuscitate Order”, name and address of declarant, and the name and telephone number of declarant’s attending physician, if any OR

The EMS provider is provided with a do-not-resuscitate order from the patient. Such an order form shall be in substantially the form outlined in Annex 1 or 2 and shall be dated and signed by all parties."

Anything else and we are required to follow all the regular resuscitation efforts.
The Google+ app could register it's own url scheme, and then the Google+ website can UA-sniff for iOS and redirect to the special url scheme.
Inexcusable. An SSL certificate costs 12 USD/yr:
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Actually one thing that really distracts you from actually getting the list done is blogging about it! :-)
Mozilla was working on a solution to this some time ago (back when Aza was still with Mozilla, early 2010 is the latest date in the linked design doc): http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/identity-in-the-browser-fire...

From the document he links to it seems more like a fancy password manager that handles session cookies too with the idea of standardizing account management. Not necessarily a lofty vision but certainly something helpful and interesting (albeit seemingly dead now).
been preaching the same since.. 1997?
When SRP came along, we though that tied to proper keychains we'd see the light at the end of the tunnel. but nope.

too many "pros" are too tied to die hard password auth ;-)
>Horses were more dangerous than cars, but you're still allowed to ride horses on the road.

They may have been at some point, but that hasn't been the case for some time.

>A total ban on manual driving is just not feasible in a democratic country.

I disagree. Maybe not this generation, but supporting manual driving makes the whole system less stable unless you make a road just for them, which is really expensive.

>You would need just as many robotic cars as you would current taxis.

I don't believe this is the case. I see taxis sitting empty for hours. In that time one taxi could have made several short trips. I'm certain that a computer calculating routes, etc., could manage to get the same work done as is being done now with less resources. That's why we made them, after all.
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My mother succumbed to cancer over 10 years back. I was in my late teens and remember the treatment being way more painful than the cure. The medical care was so bad in india that once the nurse messed up the chemo shot and delivered it wrong. This resulted in oedema. Doctors could offer nothing more than an apology. I still find a lump in my throat when I recollect those days. However, in the end, my mother rejected treatment. She did however wish to live a long life. But she could not bear the treatment. Doctors gave her 2 months. But she lived on for 8 more months on painkillers to maintain as normal a life as possible. She managed to remain cheerful and positive before us kids. Living with someone you love knowing that they would die soon is really painful.

If I am terminally ill, I will probably reject treatment and choose to go peacefully.
So Rachel is required to give evidence - but the people attacking her are allowed to allege anything they like with no evidence what so ever

Let me quote you:

> Quite frankly, the fact that she's raging over and reading so much into a statement that is, by normal standards, extremely neutral, leads me to believe that even if she has been directly accused of being too emotional in the past, then maybe there's something to the accusations. Some people really are overly sensitive to perceived slights, and the fact that they're women doesn't necessarily mean the criticism is unfair...

You have whipped up a fair confection here from precisely no evidence.
I think what the author is suggesting is that you can bridge some of the gap by a sort of non-SQL, quasi-relational data store. The major ways this is differentiated from the pure relational model is the general hostility towards representing information in well normalized relations and favoring a fairly object-oriented store instead.

This is not a new idea. PostgreSQL was originally designed with this sort of workflow in mind and now is pretty relational in outlook. In theory it is perfectly possible to transform one model into the other, provided adequate mappings, but at the same time one cannot reasonably derive one model from the other, which is why I disagree with the author's view that these are flip sides of the same coin.

Now, on to what is gained and what is lost. There are cases where the sorts of representation she is talking about are helpful (an in fact with recent PostgreSQL instances you can do them already).

On the other hand, the article isn't really clear about what the costs of this sort of representation are. The closest you get is the last line of his comparison table which contrasts query optimizer with developer/pattern. So what this implies is that such a system is optimized for developer/transaction workload and not for flexible reporting later. In other words, the developer is expected to know in advance all the uses the data will have so that the database can be properly optimized for this. Add new uses and this element becomes hard.

Similarly the ACID/BASE comparison also is telling in the sense that he is contrasting a system which is designed to give you accurate, consistent information when you ask for it to a system which is designed to tend towards a state of consistency, at least for older data. The "eventually consistent" part of his BASE definition ought to scare the pants off anyone interested in looking at how data in such a system could be put to decision support tasks.
eeeeks. I am not even sure I wanna comment on what I saw.
Please change the racist title. Racism towards programmers from India is a problem and you're contributing to it.
The market of featurephones and apps on them is way bigger than smartphone market what everyone in tech world is talking about. It is way undervalued. But there are some issues:
a) no proper infrastructure/ecosystem so far. Elements like this in-app purchasing help a lot here. Ovi Store in phones is terrible compared to AppStore counterparts, for both developers and endusers etc. Very limited monetization options etc.
b) low-end smartphones are coming to this market, Huawey provides almost as cheap Androids as Nokia nowadays in Africa.
c) fragmentation for developers. Why can't Nokia do one really good cheap phone which fits 90% users. Always they announce 4 marginally different ones, just so different to make developers mad and stick to Android/iOs.
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It isn't bad to change requirements depending on user feedback. You can have the best implementation in the world, done after the best specifications in the world; but it's all for nothing if customers don't want it.
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It's good advice. Some of the worst times in my business have been due to being comfortable or being sufficiently busy I didn't have bandwidth to devote to marketing.
Maybe it's an average?
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My passwords are all generated by mashing the keyboard, and are stored in a PGP encrypted file in my Dropbox. When I want to add a password to that file, I just edit it using Vim. Vim automatically handles decryption/encryption because I have the "vim.gnupg" plugin installed. When I want to know a password, I type "password foo", where foo is a substring of some identifier I've used, eg the domain name of the site. It searches my encrypted text file for a line containing that identifier, and selects the last string of non-space characters on that line as the password. It then displays the password, and also copies it into the clipboard. It waits for 10 seconds, and then overwrites the clipboard with it's previous value. My "password manager" is this tiny script: https://grepular.com/password.pl_txt

I'd much rather rely on the security of GnuPG for my password store, than Keypass or Lastpass etc. Dropbox provides me with backup and syncing capability for my password store.
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People should differentiate between terminal illnesses and acute illnesses like heart attacks. For the later, I am sure the OP has no problems with treatment.

The leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra died this week. He was less than a vegetable for 8months until his death.
Here was a man who was larger than life reduced to helplessness. At the age of 78, I am wondering why he was tortured for these 8 months so he would be 'alive'.

I am certain if he had the choice, he would have preferred to go with dignity. Unfortunately, people never want to prepare for such things. When it happens, their end is determined by others.

My President Yaradua, also had the most undignified of ends possible. In theory Ariel Sharon is still alive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon

I want my end to be dignified. If God forbid, I have a terminal illness, it will not be a hard decision to make. Quality NOT Quantity.
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> In fact, I'm not sure that there is anything meaningful to be extracted outside of email / dropbox / bank accounts / lastpass / github.

Some of the sites (the ones with more 'social' features) could be used by attacker to impersonate you in an social engineering attack.
You are entirely missing the point. I haven't commented on her post. I have only summarised the responses to it - which is a stream of ad hominem (or indeed ad feminam) invective.

A respected blogger makes an observation about the industry and is howled down.

The idea that her post 'rails against males in tech community' is supported by what evidence? She left that team for another team. She has a long set of blog posts. Find the railing thing please, with evidence.
Do any modern browsers allow reading of the clipboard contents without prompting the user to allow it?

Copying and pasting passwords about is fine, as long as you don't leave them in the clipboard after you've finished with them.
That's how it works in the best case. Unfortunately, medical research is not a perfect science. Realistically, with many medical treatments, you can't have a double-blinded study. With chemotherapy, the side effects will often quickly tell you what treatment you're receiving, and a treatment like for example extracorporeal photopheresis can't ethically be placebo-controlled or double-blinded at all. What are you going to do, hook half your patients up to a machine that will do nothing but run their blood around a bunch of tubes for hours for no reason?

And you can't get a "large sample size" of patients with rare cancers or diseases by definition. Sometimes, the best you can do is a case study of ten patients who agreed to try your treatment because the other option was death. Quite a few medical advances have been made that way, actually.
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I'm in a rather similar situation (23/m/just finished Molecular Biology/Business degree). Personally, I'm still interested in the life sciences, but the flexibility and salary of for-profit business is much more attractive than the academic career. So I started teaching myself C++/Java/perl while looking for jobs.

There are many applications of CS, have you thought about Finance (quant or operations/bioinformatics/defense industry (if you are a usa citizen)....
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I just extracted part of our code to create an open source sinatra app which does the same, you can check it out http://wti.heroku.com/

Oh, check out the screenshot of this very HN thread http://wti.heroku.com/convert?site_url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yco... . How meta is that :)
Fair enough, but my instinct at that point would be to dump Sass rather than restrict an experiment to one browser.
It is obviously a personal choice but situation #2 may be worse than you imagine.

You can write, read, and interact but only for a few hours each day. Pain and fatigue take over the rest of the time. There is also so many little things you take for granted you will not be able to do anymore, or will require assistance to perform. Eating can become a chore, you may have to be regularly plug to some gruesome apparatus, also loss of mobility. Think about the last time you were sick, or injured, think of the worse moment being your new normal.
I personally can`t imagine being happy in those circumstances. I choose #1.

Each person choices should be respected, and people should be better informed on the tradeoff of each choices, which I feel is not the case in our health care system.
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Banks don't optimize for security, they optimize for profits. Picking passwords for users would be more secure, but it would also disincentivize use of the website and cause a huge spike in support requests.

People on the phone are expensive. (I'm unaware of exact numbers for the banking industry, but based on figures for my first-and-only CSR job, I'd guesstimate in the vicinity of $8 to do a password reset in the US and $2 in India. Given that the median retail checking account is only worth about $100 a year this is not very sustainable.)

Web banking is the best thing that ever happened to cost control for retail accounts and one of the highest ROI channels for getting more business.

Any suggestion for increasing security which results in banks losing money is probably a non-starter. (Not uniquely true for banks: many of the "Wouldn't it be grand if the entire world simultaneously adopted $LOGIN_TECHNOLOGY_FOO" thoughts ask businesses to spend money to solve problems that they do not actually have.)
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Your last comment about origAuthor desiring a secure environment to work in and extending that desire to the carpark is a bit rubbish.

If your employees have to be at work after dark then you should definitely organise safe conditions for them to get home. Women are more sensitive to this because they get attacked/raped by strangers a lot more often than men. It's the real world. You have to deal with it.

HNers should be able to deal with it when they realise they are wrong and need to change their thoughts and behaviour.
So without knowing if this is true in this case though you call them SCUM? Way to go...
I don't believe any browser except Internet Explorer allows you to read your clipboard's contents, without pasting. (Another reason not to use IE.)
Why do you think that bank-issued passwords would either disincentivize use of web banking or cause more support requests than the current convoluted systems?
You must have great communication/presentation skills. Sometimes you can present poor judgement as an excellent solution and if you don't you might not be able to present you work in a very favourable light.
No. The only point I can see here is that you tried to make Freshdesk look like assholes with your comment "it took several days for @vshankar90 and @mrgirish to stop harassing me on Twitter."

Which they aren't. It would seem that you were exaggerating at best and lying at worst.

Poaching dissatisfied customers of a competitor only proves that they're targeting some low hanging fruit (which is a good thing in this case)
> I just don't get the push to hire cheap people.

Unfortunately, it's because you're a programmer that understands the actual cost of software development. Believe me, there are many "business" people that don't understand software and never will. They see stories on the news of teenagers developing million dollar iPhone app in a weekend and think "Wow, this must be so easy."

And because they don't understand the difficulty (especially with larger systems) they don't understand why paying one developer $75/hr is probably better than paying one $15/hr. (I say probably because I have come across people charging high rates that weren't really that productive). As a business person who probably can't be that much more productive than the next person, they don't understand how a programmer could really be more productive and get things done in much less time.

To give you an example. On my last contract I was hired near the start of the project. And even though it was near the start, I could tell from the code that this was headed towards a disaster. Eventually I got things cleaned up and got it released for them and they are making money from it. They went through 5 other developers and I ended up being the only one near the end. I left shortly after one of the company owner's comments got passed down to me. He said "Why are we paying this guy so much when we could just hire high school students at $10/hr."

People like that will just not understand the difference and look only at the hourly rate.
There's password generators (usually within most password managers). Far more better because even mashing the keyboard produces patterns. I bet some of your starting characters are on the left side of keyboard for example and you never use capitals or symbols.
I saw an HN entry about a website to image converter, I extracted this functionality from one of our production apps and released it as an open source project. WkhtmlToImage does all the hard work though. Hope it helps others.

Here is a screenshot of this HN thread: http://wti.heroku.com/convert?site_url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yco...
Then there's always colinux - where you can have both, at the same time, without virtualization.
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